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词条 Masaji Marumoto
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  1. Early life and education

  2. Career

  3. Further reading

  4. References

{{Short description|American judge}}

Masaji Marumoto ({{Nihongo|2=丸本正二|3=Marumoto Masaji}} January 27, 1906 - 1995) was the first Japanese American Justice of the Supreme Court of Hawaii. He served from 1956 to 1973. He was the first Japanese American to graduate from Harvard Law School, and the first Japanese American to serve as president of the Hawaii Bar Association.

Early life and education

Marumoto was born on January 27, 1906 in Honolulu to immigrants from Hiroshima, Japan. He grew up in Kona, and in seventh grade moved back to Honolulu, where he attended McKinley High School and graduated at the top of his class in 1924.[1]

After graduating from high school he earned a bachelors degree in economics with a minor in philosophy from the University of Chicago. At first Marumoto wanted to major in philosophy, but his father convinced him to major in something more "practical".[1] In 1927 he became the first Asian to enter Harvard Law School.[2] He graduated in 1930.

Career

After graduating from law school Marumoto returned to Hawaii and took the Hawaii Bar Exam. He worked at a few law offices in Honolulu before opening his own practice in 1932. In 1933 he married Shizuko Ozu.[3]

After Pearl Harbor was attacked in 1942, Marumoto helped to start the Emergency Services Committee,[4] which worked with law enforcement and civilians to ease tensions between the Japanese-American community and those who thought they were a threat.[5] He also volunteered to join the 442nd, but failed the physical because of his clubfoot, which he was born with. Instead, he taught at the Military Intelligence Service (MIS) language school since he was fluent in Japanese. In May 1945 he was sent to Okinawa to assist with establishing a government there. He was later sent to Korea, and left the military in 1946, after the war ended.[6] In June 1946 he was elected president of the MIS Veterans Club.[7]

He became president of the Hawaii Bar Association in 1954 and was the first Japanese American to serve in that position. In 1956 he was appointed as an associate justice to the Supreme Court of the Territory of Hawaii by President Eisenhower, and remained in that position when Hawaii became a state in 1959.[6] He quit in 1960 and rejoined private practice, but returned to the Supreme Court from 1967-1973.

Marumoto wrote extensively on the history of Japanese in Hawaii, and received an honorary doctorate for his work from the University of Hawaii at Manoa in 1985.[8] He also received a Second Class Order of the Sacred Treasure from Emperor Hirohito.[9]

Marumoto died in 1995.[9]

Further reading

  • First among Nisei: the Life and Writings of Masaji Marumoto by Dennis Ogawa {{ISBN|9780824831417}}

References

1. ^{{Cite book|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1020277941|title=Who you? Hawaii issei|last=Ogawa|first=Dennis M.|last2=Kitano|first2=Christine|publisher=|year=|isbn=9780824877286|location=Honolulu, Hawaiʻi|pages=|oclc=1020277941|author-link=Dennis M. Ogawa}}
2. ^{{Cite book|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/27383373|title=Americanization, acculturation, and ethnic identity : the Nisei generation in Hawaii|last=Eileen.|first=Tamura,|date=1994|publisher=University of Illinois Press|isbn=0252020316|location=Urbana|oclc=27383373}}
3. ^{{Cite book|title=Hawaii's AJA pioneers : one hundred profiles commemorating the centennial of the Hawaii Hochi|last=Chinen|first=Karleen C.|publisher=Hawaii Hochi Ltd.|year=2012|isbn=|location=Honolulu, Hawaii|pages=119–120}}
4. ^{{Cite book|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70149258|title=Nisei linguists : Japanese Americans in the Military Intelligence Service during World War II|last=1952-|first=McNaughton, James C.,|date=2006|publisher=Dept. of the Army|isbn=0160729572|location=Washington, DC|oclc=70149258}}
5. ^{{Cite web|url=http://encyclopedia.densho.org/Emergency_Service_Committee/|title=Emergency Service Committee {{!}} Densho Encyclopedia|website=encyclopedia.densho.org|language=en|access-date=2018-06-29}}
6. ^{{Cite web|url=http://encyclopedia.densho.org/Masaji_Marumoto/|title=Masaji Marumoto {{!}} Densho Encyclopedia|website=encyclopedia.densho.org|language=en|access-date=2018-06-29}}
7. ^{{Cite web|url=http://www.misveteranshawaii.com/about-us/|title=About Us {{!}} MIS: America's Secret Weapon|website=www.misveteranshawaii.com|language=en-US|access-date=2018-06-29}}
8. ^{{Cite web|url=https://www.hawaii.edu/offices/bor/honorary.php|title=Honorary degrees conferred by the University of Hawaii|last=System|first=University of Hawaii|website=www.hawaii.edu|language=en|access-date=2018-06-29}}
9. ^{{Cite news|url=https://www.apnews.com/8be2c2f2de9065434ca1e0d0c643c6f2|title=Masaji Marumoto|last=|first=|date=February 13, 1995|work=AP News|access-date=2018-06-29|language=en-US}}
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