Item No: #307883 Japanese American Directory 1924 (No. 20) / Nichibei jushoroku. Nichibei Shimbun.
Japanese American Directory 1924 (No. 20) / Nichibei jushoroku
Japanese American Directory 1924 (No. 20) / Nichibei jushoroku
Japanese American Directory 1924 (No. 20) / Nichibei jushoroku

Early Japanese American Directory

Japanese American Directory 1924 (No. 20) / Nichibei jushoroku

Notes: A directory of Japanese Americans, primarily in California but with entries for nine other states, plus Mexico and Cuba, published by the Nichibei Shimbun newspaper in San Francisco. With extensive advertisements for Japanese-owned businesses. A (very) rough count suggests that more than 20,000 businesses and residents are listed.

The entries are grouped by state, then city, with businesses and residents in kanji and addresses and the occasional phone number in Roman letters. The kanji type is set vertically and Roman horizontally on the same line. This directory grew out of the Yearbooks issued by the same publisher, but with continuous numbering of the annual editions. This edition is purely a directory, without any overview orf the statistical reporting that characterized the "yearbooks."

The Nichibei Shimbun was published by Abiko Kyutaro, the Japanese immigrant behind the semi-utopian Yamato Colony in California's Central Valley. In this directory, the small town of Livingston, where the colony was located, has 54 residential and commercial entries.

624 pages.

OCLC: Various holdings under several titles; none obviously including this issue.

Edition + Condition: A very good copy in wrappers, with some staining to the covers.

Publication: San Francisco: The Japanese American News / Nichibei Shinbunsha, 1924.

Item No: #307883

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