
- Date: Friday, November 10
- Time: 12:15 - 14:00
- Registration : Free and open to the public
- Format : Hybrid (Online/In-Person)
- In-Person:
- Temple University, Japan Campus, Room 309
1-14-29 Taishido, Setagaya-ku, Tokyo (Access) - Zoom: https://temple.zoom.us/j/98487698007 | Meeting ID: 984 8769 8007
It has been almost eighty years since the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the wartime incarceration of 120,000 men, women and children of Japanese ancestry who were living in the Western United States. While now widely-regarded as one of the worst civil rights decisions in the history of the Court, Korematsu v. United States remains part of the legal discourse on when and under what circumstances the government may make decisions based on race, national origin or religion (see Trump v. Hawai’i) Join Judge Roberta Hayashi, for a viewing of the Emmy Award-winning documentary “Of Civil Wrongs and Rights: The Fred Korematsu Story” and discussion of the history and legacy of the World War II incarceration of Japanese Americans, the Korematsu cases, and their significance today.