.. wo d back Sansei nominated for Pulitzer Prize la; Angeles bei ainichi drama-m ic Seattle-bo com r critic Ren Renouff in efforts to u do and instructor at UCLA April. 19-~. that he had Paul Chihara was nommat• a taped Gagak'U music ren• ed for the Pulitzer Prize for dered by m 0 n-adio nal• curfew rul his Japanese "Romeo and ist . SuenobtJ Togi and 1 Ii• 9s Juliet" score "'Shinju". tsw-u Yuge, and then written four years ago fot orchestrated "estern lo8AD1eJes K Be news staffer the San FrancJSCO Ballet music around these unds. S. 1. Hayakawa, in Sen. Saul Halpert. Jess Marlow The ballet is based on a "You wight say the Chihal-a's late t wor · somewhat d a turnabout and Tritia Toyota ques• Chikamatsu &mraku thea• score also is a te}..1Ure include music for the told the Rafu Shimpo last tioned the senator abOut ter play, "1.D\e Suicide at study with pauses and Franci CQ Ballet' "Th week (Feb. 13) he would the Indochina problem (be Arrijima", arxl later pnr silences," Chihara said. "1 istJetoe Blide" (pre' "cenainly besympatbetic" favors givingThailand $12 duced as "Love Suicide at don't need to tell you how miel-ed Jan. 3») b Robert a move to get the U.S. to milljon to defend her oor-' Sonezaki". As fur the score, important tlnse paces Glad t in and based on an Supreme Ca.u1 to over• deI'S), the TaMrail situation PAUL CHIf:iARA Chihara related to Hoku- are." Ozark folkso~ . It turn its fuli~ on the Hira• (he called the People's Re• bayashi and Yasm cases pubic of Chim"the world's where it IEJd curlews greatest ooncentration could be im(Xl)ed against a camp"), and the JACL re• ISSN: 0030-8579 group of American citi• dress plan (he is still vehe• zens based !delyon ances• mentlyopposed to the plan try. to pay $25,000 to each "I would rot be opposed evacuee). to that actim at all," the Answering a question PACIFIC CITIZ N R~lican posed by Toyota, the sena• California said National Publication of the Japanese American Citizens league following a tape session for tor said that "if we pay the Japanese AmericaD$ KNBCs News Conference, Whole #2,031 (Vol. 88) Friday, February 23, 1979 25¢ U S Postpaid 15 Cents which aired last Sunday. $25,000. why don't we pay each American Indian $100,000 and each Negro Brown names Nikkei whose ancestors were en• to trade council slaved $1,OOO,ooo?" He concluded by saying Seed money campaign underway San Francisco "the constitutionality of Six Japanese Americans u~ were named by Gov. Brown the relocation has been for San Diego tKiku Gardens' to his 22-merJ1ber Japan• held by the Supreme Court, but the JaJXmese Ameri• San Diego, l.:8. Local JACLhas been di• kyo Towers. California Eoonomic Ad• Another senior citizen rectly involved in estab• A site within the city is cans have OV8'COme the in• visory Council. They are: . housing program under justice and have gained lishing senior housing pro• being considered. The in• Steven J. Do~ San Francisco JACL auspices has been in SJX)kane attorney; Paul Naoichiro Haya• grams (Huu• fonnational leaflet, avail• equality and better. wri~ shi, gene raJ pirmer, Henry "No one ever said it (the proposed here as the back• mi-En) and Los Angeles able by to the San Swift & Co., and pres., No. Calif. ers have been raising (Little Tok}u Towers). Diego JACL Retirement relocation) was just," he Japanese Chamber of Com• funds to start up "Kiku JACL supportwas also ten• Project, P.O. Box 2548, San merce; Mas Yonemura, OakJand continued, ''but it was held GardenS", a 100-1SO unit dered Issei rousing proj• Diego, Calif. 92112, indi• attorney; Edward Y. Kakita, Los to be constitutional by the Angeles attorney; Robert H. Ta• apartment canplex some• ects in Seattle,. San Jose, cates Kiku Gardens will keuchi, Los Angeles attorney; courts as a wartime mea• where in metropolitan San San Francisco and Chicago require between 21/2 and 5 and Yukuo Takenaka, partner, sure." Diego. plus those being proposed acres, convenient to shop• L.A. office of Peat, MaIWick. Hayakawa also indicat• in the San Francisco East ping' and accessible to Mitchell & Co. ed after the taping session To date, some $42,000 Bay, Fresno, Salt lake and transportation (Littl~ T IF ANY reader of tip of CaJ.ifunia, being undeltaken by this column has knowl- Donald H. Est and hi wif To hi edge about the Japa- Their latest milestone 1 a pamphlet titled I J nese Yamato colony "Before the War: Th Japane m San established Ilfm Delray, F1orida. about Diego," pub~hed b . th n Di Hi - 1904. please get in touch with Bernie torical Society. Ward. His CKJdress is 606 Mercury St., The pamIiUet is illustrated by photo• West Palm Beach, F1a 33406. Ward lS graphs from the Este ' collection of more working undfr a grant from the U.S. Of• than 500, dating from 1 , man ' of th m ~ice of Education's Ethnic Heritage Stud• copies of pictures in family album . Estes Ies Program, to prepare a history of the and his wife have had long interviews Yamato colcny. with more tlmn 7S Issei and 2S or so Nisei for their local history project Basically, its story begins with the arri• val of JoseJit Sakai and Count Shokoku The work being undertaken by Don and Okudaira in 1904 or perhaps a little earli• Toshiye Estes is pricele . It should be an er. They had an agreement with Henry inspiration to other to undertake re• 1ANt) OF THE SETTING 5U~ search in their own areas. Morrison ~er's East Coast Railroad . . . and Model land Co., to recruit Japanese IT'S INEVITABLE. but something of a farmers to work land along the right of shame, that newspaperman Gene Oishi way between Palm Beach and Boca Ra• should be best• ton. As they did in the West, railroads WASHINGTON WRAP·UP: Ronald Ikeilri known as there• sought to persuade various immigrant porter referred groups to take up land and grow crops to by Spiro they could haul. Where y'AII From? new as a or stopped, rn.u young men said, "Originally, I'm from Initially t:re Yamato colony was to grow Jap." Oishi, tren stepped in am smiled-all Arizona!" (Karl was born pineapples rut later it turned to a variety employed of us in the elevator smiled in Gila River Relocation of produce for northern markets. Crop the Balti back in the best Sansei tra• Camp.) That answer only failures, natural disasters, growing com• Sun papers, was dition. Nothing further added to the young man's petition from the Cuban pineapple indus• covering Washingtoo was said. confusion, am as he left try, the general economy collapse and a new's cam The other day, Congress• When the elevator the elevator in bewilder• variety of other factors led to a gradual for vice man Robert T. Matsui' reached the first floor, one ment, he said, "Y'all have a decline of t:re colony. By 1941 only a few dent of the Unit• Karl Nobuyuki, executi\'~ of the young men asked, nice day, now." families and a sprinkling of bachelor ed States, an of• director of JACL; John Ta• "Where y' all from?" In As the elevator closed, farmers rermined. One of the latter was fice he later ctis• teishi, national chairman unison we said, "Califor• all of us laugred and chid• George Morikami who donated his land a honored by ac- of the redress committee; nia." (Apparmtly this was ed one anotrer about our decade or so ago to establish the Morika• cepting payoffs Gene Oishi and myself were riding in not . the proper response origin ... but still we all mi Museum and Gardens. for political favors he had dispensed as an elevator in the Capitol since the man in puzzle• knew, albeit {E,nfully, that Ward is trying to recreate the story of governor of Maryland. A meeting had just fin• ment asked, "I mean origi• as Americans, the Japa• pioneers who struggled to establish an ag• Oishi made news again recently when ished and wewere making nally?") nese Americans and in ricultural industry in that part of F10rida he left the SlID to become press secretary -their day-to-day activities, their lives our way down to the base• For a moment we were particular the Sansei have to Harry R. Hughes, incomin g governor and hopes. The material will be adapted of Maryland. Oishi had covered state gov• ment of the Capitol, to take taken aback, but Karl, a long way to ~ before oth• for use in t:re F10rida schools. To do this, ernment from 1967 to 1969 when Hughes the subway to the House mustering up an honest as• ers look upon us as part of Ward is attempting to trace friends and was majority leader of the state senate. Office Bldg. As the elevat- sessment of the situation, the American experience. relatives ofYamato residents. Oishi, 45, is a graduate of the Univer• * * * sity of California and has a master's de• FROM HAPPY VAllEY: Saehl Seko A JAPANESE lllSTORY project on the gree in journalism from UCLA. He was other side of the continent already has evacuated frem his native California dur• made substantial progress. This is re• ing World War II and joined the Baltimore Gila News Courier and 'Sasha' search into the stpry of Japanese Ameri• Sun, one of the nation's more distinguished cans in San Diego County at the southern newspapers, in 1965. # SaIt Lake City: there, with the hope of lUl• its give and take. It was the I get letters that begin, covering some big story. motliest crew of individu• "Dear Sasha." It is an old The beat I had was the als, as unique~ the histor• nickname, (IE of many I very worst. Crumbs re• ic accident that brought them together. in a more noImal environ• iuwe collected along the served for the youngest ment So much for remin• way. Veronica, Olive Oyl, and least experienced. But Each of us knew it would end By the Stmmer of '45, iscing and grieving and Wada Gal, legs. All the no one pouMed a beat with smiling at the happier most of the staff dispersed, others have somewhere, such dedicated fervor, memories. " s~ped into the seIVice or the somehow away. goaded on by her elders. It is an interesting obser• But to a select few, I re• Sometimes I spent hours outer world For a period letters were exchanged on vation from a man who main. "Sasha." tracking down a silly tip, earns his li~ as a profes• There is a story behind while they played bridge. a fairly regu1ar basis. As years passed and circum• sional neWSIXiperman, a the name. N Threat of Filibust9r .FEB.23~) Wasatch FnD North-~ltg . DE~I~~~~~ ~~e~r San ~Bd mtg. Buddlust Oda In ur office.Oearfield. -pm. By KEN HAYASlll Church. -:3Opm. Da~l\1tg. NCR Educ Ctr. (Orange County JACL) • FEB. 24 (SatwdJy) -PIT' . FIIIT': "Geisha" MRS. FRIDAY'S I see where Sen. 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