Korematsu

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English

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Japanese 是松 (Korematsu).

Proper noun

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Korematsu (plural Korematsus)

  1. A surname from 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

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Romanization

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Korematsu

  1. Rōmaji transcription of これまつ