Denny Yasuhara, Redress Champion
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Rose In Washington
Rose Ochi was the Director of Community Relations Services, and never, as asserted, an Assistant Attorney General, which would have made her among the top 15 officials in the Clinton Justice Department bureaucracy composed of 120,000 people. Her installation in the Community Relations position::
https://www.justice.gov/archive/ag/speeches/1998/0918crs.htm
On January 26th, at the office of the Consulate General of Japan in New York, Grant Ujifusa, Redress Strategy Chair of the Japanese American Citizens League, was given the Order of the Rising Sun by the Japanese government for his role in securing a measure of redress for 110,000 Japanese Americans forced into internment camps during World War II. For the Japanese, the Order of the Rising Sun is the equivalent of a knighthood.
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The Kennedy School Study of Redress
Professor Steven Kelman examines how HR 442 once given virtually no chance to become law was enacted into law. Read More
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Japanese American History Museum: Redress: Oral History Project
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Harvard-Radcliffe Class of 1964
On January 26th, at the office of the Consulate General of Japan in New York, Grant Ujifusa, Redress Strategy Chair of the Japanese American Citizens League, was given the Order of the Rising Sun by the Japanese government for his role in securing a measure of redress for 110,000 Japanese Americans forced into internment camps during World War II. For the Japanese, the Order of the Rising Sun is the equivalent of a knighthood.
In addition to devising a justification for the redress bill that would appeal to both liberals and conservatives in Congress during the 1980s, Grant is best known for reversing Ronald Reagan’s public opposition to the bill, which the President signed on August 10, 1988.
Grant’s acceptance speech is presented here
Grant Ujifusa (graduated from WHS in 1960) was the All-League quarterback on the Warriors 1959 Class A State champion team. Ujifusa graduated from Harvard and was recruited to lead the Japanese American Citizens League, which helped pass HR-442 Restitution for Wartime Internment.
CONTEMPORARY AFFAIRS WINNER:
Frances FitzGerald, Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam
FINALISTS:
Michael Barone, Grant Ujifusa & Douglas Mathews – The Almanac of American Politics
Herbert Block – Herblock’s State of the Union
Lynn Eden – Crisis in Watertown
David Halberstam – The Best and the Brightest
Seymour Hersh – Cover-Up
Stanley Karnow – Mao and China
Richard Sennett & Jonathan Cobb – The Hidden Injuries of Class
Colin M. Turnbull – The Mountain People
Garry Wills – Bare Ruined Choirs
(no specific author) – Attica: The Official Report of the New York State Special Commission on Attica
One common view amongst many 9/11 researchers is that the hijacked planes should not have been able to reach their destinations. The air defence system would have stopped them under normal circumstances, they claim, therefore perhaps those defences had been ordered to stand down. And they point to the account of Norman Mineta as possible evidence. Here’s David Ray Griffin in the updated second edition of The New Pearl Harbor: