Pacific Citizen June 24,1983

Answers by the National JACL quently Asked Questions about Redress Committee for Redress . fty .- redress? Wbat are and inca! a!I ation by an official guaranteed Wlder the Bill of and sub jed Lo the desires of Article 1: a l freedOOl of reli lZW'e5 CIIe'-s? act fA the United States Gov Rights alii the Constitution. those in power or the mood of gion. I b l freedom ci peech. Article V: I gl nght IDan mdicl The Japmese American Citi· ernment cbing Wcxid War n. The basic question being the times? I C) freedom of the press. Id I ment or to bt> mfol'T"lPd f the zens League is ~ redress 'Ibis actim was based solely on raised 15 ; are the guarantees the right ID assemble charges , lh l n ght ID life, lilr 00 behalf fA JaparIfIISP Ameri racial gJ'OlRls alii imposed enumerated in the Bill of Q. Which rights were violated? Article n: I e I right to keep and erty, alii properl~ cans and legal permanent resi without criminal charges. in Rights alii the Constitution ab Seven of the ten articles of the bear arms Article VI : 1I I nghl to 'peed) dents fA Japanese ancestry dictments or trials ~ any kind . solute for all pE!q)le at all Bill of Rights were abrogated. Article IV: If I freedom from and public trial. \j) right ID be (the IsIIei I for !heir eviction It was a gross violatim of rights times. or are they conditional They are as follows : unreasonable searches and continued on Page 9 Founded Oct. 15., 11129 June 24,1983 Pacific Citizen 145c Postpaid I 'le \ ~ ' Rn The National Publication of the Japanese American Citizens League ISSN : 0030-8579/ Whole No. 2.244/ Vol. 96 No. 24 2 land "" CWRIC's 11 RECOMMENDATIONS: SEEPAGE JACL Headlines ... 4. JACL lauds CWRIC recommendations $20,000 to excludees, but not heirs Mid-Columbia scholarship rules updated (Special to the Pac'lfic Citizen) about four years from the the approximate 60,000 for to the 900 Aleuts . The 11th point WASHINGTON - What was time when the bills were sulr mer internees, but not for recommended the ational Arch ives maintain the material 5. EOC-MOC Convention Aug. 11-14. accomplished by tre govern mitted in Congress in 1979 to heirs of internees who have amassed by the Corrunission for ment in setting up the Com establish the Commission. died. research. mission on Wartime Reloca No one here was offering an lIn Los Angeles, the news was The five recommendations con 6. CWRIC Report: Latin Americans tion and Internment of Civil idea of how much rrore time greeted with anxious queries to the cerning U.S. citizens of Japanese ians (to review the facts and would pass before payments • JACL Office: "Where do we sign ancestry and resident Japanese are "made to the oldest sur up for the claims?" The recom aJiensare: impact of Executive Order mendations note, "The burden III That Congress pass a joint 9066, which led to excluding vivors first", as proposed. should be on the government to lo resolution, signed by the Presi Matsui lauds CWRIC persons of Japan~se ancestry The Congress must now act cate survivors-without requiring dent, recognizing .. that grave in from the West Coast and de on the recommendations, any application for payment ..... ) justice was done " and offering for outstanding job taining nearly 110,000 during which call for a fund to be 'Act of National Apology' apologies of the Nation "for the WW2) and its recommending administered by a presiden Five remedies each were rec acts of exclusion. removal and WASHINGTON-Rep. Robert T. Matsui (D-3d CA) Friday (June 17) ommended for some 60,000 Ameri detention" . commended the national Commission on Wartime Relocation and in appropriate remedies this tial board to provide one-time can citizens of Japanese ancestry l2) That the President ~ardon ternment ofCivil!amI on the "outstanding job it has done in documenting past week (June 16) required payment of $20,000 to each of and resident Japanese aliens and COntinu~ on ageS for present and future generations this sad chapter in American history, the unwarranted relocation and internment of 120,(0) civilians of Japa nese descent." 'The CWRIC recommendations were released June 16 and were based WW2 economic losses estimated to $6.2 billion on a 21fl-year study by the Commission of the WW2 relocation and in WASHINGTON - A study of has been ID analyze the extent of lars ID account for inflation-$810 from the West Coast prior to ex ternment IX'Ogram. The CWRIC recommendations will now be submitted economic losses of Japanese the economic loss and develop Iflillion to $2 billion ; clusion. to the U.S. CaIgress for consideration. reasonable and reproducible esti (3) value of the loss in 1983 dol Net Income Losses The House judiciary committee intends to examine the report in public Americans and. resident aliens of Japanese ancestry who mates of thatloss. lars at actual corporate bond rates Estimates of net incane loss of hearings for the purpose of recommending legislation to Congress. "The analysis deals with proper over the years-$1.2 billion to $3.1 these detainees are based on pro (Sen. Spark Matsunaga saluted the Commission for "keeping the ideals were excluded from the West ty loss that was not compensated in billion; and jected income minus actual com of American democracy uppermost in their minds while fonnulating Coast and interned during claims paid under the Japanese (4) value of the loss in 1983 dol pensation lmonetary am in-kind ) their recommendatri<nl and discharging their dlties" ... The onetime World War II estimates that American Evacuation Claims Act lars when both a 3% real interest received in camp and accumulat $20,000 per capita payment "can never fully compensate those who were the ethnic Japanese lost be of 1948 and income loss incurred by rate and inflation-$2.5 billion ID ed over the entire camp period. placed in camps, but it can serve a symbol of apology in a recognizable, tween $149 million and $370 the detainees. Undoubtedly, the $6.2 billion. Result is that the total net loss of concrete fonn" . million in 1945 dollars, and ad ethnic Japanese suffered many Losses of 88,000 Detainees income suffered by the ethnic Japa (Rep. Nonnan Mineta said while putting a dollar value to loss of free other kinds of losses from their Adjustments for foregone inter nese falls : dom in an internment camp were "immeasurable; we can, however, justing these figures to ac lives being uprooted and from their est are made to account for the fact (1) between $108 million and $164 begin to measure the billions of dollars forfeited in lost property, lost count for inflation alone, be careers and education being dis that had the loss not occurred. the million in 1945 dollars ; businesses alii lOst salaries" . tween $810 million and. $2 bil rupted, but the scope of this anal amount lost could have been in (21 between $589 million and $893 "The Cmunission's recommendations are careful and well reasoned, lion in 1983 dollars. ysis is limited to a determination vested between 1945 and 1983. million in 1983 dollars ID account for inflation alone ; clearly dermnstrating the Commission's commibnent ID fmding a just Uncompensated ret losses under rigorously applied analyti The Commission was created by cal methods of only income and Congress in 1980 to review the facts (3) between $892 million and $1.4 and equitable remedy for the injustice of int.enunent," Matsui said. in 1983 dollars, adjusted for a property losses during the deten billion in 1983 dollars to account for Among its recommendations, the Commission requested payment of and circumstances surrounding 3% interest rate plus inflation, tion period from 1942 to 1946," she the Executive Order !Oi6 of Feb. the corporate bond rate; $20,000 to each internee now living, based substantially on an analysis were estimated from $2.5 bil said. 19, 1942, signed by President l4) between $1.8 billion and $2.7 perfonned for the CWRIC covering the tangible loss of property and lion 'to $6.2 billion. Losses Shown in Four Ways 'Franklin D. Roosevelt which led to billion in 1983 dollars to account for income. The ICF analysis concludes that the exclusion of approximately inflation and 3<"/0 real interest. "But no dollar amoonts can truly compensate for those years of in- Issued on June 15, the study "Property losses were incurred was conducted for the Com because the losses under investig 120,000 Americans and resident Continued on Page 4 ation occurred some 40 years ago, aliens of Japanese ancestry from by many if not all ethnic Japanese mission on Wartime Reloca there is no straightforward way' to the West Coast. An estimated 5,000 during the war, for a variety of 'Sunday Morning' Reading concert tion and Internment of Civil present a single figure for the val to 10,000 we.re impelled ID leave the reasons," the ICF study says. ians by ICF Inc., a Washing ue of losses incurred by the etlmic West Coast on their own. Another "Some sold their property at a loss SEA'ITLE--CBS-TV's "Sunday LOS ANGELES-Don Magwili Japanese community. For each 110,000 people were removed and before evacua tion ; and som e prop and Sachiko of East W~t Players ton consulting firm. Morning" news program is ex "The excluded people suffered estimate of loss, figures are pre detained in bleak, isolated camps. erty was damaged, partially or pected to include a segment on Ja will present ''Recollections and sented in four ways for : The ICF analysis of income loss wholly destroyed, or lost while in Rice", a of songs, stories enonnous damages and losses, panese American redress this Sun concert both material and intangible," ll) the value of the loss in 1945 covers the 88,(0) adults detained in the care of others during the de day, June 26, the PNWDC regional and foolishness June 24, 8 p.m.

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