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#2,559 Vol. 110, No.3 I . ISSN: 0030-8579 941 East 3rd St. Suite 200, Los Angeles, CA 90013 (213) 626-6936 Friday. January 26.1 990
Partial Summary Draft of
National Board Resolutions A FRACI CO - The allonal
( Board of the JACL met from Fn , Jan 19 to un. Jan 21.
( DI~cus Ion on the proposed JACL legacy fund was perhap the mo t ttmeconsummg.) The followmg are orne
I of the board motton , more Will appear In the next IS ue of P.C
Resolutions from the Chair
pproval of Minutes: (IkedafT anaka) To ddopt !he minute of the
c Sept 23·24. 19 9 ational Board meeung. PiIloi>ed Ab,tenuon I\hli-Jordan
Treasurer' Report : (Hokoyamallshll-Joruon) To accept the lTelb
urer\ repon a, pre>enlcd Unammou,
, Proposed 1991 ·92 Budget: (IkedalHokoyama) ro JOcr~ the auonal
Board and Commillee Trdvel hne Ilem In the propo>ed 1991 -92 budget from $10. to $15. for 1991 and 1992 Pas..oo ay: i hI
( I~hl/Hardno) To approve the re 1..00 1991 · 92 blenmal budget a\ ubmilled by th~ >ecrelal)'/ treillourer Unanlmou
Resolutions nder the .P.lGeneral Operalions
Convention! ayonara Banquel: (HataiU cham) The auonal Board allocate
a ponlon of the J ACL ayonard Banquet for a redre,. recogmuon, prognlm propo..oo by the U.C and authon/.e the p.lgeneral opemtion~ to coordinate the dinner program WIth the LEC PiIlo'-Cd ay Tanaka
( Convention. (OuchIlJalHata) The 'auonal Board adopt the
Credenua" Commlllee recommended Creden~ lIal, GUideline, for the 1990 blenmal conven
uon Unanllnou (Ou(hld.lIlyeh.lrJI Inacasc the pro~) fee
Irom 25 III $100 lor the 1990 b,ennial conven· lion nammou,
(HokoyamafTanaka) rhat a latc fcc 01 I a \C,scd (or pmxle, n.x~ivcd afler the
'PI:(llil'U deadhne Unanlnmu, (Oulhldill iltn) l1w <luonal Board adoptlhe
redcnllah Commllk'C , propo..oo Rule.. of Pr0-cedure lor the 1990 b,ennial convenuon wllh the amendment that a fae innlc IrJm.mlllal of
in~lrUcuon I acceptable Unanimou~ (Ouchidal ato) The allonal Board adopt the
Resoluuons Comrnlttee's recommended Resolution Procedure for the 1990 b,ennial convenuon Unanlmou
(Ouchldai Hata) The auonal Board adopt !he OmlnallOn Committee \ recommended Cam
paIgn GUldeline~ for the 1990 JACL national eleellon 10 be held at the 1990 b,ennial convention Unanimous
Personnel Committee: (OuchldalHokoyama) That the auonal
Board upgrade the salary range of the associate d,rector and bu lne..s manager to the same level as the Washington D.C Representauve (Edllor' nOle; The pay range for the rwo posl' lion w~ $21 ,5 -S36,936!year; the upgrade I to $2 .920-$49, year.) Passed ay' Ikeda Ab tenllon KinO hila
(Ouchidallkeda) The allonal Board approve !he anached agreement between auonal JACL and CCOC relauve to the CCOC enlor ikkel Service Center Unanlmou .
Peoonnel Manual (Refer (0 Don Tamaki ' Personnel Manual draft)
(OuchldalHarano) Page 3. Item D: Compo -IUon of the auonal Personnel CommIttee; to Include the v p.lgeneraJ operauon • govemors' cau u chaIr. three at-large members appointed by the pnes1dent. nallonal director and one Iaft" represenLallve. nauonal presidenl (ex-officio) and legal counl>C1 (ex-officio) Unammou
(OuchldalHala) Page 4, Ilem B ReVIew and Update of Job Descriptions. Change from the
alional Personnel Commmee to the nauonal director rna change or amend the Job de\Cnpllon to reneel the changing CIrcum tance and needs of the JACL. Unanlmou
(lkeda/Sato) To integrate Ihe review of and comment on the Long Range Plannmg Committee Repon wllh the business se. Ions of the 1990
allonal Convenuon. Includmg the Initial bu 1-
ne., se slon Unanlmou (fanaka HarJl1o) Board accept the wrillell re·
pon and approve lis disuibullon 10 the JACL member..hip for reView and comment Unammou,.
R lulions nder the V.P"Public ffairs
(KinO hllallkeda) The aliona! Board ,uppon.. the caUl>C of Vietname Amencan Ii her· men being proseculed under a 2 year-old law
Continued on Page 3
Spagheffi-Crab Feed Proceeds Used
to Assist Quake Victims at Glide Memorial
FRA CI 0 - A check for wru. pre ented recently to the
I Rev. ecll illiam of Glide Memonal Church by Lucy KihlUe, an Franci 0
JA L pre loent, and Yo Hironaka, Ice preldent of program. Fund were raled at the annual paghetti- rab
, Feed the fin;t alUrda) in December
are uh of thet. 17 earthquake, the J L hapter at the reque t of Hironaka, upport d by a unarumou vote, deCided the proceed to I Itms
I of the earthquake.
Glide 1em nal ,-,-a lected a th re Iplcnt of the proceed becau of the maJ r program It admintten; to as i t earthquake \ I urn:. ordlOg t Rev
Wilham ," ven three month after the earthquake, we re till servlOg about I, people above our u ual number thl contribuuon Will defi-nttely find it way to a I ling vlcltm of the earthquake and we are grateful to the JA L for it upport of our efforts"
Lucy and 0 acknowledged the tte
mendou Job that the people at Glide are dolOg for the earthquake I urn "Ghde continue to offer e cellent meal and other needed rvlce e en after man of the other relief programs ha e losed up," added Lucy "We're pleased the Chapter i able to do a littl
mething to help Glide Wtth I earth-Quake ·1 tan e"
Some May Be Ineligible, Duplicates
76,000 Contacts Made With Redress Adm. OHice SAN FRANCISCO - Offictal from the Office of Redress Admini lraUon (ORA) in Washington met with the JACL Legi lative Education Comrruttee here to report on the agency' progre in identifying, locating, and verifying persons eligible for redres , it was announced Jan. 17 by JoAnne Kagiwada, JACL-LEC director.
Bob Bratt , ORA admini trator, and Carolyn Ru sell, deputy director of operation , said that about 99% of the work of identifying eligible recipients has been completed. Records from the War Relocauon Authonty, Dept. of Ju tice, roll for voluntary evacuees, Hawaii, and the military have been compiled.
To date, ORA has counted 75,997 individual contacts. Thi figure does not take duplicate contacts into account, nor are all individual assumed to be eligible for redress. An average of 27 voluntary infonnation fonns (VIF ) and letters carne in per day in December 1989. One year ago, an average of I ,000 VIF and letters came in per day.
The ten tates with the high t
number of conta Is are: tate 'umber Pctg.
Califorma 54. ~66 71. 4 ~ ashtngton ,051 6.6 U1mois 2,993 3 9 Hawati 2.962 2.6 Oregon 1,523 2.0 Colorado . 1.362 I . Utah . 1.2
ew York 696 0.9 OhIO 562 0.7
ew Jersey 495 0.7
Mmore than 500 contacts have been made from Japan.
The ten cities in California with the highest number of contacts are: C~ Number Pctg. Los Angel 7.241 9.5 Sacramento . .......... 3,223 4.3 Gardena . . . . . . . . . . . 2.635 3.5 San Jose . . . . . . . . . 2,544 3.3 San Francisco .......... 2.201 2.9 Torrance .. . . . . . •. 1,47 1.9 Monterey Parle .•••..•.• 1,478 1.9 Fresno • • • • • • • . 1,111 1.5 tockton. . . . • . . . . . . . 786 1.0
Long Beach . . . . . . . . . . 678 0.9
Over 64,000 urvivors A recent actuarial tudy comrru -
ioned by ORA estimated that there
Rep. Conyers Introduces Bill for African-American Reparations W A HlNGTON - A blU to create a comrrus Ion to tudy reparauon prop<>-al for Afn an Amencan has been
mtroduced by Rep. John Conyers, Jr (D-Mlch.) and it h generated interest among JACLers who have long watched the legi lative cene here.
"Thi tory apparently has not been covered by the PC or any other Japanese vernacular," one JACLer noted, 10 enclo 109 detail noted in the Dec 8 Washington Times, and added that It IS now a matter of top mterest to JACL
Conyers ay hi comrni ion would follow model for Japanese Amencan interned during World War II "The comrni ion would document and asses the harm to both fncan-American and to all Americans resulung directly and lOdlICCtly from the in titutlon of lavery, not only dunng that tlme ill which It was legal and govemment-an uoned , but during the penod ofRe
constru Uon and desegregatlOn to the present day ..
The bill was introduced 0 20 and i pending m the House JUdiCiary comrruttee where Conyers IS a seruor member
DC Delegate Walter Fauntroy, who uppo the Conyen; bill, '31d II
would timuJate more tlunkmg and more mearungful lutlon as "to how to adequately (make) restitution for bl la in tlu ountry"
'That land I nghtfully OUTh," Afo ay , basmg hi claim on what he call
"lOternauonai law" that a ra can rechurn land if It bved on that land for a long penod of orne, worked and developed the land and fought to tay on It.
Several bill have been filed at the tate and local level around the country
Massachusetts Bill 10 Mas chusetts, .B 1621 filed
by tate Sen. Bill Owens would reqUlre the commonwealth to tabti h a comrru Ion to negouate With "Iegttunate repr entauve" of Afncan d endants born in the United tat
Owens predicted the bill, . it moves through the legl lature, "will pick up team allover the country and other
legi lators WIll file unilar legi lanon." Owen explained the reparation bill
for Black will be based upon those filed by Amen an lnwans wh recI3Imed thetr land. (The Ha\ 31ian ha e been seeking land as well.]
There i a nauonal coalluon of Bla for Reparauon wluch hru. been exchanglOg mfonnation and fonnulat-109 trategi for pu lung the I u It will meet m convention ne ( ummer m W hington, in e GodWill, oalJtlon chair, ay willie some think the reparanon bill i far-fetched, "reparations i n t a pipe dream ..
Continued on Page 6
were m re than (H. inWvldual· elioible for redress. Ho\\ever, Bran bebev that even tlu number rna} be 10\\.
According to the tud), ORA 'h uJd have expected 1.013 eligible individual 90 years old or older. In tead. ORA has verified 1.416 ebgibl , r 40% more than expected.
Bratt noted that the Hawaii records were done manuall and were ineon istent. om individual ha e fairly complete life hi tori ; others have only a name. 0 dat of birth were given in 8 of the WRA records. The m t errors have been found in records for voluntary evacu
VerificatiOD Process Bratt and Russell al outlined a few
of the problems ORA has encountered in erifying potential reciplen . orne indi idual do not return the d uments requested. The infonnation ubmitted may not match other infonnation. There may be problems WIth the hi -toric documents (WRA records, Berkeley records, mbly center cards, voluntary e acuation ters, et )
About half of the VIF match up with the ro ters, Bratt said The other half p nt a challenge. omeum an mclividual will use a different first name from the one on the WRA ro ter-an AnglicIZed name, or a h rtened name, or lilltial. ometim there I· more than one person with the same name
me pen;on may n t return reque ted documentation nght away, thinkJ.ng there I · no ru h Others may send in mformatJon before OR re-qu It.
Rus II S3.1d that the declarauon t ORA has to be complete An "X" is an lOufficlent IgnalUre If the £eC.lplent I Ii 109 10 a nursing h me and family members ant the ch I.. to ~ senle! -where, proof of guardian hip i n ded
ORA h pubb hed a new que Uonand-an wer booklet to help the ommuruty understand Its requtrem nt ,
San Mateo Issues Its JACL Scholarship Call
M TEO Cahf Mateo JACL ann un ed
holarstup p gram for I tion · are vrulable from an Mateo county high h I and com mUnlty college as well from the San Mateo J CL C mmurut) Center 41
Claremont t lhe deadhne ~ r graduaung high ~h I seru r h larhip i March I.
Th hapter will award fre hman sch larships to deseMng students from the local an Mateo untyarea After the selectlon of the I 'al recipi nts, the top appltcanLS will be ~ubm ltted for JudglOg in the ationaJ ch Iar.;hlp p gram
NEWS IN BRIEF
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2-PACIFIC ClTIlfH I Friday, January 26,1 990
SALINAS VALLEY JACL REPORT - 1989:
Ex-Mayor Hibino Back in Action as President By Fred Oshima
SALINAS, CALIF
The Year of the Serpent, accord .1 ing to the Celestial philo ophers
along the we tern hore of the Pacific Rim, denoted among other thing great promise and good fortune awaits on the horizon for those that are in po ition to take advantage and be of service with the many s0-
cial opportunitie that abound. Thi was 1989!
Heeding !hi age advice, the Salinas Valley JACL, a seasoned
combme of 300 strong and a chapter = d~~!1~ that leaves nothing to chance, more than made hay over the past 12 months as they tackled the challenge by generating a wide variety of organi.zat:ional activitie .
Other than the fact that promo- HENRY HIBINO tional wiz Ted Ikemoto and hi corp 1989 Salinas Valley JACL President will continue to run as the perennial JACL kmgpin in Northern California County, Gilroy and WatsonviU(}as the top advertisement producer for ob erved the Day of Remembrance the annual P.e. Holiday I ue, there (Feb. 19) in the Kmenhi Japanese were many 19nificant events !hi Memorial Garden at the Califorrua past year Within the contin of Rodeo Grounds. Amenca' Lettuce Capital . It was m remembrance of a night-
Hibino Heads Chapter mare that took place in 1942 nearly The 1989 year began au plclously a half century ago when the pre ident
with the in tallation of one-orne of the Vnited State Franklin Delano Salmas mayor Henry Hibino as Roo evelt, i ued Executive Order chapter pre ident. He was back in 9066 that devastated, crippled and the addle after a ten-year abbatlca1 changed the live of orne 120,000 from the chapter board. The popular person of Japane e ancestry. The mayor had been chief city executive innocent victim had gathered to refor three tenus. He erved from J 973 call their preciou freedoms were - 1979 as the first and only ethnic tripped away by wartime emotion minority to oversee the fast-growing and irrational agitation, by racially city of 100,000 in the 1970s. In the and economically motivated pecial ranching bu ine , hi prominent re- interest group and by elf- erving cord and VI ibility as a public official politician along the Pacific Coast. has had wide impact on the mooth The mi guided presidential order, as as irnilation of Nikkei into the rich It turned out, was the .. traw that agricultural area IDce World War II. broke the camel' back"--the
A Salinas native, Rotarian, crowning blow to decades of relentmember of the Lincoln A venue Pre- les rabble-rou ing and the Yellow byterian Church and the Corral de Peril campaign that propeUed
Tierra Country Club, Hibino was Washington to carry out !hi diaided by cabinet members Paul graceful act. Ichiuji , Larry Hirahara , vice presi- E.O. 9066 had accompli hed the dents; Mary Minami , treasurer; race baiters ' ini ter objective of Akira Aoyama, Doug Iwamoto, Tei kickmg the 'Jap" out of the three Da u , secretaries; Kiyo Hirano, We tern tates--though temporardelegate; Bob Oka, vi itation ; Tom ily- as they found they could not Tanimura, Andy MatsUI, John keep the victims out forever as they Hirasuna, board , and Ted Ikemoto, had hoped . Thi round-up, 1Ociden-e -officio tally, had occurred on !hi very ame
Ir.1 of Remembrance California Rodeo Ground in the The mo t thought-provoking pnng of 1942.
event occurred 10 February when !hi Over 3,600 Central Coast area re 1-
chapter and four others ID the plC- dents from the four county area were ture que entral Coa t region-- reeling from the hocking nng of Pearl Monterey Penin ula, San Benito Harbor, then humiliated and branded ...-_'--________ --=-.' with name tag like cattle to be uncere-
moruou I proce sed at the Rodeo Grounds. ubsequently. the lot was
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railroaded out to isolated, harsh desert concentration camps in Po on, Arirona, where the temperature in the urnmer reached 120 degrees. The evacuees had to fend for themselves while the Army guards at gun-POlDt patrolled the perimeter outlined by barb-wire fences .
It was recalled that one of the m t outspoken race-baiting organizations was the Grower-Shipper egetable As-ociation here in Salinas. Its managing
director then , Austin Anson, had purred the outrageous evacuation momentum to no end Hi was an incredible, hysteric ruatribe, as recaJled in the Saturday Evening Post (May 9, 1942):
"We're charged with wanung to get rid of the Jap for selfi h reason . We might as well be honest We do. It' a question of whether the white man lives on the Pacific Coast or the brown man . . . They came to thi valley to work and they stayed to take over. They offer higher prices and higher rent than the white man in the markets. They can do this because they ratse their own labor. They work their women and children, while the white farmers have to pay wages for thelT help." It was uch inflammatory, mmd-boggling accu ations that made the 1989 Day of Remembrance observance a haunting American experience. It was more than just something of pas ing interest.
Governor George DeukmeJ ian , tate proclamallon declaring February
19 as a Day of Remembrance was delivered by Helen Kitaji .
Construcoon of the Kinenhi memorial several years ago was pearheaded by two JACL talwarts named Harry: lida and Sakasegawa. The garden landmark, beneath the tall eucalyptu trees, was well manicured for the occasion, lending a serene quality and glow of beauty. It has been Sakasegawa' long labor of love to help maintain the appearance of the garden at a high level.
Appreciation Dinner It was longtime ID coming-thJ gala
appreciation dinner in May celebrating the ucces ful culmination of the redre campaIgn by the five chapters of the region: Watson Llle, San Benito, Gilroy, Monterey Perun ula and Salinas Valley
A blue-ribbon affrur, orne 400 guests and members honored three pubhc official for their oud upport of the redres program: tate enator Henry Mello of Watsonville, Monterey County SUpervl · r Barbara hipnuck of almas and al 0 chair of the board of Upervl ors, and L Rep. Leon Panetta of Monterey, chairman of the Hou Budget Commmee.
Cre sey akagawa. natIOnal J CL pre Ident, keynoted the runner program The mithsontan Institution' travel ph to exhibit," More Perfect Vruon. Japanese mencan and the V Con titunon," was on di play
Issei Memorial Garden The mo tlnspmng program for 19 9
proved to be presentanon of the I i Memorial Garden to the Monterey County- aovidad MedJ al Center m October. The dedJcallon capped the chapter' 50-year record of ilIuslI10us service and community mvolvement.
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KINENHI JAPANESE MEMORIAL GARDEN- Day of Remembrance as ( observed In February ot the Sa linas Fairground-California Rodeo Grounds, which has been designated a state historical landmark as the site of the 1942 Salinas Assembly (Temporary Detention) Center Pictured are (from left) Paul Ich iuji, Helen KitaJl, Harry Sakasegawa a nd Harry "Tar" Shirach i
miniature Japanese garden WIth refreshingly ymmetrical hne gra the entrance way. a clfCular dnveway to the county medical center. Bud Loewlth, p ident of the Medical Center Foundation of Monterey County, presided at the dedicallon. Su umu Nakaza a from the Japanese Con ulate General , an Francl 0, w an honored gu t as were the public official and the Wa onville JACL enior Center choral group, whIch re
ndered "God Bles Ameri a." A focal pomt of the garden I a
m th, blul h boulder in ribed In Japanese and Engli h: "We dedicate thJ Japanese garden to the I sei pIOneers 10 appreclal10n of thelT courage, wi -dom and pallence. alinas alle Japanese Community , February, 1989 .. I HigashI , orted by her two granddaughte , unveLled the marker whIle Janet Uto proVIded background koto mu ic am Obara made remark tn
appreCiatIon m ihongo while Doug Iwamoto recognized those who as I led m the project.
BOARD MEETING
banmng IlOrKlU2.e115 from the ownership or PIJoung of rl5hing vessels. The . 'aLiona! JACL will file or jom m an amiCUS brief In 1111 matter Unamrno~.
(KinoshJIaIUyehara) The JACL suppon the CivIl RighI.> Act of 1990 which. when intro
duced, will help In!>Ureequai employment opportunllY by n:movmg obsI.acles 10 those challeng· mg employment dlscnminauon caused by recent decl Ions of the U . Supreme Court. Unarumous.
(fanakalHokoyama) The JACL, conslSlent wllh II iX'>lti n m uppon of the Amencan Fnends Service Comminee' lay, UII to accomplbh a imilar n:sult, joms other civil rights organlz.a1Jons In calling for an end to the em
ployer sanctions provisions of the Immigration Reform and ConlrOl Act of 1986. Unanimou
Resolutions ubmitted by the Governors Caucus
(fanakalUyehara) That the . anona! Board I endorse the Rohwer ReslOrauon ProjeCt and con
tribute $2.500 as seed money in uppon. Passed. ays: Ouchida. Harano. ishi.
, To Be Concluded
Olcinawans in Hawaii in Year-long Event for 90th Anniversary HONOLULU-Twenty-six people dres-
l sed m Okinawan costume reenacted on Jan. 7 at Aloha Tower Pier 11 the first amval of Okinawans in the islands m 1900, kicking off a yearlong celebrallon of thanks
Wayne Miyahira, vice president of the Umted Okmawan AssocIation and festival charr said the group wanted 10 recogmze as many Issei as possible and chose to celebrate !hi year rather than the 100th anruversary m 2000.
"Actually. thIS I a thank-you event," he added, explauung the ft tival theme, Okage SClIna De i saymg. 'I am where I am now because of you' . "
From the first 26 Okinawans aboard the S City of China, which amved on Jan. 8 to the estimated 25, men and women emlgJJtmg m the early 1920s. the Okmawan now compnse some 20%
l of Hawaii' ikkei community The year-long event will culminate
WIth a 90th anniversary celebration Dec. 15 at the new Hawaii Okinawa Center m WruPIO Gentry on Kamehameha Hwy. The center i being dedicated June 16-17 An mtemallonal Uchinanchu Festival Aug. 23-26 of Okinawans from around the world will be highlighted by a parade
ept I down Kalakaua Ave and fi tival at Kaplolam Parle
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TAIWAN BICYCLES DONATE ~alif State Senator David Roberti (center) presents hundreds of bicycles to needy children through agencies in Burbank, Hollywood and Lincoln Heights. The bikes were donated by a Taiwan international toy company as a gesture of goodwill. With him are Sion Ferrer (left) and Kerry Doi of PACE (Pacific Asian Consortium in Employment)
Yokohama Academy Plan Raises Ire in Maryland
Anti-Japanese Resentment Still Lingers ANNAPOLIS, Md.-A two-year college outside of Annapoli was announced last Augu t for 200 foreign tudents but its neighbors objected and
had asked the court to block Yokohama Academy' propo aI
Circuit Court Judge Raymond G ThIeme m early December ruled the law uit was premature because the academy has not received buiJding pernuts The Winche ter-on-the-Severn community as OClanon president, Bob Clemen, rud he and hI neighbors are tilJ detenruned to fight the project.
At the public hearing before the Ult was filed, one re iden! aid he harbored lingering resentment agalllst the
Japanese becau e of their role III World War II; her remark drew applause from about a third of the 140 people present
Beth da education con uitant, France Pruitt. who was named president for the propo ed International College of Amenca (to be run by Yokohama Academy which would send tudents mtere ted III tudymg Engh h, Amencan bu me theone and We tern culture), rud the flfSt c1as i expected to amve May 6 and \ ill hve III rented donnitone at the UllIver-Ity of Maryland at Baltimore County
The academy plan to convert a 22-acre former Augustinian fnary into a boarding chool for 2 student
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Friday, January 26 , 1990 PACIFIC CmZEN--3
Canadian Nisei Recalls WWII Experiences
Before Lunch 'n' Learn Audience
TORO. rro - Journah t Frank • I riugu repla ed the auth r ot Obasan at
a Toronto Cit) Hall lecture e\ent ept _9. To an audien e of about 0 he po 'e of the Japane~ Canadian JCl
wartime expenen\;e from a un I l"\ tandpoint
The onglllaipeaker. JO) k..oga\\a. had to can eI au e of health re n
"I feel omphm nted that JO) uggeted me her ub tiMe." ~lontugu said. .. t Ie t t\ o-thtrds of the
people there saId they had read Obasan It wasn'l easy trying to h .. e up to the expectanon of Koga\\a fan ..
Second Kogawa ovel Due Moritsugu saId the author ""as ur
renlly doing her final polihlllg of her second novel. equel to Obasan. the tory folio aoml akane through
the 1980- Redress campatgn years. Mont ugu p ed on the m ge
that Joy Kogawa had Intended to mak.e m her cheduled talk now that the Redress ettlement has been rea hed. It I time for Japane e Canadian to Inle t themselves in other problem of ra I m in Canadian ociety
In her case, her particular Illtere l I m the contmumg e penence of the aIlve people of Canada
Turning to hi own wartIme ex penen e ,Moritsugu first illustrated the chmate of raci m prevailing in Brili h Columbia (B C ) dunng the 1930 WIth the followlllg e ample:
Issei Veterans Denied [t wa what happened to the Fir..t
World War veteran whourvived uch deadly battle as imy Ridge of 1917 Becau of the provlll lal a t of I 95 denymg the vote to tho e of Japanese, Chme and East Indian d cent, the
Japan ::arne ba
years \toritUgU aI 0 d nbed hI' III th
B C hlgh\~ U) amp \\ here he \\3 'nt III 1~2, a \\ell ill th phnlllg up of the famtl) b) the e pul I n ord 'n.
The event \\ the third and final on III the Lun -h . n' Learn erie pon )red b) the Toronto may r' ommitlt.'e on ommuDlty and rJ e relatlon The t\\ 0
prevlou peakel"\ had been ati"e Indian playwnght Tom n Hlgh\\a). and H h Troper. auth r of a ~ent boo" about the hI tone differen e bet\\cen
krdiDlan and Jew III this ounU) and III Europe
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Second Clan Postage PaId at LD. An{e lH, Calo! ' Annual Subscropt"'" Rores - JACL Members S II 00 of the norional dues p<ovode one yeor on a one·per-hoosehold basis on-Members I year
$25,2 yeors - $48, payable on advance. ' Foreign. odd USSI3.oo per yeor • Air mod-U.S, Conodo. Mexicc' odd S30 US per yeor, Japan I EIKOPI! odd USS60 per yeor
The new. and oprnoon. eJq)lessed by coiumrvsU aIM< thon the Naflonol Presodenl or Nat~I D,rector do nor necesso,,1y (eflecr JACL policy
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EDITORIAL OF THE PACIFIC CITIZEN:
Super Bowl's Improper Hoopla
The hype and hoopla that precede Amenca' premier ports festi al, the Super Bowl thl commg unday, was marred by a thoughtle and
in en itlve racial remark by Pat Bowlen, owner of the Denver Bronco . Reachmg meptly for a play on the word "nce," he referred facetiouly to Jeny Rice, the San Franci co 4gers' brilliant Wide receiver, as the "Chinaman" whose feet never touch the ground
Bowlen was qUickly, harpl} and properly called to account by Chmese mencan and man} other segment of Amenca And JU t a qUickly he apologlzed,aymg no offen e ~ as mtended He explamed that he had not realized "Chmaman" was offen lYe
In confes 109 Ignorance Bowlen undoubtedly i bemg truthful These day. , no on in hi po ition would intentionally utter an ethnic lur 10
~hot of the media
But hi admi 'Ion I proof of the long dl tance yet to go 10 cleanmg up the way Amencan perceive those who are "differenl." Mo t Amencan no"," know bener than to refer to Blacks, Hi pamc and Jew 10 derogatory tereotype The furor touched off by Bowlen has brought natIOnal attention
to the need for greater senSitivity about lurs agam t A Ian Bowlen' remarh and apology were Widely publicized m the pre
and thc ubJcct of a number of radiO talk how. Many admmed they had not realized "Chinaman" was Improper If Bowlen' blunder can be seen a part of a na(ionalleammg expenence, there I at least some a1vage value to an unfortunate m ident
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
GCW. UNE STAND n+::eE SUPER OOWL DEFENSES HAV ~ NOnWJGOIJ US.
FROM THE FRYING PAN
BILL HOSOKAWA
"Sushi and Sourdough" Worth the Wait
The Uruverslty of Washington Press recently published a book titled
Sushi and Sourdough. It was wntten by Tooru J Kanazawa and I described as a novel
The descnption rrught be tretching the definition of novel a bit Part of it i fascinating fact-based fiction about I el in the Alaska gold ru h. Much of It IS Kanazawa' sen ltive personal a -count of a young i el growmg up m Alaska.
But the book i much more. It I a monument to one man' persi tence and could tand as in piration for those who want to write.
Tooru Kanazawa I no"," 83 years old Hi book was 10 years m the writmg Although he had been tIunlang of writing It for mo t of hi adult life, compo mg chapters in hi mind as he worked to upport himself and hi family, he didn't begin to put the words on paper until he was 73 He ubnutted the manuscript to three national pubIi hers and was turned down each ume with scant en ouragement before the University of Washington Press indicated interest. He rewrote the tory three tunes.
In hi author' preface Kanazawa wntes. "Although I was born in pokane, Wash, on ov. 12, 1906,
our fanuly moved to Douglas, Al ka, in 1912, and about two years lat r acro Gastmeau Channel to Juneau, where my father was a barber M ob-ervatlon and interactions '\Ith th
I sel, in particular With the Itmerant a1-mon-cannery workers, planted within me the seed of a d ire to teU the tory of our Alaskan immigrant fathers and mothers inte'l'reted through my ey and heart"
'flu he has dooe weU, hi ob rvations haVing matured In the long years between boyhood experien e and craftIng hi tory Kanazawa' d riptIon of hanng for a moment the beauty of a ub-arctic rught With his work-worn mother I poetry. And hi recollections of avenging for discarded bottl which will bring a few ceo ,and catchmg brook trout to eU to a Japan~ restaurant owner rucknamed John 00,
are pure Amencana
But Kanazawa' editOrs did him no favor In insi ting that it be a novel Mat Fuse, the tough and appealing Japan
immigrant moved by wanderlust and the lure of Klondike gold, I a fi tIonai but n t untypi aI figure In the first part of th book. In real life, in the latter half of the k, Fu i Thor' (Tooru' ) father"," ho I content to work as a barber and finds olace in bottle of dnnk. The link and confli t between the two personaliti of Mat Fu IS never made clear and other I I, kindly or harsh, playa more important part 10
Tooru life.
onethele, I m delighted Kanazawa has been pubh hed The book i the culmination of a long-held dream made real largely b the dogged persl tence of his hentage. A Kanazawa notes, h com from a ·t-ram that i low to mature lllletun as long as 0 years. But no"," that he has matured th re I mu h hope for his ne. t book \\ Iu h I based on hi e penen a 37-year-old GI With the 442nd Regimental Combat Team I await It With great anticipatIon, for T ru Kanaza a who w my sensei and flrs( n w paper bo at the Japanese American Courier In eattle. I
mdeed a wnter.
JACL'S WINDOW IN WASHINGTON
PAUL IGASAKI
JACL WASHINGTON, D C REPRESENTATIVE
Immigration: A Japanese American Issue W HI GTO
The JACL was born out of the oneem that. in the late 1920 •
the J Amencan fa ed inten e di crinunation and lacked a olce on maners
that affected them 01 rinunaoon in the unrrugratIon and na-tionality law were among the mo t e ident .
After 1924, ururugranon from Japan w protublted The I I were denied an opportunity for CitIZen hip A aliens, the I I were derued by many tate law from owning any land The ","ere aJ barred from owmng r operanng ean fi hing
From ilS gmmng, th ught t hange th law
\rive f r f:urer treatment.
Law that demed equal nghlS to Japane American, ften on the b I of alienage, were targeted by the JACL. ntil after World War n, Japane e Immigran were denied the right to naturalize Consequently, the JACL fought Alien Land Law that protubited land owne hip by ( I as weU as urular 1a
Followmg th war. the JACL renewed I e o~ to WI.O the nght to clUzenshlP for the I sei and to end th ban on Japanese ururugrauon to the In ) 952. Ith th Immigra-oon and tionality Cl of that year. both pro 1 I were rescinded. Thousands of I sel were finally allowed to take th clOzenship tt! t and becam Citizens. Japan imrrugrau n Wii) abo re 1 red
fami}y uni • pro iding family connect! n' ~ the com cst ne of Immigrauon poJi y F r the first orne, all naUon and continents! on an equal fooong at America' s d r
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FORTY-SEVEN YEARS TO REDRESS
WWII Nisei Gis and Their Families
By Jud iizawa
, JO E. Calif - oted hi tonan and former museum curator. Eric Saul. made a rare public appearance here on
ov. . He ..... ~ lhe featured peaker at a forum enutled. "The i ei GI of WWII and Their Familie : 47 Years to Redre .'.
aul poke on how he vie\\ed /(fJrma 10 lhe life of lhe isel and how it wa ineVitable lhat lhelr military record would be outstandmg and wa meant to be under tood by all of mankind and how the U.S. Army Pre idio' "Go For Broke" exhibtt ongmated. He urged lhe audlen e to secure an expert wnter from among the Nikkei community to capture the hi tory of the Nisei, or chance losmg the hi tory forever.
Eric aul w~ mtroduced by 442nd veteran, Rudy Toklwa, who wa al 0
featured as the lour coordinator In Video clip taken 10 Europe 10 July, 19 9 Bi 'hop Yamaoka of the Buddhl I Churche~ of Amenca accompamed the Peace and Freedom Trail Tour group which made a pilgrimage 10 WWII battle Ite~ and American cemetene at Floren e Italy, and Eplnal, France
Buddhl tervlces were al 0 held on the Ite of the German concentrallon camp memonal in Dachau Four isel members of the tour belonged to the 522n(\ , the lield artillery unit of the 442nd , who were among the (jr.-t Ameri an~ to open up the gate of Dachau
iizawa and her hort hfe as a teacher who came (Q California as a young bnde leavmg behind her entire famil) 10
Kago hlma in 1924. only to live long enough to get out of camp. the mother of eight. one an army draftee
The second dlsplay howed artifacts from the Amache WRA camp includmg the ve t sewn by mothe~ as good luck for a male entering the military, draft letters, boy scout certificate to an I sel parent, port memorabilia and photo
The third di play contained current commemoratIOn of the lsel vet· and war year photos. Picture of the redre campaign efforts made by JACL and
CRR and the signing ceremomes were hown Also, till of the Peace and Freedom Tour with Bi hop Yamaoka performing a hi toric first conducting Buddhi t rit for men who were mterned a Chri lian because they had been denied their own religion.
Acknowledgements Person respon ible for the event fol
low Speakers-Rudy Toki a. Wayne MHsunaga.
and Judy iizawa. who al 0 prepared pre relea.'oC • the di.play matenals. and hand-OUl>. 'Ideo-Wa}ne Yamaguchi . camernv.ork; J
IlLav.a. editing; publicH}-Tom iohikav.3. BellY I\hl. Su~ akamurd. malling!r-JACL and Dharma wfr. phy lI:aI ammgement and refre. hmenl3--Wa}ne MIl>unaga. Video 'oCt up-Mr and MI>. Bob Tern""'l; audiO oct up-
hlg Toklwa. t)peocnmg-Rev Gerald Sakamoto; pnnllng- M.min Aokl . ho.tmg
aM ilzawa. Kathy Takeda and Kay Ono, all equIpment. fumilUre. and facllilles- courtesy of the an Jo\C Buddhl,t Church
Friday, January 26, 1990 I PACIFIC CmnN-5
JAPANESE PRESS TRANSLATION
YUTAKA
The Island Without Refrigerators
TO the outh of Taiwan i an I land. 1 Lan H u. where orchids gro\\ wild
It' no paradlse, but the tnbal people lead an ecologicall) und life lyle that puts Japanese to hame
The i landers, members of lhe aborigmaJ Yarru tribe, live b) imple fanning and fi hmg Their staple food I the taro plant They pick just enough of it for lhat day' meals and then immediately plant more roots m the same pot to en ure a teady upply
The village men catch only the amount of fish they will need for a day or two. When several go out fishing together, they divide the haul equally I once saw two of them arguing 10udJy as they med to give each other a leftover fi h. The Yami seem to be a genial, cooperative people
Climate: Hot and Humid My first Impres ion was that I had
found a utopia, but I oon had econd thoughts For one thing, there are no refrigerators In the hot, humid climate, fre h fi h and egetables poil quickJy and food polsonmg I a danger.
The Yaml, however, seem to cope Without mod rn refrigerauon Thel! approach to eXI len e I Imple and traightfof\vard If you're hungry, catch omethmg from the sea If a torm
come up, walt until H blow over Ex-cept for peClal occasIOn , thel! meal
COOSlt of i1ed·taro or boiled fish flavored wilh rock salt
The Yarru don't bend nature to Its own purpo or overfish. The live one link. in the natural ecolOgIcal ham Through m eranon and re:.tramt. th ) preserve the ec ) tern on which their own UIVlval depends.
The tribe hand' down its methods f catching fly 109 fi -h and boatbuilding from generation to generanon. The Yami have lhe \ isdom and patien e to live With nature. There I depth and rhythm to their live
Comparing Lifestyles If young Japane ,wIth thel! hfe-
tyles organized around the pursUIt of comfort and pleasure, had to live on thi island-nOl JU t go there for a vacatioo-they would be fru trated b lhe inconvenience and bored to death.
By the ame token, lhe Yami might be corrupted by modem clviUzation If Lan H u had refrigeratiOn eqUIpment. a tran portationy tern and a market for manne produc , th I lande~ would look at thel! en ironment e!) differently
Tribe members would be competing fiercely agrun t each other to get lh mo t fih The) would II thel! cat h to the high t bIdder and bu) de Igner Jean and televi ion ets
Wantmg more dl po ble mcome.
JAPAN-BASHING
AMBROSE UCHIYAMADA
In Japan, eve!) h ~ehold h a refrigerator R pondln" to the m m gowmet cui me, manufa turers are marketing multi-cornpartment -«>O-liter capa It) refrigerators that lea h type of food to the de Ired temperature. Th model are lhe rage toda
Havmg ehausted nerub) manne re-oure . Japane fi herman no\\ trawl
dl tant ocean on boat equipped With huge dnft ne and freezmg umts The Yarru live \\- ith ut refrigerators: we tak ours to sea
The re pectful. often reverential atutude our an tors had to\\ ani nature I gone repla by rmndle plunder.
The Rev Kyo hlro Tokunaga. reIIred head mini ter of the an Jo e Buddhlt Church, poke bnetly about hi expenence bemg taken to a Justice Department pnon becau he wa Unlver Ity educated and a Japanese IIngUI t More recently, he worked With
As Solace Comes a Warning Over 2,000 Years Old the allonal Coalillon for Japane · American Redre ·
A panel made of olher pnmary ource included Manan Okamoto ( J
Bebuln- B ), ox Kitashima ( CRR-f-). Joe Hlronaka (onglOal I th Bat
talIOn and aide to en park Matunaga), Roy yehata (military intelh
gen eCf\lce who trained under John AI 0 and erved In the olomon and other I land 10 the outh Pa Illc) All had very pOIgnant tone to tell from thw 0\\ n parti ular vantage pomt at the n et of WlI and what followed
Greellng~ were extended by Tom i hikawa, halrman of the ard of
the an Jo e Buddhl t hurch, and Wa ne Mil unaga, an Jo JA L Redre ommltlee hair Judy lizawa ( an Jo e Reource enter and J CL) a ted a~ la Ihtator/moderator for the 1 part I Ipanh
ican concentration camp Although the media attempts to
be objective, and uc eeds more often than not, there are aI 0 time when It fail .
* A recent Primeflme (TV new
how) di played Diane awyer' painfully obviou prejudice, though Sam Donald on tned, at the last moment, to re cue her report from outright bigotry.
o what el 1 new?
* * * A we are finally huffling off the
burden of Pearl Harbor through the kindne oftime, urvi jng a disaster we had nothing to do with, we find ourselv addled with a new bur-den Japanese econorru ucce Though Japane Amencan had as much to do with Japane economic uc as they did ith Pearl Har-
bor, they can expect t have to houlder the "blame" for that ucc either for the re t of thel! live or until a new villrun come along ho can upplant Japan in challengmg American economic power. Any hope that the new Gennany will tum the trick for u I hardly tenable 10 e they have the good fortune to I k like • real Am rican "
What ith JA tiptoe 109 through their II e ause of Redres and further reStri ted by thel! own predilectl os for anonyrruty, there are not many are 10 ruch JA feel comfortable in trymg to make an lffipre Ion
cept one Wlule Japane name rna)' ap-
pear With frur regularity 10 the we t
ern P{"Cl, , th )' are fe\\' and far between 10 th rth tern pre , and God forbid thac a Japane nam be! found at the n m f th~ lettt:[to-the-edit r unle it I fairl bland [ omphm nlaI). Japan Id m mi lIe anyuun
F [an n wh thi thi
He could not have been m re habbily treated if he were an enemy of the country Only one Senator tood up for him and the maiJ from the public was overwhelrrungly con-demnatory 0 matter how patriot! a JA may feel h hould remember that, m the mrnd of a good many American , even a enator of Inouye' tarure, the JA I till re-garded, at mo t, a serru-clllZen That Chme woman nove Ii tated It well: "You may love your c untry, but doe your country love you "
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I n the troubled tun to come, JA write ,whether begmne or profe -
IOnal , can do melhmg to at least moderate anti-Japan e feeling Thel! Japanese nam which they may have felt tood agam t them m the publi hmg field, may help them now The average Amencan know little about Japan. Thu , if J wnters deal with Japanese (or Oriental) ubJec ,thel! nam may make th l! arti Ie -more salable. Wh n, dunng Bu h' vi it to Japan a JA wnter wrote a piece comp_anng the typ0-
graphy of the tate of Maine with that of Japan, the Bangor Daily ews thre out heduled arti Ie to primlhe JapanMame piece.
and of better qUality. product lhat Japan now Import from other coun tries. What ad antage can my ommunity or tate offer that would appeal to Japan e mdu tnali, (10\\ labor ost , ample water uppl) , good tran porta oon, high-caliber educauon fa lline , a rulabwty of upen r talent. deSirable produc of farm, mine or fore t)
Iti t mu htoexpectofthecltit.en, of any nallon to be repeate{)ly t Id how mu h bett r the Citizen of ther nati ns are m compari n to thernselve and n t ha e me of tht:m. the m re VI len 'e-pron e pedal I) • fecllhc need lor ret.alJan n To man) Amem.siaru.. pl"Jisc for themselve or their tutic nneeu n.s has be ome so embara ing that they wmce whenev r they see r hl!af anything complimt:nrary about. themsefves. What Wei! on e a care I now a punch in the gut
6-PACIFIC CITIZEN I Friday, January 26, 1990
THE CALENDAR
lOS ANGelES AREA
• Present-Feb. 8--"The Colorful Realm of Jakuchu and Jakuen: Paintings from the Museum and Other American Collections .. los Angeles County Museum of Art. Inf~' 213857·6000.
• Presen -Feb. 2S-East West Players' productIon of The O'lOlfmon's Wife by Wakako YamauchI TImes. Th--S, 8 pm, Sun matInees, 2 pm AdmISSIon: $12, $15 rea. Info, tickets: 213 660-0366
• Present-Morch 4--"lu-Huan: Stone Corvings by a Chinese Moster." on exh.bition featuring his stone carvIngS, atural History Museum of los Angeles County, 900 ExpositIon Blvd. Museum hours: T -Su, 10 om-5 pm. AdmiSSIon: Adults, $3/ea, students and senior citizens with 10, $1.501 ea, children 5-12, 75¢1ea; children under fIve and museum members free Info: 213 7M-DINO.
• Feb. 4--"The 12th Annual Firecracker 5 10K Run," presented by the l.A Chinatown 10K Race Committee, Suo Starting paInt N. Broadway & College. Starting tImes . 5K, 8:20 am; 10K, 8;.30 am. Entry fees. $12 WIth T-shirt, $7 without. Add $3 after Jon. 24. Info 213 613-1 950 • Feb. 24--lnstallation dinner of the Japanese Amencan Historical Society of South-
CONYERS BILL Cotltitllledjrom Page J
HI tori cally , the emanCipation and abolition of lavery resulted m confu-Ion and break-up of the plantation y
tern. Many Blacks expected freedom would aI 0 mean free land as the slogan "40 acre and a mule" achieved wide popularity in the South in 1865 The idea was trongly upported by Rep Thaddeus Steven , radical Republican from Pennsylvarua who e hatred of the planter c1as wa regarded as pathological and who wanted to eize the lands of the chief rebel which would be diVided into convement farm and "every adult male egro could easily be uppbed With 40 acre "
Although teven' figures were faulty. the dra tic olution was not upported in Congres . It preferred to modify the homestead law, throwmg open 46 million acre of federal land In the
outhern states ince the land was of very poor quality, relatively few freedmen settled upon it.
DEATHS
huuko awai, 85, Kumamoto-bom San FranCISCO Nov I s Shulchi. d-m-Iaw ~chle. d t uko uzu I Sgc
Jane Kaoro himizu, SO, Yuba City-born. Inglewood. ov 7: m Teru Takabayashi. br
usumu (Oceanside). SI Saka)e Takabayashl
Yoshi umihiro, 90, HIfO huna-bom. BC
ramemo ov. . d T ugl Maki hima. gc & ggc
1isako uzuki, 64. Gardena. ov. 7' h Jim Y .2d br Hiroshi Kawaguchi. i Yasuko Hara (Chicago).
Mitsuno Tashima, 83, H IfOshi rna-born. Hunl1ngton Beach. 0\ 5: s Keigo (Fresno). d Peggy Kawashima. Ig·.
Eki Watanabe, 93, Kumamoto-bom. Berkeley ov 6. ~ Dr arl. Ed\\'ard T. d Hideko Winans 9gc. 4ggc SIS Ume Okazalo (Japan)
Kazuo amamoto, 71, Fremo-bom. La Angele. ov n \\. Irene, I • 3d, gc, br Kazumi. Ia.<;alo Hideo (ail m Japan). sis To'hiko Arnsuna. hllue akamura (both Fo\>, ler). 'Ioyoko Kobatake (lapan).
Hanako Yaman ,87, himane-bom. an Fr.lnci. . 0\ 4 . Kat uml d Arney AlZawa Lily Kuwamoto, Elaine Higashi. 7gc
FOllr G/!1Wraf;OIl Of £.\penmce
FUKUI MORTUARY
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1\'In rbe Carnmurul} " O\t'lJO )t'ars
TA IKKEI RTUARY
em Col. ornia. S, La Monno Restauran, PloyadelRey Guestspeo er' obuMcCorthy Info: Sue Embrey, 213 662-5102.
NEW YORK
• Present-Feb. 3- 'Both Sides of the Cloth: Chonese Amencan Women.n the ew York CIty Garment Industry," ew York Ch,notown H.story Project Gallery. 70 Mulberry S ., 2nd ft. Info: 212619-4785. • Present-Feb. 18--0riental Ant.que CeramIc Show, Azuma Gallery, 50 Walker St. Hours: T-Su, 12"'<> pm Info: 212 925-1381
SACRAMENTO • Feb. 25-27-"Windows of OppartunityThe Time Is Now l," the 3rd annual Asian Pacific Americans in Higher Education Conference, the new Radisson Hotel. Preregistration. $115; late fee, $150; student rate, $60. $75 late Accomodations $58 SIngle, $68 double, $78 triple & $88 quadruple, plus 10% occupancy lox. Info: (both 916) Hoyt Fang, 686-7420 or James K Mar, 484-8471
SAN FRANCISCO SAY AREA • Present-Feb. l-Part 2, Sashiko Transformed, on exhibition of Japanese runnlngstitch embroidery in sculpture and collage by Lucy Arai-Abramson, Institute of Buddhist Studies, 1900 Addison St., Berkeley Info. 415 849-2383. • Present-Feb 1 ~ TheatreWorks production of Velina Hasu Houston's Tea, Burgess Theatre, 60 1 Laurel St., Menlo Pork. Hours' T -S, 8 pm; Su, 2:30 & 7 pm. Admission $9 to $18; graup rOles available for parties above 14 Info: (Both 415) 329-2623 or 424-9441 • Feb 3-1~Asian Skiers International Association's 4th Annual Biennial Asian Ski Week. Info: Stan Eng or Wilma Yee, (all 415) 666-3647 (H), 527-2335 (H) or 873-7400 (W) I
• Feb. 4--The NiseI Widowed Group's monthly meeting, Su, 2-4 pm, home of Jon lew New members welcome. Info: (both 415) Elsie Uyeda Chung, 221-0268 (SF.) or Yuri Morowakl, 482-3280 (EB.).
Publicrty Items (or The Calendar must be typewrit
ten (double-spaced) or legibly hand-printed and mol/edot least THREE WEEKS IN ADVANCE. Please
specify 0 day or night phone contod (or (urther ,n(ormotion
IGASAKI COtllinlled/rolll Page 4
Among these efforts are propo al that would change the focu on family unity m our unrrugration laws Th.i would harply reduce A Ian unrrugration Other proposal would proVide for a pomt y tern that would gi e a ub-tantial edge to those that already peak
the Engli h language. The goal. de pite 'the current law that treat each nation equally, i to increase European unrrugration at the expense of A la and the Americas JACL fought for the rei aovely farr law that exi ts now If these new provi ions exi ted early In thi century, few of our forebears would have been able to immigrate How many I seipoke Engli h when they fIrSt came to America?
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Takaki Addresses
San Fernando Valley
JACL Installation By Harry K. Honda
AN NUYS. Calif -Dr Ronald Takalo. U.C Berkeley' profe r m ethruc tudies and author of Strangers from a Differe1ll Shore: A History of AsIan Americans. wasthegu t peaker at the San Fernando alley JACL installation dinner Jan. 13 at the Airtel Plaza
Close to 150 were present to witne Tom Doi, an MIS veteran, worn in as pre ldent WIth lu board by J_D Hokoyama, PSWDC governor Elizabeth Blake, daughter of the outgorng president Pat Kubota, was mi tress
of ceremonies Hawaii-born Sansei related lu per
sonal and writing background and entertamed by telling ~ 0 epi ode from lu book, this being lu ixth.
Erst tory described the ocial conditions of Chinese in the 19th eentury when the men overwhelrrungly outnumbered the women and the heavy reliance on We tern Union to communlcate-m thi in tant by Fook Sing wantmg to marry a Ctunese grrl in another town. Second tory concerned Torno Shoji, the 75-year-old Seattle
i el who took to the tage in 1981 to do omething different and to take her mind off her 1 sel hu band' illn Uptight at fIrSt, he was coached to be herself and eventually became a popular one-woman how telling tone about her WWII camp experiences.
"We all have tone to tell." Takaki pomted out. "We can recreate our commurury of memorie thi way .... thu adding to the American eene and Amencan tory
Chapter Recognition A wards Terry Uyehara. active With the chap
ter board in a variety of capacll1e inee her fIrSt year In 1957, was a corded the community service award; Sono Kondo was given the JACL Silver Pin, and Pat Kubota, the past pre ident' pin.
Hokoyama, begmnlng hi ond term as PSW governor. armounced a
Monterey Peninsula-Salinas Valley Chapters Combine Installation Rites for J90 ~IO, ITEREY. Calif. - A ne\\ I k in installation dinner make-u~ J int organuatJ naJ affarr-\\ ill be offered to the members of alinas \'alle\ and Monterey Pemn ula J CL 'hai>te .
aturday. Jan. 2 at a\a1 Po tgraduate hool here Coc\...tail at 6 p.m. and a
prune rib dinner at ven \\ ill be rvcd at Herman Hall' Barbara 1 I Itt Ballroom
Profe r and} Lydon m Ian HI -tory at Cabrillo College. anta Cruz. author and authority on \ t Coast Japanese and Chm e hi tory, wiU be the keynote peaker Hi lat t book. Chinese Gold, a lu tory of the Ctun movement In the Monterey Bay region (19 5), received a peclal award from the State of California Coun 11 of Hi -toncal SocietJ and W' selected as the outstanding pub Ii ation of 19 7 by the Association of ian mencan tudies. the fITSt time that the award
has been made (0 a commumty college faculty member He i aI 0 worklno on a book about the Japan e along" the Central California Coast
New Chapter Officers A Joint m tallatlon eremony will
wear In the new offi ers and board members for both chapters
1000 Club Photo Contest Set for ~90 Convention
CHICAGO-Dr Fran\... akam t former ationalJ CL I Club charr. thi week reminded the I Club ph to cont (planned for the 1990 convention at an Diego h ~ ur ategon . ( I) to t . em . (2) Human
Interest, (3) Mo '( comi aI. and (4) Be ( ubJect matter
pnzes are being gathered. "I thmk they Will be worth) of your parti ipalion," he announ ed akam to can be rea hed here at ( 12) 61--:U
JACL PULSE
GREATER L.. I GLE • The 8th Annual In tallatlon DlOner
Dance, at.. Feb . 24. Holiday Inn. 2640 Lakewood Blvd. Long Beach
Co t: 26/ea. 29 after Feb. 16 0
ho I cocktail : 6 pm DlOner- 7 pm
DanclOg: ntll midnight Comedian Charlie Labort Mu ie: Taka end
check made payable to Greater L-IOgle J CL to Janet Okubo, 21207 . A alon # 156 Carson. 90745
Info (both 213) Janet 35-756 or
Joyce. 329-5 2
MILE-HI • ew Year Partj . at. Feb. 17.
ew ChlOa Re taurant, 4151 E.. Col-
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• nnual Crab F\;a 1. at F"b J. acrdmento Buddht t (hurch K.likan
Ticket· dult~, 19 ca htldren II
under. 10 ca In1 0. l1eke! .916447-0231
JACL retreat in March for chapter pre -, Items public/Zrng JACL e>ents shoufd be type·
Ident and OC board members to con- I II .,riHen (double-spoced) or leglblr hand-printed
d th 1000 Club Roll and matted at least THREE WEEKS IN AD.
1 er e big question, "What Now. VANCEtotheP.C oHlCe.Pleasemc/udecontact JACL?" The years ahead are cnl1cal, ,,~. iOiiiOiiiOiiiOiiiOiiiOiiiOiiiOiiiOiiiOiiiiiiiiOiiiiil.l phone numbers, addresses, etc
he added, and now that JACL i no longer a one-I ue orgaruzaoon, "what are we going to do? We carmot operate m vacuum" The I ue will be a main item at the ational JACL Convenoon m San Diego the thrrd week In June
The Rev. Kakuyei Tada of the SFY Buddhl t Church gave the invocation and beneruction. Mary Glma and Sono Kondo co-chaired the banquet comrruttee. The 1990 board:
AN FERNANDO ALLE JACL Tom Dol, pres.. Phil Kuihara. M 0
Watanabe •. p .. Kay Seno, rdinaungcouocil rep_ Rokuro Kubola. treas .. Mary Glma. rec. sec .• Jim Omon. COlT sec. Harriet I hizaka, Cheer ernte. lice Monla. memb . Tak Yamamoto. hi I. May Arakawa. n wltr . no Kondo. pub .. Kiyo Tomornatsu, cm: .. Phil
higelcuni. legls.-ins.. am Uyehara. canuval Pat Kubota . scho1.. Roger Tamakl, Hazel (sa
a\\,ards night: an y Gohata, nomin am Uyehara. recog .. Elizabeth Blake. IOstallauon.
orma Jean Yama!>hila. Grace Honbo. Bob h . Harry akada am Uyehara. Dean Yarna moto. Lyn Philijlp). P C Hohday (ue. hi Dol. M e Kodama. MilZl Kushllb, .1anoR
higekuru. Mabel T moto. Betty Yarna Ron Yoshida. bd membs
Tell Thnn You Saw II UI tht
Paajic ClllZm
CIllYO'S JAPANESE BUNKA NEEDLECRAFT
Framing, Bunlta Kit , Les OD Gifb
29~3 w t B~I R03d. An3hetm, 92 04 • I 14) 99502432
J.apanC">4: .nl ri n
(Year ot MembershIp Shown) • Century .. Corp/SIlver •• - Corp/Gold. .... Corp/DIamond. L lite. M Memonal
The 1989 Totals .1.689 ( 50) 1990 Summary (Since Nov. 30.1989)
ActIve (prevIous total) ( 1 0 1) Total thIS report ... 3 (43) Current lotal (144) lite. C/lIle. Memonallotai ( )
Jan 3-12.1990 (43)
Alameda 24-Hajlme FUjlmon Bet1<eley' 36-Kazuko Bealnce Kono Boose Valley 23.James N Oyama Chocago. 22-Dr Steve Kumamoto. 33-Dr Arthur T
Stuma. 21-Ben K Yamagowa. Cleveland 32-Robert E FUjlla. 27·Dr Toaru Ish,..
yama Contra Costas 21·Setsuko YOsh,satO Cortez 36-Mat1< Kam.ya. 38-Floflce Kuwanara.
37-Joe A NishIhara. 23-Peter T YamatnOIo Dayton: 19-5ueSug.moto. Delano. 36-Dr James K Nagalaru. Dello,l. 17.James Kush.da Downtown Los Angeles 35-George al<atsuka
38-Shogejl TaJ<eda Fresno 13·Dotothy Kikue Kanenaga Gatdena Valley 12·Dotothy Hokoyama Hollywood 19-Hldeo Kond:> Honolulu 5-GIeM T UmelSU MarysvIlle. 28-Henry OJ • MIle H •. 2·George H KaIO. 10-Teruma Sa!o Monlerey Pen.nsula 12-.)ad( E RussenNew Yolk 29-YoSlUT ImaI Orange County 12-Tsutomu Ben Takenaga PorUand 21-Jack S Walat1 San Ooege. 2O-Or EiJI C Amerruya San Francosco I9-SUffijlOmo Sa of Ca t ..
8.Jane H Wong San Gabriel aJley 7 ·Gerold Monla SeatUe 36-Kay YarTldguch Selanoco. 6-Wayne lsa Sonoma County 28-J~ F Murakami'. 26-0r
Roy 0kam01D' Stockton 21-Frank Kila .. a Tw.n CIIJes 34-George utano Veruce Cu er 3-N K Nakano
emuta 14·AJ<jra YaIaDe West Los Angelel; 22·Dr Joseph T SeIO· West Valley 22·Dr Raymond UchIyama.
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4-Susiness Opportunities
CANADA Ann Investor/Partners
PENTICTON, B.C FinancaaJ paMer for class A hotel Over 600 licensed sealS Total loan to yalue ralJo 50'10. EJC-
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Classified Ads SASKATCHE\ 11 OuaI1ers 01 Certofied Ofganoc Lard In one bIod<. 10 GJasIyn, Sasl<.. area FOISt aop III 89. approx. 1600 acres broke. as a
cellerrt opporwruty Ted Udzeruja, 150 Dauphin 1';.-----Place, PenlJCt)n, BC., V2A3S4 (604) 493-5392. I Include address and phone number for personal
'4-Business Opportunities ·contact.
RESTA URANT FOR SALE DOWNTOWN
TORONTO 220 seat lICensed restauranVbar with pallo on busy street wrth over 6,000 sq .ft avaJlable pnvately.
Call Lorraine (416) 927-9116
B.C. CANADA FOR SALE' Souvenir wholesale busrness In central B.C Intenor servrng near 1000 retail outlets Mostly exclUSive products. Good chance for expansion. Good Income Perfect family operatIOn. Health reasons, must sell. Phone Ken Buchanan,
(604) 392-4988, Williams Lake, B.C
ONTARIO, CANADA AWNING manufactunng bus, family owned, est. 45 years, owner will train In all facets of operation for 6 months, serviceS 100 mi. radiUS of bus., private sale by owner (519) 846-9512.
Box 23 Fergus, Onl., Nl M 2W7, Canada
CANADA Donut & sub shop In Wawa, Ont. RegIOnal Tounst Centre, 150 ml. N of Sault Ste Mane, turnkey operatlon,iaJge turnover, est. bus. urgently needs to sell profitable family bJslness $120,000 by owner Call (705) 856-2138 Or wrrte
Marilyn ..bnes Box 685
Wawa, Onl., POS 1 KO, Canada
ONTARIO, CANADA ESTABLISHED 18 years family owned profitable glass bUSiness for sale N.E. of Taronto. Owner wll stay on for a period of time toassisl.
Pnced to sell at $175,000 cash (416) 890-9188
weekends, (613) 476-7834
CAPITAL REQUIRED $700,000 needed by 1st stage manufactunng firm. Active partner With strong mar!<ellng expen· ence In constructIOn field For further delalls con· tact owner/pnnclpal
Tom
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6131735-6849 613 735-0039
or ax IE 13)735-7210 Box 967
Pembroke, Ont. , K8A 7M5 Canada
PRINCIPALS ONLY
ONTARIO, CANADA CHINCHIUA operalJon & farm 71'- retum, luJh qualrty pelters. frV bUSIness, est 26 years. london Ontm Good retum Vendor II hold moroage AESOAT-{;ampground 175 acres, 358 sltes.expandable store. ree: nail, showers , pool, trout fishing & much more Vendor will hold mtge. 25". retum. MARINA .87 acres at Lagoon City Oevelopment CommerCIal ronrng Five abutllng tots also avatlable
call Jj)tin Schonstrorn, (519) 881-2606 Qr Saugeen R~' Estate Ltd . Realtor
(519 681-2551 . FaX(59)881-1894
AlBERTA, CANADA WELL establIShed, hogh volume, Independent convenoence store wrth!;las bar for sale Operatong out of new prerruses with excellerrt lease agreement Located on acbve and growing convnunrty Great IOVestmerrt wnh excellenl return. For roore detatls, call JIM at (403) 845-2333 after 4 pm. Or wrote Owner, Box 818, Rocky MountalO House, Alta , TOM nO,Canada
ONTARIO, CANADA BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY
90 acre traHer park, 1000 ft. shoreline, 255 trruler sites, 16 cottages, licensed, central Ontano With 7 star raling. 1.8 Million. Ted Murphy Toronto line (416) 294-<>509 or (705) 292-9551 REIMAX Eastern Realty Inc., Realtor.
CANADA VERY SUCCESSFUL LUMBERYARD and hardware store for sale In northern Alberta PremISes can be purchased or leased, assistance avaolable through Home Hardware Stores ltd Owner IS retinng. For further Info cell DennIS or Maureen (403) 523·3270, eves. (400) 523-4236, Box 1560, HI9h Pralne, Alta., Canada POG 1 EO.
New Custom Buill Recreational Vehicle
Unlimited potential One of a kond, major mar!<el avaolable. Gr. ft. opp. for InvestOrs With a min . of $500,000. Some sales and dlStnbutorshlps al· ready In place. All responses confidentJal . Contact Guy, Box 237, Uoydmlnster, Alberta, sav 0)(2 Bus , (403) 875-7955 Evenong, (306) 825-9150
ONTARIO, CANADA Located Y2 hour Toronto City Center. Well established gourmet restaurant, exclUSive clientele With tremendous opportunity for growth. Guelph·Campbellvllle area Reputation beyond reproach!
(519) 821 -2852
ADMINISTRATION/MANAGEMENT ADMINISTRATOR-Kelro Nursing Home will accept and consider applicatIOns for the pos,llon of MTunlStrator for rts 300 bed skilled nursing facllrty currently under cons\nJCtJOn In los Angeles, Callfomla Applicants should be licensed or eligible for licensing as a nursing home adminIStrator Acute care management expenence acceptable substrtute for long term care program exposure. AbIlity to speak or understand Japanese iafoguage preferred but not. essentJal For addo1Jonai detaols, see announcement for for Dorector of NUrslOg Ser.nce Please forward resume With salary history to
Search Committee Keiro Nursing Home
Post OffICe Box 33819 Los Angeles, CA 90033
NURSING DIRECTOR OF NURSING SERVICE-For 300 bed. skolled nursing facolrty under constructIOn In Los An~les, Cahfornla. The successful apphcant Will be degreed and rellect a Wide range of nursing responSibilities In her/hiS professIOnal wor!< expenence. The POSI' t,on Will be SI4lported by Ihree assistant dorectors of nursing and a director of training In addltoon 10 a ccooperatove medical staH, medical support Will be prOVided by a Fellow (rom the Department of Genatnc Med,clne of the Unoverslty of Southem California School of MedlClOe. Keoro Nursl"!l Home IS part of a love faCility, skilled nUl'Slng and resldentoal care program whICh pnmanly se(\les the Japanese Amerocan communrty AdditIOnal services are proVided through programs sponsored JOontly Wllh olher local community organozatlons and the U.S C School of MedlCme Upon completion of constructIOn a GenactrlC Denhstoy as well as Farruly PractICe and Internal MedlCme departmental prOjects are antICipated.
Resume should be forwarded to. EdwIn C Hlroto
PO. Box 33819 Los Angeles, CA 90033
ASIAN AMERICAN S
ATIENTIONI
Earn $2,336/Month
The California Department of Corrections is Hiring
• CORRECTIONAL OFFICERS
WE TRAIN
Women Are Encouraged To Applyl
Minimum ReqUirements.
• US C,tizen
• High school diploma or GED
For More Information Anend the Foil rig Employment Workshop
• 21 years old mlOlmum (no age maximum)
• Physlcally fil
• 0 felony convlClrons ()( illicil drug usage
4-Business Opportunitie. :.
B.C. CANADA HOUSEHOLD Movmg Busmess SallSpnng Island, B.C. Local hcense mel adjacent ISlands
(VICtOrIa & Vancouver) . 3 years old and grOWIng with raptdJy developtng rebrement corrmunrty Seroous onqumes. Pnvate sale. (604) 537-5491 Fax, (604) 537-9474. Orwnte' Box 316,Ganges, B.C., VOS 1 EO, Canada
ALBERTA
CALGARY'S BOOMING Concrete & construction business: successful 11 yr. hIStory. Excellent cash now, trade name, equipment & stock. 52 Bernard Way NW, Calgary AB, T3K2E9
(403) 275-7006.
B.C. CANADA NORTH Vancouver B.C. Mobile catering company, 5 trucks and routes, Will sell separately or together No competrtJon, established 15 years Excellent drivers Willing to stay on.
Pnvatesale Call Jean, (604) 987-0005
l5-Employment
DUPLICATING MACHINE OPERATOR City of Los Angeles.
$1 ,629 to $2,505 a month ReqUires completJon of a recognized course In ~r~tlng an offset p'rocess duplicating a~ SIX months of full-lime paid experience In 9~rating these machmes, or one year of fUll-tIme paid expenence In operating an offset process duplicating machine. Submit offiCial City application to.
Personnel Department City of Los Angeles
111 East First St, Room 100 Los Angeles, CA 900 12,
Call (213) 485-4142 An EEO/AA Employer
MACHINIST
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CANADA CALGARY ALBERTA
PROPERTY FOR SALE. Independent Self Serve Gas Bar & repair shop th propane dispensing outieL Lease Income II be 578,000 annual. Asktng 700,000. Agents & brokers welcome
Call (403) 266-3886
CANADA INVESTMENTPROPEJHY
SUBDIVISION DEVELOPMENT Pnme Iocabon on Southern Omano CI1 Great Lakes Seaway on U.S -canada border 58 large appro ed buoJdlng loIS, partly servoced Whole parcef onlyS13,750 perlotCdn. or nunlffiUrTl block of81ots atS14,500 perlotCdn. For Infocal/owner
(519) 862-3358
ONTARIO, CANADA
EXCELLENT BUYS NEWCASTLE, over 60 acres, fronts on Hwy 2 With 401 exposure, clean and nat, perfect for mixed uses. 10% 1 st mtge., askIng only $26,000 per acre PRIME Markham locatJon, 97 acres, clean land, comer property, 19th Ave. and Hwy 48, sohd Investment, S3 million 1st mtge. 9% until 1994. V TB 2nd . 562,000 per acre. 3 vacant lots. Concord area. Fronting on no. 7 Hwy., excellent possiJllity for rezoning to commercial S375,OOO
Earl Best, Re/ Max Experts Inc. (416) 676-8400 or (416) 454-Q355
ONTARIO. CANADA ATTN INVESTORS
PORT Rowan. 49 acres deSlgtlaled ro< 'esldenual/comm' 1 eroal developmerc aI S I 0.000 per dcre enIJanc:e 10 Long
POint beaches 116acres rarmland bordenng above prope<ty .'S3.ooo an acre. Some marsh rronlage ll<I1gaJow & Darn
ASPARAGUS Yegelable larm ... Ih 12 yr ra.:,ed lanch hOme, bam. greennouse. 1Q2 acres ""Ill 55 bu.n. S350,ooo 92 acre rarm Will> 2 storey 9 yr bnd< nome. barns. seene 100Iong land With fa no. 12 acres bUSh S339.ooo
Call Kate Weons, R .... Estale Broker,
(519) 586-2626.
",hole for ~ . OOO Cdn fI6lds or III parlS.
(306) 825-3065 or (J06) 342-40 ,
Ray FaJlermeer. RR 2 Lloydnwlster, SasI-- 59 0 Canada
ARlO, CANADA AttentIOn Investors
VACANT lAND VAUGHAN Steeles & Plnevalley .0 er 2 aaes
Zoned Industrial 2 1,800,000 cash ()( bUilders terms
MI ESTACE ORn; COU TRY REALTY L TO
(416) 294-7265
o TARIQ CANADA FOUR SEASON RESORT FOR ALf
In Part or Total 8 Unit condo Ae..<Iy for unmeo.ate B C on golf oourse S650.000 Ideal fOl ~ve~ or group
AlSO AVAl.ABlf 5 acre site lone ror 72 condos. ".t t 4 iI:Ie hOtel Site, champlOnsh p 18 hOle goll ~ rs wb hOuse, tennIS courts pro shop 50 moles est 01 O\1awa across 14 e form 'aboale I'e.l downllJD mg
l hean of cross·country traus
200 mde radiUS of 5 mil 100 pa:tple BAO ERS PROTECTED
Conlact
ALBERTA
Bob Pavii B tile Gillen
P 8ol< 1335-1 anala Ont. I 5. Canada
FAX (613) 592·0526
CALGARY Revenue property OverSiZed Side by Side deluxe duplex, 4 frreplace. 15 minutes Irom downtown. 5270,000 by owner Contact Marg at (403) 269-5485 or nte to Room 508, 630 8th Ave SW, Calgary Alberta T2P lG6.
WHEREABOUTS appear on a Space Avalloble Saab Withoul charge one lime on !lUI page No tear 1'-18 are provided unless accompanied by 60c ror I'" pape< and postage.
WHEREABOUTs-HEI YAMAMOTO, MarysVille Nosel who was gtaruated from H~oshlma Commeroal Hogh School rt 1940, bac 10 U S on the last ship before the war, IS being sough! by hIS
fnend, Yataro Takahashi, 689 Hlghndge Rd, Roselle, IL 60172.
' PC' Advertisers Look Forward to Serving You
Job shop has Immediate openings for machiniSts With minimum 5 years experience on engine lathes and mills. Also openIngs for pump and gearbox mechanICS. Top salary and benefits . Must speak English. ,.. _____________________________ ~
LA. Harbor area The City School Dlstnct of Middletown, located 70 miles from New York City, (213) 834-5282 inVites applications for the posItion of
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ATTENTION - GOVERNMENT SEIZED VEHI· CLES from $100. Fords, Mercedes, Corvettes, Chevys. Surplus Buyers GUide (602) 838-8885. EX1' A 8181 .
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AlBERTA, CANADA Edmonton
Real Estate Investors Needed JOint purchase poslwe cash flow rental proper· ties. I handle all aspects of the real estate transactIOns, you prolllde the caprtal. For further onforma· tion, reply In wntlng wrth an amount you Wish to IOvest toK McCreedy, PO. Box 1m, SIn. "M", Calgary, Alberta, T2P 2K4
Real Estate owner Wishes to find a financially strong partner for 34 existing properties and future real estate acquisitions, (management In place)
(508) 689-0864 or (508) 689-3200
CANPDA AITENTION Investors, North Eastem Ontano has Wide range of Industnal commeroal and IOvestment OpponUnotles. For profeSSional service call Irene McGarvle, sales rep., (705) 474·7653 Orwnte.
NRS Noposslng Realty Inc. North Bay 62 Lakeshore Dr
North Bay, Onl, PIA 2A3, Canada
ONTARIO, CANADA EXCELLENT PROPERTY INVESTMENT
ByCMner PROPERTY With 2 slOrey bnck hOme, located close to Cochrane AIrport and over1ookJng lJllal>elle Lake where a number 01 outilllers are looking forward 10 ta ng you on a fIShIng or hunt· Ing expedl~on. Ideal spot br and outdoor acull \y,
helICOpter pad adJecent to home EJCua leatUles Include gra el pots w,th roadS made tor b, ng. slodoodlg. hotSeba riding. small game hunt'ng many more thos on 148 acres 01 hogh Iand",th a rTlIXture 01 malUle ~ees and cleared land F()( roore Inlo r,le to
PO Box 1870 Codvane,Orcano.POl tCO
IX phone (7051272·6656
CANADA
ASSISTANT SU PERINTENDENT FOR CURRICULUM & INSTRUCTION
Salary range in the $60's. Effective July 1, 1990
Middletown, a district of 5,000 students and a budget of $41 million, seeks a leader In the development and Implementaflon of K-12 curnculum
Requirements : New York State SDA certlflcatJon, 5 years teaching expertence, 3 years as a bUilding administrator and 3 years experience In curnculum planning.
Filing deadling: January 29, 1990,
Send letter of apphcatlon, resume, all profeSSIOnal transcripts, placement folder and four current letters of reference to
Dr. Carole G. Hankin, Superintendent of Schools MIDDLETOWN BOARD OF EDUCATION
223 Wisner Avenue ExtenSion, Middletown. New York 10940' AA/EOE
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LEITERS Continued from Page 4
mauon attributed to that orgamzation is above petty and personally direaed comments and allegations.
BARRY SAIKI Tokyo, Japan
Seriguchi Responds I was saddened to read the leher from
Barry Saiki about Lauren Kes ler' research on camp new papers, First, I would like to emphasize that the Bullelm of The Japanese American Library publi hed an abstract of Professor Ke ~Ier's paper, which appeared 10 Journalism Hislory, a respected academIc J urna!. The journal' edllonal panel reviewed Profe sor Kes ler paper before accepung il for publication
The library' Bllllelm contatn um-marie of new~ article and re!>CafCh of in· tere I 10 Japanese Americans 0 endorsement I~ implied by the publication of these ummanes
Because Mr aikl has called my rnotlve 1010 que lion however, I feel I hould offer a reply. Mr aikl I mistaken 10 hi belief that I ' neer" at hIm or other lsel "for not advocallng open oppo Ilion and not favor-109 dl !>Cnlon" ery few peT50n~ would sneer at former tnlemee for COptng with the Internment a be I they could.
In hi defense of the camp new paper edllO~, Mr alki says thaI he doub~ whelher Professor Kessler or I have "the capabllllles of Iran postng theIr mind back to the lime frame of the 1940s " He I nght Only those who have expenenced a major trauma can truly unde~land what that trauma does to one's life
But othe~ can try to unde~land . Those who are Interested In the tnternment and I~ aftermath are not always lsel, and not alway ikkel These Individuals WIll conIInue to IiSlen, read, think, analyze Surely one does not have to be ISCI to conduct research aboul the Internment
I befteve our commumty mu t allow a full dISCUS Ion of all aspect of camp life If we are 10 und e~tand our hI tory Olagreemcnts are to be expected, but no VOIce shou Id be repre sed
Mr Salkl say~, and I agree, that Redress was won 'through the combtned effon of all IH,CI" I would add to hI II t of isei group~ the San~el who were 0 a live 10
JACL, the corum nobiS legal effon, and the atlonal oaJillon for Redres Reparations, the I\ci actiVIsts 10 JACL, CRR, Nallonal ouncil for Japanese Amencan Redres , and WashIngton oalluon on Redress, and thc man} non· ikkei allies of thl redres campaIgn,
KARE ERIGU HI an FrancllICo aftl
P.C.'s Editors & Columnists In hIS ICHerlo the editor Barry SaIkI made
the follOWing statement about former Pa Iii Citlll:n cdllor Karen Senguchl "It was dunng Karen's regllne at the Pa llic Citl/.en that I qUit sending column to P C sin c my artIcles remained in limbo for I to clght week before publlcallon Bill Ho okawa wa asked to drop hi column but hi populanty led to hi retenllon"
The e unfounded as umpllon about who dId what at the P are completely false I hould know I wa on the editorial lair of the P from July 198410 July 19 7, whl h mcludes Ihe period 10 que tion,
Llkc man> othe~. aikl ha, all of the P C edlto~ of the last 51), yean. ml)'ed up, Here, for the record, IS the line ofuc e-Ion Karen criguchl was edItor from 1983
to 19 5, followed by Bob himabukuro. \\ ho served as acttng edllor unttl he wa repla 'ed b Lynn akamoto 10 19 6. When Lynn lett, It over as a tlng editor unttl rn own depanure in 19 7. George Johnston and Laune M hldome o-edued the paper (both WIth the tttle of I tant editor) until the end of 19 ,at \\hl h tim Laune left eorge has been the acting edIt rever mce
o give you an idea ho\ on fused orne 'oplc are, a hI ago J Ler, m a letter
to the P londl recalled meeting me at thc 19 6 national c nvenllon-<le plte th' fa t that I \\as never there 1 pume that he wa refemng to Bob hlmabukuro
There h' n mu h . peculatl ninth mmuntl) about \ hat happened to BIll
H kawa' lumn ba kin 19 ,I would 1I1e to finall\ t the rcc rd lnllghl
First of all, the column ran regularly during Karen Senguchi's tenure. The incident took place when Lynn Sakamoto was editor-but I want to make it clear that she did DOl drop the column.
It all started when Lynn suggested that Hosokawa's "From the Frying Pan" and Bill Marutani's "East Wind" run on alternate weeks instead of having both in the same ISSue very week. The reason for tIus was that we were usually linuted to eIght pages a week, and after all the ads were put in we had to squeeze new and commentar} from acro the counlr) into the pace that was left This i still the case loday. It did not seem like uch an outrageou uggestion; even if II had been Implemented. it undoubtedly would have been only a temporary measure.
But Hosokawa saw thtng dIfferently. Hi po lUon was that If the column wasn't good enough to run every week, then It ought not run at all One day, along WIth hI regular batch of column , we receIVed one announcing that the "Fryer" would be discontinued afler a run of more than 40 years Lynn ubsequently asked Hosokawa if he would reconsider, but he declined .
I repeat the column was not dropped; it was WIthdrawn.
It I wonh noring that we dId not get a Imilar response from Bill Marulani, who
continued to send in his column . Not long after Lynn left, I ran the
farewell column. WhIle I knew it would not be well receIved, I ligured it was hi deci ion; no one forced hIm 10 wnte It. There was, needles:, to say, a lireslorm of prote t Readers canceled their ubscriplion , angrily accu ing u of canceling the column or otherwise forcing "poor old Bill" out They declared that the "Fryer" was the only thing m the paper wonh reading and that everything else was garbage. (Thi did not m pire me to continue working at the PC.)
Hosokawa, who I hImself a member of the P.c. board, was contacted by the board chaIr and the column was quickly reinstated.
All thl because we had the temerity to ugge t that the column run every other
week As for Barry aikl' column," isel 10
Japan," Karen Senguchl ran II regularly The ubsequent edito~, however, did not give it hIgh priority Of course, aikl had every nght to contact the editors and ask what had happened to the column he sent In, but a far as I know, he never did In tead, he too sent m a farewell column and Ihen complained about the matter nearly three years afterthe fact m hI recent lener
I am not trying to trash either Ho kawa's or Saiki' column; I merely want the event~ to be presented as they happened
The rea on for the high tumover rate at the P C are wonhy of a separate-and much more lengthy-letter
J K YAMAMOTO an Francisco, Calif
For the record, Bill Hosokawa observed an every-other-week deadline berween 1959 and 1966, pairing wilh lhe tale Larry Tajiri P.e.· s edl/or (1942-1952) for space In au; eight-page lab/aid. -H K.H
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GERALD H. YAMADA ~ Gerald H. Yamada. a past Washington, DC JACL president, IS the first Asian Amencan to be promoted 10 the lOp senior executive service level in the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency by Administrator William K. Reilly in December, 1989. The promotion was in recognition of his distinguished service as EPA's acting general counsel during a IO-month
period last year. He has been the pr\ndpai deputy general counsel ince 1982. He, his wife ancy and three children live in Vienna, Va. He was JACL president in 1980 and 1983.
~ Identified tlus pasl year as the Japanese tycoons of the "great an takeover," the bi!Iionaues and dealers who are boosting the pnces and pride of Western masterpieces, were Yasumichi Morishita, 57, Tokyo financier who claimed spending $100 mil· lion for 100 Impressionist and po t-lmpre-
ioni t paintings at a ew York sale last November, Yasuo Gato, presIdent of Yasuda FIre and Manne In urance Co. which purchased van Gogh' "Sunflowers" for a record um of $399 million in 1987; higeki Kameyama, a buyer in contempo
rary an, who bought Willem de Kooning ' "Interchange" for 20.6 million, Kazuo Fujii, Tokyo an gallery owner, who spent $20 million wonh for clients and himself al a ew York auctJon ($1.3 million for Monet' "Eglise de Vemon, Temp Gns;" Sadao Ogawa, owner of Yayol Gallery in Tokyo who was in ew York to open the Yayol Annex; and Kazuko Shiomi, presl' dent of Sotheby' Japan, who opened her office in 1979. (Gleaned from the Dec, I I, Washinglon POSI) ,
~ Richard akai, 35, of Lo Angeles and presIdent of Gracie FIlms, won the Emmy Award for best comedy-vanety how for ''The Tracey Ullman Show" last
fall It was not hI flISt award-winmng how, having been Involved as co-producer
of "Taxi." A UCLA graduate In film , the son of Dr and Mrs. HisaJI Q. Sakai in Walnut Creek was assocIate producer at ABC-TV at age 25, and then president of Gracie FIlm at age 30,
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