Bill Hosokawa
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Bill Hosokawa (b. January 30, 1915, in Seattle, Washington) is a Japanese-American author and journalist who worked for 38 years at The Denver Post, retiring as the editorial page editor in 1984. His 1969 book Nisei: The Quiet Americans chronicles the experiences of first-generation Japanese-Americans. His latest 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 is the recipient of the 2007 Civil Rights Award from the Anti-Defamation League.
