Youngstown Vindicator (September 5, 1945)
Nisei can return to Pacific Coast
WASHINGTON (UP) – The Army Tuesday night removed all bars against loyal Japanese-Americans turning to the Pacific Coast, and it promised them the same treatment and privileges “accorded other law-abiding American citizens and residents.”
The action formally terminated the mass exclusion program under which persons of Japanese ancestry had been banned from the coastal areas of California, Oregon and Washington since early in the war.
At the same time, the War Relocation Authority announced that its eight relocation centers will be closed gradually beginning next month, with the last scheduled to shut down December 15. Some 33,000 persons remain in the centers.