Akira Komai: The Nisei who Saved the Rafu Shimpo Newspaper presented by Chris Komai
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Akira Komai, a Nisei whose father Toyosaku was the pre-war publisher of the Rafu Shimpo Japanese-English newspaper in Los Angeles, was thrust into the role of saving the family business when World War II began. His father was picked up by the FBI on December 7, 1941, and isolated from the family. When President Roosevelt […]
