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At Age 92, Painter JACL Signs Onto Amicus Jack Suzuki Briels in Lawsuits 'We're calling for Challenging Domestit: Continues to Inspire legalization that is tied to a solution, tied to the Spying Program backlog [of hopeful Lawsuits filed by the immigrantsJ and tied to ACLU and CCR demand civil rights issues and that the Bush workers rights issues, ' Administration cease unwarranted wiretapping - Eunsook Lee, of Americans. executive director of the National Korean American Services and Education By CAROLINE AOYAGI-STOM Consortium. Executive Editor

A hobby he picked up after "Japan Pictured As A Nation of Spies." "Japanese Here Sent Vital the death of his wife, Data to Tokyo." "The Fifth Column Suzuki's abstract paintings on the Coast." "Suicide Reveals reveal a hidden talent that The Korean American Spy Ring Here. " has caught the attention of community in Los The weight of the words that many. Angeles participated in blare forth from early 1940s head• immigration rights rallies lines taken from the pages of the Los By CAROLINE AOYAGI-STOM in solidarity with Latino Angeles Times are a chilling Executive Editor groups (far left) May 1. reminder of the environment

From his pseudo-art studio nested API t:I'tQJs ContDJe to Lend Legal Immigrants Face Huge "11th. plghts 01 on. gpoup 01 in the kitchen of his Denver, Am.picans ap. thp"t.n.d, Colorado home, artist Jack Suzuki Voices in /tnmigI'ation /IitIItS /JeIIate Hurdles in Becoming Citizens creates colorfully elaborate abstract th. pights 01 all 01 us ap. ByL ALIN works whose originality has caught By ASSOCIATED PRESS thp"t.n.d. lilt's th. Apall and Assistant Editor the attention of many in this com• Muslim communltl.s today, munity. NEW YORK-When Kshitij Bedi recently marked DOWNTOWN, LOS ANGELES-The national who will It II. tomoppow?" It's a career the 92-year-old began his fourth wedding anniversary, it wasn't much of a cel• "Day WithQut An Immigrant" May 1 brought an out• at the young age of 77. ebration, just a long-distance phone conversation. John Tateishi, pouring of humanity onto the streets of major metro• JACL Executive Director "I didn't know what a crayola That's because the Long Island resident has barely politan areas. Leaving work and school, a large con• was when I first started," said seen his wife Shweta in the past four years. She remains tingency of immigrants and immigrant rights advo• in India, waiting and waiting - and waiting - for the Suzuki, whose first task was to go Japanese Punericans experienced cates took to the streets waving the flags of their visa that would allow her to join her husband, a legal out and buy the painting supplies he pre-World War IT when every JA would need. "But one thing led to See PROTESTSlPage 3 See BECOMING CITIZENSlPage 3 was looked upon as potential spies another and it became interesting. I for Imperialist Japan. Now replace the country of Japan :~k:,~ing and even today I'm still I Georgia's South Asian Community Alleges Racial Proliling with the Middle East and insert Suzuki was introduced to paint• A government sting to business as usual until a customer Muslim and Arab Punericans where ing after the death of his wife Aiko crack down on illegal drug demanded to buy two cases of the word Japanese appears and you in 1991. Soon after her passing, his production turns up an ephedrine, a household ingredient will be propelled several decades four sons encouraged him to take up overwhelming number of popularly used to make metham• forward to the current environment a hobby to occupy his time. He charges against one ethnic phetamine. The 23-year-old clerk that many feel exists in the United decided on painting. group. Some civil rights patiently refused the man while States today. He soon enrolled in the senior groups charge racism. insisting state law rations the pur• The New York Times revealed late program offered at the University of chase of ephedrine to two bottles. last year that the Bush Colorado at Denver and Health I By LYNDA LIN There are signs posted allover the Administration has allowed the Sciences Center's (UCDHSC) Assistant Editor store explaining the law, according National Security Administration College of Arts & Media. It was the to employees. So the customer fmal• (NSA) to conduct warrantless sur• first time he would pick up a paint• Matthew Samuel's work day at PHOTO: DANIEL BEAR, ACLU ly relented, bought hj.s bottles and veillance on Punericans since the brush. Tobacco for Less, a small family• Community members decry owned cigar shop in Georgia, was racial profiling in a Mar. 15 rally. See SOUTH ASIAN/Page 12 See AMICUS BRIEF/Page 6 See JACK SUZUKVPage 3 . ~~ PhoeniX RiSing: IN MEMORIAM I Debunking Stereotypes Leadership For a New Former JACL Pres. ~i generabon en_ with a Silence, Then Dialogue ~ .... f'l Hank Tanaka Passes en By Pacific Citizen Staff 1Wo articles about yellow !il~ Co> _ fever and interracial dating ~0--03 Henry T "Hank" Tanaka, a pio• -;....• spark Yale APAs to talk oN neer in the mental health field and I

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PROTESTS· impacted by immigration policy. Of with our brothers and sisters," said 'We wanted to stand in solidarity with our brothers and sisters. ' - Michael Sarmiento, Pilipino Workers Center (Continued from page 1) that, 18 percent of individuals are Sarmiento. undocumented due to large back• A House-passed anti-immigration homeland and the flag of the coun• logs of families waiting to be reunit• bill, HR 4437, the "Border try they want to continue to call their ed. It's because of the backlog that Protection, Antiterrorism and illegal home. forces many to make drastic deci• Immigration Control Act of 2005" In downtown Los Angeles people sions to immigrate illegally, said also known as the Sensenbrenner• draped their bodies in the American Lee. King Bill· being considered by the flag and families proudly acces• At the evening rally in Los Senate has been the focal point of sorized in red, white and blue. Angeles' MacArthqr Park, a Korean protest. The bill proposed to crack Japanese-themed stores and restau• American speaker talked abouthav• down on illegal immigration and rants closed their doors in obser• ing a young family member grow promote national security, and if vance of the events. The afternoon up without a mother, who has been passed, would make felons out of rally was one of two scheduled waiting decades in Korea to see her illegal immigrants, crirninalize' events to pressure Congress for fair daughter again. those who help them and build a immigration reform. "You have to make difficult 700-mile fence along the U.S.• Amidst the throngs of people also choices. The legal · system doesn't Mexico border. waving Mexican flags, Asian work as it is and we need to fix the At the San Jose, Calif. rally, Rep. Pacific Amencan groups also took problem comprehensively," said Mike Honda, D-Calif., urged law• part in the national May Day fallies. Lee. makers to listen to the national cry Many did not want lawmakers to Some critics even within the APA for immigration reform. forget that immigration reform communities argue that their strug• "If America is to remain prosper- directly affects the APA communi• gles to legally gain access to the 0us and globally competitive, we ties too. Anieriean dream have been dwarfed must quickly repair our fundamen• "We are not calling for legaliza• by illegal immigrants, who they see tally broken immigration system tion just for the sake of legalization. as "cutting in line." But Lee argues while ensuring the integrity arid We're calling for legalization that is that right now undocumented work- , security of our national borders," tied to a solution, tied to the backlog ers don't even have access to the said Honda in a statement. "TIus [of hopeful immigrants] and tied to line. means comprehensive reform that civil rights issues and workers rights "We're not saying one is more unites families separated by overly issues," said Eunsook Lee, execu• important than another . .. those restrictive laws, provides a path to Traditional Korean drums ushered in tidings of protest in L.A. tive director of the National Korean who are waiting in line will still be ·citizenship for hard-working, law• American Services and· Education the first in the line, but for [undocu• abiding immigrants and maintains moving quickly to continue to A national Mother's Day event to Consortium (NAKASEC). mented immigrants] there has to be America's "historic commitment to "show the power and presence of reunite families of U.S. citizens and NAKASEC and the Korean a line or access point," she said. civil rights for all." the immigrant communities," said efforts to strengthen the immigrant Resource Center are part of the The presence of the Pilipino A day after the May 1 rallies, Lee. They are working to solidifY a vote for the June primary election Multi-Ethnic Immigrant Organizing American community in NAKASEC along with other organ• "super coalition" to continue to put and subsequent November general Network, a coalition of organIza• MacArthur Park showed another izations including the JACL, are pressure on Congress. elections is scheduled. • tions that represent low-wage work• nuance to the immigration debate. ers and ;lcted as the steering com• Most Pilipino Americans immi• munity for the rallies in many major grate legally through work visas, but BECOMING CITIZENS resident relative; they can be sponsored by an employer; cities. Fighting for imniigrants much of the undocumented are they can claim refugee or asylum status; or they can win (Continued from page 1) a visa lottery. . rights to benefiJs has "been part of a made up of those who overstay their long trajectory" for the organization. visas and are forced to take low permanent resident, in the United States. But each one of the categories has specifications and Over 70 percent of the Korean wage jobs, said Michael Sarmiento Bedi. filed for .his wife's visa in April 2002, less than limitations. For American citizens, their spouses, par• American community are recent of Pilipino Workers Center. three weeks after their w~dding. He tries to visit India as ents, and unmarried children under 18 years old don't immigrants who are directly "We wanted to stand in solidarity much as possible, but for all intents and purposes, "I've have to wait, and can get immediate visas. But any mar• been a bachelor since then." ried children or adult siblings have to get in line, and 'There's nothing we can do," he said. "We're so help• other relations, like cousins, can't be sponsored. Legal less." permanent residents, like Bedi, can only sponsor spous• In all the recent talk about immigration reform, most ·es or unmarried children, not other relatives. Blue Cross of California of the focus has been on the millions of people who are Some people also try to get here by applying for some ·in the United States illegally. But part of the problem, kind of refugee or asylum status, which entails proving legal experts and immigrant advocates ay, is a compli• that they'll face persecution should they stay in their cated legal immigration system in which demand out• home countries. And a group can get here by winning a strips supply on an astronomical level, leading to waits visa in the lottery, which is only for residents of countries .that can span more than a decade. that aren't already sending large numbers of people here . And that's for the ones who fit into the complicated About 50,000 diversity visas are given out each year. eligibility categories to apply to move here. But those totals don't even come near to accommodat• The ones who don't? ing the millions of people who want to come here, and Forget it, experts say. hence the massive backlogs. Those backlogs can be even "For the vast majority of people who would like to longer in countries like China, India, Mexico and the move to the United States, there is no line to get on," said Philippines, which have among the largest number of Julie Dinerstein, deputy director of immigration advoca• people applying for the visas. • cy and training for the New York Immigration Coalition. The numbers of visas given out is set by Congress; the · "People aren't choosing to walk through the desert, last adjustment of the formula was more than a decade they're doing that because the front door is closed," said ago. Benjanrin Johnson, director of the Immigration Policy The basic framework, that all countries get the same Center at the American Immigration Law Foundation. number of visas, was put into place through the 'The only way to get in is the back door." Immigration and Natural Services Act of 1965. In general, there are four ways foreigners can get per• . Some say it's time to change the law, allowing more mission to move to the U.S. They can be sponsored by people to come here legally and easing problems with an American citizen relative, or in some cases, a legal illegal nrigration. • .

JACK .SUZUKI Colorado after the war, a place he continues to call home. (Continued from page 1) Suzuki and his wife ran a grocery store for more than Suzuki began with the basics of the art form but even• four decades but since her death in the early 90s he has tually moved onto the abstract painting style, ultimately devqted his energies full-time to painting. Twice a week developing an original style of his own. He credits he attends art classes at UCDHSC and he spends the rest Since 1947 the JACL HEALTH painters Hans Hoffmann and Wassily Kandinsky as his ofhi~time working on his paintings. favorites but emphasizes that his works are · not influ• On most mornings he sets up his 49-by-60 cm canvas TRUST has offered Health Care enced by any particular artist. and oil paintings in his kitchen taking only about 10 days coverage to JACL members "I never look at references," said Suzuki, who does not to complete each piece of work. He has so many paint• have a particular strategy or method he relies on for his ings now that he has them in stacks around the house. ideas. "I just sit down and do it. It's like writing a letter." Although Suzuki has on occasion given paintings A few years ago, the Auraria Library at the university away to family and friends, he has yet to sell a painting, To protect you and your family from even common noticed Suzuki's paintings and asked to display his something he says was never his intention. But his fam• accidents and illnesses the JACL HEALTH TRUST works for an-Asian arts show the school was holding at ily and friends continue to encourage his talent. the time. The library was so impressed with his paintings provides Blue Cross of California health care coverage. "You know how kids are, they never praise anytlring. that they asked Suzuki if they could permanently display But secretly I tlrink they admire my effort," said Suzul\i Blue Cross of California has been providing health his work. Today over 40 paintings hang on the library of his kids. He describes the comments he has received coverage to Californians for over 65 years. Blue Cross is walls and Suzuki is constantly addihg to the ·display. from his friends as "very favorable." "His work is honest. He has a very spiritual approach • committed to keeping you connected to Suzuki has also displayed his works at the Denver to his work. He finds metaphors about life in his paint• Press Club and the Courtyard Marriott. quality health care services. ings," said Vivian George, a UCDHSC visual arts Although many continue to be impressed with his instructor who has taught Suzuki for the past eight years. energy and talent, Suzuki remains humble and reluctant "He's really dogged about his work and it comes across. to talk too' profusely about his "hobby." His work is very genuine and people relate 'to that." "I don't know if I'm an inspiration. It's just something Suzuki was born in the small town of Riverside locat• a guy does," he said. . ed close to Sacramento, Calif. and attended Fresno State "For the other college students he's a strong pres• University. During World War IT he served . in the ence," said George. "His fellow students are in awe of Military Intelligence Service and ended up in Denver, him. They have great respect for him.". 4 NATIONAL NEWS PACIFIC CITIZEN, MAy 5-18, 2006 . . National,Newsbytes ~ACL Announc-:s E~ison Uno ByP.C.Staffand~iatedPress . . and dA of the Biennium Awards

I Sandra Tanamachi is rec• Daytime Emmy award for their film, Chris Tashima & Tim Toyama APA Leaders Call Carrolla Out on His Radio Show ognized for her civil rights "Day of Independence." Founded in 1996, Cedar Grove LOS ANGELES-Heavily criticized radio show host Adam Carolla invit• Productions is the independent pro• works and Cedar Grove Sandra Tanamachi duction company which . first ed leaders of APIA Alliance onto his show April 26 to talk about recent accu• Productions is feted for Tanamachi first began ber twelve• brought the heroic saga of Holocaust sations of racism. their fIlms that highlight year effort to rename "Jap Road" rescuer Chiune Sugihara to Media Action Network for Asian Americans' Guy the JA community's story. and "Jap Lane" in her home state American and International movie Aoki and Teddy' Zee, co-chair of the Asian Excellence , while living in Beaumont, Texas. In audiences with the' 1997 Academy Awards, confronted Carolla for. a Jan. 24 segment that By Pacific Citizen Staff addition to contacting local commu• Award winning dramatic short film, mocked the awards show. Aoki also called Carolla out nity members, she spoke with the "Visas and Virtue." They remain on his frequent use of the words "Chinaman" and The JACL has selected Sandra various commissioners and kept the dedicated to developing projects which boldly defy mainstream "gook" on his show on 97.1 Free FM as well as on his Tanamachi as the recipient of this press apprised of her efforts. In 2001, with encouragement Hollywood by giving Asian former show, "Loveline." year's Edison Uno Memorial Civil from Thomas Kuwahara, a native of Americans the spotlight on stage, or Carolla made an on~air apology Feb. 22. While talk• Rights Award, an award presented to civil rights organizations or indi• Hawaii, living in Louisiana, Sandra the close-up on screen. ing with Aoki and Zee, he maintained he is not racist. He ended the show by viduals for out• formed the Committee to Change Their latest work is "Day of saying he would "try my best" not to use offensive terms. standing con• "Jap Road." In December, 2003 the Independence" which has won In early April, the APIA Alliance met with CBS executives to talk about tributions and Committee ' announced a petition numerous honors at many lJ.S. and the dangers of ethnic stereotypes and humor. leadership in was being sent to the Department of International Film Festivals, and is the field of Transportation (DOT) and the nominated for the 2006 Northern Adidas Pulls Controversial Sneaker with Asian civil rights. For Department of Housing California Ernmy award under the over twelve Development (HUD), signed by sev• Historical/Cultural category. This Caricature dramatic film, set in a J A internment years, Tana• eral civil rights organizations includ• PORTLAND-Adidas Group has halt• machi led the ing the JACL. camp during World War II, explores one family's experience and exam• ed sales of a limited-edition sneaker that effort to In 2004, Tanamachi would see her TANAMACHI ines the sacrifices and triumphs of features a caricature some APAs found change the hard work payoff with the Jefferson those who endured and survived offensive. names of "Jap Road" and "Jap County Commissioners voting to through perseverance, courage, and The YI-Huf, a $250 sneaker designed Lane" in her home state of Texas. rename its "Jap Road." In September the all-American game of baseball. Cedar Grove Productions of that year Fort Bend County also by Barry McGee, a San Francisco graffiti With the JA of the Biennium founders Chris Taslllma and Trrn changed the name of their "Jap artist, featureq an Asian face with slanted Award the JACL recognizes Toyama are this year's recipients of Road." In 2005, the Orange County eyes, buckteeth and a bowl haircut. The. Tashima and Toyama for their excel• the Japanese Americans of the Commissioners changed the name caricature is a design that McGee, who is lence in fIlmmaking and their com• Biennium Award. Academy Award of "Jap Lane." mean~ mitment to the AA communities. half Asian, has used before and was a representation of himself, he winners Tashima and Toyama were With the Edison Uno Memorial Both the Edison Uno and JA of told the P. C. last month. selected for their excellent work in Award the JACL recognizes the Biennium awards will be pre• The German company with North American headquarters in Oregon the category of "Arts, Literature, Tanamachi's dedication, leadership sented at the upcoming JACL made the announcement late last month after many APAs complained. and Communications." They were and tenacity in pursuing her goals to national biennial conve.ntion in also recently nominated for a erase discriminatory road names. Chandler, Arizona June 21-24 . • City Signs a Pact with Developers to Preserve San Francisco's Japantown Nisei Veterans to Host 2006 Memorial Day Event SAN FRANCISCO-City officials have reached a pact with developers Various Japanese American war names of the WWlI KIAs, and 115 to preserve the cultural character of two Japantown malls and a hotel whose tative for Gold Star Mothers of veterans groups will gather together names of JAs killed in the Vietnam WWlI. sale had the local JA community worried about one of the nation's last eth• May 27 for a Memorial Day Service· War. In addition, there were five All those representing K1As, vet• nic enclaves of its kind. to honor Japanese"Americans killed Japanese in the U.S. Navy who were erans groups and communities Mayor Gavin Newsom's office finalized a covenant late last month with in action during World War II, the killed on the USS Maine in February should call 310/532-2495 to confirm Beverly Hills-based 3D Investments to have the developers"retain ownership Korean War, the Vietnam War, 1898, one JA was killed in action in attendance. of th Kint u and Mi: ' 0 mall for 15 ears while triving to maintain Grenada, and Iraq. Grenada, and three JAs died in Iraq. The Memorial Day Service pro• Japane~e-th~med stores and allow the community to use the malls for annu• Taking part in the event will be the A monument is to be built with their gram on May 27 will begin at 11:00 al celebrations. The covenant also requires developers to maintain th Japanese American Korean War names and added to the Memorial a.m. at the Japanese American Japanese character of the Radisson Miyako Hotel. The deal does not cover Veterans, the Japanese American Court. National War Memorial court, the Miyako Inn .• Vietnam Veterans and the Americans Frank Takeyama (JAKWV) will JACCC, 244 S. San Pedro Street, of Japanese Ancestry World War II chair the event and Ken Hayashi Los Angeles, 90012. Memorial Alliance. (JAVNV) will give the Memorial For more information contact: At the Japanese American Day message. Participating in the ; : h' Y t. '. Frank Takeyama 310/329-9469, . . ' .. .. . S '. National War Memorial Court in program will be Gold Star mothers APJ\,'. ... , . ': .•.... : ,,' Sam Shimoguchi 310/822-6688, or in the Little Tokyo, there are 248 names of from the Korean War, Vietnam War, Victor Muraoka 818/368-4113 .• News JAs killed in the Korean War, 819 and Iraqi War as well as a represen- By Pacific Citizen Staff

Downtown JACL to Honor Prominent JA Women Downtown Los Angeles JACL along with Southern California Japanese Women's Society will be honoring the achievements of four women of the year. Classical Japanese dancer Bando Mitsuhiro, Retired teacher Takako Osumi, Rev. KareoFay Ramos~ Young and Helene Mieko (Kamiya) Shimane, a proud promoter of Okinawan culture, will be honored at the May 7 luncheon at Los Angeles' Little Tokyo New Otani Hotel.

JA Elected Commissioner to L.A. Superior Court Los kgeles attorney Paul Ted Suzuki has been elected commissioner of the Los Angeles Superior Court. Suzuki, along with two others, were elect• • Long Term Care Plan ed to succeed a retiring cofnmissioner. • Customized Major Medical Suzuki, 58, who is an East Los Angeles native, is expected to take the Insurance (available to non-California members) bench June 1. • Catastrophe Major Medical JA Appointed as President of Alumni Association Insurance Plan Yuki Moore Laurenti was appointed president of • Short Term Medical Plan the Harvard Alumni Association for the 2005-06 aca• • Term Life Insurance demic year. Laurenti, a 1979 graduate, presides over the • Accidental Death & three regular HAA directors' meeting held during the Dismemberment Insurance current academic year. • Medicare Supplement A native of Princeton, New Jersey, she is the daugh• . Insurance Plans . ter of an African American letter carrier and a second • Cancer Care Plan generation Japanese American "social worker turned For your FREE, no-obligation uu:ormation kit (including costs, exclusions, limitations and terms of coverage) caterer." on any JACL-sponsored Insurance Plan, The aim of the HAA is to keep the university and its alumni linked togeth- . . CALL TOLL-FREE Administered by: er. Our hearing-impaired or MARSH 1-800-503-9230 voice-impaired members may Affinity Group Services call the Relay line at Central Valley Honors Local Heroes a servicE' If Seabury S. Smith OR VISIT 1·800-855-2881 Five individuals from Calif.'s Central Valley were recognized at the fifth www·iaclinsurance.com "Asian Pacific American Heritage Local Hero Awards" ceremony, May 2. The honorees were: Dr. Jasbir Kang, Mele Leger, Steve Ly, Wayne 312404626489 (1/06) All plans may vary and may not be available in all states. AG3624 Maeda and Doug Yee, DDS .• 315608 PACIFIC CITIZEN, MAy 5-18, 2006 NATIONAL/ COMMUNITY 5 TLC to Purchase Historic Joy Kogawa House The Land Conservancy of British $1.25 million which Columbia (TLC) announced April includes funds for restora• • TED NAMBA • 28 that it is moving forward with the tion and for an endow• purchase of the historic Joy Kogawa ment to allow the house to Early Bird Registration House in Vancouver and will pre• be used both as an educa• vent its demolition. tional site addressing the Deadline Extended to May 31 "While we still need to raise more issue of the intemment of ~ funds to purchase and operate the Canadians of Japanese house, our 'option to purchase' heritage during World onvention is approaching room on the third floor, near the expires this weekend," said TLC War II and as a site for a quickly so get ready for a lobby. C Executive Director Bill Tumer. "We 'Writers-in-Residence' There will be a unique feel at very special event! Not are out of time. So TLC has decided program. surprisingly, there are changes in this convention as JACL 2006 will to step forward, and take out a mort• "We are confident that, convention plans since our registra• be the only conference that will be gage if necessary, to make sure that given enough time, we tion fonns were printed. Let me held at the resort during that week. , this important piece of our country's will be able to raise the share some of this new infonnation We have now been given 19 of the heritage will not be lost." necessary funds for this with you. 20 conference rooms available at Turner said that by exercising the project," said Turner. "We First, our convention committee the resort. option to purchase, it will put the have requests in to the has extended the early The exhibits will be future of Kogawa House under the City of Vancouver and to control of TLC and the community. the Government of bird registration dead• held in the beautiful PHOTO: DAN TOULGOET This, in effect, will take away the Canada, as well as to line to May 31. This Akirnel 1 and 2 banquet Author Joy Kogawa recalls fond memories threat of imminent redevelopment. many other potential date coincides with the rooms and the latest of her childhood home (in background).. The house had been the subject of donors, and we remain deadline for room exhibit vendor signed a development proposal, and a dem• optimistic that their support for this derful new day!" reservations at the up today will sell vari• olition pennit had been requested. important project will be forthcom• Turner said that TLC would be Wild Horse Pass ous arts and crafts made The City of Vancouver put that ing. In the meantime, TLC is pre• exercising the option to purchase Resort. If any JACLer by the children of the . _ request on hold for three months in pared to take on the risk and protect and that the purchase will close at has difficulty making Gila River Indian , order to allow TLC and the Save the site." the end of May. During that time, their room reservations at the Community (all proceeds benefit Kogawa House Committee the time Noted Canadian Author Joy TLC encourages those who want to resort, please call Eric Garcia who their school). Also, we are arrang• to raise funds to purchase the prop• Kogawa was overwhelmed when help protect this important part of works at "In House" reservations at ing special tours of this unique erty. told the news that her childhood Canadian heritage to make their To date $230,000 has been raised 520n96-8278, Monday-Friday, 8 resort with Ginger Sunbird Martin, home would not be demolished. donation as soon as possible. from over 500 donors. TLC needs "Words can't express how much Donations can be made to TLC at a.m.-5 p.m. (pSn. Cultural Theme manager at Wild $700,000 specifically to purchase this means to me," she said. "This is 6041733-2313 or online at Next, the registration brochure Horse Pass Resort. the house and is seeking a total of defInitely a miracle. What a won- www.conservancy.bc.ca.• recommends that seniors ask to Finally, everyone who registers stay in the Pima wing of the resort for convention will receive either to minimize walking to convention an e-mail or regular mail question• Deadline Closing In for Tule Lake Pilgrimage activities. This will no longer be naire regarding convention. It will The Tule Lake Pilgrimage The Pilgrimage 2006, "Dignity memorial service at the cemetery on inquire whether you will attend possible as the entire Pima wing Committee reminds those who wish and Survival in a Divided the campgrounds. A panel of will be closed for remodeling dur• each event (so we don't waste to attend the 2006 Pilgrimage, not to Community," will examine stories of intemees will discuss their decisions ing convention. meals), infonn you of changes in delay sending in their registrations. Japanese American dissenters who to say "No" to the loyalty question• Resort management just workshops offered, see if you The deadline to register is May 31, said "No" to America's demand that naire and to renounce their U.S. citi• infonned us that although the resort would be interested in going out to and this year, space is limited to 300 they prove loyalty, and the zenship, stories that have been is just three and a half years old, the reservation to see the Gila persons. On June 1, the registration . loyalty/disloyalty paradigm that led erased from a JA narrative that they are strongly attempting to Monument after the dedication cer• fee increases to $435 for all cate• to half a century of marginalizing labeled them as disloyal for their gories of registrants. those who gave up their seemingly protest. jump from their current 4 star/4 emony on June 25, etc. "Already, we have received regis• worthless U.S. citizenship. Two films about people in Tule diamond status to 5 star/5 diamond Please help our registration co• trations for nearly one-third of the The registration fee is $385 per Lake who renounced their U.S. citi• status. Therefore, they will soon chairs, Joyce Shiota and Seiko spaces," said Hiroshi Shimizu, coor• person; for those on low or fIxed zenship are scheduled. "From a Silk begin a remodel of every bathroom Watkins when you receive this dinator of the bi-annual Tule Lake incomes, the fee is $300. On June 1, Cocoon," a film made by psy• in the resort (my daughter already questionnaire by responding pilgrimage. "We urge those who the fee increases to $435. This fee is chotherapist and filmmaker Satsuki thought the bathrooms at this resort promptly. Thank you! want to attend - do not to delay all-inclusive, and covers transporta• Ina, who was born in the were very nice). See you at convention! • sending in your registration fonns. tion, housing, all meals, workshops, Segregation Center, will be screened We will all now be in the We don't want to turn anyone away, excursions, and the pilgrimage's cul• as part of the opening night cere• but we are limited by the amount of tural program at the Ross Ragland monies. The film explores her fami• Maricopa wing and would like to Ted Namba is the chairperson ofthe space at OIT, [the Oregon Technical Theater. ly's life in the Segregation Center, recommend that seniors interested 2006 national JACL convention in Institute] where the pilgrimage Pilgrimage activities include a questioning a future in a country that in minimizing walking ask for a Arizona. activities are based." tour of the Tu1e Lake campsite and a did not want them, and their decision to renounce their U.S. citizenship. Manhattan-based filmmaker, p------.. Linda Hattendorf created '''The Cats I of Mirikitani," a story about her post-9-11 evolving friendship with I CONVENTION PACKAGE REGISTRATION street-artist Jimmy Mirikitani, a (includes Individual Events listed below) Name ---- WWII Tule Lake detainee and Before 5/31 After 5/31 I (Please print) last First MI Age renunciant; both plan to attend the I Address o Regular Package $225 $250 $_- pilgrimage for the film's first West . City o Youth Package $115 $125 $_- Coast showing. (A reduced registration fee for Youth/Students who are 25 years of age or younger or Intergenerational discussion I State ______Zip Code currently enrolled in a college. trade school or university. Youth Package includes all of groups provide an occasion to share I Daytime Telephone Number ______the events in the Regular Convention Package.) experiences and help heal the INDIVIDUAL EVENTS (all included in package registration) wounds of the incarceration experi• Evening Telephone Number ______ence. The cultural program of music, E-mail address o Workshops $25 $30 $_- dance and spoken-word is open to Welcome Mixer $50 $60 $_- Chapter o the public and will be held at the o Awards Luncheon $50 $60 $_- Ross Ragland Theater in downtown Category 0 Delegate 0 Booster o Millennium Club o Sayonara Banquet $100 $110 $_- Klamath Falls. 0 Alternate 0 1000 Club o National Board/Staff o Youth Luncheon $50 $60 $_- The 2006 pilgrimage will also cel• 0 Youth 0 I 000 Club life o Masaoka Fellow ebrate the recent designation of the SPECIAL EVENTS (not included in Regular Package Registration) 0 Other (Specify) Tule Lake Segregation Center site as o Camp Dance Dinner & Show $85 $95 $__ _ a National Historic Landmark. A Camp Dance Show Only' $25 $30 $ ___ dedication ceremony will be held Mail ChEk and this {onnJggether to; JACl 2006 - Registration o Ju1y 3 as part of the evening of cul• P.O. Box 3455 o Golf Tournament $75 $85 $__ _ (Join the AZ Nikkei Golf Club at the Whirlwind Golf Course on June 25, 2006) tural perfonnances at the Ross Phoenix, AZ 85030-3455 Ragland Theater. -or- Convention Package $ Registration fonns are available from the contact persons listed To pay by charge card, fill out credit card information below Individual Events $ below or may be downloaded from and mail to above address: Special Events $ (Print legibly) the Tule Lake website www.tule• Total $ lake.org. For more infonnation, con• Cardholder's Name tact: San Francisco-Hiroshi Shimizu, MasterCard or Visa (circle one) Early Bird Registration Deadline: May 31 [email protected], 415/566- Account Number 2279; San Jose-Jimi Yamaichi, [email protected], 408/269-9458; Expiration Date HOTEL INFORMATION: Sacramento-Grace Kajita, tule• Signature [email protected], 916/392-5416; Seattle• Sheraton Wild Horse Pass Resort and Spa Stan Shikuma, [email protected], (800) 325-3535 206/919-1465; Los Angeles-Sharon $95/night, mention JACL National Convention Yamato, [email protected], R.S.V.P by May 31 310/578-0090; . Japan-Sachiko Takita, [email protected], ------_ .. 045-787-2099.• 6 NATIONAL NEWS PACIFIC CITIZEN, MAy 5-18, 2006 YALE war with Iraq for the second time. was Dec. 7, the day Pearl Harbor Back then, political tension lead to was bombed and the day that (Continued from page 1) protests and eventually hateful acts. changed the course of many Love You Long Tune" takes the old ''Things were happening on cam• Japanese American lives. Two years yellow fever formula - Caucasian pus that you wouldn't think would later, he helped establish the univer• man plus Asian woman - and, in happen at Yale," she said. sity's AASA with the goal to debunk one instance, uses anonymous Four years later, Wong was frus• myths and stereotypes. quotes to compare APA females to trated to see the underlining tensions "As a field we have done some SARS ("because they take my still bubbling at the surface. Two important work along these lines, breath away"). The controversial other Yale newspapers also drew but there is so much more to do," article is accompanied with a picture criticism this year for their alleged said Nakanishi. of a semi-nude man pouring rice in stereotypical depictions of APAs. Next year, the UCLA Asian his mouth. The Rumpus articles were the last American Studies Center will host The other article, "Miscegenation straw for Hung and Wong who an exhibit that explores 100 years of Station," takes swipes at Asian wrote a guest column in the "Yale APA racial stereotypes and images men's poor dating prowess. Daily News" condemning the arti• in performance arts. ''Taking a girl to play Dance cles' "blatantly uninformed general• At Yale, the controversies have Dance Revolution is not sexy," izations about minority communi• opened an avenue for dialogue, a wrote Kai Thaler, who also men• ties." PHOTO COURTESY ANNETTE WONG goal both Hung and Wong hope to tions African American women's Like most cases dealing with free IT's NOT FUNNY: Yalies talk racial humor and stereotyping April 29. achieve before they graduate this "purple vaginas" in the article about speech, outrage was met with dis• year. interracial dating. dain. humor," said Hung. "Personally, the al memory," said Hung. ''To me it's Brian Hauss, the author of "Me In the following days students "There was this general notion for problem isn't so much [Rumpus] notable how the same stereotype Love You Long Tune," told the P.e. complained, bloggers debated the Asian Americans to chill out," said making fun of Asian Americans gets repeated." he was trying to poke fun at some of appropriateness of racial humor and Wong. "It signals to a general along with other groups. It's that Racial humor and stereotyping the responses he collected While the dean of undergraduate admis• unawareness that things like this they are not realistic depictions of have become a part of the college researching the yellow fever topic. sion blasted the articles as "puerile really do affect people and to the Asian Americans, so it's easier to life and are not confined to the Yale "Unfortunately I failed to evoke stereotypes." lack of awareness of racialization. misconstrue these stereotypes as campus, according to Don T. the irony I intended in my writing, Rumpus has since issued an apol• There is a history of 'othering' and truth." Nakanishi, director of Asian and as a result of poor joumalism ogy while underscoring its mission thinking Asian Americans are the At the April 20 forum, editors of American Studies at the University and bad writing on my part, a lot of to be ironic and absurd. ''This is a passive minorities. We have to say, Rumpus and the Yale Herald lis• of California, Los Angeles. people were understandably hurt social debate," the publication's edi• 'No. We will make a fuss. '" tened to feedback and explained "It is widespread and has a long and offended," said Hauss, who torial board said in a statement. Lead by the Asian American their positions, said Wong, who legacy in American society and cul• publicly apologized at the forum. For Yale seniors Christine Hung Student Alliance (AASA) , an added it was the first time an open ture. Making fun of and taunting In the aftermath of the controver• and Annette Wong, it was indeed a umbrella organization for APA dialogue about race was fostered on Asian Americans happens from K- sies, he said the dialogue is flowing. social issue that needed to be aired groups on campus, students of campus. Another forum April 29 12 to mass media and the general "I hope it will improve every• out. This latest racial incident signi• diverse ethnic backgrounds protest• continued the discussion, which public," he said in an e-mail to the one's understanding of both racial fied a full circle of events for Wong, ed and hosted a forum with newspa• many hope will be ongoing. Pacific Citizen. and media issues on campus," said who arrived at Yale when the United per editors to discuss issues of race. ''This is not just a phenomenon In 1967, classmates with water Hauss. "It certainly has raised my States was teetering on the brink: of "It's saddening that these articles that has happened this year. The balloons bombarded Nakanishi, awareness." • are using tired tropes of racial school does not have an institution- then a freshman at Yale. The date AMICUS BRIEF No JA was ever charged with and rant - without proving probable AOL, and MSN. CCR recently flled they were listening in on, but if his• convicted of spying for Japan prior cause for suspicion to a judge - a class action lawsuit against AT&T tory is any guide, it will turn out to (Continued trom page 1) to or during WWII. But throughout we've seen both things happen: accusing the company of housing be people selected for the worst of tragic Sept. 11 attacks of 200 1, espe• the years leading up to and during minority groups become targets secret spying rooms to gather elec• reasons: because of their ethnicity, cially on those who have been in the war several newspapers and rhet• because of the prejudices of law . tronic client data. national origin, or political beliefs," contact with Muslim persons and oric from national leaders and mili• enforcement, and in the end follow• The Justice Department is expect• said Kadidal. Middle East countries. In response tary officers vocally accused mem• ing those prejudices proves to be a ed to flle a response to both the "If the rights of one group of - to the disconcerting disclosure, sev• bers of the JA community with spy• waste of law enforcement resources ACLU and CCR lawsuits May 19. Americans are threatened, the rights eral groups and individuals have ing for their ancestral home. as well as a national disgrace," said Oral arguments are set for June 12. of all of us are threatened," said raised their voices in protest charg• The accusations and vitriol would Kadidal. "Today's NSA program is already Tateishi. "If it's the Arab and ing the White House with violating ultimately lead to the intemment of The Bush Administration has proving to be inefficient and ineffec• Muslim cornmunities today, who the constitutional rights of privacy 110,000 Americans of Japanese been candid about their current tive ... It remains to be seen who will it be tomorrow?" • and free speech of Americans and ancestry from the West Coast, most domestic surveillance program. The violating FlSA (Foreign Intelligence of them U.S. citizens. administration argues that Bush's Surveillance Act) rules. In the ongoing debate on the war constitutional powers as the presi• The American Civil Liberties against terrorism the experiences of dent and a congressional resolution Union (ACLU) and the Center for the JA community has often been passed shortly after the 2001 terror• Constitutional Rights (CCR) have referred to again and again in ist attacks give him the legal author• flled lawsuits challenging the NSA's protesting the Bush Administration's ity for the current wiretap program. current domestic surveillance pro• handling of those from the Muslim And on April 6 Attorney General gram and are calling for the imme• and Arab American communities. Alberto Gonzales did not rule out the If you are over age 50 and have $100,000 or diate dissolution of the NSA. And "Japanese Americans of the World possibility of warrantless surveil• more in the bank, recently several civil rights groups, War II era were unjustly painted with lance on domestic calls of investments or including the JACL, and business a broad brush of suspicion; the same Americans in congressional testimo• retirement accounts, leaders have thrown their support thing is happening to Arab ny. what you don't know could wipe out a behind the lawsuits signing onto Americans and Muslims today," said Since the Bush ordered surveil• lifetime of hard• amicus briefs. Joining JACL are: the Shayana Kadidal, CCR staff attor• lance was revealed, several corpora• earned savings. NAACP, American-Arab Anti• ney. tions and their handover of confiden• Discrinlination Committee (ADC), "We've been through this, we tial client information has been United for Peace and Justice know the devastation it causes to exposed in the media, including (UFPJ), and the Asian American . families and communities, especial• companies like AT&T, Yahoo!, Legal Defense and Education Fund ly when such action is taken without (AALDEF). substantial evidence of the need to ''The JACL can't stand idly by do so. We know too well that if you without considering the profound threaten the rights of one group of impact of the issue of domestic sur• citizens, it threatens the rights of all veillance on the rights of citizens, Americans," said Tateishi. especially in light of the years of The ACLU lawsuit (ACLU vs. surveillance placed upon the NSA) and the CCR lawsuit (CCR vs. Japanese American communities Bush) both accuse the White House prior to the outbreak of war with of warrantless eavesdropping and Japan," said John Tateishi, JACL monitoring of phone calls and e• If you are 62 or older and own your house, executive director. ''The sweep and mails of Americans, including U.S. arrest of Issei leaders didn't make citizens. They argue that the U.S. a Reverse Mortgage may benefit you! this country any safer, and one has govemment is violating FlSA rules to wonder if the current policies of established in 1978 which requires • Turn Home Equity into Tax Free Cash this administration has a basis in the government to head to a FlSA • Payoff Bills & Credit Cards . fact." court for a warrant within 72 hours ''During World War II, a misguid• of setting up a domestic wiretap. • No Monthly Mortgage Payments ed case was made that the pool of The amicus briefs filed on behalf • SAFE Govt. Program Designed for Seniors potential spies for Japan who might of the civil rights organizations note cause horrific damage to our coun• how previous administrations have "1 pledge to provide excellent customer service with the try were limited to people of used domestic spying tactics to Japanese descent," said Laila Al• deliberately intimidate and monitor highest standard of ethics" Qatarni, ADC communications civil rights leaders like Dr. Martin director. ''Thus, focusing on Arabs Luther King, Jr., and wholesale 25+ Years Experience as a Financial Professional and Arab Americans not only flies groups of individuals such as the JA against 'our constitutional dedication community pre-WWII. David C. Miyagawa Chee (510) 436-3100 to equality under the law, but it is "Throughout history, whenever Certified Public Accountant or toll free also 'dumb' law enforcement and we have allowed the executive to retroactive thinking." conduct surveillance without a war- Equal Housing Lender· CA DEPT. RE#01391106 (800) 967-3575 PACIFIC CITIZEN, MAy 5-18, 2006 SPORTS 7 BASEBALL Visit the Pacific Citizen online at South Korean Lee Right at Home on Japan's Team www.pacificcitizen.org . TOKYO-Lee Seung-yeop is and setting a new Asian record for having no trouble adjusting to what the most home runs in a single sea• Kosakura Tours & Travel Presents: is easily the toughest job in Japanese son. baseball: batting fourth for the In nine seasons in Korea, Lee had Escorted Tours & Cruises for 2006 Yomiuri Giants. a career .350 batting average, 324 July 5 Alaska Cruise and Land Tour on Coral Princess Lee went into an April 30 game homers and 948 RBIs, while eam• July 17 Japan - Highlights of Japan against the Chunichi Dragons with a ing the nickname Lion King. Aug. 11 Treasures of the Rhine River - a river boat cruise through .309 batting average, five homers, His numbers in two seasons with Germany 18 RBIs and a Central League-lead• the Lotte Marines were equally Sept. 2 Tahiti Cruise on the "Paul Gauguin" ing 23 runs scored. Sept. 21 Japan - Hokkaido and Tohoku impressive - 44 homers, 132 RBIs Oct. 5 New England - Fall Foliage The South Korean slugger signed - but he wasn't playing everyday Oct. 16 Autumn Highlights of Japan with the Giants in the offseason and sought a regular job with anoth• Oct. 28 Greek Isles Cruise on the Golden Princess after failing to get enough playing erteam. Nov. 9 Japan - Shikoku & Kyushu time last season for the Chiba Lotte Lee led South Korea to the semi• Dec. 1 Egypt - Land of the Pharaohs (Including Nile River Cruise Marines under Bobby Valentine. Lee Seung-yeop broke Sada• finals of the inaugural World & Jordan) Lee declined to coIIm:1ent on his haru Oh's Asian record of 55 Baseball Classic in March. He bat• We will be glad to send you a detailed brochure! reasons for leaving the Marines. homers with 57 in 2003. ted .333 and led all players 'in the "All I'm thinking about now is toumament with five homers and 10 We also sell: International & Domestic Air Tickets including: ANA, putting up some good numbers and Other prominent foreign players RBIs. JAL, and VAL, Japan Rail Pass, Hotels, Car Rental and Cruises helping this team win a champi• who have batted cleanup for the South Korea beat Japan twice in Packages to any destination around the world! onship," Lee said. "We're off to a Giants over the years include the tournament before losing to the Roberto Petagine, Shane Mack, Phil Kosakura Tours and Travel good start and hopefully we can eventual winners in the semifinal, It keep it going." Bradley, Lloyd Moseby and Reggie was Lee's two-run homer in the top 4415 Cowell Road, Suite 110, Concord, CA 94518 Batting cleanup for the Giants Smith. lJapan Series since 2002, couldn't be final Group A game of the tourna• The Giants are Japan's most popular happier with Lee~s seamless transi• ment at Tokyo Dome. team and the highly-coveted fourth tion to the new job. The team is in ''The fact that two Asian teams (Jme:ricon HotidQ\{ navel spot is normally reserved for home• first place with a 17-6-2 record and made it to the semifinal shows you 2006 TOUR SCHEDULE grown talent. is off to one of its best starts in the just how far baseball has progressed GRANPARENTS/GRANDCHILDREN JAPAN TOUR ...... JUNE 25-JULY 4 Previous occupants have included last 10 years. in this part of the world," said Lee. Tokyo. Hakone, Lake Hamana, Hiroshima, Kyoto, SOLD OUT Sadaharu Oh, Shigeo Nagashima Lee arrived at the Giants with an "We were mentally tougher than ALASKA HOLIDAY CRUISE NEW DATE/LOW RATES, , , , . , , .AUG 27-SEPT 3 and Hideki Matsui. Foreign players impressive resume. Seaffie, Hubbard Glacier, Juneau, Sitka. Ketchikan. VICtoria, HOLlAND AMERICA UNE Japan in the first two games but they NOVA SCOTIA-PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND HOLIDAY TOUR . ,., .. ". ,SEPT 19-28 have batted fourth for the Giants in In 2003, he hit 56 homers for the had the mental edge in the third Hal~ax. Peggy's Cove, Moncton. Charlottetown, Anne of Green Gable, the past but few have lasted more Samsung Lions in the Korean game.". Baddeck, Cabot Trail. than one season, League, surpassing Oh's mark of 55 HOKKAIDO-TOHOKU HOLIDAY TOUR ",.,.".,',.".,""""" .OCT 3-15 Lake Akan, Abashiri. Kitami. Sapporo, Noboribetsu, Lake Toya, Hakodate, Oirase Valiey. HirosakL Ak~a, Kakunodate, Matsushima, Sendai, Nikko, Tokyo, GOLF - TAHITI HOLIDAY CRUISE ".".".",."",."".,."."."." .OCT 21-29 Po peete, Raiatea, Taha' a. Bora Bora, Moorea, RADISSON'S PAUL GAUGUIN Michelle Wie Arrives in South Korea for Men's Tournament AUSTRALIA-NEW ZEALAND HOLIDAY TOUR, . , , , . , , . , , . , , , , , , , , .. .NOV 1-18 Cairns, Great EIorrier Reef, Sydney. Melbourne, Christchurch, Mt, Cook, SEOUL, South Korea-Michelle "I practiced hard," Wie said, Sony Open in Hawaii in January and Queenstown, Milford Sound, Rotorua, Auckland, Wie will tee it up against the men "Even if! fail to make the cut, I want is scheduled to play in two more NEW YORK CITY GETAWAY TOUR ".,"',.".".,',.,",.".,', . .DEC 3-7 C~ tour, Empire State Building, Statue of Uberty, Ellis Island, United Nations, again. to leam from other players and play PGA Tour events this season - the South Street Seaport, Wie arrived in South Korea as a with fun." 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Associated Press 8 VOICES PACIFIC CITIZEN, MAY 5-18, 2006 Yuri Kochiyama got the point when she got heavily involved with the black civil rights movement in the 1960s. She understood that it wasn't just a black struggle, but a • BIU.. YOSHINO • struggle for all oppressed minorities MDC REGlONAL DiRECTOR everywhere. Thusly, a step up in the FROM THE MIDWEST • YUMI SAl\.lJGAWA • black community meant a step up MEMOIRS OF A NON-GEISHA for everybody else. This is why AAs should be aware A Debt of Gratitude Beyond Boba of the immigrant rights movement that is taking place right now to Hank Tanaka sides from the fact that I our Nikkei Student Union, for because while it largely affects the A drink a lot of boba, I gen• example, many group members are Latino community, it also deeply fier learning about Hank from the JA community. erally do not take the time not JA even though they actively involves the Chinese, Korean, Tanaka's passing, I began After about 10 years in A to familiarize myself with the participate in Little Tokyo commu• Vietnamese and other undocument• leafing through some old Cleveland, Hank indicated that he Taiwanese American community. nity events, take on big leadership files to help freshen my memories finally came to his senses. In his ed Asian immigrants who are work• Which is why I was slightly positions or help plan the annual about hinl. I came across his redress testimony, he said, "For ing hard to make a living in this I Nikkei Student Union Cultural resume from some 20 years ago. having allowed myself to be incar• nervous when the president of the country. Born in Salem, Oregon. Married cerated by my own government, I Taiwanese American Union asked Night. It doesn't have to be this s~rious to Sachie Fukiage; four sons. experienced a heightened feeling of me and several other people Even within the AA theater group all the time, though. Sometimes Education: Willamette University; shame. It made me bitter again; but involved in Asian American organi• that I am a part of, Caucasians, being involved with another com• Earlham College; Western Reserve more at myself. I feel fortunate that zations on campus to help out as black-Hispanic and half-Moroccan munity can just be a matter of University, School of Applied I survived the experience of being student conference leaders for the people are strongly involved within expanding your horizons and hav• uprooted and interned. lowe it to Social Sciences. 1960 - present: Intercollegiate Taiwanese American the organization for a mutual pas• ing fun. executive director, Hill House. my upbringing for having survived. I Student Association (ITASA) that sion for acting and performing. By being a student conference national president, JACL; JACL It is an experience that will remain was held at UCLA several week• Perhaps this is an important point with me forever." leader for a Taiwanese American Legislative Education Committee ends ago. to make here. Struggles for ethnic and on and on. Hank's good friend, Toaru student conference, I not only Essentially, the purpose of a stu• communities shouldn't be thought The resume presents the outline Ishiyama, once allowed that the learned ~ great deal about the in such insular terms JAs represent of a life with a glimpse of some government's actions during WWII dent conference leader is to be Taiwanese American community, I facts that show accomplishment, had a devastating psychological responsible for a small group of JA issues, Chinese Americans rep• also got to watch a Taiwanese pup• but fails to tell the whole story. A impact on the community; that Taiwanese American high school resent Chinese American issues, pet show, get to know a lot of cool part of Hank's life was devoted to when this country abandoned JAs and college students in the gaps of and so on. Doing so completely Taiwanese American college stu• the JA community, an involvement during WWII, it said that they were time between conference events and ignores the hyphenated American dents, and have hook-ups with free, that was shaped by his experience not worthy and not to be trusted. lectures, with responsibilities that that comes with being a minority in delicious Taiwanese food. as a young man during WWII. Toaru observed that when JAs first range from leading goofy icebreak• this country and fails to acknowl• Now. how sweet is that? • In 1981, Hank testified about the began making pilgrimages back to er activities to facilitating group dis- edge that we are all communities effects of internment at the redress the camps, "the tears that were not , cussions on hate crimes within the intimately connected together with• Yumi Sakugawa is currently attend• shed then now come, and come, hearing of the Commission on AA community. in a much larger community. ing UCLA. Wartime Relocation and and come. We cry because of what While the majority of the student Internment of Civilians in Chicago. we lost. And the loss goes beyond In his testimony, Hank described property issues, beyond physical conference leaders were obviously 1942 as a year of bitterness and hardships. " Taiwanese American, there were betrayal by his own government. Hank's and Toaru's observations also Japanese Americans like me, Ine Shield 0 *.t Califomia His anxiety was heightened succinctly capture the deep trauma Vietnamese Americans, Chinese ~de1?endent Metttber of the Blue Shield Association because he didn't know whether he their generation felt, but it's also a Americans, Indian Americans and would be drafted or whether he testament to their strength and the other non-Taiwanese people who would be separated from his fami• distance they came in the remark• volunteered a good chunk of their ly. able success they achieved. weekend to help out with the con• Hank recalled that the FBI came Hank turned his attention to his ference. to his home because his Issei father heritage and to the JA community I guess in the end, it didn't matter was an officer in a Japanese frater• replacing the sense of shame with a that we weren't Taiwanese nal organization. He also recalled vigorous pride by contributing his that the family restaurant was van• talents and leadership to the JACL American and were not intimately dalized, and that people stopped and to his local community. I came acquainted with the politics that patronizing the business, causing it to know Hank in 1979, during the affect the Taiwanese people, such as to close. He said that his life at years that the JACL began the the clash between those who want Tule Lake reinforced the feeling campaign to seek remedies for the reunification with the mainland and that he was a second class citizen internment. There are few who those who want to create an inde• and he felt fortunate when he was toiled on this issue as relentlessly pendent Taiwanese republic. admitted to Earlham College in as did Hank. His care, concern and It didn't matter because while our spite of warnings that folks in action went beyond redress to other cultures and histories are very dif• Richmond, Indiana weren't putting issues of social justice and to the ferent, we empathized with their out a welcoming mat for JAs. well-being of the JACL. desire to define themselves as a After two years at Earlham, He told me on several occasions Hank returned to Tule Lake to help that he owed any success that he growing immigrant community and his parents and sisters relocate to achieved to his upbringing and to to become more politically active in Cleveland. He said his bitterness . the JACL for raising his level of the larger sphere of mainstream returned when he found that his consciousness. America. father had lost his spirit and given But, it is we who owe Hank our The more I think about it, the up any hope of returning to the gratitude for his many contribu• I presence of other minorities within restaurant business. Hank said that tions to our causes and for preserv• minority-specific organizations is this set hinl on a path to disassoci• ing and passing on the finest of our I not a very unusual around here. In ate hinlself from his heritage and ancestral values . • THE GRAND CHMt?ION WANfS TO BE TOSSED INTO THE AI R LIKE.. SADAHARUOH WHt:N JAPAN WON -rn E FI RST Health PI

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.' Fire Hors-e Woman Born under an inauspicious sign, jlJlia Kwan went to film school, wrote a script for nine years and made a film that made it big. Not too shabby; eh?

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'It must be hard being Canada's latest little darling. Earlier this year at Raise your hand if you've ever .. the Sundance Film Festival, Julia Kwan walked the famous red car- been your parents' translator. pet for her film, "Eve and the'Fire Horse." But she wasn't alone. The. In the film, young Karena Eng Canadian government, so proud that Kwan's film was the country's sale fea• (Hollie Lo) is quickly ushered to the ture-length representation, sent two Mounties t9 escort the fllmmaker and door to greet religious missionaries. the cast past the flashing camera lights. And when a person leaves one old "So there we were: Vivian Wu, me, one of my little actresses, and two world for a new one, traditions and Mounties. Canada was also really [politica1!y correct] about it; one of the superstitions come along like stow• Mounties was a woman and half Asian, so we were all represented!" said aways. . KWall from her base in Vancouver. "Vancouver has a huge Asian . Let's just say it was a crash course in Hollywood 101, a subject that by population, 85 percent of my friends now the 39-year-old Chinese Canadian is very well versed. At the top of the were Asian, so it was like this sub• interview, she cheerfully apologizes in advance for boring me - she's talked culture. We would all go through it about her film so much she's afraid of repeating the same answers she's together. I do remember one sum• given to other journalists. Like film critic Roger Ebert, for instance. mer a few of my friends' parents This reporter clears her throat and crosses a few questions off her list said houses were haunted, so there Oh, and she won Sundance's prestigious Special Jury Prize. Imagine how was this ritual of chopping raw meat many hockey sticks and curling rocks were put down to clap for the coun• on the porch at midnight. try's adopted daughter. Especially after the Canadian government funded Superstition is so ingrained in our much of her film, made for just under $2 milJjon. Her trophy had just arrived culture. in the mail. and now sits on a bookshelf. Looking back on the night, she "I also remember my grandmoth- . remembers blurs of details. er would dry bok choy out in the sun WOULDN'T IT BE NICE?: "So we went on stage and I remember looking out into the audience and to make soup with it, so I remember Phoebe Jojo Kut in the front row seeing Roger Ebert and Terrence Howard. I managed to spit coming home and seeing rows of (above, center) is the out a thank you and I do remember it being the eve of the Chinese New Year bok choy lined up on our bac porCh center of an unlikely and wishing everyone ahappy year of the dog," said Kwan. and feeling horribly embarrassed!" union and (left) prays' The spotlight is shining brightly on the filmmaker and her debut feature said Kwan. with her older sister film about two Chinese Canadian sisters' struggle with issues of family and She is the youngest of three born (Hollie Lo). religion. Where many would shrink under pressure, Kwan has managed to under _the eponymous fire horse flourish, but it has taken a Jjttle adjustment The self-described private per• sign, inauspicious luck for women, ------son used to bristle when reporters asked her personal questions, but she's which she shares with the young come to accept that parts of her life have become public domain. main character Eve (phoebe Jojo together. tedly made her a little nervous. "Eve" is such a personal film it's hard not to plumb the fllmmakers' mind Kut) and famed actress Vivian Wu. The children's soul searching "Sometimes you make a film and - and its not uncharted territory. K wan worked on the script for nine years Kwan jokes about being the black mirrored Kwan's own Sunday you get criticism from within the adhering to the adage, "write what you know" by pouring her personal expe• . sheep of the family because she is school experience. corilrnunity that it's not authentic riences onto paper. The film, although not autobiographical, has overlapping the only offspring to choose a career " ... [My mom] really believed in enough," she said. moments of truth for the filmmaker, and for any family of recent immigrants. in the arts. But her hardworking par• safety in numbers, that more gods in But AAs loved it, and in the end ents are slowly beginning to under• the house was better than one. Of she didn't have to explain any of the stand what the world already course, we didn't tell her what we jokes. They just knew.• knows: their daughter is an amazing were learning. Had she known that fIlmmaker. Because the Chinese we were learning she was going to newspaper said so. hell, I don't' think she would've let 'EVE AND THE FIRE HORSE' "My mom was interviewed by us go." . ~ < the Sing Tao newspaper and she was Somewhere along the way, K wan The film Will make its Los . so excited," said K wan. fell away from religion, but she's Angeles premiere this month .! In the film, Eve and Karena stnig• continued to study and research it. ., aUheVC . Film Festival. ,ill J gle to understand their rapidly "There's no period for me. I'm changing world through newfound still searching." WEBlNFO: ~ Catholicism. Crucifixes are placed K wan screened "Eve" for a pre• • www.eveandthefirehorse.com/ ~ side-by-side with statues of dominantly Asian American audi• ffash_contenthtml 1 Buddhist deities, and in one dream ence in San Francisco in March. It . VC~www.vconline.org sequence, Jesus and Buddha dance was a sold-out event, which admit- .«< ~.

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He was said his journey represented a clas• helped develop affordable housing Condo near beautiful Catalina sic American success story for for seniors and led the effort to save golf course. JACL discount $160 TAKEYAMA 53. per night (valid through May 29). Funeral services for the late Mui died of immigrants from China, who have a fonner 50-acre cornfield north of May 30-July 1 price is $175 per George W. Takeyama, 71 year-old cancer April long referred to the United States as downtown as an open space. night. 2 night minimum stay. Los Angeles-born resident of 27 at San Gold Mountain. Mui was on the staff of state Northridge, who passed away April C-51 Matsumoto 17 at Northridge Hospital Medical Gabriel Valley Born in Guangzhou, China, he Assembly members Lucille FOR RESERVATIONS: Center, were held on April 26 at Medical said relatives in his homeland were Roybal-Allard and Richard Hunt & Associates Centenary United Methodist, 300 Center, city officials said. "so proud a son has gone to Polanco and state Sen. Gloria Mr. Hunt 310-510-2721 S. Central Ave., Los Angeles. He is survived by his sister, Joy T. "Chi was a dear friend, an inspi• America and realized the Golden Romero before he was elected to Hashimoto; nieces, Joy Douglass, ration and greatly loved by all of us Mountain dream and brought back the city council in March 2003. Place a classified ad, Ann (Hal) Pos; nephew, Dr. in San Gabriel," said vice mayor pride to the elders and ancestors." He is survived by his wife;Betty Edward (Roopa) Hashimoto; David Gutierrez, who will serve as Mui immigrated with his family Tse, and two sons. call 800/966-6157. grandnieces, Katherine Hashimoto and Hannah Pos, all the above of interim mayor. to New York City in 1963, when he Funeral arrangements are pend• Utah; grandnephews, Danny and Mui became mayor March 21 was 10. The son of a seamstress and ing . • ELK GROVETQYOTAISCION Michael Hashimoto of Calif.; also 9640 w. StoCkton Blv4•. " survived by cousins and other rela• tinued his active involvement at ali paign to seek remedies for the Elk Grove, C.A;95757LI tives. TANAKA levels of the JACL and had that pas• internment. There are few who RON NAKANO www.fukuimortuary.com (Continued from page 1) Sales Mfnager (213) 626-0441 sion in his bones, even as he strug• toiled on this issue as relentlessly as 1-8()(}-243~3613 1985. He was also a longtime leader gled with his own illness. The pass• did Hank. His care, concern and on the JACL Cleveland chapter and ing of Hank Tanaka is especially sad action for issues of equity and for Avoid the Terri Schiavo Mess (562) 598-9523 the Midwest district boards. Tanaka because of his life-long devotion to the JACL drew respect and admira• Established 1965 Download an Advance Health Care Directive was a member of the Pacific Citizen the JACL and his commitment to tion," said Bill Yoshino, MDC Free of Charl:e on lel:albridl:e.com Imperial Jewelry Mfg. Co. editorial board for several years and social justice." regional director. "He told me on Rne Jewelry. Custom Designing·• Repair served on the JACL Long Range Tanaka, a pioneering psychiatric several occasions that he owed any 11072 Los Alamitos Blvd. Planning Committee and the social worker, was the first execu• success that he achieved to his Thomas :'\ . Sillgekuni and As,oelate, Los Alamitos, CA 90720 upbrin~g A110rne) s ,It Lm (3\()) S40·9266 Personnel Committee. tive director 9f Hill House, a com• and to the JACL for rais• During the redress movement of munity mental health agency which ing his level of consciousness. But, the 70s and 80s Tanaka played a has developed innovative projects it is we who owe Hank our gratitude pivotal role serving on the MDC and ways of delivering mental for his contributions to us' and for committee and the JACL health services. After 39 years in the preserving and passing on the fInest Legislative Education Committee. field of mental health, Tanaka of our ancestral values." He also provided moving personal retired in 1990. Tanaka is survived by his wife testimony during the redress hear• Born and raised in Salem, Sachi, sons David F. Tanaka F.D.L.#929 ings of the Commission on Wartime . Oregon, Tanaka attended (Deidre), Steven M. Tanaka, MD 707 East Temple Street Gerald Fukui 911 VENICE BLVD. Relocation and Internment of Willamette University until he was (Carol), Robert T. Tanaka, DVM Los Angeles, CA 90012 President LOS ANGELES, CA 90015 Civilians in Chicago. evacuated to the Tule Lake (Michiko) and John C. Tanaka (213) 749-1449 "Although I was aware that Hank Relocation Center in May, 1942. He (Joan); seven grandchildren; sisters Ph. 2131626-0441 FAL(213) 749-0265 Fax 2131617-2781 R. Hayamizu, Presidelll had been ill for quite some time, I e entually completed his nder• Helen Watanabe, Hazel Asamoto, H. Suzuki, V.P.IGell. Mgr. was deeply saddened by the news of graduate work at Earlham College and Aiko Ebihara. his passing. He was part of a disap• in 1944 and went on to serve in the Funeral services were held May 1 pearing breed of JACLer, those U.S. Army Medical Corps for two at the Church of the Covenant in Nisei who devoted their lives to years. After the war he enrolled in Cleveland, Ohio followed by a bur• PACIFIC CITIZEN helping others and to supporting the Western Reserve University where ial service at Lakeview Cemetery. National business and Professional Directory mission of the JACL," said John he earned a master's degree in social Contributions may be made to: Tateishi, JACL executive director. administration. It was also here that Hill House, 11101 Magnolia Drive, Your business card in each issue for 22 issues is $15 per line, three·line minimum. Larger type (12 pt.) counts "Leaving the presidency of the he met his longtime wife Sachi Cleveland 44106; JACL as two lines. 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They look at Merchant. cate balance of boiling and mixing you like you're a criminal," said On March 15, about 400 protest• chemicals to make the illegal drug. Patel. ers rallied in front of U.S. Attorney But Samuel said a lot of customers More upsetting for the busi• David Nahmias' office. Nahmias come into the store looking for nessman is the evidence of what has publicly denied any wrongdo• ingredients to accompany weekend he calls racial profiling. According ing. barbeques and dinners. How was he to Patel, the informant's audio Even more of an affront to Patel is supposed to differentiate? recorder malfunctioned during the the fact that larger chains like Wal• Samuel was one of the 49 individ• sting, so when it came time to Mart carry much more of the same uals charged in a 2003 sting organ• identifY who had sold him the ingredients, but are never targeted. ized by local law enforcement and ingredients, another agent who His store was the only one in the the U.S. Drug Enforcement was parked in the lot jotted down large strip mall to be targeted. Administration. Like 44 of the 49 the license plate of a white van "People are feeling beaten down individuals charged, Samuel is of allegedly after he saw a South by a system that has long been PHOTO: DANIEL BEAR, ACLU South Asian descent. Twenty three Asian man exit the vehicle. The unfair to communities of color. out of 24 stores targeted were Georgians protest racial profiling. Another event is planned May 5. police later arrested a woman to They are having a hard time trusting owned or operated by South Asians, whom the car was registered, said that law enforcement has an interest many with limited English skills. Union is alleging ethnic bias. In nesses. Patel. Her last name was also Patel, in protecting them, and are instead For the sting, code-named legal filings last month, the ACLU Samuel along with Patel's corpo• but she had never been to the store. living in fear of being harassed Operation Meth Merchant (OMM), is seeking a dismissal of charges ration took a deal offered by prose• "Her only crime was having the because of their skin color. informants were sent to conven• against convenience store owners cutors to plead guilty in exchange last name 'Patel,'" he said. "Unless the charges are dropped, ience stores between December Falgun Patel and Sudhirkumar Patel · for a fine of $31,900. Charges 'These people are human beings. it will take a lot of time and effort on 2003 to May 2005 to buy ingredi• based on newly discovered evi• against Samuel would also be They are an important and valued the part of the government for pe0- ents used to make drugs and were dence of bias. Trials for the remain• dropped. part of their communities. Because ple in this community to be able to instructed to make statements like "I ing cases are pending start dates. Patel took the deal rather than see of this racially targeted operation, trust law enforcement again," said need it to go cook." The U.S. District Court in Rome, his employee go to jail. their lives have been ruined. Gokhale. "It's a slang. How are we expect• Georgia rejected a similar motion 'The corporation can cover the Families have been tom apart, pe0- OMM critics are planning a May ed to know?" said Mitul Patel, 30, last November because of lack of money losses. The employee has a ple have lost their health and well• 5 protest at the Rome, Georgia fed• owner of Tobacco for Less. "What evidence. So far, 23 defendants have family, one kid and a beautiful wife. being, and many are in a perpetual eral court to coincide with the sen• does 'cook' mean to anyone? My pleaded guilty and eight cases have We didn't want to risk him going to state of fear. More than anything, tencing of three defendents . • wife calls me every night and asks been dismissed because of misiden• jail for 10-15 years," he said. what to cook? Am I supposed to tification. But he said the negative publicity Ingredients for think about methamphetamine? According to the legal filing, has been a drain on his business. Addiction "I don't see anywhere where my South Asian owned or operated At the end of 2004, the store was Ephedrine and pseudoephedrine employee has done anything stores only accounted for 19.3 per• earning a profit, but last year they are commonly found in over-the• wrong," said Patel. But that's not the cent of the businesses in the area, suffered a $10,000 deficit because counter cold and sinus products like point anymore, he said. but they were 95-times more likely of unexpected expenses of lawyer Sudafed, Tylenol Cold and Sinus, 'The point is 24 businesses were to be targeted by the sting. The fees and fines. and many other cold and sinus products. Clandestine production named. Why were 23 of those ACLU also secured sworn state• The sting has also affected his accounts for nearly all of the methamphetamine trafficked and abused in Indian owned businesses?" he ments from informants who worked personal and family life. the United States, and has increasingly become a problem in Georgia. asked. the OMM case saying they ignored "We are hard working people. We , Many states limit the sale of ooId medicine. The American Civil Liberties leads directed at white-owned busi- are part of America. The Indian now

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