Tools for Educators - Photo Gallery: Other Key Players
Other Key Players - Opposition to mass internment in Hawaii, and support of Japanese American fighting units, depended on a web of influential people operating between Honolulu and Washington DC.
As martial law governor of Hawaii, Gov. Delos Emmons played a crucial role in the 1941-43 drama
Distinguished attorney Masaji Marumoto was a Shivers friend
Hoover argued against a mass internment in Hawaii
Charles Loomis served with Ching and Yoshida in Morale Section
Coggins eventually rose to rank of admiral
General Delos Emmons
Masaji Marumoto
J. Edgar Hoover was early crimebuster with Bob Shivers
Assist't War Sec John J. McCloy championed nisei soldiers
Cecil H. Coggins, Navy intelligence, supported Hawaii nisei