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Are Foreign Exchange Students Safe? APA Political Newcomers Hope to • A Japanese girl's placement that placed the 'Turn the Tide' in Their Communities in the home of a convicted Japanese girl, say A handful of history-mak• is extremely felon has raised demands they have not vio• ing candidates across the important for criminal background lated any guide• U.S. want to become elected because "there checks. Placement agencies lines and have officials in the November is not one <;ity counter the situation is since received per• elections. or town in being overblown. mission from the America that girl's parents in By LYNDA LIN doesn't have Japan to continue Assistant Editor By CAROLINE AOYAGI-STOM CHRISTOPHER people of Asian Executive Editor her stay. And they ethnic back- This November, some Asian have the approval ground," she Should a convicted felon be Pacific Americans are hoping to of the U:S. State added. allowed to host a foreign exchange make history. Department to Christopher, student? A frrst generation APA born in the back them up. 35, is one of a That's the resounding question HAPPIER TIMES-Sally Smith's daughter United States like Supriya handful of APA after the Committee for the Safety "What prece- Jessica with Mary Vattanasiriporn (right) after Christopher not only wants to make dence does this Smith took the 16-year-old Thai girl into her home. candidates of Foreign Exchange Students change, she wants to legislate it. set? It's not a ------'------across the (CSFES), II California-based Christopher, who is Indian healthy placement ... it's uncon• felon." nation who group, recently leamed that a 16- scionable," said Danielle Grijalva, But according to Stanley American, is hoping to become the __Yl_O_O_N __ hope to enter year-old Japanese girl has been Virginia House of Delegates first director of CSFES, who recently Colvin, U.S. State Department's the political arena next month living in the St. Augustine, Florida APA member if she wins the 84th founded the committee after observ• director for the office of exchange through city and local elections. In home of a convicted felon since District seat in Virginia Beach in the ing questionable practices as a for• coordination and designation, Massachusetts, Sam Yoon, a Boston August. The committee is Nov. 8 general election. mer area representative for a foreign F.A.C.E. and its directors Richard City Council at-large candidate, is demanding her immediate She points out that Virginia exchange student placement organi~ and Beverly Moss, have not violat• also hoping to become Bean Town's removaL Beach's current legislative body is zation. "I would not have had any of ed any guidelines and the Japanese first APA elected official. Like But EA.C.E. (Foundation for . . not representative of the city's my students placed in the home of a girl will continue to stay with her Christopher, Yoon made history as Academic Cultural Exchange), the convicted felon. I would not want to host family. diverse population. Having APA organization in Gainsville, Florida representatives in local government live in the home of a convicted See STUDENTSlPage 12 See POLmCSlPage 4
The Mystique of a Geisha 1 Oregon Cove Named in Memory of 1887 Massacre Packaged, Available for Sale The site along the Snake event, the U.S. I River bore witness to a Board on !rm B..- IDAHO Cross-promotional prod• gruesome murder of Geographic Names I---i-! - ucts like geisha inspired Chinese gold miners. Now and the Oregon ! beauty products and fash• 1 its name is the only indica• Geographical ion reignites debate about tor of that history. Names Board OREGON cultural sensiti'1ty. unanimously voted ~-.,. ,--- --II-:-A-i ! By LYNDA LIN Oct. 12 to name the t.owc!folJgBar~ ... So.tRamp By LYNDA LIN Assistant Editor site after the little- I ~t ' Assistant Editor Dug eOt Landing £.;. 0 ...... t1 n __... known massacre. I - n ...... To get to the newly nanied NEZpeRCE t Two months before the film ver• Chinese Massacre Cove, you can Newly printed - Cr¢$$ingStgn SNAKE RIVER maps will now sion of ''Memoirs of Geisha" is take a boat along the Snake River to scheduled to open in theaters identify the former- Dug Bar - Salmon Hells Canyon. nationwide, studio executives and ly unnamed site. There along the shore at the retailers are already making it possi• The ominous "I believe there needs to be recog• mouth of Deep Creek in 1887 connotations weren't lost on board nition of this heinous crime, one of ble to dress, look and even smell Oregon, the water ran red with the like a geisha. officials and local residents, but the worst in the history of the blood of more than 30 Chinese gold New York-based Fresh, Inc., many say its name is an important American west, and probably the miners killed and mutilated by horse which specializes in beauty prod• nod to local history. Photo courtesy Marie Mackell thieves. To 'memorialize the tragic See MASSACRE COVElPage 2 ucts made from ingredients like soy, A Fresh display in New York. rice and sugar, unveiled a "Memoirs -- -- I The beauty collection, which in of a Geisha" inspired beauty collec• its press releases is touted to be the Planned Research Building at Fort Missoula on Hold tion in partnership with Sony marriage of the "Asian traditions of The. proposed building Historic Preservation Commission Americans were forced to live fol• Pictures Entertainment, the film's beauty" with Director Rob would have been on land initially signed off on the plan to lowing the attacks on Pear Harbor. distributor. Marshall's visual interpretation of near an historic DOJ camp build the one-story, garage-like The $100,000 building would the controversial novel by Arthur that once held JAs during structure, but the full commission house meteorologicai and hydrolog• Goiden, feature1> products like liquid wwn. rescinded that on Oct. 6 following ical research equipment for UM's bath soap enriched with sake, flower protests over the idea. geology department, including a petal face mask and a makeup face By Associated Press and P.e. Staff Opponents, including members giant water tank that simulates palette of rosy hues to celebrate the of the group Save the Fort, have ocean waves and river flow. MISSOULA-Plans to build a called the project an abuse of his• The Historic Preservation "sensual allure of the geisha," new University of Montana accoroo;.g toric land. Committee on Oct. 6 voted unani• to the Fresh' Web site. research facility at historic Fort Elongated bottles of "Memoirs The building would be construct• mously to aSk UM to submit alter- ' Missoula are on hold, and the city's ed on university-owned land near native proposals that may include of a Geisha Eau de Parlum" are historical commission is asking the • affixed with pink labels sprinkled the old quartermaster's stables and the adaptation of existing buildings university to submit alternative the fort's historic Japanese at the fort or construction of a repli• with cherry blossom drawings and plans for the structure. kanji Department of Justice camp, one of ca of the fort's historic buildings. the for "beauty," lovely' A subcommittee of the Missoula a number of camps·where Japanese See GEISHAIPage 4 See FORT MISSOULA/lJage 11 IJMiIIES VEE VISITS LA SCHOlARSHIPS 'THREE EXTREMES' Chaplain Vee launches his National JACL Three directors add their tell-all book and comes to announces over vision of terror to one Los Angeles' Little Tokyo. $60,000 in scholarships. film. Serve chilled. PAGE 3 PAGE 6 PAGE 9 2 NATIONAL NEWS PACIFIC CITIZEN, Ocr. 21·Nov. 3, 2Q05
PACIFIC CITIZEN The P.C. Heads Back to Little Tokyo P.C. 's NEW ADDRESS (As of Dec. 1,2005): 250 E. First Street, Suite 301 It gives me immense pleasure to pacificcitizen.org; 7 Cupania Circle, Los Angeles, CA 90012 Monterey Park, CA 91755 announce that the Pacific Citizen • Eva Lau-Tmg - circulation@ Tel: 3231725-0083, will be returning to Los Angeles' pacificcitizen.org; and NEW EMAIL ADDRESSES: 800/966-6157 Little Tokyo at the end of this year • General Information - pc@ Fax: 3231725-0064 Caroline Aoyagi-Stom - [email protected] after a more than decade absence. pacificcitizen.org. E-mail: [email protected] Lynda Lin [email protected] www.pacificcitizen.org As of Dec. 1, 2005, the Pacific Also, please note our publication Citizen will now be located at 250 schedule for the remainder of this Brian Tanaka - [email protected] Executive Editor: E. First St., Ste. 301, Los Angeles, year. The last . regular issue of the Eva Lau-Ting - [email protected] Caroline Y. Aoya~i-Stom CA 90012 so please make sure to P.e. for this year will be Nov. 4. The Assistant Editor: UPCOMING ISSUES: Lynda Lin note the change. Our 800-number P.e. will be moving to its new Little Office Manager: will remain the same so you can still Tokyo office during the remaining Nov. 4, 2005; December 2005 Holiday Issue; Brian Tanaka reach us at 800/966-6157. month of November. Local phone Jan. 20, 2006, New Year's Edition Circulation: Eva Lau-Ting We will be updating you of all the nurnbers and faxes will need to be Publisher: . Japanese changes, so please be sure to keep changed and the P.e. may not be MASSACRE COVE believed to' be descendents of the American Citizens League checking your P. e. . issues and of able to get to your requests and (Continued from page 1) men charged with the crime, also (founded 1929) 1765 Sutter coUrse our new Website: www.paci• questions right away. We ask for expressed disapproval of the name, Street, San Francisco, CA ficcitizen.org. Remember, our new your patience as we prepare to move worst single crime committed by but overall local oppositiop was 94115, tel: 4151921-5225 fax: Web site will have a'sampling of our whites against the Chinese who minimal, said Champ Vaughn, 4151931-4671, www.jacl.org our operations. JACL President: Ken Inouye printed stories plus calendar, obitu• In December we will have our emigrated to the American west in OGBN president. National Director: John aries, and entertainment, but the annual l20-page Holiday Issue so the latter half of the 19th century," "A massacre is a massacre," said Tateishi entire P.e. will still only be avail• please check it out. In January our said R. Gregory Nokes, an Oregon• Nokes. ''To call it anything else is Pacific Citizen Board of able through our hard copies. So special New Year's issue will be based retired journalist and author dishonest. Some people in Wallowa Directors: Gil Asakawa, chair• check out the Web site and encour• published Jan. 20, 2006. Regular of "Hells Canyon Massacre." County may not want to acknowl• person; Roger Ozaki, EOC; But the crime was never fully edge that such a heinous crime Casey China, MOC; Grace age your friends and families to sub- . issues of the P.e. will return in Kimoto, CCOC; Valerie scribe to the P. e. February 2006. investigated, said Nokes. The occurred in their county, so they Yasukochi, NCWNPDC; Ann You can now reach the P.e. staff The P. e. will be going through tragedy was "lost in the fog of his to• want to avoid calling it what it was. Fujii-Undwall," PNWDC; Larry at the following e-mail addresses: some new and exciting changes ry" and buried beneath the area's If the name is morbid, it's not nearly Grant, IDC; Alayne Yonernoto, • Caroline Aoyagi - editor@ over the next couple of months and sparse hackberry trees until records so as the crime itself." PSWOC; Maya Yamazaki, youth. pacificcitizen.org; we thank you for your patience and were uncovered in an old Wallowa Even with the name approved and • Lynda Lin - assteditor@ continued support! County safe in 1995. entered into the nation's official r------, pacificcitizen.org; ~rI~-~ The killing began May 27, 1887, automated database, it is up to the NEWS/AD DEADLINE: according to one account, when a discretion of local jurisdiction and FRIDAY BEFORE DATE • Brian Tanaka - busmgr@ Executive Editor OF ISSUE. . group of anned men on the cliffs the private sector to include or Editorials, news and the fired down on a group of Chinese exclude the name on documents and opinions expressed by COl• WASHINGTON WINDOW miners camped along the river. The maps, said Roger L. Payne, execu• umnists other than the killing continued until the next day tive secretary of the U.S. Board on national JACL president or A Critical Role national director do not when the killers left with their pock• Geographic Names. But Payne necessarily reflect JACL By FLOYD MORI nent in the civil rights arena at the ets lined with stolen gold. Body added most follow the federal board JACL Dir. of Public Policy policy. Events and prod• moment are: 1. the form and sub• parts were reported to be seen weeks guidelines. ucts advertised in the stance of the revisions to the U,S.A. later floating on the Snake River and The next step is to have Secretary Pacific Citizen do not carry When I accepted the position as Patriot Act; 2. the upcoming renewal the implicit endorsement of along the river's slopmg cliffs. of the Interior G~e Norton sign off Director of Public Policy for JACL, of various provisions to the Voting the JACL or this publica• Six Wallowa County men were on the name, a step that Vaughn calls I had only a vague idea of what the Rights Act; 3. proposals to amend tion. We reserve the right to : charged with murder, but only three very automatic. Some feel the name general objec• edit articles. ~ : immigration law; 4. passage of a L ______were tried and acquitted. 11rree oth• is the first step in the right direction tives and duties more effective Hate Crime law; and ers fled on horseback and were of making right a past wrong. PACIFIC CITIZEN (ISSN: 0030- would be. 5. the form and substance of various 8579) is published semi-month• never captured. Two years later, "It was a rare opportunity to After two Social Security reform measures that ly except once in January and Congress paid $276,619.75 to the imprint history in a true and respect• montks of on• are being discussed. December by the Japanese Chinese government as "full indem• ful way;" said Micki Kawakami, a American Citizens League, 7 the-job train• Much of my time will be spent nity" for the crime, according to tlie member of the JACL Pocatello• Cupania Circle, Monterey Park, ing, I am confi• helping to influence legislation in Associated Press. Blackfoot and Sawtooth chapters. CA 91755. OFFICE HOURS• dent that JACL these crucial areas that will be posi• Mon.-Fri., 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m. Racially charged crimes against "I'm pleased that the name of has a critical tive for JACL members. Pacific Time. ©2005. Chinese workers were common dur• 'Chinese Massacre Cove' will reflect role in Washington, D.C. politics and The Camp Preservation bill that is Annual subscription rates: ing the time when the American the history of the place accurately." can make a positive impact on pub• being carried by Congressman Bill NON-MEMBERS: 1 year-$35, West was being forged, added Championing historically accurate payable in advance. Additional lic policy. Thomas is an important priority on postage per year - Foreign It has been heartening to see sev-. JACL's legislative agenda. A com• Nokes who along with Jeff Ford, names is a cause that Kawakami and . periodical rate $25; First Class eral former JACL Washington staff panion bill was introduced on the former chairman of the Idaho other members of the Committee to for U.S., Canada, Mexico: $30; members being very visible and Senate side by Senators Daniel Geographic Names Advisory Change "Jap" Road (CCJR) know Airmail to Japan/Europe: $60. doing a great job in tackling the Council, and Dr. Priscilla Wegars, well. The cotpmittee, which success• (Subject to change without Inouye, Daniel Akaka, and Robert adYocated to memorialize the site. notice.) Periodicals postage Asian American issues facing the Bennett. fully campaigned last year to change paid at Monterey Park, Calif., nation. Karen Narasaki is the outspo• We were very fortunate to have "Using 'Chinese Massacre Cove' racist road names in Texas, works to and at additional mailing offices. ken and articulate leader of the Congressman Thomas, who is chair• for the name of this location enables erase racist names and celebrate Permission: No part of this National Asian Pacific American man of the powerful Ways and people in perpetuity to remember American history. publication may be reproduced Legal Consortium, while Paul Means committee, champion this the ill-treatment onc~ accorded to Kawakami hopes to visit Chinese without express permission of Igasaki, recently a commissioner for the Chinese in the West, both in Massacre Cove one day and listen to the publisher. Copying for other bill through the House. Preserving Oregon and in many other places," the whispers in the Snake River. than personal or internal refer• EEOC, is the leader of the Rights the camp sites in the view of many is I ence use without the express Working Group. Bob Sakaniwa is an a more important accomplishment said Wegars, who is the volunteer "[I] hope that field trips of Oregon permission of PC. is prohibited. effeCtive legislative staff member for than Redress because they feel there coordinator of the University of school children will lead them to POSTMASTER: Send address Congressman Mike Honda. Each will be a lasting educational tool Idaho's Asian American Chinese Massacre Cove and to learn changes to: Pacific Citizen, c/o plays an important role in assuring from which future generations can Comparative Collection. an ffi:1portant facet of their state's his• JACL National Headquarters, our community has representation in leam. The Oregon Geographical Name tory," she said.• 1765 Sutter St., San Francisco, CA 94115. Ride along critical policy making discussions. Another initiative we are seriously Board (OGNB) approved the name enclosed. Kristine Minami,' former JACL. considering as a major JACL pro• in Jun~ despite some disapproval PACIFIC CITIZEN director of public policy, continues gram is participating in the rolling voiced from members of the I to be a support to this office. out of the new Medicare Prescription Wallowa County Board of 7 Cupania Circle JACL MEMBERS _ It seems that there are many on• Monterey Park, CA 91755 program. If we undertake this proo Commissio'ners, who were not in t.ax:3231725~ Change of Address . going and soon-to-be-debated leg• gram, we will be asking our chapters . favor of giving that name to the site e-mail: [email protected] islative issues that will impact mem• www.pacificcitizen.org you have moved, to be a resource in educating and dis• because they felt there would be too If bers of JACL. I am almost over• * Except for the National Director's tributing information to our senior much emphasis on one negative Report, news and the views please send information whelmed with the information that members and to other Asian Pacific event. expressed by columnists do not nec• inte~et to: flows back and forth on the American communities to help our "Of course we do not want to be essarily reflect JACL policy. The and in face-to-face meetings that members and communities take columns are the personal opinion of National JACL known as the site of this regrettable the writers. help all of us to formulate our 1765 Sutter St. greater advantage of this program event," said Commissioner Ben * 'Voices" reflect the active, public dis• approach to solving the problems we that will become available soon. Boswell. "And yet we do not intend • cussion within JACL of a wide range of ideas and issues, though they may not San Francisco, CA face. It is apparent that our task is huge to whitewash it. We believe that There is a "civil rights communi• reflect the viewpoint of the editorial 94115 but our desire and commitment are there was more to the Chinese expe• bOard of the Pacific Citizen. Allow 6 weeks for address ty" that meets often on al] critical larger. We will require the participa• rience . than this negative incident. * "Short expressions" on public issues. JACL has been a pioneer in issues, usually one or two paragraphs, changes. tion of all of our chapters in helping Consequentiy we favor naming the the development of this working should include Signature, address and to educate their Congressmen on site Chinese Memorial Site. This daytime phone number. Because of To avoid interruptions in receiving coalition of organizations which has how important these issues are to us. would give the opportunity to inter• space limitations, letters are subject to your please notify your pa;t• abridgement. Although we are unable P.c.. grown in numbers as more organiza• I look forward to working with the pret all of the Chinese experience in master to include periodicals in tions see the value of working . to print all the letters we receive, we chapters in advocating the goals and the area, not just the negati\ e one." appreciate the interest and views of your change of address CUSPS together. Form 3575) objectives of JACL. • Some residents, who were those who take the time to send us The issues that. are most promi- their comments. PACIFIC CITIZEN OCT. 21-Nov. 3, 2005 NATIONAL NEWS 3 'f had the unique position of being very close to the. detainees, on a personal level, a level no National Newsbytes one else had with the detainees. ' - James Yee . By RC. Staff and Associated Press Muslim Chaplain Recalls Ordeal of Guantanamo in New Book In Wake of Hunter Killings, By BEN FOX York, where he was promoting his U.S. military holds about 500 men State DNR Runs Safety Ads Associated ~ book, "For God and Country," suspected of links to terrorism. WAUSAU, Wis.-The state plans to run radio and television announce• which wel}.t on sale recentl)l, "I don't Yee said he believes many of the ments this fall about hunters' property rights and how conflicts in the woods SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico-Army want what happened to me to ever detainees who numbered 660 wqen can be handled safely, after six deer hunters in northern Wisconsin were Capt. James Yee had just arrived at happen to anyone else." he was there were foot soldiers with killed in a confrontation over trespassing. the U.S. prison for terror suspects at In the book, Yee, 37, wrote that "minimal" intelligence value and no The state Department of Natural Resources produced the 30-second pub• Guantanamo his concern about the conditions at connection to the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks. lic-service spots to remind hunters to know where they are hunting, and to I Bay when he the prison developed within weeks advise hunters that it's best to avoid conflict by reporting any problems to got his first of his arrival in November 2002 "The people down in law enforcement officials and let them deal with it, said TIm Lawhern, the hint of trou• after he became acquainted with the Guantanamo probably know as ble. detainees who confIded in him much about Osatna bin Laden and agency's hunter education coordinator. I Last month, a jury convicted Chai s'oua Yang, 37, a Hmong immigrant "This is because of their shared faith. al-Qaida ... as any private in the military would know what's going from St. Paul, Minn_, of six counts of first-degree intentional homicide and not a friendly "I had the unique position of on insid~ the Pentagon," he said. • three counts of attempted homicide in the Nov. 21 slayings on private hunt• environment being very close to the detainees, on for Muslims, ing land in southern Sawyer County. a personal level, a' and I don't A recent psychiatrist report said Yang had a history of suicidal and homi• level no one else had just mean for wiili the detainees," cidal thoughts dating back two decades or mo~_ Yang is to be sentenced Vee to Speak In Little Tokyo Oct. 23 the prison• Nov. 8, just days before the Nov. 19 opening of this year's nine-day deer sea• Yee said. ers," Yee recalled hearing from the The guards would son. outgoing chaplain. "You need to . harass prisoners, mock' Rape a Growing Problem in Hmong Community watch your back." their religion and use The exchange, which Yee unnecessary force at MINNEAPOLIS-Sexual assault in the Hmong community is a growing recounts in a new book on his expe• the slightest infraction. • problem, according to the Star Tribune. Scores of Hmong girls in Minnesota riences at Guantanamo, would The detainees, he - some not yet in their teens - have been raped or forced into prostitution Patriotism prove to be prophetic. wrote, were also not over the past several years, and many of their attackers are gang members F.ire." The new chaplain soon grew provided with enough who go unpunished because shame keeps their victims from coming for- I Yee will speak on increasingly disturbed by the treat• books or other activi• 8t2p.~ ward. Oct '23 at the ment of prisoners and what he per• ties, given inadequate Japan~ Records show that the Hmong girls, many of them runaways, have been .. Ameriean Cultural & Community - ceived as military hostility to opportunities to show- t raped at Twin Cities area farms, motel rooms, basements, garages and clos• Cen et:.m1-ittle l'Ok)rQ. The bo9k signing pro- Muslim personnel at the base. Yee's er considering · the gram is sPOnSored. by Nikkei for Civil Rights ets. Some were threatened at gunpoint. Some were lured with drugs. biggest shock came later, when he harsh tropical heat and .. and Redl:e$$ (NCAA) wbjch isinVQ}ved in civil Police, schools and the community are taking action to help young was arrested on suspicion of espi• subjected to bodily rigllt$ l:\llds-ocial justice issues: Hmong girls who may have suffered from such brutality. Nearly all of the onage and held in solitary confIne• searches that violated The Oct. 23 program is co-sponsored by ilie victims were young_ Eighty-one of the 97 were charged with attacks against ment for 76 days. their religion. Asian Pacific AmeticaD Legal Center. Councll victims 15 and younger. The case unraveled and authori• The military has on American Islamic Relations - Civil Rights ties eventually dismissed the made extensive Fund"JACLiPSWD, Muslim PUblic Affirirs Killers of Chinese Food charges. Yee received an honorable changes to the deten• Council" the Organization 'of Chinese Deliveryman Still Unidentified ' discharge from the service and now tion center since Yee American$ (LA. and Orange County chapters). NEW YORK-Detectives are still searching for the two men responsible lives in Washington state, but he last saw it in the Southern California Library and the Islamic for the murder of a Chinese food deliveryman in the Bronx. was left with deep concerns about September 2003 and Shura council. Sahua Chen, 52, died Oct. 11 at a local medical center a day after he was the treatment of prisoners in the has improved condi• In addition to Little Tokyo, Yee will speak at shot in the eye during a struggle with two men inside the lobby of an apart• U.S_ war on terror and anger over tions for those prison• ilie Southern California «Library, 6120 S. ment building in the Melrose section. Chen, who worlced for a nearby take• his own treatment at the hands of ers deemed compliant . V~qtt\ye:,onOct.22at 2 p.m.. KPFK(90.7 ,__ ~ out restaurant, was apparently robbed after making a leg!.timate $9 food military authorities. allowing some to live .FM) onOi£ '2S at· 8 a.m., and at campuses delivery on the second floor. "What happened to me was a communally and pre• throughout the southland For details about City groups and leaders are offering a $3,000 reward for information lead• gross miscarriage of justice," he pare their own meals. Yee's tour, contact NCRR at 213/68()...3484 or ing to Chen's killers .• said in a phone interview from New At Guantanamo, the log on to WWW.IlCrr-1a.org •• P ' _ J~ ' ". ," .... s· · , ~',,- . . ,. A. . "., . '. ... Utah Minority Bar Honors State's First 50 Minority Lawyers in the The Utah Minority Bar 1909. Pioneering Minority News Association recognized ground• Among the APAs honored were Attorneys in Utah breakers in the legal fIeld at '''The Third District Court Judge .. First 50 - Celebrating Diversity in . Raymond S. Uno. A native of By Pacific Citizen Staff the Law," a fIrst-ever gala event Ogden, Uno was interned in the 1. Lawrence Marsh* Oct. 15 at the Grand America 2. T.S. Grasty* Aragoncillo Charged with Hotel. 3. David H. Oliver* . Stealing Classified Documents It was an opportunity for the 4. Yoshio Katayama* Leandro Aragoncillo, one of the highest-ranking community to celebrate diversity in 5. Mas Yano* Filipino Americans in the U.S. government, faces up the law and to applaud the efforts 6. Jimi Mitsunaga to 25 years in prison if convicted of charges of acting of the "First 50" forerunners who ~ a spy for a. foreign government or official. have paved the way for so many . 7. Robert Mukai*. Aragoncillo, who had a top-secret security clear• others. 8. Raymond S. Uno ance, was arrested last month for allegedly taking clas• The list of the distinguished 9. Henry Adams sified documents from computers in Vice President "First 50" group - which includes 10.Toshio Harunaga Dick Cheney's office and the FBI and sending them to African American, Asian 11. Kenneth M. opposition leaders in the Philippines. American, Hispanic, and Native American lawyers - was com- Hisatake* Tanabara to be Honored piled using admission dates to the , ... 12.·Kent T. Yano by Sister City Committee Utah State Bar. The list ranges over '0 , ",. 13. Glenn K. Iwasaki Ruth Nomura Tanabara, 97, will be recognized at the Oct. 29 Japan• a 71-year . period from 1909 to Heart Mountain Internment Camp 14. Thomas G. Nelford America Society of Minnesota St. Paul-Nagasaki Sister City Committee 1980. for over three years during World 15. Larry J. EchoHawk (SPNSCC). Only 12 minority attorneys were War II. He served in the U.S. Army 16. Stephen I. Oda Tanabara, a founding member of SPNSCC and a long-time Twin Cities admitted in Utah before 1971. Military Intelligence,which helped 17. Eunice Chen JACL member, was already honored at the August SPNSCC 50th year cel• Despite the adversity faced by the prepare him for his legal career. ebration. Tanabara served as SPNSCC president. from 1966-72. She was "First 50," they have made a mark With no minority attorney mentors, Buckland awarded the 2000 Walter Mondale Award for outstanding contributions to on the legal profession. The Uno started his own legal journey 18. Steven Lee Payton understanding ~tween Japan and Minnesota. keynote speaker of the event was by graduating from the University 19. Melvin H. Martinez St. Paul Mayor Randy Kelly declared Aug. 20, 2005, as "Ruth Tanabara the Hon. Christine M. Durham, of Utah College of Law in 1958. 20. Armando R. Ibanez Day." chief justice of the Utah Supreme He was the co~founder and first 21. Mary Ellen Sloan Court. Durham has been on the president of the Utah Minority Bar 22. Michael N. Martinez APA Alumnus to be Recognized by Universities Utah Supreme Court since 1982 Association. The University Service Award was presented to George Nakano, a for• and has served as Chief Justice Founded in 1991, the Utah 23. Kevin J. Kurumada mer assembly member for the Califomia State Legislature, at the 32nd since 2002 Minority Bar Association is an 24. Herbert Yazzie Annual Cal State Los Angeles Alumni Awards Gala Oct. 20. Nakano was Lawrence Marsh, the fIrst known organization of Utah lawyers com- 25. Frank Nakamura one of the fIrst and highest ranked APAs in the State Legislature. minority attorney in Utah, was mitted to promoting diversity and 26. Howard H. Maetani Anh Do, a joumalist and CFO of the U.S.'s largest Vietnamese language honored posthumously. He was addressing issues that impact racial • Indicates deceased newspaper was also recognized by her alma mater, the University of admitted to the State Bar and ethnic minorities, especially Southern Califomia, with its first OVAtion award Oct. 13. • Association of Utah on July 1, within the legal community.• 4 NATIONAL NEWS PACIFIC CITIZEN, Ocr. 21-Nov. 3,2005 POLITICS "I find that amazing," said Christopher and Yoon are needed to Chu, president of an investment degree from the University of represent the changing faces of cities management firm, was elected to Houston (Continued from page 1) MalUmoto. "We as Asian Americans have the . across the US. Rye City Council in 2001. He is a A native Houstonian, Lee is a tax the firstAPA to run for elected office least representation," said ''When we reflect back to 10-20 member of the planning commission, lawyer and certified public account• the audit committee and a trustee of in his city. Christopher, who if elected will years ago, the number [of elected ant currently serving as an associate the Rye Police Pension Fund. Both candidates hope to join the make one of her top priorities APAs] were way down," said general counsel in the legal depart• More info: wwwJranklinchu.com elite list of recent California history• recruiting more APAs to enter poli• Marumoto. ment of AlG/American General. He makers like San Jose's first tics. "It's about time we have represen• Jay Aiyer is also on the boards of Children at Risk and Houston Media Source, Vietnamese American city council This is Christopher's first venture tation, We have to go forward, Our Democrat Running for: More info: www.markleeforhous• member Madisbn Nguyen and into politics. She is the president of time has come," said Christopher.• Houston City ton. com Torrance City Councilmember Ted her own writing business, For more infonnation: Council at Large Lieu, who last month defeated Christopher Corporate Jason Jackson www.electchristopherdelegate.com Pos.2. Republican Republican opponents to gain a seat Communications, and a former & www.samyoon.com Education: Running for: El on the 53rd Assembly District. broadcaster with a radio version of Bachelor's Central City Many regard local level govern• USA Today and an ABC affiliate in More APA Political Hopefuls degree from the University of Texas, Council in Calif. ment like city council and school Mississippi. But the odds are Across the nation on Nov. 8, these Austin & law degree from South Education: board seats as important spring• stacked against her - Christopher candidates are hoping to represent Texas College of Law Degrees in crimi• boards to state and federal levels. is squaring off against a veteran their respective communities. Here is An attorney specializing in immigra• nal justice admin• Current Secretary of Transportation Republican for a seat in a a snapshot ofsome ofthese leaders. * tion and public law, Aiyer also works istration from San Diego State, Norman Mineta, the late Republican male-dominated House,' JunChoi as a private management consultant. Imperial Valley Canlpus, in Congressman Bob Matsui and of Delegates, a feat she says is chal• Democrat The Houston native has worked with Calexico & a master's degree 10 Congressman Mike Honda all lenging, but as a former Army offi• Running for: Deloitte and Touche, LLP, the Texas public administration. began their political careers as city cer, she's not intimidated. Mayor of Edison, Senate and the city of Dallas. In Jackson's career in the public safety councilmen, school board members "I learned a long time ago how to New Jersey 200 1, he was elected to the Board of , sector affords him the opportunity to Trustees of the Houston Community or planning commissioners. hang out with the boys," she said, Education: work with a cross section of public College System, becoming the first "It's at the city level where you adding that she'd like to invite all Bachelor's agencies, small local businesses and degree from MIT APA to serve on the board. make the strongest local impact," the pundits writing off her election corporate officers of national firms. & Master's degree in public policy More info: www.jayforhouston.com said William H. (Mo) MarunlOto, bid as a loss to her election party. . He is active in the JACL serving as from Columbia University local chapter president, the execu• president and CEO of the Asian ''We are going to turn the tide in Mark Lee Democrat tive board of its Pacific Southwest Pacific American Institute for Virginia Beach." In the June 7 primary election, Choi defeated the three-term incumbent Running for: district and the national personnel Congressional Studies (APAICS). Yoon, a Korean American from mayor, but he is better known as the Houston City committee. He is also the finance "I think if we make an impact at the Dorchester, is also a political rookie. victim of racist remarks made on-air Council, Dist. C chairinan of the Boy Scouts Desert local levels we'd have more APAs A Harvard educator and business• by New Jersey radio hosts, Craig Education: Trails District and a former Eagle in Congress." man who was most recently the Carton and Ray Rossi of NJ101.5 Bachelor's Scout. Every year, APAICS and the development director of the Asian FM (WKXW-FM). The remarks degree from • List does Iwl inelude all APA conditklles nllming UCLA Asian American Students Community Development drew outrage from the APA commu• University of Texas, Austin & law in local, stale level offices. Department track and publish a Corporation in Chinatown, Yoon nity 'and lead to an on-air apology directory of APA politicians. told local reporters his lack of a from the hosts. According to last year's study, there political background is an asset in More info: www.junchoi.com. are about 2,000 APAs in office at the working as an advocate for resi• Franklin Chu state and local levels. Marumoto dents. Independent notes that of the roughly 100 con• Yoon placed a strong fifth in the Running for: gressional districts with an APA preliminary elections despite Mayor of Rye, population of five or more percent,· Boston's history of being dominated New York there are only four APAs in by white politicians, Education: Yale Congress in the mainland. Many say strong candidates like and Harvard
GEl hip 0 anything from the geisha tion for Japanese culture and those world," said Mockett, who also things that exemplify its beauty and (Continued from page 1) points out that a real Japanese serenity," said Tateishi. "But in real• images inspired by the film's use of geisha's lipstick is a very specific ity, what they've done is to bas• flowing kimonos. product in Japan. "It is paint found tardize those qualities by a kind of Design influences are seen again inside a shell and applied with a stereotyping that pretends to capture in Banana Republic's newly blUSh. The items sold by Fresh don't the essence of beauty in Japanese launched line of "Memoirs of a look at all like anything a true geisha culture," Geisha" fashion wear, a limited edi• would use." But others argue that movies are a tion collection of ''uniquely wear• In reality, geisha makeup or Neri• work of fiction meant to capture fan• able pieces with subtle Asian influ• Oshiroi is paper white, but none of tasy rather than the truth. ence." The fashion line includes the Fresh products come that pale. "On the other hand, we are only mostly silk and velvet floral tops It's what can happen when cul• talking about make-up, and perhaps and dresses with kimono-style sash• tures borrow from each other, What I should lighten up!" said Mockett, es, ribbons, and tassels - fashion gets lost in the cultural re-interpreta• Fresh beauty products can be advertised as "East Meets West." tions often becomes the focal point found online, at Bath and Body The movie is yet to be screened, of debate within cbmmunities being Works chain stores and other high• but the season of cross-promotion borrowed from and being represent• end retailers. And with the national has already begun. In the big busi• ed, presence of Banana Republic - ness of movies, promotions like With ''Memoirs of a Geisha," the w1lich is also offering as a part of its these are needed to generate the nec• cultural tug-of-war started as far "Memoirs of a Geisha" campaign a essary buzz for the film's release back as 1999 when the book by chance to win a trip to Tokyo to and studios often look for products Golden started a debate about the attend the film's premiere - and the that dovetail with the fIlm's appeal. portrayal of geishas as high-priced push for the movie, all things geisha But what happens when cross-pro• prostitutes. In the book, a work of will soon be available for purchase. motional products endorse the same fiction inspired by real-life geisha Neither Fresh nor Banana . messages that the Asian Pacific Mineko Iwasaki, the light-eyed Republic responded to the P. C. S heroine Sayriri auctions off her vir• questions regarding their research of for: ealifarnia American community has been debating as stereotypical as far back ginity. It was a point of contention real geisha culture. A Sony represen• as when the "Memoirs of a Geisha" that Iwasaki herself called defama• tative said in an e-mail that they "are tion injurious enough to sue the happy to respond" to the question of JACL 'Members book was first introduced? "I've been to many spas iIi Japan author and publisher in 2001. the movie's cultural sensitivity, and don't remember ever bathing in The idea that the geisha is a pros• which he pointed out had been ~{EB~ anytlting containing sake," said titute is a common rnisperception; addressed in mainstream media, but Marie Mutsuki Mockett, a New many argue, exacerbated by tradi• had not responded by press time, An affordable plan, designed for the York-based writer who blogs about tions of Orientalism, Especially in ''It remains to be seen what kind Japanese popular culture including Hollywood where Asian women of message this movie and these "next generation" of JACL member. the geisha inspired Fresh beauty have historically been fetish sym• beauty products will send to a gener• products on www.mariemockett. bols of exotic and mysterious for• al audience. The message is already Also choose from HMO and PPO plans. blogspot.com. eigners. imbued in the names of the various The products, she said, are clear• JACL Executive Director John products \.¥ith their exotic names and Call the JACL Health Benefits Administrators at ly created on perceptions of quintes• Tateishi says the old Hollywood descriptions, It's a message that sentially Japan~se things not to shed sentiment of Orientalism is alive as seems to want to [describe the] 1.800.400.6633 light on true Japanese beauty well as evident in the promotional Japanese as exotic, as a mystique of secrets. products, the Orient," said Tateishi. "If these or visit "These 'Memoirs of a Geisha' "What strikes me is a curiosity products are a preview of the movie, Blue Shield products don't really look Japanese that the producers of these products then we have a challenge before us." . ofCalilornia www.jaclhealth.org /:..:: Indepel1dent \~err·ber Jap~:)~;,;tl Amerit;:tn seem to want to reflect an admira- B~ue .:;~O:~ldt:on and don't have a concrete relation- • • of the Shield t.. Citi?I>p,'r leag:..:p PACIFIC CITIZEN, OcTo 21-Novo 3, 2005 COMMUNITY NEWS 5
JACLers AtteOnd Gala Dinner 'Elegant Pursuits 2005' o Ventura County Chapter Celebrates Culture Day
Yokozuna Musashimaru made a special guest appearance .at the Ventura County JACL chapter's 15th annual Japanese Culture Day program recently. He is the second foreign-born grand sumo champi• on to hold the title of Yokozuna and is on a special tour to promote o PHOTO: MARGIE MUKAI I JACLer~ recently attend the gala dinner "Elegant Pursuits 2005" at the Ruth & Sherman Lee Institute for sumo. Pictured (I-r):, Musashimaru, Ellen Matsuo, event chairperson, Japanese Art at the Clark Center in Hanford, Calif. Pictured (I-r) are: Thaya Mune Craig (NCWNP district and Andrew Freund, director of the American Sumo Associatiotl. gov.); Edwin Endow (national v.p./ membership); Debby Endow (Stockton); Bob Taniguchi (Livingston• Merced); Bobbi Hanada (CC district gov.); Sidney Mukai (Selma); Makoto Yamanaka (Consulate General GLAS Awards Hana Uno ~ of Japan); Reiko Yoshino (Danville); Milo Yoshino (Danville); Mrs. Yamanaka; and founder Bill Clark. Shepard Memorial Scholarships Diablo Valley JACL Announces Scholarship Winners
The JACL Greater L.A. Singles motivated her to strive harder. chapter recently awarded the She ranked tenth in her class at Hana Uno Shepard Memorial Narbonne High School and is Scholarships to Marisa Kimura headed to UCLA. and Ami Takahashi. The $1,000 Takahashi, a senior a Pioneer At a recent luncheon, the Diablo Valley JACL chapter awarded scholarships to five deserving students for scholarship is awarded annually High School in Whittier, finished their academic excellence and community involvement. The recipients were: (pictured, I-r) Ezechimere A. o to a deserving high school grad• second in her class and will also Wachuku, one of this year's Dr. Yoshiye Togasaki special awardees; Brandon Endo, chapter scholarship uate from a single-parent home. be attending UCLA to major in awardee; Minh Nguyen, George S. Fujioka Memorial Scholarship; Ken Russell Coelho, second Dr. Yoshiye Kimura, of Gardena, said wit- 0 Microbiology, Immunology and Togasaki special awardee; and Daniella C. Poy-Wing, Dr. Yoshiye Togasaki Scholarship. nessing her mother's struggles Molecular Genetics.
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My have been a road to medical school has been an Through my undergraduate work, member for at Sho Sato Memorial Henry & Chiyo unusual one, but throughout my I developed a strong conviction in least 15 years. Miki Anne Kainijyo Kuwahara Memorial experiences in community service the fundamental relationship I am writing a feature length story Washington, D.C. Chapter Emily Momohara and college, teaching and working in between Ethnic Studies and commu• about JAs growing up in Hawaii. I American University Sawtooth Chapter Japan, and working in documentary nity struggles. I also have written two scripts about Law University of Kansas television on JA histories, the one was involved internment in Topaz, Utah. I have Expanded Media constant has been by involvement in with several just completed a documentary about I have learned a great deal about the JA and AAPI communities. multiracial and my grandfather, who helped start the human rights while in law school The Nikkei community has When I think of the Sacramento AA grassroots JACL Credit Union in Salt Lake and I believe the school offen. a lot blessed me in many ways. From my chapter of the JACL, the late Mr. community• City. This past year I was on the of amazing talent and knowledge in home in Kansas, I cannot give back Toko Fujii immediately comes to based organi• Nihon Matsui Committee assisting the issues of as much as I mind, a man of vigor and sprite unre• zations, all of wiili various tasks involving a film human • and . would like. vealing his age. Although I only which were festival for the Matsui. We show• civil rights. I However, I try knew him for a short time, he focused on using political education cased the talents of many young JA hope to contin• in whatever remains one of my role models, and as a strategic tool for empowerment and other AA filmmakers. I believe ue working in ways possible. I aspire, like him, to continue my and mobilization of people of color. that ability is nothing without oppor• this field not In 2005, I will work in the JA and AAPI communi• As a gra~uate student and later as a tunity. The JACL scholarship pro• only during my serve again as ty in the future with JACL and other professional academic, I plan to con• gram really does help open doors to legal education the Friend of philanthropic organizations for. tinue pursuing community-based opportunity. but also into Minidoka many years to come. research in the ftelds of AA and JA my professional career as a practi• (FOM) president. As ptesident, I am Studies. Going forward, as a scholar• LAW & ARTS tioner. I have an opportunity through focusing on unitinKthe Nikkei com• Railroad & Mine activist within the academy, it is my one of my law school's programs to munity organization in the planning Workers Memorial hope that my research, scholarship, Thomas T. Hayashi interact with delegates from of the 3rd annual Minidoka Kathryn Taketa and teaching will always be ground• Memorial Japanese law schools. As a JA, I will Pilgrimage. My goals in life and art Honolulu Chapter ed in community struggles for racial Kristine Minami discuss with the Japanese students are firmly rooted in cultural under• National College of and social justice. In my view, that is San Francisco Chapter the civil and human rights issues that standing and equality. I believe that Naturopathic Medicine what the Ethnic Studies project was Georgetown University we face in this country and, hopeful• through community ' service and Mt Sacramento Chapter were few other I opportunity to chapters, I am excited for the oppor• Stanford University . A PAs. FIN;L'XCL\L l\II) work with a tunities to get involved with JACL's Medicine However, when my family moved to group of dedi• various arts activities and contribut• Noriliem California, it was easy and Abe & Esther Hagiwara cated, experi• ing my time as an artist. Having grown up in Sacramento fun to be an active part of the com• Student Aid Award enced individ• attending the munity. Now, I am the co-president uals and On behalf of the natioTUlI JACL, Todd Maetani Sacramento of the APA Graduate Student become more Scholarship Committee Chair David Downtown Los Angeles Chapter Buddhist Collective at the University of involved in the Kawamoto would like to thank the USC Church on Chicago. My dissertation is on the JA community. The officers really San Diego and the BerkeLey chap• Theater Arts Sundays and postwar resettlement of JAs and the went out of their way to make me ters for their significant assistance ethnically redevelopment of San Francisco feel welcome and share with me the with the 2005 TUltionill scholarship Family heavily influences my diverse Japantown. As I do now, I intend to rich history of ilie Sacramento chap• program. BerkeLey chapter volun• involvement with the JACL. My schools, I have continue to participate in the APA ter. I have gained a deep respect and teers were Ron TaTUlka (chair), Dr. grandfather Yukus ·Inouye and my always had the fortune of being a community thfough both my aca• appreciation for our ciVil rights Mark Fujikawa, Gordon Kono, Neal father Howard Maetani have been small part of a greater Japanese demic work and off-campus organization and I jumped at the Ouye, Lauren Sasaki, Sarah Sasaki, PACIFIC CITIZEN, Ocr. 21-Nov. 3, 2005 NATIONAL ]ACL SCHOlARSHIPS/SPORTS 7 GOLF Wie Disqualified for Bad Drop During Third Round By DOUG FERGUSON Michael APSports Bamberger, a reporter for Sports . PALM DESERT, Calif.- Illustrated, told MicheUe Wie's pro debut made her tour officials that look like an amateur Oct. 16 when he was concerned she was disqualified for taking a bad about the drop. drop from the bushes in the third Rules officials Jim round of the Samsung World Haley and Robert Championship. Talk about a rude O. Smith reviewed welcome less than two weeks after tape from NBC The bank of no-fee equity a~counts" tumingpro. . Sports before tak• First, Annika Sorenstam blew ing Wie and caddie has no annual fee away the field to win by eight shots, Greg Johnston to offers competitive rates with no points or closing costs even with a double bogey on the last the seventh green hole. after the tourna• provides the freedom to use the full amount now or later Then, the 16-year-old Wie no ment ended Oct. sooner had signed for a 74 to finish 16. aUows early pay pffs of batall~es without penalty fourth - $53,126 - that LPGA "If I had to make leaves all the equity for the customer. • Tour officials took her out to the the ruling based on seventh hole to discuss a drop she the videotape, to Invest in you. took the day before. me it was inconclu• Nearly two hours later, she was sive," Smith said. Michelle Wie waves after saving par on the fourth disqualified for signing an incorrect He had Johnston hole in the final round of the LPGA Samsung scorecard. Because Wie dropped the and Wie show him Championship at 'Bighom Golf Club in Palm ball closer to the hole - by 3 inch• where the ball was Desert. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon) es according to her, by about a foot in the bushes, then according to the rules officials - where they dropped. They paced it from where her ball was in the bush, ApjIly_ tot your no-foe. "" pmu. .... dosl/lf COMMENTARY their lives and futures at risk, not The JAs who fought in WWII U.S. Army. Their experiences in thinking of the consequences, not did more than just help win the WWII made it possible for Asian Honoring Our Veterans knowing how their strength, quiet . original war on terror. They paved a Americans to serve their country honor, and dignity would one day road for generations to come and without the stigma of segregation. By HEIDI TANAKATSUBO combat units made for our COUIitry, serve as a beacon for generations to not just in the military. The When JAs today speak of the JACLNat') V.P. of Public Affairs to prove that they were Americans follow. decades since the end of WWII 442nd and the MIS, we speak with through and through. I am so proud It speaks volumes that while the have seen a series of firsts for JAs: pride, reverence, and awe. The On Memorial Day this year, I to be JA and I am so proud of our · JA veterans' families, friend~, and the first JA Senator, the first J pride we feel is tangible in our had the privi• incredibly unique JA history. loved ones were behind barbed member of the presidential cabiflet, voices and it is our duty to see that lege of My grandfather is a member of wire in the United States, they per• and the first JA Chief of Staff of the the JA vets' legacies live on. • addressing Nisei Post 1183 in Chicago, and as severed. It is often said that the Nisei Post I tried to write my speech, I won• internment camps of WWII JAVA to Hold 5th Annual 9879 at the dered what he would want to hear. changed the face of our community Golden Gate He doesn't really like to talk about and that JAs will always carry the Veterans Day Program Cemetery, just his experience during WWII, but weight of internment in our hearts. To pa) tribute to all veterans, par• Public Health Service. south of San the one time he did, I saw my We were and are ~eeply affected by ticularly the Japanese Americans The first JAVA award for Francisco. I grandfather as a different person. this injustice and slowly, those who I who were killed in action during "Courage, Honor and Patriotism" was asked to speak about my Sats Tanakatsubo is a gruff man were interned are speaking out World War II and those whose will be presented to Sandra impressions of Nikkei veterans - with a warm smile and warmer more about their experience and names are etched on the Memorial's Tananlachi of Lake Jackson, Texas. their contributions, their sacrifices, heart. I've always felt very close to younger generations are learning Wall of Heroes, the Japanese Tanamachi, a schoolteacher, strug• and their legacy - and what they him. and think of him often. He's that it is our duty to ensure that our American Veterans Association gled Jor 12 years to have the word, mean to the younger members of originally from Sacramento and history is not forgotten. (JAVA) will hold its 5th Annual "Jap," removed from a Texas street the Nikkei community. Since the when the war broke out, was And much of why Nikkei voices . Veterans Day Program Nov. 11 at 2 sign. Because of her efforts, she was Memorial Day already in the are louder is because of the JA vets. p.m. at the National Japanese subjected to abuse, threats and service, I've Army. Fluent in Without their sacrifices and 'As I wrote my American Memori3f to Patriotism. destruction of her property. thought more Japanese, he courage, we would not be where speech, I thought of The placing of a memorial wreath JAVNs Veterans Day will feature and more about was then a we are today. We would not have at the wall, and the sounding of taps a buffet lunch before the program at what they mean what my life would member of the the distinct honor of knowing that by a military bugler, will be a part of $18 per person. to me, and as we have been like had it first class that the 442nd emerged from WWII as the observance. To attend the lunch, contact approach went to Camp the most highly decorated combat not been for the 442nd This year's principal speaker, and Calvin Ninomiya at 301/652-8135 Veterans' Day, I Savage as a unit in the history of the U.S. Army. and MIS during World a member of JAVA, will be Rear or [email protected] and Terry know ' that these member of the They served with distinction, with Admiral Kenneth Moritsugu, Shima 3011987-6746 or individuals need War II. And I thought MIS; my Uncle honor, and with valor. And for that, deputy surgeon general of the U.S. [email protected]. • to be remem• of the incredible risks Shiz, who now their legacies will live on. bered more than and sacrifices the lives in just twice a Hayward with year. Japanese American NO_THE FRESfDENT HAS NOT my Auntie ~D Pacific combat units made for Nancy, fol- TRI TO SOLVE :SUOOKU, Northwest our country, to prove lowed later. THE R)PULAR NUM8ERS PUZZLE Governor David that they were When my IMPORTED FROM JAPAN. Masuo, a veter• Americans through grandfather an of the started' telling Vietnam War, and through.' me about a few said "I am not a of his memories hero. I am a spokesperson for all towards the end of the war, he start• the heroes that died during the ed transfoffi1ing in my eyes. As I war." And while David inay only looked at him, I saw the young man . see himself as a spokes~rson, he was and listened to some of the many see him and other veterans as events that changed him into the heroes for defending our country man he is today. He spoke to me of and defending democracy and being scared, of risking his life to humanity around the world. save others. To me, he became larg• As I wrote my speech, I thought er than life that day. He wasn't just of what my life would have been my grandfather anymore - he was a like had it nqt been for the 442nd man who helped win a war, shape a and MIS during World War II. And country, and change the world. I thought of the incredible risks and And I know he is one of many. sacrifices the Japanese American One of tens of thousands who Pl,lt PACIFIC CITIZEN, Ocr. 21-Nov. 3, 2005 ENIERTAINMENr 9 What happens when you throw three world-renowned directors into their favorite genre, the macabre? A hearty serving of horror. Repulsion, Guilt and Dismemberment in 'Three ... Extremes' By LYNDA LIN For the directors - Hong Kong's through. Assistant Editor Fruit Chan, South Korea's Park This from a clirector of "Old Boy" Chan-Wook and Japan's Takashi that inspired cranky movie critic eave it to three Asian directors to pump Miike. - the terror comes from Rex Reed in a New York Observer . within. And in this fibn comprised article to defame an entire country meaning into the word, "terror." We've all of three short tales, the first serving "weaned on kimchi, a mixture of L occasionally felt the screaming sensation is Chan's delicious "Dumplings" raw garlic and cabbage buried with a noxious center filling. underground until it rots ... " "Cut" in the chilly darkness of a movie theater, The short is just as much inspired does not disappoint. The t:Jlorbid but by the end of ''Three ... Extremes," the cold feel• by the pinched transparent skin of sense of humor of cutting off a ing seeps into your bones and lingers in the comers of Chinese dim sum cuisine as it .about pianist's fIngers (she wasn't that a woman's "incontestable consum• good anyway) segues into Miike's your mouth. ing power" with anti-aging drugs clausterphobic "Box," a self-pro• The film, touted as "an anthology of short films from three of and treatment. . claimed "bizarre" experimental fIlm Asia's most compelling directors," discreetly latches onto all of "In 'Dumplings,' both the hus• with overwhelming silence' and your senses and follows you home. We've come to expect this band and wife looked good at their scenes that could be framed and clis• age," said Chan in an e-mail to the played in any reputable modem art from Hollywood, now obsessed with movies that make coun• Pacific Citizen. "It's just that the museum. tries like Japan and Korea to be the scariest, most haunted wife lost her confidence in her looks The story about a beautiful novel• locales in the world. when she found out her husband has ist's (Kyoko Hasegawa) internal But ''Three ... Extremes" doesn't rely on bloody apparitions to an affair with a young girl. It does struggle while accidentally trapping evoke fear. . not actually make the wife less ·and killing her childhood twin sister desirable than the husband." creates a slow sense of terror her• In a desperate attempt to recap• metically sealed in the fibn's use of ture her youth, the wife (Miriam plastic wrap. Yeung, one of Hong Kong's ubiqui• As a sutn of its parts, 'Three ... Blue Cross of California tous singers/actors) calls upon Mei Extremes" roars with Chan's (Bai Ling) to cook up some myste• appetite-stealing overture to female rious dumplings with a truly terrify• vanity and ends with the uneasiness ingingreclient. The repulsion is of beauty perfectly wrapped up. delightfully amplified with visuals Three master directorS with cliffer• of consumption - half bitten pink:, ent styles create one awe-inspiring meaty center and the crunching fibn. Just don't forget your safety sounds. Bones, anyone? blanket when you go to the theater In "Three ... Extremes," Chan, for this one . • 46, an independent fllmmaker who exploded onto the Hong Kong 'Three ... Extremes' blockbuster fIxated fibn scene in What: An anthology of three 1997 with "Made in Hong Kong," short films by three masters joins a fratemity of cult film direc• of horror. tors whom he expressed happiness : When: Oct. 28 to be able to work with. 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Northern California's Centennial Award Southern Calforria of Honor Gala Dinner; 5 p.m. reception GARDENA and silent auction, 7:30 p.m. dinner and Sun., Oct. 23-Legal Clinic hosted by program; Hyatt Regency San Francisco· the Japanese American Bar Association East Coast Airport; honoring Tatsuro Toyoda, for• (JABA); 1-3 p.m.; Saniku Tozai Gakuen PHlLADELPIllA mer President of Toyota Motor (East West Language School), 16110 La Through Dec. 2ooS-Exhibition, Corporation and Scott Cook, founder of Salle Ave.; co-sponsored by Little Tokyo "Kacho-ga: Flowers and Birds in futuit; $2501person, RSVP by Oct. 21. Service Center, the Asian Pacific Japanese Art"; Philadelphia Museum of Info or to purchase tickets: 415/986-4383 American Legal Center, Legal Aid Art, galleries 241, 242 and 243, or www.usajapan.org. 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TANAKA TRAVEL SERVICE WILL BE CLOSING ITS DOORS AT !HE 216/921-2976. . email Naomi Hirahara at bachi@naomi• SAN FRANCISCO END OF DECEMBER. We would like to thank the Japanese. Amer!can Sat.-SuD., Nov. 12-13-Rununage Sale; hirahara.com. Registration fonn is also community for its support and patronage during our 55 years In bUSIness. Sat., Nov. S-Buchanan YMCA available at www.naomihitahara.com. Sat. 9-4 p.m., Sun. 9-2 p.m.; Cleveland Sentimental JoUrney 11: Reliving Sports It has truly been our pleasure to serve you. We will continue to make travel Buddhist Temple, 20400 Euclid Ave., LOS ANGELES arrangements for travel completed by December 15, 2005. Memories; 5-9 p.m.; Buchanan YMCA. Sun., Oct. 23-Meet Chaplain James Euclid, Ohio. Info: Naomi Doyle, We hope you can join us for our last 3 group tours. . . 1530 Buchanan St.; open to individuals Yee; 2-4 p.m.; Japanese American 440/951-4232. who passed through the YMCA's doors, Sincerely, the Tanaka & Lam FamIlIes MINNEAPOLIS Cultural & Community Center, basement but to also Asian sport participants of the Garden Room, 244 S. San Pedro St.; hear Sat., Nov•. S-Twin Cities JACL's 59th 4Os-70s throughout California; planning TANAKA TRAVEL SERVICE Annual Chrysanthemum Banquet; 5:15 him share his story of how he became a 441 O'Farrell St., San Frandsco, CA 94102 committee is also seeking old photos to victim of the U.S. government's post- (415) 474-3900 or (800) 826-2521 social hour/silent auction, 6:30 program; be included an a photo display. Info: Marriott Minneapolis West (formerly 9/11 paranoia, will also be signing his CST #1 005545·40 Reeshemah Davis, 415/931-9622. book, "For God and Country-Faith & Holiday fun West) 9970 Wayzata Blvd., Sat., Nov. 5-San Francisco JACL's St. Louis Park 763/595-1918; Sen. Mee Patriotism Under Fire"; sponsored by Annual Health Fair, "Kenko No Hi"; 9-1 Nikkei for Civil Rights & Redress. Info: Moua, first Hmong American state legis• p.m.; Christ United Presbyterian Church, lator in the U.S. is the keynote speaker; 213/680-3484 [email protected]. 1700 Sutter St.; flu shots, cholesterol, Sat., Nov. S-'The Triangle Project: YAMATO TRAVEL BUREAU® $37/JACL members, $47/non-members, IfH4 bone density and diabetes checks and (CST No. 1019309-10) $500/table of ten; RSVP by Nov. I to Journey of the Dandelion," featuring more. Info: 415/273-1015 or Yoko Fujimoto, PJ Hirabayashi and Les Suzukamo, 6511653-0377 or [email protected]. • [email protected]. Nobuko Miyamoto; 8 p.m.; TOURS AND CRUISES FOR 2005 Sat., Nov. 19-5creening, "Liberty Lost Aratani/Japan America Theater, 244 S. JOIN US FOR OUR REMAINING TOUR IN 2005 Sun., Nov. 13-Twin Cities JACL - Lessons in Loyalty"; 1 p.m.; San Pedro St.; $25/orchestra, $22/bal• 1215-1219 Yamato Branson Christmas Tour - 4 nights in Branson, ilcIuding Shoji Tabuchi, Yakov Shmi~, . Afternoon at the Theater; 2 p.m.; fu the Nihonmachi Terrace, 1615 Sutter St.; a Heart of the Beast Puppet Theatre, 1500 cony, $20 and $17 for JACCC members Bobby VlIlIoo, Baldltnobbers, Ardy Williams and preOOiJs Moments Parle Peggy Mlkunl re-enactment of the evacuation produced and groups; directed by Kevin Higa; E. Lake St.; 'The Pink Dress"; Q/A ses• by the Watsonville-Santa Cruz JACL, PROPOSED TOURS AND CRUISES FOR 2006 sion with local internees and reception to invokes ritual through stories, taiko and presented by Mas Hashimoto; co-spon• dance, to bring light and harmony to our January Yamato Walt Disney Wor1d - 7 days/6 nights • Join the 'Happiesl Celebralion 00 Earth" Disneyland's follow; $1O/adults, $5/children 12 and 50Ih Anniversary al Wall Disney WOOd in Orlando, Florida. sored by SF JACL and Nikkei and fractured world; TIckets: 213/680-3700. under (nonreserved seating). reservation Mar. 1·14 Yamato Kingdom ofThaiiand Tour with Collette Vacations - 14 days/11 nights. Bar9<01< Retirement. Info: 4151273-1015 or sfja• Info: www.jaccc.org. . deadline through 1\vin Cities JACL is and Chiang MaL [email protected]. Througb Nov. 27- Toshiko Takaezu: Sept. 30. TicketslInfo: Lil Grothe, SAN MATEO Mar.12·16 Yamato Ice Classic & Chena Hot Springs Tour · 5days/4 nights. Fairbanks 10 see the 2006 The Art of Clay; JANM, 369 E. FIrst St.; Ice Classic and Chena Hot Springs, in the land of northern Ii!1lts, you will eni<>! a guided dog sledding adven• 612n27-3542. Sun., Oct. 23-Movie Matinee, "A exhibition features the recent work of lure and the opportunity to view the Aurora Borealis. Sun. Dec. 4-1\vin Cities JACL Story of Floating Weeds"; 1:30 p.m.; JA Holiday Party for Kids; 2-4 p.m.; Christ Toshiko Takaezu, an artist at the forefront 3/25-412 Yamato Japan Sampler Tour with General Tours· 9 dajsf7 nights. Tokyo, MI. FuiiIHakone, Community Center, 415 S. Claremont St. of breaking down the traditional barriers Kl"IoINara, Osaka. Presbyterian Church, Edina; enjoy a Info: 650/343-2793. variety of Japanese cultural activities and between functional and sctilptural art. Ariril4-18 Yamato Deluxe Spring Tour to Japan· t5 days/13 nights. Tokyo, Sendai (Matsushima), Nigala, Kanazawa, Amanohashidale, Kurashiki, Hiroshima, Kl"Io. Peggy MlkUIli a vist from Santa. 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