the case went to the supreme court after the war as the case of duncan versus konomuku in a leanmark ruling the supreme court clearly said that military tribunals that judge civilians are unconstitutional, and the opinion of the court and the conquering opinion by frank murphy contained strang language denouncing the armies actions as attempts to justify is by references to japanese americans as racist in sum, the events in hawaii, i learned, not only presented an interesting counterpoint to what happened to japanese americans on the mainland, but the tell a kind of prehistory we should all be thinking about when we look today at guantanamo and the military tribunals there. yet the story of martial law and duncan verse konomuku, the supreme court decision and japanese americans has remained absent, not from popular discussion but from constitutional law classes, from government discourse. it deserves to be lookedded at much more closely in connection with japanese americans. so i think that may be my book's contribution, it tells a story that many americans are not aware of, at least