102-year-old Jim Tanimoto is the last living member of a group known as the Block 42 resisters, a…
102-year-old Jim Tanimoto is the last living member of a group known as the Block 42 resisters, a collection of Japanese Americans who refused to answer questions on a “loyalty questionnaire” that implied they, while incarcerated, had maintained allegiance to Japan. That was 1943, near the peak of World War II and partway through the forced confinement of nearly 120,000 people of Japanese descent, the majority of whom were American citizens. Their refusal to affirm what those questions asked of them resulted in their transfer to a separate nearby facility called Camp Tule Lake — the most populated and, by many historical accounts, the harshest of the internment camps — and earned them the moniker “no-no boys,” for their responses to those two loyalty questions. To read more, check out https://www.sacbee.com/news/local/article314719510.html?utm_medium=social. ✍️: Jake Goodrick 📷️: José Luis Villegas #news #internment #california #immigration #immigrants #japan #tulelake #history
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