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The NATIONAL NeWSPAPeR Of The JACL Pg. 04 tamlyn tomita presents the 2012 v3 voice Award to Jocelyn Wang. Pg. 05 frances Kai-Hwa Wang on going to temple. MADPg. 03 WOMeN Pg. 06 HOW JeANNe KONisHi AND Her JACL board approves the 2013-14 budget. frieNDs reWrOte ADvertisiNg # 3196 / VOL. 155, NO. 5 ISSN: 0030-8579 WWW.PACIFICCITIZEN.ORG SEPT. 7 - 20, 2012 2 Sept. 7-20, 2012 LETTERS HOW to REACH US E-mail: [email protected] Letters To THE MISSING DOCUMENT FROM THE Online: www.pacificcitizen.org Tel: (213) 620-1767 ‘POWER OF WORDS’ HANDBOOK Fax: (213) 620-1768 The Editor Mail: 250 E. First Street, Suite 301 { { Los Angeles, CA 90012 In the Rafu Shimpo (July 17, 2012), Andy Noguchi, a leading member The question then arises: how many people in America since 1942 read STAFF of the Power of Words II Committee, gave an excellent report and review or even know of this exclusion order? Upon reading it the people will Executive Editor of the “Power of Words” handbook. The handbook was unanimously realize that this injustice did happen to us in this country and perhaps voted for and approved by the National JACL Council during the recent to resolve that it never again happen to any other people. A companion Assistant Editor national convention. question is then: how many Nikkei have read or even know of this his- Reporter I have read both drafts of the handbook and highly recommended that it toric document? Can one imagine back in April 1942 the Nisei reading Nalea J. Ko include a most important historic document. For some unknown reason(s) this notice for the first time? Can you imagine them translating it to their Business Manager it was not. The document I refer to is the Exclusion Order posted all over Issei parents in Japanese? There is then the emotional and psychological Japantowns located in the states of Washington, factor involved. Circulation Oregon and California. This was in April 1942 Having said all this, how must this important Eva Lau-Ting that the Japanese were ordered, including those ‘The question then historic document to be included in the hand- who were 1/32 of Japanese blood, on six days book? It’s very simple. Let me explain. Refer The Pacific Citizen newspaper notice to be forcibly removed and be incarcer- arises: how many to page 5 of the handbook, third paragraph, first (ISSN: 0030-8579) is published ated initially into “assembly centers.” It ended sentence where it ends in a parenthesis (see fig. semi-monthly (except once in De- cember and January) by the Japa- up incarcerating 120,313 Japanese of which two people in America at right). What one sees is someone posting the nese American Citizens League, thirds were American citizens into ten concen- exclusion order that cannot be read. Delete pa- Pacific Citizen. tration camps. since 1942 read or renthesis. Then in the same paragraph at the end 250 E. 1st Street, Suite 301, Los What is this document and what does it mean? even know of this of the third sentence that describes the exclu- Angeles, CA 90012 This was the first time in history that the U.S. sion order add in this parenthesis (see copy of Periodical postage paid at L.A., CA government posted a written document and or- exclusion order?’ attached exclusion order) referring to a copy in- POSTMASTER: send address dered specifically an ethnic people, the Japanese, cluded in the handbook with the other reference changes to National JACL, 1765 to be forcibly incarcerated. This was indeed an in- material. Sutter St., San Francisco, CA 94115 justic. Among them there was no due process and the writ of habeas cor- When people read it, the handbook will have an extra meaning. It is JACL President: David Lin National Director: Priscilla Ouchida pus ignored. It was also the first time the U.S. government used in print hard to understand why this document was not included. Perhaps a Power Nat'l Director Emeritus: Floyd Mori euphemisms such as alien and non-alien, evacuated, evacuation, evacuees of Words II committee member can tell us why? It is again highly recom- P.C. EDITORIAL BOARD and reception center. This last term was changed to assembly center. Even mended that this important historic document be included in the Power of Carol Kawamoto, chairperson; Paul to the “euphemisers” it may have been just too much of a euphemism. Words handbook. It will indeed be incomplete without it. Niwa, EDC; Kevin Miyazaki, MDC; Roberta Brown, CCDC; vacant, NC- Regardless they are still euphemisms. Since the handbook is about eu- WNPDC; Hugh Burleson, PNWDC; phemisms this document is the beginning of its use in print by the U.S. Stanley Kanzaki Gil Asakawa, IDC; John Saito Jr., government and is most important that it be included in the handbook. New York JACL chapter PSWDC; youth rep., vacant. SUBSCRIBE Get a one-year subscription of the Pacific Citizen newspaper at: A PACIFIC CITIZEN In the year 2000, Joe was awarded the Medal of Honor. Paul also www.pacificcitizen.org or call served his country, in the Marine Reserves. We suspect Paul contracted (800) 966-6157 READER’S PLEA FOR A the Hepatitis C virus when he was in the Marines. Currently we are re- ADVERTISE To advertise in the Pacific Citizen, searching this possibility. call (800) 966-6157 or e-mail: TRANSPLANT Paul and I have been married 36 years. We have two grown sons, [email protected] Evan and Andrew. Please help us find a liver for Paul. Paul’s blood type LEGAL is A positive, but a blood type of A or O, positive or negative will qualify No part of this publication may be reproduced without the express per- and meet the criteria to bring him this miracle. To help Paul, there is a mission of the Pacific Citizen. donation page built on www.gofundme.com/rey6g. Editorials, news and the opinions ex- pressed by columnists other than the Jane Watanabe national JACL president or national di- rector do not necessarily reflect JACL Huntington Beach, Calif. policy. Events and products advertised in the Pacific Citizen do not carry the implicit endorsement of the JACL or this publication. We reserve the right WHY EDUCATING YOUTH to edit articles. © 2012 Periodicals paid at Los Angeles, Ca- ABOUT INTERNMENT IS lif and mailing office. IMPORTANT JACL MEMBERS Paul Watanabe (far left) pictured with his two sons and wife. WRITE TO US Change of As a educator I feel the need to Address My name is Jane Watanabe, my husband’s name is Paul. He has been spread the information on intern- at UCLA Medical Center since May 22. Send signed letters with ment is important. If you’ve moved, He contracted Hepatitis C and is in liver failure. He is very sick but your name and contact I’m just learning about the Fred please send new not sick enough to qualify to get a liver in Southern California. The only information to: information to: Korematsu case. And as a Sansei way he will receive a liver is to have someone donate it to him specifi- [email protected] National JACL I feel the need to educate all races cally. 1765 Sutter St. (the past, present and future) of the or Paul is Japanese and was born in a relocation camp during World War San Francisco, CA Japanese American experience. It’s Letters II. His parents were both born in California and were put in the camp 94115 viable to our society and the many Pacific Citizen when the war broke out. Allow 6 weeks for schools and public institutions. 250 E. First. St. address changes. His father graduated from USC in 1936 and owned a florist shop in It is still U.S. history, told or un- Suite # 301 Pasadena. They lost the shop and were relocated to Heart Mountain, told. To avoid interrup- Wyo. Paul had an Uncle, Joe Hayashi, who fought in WWII for the U.S. Los Angeles, CA, 90012 Please continue the experiences tions in delivery, He was 24 years old at the time. He served in the famous all-Japanese and stories on internment camps. please notify your 442nd RCT. Joe died while serving and saving his men’s lives in Ten- Letters are subject to postmaster to dola, Italy. editing include periodicals He and his troop were ambushed by the Germans and he fought them for length and clarity. in your change of off and saved his men. When they found Joe’s body there were two cher- Randall A. Ishida address (USPS ished photos of Paul as a baby in his pocket. Sacramento, Calif. Form 3575) IN-DEPTH Sept. 7-20, 2012 3 THE JAPANESE AMERICAN ‘Mad WoMan,’ of Utah In the early 1950s, Jeanne Konishi says she was the only Japanese American woman working in an advertising Utah. By Nalea J. Ko, Gates, however, says she never did get P.C. Staff Reporter a salary equal to her male counterparts. “My salary was half of what the The few skirts and dresses still in Jeanne Konishi’s closet men writers [made] who did the haven’t been worn in so long they probably no longer fit, very same job,” Gates said, who she says. That’s fine with the 92-year-old because all she began at the agency in 1956 and wears these days are pants. received about $325 a month. To fully understand the Utah native’s preference for But on the desks of male pants, we’d have to travel back in time to 1953 when Koni- writers Gates said she’d see shi first joined the Ross Journey advertising agency in Salt paychecks for $600 to $700.