James Otsuka

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Kantsui James Otsuka was a Nisei Japanese American Quaker who was jailed as a conscientious objector during World War II, and later became a war tax resister.

Imprisoned in 1949 for not paying $4.50 in taxes as a war protest,[1] he stayed in prison a month longer than his 4-month sentence because he refused to pay his fine. Two months after his release, on August 5, 1950 (one day before the fifth anniversary of the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima), he was arrested with two other protestors for passing out leaflets at the Y-12 nuclear weapons facility in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. [2]

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  1. ^ IRS Seizure and Court Actions Against War Tax Resisters
  2. ^ James B. Jones, Jr. Every Day in Tennessee History (accessed December 16, 2006)
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