ASIA AM 10W Lecture 15: 05/23 W8 Guest Lecture
23 May 2018
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●Redress campaign
○People lost farms, work, properties etc.
○Mentally ill people and orphans were transported to the camps because they
were “dangerous”
○People refused to talk about it at first; “Forget about being Japanese, become
200% American”
○Repairation: community fund, individual apology, and redress
○Commission hearings in 1981 encouraged people to speak out for the first time
after 40 years of silence (Video source: CWRIC Day of Remembrance short)
○We look back to look forward: people in Little Tokyo stood for Muslim people
after 911 → solidarity of different groups and learning more about each other
●Mental health issues for people involved in warfare
●Drug problem (1971): high school students overdosed and died, and the community
wanted to hide it
●Little Tokyo: redevelopment (housing for older people-community center) in 1970s;
building new rail lines
