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HOW TO REACH US JACL Disappointed By Decision to End DACA Email: [email protected] Online: www.pacificcitizen.org he JACL is deeply disappointed by the Repeal of DACA protections will create un• For many in the Japanese American commu• Tel: (213) 620·1767 Mall: 123 Ellison S. Onizuka St., Trwnp administration's decision to necessary chaos in the commllllities as families nity, our immigration occurred many years ago Suite 313 T end the Delayed Action on Childhood will be torn apart. Additionally, America will with our Issei generation. Our commllllity is Los Angeles, CA90012 Arrivals (DACA) program. experience significant losses to the economy. built upon their dreams. STAFF DACA has supported nearly 800,000 young The cost of workforce replacement alone is It is with this knowledge of what the Ameri• Executive Editor immigrants, or Dreamers, who have worked estimated to cost American businesses $3.4 can dream has meant for our commrnrity, and the Allison Haramoto hard to fit the program's strict requirements. billi on in turnover costs. dreams of the Issei who have immigrated more Senior Editor As a nation, we have always prided ourselves The overall impactto the economy is estimated recently, that we stand with the immigrant com• Digital & Social Media on protecting the innocent. In this case, we have to be $460.3 billion in lost GDP over the next munity today in opposition to DACA's repeal. George Johnston failed the children who were brought to this 10 years. We are a nation of immigrants, with the dream Business Manager Susan Yokoyama country by their parents, have created full lives This disruption and chaos the repeal of DACA of building a better life, both individually and for Production Artist as Americans and have done nothing wrong as will create is reminiscent of when 120, 000 Japa• our COlllltrY. Marie Samonte they fulfilled their parents' dreams. To take away nese Americans were uprooted from their com• We urge Congress to find common grolllld in Circulation these children's dreams is especially cruel and mrnrities, homes and businesses during World preserving the American dream and pass the Eva Ting VICIOUS. War II and placed in concentration camps. bipartisan Dream Act of 2017. 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(nudge nudge) to the vicious Japanese officer from the 1957 NIKKEI VOICE movie "The Bridge on the River Kwai." In a hilarious scene, the movie pays homage to "The River Kwai" with Hayakawa overseeing the building of a bridge over a koi pond. (Walk, Don't Run' Japan Through Hollywood's Most people probably don't remember this 1966 comedy starring Cary Grant, Jim Hutton and Samantha Eggar as Lens Over the Decades three westerners (two Brits and an American) who cross paths in Japan during the Tokyo Olympics. Grant is a bu• But this bit of "cross-etlmic yellowface" doesn't ruin the sinessman; Hutton is an architect who happens to be on the By Gil Asakawa film. It's a classic. It resonates all the more for me because US. Olympic team for a little-known sport, speed walking. my dad was in the Army during the Korean War, and he was Eggar lives in an apartinent, and first Grant, then Hutton, end 11 the recent controversy over "whitewashing" - discouraged from having a relationship with my mom, who up as her roommates because all the hotel rooms are filled. Hollywood's habit of casting white people in Asian he met while he was stationed in Hokkaido. They had to have Comedy and romance ensue, with Grant playing the part of A roles - got me thinking about how Japan has been a series of meetings with superiors before they were allowed a dapper matchinaker. Tokyo is depicted pretty accurately portrayed in films. to marry. and respectfully (including the crowded narrow street where Because I was born in Japan, my earliest movie memories (The Geisha Boy' the apartment is located), and the movie's a breezy enter• are c hambara, or samurai (and especially ninja), movies The late comedian Jerry Lewis was no stranger to racist tainment. that 1 watched in black and white on television. My mom Asian stereotypes. You can find photos of him online with (The Yakuza' used to take my brother and me to Disney features when thick glasses and buck teeth, playing an over-the-top version This late-career film nair triumph by Robert Mitchum is a they opened, riding the trains with us to the cinema. As I of a Japanese person. But his 1958 movie "The Geisha Boy" 1974 introduction to the culture of the yakuza, the Japanese grew up, I treasured American films that were set in Japan. is a little gem. version of the mafia. Mitchum is asked by an old Army bud• There haven't been a whole lot, but it's interesting to see how Lewis is the "Great Wooley," a hapless magician who dy to help clear a yakuza debt when the buddy is threatened. Hollywood depictions have showed Americans' stereotypes can't get any gigs stateside and is sent overseas on a USO But to help, Mitchwn has to confront a Japanese man who of Japan, and how that's changed over the years. tour to entertain troops in Japan and Korea. Even before he hates him - and the man's sister, who Mitchum fell in love (Sayonara' leaves America, the movie establishes that he's a klutz, who with during the postwar occupation of Japan. The action is This 1957 movie means a lot to me because it shows Japan repeatedly offends the star of the USO tour, a movie star terrific, and the plot twists unexpected. Fans of this film will of the year I was born. It's shot in Technicolor that casts a played by Marie McDonald. also enjoy the 1989 movie "Black Rain," starring Michael warm Kodachrome glow to the images. The film stars Mar• The opening scene also introduces Harry, his comic foil, a Douglas and Andy Garcia as New York cops tangled up with lon Brando as a hotshot Korean War Air Force fighter ace rabbit. Harry is surprisingly great throughout the movie. The the yakuza in Japan. who is stationed in Japan. His buddy, played by Red Buttons, story line is about an orphaned little boy (Robert Hirano) 'The Karale Kid Part II' falls in love with a Japanese woman who is played by Miyo• who falls in love with Lewis and his aunt, played by Nobu The sequel to the original 1984 film "Karate Kid" once shi Umeki, who some of you might remember from the late McCarthy, who we can tell also has feelings for Lewis. again features Ralph Macchio and Pat Morita, but this 1986 1960s TV series "The Courtship of Eddie's Father." Japan in the movie is recovered from WWII and is movie is set in Okinawa and was the acting debut of a lovely Brando, like the military brass, doesn't approve. Buttons' beautifully depicted, especially in a series of scenes where teenaged Tamlyn Tomita. What more do you need to know? character eventually despairs, and his relationship ends Lewis and the boy play tourist and visit spots like Kamakura, It's a sweet movie that captures the look and feel of small• tragically Meanwhile, Branda falls in love with a Japa• known for a giant statue of Buddha. town Japan (instead of the usual glamour of Tokyo), and its nese woman, played by Miiko Taka. The story is subtle and The movie deserves extra points for casting Suzanne cast of Japanese hoodlums who pick fights with Macchio and complex, the scenes are gorgeously shot, and the only thing Pleshette in her first role, an Army officer assigned as Lewis' Morita includes a wonderful job by Yuji Okumoto (who still that mars the film is the casting of Latino actor Ricardo handler who also likes him, and for casting Sessue Hayaka• Montalban as a Japanese stage star. wa as McCarthy's father, who bears an llllcanny resemblance » See DECADES on page 12

ciate them for their work, especially when we share the same name, although different spelling. Thank you, Marcial A MOTHER'S TAKE At the very end of dinner, 1 noticed that this couple, who I was told were in their 80s, wore rainbow wristbands.

PHOTO COJRTESY IT MARSH A AIlUMI In delight, I exclaimed, "Oh, you are wearing rainbow wrist• Agape bandsl" I was going to explain to them what the wristbands meant to the LGBTQ community, but before 1 could, they replied, "We wear these so when people see them, they will know that we are a safe place for them to be." By Marsha Aizumi 1 choked back a huge lump in my throat and wanted to throw my arms arolllld both of them. I am not sure if this never know when a moment will move my heart. The couple knew what this gesture meant to me, a mother who place was Fresno, Calif., and the people were from a loves her transgender son and wants him to live in a world I Christian church in the area. I had been introduced to a of love, respect and safety, but if they are reading this article church member, Elena Tsuchiya, by Nikiko Masumoto, who today, I want the Rev. Sab Masada and his wife, Marion, to spoke at our 2016 OKAERl: A Nikkei LGBTQ Gathering. know that what they are doing touched me in ways they can 1 loved Nikiko's spirit so much when 1 met her that upon Pictured (front row, from left) are Elena Tsuchiya, never Imagme. hearing a regional summitfor API LGBTQ leaders was hap• Rev. Sab and his wife, Marion Masada, and (back In a conservative city, in a conservative commllllity, kno• pening in the area she lived in, I reached out to her, so I could row, from left) Pastor Akiko, Marsha Aizumi and wing there are voices who are speaking up with love and be around her wonderful energy again. Nikiko Masumoto. inclusion for my son moves me so deeply and gives me hope Elena and 1 talked before I came to Fresno, and she that when I am gone, there will be others fighting for Aiden. arranged a dinner for me and a few church members on the in the LGBTQ community 1 also want to thank Pastor Akiko for reaching out to me day 1 arrived. They were part of an Agape group formed at One of the mothers shared that when she read about the with "agape." 1 am so grateful for the work she is doing to the church. shame and stigma 1 went through having an LGBTQ child, bring greater awareness and compassion to the LGBTQ Agape seemed to have many definitions when 1 looked it she related so much to me. Although she did not have commrnrity. up in the dictionary, but the term 1 liked best was "uncondi• LGBTQ children, she also had two marginalized children And 1 want to thank all of you, my readers, from cities near tionallove." and felt many of the same feelings 1 had. and far, large and small, for the work you are doing to bring This group was bringing llllconditionallove to their church, We bonded as mothers that knew our journeys had been greater love and acceptance to your commllllities. Our world and part of the love they were bringing was a feeling of in• different but also filled with similar feelings. We also needs it more than ever. and so do families like mine. clusion and acceptance. I loved each of them from the first bonded because we had not let our shame defeat us, but it moment that we hugged in greeting. They were role models made us stronger in love, so we could emerge feeling like Marsha Aizumi is an advocate in the LGBT community of the word agape. good mothers. and the author of the book "Two Spirits, One Heart: A As we were enjoying a delicious dim swn dinner, we talked 1 also met someone from the local JACL chapter. 1 am Mother, Her Transgender Son and Their Journey to Love about many things ... the church, their families and my work always so happy to meet someone from JACL and appre- and Acceptance." 4 Sept. 8-21 , 2017 NATIONAL/COMMUNITY PACIFICO CITIZEN Los Angeles Celebrates NewsBytes Rfteen States and D.C. Sue Trump Administration Over Ending DACA Tanabata Festival NEW YORK - Fifteen states and fue District of Columbia sued Sept. 6 to block The festival celebrates fue Tambata President Donald Trump's plan to end a (Sevenfu Night of fue Sevenfu Moon), which STAY' WORK· STUDY program protecting yOllllg immigrants from is celebrated allover Japan. It features fue wlthDACA deportation - an act Washington state's display of huge handinade kazari (decora• attorney general called part of a "dark time ti ons) at fue Geffen Museum of Contem po• for our country." rary Art (MOCA) plaza. The lawsuit, filed in federal court in Brooklyn, asked a judge to conclude fuat fue The event, which was officially included president's action involving the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, or during Nisei Week in 2009, is supported DACA, is unconstitutioml. by fue Little Tokyo Public Safety Assn., Rescinding DACA will also injure state-run colleges and lllliversities, upset workplaces the Japanese Prefectural Association of and damage companies and economies that include immigrants covered under the Soufuern California and fue Nisei Week program, the lawsuit says. Foundation. The Consul General of Japan Attorney General Jeff Sessions said Sept. 6 that the program will end in six months so in Los Angeles is the permanent Honorary Congress can have time to find a legislative solution for the people in the program, who Chairman of fue f esti val. were brought to fue US. illegally as children or came wifufamilies who overstayed visas. JACL National President Gary More fuan 120 handinade kazari were Plaintiffs in the lawsuit are Connecticut, Delaware, District of Colwnbia, Hawaii, Mayeda served as a judge for entered in this year's competition; all were Illinois, Iowa, Massachusetts, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, the ninth annual Los Angeles judged in six categories including anime! Pennsyl vania, Rhode Island, Vermont and Virginia. Tanabata Festival. manga, business, government, individuals! California, one of the most solid Democratic states, was noticeably absent. family, Japanese Prefectural Assn. and California Attorney General Xavier Becerra plans to file a separate lawsuit because a ACL National President Gary Mayeda institutions/nonprofit organizations. quarter of DACA recipients are California residents, his spokeswoman Bethany Lesser served as a judge during the ninth an• This years' Founder's Award winner, said. nual Los Angeles Tanabata Festival, which consists of the overall winner from J Under fue move by Trump, people already enrolled in DACA remain covered until which was held during Nisei Week in Los each of the six categories, was All Nippon fueir permits expire. If fuat happens before March 5, fuey are eligible to renew fuem for Angeles' Little Tokyo from Aug. 19-20. Airways. • anofuer two years as long as fuey apply by Oct. 5. But fue program isn't accepting new applications. Opponents of fue program said fuey are pleased wifu fue Trump adininistration's Manzanar Celebrates Paiute• decision. They called DACA an unconstitutional abuse of executive JXlwer. North Korea Missile Fear Sets Pre-Emptive Strike Debate in Japan Shoshone Family With New Exhibit TOKYO - Japan is debating whefuer to develop a limited pre-emptive strike capability PHOTO NPSilRENE BUTTm and buy cruise missiles - ideas that were anathema in the pacifist country before the he Manzanar National ca..LECTI.. C1'J...... ___ ., "Park Ranger Mark Hacht• Historic Site will hold a mann and Latino Heritage In• North Korea missile threat. With revisions to Japan's defense plans underway, ruling party hawks are accelerating the moves, and some defense experts say Japan should at T public reception inside tern Roci 0 Gomez collaborated the Visitor Center on Sept. wifu fue Button family overfue least consider them. 15 for its newest exhibit "A past three months," said Man• After being on fue backburner in fue ruling party for decades, fue possibility of pre• Paiute S tory From Manzanar," zanar Superintendent Berna• emptive strike was formally proposed to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe by his party's which showcases 100 years of dette Johnson. "We are pleased missile defense panel in March, prompting parliamentary debate, fuough somewhat lost fue Button family's history at to share fue family's story wifu steam as Abe apparently avoided the divisive topic after seeing support ratings for his Manzanar. fue public. The Paiute-Shosho• scandal-laden government plunge. The Button family, members ne connection to Manzanar is North Korea's test-firing Aug. 29 of a missile, which flew over Japan and landed in fue of fue Lone Pine Paiute-Sho• significant to the site, and sto• northern Pacific Ocean, has intensified fear and reignited the debate. shone tribe, has a long history ries like fuese shared by fue Abe called North Korea's missile firing "unprecedented, grave and a serious threat." wifu Manzanar dating back to Button family help us to pre• Defense Minister Itsunori Onodera, an advocate of bolstering Japan's missile and strike• fue farming era. Thefamilyma• serve fue history of fue first in• back capability, said more provocations by fue North are likely and Tokyo must quickly triarch, Irene Button, lived wifu habitants of fue Owens Valley." upgrade its missile arsenal. her family on Moffat Ranch, Irene Button and her family U.S. Rep. Colleen Hanabusa to Run for Hawaii Governor about four miles south of Man- Irene Button at age 4 donated several photographs, HONOLULU - US. Rep. Colleen Hanabusa plans to challenge zanar. Irene Button's uncle artifacts and documents to Gov. David Ige in the race for governor of the 50th state. Hanabusa and great uncle, Louie and John Shepherd, fue site, most of which are on display in fue announced Sept. 1 fuat she will file papers to establish a campaign respectively, were employed by John Shep• exhibit. She and her family will be present at committee. Her announcement pits two prominent Hawaii herd on his ranch and were some of the first the recepti on. Paiute to take on their employer's surname. JXlliticians against each other for the Democratic nomination. Hanabusa says she has gained fue skill-set and fue experience The Eastern California Musewn partnered For more infonnaiion visit www.nps. J to address issues facing Hawaii. Her campaign says she will offer with Manzanar to provide historic photo• govlmanz or visit www.facebook.coml voters a choice of someone who is a fighter and leader. graphsforfue exhibit. ManzanarNalionalHistoricSite. Gov. Ige welcomed Hanabusa's entry into the governor's race. Hanabusa served in the state Senate for 12 years. She is in her fiffu year in fue US. Congress. DACA » continued from page 2 Princess Mako Set to Wed Kei Komuro in 2018 TOKYO - Japanese Emperor Akihito's oldest grandchild, holders of advance parole are not guaran• being offered furoughout fue monfu every Princess Mako, 25, announced in a news conference on Sept. 3 teed adinittance to fue US. Thursday at its downtown office. fuat she will wed university classmate Kei Komuro, 25, in 2018. "While Advancing Justice-LA will fight to "We call on Congress to immediately pass Komuro proposed to fue princess in December 2013. Mako will keep DACA and pass fue DREAM Act, we clean legislation that does not exploit immi• lose her royal status after marrying Komuro, who is a commoner. also urge all eligible DACA recipients to file grant youfu as a bargaining chip for harsh The princess first met Komuro, a legal assistant, while attending for renewal," said Aman Thind, immigration enforcement measures, but instead respects Tokyo's Intermtional Christian Uni versity. She has since introduced project director for Advancing Justice-LA. fue inherent dignity and humanity of all im• him to her parents, Prince Akishino, second in line to the Chrysanthemwn throne, and Currently, Advancing Justice-LA's staff migrants with a real path to citizenship for Princess Kiko, as well as her grandparents, Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko. is offering free renewal assistance to eli• immigrant youth and their families," said gible DACA recipients. Renewal clinics are Betty Hung policy director of Advancing - P.C. 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By Charles James, Contributor

irroring the con• Members of the 72nd Annual tinuing and sad his• Manzanar Reunion Committee M tory of racism in the gather together for a photo dur• United States that played out in ing the weekend's gathering at the violence on the streets of Char• California Hotel and Casino. lottesville, Va., last month was yet another reminder of why the 72nd Annual Manzanar Con• centration Camp Reunion, held Aug. 14-15 in Las Vegas, Nev., is as important as ever, as are Manzanar Reunion keynote the rellllions and pilgrimages speaker Dennis Ogawa of held at former World War 11 the University of Hawaii American concentration camps across the COlllltrY. Two hlllldred and twenty-two former camp were very yOllllg when Earnie and Marie Masumoto have both written exten• incarcerees, family members and friends they were sent to the sively about the Japanese American WWII experience. met at the California Hotel and Casino to incarceration camps remember their own chapter of racism faced with their families. At by Japanese Americans and those of Japa• best, anyone born during WW11 is at least 75 and delivering the Manzanar Rernrions the nese ancestry during WW11 - and how they years old. last six years." Anderson was only 65 years endured and overcame it. The numbers are dwindling quickly as for• old when she passed away unexpectedly on The rellllion is an opportrnrity to visit with mer camp incarcerees fall into their 80s and Oct. 20. More than 300 people attended her old friends and share mostly fond memories 90s, signaling a time when there will be very service to celebrate her memory. of a time that - nevertheless - was also few, if any, left with direct experience and The Oda family is still very much involved an example of one of the most flagrant vio• knowledge of what life inside the incarcera• in the Manzanar Rernri on - Marian Oda lations of the civil rights and acts of racial tion camps was like. Rernrions and pilgrim• Murphy serves as vice chair, with other prejudice in the history of the United States: ages allow those attending to impart infor• family members such as Dorothy Oda, Mar• Manzanar Reunion Vice Chair The forced removal of 120,000 Ameri• mation to others so that no one forgets and ilyn Kishi (Oda) and a host of others related Marian Oda Murphy can citizens of Japanese descent and those gives a historical record from which future to the Oda family helping her out. of Japanese ancestry during WW11 from generations can learn and, hopefully, never This year's guest speaker was Dennis nese Americans lived far enough away from 1942-45. see repeated. Ogawa from the University of Hawaii in the West Coast that they were not forced into The Manzanar Rernrion is increasingly a This year's gathering brought with it the Honolulu. Ogawa is a professor in the de• the incarceration camps. reminder that, as time moves forward, there sad news of the loss of Grace Oda Anderson, partment of American Studies and author Seventy-five years ago, under Executive are fewer and fewer adult and children incar• the daughter of George and Fujiko (Nomura) of nwnerous books on Japanese Americans, Order 9066 signed by President Franklin cerees from that era still alive. Manyattend• Oda. Her parents met at the camp. She was most notably "Jan Ken Po: The World of Ha• D. Roosevelt (its legality later upheld by the ing the rernrion were born in the camps or described as a "driving force in planning waii's Japanese Americans" and "Kodomo Supreme Court), 10 War Relocation Author• no Tame ni: For the Sake of the Children," ity incarceration camps were established in along with a host of other accomplishments. Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, In addition, Ogawa was honored as a Idaho, Utah and Wyoming. Most suffered Distinguished Historian by the Hawaiian great fimncial loss. The cultural traditions Historical Society in 1992 and is currently and authority of the older immigrants were serving as the general editor for the Univer• also upended. sity of Hawaii Press book series on the Nisei Despite the egregious violations of hu• generation. He also is assisting the Japanese man and civil rights inflicted on them, some American National Musewn in Los Angeles 25,600 Japanese Americans from both in• on nwnerous projects. side and outside the incarceration camps en• According to the 1940 US. Census, there tered into the United States Armed Forces to were 127,000 people of Japanese ancestry fight for their country. And in their minds, living in the United States at that time. There the US. was never not their country. The were 112,353 living in the three states in the last American concentration camp closed in Continental US. on the West Coast. Cali• March 1946. fornia alone had 93,717 Japanese, or nearly One interesting couple at the rernrion was three-fourths of the national total. An esti• Marie (Saito) and her husband, Earnie Ma• mated 70 percent of those sent to concentra• swnoto. They attended in honor of Marie's Reunion attendees over the age of 90 all gathered for a memorable photo. tion camps were American citizens, half of father, George Saito, a Nisei soldier who whom were children. A few fortunate Japa- served in the US. Army. PACIFIC e CITIZEN IN-DEPTH Sept. 8-21 , 2017 7

The Manzanar Reunion allowed friends (from left) Susumu "Sus" loki, Shizuko Fujioka and Tom Nishimura the opportunity to catch up on old times, Members of the Fujioka and Kunitomi families at the Manzanar Reunion

Incarcerated at different American concentration camps, Shig and Candice Kuwahara met at a dance festival The Nakada family had 19 members attend the reunion, following the end of World War II,

excavated several archeological gardens largest family group attending the reunion. Shig and Candice Kuwahara met at a built during the WWII incarceration of Jap• In April 1942, Nakada was only 16 when dance festival after the war when a mutual anese Americans. She also volunteers for he was forced to relocate with his family in friend that was with Shig tapped Candice on the arumal Manzanar Pilgrimage, conduct• West Los Angeles to Manzanar. His par• the shoulder from behind. She turned around ing tours of the gardens, and has contributed ents were Kuizo and Kamako Nakada from to see who did it, and on seeing Shig - who three articles about the concentration camps Okinawa. The family was given three weeks she did not know - gave him a withering to the online Densho Encyclopedia. to gather their possessions and move to look. When the mutual friend called out to Earnie Masumoto was born in May 1943 Manzanar. After the war ended in 1945, the her, "Hey, Candice! It's me!" she then real• in the Topaz Internment Camp in Utah. His family moved back to West Los Angeles, ized it hadn't been Shig at all. That tap on the parents owned a Japanese souvenir shop in where his father owned property. shoulder however turned out to be a lucky San Francisco's Chinatown. After the end of Harry Nakada helped design and main• day for Shig. The two of them began dating, WWII, the family moved to East Los An• tain the Japanese Garden, a 6.5-acre public and they eventually married. Alisa Lynch, geles. According to his writings in Densho Japanese garden located on the grounds of Another interesting twist is that while Shig chief of inter• Encyclopedia, Masumoto graduated from the Tillman Water Reclamation Plant in the had been incarcerated in Manzanar, Candice pretation at the Garfield High School, dropped out of East central San Fernando Valley. was sent to another camp. As a little girl, she Manzanar Na• Los Angeles Community College, got a Susumu "Sus" loki is 89 years old and had grown up in the neighborhood where tional Historic drafting job at Hughes Aerospace Group in lives in Venice, Calif. He lived in Block 14 the family of Shiro Fujioka lived prior to the Site, spoke at 1965 as a contractor and later contracted at at Manzanar and was friends with Shizuko war. She still fondly remembers as a little the Manzanar several commercial and military companies Fujioka (Sakahara), who lived in Block 12. girl riding on the back of Ted Fujioka, the Reunion. until returning to Hughes Bectro Optics He was sent to the camp in 1942 at age 13, son of Shiro Fujioka, featured in the May 20, Company in 1985. Hughes is now a part of and both he and Shizuko graduated with the 2016, edition of the Pacific Citizen. the Raytheon Company, where he worked as Manzanar High School Class of 1945. His Ted enlisted in the Army after graduating Saito enlisted in the Army while he and a principle mechanical engineer. father owned a wholesale cut flower busi• from Heart Mountain High School at the his family were imprisoned at the Manzanar Manzanar Reunion attendee Bo Sakagu• ness near Marina Del Rey, Calif., where he age of 18 in 1943. He would go on to serve concentration camp. He met Marie's mother, chi was 17 when his family was forced to worked for 30 years, before later managing a with the most-highly decorated military Kinuko, while seIV'ing as an interpreter in move from North Hollywood to Manzanar computer center for a medical company for unit in U. S. history, the 442nd Regimental JXlst-war Japan during the occupation, where in April 1942. 13 years. Combat Team. He was only a little more than he served as an interpreter. At the age of 6 "We were told we could take one suitcase," loki and Shizuko Fujioka spent time with 19 years of age when he was killed on Nov. months, Marie and her mother moved to he recalled. "My suitcase was filled with Tom Nishimura at the reunion. Nishimura 6, 1944, by a German artillery shell while Los Angeles. They were later joined by her candy and gum. No clothes, just candy and was 10 years old when he was sent to the serving in France. father, who was born near Little Tokyo and gum. I had a terrible sweet tooth." Heart Mountain concentration camp, where It's a small world. grew up in Little Tokyo and Boyle Heights. Sakaguchi would graduate from Manzanar the Hiro Fujioka family was also incarcer• Looking back on the history of racism that Marie Masumoto is an accomplished in• High School in 1943. His family moved back ated. He knew Yoshiro "Babe" Fujioka, Shi• resulted in the creation of American con• dependent researcher of Japanese Ameri• to the San Fernando Valley in 1945 after the zuko's future husband. "Babe" would meet centration camps, readers might well ask can history. She volunteers for the Hirasaki end of the war. Shizuko at L.A. Community College, and why anyone would want to remember such a National Resource Center at the Japanese Another attendee, Harry Nakada, who they would marry. past, much less come together to celebrate or American National Museum, as well as the celebrated his 93rd birthday on Aug. 16, was Reunions allow these types of friendships remember it? The answer is simple: to not Manzanar National Historic Site. She has joined by 18 members of his family - the to flourish and continue decades later. ever again repeat it, ever. • 8 Sept. 8-21, 2017 NATIONAL/COMMUNITY PACIFIC. CITIZEN JACL Successfully Completes Its First Asian Pacific Islander Youth Legacy Program PH OTOS: COJRTESY CF JACL

Forty participants from across the US travel to Los Angeles INSTRUCTIONS to learn more about the World War II incarceration experience TO ALL PERSONS: and its aftermath

nthused by the experience of taking part in JACL's E newly established Asian Facific Islander Youth Legacy Pro• gram, one of the participants said, "This experience has been more amazing than I could have ima• YLP participants took part in a storytelling workshop at gined. Although I am not Japanese JANM to prepare them for their visit to Manzanar. American, I have felt so welcomed in this community and program. " Another participant exclaimed, son arranged the itinerary for the because of how many hearts were "An impactful, very important participants. broken or torn apart within one lesson and story that needs to be FOllowing lunch at the 1-1anza• single camp. Angry because I can shared, taught and remembered." nar mess hall, Alisa Lynch from see how the camp mannerisms On July 25-28 and again on the National Falk Service provi• have been instilled in my fami• Aug. 8-11, 40 Asian American ded commentary and information ly customs and passed down the youth from throughout the United The 2017 participants and organizers of the JACL's Youth about two reconstructed barracks generations. Don't make waves, States ventured to Los Angeles Legacy Program gather for a picture along with National and the newly installed women's don't waste food, don't speak to take part in the JACL Asian Park Service staff in front of the monument at the Manzanar htrine and shower facility. Japanese, become a hwyer or Facific Islander Youth Legacy National Historic Site in California's Owens Valley. The participants also had an doctor. These characteristics ProgIaffi (YLP), which was hekl at opportunity to tour the Interpreti• describe my parents' generati• the Japanese American National ve Center prior to visiting 1-1erritt on. But, what will become of the Museum in Little Tokyo. presented by Go FOr Broke Presi• Nitahara, interim assistant Falk (Pleasure Falk), the hrgest fourth, fifth, sixth genT' she asked. The program provides Asian dent and CEO Mtchell1-1aki and executive director of JACL, led of the gardens constructed by Yoshino, Nitahara and Rebecca Facific Islander youth with the op• personal accounts of the camp the group on a historic tour of the the incarcerees. The tour ended Ozaki phnned, coordinated and portunity to learn about the Work! experience by June Aochi Belk. Little Tokyo neighborhood. Kanji with a visit to the cemetery and facilitated the YLp, which was War II incarceration experience In addition, Alison De La Cruz Sahara guided participants through monument funded through a $100,000 grant through four days of classroom presented a wolkshop on storytel• the disphys at JANM, and the par• One participant, Kristy Ishii, from the National Park &rvice. presentations and tours that inclu• ling to prepare the participants to ticipants also took a self-guided provided an insightful account of Also in attendance during the des a trip to 1-1anzanar. The 40 par• present their reflections about the tour of the Go FOr Broke National her visit to 1-1anzanar. program were George 1-kDonald, ticipants were selected from a pool program and the 1-1anzanar visit Education Center. I wanted to learn more manager of NPS youth programs of 67 applicants from 19 states. during a debriefing session on the The day trip to 1-1anzanar about the incarceration outside based in Washington, D.C, and The YLP chssroom sessions program's hst day. proved to be a highlight of the pro• of my family's limited views, and Amanda Rowhnd, NPS coordi• included a presentation on the Tours were arranged to acquaint gram. The four-hour bus ride to the I did. I didn't come here to feel nator for youth programs in the history of incarceration by former the YLP participants with aspects Owens Valley was supplemented hollow, sad and angry, but I did. Facific West region. JACL Midwest Regional Director of Japanese A merican history. with videos about :Manzanar llillow because the physical spa• The 2018 YLP will be Bill Yoshino, the impact of incar• Alan Nishio from the Little To• and the incarceration. :Manzanar ces in which these prison camps expanded to offer a paid internship ceration and the Redress campaign kyo &rvice Center and Stephanie Superintendent Bernadette John- existed are completely barren. Sad at :Manzanar. •

he San Jose chapter of eh Fenton (Notre Dame High High School, $700 San Jose JACL San Jose JACL Awards the JACL held its annual School, $3,000 Kenji Sakauye Chapter Award), 1-1ark Nakamae T Scholarship Luncheon 1-1emorial Scholarship), Kyle Jew (Bellarmine College Prep., $500 at the Issei 1-1emorial Building (Saratoga High School, $2,500 Ada Y. Uyeda 1-1emorial Schohr• 2017 Scholarships backyard on 1-1ay 13 in downtown George 1-1aunaga Endowment ship) and Aditi Fandey (W ilcox San Jose. FOllowing a buffet lunch Scholarship\ Ashley Beaver (Val• High School, $300 San Jose JACL - ---, of sandwiches, salads, fruit and ley Christian High School, $1,000 Chapter Award). cake, eight scholarships wereawar• 1-hsuo B. Nakamura 1-1emorial This year's scholarship com• ded to the following recipients: Scholarship\ Bradley Yasuhara mittee was chaired by Dr. Mitsu Halle Sousa (Notre Dame High (Gunderson High School, $1,000 Kumagai and consisted of Dr. John School, $10,000 Oyama Family Ninja Youth FOundation Scholar• Higaki, Gary Jio, Joyce Oyama FOundation Scholarship\ Mika- ship), Kevin Amemiya (Lehnd and Sharon Uyeda. •

Polaris Tours 2017 Schedule Sep. 25 - Oct. 09 Western Explorer: "Scottsdale, Grand Canyon, Las Vegas, YosemiteH Oct. 03 - Oct. 16 Eastern US & Canada Discovery: "Boston, Quebec City, Toronto, NYC· Oct. 15 - Oct. 24 Autumn Japan: "Tokyo, Takayama, Kanazawa, Kyoto, Hiroshima H Oct. 29 - Nov. 08 Islands of Okinawa & Shikoku: "Naha, Takamatsu, Matsuyama, Kochi" Pictured (from /eft) are this year's scholarship recipients Kevin Amemiya, Mikaela Fenton, Mark Nakamae, Ashley Beaver, ~ Toll Free: (800) 858·2882 Bradley Yasuhara, Halle Sousa, Kyle Jew, and Aditi Pandey. PolarisTours _.tourpoliilfis .(om in'o@tourpoliilfis.(om PACIFIC. CITIZEN COMMUNITY Sept. 8-21 , 2017 9 Seabrook JACL Commemorates 70th Anniversary PH OTO COJRTESY In addition to celebrating its unique place in history, the chapter holds its 2017 awards banquet. CF SEABRCO< JACL he &abrook JACL Chapter around the 73rd anniversary of (&abrook JACL Scholarship), ~ conducted its annual awards the &abrook Reunion, where the Felix Gray (Bridgeton High T banquet in conjunction with theme was entitled, ''Your Life, &hool), Mikayli Drew its 70th anniversary at the Ramada Your Legacy." (Cumberhnd County TEC\ Dane Inn in Vineland, N.J., on July 16. The John Fuyuume Citizenship Johnson (Cumberland Regional The chapter celebrated its unique Award was presented to the Hon. High School), Mitch Alcorn place in history, as &abrook, Norman Y. Mineta, the first Asian (Millville &nior High &hool), N.J., was the location where more American mayorofa majorcity, the Caroline Barton (Author P than 2,500 Japanese Americans first Japanese American from the &halick High &hool), Cynthia relocated to start new lives mainhnd to be elected to Congress Esteves (Vineland High &hool), and obtain employment after and the first Asian American to Bryan Cortazar (Woodruff being released from American serve in a presidential cabinet. &hool) and Gabriella DeFrancisco concentration camps in 1945. The chapter also recognized its (Woodruff School). The banquet welcomed more 2017 graduates and citizenship! John Seabrook, author and writer than 250 guests in attendance, and schohrship awardees. at the New Yorker magazine, all were able to see clearly why the Honored during the program served as the banquet's keynote The Hon. Norman Y. Mineta (left) receives a gift of appre• community of &abrook is hailed were Bryce Mick (John speaker. Denise Nakano, Emmy• ciation from Michael Asada, president of Seabrook JACL as a "national treasure." Fuyuume &holarship), Grace winning journalist from NBClD in (center) and Bruce Peterson, president of the Seabrook Edu• The awards banquet capped a Tolbert (Charles & 1-hry Nagao Philadelphia, served as mistress of cational & Cultural Center. In addition, an honorarium was weekend of activities centered Scholarship), Kevin Nakai Jr. ceremonies. • provided to the Mineta Legacy Project during the event. Twin Cities JACL Co-Sponsors 'At the Movies: Hidden Histories' The program is held in conjunction with Paul Kitagaki Jr,'s exhibition 'Gambattel Legacy of an Enduring Spirit Japanese American WWII Incarceration, Then & Now' Twin Cities JAClIMinnesota Historical Spirit: Japanese American WWII Incarcera• &>ciety's 2017 "Day of Remembrance" tion, Then & Now" is free and open to the program, which will be screened on Clct. 14 public through Clct. 28 at the Historic FOrt from 3-5 p.m. Snelling Visitors Center. Both programs will be held at the Historic FOrt Snelling Visitors Center. For exhibit hours and more infonnation, "Gambatte! Legacy of an Enduring visit tcjacl.org or mnhs.org.

Ilvou don' already Full Spectrum Features Producer Jason Matsumoto (fourth from left, front row) is pictured with Twin Cities JACL members (from left) Sally Sudo, have II, Pam Ohno Dagoberg, Todd Tsuchiya, Connie Tsuchiya, Tim Dagoberg, Frank Tsuchiya, Cheral Tsuchiya, Clarice Chikazawa and Brian Tsuchiya. gellhe

he Twin Cities JACL, along with Histories" of the JapaneseAmerican WWII besl co-sponsor Historic Fort Snelling, incarceration and is intended to spark plallnum T hosted a family-friendly film festival dialogue amongst a diverse range of titled "At the 1-klvies: Hidden Histories" on communities across the country. July 15 at the Historic Fort Snelling Visitors Two other short films, ''Yamashita'' (an VISA Center in St Paul, :Minn. animated senior thesis film project by The program was held in conjunction Hayley Foster) and "Tule Lake" (written Card! with Sacramento Bee photographer Rwl and directed by :Michelle Ikemoto), also Kitagaki Jr.'s exhibition "Gambatte! Legacy were screened during the festival. of an Enduring Spirit: Japanese American "These films capture the emotional and WWII Incarceration, Then & Now." psychological toll of what our families went Jason 1-htsumoto, a producer at Full through while dealing with discrimination Spectrum Features, served as the pro• and exclusion during World War II," said 9,9'10 APR Fixed Rate gram's guest emcee. 1futsumoto provided Janet Carlson, co-chair of the Twin Cities historical background about the Japanese JACL Education Committee. "Seventy-five NO Annual Fee American World War II incarceration as years after Executive Order 9066, the story With Reward Points well as introduced the film lineup. of the Japanese American incarceration has Full Spectrum Features, a Chicago-based important lessons that still have significance More SecIft Chip Card film production company, produced "The today, and that is why we are working with Orange Story," a transmedia education Full Spectrum to make the films avaihble project that is centered around a short to teachers through our Twin Cities JACL National JACL narrative film. resources library." Credit Union The company also curated a traveling series The Twin Cities Chapter is also set to 800-544-8828 www.jadcu.com of short narrative films that includes "One present two upcoming free public pro• of 1-hny," "A Song for 1-hnzanar" and grams: "Art, Identity & Community" 1'tIlOJlI:l'I:MlIl* ' "Tadaima. " on Sept 23, which will run from 2-4 p.m., 'A ll n istingVISA "co mt! reO'r.e th e cIlip card on ren ew, 1. 11!1 8 Each of the films commemorates "Hidden as well as a screening of a video from the 10 Sept. 8-21 , 2017 CALENDAR PACIFICO CITIZEN

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Yamagishi, Betty Mtsuko, 90, Q MEMORIAM Los Angeles, CA Aug. 27; during \/\'w1I, her family and she were incarcerated at the Gila RiverWRA Center in ftZ.; shewas prede• Doami, John, 81, Cerritos, CA Kojima, Bonnie, 86, Rancho Miyeko; sons, James (Susan), ceased by her husband, Kiyoshi; Aug. 16; he is survived by his wife, Palos Verdes, CA, hlg. 20; she Ken andftJan (Stacey); gc: 4. Koko; sons, David (Kim) and Daryl was predeceased by her husband, she is survived by their son, Jim (Adrienne); sister-in-law, Joyce; (Lily); brother, Junji (Pat); he is also Fred; she is survived by their chil• Morohashi, Yoshiharu, 68, gc: 3. survived by many nieces and other dren, Cynthia (Carl) Brito, Alfred, Encino, CA, Aug. 20; he is survived relatives; gc: 4. Diana Katherine (Thomas) Coming by his wife, Keiko; son, Max. Yamashita, Hiroji, 94, Los and Elaine (James) Chiu; gc: 4. Angeles, CA, Aug. 4; during WMI, Fukubayashi, Tamiyo, 74, Los IlJkmeno, Nancy Shigeko, 70, he was incarcerated at the Heart Angeles, CA Aug. 17; she is Kumamoto, Fusako, 92, Los Angeles, CA Aug. 7; she is Tanbara, George, 95, Tacoma, Mountain INRACenter in WY, from survived by her husband, Yoshi; Monterey Park, CA, Aug. 24; she survived by her husband, Hitoshi; WA, July 1; during\/\'wlI, his moth• which he volunteered to serve in children, Ben (Michelle), Ted was predeceased by her husband, children, Maya (Robert) Palmer er, sister and he were incarcerated the 442nd Regimental Combat and James (Colleen); she is also Katsumi; children, Dennis Kuma• andAndo (Sheetal) Muneno; at the Heart Mountain WRACenter Team; he was predeceased by his survived by many nieces, nephews moto and Kathryn \Natanabe; and sisters, Jean Toyama and Judy in WY, and he later served in the son, Jim (/>.pril) Yamashita, and and other relatives; gc: 3. grandson, Ryan \Natanabe; she (Dick) Yamane; she is also ","my; he was predeceased by his his daughter, KathyYamashita; is survived by her daughter, survived by many nieces and wife, Kimi; he is survived by their he is survived by his wife, Alice; Doris (Ronald) Hirosawa; brother, other relatives; gc: 4. children, Gregory (Barbara), Diane children, Gloria Yamashita, Peggy Yoshio Kawai; gc: 3; ggc: 1. (Harold) Taniguchi, Susan (Jerry) (Ivan) Pang and Judy (Scott) Nagami, Masao, 87, Chicago, IL, Brahm and Merilee Tanbara; gc: 4. McClinton; siblings, Lillian Aug. 19; he was predeceased by Komatsu and MiyoAbe; he is also his wife, Asae "Flo"; he is survived Teramoto, Dave Kiyoshi, 61, survived by nieces, nephews and by two siblings. Los Angeles, CA July 24; he other relatives; gc: 5. is survived by his siblings, Lois Nakata, JOji, 93, Los Angeles, CA Yamada, Gary and Julie Teramoto, Yoshimura, Ted, 68, Los Angeles, Aug. 25; he is survived by his wife, Karen (Jay) Mark and Elaine (Ron) CA Aug. 18; he is survived by his Gladys; sisters, Yoshino Ige and Miyamoto; he is also survived by children, Ryan Scott (Jessica Gau) Fusae Omura; sisters-in-law, ftJice several nieces and nephews and Yoshimura and JamieAkemi Yo• (Takao) Ginoza, Doris Yamaguchi, other relatives. shimura; mother, Elsie Yoshimura; Helen (James) Kim, Agnes Suwa sister, Karen (Glenn) Nishida; he is and Racheal (Carl) Takaki; brother• Tome, Mtsue, 96, Los Angeles, also survived by nieces and other in-law, Ronald (Thelma) Ige; he CA, July 30; shewas predeceased relatives; gc: 2. is also survived by many nieces, by her husband, Harold Tome; she Hayashi, James, 87, Westminster, nephews and other relatives. is survived by their children, Rhoda Yusa, Suyeko, 84, Pasadena, CA, CA Aug. 24; he is survived by his (Bill) Tsuji and Ellen (\l\linston) Aug. 4; shewas predeceased by wife, Janet; children, Doug (Dag• Ogawa, Ken, 67, Los Angeles, Tome; gc: 2. her husband, George; she is sur• mar Kamenar) and Shelley (Aaron CA, Aug. 21; he is survived by his vived by a sister and two brothers; Ray); brother, Shig (Gertrude); Kuramoto, Kazuko, 90, wife, Robyn; father, Henry (Miyoko) she is also survived by nieces, sisters-in-law, Joanne Okada and Edmonds, WA, Aug. 21 ; shewas Ogawa; mother, Florence Yamada; nephews and other relatives. • Atsuko Yomogida; brothers-in-law, predeceased by her first husband mother-in-law, Kiyoko Yoneda; Herb Yomogida, Harold Yomogida and her second husband, Yoso; brothers-in-law, Terry (Julie) Yone• and Kaname Matoi; he is also daughter, June; she is survived da and RickyYoneda; 2 nieces, survived by many nieces, nephews by her daughter, Yoko Kuramoto• 1 nephew; he is also survived by PLACE A TRIBUTE and other relatives; gc: 2. Eidsmoe (Craig). many relatives and dear friends. 1n Memorimn ' is a free listing that appears on a Higaki, Kimiyo, 90, Sacramento, Maeda, Herbert, 83, Los Angeles, Okazaki, Kinuye Ethel, Los 80, limited, space-available basis. CA Aug. 18; she was predeceased CA, Aug. 15; he is survived by his Angeles, CA, July 25; she is Tributes honor your loved by her husband, George; she is wife, Shirley; children, Lynn (Ed• survived by her daughter, Terri ones w ith text and photos and survived by their children, Michael gar) Nakamura, Craig (Lisa) and Lynn Okazaki; siblings, Kazuo and Christine (Steve) Seitz; sib• Bruce (Cynthia); siblings, Doris Pete (Ichiko) Kataoka and Masaye a ppear in a timely manner at lings, Kazuo Tokuyoshi and Gale Craddick, Jean (Ron) Hashimoto Helen (Richard) Nakamoto; she is the rate of $20/coiumn inch . Hamatani; she is also survived by and Bill Maeda; he is also survived also survived by nieces, nephews Contact: many nieces and nephews; gc: 1. by many nieces, nephews and and other relatives. busm [email protected] other relatives; gc: 5. Ueda, Moriyuki 'Mo,' 73, or call (213) 620-1767 Ito, Setsuo, 93, Denver, CO, Aug. Sakaniwa, Kimiyo, 89, LosAnge• Sacramento, CA Aug. 7; he is 24; he is survived by his wife, Masuo, Chieko, 90, Los Angeles, les, CA Aug. 21; she is survived by survived by his wife, Barbara Torie; daughters, Deborah (Bruce) CA, Aug. 20; she is survived by her husband, Himeji; sons, Ronald (Nishite); daughters, Tori Sakurai Spencer and Peggy (Bob) Moore; her husband, Thomas; son, Brian Tatsuo, Toshiharu and Richard (David); Mari Ueda-Tao (Barry); gc: 5; ggc: 3. (Janet); she is also survived by Hiromi (Jennifer); she is also siblings, Hiro (Frank) Yagi, Toyo many nieces, nephews and other survived by many nieces, nephews Kamikawa and Den (Betty) Ueda; Iwanaga, Ross, 94, Los Angeles, relatives; gc: 1. and other relatives; gc: 3. he is also survived by nieces and IB\Kubota CA Aug. 12; he is survived by his nephews; gc: 5. : JlJ M o nua r y son, Rick (Emi) Iwanaga; sister• Sasaki, Sakae, 93, Santa Monica, ~ A f;f; 1I1 a f. #-ih t. in-law, Taye Iwanaga; he is also CA, Aug. 25; he is survived by his survived by nieces, nephews and children, Jean Mutagawa, Karen, ~J7Y"'"""''''~Y"''"" - ''''' ''' /''"'''/. other relatives; gc: 3. George and Thomas Sasaki; broth• u.., ...... or. • ..,,,, .. !ltlll~"'-C' · "I"!'·-C~"" . er, Masaru Sasaki; sisters-in-law, T: 21307400 1440 1'": 213074000265 Kawata, Sakae, 87, LosAngeles, Harumi Sasaki and Takako Ohashi; Q 1 I v"""""' U .."", •. l.Oi> ,,"-..a. Ct\ QOO I :> CA Aug. 26; he is survived by his he is also survived by many nieces, www.kubo...... kk<:lmonuary.com wife, Nancy; children, Eric (Ellen), nephews and other relatives. Garrett (Dana), Ben (Michelle), Konni (Ken Tittle) and Curt (Viv• Takahashi, Betty, 78, ian); brother, Rev. Dr. Teruo (Kiku) Los Angeles, CA Aug. 22; she Kawata; he is also survived by is survived by her husband, Ted; nieces, nephews and other rela• children, Leah Takahashi and tives; gc: 14; ggc: 1. Mark (Sun) Takahashi; she is also survived by many nieces, nephews Kidani, Chieko, 95, Garden and other relatives; gc: 1. Grove, CA, June 18; she is sur• 707 East Tem;ie Street Gerald vived by her son, Roger (Linda) Mochizuki, Eugene, 94, Seattle, Tanaka, Jack, 69, Pomona, CA Yamada, Edwin Akio, 76, Sparks, Los Angeles. CA 9IXJ12 Fullui Kidani; brother, John Yamanaka; WA, Aug. 10; during \/\WII, he was Aug. 3; he is survived by his wife, NV, Aug. 6; he is survived by his Ph. 213'62(;4)441 President she is also survived by many incarcerated at the Minidoka WRA \Nanda; mother; 4 siblings; he wife, Nancy; children, Shelley Fax 2131617·2781 nieces, nephews and other Center in ID and later served in the is also survived by nieces and (Blake) Takaha and Kevin (Tracy) relatives; gc: 1. ""my; he is survived by his wife, nephews. Yamada; brothers, Chester, 12 Sept. 8-21, 2017 COMMENTARY PACIFIC. CITIZEN REIMAGINE EVERYTHING DECADES» continued from page 3 acts from time to time and is a restaurateur any English, but she decides in a flash of in Seattle). inspiration that she wants to be a ramen chef. Can't Decide What to 'Lost in Translation' On the face of it, this is a completely unbe• Director Sofia Coppola's 2003 film stars lievable story, but it's saved by both her sheer Bill Murray and a young Scarlett Johansson detennination and the chef's unrelenting Watch in a World of So as two Americans looking for a human con• crankiness toward her. He's like a drill ser• nection in the foreignness of Japan. geant picking on a weakling Marine recruit, :Murray is an aging actor making commer• making her do the lowliest of wolk before Much Choice? Help Is Here cials for a Japanese whi~y brand, and Jo• he ever lets her try cooking. He dumps out hansson is left alone when her photographer her early efforts at making the all-important ByRonMori director for AARPMedia. husband takes off for assignments. soup. TV for Grownups will encompass all plat• The film was critically acclaimed and won But, in true Hollywood tradition (cue t's almost fonns of TV content including broadcast, awards, but it initated me. My main comp• 1990's ''Dances With Wolves" or 2003's fall, and our cable and streaming, as well as help view• laint was that it seemed to make fun of Japan 'The Last Samurai"\ the white foreigner household is I ers make savvy choices when choosing TV• as a weird, exotic place where, of course, wes• overcomes the odds and succeeds ... well, getting back into related devices and apps, service providers terners would feel out of place. Japan was a sort of. In the end, the movie is a shallow, but the swing of our and subscription-based platfonns. prop, a foil to play the sad platonic romance worthwhile, look at a clash of cultural values normal routine. Personally, just helping me navigate the against, as if Tokyo as a character forced the• between Japan and the U.S. Bonus points In recent years, many viewing options is worth its weight in se two losers together. Watching it recently, for a great scene of :Murphy and her new that didn't nec• gold at a time when so much TV and stream• I fOlllld I didn't hate it as much as I remem• Japanese boyfriend, played by Sohee Park, essarily mean ing contentis available. bered. Eut seriou~y, Tokyo is shown as just a visiting the Shin Yokohama Ramen :Museum getting excited about the upcoming lineup of While the days of the three main netwocks bizarre and lonely place. And neither :Murray - it's a wonderrul place. new fall TV shows. In fact, it's been the exact are long gone, what has not changed is that nor Johansson make the effm to "tran~ate" There are lots more, but these are movies q>posite in our household - TV shows have the SO-plus audience watches more TV than their experience to feel at home. I've watched in recent weeks as I've thought come and gone, reality TV shows have lost any other age group. 'The Ramen Girt about how Americans view Japan. Let me our interest and YouTube, Netflix and other I have cable, but I rarely access cable chan• In this 2008 movie, Brittany :Murphy plays know what movies you know that depict streaming contenthas now become the nonn. nels during a nonnal week In our household, a naive young American who gets stranded Japan through Hollywood's lens - I'll write That's why I was excited to hear that ithas become a situation of too many choices in Japan when her boyfriend dumps her a follow-up sometime! AARP recently announced a new initiative and not enough time in a week and takes off for an extended business trip, called "TV for Grownups," which will offer This new golden age has more than 450 leaving her in his apartment She wails, she Gil Asakawa is chair of the Editorial online reviews, news and even awards start• scripted TV series available for your view• flails and she eventually finds herself com• Board of the Pacific Citizen and the author ing in 2018. ing pleasure. And with streaming seIVices forted by ramen in a shop across the street of ....Being Japanese American" (second The new project follows AARP's such as Hulu, Netflix, Amazon and more, you She doesn't speak a word of Japanese and the edition Stone Bridge Press, 2015). He blogs Movies for Grownups initiative. In short, TV can enjoy your favorite shows on nearly any owner of the shop and his wife don't speak at www.nikkeiview.com. for Grownups aims to connectAARP mem• e-device you have. bers with relevant programming while also At a certain point, some of you may say help demystify the technology associated it's too much. If you're like me, the con• with home entertainment cept of AARP's TV for Grownups is excit• I'll be the first to admit that I need help ing to help filter the choices available and v.hen it comes to demystifying my remote connect you to the smartest, most relevant, control, let alone all of the programming LIVING TRUSTS most entertaining shows for viewers over 50. options available today. TV for Grownups will feature news, I used to think that the golden age of TV reviews and inteIViews in each issue had passed us, when we had three main of AARP The Magazine and online every STACI YAMASmTA-ImA national netwolks and shows such as "Rowan week And, as we do with our influential }\TTO~Y-AT-LAVV & :Martin's Laugh-In" and ''Wide World of "Movies for Grownups" program, AARP Sports." will give TV for Grownups awards starting "Television has hit a new golden age, climb• in 2018 to recognize excellent work by TV ing to new heights in quality programming, actors and show creators. making TV for Grownups the most natural • MEDI-CAL PLANNING progression for our entertainment portfolio," Join me and checkout TV for Grownups • WILLS & TRUST said Myrna Hyth, senior vp and editorial at aarp.orgltvforgrownups. • PROBATE

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