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    Aiko Herzig-Yoshinaga, researcher and activist in fight for reparations for Japanese Americans, dies at 93

    by Maya Lau, Los Angeles Times Jul 24, 2018 3 minutes

    LOS ANGELES - She was a 17-year-old who loved the beach and was looking forward to the prom when the principal at Los Angeles High School gave her the shocking news.

    Aiko Herzig-Yoshinaga would always remember what the man said in explaining why, just two months from graduation, she and other Japanese-American students would not receive their diplomas.

    " 'Because your people bombed Pearl Harbor,' " she quoted the principal as saying after the attack in 1941. "He put the responsibility for Pearl

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