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Minoru "Min" Yasui ((日本語:安井稔) ''Yasui Minoru'', October 19, 1916 – November 12, 1986) was a Japanese American lawyer from Oregon. Born in Hood River, Oregon, he earned both an undergraduate degree and his law degree at the University of Oregon. He was one of the few Japanese Americans after the bombing of Pearl Harbor who fought laws that directly targeted Japanese Americans or Japanese immigrants. His case was the first case to test the constitutionality of the curfews targeted at minority groups. His case would make its way to the United States Supreme Court, where his conviction for breaking curfew was affirmed. After internment during most of World War II, he moved to Denver, Colorado in 1944. In Denver, Yasui married and became a local leader in civic affairs, including leadership positions in the Japanese American Citizens League. In 1986, his criminal conviction was overturned by the federal court. In 2015, Senator Mazie K. Hirono nominated Yasui for the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest award civilian award of the United States.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Hirono, Honda Praise Awarding Of Presidential Medal Of Freedom To Civil Rights Leader Minoru Yasui )〕 On November 16, 2015, President Barack Obama announced that Yasui would receive a posthumous Presidential Medal of Freedom. The Medal was presented to Lori Yasui in a White House ceremony November 24, 2015. ==Early life== Born in Hood River, Oregon, on October 19, 1916, Minoru Yasui was the son of Japanese immigrants Shidzuyo and Masuo Yasui. The third son of nine children born to this fruit-farming family, he graduated from the local high school in Hood River in 1933.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Japanese American Internment Curriculum: Minoru Yasui )〕 At the age of eight he spent a summer in Japan, and later was enrolled in a Japanese language school in Oregon for three years.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Minoru Yasui v. U.S., United States Supreme Court, 320 U.S. 115 (1943) )〕 Yasui went on to college after high school at the University of Oregon in Eugene.〔 At the school Yasui earned a bachelor's degree from the school in 1937 and a law degree from the University of Oregon Law School in 1939.〔 He also was a member of the United States Army's Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) program at the university, earning a commission after graduation in 1937.〔United States v. Yasui, 48 F. Supp. 40, (D. Or. 1942).〕 ROTC was a requirement of all male students during this time period for the first two years of the four-year program.〔 Yasui was commissioned on December 8, 1937, as a second lieutenant in the Army's Infantry Reserve.〔 After law school he passed the bar and began practicing law in Portland, Oregon in 1939.〔 He found it hard to find work in Portland, but through the connections of his father, he started working for the Japanese government at its consulate in Chicago, Illinois.〔 He was employed as one of several Consular attachés at that office, mainly doing clerical work.〔 Following the attack on Pearl Harbor, which drew the United States into World War II against Japan and Germany, Yasui resigned his position with the consulate on December 8, 1941.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Minoru Yasui」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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