•• •• June 11,1982 (~ Postpaid) aCl lC Cl lZell News 20¢ The National Publication of the Japanese American Citizens League ISSN : {)()3(}.3579 Whole No. 2.192/ Vol. 94 No. 23 Stand: Interned JAs 'must be compensated': Goldberg Autoworker sells 'Buy American' HONOLULU - The United can, one of the most mons• It was also noted some Ja• creating the right type of s0- shirts to protest Japan cars States must compensate trous injustices ever commit• panese were also evacuated ciety for everybody. That's ARLINGTON, Tx.-An autowork• let's put American people back to Americans of Japanese an- ted in our society: what was from Hawaii. the best way. You have to cre- er at the General Motors assembly work.' The American people are cestry who were "imprisoned done to Japanese American ate a society in which the spi- plant here is on a crusade to "rally getting slaughtered with all these in concentration camps" dur- citizens and resident aliens When asked how the U.S. rit of freedom, Liberty and to- !he Amer~can ~ple back to buy• Japanese imports. " ing World War II, according during World War II. could prevent future intern• lerance lives. That's the way mg Ame~lcan, reported the Oal- Martin said he came up with the ' h d thin to d " las Morrung News May 2. T-shirt idea after an increasing to Arthur Goldberg, former "There can be no argwnent ments, Goldberg said, "By and tha t saar g o. J . ~ . Martin, 41, is selling T- nwnber of his friends were being associate Supreme Court jus- that a terrible wrong was shirts emblazoned with a U.S. laid off from the GM plant in Ar• tice and member of the Com- done by a president that I re• map, over which Japanese kami• lington and after two GM plants in mission on Wartime Reloca- vere, Franklin Roosevelt. Former government attorney kaze pilots are dropping bombs la• California closed for good. tion and Internment of Civi- First, the record shows it. Se• beled with the names of the major "It just dawned on me one morn• : ing that if somebody didn't do lians. He was addressing a cond, it has been admitted. urges reopening of Korematsu Japanese imports. The map is topped with the slogan "Remem• something about Japanese car Honolulu JACL luncheon May President Ford said so, and WASHINGTON-An attorney who worked for U.S. Office of Emergency ber Pearl Harbor. Help save Ame• sales in this country, all of us could 15 at Pagoda Restaurant. Congress has said so in creat- Management during World War II has urged the Commission on Wartime rica. Buy American. It be out of work," said Martin, who Goldberg was in Honolulu to ing the commission. In law• Relocation and lntenunent of Civilians to ask Congress to reopen the To protest Japanese imports and has worked 24 years for GM. deliver the commencement yer's term, we acknowledge Supreme Court evacuation case ofKorematsu v. U.S. how they keep his fellow autowork• " What other country in the addres:s the next day at the liability; the only question is Joseph L. Rauh, Jr., in a letter to CWRIC chair Joan Z. Bernstein May ers unemployed, Martin said, he world would let another country 21, expressed his' belief that Congress, rather than the courts, would have destroy their economy except Univ. of Hawaii graduation. damages. plans to use the T-shirt profits to to reverse the Korematsu decision. buy a Japanese-made car and America? ' "In law, if you have sus- . "Our commission has a pro• .• I now believe that the combination of both Congress and the courts can smash it to pieces with a sledge• Martin said be does Dot want his tained an injury, then you are blem, though. What do you do, best deal with this subject (of redress)," wrote Rauh. "To this end, I urge harruner. pro-U.S. crusade to be misunder• entitled to be compensated for ' 40 years past, with the re• this Commission, following the practice of Indian claims, to try and "If this T-shirt idea goes over, stood. ~ injury that has.~n sus-,' maining 60,000 of the 120,000 persuade Congress to waive the defe!lSeS of sovereign immunity and the I'm going to buy me a Toyota, set it "I'm not bad-mouthing the Ja• statute of limitations and thus permit suits for damages resulting from tained. Our COlIUlllSSlon has Japanese Americans who up at a shopping mall, tum on its panese people or their cars," he evacuation and internment." radio and smash it to smithe• said. "It's not a racial matter at to fmd a way to establish some were put in these concentra• He added, "It will then be ~n to the courts to decide the correctness of feellS--()r until the radio goes off, .. all. We just have got to get some monetary redress for this lion camps? Korematsu and the right of the internees to redress. lfthe Supreme Court, Martin said, as he modeled one of sort of trade balance going with the wrong. That's what we will "It will be a difficult thing. freed from wartime pressures, overrules Korematsu, as I hope and trust the shirts in front of United Auto Japanese because they are killing wrestle with later this How do you really make a per• it will, the courts can assess damages on a group or individual basis for Workers Local 276 in Grand our economy." month," said Goldberg. son whole, or a people whole, the deprivations imposed." Prairie. Martin said the T-shirts come in Raub said that after the attack on Pearl Harbor, both he and attorney three colors-Hall-American red, "My lifetime has been de- for the physical injury, the fi• "By doing this I'm trying to say, Oscar Cox of the OEM met with presidential advisor Benjamin V. Cohen 'Hey, America, buy American and white and blue." II voted to justice-equal justice nancial injury and, what is to discuss ways to alleviating the anti-Japanese hysteria on the West under law-and we (in the worst of all, the stigma of be• Coast. Conunission) are united in a ing an American and branded "An immediate, temporary nighttime curfew seemed to all three of us Chol Soo Lee's bail set at $1 million single cause to remedy, if we as disloyal?" he said. COntinued OD Page 10 SAN FRANCISCO-Bail has been set at $1 million for Chol Soo Lee, the 28-year-old Korean immigrant facing a retrial for a 1973 Chinatown murder. Superior Court Judge Robert Dossee Profile & Platform of Candidates for National JACL Office set the figure May 17, at the request of assistant attorney Wil• liam Smith, who said that Lee is a substantial bail risk because he is an immigrant and may likely flee the country. Frank Sato lone nominee for Secretarymeasurer During the same hearing, Smith also asked for a continuance In the forthcoming weeks, the ten nominated for national ginia Community College acrounting advisory committee, and in the retrial, moving it from May 24 to Aug. 2. Lee had opposed JACL offices will be introduced. Each candidate's platform will Nat'l Assn. of Asian American CPAs. While attending UW, he the continuance, but if he had gone to trial May 24, the prose• be reprinted. The series opens this week with Frank Sato of was president of Synkoa, the University student club. cution would have been allowed to read into the record the Washington, D.C., the lone nominee for secretary-treasurer, A JACL member since '48, and currently on the Washington, testimony of witness John Huey, without allowing Lee s counsel and will culminate with profiles and statements by the three D.C. chapter board of directors, Sato serves on the Abe & Es• a chance to cross exam. nominated for national president.-Editor. ther Hagiwara scholarship selection committee, the Washing• Lee agreed to a limited waiver of speedy trial to within 10 • ton JACL Office advisory committee since 1!179 and served on days after Aug. 2. . . Aware that hard choices EOC's Japanese American Resource Registrar Committee. Lee had been convicted in 1973 for a street-corner killing of a would have to be made for Born in Puyallup, Wa., March 16,1929, he IS married to June reputed gang leader Yip Yee Tak, in Chinatown here and in (nee Matsusawa). They have four children: Teresa, 28; John, Sacramento Lee was sentenced to life imprisonment for the sake of the JACL's growth, Ho~ever, Frank Saburo Sato, who will 26 (an accountant with Sho {ino at Los Angeles) ; Gregory, 24; murder. a committee was formed by Asian Ameri• ~o be 53 years old by Convention Glenn, 23; son Dean died in 1980. The Satos live in Annandale, can community members who maintained that he was time, said he is prepared to Va. He is amember of the Method~is~t~C::.:h=ur:..::c::..:h::... . _"",,,"---yo--,~""'" cent, and through their efforts, Lee was able to obtam a COnGDued 00 Page 6 make them if elected national retrial. # JACL secretary-treasurer. As stated in his platform" Asian families in Torrance say JACL's ability to deliver must' u.s. denies visas to Japan no-nukers be assessed and made by set• NEW YORK- The State Department denied isas to about 300 teenagers are harassing them ting priorities within the con• Japanese citizens who had been planning to attend the U.N. text of long-range and short• Special Session on Disarmament on June 7 and a rally ill up• term goals. port of that session. Currently the inspector A State Dept. official was quoted in th New York Tim Jun general at the Veterans Ad• 1 as saying the visas were denied under the 1952 Walt r-Mc ar• ministration, upon nomina- ran Act, which permits the government to exclude members of tion of President Reagan, Sa- ato proscribed organizations and was aimed primarily again t to has had a long career in government accounting and aUditing. communist groups. Upon graduation in accounting from Univ. of Washington in The Japanes ,who applied May 15 through th Kinki Nippon 1953, he enlisted in the Air Force and was stationed at nearby Tourist Travel agency in Tokyo, w re mo tly m mber of Ja• McChord AFB as an auditing officer. (He is also certified public pan's two larg st anti-nuclear organization (J pan uncil accountant from the State of California since 1959.) This was the Against A and H Bombs, Japan Congr ss Against A and H start of his 2.S-year service with USAF and eventually at the Bombs), included a journahsts a ociation, a d 1 gati n ot Pentagon where he was deputy assistant secretary of defense scientists, some union members and atomi bomb ur i OI'S •• and director of defense audit service in the late 1970s. When the 95th Congress established the office of inspector general to basically report irregularities in the use of Federal dollars in wake of the Watergate and the nation's cry for a WEEKS UNTIL THE •.• better system of public accountability, Sato was among the nation's first in 197~nominated by President Carter and con• 27th Biennial National firmed by the Senate to that post in the Dept. of Transportation. Sato's professional honors are many-the mo t recent being the gold medal award from the Assn. of Government Accoun• JACL Convention tants, a 12,OQO-member group which he headed as national pres• Hosts: Gardena Valley JACL ident last year. He was presented the Dept. of Defense Dis• tinguished Civilian Service Award in 1979. August 9-13 (Mon.-FriJ , At the community service level, Sato's activities range from membership to leadership in many accounting and audit soci• Airport Hotel, Los Angeles eties, ad hoc or steering committees (including President Hyatt Reagan's Council on Integrity and Efficiency), Northern Vir- '...... -.... ,. . 2--PACIFIC CITIZEN I Friday, June 11, 1982 Ifyou need help and guidance, Redress, 1765 Sutter Street, write or call John Y. Tateishi, San Francisco, CA 94115 (415) Wisconsin: 'Land of Fightin' Bob LaFollette' National Director of JACL 921-5225. Few will remember Wis• By MINORU YASUI stayed to practice law there consin as the "Land of Fight• National Chair, JACL Redress Committee during the past 50 years. Dallas Arts District selects in' Bob LaFollette", a great There is a Paul Kusuda, who liberal during the early characterizations as "absurd, me to note that the redress is an administrator in the field Sasaki firm master planner 192Os---unless you have quite a frivolous, crazy and idiotic" workshop at the Univ. ofWis• of corrections for the State of (Special to The Pacific Citizen) few grey hairs. On April 12, The resolution was sent to the consin was conceived, initiat• Wisconsin; and a Ken Uye• DALLAS, Tex.-The Sasaki Associates Inc. of Watertown, 1982, the Wisconsin legisla• Senate for concurrence. The ed, planned and organized by hara, a young sound engineer Mass., was selected master planner for the public areas within ture held true to its past proud Senate quietly approved the Holly Yasui-who wasn't for WHA radio and TV, who a ~block segment of northeastern Dallas, where the new Dal• tradition in approving Res. 69, resolution, on April 12. The even born at the time of helped us greatly. las Museum of Art is situated. which endorsed compensa• State of Wisconsin is the fIrst Evacuation. It is revealing that a strong The judges made the selection known May 14 after observing tion for "Japanese" who en• state to urge payment of com- Allan Hida, president of the the presentations by the nine competing firms. pensation to Japanese Ameri- Milwaukee JACL, and Ellen effort can mobilize re• dured the evacuation of 1942. sources-and it is even more While the project may take 10 years to complete as private f Julius Fujihira of the Mil• cans who were evacuated Kozak as a free lance journa- heartening to know that there developers hope to build a variety of art institutions, office waukee JACL started in 1981 from the West Coast in 1942. list came from Milwaukee. is AJA talent almost every• buildings, hotels, restaurants and shops, designing ofthe public to win such legislative en• • Helen Murao of Chicago gave where. We need not limit our spaces will be much less, one jurist said. dorsement. Despite blizzards An educational teach-in had personal testimony, Maria efforts to only AJA's, because Another judge said Sasaki's entry was distinguished by a in January, blowing snow been planned by the Asian Sato as fIlmmaker showed ob• there are other Americans of combination of imagination and good business judgment. It scuring icy highways, and American Student Union of l her short "Issei", and Dr. features a heavily landscaped Flora Street, interspersed with the Univ. of Wisconsin for ' Shirley Castelnuovo of North• good will, of every color and temperatures at 20 below background, who will assist fountains, sculpture and outdoor furniture. Plan recommends zero, Milwaukee JACLers April 17. As matters turned eastern Illinois University breaking up the linear thrust by projecting shops and cafes out, it turned out to be a quiet spoke on constitutional us in our great crusade for trekked to the state capitol in justice-for redress and part-way into the corridor and courtyards in front of the muse• Madison, to testify at commit• sort of celebration, led by Jim aspects. reparations ! um, in front of the symphony site and where Flora runs into Tokuhisa, a biology student We found a Robert Dewa, tee hearings, early this year. JACLers and AJAs in every RouthSt. from Chicago, and participat- an AJA from Hawaii who had In March, 1982, the assem• state should rally around to Headed. by a Central California born Nisei, Hideo Sasaki, the bly approved the resolution ed in by dozens of other young attended law school in Madi• mobilize su~port for redress. finn employs about 200 people and has been in business for by a 65-31 vote, despite shrill people. A father's pride leads ~n during the 1930's, and who more than 2D years. Their more recent projects include the 1980 Winter Olympic Games at Lake Placid; landscape architecture Speaking Out: for Pennsylvania Ave. in Washington D.C.; and Harbour Town on Hilton Head Island, S.C. Master plans have also been pre- Some Thoughts on Redress . . pared by the Univ. of Massachusetts campus at Amherst and Los Angeles By ROY M. NISlDKA WA cases. An~, do this o~ a contl- the Old Savannah Historical District______. _ The National JACL Board nuousbaslSyearafteryear. _ _ _ _ has declared "redress" to the "silent majority". It was culties involved. One man The above may be acade- . . be JACL's top priority. Not mostly this group which was when informed of the costly rnic at this point but the pro- Registration Form everyone agrees with this, but targeted for attendance and and lengthy process of pass- blem posed for JACL should Name ______Chapter_· ______all agree there is much confu• support of the "American ing legislation was not willing concern every JACL Address ______District_· ______sion in this field. There are Testimonial" banquet held in to commit himself but said, member. Phone: three separate and distinct Los Angeles. At that time the , "You guys in JACL take care The National JACL Endow- City/State/zip:______.------groups who are now active in money issue was avoided if of it. " A common attitude ment Fund is supposed to be a Convention Credentials this area: ll) NCRR-whose not buried. I supported this which means that a lot of lip permanent fund whose prin- 0 Off1daJ Delegate 0 Booster o 1000 Club primary interest is a $25,000 project and persuaded others service is given to redress but cipal sum is to be spent only in (]Alternate Delegate 0 NatIOnal Board Member minimum payment on an to do so because I felt the need not many are willing to help the case of an emergency. Housing Arrangements------individual basis including for vindication, catharsis and fund the effort. Most of these funds were Yes No . NtJlTlber heirs. ~2) NCJAR-which redress in the sense of setting Leading redress movement raised by the Committee on 0 0 I am (we are) planning to stay at the Airport Hyatt. ____ stresses a class action suit the record straight. Now figures like Min Yasui and Japanese American Evacua- 0 0 I (we) have made advance reservations with Airport Hyatt. against the U.S. government. SQme of my friends feel "be• John Tateishi, whom I admire tion Claims (COJAEC) in the In Case of Emergency, Contact: ------and (3) JACL-which stress• trayed" because of the cur• andrespectgreatly,ha esaid early fifties. Interest and di- Name ______es a foundation or trust rent stress on the monetary that $25,000 was too small a vidends can be spent and Na- Phone: through which individual pay• aspects. payment for the internment tional JACL currently re- .---- ments can be made. I attended two meetings re• experience. Of course tlus is ceives 2~25 thousand dollars 1982 Convention Package Deal ------true because a rl'ce cannot be all fro this The ConventIOn Package Deal Includes ReglSUabon JACL Awards Luncheon and Stug There is also a fourth group cently of those who had testi• P annu y m source. Wakamatsu TIlStimonIal. the Mike M . Masaoka DIS~ngulShed ServIce Awatd and tile JACl with little interest in the mo• fied or attended the L.A. placed on the loss of freedom In order to mvade the prin- Sayonara Ball & Japanese Amencan 01 the Biennium Award presentaboo. (These events netary aspects but who are Hearings of the CWRIC. and dignity. In this sense, no cipalsum,three-fourthsofthe plusreglStrallonlotalSI60whenpurcnasedseparalely .) concerned with public rela• There was considerable dis• amount of money can ever be "JACL Chapters must give PLEASE RESERVE: adequate. their consent in writing. No Pnce Total tions, education and vindica• cussions on the monetary __ $115 Early Bird SpecIal (offer ends 6/ 15/ 1982) $, ___ But every person were Lastfall, the National JACL tion. This group, although not aspects. There was also con• if to __ $150 Package Deal (a $10 saving) S ___ organized, may very well be siderable naivete on the difli- be paid the so-called mini- Board passed a resolution mwn of $25,000, simple arith- stating that if the Endowment Individual Events metic indicates a staggering Fund Committee should de• Please check eadllndMduaJ event you plan to attend Note pnce before or after JUNE IS. IndICate lhe number III your paJ1y and enter amoum of your remittance tor each Item It you total swn of around 3 billion clare that an "emergency ex• have SIgned up tor Early Berti SpecIal or ConventIOn PaCkage Deal ... IS not nec:essa/)' to PROGRAM DIRECTOR dollars! Not a single Nikkei ists" the National Board check the (. ) Package Dealilems below JAPANESE AMERICAN CITIZENS lEAGUE congressman has come for- would agree with them. This, NATIONALJACL EVENTS: Before Atter No,. In Amount 1765 Sutter Street. San FranCiSCO, Ca 94115. (415) 921-5225 ward to support this kind of pending successful chapter --______Jun 15 Jun 15 party remItted_ JOB SUMMARY payment, so how can we ex- ratification, the way would be • Aug. 11 Luncheon: JACLer of Biennlum/ Under supervIsion of the National Director. the Program Director will be peet the rest of the Congress paved for an outright grant of Shlg Wakamatsu Testlmonlal $25 S40u-__ $, ___ responsible for planning, ~ordlnatlon. and implementat~n of functIOns. to go along with this? Espe- $100,000 to be used for the re- • Aug. 11 Dinner: MIke M. Masaoka proJects. and services provided by the NatIOnal organizatIOn. Responsibi• $35 $~a.5 __ "-__ lities will include budget admlnlstrallon. program planning. personnel man• cially in view of the $100 bil- dress program. ThiS extraor- DIstingUIshed PUb. Sv. Award agement, fund raising, and membership services. lion federal deficit. Perhaps dinary resolution reflects Aug. 12: Mas & ChlZ Salow Memonal at Satow County Ubrary $25 $,__ _ DUTIES the time has come to come both JACL's tight fmancial si- (Includes bento. transpotlsbon and copy ot JACL In Quesllor JUSbce by Bin Hosokawa ) 1) SUperviSion of support staff at NatIOnal Headquarters In the operation of the general management of the office. down from these high expec- tuation, lack of funding from • Aug. 13 Dinner: Sayonara 8alll 2) Assist in the development of matenals and resources related to national tations and try to be realistic. other sources and the rationa- Nlkket of Biennium Awards $40 $5u.O __ $'--__ programs of the organization. What is 1/3Oth of 3 billion dol- lization that accompanies Aug. 10: 3) ProVide staff support to specifIC JACL projects and committees as $20__ ~ __ assigned by the National Director. lars. Yet at a 10 ,0 yield, it great pressur . 1000 Club Whlng DIng $15 4) Develop a monthly report summanzlng the actiVities and status oltha REG 1ST RAT ION National organization. and coordinate Its assembly and dissemination. would provide $10 million per This request was later mod- • $15 $25. __ $, __ 5) Malntam the various operational manuals and policy documents of the year for the benefit of th ified. and on April 28, 1982 a National JACL. community. request for a $100,000 .line of Suttotal $ 6) Represent the National Director and the National organization as GARDENA VALLEY JACL SPECIAL EVENTS required at assigned meeting and event. Spread amoog 100,(0) individ- credit was made to the En- 7) Assume the responslblJlties of the Naional Director at National Head· uals this would amount to dowment Fund by Min Yasui, Aug. 13: FashIOn Show-Luncheon quarters in his/her absence. Redr 8) PrOVide information on the National organization to various media only $100 per person. lfthe in- National Chairman. featunng Japanese fashions $25 $30-.__ $ sources. dividuaJs in the Japane The nature of th collateral Golf Tournament" (Selanoco JACl host) 9) Perform other duties as assigned by the National Director. American community could and t rms otli red would California Country Club $35 $4 QUALIFICATIONS be persuaded to giv up their cause, most lik ly, ny pru- 1) Bachelor's degree In a field relevant to the work of the National JACL. individual claims, the issue 01 dent bank r to r • IndICate H8fldrcBP/sl such as in the humanities, social SCiences, business or public adminiS• rus . Aug. 10; JACL Youth Reun\on-A 15- ear Return tration. monetary redr would be There ar many compli at· of Jr. JACLersl JA S $10 $15 _ 2) Background In personnel management, communications. budget and accounting, computers systems and human services lor a year. placed on a higher plan , r d fiduciary and I gal pro- Aug. 12. Luau. Getting ready JACL s ne t 3) Ability to communicate and work With diverse populallons In the general move some of the suspicions blem involved and it will be convention In HawaII $10 $15 _ public, organizational membership and staff. about self-serving and gr ed l up to th Endowment Fund Aug. 10. Nat'l PreSident's Forum (Bento Lunch) 4) Ability to develop and wnte reports. grant applications and Iinancial papers. recapture some ofth ·upport Committ haired b Yone Hear candidates vie for offtce $8.50 $10 $ 5) Previous experience with non-profit. tax-exempt, publiC ervice ofthe "silent majority" and at Satoda of San ran j 0 to r corporallons. Sublot I $ 6) Knowledge and expenence In the history. Interests and Issues 01 the same time buy for th spond. I think that U1 ' re persons 01 Japanese ancestry In the United States. commWlity a lot of publi r some of th 't'itical pr blen1S SUMMARY OF CONVENTION PARTICIPATION REQUIREMENTS lations, education, funds for that th d I gat s to th Na- (1) Active membership With the Japanese American CitJzens League. (2) fair play and justic and v n tional onv ntion should be NATIONAL JACL EVENTS s A valid California Drlver's license. (3) Ability 10 travel periodically. relief for individual hardship ' onsidering. II GARDENAJACL EVENTS POSTING May 28 to June 28. 1982. Posting may be extended untJl positIon Is filled. Dr. Roy M. Nishikawa is an active Wil hire JA Ler who is a Make cha k p Y ble to: 1982 JACL National Convention. APPLICATION past national preSident: a past COJAEC chainnan, and current- Mail to: cl o Mrs. May Dol. Reglstr r, Send resume to above address. Attenllon: National Director ly an Endowment Funa Committee M mber. P.O. Box 2361.Gard n . CA 90247 Enthusiasm up for Nisei Friday, June 11, 1982 I PACIFIC CITIZEN--3 L.A. dinner set for Inland ·reunion set RIVERSIDE, Ca.-A 40th Aruti- veterans reunion in L.A. Ho dgson J une 17 versary Evacuation Reunion of LOS ANGELES-Fonner U.S. former residents of the Riverside LOS ANGELES-The 10th tri• is excellent, according to Ha• Ambassador to Japan James D. County, San Bernardino, Colton ennial Nisei Veterans Reuni• yamizu, who is encouraging Hodgson, who was a recent recipi- and Redlands areas will be held on will be held Aug. 5-8 at the veterans, spouses and friends ent of the First Class of the Order Saturday, July 24, 6 p.m., at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in down• of the Rising Sun from the Japa- Riverside Mission Inn. to reserve tickets for the two nese government, will be honored All Nikkei who lived in the area town Los Angeles. Hosts will dinners early. Those taking Thursday, June 17, at the Beverly -including those who resided in be the Nisei Veterans Coordi• the package which includes "Wilshire Hotel. Co-sponsoring the Upland, Ontario, Fontana, Chino nating Council, a l~member hotel reservations are as• banquet are the Consulate General and Pomona-prior to and after group, with Bob Hayamizu as sured of seating at both the of Japan, Japan Business Assn. of the evacuation of Japanese general chairman. Assisting welcome and sayonara ban• Southern California, Los Angeles Americans are expected to attend, Area Chamber of Commerce, Ja- announced organizer Sumi him are Col. Young O. Kim, quets. Everyone else must se• panese Chamber of Commerce of Harada. David Monji, Mote Nakasako cure a "local package" Southern California, JACCC and For more info call Masako HiTa• and Harry Yamamoto, vice• through Kokusai Travel, 400 the Japan American Society of ta, (714) 862-4568, or Harada, (714) chairmen. E. 2nd St. , Los Angeles, CA Southern California. 683-0367. # Reunion schedule follows: 90012, (213) 626-5284. Aug. 5 (Thu I-Registration, All participants must be FUNDRAISING-Doug Aihara, newly elected board chair- I NEW LOCAT~ON , ~ i [ Hospitality Night; Aug. 6 (Fri)• man of the Los Angeles-based Visual Communications media li? SECOND ST SE registered, $10 individual or ~ Golf, Welcome Banquet; Aug. 7 $15 family. Cost of dinners are organization, joins with staff members Nancy Araki (center) Imported Oriental Giftware tSat)-Chapter night: lOOth/442nd $25, welcome; $20 sayonara. and Linda Mabalot to announce a special campaign to raise at Bonaventure Hotel; MIS at Gar• funds for the group. For info call (213) 680-4463. dena Nisei VFW Hall; Aug. 8 This will probably be the INTERNATIONAL ~ "0';; .•..• tSun)-Memorial Service, Nisei last Nisei Veterans Reunion Week Parade, Sayonara Ball. on the mainland, Havamizu Peruvian Nikkei held in murder case Enthusiasm for the reunion added. # LOS ANGELES-A camera assembler was booked for investigation of TRADING muraer m Ole StaObmg aeaOl ot t'anavlSlon, !nc. presLdent Hobert Gott• 340 E. Azusa St. [Little Tokyo] Los Angeles July 11 kickoff luncheon to aid exhibit schalk, a pioneer in supplying motion picture stuwos with hand-held (213) 628-7473 THIRD j.T LOS ANGELES-Ticket sales and table reservations for the 100/442/ MIS cameras. Museum Fourxiation kickoff luncheon on Sunday, July 11, 1 p.m. at the Laos "Ronnie" Churnan, ?:l, was arrested June 3 after the body of EIlIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIJIIIIIIIIIIIlIIUIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIJIIIlIllIIIIIUUUJIIiIIUnlllll) ~ Hyatt Regency Hotel here were underway by local area Nisei veteran Gottschalk was .found in the bed.roI I and Robert Matsui. For reservations, write to l00/442/MIS Musewn Foundation, PO Box Summer study tour in Japan offered 3007, Gardena, CA 90247. Remittance is required with reservations. # LOS ANGELES-The U.S ..Japan Cross Culture Center is offering a I InVest in Dollars and Have It i series of summer study tours to Japan, which include a fonnal program Isaac says Japan trade related of language and cultural instruction, living accommodations and round• I Working for You in Yen ... I trip airfare. The programs are available with three departures: 1) from June 2I-July 17; 2) July I9-Aug. 14 ; and 3) Aug. 16-Sept 11. For more With liquidation in Dollars. to Noguchi's recent demotion information contact Miss Masako Kwnazaki (213) 617-2039. LOS ANGELES-Dr. ThOhlCiS No• but the coronel' will::OLd . 5::;::: guchi's attorney says the coroner Noguchi. I may have been demoted because To help pay for Noguchi's legal of racial prejudice triggered by the expenses, his friends. includin~ TOSHIYUKI TANAKA, M.D. trade imbalance between the U.S. cosmetics executive Carole Arm and Japan. Blitz, were continuing fundraising announces the opening 20% NET per Annum efforts. Blitz is coordinating the "We are at a time when the eco• of on Internal Medicine office at nomic excellence of Japan is beg• sale of 10 T-5hu1s (which read Minimum Investment: $15,000 inning to impinge on the economic "Noguchi-telJ it like it is'' ) and $1 welJ-bein~ of this country," saId bumper stickers ("SuPPOrt your 15733 S. Western Avenue --DETAILS UPON REQUEST- • Godfrey Isaac at a Los Angeles local coroner-Dr. Thomas Nogu• Gardena, California 90247 Dyke Nakamura, Foreign Department Press Club luncheon May ?:l . chi"). Telephone: (213) 532-0857 "Some people are worried about Blitz, who coordinated a ~a Yamakicbi Securities Co., Ltd. the import of Japanese automo• plate testimonial dmner for Nogu• (Opposite California First Bonk, biles and cameras and I think that chi Apr. 19, said about $1,000 worth 8 Nihonbashi, Kabutocho, 1-chome many feel that has a direct rela• of T-shirts and bwnper stickers Gardena branch) Chuo-ku, Tokyo, Japan 103 tionship to what's going on here," were sold so far. he added. Meanwhile, the supervisors ~ Cable: YAMASECURB. TOKYO ~ Noguchi said his demotion from have continued their probe into the Telephone: (03) 667-7947 chief medical examiner-eoroner to coroner's department and on June I S physician specialist by the county I, they called for an investigation Board of Supervisors (PC Apr. 23) into the 1976 death of clinical psy• was similar to •'exile in Siberia. " chologist John T. Langlos. Plaza Gift Center ~HnH nlllllllUlUllIIlIIHlIlIHlUlIlIlfIII 1I11111111111nJIIIIIlllllllllllnt IInnmlllllmllmnllllnmmnlin § But both Noguchi and Isaac feel. The coroner's office had inti ally •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• that the ~year-{)ld fonner coro• listed LangJos' death as the result FINE JEWELRY · CAMERA . VIDEO SYSTEM ner will be reinstated following of a heart attack, but a coroner's I WATCHES · PEN • TV • RADIO · CALCULATORS Civil Service Commission hear• inquest jury ruled May 28 that DESiGNERS BAGS . COSMETICS BONE CHINA ings, which begin July 6. Langlos had died "at the hands of JACL Chapter-Sponsored "Politicians will come and ~, another." Noguchi, who in. 1976 had relied AuthOrized ONY D eler Group Medical Insurance TeD 1bem You Saw It on the autopsy fmdings of a staff 1 11 Japanese Villaae Plaza Mall pathologist, said he saw nothing Los Anaeles, Ca 9001 2 Endorsed by In the Padflc Citizen wrong with rEH>pening the case. 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C/h.o/0 MASAMORI ( Pt'll I .lIl\ (/It.' l ,tu~'/I or III /1 - /lIl t' lI 2010 Lamar St., Denver, CO 80214 "t1/I/U'.lCI" (C;;JkJ.IC fj • )f~~~film taken some 35 or more years rare gems in JACL this past week in ho• ago may be of interest to some of noring Mitsu Sonoda of the West Los An• your readers. geles chapter at the Hyatt Wilshire Hotel The tape includes Nisei experi• here. As many as a dozen organizations ences which is now history : 1941- Alaska salmon cannery trip from which have had the good fortune to have Seattle to Shearwater Bay, Alaska her on board glowingly paid tribute. And when it came to the and return including stops at can• climax to hear Mitsu respond, she let out a secret: "I'm afraid nery & ports along the Inside Pas• FROM HAPPy V ALLEY: by Sachi Seko there'l1 be other organizations in need of help coming around to sage. 1941-AIlny life from Ft ask me to join ... " Lewis to Chanute Field. 194f>• Some scenes taken in the Minidoka 'May and December' Wedding A bevy of beautiful expressions filled the room as resolutions WRA at HWlt, Idaho. 194&-Michi• from public officials were read by their minions. One turnabout gan State College. 1947-Army Salt Lake City ling of his fmgers. Some of the faint• however noted there's always a man behind every successful Language School, Presidio ofMon• When I called it a May and December hearted have abandoned ship about that woman-and Kiyoshi was unexpectedly honored. Among the terey where many Nisei were trained for service in occupied marriage, Lisa protested. She said, "Our time. Others have gamely stuck it out mementos was a collage--a big swath of benefit tickets Mitsu birthdays are both in April." Another and ended up being nursemaids. So a had been selling in the community these many years. Sign~ff Japan. With other incidentals the tape is day, I asked why she had married FiHollywood's War Against Japan' fact, "Three Came Home" is a moving drama . • Denver, Colo. One was II Across the Pacific" , a Grade B quickie star• Perhaps the most objectionable fllm of all, from a The late Larry Tajiri, who edited ring Humphrey Bogart as the U.S. secret agent who foils Nisei point of view, was an official U.S. government this newspaper during its golden a Japanese attempt to blow up the Panama Canal. What short titled "Japanese Relocation" produced by the Of• years and was fascinated by motion makes this mm particularly obnoxious is the character fice of War Infonnation in 1942. It is narrated by Milton pictures as a hobby, would have been Joe Totsuiko (played by Victor Sen Yung) , a hip-talking Eisenhower, first director of the War Relocation Author• delighted by one particular segment I 'Nisei" who proclaims his Americanism but is revealed ity and later No.2 man in OWl. ,J of Denver's recent International Film in the last reel as a sneaky enemy agent. This film seeks to justify the Evacuation, purports to Festival. It was called "Hollywood's War Against "The Purple Heart", produced by Darryl Zanuck in show how well the evacuees were treated and how much Japan: A Study of Cinematic Stereotypes' ". 1944, was just about as bad. It is a wildly imaginary they enjoyed the experience. The rationalization and cy• This two-day segment, almost totally ignored by the account of the trial of an American bomber crew cap• nicism worked into this effort makes it worth preserving local Japanese American community, was funded in tured after the Jimmy Doolittle raid on Tokyo. There are as a classic example of the distortion inherent in any part by the Colorado Humanities Program as a serious the obligatory hissing militarists and judges draped in propaganda effort. effort to analyze propaganda techniques. Four feature Shogun era robes, all of which was advertised with post• What made this journey into an unpleasant past more length movies and a variety of short subjects (including ers that promised "Now It Can Be Told". than just an exercise in nostalgia were the prograr '1 outrageously racist Bugs Bunny and Donald Duck car• The other two were "Behind the Rising Sun", and a notes by fIlm historian Randolph Man, and the com• toons) were shown. 1950 fili)l called' 'Three Game Home" starring Claudette ments of a panel that included Russell Endo, Univ. ( f Three of the feature fLlms provided a representative Colbert and Sessue Hayakawa as the humanitarian pri• Colorado sociologist, and Howie Movshovitz, fIlm il .• cross-section of the hate movies that Hollywood ground son camp commander, a role which he duplicated in the structor also at the Univ. of Colorado. They spoke at out after the outbreak of World War II, obviously to River Kwai picture some years later. Both, particularly considerable length about the film medium's ability to capitalize on war fever and make some fast bucks. "Three Came Home", are much more realistic (and develop and perpetuate stereotypes, often not with mal• ice aforethought, but with the primary intention of profit• BAST WIND: by Bill Marutani ing from manipulating human emotions regardless of the consequences. Once More: From Another Angle A new generation of Japanese Americans may n t Philadelphia OUT "EAST WIND" way, the Nikkei community in recall that J ACL in the early days of television fought to , AT TIMES IT'S interesting how two Seabrook sponsors an annual bon-odori affair. While prevent the showing of wartime hate fllms. Such as those ..,- people can read the very same item wishing to attend the festival, I always seem to hear shown here. Rather than an attempt at censorship, and arrive at two different, and at about it after the fact. However, I've had occasion to see JACL's protests were based on the contention that pa• times completely opposite, conclu- the dance troupe, the Minyo dancers, and they are a tently untrue material calculated to stir up old hatreds sions as to what was written. Every so delight. The troupe includes some very senior citizens as had no place on the air. It is likely that time, rather than ~ ( ~ this protest, was more effective in getting the trash off the . often a reader of column will well as some youngsters, all of whom enjoy what they make a comment as to a specific point which this writer ·are doing. Also up in New York they have bon festivals, late-late show. They became so outdated that more mod• does not recall making. So I go back and take a look at but we've missed them as well. Here in Philadelphia ern but less harmful trash took its place, as Larry Tajiri that particular piece, and I still can't fmd the point. we've had adori groups, thanks to another hardworking would be happy to know. Puzzled. (Of course, there's always the possibility that JACLer, Hatsumi Harada. Most recently, Hatswni ga• the writer did not express hiinself clearly and cogently. thered together some children who presented several 35 Years Ago IN lHB PACIFlCCITIZEN We admit to that problem.) odori numbers at the chapter installation dinner-dance. JUNE 14, 1947 patriation to V.S. AND ALL OF this is commendable and to be perpet• May 2S-House subcomnuttee June ll-Federal grand jury at MORE RECENTL Y, it seems that the piece we did on hears testimony for Evacuation Los Angeles indicts Tomoya Ka• uated and preserved for those who follow. To lose these Claims commission bill; only one wakita for treason for torturing participating in public display of cultural programs, was cultural assets would be a grievous loss. For America. objection raised by Rep. Clair En• V.S. PWs in Japan camp during misunderstood or otherwise misconstrued by some. And HENCE, THE POINT of the prior column (May 14PC) gle (D-Ca.); average claim ex• WW2. (Name of U.S. Attorney who pected to be $6,000, according to took case before grand jury was that would be unfortunate. So let us try to set the record on the subject simply was this: whatever may move us straight: we are all for Nikkei presenting cUltural pro• Seabrook Fann survey of 1,000 James M. Carter) ...Jw-ors told Nikkei to do, on our own terms (such as participating in a workers. he was able to get pennission from grams, be it a bon-odori, calligraphy demonstration, tea Pan-Asian festival ) has integrity and is great. What this May 2S-Move to give Nisei m .S. officials in Japan because "I ceremony, and so on. Such are natural and beautiful and writer had opposed some years back was something British Colwnbia voting rights in wanted to see my parents in Los thus have integrity. When I see, for example, the Nisei Domiruon elections defeated in Ot• Angeles". quite different: it was to appear in public, not as we tawa House of Commons. June 12-Honolulu Chinese to Week Festival Parade in Los Angeles, along with other wished but as someone else, who lacked understanding, June ~Four chapters \ Port• challenge wartime restriction members of the public I thoroughly enjoy myself. I fmd it wished. Example: appearing in public dressed or un• land, Mid~lwnbia . Seattle and against its operation of Chinese• particularly delightful when I see our Black and Cauca• Spokane) reactJ ate Pacific language school. dressed in this instance) as a sumo wrestler and walking sian friends participating in the adori. And while I do not Northwest JACL DIStrict Council. JW1e l2r-JAClrAOC testifies be• about as a representative of the Nikkei community be• June S-Over20 NikkeJ artists in fore V.S. Senate committee in fa• understand either the shakuhachi or the koto, in my book cause some city or state representative thought that was ew York open flTSt formal show vor of federal law against em• they are among the most hauntingly beautiful sources of at Riverside Musewn. ployment discrimination. "colorful." Yet, if the Nikkei themselves elected to por• music for me. They both have . ..class. (In the Western JW1e 9-NJSei Veterans Assn . June 14- isei workers eA'pecl• tray the very same thing as a segment of their multi• condemns action of "disloyal per• ed to return this summer to Alaska culture, for me the harp is an elegantly graceful instru• faceted cultural inheritance, it would be quite different sons who give aid and comfort to salmon canneries; basic wage $-l67 ment. And this assessment, by the way, comes from one enemy" and urge strlcter screen• for l\ 0 months plus overtime, say and would be acceptable. The difference may be subtle, ing of JSe1 strandees seeking re- CIO. who, at best, "picks" at a harmonica.) but it is an important difference. BY THE BOARD: by Henry Sakai members (or a total of 1,710 ) over last year's (1981) mem• Budget in Brief bership, it could, offset the dues increase. LOW·COST Long Beach, Ca. 114Chapters x 15 = 1,710 x $23.75 = $40,612 AUTO LOANS The Report in the PC on the May 21-23 • currently at 15% National ijoard contained a few errors, With implementation of the Anniversary system a approved which is understandable with the numer• by the National Board effective this year, Jan. 1, 1982, chapters ous problems covered. The National Board should be able to recruit new members all year around. This INSURED SAVINGS reviewed the budget proposed by the Fi- should simplify membership since the dates coincide with the currently paying 7%. nance Committee. District Governors presented their inputs PC subscnption. (PC has the renewal date printed on the label insured to any amount after their own caucus. Primarily they were concerned about in the upper right corner.) the $9,300 reduction in the District allocations. A line item re• • view of the budget did not identify any specific area where One of the big decisions to be made by the National Council IRA ACCOUNTS items can be cut and the consensus was that the budget was will be whether to accept a Washington Representative who is now available . fairly austere, considering this is a projection for '83 and '84. on a retainer basis (independent contract) like many lobbyists . The budget contains a dues increase in 1983 of$l.25 for regular If this concept is approved, it should provide a reduction in the members and $5 for Fifty Clubbers (1000ers,. The dues for cost of rurming the Washington office, yet give us the reJr FREE SAVINGS regular members in 1984 will be up $1. 75 for regular members. resentation necessary. This is not new . Mike Masaoka was on a This amounts to a 5% increase in 1983 and 6lh% in 1984 for retainer for many years. With the saving in going to the retainer INSURANCE regular members. Ifeach chapter could increase strength by 15 for the Washington Representative, it is hoped that the District up to $4,000 allocations can be restored and perhaps a few thousand extra LEnERS for programs. Perhaps even approve the $10,000 biennium bud• • Bilingual education Americans. get request by Aging & Retirement, which was reported in error FREE LOAN Editor: Now, I fmd myself on the same as being approved. I voiced my objection to Senator side of the fence with the Senator in Unfortunately, JACL like most non-profit volunteer organi• PROTECTION Hayakawa's interpretation of "re• that I am fully in accord with his zations, has to depend on membership for funds. I don 't see any INSURANCE location" centers to mine of "con• "new bill" of objecting 1.0 a bUIn• gual education, especially so when large outside contributions in the near term. Although some' pays loan m full in the event of d 8th centration" camps. His views on $30-$35 EO 9066 was for the good of the a language, other than English, is may feel that is quite a bit for membership even with th singled out to be the other subject. Pacific Citizen-they should remember that those people who Jaoanese and Japanese N w over $5 million In a t My question is ; Why not Japa• are active in the organization give much more, not only in tim nese ; why not German, why nol but in personal expenses. For those peopl in th chapt r , NATIONAL JACL CREDIT UNION Project Takara Deadline Italian, why not why? Extended to June 22 DENNIS A ROLAND districts, national committlees and offices, it can run into th PO 1721 Salt lake CItV. Utah 84110 (801) 355-8040 Astoria. N.Y. hundreds and even into several thousands. # 6-PACIRC CITIZEN I Friday, June 11, 1982 The 1000 Club In short, we must train our younger Japanese Americans to Two events planned ( Year of Membership Indicated) become decision makers, policy makers, spokespersons, and by WDC chapter SA TO Contioued fnIm Front Page • Century; .. Corporate; fWldraisers for community issues and causes. WASHINGTON- Two events be• L Life; M Mem; CIL Century Life Sato's platform statement tollows: For some people, there is a degree of pessimism that the fore summer vacation time are be• SUMMARY (SinceDec. 31 , 1981) Act.ive (previous total) ...... 1,244 1. Strong Financial Management JACL will fade away, as the Nisei reduce their participation in ing planned by Washington, D.C. Total this report ...... 31 One of the primary areas of interest that I have, as a candi• the organization. JACL, starting with a food booth Curren l total ...... 1,275 June 19 11 a.m., at the 25th annual date for the office of Secretary/Treasurer is to insure that a For myself, based upon my work with the Sansei and Yonsei MAY 17-21, 1981 (31) Japan America Society bazaar at Arizona; 18-ZSimpson Cox. - strong fmancial management program, with administrative at the national and local levels of JACL, I am confident and Mt. Vernon College and a scholar• Chicago: l()·Fred Y Fujii, 29-Lest.er G controls is instituted, to encourage increased membership con• optimistic that they are ready to take the leadership of the ship dinner July 3, 4 p.m. at Brad• Katsura, J4-Marion Konishi. Dayton : 2O-Matllde Taguchi. fidence in the JACL, while at the same time providing JACL organization. ley Hills Presbyterian Church in Downtown Los Angeles: 21-1 orikazu with the flexibility to adequately fund and execute its program. By encouraging our YOWlger Japanese Americans to become Bethesda. Oku. actively involved in JACL, and giving them our trust in their Shig Hiratsuka (979-2366), food East Los Angeles : 3-DougJas K Ma· One example: Membership dues remain the primary source booth chair, needs volunteers to suda4', JO-TaroSaisho. of income and revenue for the JACL. Till other revenue produc• decision making capabilities, we will insure that the JACL con• help make and serve kazari-zushi, Fresn~ : I-MIchie Tanida, 6-Ryosaku tinues as the most influential voice for Japanese Americans in Taruda, 4-Ray Urushuna. ing programs can be implemented, JACL must provide better manju, teriyaki beef and refresh• Japan.2-CoolidgeCOzakL membership development services to encourage continued the United States, and at the same time, provide leadership for ments for the bazaar. Tad Uno Livingston-Merced: 27-Norman M rrlembership growth within the Japanese American the growing Asian/Pacific American community-at-Iar:ge. (651-5022), scholarship committee Kishi. chair, reminded June 15 was the Marina: 8-Alan F Kumamoto community. 3. Setting Priorities Mile-Hi: J6-JamesKanemoto deadline for chapter scholarships. Omaha. 2-ChiyekoTamat. Toward this end, one uniform centralized billing system must Food will be served by Ekoji Bud• be instituted. With the advances in computer billing, efficient, Over the years, JACL has attempted to deliver to its diverse Pasadena: 16-Mack M Yamaguchi. membership, programs with little or no funding and limited dhist Chw·ch. Portland; 3-Albert T Abe, 22-Akt.ra Ike effective, and personal, dues billing and membership develop• Chapter scholarship winners Iwasaki, ~KelUlelh K Uyeda, 28-Dr membership support. In other words, JACL attempted to deli• ment can be gained. Centralized billing will allow Chapters to will be announced and Issei and Roy Yamada ver "something for everyone". Sacramento; 25-Tom Sato. be updated on a regular basis as to the current status of their senior Nisei will be honored guests San Fernando Valley: 14-Robert F rves, Chapter membership renewal, and give the Chapter the capabi• If JACL is to meet the needs of its membership, then a realis• at the dinner. Send reservations ~Paul Tsuneishi. ($6.50 adul ts, $5 for children 12 and lity of identifying those members who may need personal con• tic assessment of JACL's ability to deliver programs must be San Francisc."(); l-CaroleHayasluno. made. This assessment, however, must be made within the under) payable to ·'JACL-Wash. San Gabriel. 16-R.obert L Fujii. tactto encourage membership renewal. D.C." to : Yasue Redden, 95li San Jose; 26-Eiichl Sakauye. Through centralized billing, the JACL National Staff will be context of JACL deciding what its short and long-term goals will Kingsley Ave, Bethesda, Md. SoulhBay.17-YostuakiTamura. be. It is my understanding that the JACL Long Range Planning West Los Angeles: 24-David Akashl, l~ better able to confidently undertake programs which the Na• 20814. # Mary Akaslu. tional Council and National Board direct the Staff to imple• Committee is completing its report at this time. While, I have Wilshire: 34-Dr Roy M Nishikawa. not seen the drafts of the report, it would be my feeling, that one Ways & Means CENTURY CLUBt ment, because they will know the extent of JACL's fmancial l-DouglasKMasuda (ELA). resources. of the recommendations from the Planning Committee would Thanks You ~t has been my experience that with a strong fmancial man• stress the need for JACL to "set priorities". Donations Received : Apr. 27·May 3,1982 Hard decisions will have to be made, for the organization to $25 - $IG-Yoneo Bepp, Kimi Kanaga• Eden Township a~ement program, the integrity of an organization, by its wa, M/ M Arthur T. Abe, Mrs. Mae K memberstmip and the public, is greatly enhanced . .. and there• continue its growth. I am prepared to make those hard Oba, M/M Dale Monoka, Gary H. Ya• bazaar this weekend by the effectiveness ofthe organization is increased. decisions. # sutake, Robert Shintaku. SAN LORENZO, Ca.-Eden Town• Donations Received: May 5-1(, 1m ship JACL's annual bazaar will be Over the past two bienniums, the JACL has been able to ~ji $50 - Hase, Kazoo Utsu• held thls weekend, June 12-13, at stabilize its financial operations, and it is my desire'to continue Lily Okura presents nomiya. Deaths $25 - ~1rO Matsumoto, Warren Su• Eden Community Center, 710 El• that process and encourage the growth of JACL. Dr. Eugenia Y. Fujita Yanagi• Memorial Day wreath gimura, Anzen Importers (2nd contri• gin St., featuring different foods 2. Encourage SanseVYonsei Leadership and ParticiPation sawa, 68, the frrst Nisei woman WASHlNGTON~ACL Memorial. bution), M/M Mindkada. and games. Doors open Saturday Donations Received: May 17-18,1982 In JACL and the Political Process physician to graduate from the UC Sunday program May 30 at Arling• at 5 p.m. Sunday at noon. Berkeley Medical School (1938 ), $l()()...... Jerry Enomoto. ton National Cemetery was high• $26 - $1G-Marie Tolman, Mrs. H. Ya• As the oldest and largest, national, educational, human and Qied on May 25 in Bergenfield, NJ. lighted by the wreath-laying althe mamoto, M/M Frank KWll31, Jun Fujii. NY JACL scholarship civil rights organization, representing Americans of Japanese She had been inspired til pursue Tomb of the Unknowns by JACL • • medicine by Dr. Ernest A. Sturge, llDlmary dinner set June 19 ancestry, the JACL can look back upon a remarkable and proud national vice president Lily Okura. April30 Dr. Kazue Togasaki and Dr. Kuni• Earlier, gravesile isitatlOns of Four months endmg Apnl30, 1982 NEW YORK-In jointsponsorstup record of contributing to the betterment of the Japanese Ameri• 596 Youth ...... $ 6,957 sada Kiyasu. Mrs. Yanagisawa Nisei GIs buried at Arlington were with the Japanese American can community at large. was also the ftrst physician serv• 1,288 Aging/Rellrem't ...... 18,226 made. U.S. avy apt. Gordon I a• 38 General ...... •.... 1,041 Assn., the New York JACL scho• Yet, if the JACL is to continue this leadership role, then it is ing at Topaz Relocation Center kagawa was the guest speaker at 1,922 Total $2.6,224 larship dinner will be beld June 19, important and necessary for the current JACL leadership to and was later relocated to New the JACL memorial held at the Expenses+ ...... • 6,658 7 p.m., at the Tower Suite, Time• York, serving as resident physi• -Printmg $1,941, Bulk mail, ~)Jl2; Life Bldg., W. 50th and Avenue of encourage, train, and trust our younger Japanese Americans to graveslte of Col. Jun and Ann Buto Clerical, $2,024, Postage, $200; Travel, cian at New York lnfinnary, in Section 66. II the Americas. 11 take on leadership roles both within the J ACL, and in the Ameri• Booth Memorial Hospital and $291. can political process. most recently until her retirement Our Japanese American members of Congress and political in 1981, as staff physician at st. leaders throughout the United States can provide "access" to Clare's Hospital, NY. She was the ~e in~rnal workings of government. But, it is up to organiza• widow of Dr. Kazuo Yanagisawa, orthopedic surgeon. Mrs. Yanagi• tions like the JACL to provide the Japanese American com• sawa is survived by d Eugenia The IRA Account munity with leaders who have the capability, confidence and Anne BeU, Patricia Anne Keane, background as to our history, tradition, and our needs. JoAnne Yanagisawa; s David Sturge and Joseph John ; 2 gc; sis Kathleen Date and Helen izumI. If Dr. M. Paul uzuki, 78, died June 1 in Seattle. 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SE1J I 1) hi 0(;'\ 1,\ It Y I ,\~\ h.LIUO'I,\ © GaJIfomIa First Bank, 1981 Sumllomo Bank of California Member FDIC 1982 Convention Comer: Friday, June 11, 19821 PACIFIC CmzEN-7 Sac'to scholarship winners named Shig Wakamatsu Convention Testimonial Long Overdue SACRAMENTO, Ca.-Nineteen high school seniors and two City College By MIKE MASAOKA students were named winners of scholarships administered by the Sa• immediate postwar years, I can attest to Shig's usefulness in cramento JACL scholarship committee, chaired by Midori Hiyama. Washington rallying fmancial and lobbying support for the many corrective Awards are based on grades and extracurricular activities. On the No doubt there will be certain highlights of interest for every and remedial laws and court cases that were written into the judg:ing panel wer~ Henry Taketa, Frank Hiyama, Shigeru Shimazu. delegate and every JACLer in the forthcoming National JACL statute books. And, as National President, Shig's was among De~ .Seto, Ruth Shim omura, Ruby Malsuhara and Mrs. Hiyama. The Convention to be held in Los Angeles this coming sununer. For the most memorable of all such administrations, with Hawaii reclplenls are: me, in what well may be the last such national conclave I will be becoming a State in the Federal Union, with the United States HIGH SCHOOL AWAROEES Roy Kurosawa MemonaJ (~}-Joanne Hiroshima Nlkker)ln Kar (S200}-Marsha able to attend (and except for the last one in San Francisco two Supreme Court invalidating the miscegenation laws, with the Gall Shimada, JOhn F Kennedy High. (P) Dr/ Tokuyoshl, Rio ViSta, (p) MlM Kaz Tokuyo• years ago, I haven't missed one since 1938) , it will be the long last of the administrative claims under the Japanese American Mrs Robert Shimada shr. Walnut Grove. VFW Nisei Post 8985 ($300)-8rett H. Golden Slate Sanwa Bank (S200}-Dlna overdue testimonial to Shig Wakamatsu the afternoon of Wed• Evacuation Claims Act being paid, etc. Moreover, as the Thou• Azuma, Bella VISta, (p) 1I Col/Mrs Robert Salka. Kennedy, (p) MlM RIChard Salka. nesday, August 11, following the traditional Awards Luncheon. sand Club Chairman, Shig provided innovative means to in• Azuma VFW NISei Post 8985 AUX'y (S200)-O&• Bill Hosokawa has already written a column in tribute to crease fmancial support for JACL. Sacramento JACl (S2S0}-Aobert Tana• ann Deguchl. Sacramento. (p) M/M Wllhe ka, CX McClatchy. (P) M/M Mike Tanaka Oeguchr. shIg, so I won't be too repetitious, though I will emphasize, as All of these activites and many more at every level of JACL-• Anne Jane Kawahara Memonai (S2SO)• Japanese Amencan Hentage (S200)-Oa• did Bill that Shig's long difficult, and frustrating leadership of Joyleen Okamoto, Luther Burbank, (p) M/M ryl Honda. Kennedy. (P) MlM Robert Honda local Chicago, regional Midwest District, and National-took a Tom Okamoto. Henry Ojl Memonal (S200}-Arleen James, the so-called JACL Japanese American Research Project lot ofShig's time and money too, with wife "Toy" and son Brent Anne Jane Kawahara Memona) (S2SO}• Hiram Johnson. (P) Mrs Ayako James ranks among th greatest and most lasting of all of JACL's Sharon Taguma. RIVer Crty. (pj M/M Noboru Mrs. Shtge Tahara (S200)-Scarlet Maunn. sharing in the sacrifices, as all ofu in this organization know so Taguma, West Sac'to Rancho Cofdova. (P) M/M Peter Maunn. achievements of the past half century and more. The several well personally out of our own experiences. VFW/Henry MakIS/lirna Merrona) (S2SO}• Kazuto Fu)rta MemonaJ (S200Hun Ueda, published books and many manuscripts that have resulted Clinton Uyehara. Norte Del Alo, (P) MlM McClatchy, (PI MlM Mlkunr Ueda from this project will become an invaluable part of American • RIChard Uyehara. 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~ NORTHWEST ORIENT ~ . THE KfJRW IS GOING OUR Ml4Y ...... ~ .. ~ .. -...... _- ...... ' -' .... . ~ACIAC CITIZEN I Friday, June 11,1982 WOMEN'S"S" L.A. co-chaired the 31st annual Nisei Relays, with Ruth Wa• 5O-GaJl Kato (G), 6.5: Wendl Takatarll tanabe of West L.A. as coordinator. Assisting were several MEN'S 3().39 (G), GaJl Hamachl (G) . Orange County continues to win 5O-George Wong (WLA), 6.0; RIChard Fu· l()()-Mochelle Vanexel (OC). 120, GaJl track and field officials from the Athletic Congress ofthe U.S.A. kuhara (ELA). Ted Yamamoto (OC). Kato (G); San Mashota (ELA). (formerly known as the AA U ), including Dr. John Kashiwa• l00-George Worg (WLA), 11 .1, RIChard 22G-Mlchelle Vanexef (OC) 26.5; Gad PSWDC-Mikasa Nisei Relays Fukuhara (ELA), Mike Mrtoma (ELA), Kato (G) : Carolyn Asato (OC). (New record: bara of Long Beach. 440-0anlel Ashmone (G), 56.6; George old mark 26.8, leslIE! Sarto, G, 1980.) MEN'S "C" Wong (WLA) : no thrd. 44O-loree Yamamura (OC), 1.15.4, Car· ~ralg SANTA ANA, Ca.--Orange County JACL's aggregation con• Summaries: Honda (G), 6.1. MIke GOIO (P), 88O--{No report). olyn Asato (OC): lisa ChInen (un). Kent Sakamoto (P), ~nning MEN'S"A" 2 Mli&-Oan Ashlmine (G), 10:30; JIm MI• W-San Mashota (ELA), 15' H'2, Sharon tinued to prevail by the 1982 Nisei Relays for its sixth l00--Craog Honda (G) 11 ,0, Glen Hon 1()()-MlcIlael Okura (OC), 104, RIchard namI (G); Bruce Honguchl (G). (New record . Wada (OC): Doreen Matayost'l (OC). straight title at Santa Ana College June 6. Close behind was (WLA). Steve Tolkuda (WLA). old mark 10;32.8 Jm M,nam,. G.) HJ-Mlchelle VenaeJCe/ (OC), 4'5-; Loree Peterlln (G): Ted UShorogata (WLA) 22o-Cralg Honda (G) 24 .9, Kurt Saka· Gardena Valley, which scooped four division titles; Orange 22o-Mochael Okura (OC) 23.1. Earl NiSh" W-Ted Yamamoto (OC), 19'9Va"; RICh• Yamamura (G); Audrey Hata (G). moto (P), MIke Goto (P), ard Fukuhara (ELA), Doug Masuda (ELA) 440 Relay-{3ardena, 56.9 (A Hala. Gall mura (OC), Glenn Babaoka (ELA) 44()-{Report mIssIng) County picked up three; Pasadena latched on the other division (New record: old marl( 19'f)3!" Ted Yama· Hamachl. Jonl SuZlJkl, G KalO) . Orange 44(}-€ar1 NIshrTua (OC). su, George HJ-Soon Tamura (OC). 50 , Randy Ma· moIO.OC). County, no thIrd. title. Shlmono (OG). no thord tsubara (ELA): T,m Yuba (P) and R,ch,e OIa 88O--Marc Umemoto (Un). 2:05 8. Don (G).~e SP-M,chael Mitlma (ELA), 43'2'/2", Ron WOMEN'S"C" Individual high point trophies were won by triple winners Ashlmlne (G). Derek Furukawa (P) Hlrosawa (WLA), Doug Masuda (ELA). ~hnstlne w-Chnstopher Sunada (P) 16'10"2 • Soott SuzukI (OC), 7 1, Sharon M,I&-Allen Just (OC). 4290: Greg Fong 440 Relay-East Los Angeles. 49.8. Gar· Mike Okura, men's A; Lyle Ota, men's B; Craig Honda, men's Tamura (OC); Scon Uyehara (OC) Yamamoto (G); Faye Hata (WlA) (G) . Oon Ashlmlne (G) dena, no Ihlrd 440 Relay-Pasadena (C Sunada, M Go• l00-Dawn Umemoto (un), 13.4, Franone C; Diana Nishi, women's A; Michele Vanexel, women's B; 2 MIle-Alien Just (OC), 9410, RICh Fu· to, Kent Sakamoto. Greg Iwamoya) SO,9. Or· MEN'S 40+ Wada (un); Faye Hata (WLA). kuhara (OC). Greg Fong (G), Dawn Umemoto of Woodland Hills, women's C; Kevin Kiyo• ange County, Gardena 5O-Aobert Watanabe (WLA) and DIck Sa· 22o-0awn Umemoto (un), 29.4. Franone 120 HH-Mochael Okura (OC), 14.9, RICh· kamolo (P), 6.0!le, Roger Tsuda (G). Wada (un), Chnstlne SUZUkI (OC). mura, men's E; and a tie between Logan Honda (G) and Lane ard Pelerlln (G), MachIka Kobayashi (OC) MEN'S"O" l00-01ck Sakamoto (P). 11 .4; RogerTsu, 44O-Oawn umemoto (un) 1:08 .2: no sec• 5O-lane Monkaml (VC), 6.8, CUrtIS Ta• 330 LH-Steve Matsubara (OC), 426. da (G); Bob Watanabe (WlA). ond orthord Nakamura (G) in the men's D. chlkl (VC). Oalnd lwamrya (P). Glenn Babaoka (ELA): Scon Tatake (OC). 44o-Joe lsen (WlA). 1;00 4, no second or W-Klml Tamura (OC) 11 ·I V'. KathIE! Carrie Okamura of Orange County and Russell Hiroto of East HJ-John YamashIta (OC), 64 , Lon Ku· l00-t.ane Nakamura (G), 12.7, Logan thord Honda (OC); Slephanoe Abe (G). Honma (G). Oavldlwamlya (P), rashlge (VC). Bob Hathaway (OC). 2 MII~oe tsert (G), 11 :26; Hank Nozakl HJ-Kathoe Honda (OC), 3'; no second or w-Grant Uba (ELA). 207' 2 , Dwayne Ota 22G-logan Horvna (G), 26.6; Lane Naka· thord. mura (G): LIndsay lkula (OC) (G), Masao Inouye (G). (New record old marl< (OC), Julio Forg (ELA) 12088, Joe lsen. G, 1979). 440 Relay..43ardena. 1:01.7 (Jemlfer Na· 1982 JACL ~ATlOSAL 44G-logan Horvna (G). 1045. LIndsey PV-5teve Kubota (VC) 130", Dwayne ~ lsen (G) 18'6"; Roger Tsuda (G), kagawa, Slephanoe Abe. Clalxhne Cahaba. SIEN:'IiIl~I CO:\'\'ESTIOS Ikula (OC). Joe FISher (LV) Bugann (VC), KevIn Masuda (VC) Clyde SasakI (WlA). (New record old marl< Sharon Yamamoto); Orange County; Venoce GOLF TOL'R.~A.\lENT HJ-Sheldon Ogata (OC). 42 , Nell Ma· SP-{3arren Wada (OC), 44 Jl. ,Larry H" 183,RogerTsuda,G.1980.) Culver tsumoto (G). Troy Nakasone (OC) gashl (OC). Tom IwaShlta (OC). SP-{No repor1). WOMEN'S 25 & UP 1 w-Londsey Ikula (OC). 141 . Derek Ha· TJ-{3rant Uba (ELA). 4 r8 • , Julio Forg 440 Relay-West Los Angeles (Robert 5O-Kerry Cababa (G), no bme, no second (ELA), Wayne Ota (OC). maguc/11 (VC), DaVId Iwamrya (P) 440 Relay-Orange County. 58.5 (Rockey Watanabe, Frank KIShI. Clyde SasakI. Hank orthord 440 Relay-East LA. 45.1 (Lloyd Honda. Nozakl). 520: no second or th ..d. Mlle-Chrye Hong.JChJ (WlA), 644.7 JulIO Fong, Grant Uba, Glenn Babaoka), Or· Kawada. T Nakasone. S Ogata. Likuta), Ven· ange County. Gardena oce-Culver. Pasadena WOMEN'S " A" TOT Ai. TEAM SCORES \ MIle Relay-East Los Angeles. 3 45 7 (G MEN'S "E" I WOMEN'S " 0" l00--came Saoo (G), 11.8; Leske Sarto East L.A 132 Orange Qy 556 Uba, G BabaoIka. M Umemoto. Daryl MlhO) , KeVIn Kryomura (p), 74. Lesloe Vanexel (OC). (G), Beverly Chan (OC). Gardena 462 Pasadena 134 Orange County. no thord Lesloe Tekawa (G) 22G-La.ura Ic:hokawa (OC), 26.Il; Leslie Las Vegas 6 VenICe 88 l00-KeVln KIyomura (P), 140, Terry Ma• SaIto (G); Came SaIlO (G) La~n Am 2 West LA. 16 MEN'S"B" 44O-Laura Ishokawa COC). 590. Came lClO-lyle Ota (OC), 10.8, Sean Tanabe ruyama (OC). Sidney Hlga (OC) Unatl 70 44O-Terry Maruyama (OC) 1 18.2, Kos· Sarto (G); VICkI MJZlJhara (P) MEN'S OlVtSlON SCORES (G), Satoru Imabayashl (G) 88O-Staoey Nozakl (G) 226.3; Slacy Y~ WHO: JACl members & guests (limited fIeld 22G-lyle Ota (OC), 23.7; Sean Tanabe len Tanabe (OC). Mike Marumolo (OC). Tm ABC 0 E w-Kevon KJyomura (p) 11 1~ •• HorokJ kola (G). no lhord ELA 68 34 6 WHAT: 18 hole medal play, men & ladles flls. (G). John Bae (G) Mlle-Stacey NozakJ (G), 532.0; CamfTa• 44O-Oarrell Moo (ELA). 550, RegInald IShIhara (P). MIke Marumoto (OC) Gda 62 96 36 58 6 WHERE: California Country Club (N of Pomona Fwy, 440 AeIay-Or.Inge County, 105.3 (SIdney kenaka (G), SylVIa Takata (G). LVg 6 AtJanzar (VC); no Ihlrd 2·MIie-Carol Talc.enaka (G), 13;00, Joyce off Peck Rd), 1509 S WOr1• end of World War II, says a mentedon the report in anedi• alive. the I;I1temment experience etsu Yanagi, founders of the Folk study published in the May 20 torial May 25, saying that and lS an IMportant book for all Art Movement led her to write issue of Nature Magazine. American children should re- ~~cans. It is not a history or~ several artic~ on Japanese The article said the mean spond "calmly." d~l~ that were ~~de durmg craftsmen for the Nippon Times. Japanese IQ is 111, compared " .. .Unlike baseball scores, this period but rather It lS the story She continued to write articles on of the human lives touched and pottery and weaving when she re• to 100 in the U.S. which state clearly who won, molded by those decisions. As such turned to the United States. "Since intelligence is a de- IQ scores between people of it is infmitely more important, and A well-respected author of chil- tenninant of economic suc- different cultures are not to be infmitely more precious." . Oren's books, Yoshiko Uchida has cess .. . the Japanese IQ ad- taken seriously ; theydon'tne• -D~IEL K. INOUYE written 22 books, including three vantage may have been a sig- cessarily measure the same Umted States Senator 'collections of Japanese folk tales, nificant factor in Japan's out- thing," said the Times, which For Yoshiko Uchida, the publi- short stories and numerous maga• cation of Desert Exile: The Up- zine articles on the arts. standingly high rate of econo- continued : rooting of a Japanese American Uchida was awarded the Univ . mic growth in the post-World " Having emerged over so Family, in mid-May by the Univ. of Oregon's Distinguished Service War II period," says the study short a time, the improve• of Washington Press, was a proud _ Award in June 1981 for "having conducted by Dr. Richard ment evidently owes nothing moment. She wanted to tell this made a significant contribution to Lynn, a psychologist at the to heredity; it must be due to story for many years. the cultural development of soci- Uchida Qarners Commonwealth Club award New University of Ulster in environmental circum- As the subtitle suggests, Desert ety ... (which has) helped bring SAN FRANC'ISCO--Yoshl Uchida won her second writing award from Londonderry, Northern stances like health and Exile is a personalized account of about a greater understanding of the Commonwealth Club here in its 51st annual literature competition for the Evacuation, the wartime up- Japanese American culture." California authors. She will receive the Silver Medal for juvenile litera• Ireland. nutrition. rooting of the author and her fami- With publication of such books ture for "A Jar of Dreams" (Atheneum), story ofa Japanese American Previous studies have con- "The author of the study ly from their home ill Berkeley, as "Journey to Topaz", "Journey family during the Depression, at a special luncheon June 11 at the Sher• sistently shown the Japanese surmises that the higher Ja• Ca.,toTopazReiocalionCenter,a Home", and "Samurai of Gold aton Palace Hotel. scoring higher on IQ tests panese I.Q. is a cause of the desolate and wind-swept concen- Hill" , Uchida changed the direc• Judges considered over 200 books. Only eight are being honored. Uchi- than Americans and Euro- country's spectacular econo• tration camp in the Utah desert. tion of her work from books deal• da's previous award came in 1972 for "Samurai of Gold Hill". ,. Uchida also writes about her pa- ing with folk characters in Japan peans. But the Lynn study is mic growth. But his own data rents' early years as immigrants to those about the Japanese Amer• JACCC granted $30,000 for library significant because it docu- strongly suggest that exact in the United States and her own ican experience. She says, "I'm LOS ANGE~ The Japanese American Cultural and Community Cen• ments a sharp increase in reverse: it is the economic pre-World War II childhood grow- getting a lot of support from the ter recently received a $30,000 grant from the Times Mirror Foundation to mean Japanese IQ scores growth that has led to im• ing up in California. She evokes the young Sansei parents who now provide shelves and furnishings for its Franklin D. Murphy Library. since World War n. proved nutrition and to the prevailing racism toward Asian have children growing up and want The second floor library, named in honor of the long-standing JACCC Americans during those years, them to have books about the Japa• It says improved nutrition heavy emphasis on education supporter and board member, will contain both Japanese and English and other environmental fac- on the part of both the school and tells of the economic, social, nese American experience." materials, with a comprehensive collection of books on Japanese Amer• and political forces which led to Her previous book, "A Jar of icans. tors are the most likely expla- and the family. That is why Executive Order 9066, the presi- Dreams" tSeptember 1981) , deals The library is scheduled to open late this summer and the JAToday's As ian American is a unique b lend Who Mourn of the great cuitures of the Far East and the The life Story of Herbert and Madeline Ni hoi son modern society of the West. If you want a vital perspective on today's Asian American. (Includes Rev. Nicholson's first-hand account of the and if you want to keep In close touch with what's happening In the Asian American tragic WW2 internment of Japanese Americans.) community, subscribe to Asian Week now. By H.V. Nicholson & Margaret Wilke • I saw Herbert Ni holson bring joy wher there wa adn , hope where there was despair, and lOll wh r there wa hat , a w struggled for dignity behind barbed wire nd wat htow r. - TOGO TANAKA
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Address CITY City, State, ZIP . C 8111 m. I.t.r 1Q...... PACIRC CITIZEN I friday, June 11, 1982 Eden Township CARP-Noguchi Fund Thanks You. she is just a little older." , lippines who has been an Ameri• Report No. 2 (38) Takeo & Miyuki Nakazono $10; Dan Family from Japan Bothered can citizen for 17 years, said her awards scholarships May'Z1 Total: $9,590 M. Matsubara 15; WallaceK. Takata 25 ; TEENAGER A neighbor, Masako Gibiki, also problems began shortly after she HAYWARD, Ca.-Eden Township Joe . Yamamo~. Frances Heller 25 ; Ichiro Inouye 25 ; T, M.D. $5Oi.Gunther H. Inouye, M.D. 25 ; Jerry J . Trager 100 , Continued from Froot Page has been harassed. The worst inci• moved to the street three years JACL held its annual scholarship Schmitt, M.D. lW; Frank 11 . Soyejuna 20; Akira Fukunaga 50 ; S & A Ishikawa RobertS. Watanabe, M.D. 300. dent occurred one day when three ago. awards dinner May 15, honoring 30, Sayoko Okaniwa 25 ; James H. Ma• C.A.R.P. Noguchi Fund Whatever the reason, it disturbs young men knocked on her door. c/o California First Bank me because these people are "Boys-we think they are from high 'school graduates from the chikawa 300 : Kimio IkUli 20 ; George M. nearby-will even stand in the area. Scholarships were awarded Kikuta 30 ; Kazuhiko Ota 10 120 So. San Pedro Street guests here. I'm embarrassed by ~ ; Los Angeles, California 90012 "Une wore a soldier's uniform," street and stop your car, daring to: Scott Seichi Tsugawa ($300), Jose Marla uastelwn Ike Masa• what's happening." said the slight Japanese woman, oka 30 ; Kunio Tatsui 50; Yu Kawashiri you to go forward. Someone even Erin J. Nishimura ($200), Patricia 30; Frank H. Nakano, M.D. 30 ; Dr, Te• Japan SOO-yen coin Taiwanese Suspects Teenagers referring to a camouflage shirt one stuck my neighbors' garden hose Denise Fone ($150), Chris Thomas roo & Esther Akiyama 60 ; Fumio Fuku• The victims of these assaults of the boys wore. "I watched them naga 50; Agnes l!chizon0.10; Akio Fuku• TOKYO-Despite an ample sup• through my fence and let the water Ishida ($150), David A. Brehmer naga 50; Takashige T. Kiku~ 20 ; Rev. ply available since April 1 when have an idea who the teens are. through a window but I would not run into my yard all night. ($150), Andy Uchida ($150), Ellen Taiwan nativeSuzy Chi followed Howara N. Toriwni25. the banks started circulating the open the door. Then, as they George T. Togtlchi $20 ; Arthur & June two boys who had rung her front "But what hurts most is to have Nagasawa ($150). The Eden JAY's new ¥ 500 coin, it remains unseen walked away, one threw a stone a teenager say, 'Hey, that· s not the awarded $50 scholarships to Andy Hdez 20 ; Henry Tsutomu Tal, M.D. 50; doorbell to a house on an adjacent RobertK. Nagamoto ~ . D . 30; WayneT. by the majority. Even the vending through our window, breaking it. ,. Uchida and Tina Nomura. Robert l street. There, she spoke to a man, way we speak English in , Yoshioka 30; Sam 1. Maehara25; JiroJ. machines with special slots for the Mrs. Gibiki and her husband, a America.' Sakai was Scholarship chairman. Enomoto 100; Masashi llano, M.D. 100; preswnably the boys' father, new coin have been idle, to the sales representative for a local Ja• "I love this place, but I am James M. Yoshinaga 100; Dr. Fred & through a window and was told in panese fum, lived in Los Angeles Sue Miyazaki 100 ; Richard H. Omori dismay of businessmen. The ¥ 500 scared and will sell my house one Maryknoll Carnival to 100. notes still abound. # an offhand fashion, she said, that for six years before moving here day to get away from it." he would look into the matter. and never experienced such feature Pac Man game , A.t\er thlit, things improved The women are talking about be• trouble. ginning a neighborhood watch pr-lS6l 852·1 6th St (714) 234-0376 New York attorney Irving Ha· San Diego 92101 res. 264-2551 --...... __.".".'...... Open Tucfr1 9·".o·)O The Intermountain mada, representing Russian emi• ~t lI~ . Cla!alMon Ventura County I lIi),Sun Join the JACL gre Reml Saunder who IS sumg los ~_iiiiiiliii~_----~---;.;.;.;.;..;.;.;;.... CALVIN MATSUI REALTY Mam Wakasugi Amencan Ballet Theater director· Angeles Japanese Sales Rep, Row Crop Forms Homes & Commercial dancer Mikhail Baryshm.kov for Bloekoby Real Eslole. Rt 2 Bx 658.0nlario. Casualty Insurance WASHINGTON 371 N. 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GEORGE IStUZUKA 828·0911 733~s..'P been their home. 293-7000 12-PACIRC CITIZEN I Friday, June 11, 1982 Spring tour follows pink path of cherry blossoms northward Daiei, Inc., to buy Ala Moana Center HONOLULU~apan ' s largest re• investor. The comparues had By TOY KANEGAE covered with the light pmk tone to pan is that the country is made of each place which is its intent. tailer, Daiei, Inc., announced Apr. signed a letter of intent to acquire (west Los Angeles JACL) the darker pink. shrines and temples because no Again, no matter when or what 30 that through a joint venture with the properties, which include the Spring is certainly one of the best matter where you go, they are time of the season, the visit is a an American flJ1ll, it will buy the For those p1arming a trip to Ja• l.!).million sq. ft. retail complex times to visit Japan. It has been a everywhere. They are beautiful delight beyond your imagination. Ala Moana Center and other Dil• with 140 tenants. Other properties long time since I had this opportu• pan for the fIrSt time, 1 would de• and the placements have so much With deregulation of the air fare, lingham Corp. holdings here. finitely recommend the full three include the Kaahumanu shopping nity to enjoy the beauty of the cher• meaning in their natural sur• group travel is one way to visit Ja• Daiei will be in partnership with center on Maui and the Ala Moana ry blossoms in all its glory. The week's itinerary to enjoy Japan roundings. Each has gardens and pan. It is not only fun but fascinat• Equitable Life Assurance Society fully. The Kyushu tour covers the Pacific Center, an office building scenery was definitely enhanced ponds with carps to add to the sce• ing meeting many interesting and of the U.S. and another foreign under construction. by the colorful blossoms, by its va• oldest area in the history of Japan. nery. No matter how many times I enjoyable people in this land of ______., ______r; IS shapes. and by all the other The tour guides are all well-in• have seen the same places, I feel tranquility and hospitality. It can Ilowers in bloom. Our spring jour• formed of the areas you will be vi• the serenity and contentment of be a tri ou will never for et. #. OUR 1982 ESCORTED TOURS ney started from Fukuoka in the siting, and in each town and city south in order to see the flowers as where you will be stopping. There GRAND EUROPEAN (17 days) ...... JUNE 17th they bloomed in the warming cli• are so many things to see ' and CANADIAN ROCKIES - VICTORIA (8 days) .... SOLD OUT mate northward. There are so learn, that one has the feeling that. San Juan & many varieties that it did not mat• more time is needed. JAPAN SUMMER ADVENTURE (via JAL) ...... JUNE 28th ter where you were, seeing cherry The cities are so modern with EAST COAST & FOLIAGE (Oct. 4th) ...... SOLD OUT trees in bloom by the river, sides of their subways, shopping centers, Caribbean Cruise Ishida URA-NIHON JAPAN (15 days) ...... , .. OCT. 3rd the mountains, around the schools, and their ever fabulous restau• Aug. 11- 10 Days - "Cunard Countess" and in the gardens which were all rants. But, my observation of Ja- JAPAN AUTUMN ADVENTURE (via JAL)· ...... OCT. 15th San Juan, Caracas-Venezuela, Grenada, Barbados, MEXICO TOUR (9 days) ...... NOV. 8th St. Lucia & 8t. Thomas. 3 billion cigarettes Aussie '2' men For full information/brochure: · .N.ed in one vear TOKYO--The first Japanese-Aus- i Was $1,675. Now Reduced to $1,500 PUIII . ,. tralian fllm, "Th~ So4thernJ TRAVEL SERVICE smok~ TOKYO-A new cigarette Cross", depicting the humanism ofl 441 O'farrell Street (415) 474-3900 ing record W~ set in Japan-307.6 Japanese soldiers toward the end I billion cigarettes for FYl981-top. of WW2 in occupied Singapore and ------~ San Fnncisco. CA 94102 ping the previous record of 306.~ Australian prisoners of War, has Kokusai International Travel, Inc. billion set in FYl979, the Japan T()- been completed for showing here 400 E. 2nd St., Los Angeles, CA 90012 announ . ~. bacco and Salt Colll· in May and this fall in Australic! . . (213) 626-5284 PC'S Calendar of Events 1982 West L.A. JACL • JUNE U (Friday, • JUt. Y 5 (MooiIBy) Fl'eDch ~tg, Cornm Hall, Marin Count}'-Bd mig, Bank of Ma- 7:30pm l2dFri). rin, Larkspur, 7:llpm (lstMon/. T ravel Program • JUNE 1% (Saturday. • JULY 6 (Tuesday) -SPRING SPECIAL• Chapters to Receive JACL Budget by St.ocldoo-Mtg, Cal First Bank, 7:30- , For Bonafide JACL Members and Family Only this Date. pm (2dTueI TOU R DATES : GUIDES Mid-CoIumbia-Grad awd banq. • JULY 7 (Wednesday) TOKYO ...... • ....$655 round trip G~AP Heritage Day pic• ~tg , Mercury S&L, 7:30pm : 3-Horticultural Tour .... .June 19-1u ly 19: Dr. Robert Funke HONG KONG ...... round trip/with TOKYO nic, Freeman Pk, Ilam-4pm. I 1st Wed.) $880 4-Summer Tour ...... Jun e 19-Ju ly 10: Amy Nakashima San Jose/West ValIey/GiIroy-Nur• • JULY 8 (Thursday I ~ Home ftmd benefit dnr.15 DAYS/SEPT. 4-18 $1,395.00 Incl air - > JAPAN Iif -
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