more reparations for Japanese interned

[Hmph]

now what bugs me about this is the nillions of blacks denied an education before 1964, which created a situation of low-level jobs/wages for them and their family. but where's their reparation for that callous disregard???

http://www.cnn.com/2006/EDUCATION/06/16 ... index.html

Interned Japanese-Americans receive diplomas

Friday, June 16, 2006; Posted: 10:29 a.m. EDT (14:29 GMT)

SAN JOSE, California (AP) -- Seven Japanese-Americans sent to U.S. internment camps during World War II were granted high school diplomas in a special ceremony on Wednesday.

San Jose High Academy awarded the degrees to former students whose educations at the school were cut short when the federal government ordered them to the camps in the 1940s. They would have graduated between 1942 and 1945.

Trisha Yamaichi, a sophomore at the school, tracked down the new graduates, now in their late 70s or early 80s, as part of a school project. She found their names in old yearbooks in the school library, then located them with the help of her grandparents.

She also worked with the California Nisei High School Diploma Project, the result of state legislation that allows school districts to issue retroactive diplomas to Japanese-Americans held at the nation's 10 internment camps.

The diplomas went to Frederic S. Morita, Kazuko Kogura, Tayeko Yoshihara, Ruth Inouye Fukuda, Sumiko Kurasaki, the late John Santo and the late Karl Kinaga.

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