[2] Despite the end of the printed newspaper Nichi Bei Foundation continues to publish news digitally on its website.
[4] After Abiko's death in 1936, his wife Yonako took over the business, and in 1939 the Nichi Bei building and equipment were destroyed in a fire.
The company acquired a new location in 1940 but ceased operations less than two years later, when the newspaper was forced to close and the staff sent to World War II internment camps in April 1942.
"[2] In 1998 Kenji G. Taguma, who by 2009 was the Nichi Bei Times vice president and editor of the English version, wrote a story that contributed to the gain of redress for families of miners and railroad workers who had been fired from their jobs after the Japanese military had attacked Pearl Harbor in 1941; the U.S. federal government had not included them in a 1988 redress act.
Taguma said that he created the plans because, as paraphrased by Justine Koo Drennan of New America Media, "he believes the paper is an essential voice for Japanese Americans.