Bruce Yamashita

Military Person

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Who is Bruce Yamashita?

Bruce I. Yamashita is a Japanese American lawyer and a former officer in the United States Marine Corps Reserves. His successful legal case against institutional racial discrimination at the Officer Candidate School of the Marine Corps became the subject of a 2003 documentary titled A Most Unlikely Hero as well as an autobiography titled Fighting Tradition: A Marine's Journey to Justice.

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Ethnicity
  • Japanese American
Nationality
  • United States of America

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on July 23, 2013

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