North American Post

The North American Post (北米報知 Hokubei Höchi) is a newspaper based in Seattle, Washington's International District. It was founded in 1902 and is the largest and oldest Japanese-language newspaper published in the Pacific Northwest.

Originally called the Hokubei JiJi (The North American Times), the newspaper was issued daily from 1902 until 1942, when it and two other local Japanese newspapers ceased publication due to the internment of its staff and core readership. In 1946, the paper was restarted under the name Hokubei Hochi (The North American Post). Its publisher was Sadahiko Ikoma.

From 1946 to the end of 1948 the North American Post was issued weekly and then started publishing three times a week. In March 1950, it increased to a daily issued five days a week. In March, 1981, the newspaper reduced its frequency to three times a week. It now puts out two issues a week: the Saturday edition is Japanese-only; the Wednesday edition has both English and Japanese sections.

On November 16, 2015, the Hokubei Hochi Foundation announced that digitized issues of both Hokubei Jiji (North American Times) and Hokubei Hochi (North American Post) would be made available to the public online. This is a result of "nearly four years of work by sponsors Hokubei Hochi Foundation, University of Washington Libraries (Suzzallo and Paul Allen) and Digital Initiatives".