This chapter discusses the support and opposition to the Nikkei. Although victimization has usually been emphasized more fully, the Japanese in the centers could count on all kinds of support from other Americans. And these friends of the Japanese also faced stiff opposition from very powerful political blocs. These proposed many measures ranging from exclusion from the West Coast to deportation to Japan. The WRA and the JACL believed that the rehabilitation of the Japanese Americans depended on their release into the mainstream and their performance in war. Yet the powerful anti-Japanese American political blocs opposed any concessions. Thus, the return of the Nikkei was often painful. Yet, with the exception of studies of the court cases that freed the Nikkei, we have no comparable tale of good works to balance this record of woe. Potent though they were, by the fall of 1944 these opposition groups were fighting an uphill battle. The military threat to the West Coast had vanished, and the media and the politicians could no longer conjure it up. Then as Americans got to know the resettled Nikkei, preachers, publishers, columnists, celebrated hostesses, radio commentators, bureaucrats, whole Protestant denominations, and ordinary people began to side with the Nikkei. Certainly there were incidents, but toleration was winning. Most of this preceded the constitutional cases which undermined the legality of the centers. Minority rights won out in the end.