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    "title": "Henry Miyatake",
    "body": "<div class=\"mw-parser-output\">\n <div id=\"databox-PeopleDisplay\">\n  <table class=\"infobox\" width=\"200px;\">\n   <tbody>\n    <tr>\n     <th scope=\"row\" style=\"text-align:left;\">\n      Name\n     </th>\n     <td style=\"text-align:left;\">\n      Henry Miyatake\n     </td>\n    </tr>\n    <tr>\n     <th scope=\"row\" style=\"text-align:left;\">\n      Born\n     </th>\n     <td style=\"text-align:left;\">\n      April 28 1929\n     </td>\n    </tr>\n    <tr>\n     <th scope=\"row\" style=\"text-align:left;\">\n      Died\n     </th>\n     <td style=\"text-align:left;\">\n      September 16 2014\n     </td>\n    </tr>\n    <tr>\n     <th scope=\"row\" style=\"text-align:left;\">\n      Birth Location\n     </th>\n     <td style=\"text-align:left;\">\n      Seattle\n     </td>\n    </tr>\n    <tr>\n     <th scope=\"row\" style=\"text-align:left;\">\n      Generational Identifier\n     </th>\n     <td style=\"text-align:left;\">\n      <p>\n       <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"/Nisei/\" title=\"Nisei\">\n        Nisei\n       </a>\n      </p>\n     </td>\n    </tr>\n   </tbody>\n  </table>\n </div>\n <div id=\"databox-People\" style=\"display:none;\">\n  <p>\n   FirstName:Henry;\nLastName:Miyatake;\nDisplayName:Henry Miyatake;\nBirthDate:1929-04-28;\nDeathDate:2014-09-16;\nBirthLocation:Seattle;\nGender:Male;\nEthnicity:JA;\nGenerationIdentifier:Nisei;\nNationality:;\nExternalResourceLink:;\nPrimaryGeography:Seattle;\nReligion:;\n  </p>\n </div>\n <div class=\"floatright\">\n </div>\n <div class=\"floatright\">\n </div>\n <p>\n  Aerospace engineer and redress activist. Henry Miyatake was the main author of the\n  <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"/Seattle_Plan/\" title=\"Seattle Plan\">\n   Seattle Plan\n  </a>\n  , an early proposal for individual monetary reparations for the wartime incarceration of Japanese Americans.\n </p>\n <div aria-labelledby=\"mw-toc-heading\" class=\"toc\" id=\"toc\" role=\"navigation\">\n  <input class=\"toctogglecheckbox\" id=\"toctogglecheckbox\" role=\"button\" style=\"display:none\" type=\"checkbox\"/>\n  <div class=\"toctitle\" dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\n   <h2 id=\"mw-toc-heading\">\n    Contents\n   </h2>\n   <span class=\"toctogglespan\">\n    <label class=\"toctogglelabel\" for=\"toctogglecheckbox\">\n    </label>\n   </span>\n  </div>\n  <ul>\n   <li class=\"toclevel-1 tocsection-1\">\n    <a class=\"\" href=\"#Early_Influences\">\n     <span class=\"tocnumber\">\n      1\n     </span>\n     <span class=\"toctext\">\n      Early Influences\n     </span>\n    </a>\n   </li>\n   <li class=\"toclevel-1 tocsection-2\">\n    <a class=\"\" href=\"#Redress_Pioneer\">\n     <span class=\"tocnumber\">\n      2\n     </span>\n     <span class=\"toctext\">\n      Redress Pioneer\n     </span>\n    </a>\n   </li>\n   <li class=\"toclevel-1 tocsection-3\">\n    <a class=\"\" href=\"#For_More_Information\">\n     <span class=\"tocnumber\">\n      3\n     </span>\n     <span class=\"toctext\">\n      For More Information\n     </span>\n    </a>\n   </li>\n   <li class=\"toclevel-1 tocsection-4\">\n    <a class=\"\" href=\"#Footnotes\">\n     <span class=\"tocnumber\">\n      4\n     </span>\n     <span class=\"toctext\">\n      Footnotes\n     </span>\n    </a>\n   </li>\n  </ul>\n </div>\n <div class=\"section\" id=\"Early_Influences\">\n  <h2>\n   <span class=\"mw-headline\" id=\"Early_Influences\">\n    Early Influences\n   </span>\n  </h2>\n  <div class=\"section_content\">\n   <p>\n    Henry Miyatake was born in Seattle in 1929, the youngest of three children. He grew up in the family's grocery store and attended Bailey Gatzert elementary school as well as Japanese language school. After the attack on Pearl Harbor, authorities took the family's radio equipment (his brother was a ham radio enthusiast) and guns. His father had just spent nearly $10,000 a year prior remodeling the store, but was forced to sell it for $400 in the panic before being forcibly removed. The family was held at the\n    <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"/Puyallup_(detention_facility)/\" title=\"Puyallup (detention facility)\">\n     Puyallup Assembly Center\n    </a>\n    and at the concentration camp in\n    <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"/Minidoka/\" title=\"Minidoka\">\n     Minidoka\n    </a>\n    , Idaho, along with most other Japanese Americans from the Seattle area. At Minidoka, he worked on the camp's electrical crew and also was among those who did farm labor outside the camp. A civics paper in which he harshly criticized American racism led to a chain of events that saw him expelled from the camp high school.\n   </p>\n   <p>\n    Returning to Seattle after the war, he worked for a time as a gardener. With the help of his brother, he later got a job for the Federal Aviation Administration in Alaska in 1948 and joined the army reserves. Pressed into active duty during the Korean War, he did sound surveillance work and taught sound surveillance for the Counter Intelligence Corps. After the war, he got his degree from the University of Washington and worked as an engineer for Convair in San Diego, for a new venture called X-Onics, then for Boeing.\n   </p>\n   <p>\n    Inspired in part by the discrimination that Asian American employees faced at Boeing—as well as what he felt was the reluctance of\n    <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"/Nisei/\" title=\"Nisei\">\n     Nisei\n    </a>\n    in particular to speak up about it—he began to study the wartime incarceration in the late 1960s and to think about how Japanese Americans might seek redress for what had been done to them.\n    <sup class=\"reference\" id=\"cite_ref-ftnt_ref1_1-0\">\n     <a class=\"\" href=\"#cite_note-ftnt_ref1-1\">\n      [1]\n     </a>\n    </sup>\n    Through a lawyer friend, he was introduced to legal scholar Arval Morris at the University of Washington, who suggested books and articles to read. Morris advised against going through the courts because of the statue of limitations and amount of money that would be required. He subsequently began research on what taking a legislative course would require. He also found other Nikkei Boeing employees who were interested, including Mike Nakata and Ken Nakano, as well as Chuck Kato, a civil engineer with the Economic Development Administration, and\n    <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"/Shosuke_Sasaki/\" title=\"Shosuke Sasaki\">\n     Shosuke Sasaki\n    </a>\n    , a retired statistician.\n   </p>\n  </div>\n </div>\n <div class=\"section\" id=\"Redress_Pioneer\">\n  <h2>\n   <span class=\"mw-headline\" id=\"Redress_Pioneer\">\n    Redress Pioneer\n   </span>\n  </h2>\n  <div class=\"section_content\">\n   <p>\n    In summer 1973, Miyatake happened to attend a meeting of the Seattle chapter of the\n    <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"/Japanese_American_Citizens_League/\" title=\"Japanese American Citizens League\">\n     Japanese American Citizens League\n    </a>\n    (JACL) representing the Asian Engineers and Technical Employees Association. By that time, he had begun giving presentations on wartime incarceration to local schools after preparing presentations for his son's and daughter's junior high school and high school classes. At that meeting, there was a call for volunteers to work on redress proposals, a result of\n    <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"/Edison_Uno/\" title=\"Edison Uno\">\n     Edison Uno\n    </a>\n    's resolution at the 1970 JACL convention. Having been thinking about the issue for a few years, he volunteered. By the end of the year, he and his team had developed what would become known as the Seattle Plan. The plan called for individual reparations of $5,000 for anyone forcibly moved by the government during World War II, as well as $10 per for each day incarcerated. Funds for these payments would come via a tax check-off, whereby individuals could opt to have their tax money go towards these payments. Calling themselves the\n    <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"/Seattle_Evacuation_Redress_Committee/\" title=\"Seattle Evacuation Redress Committee\">\n     Seattle Evacuation Redress Committee\n    </a>\n    (SERC), Miyatake and the others began giving local community presentations, gaining the support of many individuals and groups. The Seattle chapter and Northwest Regional District Council also came to support the plan after some initial opposition.\n   </p>\n   <p>\n    In April 1975, Miyatake was appointed to the JACL's Political Education Committee, though the national organization remained lukewarm to his ideas. Meanwhile SERC produced an information packet titled \"An Appeal for Action to Obtain Redress for the World War II Evacuation and Imprisonment of Japanese Americans\" that included an audio tape and questionnaire that was sent to all JACL chapters. At the 1976 JACL convention, the JACL's\n    <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"/National_Committee_for_Redress,_JACL/\" title=\"National Committee for Redress, JACL\">\n     National Committee for Redress\n    </a>\n    (NCR) was formed, with Miyatake a member. But though a resolution to seek individual reparations passed at the 1978 JACL convention, the NCR later voted to pursue a study commission rather than direct reparations on the advice of the\n    <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"/Nikkei/\" title=\"Nikkei\">\n     Nikkei\n    </a>\n    congressional delegation, with Miyatake casting a dissenting vote. Newly elected Congressman\n    <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"/Mike_Lowry/\" title=\"Mike Lowry\">\n     Mike Lowry\n    </a>\n    —from whom Miyatake had secured a commitment to support a redress bill from prior to his election—did subsequently introduce redress legislation on the outline of the Seattle Plan in 1979. However the study commission bill—forming what would become the\n    <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"/Commission_on_Wartime_Relocation_and_Internment_of_Civilians/\" title=\"Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians\">\n     Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians\n    </a>\n    —passed in 1980, while Lowry's bill, without the support of Nikkei congressmen or the JACL, died in committee.\n   </p>\n   <p>\n    Miyatake also led efforts to seek a\n    <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"/Repeal_of_Executive_Order_9066/\" title=\"Repeal of Executive Order 9066\">\n     repeal of Executive Order 9066\n    </a>\n    that was ultimately successful and was also among the key organizers of the first\n    <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"/Days_of_Remembrance/\" title=\"Days of Remembrance\">\n     Day of Remembrance\n    </a>\n    held at the Puyallup site in 1978.\n   </p>\n   <p>\n    Due in large part to personal tragedies including the sudden death of his high school age son and a divorce, Miyatake became less active in the next phase of the\n    <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"/Redress_movement/\" title=\"Redress movement\">\n     Redress Movement\n    </a>\n    . He later came to accept the the CWRIC hearing did play an important role in the ultimate success of the movement. Miyatake's role and that of his Seattle compatriots was highlighted in Robert Sadamu Shimabukuro's\n    <i>\n     Born in Seattle: The Campaign for Japanese American Redress\n    </i>\n    published in 2001.\n   </p>\n   <p>\n    He passed away on September 16, 2014.\n   </p>\n   <div id=\"authorByline\">\n    <b>\n     Authored by\n     <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"/Brian_Niiya/\" title=\"Brian Niiya\">\n      Brian Niiya\n     </a>\n     , Densho\n    </b>\n   </div>\n   <div id=\"citationAuthor\" style=\"display:none;\">\n    Niiya, Brian\n   </div>\n  </div>\n </div>\n <div class=\"section\" id=\"For_More_Information\">\n  <h2>\n   <span class=\"mw-headline\" id=\"For_More_Information\">\n    For More Information\n   </span>\n  </h2>\n  <div class=\"section_content\">\n   <p>\n    Henry Miyatake Interview, Densho.\n   </p>\n   <p>\n    Henry Miyatake. Discover Nikkei website.\n    <a class=\"external free offsite\" href=\"http://www.discovernikkei.org/en/interviews/profiles/104/\" rel=\"nofollow\">\n     http://www.discovernikkei.org/en/interviews/profiles/104/\n    </a>\n    .\n   </p>\n   <p>\n    Maki, Mitchell T., Harry H.L. Kitano, and S. Megan Berthold.\n    <i>\n     Achieving the Impossible Dream: How Japanese Americans Obtained Redress\n    </i>\n    . Forewords Robert T. Matsui and Roger Daniels. Urbana: Univeristy of Illinois Press, 1999.\n   </p>\n   <p>\n    Shimabukuro, Robert Sadamu.\n    <i>\n     Born in Seattle: The Campaign for Japanese American Redress\n    </i>\n    . Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2001.\n   </p>\n  </div>\n </div>\n <div class=\"section\" id=\"Footnotes\">\n  <h2>\n   <span class=\"mw-headline\" id=\"Footnotes\">\n    Footnotes\n   </span>\n  </h2>\n  <div class=\"section_content\">\n   <div class=\"reflist\" style=\"list-style-type: decimal;\">\n    <div class=\"mw-references-wrap\">\n     <ol class=\"references\">\n      <li id=\"cite_note-ftnt_ref1-1\">\n       <span class=\"mw-cite-backlink\">\n        <a class=\"\" href=\"#cite_ref-ftnt_ref1_1-0\">\n         ↑\n        </a>\n       </span>\n       <span class=\"reference-text\">\n        He felt Boeing managers specifically picked on Japanese American workers because they knew they would not fight back, that \"You can treat as like crap, but we're still going to be loyal.\" In one instance, he was demoted and had his pay cut after the program he was working on was cancelled. His boss read him\n        <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"/Mike_Masaoka/\" title=\"Mike Masaoka\">\n         Mike Masaoka\n        </a>\n        's \"\n        <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"/Japanese_American_Creed/\" title=\"Japanese American Creed\">\n         Japanese American Creed\n        </a>\n        \" as he demoted him, essentially daring him to quit. For familial reasons, he stayed on. Robert Sadamu Shimabukuro,\n        <i>\n         \"Born in Seattle\": The Campaign for Japanese American Redress\n        </i>\n        (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2001), 12–13.\n       </span>\n      </li>\n     </ol>\n    </div>\n   </div>\n   <!-- \nNewPP limit report\nCached time: 20230622231615\nCache expiry: 86400\nDynamic content: false\nComplications: []\nCPU time usage: 0.018 seconds\nReal time usage: 0.024 seconds\nPreprocessor visited node count: 187/1000000\nPost‐expand include size: 2054/2097152 bytes\nTemplate argument size: 228/2097152 bytes\nHighest expansion depth: 6/40\nExpensive parser function count: 0/100\nUnstrip recursion depth: 0/20\nUnstrip post‐expand size: 915/5000000 bytes\nExtLoops count: 0\n-->\n   <!--\nTransclusion expansion time report (%,ms,calls,template)\n100.00%   14.634      1 -total\n 46.31%    6.777      1 Template:Databox-People\n 15.69%    2.296      1 Template:Reflist\n  9.20%    1.346      1 Template:Published\n  9.08%    1.329      1 Template:AuthorByline\n-->\n   <!-- Saved in parser cache with key encycmw:pcache:idhash:2578-0!canonical and timestamp 20230622231615 and revision id 17241\n -->\n  </div>\n </div>\n</div>\n<div class=\"toplink\">\n <a href=\"#top\">\n  <i class=\"icon-chevron-up\">\n  </i>\n  Top\n </a>\n</div>",
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