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Florida's 'Jap Rock' Among List of Places That Will Requi~ Nam~ Change

By CAROLINE AOYAGI not ~ffended by the use of the name, that contain "Jap" for possible Executive Editor which is an absurd statement that in name changes. Although Orange itself demonstrates why it's impor- County has expressed some reluc- Florida's "Jap Rock" may have tant to change the name. He just tance for a name change of "Jap been a place where Japanese fish- doesn't get it." Lane," Fort Bend County held a ermen used to cast out their lines, The move to rename "Jap Rock" public forum Sept. 28 to debate but now new legislation is making in Highland Beach, Palm Beach whether "Jap Road" should be sure this jetty, along with other County comes at a time when the renamed and has indicated support places with ethnic or racial slurs, for the change .. , will be renamed...... ~,...---~,.....,.-""-- ...... -""""'.....,...--..."...... ,,...~ ...... This state's cities and coun• ties have until Oct. 1 to be in The creator 01 bigbadchinesemama.com compliance with· a new law that isn't as angry as you think she is. She requires them to report and secretly wants to be Miss America. rename any By LYNDA LIN writer, activist, educator, actor and places using Assistant Editor other hats" juggles a full schedule, racist language. but still finds time every once in Officials will also In her dewy youth, Kristina Wong awhile to dangle some subversive be required to Florida's Highland Beach is enticed lonely souls with her humor to her hungry public. notify the Office home to 'Jap Rock.' strongest asset: her wit. While her Pacific Citizen: Are you really a of Tourism, Trade "I feel that it's important that classmates at the University of shy, sweet girl on the inside? and Economic Development by state of Texas has been getting a lot 'Jap Rock' in Florida should be California, Los Angeles were turn• Kristina Wong: I'm a totally shy, 2005 so maps and markers can be of press for recent efforts to rename renamed, as in referring to ing in epic-length term papers, withdrawn and quiet person when it updated. several of its roads containing Japanese or Japan, the word 'Jap' Wong created bigbad comes down to it. I just hide it under "The name J ap Rock in "Jap." Jefferson County, Texas is a racial slur and should not be asianmama.com, a site that lures the facade of a screaming, obnox• Highland Beach in Florida is obvi• recently changed its "Jap Road" to tolerated anywhere," said Texan you in with promises of companion• ious lunatic artist. ously offensive to Japanese "Boondocks Road" after a ten-year Sandra Tanamachi, who helped ship with "demure lotus blossoms," PC: What inspired you to create Americans as a racial slur," said effort by local Japanese Americans. spur the name change in Jefferson but then backhands you with insults bigbadchinesemama.com? John Tateishi, JACL executive Two other Texas counties, County, Texas. and blaring accusations of patriar• KW: During my {rrst year of col• director. "Tom Reid, the mayor of Orange and Fo[t Bend Counties, are The list of names in Florida that chal thoughts and stereotypes. lege I was so angry at racism and Highland Beach, has said that he's also looking at roads in their areas See JAP ROCK/Page 2 And like a colonist to M. sexism and my 'oppression' ... that Butterfly, the visitors came stream• I almost had an ulcer. I realized, ing with golden expectations only to 'My anger is more oppressive than Arkansas fmd Wong's lovely face contorted my oppression. That sucks.' So I High School Senior Puts into a mocking scowl, decidedly leamed to laugh more about things Internment Camps very un-geisha-like. rather than get angry. Revisited Bilingual Skills to Use ' Nearly five years after she first I was also in way too many Asian 'Your Memoir,' a volun• Adams, 17, started "Your created the site as her senior project, American Studies classes and went . By MELISSA NELSON Memoir" as a freshman, applying colleges are now placing her on to too many 'Kill Whitey' poetry Associated Press Writer teer, non-profit organiza• her bilingual skills in Japanese and their syllabi and inviting her to readings where people would go on tion, helps translate English to help elderly Issei trans• speak in ethnic studies courses. For and on about how 'the man' had UTILE ROCK-Six decades memoirs for elderly Issei late their memoirs for their English• Wong, who says she's at the tender done them wrong but never owned after they were forced from their who want to leave a lega• speaking children and grandchil• age of" 18 to look younger," life has homes on the West Coast and in cy for posterity. See Q&A/Page 4 dren. spread past the borders of the mock Hawaii to World War IT internment "I believe that memoirs are a way mail order bride page. The self-pro• camps in southeast Arkansas, hun• By CAROLINE AOYAGI to not only leave your legacy claimed "revolutionary tucked COMMENTARY dreds of former detainees returned Executive Editor behind, but an opportunity to share inside a solo performer, ftlmmaker, to the state for a conference devoted Until the Fat to the long-neglected history of the Although most high school sen• intimate feelings with your posterity long after one is gone," said Adams, camps. iors may be preoccupied with the Lady Sings' The more than 1,300 former latest fashion trends, the newest who currently attends Gunn High detainees, family members, histori• techno gizmos, or who their prom School in Palo Alto, Calif. "I have By JOHN TATEISm found that many older Japanese JACL Executive Director ans and others who registered for date will ' be, Nicole Adams is busy the four-day conference were greet• working on her non-profit organiza• See YOUR MEMOIRIPage 4 The ugly racist head of American ed Sept. 23 by colorful paintings tion, "Your Memoir." society is once again showing itself created by children 60 years ago to through the debate raised by the depict life in the camps. publication of Returning to Arkansas was an Michelle emotional experience for some and Malkin's an educational experience for oth• book, "In ers. Defense of For Marian Takagi of Honolulu, it Internment" was a chance to share with her and by colum• daughter the journey her family was nists jumping forced to take after the bombing gf on her band• Pearl Harbor. wagon. By misrepresenting factual The night of Dec. 7,1941, Takagi history and long-honored scholar• watched as her father, a sugar plan• ship and legitimate research, Malkin tation worker, was arrested at the

See ARKANSASlPage 12 See TATEISHVPage 2 Nicole Adams relaxes at her home in Palo Alto, Calif. 2 LEITERS PACIFIC CITIZEN, Ocr. 1-14,2004 'JAP ROCK' Gellar readily admits that loop• Hate Radio Banquet statements of a Hawaii PACIFIC CITIZEN holes exist in the legislation he has Supreme Court Justice, Speaker (Continued from page 1) The article on the KFI radio situ• proposed but believes Floridians after speaker opposed a 7 Cupania Circle, ation is not uncommon. In Lansing, contain racial or ethnic slurs leaves will do the right thing in renaming Constitutional amendment and Monterey Park, CA 91755 lan~ MI there is a morning show DJ on no group behind, In addition to "Jap places that contain offensive advocated for equal protection for Tel: 3231725-0083,800/966- Rock," there's more than a dozen guage. the oldies station who used Jap to 6157, Fax: 3231725-0064 all people regardless of sexual ori• places that use ~egro, including "Otherwise, they will have to describe a woman he saw at the E-mail: [email protected] entation. "Negro Island." "Jewfish Creek" stand up and debate this and say, county fair. [email protected] The key is that the reason the res• and "Cracker Swamp" are also on 'We've discussed this, ' and I emailed the station and I sug• olutions were rejected was that the Executive Editor: the list we've decided to keep a name gested . that there was a need for Ironically, the U.S. Board of Resolutions Committee found that Caroline Y. Aoyagi that has been determined a diversity training for the staff at the Assistant Editor: Geographic Names had declared racially offensive name,''' said both constitutional resolutions, as station,since if Jap is rep~aced with Lynda Lin "Jap Rock" derogatory in 1971 - Gellar, in an interview with the well as two other non-related resolu• Nigger, Kike, Spic, Dago, Flip, Office Manager: although the name is still used Sun-Sentinel. tions, duplicated positions and/or Brian Tanaka Chink and the like, the negativity is today. But this new legislation pro• Although "Jap Rock" was sup• statements previously adopted by Circulation: Eva Lau-Ting all the same. I also encouraged other posed by Sen. Steve Gellar, D• pose to be removed by the federal the national council and/or board of Asian Americans in the area to con• Publisher: Japanese American Hallandale, does not provide guide• board, it continues to be listed in directors. In other words, the com• lines for which words are to be con• official maps and guidebooks. tact the station. I was pretty much Citizens League (founded mittee felt that both resolutions 1929) 1765 Sutter Street, San sidered offensive and also does not Ultimately, the decision to rename blown off by the manager. merely reaffirmed existing JACL Francisco, CA 94115, tel: punish cities and counties who "Jap Rock" will be up to Palm I proceeded to then contact the policy. Thus, even though, R6 and 4151921-5225 fax: 4151931- refuse to comply with the name Beach County and Highland Beach advertisers for the radio morning 4671, www.jad.org R7 were rejected, JACL continues change. officials .• show, and that triggered an angry JACL President: Ken Inouye to fight for social justice. reply from the station manager in National Director: John TATEISHI have been loyal American citizens. So what remains? All but one which he stated the DJ was not Tateishi Or that we're as good as they are. Or national board candidate who Pacific Citizen Board of (Continued from page 1) racist, and that there was no reason that we have an equal right to claim• appeared before the PNWOC cau• Directors: Gil Asakawa, chair• does the bidding of right-wing ideo• ing ourselves Americans. to be so insistent. I had never person; Roger Ozaki, EDC; cus supported R6 and R7. The new logues bX rationalizing the intern• They, like Malkin, mock the fact brought up the subject of racism, but Ron Katsuyama, MDC; Grace Program for Action also 'contains an ment as justification for the Bush that one of this nation's great heroes only tried to suggest education and Kimoto, CCDC; Valerie sacrificed an ann and gave his body item opposing any Constitutional Yasukochi, NCWNPDC; Ann Administration's post-9/11 policies training for the staff. that are sometimes constitutionally to prove his and our loyalty to this amendment. My hope is that the Fujii-Undwall, PNWDC; Larry So, don't call the radio station, questionable. nation, and then dedicated the rest of executive director and national pres• Grant, IDC~ Andrea Parker, call their advertising customers, and MPDC; Alayne Yonemoto, While I personally find the kind of his life to the service of this nation; ident will actively reaffmn JACL's or that one of our enduring members hit them where it hurts - in the PSWDC; Maya Yamazaki, misrepresentation of "fact" that opposition to the assault on the Malkin and her ilk exercises laugh• rose from the dust and isolation of a bank. Without numbers, (the Youth. Constitutional rights of a minority able because it's so-absurd and so prison camp in Wyoming to become Japanese American population is and that individual chapterS and dis• r------, easily refuted (one reason she does• a member of the U.S. Congress and shrinking so we'll never have num• NEWS/AD DEADLINE: n't want to debate the issues?), a member of not one, but two, pres• tricts will work with our members bers), use more effective tactics. FRIDAY BEFORE DATE there's a more disturbing and ugly idential cabinets. They seem to think directly to continue a dialogue on Never did get another reply, apol• OF ISSUE. side to all of this. there's some kind of affirmative same sex issues. Editorials, news and the There is in all of this an assertion action program in awarding Medals ogy, acknowledgement from the sta• opinions expr.essed by col• of the political right to sanctify racist of Honor and making appointments tion manager. I stopped listening to umnists other than the &tt7~ views in the name of "truth" and to the president's cabinet. the station, so don't know if there national JACL president or Seattle JACL national director do not "honesty." In other words, she gets In preaching her gospel of intern• was any real change(doubtful), but ment, the likes of Michelle Malkin necessarily reflect JACL standing ovations from audiences do take the time and make the effort wherever .she speaks because they insist they're not racists, demand that policy. Events and prod• to point out such ugly ~d inappro• o ucts advertised in the not only want to believe that the truth they believe is the real, Pacific Citizen do not carry Japanese Americans were disloyal unbiased truth, But it can only be real priate language, and to use the Hello Kitty the implicit endorsement of during World War II, but because if you accept their assumptions of opportunity to offer instruction and the JACL or this publica• ·they do believe this to be true. racism. assistance. Just wanted to let you know that I tion. We reserve the right to I It's a perverted argument at best, But why? Why is it so difficult for . really enjoyed your article on Hello L ______edit articles. ~ : so many in this country to believe and at worst, it's just plain ugly. 7~1It.~ Kitty's 30th· anniversary. I could that the government acted on racist What's disturbing about this is PACIFIC CITIZEN (ISSN: 0030- motivations, caved in to politicians that it's so easily appealing to so Director, Retention & Academic really relate to it having grown up 8579) is published semi-month• who did the bidding of .both the many people. Malkin's book is hit• Advising with Hello Kitty and still collecting ly except once in January and ting the best seller lists, I'm told, December by the Japanese racists and the greedy? And why is it Chaminade University the "useful" items for work such as American Citizens League, 7 so difficult for so many to believe which means there are a lot of peo• their new silver pens and business Cupania Circle, Monterey Park, that Japanese Americans were truly ple who want to know, really know, o card holders. I think you were right innocent victims of racist policies the truth about the internment. CA 91755. OFFICE HOURS - on in your description of Hello Kitty and that maybe the government in Our detractors are out there, and Mon.-Fri., 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m. Same-sex Marriage with the mysterious missing mouth! Pacific Time. ©2004. fact made a terrible mistake that cost it's up to all of us ' to combat their this country tens of millions of dol• views. We thought we reached the Thanks very much for writing Annual subscription rates: Thank you for your in-depth cov• NON-MEMBERS: 1 year-$35, lars to implement a flawed policy? pinnacle when we succeeded with this: I enjoyed reading it. Keep up erage of the JACL Hawaii National payable in advance. Additional I often wonder what it is about redress, but it isn't over yet. If it's the good work. postage per year - Foreign these people who want so badly to true that it's only over when the fat Convention. I would like to add to periodical rate $25; First Class believe that JAs could not possibly lady sings, she appears to be pretty the article on the convention resolu• ~~-~ for U.S., Canada, Mexico: $30; • svelte right now.• tions. The article banner stated, Monterey Chapter Airmail to Japan/Europe: $60. "JACL Revises Resolutions to (Subject to change without notice.) Periodicals postage Continue to Fight for Social o paid at Monterey Park, Calif., Justice." However, the article ended and at additional mailing offices. by reporting that R6 and R 7, resolu• A Favorite Read Permission: No part of this tions that opposed a constitutional publication may be reproduced amendment regarding marriage, I would like to commend the without express permission of were "rejected by committee." newspaper staff for turning out such the publisher. 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Although we are unable master to include periodicals in to print all the letters we receive, we Pacific Citizen! your chcmge of address CUSPS appreciate the interest and views of E-mail: Form 3575) those who take the time to send us their comments. [email protected] PACIFIC CITIZEN, OCT. 1-14,2004 NATIONAL NEWS 3 U. of Virginia to Get Study Shows Racial Profiling a Growing U.S. Problem By SIOBHAN McDONOUGH For example, recent cases of protecting all of us," it said. AA Studies Program Associated Press Writer American Taliban John Walker State laws continue to be insuffi-· Lindh and British shoe bomber cient in addressing .the problem, WASHINGTON - Authorities' After ten years of mak• Richard Reid show that al-Qaida according to the report. targeting of people because of their has an ability to recruit a diverse Twenty-seven states do not ban ing waves, the universi• racial background or religious affili• range of sympathizers. These two racial profiling, the report said. ty's Asian Student ation is a deep-rooted problem in the would not necessarily have been No jurisdiction in the United Union will fmally see United States, with nearly 32 mil• identified by policies that focus on States has addressed the problem in AA courses offered. lion people reporting they've been Arab, Muslim and South Asian a way that is effective and compre• racially profIled, a human rights By Pacific Citizen Staff males, the report said. hensive, the report said. group said Sept. 13. Aside from the ill-effects on vic• As of August, bills dealing with The report, released by Amnesty racial profiling had been introduced In a unanimous decision, the tims - depression and humiliation International USA in Dallas, also University of Virginia Student said at least 87 million people - Council passed a resolution one in three - in the United States Sept. 21 to endorse the forma• ation of a long-term plan to E are at high risk of being victimized tion of an Asian American develop an AA Studies depart• because they belong to a racial, eth• With, it? Studies program at the universi• ment. nic or religious group whose mem• ty. Student support of the cre• According to Amnesty Int'l, bers are commonly targeted by "I believe people will be very ation of an AA Studies program a staggering number of pe0- police for unlawful stops and. supportive of the program," said is widespread. In a recent ASU ple in the U.S. are subjected searches. Peter Yu, assistant dean of the Internet and paper poll, more to racial profiling: Racial profiling is a growing Office of African American than 1,500 people indicated their problem as the government has Affairs, in an interview with the support in just six days. • Nearly 32 million Americans report they have been victims of expanded its war on terrorism, the campus paper, The Cavalier "Programs like these take time racial profiling. report said. Police, immigration and Dai!y. "A lot of faculty members to build momentum," said Yu in • Approximately 87 million Americans are at high risk of being airport security procedures are the feel it's long overdue." The Cavalier Daily. "I think the subjected to future racial profiling during their lifetime. areas where the problem has gotten It's been ten years since the time is right for it now." . 47% of African Americans experienced racial profiling worse since the Sept. 11, 2001, university'S Asian Student· The ASU is already planning . 23% of Hispanics experienced racial profiling attacks, it said. Union (ASU) frrst began efforts the next step, which will be to try • 11 % .of Asians experienced racial profiling Citizens and visitors of Middle to create anAAStudies program, to get AA Studies courses in the • 19% of Multiracial individuals experienced racial profiling Eastem and South Asian descent, frrst launching its Five Year Plan Course Offering Directory. They • 3% of Caucasians experienced racial profiling and others who appear to be from in 1995. will also ask for a faculty mem• these areas or members of the The student council's resolu• ber to be hired and will go before Muslim ~md Sikh faiths, have profiling reinforces resi• in 41 states and passed in 29 - tion supports the formation of the Faculty Senate to talk about - tacial become more frequent subjects of dential segregation, creates fear and with only 23 of these states actually AA Studies courses and the cre- thecurriculum.• racial profiling over the last three mistrust and engenders reluctance in banning the practice outright, the years, the study said. reporting crimes and cooperating report said. Such racial profiling is a distrac• with police officers, Amnesty The group endorsed bills intro• Get APA news. Subscribe to the P.C. tion to law enforcement and there• International USA said. duced in the House by Reps. John fore, undermines national security "In these times of domestic inse- Conyers Jr., D-Mich., and Call 800/966-6157 efforts, the report said. As police pri• . curity, our nation simply cannot Christopher Shays, R-Conn., and in marily focus on Arab, Muslim and afford to tolerate practices and poli• the Senate by Democrat Russell South Asian males, it said, they are cies that build walls between mdi• Feingold of Wisconsin that would mOre likely to overlook terrorists . viduals or communities and those ban racial profiling at all levels of who are white. who are charged with the duty of governmen~ .• Queens Poised to Produce First AA State Legislator By JOEL STASHENKO Chinatown in Manhattan. When Liu joined the New York Associated Press Writer Meng nearly achieved the politi• City Council, he became not only cal milestone for Asians when he his district's councilman but the de ALBANY, lost to Grodenchik by just 126 votes facto representative for all AAs in N.Y.-At in the ~002 Democratic primary. A the city, she said. more than 1 second Asian in that primary race "I think many in the Asian com• million probably sapped the decisive votes munity will be approaching him strong, the . from Meng. (Meng) to express their concems," A s ian New York has hardly been a trail• Fung said. American blazer for Asians politically, even She predicted it could be a community in though Asians have lived in the state "rough" workload on Meng being New York is Jimmy Meng since at least the 1830s .and New the Legislature's highest profile the second York has been a Mecca for immi• advocate for an Asian population largest in the nation. grants from Asia - and just about that now totals about 1.4 million in Yet, not a single politician of everyplace else - for generations. the state and is growing. Asian descent has ever been elected There are currently five AArepre• Meng's daughter and campaign to the New York state Legislature. sentatives in the state legislature in manager, Grace Meng, said the That is almost certain to change California, which has the largest Asian population of the 22nd Nov. 2, when a 61-year-old immi• population of Asian descendants in Assembly District is comprised pre• grant from Taiwan named Jimmy the nation at 4.2 million. dominantly of first-generation Meng, is expected to be elected in Even New York City, with its immigrants, many of whom are try• the state Assembly's 22nd district in roughly 800,000 residents of Asian ing to scratch out livings and get Flushing, Queens. descent, has been slow to elevate used to living in America. Meng won apemocratic primary Asian candidates to office. No AA Fung said that unlike Califomia, two weeks ago, unseating incum• had been elected to the city council New York's Asian immigrant popu• bent Barry Grodenchik and posi• until John Liu, also from Flushing, lation is newer to this country and tioning himself to make history. Queens, won a seat in 200l. less accustomed to its political Meng faces Meilin Tan, a In a sense, Silver himself may processes. Republican who has raised little well be responsible for an AA not "It takes a longer period of time to money and done little campaigning, being elected to the Legislature get more engaged in the process and on the general election ballot in a sooner. He has held a stranglehold get experience in how to build coali- . district where Democrats outnum• over his Manhattan district, which tions in order to win elections," she ber Republicans nearly 5-1. includes Chinatown, since 1976. said. The 22nd district boundaries AA candidates are likely to emerge' Fung said voter registration were redrawn during the 200 J reap• in his district once the 60-year-old drives by Democrats in a presiden• portionment to achieve this very speaker relinquishes his seat. tial election year are causing more result, said Assembly Speaker Meng said he wants to represent and more AAs in New York to Sheldon Silver. the "entire community of Flushing" become engaged in the political "We clearly had in mind to carve in Albany. But Margaret Fung, process. an Asian district and ultimately executive director of the New York "Asian Americans in the city that's what prevailed," Silver said. City-based Asian-American Legal have become a definite voting The district is 51 percent AA and Defense and Education Fund, said force," said Rachel Leon, executive it now contains more people of the lumber storeowner might fmd dire~tor of Cornmon Cause-New Asian descent than does famous himself being much more than that. York. • 4 NATIONAL NEWS PACIFIC CITIZEN, Ocr. 1-14,2004 YOUR MEMOIR work," said Adams of Oka's chil• Q&A hate all white people. Some love it. PC: Do you think that your dren. "The priest at her funeral based I can't say for sure. But I get invited subversive technique of trying to (Continued from page 1) his speech solely on her memoir, and (Continued from page 1) to speak at a lot of AA Studies class• break down the stereotype of a quote from her writings was print• es and conferences - so that's Asian women as shrinking violets generations do not always share their ed on her funeral programs." up to their own privilege or would some sign of acceptance I guess. has actually created another inner feelings with others and I think: Adams has gone on to translate dare repeat what they said pUblicly. PC: You also performed a skit stereotype for angry Asian girls? that memoirs can help fill the gap two more works through "Your PC: The 690,OOO-plus visitors to as 'Miss Chinatown' too. Is she a KW: Yeah, probably. But I don't between the different generations." Memoir" and is hoping to outreach your site can't all be perverts (I shrinking violet? see myself as angry, and I don't real• Born in Tokyo, Japan to a to other Issei who may be looking to visited several times), but in the . KW: What's a shrinking violet? ly see it as my responsibility to dis• Caucasian father and Japanese leave a legacy for their descendants. I beginning was it really lonely men Basically, Fannie Wong, Former mantle every kind of stereotype mother, Adams and her family "I think it is important for these looking for future wives? Miss Chinatown second-runner-up, there is out there or to micromanage moved to California when she was Japanese immigrants to share their KW: No, they aren't all perverts. is the exaggerated version of what I the politics that people leave with two years old. Raised in a family that life's story with their posterity and Though my site came up eighth in a would be had I ever run for the Miss after being exposed to me and my spoke both English and Japanese, beyond," she said. "One can tell sto• Yahoo search for 'mail ' order Chinatown pageant. I'm good at the work. I hope that people are at least Adams, like most Shin Issei and ries and convey messages orally, but brides,' I am also cross-linked to things I do, but I've never really dialoguing about that they see Shin Nisei kids, regularly attended it is not the same as leaving thoughts feminist, Asian American, humor been 'the best.' And even though my instead of just complaining about Saturday morning Japanese lan• in writing. Through writing, one can and activism sites. I used to get whole life I secretly wanted to be me behind closed doors. guage school and even attended clarify one's feelings in depth and more nasty messages than nice Miss America, I have to be real, PC: How closely is sexuality school in Japan during some sum• the readers can refer to it many times ones, but I think it was like the same because I'd have to do a lot of'train• linked to your work? mers. throughout their lives." ten guys trying to work my nerves. ing' to be the kind of 'beauty' that KW: I'm very shy about talking "I speak Japanese as well as a So far Adams is the sole translator PC: What kind of reaction did those pageants· embrace. about my sexuality/relationships in Japanese student my age, bur I do for "Your Memoir" although she you receive from your use of col• I am proud of being Chinese. I public and in my work. Mostly not read nor write as well," she said. admits to getting .her mother's help orfullanguage and confrontation• am proud to be an activist. But because I know my mom is reading "We always spoke both Japanese from time to time when she comes al message? Is the Asian Pacific unfortunately, I don't think that this article now and I don't want to and English at home; my mother across a particularly difficult word or American community more singing a really awesome 'Welcome screw up my relationships by scar• would talk to me in Japanese and my phrase. receptive to your message? . to the Jungle' will cut it for the talent ing partners into thinking that I am father in English. Since my father "I did most of the translation, but KW: I think everyone who sees portion of the pageant or that a super always out to tum them into a show. doesn't speak Japanese, it was a bit often I had difficulties reading the the site hates me secretly or thinks I theoretical explanation of post-fem• But let's say that the 'shyness' about more difficult when all three of us Japanese characters," she said. inist politics would make sense for talking about my sexuality is linked were together, like at the dinner "Sometimes it is easy to read but not high school and she already has her myQ&A. more to my work than the actually table." always as easy to grasp the meaning eye on several universities both in PC: What would you say is the seXUality. Adam's idea for "Your Memoir" unless some of the Japanese tradi• California and on the East Coast. unifying theme in your skits and PC: What other· projects are happened by chance. Her mother tions and cultures are explained to Although her already hectic sched• theater work? you working on? was attending a Chinese painting me by my mother." ule is sure to intensify, she is com• KW: I feel that I always am inter• KW: Too many! I am working on class when her classmate, Miyuki She added, "My parents think mitted to continuing "Your ested in not trying to make my life a short with Cherry Sky Films, they Oka, mentioned that she had been ['Your Memoir'] is a wonderful Memoir." the 'defming' AA experience produced 'Better Luck Tomorrow.' I writing her diary and was looking idea. It is not only community serv• "I would definitely like to contin• because no one artist can defme a was also cast in this one person tour• for someone to translate the text. ice but it helps me to understand my ue with 'Your Memoir' when I go to culture, a generation or a communi• ing show called 'Faces of America' Adams soon volunteered to help own cultural background." university," she said, "so it is impor• ty. I want to challenge that not that is produced by Will and translate Oka's 76-page memoir. Although "Your Memoir" keeps tant that the institution I choose has everyone sees things the same way. Company. I also got a grant from the . It took three years but Adams was Adams busy, she is also a talented an environment which encourages Nobody should. I love that people City of Los Angeles to teach per• able to complete the translation of .tennis player who is ranked in the and nurtures volunteer efforts." leave my work feeling like: 'God . formance workshops to women of Oka's work, which includes sections top ten in Northern California and Added Adams, "I think it is She's totally making Asian color and plan to be teaching in on her childhood memories, her regularly competes in tournaments. important for my Japanese cultural Americans look bad' or 'She's just spring of 2005. family's immigration to the United It's during break periods at these background to be preserved and being stereotypical' because I want PC: As always with artists, you States, and the tragic death of one of tournaments that she fmds time to although I am half-white and live in to challenge the notions of 'positive have to have a 9-5 day job. What's her sons. work on her translations. America, I value my Japanese roots representations' and 'stereotypes.' yours? Oka sadly passed away this past "My passion is tennis, but aside and ancestry.". I am not trying to trash my com• KW: Aiyah, you are so nosy!!! I spring at the age of 80, just two from that," she said, "I also love to - munity, but I do believe that their is work part time as an office manager months after Adams was able to play piano for relaxation, snow• For more information on 'Tour. power in critiquing ourselves, for an AA non-profit. I didn't have a show the completed translation to board, read fiction such as J.D. Memoir," go to www.geocities. laughing at ourselves, and most day job for a long time, but it's been Oka's children. At Oka's funeral, the Salinger and 'Jane Eyre,' and work com/your_memoir. You can also importantly, creating a new perspec• a positive experience and it exposes priest read parts of the translated out." contact Nicole Adams at yourmem• tive out of that and creating art to me to issues and politics in a whole memoir. Soon Adams will graduate from oir1 @aol.com. reflect our worldview. newway.• "They are very grateful of my

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Loans over $250,000 are available. but are subJect to j:elialn fees, and different PACIFIC CITIZEN, OCT. 1-14,2004 . COMMUNTIY 5 YOUTH FORUM Conference to Look at Legal Ramifications From J-School to JA Identity of World War II Civil Liberties Cases ByYUMISAKUGAWA relatives who were in internment camps or fought alongside fellow Sixty years ago, the U.S .. Korematsu's conviction for curfew The Honorable A. Wallace From preschool to my high Americans in World War n, I grew Supreme Court ~anded down rul• violation was upheld, while Mitsuye Tashima, a judge of the U.S. Court school freshman Yea!", I attended a up learning .about how my relatives ings on two key civil liberties Endo's case involved her being held of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, Japanese language school every had to take cover in bomb shelters cases involving Japanese by the government without trial and will be the keynote speaker Nov. 6. Saturday. No, let me rephrase that. in the countryside while firebombs Americans: Korematsu v. United without martial law being declared. Others scheduled to attend include It was a rigorous, Japanese lan• rained down on them. In language States and Ex parte Endo. Both The Supreme Court ruled in her Peter Irons, litigant Fred guage boot camp that began at 9 school we watched movies like cases have ramifications today, favor, but at the same time, the War Korematsu, "Fair Play a.m. and did not end until 3:30 p.m. "Hotaru no Haka" (Grave of the especially as a vocal minority has Department announced that it Committee" members Frank Erni On top of that, there was home• Fireflies) in history class. We read attempted to justify the unconstitu• planned to release JAs from the War and Yosh Kurorniya, and scholars work, weekly tests and report cards. short stories and poems about bomb tional incarceration of 120,000 Relocation Authority camps at the Roger Daniels, Greg Robinson Not surprisingly, I hated it. victims of Hiroshima and families Americans of Japanese ancestry beginning of 1945. and Eric Muller, among many oth• For someone who was still too who starved to death in the war. during World War n. Korematsu's case was revived in ers. young to fathom the importance of During school assemblies, our On the occasion of the 60th the 1980s when Peter Irons discov• The conference begins at 1:30 cultural identity, Japanese language classes lined up in straight rows like Anniversary of these landmark ered in his research that the govern• p.m. on Nov. 5 and registration is school was a any proper Japanese school and cases, the University of North ment had deliberately suppressed· $30. Registration forms and pay• draconian pun• bowed to the principal before he Carolina School of Law, the certain evidence. His conviction ments should be mailed to Frances ishment given spoke. During special assemblies, University of California at Los was ultimately vacated. Irons also Hughes-JJWR, University of to sons and we sang "The Star Spangled North Carolina School of Law, CB daughters of Banner" and the Japanese national Angeles Asian American Studies revived the cases of Gordon immigrant par• anthem - a fitting symbol of the Center and the Japanese American Hirabayashi and Minoru Yasui and No. 3380, Chapel Hill, NC 27599- ents who dual cultural identities every Shin• National Museum are presenting their convictions were also vacated. 3380. For more information, con• immigrated to nisei has to struggle with. the conference, "Judgments The conference intends to delve tact Prof. Eric Muller; University America for Essentially, I learned everything Judged and Wrongs Remembered: into the cases by setting up presen• of North Carolina School of Law the sole purpose of giving their sec• there was about being Japanese, but Examining the Japanese American 'tations featuring direct participants, at 919/962-7067 or ond-generation offspring the hardly anything about being JA. Civil Liberties Cases of World War including litigants, lawyers and [email protected], or con• unwanted burden of preserving On an individual level, I am more n on Their 60th Anniversary" on judicial clerks. Leading historians tact John Guzman, Japanese their cultural heritage. personally connected to great• Nov. 5-6, at JANM. and legal scholars on the subject of American National Museum at But even as I abhorred attending uncles who fought in the Japanese Both rulings were handed down the mass incarceration of JAs will 213/830-5625 or jguzman@janm. language school and did not see the army or other relatives who suf• on Dec. 18, 1944. Fred also be on hand. org .• value in it, five years later I am sur• fered from the loss ofWWll. But as prised at how efficiently language a JA, my very existence is automat• school ensured that my Japanese ically associated with the 442nd San Diego Nikkei Veterans heritage was pounded into my exis• Regiment, the No-No Boys, tence. Manzanar, Tule Lake, the Redress Memorial Planned . Notice that I say Japanese, not Campaign and a whole slew of Carlsbad resident. George Furuya Community's annual Memorial Japanese American. After all, the other historical events that have Jr. approached . the Japanese Day observance. language school I attended emulat• challenged and shaped the commu• American Historical Society of San A simple rectangular monument ed the Japanese educational cur• nity that I am now a part of. Diego (JAHSSD) last spring with a of black granite will face north, with riculum as much as possible and as Contrary to what language proposal to create a memorial in San the following engraving on polished a result, catered mostly to the Shin• school taught me, I am not Diego County to honor veterans of stone: "Dedicated to all Americans nisei or Issei - second-generation Japanese, but a JA. The extra Japanese descent. of Japanese ancestry who defended kids or Japanese students who hyphenated word gives me the Furuya was inspired by the mem• their country for the right to be recently iinrnigrated to America responsibility to learn about the his• ory of his late father, George called Americans." with their families. tory of a community that, up until Furuya, Sr., who served in the Sam Shimoguchi, president of Unlike most JAs my age, I am a recently, I did not realize I was a 442nd Regimental Battalion during Los Angeles based · Japanese Shin-nisei, which means that I do part of or even existed. World War n. He envisioned a mon• American Korean War Veterans, not fit into the traditional genera• Recently, I attended the Nisei ument that would recognize the sac• forwarded a contribution of $500 on tional hierarchy that defines our Week in Little Tokyo for the first rifices and contributions of JAs who behalf of JAKWV to the JAHSSD community. It has been an interest• time. A large crowd of people gath• served their country in branches of to help in their efforts to build the ing personal experience navigating ered outside the Japanese American service in both war and peacetime. monument. His donation was dedi• just how exactly I fit into the collec• Cultural Center on the comer of The JAHSSD received two plots cated in memory of Sgt. Yutaka Jack tive JA experience. San Pedro and Second Street to from the City of San Diego in the Amano from San Diego, as well as While many Yonsei my age have watch the world-renowned Yoshida old Japanese community ~tion of the other 247 JAs who gave their the Mount Hope Cemetery as a site lives in the defense of South Korea Los Angeles for the planned memorial monu• during the Korean War. Japanese Casualty ment honoring all JA veterans. The memorial committee is Insurance Assn. The JAHSSD board formed an attempting to raise over $25,000 to COMPLETE INSURANCE ad-hoc committee co-chaired by erect this long overdue monument. 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The conference was a Omaha Chapter Lily Welty Emily Momohara attracted to JACL because it is a civil wonderful opportunity to share our University of Iowa Ventura County Sawtooth Chapter rights organization and Jap~ese common experiences and discuss the Major: Dance/Journalism California State University, University of Kansas American organization. I felt a sense different possibilities for our future Northridge Major: MFA, Expanded Media of what being Japanese American involvement in JACL and the One of the best ways I've seen my Major: Biology meant and started understanding my Japanese American community. For APA community involvement grow My goals in life and art are firmly place in society as a daughter of a me, the conference reinforced my has been making a connection . rooted in civil rights. I believe that On March 17, 200 1, the event that mother who grew up in Japan with understanding of how my Japanese between that through community service and has undoubtedly had the most pro• an American father. American heritage has shaped, and communi ty expression, found impact in my life occurred: The second mission of JACL is to continues to shape, my values and . and my fleld of people's lives my mother passed away from can• "work to promote cultural values outlook on life. It also was a wonder• interest career- cer. I was working in Tokyo at that can be touched and preserve the heritage and legacy ful awakening to learn how many wise. I'm ' by the work of time and I was able to return to the of the Japanese American communi• other Yonsei are out there and anx• studying jour• few. From my U.S. to be with her during the last ty." I believe that cultural values for ious to share their experiences and nalism at the father's gener• week she was alive. 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American law students to under• my art, I strive to carry on the lega• guage skills and many cannot phe• and hopefully help me get a job stand that the law is inherently polit• cy for ourselves and share it with notypically and fluidly travel within when I graduate. This has been an fea~ ical and that we as Asian Americans those willing to look. those ethnicities. My physical unbelievable experience not only need to be active voices in this p

By JULIA CIllANG 7 years old, my life-long dream had Running for Olympic Inclusion been to win "Athlete of the Meet" at LONDON - Karate, golf, rugby, The maximum will stay at 28 sports, "Runners on your mark, get set, the JACL Junior Olympics. This squash, and roller sports are in the with around 10,500 athletes. GO!" I lunged forward as the boom• entitled the winner to a three-foot running for possible inclusion at the . In Athens, the IOC formally ing explosion of the starting gun high trophy and an immeasurable 2012 Olympics. accepted the criteria for judging expelled ringing waves of vibrations amount of pride. I decided that I The International Olympic which sports should be on the pro• and smoke. My arms whipped back would do whatever it took to win Committee said Sept. 22 it notified gram. Among the key points are and forth, chopping the air around that trophy, even if it meant training those five sports' governing bodies global participation, spectator atten• rrie as my legs sprung off the soft every day by myself after school to that they will be "studied further" as dance, media interest, the sport's asphalt. I focused my eyes ahead of build stamina and speed. part of a review of the Summer anti-doping policies, and whether me where the finisl! line - a thin, The JACL Track and Field Junior Games' competition schedule. the sport features the world's best red string of yam - lay awaiting Olympics is an event that I have Karate is seeking to become the athletes in the Olympics. my presence; forty meters, 30 been participating in for ten years. latest martial art in the games, which Removal of a sport requires a meters, 20 meters left to go, I Every year, on the first Sunday of already has judo and taekwondo. vote of the full IOC membership. thought, pushing myself forward. June, my family drives me out to Golf and rugby have been top con• The last sport dropped from the Out of the comer of my eye, I saw Chabot College to watch me com• tenders for Olympic inclusion for a Summer Olympics was polo in three big girls thrust ahead of me as pete. I've had good days and bad number of years. Roller sports cov• 1936. I neared the finish line, leaving me days, but I always find some sense ers five disciplines - artistic, In 2002, Rogge proposed that behind to claim a disappointing of accomplishment at JACL, downhill, hockey, inline hockey and baseball, softball and modem pen• fourth place. whether it be winning fIrst place in speed events. Squash would add tathlon be dropped from the games, I skidded to a halt, glancing down an event or just completing a race another racket sport, joining tennis, and golf and rugby added. But IOC at my white, five-dollar Keds shoes without falling. I will never forget table tennis and badminton. members resisted and put off any from Payless my parents had bought all the amazing friends I have made The IOC is assessing the 28 vote until after Athens. Not only have my efforts in track me because they were inexpensive at JACL, who always cheer for me sports on the program of the recent The IOC recently sent out a 33- given me a sense of accomplish• and lightweight. As the timers lined and wait at the finish line to give me Athens Olympics to determine · point questionnaire to all 28 ment, but they have reinforced us up to give us our times and a hug, or all the proud moments I ·whether changes should be made. Olympic sports federations. The many skills that apply to other areas places, I placed my hands on my enjoyed when receiving my medals. The list of sports will remain the form also went to karate, golf, of my life. From track I . have head to maximize oxygen intake. Track and field is a truly unique same for the 2008 Beijing Games, rugby, squash, and roller sports leamed the meaning of hard work:, "Fourth!" the judge called out as my sport because it's a team sport and with any modifications taking effect which are among the 28 "recog• self-motivation, dedication in striv• timers walked me up to him. He individual sport at the same time. in 2012. The IOC will decide on the nized" federations not on the ing towards a goal, and how to work: recorded my time and dismissed While you compete against others sports program - and select the Olympic program. well with teammates. me. by yourself, you're also scoring 2012 host city - at· its session in The move rules out Olympic sta• Sometimes I have felt disappoint• I glanced down at my fourth place pointS for your whole team. Track Singapore in July. tus for hopefuls such as bowling, ment, but also I have gained the self• medal with disappointment. I had and field includes such a wide vari• IOC president Jacques Rogge water skiing, billiards, ballroom confidence that comes with success. always been an overachiever striv• ety of events that everyone can find repeatedly has said that sports only dancing, chess, bridge and surfing. Most importantly, I feel my success• ing for fIrst place. Ever since I was one that they enjoy. will be added if others are dropped. es in track have given me a unique I have just completed my tenth • identity and helped to establish year competing at JACL, and final-. BOXING ly, I have achieved my goal of long-lasting friendships. "Athlete of the Meet." This award . Competing in the JACL Junior Kawashima Defends wac Olympics at a young age probably VACATION SPECIAL meant more to me than just my suc• seems like an insignifIcant event to Super Flyweight Title Golf Catalina cess in track and field, or a marker of my achievements. To me, this tro• most people. However, for me it TOKYO-Japan's Katsushige Kawashima scored a unanimous deci• Vacation Special was a beginning and inspiration for phy repre~nted 10 years of hard sion over Mexico's Raul Juarez Sept. 20 to retain the WBC super flyweight 1 bed/1 bath, fully equipped work: and dedication, and proof that which I am forever grateful .• title. condo, sleeps 4, pool, jacuzzi, I could achieve anything I wanted as Kawashima dominated the 12-round bout at Yokohama Cultural includes free use of golf cart. A student at Piedmont High Gymnasium, knocking down Juarez in the second, sixth and seventh rounds. Condo near beautiful Catalina long as I put my heart to it. Every School, Julia Chiang claimed the It was his first defense since taking the belt from Masamori Tokuyama golf course. Fall special $175 per time I look at that trophy, it reminds Outstanding Athlete of the Meet night (Regularly $190 per night). me not only of my own accomplish• on June 28. nd Discount valid Sept. 2-Nov. 1. ments, but also of the support and prize at the 52 Annual JACL American judge Julie Lederman scored the bout 113-111 for Kawashima, Junior Olympics in addition to set• 2 night minimum stay. encouragement from my family and Australian Brad Vocale had it 117-107, and American Tony Castellano 114- ting a meet record in the 200 meters C-51 Matsumoto JACL teammates. 110. and winning the 100 meters and the FOR RESERVATIONS: For me, participating in track has Kawashima is 27-3 With 18 knockouts. Juarez, 14th in the WBC rankings, long jump. . Hunt & Associates been the best decision of my life. dropped to 32-10 with 15 knockouts . • Mr.. 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A Whirling Weekend at 'Baghdad-by-the-Bay' There was the rich emcee voice ful eye and care of the late Yori of Richard Quan, a TV sportscaster, Wada, the stories of Chuck Collins, s ONE who cannot forget other newshounds present: Barry that old-timer Fred Hoshiyama, CEO of the YMCA of San A. his ten months woJ.iQng in Saiki, editor of the Rohwer Outpost, now of Venice-Culver JACL, Francisco who grew up in the San Francisco for the late and Very Truly Yours. And I mustn't wished he had. Richard, on the Western Addition* and highlights Yas Abiko at Nichi Bei Shimbun in forget: the Takeo Okamoto other hand, wished he had Fred's of Nisei "gangs" tamed by basket• 1941, what a weekend it was for me Community Leadership Award minute recall of Japanese YMCA ball, as related by Dr. Himeo a fortnight ago. As prewar San deservedly went to 442nd veterans history that began in September Tsumori, Allen Okamoto Franciscans Paul Matsuki and his Wallace Nunotani of San Francisco 1886, nurtured by medical mission• (Sweatsocks), Dennis Sato ("Imps" wife Katherine of Washington, D.C., and Shig Kizuka of Watsonville. ary Dr. Ernest A. Sturge, the setting for Imperials) and from Satsuki Ina would return in the mid-Septembers up of its branch at 1409 Sutter of the girls' team, Enchantees, were to his Nihonmachi homestead, my * * * Street in 1918, raising more funds all indeed sentintental. hankering wish to catch up with The whirling weekend continued to expand the Japanese "Y" at 1530 [*San Francisco Japantown was them finally materialized this year. on Saturday with a tasty bento lunch Buchanan St. in 1928, and finally an intimate part of the "Addition" The wonderful weekend began at the Buchanan St. YMCA basket• building anew in 1936. after the earthquake andfire, histo• catching up with the Tanaka sisters, ball court, marking "A Sentintental Through the evacuation era, the rian Seizo Ota (who just passed Kiyo and June, retired nuns reporter and feature writer with the Journey" Reunion. With JACL side• new "Y" was rented to the USO as away), revealed to me years ago.] (RSCJ - Religious Society of the San Francisco Examiner and the kicks, Chuck Kubokawa of Palo Alto a center for African American The trek to San Francisco is Sacred Heart) from Tokyo revisiting Chronicle); Fred Oshima (sports and Stanley Kanzaki of New York, troops. always a pleasure, but this one friends in San Francisco. History is coluntnist once based at the camp trading stories of their teen-years With resettlement, Hoshiyama, weekend at Baghdad-by-the-Bay slowly overshadowing this staunch newspaper, Rohwer, Ark. Outpost with other old-tinters at the "Y", now a graduate of YMCA's college (a sobriquet fashioned by local ' group of Nisei Catholics of San and now a "Keeping Posted" regular what was a two-hour soiree of men in in Massachusetts, was appointed columnist Herb Caen, since Francisco organized about the tinte for the Nichi Bei Times); Takeo Babe their 70s-and-up turned out to be a the Buchanan St. "Y" director in changed to City-by-the-Bay) was their new church at Octavia and Pine Utsumi, (his writings in the Buddhist rare treat for this Angeleno to hear. the fall of 1946. Under the watch- both hectic and unforgettable .• was blessed in 1939, now a mission Church newsletter Geppo evolved serving the deaf and mute of the into a humorous and Nikkei-bent Archdiocese. "Random Thoughts" in the Hokubei ANNUAL FALLTERIYAK' COOKOUT Our JACL colleague George Mainichi since 1989); Kenji G. Wakiji of Camarillo, Calif. who Taguma (English section editor of interviewed the Tanaka sisters two the Nichi Bei Times since 1995); and years ago, related Sister June recall• IK. Yamamoto (an assistant editor ing Eleanor Roosevelt had visited in the early 1980s at the Pacific Kiyo's Dress Shop at Laguna and Citizen before moving north in 1987 Sutter during the 1939 pre• to edit the English section of the Christmas season and bought seven Hokubei Mainichi). furisode kimonos, a story which IK.'s dry wit continues to flour• bore international implications ish. Seeing how the Nikkei press "since it happened after PreSident keeps losing its readers while the Roosevelt instituted an embargo Sansei, Yonsei and newcomers from against the Japanese." Japan have a multitUde of alterna• tives at their fingertips (i.e., free pub• *. * * lications and web sites), he said: "In That evening at the Mark Hopkins the last 20 years, I have seen some atop Nob Hill, this year's fund-raiser Nikkei newspapers fall by the way• for the Japanese Cultural and side. But there is no shortage of Community Center of Northern news for Nikkei papers to cover. All California (JCCCNC) honored six of them are providing a valuable Nikkei journalists: Jack Matsuoka service to their respective communi• (who drew cartoons while a teenag• ties." er at Poston II); Honolulu-born I thanked Oshima for squeezing in Annie. Nakao (a 25-year-plus unsolicited introductions of two

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P.C. has made no determination that the businesses listed Presentation; Proceeds' benefit col• leadership development programs. in this directory are licensed by proper government aulhority. . Through Nov. 27 - "Depth and lege scholarships for the member• Info: 213/626-4471, [email protected] Diversification: New Acquisitions ship and enables the chapter to share or [email protected]. Sacramento, Calif. Oakland, Calif. from the Lee Institute Collection' Institut~ the Japanese cultural heritage with LOS ANGELES NAMBA LAW OFFICES The Ruth and Sherman Lee schools and communities. Info: The., Oct. 5-April 3, 2005- IO~~,!~ ~~~~ for Japanese Art, 15770 Tenth Ave., Dean Suzuki, 925/820-1454. Exhibition, Imagining the Orient; Curtis R. Namba CO. Info: Maiko Behr, 559/582-4915 or SACRAMENTO Getty Center, 1200 Getty Center Personal Injury The Asian Vegetable Seed Source for [email protected]. Small Business Home Gardeners, Retailers, and Sat., Oct. 30-l2th Annual Dr.; new exhibition explores 18th Commercial Growers Women's Day Forum presented by century Europe's fascination with [email protected] Northern California P.O. Box 13220 Oakland, CA 94661-3220 Florin JACL; 9-4 p.m.; Kaiser the Orient; Info: 310/440-7360 or (916) 922-6300 ph: 510/595-1188 rx: 510/595-1860 BURLINGAME [email protected] kilazawasced.colll Sat., Oct. l6-Luncheon, All• Permanente, 1650 Response Rd.; www.getty.edu. Donations, $15 for member and $20 Wed., Oct. 20-Performance, Greater Los Angeles Topaz Reunion 2004; Hyatt Phoenix, Ariz. Regency, Burlingame; Stuart Ishi• for non-members; includes work• "Pollen Revolution" presented by Dr. Darlyne Fujimoto, shops, breakfast, bento box lunch, Butoh artist, Akira Kasai; 8 p.m.; maru, of the U.S. EEOC is the fea• Optometrist & Associates Kaoru Ono tured speaker; registration forms can bone density screening and gift bag. 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Maesaki, Yurie (Satoru) Kawafuchi, 4 gc.; brothers, Edward (Kimiko) survived by wife, Reiko; daughter, Daikuzono, Hiroshi, 56, West Ishibashi, Bill, 83, Rosemead, Ayleen (Kenji) Ozaki and Naomi and K~oru Horikiri; sister, Chizuko Dr. Lynn (John) Chien; 2 gc.; broth• Los Angeles, Aug. 12; Kagoshima• Aug. 30; Fort Lupton, Colo.-born (Masakazu) Terao; and brothers-in• (Fumiyoshi) Matsumoto; brothers• er, Akira (June) Watanabe; and sister; ken, Japan-born; survived by father, Nisei; survived by son, Richard and law, Teruo (Yoko) and Eiji (Kinue) in-law, Roy (Chiyoko) and Tsutomu Mitsuko (Jim) Kashiwamura. Tsuneyoshi; and brothers, Takashi daughter, Eileen Kuramoto. Kondo. (Noriko) Nishimura; and sister-in~ Yoshida, Toshi, 84, Los Angeles, (Eiko), Masahis (Kyoko), Masahiro Kakita, Hisako, 91, Los Angeles, Maruyama, Isao, 66, Torrance, law, Katsuko Nishimura. Aug. 22; Kagoshima, Japan-born; (Keiko) and Takahiro. Aug. 24; survived by daughter, Aug. 31; Wakayama, Japan-born; Okihara, Alice M., 74, Gardena, survived by son, Takashi (Margaret); Fujikawa, Masaru, 88, Loveland, Barbara (Takashi) Tanezaki; sons, survived by wife, Aiko; son, Aug. 27; survived by husband, sisters-in-law, Hino Fukumoto and Colo., Sept. 1; Canoga Parle-born Hon. Edward (Dr. Lenore) and Haruto; daughter, Debbie' (Steve) Tomiko Fukumoto; and sisters, Nisei; survived by sons, Jerry Stanley (Sachiko); 7 gc.; 2 ggc.; sis• This compilation appears On a space-avail• Torimaru; 1 gc.; and sister, Jane Chimi Ohara and Hina Kawabata. (Donna) and Richard; daughter, ters, Betty (Him) Shimazu, Yayeko able basis at no cost. Printed obituaries Watanabe. from your newspaper are welcome. "Death Yoshimizu, Henry Nobu, 87, Joanne (Randall) Schauer; 7 gc.; and (Harry) Furuya; brother-in-law, Notices," which appear in a timely manner Ozaki, Kiyo, 92, Villa Parle, Aug. Alhambra, Aug. 31; Hawaii-born; 9ggc. George (Tomeko) Kakita; and sis• at request of the famity or funeral director, are published at the rate of $15 per column 30; survived by sons, Tetsuo (Mitzy) survived by wife, Ruth; sons, Kary Fujimori, William ''Bill'' ters-in-Iaw, Hatsue Nagasaki and inch. Text is reworded as necessary. and Dr. Kenji (May); daughters, (Joyce) and Daniel (Jan); daughters, Suswnu, 89, Los Angeles; Fresno• Eiko (John) Onishi. Eiko Ozaki and Kayoko (Dr. Jack) Karen (Wesley) Nobutaand Sharen born; Veteran 442nd; survived by Kasuyama, Yoshie, 83, Aug. 16; Masanori (Martha); daughter, Junko Moses; 8 gc.; and 8 ggc. . (Randall) Kanemoto; and sister, wife, Chieko; son, Bruce; daughters, survived by sons, Koji (Sue), Rick Maruyama; 1 gc.; sisters, Michiko Sato, Henry Shushige, 81, Mary Matsuyama. Phyllis (Richard) Jike and Patti (Frances) and Terry; 5 gc.; brother, Miyamoto and Kikuko (Haruji) Castaic, Sept. 2; survived by wife, YoshiIiloto, Shigeo, 88, Kobe, (Burt) Koons; 2 gc.; brother, James Roy (Maurine) Oban; and sister, Ogura; sisters-in-law, Fusako and Iney; sons, Henry Jr. (Akiko) and Japan, Aug. 12; Selma-born; sur• (Miyo) Fujimori; sisters, Rose Natsumi (Yosh) Riga. Tsutako Maruyama, Kimiko Alan (Izumi); and 1 gc. vived by wife, Toshiko; son, Haruo; Masuoka and Betty (Thomas) Yano; (Takashi) Arii, Asako (Junji) Ichiho, Kawasaki, Madilyn N., Aug. 24; Shimizu, Mary "Sue," 91, daughter, Setsuko Kohara; and 3 gc. and sister-in-law, Michi Nakata. Yuriko (Tetsumi) Murayama, survived by husband, Frank; son, . Spokane, Wash., Sept. 6; survived by Sumiko Uyehara, Yoshiko Nagatoshi Hamade, Tonuny, 83, Long Todd; daughters, Leslie (David) daughter, Amy (Roger) Bragdon; • and Yukiko Miyamoto; and brothers• Beach, Aug. 27; Missoula, Mo.-bom Conrey and Julie Kawasaki; brothers, son, Aisei (Shari); 5 gc.; 5 ggc.; 2 in-law, Satoshi (Mitsuko) Miyamoto Nisei; survived by wife, Dorothy; James (Midori), Roy (Bette), Harold gggc.; and sister, Yoshi Yaniamoto. son, Timothy (Charlotte); daughter, (Massie), Mits (Elsie) and Bill and Kiyoshi (Kyoko) Miyamoto. Terainoto, Terry Yutaka, 85, Jane (Stan) Roberts; 7 gc.; 2 ggc.; . (Thelma) Yoshimura; and sisters, Mikmjya, Yoneko, 87, Monterey ' Cerritos, Sept. 1; San Diego-born brother, Joe (Joan) Harnade; sisters, Emiko Sasaki, Cherry (Ray) Parle, Aug. 21; Oxnard-bom;_ sur• Nisei; survived by wife, Hanae; May Kaneshiro and Toyoko Ishimatsu and Helen (Howard) vived by sisters, Hideko Tateoka and sons, Kenny (Yoko), Toshihiro (Noriyuki) Marumoto; brother-in• Takata. Cl1iyeko Sumida; and brothers, F.p.L.#929 (Debbie) and Mamoru; daughters, 911 VENICE BLVD. law, Herb (Therese) Nakagawa; and Mickey (Kay) and Keichi (Masako). Kitagawa, Fred H., 92, Los Yoshie (Sumio) Yasutake and LOS ANGELES, CA 90015 sisters-in-law, Toshiko (Dave) Angeles, Aug. 26; Loomis-born Motoike, James Kazuo, 82, Yumiko (Hidehiro) Kono; 8 gc.; 1 (213) 749-1449 Kawagoye and Setsuko (Fred) FAX (213) 749-0265 Nisei; survived by son, Russell; 5 gc.; Mission Hills; survived by wife, ggc.; brothers-in law, Masao and Kajioka. R. Hayamizu, President 4 ggc.; brothers, Ben (Fudge), Tom Hiroko; daughters, Dene (Keith) Nui Yoshio (Michiko) Santohigashi; and H. Suzuki . v.P'/Gen. Mgt: Hamaguchi, Noboru, 75, Los (Mary) and George (Lilian); and sis• Motoike, Wendy (Michael) sister-in-law, Yaeko Morimoto. Angeles, Aug. 25; Terminal Island• ter, Grace Kunishima. Motoike-Dieguez, Pamela (Dennis) Tsukamoto, Dr. Ken, 56, Rolling born; survived by wife, "Miki"; Motoike, and Cheryl (Stephen) Kojima, Yoneko, 94, San Jose, Hills Estates, Sept. 5; Ogden, Utah• brothers, Hajime (Judy), Akira (pat), Maruyama; and 7 gc. Sept. 7; Redwood City-born; sur• born Sansei; survived by wife, and Taira (Margie) Hamaguchi; .sis• vived by son, Jim (Yuri); daughter, Muraki, Marcus R., 90, Cindy; daughter, Tracy; son, Eric; ters, Teruyo (Joe) Mizufuka, Shinobu Virginia; daughter-in-law, Aiko; 5 Altadena, Sept. 4; Los Angeles-born father, Seiichi; brothers, Dr. Gene Wada, Reik() (Richard) Truman, and gc.; and 7 ggc. . Kibei; survived by wife, Soyo; broth• (Cynthia) and Eddie Tsukamoto; sis• Yuriko (Mike) Ishikawa; and sister• Maesaki, Toshio, 79, Los er, Frank (Sumie); and sister-in-law, ter, Joyce (Glen) Isomoto; parents• in-law, Aiko Hamaguchi. Makie. Angeles, Aug. 24; Hiroshima, Japan• in-law, Tad and Marie Uyemura; and 707 East Temple Street Gerald Fukui Inoshita, Hisae ''Betty'', 79, born; survived by wife, Kazue; . Nishimura, Kazuko, 77, . brother-in-law, Chris (Katie) Los. Angeles, CA 90012 President Glendale, Ariz., Sept. 3; Malibu• daughter, Helen (Eddie) Motokane; 1 Monterey Park, Aug. 28; Los Uyemura. born, Arizona JACLer; survived by Ph. 2131626-0441 gc.; sisters, Hanako (Tahei) Angeles-born; survived by husband, Watanabe, Takashi, 67, Simi husband, Masaji; sons, Arthur and Fax 2131617-2781 Yoshimura and Miyoko (Masao) Kanemori "Joe"; daughter, Sally Valley, Aug. 20; San Francisco-born; Paul; daughter, Marilyn; and 5 gc. Ishii; sisters-in-law, Katsumi (Dale)Arche.r; son. 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California voters in 2000, a SECRET ASIAN MAN ByTak [email protected] • © 2004 Tak Toyoshima SAN FRANCISCO-The U.S. $500,000 federal planning grant and House Resources Committee gifts from philanthropists. TR~J~S li'TARGET approved legislation Sept. 16 to The 74O-acre island, including \.:I restore the historic Angel Island the 15-acre immigration complex, Immigration Station in San has been a state park since the Francisco Bay, according to House 1960s. The project aims to restore a Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi's World War II enlisted men's bar• office. racks, a powerhouse, hospital, mess The Angel Island Immigration hall and mule bam. Station Restoration and Between 1910 and 1940, more Preservation Act - introduced by than 1 million immigrants from

Pelosi, D-San Francisco, and Rep. countries .around the Pacific Rim. Lynn Woolsey, D-Petaluma - passed through the Angel Island would provide as much as $15 mil• facility, commonly referred to as the lion in felleral funds to help pre• "Ellis Island of the West." . serve several historic buildings at Because of the Chinese Exclusion' the site. Act of 1882, Chinese immigrants A plan to restore the site is trying to enter the United States expected to cost more than $30 mil• were detained, interrogated and held lion. About $16 million has been in stark conditions on the island for secured for the project - $15 mil- weeks, sometimes years .•

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