Situation: Three years after their internment, Japanese Americans were allowed to return to the ... Each of the survivors was sent an apology and a check beginning in 1990. (Only half of the original ...

Per historical accounts, after the attack on Pearl Harbor by the Japanese ... a formal apology, signing legislation that paid $20,000 in compensation to the surviving victims of the internment ...

Korematsu received the nation’s highest civilian honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, in 1998. He died in 2005 at age 86 ...