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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Born
October 19, 1916
Died
November 12, 1986 (age 70)
Place of Birth
Hood River, Oregon, USA
Also Known As
Minoru Yasui
Yasui Minoru
安井稔
Min Yasui
Biography
Minoru Yasui was an American lawyer from Oregon. Born in Hood River, Oregon, he earned both an undergraduate degree and his law degree at the University of Oregon. He was one of the few Japanese Americans after the bombing of Pearl Harbor who fought laws that directly targeted Japanese Americans or Japanese immigrants. His case was the first case to test the constitutionality of the curfews targeted at minority groups.
