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TOP INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING AND ONLINE JOURNALISM AWARDS BEST BUSINESS AND GOVERNMENT REPORTING
Most Japanese–Americans who fought in World War II were Nisei, Japanese–Americans born in the U.S. Shortly after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, Japanese–American men were initially categorized as 4C (enemy alien) and therefore not subject to the draft. On February 19, 1942, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066,