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ISSN:0030-8579 / WholeNo.2,357 / VoI.101 No. 12 941 E. 3rd St. #200, Los Angeles, CA 90013 (213) 626-69~6 Friday. September 20, 1985 California assemblyman's comments spark protests SACRAMENTO-During a Sep• September 13, saying, " Your re• ization, the Japanese community tember 12 debate over a bill that marks reveal a woeful ignorance included, is a proper expenditure would provide $750,000 in state of histOIY which I can only believe of public funds. " He added that he matching funds to the Japanese has led to an incredible lack of had also opposed a measure that American National Museum in sensitivity toward your fellow would fund a museum commemo• Los Angeles, Assemblyman Gil Americans. " He demanded an rating the Holocaust F ergusoo (R-Newport Beach) apology. " I am sorry that anyone would sharply criticized the proposal, Matsui, along with Wakabaya• attempt to use me or my remarks drawing approving chants of shi in a separate letter, cited the to forment public divisiveness," · Rambo" from some of his Re• contributions of Japanese Ameri• he said. "My votes and voice were publican colleagues. cans who fought in Europe and the . .. not in opposition to any partic• " I remind you of WW2 ," said Pacific during WW2 . ular race, religion or group." Fergusoo, a retired Marine lieu• In a statement issued in re• Authored by Sen. Art Torres (0- tenant colonel. He added that Ma• sponse to charges of racism, Fer• S. Pasadena) and passed by a 27- rine WW2 veterans collected guson said, "They are either mis• 10.1 vote in the state senate, the bill ' nickels and dimes" to build informed as to what I actually said will provide the funds if the city of themselves a monument. " If the or they have chosen to misinter• Los Angeles commits $1 million in Alota courtesy Calif. Council lor the Humanities Japanese can't do that, they pret my remarks .. .I am a fiscal matching funds for the museum. Sankaijuku members, covered with white powder, perform on stage. sho~dn ' t have [a museum]," he conservative. I do not believe that Despite the outburst in the assem• declared. voting rmney from the public trea• bly, the measure passed by a 57-to- At that point, several Republi• sury to any private group or organ- 20 vote. Sankaijuku member killed in accident can legislators reportedly grouped around Ferguson and chanted ~~ ~ News ~ ",· in Brief." ..mB'· BI SEATTLE- The remaining U.S. white powder , act out themes of Rambo, Rambo, Rambo," a ref• tour of the Tokyo dance troupe birth and death while being low• erence to the popular Sylvester L.A. Asians sign statement opposing Farrakhan Sankaijuku has been canceled fol• ered slowly to the ground with Stallone film about a Vietnam vet LOS ANGELES-The 70 labor, civil rights, religious and political lead• lowing the death of member Y 0 - ropes tied around their ankles. It who single-handedly battles the ers who signed a full-page ad in the September 13 L.A. Times denoWlc• shiyuki Takac s. on September 10. had been perfonned worldwide Vietnamese while rescuing POWs. ing Natio~ of Islam leader Louis Farrakh.an included Harry Kajihara, During a 'hanging dance" per• without incident until now. Assemblyman Richard Floyd (D-Hawthorne) called Ferguson's JACL Pacific Southwest district governor; City O>uncilman Mike Woo' formance in which four troupe The tour was to have been San• Lily Chen, former mayor of Monterey Park; and Stewart Kwoh As~ members were suspended by rope kaijuku's second in the U.S. The statement ' nasty, low-living rac• ist remarks." Pacific American Legal Center. Paid for by Jewish Federation COWlCil from the top of the Mutual Life first began last year at the Olym• of Greater L.A. , the ad reads, in part: "Bigotry, whatever color or Building in P ioneer Square, Taka• pic Arts Festival in Los Angeles. " You are a disgrace making those kinds of remarks on the form it takes, deserves the unequivocal condemnation of people of da fell six stories when his rope This year's schedule had includ• good will. " PSW regional director John Saito was among the speakers snapped. He died soon afterward ed appearances Sept. 12-14 at floor," he said. In response to the incident, at a press conference held that day by American Jewish Committee. at Harborview Medical Center. He Meany Hall in Seattle, Sept. 20-21 The protests were in response to a local appearance by Farrakhan, was an eight-year veteran of the at UC Berkeley, and Sept. 27 at JACL called a press conference September 17 at its national head• who has drawn criticism for, among other statements, speaking of the five-member group. Japan America Theater in Los " wickedness of the Jews" and calling Judaism a "gutter religion." Angeles. A spokesman for the quarters in San Francisco. Nation• al director Ron Wakabayashi Sankaijuku performs in the group said there would be no per• Women's commission protests 'Yearofthe Dragon' avant garde buto style of dance formances for one year. called on Gov. G€Orge Deukmeji• theater. In the hanging dance, Refunds far the L.A. performance an to repudiate the behavior of LOS ANGELES-Members of the L.A. County Commission for WODlEJl troupe members, heads shaven, listed in last week's PC can be obtained Fergusoo and the chanting assem• have voted 7-4, with one abstention, to send letters of protest to MGM-UA nearly naked and covered with by calling (213) 680-3700 . bly members and on Assembly and director Michael Cimino for the portrayal of an Asian American Speaker Willie Brown to censure woman reporter in the film "Year of the Dragon." The motion, request• those involved. ed by Assn. of Asian Pacific American Artists and submitted by com• Riclumnd city councilman Dav• missioner Miya Iwataki, focused on a scene offorced sex between the Chinese American loses council race id MacDiarmid said the council hero, a white detective, and the reporter. The film's message, said would consider a resolution repu• commissioner Sandra Klasky, is that "you can beat, batter and rape a NEW YORK-Despite the en• Stuyvesant Town, the East Vil• diating Ferguson's remarks and woman and she comes up loving it." O>mmissioner Maria Avila, woo dorsements of Mayor Ed Koch and lage, Little Italy, the Lower East the actions of the assemblymen. had seen the film, disagreed about the scene, saying, "I think she the New York Times, Virginia Kee Side, Soho and Tribeca as well as Also speaking at the press con• enjoyed it. I don't think he really forced it. " . lost to incumbent Miriam Fried• Chinatown. ference were attorney Steve Doi; lander in a bid to become the first She attacked the incumbent's 12- Chet Tanaka, 442nd RCT veteran Boston policeman found guilty of misconduct Asian American on the city coun• year record, saying, " Everything and fOtmding member of Go For BOSTON-Detective Francis Kelly was found guilty September 6 of cil. we have we have done without Broke, Inc.; Shig Kihara, fonner• falsifying police records and using excessive force in arresting Chinese The two vied for the Democratic Miriam." ly of the Army's Military Intelli• immigrant Long Guang Huang and was sentenced to a one-year sus• nomination in the September 10 Friedlander, an opponent of gence school; Ann Saito Howden, pension without pay, according to East West. Kelly had claimed that he primary for the 2nd District (Low• Mayor Koch's policies, portrayed former internee and a member of was struck by Huang while arresting him for soliciting a prostitute, but er Manhattan) council seat. Fried• Kee as the "candidate ofthe rich. " the S.F. Fire Commission; Carol witnesses said that Huang had simply been walking down the street lander was seeking a fourth term "The Mayor has made it better MacDiannid of Assemblyman when he was grabbed and hit by Kelly. Huang was acquitted of all on the council ; Kee had served for the rich in this community," Robert Campbell's office; and charges August 23. Cindy Mark, an observer at Kelly's police hearing, eight years on the Democratic said Friedlander. " She is his can• Louise Renne, S.F . Board of Su• quoted Kelly's attorney, Thomas Troy, as suggesting that Huang was a State O>mmittee--ironically, a didate. I want to make it better for pervisors. commtmist and saying, " I won't get too close to him because he might post she was elected to with the poor. That is why he wants to Rep. Robert Matsui (D-Calif.) , throw in a couple of karate punches." Michael Powers, Huang's attor• Friedlander's support. get rid of me. " who represents the Sacramento ney, said Troy's statements were " racist remarks." Kee, a public school teacher for Kee accused Friedlander of be• area, sent a letter to Ferguson on 20 years, had served on the China• ing too rigid and opposing develop• Episcopalians pass resolution supporting redress town Planning Council and Com• ment. "We are not going to make because developers were required ANAHEIM, Calif.-The Episcopal Church, at its 68th aMual general munity Board #3 and was vice the whole city of New York into a to make amenities available to the convention, passed a resolution supporting redress bills HR 442 in the' chair of the New York delegation class struggle between the rich community. House and S1053 in the Senate on September 9. The resolution was to the 1000 Democratic convention. and the poor," she said. " Weneed Both candidates claimed to rep• introduced by members of Christ Episcopal Church in San Francisco. Kee claimed to ha ve the experi• to bring in middle-income hous• resent the best interests of the Speaking on its behalf were Dr. Don Nakahata, Dennis Delmond am ence necessary to represent the ing." Kee said she supported plans Asian American community. Nigel Renton of the San Francisco Bay area; and Rev. Michael Yasu• diverse district, which includes for luxury housing in Chinatown -from reports by the New York Times take and Rev. Dr. Christen Hovde of of Chicago. 2-PACIAC CITIZEN I Friday, September 20, 1985 ,... ~ N Community Affairs ci z l 12 t 3 p.rn. Th xhibition on- tinu tlu'Ough Nov. 24. Inf1 : (213) 628- 'Z7?15. Bom Free and Equal, an xhibit of 52 ph tograph f Manzansl' Reloca• tion nter tak n by th famed Amer• ican photograph r An I dams in "Vi ibl Target," a do umentar 1943 . opens t. 19 at lh Doizaki Gal- about Japane Ameri an remo d I ry of th J . Gall ry h urs at from Bainbridg I ~lan d during WW2. noon-5 pm., To . un . Th xhibit will will be shown 't.9,lOp.m . and t.12, ontinu through . 1. Info : 628-2725. 2p.m.onK ·TV h.9."Unfmibd old Tofu, th I1r t A ian Am ri an Bu ine ," a film about th Ya ui, Hi• lmpro isational m dy group. le• rabay hi and Korem t 'u a . will brat s its fourth aooi r ary pt. 27 , be hown t. 9, lO :30p.m. and t. 12 , 9 p.m .·2 a.m ., at Imp rial Gard n , Ip.m . 8225 unset BI d. Th re will b danc• Photo by Robert Ginn/Press· Telegrcwn " Song of the I min , " a T docum n• ing as well a a special p rformanc This photo of a prize-winning sand sculpture depicting "a Chinese who tary about J apanese immigrant in b old Tofu. D nation : $10. Info : digs himself through to 'Wrong Beach' " appeared on the front page of Hawaii, will be hown at Kawab (2 13 ) 662-7380 . the Long Beach Press-Telegram's August 19 edition. Hou ,121 18th ., pt. 24, 6:30 p.m . LitUeTokyo er 'c CentenLTSC) for Japanese peakers, 8 p.m . for Eng• and Labor Defens Net work present a lish peakers. The award-\ inning program on "The Legal Right of how \ as produced b Barbara Tana• Restaurant Workers" Sept. 22, 12·1 :30 News story called 'racist,' 'offensive' be, a former Seattle newscaster now p .m ., at LTSC, Japanese American with KHO -T in Honolulu. Cultural and Community Center, Rm. sweepstakes trophy and first place Press-Telegram sponsored the WEST VINA. Calif- The 13th An• 410 , 244 S. San Pedro St. Speaker: LONG BEACH, Calif.- ThePress• Kathryn Grannis, directing attorney, Telegram has been criticized for in the business/commercial divi• sand sculpture contest and award• nual Aki !Uatsuri will be held at the ed this racist sam sculptor ...i: East an Gabriel alley Japanese Employment Unit, Legal Aid Founda• its use of the term "Chinaman" sion's open sculpture category Community Center, ~ West Puente tion of L.A. Info : (213) 680-3729. and an accompanying photo of a was a work described by writer all the more reprehensible," ht Ave., Oct 13, noon to 10 p.rn. Food Steve Sparks as "a larger-than• wrote. ALINAS, Calil-''Unfinished Busi• racial caricature in its August 19 booths, games, exhibits, raffles and en• ness," a documentary chronicling the edition. life, buck-toothed Chinaman In another letter, Los Angeles tertainment await those who attend JA internment and the cases of Hira• The story concerned the 20th emerging from the sand with a city councilman Mike Woo was GARDENA. Calif.- Plans have been bayashi, Korematsu and Yasui, will be annual Great Sand Sculpture Con• shovel in hand. " equally critical of the "shameful finalized for the Chicago Nisei reunion shown at Hartnell Community College, test, sponsored by the Press-Tele• The name of the sculpture, sculpture of a distorted Chinese at Elks Lodge, 1735 W. 162 St Chicago 156 Homestead Ave., Menill Hall, Rm. gram am the Long Beach Grand " Wrong Beach," was apparently character" and the paper's use of Reunite, as the reunion has been titled, 12, 3 : 30---4:~ p.m , Sept Zl. It will be Prix Assn. The winner of both the a play on the switching of "r" and "Chinaman." The article demon• is set for Oct 26, with no-host cocktails followed by dinner at 5 p.m in the , 1" by some Asians. A photo of the at 6 : ~ p.m. followed by a prime rib or strated "the insensitivity of some Hartnell Dining area, and the Sym• sculpture, with slits for eyes, huge news media toward racial stereo• salmon dinner at 7 : ~ p.rn. Submit re• posium on the Japanese American in• to showcase AsianlPacific American front teeth and a coolie-type hat, servations or request to be put on a ternment at 6 : ~ p.rn. in the College talent, is set for Oct 5 at the Sac• types," he said. mailing list to: Chicago Riunite, P.O. ramento City College Auditorium at 7 dominated the front page of the Center. Min Yasui, JACULEC chair; Press-Telegram's Monday final. In response, the Pre$S-Tele• Box &XJ7, Torrance, CA 00504. Info: Violet de Cristoforo, Salinas JACL re• p.rn. 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Utah 84110 Tel (80l) 355-8040 S SI , Honolulu, HI •••••••••••••••••••••• friday, September 20, 1985 I PACIFIC cmZEN-3 Production begins on 'Karate Kid II' Dani I (Ralph Macchio) ac• saw Miyamoto and de Vega at The piece, written and choreo• compani his mentor Miyagi to Great Leap's "Best of Both graphed by Miyamoto and com• kinawa and meets Yukie's Worlds" performance at the missioned by Senshin Buddhist until No mb r, wh n production ni c Kumiko, a dance instruc• Japan America Theater in 1983 Temple, was the first Ohon piece will b mo d t a similar et built tor in Okinawa, and th two fall and, after viewing tapes of written by an American-born Nik• at th Burbank tudio . in lov . Kumiko i played by Tcr Miyamoto's "Yui Yo Bon Odori," kei and was performed at the mita, form r Ni ei Week Queen, a song/dance in the Ohon tradi• JACCC Plaza by about 2,500 per• ugi, c rding to Taka th 1 c ntly-crowned Miss Nikkei tion, decided to hire the Great sons. cript all f4 r Miyagi, play d by International and presently a Leap directors. -Robert Shimabukuro M rita, to 1 turn to th Okina• hi tory major at UClA wan villag f hi yOU1l1 to h lp hi ailing fath r d f4 nd th com• According to Miyamoto, Daniel mWli1y from its wealthy land• learns movements from Kumiko own r who wants to "d velop ' which help him in his fights with and 'urbaniz " th land. the town bully. Miyagi meets hi childhood Miyamoto and de Vega have 'sweetheart Yukie, played by been signed to choreograph the McCarthy, and they re ume their fmal scene, involving dance and fight choreography. Casting di• rector Caro Jones apparently Anti-apartheid activist addresses Asian Americans LOS ANGELES-Over 100 pe0- attention to the fact that since heid, was endorsed by 34 promi• ple listened to Trevor Fowler of Reagan has been in office Amer• nent Asian Pacific individuals the African National Congress ican investments in South Africa and organizations, including and viewed the Southern Califor• have increased from $2.3 billion PSW District JACL, Korean nia premiere of the film "Woza to $15 billion. American Coalition, National Albert," a ries of sketches writ• Fowler echoed Yo himura's Association of Chinese Amer• ten and performed by 2 Black entiments and added that al• icans, Alliance for Philippine South Africans about life in South though congressional bills call• Concerns, Los Angeles Ci1y Africa, on Aug 16 at the Japanese ing for economic sanctions mere• Councilman Mike Woo, and Gar• American Cultural and Cornmu• ly "scratch the mace," they are dena Councilman Mas Fukai. ni1y Center. a nec ary start to end apart• The program was the frrst or• Evelyn Yoshimura, spokesper- heid, as the U.S. has $15 billion ganized effort in Southern on for East Wind magazine, invested in South Africa "Amer• California on the part of Asian which S}X>IlSOred the program said ican corporations prop up apart• Americans to demonstrate op• that the Reagan admini tration heid," Fowler as erted. Fowler position to apartheid. is fostering a definite "anti• admitted that economic sanc• minori1y anti-immigrant cli• tions will bring hardship to For the Record mate' in thi country. She also Black South Africans, but he In the Sept. 6 article on the PAN A stated that although Pr ident added that Black South Africans conference, the name oftheJapa• Reagan has condemned apart• are willing to pay that price. nese consul general in Sao Paulo heid as "repugnant," his actions The program, as well a an of• should ha e been hikama rather belie his statements, and called ficial tatement OPPO ing apart- than Shlkima. PEOPLE WHO KNOW SERVICE CHOOSE THE AIRLINE FLYING· TO MORE OF JAPAN FROM MORE OF AMERICA. It's a claim we're proud of at Northwest Orient. Because it means we're working harder than any other airline to bring Japan closer to you. 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Marutani But, back to that priv at school. SO , mERE WE were on thi weU-manicured campus , allotted INVITED TO PEAK to the an hour to make our presentation faculty members of a pri ate and to field que tion . As has been chool in one of the nearb bed• our ustom, th ground rule for room communities just outside of que tions were no-holds-barred. Philadelphia, I had been for - It make for a much more timu• warned that the chool had a con• lating and informati ve ession; ser ati e tradition and that a gets outsome of those ecretive or number of the facult member graphs. Photographs are more not a single Black person among quite evident they were people of hidden Freudian thought . Th eloquent, have greater impact, the faculty audience! Somewhat good will. Too, there is a younger were omev hat insen iti e. With mere expo ition of some que - a challenge such a that, how leave a longer-lasting impression startled by this discovery, I now element within the faculty, some tions i itself a learning proce s to than oratory. Even if one were to deliberately scanned the audi• members of which are anxious for could one resi t? listeners. Ver often, que tions fancy himself/herself to be a ence from front to back as well as change, for progress. And that the We accepted and we went. re eal con iderably more than spell-binding elocutionist, photo• side to side-and saw only white faculty members are highly com• the an wer . THE SO-CALLED" Main Line" graphs win-hands down. faces. petent and top-grade was eviden~. area, which is just acro s the bor• AS OUR SUBJECT for discus• That is, unless you happen to I wondered whether the school Several asked what they might der from Philadelphia, is one of sion, we chose the uprooting and have moving pictures of the event had ever had a Black person as a do (a) to educate students as to the wealthiest communities in the incarceration of AJA's and their on a sound track. member of its faculty, but I did what happened in 1942 to AJA's nited State . In terms of per ap• parents, and the present dri e for HAVING BEEN TAUGHT long not inquire. and their parents, (b) to make ita income, it easily ranks with or redre . We went prepared with ago that when speaking to an BUT THERE'S MOVEMENT: sure this sort of thing does not re• exceeds the likes of Be erly Hills statistics, cases, outlines of the audience, it is important to have It is by no means a monolithic peat itself, (C) to assist in the re• (Los Angeles ), Mt. Lebanon Bill of Rights, Executive Order " eye contact," I swept my gaze group. There were a number of dress movement, Not many, (Pittsburgh), Scarsdale l . Y. ) 9066, and-what is perhaps the from side to side as I spoke-when folks who came up afterwards mind you-but a few. And that's a and Scottsdale (Arizona). This most important of all-photo- it suddenly struck me: there was with whom we chatted, and it was start. where blue skies are a rarity for Dis and Dat 7 months of the year, I never thought rd see the day when I eographing in New York, Los would be glad it rained But I A Moving Experience tions and fiction. No, it was the ONE THING Angeles, Las Vegas and Hawaii was thrilled And the skies were Congratulations to Philadelphia failure of the constitutionally LEADS for the past 15 years. She is a actually gray for a few days! chapter JACL and the Balch Insti• elected and appointed civilians of TO featured dancer in recent mov• But all silver linings have a tute for Ethnic Studies for a mov• the Supreme Court, presidency ies, ''Breakin' II-Electric Boog• cloud. It leaked in our office. ing presentation of the exhibition and Congress to carry out their aloo" and "PeIfect" Hats off to With so little rain, too. So now it "The Japanese American Experi• commissions. They were the mal• Louise. has turned warm again, and the ence" June 15-September 7. feasors; the military, the fools. EJISUYAMA Bob air conditioning is still not in During my limited time at the place. Oh well, the broken record Ellsworth, Main' Shimabukuro museum, I was truly impressed. plays on and on. The Manzanar photographs of An• Interesting things do happen sel Adams are as moving as ever. Keep It Simple Congratulations are m-order Re: Sept. 16 PC letter from Wil• for dancer/choreographer Louise around here, though. The new of• The selection and placement of the fice is located in an old ware• artifacts, original paintings from liam Hohri of National Council For Kawabata, who recently received Japanese American Redress, to a California Arts Council grant house district and as a result, the camps and the personal letters film crews are out here often. and medals of the Philadelphia whom we owe so much for his good to translate Buddhist folk tales work. Doo't you think the majority into contemporary stories, utiliz• One day, I anived at the office Nisei veterans added to the "Go to find that our front entrance for Broke" military history. The of the concerned citizens would ing dance, music and theater pre• say we need not at this late date sentations. Kawabata plans to was being repainted Later, an story of the Philadelphia prewar awning plus a sign reading, 'The Issei arrl the resettlement of Sea• his idea that we sue the govern• have 3 stories in finished form mentforalargerarnountbecause on video and she plans to use the Body FactolJ'," was installed. It brook, N.J., are little-known facts appears that our building be of inflation? . "kids who are in the vicinity of will of adversity and success. a workout center in ''Remington My personal thanks to both or• The JACL's 1978-dated $25,000 Senshin Temple." Plans also in• LDuise Kawabata should row be $35,000, and the 12% clude a peIformance in Anaheim The weather cooled off re• Steele." The bodies in this office ganizations for a valuable and could use something, I guess. interest should make it $55,000, a Kawabata, who will peIform cently and it even rained here in successful lesson in American More on the "Dragonslayers": much higher figure than the 5% with the Great Leap Ensemble LA-all .18 inches, or was it .018 history. Chisao Hata (formerly Joyce one. Let's keep it simple. Henry at their benefit peIformance Oct inches? After growing up in Ma• SUE KUNITOMI EMBREY Cawthorne) and Sharon Hashi• Los Angeles Sakai, Naomi Kashiwabara, Wil• 12 at theJapan America Theater, noa Valley in Honolulu where it moto of Portland JACL put to• liam Hohri and others might be has been peIforming and chor- rains a lot, and Portland, Oregon gether a coalition of groups to The Real Culprit better serving the cause by keep• ISSN : 0030-8579 screen "Year of the Dragon," The Washington D.C. columnist ing in step with redress leaders then held a press conference with (Aug. 9 PC) has the chutzpah to Min Yasui, John Tateishi, Frank sponsoring groups expressing have us believe that the military, Sato, Harry Kajihara and a legion their objections to the movie. in the face of past reluctance to of others with one goal arxi one pacific citize11 What was impressive about this participate in a national drug of• soul, which is to ~ve $20,000 to all coalition was the range ofgroups fensive, ·now embraces their in• victims and heirs, through organ• involved. It included the Amer• volvement in the South American izations or in person, in 1986--now National JACL Headquarters, 1765 Sutter St., San Francisco, CA 94115 , (415) 921 -5225 ican Friends Service Committee, connection as a compelling nation• and quiddy! Published by the Japanese American Citizens League every Friday except the first and last Black United Front, American al security decision. Furthennore, MACK YAMAGUCHI weeks of the year at 941 E. Third St. , Los Angeles, CA 90013 ; (213) 626-6936 . • 2nd Class Pasadena, Calif. postage paid at Los Angeles . CA . • Annual Subscriptions-JACL member: $10 of National Jewish Committee, Metropolitan he advances the fear that the foot• dues provides one year on a per-household baSIS . Nonmembers: $20 a year, $38 two-years , Human Relations Commission, in-th~oor military could escalate payable in advance . • Foreign addresses : Add US$10; 1st Class air-U.S.lCanada Oregon Committee for Hispanic such ventures into usurpation of PC'S Jackson Policy addresses : $25 extra, Japan/Europe: US$60 extra . Advancement, Native American the constitutional responsibilities To its disgrace, PC has done it News or opinion s expressed by colu mOi sts other than the National President or National Resource Network, Asians To• of the President and Congress; he again. After flattering and even Director do not necessarily reflect JACL polley . condescending 1984 campaign OFFICERS gether, Hispanic Media Project, even gives as an example the mili• Frank Sato. Nan JACL Pres. Or Clillord I Uyeda. PC Board Chair along with the Chinese Chamber tary role in the 1942 Evacuation. coverage of Jesse Jackson, it EDITORIAL I BUSINESS STAFF managed to fmd yet aoother Acting Ed itor. Robert Shimabukuro Ass\. : J.K. YamamolO of Commerce, the Chinese Con• It is not the military that should AdvertIsIng. Jane M. Ozawa ProductIon: Mary Imon Circulation: Toml Hosh,zak, Mailing: Mark SallO solidated Benevolent Assn., and be feared; after all, it is their im• means of associating the paper General Manager I Opera lions. Harry K. Honda and by extension the entire JACL POSTMASTER: Send changes of address to Pacific Citizen, the Chinese American Citizens perative and duty to sowxl; the 941 E. 3rd St., Mezz., Los Angeles, CA 90013. Alliance. Pretty impressive, all .alarm and deferxi the nation, al• with this racist demagogue. I refer right beit too frequently with exaggera- CGatfwedCli Nat PIle Friday, September 20, 1985 I PACIFIC CmZEN-I Publicity We Can Do Without mak it, 0 long a it do n't incit tanding that concern many as Los Angeles City Councilman the Dragon" proves to be a tinan• iol n . But! a a con um r al 0 A ian Americans under the best Mike Woo warns, that viewers cial success, you can expect a ha th right not to upport it. of circumstance . will conclude that "everyone in flood of Asian American crime Th th m ,ac ording to what I ne of the reasons for deploring Chinatown, from the teenager on films "depicting contemporary ha r ad, ha to do with a N w films of this type is the immaturi• the street to the elder in the fami• history." It will be imperative FROMTHE York Chinatown bu ine man ty of the American audience. Gen- ly association, is implicated in a that they feature sinister Japa• FRYING PAN: who d als in h roin, and th he• ration of Americans grew up sinister multi-national drug con• nese gangsters, with the tips of Bill roi ofa traight-arrow pohc of• firmly believing that Indians spiracy." their little fingers amputated as Hosokawa n r ho ondu t a one-man w re made to be destroyed by the There is irony of sorts in the fact evidenceoftheir loyalty to the big crusade against crime in China• cavalry because they were dirty, that just as many Asian Ameri• boss, glowering from movie town. treacherous, cruel, vii and spoke cans were protesting " Yearofthe screens. Granting th isten of rim with forked tongue, which is the Dragon, " federal officials an• And to paraphrase Councilman Having been raised on a diet of in virtually every stratum of Amer• m age countless films carried. nounced a crackdown on Japa• Woo, these films will suggest that harlie han and Fu Manchu, I ican society, the scenario provides It wasn't until people became a nese gangsters who allegedly everyone in Li'l Tokyo, from the ha e no desir to pa good mon all kind of melodramatic oppor• bit more rational that Indians be• were involved in smuggling ille• smart-aleck Yonsei teenager on to iew a current and ontro er• tunity fordr dging up a ll the tired gan to be portrayed as human be• gal drugs into Hawaii, and illegal the street to the venerables whil• sial film titled " ear of th Dra• old tel' otyp about my teriou ings with the nobility as well as weapons into Japan. We 're de• ing away their afternoons at the gon, ' ~ hich i being a ailed a Chinatown. The film ma be the basene that i the lot of all lighted the thugs got their come• " go" club, is implicated in a sin• pre enting a badl di torted vi "contemporar hi tory," as on people. uppance and ask why it wasn't ister multi-national drug con• of Chinese Americans. of it propon nt ha a erted, but .. y ar of the Dragon" may in• done earlier. spiracy. Under our law the people ho it al 0 open the wa for great deed portray contemporary his• However, this development vir• We can do without that kind of made the fUm ha e a right to gob of th kind of misund r- tory, but there is also the danger, tually guarantees that if "Year of publicity. develop leadership in lieu ofmone• LEITERS tary redress. In response to my The Ethnic Aspects of the Kimura Case Continued from Previous Pag article, Henry Sakai pointed out to the front-page co erage of Jack• that since "individual civil rights by Katie Kaori Hayashi Even Newsweek featured her phy) by using the analogy of fall• were violated . . .the individual son's address before a San Fran• William Wetherall (Sept. 1.3 PC) tory, and reporters from Texas ing cherry blossoms, although should be compensated or re• cisco Hiroshima commemoration contends that Fumiko Kimura and Ohio came to Santa Monica to Wetherall doubted the effecti ve• dressed" (Aug. 9 PC). tAug. 16PC ). killed her children when she at• cover the case. Moreover, an ness of the theory. Sharing death is regarded as the I am both alarmed (and there- However, if " redress is the act tempted suicide "because she wa American movie company is plan• fore forewarned ) and amused of righting a wrong," as stated by a distr ed human being, rather ning to make a TV -movie on the culmination of feelings of onenes:s whene er I read the pronounce- President Sato, and if "the only than because she is Japanese. " He tragedy. in Japan. For example, Kimura didn't consider the criminal as• ~ents of the man The New Repub- way to right a wrong in the USA is argue that coerced parent-child Not News in Japan lic aptly dubbed "the gr~t amb~- monetary compensation," as in• suicide is ba ed on humanism and pect of killing her children be• Wetherall alleged that I do "not cause of the feelings of oneness. l~ce chaser of Amencan poh- dicated by the president in his July i therefore a universal act. eem to have considered how She saw her children as an exten• tIcs. " Hence I am glad that PC 19 article in PC, then J ACL's pres• However, I think that Kimura newspapers gather news" be• sion of herself in her suicide at• reported. Jackson's re~ar~. ident is suggesting that money can attempted suicide because she cause I wrote that " the shinju tempt. Because of the SOCially ac• ~at .IS ~ly. alarmmg IS that buy anything, including the power was distressed, but killed herchil• edi~nal committed by my friend and her cepted bond between mother and PC s silence aboutJ.ack- to make a crime right. If this is dren because she is Japanese. I mother did not appear in the me• son contmues ..The readershlp of the case, the JACL is suggesting argue that most coerced parent• child, coerced parent-child suicide dia because the Japanese media has not been castigated in Japan, P~ and entrreJACL.member- that for $20,000 wrong of in• child suicides occur in Japan and the the didn't consider it news" (Apr. 26 but has received public sympathy, Ship des~~ an ac~ountmg for the ternment can be made right. If so, a few other Asian countries; for PC). But I know the basic tenet of even though it is a homicideJ ; PC s editonal policy on Jackson. what price murder or rape? that reason, it is a cultural act. news reporting is that important Specifically, PC's editors should Coerced parent-child suicide is Once, a Japanese mother - answer the following questions : Clearly this cannot be the case, news comes first. In Japan the successfully attempted sulci e. freakish in Los Angeles but it is news of parent-child suicide is a ri~igh Has any editorial in the PC ever for money can never properly common in Japan. Soon after Ki• She was criticized by her denounced the anti-Jewish re- compel'l')3te such crimes, let alone space filler because it occurs fre• bors because she had left her cnp• mura's attempted coerced parent• quently. marks ofJackson ? Ifnot, why not? make the crimes right. Indeed, if child suicide, a Japanese journal• dren behind. She was described as According to a 1977 Welfare oni no yoo na hito l a person like a (Isn t Jackson's remark that the one takes a look at society, it is ist in Los Angeles sent an article C Ministry survey, about 17 ( of Ja• Hiroshima bomb was " the single never society's intent or claim that to a Japanese magazine about Ki• demon). In her second suicide at• greatest crime in world history" a crime can be properly compen• panese homicide victims were tempt, she successfully killed mura's act, but the Japanese edi• children killed by their parents yet another attempt by him to triv- sated by money. Instead, society tor didn't take the story, saying, herself and her children. I don't ialize the Holocaust? ) looks to insuring that the crime is during their parents' suicides or think that any mother in a Western "coerced parent-child suicide isn't suicide attempts. An average of Do the editors of PC embrace not repeated, whether it be by news. " country receives this kind of social Jackson's rainbow coalition con- means of pun ishrnent or rehabili• one child under 13 is killed by a pressure. Unusual in U.S. parent every day in Japan, ac• cept? If so, what benefits do they tation. Wetherall claimed that "mother• However, it is news in Los An• cording to Dr. Toyomasa Fuse, a child suicides occur in North see in the politics of class hatred Therefore, one must realLze that geles because it is rare. In 1984, no sociologist at York University in and resentment? America, but not off muniCipal inherent in the issue of monetary mother-child suicides were re• Canada. . beaches in broad daylight. ,. But Has an editorial in PC ever had compensation is the dangerous ported in the Los Angeles Times, Susumu Izuka, a sociologist at drowning oneself and one's chil• a harsh word to say about the out- suggestion that a heinous abroga• but one father-child suicide and Momoyama University in Japan, dren in broad daylight is a typical rageous conduct of Jackson in be- tion of the Constitution against a one family suicide were reported. reported that 235 mother-child su• mother-child suicide pattern in friending foreign tyrants and do- race of people can be made right One was committed by an es• icides, 72 father-child suicides and Japan. Drowning was once the mestic racists, while he sought to' by money. tranged Egyptian husband in San 95 family suicides occurred in 1980 most frequent suicide method flatter Japanese Americans with RICHARD H. MA YEMURA Diego, and another was commit• in Japan. However, in the same used by Japanese women, and his preposterous comparisons be- Covina, Calif. ted by an American father under• year, only 17 mother-child suicides most parent-child suicides in Ja• tween them and the Japanese? going psychiatric therapy in L.A. t two attempted), eight father• pan occur in broad daylight. What exactly do the PC editors From 1980 to 1983, no parent-child child suicides and 27 family-child Coerced parent-child suicide is admire in Jackson and the radical Read Your Rights suicide was reported in the L.A. suicides (four attempted) were a Japanese behavior pattern as politics he espouses? What benefit A postscript to Sandi Kawasa• Times, although suicides were re• reported in the Asahi, a national well as junshi (following one's do they see for Japanese Ameri• ki 's noteworthy article of August ported. Japanese newspaper. No ordinary lord, master or superior in death cans in linking his aspirations with 30. To get a good idea oftheir legal This year in Los Angeles, Fumi• parent-child suicide such as that out of loyalty am devotion) and ours? rights pertaining to sexual harass• ko 's coerced parent-child suicide of my friend's could be news in seppuku (disembowelment), both ment on the job, women can write was followed by a Cambodian fa• of which were once practiced by Some frank answers to these Japan. for a booklet entitled " A Working ther with marital problems and a samurai. Since many Japanese questions can help Japanese It is said that psychotic mothers Woman's Guide to Her Job Japanese American mother un• in Western countries come to think have fallen into these behavior Americans determine whether Rights. " dergoing psychiatric therapy. Ki• and to what extent they ought to of their children as a part of them• patterns, the patterns have taken Apart from the problem of sex• mura is the only one to survive. selves and kill their children in on the nature ofaccepted customs. support publications such as PC ual harassment, the booklet also Kimura's act received exten• and indeed the JACL itself. I cer• their suicide attempts. I think that However, Wetherall argued that covers federal legislation that af• sive media attention in the U.S. tainly hope my perception of PC's Japanese mothers have been re• .. there is no such custom in Ja• fects women's rights when seeking On the day of her attempt (Jan. inforced in this thinking because stance on Jackson is incorrect. a job, when they are on the job, pan." He added that Japanese 29, 1985) , the incident was broad• of social belief, cohesion and pres• parents kill their children for '·the KEN MASUGI and when they retire. Available to cast as the top story in the 11 p.m. sure. same variety ofhum an reasons as Montclair, Calif. individuals and groups at nominal KCBS news. The Evening Outlook, A Japanese Pattern cost, copies may be obtained by parents in other countries ... But I a Santa Monica paper, ran Kimu• believe that Kimura subconscious• writing to: Women's Bureau, Of• ra's story for three consecutive In Japan, a heroic, romantic and Money Can't Buy It fice of the Secretary, U. S. Dept. of esthetic aura surrounds voluntary ly fell into the Japanese behavior days, am the reporter tried to un• pattern when she became despon• The July 5 PC included an arti-'· Labor, Washington D.C. 20210. ravel the mystery of the killings. death. It is sometimes extolled. I dent. de which I wrote, advocating the ' MEl NAKANO Kimura's story appeared six explained sange no shiso (the Ja• idea of a community trust fund to Sebastopol, Calif. times in the L.A. Times. panese voluntary death philoso- Coad"""" ",,1 6--PACIFIC CITIZEN I Friday, September 20, 1985 Ding: Soldiers' Story Corttinues by J.K. Yamamoto less their rights were restored, operation and help among the MIS Loni Ding has always been dis• such as the Heart Mountain draft community. sati~fied with her documentary resisters, will be touched upon as "They've driven me every• " Nisei Soldier," which tells the well. where ...That's a lot of driving. a story of the 442nd Regimental In addition to the exploits of the lot of picking up and dropping off ombat Team. It isn't the Emmy Nisei who fought in Europe, she for me and my equipment-a lot that the mm received in April that wants to include the story of the of equipment .. .I can't do my kind bothers her, nor is it the fact that Military Intelligence Service men, of work without that kind of co• it has been seen nationally on PBS who did invaluable translation operation. " and favorably received by the Ja• work for the U.S. in the Pacific, Funding has come from Califor• panese American community. the China-Burma-India theater, nia Council for the Humanities, It's the film's " unreasonably and later, Japan during the Occu• Washington Council for the Hu• short" length that she has been pation. manities, National Endowment unhappy with. "It was never "That story really is not known. for the Humanities, and a Gug• meant to be half an hour, but that In fact, it was classified until quite genheim Foundation fellowship. was what my contract called for. recently. They were told, 'Don't But as far as production goes, Photo by Amj Kato/Visual CommunlcatlOr6 You get a grant, and they tell you tell anybody anything,' so they her main resource has been the Loni Ding during a Los Angeles interview session with MIS Nisei. what they have to have ... But it's haven't said a word until the last Nikkei community, which "fits in ----===---.:::....---~------not a story that can be told in half ten years ... Still no one has really at every point," Ding emphasizes. an hour, really. ' done their story [on mm]. So the Without the help of Nisei vets, for With that in mind, Ding has been longer version is going to show• example, "you don't have the intro Seminars offered at L.T. Health Fair working on an expanded version, case what they did." to people that you can only get not yet titled, that will include as• She feels strongly about includ• when someone else makes the LOS ANGELES-The 14th annual (noon-12:50). The seminars will pects of the Nisei soldiers' lives ing MIS men this time because, phone call for you." Little Tokyo Community Health be presented by Good Samaritan only hinted at in the first film: due largely to the official secrecy, The finished product, which Fair will be held October 5, 9 a. m.- Hospital, French Hospital, and "Their parents' history, the kind they are less well known than the Ding expects to have ready next 1 p.m., at Union Church. corner of California Hospital, respecti ely. of values ofthe family with which 442nd-in her words, "an unknown spring, should be 75 to.90 minutes 3rd and San Pedro Sts. the immigrants came ... those story, an unacknow ledged story. " long. Although she will offer it to. Free flu shots have been sepa• traditional immigrant values that To cover these various aspects PBS for possible broadcast, "I Among the free ser ices to be rately scheduled for October 26, these men drew on to do their of the JA experience, she has tra• don't say that I'm doing it for PBS offered in both English and Japa• 9:30 a.m.-1 p.m., at Japanese work." veled far and wide-to Los Angel• because the television format is nese will be electrocardiogram, American Cultural and Communi• Issei as well as Nisei are being es, the San Francisco Bay area, very constricting. I would like this vision, dental, blood pressure and ty Center, 244 S. San Pedro St. interviewed in order to explore the New York, Washington D.C., Seat• time to let the flow and pace of it podiatry checks and tips on pre• relationship between generations. tle, Sacramento, and the Califor• be more based on how I feel, as venti e health. 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FaINlE\N Sr. ( r fu ed b aus Kimura is sinful Wetherall pointed out that I ig• Japan's suicide rate ranked-10th mother-child suicide has started KIMURA and ulpable to th m. nored the subcategories of muri in the world in 1980. Compared to to decrease. The courts in Japan Continued !rom Page 5 B caus ofth e reasons, !think l coerced ) and goi (w ith consent) the rates in the 1950s, the rank is have started to punish surviving that coer ed parent-child uicide suicide. When an infant or young lower. But it still remains the first mothers harshly in their attempt• If KinlUra's act i ba ed on · 'hu• i an thnic a t. I b Ii v that if child is involved in parent-chHd in Asian countries, which have a ed coerced parent-child suicides. mani m" as Weth rall ontended, Kimura had been born and raised suicides it is understood that it is similar cultural background. They even receive sentences with• I don't und r tand why the reac• in a West rn country, her reac• homicide without muri being add• tions to Kimura's coerced par nt• out probation. tions to her husband 's betrayal ed. In this article, I have added Women's Status Coerced parent-child suicide child uieide aren't uni r al. Ki• would have taken another form . the word coerced as Wetherall The low status of women in Ja• mura's case highlighted psycho• became widely practiced in Japan As for the linguistic aspect, I suggested and found that the long pan has also contributed to the when infanticide, including fili• logical and cultural gaps between don't think that I mistranslated phrase has marred the rhythm of large number of mother-child sui• Americans and Japanese. cide , was prohibited by law almost the word shinju, in spite of Weth• my writing. cides. Women haven 't fully parti• 100 years ago. Parents couldn't When Kimura' a t was report• erall 's allegation. Shinju is an in• Since I wrote, "Suicide is re• cipated in the work force and are control the number of family ed in L.A., Angeleno didn't un• clusive word. It refers to ( 1) dou• garded as a sin in Christian belief, still expected to be good wives and members any more because of the derstand wh he killed her chil• ble uicide by 10 rand (2 any but for the Japanese it is a way to wise mothers in Japan. Most law. The more babies were born, dren. They thought that it wa uicide involving the death of ave a person f~om a living hell ," women still don't have a profes• the more the family became poor. horrible, and that h must ha e more than one pelon. Wetherall asked, "Why have some sion to assure them an independ• To eliminate unwanted babies, been a mon ter. But Japan e un• The original meaning of shinju Christian countries had consis• ent life. parents had to risk their own lives. der tood and ympathized with i a self-sacrific ing action to show tently higher suicide rates than As mothers devote themselves To escape from poverty, poor par• her, en upporting her, e en sincerity. In the 17th Century , Japan? " to their children, the line between ents corrunltted suicide and took though he i a felon suspect. shinju was adopted as a descrip• Suicide rates are affected by themselves and their children be• their children along. Coerced par• As the rea ons behind Kimura ' tive word for double uicide be• many kinds of social, psychologi• comes blurred. Among mothers ent-child suicide was once called suicide attempt were re ealed, cause risking one's own life fo r cal, cultural and economic fac• who commit or attempt parent• a poverty crime. Angelenos thought her anger 10 e was considered the culmina• tors. Religion is one of those fac• child suicide, 80C;, are housewives Japanese society has changed, hould have been directed at her tion of prov ing one's sincerity. tors. Therefore it cannot be easily who don't work and depend upon and poverty has been virtually hu ~ band becau e he betrayed h r , Distinctions Understood explained by a single factor why their husbands for survival. When eliminated. But coerced parent• not at her children. Japane e, some Christian countries show their marriage falls apart, depen• child suicide remained as a Japa• howe er' understood her coerced Around 1930 in Japan, the num• higher suicide rates than Japan. dent mothers become desperate nese behavior pattern. It is now parent-child suicide. ber of coerced parent-child sui• However, religion helps to lower and may choose to die with their triggered by marital problems or When a support group for Ki• cides dramatically increased be• suicide rates. When a religion children. illness in the family. Since it has mura was formed , the partici• cause of the Depression. At the penetrates society and prohibits However, many Japanese wom• been widely practiced by Japa• pants included persons of Japa• end of the Taisho Period (1912- suicide, the society has lower sui• en have recently become liberated nese parents for. generations in nese ancestry and two other 1926 ), the media coined the word cide rates. A good example can be and are more fmancially inde• spite of the change of society, I Asians. There were no Caucasians oyako shinju (parent-child sui• seen in the Moslem countries. pendent, so the number of coerced call it a Japanese custom. or Blacks. cide) and romanticized infanticide When asked to sign the petition accompanied by suicide. 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