While many academics have focused on the wartime internment of 120,000 Japanese Americans by the U.S. government, few have spotlighted the U.S. government’s cooperation with 13 Latin American countries to abduct Latin Americans of Japanese descent. Shortly after being used as hostages in exchange for American POWs held by Japan during World War II, these Japanese Latin Americans were labeled “illegal aliens” by the very government that coordinated their deportation, confiscation of passports, and detainment in camps. This project focuses specifically on Japanese Peruvians, who made up 80% of the 2,264 forcibly deported, and their campaign for redress. Through an analysis of the citizenship approach of the Japanese American Redress Campaign, and the human-rights approach of the Japanese Latin American Campaign, I find that the former gains more traction at the cost of repeating the theme of exclusion. As the fight for redress continues to this day, implications of inclusion/exclusion in activism, national citizenship vs global humanism, contestations of international relations and local peoples, and questions of human rights and national security are addressed.