Roy Akagi


Roy Hidemichi Akagi was a Japanese-American scholar and historian. He was born in Yokohama, Japan in 1892.

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 and a 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.

Personal life and death

Akagi died in 1943 and was survived by his wife, Skiza, his son Hideya, and his daughter Futaba.

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.

Select works

The Town Proprietors of the New England Colonies Japanese Civilization: A Syllabus Japan's Foreign Relations, 1542-1936: A Short History Future of American Trade with Manchukuko