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National Publication of the Japanese American Citizens Le gu Whole. #2,046 (Vol. 88) Friday June 8. 1979 15 Cent Plaque dedicated at Tule Lake campsit minden II row raasm, economic and event "should not be vi wed with her mother and bro r, ~ pdJtical expkJitatian. and as a propaganda vehicle for ~ can uodernUne the (lOl'tStJt'Utio pi'• she was forced go to Tul antees II United Stms citIZeN and ah• JAa..'s redress campaign." Lake on a train. Her father ens alib. May the IIIjumoes and buJrul. However, Enomoto urged, had been sent to 8 separate I8tJOn suffered ben! I'Ie\W recur. if the "hard-won acceptance" camp. "It was a bleak life." Plaque placed by the Calif. Dept. II of Nikkei today is "worth any• Plrks and Recreation m coopei'Ition she said, "filled with 8 deso• Wlth the Northern Califomilt-Westem thing, it should stand the test late feeling. The question I of• . . . Nevada DisttJCt Council. JIqIII1'leSe of a legitimate and aggressive ten asked myself was, 'What's American Cni2ensI..eeaue. May V.lm demand for final vindiction going to happen to us?' " On May 27-the same day It was the phrase, "concen• that evacuees were flrSt herd• "As it stands DOW, no real . . . tration camps", that the state vindication has occured, and 1 sincerely hope, however ed into Tule lake in 1942 - department of parks objected Nikkei gathered for a plaque the incarceration of Ameri• that tJris plaque dedication to, an objection which was ov• p~ dedication ceremony on the can citizens without due will help to heal deep scars ercome by changing it to cess can again happen" (Text now-barren site of the concen• "American concentration U:ft when the U.s. government tration camp. of speech on page 4J furced the segregation qf rna• camps". "' The largest of all the camps . . many qfOUT parents, brothers, Jerry Enomoto, principal A story on the ceremomes, sisters andjriends because oj for incarcerated Nikkei dur• speaker at the ceremonies National JACL Board ing World War n, Tule Lake carried by United Press Inter• two responses: 'Yes-yes' or and director of the Calif. Dept national, led off by saying 'No-no'." -Ben Takeshita was also the most troubled. As of Corrections, alluded to this Michi Weglyn stated in her some 400 Japanese Americans in his fpeech: revived a seldom-remem• meets at Headquarters book, Yearsoflnfamy, the sur "The lesson oYtilistory that ry of the camps is incomplete bered aspect" of the war by Boos, catcalls By HARRY HONDA Ben Takeshita, Jo1m Tameoo, Jim without ''thrusting deeper in• requires entph6sis o"er and dedicating the plaque. Tsujimura, Seiko Wakabayashi over, is tbat V/hethflr Tule S. FI• ..teoo to darker, hushed chapter It said that some former in• JAG. chapters this coming NO-Lillian Kimura lake is calit:d an America temeees remembered some for Hayakawa ABSTAIN--Chuck Kato, M.its that was Tule Lake". 11lat concentration camp, or ~ eu• week will be asked to reaf• Kawamoto. chapter began when Tule was happy times at Tule Lake, but firm the action of the National phemistically-termed rel~ when asked about specific Chuck Kato, filling in for turned into a segregation cen• tion center, it had DO place in at UCLA JAG. Board, which adopted ter which, Weglyn says, "ulti• hardships, become reticent lmiAngeles the recommendation of its R~ PNWDC Gov. Harold Onishi.. America" "The other memories often had voted no but was remin• mately ended up as a 'resegre• The former Tulean visibly Sen. S. I. Hayakawa's ap• dress committee to pursue re• gation center' for democra• are too painful to talk about," pearance on the UCLA West• parations for fonner evacuees ded by Jim Tsujimura, nat'l moved his audience:-He-l1:lter said Marie Miyashiro, a San v.p., that the PNWOC had v0- cy's di.sca.rds." wood campus this past week through a legislative commis• stated that the dedication Jose nurse. She was 11 when, ted 12-5 in favor the coIllIIli&• Indeed, as what many con• (May 30) to deliver a speech sion. sion approach. Kato then deci• cede was the ''worst'' of the that proposed a U.S.-Mexi• 'The board, which met here camps, Tule lake's special can agreement on a system June 1-3 at National Head• ded to abstin. Board also approved a finan• and painful history makes its JACL supports boycott of of "guest workers" to deal quarters, voted 13-1 to have cial campaign to meet a $420, discussion more difficult for with illegal border crossings introduced a bill in Congress 000 annual budget to push re• Nikkei than other camps, wre. had students precede with a "establishing the Japanese Squibb to fight IOpium' dress through educational pro• tber former internees or DOt chorus of boos and catcalls. American Constitutional Stu• jects. "In addition to the wretched w~ ponsible and has negative im• Opposition apparently dies Commission". Considerable pressure crea• conditions in the camps, those The JACL announced sup• plications for America's al• stemmed from his recent re• Chapters will have 30 days ted by the lack of 1979 mem• interned at Tule Lake faced port of the efforts of the Or• ready drug-plagued society." marks about the price of gas• in which to respond. Copy of even more brutal conditions, ganization of Chinese Ameri• The boycott of all Squibb oline and from his oft-quot• the proposed legislation (about bership renewals forced the Board to readjust the budget including direct military rule cans (OCA) in spearheading a products (Lifesavers, Beech• ed observation that wartime 400 words), and a brief SUD}• for the remaining quarter of for months," a Tule Lake coalition of Chinese American nut gums and candies, Jean dispersal of Japanese Amer• mary of the discussions that the fiscal year ending Sept 30, Committee flyer explains, ad• community groups through• Nate, Alexandra de Markoff, icans was a good thing be• culminated in the vote is ex• 1979 to cushion the anticipated ding that it was the site of out the country to boycott all all Yves St Laurent products) cause it broke up racial pected to be included $100,(0) srortfall. "massive demonstrations, products sold by the Squibb was to commence March 31 ghettoes. The bill calls the President Treasurer George Kodama hunger strikes, and riots in Corp., according to Washing• after Squibb refused to· An open letter to the UC• to appoint 11 memberswitbat recommended budgetmy cuts protest of the deplorable and ton JAG. Representative Ron change the name and for St LA community in the Daily least Japanese American, one amounting to $100,(0) a year. repressive conditions." Ikejiri Laurent to publicly apologize Bruin was sponsored by the the Congress naming two Chi• Specific cuts totaling 58),000 Interviewed at the dedica• Boycott is to protest for his insensitivity to Ad Hoc (mostly Asian) Com• from the House and the Sen• (some were unused funds), tion. Helen Masuda of San Jo• Squibb's selling of the per• nese American concerns and mittee Against Hayakawa, ate to the commission It would to Chinese history. new fund-raising programs se. Calif., said, "I don't want fume being marketed under criticizing Hayakawa's meet in those cities where for• and reestablishment of the people to feel sorry for us, but the Yves St Laurent trad~ An "Opium War 1979 Com• stands on affirmative action, mer internees can tell of their membership committee were I also don't want them to for• mark, "Opium", under the mittee", representing the 16 social welfare, WW2 incar• experiences and determine given the green light get that a detention camp like guise of the mystique and OCA chapters, met ironically cerations of Japanese Amer• whether they are entitled to It was announced NC-WN• this was possible." beauty of the Orient on May 4, as AsianlPacific icans, minorities, women some fonn of redress. The bill DYC chairperson Bruce Shi• Tule Lake was recently in• "This bas DO historical va• American Heritage Week was and the poor. lists such as cities as: lidity," the OCA declared. mizu of Sonoma County was volved in controversy again, being launched nationally. Hayakawa, at a later press Los Angeles. San Francisco. "The realities of opium in Chi• appointed national JAG. this latest over the plaque ''Kill 'Opium'lBoycott conference. said the UCLA Fresno.IU1Jand. Seattle, Salt Lake na were misery, anguish and City, Denver, 0Ucag0, and New youth director. # wording. Plaque for the state Squibb" buttons were being reception was not typical of slow death. It was to sub• yon. historical Jandmark, No. 8$- used handed out at a New York other appearances he has jugate the Chinese people in been making on campus Dr. Clifford Uyeda., natiooal Senior center 2, reads: strategy meeting by Chinese president. allowed 3 hours of TuIe Lake was ODe II the teD Ameri• favor of British domination American groups. since January. The boos and give & take discussion before San lAIreDzo, Ca. am CXllL&lb1lliw camps ..,.,.,blisherl "Squibb's neglect of this catcalls, he said. sounded TIle Eden Japanese Senior during World War n ID irx:aIre.rare historical reality is inexcus• In Bostm, the Globe editor• "like the good old days" cutting it cIf for a roll call vote: 110,(0) pe.r.a1S d ~ aDCeStIy. Center marked its seventh able. Their romanticizing this ial of April 30 found it unfor• when he faced anti-war pro• YES-Wiley Higucbi. George II wton the ~ were American tunate "Opium" was named Kodama. Wade Kojima, SbIn Na• anniversary with a luncheon c::iti2Ieos, behind barbed wire Ed guard most dangerous drug in the testers of the 19608 on the Steve Naka!lbima, David W.. prognur June 2 at the Japa• tDwen widoJt charae. trial or est» history of the world is irres- C-U·... oaPqe1 San Francisco State campus. =: Uly Okura. Bruce Shimizu, nese COJrlI"unity center here. IisbmeDt II JNi)t. 'Ibese CIIDJPS are re- Fujimoto bows in school board poll Los Angeles Fujimoto ...... 12.433 (44.7%) stemmed a determined bid by black areas of Gardena while Sam R Fujimoto, 52, Greenwood .. ... 15.368 ( 5S . 3 ~) the Rev. Vahac Mardirosian he trounced his opponent in missed becoming the first TIle Gardena NISei nur• for the District 5 seat cover• the Anglo and Asian areas of Asian American elected to the seryman, seeking his first ing the eastside. Gardena In the heavily His• Los Angeles Board of Educa• public office, campaigned till A prelJmlIlary analysIs aJr panic Wilmington precincts, tion in the May 29 runoff the last minute-stressing the pearing in the ws Angeles Greenwood was slightly ahead, against John R Greenwood, quality education and special Times May 31 showed Green• while results were mixed in 34, who won the newly creat• elementary programs; but his wood beat Fujimoto by whop• different areas of San Pedro, ed District 7 seat covering the stand against mandatory bus• ping margins in black areas of Greenwood's hoJTIebase. II Harbor-Gardena Valley area ing and association with avid District 7, which stretches The final votes were: anti-busing advocates from north from San Pedro far Prewar Isletonian outside the district may have enough to reach \\ atts. overshadowed the lead he had Fujimoto also lost in the reunion set July 28 Items at the primary, some observ• Sacramento, Ca. Free fDms continue at the ers noted the following day. Dr. Eng wins in A Pre-war Isletonian Re• Asian Community Library, Fujimoto said he learned Oakland runoff union is being planned for Oakland, from noon to 2 p.m much about voters in the cam• Saturday, July 28, 6 p.m. at On June 16, "Snow Country" paign, that they are nut all Oakland, Ca. the Sacramento Japanese (with English subtitles) and astute or informed about is• Incumbent City Council· United Methodist Church, "Japanese Mountain Family sues but tend to vote for can• man Raymond Eng staged a 6929 Franklin Blvd. Reser• DEDiCATION AT -Artist Isamu Noguchi stands be· (for children). June ~"Ju didates "who seem to be all come-from-behind victory vations may be made by fore the Dodge Fountain in Detroit's Hart Plaza at its recent dedi• doka," and children's films things to all people." in the May 15 runoff for the June 30 with: cation. The Nisei sculptor's wori Illinois marks Heritage wee end California Secretary of State March Fong Eu and Gardena resident Seiji Sugihara of Aerospace Corp. admire a Samurai armor which was worn by a Japanese officer- about 1700. The armor was part of a Far Eastern traditional art exhibit at Aero• space during its observance of Asian-P..aclfic Heritage Week. March Eu delivered the Heritage Week address, discussing the impact of aerospace industries on the California economy. HERITAGE WEEK DISPLAY is being put up in a Pocatello Eckerle, San aye Okamura and Mikie Morimoto. The poster of the u.s. Airforoe Pt"Iot> downtown window by members of the Pocatello JACL. Marianne young Asian gin was printed and distributed by National JACL. Asian/Pacific American Heritage Week festivities inside a De• Endo is in the foreground. in the back are (from left) Evelyn Idaho State Journal Photo fense Supply Agency region headquarters at Los Angeles fea• tured films. displays and several speakers throughout the week. Pictured are people involved on the opening day: (from left) Julia Idaho marks Asian/Pacific American Heritage Week Howard, Equal Employment Opportunity officer; George M. Tsu• jimoto. Small Business specialist; keynote speaker Frank Chu• Special to The AM:iCic Citillen fore taking early retirement. women Iibber ...." exclaims and government paperwork, man, author of "Bamboo People". and Brig. Gen_ Joseph H. Con• acquired her college degree Endo. Her father. Dr. T. Kiha• Chiyoko arrived in 1966. in nolly, USAF, commander. DCASR-LA. P TRI-STATE HIGH ALUMNUS BACK AFTER 36 YEARS: , 'Concentration camp' or 'relocation center': it isn't American We should remind ourselves ~t without the American drama I hold before you a high This special occasion to dedicate the Tule values taught us by our parents, the comeback school annual that I have often thumbed lake Memorial gives us pause to remember against great odds might not have happened. through nostalgically. Some of us here appear and honor the 16,000 Japanese Americans who By JERRY J. ENOMOTO The pressure and demands of today tend to in these pages as among the members of the lived and died here. It should be a time for DIrecflIr. c.IiI. DeIJt. r8 Ccwrecdoas make us forget some simple, but profound, first graduating class from Tn-State High taking stock and peaceful remini~~. not The Nisei, or second generation Americans truths. Perhaps this is an occasion to reflect School. The annual named Aquila, or Eagle, for recriminations, or angry denuncl8bOn of of Japanese ancestry of whom I am one, have and remember. and the American Eagle was the schoo] symbol the wrongs done us. Yet, I cannot speak on never thought of ourselves as special people, Among us also is the younger generation On the evening of July 16, 1943, 400 of us such an occasion without reminding ourselves certainly not as principal actors in any drama• with its own values and aspirations. I believe it donned cap and gown and ~ived our dip)()• of the lessons of history. and what we must tic phase of American history. Indeeed, a ste• is both significant and gratifying that the first mas. The program of that commencement ex• learn from them reotype has characterized us as "quiet" folks movements to bring the events of 1942 under ercise says that Jerry Enomoto was one of four 'Thirty-seven years after what has been who are self-effacing, and who generally dis• the public spotlight was marked by the con- graduate speakers, and that his subject was called by one writer as "our $lSD-Della Mitsuko Elliott. Mira available at the Aki-no-Ichi • St. Louis Mesa High. p: MIM Omar Elliott; C6ILDREN' FESTIVAI. Margaret Miya Honda. Cra~'ford Festival this fall, were an• MARKS HERITAGE WEEK High, p: M/M Masami Honda; Uo Sa• nounced in April as the cook• toru Ishibashi, Patnck Henry High. book committee called for The Pacific Asian Ameri• p: MJM Roy Ishibashi; Charles Har• can Council, comprised of six rison 101iyahira. Patrick Henry HIgh. favorite recipes from mem• ethnic groups in cooperation p: 1011101 Hamson Miyahira; Sachiko beI'S- On the committee are: Nagai. Patrick Henry High. p: MIM Susie Ichiuji, 6S44 Windemere with the International Insti• Ryusho Naglll; Karen Mltsuye Ohara, Circle, Rockville, Md 208..~ (sao• tute, celebrated PacificlAsian Castle Park High. p: MIM Takeyoshi (336); Sachi Hamamoto, S204 American Heritage ~eek Obara: Ronald Todd Sato. Chula VIsta Sterne Ct., Fairfax. Va 22032 High, p: M/M Kelljl Sato; Chet Ed• with an Asian Children's Fes• ward Urata. Helix High. p: MIM Ed• (32(H)IJO); and Nancy Yamada. tival May 13 at the Forest ward Urate; 5316 landgrave Lane, Spring• Park's Jewel Box. $Is.) VocatioMl-Glen Shigeru field. Va 22151 (32-i'07n exhi~ Masurroto. Chula Vista HIgh. p: M/M Special decorations, George Masurroto: Debra Joy $egawa. its and entertainment were Cttu.la Vista Hiflh: p: MiM Ben Se~\\'a • West Los Angeles featured. Two of the scholarship HEALm FAIR SET The council members are: awardees were winners in FOR SUNDAY, JUNE 10 St. Louis JACL, Organization of third annual West Los Chinese Americans, Filipino Assn. of the National JACL Scholar• The Greater St. Louis, St. Louis Korean ship program. They are: Angeles Community Health Community. Japan America Society $700 Souih Park Japanese Commu• Fair, (»sponsored by four and the Vietnamese Assn. of St. nity of Seanle Award-Gregory Na• Nikkei groups, will be held on Louis. kagawa. $1,000 101/M Takashi Moriuchi Sunday, Jl.Dle 10, noon to 4 • San Diego ScholarshiJ>-Brian Ig&n1shi. p.m. at the Sawtelle Japanese Scholarship committee: James Va· Institute. Free health services 15 GRADUATES SHARE mate, ch; Elizabeth Ozaki. sec; Shizu in immunization, eye exams, AWARDS TOTALING S2,6OO Maruyama, Tetsuyo Kashima. Rich• Photo by Peter Takeuchi ard Namba, Gail Kaneshiro. dental checks, blood pressure, ra: George Kodama, Dr. Jim Tsujimura, Dr. Cash awards totaling $2,600 JACL NATIONAL EXECOM members Clifford .~y eda , ~obuyuki, J. D. Hokoyama, pap smear, hearing and urine were presented to 15 graduat• tests will be offered, it was an• hear it from the National Executive Directa Ron Ikejlrl (standIng) and Debbie Nakatomi. ing high school seniors at the • Washington, D.C. Karl Nobuyuki during the Jan. 27-28 meet• [Scene, though more crOWded, was repeated nounced by Toy Kanegai, 22nd annual Scholarship Ban• CHAPI'ER COOKBOOK chai.qJerson. Co-sponsors are: ing at National Headquarters. Picturoo over the June 1-3 weekend at the National quet held Saturday, May 19, COMMlTI'EE FORMED (from left) are Steve Nakashima, Lily Oku- West Los Angeles Japanese JACL Board meeting.] 1979, at Vacation Village Ho• Plans of publishing a Communty Council, Bay Cities tel Washington, D.C. JACL Gardeners Assn., Santa Monica The evening also featured a Cookbook, which will be Nikkei Kai and West LA JAa.. EDC-MDC CONFAB: Aug. 23-26 talk on "Career Planning: Per• I sonal Reflections" by Dr. George Yee, president, Mira· '80s and Beyond -Whither JACL mar College. Dr. Yee is one of three Asian college presi- Bloomington, MD. General chairman Sam meaning for individuals. dents. The Twin Cities JACL is Honda, in extending an open Saturday - Affirmative Scholarship awardees and hosting the combined East• invitation to all JACLers in action in employment and their parents were introduced ern-Midwest District Coun• the two districts, assured education; U.S. and Asia- by James Yamate, scholar• cil convention at the Thurr• those making the trip will better partners in the future. ship chairman. JAa.. presi- derbird Motel here on the not be disappointed by the The Friday evening social dent Masaaki Hironaka pre• 494 Strip from Thursday sights and sounds of the will be a "floater", not an sented each a copy of the through Sunday, Aug. 23-26. Twin Cities. ordinary boat ride, but an JACL Creed and scholarship A futurist will keynote the Four workshops are on unforgettable experience of awards. Awardees were: conference theme: "The '80s tap: sailing on beautiful Lake Minnetonka, a few miles S3OO-Cynthla Ann Dirks. Chula and Beyond-Whither Friday-Biracial families; Vista High, p: M/M Peter Dirks; JACL". Stages of adulthood and the west of Minneapolis. It S2OO-Emi Chuman, Kearney Climax will be the Satur• should be an evening of fun High, p: MfM Hideo Chuman; Brian ~ winnefs honored by the San Diego JACL are (from left) day dinner-dance with Dr. for all members of the fam- Igarashi, Helix High, p: YoshiyaJHel- 1st row-Brian Igarashi, AonaId Sato, Cynthia Dirkx. Debra ~al&IG en Igarashi', Jon Craig Kawamoto, Glen &L.-..--..... ~ ..... Clifford Uyeda, national • Eden Township ily, a chance to relax and get Crawford High, p: MfM Yukio Kawa. IY-.JfJIUlU; 2nd row-JACL pres Mas Hircnaka, Della EIott, president, as main speaker. WEEKEND BAZAAR SET acquainted, Honda said. moto; Gregory David Nakagawa, Co- Karen Ohara, Margaret Honda, Sachiko Nagai, em Ounan, schoI- FOR COMMUNITY CENTER "Plan to spend a week or two ronado High, p: CdrfM Gordon Nal lear. eA- 'rwt.,...1IWoI GIRlSD(\i A graduate of anzanar HJ-Todd • LJ-Unda Ber,l 10 w. High hool "00 jomed G~~~JoF.l.odi., ~ • LDrn ~""..L. t L Sakurai. Ber, 12 , an knoll m 194 , he wa 17 J Mar- r UI'Io\AM. Suzame SFA,1:11.09; 4«) Reo• ordained in 1956 and a- 99; 22O-Martin "'D" DIVISION Iay-Sequ:U., 5743; ~-lmda igned to Japan t e same Martin Toy&- l.J-Rm Hashimoto, SMa 14' Sakurai year. HI two decade In Ja· rna, ames &!do. 1YJ"; R Hashimoto, SMa, 6.64; GIRL'S "C"' DfVlIiiION • M Dou@ Sac. 22O-Mathew FUkuda, SFA 31 46; LJ-Diane Tanabe. \\V 12 "; pan included a pastorate at 4 12;440ReIay-&quoia, 9S; B T-Kip ihara unat, 163'4"; 4O-Mddle Yastnda. Seq 5.92. as• Tomal -er uniform to f the nd Roca to home ~th n&ll"u..~ fli ht " 1P' Wben he bee to him to Japan, after bel ing n remo ed me Eng• HaW81i, he joined hundnds assure pro ectiv cus od 'for p b} conti nt ~ Il5b-speUIJIlg troops and. not of other JSel 111 a bon• the surrender del . n that nall ' Jed by the Emperor' him. knowmg that the "soup ora e discharge ceremony came to 1anila brother, Prince T rna ·u. plate helmet of the kind with a heartfelt rendenng of John Anderton ~plea.sed to forestall su h a uicidol he'd 'Om on Corregidor had "God BI America". to tell Captain Toshikazu Oh• happenmg. Looking back at been replaced, said to him- . .. . mae, who said he "couldn't the day 'hen nly he and n f, ' Christ, nCM tbey' e go Ben Tashiro, Masaji iaru• remember" the features of few hundred othe \\ re Germans over here!" Things moto and John Aiso followed Atsugi air base. where M - alone in a land that till had 0 got straightened out. and Sa• Occupati n sefVlce with dis• Arthur proposed to land, "I'll million soldiers under arms, kakida as fed his first real tmguished Jegal careers. aU bet you remember the details Abe. "I gu 's I was ju t t meal m months-a big plate rennng as judges. Roy Ma- of Mare Island Na\'y Yard young to be scared." . . . aned N TSF.I were called upon for one war a 8 ret agent. He all kinds of interpret r work taMed another. the Cold Dick . Hamada pm chuted War. the same way. He en• into a POW camp neal' P tered Tokyo right after the king. Harold Hanaumi wasn't USS Mi uri ceremony a called upon. He was at a re• Amenca' first undercover cuperation center i,\ the man the Communi ts had Himalayas, thinkmg of how to be identified, and watched. much better life would be as Anhur Kaneko continued a civilian. His Sh011 legs to be involved with pape . would ne er have to run after With fi\'e dozen other mtelJi• a regunent during a Saturday genre specialists, he made a moming parade again. Ed Su speciaJ flight to Japan from mida was at Bhamo. Pau) Washington. They dug out of Bannai, who would one day a buried mountainside cave become the first Nisei mem carloads of detailed studies ber of California's State legis• made by the Imperial Army lature, was with a surrender on Manchuria and eastern delegation in Timor, of the Siberia. Portuguese East Indies, one When the Central Intelligence heck of a long way from aU Agell9.' was created, these were other Nisei. Instead of invad• in its files. America was no long• ing Malaya, Kan Tagami er ignorant of Asia. Japan's long worked with the British Ar• fear of Communism helped my to accept the surrender at equip the United States to start Kuala Lumpur. to dea1 with it in ODe pan of the world Robert Oda was preparing Hiroshige Mori, and Kazoo for what he was sure would Yamane's kid brother Kosei, be a suicide mission when the did not come home from the war ended. The idea was for war triumphant They were him to land from a submarine among Japanese-fluent Ha• near Wakayama with a waii Nisei who got shangbai'd couple of trusted POW's, for miliUUy occupation duty while pretending he also was in places like Manila, Iwo Ji· one, all three supposedly hav• rna, and the Marianas. It took ing escaped the Americans. them years to calm down Mission was to radio infor• mation on weather and beach Sgt. Hiromu (Bill) Wada, on loan by the Army to the Navy, acted as chief interpreter in ceremonies during which conditions about an area Shig Kihara and the staff at where marines would make a MISLS were just numb. Hiro• Japanese naval and civil authorities turned over Ominato Naval Base in northern Honshu to the U.S. Navy. Photo was landing. Oda thanked heaven shima and Nagasaki horri• taken aboard Admiral Fletcher's flagship, USS Panamint, at Ominato on Sept. 9, 1945. Pictured are (from left): top for the Emperor's announce• fied them. Their joy at Amer• row-Adm. Brown, Adm. Martin, Adm. Retcher, Capt. Mulwheney, Cmdr. Robinson, and Capt. Van Metre. ment. All he had to do then ica's winning "was saddened Japanese party: Motohiko Kanai, governor of Aomori prefecture; Lt. Gen. Toshimoto Hoshino, commander of was be Joe Stilwell's inter• by our ambivalent back• Aomon defense force; and Yoshio Kaiho, Aomon chief of police. Pacific Citizen Archive Photo preter for the surrender of ground," said K.ihara School the Ryukyus. was called off for the next day, and men forbidden to en• of fried chicken and mashed tsumoto's brother Tsutomu, from when you were tramp• . ., . Frank Tokubo, George Sa• ter town lest incidents occur. potatoes. It nearly killed him. and the brothers of hundreds ing the hills of Vallejo a few Frank Tokubo found his kanari and Sohei Yam ate were only three of the many Those who had parents freed He had to be hospitalized to of other MIS'ers, did Occupa• years ago." As an undercover parents, and five brothers from concentration camps recover from it tion duty, too. Ralph Saito Navy agent, prewar, Ander• and sisters, alive in Hiroshi• Nisei given duty at Sugarno Prison, Tokyo, where con• and in their households, tried . came home with the craziest ton had kept an eye on the Ja• ma Harumi hadn't gotten a . . victed war criminals got con• to comfort them. Jim Iwanaga reflected war story ever-of being panese undercover agent. kamikaze flight because his The surrender found Nisei photographed for Life maga• aircraft was destroyed by fined Tokubo stayed in the some of the self-assurance . . .. Army and was given the job in odd places. Yoshio Ogata Nisei soon began to display. zine while interpreting on Although most Army units bombing while still on an as• was on a ship between Pana• Okinawa at a wedding be• semb1y line. Before Japan, of closing up the prison in the Outside Manila a genera1 now had Nisei with them to Fifties. Everyone else ma and New Orleans. 1be stopped his jeep and, trying tween two Japanese POW's, help accept surrenders, not Frank bad been at Nanking, general who didn't show performed by a U.S. Army China, to belp with the sur• bugged out so rapidly when to show his appreciation of all did Garo Oishi, at Manila, the order came down that To• wouldn't need him DOW, any• chaplain. The captured offi• render, along with James Ya• what Nisei had done, called bad the job of sending men kubo had to do the job practi• way. Tom Ige was in a Manila out. "Want some beer boys?" cer promised to provide ex• where needed to do this. Yo• mada hospital. where a land mine cellent intelligence informa• Grant Hirabayasbi was al• cally by himself, and he was An insouciant Iwanaga re• shito Iwamoto worked at a thankful for the help given on Okinawa had put him. tion-and did-provided he so there, too, and so well liked sponded with, "Is it cold, massive POW compound on by Tokyo police. Gary Kadani was there, too, could marry a nurse with by Gen Robert B. McClure Sir?" Luzon, "and came down with '" done in by some tropical di• A whole Jot of commissions whom he was in love. The more jungle ailments than that the general wanted him . . sease that paral~ him. Fu• were given Nisei lingusits U.S. Army even provided they bad!" to go along further, for the Hosts of other Nisei worked mio Kido was in Manchuria sentries outside their tent, surrender at Mukden, Man• on the war crimes trials in Ja• just before the war ended, Eddie Yamada and Harry within 24 hours, jumping out with 700 for a one-night honeymoon churia "I don't have any pan and Manila Byron Yosru• over other promo• Akune flew up to Atsugi be• of 8 plane over Mukden (with• tions made within days as Saito translated the maniage warm clothes with me. sir," no did investigations. So dJd out previous parachute train• vows. fore MacArthur did, so that Hirabayashi said Ted Yajima, Fred Susukawa other men got to move up a the 11th Airborne could ing to make sure Allied More commissions Harry Okubo was embar• "Take my plane, go back to and Kazuo Yarnasakl. Sho grade. establish a perimeter around POV,s there came to no were dangled before other rassed. in his filthy fatigues, Chungking, get your clothes. Onodera worked on Masaha• hann. Alvin Toso jumped in• the air base to protect the su• and come back!" said Me• ru Homma's trial, while Joshi Nisei, badly needed for the to accept for the 32nd Dhi• preme commander. Mike Mi• to 8 French Indochina camp sOl the surrender rL a spotless Oure. Hirabayasbi followed Yorioka and Roy Tanouye Occupation. Legs Nishi} ama yatake, Akira Abe, and Jim for the same purpose. made a biological suggestion General Yamashita. Kei Sa• orders but in Chungking was were among those who Y ukimura were also part of as to what to do with his, and kamoto cleaned up a bit be• told, "You're on the next draft worked on Tomoyuki Yama• Richard Sakakida, who had this effort. shita's, slipped away from Yamashi• went off to Korea There he fore escorting the general to to go home." He explained his "~I ta's staff and hid out in an un• helped draft the Korea occu• an airplane and Manila Soji• "The fanatics had just been orders, but the officer said, Nobuo Furuiye worked at a v..-plored area of northeast pation proclamation and en• ro Takamura was able to act cleaned out of the place," said didn't hear what you just cannibalism triaJ on Guam, for months. finally jol ed off-limits esta lisb• the gentleman by ghing Gen• Abe. 11ley were the ones said You're on the next draft but before that he interpret- made hL a: do :n a rh-er ments b! wearing kimono eral T. Kawabe a box of Al- who wanted to continue the to go home." Hirabayashl eot CGnrfrwwd 011 Nat PIp wore the Emperor's uni• on the disciplined obedience of Okubo who brought off a fas• er of the girls disrobe com• tion camp" when he reported YANKEE form. the Japanese Army soldier. cinating coup. He accepted pletely for examination. Ya• to duty there f rorr. one. got The plan was simple. Instruc• the surrender of a Japanese mada got suspicious after a tions were given to Japanese of• sent to Korea. 1bere at the SAMURAI John Morozumi worked on ficers present, and they carried admiraJ, alJ by himself. while when the man seeJl'ed 38th Parallel. he got into 8 Continued from Previous Page the war crimes at Shanghai, them out. They simply ordered Okubo. touring the Mar• a bit too interested in his conflict with two Russian including one for the execu• their men to stack arms, a rou• shalls in 1945, enticing isolat• work. and later found out he soldiers about letting me ed for the surrender on the tors of some Doolittle lliers. tine military command. Then ed Japanese to surrender. was a '\'eterinarian! men repatriate to the south• they ordered the men away from smalJ island of Yap. where Noboru Murakami did simi• went ashore to Airik Island Byron Yoshino had a dif• ern portion of the countl1'. lar wOlk in Saigon until the the area, on exercise marches. from a destroyer escort. The the Japanese garrison had 'h hen they got back. of course, ferent kind of an encounter Key remembered how he had been bypassed. Furuiye was French, aruOous to have the arms were gone, but since men there said they couldn't with business girls, one that conjectured to the repatri• given a sword by one of the none of their allies involved they had obeyed the last order surrender without permis• invol\"ed no contact with atE-es-in Japanese. the lan• surrendering staff officers, in colonial matters, ordered given them. they didn't have to sion of their commanding of• thelT'. As a war crimes inves• guage spoken by most Ko• feel remorse. in gratitude for his help, but all Americans out by a dead• ficer. on Taroa. Don got back tigator. Yoshino and a cap• reans at the in istence of the the senior U.S. Navy officer line date. Sam Takamura In like fashion. other Japanese on board the warship. it went tain followed up a deposition occupying militaI1' rroen present confiscated it, say• was in Rangoon with Bob Ki• military men were ordered to to Taroa, and there he taJked giving the address of a rroan from Japan since 1905-about ing, "This is going to the Na• moto and Yoshinobu Tanabe, march away from arms stores a rear admiral into giving up. overpowering the Russian and arsenals. American truck suspected of ha\;ng decapi• val Academy museum." The attached to the British army convoys showed up while they This was before Emperor Hi• tated an American soldier on sentries "while there's tiJI author, hoping to help Furu• when the war ended. They were gone. rohito's announcement. When one of the Pacific islands. no on around." iye return to sword as many were called away to Singa• This was the true secret of Ja• he got back to K wajalein. They had to pass through a Hiroshi Tanabe. after all Nisei have done with cen• pore to help disarm Japa• pan's being disarmed without in• Okubo couJd be forgiven if he red light district in their his combat experience and turies-Qld Japanese family nese troops. cident, and It all could be traced had an air about him of, "Well. early morning raid. As they secret work with secret docu• treasures, learned from the Timmie Hirata flew in to one quiet Nisei from Hawaii. I got one outfit to surrender. did. Byron overheard one ments, was puzzled to find museum's curator that the with Joe Amaki to work at Iwao Kumabe got to Sai• MacArthur and Nimitz will prostitute, hanging out wash. hill" self turned down for a ci• sword never got there. the surrender and, as a new• gon but didn't work with No• have to handle the rest them• call out to another, "Look at vilian translator'S job in To• Nisei at war crimes trials must ly-commissioned officer, en• boru Murakami. He was selves!" those two. at this hour! They kyo after his discharge. He have had a fascinating experi• joyed having breakfast with with a team that consisted of Larry Mihara worked with must really be desperate!" was a Kibei. and apparently ence. They worked on the inves• the congenial "Louie". Lord himself, Hiroshi Tanaka, Adm. Frank Fletcher, hero of Key Kobayashi, who some bureaucrat hadn't yet tigation-and the defense-and Mountbatten did not stand lwao Kitagawa and Sam Ki- gotten the word on Nisei be- the prosecution. When translat• Midway, when the north Pa• thought Camp Savage looked ing, Nisei would work in trio cific naval commander ac• "just like another concentra- 0iIidIiWJd 011 hit Ii shifts, one translating for the de• cepted the surrender of Japa• fense, one for the prosecution, nese forces at Ominato. He ~ ...... ~ ~ ••A • .r",+,¥+N~T ".,.T .....~. and one-the best interpreter Hosts of Nisei worked on the war saved a lot of American lives available-acting as "referee" to ATTN: ThIs superMdH all prior published 11m of "Boou fJom PC" make sure an translations were crimes trials in Japan and Manila. by giving detailed instruc• .s Items no longer available have been deleted. correct This was a must since ... Nobuo Funtiye worked at a tions on how Japanese au• some of Japan's best bilingual thorities were to care for newsmen were on hand for most cannibalism trial on Guam. POVvs in nearby camps. Be• Books from PC of the proceedings. fore doing this, Larry had Thirty-Five Years in the Frying Pan, by Bill Hosokawa. Numerous Nisei had fatalistic gotten the general's Chinese Selections from hi· popular column in The Pacific Citizen attitudes about the trials, their on ceremony at mealtimes. kumoto. They were on an in• cook at Adak Island to share inner feeling a conviction that with new background material and a running commentary. although Hirata found him vestigative sweep from the with him one of the general's o $10. 95. (Po~tage is on the PC on thiS book.l each trial's outcome was a fore• "very impressive and for• British, hitting Rangoon, personal steaks, to celebrate gone conclusion. Still, many had The Bamboo People: The law and lapanese Americans, by Frank favora5le things to say about mal when he wanted to be." Bangkok and Saigon in three America's victory. Chuman. ~al and legislative history of the japanese in American defenders of the ac• Hirata then went on to work weeks, out of Ceylon. They . . . America. A must" for every collection. cused, "who were terrific, giving with the surrender at Singa• also had side trips, accom• Nisei had happy, sad, and o Hardcover, $11.70 postpaid. their very best" to get mistrials pore, while Amaki did war panying DNa accused, to Japanese American Story, by Budd Fukei. A good taste of the or changes of venue and to have sometimes poignant experi• crimes investigation in New Delhi and Singapore. ences once the war ended. history and cultural heritage. One chapter by Mike Masaoka circumstantial and hearsay evi• Burma. Kumabe saw the beginnings recalls jACL's role during Evacuation. dence barred, as it would have Tetsuo Hayashida got horne o Hardcover, $7.70 postpaid. been back home. ,. • ,. ·of what later became the to Albany, Calif., where his They Called Her To~o Rose, .by Rex Gunn. Documented story of Some Nisei assigned to KAzuo Yamane may have Vietnam War while in Sai• parents had moved after made the most important sin- gon. "Around the end of Sep• a WW2 legend oy a Pac.". war correspondent who stayed close association with some their release from the Topaz with the story to its unimagined culmination. of the accused, developed gle contribution to speedily tember, 1945," he said, concentration camp. His o Paperback, $5.50 postpaid. warm feelings for them. establishing the peace, al- "shooting broke out. We were mother embraced him, but Nisei: the Quiet Americans, by Bill Hosokawa. Popular history of Frank Tokubo, at Sugamo, though he didn't have any told to prepare against any his father ran across the the Japanese in America, 1869-1969. was given poems by some of idea of it for years. His dis- attack, and our barracks room and hugged him. Cho• o Hardcover, $9.70 postpaid. r Softcover. $4.70 postpaid. his charges, one just before covery, in Washington, of the were barricaded. We saw nan (first son) was horne! Ha• Rule~a~ers of the House, by Spark Matsunaga-Ping Chen . An the composer of it commit• ordnance inventory the Navy French gendarmes bring in yashida hadn't been em• inSide look at the most powerful committee in the House ot at Pearl Harbor had over- prisoners to their police sta• Representatives, based on Spark's I a-year experience in thaI ted suicide. braced by his stern father in committee. (The Senator has autographed a limited supply Ralph Yempuku was at the looked, was a key factor in tion, from teenagers to mid• nearly 29 years. The experi• for PC readers.) Hong Kong surrender. His eliminating loss of lives. dle-aged, up to 15 tied togeth- ence overwhelmed him. C Hardcover. $7.70 postpaid. brother, Donald, a Japanese With a copy of Yamane's dis- er in groups. The rebels had Taro Tsukahara had the Camp" Block 211, by Jack Matsuoka. Daily Iii", in inlt-rnment camp covery in hand, occupying barricaded the roads to the officer, recognized him, but' bitter experience of knowing at Poston as sketched by a young cartoonist. f?rces were able to proc~ airport and put up posters o Softcover, $6.70 postpaid. dared not say a word. They nght to. aryns caches and seJZe that the police tore down." one of his uncles was charged were reunited later. Ralph's them. NIseI knowledge of theJa- . as a war criminaJ. Another, a I Hawaiian Tales, By Allan Beekman. Eleven matchless stories panese character was of massive ~hat Kumabe and .his of the japanese immigrant in Hawaii. parents had taken Donald, general. had died in the China o Hardcover, $4.70 postpaid. together with his brothers, significance in this enterprise. . fnends had seen was the fIrst fighting. Two of his brothers Toru, Paul and Goro back to No resistance was offered. day of the Communist upris• had fought for Japan. Shiro Thunder in the Rockies: the Incredible Denver Post by Bill Knowing that J.al?anese soldiers ing that cuJminated with the Hosokawa. Personally autographed copy from the author Japan with them in 1934, wo~d never ~.1mgly lay d~wn defeat of the French at Dien got home safely from Formo• to PC readers. Packed with hours of entertainment. while Ralph chose to stay in sa, but Jiro was captured by o Hardcover, $13.70 postpaid. theIr arms, Nisei came up Wlth a B' Ph th ~ntmued . Hawaii. His four brothers all device that worked. Both hinged len u, en to the Russians in Manchuria In Movement: a Pictorial History of Asian America. By Visual become the VIetnam War and kept there with a million Communications, Inc.; text by Dr. Franklin Odo. Oriented ...... when America intervened...... other Japanese for years. toward school and libraries in areas of multi-cultural and ...... • • * Tom Taketa got leave in Ja• ethnic studies . 0 ••••••• o Softcover, $15.70 postpaid ...... Small islands, as well as pan and hitchhiked by air all Years of Infamy, by Michi Weglyn. Shocking expose of America's major cities, had to surren• the way to AustraJia, for a concentration camps as uncovered from hitherto secret der. Nisei worked on this as second honeYlT'oon with archives. . well. Tamotsu Koyanagi Sylvia. I; 0 SoftC(lV~r, $4.70 postpaid. went to Yap with James Shi• Tsutomu YaIJlada got Sachie: A Da~er of Hawaii, by Patsy S. Saiki. A faithful YANKEE geta, Gunki Tsutsui and Har• grabbed in Yokohama by an PQrtrayal of the early second-generation Japanese in Hawaii ry Okada Mineo Yamagata officer wearing the caduceus told in nov"!l form. Softcover, $4.70, postpaid. went to Chichi Jima in the on his Japels and ordered to o SAMURAI Bonins. He watched the com• accompany the man on a tour The Private War of Dr. Yamada, by lee Ruttle. A World War II be• novel of a Japanese Army surgeon, whose secret diary The secret role of Nisei in America.S manding general there of brothels. At each. the JI'ed• recollects the thoughts. fears and hopes of his men Pacific Victory come totally overwhelmed ical wan had one after anoth- o $9.50 postpaid. . with the power of the U.S. BOOKS IN JAPANESE JOSEPH D. HARRINGTON Some 20.000 Japanese troops June publication price will be $12.95 postpaid, but you may order Books instead of Nisei: Kono Otonashii Amerikaiin, translation of Hosokawa's had been reported to be on "Nisei" by lsamu Inouye. Ideal gift for newcomef!.to U.S. and an autographed copy NOW for a May mailing at substantl. this island not far from Two chec~ flowers as memorial friends in Japan. Library edition. discount. Complete the coupon below and mall with your Jima. Its commanding gen• C $18.00 postpaid. 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OsalT'e Y8JT1aft'oto helped ac• Earlier, Schurtz had placed N~ ______• Bulk Sales Discounts to JACl Chapters, Nisei veterans organi• Bill Hosokawa's "Nisei: the zations and other groups on request. • Buy an extra copy for cept the surrender of troop your local school or library. on Okuno Shima. the largest Quiet American" in the ~~------enelT'Y force in the Ryukyus same library in memory of CIty State ZIP ______Available now 8t the Pacthc Cifizen office. after Okinawa. but it was Don Shig Hashimoto's mother, Pac*CIIIZen. 355E '.St ~~71..01Mg11e1 C&.80012 YA KEE SAM ''-I,,"~- A WITHOUT the thousand of mterpreters whoser\'ed '~"I'" in the Occupa 'on, the recov• Without the thousands of Nisei f"" 111'. 1" A J f I did Important ery of Japan could not ha\e interpreters who served in the Yukio Kawamoto became a work of n economic va)- been a ut, or as strong. relocation officer after hi to Japan.. Y kazu Ya- or could he have become Occupation, Japanstrecovery release from enTice. helping mada and Shiro ToJruno were the trong ally of the United could not have been as swift. relao\'es and others wh 'd J t two of them. Yamada, State that she did. been kept In concentranon with f'umlo Yagi, was part of were the channel of com• camps re ettle "arren Tsu• GRe~~~c~l~ . ~ munication, Japanese nanonals w ami 'on ordered to make a anas provided bases for the B- fnends free. Others, made his l-' - _ Cattail alway commg to them first be• neishi contlnued scholar• urvey of Japanese scientific 195, which with u.s. submannes, aware by their war work for the ly stuwes and eventually be• WlIPlCIAUD fill cause they were tbe bndge to the starved Japan into submission. continumg. if sad. need for milt• IT1IAMlD__ PlaN.z. CtAMI d v lopm nt Meeting with EngIish-~ came curator of Japanalia at [ authontJes. To Add 10 thIS the rapidiry with tar}' intelligence, served as ellll• MS l ...... , (II 11ft CIIuttIit) leadmg Japanese scIentists recount their accomplishments which success in other island ians in that area of endeavor the Library of Congress. 1 5 .'ntu ,,.. lIule Cullf , laid the groundwork for later \\auld reqwre another book campaigns was achieved. and it Henry Gosho. Grant Ichika• ..... staIIIII xchang that helped Japan which. happily, someone else was is not difficult to subtract one Some are still unable to talk of wa and Toshio Tsukahira l,-- E;.=....~ TO .. ::...-JI..:.-- rebuild her economy, writmg while tlus one was being million casualties from what the where they went and what they pursued careers WIth the r ...... ~....."...... ,...... ~ ...... ~ done, TIle NiseI abiliry 10 trans• number would have been had the did. Still more become engaged Tokuno found his sister In pon the best of Japan and Amen• Nisei not served in the PaCIfic. in mternatJonal trade. the bulk of U.S. foreign service. lctuka• Japan, then ery nearly ca back and fonh cannot be it hinged on Japan and their abil• wa durmg the wntmg of this ~ MATSU ~ made a career of improving measured Without their assistance the iry to communicate 10 that na• would have had only two ContiDued 011 Next hp ~ ~ Japan' agriculture He got Kenji Goto continually U.S. tion's language. For nearly four \ choices-continue the war until decades. all remained a broad mto the Natural Resources made major contributions to ~ ~ ~ ,~ Japan was totally defeated. avenue along which Amenca ~ Section of the occupation preserving the best of the Ja• wruch would have taken years and Japan could reach each oth• Classified . i mOre--California's fourth an• Expeflente their investigation showed no nual show will be at the Huntington Library in San conspiracy present. The other FU KU I men who were with Harvey at Marino, June 9-10, 1-4 p.m. the hotel might have been On Sunday, tickets (free) are Mortuary,. Inc. PHOTOMART aware of his mental history necessary for admission. and may have been just teas- 707 E. Temple St. CJmpr.H c.\ Phorogr.JphlC Suppllt" Write the library to obtain them. ing him. Harvey, who has Los Angeles 9001 2 316 E. 2nd St. . Lo Angeles The 1bird Annual Dragon spent most of his life in men- 626-0441 622-3968 tal institutions, was released Boat Races will be on June 30- after being in custody for Soichi Fukui, President July 1 at Whittier Narrows three weeks. James Nakagawa, Manager Recreation area in EI Monte, Calif. Festivities include eth• Nikkei interest in the case 1 -::N:O:b:U:O:o:s=u=m=i,=c=o=u=ns=e=llo=r~ Shimatsu, Ogata nic dances, martial arts, was circumstantial in that I'" •••••••••••••••••• and Kubota garnes, bands, exhibits, food, Harvey had spent the prior and Asian celebrities. evening at the Alan Hotel in Mortuary Little Tokyo. # mrat~B 911 Venice Blvd. PBS-TV schedules Los Angeles Fumi ~e , 59, of Honolulu, ad• 749-1449 ministratlve director to Hawaii 'Japanese I series Lt. Gov. Jean King, died May 13. Los Angeles STUDIO SEIJI DUKE OGATA A Los Angeles-born politica1 ac• R. YUTAKA KUBOTA tivist, she is survived by h Dr. The three hour-long docu- 318 East Fi rst Street Thomas, UH professor of ec0- rrentaries corrprising the L A I I f nomics; s Glenn, d Diane, m Sei "Japanese" for Sunday night os nge e , Ca j . 90012 f Takata and sis Ruth Kosaka (Los hawing by Public Broadcast- 626-5681 Ir-'-;:bItShed-'~--l Angeles). While living in Wash• ing Systerr network starts It serves you r1g11t. ington, D.C. in the 19605, she was admini trative assistant to Sen Sumitomo serves you right. That's because the June 10 here on KCET (28). • • • • • • • • • • • • • • ~ • • • •• IN.-se.- Trading I Daniel Inouye. (Local listings in other areas @"IH ..""I .. n... '"' .. ""u .....• ...... :_.. .. III .. '"1 t . . people working for us are especially trained to give Toby T. Matsuuloto, 66, for• hould be checked for date ~: Nanka Printing :_~ I A ppltance ~ - T\ - Furniture you prompt, courteous service paying careful merly of Watsonville, Calif., died and tirre.) On tap are: attention to the small delalls that could make the April2, 1979, at Ontario, Oregon June 10-"Full Moon Lunch"; ~ Japanese PhototypeHtting i NEW ADDRESS ; big difference. And Sumilomo IS an Innovallve Survivors are: Marjorie T, s Four ...... tions of the SlImura ~ E I 249 S. 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