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Born: January 30, 1919, Oakland, California, United States
Died: March 30, 2005, Marin County, California, United States
Cause of death: Respiratory failure
Spouse: Kathryn Pearson (m. 1946–2005)
Education: Castlemont Community of Small Schools
Parents: Kotsui Aoki, Kakusaburo Korematsu
Children: Karen Korematsu
Today Google’s US homepage is celebrating Fred T. Korematsu, a civil rights activist and survivor of the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II.
January 30th, 2017 would have been his 98th birthday and is officially recognized as Fred Korematsu Day in California, Hawaii, Virginia and Florida.
A son of Japanese immigrant parents, Korematsu was born and raised in Oakland, California. After the U.S. entered WWII, he tried to enlist in the U.S. National Guard and Coast Guard, but was turned away due to his ethnicity.
He was 22 years old and working as a foreman in his hometown when Executive Order 9066 was signed in 1942 by U.S President Franklin D. Roosevelt. The order sent more than 115,000 people of Japanese descent living in the United States to incarceration.
Rather than voluntarily relocate to an internment camp, Korematsu went into hiding. He was arrested in 1942 and despite the help of organizations like ACLU, his conviction was upheld in the landmark Supreme Court case of Korematsu v. United States. Consequently, he and his family were sent to the the Central Utah War Relocation Center at Topaz, Utah until the end of WWII in 1945.
It wasn’t until 1976 that U.S President Gerald Ford formally ended Executive Order 9066 and apologized for the internment, stating "We now know what we should have known then — not only was that evacuation wrong but Japanese-Americans were and are loyal Americans.”
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On Sunday, Feb. 19, a standing-room only crowd of more than 700 packed the San Jose Day of Remembrance event. Every year the San Jose Nihonmachi Outreach Committee (NOC) organizes this event to commemorate Executive Order 9066. Executive Order 9066 paved the way for the incarceration of 120,000 Japanese Americans in concentration camps during World War II.

Before the event, organizers labored to reconfigure their venue at the San Jose Buddhist Church hall to cope with the expected record turnout. Outside, a number of Japanese Americans held signs and marched through Japantown, comparing Executive Order 9066 with President Trump’s Executive Order 13769 that banned the entry of people from seven majority-Muslim countries.

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Masao Suzuki of the Nihonmachi Outreach Committee also addressed Trump’s immigration policy. Suzuki criticized the proposal circulated in the Trump administration to mobilize up to 100,000 National Guard troops to carry out the what could be deportations in the millions, saying, “The use of military force to carry out the mass removal of immigrants would be a step not seen since the dark days of the World War II concentration camps.”

The program also including a performance by Aswat, an Arab American ensemble, and ended with the San Jose Taiko. After the lighting of candles for each of the concentration camps, a lighted procession went through Japantown.

The audience was almost triple the size of a typical year. There was a much larger number of families with children than in previous events. One mother explained that her ten-year-old daughter was struggling to cope with recent events since President Trump took office. Another member of the audience said that the record turnout was a referendum on President Trump.

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