1986 - CHOICHIRO YATANI (Professor of Psychology at Alfred State University)


Upon returning to the U.S. after a trip to the Netherlands, Choichiro Yatani was stopped by immigration authorities because his name appeared on an INS "Lookout List." He was detained for 44 days without explanation. Yatani had lived in America since 1977 and was a Ph.D. candidate at SUNY Stony Brook. In spite of a Freedom of Information Act request and a lawsuit to remove his name from the "Lookout List," Yatani has never received a satisfactory answer for why he was detained. He and his lawyers speculated that it was due to his protests of the Vietnam War while he was a student at Doshisha University in Japan.