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has been a source of comfort and trust to work with Naomi Pascal, editor-in-chief, and I wish to express my gratitude for her patience and understanding in making this second edition a reality. I am aware that there are many people in the background who contributed to "producing" the book, and I say to them, thank you most kindly for all the hard work and dedication. Dr. C. Harvey Gardiner (Pawns in a Triangle ofHate) made a scholarly contribution to the Hearings in Chicago in 1981, which helped give credence to our personal testimonies. I want to thank him for contributing the Foreword for this second edition. My deepest appreciation goes to my partner and husband, Eigo, for his support and help. He didn't complain about my quest to tum hundreds ofloosepages oftranslation into a bona fide bookto present to my father. He was the order taker, shipping clerk, bookkeeper, cook, and dishwasher, and he brought me tea just when I needed it. Since publication ofthe first edition, much has happened in the world around us and in our own lives. One gigantic loss has been the passing ofSeiichi Higashide in 1997 at the age ofeighty-eight. His fight for redress for the Japanese LatinAmericans (the JLAs) is now generally known to at least his fellow internees (Peru-Kai members ). He continued to hope that the United States would apologize and offer monetary compensation to everyJLA who experienced loss ofcivil and human rights, worldly possessions, and good reputation during the war. Less than a year after the reunion in San Francisco in 1990, some Peru-Kai members founded the Japanese Peruvian Oral History Project (JPOHP), with Grace Shimizu as its coordinator. They began to tape Japanese Peruvian oral histories and to educate others about this little known episode of American history. In retrospect , it was a brilliant and timely idea to have formed JPOHP before all our elders perish, for it is they who remember most intensely because their lives were so irreparably ripped apart. With the tremendous help and support ofthe internees living in mainland Japan (under the conscientious and dedicated leadership of Kazu Hayashida and Mitsuaki Oyama), in Okinawa (with the guidance ofKeiko Kawata), and in Peru (through the generosity of the late Klshiro Hayashi and son Tomas), and ofparticipants in the United States, JPOHP has conducted more than fifty oral histories. 4-HIGASHIDE Countless volunteers are continually endeavoring to translate into English transcriptions from the spoken Japanese, Spanish, and a hodgepodge of the three languages. It is a daunting undertaking. A great debt of gratitude goes to the many volunteers who contribute their talents, time, and energy to make this project viable. The JLAs began to connect with other Americans who sympathized with them as their story became known through the work of JPOHP, the Committee hearings and subsequent publication of Personal Justice Denied, research papers, books and articles by scholars such as Edward N. Barnhart, Roger Daniels, C. Harvey Gardiner, Michi Weglyn, Ellen Carson (Esq.), and the memoirs of John K. Emmerson and Seiichi Higashide, as well as from the internees themselves who began to share their stories. Invigorated by the help and support ofordinary folks, students, activists, churches, and various other groups, the Campaign for ,Justice was born when the ,JLAs decided to sue the government for redress. Along with so many others, Grace Shimizu and Julie Small have worked tirelessly for JLA redress. Shimizu is director of ,JPOHP, a founding member of Campaign for Justice, and the daughter of former internee, ninety-three-year-old Susumu Shimizu. Julie Small is a founding member and co-chair of Campaign for Justice. She learned about the wartime kidnapping and incarceration of JLAs through the slow unveiling of the story at family gatherings of a friend \vho was interned as a child with his family from Peru. She felt the injustice and suffering that this family had gone through, quit her job in nnance, and has devoted most orher waking hours to the Campaign for Justice. Shimizu and Small have cooperated to write the Epilogue for this new edition ofAdios to Tears. By sharing their expertise gained through the redress struggles, they give the reader an insight into the continuing fight for justice for the JLAs, a glimpse of the difficulty ofsuing the most powerful country in the world, and an understanding of why a small group of people (with the help of many concerned Americans) has dared to do this. Certainly, they help...

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