Content note: Ethnic slur ('Japs') in the front-page headline. This object is shown as it was published. Why
The Daily Alaska Empire, 'JAPS ATTACK HONOLULU AND MANILA' war extra, 7 December 1941
Front page of a Juneau daily on the day of the Pearl Harbor attack: a full-width banner reads 'JAPS ATTACK HONOLULU AND MANILA', with 'WAR EXTRA' in the largest type on the page and an Associated Press report beneath. The attack reported is a documented event; the loaded element is the headline's ethnic shorthand 'Japs', set in the largest type, where the body text of the same page says 'the Japanese'.
- Date
- December 7, 1941
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- The Daily Alaska Empire (Empire Printing Company, Juneau, Alaska Territory), a member of the Associated Press
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Newspaper pages
- Issuer type
- Media
- Regime
- Roosevelt Administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Warn or inform
- Event
- World War II
- Techniques
- Name-calling
- Regime
- Roosevelt administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- Library of Congress, Chronicling America (Alaska State Library Historical Collections, NDNP awardee), retrieved October 2, 2026
- Rights
- LOC Chronicling America: no known restrictions; no copyright notice on page 1
The Daily Alaska Empire (Juneau, Alaska), 7 December 1941, p. 1. Alaska State Library Historical Collections, via Library of Congress, Chronicling America (LCCN sn83045499).
Text on the object
THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE "ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME" VOL. LVIII., NO. 8898. SUNDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1911 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS JAPS ATTACK HONOLULU AND MANILA Navy Bases Notified State of Siege Exists WAR EXTRA (BY ASSOCIATED PRESS) The Japanese launched bombing attacks on both Hawaii and Manila early this morning. Pearl Harbor was also attacked. Immediately all Navy and War department stations were informed that a "state of siege" exists. Radiophone information from both Honolulu and Manila given out by Associated Press correspondents state that swarms of Japanese planes swooped out of the skies just before dawn today in a "sneak" attack on the Hawaiian Islands and the Philippines. [the report continues in the same column and the next; the remaining text of the page is not transcribed here] [side headlines] ALL LEAVES CANCELLED IN ORIENT; DEFENSE OF "GIBRALTAR OF ORIENT" INDICATED; Tokyo Newspapers Renew Hostilities Against U. S. Today; NAZI RAIDER IS SENT DOWN IN S. ATLANTIC; RED TROOPS SEVER NAZI SUPPLY ROAD; HOUSE OKAYS 8 BILLIONS FOR DEFENSE; ARMY COMING; MAYOR TELLS CITY COUNCIL; BIG MOVE ON MOSCOW IS REPORTED; Great Britain Lists Three More Enemies; FIRE WALLS IN JUNEAU PROPOSED [earlier-edition items on the same page] 'Tank Destroyer' Tested by the Army; PROCLAIMS DAY; "Scare Buying" of Public Is Big Problem of O.P.A.; Conservation, Necessity
Headlines, masthead and the first two paragraphs of the Associated Press lead were read from the committed 1280-px image and checked against LOC's OCR. The year in the masthead is printed '1911' in the original. The rest of the dispatch and the other columns are not transcribed.
