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James Sakamoto
James Yoshinori Sakamoto (March 22, 1903 - December 3, 1955) was a journalist, boxer and community organizer. He established the first English-language Japanese American newspaper in 1928, and became a prominent national figure as a founding member of the Japanese American Citizens League.
==Early life==
"Jimmie" Sakamoto was born in Seattle to Osamu and Tsuchi Sakamoto, Issei who had immigrated to the United States from Yamaguchi Prefecture in 1894. He became a star athlete at Franklin High School, leading the football team to its first victory against cross-town rival Broadway High in 1920. That same year, Sakamoto, then 17, testified before the House Committee on Immigration and Naturalization. Preparing for an upcoming revision to U.S. immigration law, the Committee had been charged with collecting information on Asian Americans living in the West Coast states — and Sakamoto's testimony that he "wanted to be American more than Japanese" was received favorably.〔
After finishing high school, he moved to New York, where he found work as editor of the English-language section of the ''Japanese American News'', a position he held for three years. During this time he married Frances Imai, and the couple had one daughter.〔 To supplement his income from the newspaper, Sakamoto began boxing professionally, eventually becoming the first Japanese American to fight in Madison Square Garden. He took on various aliases in order to circumvent legal restrictions on the number of fights a boxer could participate in, and the physical strain soon caused irreparable damage to his retinas. Sakamoto moved back to Seattle when his eyesight began to fade, in 1927; he became completely blind soon after.〔 Frances had died before Sakamoto left New York, and he remarried shortly after returning to Seattle, to a Japanese-born woman named Misao Nishitani (with whom he would have three more daughters).〔
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