Akahori family

Biography

Masaru Akahori was born in 1884; a native of Tokushima Prefecture, he arrived in the United States in 1904. He resided in the San Francisco Bay area and worked in Sacramento and Placerville, California, as a reporter for a Japanese language press. Mr. Akahori returned to Japan in 1919 as a reporter for the Yomiuri Shimbun in Tokyo. He returned to the United States in 1922 and moved to Seattle, Washington, where he became managing editor of the Taihoku Nippo ( The Great Northern Daily News ). Mr. Akahori also served as Pacific Northwest region correspondent of the Nichibei Shimbun ( The Japanese American News ) of San Francisco until World War II. Following World War II, he resettled in Los Angeles, California, and began publishing The Town Crier, a mimeographed Japanese language daily. His various pen names include: Meishu, Bennaishi, Bennosuke, Manako, and Oishi Hyoroku; he was also known as Ben M. Akahori.

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