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Nisei Student Relocation Commemorative Fund In 1980 a small group of secondgeneration Japanese Americans Nisei living in New England started a scholarship program they called the Nisei Student Relocation Commemorative Fund NSRCF. The Nisei were determined to pay tribute to the National Japanese American Student Relocation Council an organization led by the Quakers that had offered them lifeaffirming support during World War II. In 1942 120000 persons of Japanese ancestry were forcibly removed from the West Coast and incarcerated in American concentration camps. In reaching across racial divides and hatred the Council assisted thousands of Nisei students to leave the camps for colleges and universities across the country.