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Put Yourself Here National JACLS golf tourna• SinCCJ929PACIFIC CITIZEN ment puts you in the foot• steps of Tiger Woods. CALENDAR PAGE 10 The National Publication of the Japanese American Citizens league Conquering t~e Floating World u.s. Senate Passes The Southern California native broke into kabuki. Ilnmigration Bill Now other traditional Senate Bill 2611 is far The proposal, which was intro• actors are bobbing their friendlier than the more duced by U.S. Sens. Daniel Akaka heads to MP3s and hip• controversial House bill, and Daniel Inouye of Hawaii, as an hop. but some APA groups are amendment to the Senate's immi• saying it's not so different gration reform bill, was approved By LYNDA LIN unanimously May 18. The legisla• tion will help children of Filipino Assistant Editor By P. C. Staff and Associated Press OLD ScHOOL PLAYBOY: World War II veterans immigrate to Ken Kanesaka as With every furrow of his brow Legislation to secure U.S. bor• Sanzan Nagoya, a very and fiery sidelong gaze, porcelain ders and offer millions of illegal handsome playboy type 'Gil'"'' CIRRlt wIth IHI skinned Nakamura Gankyo infus• immigrants access to the American who appears as a hllll, ,,.,,11, , SlllItllI II "RII es new energy into the ancient art dream cleared the Senate May 25. ghost to his lover. IRI, wllh th' .th,,. hlRd, 11,.1" of kabuki. As Sawaichi, the blind The Comprehensive Immigration man tortured by the question of Reform Act of 2006 (SB 2611) IthIPS ",.th,1' Inl. th' shlllows. ' his wife's fidelity, he is alternate• Nisei-han (2.5 generation) hiking. passed with a 62-36 vote, clearing ...... :.. Eun Sook Lee, NAKASEC ly despondent and remorseful - blood flows in his veins, which "I think children always love a the way for compromise talks with every inch the epitome of regal some critics call an affront to the fantasy world or a world of make• the House and its more conserva• the United States. Family-sponsored theater idol. deep-rooted traditions of kabuki. believe where they can disappear tive measure - with no guarantee immigrants from the Philippines Except his real name is Ken For centuries, kabuki star begat into," said Ken via e-mail from of success. have the longest wait times in the Kanesaka, a 25-year-old native of other stars through a direct blood• Japan. His earliest memory of the Reaction has been mixed world before visas are scheduled to Huntington Beach, Calif., who line, giving the art form - which ancient theater art came from I amongst Asian Pacific American become available to them. The aver• was swallowed up into the world uses classical Japanese language videotapes, which he studied. groups. The legislation includes a age wait for Filipinos to receive a of kabuki as a toddler and reborn - an air of mystery. Then Ken intently. While his peers made I provision that would help reunify visa is 20 years. as a dashing kabuki actor - the entered their world from stage left fruitless jabs at cultural activities I families separated because of a "The Filipino Veterans from first Japanese American to break not speaking a word of Japanese backlog in visa applications to the into this cloistered theater world. and loving, of all things, golf and See KABUKI/Page 4 I State Department. See SB 2611/Page 6 Are AA Girls Part of Looking at the Entire Legacy Alflerican History? of a Man, Even the ·Tarnishes Parents and activists are parents, some unwittingly, to buy A veteran Congressman another calls attention to outraged that the American their ultimate play toy: an American 1 Jackson's softened feature as Girl doll. But for Asian American and beloved alumnus of the Girl historical doll collec• University of Washington a man who later atoned and tion continues to lack an girls looking for the elusive doll that championed Civil rights. can represent what they see in the lives on through a bronze AAdoll. monument modeled in his Above all, many say, the See AMERICAN GIRUPage 12 1 likeness. Does present day bust is modeled after a By CAROLINE AOYAGI-STOM context absolve Scoop human being. Executive Editor Jackson from his WWII University officials hope Jackson's transformation in legacy? Drive over to The Grove shop• the context of social justice ping complex in mid-town Los will find a more prominent By LYNDA LIN Angeles, home of the new location in students' minds. Assistant Editor American Girl store, and be pre• In a leafy area in front of the pared to fight for a parking spot and school of international stud- Henry M. "Scoop" Jackson's bide away time in endless lines. Scoop's bust now stands outdoors. ies, also named after the late image etched in stone contains dual FAO Schwarz has nothing on this Democratic senator, Anand identities. The late Washington state store; endless rows of dolls, books, University of Washington. One part Yang stopped a few students breez• senator's bust hewed out of bronze and accessories are lined wall to of history illuminates his hard-line ing by to ask about Jackson's identi- was recently brought out to the open wall. POSItIon against Japanese after years of obscurity at the Americans during World War II, See JACKSON/Page 4 This is the home where millions The American Girt's 'Jess' doll. of young girls have dragged their FROM THE MIDWEST PhoeniX :RiSing: Amache Camp Gels Formal Landmark Designation Leadership ror a New Making a Point at By ASSOCiATED PRESS generation Patriots Point GRANADA, Colo.-The pil• grimage to the Granada By BILL YOSHINO Relocation Center was excep• MDC Regional Director tionally poignant this year as it The sight of a steady flow of marked the former internment excited visitors eagerly streaming camp's design.ation as a national onto the USS landmark. Yorktown, a The site was formally dedicat• World War II ed May 20 as a National Historic JACL National Convention aircraft carrier, Landmark by Ken Snyder, contrasted with regional superintendent of the June 21-24, 2006 PHOTO: AMBER CARUlE, AMfCHE PRESEFrVATiON SOCIETY National Park Service. Chandler, Arizona the purpose of a Rev. Kanya Okamoto leads a prayer. visit John "This is an important day for Tateishi and I all - it's a culmination of more Granada," said Derek Okubo, the recently made to the Patriots Point than 20 years of work from the son of an Amache detainee. "It's a 2 Naval and Maritime Museum in Japanese American community story I hope will continue the in Denver and the town of WEEIiS See YOSHINO/Page 6 See AMACHElPage 2 2 LEITERS/SPRING CAMPAIGN PACIFIC CITIZEN, JUNE 2-15, 2006

f'" PACIAC CITIZEN ~ SPRIN~ CAMPAIGN I 2005 WINNERI GMEDRIA Staying Connected in an ~ Awards In Writing ~ Interconnected World By SHELDON ARAKAKI the April edition of Rumpus and its depiction of APAs and the APA stu• HONORING THE PAST: PACIFIC CITIZEN This past January, I had the oppor• dents fighting back. Participants of the tunity to visit the Pacific Citizen s And just as the JA community, 250 E. First Street, Ste. 301, Amache pilgrimage new home in Little Tokyo as the new now in its fIfth generation, sees Los Angeles, CA. 90012 also celebrated the Tel: 213/620-1767, PNW district representative at the demographic forces changing the camp's official land• 800/966-6157 annual adviso• face of the c;ommunity, the P. e. too mark status. Fax: 213/620-1768 ry board meet• has evolved over the past few years, E-mail: [email protected] PHOTO: AMBER CARLILE www.pacificcitizen.org ing. changing its design, covering stories There I met that other AA publications haven't AMACHE children who died in Camp Executive Editor: a very commit• covered, adding the "Memoirs of a (Continued from page 1) Amache. Caroline Y. Aoyagi-Stom ted and incred• Non-Geisha" column written by a Okubo's late father, Henry, and Assistant Editor: ibly hardwork• voice from a younger generation and healing process across racial and other Americans were imprisoned Lynda Lin generational lines. Our desire is at the camp between spring 1942 Office Manager: ing four-person running more in-depth full-page arts award winning newspaper team who and entertainment features. that we all can learn from this and January 1946. At one point, it Brian Tanaka ~the Circulation: Eva Lau-Ting publishes a 12-page issue every two And last year, the P. e. took anoth• experience to avoid similar mis• held nearly 7,600 people weeks except for December when er step forward and used the funds takes in the future." 10th-largest community in Publisher:Japanese American they produce that humongous raised from the 2005 Spring The local JA community has Colorado. Citizens League (founded 1929) worked with the town of Granada "My parents, their families and 1765 Sutter Street, San Holiday Issue. Like the rest of the Campaign to extend its reach and Francisco, CA 94115, tel: JACL, they do so much with tight audience by establishing the P. e. for the past two decades to pre• thousands of other innocent 415/921-5225 fax: 415/931- budgets and resources. Web site (www.pacificcitizen.org). serve and maintain the site for Japanese Americans were patriots 4671, www.jacl.org I saw and heard first hand how This year the P.e. wants to take its educational purposes. during World War IT and after," JACL President: Ken Inouye much effort goes into producing this outreach even further by taking the The former internment camp• Okubo said. "Despite being Nat'l Director: John Tateishi site on the plains of southeastern stripped of their rights, homes and Pacific Citizen Board of editorially independent but national P.e. Web site to the next level and Colorado housed more than businesses, thousands of them Directors: Gil Asakawa, chair• publication of the Japanese adding more functionality and fea• person; Roger Ozaki, EDC; American Citizens League. And I tures. If you are like me and read 10,000 people of Japanese ances• defined themselves by not allow• Casey China, MDC; Kathy can only say after this experience newspapers from all over the coun• try during World War IT. ing this injustice to stop them Ishimoto, CCDC; Nelson Nagai, that I appreciate the P.e. even more try and the world on the Internet, you The camp, 17 miles east of from succeeding in this country." NCWNPDC; Sheldon Arakaki, Lamar, included 550 buildings on The site, officially called the PNWDC; Larry Grant, IDC; when it arrives in my mail. know the P.e. needs to address con• Granada Relocation Center, Sharon Kumagai, PSWDC; The staff receives hundreds of tent AND distribution channels in 640 acres. Nothing is left but the Maya Yamazaki, Youth. unsolicited stories and press releases this ever interconnected world of concrete foundations of the bar• became known as Camp Amache EACH week. Caroline and Lynda ours to remain relevant - especially racks. A camp cemetery includes for the daughter of a Cheyenne r-NEWSIAifoEADLiNE:--l a memorial near the graves of 11 Indian chief.• FRIDAY BEFORE DATE : have to sort through these and keep with the younger generations, our OF ISSUE. : on top of major stories and breaking future. Editorials, news and the opin- I news to produce an issue that fol• So if you haven't given before to ions expressed by columnists : ~~.u ~ other than the national JACL I lows the P.e. s vision to report and the P.e. Spring Campaign, send a Editor president or national director I educate "on national issues affecting $20 bill in an envelope, or write a LL.=:=====::==:::::Em::;:::mmaE=:::::E__ E::::::::ilEiEilB:d..::J do not necessarily reflect JACL I policy. Events and products the JACL, the Japanese American check for $25, $50 or join me ?n the . We Should Never Forget legal success that JAs would enjoy advertised in the Pacific community and the larger Asian Wall of Fame at $150. And If you • Citizen do not carry the implicit in attempting to right the wrong of endorsement of the JACL or American community." have given in past campaigns, but I Mltsuye Endo wartime incarceration. But as legal this publication. We reserve the You see this with recent stories L ______right to edit articles. _ have not yet given in this campaign, In any list of the most important successes go, it was enough. ranging from the JACL signing onto please consider adding an extra $25 members of the N"Isel generauon..; , With the measure of freedom PACIFIC CITIZEN (ISSN: 0030- amicu brief in lawsuits challenging over your last donation. the name of Mitsuye Endo should wrung from her victory, Nisei who 8579) is published semi-monthly the domestic spying program, to the But hurry. Summer solstice is just be near the top. Of those who took may never have known her name, except once in December and story about two veterans of different c~rner. January by the Japanese around the Thank you for their cases to the U.S. Supreme steeled in determination that · the American Citizens League, 250 wars - one Nisei and the other your support. Court in the dark days of wartime darkness of the past would not hold E. First Street, Ste. 301, Los Yonsei - and their remembrances, incarceration, she brought to the them back, forged the inheritance Angeles, CA. 90012 OFFICE to APA groups rallying against Sheldon Arakaki currently serves on Court the purest possible embodi• that is now ours. HOURS - Mon.-Fri., 9 a.m.-5 immigration bill HR 4437, to contro• the P.e. editorial board representing p.m. Pacific Time. ©2006. ment of the legal cause that was the In those years, Misuye Endo versy at Yale University surrounding the PNW district. Tsutsumi, who as a young woman Annual subscription rates: most important for Japanese NON-MEMBERS: 1 year-$40, Americans to win. had emerged from obscurity to win payable in advance. Additional LIKE WHAT YOU SEE? • And win she did. The prize: the this victory for all of·us, returned to postage per year - Foreign peri• p------principle that the War Powers confer a private life of her own choosing in odical rate $25; First Class for I www.pacificcitizen.org no implied authority to incarcerate a different place and time. We who U.S., Canada, Mexico: $30; Airmail to Japan/Europe: $60. I . Launch the Web site into the next online journey an admittedly loyal citizen who, knew her only by her name have (Subject to change without because loyal, presents no threat of thus been unable to celebrate her, notice.) Periodicals postage paid I espionage or sabotage. but none of us should ever forget at Los Angeles, Calif. Surely, the pronouncement of the her.• Permission: No part of this publi• I Court that December day in 1944 cation may be reproduced with- ;eJe,ee~ out express permission of the I was not as sweeping a statement of publisher. Copying for other than principle as she or her lawyers Davis, Calif. personal or internal reference use I would have wanted. It did not, for without the express permission of example, return her to California to CORRECTION RC. is prohibited. I regain the job that she had lost. And In the May 19-June 1 article, POSTMASTER: Send address certainly, it was not as pointed a "Carving Out the Omaha School changes to: Pacific Citizen, c/o I JACL National Headquarters, statement of right as two of the jus• System Along Racial Lines;' the 1765 Sutter St., San FranciSCO, I tices would have wished to name of the legislature was CA 94115. announce - that the exclusion and identified as the Omaha I incarceration' were an uncon• Legislature. The correct name is scionable act of racism and uncon• the Nebraska Legislature. 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Because of space limita• of disloyalty. master to include pericx::li.cals in tions, letters are subject to abridgement. Miss Endo's long-ago victory in Although we are unable to print all the letters your change of address (USPS we receive, we appreciate the i(1terest and Form 3575) the Supreme Court would endure views of those who take the time to send us for a generation's time as the only their comments. PACIFIC CITIZEN JUNE 2-15, 2006 NATIONAL NEWS 3 I National Newsbytes , New Orleans' APA Community Protests Landfill By P.e. Staff and Associated Press 'What is clear is that these are sha/..j'foundations on which to ground a con• By P.e. Staff and Associated Press troversial and potentially hazardolls policy decision ... - Rep. Honda Hundreds of Vietnamese Wen Ho Lee Case May Be Settled American families in New WASHINGTON-The U.S. Supreme Court delayed a May 22 decision Orleans whose lives and liveli• on whether to take up a fight over reporters' confidential sources, because a hoods were tom apart by last former Los Alamos National Laboratory scieqtist's lawsuit may be settled. year's hurricanes fear their sham• A lawyer for former nuclear weapons scientist Wen Ho Lee told the court bled homes will be subject to in a letter last week "there have been recent settlement discussions with the another disaster - but tlris one is government in the underlying case," in which Lee accused the government not so natural. of violating his rights under the Privacy Act. Some 7.2 million tons of hurri• Lee was never charged with espionage. He was arrested in December cane debris needs to be dumped 1999 and charged with unlawfully copying material. but the Chef Menteur landfill can He spent 279 days in solitary confinement before pleading guilty in only accept 2.6 . million tons, September 2000 to .a single count of downloading data to computer tape. according to a New York Times PHOTO: FLOYD MORI The government dropped 58 other counts and U.S. District Judge James report. More than 1',000 Residents try to rebuild their homes in March. The new landfill near Parker apologized to Lee. Vietnamese American families their community will be yet another battle for the downtrodden. live less than two miles from the -- Commission Passes Ordinance to Help , edge of a new landfill, which emergency permits in the last "The arguments again~ Chef Preserve San Francisco's Japantown opened on April 26. decade, according to a statement Menteur are suffi,cient grounds to by Congressman Mike Honda. keep the site closed," said Honda SAN FRANCISCO-The city's Planning Commission on May 25 unan• The local Vietnamese American The state has agreed to do some in a letter. "Arguments in favor of imously approved two Japantown ordinances to help protect its cultural community, APA groups and envi• extra monitoring of groundwater, the site seem far less compelling. character. ronmentalists protested the landfill Dr. Brown said. But it has deter• "The site mayor may not hasten The ordinances establish controls and procedures governing any change and accused local and federal offi• mined "there's nothing toxic, clean up. What is clear is that these of use within that district and sets up a Japantown special use district area cials of ignoring regulations. In nothing hazardous," he continued. are shaky foundations on which to generally bounded by Bush Street, Geary Boulevard, Laguna Street and response, Ma:yor Ray Nagin "There will be no impact" on the ground a controversial and poten• Fillmore Street. . ordered a temporary closure to run community, which is sometimes tially hazardous policy decision The next step will be the San Francisco Board of Supervisors' Land Use tests. calted Versailles. without extensive environmental . Committee slated for June 7. Vietnamese Americans fear the dumpsite will affect their water But Congressman Honda, chair• studies or public input." man of the Congressional Asian The letter was co-signed by U.S. Civil Rights Groups Urge Lawmakers to Act supply. The state and the Army Corps of Pacific American Caucus Representatives Neil on Voting Rights Act Reauthorization Bill 'Enginee~s, which is handling · (CAPAC). and member of the 'Abercrombie, D-Hawaii, Xavier . \ WASHINGTON-Civil rights groups are pushing lawmakers to reautho• cleanup in the city, say that with• House Committee on Becerra, D-Callf., Ed Case, D- rize three additional key provisions.,. in the Voting Rights Act set to expire in out the dump, the cleanup would Transportation and Infrastructure, Hawaii, Al Green, D-Texas, Zoe. August 2007. . take much longer. issued a May 24 letter to the U.S. Lofgren, D-Calif., and Madaleine The House Judiciary Committee on May 10 passed HR 9, the Fannie Lou The dumpsite also abuts a Almy Corps of Engineers urging Bordallo, D-Guam. Hammer, Rosa Parks and Coretta Scott King Voting Rights Act wildlife refuge and is unequipped that a proposed New Orleans land• For nbw, New Orleans' Reauthorization and Amendments Act of 2006. to handle dangerous waste. The fill opposed by the city's Vietnamese Americans are gearing This legislation, which has been introduced in both the House and the project has been denied two non- Vietnamese American community up for another battle after the Senate (SB 2703), would reauthorize and restore expiring portions of the not be opened. storms . • 1965 Voting Rights Act. • JACL Continues to Criticize Adidas Over Racist Sneakers The JACL sent a May 15 letter to The JACL expressed concern Rob Langstaff, president of Adidas that no one in the entire chain of .in the America, expressing the organiza• command had the sensitivity to rec• tion's concern about Adidas' ognize that the designer shoe had a News response to ilie marketing of its Y 1- . racist image and is offensive to Huf sneaker, the Ray Fong 'sneaker, APAs. The fact that the image was which caricatured an Asian face. created by San Francisco-based By Pacific Citizen Staff The Portland JACL brought the artist Barry McGee does not excuse Hawaii Reverend, Wife Honored matter to the attention of national the use of such a blatantly racist JACL. image, said Tateishi. with Their Own Day Calling Adidas' response to the Adidas Y1 Huf with Ray Fong. "Did no one at Adidas even Rev. Hosho and Mrs. Mieko outcry of protest from the Asian begin to understand how offensive Shindo were honored by members Pacific American community as announced 27 days later that it had tlris image would be to Asian Mi~sion of the Kona Hongwanji in I "cavalier," JACL Executive made a decision to withdraw the Americans? That Barry McGee Kealakekua. Rev. Shindo left the Director John Tateishi noted that shoes in response to the-communi• may not be the best ~rson to judge Buddhist Temple in Hawaii after nearly a month passed before ty. what he views as a playful self-por• almost 20 years of serVice to become Adidas made the decision to with• Tateishi accused Adidas of being trait as something that would the resident minister of the Salinas draw the sneakers from stores. "disingenuous" by its comments offend other Asian Americans?" the Buddhist Temple and visiting minis- Initially refusing to remove the that they were pulling the shoes JACL letter to Langstaff asks. . ter at Monterey Buddhist Temple in shoes when the APA community from the shelves in response to the T~teishi has asked for a meeting CaIuornia. Mrs. Shindo taught Japanese language school at the temple. protested the racist image, Adidas community's protests. with Langstaff. • Mayor Harry Kim of the County of Hawaii, declared May 21 as Rev. & Mrs. Shindo Day on the.Big Island. Pelosi and Woolsey Secure $250,000 for Historic Angel Island JACLer Honored for Outstanding Service in Public Safety By Pacific Citizen Staff a larger effort to preserve the Angel said Woolsey. Brian Moriguchi of the San Fernando Valley JACL was recognized at Island Immigration Station. Last The spending bill was approved the Third Annual Asian Pacific Islander American Heritage Month Angel Island, the "Ellis Island of year, Woolsey and Pelosi led a suc• by the House last month and must Celebration May 19 hosted by Calif. Assembly Member Judy Chu. the weSt," has received federal cessful effort to pass legislation now be approved by the Senate Moriguchi was honored for his contributions in public safety. funding for much needed revitaliza: (H.R. 606) authorizing $15 million before a final version is passed by tion work. for the preservation .of the Angel both chambers and then sent to the Clovis Star Debater Vies for House Democratic Leader Nancy Island immigration Station. President for his signature . • National Championship Pelosi, D-San Francisco, and From 1910 to 1940, Angel Island Congresswoman Lynn Woolsey, D• was the first stop for many immi• Elizabeth Takahashi of Clovis, Calif. will com• ~Angell$land was Officially Petilurna, secured $250,000 in fed• grants who came to the West Coast. pete at the National Sf1eech Championship in I " ipcorporated into ~e Californifi .... $ eral funding for the renovation of On the island these immigrants, . Dallas, Texas June 18-23. She was selected to rep• S~ate Park system In 1963: the Angel Island Immigration most of Asian descent, were not f resent Central California after a three-day National Station Hospital Building. greeted with open arms. For many, Forensic League qualifying tournament. -In 1991, the Angel Island The funding, awarded through it was like a prison - the windows Takahashi, the daughter of Chuck and Alyce : Itnmigration Stiation was desig• the Save America's Treasures pro• were barred, sleeping quarters were . nated as a National Historic Takahashi, qualified for the national tournament in gram and included in the fiscal year overcrowded and interrogations Landmark. two separate events: original oratory and Lincoln• 2007 Interior Appropriations bill, were a way of life. Douglas debate. will be used to rehabilitate the his• "The story of Angel Island is one . - In 2000, Angel Island was I toric hospital building, which will that is too often lost between the placed on "America's 11 Most Chandler Takes Command serve as a museurn and genealogical pages of our nation's history," said < E'ndangered HiStoric Places" list .Capt. Donald R. Chandler recently took command of the Amphibious .. and became an offiCial project of research facility. Pelosi. "I am proud to be part of Base in Little Creek, VIrginia. The change of comrrtand was made official in " Save America's Treasures, a The hospital building was trans• restoring the 'Ellis Island of the a May 11 ceremony. Chandler's personal decorations include the joint p(ogram of the National formed into barracks for the U.S. West,' because it helps preserve the Meritorious Service Medal, the Navy Commendation Medal and other unit .. Trust for Historic Preservation Army during World War II. rich history of irrunigration to and service awards .• and the White House Millennium The hospital renovation is part of America for future gel}erations," --. CounoH. 4 NATIONAL NEWS PACIFIC CITIZEN, JUNE 2-15, 2006 KABUKI embraced by the most famous kabu• JACKSON (Continued from page 1) ki actor in the world was as natural (Continued from page 1) as the flow of water from melting before quitting altogether, young snow. ty and legacy. '1 have 110 qualms about ; Ken, for hours, would practice act• "Upon graduating, the 'National There were a few blank looks and honoring Henry :; ing out plays with very adult themes Living Treasure' Nakamura Ganjiro . guesses, but the answer was always JocksqlJlot his contri* :J of love, betrayal and suicide. ill (now Sakata Tojuro lV) told me no. , bution co the Uniy,ersity "My world, when I was y.ounger, that if I wanted to study kabuki "We need to use this as a teacrung can evolve over ' of Washington, butto was the world of kabuki. I could be more, why don't we study together. . moment," said Yang, director of the a villain, or a hero, and I think that is I was the first non-Japanese citizen Jackson School of International ~ ~ j' ~;1E~ what attracted me the most," added to be accepted into the kabuki the• Studies. .. .. Ken. ater in its 405 or so year rustory." A larger than life regional figure, . ! - ShingoYam~. ~ The cultural seed was planted at Suddenly American English · Jackson served nearly 43 years in I University of l . Washington student an early age for Ken who started newspapers made its debut in the the House of Representatives and dance lessons in Los Angeles at dressing rooms. the Senate. He even made two three wrule accompanying rus sister "There are other young actors unsuccessful bids for the U.S. presi• senator also championed rugher the lesson of Scoop Jackson was to classical Japanese dance classes. who sip their coffee, listen to their dency. But rus Congressional career education and social welfare pro• that he changed over the years, Through the sea of female students, iPods. Others talk about the new was ' fraught with contrOversy. He grams ... but that doesn't mean softened his views to the point that who she knew would abandon clubs opening up and of course the entered Congress at 28 as its we're going to gloss over rustory." he was in some ways the antithesis dance to start families and careers, latest rup hop artists." . youngest member and spent rus first University officials met with the of who he was some 40 year~ ear• Madame Bando Mitsuhiro saw Ken was given the stage name of two terms in the House dealing with Asian Pacific American community lier." longevity and passion in Ken. Nakamura Gankyo - "gan" inher- WWII. last year to talk about the move. But not all are convinced. Srungo 'Jackson strongly supported the School officials also plan to host a Yamazaki, a sophomore at the uni• wartime removal and intemment of classroom discussion about versity, says he has mixed feelings JAs, he opposed JAs in. the Armed Jackson's personal transformation. about the bust. The plaque beneath Services and later resisted the return "We didn't have a problem with the sculpture lists Jackson's "com• of JAs after the war, said Yang. them moving the bust," said Jeffrey mitment to qUality education, In 1943, Jackson and the Seattle Hattori of Seattle JACL. "We spent human rights and the importance of Chamber of Commerce expressed most of the time talking about how creating new generations of leaders interest in potentially using we can use Senator Jackson's career and specialists in international Japanese internees as forced labor to as it evolved in terms ofrus position affairs." address the wartime shortage in on internment, and have an honest The "human rights" . part sticks farin labor. conv~rsation with students about uneasily with him. Later as a close friend · of Sen. social justice. ''1 have no qualms about honoring Daniel Inouye, Jackson came "People can evolve and policy Henry Jackson for rus contribution around and was part of a group who can evolve over time," Hattori to the University ofWasrungton, but supported the Senate bill for repara• added. to exaltrus commitment to human tions. MASTER AND DISCIPLE: The National Living Treasure' Nakamura JACL Executive Director John rights is ignorant and disrespectful," Ganjiro III (left) and Nakamura Gankyo AKA Ken Kanesaka. Jackson, a University of Tateishi said the Jackson he knew said Yamazaki. Washington alumnus, was also crit• was a strong supporter of redress. Jackson, who hlrnself earned the Her vision proved prescient. Ken ited from rus teacher and ''kyo'' icized for rus hawkish position on "In much the way Earl Warren nickname "Scoop" from a then pop• is currently the youngest member of from Kyoto. the .vietnam War and Central changed rus views from World War ular caitoon character, also has a Japan's Grand Kabuki Chlkamatsu• "My teacher told me that since rus America in the Iran Contra Affair. II to the civil rights movement, U.S. Navy submarine, a rugh school za and he counts a kabuki living leg• family is from Kyoto and his style His Congressional career ended in . Scoop Jackson seemed to have and wilderness area named after end as rus mentor and namesake. of acting is Kyoto, I am now a 1983 when he died from an aortic changed and certainly was a strong rum. Will the Real Kabuki Actor Kyoto actor. Also, since my name• aneurysm, but rus tarnished legacy supporter of redress." said Tateishi. For a brief time after rus death, Please Stand Up? taking was in Kyoto, I should never kept the oversized bust, a gift from "We all pay for our sins of the past the Seattle-Tacoma International orget where started out in my the Jackson Foundation in 1984, in "Kabuki was known to be the at me points in our lives. I think Airport was renamed after him, but kabuki life." the shadows of a fourth floor alcove 'floating world.' It was a place. there's a lesson in Scoop Jackson in even then fear of economic loss for o'Ver two decades. where commoners could escape to, Celebrating Heritage this regard, a man hardened in his forced airport officials to change it In more recent years, Jackson's views of Japanese Americans and, and it was a world of dreams. It is Those who have seen rum per• back.. daughter asked for the bust to be like so many, caught up in the fervor this floating world that still gives form are mesmerized. moved outdoors, as it was i!1tended. of World War II's climate. I don't A celebration of Henry "Scoop" hope and a place to escape," said "He transcends being my broth• "Back in 1942, S.coop1s position think that fact should ever be forgot• Ken. er," said Kevin Kanesaka, a lawyer Jackson a,t the University of was reprehensible," said Yang. tett or glossed over. He was what he For awrule, his "real" world was based in New York. Washington is slated to take place ''That's only part of the legacy. The was. But I think an important part of dictated by a linear path and chore• But kabuki life isn't all glam• June 3. ographed with a steady percussion orous. As the youngest student, Ken of wrute-collar success. A drum cleans his teacher's dressing room m~or in his rugh school inarcrung and cleans props and make-up. band and a good student, he entered Between performances, he squeezes the University of California at Los in lessons in classical dance, Jyu uta Angeles to start his career as a (a singing style), tea ceremony, • lawyer. flower arrangement and Japanese There was one catch. percussion. "I hated to read books, and sit "Within the theater itself, I was there studying," so during rus soph• also tpld that gaijin dakara (because omore 'year he decided to resurrect you are a foreigner) that my work is his childhood dream to study abroad dirty," said Ken. "However, J can at the University of Tokyo. Really, honestly say that it is because of he just wanted to live and breathe these people, that I. had to work rus culture and dance in the home• harder. I had to make sure that my land. Then one day, his dance · work is 10-times better than my • Long Term Care Plan teacher told hlrn about a kabuki peers ... " • .• Customized Major Medical training school in Osaka. "As far as I can recall, he has Insurance {available to You may never become a kabuki always been motivated," .said Kari non-Califo.rnia members} actor, the dance teacher told Ken, Kanesaka, rus mom. "When he was • Catastrophe Major Medical but the training would benefit your little, he would practice by himself Insurance Plan dancing. for hours. Even in college, he • Short Term Medical Plan So without telling anyone, Ken would practice at least one hour a • Term Life Insurance followed rus dreams to Osaka to day in rus studio." • Accidental Death & take entrance exams and endure "I believe Ken's vision is to make Dismemberment Insurance interviews just to train in the ancient [kabuki] relevant to the coming gen• • Medicare Supplement art. erations without losing the beauty Insurance Plans "When I was accepted, J packed and form of the tradition," said rus • Cancer Care Plan my things, informed Tokyo sister Sheri Kanesaka, an L.A. based For your no-obligation information kit (including costs, exclusions, limitations and terms of coverage) University that I was quitting, wruch lawyer. . FREE, on any JACL-sponsored Insurance Plan, was unheard of in Japan - Tokyo Through Ken, a bridge is formed University is on the same level as CALL TOLL-FREE between two worlds. Administered by: Harvard ... ," he said. "I sent my "My grandmother has also told Our hearing-impaired or MARSH . 1-800-503-9230 voice-impaired members may parents a letter informing them of me that if traditions stop here then Affinity Group SerVices call the Relay line 01 a qorvicf' of Seabury &: Smith OR VISIT the change of address." what is the purpose of us leaming it 1-800-855-2881 In two years, he graduated at the to begin with?" said Ken. "Japanese www·iaciinsurance.(Om top of his class, despite the language American heritage is about creating 3124046 264&9 11 106} barrier. dreams and traditions for the next All plans may vary and may not be available in all states. AG3624 And the way he tells it, being generation." • 315608 PACIFIC CITIZEN, JUNE 2-15, 2006 NATIONAL/ COMMUNITY 5 Honoring the Brave

• TED NAMBA· 12 Reasons Why You Will Always Remember Attending JACL 2006

ix months back, I was asked as many people attending this So far, they have received some Sto write an article for the year's Youth Luncheon and the beautiful artwork, clothing, sports Pacific Citizen's Holiday youth are working extra hard to pre• memorabilia (e.g. basketballs auto• Issue, 'Top 10 Reasons to Visit pare a great event and have selected graphed by Jerry West and Steve Arizona for the 2006 Biennial an excellent recipient for their annu• Nash, a Brooks Robinson bat, Convention." Well, as I transition al Vision Award. Remember the Gaylord Perry baseball) and much from being newbie convention chair theme for JACL 2006 is "Phoenix more. to past chair, I will title my final Rising: Leadership for a New Remember that all proceeds from convention article: "12 Reasons Generation." this silent auction go directly to PHOTO COURTESY OF BACON SAKATANI Why You Will Always Remember 7: The Arizona premiere of benefit JACL youth so make sure Mary Jane Mayemura makes a floral tribute for her son, ~immie, JACL2006." "Camp Dance." I still smile to you take the time to check out the who was killed in action during the Korean War. 12. Taking, the "behind the myself when I recall seeing "Camp auction items the youth have col• Family members of veterans killed in action paid tribute to the brave scenes" tour of Wild Horse Pass Dance" in San Francisco last June. lected. If you would like to con• at the Japanese American War Memorial Court during Memorial Day with Ginger Sunbird Martin, cultur• This is a truly wonderful musical tribute an item for this special auc• services held at the Japanese American Cultural and Community , al theme manager at the resort. The that will be even more special since tion, please contact a National Center in Little Tokyo. best thing about Wild Horse Pass is this live performance will be pre• Youth/Student Council member or Also honored were: Sgt. Paul Nakamura, Sgt. Deyson Cariaga, Sgt. not the casino, pool, restaurant, spa, sented at Gila, less than 15 miles your district governor to arrange Mike Sonoda Jr., SSG Daniel Tsue, Sgt. Steve Sakoda along with golf courses, etc. but instead, how from where one of the ten intern• delivery of the item to convention. Japanese Americans who gave their lives in service to our country in the beautiful Native American influ• ment camps was located. 2. Gila Dedication and tour of the all wars. ence may be experienced through• 6. The Awards Luncheon will be Gila Monument will be a special The memorial was presented by the Japanese. American Korean out the resort. suspenseful as everyone wants to visit as we have a chance to remem• War Veterans, the Japanese American Vietnam Veterans Memorial ll. Browsing through the exhibits know who will receive the George ber our past. We must understand Committee and the Americans of Japanese Ancestry, WWII. • hall. Since we are in Arizona this Inagaki Chapter Citizenship Award that the Gila Monument is located biennium, there will be interesting and JACLer of the Biennium on the reservation so it is not possi• exhibits about both Poston and Award. ble to go to this site unless one has Korean War Vets Launch Fundraiser Gila. You will enjoy the beautiful S. You will be dazzled by all the a permit. Being out at the Gila watercolors of Chizuko Judy Sugita cool, free stuff you will receive at Monument site with Mas moshita for Hershey Miyamura Tribute de Queiroz that symbolize her convention. This year's goodie bag and Jim Kubota will be a priceless By Pacific Citizen Staff memories as a child at Poston. will be one of the best ones ever! experience for everyone. 10. Meeting six really great Also, Arizona chapter members 1. The Sayonara Banquet will be Even in civilian life, Hiroshi authors who have written terrific have donated gifts to everyone the highlight of convention as the "Hershey" Miyamura is in a class by books about the JA camp experi• attending the Youth Luncheon, Akimel Ballroom will be gorgeous, himself. ence: Jay Feldman's "Suitcase Awards Luncheon and Sayonara dinner will be excellent, the pro• The city of Gallup, New Mexico Sefton and the American Dream," Banquet. This is in addition to the gram will be special and we will all - where Miyamura calls home - Delphine Hirasuna's "Art of usual corporate gifts presented at remember how we connected with is constructing a series of individual Gaman," Toshi Ito's "Endure," these events. old friends, made some great new column type monuments dedicated Cynthia Kadohata's "Weedflower," 4. The Welcome Mixer will sure• friends and say farewell to one to the veterans of all wars. Kimberly and Kaleigh Komatsu's ly be memorable with local Arizona another until JACL 2008 in Utah, Of course, Miyamura will have a "In America's Shade," and Joan chapter comedian Bob Kubota as where my friend, Silvana Watanabe separate individual column solely Loveridge-Sanbonmatsu's emcee. There will be a deejay, line will have the opportunity to become dedicated to honor his heroism. "Imperial Valley Nisei Women: dancing, entertainment, contests and a newbie convention chair! Miyamura is the only Japanese Transcending Poston." the youth will have the "Moonshine Honorable Harry Honda said it American in the Korean War to was recalled into active duty and 9. Unique workshops related to Room" to hold their own private best in a recent email to me: "you receive the nation's highest combat sent to Korea as a machine gun the Southwest. The latest change mixer. will miss a lot if you are not at award, the Medal of Honor. squad leader in Company H, 7th may involve substituting Native 3. Shopping at the silent auction JACL 2006 Convention!" His first brush with battle came at Regiment of the 3rd Infantry Seeds with a Southwestern Style prior to the Sayonara Banquet will See you at convention! • the end of World War II when he Division. cooking class. be fun as the JACL National served with the 442nd Regimental At Taejon-Ni, when being overrun S. The Youth Luncheon will be Youth/Student Council is working Ted Namba is the chairperson of Combat Team. When the Korean by the Chinese Communist forces, extra special as there will be twice hard to make this a special event. the 2006 national JACL convention War began June 25, 1950, Miyamura Miyamura ordered his men to retreat in Arizona. while he held off the enemy with a p machine gun, bayonet and his own ------.. hands. He killed more than 50 of his I I enemies before being wounded and I CONVENTION PACKAGE REGISTRATION I captured. He spent 28 months as a Name (includes Individual Events listed below) prisoner of war. Together with the Japanese I (Please print) Last First MI Age Early bird deadline has passed. I Rate American Korean War Veterans Address o Regular Package $250 $ __ I I (JAKWV), the city of Gallup is initi• City o Youth Package $125 $ __ ating . a fund raising project with a (A reduced registration fee for Youth/Students who are 25 years of age or younger or I State Zip Code currently enrolled in a college. trade school or university. Youth Package includes all of I goal of $30,000 to ensure the sepa• the events in the Regular Convention Package.) rate Miyamura monument will be I Daytime Telephone Number _____ ------I INDIVIDUAL EVENTS (all included in package registration) built. I Evening Telephone Number ______I 'TlIlle is important as we wish to E-mail address o Workshops $30 $_- see that the monument is built with• I Chapter o Welcome Mixer $60 $_- I out delay and assure us Hershey and o Awards luncheon $60 $_- his wife Terry will have the opportu• Category 0 Delegate 0 Booster Millennium Club I o o Sayonara Banquet $110 $_• I nity to witness the anticipated dedi• 0 Alternate 0 1000 Club National Board/Staff cation of the monument," said Sam o o Youth luncheon $60 $_- I 0 Youth 0 1000 Club life o Masaoka Fellow I Shimoguchi, JAKWV co-chairman. I 0 Other (Specify) SPECIAL EVENTS (not included in Regular Package Registration) Any excess funds raised will be o Camp Dance Dinner &Show $95 $_- I used to offset the Korean War Vets' I MaiKbeck and this fonnJQgelher to: JACl 2006 - Registration o Camp Dance Show Only $ 30 $_• I expenses to complete an additional P.O. Box 3455 o Golf Tournament $85 $_- monument in the Japanese American (Join the AI. Nikkei Golf Club at t~ Whirlwind Golf Course on June 25, 2006) National War Memorial Court at the I f~a~~~~p~yab~.t4J!\C~ 2006] Phoenix, AZ 85030-3455 I Japanese American Cultural and I - or- Convention Package $ I Community Center in Los Angeles, To pay by charge card, fill out credit card information below Individual Events $ Calif. I and mail to above address: I This additional monument will Special Events $ I (Print legibly) I honor those Americans of Japanese Cardholder's ilJame Total $ heritage who died while serVing our I MasterCard or Visa (circle one) I nation during the sinking of the USS Accounl Number Maine, fighting on the Island of I I Grenada, in Iraq and for others killed Expiration Date in action. I Signature HOTEL INFORMATION: I "We humbly solicit your contribu• Sheraton Wild Horse Pass Resort and Spa tion for such a worthy cause in I Note: Registration will not be processed without accompanying payment (check I (800) 325-3535 which the heroic action of a or charge card). This form is for convention registration only and NOT for hotel Japanese American is going to be I reservations. which should be made di(ectly with the Sheraton Wild Horse Pass $95/night, mention JACL National Convention I perpetuated for a city's local home• Spa and Resort at Gila River, Phoenix, Arizona. If you are registering for more Rooms are going fast! I than one person, please use additional fonus or copies. . I town hero," said JAKWV Co• ~------~ Chainnan Carl Miyagishima.• 6 NATIONAL NEWS PACIFIC CITIZEN, JUNE 2-15, 2006 sa 2611 (Continued from page 1)

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Broadway Show. program, as well as the harsh anti- But Arlen Specter, R-Pa., chair- Representatives Dec. 16 .• We can also assist you with: Low-cost airfares to Japan, Japan Individual Tour arrangements, front the stereotypes and the nor is it a term that would be Japan Railpass, Hotels, Cars, Cruises, Hawaii arrangements, YOSHINO Individual Tour Packages, Organizations/Clubs/Family "enemy" image produced by WWII approved of by his buddies who (Continued from page 1) group tours and cruises. and that one result of these charac• died. His remarks visibly moved For information and reservations, please write or call to: Mt. Pleasant, South Carolina. terizations is that JAs pay the price Burnette. AMERICAN HOLIDAY TRAVEL Earlier this year we were notified by having to endure acts of defama• Burnette conceded that the film is 312 E. 1 ST ST., #510, Los Angeles, CA 90012 Tel: (213) 625-2232; Fax: (213) 625-4347 that Kenji Tanaka and his Boy Scout tion and hate crimes because the "horrible." 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GOLF Hee-Won Han Beats Meena Lee in Four-hole Playoff at Corning CORNING, N.Y.-Hee-Won And it dealt Lee a critical setback. tree on the right side of the fairway Han just shrugged and smiled. Because she won the Fields Open in and caromed back onto the fairway. 'Three times second place, that's· February - in a playoff over rookie Lee drove under the right trees but pretty good, but I don't like that," Seon Hwa Lee - Lee was exempt managed to save par. she said. "I wanted to win." from qualifying for the U.S. Open in "I just kept it positive," Han said. After tying for second the previ• late June. But she did not submit her Lee, who self-destructed last year ous two weeks on the LPGA Tour, application prior to the deadline for with a double-bogey at 18 and lost to Han finally won one May 28. She one of the four majors on the sched• Jimin Kang by two strokes, came parred the fourth hole of a sudden• ule and now must win one of ,the from six shots behind third-round death playoff after Meena Lee made next three tOUInantents .to get in. leader Jeong Jang and appeared to bogey and captured the Coming Lee declined to discuss the matter. be a winner until Han rallied. Classic. Though Han and Lee are close "I kind of fIgured that somebody It was Han's first win of the year friends - they practiced together might be coming after me," Lee and fifth overall, and three have last week and Lee considers Han her said. come in six playoffs. Lee, who fin• mentor - this remained strictly ' Han, who started the round at 11 ished second here for the second business because Han was aware of under, rolled in a putt from inside 12 straight year, lost it when her second Lee's plight. feet that briefly seemed to stop at the shot at the par-4 eighth hole bounced "I'm not that good of a person," lip before dropping softly into the badly away from the green and she Han said with a smile. "I really need• hole to get to 14 under at 17. She couldn't recover. ed a win." then used driver on the tough par-4 "I never thought about winning. I Both parred the first extra hole, 18th hole, hit her second shot to 3 just didn't think of that at all," said No. 18, Han with a nice-up-and• feet and made birdie for a 68 to force Lee, who gained the lead- with down after her second shot landed in the playoff just moments after Lee birdies at 16 and 17 en route to a 6- a greenside bunker. had fInished her 66. under-par 66, then watched Han tie After both parred No.8, they went "I got a little lucky," Han said. "I her with a pair of birdies on the fmal back to 18, and Han got a lucky just started the last two weeks to play two holes of regulation. "I'm satis• bounce when her tee shot struck a pretty good." • Health Plans fIed with how I played. It's just that I think I made one big mistake." BASEBALL With Han safely on the green in for California two and staring at par, Lee played an Giants Call Up Ishikawa aggressive chip onto the green that bounced twice and nearly hit the flag from Double-A Connecticut JACL Members before rolling 18 feet past. When she SAN FRANCISCO-The San Ishikawa was batting .256 with missed the putt coming back, Han Francisco Giants called up infIeld• three home runs, 13 RBIs, seven two-putted from 15 feet to win the er Travis Ishikawa from their doubles and a triple in 32 games in Double-A team May 26 to add Double-A ball. Call the JACL .Health Benefits Administrators at fourth playoff in Coming's 28-year history. another infIelder with fIrst base• "I'm excited to go out and play "I was pretty nervous out there," man Lance Niekro on the disabled the way I have the last 15 years or said Han, who shot a career-low 62 list. so," Ishikawa said. "Felipe (Alou) 1.800.400.6633 . £ ~~~ here on the third round last year. "I Ishikawa was in the starting said, 'Catch the bail when it's really wanted to win something." lineup at fIrst base and batting thrown at you and rnix in a few or visit The victory was worth $180,000, eighth for the May 26 series open• hits.'" • boosting Han to third place on this er against the Colorado Rockies. www.jaclhealth.org ~ lar:'H:e:s~ A m~rit..;tn year's money list at just over He is expected to stick around Cili2effs L e"~ue $700,000. until Niekro returns this week. VOICES/NATIONAL PACIFIC CITIZEN, JUNE 2-15, 2006 APA Youths' Cope with Studies and a Model Minority Myth

By ASSOCIATED PRESS guage at home and their English vocabulary is limited, she said. At 17, Heayeon Lee's thoughts And students who struggle aca• • YliMI SAKtJGAWA • often wander to her impending high demically can't count on parental MEMOIRS OF A NON-GEISHA school graduation, trendy fashions help with homework and other and the latest object of her affection. school-related matters, because the Lee also worries about her grades. school system is foreign to the Gay or. Asian? All. of the Above The Rincon High School senior is adults. ow a Filipina lesbian my age around in public wearing a skirt and gloom story about the impossibility barely passing her government class; Many Asian immigrants stay Ewho invites her long-term girl- sing a lot of musical numbers while . of homosexuality existing within she would rather splash paint on can• away from schools because they see .end over to family events, walking on campus. I was shocked Asian fanIilies. Things are slowly vas than try to decipher U.S. foreign their involvement as interfering with where her extended family openly to learn that someone so flamboy• changing. policy. teachers, said Hooker, who is joke about sexually transmitted dis• antly confident would have parents I have faith in our generation of The teen shatters the stereotype Korean American. eases and the logistics of lesbian who don't know that he is gay. young AAs who are more open• that all Asian Hooker often sex. Unfortunately, situations like Apparently, he is a lot more quiet minded, ate lucky enough to have Pacific American explains to parents this are more the exception than the and subdued when he is around his movies like "Saving Face," go students belong to that here they are rule. As Asian American movies, own family. dancing on gay Asian nights in a problem-free expected to get literature and personal anecdotes I know another gay Vietnamese West Hollywood clubs and organize population of high involved in their have taught us, homosexuality and American my age who, upon com• spoken-word events at local coffee• achievers. That children's educa• Asian parents usually do not mix ing out to his parents, was almost houses for the LGBT community. myth has been tion. But not all very well. kicked out and temporarily ran While our hearts may be broken tossed at Lee can, she said, par• 10 my AA literature class, we away from home even though he by family and friends who do not before. ticularly recent read a good deal of short stories was the kind of good Asian kid who completely understand, we are still "You're Asian, immigrants who about unhappy, repressed Asian brought home straight A:s and was unafraid to create a safer, more how could you not must hold two fanIilies who are bad at expressing generally the obedient son. He is accepting community for the next know that?" Lee said a teacher once jobs to survive. affection for each other. As my pro• currently in a long-term relationship generation of young AAs that will blurted out when she admitted not As Hooker and others work to fessor rhetorically asked several with another Asian boy, where they follow us. knowing the answer to a math prob• change cultural perceptions, APA times during lectures, "Why is it have to sneak around making phone Just imagine. Two AA lesbians lem. Lee, who also uses Michelle as youths who need a little extra help that relationships between Asian calls to each other just so their getting married and adopting kids. her first name, said she is more fond get it from the Pan Asian fathers and sons are always so prob• respective parents don't find out. Or a proud AA father who is of art than of numbers. She wants to Community Alliance of Tucson. The lematic?" My heart goes out for my gay unashamed and supporting of his be an art teacher someday. group operates a center where stu• Add homosexuality to the rela• Asian male friends, and all the gay, gay son. It shouldn't have to be Members of Tucson's Asian com• dents of all ages get homework help tionship and you have a whole new lesbian, bisexual and transgender such impossible scenarios for this munity know that the "model minor• after school. can of worms to deal with. sisters and brothers in our AA com• generation and the next. ity" label doesn't apply to everyone Lee, who moved from South For some reason or another, I've munity who still have so much That would be quite awesome. in their diverse population, and they Korea to this country seven years come to befriend a lot of gay Asian homophobia to deal with not only Or as my very gay friend would put work to dispel misconceptions ago, is among the students who stop males in college. While I clearly in mainstream society, but within it,fabulous .• through programs aimed at young in frequently. The teen said she tries suck at having any meaningful their own fanIilies. people such as Lee. not to be bothered by the mispercep• romantic connections with hetero• Don't get me wrong, though. I Yumi Sakugawa is currently an 10 the Tucson Unified School tions that many have of her commu• sexual men, I seem to be really don't want to make this a doom and Art major attending UCLA.. District, which enrolls most of the nity. "I just laugh it off," she said. good at forming long-lasting friend• city's schoolchildren, 1,600 APA The oldest of three children, Lee ships with gay Asian males. As hor• students, combined, spe,ak more than faces all the youthful angst of most ribly cliched as -it sounds, these 20 languages. Among those lan• people her age. And being an.irnmi• boys are my confidantes for stupid guages are Chinese, Vietnamese, grant child who learned English as a boy talk, great shopping advice and Blue Cross of California Korean and Filipino. second language has posed other . late night boba runs. I would ven• Although APAs make up just 2.7 challenges as well. ture to say that life without them percent of Tucson Unified School Dorothy Lew, the alliance's exec• would be a little less fabulous. District's more than 60,000 students, utive director, said that as the My heart goes out to them their needs are no less serious, said American-born child of Chinese because even in a post-"Will and Maria Hooker, director of the Pan irnrnigrants, she can identify with Grace" world, they oftentimes have Asian Studies Department. 'There the struggles of Lee and the other to repress the core of who they are are a lot of students who succeed, youths she has met over the years. when they are at home. I've heard but there are a lot of students who Lew recalled that as a young stu• too many stories from friends who have trouble making it." dent, like many of the Asian youths run away from home, have parents Hooker's department acts as an who visit the center, she lacked a tell them to watch out for homosex• advocate for students and works rich English vocabulary because uals as if they are in the same cate• with community groups to tackle she always spoke Chinese with her gory as drug addicts, and choose to some of the obstacles that keep the parents and grandparents. And she stay in the closet around family youngsters from thriving. Most of still remembers the parental pres• members for fear that they will kick the hurdles are related to family lan• sure that pushed her to work hard them out, withdraw emotional sup• guage and culture, Hooker noted. in school. port and stop paying for their col• Some APA children, including "My family used to say, 'If you lege tuition. some who were born and raised fail, you will embarrass yourself and One of my favorite people in the here, have a difficult time in school you will embarrass your family, ", world, who is a second-generation because they speak an Asian lan- Lew said . • Chinese American, is unafraid to flirt openly with straight men, dance

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The critically acclaimed film is Eric Byler's sophomore effort based on a novel, "American Knees:' With 'Americanese; One Step Back, Two Steps Forward for APA Film

By STEWART DAVID IKEDA Tashima plays Raymond, a hand• Not to put too fine a point on it classes. This "generation gap," Special to the Pacific Citizen some,successful but brooding eth• (because it's far from the fIlm's along with the "(H)apa gap," play • nic studies professor wrestling with most impressive achievement), but out realistically in the world of the has been made about a recent upwelling of a mid-life crisis and trapped at .the .as a former ethnic studies professor film, as they do in ours. M . halmost-breakthrough indie films by or about center of a steamy, tormented love (called in as an academic consultant Two FILMS, Two MARKETS U C Asian Americans, receiving ever-increasing triangle. Joan Chen, as the haunted on the picture, by the way), I can tell "Americanese" is as Byler genei"~ notice and fair distribution to find their way onto our local Betty, is a standout. you: "Americanese" is extremely insists, "first and foremost a Blockbuster shelves. The ensemble's jury prize is gratifying for us Asian American• romance/' and one fraught with Now, kicking off the annual flurry of spring AA film events after its tri• notable not only given the packed ists. real tension and problems, just like umphant debut at aleading industry festival, the newest film by Eric Byler competition, but for decades now It's not only the thrill of seeing an ours - whoever we are and may be poised to propel APA film several steps forward into the ever-mul• one of Hollywood's main rationales AA studies professor as the hand• whomever we love. As such, it ticulturalizing mainstream of u.s. film. why APAs have been kept from some, romantic lead who "gets, nudges APA film another step For its world premiere at Austin's famed South by Southwest (after leading roles has been a supposed loses, and gets the girl." Rather than beyond simplistic ethnic represen• Sundance, SXSW is the major, indie multimedia schmooze-fest), Byler's dearth of acting talent, and a pre• slow the dramatic action with tation and race identity explo• "Americanese" hit the ground running, capturing both the audience award sumption that general audiences pedantic dialogue, the film's small• rations that our young filmmakers for narrative and a special jury prize for outstanding ensemble cast. couldn't identify with them. est references and details of mis-en• have long considered a burden on This dual recognition at a non-ethnic festival speaks volumes about what The fIlm's popularity is also a tri• scene represent volumes about the creativity and reaching wider, gen• may be in store for "Americanese," as well as its strengths. The strong, umph for Byler, whose first film, history and diversity of "the com• eral audiences like those at SXSw. moody narrative is adapted (somewhat loosely, with the author's blessing) "Charlotte Sometimes," was a rich munity." There's a plea urable It's an interesting side-note that from Shawn Wong's novel, "American Knees," which had enjoyed some lit• and skilled but quiet arthouse film. "Where's Wal-do?" aspect, in ick• altho h th W u s and erary crossover success itself. The ensemble cast led by Chris Tashima is• "Americanese" features an ing up on little background refer• the upcoming APA festivals will nothing short of stellar. exploration of some similar themat• ences and objects, canonical and keep him hopping with ic and tonal ground to that debut contemporary - No-No Boy and "Americanese," Byler is in fact film, but augmented. Focusing Making Waves here, posters and touring simultaneously with two again on a tormented love triangle . jewelry and Secret Asian Man films. 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JustIce"; Harding Park Golf Course, be provide for the youth; free but lim• PASADENA 99 Harding Road; $200 before July 1 PHOTO COURTESY OF MAS HASHIMOTO ited to first 30 whose parents complete Mon., June 12-Discussion and book ~ " • <1; 250 after; entry fee includes golf and submit an application and release signing, "There Will Never Be can, oento lunch, tee prizes and din• The National JACL Golf Committee Invites you to partiCipate in the form; Nisei Fishing Club will provide Another You" by Carolyn See; 7 p.m.; ner; sponsorships are available; field is 3rd Annual National JACL Golf Tournament. The NCWNPD commit• rods, reeis and bait; a minibus will . Vroman's, 695 E. 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Okeya, Hideyuki, 86, Los Taniguchi, Katsumi, 86, April Kenmotsu, Mieko, 89, Port Angeles, April 16; survived by wife, 10; WWII veteran; survived by In Memoriam - 2006 Hueneme, Mar. 22; survived by Sueko; daughters, Donna (peter) wife, Hideko; and sister, Minako All the towns are In CalHomla except as noted. daughters, Dorene (Jim) Tsukida, Shire, Peggy (Rob) Yamamoto and Sakai. Chong, Katherine, 67, West This compilation appears on a space- Marion (Victor) Hosford and Sue Bette (Royce Ito) Okeya; son, Butch Terao, John Y., 60, April 19; sur• Covina, April 6; survived by hus- available basis at no cost. Printed obit- Ann (Chris) Butler; son, Ray; broth• (Carol); 9 gc.; and sister, Aiko vived by wife, June (Honda); daugh• band, Frank:; daughters, Lori and uaries from your newspaper are wel- er, Kenzo (Harumi) and Shoni Shimamura. come. "Death Notices," which appear ters, Jaimie and Jennifer; mother, Cindy; son, Gary; son-in-law, Dana; in a timely manner at request of the Sakoda; 4 gc.; and sister-in-law, Oki, VIrginia Toyoko, 89, Los Kay; sister, Charlene Lau; mother• and 1 gc. family or funeral director, are published Alice Sakoda. Angeles, April 16; survived by in-law, Chiyeko Honda; and broth• Dobashi, Takako, 86, Yorba at the rate of $18 per column inch. Text Kimura, Toshio, 61, Monterey brother, Saburo; sister, Sally Tanaka; ers-in-Iaw, Edward Miyasato, is reworded as necessaty. Unda, Mar. 26; survived by daugh• Park, April 21; survived by wife, and sister-in-law, Betty Oki. Stephen Lau and Kenny and Glenn ter, Judy Shirley; brothers, Donald and Sayo Kubo; and son-in-law, Dr. Grace; daughter, Shelley Kimura; Osajima, Yukiko, 96, ' April 5; Honda. 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RE#01391106 (SOO) 967-3575 12 NATIONAL NEWS PACIFIC CITIZEN, JUNE 2-15, 2006 AMERICAN GIRL in 1985 and currently owned by better than that," she added. (Continued from page 1) MatteI, Inc., is one of the most pop• "Of course, a part of me is like, ular doll companies in the United yes! A Hapa doll!" said Sperber but mirror every day, sadly they'll have States. In addition to their doll col• added, "I wonder why her mixed• - no such luck. lections and accessories, the compa• race background didn't figure more. Since the American Girl compa• ny produces books and the And as far as the actual look of the ny introduced their historical doll American Girl magazine. Last year doll ... I wouldn't have known the collection, a collection that purports the company sold 11 million dolls. doll was Hapa to tell the history of America Although there are no current "As far as 'should we embrace through its dolls, an African plans to add an AA doll, Spanos the doll' goes - it's still a corporate American doll, Mexican American noted that in their contemporary commercial product. Shouldn't the doll, and a Native American doll doll collection, there is a biracial question be, why should we want have been added to the 10 doll col• doll named "Jess" who is half one? Do we need validation from a lection. Now some AA parents and Japanese American and half Irish giant corporation that is only inter• activists are asking: isn't it about American. "Jess" was selected as ested in figuring out how to get our time that an AA doll was added? AMERICAN GIRLS: Since the historical doll collection was this year's "American Girl of the market share?" "Most Americans are unaware introduced, (I-r) 'Josefina,' 'Kaya,' and 'Addy' have been added. Year" and was featured recently on In addition to the criticisms that Asian Pacific Americans have Some say, missing still is an Asian American doll. the cover of the American Girl mag• from the AA community, in 2005 been in what is now the United azine. the Mexican American communi• States since the 1500s. Had aware and concerned for Asian of a multiracial AA daughter. "So, "Jess is very popular. She's a ty vocally protested a Mexican American Girl done their home• American issues. Buying American when the question of adding an reflection of what's going on in the American doll in the contempo• work:, they would have learned how Girl dolls as they are now teaches Asian American doll to the line aris• country," said Spanos. rary collection that they believed justified it is to produce an APA her nothing about her empower• es, one part of me says, of course! And in response to the numerous included demeaning references to doll," said Christina Fa, a ment as a consumer, as an Asian We all want representation, and I'm requests to add new dolls that come the neighborhood she is from. Sacramento activist and pediatrician American or as a woman but to the father of a young Asian . in each year, the American Girl And so far AA parents and who is part of a group of AAs press• accept what the market has to offer." American daughter. But I worry, Company also introduced a "Just activists say American Girl has not ing American Girl to add an AA doll So far American Girl's historical will a corporate entity like a toy Like You" doll line, she said, where responded appropriately to their to the collection. collection features ten 18-inch fic• company think that one is enough, girls can select from 23 different requests and will continue to Sumeia Williams, a Vietnamese tional heroines that portray signifi• that one experience is representa• combinations of skin, hair, and eye demand that an AA doll be added to adoptee currently living in North cant moments in America's past, tive, that they don't have to do more, choices to make their own cus• the historical collection. -- Carolina, like many mothers heard events that helped shape the United have more?" tomized dolls. "American Girl's response the calls to buy an American Girl States and brings history to millions So far there are no plans in the But having a biracial doll does not remains superficial and insensitive," doll from her then lO-year-old of children. The collection includes: works to add an AA doll, said change the need for an AA doll, say said Fa. 'They call themselves a dif• daughter. She logged onto the com• Addy, an African American slave Stephanie Spanos, spokesperson for activists and parents. ferent kind of doll company, but are pany's Web site but noticed the glar• from the Civil War era, added in American Girl. "While I feel Hapas (my daughter just like the others when it comes to ing lack of an AA doll, and decided 1993; Josefina, a Mexican "We literally get hundreds of being one) are an important and racism." not to let her daughter have an American doll from the 1800s, requests each year to add dolls to legitimate part of the Asian "I think there should definitely be American Girl. She's still glad she introduced in 1997; and in 2002 our collection. An Asian doll is just American community, it still poorly not only an Asian doll, but a didn't give in. Kaya appeared, an American Indian one of many requests," she said, represents . its diversity," said Hawaiian, Japanese, Korean and "I also wasn't about to be sucked doll from 1764. adding that any new doll can take Williams. Chinese dolls. Why should we settle in by an 'American Doll' that so So where are the AAs? two to three years to develop. The "I noticed that the Jess doll was for 'generic Asian' when specific poorly represented part of my "Having a line of historical char• current top requested doll isa made the doll of the year. In the ethnicity's have made contributions daughter's heritage," said Williams acter dolls, with their own backsto• Jewish boy doll. "We look at those back of my mind, I wonder if that to American history?" said whose daughter is half Vietnamese ries ... leads to seeing the dolls ... requests and appreciate the enthusi• wasn't a weak attempt to appease Williams. 'The lack of recognition and half Lebanese. 'Though she as archetypal at best and stereotypi• asm but as of now we can't promise the As~an American community. Is is an insult to Asian immigrants who doesn't understand now, I would cal at worst," said Jason Sperber, of anything." it possible that they heard some of helped to build America into what it hope that she later becomes more Bakersfield, Calif. who is the father American Girl, a company founded the complaints? Surely, they can do is today.".

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