Roy Akagi
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Roy Hidemichi Akagi
)Roy Hidemichi Akagi was a Japanese-American scholar and historian. He was born in
Yokohama, Japan in 1892.[1]
Biography
He studied American History at the
South Manchurian Railway Company, based in New York.[2]
Personal life and death
Akagi died in 1943 [citation needed] and was survived by his wife, Skiza (third daughter of social reformer Abe Isoo[3]), his son Hideya (born Philadelphia), and his daughter Futaba (born New York).[4]
Involvement in the Japanese Students Christian Association
Akagi was involved in a branch of YMCA aimed at Japanese-American Christians. In 1926, he authored a pamphlet for the Japanese Students Christian Association called "The second generation problem: Some suggestions toward its solution." He was listed as "Secretary of YMCA" in a passenger list of a ship from Yokohama in 1929.[1]
Select works
- The Town Proprietors of the New England Colonies (1924)(reprinted 1963)
- Japanese Civilization: A Syllabus (1927)
- Japan's Foreign Relations, 1542-1936: A Short History (1937)
- Future of American Trade with Manchukuko (1940)
- The Postage Stamps of Manchoukuo(1941)
References
- ^ a b National Archives at Washington, D.C.; Washington, D.C.; Passenger Lists of Vessels Arriving at San Francisco, California; NAI Number: 4498993; Record Group Title: Records of the Immigration and Naturalization Service, 1787-2004; Record Group Number: 85; Ship Name Korea Maru, Arrival Date: 6 December 1929.
- ^ "Roy Hidemichi Akagi - the Postage Stamps of Manchoukuo".
- ^ "John J. Stephan, Hijacked by Utopia: American Nikkei in Manchuria, Amerasia Journal, Dec. 1997".
- ^ Ancestry.com. 1940 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012.Year: 1940; Census Place: New York, New York, New York; Roll: m-t0627-02643; Page: 2A; Enumeration District: 31-804
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