Kanaye Nagasawa: A samurai who changed California
&gt; In 1942, Franklin Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, which ordered the forced removal of Japanese American &quot;enemy aliens&quot;. The Nagasawa heirs, who were still fighting the estate&#x27;s seizure in court, were incarcerated in internment camps. Like the approximately 125,000 Japanese Americans imprisoned until after the end of World War Two, they lost any chance of reclaiming the property.<p>Absolutely disgusting that it took the United States 50 years from 1942 to acknowledge injustices like this had occurred as well as disburse the funds in an attempt to correct its mistakes. It was $20,000 in the 1990s, yay whoopee... I have friends whose families still, to this day, do not forgive the American government for what it did. A good majority of grandparents&#x2F;parents were dead by then. Many returnees from the camps systematically tried to erase any cultural heritage they had by purposely hiding it and not passing it on to future generations, as a result of their treatment. Because of that, many Japanese perceive Japanese Americans from that time period as cultureless. Btw, the 442nd Regiment, comprised of Japanese Americans, received the most awards in U.S. history for military service in WW2.<p>Then you take into account the loss of capital from Nagasawa losing his vineyard, and it gets even worse.