John Tateishi is the former National Executive Director of the Japanese American Citizens League and author of Redress: The Inside Story of the Successful Campaign for Japanese American Reparations.
At two and a half years old, John was among the 120,000 Japanese Americans who, at the outbreak of WWII, were forced from their homes in the western states and imprisoned in America’s concentration camps. With his family, he was sent to the so-called Manzanar Relocation Center in the Eastern Sierras, one of ten American concentration camps in which Japanese Americans spent the war as civilian prisoners of their own government without ever having been charged with any crimes.
In this episode, we discuss John’s root story, spending his formative childhood years as a prisoner at Manzanar, how traditional Japanese cultural values impacted the healing of the Japanese American community, his role in leading the fight for Japanese American reparations and so much more.
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Show Notes
You can learn more about John Tateishi here:
You can purchase Redress here through Heyday Books:
Manzanar National Historic Site:
https://www.nps.gov/manz/index.htm
About the Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians
(National Archives)
https://www.archives.gov/research/japanese-americans/hearings
President Reagan’s Apology: Signing of HR 442
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcaQRhcBXKY
Letter of Apology from President George W. Bush
https://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/active_learning/explorations/japanese_internment/bush.cfm
Milagros Phillips, Cracking the Healer’s Code
