Descendants gather at the gravestone of Takuji and Ito Yamashita in the Yamashitas’ hometown of Yawatahama, Japan. The couple moved back to Japan in 1957, after their daughter Martha’s death from tuberculosis. Takuji died soon after at the age of 84, and Ito passed away in 1969, aged 88. The cross expresses the Yamashitas’ lifelong Christian faith. (Steven Goldsmith / Special to The Seattle Times, 2003)
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Takuji Yamashita earned his law degree from the University of Washington in 1902. He was awarded U.S. citizenship that year, and then had it stripped away by the Washington Supreme Court because of his Japanese birth. The ruling also denied him admittance to the bar, so Yamashita went into business and farming. He would later join a U.S. Supreme Court appeal to try to reverse the ban on citizenship for Asian immigrants. Credit: UW Magazine / Courtesy Imaizumi and Yamashita families

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