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词条 Roy Hidemichi Akagi
释义

  1. Biography

  2. Involvement in the Japanese Students Christian Association

  3. Select works

  4. References

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 University of California, Berkeley, graduating in 1918. He later obtained a master's degree in History from the University of Chicago (1920) and PhD from Harvard. As a professional historian he published a number of books and articles on American history and also about Japan. In January 1940 he took up the post of the American Representative of the South Manchurian Railway Company, based in New York.[2] He died in 1943 and was survived by his wife Skiza (born Japan), his son Hideya (born Philadelphia) and his daughter Futaba (born New York).[3]

Involvement in the Japanese Students Christian Association

Akagi was involved in a branch of the Young Men's Christian Association 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 Y.M.C.A" in a passenger list of a ship from Yokohama in 1929.[4]

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

1. ^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 Dec 1929
2. ^http://manchukuostamps.com/Akagi.htm
3. ^(For biographical data of wife and children)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
4. ^See footnote 1
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9 : 1892 births|American people of Japanese descent|People from Yokohama|Japanese emigrants to the United States|University of California, Berkeley alumni|University of Chicago alumni|Harvard University alumni|1943 deaths|People of Manchukuo

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