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#3021/ Vol. 139, No.5 ISSN: 0030-8579 SEPT. 3-16, 2004 Queen of the Pins 'Buddha Bar' Draws Ire of Local Hawaiian native is the Now, the native Hawaiian is the Hawaiian Buddhist Community only female APA on only female Asian Pacific American the U.S. Bowling Team. on the team, smashing down barri• By CAROLINE AOYAGI judgment and insensitivity to a large still relevant after almost 2600 ers in the sport that gained U.S. Executive Editor percentage of the population of years;' said Natadecha-Sponsel. prominence in the 1800s, but denied By LYNDA LIN Hawaii," said Poranee Natadecha• ''The use of this name for the bar is women's participation until over a Assistant Editor HONOLULU - The Buddha Sponsel, president of the Hawaii inappropriate, offensive, and century later. Bar in Pari~ is the place to be for Association of International demeaning to Buddhism as one of Since becoming a team member, HONOLULU - Holly Hoopii the hip, trendy, nightlife seeking Buddhists. the world religions." Hoopii has scored a perfect game knows what disappointment feels crowd and other cities like Miami Although Buddha Bars in other The Buddha Bar in Waikiki offi• and 764 in a series. In late August, like. More than once, she had come Beach, Detroit and Montreal are parts of the world may be seen as ci~y opened Aug. 5 and local the U.S. bowling team swept the within kissing distance of securing a Tournament of the Americas in position on the U.S. Bowling Team, Miami with top individual and team but an obstinate pin here and slight titles. In January 2005, she ball arch there, always kept her goal will be com• just out of peting against reach. her teammates At her sec• in the National ond tryouts, Amateur she need- Champ• ed to ionship. place Not bad for i n a girl who the top never thought five spots she would Buddhist statues and images greet become make the patrens as they enter the Buddha . team. These Bar in Waikiki (right). Fliers premet• ing the new bar centinue to. be dis• days, the 24- missed tributed despite the pretests. . year-old bal• b Y ances compe• n i n e tition and trav• pins. Then following in the trend by boasting nothing more than a hot night spot Buddhists immediately began a el with her day came a with• their own Buddha Bars. watering hole, the local Hawaiian letter writing and phone campaign job as an auto drawal period But when another unaffiliated Buddhist community, a religion of protest to local politicians, busi• parts deliverer. when Hoopii Buddha Bar opened recently in only second in popularity to Roman nesses and community groups Pacific put away her Waikiki, Hawaii for the young, Catholicism, believes the use of the alike noting their concerns and Citizen: How bowling shoes, trendsetting crowd, loud cries of Buddha for a bar's name not only demanding a name change. did a girl focused on protest from the local Buddhist disrespects their religion but pro• The protests forced the removal from Hawaii school and tried community greeted the new estab• motes activities entirely counter to of the "Buddha Bar" signs from end up on the U.S. Bowling Team? to forget about the sound of the ball lishment. their beliefs. outside of the business because it HoUy Hoopii: Well, when I was a whirring down the lane. But she was "We want the owner to know ''The Buddha for us is a sacred was discovered that the owners kid and we had just moved into our . not about to stay out of the game for that his choice of the name of this spiritual leader as well as the new house, we got to know our long. Soon, tryouts came around bar reflected his ignorance, poor revered teacher whose teaching is See BUDDHA BAR/Page 6 neighbors who. had kids as well. again and Hoopii was there, for the They were in a league every third time, poised to make the team. Saturday so my brother and I decid• "You're thinking I made top five ed to join too. From there came Petition Drive Has after all that, right? Nope. I came in JACL's Response to high school bowling, which put a lit- eighth;' she said. No Michigan Donors Author Michelle Malkin But there is a silver lining to this See BOWLING/Page 4 By ASSOCIATED PRESS story; the tournament committee Michelle Malkin's book "In Congress in 1980. Following a thor• also picks three others from the top COMMENTARY LANSING, Mich.- Supporters Defense of Intemment: The Case ough examination, the commission 32 qualifiers to be on the team and of a planned 2006 initiative to ban for 'Racial Profiling' in World War found no evidence connecting the seeing Hoopii's abilities and tenaci• A Tribute to affirmative action in govemment IT and the War on Terror" is a des• decision to intern JAs to any of the ty, selected her. hiring and college admissions in perate attempt to impugn the loyalty information contained in the cables. Clifford Uyeda Michigan have raised almost all of of Japanese Americans during Furthermore, a finding in the their money in California, according By JOHN TATEISm World War IT to justify harsher gov• COmmISSIOn . report, "Personal to a campaign finance report. emmental policies today in the treat• Justice Denied;' stated that "not a JACL Executive Director Reports filed last month by the ment of Arab and Muslim single documented act of espionage, Michigan Civil Rights Initiative Americans. sabotage or fifth column activity on Last month, a giant passed from Committee listed no Michigan the mainland was committed by an among our ranks. donors to the ballot drive, The Malkin's thesis depends on The passing of Clifford Uyeda Detroit News reported Aug. 26. WWII intelligence cables for her American citizen of Japanese ances• marks for us the end of an era high• The committee has raised about argument that the Japanese consular try or by a resident Japanese alien lighted by the $140,000. The Sacramento, Calif.• offices in the United States had suc• on the West Coast," a view consis• incredible based American Civil Rights cessfully recruited JAs as spies and tently substantiated by independent redress cam• Coalition, headed by businessman saboteurs, notwithstanding the fact scholars and researchers for almost paign in which and former University of California that those intelligence commu• half a century since WWll. Clifford Regent Ward Connerly, contributed niques had previously been exam• The JACL finds it offensive that played a cen• 95 percent of that total. ined by scholars and govemment Malkin would make the judgmental "It shows this was not an effort tral role. For researchers for decades and rejected leap that any intent by Japan to form that was driven by a need that me personally, _ as justification for the WWll incar• a spy network during WWll some• Michiganders felt," said Kary Moss, ceration of JAs. how implicates the entire population it marks the who heads the American Civil The Magic cables were reviewed of JAs, thereby causing the necessi• loss of a close friend for whom I had Liberties Union of Michigan and by the Commission on Wartime ty for their mass incarceration. The enormous respect and affection. opposes the initiative. 'There is a Relocation and Internment of facts speak for themselves, and Our younger members would not small group from outside the state Civilians, a fact-finding commission President Ronald Reagan concurred See TRIBUTE/Page 2 See PETITION/Page 6 created by the President and See MALKIN/Page 4 2 LEITERS PACIFIC CITIZEN, SEPT. 3-16, 2004

under his guidance that the JACL ation of a federal commission to In my mind, Clifford Uyeda is the PACIFIC CITIZEN TRIBUTE . redress committee produced a book• investigate the facts of the intem• JACL's "redress president." It was he (Continued from page 1) let entitled 'The Japanese American ment, Clifford was one of the only who was at the helm when the cam• 7 Cupania Circle, Monterey Park. CA 91755 Incarceration: A Case·for Redress." ones with courage enough to stand paign was launched to national Tel: 3231725-0083,800/966- remember Clifford and his single• In that brief book, he and the com• up publicly with me to defend that prominence, who helped bring the . 6157, Fax: 3231725-0064 handed efforts to seek a presidential mittee outlined the basic constitu• decision, and certainly was the most organization together on this divisive E-mail: [email protected] pardon for Iva Toguri, the most tional arguments for redress which vocal in defending my decision. issue, who stood firm and supported [email protected] unlikely but· alleged ''Tokyo Rose" served as the foundation throughout Throughout the two years I served my efforts in the face of sometimes of World War IT; or his personal Executive Editor: the campaign. Others would later lay him as the redress .chair as we scathing criticism because he Caroline Y. Aoyagi efforts to curb environmental groups claim to framing the campaign worked together in those early years believed in right, and who gave dig• Assistant Editor: that were determined to boycott around the constitutional issues, but to make redress a reality, he played nity to an unpopular cause. . Lynda Lin Japanese American stores in San it was Cliff's work that outlined such a critical role in helping drive The JACL is lesser today by the Office Manager: Francisco's Japantown as protest of exactly what the issues were. the campaign. And after he left the passing of Clifford Uyeda, but those Brian Tanaka Japan's whaling policies; or his per• I remember talking with him in presidency, as I moved my opera• of us who had the privilege of work• Circulation: Eva Lau-Ting sonal commitment to stop a sense• February 1978 about how resolu• tions to Washington to lobby ing with him will always remember Publisher: Japanese American less U.S. government policy which tions placing redress as the JACL's Congress and run the JACL's cam• his integrity, his courage, and the Citizens League (founded proposed to relocate Hopi and priority were repeatedly introduced paign from the nation's capital, he incredible dignity he brought to our 1929) 1765 Sutter Street, San Navajo tribal lands. The list is seem• at the JACL's conventions but how continued to support my efforts in so ranks .• Francisco, CA 94115, 'tel: ingly endless. 415/921-5225 fax: 415/931- the issue needed prodding. In one of many ways, 4671, www.jad.org In these and so many other efforts our many conversations about JACL President: Ken Inouye Clifford quietly went about his busi• redress, I suggested that he, as tl;!.e National Director: John ness, undaunted by the criticism he redress chair, convene a meeting of a In Memory of Clifford Uyeda Tateishi sometimes provoked and always new committee with representatives Dear Clifford, Historical Society. Pacific Citizen Board of with conviction and determination. from each district to hammer out It is with great sadness that I write During his term as the JACL pres• Directors: Gil Asakawa, chair• At times, I would marvel at how person; Roger Ozaki, EDC; guidelines for redress to present' to this tribute to you. ident he was not too interested in Ron Katsuyama, MDC; Grace clearly he could define issues for the delegates at the Salt Lake City I was a member of the Redress being politically correct but concen• Kimoto, CCDC; Valerie himself, and marvel even more at convention later that year. Committee which you organized for trated first and foremost on numer• Yasukochi, NCWNPDC; Ann how single-minded he could Soon thereafter, he had formed a JACL in 1978. As JACL president ous JA issues and causes. He Fujii-Undwall, PNWDC; Larry become when he saw injustice in the new committee and, two months you took the initiative to bring reached out to and worked with the Grant, IDC; Andrea Parker, world and set out to make it right. later, produced the so-called Salt MPDC; Alayne Yonemoto, together key people committed to rank arid file members. He felt that PSWDC; Maya Yamazaki, What was so unique about the Lake City guidelines for redress. It redress in gaining justice for our this was what the organi~tion was youth. man was that he was driven by what was that document that helped set internment. It was your strong, sensi• about and would have never let he believed to be moral causes, but the course for redress and took the tive leadership which provided the issues such as the "Jap" roads in never for himself. It was never about r------,NEWS/AD DEADLINE: organization beyond simply talking basis for the passage of redress legis• Texas counties linger on for over 12 FRIDAY BEFORE DATE him, and quite frankly, he shied about the issue. lation a decade later. years. away from being recognized for his OF ISSUE. Before our departure for Salt Lake The story ot" how you overcame A true son of the Meiji Issei, Dr. Editorials, news and the role in any effort because he always City for the convention, he asked me monumental obstacles to become a Uyeda had a sense of giri to his peo• opinions expressed by col• felt it distracted from the issue itself. if I would take over the redress com• respected physician is truly inspir• ple and so doing brought meiyo to umnists other than the He rarely accepted speaking national JACL president or mittee chairmanship and asked what ing. You deserved to sit back and live himself and in tum to all of us. The engagements-because he was more national director do not I thought I could accomplish in the a comfortable life after working so recently elected national JACL offi• necessarily reflect JACL I interested in getting things done . biennium. As I outlined my goals• hard to achieve your career goal. cers could truly leam from his self• policy. Events and prod• than in recognition for his efforts. In establishing the campaign as a con• Instead, you chose to also devote less service to the people and also ucts advertised in the some cases, he worked behind the Pacific Citizen do not carry stitutional issue, getting the issue in your life to healing the ills in our learn from many of his successful scenes and let others take credit for the public 'arena for debate, setting the implicit endorsement of community. accomplishments. the JACL or this publica• his work. He often preferred it that up a grassroots campaign within the Clifford, today we gratefully Dr. Uyeda has left us. God be tion. We reserve the right to way. JACL to launch a legislative drive - edit articles. ~ remember all you have given to our with him. May his spirit live among L ______There' was a kind of quiet and he listened carefully and said, finally, community. Be assured that future us and inspire us all to carry on as unassuming dignity about the man "You do whatever you think is nec• PACIFIC CITIZEN (ISSN: 0030- generations will' hold you up as a he did for us. that set him so far above anyone else essary to achieve your goals. You 8579) is published semi-month• model of activism with integrity. ly except once in January and I've ever known. know what's needed better than any• St4~1t.~ December by the Japanese May you rest in peace. Unfortunately, what most people one. As long as what you do is New York JACL Chapter American Citizens League, 7 don't know and, in my estimation, Cupania Circle, Monterey Park, morally right and for the benefit of 'P~~ CA 91755. OFFICE HOURS - never appreciated enough, is jus.t Japanese Americans, I'll support Civil Rights Chair Mon.-Fri., 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m. how critical he was to the success of anything you do." San Fernando Valley JACL PACIFIC CITIZEN Pacific Time. ©2004. the redress campaign. In the two years we worked o He was the first chair of the 7 Cupania Circle Annual subscription rates: together, he was true to his word and It was with sadness to learn of the NON-MEMBERS: 1 year-$35, JACL's redress committee to make was a strong and great leader. When Monterey Park, CA 91755 passing of Dr. Clifford I. Uyeda. He fax: 3231725-0064 payable in advance. Additional something happen, to do more than I guided my committee to support postage per year - Foreign was truly one of our greatest nation• e-mail: [email protected] simply talk about reparations. It was periodical rate $25; First Class legislation which would seek the cre- al JACL presidents. 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L ___ ------______~ PACIFIC CITIZEN, SEPT. 3-16, 2004 NATIONAL NEWS 3 'Hello Kitty is something from my childhood that I can never get sick of because Go For Broke to Debut. everything that Sanrio sells is really practical and really cute.'- Xochitl Robledo. .Oral History Kiosk at Arkansas Military Museum The Go for Broke Educational '''The Go For Broke Educational Foundation will debut its interactive Foundation is very excited to debut oral history computer kiosk 'Arkansas' Nisei Heroes as it pro• "Arkansas' Nisei Heroes: An vides us with an opportunity to part• Interactive Journey Through the ner with an important institution like Lives of Japanese AIDerican WWII . the University of Little Rock at Veterans" at the MacArthur Arkansas," said Christine Yamazaki, Museum of Arkansas Military executive director and president, Go History Sept. 24 and will run For Broke Educational Foundation. through March 31, 2005. '''These collaborations enable us to The debut is part of the University reach out and educate the public on of Arkansas at Little Rock (UALR) a widely unknown but extremely project, "Life Interrupted: The important story for all Americans." Japanese American Experience' in The oral histories included in World War Ii Arkansas" taking Arkansas' Nisei Heroes come from place Sept. 23-26. the Educational Foundation's oral The Educationill Foundation's history archive of nearly 500 WWII Arkansas' Nisei Heroes computer veteran testimonies to date. Through kiosk enhances the MacArthur its Hanashi Oral History Program, Museum exhibit of the lOOth the Educational Foundation is able Battalion, 442nrl Regimental to preserve the life stories of Nisei Find the Girl: Xochitl Robledo, 30, fills her San Fernando Valley home with all.things Hello Kitty. Combat Team' and Military WWlI veterans nationwide. The Intelligence Service that will also oral histories, which are keyword Hello Kitty Is Not Just for the Kids Anymore debut on Sept. 24. searchable and fully viewable, Arkansas' Nisei Heroes provides archival photos and comprehensive ular markets, Hello Kitty products By YUMISAKUGAWA park in Japan last summer, said she visitors with an interactive and per• historical information are available Special to the Pacific Citizen are now readily available in a vari• personally would not buy a Hello sonal experience utilizing oral histo• on the Educational Foundation's ety of items that are not simply lim• Kitty beach cruiser. After all, her ry video, brief biogruphies and per• Web site www.GoForBroke.org. Hello Kitty is growing up. Her ited to bubblegum and pencil boxes: mind is set on something bigger: to sonal veteran photos. The kiosk fea• For more information on the franchise, known more for cute Sanrio's co-brand licenser' fulfill her dream of one day owning tures veterans who joined the Army Educational Foundation's Arkansas' mechanical pencils and pink plastic Samantha Chang released a Hello a Hello Kitty car that is manufac• from Jerome or Rohwer concentra• Nisei Heroes interactive kiosk, call wallets for little girls, now includes Kitty lingerie line marketed for tured only in Japan. tion camps and details the lives of 310/328-0907 or email high-end diamond jewelry and lin• adult women. Tarina Tarantino, In the meantime, Robledo said five Nisei veterans from childhood, [email protected]. For infor• gerie for the more grown-up crowd. another co-brand licenser, creates she will continue to buy new Hello pre-WWlI, incarceration experi• mation on the "Life Interrupted" The iconic feline with the yellow high-end Hello Kitty jewelry that Kitty products so long as the com• ences, war recollections, to resettle• events in Arkansas, visit button nose and curiously absent Cameron Diaz was once spotted pany keeps making them. ment after WWII and their lives www.lifeinterrupted.org . • mouth, celebrates her 30th anniver• donning at the Kid's Choice Awards "I think Hello Kitty has been so today. sary this year. Coincidentally, she is last year, which gave Hello Kitty popular because they just kept up f the same age ' as Xochitl Robledo, plenty of media buzz. with the times," Robledo said. "Of who has had a lifelong love affair Just a couple of weeks ago, a course they always make things for rI ------with this ubiquitous Sanrio charac• Hello Kitty diamond pendant was kids, but now they've been creating Overwhelming Percentage of Gay and ter since she was about five. auctioned off at New York for the new and inventive things for older Lesbian Asians Victims of Hate Crimes "Hello Kitty is something from Arts for Life Foundation for adults, especially the "outure, high• my childhood that I can never get $20,000, which further proves the end stuff that they have now. It's just An astounding 62 percent of par• APIHRI'Ohana House. "Up until sick of because everything that idea that Hello Kitty isn't just for a happy, universal product to buy." ticipants in an Asian and Pacific this moment, we did not have any Sanrio sells is really practical and kids anymore. Islander (API) Lesbian, Gay, information about the discrimina• really cute;' Robledo said. "People "Hello Kitty's always updating • Bisexual, or Transgender (LGBT) tion that our community faces or used to make fun of me, but now her styles and product selection, so study reported general experiences how Asian norms reflect upon the they understand that it's a part of my she's always appro- of discrimination according to a LGBT attitudes towards safer sex." life. It's not just a novelty thing." priate for the differ- groundbreaking new report con• The report concludes that 54 per• In elementa'ry school, Robledo ent lifestyles of the ... :!ti.... - ducted by the Asian Pacific cent of the respondents demand an owned Hello Kitty pencils, note• fans she has," said This eat's New Look Islanders for Human Rights API specific space, reflecting a need books and. backpacks. Nearly two Hensley. "I thjnk the (APIHR)I'Ohana House entitled, for programrning and services decades later, Robledo's personal most notable change Hello Kitty jlJstJ9~ned30 years old, "Beyond Stereotypes and Cultural designed for API LGBT that are collection of Hello Kitty parapher• is that she used to be ' but she hasn't resorted to botox just ' Conventions: Attempting to Reach culturally and linguistically specif• an Underserved Southern ic. These services and programming nalia has expanded to include a very static and con• yet She gives a whole new spin on toaster oven, a sandwich maker, an Californian Community." can be used to address the difficul• sistent in her dress 'plastic' surgery with new products ~larm clock, a CD player, purses, a and color palettes. The report is the first ever done of ties APIs face with regards to sexu• that go beyond pencil cases and jean jacket, a water bottle and Now she can and is .~ the API LGBT community. Among' ality, as well as politics and socio• othe~ underwear, to name just a few. She just about anything. I purses. the findings of the report are economic conditions. even has a promise ring from her There are very few I that of the 64% that reported being The report is based on a survey boyfriend that has Hello Kitty and a opportumt.J.es for sexually active, 12% did not prac• conducted between November little diamond on it. Hello Kitty where tice safer sex and 37% indicated that 2003 and June 2003 in Southern Robledo is one of the many there isn't some kind they sometimes, rarely, or did not California with participants ranging adults who are in love with Hello of fun and appropri• know their sexual partner's SID or from 16 to 53 years in age, with Kitty, a Sanrio character that was ate Hello Kitty ver• HlV status. 44% men and 53% women. created originally in Japan that was sion of an adult prod- "It is imperative that stUdies such The whole report is available at once targeted specifically for the uct." as this get funded," said Patrick APIHRI'Ohana House's website: elementary school age demograph- . Among other Mangto, executive director of www.apihr.org .• ic. However, in the last three items, a Hello Kitty decades, Hello Kitty's fan base has hair crimper is com• greatly broadened to cater to more ing out this holiday adult tastes as well. season, which crimps "When Kitty was first introduced, Hello Kitty's image she was primarily for twelve-year• right into your hair. olds," said Bill Hensley, marketing Devoted customers director of Sanrio. "As we've can now even buy a watched Hello Kitty customers full-sized Hello Kitty grow up, Hello Kitty has changed beach cruiser, where with that customer, particularly with Hello Kitty's face is that customer's changing lifestyle. imprinted on the tire When Hello Kitty fans are five treads, leaving Hello years old, she can go off to elemen• Kitty faces on the tary school with a Hello Kitty lunch pavement if you case and when she's 25, she can go . splash through a pud- " to work with a Hello Kitty cell die. phone case." Robledo, who has Due to a licensing agreement that even visited the allows over 100 companies to create Sanrio amusement "Hello Kitty products in their partic~ 4 NATIONAL NEWS PACIFIC CITIZEN, SEPT. 3-16, 2004 BOWLING seems to pull me back in. I've had the women. some great friends that have encour• PC: Are men intimidated or National Newsbytes (Continued from page 1) aged me to push through those hard impressed by your bowling By P.e. Staff and Associated Press high school bowling, which put a times. And having parents that sup• scores? little competition in my life. But it port me and pay for my trips, well, IIH; I say a bit of both. If I'm Museum's Vietnam War Exhibit was my parents and friends who that is just the best. , bowling on my own, they're Opens Old Wounds pushed me to bowl in the Oahu PC: Do you feel privileged to be impressed. If I'm bowling against OAKLAND, Calif.-An exhibit that includes artifacts and oral histories , Junior_Bowlers Tour (OJBT), a tour• participating' in a sport that has' them :.. no one wants to lose to a about the Vietnamese American experience during the controversial war nament that travels to different historically shut out women? girl. recently opened to mixed reception at the Oakland Museum of California. bowling alleys 1llI: Well, as in all things in life, PC: Could you ever use it as a ''What's Going On? California and the Vietnam Era" promised a forum to around the I am happy that equal rights for pick-up line? amplify the often ignored voices of Southeast Asian immigrants, but critics island. This I everyone has come along. 1llI: No. I wouldn't use it as a including two Vietnamese researchers who helped develop the presentation feel was the Everyone has worked hard to come pickup line... a deterrent maybe. have protested that it doesn't coherently narrate how the Vietnamese commu• start because this far to make women's bowling PC: The popular opinion about nity's own ideological struggle over communism made the conflict as much once you win what it is and it will only get bowling is that it's more a hobby the community's war as America's. that first title stronger as big changes are coming and a pastime than a professional Instead of exploring how that struggle persisted in California, critics say you want to such as.moving towards becoming sport. Do you come across this the exhibit sticks to the predictable script of high school textbooks and movie win them all. an Olympic sport. bias often? theaters. PC: When did you realize that PC: You're also the only Asian 1llI: Yes. Actually I do. When I Curator Marcia Eymann said it was impossible to cover every perspective you had a talent for the sport? American member of the U.S. • tell people what my trips are for or of the war in such limited gallery space. 1llI: I realized I had a talent for Bowling Team. Do you consider what sport I play, they get this the sport when I hit high school. My yourself a groundbreaker? incredulous look on their face. Wisconsin Makes $1 Million Available for coach at the time, Mr. Ted Chock, 1llI: Well, being from Hawaii has 'Bowling? Isn't that a drinking Hmong Resettlement Effort worked extensively with me those always been a sort of novelty, as it game?' But then I tell them all that MADISON, Wis.-The state has mad,,? another $1 million available to four years, which I guess put the doesn't happen very often. For we do and where I get to go ... well counties to help Hmong refugees find work. The money will go to Wisconsin groundwork for later on when the being AA, I never really thought of it gets them thinking. Works programs to provide benefits to the immigrants in almost two-dozen competition got tougher and I that. Growing up in Hawaii, we , PC: Why isn't bowling recog• counties. stepped up to meet it. don't see each other by what nation• nized as an Olympic sport after. Officials of some social service agencies have worried they might not have PC: How did you parlay that ality we are, only who we are as a all these years? enough money to provide medical care and other aid to the refugees, many talent into becoming a national person, which I think is great. HH: Well, the reason I hear the of whom have little schooling, money and suffer from malnutrition and men• athlete? Bowling on the Mainland where I Olympic Committee is not accept• tal health problems. 1llI: It was all by chance. The am usually the only Asian, is an eye• ing bowling is that bowling is too The Hmong - an ethnic minority - resettled in the United States after location of the tournaments and the opener, but I enjoy seeing the differ• scattered. The men have ABC fleeing from Laos when the communists seized control in 1975 following the timing all played in the part of going ences as well as the similarities. (American Bowling Congress), the end of the Vietnam War. and competing. I guess I would say PC: The shoes need a little fash• women with WIBC (Women's luck had a lot to do with it. I never ion update and the unifonn is a International Bowling Congress) Hundreds Register for Event on JA Ca~ps expected to make the team. I always little bland. HUSA Bowling asked and the youths with YABA (Young LITTLE ROCK-A September reunion of Japanese Americans forcibly went to bowl with the best and to you to revamp the women's uni• American Bowling Alliance). But relocated to Arkansas internment camps marks the first time in the six see how I measured up. Making the fonn, what would you change? some new changes are happening decades since the war that this state has paid tribute to the history of the two team was the bonus. 1llI: I like the uniforms the way very soon with all these programs southeast Arkansas camps. PC: Have you ever wanted to they are, as I've grown up wearing corning together as one to be the The interest has been overwhelming with nearly 900 people expected to quit? similar attire throughout bowling. I USBC, so we'll see what the future attend. Organizers added additional bus trips from Little Rock to the camps 1llI: Yes. That feeling has come could do without the collared shirts has in store for bowling.• at Jerome and Rohwer near McGehee. many times but something always. though. Maybe a sleeker look for Among those tentatively scheduled to attend the conference are former president Bill Clinton, U.S. Sen. Daniel Inouye, D-Hawaii, "Star Trek" actor MALKIN George Takei and U.S. Transportation Secretary Norm Milleta. (Continued from page 1) Exhibit Hopes to Capture acknowledging the injustice of the MacArthur's Influence in Japan internment. NORFOLK, Va.-Two experts of Western and Japanese art and antiqui• The lACL's objection to Ma\kin's ties exanline artifacts on a show called "Kaiun Nandemo Kanteidan," but on recent publication is that it purports Sept. 28, the audience will see a two-hour special on the treasury of Japanese to present the "truth" about the his• artifacts given to Gen. Douglas MacArthur and his wife, Jean. torical facts of the internment but, in Staff members of the MacArthur MemorIal were excited about the chance fact, is a regurgitation of old argu• to learn more about the pieces in the permanent collection and researchers are ments that attempt to justify the hopeful that the show will help younger generations understand why the leg• decision to imprison JAs. endary five-star general was so revered by the people living in postwar Japan. In writing the book. Ma\kin states It's just one of the symbols of friendship that one professor thinks that her purpose is to debunk the Japanese audiences will take pride in seeing "respectfully" preserved and dis• internment as "racist" and "unjusti• played in Norfolk. fied." By her oWn admission, MacArthur served as supreme commander of the.Allied Powers in Japan, Ma\kin makes no claim to expertise and he and his wife lived there until 1951. on the subject, admits that her work is not thorough, fashions conclu• Immigration Measure Set on Arizona 'Ballot sions to suit her political views, all the while asking her readers to PHOENIX-An initiative to require proof of citizenship when registering "reject political correctness ... and to vote or when seeking social services will be on the November ballot unless the ability to view the writing of his• a court challenge succeeds. tory as something other than a ther• The ''Arizona Taxpayer and Citizen Protection Act" or Proposition 200 apeutic indulgence," a criticism that would also make it a misdemeanor punishable by up to four months in jail fails to escape her own work. for state and local government workers to fail to report illegal immigrants In a recent Op-Ed piece, Ma\kin who apply for government services. states, "Getting the history right is Supporters say the initiative is intended to combat welfare and voter fraud. vital to informed debate about the Opponents say it is unnecessary and rooted in racism. proper balance between civil liber• A pOll released in July by Arizona State Uiliversity said three of every four ties and national security." voters surveyed said they supported the initiative. With this we would agree; how• ever, history tells us that intolerance Student in Hawaii Charged Over Fatal Crash and bigotry played a devastating , Philippines-A Filipino American student has been charged role in denying JAs their civil rights with reckless imprudence resulting in homicide after his vehicle struck a car during WWIl, and it is for this rea• and killed a presidential adviser last month. son that the lACL will continue to Jason lvier, 23, from Hawaii, was driving his sport utility vehicle in Manila be outspoken toward any policy that targets or profiles Arab and Muslim in the early morning hour when it veered into the opposite lane into oncom• Americans or undermines the civil ing traffic and collided with another SUV, killing Nestor Ponce, Jr. liberties of any American. A cause for the accident is yet to be established. If convicted, Ivler could Unlike 60 years ago, when JAs face up to four years in prison. He is scheduled for his first court hearing Sept. had few proponents to defend their 7. loyalty and speak up for the American values of faimess and Correa Named New Honolulu Police Chief equality, today many have reacted HONOLULU-The Police Commission recently announced it had select• quickly and knowledgeably to ed Boisse Correa, 58, to succeed Lee Donohue who retired on July 1 after a Malkin's outrageous claims. 4O-year career. The JACL values and thanks all Born and raised in Hawaii, Correa has 34 years of experience with the those individuals whose conscience departnlent. He was selected from four finalists including acting chief Glenn will not abide distortions of history Kagiyama and two female candidates.• to suit a political agenda.• PACIFIC CITIZEN, SEPI'. 3-16, 2004 COMMUNTIYNEWS 5 YOUTH FORUM MORI MEMO· and former Lt. Gov. of Hawaii, Mazie Hirono. Also playing an inte• Pidgin Contest: More Cross• Notes From the Convention gral part were Glen Fukushima and Dale Minami. We missed Cultural Dialog, Less Racism By FLOYD MaRl Yasuhara who have passed away. Congressman Robert Matsui who Immedia~ Past Nat'l JACL President Yone Arai, wife of JACL's first By STEVEN SHO BECRAFf student at Southern Oregon was unable to make it. national' president Clarence Arai, University said, "I don't understand It has been my great pleasure to The week in Paradise has ended also passed away this year, Jap road. Jap plays. Jap bitch. why Japanese Americans get so serve as national president of JACL for iliose who attended ilie 38th Several past presidents who usu• Why do people use slurs like "Jap"? emotional about being called a Jap. for the past four years and four pre• Biennial ally attend ilie conventions were I've been think• 1)1e British don't get so upset when vious years as a vice president. I National JACL missed this year. They include: Jim ing about this they're called Brits. We don't get especially appreciate the board Convention in Murakami, Hank Tanaka, Patrick for half of my pissed when we're called Yanks. . members wiili whom I have worked Honolulu in Okura, Cressy Nakagawa, Floyd life, my life Why can't we shorten Japanese with and John Tateishi, our JACL execu• celebration of Shimomura, and Jerry Enomoto. spent in Jap?" tive director, and all the JACL staff. JACL's 75th Some are ill or have spouses who are America, It didn't convince him when I The board works tirelessly as volun• anniversary. not well. Our best wishes to you. where I have mentioned that there is a historical teers to keep JACL viable and valu• The conven• Shea Aoki from Seattle has been exposed context that "Jap" has been used as a abie in our lives. The staff is often tion was out• attended every national JACL con• to a myriad of slur and that history suggests the overworked, and they are dedicated standing wiili many spectacular vention except ilie 1930 convention. cultures and customs. Yet I'm con:' term is used with malice. Unlike individuals to whom we owe a'great events. Special ilianks go to Susan She was in attendance at ilie busi• stantly caught in the "in-betweens" "Brit" or "Yank," there is an open deal. Kitsu, Art Koga, ilie convention ness sessions so she could keep and trying to find a place where peo• condescension towards the Japanese Congratulations to Ken Inouye, committee, the Hawaii chapter, ilie informed of what is going on in ple can be courteous and tolerat~ with many disrespectful connota- . our new national president of JACL, sponsors, speakers, special guests, JACL. each other. tions. The term was not created and to ilie incoming board. Thanks and the volunteers and interns as Ruth Hashimoto from I was nine years old when I came from "linguistic convenience" or as to all who ran for board positions. well as ilie JACL staff who worked Albuquerque was accompanied by to the United States, and although a "verbal colloquialism" like the lat• Your dedication to JACL is com• so hard to put on a great convention. her granddaughter Rachelle. Ruth I've had great experiences here, tertwo terms. The J-word was creat• mendable and appreciated. Past JACL national presidents, was in an automobile accident short• some bad memories linger in my ed to hurt people. The' problem is Special ilianks to Ryan Chin, our Jim Tsujimura, Lillian Kimura, and ly before the convention, but her mind from time to time. I remember obviou's - the word itself was cre• outgoing vice president of member• Helen Kawagoe were delegates. doctor told her she could make ilie a time when kids were brutal. I was ated specifically with racist intent. ship, who spent countless hours Frank Churnan and Raymond Uno, trip, so she was iliere in a wheel• in tears when a group of White and I believe the lack of dialog and the compiling a history of JACL. The also past presidents, attended ilie chair. Hispanic kids called me a "Jap naivete created from this lack of dia• book was available for sale at ilie convention. Our condolences to ilie A new category of membership bitch" because I wore a shiny vinyl log is the problem with why civility convention for $35. I encourage all families of past presidents Clifford called the Millenniurn Club was randoseru backpack. in our culture is never solidifying in JACL members to purchase ilie Uyeda, Roy Nishikawa, and Denny approved by ilie national council. Perhaps they thought it was a growing multi-cultural society. In book, ilie proceeds from which will This is available to all persons will• effeminate. It's a stereotype of Asian the 90s, we thought "political cor• benefit national JACL. ing and financially able to support Americans that has been rooted in rectness" was ilie perfect solution. creating a dialog in order to pro• Anoilier fundraising event being JACL by contributing $1,000 a year American culture for well over a Unfortunately, little has changed mote tolerance and understanding, planned to benefit ilie youili pro• for membership. Thanks to Milo century ...:....- feminine subservience. I over the past few decades. hoping that we will one day reach grams of JACL is ' ilie National Yoshino and Frank Sakamoto for wore the backpack because I was My favorite author, Frank Chin, a world where AAs can live with• JACL Golf Tournament Oct. 9 in spearheading this effort, and thanks attached to it and because I wanted suggests that political correctness is out being stereotyped or being Souiliern California. Thanks to to the 26-plus members who have to express my culture. I thought it too "fascist and demagogic" to solve associated with Pearl Harbor. In George Aratani for being ilie hon• already joined the Millennium Club. was a good thing, but instead, I this problem regarding the absence order. to achieve these goals for a orary chairman and to the Aratani Etsu Masaoka, wife of early experienced my first account of of civil language in our society. If . hate-free multicultural atmos• Foundation for their generous dona• JACL leader Mike Masaoka and sis• xenophobia in the United States. we want civil language, we have to phere, I sincerely believe it is tion. ter to Norman Mineta, U.S. Sec. of I've noticed that difference makes re-name PC from political correct• important that JACL continue to The next' Biennial National JACL Transportation, was iliere as always people uncomfortable. This feeling ness to "pidgin contest." Chin inform people and raise awareness Convention will be held in Phoenix, with members of her fanlily. Edith leads to · cultural pluralism, and claims that in pidgin, people from a of what our community stands for. Ariwna, June 21-24, 2006. The khiuji, Harry Honda, Frank although this isn't necessarily a bad plethora of cultures were able to I'm sure if people truly under• Ariwna Chapter has begun prepa• Sakamoto, Mary Kawakami and her thing, it could have its negative interact with each other wiiliout stand our culture and history, they rations to provide another outstand• daughter Marilyn were iliere. influences on a community. Kids offending oiliers, while still main• would be more sensitive. Maybe if ing convention. Conventions are not Clarence Nishizu, Grayce Uyehara, don't understand cross-culturalism taining cultural integrity for all. That we keep trying for the next few only for delegates but are for all Cherry Kinoshita, Molly Fujioka, so they purge their discomfort of the is what we want. decades, our children will be living JACL members. It will be a good and George Hinoki are a few of ilie unknown with either cynicism or This pidgin contest can't be in a world where ki¢s won't be cry~ opportunity to re-conneCt wiili old regulars who were missed. mockery. Unfortunately, we don't achieved without an open and frank ing for being called a "Jap bitch" or friends and make new friends. Some of ilie great Japanese learn when we're grown-ups. social discussion. I think this is what for wearing a randoseru .• Thanks, to ALL members of American leaders who were in The other day, a senior college JACL is always working towards, JACL for joining and renew.ing your attendance were:' Mineta; memberships in JACL. The organi• Congressman Mike Honda, former zation could not function without Gov. of Hawaii, George Ariyoshi, your support.•

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Ironically, the Buddha Leaders Scholarships cance of the "Japanese American had not officially received permis• Bar will only be open for the next Experience: The Internment" and nine months since the Outrigger The JACL Honolulu chapter hon• This year's winners of the sion to use the "Buddha Bar" trade will each receive $1,000 from the name. But the signs have now Lewers Street redevelopment project ored community leaders Colbert Watsonville-Santa Cruz JACL chap• combined Kee Kitayaina Memorial returned and at an Aug. 26 meeting, will soon occupy the area. Matsumoto and Art Koga at their ter's Kee Kitayama Memorial local Buddhists voted to ,continue Still, local Buddhists are pressing annual membership meeting recent• Scholarships are: Mark Yonemura of Scholarship Fund and Day of pressing the owner for a name ahead with their protests, seeking a ly at the Waikiki Beach Marriott Watsonville High School, Laura Remembrance Education Fund. change. permanent name change for the bar. Resort. Nagarnine of Aptos High School, ' George Tanabe, Jr., professor of 'Boise Valley Chapter Several calls to bar owner Les Matsumoto is the chairman and and Lisa Tatsuno also of Aptos High Hong, 60, went unreturned. religion at the University of Hawaii, Announces Scholarship CEO of Island Insurance Co., Ltd. School. But in an interview with the notes that the Hawaiian Buddhist Recipients Associated Press, Hong said, "I'm community has a history of object• and was critical in the campaign to Yonemura, son of Shuzo and Recipients of the annual Boise at· a loss how to handle it. It never ing to the use of Buddhism for mar• save the Japanese Cultural Center of Doris Yonemura of Watsonville, will Valley JACL Scholarship Program keting purposes and wonders if bar crossed my mind that this would Hawaii. Koga is the former national be attending UC Davis in the fall were awarded $500 checks and cer• upset people. We are sensitive to the owners would be as willing to invoke JACL secretary/treasurer and for majoring in engineering or psychol• the Christian religion. tificates. The winners were: concerns of some people and we over 20 years was a teacher and ogy. Nagarnine is the daughter of "My guess is that some Christians Elizabeth Oyama, Kimberly Hirai, will try to address it." Roy and Phyllis Nagamine of would object to 'Jesus Bar' but no administrator at the school and dis• Karin Hayashida, and Sarah The current Buddha Bar is in the Watsonville, and Tatsuno is the former location of the House of one has attempted to open a drinking trict levels. Campbell. establishment under that name;' said Also honored at the dinner were daughter of Sheridan Tatsuno and PETITION Tanabe. '''Therein lies another prob• winners of the Emerging Leader the late Muneko Tatsuno of Aptos SFV Groups Announce lem: the ease with which 'Buddha' (Continued from page 1) scholarship awards: Lindsay Doi, who passed away last New Year's Scholarship Winners (but not Jesus) can be used to name TIffany Loa, and Kathryn Tanigawa. Eve. Lisa is the granddaughter of who have brought their agenda to a bar betrays a lack of respect for the The JACL San Fernando Valley Each will receive $1,000. former internees Dave and Alice Michigan." Buddhist religion." chapter and the San Fernando Valley Tatsuno and she will matriculate at The Michigan Civil Rights Although many Buddhists have Japanese American Community UCSC in the fall of 2004. Initiative will report a list of several shown their support for the current Watsonville-Santa Cruz Center presented their scholarship hundred Michigan donors later, said uproar, there are some who believe awards at a program held at the Chetly Zarko of Ann Arbor, treasur• the protests go too far. Nikkei Village in Pacoima, er of the fund-raising committee_ Rev. Alfred Bloom had originally • 2004 CCDC JACL Scholarship Recipients "It's totally untrue that we don't been dismayed to discover the Califomia. have support within the state," Zarko Buddha Bar in Waikiki but later This year's scholarship recipients said. "We have 1,400 to 1,700 volun• changed his mind, deciding not to are: Adam Yukihiko Beckler, teers, and a large number of donors join in on the protests. A follower of Michelle Castillo-Castro, Andrew who haven't been reported yet." the Japanese Buddhist tradition, he Makoto Jonokuchi, Brent Citizens for a United Michigan, notes that not all Buddhists are Hamashita, and Kristy Monji. organized to defeat the initiative, has against the consumption of alcohol raised $314,610, campaign finance and believes the current situation Dr. Teresa Williams-Leon, the records show. The leading contribu• with the Buddha Bar should be used chair-elect of the Asian American tor is Detroit Renaissance, a non• to educate the larger community Studies Department at Cal State profit group of city business leaders, about the Buddhist religion. Northridge, was the featured speak• which donated $200,000. The "Buddha is only a title. If you er. 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ByBOBBAUM bronze medalist with 8,725, an AP Sports Writer Asian record. Clay, whose mother is Japanese ATHENS, Greece-Hawaii's American and father is black, Bry!lD Clay, the little guy among moved to Hawaii at age 5 and con• the giants of the decathlon, chased siders it his home state. He said he Roman Sebrle to the finish in one of wanted to celebrate with a Hawaiian the most powerful American per• flag along with the American, but formances in the event's history. decided it wouldn't be appropriate. Sebrle, the world record holder ''All I can say is I remember sit• from the Czech Republic, won the ting down watching people like Dan gold medal Aug. 24 with 8,893 O'Brien and Dave Johnson and points - an Olympic record and the of Roman's shoulder," Clay said, Chris Huffi.ns and all those guys put second-highest total of his magnifi" '~ust trying not to let that get away 'Up those huge scores at the Olympic cent career. from me." Games and get to run around with The 24-year-old Clay, a Castle Clay, who finished the exhausting the flag," Clay said. "I'd get goose High School graduate who upset 1O-event competition with personal bumps just sitting there watchi.ng Hawaii quarterback Timmy Chang has thrown for 12,814 yards reigning world champion Tom bests in the javelin and 1,500 them. I still look up to those guys. and 79 touchdowns and is closing in on becoming the most pro• Pappas in the U.S. trials, was second meters, was just 71 points off Now that I know that I just sur• lific passer in college history. (AP Photo/Ronen Zilberman) with 8,820.points, the third-highest O'Brien's American record. passed most of them, I don't know ever by a U.S. decathlete. Only Dan Drnitriy Karpov of Kazakhstan, the what to tell you. It's just an unbe• FOOTBALL O'Brien had better scores among leader through eight events, was the lievable feeling." • Americans. Loaded Warriors Look "It hasn't sunk in yet," Clay said. "But I'm pumped." . Kimiko Soldati Eliminated From Forward to Starting Season "I think people kind of take me Springboard Diving Competition By JAYMES SONG Chang, the preseason WAC for granted," he said. 'They don't AP Sports Writer offensive player of the year, said he ATHENS, Greece-Kimiko really take me seriously sometimes, feels mQre confident and stronger Soldati of Magnolia, Texas, was . whether that's my personality or my HONOLULU-With 10 return• for his senior campaign . quickly eliminated from the size or whatever. Hopefully now ing starters on Hawaii's high-flying Hawaii's hefty offensive line, Olympic 3-meter springboard diving they'll know I'm for real." offense, senior quarterback Timmy which gave up only 19 sacks in 754 competition Aug. 25, her only event. Clay, who competed for and still Chang can only think of one team pass atterp.pts last year, will seek to _ Soldati, who won springboard at trains at tiny Azusa Pacific that could stop the Warriors. give.Chang extra time in the pock• the U.S. trials in June, had a poor University in southern California, "If we're not moving down the et. opening dive and never recovere4, stands just 5 feet, 11 inches and field, it's because of us," said Hawaii will rely on its offense winding up 21st in the preliminaries. weighs 174 pounds. Still, he threw Chang. "Only we can stop our• more than ever with the defense "It wasn't what I pictured it would the javelin a personal-best 228 feet, selves, not any defense." losing nine starters including 2003 be," Soldati said of her first 8 inches, then finished with a 4 Chang needs 2,218 yards to sur- WAC defensive player of the year Olympics. minute, 41.65 second 1,500 meters . pass Ty Detmer's NCAA career Travis LaBoy and fellow defensive The Americans haven't won the - closely following Sebrle all the passing record of 15,031, and bar• tackle Issac Sopoaga, both of springboard since Jennifer in Athens. way around the track four times. ring injury, he'll break it rnidseason. whom were drafted to the NFL. Chandler's victory at Montreal in Soldati went through a lot just to "I was just focusing on the corner He struggled late last season but Sticking with recent tradition, the 1976. And that drought did not end make it to Athens. She only started came off the bench to throw for 475 Warriors' open the season at home diving seriously a dozen years ago yards and five touchdowns in a wild against a Division I-AA opponent and overcame numerous injuries - 54-48 triple-overtime victory over for the fifth year in a row. Hawaii including four shoulder operations KOKUSAI-PACIFICA Houston in the Hawaii Bowl, which faces Howard Schnellenberger's and two knee surgeries - to make ended in a nasty brawl. Florida Atlantic on Sept. 4 before 2004 TOURS her first Olympic team at age 30. The Hawaii Bowl capped . a entering conference play. But her stay didn't last long. rollercoaster 9-5 season and marked Hawaii plays four of its 12 games Soldati's right shoulder began act• the third postseason game in five on the road, including key confer• Sep24 American Heritage Tour -10 Days -18 Meals - $2150 - New ing up after the trials, and she had to York, Philadelphia, Amish Country, Gettysburg, Charlottes- . years under coach June Jones. ence mat~hups against Boise State skip a week of training once she got ville, Williamsburg & Washington, D.C. Chang, who finished the season and Fresno State. Hawaii closes at to Athens. After the prelims, she Oct 11 Hokkaido & Tohoku - 11 Days - 24 Meals - $3695 - Sapporo, with 4,199 passing yards and is Aloha Stadium against two Big Ten wore a large ice pack. Sounkyo, Sahoro, Ainu, Lake Toya, Hakodate, Aomori, Lake being promoted again by UH as a opponents: Northwestern on Nov. "I left my heart out there and I did• Towada, Hachimantai, Matsushima, Sendai & Tokyo. 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Director of the first anime film considered for top prize at the Cannes Film Festival CRAcks free-associates about the meaning of life and killer dolls wiping out mankind. 'S in the , HELL By LYNDA LIN allels. This is perhap~ the bazillionth time he's lding with merriment, and answers them diplo• Assistant Editor heard the same question, but nevertheless matically. He does not establish eye contact insists that they are two completely different except when he's making like he's severing his o explain the theme of his latest ani• movies, just with similar plot points and film own arm. .T mated film, "Ghost in the Shell 2: techniques. Again, his question of body parts falling Innocence," Director Mamoru Oshii But nine years have quickly passed since the away is revisited in the sequel, but this time the holds his right hand like a blade and motions original and in that time Oshii continued to director has come to a different conclusion - Oshii could have said that giant shrimps back and forth like he's slicing Into the tender examine this question with the same theoreti• he decides that what actually makes an individ• were taking over the world or effused any flesh of his left arm. As he's carving into his cal eye that distinguished the first "Ghost in the ual truly unique is his body and his relation• other far-fetched theory because his explana• imaginary wound, he explains the fundamental Shell" from the other sugary pop anime being ships with others. In the sequel, Batou main• tion is, well, vague and the journalists speaking question he was trying to address in the movie: churned out in Japan. And Batou is back in tains his last bit of humanness by nurturing a with the director are so silent that eyes blink• If you keep losing body parts, what would be "Innocence," brooding as he did when he was basset hound, arguably the real star of this film, ing could be heard. the last part that would keep you unique? first created almost a decade ago, but now the and rekindles a relationship with The Major. So Oshii explains further: When he was making the original "Ghost in year is 2032 and he is investigating the case of . Circumstances have changed and she certainly "I believe people have already , lost their the Shell" in 1995, the eccentric director a gynoid (a "hyper-realistic female robot creat• does not look like -she used to, but Batou's human bodies. People spend so much of their thought the answer was the human brain, so the ed specifically for sexual companionship") unchanged relationship is proof of his human• hours watching television and so many hours first film was appropriately populated with who malfunctions and kills her owner. Big ity. on the telephone, so the substitute of your own futuristic characters whose brains were the oopsie by the manufacturers, but because it's It's not a far stretch from Oshii's own life in body is your family ... taking care of a thing or another person is actually a substitute of taking only body parts that distinguished them from an'Oshii film, it gets far more complicated than Japan where he lives with a basset hound care of your own body." robotic life forms. Oshii made the main charac• just a recall of faulty products. named Gabriel, who he admits to cooking Despite the indelible importance of the first ter Batou, a cyborg detective, one of the most . Oshii is also back on the publicity circuit, every meal f"r. On this special day, Oshii is film, many critics are not biting on the sequel, celebrated anime torchbearers of all time when fresh from Tokyo to face the press on the even wearing a t-shirt with the likeness of-the complaining that there's ~xcessive philosophi• his female counterpart, simply called The DrearnWorks compound, which is orchestrat• same breed of dog splashed across his chest. cal rambling. Since its premiere at the Cannes Major, surrendered her brain into the network ing the film's US. premiere. Fifty three years Does PETA (people for the Ethical 'Treatment International Film Festival this year, the first and disappeared, mentally leaving behind her old, but smaller in stature than your average of Animals) need a new spokesperson? time an anime film ever competed for the com• physical "shell." teenage boy, Oshii fields questions by way of a ''Taking care of the dog is [Batou's] way of petition's top Palme d'Or Award, critics have Oshii and the film were widely credited for translator from Production LG., · the premier taking care of his own body," he said, adding, been sounding off. influencing '''The Matrix" ~eries, a distinction .Japanese production house that also worked on "When I was making ["Innocence"] I came to one thought: maybe the brain or the head isn't A JoBlo.com review described the film as "a that the director presently groans about when a the animated segment in Quentin Tarantino's. that special. 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Kawai, Kiyoshi, 95, Los Angeles, cellor for academic affairs. Sakai Ochiai and Masanori Kozawa. Amimoto, Hisa H., 86, May 2.8; survived by wife, Masako; daughters, July 15; Nisei; survived by daughter, joined the Japan-America-Society in Takahashi, Larry Shinji, 60, Los . survived by brothers, George (Irene) Irene (Stanley) Kinoshita, Judy Daza Kyoko (Thomas) Torigoe; daughter• 1980 and was its president for two Angeles, July 9; Denver, Colo.-born; Hirashiki and Tami Hirashiki. and Karen Fujita; 4 gc.; and 1 ggc. in-law, Furniko Kawai; 6 gc.; 11 ggc.; terms in the mid-l990s. ' survived by mother, Miyoye; and sis• Asano, Fujio Fred, 86, Los Hamanaka, Janet Aiko, 78, Aug. and sister, Chiyoko Nitta. Shigeta, Mitsuc:i, 86, Inglewood, ters, Nancy (Shig) Yoshida and Jean Angeles, July 8; Seattle, Wash.-born; 5; survived by sons, Ralph (Nancy) Kubota, Tom, 87, Seattle, Wash., July 22; Kauai, Hawaii-born Nisei; . Fujita. survived by wife, Kazuye; daughters, and Earl (Donna); daughter, Ann Aug. 9; MIS. Joined the Army in survived by wife, Fumiko; daughter, Takata, Margaret Toshiko, 64, Michiko, Jane (Jim) Kenreich; 1 gc.; Hamanaka; 5 gc.; brothers, Kenneth, 1942 and served in military intelli• Arlene (Bob) Mitsuhashi; sons, Gardena, July 15; Honolulu, Hawaii• brothers, Mikio and Katsunobu Richard, George and Isamu Hagino; gence while his family was confined Melvin and Clyde (Wendy); and 3 born Sansei; surVived by husband, (Shizuye); and brother-in-law, Tom and sister, Myrtle Wakida. gc. This compilation appears on a space-avail• Howard; son, Michael (Mirna); (Aiko) Sakata. Iwata, Peggy Setsuko, 87, able basis at no cost. Printed obituaries Shimahara, Grace Akemi, 45, daughter, Dawn; 2 gc.; brotherscin• from your newspaper are' welcome. "Death Fincher, Kazue Terai, 75, Sacramento, Aug. 2; San Fernando• Notices," which appear in a timely manner West LOs Angeles, July ·28; survived law, Wllliam (Sachiko) Takata and Hacienda Heights, July 27; Shimane• born; survived by daughters, Kay at request of the family or funeral director, by parents, Yutaka and Miyoko; and Roy Takata; and sister-i~-law , Janet are published at the rate of $15 per column ken, Japan-born; survived by daugh• (Alton) Marine and Jean (Phil)' inch Text is reworded as necessary. sister, Lilly (Roland Palmquist) , (Lowell) Van Cleef. ter, Michele; and sister, Fujie Hiroshima; sons, Clyde (Fern); 6 gc.; Shimahara. Yanaga, Joseph C., 88, Lomita] (Shigeharo) Tamura. and 3 ggc. to a federal internment camp in Shiroma, Takeo, 79, Monterey Aug. 2; Kealakekua, Hawaii-born; Fujita, Ann Sumiko,' 90, Santa Kaneko, Hisako, 66, Seal Beach, Idaho. Park, July 14; Sanger-born; survived' survived by wife, Irene; daughter, Rosa, Aug. 8; San Francisco-born, July 16; Osaka, Japan-born; survived Mayeshiro, Doris Hatsue, 85, by wife, Roberta; daughters, Julie Susan (Richard) Kawasaki; step• Amache internee, JACLer; survived by sons, Glenn (Jung Min) and West Covina, July 17; Pepeekeo, (Douglas) Hom and Joanne (Karsen) daughters, Susan Wada-Firnbres and by son, Dennis (Sue); daughter, Brian; daughter, Denise (Curtis) Hawaii-born Nisei; survived by Luthi; daughter-in-law, Cindy Judy Wada; '2 gc.; sister, Akie Kuga; Nancy (Dave) Thomsen and Gayle Anderson; 2 gc.; brothers, Hiroshi daughters, Dorothy (Bob) Shiroma; 6 gc.; sisters, Rose Ohye, and sister-in-law, Clara Tokunaga .• (Robert) BonDurant; daughter-in• (Emi) Taro, Shoji (Kazuyo) Taro and Yamamoto, Marian Clutterbuck, Mary (Kay) Tagarni, Chiyo (David) law, Sandie Fujita; 5 gc.; and 1 ggc. KengQ (Chizuko) Taro; and sister, Susan (Larry) Newton and Evelyn Ikefugi and Sue (Togo) Taira. Fujita, Kay Isamu, 90, Aug. 6; Eiko (Ken) Nagata. (Hector) Garcia; sons, Melvin,Alfred Tabuchi, Helen Masako, 92, (Mirta) and Dennis (Margie); sisters, Monterey Park, July 10; Courtland• JaI)e Asato and Fumie Jitchaku. IN MEMORIAM born Nisei; survived by sons, Donald Mikasa, Masato, 81, Fowlerville, (Alyce) and Kenneth (Mary); 5 gc.; 5 Hiram Fong, First AA Mich., Aug. 19; Moneta, Calif.-born; ggc.; brother, George (Yuri) Fukuda; survived by brothers, Hideo and sisters, Sumako Yoshiyama, Joan U.S. Senator, Dies at 97 Shiro; sisters, Tokiko Mori, Miyoko (Ken) Onodera, Clara (Dr. Henry) F.D.L. #929 (Wataru) Nakamaru and Tomiko Sanematsu and June (Ben) Yamada; By ASSOCIATED PRESS U.S. Senate, where he served 911 VENICE BLVD. (Jiro) Shimoda. , and brothers-in-law, Dr. Tadashi LOS ANGELES, CA 90015 almost 18 years. He also served as' Mori, Sumiko, 85, Torrance, July (213) 749-1449 HONOLULU-Hiram L. Fong, president of nine.companies. FAX (213) 749-0265 20; Venice-born Nisei; survived by DEATH NOTICE a son of immigrants who overcame Fong was elected one of R. Hayamizu, Presidellf son, Dennis (Lillian); daughters, H. Suzuki. V.P.IGen, Mgt: poverty to become , a Hawaii's first two SHIZUKO FUJIMOTO Carolyn (Thomas) Kato and Linda SHINTANI millionaire business• senators in 1959, and (Martin) Abe; 6 gc.; 2 ggc.; brother, DES PLAINES, IlL - Shizuko man and the first Asian remains the only Jeff (Midori) Tanaka; and sisters, "Seesue" Fujimoto Shintani passed away American elected to Republican senator Ann Higuchi and Mary (Roy) Friday, Aug. 20 after a long battle with the U.S. Senate, died the state has had. He Alzheimer's. Beloved mother of Patricia Yokoyama. Cohen, Marsha Steffen and Lorine Aug. 18. He was 97. was re-elected twice Ono, Kiyoko, 99, Gardena, July Haverback; cherished grandmother of Fong, a Republican, and retired in 1977. 16; Okayama, Japan-born Issei; sur• Jackie Haverback; and dear sister to Yo died at home with his Civil rights were a vived by sons, Paul (Sharlene) and and Tamio Fujimoto. She is preceded in wife, Ellyn, and daugh• focus of Fong's death by her husband, Victor; parents, Douglas (He Soon); daughter, Katsuno and Tamihei Fujimoto; brother, 707 East Temple Street ter Merie-Ellen Fong Senate career. His Gerald Fukui Florence (Howard) Doi; 5 gc.; and 4 Maseo Fujimoto; and grandson, Los Angeles, CA 90012 President Gushi at his side. The cause of amendment to a civil rights bill ggc. Christopher Haverback. Memorial and Ph. 2131626-0441 death is unknown. required auditors at polling places Sakai, Robert K., 85, Honolulu, internment services were held at Christ Once a shoeshine boy, Fong rose to assure minority voting rights .• Church of Chicago and at Elm Lawn Fax 2131617-2781 Aug. 15; former Univ. of Hawaii Cemetery in Elmhurst, TIL from the slums of Honolulu to the summer session dean and vice chan-

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This mode of The Sexual Inner Demons of a 'Lonely Woman' in which a female store clerk named writing is often tinged with a sense ByYUMISAKUGAWA enveloped in flames, enveloped in Ichiko is erotically intrigued by sly of dark irony. and evokes grim fasci• nation, as mundane details of every• S~al to the Pacific Citizen smoke, shrieking like locusts, they youngsters whose innocent facades. would bum on and on." belie a sexual and primal intensity, day life carry menacing overtones "Lonely Woman" is the title of These mental images give her such as a cunning nine-year old once filtered through the twisted Takako Takahashi's collection of such a sense of perverse pleasure shoplifter and a twelve-year old boy psychosis of these women. five individually titled short stories that she nearly convinces herself that who secretly flirts with her on the Mesmerizing and nightmarish as a that are loosely linked by common she has actually committed the train in the presence of his mother. never-ending fever dream, characters and recurring plot ele• crimes. All of these stories are somehow Takahashi's stories blur the lines ments, but it also expresses the main Sakiko's mental awakening that linked together by common charac• between reality and fantasy as she theme of her literary work: the femi• links eroticism with violence is sim• ters or recurring elements, which deftly explores the isolation that nine loneliness that can drive a ilarly found in the next story, '''The suggests that these mysterious spells haunt the depths of every repressed woman to insanity. Oracle," in which a woman named of loneliness and madness are not woman's soul. It is in this internal The madness found in Takahashi's Yoko dreams of her recently limited to these five characters, but landscape of loneliness where these heroines is not the melodrama of a deceased husband's infidelity with include all women who have felt the women transform into demons of neurotic housewife who shoots her other women. She is so convinced of strains of living in a rigidly defined, their unbridled passions . • husband in a frenzied fit of repressed these dreams that she obsessively patriarchal society. womanhood. Rather, the mental tracks down the women who appear Although these stories take place LONELY WOMAN maladies that ail these five Japanese day existence and metamorphose in them. As these nightly visions in contemporary Japan, Takahashi's By Takako Takahashi women are less easily defined and into something bewitched and consume her everyday life and even• clean-cut, rninin1alist prose, fluidly Translated and with an introduction manifest themselves in more subtle demonic when they delve into tually her sanity, Y6ko finally finds a translated by Maryellen Toman by Maryellen Toman Mori ways, which make them all the more repressed erotic fantasies that often brutal voodooist ritual to purge her• Mori, transforms these familiar land• Columbia University Press, $24.50, unsettling and mesmerizing. carry tinges of violence and self of these haunting images. scapes into a sterile and repressive 192 pages Perhaps this idea is most clearly masochism. Perhaps the most compelling and backdrop for a woman's quiet expressed in the story "The A prolific writer who has won Suspended Bridge," in which a . Japan's Woman's Literature Prize, SECRET ASIAN MAN ByTak [email protected]·©2004 Tak Toyoshima bored housewife . named Haruyo Takahashi seems to specialize in ignites her dormant sexual passion writing about heroines whose very 11"'$ OWS OF THIi FSW riMes WHEW SVSRYO~ when she leams that a man whom existence are incongruous with the f l.Qf8 WArCHUIG . uses THeIR IIfTSRMATfOMAL VISION. she had an emotionally sado• conventional female mold of wife THe O!.YMPfCS. J.OOKS 6eYO/J1/ "'ATIOr-lAt. SOW./I/Rles, masochistic relationship with in the and nurturer, and instead, find their past has returned to her town. She heightened sense of self-awareness f WISH rr WHERS compares the awakened passion that through other unconventional means Tfi6 OI.YMPfCS ALL Tf46 Tllfle. occurs inside her to that of a transfor• at the expense of their sense of sani• mation into a demon: ty. AIIII/ ~espec1'$ SACfoI "It's not that the female demon In the title story, "Lonely OTHSR FOR TH5 Aen.. /TIES described in Japanese legends actu• Woman," Sakiko is a young woman OF·THe ATHU;TGS. ally exists. The ordinary, perfectly who becomes deeply intrigued by normal woman, under certain cir• the series of arson crimes that have cumstances and at certain moments, occurred around her area. She is can turn into one. Anyone who saw 1'1' AW.SOII.. $ especially drawn to the fact that the 170Wll TO WHO this happen would probably let out a arsonist seems to have a pattern of ISTH68eST. shriek. Only the woman who saw it burning down elementary schools,. happen to herself would know why which gives her intensely lucid she'd turned into a demon." images of schoolchildren burning in Indeed, Haruyo's personal obser• the inferno: vation can apply to all the female '''The little children packed into the protagonists in Takahashi's stories, classrooms would be roasted alive. who transcend their mundane every- Not in an instant, but slowly, slowly,

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