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William Kumpai Hosokawa (January 30, 1915 – November 9, 2007) was a Japanese American author and journalist who worked for 38 years at ''The Denver Post'', before retiring as the editorial page editor from that particular paper in 1984. Hosokawa retired from the newspaper industry in 1992.〔 Hosokawa was also a prolific author. His 1969 book ''Nisei: The Quiet Americans'' chronicles the experiences of second-generation Japanese-Americans, including the internment experience during World War II.〔 His last work, ''Colorado's Japanese Americans from 1886 to the Present'', was published in 2005.〔 Other books include ''Out of the Frying Pan'', ''Thirty-Five Years in the Frying Pan'', ''Thunder in the Rockies'', ''The Two Worlds of Jim Yoshida'', and ''The Uranium Age''. Hosokawa was a recipient of the 2007 Civil Rights Award from the Anti-Defamation League. ==Early life== Bill Hosokawa was born on January 30, 1915, in Seattle, Washington.〔 His parents were recent immigrants from Japan. His father, Setsugo Hosokawa, who immigrated from Hiroshima, Japan, in 1899 at the age of 15, worked as a migrant farm worker and a railroad section hand in Montana.〔 Hosokawa's parents eventually settled in Seattle. Hosokawa graduated from Garfield High School in Seattle.〔 He enrolled at the University of Washington, where he earned his bachelor's degree in journalism in 1937.〔 In 1936, while a student at UW, Hosokawa's professor and adviser strongly recommended that he abandon his journalism career goals, because no newsroom would hire a Japanese American.〔〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Bill Hosokawa」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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