In addition to these records, the Kida Papers also contain Emi’s personal materials. The majority of the collection consists of copies of both The Hokubei Shimpo and The New York Nichibei. ![]() The paper documented the life of New York’s post-war Japanese American community and served as an important early outlet for many Asian American Movement writers in the 1960s and 1970s. He served as the Japanese language editor and Emi worked as a reporter, in addition to setting the Japanese hot-type by hand. As the end of World War II neared, Isaku became the business manager and later president of New York’s premier Japanese American newspaper, The Hokubei Shimpo (later renamed The New York Nichibei in 1945). Born in Gifu prefecture in 1919, Emi attended Doshisha Women’s Senmon School, where she studied traditional women’s arts that included embroidery, ikebana (flower arranging), and cooking. Emi Kida (1908-2002) immigrated to New York City from Japan in 1958 to join her husband, Isaku. ![]() Arrested and incarcerated at Ellis Island, he was subsequently released to work as a language instructor for the Office of Strategic Services. Following Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor, he fell under the suspicion of the FBI for his growing interest in Communism. Isaku Kida (1905-1996) immigrated to the United States from Japan in 1930 as a student of theology.
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