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Whole No. 2,414 Vol. 103 No. 19 ISSN: 0030-8579 941 East 3rd St. #200, Los Angeles, CA 90013 (213) 626-6936 Friday, Nov. 7,1986

Connecticut Candidate NCJAR Appeal Remarks on 'Star Trek' Star Honored by Hollywood JACL Wants by J .K Yamamoto Trade Deficit LOS ANGELES - Twenty years High Court to after he first appeared as Mr. Sulu on the TV eries "Star Trek," Called 'Racist' actor George Takei was honored Review Suit with a star on Hollywood's Walk HARTFORD, Conn - A coalition of Fame on Oct 30. WASHINGTON -JACLandLEC called Asian Amelican Caucus Before a crowd of enthusiastic signed onto the New York-based of Connecticut has been formed fa ns, Takei, a Los Angeles native, Asian American Legal Defense in response to remarks made by recalled his boyhood memories and Education Fund's amici curi• Republican Senate candidate of Hollywood Boulevard. ''1 used ae brief filed Oct. 10 in support of Roger Eddy, who has been run• to come here for movies as a kid the National Council for Japanese ning against Democratic incum• ... I used to walk down, looking American Redress petition urging bent Christopher Dodd. at these empty squares [on the the Supreme Court to reinstate the The group has condemned sidewalk] and wondering if my redress claims dismissed by the Eddy's statements about the U.S.• name someday might not be one U.S. Court of Appeals in January Japan trade deficit as "inflam• one of them. And it's happening 1986 . matory racist language." today." Asian Law Caucus of Oakland, In a speech given before a Noting that he was SWTOunded Calif., and the Anti-Defamation state AFlrCIO convention on by "friends from every nook and League ofB'nai B'rith also signed Sept 17, Eddy stated that Japan's cranny of my life," Takei said he the brief which contended that a trade practices are ''based upon wanted the first person to step judicial review was necessary in the principle ofdestroying the in• on the star to be "the person who order to remove the stigma of ra• dustries of other countries, cap• gave me my first start, and that's cial inferiority and disloyalty turing them, and then develop• my mother." His mother Fumiko from J apanese Americans who ing them in their own country." was on hand to fulfill his wish. were incarcerated during WW2 . "Japanese industrial spies Congratulations were offered Quoting from the report of the swarm across industrial Ameli• by City Councilman Mike Woo, Commission on Wartime Reloca• Yamamolo tion and Internment of Civilians, ca," he said. "Nearly all the tech• At the unveiling ceremony (from left): Walk of Fame Committee who represents the Hollywood the brief outlined the psychologi• nology of television the Japanese chair Johnny Grant, George Takei, Councilman Mike Woo, Hol• area; Rose Ochi, executive assist• cal damage and emotional trauma stole from the Zenith Radio Cor• lywood Chamber of Commerce president Bill Welsh. Behind them ant to Mayor Tom Bradley; Bill suffered by WW2 internees. poration. In Japan, to lie among are Takei's mother Fumiko and "Star Trek" co-star Nichelle Nichols. Continued on page 8 one's associates is a cardinal sin It also discussed the need to ad• . .. However, to lie, cheat and dress the question of military ne• steal from foreigners is not oAly cessity, which thegovernmentar• accepted by the Japanese, but an Expenditures Contribute to JACL Deficit gued to be the factual basis for accepted part of their culture . . . imprisonment of West Coast J apa• 'The working men and women nese Americans. of Amelica are the ultimate vic• by Lynn Sakamoto-Chung firm of Arthur Young, which was ganIzation' number. 'Destro the lUyth' tim .. . The Japanese have made contracted in September 1985 for The subsequent audit findings, The organizations urged the suckers of us. My generation left F alling JACL memberships services not to exce d $25,000 for according to National Director Court to "decisively destroy the Ron Wakabayashl, were "adverse rings of blood around half the and unfulfilled chapter redress a twofold purpose. myth of disloyalty" by reinstating islands in the Pacific. Now that pledges are the two major factors Primarily, the ftrm wa con• in the sense that the ms said the the redress claims, and thereby sacrifice appears to have been behind the organization's projec• tracted by the National JACL to chapter was conducting non• starting the healing process thus made for naught" ted year-end cash flow deficit of a ist the Sequoia hapter in i exempt activities in operating an far denied Japanese Americans. close to $100,000 (see PC, Oct 2A), 1984 Internal Revenue Service in wcllce program. ' But, he Retraction Demanded The CJAR lawsuit. Hohn et but less costly expenditures are tax audil The chapter had flIed add d, the ituation ha , for the aL. v. U.S. sought more than $24 At an Oct 31 press conference, mo t part, been resolv d, and the also taking the ir toll on the J ACL a 990 tax report as a separately billion in damages for 22 claims. the AACT demanded a retraction budget incorporated entity of JACL but, S quoia Chapter was not fined. It was dismissed in May 1984 by from Eddy and issued a state• The incid nt, ho er, brought Heading that list of expendi• instead ofseeking its own employ• the .S. District Court for the Dis• ment declaring, "No individual tures is approximately $12,000 er identift cation number, mistak• to the attention of the National trict of Columbia. The dismissal running for a public office should paid, to date, to the accounting e nly filed its report u ing the or- ontinued on page 5 be allowed to single out any Continued 011 page 2 minority group as a scapegoat" Organizer Tara Fujimoto Har• ris said that Eddy's campaign L.A. 's Nikkei-Oriented Movie Theater Closes Doors rhetolic "could evolve into bad cases of anti-Asian violence." by Naomi Hirahara to the perception that th ar a Like the Boston-based Asian Rafu Shimpo i dangerous. "But for th Z7 Y ars American Resource Workshop, LOS ANGELES - During the that l'v been h re, I hav n't been which has sought to deal with ra• 1900s, throngs ofJ apane e Amer• . held up once." cial violence in that area, ACCT icans lined up outside the Koku• Sold to Church is 'trying to take preventive mea• sai Theater in the heart of the After operating in th red for sures ... we want to be proactive Crenshaw area to view ''Buddha,'' four years, Yokoyama decided to as well as reactive," she said a Japanese movie about the life ell the theater to th W Angel• The coalition, which consists of Gautama Buddha es Christian Chw: h act th of 14 Chinese, Korean, Japanese It was a healthy era for the street ''1 happened to th pa and Southeast Asian community Kokusai Theater, a time wh n tor at Holiday Bowl Ithe local organizations, was mobilized Japanese Americans strolled over bowling all y]," aid Yokoyama, within two weeks. ACCT has con• to the movie house and such reg• "and I said to himl 'You wanna sulted with Elaine Song of AARW ulars as then-UCLA basketball buy my plac ?' That st.al1.ed it all." and Helen Zia of the Detroit• player Lew Alcindor (Kareem The facade will remain, but th based American Citizens for Jus• Abdul.Jabbar) went to get their hall will be filled with gospel tice in developing strategies. quota ofJapanese samurai films .. music instead of J apanese movi 'The vast majolity of people Dwindling Crowds dialogue. didn't even know this was hap• Times have changed. The over• Yokoyama is not entim ntal pening," said Fujimoto Harris, whelming crowds at the 'Kokusai about th closure. "You just can't "and it just goes to show that it Theater have dwindled to an av· help it," he said. ''It' ju t on of is very important to listen to what erage of 40 moviegoers a night, those things." local politicians are saying . . . Al• reflecting the migration of Japa• But the Nisei own r, who will though Eddy's blatantly racist nese Americans from the area. turn 00 on CIu;stma Day, wants statement is against a single The theater on Crenshaw Boul• to relocate and remain in til the• group, it's setting a dangerous evard, whicb recently completed ater business for the sake of his precedent for other politicians escrow, screened its last movie regular customers and th J a pa• and we have to stop it right now." Oct 30. nese American community. ACCT can be contacted at P.O. "People are scared to come "I want d to own a th at r 11 Box 1053, Darien, CT~. here," said longtime owner Mota• a young kid," said Yokoyama, 1 kazu "Moto" Yokoyama, refening Continued 011 page 5 PhOto by Robel1 h'mabu\..uro -:from a report IJy New York Nicllibei -PACIFIC CITIZEN I Friday, November 7, 1986 No. 2,414 2 Allow 6 weeks advance notice to report address change with label on front If you are moving / Wish to subscribe, Mineta Recalls Impact of 99th Congress on JAs Write New Address below. Effective date ...... , ...... Please send the Pacific Citizen for: by J.K. Yamamoto tee by April," reported Mineta. o 1-Yr $20 0 2-Yrs $38 0 3-Yrs $56 LOS ANGELES - The 99th Con• Mineta also said Glickman saw To: ...... gress, which began in January no further need for subcommittee ,Address: ...... 1985 and ended last month, was hearings on redress. (Hearings anything but dull, recalled Rep. on H.R 442 were held in April) City, ;,:~~bS;::;iO~~ · ~~;~bi~ ' i~ ' ~d~~~~~:' F;~~i~~ ;' VS$',:?"O;) ~;i;~ ' ~~~ . ;~~; ." ..... Norman Mineta (D-Calif.) as he The Judiciary Committee's f addressed a gathering of Southern Checks payable to: Pacific Citizen, 941 E. 3rd St., Los Angeles, CA 90013 I preoccupation with the impeach• EXPIRATION NOTICE-If the last four digits on the top row of your label reads I08ll the6O-day : California supporters Oct. 23. ment of Judge Harry Claiborne grace period ends with the last Issue In December. 1986. Please renew your'subscrlption or I membership. If membershJp has been renewed and the paper stops. notify the PC office. I The congressman from San Jose stalled action on the bill during , . I found the session particularly the 99th Congress, he said. ------eventful in terms of issues affect• bnpact of Budget Bill ing Japanese Americans and other Asked whether the Gramm• Asian American Is Recipient Asians. Rudman-Hollings budget bill Noting that this year's trade de• would apply to redress legislation, ficit with Japan will be roughly Mineta replied that it would. of Nobel Prize for Chemistry $85 billion, Mineta said that U.S. "It would apply against that ap• BERKELEY - UC Berkeley .and just enjoyed doing my re• industries "are going to have to propriated amount. The only way learn how to be competitive in the chemistry professor Yuan T. Lee, search," he said Rep. Norman Mineta we would be able to avoid seques• 49, was awarded the 1986 Nobel Having won the award, he has inernational, global market. " tration under Gramm-Rudman• While seeking to strengthen the Prize in Chemistry on Oct 15. found that he is ''not used to the in which Black entrepreneurs re• Hollings would be a specific ex• Along with fellow chemistry country in this area, he also attention" and is experiencing sponded to Nakasone, for exam• emption in law, or if we make it an professors Dudley Herschbach warned, "What we cannot afford "lots of disruptions on my scien• ple, could lead to "specific follow• entitlement program like Social of Harvard University and John to have happen is to have this ten• tific activities." up" in building ties between Japa• Security .. .It would be easier to Polanyi of University of Toronto, sion of the trade war become an Lee feels that his example may nese businesses and Black-owned get an exemption." Lee was honored for developing provide inspiration for other explosive domestic racial tension. businesses, said Mineta. The ad Mineta also touched on the is• And yet it can happen. " the field of reaction dynamics, Asian Americans. "I think my pointed out that the Black com• sue of equal employment opportu• providing a detailed understand• winning the Nobel Prize will give Trade Legislation munity has a purchasing power of nities. "Everyone wants a Japa• ing of how chemical reactions them some encouragement and In addition to possible acts of about $2 billion. nese American secretary, every• take place. confidence." anti-Asian violence at home, Mi• New Redress Sponsor body wants a Japanese American Born in Taiwan, Lee received He predicted that there will be neta said, entire nations could be In the area of redress, Mineta draftsperson, engineer, whatever his bachelor'S degree from Na• more Asian American winners unfairly penalized. I;Ie cited a bill, announced that H.R. 442 would be it might be. But how many Asian tional Taiwan University and his in the future. ''If you look at the passed earlier thjs year, that reintroduced in the 100th Congress Pacific Americans are supervis• master's from Tsinghua Univer• ability ofAsian !>tudents, they are would have imposed a customs by Rep. Tom Foley cD-Wash.). ors, managers, in policy-making sity, then went to UC Berkeley as good as any. They are certainly duty on textiles from a number of The previous sponsor, Rep. Jim positions? in 1962 to continue his graduate well-disciplined because of their Asian countries, irfcluding China. Wright (D-Texas), will be the next " That's where we have to make studies. family upbringing. That will cer• "We buy roughly $1 billion Speaker of the House and thus our push. We cannot shrink from After receiving his Ph.D. in tainly be an asset worth of textiles, apparel and gar• cannot sponsor the bill, Mineta the efforts being made by this Ad• chemistry in 1965, he did post• At the same time, he added, ments from the People's Republic explained. ministration to do away with af• doctoral research at Lawrence Asian students "don't ask too of China, but we in fact sell them . 'Of the 143 co-sponsors today, ., flfmative action programs." Berkeley Laboratory and Har• many questions. We should ask $22-25 billion worth of goods .. .I he said, "we know that 139 of He added that "as a person who vard University. He became a more questions and be more as• don't think it makes sense. " them ... have the potential on the has had a relative amount of suc• professor at University of Chicago sertive." When President Reagan vetoed 4th of November of being back in cess ...as I've gone up that ladder, in 1968 and joined the UC Berke• As for the $9(I, in prize the bill, it was "probably the only the House. So as soon as we know I feel a very strong responsibility, ley faculty in 1974, the year he money, he laughed, "I don't real• time I ever agreed with the Presi• the results of the election ... we wanting and needing to reach became a .S. citizen. ly worry about it My wife takes dent," said Mineta. will then go right down that list down to help someone else up that Lee i now studying the com• care of the money."" According to Mineta, the recent and say, 'Will you be a co-spon- ladder. This is the only way I think bustion of h, drocarbons. His controversy over Japanese Prime sor.? " I can repay the community for pre ent r earch may lead to -from a report by Korea Times Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone's re• Rep. Dan Glickman lD-Kan.), their efforts ... more efficient combustion in mark about the intelligence level chair of the Judiciary subcom• The reception, held at the Japa• energy production. of Blacks and Hispanics may pro• mittee where the biLl has been as• nese American Cultural and Com• During hi ears of research duce some positive results. signed, . 'wants to bave it reported munity Center, was sponsored by he did not give much thought to NCJAR SUIT A full-page Washington Post ad out of the full Judiciary Commit- the Japanese American Demo• winning the Nobel Prize. "I Contin.ued from Front Page cratic Club of Los Angeles. never really took it very seriou ly was then appealed to the U.S. Court of Appeals, where it was partially reversed and remanded KKRC to trial. However, only a single Pacific Business Bank KENNETH H. KUSUMOTO claim, loss of property, remained RARE COINS intact. 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...... , " .. . .. ,...... Friday, November 7, 1986 / PACIFIC CITIZEN- 3 Bookshelf 'Manzanar Martyr': Ueno Speaks Out Manzanar Riot: A Japanese Manzanar Martljr: All Interview with along to assume the mantle of He then initiated an lnvestiga• American-Style 'Rash om on ' Harry Y. Uerw by Sue Kunitomi Em• leadership for a group ofvery un• tion into the shortage of sugar brey, Arthur A Hansen, Betty Kulberg happy people confined behind and beef Somewhere between by J.K. Yamamoto Milson California State University, barbed wire. the rail station and the mess hall, To this day, accounts of the events leading up to the fatal Fullerton. Oral History Program. 1966. shootings during the Manzanar Riot of Dec. 6, 1942 differ from 225 pages. $13.~ hardcover. There were many big-name food supplies were disappearing, political organizers and would• and camp administrators were source to source. Harry Ueno, the subject of the recently pub• lished Manzanar Martyr, says that the popularized version of by Raymond Okamura be pretenders to community lead• suspected of stealing food intend• ership at Manzanar, but the very ed for the internees. Ueno ar• what happened is false. "So many articles have been fact that Ueno was unknown and ranged for a meeting with the ad• The 1976 TV-movie "Farewell to Manzanar," based on the written [about the Manzanar Re• had no previous axe to grind ministration to air these griev• book by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston, is "all fiction," according helped to establish his credibility. ances and got a few representa• to Ueno. volt], but hardly any from the th~ people's side of the stOl)'. You He was seen as a sincere fellow tives from each mess hall to at• "Especially' riot is all wrong," Ueno told PC during a know, the camp administration's sufferer who could be trusted to tend. recent book-sJ.gl1lng party at Amerasia Bookstore in LA's Little side of the story is published too work for the benefit of the group Splits AmODg Internees Tokyo. ''Nobody carried any sticks ... I was only a few feet from much. And I sure would like to as a whole instead of feathering That's how the Mess Hall the people there, and I never saw anybody throw the rocks ... his own nest, as some of the Workers Union got started. With '1!Iat's. an insult to the Japanese intelligence, you know. have the truth known about what ~amst was going on in those days in others were suspected of doing. each success in resolving a food rifles and shotguns and all those things, who the hell's camp." Ueno was a Kibei, and like complaint, they grew to be a pow• gomg to throw the rock or carry the stick against that? It's crazy. Right on, Harry Ueno! most Kibei in the camp, he was erful and influential factor in No, they never carried any weapon." Ueno finally got to tell his-• relegated to a low-level, low• Manzanar politics. For the same reason, Ueno took issue with the following ac• and the people's--side of the prestige job working in the kitch• The union was a thorn in the count in Bill Hosokawa's 1982 book JACL in Quest of Justice: en, or mess hall as it was known "When violence against other JACL leaders was threatened Manzanar story in this limited• side for the administration; a dire~tor edition book in camp jargon. What the camp combative, grass-roots organiza• [camp Ralph] Merritt called in the military police. A He did not want or intend to administration initially failed to tion led by a Kibei was not what rock-throWIng melee followed. When tear gas failed to disperse be a martyr, but he certainly recognized was that the mess administrators had in mind for the dissidents who refused. to obey orders to halt, a volley of ended up as one. More important• halls were the natural spring• "democratic self-government" shots was fired" (p. 200). ly, Ueno was the veritable folk board from which protest actions Regulations were soon issued to Michl Weglyn, in her 1976 book Yea7S oflnj'amy, does not offer hero of Manzanar: he was that could be launched restrict participation in such her own version, but instead presents some of the official re• legendary indigenous leader who There was precious little to do groups to citizens (which left out ports. One of them, a June 1944 memorandum from Secretary emerged from the masses to in• in camp except to line up for the the Issei) and required English of Interior Harold Ickes to Secretary of State Cordell Hull, spire an uprising against tyranny. next meal Stripped of nearly ev• to be used as the official lan• gives a similar scenario: 'There is some evidence that stones and sand were thrown at this time by evacuees in the crowd Chaotic Conditions erything else food became the guage at all meetings (which se• and that they were jeering and threatening the soldiers" (p. 123). Ultimately, he became the most important thing in an in• verely handicapped the Kibei). mate's daily life. Moreover, as The administration set out to Ueno was angry about another report., also quoted in Weg• symbol around whom the dispos• lyn's book, that suggested the soldiers were forced to shoot sessed inmates of Manzanar ral• Ueno points out, nearly half of destroy the two most influential all inmates had a direct connec• inmate-controlled organizations, In a 1~ inquiry, Sen. AB. Chandler of Kentucky lied to vent their anger at intoler• asked, ''Y ou used tear gas on the mob and when they kept on able camp conditions. The cli• tion to the mess halls through a the Mess Hall Workers Union family member working there. and the Issei-led Block Leaders you had to shoot?" mactic mass demonstration in Capt Martyn Hall, commander of Military Police at Manza• support of Ueno, and the sub• Taking Action Council, and supplant them with a puppet "self-government" con• Dar, replied, ''Yes, sir" (p. 12A). sequent melee which erupted It was the long lines of people The inquiry "was all set up for the government, Ueno charged when military police fired tear waiting to eat which prompted sisting entirely of hand-picked, pro-administration Nisei. 'That's all a lie. That's the way the government .. . covered up." gas and bullets into the unarmed Ueno to take his first step into To emphasize his point, Ueno said that one of those killed crowd, left two demonstratol collective action He mobilized Most intemees were outraged by the restrictions; and certain whom he identified as a teenager named James Ito, "was shot dead, at least nine wounded, and the construction of a pond 0 that from behind . .. he fell face down" the camp in chaos. people would have omething Nisei well-known for their ac• As Ueno tells it, no one could plea ant to look at while waiting. commodationist view were ac• have predicted that he would be• With that maiden project, he cu ed of being collaborators and come the central figure in one of gained the confidence to aggres- stool pigeons. In thi charged at• the most impOltant acts ofresi t• ively negotiate with camp ad• mo phere. Fred Tayama, who New Car Loans ance to occur in the concentra• ministrators to improve living had just retumed £i'om a J CL tion camps. Before the war. he conditions. Continued on page 4 led a quiet, unassuming life, de• void of any political activity. In IO:~% fact, he was a totally obscure per• son who lived largely isolated from the Japanese American community. But when he was forced into the pressure cooker of Manza• nar, he rose to the occasion and THE NIKKEI HELPLINE IS HERE FOR YOU became a community leader• something he had never done be• 1-800-NIKKEI·1 fore, or after, Manzanar. He was just the right person to come 1-800-645-5341 IF YOU'RE IN NEED OF HELP IN DEALING WITH A FAMILY CRISIS, DRUG ABUSE, VIOLENT CRIME. SUICIDE. OR CONSUMER INFORMATION. CALL US. W£'RE A TOLL-FREE. 24 HOURS A DAY. SEVEN DAYS MART A WEEK SERVICE IN BOTH ENGLISH AND JAPANESE. Cameras & Photographic Supplies Up to 60 months. 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This will provide a well as my family's. single place in the PC where My legacy tram this biennium. members can look for information alone occupies a file box weigh• such as renewal rates and insur• ing almost 40 pounds. However, ance; discuss recruitment; share leaving does require some things ideas on membership develop• which are hard to swallow, among ment; and air complaints about them, leaving behind the close the way things are done. friends rYe made on the board Tasks for Task Force and our hard-working staf[ The National Board, after all, Meanwhile, someone in "au• Y.P.c.c. - April 3-4, 1943 is more than a super committee thority" (I'll leave this up to the board) should form a task force ofdelegates who plan and discuss Sato (organist). tobi, Rose Katagiri, Jane Murata, (not a committee) to begin a JACL's future moves. It is a nex• Fellowship: Henry Omachi Y oshiko Suzuki, Lillian Y oshi• major inquiry into the problem EAST Us of thoughts among Nikkei on Holy Communion: Rev. S. Tanabe. kawa, Futami Ogawa, Takeyo Ya• The goals of the task force a national level. Some of these WIND Morning Worship: Rev. D. Kita• tsu, Yoneko Amano. should be to (1) collect informa• ideas may not be original, but in gawa, presiding; Helen Nitta, Historians: Rei Ota, Chizuko tion on the membership potential an organization such as JACL, choir director; M. Lum, organist; Ishida, Hannah Uyeno, June Uye• and internally perceived prob• implementation of an idea can Bill Rev. Norio Yazaki; Kimiko Na• take, and others. lems of each chapter; (2) bring take on a creative aspect which Marutani kamura; Frances , or• membership development infor• gives life to even common ideas. ganist UNDER ''REGISTRATION'': mation to chapters in the form Witness the redress effort. It Then a break for lunch, listed Lilly Kaneko, Ruth Hijikata, of workshops and recruitment began in JACL first as an internal IN PRIOR COLUMNS we had as ''Return to Mess Halls." Samuel Koshiba, Jack Sasaki, committee, followed several years meetings; (3) meet with non.JAClr written about a group photo• Marvin Uratsu, Peggy Yamamoto. later by the creation of LEC. In ers to find out why they either graph of orne 300 persons taken IN THE AFTERNOON the Continuing: Dorothy Aredas, F1o• each case, creative and motivated do not supportJACL or no longer at the Tule Lake camp, with a High School Division, among rence Doi, Tiny Fujita, Laura Fu• minds applied themselves to supportJACL; (4) most important• large banner reading ''Forward others: Edward Yoshikawa, F1or• jiye, Fumio Hanaga~ Hiroye Hi• overcoming particular obstacles ly, report to the National Board With Christ" heralding the occa• ence Wells, James Sakoda, sata, Kimie Hiuga, Chizuko Ishi• in order to achieve the overall and the members on what chang• sion. In dribs and drabs, we iden• Edgar Ritter, Bryan Mayeda da, Jean Ishikawa, Grace Ishino, goals of the organization. es must be made to enableJACL tified a handful of those pictured. Young People's Division: Mrs. K Sadame Kageta, Miriam Kajita, to carry out its purposes as a vi• Recently, Hiroshi Kaneko, via Naito, Arthur Morimitsu, Koso Crisis in Numbers Lilly Kamikawa, Fumi Kitahara, able civil rights organization into the Rev. Andrew Y. Kw"Oda (Wash• Takemoto, Lome Huycke, PeIl)' Mary Kiyono, UmeKobukata,Hi• I am leaving the National Board the next several generations. ington, D.C.), who inquired of Saito, N. Yazaki, Morris Abe, Dr. roye Koke, Roy Kurahara Lil• at a time when we face serious These efforts should be calcu• Hiroshi. ent along a copy of the H. Jacoby (speaker), Joice lian Kuse, Tommy Kushi, Amy short-term financial concerns as lated to lead up to a groundswell program of the event. entitled Kawamoto. Violinists: William Ma uda, Grace l\tlatsune. Nancy well as a crisis in membership of opinion from the members as "2nd Semi-Annual y.P.C.C." or yeda. Kay Nakamura (choir di• Menda. Johnny Miwne, Helen numbers. Any drop in member• to changes which must be made. Young People's Christian on• rector). May Takasugi, oprano. Miyahara, Min Mochizuki.. Jane ship, particularly one as precipit• ference. The program i replete Reading by William yeda Schol• Involvement of Members Mw-ata, Margaret Norimatsu. ous as we are experiencing, with man names of participants. arship hair: Kaz Naito. translates into lost dollars from Realistically, the sweeping Chizuko Ogura, Lou Oki, Clara changes which may be necessary And although I can by no mean Publicity: Henry Omachi, K n dues as well as a diminution in identify the nam s with fac ap• Haya hi, Tom eto, Tak Matsui. asaki, Thoma asaki. YUliko support from our community. can only be accomplished ifthey a aki. Haruko ato, Dave eto, originate from the grass-roots pealing in the photograph, per• herettes: Atven Mukai, Katie The time is again ripe for some haps many of you readel who !{yono, Molly Yasutake, Ellen Ha• Connie Shimojima, Arusa Shi• creative thinking and energetic level of JACL It should be the mo ama, umi Shinozaki , Lor• job of the task force to convince happen to have a copy of the segawa, hizu Koyama and Alice implementation. Not that people photograph can pair name with Takahiro. raine Takayama, Lilly Taguchi. members, on a chapter level, that Teruko Togami, Ted T ukamaki, haven't been trying to do some• face. ''General Arrangemen " in• change is not only desirabl ,but achiko Yamamoto, Norman Ya• thing about the problem; they 0, hold yow' breaU1. here goe cluded: ab Mizutani, George have. I have seen numerous ideas beneficial to the chapters and ui, orio Yazaki. Teruko Yeya, JACL as a whole. The member• the list Katagin, Tom Haji, Joe Nakamu• brought before the National ra, Carl N iwa, Georg Arima. Paul Hiro hi Yo hida hel includ• Board to boost membership and ship must tea its leaders to mak THE FIRST NAME i R . S. ed: Geo. Hira a, Geo. Iwamoto, necessary changes. Kato. And piclting up from there hmw-a,Jaek asaki,Marvin Ura• increase revenue. tsu, and John Kanda And among Mas !{yono, and others. Trea- Any project of this magnitude and imply going through the list urer: Den Toriumi. Limited Measures would be doomed to failure if it as names appear: Kumeo Yo hi• th involved in "Nomination": Albert Ka hiba, Agne MOlioka Automated renewals, comput• were limited to a single biennium. nara, who is listed a having AND THERE YO have it I and Hatsuye Kuro e. erized membership rolls, and one• At the very earliest, it could be given the Leader' Devotional; may hav repeated ome name , time life membership dues all brought to fruition at the 1990 Rev. G. A.t1.hur Ca ady, leader; THERE ARE TIlER cate• and I'm bleruy-e. ed 0 that I un• have an important place in run• convention in San Diego. If it is Albert Ko hiba, registration gone , and talting another d p doubtedly left orne names out, ning JACL, but by themselves, successful, its success would be chair. breath, th y are a follow: in ad eltently. It rna be that if they cannot turn around the situ• measurable only over an even Musical: A Mukai, M. Abe. Pictme: hiz Nakani hi. Ro ou're till with me up to here. ation. Similarly, coupon give• longer span of time, with earliest Youth: James Osuga, Ruth Hijika• Sako, Tom Haji, Georg Hiraya, it \ a about as exciting as read• aways and discount car rentals indications being noticeable in ta, Maye Oye, Wm. Osuga, HaIl)' Geo. Iwamoto. Mas !{yono, Kenny ing a telephone book On the (as attempted in a recent direct as many as eight to ten years. Mayeda, Yoshimi Shibata, Edgal' Kobukata, Conrad Kurahara, Shig other hand, the Ii t m~ contain mail campaign) have only limited The problem ofJACL's survival Ritter. Nakani hi, Ted Nakani hi, Tom som Ul-pri utility in attracting members to is too big to be solved between Picture: Masaji Toki; Shigeru Sasaki, Andy Sugiyama, Geo. Sa• You may be among th listed an organization which requires conventions. It requires a long• Okada, "singspiration." Ev ning IOta and Hats Hanada. and forgot that ou were there. people who are willing to partici• term and carefully thought out worship: Hiroshi Kaneko, H.M. Reception: Roy Kaneko, Jose• (l wondel' where all these folks pate, rather than those who are plan that will be supported by Coverley, Rev. Fred Stripp, Jr., phine Light, Yoichi Mitsutomi. are toda and v hat th 11 merely willing to pay dues and ,successive administrations. Un• Helen Mayeda (director), Haruko Retre hments: Yoshiko Moko- doing?) can)' a membership card less the membership and leader• Perhaps we should consider ship commit themselves to pre• Some readers may be disap• 'tion, and community 1 adership the possibility that somewhere serving JACL, our future will al• HARRYUENO pointed in not learning who th 1 lted into th hand of the along the way JACL has lost some ready have been foretold in this Continued from page 3 real culprits w re, but in th I of its relevance and importance year's membership figures. meeting in Salt Lake City, was larg r context it i unimportant to the vast majority of Nikkei. Shinkawa. writes fturn Austin, Te::tXlS. beaten up by a group orma ked who did the actual beating. Th assailants. Freedom to travel antagoni m again t Tayama, th ISSN: 0030-85n? outside the camp was a privilege accommodationists and the ad• granted to only a few favored in• ministration had built to a fla h ~ dividuals, so resentm nt against point, and th beating wa per• pacific citize11 Tayama was at a fever pitch. ceived a a nec 81 act of a Ueno was promptly arre ted, community trying to 1 gain con• interrogated, and jailed, but wa trol ov l' its own affait . Thu , it Hat"JACl tteedqu.".., 1765 SuuarSt., San Francleco, CA 84115,(415) 1121 ·5226 never formally charged with th didn't matt r who perpetrated Published by the Japanese American CltJzens League every Friday except Ihe first and last weeks 01 the year at 941 E. 3rd St., til 200. Los Angeles, CA 90013 crime ofassaulting Tayama Sine th d d- n arlv v ryon in 2nd Class postage paid at Los Angeles, CA . • Annual Sub.crlptlona~ACL memo he was not charged, h nev r re• th camp wanted,it don . bers: 510.00 01 nallonal dues provide one·year on one·per·household basis. Non· [I1embers. 520/yr, 538/2·yr •• payable In advanca. Foreign addrell88es: Add U.S.$12 ceived a hearing or trial to d ter• After th ma upri ing and p/yr .. Flrstciass/air-U.S.lCanada US525 extra, Japan/Europe US$60 extra mine his guilt or inno ne. hooting d aU" no wa per- ':'"I"!,.,,,, r,xprassed by columnists olher Ihan the National Presldenl or Nallonal Dlractor or lhe news do nOI necessarily rellect JACL policy. In this int. lVi w, U no flatly man ntiy removed fi'Om Manza• denies taking palt in th beating nar and 51' 111 til<.' I t OfUl war OFFtCERS Harry H Kallhara. NaIl J ... CL Prealdenl Piggy S Llggoli. PC Board Chair and denic any dh ct knowledg y 81 lo('kcd up in variou i ola• EDITORIAL/BUSINESS STAFF Editor Lynn Sekemolo-Cllung ..... 1Edllore . Roberl Shlmlbukuro. J.K. Vama molo of who did. FUlth rmOl . he I lion unci s gt'egation 'amp' Al• Ad.erUting/Bullna .. Menlger Rick Manit 8ookka.por Mlrk Sollo ,.Produclron· Mary Imon Clrculallon Toml Ho. l1Izakl fuse to say wh th l' h 1000WS. though his p t'Sonal) olitl al1'Ol o.nlral.Man.g" I OpII.llona Harry K Honda through tUmor 01' 11 arsuy, who wu. nel d. hisgoaJ. we) lat-g lv POSTMASTER: S.nd ct.lng •• oladd,en 10 Poclflc CIIIIGn. was involv d. I Ie pnldcntly de U('\tj('Vl'(l. I' t)l' 0I\l' thing. til<.' PIX 941 E 3rdSI. ';200. Lo,"'no"I",CA900IJ' 1 70:1 dined to implicau' Clllyon ' with admilllstrutilHl Nis('i W("I'l' nbo ~ ,'.. .' '.'. P,..,. '. '...... , L \, ., " " ... , "'.' ",\ ..' ., '( 1ltrpt'()/,)I~'" ••••.• , 1~lho"cll li))' 'fllt'il' i'm'n' ')Ifdk • MAIL ORDER CHRISTMAS SUPPLEMENT / November 7,1986 - PAGE'A

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All books are frills-a half hour history of a award-winning releases: effort by the growers to promote printed In Japan where their high people and some of its brave men. "Sandakan NO. 8" (Academy the Yamato Colony label which standards of printing offer They showed a courage and Award nominee "Best Foreign represents freshness and quality. excellent photo reproduction. strength that derives from the Film " and Berlin Film Festival There are a variety of gift packs to steely resolve of the pioneer "Silver Bear Award" winner). and choose from in packaging ranging Japanese." " Riklsha-man" (Venice Film from shipping cartons to pewter JACL RECIPE BOOK Nisei Soldier, however, is only Festival "Grand Pri Award" designed tins. the first part of a longer film project winner). Drawing from their Japanese raditional Japanese, New on the Japanese soldier in WWII. As the availability of Japanese American heritage our Japanese T Mexican, and all-American Ding has set out to reconcile the films on video casettes continue to cultural gift items include recipes are included in this 30-minute limit imposed upon her. grow Video Action is continuously furoshikis, yukatas, and a beautiful 250-recipe cookbook. The Yet to be told is the unknown, adding new customers to their serving dish with koi design filled compilation of recipe favorites fascinating saga of other Nisei mailing list to receive information withJ.wo pounds of dried fruit. was assembled by 17 women of soldiers who courageously served on new releases. If you would like the Arts and Crafts Club of the New in "double jeopardy" as U.S. Information, Write or call Gregg Mexico JACL Chapter. Friends, Military Intelligence Service Yokoyama. c/o Video Action. NICHI BEl BUSSAN relatives. and members officers in the Asia and Pacific war contributed the recipes. Book zones. and during post-war ichl Bel Bussan stores sell a sales will go towards the chapter's occupaton of Japan. The new N myriad of Japanese dry building fund. M.I.S . story will be told as an goods such as kimonos and fab• enlargement of the 100th/442nd riCS, but it is their T-shirt designs drama. Pre-war Nikkei community for which they are most Widely and the disruption of family life in Known. Nichi Bel Bussan has the evaouation and internment are popularized such themes as covered in her ongoing film " HakuJln Desu," "Gaijin Desu," project. Income derived from the "SushI." and "Chlbi-Cnan." Video cassette sales of Nisei Soldier will be used as completion .' . money needed for this film version now in progress. Friday, November 7,1986/ PACIFIC CITIZEN- 5 JACL FINANCES ()wdfmed from Froat Page will continue to benefit year Venomous Attacks, Shameful Actions after year. JACL the possibility of other p0- In comparison, a regular 1000 tential problems within the or• organization that purports to pro• date was endorsed over another Club member will send his or by Mild Himeno ganization regarding adherence mote civil rights. Shame on us if by a "majority" at a meeting with her yearly membership fee of$55 Fonner VP of Planning to the specific guidelines of its it was done in the past, and past a "duly constituted quorum." No directly to National Headquar• section 001(cX3) tax~empt status. 1 am compelled to express my practice does not make it right quorum was involved, as the ters, where it immediately be• Hence, another reason for the views on certain statements Controlled bloc voting should be PSW endorsement vote was by comes part of the organization's contract with Arthur Young. made in PC columns in recent prohibited at National CoUncil maiL even after the legal counsel cash flow, but with no long-term "I think there are some other weeks. conventions and National Board had declared it null and void and benefit to the JACL problems in the organization that • The statement that Rose meetings. unnecessary. Proposed answers to the or• need to look at.. and the areas Ochi "did nothing" as member• I have no quarrel with indi• Out of 32 eligible chapters, we ganization's financial woes are fairly extensive," said Waka• are ship VP (Letters, Oct 24) is a vidual voting that results in a Harry Kajibara received 14 en• as numerous as the reasons be• bayashi "Arthur Young is looking false, simplistic statement· in• blo~ vote, but to use threats or dorsements. Some chapters ab• hind the projected deficit at the whole system, national and tended to polarize the election manipulate votes is undemocrat• stained or did not vote because One plan of strategy to erase chapters, so we can define where At every National Board meet• ic and entirely against freedom's of the legal counsel's ruling. the six-figure deficit is being for• we have those problems." ing, Ochi made presentations, in• tenets. The secret ballot and a There was no "clear majority" mulated now by Alan Nishi, sec• troduced new plans, incentives, delegate's right to vote his consci• (17). IJabWty Insurance retary-treasurer. Nishi will be projects, reports. Her efforts in Another unexpected expendi• ence should be held sacrosanct It was my privilege to serve presenting his proposed plan of conjunction with local chapter Otherwise, why bother to have a with Rose Ochi and Yosh Naka• ture faced this year by the JACL action at the February board chairs brought in many new was the more than 50 percent convention, or even candidate shima, both of whom deserve our meeting in San Francisco. quality members. speeches? 'jump in the organization's liabil• respect and support, but who The automated system was We should deplore the arr0- ity insurance rates. On a broader scope, Yosh Na• have been venomously maligned kashima, vice president of gen• voted down at the '84 convention gance and denigration of send• in recent months. My public Premiums, according to Waka• But membership problems are ing young delegates off to a con• bayashi, went from under $40,000 eral operations, has recommend• thanks to them for their courage multi-planular; deaths, dues and vention hog-tied. for last year's coverage to more ed the formation of a Manage• and sincere desire to serve JACL divisiveness have a lot to do with • The Pacific Southwest Dis• than $00,000 this year. But, he ment Audit Committee to exam• At this point, I am personally totals. trict Council was not totally hon• said, those new rates "are much ine JACL policies and fmances. reluctant to continue as a mem• • Controlled bloc voting is au• est if the Central Cal governor better than what most people are In a memo dated Sept 8, N aka• ber of JACL or to renew my tocratic and has no place in this was led to believe that one candi- experiencing." shima suggests that such a com• membership. Wakabayashi said the "good" mittee study the organization's rates were obtained by down-ro• compliance with its constitution the-wire shopping. ''During the and bylaws, as well as California National Convention," he re• non-profit corporate laws. 'Duke' Didn't Kill Bilingual Education called, "I was calling back and Nakashima also suggests that I forth, flying to get our insurance the committee, in a three- to six• by Clayton Fong economic conditions prevented teachers laid off In fact, the only coverage extended. We weren't month time period, look into the the limit from being reached in effect was to stop the premature at the deadline then, but I got appropriateness of the National A great deal of confusion has arisen over California Gov. George the past, today's strong economic - the coverage in place the Friday Board's mandate to transfer up extension of a $1 billion program Deukmejian's recent veto of As• growth and low prices will cause after I got back from the conven• to $75,000 to LEe. before it could be adequately re• sembly Bill 2813, the so-called Bi• the measw-e to go into effect next tion, around 4 o'clock It was go• Harry Kajihara, national pres• viewed. lingual Education Bill (see Oct 17 year. ing to expire at 5." ident, said he favors the idea of There are now several options an audit committee; however, he ro. Based on questions directed As a result of the spending available to the Legislature when Another actor contributing to limit., every program will be re• JACL's cwrent cash flow problem declined to commit himself to its to the Governor's Office of Com• it meets again in December. It munity Relation ,it appears that viewed to determine how the is deferred revenue from the formation at this time. may find ways to improve the much of this confusion stems from state can best afford the same cwrent laws and make bilingual 1(XX) Club Life Membership FUnd, "I will be meeting with Ron a misunderstanding of the bill it- seIvices provided in the past which, ironically, will benefit the [Wakabayashi] and Alan [Nishi] education more responsive. elf The Sunset Review Advisory organization in the long run. on Nov. 29 in Sacramento," he On the other hand, if existing said. "That's one thing we will be The fact is, AB 2813 was not a Committee, which recommended state regulations are allowed to As it stands now, an individual keeping the current bilingual may become a life member for discussing and rd rather not com• bilingual education bill. It was expire, California will still have ment on it until after we talk" an attempt to automatically ex• education program, did so \vith• a bilingual education program. a one-time payment of$500. That out considering the state spend• $500 goes into the trust fund and, Kajihara did say that h s tend five educational program , Federal laws on bilingual educa• the necessity of developing a five• including bilingual education, ing constraints. tion would take effect, and fund• in 12 months, interest generated The governor has asked the from that money is transfen-ed year plan that will provide direc• for another five years. ing would continue uninterrupt• tion for J ACL fmancial and man• Since alifornia' bilingual State Department of Finance to ed. Only the rules would change to the JACL So, revenue is de• look at the bilingual program as ferred for 12 months, but JACL agement concerns. ducation program i not due to -to the federal requll-emen xpire untilJune30,l987, the bill a part of the ntiI-e budget With• that are already the basis for came one year early. And it came out that information, no deci- California' law KOKUSAllHEATER ------without any substantial review of ions can be made about how Bilingual education has not th cost effectiveness of the state best to erve the need of the en• been eliminated. There is the 01' Continued &om front page tiI-e tate. The department's fmd• due to have two theaters (one program. portunity in the next eight months lating that he used to take his ings will come as a part of the with a capacity of 300, another AB 2813 also did not tak into to d cide the best way to meet mother to Kinema Theater in Lit• budgetary proc in early 198'7. with 150 seats). account the effects of Propo i• the needs of thousand of alifor• tle Tokyo after the war. His love tion 4, which will limit tate Whil the deprutment tudie nian who do not speak English. for Japanese culture was nur• If he gets those theaters, spending in 198'7. Approved b the program, ou can rest as- I am confident that those need tured when, at a young age, he Yokoyama hopes to show more ured that the governor's v to samurai classics and fewer teen• voters in UY79, Propo ition 4 re• will be met spent some time in Hiroshima quire that state spending not in• ha not affected bilingual educa• Prefecture's Takuma village, oriented movies. 'They're forced tion No programs were canceled, upon me," he said, complaining crease faster than population Fong is a represenlatitle if the Gover• where his grandfather served as and consumer price Although no funding was removed, and no nors Office oJ Community Relntitms. mayor. about the declining quality and Subsequently working as a quantity ofJapanese motion pic• fruit packer and as an interpre• tures. ter for the United States Armed But nonetheless, Yokoyama is Forces in two wars, Yokoyama proud of his Japanese ancestry Larry Collins: A Friend of the Nikkei finally got his wish in 1965 when and hopes to infuse his en• he purchased the lease for the thusiasm into the Sansei. by George Yasukochi in the vruious internment camps as an insurance consultant, travel• Kokusai Theater from Dr. Tsuta• "Japanese banks are taking Many Nikkei whose live were to ameliorate the harsh life there. ing to Southeast Asia, outh yo Ichioka and Kazuo Yano. over the world," he said proudly, enriched by the warm humani• His own co-op experience Amedca andAftica H had many One Kokusai relocation possi• and then as an afterthought: "But tarianism and friend hip of began in his UC Berkeley days in contacts with Japan e insw'• bility is Little Tokyo Square in they [theJapanese] should spend Lan)1 Collins are mourning his the mid-'3Os, when he was buy 1'• ance compani and wa once in• downtown Los Angeles, which is more money on movies." passing in Los Altos, Calif, on manager of the University Stu• vited to Japan to participate in Sept 25 at age 75. He had weath• dents Co-op Association, one of their m lings. ered the ravages of polio at age the few facilities that welcomed A memorial celebration was Japanese Phototype.ettins 38, but the lymphoma he con• minority students at that time. h ld Oct 2t) at Northbra m• tracted last year finally took its There he work~ closely with munity Chw'Ch in Berkele. . n• toll. prominent Nikkei leaders like dolence from Sens. Daniel Ino• Always an outspoken and ef• Yori Wad a, Kay Nobusada, Shiro llY and Spru'k Matsunaga w TOYOI PRINTING• CO. fective advocate of equal oppol'• Tokuno, and the late Peter Shino• read at th gathering, as well as 309 Sa. San Pedro St .. Los Angeles 90013 tunity and fair play for all Ameri• da and Tamotsu Shimazaki. Over a 1 olution from George Nishi• . (213) 626-8153 cans, Collins, a conscientious ob• the }eru'S, hundreds of Nikkei naka, pre id nt of the 100'442 jector, chose to serve as the Red students called the co-op home. V terans Association Cross field director with the Collin was al 0 on th staff of Collins is urvived by hi wifi l00th Infantry Battalion and Stil Hall, th univ rsity YMCA, Marion and 1.'.'10 sons, of 442nd Regimental Combat Team tog ther with Bob Akamatsu. Palo Alto and K vin of Eureka. UNITED WAY DONORS during WW2 in Italy and France. Support Japanese American community social Collins was th fu t presid nt services by DESIGNATING your United Way He was awarded th Freedom of Associated ooperative , Inc., donations to the: Medal for meritorious service. a gional whol al r origin lly Donations to Pacific Citizen Purple Heart veteran Tak Ya• located in aklal1d. During th Fol' Typesetting Ftmd lJttl., Tokyo Sef'\IIce Center, Inc. tabe of Berkel y recalls the help• po twru' y ru ,h haded th ANY other Incorporated non-profit social service ful support programs Collins pro• A I in w'auco d partm nt, th n As fN v. 1. 1 : $37,275.-12 8&1) agency can also be designated. The following Is a list of vided with the assistanc ofMik becam th local di trict mall• Thl- w k's total: $ 250. ( 2) some agencies who 818 LTSC members: Masaoka and others for th m• ag l' and later 1 gional manag l' Last ~ k ' ~ total: $37,025.42 (tI&) Aalan Rehabilitation Service. battled Ni~ i oldi rs. llins of Mutual lvic Ill. ut' ne , JapeneH Arnerlcen Community Servlc.. $50 m: F\lIniko & Et. uk K ndo ~rlcan attended 442nd I union in La wh re h mploy hi l'aka- n ..nee. Cultural.rid Community Center (in hono\' r ,iI IIl.Ju1\l' \' ' hi k ) J...... Welfare Righte Orgenlutlon Ang I . and Honolulu. kuwa and Asa Fuji a' nts. $200 f\ Ill: t ~ii ht.Tullt '(k~ h io k tl . Little Tokyo People'. Righte Org.nlzatlon PriOI' to Ulat, as a Wal' R loca• Aft l' 1 tiring in 1974, he had So. CtlI". Society For The J...,... Blind tion Authority official, h initiate I FrIend, of the Little Tokyo Public Ubrary s,n(a. OWl ' CIlS u signlllcnts with tIl 11. Ilk' on! I .". I I , th(' Ol'gatlizntic)1\ of ('o-op stOl '8 ohm! ('\' n' l'lopm nt Corp. • d.',t?() Iq 11 \ " ./1 6 -PACIFIC CITIZEN i Friday, November 7, 1986 Take Risks, Help Others, Matsui Tells Students by Robert Shimabukuro LOS ANGELES - Speaking be• fore approximately tm people Nov. 15 Orange Coun~ Sansei Singles will host a Dance Cele• 9p.m-1am bration at the Holiday Inn, 1850 S. Harbor Blvd. Tickets attending the USC Asian Pacific are $10 in advance and $12 at the door. Info: Harvey American Support Group Awards Hanemoto (714) 492-1229, or Grace Masuda, (714) 496- Banquet, featured speaker Rep. 7179. Robert Matsui (D-Calif.) exhorted CARSON students to take risks in order that doors may be opened for Nov. 11 Great Leap dance troupe, under the direction of artistic those that follow. 7::J>p.m director Nobuko Miyamoto, will perform atthe Univen;ity Theater ofCSU Dominguez Hills, 11XXl E Victoria St, Car• Other speakers at the dinner, son, Calif. Tickets are $5 for general admission and $2 for among them APASG president students and seniors. Info: (213) 51~ Irene Hirano and AsIan Pacific American Student SeIVices di• EL CAJON rector J.D. Hokoyama, also em• Nov. 21 Pianist Mitsuko Uchida will be presented in concert phasized the need for "success• Sp.m. with the English Chamber Orchestra, under the direction ful" Asians and Pacific Islanders ofAndrew Litton, at the East County Performing Arts Cen• to seIVe as role models and "door ter, 210 E Main St, El Cajon, Calif Tickets are $20 and $18. Group discount rates of$16 and $14 are available by con• openers" for generations to come.

tacting Mitsuo Tomita of the San Diego JACL chapter, Inspired by Judge Photo by Robert :>fllnflaDU'KUro (619) 4ffi.W79. Matsui thanked retired judge Guest speaker Rep. Robert Matsui chats with guests at APASG dinner. FRESNO John Aiso for seIVing as his per• sonal role modeL While a law Nov. 16 The 85th anniversaty of the Fresno Betsuin Buddhist "If I had listened to all those cannot really divorce themselves 9:30am Temple will be celebrated throughout the day on the student at Hastings College of church grounds, 1340 Kern St A social and annivernary Law in San Francisco, Matsui people who told me I was abso• from their community. Those banquet will follow at 4:30 p.m at the Las Vegas Room read a number of opinions writ• lutely nuts to think about going who have prospered take their of Hacienda Inn Info: (:?OO) 442 - 4054. ten by Aiso, the first Asian Amer• in TV, I would still be in Port• communities with them, he said, GARDENA ican Appellate Court judge, and land," she jok~ quickly adding, because they open doors for realized that ''the sky was the ''which isn't bad except that I those that follow. Nov. 15 A community forum on seniors' rights will be held at didn't want to stay there." 1-3::J>p.m the Gardena Valley Japanese Cultural Institute, 16215 limit" as far as his own goals Banquet Honorees S. &ramercy Place. Topics to be discussed are Social were concerned 'Give It Back' Honored at the banquet for ~urity, wills, and estate planning. The event is spon• Matsui urged the students to Those who have it a bit easier professional achievement and sored by the Japanese American Bar Association, Gar-• avoid being pegged into limiting right now "owe it to future gener• community seIVice were: dena Valley Japanese Cultural Institute and Gardena roles and to "set goals higher Pioneer Project No admission will be charged. Presen• ations to give something back to • Businessman Jack Lee, chair• tations will be translated into Japanese. Info: Donn than you think you can really the community," she continued man of the board. of First Public Ginoza, (213) 736 -3127. achieve." "It wasn't easy for many of us Savings and Loan, president of "If you fail," he said, ''you don't when we started out, but now LOS ANGELES Yee Sing Chong Co., Inc., and really have to worry about it, be• that we've done a little bit more, general partner of Summit West• Nov. 11 Carl Karcher, chairman and chief executive officer of cause the key is the fact that you we need to give it back" ern Ltd; Carl Karcher Enterprises Inc., will address the Asian did your best and that you tried. Toyota then presented a $1 (XX) • Community activist Royal Business League at its November business dinner meet• Ifyou're successful, then you can check to Hokoyama on behalf of ing at the New Otani Hotel, lID S. Los Angeles St Cocktail Morales, co-founder and presi• hour will begin at 6 p.m Dinner will be served at 7 p.m hopefully open the door for those herself, AAJA and "other Bruins dent of Search to Involve Pilipino Cost is $25 for members and $:l> for non-members in ad• that come after you, as Judge [from crosstown rival UCLA] in Americans and program direc• vance. Tickets will be sold at the door for $35. Info: Randal Aiso has done." the audience." tor of Pacific Asian Alcoholism Lee. (213)!ro-257l. KCBs.. TV news anchor and USC Law School student Mel Program; Nov. 13 Guest speaken; /Tom the Asian Health Project willlec• Asian American Journalists Ag.. ilomin, speaking on behalfoflast • Educator MaIy Chun Lee 10::J> am ture on osteoporosis, a brittle bone disease that affects sociation president Tritia Toyota year's scholarship winners, said Shon advisor for LA Unified mostly Asian and Caucasian women. at the Asian Human also urged students to take risks. that successful Asian/Pacifics Continued 00 Page 7 Care Center's Senior Services Project, 5211 W. Olympic Blvd Info: Miranda Ow, (213) 483-3840. ESTABLISHED 1936 Nov. 14 Asian American filmmaker Arthur Dong will screen Nat'l Business - Professional Directory 7 and 9p.rn. his latest work-in-progress, "Lotu ," at Tony Bill's NISEI Your busJne.ss card tn eadl iss ue for a balfyear (25 issues) .. th.e PC BusIness-Professional Directory screening room, 73 Markel St in Venic . Dong and is S12 per line. thre.e-Urwminlmum: l.arl/I! type. (12 pL) (X)UJItsas two lines. Logo same &ne rate. screenwriter Rebecca SoJaday will be present to dis• TRADING cuss the fllm after the screenings. Admission: $10 tax• Appliances - TV - Furniture deductible donation Info: Visual Communication, (213) San Jose 680-4462. 249 So. San Pedro St. Los Anaeles, CA 900 12 ASAHITRAVEL EDWARD T. MORIOKA, Realto. Nov. 11-12 UCLA's Center for Pacific Rim Studies will sponsor ' ul )C~"ent, Group Di8cowu... pe.x ..... re. 580 iii. Sib I .• S... ,j QM! 95112 (21 3) 624-660 1 Compulerized-8ond d t4(8) 559-8816 8.m. 998-8334 p .m . noon to 10 p.rn. a Pacific Rim exposition including cultural perform• I 1 J I ~ . Olympic 81.". Lo. AJ>jl. I•• 90Q 1 - ances lectures, panel discussions and documentary (2131623-0125/29. Ca11J...,o,C .. d). Watsonville, Calif. films on tile second floor of UCLA's Ackelman Union. FLOWER JEW GARDEN #2 Tom Nakase Realty Wo: Sue Fan, (213) :ni-/m4. Los Angeles Japanese ew Oun' HOlel, 110 ' ...... ~ ...... 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Nov. 16 3255 Wllshlro I. , Suite 830 Los Angelos 90010 2p.m. sono and herTokiwa-Kai classical dance group and the 382·225 S Sml Di 80, Culif. TIlt' hu.... rmom.tllin Shumi·No-Kai folk dance group, will lake place at the Sato Insurance Agencl< Il"'~. Nippon Kan Heritage Association, 628 S. Washington Sl 366 E. lSI St , Los Angolos . CA 0012 Paul H. Hoshi Illsuran e M8111 W akusugi, H",•. 626·5661 629-1425 11-2 -1(>110 :.." Su .. I)I< . ~<" c ,\ 1)2101 Ih..... (:n.p •·.. rm'" 8t.u.·k .. b~ a ...... t \. hUt"\ om",,\h\,')2:H -II:i7b It,· ••((>III,,,:.II .'3 (> :Ie> S\\ :1,,1 !'I. 0"''''''1). VII 11,11 II WEST COVINA Tsunelshllns. ~ncy, Inc. I;;U:II1I11I-I:1Ulllo\3UlIl.(I;3-<1,,;1I wOJ'lt~hop , 327 E. 2nd St .• SullO 2216 os Angele s 90012 Nov. 16 San Gabriel Valley Singles will present a 628-13 5 Venturn COllnty 14 p.m. "Living Singles," at tile F..ast San Gabri I Valley Japan !iC Community Center, 1::u3 W. Puente Ave. Hegistration 11 AHT Insurance Assoc., Inc. ( ~ Al.' IN l\1Al'Sl l llU ~ Al.n dbu : Wada Asato A~socI8t oS, Inc IlmU\ 'It "~ t.tNuuu' rdlAI t. ••U\fouILMllh, .. \\ u .... m'tl"... ~luth ·.,... is $5. Checks should be sent hy Nov. 10 to Sadako SOg!" 16500 S Wesl0rn Ave. N200, Gardena 90247 ~ . j' 1 . Mul.U ~ \,, ~, ,,~ ",,0, 'IIIU· I ;110 III :\ \\ • \\ It IUllj(hlll. 1)(: 2(101110 oka,49OO Temple City Blvd., Temple Oity, CA 91780. Info: (213) 516·0110 «:"",".111,,01 ' "30 \0 \11051'1117 -31111\1 \1111212\1( •.\ 1111 Fuml Kivan. (SIS) 338-1648. I I

Friday, November 7, 1986 / PACIFIC CITIZEN- 7 New Program to Help Refugees H.I. Deadlines Deadline for Holi• TORRANCE, Calif. - Alleviat• awareness and understanding of eChapter's 42nd annual dinner dance will take place Nov. 15 ing the high level of emotional refugee mental health. day Issue bulk-rate beginning at 7 p.m. in the Emerald Room of the Fireside Inn, distress suffered by thousands of Dr. Keh-Ming Lin, director of chapter ads is Nov. 15. 9001 Waukegan Road, Morton Grove. Event will begin with a Southeast Asian refugees is the the project, said that training in Deadline for all other 5 p.m. cocktail receptionlmini reunion for former Chicago resi• focus ofa new program developed sociocultural psychiatry and in ads is Nov. 30. Don't be dents who will be coming from several West Coast areas. Tickets at the Research and Education In• refugee mental health issues will are $19.75 per person and may be obtained by contacting Masa stitute (RED Inc., Harbor-UCLA be provided to six Southeast left out Send or call Nomw:a, (312) 775-6243, or To Sakamoto, (312) 724-7861. Medical Center. Asian psychiatrists "iho will be in your ads now! The primary goal of the new recruited nationwide. FRESNO program, which is being sup• ePerformance by On the Orient Express, a touring group of ported by a three-year grant from Asian American artists, will be co-sponsored by the chapter the National Institute of Mental CLASSIFIED ADS Nov. 2l, 8 p.m., at Fresno City College Theatre, 1101 E. University Health, is to increase the number Ave. Tickets, priced at $4 for general admission and $3 for FCC of Southeast Asian refugee 4-Business Opportunities 5-Employment students and seniors, may be obtained by calling (200) 442-8256 psychiatrists and to enhance the , or (200) 442-8254 between 8 am. and 8:30 p.m. Also sponsoring SO CALIF the event are FCC and Central California Asian Pacific Women. MATSUI DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATE Partner Wanted Japanese Amencan Cultural & Commun• SACRAMENTO Continued from page 6 Mineral Hot Spring desires one partner to ity Center to coordinate fund raising and e Rep. Robert Matsui will be a featured panelist for the chapter• School District's Asian Languages underwrite development and renovation. special events activities. Professional en• Possible tax credit. High profit potential. try level position with intensive training. sponsored seminar, '''rax Reform - How It Affects You," Nov. Program, founding member of Starting salary range: $23,000-30.000. 15, 1-4 p.m., at the Hoi Sing Restaurant, 7007 S. Land Park Drive. Asian Pacific Women's Network (714) 585-2757/585-2050 Deadline Nov. 26, 1986. Resume to: 244 S. San Pedro St., # 505, Los Angeles, CA Also scheduled to participate in the seminar are Gilman Lee, and founding president of Korean SANDWICH, BAKERY 90012, (2t3) 628-2725. Ralph Sugimoto, Ken Lonie and Warren Kashiwagi, all profes• American Educators Association; COOKIE FRANCHISE sional tax consultants. Admission is free. e U.S. District Court Judge Robert Takasugi, the first Japa• Wholesale-Retail Business 9-Real Estate SONOMA COUNTY Prime Location, $195.000 nese American federal judge. $60,000 down; Great Financing eFourth annual Sushi Night will take place Nov. 15,6 p.m., at LAS VEGAS, NEV. Receiving scholarships were: Call Kathy: (213) 874-5502 For sale by owner, 4 BR, 2 BA. cathedral Memorial Hall, 1200 Gravenstein Hwy., Sebastopol Cost is $5 Edmond Lee, Ramon Cabiling, ceiling, mbl firs, mirrors, Indry rm , patio, per plate with wine or tea Orders must be placed by Nov. 14 fully cptd, appllc, fully landscaped. Cali Lori Iwata, Ki Seo Kim, Sabrina (702) 648-3636 S125,000 and picked up by 6:30 p.m. on Nov. 15. To place orders, call Seafood Company Wong, Shellie Sakamoto, Gene Restaurant Clara Miyano, (1(17) 7624219, or Kinu Iwamoto, (1(17) '795-7~. Lau, Mignon Do Phan , Sai-Yuk ALBERTA, CANADA seeks partner buyout / $Ioan & % owner, Mfrs-Electrical Contractors: WEST VALLEY Ho, Lori Ohinata and Roxsanne approximately $150,000. ThIS super well-mamtamoo bldg In FairVIeW, ap• Tomita. Land / building I equipment included. prox 36.000 SQ ft oj }V9fehouse w/about 4,800 ePotluck dinner membership meeting will take place Nov. 15, SQ h o( office space: Sitting on 1.$3 ac. o( land, Rick (213) 539-1188 (or Just $675,000. on618.75 sq ft. Also thIS bldg 6 p.m., at 1545 Teresita Drive, San Jose. Agenda items include could be subdllllded IOU> 3 separale Units. JIM ROBINSON . RE / MAX Nth (403) 293·3335 the election of officers and members of the Executive Commit• Kiyoshi Mizumoto, 68 tee for 1987. Guest speaker will be Karen Koenigs from the of Chicago 5-Employment ONTARIO. CANADA accounting firm of Waddell and Reed. Koenigs will discuss FREEMAN "Financial Planning for Older Americans." Wo: Lu Hitomi, Passed away on October 20, GOVERNMENT JOBS Stb.040 - S59.230Iyr 37~2112 1986 in Chicago, IL. Now HIring Call (80. 5) 687-6000 Exl. R-1317for R.E. SERVICES INC. (400) currenl (ederal hst Toronto 4 + 6 plex apt. building, Bathurst The deceased is survived by 0 G. L. A. SIN G L E S SI., 8.33 ; 0 return, asking 5960,000. To• brother, Hiroshi and 2 nieces AIRLINE JOBS $17,747 to 563,459/ ronto commercial/res. bldg. Adelaide St. eAll are invited to the chapter's annual fundraiser, "Dance Off Caroline and June Mlzumoto. Year, Now Hlnng! CALL JOB LINE (518) W. exec. location and condo Net Income the Turkey," Nov. 29 at the Japanese Cultural Institute, 16215 459-3535 Ext A2948C. For Info_24 HRS. 66-521 4,000. bel. flnanc. asking 52.5 M. Oakville shopPing plaza, 22,657 sq ft net S. Gramercy Pl, Gardena. No-host cocktails at 7:30 p.m., dancing Income 66-$2.24 ,583. bel flnanc. asking Four Generations 52.69M to the music ofJohn Sherri from8p.m to midnight Non-singles of Experience .. . are welcome. Cost $8 per person. Tickets: Nikky, (213) 426-9571. ACCOUNTING Other good Investments available Oakville exc. restaurant, European style Wo: Marion, (213) 621-3345 or (114) 893-2158. FUKUI Small CPA firm San Fernando Valley for sale. Small European delicatessan seeking CPA or CPA candidate With 2-3 and several other bUSinesses at different MORTUARY years well rounded expenence. falmllar localions for sale. Please cali. EDSATO Inc. with Safeguard & Accutex systems. Aloha Plumbing FRIEDHELM KRUMME PLUMBING & HEATING 707 E. Temple St. Call (616) 906-9455 EOE (416) 842-869U Remodel and Repairs. Water Heaters, lic. #440840· • Since 1922 Los Angeles, CA 90012 Furnaces. Garbage Disposals PARTS - SUPPLIES - REPAIR m Jun~ro Serra Dr. Sin Glbrlel, CA 91n6 Serving Loa Angeles, Glrdana 626 - 0441 (213) 32Hi610, 293-7000,733-<1557 (213) 283-0018 • (818) 284-2845 Gerald Fukui, President From the Univ. of Washington Press Ruth Fukui, Vice President Nobuo Osuml, Counsellor A Current List of Distinguished JAPANESE COOK BOOKS ~HtO \tORI Books in Asian American Studies Kubota Nikkei ,.,;.- _~ •. -- --- . - r By speaal arrallgml.tnt with Ihe Ulliv. of Waslr1ll9COII Press. Favorite Recipes of I.D.C. Chapter Members ' ~~ ~ l ": $10.00 Each Delivered Ihe Pacific CIlrZtn O/ftTS books ill Arum Amencoll srudies "II clr( ;;;..~ro-~ basis of a OO dlrta shipmmc from UW Press ". 50m( licles ar( 0 11 Special Price to JACL Chapters M~~~~ I p~.l ~ ; i display ollly allire PC LIbrary. All Order and Inquiries to: ~ OSIII Kubo4a Monua,),) l _~~;:_=--= ~~:: ~ Seichi Hayashida, 231 Lone Star Road, Nampa, Idaho 83651 ______.. _.. ______911 Venice Blvd. To hlo Mori: Yokohama, Californ1a. 1985. 176pp. S7.95 (soft) F.rs. published III Los Angeles, CA 90015 1949, here IS a coli uonofstorics by a NISC.. writer~t III the 6ctionat ommunltyof okohama. (213) 749 - 1449 California. Frank Miyamoto: Social Solidarity: Among the Japan~e in eaule 1939, ~ R. Hayamlzu, President; H. Suzuki. 200pp (1984 reprint). S7.95 (soft) . A lassl p~wa.r (1936) study of a Japanese commuml) ~ It Is Getting Latel VP/Gen. Mgr.; Y. Kubota, Advisor. within the Iarg r onte t of the mal rilY society and larger h.stoneal pr Within (the 0 Impendlng Evacuauon) whl hilwa., moving. Those o( you who do not know and are Interesled In learning how your Japanese Serving 1M Community Mine Okubo: Citizen 13660.1946: 209pp (/983 reprilll). S8.95 (soft) The bool ha, first, second or last name Is written In Japanese charac ters, please ask your mother, for Over 30 Ye8rs captured all the bumbhngand fumbling of the early Evacuation day , aU the path os and mu(h of (ather or grandparents today! There are many dlf(erent characters used (or a name Ihat a general one or a the humor that arose lrom the parado of IlIzens imcmed.-MOT. Pao6 IIlIcn. common one will not do. Your parents actually searched (or a good name (or you. Find CHIYO'S John Okada: No-No Boy 1980: 176pp. S8.95 (soft) Fu'" pubh hed 11\ 1957. It out how it is written! 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GEORGE TAKEI Upcoming 1987 Escorted Tours Continued from Front Page Mexico Experience (Mex.Clty/Taxco/Merlda/Cancun) ...MAR. 11th 1987 WEST L.A. Welsh, Hollywood Chamber of worked with Takei since the in• Japan Spring Adventure (Ext-Hongkong) ... ,., ...... APR. 10th JACL Travel Program Commerce president; Johnny ception of the series, which pre• New Zealand-Australia (Ext-Tahiti) • ...... •..•...... APR. 24th miered in September 1966 and Grand China (Beljing/Xlan/GullinfShanghai, HongKong) .MAY 14th Administered by WLA Travel , Inc. Grant, Walk of Fame Committee Canadian Rockies-Victoria (8 days) ...... " ... , .•JUN 15th chainnan; and Dale Okuno of has since become ' a popular Japan Summer Adventure (Ext-Hong Kong) ...... , .•..JUl 6th For JACL Members, Asian Business Association, movie series. Hokkaido-Tohoku (North. Japan) ...... •...... , .SEP 26th which initiated the application Actor James Bong recalled East Coast & Fall Foliage (10 days) ...... •. , .... OCT 5th Family & Friends process for the star last year. that he and Takei played kidnap• Japan Autumn Adventure (Ext-HongKong) ...... OCT 12th 1986 Airfare: LAX-TYO-LAX Grand Far East (Taipei/BangkokfSlngaporef Speaker after speaker men• pers in a reeent episode of "Mac• MalaysiafHongKong & Ext Japan) ... NOV 5lh AFTER NOV. 1: $548* Gyver." "I hope we don t have to tioned Takei's civic activities, For full informalion/brochure such as his tenure on the South• do that too often ... We're always • 'HOT ITEM': TOKYO em California Rapid Transit Dis• fighting to have more Asian he• TRAVEL SERVICE (415) 474-3900 trict board of directors, as well as roes, and to me George is that 441 O'Farrell St., San Francisco, CA 94102 his acting career. today." But the focus was on his role The unveiling of the star was followed by a luncheon and din• as helmsman of the starship En• Going Places? Watch the 'PC Travel Ads! terprise, as he was joined by ner in Takers honor. "Star Trek" colleagues Leonard Nimoy (Mr. Spock); DeForest Kel• COMMUNITY TRAVEL - ley (Dr. McCoy); Walter Koenig SERVICE (Chekov); Nichelle Nichols (Uhu• • LOWEST AIRFARES TO IINov 8, Nov 22, Dec 6, Dec 20, 1987-Jan 10, Jan 24, Feb 7, ra); Gene Roddenbeny, creator JAPAN/ASIA Japanese American Travel Club of the series; and Harve Bennett, ENDORSED BY THE NATIONAL JACL Feb 21 , Mar 7, Mar 21 . $554-West Coast to Tokyo LAX: 250 E. 1st St., Los Angeles, CA 90012; (213) 624-1543 Includes round tnp direct fight from sa producer of the soon-to-be-re• round trip U.S. departure & custom tax; arnval transfer leased film "Star Trek IV." All of Toll Free: (800) 421-0212 outside CA Office Hours: from Nanta to Shiba Pali< Hotel (2 blocks * Japan Rail Pass OCQJ. them except for Bennett have (800) 327-6471 in CA M-F 9-4; Sat 9-2 from Tokyo Tower). rate based on dbl • HOTEURYOKAN PASS pancy, 4 Amencan breakfasts. half~ay To• "PRE-ANNOUNCEMENT" kyo lour; with option to e>C\end . • Arrange to Specializing in travel to VISII relatives or other tours Within Japan. Wesley UMW Cookbook 1987 Japanese American 18th Printing, Revised .Japan/Asia • 1987 Tour Dates Oriental & Favorite Recipes Travel Club Tours (415) 653-0990 (Oct. 27, 1986) Donation: $6 + Handling $1 ORIENT 1: Jan10-17 Wesley United Methodist Women 5237 College Ave. Sun Valley, Idaho , 566 N. 5th St., San Jose, CA 95112 Oakland CA 94618 Phyllis Murakawa , guide • SPRING I SUMMER I AUTUMN IN JAP AN 2: Jan 30 Departures: May 5, July 24 , Oct 16 11 days From $2,580 Sapporo Snow Fetlival Yuki Sato, guide AMAZING TOKYO -7DAYS • JAPAN & HONG KONG 3: Mar 12 -28 Departures : Monthly 15 days From $2,790 South America Tour $899 -SINGLE EXTRA $173 Toy Kanegai , guide INCLUDES: • ORIENT HIGHLIGHTS 4: Mar 14- Japan, Bangkok, Singapore, Hong Kong Trans Canal Cruise • Round Trip Airfare via Singapore Airlines. Phyllis Murakawa , guide • 5 Nights Accommodations at Sunshine City Prince Hotel Departures: Monthly 17 days From $2,995 with daily American breakfast. 5: Mar 27 - Apr 13 CHINA Japan Cheny 81ossom Tour • Round trip airport f hotel transfers. Roy Takeda , guide • One half-day Tokyo sightseeing tour. 6: Apr 17 - May 2 Departure Date: Every Saturday from D£\c. '86 - Mar. '87. • SPRING I SUMMER I AUTUMN IN cmNA Okllsiand Kyushu Spring Tour Sieve Yagi, guide Also. Japan Rail Pass and Hotel Pass (Other Cities) are available. Departures: Mar 21, June 20, Sept 26 16 days From $2,795 7: Mar 29 - ADr 5 • CHINA & TIBETAN CAPITAL - LHASA Caribbean Cruise JAPAN HOLIDAY TOURS Departure: Sept 5 17 days From 3,500 Bill Sakurai, guide (213) 484-6422 8: May 8 - May 22 SOUTHEAST ASIA Ura-Nihon Tour Toy Kanegai, guide 9: May16-May.25 American Holiday Travel presents • KUALA LUMPUR - INGAPORE - BONGKONG Historic Easlcoast Tour Weekly Thursday Departures 10 days From $1,049 Veronica Ohara , guide 1986 Tour Schedule-Itineraries 10: June 6 -Jun 28 • SINGAPORE - BALl- KUALA LUMPUR European Highlights Tour Southwestern National Parks Tour ...... Sept 30.-0ct. 4 Weekly Tnursday Departures 10 days From $1,298 JOin us and see the magnificence and natural beauty of our National Parks in Steve Yagi , guide the Southwest U.S. Beautiful photographiC scenery. You will be vIsiting: 11: June- ARIZONA: Grand Canyon, Monument Valley, Meteor Crater, Petrified Canadian Rockies Forest. COLORADO: Mesa Verde, Four Comers. -----, guide Tour Escort: Frank Hirata Tour Cost: $425.00 per person, TWin Share. 12: Jun 11- Jun 14 South American Holiday Tour ...... •... Nov. 5 - 20 River Rafting & lake Tahoe TANGO-ARGENTINA - BRAZILIAN-SAMBA Phyllis Murakawa, guide JOin us and see the beautiful, exotIC and historical countries of Brazil, and 13: Jun 5 - Jun 17 Argentina. Just In time for your Christmas shopping ... BargainS In gem National Parks & Canyons Tour stones, leather goods, furs, handicrafts, etc. . .. Visit the local Japanese Bill Sakurai, guide community In Sao Paulo. Brazil. . BRAZil - Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo, Iguassu Falls. ARGENTINA: 14: Jun 19 -Jul3 • NEW ZEALAND & AUSTRALIA - E cor ted Japan Summer Tour Buenos Aires. Monthly Departure 15 days From $2,835 Tour Escort: Ernest T. Hida. Tour Cost: $2083.00 per person, Twin Share. Roy Takeda , guide For information and reservations, please write or call: • TAHITI-N .Z. & AUSTRALIA - Escorted 15: Ju13 - Japan Basic Tour AMERICAN HOLIDAY TRAVEL Monthly Departures 16 days From 3,535 Yuki Sato, guide 368 E. 1st St., Los Angeles, CA 90012, (213) 625-2232 • CLOSEUP AUSTRALIA & N.Z. - Escorted 16: Jul5 - Jul17 YAEKO TSUBAKI Departures : Aug 11 , De 1 2] da s From $3 ,796 Candian Rockies Veronica Ohara, guide 3913V2 Riverside Dr., Burbank, CA 91505, (213) 849-1833 • INDEPENDENT AUSTRALIA & N.Z. 17: Aug 7- (818) 846·2402, ERNEST & CAROL HIDA W kly Departure 24 days From 2,999 Japan Basic Tour Mabel Kitsuse, guide .- CRUISES 18: Sep13- Auslralla MIS Tour KOKUSAI TRAVEL TOURS George Kanegal, guide 1986 GUARANTEED PRICES & DEPARTURES • MEXICAN RIVlERA CRUISE - Tropicale 19: Sep 14 - 30 Sunday Sailings 7 d y From $ 775 China Tour Mabel Kitsuse , guide NOV 17 - GRAND ORIENT ODYSSEY • BUDGET ALASKA CRUISE - Daphne 20: Sep 25 - Oct 9 Tokyo, Seoul, Singapore, Bali, Bangkok & Hong Kong. Sailing Aug 14 I Includ s air from LA ) From $1,395 HokllaldolUra·Nlhon Tour 16 Doys - 27 Meals + Inflight Meals - $2495. Veronica Ohara , guide • VALUE ALA KA RUISE - Rotterdam 1987 PREVIEW 21 : Oct 2 - OCI 24 ailing July 23 (Air to be added) 7 days From $1 ,725 Omote Nlhon Tour APR 2 - SPRING CLASSIC TOUR - JAPAN AND/OR KOREA I Yuki Salo, guide 12 Days - 26 Meals - $2295. Seoul 3 days $300. I SPECIAL 22: Oct 2 - Oct 24 MAY 21 - SOUTH AMERICA TOUR - 15 Doys - Most Meals - $2495. The Exotic Orient Tour Bill Sakurai, guide Sao Paulo, Iguassu Falls, Bahia, Manaos & Rio de Janeiro. • ONE WEEK-WAIKIKI 23: Oct 3 - Oct 14 JUN 26 - MINI ORIENT TOUR - 1 t Days - Most Meals - $1795. Departul' s : Weekly 8 day Ft'om $ 319 Fall Foliage Two Nation Tour Singapore, Penang, Bangkok & Hong Kong . Roy Takeda, guide JUl3 - HONG KONG & JAPAN - 13 Days - 26 Meals - $2295. • ONE WEEK-HONG KONG ONLY Departures : W ekly 7 day From $ 899 24: Oct8- JUL 30 - JAPAN FESTIVALS TOUR - 9 Days - 19 Meals - $1795. AustralialNew Zealand Tour Jlro Mochizuki , guide OCT 7 - NISEI VETS SU PER TOU R - 16 Days - 30 Meals • SHOPPING-SEOUL & HONG KONG Seoul, Toipei, Tohoku & Hakkaido - $2195. Departur s: W kly 9 days From $ 999 25: Oct 9· Chlna/Ura-Nlhon Tour OCT 22 - HONG KONG, OKINAWA, KYUSHU & SHIKOKU • PRE-MARDI GRAS: NEW ORLEANS TEAMBOATIN' Galen Murakawa, guide 13 Days - 29 Meals - $2550. Escorted by Sami Kushlda • Plus 20 Admlnlstrahv Fee OCT 31 - JAPAN ODYSSEY - Fall Foliage Tour D partul' : F b24 7 da s From $ 850 12 Days - 26 Meals - S2295. For Inlonnatlon, brochure. write to: NOV 10 - URANIHON I uUR - 12 Days - 28 Meals - $2295. Watch for More Exciting T ur ~s, NOV 21 - GRAND ORIENT 'TOUR - 14 Days - Most Meals - $1995. Announ ementsfi:omJAT ! L.A.TRAVEL Kuala lumpur, Kuchlng, Singapore, 8angkok & Hong Kong . REMARKS- All prices srown are on Sharing Room basls and for International Tro. I 12008 Ohio Ave. $8.00 U.S. 18)( must be edded. Due to seasonal nlrsurcharges and curroncy lIuctuations All tours include, flights, transfers, porterage, hotels, mOlt meals, beyond our control, prices ore subJect to h nge. Los Angeles, CA 90025 sightseeing, tips & taxes and touring transportation. Or Contact Your JATC Pirtiolpiling Agent (Plrtll' Lilt) (213) 820-5250, KOKUSAIINTERNATIONAL TRAVEL Ben Honde ...... (619) 278·4572: n Diego, A 820-3451 (day) 826-9448 (~V ) DII Mlyasalo ...... (213) 374·9621 ; RDdondo B h, A 400 E. 2nd St., Los Angeles, CA 90012 Gordon Kobayashi .... " ...... (408) 724-3709: W tsonvlllD, A 213/626-5284 Ruby Nlshlma/Eml MIs8kl .. ,',.,,' (916) 424-9oot : Sacrllmonto. CA Cho,ose 'PC' Advertis l'S