Bruce Yamashita
US Marine corps officer
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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.