\\ \\ \\.P.\('JFI Protecting the Vote And Cut ... A Work in Progress With November elections Wong Fu, the makers of Michelle Wie, who just around the comer, APA an internet film about turned 17, still needs groups are gearing up to yellow fever, debut their to prove herself as a protect voting rights. first feature length. professional. NATIONAL PAGE 3 ENTEKI'AINMENf PAGE 9 SPORTS PAGE 7 Teaching APA Histoty JACL launches its cur• CITIZEN riculum guide to teach smCe1929PACIFIC APA history in class• rooms nationwide. The National Publication of the Japanese American Citizens League NATIONAL PAGE 3 Groups Mobilize to Protect Schools' THE GANG REUNITED: Voluntary Desegregation Policies Guy Gabaldon (cen- . ter) flanked by Lane APA groups fIle amicus Nakano (left) and twin briefs in support of two Lyle in 1957 on 'This school districts' policies for is Your Life' were achieving racial balance. reunited here after 11 At risk is the future of years apart. Their diversity in schools, the friendship mysterious• schools' proponents say. ly fell apart years later. By LYNDA LIN Photo courtesy Assistant Editor Ralph Edwards Production Asian Pacific American groups . have filed amicus briefs in the Providence, Rhode Island APA A Friendship Like No Other . United States Supreme Court to sup• youth will be directly affected by port two school districts' voluntary the Supreme Court ruling. A group of multiethnic boys tom apart by -Gang, named after a 'Three Stooges" character, was racial integration policies. school. war lead extraordinary lives dappled with comprised of boys with. last names like Shizumura, The briefs filed Oct. 10 by the The cases - Meredith v. Jefferson Factor and a boy named Pancho whose last name no Asian American Legal Defense and tragedy and mystery. County Board of Education, et al., one can recall. Education Fund (AALDEF), Asian By LYNDA LIN and Parents Involved in Community This wasn't the type of gang we think of in mod• American Justice Center (AAJC) Assistant Editor Schools v. Seattle School District No. em times but a bunch of neighborhood kids up to no and over a dozen APAyouth advoca- . 1 - are scheduled.to go before the A ragtag group of teenage boys who called themselves good. Back the~, teenagers could explore their city's cy groups contend that two districts Supreme Court Dec.' 4. A ruling the Moe Gang used to roam the streets of Boyle Heights, boundaries without fear of predators or danger and in Kentucky and Seattle proactively could determine what schools can a suburban city a few steps east of downtown Los the boys would go joyriding on the banks of the Los .combat residential segregation by and cannot do to promote diversity Angeles known in the pre-World War IT days for its Angeles River and hitch rides on freight trains from using race and other factors to deter• mine where students should go to diverse ethnic population. So it's befitting that the Moe See MOE GANG/Page 4 See SCHOOLSIPage 2 Beyond 'The Big Three' Japantowns Today's J-towns may con• beside several other Japanese busi• vibrant community before World sist of San Francisco, Los nesses - names like Nippon War n, encompassing many Angeles, and San Jose but Shokai, Kawasaki Grocery Store, Japanese owned businesses," said the 'Preserving California's Miyako Restaurant, Kondo pool hall Kawamoto. "I think it's important to Japantowns' project is and Mamiya barbershop - that preserve this part of San Diego histo• once lined the area aroun~ 5th ry because it is part of our history uncovering 43 other J• Avenue and Market Street, but are and to know why it existed." towns that once existed all gone today. . "We hope someday that we can across the state. The Kawamoto family ran and ask the city council to put up flags or also lived in the Empire Hotel on sqmething designating that area as By CAROLINE AOYAGI-STOM Fourth Avenue during the 1930s and Old Japan Town or something to let Executive Editor . Yuki fondly recalls the once bur• visitors know that we were there geoning Japantown where he and his once until World War n," said Mich On any given day patrons of the four siblings grew up. Although Hirnaka, 74, whose family once Sun Cafe in San Diego's historic some of the historic buildings like operated the Hirnaka tofu shop. Mas Hashimoto stands in Gaslamp District dig into their dish• the Sun Cafe still stand amongst San Diego is one of 43 lesser• front of his family's fonner es of scrambled eggs and sausage blocks of restaurants, night clubs, known California Japantowns that Watsonville, Calif. home and the occasional chow mein. and clothing stores, most tourists and organizers of the "Preserving (top) where they once ran a Although the menu may have residents alike are unfamiliar with California's Japantowns" project are restaurant, catering and changed, Yuki Kawamoto, 80, can the area's Japanese American histo• determined to document and pre• sake brewerY in the city's still remember the same Sun Cafe ry. serve. Sponsored by the California fonner bustling Japantown. from the 1920s and 1930s when it Today, Yuki gives walking tours Japanese American Community was a part of a once-bustling San of the former J-Town area so its his• Leadership Council and funded by At right is an historical Diego Japantown. tory won't be forgotten. photo of the Hashimoto The Sun Cafe was owned by the "Japantown was a thriving and See JAPANTOWNSIPage 6 family home. Obayashi family back then and it sat ~~ Judge Says ACLU·Lawsuit Watadas Tour in Support of Their Son ~a Challenging Patriot Act Can Proceed 1st Lt. Ehren Watada could en .... face a possible court martial ~ ... ~ ByAssociated Press and P.e. Staff signed onto the amicus brief shortly en after the suit was filed. in January for his decision c.>_~('j DETROIT-Nearly three years The lawsuit was filed in July 2003 to refuse deploynlent to . ~~ after hearing arguments in the case, a on behalf of the Muslim Community Iraq. -r-N g~ - federal judge has ruled that an Association of Ann Arbor and five ?:2: American Civil Liberties Union other nonprofit groups. The ACLU By CAROLINE AOYAGI-STOM G> ,...m challenge to the constitutionality of Executive Editor m said its clients had been hurt by the Y• the USA Patriot Act may proceed. o Patriot Act because fear of the law Bob Watada can still remember ]> The ACLU's clients, including CD has kept many people from attend• the l?hone call that would change his C> Muslim charities, social services ~ ing religious services and making son Ehren's life forever. . organizations and advocacy groups, PHOTO: L. LIN "" charitable donations. In one breathless moment Ehren, have shown they have been harmed Bob Watada and Rosa Sakanishi . It was the first legal challenge to 28, a first lieutenant in the U.S. by the anti-terrorism law adopted address the media. the part of the Patriot Act that lets Army, announced to his father his after the Sept. 11 2001, terron'st immoral. agents obtain such things as library life-altering decision to refuse attacks, U.S. District Judge Denise "The moment he made his deci• lists and medical information. deployment to Iraq because he Page Hood said in a 15-page ruling sion, it was like the weight of the believes the war is illegal and issued in late September. JACL See LAWSUlTlPage 8 I See WATADASIPage 12 2 . LETTERS/NATIONAL PACIFIC CITIZEN, OCT. 20-Nov. 2, 2006 ?' PACIFIC CmZEN ~ SCHOOLS 2005 WINNERI (Continued from page 1) ~ .NEWAME'UCA ~JMEDIA in K -12 education. ~ Awards In Writing .A Since 1997, students in the Seattle Public School District could apply PACIFIC CITIZEN to attend their school of choice. Ballard High School is one of sever• 250 E. First Street, Ste. 301, al schools in the district that uses Los Angeles, CA. 90012 race as one of the factors to deter• Tel: 213/620-1767, mine school assignment ·and to 800/966-6157 Fax: 213/620-1768 achieve racial balance. Ballard, E-mail: [email protected] which is located in the more affluent At right Phalia Poch (foreground) www.pacificcitizen.org northern part of the city, is the first graduates from a GED program . Executive Editor: choice for many parents and stu• in Rhode Island. Proponents say Caroline Y. Aoyagi-Stom dents, so the district relies on a series integration measures by Seattle's Assistant Editor: . of tiebreakers ~ first giving prefer• Ballard High School (above) Lynda Lin ence to students with siblings promote diversity. Office Manager: already attending the requested Brian Tanaka Circulation: Eva Lau-Ting school, then second, looking at race. that our public schools are not equal, "We're still contending with the Asians benefit from the elimination The state's highest court ruled the that we have a number of schools model minority myth," said Kohei of desegregation laws are in direct Publisher:Japanese American district's student assignment policy that are perceived as being better Ishihara, director of the Providence conflict with' our experience in Citizens League (founded 1929) does not violate equal protection than others," she added. Youth Student Movement in Rhode working with Asian children and 1765 Sutter Street, San rights, but parents of mostly Similarly the Jefferson County Island (PrYSM), a youth organizing families." Francisco, CA 94115, tel: 415/921-5225 fax: 415/931- Caucasian students appealed claim• Public School District in Kentucky and community support group for ill 2005, AAU founded the Folk 4671, www.jacl.org ing reverse discrimination. came under fire for their enrollment young Southeast Asians. The non• Arts-Cultural Treasures Charter JACL President: Larry Oda Rae Hanashiro, a Seattle-based plan. To ensure schools didn't have profit organization continually School, which serves a large and Nat'l Director: John Tateishi middle school teacher, said race an ovelWhelming African American fights for funding that they usually diverse population including many Pacific Citizen Board of may have been a factor in determin-. or Cauc~ian population, the volun• see go to aid other underserved eth• immigrant children and families Directors: Gil Asakawa, chair• ing where her then elementary tary integration plan directs the nic groups, but every year, PrYSM who call Philadelphia their home. person; Roger Ozaki, EDC; Casey China, MDC; Kathy school age daughters were going to African American population at any struggles to guide young APAs liv• "Philadelphia which is com• Ishimoto, CCDC; Nelson Nagai, get their education. The Hanashiros school to be between 15-50 percent. ing below the poverty line. posed of neighborhoods long seg• NCWNPDC; Sheldon Arakaki, are one of the few ethnic families in These cases have already ignited "Over half of our youths drop out regated. by class and race, has a PNWDC; Larry Grant, IDC; their predominantly white neighbor• debate within the APA community of high school," said Ishihara. If the school system which reflects its Sharon Kumagai, PSWDC; hood. over race and public education. Supreme Court ruling changes poli• neighborhoods. In our experience, Maya Yamazaki, Youth. "So often, students are segregated ''These sChools have chosen to cies go'verning diversity, APAs we've'found that segregated envi• r-NEWSlAO-OEAOLiNE:--' by socio-economic status rather than take a proactive step in creating an would be directly affected. ronments are often not welcoming FRIDAY BEFORE DATE race, as are public schools. If a stu• integrated educational environment. "It's not going to affect those who or, in' some cases, safe environ• OF ISSUE. dent of color is excluded from a Asian American students, just as all are doing well. The main threat is . men~s for our youth. On the other Editorials, news and the opin• Ions expressed by columnists higher achieving school because of students, reap the benefit of an inte• the underserved Asian Americans," hand, in systems where cultural .other than the national JACL where she lives, then perhaps race grated education and become better said Ishihara. and racial diversity is not just 'tol• president or national director do not necessarily reflect should be used so that she has the prepared to enter an increasingly "To be frank, we felt like we erated' but enforced, Asian JACL policy. Events and prod• same opportunities that wealthier diverse world," said Aimee Baldillo, . needed to shut down this idea that American students benefit, just as ucts advertised In the Pacific do,'~ Citizen do not carry the Implicit students have," said Hanashiro, 49. AAJC's director of programs in a Asians, as a category, are hurt by all students said Gym. endorsement of the JACL or "I'm sure that the parents who statement. policies that address racial inequity," . Many organizations are plarming this publication. We reserve filed this lawsuit have their own stu• Proponents of the schools' inte• said Helen Gym of Philadelphia's a march on Washington, D.C. Dec. L ______the right to edit articles. ~ : . dent's best interests at heart, as do all gration plans say this isn't just a Asian Americans United (AAU), 4, when oral arguments are sched- PACIFIC CmZEN (ISSN: 0030- parents. It does sadden me, though, black and white issue. another amici group. "Claims that uled to be heard. • - 8579) is published semi-monthly - except once in December and January by the Japanese American Citizens League, 250 E. First Street, Ste. 301, Los ~~u~Editor Angeles, CA. 90012 OFFICE HOURS - Mon.-Fri., 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Pacific Time. ©2000. Don Quixote sim Francisco, CA personnel or is this case being used er in chief has blundered in ways that as vehicle to express a position on absolutely shows gross incompe• Annual subscription rates: Ehren Watada reminds me of Don o a NON-MEMBERS: 1 year-$40, the war in Iraq? tence and extreme poor judgment. Quixote de la Mancha, a misguided payable in advance. Additional Accept Our Differences If JACL members woUld like to I have great admiration and grati• postage per year - Foreign peri• idealist tilting at windmills. Bob Is it our culture that makes us support a position on the war in Iraq, tude for the WWII vets and those odical rate $25; Rrst Class for Watada, brings to mind Sancho insist that the actions and beliefs af I suggest they redirect their activities who gave the last measure of sacri• . U.S., Canada, Mexico: $30; Panza, his loyal squire. Airmail to Japan/Europe: $60. one Japanese American reflects all to getting out the vote in November. fice but they are completely out of Ehren made the mistake of volun• (Subject to change without JA actions and beliefs? What bap• We live in a democracy and we have bounds in coming out against tarily joining the Army before he notice.) Periodicals postage paid pened to respect for or at the very the freedom to elect our leaders. . Watada. I plead with them to show at Los Angeles, Calif. studied the ongoing controversy least, tolerance, of the next guy's some compassion and wisdom. This Permission: No part of this publi• about the Iraqi war. So he sought to opinions? man did not disobey orders in a com• cation may be reproduced with- correct his error by disobeying 7Jt«p 7~ 1i:~ ill 1st Lt. Ehren Watada's case, it . bat situation. He is taking a stand . out express permission of the orders to go to Iraq with the Army San Diego, CA publisher. Copying for other than appears he came to his very difficult after very thoughtful consideration unit that he.had trained with and led. personal or intemal reference use and lonely decision after a lot of o of the FACfS of this misbegotten He deserted them and left them lead• without the express permission of reading, thinking and soul searching. -Vietnam Vet Stands struggle. . P.e. is prohibited. erless! This clearly constituted con• It was a very personal decision for If this courageous act puts pres• POSTMASTER: Send address duct unbecoming an officer, and With Ehren Watada which Watada alone is willing to sure on the powers that be to end this changes to: Pacific Citizen, c/o demonstrated contempt for authori• I have been silently reading the face the consequences. miserable war one day sooner then I JACL National Headquarters, ty. No amount of pontificating about various comments about 1st Lt. 1765 Sutter St., San Francisco, How does Watada's actions reflect stand with Ehren. the alleged illegality of the U.S. pres• Ehren Watada. I can hardly stand it CA 94115. on the wonderfully heroic deeds of ence in Iraq justifies violating his anymore. Most of the people I know JA vets? That history will never be ~~ solemn oath to uphold his military seem to shrug their shoulders and do erased. Torrance, CA duties. not consider it their problem. Some Just because we are JAs, we are JACL MEMBERS . Contrary to his orders, Ehren are sympathetic but feel "shoganai." not all of one mind and we must refused to serve in Iraq but said he Then there are those who are vigor• PACIFIC CITIZEN Change of Address· learn to accept the differences would in Mghanistan. I wonder ously weighing in against this brave among us in order to truly grow. 250 E. First Street, Ste 301 If you have moved, what makes him think he's so spe• young man. There are several WWII Los Angeles, CA 90012 vets who were members of one of phone: 2131620-1767 please send infomiatlon cial. Maybe qe just needs to grow fax: 2131620-1768 up. It seems tharhe doesn't realize or ~~ the groups that served gallantly and e-mail: [email protected] to: www.pacificcitizen.org _ care that if he were so privileged, Chicago,IL now feel honor bound to speak up. NationalJACL * Except for the National Director's Report, then all soldiers might have to be o I am also a vet of the Vietnam era. news and the views expressed by colum• 1765 Sutter st. allowed to serve wherever they f was drafted and served overseas nists do not necessarily reflect JACL policy. Watada and Getting The columns are the personal opinion of the San Francisco, CA wished, regardless of the Army's with the 121st Evac Hospital Unit in writers. Out the Vote Korea. When I went in it was with * 'Voices" reflect the active, public discus• 94115 needs. And create administrative sion within JACL of a wide range of ideas What would First Lt. Ehren reluctance but I had accepted the Allow 6 weeks for address nightmares. hnagine the chaos! and issues. though they may not reflect the illcidentally, I disapprove of the Watada's supporters do if the coun• arguments supporting the war. What viewpoint of the edttorial board of the Pacific changes. Citizen. U.S. entanglement in Iraq, but that is try had a different Commander in a load of crap. By the time I was * "Short expressions" on public issues, Chief who ended the war in Iraq and honorably discharged I was pretty usually one or two paragraphs, should To avoid interruptions in receiving a. completely separate issue. We include Signature, address and daytime your P,C, please notify your pa;t• were already at war in Iraq when an Asian American officer refused to bitter. I joined all the demonstrations phone number. Because of space limita• master to include peIioclicals in leave Iraq because he wanted the against the war I·could. tions. letters are subject to abridgement. Ehren (blithely?) joined up. Although we are unable to print all the letters your change of address (USPS war to continue? Is Lt. Watada's case Well the Iraq war is clearly shap• we receive, we appreciate the interest a:nd Form 3575) about defining the rights of military ing up into a war that we also should views of those who take the time to send us their comments. not have gotten into. Our command- PACIFIC CITIZEN OcT 20-Nov. 2, 2006 NATIONAL NEWS 3 National Newsbytes Topaz Accepted for Historical Landmark Designation The Landmarks Committee of the During WWII, By P.e. Staff and Associated Press National Park Service approved the Topaz became 'Topaz internment camp site in Utah home to 8,130 JAs Blish Approves Two Utah Heritage Area~, Topaz for designation as a national historic and became the SALT LAKE CITY- ~------, landmark on Oct. 10. . headquarters of the President Bush has signed .After hearing testimony from for• Buddhist Churches into law legislation that cre• mer internees and other representa• of America during ates Utah's first two her• tives of the Japanese Anierican com• the war years. It was itage areas· and resources munity at its committee meeting in also at Topaz that including a World War ' II the nation's capital, Ronald James, a one of nine JAs was internment camp. member of .the committee, spoke shot and killed by A heritage area is a about th~ archeological remains of an Army guard region where a group of res• Topaz being reminiscent of a battle• when an elderly idents, businesses and gov- field because of the historical signif• Japanese man, wandering too close Topaz as well. ernments manage cultural,· L-_____~~ ______1 icance of 'the camp site during war to the fence, was shot dead by an Although near the town of Delta, natural and historic resources to attract tourism and to protect them for the time. The motion passed unani- armed guard. it was decided that the feelings mously. . By coincidence, Topaz generated evoked by the isolated, desolate area future. Kara Miyagishima of the Park the largest number of artists who were movingly provocative. The Mormon Httritage Area will stretch 250 miles from the town of Service's Intermountain Regional . documented life in the camp by their The committee did not in4icate Fairview south to the Arizona border, crossing through Kane, Garfield, Piute, Office in Denver made a presenta• paintings. 1\vo of the defendants in when the final decision would be Sevier, Wayne and Sanpete counties. tion about Topaz and championed Supreme Court cases related to the made on the designation of Topaz as The Great Basin Heritage Route includes features in Millard County, Utah, the designation of Topaz as part of internment, Fred Korematsu and a National Park Service Historical and Wliite Pine County, across the borderin Nevada, and the Duckworth and the Park Service landmarks; Mitsuye Endo, were imprisoned at Landmark. • Ely Shoshone Indian reservations. It follows the Pony Express and Overland i! trails and seeks to preserve the historic resources, including forests of thou• sand-year-old bristlecone pine trees and the Topaz internment camp. New APA Curriculum Guide is Slated for Release UCLA Welcomes First Academic Chair JACL worked for nearly school classrooms, it will three years to develop a be noteworthy for students on World War II Internment Camps to know that Japanese LOS ANGELES-The University of California, Los curricu1,um about APA his• tory. The next step is a 'bot• Americans went through Angeles celebrated the arrival of the nation's first schol• an experience some 60 ar to hold an academic chair dedicated to studying the tom-up graSsroots effort years ago that parallels the Japanese American internment. and a top-down political travails of Arab Americans Lane Ryo Hirabayashi will hold the Aratani chair, campaign' to get the guide and Muslims today," funded by a donation of $500,000 from George and into schools. Yoshino added. Sakaye Aratani, at the UCLA Asian American Studies In addition to a compre• Center. The Aratanis are among the largest donors to JA By Pacific Citizen Staff hensive summary of each educational and cultural causes. major ethnic group's expe• JACL will release an Asian Professors tlolding the chair must teach at least one course on issues relat• rience, the APA guide Pacific American curriculum guide ed to the internment program and organize or assist public education pro• includes a directory of this month with a goal to implement grams on the subject. prominent APAs from the lessons in states with growing politicians to fashion APA populations. designers and even profes• Radio Ad in Michigan Likens Anti-Affirmative I ''The Journey from Gold Action Measure to Sept. 11, Katrina JA~L sional wrestler Dwayne Mountain: The Asian American ~"""'Allt.\ti.MlIII;I. .... '''The Rock" Johnson. LANSING, Mich.-Opponents of a ballot proposal that would ban some I Experience," a 92-page curriculum All activities including a affirmative action programs in Michigan are running a statewide radio ad that and resource guide that covers APA high school level 'interac• wams the measure is as dangerous as the Sept. 11 and Hurricane Katrina dis• history from the initial waves of this guide so that teachers can better tive discussion on racial stereotypes asters. immigrant groups to present day include their Asian students in les• and an elementary level lesson on "If you could have prevented 9/1 rtmm ever happening, would you have?" political empowerment, is slated for .. sons on multiculturalism and diver• diversity in Asian America were an announcer asks in the ad. "If you could have prevented Katrina from ever . national distribution Oct. 27. sity." developed by teachers. happening, what would you have done? On November 7th, there's a nation• Approximately 2,000 copies will go This is the JACL's second curricu• '''This has to be both a bottom-up al disaster headed for Michigan: the elimination of affirmative action." to JACL chapters, teachers, curricu• lum guide. '''The Japanese American grassroots effort and a top-down The proposed constitutional amendment would ban the use of race and lum specialists and educators. Experience: A Lesson in American political campaign. We'll need our gender preferences in university admissions and government hiring. Similar The JACL has worked .on this History" was released in the early chapters involved if this has any . proposals have passed in California and Washington state. project for two and one-half years 1990s and focused on JA history. chance at all, and we need the guides with grant money from State Farm This new guide casts a wider net in the hands of teachers because they in order to include APA history les• from past to present. Hmong Veterans Push for Memorial can help push this from the local lev• sons in more schools, especially in A supplemental DVD by film• .ST. PAUL, Minnesota-Minnesota's Hmong immigrant community is els to their respective state political the South and the Midwest where maker Dianne Fukami, which will working to build a memorial to the Asian veterans who fought in Laos dur- bodies," said Tateishi. Asian populations haven't existed in include personal stories and historic ing the Vietnam War. . "My goal with this entire project significant numbers before, said accounts of APAimmigration, is also With the help of state Democratic lawmaker Cy Thao, a committee of has always been to reach students at JACL Executive Director John currently in the works. Hmong veterans secured a $150,000 commitment from the Legislature an early age to teach them about the Tateishi. "We wanted to make the guide as toward the $450,000 project this year. lives and cultures of Asian "I felt it's important that we pro• current as possible. Thus, we Chii Wu, who is heading the memorial effort, said he envisions a diorama Americans, and to help them under• vide the tools to teachers to be able thought it would be critical to add of a downed U.S. pilot being rescued by a Hmong man, woman and child. stand that not being white should to talk about their schools' growing the dimension of the post-Sept. 11th Rescuing pilots was one of the Hmong fighters' responsibilities, Xang Vang diversity with the inclusion of Asian . impact because this event has had never be a determination of who or said, along with hit-and-run attacks on the North Vietnamese army, scouting, Americans, and to be able to articu• significant repercussions for what an American is. The ultimate and protecting'U.S. radar stations and other installations. late the values of having these new America and for Asian Americans," lesson, of course, is tolerance and The memorial project got a setback when the group was denied a $100,000 Americans in their communities," said Bill Yoshino, APA guide pro• diversity, aM knowing the values of grant request through the city of St. Paul's cultural Sales Tax Revitalization said Tateishi. ''Up to now, no one has . gram director · and JACL Midwest that diversity help to make us a bet• program. So the group is turning to the private sector to raise the rest of the provided this kind of information to district regional director. ter nation and certainly a stronger $300,000 it estimates it will need to build the memorial near the Capitol. • educators, so we've been developing "When Sept. 11 th is discussed in and better democracy," he added.• hostile and racist remarks about Illinois, Pennsylvania, VIrginia, and APA Groups Announce Election Protection for the first time, Maryland. Asian American voters," said Groups will monitor, voter well as the introduction of new vot• :----,...--,-.-....,.,..~...... ,...... ,-,...... ,.,...... , The organization AALDEF staff attorney Glenn D. discrimination at the polls. ing machines under the federal Help will be monitoring: Magpantay. America Vote Act, we want to ensure • Compliance with In February 2006, AALDEF sued By Pacific Citizen Staff that all eligible Asian American vot• language assistance the New York City Board of Elections for violating the Voting ers are able to participate in the elec• required by the Voting Rights Act's language assistance For the upcoming November elec• toral process in November without Rights Act; provisions. tions, Asian Pacific American interferene:e," said Margaret Fung, • Properly function• AALDEF's 2004 exit poll - groups are stepping up protection executive director of the Asian ing voting machines; and monitoring plans at the polls for which surveyed nearly 11,000 vot• American Legal Defense and and APAvoters. ers-revealed that more than one• Education Fund (AALDEF). • Non-discriminato• third (38 percent) of APAs surveyed APAs are becoming a large part of Under its Election Protection ry implementation of the electorate in key Southern were first-time voters, of which 2006 plan, more than 500 attorneys, voter identification nearly one-half (46 percent) used California areas, according to a new law students, and volunteers will requirements in all language assistance in order to vote. study by the Asian Pacific American cover 150 poll sites in eight states AALDEF will document inci• states. - Legal Center (APALC). But APA where Asian language assistance is dents of voter discrimination at poll "In recent elections, our election • voters continue to face barriers at the provided, where APA voter registra• sites and via its toll-free hotline and protection volunteers have identified To report Election Day problems, polls and groups are responding to a egregiously mistranslated ballots, . tion has increased, or where APA conduct a multilingual exit poll of call AAWEF's Election Day need for more assistance. interpreter shortages that led to vqters historically have experienced APA voters in New York, New Hotline toll-free,at 8001966-5946 or "With the dramatic increase in · Asian American voters being turned intimidation. Jersey, Massachusetts, Michigan, bye-mail at votingcomplaints@ new citizens and flfSt-time voters, as away, and poll workers who made aaldeforg. 4 NATIONAL NEWS PACIFIC CITIZEN, Ocr. 20-Nov. 2, 2006 MOE GANG (Continued from paae 1) 'We did good and bad things, mostly bad. We had a close-laut friendship. ' - Norman Shizumura, 81, original Moe Gang member By Pacific Citizen Staff Mineta Joins Mansfield Foundation Board of Directors Former U.S. Commerce and Transportation Secretary Nonnan Mineta has joined the Maureen and Mike Mansfield Foundation's board of directors. The foundation is a nonprofit organization that pro• motes the Mansfield's vafues, ideals and vision for U.S.-Asia relations. Mineta was appointed U.S. secretary of transporta• tion by President Bush in 2001 and served until July 2006. He had been appointed secretary of commerce in 2000 by President Clinton, making him the first APA to hold a post in a pres• idential cabinet. He represented the Silicon Valley area of California in the House of • PHOTO COURTESY OHANA GABALDON Representatives from 1975-1995 and h~served as mayor of San Jose, Calif. THE LAST REUNION: Moe Gang members (I-f) Kakaro Mochinaga, Norman Shizumura and Guy Gabaldon m~t for the last time July 2006 in Los Angeles. Gabaldon would die a month later. Kwan Named Bankruptcy Judge for Central District the Union Pacific yard in East L.A. his old friend, who he saw for the Guy, young and visibly moved, is The Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals yesterday named Assistant U.S. to Barstow. last time this summer before Guy, flanked by Lane and Lyle, who both Attorney Robert Kwan as a bankruptcy judge for the Central District of Their friendship forged by respect 80, died of a heart attack Aug. 31. look dashing dressed i.il matching and adventures was tom apart early dark suits. Up to that point, they had Californi:L not seen each other in 11 years and A former deputy chief of the Tax Division in the U.S. Attorney's Office in by the extraordinary circumstances From Boys to Heroes with Guy's hand clasped in Lane's, a Los Angeles, this was Kwan's fifth time applying for the position. of World War II. And like other sto• But war brings out the best and ries aboUt that dark chapter in the worst. Many of these boys went part ofthe Moe Gang was reunited. Kwan is set to commence his 14-year renewable term on Jan. 2. He has American history, the War shaped into the Armed Services and came "This is the most," said Guy, his practiced bankruptcy law for over 20 years. the rest of their lives as internees, out heroes. voiee choked with emotions. APA Author's Graphic Novel Receives war heroes, and for some, bitter ene• Norman and Kakaro were drafted The Nakano brothers told stones mies. out of camp and served in the Army about their childhood antics - History Making Honor and iil the Military Intelligence jumping out of second story win• Gene Luen Yang's "American Born Making and Breaking Service (MIS), respectively. Lane dows on a dare and teaching Guy Chinese," is the first graphic novel to receive a the Moe Gang and Lyle gained fame fighting in the Japanese words like arigato. National Book Award nomination. Their stories span over six 442nd, a role Lane would later recre• "Beginning from the time that The graphic novel, nominated in the young decades and are punctuated with ate on the Hollywood set of the 1951 Guy was about 11, he divided his people's category, is a loose re-telling of the question marks and secrets taken to movie "Go For Broke!" The broth• time between spending his life with Monkey King myth. Judges chose, and pre• the grave. Some lost contact and ers always had star qUality. At Heart his family and ours," said Lane to sumably read, from 1,259 books submitted by were never reunited over the yeats Mountain, a young girl named Ruth host Ralph Edwards. publishers. Wmners receive $10,000 and run• of turmoil and relocations. Many "But one thing, Guy always stood ners-up $1,000. have passed away, but for two sur• by his friends," said Lyle. The National Book Foundation is a non• viving members the gang's cast of This moment, frozen in time, profit organization that sponsors numerous characters is an easy recall. 'The government didrl't would make the larger pictUre seem readings and educational programs. They were: . Nisei Kakaro give us much time. ' all the more tragic. Guy last saw Mochinaga, twins Lane and Lyle Lyle in 1976 when he owned a pop• Religious Group to Give Watada an Award Nakano, George Une, Katsie Ueda, - Shizumura, about leaving ular Hollywood nightclub called the A religious group says it will give U.S. Army war Johnny Ito and Norman Shizumura; for Manzanar without saying .lmperi3I Garden. Friends remem- objector 1st Lt. Ehren Watada an award for refusing to Latinos Guy Gabaldon and Pancho; goodbye to his friends bered Lyle as a gregarious host, but fight in Iraq with his unit. a Jewish boy naJ?1ed Saul Factor and when he sold the business some• The Interfaith Alliance of Hawaii says it wants to another.kid they called ''Frisko.'' thing changed. Lyle committed sui• bestow its Hame of Hope Award on the Honolulu-born A stroke left Katsie in a nursing remembered watching Lane per• cide, Ohana said, but the reasons officer at its 2006 Community Awards dinner later this home, leaving Norman and Kakaro form. remain shrouded in mystery. month. the only two original Moe Gang "He used to sing at the [camp] Guis friendship with Lane The alliance includes about 150 members from about members left to talk about old times. dances," said Ruth, 81, who coinci• imploded. 20 religious affiliations. Watada's attorney plans to "We did good and bad things, dentally met and married Kakaro "The last time Guy tried to have receive the award for Watada since the Army won't allow him to travel to mostly bad," said Norman, 81, with later while working in a Utah can• contact with Lane Nakano, he was Hawaii for the ceremony. a chuckle. "We had a close-knit nery. very ill and couldn't come to the. friendship." Guy would go on to join the phone," said Ohana froni het Old ' Bush Names APA as Administration Nominee Nonnan was 16 years old when Marines and become a folk hero on Town, Fla. home. "I don't know President George W. Bush intends to nominate Curtis S. Chin, of New the War broke out. He lived across the island of Saipan, where using the what happened. I would like to York, to be U.S. director of the Asian Development Bank, with the rank: of the street from the Nakano family, little bit of Japanese language he . know. I never asked either because ambassador. but he does not remember saying picked up from his Nisei friends, he obviously people change. Guy never Chin currently serves as managing director at Burson-Marsteller. Earlier in goodbye to his Moe Gang friends was reported to have captured 1,500 said there was a reason. I don't know his career, he served as special assistant to the U.S. secretary of cominerce. before being swept up behind Japanese enemies; Guy was recom• why. What happened?" He also served on the Departinent of State's Advisory Committee on Cultural barbwire fences in Manzanar mended for the Medal of Honor by Kakaro, 83, said he thinks the Diplomacy. along with Kakaro and his family. his commanding officer, Capt. John falling out was the result of a misun• Chin received his bachelor's degree from Northwestern University and his The Nakano twins went to Heart Schwabe, but instead received the derstanding, but he doesn't know the master's degree from Yale University. Mountain in Wyorning where they Silver Star. Along with the release of details. Some point out that the would famously volunteer to fight "Hell to Eternity," a 196() movie friends had philosophical differ• Nikkei Concerns Announces New Leadership with the 442nd Regimental based on his war experience, Guy's ences. Guy was very conservative, Susan S. Old is Nikkei Concerns new chief execu• Combat Team. medal was upgraded to a Navy said Ohana, adding, "They had very tive officer, an organization that serves elders. "The govemment didn't give us Cross. different views." - Oki was most recently president and CEO of much time," said Norman, who After the War, the boys grew into With Lane's passing last April, the Innovative Cookies, Inc., a company she established in lives in Gardena, Calif. civilian life as accountants, entrepre• Moe Gang faces extinction. In July, 2001 and sold to Seattle Goumiet Foods in 2005. Prior I Almost overnight, the boys' neurs and entertainers, but nothing a month before his death, Guy met to that, she was the executive director of the Japanese neighborhood fell quiet. The Nisei about their friendship was ever the with Norman and Kakaro to share American Chamber of Commerce. I and their pioneering parents were same again. stories for the last time. gone, more than half of the Moe "Our friendship terminated after 'That was the best thing that ever Gang was taken away - and their the War," said Norman. happened," said Norman. Hamaguchi Heads Up Japantown Task Force absence was felt most strongly by So much has happened since their The Japantown Task Force, Inc. anllOunced the those left behind. This Is Your Life carefree days in' Boyle Heights, but appointment of Robert E. Hamaguchi as its executive "He was devastated," said Ohana Sometimes the mind works like a for Kakaro, it was a friendship director. Hamaguchi is a retired senior vice president of Gabaldon about her husband Guy, a camera freezing a moment in life unlike any other he would eyer find scrappy Moe Gang member who with a pristine image of a toothy grin again. Bank of America where he served 33 years in t;eal estate I banking and corporate real estate. He is past president developed an affinity for Japanese and unbridled happiness. "He.'s not the type to make new of the Bay Area Mortgage Association and a former culture. "He grew up and never saw Images of Guyon a 1957 episode friends. He keeps old ones," said member 'of the 1?oard of directors of the Japanese anything but American kids." of '''This is Your Life," a popular tel• Ruth over the phone about her hus• "It was hard for him, after the war Cultural and COIIUl.1.unity Center of Northern evision show that reunited a contest• band, who punctuates the silence in broke out, he was left without too California.• ant with long lost friends, is sadly the background with a soft procla• many friends," Norman said about ironic. mation: "I do feel lonely." • PACIFIC CITIZEN Ocr. 20-Nov. 2, 2006 COMMUNnY NEWS 5 . Learn ·theRopes in D.C. with L.A. Bus Tour Focuses on History of Japanese Pioneers APAICS Summer Internship The lives and struggles of Japanese settlers in Imperial Valley The Asian Pacific American Heather De Guia, a 2006 APAICS before and after World War IT will be Institute for Congfessional Studies jntern for Congressman Mike the subject of a tour Nov. 17-18 now (APAICS) is now accepting applica• Honda being arranged by a group of retired tions for its 2007 undergraduate APAICS is a nonprofit, nonparti• Nisei ministers and the Japanese summer. internship program. san, educational organization based Evangelical Missionary Society. Each year, APAICS selects up to in Washington, D.C. that seeks to (JEMS). 10 undergraduate students for a first• build a politically empowered APA , The tour will spend two days vis• hand learning experience in community. iting towns where the Japanese and American politics. Interns work in Interns will receive a $2,500 their familit';s lived and farmed in an congressional offices, federal agen• stipend to work from June 4 to July area largely known for intensely hot cies, and non:profit organizations in 27, 2007. Applicants must demon• weather. Washington, D.C. strate an interest in public service Traveling by bus, the group will Through a s~ries of seminars, and APIA affairs .• leave Los Angeles on Nov. 17 morn• interns learn about national Asian Part of the JEMS Tour will include a visit to the Desert Tower. ing and visit Indio en route. Pacific ~slander American advocacy Participants will visit the Imperial Tour guide Tim Asamen is organizations and network with Valley Pioneers' Museum to view researching the history of the peers from the Congressional the Japanese American gallery, an Japanese in Imperial Valley to pre• Hispanic Caucus Institute (CHCI) exhibition on the history of Japanese serve the life story of the early and the Congressional Black Caucus families pioneering and community Japanese pioneers and their families. Foundation (CBCF), collectively life. . The tour will also include a get• known as the Tri-Caucus. The tour is being arranged by the together with local Japanese gallery "As an intern, I had the privilege Retired Nisei Ministers Association members whose stories about life of participating in meetings regard• " and JEMS. One of the retired minis• past and present in the valley will be ing an amendment to the Higher ters, the Rev. Kei Kokubun, will be shared. Education Act of 1965 to authorize one of the guides. He is the son of of interest on the tour grants for institutions of higher edu• Other places the late Rev. Jingoro Kokubun, who will include: the U.S. Navy's Blue cation serving Asian Americans and founded the Calexico and EI Centro Pacific Islanders (HR.' 2616)," said Angels facility, the Desert Tower, Christian Churches in 1920 and pas• Salton Sea, sand dunes and mud tored both until the churches were pots, and the towns that made up the Check us out online at: closed by the internment and never valley's sights and communities.• reopened. www.pacificcitizen.org .~::. Blue Shield of California An lridependent Member of the Blue Shiel? AS$ociation The Honorable Leon E. Panetta (second from righ~ with former Angel Island detainees. Panetta'Keynotes Angel Island Foundation's Annual Dinner The Honorable LeonE. Panetta, "Confronted overcrowded facilities. it is obvious that we have a history director of the Panetta Institute for Confronted humiliating examina• of discrimination that prevails, Public Policy, California State tions and interrogations. Spent days going back to the Declaration of University, Monterey Bay, keynot• and months and sometimes years of lIidependence and the Constitution. ed the" Angel Island Immigration waiting to determine whether These documents said that all of us Station Foundation (AllSF) Annual they'd be approved or deported." are created equal under God. The Dinner recently. "Angel Island and Manzanar are paradox of these documents is that While Angel Island was one of symbols not so much of freedom, this country accepted slavery at that the ports of entry for hundreds of opportunity and equality, but of iso• time." thousands of immigrants who came lation, confinement and discrimina• Panetta concluded his speech by . to this country searching for the tion that often took place in this emphasizing, ' ''We also have an riches and opportunity of country. In the end, these are sym• obligation to break the paradox to California, they confronted what bols of the paradox of our democra• promise America to help those Panetta calls the "Paradox of our cy. yearning to breathe free. We are a democracy." "On one hand, this country reach- " better nation because of those who "Immigrants who came through ~s out for opportunity, great promise followed the torch of liberty. That Angel Island confronted the para• to those who come, promise of light and promise must never be dox of our democracy," he said. .equality. And yet, at the same time, broken." • Winners Swing for Justice Health Plo"rls for California JACL Members Call the JACL Health Benefits Administrators at PHOTO COURTESY MAS HASHIMOTO 1.800.400.6633 Nearly 100 golfers from around the country enjoyed the camaraderie and the good spirit associated or visit with the 3rd National JACL Golf Tournament, held Oct. 2 at Harding.Park Golf Course, San Francisco. All the golfers were certainly "swinging for justice" as they completeq 18 holes of golf. The funds raised will further national JACL's education, community service, anti-hate and civil rights programs. www.jQclhealth.org . Japanese A m ~r!can Otizen's l.~aglJe Winr:lers of the Mike M. Masaoka Flight (I-r) John Ichiuji, Fredo Cervartes and Jim Kosinki show off their prizes. 6 NATIONAL NEWS PACIFIC CITIZEN, Ocr. 2O-Nov. 2, 2006 J~PANTOWNS as famous as the three remain• other areas. ing Japantowns tOday accord• Today, the three remaining big (Continued from page 1) ing to longtime area resident . three Japantowns still attract tourists the Califomia Civil Liberties Public Mas Hashimoto, whose father and locals alike, but remnants of Education Program (CCLPEF), the ran a restaurant. catering and these long-forgotten J-towns still project organizers are currently sake brewery in the heart of exist if you look closely enough. researching these areas and out• Japantpwn, a busin~ss that On any given weeknight, sounds reaching to members of the commu• doubled as their home right of Tai Chi instruction, a waltz, or nity for help. next to the Buddhist Church. taiko drumming can be heard from "Japanese Americans were a part Like many of the early set• the historic JACL Hall in Monterey of the history of this state, an impor• tlements, a large farming that is still used by coqununity mem• tant part. This project is a way to tell industry was the attraction for bers. On weekends the building is their stories," said Donna Graves, a many of the JA families who . host to Japanese language classes cultural historian helping to lead the owned a number of businesses and both Buddhist and Christian project ''We are looking for physical in the Watsonville Japantown services. memories so history won't be lost." including barbershops, pool Organizers of the "Preserving The project's 43 cities includes: halls, a grocery store, manju California's Japantowns" project Alameda; ' Bakersfield; Berkeley; store, photography shop, and a know that most of what they hope to gas station. There was a base• find will be found in the memories Brawley; Cortez; EI Centro; Florin; The JACL Hall (pictured Fowler; Fresno; Gardena; Gilroy; ball field and the Toyo of those Nisei who lived add grew above) in Monterey, Community Hall too. up in these once-thriving communi• Glendale; Guadalupe; Isleton; Calif. is still a large part Livingston; Lodi; Lompoc; Long The Japantown also had its ties. For historians like Graves, their of the JACL Monterey own whorehouse for both knowledge is priceless. Beach; Marysville; Monterey; chapter's activities. Mountain View; Oakland; Oxnard; whites and non-whites. .'The only thing non-Nikkei know , ''Watsonville's reQ light dis• about Japanese Americans is the Pasadena; Sebastopol/Petaluma; Tsunetaro Oda's Riverside; Sacramento; Salinas; San trict was famous," said internment. They have no physical Seapride cannery (left) Hashimoto. "After the war, picture. We want tpeople to stand . Diego; San Mateo; San Pedro; Santa of the 1920s is now a Ana; Santa Barbara; Santa Maria; many soldiers and sailors from where Japanese Americans once part of the Monterey Monterey would come knock• worked, lived, and farmed. First per• Santa Monica; Sawtelle; Stockton; Bay Aquarium. Terminal Island; Vacaville; Venice; ing on our door. As a child I son narratives," said Graves. Visalia; Walnut Grove; and would show .them the whore- And for these Nisei, they .know for Maki Oda it was a source of Sunrise Grocery, Mas' Barbershop, Watsonville. houses which was on the next block that often their stories are all that's ' unexpected family pride. Her Higashi Hotel, and Azuma Tei "It is amazing," said Jill Shiraki, away. Bing Crosby and Bob Hope left of an important part of JA histo• father's fish cannery business from Restaurant. The city also had its own project manager, who noted that used to joke about it on their radio ry. 1926 had been named Seapride JACLHall. .even preservationists and historians shows during the week of the "I think it's important we preserve Cannery and today part of the 'The Buddhist Church used the they have talked to are surprised to Crosby golf tournament." our history for our own future gener• Aquarium stands in its place. JACL Hall for thejr services and I learn there was once a Japantown in ations because I don't think anyone , Monterey's miles oLblue ocean went to Sunday school every Not Just San Francisco, Los their communities. 'They don't see else will," said Himaka. "I only hope along a rugged coastline of pine Sunday. I had Boy Scouts meetings Angeles, and San Jose we can get our Yonsei and Gosei it in their histories." For many of these California forests has made this area famous in the basement." said Larry Oda more involved ... to keep it going." Monterey and Watsonville and is likely what attracted JA fami• who recalled older Nikkei telling Japantowns, the onset of WWII and had a J-Town? lies during the early 1900s, a com• stories about his grandfather's can• the years of internment would ulti• • For infonnation or to participate in . When the Monterey Bay munity that was a large part of the nery. "I remember Mr. Torakichi mately cause their demise. Forced to the "Preserving California'S Aquarium was building its Outer city's sardine fishing and cannery Tabata at Sunrise would always give' leave everything behind after evacu• Japantown" project, contact Jill Bay Wmg, a sign on the office door industry. Before long Monterey me a candy bar whenever we went to ating from the West Coast, many Shiraki at 5101277-2164 or email: read "Seapride," a name most could boast its own burgeoning buy groceries." families did not return to their pre• [email protected]. passersby would assume fitting but Japantown with. businesses like During the 1900s Watsonville was War lives, preferring to resettle in Start Now! Members have full access to a complete line ofmortgage loan programs with exceptional rates. Let us ·help you save money and build equity through homeownership. Need to consolidate your debt? • R~modeling? • Seeking to refinance? Gordon Yamagata . National JACL CU Need some cash? Mortgage Consultant (800) 288-2017 • Want a new house·? M-F 8:30AM - 5:30PM .....___ .... Loans may be processed in AZ. CA, OR, NM and UT. Void elsewhere. Diablo Funding Group, Inc. 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Kenji Johjima of the Seattle Since 1947 the JACL HEALTH 10, MLB Japan said in a state• team Oct. 10 along with infielder Mariners and Tadahito Iguchi of ment. .Lyle Overbay of the Toronto Blue the Chicago White Sox are also TRUST has offered Health Care Pitcher Bronson Arroyo of the Jays and relief pitcher Mike among the players named to the coverage to JACL members Cincinnati Reds was named to the Myers of the New York Yankees. squad.• Matsuzaka Gets Clearance to Pursue Major League Career To protect you and your family from even common TOKYO-Highly regarded pitch• The 26-year-old right-hander In his eight-year career in Japan, accidents and illnesses the JACL HEALTH TRUST er Daisuke Matsuzaka was given posted a 2.13 earned run average and Matsuzaka has led the Pacific permission by 200 strikeouts. League in wins three times and in provides Blue Cross of California health care coverage. the Seibu Matsuzaka has long been consid• strikeouts four times while winning Blue Cross of California has been providing health Lions on Oct. ered one of the brightest prospects in the ERA title twice and the coverage to Californians for over 65 years. Blue Cross is iO to pursue a Japanese professional baseball. SawamuraAward, Japan's version of committed to keeping you connected to career in the Seibu is expected to use the post• the Cy Young Award. once . . quality health care services. major leagues. ing system in which major league . Matsuzaka impressed major Matsuzaka, teams present bids for Japanese league scouts when he helped Japan . who has drawn players and the highest bidder wins win the inaugural World Baseball interest from several major league the negotiating rights. Ichiro Suzuki Classic title last March 'and was teams including the New York signed with the Seattle Mariners named MVP of the tournament. • Yankees, finished the 2006 regular under the same system. season with a career-high 17 wins Matsuzaka is still one year away against five losses. . from becoming a free agent. 8 NATIONAL/VOICES PACIFIC CITIZEN, OCT. 20-Nov. 2, 2006 LAWSUIT size enough how important it is that this challenge continue through the • HARRY K. HONDA • (Continued from page 1) courts because this is one of the The ACLU contended Section essential parts of what makes the VERY TRULY YOURS 215 of the Patriot Act, which allows Patriot Act so repugnant -and such a the. FBI access to any ''tangible threat to the rights of Americans." things" such as books and docu• Hood's ruling had been awaited Arizona On My Mind: ments through an order from a secret since a Dec; 3, 2003, hearing at court, does not require investigators which the government argued the $1 ,OOO,O~O Prize for Vo~ing to show probable cause. lawsuit should be dismissed. Federal The group wants the judge to officials later argued that amend- ' declare Section 215 unconstitution• ments approved by Congress in LECTION METHODS voters. Nisei were told to also fight 'The second thing was finding al, and block the Justice Department March 2006 had corrected any E HAVE been in the news racial discrimination at the polls. It out the theme of this convention, from using that part of the Patriot Constitutional flaws in the Patriot with general elections due is recorded that the Brawley chapter 'Phoenix Rising -leadership for a Act. Act. Hood's ruling gave the plain• next month. The state of Arizona, ''fined'' those members who did not new generation.' Connections start• tiffs 30 days to amend their initial "I've been waiting for three years while we were in convention last vote. One needed to check the next ed to happen. to see how the court would rule on complaint in light of those amend• June, was pondering an initiative day with the polling place of those 'The third thing was seeing my this particular lawsuit because this is, ments. who did vote. niece here, Megan, who's an intern of course, one of the more ominous Kary Moss, Michigan director of promoting voter registration. The components of the Patriot Act. the ACLU, told the Detroit Free carrot: a million dollar prize to a Some in California, at one time, at the convention. Section 215, which is the focus of Press she would consult with her lucky voter. The prize was to come didn't register as jurors were select• "And then the connections really the JACL's amicus brief, allows the clients before deciding whether to from unclaimed Arizona lottery ed from this pool; but now anyone happened: Yuri to me to my niece. government to exercise unreason• proceed with the lawsuit. winnings. Critics argued it was like with a driver's license, if a citizen, There's a thread connecting us all. able search and seizures without The government had argued the "buying votes" by offering a prize. can be summoned. Part of that thread is who weare. probable cause, something I believe law does not violate the Fourth Proponents sought a greater number We are the result of our parents' and flies in the face of basic democratic Amendment because the protections of voters. Tim's speech at the Convention grandparents' hard work and sacri• principles," said John Tateishi, against unreasonable search and As an aside, the primaries last One speech, I felt, that maps out fice. Another part of the thread is JACL executive director. seizure do not apply to information the coming years for Nikkei and our history, our stories. We need to "The judge's ruling to allow the or items that have been given to third . spridg in the state of Washington lawsuit to proceed is an important parties, even if there is an under- . were tight and confusing. The win• JACL was delivered by Tun pass on our stories. I'm proud to be one because it allows organizations standing of confidentiality. ner for the state governor was Toyama, co-winner of the Japanese a part of that thread. The next gen• like the ACLU and the JACL to con• Hood acknowledged it took "an declared after two months, despite American of~e Biennium award. eration is here." . tillue to challenge what we believe to extraordinary amount of time" to dead people having voted and more Tun said: 'The last couple of And Megan, a Yonsei, was asked be an instrument that has led to the issue her ruling, adding, ''the issues ballots being returned than the'num• days, I've been thinking of what to to say a few words. After hearing erosion of civil liberties in this'coun• raised on the complaint and in the ber registered in some parts of the say ... and to be candid, I've been the stories of her grandparents and try," he continued. "I can't empha- government's papers are important state. And King County officials freaking out I didn't know what to friends in the community, she said to us all.:'. said it would be cheaper in the long say. Then three things happened. she was inspired, grateful and eager run by doing away with polling sta- 'The first thing that happened to follow in their footsteps ... ''to Eugene JA Art Memorial Breaks Ground tions. was during the flight (to Phoenix), dream big and stand up for what I After more .than three years, the Oregon is a pioneer, having axed I was reading Yuri Kochiyama's believe is right." Eugene Japanese American Art polling statiC)llS in 2000. Among the book, 'Passing It On. ' Yuri was a 'Th.ese lessons have driven me to Memorial (EJAAM) committee reasons were the long lines at the recipient of this award ten years give everything I do 110 percent, broke ground in September. The polling place, some in line for an ago. She writes, 'This book is writ• grateful for everything I have, never monument commemorates the hour or two, trying to work through ten for my grandchildren. I would take anything for granted, and to World War 11 mass evacuation from 26 initiatives one year. For the 2004 like them to know their great-grand• love and appreciate my family, the West Coast of 120,000 Japanese parents, grandparents, uncles and friends and community. Their sto• American citizens and their Issei election, Oregon had the highest parents. voter turnout by mail at 87 percent . aunts. I would like them to know ries have fueled my passion for The chosen site is at the comer of of registered voters. some Japanese American history so social justice and dream for the the Hult Center, the cultural hub of California allows permanent they'll be able to make connections. future." Eugene, where the monument will absentee voters. The envelope used with some important movements Tun's last words: "Encourage be seen by thousands of visitors each to return ballots are a different size that took place in which their par• them to keep telling their stories. year. The dedication ceremony is and color for postal clerks to spot ents and relatives participated.' 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I one intrepid APA student (Phillip Wang) sought the door for a private screening. beyond music videos for came from South Africa and most of That must've been exciting. friends? my friends were white. I feel like counsel of a blue-eyed guru who could seduce with a . WANG: Actually, it does sound WANG: It just happened so grad• I'm an international citizen, so race beckon and a softly uttered, "Dude." . pretty cool. One of the people in ually. Slowly we were getting more or color doesn't matter. their video department e-mailed us and more feedback. It was never like WANG: I hope not too many pe0- The scene from the aptly titled January 2006 short film saying every quarter they invite film• we made something that was 'Oh ple associate us as that because "Yellow Fever" generated a lot of buzz and spread through the makers to come and showcase their my god this is amazing ... ' we're really not I mean I know we internet quicker than you could say: Who the heck is Wong Fu? CHAN: 'Yellow Fever' ... live in Alhambra, and we're all The men behind the film - Wang, Wesley Chan and Ted Fu - all recent WANG: I guess 'Yellow Fever' Asian, but we don't curse the world graduates from UC San Diego, seemed to have cornered the internet movie 'It's furmy because we was one thing ... for making us Asian. Actually we're CHAN: Tell her about the bill. world with their irreverent humor and lip-syncing music videos. Now would get this one e-mail really happy! they've ventured into a new arena: a feature length film about relationships. WANG: Oh yeah. Our Web site at "A Moment with You," which was shot for about $2,000, features a mul• saying "Wow, it totally the time had a cap on how many PC: But mostly, have you tiethnic cast with - yes, a good-looking white guy (Casey Hoffman), but the breaks down stereotypes. " people could download and for been embraced by APAs? mood is more mature and introspective. The idea was born from a lack of every gigabyte that you go over it WANG: Yes. One good thing is "relatable" Hollywood romantic movies. And then we get another was like $1. So many people started that we get a lot of e-mails saying "[Movies like] 'How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days' or 'Maid-in Manhattan,' e-mail that said, "Wow, downloading that we ended up with what we do inspire them to do they're fun to watch, I totally believe that, but I've never had to lose a girl in a bill of $1 ,300. . their own videos and pursue the 10 days," said Wang. you guys just reinforced FU: That's why we have dona• arts. That feels really good The group who met in class in 2004 is embarking on an international tour every stereotype. '" tions. because they're all saying that for their new film, kicking off in San Diego of course. there are Asian Americans now - Phil Wang, about their short pc: 'Yellow Fever' put you on that are showing Asian Americans Pacific Citizen: How does this collaboration work? film 'Yellow Fever' the map for .internet movies, just as people not as kung fu fight• ______. but there was also a backlash. CHAN: It was a story that we developed together. We never wrote any• ers. We're just regular college kids thing on our own. It was all us in. front of the computer writing together. What were the critics saying? too trying to do some fun stuff. It's Every project is different - Phil might edit one project, but we'd be there to work. And so they said we know that WANG: The critics tended to take been good to hear younger Asian - let him know what we think. 'Yellow Fever' did really well and things way too seriously. They ana• American kids say those things. WANG: We don't have those titles. Since there are only three of us any• you guys are on Google video and lyzed it and said that we were trying ways, we can't really get caught 'up on titles because so !lluch needs to get YouTube a lot. We know you have to break these social barriers, but we PC: What's next for Wong Fu? this movie coming out, 'if you guys · were just trying to talk about things WANG: We're also trying to start came that would be really cool. that groups talk about. Some people our new company called About 80 people showed up. It w~ were 'saying that we were being real• Sketchbook Media. That's some• pretty nerve racking because they ly racist. It's funny because we thing we're going to launch within a have titles and they're Google would get this one e-mail saying month. . employees, you know. 'Wow, it totally breaks down stereo• FU: When people think of Wong types.' And then we get mother e• Fu now, they think of entertainment. PC: Did you work out a niail that said, 'Wow, you guys just When people think Sketchbook, deal? . reinforced every stereotype. ' they'll think production company. CHAN: They mentioned some• (lAughs) We're just branching out. thing about if we wanted to host WANG: That's how Wong Fu is the movie online, they would help pc: In making a movie about growing up, I guess you can say. • split up the movie and host it. I white men dating all the Asian think we're going to finish this women, some of the criticism ON THE WEB: www.wongfupro• tour first. was that you are angry Asian ductions.com At UnionBanc Investment Services, the brokerage subsidiary of Union SECRET ASIAN MAN By Tak Bank of California, we support our clients by helping them implement their financial goals. If you \\!ant to invest fot college, retirement; or need assistance to implement your overall financial strategies, please contact the Investment Center of your nearest branch. . 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East Coast 239. : 800/966-6157 : PHlLADELPIllA Sat., Nov. 4-Discussion, ~------. Sat., Oct. ~5th Annual Meet and "Japanese American "confections that win affections' Avoid the Terri Schiavo. Mess Greet Potluck Dinner; 6:30 p.m.; 724 Newspapers: Past, Present BENKYODO CO. Download an Advance Health Care Directive Harvard Ave; Swarthmore, PA. RSVP and Future"; 4:30 p.m.; Free of Charlie on lellalbridge,com 1747 Buchanan Street to Martha Fujimoto, 610/544-5449. Hospitality Room of San Francisco., CA 94115 Info: Scott Nakamura, 610/878-2237 Japantown's Union Bank, (415) 922-1244 or Cliff Akiyama, 267/235-9426. 1675 Post St (in the mall ThllllJ.l' I\, Sh1t!<:ku l1 l ,tIId ,\,,",'I,ll<:' Ricky & Robert Okamura Altllm.:), ,It LI\I (310) S-tO·926f> behind UnionBank); featured PJldwest speakers will be the English CLEVELAND Editors of The Hokubei Sat., Nov. 4-37th Annual Holiday Mainichi, J.K. Yamamoto, REVERSE MORTGAGE ~-5 Fair; p.m.; St. Ignatius High Nichi Bei Times, Kenji School; enjoy food, crafts, demonstra• Taguma and NikkeiWest, Call for a fu information package tions, door prizes, raffie and a silent Jeffrey Kimoto; sponsored by auction; sponsored by the Cieveland the Japanese American If you are 62 or older and own your house, JACL. Info: 216/921-2976 or National Library; free and 440/268-9574. open to the public. a Reverse Mortgag,e may benefit .you! , EVANSTON, m. ' Sat., Nov. IS-JACL Health • Tum Ho.me Equity into. Tax Free Cash • Wed., Nov. I-Panel discussion, Benefits Trust's annual • Payoff Bills & Credit C~rds' , "Civil Liberties in Tunes of Crisis," NCWNPDC Chapter Takeo Tanabe prepares his basket titled • No. Monthly Mo.rtgage Payments , ' • • . sponsored by the Chicago JACL; 6 Insurance . Commissioner's • SAFE Go.vt. Pro.gram Designed fo.r Senio.rs ' 'A Gentle Breeze.' This work appears in p.m. reception, 7 p.m. program; lunch meeting at the Miyako "1 pledge to provide excellent c1lstomer service with the , Northwestern University, Swift Hall, Hotel. This year we are 'The Tanabe Family: Three Generations highest standard of ethics" Room 107, 2029 Sheridan Rd; pan• of Bamboo Artists' at the Lee Institute of encouraging the attendance of 25+ Years Experience as a FinanCial Professional elists: John Tateishi, JACL National regular JACL members to Japanese Art in Hanford, Calif. Director and Colleen Connell, ACLU learn about the JACL HBA; David C. Miyagawa Chee (510) 436-3100 of lllinois Executive Director. how it operates and how it relates to the shopping, food and demonstrations; Certified Public Accountant or toll free Nov. 3·5-Second National Asian National JACL, as well as our role in . admission is $12 and children under Equal Housing Lender· CA DEPT, RE#01391106 (800) 967-3575 American Student Converence; the current health care system. Seating 12 are free. Info: wwwJapanExpo.org. Northwestern University, Evanston; is limited, so please call the-Trust office Feb. 16-18, 2007-All Vets Reunion; NAASCon 2006 theme is "Building to reserve a space for this free lunch New Otani Hotel, Little Tokyo; open to Bridges, Connecting Movements" and meeting at 800/400-6633. Sleeping on Potatoes seeks to explore the diverse issues that all JA veterans from all wars and con• the ' APA community faces. Info: central Caiforria flicts; Maj. Gen. Rodney Kobayashi A Lumpy Adventure from Manzanar will be a luncheon keynote speaker. www.naascon.org. FRESNO to the Corporate Tower ST. PAUL, Minn. Sun., Nov. S-JACL Health Benefits Info: Sam Shimoguchl, 310/822-6688, Sun., Nov. 19-Twin Cities JACL Trust's annual CCDC Chapter sarnkuni@verizon. net; Victor by Carl Nomura Annual Chrysanthemum Banquet and Insurance Commissioner's lunch Muraoka, 818/368-4113, v.muraoka@ It's a memoir beginning with a Annual Meeting; Minnesota History meeting at the Radisson Hotel Fresno. verizon.net or Bob Hayarnizu, tyrannical father, growing up Center, 345 W. Kellogg Blvd.; featur- This year we are encouraging the 323/292-3165. during the Great Depression fol• ing the fIlm, "Only the Brave" at 3 attendance of regular JACL members WEST COVINA lowed by internment. It's about p.m., director, actor Lane Nishikawa to learn about the JACL HBA; how it Sat., Nov. 4-Fall Frolic Dance, San family, the Anny, interesting and actor Yuji Okumoto will be on operates and how it relates to the Gabriel Valley JACL Scholarship Fund people, animals, fishing, poker and hand; honoring the community's National JACL, as well as our role in Raiser; 7-11 p.rn.; ESGV Japanese work. Here's some feedback from "Greatest Generation."; $50 for non- the current health care system. Seating Community Center, 1203 W. Puente readers: _ members, $40 adult members, $35 stu- is limited, so please call the Trust office Ave; $10 donation; music by Jim dents and children. Info: Joanne ,o' to reserve a space for this free lunch lkehara. "Carl's book might be hazardous to A.M~1 Kumagai, 793/420-6639. meeting at 800/400-6633. your marriage. At 1:00 laughed so hard that J woke up my PacifIC Northwest HANFORD Sun., Oct. 22-Discussion and LAS VEGAS husband." BAINBRIDGE ISLAND, Wash. demonstration, Takeo Tanabe presents Oct. 27-29-JACL Singles Con• "This one's a keeper! A rich, top Through Oct. 31-Exhibition, his family's bamboo art; 2 p.m. and vention; Plaza Hotel, downtown; notch read. Feeds the mind. "Intersections: Contemporary Work 4:30 p.m.; Ruth and Sherman Lee events include: Fri.: Golf at Palm Tickles the soul. Sets all my bells by . Japanese American Artists; Institute for Japanese Art, 15770 Tenth Valley Golf Club at 8 a.m. ($66, ringing! The kind of book I want to Bainbridge Arts and Crafts, 151 includes cart), Welcome reception; Ave. Info: 559/582-4915. tell the world about. It is likely to Wmslow Way E; exhibit highlights Sat.: workshops, luncheon and din• become an old friend.'" An . traditional techniques, materials or ner dance; Sun.: brunch, Golf at Southern Calforria appraisal by Rebecca Brown. aesthetics as contemporary artists re• Highland Falls Golf Club, noon; ANAHEIM Some recognitions: Rebecca Brown Award: Best Memoir of2004, invent, re-imagine or re-discover Sat., Nov. 11-JACL Health Benefits ' Convention fee is $225. Room rates Amazon readerships' rating: 5-stars. The Virtual Reader's vote: 5-books. them; exhibition honors the opening of Trust's annual PSW Chapter fusurance at the Plaza Hotel are Fri. and Sat. Check out www.sleepingonpotatoes.com and www.yuricareport,com. the Bainbridge Island Japanese Commissioner's lunch meeting at the $149.99/night for single and double American Memorial. Radisson Hotel Maingate, Anaheim. occupancy; hosted by the Las Vegas Book available through all bookstores, C;g. Amazon and Barnes & Noble. This year we are encouraging the JACL. For info on Los Angeles to Northern Caiforria Las Vegas bus info, contact Miyako BERKELEY attendance of regular JACL members Kadogawa, 310/839-1194. Info: Wed., Nov. 29-4th Annual , U.c. to learn about the JACL HBA; how it Nisei Cadet Nurse of World War II: operates and how it relates to the www.mwt.com/jaclsingles or Yas Berkeley Nikkei Student Union Tokita, 702/866-2345 or Muriel Culture Show, "Visions"; 7 p.rn.; D.C. National JACL, as well as our role in Patriotism in Spite of Prejud.jce the current heatth care system. Seating Scrivner, 702/790-9547. Berkeley, Zellerbach Playhouse; $10 By Thelma 'Robinson admission with lower rates for students is limited, so please call the Trust office Hawai to reserve a space for this free lunch and advanced group seating. Info: ' HONOLULU meeting at 800/400-6633. From Japanese• Colleen Oinuma, nsuculturenight Sat., Nov. 4-From Manzanar to Sat., Nov. ' 11-00 For Broke @yahoo.com. Honouliuli: Reflections by Jeanne American Internment "Evening c;>f Aloha" Gala Dinner; MANZANAR Wakatsuki Houston; 10:30-12:30 Camps to the U.S. Anaheim Hilton Hotel; Registration Through Oct. 31-Exhibit, "1942 p.m.; Japanese Cultural Center of and silent auction at 4 p.m., dinner pro• Cadet Nurse Corps. Luggage From Home to Camp"; Hawaii, 2454 S. Beretania St., 5th gram at 6 p.m.; $150 general, $125 vet• Manzanar Historic Site; artist Flo Oy Floor;co-author of "Farewell to This is the story of erans and spouses; honoring the Wong uses actual luggage taken to Manzanar," Houston will share here Nisei cadet nurses - 100th/442ndlMIS WWII Nisei veter• camp and creates a multimedia exhibi• experiences on the internment during of their experiences in ans, featuring Chef Roy Yamaguchi tion of suitcases representing the WWII; books will be available for pur• wretched camps, o.f and Chef Hiro Sone. Info: 310/328- WWII intemment experiences of six chase and signing; admission is free. people who risked 0907 or email eveningofaloha@gofor• JAs; sponsored by the Manzanar Info.: JCCH, 808/945-7633, public scorn to support broke.org. History Association, ' Japanese [email protected] or www.jcch.com. Japanese Americans, of LOS ANGELES American Museum of San Jose and the Sun., Nov. 12-"Shichi Go San" prejudicial difficulties Nov. 16-Dec. :l-Performance, Arts Council Silicon Valley. Info: ("seven, five, three"); 10-3 p.m.; in entering nursing "Farewell to Manzanar"; 7 p.m. Nov. 760/878-2727. Japanese Cultural Center of Hawaii, schools, and of a 16-18 and Nov. 30-Dec. 2, 2 p.m. Nov. SACRAMENTO 2454 S. Beretania St., 5th Floor; chil• government that 19 and Dec. 3; Democracy Forum in Fri., Nov. :l-"HOSHIGAKI - The dren can dress up in kimono and san• reversed its policy !he National Center for the Art of Japanese Hand-Dried dals and have a professional photo against a people of Preservation of Democracy, 111 N. Persimmons"; 7 p.m.;' Asian taken; $70 non-member child, $56 Japanese descent Central Ave (adjacent to JANM and Community Center, 7375 Park City JCCH member child; cost for pictures MOCA Contemporary); $15 for Dr.; Tosh Kuratomi of Otow Orchard is extra. Info: JCCH, 808/945-7633, www.cadetnurse.com adults, $10 for JANM members, sen• will speak about the ancient and slow [email protected] or www.jcch.com. • ------~----ORDER FORM: $22.50 + $3.00 s/h process that produces a sweet and suc• iors and children 15 and under. NAME: ____~~ ______culent dried persimmon; presented by TIckets, JANM, 213/625-0414. Info. the Jan Ken Po Cultural Association; www.CornerstoneTheater.org or CORRECTION On page 7 o.f the Sept. 15-Oct. 5 ADDRESS: ______$5 donation per person. Info and reser• www.janm.org. Sat.-Sun., Nov. 18-19-Japan Expo issue, the Scho.larship Co.mmittee vations: 916/489-1291. CITY: ____:...- ______STATE: ______ZIP: ______2006; Los Angeles Convention Center, identified Roger Tanaka inco.rrect• SAN FRANCISCO Iy identified as the chair. The chair South Hall K; featuring Makoto, who Ro.n Tanaka and Roger is a Fri., Oct. 27-JCCCNC and JCYC is Mail to: Black SwaT) Mill Press, 2525 Arapahoe Ave., Suite E4, is featured in the documentary film, co.mmittee member. annual Halloween Carnival; 6-8:30 PMB 534, Boulder, CO 80302 p.m.; JCCCNC, 1840 Sutter St; enjoy "Geisha Modern"; event will have PACIFIC CITIZEN, OCT. 20-Nov. 2, 2006 OBITUARIES 11 sisters, Shigeko (Mits) Hazama, Serikaku, Katsumi ''Bucky,'' (Pat), Alan (Leslie) and Dale; IrM~ne and NaJ~CY 79{Orange, Sept. 20; WWII veteran, daughter, Shari (Lester) Lim; and I, Matdsubno th (Eddield) In Memoriam - 2006. _ mo; an ro ers, !fO, Rona Army; survived by wife, Pauline; 6 gc. L------A-U-t-he-t-o-w-ns-ar-e-in-C-a-I-ifo-r-ni-a-e-xc-e-pt-a-s-n-o-ted-.------' and Gary (Gerry). and brother, Stanley. Yoshizaki, Kikuo "Ray," 91, Matsuoka, Kiyoko Shimada, Alhambra;' survived by wife, Akiyoshi, Kimi, 93, Los Uyekawa. 72, Monterey Park, Sept. 14; sur- Sugiyama, Ronnie. 86, Los Angeles, Sept. 21; survived by Tayeko; sons, Ted (Toni) and Angeles, Sept. 7; survived by hus~ fino, Sho, 91, Los Angeles, Sept. vived by husband, George; daugh- Chester (Carol); 7 gc. and 1 ggc . • band, George; son, Chris (Keiko); ' 19; survived by sons, Thomas ter, Hitomi (Michael) Rice; son, daughter, Janet (Henry) Minami; daughter, Susan (David) Sakuda; 6 (Barbara), Steven and John (Eva); 9 Tsutomu (Yuka); 4 gc.; and sisters, and sister, Kuniye Sugiyama. gc.; and 8 ggc. gc.; and 3 ggc. Mariko (Yoshizo) Kojima and Sumida, Dorothy Yayeko, 86, DEATH NOTICE Hagjmori, Kikue ''Kiki,'' 91, Itagaki, Motoko, 68, Los Shinobu (Sadao) Ida. Santa Clara, Aug. 25; survived by DOROTHY YAYEKO Seattle, Sept. 12; survived by son- Angeles, Sept. 12; survived by hus- . Okamoto, George "Joe," 81, daughters, Karen (Bill) Wilt, Janet ~erry SUMIDA in-law, Yuasa; 2 gc.; and 4 band, Hideo; daughter, Julia Sept. 13; survived by wife, Lillian; (Hari) Kojinia and Lisa (Thomas) Dorothy Yayeko Sumida, 86, passed (Robert) Okamuro; sons, Glenn daughter, Jan; sons, Geody (Lynn) Steele; and 8 gc. away Aug. 25 in San Jose, Calif. She ggc. (Joanne) and Steven (Shirl); 6 gc.; and Randy; 7 gc.; brothers, Bill, Sumida, John Yutaka, 87, Santa was a long-time resident of Santa This compilation appears on a space- and sister-in-law, Haruye Togashi. Jack and Richard; and sisters, Clara and was born in Los Gatos. available basis at no cost. Printed obit- Clara, June 10; MIS veteran; sur• uaries from your newspaper are wel- ' Kawaminami, Jim, 84, Sept. 18; Tamaye (Raymond) Kobata and Dorothy was a co-proprietor of John come. "Death Notices: wt-lich appear WWII veteran, 442nd I Co.; sur- Grace (Jimmy) Fujikawa. vived by daughters, Karen (Bill) Sumida, Goldsmiths. She is survived in a timely manner at request of the vived by wife, Sakaye; daughters, Sakata, Michiharu, 66, ~ilt, Janet (Hari) Kojima and Lisa by'daughters, Karen (Bill) WJ,lt, Janet (Hari) Kojima, and Lisa· (Thomas) family or funeral director, are published Janice (Tommy Hirabayashi) Montebello, Sept. 20; survived by (Thomas) Steele; 8 gc.; sisters, Steele; son, Sean and numerous at the rate of $20 per column inch. Kawarninarni, Donna Kumamoto wife, Kazuko; sons, Brian, Helen Mito and Lily Yamashita; and grandchildren, nieces, and nephews. Text is reworded as necessary. and Lynne; 3 gc.; and sisters-in-law, Derrick and Steven; brother, brother Joey. A celebration of her life wi,\l be Miyuki (Jerry) and Tomi Edward (Mitzi); mother-in-law, Hedani, Frances HariIye, 83, Takano, Noboru, 58, observed on Sat., Nov. 18, at 2 p.m. at Kawarninarni·. Taeko Narumi; and brothers-in- Wesley United Methodist Church on San Francisco, Aug. 14; survived Northridge, Sept. 19; survived by . 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As an ~ob Watada about his son Ehren officer, he could not in good con• openly criticized Ehren for his world had come off his shoulders,~' science lead his men to fight in the actions, calling him a disgrace to the said Bob. "He felt good about his Iraq war and believes alfU.S. troops legacy of the heroic World War II JA decision, even today. Even ten years need to be brought home immediate• vets. from now he knows he did the right ly. Bob has not been blind to the vet• thing, even if he has to be punished." "Ehren saw the Iraqi people as erans' criticisms directed at his son That punishment will be deter• human beings. He saw how wrong it but wants them to know that Ehren mined in a possible court martial .was to kill human beings for has nothing but respect for the JA with Ehren facing up to eight years absolutely no reason," said Bob. vets and their accomplishments. in prison for several charges includ• 'That we are not fighting for our ''Ehren has said he is very proud ing: missing troop movement, con• country but for oil and that's why he of the vets. They fought for and died duct unbecoming an officer, and has taken this position." for the Constitution of the United contempt towards officials. Bob and Rosa both emphasized States and he feels he is doing the With his son's future now in the that their intentions are not to sway same thing," said Bob, who noted hands of the U.S. Army, Bob and his public opinion towards Ehren's that Ehren's uncle was killed while wife Rosa Sakanishi are currently beliefs. What they want is for the fighting in the Korean War. touring the country hoping to raise American people to study the issues Today, Ehren has been reassigned . awareness and support for Ehren surrounding the Iraq war, come to to an administrative position at Fort who will likely- face a court martial their own conclusions, and take their Lewis, Washington and is living off sometime early next year. own actions. base. He is currently waiting to hear The retired couple are in the midst "We want to share Ehren's story. a final decision on his possible court of speaking engagements in He wants to let everyone know that martial. Southern California and will soon he's doing this based on his princi• "Mentally, emotionally he's doing head to the Midwest and the East ples," said Rosa, Ehren's stepmotl}.• pretty good," said Bob. Coast before resting for a few days er. "He's standing up for each one of. It has helped that many of his back home in Hawaii. Bob and us. He's ~tanding up for the U.S. fellow soldiers have been support• Rosa's hectic schedtde has left little Constitution. " ive of his actions and sympathetic time for anything else but they too The Watadas have been touched of his current plight, especially in - believe in what Ehren is fighting for'" by the support they have received light . of the military charges he "Ehren is doing this as a matter of during their speaking tour, particu• now faces. conscience. We are proud of the larly in the Nikkei community. "The soldiers support him and position our son has taken," said Bob During their visit to Northern many soldiers are thanking him," at an Oct. 5 Los Angeles press con• California several events were stand• Bob continued, noting that he too ference sponsored . by Korean ing room only and many people has received a lot of positive e• Americans for Peace, Nikkei for vocally expressed their support mails. Civil Rights and Redress (NCRR), "It's been very positive. We've As the JA community continues to and the Asian American Vietnam had a really good response," said debate Ehren's decision, Bob and Veterans Organization. Bob. ''We keep going because we Rosa are making themselves avail• TALKING TO THE PUBUC: Bob explained how his son Ehren see so much support." able to answer questions regarding Pictured above Rosa Sakanishi and Bob decided to join the U.S. Army short• But not all members of the Nikkei their son's actions in the current war. ly after 9/11 because he felt it was his community have been supportive. "He's taken the most difficult road Watada answer patriotic duty. But after witnessing Several Japanese American veterans in opposing the war," said Rosa. questions at a recent the treatment of innocent Iraqi men, groups - including Japanese "But hopefully his sacrifice will 1).ot Los Angeles press women, and children at the hands of American Korean War Veterans and be in vain." • conference. .~. ~a~r ~L~o~a !....[SL.~ ...... 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