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CITIZEN Golf phenom Tadd smce1929PACIFIC Fujikawa makes the decision to go pro. SPORTS PAGE 7 The National Publication of the Japanese American Citizens League #3083/Vol. 145, No.2 ISSN: 0030-8579 WWW.PACIFICCITIZEN.ORG JULY 20-AUG. 2, 2007 A Waking Nightmare The tumor embedded in Maria to see a neurologist and get the appropriate tests. Watanabe's brain went undetected for Each request was denied with the explanation that years. All the symptoms were there, but Maria's condition did not meet "medical necessity she contends her health insurance com• criteria." pany denied her care. The survivor is "I was still scared," said Maria, but since the med• waging a war against her HMO. ical director of her health maintenance organization (HMO) didn't seem to-think anything was amiss, she thought "maybe there's nothing wrong with me." ByLYNDALIN So in July 2003, Maria, along with her husband Assistant Editor Hiroyoshi and their two daughters Yurika and Mika, traveled to Tokyo. Her pain intensified, so family PASADENA, Calif.-For almost two years start• members took Maria to a local hospital where she ing in October 2002, Maria Teresa Watanabe suf• described to the doctor her symptoms and her med• fered from increasingly intense headaches and dizzi• ical history. He ordered a magnetic brain imaging ness that robbed her of sleep and basic daily func• (MRI) scan the same day. tions. She had blurry vision spells and blackouts that 'The same day," she repeated. 'This is the test that once made her fall down a flight of stairs with her I have been waiting so long for [in the United baby cradled in her arms. '/ don't want to die and leave my family, ' wrote a States]." What could it be? She had a nagging feeling that distraught Maria Teresa Watanabe (above with The scan revealed her worst nightmare: Maria had her symptoms were similar to a cousin's who died of daughter Mika) in a July 21, 2003, letter to her pri• a brain tumor. a brain tumor, so the mother of two confided in her mary care doctor after being diagnosed with a brain primary-care physician who repeatedly requested tumor in Japan (left). from Maria's health insurance company to allow her See MARIA WATANABElPage 4 Remember Little Manila? Hearings Set for • The Stockton community ~~rtrnillftv.~ ..~ was once the home of the ONCE A HOTSPOT: Pioneering Filipino largest community of Feedlot Near Minidoka farm workers in'the Filipino Americans in the 1920s-30s lived at Jerome County commissioners have set aside Aug. 14 nation. But like many other the Hotel Mariposa and 15 to debate the Big Sky permit application. ethnic enclaves, it's being (far right), danced Concerm of fonner internees will be heard only at the threatened by change. Now at the Rizal Social hearings, making it necessary for elderly JAs to make a a preservation group is hop• Club next door and trip to Idaho. ing to save the last three ate at the Emerald original buildings. By CAROLINE AOYAGI-STOM Restaurant (far left). Executive Editor ByLYNDALIN Assistant Editor PHOTO: DillON DELVO The hearing dates have now been set for a controversial 13, 188 heifer feedlot just a mile and a half away from the Minidoka Internment The lingering pain of a World War ~erre, who arrived in Stockton in reminders of the district's historic National Monument. But if former internees want to have their con• II bullet wound keeps the almost 80- April 1994 by driving through the past as a Filipino hotspot for farm cerns heard, they will need to physically show up at the hearings in . year-old Alberto Alerre confined to city's Little Manila. Although the workers and zoot suit clad manong Idaho. the walls of his Steamboat Landing district is a shadow of its former self, (literally "respected elder") are three The Jerome County Commissioners have set aside Aug. 14 and 15 to Apartments in Stockton, Calif. But he felt a sense of comfort. dilapidated buildings: the Emerald hear from Big Sky Farms LLP owned by Don McFarland who want to the Filipino WWII veteran manages "Be it ever so humble there's no Restaurant, the Rizal Social Club build the controversial feedlot. Residents who live.within a one-mile to escape every once in awhile place like home," said Alerre. and the Hotel Mariposa on Lafayette radius of the proposed feedlot will still be able to write in their concerns through a tunnel in his memory and "Anything that is something to do Street. One local preservation group beforehand and can also present their testimony at the hearings. songs from his homeland. with the Philippines gives us a sense wants to save and transform the But Japanese American former internees - many today in their early Over the phone, he warbles a of nostalgia." to late 80s - will have to . haunting refrain about Little Manila These days, the last physical See LITTLE MANILAlPage 12 fmd a way to physically get See MINIDOKA FEEDLOTlPage 2 and laughs. "My memory is hazy," said Pittsburgh H.S. Students Create' Anti-Asians Anonymous' Group on Facebook.com The AA community protests Pirates or the new Harry Potter flick - it was an anti-Asian group they the group, forcing it to be Anti-Asians Anonymous Ci shut down. Unfortunately, cheekily called "Anti-Asians similar hateful sentiment Anonymous." '"1.. ' .... "'11... still remains on the popular "I ate your dog, but I'm not Grnup Infa sorry! !!" is the bubble quote beside a Anti··A5ians Anonymous networking site. Geography - Ridl.s.harin.g & Traosp;ortoati<:!rl generic photo of a young Asian man. WI! rerm.ln secret to combat theylre Jedr .... wannabe~s aka nlnjDS. And under "Recent News" there are By CAROLINE AOYAGI-STOM fake news titles like: "Pearl Harbor: Gf1kc. Executive Editor 0.11", Our only mistake was stopping at two. Tom Brokaw reports" and When some students at Fox "Another Chinese hideout in a giant japan has lost.an Islandm (iue.ss ~o? Chapel Area High School in bowl of urine. Where'd they go?" Pearl Harbor: Our ontv mtst.1ke was. stopping at tYo!O. Tom Brokaw Vi-ew f:Xs f' PACIRC CmZEN ~ NAT'L DIRECTOR'S REPORT 2005 WINNERI ~ NEW AMERICA V'MEDIA The Never-ending Fight for Civil Rights ~ Awards In Writing .A By FLOYD MORI ment is a "civil right" in a developed groups that have been meeting with most effective way to present the nation such as the United States. The members of congress to educate internment camps as an educational Almost daily I find myself reciting JACL is a charter member of this them on the dangers that our civil element for our nation's history. PACIFIC CITIZEN in meetings or to the press the prestigious organization and main• liberties face. This working task Legislation to allow a study for the description of JACL as "the oldest tains a seat on LCCR's executive force has been effective in ie-educat• Tule Lake campsite is moving 250 E. First Street, Ste. 301, and largest Asian American civil board. ing congress about the meaning and through congress. Further legislation Los Angeles, CA. 90012 rights organization in the nation." When we are in bad health it is need to maintain the right to habeas to expand the Minidoka National Tel: 213/620-1767, 800/966-6157 We who have a long history with difficult to fully take advantage of corpus even during times of war. Monument site has hi-partisan sup• Fax: 213/620-1768 JACL often look at "civil rights" as the liberties afforded us by our legal While the Redress movement was port and is moving through the leg• E-mail: [email protected] our legally system. Therefore, the JACL will a great accomplishment of the islative process with the support of www.pacificcitizen.org defined rights in press forward to advocate for reduc- JACL, it remains relevant to many JACL. Executive Editor: the laws and in ing the health disparities which of the issues we deal with today. The The legislative maneuvering Caroline Y. Aoyagi-Stom the Constitution affect the Asian American communi- movement to preserve the intern• that has blocked the progress of Assistant Editor: of this great ty. ment camps is witness to the fact that the Comprehensive Immigration Lynda Lin nation. The JACL also continues to advo- many today see the lessons learned Reform legislation has been a Office Manager: I would like cate for a legal system that preserves from having permanent educational major disappointment to its sup• Brian Tanaka to broaden civil our basic right to due process. reminders of the value of civilliber• porters. We look to immigration Circulation: Eva Lau-Ting rights to encom- Several provisions in the Patriot Act ties. being a major polarizing issue in Intern: Kristin Fukushima pass maintain- and the Military Commissions Act The Washington, D.C. JACL the 2008 election season. In the Publisher: Japanese American ing a social, physiological and eco- moved our nation further away from office, with our intern Tun Koide, is meantime we will see families Citizens League (founded 1929) nomic environment that enhances the rights guaranteed by the working with the offices of Sen. kept apart, the flow of illegal 1765 Sutter Street, San our ability to seek the inalienable Constitution. Secret eavesdropping Daniel Inouye and Rep. Xavier immigration to continue, and neg• Francisco, CA 94115, tel: rights our forefathers sought for on citizens, torture and the elimina• Becerra to give Japanese Latin ative impacts on critical industrial 4151921-5225 fax: 4151931- future generations. tion of habeas corpus are examples Americans some of the same justice sectors of our economy. 4671, www.jacl,org The national JACL has in recent " of the encroachment upon basic civil afforded Japanese Americans who Civil rights today is beyond sim• JACL President: Larry Oda ply gaining rights that should be Nat'l Director: Fk:1fd Mori months been involved with the issue liberties we have seen in recent were forced into concentration Pacific Citizen Board of of health disparities that exist in our years. camps during World War II. We are available to all. Civil rights means Directors: Gil Asakawa, chair- country. These disparities in health- The JACL, of all communities, working on the bill that will create a maintaining what we have earned in person; Roger Ozaki, EDC; Lisa care, in access to healthcare, and in should understand what war hysteria study commission similar to the the past. Civil rights means provid• Hanasono, MDC; Kathy treatment for illness have a negative and bigotry can do to a targeted commission that studied the JAcase. ing an environment that allow all to Ishimoto, CCDC; Nelson Nagai, impact on the wellness of minorities minority population. The president, The JACL has also been working pursue our rights to life, liberty, and NCWNPDC; Sheldon Arakaki, in this country. congress, and the courts have spoken with various congressional delega• happiness. The fight seems never PNWDC; Larry Grant, IDC; Ted The main civil rights coalition in loudly in the past that we must not tions to introduce legislation that ending and, therefore, the need to Namba, PSWDC; Naomi Oren, the country, The Leadership Council allow these things to happen again. have the JACL at the legislative Youth. will provide for the National Park on Civil Rights (LCCR), agrees that Therefore, the JACL has been part of Service to conduct special recourse table is as essential today as it ever r-~ ..iEWSlA[ffiEAD[iNE:-' access to good healthcare and treat- a working taskforce of civil rights studies to determine the best and has been.• FRIDAY BEFORE DATE OF ISSUE. Editorials, news and the opin• MINIDOKA the moratorium taking effect, their ions expressed by columnists application does not fall under the other than the national JACL president or national director FEEDLOt new policy. Letters to do not necessarily reflect JACL (Continu~ from page 1) Commissioner Diana Obenanuer policy. Events and products says it has been difficult to work . advertised in the Pacific the Editor Citizen do not carry the Implicit with the ordinances that Big Sky endorsement of the JACL or Farm's application currently falls this publication. We reserve the :L ______right to edit articles. _ under. The Courage to Resist "I empathize with all the internees Chizu liyama's excellent com• years of isolation and uftenng PACIFIC CITIZEN (lSSN: 0030- of the Hunt encampment and espe• mentary (P.e., July 6--19) brings were the resistors thoroughly \in• 8579) is published semi-monthly cially those who are challenged by except once in December and into stark relief the parallel dicated, even regarded 3.' heroes. January by the Japanese age and infirmity which prevents between the Nisei men who resis• By way of contrast. in Lt. American Citizens League, 250 them from attending and or testify• ted the draft during WW1I and Lt. Watada's case, a fair number of E. First Street, Ste. 301, Los ing at the hearings," she said. Ehren Watada's refusal to deploy Nikkei, like Iiyama. and many Angeles, CA. 90012 OFFICE Just last month the Minidoka , to Iraq. Both acted out of a com• from the general public have HOURS - Mon.-Fri., 9 a.m.-5 Internment National Monument was p.m. Pacific lime. ©2007. pelling need to follow the dictates stepped up to support him and the placed on the National Trust's list of of their consciences. BQth pnl1C1t)les, he espouses. Even so, Annual subscription rates: Minidoka's future neighbors? "America's 11 Most Endangered theIPignty in its intransigency NON-MEMBERS: 1 year-$40, Historic Places," noting the signifi• payable in advance. Additional I Muslim Woman Sues National Jeweler Over Head• scarf u.s. Health Food Company to Add 'China-Free' Label SOLANO, Calif.-A Muslim woman is suing a national jewelry chain for By Pacific Citizen Staff dent Frank Davis to Reuters, refer• Americans fearing another round of allegedly not hiring her because she wore a headscarf, the plaintiff's attor• ring to the recent news stories about China-bashing. neys said. Walk through the aisles of any contaminated food products coming ''Lately there seems to be a resur• Shereen Attia, 24, of Fairfield, had worked for Whitehall Jewelers, Inc. in American grocery store and you'll out of China. gence in the China-bashing (and no it Solano County mall as a part-time sales associate starting in 2004. She be welcomed by a plethora of labels "I don't want to offend China. I'm coincidence, a looming fear of received good reviews but was fired when business slowed. Her manager from "fat-free'" to "lactose free" to just concerned about what's going China's economic might) ... How invited her to reapply six months later when a full-time employee quit. "may contain peanuts." Now a into _ products, where it's comin~ long before it becomes appropriate Between employment, she'd become more religiously observant and start• health food company wants to add a from," he said. to apply the 'China-Free' slogan to ed wearing a headscarf that covers her hair and neck, but not her face. When "China-Free" label to all of its pr~ News about pet food products other aspects of American good• Attia turned in her second application to work at the suburban San Francisco ucts. tainted with the chemical melamine nessT asks Phil Yu on his popular store, she was wearing her headscarf. She never got a call back from the com• Food for Health International from China as the likely cause of ill• Angry Asian Man blog. pany, she said. based in Orem, Utah makes a variety ness and death among thousands of Columnist Jeff Yang echoes Yu's APA groups including the Solano County JACL are working to fight what of nutritional food supplements for pets recently has caused ·an qproar concerns in his column. "Pointing they call a blatant example of job discrimination. both humans and dogs and they want among U.S. consumers. In addition, the finger at Asian imports was the default PR strategy for U.S. auto to start letting their consumers know stories about tainted toothpaste, manufacturers in the 1970s because that none of their ingredients are phone batteries, and fruits and veg• Tammy Duckworth Backing Away from Another it was easier to blame faceless, manufactured in China. etables have also added to the Run for Congress nameless hordes of foreigners than So on your next. visit to the gro• . American consumer's fear of pr;gd• CHICAGO-Tammy Duckworth, an to address the industry's real prob• cery store, "China-Free" stickers ucts from China. Iraq War veteran with Hawaii ties who ran lems. Asian Americans have already will be on Food for Health products On July 10, Zheng Xiaoyu, head unsuccessfully for Illinois' 6th seen the liuit that grows from such like "9 a Day-Plus" capsules, of China's Food and Dru.g . Congressional District, said she has decided toxic soil: Twenty-five years ago last "Active Adults" whole food shakes Administration, was executed for not to reprise her race against Republican month, Vincent Chin, a young and "Healthy Dog" supplements. taking bribes, showing China's Rep. Peter Roskam. Chinese American man in Detroit, The company also plans to include increasing willingness to punish Now director of the lllinois Department was killed by two disgruntled their "China-Free" message in their those who are responsible for the of Veterans' Duckworth said she has autoworkers who accused him of Affairs, advertisements and promotions. safety of Chinese products. decided not to run next year against being part of a conspiracy to ''take "It is a response to the (headlines) But news stories focusing on taint• away American jobs" before beating Roskam. coming out, and we are taking a ed products from China and the deci• him with a baseball bat. Bitter fruit She fell just a few percentage points short of beating Roskam in the race position that we are not the only ones sion by Food for Health to add indeed, and a dish we'd rather not to replace retiring U.S. Rep. Henry Hyde last November. She received inter• reading them," said company presi- "China-Free" labels has many Asian see served up again.• national attention during the race as a veteran who had lost both her legs in the war when a rocket-propelled grenade hit the helicopter she was copilot• ing. Japanese Protest U.S. Resolution Over WWII Sex Slaves By ASSOCIATED PRESS ocal manner" for the suffering of exaggerated, and say the term "sex Oregon Schools Look at Offering Multilingual Educa• "comfort women" during the 1930s slaves" should not be used to tion TOKYO-A group of Japanese and 1940s. describe the women because they OREGON, WlS.-The Oregon schools may become one of a small but lawmakers and conservatives on The endorsement allows the . were generally paid. growing number of districts to offer multiple languages at the elementary July 13 demanded the U.S. Congress measure to be considered by the full "It was a business," said movie level. retract a resolution criticizing Tokyo House of Representatives. director Satoru Mizushima, who The district is considering a plan to teach a different language at each of its for using prostitutes at front-line Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has headed the group lodging the protest July 13, a copy of which was sub• three elementary schools. Some options are Japanese, ~rman, Spanish and . brothels during World War II. refused to comment on the resolu• Thirteen national lawmakers sup• mitted to the U.S. Embassy in Arabic. tion. ported by more than 200 local politi• Tokyo. 'They made money. They The Menasha School District has had a similar program for about 14 years. Historians say_ hundreds of thou• cians, intellectuals and journalist;; had savings." Statewide, about 60 of the state's 425 public school districts offer some for• sands of women, mainly from said the resolution "is based on After decades of denial, the eign language instruction in elementary school. Korea, China and the Philippines, wrong information that is totally dif• Japanese government acknowledged But few school districts teach multiple languages at that level or start their were sent to Japanese military broth• ferent from the historical fact." its role in wartime prostitution after a program in all at once. els in the 1930s and '40s. Many say grades The House Foreign Affairs historian discovered documents they were forced to provide sexual showing government involvement. Oregon's program would incorporate foreign language in science, math Committee voted 39-2 last month to services against their will to In 1993, the government issued a and language arts. For exainple, students learning about rain, snow and urge Japan to ''formally acknowl• Japanese soldiers. carefully worded official apology, clouds in science could also learn those terms in Japanese. edge, apologize and accept historical . But many Japanese right-wing but it was never approved by parlia• The Oregon School Board has not yet approved the plan.• responsibility in a clear and unequiv- politicians claim the' issue has been ment. • 4 NATIONAL NEWS PACIFIC CITIZEN, JULY 20-AuG. 2, 2007 'MARIA WATANABE '[ was thinking [ was going to die. J Judge: Army Can Try Watada (Continued from page 1) Ag~n for ·Refusing to Go to Iraq 'If I be quiet, they will do it again.' By ASSOCIATED PRESS Four years later sitting in her attor• ney's Pasadena office against a FORT LEWIS, Wash.-Trying cerulean sky, Maria, now 42, begins 1st Lt. Ehren Watada again for his to cry. refusal to deploy to Iraq won't vio• "I was thinking I was going to die. late his constitutional right not to be I was thinking,.I won't see her grow prosecuted·twice for the same crime, up," she said about her daughter an Army judge ruled July 6. Mika, now five. Watada's new lawyers, Kenneth The' pig-tailed girl looks up from Kagan and James Lobsenz, immedi• her coloring books and notices the ately filed no~ce they will appeal tears. that double jeopardy ruling to the Lewis, continues to perform admin• PHOTO COURTESY OF MARIA WATANABE . "Mommy, why are you crying? Army Court of Criminal Appeals in istrative duties. FAMILY: (I-r) Maria, Mika, Hiroyoshi and Yurika in 2006. Arlington, Va. Kagan argued July 6 that Head She cries all the time." ------"Mommy is talking about when Watada is charged with missing should step away from the case she got sick. Do you remember Watanabe family decided to cut their vision. Even a request to see an oph• his unit's deployment in June 2006 because the judge has created the that?" vacation short and come back to the thalmologist after her first surgery and with conduct unbecoming an impression that his mind is made up_ The memory of such tumultuous U.S. for the risky procedure. Maria was denied, her attorney said. officer for comments he made about on some issues. The lawyer noted an times still carries sharp barbs, but had her first surgery to drain the cyst President Bush and the Iraq war. If e-mail that Head's supervisor sent after the tears are wiped away, her a few days after returning home, and 'She received fIrSt class convicted, he could be sentenced to the judge in February, indicating she face stiffens in determination. two additional surgeries a year later. . care.' six years in prison and be dishonor• believed the mistrial did not create "It could happen to anybody. It Her health insurance covered the '''The first time I came [to the ably discharged. double-jeopardy issues and that a happened to me. I don't want it to surgeries, but Maria was outraged U.S.], my husband told me medical The lieutenant contends the war is second coUrt-martial could proceed. happen to my children, so I was that her HMO repeatedly denied her insurance is very important here. He illegal and he would be party to war Kagan ,said . the e-mail suggested thinking I have to do something. requests to see specialists and get said if you got sick, the only way to crimes if he participated. His first there was pressure on Head to nile a They have to be aware of what they tested. go to the hospital is to have insur• trial ended in a mistrial. certain way. are doing," said Maria. ''If I be quiet, "I would like to ask why I wasn't ance," said Maria, a native of the The military judge, Lt. Col. John Head denied he has any precon• they will do it again." sent to a neurologist last January Philippines where she met her Shin Head, presided over the first trial in ceived notions. So Maria decided to speak out and when I.first informed you about my Issei husband while working in a February and ended it after question• Lobsenz told the judge he erred in with her attorney Scott Glovsky, she headache," wrote Maria angrily in a production company. They married ing whether Watada understood a the first trial by not exploring alter• sued her HMO, Blue Shield of July 21, 2003, letter from Japan that in 1992 and now live in Eagle Rock, pretrial agreement he had signed. natives to calling off the trial rnid• California, for breach of duty and was faxed to her primary care physi• a suburb of Los Angeles. Head also refused July 6 to disquali• way- through. Head ruled against contract and unfair business prac• cian, Dr. Irina Jasper in Los Angeles. Maria's story was featured in the fy himself from the case. Watada on that issue without com• tices. The complaint filed at the Los "I have two children who need me controversial Michael Moore docu• Head also ruled against Watada's ment. Angeles Superior Court in 2005 desperately. I don't want to die and mentary "Sicko," which critically defense team when they contended He is expected to i.ssue a written emphasized the fact that Maria had leave my family." dissects the health care industry. But his decision to declare a mistrial in decision soon. The judge is also to travel outside of the U.S. to get the Today, Maria's physical scars are with HMOs in general, Glovsky the first court-martial was wrong. expected to rule on admissibility of medical care she needed. no longer visible, but she said said, reality is far worse. The developments are likely to evidence, induding whether Watada The cyst in the back base of her because her condition went so long In California, most HMOs enter delay the start of the second trial, may call witnesses to testify about head blocked the flow of fluids from without being detected, the pressure contracts with groups of physicians which had been scheduled to begin the legality of the war. Head exclud• her brain to her spinal cord. After it against her optic nerves has caused July 23. ed such witnesses in the first court• was discovered in Japan, the her to lose some of her peripheral See MARIA WATANABElPage 6 Watada, who is based at Fort martial.• VAMATOTRAVELBUREAU® Salinas Haiku Poet Receives Lifetime (CST No. 1019309-10) A . PAs ~· Award The National Endowment for the TOURS & CRUISES FOR 2007 'Nin the Arts (NEA) named Salinas, Calif.• Oct. 3-10 Yamato Albuquerque Balloon FIeSta Tour - 8 days visiting Roswell UFO Museum, Carlsbad ews based haiku poet Violet de Caverns, Whoe Sands National Mooonent, Albuquerque Ballooo Festival mass ascensioo, cable car to Cristoforo as one of this year's recip· Sandia Peak, Taos, Dumngo (CoIo!ado) 10 board It1e NalT(Ytl Gauge Railway 10 Silverton, Mesa Verde Nalional Park and Gallup. Philippe Theriau~ ients of the National Heritage By Pacific Citizen Staff Fellowships lifetime honors, the Oct. 12·17 YamatollDC Northern California Sampler· 6 days roundirip from San Francisco, visiting San - Luis Obispo, San SineorvHearst CasIfe, Monterey, Napa Valley including Iuncf1 aboard It1e Napa Valley Woo country's highest honor in the folk Train, plus visiIs 10 3 wi1eries and It1e Marin Cheese FactOl'f in Petaluma. Additional nights" San Francisco JACl's First Mineta Fellow Announced and traditional arts. can be arranged after !he lour. Peggy Mikuni Meilee Wong is the JACL's first 1\velve fellowships, which include a one-time award Oct 15-25 Yamato Italian Treasures with Globus· 11 days visiting Rome, Pisa, Lucca, San Ginignano, Siena, Florence, Verona, Venice, Ravenna, Assisi and Orvielo. • Grace Sakamoto Norman Y. Mineta Fellow. Wong is a of $20,000 each, were presented to honorees from nine recent graduate of the University of Oct. lOoNov. 13 Yamato Deluxe Autumn Tour to Japan ·15 days visiting Kagoshima, Kumamoto, states. Hiroshina, Yonago, Kyolo and Tokyo. WAITLIST BASIS Peggy Mikuni Southern California, where she majored Nov. 8-18 Yamato Tour to Okinawa & Japan" 11 days visiting Naha, Manza Bead1, Kagoshina, Kumamoto, in journalism. Wong has interncil with San Gabriel Valley JACl Honors Its Nagasaki, Fukuolpl the reality of what one can and cannot say in the ~'Youjve totr~ otherS the way you'd to be Th~ . $cbol~ Months after the Japanese his teens when he and his family got like White HQure? Program in Washington . treated."President Bushtold us. "It's to attacked Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, were interned at Minidoka, an important includeds6ninars onleadetshipand ethics, humanitar" make choices you can live with fOr the rest of your ianism. and being a goOd rieighbodn a gJ,obalage. .. . 1941, President Franklin Roosevelt internment camp in Idaho that lives." One lecturer quoted Confucius and then Martin signed Executive Order 9066, housed people from Western "Several of us made a choice," Luther King: "'To see what is right and not to do it is which forced more than 120,000 Washington and Western Oregon. I said as he stood next to me for a wan~of COt!J"ll8e,,; "Injustice an~here is a threat to Americans of Japanese ancestry The walls of Kitayama's home photograph: "We would Jilceyou justi&everywhere:' . . . into military camps. Two-thirds are covered with family photos and to have this." Then I handed him What clearer instructions could we have asked for? the letter we had written out the The suffering of others is neVer as remote as we wish night before. It read: it to be, never so far away that it does not affect us. A PACIFIC "As members of the man named Maher Arar once lived a few miles from CITIZEN Presidential Scholars .Class of my hometown. A Canadian citizen with no connection National business and Professional Directory 2007, we have been told that we to terrorism, he was apprehended at JFK airport by fed• Your business card in each issue for 22 issues is $15 per line, three·line minimum. Larger type (12 pt.) counts represent the best and brightest of era! agents and sent to Syria. There, he was repeatedly as two lines. Logo same as line rate as required. P.C. has made no determination that the businesses listed our nation. 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DeWitt had removed all you'll find yourselves amazed containers on the shelf, so every• the past 60 years as bits and pieces pre-wwn. civilians of Japanese ancestry from about. German hygiene is one one can see how lovely they are. in the Pacific Citizen, but now at The Fourth Anny Intelligence Alaska, 230 in all, and about 900 topic that's always caught my But they're not kept chilled. hand are photographs and accounts School began in November, 1941, Aleuts. attention, and I always wonder Did we miss something in by James C. McNaughton in his at the Presidio of San Francisco MISLS (Camp Savage) sent 35 how much that has to do with my California, where I came from and book, "Nisei Linguists: Japanese with four Nisei instructors: Pfc. more in July 1943 to face the Japanese American upbringing. At where eggs were always in the Americans in Military Intelligence John F. Aiso of Los Angeles as Japanese invasion of fog-bound our house, everything always had refrigerated section at the store? Service during World War n." chief instructor and three civilian Attu and Kiska. SISgts Yasuo to be washed in hot-hot water, and You took them out and they were (Washington, D.C., USGPO, UC Berkeley graduates Akira Umetani and George Hayashida evening bathing was a ritual. cool to the touch and when you Oshida, Shigeya Kihara, and Tetsuo entered caves at Attu to look for $29.95). In Germany, there seems to be a packed them into your fridge at hnagawa. They were hired 10 days survivors and persuade the enemy Comprised of 12 chapters and schizophrenic attitude toward home, they were clean and white. relating how much the Army gener- before the first class of 60 students, to surrender. Twenty-eight did sur- cleanliness. First of all, the rest• In Germany, I sometimes find ally mistrusted Nisei in service including two Chinese American render. rooms are really fantastic. myself timidly picking little tiny before Pearl Harbor, the U.S.-born Army reserve officers and two Nisei linguists feared that their Nisei and especially the Kibei-Nisei Hakujins, convened at a shabby fellow soldiers would mistake them educated in prewar Japan were hangar at Crissy Field (now being .. for the enemy. Most Nisei had acknowledged to be the best quali- refurbished by the National Park bodyguards. T/5 Satsuki Fred 'Take eggs. In the fied for military intelligence. The Service as a historic site). Tanakatsubo took a direct approach ... ,....:;r War Department in March 1941 Weckerling had obtained $2,000 at Attu, telling his Caucasian body- supermarket, they began a survey for Japanese-speak- from the 4th Army Quartermaster to guards: ''Take a good look, and ing soldiers on the West Coast in convert the empty space into class- remember me, because I'm going in aren't refrigerated. case of a "major emergency involv- rooms and living quarters. with you." They sit out at room ing Japan." The Navy totally relied Over 10,000 American GIs on Caucasians except for one Now for some detalls: sailed to Attu, where 3,000 temperature for Hawaiian Nisei, Douglas T. Wada, ''The Navy program (Feb '42) at Japanese soldiers waited. Of the who was recruited in 1937 for UC Berkeley faced the same prob- 19-day battle (May 1943), the days until someone counter-intelligence. lem as the Army's Crissy Field. U.S. 7th Infantry was stunned by buys them.' Then, about 1,700 Nisei were Though students in the Navy were the ferocity of the enemy. "They counted in Hawaii and the West Caucasian, many of their instructors penetrated into the rear areas, Coast as efforts to start a language were Nisei (eight of them)." Since rushed through a field hospital school began. The U.S. military the Fourth Army (DeWitt) insisted and killing many of the wounded feathers out of the egg containers, attache in Tokyo was buying dic- no person of Japanese ancestry ... When surviving Japanese Normally they're clean, the cubi• tionaries and sent them to the could remain in the exclusion areas attackers were finally surrounded, cles have enough paper, and where they've been squished Fourth Army in San Francisco to "even for important defense work," they committed collective suicide there's plenty of hot and cold run• between the cardboard and the establish an intelligence school to the Navy school moved in May to with hand grenades ... Over 500 ning water. What's really impres• egg itself. train translators and interpreters of Boulder, Colo., a western state Americans died, 3,000 more were sive are the self-cleaning toilet And then there's the color of Japanese language. where its governor (Ralph Carr) out of action from wounds, trench seats - after you flush, the seat the eggs. They're not a milky McNaughton writes: ''The United agreed to accept Japanese evacuees. foot or illness." starts turning, passes under a little white, but a kind of dirty white or States was ill prepared for war in In May' 42, in the first MIS class For the next assault on Kiska in apparatus on the far side, and worse yet, brown. And when you almost every respect, not the least at Crissy Field of 60, only 40 com- August, the Allies (Nobuo comes back sparkling clean. cook them, they have an orange in the languages of the Far East ... pleted the course; 10 were held Furuiye of Denver was the first There are also a variety of flush• yolk instead of the bright yellow . Such was the pitiful state in mid- back to be instructors. ''They didn't MIS Nisei attached to the ing devices, enough to set the ones I grew up with. In the mean• 1941." know whether they would be sent Canadian Army.in Alaska) landed average American into a panic. If time, I've found out that farmers It was then Col. John Weckerling to Tanforan or somewhere else. No and found the island empty you're searching for that little put a pigment called who founded the Army military Nisei were deployed to Hawaii except for equipment and a sup- flush lever, don't look further. Canthaxanthin into the feed to intelligence school. He had returned where the threat was the greatest." ply of Japanese rations, sacks of Those are passe here in good old make the egg yolks look redder. from Japan in 1932, describing his When the Army in Alaska rice and shoyu which the Nisei new Germany. Most of the-levers My comment is simply: EEEIII! tour and urging fellow officers to requested in the spring of '42 for were happy to seize. With offen- are built into the toilet, a bit hid• Another problem are the bak• volunteer that year in military intel- Nisei linguists, Sgt. Yoshio Hotta sive plans in the North Pacific den so that you sometimes have to eries. People behind the counters ligence. By 1941, the Army had a (later JACL NCWNP regional shelved, MIS linguists returned feel for them, especially in the handle money, wipe their sweaty pool of 40 officers who could speak director) led a team of five, the (October' 43) to school and were night. And then, there are normal• brows, and then grab the rolls you "at least some Japanese." first to see combat. One of his reassigned to the Pacific. ly two - one for the quick flush just ordered with their bare and men, Henry Suyehiro, witnessed "The lessons learned in the Another key figure in MISLS with smaller amounts of water, unwashed hands. Once I com• the Japanese air raid of June 3-4 history, Capt. Kai E. Rasmussen, a Aleutians would be repeated and a bigger one for a full, com• plained, and the baker said to me, Danish immigrant who graduated at Dutch Harbor. The MiSers sat many times over in other parts of pletely cleansing giant flush. "What do you think I do in the West Point in 1932, spent four years around the next few months, the Pacific," McNaughton adds. kitchen?" The showers in Germany are in Japan learning the language, "where their major task was to keep And this column will be filled Last week I thought I'd try also a masterpiece of hygienic returned in 1940 and was a coast warm." They translated a few docu- one more time with details . • again to get a sandwich. I walked design. Forget a pipe sticking out into the bakery and asked the of the wall with a showerhead on clerk, who had just finished tak• it. Every home has a bar on which ing money from the customer the showerhead slides, so that you liVE I NVITED THESE before me, if she could tell me I(TRAHSF~ERII can adjust it to whatever height GCOD what was in one of the bigger you want. In addition, you can sandwiches. She picked it up in GUYS TO HELP FLDYD take off the head to make close-up her bare hands, clutching it tight• MORl t EDWIN ENDOW scrubbing easier. And most of ly not just with her fingertips but those showerheads are adjustable AND eRIC NAKANO IN placing it smack into the center of to pump out a stream, a light mist THEIR CONTINUING her palm, swung it in front of my or a massage. EFFORTS ON BEHALF face, and said, "You mean this OFJACL. With all this thought going into one?" Then she started prying it hygiene, you'd think the country apart with her fingers and said, would be full of clean-freaks. "it's ham, see!" Unfortunately, this isn't so. There "Oh," I said calmly. "I don't eat is another side to the coin, which pig." And then I walked out with• sometimes has me really wonder• out another word. ing. For example, a lot of food Yes, Germany is defmitely products are handled without loony when it comes to hygiene. much care. Take eggs. In the Or has my JA background made supermarket, they aren't refriger• me overly sensitive? • ated. They sit out at room temper• ature for days until someone buys If you've had similar experiences, them. Even the boiled and colored share them with Cheryl at: ones at Easter - they just lie [email protected]. hrieks of glee and the sound kids," said Kate about letting cam• Besides the kids, it's the couple's Sof 16 pattering little feet eras into their home. ''If it's not fun unflinching interactions that make -ght is Great! make · the Gosselin family anymore, we'll have to stop and the show so watchable. Like any home sound like a war zone. It's a reevaluate." other couple, they grate against each dull rumbling that suddenly bursts They are currently filming their other and raise their voices a notch The Gosselins wanted just one more . through the door in tears to complain second season and set to go on a long too high while shopping, but in post about baby throw-up. Kate Gosselin adventurous road trip, which will be interviews after watching the baby after having twins. They got six sighs. a part of the next season. For now, footage they hold hands and laugh. "For the past few weeks, we've it) business as usual, and their slice "In the heat of the moment, you additional bundles ofjoy plus a reality really been exerting our wills," she of life is fascinating just because of say what you say, but later when you said through deep breaths from her the sheer chaos. see it, you say 'I'm sorry I said television show. Wyomissing, Penn. home. A typical day in the Gosselin that, '" said Jon. If this were a war, then Kate, 32, household begins at 8 a.m. when 'There were so many people fol• ByLYNDALIN and her husband Jon, 30, are out• Kate, a former nurse, wakes up to lowing us," said Kate. 'They invest• Assistant Editor numbered.. They have to contend sounds of the sextuplets playing. ed so many prayers and time on us. with eight children who are as Kate Sometimes she sends the twins We get e-mails from people who say CARA, 7 describes, so cute you either want to down to entertain the toddlers until that we show the real side - REAL eat them up or squish them a little breakfast at 9 a.m. Some more play• in all capitals - of parenting. Why harder. ing takes place and then they take a would I sugarcoat my life?" One-half of the twins. She helps Yes, eight healthy and happy kids: field trip outdoors for lunch before The show has also opened up mom take care of the babies. seven-year-old twins Cara and Mady naptime. opportunities for the family to travel and sextuplets Alexis, Aaden, Collin, "On a good day, they sleep for one and meet talk show hosts like Leah, Hannah and Joel. . to three hours. On a bad day they Martha Stewart and Dr. Phil. When The sextuplets, who were con• don't sleep at all and spend the day the Gosselins came to Los Angeles ceived through fertility treatment shredding books and creating havoc. to mm a "Dr. Phil" show, they took MADY, 7 because Jon and Kate wanted just I don't know what I'm going to get," the kids to a Vietnamese restaurant one more child, created a media sen• said Kate. in Beverly Hills. One of twins She's a free spirit, imaginative, sation when they were bomMayl O, Dinner is usually at 6 p.m. when looked around and said, 'There are and loves to perform. 2004. Jon, a government information tech• so many Asians here." 'They're in their terrible threes ... nology supervisor, comes home. By "We don't live in a very Asian horrendous threes," said Kate with a that time, Kate is watching the clock populated area. It's very rural here," laugh. imd softly saying, "C'mon. C'mon." said Jon. Of course, there is also a fair share When Jon's car finally rolls up the But letting cameras into their MDEN,3 of scatological humor and giggles driveway, "we scream," she said. home also meant letting strangers about bodily functions. Jon, who is "We don't have a lot of flexibility. into their lives. For the Gosselins, AlsO known as 'the professor,' half Korean, has passed on some It's hard work. There are a lot of pe0- criticism about their marriage and He's a zoologist in the making. words he picked up from his ple in the house at one time," said their parenting skills comes with the Hawaiian parents. Kate about the handful of camera• territory. On the Discovery Health Every time the kids let a little toot men and producers. "But we are col• Channel chat forum, viewers have of air slip they proudly announce, lecting all these memories. We're devoted ample space to dissecting "Mommy, I bhilng goo-ed!" going to look back on and feel so their marriage, but they've learned to ALEXIS, 3 glad we did this." tune those out. How Do You Do It?? Having a camera in the house is They're in for a new big challenge She's a wild woman who is really It's perhaps the most popular humdrum for the kids who all have - they have to potty train the three dangerous around the pool. question flung at the couple who got their own very unique personalities. boys .• married in 1999 after a chance meet• After all, don't all kids get their own ing at a picnic. So the Discovery television show? Catch the new season of 'Jon and Health Channel sought to fill in the Kate Plus 8' starting Oct. 2. For a blanks with the reality television The Camera's Unrelenting listing of encore season-one . COLLlN,3 show, "Jon and Kate Plus 8," which Gaze episodes all summer long, check captures every gurgle, triumph and 'The series has been like marriage www.health.discovery.com He's tough, stubborn but loveable potty training session. counseling for us. It's like another and smart. "We just agreed that it's okay as set of eyes," said Jon. "Our commu• For more infonnation: long as it's normal for us and our nication has improved." . www.sixgosselins.com HANNAH, 3 She likes to play 'mommy' and was most attached to Kate. JOEL, 3 He always gets the gold star for being best behaved. LEAH, 3 She's the little princess of the bunch. 10 CALENDAR PACIFIC CITIZEN, J ULY 20-AuG. 2, 2007 Beach Park; please bring a main dish, side, salad or dessert; drinks and paper , Calendar goods will be provided; RSVP by Aug. 18 to Betty Wakiji, 805/383-2703. National Hawai· TUKWILA, Wash. HONOLULU July 26-29-"Changing Faces - Sat., Sept. 29-"Celebration of Transfonning Communities" PNW• Leadership and Achievement Dinner roc JACL Bi-District Conference; • presented by the Japanese Cultural registration $160, $50/youth 25 and Center of Hawaii; 5 p.m.; Hilton under; events include a welcome Hawaiian Village Coral Ballroom; mixer, recognition luncheon, work• event will honor educators in the com• shops, networking luncheon and munity as well as a corporate honoree; awards dinner; Best Western River's $ 150/person. Info: JCCH, 808/945- ~ge, 15901 W. Valley Hwy., 800/544- 7633 or [email protected]. 9863; mention JACL Bi-District Conference to receive the room rate of 'Landscaping America: Beyond the Japanese Garden' explores the history and influence of Japanese-style gar• Nevada $99 plus tax. Info: Elaine Akagi, dens and JA gardeners on the Ar,nerican landscape. The exhibit runs through Oct. 21 at JANM. LAS VEGAS [email protected]. Sept. 17-19-Manzanar High WASIDNGTON, D.C. 4435, [email protected]. members of JACL, JACL Credit Coltrane; Sept. 13, Celso Duarte and School Reunion featuring the Clubs Aug. 9-12-"Partnerships, Per• Sun. Aug. 26-2007 Community Union or 1116 APA or API and or Sonex. Info: www.janm.org. of Manzanar; California Hotel; any• spectives, and Policy" EDCIMDC Picnic; 10-6 p.m.; Brushwood Shelter, spouse of. Info: www.jaclcu.com. Aug. 18-26-67th Annual Nisei Week one with photos, club rosters or JACL Bi-District Conference; registra• Furnace Run, Summit County Metro Northern Caiforria Japanese Festival; Little Tokyo; events emblems are asked to contact Sam tion is $160; events include a welcome 'Park; enjoy food, games, taiko and include coronation and dinner, sumo Ono, 310/327-5568. Info: Sus loki, reception, workshops and banquet; relaxation. ALAMEDA tournament, grand parade, Tofu 310/202-9199, [email protected], Washington Hilton Hotel, 1935 DENVER Sun., Aug. 12-Salute to Our Festival, cultural exhibits, Pioneer Henry Nakano, 714/871-8178 or Connecticut Ave, NW, 2021483-3000; Sat., Aug. ll-Japanese Association Veterans; 10-5 p.m. (come and go as Luncheon, carnival, car show, anirne Victor Muraoka, 818/368-4113, mention JACL-District Conference for of Colorado Picnic; enjoy food and you please); USS Hornet Museum, festival, ondo and more. Info! [email protected]. $163/single bed, $183/two beds. Info: games. Info: Richard Hamai, 303/839- 707 W. Hornet Ave., Pier 3, Alameda www.niseiweek.org or 213/687-7193. Nov. 6-7-All-Minidoka Reunion; 773n28-7170. 9637. Point; program will honor the men and Through-Oct. 21-Exhibition, Golden Nugget Hotel. Info: Tak Wed., Sept. 12-Gala Dinner, "A EDINA, MinD. women from wwn to the Korean "Landscaping America: Beyond the Todo, 206/362-8195 or Salute to Champions Gala Dinner"; Sun., July 22-1Win Cities JACL Conflict, two screening's of Lane Japanese Garden"; JANM, 369 E. First [email protected].• lW. Marriott Hotel; $2oo/person, Summer Picnic; noon-4 p.m.; Rosland Nishikawa's "Only the Brave," tours St.; exhibtion explores the history and $2,000/table of 10; honorees will be Park, 4300 W. 66th St.; enjoy food, of the. USS Hornet, silent auction and influence of Japanese-style gardens CORRECTION . given awards for their work in champi• children's games, bingo and fun. bento lunch; Fred Kitairna, an MIS and JA gardeners on the American In the National Director's report oning the goals and efforts of the civil RSVP by July 20 to Lisa Shakerin with veteran will speak during the lunch• landscape. Info: JANM, 213/625- rights community; proceeds will help nurnber of attendees and ages of chil• eon; $30/adults, $20!children 12 and 0414. (July 6-19 Issue), Eric Nakano's fund a Sen. Daniel Inouye Fellowship. dren, 763/537-6829 or under. Info: Milo Yoshino, 925/933- VENTURA email address was incorrect. Info: 2021223-1240 or [email protected]. [email protected]; bring a salad, 7584 or [email protected]. Sat., Aug. 25-Ventura County JACL The correct email address is side dish or dessert to share. MANZANAR Picnic!Beach Party; 11-3 p.m.; Marina [email protected]. East HOUSTON 'Through Aug. 5-Manzanar Art NEW YORK July 22-Oct. 21-Exhibition, "RED Show by Artists-in-Residence; Wed., July 25-Film screening, HOT: Asian Art Today from the Manzanar National Historic Site; "Officer Tsukamoto"; 8:30 p.m.; Asia Chaney Family Collection"; Museum Jarnie and Melissa Poulsen spent last Society, 725 Park Ave.; film is about of Fine Arts, Houston, Audrey Jones summer painting and writing poetry Ron Tsukamoto, one of the first Asian• Beck Building, 5601 Mairl St.; Tue.• inspired by Manzanar and those works American police officers in the coun• Wed. 10-5 p.m., Thurs. 10-9 p.m., Fri.• are now on display at the Interpretive try who was shot and killed in Sat. 10-7 p.m., Sun. 12:15-7 p.m.; fea• Center; Interpretive Center is open 9- . Berkeley, Calif.; tickets are $10 or $8 tures 100 works and 66 artists and 5:30 p.m. Info: 760/878-2194, ext. for Cinevisionlstudentslseniors. Info: reflects the powerful economic shifts 2710 or www.nps.gov/manz. www.officertsukamoto.com. and deep social changes that have SAN FRANCISCO PHILADELPIllA impacted a rapidly growing class of July 24-31, Aug. 2-5-Exhibition, Through-Sept. 9-Exhibition, young artists; admission is $7/adults, "I Bow to You" featuring Buddhist Dragons & Fairies: Exploring Viet• $3.50/youth and seniors, free for Sculptures by Thomas Matsuda; nam Through Folktales; Please Touch MFAH members. Info: 713/639-7300 Dentoh Gallery (July 24-31), 1737 Museum, The Children's Museum of or ~.rnfah.org . Post St., #365; hours: Sun.-Thurs. Philadelphia; exhibit provides a wealth ST. PAUL, Minn. 10-6 p.m., Fri.-Sat. 10-7 p.m.; San of hands-on, interactive learning about Sun., Aug. 19-1Win Cities JACL Francisco Zen Center (Aug. 2-5), the daily experiences and culture of the Golf Tournament; 11 a.m.; Highland 300 Page St.; hours vary; exhibition Vietnamese people. Info: www.please• National Golf Course; $55/members, features recent Buddhist sculptures. touchmuseum.org. $60/others; includes green fees, cart Info: Dentoh Gallery, 415/359- WESTFIELD, Conn. and prizes; deadline July 28. Info: Jake 9570, San Francisco Zen Center, Sun., Aug. 19-New York JACL Nakasone, 651/248-1896 or 415/863-3136. Summer Picnic; noon-5 p.m.; [email protected]. Through Sept. 9-Exhibition featur• Takahashi House, 32 Mayflower WEST CARROLLTON, Ohio ing the works of Osamu Tezuka, cre• Pkwy.; bring a dish to serve 6 and Sun., July 29-JACL Annual ator of Astro Boy; Tues.-Sun. 10-5 enjoy games and swimming. 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Theater, 2032 14th St.; The Cats of SARATOGA Mirikitani, Gold Digger and Sixes and PaclTlC Northwest Sat., Aug. 18-West Valley JACL's 30 One Eyed King; Sat.: Boulder Theater, OLYMPIA Annual Daruma Festival; 9:30-4 p.m.; movies not yet announced; Sun.: Sat., Aug. 18-01ympia Bon Odori; Saratoga Community Center, 19655 Shambahala Center, 1345 Spruce St.; 7-9 p.m., food booth opens at 5 p.m.; Allendale Ave.; featuring arts and A Zen Life: D.E.T. Suzuki, Tandens obon takes place at Water St. and crafts, food, raffie prizes, children's Journey: TIbetian Village Project and Legion St.; obon practice is Aug. 17 at activities and more; free and open to Sacred Places of Dati Lama. Info: Alan the Olympia Community Center, 222 'the public. Info: www.daruma• Ohashi, 3031910-5782 or www.boul• Columbia St. NW. Info: Bob festival.org or 408/253-0458. derasianmovies.org. Nakamura, 360/556-7562. Caiforria Sat.-Sun., Aug. 18-19-Boulder PORTLAND Central H'ealth Plans Asian Alliance Food Festival; 11-5 Through-Aug. 12-Exhibition, The HANFORD p.m.; Pearl Street Mall. Info: Art of Jimmy Mirikitani; Tues.-Sat. 11- Through July 31-Exhibit, The www.bapaweb.org or Gladys Konishi, 3 p.m., Sun. 12-3 p.m.; Oregon Nikkei Exploration of Unseen Worlds: 303/443-5404. Legacy Center, 121 NW Second Ave.; Imagination as Reality in Japanese Art; for California CINCINNATI a poignant exploration of the lasting . 1-5 p.m. Tues.-Sat.; The Ruth and Sun., Aug. 19-Annual JACL Potluck impacts of war and discrimination and Sherman Lee Institute for Japanese Dinner; 4 p.m.; Hyde Park Bethlehem the healing power of creativity; $3 Art, 15770 Tenth Ave.; $5/adults, Church, 3799 Hyde Park Ave.; bring a donation, free to members of ONLC. $3/students, members and children JACL Members covered dish to serve 8 persons; featur• Info: www.oregonnikkei.org. under 12 are free. Info: 559/582-4915 ing sumi-e artist Setsuko LeCroix and or www.shermanleeinstitute.org. Interrnomtain the Sakura Ladies Chorus. ~eneflts CLEVELAND MURRAY,Utah Southern Caiforria Call the JACL Heaffh Administrators at , Sun., July 29-2007 JACL and CJAF Fri.-Sat., Aug. 10011--6th Annual LOS ANGELES Graduation Celebration and National JACL Credit Union July 26,Aug. 2, 9, Sept. 13-JANM's Scholarship Luncheon; 12:30 p.m.; Volleyball Tournament; The Park 1st and Central Summer Concert Shinano Restaurant, 5222 Wilson Center at Murray Park, 202 E. Murray Series; National Museum Plaza, 369 E. 1.800.400.6633 Mills Rd., Richmond Heights; Park Ave.; teams must include three 1st St.; July 26, San Jose Taiko; Aug. $ 18!person, $ 15/students; RSVP by female and three male members and up 2, Ricardo Lemvo & Makina Loca; or visit to four alternates; $150/team with t• July 25. RSVP: Keith Asamoto, Aug. 9, To Alice with Love: shirt and gift package to each member; 216/921-2976, kasamotojacl@ Celebrating the Music of Alice www.jaclhe!l.th.org Jaoanese 'American yahoo.com or Aiko Ebihara, 44On75- deadline Aug. 1; participants must be CiHzen's League PACIFIC CITIZEN, JULY 20-AuG. 2, 2007 OBITUARIES 11 N~ Masuyet 92t June 2; sur• In Memoriam - 2007 vived by son, Lynn (Mary); daugh• ter, Ruth; 1 gc.; and 2 ggc. All the towns are in California except as noted. Sai~ Rick Kiyoshit 46t Los Akamatsut Carol Annet 53t Los Rosemead, May 23; survived by Angeles, June 9; survived by broth• Angeles, June 11; survived by par- daughter, Jeanne (Don) Tagawa; 3 er, Michael (Laurie). ents, Isamu and Michiko; and gc.; sisters, Kiyomi Kobayashi and Satot Sukeot 87 t Harbor City, brothers, Dr. John (Gayle) and Ray. Ayako Murosaki; and brothers, May 27; survived by sons, Jimmy Fuk~ Yoshiot 76t Monterey Fujio and Hideo Katayama. and Kenny; daughter, Cathie; 4 gc.; Park, June 7; survived by brother, Kawatat Edn~ 81t Monterey and 5 ggc. Shogi (Karlene); and sister, Noby Park, May 30; survived by husband, Satot Yuzuru "Yuzyt 85t Reidell. Samuel; daughters, Jeanne (Robert) Lomita, May 24; survived by wife, This compilation appears on a space• Egusa and Beverly (Tom) Hori; sis• Toyoko; sons, Garry (Esther), moon available basis at no cost. Printed obit• ter, Lily Endow; brother-in-law, Joe Robert (Anna) and Brian; daughter, l~nd in g; uaries from your newspaper are wel• (May) Kawata; sister-in-law, Carolyn; 4 gc.; and sisters, Fuku pass¢o away come. "Death Notices," which appear Takane Kawata; and 3 gc. in a timely manner at request of the Okinaga and Yuki Sato. July 2 at his family or funeral director, are published Kunisakit Grace Hidekot 85t Shibatat Tadashit 80t home in at the rate of $20 per column inch. Text Alhambra, June 9; survived by Montebello, May 28; survived by Tokyo at the age of 95, is reworded as necessary. sons, Dennis (Cynthia) and Bruce wife, Aiko; sons, Andrew and close to him said. (Joyce); 4 gc.; sisters, Irene (Mas) David Hanami; daughter, Lisa; and A longtime JACLer, Nishiyama Futat Sunao Tomt 96t San Nakamura, Sumiko (Kay) Hanawa, sister, Chiyo Hirakawa. was bom in Salt Lake City, Utah in Gabriel, June 8; survived by wife, Ruth Kido and Teruko (Kenneth) Shimomurat Takaakit 74t Santa 1911 and attended the University of Tomeyo; son, Dr. William (Surni); 6 Brock; brother, Takeo (Laura) Ana, May 21; survived by wife, Utah. He and Mike MaSaoka would gc.; 5 ggc.; sisters, Tomeko Wada Kido; and sisters-in-law, Ayako and Rui; daughters, Shoko (Roger) later be honored by .theschool ·as alumni. . .. and Haruko Hatanaka; brother, Mary Kido. Kotow and Julie (Hiko) Higashi; 5 distiiigwmed. Hiroshi (Sachiko); and son-in-law, Kuramotot Toshiot 58t . gc.; brother, Akihiro (Sakye) Nishiyama later earned a degree During Nishiyama's famous Paul Sullivan. Hacienda Heights, May 24; sur• Shimomura; and sisters, Terue in electrical engineering at Cal Tech broadcast of the Apollo 11 moon Hasegawat Kimikot 91t May 31; vived by wife, Chieko; daughter, Fujii, Mikoe (Toshinori) Vchihara but was unable to find a job during landing in 1969, he interpreted Neil survived by daughter, Jeanene Eri; brothers, Toyoharu and Mikio; and Katsue (Shigenobu) Motodera. the Great Depression. In 1932 his Annst(ong's ~elebrated phrase: (John) Morimoto and Arlene and sisters, Ine Hamano, Yae father passed and upon 'That's one small step for a Shindot May Onot 80t Covina, away man. (Toshiro) Hatake; son, Bruce Suzuki, Fujiko Kitasaki and June 17; survived by husband, ,returning to Japan with his mother one giant ' mankind." • (Irene); and 3 gc. Setsuko Miyauchi. George; brother, Ernie (Ruth) Ono; Higuchit Mitsuko Annt 83t Los Mamiyat Shigeko Maryt May daughters, Kathryn (Wendel) Nuss, (Cheryl); daughters, Donna (Glenn) Yoshihirot Bobby Hiroshit 47t Alamitos, June 2; survived by sons, 25; survived by husband, Albert; Carolyn (Frank) Wills, Evelyn Sanada and Cynthia (Jeff) Tatsumi; June 7; survived by wife, Myrna; Darrell (Carmen), C. Glen (Peggy) daughter, Judy (Daniel) Hruska; (Thomas) Okamoto; sons, Charles 6 gc.; brother, Saburo Nimura; sis• son, Ryan; daughter, Robyn; broth• and Grant (Lya); daughter, Jan son, Scott (Kimie); 4 gc.; brother, and Robert (Lori); and 11 gc. ters, Mitzi Tanamachi and Misao ers, Akira (Marilyn) and Eiji (Duane) Lee; 9 gc.; brother, Jeff James (Mary) Yonemoto; sister, Shiozakit Benjamin "Ben/t 81t (Fred) Masukawa; and sisters-in• (Susan); father-in-law, Chuy Chua; Tanaka; and sister, Mary (Roy) Saye Noguchi; and sisters-in-law, Los Angeles, June 8; WWII veter• law, Mutsuye Ogata, Rose Tanouye, and brother-in-law, Jeff Chua. Yokoyama. Lillian and Rosie Mamiya and Lois an, MIS; survived by wife, Helen; Janet Norimoto and Fusae Tateishi. Yoshiminet Gail Harumi Ishiit Shigeot 72t June 8; sur• Yonemoto. son, Gerry (Eitheia); daughters, Yamagawat Kenji "Kenny/t Toguchit 53t Half Moon Bay, June vived by wife, Kimiko; sons, Matsumotot Sumako Matsu-' Laurey (Steven) Maekawa and May 24; survived by daughter, 7; survived by husband, Jon; son, Yoshihiro (Sanae) and Yoshinobu; shim~ Rancho Cucamonga, May Valerie (Steven) Nakada; 4 gc.; .Candace; son, Clifford; 2 gc.; broth• Devon, mother, Merry Toguchi; daughter, Tamami (Perry) 29; survived by husband, Hitoshi; brother, Paul (Nancy); and sister-in• er, Joe; and sisters, Kiyo Nakada, brother, Michael (Joy) Toguchi; sis- . Goldstein; and 6 gc. son, Tetsuya (Sachiyo); daughters, law, Mariko Wada. Aki Hibbett and Midori Endo. ter, Katie (Leigh) Fukuzawa; and Yoko (Yoshihisa) Hirayama and Kagawat Takeot 86t Fresno, Sumiit Shuzot 80t Las Vegas, Yamakit Kent 83t June 10; brothers-in-law, Jeff (Susan) and May 27; survived by wife, Yasuko; Etsuko (Yuji) Takahashi; and 5 gc. Nev., May 19; survived by son, WWII veteran, 442nd, H Co.; sur• Jordan Yoshimine. children, Takeshi, Dr. Takumi Miyamotot Nobuot 81t Orange, Ronnel; and sisters, Yaeko vived by wife, Martha; children, Yoshimotot David Sadamut 81t (Mirei) and Dr. Kirnie (Bruno) May 20; survived by wife, Helen; Awakami and Terry Hatashita. Clifford (Reiko), Michael (Tritia), Gardena, May 14; survived by Kagawa-Chomel; half-brother, son, Arnold (Gabriella); daughter, Taguchit Motokazut 87 t Los RoseMary (Rickey) Fong and June; daughters, Linda Young and Amy Hiroaki; and half-sister, Yasuko. Cindy; 1 gc.; sister, Hisako Angeles, June 6; survived by brother, Joe; and sister, Kim. Yoshimoto; sons, Geoffrey and Kanegaet Akinot 92t May 21; Sakiyama; and brother, Osamu Steve (Cynthia); 4 gc.; and sisters, daughters, Molly and Linda Avoid the Terri Schiavo Mess survived by daughters, Ellen (Akiko). Irene Imada and Mildred Veda.• (Phillip) Imamura; and 2 gc. 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To us, it's the pillar of comes true because his American members have worked tirelessly to created their own com• strength and the origin of our com• heart beats for vestiges of his home• stop building demolitions and raise munity: a six-block area munity. Some people don't see it that land. awareness about the district's rich in downtown around way," said Delvo. The Little Manila Foundation is history. They've successfully rallied Lafayette and El Dorado In fact, opposition of the preserva• launching a campaign to raise $4 the city for historic designation and Streets. tion effort even came from within million for the adaptive reuse of the fended off redevelopment plans to Little Manila was a the Filipino American community. Mariposa, the home of many pio• turn . the buildings into an Asian• slice of the homeland for Residents said the buildings repre• neering first generation Filipino men themed strip mall. In May 2003, the Filipino immigrants who History was brought sented a sordid part of history, espe• during the 1920s-30s and later the National Trust for Historic lived in residential hotel back to life (top) at cially the Rizal Social Club where headquarters of the labor union Preservation placed Little Manila on rooms like the Mariposa, the Rizal Social bachelors paid money to dance with women. The building recently came movement. The hotel, which saw its its list of "America's Most worked under harsh con• Club for the 'Bebet' ditions and socialized in alive with the music of the Black last tenant in 2001, is currently in Endangered Places." music video. But the the district's pool halls Eyed Peas, a hip hop group with foreclosure proceedings. The foun• Along the way, the preservation sign of the times is movement also helped shape the and dance halls like the Filipino American member dation is hoping to raise money to development (left). buy the building and redevelop it for identities of Stockton young Filipino Rizal Social Club, mimed Apl.de.Ap. Young Filipino community use. American community. after Jose Rizal, a nation• Americans dressed in bright colored "There are no Filipino museums ''I was really young when I heard al hero of the Philippines. helped him learn about its Filipino dresses and fedoras brought history in America. Right now [all the arti• about Little Manila," said Brian But the thriving community . American history. back to life in "Bebot," a Tagalog facts] are in people's garages," said Batugo, 18, despite being born and couldn't stand up to change. In the '''There's a certain level ofhumili• song with the triumphant chorus of Dillon Delvo, Little Manila raised in Stockton. One day, he saw 1960s, state officials razed several ty in the Filipino culture," he said "Filipino! Filipino!" Foundation executive director. a huge crowd celebrating the dedica• blocks of Little Manila to build the about his father, Cipriano Delvo, It's the youth who are fighting to ''What better place for one than in tion of the district as a historic site ' Crosstown Freeway that cut right who worked with the United Farm reclaim their history. Little Manila?" and drank in the history in his back• through the heart of the community. Workers labor movement in the "Jose Rizal had this saying about yard. ''When they built that freeway ... 1960s. "His whole thing was I how you must look behind you to Saving their' Alamo' "Most of the people leading the it wiped out a lot of the history," said become nothing like him. He didn't see where you are going," said Throughout the nation, ethnic movement are second generation," Delvo. want to see us in the fields, so he did• Batugo. In the last three remnants of enclaves disappear and get replaced Batugo, now a sophomore at the In 1999, the city bulldozed anoth• n't teach us history or language." Little Manila, he feels a sense of with chain retailers or urban lofts. University of California, Berkeley. er block of Little Manila to make The silence is also tied into feel• pride. "I feel this tie to come back to But foundation members are deter• Over the years, the foundation has room for a McDonalds and a gas sta• ings of class and shame. After the Stockton." • been successful in education, but tion. That was when the Little Tyding-McDuffie Act passed in mined not to let their history slip To help save the Hotel Mariposa, now they need to focus on fundrais• Manila Foundation and their young 1934 Filipinos were prohibited from away. They are going all out to save send contributions to: ing. leaders decided it was time to immigrating to the United States the building and revitalize Little 'UttJe Manila Foundation' "The bottom line is we need reclaim their history. until the Immigration Act of 195>5 Manila. P.O. Box 1356 money," said Delvo. opened the door to a wave of new In addition to the $4 million, the Stockton, CA 95201 foundation has until Dec. 1 to pay An Entire Generation is an professional Filipino immigrants. "It was close to 30 years," said back a predevelopment loan of A Community of their Own Island For more information: 209/477- In Stockton, many residents spend Delvo. '''That generation was on an $216,000, which was used to clean Starting in the 1920s, Stockton's 7143 or www.littlemanila.net and prepare the Mariposa for con• rich agricultural industry drew many time plotting their escape from city . island. The post '65 generation had struction. Filipino Americans to its city limits limits and the word "community" no relationship with Filipino farm See the 'Bebot' video: "It's all w~ have," said Delvo to work in the fields. Those pioneer• takes on a more transient meaning. workers who have been there for so http://youtube.com/watch?V=V3ucnB about the Mariposa. "TIUs is our ing settlers helped build the city's But for Delvo, leaving his native city long. There was a sense of, 'you've yNc-4 Car Loan tow A-s , 6.00% APR 100% Financing on New Cars • 100% Financing on Used Cars Refinance Existing Loans No-Fee Auto Loans New or Used Cars EQUAL HOUSING LENDER *OAC DOES NOT INCLUDE: Tax, License, & Extended Warranties **This offer not valid to existing car loans with the credit union _~ __.u.I __,- National JACL Credit Union (800) 544-8828 www.jaclcu.com