Personal Justice Denied: Report of the Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians

by Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians, Tetsuden Kashima (Foreword by)

Overview

Personal Justice Denied tells the extraordinary story of the incarceration of mainland Japanese Americans and Alaskan Aleuts during World War II. Although this wartime episode is now almost universally recognized as a catastrophe, for decades various government officials and agencies defended their actions by asserting a military necessity.

The Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment was established by act of Congress in 1980 to investigate the detention program. Over twenty days, it held hearings in cities across the country, particularly on the West Coast, with testimony from more than 750 witnesses: evacuees, former government officials, public figures, interested citizens, and historians and other professionals. It took steps to locate and to review the records of government action and to analyze contemporary writings and personal and historical accounts. The Commission’s report is a masterful summary of events surrounding the wartime relocation and detention activities, and a strong indictment of the policies that led to them. The report and its recommendations were instrumental in effecting a presidential apology and monetary restitution to surviving Japanese Americans and members of the Aleut community.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780295802343
Publisher:	University of Washington Press
Publication date:	08/01/2012
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	480
Sales rank:	862,806
File size:	34 MB
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Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Gi-Wook Shin is director of the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center at Stanford University, as well as holder of the Tong Yang, Korea Foundation, and Korea Stanford Alumni Chair of Korean Studies.

Table of Contents

Prologue by the Civil Liberties Public Education Fund

Foreword

Introduction

Summary

PART ONE: NISEI AND ISSEI

Before Pearl Harbor

Executive order 9066

Exclusion and Evacuation

Economic Loss

Assembly Centers

Relocation Centers

Loyalty: Leave and Segregation

Ending the Exclusion

Protest and Disaffection

Military Service

Hawaii

Germans and German Americans

After Camp

Appendix: Latin Americans

PART TWO: THE ALEUTS

War and Evacuation in Alaska

Notes to Parts One and Two

PART THREE: RECOMMENDATIONS

PART FOUR: PAPERS FOR THE COMMISSION

Addendum to Personal Justice Denied

Index

What People are Saying About This

Roger Daniels

"Personal Justice Denied is one of the seminal documents illuminating recent Asian American history. Its findings made possible the long—delayed monetary redress for the unjustified wartime incarceration of most mainland Japanese Americans in concentration camps."

Gary Y. Okihiro

"A document of profound historical significance, Personal Justice Denied is a testament to the fragility of democracy, but also to its strength when we the people resolve to right a great wrong."

Bruce Cumings

"This is an excellent book, the particular strength of which is its concise and coherent analysis, bringing together a fine grasp of sociological theory and extensive knowledge of the Korean land system and peasant protest. It is simply one of the best books yet on Korean society."