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S. 1009 on Senate Backburner-Amendments Submitted By Grayce Uyehara is cleared of S. 79 either by invoking tee was offered by Sen. Bill Roth WASHINGTON, D.C. - The filibus• cloture or by an agreement to put (R-Del) to stretch out the authoriza• ter on S. 79, known as the 'high risk' the bill down to be taken up again tion of appropriations over five fis• bill, which requires employers to at another time, S. 1009 is on stand• cal years. notify workers who are exposed to by . The Bulletin further states that substances that pose a substantial The March 18 Legislative Bulletin the time offloor action is uncertain. health risk, continues on the Senate of the Democratic Policy Committee The Democratic floor managers ar~ floor this week The Senate debate has published a report of S. 1009, Senators Glenn and Spark Ma• on this issue started on March 17. ''Wartime Relocation and Intern• tsunaga and Republican floor man- As of this date, four votes to invoke ment of Civilians." ager is Sen. Roth. . cloture have failed, and the filibus• The Bulletin states that S. 1009 The three sections of S. 1009 are ter drones on for the second week was reported favorably, with an reviewed in the Summary: The JAClrLEC Washington office amendment on Aug. 4, 1987, by the Title I-"Accepts the findings of had been informed on the week of Governmental Affairs Committee by the Commission on Wartime Relo• March 18 that S. 1009 is now actually voice vote. Sen. John Glenn (D-Ohio) cation and Internment of Civilians on the Senate calendar as the next is chair of this committee. The and contains an official apology to bill for floor action. Until the floor amendment passed by the commit- Continued on page 10 Positive 'Role Model' Pacific Citizen Photo By George Johnston POLICE INACTION-Won Nok Choe (I) and Gary Hamamoto (r) both believe their firings by the Santa Monica Police Department were Inouye Receives AAPAA Award unjustified and racially motivated. Both are considering legal action. By Laurie Mochidome Committee in 1~3 and chairing last BEVERLY HllLS, Calif. - Against year's Iran-Contra hearings. Cur• Racial Motivation Believed a star-studded backdrop of nearly rently, he is secretary of the Demo• 800, U.S. Sen. Daniel K Inouye (D• cratic Conferenc~e third rank• Hawaii) was honored by the Associ• ing leader among Senate Democ• Nikkei Man: Santa Monica ation of Asian Pacific American Art• rats. He has held this position since ists (AAPAA) with its Lifetime 1~8 . P.D.;Copped Out on Firing Achievement Award. The March 21 Although past recipients of event, which took place in the AAP AA's Lifetime Achievement By George Johnston course he had ballroom of the Beverly Hilton Award have included actors Pat PASADENA, CaI.it: - Ever since he Hamamoto found out that as a Hotel, was AAPAA's fourth annual Morita and Keye Luke, AAPAA was a kid, he had a boyhood dream, probationary employee, he could "Jimmie" awards ceremony, which President Ernest Harada stressed just like millions of kids weaned on basic~ be fired without a reason. recognizes media and individual that honorees were not limited to shows like "Ad~12"-he wanted The Police Officers' Association contributions to the Asian Pacific those working within the entertain• Ernest Harada to be a cop. Unlike most other kids, president told him that he thought American community. ment industry. 'The award," said his dream didn't get lost in the shuf• the firing was unfair and to see the Inouye, who later told reporters Harada, ''is given to a person who 'this is what Asian Pacific Amer• fle of adolesence. association attorney. Hamamoto re• he had been "shocked" to learn of by his or her example has brought icans are Let the media reflect the Born in Hawaii, he moved with ceived the same answer, but was his selection, was chosen by AAP AA honor and dignity to Asian Pacific reality.'" his family to Santa Monica, Calif. also advised by the attorney to take because of the positive "role model" Americans. Actor James Shigeta, in introduc• while still a boy. His upbringing was a wait and see approach. ''I could he represents for Asian and Pacific "It is inseparable from what the ingInouye, added, ''WbatAAPAA is suburban and upper-middle class. never really figure out why they Americans. goals and ideals of AAPAA are--an trying to accomplish in the enter• He joined in the police Explorers, fired me." The 64 year-old senator and war Asian Pacific American that repre• tainment industry, Dan Inouye has where he led others as a captain, Academically, Hamamoto feels hero has gained prominence for, sents in life what we strive to ac• done with his entire life ... Sen. Dan the top rank in that Explorer post his record was more than accept• among achievements, serving as a complish in the media-someone Inouye continues to be a positive While going to school to earn an AA able. ''I finished second in the police member of the Senate Watergate we can point to with pride and say, role model-not just for the mem• degree in criminal justice, he was a academy, I finished second in the bers of our community, [but] for all member of a police cadet program, reserve academy, I graduated with Americans ... and he has done it gaining insight and practical experi• honors with my AA degree in clim• with dignity and integrity." ence under the tutelage of full-time inal justice ... " NotJustinltfortheLaughs A 'Seal of Approval' police officers. He attended the Even so, Hamamoto was unable By George Johnston he thinks redress and monetary Upon accepting the award, the police academy, becoming the top to get hired at other police depart• LOS ANGELES - Bob Matsueda is compensation are necessary for Ja• senator admitted he was "at a loss recruit (number two overall) from ments. Because he was fired while a man with a mission ... a mission panese Americans interned during for words. the Santa Monica Police Depart• under probation, he was unable to to enlighten, educate and sensitize WW2. "For many years and throughout ment, his eventual employer. In obtain his Peace Officer Standards people. His method is comedy. this lifetime of mine, I have received 1983-84, for the eight months of his and Training (poST) certificate, a Matsueda, 29, was the entertain• many awards and honors," he said probationary period, he had vital credential for becoming a ment on March 26 at the 46th annual "But the award you bestow upon me achieved his dream: He was a cop. police officer. Western Young Buddhists League this evening is a very special one, So why is Gary Hamamoto now a Racially Motivated? Conference at the Los Angeles Air• one that I will always cherish be• sales clerk at a department store? Unable to figure out why he was port Hyatt Hotel. Although he has cause it represents to me a seal of State of Shock unqualified, Hamamoto went been doing comedy for a few years approval n-om my racial and ethnic In January 1984, three days before through a period of self-doubt After now, this was his first performance peers. And for me there's nothing his probationary period was a few months, his wife, Cheryl, asked in about a year and a half higher than that" finished, Hamamoto learned that he him why they might want to get rid After laying off stand-up comedy Earlier in the program, which was was fired 'There was basically no of him; he couldn't come up with an to attend to a number of personal emceed by KABC-TV anchorwoman legitimate reason for my being let answer. She asked him if he thought items, including studying for the bar Joanne Ishimine and former televi• go. They called me in, gave me my it could be racially motivated. "At exam, Matsueda was a bit anxious, sion anchollnan Mario Machado, last evaluation and told me I wasn't first I thought 'No way.' She said, 'Do especially during the first minutes AAPAA honored the contributions going to make probation-I read it they make jokes about you in the of the show. Matsueda, who uses of the entertainment industry to the over real quick-I was in a state of department?' I said 'Well, yes they some off-color language in his Asian Pacific American community. ,shock," he recounted "I bad a long did, but it's just jokes.'" routines, met with "dead silence" Named for the late cademy history with the department, all Thinking that the racial jokes may after the first profanity. Fortunately, Award-winning cinematographer positive." have indicated some below the sur• the young crowd didn't take long to Jame Wong Howe, AAPAA' "Jim• After the initial shock wore off: face hostility, she suggested that her get warmed up to the man described mie" awards al 0 recognize enter• Hamamoto examined his last evalu• husband go to the Department of by some as the "Asian American tainment production companie ation, which held the basis for his Fair Employment and Housing Richard Pryor." which create balanced and reaH tic termination. He found a number of (DFEH). Hamamoto went there and Political Basis image of Asian Pacific Anlerican .questionable items. He contacted told one of the representatives his The description is meant as a and which e. 'pandjob opportunitie the Santa Monica City Personnel story. The investigation took about compliment and while the Pryor in• A few years ago, Matsueda wa for Asian artists b hind and in front Board and the Santa Monica Police a year, with findings coming out on fluence is obvious, it is also some• going to colleges to make pre enta• of the camera . Officers' Association to see what re- what of an oversimplification. Ma• tions about redress and reparation , Thi year' recipient in the fea• Continued from POKe 3 tsueda has also studied comedians but no one paid attention. Accord• ture film category were Helmdale like Dick Gregory and Lenny Bruce ing to Matseda, "They were thinking Film Corporation for The Last Em• ANNOUNCEMENT: to insure that his comedy makes a 'If you did thi in an entertaining peror, Farrallon Film Production for political statement as well. One of manner, maybe more people will Livtrig on Tokyo Time and John Car• Ouch! New 2nd Class Rate Hits P.e. Hard his favorite topics are silly media pay more attention." As a result, in penter Pl-oductions, MCAlUniversal The u.s. Postal S~ bill for the eight-page paper dated March 18 with stereotypes of Asian Americans, a routine he does on stage as well Pictures, for Plince qf Darkness. 43.6% advertising and a circulation qf 23,162 amounted to $2,095.01 or roughly everyone from Mr. Sulu of "Star as on his second album, live in J• The television production com• 9 cents per ropy. Based upon tM new mtes as qf April 3, tM tM billfor the same Trek" to Hop Sing of "Bonanza." He Town, Matsueda makes fun of the panies which were honored were iasue tronslate8 to $2,644.89 or 11.4 cents per ropy. also uses comedy to tell C?'plain why Oontlnued on page 2 ~ntinued OCI PIIllV ! - I ~~ACIFIC CInZEN I Friday, April 1, 1988 ,------~:2~8 Inc., and other performers. 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Poitier, an honorary co-chair of The Senate bill, co-authored by , EXPIRATION NOTICE-lf the last four digits on the lop row of your label reads G488 the EKkIay grace , ABC for "Ohara" the event along with actor Gregory Senators Edward Kennedy CD• " period ends with the las I fssue ~ June. 1988. Please renew yoursubscrfp1ion ormember;hlp. 1f membership , RCAIColumbia Pictures Home Peck, said, "By the presence of this Mass.) and Alan K Simpson (R• t has been renewed and the paper stops. noti1y the PC office. I Video received AAPAA's Corporate association in this industry, more re• Wyo.), seeks to move U.S. immigra• Award and Great Leap, Inc., a lns spectful attention is being paid in tion policy in a direction that would ------Angeles-based performing arts or• character and substance to the cul• provide less visas for family mem• MATSUEDA production and publicity, Matsueda gamzation, its' AsianlPacific Per• tural background of all people of bers and more Visas for young, Eng• Continued from front page says "We believe that we are, to the forming Arts Organization Award. color. lish-speaking professionals. best of our abilities, being socially Presenters included Margaret 'The extent to which we see more 'The Senate is telling the Amer• absurd reasons some people have responsible and conscious .. , we're Avery, Lydia Cornell, Billy Davis, realistic portrayals of ourselves in ican public that this nation is no against redress "without making it in the hole, but the thing that we're Jr., Ernest Harada, Sumi Haru, fIlms and television is the extent to longer interested in family reunifi• sound like an Asian studies class." all proud of is we've raised thou• Danny Kamekona, Nancy Kwan, which we can measure the success cation," Matsui said. "It is telling the But Matsueda doesn't just do sands of dollars for Asian organiza• Barbara Luna, Mako, Marilyn that AAP AA has had ... American public that the family '''Asian American" humor-his mat• tions." McCoo, Richard Narita, Dustin "I have certainly benefited from should take a back seat when it erial also covers universal facets New Album Nguyen, France Nguyen, Julia its efforts and so have others from comes to immigration policy. This is and foibles of male/female relation• Currently, Matsueda is working Nixon-Soul, Sidney Poitier, John other minority communities," said neither an accurate reflection ofna• ships, with priceless obervations on on his third comedy album, which Randolph, John Reilly, Cesar Rom• Poitier. "It is my hope that we can tional interest nor the type of mes• things like how young men act at he plans to release later in the year. ero, James Sbigeta, John Singleton, continue to reinforce each other sage this country should be sending dances and breaking up with girls. In the meantime, his second album, David Soul and Sharon Wyatt and raise our voices collectively to the world" C'A»ntroversy live in J-Toum, which has rightfully The evening's entertainment was when the industry forgets to re• The California lawmaker said Matsueda isn't without detractors, been described as a "classic," is provided by Mokihana, Great Leap, member about us." that the Senate bill, if enacted into however, mainly because of his available in San Francisco-area law, would seriously hurt future style. 'They listen to the form, they Tower Records stores. Asian American and Hispanic ef• don't listen to the conten~" said Ma• This album includes some very forts to bring family members into tsueda. "As soon as they hear some funny, on target material. It's only Community youth Conference Offered the United States. The legislation buzzword, they turn it off, they dis• shortcoming is that the listener mis• GARDENA, Cali£ - 'Thought into quire a $15 registration fee and would require the passage of a simi• miss this me as a low-class guy." ses Matsueda's body language. Ifyou Action," a conference for individu• which is limited to 40 participants, lar bill in the House plus the presi• Once Matsueda received a phone haven't seen him live, you'll wonder als who want to get involved in the is sponsored by the Pacific South• dent's signature before becoming call from an Asian American "What the heck is so funny?" during community to achieve a social and! west District JACL and by the Nik• law. studies professor who told his stu• certain parts. The only solution is to or political end for Asian Amer• kei Leadership Association as part The Kennedy-8impson bill hits dents not to go see Matsueda's act ' see him in person if you get the icans, will be offered April 30, at the of its efforts to promote community hard at restricting the Fifth Prefer• Relating what the professor told chance. Nakaoka Community Center, 1700 involvement from individuals who ence of immigration eligibility. This him, Matsueda said, "I just think it's If you do buy the album, wear West 162nd St, Gardena, from 8:30 are concerned about issues that af- category is currently reserved for a travesty what your doing .. . By the headphones ifthere are children or to 5:00 p.m fect Asian Americans and to pro• brothers and sisters (irregardless of very nature of you swearing, you easily offended people around If The conference, w_hich will re- Continued on page 10 age and marital status) of adult U.S. present Asians as foul-mouthed you can swing it, call a bunch of citizens. It is one of the most-used people." Although Matsueda disag• friends over some week~nd night preference categories for Asian and reed with the professor's assesment, and turn it up. Uno one laughs, tben Pacific immigrants seeking entry to he felt like saying, "Oh really? Well, get some new friends. the United States. ---- you!" Ccrpies of Bob Matsueda:s secorul The Senate bill would: 1) limit the Matsueda's outrageous on-stage album are avai100le fur SID/copy by Fifth Preference category to unmar• antics may lead people to think he writing ShirwbuProductions, P.O. Bm; ried brothers and sisters of U.S. citi• is some sort of out of control maniac. 162669, CA 95816. zens, and 2) reduce the quota from However, when just hanging out 64,000 entries to 21,00>. with the folks, he is a very consider• The bill would also award special ate and conscientious person with 'C6rac consideration to applicants for Eng• a sense of social justice. Over the lish literacy, job skills, academic years, he has spent a lot of time help• credentials and those who can in• ing out with a variety of community ~ lProc vest at least $2 million in the U.S. affairs. and employ 10 or more U.S. resi• Speaking about himself and his Japanese Charms dents. close-knit group of friends who also Japanese Names Continued on page 3 help with his management, album Japanese Family Cres.is ~ . Larges t Selection 01 Oriental dnd • ASIan AmeriCno o.".rf. " 1'ro0lC. a..""I"1 NEW - USED • BUY - SELL - TRADE the WI(Iu~ Wit". "1M H."Ur ""01 Q..... 1713 E. 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Because of what happened at the cently filed lawsuits against the COP SMPD, he was unable to get a job California Highway Patrol and the Continued from page 1 elsewhere in law enforcement Shil• Hawthorne and Glendale police de• Oct 24, 1985. . ler recommended he get an attor• partments. Hamamoto and Choe, al• The report, which went to the city ney, but the lowest price he could though supportive of the lawsuits, of SMPD personal analyst, was by find was $5,OOO-far too steep for are not involved since the statute of Carol Schiller, assistant deputy di• him to afford. limitations for their cases have ex• rector of the DFEH. It found eight Not Alone pired They are considering filing a major concerns in Hamamoto's Gary Hamamoto was not the only class action suit since they believe favor. The first concern found that Asian American and not the only their civil rights were violated. the SMPD's "hiring of persons in minority to encounter problems Changes protected classes is impressive." with the SMPD. Won Nok Choe, a In the past, Hamamoto admits he But it also found that the termina• Korean American, encountered a didn't have much contact with the tion practices toward minorities very similar situation Japanese American community. He and women very high, with a "dis• Choe, 'Xl, was in the military once believed that racial discrimi• proportionate number of White police during a stint with the Army nation was a thing of the past How• males" successful in passing proba• and also wanted to become an cop ever, he has recently contacted the tion. with the SMPD. He eventually be• JACL PSW District office and the More importantly for Hamamoto, came the third Asian American em• Asian Pacific Legal Defense and the report found that the reasons for ployed by the SMPD. One was Education Fund (APLDEF) for as• his termination were " ... largely Hamamoto, the other named Mitch sistance. As a result, APLDEF Pres• subjective. The only measurable Kato, who is still employed by the ident Ford Kuramoto recently sent performance dimension submitted SMPD. About a year after a letter to the LEOJ ombudsman to DFEH involved self-initiated ac• Hamamoto's experiences, Choe was pledging support for Cboe and tions. A study of this data does not also faced with termination before Hamamoto. support the Police Department's as• his probationary period was Since his experience at the 'sessment of the complainant" Self• finished SMPD, Hamamoto has worked at a SUPPORT FOR DUKAKIS-U.S. Rep. Robert Matsui (I) predicted initiated actions are actions taken Like Hamamoto, Choe had a good variety of jobs. He has been a se• March 23 that presidential candidate Michael Dukakis (r) "should by the officer, not orders given over background, finishing in the top ten garner strong support from Asian and Pacific Americans in the upcom• . curity guard and an armored car the radio. Most often they involve of his police academy class, first guard, but neither are quite the ing California primary." Matsui has endorsed Dukakis and believes traffic citations. among recruits from the SMPD. Be• that Dukakis knows and understands "issues that are important to the same as being a police officer. They Part three of the list found that fore his probation was finished, don't pay as well, either. In Los Asian American community." Rep. Norman Mineta has also endorsed the "emphasis on self-initiated ac• Choe related that he was given a Angeles County, the SMPD is one of the Massachusetts governor, a front-runner among the Democrats. tions is not consistently applied. choice between termination or res• the better paying police depart• Moreover, use of this as an evalua• ignation because he "didn't meet de• ments. IMMIGRATION chair Barbara Miyamoto traveled tion criterion seems incompatible partment standards." He resigned, Not long ago, Hamamoto and his from the west Coast to Washington, with Section 21603 of the Vehicle hoping to get a job with another de• wife moved to Pasadena, to get away Continued from page 2 D.C. last week to discuss the issue Code." The reason this is considered partment before his record was from the bad feelings. Cheryl ''It's a direct slap in the face for with lawmakers. In a meeting with an incompatible criterion is that it stained Like Hamamoto, he bas Hamamoto works, as does Gary. Asian and Pacific Americans," said Matsui, Tom and Miyamoto expres• could appear that traffic ticket since been unable to find employ• They both go to school Maeley Tom of the National Demo• sed the Asian American communi• quotas, which are illegal, are being ment in law enforcement Gary Hamamoto has gone through cratic Council of Asian and Pacific ty's concern over immigration's fu• used to measure self-initiated ac• Lawsuits a lot of changes in the last few years. Americans (NDCAPA). 'The family ture in Congress. "The Senate is at• tions. In October of 1987, Choe was ap• One of those changes is his general relationship between siblings is an tempting to play one race of people Agreement Made, Not Honored proached by an organization called outlook, which he says has gone important part of the Asian culture, off of another," Miyamoto said "It's Schiller went to the SMPD and Law Enforcement Officers for Jus• from "conservative and Republi• whether those siblings are married not right and we want you to know submitted a subpoena to the chief tice (LEOJ). LEOJ is -comprised can" to one that is more liberal If or unmarried, young or old." that the community will not let these of police, asking for a number of mainly of Black officers who have he were a cop today, he feels he d Tom and fellow NDCAP A co- actions go unnoticed" files on Hamamoto. Hamamoto's encountered job discrimination handle situations like running the ..--- ~-- - " _. _.,. field training file had "mysteriously with a number of California police bums out of affluent Santa Monica disappeared" Fortunately, Hama• agencies. Choe contacted Hama• with more understanding. He knows MlKAWAYA Empire Printing Co. moto had a copy of his file, which moto and both have become memo his situation is not finished Al• SWEET SHOPS Commerciol ond was reviewed by Schiller and found bers. though he is able to relate his story 244 E. 1st SL. Los AngeIes;(213) 628-4935 Sociol Printing to show "favorable comments." On Feb. 13, ten members ofLEOJ clearly, he can still get upset just by 118JapaneseVIlla~ Plaza, LA; 624-1681 thinking ENGLISH & JAPANESE Schiller favored a "no fault settle• filed discrimination lawsuits about what happened to Uttle Tokyo Square. 333 So. Alameda. LA.; ment" which, among other things, against the SMPD. In related cases, him. His summation: "It's been (213) 613.()611 114 Astronaut E.S. Onizuka St. would have let him return to work minority police officers have re- hell" PacIBc SqUlft. 1630 Redondo Buch HI. Los Angeles, CA 90012 ''for a limited period of time in order Gardena: (213) 538·9389 (213) 628·7060 to obtain his POST certificate." It would also change his record to show that he quit after passing pro• bation, not that he was fired before the end of probation, and that the SMPD training program would be changed to be more objective. The city agreed to the proposal, but after many weeks passed, JACL THE NIKKEI HELPLINE IS HERE FOR YOU Hamamoto had still not received his POST certificate. His wife called the SMPD training bureau, only to find 1-800-NIKKEI-1 that the application was rejected be• 1-800-645-5341 cause Hamamoto was not currently ~tJ~~!!!!~g ~o,m88e, IF YOU'RE IN NEED OF HELP IN DEALING WITH A FAMILY a police officer. Hamamoto told was held in eattle in 19W. And now, m CRISIS, DRUG ABUSE, VIOLENT CRIME, SUICIDE, OR Schiller and she said she would han• Japane: e AnleriC'Jns from aero. thc • CONSUMER INFORMATION, CALL US. dle it According to Hamamoto, United tates and abroad will be welcomed WE'RE A TOLL-FREE, 24 HOURS A DAY, SEVEN DAYS Schiller found out that despite the back by the maie tic Ca..~cade lountain. and A WEEK SERVICE IN BOTH ENGLISH AND JAPANESE. agreement, the chief claimed he did the teeming waters ofruget Sound. TltlS NONPROFIT SERVICE IS SPONSORED BY THE LITTLE TOKYO SERVICE CENTER not know that an applicant had to be a current police officer, so he AJACL Convention could not get his certification. Hamamoto was banking on get• like never before! ting the POST certificate, which he The conventioll site will be located onlhe felt was necessary to get a job as a bealllifull/ni ersil)' of Washington campus. NEWCAR police officer at any department Reasonable, on-carnl)uS accolllmodmions 9 9 o/c "They did cbange the record to re• include breakhl! t, convenient parkirlg ,mel (i:1Uy LOANS ~PR 0 flect that I quit," said Hamamoto, room service. Enjoy condensed bUSiness . l'ss/OllS, "but obviously, the record is no .Wl da s instead ofS. And, a ':lliollal ,olfTournament. good, because you can tell that if I don't have a POST certificate in my Salmon and Clam Bake package, and it shows that I quit after probation, there's something is Auniqu e 0ppOI'tunity to feast on freshly ,\Ught salmon prepared the going on, because the piece are not traditional alive Am ri ,\11 way cook d oyer an opcn fil'('. Dille :ul1ong all there." ative American handicrafts at the heautiful Dayhreak Star Cl'nter, By the time Hamamoto disco• opcr:ltcd hy the United I nclians Of Alll\,ihcs Foundation. vered this, the yearlong statute of limitations for his case had run out Activities at Your Doorstep Try YO lll' luck at LoogHC'res RIlt'l' ·lhck. WESLEY Experience the power ofWhitew:ucl' .... RI Cl' Rafting. Enjoy 0111' Illany Seafalr UMW act ivll Irs including a mlorflll tOl'dllight pamde and World Championship COOKBOOK Il yNew York to work in the past which I totally reject ant newspaper. Keep up the good icans so that it can't happen again. Therefore to assure that it won't happen the merchant marine service. PHIL SmGEKUNI work! again, we want to make the price of rocism so expensive that Congress or others Prior to acceptance into the serv• Sepulveda, Calif. AIKO HERZIG who will want to do something similar again will have to pause and think ice, all of the Japanese American Use of Force Baileys Crossroads, Va ''We want this money in two kinds: first, to individuals because individuals radio operators had to be cleared lost, and second to the community because we lost collectively, too." by the U.S. Coast Guard and Naval Undocumented Various Queried as to why he thought the U.S. redress bill was being held up, he Intelligence Board. These indi• In Bill Hosokawa s March 4, 1988, Viewpoints Needed explained: 'Timing is very important Ifwe give the legislation to the President vidual hearings were held in New continuing explanation of Mike at an awkward time, when he's been weakened (such as the Wall Street situation, York City by appoinbnent, by their I never thought the day would Masaoka's actions and their joint ef• corne when I would write a letter to the internal U.S. debt, the problem of trade deficit with Japan, the Persian Gulf judiciary department fort of recording those efforts in crisis), he may be forced to veto it against his better judgment .. " He further We were prohibited from sailing the Pacific Citizen, much less a let• They Call Me Moses Masaoka, HoBO• ter commending the paper. explained: "Ifs not so much that (timing) we're controlling as working together into the waters of the Pacific and kawa recounts a story that "blood• with members of Congress to get the most appropriate opportunity." Indian Oceans, but this restriction The refreshing new direction that shed was the alternative to accept• the P.C. has taken onate is certainly The interview delved into comparisons of Nikkei in Canada and the U.S. was lifted after Japan's sWTender. ing the governments' argument of socially and politically, his views of our respective futures and ethnic identity. The following radio operators welcome. Your publication of Frank He noted that the current Nikkei thrust in both nations are similar, only it's evacuation." Chin's critique of They Call Me Moses from San Diego were Dave Arat.a, The following letter to my wife called "multi-culturalism" in Canada where it is a government policy and ethnic Paul Hoshi. George Terusaki and MQSQ()ka, and recently, William pluralism in the States below; as for the future: neither of us should become was sent by Karl 1... Bendetsen, the Hohn's review of same, gives George Watanabe, (decea ed) and infamous "architect of the intel1l• apathetic toward civil rights and about ethnic identity. Masaoka confessed, "We Richard Suyenaga from Tenninal another perspective of the book. haven't taken the time to educate our own, Even if they are one-half Japanese ment": Thought-provoking articles, ron• Island. There wa a Nisei from the Dear Mrs. Herzig: or one-eighth Japanese, we've got to teach them to be proud of their heritage." Sacramento area, who had gone troversial as they may be, provide It was also remembered that in America, "everyone of Japanese blood, This is responsive to your letter of 17 April, readers with different viewpoints. even ifyou were 1116th Japanese, was incarcerated ... (Today) with all the inter• through the Academy. There may 1981. have been others. ' Your question relates to an allegation that This is important. In order for read• marriages, we have to remember that Hitler said if you were one-eighth Jewish the Western Defense Command issued a ers to be well-informed and able to you had to go to the concentration camps, Under these circumstances, we've One of the main rea ons for the reluctancy, in my opinion, wa be• preemptory order that Japanese and Japa· develop an insight into the issues, it just got to stay united." Not only was it gratifYing to know Mike was able to nese American must cooperate and that if is essential that a newspaper like travel to Toronto, but it was refreshing to find the interview. cause of the high pay that was paid they did no!, the Army would come without to the merchant mariner dUl'ingthc notice, "with bayonets drawn, backed by the Pacific Citizen give them access Some 40 years ago, Masaoka had assisted in the formation of the National tanks and artillery to force them out of their to variou opinion whether or not Japanese Canadian Citizens Association in Toronto - over the Aug. 3O-Sept 2, war. Recognition ha come 43 yea! later or late. homes or hiding place one by one." these opinions brui e the feelings 1947 holidays - though no mention was found in his autobiography, They Call The allegation that any such orderwasever of some old guard JACL "senior citi• PAUL HOSHI issued by WDC is totaJ\y fal e. The truth is Me Moses Masaoka. The story, of course, is in the P.e. CMasaoka's going, 8-16-47; zens." Peter Yamada's report from Toronto, 9-647.) This was a period when Japanese San Diego, Calif. that to their eternal credit all uch person Canadian news had regular coverage in the Pacific Citizen. Ex. Chief Radi.o Officer cooperated from the beginning. Maybe it is time the younger gen• I cannot bring myself to believe that Mike eration is given a 1l10re "hands tl:ee" In 1900, after much deliberation, it was renamed the National Association Masaoka would him elf fabricate uch a of Japanese Canadians. It is currently pursuing the matter of Canadian Japanese role in policy making. It would be Japan 50 Years falsehoodi most certainlY not one as ba e and less inclined to ' dance to the arne • redress and other vital political issues vigorously. Its national president Art demeaning as this. If it is true that he has Moo spoke at the last national JACL convention in Chicago and, judging from Behind in Human Rights made SUCD an allegation, I would be compel• old tune " and is not afraid to "rock led to conclude that someone has deceived the boat," something that cannot be the number of Canadian Nisei visiting the P.C. office in recent weeks, a good It was good to see JACL take in• force of Nisei-Sansei observers from Canada can be expected at the forthcoming and mi lead tUm for mischievous purposes. said for some of the "well-en• terest in the plight of Ronald Fu• Falsehoods about this regrettable episode trenched" older Nisei. The younger JACL convention in Seattle. Among the visitors were Vic Ogura of Montreal, a jiyoshi's case. (p.C. March, 18, 1988). abound in the books of elf-appointed hi to• columnist for the New Caruulian, and Bill Kobayash~ Greater Toronto Area rians. of which there are several Nisei, Sansei and Yonsei are more I believe Japan is at least 50 years than capable of meeting any chal• NJAC president behind in its thinking on the concept Very trul,y yours, of human rights. Here in the U.S.A KARL R BENDETSEN lenges that may ari: e. Of that, I am it was only about 50 years ago that If Hosokawa or anyone else has confident specific evidence (e.g., an order, Your paper is attracting a lot of The Japanese Canadians we were treated like criminals and attention and interest these days. were herded into concentration plan, memo, message, transcript, APPARENTLY the Japanese Canadians might be better versed about their camps, Most Americans get in• etc.) that refutes Bendetsen's state• Keep up the good work. You're on cousins in the States below that we are of them - judging by the greater amount furiated with any kind of racial dis• ment and supports Masaoka's, I the right track. of U,S. news and columns (by Bill Hosokawa, Bill Marutani and George crimination. Fujiyoshi is no excep• would greatly appreciate a copy FRANKEMI Yoshinaga of the Kashu Mainichi) found in the Canadian Nikkei publications, tion. Because the U.S.A is founded thereof. San Gabriel, Calif - the New Canadian, Canada Times, Rikka and now the Nikkei Voice. on the principle of democracy, most In the only such instance, I agree Did you know? This month, for instance, Robert Kadoguchi, the first man• Americans are sensitized to the with Bendetsen that "falsehood ... Kilpatrick Insensitive to aging director of the Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre in Toronto, is being issue of human rights. An example abound in the books of self-ap• American Principles awarded the Order of Canada from Governor-General Jean Sauve in Ottawa. is the recent I'emarks of Nakasone pointed historians," If Stich a plan Established in 1967, it recognizes outstanding achievement and service. It is to use force did exist, it's e sential In his Op Ed al'tic1 (pacific Citi• about U.S. minorities. zen March 25, 1988) about the in• Canada's top civilian honor from the government. Other Nikkei have been simi• How would you feel if all the im• to document that If not, like the un• larly recognized .. , That some hi-tech Canadian Onns (as well as some firm in founded figure of the $400 million carceration of 110,000 American of Hibbing in northern Minnesota) export waribashi to Japan, Hibbing should be migrants to the U.s.A were finger• 'Japanese ance by by the U. . go¥• printed like criminals, Japanese in• economic losses of the Japanese punching out 6 million pairs a day or 5% of Japan's disposable market. But integri~ emment duringWW2, Jame Kilpat• cluded? community, our suffers. Canada aims to top that by the end of this year. The high-tech involves counting Those who are chroniclingthose ter• rick pompou 1y rejects, as hindsight, and sorting sticks by color-rejecting those with dark spots. The whiter the G,N.ASAWA rible times must insure that our the efforts of Congress to redress the better; the lower grades come to the North American market Ugh! Anaheim, Calif. findings are valid and factual, not Omllnutd on ~ 5 friday, April 1, 19881 PACIFIC CmZEN-5

}reparations Legislation Is Racist WOW-LiX)/(AT THAT'S AlAN NISHI. (Ec1itafs Note: The foUowing article death rate in the centers was haif THAT OVE::RSIZED HE'S LOOKIN' FOR arigtnaJ1.y appeared in th£ Feb. 4, 1988 that of the civilian population, ac• San Jose Mercury News, 750 Ridder cording to the WRA Even in 1942, BASKET! A REALLY BIG Park Drive, San Jose, CA 95190.) internees could leave by accepting NEST EGG! By John Mooring agricultural work outside the coas• H.R 442, alleging "wartime hys• tal zone. College-age ones could teria" and ''racial prejudice," au• leave by showing acceptance at a thorizes $20,000 (tax free) to each J a• college. panese American affected by As the war was winding down, Executive Order 9066, issued 46 groups outside the camps opposed years ago this month. This is a racist closing the centers. The WRA was , bill, excluding others who were also certain that this "friendly opposi• interned as security risks. tion" was stimulated "to a very large' , It does not require a minimum degree by alert young Nisei who had age. It includes those convicted of relocated throughout the country crimes and also the 4,406 internees and were enjoying the financial ad• who were so anti-American that vantage of having their parents they returned to Japan after the war. maintained at government expense Contrast this $20,000 to the max• in relocation centers." Some con• imum ~,OOO eventually received by centration camps! American military who survived Ja• How loyal were internees? panese row camps. In 1943, over ~ percent of Amer• H.R 442's $1.25 billion for ''repara• ican-born male internees over age tions and public education" comes 17 answered "no" to a question 'ECASU'

46 years after the event and-at a time about loyalty to the United States. - s 'when the United States faces finan• '- The camp at Poston had a "distur• . THAT'S THE ACRONYM for courage Asian American students to cial crisis. It could not have come bance," Manzanar a riot, and atTule ''East Coast Asian Student Union," apply to college. much earlier. Too many Americans Lake in 1943 the U.S. flag was torn a coalition of Asian students atmore EAST THE SPRING CONFERENCES-• remembered Pearl Harbor too well down, property destroyed, person• than 40 East Coast colleges. The co• WIND this year May 6-10 at Cornell Univ er• to be deceived by the three myths nel beaten and a pro-U.S. internee alition is divided into two regions: s ity~o nsists of speakers, work• published by the reparations lopby: murdered. one is New England covering col• Bill shops and social events. Some of the First, that hysteria and racial pre• Weglyn, strongly pro-internee, leges in Massachusetts, New Hamp• Marutani past conference themes have been: judice motivated internment; sec• correctly notes that protests by Tule shire and Rhode Island; the other "Asian Students Organizing for the ond, that internment centers were Lake internees caused Japan to stop is Mid-Atlantic, covering Connec- .,.____ -...;;;;.;;==;;..-~--- 80's," "Asian Women: Myth and Re• prisoner~xchange concentration camps; third, that in• negotiations ticut, Maryland, New Jersey and 3. Fight for equality of Asians as Third ality," ''Beyond the Model Minority ternees were just loyal Americans. permanently in 1943. This undoulr New York. The list of colleges and World People in America" Myth," and ''Education for Action" Facts refuting these myths are to tedly led to the death of many Amer• universities is impressive.' Each re• Such rhetoric may be somewhat This year the theme is: "Moment for be found, among other sources, in ican roWs. Many of the 10,650 gion has a Steering Committee com• unsettling to some staid AJA's, but Change: Ten Years ofECASU." The · Anthony L Lehman's Birthright of deaths in captivity came after this prised of representatives from each stated simply, I hear them saying summer retreats present a welcome Barbed Wn-e, Andrew Lind's Hawaii:s time. member organization in that region; ''We're not going to take it anymore." respite from either summer school Japanese, Jack Matsuoka's Camp II, During the war, only 2,355 of the from the Steering Committee are And they shouldn't No one or work. They're held at places such Block 211, Michi Weglyn's Years of ~,313 internees entered the armed elected members to an Executive should as Cape Cod or some lake. Infamy and the War Relocation Au• forces from the centers. Matsuoka Committee of six who coordinate BUT RHETORIC ALONE means TIllS IS BUT just another man• thority's sympathetic treatment of cites Poston: ''When boys in favor of the operations of ECASU therein. little. So among other things, ifestation of the current wave that 'internees, The Evacuated People, and volunteering expressed their feel• Joint regional meetings between the ECASU has been working on issues has been swelling all around, a wave A story of Human Canservation. ings openly, the non-volunteering two regions are held several times such as affirming Asian American that we must recognize, catch and Pre-war Japanese- American group beat them, shaved their heads each semester. identity, promoting Asian American ride-before we get left too far be• families maintained close relation• or otherwise roughed them up." In short, ECASU is no mere paper studies on campuses, improving hind ships with Japan. Dual citizenship What about the superb 442nd Re• structure. Asian American college admis• was frequent, and 9, of some gimental Combat Team with its 650 FOUNDED IN una "in response sions, helping Asian communities • Colleges and universities represented: Adel• 70, Nisei (the children of immi• dead, f7l MIA and 3,713 wounded or to growing opposition to Third on the East Coast, and networking phi.; Amherst; Balron; Bentley; Boston Col/ege; grants) had at least three years of injured? Several thousand of the en• World students and their pro• with others of like mind Also the Boston U.; Brandeis; Brooklyn; Brown; Bryn 'education in Japan after the age of listed Mawr; Columbia; Connecticut College; Comell; _ men were from Hawaii, grams," ECASU declares its goals coalition sponsors annual events:· CXNY; Dartmouth; Duke; Fordham; Hcrnxr:rd; 13. whereas the mainland contributed "by the Three Principles of Unity" : Asian College Days, annual spring Hunter; Johns Hopkins; Manhattan Communi• The attack on Pearl Harbor left only 80 internees and several "1 Building and strengthening broad conferences, and a summer retreat ty; ManhattanviIIe; Ml.T.; Mt. Holyoke; N.Y.U.; the West Coast open to invasion hundred Japanese American from democratic Asian student organizations to Asian College Days seeks to recruit NO!tJu!astem; Princeton; Queens; Rutge1s; Sim• serve the social, cultural, political and educa• About l00, Japanese Americans other parts of the country. high mons; smith; SE. Massachusetts; SUNY Bing. tional needs of Asian students. Asian students from inner city hampton;Thj!s; U ojKansa.s; U cfMassachusetts were concentrated in strategic Hawaiian Japanese Americans :1. Promote unity of Asians tram different schools, provide financial aid infor• at Amherst (and Boston); Rochester; Permsyl• zones. Persons of Japanese decsent denounced proJapanese influ• nationalities and backgrounds through mation, give an Asian American txmia; Vt.; Vnyinia; Vassar; WeUesley; Wes/eJpn; were interned from Canada to Peru. ences--schools, dual citizenship• greater understanding of the Asian experi• perspective on college life, and en- West Pt. MiliUuy Arodem:y; Williams; and Yale. Internment centers were not con• before the war, raised $10,000 for a ence in America centration camps. They had schools, ''Bombs on Tokyo" project after 'scout troops and newspapers (some Japan executed Doolittle's men,and strongly proJapan). Food quality volunteered for the army nine times Once Unpopular Convictions Stand Test of Time equaled that on military posts and . as frequently as mainland Japanese Some weeks ago I mentioned in Robert L Shivers, agent in charge exceeded that received by U.S. civi• Americans. this column a conversation with Sen tFROM THE of the Federal Bureau ofInvestiga• lians. Citizens could vote and some Some internees received compen• Nishiyama of Tokyo in which he FRYING tion in Hawaii, Kendall J. Fielder, working internees could receive a sation in the 19505. Now, a racial suggested honoring, perhaps by a PAN prewar commander of the Hawaii salary almost equal to that of an pressure group wants a general book, those who courageously sup• National Guard, and Gen. Delos C. \lfI!ly private. handout, and its version of history ported Japanese Americans during Emmons, who resisted orders to · Over :D>Japanese Americans not to be taught the late unpleasantness. Bill move all Japanese Americans out subject to internment became vol• -John MOOJing is a resident of Santa 'There have been all kinds of Hosokawa of Hawaii. Also honored were Hung untary residents of centers. The Clara, Calif. books about the i[\justice and tough Wai Ching, a YMCA worker of times faced by the Issei and Nisei," Chinese e}"iraction, and John A Nishiyama said, "and about the bad the story of Roger Baldwin, Ernest Burns who fostered Nisei move• The Message of WW2 Redress guys like Gen DeWitt. But those who Besig, and Mary Farquharson, who ment into Hawaii's Democratic stood up for the Japanese Amer• fought for the full constitutional Party. Movement is 'Never Again' icans have been mentioned only in rights of Korematsu, Yasui and Certainly we can do something This article appeared in th£ Feb. 19 It is clear that this act was in di• passing. It took a lot of guts to do Hirabayashi in defiance of the gut• like this on the mainland issue ofth£ San Jose Mercury News. rect violation of the Bill of Rights. what those people did. They deserve less ACLU national leadership; the It was written in response to John It is also clear that it was racist to be recognized." efforts of other lawyers like James Moening's Feb. 4 commentary, "R.epa• What is not clear is why John Moor• The idea struck a responsive Roe, Edward Ennis, James Purcell, mtions Legislation Is Racist." Susan ing (Commentary, Feb. 4) claims that chord in Ted T. Tsukiyama, a Hon• Wayne Collins, AC. Wirin, etc., fight• LETTERS Hayase of San Jose is a Sansei w1wse ''reparations legislation is racist" olulu attorney. '1 was most hear• ing for the unpopular cause of pro• Continued from page 4 parents and grandparents were itlcar- H.R 442, called the Civil Liberties tened and delighted to read of tecting Nisei rights in the courts; · cero:ted in th£ Gila River, Ariz., and the Act of 1987, was passed by the U.s. Nishiyama1s suggestion)" Tsuki• Secretary Harold Ickes who stood U.S.'s most flagrant violation orCon• Amache, Colo., concentration camps. House of Representatives on Sept yama wrote. "This is the first time I against FDR and Frank Knox in op• stitutional right perpetrated She is a founding member of the NOr 17. It attempts to redress the wrongs have seen this fine sentiment ex• posing evacuation and internment, against its own citiz n He resorts tional Coalition for RedresslReparar of 46 years ago with an official gov• pressed in any Japanese American and so on. There must be many to the time-worn The pa t i past• tions. ernment apology and a token pay• journal. Such recognition is most de• storie yet untold of uch true Amer• let it tay that way" argument ment of $20,000 per internee. serving and long overdue." icans which should be brought to He compound hi fallaciou COll• By Susan Hayase This payment is token because it Tsukiyama's letter continues: light and properly acknowledged." clu ion about a pa t government Only 46 years ago today, President is insignificant relative to the prop• "While Jap-haters of DeWitt's ilk As a matteroffact, Tsukiyama was wrongdoing wi.th a simplistic justifi• · Franklin Roosevelt signed Execu- erty loss in 1988 dollars suffered by numbered in the thousands, there chairman of a committee that, in cation ba ed on the ' ivid percep• · tive Order 9066. With barbed wire Japanese Americans, the income were a courageous few who stood 1985 as part of the lOOth almiversary tion " of ''reasonable men" of that and armed guards at 10 desert con• lost, the political rights lost and the against the grain of prevailing hys• celebration of Japanese immigra• time. centration camps, he crushed the humiliation and trauma of false im• teria and prejudice and 'stuck their tion to Hawaii, published a booklet Mr. Kilpab'ick's in n itivity to constitutional rights of 12, Japa• prisonment for an average of three necks out' to manifest their honoring individuals who be• th id a of 1 ognizing and redre - nese American men, women and years per internee. humanitarianism and sense of fair friended and supported that ethnic sing a pa t i.nju -tic go ~aai n t the children The bill also redresses the suffer• play. Stories abound of Quakers eas• group. The criterion was tllat th y ba ic human pl'incipl on which There was no due process, no ap• ing of the Aleutian Islanders, Native ing the pain of evacuation and pro• act d ev n at pel onal10ss and ae• America \V8 found d. peal, no legal counsel, no chance to Americans from Alaska, who were tecting the property of relocated Ja• l'ifice. Santa,.vana ;pr d it b ,t- face one's accuser in front of a jury evicted from their homes and held panese; likewise, the uplifl.ing story 'l'he bookJet makes in,piring "Tho e who C81IDot 1 m mb r Ih pa t a1' condemned to 1 p at it", of peers. And the only criterion for in government concentration I of J.W. Peckham of San Jose; the reading. particularly th tori of incarceration was residence in camps. Ten percent of them did not newspaper editor on Bainbridge Is• men who opposed th whole ale im• THOMA Y. KOME'l' I California, Oregon or Washington, sUlvive the deplorable conditions. land (Walter Woodward) who took a prisonment of thuic Japanese dur• J L En t l'I1 Dislrid Governor and one-sixteenth Japanese blood. ConUnuoo on paj{(' 6 lot ofh at for his pleas fol' fail' play; ing World War II. Among th m 1II Wan n. N.J. ~~~D~A=CI~R~ca~n~~~/~F~rld=l~y,~_~~~11~,1~9U~ ______NEWS~RS~~------~------t--~------__ ' ~Sherwin T. Chan, 65, was rea~ . Center on Aging with their Family. livan Gallery in Seattle. pointed by Calif. Gov. Deukmejian Caregiving Award. ~ James M. Hirano, a graduate of on March 2 to the California ~ Mats Murata of Stockton, Calif., the USC Graduate School of Busi• Maritime Academy Board of Gover• was recently reappointed to the ,ness Administration, has received .nors, a post he will hold until Jan. board of directors, 2nd District Ag• 'the 1987.as Rosenberg Real Estate 15, 1992. A board member since 1984, ricultural Association (San Joaquin' Equity Funds Fellowship CRREEF). Chan is an enginee~ specialist for County Fair) by Gov. George The fellowship, sponsored by the Northrop Corporation of Hawth• Deukmejian. Murata, 61, has served San Francisco-based pension fund orne and a member of the American since February of 1985 and is a advisor, provides $5, in tuition Institution of Aeronautics and As• member of the JACL for a minority student specializing aonautics and the American Soci• ~ Buck Herota, president of the in real estate. ety of Mechnical Engineers. Buck's Outboard Repair, Inc., and .~ H3rry J. Fukuhaia, Supervising his son Gerald H. Herota, vice pres• ~ David Henry Hwang of Los Intelligence Operations Specialist ident of the corporation, recently Angeles will be having his play, "M. at the 500th Military Intelligence acknowledged and received Butterfly," produced on Broadway Brigade, Camp Zama, Japan, was I Yamaha Motor Corporation's Out• at New York's Eugene O'Neill the• presented the two highest civilian standing 1987 Dealer Award for the atre. Hwang's newest play tells the awards in ceremonies on Nov. 17 superior sales and marketing of supposedly true story of a French and 1& Fukuhara received the Na• Yamaha Outboard Motors in the diplomat who had a 2O-year roman• tional Intelligence Distinguished U.S. They are the only Nikkei deal• tic affair with a Chinese opera ac• Service Medal on Nov. 17 from De• ers in the country. Herota started tress who later turned out to be a puty Director Robert M. Gates, Cen• his business in his garage 32 years male spy. The 3(}year-old playw- · tral Intelligence Agency. On Nov. 18 ago, becoming one of the largest right won an Obie, the off-Broadway NISEI WEEK'S NEW EVENT-Nisei he received the Decoration for Ex• dealers in Northern California equivalent of a Tony Award, for his 1987 Nisei Week Queen LeAnne Sera and Chris Naito (r) ceptional Civilian Service Award, ~ Irene KIIIliyuki, a Seattle native first play, ''F.O.B.,'' in 1981. gathered to announce an auto show competition for 1988's Nisei Week. the top honorary award presented and recent graduate of the Univer• to civilians within the Army, from sity of Washington's School of Art, ~Anne M Takabuki of Wailuku, the Secretary of the Army John O. will be exhibiting her photography Hawaii, was recently appointed by Marsh. May 11 to June 10 at the Cunnin• Mayor Hannibal Tavares as the Survivor's Mission: We Can't ~ Iiyung J. Kim of Fullerton , gham Gallery, Women's Infonnation county's new managing director. Calif., was appointed an assistant Center, Cunningham Hall, AJ-50, at Takabuki has been a deputy corpo• Alford Another Hiroshima vice president of the Individual Fi• the University of Washington ration counsel for the past four (Editors Nott: The fo11.owmg article is after acknowledging their good nancial Management Group, an un• Kuniyuki's photos have won her first years, specializing as attorney for by Lee lmada, lnst year's recipient of wishes. icorporated division of the Equita• place in the 11th Annual Seattle the Department of Finance and .t he Hiba.kusha Trcwel Grant Program.) The fourth-fl oor office and the ble Life Assurance Society of the Urban League Minority Arts Exhilr' serving as adviser to the Maui Board By Lee hnada room were filled with people who U.S. ition Her gallery showings include of Ethics. She is the daughter of Suzuko Numata hobbled into the came to work early due to the heat ~ u.s. Sen. Spark Matsunaga was re• a 1987 spring Group Exhibition at Bishop Estate trustee Matsuo interview room on crutches. and the air raid warning. Men stand• cently recognized by the Brookdale the Wallingford Center and a fall Takabuki, an attorney and former The 64-year-old resident of ing outside on the roof removed Foundation and the Brookdale Group Exhibition at the Alonzo Sul- Honolulu city councilman Hiroshima lost her right leg on Aug. their shirts for comfort in the heat 6, 1945. Her leg was but one of many of the blazing sun Embarassed by the sight of half• icans will remain the second-class casualties that day. 'NEVER AGAIN' And, in testimony against H.R "Ever since that day, every day, naked men, Numata walked down citizens whose rights and lives were 442, John J. McCloy, Roosevelt's as• the stairs bucket in hand, to the Continued limn page 5 worth so little in 1942. 365 days a year, has been Aug. 6 for sistant secretary of war, said that the me," the woman said through an in• bathroom She planned to do some Mooring claims that Japanese Not only do we seek justice for government's hands should not be Americans ''maintained close rela• terpreter. cleaning. the victims of America's concentra• tied in case of a war or disturbance The dropping of the atomic bomb It was about 8:15 am tions with Japan," and were "con• tion camp, but we also seek to en• at our southern border where many centrated in strategic zones." With by an American B-29 that day 42 "As I reached the bathroom, I sure that our constitutional rights of the people "look just like the years ago changed the course of her heard a big explosion," she said "I innuendo, he tries to associate Japa• will never again be taken so cheaply enemy." nese Americans somehow with the life. She lost a limb; it would take saw a pretty, beautiful flash. It was and that there will never again be The Japanese American redres&' a beautiful color .. .It was orange. attack on Pearl Harbor. This is out• concentration camps in this COWltry. four operations to repair the dam• reparations movement stands age. Keloids, an overgrowth of scar "After I saw the flash, I couldn t right slander. The ugly prospect of such camps against these kinds of threats for the tissue, appeared on her skin. She utter a word. I couldn't feel any• Seventy-five percent of the inter• is not just rhetoric. There have been same reason that men of the 442nd nees were native-born American had a hysterectomy. thing." many sucb threats,· which is one Regiment, l00th Battalion and the If she had stayed on the fourth citizens. Their parents were reason why we in the redresslrepa• Her sister suffers the pain of glass Military Intelligence Service fought that was embedded in her body 42 floor, Numata said she would have longtime residents who were not rations movement feel this is so ur• against fascism durng WW2. gotten a better view of the explosion citizens because U.S. law said that gent years ago. Breast cancer, weakened Mooring's suggestion of racism is bones and thyroid abnormalities of the world's first nuclear bomb. no Japanese were allowed to apply. During the civil rights movement, ludicrous. The redresslreparations Japanese Americans had nothing to plague this woman. She would also have been burned African Americans were targeted movement stands for equality and to death from thermal rays \vith tem• do with Pearl Harbor. Japanese for concentration camps. During the Life could have been a lot differ• has diverse allies and supporters. 'ent In the days preceding Aug. 6, peratures as high as 7:l1XJ degrees Americans were not enemy Japa• hostage crisis with Iran, Japanese Mooring closes his article charg• 11945, Numata clung to the same Farenheit "I was lucky I was going nese roWs to be traded with Japan Americans protested the despica• ing that a "racial pressure group 'down the stairs," she said Japanese Americans were never ble actions of then-Sen S. 1 'hopes and dreams of many 21-year• wants ... its version of history to be olds. "Everything went to pieces-the convicted of (nor even charged with) Hayakawa when he called for the taught" Certainly his inflammatory sabotage or espionage. She was to be manied in a few ceiling, tables, bookshelves were all internment of Iranian Americans. distortions and innuendo do not broken All the walls fell to The goals of the movement for re• In the early '80s, the California days. Her fiance, a soldier overseas, represent the story of the concentra• was scheduled to return to piece .. .J fainted Wlderthe pieces." dress'reparations are very simple: Legislature heard a proposal to in• tion camps. After 46 years, Japanese We seek to establish that it is wrong Hiroshima sometime between Aug. When she awoke, Numata heard carcerate Vietnamese immigrants Americans are impatient for the 8 and Aug. 10. omeone calling, ''Is there anyone to deny anybody his constitutional "until they learn American ways." truth to be told. rights on the basis of race or nation• Nwnata was a happy and con• here?" She yelled for help. The re• ality. We stand for true equality tented woman despite the hortage scuer found her and freed her from under the law, not just lip service and the fears of war. Happy thoughts the pieces of the building and furni• to it And we maintain that without WHY STRUGGLE WITH WORDS? of mcmiage and diligent work filled ture. her mind on Aug. 5. The man mentioned something redress, a basic tenet of American FORGET trying to MEMORIZE words! It's too hard! jurisprudence, Japanese Amer- Aug. 6 was a very hot day. Her about her leg, but he didn't under• 8ESIDES ... 95% of us can' t memorize I mother suggested they lea e early stand what he aid. There \Va no There is a BETTER and a more EFFICIENT way. for work to avoid the heat An air pain. That way is .. . through WORD DISSECTION! raid warning at 7: 10 a.m., which \Va Her l'e cuer piggybacked her !(imura called off at 7:33 a.m., al 0 made it down to the ground floor of the PH IT's SIMPLE! plUdent to get an early stalt They building which wa about one mile Cameras & Photooraphic Supplies IT's EFFECTIVE! did not want to be caught outside f!'Om the center of the explosion. 316 E. 2nd St. , LosAngeJes, CA 9001 2 during an incendimy bomb attack Fires raged. Smoke filled the IT's EASY! Numata, her si t r and father de• building. They fled to the . ard. And .. .lT WORKS! parted for work They were all em• Making their way onto the treets, ~ Servtng the Communto/ Numata turned back to look at the IT requires little or no effort. ANYONE from elementary ployed at the same place, the ~ Jor Over 30 Years Hiro him a PostOffic and Telecom• building. Bright red flame jutted 3rd grade thru college level, remedial or gifted, can pick munication Btu'eau. from the window . Had he tayed up a SkiLL for recalling, instantaneously, MEANINGS of A th y wa lked to work, Numata' in the building a little longer, KUBOTA NIKKEI words ... EVEN words that he may have never see n before (i'i nd joined them. She, too, wa to Numata would have be none ofthe MORTUARY or words that he could never remember. We kNOW th at be married soon. more than l00,txXl people to peri h Furmerly S b / m u t s/ ~ Ogata 6 Kltbota Morlltury IF a person knows what words mean .. . he's got it MADE! A ''My friend was Vely happy. J was that day in the ci~ l. 911 VENICE BLVD. SkiLL in COMPREHENSION always produces ONLY high happy becaus we were going to get The stJ ets were filled \vith flee LOS ANGELES, CA 90015 scores in ANY achievement tests, i.e., PSAT/SAT, etc. Why man-ied," Numata said. ing people. (213) 749-1449 wait? It's EASYI "I thought we would see each "Some-of th - people didn't look R. Hayamil.u, President other after work," she continu d. like human being ," Numata said. Ii. Suzuki,Y.P.lGen Mgt'. Y. Kubou, AdtJ/sor WHY STRUGGLE WITH WORDS! "W parted without saying an"vthing "They look d like people who .. eI . special. . .1 never saw her again. out of this world,II SAkO'S SCHOOL SUPPLIES u Four Generations Of Experience ''We n vel' thought anything Some were btu'ned beyond recog• 4825 Patrae St., Los Angeles, CA 90066 would happ n." nition of end r. 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the blast center. It was located in a Today they live together, caring HIROSHIMA ring around the blast center of al• for each other. Her leg continues to Continued from page 6 most total death and destruction. ache. Her sister takes many drugs Numata still on the back of her When the bomb exploded, the to relieve assorted ailments. rescuer, came across a man wander• man was on his way to work, his wife It Could Happen to Anyone ing, almost senseless, through the was working in the house, and his But they are survivors. Numata streets. "I don't see my daughter, I children were playing outside. Hus• believes she was allowed to live for don't see my daughter," he cried. band and wife were reunited, but a reason. She looked closer and realized it they didn't know where their chil• "I feel it is my responsibility to was her father. dren were. speak for those who don't want to He took custody of her and took As they received treatment at the and those who died," she said. her to a hospital. The entire focus hospital, they worried and agonized Numata wants to tell her story to of his attention was his daughter. over the fate of their three children. as many people as she can. By doing "Although there were others in• The woman, who was pregnant, ,so she hopes to make a world a little jured, all he could think of was to was burned by the blast He ap• safer. save his daughter," Numata said. peared to suffer from radiation sick• On Aug. 6 this year, Numata will At the hospital, she was reunited ness and other injuries. be on Liberty Island in New York with her sister. They lay side-by-side The woman, gave birth to her City telling her story to Americans. on tatami mats. Her sister was stand• child many months prematurely, in Although America is the nation that Photo by Alvina Lew ing near a window in the building the latter part of August Purple dropped the atomic bomb, she har• L.A.'S NEW CONSUL GENERAL-Los Angeles' new Consul General when the bomb exploded. The splin• spots covered the baby's body. The bors no hatred toward the United of Japan Hiromoto Seki raises the hand of Mitsui Fudosan's Senior ters of glass injured her face and baby eventually died. States. Vice President Takeyuki Yoshimura after the company contributed arms. The mother followed a few days "For human beings to become $100,000 the Dance Gallery to promote the downtown Cultural Com• Numata, in a semi-conscious state later. human, we have to work beyond bor• munity.in Los Angeles. Also pictured (I-r) are actress Barbara Baines, because of the loss of blood, recalls "On Aug. 25, the man found out ders," Nurnata said. president of the board of the Dance Gallery; Bella Lewitzky, artistic asking her sister about her leg. She his wife and child had died," Between the lines of her story is director; and Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley. The event was Feb. 29. had known it was injured but did Nurnata recalled. ''He became in• a message: "It happened to me one - - not know the extent of the wound. sane. He screamed in agony and day, but it could happen to you the "As soon as I learned I lost my leg died." . following day." S. 1009 million in FY 1989, $403 million in .. . I screamed 'I won't be able to get Numata Family Survives "You may not think nuclear war 1900, $W2 million in 1991, and $102 married. I won't be able to climb the In the relative nature of things, will happen today, but tomorrow . Con~ued tram froitt page million in 1992." Left out is the out• stairs. I won't be able to work'" Numata can at least take heart in you never know," she said. And the the u.s. citizens and resident aliens lay of an additional $102 million in In the days following, Nurnata un• the fact that she and her family sur• next victims may be the ones testing of Japanese ancestry who were 1003 to complete the five year derwent several operations to re• vived. Her brother was burned on new and more powerful nuclear evacuated, relocated, and interned stretchout move gangrenous portions of her his face and chest Her sister suf• weapons. during World War II." There is also a statement about stump. The operations would con• fered from glass injuries and her "People who are testing nuclear Title II-This section contains the the Justice Department (DOF) ob• tinue through 1947. The skin stub• mother injured her arms when their weapons don't know how terrible it authorizations for F.Y. 1989 through jection: "On behalf of the adminis• bornly refused to grow over the ex• house collapsed. Her father was can be," Nurnata said. 1003, which establish the Civil tration, the DOB opposes S. 1009 and posed bone. physically unscathed. "My time is limited," she said. ''I Liberties Public Education Fund to has stated that the pardon recom• Hers was not the only tragedy in Life, however, was a lot different know that I am alive today, but I may make the individual payments of mendation is unnecessary and a po• this hospital. Those occupying the She learned later that her husband• not be alive tomorrow. Tomorrow ~,OOO to the surviving individuals tential infringment upon the presi• tatami mats beside her suffered. to-be died in the war. Nurnata and may not be. I want to utilize my re• of Japanese ancestIy. It contains the dent's authority, and the 1948 Japa• Some died. her sister never married. maining time to the fullest extent" definitions of eligibility and the nese-American Evacuation Claims A woman, who lost her right arm, waiving of any further claims Act provided sufficient compensa• sat next to her with a child in her against the federal government tion for the injured parties." JACL• other arm. Deaths upon acceptance of payments. It LEC is aware that many individuals "Worms were digging into her CONFERENCE would also create the establishment who have written to the White stump. They were huge worms," said Continued from page 2 Tokuya Kako, fT7 , of Berkeley died March 12. Founder of Nippon Co., import-ex-port of a board of directors for the fund, House have received responses, as Numata, who also noted that worms vide an arena to exercise interper• company in prewar San Francisco. staunch the purpose of which would be: 1) late as this month, which includes bored their way into her own stump. sonal and leadership skills. JACL-ADC leader and Berkeley JACL 1(XX) sponsoring research and public the statement that the Evacuation "When her bandages were removed, Community leaders will address Club member. he moved to Denver during educational activities on the reloca• Claims Act was a fair settlement of I could see the worms. It must have why Asian Americans need to be WW2 and returned to Berkeley in 1952. Sur• tion and incarceration, and 2) im• the losses suffered by the families been painful ... but she continued viving are wife Shizuko, son Takeshi and politically active; the importance of daughter Toshiko Moriyama proving the general welfare of the and individuals who were removed to hold her child." coalition building within the Asian Japanese American community in from their West Coast homes. In October the child died in her American community, and the Nonnan ~l Kishi, 83, a son ofYamato Col· the U.S. The other sections of Title Possible Amendments mother's arms. "It was a silent death. feminist movement in the Asian ony pioneers \fajirolfayo Kishi) farmer, died II relate to the review of certain Sen John Glenn plans technical She [the mother) could not cry. She American community. March 6 al nome \\1th Unal ntes nela lIiarcL cases of individual who received arnendment(s) to make "(1) the Act's continued to hold the child." 11 at the Livingston United Methodist Those attending the conference Church. A 1929 graduate of the College of the criminal convictions and the restitu• compensatory benefits subject to A couple, whom she had met two will also receive a "Community Pacific. his 1934 marriage to Tokuko Domoto tion of lost position, status, or enti• the availability of appropriations days before the bombing, collapsed SeIVices Directory" for the services of Oakland was remembered as the first Nisei tlement for those individuals who and (2) the authority to enter the con• on the tatami nearby. They had offered in the city of Los Angeles. wedding in Yamato Colony. He belonged to held Federal positions at the time tracts or make payments effective in come to Hiroshima on Aug. 4. Lunch will be provided. the JACL Hxx) Club and Livingston Fanners of relocation. any fiscal year only to the extent and Assn. Duri.ngthe war, the family was interned Ironically, the man had requested For more infonnation, call Jimmy at Amache. Surviving are three daughters: Title ill-This section establishes in such amounts as appropriated in a post in Hiroshima to protect his Tokeshi at (213) 734-4273 or 'Iiisha Thais (Martinez). Donna (Berkeley). Carolvn the Aleutian and Pribilof Islands advance and to authorize the Ad• wife and three children from the Murakawa at (213) 822-7470. (Honolulu) and on Clifford ewhaID. Restitution Trust Fund. ministrator of the Civil Liberties fire bombings in Tokyo. They were Th~ ~\!Uetin also has an explana• Public Education Fund to limit the assigned government housing in tion of the budgetary impact The Continued on page 12 Kakaomachi, about 600 yards from Congressional Budget Office "esti• A Salute To Bill mates that enactment and full fund• J.ap.anes: ing of the bill as reported would re• KAMON ' A. men can (F.mily rcsr) sult in total Federal outlays of $529 • The Orlglnal BRONZE "J.A. KAMON" • Yamashiro 'The only Kaman created for Japanese Americans- designed to last over 2000 years. . Since he joined Cal-Western Life (now called • KAMON RESEARCH & CONFIRMATION. American General Life) in 1956, Bill T. ' WIII find your family's authentic Kamon. proven used by your ancestors. Yamashiro ha establi hed a record of • LEARN INTERESTING FACTS ON YOUR JAPANESE SURNAME. accomplishment that is unmatched by any 'For a fact sheet cont.aining basi? background Info. (on your sLJrnal1)§, only) send other Japane e merican in the continental us your last name wnlten In !@ill!. along with $7.00 (Investigation fee) . United tate. YOSHIDA KAMON ART He has qualified every year for member• 312 E. 111\ Slreel. Sulle 205. Los Angele,. CA 90012 ship in the indu try' Million Dollar Round I

Masaoka FeUows Berkeley School District Focuses on Remembrance Program By Chim liyama communities or schools, this scene sues involved in their classrooms. was honored, and speakers in• Fund Ireport BERKELEY - There was rapt si• is reenacted to educate the Amer• Thus, I found myself speaking to cluded Marlene Tonai ofNCRR, De• lence in the room as the young ican people about their WW2 ex• an assembly of~year-()lds to 7-year• nnis Hayashi of the Asian Law Membership in the Masaoka Fellows Is achieved by individual or corporate contrlbu· woman outlined her reasons for periences, its injustice and devastat• olds and also to ESL (English-as-a• Caucus, Judge John Oda of Ber• tions to the Mike M. Masaoka Fund, a perpetual ing impact on civil rights. keley, Tom Kawaguchi of the Japa• fund from which proceeds would annually sup• supporting the redress movement of second language) classes in Adult port the general operations of the JACL, to Japanese Americans. She spoke But this time there was a differ• Education. nese Historical Society and me. which Mike bas devoted over 40 years. Contributions to the fund , clo JACL HQ. are movingly about the hardships en• ence. The speaker was a Black stu• - Berkeley High School, under the It is very encouraging to Nikkei, graded as follows : Fellow- $l,()()().$2,SOO ; countered by Japanese Americans dent at Berkeley High School and leadership of Steve Teel of the His• and to the wider American commu• Emeritu~,500 minimwn; Sustainmg~200 forSyrs; Amicus-Lessthan$I,OOO. during WW2, and their incarcera• the scene was a debate among fel• tory Department and the Asian Stu• nity concerned about the protection THE 1888 REPORT tion in camps without charges or low students, which indicated dent Union, organized an exciting of civil liberties, to see an entire Total This Report 122...... $525 .00 Hisako Sakata $100. Roy/Momo Hatam,ya trial She recommended strongly strong support for financial repara• program for an entire "Day of Re• school district focus on the "Day of $200, Gerald Yamada $200, Emily Filling $25 that redress include not only an tions. membrance" on March 22nd Over Remembrance" and to draw out the Fund Summary: Mar 8. 1188 apology from the U.S. government, 20 teachers were involved, and 2,000 lessons to be learned from that ex• Emeritus (1) ...... $ 2.500 Fellows 110) ...... 10 .000 , but also the sum of $20,000 to every School System 'Unique' students, in grades 10 through 12, perience. For it is ultimately Sustaining Members. through the education of our chil• 1st Year I 19) ...... 4.300 person sent to the camps. The Berkeley School gystem has participated in the event 2nd Year( \3) ...... , ...... 2,600 This scene is familiar to all of us been unique in its commemoration There were picture displays, con• dren that concepts of equality and 3rdYearlll) ...... 2,200 4th Year( 7) ...... ,.. . . 1,800 Nikkei-especially around Feb. 19, of the "Day of Remembrance." The tinuous showings of movies, includ• justice can become a reality in our Sth Year( 5) ...... ,.. . 1,200 the "day of remembrance" when the district adopted a resolution con• ing Visible Target, Urrjinished Busiess, country. Amicusl4J ...... 520 Contribution (6)...... ,...... 975 U.S. government issued Executive demning the treatment of Japanese and Nisei-Soldier, and dramatic read• Fund Total...... $25,825 Order 9066 46 years ago. For, wher• Americans during WW2 and recom• ings prepared by students. Fred Chizu Iiyama is eo

List of Contributors to JAClr.LEC Fund Drive

UOC Fun:l Drive Bill/Taini "'-. Fred Eiawa. ShIro Fujilura. JOOI'J MI.kun.I. Sbiro/Tomi,ye MNbe. PauJ/RoseMlsakl. Emiko TachIno. Jack/Mlmie'IBcb(yama Eddie/V;rain~~, Harry Fujlno• .km/Ro8e fU. Roy MlsakI, C Mi,yagawa. 'I\lmlo/Moml Mlyakawa. OlarIesILa\ICe 'I'!lkalldIi, KazlMltsue TIlkahashi. From the LEC Data Processcr ~1ii&sw FUkuda. dUtsu Fukura. MiLsuko Yuki Miyake, Mike/Emiko MIYamoto. JeanJRA MJ,ya• Mae Takahashi, Rlta'l'alalllaili. Tomlko 'I'alamshi, M la Klyoshl Mi:!IJlata. ~K1ml Mlzuta. Bob/Ma• Bacon Sakatani, west Covina, CA 91790 • A1ttey F\Jnal, Glenn/Sherian HImarnoCD. l Takayama, YosIOO/Miwa Taka,yama. George/Nobuko . S8J(D MocbinIId. Handa, 'l'ed HayaSi, Elaine Ha,yfs, T&C Takeda, Jim Tamura, Bcn{1Ia;e Tanaka. Ge!rge/Ma• The LEC Fwld Drive for 1987 HeyamcCo, Kaluna~, Larry/M1sao Hlkij~ Alicel Miyeko MochIruki, June Momoda, MlkIo/Emma sako Tanaka, Henryl Jaret Tanaka, JW1.iI. Thnaka. report Mori. HarTy M:rishita, James/Mary M:rishita, Leol fiscal year beginning June 1, for the first Jimmie ffiraoluna, Fred!SetsJ flirasuna. Herb HJra. To5hl Tanaka, CalvinlJ~~~ l KicIu.~ Ian =IIUIIII, Paulette Hirasuna. SIIat Hirasuna, Jadc/ Mary !Qle Morita, TaIcashl/Mae Morita, Tom Mlli,yama. quarter ending Aug. 31, 1987. is in two HWayIl!l1, Fral*HorI. Aldo/Mary Mukai, Joe/Haruko Mukai. Kanm Mukai, ~~~Ki; ' ~~ Akira/LiUIan Horita. Hany/Betty Hoshlko. Ayako Shinlchl/Alko Mukai. KazumIIShiZl~ Muralaml. ShJ. Kay 'I'okunaaa. Satarol Mary 1OOal. parts. The amount rontributed totaled ~&anl,ye Hurd, RelkoHurvitz, MIke IcJWma.SaUy lda,GeOrgel MW'IIkaml. Kako/Mary Mirasako, Roy/~ ToriI. UlUDn Tonleth, Shokh/Mar), $53,910. Tsuru IkIIwa, Benjamin Ikeda, Dale/Deborah Ikeda, E:1wyn/Hlsako Murata, KJyoIIhJ/irene Nogal. Betty Tsubo, Kiwamu TsucbIda, Bill ~i . Tom/NOOIe Tsu• In a few weeks, the next quarter end• F\ImIo/Mlne Ikeda, HlIuml/Kiwye Ikeda. Irene Ikeda, Nagao. Ken/EIslJko Nalto. Alan Nakadadd. Girol kW, F10rence Twkul, M 'l'suWl. Takashl'lllulsui, V... IdaJCaroI Jmaj. Joe/TolhlkD 1namI. GeorBe ~. Mijoko Nakagawa. 'l'su)'osbl Nakahara. Mita.o Nakai, sblko Umade. Yo UIl'IIIIlIlnIkD, Frank/Hericy Urabe. ing Nov. :II by prime solicitors and Henry/Teruko Jnooye, VIllhWCbIzuko Inouye, Yuldol Tom/To5hl Nakamlcbl. Jack/Terry Urabe, George Urusbima. Jade/Edith districts. l.aTaine Jnooye, Miyeko I!hlhara, Joe Jshiro, LouIs Ben Nakamoto. Ed Nakanu:"o. Tom Nakam.Jra, 'IT Uyemura, JIIll/Mary lou UyemurD. ~Etsuko lshino. Nobuo Irmwra, Hin8I1 Ito, Henry/Mlrrie 1101. & Sakae Nakamura. FIorerDl Nakano. EmU Nakao, Uyemura. Roy Uyesaka, Bill Wakasa, Rose Wokldn, Georgel J0geIiline IwahaSll. Gary Iwa!. Jo/11/ Arlene Lynn/Mitchell NakIWUma, Masao/FUjI,ye Nalahima. RoI1/~ Yamabe, MasalaJ V!IlTlllgUCIu. BEll ama• 1987 F1.SCAL YEAR/LEC Iwal. lUlao/Yukiko Iwal. A1dra/YOIIhino lwanwra. Shojl/Dons NaJuMIrna, Hally Nakata, Joe/Mary No• moto. Haruko Yamamoto. James/Mitzi lwamura, SeWll/MiI7l IwamJl'3, Shun kllla. EK Natori. Frank NallUllra. FrankIln,Iill::la NS, KCfV\Y/Helen Y8ITlIIImto, Uly VamalTWJlD, MllSOO/ First Quarter Ending Aug. 31, Iwasaki. HarTy Iwata. T&SadiyeJo, Shlgeyuld,lMarjle George NIino, Gus NIkaltani. Noboru NIsbJkawa. Joel Voshiko VIIJllIlImtO, TokwI Anna Yrunarnoto, YukJO/ 1987 Jofuku, TomJ.Aico Kadoya. JunklcbI Kagawa. Takeol Hclen NIshlmoCo, Voshi/Allre Nishimoto. ~ko Nl• KaL'iUko VIIJllIlImtO, Frank/l.oulse Vnmnmura. Ka• YUlko Kagawa. K1ml Kat, Y!BbIo/llw KaJItanl, Kclge shimura. Hank NlsbJrnura, ~?'erry Nbhlokll, Rlch• me/Marian Yamanaka, Nariblko/P11Y1Jss VanlllJ18ka. FlRSl'HALF ard! Alice NI.shloka Ben NISIlOU. Kaku, 11¥mas Kamlgawadll. BemadeIte "KanIhadil. N~okI , Mltsuzo/Mary Vnmane, SnnVSwnlko YIllllilSal<.l, 'fI>. MimruJSaji Kanazawa. Tad Kanemolo, Mipco Ka• Mlu}>/Mlkoto TOO/Mary Nomurn. Ihimura, BUI/Surnlko Roy/Elsuko Kallllra, MaxJF\mI Kawano TcmIMary George Okada, Henly Okada, Maloo chlko Yoshino, Bilioo Yoshlokll, JoIWl/Ruby Vuknw8. Kawano. ToIIhlIEujeaJnl KlMasakJ, HkIOO Kawala, Okada. MasaruOkodo.l>eterOkada. RonOkOOa. Ann MarysvIlle JAO...... • Ka:zlGraoe KawaI.e. Teru~eko Kayahara, Henry Okamoto, Bob/lto Okamura, Frank Oka:z.akl, GilorRe/ FIrst Half KeI!'!!KIkuno Klmura, NaIaNl Kimura. H Jmnes KJ· KatherineOkazakl.HarTy/SachikoOlwaki.stowOKa· Sub Total .. . .. " ...... " " .$lS,Il6S.00 HaWl OkImoto. 11IlIIUUI, Frank KOOuld, Tonm,y/Alyce Kokka, Tech! SfoX,'OND tIALJo' Tomlko KImoto. BarTy/Kalm Kondo, Ka2uyo Kondo. IHl'lllko Oklno. John/Margaret Oldlllu, Koreki)o. Kiso/Mary Kosal. ShIg KallgI. S Ollakl Okubo.t G~nar Ol!ibor'g, Pat/Roy Pnlviou!l8llll1llCe 0.00 Koyama ShlnU kozu, Georgc/KalIlCrine OmoIo, BCII/~ UlO, Pwl/F\lilko 0Ia, Ronald! ~Kubo. I Ada KutiO, ~JIIEllen Kubokawn. Frnnk/ Nancy OIa, Ted Otani. 11 010. John Otomo. Noriol $1.tnllu¥lO\'er KaIhlesl Kubota. MIckey KIblIa. Jack/Ruth Kudo, Tcruko OulkJ, GuWMalUde Pmdictoo. Joyre Ro8elta. Shl8lJoon N.II'\YII, 1'''18 WCS1sIde JA 4 I • V JA L F\imI K1mIgaI. Kearney/Ruth K~ . Tolel Ken ~.11Jdeyo Salkl. K SaiklJ.s,Ill\I'OIl Am Saito, Fund Dr Mi KunlshIge, IUchard KunlYUkI. Milnu'u/Oll· Takeslu SakajJucld, GoorRoJ/aHly :)IIJWI, Kal.'ll Sakal. $500 . $lR) Nib5 SakamoIO. Carolyn SilkalYc, GI.'OrgIa Sam l Pllt/Bafooy~. Gwo!e MUlaUoo, Jaqlh/Ma· ywna. 'I'nm/liotsuml Shohol'll, MII~k/AlkoSho~. SSUI· il:1YJl.k I. 1\Yl'AL \i\)R l'l'lUOn Friday, April 1 , 1988 / PACIFIC CITIZEN-9 '88 Chapter Board Elections

MILE HI Yamaga, 1 Oub; Hiroshi Kamel, scroIrshp; Kurtis 2nd "1> ; Adele Hirose, ree sec: M'dleI1e Shimada, RObert Sakaguchi, pres; Kent Yoritorro, sec; Pal Nakagawa, CIarenre Nishizu, PC repj Frank KawaseI (XJrT sec; George Ogiro, treas. Hayashi, treas; Suml Takeno, vplmembr; James Frances Hachiya, PSWD del; Frances HachiyaICan• Board Members-Harry Kaneko, Robert Kaneko, Ed Hada, vplslngles; James Taguei'll vplcivic:s; Tom dayce Yamagawa. rewsIetr; Hany Konishi, his\. Kawahara, Tat1y KiI\IJCtj, Irene Kono, Dr. amte Un, Masamori, vplpub rei; Wayne llano, vplschlrshp; Board Members; Richard Hanki, Nancy Hasse, Jane M'ryamJIO, Dave Murad Club; Mabel InamI, distr rep; HankIl; Joam YaHro, lee sec; Rooie Grace Nagata. Mabel 0kLtJ0, Tom Rushing. Rtby • Terasaki, treas; Alan Uyematsu, auci1; Diane Mil, THE P.C. CONNECTION: schlrsll> chr; Tad Kanemoto, Ins oomm; James Goishi, ofc del. Dobana, EctNin Endow, Did< Fujii, Callie Dobana. youth dir; Kee Kitayama, Ben Umeda, ole del. Richard Yostikawa. Board 01 Diredors-Art HayashI, ItanJ Nitao, Sam 1968-69--George Matsurroto, Yutaka Walan!ile, Sakamoto, Ida AI Cl.b; MidJit.c> Project which has an unrivaled ros• Nihonjinmachi. Dr. Gary Nakao, pres; Jell hanl, vp redress; Kevin lWIN CmES CHAPTER Maebori, bd del; Rose Oyama. sunstine ch. ter of 1,200 Japanese clients in the It was the hotel where Mike Masa• Aoki, vp pog; Tosh Kanegae, vp merTtJ; Kathy Jay YarncS1iro, Kay KusI'lOJ, 00 Qb; Toshik:o Ma/Se, teIe; Betty Kubota. dlr, Pt1iI Nanura, membr; Km Ham, sctOrshp cinnat~ Cleveland, Diablo Valley, ldaJw Falls, in the weekly Pacific Rim feature years at the University. His mother ex-officio; Nee Kasai, ~ Bert Ogata, pea:e 1iaOOn: Sam Honda. rea riv. San Fernando, Seattle, Spokane, Stcckton, Twin last March 7. and family had moved from Salt garden; George Nakanua. ~ ; HrosI'i Sakahara, Merrbers-aI-Ultge: ShIley Iseri Hrd1iff, Min Cities and. West Valley C/I.aJXm, all. ofwhich will The story is headlined "From Lake City in 1936 to join niisan Joe IDC; Lauri Noda. JAYS, TSlrl1imoc:ti, John Nakasooe, Marl< Honda. appear in future issues. If you would. like your Grant who by then was running a chapter's 1988 election results to appear in the Bean Counter to East-West Match• P.C, please send the list to the P.C. with. the fruit & vegetable stand in Santa SAN FERNANDO VALlEY WEST VALLEY maker," relating how Takenaka is . John Kaku, pres; Eli Ktrnagai, 1st "1>; MaIy Nakaj, envelope 11Ul11fed "1988 CMpter E/edUms".J putting Japanese companies in Monica. The family decided Mike Mtzi KusIlda, pres; Nancy GOOa1a. ..,:>; Masako Watanabe, oo-vp; Roy Makino, Jm Omori, rec sec: touch with U.S. investments. was going to finish and graduate HanieI N'JSIizaka. Sintt KJlxrw, em sec; Margaret But the connection for P.C. read• from Utah. Itagaki, treas; AIile Morita. membr dlr; HanieI STORE FOR MR. SHORT ers is midway in Frantz's feature: . While the hotel is not indexed in Nishizaka, rae chr; Betty YaITWka. ctr. Dale 'Takenaka's father carne to the the Masaoka-Hosokawa book, 'They Kadonaga, sd1Irst1l oo-chr; Mile Kodama, rea chr; Phi Stigeku1, ins coom; McblI Takinc*>, ole dele; United States from Japan in 1955. Call Me Moses Masaoka" (Morrow), Roo Yosi'«ja, youth adoJ chr; Roy MaWo, !lsi; Hazel He was running the Colonial Hotel Colonial Hotel is mentioned in the sl~~~epah1 Isa, newsItr ad. WEAR in Salt Lake City when he sent for book as a stop for the new Japanese J 238 E Fir,, ·St.. Lo, An,ele., CA 90012 his family in 1957. Yuko was 15 at Ambassador Kichisaburo Nomura SEATTlE (213) 626-1830 the time. enroute to Washington in February Roger Shirrizu, pres; Naani IwaIa&rd1ez, pies "In 1965, Takenaka graduated ofl94L elect; VICki ToyoIlara. 1st ..,:>; Teresa Sato, 2nj ..,:>; from the Univ. of Utah at the top of In the chapter covering the Jeny 91lgaki, 3rt! ..,:>; Tm ~, 4th ..,:>; May Ncmba, months prior to Pearl Harbor, Masa• rec sec; Gai Tanaka. treas; Sat( Kazama, hist; May his class in accounting. Other lead• Sasaki, boan;j del. ing students received job offers oka recounts the meeting in his Board a ~ 1: Shea Aoki, Aya/qJ from all of the Big Eight accounting room at the Colonial Hotel with Ad• Hurd, AI 3: Mention of "Colonial Hotel" to Bruce ~a, Teni Eg.JCIl, Am Fu,i, John the Nisei who grew up in Utah will bassador was told and what he told Genka, Daren Nakagawa. ~ Nist'id; Ray • Hasse, vp; Peter Ota, ..,:> redress; Karen Sakata, lee Editor's Note: /i'rom trme·Urtime, The P.C. sec; Kathy Robinson, (XJrT sec: Jun FI.IkusIlma, treas; Casualty Insurance Assn. Connection will relate rmeresting angles to Evelyn Hanki, I'I1efl'tr. Kurtis Nakagawa, ils; Henly COMPLETE INSURANCE PROTECnON stQl'U!..~ found in the daily papers. If you are looking for a low interest home loan, Pacific Business Bank has one offer-and four guarantees-you cannot refuse. Aihara Insurance Agy. Inc. 250 E. 1st St.. 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produce stands. The children were Over many years, the message is In the case of third generation The Melting Pot taught to jettison as many things J a• reinforced-I do not belong here. I Americans of Japanese ancestry, panese as possible, since the racial am not really a real American. the historical circumstance of grow• This article appeared in the Januaryl boy scout meetings. hatred directed at them was so vir• ing up through periods of dramatic Felm.w.ry newsletter of the Narthern He was an immigrant, one of the ulent Language and culture were A 'Guest' in Someone's Home change in America had a profound CaJi,fiJrnia American Amb Anti-dis• pioneers. He arrived in America un• discouraged. Children were taught Of course, I am a real American. effect on the process of identity for• crimination Committee. prepared for the life that lay ahead. to be like the "other" children. America is in the heart, not a matter mation. Children of the civil rights, By Ron Wakabayashi Absent language skills and a knowl• Forty years after the Second of skin color. So, today, I respond to anti-war, flower children era had a Becoming an American, in a tech• edge of the culture, he had a simple World War, after Japanese Amer• my complimentors that they speak very different view ofthe world than nical sense, is simply a ministerial vision of working hard and making icans rebuilt lives uprooted by the English very well and ask where did their parents. The questioning of au• function. Being an American in• a place for himself and his family forced exclusion and internment in they learn to speak it so well. Having thority and the full scale examina• volves a complex set of social in a new land. Clearly an adventur• 10 American concentration camps, mastered this response, now I have tion of American pluralism was tak• dynamics, especially if you happen ing spirit, he took assorted work 70 years after my father first set foot people tell me, ''You people make ing place in an unprecedented man• to be of a different hue from the along side many other pioneers, on American soil, I am regularly great cars." I have learned to re• ner. The history of their parents, majority. As an American of Japa• who developed the agriculture and complimented about my ability to spond, "Gee, I think that the old humiliated and destroyed by pri• nese ancestry, second generation on fishing industries in California. speak English. It is not a new experi• Chevys were a lot better, but the new vate and governmental discrimina• my father'S side and third on my Their work resulted in modest suc• ence. ' Fords are pretty nice." tion,' elicited an unsympathetic re• mother's, there is an opportunity to cess, which in turn resulted in the Confusing Compliments Imagine, however, children in the sponse. ''Why didn't they resist? Why revisit the historical circumstances passage of over 600 pieces oflegisla• I have been complimented for my formative periods of their lives. The did they succumb so passively to so which affect the fonnation of my tion which prohibited or restricted English speaking ability throughout subtle erosion of a belief that they gross an injustice?" The generation identity as an American today. . their ability to become citizens, own my life. At fIrst, the compliments belong here, that they are wholly a of our parents were viewed as cow• My father, as I recall, was an em• land, be employed in certain occu• were merely confusing. Somewhere part of America, as much as anyone ardly. barrassment He spoke with an ac• pations, intennarry, or live in vari• along the line, I understood that the else, is psychologically devastating. It was an additional indignity im• cent He dressed without fashion. ous communities. basic assumption made in the com• Second class citizenship is not so posed upon our identities. It is pain• He had not a grasp of baseball He The effect of this early history had pliment was a belief that I did not much a matter of legal policy, but ful to view one's parents as not om• listened to dissonant and foreign a profound effect on the following belong here. Why else would some• one of the public perception. It is nipotent It was not a fair j udgement music. There was nothing like him generation. The first generation, one compliment me on my English? somewhat like being a guest in It was an adolescent and initial un• reflected within all of what ap• recognizing that things Japanese It is a subtle process that works someone's home. No matter how derstanding of the complex deci• peared on television. The nearest were not received with open anns, slowly but continuously. It is hard generous or kind the host, the sions faced by the previous genera• images, those of stereotypic things unconsciously developed a strategy to recognize it taking place. "Where privileges of belonging are absent tion judged from a very different his• Japanese such as sumo wrestlers, for survival for their children. Their did you learn to speak English so A special politeness must be ob• torical set of circumstances. Real in• karate experts and samurai, did not children were well educated, but well?" ''My you speak English well." served. You can't put your feet on sight and healing between genera• fit him from my general public. I still could not find commesurate "Where did you come from?" Inno• the table. You can't walk around the tions is only recent The campaign didn't want him at PI'A meetings or employment Many languished. in cent little statements on the surface. house in your undeIWear. Continued 011 page 12

Marysville: 22-George Yoshimoto. Machida, 22-James Nakamura, 27-Harry Mile Hi: 27-Bob Mayeda. Nomura, 28-Harry Tooo. Thousand Club - Five Reports Milwaukee: 17-Henry Kanazawa. San Gabriel: ~ Yoneo Yamamoto. Orange County : 22-George Asawa. San Luis Obispo : 10-Saburo Ikeda. ( Year of Membership Shown) Etsu Masaoka, 41-Mike Masaoka, 11- ba~ (Set),I7-ShigekiSugiyama (WDC),I(}' Philadelphia: 16-George Higuchi. San Mateo: 2-Frank Sakai·, ll-Ann Tsuda. • CentWj'; •• Corporate; L Life; Seiko Wakabayashi, ~Wayne Yoshino. H JJm Fukumoto (Nat). Portland: 7-Ernest Sargent. Seattle: 7-Ayako Hurd. M Memorial; CIL Century Life West Los Angeles : 35-Togo Tanaka. CORPORATE CLUB Sacramento: 32-Toko Fujii, I-Phillip Isen• Sequoia: 36-William Enomoto. West Valley: 4-JamesSakamoto. 11d-Sumitomo Bank of Calif (SF). berg, 6-Fred Kataoka 8-Charles Kawada, Snake River: ~Hany Fukiage. Summary (Since Nov 30, 1987) National Associate: I6-Mike Torii. 7-Kenge Kumamoto, 23-Tom Kurotori, 32- Spokane: 19-Michi SakaL Active lprevious total) ...... 214 LIFE Summary (Since Nov 30,1987) Arthur Miyai, IG-Gerald Miyamoto*, ~ Stockton: 27-Kennetb Fujii, 34-Henry Ku• Totalthis report: # 6 ...... 124 Ernest liyama (CNC), Sadako Kawa• Active lprevious total) ...... 412 Harry Morimoto, 33-Kanji Nishijima, 32- sarna,28-John Morozwni·. Currenttotal ...... 338 guchi (CNC), Yoshiko Inouye (Dell, John Total this report: # 8 ...... 60 Ping Oda, 4-Kay Sagara, 3(}'Kanarne Sa• Twin Cities: ~Fred Tsuchiya. Feb 1-5, 1988 (1%4) Sakata lAri). Current total ...... 472 nui, 29-Kiyoshi Salo, 7-Floyd Shimomura, Venice Culver: 22-Frank Harada, 27-Hito- Arizona: 23-Richard Matsuishi, Life-John CENTURY CLUB" 23-Arthur Sugiyama, 21-Kiyoshi Tamano, shi Shimizu.. Sakata. 8-AkiraNakamura (Berl , 7-ChiyeTomih• Feb 1~19, 1988 (60) 32-Charley Yamamoto, 9-Tobru Yamana• Wasatch Front No.: 34-Tomio Yamada. Berkeley: ~Tommy Hayashi, 22-Akira Na• iro (Chi),I(}'Dr Roy Okamoto (Son) . Boise Valley: 24-YosieOgawa. ka· , ~Frank Yokoi. Washington, DC: 7-Ona Miyamoto. kamura*, 21-Teruo Nobori. Berkeley: l.9-Robert Sugimoto. Salinas Valley : Life-Ted Ikemoto. Watsonville: 4-FrankOsmer. Boise Valley-~ Tony Miyasako. Summary (Since Nov 30, 1987) Chicago: 31-Hiro Mayeda. San Benito: 33-FrankNishita. West Los Angeles: 29-John Toshiyuki, 16- Chicago: 17-Robert Bunya, 8-Alice Higashi• Active (,Previous total) ...... 338 Detroit: Life-Shig Kizuka, 34-Sue Omori. San Fernando Valley : 25-David Yoshioka. Elmer Uchida. uchi, 16-Takeo ltano, ~Frank Sakamoto, Totalthis report : # 7 ...... 74 Diablo Valley: 22-Hany Manji, 28-Hisaji San Francisco: 16-Akio Mochizuki, 2&-Jos- Wilshire: 35-Tatsuo Yata. 32~ye Tomihiro*, 28-Hiroshi Tanaka, 8- Currenttotal ...... 412 Sakai. . eph Yoshino. LIFE Tadao Tanaka. Feb 8-12,1988 (74) East Los Angeles: 15-Ronald AkllShi, 4-Lin- Sm Jose: J.Car1 Mune, Life-Yutaka Ta- Eiko Takemoto (Del), Ken Takemoto Cleveland: 16-Shig!seri, ~raig Shimizu. Alameda: 19-Yasuo Yamashita. daFujioka. kato. (Det), ChiyoTogasaki (Det) , SamuelT Ka• Contra Costa: Life-Ernest Iiyama, Life-Sa• Berkeley: ~uel Yanagisawa. Eden Township: LJfe-Masaru Yoshioka. San Maleo: 29-AndrewYoshiwara. neko (Sac). dako Kawaguchi. Boise Valley: I-Martha Kawaguchi, Life• French CamP.: 22-TomNatsuhara. Seattle: 26-Ge0rge Fugami. CENTURY CLUB· Dayton: 28-Pete Hironaka. Taka Kora. Fremont: Life-Eugene Makishima, 6-Kei- Sequoia : I~Marjorie Iseke, l(}'Travel Tech 8-William TYamazaki (Cle), 13-ArthurN Detroit: 21-Ceorge Doi, Life-Yoshiko Chicago: 32-Lillian Hayano, 2-Eugene Hon• koOkubo. International, Inc.· Oji (Mar),8-Torao Neishi (Oak), I-Frank Y Inouye, 16-Hime Iwaoka. da, 6-Jane Kaillatsu, 2O-George Mura• Fresno: Life-Ray Arifuku. Snake River: 2I-Arthur Hamanishi. Sakai {SMC), 8-Dr John I Morozumi (Sto ). Diablo Valley: 2-Kamlhige Hayashi, 4- kami, 8-Yoshiko Ozone, 5-Theodore Ye• Hollywood : 5-Shunji Asari. Slockton: 4-Warren Nitta, ~Yoshio Ya- Raymond Yamada. nari, 18-Samuel 'ioshinari. Hoosier: 8-Olarles Matsumoto, 8-Mary Ma- mada. Summary (Since Nov 30, 1987) Florin: I-Peter Okamoto. Cincinnati : l~Ichiro Kato, 32-Ben Yama• tswnoto. Tri Valley: 7-Teru YokoL Active (previous total ) ...... 625 Fort Lupton: M-Floyd Koshio, 6-Sam Ko• guchi. Japan: 4-Jack Ishio, Life-Dyke Nakamura. Venice Culver: 32-Robert Ryono. Tolal this report : # 11 ...... 70 shio, 4-Don Tomoi, 34J'ack Tsuhara, 6-Hi• Cleveland: 24-Richard Fujita, 22-Henry Ta• Mile Hi : 16-Robert Inai. National Associate: 14-Harold lseke. Current total ...... 695 rato Uno, 33-Frank Yamaguchi. naka·, lHiachi Tanaka. Milwaukee: 31-RobertDewa. LIFE Marcb 7 - 11. 1988 (70) Fremont: 16-Shizuo Harada. Clovis: I4-Kiyomi Takahashi. Orange County: 17-Henry Neishi. Ted T rkemoto (Sal) , Yutaka Jake Takato Chicago: I9-Ken Ozeki,8-John Tani. Gardena Valley : ~JOOn Endo, I&Ernest Contra Costa: Life-Roy Hamaji, Life-John Portland: 4-Frank Evenson, 32-JohnHada, (SJo). Cleveland: 3-Mas lyama 32-Toshi Kadowa- _ Terao,~~hiUrw . Hiramoto, Life-Ruby Hiramoto, Life• 35-Matthew Masuoka. CENTURY CLUB· ki , I-Robert Avery, 2-Min Ishige. Honolulu: ll-Takeshi Yoshihara. Elizabeth Hoye. Reno: 6-Cbiyoko Peterson, 6-Roy Peterson, l(}.Jeff Fukawa (Del), 15-A1 Hat.ate Clovis: 12-Masao Yamamoto, 33-Tokuo Idaho Falls: 37-Charley Hirai, 3O-Sam Sa- Dayton: ~ Yoichi Sato. 18-Ronald Yamamoto. (Dnt), 1-RG Shikami (Chi), l(}' Gerald Mi• Yamamoto. laIguchi. Eden Township : I5-Donald Hayashi. Salt Lake City: 19-James Konishi. yamoto' (Sac), 9-Tohru Yamanaka (Sac) , Contra Costa: Life-Ed Nakano. Japan: 4-Bert Fujii. French Camp: 13-Hito Murata. San Diego: Life-Isen Iguchi, Life-Ronald l(}'Travel Tech Inti (Seq). Detroit: 18-NonnanHinatsu, 3I-Arihur Ma- ~Yo Iguchi. tsumura. 33-Shizue Tagami. Livingston Merced: Kuniyoshi. Fresno: 6-Fusa Mikami. I-James Mukai. Summary (Since Nov 30, 1987) Marina: 6-Tsutako Curo. Gardena Valley: 24-Harry !ida. San Luis Obispo: 23-HiIo Fuchiwaki, 24-Ka• Eden Township: 6-Jerry Sasaki. zuo Ikeda. Active (previous total) ...... 537 Fowler: 14-Shig Uchiyama. Marin County: 2-David Nakagawa. Hollywood: 18-ArthurEmi. Tolal this report: #10 ...... 88 Mile Hi : 22-James Kanemoto, 24-Ben Miya• Lodi : I4-Keiji Fujinaka Santa Barbara: Life-Dennis Tokwnaru, Fresno: 8-John Kubota, I-Angie Margarite, -bara. Marin: 7-MoNoguchi. Life-Tomoye Tokumaru. Current total ...... 625 7-Marco Margarite, Life- ori Masud a i'\1ilwaukee: 8-Helen lnai, I(}'Andrew Maye- Marysville: 26-Mrs Henry OW. Seattle: 4-Fred Nakagawa, I6-Masao Su- Feb 29-Marcb 4,1988 (88) Gardena alley: 15-Ge. Nabela, IB-Virginia Tomita, 8-T05hio Ya• Philad Iphia: 13-Saue Malsumorl. ' himolo, Takahashi. WatsonVille: l-Kee Ki!.a¥ama. mashita. Plac r County : 4-George Carter, 7-Eugen 'onoma OWI(Y . 25-George Hamamoto. San Mateo : 2-Kiyoshi Katamoto, I(}'Robert Nat'l Assooiate: 14-Jim Fukumoto", IS• Delano: 27-JeffFukawa·. Nodohara. Stockton: 7-Ki oshi Mizuno. Shoda. Brian Kashiwagl. Downtown Los Angeles: 24-AI Hatate·, 39- Portland: I(}'Robert Kanada, g·Herbert enic Culver'; 21-1'olnl akamura, Santa Barbara; 5-Emily Mori, 7-Joe Mori. Sho Iino. kamoto, 26-G orge T ugawa. Washington DC ; {.Ri hard Hayasaka". 7-' Seattle: 9-Shigeto Otani. LIFE Eden Township : 18-Art Mitsutome. Riverside : 3-Mitsuru lnaba. Itumi lki, IO -'l'oku Sugiyama, Selanoco : 7-Donald Mikami, 7-Kazuo Mori. Taka l' Kora (Boi), Dr Roy HamajJ Fresno: 9.Robert Tsubota. Sacramento: 32-Seiko Hara, Life-Samuel Wcst Valley. l8-Geol'g.!! 'Inen. Snake River: JO-Joe Komolo, 24-Bob Urlu. (CnC), John lIlramoto, (CnC), Ruby Jlira• Gardena: I(}'Art Nlshlsaka. Kaneko, 22-George Mal-sui. 16-Stal'r Mi• LIFE Sonoma : ZS·Roy Okamoto'. moto (CnC), Elizabeth t10ye (CoC), Greater LA Singles: 8-Ceorge Eguch\. yagawa, :l5-Wntaru 'l'sugawa. Ed akano ( , C I, Nori tllasllda \ \<' 1"), Stockton: 34-Ruby Dobana, II-Bill Shima. Thomas Tokuhisa rSac). Hoosier : 8-Ken Matswnolo, 8-YasUko Ma- St. Louis : 22-Georg Sato. May 1 llll'ata t \"1 , 'iaril) Nnkal\\ul';!' Twin Cities: 2O-Sam Honda, 34-Thomas CENTURY CLUB tsumoto .• Slln Benito : 27-Tony Ymllaoka. ( DJ. Kanno, 20-A1bert Tsuchiya. 18·lIenr·y Tanaka ICJel ,7- Mrs lIenl'Y Oji Marin: &-George Sakanari, 7-George Shl. Sun Fernando Valley: 33-Michi lmai, 32- E T R\'CL B Ventce Culver; 2(}.Fred MakimoLO. (Mar), 4-Amy FUJlmw'a I NY I, 15-George mizu. ' Tom lm ui. tleol'g S Kamikllwa \ l1an 11·1111 '\0 In• Washington, D.C.: 2(j.Joseph Hirata, 33- Oki (Sac), 3·PaullsakJ IS tI, II-Tom 'fsu· Marina: 7-Fred Fujioka, an ~ 'I 'a n is<.'O : 8-l!Imily Ishida, 8·1'llomas ouye ( l ~), 4-Hlcilal'd KH \ 0 'aka \ Wlll' I. Friday, April 1, 19881 PACIFI~ CITIZEN-ll

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- ~ ~ ? , Greater Lot! Aogelee Wal8onville, Calif. , 1 - ~- 3-Auctions 4-Business Opportunities ASAHI TRAVEL Tom Nakase Realty uperaaven, Croup DioeOUDIa, Apex F....,. Acreage, Ranches." Hamee.. inCOI:De Computeriaed-Booded ~E, AUCTION-COLORADO NURSERY, LANDSCAPING TOM N ReoJlor 1111 W. OIympie BtTd, Loo ADfJdea 90015 25 ClilToro A'e. \.J.{)8) 724-64 n Tues. April 12, 1988 1:30 PM. 1840 acres Portland Metro Acreage & Home \~13) 623-6125/29 • CaD Joe or Glady. wheatground near Sheridan Lake, Colo• Growing Area, Major Highway locallcm. Call ~ San Franeiseo Bay Area rado. 680 acres in government CRP. (Local Carl McKowan at IBA, 8200 SW 19th Ave., Billiards VideoGamee management available) For more informa• Portland, OR 97219. Y. KEIKO OKUBO tion or sale brochure; Centennial Auction, l1!J' Fi~" ~ WJion Dollar Club (503) 245-4464. ~ 39812 ~u...ioD Bt-d., ,0(] Career Opportunities FI. Collins, Colorado (303) 482-6207. Fremonl, (;A 94-539 l-t 15) 651-65 4335 w.~ Hwy,1apewood 90304 At The Pacific Citizen TOURIST BUSINESS (213) 677-2 DlekObayuhi VETERAN HOUSING CENTER 5-Employment \1'01 affiliated ..ilh the V or any Go.'! Agy) The Pacific Citizen, official publica• FOR SALE ON MAUl FWWl!:R ViEw GARDENS Dal)' City: 6298 MiMion '1., (-t15) 991-2-tU tion of the Japanese American Citi• SOCIAL WORKER Hawaii's #1 business. Presently grossing @ .1owe.... Fruit, 1VJ.ae a: l:aDdy SIIIlJ __ : 3567 Sle.·..... Creek 01. (-tOO) U9-6600 zens League, a 27,000 member hu• For Multi-Purpose Senior Center from $1Y2-$2 MM annually. For more Info. ITo bi"rfde DeUftryIWorldwide Se.rviee man and civil rights organization, is call: 180 N. W.. tero A"e., Loo ADfJeI .. 90027 Seattle, Wash. seeking a full-time editor and a busi• Full-time, MSW Required, experienced (2f3)466-7313 1Ai't a:")bD rto ness manager to work in its Los working with elderly preferred; must be (800) 468-1287 Angeles offICe. bilingual Japanese/English. Dr. Darlyne Fujimoto ImpeRTal. Lanes BIG OPPORTUNITY IN ORI F~ Oplome,:&a: Colli..,' Lea.. COD-\Plele Pro ' bop, Reol.uranl. Lo~ EDITOR Salary $19,000-22,000, commensurate 1142 Soulh 51, rriloo, CA 90701 210 1-.220d A'e So., SeAltle \206)325-2525 Duties will Include managing edj\:)• With experience. Send resume to Established Auto - Truck + RV. (213) 864).1339 - rial staff and taking prinary responsi• Gail Uyehara. Yu-Ai Kai, WASH In Busy 1-5 Truck Stop In Eugene, TATAMI & FUTON bility for writing, organization and pro• OR. Asking price $186,000.00. Includes (818) 243.2 75"' duction of editorial material published Japanese American Community Building + Equipment + 19 yr. Ground UwAJlMAYA. SVSUKJ FUI'ON MFG. ... Ahuays ingood taste, by the newspaper. Senior Service, 565 N . 5th St., lease. Terms available. Call: (503) :...... -.;;;. Candidates must have a minimum San Jose, CA 95112. 344-7042 or 345-9274 ask for Rldhard. TAMA TRAVEL INTERNATIONAL Martha Ipraobl Tamuh1ro of two years experience in editorial (408) 294-2521. management position with news or• O_W~81~, Ie 1012 FOR SALE LooAnFIeo90017.( 13)1>224333 ganization. Education in related field is Closing Date: April 8, 1988 3 Atlanta area retail, multi-tenant also a prerequisite. Auto Service Centers TOKYO TRAVEL SERVICE Applicant should have a working $3,750,000. National tenants; 5-15 years net 530 W. 61h I. #429 BOOKKEEPER Lo. ~te. 90014 (213)680-3545 knowledge and expenence with the Full-time bookkeeper to prepare finan• leases. 9% cash on cash return. Excellent ap• Japanese Amencan community. cial reports, prepare checks and de• preciation. Bob Cook or Rtta Mandell, Brokers. YAMATO TRAVEL BUREAU Applicant must furnish a detailed re• posit slips for banking, maintain re• Southland Real Estate, 200 San Pedro SI., #502 (404) 961 -0303 or (800) 241-6873. ID' sume, writing samples and profes• cords of such revenue and expenses Loo AntIele. 900 12 (213) 68().0333 sional references. Salary range : on a database In the computer, and For the- Best of $25,000 to $35,000 per annum, plus assist In budget proposals and gen• SALE BY OWNER - Everything Asian. benefits. Ideal Family Operator Ol'ange Cowlty eral office responsibilities. Knowledge t Fresh Produce, Meat, NURSERY of business accounting via computer . Seafood and Groceries. BUSINESS MANAGER preferred, experience in lieu of college Wholesale/ Retail Victor A. Kato Duties will include managing the A vast selection of degree acceptable. Slarting salary: Western Montana (714)841-1551 • Ex.eptionat Rul E.tale bUSiness operallons of the PaCific Citi• $12,000 to $20,000 per annum, plus 17301 Oucb IDvd., ' ulle 23 Gift Ware. zen With an annual budget of approxi• benefits. Send resume by April 30, 3BRHome Iluotl"¥,on Beads, CA 92()'~ 7 33 Acres mately $500,000. Responsibilities Inc• 1988 to Pacific CItizen, Personnel Seattle • 624·6248 lude supervision of business and 24 Under Production Kobayashi Entertainment Sellevue' 747-9012 Committee, 941 E. 3rd St., #200, Los 2 Greenhouses An)' O •••• io" (1 H) S.~-·~208 bookkeeping staff, billing services. Angeles, CA 90013. Soulhcenter. 246-7077 prepare monthly and quarterly re• Highway Location Or. Ronald T. Watanabe ports, develop and implement an ag• Land, Equlpment, and Inventory. -- -- 9-Real Estate $350K, Terms Owner. IIIROPltAC'roR Tlte Inlt'l'mountum gressive advertiSing and typesetting Santa f\Ulll\lNUCJtl Art. CN"tlr program. HAWAII, MUAI TI1Ell>arOen Islano. (406) 363-3190 1125 E. 17t11 '1., ·uh. ·l60 A~sociated Auto Sales Applicant must have a minimum of2 Box 1247 :"0 ..1" Alia, CA 92 70 1 (71 ~)Il3(). ISS3 years experience In management op• \12 acre rim property. Prestigious location & R. V. Rt'ntals Inc, erallon In a news/media organizatIOn overlooking Wallua RIVer Canyon J Sed• Hamilton, MT 59840 :1:!b2 "nil \\ .... OttJ"". \, t"lH IIH and appropnate educational back• room, 2 Batn ReSidence With Wei Bar, Pool, r SIUl Di.~~. Calif. (; ,' o"ll" S~ I IU.Il(lltll) o21-o ~ { H ground. Fatlo, Guest House. Secluded, Land• Applicant musl SUbmit detailed re• scaped. Fee Simple .:>295,000. A PrecIous Paul H. Hoshi h18urance Mam Wakas!!!, ' 01 ... R",_ sume, and profeSSional references. "'lace byC},omer. M. Kano (808) 822-401 O. u:;:.! - Ibll. SI., :"UIl)l" II'" C.\ 9:.! tOt Ro" Crop F•• " ... Diad. . R.at Eouot .. , Salary range from $25,000 to $30,000 ,,,-lIn.-., (019) :.!:lI- II:1 i 0 1t" '.lb(9)I:\t-735b 36 SW 3..d '. Onl.. "", OR 9j914 (503) 881. 1301 or (503)262-30159 per annum, plus benefits. FOR SALE pcaas-\make , Apply By April 30, 1988 2-Beauliful Ocean View & Beach Hotel Sites San JUlie. CuliC. , Ell tel''' Distrkt Pacific Citizen Personnel shoppir:'Q 1-Mallbu, CA $12.5 mllllon-400 Rooms r.:OWAJW T. IHOIUOKA, tI.·all ... ~tlKE ~tASAOKA ASSOCL\TES Search Committee, 2-Mlaml Bch, Florida easierl :;UtI . :;,h :oil " SIUIJ ...~ to ,\ 95tl2 C" ...ultaDll - Wa.ohIajIlo" M.II .... 941 E. Third St., Rm 200, $35 million-I 700 Rooms \,IUII) :;:;'/-118 l<, " til. 9911-lI!I:H \"m. 900.17111$, W, '\\""'''41100, UC20006 Contact - Bob Mahoney Los Angeles. CA 90013 (202) 29bool'"'-t (213) 426-3198 _12_~_A_C_IR_C C_ITIZEN__ '_FrI_d...:.IY.:..,..' A.:....prl_11...;...' 1_98_8 ______IACL CHAYl'ER NEWS _____.....:.-- ______s. 1009 J dACL PULSE t 1988 TANAKA TOURS Continued from page 10 EXCEPTIONA.LFEATURES • • VALUE,Q.UALITYTOURS SAN GABRIEL VALLEY bring own table service. Info: Bill IMPERIAL CHINA (Beijing/Xian/Guilin/Shanghai, etc) ...... MAY 13 total benefits paid from the Fund if • "A Day at the Races," Santa Anita Kumagai, 408 258-6363 or Sumi KAGAWA CENTENNIAL JAPAN ...... MAY 13 necessary in order to comply with Park, April 9. The chapter has re• Tanabe, 408 253-6191. EUROPE VISTA (7 countries) ...... MAY 28 this provision" served Infield Picnic Area # 17. CANADIAN ROCKIES-VICTORiA (8 days) ...... JUN 13 The March 23 Congressional Re• Parking (additional fee) is in lot #6. MDC SUMMER JAPAN/HONG KONG (Affordable, 17 days) ...... JUL 2 Donation: $10, includes lunch. Chil• • Midwest District Council meeting ALASKA PRINCESS CRUISE/LAND TOUR ...... AUG 10 cord published a list of 11 amend• April2~ NEW ORLEANSI ACADIAN COUNTRY ...... •. . .. SEP 10 ments submitted by Sen Jesse dren 17 and under admitted free; and Forensic Competition, lunch is $5. To purchase tickets by May 1, Harley Hotel, Cincinnati, EAST COAST & FOLIAGE (1 0 days) ...... OCT 3 Helms (R-N.C.) which he intends to mail, send a check with an S.A.S.E. Ohio. Registration: $20; due April 15. JAPAN AUTUMN ADVENTURE (Ext-HongKong) ...... OCT 10 .propose to S. 1000. The amendments to Deni Uejima, 566 E. 5th St., Azusa, Hotel rates and other info: Susan FAR EAST (OkinawalTaiwan/Bangkok/Slngapore/HKG) ..... OCT 23 are numbered 1800 through 1810. CA 91702 before April 4. Hollis Nakao, 25 Knollwood Dr., SOUTH AMERICAN SPLENDOR (17 days) ...... NOV 3 Most of the Helms amendments Highland Heights, KY 41076, or call Forfullinformatlonlbrochure . seem to be for the purpose of 606441-9620. TRI VALLEY ! ~ , ~ • . TRAVEL SERVICE (415) 474-3900 weakening the language in the bill • Barbecue Fundraiser, April 8-10. but four amendments, Nos. 1800, Ticket info: Ted Saito, 415 829-4380. NCWNPD ..441 O'Farrell St., San Francisco, CA 94102 1901, 1002, and 1007 have to do with • "Decisionmaking '88: A Leader• the individual payments and the use VENTURA ship Development Program," spon• of the allocation. • Singles Bowling/Breakfast, 8:30 sored by the Northern Californial An example of an amendment to am, April 10, Wagon Wheel Bowl, lo• Western Nevada Pacific District cated at 2801 Wagon Wheel Rd. in Council, April 23-25, Sacramento AUSTRALIA Ie weaken the language of the bill is Inn, Sacramento, Calif. Registration: No. 1809 which is part of the "find• Oxnard. All JACL members, family and friends welcome. Singles meet• April 23, 5-7:30 pm. Fee: $50, in• ings of the Commission on Wartime cludes Sunday lunch and dinner. NEW ZEALAND Relocation and Internment of Civi• ing at 11 am, following bowling. Info: Stan Mukai. Info: Alan Nishi, 916 786-8166 (w), or HOP AROUND ON HOLIDAY DOWNUNDER .... lians. This amendment reads "strike 916753-5424 (h). out all on lines 8 and 9," which now SEPT. 29 - OCT. 13, 1988 (13 DAYS) states "there was no military or sec• WEST VALLEY - Items publicIzing JACL events should be • Annu~l Bridge/Bowling Night, 6 typewritten (double-spaced) or legibly hand• urity reason for the internment" pm, AprIl 9, chapter clubhouse. Din• printed and mailed at least THREE WEEKS $2,395.00 DOUBLE OCCUPANCY The three amendments on indi• IN ADVANCE to the P.C. office. Please In• AUCKLAND, WAITOMO, ROTORUA ner: 6 pm. Bridge: 7:30 pm; bowlers clude contact phone numbers, addresses, vidual payments start with No. 1800, will go to Saratoga Lanes. Please etc. QUEENSTOWN, MT. COOK, MELBOURNE, SYDNE Y which is an addition to Title IT and (EXTENSION FIJ I. HAWAII) ill sections. This amendment is a ESCORTED BY TAD & GLADYS NISHIMURA new paragraph in the definitions of ,. Japanese American Travel Club "eligible individuals": "Such term ::" ENDORSED BY THE NA T10NAL JACL 0:, NIPPON TRAm AGENCYPAClflC,lHG. shall not include any person who is ~ dba NTA PaC,"C Ii; - 1 250 East First Street, Los Angeles, CA 90012 serving as a member of Congress on ~ ,C,!II Bill or Saml: (213)624-28661 (800) 877-8777 the date of enactment of this Act, or BARGAIN AIR FARES (213) 329-1130, 329-1108 TOKyO ...... $570 BANGKOK ...... 5699 SEOUL ...... 599 any spouse, parent, son or daughter TAiPEI ...... 595 SiNGAPORE ...... 699 MANILA ...... 680 HONG KONG ...... 595 MALAYSIA ...... 740 BEIJING ...... 755 of such person" ORIENT /S.E. ASIA INDEPENDENT TOURS 8 Days Kuala lumpur-Singapore & Bomeo ...... MH $ 988 AMERICAN HOLIDAY TRAVEL #1001 says "strike $2D,(XX) and in• 8 Days Seoul ShOPPI~ Spree ...... KE $1080 sert $10,(XX).', This amendment 9 Days Seoul & Hong ong Shopping Spree ...... KE $1099 1988 TOUR SCHEDULE would reduce payments to both 9 Days Hong Kong & Bangkok ...... CX $1295 9 Days Hong Kong & Si"llapore ...... CX $1260 Europe Holiday Tour (18 days) _...••.. _...... May 22 groups. 9 Days Hong Kong & Bah ...... ex $1490 11 DaysSeoul·Hong Kong & Taipei Shopping Spree ...... KE $1199 London. Holland, Germany, Switzer(and. AUstria, # 1002 says "strike $2D,(XX) and in• 11 Days Kuala lumpur-Singapore Bangkok & Penang ...... MH 51098 Italy. Monaco. France. sert $1,(XX)." This amendment would 11 Day MalaysIa-Slngapore-Hong Kong Travel Barbain ...... MH 51180 (~2 CHINA South America HO.liday Tour days) .. __ , .... Jun 15 reduce payments to both groups. 9 Days Hong Kong & Beijingz-Frlday Departures ...... CX $1960 SPECIAL TOUR: JOin the 80th Anniversary Celebration of Japanese Above tours include rlt air, hotel and most transfers and sight seeing. Immigration to Brazil at Sao Paulo. Visit Brazil and Argentina. #1007 is also in the Restitution Departures from various West Coast cities. Call JATC to verify exact details. section This amendment is to strike Alaska Holiday Cruise 1 Tour (13 days) . __ .. ___ Aug 22 JATC ESCORTE> GROUP TOURS TO JAPAN Anchorage, Fairbanks. Denali Park, Skagway, out the lines on ''No Set Off For Ad• TOkyo.Awa~. 14 Days Visitinlb Takamalsu. Kurashlki. Hiroshima. Mlyajlma & Osaka. Ketchikan. Juneau, Vancouver. ministrative Costs." Helms proposes Jul13 eparture Ta Shindo Escort ...... $2690 Oct 29 Departure Paul Bannai Escort ...... $2725 that the attorney general deduct the 11 Days Japan Tour Oct 15 Departure Bill Hamada Escort ..•...... $2430 Hokkaido Holiday Tour (11 days) .. _.,., .. ... , _Sep 25 Above tours Include air. hotel. sight seeing. transfers Sapporo. Noboribelsu. Hakodate. Lake Akan, Sounkyo, Tokyo. administrative expense from the & most breakfasts and dinners throughout. Depart from lAX. funds appropriated by Congress for New York/Canada Fall Holiday Tour (8 days) ... Sep 27 SOUTH PACIFIC New York, Corning, Niagara Falls. loronto. ottawa, the Civil Liberties Education Fund 8 Days New Zealand. Departures Frl &Sat ...... May $9i9 Apr 51110 Montreal. Adirondack Mtn. or payments to eligible Japanese 8 Days Australia. Dept Mon. Wed, Thu. Sat ...... May 1192 Apr $1289 13 Days Ausl1alla/New Zealand. Dept Th·Fr-Sa ...... •.May 1499 Apr $1600 Japan Autumn Holiday Tour (10 days) ....•.... Oct 16 Americans and Aleuts. 'Tokyo, Lake Kawaguchi, Hirayu Onsen, Matsumoto. EUROPE Takayama, Gifu . Kyoto. Sen Matsunaga and the senators Truly European Holidays. Private Motorcoach Tour ...... •...... 52430+elr who support S. 1009 plan to keep the 15 Days England-Ireland.scotland. Departures Apr & May ...... •...... $1809 17 Days European Panorama. Departures Apr & May ...... •...... $2049 China Buddhist Tour (19 days) ...... , ...... _Oct 7 bill intact and beat back the amend• 23 Days European Horizons. JATC Group Departure 24 Sept ...... 52699 Beijing, Shanghai, Guilln. Xian, WUXI. Suzhou. Hangzhou. Hong Kong. ments which will alter the intent of All above tours by Heritage & Include most meals. lAX Departure AMERICAN HOLIDAY TRAVEL this legislation CRUISES 7 Days Mexican Rivera Cruise. Carnival Cruises ...... •...... •.....From 5 699 3913Y.! Riverside Dr., Burbank, CA 91505 The major concern of the JAClr 10 Days Trans Canal. Sitmar's " Felrwlnd" ...... From 52300 ErnesUCarol Hlda-Burbank: (818) 846-2402 • (213) 849-1833 LEC office is, at this time, to get S. 17 Days Alaska Cruises by Holland America ...... From 51399 Yaeko-little Tokyo Office: (213) 625-2232 1009 to the Senate floor. Other cruises available. Check With JATC for Information HAWAII/CANADA 8 Days Walkilo Hawaii. Pleasanl Hawaiian Holidays ...... From $369 7 Days SPring Canadian Rockies. Most meals. Tauk Tours ...... 5799 Other U.S .• HawaII and Canada louIS available. Call JATC MELTING POT FISHIN' GOLFIN' & FUN ~ 8 Days Golf The Rockies of Canada. Escorted. With meals ...... : ...... $1498 KOKUSAI Continued &om 10 . 4 Days All Inclusive fishing Bamfield Canada Dept Seattle ...... •...... ••.. .5 973 4 Days Salmon Big Springs/River Inlet all Inclusive .•.... • ...... 51175 for legislative remedy facilitated _ All Prlcee Subject to Ch.enge. Reatrlctlone Mey Apply. another more personal process, one TOURS in our communities, dining rooms and bedrooms. We learned to win CALIFORNIA FIRST BANK'S back their dignity, their self esteem. JUN 8 - PANA-SOUTH AMERICAN TOUR .• _...... ••...... $2,450 * 13 Days, Many Meals. Lima. Rio de Janeiro. Iguassu Falls. We were vulnerable to percep• Buenos Aires and Sao Paulo. tions of us beyond our control, ones (JOIN BRAZIL'S 80TH JAPANESE IMMIGRATION not at all related to us. The im• ~~~~~ ~tI~· CELEBRATION.) perialist Japan that was the source JUL 1 - HONG KONG & JAPAN SPECIAL •....••...... _... $2,350 of much of the perception visited 15 Days, Most Meals. Hong Kong. Tokyo, Nikko. Matsumoto. Takayama. Kyoto, Inland Sea. Shodo Island, Hiroshima. Tsu• upon our community, was one that CARD wano. Beppu & Fukuoka. was far distant from us culturally, AUG 19 -SCANDINAVIAN VISTAS .•.• .• ...... ••. ·. ·· ·· ···· $3,395 historically, and politically. The 17 Days, Many Meals. Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, & major thing in common was one of Leningrad. Russia. a similar racially based appear• (ALMOST SOLD OUT.) SEP 21 - HONG KONG, OKINAWA, KYUSHU & SHIKOKU ... . $2,650 ance. 14 Days, Most Meals. Hong Kon$, Tokyo. Okinawa. Ibusukl. America, today, is experiencing a Nagasaki & Beppu. Kyushu . Ash,ZUrI , Kochl & Takamatsu. major change in immigration pat• Shikoku . terns. For the frrst time in our coun• OCT 4 - HOKKAIDO & TOHOKU .•.. . •.... ••• •.•• ••.• .• . . •• $2,595 13 Days, Most Meals. Sapporo. Lake Akan, Lake DistriCt. Asahl• try's 200 year history, the majority kawa. Lake Toya, Hakodale, Aomori. Akita, Sendal & Tokyo. of immigrants arrive, not from [Hong Kong opllon $395.) Europe, but from the Third World. OCT 18 - FALL JAPAN ODYSSEY/Fall Foliage Tour ...... $2,395 Immigrants, all immigrants, face 13 Days, Most Meals. Tokyo, Nikko. Matsumoto. Takayama. great hardships in transitioning to Kyoto, Inland Sea. Shodo Island, Hiroshima. Tsuwano, Naga• a new culture. Today's immigrants saki, Ibusukl, Kumamoto & Fukuoka, [Hong Kong option $375.) face this challenge with a degree of NOV 4 - NISEI VETS SUPER TOUR - ORIENT ... _••.. •...... $1,895 16 Days, Most Meals. Hong Kong. Kuala Lumpur & Pangkor. visibility and attention that is unpre• Malaysia; Bangkok & Cha-Am, Thailand & Singapore. cedented. The dynamics that oper• (FEW SPACES REMAIN.) ated on Americans of Japanese an• cestry appear to have new versions All tours Include. flights. transfers. porterage, hotels. most meals. sightseeing. t[ps and taxes and touring transportation. affecting new Americans. I am hope• With your Ultimate Banking Card, ful that sharing a small bit of that through the ATM shared network Prices subject to change due to currency fluctuation. experience allows my new fellow "STAR SYSTEM" Americans to attend to this process with the understanding that others You have access to over 3,000 ATMs throughout KOKUSAIINTERNATIONAL TRAVEL have passed this way before and California and the West. 400 E. 2nd St., Los Angeles. CA 90012 CAUFORNIAI 213/626-5284 having done so, have a special ap• Drop by any of our over 130 FIRST SANK offices and Inqure of the details. ~be'FOIC preciation for the challenge of be• ill> Caillornia FI'" Blink. 1e87 coming an American.