SEATTLE NISEI ON IOWA PAPER

Bill Hosokawa, University of Washington graduate and former Seattle resident, has left the Heart Mountain relocation camp for Japanese evacuees, and is working on The Des Moines (Iowa) Register, Seattle friends learned today.

Hosokawa, a graduate of Garfield High School, went to the Orient as editor of The Singaporoe [Singapore] Herald, and was also employed by The Shanghai Times, and The Far Eastern Review after his graduation from the University. In October, 1941, he returned to the United States.

Since the early days of the War Relocation Authority program, Hosokawa has served with government groups among the Nisei (American-born Japanese) and those of foreign birth, both in the Puyallup and Heart Mountain camps.

In August, 1942, Hosokawa became editor of The Heart Mountain Sentinel, camp newspaper. He left that position to become an editorial copy-reader on The Des Moines Register this week.

Leaving the camp with him, to make their home in Des Moines also, are his wife, Alice: their 3-year-old son, Mike, and Mrs. Hosokawa's mother, Mrs. Tora Miyake.