I am a sansei and am speaking primarily from what my parents have related to me, and how those experiences have affected me.

My mother has been much less vocal and the role she has assumed has been one of support to her husband and her children. She has related some past war experiences when she was discriminated against but like so many Niseis has avoided such conversation. My mother's father was a successful clothier, and hotel owner and operator, but my mother has essentially avoided discussing what financial, emotional, and psychological impact the war had on her family except to say it was "very hard."

My father, though much more vocal, has not harped upon the issue of incarceration and its [illegible]. She has expressed many feelings of bitterness concerning the absence of due process of law, constitutional fallacy, personal loss, and racism but I am here to relay only those concerning financial loss. I do know that my father was a successful and enterprising pharmacist and at the time of evacuation owned and operated two drug stores worth in stock alone 25-30,000 dollars. I know too that both he and my mother had accumulated many personal belongings which were both sentimentally and monetarily valuable. It is difficult to put dollar amounts of these things. I should add that my father, because of the short notice, was able to sell both stores for 1500.

It angers me that such atrocity is allowed to occur and that some in our society are accused of well documented and proven crime and provided due process, proven guilty, and go without punishment, and in fact gain by [illegible] given them. It become difficult to ascertain just what impact the incarceration has had on me and my family.

I feel that some form of restitution is necessary. More importantly, it is imperative that our country publically admit to wrong doing and I hear remarks like "stick all those Iranians away."

I realize my testimony is short and perhaps overly simplified. Please feel free to contact me if you desire more information.

Respectfully Submitted,

Kip Tokuda