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Asian American groups in Chicago took to the streets May 1 to demand immigration refonn and denounce Arizona's 58 1070, which leaders have called 'mean-spirited and misguided.'

Activists say the new law that criminalizes being The ArizonaJACL has introduced a resolution calling for SB and ethnic profiling." undocumented will affect all communities of 1070 to be overturned. The resolution, which cites similar anti• Proponents say the new law does not promote racial profil• color. Asian and anti-immigrant sentiment during the 1920s, will be ing. Sen. Russell Pearce said opponents are using racial profil• voted on at the June 30-July 4 JACL national convention in ing as a cover for their true concern - deportation. By Lynda Lin Chicago. 'This is not about profiling. They're worned about the laws Assistant Editor Under the new Arizona law, immigrants unable to produce being enforced," said Pearce, who sponsored the bill. documents showing that they are allowed to be in the U.S. APAs leaders disagree. On a lonely Phoenix street in April, a police officer pulled could be arrested, jailed for up to six months and fined $2,500. "It is about racial profiling," said Dr. Rudy Guevarra, an behind Jim Shee's parked B:M\V and asked to see his "papers." Currently, many U.S. police departments do not ask about peo• East Valley, Arizona resident and Asian Pacific American Shee, 70, who had pulled over to the side of the road to check ple's immigration status unless they have run afoul of the law Studies professor. "If you fit the look, you're going to be a tar• text messages on his cell phone, responded, "I hope you mean in some other way. get." my registration and license." The law's supporters say it's necessary because of the federal Guevarra said enforcement of the law would affect every The police officer said Shee was being questioned because he government's failure to secure the border. Arizonais home to an community including APAs. In particular Filipino Americans, was "suspicious." It's typical, said the Arizona JACL member estimated 460,000 undocumented immigrants, according to the who often have Spanish surnames and are oftentimes mistak• - in April, he was pulled over twice in less than two weeks. Associated Press. en as Latinos, will be affected and subject to law enforcement "DWB," said Shee, who is of Chinese and Spanish descent. But critics contend it enoourages racial profiling and is harassment, he added. "It's 'driving while brown' ... when he saw me all he saw was Activists have also pointed out parallels to another bill brown." recently signed into law, which prohibits a Tucson Unified Shee, a community activist, has joined an Asian Pacific School District's ethnic studies program from promoting American ooalition to fight a controversial Arizona immigra• resentment towards a certain ethnic group. The ethnic studies tion law that makes it a state crime to be undocumented in the program allows students to take history and literature courses United States. The coalition is part of a larger national move• that include infonnation about the influence of a particulareth• ment spurred by the April 23 signing of SB 1070, which oppo• nic group. The district denies that the program promotes nents say will result in racial profiling. resentment. "Congress and President Obama need to pass comprehensive 'This is a step backwards in tenns of civil rights and human immigration refonn to keep rogue states like Arizona from rights. We're going backwards in tenns of human rights in the introducing mean-spirited and misguided legislation like this," 21st century," said Guevarra. said Eun Sook Lee, executive director of the National Korean Boycotts of Arizona have been coordinated to protest SB American Service and Education Consortium (NAKASEC), an unconstitutional. 1070, but many agree that the fight lies ahead with Congress APA civil rights group that took to the streets May 1 along with "Fighting SB 1070 is critical for APAs in Arizona as this civil in Washington, D.C. It's a fight that has so far unified many millions of other Americans nationwide to demand immigra• rights violation impacts all communities," said Ted Namba, different communities of color and bridged generations of tion refonn. Arizona JACL civil rights chair. activists. A referendum drive and lawsuits have emerged as potential As the JACL Nonnan Mineta Fellow Phillip Ozaki, 23, has 'The worst case of racial profiling roadblocks to Arizona's tough new immigration law. But APA been working to pass comprehensive immigration refonn in since World War IT' leaders fear the larger impact of the law. Oklahoma and Texas Washington, D.C. On May 1, he also attended an immigration APA groups say immigration refonn, although commonly lawmakers have announced plans to introduce tough immigra• refonn event. framed as a Latino issue, is needed in the APA community. tion measures in their states similar to Arizona's. It's not only a job, its personal for Ozaki, who is of Filipino Nationwide, there are currently 1.5 million undocumented "Arizona is setting a ternble precedence in the civil rights and Japanese descent. Asian immigrants living in the U.S. arena with SB 1070," said Namba. 'The fact is that all of us were immigrants who came to the The JACL, in a statement, called SB 1070 "the worst case of U.S. at one point and such a core group of our American fab• racial profiling since World War II" with national director Floyd Unifying Communities of Color ric should not be harassed and demonized," he said. "One Mori comparing Arizona's new immigration law to the Vl\VII The law, which takes effect in late July or early August, is thing I do take personally is the new racial profiling law in treatment of Japanese Americans who were targeted by law being criticized as an attack on communities of oolor. In a piece Arizona. Anyone whose skin color is brown - whether immi• enforcement because of their shared heritage with the country for the Huffington Post, Rep. Mike Honda, D-Calif., said SB grant or eighth-generation-American - now has to wony that attacked Pearl Harbor. 1070 "establishes a dangerous precedence in nonnalizing racial about freedom being taken away." • 4 MAY 7-20, 2010 NATIONAL NEWS PACIFIC. CI1lZEN

Taiko players with the Orange County Buddhist Church's Daion Taiko (above) say they are about 50 members strong and growing, Making Taiko a Family Affair

By Nalea J. Ko play," said Kevin Suda, 23, who plays with Taiko Project, "It UCLA, Reporter is a means of expression, collective and individual empower• "It was just amazing. I remember that I was sitting there, and ment, aud simply a great way to let loose energy that you may it was the energy that attracted me to want to find out more Patricia Fukuma was attracted to the rhythm of the taiko or may not know you have." information," Ishida continued. "I think music in general it drums she heard in the 1990s at the University of California, The inclusive nature of taiko attracted other players who attracts people from all different ages, I thiuk that especially Los Angeles, It sounded like a heartbeat, she said, also started bauging on taiko with their families just like the since taiko is growing so fast right now." The 50-year-old has now been playing taiko for about four Fukumas, There is no one reason, Ishida said, why she eujoys playing years, But that taiko beat still inspires her to thump her fingers "Well, both my parents played, My dad was my first teacher, taiko, It is something she simply loves doing, Others say they on the steering wheel while driving in her car aud tap her drum• That's how my mom aud dad actually met," said 21-year-old play to have a reuewed connection to their J A identity, sticks, or bachi, while walking around the block. Tomomi Hongo who performs with Progressive Taiko and Chris Terada, who performs with Daion Taiko with her 11- "It's something as a family we're able to do together," Taiko Project "I was never forced to play, It's something that year-old son, said the performances are a cultural experience. Patricia Fukuma said, "My daughter always says I'm out of I took interest in, I cau't imagine my life without taiko," "It's great to have that connection" J think being from a rhythm, ", I'm not very good at all, I just have a lot of fun," family that was in Mauzauar, during that whole generation you "My mom seems to like adding extra beats, or kara karas, kind of didu't waut to have that much association with your kind of raudomly," said l3-year-old Nina Fukuma, Patricia's heritage or just being Japauese," Terada said, "You kind of daughter, about her mother's taiko skills, wanted to just blend in. Now there's a resurgence with being The Fukumas - including mother, daughter aud father - all Japanese." play taiko for the Orauge County Buddhist Church Daion Taiko Taiko is also not only a cultural tradition, Terada said, but a group, The group was formed in 1978 by a "dozeu adults aud great stress relief. childreu" by Sharon Koga with the Kinuara Taiko group, "It's amazing energy that you get from it," she said. "When Iu addition to performing at obon aud hanamatsuri festivals you play taiko you get this syuergy," the taiko group has also played at the Susau G, Komen Race Patricia Fukuma, who plays with Terada, has a similar syu• For the Cure in 2009, among other events. ergistic connection to taiko, She joined Daion Taiko through Patricia Fukuma said there are now about 50 taiko players in her church after her family saw performers play at the aunual their group, "We're a close family," she said, They practice (L-r): Nina and Patricia Fukuma, Eiko Tabara, Megumi hanamatsuri and obon events. every Sunday, Fukuma Vee with dog Aki, and Brian Fukuma, After morning service one day they stopped by a taiko booth Despite their differeut skills levels, the Fukumas say taiko where a six-week introduction class was being offered. has brought the family together, Hongo's father, Etsuo, became involved in taiko at local "I came to church earlier aud heard the taiko drums, One day "Unlike a symphony orchestra or a baud, it's something that obon festivals in Tokyo, He says taiko is his life aud work, they had au open eurollment" Patricia Fukuma explained, "I everyone no matter what age or skill level can enjoy doing Other younger taiko players say they eujoy performing for thought I'm going to sigu up for this, And then I was hooked," together," explained 48-year-old Briau Fukuma, "!fyou cau tap the social benefits, Taiko is now a part of the Fukumas' lives, your pencil on a desk while listening to some music piece, then "Seeing friends early in the morning on Sundays aud being 'We owu the bachis, tabis, aud the yukatas," Briau Fukuma you cau learu to play taiko," able to socialize aud play music together," Nina Fukuma said continued, "And, lots of tape for our homemade drums, Baud• about why she plays taiko, aides for blisters, too." Let The Beat Go On Many say they are also drawn to taiko because it is a way to Taiko for Brian Fukushima is more than a performance art, Taiko in the United States is geuerally believed to have wide• experience firsthand Japanese American culture. it means producing a "dynamic sound together as one." ly spread during the Asiau Americau movement Taday's esti• Elizabeth Ishida started playing with Kyodo Taiko as a "Not only practicing together with the group ", but also at mates put the number of US, taiko groups in the hundreds, freshmau at UCLA, Mark Honda created Kyodo Taiko in home where we bang away on our homemade drums," he Graudmaster Seiichi Tauaka is called the "father of taiko," 1990, which is regarded as the first collegiate taiko group in explained, ''[It's] amazing what dyuamic sounds cau be gener• He formed the Sau Fraucisco Taiko Dojo in 1968, the first taiko the U,S, ated with some plastic tubs aud lots of strong tape," group in the U,S, The college taiko group marked their first large-scale per• Taiko, Briau Fukuma said, has helped their family enjoy Groups like the Sau Fraucisco Taiko Dojo attract the young formauce in 1992 on the 50th auniversary of the J A intern• something together collectively, aud old with a belief that, "it's very importaut that taiko not be ment Players paid homage to former UCLA students interned "When everyone plays in harmony and focus, there is noth• exclusive." during World War II ing that produces a more resonating sound thau that of the "I thiuk taiko is interesting aud appealing to such a wide Ishida, a Hapa 23-year-old, said she had never seen taiko on taiko drums," he said. "You not only hear the music, but can demographic because essentially auyone cau play or learu to TV or in-person before hearing Kyodo Taiko perform at feel it right dowu to your core," • R<\.CIFIC II CmZEN JACL NATIONAL CONVENTION MAY 7-20, 2010 5 See You in Chicago JACL Announces NaI'l Board Nominees JACL is set to elect its next slate of national leaders, The candidates' statements below were By Larry Oda dinary leadership that guided our community submitted by JACL nominations committee, to success and achievement. This is a legacy Although the regular filing period has passed, candidates can still run for office from the floor that is on our shoulders. of the convention, Those running from the floor will be subject to additional requirements, The JACL and those we represent are affect• Procedures can be found in the nominations and elections guidelines downloadable at ed by the events and changes in the political www,jacLorg, and economic environment, and in the rapidly changing demographics in our country, We Candidates can run from the floor for all national offices including: vice president for general embrace these changes as an oppcrtunity to set operations, vice president for public affairs, vice president for planning and development, secre• a course that adheres to our historic mission tary/treasurer, national youth council chair and youth representative. There are currently no can• and effectively achieves our goals, We recog• didates running for these offices, nize the need to thoughtfully and continuously A description of duties can be found in the JACL constitution and bylaws, The term of office I'll see you in Chicago for "Embracing assess and adapt our organizational structure will be for the 2010-12 biennium, Change." This year's convention theme and programs while fostering new generations The JACL national council will elect its officers at the June 30-July 4 JACL national conven• reminds us that we must have the creativity of leadership to meet the challenges of pro• tion in Chicago. and flexibility to adapt to new situations while moting equality and social justice within our remaining committed to our mission and val• ever-changing society, CANDIDATE FOR PRESIDENT ues. The pace of change in the world is accel• Conventions are much more than the dreary erating and though we continue to honor and business of the organization and I hope that reflect upon our past, we must extend our view more of you will take advantage of the educa• to formulate a sustainable vision for the future tional and cultural experiences that are avail• of our organization. able to convention attendees. I am impressed Convention gives us the oppcrtunity to by the oppcrtunities created by our convention deliberate on issues that affect us, share ideas committees to bring our famous leaders, inno• to revitalize our membership and inspire those vative minds and experts in some diverse who will become our future leaders, fields - celebrities, if you will-to talk to us The convention committee has arranged for over the course of convention. workshops and speakers to educate and inspire Convention is an opportunity to put a finger our delegates and boosters, There are a whole on the pulse of the organization, to find out assortment of tours and activities that that will what it's doing, and how welL Delegates have David Kawamoto At present I hold the office of JACL vice pres• introduce folks to the rich history of the Windy the oppcrtunity to actually adjust the future I am currently serving as the JACL national ident of membership upon being appointed by the JACL national board in February 2010, City, direction of JACL vice president for planning and development I The legacy we have been given is one of Our chapters and individual members have am a member of the San Diego JACL and I am a member of the New York JACL and a perseverance, sacrifice and accomplislnnent. been busy this past biennium and our awards reside in San Diego with my wife Carol, We resident of Hillsborough, New Jersey with my We are here today because of the truly extraor- See ODAIPage 11 have two sons, Kevin and Keith, wife Jean and two sons Patrick and Kenneth I received a bachelor's degree in public who are both attending my alma mater, Rutgers University, I graduated from there with a bache• administration from San Diego State University and a Juris Doctorate degree from the Thomas lor's degree in mathematics, a master's degree Jefferson School of Law in San Diego, in computer science and a master's of business I worked for the U,S, District Court, with the administration, I am also a graduate of an exec• U,S, Pretrial Service Agency for over 22 years utive education program from the Harvard Payment M ethod and retired in February 2008, Since retiring, I Business SchooL A separate form must be completed for each individual registration. Check or money order: As a career AT&T executive, I have held sev• Additional registration forms are available online, by email at Please make payable toJACl National have worked as a substitute teacher, I also did [email protected] 773.728.7170. Convention and mail to: temporary work for the 2010 Census, eralleadership positions and am now the exec• utive director, external affairs responsible for Name --'..-=,"-, ------"f1" ,,',------'M'"'- JACl National Convention Since 1973, I have served my chapter, dis• building relationships with Asian Pacific Address ______S41SNorthClarkStreet Chicago, ll60640 trict, and national in various capacities, I served American community-based groups, City ______State __ Zip ---- Credit Card (circle one): as chapter president from 1991 to 1993 and Home Phone ______Mobile Phone _____ When I received the JACL appointment I took American ExpresslVisa/ MasterCard/Discover 2003 to 2005, I served two consecutive terms Email ______as PSW district governor from 1995 to 1999 immediate steps towards working closely with JACl Chapter Name on Card ______and as vice president for general operations national staff and district council governors Vegetarian Meals: Yes __ No __ Card Number ------towards increasing membership, Previous to Expiration Date _____ from 2000 to 2004, I serve on the board of the Special needs: ______this, I represented AT&T as corporate sponsor Security Code ______San Diego JACL Federal Credit Union and co• chair the National JACL Scholarship since 2005 in sponsoring various JACL national Convention H otel h fo nnation Swiss6tel Chicago Phone: 888.737.9477 and district council events, Contact: email chicag02010tDjad.org, Committee, Book (f!!;!I rlyl Re5e rvations must be made by June 10th to call 773.728.7 170 or visit I have been active in various APA organiza• guaramee the JACl Convention rate. www.jocl.of9and I helped the Nikkei Student Union at the dick on the 2010 JACl National Convention link. University of California, San Diego establish tions holding leadership and advisory positions, Registrution Packages W indy C ity A ctivi ties their Annual Day of Remembrance commemo• In my community too I serve as trustee of Packages include Individual Events limited availability. so sign up early. Before6110 After6f l0 Hillsborough Education Foundation and Belore6/10 After6"0 ration, I serve on the board of governors for Convention Package S2S0 $300 Devil in rhe Whirl' City Tour $7. $8. both the 100/442/MIS World War II Memorial Hillsborough Library Advisory Board, YouthlStudent Package $200 5250 Absolutely Segway Tour $65 S75 With all my educational, professional, busi• (for ages 2S and under) Foundation and Kiku Gardens, a HUD (Housing Specify: 0 Wed 0 Thuu 0 Fri ness and community involvement I will bring a I nd;v;dun l Events Architecture walking Tour 515 S25 and Urban Development) approved senior wealth of experience and leadership to the posi• Sayonara Banquet 5120 5150 Art Institute of Chicago Tour \3. $4. housing facility, tion I am running for and I look forward to the (Student Members) $'00 S125 Trolley Tour m m I bring a lifetime of experience and leader• Welcome Reception $60 S75 Specify: 0 Thurs 0 Sat ship to effectively serve JACL, To me, leader• opportunity of serving the JACL, Awards luncheon $60 S75 Supernatural Chinatown Tour 545 S55 ship is balancing the wants and needs of our Let me close by stating a belief I hold: Youth luncheon $6. $75 Horseshoe Casino $3. $4. Leadership is having the vision to seize an Buddy Guy's legends S55 $65 organization with our ability to financially carry Opt;ono l E vents out the goals defined by our program for action, opportunity in the disguise of a problem; the Credit Union luncheon $65 $65 Museum Campus Visit $75 $85 Specify: D9a 0 Ip ability to work with others as a team to develop (Credit Union Members) $3. $3. I ask for your support in electing me to be your Chicago Cubs a.tseb.dl $45 $55 solutions to the problem; and the skills to imple• A Night at Club Chicago \3. \3. next national president Archilecture River Cruise $3. $4. ~an Youth Entertainmenl $2. $2. ment the to successfully solve the prob• GRAND T OTAL CANDIDATE V,P, OF MEMBERSHIP lem, • 6 MAY 7-20,2010 NATIONAL NEWS PACIFIC. CITIZEN National Newsbytes

By Pacific Citizen Staff and Associated Press s. Idaho Judge to Decide Feedlot Dispute JEROME, Idaho-A south- PHOTO: RYAN KOZU em Idaho judge will decide whether plans can go forward for a massive animal feedlot a mile west of a national historic site where Japanese Americans were interned during World WarIl. JA Groups Appeal to Texas Board of Education Fifth District Court Judge Robert Elgee heard arguments Veterans Association. The Texas Board of Education is soliciting April 23 concerning the feedlot that's part of a dairy already approved JACL offIcials also issued a re:;ponse March 19, say• public conunents about changes to its social by Jerome County Commissioners. However opponents who are seek• ing "the race--based exclusion of Japanese Americans studies curriculum, which waits final ing to protect the former Minidoka internment camp are challenging it. during \v\vII differed signifIcantly from the experience approval later this month. Neighoors and officials with the Minidoka national monument have of German and Italian Americans." protested the feedlot, citing the potential for odor and flies. Bradley, a Republican who works in real estate, did By N.Ie. J. Ko It's unclear when Elgee will make his decision. Reporter not respond to the Pacific Citizen's requests for com• ment. But board member Mary Helen Berlanga said Police Adds Patrols Following Attacks on APAs Bradley likely stressed the change to "downplay" the his• Japanese American organizations are calling on the SAN FRANCISCO-San Francisco police are boosting foot patrols torical mistreatment of minority groups like JAs. Texas Board of Education to further amend changes pre• in neighborhoods where Asian Americans have been attacked recently. "They're retelling the story the way they want kids viously made to its social studies curriculum that they Police Chief George Gascon said that the 32 extra offIcers would be to learn it. It's really an indoctrination. It's their ide• say will "dilute" history. deployed arolUld transit stops in the Bayview and Visitacion Valley ology," said Berlanga, who is a Democrat and also an Conservatives on the ooard, concerned with correcting neighborhoods. They will remain in place for at least the next month. attorney. what they called a liberal bias, won approval for curricu• Gascon says the added offIcers will help reassure APA residents in Nakamoto agreed that students should learn about lum amendments. Board members voted 10 to 5 on the aftermath of multiple attacks along Muni's T-Third Metro line, wrongs committed against JAs. He said people should March 12 to approve changes to the curriculum stan• including one that left an 83-year-old man dead. not be afraid to voice their concerns anytime there is an darels, Gascon has downplayed race as a factor in Bayview crime, saying attempt to misrepresent the tIuth. The high school curriculum standards concerning the blacks and Latinos are victimized more frequently than APAs. lapaneseAmerican internment during World War II were "Students should be provided with the facts so they amended to add "the regulation of some foreign nation• can develop into leaders, equipped with accurate infor• May is APA Heritage Month als," mation, on which [an] important decision can be made," HONOLULU-President Barack Obama has proclaimed Mayas Nakamoto explained. "I encourage all P.e. readers, their To demonstrate that the internment was not racially Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month. families and friends to write to the Texas Board of motivated, ooard member David Bradley wanted to Obama is calling upon all Americans to learn more about the history Education." emphasize that German and Italian Americans were also of APIs, and to observe the month with appropriate programs and A link to the curriculum standards has been posted on incarcerated. activities. the Texas Education Agency Web while public com• About 120,000 lAs were forced into internment Obama says that during Asian American and PacifIC Islander ments are collected. A fmal ooard vote is expected May camps during \\!\VII, many lost their homes and busi• Heritage Month, the country celebrates the immeasurable contributions 21. nesses. And some organizations say that the forcible these diverse peoples have made to the nation. removable of JAs during \v\vII should not be "con• If approved, the curriculum standards in Texas cealed from students." could fmd its way into textbooks across the nation, experts say .• UC Riverside to Create Korean "Americans need to know this information - fully American Studies Center documented in the Library of Congress and the National RIVERSIDE, Calif.-A research cen• Archives and Records Administration - so this experi• Send public comments to the Texas Board of ter for Korean American studies will be ence will not be inflicted again on any racial group," said Education at [email protected], or view the social established at the University of Robert Nakamoto, president of the Japanese American studies curriculum standards at www.tea.state.tx.us California, Riverside. The 3Illlouncement comes after the uni• versity and the Overseas Koreans Chin is First APA Confirmed Outside of the 9th Circuit Foundation signed an agreement April By P.e. Staff and Associated Press Circuit. 12, About $2,7 million will be provided Chin is the fIrst APA federal appellate court judge to by the foundation for the creation of the be nominated and confmned outside of the Ninth Young Oak Kim Center for Korean YOUNG OAK KIM Circuit, according to a statement from the NationalAsian American Studies. PacifIc American Bar Association (NAPABA). It will be one of a few nationwide cen- "He is an extraordinary judge and a tIue trailblazer in ters focused on the history of Korean Americans and Korean American our commlUlity," said Joseph 1. Centeno, NAPABA pres• identity, among other things. ident. President Barack Obama nominated Chin last JA Organization Honors Navajo Code Talkers October. WASHINGTON-The National Japanese American Memorial Chin, who was born in Hong Kong. has been aU,S, Foundation honored the Navajo Code Talkers in an effort to raise district court judge for the Southern District of New York awareness about the Japanese American experience during World War since 1994. II. The Senate has voted 98-0 to confmn Judge DeIlllY "Born to a working class Chinese American family, The event held April 26 at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Chin to the New York-based appeals court making him Judge Chin has lived the American dream and is a great the American Indian to recognize three code talkers: Keith Little, the only Asian PacifIC American currently serving on the example to all Americans," said Karen K. Narasak~ pres• Samuel Tso and Peter MacDonald, Sr. U.s, Court of Appeals, ident and executive director of the Asian American Code Talkers are credited with saving many lives during WWII. The Senate voted 98-0 April 22 to confmn Chin to fIll Justice Center. "We are extraordinarily proud of his They worked to translate military information into their native lan• an opening in the U,S, Court of Appeals for the Second achievement of this important legal mile:;tone.". guage, making it impossible for other military powers to decode.• PACIHC III CITIZEN NATIONAL NEWS MAY 7-20,20107 APAs Hawaii Lawmakers OK Civil Unions, Send Bill to Gov. in the Gov. Linda Lingle has not said N ews whether she will sign or veto the bill. By Pacific Citizen Staff and Associated Press By Pacific Citizen Staff A bill allowing same-sex civil unions is head• ed to the governor after the state House of JACLer Receives 2010 Jefferson Award Representatives gave it final legislative approval Yoshiko "Edith" Ichiuji was honored with the Jefferson Award for her April 27, work in Pacific Grove, Calif. with JACL and the Salvation Army, The House voted 31-20 in favor of the meas• N() IIII Ichiuji has been a member of JACL since 1949, She has also devoted her ure, HB 444, which passed the Senate in time to arrange toy, food and clothing drives and help feed the homeless, January, IN '1'11I~ The American Institute established the Jefferson Awards for Public Gov, Linda Lingle has not said whether she Service. Five others were also honored. will make civil unions law or veto the bill. The measure grants gay and lesbian couples the same rights and benefits that the state pro• French Camp JACL Awards Scholarship vides to married couples, If it's signed into law, Amy Komure received the 2010 JACL scholarship award at the 62nd Hawaii will become one of six states - the oth• Annual French Camp JA CL installation luncheon, ers are California, Nevada, New Jersey, Oregon Komure is a baccalaureate at Franklin High School in Stockton, Calif., and Washington - to grant essentially all the where she maintains a 4,8 GPA, She hopes to become a physician, rights of marriage to same-sex couples without PH OTO: STEFFEN OESER About 60 members were present for the award ceremony and installation authorizing maniage itself. Bills on same·sex marriage and civil unions in Hawaii has of 2010 board members, Five other states and the District of Columbia drawn protestors on both sides of the issue for years, permit same-sex maniage: Iowa, Vermont, New JA Teen Wins Competition at 4-H Contest Hampshire, Massachusetts and Connecticut Civil lU1ion supporters wearing rainbow-colored lei which joined with Lambda Legal and the ACLU of Fifteen-year-old Lysa Emiko Walterhouse cried, jumped and screamed for joy outside the House Hawaii in co-sponsoring a picnic to celebrate the passing won the State Levell Citizenship chamber at the Hawaii CapitoL ofHB 444, Competition at the 63rd Annual Tennessee Disappointed opponents wearing red "iVote" buttons Lingle has previously said she wouldn't take a position 4-5 Congress, as a threat to legislators this election season quickly on the issue until a bill passed the Legislature and Walterhouse, whose parents Douglas and departed, with only a few lagging behind, reached her desk, If she were to veto the bill, the House Mineko are French Camp JACLers, com• "Civil unions are a step down the very slippery slope lacks the two-thirds majority needed to override her, peted against ninth and tenth graders, The toward legalizing same-sex marriage," said Rachel The Aloha State has been a battleground in the gay Cordova, Tenn, resident won a $500 college Nakasaki, a Christian who joined other members ofreli• rights movement since the early 1990s, scholarship and an engraved silver bowL gious groups in fighting civil unions. A 1993 Hawaii Supreme Court ruling nearly made The bill was written so that civil unions would be Hawaii the first state to legalize same-sex maniage Calif. Gov. Appoints JA to County Superior Court available to both same-sex and opposite-sex couples to before voters in the state overwhelmingly approved the Gov, Arnold Schwarzenegger has appointed Robert G. Yabuno to the San avoid claims of discrimination. nation's first "defense of maniage" constitutional amend• Bernardino County Superior Court, along with two others, "The passing of HB 444 by the legislature was an ment in 1998, acknowledgment by the legislature that the LGBT [les• The measure gave the Legislature the power to reserve Since 1991, Yabuno has been a lead deputy district attorney for the coun• bian, gay, bisexual, transgender1 community is no less marriage to opposite-sex couples. It resulted in a law ty's attorney office, Judge James C, McGuire previously held the position, than anyone else and are entitled to basic civil liberties," banning gay marriage in Hawaii but left the door open said Shawn Benton, president of the Honolulu JACL, for civil unions .• JA Groups Name 'Women of the Year' Four Japanese American community leaders were named "Women of the Year," by the Downtown Los Angeles JACL and the Southern Bill Would Authorize Heart Mountain Study California Japanese Women's Society. Grace Shiba, Marilyn Nobori, Nancy Kyoko Oda and Katsuko authorize a study and collect public input on options Teruya Arakawa will be honored May 16 at the Kyoto Grand Hotel for for long-term management of the 123-acre site, which held more than 14,000 JAs during World War their work in the community. IL The House Subcommittee on National Parks, Fresno JACLer Named Superintendent Forests and Public Lands expressed support for Wendy TuklolI, assistant superintendent of the San Francisco Unified HR 3989 at an April 27 hearing, according to the School District, was hired as superintendent of the Fresno Unified School Powell Tribune, District The resource study would include the possibil• Tukloff, a Fresno JACL member, will begin her new position July 1, ity of the site being taken over and managed by Tukloff received her bachelor's and master's degrees from the University the National Park Service as a National Historic of California, Los Angeles, She also earned a PhD from California State Site, University, Fresno and the University of California, Davis. Wyoming US Rep, Cynthia Lummis is sponsor• ing the bilL She said the preservation of Heart A hospital complex is one of the remaining structures onsite, Berkeley JACL Pioneer Award Announced Mountain could help people learn from the intern• ment era. The Berkeley JACL chapter honored Ann and Ken Yabusaki with its The 'critically needed' study would include The Park County Commission, the Powell and Cody Pioneer Award. the possibility of the National Park Service chambers of commerce, the Park County Travel Council Since joining JACL, the Yabusakis have helped revitalize the Civil managing the site. and the Wyoming Business Council have submitted let• Rights Committee and form the Civil Right Coalition of the East Bay, ters of support for the study, according to Lummis, The Pioneer Award was established in 1996 with the intent of recogniz• Congressional legislation would have the National The Heart Mountain, Wyoming Foundation, a private, ing those committed to serving the community and Berkeley JACL Park Service study future options for managing and pre• nonprofit foundation has been leading efforts to preserve serving a former Japanese American internment camp in the site. Las Vegas JACL Scholarship Winners Awarded Wyoming, In a letter to subcommittee chairman Raul Grijalva, 0- Ariz" former US Transportstion Secretary Norman Two students were named as this year's Las Vegas JACL scholarship The former Heart Mountain Relocation Center is Mineta - who was incarcerated at the site as a boy - between Powell and Cody, The bill, RR, 3989 or the winners. Brianne!sa and Kelsie Matsuura each received a $1 ,000 schol• called it a "critically needed" study, • arship, • "Heart Mountain Relocation Center Study Act" would 8 MAY 7-20,2010 VOICES PACIFIC. CITIZEN for the Teaching Japanese to a JA

RECORDBY JOHN TATEISHI Wingnut Rebellion In February, the Harris Poll published the results of a process. survey they conducted on Americans' attitndes toward But what's equally distnrbing is that it's not just President Obama. This poll was prompted by a book Republicans who contribute to the poll numbers. by John Avlon (of the conservative Manhattan Institnte Democrat respondents also share these beliefs, think tank) titled "Wmgnuts: How the Lunatic Fringe although not nearly in such large numbers. For exam• is Hijacking America", in which Avlon describes how ple, while over half the Republicans surveyed believe the extremes on both the left and right are shaping the Obama is Muslim, 15 percent of Democrats share this political debate in this country. belief and the same percentage believe he is foreign Sparked by Avlon's conclusions, the Harris polling born and not eligible to be president; 8 percent believe By ErnaNakao organization did a national survey to determine he is doing many things that Hitler did, and 6 percent whether the specter of Avlon's views are credible. believe he is the anti-Christ. Asking questions based on Avlon's thesis, the results It should be noted that Tea Party supporters playa "What day IS tomorrow?" "Ashita wa were interesting, and after disaggregating the various major role in promulgating the anger suggested by the kinyoubi desu" (tomorrow is Friday), cohorts to get a clearer pictnre of regional differences Harris poll, but that anger doesn't appear to be simply A few weekas ago, I was helping a good friend with her Japanese class. It and political party differences, the conclusions one can because of the policies of the Obama administration. was an irouic moment - we are both Japanese, yet I was teaching her the draw from this survey are shocking. Because the criticisms of Obama are so personal, native language of our cultnre. I explained nuances that would help her with First, the numbers. one can ouly construe that the focus of this criticism is recalling the kanji in days of the week: "Kinyoubi (Friday) is easy to remem• Among Republicans, 67 percent think Obama is a about Obama the man, the nation's first black presi• ber because it has the kanji character for "kin" (gold), and you get paid on socialist; 61 percent believe he wants to abolish the dent, and is the root of much of the anger. In a separate Fridays." right to bear arms; 57 percent think he's Muslim; 55 poll of Tea Party supporters, Louis Harris notes that 77 It was then that I had confirmation of the long lasting effects of the intern• percent think he has done things that are unconstitn• percent of Tea Party supporters "are solidly negative ment that persists to this very day. My friend, whose father was bom in an tional; 45 percent think he is foreign born and there• about Barack Obama as a person" and that it "would intemment camp, never leamed how to speak Japanese from his own par• fore ineligible to be president; 45 percent believe he is be a vast mistake not to conclude that many of the Tea ents. It was decided during their time in the camps, that English was the ouly a domestic enemy as stated in the Constitntion; 41 per• Party supporters are anything but hostile to the notion language their family would speak due to community backlash and the post• cent believe he's anti-American; 38 percent believe that a black, no matter how qualified, should ever war paranoia. he's doing many things Hitler did; 24 percent think he serve as president of the United States." A few quarters ago, I interviewed several Japanese American friends for may be the anti-Christ. The numbers certainly seem to point in that direc• an Asian American history class. I found a similar pattem among many of There are other items, but you get the pictnre. It's tion. my JA friends whose families were placed into internment camps: Japanese important to note that this wasn't a survey of right• But there are paradoxical forces at work here: with a language fluency was lost during and after the internment period, which then wingers or some oddball group among Republicans. growing acceptance of, and tolerance toward, people led to futnre generations (namely my friends) who now have no fluency. These results were from the rank and file of the GOP of color by the general public, there also seems to be a Although many of my friends' families have received monetary compen• What's remarkable is that these are comments about growing resentment among segments of the public to sation and an apology for their time in the internment camps, there is some• the character of the man. But on what basis? Because seeing people of color gain their place in American thing to be said about there being no amount of money or enough apologies of his determination to pass health care reform (seen as society. to compensate for the loss of language skills that have affected generations socialist), it's not surprising that 67 percent of This reaction may be inevitable with change, but it's upon generations. You really can't retnm a langnage back to someone. Republicans consider Obama a socialist. And those unsettling nevertheless. If their anger at Obama is root• I was lucky. Japanese was my first language. My father insisted that I who think he's Muslim forget that they criticized his ed in their racism, and if they feel this free to spew out attend the McCully Japanese Langnage School in Honolulu from my ele• 20-year affiliation with the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, pas• their anger so vehemently at the president, one won• mentary to mid-high school years. At the time, I hated it because I did not tor of the Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago. ders how that kind of racism and resentment mauifests understand why I was forced to go to langnage school after already spending Where the other opinions derive from is anyone's against others. all day at school! To this day, I still recall whining to my parents about hav• gness because they're certainly not based on fact or And therein lies the issue.• ing to leam Japanese when everyone speaks English in America. Now I any policies enacted by this president. Like so much understand why. else by what Avlon calls the wingnuts, these opinions John Tateishi is the immediate past JACL national I've tested out of the one-year language requirements in college and in derive from some convoluted and bizarre thought director. high school. I've helped with a few translation and transcription projects. I can travel to Japan without anyone knowing that I was bom in the United AND DO YOU HAVE ANY OTHER States. But more importantly, I'm able to help my parents and friends to LUGGAGE TO CH IGAGO ? bridge English and Japanese together either by grilling my friend on proper enunciation of Japanese words or helping my parents understand English in difficult areas such as their healthcare and the occasional tax form. While it is easy to fluidly transition between English and Japanese in con• versation, there is something special about being bilingual - understanding certain words and phrases that have an innate essence that caunot be trans• lated or conveyed. Ultimately, I feel as though I am in a secret club whose members under• stand cultnral idioms, literal word plays and the history of kanji characters that are tied to their meaning. For now, I just hope that my tiny part in helping my friend learn the lan• gnage of our cultnre will spark enough interest for her to one day become sufficiently fluent so that she can understand the loss that can never be com• pensated.•

Ema Nakao is a Kentucky-born Shin Nisei who grew up in Hawaii. She is working to receive her bachelor s degree in molecular, cellular and devel• opmental biology at the University of Washington. PACIFIC. CITIZEN ENTERTAINMENT MAY 7-20, 2010 9

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The Bravo TV show host talks about her P.e.: Offcamera do you ever solicit cocKing tips from able to eat the most mouthwatering dishes. But what are favorite childhood dish and the delight of chal• the chefs? ymr favorite guilty pleasures? lenging great chefs to odd cooking challenges. (hoi: No, there's no tirre for cooking tips. But when Choi: I don't know if anything is really [a] guilty pleasure you're pacing and eating ycujU& by default, I'm sure, learn anymore because I just eat it if I want it. I've definitely carre By NaleaJ. Ko &uif. to find -just over the years and being around food all the tirre - thit if ycu want it you've just got to have it I:xx:ause Reporter P.e.: Can you think of a recipe for an easy dish that the there's nothing that sub&itutes for that. culinarily-cballenged can make? Kelly alOi gained recognition in the culinary scene with the (hoi: Totally. Well, one thing that I used to eat all the tirre P.e.: How do you maintain your model figure when TV :;how ''Eat Out NY." There she featured New York eater• when I was little was just get a big hot bowl of rice - make ym're sampling and tasting all of these delicious dishes on ies aIrl cooked in kitchens with the chefs. Although self• sure that it's het - and rrelt a couple of packs of butter. I TV? deocrilxrl as ''very :;hy" it was not alOi's fint on-camera gig. used to do this all the tirre - cOqJle of packs of bltter, sorre Choi: I think people get confused by e

The student picked Uchida up, also help Japantown businesses to San Jose's 'Humble' Judo Master swung him around and slammed grow," Uchida said. him down on the mat. Uchida started Uchida Yoshihiro Uchida, who started teaching judo at San Jose While attending SJSU Uchida "I knew I had to win this hattIe or Enterprises, using money he made State University in the 1940s, still attends judo practice was drafted in the Army while there wouldn' t be a judo program," from medical labs opened in the every day. working as a lab technician. His par• Uchida explained. "When he let me 1950s and later sold to Unilab. ents were interned in .Arizona, and down, I slammed him very hard, and With 78 other investors Uchida the Uchida brothers were sent to the class was astounded .. . I turned created the San] ose Nihonmachi Northern California relocation cen• around and told the students 'this is Corp, which funneled millions in ters. judo' and we had no more incidents to the revitalization of J apantown In the Army, Uchida would use after that." in San Jose. his judo skills to confront an aggres• That is how, Uchida said, judo The Uchida name also carries sor head-on. It was 1942 at Camp started at SJSU. on at SJSU. Crowder in Missouri when a "huge With all his success in the world Today the same building with Oklahoman" disrupted Nisei sol• of judo, Uchida has also made his the SJSU judo dojo is named diers resting on their lunch break mark in the Japanese American com• Uchida Hall. He was also inducted and called them "Japs." munity. in the SJSU Sports Hall of Fame. "Many of us lying in bed were After the bombing of Pearl But Uchida, who is often flipped off," Uchida said. "I took Harbor, Uchida said his Caucasian described as "humble," says he that as an insult and challenged him friends and the community looked hopes to be remembered mostly as to a fight. He laughed at me and down upon JAs. a man with an "open mind always most figured he would hurt me. But " Being a Japanese American was trying to do something good." a struggle because when I returned "We are on this earth for a short By Nalea J. Ko Uchida was instrumental in having knowing judo helped because as he from the service to San Jose, Calif. I period of time and we want to Reporter the Amateur Athletic Union, or wrapped me around I threw him, was married with a daughter. And [I] leave a better world for the future AAU, recoguize judo as a sport. In and he was shocked. I was a hero in had difficulty getting jobs or finding generations," Uchida said. Yoshihiro "Yosh" Uchida said he the following years Uchida was also the barracks." apartments," he explained. "How• When not on the judo mat first took up judo at 10 because the the first U.S. Olympic judo coach After four years of service in the ever I fortunately had many good Uchida says he enjoys his leisure Issei feared their children were when the sport was recognized in military Uchida returned to the uni• friends who helped me with housing time. growing up without any Japanese 1964. versity where he started a judo pro• on their family fann and numerous "Unfortunately because of my culture. The judo master celebrated gram for potential police recruits. job opportunities." macular degeneration, I can't easi• He said] apanese parents encour• another milestone April 1: his 90th The 130-pound judo instructor The Nisei, he said, wanted to ly read anymore so I tend to listen aged Nisei to take up sumo, kendo, birthday. He and his wife Mae, again used his training to silence a show the San Jose City HaJJ that J As to news talk radio and watch the judo or ikebana, among other skills. whose birthday is May 7, are having confrontational assailant at the uni• were an important part of the com• news on TV," Uchida said. "I still Uchida, out of financial necessity, a joint birthday party. versity. On the first day back at his munity. enj oy doing lunch and dinners chose judo. Decades after starting the judo SJSU judo class, Uchida had a class "I believe it was the pride of the with friends, providing they drive "My brothers and I chose judo program at SJSU, Uchida is still a of 28 students. All were WWII vet• Nisei to come together, clean up me home." because kendo cost too much!" fixture every day in class. Uchida erans. They had "no love" for J apantown and make it a vibrant The 90-year-old said he hopes Uchida said afflicted with laryngitis, also accompanied the SJSU judo Uchida's "Asian features," after place where future Japanese to remain active in the SJSU judo communicating through transcriber team to Myrtle Beach, S.c. April 1 having served in the war, he said. Americans could come to gather and program as long as he is able. • Jan Masuda Cougil!. "With the full and 2 for the US A Judo National "One of the students, a burly vet• body regalia [it was] about $100 for Championships. eran of Guadalcanal asked, 'what kendo and only $5 for ajudo gi. Our '''The judo program at SJSU is were you going to teach us?'" family chose judo!" under my name and I feel that I'm Uchida said recounting the day. " I His choice would not only impact still responsible for the development said 'judo.' 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Four Japanese Americans World War II veterans of the 522nd Field Artillery Battalion and the 442nd Regimental Combat Team were among the 121 veterans who partici• Chicago's Magnificent Mile is lined with fun activities for JACLers. pated in the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum Day of Remembrance program in aDA insightful activities for delegates and Washington, D.C. boosters. The concurrent Young (Continued from page 5) The April 13-15 event marked the Professionals Conference will pro• 65th anniversary of the liberation of committee will reveal their selection vide an opportunity for national the Nazi concentration camps where S22nd veteran Virgil Westdale (left) shares a private moment with Gen. for JACLer of the Biennium, and youth and student council members some 6 million Jewish people were David Patraeus at the Holocaust Museum. their choice for JACL chapter of the to gain an understanding of some killed during WWII. year. There are a number of out• interesting and provocative sub• 522nd veteran Dr. Susumu Ito, of recognized Ito, a New England 522nd veterans Eddie Ichiyama, standing members and chapters that jects. Wellesley, Mass., helped liberate JACL member and professor emeri• Nelson Akagi and Virgil Westdale have been doing great things for our Part of our mission is to prepare Jewish prisoners at the notorious tus of cell biology at Harvard also attended the event. community and our nation. Come to our future leaders and the Young Dachau concentration camp while Medical School, and the liberators On March 12, 1945, following the the convention and see what others Professionals Conference promises his own family was imprisoned in a for their heroism. defeat of the Germans in the Vosges have accomplished. to provide attendees an opportunity southeastern Arkansas internment "All of us here today and all those forests of northeastern France, the Conventions are heady times. For to contribute to the future well-being camp. watching around the world want to 522nd was detached from the 442nd delegates, the experience of partici• of our community. "] mentioned the similarity of this assure you that you have written an RCT and assigned to the 7th Army pating in governing the organization Early bird registration ends on ethnic injustice to the rounding up of extraordinary chapter in the history for the invasion of the German is an obligation that is very reward• June 10 and a complete list of indi• Jews into Nazi concentration of mankind, that you have left huge homeland. ing. You have a hand in determining vidual events is available online at camps," said Ito about the WWII JA footsteps and a clearly marked path The 522nd arrived in Munich in the direction and focus for the organ• www.jacl.org. ] will see you in internment. "However, the living of accomplishment, sacrifice, serv• April 1945 and liberated Jewish ization for the coming biennium, Chicago .• conditions were vastly different for ice, and compassion," said Petraeus, inmates at the nearby sub-camps and the future. the interned Japanese, over half of who presented Ito with the souvenir located at places like Horgau, The convention committee has Larry Oda is the JACL national them being U.S. citizens." coin of the commander of the U.S. Leihfield and Bad Tolz, part of planned many interesting and president. At the event, Gen. David Petraeus central command. Dachau .• KUKI like entertainment, sports, politics or Pc. embodies, that] cherish each legal reform. issue that arrives, wholeheartedly. (Continued from page 2) dmerican HoUdCl\{TrClve( The ever-evolving state of being ] plan to support the PC.'s Spring Departing from my college years Asian Pacific American in the Campaign. The Pc. has become a 2010 Tour Schedule and entering a new life of adulthood United States is an experience we all vital element in my life and ] depend proved to be a dramatic one for me. share. The challenges we encounter, on it as ] would any other source] GRANDPARENTS/GRANDCHILDREN JAPAN TOUR (W~tlLst Only) JUN 27·JUL 6 One in which] realized that it was the obstacles we overcome and the trust to keep me informed. Without Tckyo, Hakone, Atami, Hiroshima, Miyajima, Kydo, Nara. difficult to be without constant success we accumulate, are perhaps the P c., the unifying force across all ALASKA HOLIDAY CRUISE AUG 14·21 Vancouver, Sawyer Glacier, Juneau, SlGgway, Glacier Bay, Ketchikan. awareness of the surrounding world, achievements of an individual or a APA demographics would surely be HOLLAND AMERICA Zuiderdam Ship. and that the obligation to be a particular organization, however weakened. And with such potential CANADA-NEW ENGLAND HOLIDAY CRUISE SEP 15·26 responsible and conscious adult lin• champions our entire group's cause. for progress, we simply cannot New York City, NeNp::>rtlRhcde lsIand, Boston, Bar HarOOr"/Maine, HalifaxlNOia Scotia, Prirce Edward Island, Saquenay Fjord, Quebec. HOUAND AMERICA Eurcdam Ship. gered closely. It is the progress we hope, want and afford to be without it. ] hope you SAN FRANCISCO-NAPA-TAHOE HOLIDAYTOUR SEP 22·28 !found the Pc. to be extraordinar• strive to see. feel the same. Please continue to JAPAN AUTUMN COUNTRYSIDE HOLIDAYTOUR SEP 28·OCT 8 ily helpful in helping me to fully The Pc. channels the energy ] support the pc. Even a little goes a Chiba, Milo, Aizu WakamatsUlHigashiyama Onsen, Sado Island, Nagano, Matsurmlo, Takayama, Gujo Hachiman, Gffu, Kyoto. adjust to this new attitude. What] seek to inspire me. 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A university garden built by J apauese Americau gardeners in the 1970s was rededicat• ed May 1 in honor of the J A builders aud volun• teers who have been involved in the garden's maintenance and restoration for over three decades, F'rl OTO: CAL STATE Dav1I NGU EZ HILLS At the rededication of the Shinwa-En Japauese (L·r) Dennis Yamashiro, Neil Sugimoto and Bill Ota all volun· Garden on the California State University, teer their time to preserve the garden, Dominguez Hills campus, Bill Ota remembered working on the garden with his father Ralph JACL representatives said the school's name was 'steeped in racism, Kiyoshi Ota, Sugimoto, a High Desert JACL member, said the gar• colonialism and xenophobia: "I feel a special connection with our campus garden den is the last project they worked on together, mostly because I helped build it as a youug mau 30 years Last summer the Pacific Coast Chapter of the ago," said Ota, 56, "and especially now in memory of California Landscape Contractors Association restored Ohio High School to Drop my father and all those Nisei gardeners and nurserymen the gardeu with donated materials, that have volunteered their time to make the garden a gift Tom Philo, chair of the Friends of the Japauese l IOrientals Nickname to CSU Dominguez Hills," Garden, a campus organization dedicated to preserving The Shinwa-En Japauese Garden was dedicated Nov, the site, said voluuteering to build gardeus like Shinwa• The Akron Board of national origin or that could create a 19, 1978 to welcome CSU Dominguez Hills to its per• En was the JA community's proof of their allegiauce to Education is changing the racially hostile or discriminatory manent campus in Carson, Calif. the United States after World War II '''The accepted view is that in the postwar years, gar• district's anti-discrimina• environment. Laudscape architect Haruo Yamashiro designed the garden with materials aud expertise donated by local dening aud laudscaping provided those meu a deceut liv• tion policy. "We plan to review the current policy to add guidance for name gardeners and businesses. Many of the gardeners' sons ing while allowing them to keep low profiles aud relative helped build the garden aud have continued to voluuteer auonymity," said Philo, "But I think their custom of By P.e. Staff and Associated Press selection of teams and mascots," said James in a statement to the their time towards the garden's ongoing restoration and donating Japanese gardens in public spaces said some• Pacific Citizen maintenance. thing else as well. It proved both citizenship aud good Au Ohio school superintendent In 1900s, four Akron high schools "I wauted to continue what he started," said Neil citizeuship, aud let them create a share of the world - says he is updating the district's auti• opened and were named for their Sugimoto, 57, about his late father Chester Sugimoto, one that was centered around them and one in which discrimination policy to general location: North, "My father is part of the garden aud now so am I" they shaped what happeued," • drop the "Orientals" South, East aud West nickname for sports JaPanese al'1'tefK:an core 'We plan to Each school acquired a c:mzens LeaGUe teams. best for you? review the cur- nickname: North became Akron Supt David known as the home of the James said East High rent policy to Start shopping from the Vikings; South, the School will have a new source you can trust. add guidance Cavaliers; West, the Shopping for name for its teams when Cowboys; aud East, the a newly renovated build• ror name selec• Call toll-free Orientals, according to Long-Term Care ing opeus next fall. tion of teams the Akron Public Schools 1-800-358-3795 today. This came after the website. Or visit JACL called for a name and mascots. ' Insurance? The school has used a www.jaclinsurance.com. chauge saying the term -Supt. David dragon mascot on foot• "Oriental" is "steeped in As a JACl member, you don't have to worry, James ball helmets, racism, colonialism and That's becouse you can trust JACl and JACl's East High School in Don't know xenophobia." long-Term Care Coli Center. 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For more infonnation or guidelines: www.jacl.org By Jan Yanehiro At a rrreting with the Kansai Economic Frueration one of the first queftions to our delegation was how Futemrn and Toycta: two hot button issues merrhers Americans viewed Toyota. The Kansai merrher askffl of the 2010 Japanese Arrerican l.eadenhip Delegation ifwe hated the Japanese I:xx:ause of Toyota. Dates Set For Manzanar High Reunion fxed on a recent trip to Japan. We also had tea with a princess. Since our visit with Irene Hirano Inouye, president of the US.-Japan Princess Hisako Takamado took plxe during the Girl's This year's Manzanar school reunion is set for Aug . 9-11. Buses will Ccuocil, led the 13-merrher delegation, which returned Day celebration, her horre in Tokyo was filled with the be available from Los Angeles, Gardena, Venice and the San Fernando from Japan on March 6. traditional Japanese dolls. Valley. In an exclusive meeting with Japanese Prime Priocess Takarna:lo served green tea with Japanese Activities will ioclude a mixer with John Dahlem of the California Mini&er Yilkio Hatoyama, the issue of where to relo• sweets. She said Japanese youth are so content with life Interscholastic Federation, who will report on his research of the 1944 cate the US. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma, in a safe country that they are reloctant to &udy abroad. football game between Manzanar High School and Big Pine High. Okinawa was brought up. Hatoyama wanted deleg.1'}i" typo (12 pI) oo un" M 1;.0 1_ l<9o ,-,roo '" u ,d. PC. tIM m.>do 00

Info: [email protected] K: Kids Fun Run, then the street is Pacific Northwest dosed forthe San Tai San: 3 on 3 LOS ANGELES, CA Youth Basketball Toumament, fol• N Calif. W Nev. Pac May 29,11 a.m. lowed by the Asian Padfic arts and JACCC Plaza Eden Township Chapter Bazaar crafts. 244 S. San Pedm St SAN LORENZO, CA Info: Janet Himshima The Japanese American Vietnam July 12-13 213/628-2725 ext. 128 or Veterans Memorial Committee and Eden Japanese Community Center chi Idrensday1 [email protected] Japanese American Korean War 701 Elgin Street Veterans are hostng this memorial The Eden Township JACL is hosting Strolling in Yukata jOintly for the first time to honor those this fundraising bazaar. Enjoy teriyaki PHOENIX, p,;z that gave their lives to serve in war. chicken and rib combo dinners, udon, May 17, 6:30 p.m. Info: Min Tonai at 818/591-1269 or curry and more. There will be games Ro Ho En Japooese Friendshp GarJen [email protected] for children and bingo for adults. 1125 N. 3rrlAve. Info: Ron Sakaue at 510/276-0752 or Join in for a relaxing Nisei Veterans Committee Ed Oda 510/538-6380 evening and a leisurely Memorial Day Service stmll through beautiful Ro SEATILE, WASH. Florin JACL Multicultural Ho En wearing youryukata or happi May 31, 10-11 a.m. Forum coat with geta or zari. Lake View Cemetery SACRAMENTO,CA Info: JFG Office 602/256-3204 or 1554-15th Ave. East May 8 Masako Takiguchi 602/956-3150 Pay tribute to our veterans with the Rizal Community Center Nisei Veterans Committee by cele• 7320 Florin Mall Dr JAKWV Portgual-Spain Trip brating their heroism on Memorial The Florin JACL tviill be screening LOS ANGELES, CA Day. "Cmssing the Line Multicultural Nov. 4 Info: www.seattlenvc.org '441-Live With Honor Die With Dignity' Comedians." A discussion will follow. The Japanese American Korean War Veterans, or JAKWV, is planning a Los Angeles, Calif. Cost: $8/general admission, $5/stu• Portland's Japanese American 12-day trip to Portugal and May 20, 12:30 p.m. . dents, seniors and members. Historical Plaza: 20 Years SpainThose on the tour will depart Japanese American Cultural and Communrty Center Info: Walter Kawamoto PORTLAND, OR from the Los Angeles Intemational 244 S. San Pedro St. [email protected] July 30 Airport. Tom McCall Waterfmnt Par\( Cost: $3,599 per person (induding Filmmaker Junichi Suzuki, whose 2009 film Toyo's Camera: Berkeley Methodist United 1020 SW Naito Pkwy airfare). Church Food Bazaar The Oregon Nikkei Endowment cele• Japanese American History During WWII' was an epic ode.to Info: Victor Muraoka at 818/3684113 BERKELEY, CA brates its 20th year Vi1th an exhibit JA history, returns with a new documentary a~o~t our.herotc or [email protected] May 30, 12 noon to 4 p.m. honoring the JA Historical Plaza. Nisei soldiers. Suzuki and actor George Taket wtll be tn Ber\(eley Methodist United Church Info: Nicole Nathan at 5031224-1458 Riverside JACL Scholarship attendance. Theatrical screenings begin July 25. 171 0 Carleton Street or [email protected] Dinner Enjoy homemade Japanese cuisine, For infonnation: RIVERSIDE, CA a silent auction, arts & crafts, enter• Lake Washington JACL 213/680-3700 or www.jaccc.org May 16, 5 p.m. tainment and game booths. Founders Day & Installation First Christian Church Info: 510/8484680 Banquet 4055 Jurupa Ave. RENTON, WASH East W'MV. gbgm-u rrK.:. orgfomuc vention hosted by the Chicago JACL. Join the Riverside JACL for its annual May 8,12 noon - 2:30 p.m. Activites indude workshops, spedal scholarship potluck dinner. Tea Palace JACL's Salute to Tule Lake Pilgrimage speakers and banquets. Info: Michiko Yoshimura 2828 Sunset Lane, NE Champions Tulelake, CA Register: $250/before June 10; 951/784-7057 Celebrate the 30th anniversary of the WASHINGTON, D.C. July 2-5 $200/youth ages 25 and under before Lake Washington chapter's founding. Sept. 16 . The Tule Lake Segregration Center June 10. Legacy Series: Daniel Dae Kim Spedal tributes will be made to The National JACL Gala Awards dIn• This pilgrimage will focus on the "No• Info :www.jad.org/news/2010Chicago LOS ANGELES, CA chapter founder John Matsumoto ner is an annual fundraising event Nos" and those who renounced their JMTEMP033 009fn ome. html May 15, 7 p.m. and others. that seeks to honor individuals and U.S. dtizenship. National Centerforthe Preservation Info: 415/566-2279 or Info: 425/277 -8600 organizations that have championed of Democracy the causes of the JACL. Intermountain W'MV.tulelake.org 111 N. Central Avenue 125th Anniversary of Kanyaku Info: www.jad.org Mame Daiko Perfonnance Pacific Southwes Free/CAPE members, $10/guests Imin CLEVELAND, OH The Coalition of Asian Padfics in HONOLULU, HI APAICS Golf Classic Little Tokyo Culture Camp May 22 Entertainment annouces its first June 5, 2-9 p.m. ARLINGTON, VA. Workshop Asia Plaza Legacy Series with spedal guest lolani Palace June 28, 9 a.m. LOS ANGELES, CA 2999 Payne Avenue Daniel Dae Kim, star of ABC's "Lost" 364 South King SI. Anny Navy Country Club May 15, 10 a.m.-12 noon Cleveland Asian Festival Info: www.capeusa.org/panel $15/general public, $13/military; 1700 Army Navy Drive JACCC Plaza Come see a periormance fmm Mame free/children 12 and under The Asian Padfic American Institute 244 S. San Pedm SI. Daiko, sponsored by the Cleveland Beate Sirota Gordon LecbJre The ceremony honors WWII JA veter• for Congressional Studies invites you The Ties That Bind Committee is JACL. LOS ANGELES, CALIF. ans. Take a complimentary tour of to the 2nd Annual Golf Classic. holding the "Hows and Whys to Info: 216/556-2277 May 16, 2. p.m. the palace. Info: Rosemary Hoffmann at Doing a Culture Camp" wOr\(shop to or [email protected] JA National Museum's Tateuchi Info: [email protected] 703/683-7500 or teach partidpants how to institute Democracy Forum ·...... : RHOOma [email protected] pmgrams to teach Japanese 100 N. Central Ave. 2010 Minidoka Pilgrimage American youth about their heritage TWIN FALLS, 10 $27/museum member, $30/public i Advertise i Midwest and culture. The only woman to playa mle in the i 'GooSEEoDo' is a free linited i JUNE 24-27 Info: Bill Watanabe at 213/473-1607 The Seattle JACL, Nisei Veterans writing of the Japanese Constitution, 1hting for P.c. readers. Not all event 1 National JACL Convention Committee and Friends of Minidoka Beate Sirota Gordon, will speak l submissions :re listed. l CHICAGO,IL JACCC's 27th Annual · . invite everyone to the pilgrimage. In about her memories in advocating for l Don't see your event here? l June 30-July 4 Children's Day Celebration · . additon to the pilgrimage, a sympo• equal rights. l Find out how to get a l Swissotel LOS ANGELES, CA sium on dvilliberties will be held at Info: www.janm.org or guaranteed SPOTLIGHT listing 323 E. Wacker Drive May 15, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. 1 .1 the College of Southem Idaho. 213/625-0414 ext. 2249 Chicago, IL 60601-9722 JACCC Plaza i Contact the P.c.: i Register: $300/before June 4; Join other JACL members fmm 244 S. San Pedm St 1 (800)966-6157 1 $250/children ages 12 and under. JAKWV & JAWMC Annual across the nation in this biennial con- The day is kicked off with the Chibi- i or [email protected] i Memorial Day SelVice ·: ...... PACI FIC. CITIZEN OBITUARIES MAY 7-20,201015 TRIBUTE Bob Uyeyama, Leader Taught Internment Lessons to Youth By Pacific Citizell Staff Americans," said Andy Noguchi of the Florin JACl. Masami Oda Uyeyama was an Air Force veteran who worked for April 11, 1913 - March 3, 2010 A World War II veteran 36 years in the Sacramento County Clerk's Office and and Florin JACL leader, who Superior Court, according to his obituary in the (wife Valerie), Michael Sonoda devoted his time to educat• Sacramento Bee. (wife Mariel), Kevin Oda, Lindsay ing younger generations With the Florin JACl, he served as treasurer and Oda, great-grandchildren Jordan about the Japanese fundraising chair. Yu and Kara Yu. He was preced• American internment expe• "Bob connected with thousands of young people ed in death by brothers Hike Oda rience, died April 24 of a through his stories of boyhood camp adventures that (wife Taye), and Kanki Oda (wife heart attack at the Manzanar opened their minds to the reality of how the government Masayo), pilgrimage in Lone Pine, can even twn against its own people during a time of cri• He graduated from U.C. Calif. He was 75. sis, imprisoning thousands of innocent men, women, and Berkeley Haas Business School U yeyama was leading a children," said Noguchi. in 1935, worked pre 1942 as walking tour with other former internees when he col• He was also an accomplished musician who sang in a manager Japanese Farmers lapsed. barbershop quartet and played the piano and organ. Cooperative San Luis Obispo, The former Jerome and Rohwer internee also talked Funeral services were held May 2 at Cannichael California, retired from Trailmobile about his internment experiences as a docent for the Seventh-Day Adventist Church in Sacramento. in Berkeley, California. He was a California Museunl of History. He is survived by wife Masako, son Jason, sisters Ruth Masami "Sam" Oda born in member of the Berkeley Buddhist "He selflessly dedicated much of his retired life to and Carol and brothers Jack, Bill, Stan, David, Dan and Berkeley April 1913, age 96, Temple, Contra Costa JACL, East sharing this vital lesson with the younger generation of Pete .• peacefully passed away in his Bay Golf Club, and was a mem• sleep March 3, 2010, after a brief ber of the same Saturday Night illness. He is survived by his wife Poker Group for over 50 years, Victoria Manalo Draves was First APA Gold Medal Olympic Diver Kazuko Oda, sister Mary Ota, Sam loved golf, poker, family, By PacifIC Citizell Staff "She like was sliver going into the water." sons, Gary Oda (wife Judy), friends and his Cal Golden Bears Draves, whose father was Filipino and mother was Dennis Oda, Edward Oda (wife Sports Teams, He was a gentle, Victoria Manalo Draves, a English, took gold in the three-meter springboard and the Lois), daughters Janet Sonoda kind, empathetic and generous groundbreaking athlete who lO-meter platfornl competitions. (husband Tom), Caroline Ouch ida person who will be missed by all. became the first Filipina She began competitive diving in San Francisco when (husband Lester), grandchildren, A memorial service was held American woman to win two she was about 17, She faced racial discrimination from Russell Ouch ida (wife Hsiao-Wei), Saturday, March 13, 2010, at the gold medals for springboard other divers about her Filipina heritage, said her husband, Joanne Sonoda-Yu (husband Berkeley Buddhist Temple 2121 and platform diving at the but she persevered and toured around the world with David), Ryan Ouch ida, Alison Channing Way, Berkeley, CA 1948 Smnmer Olympics in Buster Crabbe's "Aqua Parade," Sonoda, Colleen Oda, Roger Oda 94704. London, has died. She was In 1969, Draves was inducted into the International 85. Swimm.ing Hall of Fame. Draves died April 11 in She is survived by her husband, sons, eight grandchil• Palm Springs, Calif. from dren and Consuelo Sessions. complications of pancreatic cancer, said Lyle Draves her "Vicki was the first girl Olympic champion," said Lyle husband and coach. Graves. "Wuming an Olympic medal ... you can't get !~~ "She had form," said Lyle Draves about her diving. much higher than that." • '"" FD#80B Minidoka Pilgrimage Set For June 24-27

·REUABL£. COMPASSIONATE. PERSONAUZEO· 707 East Temple Street The 2010 Mini• entrance, was designated a National Historical Gerak! Los Angeles, CA 90012 91 1 VENICE BOULEVARD doka Pilgrimage Monmnent. President George Bush, in 2008, signed into Fukui LOS ANGELES, CAUFORNIA 9001 5 from Seattle and law "The Wild Sky Wilderness Act", which changed the Ph. 2131626-1J441 Presidenl TEL (2 13) 749-1449 FAX (213) 749-0265 Portland to the for• status from U.S. National Monmnent to National Fax 2131617-2781 B*U'('t ftij] I ':: h1!!U. ~ tt n ' .t,t; ~' H ' t .... mer internment site Historic Site and added the Nidoto Nai Yoni (Let It Not wlvw.kubotanikkeimorruary.com near Twin Falls, Happen Again) Memorial on Bainbridge Island, Wash. Idabo will take During WWII, nearly 13,000 Japanese American place June 24-27. internees were forcibly removed from their homes in Participants will Washington, Oregon and Alaska and incarcerated in visit the grounds of the Minidoka National Historical Minidoka. The annual pilgrimage commemorates this Site and attend a memorial service to honor fornler tragic history. The deadline to register is June 4 .• internees and Nisei soldiers who were killed in action during World War II, For infonnation: www,minidokapilgrimage.org or In 2001, 73 acres along the North Side Canal, near the [email protected] TRIBUTE Matao "Matt" Shigio About our Obituaries June 17,1923 - April 18, 2010 Section: ~ b In Memoriam appears on KOKORO Shigio, Matao "Matt", 86, San " /"I ACTlVf.. CARING comt r.'I1'T fOIt SENIORS RCH 1385600235 a limited, space-available Francisco, CA; April 18, MIS veter• basis at no cost. an; survived by daughter Dianne 24·Hour Building Se

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(1) Available for new small business accounl customers with funds nol presently on deposit with Union Bank. Earn $100 when you open a Signature Banking business checking accounl and Cash Reserve or a Savings Overdraft Protection Plan by 6/ 30/10 and keep the Signature Banking account open for a minimum of 60 days. Ea rn an additional $100 when you establish one qualifying small bll5iness produd or service by 6/ 30/10. You cannot open an additional businE!$S checking account to qUCll ify. The bonuses wi ll be deposited by 9/30/10 into the Signature Banking business cheCking account, which must be active and in good sta nding. Limit one offe r per business. Not valid with other offers. As required by law, bonuses must be reported as interest paid and requires Form 1099-ltfr be sent for tax purposes. (2) Requires a Signature Banking Business Tiered Interest Checking or Signature Ba nking Basic Business Checking accounl. A regular monthly se rvice chClrge is assessed if the average monthly balance from a combina tion of quatifying accounts falls be low $10 ,000. Minimum opening balance is $100. (3) Valid on orders of up to 300, 3-0n- A- Page checks only. (4) Available only when accessing your Signature Banking Checking account. Owners and operators of non-Union Bank AlMs. may charge a fee for use of their AlMs. Subjecllo available accounl balance. Go online or see branch for delails. Some exclusions apply. © 2010 Union Bank, N.A. FDic