Added: May 1, 2008
From: NBTimes
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Northern California's leading Japanese American newspaper has made some exciting changes for today's Japanese American!In 2006, the Nichi Bei Times launched a dynamic all-English Weekly publication geared towards younger and succeeding generations of Japanese Americans, covering a wider array of areas such as entertainment, food, language, sports, video games, travel and the like. There are now expanded special issues every month, such as Travel to Japan, Wedding Issue, New Music Issue, Multiracial Issue, Anime Manga Issue, Obon/Bazaar Special Edition, Holiday Shopping Guide and the like. We were even the first English-language Asian Pacific American publication in the United States to publish a Green Issue, further demonstrating our ever-expanding vision.At the same time, the Japanese edition has expanded to 12 pages three days a week, also with many new and exciting features.The Nichi Bei Times, which printed its first edition on May 18, 1946, is the oldest and most respected Japanese American newspaper in Northern California, and continues a legacy of community leadership established with the 1899 founding of the Nichi Bei Shimbun. The Nichi Bei Times was established in 1946 to get the Japanese American community "reconnected" after their wartime incarceration in American concentration camps.Today, the Nichi Bei Times strives to be the glue that holds the community together — culturally, historically, socially, emotionally, spiritually and politically.The Nichi Bei Times, keeping the community CONNECTED, INFORMED and EMPOWERED.Music by Justin Andrews
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