| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 37.3

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Nikkei in the Pacific Northwest: Japanese Americans & Japanese Canadians in the Twentieth Century. Edited by Louis Fiset and Gail M. Nomura. (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2005. xii + 348 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. $25.00, paper.)

At the outset of World War II, Gordon Hirabayashi legally resisted the government's attempt to incarcerate Japanese Americans living close to the Pacific Coast. In May of 1942, he walked into the Seattle FBI office with a four-page document titled "Why I Refuse to Register for Evacuation." His legal battles with the government exemplified courage and commitment. Nikkei in the Pacific Northwest, a fitting tribute, came out of an academic conference at the University of Washington honoring Hirabayashi's willingness to fight injustice.

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