Honorary Consul General of Japan for Colorado from 1976 until 1999. Career as a writer Hosokawa's books and writings were deeply influenced by his experience as a Japanese American in the internment camps during World War II. His first major work, Nisei: The Quiet Americans, which explored this experience, became a national bestseller when it was published in 1969. He also focused some of his writings on his love of newspapers. His 1976 book, Thunder in the Rockies, chronicled the history of the Denver Post. His last book, Colorado's Japanese Americans: From 1886 to the Present, was published in 2005 when he was 90 years old. Some of his writings were inscribed onto the National Japanese American Memorial in Washington D.C. when the monument was dedicated in 2000. Books written by Bill Hosokawa Nisei: The Quiet Americans (Paperback - April 2002) Old Man Thunder: Father of the Bullet Train (Hardcover - Dec 1997) Thunder in the Rockies: The Incredible Denver Post (Hardcover - 1976) Colorado's Japanese Americans: From 1886 to the Present (Hardcover - October 30, 2005) JACL: In Quest of Justice (Hardcover - Dec 1982) Co-authored by Bill Hosokawa They Call Me Moses Masaoka: An American Saga by Mike Masaoka and Bill Hosokawa (Hardcover - Sep 1987) From Foe to Friend: One Man's Experience in Japanese/American Trade by Shinsaku Sogo and Bill Hosokawa (Hardcover - April 2002) East To America A History of the Japanese in the United States by Robert A. Wilson and Bill Hosokawa (Hardcover & Paperback - 1980) Honors In 1987, Hosokawa received Japan's Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Neck Ribbon. Hosokawa received on honorary Doctor of Humane Letters from the University of Denver in 1990 for his work in journalism and literature. In 2003, the Asian American Journalists Association presented Hosokawa with its lifetime achievement award for his work. Hosokawa was a recipient of the 2007 Civil Rights Award from the Anti-Defamation League. Additionally, the Japan Society of Colorado sponsors a fellowship in the name of Bill and Alice Hosokawa's name. Death Bill Hosokawa died on November 9, 2007, at the age of 92 at the home of his daughter, Christie Harveson, in Sequim, Washington, where he had lived for the previous four months. Hosokawa's wife, Alice, died in 1998, while his youngest son, Peter, died in 2006. He was survived by his two daughters, Christie and Susan, his son, Michael, his