Aiko Herzig-Yoshinaga

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Aiko Herzig-Yoshinaga

Aiko Herzig-Yoshinaga Death

Aiko passed away on July 18, 2018 at the age of 92 in Torrance, California.

Aiko Herzig-Yoshinaga death quick facts:
  • When did Aiko Herzig-Yoshinaga die?

    July 18, 2018
  • How old was Aiko Herzig-Yoshinaga when died?

    92
  • Where did Aiko Herzig-Yoshinaga die? What was the location of death?

    Torrance, California

Aiko Herzig-Yoshinaga Birthday and Date of Death

Aiko Herzig-Yoshinaga was born on August 5, 1925 and died on July 18, 2018. Aiko was 92 years old at the time of death.

Birthday: August 5, 1925
Date of Death: July 18, 2018
Age at Death: 92

Aiko Herzig-Yoshinaga - Biography

Aiko Herzig-Yoshinaga was an American political activist who played a major role in the Japanese American redress movement. She was the lead researcher of the Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians, a bipartisan federal committee appointed by Congress in 1980 to review the causes and effects of the Japanese American incarceration during World War II.
Aiko Louise Yoshinaga was born in Sacramento, California in 1924, the fifth of six children. Her parents, Sanji Yoshinaga and Shigeru Kinuwaki, had immigrated from Kyushu, Japan's Kumamoto Prefecture. In 1933, Yoshinaga's family moved to Los Angeles.

In the 1960s, Herzig-Yoshinaga became involved with Asian Americans for Action, a civil rights organization. In 1978, she married John "Jack" Herzig and moved to Washington, D.C. At the prompting of her friend, Michi Weglyn, Yoshinaga began looking into the records of the government agencies responsible for the internment that had recently been made available to the public in the National Archives. Often putting in fifty- or sixty-hour weeks, she worked to retrieve and catalog thousands of significant documents over the next several years.

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