New law funds internment site preservation, education
Pres. Joe Biden signed into law on Wednesday a bill reauthorizing funding for the preservation of Japanese internment sites and creating a new $10 million federal grant program to promote education about Japanese American internment during World War II.
“The internment of Japanese American citizens remains one of the darkest and most shameful periods in our history,” said U.S. Sen. Brian Schatz, D-Hawaii, who joined with U.S. Rep. Doris Matsui, D-Calif., the Norman Y. Mineta Japanese American Confinement Education Act. “The stories of so many who unjustly lost their freedom, lost property, and were forcibly uprooted from their homes should be a constant reminder of our duty to uphold the rights of every American.
