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Histortc Plan Brain Power GoooooaaI! Feeling Lonely? Reunion Lunch Study recomniends JACL announces Guard the net - Your new virtual girl­ Register for the all­ Heart Mtn. to be national scholarship here comes soccer friend is arriving to a Topaz Reunion in landmark winners star Brian Ching cell phone near you Burlingame PAGE 3 PAGE 5-6 PAGE 7 PAGE 9 PAGE 10 Since1929------~----------------~ -------- ~------- USS Chung-. .Hoon cruises ITIZEN into Hawaii . The National Publication of the Japanese American Citizens League 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.

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