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Korematsu
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English
Etymology
Borrowed from en ja 是松 Korematsu.
Proper noun
s
en Japanese.
1983, Peter Irons, Justice at War: The Story of the Japanese-American Internment Cases, University of California Press (1993), 93:
The slim young man told Poulsen that his name was Fred Toyosaburo Korematsu. He was a welder and had lived until recently in nearby Oakland, where he had been born in 1919, with his Japanese-born parents and three brothers.
Japanese
Romanization
これまつ