“Since the publication of the Roberts Commission Report,” California governor Culbert Olson declared on January 27, “[the people of my state] feel that they are living in the midst of a lot of enemies. They don’t trust the Japanese, none of them.” Buried in the report, and unmentioned by Olson and like-minded politicians, was the fact that the U.S. soldier who led the raid on Niihau to hunt down Nishikaichi was a Japanese American lieutenant named Jack Mizuha. Mizuha went on to serve heroically in the famed 442nd Regimental Combat Team, one of the most highly decorated units in American
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