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For varied reasons, many respondents answered "no" to questions 27 and 28 and became known as "no-no boys". The epithet "no-no boy" came from two questions on the Leave Clearance Application Form, also known as the loyalty questionnaire, administered to interned Japanese-Americans in 1943. Some young male internees answered "no" to one or both ...
Japanese immigrants were not legally allowed to become U.S. citizens due to racist guidelines, so renouncing their only form of legal citizenship would leave them stateless. A form of resistance formed in response to the loyalty questionnaire, with the resistors being called the “no-no’s” for answering no to both questions 27 and 28. [6]
The loyalty questionnaire was unpopular among prisoners in Heart Mountain and every other WRA camp, mostly because of its final two questions: Would the respondent volunteer for military service (Question 27); and would the person forswear allegiance to the Emperor of Japan (Question 28).
Takei and his family were sent to Tule Lake in northern California because his parents answered “No” to key questions in a so-called loyalty questionnaire. Question No. 27 asked if they were ...
When the U.S. government forced detainees to fill out a Leave Clearance Application Form, commonly known as the "loyalty questionnaire", Kashiwagi refused to answer the infamous questions 27 & 28, key questions which asked internees, after a year of unjustified incarceration, if they were willing to swear unqualified allegiance to, and serve in ...
The leave clearance registration process, dubbed the "loyalty questionnaire" by inmates, was another significant source of discontent among incarcerated Japanese Americans. Originally drafted as a War Department recruiting tool, the 28 questions were hastily, and poorly, revised for their new purpose of assessing inmate loyalty.
Joseph Edward Corcoran, 49, is set to be executed for the July 26, 1997 murders of his brother, sister's fiancé and two of their friends in Indiana.
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