2 JULY 17-AUG. 6, 2009 COMMENTARY/WHAT'S INSIDE PACIFIC II CrnZEN COMMENTARY PACIFIC iSCmZEN Remembering the HOWTO REACH US INSIDE E-mail: [email protected] ------)100.-.THIS ISSUE Online: www.pacificcitizen.org Legacy of the 'No-Nos' Tel:(800) 966-6157 Fax: (213) 620-1768 Mail: 250 E. First Street, Suite 301 , CA 90012 STAFF Executive Editor Caroline Y. Aoyagi-Stom Assistant Editor Lynda Lin Office Manager Vacant Circulation Eva Lau-Ting Correspondent Leslie Tamura

The Pacific Citizen newspaper (lSSN: 0030-8579) is published semi-monthly {except once in December and Barbara Takei (left) with Tule Lake committee board member Hiroshi Shimizu. January) by the Japanese American Citizens League. PHOTO: STOCKTON PORTS By BARBARA TAKEI JACL .Win One for the 'Fibber' 1765 Sutter SI. San Francisco, CA94115 "How was the pilgrimage?" In 1952, Satoshi 'Fibber' Hirayama spent an entire season with the Stockton Ports as one of the first Signed to a professional baseball JACL President: Larry Oda It's a question I and other pilgrims have been asked many times since National Director: Floyd Mon returning from the four-day 2009 Thle Lake pilgrimage that took place over contract. He returned recently to throw out the first pitch. the 4th of July weekend. Pc. BOARD Of DIRECTORS As one of the event organizers, it's a question I have trouble anSWering in All Eyes on Iran Margie Yamamoto, chairperson; Paul a sentence or two. Columnist Peter Frandsen examines new Niwa, EDC; Lisa Hanssono, MDC; Kathy Ishimoto, CCDC; Judith Aono, media coverage of the protests in Iran. It was the biggest pilgrimage that our small all-volunteer committee has NCWNPDC; Justine Kondo, done. It was also remarkable that of the 400 pilgrims, 56 of them were 80 »Page 8 PNWDC; Jeff Itami, IDC; Ted Namba, years of age or older; of that group, 50 had been incarcerated in Thle Lake. PSWDC; Naomi Oren, Youth Once at Thle Lake, we had the pilgrims on a demanding schedule - cel• ebrating Thle Lake's new National Monument status, hiking Castle Rock, SUBSCRIBE hearing stories about Thle Lake and the "no-nos", addressing the painful Once, an Oasis Get a one-year subscription to the emotional legacy of the wartime incarceration, and multiple workshops - What happens to Gilroy-Yamamoto .Hot Pacific Citizen newspaper at: Springs in a budget crisis? www.pacificcilizen.org or call with accommodations that featured thin' » Page 3 : ••l((1rt (800) 966-6157 mattresses and coarse linens, and long, The "no-nos" were long lines to eat meals and to use the Sisterly Love ADVERTISE public toilets and porta-potties. Cartoon Anger To advertise in the Pacific Citizen, the ones who, in hopes her apology will win Despite the discomfort and heat, we amnesty for sister Laura and . 's 'Angry Liltle Asian Girl' has call (800) 966-6157 or e-mail: [email protected] early 1943, protested heard no monfat about the inconven• »Page 4 reached peak popularity. Now it hits ience and the waiting.. The pilgrims YouTube. their incarceration »Page 9 LEGAL . were patient and considerate of one No part of this publication may be repro• and loss offreedom, another, encouraging the older folks to duced without the express permission of go to the front of the lines to make the Gift of life the Pacific Citizen. using. as their vehide Todd Sato's untimely death at 29 high• long trip easier for them. Rather than the Editorials, news and the opinions lights the importance of organ donation. of protest, the expected barrage of complaints, we expressed by columnists other than the »Page 10 deeply-flawed loyalty received "thanks" and words of appreCi• national JACL president or national director do not necessarily reflect JACL ation. It was really quite phenomenal. Making History questions: #27 Descendents of Charles Inouye al1d policy. Event and products advertised in The most important part of the pil• A Post Office For Lee the Pacific Citizen do not carry the Bessie Murakami host an arts camp. concerning Inilitary grimage was honoring the "no-nos" A lawmaker wants to honor the implicit endorsement of the JACL or this »Page 12 selVice and #28 ... • who were segregated at Thle Lake, for first APA postmaster. » Page 5 publication. We reselVe the right to edit their courage in protesting the unjust articles. wartime incarceration. • Temple in 1hmsition Go to the July 24-26 Local JAs worry about the Oregon For niore than 65 years, the stories of JACL MDCiEDC the 12,000 "no-nos" have been hidden away and misunderstood (usually temple's dwindling membership. Conference in· Cincinnati. »Page 6 confused with the 315 men who resisted the 1944 draft on Constitutional »Page 14 you've moved, please grounds and served time in Federal prisons). The "no-nos" were the ones A New Beginning send new infonnation to: who, in early 1943, protested their incarceration and loss of freedom, using, Actor Kal Penn trades Hollywood sce• Goodbye Togo Tanaka, JACLer and National JACL as their vehicle of protest, the deeply-flawed loyalty questions: #27 concern• nary for Washington, D.C. , passes. 17.65 Sutter SI. ing military service and #28 a disavowal of assumed loyalty to the Japanese »Page 7 »Page 15 San Francisco, CA 94115 See TAKEVPage 13 Allow 6 weeks for address changes. ALSO ON Remembering avoid interruptions Pacificci in delivery, please Izen.org the King your postmas• 'My p.C.' to include periodi• After Michael Jackson's death, cals in your change Photos, articles and information exclusively for his Asian fans celebrate his of address (USPS JACL members and subscribers. Go there now. life. Form 3575) PACIFIC ill CmZEN TOP STORIES JULY 17-AUG. 6, 2009 3 State Budget Crisis Threatens Another Part of JA History During WWII, Central California's Gilroy• Yamato Hot Springs was an oasis for Japanese American families resettling after their internment. Its restoration may now be stopped indefinitely.

By LESLIE K. TAMURA P.e. Correspondent

Thcked away in Henry W. Coe State Park in the foothills east of Gilroy, Calif. are the remnants of a once thriving part of Japanese American history. The Gilroy-Yamato Hot Springs, where warm, healing waters flowed from natural sulfur springs, It was a place 'to get peace of was once a respite for JA families in the years following World WarU. mind and healing from the It was also the first home of Laura Dominguez-Yon. mineral waters. ' Dominguez-Yon was three years old when her family moved from an internment camp in Poston, Ariz. to the wooded area of Laura Dominguez-Yon, about the hot the Gilroy-Yamato Hot Springs. springs. After WWII, Capt. Masuo Kitaji "We lived there 10 years before we moved out," she said. "I (top) let JA families move to the resort. was a little kid, so it was a very playful place." Thousands of prominent families and businesspeople from the Bay Area retreated to the resort during its ISO-year history. public would be postponed indefinitely." enough park staff to monitor the area. After the war, the area became an oasis for JA families looking If the governor's proposal goes forward unaltered, Henry W. to rebuild their lives after their internment. Dominguez-Yon's An Oasis For the Wealthy and the Discriminated Coe will shut down after Labor Day weekend with more than family lived and worked at the resort, which featured hotels, The Gilroy-Yamato Hot Springs was a retreat for many 200 other state parks. restaurants, redwood cabins, hot tubs, and gambling and dance throughout its history. "At this point I do not know the actual ramifications," said halls. "It was a place," Dominguez-Yon said, "where the elderly, Guaracha. "[The park] could be placed in caretaker status with "It was quite a rip-roaring place," said Matt Bischoff, the ill came to relax, to refresh, to get peace of mind and heal• minimal staff patrolling the region." California State Parks historian with the Monterey District. ing from the mineral waters." Closing Henry W. Coe, they say, also creates a greater liabil• Dominguez-Yon's uncle, Henry Kato was the manager at the Wealthy San Francisco industry leaders, during the 1860s to ity for the area. hot springs from 1950 to 1967, when the resort closed due to 1920s, escaped the city to the Gilroy-Yamato Hot Springs. "Every park needs to be maintained," Dominguez-Yon said. s.¢"ety, sanitation and property ownership concerns. When H.K. Sakata, a prominent lettuce grower from "[Closing the parks] would make parks more subject to the dan• In the winter of 2007, Dominguez-Yon returned to her first Watsonville, purchased the area in 1938, he welcomed Japanese ger of fire, vandalism, intrusion and all these other kinds of hor• home. and JAs to his new facility. He incorporated Japanese-style rors' plus the basic maintenance." "I wanted to see what it would take to give my [now 88-year• baths and nurtured traditional Japanese plantings throughout the FOGHS and park services have been working together to old] uncle access again to the water," she said. "However, in the grounds. reopen the hot springs to the public. This has involved process of doing this I've developed relationships and gathered "Many, swore by the curative properties of the [hot spring repairing buildings, preventing vandalism, clearing flre a lot more of the history." mineial] waters," Bischoff wrote in an e-mail. 'The site is also hazards as well as studying the history of the area; there are The Gilroy-Yarnato Hot Springs has become a passion for significant for itS association with the Japanese community, rich Native American and Mexican storie.s as well. Dominguez-Yon. In the summer of 2008, she helped establish offering a much-needed respite from the larger political-social "Our first goal is to see what it will take to get it open for of Gilroy Hot Springs (FOGHS), a non-profit organiza• environment that was often hostile." . day trips, picnics and hikes," Dorninguez-Yon said. ''The tion dedicated to preserving, restoring and reopening the hot During wwn, the resort served as a hostel. After the war, second goal is part of preserving the buildings, the proper• springs to the public. Sakata used his property to help JA internees resettle before ty." Visitors can now come to the hot springs, experience the reopening it as a resort to the public. To make this happen, however, an on-site caretaker is wilderness and learn the history in private tours organized by Under the leadership of Captain Masuo Kitaji, who was the needed . • FOGHS. Northern California Japanese Salvation Anny leader and a for• Prior to Schwarzenegger's proposal, Dorninguez-Yon" ''We'd like to see the place open again to the public," mer Poston internee, 6(j JA families moved to Gilroy-Yarnato said at least $650,000 was needed to stabilize the area, hire Bischoff said, "and hopefully have the baths usable again some• Hot Springs before finding other homes across the country. an on-site camp host and provide a livable residence for the day." "Its role in the post-war, post-internment lives of numerous caretaker. This amount did not include maintenance fees. The future of California's state parks, however, is uncertain. families is also important," Bischoff added, "and not widely "It's it starting place," she said. And as part of the Henry W. Coe State Park, the Gilroy-Yamato known." The state budget crisis has put a wrench in her plans, Hot Springs is in danger of being lost yet again. Although the resort closed to the public in 1967, it changed however. Legislators continue to table discussions about the California hands several times until 2003 when Henry W. Coe State Park ''We the peopl~ who own the parks entrust the management state budget, but as it now stands, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger acquired the hot springs. of it to our legislators and our governor," she added. 'They're plans to close the state's budget gap by shutting down 222 of the Now a California Historic Landmark and part of the National evicting us from our own property and closing it, leaving it sub• 279 state parks - including Henry W. Coe. Register of Historic Places, the Gilroy-Yamato Hot Springs has ject to vandalism and everything else." 'The closures would devastate us," Bischoff said. "We'll lose prornise to rebuild and restore itself to its former glory. As the state continues to consider its budget options, FOGHS more of the history, more of the tangible, hands-on history of "Gilroy Bot Springs is a very historically significant site," and state parks representatives say there is still time to help the that site." Bischoff said. ''With more attention on the site, I hope we can parks remain open. In May 2009, about 200 people visited the hot springs, learn• gain more partners and raise funds for its preservation and reha• "We're state park employees so at this point we support the ing about the bygone era of turn-of-the-century resorts. bilitation." governor's proposal," Guaracha said, ''but there are a lot of "We have more and more interest [in the hot springs]," opportunities for volunteering; help support the park as it is Dominguez-Yon said. "Our event in May was extremely suc• Saving a Resort open ... support organizations such as FOGHS, contact your cessful." With two other state parks, Henry W. Coe State Park has an local representatives." Throughout the year volunteers have been working on the estimated $2.5 million budget, much of which goes to support• The Gilroy Hot Springs represent a bygone era of elaborate site, clearing debris and repairing some of the buildings. ing maintenance and visitor service employees. resort establishments as well as a part of Japanese heritage in But if the budget proposal passes, any momentum gained at Since Schwarzenegger announced his budget proposal to California. the hot springs would probably be stopped, according to Eddie shut down the majority of state parks, campground use has If the park closes, said Bischoff, "we lose very important Guaracha, park superintendent of the Gavilan sector in increased, according to Guaracha. parts of our history." • Monterey. With the current staff, Henry Coe employees incorporate the "All the work the FOGHS and state parks staff have done Gilroy-Yarnato Hot Springs into their patrols. If the park were On the Web would cease," he added, "and the potential to open that to the to close, Guaracha says he does not know if there will be www.friendsofgilroyhotsprings.org 4 JULY 17-AUG. 6, 2009 TOP STORIES PACIFIC El CmZEN .Lisa Ling Says U.S. Clemency Could Free Imprisoned

Lisa Ling (left) said she is hoping to 'ignite a campaign for amnesty' for her sister Laura Ling (top, left) and Euna Lee. On June 8, Laura and Euna, American journalists working for Current-TV, were sentenced to 12 years of hard labor for what North Korea called 'hostile acts.'

Supporters hope Laura Ling and Euna Lee's house, said Han Park, University of Georgia political scientist. "We're not going to stop until the women are home," aid recent apology will help them gain amnesty. He told South Korea's JoongAng Ilbo newspaper that, "North Rebecca Delgado Rottman, vice president of the community Korea's move not to carry out the sentence suggests that it and governmental relations at the Academy of Art University. By NALEA J. KO could release them through a dialogue with the "We do not want these women to be forgotten. We want peo• Reporter and they could be set free at an early date, depending on the ple in our country to be aware of what is going on with these U.S. gestures." women." Journalist Lisa Lingled a vigil of hundreds at the California To raise awareness, Delgado Rottman organized the July 9 state Capitol two days after her imprisoned sister, Laura Ling, North Korean Hostile Acts San Francisco vigil at Academy of Art University, where Lee recognized breaking North Korean law in a 20-minute phone Laura Ling's phone call to her sister came three days after attended college. conversation. a suspected North Kor~an cyber attack was aimed at the U.S. "These stUdents are mad. They have been expressing their Laura Ling, a Chinese American, and Euna Lee, a Korean and South Korea. The Korea Communications Commission, concerns and support. And it's really amazing the outpouring American, were sentenced to 12 years of hard labor June 8. in South Korea, said five Internet Protocol addresses were of compassion," Delgado Rottman said. They were charged with what North Korean news agency used to spread computer viruses. U.S. targeted Web sites It has been nearly four months since the reporters were KCNA called "hostile acts." North Korean authorities accused include The Washington Post, the White House and the New fIrst detained. Laura Ling suffers from a reoccurring ulcer the two of illegal entry and grave crimes, said Lisa Ling in an York Stock Exchange, among others .. and Lee is believed to have lost 15 pounds since being interview with KCRA-TV in Sacramento. They were filming The attack began on the Fourth of July. It froze Web sites imprisoned. near the -North Korea border for such as the Treasury Department and The Ling and Lee family are asking supporters to do three a Current-TV story about trafficking Federal Trade Commission, according to things for the women: sign their petition, write letters and women, when guards arrested them. the Associated Press. Remnants of the raise awareness on social networking sites. On July 7 at about 10:30 p.m. Laura 'Right now we need attacks lingered for days as Web sites con• The petition has gathered 3,119 signatures as of July 10, called Lisa with a "clear" and "deliber• the help of our tinued to have problems. with a goal of 1 million signatures. Celebrities like Ashton ate" message, saying the two journal• "If Pyongyang is behind the attacks, it Kutcher are tweeting about the jailed journalists on Twitter to ists broke North Korean law and need• government. ... At probably establishes a new pattern of spread the word, said Delgado Rottman. Lisa Ling said she is ed help getting United States govern• the end of the day behavior," said Rod Beckstrom, who is the hoping to "ignite a campaign for amnesty." ment amnesty. It was the third time . former head of the U.S. cybersecurity cen• Vigil organizers and supporters hope Laura's recent phone Lisa Ling heard her sister's voice since Laura and Euna are ter, in an AP interview. "If this is them, they conversation with her sister will benefit their call for U.S. March 17, when they were initially journalists and they are now in the club, and they're probably clemency. detained. only going to get better." "I hope that their-admissions of guilt satisfied North Korean Five gatherings for the women were were doing their Cyber security companies are now ana• government and grants them amnesty through the orth organized on June 9 across the nation, job. And they made lyzing the "malicious code" to verify the Korean system," Delgado Rottman said. "We hope that the including one in Paris, France. Those source. The cyber attack is one of a string of government of the United States and North Korea can come at the Sacramento gathering said about a mistake on March hostile provocations over the months to an agreement that will result in the release of Laura ?TId 200-350 people turned out. They said 1 7, for whkh they directed toward the U.S., South Korea, Euna." the crowd's mood was somber but Japan and northeast Asia. In May, North Attendees at the Sacramento vigil held signs that read "Free hopeful. are paying. ' Korea was punished with United Nations Euna Lee and Laura Ling" while they chanted "bring them "A few speakers, such as Laura's sanctions after its second nuclear test. This home!" Event speakers such as Laura Ling's husband, lain friends from Del Campo High School, - Lisa Ling at a Sacramento rally month there were more weapons threats. Clayton, and Lisa Ling echoed those chants. struggled to hold back tears as they in support of her sister U.S Navy vessels tracked the North "Laura and Euna are deeply deeply sorry for what they Korean Kang Nam ship after it left the did. They made a mistake - we've all made mistakes," addressed the -crowd," said Dawn Laura and Euna Lee. Capp, 37, who is going on a "one bowl country's port in Nampo June 17. Believed Lisa Ling said before the Sacramento rally. "Right now we sympathy strike" to support the jour- to be carrying arms, the ship continued to need the help of our government. ... At the end of the day nalists. travel south and southwest for about a week Laura and Euna are journalists and they were doing their Capp and her friend Jacquelline Marshall plan to strike July before turning around toward North Korea. Supporters of job. And they made a mistake on March 17, for which they 17, subsisting on a handful of rice, beans and com. The same Laura Ling and Lee hope the recent acts by North Korea will are paying." • daily diet Capp said she read that labor camp prisoners are not jeopardize their release. Capp also expressed concern allotted. about other news, particularly the death of Michael Jackson, To learn more about Laura Ling and Euna Lee, or to sign Laura Ling and Lee are being held in a North Korean guest- eclipsing the plight of Laura Ling and Lee. the petition, visit www.lauraandeuna.com. PACIFIC iI CrnzEN NATIONAL NEWS JULY 17-AUG. 6, 2009 5 Filipino WWII Veterans Honored Bill Introduced to Name S.F. Chinatown Post Office After Lim Poon Lee

'I'm saddened and embar• rassed that you had to wait this long. But I'm proud that my countJY Wc15 strong enough and big enough to admit that it was wrong dDd to rectify that wrong. 1 hope you'll forgive us. '

U.S. Sen. Daniel Inouye

By ASSOCIATED PRESS under the GJ. BilL Japanese holdout Gen. Tomoyuki Congress took away that offer in Yamashita and fought for long HONOLULU-Men and women 1946 when the became months in the jungles. an independent nation. "We did it not for the benefits that from the Philippines were promised Lee was appointed as postmaster of San Francisco in 1966. recognition and benefits when they Congress passed legislation this were promised to us, but to defend enlisted to fight alongside U.S. year rewarding the soldiers for their our country," said Caleda, who By Pacific Citizen Staff troops during World War II. Many service with $9,000 payments for served in the 11th Infantry of those honors are only arriving non-U.S. citizens and $15,000 for Regiment. "It was the U.S. and San Francisco's Chinatown post office may soon be named after its now, 64 years after the war ended. those with citizenship. multinational presence that made us founder. A bill has been introduced in the House of Representatives to name About 140 Filipino veterans of "I'm saddened and embarrassed a target, but it was up to us to defend the building located at 867 Stockton Street after Lim Poon Lee, the nation's World War II were given commem• that you had to wait this long," U.S. our freedom and democracy." first Chinese American postmaster. orative medals Ju1y 3 at a Honolu1u Sen. Daniel Inouye told the assem- Former Army corporal Salome Speaker Nancy Pelosi has introduced the "Lim Poon Lee Post Office Act," ceremony saluting their bravery in bled veterans. "But I'm proud that Calderon, who gathered intelligence to honor the former postmaster, who died at the age of 91 in 2002. helping repel Japanese forces. my country was strong enough and during the war, said she's gratefu1 Co-sponsors include Reps. Mike Honda and Doris Matsui. They're also set to receive long• big enough to admit that it was that the U.S. government is finally Lee helped open that post office in 1977. By naming it after Lee, said awaited benefits that the United wrong and to rectify that wrong. I paying up, but she's dismayed that Pelosi in a Ju1y 7 statement, "we honor the life of a dedicated public servant States pledged during the war. hope you'll forgive us." the checks still haven't arrived, five and proud American." "I feel like a little boy going up to About 18,000 Filipino veterans, months after the legislation was President Lyndon B. Johnson appointed Lee as postmaster of San heaven," said Jose Ortego, 83, a for• many in their 80s and 90s, are still approved. Francisco in 1966. At the time, it was the highest federal appointive post mer infantry sergeant. alive. '''They give us honors, honors, ever held by a Chinese American. Some 250,000 Filipinos enlisted Some soldiers like 85-year-old honors, and we're thankful," said '~I have very little experience," said Lee in the San Francisco Chronicle in 1941 to help defend the Artemio Caleda recalled how they Calderon, 84, the only female sol• when he was sworn in. "But I don't think I'll foul up the mails. If I flunk the Philippines, a U.S. commonwealth risked their lives in advance units dier at the event. "But we haven't (Civil Service) exam, I may run for Congress." at the time. They were promised that determining lines of attack. " received any money yet. It's always During his tenure, Lee transformed the face of San Francisco's postal serv• they cou1d become U.S. citizens if Caleda said his unit rescued a in our minds: 'How long shall we ice, increasing the hiring of women, minority, and disabled postal employees. they chose and receive benefits downed U.S. pilot, helped capture wait?"'. Lee was born in Hong Kong in 1911 and moved to San Francisco with his family as an infant. He attended the College of the Pacific and Lincoln University Law School after serving as a U.S. Army counterintelligence spe- cialist during World War II. . "Lim was a powerfu1 guy," said Mel Lee, Lim's friend, to New America Media in 2007 at the 30th anniversary of San Francisco's Chinatown post office. "He knew how to handle people." •

New York Assemblywoman Wants to·Bar Use of 'Oriental' By Pacific Citizen Staff

Same bank. New look. New York Assemblywoman Grace Meng has introduced legislation to bar We're still the same strong and trusted bank thal's helped the use of the wo[(~ "Oriental" from state documents. Californians realize their financial goals for nearly 150 '''There is nothing good about this relic and it . years. The only thing new is our logo, It's a look inspired needs to be removed from our official dis• by the people whose lives we find so enriching - you, course," said Meng in the Queens Chronicle. The lawmaker and other Asian Pacific our customers. 50 stop by a branch today. We think you'll Americans say the word 'Oriental' has racist like what you see. overtones from a bygone era. She was spurred into action after one of her constituents was labeled as "Oriental" on a police document. IJ UnionBank- "It's about basic decency," said New York State Sen. Craig Johnson. Invest in YOU· The proposed legislation, which was unanimously approved in the Assembly, wou1d eliminate the use of the term "Oriental" in documents used by state, public and city agencies. The term wou1d be replaced with "Asian." Flushings is home to a growing APA popu1ation. According to the 2000 o BankofTokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ Census, APAs made up almost 20 percent of the population. IIWHJ In 2001, Washington State Sen. Paul Shin introduced a similar measure to FDic

Site of Riverside's Former Chinatown Still in Limbo RIVERSIDE, Calif.• The site of the city's for• mer Chinatown still faces an uncertain future after a July 9 court date. Judge Sharon Waters said the property owner, Riverside County Office Local JAs worry about the dwindling Her father, born in Portland, and her mother, born in of Education, did not fol• church membership. Hood River, were teens then. Their families were housed low laws when it sold the initially in horse stalls at fairgrounds near Portland. Her land to a developer. But By ASSOCIATED PRESS father's family was then sent to the grim Tule Lake she also said the city of Relocation Center in California and her mother's to the Riverside did not violate ONTARIO, Ore.-A unique Buddhist temple with wind-blown Minidoka Relocation Center east of lWin environmental laws when it approved the office building last year, according roots in a dark chapter of World War II faces an uncertain Falls, Idaho. to the Press-Enterprise. future, along with this Snake River town's once-thriving Some "probably never really got over it," said Yasuda, Waters did not say when she would issue her final niling. Japanese American community. 53. 'The conditions were bad; bitterly cold in the winter Preservationists and community group say the site at Brockton and On some Sundays, only about 60 people attend servic• and blistering hot in the summer." Tequesquite Avenues is rich with artifacts and structural remnants from the es at the Idaho-Oregon Buddhist Temple. Most are in Fujimoto, the temple leader, had three uncles and an late 1800s and early 1900s. The Save Our Chinatown Committee sued to their 70s and 80s, and a half-dozen are 90 or older. aunt who were sent to camps. His U.S.-born father, protect the historic Chinese settlement. 'The backbone of our people is dwindling," said the meanwhile, spent the war years in Japan, where he'd Rev. Joshin Dennis Fujimoto, 57, spiritual leader of the gone to study for the Buddhist ministry. Authorities Uighur Protesters March in D.C. to China's Embassy restricted his travel but didn't detairi him, Fujimoto said. Shin Buddhist membership. 'These are major concerns." WASHINGTON-An exiled Uighur leader accused by China of inciting Fujimoto's parents met and married in Japan, and The single-story brick temple, with carved wooden ethnic violence is accusing the Chinese govemment of being responsible for Fujimoto was born in Tokyo, celebrating his first birth• doors and a golden altar, traces its origins to the suspicion . rising tensions. day on a ship to America. that fell on Americans of Japanese ancestry after the Rebiya Kadeer, president of the Uyghur American Association, said dur• After the war, many stayed in 'the Ont;ario area to bombing of Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7,1941. ing a rally in downtown Washington \hat peaceful Uighur demonstrators farm. A temporary Buddhist temple was built west of Two months later, President Franklin D. Roosevelt have been targeted in China as part of the government's ongoing repression town in 1946, Six years later, the existing temple site was signed the infamous ordering the in the region. dedicated by the Buddhist lord abbot of Kyoto, Japan, West Coast's 123,000 JAs - including 4,500 in Oregon Many Uighurs believe the Han Chinese, who have been flooding into the and construction was completed in 1957. - to move inland. Many were forced into quick, pen• region in recent years, are trying to displace them. They often accuse the Han ''We still have members today who tell me stories of nies-on-the-dollar sales of farms, businesses and homes. of prejudice and waging campaigns to restrict their religion and culture. sand and bricks being carried in wheelbarrows," said With little more than what they could carry, they reset• On July 7, about 100 protesters marched nearly two miles to the Chinese Fujimoto, who grew up near Sacramento and worked 20 tled in 10 intemment camps, 18 isolation areas or a scat• Embassy in Washington, as reports of violence by Uighur and Han.Chinese years as a sculptor and artist before becoming a Buddhist tering of "free zones" - including Ontario and nearby men continued. Weiser, Idaho. minister in 2004. The temple's altar ranks beside one in Across the Snake River in Idaho, ''No Japs Allowed" Seattle as the Northwest's most ornate. Feds Could Seize Calif. Parks if Closed by Budget signs were common, and then-Gov. Chase Clark was But membership has declined from 240 in 1996. SACRAMENTO, Calif.--California officials say they are trying to avert outspokenly anti-Japanese. JAs "go off to college, and then they don't come back the federal government's threat to seize six parks - including Angellsland But in Ontario, "this area welcomed them to work and to Ontario," said lifelong resident Mary Ann Shimojima, - that could be closed to helpreduce the state's ballooning budget deficit. develop businesses and build families," said City 63. While early JAs farmed, later generations often went Angel Island is a former federal military and immigration facility in San Councilman John Gaskill, interini director of the Four into business, education or health care, said John Francisco Bay that also served as a clearinghouse for many Asian immi• Rivers Cultural Center, a museum, art gallery and per• Breidenbach, executive director of the Ontario Chamber grants. It was dubbed the "Ellis Island of the West." forming arts theater where exhibits include a traditional of Commerce. Angel Island is among the 220 state parks Gov. Amold Schwarzenegger Japanese garden and plans for a tea room this fall. Fujimoto noted that Shin Buddhists don't proselytize.- has proposed closing.to save $143 million. Legislators are considering the The area's JA population ballooned practically . ''We see other religions doing that. It seems so pushy." move as part of efforts to close a $26 billion budget deficit. overnight from 157 at the start of the war to 1,500, Plus, he said, some JAs forsake Buddhism as a statement according to figures from the .. that they are American. Some marry outside the faith. City May Reconsider Renaming Today, JAs comprise about 1.5 percent of Malheur Still others "lose interest in the relevance of Buddhist a Street After Filipino Hero County's 31,000 residents, five times the state average, practice in their lives." CARSON, Calif.--City council members have postponed a decision to according to Charles Rynerson, an analyst for Portland On the bright side, about 10 percent of those who rename a street after Filipino revolutionary hero Jose Riza1 after residents State University's Center for Population Research and attend adult dharma services are Caucasian, Fujimoto voiced opposition to the change. Census. said. Councilman Elito Santarina, who is Filipino American, proposed the idea Cathy Yasuda, executive director of the Treasure In addition, he said, Buddhism deals with difficulty to change Moneta Avenue to Jose Riza1 Avenue in honor of the hero. But res• Valley Community College Foundation and a member of and suffering. He thinks of people as waves in a sea that idents opposed the change, ar~g that they didn't want to change their the JACL's board, is among Ontario residents with rela• is the source of all life. Life, then, must be treated as address on official documents. tives who were interned during the ..yar. Her grandpar• something precious. The proposal has been referred to a committee on signage, which meets ents were compelled to walk away from a successful "Every single moment is so significant," he said. July 20. Portland produce stand. "Everything becomes of the highest concern." • Riza1 is considered the Philippines' national hero .• PACIFIC ill CrTlZEN NATIONAL NEWS JULY 17-AUG. 6 2009 7

N." . . ..., S···' . A~aka A... :".' '". ". p.. ".. Jf:A"".",.. .",r/ House Committee Vote on Bill Delayed in the By Associated Press and P.e. Staff of approximately N 1.8 million acres of ews HONOLULU-A key vote in a land that many U.S. House committee studying leg• Native Hawaiians By Pacific Citizen Staff islation to give Native Hawaiians believe was ille• similar rights as American Indians is gally taken from New York JACLer Receives Order of the Rising Sun being delayed. them by the United Longtime New York JACL member Dr. Setsuko Matsunaga Nishi has The House Natural Resources States' annexation been honored with the Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Neck Committee was to vote on the co• in 1898. Ribbon, the highest medal given by the Japanese government in its program called Akaka Bill on July 9. But that Passage by the to recognize individuals who have made significant contributions in further• was postponed for a week or two. committee would ing relations with Japan and the awardees' country. A spokesman for Hawaii send the measure The consulate, in a statement, called Matsunaga Nishi a ''beacon of the Democratic Sen. Daniel Akaka says to the full House. cornmunity, serving as both a leading scholar and a tireless social activist the de1ay will ensure that "everyone Akaka hopes the throughout her career and right up to the present." is coordinated and on the same measure will be issues. From 1965 until her retirement in 1999, she was professor of sociology at page" before a vote. taken up by the full House before the ''The bill's provisions on claims Brooklyn College and the Graduate School at City University of New York. The bill would create a process for August recess. and federal sovereign immunity self-governance by Native The Senate has not considered it appear to be overly broad and may Diablo Valley JACL Awards Chapter Scholarship Hawaiians. But some Native yet. The first test in the Senate will prohibit lawsuits by individual The Diablo Valley JACL Hawaiian lawyers have recently crit• come before the Indian Affairs Native Hawaiians," the bar associa• awarded its 2009 chapter icized the bill. Committee where Sen. Daniel tion wrote. ''They create an extraor• scholarship to Justin The Native Hawaiian Bar Inouye is a senior member. dinarily unusual circumstance in BatcheUer at a luncheon held Association contends it would give The Akaka bill was originally pro• which Native Hawaiians are barred at Dragon2K Restaurant in the federal government too much posed in 2000 and has passed the from bringing an action." Walnut Creek. immunity from claims by Native House but has been stalled in the What is at stake here is the control Batcheller is a recent gradu• Hawaiians regarding land or other Senate.• ate of Campolindo High School in Moraga. He will be attending Brown University in the fall. Minorities are Majority in 7 W. Wash. Districts Pictured above (l-r): Bruce Batcheller, Justin Batcheller and Joanne Wong. Latinos and Asians are districts across Washington and the' implications for how we teach," among the fastest growing nation. said Marge Plecki, associate profes• Union Posthumously Honors Hawaii Activist minority groups. It's fueled in part by immigration sor of education at the University of A national teacher's union has honored the late Hawaii activist Ah Quon and, in Washington, by the fact that Washington. McElrath with a human and civil rights' award named after labor rights By ASSOCIATED PRESS the minority population is younger New and veteran teachers alike, leader Cesar Chavez. and growing faster than the white she said, say they need more help in The National Education Association posthumously presented the award at SEATTLE-Not long after population, whose birth rate is meeting the needs of all their stu• its annual meeting in San Diego. Edward Lee Vargas was named declining, according to a draft dents. McElrath pushed the state Legislature to increase unemployment benefits suPerintendent of the Kent School report by Washington State With the exception of Seattle and for workers and improve workers compensation and disability insurance. District, he stood on a playground . University professor Annabel a few small districts, all the school where most of the students playing Kirschner. districts in King and Snohomish Watanabe Heads Census Bureau's Advisory Com• soccer, swinging from the jungle Washington's white population counties have a higher percentage mittee gym or batting..... tetherballs were continues to rise, but minority of minority students than they did Paul Watanabe, director of the Institute for Asian American Studies and Asian, Hispanic or black. groups especially those of Hispanic five years ago. associate professor of political science at the University of Massachusetts Eight years ago, the ' students at and Asian descent are growing Tukwila, which had the highest Boston, has been selected by Secretary of Commerce Gary Locke to serve this school, Scenic Hill Elementary, faster, especially ' among residents percentage of minority students in on the U.S. Census Bureau's Advisory Committee on the Asian population. as well as at many other Kent under age 18, the report said. the 2003-04 school year, has even As a member of the nine-person committee, Watanabe will advise the schools, were largely white. In Kent, where students speak more now a nearly equal mix of Census Bureau on ways to achieve a more accurate count of the APA popu• But this past school year the Kent more than 100 different languages, whites, Asians, Hispanics and lation in the 2010 Census. School District became the seventh district administrators require blacks. Seattle-area district in which the mandatory diversity training for Kent the state's fourth-largest API Equality-LA Wins City of Los Angeles Pride majority of students are minorities, staff and their families and beefed district has undergone the most Award joining Seattle, Tukwila, Highline, up the district's English-language rapid change among Puget Sound As part of the city of Los Angeles' Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender Renton, Federal Way and Tacoma. programs. districts, from about one-third (LGBT) pride celebration, API Equality-LA has been recognized for its The change is part of a demo• The growing diversity in minorities five years ago to' about org~ing work in the APA communites. graphic shift that's happening in Washington schools "has huge 51 percent this past school year.• API Equality-LA is a coalition of organizations and individuals working to build support for equal marriage rights and fair treatment ofLGBT people in the greater Los Angeles APA community. Actor Kal Penn Starts Work as White House AAPI Liaison Pictured above (l-r): API Equality-LA member TIm Ky, Mike Bonin from Councilmember Bill Rosendahl's office, Deanna Kitamura; Doreena Wong, By ASSOCIATED PRESS TV show "House" other staff member," Ellen Kameya and Harold Kameya. and starred in several he told reporters on a WASHINGTON-Actor Kal fllms including conference call. JA Leaders Receive Congressional Recognition Penn started a new job July 6 as a "Harold & Kumar Go He is even applying To celebrate Little Tokyo's Japanese American Cultural & Community liaison between the White House to White Castle" and this quest for a fresh Center's 29th anniversary, Congresswoman Lucille Roybal-Allard presented and Asian American communities. its sequel, "Harold start to his identity, honorees with "Certificates of Congressional Recognition." The Indian American actor is tak• and Kumar Escape saying he will use his The honorees were: Archie Miyatake, photographer; Madam Kansuma ing a break from Hollywood to work from Guantanamo given name, Kalpen Fujima, classical Japanese dance instructor; Madam Sosei Shizuye as an associate director in the Office Bay." Modi, while working Matsumoto, tea ceremony instructor; John Naka, Japanese garden land• of Public Liaison, with a focus on Penn, who backed Obama during for the Obarna administration. scaping expert; Seiichi Tanaka, taiko instructor; and Masi Oka from the connecting Obama with the Asian the campaign, said the new job has Asked about the differences NBC television series "Heroes." American and Pacific Islander com• nothing to do with his life as an between the new job and his work in The JACCC is the preeminent presenter of Japanese, JA, and'APA per• munities, as weij. as arts groups. actor. Hollywood, Penn joked that he now forming and visual arts nationally.• Penn had a recurring role on Fox's "I expect to be treated just like any wears a suit. • 8 JULY 17-AUG. 6, 2009 VOICES PACIfiC II CITlZEN THE SHIGEKI SHAKE DOWN The World is Watching Iran

Admiring Chu, Remembering Tanaka A QUICK GLANCE at any Nikkei face, espe• world much like oil today. Froll;l polymer, the cially in The Economist news magazine (July 4), eventual conversion would be biofuels and bio• invites me to iinrnediately read the story. It plastics. turned out to be about Steven Chu, America's An example (No.4) of his unorthodox think• new secretary of energy, the second Chinese ing, is his observation of painting the rooftops American following Elaine Chao (Sec. of Labor around the world white and using light-colored in the Bush Administration) to sit in a president's road surfaces to reflect a lot of sunlight back into cabinet. space "to have an effect on global warming." A co-winner of the Noble Prize for physics And (No.5) Chu doesn't believe in nuclear (1997), Chu "wants to save the world by trans• waste durnps like Yucca Mountain. He's looking The orange-red glow of the setting sun cast a warm light on the forming its largest industry - energy," the to burn them in special reactors to "transmute Santa Monica pier a week or so after the disputed election in Iran. Economist highlighted. When president-elect them into benign elements." Such is my steadier Barack Obama nominated the UC Berkeley look (and yours) with the Department of Energy. A large green flag solemnly flapped in resistance movement in Iran would have physicist last December, it was "a signal to all the wind and the soft sound of meditative been possible without modem technolo• that my administration will value science, make * * * bowl gongs traveled through the air. gy. Both inside and out of Tehran, decisions based on facts and understand that facts THE NATION'S press recently ran the obitu• People wore green headscarves, arm• Facebook and Twitter have served up ral• require bold actions." ary of Togo W. Tanaka this past week and it was bands, wristbands and bandanas. Old lying cries, protest instructions, and news Now, I realize I should have taken physics as he who christened my column, "Very Truly bald men wore green ''Where Is My of solidarity movements to enable people my second physical science class for college Yours," in 1941 when contributing pieces from Vote?" silk-screened T-shirts identical to to gather force. YouThbe, blogs, and user• prep. the Nichibei Shimbun in San Francisco. He was a their young would-be hipster nephews. created content have given voice and Chu, as the news magazine points out, faces young-looking chap graduating Phi Beta Kappa Small candles and green :glow sticks direction to the now unified masses. "some politicians from softer intellectual back• in political science at UCLA in 1936. Among the delineated a large circle where a hundred Social media has mediated society. grounds [who] often seem to forget: You cannot Nisei in Little Tokyo entering journalism at Raju or so individuals - including myself - Even as the autocratic regime has negotiate with nature. or can you ignore it, for Shimpo when he was editor (1936-1942) would sat on the beach in solemn solidarity at a blocked satellite feeds and internet por• it will not go away." include Robert Hirano, Bob Ohama, Henry Mori, candlelight vigil in honor of Neda and the tals, broadcasted misinformation on its Spotting and promoting technologies in energy Vince Tajiri, Naomi Kashiwabara, Richard Iranian struggle for democracy. state media networks, and attempted to and weaning ourselves from fossil fuels may be Homma and me. Compare that to the horrific images cast blame elsewhere, the people have our No. 1 priority as we face the return of higher Fred Hoshiyama of yulver City reminded me that leaked out of Iran each day from rallied. Using internet proxy, relatives prices at the purnp. But oil is too convenient to Togo had served on the Federal Reserve Board brave citizen journalists via Facebook, and strangers in other countries to become obsolete any time soon. for the Ninth District, classifying him as "a mil• YouThbe, Twitter and other Internet prox• tweet messages and information for No. 2 looms over the field of alternative ener• lionaire." And Fred would know, he being a fund ies. There were amateur videos of people them, the Iranian people have spoken gy - so advanced that it includes nuclear, which raiser all his life with the YMCA and with Nikkei . marching in the streets despite threats of and the world has heard them. We are was Chu's field as director at Lawrence Berkeley organizations. violence. There were images of women watching. Laboratory for the past five years at Livermore. I Togo was also the first Japanese American to being beaten with batons, riot police on As my wife and I were driving to the read where solar energy is more expensive to be elected president of the prestigious Los motorcycles indiscriminately abusing vigil in Santa Monica, she invited one of produce than wind power and the hope for Angeles Rotary Club of several thousand mem• ordinary citizens, and the unforgettable her friends to join us. Her friend asked, ch~per solar power is alive. bers. During Little Tokyo's redevelopment era, live footage of the murder of Neda, the "Is it safe?" The fact that it was safe for No.3 might be his idea of a "global glucose Togo was a commissioner on the Community young woman killed by what appears to us in Los Angeles and not safe for others economy." To explain, fast-growing crops would Redevelopment Authority. People have be a single sniper shot on the streets of in Tehran to do the same brought pangs be planted in the tropics, especially in the equato• acclaimed him a legendary icon in the JA com-. Tehran. of sadness. rial nations, where surilight is abundant. They munity. Amen to that! • The contrast is staggering. Despite the inherent risks and dangers, would be converted into glucose, of which cellu• From the sunset beaches of L.A. to the the rallying masses hit the streets every lose makes up much of the dry weight of a plant, Harry K. Honda is the Pacific Citizen editor crowded streets of London, citizens of the day. It's encouraging to know that the and the polymer would be shipped around the emeritus. world have taken notice and lent their spirit of the unconquerable human soul support to the protesters in Tehran. will not be suppressed. It is incredible to WHO ORDeRED THE MISFORTUNE COOKIES ?! They've sought to bring focus to the me that people will face violence, even growing opacity that is enveloping Iran. death, to demand inalienable rights that Indeed, the whole world is watching. need to be afforded to all people in all These historic events in Iran have cap• countries. tivated my attention for various reasons. The stories of brave individuals over• Mostly, it's the fact that in 2009, the coming enormous obstacles in pursuit of desires of a society are the same ideals the greater good for themselves and oth• that individuals sought while remaking ers around them emulate the purest ele• our country hundreds of. years ago - ments of hope. I take heart in their freedom of assembly, freedom of speech, courage and hope they can achieve the freedom of suffrage, freedom of a repre• change they desire. sentative government. It's your move Iran. Make the right It's fascinating to me that certain choice. The whole world will be watch• hurnan stirrings find resonance across ing . • time, country, culture or race. People want what people want regardless of his• Peter Shigeki Frandsen will be serving as tory, background or upbringing. a u.s. Air Force dentist at Keesler Air Yet, despite the timeless yearning for Force Base in Mississippi. He is a MoUlU freedom, I cannot help but wonder if the Olympus JACL member. PACIRC II CrTlZEN ENTERTAINMENT JULY 17-AUG. 6, 2009 9 Not So . Lee created 'Angry Little Asian Girl' in college as a way to express her anger. The characters have become a pop culture success.

Artist and actress Lela Lee has turned her nice,' which put the burden on me to suffer and take it and be tled up as a bullied child. Many share Lee's concerns about childhood frustrations into a successful nicer to these mean kids." Instead of expressing her anger, Lee media's representation of AAs, so her success should not be a business. bottled it up. In college she finally unleashed it, creating an surprise. early sketch of what would become Angry Little Asian Girl. "I think anger is a pretty common response from most peo• Lee was initially embarrassed by the cartoon's finished prod• ple, especially from artists who are capable of providing a cre• By NALEAJ. KO uct and stuffed it away in a drawer. Then in 1997, while work• ative response to their dissatisfaction," said Shinae Yoon, exec• Reporter ing at her mother's dry cleaners business, her cartoon was fea• utive director of the Visual Communications, Southern tured at a film festival. It was a hit. Soon the Los Angeles Weekly California Asian American Studies Central Inc. Artist and actress Lela Lee has found creative outlets to and were praising her work. The artist said ''But I think Lela, as well as other artists, are suffusing this express her anger and worked to transform how Asian she never, expected the positive response to her work, which anger with a healthy dose of humor and self-determination, Americans are represented in the media. Frustrated with racism was initially drawn with Crayolamarkers. which allows us to move past the anger to something that is ulti• she. experienced in her childhood, Lee created "Angry Little mately hea1thyand healing." Asian Girl" as an undergraduate at UC Berkeley. Lee says she Yoon said she is concerned about media's stereotypical is still a ''hot-blooded Korean," but she is not as angry now. Her depictions of AAs and a lack of representation. AAs represent change of demeanor has not stopped her,from giving a voice to 4.3 percent of the United States population, according to the lat• peeved women with her cartoon, "Angry Little Girls." est survey by the U.S. Census Bureau. Although there have "I expanded Angry Little Asian Girl to Angry Little Girls been i!nprovements over the years in representing the AA pop• because as I was selling the shirts out of my trunk, I got to talk ulation accurately and fairly, many explain there is still room for to the people and get their feedback," said Lela Lee. "All of the greater awareness. non-Asians would say, 'I would totally rock that shirt, but I "One of our current projects is protesting the lack of Asian can't because I'm not Asian.' I heard that enough to realize that American actors in the upcoming film The 'Last Airbender,' everyone knows what it's like to be judged for what they look which is based on a children's cartoon that very clearly depicts like, especially females." an Asian universe and Asian/Inuit characters," explained Lori Lee's once-fledging business has now expanded to a full• Kido Lopez, a board member of the Media Action Network for time job. The cartoonist is currently working on a new Angry Asian Americans, or MANAA. "It is this kind of treatment that Little Girls book set, which will be a compilation of five books. makes Asian Americans so mad that Lela Lee was compelled to And on July 5, the original Angry Little Asian Girl cartoons hit make a cartoon al:ibut her frustrations!" YouThbe for the first time. Her recent success is perhaps sweet• Lee has appeared on "Scrubs, "Curb Your Enthusiasm" and er considering the rejection and frustration Lee experienced in ''Friends'' among other TV shows. As an actress Lee said she is the past. Creating angry girls is now a fulltime gig for Lela Lee. not interested in "token Asian parts." Although there was a time "I'm very lucky to be able to have this be my job," Lee said. when she had to take those roles to bolster her resume. "But I also worked really hard and had to go through four years "I grew up without any real meaningful representations of She has been invited to schools to speak with students about of rejection and people telling me, 'there's just no market for Asians in media," Lee said. "So for me to have created a char• AA representation in media. Students ask her how they can fix Asians.'" acter that is a part of the pop culture is something I'm pretty the absence and misrepresentation of Asians in the media. Lee Lee said she grew up in a Caucasian neighborhood in proud of. Asian females feel empowered to be angry, not sub• has found that answer is not always clear-cut. Southern California, where she was constantly teased for being missive and it really resonates with them." "I don't have a definite answer for that, but .that they are Asian. She spent her childhood in a "very strict Korean house• The Angry Little Girls' cast of characters includes Deborah aware of it and talking abOut it is an important first step," Lee hold" and was not allowed to speak her mind. "the disenchanted princess," Maria the "crazy little Latina" and said. It is important to create images representative of Asians, True to her life story, the first Angry Little Asian Girl cartoon Wanda the "fresh little soul sistah," among others. Each charac• she said. showed a little girl, Kim, being belittled on the playground by ter has their own blog and is featured on merchandise like wal• For those who have not found an outlet to express their frus• two Caucasian boys. The boys taunted Kim, telling her they lets, bags, shirts and hats. But, the Angry Little Asian Girl main• tration, Lee offers a bit of advice: "Find something you like to could blindfold her with dental floss because of the size of her tains a prominent role in the cartoons and merchandise. do and channel your frustration into that, Good things can come eyes. The creation of Kim gave Lee the opportunity to finally The Angry Little Asia Girl cartoon on YouThbe, starring from doing that.". stop being nice. Kim, depicts a cute girl with pigtails who defies Asian stereo• "I couldn't talk about the hurtful things that happened to me types. With a mouth like a sailor, Kim says everything Lee bot- For more information: www.angrylittlegirls.com on the playground because my parent's response was, 'you be 10 JULY 17-AUG. 6, 2009 COMMUNIlY NEWS PACIFIC ii\iI CmzEN 'He Knew How to Give Because of the Gift He wa·s Given' Todd Sato's life and much larger than most people. his treated him well for a decade needed untimely passiilg under• age. to be replaced. He was put on the scored the importance of At his July 8 funeral service, waiting list. organ donation. about 400 friends and family mem• "I have seen my surgeon, a psy• bers gathered at the Gardena Valley chologist and had a CT sGan done," Todd wrote in an April 8 e-mail. By LYNDA LIN Baptist Church to say their [mal As of July 10, there are 102,422 Assistant Editor farewells. There was an overflow of people - evidence of the lives he people on the waiting list for organ donation, accordillg to United Todd Sato, the fonner JACL touched. Network for Organ Sharing. national youth representative, was ''It's always sad to lose a young Todd, in his last effort to give everyone's go-to guy. He would person with a passion for his com• back, helped some people on the list. drive the farthest, stay up the latest munity," said Josh Spry, JACL sec• He donated kidneys, cornea tissue and volunteer the most of his time to retary/treasurer in a statement. Todd Sato poses for a picture and heart valve - family members get jobs done. His family and friends "Todd served at all levels of this (above) for a story that appeared in say this was most significant. said he did this because he loved organization and in several others. the Pacific Citizen this past He was given that heart, said people. He was a giver. His faith, conviction for his commu• January on his organ donation Donna, and it saved another life. "You could always count on nity, and loyalty to his friends are efforts. 'The gift of life to someone else Todd," said Donna Masada• commendable, and he will be was a generous way' he was able to McHenry, his aunt. missed." Todd as a toddler in 1981. help another in need," said Gary Some attributed his selflessness to At the JACL Pacific Southwest Mayeda, a fonner JACL national his heart - literally, a gift he office, Todd was a constant. tion that seemed to correct the con• really talk about his leadership roles. board member. received from a stranger at 18. Todd, "He was often the first to show up dition. But three weeks after his "It was typical Todd. He was quiet To celebrate his life and to contin• who battled heart problems from for board meetings and one of the high school graduation in 1998, about his activism," said Donna. ue his work as a spokesperson for birth, knew he was lucky. It fueled last to leave - he was always ' Todd relapsed and went into the Last July, they celebrated the 10th organ donation, a rose in a 2010 his activism. among the group that hung out after hospital for his first heart transplant. anniversary of Todd's heart trans• Rose Parade float will be dedicated "Someone gave me the gift of the meetings to catch up," said He called the scar on his chest his plant at a swanky steakhouse in ,in Todd's name. He would've appre• life," he told the Pacific Citizen in Alayne Yonemoto, PSW district ''badge of honor," and became an Beverly Hills. His mom joked that ciated this generosity of spirit. late January when he leamed that he governor. "It was very rare for Todd outspoken advocate for organ dona• he was an expensive guy. "He knew how to give because of needed a second heart transplant. to miss a meeting or an event." tion. He rode on parade floats pro• But it was as Donna described it the gift he was given," said Donna. By all accounts, the 29-year-old He was born with "Blue Baby moting organ donation. Because he Syndrome," a cardiac defect that was one of the success stories, Todd - a monumental milestone. The did everything he could to help oth• average life expectancy of a heart • ers until his heart could take no . causes inadequate oxygenation of would put on a suit and wave at the the blood. At eight months old, Todd crowds. transplant patient is seven years. On the Web: more. On June 27, Todd died of www.jaclpsw.org underwent an experimental opera- But in his personal life, he didn't Todd beat those odds. heart failure leaving behind a legacy Then in January, the heart that www.onelegacy.org New Exhibit To Feature Japanese American WWII History ,

Coming next year to the Ellis Island of Japanese Americans, and contributed to the Museum, the exhibit will tell the sto• successful passing of the House Resolution ries of the Nisei soldiers. 442, the Civil Liberties Act of 1988," said Saul. Historian Eric Saul hopes to capture the The National Park Service is commission• Japanese American World War II experience ing the exhibit. in an exhibit slated to open early next year at Saul was the founding curator of the New York's Ellis Island Immigration Station Military Museum at the Presidio of San Museum. Francisco from 1973 to 1986. The exhibit, "Go For In 1980, he co-founded the JA Soldiers Fighting Go For Broke l00th/442nd/ Broke: Japanese American on Two Fronts Soldiers Fighting on Two MIS Foundation, later called Fronts, the Enemy Abroad the National Japanese Got WWII photos or memora· and Prejudice at Home," will American Historical Society bilia? Make them a part of the be a "Japanese American (NJAHS) in San Francisco. exhibit. Contact Eric Saul: community project" that "He was curator from 1981 to 810 Windwood PI. requires community mem• 1987, producing exhibits Morgantown, WV 26.505 bers to loan family photo• including "East to America," 304/599-0614 graphs and war memorabilia, which chronicled the story of [email protected] said Saul at a recent lunch- JA immigration to the U.S. eon with the Japanese Saul has also produced an American Veterans Association (JAVA). . exhibit entitled "Unlikely Liberators" on JA ' Through photographs, oral histories and his• soldiers of the 522nd Field Artillery Battalion, torical documents, the exhibit will tell the his• which liberated a sub camp at Dachau extermi• tory ~f the 100th Battalion, the 442nd nation center in March 1945. Regimental Combat Team, the 522nd Field Historian Ted Tsukiyama and Daisy Uyeda Artillery Battalion, and Military Intelligence Satoda, a San Francisco-based community Service (MIS). And it will examine how these leader, are also working on the project. (800) 544-8828 • www.jacicu.com Nisei veterans influenced postwar JA experi• After the New York premiere, the exhibit ences. will be shown at Los Angeles' Simon ''The war record of the Nisei soldier had a Wiesenthal Center Museum of Tolerance and 1S) (;) ~~!~~~n~~;L significant impact on the postwar civil rights then tour the U.S. and Canada, said Saul .• PACIFIC f:ll CmZEN COMMUNITY NEWS JULY 17-AUG. 6, 2009 11 S.F. Luncheon on U.S.-Japan Relations to Feature High Power Lawmakers, Diplomats . Sen. Daniel K. Inouye and Japan in leadership could shape U.S.-Japan rela• Ambassador Ichiro Fujisaki will be the tions." keynote speakers at the July 18 luncheon . Inouye is the third most senior member of event, "Between Friends: Opportunities and the U.S. Senate. He has a dlstinguished Challenges in U.S.-Japan Relations." record as a legislator and as a World War IT The luncheon is being held in conjunction combat veteran with the 442nd Regimental with the Japanese American Leadership Combat Team, for which he was awarded the Delegation (JALD) Summit,. a gathering of Medal of Honor. Japanese American leaders Fujisaki has been ambas• from across the country who sador to the U.S .' since June JA Leadership · Satoshi 'Fibber' Hirayama, 79, still showed perfect form on July 10. have gone to Japan to Delegation Luncheon 2008. Previously, he was increase their knowledge the political minister of the and involvement in U.S.• Embassy of Japan in July 18, 11 :30 a.m. A Ceremonial First Pitch Honor For 'Fibber' Japan relations. Washington, D.C. from Hotel Kabuki ' said Hirayama. So he turned to baseball and Each year, the JALD 1995-1999. The former Stockton Ports' team 1625 Post Street set a college record with fIve stolen bases in selects 10 to 15 JAs who are The luncheon will also member is honored for his San Francisco, CA94115 one game; 76 in a season. He batted .420 in active in their community to feature Consul General of' contributions to baseball. $75 for individual tickets meet with top business and Japan Yasumasa Nagarnine 1950, reigned as team captain for two years govemmentalleaders. and representatives from By Pacific Citizen Staff and was twice voted the "Most Popular For more information: While the July 17-19 the Japan Foundation, the Player" at the National Baseball Congress Diane Noguchi summit, with its scheduled Ministry of Foreign Affairs For Fibber Hirayama, 79, the Stockton tournament. [email protected] In 1952, Hirayama was signed by the St. workshops and activities, is and husiness leaders from Ports' logo - two bats centered with a base• limited to former JALD both the U.S. and Japan. ball - has special meaning. It symbolizes Louis Browns, becoming one of the fIrst delegates, the luncheon is open to the pub~ Veteran newsman James Hattori will be the beginning. JAs signed to professional baseball con• tracts. He spent the entire season - his only lic. moderating. "It was my fIrst step with professional ''We are honored to have both Senator "This event will allow us to hear how baseball," said Hirayama by telephone to one in any American professional baseball Inouye and Ambassador Fujisaki together in Senator Inouye, Ambassador Fujisaki and the Pacific Citizen. league - with the Stockton Ports. one venue to address the mutual interests and others interpret U.S.-Japan relations in Back in 1952, he spent an entire season It was a good season. He batted .264 and concerns of our two nations," said Kaz today's climate, and the role that Japanese with the Stockton Ports' as one of the fIrst stole 20 bases. He walked 71 times with just Maniwa, summit chairman. ''This luncheon Americans might play in strengthening this Japanese Americans signed to a profession• 23 strikeouts in 92 games. is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to hear the bilateral relationship," said Diane Matsuda, al baseball contract. In 1955, Hirayama signed with the senator'aIld ambassador discuss the new pres• a former JALD delegate and member of the Stockton treated him well, said the Nisei. Hiroshima Carp and played baseball in the idential administration and how this change summit organizing committee. "I've always remembered that." Nippon Pro Baseball (NPB) league in July 10 was a homecoming of SQrts. As a Japan. He was a two-time All-Star in the part of the Ports' JA Baseball Heritage NPB, in a career that sparmed to 1964. ;!J- PACIFIC National business and After he retired from playing, Hirayama Dir~ctory Night, Hirayama was honored for his contri• •.CITIZEN Professional butions to baseball. Before the Ports took on worked as a scout for the Ciilifornia Angels Your business card in each issue for 22 issues is $15 per line, three·line minimum. Larger type (12 pt.) counts as two lines. Logo 'same as line rate as required. B~aze, and the Hiroshima Carp. He was also a P.C. has made no determination that the businesses listed in this directory are licensed by proper government authority. the BakersfIeld he stood on the fIeld at Barmer Island Ballpark and threw out a Clovis UnifIed School District teacher'and Greater Los Angeles San Jose, Calif•• ceremonial fIrst pitch. administrator for 30 years. 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The JACL is recog• Rep. Norman Dicks, D• ruzmg Rep. Mike Wash., chair of the Honda, D-Calif., and . Subcommittee on Interior, other lawn;lakers for Environment, and Related their work to preserve Agencies on the House the Japanese American Committee on internment camps of Appropriations, for his World War IT. support of camp preserva• Honda, a former tion. internee, recently MIKE HONDA "We are also grateful to JACL Hosts First Collegiate D.C. LeaderShip Conference increased the House Chairman Dicks for his Budget amount for support, to Congressman "I have never been to such an inspiring and intimate with APAs in the Obama Administration, a session on Public Law 109-441, Mike Simpson, R-Idaho, conference," said one of the participants of JACL's fIrst hate crimes presented by Nawar Shora with the Arab which authorizes $38 for his efforts for the Collegiate Washington, D.C. Leadership Conference. Anti-Discrimination Committee and a historical million towards the Minidoka funding and the 'The issues and discussions here have opened my eyes overview of APAs by Phil Nash with the University of preservation of camp• Minidoka Heart Mountain and I really can't wait to bring this back to my commu• Maryland. Participants also toured the Capitol and the sites. land acquisition legislative nity and make a huge difference." Smithsonian National Museum of American History. The 2009 federal rider, and to all who sup• Thirteen students from across the U.S. took part in the The conference participants included: Tiffany budget originally allo• port the camp preserva• June 19-22 conference. Hirarnine, University of Califomia-Davis; Sean Miura, cated $1 million of the tion," said Mori. This newest component of JACL's leadership pro• USC; Sean Palmer, University of Colorado; David authorized funding. PL 109-441 was . the grams was designed to provide participants with infor• Motoyoshi, University of Minnesota; Niralee Shah, The House version of NORMAN DICKS result of HR 1492, which mation on the federal government's decision-making Williams College; Cynthia Chang, University of Florida; the 2010 federal budget was passed by Congress process as well as give students the chance to get to know Vena Amber Thichangthong, Old Dominion University; increases the amount to and -signed into law by peers from throughout the country. Ashley Vij, George Washington University; Cindy Xie, $2.5 million. President George W. Bush on Dec. The participants interacted with White House officials, Fordham University; Gloria Yun, St. Michael's College; "We are aware that 21,2007. government agencies, educators and Asian Pacilic Christopher Batalon, University of Washington; Sondra Congressman Honda spent a lot of The House Interior American community leaders. The-students also attend• Morishima, NYU; Annie Kim Noguchi, University of time discussing the issue with the Appropriations Subcommittee ed workshops on ethnic identity and public policy in Califomia, Berkeley: House Leadership. He put forth showed strong support for JA camp campus organizations. The conference was sponsored through a grant from great effort in gaining support preservation by including $2.5 mil• Highlights of this year's conference included a session the UPS Foundation .• from his colleagues for preserving lion in the House bill for the con• the camps sites," said Floyd Mori, finement sites grant program, JACL national director. "Wethank Minidoka and Heart Mountain Inouye Institute ~osts Creative Arts Camp him for his work and his commit• amendments to PL 109-441, ment to educating the public about $350,000 for Minidoka land acqui• the story of the World War IT sition, and funding to begin the Tule internment. " Lake General Management Plan Honda said he was "extremely (GMP). pleased" for the $1.5 million "The historic preservation of increase in funding. He added, " ... confInement sites will playa critical I was proud to advocate for this role in educating current and future needed increase." generations about this episode in The JACL is also recognizing our history," said Hond!! . •

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For more information: www.inouyeinstitute.org . www.tourpolaris.com PACIFIC ii'i CmZEN COMMUNIlY/ COMMENTARY JULY 17-AUG. 6, 2009 13 TAKEI (Continued from page 2) At 84, Murata Finally Gets High School Diploma Emperor. Because of his WWII was trained in an intelligence unit steps, becoming a farmer. He raised Yet, instead of celebrating Uleir refusal to cooperate with the govern• service, the Colorado and given some studies in Japanese. five children - each of whom ment's demand to answer these questions, our community has labeled native had to wait over 65 After the war, he was sent to serve in earned college degrees. them as "disloyal" and "troublemakers" and treated them with perision years to call himself a high U.S. military headquarters in Tokyo. But Murata still had no diploma of and scorn - the "dirty linen" to be hidden away. school graduate. "I really didn't know Japanese his own until a teacher at the school, It's as if black people called civil rights movement heroes like Rosa that well," Murata told the Tribune. Jeanne Lipman, heard his story last Parks and Medgar Evers "troublemakers" and "agitators" because they By ASSOCIATED PRESS ."But I'd learned a little in the intelli• year. She found Murata's report protested injustice. Imagine black folks adopting the views of the white gence schools, so they sent me." cards, got an original diploma from Southern bigots and segregationists instead of supporting racial equali• GREELEY, Colorado-There's at He met his wife, Chikako, there, one of his old classmates and turned ty. least one guy with a new high school he said. They married in Japan and them over to University of Northern The myth of the 200 percent Americans who didn't protest and who diploma Who's not worrying about in 1947 returned to northeast Colorado President Kay Norton. The shed blood to prove loyalty, became the post-war image that was used to getting into college or finding a job. Colorado. high school is now called University help white America view Japanese ~mericans in a positive light - a Mter all, Takeshi Murata is 84. Murata approached his old school, High; the university ran it when strategy to help reverse the Tojo-Ioving subversive buck-tooth "Jap" Murata was 18 and a student at thinking his military intelligence Murata attended. propaganda that helped foster the incarceration. University High School in Greeley, classes should suffice for any Norton presented the diploma to Of course, these positive stereotypes existed to manipulate public Colorado, in 1944 when he was coursework he missed when·he left Murata on July 8, and his family cel• opinion as much as the negative ones. The "model minority" image drafted to fight in World War II, school at 18. ebrated with cake and a party. helped defuse hostile attitudes, making it easier for JAs struggling to get according to the Greeley Daily 'The school officials told me I Murata, srniling, joked about the jobs and housing after the war. Tribune newspaper. wasn't qualified to graduate," he told lengthy process. The "loyal" stereotype, however, demonized civil rights protesters as Though he was the son of the Tribune. "I'm 84 years old now," he said. pro-Japan fanatics and Emperor worshipers. Perversely, as a result, Japanese immigrants, he grew up Murata dropped the diploma quest ''What am I going to do with a diplo• many JAs have internalized the racism of the War Relocation Authority speaking English. In the Anny, he and followed in his father's foot- ma? Look for a job?" • and the Western Defense Command, and learned to stigmatize protest in the American tradition, viewing it as disloyalty and support of enemy Japan. Marching For More Perfect Unions The stories of the 12,000 protesters who were segregated at Tule Lake have gone untold for the past 67 years because of this stigma. They learned their protests at Tule Lake were viewed as disloyalty and should be hidden away; consequently, most have not talked about their dissent. We wanted to make sure that we don't lose their stories forever, which is why we organized this off-year pilgrimage to Tule Lake. We hope to motivate those who care about civil rights to do what they can to fill those missing pages, to honor the courage of our unsung civil rights activists and to welcome these heroes back into the community. We hope that others will feel and do the same. -,...-1-

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East Meets Midwest Also featuring John Christgau, author www.tnkat.org. ST. LOUIS of "Kokomo Joe: The Story of the First Japanese American Jockey in 69th Annual Nisei Week I Sat., Sept. 6 10 am. the United States .• LOS ANGELES A NATIONAL GUIDE TO NOTABLE COMMUNITY EVENTS* Missouri Botanical Garden Tickets are $40/person with free wine Aug. 15·23 Featuring taiko, sumo, bonsai trees, drink ticket. Themed "A Year of Celebrations," the Info: Effie Shum, kimono fashions, bunraku puppetry festival showcases free Japanese 916/383-6784 ext. 135. and more. Held Labor Day weekend. cultl,lral events, activities, and · Sat. and Sun ., 10 a.m. to 8 p.m.; exhibits, with entertainment, food and JACL Spaghetti Dinner · Mon., 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. fun for all ages. STOCKTON Info: 314/577-9400, 800/642~8842 Info: Nisei Week office, 213/687-7183 Sat., Sept. 19 or www.mobot.org or www.NiseiWeek.org. 5 p.m. JACL Annual Summer Picnic Stockton Buddhist Temple Gym Kokeshi: From Folk Art Eat for a good cause! The proceeds WEST CARROLLTON, Ohio to Art Toy benefit Stockton JACL Education Sun., Jul. 26 LOS ANGELES Fund. Tickets are $7Iadults, :- 2 p.m. Through Oct. 4 $4/children (10 and under). 350 Wilson Park Drive, parking on Japanese American Info: 209/476-8528. the left II• National Museum Featuring food, great company, The Los Angeles Toy, Tabemasho (Let's Eat!) music, and games for children and Doll & Amusements SACRAMENTO adults. Museum and Japanese Ameri can Sat., Sept. 19 Info: Jane Katsuyama, 937/294-8815 National Museum bring together the 4 p.m. traditional Japanese doll with hun• The Japanese Cultural and dreds of examples of contemporary t ;Jl[t;t[tttI: f·j;;.M4J- . Community Center of Northern and custom kokeshi created by Bon Odori California will celebrate 140 years of American and international artists. Japanese food in America and will OLYMPIA nfo: 213/625-0414 orwww.janm.org. honor the JA food industry in . Sat., Aug. 8 JACL MDC/EDC Conference America. 5 p.m. Nevada CINCINNATI Info: Joy Iwasa, 415/567-5505 or Between 5th Ave. & Legion St. on July 24·26 [email protected]. Water St. National Singles Convention It'll he the last .lACL hi-district, so make sure you're there. Featuring food, martial arts demon• LAS VEGAS NJAHS Exhibit stration, obon dancing and a peace Sept. 18·20 'Partnering for Change: Building Bridges in our Communities' SAN FRANCISCO observance at Capitol Lake at 9 p.m. Sam's Town Hotel and Gambling takes place at the Cincinnati Marriott River Center and willfea• Through Dec. 31 Info: Bob Nakamura, 360/556-7562 Hall ture workshops, speakers and activities. i The National Japanese American ! or [email protected]. The 12th annual singles convention Historical Society is hosting an exhib• will include a golf tournament (if suf• Info and registration: it, "From Our Land," on Japanese ficient interest), welcome reception, Bill Yoshino, [email protected] or 7731728-7170 American rural legacies. workshops, gala dinner-dance and www.jaclmdc.org Toro Nagashi Celebration Gallery hours: Mon.-Fri., 12 p.m.-5 Sunday brunch $160/full registration; p.m., first Saturday of the month, 12 FRESNO hotel $89.99/night, single or double p.m.-5 p.m. Sat., Aug. 8 occupancy. atlona WaterFire show at 8 p.m. 7 p.m . " Info: www.jaclsc.com or JACL IDC·PNW Conference Info: Brylee Maxfield, 6171373-8481 Woodward Park . Yas Tokita , 702/866-2345. or [email protected] Sp~msored by the Shinzen Japanese ONTARIO, Oregon The Party July 30·Aug. 2 I Garden Society; the Toro Nagashi, or LOS ANGELES JACLers are gathering at the bi-district, ·T· . i floating lantern cultural celebration, I Sat., Jul. 18 'Atarashii Hajimari ... 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TRIBUTE TOGOW.TANAKA 19 16-2009 MARGARET MISAO YASUDA Aug. 7, 1923-May 29,2009 JACLer Was ar- 'Uncompromising Advocate For Civil Rights' By Pacific Citizen Staff ernment. "Tanaka was known to favor Togo W. Tanaka, a longtime cooperation with the camp authori• JACLer and a fonner journalist who ties because to fight them would be helped launch the Free counterproductive, and this made Press, has died. He was 93. him a scapegoat for the otherwise Tanaka died of natural causes powerless," said ada. "It's interest• May 21 at the Ronald Reagan ing that even though he favored UCLA Medical Center, according to cooperation, his writings show that the Los Angeles Times. A memorial he was a constant and vocal critic of servicl( was held July 17. the policy that created the camps JACL National President Larry and the conditions the internees Margaret was born on August 7, 1923, in Seattle, Wash. to Goroku and ada called Tanaka an "uncompro• were forced to live under." Mika Baba as their third child, and died on May 29, 2009, at Seattle Keiro mising advocate for civil rights and He chronicled Japanese American Nursing Home at the age of 85. fair treatment for our community." life in camp and outside of the She graduated from Garfield High School in 1942 and was interned at Tanaka was a Thousand Club Life barbed wire after resettlement. Minidoka, Idaho during WWII with her family. She left Minidoka to attend Member with the West Los Angeles In the Dec. 21 , 1946 Pacific Seton Nursing School in Colorado. She was a member of the Nisei Cadet JACL. From 1940 to 1942, he was a Citizen, Tanaka wrote about the Nurses of WWIL JACL national board member and unlikelihood of fonner internees To receive her B.S. in nursing she attended the College of Mount St. also served as the Pacific Citizen child. returning to the coastal cities where Joseph on the Ohio, in Cincinnati, OH., and received her degree in Public editorial board chair from 1944 to ''I was worried about my wife and they lived before the war. Health Nursing 'from the University of Washington in 1949. Margaret was 1948, according to Harry K. Honda, sore as hell about what I considered After the war, Tanaka left journal• a nurse with the King County Public Health Department where s.he worked P.e. editor emeritus. an infringement of my constitution: ism for real estate. In 1963, he in the well-baby clinic, travel immunizations and visiting nurse division. The Los Angeles resident attend• al rights as an American citizen," founded Gramercy Enterprises, a Stie married Ted Takashi Yasuda in 1950, her husband for 58 years, ed the University of California, Los Tanaka said later in Bill Hosokawa's estate holding company. who cared for her lovingly until her death. Angeles and wrote for the Daily "JACL: In Quest of Justice." ''We live in his shadow," said She is preceded in death by her parents, and brother Seiji Baba. Her Bruin, the student newspaper. For Tanaka was eventually sent to ada.• survivors include a sister, Toshiko Yoneji, sister-in-law Alice Baba; chil• six years before World War II, Manzanar, where he helped launch dren: Roderick (Roxanne Marie), Beverly Ikeda (Thomas M.), Roxanne Tanaka worked as the English lan• the Manzanar Free Press. 'In Memoriam' appears on a limited, space-available basis at no cost. Guion (Eric); grandchildren: Lauren &Erika Yasuda, Collin &Allison Ikeda, guage editor of the . He advocated cooperation with Amy, Anne & Kate Guion. the government, a position that But after the Japanese bombed 'Tributes,' which appear in a timely Her affiliations include Blaine Memorial United Methodist Church Pearl Harbor, the FBI arrested made him a target of anger and Tuesday Ladies, Garfield High Golden Grads, Founding Family of manner at request of the family or Tanaka and held him for over two sometimes violence. On the first funeral director, are published at the Japanese Culture & Community Center of Washington, Japanese weeks without any charge. uring anniversary 0 the Pearl Harbor rate of $20 per column inch. Text is American National Museum, Nisei Veterans Committee Women s that time, no one was allowed to see attack, Manzanar internees rioted reworded as necessary. For info. : Auxiliary, Ohara Flower Arranging School, UW Alumni, Japanese him, not even his wife Jean who was and sought out Tanaka for favor• [email protected]. American Citizens League, Densho, Omoide group and Seattle Hiroshima nine months pregnant with their first ing cooperation with the U.S. gov- Club. A memorial service to celebrate Margaret's life was held June 13, 2009, SOUP TO SUSHI TRIBUTE Saturday, at 3 p.m. at Blaine Memorial United Methodist Church, 3001 (a special collection of favorite recipes) 24th Avenue South, Seattle, WA 98144. Remembrances may be made to: JOHNNY K. SAKIOKA Blaine Memorial United Methodist Church-Yasuda Scholarship Fund New Deluxe 3-Ring Passes away peacefully at age 82 (scholarship fund for students at Blaine Memorial United Methodist Binder Cookbook With Church), or your favorite charity. Johnny Katsui Sakioka, · a Sakioka and Mary Nakayama; i Over 750 Recipes California born resident of Newport brother-in-law, Dr. Tommy (Kathy) i $25 (plus $5.50 handling) Beach, peacefully passed away Nakayama of Arizona, many June 19 at his home surrounded by nieces, nephews, and relatives in ! FUMIOTOYA Wesley United Methodist Women February 1, 1926 - June 28, 2009 his family. He was 82. Japan. 566 N. 5th Street Memorial services for the late In lieu of flowers or "koden" San Jose, CA 95112 Fumio entered into rest June Johnny Sakioka were held on July (monetary expression of sympathy) 28, 2009, at the age of 83. 2, 2009. Rev. Nonaki Ito of the a donation may be made in memo• Fumio was a beloved husband Higashi Honganji Buddhist Temple ry of Johnny K. Sakioka to one of OTA to Vivian. He was a loving officiated at the services held at the following organizations: KKEI father of Calvin Toya, Janice Mesa Verde Country Club in Costa MORTUARY Toya, Barry Toya and daughter Mesa. American Cancer Society, mr]lI[;w;2l:::rr::E1

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