National Publication of the Japanese American Citizens league
Whote # 2J1Z1 (Vol. 88) Fnday. January 26. 1979 2S U Postpaid 15 C nts
DAY OF REMEMBRANCE
GARDENA VAllEY PINNING-Outgoing Gardena Valley JACL president Chester Sugimoto (third from left) Yasu; to speak at Portland Feb. 17 receives past president's pin from Dr. Clifford Uyeda. na• Por1Iand,Ore. Fairgrounds. then called Hokama and Nola ugai• Remembrance program is tional JACL president, while being congratulated by (from The Pacific Northwest Camp Hanno~" the JACL Bogle, and concluding with leftl Lona Beach Cltv Councilwoman EUnice Sato. Assem• being planned for Pomona corner contirnles to rom• and other organizations, potluck around 5 p.m. (LA. County) Fairground bfyman Paul BannaI: Mas Odoi, incoming chapter president: mand dramatic focus on and Sam FUJrnoto, candIdate for the Los Angeles Board of notably the Oregon Nikkei• Lawson lnada, professor• for APIil 14 ( turda 1 be• Education. Ceremonies took place Jan. 13 at the Gardera what happened to persons jinkai. Oregon Nisei Veter• poet at Southern Oregon, fore Easter Sunday), th Japanese Cultural Institute. of Japanese ancestry in ans, Buddhist Church and will participate again as he tenth annual Pilgrimage to 1942-the government or• the Univ. of Oregon Stu• did at the Camp Harmony Manzanar is ocheduled for der to evaruate their dent Union, will observe program, reading his April 28, and the trek I. Magnin, Joseph Magnin homes and be detained in another Day of Remem• works describing the to Tule Lake from the San American style concentra• brance at the Portland Ex• E acuation period. Francisco - Sacramento urging Kenzo label change tion camps-with another po Center on Saturday, Dr. Toshi Kuge will pre• area is slated for May 27 to "Day of Remanbrance". Feb. 17. sent a memorial plaque to dedicate the state histoli• &mFnmcisco been told by Kondo the On the heels of a well• Portland Mayor Neil Multnomah County for cal landmark plaque at the Two noted San francis• Kenzo items labeled "J un• publicized trek held Nov. Goldschmidt, Judge Rob• placement at its Expo Cen• former campsite. co department stores have gIe Jap" wereoffensive. In 25 to the Puyallup (Wa.) ert Thornton of the Oregon ter once known as the informed the Parisian finn a response dated Dec. 12, appelate court, Minoru Ya• North Portland Assembly Japanese Posters sui (who started his vali• "Kenzo" that they will no Wechsl~ r expressed his Center or the Pacific Inter• in Florida exhibit longer carry their fashion sympathies to Kondo and Nisei grid ant fight against govern• national Livestock merchandise labeled enclosed a letter addressed ment exclusirn by getting Grounds, to t:re 4,OOO-plus Palm Beach, Fla. to Gilles Rayeese in Paris, coach fired, himself to be locked up in Nikkei who were pr~ The Morikami Museum "Jungle Jap" and asked of Japanese Culture will host that the labels be changed. reiterating the complaint the Multnomah County cessed there in the spring Jail), Dr. Goorge Ham, the exhibition "Japanese JACL regiClllil director of Japanese Americans trial seen of 1942. Posters: A New Approach to Masuji Ureta, and Harue George Kondo said assur• anda~uesttocrumgethe Los Angeles Two slide srows will be Graphic Design," a selection ances came from top offi• offensive label "In view Football coach Min Sm• Ninomiya are among the shown describing the of contemporary posters by scheduled speakers. The cials of I. Magnin and J~ of the present situation, we moyama, fired Nov. 22 WW2 experience of Japa• many of Japan's leading Rev. Waichi Oyanagi will seph Magnin that steps are will not be able to accept from his pOSt by Chats• nese Americans in the graphic artists, from Feb. 2 being taken to have the any merchandise with the worth High principal' Ted deliver the invocation. camps and artifacts will be to March 26. manufacturers change the 'Jungle Jap' label," Ray• Caravans from Seattle on exhibit. This exhibit provides a Siegel over a dispute con• survey of the successful eco• label. eese was told. cerning Shirroyama's or• and Eugene are being Members from the three planned, arriving at the JACL chapters in western nomic development of Japan Norman Wechsler, pres• Cyril Magnin, chairman der of black football jer• since World War II, in which ident of I. Magnin, had seys, was denied prelimi• Expo Center's West Hall, Oregon-Portland, Gresh• of the board of Joseph 206 N. Marine Dr., in time graphic design played a sig• nary injunctirn for rein• am-Troutdale and Mid-Co• nificant role. I:ocluded in the Magnin, also agreed with for registratirn at noon lumbia-thePacific North• Kondo in a letter dated statement by Superior exhibition are posters for Health analyst Judge Jerry Pacht Jan. 12 Program, to be emceed by west District Council and the theatre, the dance, the Dec. 29. "I was totally un• Rowe Sumida, will start at succeeds Matsui Shimoyama's attorney the National JACL Re• Olympic games, Expo '70, aware of this problem and 2 p.m., followed by some dress Committee will par• and commercial advertising. Sacnmlento, Ca. apologize for the fact that Ken Petrello said Siegel's decision to fire the coach camp-style entertainment ticipate in the Day of Re• The Sacramento City it is so offensive '" I have at 3:45 staged by the local membrance. Nisei candidate for Council Jan. 9 appointed Pat• was a violation of the discussed this with the Fujinkai and vocalists Pat In California, a Day of rick Donovan, a state health management of JM and I coach's free speech U. W. presidency research analyst, to serve Siegel's attorney Steve Seattle out the 1o-month term due to have insisted that we eith• Nisei elected to school board in Nevada er discontinue the line or Carvenale said the j\ldge's Dr. James Doi, dean of Robert Matsui's election to decision means that the Reno, Nev. public office in the state. education at the Univ. of Ro• the Congress. remove these labels." principal did not act in re• Reno JACLer Earl Yama• Meantime, Gov. O'Callag• chester, New York, was Attorney Frank Iwama, shita was recently elected to Kondo had suggested taliation and that the han has appointed Wilson among qualified candidates one of the 12 finalists for the the Carson City School Makabe to a three-year term listed for the rew president vacant post, remained in the Kenzo line has certain school can go ahead and Board, the Reno JACL on the State Comprehensive of the Univ. of Washington. contention until the selec• appeal and wruld sell just appoint a new coach. Newsletter reported .. He is Employment and Training He was formerly director of tion was made for the $60 as easily if simply labeled Case is expected to go to believed to be the fi rst Japa• Council. # the Center of High Educa• per week councilman's post "Kenzo" now. # court in April or May. # nese American elected to a tion at the U niv. of Michigan.
YANKEE SAMURAI: (PC 'Exclusive'-Serialization of 16 Chapters) Secret role of Nisei in America's Pacific victory by Joseph Harrington CHAPTER 1 was imported and became a fixture in U.S. sei served the United States in Europe. The These "Yankee Samurai" displayed the When Cdr. Mitsoo Fuchida signaled his economic life. Women left lx>me to take jobs 100th Infantry Battalion and its successor, bravery of JaJml's ancient warriors, plus the fellow fliers to roar down at Pearl Harbor on and remained to later become vociferous de• the 442nd Regimental Combat Team, were ingenuity of America's pioneers, in getting Dec. 7, 1941, he triggered the Pacific war. It, manders of equal everything. The military• made up of Nisei soldiers (who refer to them• their jobs done. Yet all had passed their 50th in tum, precipitated the most profound ha~ industrial complex, that ever-hovering chim• selves as AJA's, Americans of Japanese an• (some their 60th and 70th) birthdays, before peoing in hwmn history. Within days, what era in democra:;y's hall of horrors, was born. cestry). Both units fought with mind-bog• government reluctantly let their story be until then had been merely more of Europe's Fuchida had no idea what his snapped gling bravery. Once AJA's rescued a cut~ff told Incredibly, when the Pacific Nisei's and Asia's perennial grapplings, mush• command would generate. He would later Texas unit at a cost of more casualties to contribution to actual victory was far great• roomed into the first truly worldwide war become a On-istian missionary and study themselves than the Caucasian lives saved. er than what their brothers and cousins gave mankind experienced. It took less than a war no more. Nor could 286,000 of his ene• A motion picture, "Go For Broke," was made in France and Italy via bloody sacrifice. week for the struggle to become universal, mies see any further into the future than the of their exploits, and the empty sleeve of Even more incredible has been the willing• eventually affecting every person then alive Imperial Navy's flight commander. Xet, of U.S. Senator Daniel K. Inouye kept America ness of these Nisei military intelligence lan• and all born since. No one's life is anything all peoples touched by the awful conflagra• reminded of this. He left an arm in Europe. guage specialists (or, as they call them• like it might lave been had that conflict not tion that has been misnamed the Second Until now, less than half of the Japanese• selves, "MIS'ers") to keep mum while others occurred. World War, nme saw their lives so radically American story has gotten told. A grudging got lauded. The Yankee Samurai had been Nowhere did vaster changes take place altered as did Americans of Japanese ances• Pentagon kept details of the rest secret for asked to keep quiet for security reasons, and than in the massive melange of minorities try. The only ethnic group in America, ex• 30 years. But, across the world from Europe, they did Until I could obtain and display making up the United States of America. cept for native Indians, to have legislation nearly 5,000 other Nisei served their country enacted specifically as a punitive measure as translators, interpreters, interrogators copies of Pentagon documents, each marked Blacks, at last, became mobile, new national its against them, Japanese Americans won and cave-flushers. Plus, when the occasion with the date and authority for declassi• needs making it possible for them to escape cation, these Nisei would not open up. They the South's crushing heel They swarmed greater honor, glory and gain from the uni• arose, combat infantrymen To this date, northward towbat they hoped was equal o~ versal struggle than anyone, anywhere. hardly any Americans even know they were portunity in defense plants. Mexican labor Many Americans know how valiantly Ni- there. Cnrcinned on Page 9 stu _ d~ _ PC Directory: 1979 Memberships U.S. businessmen should Membership fee (after name of chapter) reflect the 1979 rate for ingle and Couple. Thousand Cub members contribute $50 and up, but their spouse (x) may enroll at the special rate as shown; otherwise, the Single member rate applies. Student due (y) do not include PC Japanese approach in foreign trade subscriptioo but such members may subscribe at the JAU rate ($7). Dues are payable and Dallas, Tex. when confronted with the soon. remitted to the JAU Cbapter of the individual's choice. z-Retired sr citizens u.s. business "should frequently frustrating and TI.!.e trade imbalance is As ~ January 26, 1979 NOktHERN CAIJFORNIA-~ NEVADA study Japanese success" misunderstood business in many ways an out• PACiFlc NOR'IBWI!SI' rather than demand pro• customs of the island na• growth of the domestic Columbia Basin (S22.SO-4O, yS7 Alameda ($2().38,y$6) .•.•••.••.•• .Nanc Tajima tection from the growing problems facing U.S. busi• zS17.50) Edward M Yamamoto 1165 Sand Beach Place, Alameda, CA 94501 tion, said Shepherd whose 4502 Faircbildloop, Moses Lake, Wa 98837 BerteJey ($2O-3S,y$6) ...... Terry Yamashita flood of Japanese imports, company has successfully nesses, Shepherd said. In• Gresham-Troutdale (5?) ...... Hawley Kato West Cal Realty, l700 Solano. Berkeley, Ca 9470 Mark Shepherd Jr., Texas established plants in Japan. flation must be controlled Rt 1 Box 187. Gresham, Or 97030 Contra Costa (S21.J8, yS6) ...... John Shinagawa Instruments Inc. chairman American businessmen and productivity increased Mid-Columbia ($1) ...... Ron Yamashita 3011 Phillips Ct. Richmond. Ca 94806 and director of the recent to improve the cost-com• 3790 Mountain View Dr. Hood River. Ore 97031 Cortez ($I7.5O-3.\~ ...... ROJler Masuda must do their homework Portland ($1) ...... Nobi Azumano 1...4925 W El CaPltHt, Delhi, Ca 95.115 - U.S. trade mission to Japan before they can hope to ex• petitive positirn of US. in• 2802 SE Moreland Lane, Portland, Or 92202 Diablo Valley (S2D-36..SO, xSl6.S0) .Nancy A. Noma declared at a seminar here port. They must realize dustry in world markets, FuyaIIup Valley(S20-35, y$5, 7.$10) .Hana Yoshida 111 AppalacianDr. Martinez, Ca 94553 Jan 11. that the Japanese market thus allow the US. to re• 5402 Pacific Ave, Tacoma, Wa 98404 Eden Township ($17-34, y$5) ...... Ichiro Nishida. While Japan must do verse the erosion of its Seattle ($22.SO-4) ...... John Matsumoto 875 Elgin St, San Lorenzo. Ca 94580 is more quality-conscious clo 316 Maynard Av S, Seattle, Wa 98104 Florio ($17.56-3S) ...... ' ...... Catherine Taketa more to eliminate trade than the US. market And share of the free world ex• Spokane ($1) ...... Marcelline Terao 1324 - 56th St, Sacramento. Ca 95819 barriers which make it ports. 3?8 ERiv7tb, SVPOaIlekane($?'W) a 99202 . . Fremoat ($1) ...... Herb 17llJlO Americans must learn to Wbj more difficult for US. deal with the complex Ja• Americans would also te er y ...... Hiro Nakw 41966 Via San Gabriel, Fremont, Ca 94S38 businessmen to enter the panese distribution sys• have to become "export• 917 - 40th AveS, Auburn, Wa 98002 Frenchcim (Sl8-35) ...... HideoMorinaka rACJIi1C SOUTliW~-r 612 W Wo~e Rd, French Camp, Ca 94580 Japan markets than it is tem, which Shepherd not• conscious", Srepherd said. for the Japanese to enter ed as a part of Japan's s0- Surrounded by a massive ~~s:-~~'A~~:·Gi~~~~,~~~chi G~=)GilroY.·~ · 9SOiO· ···· .Lawson Sakail U.S. markets, Shepherd cial security system with domestic market (which Carson (517.50-35) ...... Nita Baird" Li~Merced (520-40) ...... Sherman Kishi told the group the "key rea• so many middlemen em• Japan does rot have), US. 23207 S Marigold Ave, Torrance, Ca 90502 12017 W Olive Ave, Livingston, Ca 95334 son for the increased pene• businessmen frequently Coacbella Valley ($16.50-33)_ Kaye Musashi Lodi ($20-40) ...... : ...... Henry Oga) ployed and which is unlike• 43-712 Main St Indio Ca 92201 23 N Stockton St, Lodi, Ca 95240 tration of US. markets has ly to be altered anytime Continued 00 Page 5 Dowurown LA. (W-38) Frank Hirata Mario «;omrtY (S22.J8, y$S) ...... Sam ShimomunIJ simply been their ability to clo Cal 1st Bank, 120 S. ~ ' p~~', ·LA. 90012 19 Tilden Dr. Novato. Ca 94947 _ provide high quality, cost• .,...... I.os A ..~ ..... (.-. An) Michi Ob' Marysville (518.:D-37) ...... Ray Kyono, ~, . ~~ -v:--' ...... :. . ~ 1648 Melanieln, Yuba City Ca95991 competitive products". Japan's Pearl Harbor spy saw . III ~t Albans Ave, &mth Pasaaena, ea: 91030 Monterey Penm..1a ($24-40) ' ...... Pet Nakasak
JACLers around the country. there appear to be • Jerry Enomoto • Shigeki Sugiyama other goals toward which J ACL in reality is also • Kumeo A. Yoshinari •• lion,1 Praldeat, 1966·70 II.tlonal President, 1972·74 striving. National PreSident, 1964·66 "The goals and objectives of an organization Many seasoos ha\'e passed since I "took A committee is expected to begin revi• Isuch as JACL camot, must not, be the expression Because I mis ed attending pa t two ,sion of the National JACL constitution of the will or desire of one individual or of an elite national conventions as well as not having pen in hanCf",as the saying goes, to share group. They srould be an expression of the ends my views in the pages of PC. I do so now shortly. Re-writing the constitution has .which will fulfill the needs, interests and aspira• access to the 1978 con ention minut ,it at the invitation of Edi• been a recurring theme tions of the members and the rommunity served by is very probable that tor Harry to offer some for over a Demer, Colo. private rea fun \\a n't quite what YarOl A RECENT COL• Ono wa . ng. Later, randma k umn pondered on the her daught r ide and .tplamed sh pt . f varying nuance pro- ferred to be called "Grandma" 1..1 jeeted by words in dif• obaa-chan tmded .. old" ferent languages that have the same dic• Douglas Kendall of Tacoma, Wa h., tionary meanings. For example. the col• there i good reason that Japane ojii- an umn said, take the word "grandfather," look and act older than American grand• which in Japanese is ojii-san. Both have the pa . He reasms with con iderable alidity same meaning, but somehow an American that it has hem the cu tom for J apane to grandfather reems to be younger, more many at a sanewhat later age than Amer• vigorous, less elderly than the picture of a icans and so it is undel tandable that Japa• stooped, frail relic conjured. by the word nese grandfather would bea mucha ten ojii-san. years, or even more, older than Americans at the time they become grandparents. His This small item produced an unexpected point is that beyond the simple nuance of volume of mail response, and today I'd like the words, Japanese grandparents are in• to share some of the comments with the deed likely to be older. But, he adds. this readers. may not continue for long because Japa• Frank Wada of Pingree, Idaho, writes nese customs are changing. leading to MIN VASUI LETTERS that he doesn't feel particularly old when marriage at an earlier age, and a few his grandchildren address him as Grand• decades from now there may be many pa. But one day the Japanese wife of a young ojii-san neighbor called him ''Wada no Ojii-san" * (Grandpa Wada) and, Frank says, "I really KENDALL,A STUDENT of things Japa• From the Multnomah Jail felt old. " Wada adds: nese, also hasprovided me with a scholarly explanation <:bout the various systems of • Min Yasui is scbeduled as ODe of the speakers at the Day "A man of 7S is an ojii-san, all right, but I of our country, and for the romanizing the Japanese language, that is, of Remembnmce program at Portland's Expo Center on Feb. destiny of our nation in refuse to feel and act like one. I went goose 17, recalling tile Evacuation of 1942. He sball have much to hunting the other morning and dropped writing Japanese in the Roman alphabet. which I believe, take legal His explanation is a bit too complicated for remember in view of the letters (below) reprinted from the steps to reserve the question me a big gander, and I intend to get up at S PC of Dec. 3, 1M2. for judicial determination! 0'clock and godown along the river tomor• reproduction here, but you might find the . .. . following of interest: The following letters were tary proclamations of Gen• This must be done! I am row and hunt in the snow." written from the Multomah eral DeWitt were void as be• heartened by We clear-cut Which seems to be proper behavior for In the Shin-kunrei-shiki (New Official County Jail to Hit> Okada, JACL ing unconstitutional, as per• decision of Judge Fee in an American grandpa, but not a Japanese System) the word for "romanization" official, by Min yltiUi, shortly af• holding the curfew law void, ter his conviction on charges of taining to American citizens. ojii-san. would be written romazi. However, he further ruled and his dicta to declaring violating the alien curlew regu• evacuation likewise null and Yayoi Ono of Carson, Calif., points out The usual system presently being em• lations. that I am not an American void as respecting American that the same differences of meaning ex• ployed for college language books is an Yasui was sentenced to a fine citizen but an alien Japa• adaptation of the Shin-kunrei-shiki, and of $5,000 and a year's imprison• nese. citizens. ist between "grandma" and obaa-chan. ment. In the decision, Federal However, I am now con• Back a numb€r of years ago, she recalls, the word wouk:l be written roomazi. Judge James A. Fee ruled that That is very well for me, fronted with the task of In the familiar Hepburn system, itwould the curfew restriction, imposed although I hold my Ameri• her motherwa JACL celebrates its 30th anniversary on • A non..JACL 8Yent saturday, Feb. 3, 5:30 p.m., at a gala installation dinner to •• JAN. 26 . ((Eventho~you bank m San Franclsco,youcan cash a check inLosAngeles~ .. lIr COll1pllter ~ stem enables 1I to ca -h '> ollr check if YOll have an account with u: in San Francisco, Lo Angeles, San Diego-at any of ovcr lel branche ~ around the -tate:' Ben bt lIi i a cnior \'icc pre ident in our operation ' departf'! ~ "' nt. .-"I~"""'" So he know our tatc\\,ide Cal l .'.. .tter ~ y tem very well. Thi - y tem mean that one-California Fir t Meet t Her take care of nearly all of tliepeople your banking tran action - r<_l!Lat. Fi ~unua rrst. from ca hing a check to accept• ing a loan payment. California First, the former Bank of Tokyo of California, i now a statewide bank with over 100 branche . CALIFORNIA FIRST BANK \1 ...... FDIC ANNUAL INTEREST RATES ON INSURED SAVINGS All Interest Compounded Daily. Account Insurance Now Doubled To $40,000 Certificates of Deposit may be withdrawn prior to matunty. but In accordance tilth Federal Regula Ion reqU ire· me n t~ . Interesl for Ihe enU re lime of deposIt will be recalculated al the prevailing s3 'lIngs passbook rale, less 90 days Interest, MERIT SAVINGS AND LOAN ASSOCIATION lOS ANGElES: 324 E. First SI. 624-7434 • TORRANCE/GARDENA: 18505 S. Weste rn Ave. 327-9301 MONTEREY PARK: 1995 S. Atlanllc Blvd. 266·3011 • IRVINE: 5392 Walnu t Ave. (714) 552·4751 MEMBER FSUC Calif. Dateliners- daily basis from 9 am.-12:30 $13.50. Focus very real one. Asian l.egaI Services Out- p.m. at the new Japanese 4th Friday I just read the "Five Things Wrong with reach 2200-6th St, Sacra• Union Church. Compensa• Wash. DaEliners- Continued from Page 3 JACL" piece by Dr. Nakashima, and was mento 95818 (916--444-2678) tion comes from the county. Asian and Pa:ific Ameri• During this past holiday season, as in struck by its timeliness relative to what received two grants totaling can Federal Employee Coun• On Feb. 3, the L.A. City cil in Washington. D.C.. cele• past such times, there was the bittersweet we are considering. It just happens that I $16,000 from the United Asian American Employees agree and disagree with the article. Presbyterian OlUrch Sierra brates the lunar new year realization of good friends and JACLers Asn. honors U.S. District Feb. 3. 8 p.m., with a recep• now gone. Out of respect to those who Mission Area and the United Judge Robert Takasugi at a I agree that the JACL has indeed-too Methodist Church Commis- tion featuring Asian hors devoted so rrruch of themselves to JACL, Chinese New Year banquet d'oeuvres and music at the often "lived in the past" and that it has too sion on Religioo and Race to to be held at the Golden Pal• what we are now discussing should take often not accepted criticism and dissent assist 10w-inC(J11e Asian and Rayburn House Office Bldg. ace Restaurant. 913 N. Gold Room (Rm. 2168A-B). on even more significance. To me, the gracefully and constructively. Hopefully Pilipino residents. ALSO is "bottom line" is to determine what JACL Broadway, cocktails at 6:30 such is not the response to Dp. Nakashi- now seeking a bilingual staff p.m., dinner at 7:30. ~or res• wants for its future, which then dictates rna's views. attorney for its outreach- eTVations.phone~uIVVong, ComplN Home the "modus operandi". As I look around education program. Applica- 485-2891. Cost per person: me, I see little future in confining our I do not agree that the JACL, or its organ tion deadline is Jan. 31. Iil~~~' the Pacific Citizen, dwells unnecessarily Bilingual "Homemakers" concerns in a tunnel vision fashion to REPHOR "Japanese American" problems. Every upon negative matters, discrimination, to baby-sit for elderly or dis• George Nagata 1S' 30 S. Western Ave. day we are shocked by the "Guyanas" and etc. As I see it, one of our major problems abled Nikkei are in demand, Gardena DA 4-64404 FA' -2123 other horror stories of our time. It is still a has been a lack of sensitivity to social according to Noboru Hase• Realty matter of "perspective", do we want to use problems and issues. We do not need a gawa, a Nisei Sr. Citizen 1850 Sawtelle Blvd. national organization to espouse the vir- Project coordinator (625- los Angeles, Ca. 90025 the truly proud heritage of JACL as a 478-8355,477-2645 , S-R lTD springboard to the future, or do we choose tues of our Democracy. We do need to be 3146), who announced the RE-RLTY~Q· informed and prodded, if necessary, so next ~erican Red Cross HOM,ES·· , '. " ~SURA~CE to live the past vicariously? If we choose . -,' - .. that JACL can be a part of making things class will commence Feb. 20 @ CA to live in the past, we will die with it. I see better. Isn't that whgt it's all about? # and last through Mar. 9 on a ';;,u-. that as no phony dramatic saying, but a ~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ St. John's HOIp. One of the- Largest Selections ~ ~~.~'+"+~. 2;:~anll Monica BIwIt. 2421 W. Jefferson, l.A...... is price list effective Aug. 1, 1978) IJ .. Santa Monica. ell". 731-2121 Manzanar Project workshops MA.RY " GEORGE ISHIZUKA 828-11911 JOHN TY SAITO & ASSOCIATES slated for Phase II plans Books from PC Sacramento commurucaticns received The Bamboo People: The law and Japanese Americans, by' Frank Chuman. L~al and legislative history of the Japanese In Public workshops on the at that time. . America. A must" for every collection. Manzanar project will be Workshops are sched• D Hardcover, $11.70 postpaid. held in Los Angeles, San uled as follows: Ja~ese American Sto!'Y., by Budd Fukei. A good ta~te of the Francisco and Orange (1) Jan. 31, 7::1) p.m. at Little history and cultural herlta~e. One chapter by Mike Masaoka Tokyo Towers, 4SS E. Third St., County by tre State De• recalls JACL's role during vacuation. k f P I Today's C.--lc Loo.-- Los Angeles (between San Pedro D H d $7 70 postpaid Largest Stoc 0 opu ar __ partment of Parks and ar cover,.. f & Classic Japanese Records for Women &: Men and Central); (2) Feb. 7,7:30 p.m. To~o sto~ Recreation within the next in Mas Satow Bldg., 1765 Sutter They Called Her Rose, by Rex Gunn. Documwhented 0 Magazines, Ar.t Books. Gifts Call for Appointments: a WW2 legend oy a P~cific. war corr~spo!1dent 0 stayt:U Two Shops In Little Tokyo Phone 687.0387 few weeks. St., San Francisco; (3) Orange County date to be set; (4) Lone with the story to its unlmaglned culmination. 330 E. 1st 81.-340 E. 1st 8t. 105 Japanese VIllage Plaza Mall The Manzanar project, Pine in March. # D Paperbatk, $5.50 postpaid. los Angeles, talll. 90012 Los Angela 90012 located in the Owens Val• Nisei.: the Quiet Americans, by Bill Hosokawa. Popular history of s. Ueyama, Prop. Toshl 0t9J, Prop. 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Poston as sketched by a young cartoonist. 110 S. Los Angeles shops are the second in the tor of the Employment Op• at 1506 W. Vernon Ave. ~in D Softcover, $6.70 postpaid. planning series. Planners portunity Center, 4726 Los628-4369 Angeles , Los Angeles 295-5204 ier Ave. South, effectIve Hawaiian Tales By Allan Beekman. Eleven matchless stories (,p('rlt'nnod ~m( f' J 919 will present a draft of a *-. I Feb. 12. His wife Vicky and of the Japanese immigrant in Hawaii. proposed long-range p~ three children will join him D Hardcover, $4.70 postpaid. which is bas8J on public later. A farewell party is be• fhunder in the Rockies: the Incredible Denver Post by Bill comments and sugges• Hosokawa. Personally autographed copy from the author ing planned for Feb. 2, 5:30 to PC readers. 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State, ZIP _ _ _ u ,- ..." past. -JIMMIE CARTER 0'1; £0 0 OPUIA1£0 BY 1C.000TA POS committee % Paafic 0Irzen, 355 E. 1st St ~ 301, lDs NIgeIes Ca. !D>12 ------FridIIy, J nuary 26,1979 I PACIFIC CtTIZEN-9 Both men. wh 'd be n e• lected after intense m\, ti.- gation and rigid run ationwlde Directory HARRINGTON , 'bile at ch 1m Honolulu, Inlnns - PlatIlltOR.' succeeded adrrurabl · K~ two Nisei were getting off Your business card pIac«1 mori ingratiated rum elf so ead1 GSUe here fer 25 eeks a had given their word and duty at Ft. Ja:k.son's base well that, when Philippin S25 per three-mes Name n planned to keep It untll death. hospital. Joe Akiyama head• Constabuian' m mbers larger type 00\II as two 1005 even though the ruJes had ed for the roovies. but all smashed their \ 'ay into D -, ''''I- ---...... known for his sports prow• ial Army boast in the Thir• ess, having woo a swimming ties that their native lan• letter at the Univ. of Hawaii. guage provided a nearly im• DON'T BELIEVE US ..... it was also known widely penetrable code, in and of it• that Komori was a pilot. And, self, for use in war. The brag BELIEVE OUR REVIEWS: of course, he had disap• had a basis in fact, each Ja• peared mysteriously, eight panese officer having had a " ... graphicall y exquisite chronicle of Asian months before. minimum 16 years' training Americans. II Los Angeles Tim es • • • in the puzzling tongue...... it is not merely a book ... it i knowledge and Some other Japanese in Sometime in the 6th century, spirit and destiny. " San Fran cJsco lournal uniform had an idea that war Japan, needing a language, " ... a beautiful book, one worth investing in." was imminent, but that was adopted in its entirety the Pasadena Gazette only because Lt Col. John system of "picture words" ( Weekerling and Capt. Kai used by the Olinese. Each I I .•. no one should pass up 'In Movement'." Rasmussen kept saying so. ideograph, called Kanji, was , Cost / West lournal The two intelligence officers given a new Japanese mean- : " ... the kind of publication one wishe had twice its commanded 00 Nisei GI's ing, while its former Chinese 158 pages. " Pacif,e Cit,un who were studying the Japa• one was also retained So, ..... a more revealing image of ourselves than is nese language in San Fran• from the start, nothing was visible in the clu tter of circumstances under our cisco. lsao Kusuda was one simple. In another 1400 nose ." HawaII ObsefYer of these. He lived and stud• years, Chinese peasants ied in an abanOOned airplane were dumbfounded to meet IN MOVEMENT: A Pictorial History of Asian hangar almost directly un• Americans, with Japanese America/ by Visual Communications. der the southern end of faces, who cwld write the Golden Gate Bridge. Kusuda language of China, but could \ \, [ I Order your copy today; was one of 40 students to sur- not speak it. treasure it fo rever. t==-~_ ~ ______..... *"F i IN MOVEMENT Paperback SI'i 00 per hook @THE STOR. OF THE ..2ND COMBAT nAM Bulk and bookstore raw.. avallahle Illq' \\,'r(' ,u{Jt'fb.' / h.J1 word lImf!'(.l/y descflbes /I ' } u ~r b ! Plca .. c ~t:od me the following copies of In Movement 'hel IOO/.. lemf,( (.1 uJ/lle They howed rare courage and rC:~ldents ITl'ml'ndou\ ,.ghllOg P'''I. 01 100 much can be sa,d of the California add 6% sale tax p('r/orm,III(,' 01 Ihe 441nd (Iapane e-American Regimental hIpping and handling charge: ~xi ( (}lIIb.1I /t'JTIII t'!;Prj \"Jnled Ihem 'add 50C lor the I,m book and IS' lur ra h .addlllon,J book! (.f 'fRAt CfORCf C MARSHAll Enclo cd IS my check (or -\\.111.1!J1t' lor the fln-t 11m the olllelal 52-page reprint edlllon 01 The I ry 01 the 442nd Combat Team" originally published ,Ino o"t"huled 10 Italy 10 1945 b Ihe \ed'terranean Theater ul ()I 'r.lUlIn Unltt."CI IJle~ -\rm IMTOUSA) lOe photos, l·".thl h,lll!t.' m.1l) .lnd .1!.lIC.lln "momln report" of the fire• " 'hI' ,1/,,1 l'n":,1 l'own" 1,IIthiull (hmo, e the 442nd RCT s ,.1II1p.II~II' 11\ 11,.1) ,lIul I r,lIlI I' ·\11 Jlrot {'t'Ci ht, nnd (.('" II ttl Ihl' (1II1\p• .IO~ " ( luh "II 44ind l.holar~h'J.) lund I'm.t:.' I ~r I p lOt.iudm& po 1.1 't:.' Coplt~S ""II be di Irlboted 10 h:bru.lI"'\ 1<) q (hl'l TJnJ J PublICd/ron Ed./or, Compan . (Iub. I! Ii rJnt' \\ J\. 0.1 I.mu, C 94601. Jl2 12 ------Friday. J nu.ry 26,1979 I PACIFIC CITIZEN-ll couraged by Col. Rufus S. \\ hile \\ eckerling was till ion that in Juded comment HARRINGTON Bratton and finally achieved in Panama. Rasmussen had from neIghbors and friend . c..d.... ,,.... ~""- "-P its objective. met \\ith nearly e\ery mam• In the case of one parent' partrnent and were ably up• Bratton was rated by his !and lisei on actl\'e duty dur• ported by Col Moses \\ . Pet• death. a child might be al• get submannes, and that it associates as tops in Army:" mg .1941. ~ Lowsl.anan tigrew, a man never publicly lowed to interrupt educati n was building super-battle• intelligence.. It 'i\'aS liratton helpmg out with recrwtIng. acknowleged for originating temporarily. but a soon as ships 80 lar:ge that a special who, on Dec. 7, end-ran all located Aiso m an Army post the idea of an all-Nisei oom• the family's ea:momic itua• ship had to be designed for Army channels early in the outside Los Angeles. The Bur• tion got better. back to ferrying their massive gun bat unit. (Others claimed the moming, ~ to tell Chief bank-bo~lawyer.3~. was not honor after Nisei covered school he went. Many a Nisei turrets down from Ominato, of Staff Marstall personally ~xactly mtngued WIth Army graduated from school three in northern Japan, to where themselves with glory in Eu• Bro~ rope. Pettigrew cared for that "the Japanese are going life. A cu'!l laude to six years behind his peers, the behemoths were being to attack us somewhere, ~duate WIth a doctorate m but graduate he did, with 1 .• constructed. little other than studying the around one o'chck Washing- Junsprudence from ~r sei urging him to be Amen• Convinced that war was Japanese character. During ton time " Bratton bad earli- vard, who had taken SpeCIal can as possible. coming, Army intelligence 1937 he drafted an intelli• er mark~ Pearl Harbor on ad~tio~ s~es at Chuo pressed home forcefully the gence study of Japan's inten• one of his charts as a possi- Uruversl~ m Tokyo, the The Naganuma Readers subject of language training tions, based OIl his appraisals bility. stocky Aiso tal bee.n. g~et are a Japanese near-counter• expansion. Colonels Carlisle of national character. When Marshall could not be ed by an Armyclassiflcatlon part of America's renowned C. Dusenberry and Wallace unearthed 10 years later, it McGuffey's set. Using found. He had gone off on a specialist with, "Just what ..bhn Aiso Moore raised the subject read like a scenario for the business-as-usual peace- we need-amther god• these, Rasmussen tested the frequently at the War De- Pacific war. 1bis trio was en- time Sunday m>r:ung horse- ~ed lawyer!' '' and as• linguistic abilities of nearly back ride, leaving no word as Slgn~ to ~e rmtor pool. He 4,000 Nisei in uniform. And American"), the whole thing found them, sa:lly, wanting. ======-======;= to his itinerary. What he did was ISSumg spare . ~rts was fascinating. "There I leave was a legacy of doubt ~er:e and, by ~dmlSSl~~: Less than l00/c could read, was," he said, "a farmboy YANKEE SAMURAI for the "conspiracy" theor- domg a lousy. Job of It, write or speak more than a turned soldier, studying a ists, men woo became con- ~hen Weckerling sought few words of their parents' language I already knew, in (Japanese Americans in the Pacific War) vinced that JaJBD was some- ~ ou~. A!1 offer to make mother tongue. Slightly the wonderful city of San how lured into attacking him chief ~tructor at the more than 100 oould be rated Francisco. It was the happi• by Joseph Harrington America by men close to new school did not appeal to as "somewhat oompetent" in est six months of my entire Pres. Roosevelt, or by Roose- Aiso. ~~ wanted to serve his Japanese. Of the 60 finally life!" velt alone. remammg f~ur months, get selected for the Military In• Some students thought the t ~ • • • out, get mamed, and resume telligence Service Lan• Army was starting an all• The War Department fin- his law practice. "No, thank guage School's first class, Asian unit. Others thought ally ordered a language you, sir," was his response. Weckerling said that not they'd be teaching English to more than 15 could be con• school to be established. La- The lean West Point grad ~bei soldiers, men who'd sidered true linguists-prcr been sent to Japan by par• cation was in the Presidio of laid a hand on the shorter ficient in both languages. San Francisco, under the 4th man's shoulder, looked ents for part or all of their The findings were an awful educations, and who usually Army, commanded by Gen. deeply into his eyes, and shock to the War Depart• John L. DeWitt, a man wOOse said, "John, your country came back bereft of English ment. These Japanese, dam• altogether. Most Kibei had name would become anathe- needs you!" mit, weren't Japanese! In rna to Japanese-Americans. Tears glistened when Aiso to re-enter American fact, they were too damned schools, at lower levels, to This seemed an ideal loca- recounted this to the author. American! tion because the prime "No one had ever called it catch up on the language. source of student input, Ni- my country before, Joe," he Nisei had become "too Fred Hiroshi Nishitsuji sei already in the Army, said. "The sorxiagun had me damned American" with a was in the first class. His were nearly all in West Coast hooked." vengeance. Issei achieved name gave evidence of the camps. that goal for their children Japanese language's com• Lt. Col. John Weckerling, despite prejudice, discrimi• plexity-or richness. Issei Weckerling had luck with took great pains in selecting then in Panama, was told to instructors, too. Right in the nation, burnings, beatings, get the operatDn going. His laws that fortade their buy• their children's names. The San Francisco area he found "American" ones had to be search of the Presidio Akira Oshida and Shigeya ing land, and rmre laws that grounds turned up only one prevented other Issei joining as unlike Japanese ones as Kihara. Eager as other possible, but the Japanese available facility-an aban• AJA's to show their patriot• them where Liberty lifted doned airplane hangar. Cris• her lamp beside the golden names had to reflect quali• ism, both immediately dcr ties or virtues that parents sey Field hadn't sheltered an nated their personal librar• door. Everyone and every• aircraft for some time when thing, it seemed, conspired hoped a child would exhibit All of America knows how Nisei fought with mind• ies, free of charge, to the throughout life. A minor in• Weckerling visited it in Sep• pitiful collection of texts on to thwart the efforts of these boggling bravery-in Europe. tember, 1941. Although elat• newcomers to equip their dustry, that of selecting hand, and made copies of names for a fee or as a favor, ed to have been pulled out of everythingforeveryone.~ children for a::hieving the was extant in the Japanese "Yankee Samurai" tells• the story of "the other Ni- the Canal Zelle, where a hara and Oshida stayed on "American way of life," but forthcoming war would against all odds the Issei suc• culture. Help was often sought sei" who served secretly in the Pacific-and shortened with the language effort from longtime friends, better• surely have stranded him, long after America realized ceeded. Nisei became the that conflict by at least two years. educated associates, or coun• the Louisiana native was get• that arrogant spouting of most educated ethnic group ting frustrated How in the in the U.S. cil of elders. Naming a child, English was notthe best way like picking a bride, was a They saved more than 1,000,000• lives. hell was he to clean up this to communicate with people rundown shack, furnish it, Never before--or since• step not taken lightly. of other tongues. They even• did the American public • pay staff, and train a bunch tually retired from well-ap• Their story was buried in the Pentagon files for 30 of soldiers in the world's school system so measure Among other readings, Hi• pointed offices at the De• up to its potential as it did roshi can be seen as "wide, years. toughest language, all on a fense Language Institute in piddling $2,OOO? That's what with Nisei. America, not Ja• broad, or understanding." the Presidio of Monterey, pan, was their land, and is. Fred Nishitsuji's mother and • broth~rs. the War Department had al• "Yankee Samurai" tells how your uncles, but their first organizational English, not Japanese, w~ father chose the reading, ac• cousins, fathers-yes, and grandfathers---did a vital JOb, lowed him for the task. meeting was held while seat• Weckerling had one good their mother tCl1gue, and IS. cording to him, for "doctor" while often in danger from both sides! ed on orange crates and dis• The Army's language 9r "professor" . They then thing going for him. That carded apple boxes in the was his back;Jp man, Kai school as a result, was hard• prayed he would become one basement of 4th Army head• press~d to find e~u~h qU.ali• or the other. A later student As part of ~r bicultural• heritage, a copy of "Yankee Rasmussen, only man in the quarters. U.S. Army to speak Japa• fied people to fill ItS fIrst at MISLS was Hiroshi Tana• Samurai" should be in your home. It can be part of your -When war broke out, Kiba• nese with a heavy Danish ac• rickety seats, rut Nisei gave oe. His parents read the exc~lI~ legacy to Sansei and Yonsei. It can also be an cent. A dauntless driver, ra had to make a dash for his their very best effort. They name differently. "They gift to friends of different ethnic backgrounds, g~ng possessed of boundless en• brother Hayato's house, to had to, lest parents wail that hoped I would grow up scoop up the rest of his Japa• them more proof that Nisei were, and are, solidly ergy, Rasm~en consi~ "All Japan would be broad-minded, or intelli• nese magazines and other American. ered the word "failure" his ashamed!" of Japanese gent," he recalled. S