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From· Page to Screen, Lockwood An Innovative Concept or Just a Weird Idea? Knows a 'Bridezilla' When She Sees One NYC (New Yamato City) Japan Aims to be a JA Enclave on the Japanese Island of Hokkaido

By CAROLINE AOYAGI Executive Editor

In the year 2020 Japanese Americans return to the mother• land and establish a vibrant JA cornmunity on the northernmost island of Hokkaido. Domed com• plexes with climate-controlled interiors provide shelter from the Sunset in Hidaka, a district in Hokkaido, Japan. blistering winter months. An inter• national airport is the center of a potentially very historic. To me, it is tic city, Wagner establish~d bustling tourist hub where foreign• this revolutionary aspect that makes NYCJapan.org in July, an infor• ers and Japanese alike can come NYC Japan so fascinatihg," said mal, non-profit organization. The and experience the wonders of the Wagner from his home in Maryland . . concept and details can be found at JAculture. "When you think about the cornmu• his website. .Sounds like it good premise for a nity NYC Japan could ultimately The development of . NYC science-fiction movie, right? Well create, it's almost mythic ... If we Japan involves three initiatives. not to Peter Wagner because this is . are successful, it will certainly be an The first is the coordinated reset• his idea for establishing New example for the rest of the world." tlement of JAs, those of Japanese Yamato City ' (NYC) Japan, a Wagner, a 42-year-old retired descent living in both North and vibrant Japanese American com• Marine who works for the . South America, to Hidako, an munity ill the Hidako District of Department of Transportation, came underdeveloped area of By LYNDA LIN too much emphasis on the ceremo• Hokkaido, Japan. up with the idea for NYC Japan on Southeastern Hokkaido. To deal Assistant Editor ny and the pageantry and often not "I am pretty sure what we are a recent flight home from Japan with Hokkaido's famously harsh enough emphasis on what really trying to do is in many ways with his wife, Kazurni Ideguchi winter months, Wagner has come Call it wedding wig-outs or mat• matters, which is the relationship unprecedented, and this makes it Wagner. After several weeks of rimonial ma1functions, but slip a you're celebrating with friends and developing his ideas for the futuris- See NYCJAPANlPage 4 ring on a woman's finger and a level family," said Lockwood. headed maiden turns into a modem So she dreamt up a fictitious hero• day monster. Just ask Cara ine. named Lauren Crandell, a JA WWII Generation Remembers Fear After 9/11 Tanamachi Lockwood, she has bat• meticulous wedding planner whose tled many brides in her days and has talent begins and ends witharrang• By MELISSA NELSQN Chicago's JACL also visited a near• Japanese ancestry were sent from . Associated"Press Writer lived to write a novel about her ing other people's happiest by mosque to show support for the the West Coast and Hawaii to 10 experiences. moments. "I Do' (But I Don't)" city's Arab American cornmunity. internment camps at the beginning Melting cakes, tom dresses and enjoyed a successful stint on its pub• LITTLE ROCK, Ark: - In the His empathy largely came from of the war. Eight camps were in the uninvited ex-girlfriends lisher's best-selling list and debuted days following the Sept. J1 terrorist his own experience six decades ear• West; the Arkansas sites were the Lockwood has heard all the horror Lockwood into the swelling wave attacks, Sam Ozaki ate at a Middle lier following Pearl Harbor when only ones in the South. Between stories - but she was most inspired of "Chick Lit" authors like Candace Eastern restaurant that had seen a his family in Long Beach, Calif., 1942 and 1945, the tWo southeast to pen a novel about wedding day "Sex and the City" Bushnell and drop in business in his Chicago became targets of suspicion and ani• Arkansas camps · at Jerome and mayhem because her own friends Helen "Bridget Jones' Diary" neighborhood. mosity. Rohwer held 16,000 detainees. ~usi­ turned into "Bridezillas" on heels. Fielding - women who reject . "They had been a thriving This month, Ozaki plans to retlirn Ozaki and hundreds of other JAs On her own wedding day, stuffy, high-minded literature and ness and after 9111 their business to the Arkansas internment camp who were detained in Arkansas will Lockwood's atheist husband-to-be opt for lighter subject matters, usu• really fell off. I tol<;l. (the owners) where he and his family were forced gather in Little Rock on Sept. 23-26 cl~hed with her mother, a devout ally involving fabulously flawed that this time was going to pass and to live during the early years of for the Life Interrupted National to stick with it," Ozaki said. World War II. Methodist, on how to conduct' the See 9/111Page 12 ceremony. See LOCKWOODlPage 4 Ozaki and fellow members of More than 120,000 Americans of "I think [women] sometimes put COMMENTARY Malkin's Message: Loud But False Course on JA internment Under Fire By JOHN TATEism the internment. By ASSOCIATED PRESS shared letters she'd exchanged with JACL Executive Director The thesis of her book is that the Superintendent Ken Crawford and WWIl internment of Japanese BAINBRIDGE, Wash. - The Sakai Principal Jo Vander Stoep. "Almost everything you'll hear Americans was justified because, Bainbridge Island School District is She argued the curriculum didn't this week from the Japanese she claims, there is documented coming under fire for the way the provide sufficient historical context American Citizens' League about evidence that World War II internment of for President Franklin D. the internment of ethnic Japanese we were Japanese Americans is being taught Roosevelt's Executive Order 9066. during World War II is false." - being suc• in a sixth grade social studies Dombrowski also took issue with Michelle Malkin, author of "In cessfully course. a suggested link between the 1940s Defense of Internment: The 'Case recruited as The internment was ordered by " internment and today's Patriot Act, for 'Racial Profiling' in World War spies and the U.S. government after Japan's saying it "rises to the level of propa• II and the World on Terror" saboteurs for 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor brought ganda." Japan. And the United States into the war. The complaints will result in And thus began our week in by the same During the 2003-2004 school changes to the curriculum, but Hawaii celebrating JACL's 75th token, the current administration is year, a special program called Crawford' said the course won't anniversary. We were greeted with being hampered by. those of us "Leaving Our Island" was taught back away from its central idea that this statement by Malkin, a syndi• who "play the internment card~' in for the first fime to sixth graders at the internment was a mistake. cated newspaper columnist and voicing strong objections to racial Sakai Intermediate School. " On March 30, 1942, Japanese· author, who is currently touring the profiling of Arab and Muslim At a meeting with the district's Americans on Bainbridge became country spreading her gospel on board of commissioners recently, the first people forced from their See COMMENTARYlPage 2 island resident Mary Dombrowski See BAINBRIDGElPage 12 2 . LEITERS · PACIFIC CITIZEN, SEPT. 17-30, 2004 Re: Michelle Malkin Malkin has been on a reading and 'Racial Profiling' in World War II engaged and pro internment is PACIFIC CITIZEN book signing tour, so it might be and the War on Terror." While I miniscule, what then are the odds of Michelle Malkin, author of "In prudent to go and see what' tran• agree that the book is a re-hash of such,an author stepping forward at a 7 Cupania Circle, Defense of Internment: The Case spires. Of course it can be somewhat pro-internment arguments and time when Others are being treated Monterey Park, CA 91755 for 'Racial Profiling' in World War intimidating when you get a lot of socially bankrupt, I'd like to offer a .in some ways akin to JAs during Tel: 3231725-0083,800/966- II and the \;Var on Terror," was on 6157, Fax: 3231725-0064 conservatives who buy 'into her the• . perspective that is not being dis• WWII? ."Tucker Carlson: . Unfiltered" on the E-mail: [email protected] ory and cheer her and interrupt her cussed by Asi~s in general and To frame this in anbther vein, PBS station, which was aired in [email protected] detractors as happened during her Japanese Americans in specific. consider if someone like Anne Seattle Aug. 20. She made her case book reading/signi!lg stint here in That is, it strikes me as nothing Coulter had written Malkin's book Executive Editor: in favor of 'racial proftling and the Seattle' area, which was spon• less than . provocative that of all of instead.' Is there a different message Caroline Y. Aoyagi restricting civil liberties and used Assistant Editor: sored by a conservative talk show the right wing authors to put forth a being delivered? I say of course. the Japanese American internment Lynda Lin station. pro-internment argument it should As a Sansei one generation as her example. Office Manager: be an Asian American. removed from the internment, I am Brian Tanaka When questioned by Carlson why This choice of an AA pundit of course sensitive to the views Circulation: Eva Lau-Ting children were involved in the intern• u~ becomes all the more "interesting" ment when they were obviously not Seattle, WA · espoused by Malkin. However, as Publisher: Japanese American when we consider the context: 1. an Asian and a human being, I am Citizens League' (founded spies or saboteurs, she replied that o AAs comprise a small portion of the alarmed at the media manipulation 1929) 1765 Sutter Street, San she wanted to clear up a misconcep• population, perhaps 5 percent; 2. Of being performed on a national sl,ilge Francisco, CA 94115, tel: tion about the camps. She said that I greatly appreciate the work that 415/921-5225 faX: 415/931- that 5 percent, very few are authors; on such shows as Dennis Miller. Is it tens of thousands were released the JACL does for our community. 4671, www.jad,.org 3. Of that foregoing slice that are just a coincidence, given all of the after security clearance and that the The League's vigilance and fervor JACL President: Ken Inouye authors, fewer are intellectuals; 4. statistical improbabilities mentioned internment was not punitive but a are much-needed components of our National Director: John Of that population in #3, even fewer above, . that an AA author should Tateishi rational security measure. struggle. are political pundits; 5. Of that frac• come along and espouse a pro Pacific Citizen Board of Shemade the point that all people Recently, MiChelle Malkin has Directors: Gil Asakawa, chair• tion of a remaining pool, how many mternment argument in this politi• had to sacrifice during wartime and raised the ire of many with her person; Roger Ozaki, EDC; are pro interiunent?; 6. We are living cally charged time? THAT seems to, that those who were conscripted for incendiary views,and it was with Ron Katsuyama, MDC; Grace in a time where "Others" are being be the real story behind the story. Kimoto, CCDC; Valerie military service had their liberties interest that I read the jACL's com• detained unconstitutionally. Yasukochi, NCWNPDC; Ann taken from them, so it's not asking mentary of Malkin's book, "In Given that the pool of AA authors fJeUiZ'~ Fujii-Undwall, PNWDC; Larry too much if others were inconve• Defense of Internment: The Case for Grant, IDC; Andrea Parker,' nienced as well. who are intellectuals, 'politically Los Angeles MPDC; AlaY'1e Yonemoto, PSWDC; Maya Yamazaki, wants her readers to believe are plen• redress given to JAs was a sc~ and camp so maybe I didn't notice, but I Youth. COMMENTARY tiful among the thpusands of inter• a rip off of the government. What sure don't remember nearly half the (Continued from page 1) cepts) provide substantial and unal• Malkin presents as "new" evidence, internees at Manzanar being r------,NEWS/AD DEADLINE: Americans when, in her view, racial terable truth that the Nisei were suc• however, is hardly new. Scholars Caucasian. FRIDAY BEFORE DATE profiling of some type is cri,tical to cessfully recruited as spies for Japan. have examined the thousands of Yes, there were non-JAs in some OF ISSUE. keeping this nation safe. She points to some of Magic cables for of the camps, but those were mainly Edi~orials, news and the the cables that indicat~ . decades and have found spouses (i.e., wives) of Nisei who opinions expressed by col• .The premise of her thesis is that contact had been made absolutely no evidence accompanied their families into the umnists other than the JAs as a population posed a threat to national JACL president or U.S. security because there was with "the second gen• in them that JAs were. camps, and their numbers were few national director do not proof that the Japapese government' eration" and, in various successfully recruited (remember, there were anti-misce• necessarily reflect JACL was successful in recruiting Nisei as ways, suggest they by the Japanese. genation laws at the time). And yes, policy. Events and prod• spies and saboteurs. Her proof? were being sought as The very cables they had a choice not to go to camp ucts advertised in the Intercepts of Japanese intelligence agents for Japan. Malkin offers as with their Nisei spouses and Hapa Paclfic Citizen do not carry What Malkin conve• "proof' as evidence of children. And yes, there were some the implicit endorsement of cables between consular offices and the JACL or this publica• Tokyo. These were referred to as the niently ignores is that JA collaboration with Germans and Italians in places like . tion. We reserve the right to "Magic" cables, intercepts that were the cables never indi• Japan during WWII Crystal City and in some of the fed•

L ______edit articles. ~ so highly secret that only a handful cate success in recruit• were presented at a eral prisons, but there certainly of individuals were aware of them. ing the Nisei but only Commission. on weren't tens of thousands as Malkin PACIFIC CITIZEN (ISSN: 0030- There were literally thousands of state that the various Wartime Relocation would have her readers believe. ' 8579) is published semi-month- cables sent to Tokyo before and dur• Japanese consular offices were and Internment of Civilians If the decision to intern wasn't . Iy except once in January and attempting to contact the Nisei as (CWRlC) hearing in the 1980s and based on race, why then did Francis December by the· Japanese ing the war, and among them, only a spies. There is nothing in the handful were carefully analyzed and consid• Biddle, FDR's Attorney General, American Citizens League, 7 handful that mention JAs 'and the Cupania Circle, Monterey Park, Japanese government's efforts to of cables that she presents as "proof' ered but ultimately rejected by the write a memorandum to the CA 91755. OFFICE HOURS - recruit the Nisei to assist Japan to indicate any cooperation by the congressional committee's research President a year after the issuance of Mon.-Fri., 8:30 a.m:-5 p.m. against the United States. It's been Nisei, and that's because there is staff. Military researchers for E.O. 9066 to remind him that the Pacific Time. ©2004. 'about 20 years since I researched absolutely nothing in the evidence to decades have combed through the executive order was not intended for Annual subscription rates: Magic, but as I recall, all mention of. substantiate her claim. cables for similar evidence but have the Germans or Italians, But that "it NON-MEMBERS: 1 year-$35, this effort to recruit the Nisei ceased In what is. very questionable come up empty. was intended only for the Japs." payable in advance. Additional once the war started. research, Malkin clrums ' to have And finally, in the post-war occu• Ultimately, Malkin seeks to justify postage per year - Foreign Malkin daims that the cable inter• uncovered evidence that the intern• pation of Japan, military intelligence racial profIling of individuals today periodical rate $25; First Class cepts about the Nisei (which she ment was justified and that any went through volumes of intelli• as a necessary inconvenience for U.S., Canada, Mexico: $30; gence documents and found no evi• brought on by the terrorists and this Airmail to Japan/Europe: $60. t~rror. (Subject to change without dence at all of the Japanese consular nation's war on Just as the notice.) Periodicals postage offices having been successful in WWII internment was a process that paid at Monterey Park, Calif., their recruitment efforts. The "exten• served to keep the nation safe from and at additional mailing offices. sive espionage network" Malkin us JAs, she argues, profiling today Permission: No part' of this claims to have existed simply didn't will help keep Americans safe. publication may be reproduced exist. As an organization, we have spo• without express permission of She claims that the internment ken out in opposition to any policies the publisher. Copying for other was not in fact based on racism and promulgated by the current adminis• than personal or internal refer• economic greed as the CWRlC had tration which we feel threatens civil ence use without the express concluded. Noting that nearly half of liberties and undermines the permission of PC. is prohibited. those interned were of European Constitution. We know from our POSTMASTER: Send address ancestry, she debunks the argument own experience that indicting an changes to: Pacific Citizen, c/o that the internment was . racially entire group of people simply JACL National Headquarters, motivated. I was only a little boy in because of the way they look or 1765 Sutter St., San Francisco, CA 94115. dress does nothing to make anyone PACIFIC CITIZEN safer. In the next week, we'll be provid- 7 Cupania Circle · ing chapters with information and JACL MEMBERS Monterey Park, CA 91755 Zel! sardenr W~ have taken tll~ talking points in response to fax: 323f725-0064 Malkin's book It's important that Change of Address tigbt elements in plac." $ e-mail: [email protected] nking needs ¥ [email protected] our chapters and members are If you have moved, *< Except for the National Director's infonned and respond to her if she t~tus guide ~u down a path Report, news and the views appears in your areas . .please send information Of unparalleled custolper)1eNi(.(!: expressed by columnists do not nec• Wi! ate your ba . Those who have had the opportu• to: essarily reflect JACL policy. The columns are the personal opinion of nity to listen to her as some of us did National JACL the writers. at UC Berkeley recently have wit• 1765 Sutter St. * ''Voices'' reflect the active, public dis• nessed how she distorts and manu• cussion within JACL of a wide range of factures "truths" to suit her right• San Francisco, CA ideas and issues. though they may not wing agenda, but they have also seen reflect the viewpoint of the editorial 94115 board of the Pacific Citizen. how so many in the audience love Allow 6 weeks for address *< "Sho'rt expressions" on public her message. issues, usually one or two paragraphs, She got a standing ovation at changes. should include signature, address and Berkeley. For those of you who have daytime phone number, Because of To avoid. interruptions in receiving space limitations, letters are subject to ·thought we've made it and have no your p.c. please notify your post• abridgement. Although we are unable need any longer to fight for civil master to include periodicals in to print all the letters we receive, we · rights and our place in this society, your change of address (USPS appreciate the interest and views of think again. The message from Form 3575) those who take' the time to send us Malkin is very loud and very clear. their comments. . • PACIFIC CITIZEN, SEPT. 17-30,2004 NATIONAL NEWS 3 PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE Heart Mountain Considered for Historic Landmark Many Thanks By ASSOCIATED PRESS historical site. federal funds to help preserve and "I think it's an ideal time to think maintain the site and help from the By KENNETH K. INOUYE rights organizations in the country. POWELL, Wyo. - A National about who's going to take care of it National Park Service in the way JACL Nat') President All of us in JACL are indebted to the Park Service study recommends in the long term," Reetz said. of advice and expertise. prior board, to John Tateishi, JACL that the World War II Japanese Once a decision is reached on In addition, the site would gain As I write my first article as executive director, and the outstand• American internment camp near who will have jurisdiction, the foun• the' prestige that goes along with JACL president, I would like to take ing staff for all of their dedicated here be considered for National dation will begin the application being named a National Historical a few moments to thank all of those work Historical Landmark designation. process toward making the ' Heart Landmark. dedicated As we look forward to the The Heart Mountain Relocation Mountain site a National Historical "I feel the study does help JACLers who upcoming biennium it is clear that Center site, located west of Landmark. emphasize and prove the site is helped make there has never been a greater need Powell, was one of nine properties Benefits of such a designation significant and extremely worthy the recent for an organization such as JACL as recommended for historic land• include the availability of state and of preservation," Reetz said .• Hawaii the country attempts to balance the mark designation out of the 37 Convention a v~ry real need to maintain national sites nationwide that were exam• Voice Your Opinion very special security while at the same time pre• ined. Who: The National Park Service, the Organization of American event. In par• serving the civil liberties for all of The study focused on sites asso• Historians and the National Conference of State Historic Preservation ticular, I would li~e those who in this great country. ciated with JA exclusion, reloca• Officers like to thank the Hawaii chapter for During the cun:ent biennium, I tion and detention and with JA What: Feedback is needed from the Japanese American community to hosting the convention and a special hope to visit many of the service in the U.S. Military during ensure the' draft study, "Japanese Americans in World War II," is accurate thanks to the convention co-chairs chapters/districts as national JACL World War II. and comprehensive. The draft study recommends that nine properties be Art Koga and Susan Kitsu for a job co-sponsors local "town hall" meet• The announcement comes as considered for National Historic Landmark designation or listing in the well done. ings which will be used to highlight good news to the Heart Mountain National Register or Historic Places. As mandated by legislation, the study I would also like to thank the some of the very good work that Foundation, the group involved in needs input from JAs. members of the previous national both national and the local chap• the preservation and enhancement When: Comments must be submitted by Oct. 15. board under former JACL National ters/districts are accomplishing. of the site. How: Download the draft study at: http:Uwww.cr.nps.gov/nhl/ President Floyd MOR for their years There is no question that the work of Foundation President Dave themes/jats.pdf of dedicated service and a WarnI the JACL is still relevant to the Reetz said the group is currently Send comments to either two addresses: welcome and thanks to the members Japanese American community as re-evaluating whether 73 acres of National Historic Landmarks Survey, National Park Service of the new national board as we tend we work with our neighbors to help land at the Heart Mountain site 1849 C Street, NW, 2280 to the business of JACL in' the build safe and inclusive communi• should remain under the jurisdic• Washington, D.C. 20240 upcoming biennium. ties. tion of the U.S. Bureau of As I reflect on the achievements I look forward to the honor of Reclamation. 1201 Eye Street, NW, 8th Floor (MS 2280) of the Mori board, I am grateful for serving the JACL membership dur• The bureau's main concern is Washington, D.C. 20005 the fact that, in spite of all of the ing the upcoming biennium and I water management, and Reetz challenges they faced, JACL was hope to meet as many of you as I says there may be a govemment Phone: 2021354-2234 still able to maintain its presence as can. Thank you all for your past and entity better equipped to handle a Fax: 2021371-2229. one of the leading human and civil continued support of our JACL. • ~avy's Newest Destroyer Named Aner Chinese American Advertise right here. Call By ASSOCIATED PRESS "We traveled 7,515 miles to get Chung-Hoon, who died in 1979, 800/966-6157 for details. here for this WarnI aloha welcome," received the Navy Cross for his lead• PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii - The . Cmdr. Kenneth Williams said. ership after a kamikaze attack in USS Chung-Hoon, the Navy's The $1 billion destroyer is named 1945 left several of his crew dead newest and most advanced warship, after the late Rear Adm. Gordon and his ship, the USS Sigsbee, pulled into its homeport of Pearl Paiea Chung-Hoon, who was born severely crippled. Harbor for the fIrst time Sept. 10. and raised in Honolulu. He was also a<;signed to the USS The 32 officers and 348 sailors "If Uncle Gordon were here, he'd Arizona, but was not onboard dtIring aboard the guided-missile destroyer . be very happy," said Punana Chung~ the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor. were greeted with a military band, Hoon, a niece of the World War II "That is the only thing that saved lei and flowers, welcome signs and veteran. "To have the honor of hav• his life because where his duty sta• hundreds of cheering family mem• ing a ship named after him, he'd be tion would be on the bridge, all the bers. very, very pleased." officers were killed up there," Pearl Harbor historian Daniel Martinez said. Martinez said the. people of Hawaii now have a ship named after one of their own. "To have a ship named after a hero from World War II, a Chinese • American, brings honor and value to the people of Hawaii," he said. "He's one of us." The 509-foot ship joins 11 other surface ships and 15,000 sailors who are stationed in Hawaii. The destroyer, which will official• ly be commissioned on Sept. 18, has the capabilities of fighting air, sur• face and subsurface battles simulta• neously.• APIHRrOhana House to Host First Queer API Youth Conference in Southern California Asians Pacific Islanders for a list of workshops ranging from The conference is for Asian and Human Rights (APIHR)/'Ohana campus organizing, to discrimina• Pacific Islander, including multira• House will host "Double Vision: tion and homophobia, to health and cial, transnationally and transracial• Reconciling Multiple Identities," coming out. This conference will ly adopted LGBTIQ youth 24 and the nation's fIrst Asian and Pacific provide interactive and social work• under who want to learn and help Islander (API) Lesbian, Gay, shops while fostering leadership transform the API LGBT communi• Bisexual, Transgender, Intersex, development. ties through openly discussing the and Questioning (LGBTIQ) confer• "This conference is dedicated to struggles this community faces. ence Nov. 7 to educate and inspire teaching our API youth life skills Individuals must come ready to the next generation of API LGBT and to help them integrate their participate in a safe environment, youth leaders. identities with regards to their cul• promoting healthy dialogue and APIHRI'Ohana House's Youth ture, ethnicity and sexuality," said engage in discussions about being Conference is geared to support, Patrick Mangto, executive director queer APls. Individuals should be yducate, inspire, and promote lead• of APIHRI'Ohana House. "The able to apply what they have ership development in API LGB• most important thing is that this is a learned and take it back to their TIQ youth. Youth will be selected to conference that is organized and communities. - attend a one-day conference held at programmed by API youth for API Current enrollment in school is the Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian LGBTIQ youth. It will speak direct• not required. Enrollment forms are Center. The youth will choose from ly to their issues and concerns." available of APllIRI 'Ohana House's website www.apihr.org . • 4 NATIONAL NEWS PACIFIC CITIZEN, SEPI'. 17-30, 2004 National Newsbytes PSWD to Honor the Generations at Annual Dinner Oct. 23 In celebration of JACL's 75 years, "Through Harsh Winters: The Life seek social justice spearheaded the By P.e. Staff and Associated Press the Pacific Southwest District will of a Japanese Immigrant Woman," historic redress movement. And be honoring the Issei, Nisei, Sansei, will speak about the Issei and their finally, Eric Nakano, former PSWD UIC Medical School Revamps Admissions and future generations at its annual pioneering spirit that laid the foun• intern and recent national JACL CHICAGO-The University ofillinois-Chicago's medical school recent• dinner Oct. 23. . dation for the community. Warren scholarship winner, will represent ly approved a new admission system that eliminates the point advantage for As JACL looks at its past and Fiuutani, L.A. Community. College the future generations that include students of color. paves its way to the future, the Board of Trustees, will t:alk about the Yonsei, Gosei, and Hapa. The system mirrored a model used by the University of Michigan that was organization will honor the tremen• the Nisei, the generation that The PSWD dinner will take place ruled unconstitutional by the high court. dous passion and courage of those endured the hardships of World War Oct. 23 at the Crowne Plaza Minorities made up about one-fifth of the school's 1,200 students last year. who have made the success of II but whose courage led them to Commerce Casino, 6121 East The UC nursing school has also revised its point-based system. Japanese Americans possible. build new communities post-war. Telegraph Road, Commerce, Representing the various genera• California 90040. There will be a Filipino Language Classes May be Cut Funds raised at the annual PSWD tions will be speakers: Akemi dinner will go towards the district's no-host cocktail at 6:00 p.m. and HONOLULU-Students at the University of Hawaii (UH) have organ• Kikumura-Yano, Warren Furutani, youth programs. dinner will follow at 7:00 p.m. ized to support Filipino language programs, which they fear will fall victim Alayne Yonemoto, and Eric Na• Alayne Yonemoto, PSW district Tickets are $100 per person. For to future budget cuts. kano. vice-governor, will speak about the tickets, contact the PSWD office at The department is considering eliminating those classes in · the spring Kikumura-Yano, ' author of Sansei, whose determination to 213/626-4471, [email protected].• semester, which means eventually UH will offer only one cycle of language classes in the fall. of NYC Japan as I am," he said. "At ably is with most others." About 200 students are currently taking Filipino classes, while an addition• NYC JAPAN first she had a lot of questions ... but Wagner hopes he'll start to hear all00 are taking liocano. (Continued from page 1) after she really got to understand the from the JA and Japanese communi• Lawsuit Challenges Federal Ruling concept the way I was imagining it, ties and once that happens he plans up with the idea to build a network of Requiring Translation Services we became one in mind about it." to bring the concept for NYC Japan "solar dome communities" to create Wagner added; "My wife's brother, to the Japanese govemment, espe• SAN DIEGO-A lawsuit is challenging a policy reqUiring federally fund• pleasant living conditions. The third who works as an architect in Japan, cially tile representatives in ed hospitals and doctors to provide translators for patients who speak little initiative would involve the con• thinks it's a great idea." Hokkaido, and eventually to the offi• English. struction of an international airport A century has passed since the cials in bot1\. North and South Proponents of the suit against the U.S. Department of Health and Human and commercial center that would first wave of Japanese immigrants America. Once the officials get Services argue that it is an illegal intrusion that will drive physicians out of provide jobs for the relocating JAs involved then there's the matter of practice and that family translators are more cost-efficient. headed to the United States, and with and create a world-renowned tourist However, opponents say that family members may lack the skill to accu• the passage of time has come vast recruiting professionals to help in the mecca. rately translate medical terms. differences between the JA and development and building of NYC Wagner doesn't have an exact Japanese cultures. Asked whether Japan, especially tIlose futuristic Police Investigate Hate Crime Against Muslim timeline for NYC Japan but his first these differences may present a chal• solar domed communities. TUCSON, Ariz. - The vandalism of a Muslim man's car is being investi• goal is to recruit interest from both lenge in creating NYC Japan, "I have the heart of an architect, gated as a possible hate crime. The car's tires were slashed, its windshield the JA and Japanese communities, Wagner said, 'The goal is not to rec• but not necessarily the mind of one," smashed and a note taped to the vehicle read: "You are not welcome here. Go especially from those JAs who oncile tile two cultures, but instead to said Wagner, when asked how he home you stupid (epithet)." would actually be willing to relocate create something totally new and came up with the idea for the solar The car owner, a U.S. resident from Jordan, parked his car in the lot of an to Japan. He's hoping to get about better from tile foundation of the rich domes. "All I can say is that once the apartment building in midtown Thcson. 10,000 signatures for a petition post• JA experience." concept is fully developed ... it will ed on the NYC Japan website. "Only JAs collectively can deter• not only be feasible, but it will be Media Credentials Asking for Applicant's "I.really think it is just a matter of mine what they want in culture, clearly the MOST feasible approach. Race Spur Controversy getting the idea out there and letting and being familiar with the Japanese Just about every study shows that ST. LOUIS-Journalists are angry that the credential application to cover it sell itself by its own merits and by and American versions, they have a small communities are the most effi• a scheduled presidential debate in St. Louis is asking for racial data. The the natural enthusiasm of people brilliant vantage point from which to cient, productive and family friendly online application only provides a drop list of set ethnicities to choose from. when they see a better way to live decide," he added. "What NYC places to live." Debate officials say that the request was required by the Secret Service, and raise their children," Said Japan could be is a celebration of the_ Wagner hopes to visit Hokkaido who uses the data to conduct full background checks. Wagner, who has three kids: Yamato, best of both Japan and America." with his wife in the near future and Makoto and Katomi. "If nobody is Wagner readily admits that he can• would love to have signatures of Top AA in Bush Administration interested, then there is obviously no not easily identify what J A culture is support to show some of the Leads Campaign for Community's Votes sense to take NYC Japan any further and in this respect, he hopes his cur• Hokkaido officials. NEW YORK-Labor Secretary Elaine Chao is leading a call for Asian .. . NYC Japan is not about a sales rent outreach efforts will help pro• "Kazumi and I know we are just Pacific Americans to vote for her boss's re-election in November. She laud• pitch; it's a potential that either has vide some defining. common people with a big dream ed Bush for appointing more than 225 APAs to high office and focusing on merit in today's world or it doesn't. "I really don't know what [JA cul• against great odds. That is why it is education.• The JA community gets to decide." ture] is," he said. "I'd be interested to important for other common people Since Wagner's website has onl~ hear what others have to say. The like us to join the movement so we been up for a few weeks, he doesn't way I see it, I am not sure if there can show strength in numbers, and yet have a clear idea of how people even is such a thing as JA culture ... also strength in a common mind, APAs will respond to NYC Japan: But so I just know what goes on in my heart and spirit of the JA communi• in the far his wife and brother-in-law are house, ~d it is bilingual, and just ty," he said. "NYC Japan is defmite• N supportive of the idea. about everything else is pretty much ly a people movement, and as the ews "[Kirniko] is as excited about the merged as well. The way we do it is saying goes, people have the power possibilities and the great potential very symbiotic, as I am sure it prob- ... but only if they believe it." • High School Honors Ochi, Other 'Hall of Fame' Alumni LOCKWOOD she's just like tIlem," said too harsh when it comes to chick lit. Lockwood. I don't think people should be made Rose Matsui Ochi, Los Angeles Police (Continued from page 1) Commissioner, will be honored Oct. 3 at Roosevelt Admittedly, watching Richards, a to feel inferior because they want to High School's Third Annual All Alumni ' ''Hall of heroines balancing beautiful men, recent real-life mom trying to tame be entertained." Fame" Luncheon and Dance. successful careers and children. wedding perils in her impossibly Lockwood's second book, "Pink . A former lawyer and criminal justice executive, Ochi And like Carrie Bradshaw and slim frame and tossing her perfectly Slip Party" follows the same humor was appointed to police commissioner August 200 1 by Bridget Jones, Lauren Crandell leapt coifed hair in the wind is a little about women getting fired from their Mayor James Hahn. She will join other prominent from the pages of a book and was alienating at times, but the author jobs and her third book due out next alumni, including L.A. Clippers' owner Donald brought to life by a hot Hollywood insists that it's reassuring to know May is titled, "Dixieland Sushi." She Sterling at the event. actress - former Bond girl Denise that good-looking people still strug• describes it as a "homecoming Richards - for Lifetime TV, a gle for happiness. story" inspired by her own experi• Matsushima Assumes Command watering hole for all types of chicks. After all, Lockwood, 31, will be ences growing up bi-racial in the The Barksdale Air Force Base in Louisiana recently named Lt Col. The movie premiered Sept. 13 and the first to say that the lighter side of South in the 1980s (her father is third Mark Matsushima as commander of the 8th Information Warfare Flight. will repeat several times during the Matsushima, a Sansei, was a senior Air Battle Manager with over 1000 life is the place to be. She sends generation Japanese American and hours in Operation pesert Shield, Northern Watch and Southern Watch. He week. In it, Crandell battles her own copies of her books to the Pacific her mother has English and Irish was also a part of Operations Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom. divorce, psycho brides, a neurotic Citizen personalized with a pink roots). boss and newfound love with Nick post-it in the shape of a cute purse "My goal was to write a uniquely First Minority Judge to be Confirmed in 2nd Corina (Dean Cain). It seems that the and proclaims in an e-mail that, American story, and one that I hope District Court woman who color-coordinates for a "Sometimes you watch PBS, and resonates with a lot of people," she living is having problems getting her John R. Mo~ a 55-year-old Japanese American lawyer and Hawaii sometimes you watch made for TV said. native is Utah's 2n District Court's first minority judge. personal life together. movies, and that's OK." In the meantime, the best-selling Morris said much of the family history from his mother's side no longer The plot points are not very new. But it's not always pink and author is living a surreal life visiting exists because it was held just a few blocks from the center of the U.S. Echoes of another film aptly titled, breezy for the Texan native. She movie sets and watching her charac• nuclear attack on Hiroshima. "The Wedding Planner," with works part time as the director for ters walk and talk onscreen - an He received his undergraduate degree from Princeton and graduated from Jennifer Lopez are apparent, but communications at Northwestern experience not many other chick lit Brigham Young University Law School in 1977.• after watching Crandell fabulously University in Chicago where she writers can say they've done. Only a worm her way from one misadven• currently lives with her husband. good hair day could top that. • Nunotani, Kizuka Receive Community Award ture to another, the movie becomes And she has an English degree from This year's Takeo Okamoto Community Award was presented to Wallace what it's supposed to be: a gUilty the University of Pennsylvania and "I Do (But I Don't)" Nunotani of San Fraricisco and Shigeru ''Shig'' Kizuka of Watsonville. pleasure. journalism experience to boot, but Lifetime Original Movie Both are World War II war veterans who are still active in their communi• "I think Lauren, like many other she says her writing style is not Starring: Denise Richards, Dean ties. This award is presented to persons who embody a spirit that is modest, women who are approaching 30, is meant to stimulate critical thinking Cain and Jessica Walter scholarly and who has positively impacted their community through their trying to find out who she is and so much as elicit laughter. Show times: Sept. 18th (11 a.m. long-term commitment. • what she wants out of life. I think "I think that sometimes critics are central) & 26th (10 a.m.) women can relate to Lauren because PACWIC CITIZEN, SEPr. 17-30, 2004 JACL SCHOLARSHIPS 5

national' JACL recently announced its began, seeing and especially good at math because areas of the organization. If I had to my Asian eth• I am Asian. Though academically describe my level of involvement in scholarship winners. The following are recipients from nicity as a bur• successful, I am certainly not innate• the organization, "high" or "very the freshmen and undergraduate divisions with den. Slowly, ly "smart," and math is my weakest, involved"seems appropriate, but thy excerpts from their winning essays. Winners from the but surely, I and thereby least favorite, subject in evaluation of "enveloped" is more graduate division will appear in the next issue. began realizing the world. I do not fit the generic creative and accurate for my rela• that my being stereotype that most people associate tionship with the JACL. The JACL National Scholarship Program began in different was with Asians ... Being involved in the My activity on the National Board 1946 and continues to be one of the largest scholar• an asset ... Asian American comm~nity has and Youth Council has included ship programs in the Asian Pacific American commu• Everything I have done was all in the given me a bet• facilitating dialogue between . local hope that my. work will become big• ter understand• youth leaders to develop a national nity.JACL annually hands out more than $60,000 in ger and better. I want to continue ing of my rich youth program, planning and coordi• scholarships. helping the people of my ethnic ori• heritage as a ,nating the National Youth Student gin through other forms of volunteer Japanese and Conference along with Maya father, a third-generation Japanese , work and through my future profes• Chinese Yamazaki, and fulfIlling my role as a FRESHlVffiN American, brought me to Tohoku sion. There is so much to be done American. I full National Board Member. There Judo Club in my hometown of that I am not yet qualified to do now. am very proud are times I feel enveloped by the Henry & Chiyo Somerville, MA when I was 9 years For now, all I can do is continue my to be 'part of organization when I see on my desk Kuwahara Memorial old ... In the beginning, I was not a projects and volunteer work as I wait such a strong community, and I hope are budget Scholarship promising athlete, and did not appear for my future t9 unfold. After recall• to continue learning and involving reports, or ' cut out for a competitive career. ing all that I had experienced, I came myself in Asian American affairs in memos to DanielKato However, I came to love the sport, to the realization that the issue of dis• college. I eventually want to go into email a youth Scarsdale, NY and kept going back no matter what crimination' was what motivated me non-profit business administration, asking ques• Yale University the results. With the invaluable help to do the things I did. If it had not hopefully for an organization like the tionsabout the , Major: Undecided of my father, who acts as my coach, been for my need to gain respect, I American Cancer Society. I am hop• oratorical ,con- ' and my training partners, I built a would have passed up the chance to ing first to intern for an Asian test, but I feel Essay Excerpt: I have long successful competitive career ... My help so many people. I would not American non-profit organization that the work' thought of myself as a cultural emis• hope is to retire from competitive have leamed the importance of being like the JACL to 'gain experience in and extent to sary from Japan to the United States. judo with a World Championship, an proud of my Asian identity, there• business administration. Through which JACL has come into my life Although I am Olympic Championship, but above fore, never acquiring the passion to inierning for an Asian American has been rewarded by amazing expe• only half all a much better understanding of help the peOple of my race. I was non-profit organization I will contin• riences, mentors, and challenges. Japanese in who I am. able to help a lot of people inside and ue to learn about and support the These things are some of my most background, I outside the Asian community. My Asian American community. Under• treasured prizes from the organiza• was born in Sam S. 'Kuwahara experiences have truly shaped my standing my national heritage has *' tion and I feel that I can still be an Japan, and Memorial way of looking at life and pushed me helped me understand myself, and I effective youth leader in the organi• moved to the to do things to help make this world plan to make sure that my children zation as the newly elected National United States Denise Ponganis a better place. learn to love their heritage too. Youth Student Council Chair. as an Issei, Beaverton, OR many my Asian-born Stanford University Masao & Sumako Itano South Park Japanese Alice Yuriko Endo peers. I began to realize in high Major: Mechanical Engineering, Memorial Community Masumoto school that I occupied a unique mid• Nikiko dle ground between East and West Taiko is a form of Japanese drum• , JamieDoi . Student: Midori Wong Fresno Chapter that put me in the position of serving ming that is a physically demanding Salt Lake City, UT City: Davis, CA UCBerkeley as a bridge between the two: I am a performance art which incorporates University of Utah School: UC San Diego Major: Women's Studies & fluent speaker of English and a long• the spiritual Major: Acconnting or Pharmacy Major: International Relations History time resident of the United States, aspects of a more integrated into the community martial art. I With a long line of participation Aside from JACL involvement, I My involvement in the Asian than many of my Japanese friends started playing on both sides of my family, my have been involved in the APIA American community is a reflection who came and left within a matter of taiko over involvement in the Japanese community for the majority of my of my personal goal to work towards years due to their fathers' changing seven years American school years. I have had the opportu- equality and promote diversity. I business posts, and who often spoke ago and have community nity to participate in many different work to break boundaries like lan• little or no English. On the other been in a per• was almost activities and events, broaq.ening my guage, class, and culture that are hand, as a result of six years of living forming group, ingrained in school and community learning as a constructed to in Japan, I felt that I had a much Tanuki Taiko, my blood since half-Japanese, half-Chinese young block many' more profound connection to Asia for the last five years. Taiko is my birth. I've person. Last April, I attended the people's suc- ... In the future, I intend to continue important to me because it is part of grown up at• Asian Pacific Youth Leadership cess. My pas- pursuing my interest in Japanese and my Japanese heritage. My great• tending the Program (APYLP) conference in sion for fight- East Asian studies. Certainly I intend grandfather played taiko in Japan Salt Lake Bud• Sacramento. Over four days, the ing discriillina- to continue studying kendo - I when it was used to call the commu- dhist Temple every Sunday, which in fifty of us Asian Pacific youths from , tion has led me hope to make it into the dan rankings , nity together. I continue that tradition itself has opened me up to a large all over California selected for the to a new stu- in a year or so .. , I intend to contin• by playing annually at Japanese Japanese American population and a program explored a variety of topics dent group at ue using my unique place between community events in Portland. I am thriving culture. Besides regular - what it's like to grow up as an UC Berkeley. A small group of about Japan and America to serve as a cul• a regular performer at the New attendance, I am involved with Asian American, how' to combat ten women and I have started, a tural bridge between the two, help• Year's Celebration,Mochitsuki, and church events and the Young racism marketed in the form of' coalition dedicated to breaking race ing to interest and educate was also one of the masters of cere• Buddhists Association (YBA) ... As clothes (such as the offensive tee ' and gender barriers. Our goals are to Americans and Asian Americans monies last year. Tanuki Taiko per• for the future, I hope to not only con• shirts of the ,popular teen clothing encourage coalitions and dialogue about the traditions of Japan and the forms for both the Children's Day tinue what I have been and currently company Abercrombie and Fitch), between identity-based groups (such rest of Asia and to raise conscious• Festival at the Japanese Tea Garden am doing , within the Japanese and how we relate to our respective as Japanese American groups). My ness about the challenges that Asian and the Nikkei Community Picnic at American community but, also to cultures ... In the future, I hope to vision is to work specifically in the Americans still face in this society. Oaks Park. Our inaugural perform• expand my horizons. In college I am become more involved in college Asian American community on ance as Tanuki Taiko was for !;he looking, forward to joining Asian with the JACL or the OCA. campus, promoting coalition and Mr. & Mrs. . opening of the Nikkei Legacy organizations or clubs that will allow Considering that I did not even join embracing difference. In becoming Takashi Moriuchi Society in Portland. As a performer me to meet fellow youth and further the JACL until last summer, I feel more aware of my identity as a' at all of these events, I have been my involvement. I plan to continue that our youth outreach efforts are Japanese-German American woman Michael Oshima able to stay connected with the my participation in JACL and the vital to the organization's future suc- at Berkeley, I now see and feel the Somerville, MA Japanese American community in Salt Lake Buddhist Temple, which cess. Additionally, if we want young prevalence of racist and sexist ide• Harvard University , Portland. Because of my involve• have both served as outlets to the people to remain connected to their ologies. I live in a world of con• Major: Linguistics or Physics ' ment with Tanuki Taiko, I feel it is Japanese American community. culture, we must work to keep APIA structed boundaries, dividing people, _part of my responsibility to share my However, no, matter how I partici• influence present in school curricu- raping dreams, and starving pride in Growing up half-Japanese was knowledge and love of taiko with the pate or what organization I partici• lum and a guiding influence in the diversity. I will fight against these quite the experience for me. It was , greater community. ' pate ' in, I will continue to seize lives of not only Asian American boundaries and have already begun quite normal that I was the only opportunities to be involved.,After students, but all students. with tutoring and activism. I wel• Japanese or even Asian in my class• Patricia & Gail all, it's hard to imagine my life with• come the responsibility and accept es, extracurricular activities and Ishimoto Memorial out the Japanese American commu• the challenge to eliminate prejudice groups of friends. Although I was nity. It's become my second home. IJNDERGRADS through work in and with Japanese lucky enough to grow up in a very Vanessa Vicera American and Asian Pacific com• pluralistic community, meeting other Miami,FL Kenji Kasai Memorial Sam S. Kuwahara munities. Japanese was very rare ... I had Pennsylvania State University Memorial Stephanie Huang always felt pride in my cultural Major: Geographic Information Joshua Spry Mari & James . background, and now I was search• Systems Los Angeles, CA Michener Memorial ing for an appropriate outlet to UCBerkeley St. Louis Chapter express this pride - something My family and I have been vic• Major: Business Administration Washington UniverSity, St. Louis ,Emi Bennett other than drawing Japanese flags on tims of racial discrimination. Major: Finance/Acconnting Twin Cities Chapter my notebooks. My first major expo• Everyone seemed to have Asian When I was five years old, I want• Scripps CoUege sure to Japanese culture would jokes to say about me. After repeat• ed to be blonde and blue-eyed. I Over the past five years, I have Major: Politics & International become one of the great loves of my edly hearing them, I began losing wanted to look like the "pretty" girls had the amazing opportunity to be Relations life and became a major influen,ce in my self-esteem and became at my school. For most of my life I involved in the JACL with many responsibilities in a diverse range of my post-high school plans. My 'ashamed of my Asian identity. I have been expected to 'be "smart" Continued on next page .. 6 JACL SCHOIARSHIPS PACIFIC CITIZEN, SEI'r. 17-30, 2004 (Continued from previous page) as myself. I intend to be a part of to influence others. ThrQughout my JACL's future. 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He appeared in three preseason games last If Brian Ching keeps scoring a year with the Nu'ggets, averaging 3.0 points and 2.7 assists in 7.3 minutes. goal a game for the U.S. national "He has a great feel for the game and pushes the ball up the floor extreme• team, in a few years his nickname ly well. He really 'has the ability to electrify an audience," said Bryan could be ''Hawaii Five-a" - as in Colangelo, Suns president and general manager. 50 international goals. The Yokohama, Japan, native piuticipated in two summer leagUes for the That pace isn't likely to happen Suns. Eric Wynalda holds the Tabuse said in a news conference in Tokyo that he was pleased at the American record of 34. But just two opportunity to make the team. years after he was waived by the "I am very happy that I was able to sign. But as I said, this is just the start• Los Angeles Galaxy and spent a ing line, and I know that this is the real beginning. I would like to continue summer playing minor league ball, to stay focused," Tabuse said. Ching has become the Americans' The 5-foot-9 Tabuse played two seasons at Brigham Young University• key scorer in the semifinals of qual• Hawaii, but he doesn't consider his height to be a disadvantage. ifying for the 2006 World CUp. His "I've been playing basketball all my life with guys bigger than myself, and. 89th-minute goal on Aug. 18 gave The United States' Brian Ching, left, goes after the ball against Panama I'm used to that," Tabuse said .• the United States a 1-1 tie at during aWorld Cup qualifying match in Panama City, Panama, Sept. 8. Jamaica, and his fifth-minute goal (AP Photo/Kathryn Cook) . . Sept. 4 sent the Americans on to a 2- GOLF o victory over El Salvador. Spokane Shadow of the United he says, far more people follow the Fiji Proud of Its New King of Golf "I don't want to get too big of a Soccer Leagues Premier League, national team than the Earthquakes. head. 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Loans over $250,000 are available, but are subject to certain fees, and PACIFIC CITIZEN, SEPr. 17-30, 2004 OBITUARIES 11 All the towns are in California except as noted. daughter, Reirni Geske; 1 gc.; and Sakai, Mabel Fusako, 87, West Brian (Tanya); daughter, Nancy Aiu, Janet K., 74, Monterey Park:, and 1 ggc. sisters, Junko Yamashita and Los Angeles, Aug. 16; EI Monte• (Bob) Aisawa; 6 gc.; brother, Ray Aug. 21; Lawai, Kauai, Hawaii-born; Iwamasa, Yoshio, 68, Torrance, Miwako (Hiro) Kido. born; survived by son, Donald (fomi) Yamada; and sisters, Masaye survived by husband, Ernest; sons, Aug. 6; Los Angeles-born; survived Narita, Lloyd T., 69, Thrlock, (Cynthia); and 2 gc. Fujii, u'ki Okuma, Shiz Hashimoto Thomas (Joan), Timothy (Carrie) and by wife, Bette; sons, Greg (Claudia), Aug. 23; survived by companion, Shimizu, Yukuyo, 96, West Los and Rose Yamasaki. Ernest, Jr.; daughters, Christine Gary and Wayne (Jocelyn); 2 gc.; Susan Smith; mother, Haruko; broth• Angeles, Aug. 7; Maui, Hawaii-born Yamasaki, 'Mary Yoshiko, 80, (Jorge) Quezada and Catherine Eber; mother, Asano; brothers, Yukio, er, Ken; and si.sters, Ruby, Carole, Nisei; survived by sons, Hitoshi Torrance, Aug. 14; survived by sister, 11 gc.; brother, Edwin Okuma; and Susurnu (Emiko) and Ken; mother• Leona, Dene Sato, Ada Nose, Sandi (Kay), Stan and Melvin (Rosa); Ellen Misawa; and brother, Fred sister, Elsie (Roy) Fujita. in-law, Yone Kobata; and brother-in• Beattie and Gail Creighton. daughter, Dorothy Miyake;.ll gc.; 6 Sako. Ebata, Emiko, SO, Gardena, Aug. law, Wayne (Mariko) Kobata. . ggc.; sisters, Mitsuko Omoto and Yoshihara, Akira, 86, Los 15; Honohina, Hawaii-born; sur• Kogure, Motoko, Los Angeles, This compilation appears on a space-avail• Elaine Muroki; brothers-in-law, Itsuo . Angeles; Aug. 22; survived by wife, vived by daughter, Diane (Thomas) able basis at no cost. Printed obituaries (Violet) Shimizu and Yasuo (Helen) Aug. 16; survived by husband, from your newspaper are welcome. "Death Toshiko; daughters, Ann, Nancy Shohara; daughter-in-law, Donna; 3 Katsumi; daughters, Mina Amao and Notices," which appear in a timely manner . Shimizu; and sisters-in-law, Yoshiko (Earl Gustkey) and Kathryn (Robert gc.; brothers, Harold, Wallace Fay Edwards; and sons, Isao and at request of the family. or funeral director, Kuboyama, Emiko, shimizu and Fujisaki); son, Gary (Joy Ariyasu); 2 are published at the rate of $15 per column (Connie) and Elvin (Cheryl) Aoyagi; Arthur. inch. Text is reworded as necessary. Lillian (Richard) Arak¥i. gc.; brother, Masarni (Sachiye); and 3 and sister-in-law, Martha Aoyagi. Komai, Hiroshi, 82, Temple City, Tatsuno, Lily Midori, 81, Aug. 8; sisters in Japan. . Fujimoto, Masao Bud, 91, Aug. 10; survived by wife, Lillie; Ogasawara, Stome T~, SO, Palo survived by sons, Brian (Shirley), Yoshimoto, Sue Shizue, 79, Federal Way, Wash., Aug. 12; daughter, Elaine; and son, Dale. Alto, July 2; Seattle, Wash.-born; sur-' Walter and Kenji (Lisa); daughter, Gardena, Aug. 5; survived by hus• Naomi (Joseph) Hiraga; and gc. Riverside-born; survived by son, Komatsu, George Shozo, 94, vived by wife, Pauline; daughters, 4 band, David; daughters, Linda Richard (Joyce); daughter, Nancy Altadena, Aug. 10; Hawaii-born Vicki Okamoto and Dt!bbie Uy~ Aiko Araki, 87, Chino, (Norman) Young and Amy (Marc) Okada; brothers, Yoshio and Tarnio; Nisei; survived ~ wife, Michi; son, Gaasterland; brother, Shig; sisters, . Aug. 5; survived by sons, James, Imai; sons, Geoffrey and Steve sister, Seesu Shiiltani; 9 gc.; 6 ggc.; Terry (Anne); daughters, Christine Yuri Baba, Kim Semba and Fumi Gerald, Glenn and Steven; daughters, (Cynthia); 4 gc.; and brothers, Sam and 1 gggc. (George) Iwamiya and Meri Lou . Joo; and 2 gc. . Carole Uyeda and Gloria Starkovich; (Sue) Takahashi and Bill (Molly) Geisler, Dorothy Shinagawa, 71, Anderson; 9 gc.; and 3 ggc. Ogawa, Iyano Maeda, 99, San 6 gc.; and 2 ggc. . Takahashi.• Auburn, Sept. 3; Hanford-bom; sur• Miyagawa, Sbinayo; 91, Los Jose, Aug. 20; Hiroshima, Japan• Yamada, Shigeto, 82, Monterey vived by daughter, Dote' Pinkerton; Angeles, Aug. 16; Hilo, Hawaii• born; survived by daughters, Kazuko Park:, Aug. 18; Calexico-born Nisei; son, Leon Geisler; 2 gc.; and sister, born; survived by sons, Jack (Min) Tajii, Tayeko Kurashige and survived by wife, Haruko; sons, Erniko (Nobuo) Kishiue. Pre• (Florence) and Richard (Yoko); Surniko (Kiyokazu) Sasaki; 10 gc.; Glenn (S-aIly), Tommy (Debbie) and deceased by husband, Leon; brother, daughter, Irene Sanchez; 6 gc.; and and 16 ggc. DEATH NOTICE Sam; and sister, Grace Sumioka. brother, Masao (Helen) Watasaki. Okano, Yaye Cherry, 85, Los Haruki, James Tatsuo, 85, Los Miyahara, Hiroko, 74, Monterey Angeles, Aug. 17; WIlmington-born SLIM SEIICHI YEI Angeles, Aug. 5; Courtland-born; Nisei; survived by husband, Howard; Slim Seiichi Yei, 80, passed away July F.D.L.#929 Park:, Aug. 13; Taft-born; survived by 17. He was born in Bothwell, Utah and survived by sons, Michael (Sandy) husband, Hideo; daughters, Sharon son, Howard (Emily); daughters, 911 VENICE BLVD. served in the United States Army in LOS ANGELES, CA 90015 and Steven; daughters, Margaret Komai and Kim (Earl) Takemura; 4 Wendy and Carla (Charles) (Takashi) Yoshida and Judy McClusky; 5 gc.; brothers, Seichi Company K of the 442nd Ref. He is sur• (213) 749-1449 gc.; brother, Thorn (Janice) vived by Joe (Mary) Yei, Sam H. Yei, (Michael) Llhr; 3 gc.; 2 ggc.; and 3 (Teme) Kojima and Kei (May) FAX (213) 749-0265 Nakahara; and sister, Tsuyako Amy (Toddy) Sameshima, Kuni (Kim) R. Hayamizu, President sisters. Hirose. Kojima; and sister, Fujiko (William) Kawashima, Biff H. Yei, Aki Nishi, Kazu . H. Suzuki, V.P.IGell. Mgr. Manaka. Ichikawa, Seiichi, 83, Los Mukai, Sally Takako, Aug. 11; Watanabe and Thomas 1. Yei. Angeles, Aug. 6; Los Angeles-born Okihiro, Frank lsamu, SO, Los survived by son, Randall (Lisa DEATH NOTICE Nisei; survived by son, Dennis Sano); daughters, Jacqui ~okai-Yee Angeles, Aug. 12; survived by (Martha); daughter, Joy (Keith daughter, Janet; ex-wife, Margaret FUJIEKAKO and Vickie (Jim) Routledge; 5 gc.; Fujie Kako, 88, passed away July 23. Cohen) Ichikawa; sister, Joyce Price; and sisters, Janet (John) Furukawa Bernard; stepchildren, Simon and 4 gc. Martinez, Monica (Carlos) Huante She is survived by her children, Elaine and Barbara (Eddie) Nozawa. (Bob) Hogue~ Linda (Tom) McConnell, and David Martinez; sister, Judy Ichimura, Masao, 88, Los Nagao, Shigeru, 64, Long Beach, Dean (Beth) Kako, grandchildren, (Michael) Ozaki; and brothers, Alvin Angeles, Aug. 8; Campbell-born Aug. 8; survived by sons, Erick, Paul Michael and Kelly McConnell. Also sur• Nisei; survived by wife, Mineko; ~d (Rachel) and David. vived by brother, Mas Fujikawa, sisters, and Frank; mother, Kinuye; brother, . 707 East Temple Street sons, Richard (patty) and Stanley. Masaru; sisters, Shizuko and Reshovsky, Sandra Rei Kay Yokoyama and Chiz Sanford and Gerald Fukui many nieces and nephews. Preceded in Los Angeles, CA 90012 President Ishii, Joe S., 89, Reedley, Aug. 19; Toshiko; 5 gc.; and 1 ggc. (Matsumoto), Lopez Island, Wash., July 29; surviv:ed. by mother, Janet; death by her husband, Yukio, brother, Bill Poston internee; survived by wife, Nakashima, Dr. Mitsuo, 72, Ph. 2131626-0441 . sisters, Carol and Joan (Oscar) Fujik;lwa and sister, Cozy Tsubokura. A Chisako; sons, Stanley (Karen) and Portland, Ore., Aug. 10; Idaho Falls, service was held in Solvang, Calif., July Martinez; and brothers, Joe (Sonia) Fax 213/617-2781 Anthony (Jeanette); daughter, Donna Idaho-born; survived by son, Kurt; 30. (patrick); sister, Rose Osaki; 7 gc.; and Paul.

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It will mark · the fIrSt round-table discussion about the par• and brother-in-law, who operated a Inouye was heartbroken when she her compassion toward Arab time a ' major Arkansas event has allels between Pearl Harbor and 9111 vegetable counter in a grocery store. visited the school she would attend Americans following Sept. 11. paid tribute to the state's history as - a subject that has been explored Then the Japanese bombed Pearl in Ohio and realized it was far "My heart went out to Arab the site of interment camps. often since the Sept. 11 attacks. Harbor. behind her s~hool in Los Angeles. Americans and Muslims. I was so Ozaki, who enlisted in the u.s. "As a historian, I don't see how When President Roosevelt signed She wrote to her brother who was upset that day (Sept. 11,2(01) think• Army while in Rohwer and fought in you cannot discuss Sept. 11 as part the order sending thousands of JAs serving in the U.S. Army and was at ing that we were going to go through Europe, said that during the last three of this, " Miller-Lewis said. to detention camps, Gladys and her an Army hospital in KentuckY suf• that again. But everyone kept work• years he has encouraged Arab In the days after the attacks, Los family · were taken to the Los fering from pneumonia. ing hard to make sure it didn't hap• Americans to stand up for their Angeles' Little Tokyo held a candle• Angeles Santa Anita Race Track, The volunteer who read the letter pen," she said. rights and not to tolerate racial prej• light vigil in support of victinls with which had been converted as a tem• the girl sent to her brother was the She said that's one reason she udice. the hope that history wouldn't be porary detention center. wife of a wealthy industri~st. The plans to travel to Arkansas for the "I told them about our experiences repeated. In October 1942, they were put on woman offered to let Inouye live conference, to make sure the mis• and how we were so naive. I said Gladys Inouye's mother died a train and taken to Rohwer. After 10 with her and attend a top high school takes of the past aren't repeated. you have to stand up for yourselves when Gladys was a child and liying months in the Arkansas camp, her near Fort Thomas, . Ky., in her 16- "The whole idea of Life and you don't have to volunteer to in Los Angeles. Her father took her brother~in-Iaw answered a bulletin room mansion. Interrupted is that that time was ter• fight (for the United States) and you to Japan to be near his parents. board posting from an Ohio man Inouye went on to graduate from rible and horrible. I think if any good don't have to show extreme patriot• "I was 8 and I didn't speak who was looking for fann workers. nursing school at the University of is going to come out of it, it is to ism. I also said 'Don't let the FBI Japanese and my grandmother didn't The War Relocation Authority Cincinnati. make sure that the story is told for intimidate you,'" Ozaki said. speak English," said the now 77- allowed detainees who qualified to She says her story is about how . generations to come and that it is Johanna Miller-Lewis, chair of the year-old Inouye, who begged her leave the camps and work in the good people can make a difference written in history books," she said. history department at the University father to send her to live with an Midwest, but they were not allowed even in times of widespread hate. • BAINBRIDGE rights guaranteed by the United SECRET ASIAN MAN ByTak secretasianm"an @weeklydig.com· © 2004TakToyoshima ~""IIt:"-""''!'''!!ImI''JI'-----~ (Continued from page 1) States Constitution are trampled in _------, . the name of national security," one homes as a result of the government THe; FIR$T Rfi$UJ. T TIleY G IV EE student said. ~ YOU IS AN SXPf.ANA TfOW FROM policy. The internment ofapproxirnately THEEM ASOur HOW TH EE WOR~ ".:JFiW" IS AN OFFeN$lYe TeRM. Social studies teacher Marie 110,000 Americans of Japanese ~ Maris won a $17,000 grant from the ancestry, about two-thirds of whom Washington Civil Liberties were U.S.-born, has generally Education Program to offer the become regarded as an overreaction internment program to Sakai sixth to wartime hysteria. graders. It was taught in February as Faith Chapel, associate superin• part of a U.S. history class. tendent of curriculum and instruc• At the recent meeting, Marrs tion for the district, said specific showed a video about the program, changes to the course haven't been · which included visits with island decided. residents who were interned, field "We haven't pulled our group of trips and reading assignments. teachers together to look back at the . In the video, several students unit and make our qecisions," refer to the camps as "incarceration Chapel said. "That probably won't camps" and use terms such as "per• happen for a month." secuted." Bainbridge schools opened Sept. "We have to speak up when civil 7.•

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