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...Gordon Hirabayashi, made famous by fighting the government's policy of forcing Japanese-Americans into internment camps during World War II, spoke about his experiences at the Kennedy School of Government last night...
...Hirabayashi came to address an Institute of Politics (IOP) forum about his personal experiences as a nisei(second-generation Japanese-American) after Executive Order 9066 was issued by President Franklin D. Roosevelt...
...diplomatic sense, the U.S.-Japanese relationship is one of the great successes of postwar American history. An enemy has become a close and prosperous ally, intimately tied to America's own diplomacy, economy and -- especially for the younger generation -- culture. Says Hiroshi Hirabayashi, the deputy chief of mission in the Japanese embassy in Washington: "The substance, the facts, are positive in our bilateral relations. But the perception is more or less negative...
Twice in 44 years, Gordon Hirabayashi heard the charges against him argued in the same Seattle federal courtroom. The first time was in 1942, when Hirabayashi, now 67, was a University of Washington senior who, standing by his rights as a U.S. citizen, defied an order relocating 110,000 West Coast Japanese to internment camps. His case reached the Supreme Court, where Justice Department lawyers argued successfully that the internment order was constitutionally based on military need and wartime urgency. Hirabayashi spent two years in jails and a work camp...
Five years ago, however, notes found in the National Archives persuaded Hirabayashi to reopen the case. In a 1942 report, the Army commander who ordered the massive relocation argued that it was not feasible to separate the "sheep from the goats" and distinguish loyal Japanese Americans. The relocation, in other words, was based on race, not urgency. The War Department ordered that racially prejudiced reasoning amended, and never revealed the original report. In essence, ruled Federal Judge Donald Voorhees last week, the U.S. lied, and he overturned Hirabayashi's conviction...