Asian American survivors were forced into a prolonged silence about their experiences of being injured by their own government. AAPIHeritageMonth
at the end of World War II were a consequence of the war the U.S. fought against the then-enemy country of Japan. For a number of Asian Americans, however, the U.S. decision to drop the bombs remains a hidden history of the war that tore up families and communities built across the Pacific since the late 19th century.
These “forgotten” survivors, especially women like Suyeishi and Fukuda, began to break their silence in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Amid thebringing together people of color and their white allies, women survivors became a strong voice for Asian America’s suffering. This expanded beyond what happened at Ground Zero in 1945. The U.S. medical system and its discrimination against the Asian American community caused significant suffering.
But older American women like Suyeishi and Fukuda, too, led activism, albeit in quieter, less visible, ways. As Fukuda said about Suyeishi, women who took leadership roles often drew ire from men of the community. But when the day came forabout a bill supporting U.S. survivors, it was none other than Suyeishi who ensured the hearing had a large enough audience. She did so by organizing a bus that went back-and-forth between downtown Los Angeles and the building holding the hearing.
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