The US Federal Government paid $20,000 payments to 82,210 Japanese Americans or their heirs, department officials said yesterday. Under a federal court settlement, the balance of the $1.6 billion fund was left over to make $5,000 payments to Latin American Japanese.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.democracynow.org/1999/2/18/wwii_reparations_japanese_american_internees|title=Wwii Reparations: Japanese-American Internees|date=February 18, 1999}}</ref> | The US Federal Government paid $20,000 payments to 82,210 Japanese Americans or their heirs, department officials said yesterday. Under a federal court settlement, the balance of the $1.6 billion fund was left over to make $5,000 payments to Latin American Japanese.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.democracynow.org/1999/2/18/wwii_reparations_japanese_american_internees|title=Wwii Reparations: Japanese-American Internees|date=February 18, 1999}}</ref> |