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Contributing Institution:
UCLA Library Special Collections
Title: Yoneo Sakai papers
Creator:
Sakai, Yoneo
Identifier/Call Number: LSC.1426
Physical Description:
21.5 Linear Feet
(43 boxes and 27 oversize boxes)
Date (inclusive): 1848-1979
Abstract: Yoneo Sakai (1900-1978) was a editor for Japanese language newspapers in San Francisco, Los Angeles, and New York. He also
travelled around the world as a correspondent for
Asahi shimbun from 1931 until the outbreak of World War II when he was interned in the Granada Relocation Center. After the war, he was
commissioned to teach Japanese at University of Colorado, and hosted a radio program,
Amerika Dayori (
News from America). The collection consists of Sakai's correspondence, manuscripts, published works, notebooks, and diaries.
Physical Location: Stored off-site. All requests to access special collections material must be made in advance using the request button located
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Language of Material: Materials are in English.
Open for research. All requests to access special collections materials must be made in advance using the request button located
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Property rights to the physical objects belong to UCLA Library Special Collections. All other rights, including copyright,
are retained by the creators and their heirs. It is the responsibility of the researcher to determine who holds the copyright
and pursue the copyright owner or his or her heir for permission to publish where The UC Regents do not hold the copyright.
Yoneo Sakai's unpublished material (diaries and manuscripts) cannot be photocopied or quoted without the permission of Ruby
Sakai.
[Identification of item], Yoneo Sakai Papers (Collection 1426). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research
Library, University of California, Los Angeles.
Provenance/Source of Acquisition
Gift of Ruby Sakai, 1987-88.
Processed by Toyotomi Morimoto.
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UCLA Catalog Record ID:
9942337203606533
Sakai was born in 1900 in Saga Prefecture, Kyushu, Japan; studied at Kansai Gakuin and the Meiji Gakuin, majoring in literature;
employed by Kokusai Joho Sha in Tokyo as editor of journal,
Eiga to engei (
Motion pictures and dramas); arrived in San Francisco, 1926, and worked as editor for Japanese language newspapers in San Francisco, Los Angeles, and
New York; travelled around the world as a correspondent for
Asahi shimbun from 1931 until the outbreak of World War II; dispatched to Manchuria after the Japanese attack; returned to U.S. as official
correspondent, 1938; interned during World War II in Granada Relocation Center; commissioned to teach Japanese at University
of Colorado; one of Japan's most respected newspaper correspondents, he also hosted a radio program,
Amerika Dayori (
News from America); interviewees included John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, and Ernest Hemingway; lived in Washington, D.C. from 1946 until
his death in 1978.
Collection consists of correspondence, manuscripts, published works, notebooks, and diaries of Yoneo Sakai. Also includes
photographs of Sakai and his family, as well as photographs and postcards from Spain, the Middle East, California, China,
and Japan. Includes Sakai's collection of publications, books, and serials, including an 1848 history of New York. Also contains
nineteenth century photographs (some of which are tinted) of various portraits and scenes.
Arranged in the following series:
- Bibliographical.
- Writings.
- Graphic material.
- Research materials.
- Publications not by Sakai.
- Diaries.
- Manuscripts.
Japanese American Research Project (Collection 2010). Available at Library Special Collections, UCLA.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Diaries.
Journalists -- Japan -- Archives.
Photographs.
Sakai, Yoneo -- Archives