{"product_id":"justice-in-our-time-the-japanese-canadian-redress-settlement-9780889222922","title":"Justice in Our Time: The Japanese Canadian Redress Settlement","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Roy Miki | Cassandra Kobayashi\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Talonbooks\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Talonbooks\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Discrimination \u0026amp; Race Relations\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom 1942 to 1949, a group of innocent Canadians were uprooted from their homes and businesses on the west coast, dispossessed, and forced to disperse across Canada, merely on the basis of their Japanese ancestry. Some 4,000 were even exiled to wartorn Japan. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThese injustices remained unresolved for nearly forty years. Then in the 1970s, a handful of Japanese Canadians began a movement to seek redress for these wrongs, through a negotiated settlement with the Government of Canada. What began as the dream of a few became a national movement that captured the attention of the entire Canadian public by the mid-1980s. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe Redress Settlement signed on September 22, 1988 by the National Association of Japanese Canadians (NAJC) and the Prime Minister of Canada was hailed as a major victory for human rights. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe substantial Redress Settlement negotiated by the National Association of Japanese Canadians offered: \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIndividual compensation to Japanese Canadians directly affected by the injustices\u003cbr\u003eA community fund to assist in rebuilding the community that was destroyed\u003cbr\u003epPrdons for those wrongfully convicted under the War Measures Act\u003cbr\u003eThe offer of citizenship to those exiled and to their descendants\u003cbr\u003eThe establishment of a Canadian Race Relations Foundation to combat racism \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eJustice in Our Time\u003c\/i\u003e celebrates Japanese Canadian redress. From the historic injustices, through the redress movement, to the final events leading up to the settlement day on September 22, 1988--the dramatic story of redress is told through a rich interweaving of commentary, photographs, quotations, and historic documents.","brand":"Talonbooks","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47999867289751,"sku":"9780889222922","price":1405.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780889222922.webp?v=1783601983","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/justice-in-our-time-the-japanese-canadian-redress-settlement-9780889222922","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}