By Grant Ujifusa
On January 26, 2012, at the office of the Consulate General of Japan in New York, Grant Ujifusa, Redress Strategy Chair of the Japanese American Citizens League, was knighted by the Government of Japan for reversing President Ronald Reagan’s opposition to HR 442, the Japanese American redress bill.that secured an apology and monetary reparations for loyal Americans who were forced into prison camps during World War II.
Grant Ujifusa was born on January 4, 1942, in Worland, Wyoming, and grew up with his younger sister younger sister Susan on a sugar beet farm not far from that agreeable and friendly small town,
one very much still located about 65 miles southeast of Heart Mountain, perhaps the most famous of the camps where Japanese Americans were imprisoned during World War II.
- Angus Macbeth/Aiko Herzig From: Macbeth, Angus To: Grant Ujifusa Sent: Thu, Aug 28, 2014 5:12 pm Subject: RE: Thanks for taking my call just now Grant: Aiko knew a great deal about the… Continue
- Growing Up Near Heart Mountain Wyoming’s treasures include turtles who can breathe underwater, a small town that moved across the river, and history makers such as Grant Ujifusa. He went from being a star on… Continue
- Sliney and Mineta Real Heroes, Fake Stories IT is one of the most stirring accounts of heroism to emerge from 9/11: a fighter pilot from Andrews Air Force Base near Washington returns from… Continue
- Three letters Reagan Read Read Continue
- Scenes From Behind the Scenes Philadelphia Day of Remembrance • February 23, 2013 I am very happy to be with you today in Philadelphia, a city that I think was the epicenter of Japanese American… Continue
- Harry Honda/Bob Matsui May 27, 2022 — Redress strategist and longtime New York resident Grant Ujifusa has pledged a substantial monetary gift to the Pacific Citizen in recognition of the decades of dedication to the… Continue
- Grayce and Hiro Grayce & Hiro Uyehara: In memoriam after Five years READ Continue
- At Asia Society on CSPAN From Internment Camps to Reparations READ Continue
- Mary Ujifusa Casper (WY) StarTribune May 1 2007 WESTCHESTER COUNTY, N.Y. - Former Worland resident Mary Ujifusa, 86, died April 15, 2007, of complications following hip surgery at the Westchester Medical Center… Continue
- Denny Yasuhara, Redress Champion No one will be surprised to learn that there was an inside and an outside battle to secure redress, one inside JACL and another outside in Washington. The indispensable leader… Continue
- A Gift to PC Grant Ujifusa makes a substantial gift to The Pacific Citizen to honor Harry Honda . Redress strategist and longtime New York resident Grant Ujifusa has pledged a substantial monetary gift… Continue
- Dan about Sparky About Senator Matsunaga’s three intense years to put together a 69-vote, filibuster-proof majority, eye-witness Senator Dan Inouye wrote: “The man should take nearly all of the credit for Senate passage of… Continue
Categories
- Three Letters Reagan Read
- Reagan to Ujifusa
- Harry Honda/Bob Matsui
- Sliney and Mineta
- Dan about Sparky
- Growing Up Near Heart Mountain
- Mary Ujifusa
- At Asia Society on CSPAN
- Asia Society Interview
- At Columbia Law School
- Scenes from Behind the Scenes
- The Same Car to Both Guy/Barney Frank
- Mineta & Simpson
- Key Links 1
- Key Links II
- MIke Masaoka
- Right of Passage
- Angus Macbeth/Aiko Herzig
- Men of Redress
- In The News
- With Wally Shawn
- From The Reagan Library
- Publications
- Videos
- Redress
- Correspondence
- Gerald Yamata
- Podcasts
- At the New York Consulate
- Steven Ujifusa
- About Grant Ujifusa
- The Rising Sun Award