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DESCRIPTION:<strong><span style="color: #c21313\;">FREE*</strong>\n\n<a hre
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 he Memoir of a WWII Japanese American Draft Resister of Conscience</em> b
 y Yoshito Kuromiya (1923–2018) is the only book-length memoir written by
  a World War II Japanese American draft resister of conscience\,Yoshito Ku
 romiya. Join editor <strong>Arthur A. Hansen</strong>\, a leading scholar
  of Japanese American history\, and <strong>Lawson Fusao Inada</strong>\,
  renowned poet\, in conversation with Kuromiya’s family around the groun
 dbreaking publication.\n\n*Please note that this program is now FREE. We 
 are thankful for the generosity of our members and audiences whose support
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 use the “additional donation” option when reserving tickets to donate 
 what you can or become a member today by visiting <a href="https://www.jan
 m.org/membership">janm.org/membership</a>.\n\n<em>About the Book:</em>\nAs
  a World War II inmate at Wyoming’s Heart Mountain concentration camp\, 
 Kuromiya resisted the military draft on the grounds that the US government
  had deprived him (and his family) of his fundamental rights as an America
 n citizen. Although a total of some 300 other inmates in the 10 War Reloca
 tion Authority-administered incarceration centers made the same choice on 
 similar grounds\, Kuromiya alone has produced an autobiographical volume t
 hat explores in-depth the short- and long-range causes and consequences of
  his wartime action. <em>Beyond the Betrayal </em>is a book that makes i
 t abundantly clear that the unjustly imprisoned World War II Nisei could a
 nd did exercise their patriotism not only by serving in the military\, but
  also by the act of refusing to do so in the name of civil liberties and s
 ocial justice.\n\nThe book includes an epigraph written by the draft resis
 tance movement’s most prominent postwar promoter\, Frank Chin\; a prefac
 e by the draft resistance movement’s most notable historian\, Eric L. Mu
 ller\; and a poetic foreword and afterword (the latter dedicated to Yosh K
 uromiya) written by another significant postwar promoter of the draft resi
 stance movement who is arguably the most reputed extant third-generation J
 apanese American poet\, Lawson Inada. The book was edited by Art Hansen\, 
 one of the leading scholars and noted historians of the incarceration of J
 apanese Americans during WWII and Professor Emeritus of History and Asian 
 American Studies at California State University\, Fullerton.\n\n<em>Beyond
  the Betrayal is</em> available in the <a href="https://janmstore.com/pr
 oducts/beyond-the-betrayal?_pos=1&amp\;_sid=04fe9308a&amp\;_ss=r">JANM Sto
 re</a>.\n
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SUMMARY:Author Discussion—Beyond the Betrayal with Arthur Hansen &amp\; L
 awson Inada
URL:/en/events/2022/06/04/author-discussionbeyond-the-betrayal-with-arthur/
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