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Jan 30, 1915 Seattle, Washington, United States Died on 09 Nov 2007 (aged 92)
American journalist
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About Bill Hosokawa
- William Kumpai Hosokawa (January 30, 1915 – November 9, 2007) was a Japanese American writer and journalist.
- While interned at the Heart Mountain Relocation Center, he was the editor of the internment camp's newspaper, The Heart Mountain Sentinel.
- After being freed from the camp in 1943, Hosokawa worked as a columnist and editor at The Denver Post for 38 years.
- He retired from the newspaper industry in 1992, at the age of 77.Hosokawa was also a prolific author.
- His best-selling book Nisei: The Quiet Americans (1969) chronicles the experiences of second-generation Japanese Americans, known as Nisei.
- Hosokawa published his final work, Colorado's Japanese Americans: From 1886 to the Present (2005), when he was 90 years old.
- His other books include Out of the Frying Pan (1998), Thirty-Five Years in the Frying Pan (1978), Thunder in the Rockies (1976), The Two Worlds of Jim Yoshida (1972), and The Uranium Age (1955). Hosokawa was a recipient of the 2007 Civil Rights Award from the Anti-Defamation League.
