The State - News from June 28, 1988

Embarrassed city officials in Sunnyvale promised to purge from city resolution an anti-Japanese ordinance that was adopted during the hysteria of World War II. The 44-year-old resolution states that it is the official policy of Sunnyvale, now a bustling city in the heart of the high-tech “Silicon Valley,” to distrust the Japanese and “permanently exclude them from the state of California.” The City Council is expected to adopt an apologetic new resolution stating that the city officially welcomes Japanese people and other minorities. The resolution was brought to the council’s attention by a woman born in an internment camp during the war. “I am sickened, really sickened,” said Judy Niizawa, 44.