By Grant Ujifusa
On January 26, 2012, at the office of the Consulate General of Japan in New York, Grant Ujifusa, Redress Strategy Chair of the Japanese American Citizens League, was knighted by the Government of Japan for reversing President Ronald Reagan’s opposition to HR 442, the Japanese American redress bill.that secured an apology and monetary reparations for loyal Americans who were forced into prison camps during World War II.
Grant Ujifusa was born on January 4, 1942, in Worland, Wyoming, and grew up with his younger sister younger sister Susan on a sugar beet farm not far from that agreeable and friendly small town,
one very much still located about 65 miles southeast of Heart Mountain, perhaps the most famous of the camps where Japanese Americans were imprisoned during World War II.
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