Mikiso Hane wrote and translated over a dozen books, wrote many articles, and was appointed a member of the National Council on the Humanities in 1991.
31 Facts About Mikiso Hane
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Mikiso Hane was born in California, lived in Japan during his teenage years, and was interned in Arizona during World War II.
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Mikiso Hane taught soldiers Japanese at Yale, then studied there, where he attained a bachelors in 1952, a masters in 1953, and doctorate degree in 1957.
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Mikiso Hane studied in Japan and Germany, then taught at the University of Toledo and studied in India before coming to Knox College in 1961.
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Mikiso Hane lived in Galesburg for the rest of his life, and both wrote and taught up until his death.
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Mikiso Hane attended Fairhaven Grammar School, a two-room elementary school in Hollister, California, during the 1930s, where he learned basic American history.
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Mikiso Hane's parents sent Hane back with the hope to join him later after their retirement.
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Mikiso Hane worked as a vegetable farmer to provide for the family.
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Later, after Japan invaded China, Mikiso Hane was worried that Japan might go to war with the United States, and so he asked his parents if they would let him return before such a war began.
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Mikiso Hane returned to Hollister in 1940 and a teacher at the elementary school there tutored him in English.
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Mikiso Hane took the job as a dishwasher in the camp's kitchen and received $16 per month.
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Mikiso Hane signed up for a job in the US military, as he feared being declared a liar, given that he had already professed loyalty to the United States.
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Mikiso Hane went to Chicago to be interviewed for the position.
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Mikiso Hane was then hired and sent to New Haven, Connecticut to start his professional career at $600 per year for this part-time Japanese teacher role.
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Mikiso Hane gravitated towards history courses and was taught by Bernard Knox, Robert Lopez, and Samuel Bemis.
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Mikiso Hane soon met Rose Kanemoto, who was working as a doctor's assistant.
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Later, when working at Knox College, an FBI agent called him out of his office to ask him why he had gone to the Soviet Union, and Mikiso Hane cleared up the confusion, explaining that he had just gone to the embassy to ask a question about traveling to Siberia.
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From 1959 to 1961, Mikiso Hane was an assistant professor of history at the University of Toledo.
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Mikiso Hane taught some courses on Japanese studies in a collaborative program with nearby Monmouth College.
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In 1976, Mikiso Hane was promoted to Szold Distinguished Service Professor of History, an endowed professorship.
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From 1980 until 1983, Mikiso Hane was a member of the Teaching Division of the American Historical Association.
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Mikiso Hane's writings do not romanticize or rely on stereotypes which position emperors and samurai as any more central to Japan's history than peasants and rebellious women.
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Mikiso Hane's intention was to stay true to his roots, specializing his research on what he knew well:.
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From 1987 to 1988, Mikiso Hane was president of the Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs.
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Mikiso Hane gave a lecture at Knox on his experiences during his internment in WWII on February 22,1991.
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In 1992, Mikiso Hane retired from Knox as emeritus professor, and he continued teaching three courses per year and writing books until his death.
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Mikiso Hane was awarded an Honorary degree, doctor of humane letters, by Knox College in 1997.
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Mikiso Hane appeared on local newspapers numerous times in celebration of his nomination to the 26-member National Council on the Humanities, an interview of his memory of the WWII internment camp, and generally for his academic contribution to Knox College.
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Titles that featured articles about Mikiso Hane included Galesburg's The Register-Mail, the Quad-City Times, The Galesburg Post, the Knoxville Journal, Peoria's Journal Star, The Dispatch and Rock Island Argus, The Knox Student, and the school's magazines.
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Mikiso Hane died at 81 on December 8,2003, in OSF St Francis Medical Center in Peoria, likely from cancer.
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Mikiso Hane wrote the introduction to the English version of The Prison Memoirs of a Japanese Woman, by Kaneko Fumiko.