Their actions were not just a testament to their valor — they were a direct challenge to the racial prejudice they endured.

Donations can be made in Ujifusas memory to the Asia Society at tinyurl.send an email to busmgr@pacificcitizen.

neither his family nor he experienced the mass removal and incarceration of Japanese Americans from the West Coast resulting from President Franklin Roosevelts Executive Order 9066.but in those two or three years.A statement sent via email to Pacific Citizen from his survivors reads: Grant Ujifusas family has always been deeply honored and blessed by his connection to and work on behalf of Japanese Americans.

2013 JACL Pacific Southwest District Awards Luncheon.Regarding his participation in the redress movement and its success.

the government of Japan bestowed its Order of the Rising Sun.

David Inoue and Grant Ujifusa after the July 2018 plenary marking the 30th anniversary of redress.and knowing there would be a future.

Dan Kwong reminds us of that tradition.was on a team at Queen Anne Park near Los Angeles High School.

we were in a league of college teams like USC.and I proceeded to hit them over the fence.