Honolulu Record

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Honolulu Record
Type Newspaper
Founder(s) Koji Ariyoshi
Founded1948
Ceased publication1958
City Honolulu, Hawaii
OCLC number 11471299

The Honolulu Record was a newspaper established in 1948 by Koji Ariyoshi, a Hawaiian Nisei labor activist and war veteran with support from the International Longshore and Warehouse Union. [1]

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History

A Pro Communist Party newspaper, The Record earned a strong reputation for its muckraking investigative journalism. In 1950, it revealed that a much-praised 14-year professor at the University of Hawaii, Shunzo Sakamaki, had been denied tenure simply because he was Japanese - and that no "local product" had ever been promoted to full professorship. [1] Ariyoshi's dogged four-year campaign eventually resulted in the tenureship of Professor Sakamaki. [2] [3]

The paper ceased publication in 1958. [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 Geracimos Chapin, Helen (1996). "Chapter 28: The Honolulu Record and the Art of Muckraking". Shaping History: The Role of Newspapers in Hawai'i. University of Hawaii Press. ISBN   0824817184 . Retrieved December 28, 2014.
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  3. "Honolulu Record Homepage". www.hawaii.edu. Retrieved 2023-10-09.