Japanese Americans

A collective of U.S. citizens and residents of Japanese ancestry who endured wartime forced internment and later received federal redress—approximately $1.2 billion in settlement. In the series they operate as a concrete historical precedent invoked by characters (notably Jeff) to convert abstract moral claims about reparations into politically legible remedies. Their invocation shifts debate toward feasibility, mechanisms of negotiated restitution, and the symbolic weight of official acknowledgement, supplying moral leverage and a practical model without appearing as on-screen actors.