Rafu Shimpo

The paper began in 1903 as a one-page, mimeographed Japanese-language newspaper produced by Rippo Iijima, Masaharu Yamaguchi, and Seijiro Shibuya.[5] The paper ceased publication in 1942 due to the incarceration of Japanese Americans at President Franklin D. Roosevelt's order.Komai had arranged for the paper's rent to be paid during the war and hid the Japanese type under the floorboards.By 1997, “the laborious process of hand setting the several thousand syllabic characters and ideograms used in Japanese, which took up to three hours per page, [had] given way to a rapid computerized operation.”[6] In March 2010, the Los Angeles Times reported that The Rafu Shimpo was losing circulation and money, and was the target of community drives hoping to save the newspaper from going out of business.In the hopes of generating 10,000 new subscribers and raising $500,000, Komai introduced an eNewspaper subscription drive in the same "open letter".
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