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Nisei Naysayer - The Memoir of Militant Japanese American Journalist Jimmie Omura (Paperback)
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Nisei Naysayer - The Memoir of Militant Japanese American Journalist Jimmie Omura (Paperback)
Series: Asian America
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Among the fiercest opponents of the mass incarceration of Japanese
Americans during World War II was journalist James "Jimmie"
Matsumoto Omura. In his sharp-penned columns, Omura fearlessly
called out leaders in the Nikkei community for what he saw as their
complicity with the U.S. government's unjust and unconstitutional
policies-particularly the federal decision to draft imprisoned
Nisei into the military without first restoring their lost
citizenship rights. In 1944, Omura was pushed out of his editorship
of the Japanese American newspaper Rocky Shimpo, indicted,
arrested, jailed, and forced to stand trial for unlawful conspiracy
to counsel, aid, and abet violations of the military draft. He was
among the first Nikkei to seek governmental redress and reparations
for wartime violations of civil liberties and human rights. In this
memoir, which he began writing towards the end of his life, Omura
provides a vivid account of his early years: his boyhood on
Bainbridge Island; summers spent working in the salmon canneries of
Alaska; riding the rails in search of work during the Great
Depression; honing his skills as a journalist in Los Angeles and
San Francisco. By the time of the attack on Pearl Harbor, Omura had
already developed a reputation as one of the Japanese American
Citizens League's most adamant critics, and when the JACL
leadership acquiesced to the mass incarceration of American-born
Japanese, he refused to remain silent, at great personal and
professional cost. Shunned by the Nikkei community and excluded
from the standard narrative of Japanese American wartime
incarceration until later in life, Omura seeks in this memoir to
correct the "cockeyed history to which Japanese America has been
exposed." Edited and with an introduction by historian Arthur A.
Hansen, and with contributions from Asian American activists and
writers Frank Chin, Yosh Kuromiya, and Frank Abe, Nisei Naysayer
provides an essential, firsthand account of Japanese American
wartime resistance.
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