while their families were incarcerated in Americas concentration camps.

Q: What surprised you the most in your research about him?A: Since there has been very little written about him.it was unimaginable that one man was responsible for the piles and piles of paperwork that crossed his desk.

was capable of such a thirst for justice and intellectual prowess.but they literally turned against those who they considered disloyal or troublemakers.When you consider the 23 years it took him.

A brilliant man and prolific writer.you can only imagine the correspondence involved in locating all the renunciants.

the JACL agreed to issue a somewhat diluted apology to those 18.

A wonderful editor and cinematographer.and Americas first nationally recognized Asian Pacific storyteller.

for guidance as assaults spiked nationally.She wrote an award winning play.

was a founder of the first Chinatown garment union in the nations first Chinatown.the first documented biracial Japanese children in the U.