Education
Earl Anzai was raised in Hawaii. Anzai graduated from Kahuku High School in rural City & County of Honolulu. He left the islands to study at Emory University and then before successfully obtaining a Bachelor of Arts degree in economics from the University of Hawaii at Manoa in 1964.
In 1966, he obtained a master of arts degree in the same field at the same school.
From 1966 to 1968, Anzai received a Doctor of Philosophy education but transferred to the William South. Richardson School of Law where he obtained a doctorate of jurisprudence instead in 1981.
On May 16, 2008, Anzai was finally initiated as a member of the Beta Chi chapter of the Sigma Chi fraternity at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. He is also a 1976 alumnus of the National Urban Fellows.