Roy Hidemichi Akagi was a Japanese-American scholar and historian. He was born in

Yokohama, Japan is the second-largest city in Japan by population and the most populous municipality of Japan. It is the capital city and the most populous city in Kanagawa Prefecture, with a 2020 population of 3.8 million. It lies on Tokyo Bay, south of ...

in 1892.

Biography

He studied American History at the

University of California, Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California. Established in 1868 as the University of California, it is the state's first land-grant u ...

, graduating in 1918. He later obtained a master's degree in History from the

University of Chicago The University of Chicago (UChicago, Chicago, U of C, or UChi) is a private university, private research university in Chicago, Illinois. Its main campus is located in Chicago's Hyde Park, Chicago, Hyde Park neighborhood. The University of Chic ...

(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. He died in 1943 and was survived by his wife Skiza (born Japan), third daughter of social reformer Abe Isoo, his son Hideya (born Philadelphia) and his daughter Futaba (born New York).

Involvement in the Japanese Students Christian Association

Akagi was involved in a branch of

YMCA YMCA, sometimes regionally called the Y, is a worldwide youth organization based in Geneva, Switzerland, with more than 64 million beneficiaries in 120 countries. It was founded on 6 June 1844 by George Williams (philanthropist), Georg ...

aimed at

Japanese-American are Americans of Japanese ancestry. Japanese Americans were among the three largest Asian American ethnic communities during the 20th century; but, according to the 2000 census, they have declined in number to constitute the sixth largest Asi ...

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.See footnote 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

{{DEFAULTSORT:Akagi, Roy Hidemichi 1892 births People from Yokohama Japanese emigrants to the United States UC Berkeley College of Letters and Science alumni University of Chicago alumni Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences alumni 1943 deaths People of Manchukuo