Nisei Naysayer: The Memoir of Militant Japanese American Journalist Jimmie Omura

by James Matsumoto Omura

Book Overview

Among the fiercest opponents of the mass incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II was journalist James "Jimmie" Matsumoto Omura. In his sharp-penned columns, Omura fearlessly called out leaders in the Nikkei community for what he saw as their complicity with the U.S. government's unjust and unconstitutional policies-particularly the federal decision to draft imprisoned Nisei into the military without first restoring their lost citizenship...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1503606112
• ISBN13: 9781503606111
• Release Date: August 2018
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 424 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.0" x 8.9"