L.A. Times - Asia: George Aratani dies; L.A. philanthropist who funded Japanese American causes was 95

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George Aratani dies; L.A. philanthropist who funded Japanese American causes was 95 Feb 21st 2013, 00:00 Aratani endowed the nation's first academic chair for study of the internment of Japanese Americans during WWII and contributed to local and national educational and cultural programs. George Aratani, a Los Angeles businessman and philanthropist who donated millions of dollars to support Japanese American institutions and causes, and with his wife, Sakaye,, endowed the nation's first academic chair to study the World War II internment of people of Japanese descent and their decades-long efforts to gain redress, has died. He was 95. Media files: 16x9

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