Bill Hosokawa

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...