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#3008/ Vol. 138, No.3 ISSN: 0030-8579 National Publication of the Japanese American Citizens League (JACL) FEB. 20-MAR. 4, 2004 AT&T Wireless and 'Channel Guide Magazine' Criticized for Use of 'Jap' Japanese Canadians Recall WWII By CAROLINE AOYAGI Americans and Asian Americans Experience, Lessons For Today Executive Editor have paid a price for the emotion• By CAROLINE AOYAGI including his parents and seven ferent from the Japanese American al message," he wrote. "Our con• Executive Editor siblings, were forcibly interned, experience. We were treated so AT&T Wireless and the cern is that even its use as an the memories of that time still much worse," said Moritsugu, who "Channel Guide Magazine" were abbreviation may bring unwar• Renowned Japanese Canadian linger on. was a speaker at a JEMS (Japanese loudly criticized by JACL and ranted credibility to the term. journalist Frank Moritsugu was Moritsugu was 19 years old, the Evangelical Missionary Society) other Asian American groups for "I have no doubt that Japanese born and raised in British eldest son, when Japan attacked panel discussion Feb. 5 about the their use of the racial slur "Jap" as Americans and others seeing your Columbia, and although he loves Pearl Harbor. Shortly afterwards Canadian WWII experience. the abbreviation for Japan, use of the term will be repulsed to visit· the Joining him prompting quick apologizes and and disinclined to use your inter• beautiful was Rev. promises to remedy the errors. national wireless." Canadian Eddie Yoshida, In national, full-page ads - Rosa Alonzo, director of inter• province he .pastor of the including the New York Times, national marketing ' for AT&T can no longer Wesley Chapel Wall Street ]oumal, Newsweek, Wireless, immediately called live there. Japanese Fel• JACL representatives to express and the Los Angeles Times - "There are lowship in AT&T Wireless promoted their the company's apologies for the too many Toronto. international cellular phone rates ads, promising to pull them imme• memories up Although to various countries including diately and change the abbrevia• here," he says, the U.S. gov• France, Mexico and Japan. The tion for Japan to the accepted pointing to his ernment gen• ads feature an Asian woman get• "Jpn." The company has also set head. "I have erally kept JA ting out of a car and just below her up a review process for ads deal• love for the family mem• face is the word "Jap" to promote ing with Japanese Americans, Pacific Coast bers together wireless service to Japan. Japan, and Asian Pacific but I can't live in the camps, Several JACL members con• Americans, so this type of mistake there any• Moritsugu tacted national headquarters in does not happen again. more." noted that Ja• San Francisco and the various "As soon as we leamed of the' PHOTO: CAROLINE AOYAGI Moritsugu pan e s e regional offices across the country error, we immediately instructed (L-r): Rev. Sam Tonomura of JEMS; Rev. Eddie Yoshida of Toronto; Harry was one of Canadian fam• to express their shock and unhap• our advertising agency to fix the Honda, Pacific Citizen editor emeritus; and Frank Moritsugu of Toronto. 23,000 Can• ilies were split piness with the use of the racial ad," wrote Alonzo, in a letter of adians of Japanese ancestry im• both the U.S. and Canadian gov• up by the Canadian government. slur. apology to all JACL offices. 'The prisoned in internment camps ernments ordered mass evacua• Married men and sons were sent to Bill Yoshino, Midwest regional abbreviation for Japan will now throughout the Canadian West tions of persons of Japanese work in road camps and on sugar director, contacted AT&T wireless appear as 'JPN.' In addition to my Coast during World War II. ancestry from the West Coast into beet projects while their wives and representatives immediately, personal apology, we have also Although it's been more than sixty desolate internment camps, forc• children resided in one of six expressing their concerns ... 'The made a public apology via a state• years since his entire family, ing them to leave behind homes camps in various inne~ B.e. towns, term is a racial slur with a history ment released to the press. and most of their possessions. including Greenwood, Sandon, of demeaning use. It's been our "We deeply regret any offense They were now labeled "enemy New Denver and Slocan. Those . experience that wherever the slur COMMENTARY aliens" by their respective coun• who resisted the government's has been directed, Japanese See AT&T! page 2 Hate Fi nally tries. wishes were rounded up by the "In some ways the Japanese OBITUARIES Hits Home Canadian experience was very dif- See CANADIANS! page 9 By ANDREA K. PARKER Community Mourns Passil1g of Jeanne Feeling Overlooked, Asian Americans .Honda, Wife of California Congressman, ] had been trying to think of a good topic to write about for a Try to Raise Political Profile and Fred Hirasuna, JACL Leader submission to the "Youth By DEBORAH KONG citizens of voting age; that Jeanne Honda, wife of U.S. away on Valentine's Day. She and Forum" for AP Minority Issues Writer exceeds the 1.3 million votes that Representative Mike Honda, D• her husband Mike would have cel• almost two separated President Bush and Al Calif., passed ebrated their 37th wedding weeks when I They've watched presidential Gore in 2000, Narasaki noted. away at the anniversary in June. .opened the hopefuls woo NASCAR dads, When it comes to political par• age of 61 on Jeanne was born in Hiroshima, front door of blacks in South Carolina and ties, Asians are almost evenly split the morning Japan on July 14, 1942, and at the my apartment Hispanics in New Mexico, and between Democrats, Republicans of Feb. 14 . . age 'of three witnessed the atomic recently and now some Asian Americans are and independents, said Daphne Jeanne had bombing. She and her family saw one staring me right in the wondering: What about us? Kwok, executive director of the eventually moved to San Mateo, been diag- face. Saying they're . tired ,of being . Asian Pacific American Institute Calif. where she attended San . . nosed with a As I reached down to grab our overlooked, AA activists are try• for Congressional Studies. rare cancer in Mateo High School and San Jose school newspaper, The Daily ing to make their voices heard by "Our votes could easily be March ·2003. Family members State University. Iowan, from the porch, a big, bold, candidates and political parties. swayed by candidates who under• were with Jeanne at the family Jeanne began her teaching top-of-the-front-page headline Eighteen groups jointly released a stand our community, understand home in San Jose when she passed See OBITUARIES! page 11 glared at me: "OFFICIALS first-of-its-kind platform of their our issues," K wok said. INVESTIGATE ALLEGED I.e. priorities for presidential candi• Bringing together such a diverse HATE CRIME." dates Feb. 12, while a separate group - Asians come to the Inside the See PARKER! page 2 effort is in the works aimed at per• United States from 50. countries suading Asians to vote in a bloc and speak more than 100 lan• Pacific Citizen for a single candidate. guages and di~ects - hasn't been "In this election season, I think easy. National News .....3-4 we've been fairly invisible," said "Outwardly, non Asian Karen Narasaki, president of the Americans see us as one group• Youth Forum ...... 5 National Asian Pacific American ing," said EunSook Lee, executive Community News ....6 Legal Consortium, a member of director of the National Korean the coalition that created the plat• American Service and Education Sports ...... 7 form. Consortium. "At the same time, Candidates look to Asians "for we have different priorities." Commentaries, Cartoon financial support for campaigns, The 75-page . agenda released but they're not reaching out to our Feb. 12 js the result of a yearlong ...... 8 communities in terms of caring effort by the National Council of about our votes." Asian Pacific Americans, a coali• Calendar ...... 10 'J{Q1to(u(u, 'lfawaii. Though Asians comprise a tion of national and regional AA 2\~a·tO-15, small portion of the overall nation• groups, including the JACL. Obituaries ...... 11 ..... :fq,e4 al population - about 4 percent 'This is really the first time - they are concentrated in key we've come together and said Book Page ...... 12 ~~~FE~S electoral states. In California, for www.ja~lh~waii' : org ...... example, there are 1.9 million AA See PROFILE! page 11 2 PACIFIC CITIZEN, FEB. 20-MAR. 4, 2004 hate crimes are. I've always given reason this crime hit especially The AAC is pulling for them all PARKER 100 percent support to severe pun• hard) and I was now fighting them to be expelled and will use this to ~aclfic (Continued from page 1) ishments for those who commit hate with other peers. Three of the implement an action in addition to Y citizen crimes and the continued efforts to alleged attackers fled the scene, and the ribbon' campaign. There are So, it had finally come to Iowa. educate the public. But for me, this the one who was caught (the instiga• plans in the works for a rally and a After so many years in JACL hear• situation hit home because it was tor of the whole event) pled guilty to letter writing 'campaign. 7 Cupania Circle, ing about hate crimes - how to Monterey Park, CA 91755 something I could empathize with_ public intoxication and disorderly Even though this incident was ter• Tel: 323/725-0083, 800/966- fight them, etc. and never having To give you an idea of how conduct. rible, and I would never have 6157, Fax: 323/725-0064 experienced one close to home - remote hate crimes were to me I'll I, along with most people in the wished it to happen, I'm glad in a E-mail: [email protected] the time had come for me to face the share some hate crime statistics AAC, believe he deserves much way that it did. I once thought of reality of these awful events. from the Iowa City Press-Citizen. In more, but according to the reports, hate crimes as remote and now that Executive Editor: I barely got back inside my living 2002, there were over 7,000 report• he only initiated the brawl, and did• it's hitting close to home, I can use it Caroline Y. Aoyagi room before I began reading what ed hate crimes nationwide but only n't participate physically in the vio• . to my advantage. Office Manager: happened. The paper told the 46 of them happened in Iowa and lence. Investigations are still under I've now gained the knowledge Brian Tanaka account of a Asian female law stu• there were none in Iowa City. In pre• way to find the other three involved and expertise to deal with hate Production Assistant: dent and her Caucasian boyfriend vious years only about 8 hate crimes and the university has launched its crimes fI;om now on and have also Margot Brunswick who were attacked on Jan. 31. occurred here since 1998. own investigation to see what pun• gained some solace in the fact that I Circulation: Eva Lau-ling Allegedly (the attackers are deny• I've been going to meetings of the ishment they will receive from the can get involved and do something Contributor: Tracy Uba ing it now, even though one already Asian American Coalition (AAC) school. about it.. plead guilty to the crime), the two for about a year and a half now and , Publisher: Japanese American were walking home from a night out it has been a great group to belong Citizens League (founded 1929) when they heard monkey calls com• to on campus. And it became even 1765 Sutter Street, San ing from a group of four approach• more important to me when they ~~ t6 ~ Editor Francisco, CA 94115, tel: ing white males. called an unscheduled meeting the . II II 415/921-5225 fax: 415/931- To make a long story short, the day after this story broke in the 4671, www.jacl.org slur "f***ing chink" was used and as papers. National Day of and thought provoking. Here are JACL President: Floyd Mori the girl was thrown aside, her Not only was I relieved to go to some of my thoughts on the sub• National Director: John Tateishi Solidarity boyfriend was told he shouldn't be a the meeting and find some peace in ject as an 81-year-old Nisei. Pacific Citizen Board of "chink lover" and was punched Many years ago I was a mem• Directors: Gil Asakawa, chair• planning actions in response to the In 1942 this country was at a repeatedly until he ended up with hate crime - the group is having ber of the JACL but dropped out person; Roger Ozaki, EDC; Ron .crossroads. The nation and its peo• three fractured bones in his face_ ribbons made to pass out all over due to the lack of time and loss of Katsuyama, MDC; Grace ple could choose to act with honor interest and motivation. Kimoto, CCDC; Valerie This was unbelievable to me. Not campus for increased awareness and only because such an offensive and support - but also because it was and sound judgment in response to However, I subscribe to the Yasukochi, NCWNPDC; Ann Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor or it Fujii-Lindwall, PNWDC; Larry derogatory term was used, but reassuring to see how many others Pacific Citizen because I enjoy because the attackers beat up some• were outraged by it. could act with complete disregard keeping up with the accomplish• Grant, IDC; Andrea Parker, to the values on which this country MPDC; VACANT, PSWDC; one of their own race because of his Even though I don't have the ments of Japanese Americans and Maya Yamazaki, Youth. association with someone of a race JACL here locally for support, it was founded and use the Japanese other items of interest about JAs. r------, they didn't like. . was good to see that there are others Americans as scapegoats. If the JACL Galls itself a civil I NEWS/AD DEADLINE: It seems like this has taken hate who believe this is wrong and com• It chose the later and on Feb. 19, rights group and basically follows 1942, President Franklin Roosevelt ! FRIDAY BEFORE DATE crimes to a whole new level. Though pletely unjustified. Sure, the whole lockstep with the policies and I OF ISSUE. issued Executive Order 9066, this is the first one I've experienced town and community on campus are pronouncements of the ACLU, : Editorials, news and the authorizing the unlawful incarcera• up close, I can't believe the extent of sympathetic, but I needed to be with there is no need for a JA to join opinions expressed by col• the ignorance and violence. I thought tion of over 120,000 JAs from the umnists other than the people who wanted to do more than JACL. The ACLU has more these kinds of terrible incidents only West Coast. My parents, and in fact national JACL president or just feel bad about it. . clout, is much larger and has the happened in large, urban areas but I my entire extended family, were national director do not All of the attackers were wherewithal to pursue its agenda was proven wrong in the worst way. University of Iowa students, which among those who were illegally necessarily reflect JACL and therefore a far more attractive policy. Events and prod• I've always known how serious means they are my peers (another imprisoned. The scarS from that ucts advertised in the experience conti nile to haunt the organization to join. Pacific Citizen do not carry • JA community today. Furthermore, why would a civil the implicit endorsement of I ings and also wrote a letter to the rights organization become so I AT&T During the evacuation there the JACL or this publica• I magazine's editor, demanding the politically partisan? It is poor pol• I (Continued from page 1) were a few encouraging moments, tion. We reserve the right to I proper use of "Jpn" as the abbrevia• icy. From my viewpoint the edit articles. I namely the non-JAs who coura• I this mistake may have caused, and tion for Japan. JACL is overt in its support of the ~------~ geously stepped forward in blatant L _____ assure you we have taken the right Yoshino also followed up with a Democratic party. JACL should PACIFIC CITIZEN (ISSN: 0030~ ' ~ You protest to E.O. 9066. They stood in steps to prevent a recurrence of this letter noting, should be aware make great efforts to project itself, 8579) is published semi-monthly that the term i ~ a racial slur that has solidatity with the JA community. inexcusable error." as a nonpartisan organization. except once in January and a long and painful history of deroga• Today we are once again at a cross• December by the Japanese John Tateishi, JACL executive Not all JAs are Democrats. director, is happy with AT&T tory use. During World War II, the roads. Today it is the Muslim, Arab American Citizens League, 7 term was used to evoke the most and South Asian immigrants who Remember that it was a Cupania Circle, Monterey Park, Wireless' quick response to fix their Republican president who signed mistake. "My personal feeling is negative of images toward the are being scapegoated and crirni- CA 91755. OFFICE HOURS - nalized. . our reparation bill in 1988 and a that the use of the offensive abbrevi• Japanese. As a result, Japanese Mon .-Fri., 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m. . You can do something about Democratic president who threw Pacific Time. ©2004_ ation was an oversight, in light of Americans paid a price for the resultant racism by being evicted this. We are calling on people us into internment camps. Annual subscription rates: the company's long record in diver• sity marketing and particularly from their homes on the West Coast everywhere to come together on Instead of trying to be all things NON-MEMBERS: 1 year-$35, to everybody it should confine its payable in advance. Additional because of their past sensitivities to and interned in concentration the third National Day of Solidarity postage per year - Foreign peri• the Asian Pacific communities," he camps." to resist the scapegoating of these activities to those dealing mostly odical rate $25; First Class for said. "We'll continue to monitor this "Channel Guide's" Tammi communities. Take action and with JAs. Give an incentive to U.S'., Canada, Mexico: $30; situation, but from my perspective, Scherbarth, senior product manager, speak out on Feb. 20 as part of the JAs to join. The NAACP focuses Airmail to Japan/Europe: $60. it's been resolved satisfactorily." TV publishing division, immediate• National Day of Solidarity with nearly 100 percent of its efforts (Subject to change without In the January issue of the ly responded with an apology and a Muslim, Arab, and South Asian on black causes. It was founded notice.) Periodicals postage "Channel Guide Magazine," which promise to correct the error. Immigrants! for that purpose and if it were to paid at Monterey Park, Calif., is published by Tribune Media "We sincerely apologize for the deviate far form its original pur• and at additional mailing offices. Services, several entries were made way the program below is listed in ;e~ fkhe tJda pose, it would die a slow death. Channel Guide. 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To avoid interruptions in receiving of choice. Because of space limitations, letters your P.C, please notify your pE• are subject to abridgement. Although master to include periodia::Ils in Union Bank of California. we are unable to print all the letters we your change of address (USPS A symbol of trust. receive, we appreciate the interest Forrn3575) and views of those who take the time' to send us their comments. PACIFIC CITIZEN, FEB. 20-MAR. 4, 2004 3 National Meeting of JA and Japanese Leaders NASCAR Will Not Penalize Driver Jimmy Held to Discuss U.S.-Japan Relations Spencer For Anti-Japanese Remarks With the goal Of enhancing U.S.• Japan are strong at all levels from leaders of the two countries are indis• By Associated Press manager for Toyota Motor Sales, Japan relations, an historic interna• business and politics to arts and aca- pensable in keeping the alliance and Pacific Citizen- Staff U.S.A., defended the company's tional meeting was held in . demia. We want to build bridges of viable. NASCAR entry in an interview Washington, D.C. recently bringing understanding so that our children "Japanese Americans have the NEW YORK-NASCAR will with Express-News. 'The invest• together Japanese American leaders, and grandchildren will be Americans unique mix of an understanding of ment of Toyota in plants and asso• primarily Sansei and Yonsei, from not penalize driver Jimmy proud of their Japanese ancestry." their Japanese heritage, while at the ciated businesses in this country is ten regions in the United States, nine ''The time is ripe to maximize the same time being in a position to help Spencer for a remark about the in the billions of dollars. We think Consuls General of Japan and repre• potential of the traditional ties their fellow Americans understand Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor sentatives from the Japanese between the Japanese and Japanese Japanese government and business or his hope that Toyota's venture we're great corporate citizens as Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Nippon Americans in order to strengthen the policy," said National JACL into truck racking will be a failure. far as this country is concerned." Keidanren, and the Japan Foundation alliance between their respective President Floyd Mori, who attended "That's Jimmy Spencer," "It's unfortunate that Jimmy Center for Global Partnership. countries," said Kato. "To strengthen the meeting. "Many Japanese NASCAR spokesman Jim Hunter feels that way," added Unger. The meeting was led by Ryozo this relationship, I would like to seek Americans in higher profile situa• said Feb. 1 when asked about "We've got 100,OOO-plus Kato, Ambassador of Japan to the the help of the Japanese Americans tions have an opportunity to defuse comments the outspoken driver Americans proud to be a part of United States, and Sen. ' Daniel who posses in-depth understanding ·many of the myths and misunder• made last month about Toyota's something that has been here in the Inouye, D-Hawaii. of the United States." standings about Japan that seem fo entry into the Craftsman Truck U.S. since 1957. We're making a "The relationship between the In the e~rly days of the U.S.-Japan prevail in our country. I am opti• comPetition. long-term commitment to the United States and Japan remains the relationship, many Japanese, like mistic that this continuing dialogue . "I was raised with Chevrolet, Craftsman Truck Series. This is not most important bi-Iateral relationship Inouye's grandfather, sailed to the will produce more opportunities for Ford and Chrysler, so I don't a one-year-in, ont<-year-out deal." for our two countries," said Inouye. United States and adopted this coun• younger Japanese Americans to be know," said Spencer, 46, in an Toyota plans to open a produc• "Today, Japanese Americans have try as their own. As the years passed more visible in the U.S ..-Japan tion plant in San Antonio in 2006. risen to leadership positions in all interview with the San Antonio JAs established themselves as highly arena." The plant will produce 150,000 walks of life, and can play an impor• respected U.S. citizens. In the mean• The meeting provided the opportu• Express-News during media day at Tundra pickups per year. tant role in the further strengthening time, Japan and the United States nity for JA and Japanese leaders to the Texas Motor Speedway. of U.S.-Japan relations. The time has became close allies. Person-ta-per• discuss issues of mutual concern 'Those sons of bitches bombed ''Toyota's are now made in the come to ensure that the relationships son relationships ("Jinmyaku" in related to the long-term U.S.-Japan Pearl Harbor, don't forget. As long USA and they met all the criteria to between Japanese Americans and Japanese) and networking among the relationship as well as develop a set as it's good for the economy, I compete in the truck series," said of recommendations to strengthen guess it's OK. But I hope that Hunter. "And actually, we think it future ties between the United States Ford, Chevrolet and Dodge kick is going to add at least four new and Japan. their ass." teams and it's going to add excite• A key initiative of the program is a Spencer made the comments in ment to the truck series." trip to Japan sponsored by the front of about 100 members of the Toyota, which had success in a Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the media, guests and officials. Texas brief and low-key run in Japan Foundation Center for Global Motor Speedway will host the NASCAR's now-defunct Goody's Partnership. Three JA delegations of truck series on June 11 and Oct. Dash compact car series, has put SanseilYonsei leaders have traveled 16. together a four-team, seven-truck to Japan beginning in 2000, with the When Spencer was later asked fleet to compete this year on the next delegation slated to travel to Craftsman circuit. Its first race was Japan in late March 2004. by Express-News to clarify his Feb. 13 at Daytona International This meeting marked the second comments, he added: "What I'm time JA leaders and representatives getting at is that the Japanese Speedway. from Japan's Ministry of Foreign bombed Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, Spencer won a truck race in Affairs were brought together. The 1941, but times have changed and New Hampshire last season in· a first meeting was held in Los our sport has changed. I know that Dodge. He lost the primary spon• (L-r): Floyd Mori, JACL national president; Irene Hirano, president and Angeles in February 2003 at the people take that stuff out of con• sorship for his Cup program at the CEO, Japanese American National Museum; Ambassador of Japah to Japanese American National text, but it doesn't bother me." end of the year, but plans to race in the United States Ryozo Kato, and Sen. Daniel Inouye. Museum .• Although Hunter said Spencer the season-opening Daytona 500 is not in any trouble with the sanc• and at least four other events while OCA Passes Resolution tioning body, he emphasized that seeking new backing. NASCAR does not share the dri• A IS-year NASCAR veteran in Protest of 'Chink's _ ver's opinion. with two career victories in what Steaks'Restaurant now is the Nextel Cup series, '.. "He sometimes has a view of the world that is not consistent Spencer has been in some trouble The Organization of Chinese with the rest of the world and he is with the sanctioning body. A long• Americans passed a new reso• certainly known for putting his running feud with Kurt Busch lution in support of changing opinions out there," said Hunter. boiled over last August at the name of "Chink's Steaks," a Toyota's entry this year marks Michigan International Speedway, restaurant in Philadelphia, the first time a foreign-headquar• with Spencer punching Busch in Pennsylvania, at its board meet• tered manufacturer will compete the face in the garage area after the ing Feb. 1. in any of the top three NASCAR two bumped and banged on the "Chink's Steaks" is a 50-plus series. Toyota is racing against the track late in a race. year old cheesesteak establish• three American manufacturers Spencer was fined and suspend• ment in Philadelphia named with its new Tundra pickup trucks. ed for one race and Busch was after its late owner, Samuel Les Unger, national motorsports fined . • "Chink" Sherman. "Chink" was Sherman's childhood nick• name, given to him because of his "slanty eyes." House Judiciary Committee OCA's Philadelphia chapter, Approves Honda's Day of JACL and other partners have been participating in a cam• Remembrance Resolution paign to change the name of the The House judiciary time when inflamed passions from restaurant to one that is not our current conflict with Iraq and derogatory to Asian Pacific Committee recently approved a resolution recognizing Feb. 19 as war against terrorism may prompt Americans. a "Day of Remembrance" for similar discrimination against tar• "It is extremely offensive to geted ethnic groups." OCA and to the Asian Pacific those Americans wrongfully incarcerated during World War II Signed by President Roosevelt American community that in in 1942, E.O. 9066 authorized the the year 2004, there are existing because of their ancestry. The committee, led by House incarceration of 120,000 commercial establishments that judiciary Chairman· James Americans of Japanese ancestry use racist terms such as during WWII, and imposed severe 'chink,'" said Raymond Sensenbrenner, R-WI, approved · civil and personal restrictions on Wong, OCA national presi• without amendment the text of Americans of Italian and yerman dent. "Perhaps over 50 years House Resolution 56, a resolution descent. ago, the name 'Chink's Steaks' authored by U.S. Rep. Mike Honda and his family, due sole• would not have made such a Honda, D-Calif., recognizing the ly to their Japanese ancestry, big impact, but today, as a soci• wrongs done to Japanese endured several years of confine• ety, we are moving forward and Americans under the authority of ment in an internment camp dur• putting behind us the use of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's ing the war. words that denigrate an entire infamous Executive Order 9066. racial minority." HR 56 also addresses injustices The Resolution promotes recog• nition of · the experiences of "OCA has always been suffered by dle German and Italian Japanese, German, an·d Italian involved in the mission to dis• American communities during Americans who suffered intern• pel negative stereotypes in WWII. ment or other civil liberties viola• order to present a more accurate "Executive Order 9066 allowed tions in WWII. Feb. 19 will serve and full picture of the APA the internment of American citi• as a day for reflection, dialogue, community," said Christine zens for no reason other than their ancestry, and led to gross viola• and education. Chen, OCA executive director. tions of civil liberties and disre• Honda will now push House 'Thus, OCA and its chapters gard for constitutional rights," said Republican leadership to put HR hope to educate the public Honda. "We must remember the 56 on the congressional calendar about the harm caused by using lessons from this shameful chapter for eventual consideration by the racial slurs such as _'chink,' of U.S, history, particularly at a . full House of Representatives .• 'jap' or 'chinaman.'" • 4 PACIFIC CITIZEN, FEB. 20·MAR. 4, 2004 't Applications Down Under University of National Newsbytes Michigan's New Undergraduate Formula By Associated Press and olutions - from rhetoric that rails on a scale based on race, the group By SARAH FREEMAN Spencer said minority students Pacific Citizen Staff against the federal law to binding agreed to ask for donations accord• Associated Press Writer and their families may not want to language that changes local policy. ing to the same system. thrust themselves into the center of o Online Petition Leslie B. McLemore, City The compromise for the event in ANN ARBOR, Mich.-Seven the debate over affirmative action. Protests DO'dge's Use Council president, said Feb. 9 that Boulder was reached after univer• months after the U.S. Supreme "The residual kinds of impact of of Kahuna Name the ACLU's proposal hasn't been sity officials threatened to shut the Court struck down the University all this discussion and dialogue, HONOLULU-More than addressed in a planning commit• event down, College Republicans of Michigan's undergraduate for• particularly from the other side of 2,000 people have signed-an online tee. He said he wasn't sure when chairman Brad Jones said. mula of awarding admission this issue, that diversity is bad, it petition protesting the Chrysler the proposal would be on the agen• Under the original plan, white points based on race, the nurriber makes a lot of students think, Group's Dodge division naming a da. and Asian students would have of applications from blacks, 'Well, maybe I don't want to be concept car the "Kahuna" because The draft resolution directs local been charged $1 for a cookie, Hispanics and American Indians is put into that sort of environment, '" it is an affront to Hawaiian culture. police officers. to refrain from Hispanics would pay 50 cents down 23 percent from the same Spencer said. The petition was posted in enforcing various measures out• while black customers would pay time last year. The university said it has . 25 cents. December by former Hawaii resi• lined in the Patriot Act, including And the number of those admit• reviewed 44 percent of applica• dent John Book who now lives in engaging in secret immigration . University spokeswoman ted is down 30 percent. . tions from minority students, Pasco, Wash. He said in the peti• proceedings and surveillance. Pauline Hale said students were Officials stressed the figures are while 69 percent of non-minority tha~ tion that there have been past told charging different prices only preliminary and thousands applications have been reviewed, appropriatiuns of the word, but that o Judge: Florida's violated university policy as well more applications will continue to indicating that minority students' naming a car after a kahuna, a Race-based Contract as federal anti-discrimination laws. be reviewed in a process the applications also have been arriv• Hawaiian priest, represents cash• Awards Are College Republicans have long school hopes to finish by the fIrst ing later in the admissions cycle. ing in on Hawaiian culture on a complained the views of conserva• week of April. The application Ohio State University, which Unconstitutional tive students are stifled at the liber• larger scale. TALLAHASSEE, Fla.-A deadline was Feb. 1. also revised a similar point-based Book said DaimlerChrysler, par• al Boulder campus. They have set Overall, applications for this admissions policy in the wake of Rorida program to eliminate affir• up a website where students can ent of Dodge and Chrysler Group, mative action in the awarding of fall's incoming freshman class are the Supreme Court's ruling, said report whether they received a bad has also offended Native state contracts is unconstitutional down 18 percent, according to the applications from American grade because of their political Americans with its Jeep Cherokee. because it still requires agencies to preliminary data compiled Feb. 5 Indians are holding steady and . beliefs or if professors are using The Dodge Kahuna is a concept consider race and gender, a federal and released to The Associated Hispanic applications are up 6.2 classrooms to promote their own car and not yet slated for mass pro• judge has ruled. Press Feb. 9 in response to a percent from the same time last agendas. duction, but has been making the The judge sided with a group of Freedom of Information Act year, but applications from blacks rounds of car shows. It is .patterned contractors who filed a suit chal• request. are down 18.6 percent. . after the "woody" station wagons lenging the program, saying that o Seeking Electoral Despite the decrease in applica• 'The mere conversation in the popularized by surfers in the Gov. Jeb. Bush's One Rorida plan Clout, American tions, the total number of students minority community seems to be 1960s. should use only "race-neutral" cri• Muslims Register to admitted so far - 8,584 - is what lawyers call a chilling John Keola Lake, a kahuna nui, teria for awarding contracts. Vote down only 1 percent from the effect," said Mabel Freeman, or high priest, who trains others as In the -ruling issued Feb. 6, U.S. NEWARK, NJ.-Stung by a same time last year, and officials assistant vice president for under• kahuna, said he finds the car name District Judge Stephan P. Mickle backlash after the 200 I terror say the academic profile of those graduate admissions. "It seems to offensive. called for a "simplification of bid• attacks and hoping to increase their , admitted is as good if not better be the idea of wait and see for a "We finally got our own people ding procedures, relaxation of clout in this year's presidential than in previous years. The univer• year if (Ohio State) is really going who are practicing kahunas, the bonding requirements, and training election, Muslim groups are mobi• sity plans to admit 12,000 to to continue taking minority stu• healerS', and here are these guys and financial aid for disadvantaged lizing to sign up new voters across 13,000 students and hopes that will dents. making fun of it," he said. entrepreneurs of all races." the nation. yield an enrollment of 5,545 for "Our role is to show yes, we He said such reforms "would Several thousand Muslims filled this fall. are." o Jackson Could open the public contracting market out voter registration fOIillS during "I'm proud that our staff were University of Michigan adopted Become First State to al1.those who have suffered the sign-up drives recently that coin• able to process ... a lot of applica• a new application that still consid• City to Move Against effects of past discrimination." cided with a major Islamic holiday, tions in a time frame very close to ers race, but does not award points, Patriot Act Bush does not plan to appeal the when people traditionally visit what it was last year," srud Ted and includes new short-answer ruling, preferring to change the friends and relatives. Spencer, director of admissions. questions and an optional essay. JACKSON, Miss.-The The high court in June upheld a Ohio State also added four short American Civil Liberties Union state contracting program, said Across the nation voter registra• spokeswoman Jill Bratina. tion drives were held including general affirmative action policy at answers to its application. The wants to add Jackson to the grow• the University of Michigan law changes meant applications were ing list of cities that have adopted Contractors and the state have suburbs in Dearborn, Mich., home agreed to work together to create a to the nation's second-largest Arab school but struck down the univer• made available to students about a resolutions condemning portions sity's undergraduate formula' as month later than usual, which of the Patriot Act. new program that would help American community after New too rigid because it awarded stalled the start of the admissions The federal Patriot Act, passed small business owners regardless York City. admission points based on race. process . • shortly after the Sept. 11, 200 1, of race and gender. The goal is simple: Bring more . attacks in New York and Muslims into the political system Washington, expanded the govern• o College GOP Backs so they can help decide the future ment's wiretap and other surveil• .Down on 'Minority direction of the nation . .APAs in the' News lance authority, removed barriers Discounts' to Protest Muslims in cities across the between FBI and CIA information• nation voiced concern over an anti• Awards, Appointments, Announcements Affirmative Action Muslim backlash after the 2001 sharing and provided more tools DENVER-The College tetTOr attacks, and what they call for terror finance investigations. . Republicans at the University of the subsequent assault on civil lib• Assemblymember Judy .Chu, in the nation, says it has 5 million The ACLU is assisting grass• Colorado backed off their plan erties by the Bush administration. D-Monterey Park, was recently Catholics and is among the most roots efforts to protect civil liber• Feb. 10 to give black and Hispanic . Of the more than I ,200 detainees named chair of the Assembly diverse, including at least 400,000 ties the organization says was lost students an automatic discount at a caught up in the post-Sept. 11 Appropriations Committee by people of Filipino origin. Solis was . with the passage of the act. bake sale intended to protest affir• dragnet, most were. Muslims or Speaker ordained in 1979. He worked in More than 250 communities in mative action. people from Arab or southern Fabian Nunez, various pastoral and educational 37 states have adopted various res- Instead of charging customers Asian nations .• D - Los ministries before moving to the Angeles. Chu United States in 1984. He had will be inte• worked in the Diocese of Houma Paul Osaki Appointed to APIA Affairs Commission gral in the Thibodaux in Louisiana since Assemblymember George Na• development 1988, serving as pastor of St. kano, D-Torrance, chair of the and passage of Joseph Co-Cathedral. Asian Pacific Islander Legislative policy through Caucus, affirmed the appointment the state Legislature. The Assemblyman George Nakano, of Paul Osaki to the Asian and Appropriations Committee consid• D-Torrance, was reappointed as Pacific Islander American Affairs ers and determines' the passage of chair of the 48-member California Commission recently in a small all legislation that has a fiscal State Assembly Democratic ceremony at the State Capitol. impact on the state. Approximately Caucus by Osaki will join 12 other represen• 2,000 bills are annually considered newly sworn• tatives on the commission which for passage in the committee. The in Assembly was established two years ago chair of the Appropriations Speaker when former Gov. Gray Davis Committee traditionally serves on Fabian Nunez, signed Assembly Bill 116 which the state's Joint Budget D - Los was authored by Nakano. Conference Committee that is Angeles. In "Mr. Osaki is an excellent addi• responsible for negotiating and general, cau• Paul Osaki (I) is welcomed to the APIA Affairs Commission QY writing the final version of cuses are for• tion to this historic conlmission," Assemblymember George Nakano. said Nakano. "He will prove to be a California's $99 billion annual mal organiza• stately representative for the ' vides educational programs, afford• reach programs to more effectively budget. tions set up within the State Japanese American community and able services and the use of their communicate with and respond to Legislature to allow dialogue Northern California, and will be a facility. He is also active with the the needs of a growing and increas• Oscar A. Solis, 50, became the between members with similar valuable resource to help address California Japanese American ingly active community In nation's first Filipino American interest. The Assembly the wide range of needs and con- Community Leadership Council California. Roman Catholic bishop when he Democratic Caucus is the largest in . cerns affecting the Asian Pacific which is working to preserve the The commission will submit an was ordained at the Cathedral of the State Assembly, and as chair, Islander community in California." last three remaining Japantowns in annual report with recommenda• Our Lady of the Angels on Feb. 10. Nakano will have the responsibili• Osaki is the executive director of Los Angeles, San Francisco, and tions to help advise the governor, Named to the post by Pope John ty of formulating caucus priorities~ the Japanese Cultural and Com• San Jose. legislature, and state agencies on' Paul II in December, he will head a initiating policy discussions. and munity Center in Northern The APIA Affairs Commission social and economic issues affect• council focusing . on minority making sure caucus meetings run California, an organization that pro- will help identify and develop out- ing the APIA community.• issues. The archdiocese, the largest efficiently.• change Japanese Americans on the Fringe Trust in the Youth ship? I ask JACL to let us show what -By BRIGHAM WALKER My sister Mackenzie and I know, By NIKIKO MASU~OTO internment experience is lightly we can do. I challenge JACL to cast respect, and embrace our Japanese touched upon in most U.S. history off "right" or "wrong" judgments How do we attract young people heritage. We know about how our Over the course of my involve• classes. Our passion and under• and listen to our concerns. We are to be involved with the JACL? The great-grandfather Yoshio Momonoi ment in JACL I have repeatedly standing of the JAexperience is dif• not children: we are a new different generation that ought to be the point hopped ship and plunged into the heard one of the seemingly most ferent than other generations: we generation, we are skilled, and of focus for active membership is icy winter waters of the Columbia burning questions of "adult" JACL have translated history into compre• JACL depends on us. There are the young par• River (the waters that took the life of members: hensible tenns for our new genera• issues that might make some older ent generation. his fellow migrant). We know about How do we tion. We see, we watch, we learn. JACL members uncomfortable but Today's how our grandfather Kiyoshi attract the Realize that we understand, let us some of them are issues that are part Japanese Kagawa avoided suspicious eyes youth? I think teach something. of the youth experience. Some of us American pop• when he worked for the MIS during Gail Tanaka Older generations must realize are gay, lesbian, bisexual, or ques• ulation is high• World War II fighting for his coun• started the cor• that we are a different generation tioning our sexuality. Some of us ly composed try, or how his brother fought in the rect movement and in order to work with us under may be exposed to far more social of half• 442nd. We know about how towards JACL, the organization must under• and academic pressures than some Japanese Obaasan was interned, having had answering this stand who we are. We are a fast JACL members understand. Many Yonsei and Gosei, so being JA is her hard earned belongings pillaged question by asking me, an 18-year• paced, aggressive generation. We of us are talented and eager to make more a "matter of fact" rather than a by her neighbors, and we know old Hapa at UC Berkeley, what I hunger for movement and action change. Will JACL deny our identi• "matter of experience." about our strong samurai·roots. thought. and are exposed to things that may ty and dismiss our ideas? I didn't grow up feeling JA; I The problem is that other than our If JACL wants to engage youth, seem radical. We need to talk about I am JA, but I am also Gennan grew up simply being half Japanese. Japanese faces, our history is all that JACL needs to ask first. Open dia• our concerns like sex, identity, American. I understand my I have taken an interest in my cul• makes us feel Japanese. We haven't logue is critical for transitioning stereotypes, and other societal ptob• Japanese heritage, and I have fought ture, but often feel like a white guy lived the JA life; we just are JA. I am leadership from one generation to lems. Only after conversation can against racism through organizing who's trying to unnaturally embrace bi-racial, and at times I feel like I'm the next so that old traditions can be we partake in activism. and educating about the JA experi• his Japanese culture! If the children in the limbo of racial identification The only way JACL can remain understood along with new issues. ence. I am a feminist, I am a stu• of young parents are raised with at - that I am slightly alienated from There needs to be continued discus• strong and recruit new leaders is by least a reference to a JA environ• dent, and I am an adult. I am open to both groups because I'm not wholly sion between Issei, Nisei, Sansei, letting the "old" JACL change. We, ment, then they will grow up with either one. For example, my family learning and hungry for my shot to Yonsei, and Gosei. The communi• the youth, do understand internment more of a sense of kinship with the was at an obon festival in Los make a difference. Will JACL not cation cannot be modeled after a issues, and we understand they are JA community. The JACL would Angeles about five years ago, and listen to me? Will JACL not accept parent child relationship: older gen• important. But that is not only what then be an obvious source to turn to when everyone was dancing, we me and work with me? Will JACL erations must accept the youth as we understand. Prior generations for the culture that they will have were left on the fringe watching. We not let go of traditional ways and autonomous people, as leaders, with faced very overt and cruel racism. always known and 'didn't have to wanted to join in, but it seemed like trust my leadership skills? I am not skills and individual concerns. The teenage generations today search for. an experience reserved for those alone. I am one of many youth Without this understanding JACL face a different kind of racism, but it Children love getting mail who grew up with it. We didn't capable of leading, educating and will quickly morph into an archaic is racism nonetheless. We are all addressed to them! Post letters grow up with it. working to stop social injustices. entity as youth turn away. . supposed to be the "model minori• directly to the children, advertising It has nothing really to do with Change is part of survival and a way This is not to say tradition and ty." This often equates to social children's fairs (which I'm sure are being bi-racial because I love being to embrace the future: ask us to history are not important. We, the taunting about studying and being a ou't there), "mini-obon fests," free Hapa, but I feel that being bi-ra€ial help, listen to. our ideas, and accept youth, are interested in our history "prude." Maybe I'm speaking only karate, ikebana; origami, and taiko makes childhood cultural identifica-. our leadership as the future of and I feel that as a whole we under• about my experience, and maybe workshops, etc. I'm sure they would tion, due largely to a sense of dilut• JACL.. be excited (partly by feeling impor• ed affiliation, impractical. I feel that stand it. I can remember talking to other youth do not feel the same Japanese American friends about 'way, but has JACL asked? And if tant enough to get a letter) and the being bi-racial has allowed me to be Nikiko Masumoto is a fresJunan the "white washing" of history so, how is JACL turning the parents would take note. Find a way completely myself, not to neatly fit at UC Berkeley. to suggest (not lecture) in the letter the mold of a specific group, but I books; it seems to me that the answers into cohesive action and the importance of experiencing do sometimes yearn for a childhood studying works or people from a one's culture to the parents. It would ethnic reference - perhaps the What's at Stake? background that is different from help create a friendly, family-orient• obon festival that we didn't go to, or their own. One of the main concerns ed learning experience that's acces• the dances we don't know.• By EMILY TERUYA the passage of Executive Order in ethnic studies is looking at multi• sible for parents and fun for kids. , 9066. ple perspectives especially those Best of all, they would be raised as Brigham Walker is a freshman at I never realized how important Lt. General John L. Dewitt, the that challenge, dispute, or decon• a JA and not just be half Japanese. Princeton University. Japanese and especially Japanese commanding officer of the Western struct the elusive "master narrative," American rep• defense zone who recommended the dominant Eurocentric-skewed resentation internment camps, spewed propa• history most students learn in National business was and still is ganda-filled statements. On April school. and Professional in academia 13, 1943, for example, he told the The Asian American Studies Directory and everyday House of Naval Affairs Committee Movement, in particular, wanted to life. As I was in San Francisco: "A Jap's a Jap. It create a pathway between scholars reading a 1945 makes no difference whether he is and community. Many activists who Your business card in each issue for 22 issues is $15 per line, three-line doctoral dis• minimum. Larger type (12 pt.) counts as two lines. Logo same as line rate an American citizen or not. ... You were involved with the movement as required. P.e. has made no determina1ion that the businesses listed in sertation titled, can't change him by giving him a wanted revolutionary change to this directory are licensed by proper government authority. "The Relationship Between Attitude piece of paper." oppose the dominant European hold and Information Concerning the This quote threw me into the . . Greater Los Angeles on academia by demanding com• Japanese in America," I came across depths of anti-Japanese sentiment of munity-based research, accountabil• ASAHI TRAVEL Dr. Darlyne Fujimoto, a footnote that led me to the Pearl the 1940s on the mainland. So when ity of scholars to the community, BUSINESS & LEISURE TRAVEL FOR GROUPS, Harbor section of UC Berkeley's I found "I Attacked Pearl Harbor" I FAMILIES & INDMDUALS. 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Masaoka Congressional office and the fel• (1915-1991) for a lifetime of out• fundraiser on March 27, will George Inouye of the Fellowship, an annual program that low. standing public service in promot• honor the "Unsung Heroes" of Marysville JACL (presenter will places extraordinary students and The most recently selected Mike ing justice, civil rights and human the NCWNP district chapters and be Nichola Hatamiya); George young professionals in M. Masaoka Fellows are: Evan dignity. The major purpose of the also celebrate JACL's 75th Uyeda of the Monterey Peninsula Congressional offices to learn about Okamura of Hacienda Heights, fund is to develop leaders for public anniversary. JACL (presenter TBD); Shigeo public policyrriaking firsthand. Calif., who is currently working in service by providing opportunities The following list includes the Yokote of the Placer County Dr. H. Tom Tamaki, chair of the the office of Sen. Dianne Feinstein, for college seniors or students in 20 honorees who will be recog• JACL (presenter will be Barbara Mike M. Masaoka Fellowship D-Calif., and Carly Hamaguchi of graduate or profession~ programs nized with the district's Legacy Oseto); Bud Fujii of the· Reno Fund, announced this year's appli• Playa del Rey, Calif., who has been to work for a Member of Congress Award at the dinner to be held at JACL (presenter will be daughter, cation deadline as April 1. placed in the office of Sen. Daniel or a Senator. The fellows' assign• the Blackhawk Auto Museum Mimi Fujii-Strickler); Kuni The successful candidate will Inouye, D-Hawaii. ments include a variety of tasks (3700 Backhawk Plaza Circle) in Hironaka of the Sacramento serve his or her fellowship in the All students who are in at least where they will be exposed to all Danville, Calif.: JACL (presenter will be Diane office of a U.S. Senator or Member their third year of college or in facets of the work of the . Neal Ouye of the Berkeley Tomoda); Phyllis Teshima of the of the U.S. House of graduate/professional programs Representative or Senator and JACL (making the presentation to San Benito County JACL (pre• Representatives for three and one and who are American citizens are his/her staff. him will be Kelly Shintani); senter will be Tony Boch); Iwao half months and recei ve a stipend of encouraged to apply. Preference Interested persons should visit Yoshiro Tokiwa of the Contra Kawakami of the San Francisco . $8,500 arid roundtrip airfare from will be given to those with a the JACL website at Costa JACL (presenter will be JACL will be honored posthu• the fellow's home to Washington, demonstrated commitment to Asian http://www.j acl .org/masaoka.html Nathan Tsuizaki); Yo Ikeda of the mously; D.C. Pacific American issues, particular• for further information and an Diablo Valley JACL (presenter Jeff Yoshioka of the San Jose The fellowship period may be the ly those affecting the Japanese application or contact the TBD); Frank and Joanne Iritani of JACL (presenter will be his niece, fall term (September through American community. Washington office of the JACL at the Rorin JACL (presenter will Cecily Nishimatsu); Yasuko Ann December, 2004) or the spring term The JACL established the Mike 2021223-1240 or by email: be Emi Ashida); Ito of..the San Mateo JACL (pre• (pebruary through May, 2005) and M. Masaoka Fellowship Fund in [email protected] .• Donald Morita of the Lodi senter TBD); Al Nakai of the JACL (presenter will be his Sequoia JACL (presenter will be NCWNP District Hosts Mochi Making and today in the ongoing battle against granddaughter Robin Cheryl Kaku); Jim Munlkami of discrimination. The youth dis• Yamamoto); Dr. Steven Gotanda the Sonoma County JACL (pre• Film Screening to Promote JACL Youth cussed the. need to set an example, senter will be Jason Higashi); ByKATIESOE and styles of preparation, and be aware of cultural differences, May Saiki of the Stockton JACL Special to the Pacific Citizen sampled delicious new recipes and display sensitivity and toler• (presenter will be Amy Ishihara); . from around the world. ance. High school students were This space . Frank Inami of the Tri-Valley JACL youth of the NCWNP There was also a viewing of the encouraged-to exhibit pride in their JACL (presenter will be Dana district council met at Penryn documentary, "A Most Unlikely uniqueness coupled with the could be yours. Goto); Rosie Terasaki of the Buddhist Church Feb. 8 to experi• Hero," a film by Steve Okino courage to stand up for their civil Watsonville-Santa Cruz JACL ' ence the thrill of Mochi Madness illustrating the true, poignant stOlY rights. Call (presenter will be Paul Kaneko). and to view the film, "An Unlikely of a Japanese American who tri• ''The youth program was a lot of - The Keynote speaker of the Hero." umphed in a major civil rights fun, especially getting mochi stuck dinner will be George Takei, After brief introductions and an case against the U.S. Marine allover my fingers!" said Patel. "I 800/966-6157 chairman of the Japanese icebreaker, the high school stu• Corps. learned so much and look forward American National Museum in dents and advisors gathered "The movie was truly inspir• to more opportunities like this." or email Los Angeles, and a renowned around the stone mortar, hoisting ing," s'!-id JACL Diablo Valley Upcoming NCWNP district actor. The emcee will be broad• the heavy wooden mallets and youth Zeenal Patel. "Racial preju• events include the "Time of [email protected] castjoumalist Jan Yanehiro. pounding the steaming rice the tra- . dice is an invisible enemy and yet, Remembrance" at the Golden The cost of the dinner is $100 ditional way to produce the sticky this one man managed to conquer State Museum on Feb. 21, and the for details. per person. For information call rice cakes: it." oratorical contest for the JACL the JACL NCWNP office at The youth also learned the his• A discussion following the film national convention In Honolulu 415/345-1075 .• tory of mochi, various methods emphasized the role of youth this August. •

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HOCKEY BASKETBALL Kariya Starting to Find Rhythm With Avalanche Yao Ming Replaces Bryant DENVER-Paul Kariya is create offense," said Kariya. "Joe guys can be saying theY're play• as McDonald's Spokesman finally starting to feel good after is going to do a lot of that. I can ing their best hockey at this Houston Rockets All-Star Yao caring." returning to the Colorado be more of a playmaker in that point? So we have a lot of Ming ·is the new global Yao will be used in Avalanche lineup after missing situation. improving to do. spokesman for McDonald's, McDonald's global marketing 31 games with a sprained right "But you want to be able to do "We have been giving up leads, which let Kobe Bryant's contract campaign, with an emphasis on wrist. big leads, and expire after he was accused of physical fitness and activity, "It's starting making it more rape. - Olympic initiatives and support to come difficult on our• Yao's multiyear sponsorship of Ronald McDonald House around," said selves. We've deal was announced Feb. 12.at a Charities. Kariya. "It was also been put• McDonald's outlet inside the Los Yao recently topped Forbes tough to get the ting ourselves Angeles Convention Center. Yao Magazine's 2004 list of Chinese timing and the behind the was in town to play in the NBA celebrities, ending up head and touch with your eight ball in a All-Star game. shoulders over entertainers wrist down. I'm lot of games, Bryant's three-year deal with including martial arts star Jet Li feeling a lot bet• getting behind the Oak Brook, Ill.-based fast• and "Crouching Tiger, Hidden ter now and 3-0 and hav.ing food company expired Dec. 31. Dragon" actress Zhang Ziyi. shooting the to come back. The Los Angeles Lakers guard Yao ranked first based <1n puck a lot bet• There is defi• has lost other sponsors since "heavy exposure in media and ter. " nitely a lot of being charged with sexual assault. Web hits in China," the magazine Kariya aver~ room for "We had a long, mutually bene• said in a news release on its Web aged more than improvement." ficial partnership with Kobe," site. four shots a The Colorado Avalanche's Paul Kariya celebrates with his teammates Avalanche said Larry Light, McDonald's Yao also recorded the second• game in nine after Peter Forsberg scored against the Anaheim Mighty Ducks during a coach Tony global chief mar'keting officer. highest 2003 income among seasons with recent game in Anaheim, Calif. (AP Photo) Granato said "His contract expired and we Chinese celebrities: $14.6 mil• Anaheim. But in 21 games with both, and that's what Joe and I Kariya is on the verge of paying mutually determined under the lion. the Avalanche, he has taken only both want to be able to do out big dividends. circumstances it was best to not The list, published in Forbes 36 shots, an average of 1.7 a there." "It was all rest for two months renew." China, the magazine's Chinese• game. Kariya has high expectations with his wrist, so he didn't get a The company's research language version, surv_eyed the Kariya believes that playing on for the Avalanche, which is fight• whole ' lot of repetitions with showed Yao's attitude and charm income and popularit;y of celebri• are as much a part of his appeal as a line with Joe Sakic has eased ing with Vancouver for the shooting and handling the puck," . ties in film, sports, media, music his athletic ability, Light said. the pressure on him. Northwest Division lead. he said. "But I think he's skating and publishing. Those listed had "Yao has international appeal "Playing with a guy like Joe, "We have a lot of work and a great, creating a lot of chances, to have been born and raised in and also represents the character mainland China; celebtities from who has such a great shot, I don't lot of maturing to do as a team," and he's going to be a big part of . of our brand," Light said. "He's Hong Kong, Taiwan and other need to get six shots a game to said Kariya. "I mean, how many our offense down the stretch." • youthful, dynamic and has a parts of the Chinese-speaking sense of humor. He's also very world were excluded .• GOLF Wie Youngest Ever on a Youthful U.S. Team BASEBALL PEBBLE BEACH, Calif.• Amateur Public inks. impressive competing against Matsu· eave Japan for Michelle Wie was among eight The United States is the professionals on the LPGA and players selected Feb. 6 to the defending champion and has a PGATours. Second Major League Season U.S. Curtis Cup team, making 23-6-3 lead in the biennial She became the youngest TOKYO-New York Yankees repotters. "1' m looking forward the 14-year-old from Hawaii the matches that date to 1932. The player on the PGA Tour last outfielder Hideki Matsui left to the challenges ahead." youngest player in the 72-year 2004 matches will be June 12-13 month at the Sony Open, where Japan on Feb. 12 to begin prepa• In his first major league season, history of the amateur matches at Formby Golf Club on the she shot 68 in the second round rations for his second major the 29-year-old Matsui batted for women. _ Lancashire coast of England. and missed the cut by one shot, league season. . .287 with 16 homers, 106 RBIs Despite her age, Wie should fit U.S. captain . Martha the lowest score ever by ~ female Matsui boarded a Japan and 82 runs to help the Yankees right in on the youngest U.S. Wilkinson Kirouac watched sev• competing against men. Airlines flight at Narita Airport reach the World Series. team ever to play Britain and eral of these teenagers compete In seven LPGA events last and is expected to spend several Matsui will return to Japan in Ireland. over the last six months, and said year, she made the cut six times days in New York before heading late March for the Yankees' sea• The oldest player is Sarah that youth would not be a detri• and played in the final group at to the Yankees' spring training son-opening games against the Huarte, a 21-year-old senior at ment. the Kraft Nabisco facilities in Tampa, Florida. Tampa Bay Devil Rays at Tokyo California who won the presti• "They're not lacking," Championship, the first major of "Today is the start of my sec• Dome on March 30-3l. . gious South Atlantic Ladies Kirouac said. "You can't hold the year. She wound up in a tie ond season,'" Matsui told Amateur earlier this year. It was age against them." for ninth. the first time no mid-amateurs Wie, 1.83-meters tall with a Laura Baugh previously was Four Japanese Networks to (25 or older) were included on powerful, fluid swing, has the youngest Curtis Cup player. the U.S. team. played well JJeyond her years She was 16 when she played on Televise Major League Games Wie is joined by Paula ever since she qualified for the· the '72 team . • NEW YORK-Major league (Nippon Broadcasting System) Creamer and U.S. Women's Women's Amateur Public Links baseball games will be carried on will continue as the exclusive Amateur runner-up Jane Park, as a lO-year-old. POWER LIFTI NG four Japanese television networks radio network. both 17; Duke freshman Brittany She won the Public Links last this year. The major league season begins year, ma)cing her the youngest Arizona JACLer Wins Lang, 18; Arizona sophomore NHK (Japan Broadcasting), with a two-game series between Erica Blasberg, 19; Duke sopho• winner of a USGA event for Gold in Power Lifting Sky PerfecTV!, TBS (Tokyo the New York Yankees and Teri Ishimatsu won the indi• more Elizabeth Janangelo, 20; adults. Broadcasting System), and Fuji Tampa Bay Devil Rays in Tokyo vidual gold medal in her division and Annie Thurman, a 21-year• , It was her biggest victory, TV acquired rights in a license on Mar'ch 30-31. It will be the sec• old junior at . Oklahoma State although the ninth-grader at at the recent AAU World Power from Dentsu, which owns televi• ond time regular-season games who won the 2002 Women's Punahou School was even more Lifting Championship held at the sion and radio rights in Japan. All will be played in Japan - the River Palms Hotel in Laughlin, have previously broadcast major New York Mets and Chicago Nevada. league games. Cubs played two games in Tokyo SUMO More than 300 weight lifters _ JOLF Radio/Nippon Hoso to start the 2000 season . • American Sumo Wrestler Sentoryu Retires from seven countries participat• ed in the drug-free competition. TOKYO-American wrestler low in the footsteps of Akebono Ishimatsu competed as a mem• Matsui Arrives afMets Spring Training Camp Sentoryu formally stepped down and take up a career in K-l, a ber of Team NASA aod went on PORT ST. LUCIE; Fla. - Kaz drizzle for about seven minutes from sumo's raised ring Feb. 11 sport combining elements of to set new World and American Matsui arrived at the New York outside the visiting clubhouse. He . in a retirement ceremony at kickboxing and karate. records in the PushlPull (bench Mets' spring training complex began working out Feb. 7. Tokyo's Ryogoku Kokugikan. Sentoryu, who made his sumo press/dead lift) for her Friday after traveling to Florida During his stay in New York, Sentoryu, a native Missourian debut at the Nagoya Grand age/weight division. Team the previous night aboard the Matsui worked out in a domed whose real name is Henry Sumo Tournament in 1988, NASA also won the silver medal plane . of team owner Fred tent alongside the hotel he was Armstrong Miller, had his top spent most of his career in the in the women's team competi• Wilpon. staying at. A Japanese tennis team knot cut off in a traditional cere• sport's lower ranks, but was ele• tion. "My first priority is practice. In was using the tent, and he said the mony that was attended by fami• vated to the elite makuuchi divi• Ishimatsu is a member of the Japan spring training starts on team members were gracious ly and friends, including former sion near the end of his career. Arizona JACL chapter. • Feb. 1," Matsui said through enough to allow him to conduct personal training on a daily basis. sumo wrestlers Akebono and He was the only black American interpreter Toru Mihara. "I am familiar with that schedule." When 'lsked why he left New Konishiki of Hawaii. to take part in Japan's ancient For ad rates call: Matsui who signed a $20.1 York, Matsui wrapped both arms The 34-year-old Sentoryu, a sport . • l 800/966-6157 million, three-year contract in around his body and shivered native of St. Louis, plans to fol- December, spoke to reporters in a while saying: "Brrrr." • 8 PACIFIC CITIZEN, FEB. 20-MAR. 4, 2004 COMMENTARY COMMENTARY, Words Americans of Did Allegations of "Black Dragon" Ties Spur Japanese Ancestry Live By FBI to Round Up Issei Leade~s in WWII? By MAS HASHIMOTO of life, to be endured and then By HUGH BURLESON of the world. It is active wherever for Asian nationalists from China overcome. Then there's shikata ga there are Japanese." and Asian colonies against The car ahead had a rear bumper ' nai - some things simply cannot Published and oral accounts of The report proceeds to repeat the European colonialists in the run• sticker that read, "Constitution, be helped. We must persevere and the post-Pearl Harbor roundup of sensationalized allegations about up to World War II. The chronolo• Words We Live By." Its driver was goon. Issei community leaders express or . the Black Dragon Society's activi• gy contains just one reference to not John We must · never, even . for a infer great puzzlement over why ties and influence in Japan by Japanese in the United States. It Ashcroft. moment, forget giri, "duty, obliga• these family members were target• western' reporters in Tokyo in the clailJled to have organized a Americans tion, justice," and on, "kindness, ed by the FBI. The implication has 1930s and early 1940s, even Zaibei Nihonjin Ryugakusei of Japanese gratefulness, indebtedness" - not usually been that the arrests were claiming that in 1940 the Black Remllei (League of Japanese ancestry dear• only as they apply to the Nikkei simply another instance of the pre• Dragons "gained control of. the Students Studying in the United ly love the community but to our beloved vailing anti-Japanese prejudice of Japanese g<:>vemment by setting up States) in 1936 "to focus attention Constitution country as well. The code of that time. the Imperial Rule Assistance on lawless' anti-Japanese activity with its Bill of bushido - chivalry, honor and Suggestions of another answer Association." The truth: The mili• in the United States." The targets: Rights, but we loyalty - was practiced by the to this puzzle are contained in tary-controlh~d . government students from Japan studying here are suspicious Nisei soldiers of WWII. University of Washington profes• required all unofficial groups to temporarily, not U.S.-resident of government officials when they The Japanese culture continues sor Tetsuden Kashima's authorita• join the lRAA. Issei or Nisei. promise to uphold the supreme to play an important role in the tive study of the West Coast Nikkei The report then claims that the Nowhere does the exhaustive laws of the land. lives of Sansei, Yonsei, Gosei, and wartime internment, "Judgment Butoku-kai and other Nikkei chronology of activities claim to During World War II we were Hapa, or mixed ancestry. We are Without Trial" (UW Press, 2003). groups were Kokuryukai vehicles have sponsored or developed classified as "non-aliens," stripped proud of their many accomplish• On page 30, Kashima notes that for conducting activities in prewar influence over Nikkei groups or of our Constitutional rights and ments and their respect for tradi• the .Justice Department's "Special California. The ensuing details fol• organizations here or elsewhere in unjustly imprisoned as "prisoners tional values. Defense Unit" (SDU) in February low a pattern of assigning nefari• the Americas. Such activity, in of war" by our own government. We are grateful that the demo• 1942 had listed 12 Nikkei organi• ous motives to activities like kendo fact, would have been outside the We are deeply indebted to our cratic principles of justice exist in zations as being "subject to the and assuming that the Kokuryukai scope of Amur Society interests. own predominately Nisei the Constitution and the Bill of direct control of radical nationalist was active everywhere_ But, the exotic-seeming name l00thl442nd Regimental Combat Rights. It is this respect for the elements" in Japan, including the In studying the Kokuryukai in made the "Black Dragons" a pop• Team and the Military Intelligence . fairness in the law and not reli• "Black Dragon Society" 1954-56 while a grad student at ular topic for journalists seeking Service (MIS) for their contribu• . gious beliefs that we hold most (Kokuryukai). UC Berkeley, I read through that sensational copy to send to their tions. With their heroic accom• dear. As Americans we demand A yellowed copy of a 1943 society's several publications editors back home. It was only plishments on the battlefield, they the principles of fair play andjus• HUAC (House Un-American (thousands of pages of text in after 1945, after the Allied help.ed earn the reputation tice be applied in the courts, on the Affairs Committee) study may Japanese) and researched many Occupation had rounded up Japanese Americans enjoy today. athletic fields, in the news media, hold a clearer explanation for the other sources on this and other pre• Kokuryukai publications and Many, including my two older and in the pursuit of academic seemingly inexplicable jailing of war "ultra-nationalist" groups in these appeared on the shelves of brothers, volunteered for military endeavors_ _ the Issei leaders. The HUAC Japan. In the subsequent decades, I major U.S. university libraries that service from America's concentra• President Harry S, Truman both report, which was provided to me have studied other related materi• research became possible that tion camps. They continued to honored and challenged the Nisei in the early '80s by a former als and read American scholars' would get at the society's true believe in the Constitution and soldiers with, "You fought not HUAC staff member, included analyses. nature and impact. demanded the opportunity to prove only the enemy, but you fought voluminous appendices detailing The Kokuryukai sources made Ko~uryukai activities clearly their loyalty to this country. prejudice and you won. You have "Japanese Activities" in the United clear that its prime aim was to help helped pave the way for Japan's We were to petition our govern• made the Constitution stand for States. expand Japan's empire on the seizure of Korea in the 1905-10 ment for "redress of grievances," what it really means: the welfare The report, entitled Asian continent. The name in fact period, but after that were con• and on Aug. 10, 1988, the govern• of all the people, all the time. Keep "Investigation of Un-American · is properly translated "Amur fined mainly to pamphleteering ment apologized and admitted that up that fight." Propaganda Activities · in the Society" and reflected the society's and personal influence on the incarceration of over 120,000 Today, we pay our respects to United States," was issued in 1942 belief that the Amur Ri ver between Japanese domestic politics for the innocent people of Japanese ances• the Constitution. They are the and 1943. On page 134 of Manchuria and Russia (Heilung• 30 years before the "the Pacitic try was a great wrong. For this, we words we live by, but for Appendix Pmt VIII is the follow• kiang or "black dragon river" in War." Despite the many flamboy• are grateful. Americans of Japanese ancestry, ing: 'There are many secret politi• Chinese) should be the natural ant claims about the Kokuryukai Our Issei parents brought with they are not the only ones .• cal societies in Japan. The most northern limit for . an expanded as Japan was increasingly milita• them several basic "Japanese" val• powerful and dangerous of these is Japanese empire. rized in the 1920s and '30s, it was ues - a working blend of Mas Hashimoto is a member of the Black Dragon Society The society's 1940 chronology but one of' the pressure groups Buddhism, Taoism, Confucianism, the Watsonville-Santa Cruz JACL (Kokuryu-Kai). The Black Dragon of its activities showed its single• seeking to influence Japan's for• and Shinto. Fundamental in this is chapter. . Society has branches in many parts minded focus on Asia and support eign policy, and it ceased to exist a profo~nd respect and love of before Pearl Harbor. nature, Shizen. Harmony, enman, In the early Cold War years, we can be achieved when one under• Japanese American Korean War Vets Honor saw instances of unevaluated alle• stands the flow of naturalness, gations from FBI files and shizen no. Fred Hoshiyama with Roast and Tribute dossiers ' causing problems when Among the values included is Fred Hoshiyama, a fixture in the and is currently a consultant and dent; Vice presidents Tohru Isobe, they were used against individuals oyakoko, the love between parent Japanese American community in trainer of financial developments Dorothy McDowell, John and targeted groups. It seems that and child. Each family member Southern California and a YMCA for the YMCA. Hoshiyama is well Iwamoto, Paul Ono, and Victor prewar Issei leaders, indeed the plays an important role. Respect Hall of Fame inductee, was hon• known in the local JA community Muraoka; Kaz Kitani, secretary; for all elders is taught, and Obon, whole community of West Coast ored by the including his work in the JACL, Tom Nakagawa, treasurer; Carl Japanese, were victims of such the celebration for our ancestors, is Japanese Japanese American Community Miyagishima, auditor; and Legal FBI practices due to this alleged an important observance. Then American Services, Inc., Little Tokyo Counsel David Miyoshi. there is the family value of "Black Dragon" connection. We Korean War Services Com.mittee and the ' Shimoguchi anl}ounced tentative may hope that poorly based alle• Kodomo 110 tame ni, "For the sake Veterans Japanese American National plans for a JAKWV European tour gations are not being used today. of the children." Parents will sacri• recently at Museum. In 1989 Hoshiyama was in 2005 and the family "Day at the ' against America's Muslim resi• fice their own desires and goals for their eighth . inducted into the National YMCA Races" at Santa Anita Race Track dents.• their children. annual instal• Hall of Fame. on March 14. Interested persons As Nisei children we are taught lation banquet. The 2004 officers were also can call Shimoguchi at 310/822- Hugh Burleson is a member of about haji. or shame. One must Over 140 JAKWv members and announced at the installation dinner 6688 or Victor Muraoka, 818/368- the JACL Lake Washington chap• never bring shame to one's self, guests took part in the roast and including: Sam Shimoguchi, presi- 4113 .• ter. one's family, or the Nikkei com• tribute to Hoshiyama who was pre• munity. Parents stressed enryo, sented with a six star honorary gen• which means modesty. Gaman eral jacket. means to keep troubles to yourself Hoshiyama began his career at RECYCLED BARBED WIRE - to be patient. Shinbo shite seiko the YMCA in 1941 as the boys' suru - disappointments are part work secretary in San Francisco

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"But CANADIANS WWII, did not suffer the indigni• Japanese Canadians would contin• Like many young JA men, at least he signed [the redress (Continued from page 1) ties of a forced internment. ue until 1949, five years after the Moritsugu's father was not enthu• bill)." Eventually Japanese Canadians endofWWII. siastic about seeing his oldest son The passage of the redress bill Royal Canadian Mounted Police . began protesting their forced sepa• "In Canada there was no such go off to war. "Why would you go was personally important, said and placed in a plisoner of war ration from loved ones and soon . great news," said Moritsugu, of the and join after how you've been Moritsugu, because "I wanted to camp in Angler, Ontario. the Canadian government agreed end of WWII and the release of treated?" Moritsugu remembers feel whole again." At first he did Eventually there would be a total to reunite the internees in various JAs. The Canadian policy "was to his father asking him. not warm to the idea of monetary of ten Canadian internment camps, including Tashme, where not let us back to the West Coast as Moritsugu's answer to his compensation but later he realized camps. the Moritsugu family members long as possible." father's question' echoed the senti• that the money ·was important in The camps were desolate and were finally reunited. Although there were some rare ments of other JA veterans: "If I getting the mainstream Canadian barren; barracks were used to "It was like an enforced vaca• cases of JAs returning to their go and serve our country, our population to understand the sig• house the families who bathed and tion," said Moritsugu, of his time homes and possessions after the chances for the future shall be nificance of what had been done to ate in communal settings. in the camps, but it was also a war, Japanese Canadians had no greater." Japanese Canadians during the Moritsugu was sent to the men reminder that life had been so dif~ such luck, noted Moritsugu. Under Unlike the JA camps there was war. onlY Yard Creek camp. In Yard ferent before the war. the auspices' of the Custodian of no draft resistance movement MOIitsugu went on to have a Creek there were no fences, no Like many Japanese Canadians, Enemy Alien Property, the amongst the Japanese Canadians, successful career as a journalist, watchtowers, and only one guard the Moritsugu family members Canadian government had sold the noted Moritsugu. There were also and continues to run the Nikkei who kept watch over a bridge eventually agreed to move to east• confiscated property of Japanese . no equivalent cases to the Fred Voice, the only national Japanese located in the camp ~ In fact, many ern Canada as a way to get out of Canadians, including homes, busi• Korematsu, Min Yasui, and Canadian newspaper. He also of the Canadian camps were built the camps, finally settling in nesses, farms, and fishing boats. Gordon Hirabayashi U.S. court speaks about the WWII intern• right along train lines. Ontario. Frank joined the family in "Nobody ever went back home. challenges. In addition, Japanese ment at various high schools and . Although then Canadian Prime 1944 and to this day he makes a The politicians in British Canadians were never asked to senior citizen centers. Minister MacKenzie King used home in Toronto, Ontario with his . Columbia said, 'We don't want sign a loyalty oath questionnaire "A lot of people don't know "militaty necessity" under the War wife Betty. In addition to moving them, '" noted Moritsugu. . like the one that, to this day, has much [about the Japanese Measures Act to justify the to the eastern provinces, about In 1949 restrictions against the caused much anger and resent• Canadian internment] but a lot· wartime internment, Moritsugu 4,000 Japanese Canadians agreed Japanese Canadians were finally ment in the JA community. more do now," he said. noted, "If Japanese Canadians to be "repatriated" to Japan at this lifted giving Japanese Canadians During the 80s, Japanese The Arab American and were truly security risks would time even though many had never the right to move back to the West Canadians bega;' organizing a Muslim American communities they have transferred us to camps set foot in the country before. Coast, the right to become citizens, redress campaign, much like the today are facing many of the same along railway lines?" In 1.944 the end of the war final• and the right to vote, something one fought by JAs, coming togeth• issues Japanese Canadians faced He also points out that only the ly arrived and JAs were being many politicians in British er to demand compensation and an more than six decades ago. Japanese Canadians were "pun• released from the various camps, Columbia had long resisted. apology for the wrongs committed Shortly after the Sept. 11, 200 1, ished" by the Canadian govern• but there was no such good news While in the Canadian intern• . against them by the Canadian gov- terrorist attacks, Moritsugu recalls ment while Italian Canadians and for Japanese Canadians. While JAs ment camps Moritsugu and other ernment. former Prime Minister Jean German Canadians, countries also were finally free of the camps, Japanese Canadian men had read Shortly after the U.S. govern• Chretien ' using Japanese about the famous 100th Battalion ment passed the historic redress Canadians as an example against CURTIS R. NAMBA and the 442nd Regimental Combat bill, Japanese Canadians wit• scapegoating an entire group of NAMBA LAw OFFICES Medi-Cal & Team, but at the time Japanese nessed their own government sign people. Canadians were prohibited from a redress bill on Sept. 22, 1988, "Never again, never again. 83 Scripps Dr., Suite 370 Living Trusts Sacramento, CA 95825 joining the military. But soon a receiving an apology and a pay• That's a healthy message," said [email protected] a*~~~?.:r "hush-hush campaign" was begun ment of $21,000 to each former Moritsugu. 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Tickets also available at the Oy Wong; Japanese American Mu~ Concert; 8 p.m.; Finney Chapel, Japan America Theater box office. Oberlin College; Tickets, info: seum of San Jose; 535 N. Fifth St. Info: MERCED, Calif., Sat., Feb. 21-Livingston-Merced and Cortez JACL's Annual Banquet; 5 p.m. social h9ur, 4401775-8169. 4081294-3138; www.jamsj.org. SAN MATEO 6 p.m. dinner, 7 p.m. program; Branding Iron Restaurant; includes a presentation on the "Japanese American EUCLID, Ohio Sun., Feb. 22-Movie Matinee, Experience in Merced" exhibit from the Merced County Courthouse Museum. RSVP and info: Grace Kimoto, Sat.-Sun., March 27-28-Japanese "Aizen Katsura" starring Ken Uehara 209/394-2456, Chris Masuda, 209/394-3225, Steve Teranishi, 209/383-6577, or Bob Taniguchi, 209/383-5161. Food Sale; Saturday 1-7 p.m., Sunday and Kinuyo Tanaka. J.A. Community NEW YORK CITY, Sat., Feb. 21-2-5 p.m.; Japanese American United Church, 255 Seventh Ave. between noon-6 p.m.; Cleveland Buddhist Center. 415 Claremont St. Free. Info: 24th & 25th; Candlelight Vigil Potluck; includes a photographic slide documentation of the JA community of Temple, 214th & Euclid; plus bake 650/343-2793. the past 25 years. Info: Tsuya Yee, 917/913-6461; [email protected]. sale and knick-knack sale; free park• TULELAKE ing. Info: 216/692-1509 . . Fri.-Mon., July 2-4-2004 Tule Lake PHILADELPHIA, Sat., Feb. 21-2-4 p.m.; Merion Friends Meeting, 615 Montgomery Ave., Merion, Penn.; Pilgrimage; accommodations at the Peter Suzuki, Esq., past president of National Asian Pacific American Bar Association, will speak on Mountain Plains Oregon Institute of Technology in "Remember what your parents taught you - be proud of your Japanese Heritage!"; refreshments, free admis• BOULDER, Colo. Klamath Falls, Ore.; busses depart sion. Info: Joyce Horikawa, 856/247-9431. Wed., March 10-Sun., March 28- from San Francisco; Seattle, Portland, REDWOOD CITY, Calif., Sun., Feb. 29-1-4 p.m.; San Mateo County Historical Association Museum, 777 Interactive Exhibit, "Facing East, Berkeley and Sacramento: Regis• Facing West: Black Ships and tration, info; www.tulelake.org; (San Hamilton Street; San Mateo JACL Day of Remembrance and Installation; Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston is the fea• t~ Samurai," on the the initial encouun• Francisco) Hiroshi Shimizu, speaker. Tickets: $20, includes obento lunch. RSVP by Feb. 25. Info: Kate Motoyama 6501794-0727. ters between Japan and the United [email protected]; (San Jose) Jimi SACRAMENTO, Calif., Sat., Feb. 21-12-1 p.m. and 2-3 p.m; Secretary of State Building Complex, 1500 States; Boulder Public Library; open• Yamaichi, jimiyama@aoicom, 408/ 11th Street. Free parKing at 10th and 0 Street. Screening am!. discussion of "Day of Independence."; 12 and 2 ing reception on March 10 with co• 269-9458; (Sacramento) Grace Kajita, p.m.; Interactive Camp Experience Workshop: What Would You Do if Faced With Internment. First workshop creator Profesor John Dower, author [email protected], 916/392-5416; is for high school and college students, second workshop for other adults. Pre-paid donation of $7.s0/person, of "Embracing Defeat" about the U.S. (Seattle) Stan Shikuma, snshikuma students under 18 free, $10 after Feb. 14. Sponsored by the Florin, Lodi, Marysville, Placer County, Sacramento occupation of Japan. Info: 303n35- @aol.com, 2061721-1128; (Los and Stockton JACL chapters. Info: 916/395-7944 or [email protected]. ; 5127; Jessica.Amtson@Colorado Angeles) Sharon Yamato, syamato .edu. @comcast.net, 310/578-0090; (Japan) SALINAS, Calif., Sun., Feb. 22-1:30 p.m.; Santa Lucia Room, Sherwood Hall, Salinas Rodeo Grounds; 0451787-2099 stakita@yokohama• sponsored by San Benito County JACL. ~terniomtain cu.ac.jp; www.geocities TWIN CITIES, Minn., Sat., Feb. 28-1-3 p.m.; Bloomington Civic Plaza Auditorium, E. 98th Street at James MEN1IK)~,Idaho .com/sac benet. Ave. S.; "Remembering: Voices of the Internment"; community members with firsthand experience related to Fri.-Sun., June 25-27-2004 Southern Calforria the internment share their stories; program includes historical overview, panel presentation and open forum. Minidoka Pilgrimage; buses from News anchor Kent Ninomiya moderates. Free. Info: 952/922-3828 .• Seattle and Portland to Twin Falls; CLAREMONT PACIFIC CITIZEN, FEB. 20-MAR. 4, 2004 11 Angeles, Feb. 5; survived by and Dr. Gregory (Patti) Miyake; 5 born; pre-wwn resident of Peru daughters Michiko (Jimmy) gc.; sister Pauline Sakata of Los incarcerated at Crystal City, Texas, ObituaRies Matsuba, Lillian Ishida and Diane Angeles; predeceased by wife Internment Camp under the U.S. All the towns are in California except as noted. Hirata, and 2 gc. Yoshiko. government's hostage program during the war; 50-year resident of Calef, Patricia Abe, 48, Yomogida. Ito, Tetsuo, 88, Palos Verdes Miyashiro, Hideo, 74, Ana• Estates, Feb. 1; Nobeoka, Japan• heim, 74; Pepeekeo, Hawaii-born; San Francisco; survived by wife Berkeley, Jan. 18; Cleveland-born; Fujii, Marjorie Sueno, 81, Los Yoneko and daughter Grace. book · editor for the Oakland born; survived by sons Allan (Jae), survived by wife Terry Sachi; Angeles, Jan. 23; San Gabriel Roger (Terrie) and Kenneth daughter Beverly Annette Tim• Shiroishi, Shimo, 100, Mon• Tribune, and book reviewer for the Valley-raised; formerly of Minne• Tribune, the San Francisco (Kiko); daughter Judy Fujimoto, mons; sisters Elsie (George) terey Park, Jan. 11; Fukuoka ken• apolis; Poston, Ariz., internee; sur• and 10 gc. Kaisan of Honolulu; Carol Miya• born; survived by sons Makoto Chronicle and the Contra Costa vived by husband Laurence R; Times; survived by husband Kaneko, Otari, 89, Gardena, shiro of Cypress; sister-in-law (Keiko) and Masaru (Hiroko) daughter Carolyn J. Ikei; 3 gc.; Betsy Miyashiro of Honolulu; Shiroishi; daughter Kazuko Yama• Daniel; daughter Anne and son daughter-in-law Joan Y. Fujii. Dec. 29; Japan-born; survived by Robert; mother Emma Saito; daughters Mary Sato of Laguna brothers Einobu (Jessie) Miyashiro rninarni; 12 gc. and 9 ggc. and son• Fukuhara, Eileen, 76, Marina Beach, Miyako (Ken) Kobayashi of Pepeekeo and Isamu (Rachel) in-law Mike Nakashima. del Rey, Jan. 18; Aorin-bom; sur• This compilation appears on a space• of Eugene, Ore., and June Kashi• Miyashiro of Fountain Valley. Sugimoto, Chester K. ' 82, available basis at no cost. Printed obitu• vived by husband Jimmy K.; tani of Gardena; sons Tsuneyo Mizuhata, Kiyoshi, 83, Seattle, Carson, Jan. 8; Salinas-born; sur• aries from your newspaper are wel• brothers Elmer, David (Mary), Leo (Pam) Kaneko of San Diego and Dec. 25; WWlI U.S. Army veter• vived by wife Shieko; daughters come. "Death Notices," which appear in (Aorence) and George (Frances) a timely manner at request of the family Akira (Donna) Kaneko of Hawaii; an; survived by stepson Ron Ellen (George) Fujii and Jayne or funeral director, are published at the Uchida; sisters Mary Kiino of 13 gc. and 9 ggc. Yamamoto; 5 gc.; companion Sugimoto; sons Mark and Neil rate of $15 per column inch. Text is Murrieta and Suini Takeno of Chieko Sumimoto; predeceased by Sugimoto; sister Tarnik6 Nishi• reworded as needed. Denver. Kasai, George Shoichi, 76, Los Angeles, Jan. 22; survived by son wife Katherine Yamamoto and kawa and adopted sister Emiko father George Abe; brothers Frank Henmi, Edward Etsuzo, 78, Bob (Kelly) and daughter Janice brothers Paul and John. . Sugimoto. and Stephen Abe. Clovis, Jan. 23; survived by wife Kasai; 2 gc., and brother Hideo Murashige, Yukiko, 84, Los Takamori, Betty Tokiko, Gar• Cherry; children Susan (David), Eddow, Elizabeth Joanne, 70, (Ets); predeceased by wife Emiko. Angeles, Jan. 17; Utah-born; sur• dena, Jan. 22; survived by husband Linda, Steve and Daniel (Judy); 4 vived by sons Roger (Caroline) Hideyuki; sons Gilbert (Seandae) Henderson, Nev, Dec. 21; survived gc., and brother Richard. Katano, George Kanya, 73, by husband Dan; daughters Debbie Montebello, Jan. 6; survived by and Kenneth (Linda) Murashige of 'and Alvin (Debbie) Takamori; sis• Marsh, Kim and Mikki; 3 gc.; H;ojo, Kelly Shizuo, 79, wife Jean; -daughters Lynn and Arizona; 3 gc.; brother Fred ters Charlotte Nakaoka of brother Robert Wainwright; sister Oceanside, Jan. 25; Los Angeles• Lori; son Gregg (Nancy) and I gc. (Percy) Yoshioka; sisters Kimi Honolulu and Katsuko Tanji of born;' WWII veteran; survived by Linda Wainwright; brothers-in-law Izumida, Mary Nakashima and Saitama, Japan; brother Sadaichi son Paul; daughter Lucy Denson; Kato, Kosei, 79, San Mateo, Shig (Yaya) and Al (Jan); sisters• Jan. '15; survived by wife Tsuya; Jeannette (Henry) Sugimoto; Tanji of Fukushima; brothers-in• in-law Patricia Kimoto, Yo Eddow, brothers James (Reiko) and Kenny brother-in-law Hiro (Yae) Mura• law Roger (Florence) of Honolulu (Kay), and sister-in-law Ann Hojo. children Elaine (Randy) Louie, Arlene (Ray) Kishi and Virginia Naomi (Gary) Kawakita; 5 gc.; shige of Hawaii; sisters-in-law and Terry (Mae) Takamori of Ishida, Kiyoshi, 81, Los siblings Kimi Shinto (Jiro), Eisei Nami Yoshioka of Ohio and Maryland; sisters-in-law Hisako (Yoshiko), Yusei (Noriko), Fumi Evelyn Murashige of Hawaii. Tarniya of Wailuku, Maui, Hawaii, Elementary School Teachers, 255 (Yeichi) Hayashi; predeceased by Murayama, Mitsuye Mar• and Lily Takamori of Honolulu. OBITUARIES West Julian Street, San Jose, CA sister Kumi (George) Kotake. garet, 86, Alhambra, Jan. 19; Los Taniguchi, Mary Masaye, 91, (Continued from page 1) 95112. Kawamoto, Hozumi, 94, Angeles-born; survived by hus• Los Angeles, Jan. 16; Waipahu, Longtime community activist band Henry Hiroshi; son Paul A. Hawaii-born; survived by daugh• career at Hughes Elementary and JACL leader Fred Hirasuna Monterey Park, Jan. 24; Glendale• born, Hiroshima-reared; survived (Suki H.); daughters Janice R ters Helen K. (Dr. Harold) School in the Santa Clara Unified passed away on Feb. 12 at the age (Donald) Davis and Joanne S. Wakamatsu and Reiko (Takashi) School District where she taught of 96 in Fresno, Calif. by son Howard Satoru (Taeko) Kawamoto; daughters Miyoko (Daniel) Neville; 4 gc.; brothers Watanabe; 2 gc. and 2 ggc. kindergarten. She continued Hirasuna lost his balance while George and John (Helen) Nishi• teaching while raising her two Ariza of Arizona and Teruyo Terasaki, Yutaka ''Tak,'' 89; getting out of a car and fell on his mura and sister·Yoshi Miyawaki. Denver, Jan. 10 service; Denver• children, Mark and Michelle. (Goro) Noborio; 11 gc. and 9 ggc.; . head. He was born; national JACL vice president Jeanne Honda is survived by her sister-in-law Tomiko Kawamoto Nagata, Shiro Frank, 77, Los rushed to the Angeles~ (1953-56) and twice Mile-Hi . mother Hisaye Rose Yoshida, two and friend Ayako Okihara . Angeles, Jan. 27; Los hospital but· born; survived by wife Kikuko; JACL chapter president; Denver younger brothers Richard and Kiwata, Ken, 79, San Fran• later passed . daughters Amy (Robert) Young, Area Pharmacy Association presi• Stanley, her husband Mike, son cisco, Jan. 16; San Francisco-born; away due to Mary (Anthony) Miyake and dent (1969) and Colorado State Mark, and daughter Michelle. survived by wife Rosalyn; sons his injuries. Nancy (Phe) Ha; 4 gc.; brother Board of Pharmacy member A memorial service will take Richard of San Franccisco ·and Hirasuna, a Saburo (Josephine) Nagata; sister (1979-84); survived by wife place on Feb. 21 at 1:00 p.m. at the Howard of South San Francisco; 5 retired pro• Chiyoko (Roy) Nishimura; sisters• Mitchie Futamata; daughters Alene Santa Clara Yalley Japanese gc.; sister Yo Hirooaka of San duce shipper, in-law Hatsue Nagata and Sefsuko Kiku Terasaki and Melanie (Chris) Christian Church located at 40 Francisco. had just celebrated his 96th birth- (Glenn) Imai. Froelich; 2 gc.; sisters Haruko Union Avenue, Campbell, Calif. day on Feb. 11. . Kobayashi, Yuji, 74, Chicago, Nakahara, Sadao Eddie, 78, Kobayashi and Yuriko Nogami; . 95008. A longtime member of the Jan. 27; Seattle-born; survived by Clarksburg, Jan. 20; Isleton-born; brothers Shoziro (Theresia) and In lieu of flowers, contributions Fresno chapter, he was among the wife Eva; son Daniel; daughter survived by wife Kimiko Frances; Sam (Sara) Terasaki. can be made to a' scholarship fund pioneers who represented the . Amy; 3 gc.; brother Fred and sister son Craig; daughter Sheila Thubota, Kimiko "Kay," 88, in memory of Jeanne Honda to chapter at the first national JACL Rickie. (Dennis) Shimada and sons Daniel Riverside, Jan. 2; Goshen-born; support graduating high school convention in Seattle in 1930. Kotsubo, George Yuya, 92, (Mary) and Earl (Cynthia) charter member of the Riverside students aspiring to be elementary Services for Hirasuna were Long Beach, Jan. 23; Riverside• Nakahara; 7 gc.; sisters Yuriko JACL; survived by husband school teachers. Please send con• scheduled for Feb. 20 at United born; survived by sister-in-law tributions to: (Hitohaiu) Omoto, Jun (Ray) James; daughter Amy Oishi of Japanese Christian Church. Lisle Masako Kotsubo, nephews, one Matsubara and Carol (Bob) . Moreno Valley; son Gary of Abrazos and Books, c/o Jeanne niece, granct-nephews and grand• Funeral Home is in charge of Sekoguchi. Riverside; sisters ' Hisako Abe of Honda. Scholarship for arrangements .• nieces. Nakasone, Kiyoko, 90, Culver San Diego and Mary Nii of Kusatake, George, 84, Temple City, Jan. '12; Kauai, Hawaii-born; Dinuba; brothers Jim Fujii of City, Feb. 1; Lemoore-born; sur• posal did not provide a specific survived by son Thomas Tamotsu Sacramento and Goro Fujii of PROFILE solution to family immigration vived by wife-Shigeko; daughters (May) Nakasone; daughter Sumi Oklahoma. (Continued from page 1) backlogs that affect many Asians. Karen (Kurt) Tokita of Renton, (Howard) Hoshizaki; 7 gc. and 5 Tsujimoto, Richard K. "Choo• Wash., and Patricia Kusatake; 2 Some Filipinos \Vho are U.S. citi• ggc.; sisters Matsu Nako of Choo," 79, Los Angeles, Jan. 18; gc.; brother Koji Kusatake of we're going to make it clear that zens, for example, have been wait• Okinawa, Hanako Nakama, Los Angeles-born; WWII veteran; all of our communities are stand• ing 22 years for brothers and sis• Dinuba. Haruko Taira and Sueko Nago and survived by wife Mitzi M.; daugh• ing behind these issues," Narasaki ters to join them. Matsumoto, Shizuka, 89, brother Genko (Yoshino) Uyehara. ters Trude Tsujimoto and Tammy said. Sacramento, Jan. 14; survived by "We don't want to oppose any- . Nakayama, Haruko -Marion, (Todd) Sandberg; son Dr. Curt The agenda calls for policies son Gilbert Matsumoto. thing that benefits other immi• 85, Gardena, Jan. 24; Los AngeIes• (Rebecca) Tsujimoto; 1 gc., and that will help Asians overcome grants, but we are put in a position Matsumoto, Kikuye "Kiku," born; survived by husband Lloyd; brothers Ted (Hisako) and Benny poverty, find affordable housing of, 'Hey, what about us?'" said SO, Gardena, Jan. 23; survived by children Arleen (Dick) Saka• (Yoshiko) Tsujimoto.• and get a good education and Bill Ong Hing, professor of law son Victor (Joanne) Matsumoto; 2 hahara, Wayne (Janice) Nakayama access to health care - issues and Asian American studies at the gc. and brothers lsamu, Sueyo, and Kathy (Bo) Lee; 3 gc. and sis• important to most Americans. University of California, Davis. Tom and Takashi Tomooka. ter Tatsuye Miyata. But the platform also strives to A separate effort to get 80 per~ Matsumoto, Teruo. 71, Gar• shatter the stereotype of Asians as Saito, Margaret Shizuko, 79, cent of AA voters to cast their bal• dena, Feb. 6; Arizona-born; Oakland, Jan 9; Oaklanq-bom; "model minorities" with above lots for one candidate is being Korean War veteran; survived by Topaz internee; survived by hus• average incomes, education and organized by 80-20, a nonpartisan wife Teruko; son Dennis Teruo; few serious problems. band H. Leo Saito, DDS; daugh• political action committee. About daughters Pamela Anne Matsu• ters Janet K. (John) Golden, Nancy The report notes the poverty rate F.D.L. #929 62 percent of Asians voted for moto and Karyn Sue (Dr. Anthony) R Saito, Patricia M. (Peter) Hecht in 2000 for Hmong people was 38 911 VENICE BLVD. Gore, the candidate 80-20 Yanagihara; 2 gc.; sisters Sachiko and Elvyn Blair; son Robert T. percent; 29 percent for grou~ LOS ANGELES, CA 90015 endorsed in 2000. The will (Archie) Nakamoto and Tarniko Saito; 1 gc. Cambodians; 19 percent fo~ make its 2004 endorsement later (213) 749-1449 Kishishita, and sister-in-law Sasaki, Aya, 86, Camarillo, Jan. FAX (213) 749-0265 Laotians and 16 percent for in the year. Laverne Matsumoto. R. Hayamizu, Presidell! 16, Los Angeles-born; survived by V.P.IGell. Mgr. Vietnamese. In response to an 80-20 ques• Maeyama, Masato,· 72, Los H. Suzuki, Other priorities include protect• tionnaire, each major party candi• daughters Joyce (Alan Fabyancic) Angeles, Jan. 20; Osaka-born; sur• Sasaki and Rene (Mitchell ing affirmative action and the right date - with the exception of Al vived by wife Yoshiko; daughters Kronenberg) Sasaki; son Victor to vote and fighting hate crimes Sharpton and Bush - have Mariko (Brian) Nakagiri and (Lisa) Sasaki; 4 gc.; brother Leo and racial profiling. South Asians, agreed to hold public hearings on Mayuri (Tony) Luna; 3 gc.; sisters (Hayako) Tanaka and sister-in-law in particular, were victims of racial workplace discrimination against Noriko (Makoto) Hori of Japan, Keiko Tanaka; predeceased by profiling after the Sept. 11, 200 1, Asians, enforce an executive order Hideko Nomoto and Teruko husband Satori. terrorist attacks, Narasaki said. that forbids employment discrimi• Maeyama of Japan a.nd aunt May Shimizu, John H., Denver; sur• The agenda also says the immi• nation and meet with AA leaders if Nakawatase. gration system must be reformed, vived by wife Yasuko; sisters elected, said S.B. Woo, the group's Miyake, Dr. George, 85, 707 East Temple Street a key issue in a community where Linda (Tom) Nomura of San Gerald Fukui president. Fresno, Jan. 24; Fowler-born; sur• Los Angeles, CA 90012 President two-thirds are foreign born. Some Woo said the bloc vote idea Marcos and Alice Kouchi of vived by daughters Laraine Seattle. Ph. 213/626-0441 were disappointed that President encourages the parties to compete Miyake-Comb and Susan (Robert) Bush's recent immigration pro- "to serve our rightful interests." • Shimizu, Susumu "Carlos," Fax 213/617-2781 Mochizuki; sons Kenneth (Kim) 97, El Cemto, Jan. 31; Hiroshima- 12 PACIFIC CITIZEN, FEB. 20·MAH. 4, 2004 Kitakata's first work to appear in English and is considered his Sdns of Heaven masterpiece. By Terence Cheng -Tanaka, the novel's hero, is a Perennial middle-aged yakuza. Once 312 pp., $12.95 paperback regarded as the heir to his gang's aging boss, he has fallen out of Now available in paperback, favor and appears stuck as_ the this debut novel centers around head of one of the gang's sub• the 1989 Tiananmen Square mas- branches. Not your typical gang• sacre. The at home in neither, and is trying the overbearing parents of both lord, Takeo runs to the forest and ster, Tanaka is not obsessed with two main to leave his life as a freelance families. But what the couple is rescued by a stranger who expensive suits, jewelry and characters are assassin. Having killed the rogue thought would be a happily ever seems to emerge from nowhere. women. Instead, Tanaka is a brothers CIA officer who had hunted him after life turns out to be no fairy Lord Otori Shigeru, who study_in heartbreaking memory one a scholar halfway around the globe, Rain tale. - becomes his master and teacher, and ambition. and one a sol• now goes underground, hoping to tPtPtP schools Takeo in the ways of the tPtPtP dier. The find the peace that has eluded Dream of the Walled City warrior class. But while Takeo is The Last Fox younger of him for so many years. But then By Lisa Huang-Fleischman devoted to Lord Otbri, he still By Robert Kono the two Tatsu, his old nemesis from the Washington Square Press longs to be the carefree boy he Abe Publishing returned from Japanese FBI, comes to him with 416 pp., $13.95 paperback was not more than a year before. $14.95 plus $4 shipping & han• studying in one last job: to find and eliminate Split between the two worlds - dling America. Coming back to China a ki ller even more lethal than This debut novel, now in of the Otori tribe and the people has left him embittered over his Rain. Tatsu explains that this paperback, was inspired by the among whom he was raised - This debut novel recounts the prospects and disillusioned with killer has neither compassion nor life of Lisa Huang Fleischman's Takeo is tormented by his divid• story of Sgt. Fred Murano, a the government. Only the grow• compuction, and his murderous grandmother, an early feminist, ed nature, and by the strange, 442nd sol• ing s.igns of political unrest seem activities, if left unchecked, political activist and friend of, inexplicable skills he appears to die r . to revive him. He thinks perhaps could tip the balance of power in Mao Zedong. The main charac• have: the ability to be in two Although his life and the lives of the Japan's corrupt political system. ter, Jade Virtue, is born a privi• places at once; preternfltural pulled out of impoverished people around him But to neutralize him, Rain will leged daughter of a high-ranking hearing; and -the ability to make college by will improve if the government have to pursue the killer through Imperial official, but her world himself invisible. To overthrow the evacua-• would only listen. His older the crosshairs of both the CIA falls apart on her 10th birthday Iida and accomplish Otori's mis• t ion , brother Lu -has already been in and the Japanese mafia. when her father dies. From there, sion, Takeo must cross the Murano is a the People's Liberation Army for tPtPtP she is thrust i-nto the world where "nightingale floor"-a large, spe• young ideal• nine years. A loyal soldier, Lu 1Winkle 1Winkle she sees firsthand a traditional cially constructed wooden floor ist and he believes deeply in China and By Kaori Ekuni culture being destroyed under the designed to "sing" under the volunteers does not approve of reports that Translated by Emi Shimokawa onslaught of growing rebellion slightest pressure and alert Iida to fro'm the his brother has become "diffi• Vertical against the emperor, rapid social intruders. Takeo ultimately real• Minidoka camp with his three cult." The two brothers face off 208 pp., $19.95 hardback changes and the mounting izes he must make his own way boyhood friends from Oregon. In when Deng Xiaoping dispatches aggression of Japan and the West. on this journey of revenge and combat, they become known as troops upon the students in "Twinkle Twinkle" won the tPtPtP treachery, honor and loyalty, the four kitsune or foxes. During Tiananmen Square on June 2, prestIgIOus Lady Murasaki Across The Nightingale Floor: betrayal and love. the rescue of the Lost Battalion, 1989. Literary Award in Japan and Tales of the Otori, Book One tP ~tP Murano emerges as only one of established Kaori Ekuni as a lit• By Lian Hearn Ashes eight men to survive from the I Hard Rain erary writer. The book centers on Riverhead Books By Kenzo Kitakata Company. Decades later, Murano - By Barry Eisler a young Tokyo couple, Mutsuki 320 pp., $14 paperback Translated by Emi Shimokawa attends a veterans' reunion where G.P. Putnam's Sons and Shoko, where appearances Vertical his combat buddies try to under• 320 pp., $24.95 hardback are deceptive. Mutsuki is strictly Set in medieval Japan, Takeo, 224 pp., $23.95 hardback stand what exactly they had gay and has a boyfriend, while the novel's narrator, is a teenage accomplished. To order, contact This is Barry Eisler's second Shoko is a clinical case of emo• boy living in a remote mountain Kenzo Kitakata, Japan's undis• Abe Publishing, P.O. Box 5226, novel in the John Rain series. tional instability who is in no village who witnesses the savage' puted don of hard-boi led and Eugene, OR 97405; phone The main character, John Rain, is shape for a relationship. As a massacre of his family and mystery writing, has never had 800/535-5038; fax 541/485- half Japanese, half Caucasian. 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