UlIJOdDlU MQ T0ETG6 3d99TQ5 9Pfni6 ilDIO-S School's out fwI Nikkei \ < —pages. PacUiGNottoral PubUcalkx^ or Ihe Japone$eGitizeii Amertcon Ottzen* l»agu0 EMb»Ml9a» (7&e poctpoid U5) f***.«rtanO. 2Se *f267c Vol 115. No. 5 ISSN; 0030 8579 701 Eost 3rd Street, Suite 201. Los Angeles, CA 90013 (213)626-6936 Friday, August 28.1992 Redress bill Japanese Ambassador says: gains support Japanese American in Congress A WASHINGTON, D.C.—Both the Houee and Senate vernons of *lhe Civil Labertiee points of view desirabie Act Amendmente of 1992,' S.255S«il. By GWENMURANAKA 4551, are awaitingfloor action. The Senate other. "Until the mid -'80s, America was VUsistant adrtor Govemmenta] Affairs Committee passed still the number one world economy. Even DENVER—Takakazu Kuriyama, Japa­ S.2&53 on August 5 and the House Judi­ though Japan had been rather successful, neseambassadortothe UnitedStates, in an ciary Committee passed H.R. 4551 on Au­ theJapaneae economy was stiB rather small. gust 11. Ihe House bill has 91 co-sponaors interview with Poci’^c Ctrizen, said organi­ Towards the latter part of the mid-'SOs sations like JACLcan help improve under­ and the Senate bll has 10 sponsors to date. Japfin became a m^jor economic power, and Karen Narasaki, JACL Washington, D.C. standing between America and Japan. ~I we saw a relative decline of t^. United think grassroot, people topeople exchanges representative, said that many of the JACL States as an economic power.’ said members who had written letters of sup­ are important even though it's not easy to Kuriyama. port to theireongressmembers were receiv­ expand them,'said Kuriyama. “Still I dem t ~I think this has rnade psychological ad­ think there is any other way to improve our ing responses from them citing the lack of justments on both sides rather difficult. On mutual understandiiigthan toVxpand these committee action as a reason for not taking the Japanese side, I think wb still think we people to people contacU on all levels. We a position on the bill. Narasaki said, "Since are not so rich, we are not so big. So there b^ bilis are now out of their respective would like to see every one partici pate, that's are difficulties in understanding what kind why organizations like theJACLcan play a committees, members of Congress nolonger of responsibilities we must take up. On the havethatasan excuse to notco-sponsor the useful role." DIPLOMACY—Xmbassador Takakazu American side, I think you've been uaed to bill.- Iheaptbassador, in Denver toparticipate Kurryama in Danvar lo. i^idpata in tha being tfie unchallenged number one. Very Ihe Senate co-sponsors include; Brock in the JACL workshop on U.S.-Japan rela­ JACL convantbn di^ssing currant U.S.- often Americans feel that all of a sudden Adams(D-Wa.), Daniel Akaka(D-Hawaii), tions, said Japanese Americans can help Japan relations an(^Japanesa Americans. they are facing a big challenge fiwn a super­ Alan Cranston (D-Ca.), Slade Gorton (R- Japanese nationals better understand man, which ofcourse is not true." America. "I don't think we are in a ^ition Wa.), Daniel Inouye (D-Hawaii), Bob Citing FVesident Bush's trip to Ja|M^s Packwood(R-Or.),WarrenRudman(R-NH), to tel 1 you what todo... buteertainly, weon PtoHa: past January. Kuriyama niMed the John Seymour (R-Ca.), Paul Simon (D-Dl.) our rart would look atJapaneae Americans Declaratitm signed at that time in ^ch and Ted Stevens (R-Ak). Narasaki ur^ as i^look on other Americans who are both coqptries Cadged to work togetlVr on capablVof..under8tanding Japan and the the community to meet with their repre­ economic and i^itical issues as an iridica- sentatives and senators this month when Japanese frtim an American point of view. tionof positive aspecu in U3.-Japanirela- Congress is in recess and urge them to Forthat reason, I think that you Japanese tions but that this wasn t picked up iir^he Americans are in a very go^ position to become a co-sponsor, if they arO not one media. The media took hold of only one advise us, to let us know how we should SMREORESS/f»gt4 aspect of the relationship. The perception intarast with America.' was that Bush only eame to Japan to sell Speaking on the aometimes turbulent automobiles." Short takes mmyaiiig' ' Kuriyai^ said tKatlhe MilShSOi said that bothJapanandtheUnited^tes have.to adjust their perceptions of one an­ Sm AMBASSADOR/pa^ 4 Japanese American home vandalized with swastikas / yietnamese American dies after racially motivated beating LOS ANGELES—The home of an eld­ CORALSPRINGS. Fla-Luyen Phan werecharged withthecrime.Tho»charged erly Japaneae American couple in Ana­ Nguyen^ a second year pre-med student include; Christopher Anderson, 18; Terry Mineta corwlemns Wiling, heim was spraypain ted with swasti kas over at the Universi^ ofMiami.diedAi^. 17 Jomerson, 20; Warren Mills. 18; John the Aug. 23 weekend. In the same neigh­ of injuries sustained two days earlier in Liptali, 18; and Michael Primato, 16. Al­ calls for full investigation borhood, the home of a Vietnamese Ameri­ n racially motivated attack. though one of the defendants isclaimi^ the BAN JOSE-H»p. Norman can was similarly vandalised. The radal Nguyen was attacked by a group of party indd^t was Nguyen’s fault, according to Mirwta racentlyoddad his voice of message on the Japanese American home goers after objecting to Tscial slurs. De­ police reports, Nguyen was not aggressive condemnation to tiw i|Malb' too- was, T~ YOU NIPS,' accompanied with tective Jim Milford said the Vietnamese at any point. Eyewitnen accounts con­ tlv-Bted attack Aug. 15 which , swastikas. According to Jimmy Tokeahi, ' American student was 'chased dovm like tained in news reports said that Nguyen resuhad in the daath of Loymr. regional director of IHicific Sou A west I^s- a 'wounded' deer and beaten about the attempted to escape his attackers, but was Phan Nguyen. trict, the letter "W- was also spraypainted head by IS party-goers.' 'In 14 years this repeatedly punch^ and kicked in the head *My heart goes wit to the on the house. ' is one of the sickest things I have after falling. Recently released auti^y re- Nguyen family for thehr'ttagic Trisha Murakawa, diair of the JACL seen...We saw very little remorsb out of sultashow that Nguyen died from hemor­ loaa,’ said MixwU, ”We caiioet PadficSouthwestCivil Rights Caucxis, said the people arrested,' said Mil&rd. rhage caused nvhen lus neck was broken in afford to let this aavage ratial' those recent incidents send 'a highly dis­ Slight white men have beeiv charged the attack. The ftineral for Nguyen was iDtirder bo uoanaweaud. Crimes . ' turbing measagein the continuing trend of with second degree murder an^xue be­ held Aug. 20. of hf^rea and vxdenca have no ^ racial intimidation and violence against ing held without bail. lnitially_^ve men , MBCTAi|M9» IS ^ Asian Pacific Americans.' SMNGUYEN/p«gol2 Thai murder case still quainted with me. rdliketotellyoualittle During that time. I was also the pr^ pending one year later about myself in this and in a column to dent of the Japaneae American Serviet PHOENDC, Ariz.—A pair of high school . dbllow. I am TKit a 'Jane Come Lately' to ti>e Committee, aaodal service agency in Chi­ •students are awaiting trial in the largest IN­ organization. IjoinedJACLaftergraduate cago which met the social and welfare rweds mass slaying in Arizona’s modem history school because I thought JACL was the c^thelssei. During my tenure, the agei^ which occurred a year ego, Aug. 10, whan primary spokesperson for our community undertook constiuction of a 200 unit senior nine-'ntai Buddhists lay deed, shot execu­ SIGHT and bemuse I wanted to be involved in •.housing building, we established a daycare tion-style in the back of the head, according helpi ng to shape what J ACL would sav and center for the elderly and we maintained a to investigating shcrifT deputies. do. My mentoratthattime was the beloved sheltered workshop, a senior lunch pro­ Ihe case has been dogged by claims of Abe Hagiwara. who started and guided gram and recreational activities. .coerced emfessions^ which the court later many young adults in Chicago on the path In September of l980, my ifi> took me to ir newly slewed National FYesi- to communiQ' service. New York City where my irrrolvementwith ruled for three pien and released them for of JACL, I would like period!- the NewYork Chapter led metoeerveasits ladt o( evidence. ^ c^y to My involvement in the JACL Midwest president since 1986. Originally viewed as a rafcial hate crime communicate with District (^uncil (MDCl began when the During the 1988 and 1990 bienniums, Of an international heroin ring operation, 3fou, our members, then Oivemor, Hiro MayKia, appointed Crcaaey Nak^awa appoinl^'me chair of detectives susp^ robbery as the motive. through thePacific me to aerve on the National Human Rela­ the Pacific Citixen Bwrd, as a member of Following balUstics tests and raeovering Citixen. Ourmem- tionsCommission chairedbyRaymond Uno. the SeheA Committee on Resolution #7 on valuaUeebelievedstolcn last October from Ipers need to have I went on to serve as the First Vice (gover­ the "No-No Boys" and aschairofthe Select theWatPromkunaram temple,authorities an awareness and nor ofMDC. During his term as National Committee on Organization Structure. namadJonathan Andrew Doody, 18(whoee an insight into the EVerident, Hank T^a^ impointed me to Tve had thegood fortune to have had the mother is thai and father is a U.S. service­ actions and activi­ serve as an at-large iWmber of the Na­ opportunity to serve JA(X in a variety of man), and Alessandro (^rda, 17, as sus­ ties of the national tional Board for five years i n my capaci ty as waysand now I lookforward toservingyou MDCGovcrnor.