Judging an Injustice: During Asian Heritage Month, Japanese Internments Are Recalled
"Just
months after Japanese bombs fell on Pearl Harbor in 1941, Atsushi WallaceTashima was pulled from his home and sent away to an internment camp. Like
120,000 Japanese Americans, he and his family were branded as potential spies
and saboteurs.
Decades later, he viewed
those events from a very different perspective. Once the victim of an
admitted national injustice, he made a career of delivering justice as a
federal judge.
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