HI SR109

Apologizes to all Americans of Japanese ancestry for Hawaii's past actions supporting the unjust exclusion, removal, and incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II and for failing to defend their civil rights and liberties.

Documents that over 2,000 people of Japanese ancestry from Hawaii were interned at the Honouliuli Internment Camp (established March 1943) and other detention facilities, despite no evidence that any were guilty of sabotage, espionage, or acts against the United States.

Acknowledges that Executive Order 9066 (signed February 19, 1942) incarcerated over 120,000 people of Japanese ancestry across ten concentration camps and caused significant human costs including abandoned homes, businesses, and disrupted families.

References the 1988 federal Civil Liberties Act and the 1983 Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians, which concluded that EO9066 was caused by "racial prejudice, wartime hysteria, and a failure of political leadership," not military necessity.

Requires transmission of a certified copy of the resolution to the Governor of Hawaii.