James Omura, the editor of Rocky Shimpo, a Japanese American newspaper, sent this letter to former Heart Mountain internee Kiyoshi Okamoto, who had recently been moved to the internment camp at Tule Lake, California.
The document was included in the case of the United States of America vs. Kiyoshi Okamoto, et. al. The prosecution of Okamoto, et. al. (Case #4930) stems directly from the Heart Mountain draft resistance movement that also resulted in the conviction of Shigeru Fujii and 62 others as documented in U.S. District Court Case #4928. Okamoto and his co-defendants, members of the so-called “Fair Play Committee,” were indicted for conspiring to assist other Heart Mountain residents in their challenge to War Relocation Authority policies and the Selective Service Act as it applied to relocation camp internees.
