It is a record that cannot be discounted or ignored. We who have been lobbied extensively by highly organized and wellfinanced individuals and organizations may marvel how Masaoka. representing almost alone a tiny. unpopular constituency with practically no funds with which to operate. managed a husbandandwife endeavor to secure justice and equality when the hatreds and wounds of war still haunted almost every office. And almost singlehandedly. he succeeded to the extent that actually hundreds of private and public bills became law. including for the first time equitable opportunites for immigration and naturalization to those of Japanese. Asian. and Pacific ancestry. Moreover. as a selfstyled "token Japanese American" in Washington. he reveals how he simultaneously contributed to influencing the historic peace treaty with Japan. one of reconstruction and rehabilitation and not of traditional revenge and reparations. contending that an implacable foe could become a formidable and reliable ally.
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