draft of the "Final Report," which explicitly stated that intelligence sources agreed Japanese Americans posed no threat to U.S. security in 1943. Additionally, while the military had claimed that there wasn't time to conduct hearings and determine the loyalty of individual Japanese Americans, DeWitt said in this earlier draft that time was irrelevant to his plan, and that it was "impossible" to tell Japanese Americans apart, saying "it was impossible to separate the sheep from the goats." Herzig-Yoshinaga shared the copy of the "Final Report" with the CWRIC, NCJAR and redress activists. The document played a large part in the CWRIC's report, Personal Justice Denied, which concluded that the incarceration of Japanese Americans was the product of "race prejudice, war hysteria, and a failure of political leadership." Additionally, thanks in large part to Herzig-Yoshinaga's discovery of this document, the convictions of Gordon Hirabayashi, Fred Korematsu, and Minoru Yasui were overturned, and the Civil Liberties Act of 1988 granted an official apology and $20,000 to each camp survivor or their heirs. Herzig-Yoshinaga and her husband Jack later worked in the Department of Justice's Office of Redress Administration to identify Japanese Americans eligible for reparations. Later life Herzig-Yoshinaga received her high school diploma from Los Angeles High School in 1989, along with some of her other classmates. The date on the diploma was June 26, 1942. Aiko Herzig-Yoshinaga was widowed when Jack Herzig died in 2005. In 2009, Herzig-Yoshinaga published a dictionary of terms related to the incarceration, where she encourages avoiding euphemisms to describe the experience of Japanese Americans during World War II such referring to the camps as "concentration camps" instead of "internment camps," given "internment's" connotation with an action that is militarily justified. In 2011, she received the Spirit of Los Angeles award. In 2016, Herzig was the subject of a documentary entitled Rebel with a Cause, by Janice D. Tanaka. Aiko Herzig-Yoshinaga died in 2018, aged 92 years, in Torrance, California. See also Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians Internment of Japanese Americans Japanese American redress and court cases References External links Sharon Yamato (2013). "Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians," Densho Encyclopedia. 1925 births 2018 deaths Japanese-American civil rights activists Japanese-American internees Activists from California American people of Japanese descent Transitional justice People from Sacramento, California Los Angeles High School alumni Women civil rights activists 20th-century American women 21st-century American women American women