These characters were used on the invitations to the March ceremony posthumously admitting Takuji Yamashita to the state bar. Responding to a petition from the UW Law School and the state bar association, the high court plans to reverse its century-old action and admit Yamashita posthumously to the state bar March 1.
National scholars believe the action is unprecedented.
I just wish the poor guy were alive. For more photos, visit the related photo gallery . University of Washington Only recently have legal and civil rights scholars discovered that Yamashita was one of the century's earliest civil-rights crusaders, a prescient forerunner to the likes of Clarence Darrow and Thurgood Marshall. They've learned that Yamashita, barred from becoming a citizen or owning property, twice lost high-court battles against the intense discrimination he faced as a Japanese immigrant. Supreme Court many years later.