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April 29, 1983 Pacific Citizen \4~ Postpaid I e~ . 20¢ The National Publication of the Japanese American Citizens League ISSN: ()()33.85791 Whole No. 2,236/ Vol. 96 o. 16

Coram nobis fund raiser nets $14,000 LOS ANGELES-The reception held March 31 to raise rums for the Former asst. sect'y of war coram nobis cases of Fred Korematsu, Gordon Hirabayashi and Min JACL Headlines ..• Yasui was called a "tremendous success," oetting over $14,000, reported says redress drive is unjust Leslie Furukawa, president of the Japanese American Bar Association. EW YORK-John J . McCloy, the former assistant secretary of war The funds will be used to offset the costs incurred by the attorneys who under President Franklin D. Roosevelt, said in a ew York Times column are working to win reversals of the convictions of the three litigants, who April 10 that the current redress efTorts by Japanese Americans will defied evacuation and curfew orders aimed at Nikkei duiing World War " perpetuate injustice." II. In 1942, McCloy was responsible.for Ute implementation of the orders In addition to J ABA, the sponsoring organizations of the event included which called for the evacuation and internment of 120,000 Japanese Ame• the JACL PSWDC; the Japanese American Democratic Club; the Little ricans and Uteir resident alien parents. Tokyo Business Association; the Japanese Chamber of Conunerce and Here is the lIDedited text of McCloy's column, entitled, "Repay U.S. the Japanese American Republican Club. Japanese?" : These organizations extended their thanks to the following Patrons "Forty years after the event, the Japanese American lobby is pressing (who contributed $250 or more) and Sponsors \ $100) : to have the Government provide additional large-scale damage-claim Patrons: Dr. Henry Tsutomu Tai; George T. Aratani; California Dem• paymenls-a lump sum possibly running into billions of dollars-to Ame• ocratic Party; Frank Clluman; Sam Fujimoto; David HyWl; Harry and rican citizens or resident aliens of Japanese descent who were evacuated Janet Kajihara; Law Offices of Nagata, Masuda and Katayama; Law from the West Coast and temporarily relocated during World War II, or Offices of Okamoto and Wasserman; Law Offices of O'Melveny & Mey• their surviving next of kin. If we bow to this lobby , we will perpetrate ers; Law Offices of Williams, Williams, Furukawa and Bartlett; Phil• injustice. lipine Lawyers Assn. of Southern California; Alan L. Seid, M.D., Asian . 'The issue was forcefully brought to our attention last month, when the Pacific Advocates of California; and Masataka and Mitsuye Tomooka. tax-payer-funded Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Sponsors: Dr. Kiyoshi Ogawa; Hideo Nakano; Anzen Hardware Co.; Civilians, after conducting a study, ISSued its report, 'Personal Justice Roy Hiroto; William and Irene Koseki; Harvey Horikawa; Takeo Tai• Denied,' deploring the evacuation. The commission, created during the yoshi; William K. Sudo; David Yamada; Jim Miyano; Paul Suzuki; 1980 Presidential campaign, is expected to recommend 'appropriate' Assemblyman Richard Alatorre; Hodge and Mary Amemiya; Atlantic remedies. Any cash compensation for previously unproved charges, pay• Richfield Co.; Supervisor Michael D. Antonovich; Mr. and Mrs. Paul able without further necessity of proof, would supplement payments of Barmai; East West Players; Fred Fujioka and Jane Hara; Mas Fukai ; damage claims and for loss of property totaling $38 million made in 1950, Greater L.A. JACL Singles Chapter; Tak Hamano; George and Yukiko when evidence and testimony on possible damage was relatively fresh Hayashi; Thomas and Rose Himrod; Ronald and Irene Hirano; Carol and available. The Congressional commission, which charged that mili• Hiroshige; Edwin Hiroto; William Hiroto ; Dr. Clarence Hiura; Fred and tary considerations did not motivate the relocation, called none of today's ADDRESSING JAPAN CHAPTER-Lawrence F. Snowden, Irene Hoshiyama; I Government officials to testify in defense of Franklin D. Roosevelt's president of the American Chamber of Commerce in Japan Mr. and Mrs. Susumu Iwanaga; Fusao and Tayoko Kawato; Wayne action and made no effort to show Ute steps taken to insure Ute welfare of (center), recently spoke before the JACL Japan Chapter in and Aiko King ; Ken and Mutsuko Kitasako; Y. George Kodama! Yosh the relocated Japanese. tokyo and met with H. Dick Yamashita, Chapter Secretary Kuromiya; Thomas Loo ; "The matter demands to be put into true perspective. I was made (left) and Barry Saiki, Chapter President (story, Pg. 10). Law Offices : Mori and Ota; Nishiyama, Mukai, Leewong, Evans & acutely conscious of this after Japan's Ambassadol' to the United States Saldin; Quan, Cohen, Kurahashi Hsieh & Scholtz; Senzaki, Osajima & remarked to me recently that revisionist historians 'are now agreed' Utat Nishimura; • Mr. Roosevelt invited Ute attack on Pearl Harbor in order to enable him to Kenji Machida, Mako, Marina JACL;. Tom Masamori; Dr. Ronald engage America in the war against Nazi Germany at an earlier date. This Fresno/ A.L.L. set for 60th year fest Matsunaga; Suzanne Mayeda; Rep. Norman Y. Mineta; Grace Mitsu• is revisionism gone mad. Mr. Roosevelt may have been an adroit politi• hata; Kazuoand Mary Miyashita; Bill and Paulene Nakagawa; Dr. and cian, but no one in his right mind can accuse him of being a traitor. * * * Mrs. Robert Obi; CandiceOchi; RoseOchi; Rancho Fanns; " We all share the conclusion that Ute evacuation was traumatic for Ute Lani Ann Sakoda; Emmett and Yoneko Shintani; Dr. Kiyoshi and 120,000 resettled. The key officials involved are on record as regretting Ute Wakabayashi: Membership Report Mitsu Sonoda; Gene Lee Takamine; Kazuo Umerooto; Kiku Fukuyama COntinued on Page 6 * * * Uno; Kathleen Watanabe; Ruth Watanabe and Michael Yamaki. /I PSWDC Nisei Relays set for June Asian Pacific Heritage week full of activity * * * LOS ANGELFS-The week of May 7-14 has been designated Asian/ AM. Sponsored by Asian Pacific Women's Network of L.A. CONTACT: Pacific American Heritage Week, in celebration of Asian/Pacific com• Mary Wong Lee (956-1800 ext 35(8) . Feelie Lee, Ph.D. will speak. Placer ready for AlP Heritage Wk. munities and contributioos in America. A proclamation was signed by MAY9-14 Reagan in Washington, D.C. on March 29 declaring Asian/ Pacific Ameri• Page 10 Asian Pacific Island High Blood Pressure Week Screening Services, can Heritage Week. sponsored by Asian Pacific Islander Task Force 00 High Blood Pressure, Events and festivities scheduled for Ute week in Los Angeles are as CONTACT: Keith Umemoto or Liza Javier ~3675 ; High blood pressure follows: screening and information. All days: 11 AM - 12 PM, at the following Kondo: PANA Travel Information . MAY 7 locations: May 9, Chinatown; May 10, Little Tokyo Service Center; May Asian Arts/Crafts Fair & Kite Making/Flying, 10:00 AM -5:00 PM, at 11, United Methodist Church; May 12, Indochinese Service Center; May * * * Castelar Elementary School (Chinatown), sponsored by Mayor Brad• 14, Korean YouUt Center. ley's Asian/Pacific American Heritage Committee and Castelar Ele• MAY 10 Watanabe: Youth Program Update mentary School. CONTACT : Tommy Chung or Bill Chun Hoon (626-3674). Filipino Kite Demonstration and Exhibition, 5:00 - 7:00 PM, at 1828 Page 12 Nutrition Education Seminar, 12:30 - 4:00 PM, at Little Tokyo Towers, Sunset Blvd. Sponsored by Search to Involve Pilipino Americans and Dining Room. Sponsored by American Heart Association, Asian Pacific Central City Action Committee, CONTACT : Royal Morales or Maryanne Nutrition Project, in conjunction with KNXT -TV. CONTACT: Ron Kura- Hayashi (~). moto (413-6141 or 797-9617). . MAY 11 Annual Installation Dinner Dance, 7:00 PM, at Queen Mary Hilton, Chinese Interagency Council Cultural Heritage ~uncheon, 11:30 AM - Long Beach. Sponsored by Filipino Association ofS.E.L.A. CONTACT: 1:00 PM, at Golden Dragon Restaurant. Sponsored by Chin~ inter• Perry Barit (921-7005). agency Council. CONTACT: Sheila Chau (221-1165) or George Poon (223- Marutani gets support from 21st Annual "Mothers of the Year" Luncheon, 12: 00 -3 : 00 PM, at Golden 6402) . Ballroom, New Otani Hotel and Gardens. Sponsored by JACL and Japa• Scholarship Awards Dinner, 5:30 PM social ,hour, 6:30 PM dinner, at nese Women's Society of Southern California. CONTACT: Pat Ogawa Miriwa Restaurant, 740 N. Hill St. Sponsored by Asian American Educa• Philadelphia Inquirer editorial (628-2725) or Ethel Kohashi (487-7330). tors Association. CONTACT: Jackie Ota (273-a120). Awarding I! scholar• PHILADELPmA~urt of Common Pleas Judge William M. MAY7-14 . ships to Asian Pacific American seniors in L.A. Unified School District. Marutani received a boost of support in his quest to win a seat on Art Exhibition, "East Meets West," by Leading Asi.an Artists Lows MAY 12 the Permsylvania Supreme Court as the Philadelphia Inquirer, Newman Galleries, Mon. 1O :00-6:30PM, Tues. -10:00-9 :30PM,Sun. 1:00 Luncheon and Guest Speaker: "Newcomers and Neighbors - Future - 9:30 PM, at Louis Newman Galleries, Beverly Hills. CONTACf: Louis Trends in Immigration," 12: 00 PM, at Miriwa Restaurant, 740 N. Hill St. the state's largest newspaper, endorsed him for the post. Newman Galleries (278-6311). Sponsored by Pacific Asian American Roundtable. CONTA0': ~ike Marutani, 60, will be on the May 17 primary ballot for both the Performance: Korean Cultural Exchange Program, sponsored by Woo (464-1178) or Mike Eng (387-2257). Orner G.Sewell, Dept. Dist. Orr. of Democratic and Republican parties, along with six oth~r con• Korean American Cultural Exchange Foundatioo. CONTACf: Soong Ute U.S. bnmigration and Naturalization Service will speak. tenders. Since all the candidates have filed on both tickets, Kim (738-9797). Korean boys and girls choir group and folkloric dance MAY 13 noted the Inquirer, it is possible that one could win nominations group from Korea will perform. Annual Heritage Dinner Celebrating "Our Children: Our Future," 6: 00 Exhibition: "On the Move - Asians in America, to 8:00 AM -5: 00 PM, at for both parties in the primary ~lection-and thus the seat. PM cocktails, 7:00 PM dinner, at L.A. Hilton Hotel. Sponsored by Mayor Bridge Gallery -Pedestrian bridge between City Hall ~d City H~ E~t. CONTA~ : "Among six other candidates, several have acceptable Bradley's Asian Pacific American Heritage Committee. the Sponsored by Los Angeles City Employees Asian Amencan AssocIalion, Christine Ung (48&-4420). Featuring performances by talented young Asi• qualifications. On the vitally important questiOns. of !ndepen• Chinese Historical Society of Southern California, and the Aerospace an Pacific children. dence from political involvements and from Special mter~ts Corp. CONTACf: James Okazaki (485-2284 or 28(H397). Visual display of MAY 14 and judicial demeanor-the sua:;tance and appearance of JU• historical photographs, documents, cartoons, and drawings of Asian Program onLegal Rights and Remedies Regarding Social Security and America. Health Benefits, Simple Wills and Probate, Immigration, 1:00 PM, at dicial integrity-Judge Marutani stands out above all others," Asi~ P~cific .Ame rican Heritag~ ~eek, Displays Related to S!l?nsored Little Tokyo Service Center, 244 San Pedro. Sponsored by Japanese Ame• said the Inquirer in its April 17 editorial. by Los Angeles City Public Libraries CONTACf: Knstma MOrita (626- in Kent, Wa., Marutani was interned at Tule Lake dur• rican Bar Association of Los Angeles. CONTACf : Carole Morita (678- Born 7755 ext 321 or 912-8296) . 4177). Community Law Day program will include presentations by practi• ~ni­ ing World War II, and then attended Dakota Wesleyan MAY7-21 tioners, and pro bono consultation and referral services. versity and later entered military service (MIS). He received Exhibition: Lotus Watercolor Society Artwork, at 5505 Wilshire Blvd. "Readings in Filipino Culture," 2: 00 PM, sponsored by Filipino Ameri• his law degree from the University of Chic~? . . . sponsored by Korean Olltural Service. CONTACf: Ryew Kim (93&-7141 can Educators Association. CONTACf: Helen Brown (374-&340). He was appointed Judge of the First JudiCial Dlstnct m 1975 or 465-3342) Opening reception, May 6, 6:00 -8:00 PM. Open House: Use of the News Media by Commwrity Organizations, 9: 30 by the Permsylvania governor and elected in 1977 for a full term MAY 8 AM - 12 :30 PM. Sponsored by Asian American Journalists Association. Annual Luau of the Hawaiian Club, 5:00 PM - 10:00 PM, at Gersten CONTACT: Teresa Watanabe (744-8460) or Bill Sing (912-4767). with the highest votes in both the primary and general elec• Pavillion) Loyola Marymount University. Sponsored by Asian Pacific For further information on these and other events during the month of tions. Supportive Services. CONTACT: Nancy Au (642-2892). May, see the Calendar for 1983 Asian/Pacific AmericanHer~tage W~, Marutani is also a member of the U.S. Commission on War• MAY 9 organized and coordinated by Mayor Tom Bradley's Cormruttee on AsI• time Relcatioo and Internment of Civilians. Lecture: The Culturallnf1uence of Mothers to Their Daughters, 11 : 30 an/ Pacific American Heritage (4854420) . /I People in the News Seattle mayor may have eased tensions with Asian leaders SEATTLE-Mayo~ Charles Royer J from his personal staff last month. done." One Asian group, the Seattle I apparently eased tensions be• Okl, a prominent member of the Sugiyama said one 6f the three tween himself and·the Asian com• JACL, boycotted the April 12 meet• Nikkei mayor leads fight city's Japanese comrmmity, was vacant city department head posi• ing. The group) president, Mako munity April 12 after a meeting transferred by Royer to the De• tions should go to an Asian. While that left the community leaders Nakagawa said the group did not partment of Human Resources to Sugiyama said the mayor made no receive an invitation. blaming their problems with the . against PCB tainted site work on issues involving Asian re• promises to the community lead• " We do not need to slip in the mayor on a "lack of fugees. Old joined Royer in 1977, UNION CITY, Ca.-About 30 Uni• ers, he did ask for their help in fmel• back door, rut (should) be in• PCB stands for polychlorinated communication. " during his first campaign for on City residents rallied April 2 biphenyl, the designation given to ing qualified Asian candidates for vited," said Nakagawa. Alan Sugiyama, an Asian leader mayor, and had since served on his the position, Sugiyama said. near a Pacific Gas & Electric a group of organic compounds who chaired the gathering be• staff. chemical storage site, to demand commonly used in industrial appli• About 10% of the member of the Nakagawa and Royer aide Tom tween Royer and the group, The hour-long meeting to ad'• city's commissions that the utility company quit stor• cations as electrical transformers. boards and are Keefe have exchanged a series of emerged from the closed-door dress concerns raised by Oki's dis• Asian, said Sugiyama, rut on some ing dangerous PCBs in this resi• PCBs are considered a danger• angry letters for the past month. meeting and said the community missal was attended by represen• boards such as the Library Board dential area, the Nichi Bei Times ous, life-threatening pollutant. Nakagawa has accused Keefe of leaders were concerned that tatives of the Asian WOI1len's Cau• and the Seattle Housing Authority "gross rudeness arrogance" reported. Scientists have determined that and Royer did not have an Asian de• cus, Chinese for Afflmlative Ac• there are no Asians. in a phone conversation, while Mayor Tom Kitayama noted PCBs are toxic to various animals, partment head and that Asians are tion, Asian Family Affair, Asians Keefe has replied ,·the Tom Keefe that PG&E had flIed for a muni• particularly fish but including hu• In addition, he said, only five of underrepresented on some of the for Political Action, Asian Execu• you describe is not the Tom Keefe" cipal use permit Wlder a new city mans. They have also been liked to the 124 city employees who are city's commissions, boards and in tive Director Coalition and Asian known by other members of the ordinance. birth defects in humans. classified exempt--a category exempt city positions. Businessman's Association. Japanese community. Kitayama said the atility would PG&E is currently replacing that includes department heads But all in all, &Jgiyama said, the The meeting also was attended and directors-are Asian. -Seattle Post-Intelligencer have to pay a fine of $500 a day if it - transformers that use PCBs. # mayor has "come a long ways'· had not sought the permit, al• by Alan Kurimura, a Japanese and that his •'overall record is very American recently appointed to though PG&E had been storing good" with respect to Asian hiring PCBs in Union City without a city • Military Royer's personal staff to fill Old's in the city. position. permit since 1978 and claims it Sen. Spark M. Matsunaga of Ha• Royer was unavailable for com• needs no city authorization to waii recently announced in Wash• "The mayor has done some good ment after the meeting, called things, no question about it," Sugi• . operate its Decoto Pipe Yard, ington his nominees for military after tensions developed over across from Kennedy Park. academies. Among those nomi• yama said. " But there are still Royer's dismissal of Arlene Oki ~me PG&E has a permit from the nated for West Point was Jason T. things we would like to see state Department of Health Ser• Tanaka of Honolulu, a Kalani High vices to operate a hazardous waste School senior. For the Merchant thomas/ o'keefe associates facility, and it has med suit in U.S. Marine Academy, Matsunaga District Court against the city, say• named ten students, among them PRESENTS ing it requires no city pennit. Neal T. Izumi of Honolulu, also a A PG&E spokeswoman noted Kalani High School senior. For the that only one acre of the 3O-acre U.S. Air Force Academy, the sena• facility is used to store the cancer• tor nominated W students, and one STRESS MANAGEMENT causing PCBs. of his principal nominees was SEMINARS AT SEA Kitayama said that in his view David H. Kaneshiro of Hilo, a the PG&E facility "does not in• senior at Waiakea High School. SE~JNARS AT SEA Checking at Sumitomo volve big capital investment-a SUMMER '83 metal building and a concrete pad. We asked them to move it out of the • Awards W HAT. 6· DAY (2S HR.) EXPERIENTiAL STRESS MANAG£.... ENT Earns Greater Interest. SEM!NAR city. Instead, tast March 25, they Takeru Higuchi, regents profes• SumitOIno's Super Checking* gives you all the sued us. " sor of chemistry and pharmacy • OPPORTUNITY TO DEVELOP STRESS CONTROL SKlLLS He said it will be June before and chairman of the department of • OPTION TO LEARN OR IMPROVE SAILING SKILLS advantages of a checking account and more. Earn PG&E's application for a city use pharmaceutical chemistry at the • OCCASION TO RF;LAX WITH FINE FOOD AND BEVERAGE the highest interest Sumitomo has ever offered on permit can be processed through University of Kansas, has been • Tl'dE TO ENJOY PLEASANT WEATHER A/l:D Qt.:Al"lT checking by maintaining an average balance of Union City agencies. . named the 1983 recipient of the LOCAL HISTORY He said residents object that the $2,500. Enjoy unlimited check-writing privileges, American Pharmaceutical As• WHERE. WASHINGTON STATE'S SAN JUAN ISLA.'1DS pipe yard seems to be the place sociation's Remingtoo Honor have the safety of FDIC insurance, and of course, where PG&E brings cootaminated Medal. • THE FL'IEST CRUISING GROUNDS IN NORTH A.\lERICA use our statewide network of Automated Teller • ABOARD Lt.:XURY SAILING Y .~CHTS A.'1D POWER CRUISERS equipment and PCB-tainted soil Higuchi's professional career in• Machines to deposit, withdraw or transfer funds. from throughout the state. cludes director of the Alza Insti• • INCLUDES STOPS AT HISTORIC RESORTS AND SECLUDED BAYS Community anxiety flared anew ruteofP~~tical~e~ Our A1M transactions can be as fast as 12 seconds. March 23 when a quantity of PCB try, president and chair of the IN• WHEI\' • SIX DAYS OF YOUR SUMMER '$3 VACATION Inquire at your nearest branch office for contaminated soil being shipped TERx Research Corporation • JULYH ·29 . OR JULY31 ·. ~UG . S : here spilled on the Nimitz Free• which he established, am vice pre• .AUG. 7 · 12 : OR AUG )f · 19 information' about Stlmitonio Super Checking. way outside of the town. The clean• sident of Merck Sharp and Dohme up caused a massive traffic jam. *lndividuals, sole proprietors, governmental units and Research Laboratories. COST. U9S PER PERSON · In 1981 the APhA's Academy of certain nonprofit organizations are eligible for • Science Phannaceutical Sciences esta• Sumitomo Super Checking. blished the Takeru Higuchi Re• FOR DETAILS AND RESERVATION'S: A presentatioo on avian candidi• search Prize and Endowment asis, a current major disease in Fund to recognize the highest ac• CONTACT .tok poultry and pet birds was given at complislunents in the pharmaceu• thomas/ o'keefe associa((>s • Sumitomo Bank the 32nd Western Poultry Disease tical sciences. Box 2095 Conference at UC Davis on Feb. 8- Higuchi is originally from Santa Kodiak. Ak 99615 10. Bryan Mayeda, D.V.M., veteri• Clara County and presently re• (907) 486-3710 nary medical cXflcer in pathology sides in Lawrence, Kansas, with . .1"-:''' ...... • at the regiooal state veterinary ----• Sumitomo Bank of California Member FDIC . his wife, Aya. ~' - ' diagnostic laboratory at the Cali• ~-- ...... g~ - ...... ' ~ fornia Department of Food and Philip Matsumura of San Jose Agriculture in Sacramento, spoke was the recipient of the Thomas P. at the conference, which drew par• Ryan JIall of Fame award for h!s ticipants from across the U.S., work as a microbiologist in' the Central and South America, Cana• areas of molecular biology and mi• da, Mexico, EW'Ope, Asia and the crobial physiology. The award was Middle East. named in honor of the first superin• tendent in San Jose's East Side Union High School District, and a 'Thtee~ co-winner of the award was former . 'lit Experience .... Heisman Trophy winner Jim Plun• ATM touch.·•• kett, now with the Los Angeles Raiders. Matsumura is currently a FUKUI lecturer and head of the molecular • withdraw cash • make deposits • make Mortuary, Inc. biology department at the Univer- ; loan payments • transfer money sity of illinois at Chicago. He is the ! between your accounts 707 E. Temple St. son of San Jose JACLers Mr. and : Los Angeles, CA 90012 Mrs. Phil Matsumura. : ... and check your 626-0441 -In Washington, D.C. two Oahu available balances high school juniors, Keodra K. Yo• Gerald Fukui, President shimoto of Castle High School in Kaneohe, Hawaii, and Eric M. Wa• Nobuo Osuml, Counsel/or kahiro, a student at Kaiser High i' School in Honolulu, Hawaii, have won Japan-U.~. Senate Scholar• ships, acco~ to a joint an• nouncement made March 2 by U.S. Shimatsu, Ogata Senators Daniel K. Inouye and Spark Matsunaga of Hawaii. and Kubota Kendra, the daughter of Mrs. Apply for your Mortuary Pamela Yoshimoto of Kaneohe, and Eric, the son of Mr. and Mrs. ATM access card today. James Y. Wakahiro of Honolulu, 911 Venice Blva. will spend two months in Japan Los Angeles this summer as the guests of two Japanese families. CALIFORNIA I . 749-1--1-49 The students were among 12 FIRST BANK Sl:.ljlDUKE O(;ATA Hawaii semifinalists who com• Memoer FOIC H. YL'TAKA KL'BOL\ peted for the scholarships funded ( Callfo'rnla First Bank. 1982 by the Government of Japan and administered by Youth for Under• standing, a nm-profit, interna• 2~ACIAC CITIZEN I tional student exchange Friday, April 29, 1983 organization. Senior care center to discuss exercise Community News LOS ANGELES-The support cise for older people. l' I group for families who care for . The focus of the group is to pro• someone experiencing memory VIde mutual support and education Radio. series on camp issues loss and loss of thinking and rea• by helping each other, share solu• soning capacity will meet on tions, exchanging information and Saturday, April 30, 10 a.m. to 12 ideas and educating the communi• slated in San Francisco May 2 noon at Union Church, Third and ty. For further information call SAN FRANCISCO-"1beJapaneseAmerican Incarceration: More Than San Pedro Streets. The tq>ic of dis• Ardis Nishikawa at (213) a Memory," a new radiodocumentaIy series, will be broadcast 00 May 2, cussion is the importance of exer- ~2673 . /I at 6:30 p.m. over San Francisco's KQED-FM (88.5). Tbe two half-hour programs, produced by award-winning Stan Kadani and Barbara NAsian Americans in news organizations, promot• ing community access to the news media and encouraging accurate news Mini Mall Calle Hermosa, Hwy. 94 at College Grove Ave . media portrayals of Asian Americans. Placer County health program for Nikkei set SAN DIEGO, CALIF 92114 High school seniors and college students attending accredited institu• (619) 287-9439 (619) 698-1450 LOOMIS, Ca. - Placer County- charged for this health evalua• tions may apply for the scholars.l$ awards, which will be based on be Health Department has established tion. Only Gallery in town to carry Olaf Wieghorst's full collection . scholastic achievement, demonstrated journalistic ability and the desire a preventive health care program The screening includes medical ,..----~------___ to pursue a news media career and cmununity involvement. for adults whim is available to lindependent film and meo produ• amination for men am women 60 For more infonnation or to The Pacific Citizen carries a great deal of national and retail Women Writers Series on May 21 cers, sponsored by Visual Com• years of age and older at no dlarge. make an appoinbnent, call Mrs. advertising from firms a'lI over the country. at 8 p.m. at the Woman's Building, munications, will be held on May 7, For those between 21 and 60, a King (who is bilingual for the ben• sliding fee scale is used for char- efit of Issei) at her home 1m North Spring Street. The from 10 a.m. - 5 p.m., at the Japa• These firms need as much information ~ possible about the event is co-sponsored by the Asian nese American Cultural and Com• Pacific Women's Network, and munity Center (2nd floor), 244 S. kind of people who read the PC . will be signed for persons with San Pedro 8t. rW~E=::;P::RS! bearing impainnents. Admission In the next few days, many of you who mve been selected at is $4, and $3 for members of the The workshop will be led by --\ 5 TO 1 TAX SHELTER. random from our sllbscription rolls will be receiving a co-sponso~ organizatms. Steve Tatsukawa, Manager of Pro• The readings by the Asian wal writing, and How·to details furnished. Available only to May 15. Another dynamIC exclUSIve from: in the envelope tmt is ,Provided. ture." The series is funded in part grants management. by a grant from the National En• Enrollment is limited to 20. 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By BE'ITY NAKANISHI from Wimpy Hirota's testimonial ClDCA~~and-ooe-half years have elapsed since the Japanese GARDENA, Ca.- Two Los An• Among the honorary dirmer American elderly and handicapped began mo~ into Heiwa Terrace, geles Keiro Homes, South Bay Kei• chainnen for the event are Sens. the congregate housing fac1Uty on Chicago's north side built through the ro and Gardena Valley Japanese Daniel K. Inouye ard Spark Ma• Cultural Institute, will be the bene• joint efforts of the Nikkei comnll.mity and the federal government , tsunaga; Reps. Norman Mineta ficiaries of the community testi• and Robert Matsui; L.A. Mayor Today Heiwa Terrace thrives as the pride and joy of Chicago's Nikkei. monial for JCI Executive Director The ground floor is a show place with its sboji~ dining room, airy Tom Bradley and many other state William T. "Wimpy" Hiroto on and local officials. lobby area accented by Japanese murals and Ikebana, a craft room, a May 26 at the Bonaventure Hotel. Co-emcees of the event will be library, an assembly hall equipped with a large-screen televisioo set, a KNEe-TV Newsanchor Tritia beauty/barber shop, and staff offices. A Japanese garden is nearing The $1~per-person banquet will Toyota and actor Pat Morita. completion to add further to the buildng's aesthetics. honor Hiroto, who has served at For ticket info call Kenzo Okubo The l2-story building's 200 apartments are fully occupied, with vacan• the JCI's director for the past eight (213 ) 626-1830 ; Ruth Shingu cies quickly fill~ by applicants on the ever-present waiting list. Comply• years, successfully completing a 530-WOO or Mrs. Yoshiko Hayashi ing with the requirement of the Department ofHousing and Urban Devel• $l.5 million building drive. 77(}2878. opment (HUD) that no more than lK)% of the apartments be occupied by Asians, Heiwa Terrace currently shows the follow~ eUmic percentages: Japanese, 55%; Koreans, 15%; Taiwanese, 4.5%; Chinese, 1.5Cio; Filipi• Trees planted at Amache Memorial site nos, 4%; Caucasians, 17.5%; and Blacks, 2.5%. Residents with incomes GRANADA, Colo.-One hundred and twenty Russian olive sap• below a designated maximum, which is adjusted annually by HUD, pay lings were planted by members of the Denver Central Optimist 25% of their monthly income for rent, with HUD providing funds for the Chicago's Heiwa Terrace for seniors Club and the Arkansas Valley JACL at the site of the proposed balance. Amache Memorial Site here. . Heiwa Terrace is more than "just a place to live." Residents are well as manual labor ard raised funds for the plantings. Volunteers provided with meal service, recreational and educational programs, conduct monthly bingo sessions, give lectures, teach craft classes, and . The trees, which were chosen for their ability to survive the other social services, ard contact with the community through special help in many other ways. Members of the local JAYS, the JACL-affiliated harsh weather conditions at the site, were set into the grounds of events on the premises. Directing the affairs of the housing facility is the youth group, have contributed their services in such activities as a spa• the former Amache Relocation Center on April 10. JASC Housing Corporation Board, which is currently composed of the ghetti dinner in the Heiwa Terrace dining room and escorting interested The mayor of Granada assured the groups that if the weather following : Ben Yoshioka, president; Yoji Ozaki, vice president; Alice residents to a Major League baseball game. in the area should turn dry, he would have the flre department Murata, secretary; Hiroshi Nakano, treasurer; and directors Noboru Through self-help, residents are doing their part in making congregate use their equipment to irrigate the land. # Honda, Yutaka Kanemoto, Helen Mukoyama, Betty Nakanishi, Tom living a success at Heiwa Terrace. A residents' council, composed of two Teraji, Ted Uchimoto, Richard Yamada, Sr., and Ben Yamagiwa. representatives from each floor , meet monthly to air residents' concerns. The Japanese American Service Committee of Chicago lJASC) , a s0- In a . 'buddy system," residents keep tabs on each other. cial service agency that serves Nikkei, other Asians, and the mentally Events held at Heiwa Terrace by various groups have involved resi• handicapped, spearbeaded the drive that culminated in the building of dents in community activities. The JASC has held two of its annual Give her a golden Heiwa Terrace. The JASC applied for financing in 1976 under Section 202 Japanese food festivals and its 35th anniversary annual meeting there. of the Housing Act ofl959 and became one of three parties granted funding Heiwa Terrace has also been the cite for two JACL annual scholarship Mother's Day . in Illinois in 1m. A JASC fund-raising committee rallied financial sup• luncheons and two reparations meetings. However, the use of Heiwa port from the Nikkei community to pay for the amenities not covered by Terrace is limited only to those events that include resident government funds . a lengthy screening of persons applying for apart• participation. # ments was coooucted by a volunteer committee from the Nikkei community. Meal service and staff-supplied social services were instituted during 1982 through funds and staffing authorized by the JASC Housing Corpora• Nikkei arrested for supplying tion Board. A three-times-a-week dirmer program for interested residents was begun in October following surveys of residents' nutrition needs and chemicals to pcp drugmakers desires. Residents pay $1.50 per meal, purchasing the dinner plan a month PARAMOUNT, Ca.-A Japanese who had been tipped-off to the im• at a time; the balance of the meal cost is temporarily subsidized by the American man, arrested March 21 pending arrests by law enforce• Reflect your loue with a gold pendant Heiwa Terrace general funds. In addition to providing dinners with a IV at his Paramount plastic and ment agencies. Also ready with representing the Japanese characters for nourishing, balanced evening meal, the program serves as a valuable chemical warehouse, is today be• quick reactions to the Sasuga ar• Mother and Grandmother or haue her function in socialization for the residents. ing called "California's largest rest was District Attorney Robert name created in Hiragana characters- The social service program at Heiwa Terrace was formalized with the dealer of supplies for PCP (Angel H. Philibosian who described the genuine appreciation in 14K and 18K yellow go/d. And for addition of a social service counselor to the staff in May, with funds for the Dust) productioo." substances seized in the raid as that uery spedaJ touch add a diamond to put extra sparkle in position coming from HUD. The counselor's duties include program acti• A team of about 50 Los Angeles "enough to almost turn on the her eyes. vities, counseling, social service, and administration. County Sheriff's State Attorney whole state of California ... This Mothers Day she'll remember you foreuer . . .gi ue her Activities include an art class, ballroom dancing, monthly bingo, a General's Bureau of Narcotic En• State officials said the raid was louing thoughts from Henry Yamada, In c. bridge club, movies in various languages, folk dancing, health-arxi-aging forcement swooped down on Joli the first conducted under several discussions, mah jong, a nutrition class, photography instruction, ping Plastic and Chemical Corp., in Pa• new state laws that make it a Asampling .... pong, Tai Chi, ard various crafts. Furxfing for the photography class, for ramount and arrested Jonathan crime to knowingly sell chemicals which an enlarger has been purchased, came from the Chicago Council on Sasuga, 68, ard two of Sasuga's that will be used in the manufac• Fine Arts. employees, Enrique Munoz and ture of illegal drugs or to fail to report such business transactions. Since residents first started mov~ into Heiwa Terrace, the JASC has Guillermo Flores, both 32. All three were charged with selling Chemicals purchased by under• been providing on-site services, which include casework counseling, chemicals to . 'persons knowingly cover agents alone reportedly was group counseling for Issei, homemaker help, and meals on wheels. Some involved in the manufacture of enough to produce 13,360 ounces of of the residents also participate in the JASC's Sheltered Workshop, Adult PCP," according to Thomas Wad• PCP, which would carry a street Day Care Center, which includes transportation, arxi group outings. Resi• kins, supervising special agent for value of $3.3 million. dents are a..lsO served by Asian Hwnan Services, which conducts counsel• theBNE. Agents said that Sasuga not only ;l,.,. ing for Chinese/Taiwanese, Korean, and World War Ii relocation camp .. sold the substances but offered ad• X" The arrests culminated a year• o internees, and presents English/ acculturation classes. long investigation by local law en• vice as to a better means to pro• Volunteers ard continuing monetary donations from the Nikkei com• forcement agencies on the activi• cess and synthesize a purer form of munity are playing a major role in 81hancing the quality of Life for the ties of Sasuga. According to agent the drug. They added that the Ja• residents. Professional hair designers contribute their services at the Wadkins the probe disclosed that panese American also offered to on-site beauty/barber shop. The Japanese garden is evolving primarily "Sasuga was the largest source of make 10 pounds of methampheta• through the efforts of volunteers, who provided larx:Iscape gardening as precursors ard chemicals in the mines valued at $192,000. state used in the manufacture of Law enforcement agency news PCP, methamphetamines and releases said Saerties in Hawaii Marketing Representative Address ______with The Daiei Inc., Japan's lar• Cily ______State ______z lp ___ gest retailer; for a major U.S. chemical industrial firm Signature ______A partnership with Asahi Inter• to work in Japan. Requirements: Must be fluent in Japanese national Ltd., Asabi Mutual's U.S. and English, bachelor's degree in either chemistry or engineer• Send gift to:' Name ______subsidiary, to own the 32-story ing, advanced degree in business administration (MBA) a plus. Equitable Building in Atlanta. The Salary is negotiable, based upon experience. Minimum is Address ______transaction took place in May $29K-30K. Send resume to: Clty ______State _____ ZIP ___ 1982; and the sale of the Pan Ocean .. Building, a 22-&or New York City Lamont Owens Co., Inc., P.O. Box 5894 Please allow 10 days lor delivery. office tower, to Nippon Life in June Coy Eklund Philadelphia, PA 19128, (215) 248-0500. GUARANTEE. "you are not completely satlshed. please return lor a prompt relund within two weeks 01 delivery Prtces good until May 9. 1983 l-PACIFIC CI1IZEN I friday. April 29. 1983 VA official's use of funds questioned by Wash. Post Birmingham-Hitachi expand city ties TOKYO- lajor Richard Arring• WASHINGTON-Paul T. Bannai, about conducting personal busi• side cemetery so often, Bannai re• South Carolina resort to play golf established a sister city relation• director of the Veterans Adminis• ness too. The question is: 'How do plied: "That is where I plan to be ton, Jr. of Birrningham, AJabama, ship on April 23, 1982. and .. simply get away," a A of• and Hitachi's Mayor Tomeji Ta• tratioo's Department of Memorial you know?' .. buried . .I have special interest in ficial said. The officials said Arrington and AfI'airs, might have taken Dl1mer• Reported the Post: Bannai's it. .. chibana agreed April 12 to expand Tachibana, however, did not go in• All of the VA employees, includ• their sister city relationship in cul• ous personal ~ at government most frequent deStination has been The only trip that Bannai made ing Bannai, declared arulUal leave to details on sister city projects . expense over the past 16 mooths, Los Angeles, according to his trav• to Los Angeles that didn't involve tural, economic and various other to attend the outing. Bannai later fields, Hitachi officials said. Dudley Pewitt, Vice President of reported the Washington Post el vouchers. It also is the site of his the Riverside cemeteIy was in charged his travel expenses to the AprilS. hon:te, his iIsJrance and realty February 1982, when he charged Arrington am his 14-member . University · of Alabama and a government because he said he vi• delegation arrived in Japan April member.of the delegation, sug• The Post noted that the fonner busmess and where his wife, a col• the govenunent $573.04 to attend sited VA facilities on the way home California Assemblyman had lege professor, lives. what he described as a four~ay 11 to discuss ways of expanding gested an exchange program link• from tile golfmg holiday, wrote the ties with Hatachi, a city of 206,000 ing his university and lliaraki Uni• billed the govenunent for a bip to Last July, in an excursion typi• "Veterans of Foreign Wars Post. # versity in Hitachi, they said. a Veteran ofForeign Wars reunion cal of his travels, Bannai charged Convention ... north of Tokyo. The two cities where he joined World War n the govenunen1 $840.72 for a trip to According to VFW officials, friends. the armual coovention of the Dis• what Barmai actually attended Bannai, the first Japanese Ame• abled American Veterans. was the annual California reunion rican to serve in . the state legis• The convention began in Las of 14 VFW posts whose member• lature on the U.s. mainland, also Vegas on a Monday. Bannai flew to ship is comprised largely of Japa• charged the government for trips Los Angeles three days ahead of nese Americans. SATURDAY, MAY 7 home during the Las Vegas. He expense because he was "formally SHOW submitted by individuals In this area. (there's tional cemetery network.. spent one day at the DAV conven• invited to attem as a VA official ... AT THE stili time to enter your own!). And. of course. According to the Post, Bannai's tion, then flew back to Washington. " We invited him. We always in• PAGEANT OF you'II want to spend hours in the Garden itself federaUy-funded travels also al• Bannai said he decided to fly to vite aU officials at the VA," said -where more than seven thousand rose lowed him to attend at least two Los Angeles because he wanted to Robert Wada, who invited digni• ROSES GARDEN bushes in over seven hundred varieties are now board meetings of a California visit the VA cemetery in River• taries to the reunion. Wada added in full bloom. If you love roses - and who bank, 00 whose board he serves, side, not because of the bank board that he asswned Bannai came be• doesn't? - this is the show for you. and to visit friends and relatives in meeting. cause he is a member of a Califor• LOCATED AT Oregoo and lllinois. "If I'm in town, I try to attend nia post. Bannai amrutted during an in• the bank meeting," he said. " I This February, Bannai irritated ROSE HILLS MEMORIAL PARK terview with Post reporters that he have tried to resign from the bank some of his VA peers by charging 3900 Workman Mill Road • Whittier, California had cooducted personal business several ~ , but they always the government $232.75 for travel Telephone: (213) 699-0921 (714) 739-0601 and had taken va~ during refuse ... to Florence, S.C. Each year, sev• AMPLE FREE PARKING. NO ADMISSION CHARGE some of the 26 tuliness bips he has Although offICials of the River• eral VA officials have gone to a charged to the govenunent since side cemeteIy kept no records of he was hired by the VA in late 1981. Barmai's visits, the cemetery ma• , The Japanese American official nager said Bannai had visited the r stressed, however, that his private facility several times. ------and personal business actions In fact, Bannai's fIrst govern• I I were scheduled only after the offi· ment-financed trip was to River• cial VA business trips had been side cemeteIy. He flew there Dec. mapped out. 23, 1981, and stayed in California I HelpYourself to I . According toofficials at General visiting Riverside and other cem~ Services Administration, General teries Wltil Jan. 4, 1982. That trip I Accounting Office and the Office of cost $623.71. Bannai did not bill the a Free Health Test. I Governmental Ethics, the Nikkei government for most ofhis lodging official's travels fall into a "gray because he stayed at his home. I area." According to his travel vouch• The sixth annual Health Fair I "It's a bit like asking which ers, Barmai listed trips to River• Expo is coming to your neigh- came first, the chicken or the side and other cemeteries in the I I egg," an unnamed GAO official If>s Angeles area as the justifica• borhood April 22 through said. "If the official travel was al• tion for five of his six trips to Los May 1. Southern California I ready planned, then there proba• Angeles. I bly wasn't anything improper Asked why he visited the River- medical and health organiza- I I tions volunteers will provide a variety of health screenings I Allen registers as Japan lobbyist I free to the public. You can WASHINGTON-RiChard Allen, ousted from his job as presidential na• have your blood pressure tional security adviser after receiving $1,000 from a Japanese magazine, I I has registered as a foreign agent to lobby for a nwnber of Japanese firms, checked, height and weight I the Justice Department said April 11. measurements taken, and Allen joins a number of former federal government officials who have I turned to the lucrative f1eld of lobbying for foreign interests upon leaving receive counseling I government service. I on vision and The Justice Department's Office of Foreign Registration said Allen has signed on with a consortiwn of Japanese companies, including Mitsubishi health awareness. I and the Bank of Tokyo. I Blood tests are Allen resigned Jan. 4, 1982. He had been on paid leave of absence since also available at Nov. 19, 1981, while he was being investigated for possible misconduct I I surrounding the acceptance of $1,000 from Japanese journalists for ar• a nominal cost ... U·__ ..... "&,.!.. I ranging an interview with First Lady Nancy Reagan. I So, go ahead ~Ull'AU Allen also was investigated for having accepted several wrist watches ...... ,..,: from a former business associate, am errors !It his financial disclosure andnelp yourself! :EXPO . I fonns. ' I A Justice Department investigation and a White House investigation • cleared Allen of any wrongdoing. There are 98 Health Fair locations in the Southland. For further I Allen was retained on the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory I Board on a per diem basis of $190 and later hired by the Republican information in your area, call toll free 1-(800) 223-6759. I National Cmunittee as adviser for national security. I I HEALTH FAIR SITES AND DATES: I Tenants for Gardena housing picked GARDENA-Two hWKlred names Outside management frrm, I California Hospital Medical Center, 1414 S. I were drawn lottery-style recently Barker Management, will next a:w Hope Street, Los Angeles, CA 90015 D Thurs• ~theGruU~J~Cul~ screen the first 100 names picked o day, April 28, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Friday, April 29, Institute to determine who will to conflml eligibility. In case any z I have priority for tenancy in the ~ 10 a.m.-5p.m. of the fll"St 100 are deemed unquali• W soon-to-be-completed JCI Gardens fied, names fnm the second batch It: senior citizens housing City of Carson· Shopping Mall, Avalon and Del I of 100 will move up into their ct Amo Blvds., Carson CA 90745 Saturday, development. places. The balance of those who CI) D ct April 30, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. JCI GruUens is made up of two, submitted awlications will be kept o I three-story buildings at 162nd St. on the wai~ list. ct and Gramercy Place in Torrance. ~ Gardena High School, 1301 W. 182nd Street, The $4.8 million complex offers 100 Local seniors who applied for J: Gardena, CA 90248 D Saturday, April 30, 10 I I• one-bedroom units and commu• JCI GruUens units were given pri• ~ a.m.-4p.m. nal, social and recreational ority in the drawings. Applicants ::i facilities. were divided iIlto two groups. For o / I More than 400 senior citizens every one out~f-town applicant The Health Fair is sponsored by the American Red Cross, KNBC, Chevron, the Hospital Council of Southern Califo rnia from throughout the greater Los selected, eight Gardena-Torrance• I and the National Health Screening Council for Volunteer Organizations, Inc. I Angeles area have submitted ap• residing seniors were added to the list of 200. plications for residency in the low• Chevron cost housing project. The drawing Those among the lucky 200 will I I LI"'~'" II()SI)ita l ( 'o lllld l of names, which was conducted by be notified of their acceptance for American "'-'iiiII'-' of S()uth{'m Cali fomia JCI executive director William tenancy or the position on the wait• I Red Cross I' Hiroto was the fll"St step in a ing list by the end of the month. + III screening process to determine JCI Gardens is expected to be .J who will get first crack at the 100 ready for occupancy early in L II Frilay, April 29, 1983 I PACIFIC CITIZEN-5 units. May. . ------ISSN: 0030-8579 Letters • Arnache Memorial Pacific Citizen Editor. Published by Ina Japanese Amencan Crtlze