citizenship and Mitsuye Endo, a reluctant recruit to a lawsuit contesting her imprisonment, who refuses a chance to leave the camp at Topaz so that her case could reach the U.S. In this groundbreaking graphic novel, meet Jim Akutsu, the inspiration for John Okada’s No-No Boy, who refuses to be drafted from the camp at Minidoka when classified as a non-citizen, an enemy alien Hiroshi Kashiwagi, who resists government pressure to sign a loyalty oath at Tule Lake, but yields to family pressure to renounce his U.S. Japanese Americans complied when evicted from their homes in World War II-but many refused to submit to imprisonment in American concentration camps without a fight. The Pigott-McCone Endowed Chair in the Humanities and the English Department welcome Tamiko Nimura, PhD, who will speak about her recent book We Hereby Refuse: Japanese American Resistance to Wartime Incarceration. The story of camp as you've never seen it before. "Her story exemplifies a core American principle we are a nation of laws where one person can stand up against an injustice and alter the course of our democracy.We Hereby Refuse: Japanese American Resistance to Wartime Incarceration Endo was an ordinary person who made the extraordinary choice to forego her own freedom in order to secure the rights of 120,000 Japanese Americans who were wrongfully imprisoned without the benefit of due process," Schatz said. The ruling led to Japanese Americans being allowed to return to the West Coast and the closures of camps in January 1945. The Supreme Court later ruled 9-0 in favor of Endo in December 1944, stating that a citizen who is not "concededly loyal presents no problem of espionage or sabotage." However, she refused the offer and remained confined for another two years as she continued to pursue the case. While her case proceeded, Endo received an offer from the government to release her as long as she agreed not to return to the West Coast. "Awarding the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Mitsuye Endo would provide long overdue recognition of the courage and sacrifice of a civil rights heroine whose low-key demeanor belied her steadfast pursuit of justice during World War II," Schatz said in the letter.Īfter the bombing at Pearl Harbor, Endo was fired from her job as a typist in the Department of Motor Vehicles in Sacramento, and she and her family were then forced into internment camps in California and Utah where she spent three years.įour Japanese Americans challenged the legality of their relocation and internment all the way to the Supreme Court. resident who was the only female among a handful of Japanese Americans to challenge the constitutionality of internment camps. Brian Schatz, D-Hawaii, sent a letter to President Barack Obama on Monday, urging him to bestow the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Mitsuye Endo, a Sacramento, Calif. Supreme Court's unanimous decision to end incarceration of Japanese Americans during the war could possibly receive the nation's highest civilian honor. HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - A former World War II internee who was instrumental in the U.S.
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