{"url_title":"Trek (newspaper)","title_sort":"treknewspaper","links":{"json":"http://encyclopedia.densho.org/api/0.1/articles/Trek%20(newspaper)/","html":"http://encyclopedia.densho.org/Trek%20(newspaper)"},"modified":"2026-03-10T14:26:51","title":"Trek (newspaper)","body":"<div class=\"mw-parser-output\">\n <div class=\"floatright\">\n </div>\n <div class=\"floatright\">\n </div>\n <div class=\"floatright\">\n </div>\n <p>\n  <i>\n   Trek\n  </i>\n  was a literary and arts magazine published by inmates at the\n  <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"/Topaz/\" title=\"Topaz\">\n   Topaz\n  </a>\n  , Utah concentration camp between December 1942 and June 1943. In total, only three quarterly issues of\n  <i>\n   Trek\n  </i>\n  were published. In the spring of 1944, a similar publication titled\n  <i>\n   All Aboard\n  </i>\n  appeared at Topaz.\n  <i>\n   Trek\n  </i>\n  /\n  <i>\n   All Aboard\n  </i>\n  featured literary work by a wide range of\n  <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"/Nisei/\" title=\"Nisei\">\n   Nisei\n  </a>\n  writers including\n  <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"/Toyo_Suyemoto/\" title=\"Toyo Suyemoto\">\n   Toyo Suyemoto\n  </a>\n  ,\n  <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"/Toshio_Mori/\" title=\"Toshio Mori\">\n   Toshio Mori\n  </a>\n  , Jim Yamada, and\n  <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"/Larry_Tajiri/\" title=\"Larry Tajiri\">\n   Larry Tajiri\n  </a>\n  .\n  <a class=\"mw-redirect encyc notrg\" href=\"/Mine_Okubo/\" title=\"Mine Okubo\">\n   Mine Okubo\n  </a>\n  served as the art editor of\n  <i>\n   Trek\n  </i>\n  , providing many of the illustrations and the covers. For an analysis of\n  <i>\n   Trek\n  </i>\n  /\n  <i>\n   All Aboard\n  </i>\n  in the context of other literature produced in the camps see\n  <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"/Literature_in_camp/\" title=\"Literature in camp\">\n   Literature in camp\n  </a>\n  .\n </p>\n <p>\n  <i>\n   <a class=\"external text offsite\" href=\"https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-142-425/\" rel=\"nofollow\">\n    Trek\n   </a>\n  </i>\n  <a class=\"external text offsite\" href=\"https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-142-425/\" rel=\"nofollow\">\n   Vol. 1, No. 1\n  </a>\n  <br/>\n  December 1942\n  <br/>\n  Editor: Jim Yamada\n  <br/>\n  Associate Editors: Taro Katayama, Marii Kyogoku, Bob Tsuda\n  <br/>\n  Art Edtior: Mine Okubo\n  <br/>\n  Contributing Artist: Tom Yamamoto\n  <br/>\n  Chief Technician: Toku Okubo\n  <br/>\n  30 pages.\n  <br/>\n  <br/>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <i>\n   <a class=\"external text offsite\" href=\"https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-142-426/\" rel=\"nofollow\">\n    Trek\n   </a>\n  </i>\n  <a class=\"external text offsite\" href=\"https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-142-426/\" rel=\"nofollow\">\n   Vol 1, No. 2\n  </a>\n  <br/>\n  February 1943\n  <br/>\n  Editors: Jim Yamada, Taro Katayama, Marii Kyogoku\n  <br/>\n  Art Edtior: Mine Okubo\n  <br/>\n  Contributing Artist: Tom Yamamoto\n  <br/>\n  Chief Technician: Toku Okubo\n  <br/>\n  Assistants: Mehiko Katsu, Nobuo Kitagaki, Warren Watanabe\n  <br/>\n  42 pages, plus a 4 page Japanese supplement\n  <br/>\n  <br/>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <i>\n   <a class=\"external text offsite\" href=\"https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-142-427/\" rel=\"nofollow\">\n    Trek\n   </a>\n  </i>\n  <a class=\"external text offsite\" href=\"https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-142-427/\" rel=\"nofollow\">\n   Vol. 1, No. 3\n  </a>\n  <br/>\n  June 1943\n  <br/>\n  Editors: Toku Okubo and Nobuo Kitagaki\n  <br/>\n  Art Edtior: Mine Okubo\n  <br/>\n  Contributing Artist: Alfred Sawahata\n  <br/>\n  Chief Technician: Toku Okubo\n  <br/>\n  42 pages\n  <br/>\n  <br/>\n </p>\n <p>\n  <i>\n   <a class=\"external text offsite\" href=\"https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-282-1/\" rel=\"nofollow\">\n    All Aboard\n   </a>\n  </i>\n  <br/>\n  Spring 1944\n  <br/>\n  Editors: Toshio Mori, Evelyn Kirimura, George Sugihara, Kimi Shimamura\n  <br/>\n  Art Editor: Masao Yabuki\n  <br/>\n  Associate Art Editor: Alfred Sawahata\n  <br/>\n  54 pages\n  <br/>\n </p>\n <div id=\"authorByline\">\n  <b>\n   Authored by\n   <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"/Brian_Niiya/\" title=\"Brian Niiya\">\n    Brian Niiya\n   </a>\n   , Densho\n  </b>\n </div>\n <div id=\"citationAuthor\" style=\"display:none;\">\n  Niiya, Brian\n </div>\n <div class=\"section\" id=\"For_More_Information\">\n  <h2>\n   <span class=\"mw-headline\" id=\"For_More_Information\">\n    For More Information\n   </span>\n  </h2>\n  <div class=\"section_content\">\n   <p>\n    Card, Laura. \"'TREK' Magazine, 1942–1943: A Critical Rhetorical Analysis.\" Ph.D. dissertation, University of Utah, 2005.\n   </p>\n   <p>\n    Horiuchi, Lynne. \"Research Note: Recovering Vernacular Landscapes in World War II Incarceration Camps Through Japanese American Newspapers.\"\n    <i>\n     Buildings &amp; Landscapes: Journal of the Vernacular Architecture Forum\n    </i>\n    31.2 (Fall 2024): 55–72.\n   </p>\n   <p>\n    Robinson, Greg, and Elena Tajima Creef.\n    <i>\n     Miné Okubo: Following Her Own Road\n    </i>\n    . Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2008.\n   </p>\n   <p>\n    Schweik, Susan.\n    <i>\n     A Gulf So Deeply Cut: American Women Poets and the Second World War\n    </i>\n    . Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1991.\n   </p>\n   <!-- \nNewPP limit report\nCached time: 20260310142651\nCache expiry: 86400\nDynamic content: false\nComplications: []\nCPU time usage: 0.013 seconds\nReal time usage: 0.016 seconds\nPreprocessor visited node count: 33/1000000\nPost‐expand include size: 367/2097152 bytes\nTemplate argument size: 58/2097152 bytes\nHighest expansion depth: 4/40\nExpensive parser function count: 0/100\nUnstrip recursion depth: 0/20\nUnstrip post‐expand size: 0/5000000 bytes\nExtLoops count: 0\n-->\n   <!--\nTransclusion expansion time report (%,ms,calls,template)\n100.00%    4.492      1 -total\n 50.27%    2.258      1 Template:Published\n 48.38%    2.173      1 Template:AuthorByline\n-->\n   <!-- Saved in parser cache with key encycmw:pcache:idhash:348-0!canonical and timestamp 20260310142651 and revision id 38507\n -->\n  </div>\n </div>\n</div>\n<div class=\"toplink\">\n <a href=\"#top\">\n  <i class=\"icon-chevron-up\">\n  </i>\n  Top\n </a>\n</div>","categories":["http://encyclopedia.densho.org/api/0.1/categories/Newspapers/"],"sources":["http://encyclopedia.densho.org/api/0.1/sources/en-denshopd-i142-00425-1/","http://encyclopedia.densho.org/api/0.1/sources/en-denshopd-i142-00426-1/","http://encyclopedia.densho.org/api/0.1/sources/en-denshopd-i142-00427-1/"],"coordinates":{},"authors":["http://encyclopedia.densho.org/api/0.1/authors/Brian%20Niiya/"],"ddr_topic_terms":["https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/facet/topics/topics-74/objects/","https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/facet/topics/topics-172/objects/"],"prev_page":"http://encyclopedia.densho.org/api/0.1/articles/Treadmill%20(book)/","next_page":"http://encyclopedia.densho.org/api/0.1/articles/Truth%20of%20the%20Matter%20(film)/"}