The story of Korematsu

According to Franklin D. Roosevelt, then president, December 7, 1941 was "Day to live on a notorious day". History proves that he is right. A sudden attack on the Pearl Harbor Naval Base killed more than 2,000 people and destroyed valuable US resources. The next day, before the meeting of the General Assembly, Roosevelt announced his historic "infamous" speech, and Parliament immediately declared war against Japan. Attacks completely abolished support for "isolationism" and "neutral" movements, and immediately after the other axis countries Italy and Germany declared the war to the United States.

Fred Toyosakobro Koreatsu born in Oakland, California on January 30, 1919 is the third of the four sons of Japanese parents Kadomatsu Kadozaburo and Aoki Kozo who emigrated to the United States in 1905. Auckland He was arrested for attending public school, working at tennis and swimming team at Castlemont High School (Oakland, California), and working at a flower nurse near San Leandro, California. When the recruitment officer of the US Army issued a hiring leaflet to a friend of Korean foreigners, he encountered racial discrimination in high school. Even the Italian parents of his girlfriend Ida Boitano feel that Japanese descendants are inferior and not suitable for mixing with white people.

When he announced the exclusion order, Fred Korematsu was in his early twenties. He is from Japan but was born in Auckland, California. Koromatsu, who graduated from Auckland High School, joined the army twice, but his physical disability was denied. Before and after the Pearl Harbor attack, Fred worked at a defense factory in the San Francisco area. He is a faithful and legitimate American citizen without a criminal record. If he obeys this order, he will be pulled away from his white girlfriend, so he ran away without succumbing to confinement. Korematsu works at a Chinese trailer park.

Fred T. Korematsu has a lifelong struggle to rectify the corruption that the US government brought to thousands of Japanese American citizens. Prior to the Pearl Harbor attack in Japan, Kosekatsu was a welder at the Auckland terminal. On February 19, 1942, President Franklin Roosevelt signed Presidential Decree 9066 to allow the West Coast military commander to issue orders that are deemed necessary for national security. After that, Japanese Americans were forced to move to concentration camps. Korematsu ignored the order and was sent to federal prison where he was detained in the camp. With the help of National Civil Liberties Union, Korematsu asked about the legality of detention, but in 1944 the Supreme Court backed this decision. In 1983, he insisted that the government knew that the Japanese were not a security threat, requesting a retrial of the case. The lower court had his support and his convictions were overturned.