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The film has been screened in Los Angeles at the Japanese American National Museum and the Laemmle Royal.their dignity and their families in an America that had forsaken them.

citizenship in preparation for repatriation to Japan.which became a segregation center.About 10% of the populations of the War Relocation Authority camps answered no when asked if they would serve on combat duty wherever ordered.

It was there that the Japanese Americans who refused to say yes to the infamous loyalty questionnaire were imprisoned and labeled the No No Boys.Naoyuki Ikeda (left) and Toshiji Takeshima are featured in We Said No! No!SAN BERNARDINO —?Brian Maedas award-winning documentary We Said No! No! will be broadcast in Southern California on KVCR (Channel 24) on Friday.

and if they would swear unqualified allegiance to the U.

We Said No! No! is a story of civil disobedience set against the backdrop of World War II and the controversial incarceration of thousands of disloyal Japanese Americans in the most notorious of all the concentration camps.Iaido or Japanese swordsmanship is the art of drawing and cutting with the sword in one movement.

for something to impact ones life.The event-filled evening will feature the Kokoro band.

At the time of his passing in 2007.The dojo looks like something out of an old Japanese movie and gives the space the feeling that you have stepped into feudal Japan.