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	Podcast:		Other News
	Episode:		A new graphic novel draws parallels between wartime incarceration and modern-day America
	Category:		Government & Organizations
	Duration:		00:06:14
	Publish Date:		2021-05-08 12:00:00
	Description:		A new graphic novel is being released called “We Hereby Refuse: Japanese Resistance to Wartime Incarceration.” It’s part of a three-part series of graphic novels from the Wing Luke Museum in Seattle about the Japanese American wartime incarceration. It’s the story of three people who refused to submit to imprisonment in American concentration camps without a fight in the 1940s and presents a vision of America’s past with links to the American present. I talked to co-author Tamiko Nimura, who lives in Tacoma, about the book and the parallels to things going on today. She starts by introducing us to the three Japanese-American protagonists in the book. Tamiko Nimura: We have Jim Akutsu, who challenged the draft based on the government's changing his citizenship status. We have Mitsuye Endo, who challenged the constitutionality of incarceration and refused to leave so that her case could be heard at the Supreme Court. And we have Hiroshi Kashiwagi, who refused to sign a loyalty oath
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