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fee Off with JACL Practice your swing for smce1929PACIFIC CITIZEN JACL.:s national golf tournament in October. CALENDAR PAGE 10 The National Publication of the Japanese American Citizens Le~gue mmEE~BDE ...... Exclusive: One on One With Ehren Watada Judge Orders Eddy Zheng's Removal The wait yielded an The 1st It has now been where he is currently 'No regrets. How could I regret making the unwanted decision for officially charged by the stationed and working moral choice? How could I regret refusing to Zheng's supporters - Yuri participate in something I believe is illegal?' U.S. Anny for his decision in an administrative Kochlyruha is among them to refuse deployment to position, Watada· - 1st Lt. Ehren Watada • speaks with the Pacific I'[i'ml"",r="".,.",...-...-..,...... ,------...... --.." - but the decision to . In an exclusive inter• appeal rests on the man view with the Pacific Citizen. Although he now . faces three who spent the last 20 years Citizen, he reflects on his charges - missing in prison. decision and its impact troop m()vement, con• both personally and on the duct unbecoming an By LYNDA LIN larger community. , and contempt Assistant Editor Zheng, who testified at his hear- . towards officials - he ing last year, faces deportation. By CAROLINE AOYAGI-STOM has no regrets. Eddy Zheng, a convict turned national security, said Zheng's Executive Editor Reflecting on the community youth educator and lawyer Zachary Nightingale. impact his decision caged . poet, will be deported if he Citing a 2002 removal proceed• It's been just a little over a has had both personal• does not appeal an immigration ings by the U.S: Department ' of month now since 1st Lt. Ehren ly and for · the larger judge's July 19 decision to deny his Justice, the judge also determined Watada followed through with his Japanese American cOIf\lIlunity, we announced your decision in application for relief. Zheng's removal from the country decision to refuse deployment get a rare glimpse into the reasons June? To date, he still has to decide would not inflict extraordinary orders to Iraq after offering to . behind Watada's controversial deci• Ehren Watada: Just by reading whether to appeal the judge's ruling, hardship on his family beyond the serve in other areas of the world sion. a few of the comments, the said Zheng in a July 28 letter to the "normal" difficulties of family sepa• and rendering his resignation. Now· Pacific Citizen: How has the response has been fairly polarized. Pacific Citizen. Weighing on his ration. the U.S. Anny has officially . response from the Japanese I didn't expect a large proportion mind are the legal fees and the "[Zheng] himself is young, charged him for his actions and he American community and the of Asian Americans or Japanese health of his elderly parents. hea).thy and educated. He will expe- will face a pre-trial hearing Aug. larger Asian Pacific American .Americans to rally to my side. To The judge would only stop the 17. community been since you deportation I if it were a matter of From , Washington See WATADA/Page 6 See ZHENG/Page 12 )(n

I d ent ity 'The Voting Rights Act has been critical in encour~ging Asian American and other language minority voters to become more engaged in our Shift nation s civic life.' - Margaret Fung, AALDEF Ellen Yamamoto not only discov• By P.e. Staff and Associated Press are also celebrating the victory. ered she was adopted, her identi• ''We applaud the actions taken by ty as a JA was shattered when Ellen Inae Yamamoto President Bush on July 27 signed Congress and President Bush to she learned she was actually (above) and at 1-years• legislation extending for 25 years ensure that every American citizen the Voting Rights Aet, the historic will continue to have equal access to Korean American. old (left) with her adop• tive father Francis. , 1965 law which opened polls to mil- . the vote. The Voting Rights Act has lions and outlawed racist voting been critical in encouraging Asian By CAROLINE AOYAGI-STOM practices. American and other language Executive Editor Francis and Nobu "Mari" Yamamoto had passed away years ago and could not answer her questions. But "Congress has reaffirmed its minority voters to become more belief that all men are created engaged in our nation's civic life," . Ellen Yamamoto, 59, was rummaging through some old soon, without too much prying, the truth about her birth and her real family were laid before h;r eyes, a truth equal," he declared. said Margaret Fung, executive photographs when she came across a black and white Bush signed the bill amid fanfare directOr of the Asian American photo of her sitting and smiling on her father's lap. Faded that had been kept secret by all of her relatives .. For the past 59 years, Ellen has lived her life as a and before a South Lawn audience Legal Defense and Education Fund and a bit yellowed now, she noticed the writing on the back that include? members of Congress, (AALDEF). of the photo didn't seem quite right. The original wording Sansei mother of three boys. But now at the age of 60 civil rights leaders and family mem• The law.also strengthens the orig• had been altered by her mother. she has discovered that she is adopted and not of bers of civil rights leaders of the inal Voting Rights Act by enforcing Curious, she dug out her birth certificate from Shizuoka, Japanese ancestry but is Korean American. recent past. It was one of a series of Section 203 - the language assis• Japan. Soon she discovered even more discrepancies, rais• "For 59 years I was Ellen Yamamoto. But now I dis• per~nt high-profile ceremonies' the presi• tance requirement that is so impor• ing some serious questions about her birth. covered I'm not JA but 100 Korean," she said. "Everyone knew I was adopted. I was the only one who dent is holding to sign popular bills tant t6 the APA community - more In a search for answers she called up an old family into law. friend and confronted her relatives. Sadly, her parents See ADOPTIONlPage 5 . Asian Pacific American groups See VRAIPage 10 Under One Roof - .The Second Generation's Burden Deferring independence, . The Vo farriily · gives new mean• young professional APAs BILLS, BILLS, BILLS: ing to the description of a full house. Nancy Vo is responsible are increasingly bearing This one was bought by siblings for utility bills and por• ranging in age from 18-34, who fmancial responsibilities for tions of the mortgage at their parents. worked and saved just to buy a the home she helped . house for their parents, not so much buy with her siblings. BY LYNDA LIN as a gift but as a necessity. Assistant Editor "We were always moving around Kids buying homes for and my dad really wanted a perma• their parents is a grow• Imagine just getting out of col• nent place," said Nancy, 27, who ing trend, according to remembers moving three times in lege and signing your name tb one national statistics. of the largest purchases of your life one year. Her parents worked in gar• - a house on a suburban Los ment factories when they first immi• six-figure debt and three decades - all meaning her immigrant par• Angeles tree-lined street. Nancy grated from Vietnam, but when her confmed to fmancial shackles. ents, two brothers and two sisters, Vo's hands visibly shook as she dad fell ill over a decade ago the But at least the vanilla colored one of whom is married and living scrawled her name across pages of revenue stream steadily dwindled, house with the wrought iron fence with her husband> and two kids in legal documents binding her to a would be a place for all to call home the master bedroom. See ONE ROOFlPage 7 2 LETI'ERS PAGIFIC CITIZEN,AuG. 4-17, 2006

(7. PACIFI' CmZEN ~ 2005 WINNERI ~ NEW AMERICA VrMEDIA ~ ~ I. Awards In Writing I I I ties as some claim. The best way to houses of Congress in November. Readers Continue to Speak Out on Watada end casualties is to end this unpopu• Most rational Americans today PACIFIC CITIZEN If all members of the U.S. mili• I am relieved that the national lar war. Lt. Watada is helpirig to do agree that the invasion of Iraq was a 250 E. First Street, Ste. 301, tary had the right to refuse deploy• JACL seems to be taking a cautious just that. mistake, so the issue is no longer Los Angeles, CA. 90012 ment, then the power to declare war approach in regard to the 1st Lt. whether or not the invasion was jus• ~ Tel: 213/620-1767, · would be transferred from Capital Ehren Watada matter. While indi• "1H4t4tV14 tified . .The issue today is how to 800/966-6157 Hill to· the Pentagon. Imagine this, vidual JACLers are entitled to voice Via e-mail extricate ourselves without aban• Fax: 213/620-1768 Congress believes that it is in our their opinions, JACL as an organi• o doning the Iraqi people to cope with E.mail: [email protected] the mess tliat we have created there. www.pacificcitizen.org national interest to take military zation needs to be sure of the facts I support 1st Lt. Ehren Watada's action. Twenty percent of our mili• and its grounds for taking positions, decision and have signed his peti• Lt. Watada's decision does not seem Executive Editor: tary personnel "think" that such an particularly on matters of notoriety. tion and donated money. His action, to recognize this issue. Caroline Y. Aoyagi-Stom action is immoral, thirty percent When a person is commissioned .to me, is more like the who I truly ho~that Lt. Watada's Assistant Editor: lawyers are successful in having Lynda Lin "think" that it is unconstitutional. as an Anny officer, he or she accepts defied Executive Order 9066 and . Office Manager: Because half of our Anned Forces certain responsibilities and obliga• chose not to go to the internment some or all of the charges against Brian Tanaka refuse deployment, Congress tions and there are things you do not camps .. said people him dismissed, but I think that the Circulation: Eva Lau-Ting decides not to authorize military do regardless of personal belief or need to speak with' courage when military has too much at stake to not Intern: Stacy Iwata action. I wonder if 1st Lt Ehren wishes. Two such matters are: 1. they know the truth. Watada is say• prosecute him to the fullest extent Publisher:Japanese American Watada and his supporters gave any never disobey a lawful order; and 2. ing what many of us are thinking, allowed by military regulations and Citizens League (founded 1929) thought to this? never show disrespect for the com- but·he is willing to go to prison for code of conduct. I am sUre, howev• 1765 Sutter Street, San I, for one, adamantly oppose giv• . mander-in-chief or members of his beliefs. er, that Lt. Watada was fully aware FranCiSCO, CA 94115, tel: Congress. During the , I was a of the potential consequences when 415/921-5225 fax: 415/931- ing our Anned Forces the power to decide which wars we will or will In my time, I never disobeyed an . volunteer nurse working· with he made his decision and is pre• 4671, www.jacl.org order, but I did on one occasion, as a Vietnamese civilians at a leprosy pared to accept whatever may result. JACL President: Larry Oda . not fight in. The power to declare junior officer during the Korean hospital. I have seen the negative Nat'l Director: John Tateishi war is perhaps the ultimate power. For this, he is to be respected, unlike Pacific Citizen Board of . Our founding fathers were wise in War, make a disparaging remark impacts of war on a country and the those who did one thing during about President Harry Truman on people. Directors:·Gil Asakawa, chair• putting that power in the hands of wwn and now, when there is no learning of his dismissal of General person; Roger Ozaki, EDC; our elected civilian government. cost involved, declare that they wish Casey China, MDC; Kathy Douglas MacArthur as commander ~erMtet · ~ Lt. Watada believes the war is they had done otherwise. Ishimoto, CCDC; Nelson Nagai, in chief of the & Far Qakland,CA immoral and unconstitutional. If NCWNPDC; Sheldon Arakaki, East Command. I was immediately ~~~ that is tnIe, then it is the duty of o PNWDC; Larry Grant, IDC; admonished by a senior officer who · Sharon Kumagai, PSWDC; Congress and the Supreme Court to Campbell, CA heard me and cautioned me not to First Lt. Ehren Watada's refusal Maya Yamazaki, Youth. take action, not Watada or anybody disparage the President. I never for• of deployment to Iraq reminds me . in the U.S. military. Until they do, it r-NEWSlA[fOEAOLiNE:--l got that lesson. of the post-wwn Nuremburg is the duty of Watada to obey orders FRIDAY BEFORE DATE : In Watada's case, I feel sony for Trials. The Allied court, judging the To Robert Watada and all those and go to Iraq. His refusal to do so OF ISSUE. : him that he apparently did not have Nazi generals, severely reprimand• JAs speaking out for his son: Editorials, news and the opln. I undennines.our Constitution just as Ions expressed by columnists . : anyone; a fellow officer or a chap- ed them for criminal acts perpetrat• Obviously the Pacific Citizen . well. other than the national JACL I lain, he could turn to for counsel and ed against the innocent Jews. The clearly shows bias by printing most• president or national director response to the charge was, "We ly letters in overwJ;1eIming support do not necessarily reflect JACL "~J_~'~A ~ .. advice as to how he could resolve policy. Events and products ~ his situation without disgracing were only following orders." of this individual. I hope this publi• advertised in the Pacific . The court's final judgment was cation will have the guts to print this Citizen do not cany the implicit San Jose, CA himself and his family. He must endorsement of the JACL or o have known the obligations he that a soldier could refuse orders response to all those putting him on this publication. We reserve the that were inimical toone's moral a~estal. . L ______right to edit articles. _ Hurray for 1st Lt. Ehren Watada accepted when he accepted his com• beliefs. Lt. Watada was domg the It's nice that 1st Lt. Ehren Watada for standing up for American values mission. This matter is troubling to me per- . same. I commend him for his feels he can cheny pick his assign• PACIFIC CmZEN (ISSN: 0030- and the important lessons many 8579) is published semi-monthly . sonally because a soldier with the refusal of -deployment to Iraq and ments after VOLUNTEERING for Americans have forgotten from the . except once in December and same last name that I was privileged his willingness to face the conse• active duty as an officer, knowing Nuremberg Trials following wwn. January by the Japanese to serve with, Staff Sergeant quences for his refusal. • all the risks and potential dangers American Citizens League, 250 U.S. citizens and soldiers are involved in military life, post 9/11. E. Rrst Street, Ste. 301, Los Andrew Watada, · was killed in responsible for their judgment in action just a few weeks before the ~~~ No one drafted or forced him to join Angeles, CA. 90012 OFFICE following orders from their govern• • HOURS - Mon.-Fri., 9 a.m.-5 personal incident cited above. Viae-mail the Anny and he most certainly' p.m. Pa<;:ific Time. ©2006. ment, which are against internation• o received and accepted officers' pay al standards of conduct. Certainly until he realized things could get a Annual subscription rates: ~p.~1H4 I find myself ambivalent about the unjustified attack by the U.S. on· little rough in Iraq. NON-MEMBERS: 1 year-$40, Lt. , U.S. Anny (Retired) Lt. Ehren Watada's decision to payable in advance. Additional Iraq falls into this category. Watada says he will gladly serve Past National JACL President refuse deployment to Iraq. I am in postage per year - Foreign peri• Ifjustice prevails, Lt. Watada will in Mghanistan. Would you entrust o full agreement with his assessment odical rate $25; First Class for be vindicated, and American offi• your loved one under his command . U.S., Canada, Mexico: $30; I volunteered from Heart of the situation in Iraq and the cials who lied to get us into this war and leadership? This individual can• Airmail to JapanlEurope: $60. Mountain. I survived the rescue of duplicitous iruU1I1er in which the not be trusted in all walks of life, not (Subject to change without and those who advocated torture the "Lost Battalion." I know Bush Administration deceived the notite.) Periodicals postage paid just the military. To call him a man and the destruction of civil liberties courage. First Lt. Ehren Watada is Congress and the American public at Los Angeles, Calif. is an insult to all the men and guaranteed by our Constitution will co~geous. I agree with him: the into authorizing his ill-conceived Permission: No part of this publi• women who not only sacrificed be held accountable. war in Iraq is "illegal. plan to invade Iraq, but the remedy cation may be reproduced with- their lives for this country but for all He took an oath that does not for this is to impeach the President out express permission of the of us Americans who believe a ~7.~ require him to obey illegal orders. and the Vice President and to tetmi• publisher. Copying for other than . man's word and handshake are. personal or internal reference use Hayward, CA . As for lowering the morale of his nate Donald Rwnsfeld's teriure in everything. You can whine, moan without the express permission of Combat Infantry fellow soldiers, a Zogby poll shows the Department of Defense. and betray all you want Watada, but P'C.ls prohibited. wwn (South Pacific) that over 70 percent of the military . 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Staff and Associated Press and Mike Simpson, R-Idaho, fIled Island, a short ferry ride legislation in the House July 17 that from Seattle, the now Lamm Gets Slammed for would include a Bainbridge Island, defunct Eagledrue Ferry Comments on Racial Minorities Wash., memorial honoring the first Dock was the site from DENVER-Fonner Gov. Dick Lamrn is being criticized for saying sent to World which the first 227 internees racism and discrimination are not excuses for minority underachievement. War Il internment camps .in the in were forcibly Lamm, whose new book addresses that same issue, said in a July 24 speech, national park system. removed from their homes "I'm willing to say there is racism and discrimination, but that is not an The bill would codify into law the and communities under excuse for minority underachievement. Blacks and Hispanics do. half as results of a Department of the President Franklin D .. much work as Asian students, and they get half as much grades. They have. Interior study released this May by Roosevelt's Executive to stop telling people they are not succeeding because they are victims." making a memorial at the fonner Order 9066 and Civilian After community leaders spoke out against the comment, Lamrn respond• Eagleda1e Feo:y Dock a satellite site Exclusion Order No. 1. ed by saying, ''We must recognize that .all the civil rights and afiinnative of an existing monument in Jerome From Bainbridge Island, action laws in the world are not going to solve the problem of minority County, Idaho. . they were taken to the underachievement." . "Eagleda1e Ferry Dock belongs in Manzanar Relocation the lexicon of historic sites designat• Center in California. In DJ Apologizes for Racist Prank Calls ed as national parks and preserved 1943, they ~ere transferred TOLEDO-A disc jockey for W1WR-FM (98.3) has been suspended for future generations because to the Minidoka Relocation without pay for making racially insensitive remarks during prank calls to Bainbridge Island residents book• Center. Chinese and Japanese restaurants, according to the market manager for end a chapter in American · history This May, several years Cumulus-owned radio stations. that needs to be tetold with one of fundraising and planning The station's prograin director, Brent Carey, was also fired. ''Lucas'' goal: that fear should never drive us culminated in the ground• whose real name is Josh Garber, made an on-air apology. to such acts again," said Inslee, a breaking and first phase. of Bainbridge Island JAs being led to the ferry. Reso~ces Reading from a prepared statement, Lucas said, '''Those calls reflected member of the House· construction of a memorial poor judgment on my part and resulted in an outcry from the Asian commu• Committee, which haS jurisdiction at the fonner Eagleda1e Ferry Dock nity on Bainbridge Island and pro• nity who interpreted my statements as derogatory and offensive. For that I over national parks. and in five acres of Joel Pritchard vide a lasting educational resource for Kitsap County, the Northwest apologize, as it was not my intention, in any way, to offend the Asian com• Inslee, who led efforts in the Park. Called ''Nidoto Nai Yoni," or and the nation," said Dan Sakura, munity, or to mock .those of Asian ancestry." House to commission and fund the "let it not happen again," $2 million Interior Department study hails of the $5 million project has been director of government relations at JAMsj to Stay Put at Current Site, Proceed with from Bainbridge Island. Simpson's raised so far, with funding coming The Conservation Fund. Expansion Plans district includes Minidoka from private donors and the state of The Inslee-Simpson bill must be Internment National Monument, Washington. approved by the resources panel SAN JOSE, Calif.-The Japanese American Museum of San Jose one of two U.S. internment camps '''The addition of this important before it can come to a vote on the (JAMsj) is staying at its present Fifth Street site and proceeding with its orig• that now have national-park desig• site will help to preserve the history House ·floor. A companion bill has inal capital expansion plans. nation. of the Japanese American commu- not yet been offered in the Senate.• JAMsj was asked to consider relocating to the City Corporation Yard at Sixth and Jackson Streets. Original expansion plans were put on hold, but after months of meetings, board members decided against the relocation cit• ing among other reasons, financial concerns. LAUSD Superintendent Cites WWlllnternment in Speech The museum will be closing Aug. 31 for expansion. During construction, By ASSOCIATED PRESS WarIl. absolutely wrong," he said. the library/research center will be open to the pUblic. "It has tremendous consequence Later, at a Westwood church, the LOS ANGELES-As Mayor for this city because if you indoc• mayor bashed school officials for Schaefer R~fuses to Apologize for Remarks ' Antonio Villaraigosa touted his trinate - propagandize - a popu~ failing to improve graduation ANNAPOLIS, Md.- Comptroller William Donald Schaefer refused to proposal to take over city schools, lation long enough into a mistruth rates. He cited figures that show apologize to a Korean American group for July 5 remarks he made linking the district superintendent used his they believe it," said Romer, who that only about a half of ail stu• South Korean immigrants to a recent missile firing in communist North annual speech to rail against the is set to retire this fall after six dents graduate on time and said Korea. mayor and his plan. years as superintendent. that major changes were needed to The 84-year-old comptroller met privately with the delegation, but Superintendent Roy Romer said Fonner school board member improve city schools. declined to sign a letter of contrition prepared by his own chief of staff. July .20 that Warren Furutani and other Vtllaraigosa had sought legisla• "I don't have to apologize, I didn't say anything to apologize for," he said. city schools Japanese American leaders held a tion giving him nearly complete were not as press conference later that day to contrOl. over the district, which • bad off as condemn Romer's statement. covers most of Los Angeles and all the mayor "I thought it was pretty offen• or part of 31 other cities, as well as APAs has por• sive to try to connect Antonio to some unincorporated areas of Los in the trayed them the same propaganda machine that Angeles County. in recent put Japanese in internment camps In June, after facing 'strong News speeches. ROMER during World War Il," Furutani opposition, Villaraigosa agreed to The superin- said. "I thought that was out of a compromise with legislative By Pacific Citizen Staff tendent trumpeted gains in test , bounds." leaders and the' teachers' union. scores and other data that com• Romer later apologized to those Under the new proposal, the . UCSF Genetics Pioneer Earns lifetime pared the Los Angeles Unified offended by his comments but did mayor would share management Achievement Award School District favorably with not back away from his criticism of the district with the superin• Dr. Yuet Wai Kan, ' a leader in the field of other big city districts. of Villaraigosa. tendent and the elected school human genetics, was honored July 20 with a Romer also compared the Villaraigosa, in a subsequent board. The mayor also would Lifetime Achievement Award by the Society of mayor's yearlong drive to win sup• news col)[erence outside City Hall, have the power to hire and fire the su~rintendent. Chinese Bioscientists in America. It is the first port for the takeover plan to the criticized Romer's remarks. time the award has been presented. U.S. government's propaganda "To compare the facts of what is Gov. Schwarzenegger said he Kan is the Louis K. Diamond Professor of campaign to justify internment of going on here in L.A. Unified to would sign the bill if it passes in Hematology at UCSF. He was the first to establish Japanese Americans during World the internment of the Japanese is August. • that a single DNA mutation could result in a human disease. Former Army Chaplain Says He was Unfairly Detained at Border Community Pioneers to"Be Honored By ASSOCIATED PRESS July 23 with The Associated Press Border inspections by customs at Nisei Week Festival that memories of his experience in agents are routine, said Mike SEATTLE-Former Army Anny detention came back to him Milne, a spokesman for U.S. The Nisei Week Foundation,a nonprofit organization that sponsors Capt. James Yee, whose work as a while he was being questioned for Customs and Border Protection. the annual Nisei Week Japanese Festival in Los Angeles' Little Tokyo, Muslim chaplain at Guantanamo two hours at the border July 22. He said he could not comment named its 2006 Nisei Week Pioneers: Jim Kanno, Mineshizu Kitsu, ended when "Perhaps this is an indication specifically on why Yee was Maki Miyahara, Mack M. Miyazaki, Kunio Paul Shiba and Satoru he was. I'm still of interest to the federal stopped at the border. Toyoda. arrested and government," Yee said. Yee said his drive to Canada These pioneers represent the best of the greater Los Angeles JA com• accused of He said customs' officials were from his- home in Olympia, munity and will be honored at a special luncheon Aug. 16 at the New spying, says polite and professional but would Wash., to see a Cirque du Soleil Otani Hotel & Garden. he believes not tell him why he was stopped or performance in Vancouver, Nakagawa Receives Award for a lifetime of he was if he had done anything wrong. British Columbia, was his first unfairly A t;mmber of other people were trip outside of the U.S. since he Sharing Untold Stories of JA Baseball Pioneers detained at VEE . stopped at the border, had their was honorably discharged from Nisei Baseball Research Project founder Kerry Yo Nakagawa was the Cana- vehicles inspected and then were the Anny in 2005. chosen as the recipient of this year's Tony Salin Memorial Award. The dian bOrder recently on his way sent on their way in about 10 min• He was also carrying Muslim award presented by the Baseball Reliquary is given in recognition of a back from a day trip. utes while he was being ques• religious items, including a Quran person's contribution to the perpetuation of baseball history and for Yee, who spent 76 days in soli• tioned from 8 to 10 p.m., Yee said. and a prayer rug and cap. bringing attention to the tales of the game's forgotten heroes. tary confinement before being At the time, he speculated he "Maybe these things raised eye• Nakagawa received the award during the Reliquary's Shrine of cleared of all charges in March was held for an extended period brows, even though this is all Eternal Induction Ceremony July 23 .• 2004, said in a telephone interview because the FBI had been called. against terrorism," Yee said.• 4 NATIONAL NEWS PACIF1C CITIZEN, AuG. 4-17, 2006 NYC Diversity Presents New Set of Challenges APA Communities Unite to Launch By ASSOCIATED PRESS National Pictur~ Postcard Campaign NEW YORK-When the New York Asian Women's Center opened in the early 1980s, the only language used other than English Immigrants ore Amerita's was Chinese. These days, the fomtl*-$, Wor ••" alld tletthbor$ domestic violence shelter offers l_d.oeIIIIo<_'IwC¢O< ____1ItW' -<.-....-.--w...... _ .. ____...... _ -. services in more than a dozen ...... _...., ..____ _~It«_...,....._ -.-.tf __...... 1t< u,'· ""- ___ --._. ...,,_,_ Asian languages. ~ .. ric_ ... t.NooIr ...... How does executive director Tuhina De O'Connor feel about that? Frustrated. "It's just not -. enough," she says. That's because when you put Asian Pacific American organiza• try. Immigrant communities, in par• together all the languages and New York's APAs celebrate Chinese New Year. tions recently announced the launch ticular APAcommunities, have been dialects spoken by the city's Asian of the 'We Are America" Picture engaged in fighting for worlcable communities, you're counting plexity. And none have had to these communities say what's Postcard Campaign. Throu~out the and comprehensive reform. Local somewhere around 50 of them, adjust more to that reality than the important is finding issues various summer, national and local organi• and national APA groups, including spoken by people hailing from at community organizations that ethnic 1lfoups have in common. zations serving APA communities JACL, joined together to initiate the least two dozen different countries. have been serving those groups. Of course, that is somewhat easi• will reach out to its members to send Picture Postcard Campaign to build As Census figures and everyday Just looking at the Census cate• er to do in the Latino community, tens of thousands of picture post~ upon the momentum of the immi• experience readily show, increas• gories for New York City over since they share a language which cards of immigrant families, worlc• gration marches. ing diversity is a part of life all time is a revelation. On the 1970 in turn shares an alphabet with ers and neighbors to members of APA communities are uniquely over the Empire State, carrying its form, when looking at th~ coun- . English, Not so much in the Asian Congress urgmg them to support impacted by the entire gamut of own set of complications depend• tries that foreign-born residents community, where there are a mul• just and humane immigration problems stemming from the cUr• ing on the region. Sure, the kinds came from, the places listed for tiplicity of tongues, some of which reform. rent immigration system. Of the 15 of issues that upstate communities Asia were Western Asia, China, are written in completely different "Asian Pacific American families million APAs living in the United are starting to see - different cul• Japan and Other Asia. lettering systems; are deeply impacted by our iinrni• States, 67 percent or 8.7 million tures and people in places that may For year 2000 data, a visitor to But despite the challenges, it's gration laws," said Lisa Hasegawa, are immigrants, 1.5 million are not have had them before - are the Census Web site can break important to build a sense of com• . chair of the National. Coalition of undocumented and millions more old hat for a metropolis with the down New York City's Asian pop• munity that extends past a particular Asian Pacific Americans. "This are caught in immigration back• storied immigrant history of New ulation in a number of ways: country of origin, said Wayne Ho, campaign is a compelling way for logs, forced to wait many years to York City. Indian, Bangladeshi, Cambodian, executive director of the Coalition immigrants and descendants of . be reunited with their family mem• But increasing diversity presents Chinese, Taiwanese, Filipino, for Asian American Children and immigrants to tell their stories and bers. different kinds of challenges for Hmong, Indonesian, Japanese, Families. It's the best way to build send photographs of immigrants as The Picture Postcard Campaign New York City. As the Latino and .Korean, Laotian, Malaysian, political and social power. America's families, workers and will galvanize APA communities Asian populations have exploded Pakistani, Sri Lankan, Thai or He said, "By pushing a pan• neighbors." to express concerns, shape the in recent years, they've grown not Vietnamese. Asian identity, we have a louder The passage of the immigration debate and unite Americans behind only in sheer numbers but in com- The organizations working with voice." • bill, H.R. 4437, sparked historic a common vision that immigration mass mobilizations across the COUll- reform is good for America.• JACL Chapters Honor Young Scholars Blue Cross of California

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.-'------PACIFIC CITIZEN AUG. 4-17, 2006 NATIONAL NEWS 5 JA Woman Discovers Adoption and a New Identity

(Continued from page 1) felt like she .was "a good Japanese," a feeling reinforced by didn't know." constant criticism from her adop• For the past year, Ellen, a retired tive mother. She admits to being account exec~tive living in "very outspoken and forthright," Pasadena, Calif., has been trying characteristics not always cher• to adjust to her new-found Korean ished in the Japanese culture. American identity: It's a task made "I was always told I was a poor even more difficult py an upbring• Japanese ... now I know why," she ing that engrained the Japanese said. culture into her. She tries not to be bitter about "I speak Japanese fluently," said her fanlily's long silence about her Ellen, who was raised in both adoption. Although she forgives Japan and the . Ellen Inae Yamamoto (fourth from left) and her son David (right of Ellen) at a reunion. with their Korean rel• her adoptive father, she has feel• "Everything in my house, every• atives (above). ing~ of resentment towards her thing is Japanese. Japanese culture Ellen's birth parents (left) during happier times. Here adoptive mom, a woman she • is engrained in me:" they pose with Harry Sazaki, an MIS soldier who was describes as "manipulative" and Now she's trying to mesh the friends with Ellen's adoptive father Francis. Harry was "mean" and with whom she had Japanese and Korean cultures as one of the first people Ellen sought to learn more infor• always had a difficult relationship. best as she can. mation about her adoption. "I don't have feelings of bitter• "I've been eating a < lot of ness towards my father," said Korean food, buying Korean gro• ficult decision to give Ellen to her As Ellen pondered time lost and his first name. They had long ago Ellen who described Francis as a ceries, and watching Korean TV sister and brother-in-law so she feelings .of regret, she held a lost touch with him and they generous and kind man. "I'm still with subtitles," she said with a could have a better life in the U.S. weathered, black and white photo claimed the fanlily registry docu• dealing with a lot of anger towards chuckle. But "it's almost like it's "She decided to give me a new of her at the age of one with her ment of Ellen's birth had been . my adoptive mother. My mom too late" to learn a new culture, life ... so her daughter would have real mother kneeling beside her, burned in a fire in 1949. made up -a lot of stories." _ she noted sadly. "But I'm proud to a better life," said Ellen, who both smiling at the camera. But what she did learn she ' Ellen's three sons have been be 100 percent Korean." learned she was born in Seoul, "I understand why they kept it pieced together from faded memo• supportive during her recent and that her real from me. f understand about the ries. If her father were alive today ordeal. They too grew up with a The unraveling of a secret name is Inae Kim. "I never knew I adoption. But in 1994 I was almost JA identity but are now adjusting adoption he would be 88-years-old. His last was her daughter." 50. I should have been given the name was Kim and he had come to being half Korean American. Francis was a MIS soldier sta• Ellen's birth mother eventually opportunity to ease her pain," she from aprominent family in the city But for them, it's all about being tioned in Korea during World War remarried and moved to said. of Taegu where her paternal grand• Asian American. n. It was here that he met Ellen's where she' went on'to have a suc• Her adoptive parents eventually father had built a school. "It really doesn't make much of adoptive mother, a full-blooded cessful career as a Korean dance had a natural child, Ellen's younger She also discovered that her real a difference to me. I guess now I Korean whose real name was Bae master. But she would have no brother Fred. Francis passed away father had not wanted to give her really am .Asian (its kind of an Kuja. Eventually she would take more children. Ironically, In 1979 of cancer in 1979 and Nobu died in up for adoption. ecleCtic term)," said Ellen's son on a JA identity and the name Halla made a visit to Southern 2003, both never revealing the If Ellen's father is still alive . David. Nobu after adopting Ellen. California where she spent time secret of Ellen's adoption. today:she wants to thank him. "If I "Being half Korean is difficult Although the adoption was a with Ellen and her three boys, all look at it objectively, I was very, to classify and a bit too wordy to shock, Ellen soon learned that the the while assuming the role of Discovering her Korean' very fortunate," she said noting explain. To me, when I go to Japan woman she had been raised to Ellen's aunt. It would be their last roots she could have been given to her they say 'oh, you're an think was her aunt, her adoptive meeting. In September 2005 Ellen and her real dad's family and stayed in "American" not Japanese'; when I . mother's younger sister, was her In 1994, Ellen's real mom died middle son David Ito made a trip to Korea, a country impoverished by . am in the U.S. they say 'you're birth mother. of breast cancer, never able to South Korea to not only meet her ''I'm. fortunate intllat Japanese-Koreail-American,'" he Halla Huhm (nee Bae Yoonja), wwn. acknowledge Ellen as her daugh• Korean relatives for the first time sense, real lucky." said. ''There are just too many had had a bitter divorce from ter. Since 'both her adoptive and but to find her real father, a man Ellen .also learned that her labels and qualifiers. Shouldn't we Ellen:s birth father, spurred by real mothers had had strained rela• who was still a mystery to her. Korean relatives were Japapese just be human beings and treat accusations that he had committed tions for several years since the Although her Korean relatives sympathizers during wwn, partic• each other as such?" adultery. A struggle over their only late 70s, Ellen never visited her admitted knowing about Ellen's ularlya great-aunt on her maternal Ellen's relatives here in.the U.S. child ensued. Single and divorced, mom while she was sick nor did adoption, they did not remember fanlily's side. This fact has not say nothing has changed and they Ellen's birth mother·made the dif- she attend her funeral. much about her real father, even helped her in her search for her still consider her a part of their father. It seems no one wants to family. . resurrect this part of the family his- "It doesn't make a difference. I . tory. love her anyway," said Francis' So Ellen has decided to stop sister Miyo Senzaki, 86. searching for her father for now Although Francis had told Miyo out of respect for her Korean rela• about Ellen's adoption long ago, tives. But a distant cousin has he had sworn her to secrecy. But offered his help, taking the lead he never gave her any background and continuing the search for him. information on Ellen's adoption, "I'm done. I feel like I've come including who her real fanlily was. up against a wall. I feel suffocated "I felt really bad but I never f And all this till1e you thought ... I can't go beyond that wall to questioned my brother. My broth• communicate with him," said er loved Ellen so much," she said. you were saving for retirement. Ellen, who believes her Korean On Aug. 5 the Yamamoto fami• relatives may still be hiding some ly is holding a fanlily ·reunion in information about her father, sus• Southern California. Although picious of her motives. "Money is Ellen is still coming to terms with not what I want. . I just want to her fanlily's decision to keep her know who my dad is." adoption a secret, she plans to attend. . Adjusting to a new identity "I'm trying to let it go. Keeping a grudge is not going to help me. . . On Ellen's recent trip to South Don't lei: a serio\.ts acddent or illness force you to dip into your savings to cover your Korea she bought a Korean doll I'm still the person on the outside medical bills. 'Enhance your cUJ:rent coverage with JACL-endorsed Catastrophe Major and placed it alongside the tradi• tha~ I always was," she said. Medical Insmance Plan. The plan strengthens your current coverage and includes tional Japanese doll in its glass "I'm mort! embarrassed. I tried convalescent home care, home health care, private duty nursing coverage and more. case. Reflecting on her newfound' so hard 1<> be a part of the fanlily. I " • C identity, she feels a sense of relief was always on the outside of the in finally discovering her true fanlily because they didn't like my ancestral roots. mom" but "I have no axe to grind For more information,* call ''The pressure's off," said Ellen with any of them." who now goes by the name Ellen Ellen is planning another trip to Inae Yamamoto in recognition of South Korea in 2008. She also her Korean ancestry. "There's a hopes to tell her story in a future sense of freedom" but "I regret that book she has already begun to I don't know about my culture." write. Growing up Ellen recalls her "In my mind I have come to a mother hinting they were part closure." Telling · her story has Korean "many times removed." been "therapeutic" and "cathartic" Ironically, Ellen admits she never she said. "It helps me deal with this new identity." •

~------~. ---.----- 6 . NATIONAL NEWS PACIFIC ClTIZEN,AuG, 4-17, 2006 An Interview With Watada on His Controversial Decision (Continued from page 1) shows neither honor nor loyalty. If their support meant to you? my family was behind barbed wire EW: The support of my family be honest, I didn't know what to today, I would not fight in Iraq. This First Lt. Ehren has been immeasurable and helped expect. I feel relieved that all is a war based upon deception of Watada thanks his me to realize how important it is to Americans, regardless of race or the American people and conducted parents Carolyn love, understand and support one creed, including AAs have lent their in full violation of the Geneva Ho (left) and another. At times I know my parents support. This really shouldn't be an Conventions, international huntani• Robert Watada fear for my safety and my future. issue about race. Yet, it is curious to tarian law, and the laws ofland war• (right) for support• It's actually ironic considering they note, that the majority of soldiers fare. This is not a WWII fight ing his decision to would be facing the same fears had who have voiced their support in against German or Japanese refuse deployment I deployea. I had to reassure them person, have been rnin?~ties. aggression. In this war, we the to Iraq, often fac• that no matter what the outcome, I Whether they see me as glVlng a Americans, are the aggressors. ing criticism them• am at peace because I did the right voice to minorities in the Army or . Do my actions reflect negatively selves. thing. • . . simply fighting for minority rights I on their accomplishments? I would PHOTO: To go through what I am expen- don't know. ' say, no. They fought for honor and JEFF PATERSON encing .would definitely have been PC: How have you been doing loyalty. I am fighting for the honor much more difficult without the since the charges were of our country, through which we support of my family. Even my par• announced? Any regretS? do not condone the torture of pris• and commitments made to the things were"said around me, within ents at one point needed much con• hearing distance, but not to my face. EW: No regrets. How could I oners of war and we don't condone American people as an American vincing and explanation. But even if regret making the moral choice? a war fought for reasons akin to the soldier. I gave my life to protect The majority of negative comments I did not have their support, it would How could I regret refusing to par• Nazis and Imperial Japan. freedom and democracy - a sacri• were made to those who worked not have stopped me from making ~e ticipate in something I believe is ' Despite conflicting loyalties, I fice I am willing to make by doing directly with me. I was probably my decision. In fact it was ,made illegal? How could I continue to be am fighting for the allegiance to the right thing. least popular person on Fort LeWIS. before I told them. ~e silent - condoning continual which I swore an oath to uphold In a way I'm already free. Most who had been friendly and For my parents to come out pub• Physically they can lock me up, cordial to, me before, greeted me violation of laws by our nation's and defend - the Constitutional licly and support me exemplifies throwaway the key, leave me to rot with silence. Some of the lieu• leaders? laws and principles of democracy. their courage and integrity. They and contemplate my "crimes." For a To understand my position, you My decision brings honor to veter• tenants I was close with told me in could just have easily supported me first have to ask yourself what you an JAs. Instead of perpetuating war long time I was in turmoil. I felt confidence that although they did from the shadows. Instead, they ~y believe is the role of an American crimes and a war of aggression, I compelled to fulfill the terms of not agree with my deCision, they have opened up and exposed ·them• knew I was a good person, respect• soldier. Is he or she a mercenary - am actively trying to put a stop to it. contract despite what I knew to be selves to the same hatred directed obliged by a signed contract to fol• Instead of being the "quiet, obedi• utterly wrong. Only when I realized ed my decision, and sincerely towards me. They face the same that I served not men and.institu• low all orders without question? Or ent Japanese," I am fulfilling my wished me good luck. danger to their personal safety and tions but the people of this country, Since my transfer out of my can he or she be a freethinking, edu• oath to protect'my soldiers and this future risks for standing up for me cated, and rational person, given the country from our government. This did I believe there was another deploying unit, I work with a mix• . and our common cause. answer. That choice was to do what ture of senior officers and civilians. opportunity to discern between is all at great expense - when the PC: Many of the P.e. readers is right and just. ,All · of them have been polite and lawful and unlawful orders? easier, safer path would have been have come out in support of your PC: professional. To my surprise, I have Not surprisingly, the prevailing to do my. tour in Iraq. The national JACL recent• plight. Is there anything that you reg~g been approached by several soldie~ . attitude whether assumed or rein• PC: Some of the JA vets organ• ly released a statement would like to personally say to your situation. Although they did of all ranks who have voiced therr forced is "yes" to the first question. izations have said that you knew them? not have a position on your support. I have also had complete The Army has always strongly what you were getting into when EW: Thank you, thank you, and . refusal to deploy to Iraq they did strangers approach me in the outly• relied on the authoritarian com- you signed tip for the U.S. Army. thank you again fortaking an inter• express concern about two of the ing communities to lend me words . . mand structure where orders are . Is there anything you would like est and supporting a cause which charges against you: contempt of encouragement. followed without question and the to personally say to the JA wwn belongs to all conscientious towards officials and conduct I am not under any ilfusions, I assumption is that those issuing the ? Americans. But it is not enough. unbecoming an officer. Do you know there are those who despise orders are trusted and honorable. EW: It is important to remember There are many more servicemen me and would like to see me Yet, my experience tells me that that there are JA vets who individu• take any comfort in that a nation• and women who believe as we do harmed' I have received just as those who issue the orders are not ally support me. These JA vet al JA organization has come out many ~f those types of messages: and feel trapped. Help them realize infallible, including our civilian organizations, I assume are refer• with such a statement of concern? Fortunately; for now, I have been that they too have a choice - they leadership. Reliance on an unques• ring to blind obedience and loyalty EW: From my understanding, spared the worst. too can do the right thing. Be vocal, tioning, blindly obedient Army is a to the civilian leadership. My oath the vote, even though it was favor• PC: Your family has been very take an active interest, and force slippery slope which can only lead of office specifically dictates. nei• able to me, was very close. It was outspoken in support of your others to do the same. All of us must to the likes of Abu Graib and many ther of those assumptions. They heavily and very emotionally dis• decision. How are they dealing be willing to sacrifice if we want to . other atrocities that will never be must remember that they volun• puted. Despite the reservations of with your situation? What has see change.• known by mainstream America. teered to fight against injustice, many members, I ' am eternally So then we go back to the role of tyranny, and aggression. Their deci• grateful for their public support. I the American soldier. The ability sion to join the Army was not out of would hope that in time, those who and responsibility to question is not compulsion. I would ~o~ that disagi-ee with me, will see that my KOKUSAI-PACIFICA a foreign thought even in the Army. these vets see parallels m my actions are representative of all the Just a month before my former unit actions. proud t:hirigs JACL stands for. 2006 TOURS deployed, a battalion commander When I volunteered after 9/11 to PC: What are some of the les• (lieutenant colonel) was relieved of serve my country I knew I would sons that the younger generations his 'command. This came about have to follow orders - sometimes of JAs can take away from"your because his subordinate command• situation? Oct 9 Hokkaido & Tohoku ''Fall Foliage" - 11 Days - 24 Meals - $3795 without rhyme or reason. I would Sapporo, Sounkyo Gorge-Sahoro-S~oi Ain~ Village~Lake Toya~ erS formed a consensus that he nur• EW: Be involved. Be an have to be obedient and respectful Hakodate-Aomori-Lake Towada-Hachimantat Hot Spnngs-Sendai & tUred a negative command climate to authority. Never did I believe I informed citizen who is willing to Tokyo. and voiced their dissent to the bat• would have to follow orders that act and sacrifice for the freedom talion commander's boss. were contrary to my moral beliefs and democracy we all cherish. The Oct. 16 Uranihon "Otherside of Japan" - 11 Days - 25 Meals - $3695 According to my detractors, this and illegal. Moreover, never could I voting age was changed to 18 Tokyo, Sado Island, Kanazawa, ~anohashidate, Tottori, Matsue, would constitute mutiny! Surely, have conceived that my trust in because we realized that if Izumo Taisha, Mt. Daizen Hot Spnngs & Kyoto. these captains should have waited leadership . would be shattered America's young men and women Oct. 29 Fall Japan Classic - 11 Days -,24 ~~ - $~50 !okyo• for this lieutenant colonel's com• because of their deception used to were eligible to die for their country mand time to end (after Iraq) - at that age, they should have a say. Takayama-Nara-Kobe-Takahashi-MiyaJuna-Hiroshima-lnland Sea• wage this war. S~odo Island-Kyoto. after all, he had trained with these We must remember our duty and I say be involved, because as a men for over a year. But these men young man working my way obligation to do what's morally Nov. 9 OkinawaIKyushuiShikoku - 12 Days - 28 Meals - $3795 - 3, , committed no such crime, because right. It's not that 1 disagree ~ith through school, playing tennis, surf• Days Okinawa Karatsu, Nagasaki - Kumamoto - Beppu - AshizUfl fortunately for them and their men, this war; it's not a matter of ChOice. ing, and partying on the weekends, - Koehi - Takamatsu - Osaka. there exists a system of accounta• The government has broken the law I never was. Beyond skimming the bility. I would hope tliat your read• and is forcing soldiers to do the front-page headlines, I never delved Dec. 13 Deluxe Radisson Tahiti Christmas Cruise - 9 Days - From ers can take this example and apply same. My ultimate orders provided - into the deeper issues behind poli• $2694 - Papeete - Raiatea - Tahaa - Bora Bora - Moorea - Papeete. it to my situation. by the Constitution ar:e. sim~le : tics and current events. Beyond one PC: As you know, the JA com• refuse to condone or partJ.clpate m a class in college, I never realized 2007 PREVIEW munity has long revered its , hold your superiors account• how certain past administrations vets, especially its wwn vets. Do have wrecked havoc upon third able, and if all possible protect life. Jan 20 - Panama Canal Cruise - Crystal Harmony you think your decision has had a world countries in the name of For these JA vets to tell me to go to Mar. 13 - B~t of China - Mar. 26 - Spring Japan Classic negative impact on their accom• power and greed. ' Iraq anyway is wrong and irrespon- Apr. 9 - Japan - Off the Beaten Track - May 7 - Japan Panorama Tour plishments? sible. ' . Would I be where I am now if I EW: The 442nd Infantry and May 18 - Orient Cruise - with Viet Nam . PC: You could now possibly had never Joined the Army? lOOth Battalion are one of the most June 6 - Music Cities Tour - July 2 - Summer Japan ClasSIC face prison time if you are con• Absolutely not. I would not be in a decorated units in American Army victed of the charges. How are position to do what I am doing or history. Many Americans who have Aug. 12 - Best of Eastern Canada you dealing with this possibility? even be aware of what's really served or serving in the military Sept. 2 - Greece & Thrkey Cruise· Celebrity Cruise are EW: I knew joining the Army, going on in Iraq. But that's not an will never know this fact. The JAs Sept. 26 - Fall in New England - Oct. 11 HokkaidolTohoku whether it was fighting in a foreign excuse for inaction or ignorance. I who served during WWII fought a Oct. 22 - Uranihon - Nov. 1 - Fall Japan Classic - Oct. 10 - Okinawa war or now fighting for the rights of advocate mandatory service be it in two-front battle. They fought soldiers, meant sacrifice. In com• the military or some other volunteer against the Germans, Italians, and . . ''Early Bird savings - call for brochure" bat, you may lose a limb, bodily organization. . Japanese. They also fought ~or the~ PC: How have your fellow sol• INCLUDES - flights, porterage, hotels, sightseeing & MOST MEALS. civil rights and that of therr fann• functions, or your ,life. Speaking , out against an authoritarian gove~­ diers been treating you since you lies. Some even saw it as fighting announced your decision? ment and refusing to obey therr . KOKUSAI INTERNATIONAL TRAVEL, INC. for their honor and loyalty as EW: Immediately after my pub• 'Americans. unlawful orders may mean loss of 4911 Warner Ave., Suite 221, Huntington Beach, CA 92649 lic statement, you could cut the ten• 714/840-0455 - FAX 714/840-0457 [1006444-10] Participating in the war in Iraq liberty and other less than pleasant things. These are 1:?oth ' sacrifices sion in' the air with a knife. Some PACIFIC CITIZEN,AUG. 4-17, 2006 SPORTS/NATIONAL NEWS 7 BASEBALL ONE ROOF 'It's strange sometimes. They try to tell me what to do, butI'm (Continued from page 1) thinking" "Okay. This is my house, '" said Nancy Vo (be/ow) Zenimu,., Ensh,.ined by B,seb", Relil/u,,.y . about her parents. and the siblings had to step up to the challenge. Nancy says she didn't mind turning over her savings. After all, it's the burden of the second generation, isn't it? Historically, second and third generation Asian Pacific Americans have always been the bridges between two cultures. Issei parents relied on their American-born children to skirt the Alien Land Laws and many LEGEND IN THE MIDDLE: Zenimura with Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig. second generation APAs become unofficial translators for parents S~ By Pacific Citizen there. He picked up the game in and grandparents. Now more than back~ Mills High School, and won ever, second generation APAs Kenichi Zenimura, the "father of to-back Island Championships for . find themselves inextricably Japanese American Baseball," was • the school in 1918 and 1919. In bound to homes with two or more inducted into the Baseball, 1920, he moved to Fresno, Calif., . generations .under one roof. Reliquary's Shrine of Eternals July and later organized a ten-team Nisei "I was happy to do it," said "I sacrifl,Ced my savings and Multigenerational Angst 23 in a ceremony at. the Pasadena baseball league. Nancy, who is looking for an partially riIy freedom," said For Nancy, privacy comes at a Central Library.in Pasadena, Calif. Like . the Negro Leagues, apartment. . if she moves out she Zenimura was honored along Vince. "I wanted to move out, but premimn. :zenimura and other Nisei faced still plans to pay her share of the with my contributions, it's pretty . In the evenings, all activities with baseball greats Josh Gibson immense discrimination, and had to family's bills. and Fernando Valenzuela play in their own leagues and teams. difficult to do so. I would proba• come to a halt to keep the children bly still have to make most ~if not ~leep and in the early hours of The Baseball Reliquary is a non• His teams were so efficient, espe• A Home By A~y Means all) of what 1 pay now if I did the morning, bright-eyed nieces profit organization that works to fos• cially his all-star Fresno Athletic Necessary ter an appreciation of American cul• move out. Now, since my brother thunder into the bedr(,)om Nancy Club, that when Babe Ruth and Lou The number of American ture and art through the context of Gehrig went barnstorming in the got a full time job, he could take shares with her college-age sister. households .with three or more baseball history, and the Shrine of west in 1927, Zenimura and other care of the utilities when I do get Sleep is a luxury, she said. . . ., . generations living under the same Eternals is the orgaruzallon s eqmv- JA players were invited to join them. out." Then there's the ,tenuous rela• roof rose 38 percent from 1990 to alent to Cooperstown's National Playing baseball in the camps was Vinc~'s longtime girlfriend also tionship she shares with her elders 2000, according to the U.S. Baseball Hall of Fame. a way to maintain normalcy and to pooled her income with her sib• whom she's culturally required to Census Bureau. lings to buy a condo that four gen• honor and respect, but in such Zenimura was a baseball pioneer build a sense of community in . The more hands a family has, bringing the sport to the World War demanding times. The games were erationscall home. The couple is tight quarters and with overlap• the better its chance of s~ival IT internment camps ·and to the looking to~ards the future while ping responsibiliti:es, nerves get hugely popular and were critical in - it's an adage that conjures Japanese mainland with a series of keeping family obligations in exposed. helping the internees bond together images of a past era, but the tours. One of his lasting contribu• in the face of adversity and discrim• mind. . Multigenerational families liv• plight is very much grounded in tions was leadership of the Fresno ination. "Right now, I'm waiting for my ing together can cause tension, 2006. Athletic Club, JA all-star organiza• After the war, Zenimura contin• younger sister to finish her school experts say, especially in house• a To pay the bills for their three• tion that lasted more than 50 years. and get a job to help with the holds where "adult" responsibili" ued to coach and spread baseball bedroom house, the Trieu family Zenimura also worked as a coach mortgage. So when I do move ties like paying the bills are taken around the West. He was the first JA has a payment breakdown ·based and played infielder and catcper elected into the Fresno Athletic Hall ·out, I won't have to pay too much over by the younger generations. on income and age. Vince, a 28- until he was 55. and it won't seem like I'm aban- "It's strange sometimes. They of Fame in 1979. year-old city employee, pays for Born Jan. 25, 1900, in Hiroshima, Zenimura died Nov. 13, 1968, but doning them. try to tell me what to do, but I'm the utility bills and 40 percent of Japan, Zenimura moved to Hawaii "My sister will probably be thinking, 'Okay. This is my hi mark and influence on baseball the mortgage, his younger broth• finished by the end of the year, so house,'" said Nancy. in 1907 and spent his childhood continue on today.• er contributes 35 percent, his 1 will probably move out by the "I can't wait to get out," she older sister puts in 15-20 percent end of next year," said Vince. . said, but added that her family is and the remainder is shared by his "I don't resent anything. It was more cohesive than most. She mom and younger sister. . .ClmeriCan HottdCl\{1favel a pretty smart decision to buy the counts her siblings as her closest They bought the house ' in EI house when we did. The only friends and her candidate of . 2006 TOUR SCHEDULE . 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Upon intergenerational discussion group realized I was part of the Yes-Yes From where I was sItting, this felt underprivileged families from Los entering·college, I eagerly threw at this year's Tule Lake Pilgrimage group who had condemned our very much like an act of violence Angeles to e~oy summer camp in myself into Asian American class• held on July 1- own. against us. One bus window can be the San Bemardino Mountains. es, AA organizations and essential• 4 in Klamath 'Then when I saw you in Seattle written off as vandalism. Three bus Unlike my standard L.A. routine of ly enlightening myself on all things Falls, Oregon. and you told me that your father had windows, plus the theater window, chilling in air-conditioned boba AA. I sometimes wonder if I did all Mary is the felt like a pariah all these years, that is sending a definite message to our cafes with wireless intemet, this at the expense of alienating my author of her hit me like a punch in the stomach," group. To me, it reminds us that hate Unicamp meant that I didn't show• non-AA friends. memoir, she said. is very much alive, and we, as JAs, er for a week, sang a lot of cpmp I think this is one of the reasons "Looking Like The Nisei soldier story, she said, can still be victims of it, np matter songs and enjoyed a wonderfully why I decided to join Unicamp this the Enemy." has overshadowed the importance what position we took during the ~hange • unpolluted view of the stars at year. It was a nice from She came to the of what groups l!ke the No-No war. night. That, and I was always sur• what I was usually used to doing. pilgrimage on a mission, and her Boys, Renunciants and Heart And with recent news of North rounded by kids half my age. Forget the model minority myth message would touch my' farnily Mountain Resisters did, and that Korea testing nuclear missiles, near• No matter how much kids are and the objectification of Japanese deeply. their positions were our democracy ly 200 people killed in a terrorist willing to give up MP3 players, women and the lack of AA repre• My father, Nisei .writer Hiroshi in action as they stood up' for every attack on a train in India, a brutal tit• sentation in the media. Regardless . video games, make-up orcell Kashiwagi, 83, my mother, Sadako, American's Constitutional right to for-tat confrontation escalating of ethnic background or cultural phones for a week, you can't and the rest of my farnily were protest and dissent. between Israel and Hezbollah, and a . backgrourid, we're all here to help expect them to leave everything imprisoned at the Tule Lake "Each side is worthy - they're continuing war raging in Iraq, the behind, including ingrained atti• out the kids; let's forget this whole Segregation Center, which would both very worthy," she said. only thing left to say is: "Peace, tudes concerning race and class. race discussion for just one second: become home to the ''No-No Boys." 'They're both in support of the please." Our group of kids was from West Of course, when you are in Los The ''No-No Boys," were con" Constitution. One is not better than For all of us in the JA communi-' L.A. and consisted mostly of Angeles, there is no escape from demned by members of the JA com• the other." ty, my plea to you is this: Let it start African Americans and Korean the race discussion. Coming up to munity - including the JACL at its Normally, I would end the story with us. Americans. This meant that for the camp was a rude awakening of just 1946 national convention - as on this .note. However, there's one After 60 years, it's time to let the most part, kids tended to cluster how much work we have to do to "disloyals" and "troublemakers." more story to tell. old grudges go, and if you can't, amongst color lines with very little promote interracial harmony so our Being condemned as "disloyal" has On July 3, about 260 of us from then please stop slamming those intermixing. next generation of children are not left a scar on my dad that's so the pilgrimage attended the JA cul-· who took: a different position during When a group of Korean so alienated from each other among painful that he and many other No• . tural program at the Ragland the war. We need to move on to the American girls got into a lengthy strictly defined color lines. bigger battles still in front of us, like discussion on the merits of kimchi, Within our Unicamp circle, we No Boys refuse to talk about it. Theater in Klamath FallS". As we ~t an African American girl overhear• keep reminding each other of the When I met Mary for the walked outside after the show, we hate and racism - and shattered ing this loudly quipped, "What the starfish story that was .told to us the time in Seattle in May, she told me were met with the sobering news windows on our buses. heck is kimchi1" night before we left for camp. The she was planning to attend the Thle that two of our five buses had had a Peace, as Mary Matsuda Many of my fellow Unicamp story basically goes like this: a man Lake Pilgrimage, and was going to' total of three windows shattered by Gruenewald says, happens one volunteers expressed frustration comes across a child who is spend• speak out in support of the "No-No" a BB gun, causing $2,600 in dam• person at a time. Let it start with over this. They tried a number of ing an entire afternoon picking up position. This, coming from the sis• age. 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samurai didn't measure up to cow• "I could understand that. If you're boys and Japanese culture just a Japanese American living on the seemed inferior. West Coast, you're more likely to be Then in 2001, Nomura's son, among people who look like you, . freshly graduated from Penn State but you still feel like you're on the with a degree in biochemistry, outside of it," said Nomura. "I don't accepted a fellowship from an insti• particularly like standing out." tute in Japan. Almost immediately In one· scene, he films his sur• upon anival, his all-American son roundings on a train and everyone started cheerleading about Japan around him looked like him. too. 'That was odd. I was not used to "I thought 'Hey I have to check it. Seeing so many people that look this out,'" said Nomura. . like you - that was overwhelming The Sansei professor of film and in a good way because there's a kind television production at Los of relaxation that happens. You Angeles' Loyola Marymount don't have your guard up wonder• Unive~ity applied for a Fulbright ing, 'Who's looking at me?'" said Why would JAs choose to research grant to make a documen• Nomura. live in Japan? Art Nomura tary about Japanese Americans who As the cameta roles, Nomura cap• seeks answers in his docu• chose to live in Japan. tures contradicting images of an old Shield o£Califomia And with camera in hand, he world in modern times and a lot of Shi~ld mentary 'Finding Home.'- An Independent Member of the Blue AsSoClation .went to find out how ichiban Japan diversity represented. He captures really is. interviewees in intimate moments LYNDA LIN Nomura's feature length docu• of self-reflection while waxing Assistant Editor· mentary, "Finding Home," is as philosophical on the questions of much a personal film for his father home and identity. "I was never a big fan of Japan as a meditation on identity and cul• A beefy Hawaiian-born wrestler growing up," said Art Nomura tural authenti(tity. In his voice over proudly wears a t-shirt with the about his fonnative years with a narrations, he often speaks to his proclamation "purebred" while talk• Nisei father and Issei grandmoth• father while trying to untangle ques• ing about feeling truly American for er who were "unabashed cheer• tions about the country he's heard.so the first time when he came to lea.ders for Japan," For them, much about Japan. At the end of his odyssey, everything about the motherland His reactions were very mixed• Nomura comes up with a personal was ichiban, . on the one hand there was the histor• answer for the questism: where is But the praise fell on deaf ears. ical and cultural areas that seemed home? As a teenager he would retort, to challenge time contrasted starkly As for the ichiban question: "Why don't you go live there?" with the "haphazardly organized" "Japan was a pretty good place ... Growing up in the 1950s when cities and commercial areas. I grew to understand what I previ• World War II was still fresh in the He interviewed over 50 JA expa• ously disliked," said Nomura. "I American psyche and John triates who chose to live in Japan understood my own behavior more. Wayne ruled the big screen, the and heard t"ea&ons varying from the "I'm definitely an American and I Japanese were . portrayed as the good food to a deeply embedded appreciate that I am of Japanese bad guys, so Nomura naturally hatred of American political ancestry." • aspired to become a cowboy. hypocrisy. "I wanted to fit in and be an "I could sympathize with all their For screening information or to American," he said, but he was ~oris," said Nomura, who spent order a copy of 'Finding Home' go forced into Japanese school on five months there. One expatriate to www.artllomura.com or Saturdays where he would feel like said he didn't like to stand out. www.arrupeproductions.com an outsider. In his ·young mind,

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Info: co• More than 60 booth exhibits chairs, Jason Higashi, 707/837-9932, including the original doll cre• [email protected] or Jim Craig, ations by a master guest artist 916/652-0093, thayajoyce@sbcglob• from Japan (above) and all-day CELEBRATING: APA leaders attend the July 27 White House signing of al.net. stage performances such as the the Voting Rights Act (I-r;' JACL Director of Public Policy Floyd Mori; tsugaru shamisen Hiroshi InterI11Oll1tain JACL intern Greg Stillman; John Yang of the Organization of Chinese Matsuda (left) are some of the Americans; Vincent Chin, AAJC deputy director; Christine Chen of SALT LAKE CITY many events being 'held at the APIA Vote; and Jeanette Moy of APIA Vote. Through Aug. 20--Exhibition, Aki Matsuri (Fall Festival) in "Diamonds in the Rough: Japanese Bellevue, Wash. from Sept.9-10. for trying to register to vote. She co• Americans in Baseball"; Salt Lake VRA founded the Mississippi Freedom City Public Library, 210 East 400 (Continued from page 1) Info: www.enma.org Democmti~ South; Mon.-Thurs. 9-9 p.m., Fri.-Sat. Party and gave a fiery or 425/861-7865 frequently. I 9-6 p.m., Sun. 1-5 p.m.; the exhii:>it speech at the 1964 Democratic The Republican-controlled chronicles 100 years of Nikkei National Convention. In 1955, Congress, eager to improve its Parks refused to give up her bus seat ballplayers-their struggles, triumphs, Info: 866/ 805-7323 or featuring Gmnd Marshal Noritoshi standing with minorities ahead of to a white man in Montgomery, and legacies. Info: SLC Public Library www.stockton.lib.ca.us. Kanai of Mutua! Tmding ComJ>3I!Y; the November elections, pushed the 801l524-8200. events held at various locations Alabama, sparking a mass boycott Southern Calforna bill through even though key provi• by thousands, mainly black women PacifIC Northwest around Little Tokyo. Info: www.nisei• LOS ANGELES week.org or 213/687-7193. sions were not set to expire until domestic workers who had long BELLEVUE Aug. 9, ll-Performances, "At Home Sat,-Sun., Aug. 19-20--Teacher next year. filled the buses' back seats. King Sat.-Sun., Sept. 9-10--Aki Matsuri in This World"; 7 p.m.; UCLA's Tmining Workshop; Go For Broke 'The right of ordinary men and was a prominent civil rights activist Fall Festival; Bellevue Community Glorya Kaufman Dance Theater; 18 Little Tokyo office; workshop will women to determine their own and the widow of slain civil rights College, 3000 Landerholm Circle SE, celebmted performers from Asia and focus on the segregated fighting forces political future lies at the heart of the leader Martin Luther King, Jr. Bellevue, WA; Sat., 10 am.-6 p.m., America will present individual and of WWII through personal experi• American experiment," Bush said. APA groups along with the ' Sun., 11 a.m.-5 p.m.; free admission original works of music, dance, theater ences of the 100/442 RCT and the He said the Voting Rights Act pro• Congressional Asian Pacific and parking; a Japanese cultural arts and shadow puppetry; $12 general MIS; $25 for two days and provides posed and signed by then-President American Caucus, the event featuring JACL Lake admission, $10 seniors and students. an optional Continuing Education Lyndon Johnson in 1965 "broke the Congressional Black Caucus and Washington chapter displaying Ticket info: 310/825-2101. Unit through CSU Dominguez Hills segregationist lock on the voting the Congressional Hispanic Caucus "Eastside History Panels" and a Power Sat.-Sun., Aug. 12-13-11th Annual for an additional $40; more work• box." have worked vigorously in the last Point presentation from writer, David Los Angeles Tofu Festival; Sat. 2-10 shops are scheduled for: San Gabriel "My administmtion will vigor• few months to ensure the bill's pas• Neiwert. Info: www.enmaorg or call p.m., Sun. noon-6 p.m.; 237 South San Valley, Oct. 7-8; Long Beach, Oct. 21- ously enforce the provisions of this sage. 425/861-7865. Pedro St; featuring a cooking demo 22; LAUSD specific Manual Arts law, and we will defend it in court," '%e language provisions of the OL\¥pIA from the Food Network, Iron Chef High School, Oct. 14-15; and LAUSD Bush said. Voting Rights Act renewal is a huge Sat., Aug. 12-0lympia Bon Odori; Morimoto, Reggie Sutherland of Next specific Peary DELTA Prof. The legislation bears the names of victory· for civil rights," said Gen food sales begin at 5 p.m., entertain• Food Network Star, Scott Liebfried of Development Center, Nov. 5-6. Info: three women who were active in the Fujioka, executive director of the ment at 6 p.m. and obon dancing at 7 Hell's Kitchen and more; also to www.GoForBroke.org or ,Wayne right~ p.m.; Capitol Lake at Water Street; civil movement: Fannie Lou Asian American Law Caucus. "It is appear are Tommy Tang, Troy Osako, 310/222-5702. sponsored by the Olympia JACL and Hamer, Rosa Parks and Coretta now up to our communities to exer• Thompson, Ann Gentry and Candice TORRANCE the Olympia Sister City Assn. Info: Scott King. Bush said he was sign• cise this hard earned right and Kumai; a Sat. q:lDcert will feature Sat., Sept. 16--PSW JACL Annual Reiko Callner, 360/943-1029. ing the bill "in honor of their mem• increase our participation in the Blackalicious; the tofu eating contest Awards Dinner; 5 p.m. registration, 6 PORTLAND· ory and their contribution to the ' democmtic process." will allow participants to flavor their p.m. dinner; Torrance Holiday Inn. Through Aug. 27-Exhibit, "Big cause of freedom." The bill passed the Senate by a tofu before eating; $8, seniors and kids Info: PSW Office, 213/626-4471 or Drum: Taiko in the United States;" Hamer, a Mississippi sharecrop• vote of 98-0 and the House 390-33 . • 5-12 are $5. Info: [email protected]. Oregon Nikkei Legacy Center, 121 www.tofufestival.com or 213/473- per, was beaten and jailed in 1962 NW Second Ave.; Tues.-Sat. 11-3 3030. Nevada • p.m., Sun. 12-3 p.m.; traveling version Aug. 12-20-66th Annual Nisei Week of JANM's exhibition; features photo• Festival; events include: baby pageant, Oct. 27-29-JACL Singles graphs, artifacts and media arts; $3 Nikkei Games, car show, Pioneer Convention; Plaza Hotel, downtown; donation, free to ONLC and JANM Luncheon, Coronation Ball, the Grand events include: Fri.: golf tournament members. Info: ONLC, 5031224-1458. Parade and more; ''Luxury Car Show" at Palm Valley Golf Club, welcome We wouldn't Northern onAug. 12, 11- 6 p.m., $8 pre-sale and reception; Sat.: workshops, luncheon Calforna $10 at the door; Gmnd Pamde at 4 p.m. and dinner dance; Sun.: brunch and SACRAMENTO have missed it free morning golf at Highland Falls Sat.-Sun., Aug. 12-1~ Annual Golf Club; room mtes are Fri. and Sat. 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Bid proposals must include knowledge of web devel• Ave; boutique will feature hand-made Union Bank of California- is proud to be a sponsor of this arts and crafts, food, children's activi• opment, samples of work, vision ties and rafile!silent auction; proceeds for the PSW website, project distinguished event. We appreciate your dedication and significant benefit the West Valley JACL Senior timeline and package cost. Bid Clubhouse; sponsored by the West deadline is August 31, 2006. . contributions to the community and are honored to support your Valley JACL; bentos and sushi tickets Avoid the Terri Schiavo Mess ., Download an Advance Health Care Directive will be pre-sold until Aug. 9 .. To order: For further information, call vision and efforts. Here's to your continued success. Free of Cham on le&albridl:e.com [email protected]. Info: www.daru• (213) 626-4471 or email mafestival.org. office @ jaclpsw.org. Bid pro• Sat., Aug. ~Meet Delphine posals can be emailed or mailed Th"lll,h :\. Shlgd.1I1l1 ,Ill" \""(I,llL', Invest in you· Hirasuna, author of "The Art of to JACL PSW, Attn: Website \IIOrlll')' ,il Ll\\ (-'WI 5 ..11-')2(,6 Gaman"; Chavez Central Library, 605 Development Committee, 244 N. EI Domdo St; autographed copies S. San Pedro St. #406, Los (562) 598-9523 ~ Established 1965 of her book will be available at a Angeles, CA 90012. Website _'W. Little Tokyo Branch reduced price; refreshments will be development funding is made Imperial Jewelry Mfg. Co. Yukio Shiratori, VP & Branch Manager ~ngeles, served; sponsored by the Stockton Rne Jewelry' Custom Designing' Repair 120 South San Pedro Street, los CA 90012 possible by Southern California (213) 972-5506 Public Library, Friends of the Stockton 11072 Los Alamitos Blvd. Edison. LoS Alamitos, CA 90720 Public Library and the Stockton JACL. Visit us at unionbank.com e 2006 Union Bank of California, N.A. Member FDIC PACIFIC CITIZEN, AUG. 4-17, 2006 OBITUARIES 11 '... there is a great feeling of loss in the Asian Pacific artist community. ' - Tim Dang, artistic director of East West Players Whereabouts I· In Memoriam - 2886 Whereabouts is he of charge and run on a space-avallable basis • Mako, Pioneering AA Actor, Dies at 72 . All the towns are in California except as noted. Fukumitsu, Kiyoshi, 85, This compilation appears on a space• MAS OKADA, By ASSOCIATED PRESS the wizard in ·"Conan the available basis' at no cost. Printed obit• Dr. Robert T. Hayashi of the University of Rowland Heights, July 6; sUlVived Barbaiian" and "Conan the uaries frGfTI your newspaper are wel• WiSConsin-Oshkosh is looking for Mas by wife, Terri; daughter Lillian come. "Death Notices,n which appear Okada. Dr. Hayashi is publishing a book and LOS ANGELES-Mako, the Destroyer" with Arnold . (Brice) Hata; 2 gc.; and sister Yukie in a timely manner at request oHhe would like to use the poem "AnsNer the Call" Jap!ln-born actor who used his Schwarzenegger. Kawase. family or funeral director, are published written by Mr. Okada. The poem was pub• Oscar nomination for the 1966 film On Broadway, his mUltiple roles at the rate of $18 per column inch. Text lished in the Minidoka high school newsletter, Heyainoto,Fumiko Fukai, 85, "The Sand Pebbles" to push fOE as reciter, shogun, emperor and an is reworded as nece.ssary. Hunt Hi-Utes. With information email Dr. Spokane, Washington, July 8; sur-. Hayashi at [email protected]. better roles for Asian American American businessman in Stephen vived by sons, David (Jerrie) and Kanaya, Mitsuye, 90, Monterey, SETSUKO JANE ASACHIKA actors, has died. He was 72. Sondheim's 1976 musical "Pacific Douglas (Joanne); 4 gc.~ brothers, July 15; sUlVived by daughters, The Watsonville-Santa Cruz JACL and the Mako, whose birth name was Overtures" earned him a Tony Hank and Dick (Kay) Fubu; sister, Junko (Ted) Adams and Sadayo Pajaro Valley Historical ASsn. are looking for Makoto Iwamatsu, died July 21 of Award nOnP-nation for best actor in Ms. Asachika. Her father Takeo and mother Nanllko Hijiya. Kanaya Lurie; 4 gc.; 2 ggc.; broth-. esophageal cancer a musical. Fumiye lived in Poston I, block 38-3-0 with an Higashi, Harry Hide, 82, ers, James (Jane) Uyeda, George uncle George in 21-3-A. After WWII the fami• at his home in His portrayal Salinas, July 15; wwn Veteran, (Toshiko) Uyeda, and Charles ly lived in the Oxnard area. The Watsonville• Somis, California, of a Chinese Santa Cruz JACL is in possession of a family 442nd RTC; survived by wife, Teru; (Swill) Uyeda. said Tim Dang, coolie in "The photo album and would like to return ~ to any son, Jason (Lori); daughter, Susan Sagami, Yahachi, Chicago, artistic director of Sand Pebbles," family member. Contact Mas HashialOto, Mallie; 4 gc.; sister, Mary (Shigeru) illinois, July 13; wwn Veteran, 8311722-6859, [email protected] with East West Players, starring Steve Tokiwa. 442nd RCT; sUlVived by daughters, info. the AA theater McQueen, Donna (David) Handwerk, Marcia company Mako co• earned him a DEATH NOTICE (Mark) Morancy, and Lisa; 2 gc.; founded in 1965. best supporting ROBERT MASANORI brothers, Ken, Soya, and Toshio; "With . -Mako's actor Oscar HORIUCHI sister, Hatayo Wallen. passing, there is a nomination in Robert Masanori Horiuchi Tanita, Makoto ''Mack,'' 88, great feeling of loss 1967. (Bob), 90, passed away July 1. He Phoenix, Arizona, July 15; wwn in the Asian Pacific As artistic is survived by his wife, Chiyo; veteran; survived by wife, Nobuko; artist community," Dang said. "We director of East West Players, brother Harold (Edith); daughter daughte1;S Evelyn (Mark) Diamono, Lynne; son Makoto (Jeannie) and have lost a pioneer who helped Mako staged classics such as Shirley (Owen) McGeehon, and 707 East Temple Street Gerald Fukui three grandsons, AkiTa, Izumi, and Los Angeles, CA 90012 President 'pave the way for all of us trying to Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night" and Korin; and many other loving fam• Susan (Jim) Nomura; son Clyde; 8 make a career in the arts and the Chekhov's "Three Sisters." In ily members. Bob worked for the gc . • Ph. 2131626-0441 entertainment industry." 1981, he devoted the entire season State of Colorado Revenue and DEATH NOTICE Fax 2131617-2781 Highway Departments, and in In an acting career that spanned to plays pertaining to the intern• MACK YAMAGUCHI more than four decades, Mako, ment of Japanese Americans dur• and Kenya as a finan• cial consultant. He volunteered for PASADENA, Calif. - Mack who was born in Kobe, Japan in ing World War IT to coincide with many boards, and was a prominent Yamaguchi, 86, passed away June 1933, was a familiar face in film the start of a national discussion on member of the Asian American 14. He is survived by his wife and television, sometimes playing internment reparations. community in Denver. He held Alice, children, Donna Jean (Ken) Inouye, Greg (Susan) Yamaguchi, roles that stereotyped Asians. His Mako immigrated to New York offices in the Mile-Hi JACL chap• JoAnn Asakawa, Denise. Kimura, TV roles included appearances on when he was 15. After serving two ter and helped with redress. An informal memorial service was Rachel Yamaguchi and eight "I Spy," "MASH," and "Walker, years in the U.S. military, he grandchildren. A memorial service . held July 9 for close friends and F.D.L.#929 Texas Ranger." moved to California' and studied was held July 1 at the First family. In lieu of flowers, donations 911 VENICE BLVD. In films, he was a Japanese theater at the Pasadena Playhouse. may be -sent to Mile-Hi Japanese Presbyterian Church of Altadena. LOS ANGELES, CA 90015 . Donations in memory of Mack can admiral in 2001 's "Pearl Harbor," a He is survived by his wife, American Citizens League; c/o be made to the First Presbyterian (213) 749-1449 ~ingaporean in 1997's '.'Seven Shizuko Hoshi, and their daughters Brian Matsumoto, President; 1335 FAX (213) 749-0265 So. Kingston Street; Aurora, CO, Church of Altadena or Pasadena R. 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