Background
He was born in Sapulpa, Oklahoma and earned a law degree from the University of Oklahoma in 1938.
He was born in Sapulpa, Oklahoma and earned a law degree from the University of Oklahoma in 1938.
University of Oklahoma (Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Laws). Graduate work in Comparative Law at Trinity Hall College, Cambridge, England. Japanese Law at Tokyo Imperial University, Tokyo, Japan.
Spoken languages: English, Japanese.
Following the war, he served as a legal officer under General Douglas MacArthur in the Office of the Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers, where he worked on the revision of Japanese pre-war statutes. He passed the Japanese bar examination in 1949 and became a Japanese attorney at law in 1950. He co-founded the law firm of Blakemore & Mitsuki, which became a preeminent commercial law firm in Tokyo, advising many major corporations.
He died of heart failure in Seattle, Washington.
Oklahoma, American and Japanese Bar Associations.