Frank Emi, Nisei leader in World War II was 94

Frank Emi worked in his family's Los Angeles market before being interned at the start of World II at Heart Mountain in Wyoming. In the camp, he led a group of men that refused to be drafted while their families were confined. Members of the Fair Play Committee were sentenced to prison at Leavenworth. Their convictions were overturned at the end of the war, but the men weren't fully embraced by the Japanese American community for much longer. “Frank Emi was an important part of the World War II Japanese American experience,” a community leader says in the obituary in The Rafu Shimpo. "He had a clear understanding of the role that justice should have played during that difficult time, particularly in the lives of those whose chosen path was to resist the injustice of the incarceration of Japanese Americans."