# Minoru Yasui

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JAPANESE HISTORY IN THE HOOD RIVER VALLEY In 2015, Min Yasui was the first Oregonian to ever receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom - our nation's highest civilian honor. Min was first generation Japanese American, born right here in Hood River. His father, Masuo, had immigrated from Japan and b…

Week of 11-22-15 Episode 90

Black Lives Matter on Black Friday; Portland Rescue Mission update during holidays; Food Born Illness with expert from USDA; 50 worst traffic bottlenecks in the US with ODOT; Attorney Peggy Nagai about Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient Minoru Yasui

Peggy Nagae

Peggy Nagae received her A.B., cum laude, from Vassar College in East Asian Studies, a J.D. degree with honors from Northwestern School of Law at Lewis and Clark College, a M.A in Spiritual Psychology from the University of Santa Monica, and a Bachelor of Illumination Sciences from the Jwalan Mukti…

Honoring Minoru Yasui, Oregonian who challenged curfew on Japanese Americans during WWII

Minoru Yasui was the first Japanese American to graduate from the University of Oregon’s law school. He was working as a lawyer in Portland when President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed an executive order in 1942 that allowed the military to impose a curfew on Japanese Americans and relocate them…

Honoring Minoru Yasui, Oregonian who challenged curfew on Japanese Americans during WWII

Minoru Yasui was the first Japanese American to graduate from the University of Oregon’s law school. He was working as a lawyer in Portland when President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed an executive order in 1942 that allowed the military to impose a curfew on Japanese Americans and relocate them…

Not Forgotten, Not Forgiven: Why Redress Matters: Harry Kawahara’s Testimony - Los Angeles (1981)

Harry Kawahara, speaking as chair of the Japanese American Citizens League’s Pacific Southwest District Redress Committee, testified before the CWRIC about why Japanese Americans could not “just forget” the camps and why reparations were necessary. Why Redress, Why Now: Addressed critics asking …

Korematsu v. United States, Part 2: The Four Test Cases

As Japanese Americans are forced from the West Coast and incarcerated in camps, few major institutions are willing to stand in the government’s way. Judge Stephen Sfekas follows four people whose cases challenge different parts of the wartime policy: attorney Minoru Yasui, University of Washington …

Korematsu v. United States, Part 4: The Long Road to Redress

The camps closed, but the fight for justice was far from over. In the fourth and final part of this series, Judge Stephen Sfekas follows the long aftermath of Japanese American incarceration. Beginning with Mitsuye Endo’s successful challenge to her detention, he examines wartime draft resistance a…