Many Ex-Internees Shunned Nisei Who Fought Draft; Now, a Revisionist Push
‘Is That a Time to Resist?’
by NORIHIKO SHIROUZU Staff Reporter
The Wall Street Journal, June 25, 1999
In 1944, as America’s war with Japan raged in the Pacific, Mits Koshiyama received his draft orders from Uncle Sam. Then, as now, he considered it his moral obligation not to answer the call. After all, he was languishing behind barbed wire, one of the roughly 110,000 Japanese-Americans imprisoned by the U.S. government as potential subversives.
“How could we have fought for democracy and freedom overseas when we were denied the very same rights by our own government?” Mr. Koshiyama says.
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