§4201 — Title 50 War and National Defense | U.S. Code

Summary

Acknowledge the wrong done to U.S. citizens and lawful permanent residents of Japanese ancestry who were evacuated, relocated, and interned during World War II, and apologize for it. Create a public education fund about the internment, pay reparations to those who were interned, and compensate Aleut residents of the Pribilof Islands and the Aleutian Islands west of Unimak Island for wartime hardships, lost personal and community property, and village lands on Attu that were not restored. The law also aims to help prevent similar civil-rights violations in the future and to make U.S. human-rights statements abroad more credible.

Title 50, §4201

War and National Defense — Source: USLM XML via OLRC

The purposes of this chapter are to—

(1)acknowledge the fundamental injustice of the evacuation, relocation, and internment of United States citizens and permanent resident aliens of Japanese ancestry during World War II;

(2)apologize on behalf of the people of the United States for the evacuation, relocation, and internment of such citizens and permanent resident aliens;

(3)provide for a public education fund to finance efforts to inform the public about the internment of such individuals so as to prevent the recurrence of any similar event;

(4)make restitution to those individuals of Japanese ancestry who were interned;

(5)make restitution to Aleut residents of the Pribilof Islands and the Aleutian Islands west of Unimak Island, in settlement of United States obligations in equity and at law, for—

(A)injustices suffered and unreasonable hardships endured while those Aleut residents were under United States control during World War II;

(B)personal property taken or destroyed by United States forces during World War II;

(C)community property, including community church property, taken or destroyed by United States forces during World War II; and

(D)traditional village lands on Attu Island not rehabilitated after World War II for Aleut occupation or other productive use;

(6)discourage the occurrence of similar injustices and violations of civil liberties in the future; and

(7)make more credible and sincere any declaration of concern by the United States over violations of human rights committed by other nations.

Editorial Notes

Codification Section was formerly classified to section 1989 of the former Appendix to this title prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.

§4201 Purposes

Summary

Title 50, §4201

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

Citations & Metadata