Dr. Eugenie Clark, A leading Marine Biologist and the Author of "The Lady and the Sharks"
Isaku Kida
Isaku Kida was born in Fukuoka Prefecture in 1905. After graduating from Aoyama Gakuin’s English normal school, he came to the U.S. and attended Oberlin College, however he left school and moved to New York in 1932.
Two years later, he joined the OSS’s military intelligence group, and served in India. The end of the war found him in Yunan province in China.
Immediately following the end of WW2 Mr. Kida wrote an editorial stressing the urgent need for a concerted effort to send relief to war-torn Japan’s needy millions. As a result, in 1946 The New York Committee for Relief to Japan was formed with Mr. Kida as one of its founding members. The group shifted its focus to the welfare of local Japanese and Japanese Americans, being reborn as the Japanese American Association, with Mr. Kida as its director.
In 1945 the first edition of the Hokubei Shimpo was published and Mr. Kida became the first stockholder of the newsppaer. He took over the running of the paper in 1952.
In 1963 the paper was renamed “The New York Nichibei” which it remained until its closing issue on July 1, 1993.
The Japanese American Association of New York (JAANY) Manifesto, 1954
Licensed Agencies for Relief in Asia (LARA) Brosure, 1949
Japanese American Welfare Society (1946 – 1952)
”Of Milk and Eggs” a Pamphlet published by the New York Japanese American Committee for Japan Relief
A Letter from the American Friends Service Committee to the New York Japanese American Committee for Japan Relief Inc
Donation Letter by the Japanese American Committee 1947
Thank You Letters from Japanese People to Licensed Agencies for Relief in Asia and The New York Japanese American Committee for Japan Relief Inc.
New York Japanese American Committee for Japan Relief Inc. 1947-1952
