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Title: Yoneo Sakai Papers,
Date (inclusive): 1848-1979
Collection number: 1426
Creator:
Sakai, Yoneo, 1900-1978
Extent: 43 boxes (21.5 linear ft.)
27 oversize boxes
Repository:
University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections.
Los Angeles, California 90095-1575
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 at SRLF. Advance notice is required for access to the collection. Please contact the UCLA Library, Department
of Special Collections Reference Desk for paging information.
Language:
English.
Restrictions on Use and Reproduction
Property rights to the physical object belong to the UCLA Library,
Department of Special Collections. Literary 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Yoneo Sakai's unpublished material (diaries and manuscripts) cannot be photocopied or quoted without the permission of Ruby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.
COLLECTION STORED OFF-SITE AT SRLF: Advance notice required for access.
Additional Physical Form Available
A copy of the original version of this online finding aid is available at the UCLA Department of Special Collections for in-house
consultation and may be obtained for a fee. Please contact:
- Public Services Division
- UCLA Library, Department of Special Collections
- Room A1713, Charles E. Young Research Library
- Box 951575
- Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575
- Telephone: 310/825-4988 (10:00 a.m. - 4:45 p.m., Pacific Time)
- Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu
Provenance/Source of Acquisition
Gift of Ruby Sakai, 1987-88.
[Identification of item], Yoneo Sakai Papers (Collection 1426). Department of Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research
Library, University of California, Los Angeles.
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.
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
Sakai, Yoneo, 1900-1978--Archives.
Journalists--Japan--Archival resources.
Diaries.
Photographs.
Japanese American Research Project (Collection 2010). Available at Department of Special Collections, UCLA.