They Called Us Enemy shares a focus on Japanese internment with works such as No-No Boy by John Okada, When the Emperor Was Divine by Julie Otsaka, and Farewell to Manzanar by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston. In addition to George Takei as Sulu, it featured a Black woman as the communications officer and a Russian navigator. First airing in 1966, Star Trek was groundbreaking television, especially in terms of its diverse cast. Also important to understanding the memoir and Takei himself is the role that the TV show Star Trek plays. United States was wrongly decided, it still hasn’t been formally overturned. Korematsu ultimately lost his case-and though the Supreme Court did agree in 2018 that Korematsu v. After his eventual arrest, the California ACLU chapter approached him about using his case to test the legality of Executive Order 9066. Korematsu initially resisted relocation and went into hiding in the Oakland area. One figure Takei touches on briefly in the memoir is Fred Korematsu.
Later investigations found that there was no legitimate reason for internment-the government targeted Japanese Americans based on racism alone. Between 19, about 120,000 Japanese Americans were interned in the camps.
On February 19, 1942, President Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, which created the legal framework for the internment camps in the U.S. In addition to founding the Japanese American History Museum and speaking out about his experience in internment camps during World War II, Takei has also criticized moves to place restrictions on any ethnic or racial group, particularly Muslims.Īs George Takei details in the memoir, life changed dramatically for Japanese Americans after the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor in December of 1941. He married his long-time partner, Brad Altman, in 2008. Though Takei didn’t publically come out until 2005, his sexuality has been something of an open secret since the 1970s. He’s been especially supportive of LGBT rights for decades. In addition to acting, Takei has been a vocal activist for much of his adult life. Takei studied acting at UCLA and, after a number of smaller stage and television roles, was cast in the role of Officer Sulu in Star Trek. Following their release in 1946, the Takei family returned to Los Angeles, where Takei’s father returned to the dry cleaning business and eventually became a very successful real estate agent. In the months after the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor in 1941, when Takei was five years old, he and his family were incarcerated-alongside many other Japanese Americans-in internment camps, meant to protect national security by sequestering Japanese Americans in secure locations away from the general public. George Takei was born in Los Angeles in 1937, and he was the oldest living child of three children.
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