director of the Cool Japan Center and editor-in-chief of Tokyo Journal.

saw her potential and formed the Patterson School of Swimming and Diving just for her.Endo at first was reluctant to be the face of the lawsuit.

but did not rule on the constitutionality of the mass incarceration itself.The three cases were reopened in federal court four decades later on the basis of new evidence.She was 10 years old before she learned to swim.

preferring a very private existence.The posthumous class was inducted on Dec.

celebrating remarkable individuals who have shaped our state and nation.

finding that it was unconstitutional to imprison loyal Americans without due process.which was signed into law in 1986 by President Ronald Reagan.

000 people of Japanese descent.government apologized in 1988.

they might not have become citizens at birth and thus would have been denied the chances to serve the United States as they did in so many honor-able and patriotic ways.believed and made possible through his leadership in writing the bipartisan immigration law.