Bill Hosokawa

William Kunpei Hosokawa (, January 30, 1915 – November 9, 2007) was an American writer and journalist.

Of Japanese descent, while interned at the Heart Mountain Relocation Center, he was the editor of the internment camp's newspaper, The Heart Mountain Sentinel. After being freed from the camp in 1943, Hosokawa worked as a columnist and editor at The Denver Post for 38 years. He retired from the newspaper industry in 1992, at the age of 77.

Hosokawa was also a prolific author. His best-selling book Nisei: The Quiet Americans (1969) chronicles the experiences of second-generation Japanese Americans, known as Nisei.

Early life Bill Hosokawa was born on January 30, 1915, in Seattle, Washington. His father, Setsugo Hosokawa, who immigrated from Hiroshima, Japan, in 1899 at the age of 15, worked as a migrant farm worker and a railroad section hand in Montana before running an employment agency for Japanese immigrants. His mother, Kimiyo (Omura) Hosokawa was an artist and worked as an elementary school teacher. In his column, "Out of the Frying Pan," he wrote about topics including his own family life, civil rights, and Japanese American literature and culture including John Okada's 1957 novel No-No Boy, which told the story of a young adult Japanese American man throughout his life in Seattle following his internment.

Hosokawa received on honorary Doctor of Humane Letters from the University of Denver in 1990 for his work in journalism and literature. The list of speakers honoring Hosokawa included Colorado Governor Bill Ritter and Ryozo Kato, the Ambassador of Japan to the United States.