Louise Suski
BornJune 27, 1905 Edit this on Wikidata
San Francisco Edit this on Wikidata
DiedJune 5, 2003 Edit this on Wikidata (aged 97)
Cerritos Edit this on Wikidata
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OccupationEditor Edit this on Wikidata
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Louise Suski (June 27, 1905 – June 5, 2003) was the first woman editor-in-chief and English-section editor-in-chief at the Japanese-English language newspaper Rafu Shimpo.[1][2][3][4][5][6]

Early life

On June 27, 1905, Suski was born in San Francisco.[1][4] She had six siblings, including Julia Suski who illustrated for Rafu Shimpo from 1926 to 1929.[1][3] Her family attended the Maryknoll Catholic Church.[1] In 1924, Suski graduated from Los Angeles High School.[1] After graduating, she applied to the University of California, Los Angeles to pursue a career in education, but she never finished her degree.[1][4][3]

Career

In 1926, Suski became the first woman editor-in-chief and English language editor-in-chief at Rafu Shimpo.[3][7][6] She worked at Rafu Shimpo until 1942 and was colleagues with Togo Tanaka.[8] Due to the incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II in the United States, Suski and her family were incarcerated at Heart Mountain Relocation Center.[1] While at Heart Mountain Relocation Center, Suski joined the center's newspaper, Heart Mountain Sentinel.[1][9]

After the war, Suski moved to Chicago.[1] She would go on to work for General Mailing and Sales Company, the Japanese American Evacuation and Resettlement Study (JERS) office, Scene magazine, and Shikago Shimpo.[1][10]

Death

Suski retired in 1978 and returned to Cerritos to live with her brother and sister-in-law.[1] She died in 2003.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Wakida, Patricia (October 24, 2014). "Louise Suski". Densho Encyclopedia. Retrieved February 22, 2023.
  2. ↑ Kurashige, Lon (March 2000). "The Problem of Biculturalism: Japanese American Identity and Festival before World War II". The Journal of American History. 86 (4): 1649. doi:10.2307/2567581. ISSN 0021-8723. JSTOR 2567581 – via JSTOR.
  3. 1 2 3 4 Matsumoto, Valerie J. (2014). City Girls: the Nisei Social World in Los Angeles, 1920-1950. Oxford. pp. 8, 48, 67, 85, 98, 236. ISBN 978-0-19-937703-9. OCLC 874563274.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  4. 1 2 3 Wakida, Patricia (April 23, 2013). "Through the Fire: Louise Suski". Discover Nikkei. Retrieved February 22, 2023.
  5. ↑ "Los Angeles, Calif.--The last issue of the Los Angeles Daily News has been run off the press in preparation of ..." oac.cdlib.org. Retrieved February 22, 2023.
  6. 1 2 Muranaka, Gwen (January 27, 2018). "Muranaka Tapped to Lead Rafu as Senior Editor". Rafu Shimpo. Retrieved February 22, 2023.
  7. ↑ Muranaka, Gwen (May 13, 2016). "A Cultural Touchstone Fends off the End of an Era | Essay". Zócalo Public Square. Retrieved February 22, 2023.
  8. ↑ Yoo, David (2000). Growing Up Nisei: Race, Generation, and Culture Among Japanese Americans of California, 1924–49. Urbana: University of Illinois Press. p. 200. ISBN 978-0-252-05433-4. OCLC 1149222478.
  9. ↑ Wakida, Patricia (April 16, 2014). "Heart Mountain Sentinel (newspaper)". Densho Encyclopedia. Retrieved February 22, 2023.
  10. ↑ "REgenerations Oral History Project: Rebuilding Japanese American Families, Communities, and Civil Rights in the Resettlement Era : Los Angeles Region: Volume II". oac.cdlib.org. Retrieved February 22, 2023.
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