The ''Honolulu Record'' was a newspaper established in 1948 by

Koji Ariyoshi (1914–1976) was a Nisei labor activist and a Sergeant in the United States Army during the Second World War. Early life Ariyoshi was born in Hawaii in 1914 to Japanese immigrant parents. Ariyoshi grew up helping his family make a living on a ...

, a

Hawaii Hawaii ( ; haw, Hawaii or ) is a state in the Western United States, located in the Pacific Ocean about from the U.S. mainland. It is the only U.S. state outside North America, the only state that is an archipelago, and the only stat ...

Nisei is a Japanese-language term used in countries in North America and South America to specify the ethnically Japanese children born in the new country to Japanese-born immigrants (who are called ). The are considered the second generation, ...

labor activist and war veteran with support from the

International Longshore and Warehouse Union The International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) is a labor union which primarily represents dock workers on the West Coast of the United States, Hawaii, and in British Columbia, Canada. The union was established in 1937 after the 1934 West ...

History

A Pro Communist Party newspaper, The ''Record'' earned a strong reputation for its

muckraking The muckrakers were reform-minded journalists, writers, and photographers in the Progressive Era in the United States (1890s–1920s) who claimed to expose corruption and wrongdoing in established institutions, often through sensationalist publ ...

investigative journalism. In 1950, it revealed that a much-praised 14-year professor at the

University of Hawaii A university () is an institution of higher (or tertiary) education and research which awards academic degrees in several academic disciplines. Universities typically offer both undergraduate and postgraduate programs. In the United States, th ...

Shunzo Sakamaki Shunzo Sakamaki ( ja, 坂巻駿三; July 15, 1906 – July 19, 1973) was a Japanese studies professor at the University of Hawaii. Sakamaki Hall, where the History department at the University of Hawaii is housed, was built after his death and name ...

, had been denied tenure simply because he was Japanese - and that no "local product" had ever been promoted to full professorship. Ariyoshi's dogged four-year campaign eventually resulted in the tenureship of Professor Sakamaki. The paper ceased publication in 1958.

References

External links

''Report on the Honolulu record '' by The Committee on Un-American Activities
{{HI-print Works about labor Newspapers established in 1948 Publications disestablished in 1958 1948 establishments in Hawaii 1958 disestablishments in Hawaii Defunct newspapers published in Hawaii