Talk:Japanese-American Claims Act

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Vital Pertinent Fact Was Left Out of This Article
This article completely leaves out the fact that many properties were acquired illegally by aliens, who could not purchase land in the United States under the Alien Land Act (just as Americans today could not buy land in China or Thailand or Japan, for example). For the same reason, many others did not have valid leases for the land they were farming, either. Naturally all of these non-American citizens, who instantly became ENEMY ALIENS when Japan bombed Pearl Harbor, had no legal right to their real estate and thus no valid claim. Former WRA Director Dillon Myer writes about this group of claimants in exact detail in his book "Uprooted Americans" (a misleading title, because over 40,000 of those relocated from the west coast combat zone were Japanese enemy aliens, NOT American citizens).Starhistory22 (talk) 06:37, 7 May 2017 (UTC)

Property Dispossession Source
Journalist Gus Russo has several pages discussing the systematic private profiteering at the expense of Japanese Americans following the attack on Pearl Harbor in his book, Supermob: How Sidney Korshak and His Criminal Associates Became America's Hidden Power Brokers (Bloomsbury, 2007). The book was reviewed in SFGate by Trey Popp, who writes: "Russo's chapter on the shameless plundering of the assets of imprisoned Japanese Americans during World War II, presided over by a bevy of Korshak's associates, is particularly stirring." The book was also reviewed in the Chicago Tribune by Hillel Levin, who writes: " [ Jacob Arvey's ] clout with the Truman administration put a protege in charge of property seized from German companies and interned Japanese-Americans. Russo documents how these West Coast assets were sold for a fraction of their value to silent mob partners and the young lawyers, Arvey accomplices, who served as their frontmen." Russo also mentions how the reparations paid to Japanese Americans in the 1980s amounted to probably pennies on the dollar. It might be good to work some of this material into the article. --Mox La Push (talk) 09:38, 15 May 2020 (UTC)