World War II Japanese American Relocation Camp Newspapers

Thomas Jay Kemp

9 years ago

GenealogyBank has added newspapers published in the Japanese American Relocation Camps during World War II.

Photo: Mochida family awaiting the evacuation bus. Source: National Archives photograph; Wikimedia Commons.

Birth, Marriage and Death Notices

These newspapers from Arkansas, California, Colorado and Utah contain birth, marriage, and death records that are very useful for genealogists to trace Japanese lineage.

For example, here is an old obituary from the Tulean Dispatch for Hiromi Homanishi, who was from Puyallup, Washington.

Tulean Dispatch (Newell, California), 17 February 1943, page 1

Here is another historical newspaper article, from the Denson Tribune, listing the names of evacuees and providing birth notices and names of Japanese American servicemen as well.

Denson Tribune (Denson, Arkansas), 17 September 1943, page 6

WWII-Era Departures

During World War II evacuees were prevented from returning to California, Oregon and Washington state – but they were permitted to relocate to other parts of the United States. Notice that the news article above names the residents who opted to leave their camp in Denson, Arkansas, for employment in towns across America.

Some Japanese American young men joined the U.S. military. The newspaper article above names some of them when they were returning to visit family and friends in the camp.

GenealogyBank’s deep newspaper archive has newspapers from the 1600s to today that cover the small towns and big cities across America. We now have these newspapers from World War II that documented life in the Japanese American relocation camps.

Here is a list of those newspapers that contain information on Japanese American relocation camps:

State	City	Newspaper	Date Range
Arkansas	Denson	Denson Tribune	03/19/1943–06/02/1944
California	Manzanar	Manzanar Free Press	07/14/1943–09/06/1944
California	Newell	Newell Star	02/15/1945–02/15/1945
California	Newell	Tulean Dispatch	03/31/1943–03/31/1943
Colorado	Amache	Granada Pioneer	06/09/1943–06/09/1943
Utah	Topaz	Topaz Times	10/30/1942–2/9/1943

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