Restitution should include restoring rank and formal status, not only money

Evidence

Third, Congress was to direct executive agencies to identify which Japanese Americans were eligible to “apply for the restitution of positions, status or entitlements lost in whole or part because of acts or events between December 1941 and 1945.” For example, the commission suggested that the Department of Defense should review World War II cases where Japanese Americans received anything less than an honorable discharge. — Dorothy A. Brown, Getting to Reparations, 209

Categorization

Category: Definitional Content

• DEFINE: Expands the concept of remedy to include status restitution (honorable discharge, position, entitlement) — a category Brown’s reparations framework can borrow beyond cash payment.