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,in Y8SUl. the Portland discussed in 1943 memo to Corde I Hull Ore. lawyer '00 defied the militar), curfew unposed on By HARRY HONDA complaint by Secretary of 9066 by Public Law 3)3) TIle Biddle memo ~ Japanese during World War ~ of anti· isei War Stirn"" of Mar. 31, and that the Justice De-• minds the President that n. will be 8 featured partici· hate has been found in 1943, to the President that pa..rt:mmt ''tbat in• pantand peaker. Yaswwas suggests ... EO 9066 "was never later interned in the Minid~ White Hoose level corTeS• the Attorney Geoeral if the individual is danger• tended to apply to Italians ka, Idaho concentration poodence anxmg members "flouts the intent of C0n• ous to national security, be and Germans" but signed camp and will be making his of President Franklin D. gress as expressed in what be forcibly removed 50 that the <01 Army could first visit to Manzanar. Roosevelt's cabinet of the was virtually a ratifying through the use of Federal handle the Japs". Biddle World War n era. acf' (of Executive Order troops". mostly feared that the Noted for taking his case Carter proclaims (W'bIt .. bM.utUed pending (yasui, Hirabaya-• to the U.S. Supreme Court, APAH Week CD JM1 ...... die Free• shi and Korematsu) high Yasui also spent eight dom fI Wan..... Ad court cases might be lost if months in solitary confine• Washington ...iWran iDMidd Wee- 1980 census to cost $4 a head two whites, Julia Kraus ment while waiting, and now President Carter on Mar. and Sylvester Andriano, says, ''I'm glad I did it.. I'm 28 proclaimed the en 1yD'. MYe.w fI IIIIIIDIY" days beginning May 4 Asian! Suidaad, Md. recently conce:1ed. The bu• damn proud of it. By law, if (Maaiow.1976> .... UO' were prosecuted and ex• Pacific American Heritage The l~ Census will cost reau has conceded it missed you are hurt, you have to hol• 19J~8,""" cluded under EO 9066. Ier. If you shut up, you're Week (APAHW) in honor of more. than $4 per person to 2.S~ of the 1970 population IMNIa·' •• cmPwl •• Depor- Biddle also found the guilty of laxity." He is now contributions by Asian im• ...... fI ...... AmIri- count. which Census Bu· of 203 million. Asian Ameri• April 15, 1943, Washington migrants to the impro e• reau officials explain is de• can and other races com• executive director of the C'aIII"; ... ~ 200-201 Post editorial to be a "par• Denver, Colo. Commission ment of life in the United signed to eliminate the un• prised 1.4Dk

• Boot nv\jrl.rnnnn the rf rnl- 24-year veteran of LAPD retires Bot-Lim c. Kim ' autho of 11lL on- "The Amenc::an£. O\anSlJlll -,i- 10 rredtoa C~. (~1-. '0\ er:s~hr ~- aID B, JDtRY AJtAHOS1D and Sansei actIVItles Panerns "eed:" AKCS PublicatD:I T'i • Ur• pubhc demands f, more ef lci• throughout the Southland ~ bana. Ill. 61 1 \A luch I ba:; ent gO\-emmern, he d lared Quietty and ....-thout A .' m uch He was a familiar lIgUIe at on research colducted In Chica• " " • )U)p. Robert MItarl D-Cahf.• fanfare. Sergeant Raben dances at the International go ~er an .Wll\ffi granL the first Sam 1 elected [0 Con• • OrantgtioD Kop retired from the Los Institute, Ardmore Play• gress and narra:! to the Hou. Judician COInmIttee. will .:eT' Gardena V . J Angel Po~ Depertment ground. Parkview Women's • li1owen-G.rdeu NaI_~ WI\.! ~~)ed rrud ~ February .lola Nab., world-re• on the foilO\\11lg subcommineel; : in after a Gub, Aeronautical and other V..- Chi! and onstitutional Rl~ht_, presldent of theJa ham career spanrung more than popular dance sites of the DOwn bonsai IIBSter, of Los An• ber of ommen::e of Southern geles was elec:lEld president of Courts. Cl\i1 Liberti and d• 24 years. day. mInIstration of Justice; Mono• California Jan. 31 at th N w Crane Products. importers of pobes and Coo:me-oal Law. Also Otaru Hotel Goki Ballroom He He w the second Nisei Now he has dedicated him• Kanesbin Bonsai tools. based in succeeded Ed MDxta. Io~m hired by the LAPD following self to the Koga Institute and Pico Rivera, Ca- v.ith Government OperatJon Committee. he will rve on Downtown LA J r Nnka· the late Stanley Uno. gets great satisfaction from these subcorrvnittee· Man• oka. Gardena' fll"'St Ni· i During hi long career, contributing to the develop• • Government rna ·or. pre lou.....ty hpadcd the Hawaii Go\·. Anyoshi has ap• power and Housing, Gon·rn· Koga worked j ust about ment of future law enforce• ment ACti\1ttes and Tran porta· JCC in 1 . East West Toa:t pointed 15 state department mj tress, which meets the fin;t every detail on the force• ment officers. head , subject to Senate con• t\on; Commer~, Con umer and Monetary Mfairs and thIrd Wedresday .730p.m .. foot patrol to vice to under• He has had training man• firmation. They include Susumu at the W t LA. nited Method cover and detective work. uals published and is cur• 000. Board of Land and Natural • Military 1st Church. ha' installed CJuis.. rently in the process of ~ Resources; Wayne MinamI. at• tiDe KiblShima as president More than a third of his torney general: Hideo Muraka• Brig. Geo. 'Ibeodore S. Kaae• vising them to incorporate ~ time was spent at the Police mi, state comptroller; George mine of Los Angeles, currently Arlene of Ch y• Academy where he trained _E.:..~'-;;~~-=-= the latest law enforcement Yuen, director d health; Joshua provost marshal of the U.S. enne, Wyo., IS a member of the literally hundreds of rookies Robert Koga development and tech• Agsalud. director of labor and in• Army. Europe and Seventh Laramie County United Wa Army, based at Kaefertal, Ger• Fund board of trustees, which al• as weU as veterans. ing that he retains after niques. dustrial relations; Hideto Kooo, director of planning and ec0- many, has been transferred, ef• located nearly $.D),OOO to vari• Today, a civilian at 49 nearly a quarter of a ceo• Some of the techniques he fective April 23, to be chief of ous community agencies. devised for mob control nomic development; Tany Hong, years of age, Koga is still tury, was a dislike for vie>• regulatory agencies; Andrew deeply involved with law en- lence-both on the part of have proven especially ef• Chang, social services director; forcement. He is president the citizenry as well as the fective when implemented Ryokicbi RigasIWoona , transpor• of the Koga Institute, a non- various authorities. by properly trained officers tation director; Top-ranking Nikkei in Navy profit foundation formed Aside from the required oftheLAPD. The Washington State Senate three years ago, specializing practice on the Academy fir• When he first joined the unanimously confirmed Gov. heads medical center section force, L.A.'s finest was some Dixy Lee Ray's appointment of in the training of instructors ing range, not once in his Tau) Watanabe to the State Per• for law enforcement agen- long career did he fire his 4,000 strong, and he along sonnel Board without customary Oaldand, Ca. des at the city, county, state weapon during the course of with Uno were the only action by the rules committee. Capt. Nonmn K. Takaki and federal levels. duty-even though there Asians. Speedy action was necessary be• Today the Department has cause law requires confirmation is the new chairman of Ob• The Institute features were times he was confront• within 30 days of the start of the stetrics-GytlfCOiogy at the training and research in Ar- ed with men armed with over 7,000, and Koga says he's lost track of the number legislative session. Naval Regiroal Medical rest Control Techniques, fireaIms, knives and on one Rep. Norman MiDeta (D-Ca) Self-Defense Techniques, occasion a hatchet of Asians. He puts their Center here, replacing number at somewhere be• will chair the House Public Capt J. Kenneth Cooke, Impact Weapons (Baton and It is his firm belief that an Works subcommittee on investi• Yawara Stick), Officer Sur- officer quick to use his wea• tween 60 and 70. gations and overview. He felt who has retired. Takaki is vival Training, and Physical pon is displaying a lack of This week there is one less. Congress had emphasized creat• one of the tc.p-ranking Ja• Fitness. confidence in himself as well -Kashu Mainichi ing new programs and not panese American officers He works out of an office as a lack of proper training in the Navy. in Santa Monica while the on the part of the Depart• administrative offices for ment FM RADIO Hawaii-born, Takaki at• the Institute is located in He cited the recent inci- tended school in Kumamo• Sutherlin, Oregon. dent where two officers Nippon no Hirobi+-a -Japan Hr. to, Japan, returning to In addition to his work at emptied their revolvers in a Honolulu afta'the war. He the Academy, Koga has also confrontation over a $22.09 Sacramento, Ca. geared for the potential earned a bachelor of arts taught Police Science gas bill with a woman armed Cal State University-Sac• audience of one million lis• degree from the Univ. of · courses at Cal State L.A., Pa- with a butcher knife. ramento's FM radio station, teners in the greater Sacra• Hawaii in 1954, a bachelor sadena City CoUege and is In his opinion the incident, KXPR-89, will introduce a mento area. of science frun the Univ. currently conducting a class currently under investiga• locally-produced one-hour Program would appreci• of North Dakota in 1956, Captain Norman K. Takaki at Cerritos College. tion, should never have oc- Japanese radio program on ate a loan of Japanese music, and his medral doctorate Originally from the San curred, and is an example of Sundays, 7 p.m., sometime in information about Japanese from the U niv. of Kansas Francisco Bay Area, Koga the violence for which he has April, it was announced in tions, Takaki's clinical ~ events and contributions to in 1958. joined the LAPD after serv- an extreme distaste. the Sacramento JACL News• cover program cost. Cur• search projocts nwnber ing in the military during the During the first decade of letter. rently, a program costs $50 a In the Navy for 18 years, 11, six of them on-going. Korean War. his career with the Depart- "Nippon no Hiroba" will week to produce, according he had a private geneuti Prior to his new position, His prime motivation for ment, he spent many off• contain both Japanese and to Nana Komiya (916-454- practice in Seaside, Calif. Takaki had reen director entering police work, a feel- duty hours working Nisei English material and music, 6222). and also served as a con• of reproductive endocrin• sultant in obstlftrics-gyne• ology at NRMC since Jan• WAKAYAMADA cology to the Tokyo Medi• uary,1977. cal Surgical Clinic and The son of Dr. and Mrs. TV story to include life in Seattle's red-light district Bluff Hospital in Y oko• Herbert S. Takalti in Hono• hama. lulu, he lives in Alameda SeaaIe, WMh. attle at the tum of the 20th nese Hall) before a skepti• ited Seattle in December The author, co-author of with wife Carol and their A Japanese film crew century, Waka was em• cal crowd Her calm digni• and spent many hours some six tectmical public&- three children # spent a week here (Feb. 10- ployed as a pustitute be• ty quietly t1'D;e in the au• working with Ed and Betty 15) to photograph Nippon fore escap~ and ulti• dience who wanted to ~ Burke, who own the NiJr Kan and Chinatown as they mately returning to Japan• mind her of her former oc• pon Kan and operate Se• Santa Rosa asked to honor are today for a special two• In 1937 she was invited to cupation and this speech attle's Chinatown tour. The hour 1V doc:umentary on tour the and was one of thehighlights of fIles contain many photos Issei who built Fountaingrove Waka YaIIUda, prominent meet with Eleanor Roose• her life. of the International Dis• writer and leader in Ja• velt On her way back to To assure an authentic trietat the time Waka lived Santa Rosa, Ca. pan's women's movement. Japan, Waka spoke in Se• depiction of Seattle in 1900, in Seattle. Mr. Amano, the A move is tmderway to have the Santa Rosa City Coun• As a young girl in Se- attle's Nippcn Kan (Japa- a team of researchers vis- artistic director, was de• cil honor Kanaye Nagasawa, the 19th century Issei who lighted when Ed Burke helped establish the old Fountaingrove Ranch, by pre• pinpointed the building serving the old round barn and dedicating adjacent land that housed the ''Pink Cur• as the Nagasawa Park, the Pacific Citizen was informed 'THE JAPANESE' tain", one ofWaka's work• A visiting scholar from Kagoshima, where Nagasawa ing places, in a photo show• lived as a youth and who in 1865 was sent to study in Hawaii PBS trilogy airs late spring ing Fifth Ave., at King St England by the Satsuma Clan, was expected to make an before the Union Station appeal before the city council here this past week. Bonointa was shown on the PBS network two years was built The story by Terry Jones (now an Oregon schoolteach• "TIle Japanese", a trilogy of one-hour ago. It focuses on the Maso Sugiura family, er), "Samurai in the Wine Country" (1975 PC Holiday documentaries by Hawaii Public Television, who are caterers of elegant obento (box The' International Dis~ Issue), provided the necessary material to launch the ef- will be presented on the Public Broadcasting lunches), and is a closeup of an urban family. triet was truly internation• fort. . Station network in late spring. "The Blind Swordsman", is a portrait of al in those days with single Nagasawa came to California in 1875 from New York Each program is a study of contemporary actor Shintaro Katsu,producer, director, male immigrants coming with Thomas L Harris to establish a theo-sociaIist cult, Japanese lifestyles filmed on location, pro• writer and star of the popular 1V series of to Seattle fran all over the the Brotherhood of New Life, and founded Fountain• :Zatoichi, the blind swordsman. duced and directed by Japanese authority world The "Pink Curtain" grove Ranch on the northern outskirts of Santa Rosa.. John Nathan. author, lecturer, filmmaker 1be last program is a study of four genera• provided canpanionship Nagasawa became the master of the ranch in 1906 when and fonner associate professor of Japanese tions of the Kato family. ''Farm Song", which for the lonely men and bad Language and. Literature at Princeton Uni• shows rural Japanese life through the fami• Harris died. The winery prospered. and Nagasawa be• \"er'Sity. ly. who live and work on a farm growing rice a "whites only" policy. came known as the "Grape King' among the Issei "Full Moon Lunch". the first of the trilogy, and raising horses. # - Beacm Hill News Nagasawa died in 1934. # 4- Friday, April 13, 1979 ======-_====III::=:;r-";"'==~"';;'~~---""";;~"""';':";;.....o..;;....;,;.;,;;;;.--.....;,;;;".-..,;;;~------...... -- ...... ----- ISSN:~ PACIFIC CITIZEN Comment, letters, features N:Iished ~ ec.cept the first cnl last weeks of the year at 355 E. FISt St., An. ~7, Los Angeles, Calif. 90012. (213) 62&m36 deavors, high standards, as well as cultural origins ~ DR. CUWoRo UYEDA, NATIONAL JAle. But our senator to be guardians of lish our wortlmess and be• Bellwether? It means a problem arises because we our civil C,)llcems is to place come people in this mosaic al JACL has increased by 8,089 mem• an unreasonable burden of bers, or by 340/c;, to today's total of male sheep with a bell have contributed ineffectu• United States, then we may around its neck leading oth• ally to make an impact on the responsibility upon them. 31,542 dues paying members. 'That's appear into forus as Ameri• er sheep. In thesecond sense majority's mind of the ideals Their office requires that can citizens. Otherwise our 11% of the living in the continental referring to man, it means a of an integrated American they be universal in their complacent attitude will United States. There are no JACL chapters in Hawaii leader of a tlDughtless or citizenry. We do not look outlook and be accountable lend support 10 the notion That's hardly an impressive gain, though compared foolish crowd. American because we have to their constituency. that indeed we are still fo~ with other ethnic national organizations we have not done Is this a fair appraisal of been invisible Americans. H each of us from coast to eigners or mere denizens. badly. The American Jewish Committee has 0.6 of 1~ us? Before answering, let us We are scarce in the political coast became active in citi• As Thomas Jefferson said, (40,000) of the six million Jews living in the United States. consider what is required to sphere to display our civic zenship and lobbied our r~ "The influence of govern• The National Association for the Advancement of Col• be a citizen of this country. concerns. spective representative, ment for all must be shared • • • . What type of action would they will becmle aware of by all people." ored People (NAAQ» is 2% (1h million) of the 2S million our presence and of our American Blacks. Political philosophers create a lasting imprint? In from the ancient Greeks to the past, a rrost dramatic needs. An active, well-in• FA. Note--Miyuki Yoshikami, With few exceptions, most chapters' annual member• J.S. Mill have stated that a one was taken by the l00th formed minority of a district very active in the Washington, ship drives are limited to renewals. There is no vigorous be regardoo and consid• D.C. JACL and kx:al politics, re• true citizen is a person who Battalion and the 442 RCT. will cently made her debut as an ac• drive for new members. Also, for the chapters there is no participates actively in the Their conduct gave the Nisei ered more thana passive one complished kote player before real incentive to go after new members. They have their affairs of government. This image a boost that would and we will be helping our the Friday MOnDlg Music Oub, bands full working on ren~wals. means not only does he vote, have otherwise taken dec• Nikkei leaders in their ef• the oldest Wdlingron group • • • but he is acquainted with the ades to promote. For us t«r forts. comprised of serilus students of Our presenre in America musIc. It was the first time a non• What has been refreshing, recently, in the dull mem• issues and is active to foster day, action means that we western instrument was fea• bership scene is the creation of new chapters. New chap• the outcome of the issues for must exert ourselves as citi• adds richness with our work tured for the chi> concert. ethics, educational en- ters have risen where none existed before. The exciting the common good. Likewise, zens in all facets of Ameri• spectacle, however, is the birth of new chapters from in the Preamb1e of the Con• can politics, aIXl take inter• stitution, the word people in est in issues of universal as , From Nobuyuld Nakajima within the existing chapters or in the same areas. "We the People of the United well as our IBfOChial con• Edu~ation--XI Suddenly there is a flurry of activities. New leader• States ... " implies active cerns. Although voting is an Higher Ship, new faces, new directions and new committnents. citizens, as opposed to the important duty, the process A number of years ago, I useJ to know a Mennonite girl,. One can feel the surging energy. rest of the population known is a private and secretive who went to teach in Kenya at a girls' high school. She told Ideological rather than geographical boundary has of• as denizens. one, and does not promote me that it was a rewarding experience because the students ten been the detennining factor. There is more unity, Keeping this concept of the visibility we need except were very motivated to study. They were very curious about more purpose and greater zeal than in some older con• citizen in mind, Nikkei lead• at the polling tooth the world. They tried to absorb everything she taught Tbere cept of a chapter. ers and some Nikkei are true Action is felt strongest was no discipline problem. She also said she did not ~e to That such spirit and vicacity cannot last, is often citizens, but a consensus and displayed more vividly teach in the U.S. since much effort was wasted trymg to the criticism It doesn't matter. Permanence is only one across the country of our at the locallevel-ter. Some chapters, over a of a sudden I remembered what the Mennonite girl said. A lot relatively short span of life, can accomplish more and only very few Nikkei fit this ments or organizations. It is category. Although many at these places that issues of things are happening outside of the U.S. that we nonnally contribute more to the Japanese American cause than have entered politics for the and candidates have direct do not see in the papers. In 50 years, the Uzbekis have built the perennial sleeping giants. I believe most of us would first time behind a fellow bearing upon our lives. We their nation from nothing into a very modem society. I had rather be a cherry blossom than a tree that never blooms. Nikkei leader, to remain on meet and work with people, opportunities to get to know some of the university students. They were higbly motivated; very curious about the world. There are 10 000 students in the medical school in Tashkent DOWN TO EARTH: Karl Nobuyuki There are ~o more medical schools in Uzbekskaya. My in• terpreter, Farhad , introduced me to his wife, who washalif finish- ing up her training in dennatology. She asked me w t ~ sustaining devices were used in the U.S. What Do We Seek? • • • mine the sanctity of the Constitutio~its validity and I would like to ask every Sansei and Yonsei, are you be• legitimacy fa- all persons at all times. hind with, or ahead of what is going on in today's world? If And it is 00 this basis that we are pursuing the Redress you don't have a college education, you are certainly behind Mter eight years of discussion issue. today's civilization II about Redress, and especially after • • • the intense debate of the past year, The rescinding of Executive Order 9066 only partly 35 YEARS AGO -~---II~1ME~NaRC~cmzB(~ there still seems to be some confu• rectified the injustice to which we fell victim; there still Tom Sakamoto of San Jose, Ca.) sion about why we pursumg the issue and what the remains today the law enacted by Congress and the de• APR.1S,1Mf are AprIl 6-Seventeen Heart in U.S. aasault party landing on real issue is. Perhaps because of all the crossfire, too cisions in the Nisei cases by the Supreme Court which Mountain (Wyo.) evacuees plead Los Negros Island, annihilating much smoke has been left in the air and some people are give legiti.mK;y to the arbitrary discrimination against J~ force on Mar. 9. not guilty before U.S. commis• l~Five sioner to charges of draft eva• Apr. evacuee tenant having difficulty focusing on the essential point of any group of Americans solely on the basis of ancestry. object sion; join 36 others detained OD farmers, of Warren Coun• Redress. simiJarc~. ty (N.J.~=, tell WRA offi• Ours is a unique experience in the history of this CO\Dl• cia1a in . lphia they resian Clearly weare talking abOut a Constitutional and moral try. At no other time since the adoption of the Constitu• Apr. ~NlSei 100th Wantry veteran (Capt Jack Mizuba) and are broke. issue, keepq in mind the comments by Congressman tion as the governing docmnent of this nation bas any AlII. u,...... c.Ul. Attorney Ceo• Norman Minets and by Mike Masaoka (pc, Holiday Is• visits First Lady (Eleanor Roose• group of American citizens suffered a total abrogation of velt) at the Wrote House; recep• erafiDitiatea IeP] action to (orce escbeatmeJJt of ~ sue) that in the case of Evacuation, seven of the ten civil guarantees as we did tion noted by Hawaii Delegate articles of the Bill of Rights were suspended Farrington, who alto recalled farm lands in San Diego, 0ranBe Mizuba led detachment to and Los Anades counties. When permns of Japanese ancestry were evicted from As Eugene Rostow, Professor of Law at Yale, wrote Nu• Apr. I3-lnterior Sec. Harold about the Evacuation, "Until the wrong is acknowledged hau to take custody of Japanese the West Coost, the entire mechanics of government aviator who bad cl1lSh-landed Ickes ureea UDdermndina. toJ• failed; the system of checks and balances between the and made right we shall have failed to meet the respon• there after Dec. 7, 1941. leranc:e (or Japaneee Americ.an problems; deDouDceI west Executive, Legislative and Judicial branches, a system sibility of a democratic society-the obligation of equal "",. 1-Missouri legislature blocks move to attach anti-evac• Coast~eeskJnal bate IJIODIeI'I justice." in 81 San J'nDciK,o'. which is designed to guarantee the protection of indi• uee rider OIl bill concerning sala• vidual rights, failed completely. The Japanese American Our insistmce in the Redress issue is manifested from ries of staff pbysicians at state Com .... Wlwealtb Club. WRA bad been traDlfened to bia depert• of sanatorium; rider objected to evacuation am incarceration exemplify the failure of the this sense responsibility and obligations as American ment. Constitution and the failure of American democracy. employment of Dr. Fred Y. Fuji• citizens-to seek to strengthen and reinforce the founda• kawa of Los Angeles. "". U--Sis Ni.IeI Gb of 33rd Therefore, although much of the focus of the debate tion of the Cmstitution in order to enhance the viability Infantry TniDiDI Bn., Fl Me• ,.... 1-P'ire destroys Kinp• ~ burg (Ca.) Buddhist Church, sec• Clellan, Ala., (ouad pillY has centered around the controversy of the money, the of the United States as a democratic nation '"wilful dilCJbediera of_order real issue the essential point of the entire Redress ODd fIre in six months. Previous ~ am The experience of Evacuati.oo and the incarceration is fJ.re destroys acijoining school d tbdr atI'Icen" by campaign is the viability of the Constitution. Congress ours and ours alone. We have learned. from it. and it is Army c:ourt=martial; 22 more OD ~Dela y ed trial our d 600 N_ In IJ'aiaiDI. must recognize and acknowledge in some significant and incumbent lJIDl us to extend this lesson to our fellow report in Oti• cago Tn"bune reveals Nisei (Set- Armyr.,u. meaningful way the failure of the past in order to deter- Americans. # EAT

'E HO 15 Let's Reason Together THE or-SO-YOU G FANCY 11115 SPRlN6 ? des 'A J come away en• tor and I ·ould ooocur. Simi• lightened and understand• larly, r m sure there are Ing of the other's vi By many areas of agreement Jt5 very definitio d te is between Senator Hayakawa not oonducive to such an and tho who seem bent on Philadelphia idealistic outoome. Especial• challenging him by things ly if i to be aired on tel~ IN A RECENT ISSUe of this such as open letters, De s• vision, which r understand is paper ads and so forth. newspaper, J noted where a (was) the proposed plan. group, &aid to be out of Seat• WHY NOT SIT down with tle, is seeking to gather some RA 1HER TIIAN simply the Senator and give "rea• S12,500 to run an apen Jetter assuming implacable oppo• soning" a try? I suggest that in the Washington Post ad• sition, it would seem to me some folks overlook the fact dressed to the junior senator that what one might consid• that the Senator took some from California, U.s. Se~ er is simply sitting down very oourageous stands: He tor S. L Hayakawa. While 1 with the good Senator and espoused the cause for par• question neither the dedica• engaging in a fair give-and• doning of Iva Toguri-and tion nor the right of the spon• take d.iscu.ssion. It just might how many people in Con• sors in thusly seeking to ex• be that one might learn gress can you oount who did ercise their First Amend- something. It certainly is that? Mter quipping about nent rights. yet as a fiscal worth taking a chance, to the Panama Canal, when it .;:onaervative I cannot help possibJy Jearn something. came down to the reality of but wonder whether such is voting, he voted in favor of the most effective or mean• FROM WHAT LITTLE 1 the treaty. And most recent• WASHINGTON WRAP·UP: Ronald Ikellrl ingful way to seek: to com• have read pertaining to Sen• ly, he was among the early municate with the Senator. ator Hayakawa's position on advocates for commuting Or with others, for that mat• some matters, I would guess the sentence of Patricia ter. 1 figure that the amount that he and I would have Hearst-and again how of dollars being contemplat• some philosophical differ• many people in Congress Going for the Jugular ed by the petitioning group ences. But then that's our re• can you count in that group? would buy some 83,000 first• spective prerogative. AND SO IT may be that class postage stamps. (Shucks, within JAn itself those who are quick to arrive Washington: would appear that the Executive Order I ALSO NOTE that there is there are a great number of at immovable conclusions Upon reading the 9066 was only the fIrst step in "official talk of setting up a debate people who have sharp, and might do well to back off a memorandum to Cor• sentiment to do something so we can get with the Senator. Again, I'm at times strong, philosophi• bit and reassess your attitu• dell Hull on the postwar rid of these people when the war is over". not sure what that will ac• cal differences with this dinal approach. As our Issei deportation of Japanese Americans, one complish, if anything. Cer• writer.) At the same time, parents admonished, being cannot help but feel that the time has • • • tainly, one cannot reasonab• there undoubtedly are many "gojo" is not an admirable come for all Americans to demand an Outraged? Betrayed? Shocked? ly anticipate that the two areas where the good Sena- tradt. # unconditional and uncensored release of The time has come for the JAU to all documents regarding the forced re• aggressively and doggedly go for the jug• moval and detention of the Japanese ular. . .. As Americans we should be for the investigation of these American during World War n. allowed to know the full story. Anything DEPORTATION OF NISEI people and the detenninatioD of less is unacceptable! their loyalty to this country on an Upon reading the memorandum, it Gen DeWitt's Statement individual basis. Whatever ex• The Government of the United cuse there once was for evacua• ticularly unfortunate" States-sometimes referred to ting and holding them indiscrim• as a symbol of democracy-now ately no longer eXISts. SPARTAN BEAT: Mas Manbn comment on the Nisei ques• holds some 70,000 American citi• tion before 9te Supreme zens in places eupbemistically • • • Court involvmg power to called "reIocatioo centers". These The more shocking doc• exclude Japanese. The citizens were brought inland ument found for JAU is from the Pacific Coast on the Bothered & Bewildered Post rapped Gen DeWitt's morrow of Pearl Harbor be• initialed by Assistant Sec• retary of State Breckin• Fans so far have been al· Manpower has ads period· statement: "A Jap's a Jap: cause of their racial background ically on the front page of No violation of the law bas been ridge Long a memoran• : lowed to keep only the home it makes no difference in The Japan Times featuring a charRed against them No coort of of 17, 1943, run ball. whether he is an American law has sentenced them. Tbey dum Dec. to "working beauty"-as a citizen or not" The Post have been found guilty of noth• Secretary of State Cordell The new move is expected "Manpower Girl" is called. concluded, "Whatever ex• ing save the peculiar pigmenta• Hull (incidentally, he was to mean an annual increase Manpower Girl? cuse there once was for tion of their skins. They are the author of the federal Tokyo in C.L exPenditures for known as Nisei - native-born The Meiji Confectionery baseballs to ¥14 to ¥21 mil• This strikes one who evacuating and holding Americans of Japanese ances• income tax law of 1913). It d~ Co. should easily take the lion from some ¥7 million wouldn't know too much them indiscriminately, no try, as distinguished from Issei, discusses the postwar prize for dreaming up the who are Japanese aliens. portation of Japanese hitherto. about the situation in Tokyo longer exists" . Now Lt. Gen. John L DeWitt, most unsuitable English as a flagrant case of male Text of the editorial who, as commanding general of Americans-a sentiment names for products put on * • • chauvinism. follows: the Western Defense Command, popularized by west coast the market This business of changing • • • carried out the evacuation and hate mongers as well as "man" to "person" in certain relocation, was quoted the other civic and veteran groups A little more than a year The Chinese may be still day as declaring: "A Jap's a Jap ago, it was test marketing in English-language w9rds is MINETA during World War IT. behind in a number of ways, ... it makes no difference wbe• Kyushu and Hokkaido a new getting to be a wee bit too be• but in one phase of public there he is an American citizen not~ temperature-resistant chn to be learned from the incarceration of worth MetbodistOl, Indianapolis, 110,000 persoll; of Japanese ancestry in World War II is that Education: Name of School Location Degree Date 7:30pm. I'resDo--JACl. 'lli-District em• in times of stress even a great country like the United States, ference (Jda), Holiday Inn. champion and standard beare.... for freedom and individual *San Francisco-Sakur Matslr rights, is susceptible to hysteria and the resultant twisting · ...... ,...... ri ffea~!~~~ bene- and breaking d laws to suit the circumstances of the stress. fit movies (3da), Toyo Cinema Speakers Minoru Yasui and Ernest liyama at Tanforan on ·Plilladelp~AACGP Conf: "A Day of ReDEmbrance" Feb. 19 said there's a tendency to Asian American Education (2da), conveniently forget many of the unpleasant memories. Also, Univ of Pa School of Soc Work, a father told his son to remember what was happening the Stitler Hall Brief Career Summary: ( in with Current Position-Ust Past 10 YearS Only) ' • APRIL 21 (SIIIIadQ) . day they were loaded on buses with windows shuttered and D . ~ :~ . ~~'?~ : ~ ~

Preparing the Chapters One the fml thea Ie - hicb. m of d 'ng ",th ~ tJ du sue 10 the cc muni tv - our forum ~ " 2-A q 1:JOIh8Jld.answer for 'citing donatlo through public I hich pro\'1des sug• the campaign. ba"e been told that gested answers for the van• JACL organiz.atlon are \ err ous q . raised on the Further down the line. \\ e interested 10 hold1Og: meet• A e monadaeIn issue. wilJ probabl ' initiate a Jet• ing ,but It i difficult for u which e will introduce our 3-A press pac et. which ter-writintz campaign 0 the to make contacts. Thi i Red bill to the .s. eon. indj"'lduaJ chapters can use various congressional leg! - something our local chap• gr , we will be calling on as a guide to making contact lators in your dlstnct, but ters will have to do. \\ e can JAUdlapters to take anac• WIth the media in prepara• this will be effective only af• assist in pro\'iding speakers 1978 Conv. Minutes printed live role In the campaign. tion for various local redres ter our legislation has been for these event los~ In preparation for thi activities. introduced. This portion of We are also de\'eloping a The official minute of the 19- NationalJACL Con\ention Debbie akatomi, a Slstant 4-A copy oftheJACLRe- the campaign will have to be forum presentation. some held July 1':'"-22 at the Little America Hotel. alt Lake City, to the Director at lAO. d bill. carefully planned through type of audio-visual presen• Utah. ba\'e been published and mailed. thi past w k to all Headquarters and the per- 5-lnformation on the the National Redress Com• tation. which can be sent to chapter delegates and National J ACL offi er . n In charge of the Redres general time line for the Re• mittee. chapters easily. This pre• The minutes are 10 three parts: (1) ummary of action media and educational cam• dres campaign-what over• We can put our individual sentation will be self-con• taken; (2) list of delegates, reports and documents; and ( ) paign has prepared a chap• all activities are planned and efforts to work now, how• tained with its own taped N~tiona1 Constitution as amended. An extra supp\ wa ter package which will be when, and suggestions on ever, by putting together narrative. We will want to pnnted to be presented to the 1980 chapter pre ·idents. forwarded to all JACL chap• how local events can be ~ discussion groups in local establish a Redress contact Unlike any previous minutes which were mimeographed. te~ in early May. The pack• ordinated. areas. We are developing a person in each chapter. or in a typewritten format. the 19 8 minutes were phototype• et will include the fonowmg 6--An outline of several list of speakers who will be someone who preferably is set and designed. by the Pacific Citizen and printed by Mid• material : suggested activities chap• way Press. printers of the PC, as a 52-page booklet Extra cop• I-An official po ition pa• ters may wish to develop on ies are available $3 postpaid to member who write to ith r per of the National Redress the loca1level. chaRter Rulse National Headquarters or the Pacific Citizen. Committee, which wiIJ pro• 7-A copy of the second vide a brief background, de- edition of the Redress book- • Cincinnati We search the whereabouts of PO'IU1CK DINNER SET FOR APIUL 29 Heeding the warnings of the past two winters, the Cincinnati former Tuleans .. . Building Tule Lake monument JACl..annuai potluck dinner bas been scheduled a bit later in Do you know WHERE they .re? .. . the year:-w Sunday, April 29, 4:30-8 p.m at Maple Ridge Thomas Hasegawa Charles Furuta Satoru Munekawa adds $2,500 to campaign goal Lodge. Dinner will be mostly Japanese, the coordinators hope. Mitsuke Kam~moto Ta.ne Yukiye William Teramoto But bring the best dish, enough for eight Tho!l'las YOShlO Kamimura Tom Sakiyama ~)kida ... Haruo Harold Ayako Alice San FraDclsco to, 524 more from San Fran• Reservations may be placed through Mitzi Kato (232-1747). Dalbo FUJlI Kawaguchi Kuwada In view of the cost of con• cisco, leaving Saturday and The chapter board at its Jan. 14 meeting elected William K~z~o Yamano Tsuyoshi Kamishita Sadayoshi Yano structing the monument for returning Monday, the com- Mirrielees president, succeeding Lida Fukumura Jacqueline WIlham Furuya Fred Noda Dan Sakahara the Tule Lake dedication be• mittee was informed. Vidourek was elected president-elect and vice-presIdent Tomio ltabasbi Noriko Ogata Gerry Wakayama ing $2,500 over the estimate, Frt:d Harada Faye Sakata Ray Yasui Recent donors are: Chl~akO J~yce Geor~e the JACL-TuJe Lake Plaque No. 6-Aa., Mudl2l. 1979 • Diablo Valley Minoru Iwasaki Yuasa SlO ...... Aster Kondo, Roy T. chi, an M.D. for 22 years in HIguchI Hiroshi Uratsu Saichl Sam Committee is encouraging Yoshida, LooDllS; Kenishi Takemoto, THREE NISEI DISCUSS Concord, cited heart disease, Ben Kusubachi Hiro Yurio Kawachi KamJ.t!loto former Tule Lake internees Detroit; Rosie Sugabara, SIllIliko Ku• RETIREMENT PLANNING cancer and accidents as the "you know bow tIIey can bl reacbed, contact and JACL chapters to assist riyama " Ichimatsu Hagi, Mrs. H. Y. pleasI Hamada, Seattle; Takeo Miyama, San The JACL Diablo Valley Contiuued on Page 8 Mary Tsukamoto, 6815 Florin Pertins Rd, Sacnmento. Ca 95828 the committee in meeting Francisco; William Nisbimit!U, Yuba Chapter held its retirement the new fund goal of $12,500. City; Hattie Sumida, Los Angeles; program on March 16 in - Wes Doi and Tak Shirasa• Henry Shiromoto, Berkeley; George M. Egusa, Dayton, Ohio; Perry Yano, Concord. Three panelists wa, finance co-chairmen, re• Naperville, m; Mary H. Takai,Pleas• brought insights gained ported seven chapters have ant Hill; Kimi V. Nakagawa. Santa from a combined total of contributed a total of $855 as Care; Rose Makino, Chicago; Shizue JACL 'Okubo-Yamada Fund N. Baker, Sacramento; lwaoJ. Yama• over 50 years of professional of March 21. saki, San Jose. experience. Dr. John Kiku- If the other JACL chapters as ...... Henry J. Yamada, lh• .. in California can contribute di; Robert R. Komada, Yuba City; Ha• . tsume Kosakai, Goleta. At · the 1970 National Convention in Chicago, two JACL youth delegates $50 each, the goal will be $100 aad ap-Sacramento JACL :F_und Drives _ were victims of a brutal and senseless crime. Evelyn Okubo (age 18) was met, it was added. Close to ($500); Watsonville JACL (Sl()O); ~Y"" Stocltton JACL (stOO). JACL Fund murdered by an unknown assailant and Ranko Carol Yamada (age 17) was $2,300 was acknowledged JACL~ c/o NaI'1 near death after being severely assaulted. It was a miracle that she survived. from some 80 individuals No. 7-A.. fI Marcb 28, 1979 3765 SUDer St., &.l FranciscX>. Ca 94115 , during the two weeks ending (Mem: Memorial CcIatrIbadGD) San Franci!M=o JACL is committed to assist the two StoCkton families with legal March 28 for a month-end U .... $1O-John T. Shinagawa, Ten contributions totaling expenses in their Itlwsuit against Hilton Hotels, which owns and operates the Richmond; YukieNakan9. Yuba City: f~es . total of $7,485. Yukio Kumamoto, SaIi Francisco; $285 were acknowledged by Palmer House. No funds raised will be used for attorney's Meanwhile, the dedication George Kondo, Buster Y. Ide, Sacra• the JACL Oku~Yamada Seven years following the tragedy the legal battle continues. Will you mento; Robert Kaida, Sunnyvale. Fund during the month of join us in support of these families? committee under Frank Hi• $10 • Up-Yoshlmi P Taj. Hay· yama of Sacramento contin• ward; Tsuyuko Suzulci, Anaheim; March. Current total is ues to meet regularly to pre• Kenji Kawase, George T. Okubo, Nao $10, 59297-about 42%- of OKUBO·YAMADA LEGAL ASSISTANCE COMMITTEE Yabomoto, Tada Yabumoto. Stock• the $25,000 goal to aSsist the pare for a tWo-night reun• ton; Kiyoshi Fukumitsu, Shuichi Fu• George Baba, Co-Chairperson Ion-dedication program at lrumitsu (mem). Sueko Yoshiyama, two Stockton families in . Frank Oda, Co-Chairperson the former campsite on May Monterey Park; Robert I. Okamoto, their case against the Hilton EstberPeterson,NorioF. Yasaki,San Corp. 27-28. The dedication will be Jose; Frank N. Sato, Annandale, Va; held on Sunday, May 27, 2 Fumiko Wakamatsu, Portland; Mitsu• Report 22-As. Mar. 27, 1979 OKUBO·YAMADA FUND HONORARY COMMITTEE Sl - ~Masaye U. Yamada, Seq; :>p:tD.- l)n State Hwy 139 at ko Hironaka, Mitzi Fukami, Taisuke R. Horiuchi, San Francisco; Roy Yoshiaki Tashima, Sal; James Egusa. Jerry Enomoto (Sacramento) Patrick Okura (Washington, [J .C.) Newell. Inouye, EI Cerrito; James Wdama• Oma; Ben T. Fukutome, W DC; Rob• Ross Harano (Chicago) Shirley Matsumura Ola (San Jose) ert Teshima, Det; George & Cruyo are to tsu, Charles Ishimaru., Hood River, Dr. Frank Sakamoto (Chicago) Travel groups be Ikeda, San Mateo; Ko S. Sameshima. Dr. Harry Hatasaka (Sequoia) org~ Ore; Frank A. Yosbimi, Seattle; Fu• Yone Satoda (San Francisco) from the San sse Kusaba, Springfield, Va; Allan Dayton. Dr. Terry Hayashi (San Francisco) Francisco Bay area and M. Hida, Wauwatosa, Wi.; Takeo Hi• S:Z~Eddie & Alice Moriguchi, Mas Hironaka (San Diego) Tom Shimasaki (Tulare County) gashioo. George Ao1d, Dick Matsui, Sn Fran; Dr. Yosbiye Togasaki, Con Kaz Horita (Philadelphia) Shigeki Sugiyama (Washington. D.C.) from Sacramento. Reserva• Costa George Matsuoka, Sacramento; Ma• Frank Iwama (Sacramento) Mike Suzuki (Washington. D.C.) tions are being accepted until riko Imai, Sunnyvale; Yoshiyuki Ya• SlOO-Grace Anmura Judge Robert Takasugi (East Los Angeles) Monday,May7.1hecommit• mamoto, Cuh'-er City; Randall S. Oga• FUND SUMMARY Dr. John Kanda (Puyallup Valley) tee suggested others coming ta, San Mateo; John T. Narita, Mill Feb 28 Total ...... _$lO,322.97 -Helen Kawagoe (Gardena Valley) Henry Tanaka (Cleveland) from the Northwest or VaDey; Herbert M. Nakayama, Oak Less (Acct Closed) . .. .. -15.00 Takeishi Kubota (Sea We) Dr. Tom Taketa (San Jose) Park. m; Ellen H. EclIi.goshima, Thls Report .. __.. _. . . . . 285.00 Mike Masaoka (Washington. D.C.) Dr. Kengo Terashita (Stockton) &uthem CWifomM showd Bellevue, Wa March 27 Total ...... $10,592.97 arrange directly with hotels SZS • Up-Hiroshi KuramotD, Bill Matsumoto (Sacramento) Judge Raymond Uno (Salt Lake City) or motels in the Klamath Anchorage: John M_ Owada, Salt James Murakami (Santa Rosa) Shig Wakamatsu (Chicago) lAke City; Helen Miyake, Sacramen• Em Nakadoi (Omaha) Falls area. Arrangements to; Dr. Walter W. Hashimoto, Fre• Satow Fund for chartered bus, two-night mont. Ca.; William Node. TUrlock; Sal Francisco Dr. Roy Nishikawa (Wilshire) Mitsuo Kaida, San Diego; Richard T. stay (bring your own sleep• - Nakamura. EI Cerrito. Contributiom continue to • .. . •• • .• • .• •. ••• • ••• ••••- •••••• . •••• • • • • *'"- ing bag) at the Fairgrounds $SO Ii Up-Keiso Oshima, Monte• be acknowledged for the with breakfasts and a Satur• bello: Judy Tsuboi. Sacramento; The• Mas and CbizSatow Memor• Please make cheCks payable to : I I support the Okubo and odore Tolruno. Yuba City; Fred T. Ka• YES day supper bento in the bus taoka. Woodland. Ca.; Vernon M. Ha• ial Fund, which will Wlder• "JACL Okubo-Yamada Fund" : • Yamada families. enroute, are being coordi• yashida, Campbell; Eddie T. Suguro. write the research and writ• oated by: Seattle; Dr Tad F\tiioka, ~ ing of the JAQ. history by Oale, ____ Sacramento - Dennis Kong. David T Hironaka. San Francisoo. and mail to SlOO It Up-K M. Horiuchi Tsuro• Bill Hosokawa The latest Kathy Oma.chi. DoD Ito, Randy JACL National Headquarters mu Wakimoto, San Jose; Wesley Doi, summary: Enclosed IS my contribution of. Shiroi, Kathv Shiroi; Bay Area• San FraDcisoo. • No. 10--Jltla GUY, 1979 1765 Sutter Street 0 $5. 0 $10, o ather $,_--:-_--:-: Donna Kotake. Kathy lnamasu. roND SUlIOIARY SS-SSO-Louise Maebara, Thomas San FranciSco. Califo ia 94115 : Yamate, H.R.. KDblyasbi.. Howard Name ______Paula Mitsunaga. Mar 1-1 ...... 2295 5,191.00 Kuwada. Mary S. FUjiwara, Gordon The TuJe Lake Pilgrimage Reports #6. #i . .. _. 82 2.294.00 Your cancelled check Mar 28 _.. _.. _.. . __311$ ",485.00 Nina. Sadako Sa.i1n, Don T. Kuwaha• Committee, which has been ra. Emi Kamacbi, Dr. Uris Kobllsbi, will be your receipt. Address ______meenng at the San Francisco Revised Goal: $120,500.00 George Icbieo, TODOye Tsuk.a:moto. CANE Office. 1858 Sutter St. is Joe S_ Sugawara, Bisa Amimoto. wortting with JAn on program Tax-iJeductibJe contributions FUND SlMMARY Contributions are to AU Thle lBke Dedication "~Jan. tax-deductible. plans.. J 31 ...... 1.098$34,097.56 Chapter ______Committee. sIDuId be sent to: Supplement...... 35 Bus fare will be 6.20 per Calif. 1st Bank, 1675 Post St, San TbisReport._._. __ . 14 149.60 passenger from Sacramen- Francisoo. Ca. 9411£ As of Feh 28 ...... 1,147534.247 .56 • Philadelphia ous committee assignments, brook, N..J.; June 17-Buffet-SO: chapter BOARD ESTABUSHES which are to be completed at cial for new members. the next board meeting in July 29--Annual picnic. CALENDAR FOR YEAR • Aug. 2426-Joint EDC-MDC pulse May. The remaining calen- Conference hosted by Twin ContiDued (run Previous Page The Philadelphia JACL dar follows: Cities JACL in Bloomington, Board last month estab- May ll-Board meeting; May primary health problems for MinD. lished its chapter calendar 19-Hanami for Sr Citizens. Sept 1~Board meeting. the aged. "Nisei are as vul• for the year and made v~ri- June 16-EDC meeting at Sea- Oct 13-Sr. Citizen luncheon nerable as others," he said. and Japanese film "Less weight and exercise • Berkeley Nov. 9-Board meeting. are the best preventatives." PARLIER TEAM WINS ANNUAL CAGEW.ST December 9-Cbristmas par• Dr. Yoshiye Togasaki, re• Paced by Ross Yukawa's 16 points, the Parlier JACL team ty. Jan ~New Year party. tired county health · physi• Jan ll-Board meeting. Feb. beat the Contra Costa JACL quintet 68-6S in the finals to 10-General meeting and elec• cian, discussed the dietary garner the championship crown of the 22nd annual Berkeley tions. habits of the Japanese, such JACL Invitational Basketball Tournament staged March 16, Mar. ~Installation dinner• as excessive consumption of 17, and 18, it was announced by Hank Hamataka, tourney dance. salt and the high incidence chairmari. of diabetics. To her, "Re• This was the first time in the tournament's history that a PC board to tirement should be a time for Central California squad has won the top honors. Richard Lo meet in Fresno enjoyment. Keeping active• of Parlier scored 14 points in the first ten minutes of the title ly involved is the key." game but was forced to leave the tilt with a fractured wrist LG8 AJI8eIe& Mary Teshima, public High scorer for the runner-up Contra Costa team was The Pacific Citizen Board health nurse, covered the Lance McKean with a big 28 points. The third-place team will meet in conjunction area of Medicare and the was San Jose JACL, and the consolation round winner was with the biennial JACL Tri• many agencies available in Sacramento JACL. District Conference April 21 the community. "The Japa• Tournament all-stars selected were: at the Fresno Holiday Inn by ~as l.ance McKean and Stan Kobata, Contra Costa; Robert Nishikawa the airport, with Ellen Endo. a grouV are too reluc• c~rson, IIPItto step forward and take and Richard Lo, Parlier; John Hohu, San Jose; Chuck Nieda, Eden; presiding. - f1 advantage of these p~ and Jon Viacrucis,. Sacramento. : . ,. Con t' ra Costa . WEST LA. WINE-TASn~nding on the steps of Yamato grams," she reported. She Cal 1st Bank has Restaurant in Century City where the West Los Angeles JACL annual feels their pride is misdi• The first Contra Costa JACL Girls Basketball Tour• Auxiliary wine-tasting benefit will be held on Sunday afternoon, nament was captured by the host chapter's team, who de• record '78 year rected and an unnecessary April 22. are people in charge: Toy Kanegai (back), A1ko Takeshi• barrier. feated the Sacramento JACL by a score of 51 to 46. Finishing SuFnnctsco ta (left), Sako Asawa. SteUa Kishi and wine connoisseur Joe George Fujioka was chair• in third place was the San Francisco JACL, and in fourth California First Bank Minervini. Proceeds go to American Cancer Society and the place was the Sequoia JACL. " .. . man of the event president T. Nag8mura re- March of Dimes. . · The girls tournament all-stars were: ported 1978 was a record."fiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii_____ iiii __ Chris Fujii and Mary Nishikado, Contra Costa; J. Kashima, Se• year in terms of increases quoia; Oleryl Osada, San Francisco; and Michelle Tahara, Sacramento. )ver the previous year: up CAREEAOPPOATUNnY , Nakahara & Dr. Tak Inouye; (2) 16.5% in deposits to $2.5 bil• • San Jose Hiro Kurotori & Mas Minami; (3) lion and up 27.8% in net in- BRIDGE TOURNAMENT Diane Kawamura & Florence Ta- come to $15.7 million. An• - RESULTS ANNOUNCED ,kei nual dividend was up from : Senior Citizen Project Swanee McKay, a certi- :. Watsonville 75 cents declared in 19n to' fied ACBL (American Con- . LOCAL SCHOLARSHIP 91 cents this past year. The 22-member board of MANAGER tract Bridge League) bridge DEADLINE MAY 5 (Bilingual: Japanese/English) direc.tor, did a swell job of Watsonville JACL scholar• directors and executive offi• cers were reappointed. II:: runmng th,e smooth San Jose ship application forms are ~ Asahi International Trovel \. JACL bndge tournament due May 5, it was announced Salary Negotiable hel~ ~4 1111 Olympic, lo! Angeles 90015 I on March at Wesle,Y by Mas Hashimoto, commit- 1979 Officers Send Resume by April 30 to: 623-6125/29 , Call Joe or Gladys U ted M thodi t Ch h U.S.A. , Japan, Worldwide m. e s urc . s • tee chair. High school stu- CINCINNATI JAn JAPANESE COMMUNITY PIONEER CENTER Air-5ea-land-Car-Ho,tel I SOCial Hall. '. dents whose parent is a Wat- William. C Mirrielees, pres; R.OWB! VIPN ~ #2~ Otani';;; Many door pnzes were do- sonville JACL member are Jackie Vidourek, pres-e1ect; Li• Attn. Frank Kagiwada 110 s. los Angeles St. LA 90012 i nated by local bank~ .and eligible to apply. Interested daFukumura, sec; Benny Okura, 120 N. SAN PEDRO ST . •_ fI<;~AGrtift$/P1to J~lo.(2111111ies) 6~Or· · members donated d~hcIOUS seniors may contact Dr. Ar- treas; Kazuya Sato, MDC Page lO.... refreshments.. The wmners: . M' bus mgr; Phyllis Ishisaka, Kay LOS ANGELES, CA. 90012 Nisei Florist . Majors: (1) Mae Rafloski & thur Hayashi, 94 anposa Murata, co-editor, Nita Yama• In the Heart of li"le Tokyo Aiko Nakahara; (2) Dr. George Ave. guchi, educ; J Vidourek, memb. L-.I_IIIIIIIIIIIIIIII.·illllllllllllllllilllllllllUIIIIMIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII_IIIIIIIII__ • 328 E. lst - 628-5606 I Hiura & Jane Tamura; (3) Sachi The chapter also an- Fred Moriguchi Member: Teleflora . I Miki & Swanee McKay.. nounced the community pic- J~y The PAINT SHOPPE j I Intermediate. NoS: (1) nic date has been changed La Mancha -Center, ~ 11 N. Harbon. ! ~hi~<£;~ Re~oT Roy; ~ (tie) from July 5 to Aug. 5 at the McKa~gl Dr~~~gh~~: S~ta C~ Fairgro~ds. Fullerton, Co. (714) 526-0116 John ttl think it is important Yamo'to Travel Bureau wakami ' Vice preSident Kee Kitaya- 321 E. 2nd St., #!1J5, L.A. 90012 Intermediate E-W: (1) Peter rna is picnic chairman. (213) 624-6021 - to have a close, personal • Watsonville, calif. YES, MERIT SAVINGS IS OPEN SATURDAYS AT THESE LOCATIONS relationship-with a customer•• ~ Tom Nakase Rea Ity FOR YOUR CONVENIENCE Acreage; Ranches; Homes, Income . "Our emphasis here i to giv,e good service and to do it with TOM NAKASE, Realtor Account Insurance 2 , ~ CUfford Ave. _ ~~) ?24-647! Now Doubled to 540,000 a personal touch ... a cordial. friendly manner. It work :' lOS ANGELES . 324 E Flrtl SI 624-7434 • San Francisco, Calif. DAilY 10 '00 AM ·S:OO PM ; SAT 10.00 AM·2 00 PM Lincoln Teraoka i a branch manager at California Fir 't Bank. TORRANCEJGAROENA' 18505 S Wltlttn Av •. 321·9301 bal~king MON· THURS 9.00 A.... ·OO PM His bank offers over 40 services - from Master Charge FRI 10'00 AM·6 :00 P.. SATURDAY 1000 A.. ·2·00 PM and Visa® to corporate trusts MONTEREY PARK 1995 S Alllnlk 81"" 266·3011 MOH·THURS 9.00 AM .. 00 PM and international finance. .-Mutual Su~ Co., Inc. FRI 9.00 AM-6 :oo PM SATURGAY 9'00 A"'2:oo PM 1090 Sansome St. . 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C Siull (or • speedy translation of Yanamura and Akira Obori aIplUred documenU that go( were OIl the team, as ere HIlE lOme IIel were put to quiCk 8Pd successful Takejiro Hip. Yoichl Ka• ....ml"llOWard I..eyte Gulf tactical use on ew Georgia. wano, and Osame Yamamo• (or the invuion d lbePbilip• Haruo "'Slim" Tanaka was to. Like Rudy Kawahara, T. pmes, IOIIle on the other side .warded his for ork dooe eo onaka and Fred Fuku• ~ me world Jeft MarIeiIJes, at Aitape. 1bere Tanaka pi0- hima,. they had taken Jungle France, for a town they'd neered use of 8 POW to bring training in the Kaaawa Val• never beard d but would al- more PO S. in spite of 8 pol• ley on Oahu's oortb side and ay. remember-Bruyera. icy forbidding him to get had been beading to invade '!be 442nd was about to within enemy target range. Yap when the 96th were di• wnte in blood a chapter of . . . verted to the Admiralties. American m.mry. In the Three Nisei were in Pana• There they spent a few days U.s., one NiJei made a bit or ma at this time, another climbing coconut trees and bmory himself. It was Ka• strange place for any to be. drinking beer before bead• zuo Yamane. His contribu• Yoshio Ogata was as puzzled ing for Leyre. tion came from noticing about his assignment as he The 1st Cavalry landed at aomething a lot of other pe0- been when the FBI Tadoban It also had to cap• had ture nearby airstrips as ple hadn't locked him up for three days quicldy as possible, and it Yamane was among tbose on Sand Island, Honolulu, at moved from the Pentagon to did Besides the men who the war's start He'd been re• joined it after fighting with Camp Ritchie and PACMIRS. leased when someone ex• the Marines on Guam, the Col G.F. Gronich let him pUUned to goverDIDent leave, and he got 1st cavalry language section have mar· agents that it had not been 8 had the services of William ried on October 12, knowing Japanese army uniform Dozier, Yoshikazu Yamada, he'd been selected for a se• Ogata was wearing on De• Barracks at "The Turkey Farm", better known as Ft. Snelling, the thid home of MISLS. cret special assignment cember 7, but his high school Noboru Yoshimura, Haku• about which he was given DO clothing. Unable to speak masa Hamamoto, Hiroshi details. Yamane enjoyed a Miura and Terasu Yoshimo• much English, Ogata had 00- week's honeymoon in New ly returned from completing to. Hiroshi Miyake and Mi• York, then went back to MiddJe School in Japan dur• noru Namba were in the Rasmussen's dream comes Ritchie, where carloads of ing the summer of 1941. His scramble, too, and what a documents awaited transla• bunons and cap confused an scramble it was. tion. Fingering through informant. So anxious were top com• them several weeks later, he Three attempts to volun• manders to have documents true, Nisei linguists invaluable sponed one that should have teer finally paid off. Ogata, and diaries seized, then translated as quicldy as pos• had greater priority than after MISts, served at Bol• sible, that some Nisei team "Routine," which was how ling Field in the nation's cap• tions, are "psychological pro• also turned out to be one of guists included Spady Koya• members rarely saw the oth• Navy inteUigence experts at ital, translating "JAM Tins." files" of foreign generals and ad• those manufacturers of ma, Steve Yamamoto, Tsu• ers after October 20. Kai mirals. Some contain notations Pearl Harbor marked it be• This was the name given "genuine Japanese battle neo "Cappy" Harada and Mi• fore shipment on to Wash• Rasmussen's dream had I like "Prefers head~D attack," or flags"); James Ogisaka, noru Hara Koyama was the nameplates on Japanese avi• come true. Proof was every• "Extremely cautious unless ab• ington. ation equipment From solutely certain of victory," and "whom nothing bothered"; kind of man who hangs where of how valuable Nisei so forth. During the 1939-45 war, Thomas Higashiyama; tough. He later made a Yamane took the docu• them, strategic intelligence linguists were. They were in was developed. One example both sides had these. Ralph Saito; Akira Tanaka; career of the Army. In New ment to Col. Gronich, who such demand that every gen• made people unhappy by was learning that Japanese The Japanese one on Admiral and Ted ''Legs'' Nishiyama. Guinea he had gonen a POW, eral wanted to "own" a few. William F. Halsey must have Yoshio Takayama, to c0- cancelling their holiday aircraft were numbered in Some members found In Panama, Yoshio Ogata ac• been right on the mark. Halsey, operate with him. A sumo leaves and putting all to sequence by manufacturers. chunks of flesh missing tually waited for months, except for a mild hit-and-run air from the thighs of dead bod• wrestler, Takayama worked work on Yamane's discov• This made it possible to as• having been told that a gen• raid on the Marshalls and Gil• certain how many of a cer• berts nearly three years before, ies after the initial invasion. like a "trusty," seeing that ery. The Hawaii Nisei had eral would be coming ' 600 other prisoners main• tain type might still have to had commanded at no major sea They couldn't tell from this stumbled across the Imperi• through the Canal enroute to whether cannibalism had tained health and sanitation al Army's ordnance inven• be faced and which ones victory. He was in the hospital the Pacific fighting and when Frank Fletcher won at been practiced by Japanese standards. were DO longer being made. tory! Through the U.S. especially wanted the Nisei Midway and down south out of soldiers or by local natives When LST 552 was still Navy's bands at Pearl Har• • • • on his staff. The general the picture when Raymond offshore at Tacloban, a ka• Spruance succeeded in the Mari• whose diet was usually vege• bor had slipped the amounts THE Leyte landings com• never showed tarian. Dan Nakatsu, James mikaze's bomb got it. Cappy and types of every weapon anas. Japanese strategists knew menced on October 20, 1944. Richard Ishomoto (sic) was Halsey was chafing at the bit, Iwamura and Robert Sugi• Harada and Spady Koyama in the Japanese home is• They are covered elaborate• with X Corps. So were Tom and played on that Their decoy moto enjoyed a chicken din• were wounded. Koyama had lands. Furthermore, the in• ly in books by other writers. Yamada, Morley Miyake, carrier task force sucked Hal• ner with the others, followed to be evacuated. He arrived ventory listed their condi• Nisei linguists were with the Tadashi Uchigaki, George sey out of position completely by cake and ice cream, on in the Admiralties naked ex• tion, locations, and quantity, Sugimoto, Henry Morisako, (be spent the rest of his life an• mighty force reported by grily justifying why he took the board the Navy transport cept for what corpsmen had plus where spare parts and enemy observers to include Satoru Nishijima, Fred Ni• the night before landing. wrapped around him. He got other materials in the Japa• air cover away from MacAr• more than 100 troop trans• shitsuji, Tom Hadomato and thur's soldiers), and the wolf got The 306th Language Detach• all the way back to Spokane nese weapons network could ports alone. MISers were Casey Kawamoto. Others in among the sheep. The Center ment wouldn't have another before arriving at facilities be found Strategic planners part of the 7th, 24th, 32nd, who served with X Corps at Force of the Imperial Navy was hot meal until Christmas where an operation could could add new targets to the 38th, nth and 96th Divi• Leyte and onward are listed blocked from wrecking the Day. safely be performed. Koya• B-29list, and Yamane's find in this book's Appendix, the Leyte landings only by the ...... ma came out of an anaesthe• sions, as well as the 1st Cav• bravery of Americans in thin- was also used with stunning alry and 11th Airbome, be• task of tracking them down Work done by Nisei that tic to "Wake up, Irish'" He effect at the war's end Ya• . hulled "jeep" carriers and de• sides various Army and where they served with stroyer escorts, who fought it bas never received reason• found a grinning nurse mane kept his find to him• Corps staffs. various divisions and regi• off. able recognition was in the pointing to the names on five self until telling the author i ments as needed proving al• An ambush again took care of field of aircraft technical in• empty pint bottles of donat• about it, although he un• General idea was to take most impossible. the Southern Force. Z Plan ed blood. In gratitude, Spady Leyte, then assault Luzo~ knowledge, carefully followed teUigence. Rikio Koga led a doubtedly realized more and Every American fighting man team to New Guinea for this. later named a son John Pat• more over the years what a northernmost of the Philippines up, allowed American PT-boats, -while putting the squeeze on at Leyte, or near it, held his then destroyers, to bushwack On it were Karl Akama, Hi• rick, making him probably find he bad made. Still, he islands in between, like Minda• breath for days while the naval the Southern Force, and ancient sayosbi Ueki, Jack Wakaya• the first Gaelic Nisei in Spo• made light of it, preferring nao, Mindoro, andPalawan aspects of the campaign were battleships to fInish it off. fought out The Japanese Fleet U.S. ma, Thomas Takesone, To• kane. Homecoming was kind instead to tell how the Navy Every area taken bad to provide Japanese intelligence was shimi Yamada, lsamu Sugi• of a triumph for Koyama, airbases for attacking the next, was on the prowl, determined to good. They knew their man, Hal• got so angry at the courier smash the landing force. Enemy yama and Thomas Yoshika• badly injured as he was. who flew back and forth be• Mac.Artbur being a total believer sey, well enough to conjecture in airpower. He also bought in• plans were well thought out and wa They were to work on From New Guinea he earlier very nearly worked that he could be drawn toward tween Pearl Harbor, who telligence in toto as a vif:8l f~ the opportunity to achieve fame. shot-down or captured ene• answered a lener to a Spo• kept ribbing its intelligence tion of command By usmg It m The Leyte invasion was pro• They exploited this. my aircraft. They did, and kane newspaper with one of experts about their foulup, the Philippines, as elsewhere, he tected by a massive surface ar• The use of American naval in• sometimes sent back to the his own. When the writer mada that included old U.S. bat• that he got shangbai'd out of kept the cost of every victory at telligence at Leyte Gulf left Pentagon useful, even vital, complained of seeing "Japs" a minimum. tleships not useful for much much to be desired, but when a Ritchie and sent overseas. information. on the streets of Spokane Yamane went overseas a The 96th landed at Dulag. more than shore bombardment war gets won, DO one asks ques• Roaming east and north of the tions of the vi.ctors. Halsey was (which was outside the Evac• while later, on a very special Warren Higa had the team, Dan Tamotsu Nishimura uation zone), Koyama wrote troop transports was a powerful bailed as a hero, and Bureau of had another that went mission. under Allen A Beach. "I carrier task force, commanded team and proposed to change Ord.nanee torpedo specialists out at the same time as Ko• • • • went in with the third wave," by Adm Halsey. Against this, were never called to account for places with him, offering the ga's. On it were Norito Na• Just before the Leyte inva• said Tom Masui ''Frogmen four Japanese thrusts were com• refusing to adapt a captured irate citizen a New Guinea ing, one strictly a diversion Two gao, Warren Adachi, Jay Ka• sion. three Pacific Nisei went first, and the scouts German torpedo when the one foxhole. were awarded Bronze second. The line companies were coming around the south of they insisted on using wasn't neshiro, Tatsuo Yamamoto, . . .. the Philippines and up through su~ Stars.· Shig Yasutake got were in the fourth wave and, working and got American Shigemitsu Nakashima, Surigao Strait, to fall upon the mariners killed. Those are the James Yosbinaga, .Tames The 38th Division didn't one for work done around believe me, I was scared as massed . transports. One was breaks of the game called war. come into Leyte right away. caves at Munda. George K. hell to be out there in front of coming througb San Bernardino Hozaki, Takeo Takata and Clarence Ohta Some of the It followed the others by Matsumoto was given ODe the fighting men!" Herbert Strait, in the center of the Philip• • • • about six weeks. Its lan• pines, to poise a northern second The XXIV Corps had two men did this type of work on pincer over the landing foR:e. New Guinea, then went on to guage team was first class, Meanwhile, down from further language teams operating being loaded down with com~ from its headquarters in the do more of the same in the north was coming a carrier task Philippines, but not all bat veterans. Arthur Castle force that reaDy wasn't a carrier Leyte campaign. One was was with it, as were Yosbika• task force. It bad practically no headed by Joseph Bothwell . .. .. zu Higashi, James Tsumura aircraft It was bait, to draw off 6th bad of Halsey. On it was Jerry Katayama, The Army some and Lincoln Taira JamesFu• In Pentagon files today, as weD whose family was in a con• the old pros, as they now jimura and David Kato, of as in the sttategic military intel• centration camp. Others could call themselves, with ligence files of other major na- were George Kozucbi (who its headquarters. Staff lin- ~I!!~I!! I-iIlWA" flown to Chiang built up at an marine in Burma for some Pan-American gull wing two• Asian-Pacific YANKEE unbelievable rate. cloak-and-dagger work, but engine seaplane. -POLYNESIAN ROOM Fighting alongside Chi• inve.;tigation yielded no doc• • • • (Dinner . Cocktail' . Floor 'how) SAMURAI nese units could have com• umentation. Also with USS Suicide planes, dreamed up by TV films set .COCKTAIL LOU GE Continued fnm Previous Page plications. Tony Uemoto be• were Ralph Yempuku, Shui• a Japanese naval officer on an SpriDgfielcl, VL F.ntertamm nt came another "captured" chi Kurahashi, Charles Ma• impulse just after kaiten (sui• In celebration of Asian Pa• cide-manned torpedoes) bad Nisei when Chinese sur• tsunaka, Takao Tanabe, and cific American Heritage the original Presidio class, been officially announced. as 4-11. rounded him. They wouldn't Susumu Kazuhata. There part of Japan's naval effort, Week May two televi• were members. So were To• sion series on Asian Ameri• mio Munekawa, Ichiro Obi• even permit him to leave his probably were others. rained down on American forces foxhole for four hours. at Leyte. Six escort aircraft car• can themes have been pro• kane, Masao N agahiro, Kiyo• • • • riers covering the landings were duced by the Educational ki Sato and Albert Tamura Somewhat to the north of the MARS Force, Shigeto From what has been writ• hit on the same day, Oct 26. It Film Center. Besides Charles Tatsuda's, ten thus far, it should be was no way to celebrate the eve OPEN EVERY DAY Mazawa found fighting with of America's Navy Day. The ' "Pearls" is a series of six la_lOll 11:30 • 2:00 the 11 th Airborne had an• clear to anyone that the Pa• half-hour personal docu• other team. On it were Rob• the Kachins confusing, too. 40th Division was relieved on 0'•• " 5:00·11:111 Volunteering from a desk cific was practically crawl• New Britain and began training mentaries on Asian Ameri• _ ...... _ SIMey 12:00 - 11:00 ert Kimura, William Naito, ing with Nisei in unifor ., al• for the next area of attack• can themes and concerns Mitsuo Usui, TakeshiFujisa• job in India to serve with the / OSS, Mazawa was told he'd though only a han . ul of Lingayen Bay, on Luzon Island. and is scheduled to preview 226 South Harbor Blvd. ka and Tetsuo Koga Some of America's civilian ~ knew the men had corne from the be parachuting into the Bur• In Europe, the 442nd Regi• May 10 on the Public Broad- Santa Ana, Calif. 92704 ma jungle. Without a bit of they were there. Had the ci• mental Combat Team headed out casting System network. secret planning for Okinawa vilians known, they might to rescue a battalion of the 36th ''Pacific Bridges", six ~ ___ ...... I.:.7.:..14~63:::...:....1-...:..1.:::23:::2=--_..c.. at Pearl Harbor. training, he did just that, working with British, Amer• not have believed it They Infantry Division, of which the half-hour documentary/dra- .. ..-.------• certainly wouldn't have be• 442nd was a part. The Texas unit '" '" '" icans and Kachins behind Ja• had been nearly completely sur• matic films on the history of Nisei were busy in the Chi• panese lines. What confused lieved that Jerry Katayama, rounded by Germans. Asians in America, is di• MIKAWAYA na-Burma-India theater of Art Morimitsu, Pat Nagano, him were several massive In China, a Japanese thrust be• rected at elementary school• Sweet Shops war. The shy Grant Hiraba• black balls of some strange Kan Tagami, Roy T. Takai gan that overran General Clair age children. Program man• and Paul Bannai were only a 244 E 1st st. yashi interrogated "comfort tarry substance. When he Chennault's forward air bases, agers at local television sta• Los Angeles. CA 6284935 girls" captured at Myitkyi• handful of the hundreds who asked what it was, Mazawa which sort of destroyed his tions should be contacted by 2 01 W Ball Rd. . na, with Won Loy Chan. A lad got told "opium." It was the served in the Pacific while claim to be capable of subduing persons interested in having Japanese with a dozen long• Anaheim. CA (714)995·6632 of religious bent, totally out coin in which the Kachin their parents or relatives this series shown in their of place in the roughneck were locked up in concentra• range bombers operating from PaCIfic Sc,.Iare mercenaries got paid. China communities. It is virtually Army, even Hirabayashi had tion camps that featured Redondo Beach Blvd. '" '" available free of charge Gardena, CA' (213) 538-9389 to admit that the Japanese '" . . watch towers, guards, patrol . from TVAC, and stations can had some novel ideas for A GOODLY number of Ni• dogs and other aspects call toll-free (800) 421-0597, 118 Japanese Village Plaza los Angeles. CA 624-1681 fighting a war. A picture of sei saw a lot of service with, American motion pictures 421-0598 and ask for Nate him and "Charlie" Chan at but were reluctant to talk then and since showed as ex• Long or Raymond Albertini. Myitkyina reminded the about, the Office of Strate• isting only in Nazi Germany. author of a cartoon showing gic Services. Much of what But Nisei-the people de• Classified '~ R two Roman legionnaires the OSS did in the 1941-45 scribed by author Bill Hoso• coming out of a city they've war was so tied to British kawa as "The Quiet Ameri• t ~daSSmed ' 'Aat9 ~'fSW_~ ' "word. $$ tninimum per ~ • just helped destroy. One is operations that some of its cans"-did serve. And none ~ discount Itsame ccpyfor~1kne6. , Cdrrying loot, the othel ':las a operations may not become more quietly than those who { 'P~n'~ortfet~~~~J ' EMPLOYMKNT struggling female slung public until Great Britain's worked with radio intercep• t«1S~~~fQ~ Official Secrets Act is furth• tion units. Torao Ikeda, Ki• over a shoulder. The second Los lriiiiles 312 E. 1st St., Room 202 is saying to the first, "The er modified. (As did the Brit• yoshi Ishibashi, and George • APT FOR RENT-One bdrm apSGar Los Angeles, Calif. pay is lousy, bilt fringe bene• ish kept-secret-until-the- Okamoto were part of Timo• dena. $225 per mo. 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Tokubo went on wide pa• and counter-espionage for ~isei had to pounce on these Resumes to: trol swings around and be• the British, long before the when detected, then draw on Development Officer U.S. was actually at war). hind the army, accompanied information gathered from California Housing Finance Agcy. IT _ II by Kachins, the fierce moun• The author did learn of Nisei other intelligence sources, 10960 Wilshire Blvd .• Suite 234 GRANO S.TAR tain tribesmen who loved who worked with the OSS, but to inform higher-ups of what Los Angeles. CA 90024 ~UlC:::: only one would discuss what he '!!..~.. JJJ fighting and hated Japanese. the enemy was doing. Equal Opportunity Employer ....=:,. a~ ' did. Since YANKEE SAMURAI ' •• _ .... With him was a kendo expert was not planned as an expose, I 1 , Don Kuwaye was in north• 1011...... <- ...... 1 ' from Hawaii, Hiroshi Naka• saw no reason to inquire further - east India with a radio recep• t.~ mura. of others, especially since so 5 1Iti'" JrtII ""e c.. many Nisei have worked in intel• tion team when Leyte was in• 1'= ·.. ~r Others with the MARS vaded and wondering what .. t...... · .. Force were Art Morimitsu, ligence for the U.S., some in uni• ••••••••••••••••••••••• form and some not, right the hell he was doing there. • Angel Hirano, Tom Tsuruda, through the Vietnam war. He'd started the war on Tony Uemoto, James Araki, leave in Maui and spent the SR I TO Paul Miwa, James Okita, To• Nisei known to have en• first six months of it with R E FI L T'tI[O. rna Tasaki and Gilbert Naga• gaged in OSS operations in men of Portuguese, Ha• tiOMES· ... INSURANC[ ta Yutaka Nakahata was al• the China-Burma-India the• waiian, or Asian extrac• so with the group as it com• ater of war are: Furnio Kido, tion, patrolling beaches be• bined with the Chinese 30th Wilbert Kishinami, Richard List with us. • waiting. fore getting sbanghai'd first 2421 W. Jefferson, l.A. and 38th Divisions along the . Betsui, Junichi Buto, Ed• to Camp McCoy, then to border of Yunnan Province. 731-2121 ward Arida, Shuichi Kuma• Camp Savage. Before com• JOHN TY SAITO Ii ASSOCIATES "Over the Hump" flights gai and Tom T. Baba. There ing overseas, Kuwaye'd got• •••••••••••••••••••••••• were now refueling at Myit• was a rumor that Hideo ten a pal, Juichi Miramatsu, kyina, instead of getting at• Imai, and possibly others, LOmmt'rc 1.11 & IndU~tr,"ll to countersign his will. On All-condliionlng & Rl'!flKerdhon tacked from there. Tonnage disembarked from a sub- Kuwaye's team were Take• Cnnlrd(lo' shi Sugai, Robert Honke, Ha• ruo Akitaki, James Araki, Sam J. 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beaded down the valley be- al Corp tured :the war's \'ery fIrSt Another ch team, y,cith YANKEE een the two ridges on De• casualty lists came up to POW and as also found Goich.i himanuld Her rt cember 30 but a sniper got abou balf that umber, a among errilJ's brauders.. Ka . and Sanji hirai SAMURAI him before be reecbed his horrific price for one 't of o A1rui helping to \\in on i started in the Assam r.-J')e,luwn. destination. Hachiya died real estate. ewspapers m the fmal Burma campaign Plain, then ent into Burma. three days later, the bullet the U.s. were growling about against the enemy. supporting the 1ARS Force Wed to link up m a pmcer having passed through his the high cost for victory the . . . right througb its campaign. th the 11 th Airborne and liver. USMC was paying. Writers On Leyte. Tom Masui just Teams like those Sekiguchi 7th Diviaiona lOt off one of A recommeodatioD for the wondered aloud and in print missed being a bero, but It and Shimanuki ere on had thoee puerile meuaaes that Silver Star made in whether the U.S. could al• was not his fault Early in plenty of problems. Eqwp• IOIDebow let transmuted frank Hachiya's behalf. It ford a Marine Corps that December, Tom learned that ment was De'-er really dry. later into hi8toric utter• was still being processed .spent young men as though a coordinated Japanese at• and there were alI kinds of anca. "'Rolled two 7'. into wben the American Legion an inexhaustible supply of tack was soon to be made on problems due to moisture Ormoc," biJ oommunicatioD Post d his home town. them existed The murmur• airfields around Burauen, getting into circuits. When • • • read. "Come 7, come 111" Hood River, Ore., removed ing would become a roar which the Americans bad equipment was working well There was still lots of Frank HKbiy. refuIed Frank's aDd 13 other Nilei within a few months. seized. An infantry attack on any given day, eyes Mas&• mopping up to be done on die offer of • relief 10 be names from the town's RoD ru Yoshioka made a landing would simultaneously be rolled toward. heaven, and Leyte before top American could return to Hawaii, pre• of Honor. When thia beaame Panoan Island. in Leyte made overland. Also, Japa• on thanks were muttered. commanders could stop Jcoown, editors nationwide Gulf. He was busy for 12 nese aircraft would crash• • • • wor• ferrina to stay and finUIb the rying about it. Stanley Shi• ~ On December 3, had a field day pontificating. days interrogating 4S POWs land on the three airstrips, They got tired of the pub• Members of wbat Gov. some them carrying in• mabukuro helped ease their be wrote Baron Goto, "rD wbo'd survived the Battle of of licity after JOyearsor so, but concern with an unbeliev• DOt "Kissin' Folaom of A1a• be t.ck in time for Jim" Surigao Strait by swimming fantry. With all this. Japa• it was an AJA family that able, almost superhuman, Christmu, as I bad hoped. bama once referred to as paratroopers would ashore from sinking Japa• nese had more sons in uniform effort. Inne.d, celebrate it in aome "the heroes' union" repaint• descend The enemy high nese ships. Yoshioka's work in any other in America. The Three American divisions muddy foxhole with can of ed the names in, amici the won him a commendation. command knew these air• Nakada family' merits notice GI ratioDa... HKbiy. took tInmder of the preas, the bad hammered qainst th fields were precious, and it here. James, John and Millo• Japanese 1st Manchu Divi• DeW paint makio, ita pffe • • • MISe~ the war aerioully. He mew wanted them back. ru were and Steph• sion, one of Japan's best. for ~ Nisei were with the Brit• Masui's information ap• whllt it mant to men Iilte all the obvious. en was on the MISLS staff. five weeks in central and himaelf, who bad twin loyal• ish Army at that time. Toshio parently never got to the staff Yosbinao worked with the • • • Taniguchi was with Eiicbi intelligence officer of the northern Leyte. An idea of ties. Hia mother and YOWll• 055. Saburo and Yoshio how fierce the fighting was er brother were living in IN November the man who Sakauye when the latter 96th Division. Yasuo Umezu J. served in the Pacific, while is indicated by the fact that might have warDed the U.s. saved a British officer's life told how the sky lit up and pan. HachiY. spent Christ• George and Henry were only four roWs were taken mas in combat, aD right, and about Pearl Harbor was and was awarded the British how it was "pretty, watching with the 442nd in Europe. No during that time. while New Year's on an operating hanged. Richard Sorge, Medal, enlisted equivalent the tracers shooting in the Nisei war story in the Pacific who'd become privy enough. of the Order of the British air" as the enemy paratroop• 15,000 Japanese soldiers table, from which be was can be told without mention• fought and died where they to Japan's top secrets to let Empire. Hiroshi Osako, at ers came floating down. The lifted dead. He'd been shot ing this family. stood. The 1st Cavalry final• while moving up to the front, Russia know Germany was Imphal, talked to the first Japanese plan didn't work. • • • ; going to attack her, met his POW taken there. He deve1- ly broke through this enemy a place where he did DOt One way or another, the in• The 6th Army spun off outfit and began descending have to go without plenty of . dea.th at Sugamo Prison, a oped information, encourag• fantry and airborne attack• chunks of its linguist detach• place that would become ing to his superiors, that the into the Ormoc Valley. The escort and assistance. ers were cleaned up in the ment just before Christmas. road to complete capture of well known to Frank Toku- Japanese were in no way next few weeks, but only al• Tsutomu Umeda took a team The 32nd Infantry Regi• bo,SobeiYamate,andplenty equipped to advance any Leyte was now open-if. ter putting a thorough scare to the 24th Division. Yoshito It was now vital to know ment, to which Frank was at• of other Nisei By that time, further into India. Osako and into the Americans. Shibata took one to the 31st, tached. was moving along MacArthur had lost a total of Roy T. Takai were served what forces still protected 1be Japanese high command, and Harry Fukuhara, now Ormoc. Rumors were corn• two parallel ridges when it 2,135 Americans killed and tea at the proper British in spite of Gen. yamashita's sen• recovered. took one to the ran into enemy fire. It called 10,735 wounded in all the hour daily, even close to the timent against the tactic, kept re• ing in about a-massive new 33rd, which moved up from enemy reinforcement for his help, to "talk oul" the New Guinea campaigns plus front By an orderly. Few infOrcing Leyte. More and more New Guinea to Morotai resistance. Frank hurriedly the Palaus. In the Palaus American GIs, Nisei or not, individual ships, plus convoys, through that port. Word was and fleets of small craft, kept MacArthur had put as much that it included a whole divi• could boast about having a power into the Leyte cam• "batman." Haroyoshi Kaya trying to put troops ashore at Or• sion of fresh troops, moe, on the west side of Leyte. paign as he was able. All had and Wally Nagao were with equipped with tanks. Wil• American submarines and air• begun to go well there for bad with him the 26th British-Indian Divi• craft raised hob with them The liam Dozier him. Now it was time to cast Stanley Shimabukuro, the sion. Hisashi Nakagawa was 11th Airborne blocked off the an eye further north He with the 2nd Division. enemy's movements in theLeyte only linguist allowed at the Valley so that the 7th Division had returned, but' the division's front line head• ...... Henry Kuwahara was lengthy island chain was far ...... with the 36th British Divi• could move ahead with its at• quarters, because of what ...... tempt to seize Ormoc. from recaptured...... , Filipinos might do if they ...... sion He also got a British • • • Medal ''for obtaining infor- sighted any Nisei. A few Walter Tanaka and Sho Camp Savage had become roWs were brought it, plus mation that enabled British Onodera, both now commis• forces to capture Japanese too small a place to handle stacks of documents taken sioned for their services as the language school as it from enemy command posts strong points at Hopin and combat infantrymen in New grew. In late 1944, the and corpses, Dozier interro• Pinbaw" in Burma Others YANKEE Guinea, showed up on Leyte. MlSLS moved down the road gated prisoners for 36 hours, who served with his Majes• l~man Each bad a Nisei lin• to Fort Snelling. No one was without a break, but he credo ty's forces included Harry guist team under him, and any crazier about accommo- ited Shimabukuro with the SAMURAI Uyehara, Isao Kumabe, Walt bad to try to show a lit• dations there than at Savage. really rewarding effort. He Frank Takao, Amos Naka• tle dignity. There would be They quicklyAubbed the tar- was lavish in his praise of The -=ret role of NU.i in ~ mura and Herbert U jimori. no more selling of "genuine Pacific Vactwy paper shacks in which they the Kibei, saying, "captured The British Army also got a Japanese battle flags" with slept, six men to a hut, the letters and notebooks the ha• lot of assistance from 60th Kanji characters that said "Turkey Farm" Katsumi inches of truculence known things like "Your mother Onishi, on the staff, regret- kujin and Nisei could make . . th no sense of, he could read, as Harold Hanaumi. wears Army shoes." And no t ed not gettm~ ou.t mto e , even though parts of words • • • more taking, as James Tsu• battl~ area, which IS what he were obscured by rain, Frank Tokubo was in rutani bad, all clothes off and and his brother Harold ~ant- sweat or blood" north Burma, getting all the lying on the ground so that ed, but th~re w~ a bit of By sunlight, flashlight and action he could handle, twice Caucasian buddies could compensation. ~s brother, lantern light, Shimabukuro getting shot down in IrS stand over you, bayonet at then he, then a f~end named poured over 808ho for 51 spotting aircraft while try• the ready, having pictures James 1. Nagat had each hours without rest or ing, with a loudspeaker, to taken that would show the been selected as ~e best all- br~. He handled diaries, convince enemy troops they folks back home how you aro~d student m each of letters, messages and ~ should surrender. (the Caucasian) had "cap• thell' classes. ports, quickly grasping the tured another Jap!" Karl Yoneda was busy • • • essentials of each. The r~ turning out "white" propa• Robert Fukuda, F10yd Ya• The 81st also saw service sults Shimabukuro got were JOSEPH n HARRINGTON ganda-pamphlets that in• mamoto and others got onto in Leyte. Hiroki Takahashi immediately radioed to cluded photos of fleets of B- Leyte with their air techni• told how, on a reconnais- Corps headquarters. The at• 29s enroute from TInian to cal intelligence team, trying sance mission, he encouo- tack continued, and Ormoc to glean from wrecked en~ June publication price wlU be $12.95 ~kI. but you may order bomb Japanese cities. He al• tered Filipinos who shouted was soon taken. Victory on an autographed copy NOW for a "ay mailing at substantial so turned out ''black'' propa• my aircraft information that at Caucasian soldiers to Leyte was complete. discount. CoqJIIte the coupon below and ,..11 with your check. ganda-handwritten notes might save some of their hang the Nisei, thinking they What Shimabukuro had buddies' lives in future bat• -----~------d.escribing how awful rondi- were members of the Japa- done was tell his superiors Pettigrew Enterprises. Inc. Pre-Publlc:atlon Discounted Offer tions at the front were. tles. And. in other areas, nese army. Rocks were almost exactly how many 50 Vtctor , Detoit, Mich. 48203 These, written in Japanese, more Nisei continued their thrown, even after it was ex- men of the reinforcements a) Please send me autographed copIes of 'Yankee SamuraI at were sent to addresses taken quiet work with radio inter• plained to Filipinos who the sent actually got ashore; ~ " -5 oostpa d each. off Japanese soldiers. It was ception units. Nisei linguists were. The how many were lost at sea as b) P ease send me autograpOed '6-packs 01 Yankee Samurai hoped they'd damage hom~ Ken Sekiguchi had such a 81st's commanders had to victims of American ships, at .. 6500 each postpaid land morale. Yoneda team. On it with him were order his language team submarines and aircraft; chec tor _ pa able 10 PettIgrew Enterpnses Inc .• IS enclcsed grinned when recalling how Yoshiaki Nakamoto, James back to his headquarters and and how many enemy troops and I understand shipment will begin Ma . his work sometimes had to Okada, Stanley Kimura, keep them there for their were at locations Shimabu• be toned down. He'd often Henry Kaneshiro and Kazo• own safety. kuro indicated on maps. This Fu name (pr n1l work in something about yo Uyehara They went Koshi Ando, James Hara- let the 1st Cavalry finish the Address ...... overthrowing the Emperor, straight from San Francisco da and Shizuo Tanakatsubo job without needing further . State, ZIP onJy to be told, "No. Karl. no! to New Guinea but stopped were in on the Mindoro land- reinforcement of its own. • Bulk Sales Discounts to JACL Chapters, Nisei veterans organt- We're going to need .the ~: only a while before moving ing. Harry Akuneshowed up Stanley Shimabukuro's zat on$ and other gtoltps on request. • Buy an extra copy far Ipe~r ~~r th~ war ~ won. north in support of the infan• on that island a month later, name probably never caught your local school or library.' NISel lingmsts With the try in the Philippines, where with the S03rd Parachute In- the anention of DougJas A MARS Force encountered Yukio Tamura later joined fantry Regiment, a unit that MacArthur, but the qwet lin• ce t e bOO s are out, Ft 111 be avaiJab e at Pacific Citizen ! David Akui. He bad cap- up with them fought mostly as foot sol- YANKEE S.F. Cherry Blossom Festival SAMURAI promises to be exceptional San Francisco plays, movies on Japan, and guist made a vital contribu• For two weekends, April Queen and tiny-tot contests. tion to planning. What he did 13-15 and 20-22, San Francis• A grand parade climaxes made it possible to continue co's twelfth annual Cherry the celebration on Sunday, the war unabated on Leyte. Blossom Fetival will trans• April 22. Ohara Bushi Some troops there were form the streets of Japan• dancers from Kagoshima, freed to move on to Luzon, town into a multi-faceted Japan's Kimono Queen, ki• instead of being held up theater of traditional Japa• mono paraders from Tokyo waiting for reinforcements nese culture. and Nagoya, and dancers they really didn't need. Dancers and musicians from several other regions .. .. from Japan's Kanagawa and will join more than a thou• . Iwate Prefectures will join sand Nikkei in the colorful THE New Year (1945) two-and-a-half hour pro• opened brightly. Some top Bay Area Japanese dancers in classical and folk dancing. cession. U.S. commanders were sure Koto and shakuhachi en• All events are admission• would be the year in which it sembles from Shizuoka will free except for the Queen's war ended. In Europe, any• give special performances. Pageant and several of the how. About the Pacific, how• F10wer arranging experts evening events. ever, they could not be cer• from Morioka City and'lead• tain. ing teachers from local Monterey Park set Japan still ~d per~ps two schools will present demon• million troops m the field and for Sakura festival probably that many again in the strations and an exhibit. home islands. True, it was ob• Festival-goers will also vious that the Emperor's domain see: Monterey Park, Ca. San Francisco's CherrY BlOssom Festival ter on Post St. Here is a shot of last year's was on its last legs. Hundreds of Handmade Japanese dolls and A Cherry Blossom Festi• parade will be on April 22 this year, starting at colorful procession. thousands of his troops had been doll-making demonstrations, val will also be held in Mon• 1 p.m. at City Hall and ending a~ Japan Cen- cut off, behind MacArthur's ad• sumi-e, origami, fan painting terey Park, Calif. on April 21 vancing forces. U.S. airpower demonstrations by Japan's lead• and 22 at three sites: East had almost completely blanket• ing exponent, experts in kurni• CAFE-Chi1a tour ed all war areas, and that cover• himo (Japanese macrame) from Los Angeles College, Prado Los Angeles and Atlantic Square Shop• age would soon be total. The road Osaka, Akita dogs, taiko drun1- Culinary Arts of the Far JACL South America Tour to the Japanese homeland was mmg, martial arts demonstra• ping Centers. East (CAFE) tour, led by wide open. There appeared to be tions, tea ceremony, bonsai dis- Demonstrations and Ondo Mrs. Jane Matsuda of Har• nothing that could stop the on• dancing will be featured in a coming juggernaut In three bor City, features a 16-day $1,940.00* Sac'to NBA-MGM carnival running from noon December itinerary of Chi• short years, the entire face of to 11 p.m. on both days at the June 23-July 10,1979 war had been changed. ItwasJa• kegfest July 13-15 na with stops in Peking, Si• pan that was.no~ on ~ . t; defen• two shopping centers. Cul• am, Shanghai, Hangchow, sive, but the fighting SplOt of her Sacramento, Ca_ tural exhibits will be dis• ESCORTED TOUR INCLUDES K weilin and Canton. Flight BRASIL-Manaus, Amazon cruise thru the Jungles, BraSilia, Ri:> troops still stood high. June 1 is the entry dead• played at ELAC's Baum Stu• departs Dec. 1 from Los An• There were three effective line for the second annual De Janeiro, Sao Paulo. Iguacu Falls; ARGENTINA-Buenos dent Center. geles and returns Dec. 23. Aires; PERU-Una, optional tour to Cuzco Machu Picchu (Lost barriers to Tokyo, now: the Sacramento Nisei Bowling A concert by 2S koto play• northem Philippines, Formosa, For the Torrance school dis• City of the Incas) Assn. tournament at MGM ers will be in ELAC Ingalls and Okinawa The second one trict teacher in Asian cui• 'PRICE INCLUDES was eliminated when the Allies Grand Lanes scheduled for Auditorium April 18, 7 p.m. sine, it will be especially ex• Round trip air fare from San FranCISco, first class/deluxe hotels. - decided not to try to take it It July 13-15. Events include A 25-member Japanese citing as she will be return• sightseeing tour in each city, transfers tolfrom airport, daily break• was replaced by Iwo Jima when the mixed foursome, dance group will be part of ing to her place of birtb..:... fast and lunch or dinner. Price based in 1978 tariff & subject b it was decided that this volcanic doubles, singles and all• the performance, and Japa• change. island must be seized. Iwo was Shanghai. For flight details, needed both as a massive fight• event. Bowlers may enter nese flower arrangements write: Apply thru your Travel Agent or Local Administrator er base so bombers hitting Japan two teams provided at least will be displayed in the audi• Jane Matsuda, 23736 Live• from Tinian could have escort two members are different. torium foyer. Tickets are $5 wood Lane, Harbor City, Ca Q2000000QQOOOOOOOOOOQ2]OOOOOOOOO~ and so that the B-29 bombers and for forms, call: and may be purchased at 90710 (325-5514). their valuable crews would have Dubby Tsugawa, chmn. (916- GENERAllNFOAMATION Sumitomo Bank in Monterey Skyscrapers Air lare includes round trip. $3 airport departure tax and non-refundable $20 a reachable haven if they got 457-8585), Jimmy Matsumoto Park. administrative fee. Adult and child seats same pnce on any flight, IIllants under 2 shot up badly in the skies over (~8885) or Bubbles Keilman Tokyo years 10%01 applicable regular fare . Charter price includea trip airfare, tu, Chairperson of the festival round Japan. (391-2800). At least six more high-rise JACl administrative fee and may vary depending on number of pusengera. All is Howard Takata. Co-spon• FARES, DATES, TIMES SUBJECT TO CHANGE For an accurate count of pas• MacArthur hit the first bar• • Sports government buildings are rier after Navy aircraft carriers soring the fourth annual fes• sengers il Is imperative that balance of air fare be paid at leut 60 days pnor 10 Dan Sasaki of East Bay bowled planned for construction by departure. Determination is made at this time If fara and/or schedule adjustment IS had done all they could in tival are: necessary. If y'Qu have any questions regarding JACL Travel Committee policies or a perfect 300-gane Jan. 27 at the 1983 at Kasurnigaseki, seat preparation, on January 9, 1945. San Francisco Japantown Bowl Monterey Park's Nisei Me• decisions, wnte or cali National JACL Headquarters, 1765 SUttIf, San FranclS<:O He sent in the 6th, 37th, 40th and of numerous government of• 94115. (415) 921·5225. during a men's team event at the morial Post 9902, U.S. Veterans 43rd Divisions. The 1st Cavalry, San Francisco Nisei Bowling of Foreign Wars, ELAC Office of fices. First will be a 26-story ------.---.----.------.---~------the 25th and the 23rd would fol• Assn. invitational tournament. Community Services and the cit• structure at the former site .•..; Infonnation ' Coupon low them. War would now be ies of Monterey Park and Monte• waged on the terms MacArthur LaoceSuzuki,Brigham Young of the Social Insurance Mall to any JACl-authorized travel agent, or to: University collegiate golf AlI• bello. -Agency. # liked best, with his ground American in 1973, was granted a National JACL Tr8V8I troops well protected from 1785 Sutt8r St., Slin Franclaco, C.IH. 14115 above. sponsor's exemption to play in One more giant step had been the 14th Hawaiian Open at the Most Appreciated taken when the first troops land• Waialae Country Club Course in Send me information regarding the 1979 ed at Lingayen Gulf. A lot of oth• Honolulu ... Ted Fukushima, Omiyage in Japan Nat'! JACL Flights, especially Group # er steps would have to follow, who led the Horolulu's Kaiser ______but Manila was now only 100 High School to its first East Oahu Interscholastic basketball miles away. title, was narned the league's A~~ ______Next Week: Chapter U "coach of the year". He had been coaching since 1974. City, State, Zip ______Fifty-five-year~ld Nisei SFCJAS sets date I marathon runner, Keiji TaId, of 'Day PhollQ, ______-'Chaoter ------of Asilomar III Whitter, Ca. placed first in his PRt;:MIUM QUAUTV STEAKS I PIIckeciln Blue Ice Box San Francisco ~e group at the Southern Paci• fiC Assn. AAU 25 kilometer race FILET MIGNON Sib. 16ocs. " 40.00 I Asilomar III, San Francis• in Ventura March 3. His time for co Center for Japanese the distance was Ihr47m. In NEW YORK CUT Sib. 10 ocs. 40.00 American Studies' third con• January Taki placed third in the NEW YORK CUT 4 lb. Spes. 32,00 SS-year age gm.q> at the World ference, will be held July 20- TOP SIRLOIN 41b 11 pes. 2S.00 22 this year on the Asilomar Masters Marathon held' in Conference Grounds on Orange, Calif. BEEF JERKY 9Y2 Ol. Vacuum Pael< S.OO Monterey Peninsula Naomi Uenun, 37, of Tokyo BEEF JERKY SOl. VaC\lum Pack 4.50 __ received the International To enable Nikkei who fi• Award of Valor in Sports from . Acomo USA, 312E.1.tSt.. Rm.309, nancially are unable to at• Kathy Miller of Soottsdale, Ariz., Los AngeIea, C. 90012: (213) 829-1271,283-9905 (ewJ tend, SFCJAS is asking for last year's winnEr. The LDndon donations for scholarships. ceremony honors the Japanese Certified by the U.S.OA for easy clearance through Japanese Customs. DeliYety to . Checks should be made pay• explorer as the first man to solo Los Angeles IntematJonaJ AIrport at chedI-in counIer on departure daM. Please oIliEr I able to SFCJAS Scholarship across 'the' Arctic Sea to the by phone at IaasI a week before departure. I Fund and mailed to: North Pole-a mmile journey I by dog sled. 1M Dr. Aiko Oda, 300 Cabrillo 1•• 1 , lUlU ...... I A ve.. Apt 8, San Francisco, CA I 94118. I Push-Exool-a-thon 1980 JACL Travel Program .1 Oral tapes Los Angeles In order to start planning the 1980 Travel Program. all DlStrictsl I San Jose, Ca. Youngsters between 7 and Chapters that plan to sponsor a flight In 1980 must notify the JAQ I Nine Nikkei seniors will 18 are eligible for prizes in Travel Committee chairperson as follows: I be interviewed this summer the PUSH-Excel-a-Thon, 1-Dates for first half of 1980 must be In by May 15. 1979. I an athletic gala April 21 at 2-Dates for second half of 1980 must be in by July 15, 1979 I on tape by the Japanese Earlier the datesae submitted. the greater the probability that Ihe American Community Sen• Dodger Stadium with teach air carner can confirm the dates we desire. Please proVIde sorre I ior Service (294-2505) for a team coached by a celebrity, options rf pos5lbe. -JACL TRAVEL COMMITTEE I according to JACL regional I booklet on community and c/oJACL Headquarters, 1765 Sutter St. cultural heritage. Steve Mi• director John Yanagisawa San Francisco. Ca 94115 sawa, coordinator, is looking (6264471), whohas registra• I for olunteer . tion forms. I

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