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Secret Role of Nisei in America's Pacific Victory by Joseph Harrington CHAPTER 1 Was Imported and Became a Fixture in U.S 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.
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