•• •• aCl· lC Cl lZCllioctober3198o, national pu~lication of the Japanese American Citizens league _ _ _ L • . . y' g . ' -~ ( - ( I Henry Tanaka Papers given to library Sen. Inouye in easy primary victory a..EVELAND, Ohio-The Western Reserve Historical Society has re• ceived manuscripts and papers from Henry Tanaka, National JACL . HONOLULU-Hawaii's three in• into politiCS was disastrous as he SfA'IE HOUSE In the neighboring 37th district president (1972-7 -!), for its collection of material pertinent to Japanese cumbent members of Congress, was trailing third in a three-way 27th Kauai (3)-Tony T Kuni- race, incumbent John Eng (D) de• Americans in the Greater OeveJand Area, it was arulOWlced by 'John J. Sen Daniel Inouye, Reps. Cecil primary race. Incwnbent COWlty mura", Dennis R Yamada' Rich- feated two Democratic and one Grabowski. associate curator of manuscripts. Heftel and Dan Akaka, coasted to prosecutors Jotm R. Ono (D) in ard A Kawakami·. ' . Communist challenger. The Tanaka papers largely deal with his work wthJAG.. The society overwhelming Democratic pri• Hawaii and Gerald S. MatsWlaga (D) on Kauai were unopposed and is located at 10825 East Blvd, Cleveland -!-! 106 (216-721-57 22). # mary victories Sept. 20 but politi• v k 't The results: cal novice Eileen Anderson who re-elected. "umasa a can 37th Dist: O'Brien 5,993 (51~), In the state legislative prima• promised a business-like approach unseat incumbent Kumasaka -!,91O (-!20/c;), James 802 ~ to city goverrunent ousted Hono• ries, many women were nomina• (6~). Merit Service Corp. reveals lulu Mayor Frank Fasi in razor• ted and if successful in November, SEATTIE-A 38-year incwnbent, 38th Dist: Eng,; 6891 C H arns . thin style. there would be l3 overall-the State Rep. John O'Brien faced 1,431; M Preston 2,592; M Kinney plan for 20-30 floor high rise largest number in state history. tough campaigning from two chal- (Comm) 589. On Kauai, incumbent Eduardo Incumbents who have been nom• lengers in the Washington state Malapit remained the first Filipino inated include Patsy Kikue YOWlg primaries Sept 16 but won by a In the Congressional races, the LOS ANGELES-Merit Service Corp., the construction-
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scribes the changes in atti• only on the results of the three tudes, mobility, family ties, generational study and gives JARP set to honor pledge to $1 00 donors and loyalties which lead the no consideration to the effect author to conclude "we are of the renewal of immigration CHICAGO-Now that the Issei story, "East to America" by -L The Japanese American the anti-Japanese forces. Al- justified in wondering whe- in the postwar period. The Robert Wilsob and Bill Hosokawa has been fmally published, the Co1Tl111lD1ity: A Three Genera• I though it specifically relates ~ ther a Japanese American eth• newer immigrants will have R~h JA
After that came George, Tom, Woodrow, Martha and A Nisei Extension: The Nishitani Clan Constance. George married Martha Jean Uyematsu, has three Seattle, Wash. tache, but judging from his children who were my children and fanns in Idaho. Tom married Alice Hashi• During a pleasant morning visit with friends, he must have been a kind and gentle person. He tani. They have two children and Tom is a fanner and - Misao Sakamoto here a few weeks ago, died in 1926 at age 48, leaving the upbringing of his sugar company analyst in Idaho. Woody married Mae she gave me a copy of a small, modest family to his widow and their oldest son, Kelly Hiromu Kashiwagi and is a forest products specialist. They have book titled ''Nishitani Families in the Nishitani who had come to the United States in 1911 as a three children and live in Portland, Ore. I J USA." It is the story of Denjiro Nishi• 12-year~ld. Jin Nishitani died in 1961,35 years after her Martha was the only Nishitani offspring who did not tani, who came to the United States husband's death. marry. She is a modern dancer-choreographer and has a from Japan in 1906, his wife Jin, and their ten children. Hiromu married Pearl Du Bry in 1910 and they had modern dance school in Seattle where she lives with her There is nothing pretentious about the book It is pre• two sons_ Hiromu died in 1970 after running the family sister, Misao. The youngest, Connie, married Hideki Se• sented mostly in the words of the Nishitani children, none business for many years. kijima, and they operate a nursery in Spokane, Wash. of whom achieved great fame or wealth. But all became Sadako was next, born in Japan in 1902. She came to the They have two children. solid citizens who in their individual ways have contri• United States in 1917, married Takaji Abe and had three The second generation of the Nishitani clan lived fairly buted to the wonderful mosaic of America. children. Her husband died in 1942; she married a second routine lives. Their offspring include physicians, engi• * * * time in 1956 and was widowed again in 1971. neers, teachers, artists, newspapermen, as well as home• Denjiro Nishitani had gone to his reward before I be• Yutaka came to the U.S. in 1919, married Mable Aki• makers:-a clear case of upward mobility. came acquainted with some of ~e other members of his chika in 1927 and took her family name. They had three .. * * family long, long ago. Denjiro was unusual for an Issei in children. Yutaka and his wife returned to Japan in 1947 George probably said it best when he wrote in the that he was a family man, 28 years old, when he came to as Christian missionaries. The book was largely his idea. book: "Our life has been quite uneventful. It has been the United States, leaving a wife and four children with Misao Nishitani also came to the U.S. in 1919 and mar• spent trying to bring up our kids to be honorable and his parents in Nojiku, Tottori Prefecture. His first job in ried Jimmie Sakamoto in 1928 shortly after he founded respectable to the community. Be. good citizens. I hope Seattle was as a dishwasher. He became a fann laborer, the Japanese American Courier. They had three chil• we have succeeded. We have slowed down and hope to then a gardener and eventually went into the cut flower dren. Jimmie died in 1955. retire soon." business. When he could afford it after several years he May was the first of the American-born Nishitani chil• In a way, George was speaking for the entire Nishitani sent for his wife, Jin, then his children one by one. dren. She married Tony Gomes, sometime writer for family and their story is the Nisei story. Their book is A portrait of Denjiro taken in 1908 and reproduced in Nisei publications in Los Angeles, and they live in Seattle. history and more families ought to set down their own the book shows a young man with a fierce bristling mus- They have two children. record before it is lost and forgotten.. # EAST WIND: by Bill Marutani Giving, and Not Giving INSURED SAVINGS was speaking about .2,000 years ago. , Philadelphia ' -r- WHEN IT COMES to mass media evange- THERE MAYBE some of you out there who truly gain inspi• lists-the ones that appear on television and ration from these messages. For such folks, I have profound . on EM stations-I must confess that my re- respect, and regret that I am not so inspired. If it uplifts yQU . ... action is one of great reservation and, at beautiful. ~(~, times, outright doubt. Such negative reac- THEN TIIERE ARE also those appeals to aid some forlorn ~ ~ _ tion comes to the fore when the "punch line" waif in some backward country. While my reservation about comes: the appeal for money, purportedly in the name of the , some of these appeals is considerably less than for those mass Saviour. And my negativism is hardly diluted when I learn of the media evangelists, again I must confess to some hesitation. I palatial accommodations, the limousines, the well-tailored gar• wonder just who is profiting, how much, and what amount ments, and, at times, some of the backroom shenanigans of some reaches that waif. Oh, we've given to CARE. and to UNICEF, of these self-designated "Servants of the Lord". but much beyond that the questions begin to arise. EVEN THE TENOR of the "messages of Salvation", often WHEN IT COMES to the street solicitors with some kind of Currently 7% per annum, paid quarterly. delivered in fever pitch or mass hysteria, cause me pause. unreadable can with a slot on top wherein contributions are Perhaps I happen to be in a small minority, but much of that supposed to enter, I find better places to give my hard-earned Better than banks or savings & loans, Madison-Avenue type of "hype" doesn't reach me; on the con• money. i have observed some of these solicitors working the and free insurance, too. trary, it causes me to put up my guard. streets-and I use that phrase advisedly, to mean precisely what FOR AIL THIS, however, I figure that the tithing, if it may be it implies-and I am amazed at the number of passersby wh? ,NATIONAL JACL CREDIT UNION called that, is generous. Some of the evangelists buy a lot of F M. "bite." Reading some articles, I understand some of these soli• Now over $4.2 million In assets time, on some powerful stations: more and more, as I search out citors clean up four or five hundred a week. 'That undoubtedly is . some soothing music on the F M. band, I find these "churches of more than many of those who are hooked, make. And more often Insured Savlngs* currently 7% per annum the air" have taken over. Indeed, apparently some have acquired than not, by my observation it is usually the person who seems enough money to buy outright some high-powered F M. stations. least likely able to afford a contribution who "kicks in". Car loans low rates on new & used And I'm not at all sure that this is what the Man from Nazareth THERE ARE CAUSES, many of them, which are good. In• Signature Loans up to $3000** deed if one had millions to give away, such would hardly be enou~ even to scratch the surface of need. One's own church, Free Insurance on loans & savings Bookshelf BOARD the college fund, scouts, community projects, and the list could Coorjolfd fnmFronl Page goon_ • TO S40.OOO BY USDGC * * TO QUAliFIED BORROWERS • Poetic joumaI sitions of National JACL DireCtor PO 1721 Salt Lake City, utah 84110 (801) 355·8040 and HQ business manager. IN THE DAYS of our Issei parents, you'll recall how they In 1977, the late Millen Brand at gave. Among other things, one of the stalwarts among the Issei age 71 made the annual peace Established an Employee EX• pense policy and procedure as march from N~ to Hiroshi• would visit your home and discreetly (but firmly) discuss the ma. A fonner senior editor at part of JAG.- personnel manual. matter of giving. Then at the assemblage, the family name with Crown, he poetically records his Confinned appointment of the amount contributed, would be pasted up, whereupon there insights and observations of the . George Kodama as secretary! treasurer "until such time he will would be consternation as to whether or not your family's parti• people and places along the route resign." cular contribution matched that of family so-and-so. If it didn't, in PEACE MARCH ($6.95, The Endorsed concept of use of bi• well .... Countryman Press, Woodstock, Vt O~ lingual personnel and materials in 1). The reader will feel the programs receiving federal gov• I'VE OFfEN WONDERED what the Nisei's habit and pattern roads of Japan Wlder his!her feet, ernment aid. (JAG.- would be join• -of giving is. Might make an interesting sociological study. # as one conunentator says of the ing the Puerto Rican ~al ~ book, attracted by the details o~ Education Defense Fund m a petI• Ag~Il.~ ---inlbe~Pacifi-JC-Oti-izeq---' \ servable from a walker's gaze ra• tion to the U.S. Labor Dept to 35 Years ther than the big scenes streaking adopt regulations governing use of past from a rmving car. OCI'OBER 6, 1945 Yoshio Kondo, Honolulu oonchologist bilingual and non-English speak• Sept. IS-Mass deportation plans of ,vith Bishop Museum, visited Truk, Sai- Brand's "lyric sensitivity" in ing people.) Canadian Japanese denounced by Win- pan. Ponape, Palau, Kusaie and Woleai in Interest portraying modern Japan and the Endorsed PNWDC recommen• nipeg Free Press; 10,000 had requested 1935-36 turning up new data for U. , persuasive argument against nu• dation to reserve space in PC for repatriation but 70% wish to cancel and Naval Intelligence. clear warfare is poignant and in• resolutions, policy questions, offi• remain. Sept. ~ LOOth Wantry Bn awarded Boost viting. cial communications to chapter Sept. 26-Published statement in second Presidential Unit Citation (5th presidents. Christian Science Monitor attributed to for -H.n:I RCf) for Vosges mOWltain But the Nisei spotting the quot• Edwin W Pauley, U.S. member of Allied campaign and liberating Bruyeres, Accepted PNWDC request to able quotes throughout will be re• Reparations Commission, (that proper- France. Oct 1+ 15, 19+1; lOOth previous· fOr scale down national convention minded of what the Issei have ties of Issei in U.s. will be seized and Iy cited for liberating Belvedere and costs by meeting at colle ~ cam• been repeating in years past For subjected to reparations action "even to Sasseta Italy, in June 19+1 ... U . . puses, staiting with L981 if feas• the Japanese·ovmed oomer grocel)' Seventh Anny Hq in Italy notes +t~ savers.~~~ instance: ible. (Commitmenthas been made store), called exaggerated by high gov· Ref as "most decorated unit (for its At Alita (July 11), known for its Federal regulations now enable you to earn more to meet at a major hotel near emment official ... JACL concerns size) in American military histol)'''. pottery, Brand who stays over• interest than previously allowed on this a ccount. ~.) expressed to President TrullU\l1, might Oct. l-Nat'l VFW oommander-in- night with the potter Matsuo Moter Accepted revised gw·d e lines discourage Issei from relocating outside chief Jean Brunner (N.Y.) condemns With $100 or more in a Sumitomo 2 1/2 -year Money ji listens (and writes _down): "The WRA camps. west coast VFW posts banning Nisei Gis Certificate you can now earn 9.25%' to 11 .75% ' per (Sept I, 1980) for redress. Sept. 26-Amicable solution reached from membership m keynote remarks word' for 'pride' in Japanese has Applauded the PSWDC, the annum (please inquire at your local offi ce for c urre nt the same pronunciation as for in Willows (Ca) school incident; Nisei at.j(Jth National Encampment m Chi- West Los Angeles JACUAuxiliary children at Hamilton grade school were cago. N' . . interest rate). At Sumitomo your interest is com• 'dust', and I have a trade of dust" in particular for the potluck sup• to be segregated, trustees blame over- Oct. I-Disclose Lsel Wllon carpen- pounded daily and paid quarterly. Come Lo Sumitomo He bears Yoshie Tentaku, while per and Little Tokyo Towers for crowding for propooal rer (Brownie F\Jrutani of El Paso) helped where your best interest is taken into ac.count. passing by a rice field (July L6), ~ements c...- I7 Burbank 'ty council o~ build experimental structure where of the first National ~ *The above 'nterest rales are th e mln,m um and max,mum ceiling say: "We have a saying: 'The riper Board meeting away from San pose use of- Glenoaks ParksCI (Anny hous-... atonu'c bomb ,"as~ assembled in Los AJa. ~ rales established by Federal regulations for Ihls account Th e rice is, more it bends it; head.' mg site) for evacuees. mos, N.M, , rate of Inlerest is '. ~o less than Ihe average y'eld of U. S. Treasury Francisco in several years. Sept. V-Mutual Radio broadcasts Oct. 2-Nat'1 JACL protests War Dept That means, the more successful Designated a change in the securities. Federal regulations Impose subslantral Interesl you become, the most modest you Arch Oboler play, "'The Family Naga- assignment of .3,500 Japanese PWs (cur- penalties upon premature WIthdrawaL board meeting date in Washing• shi", stOI)' of anti-Japanese discrimina- rentJy held at Camp McCoy. Wis., and should be." ton, D.C., from April 2+26 to May tion. Camp Clarinda, Iowa,) to halvest crops 1-2. 1981. (The Board will next Sept. ~N8VY credits N'Lsei "agents" on California fanns; would oomplicate The Sumitomo Bank of California for intelligence contributing to nonnal return of evacuees, Pres. Saburo • M ember FDIC Renew Your Membership convene at National Headquar• milinuy ters,Jan. 23-25.) invasion strategy of Okinawa. Marianas; Kido declares. 6-PACIFIC CITIZEN I Friday, October 3, 1980
~ , .. ~ On the eve of East West Players' 16th year ~,"''' ~ ASIAN IMAGES
The ~ West Players, the first and oldest Asian Pacific American theatre company, is oomnritted to bemming a signiFJCaDt part of the American theatre scene. Specifically the goals are: (1) 10 preserve and sbare the Asian Pacific American experience, (2) 10 develop Asian Pacif'1C American writers, and (3) 10 train Asian Pacific American actors and tech• nicians.
By OOM MAGWllJ FOR nearly six years I worked in that theater as the janitor, the actor, the director, the writer, usher and administrative coordinator. We've just completed our 15th season and I'm tired Tired of the frustration, anger, compro• mises and work I'm sitting here wondering if it's been worth it. Cast of 'Manoa Valley': (from left) foregro.und-!
Today, the local AsianlPacific community in Los Al?geles is a rich blend of 26 etfmic nationalities, a unique mIXture of vastly differing cultures ranging from South• east Asia to the Far East to the Pacific Islands and up through Alaska. There is no one-dimensional stereotype which can encompass our rich historical experiences and the wealth of cultures-languages-dress-foods-folktales. "We, in PAAWWW, came together because we were aware of a gap in our lives and had been writing, thinking, (From left) Momoko Iko, Linda Mlya Iwatakl, Diane Emlko Takel Karen Huel , Joyce Nako. Sue Kumtoml Embrey. Emma Gee, acting, and organizing around our history, culture, ex• Karen Saito, Wakako Yamauchi .... all of the Pacific ASian Amencan Wnters-West. . periences, and needs. We needed to find and develop and By MIKO KUNITAKI ence in this country, having survived Miscegnation Acts, create our own models: real, AsianlPacific American As the lights dimmed, a hush fell over the crown and concentration camps, and Suzy Wong-gook-prostitute heroes and heroines as well as everyday people (neither nine women walked onto the starkly furnished set at stereotypes which assault us with each war of inter• being mutually exclusive). The collective support I've Inner City Cultural Center. "Caught in the Act of Living," vention into Asian countries. In addition, Asian American gotten from the sisters inPAAWWW has given me the an afternoon of readings, marked a triwnphant mile• women share their life-experience, concoctions of some• energy to begin writing, creating again and my writing stone in the 21' 2 year history of this group of Asian Ameri• times-not-too-smooth blendings of traditional cultures has become technically better. Also, the support system can women writers known as Pacific Asian American and values with an often times foreign and hostile Ameri• within the group is a dialectical combination of sharp Women Writers-West (PAAWWW). can culture. The question of, and the search for a strong criticism and feedback on our writings mixed with a lot Today, PAAWWW has evolved into a multi-dimen• and positive identity as Asian women is a road full of of deep personal support. It's great!" enthused a new siona! and dynamic group of professional and novice twists and turns. member of the group. women writers from a variety of backgrounds and life The American media assaults us with role models who Pacific Asian American Women Writers West encour• experiences. Ranging in age from the 20's to the early are presented as the epitome of Asian womanhood• ages AsianlPacific American women writers and artists SO's, they include actresses, community activists, aca• loyal, loving, and willing to sacrifice all for her men. The to fonn their own groups or collectives. Art has been demicians, a secretary, and a French pastry chef. Asian women in movies like The World ojSuzy Wong, traditionally viewed as a highly individualized field and Madame Butterfly, Sayonara, and even the recent well• there may be initial difficulties in working collectively, The group evolved from a casual conversation, to publicized SJwgun, all take their lives or make an ul- \ but PAAWWW has found the benefits outweigh any pro• phone calls and a postcard. Notice of a meeting began an timate sacrifice. ''Regardless of whether an Asian blems that may arise. infonnal gathering of professional writers and other woman is portrayed as a prostitute or as an innocent, she "The important thing is that AsianlPacific writers Asian American women, all with some experience in the always ends up sacrificing herself-from giving up her throughout America are beginning to tell our own stories. creative arts. Noted playwrights Momoko Iko and Wa• man and being left with a broken heart or a child or both, And it's a strong and positive move, because we can tell it kako Yamauchi began conducting workshops to develop to the ultimate giving of her life to save her man ...who like it is, and we can tell it better!" says PAAWWW members' skills in writing. In a recent Los Angeles is invariably a white male." member Miya Iwataki. Times newspaper interview with PAA WWW, Iko ex• plained, "When I first came into the group I was con• .. .But Sisters, keep struttin' that Yellow-Black-Brown-Red . . My Issei mother never got paid for any life she promoted or any dream she sustained ducting a workshop. I wasn't a real part of the group. stuff Cuz we're tuff My Issei mother was an artist When we started to get more serious, more concentrated Having survived Black Plagues And there are artists here and now and got out of the workshop stage, that's when we began Yellow Journalism And there are stories to call it PAAWWW. We've been working really consis• Brown~uts and Still, so many beautiful and painful and fwmy stories for us tently in a tightly knit way for the last year. We're sup• Red China to tell, Its not the end, babes, it's just the beginning. portive, sharing knowledge, responsibilities. We manage (without help from the White Knight!) ... -from Sisters: A Melody oJResistance -from And There are Stories, There are Stories ... to do things together that couldn't be done singly . I'm not Poem by Miya .Iwataki poem by Momoko Iko much of a group person, but this is one of the groups I think works. While I help sustain it, it's helped sustain me too." This support system transcends the weekly meetings. • • . The audience wanted still more Members gather for other cultural and community WIth the story of the frrst generation temporarily in the wings, a tale of the present generation emerged: Hawaiian-born Joyce events, as well as a picnic or potluck at a member's home. Nako was then introduced. In tinted glasses and staccato voice, As Emma Gee defines it, "All of us have learned much Nako read her piece, Adjustments, about a girl growing into from each other in an annosphere of mutual support, adolescence, at once full of pride, precocious and in pain. criticism, encouragement, and just plain fun." Unlike the stereotype of writers in the "ivory tower", this group of Asian American women writers was unique .in that it The need to develop their writing skills is tied to their included founders and members of the Asian Women's move• need t6 enlighten themselves as well as the public to the ments. The next two poets reflected this sensibility. Bright ~ yed , sensitivity of their Asian American culture. In America with a white flower pinned to her hair, Miya I wataki, director of the Aslan Women's Health Project, began her poem, Tony Can today, Asian culture is seen in tenns of the culture of the You Hear Us Now. It was a paean to the original vision of the original Asian homelands. The women recognize that Asian American movement in the late 1960's. The audience until new roles (which are real-life roles) are created for applauded: the spirit lived on. Asian Americans, that old stereotypes exemplified by Then it was time for Sue Kunitomi Embrey, a mother, com• the Charlie Chan and Fu Manchu movies will proliferate. munity activist and current president of the LA City Com• mission on the Status of Women. Her moving poem, Just the Actress Diane Emiko Takei says, "Films in Hollywood Way I Hoped, faithfully described her son growing from child to give a lopsided view of Asian women They're either Photography by Karen Huel man and his concern with the maintenance of life, from harbor• prostitutes, geishas or waitresses speaking broken Eng• Emma Gee (I) and Wakako Yamauchi at first PAAWWW reading. ing snails and pets as a youngster to demonstrating his anti- Addr~s ______ER~EST AUERBACH COMPANY~ Glendale, CA 91207 City, State, ZIP ______Price effective date of publicatIOn Plans, materia ls and specifications arc :ubJect to change Without notIce. . ~ PlEASE MAI(f CHECK PAYABLE TO: Equal Hous mg Opportuntty eJ WEST l~ ANGelES JACl AUXILIARY 1431 Armacost Ave., los Angeles, CA 90025 1~PA~CcnnzEN/~y,~oor3,~------~------~ ______RANDOM MUSINGS: by Robert Kono JARP Three forthcoming books Osaka parents lose court Continued from Page 3 deserve mention, two of them . Kobayashi expected to be published this battle to break adoption petmanent character to ethnic bienniwn ( 1980-82). . institutions which otherwise TOKYO-'The Japanese Supreme preme Court had ruled on jurisdic• Masakazu Iwata's Planted Issa, Poet might cease to exist. Court Sept. 19 upheld an earlier tion in a case under the habeas in Good Soil: Issei Contribu• decision by the Osaka District corpus law involving a foreign had a daughter, but he lost her the Other JARP Books tions to US. Agricultzue, is ex• Court saying it had no jurisdiction country. next year due to an outbreak of A bibliography of materials pected to be of special interest in the case of a baby adopted out of The court's decision means the smallpox. In i819 he had a second in Japanese language was to Nisei and Sansei interested Japan allegedly against the wishes couple has no further legal course son and then a third son in 1822, published under the title of in "roots". of its parents. of action in Japan A court action both of whom died the year follow• The case (See Sept 12 PC) was instigated by them in the state ing their birth. He lost his first The Buried. Past. Also expected this bienniwn filed by an Osaka couple whose courts of Hawaii is still pending. wife, Kiku, in 182.3. The following Another JARP related book, is a Pictorial History ojthe Ja• infant daughter, born before the We've covered a nwnber of year, 182-!, he took a second wife published in 1972, is East panese Americans by Michi couple was legally married, was poets and literary men in this co• whose name was Yuki but di• adopted early this year by a Ha• lur.m so far. But the coverage Across the Pacific. I have al• Asawa and Toyo Miyatake. vorced her after several months of most no information about this The third book will be ano• waiianJapanese American couple. would not be complete if some matrimony. He tried his hand at TIIE llGHT BRIGADE mention were not made of Koba• marriage a third time the next book. (Edited by Hilary Con• ther part of the three genera• The baby girl was born last No• yashi Issa woo follows in the tradi• year by marrying Yao. roy and T. Scott Miyakawa, it tional study entitled The Eco• vember at tre clinic of Dr. Noboru Theirs not to make reply Kikuta in Miyagi prefecture, tion of Basoo and Buson. 'The poets From around the 1819 his works is a collection of studies and nomic Basis ojEthnic Solidari• theirs not why, are often compared as the three whose adoption arrangements for to reason take on an individualistic flare that essays by noted historians, s0- ty: a Study ojJapaneseAmeri.• notable poets of the Tokugawaera. illegitimate and unwanted babies theirs but to do and die. was highly autobiographical. In ciologists and a jurist on Japa• cans. Issa's dates are 170J to 1827. He 1827 a conflagration swept have come under recent criticism nese immigration and assimi• -Tennyson was born at Kashiwabara in Naga• through Kashiwabara and Issa lost Conclusion Under pressure from the mo• no Prefecture. Issa lost his mother his dwellings. He lived in a store• lation-Ed.) The entire Japanese Ameri• ther's family, the parents of the when he was 3 years old His fa• house that withstood the fire. Dur-, can community is indebted to child claim they were "virtually ther remarried when Issa was 8 ing the winter of that year, he be• Imperials keep going Shig Wakamatsu for his pati• forced" by Dr. Kikuta to have the and had a son, Issa's younger half• came ill with palsy and died in his SEATI1E--- The Seattle Imperials baby put up for adoption. Keiro-kai brother, whose name was Sen• ence, persistence, and dedicat• makeshift home. He was 6S years returned Aug. 21 from an East Their appeal to the Osaka Dis• SAN LORENW , Ca.- Eden roku. Family squabbles over pri• old. Coast tour that netted an eight• ed efforts in producing this trict Court, however, was rejected Township JACL's annual K e~ mogeniture led Issa to leave Ka• step jump (from 2.3rd to 15th) at rich heritage of information in June, when the court ruled it p~ kai potluck supper on Oct -!, 6 p.m. shiwabara at the age of 15 and In spite of personal misfortunes the Drum Corps international had no jurisdiction in the United at the Eden Japanese Community ceed to Tokyo. He entered the Ka• or perhaps because of them, Issa about Americans of Japanese championships Aug. I~ 17 in Ala• ancestry and their Issei States, where the baby had been Center will feature two Japanese tsushika School of haiku poets. managed to produce as a poet. He bama. Kenny Sakoda is marcll• taken. films, starting at :30. No admis• From around 1789 his poetry be• parents. # was widely proclaimed as a highly maneuver instructor. It was tre first time the Su- sion is being charged # gan to appear under the name of individualistic poet who was free• Issa. spirited and untamed. For that rea• At the age of 39, however, he son he incurred the disapproval of journeyed back to his birthplace to the more orthodox professional Here in America things are done backwards attend to the needs of his ailing poets but his appeal remained in• father who passed away two tact He rebelled in the name of his By ED MITOMA wards). 'This makes it convenient for bilingual newspapers to months after his anival. Family love for his birthplace and of pe0- South Bay JACL have two front pages. While shopping, you may also take advantage of dining in the ~ Mafsuzakaya elegant Akasaka Hanten Los Angeles restaurant, after October 30th. Hours: 10:40 A.M.-7:20 P. M. 7 days a week. With its 200 seats it will be the largest and finest Weller Courl Shopping Center Chinese restaurant in the 123 S. Weller SI. , Los Angeles, California 90012 Little Tokyo area. Tel. (213), 626-2112 ------~------~------'~f~v,October~~/PAcunC~ -11 gust in Chicago. The triple-sports guchi. Next year ?Up plans to Nationwide Business-Professional Directory • MeritBusiness Savings president Bruce letterman finished 6th out of 13 make the event national. Your business card place in each issue here for 25 weeks at $25 per three lines. Each Kaji of Los Angeles recently an• states in the six-event program: additional line at $6 per 2&-week period, Larger (14 pI.) typeface counts as two lines. nounced promotions of four staff lOO·yd. dash, mile run, gymnas• tics, lOO-yd. swim, basketball Greater Los Angeles members to senior officer posi• tions in the company: Dan Miwa, skills, and soccer skills. He is the ASAHIINTERNATIONAL TRAVEL from v.p., financial administration son of Dr. Ben and Nita Yarna- U.S.A .• Japan. Worldwide dept., to senior v.p.; Junko Take• Ai,-~a-land-Car-Halel IDUI'3, from chief accountant to ****** 1111 W Olympic Blvd. LA 90015 vice president; Gordon Mizusawa, Las Vegas Style 623-6125/29. Call Joe or Gladys Classified Ad loan originations officer, to v.p., Classified Rate is 12~ a word. $3 miOimuml FLOWER VIEW GARDENS #2 loan originations; and Eleanor p~~ . iss~e. Dinner Show New Otani Holel. 110 5 los Angeles W~ from escrow officer to los Angeles 90012 Art 110 Jr so. CAUFORNIA CELEDRATE Citywide Delivery (213) 620-0808 V.p., escrow. NISEI FLORIST MiIsue Kikawada has been Secretary NEW OTANI In the Heart of Little Tokyo named manager of California In executive director's office in a social 328 E lsI St : 628-5606 First Bank's San Mateo office. She service organization. Some experience NIGHT Fred MoTiguchi Member: Teleflora joined California First in 1970 at desireable. Good knowledge of English with the Japan Center office. then grammar and spelling. Crenshaw-Santa Nisei Travel served from 1.974 to 1975 at the Barbara area. Call Marianne, 8-4:30. AARON 13« W 155th St. Gardena 90247 Oakland office, traIl$ferred to the (213) 29(}2ooo. (213) 327-5110 San Mateo office in 1978 and was SAN PEDRO-Near proposed marine. ******Celebrate the THE PAINT SHOPPE appointed an assistant vice presi• 3BR, 1 Y4 ba plus room for mother. Nice .3rd anniversary of the laMancha Center, 1111 N Harbor dent in 1979. A native of Sakai, home with unobstructive view of harbor Fullerton, Ca /714-526-0116 New Otani Hotel and Japan, she graduated from Koh• and mountains on R-3 lot. Walking dis• Gorden featuring Aaron CUSTOM MADE FUTON University in Kobe, and has tance to everything. $179,500. JakeKoga nan The Realty Masters. 538-4370 and his bond for two (213) 243-2754 completed the coursework for an SUZUKI FUTON MFG. special evenings. MBAatUCBerkeley. October 2 and .3. in the YAMATO TRAVEL BUREAU Ogden Nisei heads Yoshimi Sbibata, 64, president Best in the west Golden !3ollroom. 321 E 2nd St, #505 of Mt Eden Nursery Co., Hay• Brand new, Move right in. los Angele. 9001-2 624-6021 Utah underwriters Cocktails, 6:.30 ward, was elected to the board of Low down. Interest rate: Dinner, 8:00 • Show, 9: 1'5 Orange County SALTLAKECITY-JakeH. Koga . directors of the Sumitomo Bank of U%% as long as available. $ .35/ person. includes was installed as the new president Calif., it was armounced by presi• 2 br/2ba ...... $74,OOOup dinner. wine. show. tax. Mariner Real Estate of the Utah State Association of dent Nimei Akamatsu. A whole• and gratuities . VICTOR A KATO, Realtor Associate Life Underwriters at its annual sale flower grower for more than 3br/2lhba ....$79,SOOup For reseNotions call 17552 Beach Blvd, Huntington Bch 92647 convention here in May. 40 years with operations in San 20 minutes from dwntwn LA. bus.(714) 848-1511 res. 962-7447 (21.3) 629-1 200. He has been an agent with Lin• Francisco, Los Angeles, Salinas, Indoor laundry, carpet, drapes, bIt-ins, San Diego coln National Life Insurance Co. Mountain View and Fremont, Shi• 2-car garage, pool & roc. room. for over 25 years, headed the Og- . bata fills the vacancy created by Open I(}5 daily. 8 PAUL H. HOSHI den Association and various other the retirement of Susumu Toga• 9651 0H1ada, El Moote Insurance Service positions on a state and local level saki, 78, president of Mutual Sup• ~/0n6 852-16th St (714) 234-0376 Koga is believed to be the flTSt ply Co., an irnport-export finn, San II1SU'ed Realty Co. San Diego 92101 res. 264-2551 Complete Pro Shop, Restaurant, lounge , Nisei mainIand state president He Francisco. l!Y.>ANG£I.B 2101-22nd Ave So. (206)325-2525; (213)68&2238 Fint & lDsAngetes 5aftt is active with the Wasatch Front 776-1146 day or nV1t lDsAngele>.CA 9001'2 • {2\3)029-12OO KINOMOTO TRAVEL SERVICE North JACL and the Buddhist Pacific Sands Motel ~ Pete and Shako Dingsdale, Prop. FRANK KINOMOTO Church of Ogden. • JohnMilitary S. Lee, Jr., 21, of Glendale, HOA $6S.S9 mooda (714) 488-7466 5075 King St. (206)622-2342 Ca., became the first Korean 4«9 Ocean Blvd, Pacific Beach 92109 • Elections American to graduate from the The Midwest Ouistopber Kim, 18, of Beau• U.S. Military Academy at West Must see to believe. San Jose, Ca. Point . He has been as• JAPANESE TRANSLATION mont, Tex., and student body pre• Come by at 1~ 139th St signed to teach at the Anny Air Edward T Morioka, Realtor AND INTERPRETATION SERVICE sident at South Park High School, Normandy, GARDENA Defense School in Texas. His fa• near 3170 Williams Rd, Son Jo.e . K. & S. Miyoshi lost to the incumbent and Uunar Many deluxe items. 2br/2ba, pool, (-408)246-6606 res. 371-0442 5268 Devon Dr, North Olmsted, Oh 44070 University professor in the South ther who immigrated to the U.S. 15 (216) 777-7507 years ago) heads a real estate de• air conditioner, carpets, etc. No Watsonville Park Independent School District children, adults only. Paddle ten• SUGANO TRAVEL SERVICE velopment fum in Los Angeles. elections recently. Kim was nis, pool, outdoor living. Complete 17 E Ohio St, Chicago 60611 among a field of seven running for Tom Nakase Realty 944-54« 7B4-8517,eve, Sun two seats. • Sports security. $85,700 and up. Low Acreage, Ranches, Homes, Income Rob Yamaguchi of Cincinnati's down. Call 538-4118 - 77CMIJ76. -POLYNESIAN ROOM . TOM NAKASE, Reahor Washington, D.C. Western Hills High represented Your ~ is Mr. Marshall, exc1us• (Dinner & Cocktails - Floor Show) . 25 Clifford Ave. (408)724-6477 Ohio in lUp's first Junior Super• ive sales agent. Insured Realty MASAOKA-ISHI KAWA los Angeles Japanese -COCKT6IL San Francisco AND ASSOCIATES. INC. stars competition held in late Au- Co.: 776-1146, ask for Mark. Consultants - Washington Maners Casualty Insurance LOUNC;Er 900-17th St NW #520 I 296-4484 Assn. Entertainment .1 UllIlllIUlllIUUJlllDll COMPlETE INSURANCE PROTECTION IMIKAWAYA REALTOR Aihara Insurance A#;Jy. Inc. Sweet Shops 250 E. ht St., lias Angeles 90012 OPEN EVERY DAY Mutual Supply Co., Inc. George Nagata Suite 900 626-9625 : 244 E 1st st. Luncheon 11 :30 - 2:00 t 1090 Sansome St, &r1 Francisco 94111 Anson T. Fujioka Insurance .los Angeles. 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(;arna~t' D1. posab Furnaces Today's Classic Looks Ja~~~~a~f~:n Servicing Los Angeles Phone: (213) 625-2101 for Women & Men ~93-7000 733~SS7 I I Call for Appointments: ~======~~~~~ (Nihon Y6shiKy6kai) - Phone 687-0387 - 105 Japanese VlDa9(! Plaza Mall Aloha Plumbing Los Angeles 90012 ll( # 2(l1K-, T oshi Otsu, Prop. E~E~;';' , ,,:~,!~\~!~~ , ~O. " =_~~!_------=_-= " ~it~r:~~~~. i~~~~a~~~~~i~~~ ~:~~:ss:~l:~:' i~ ~ P\Rl '> ~ 'llPl' liE' --______=-_ ~ ('", I If''' ( ) ,,1 '/H'( Fnglish aod Japan"." - Honolulu by writing to him for an explanation =i_____ I.llh 1948 . Grand , Lo~ ngeles MARUKYO 114 Weller St., Los Angeles 90012 628-7060 of the rules and regulations governing said Phone: 749-4371 • __---;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;---;;;jj.-1 .., adoption. His office: = - loponl ' ~f' Phololl'pl'Sf'fllng ~ ." \..--New OtanI Hotel & Suite 910 Pioneer Plaza Bldg., , Nanka Printing ~\ I I Japanese Phototypesetting .' Garden-Arcade 11 900 Fort St. Mall, Honolulu, Hawaii 96813 11 0 S. Los Angeles TOYO PRINTING CO. i i 2024 E. First St. Los Angeles I1i:\ . PI~lm Los Angeles, Calif. .~ 309 So. San SL Los Angples 90013 i . 6 628-4369 Phone: 268·7835 (213) 626-8153 , ~lIIlIIlIlIllIImrnlllllllllllnlllllllllllinlllllllllllllnllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll"IIIIIIIIHl1IlIImmnt'"lIItIIIIIfllllllllllllil~ " ~PA~C~/~,~r~~----~~------SPARTAN BEAT: by Mas ..... Kagoshima group on historic pilgrimage to Fountaingrove SANTA ROSA, Ca.-An historic Santa Rosa families which ex• ~rmative tour. Hewlen• viticulturist and vintner contri• pilgrimage has taken place! On tended warm· hospitality . were Packard, located on Nagasawa buted greatly to California's Wine Macho Names Aug. 17 and 18, fifteen students those of Tony Bencivenga, Tom land, gave an interesting tour of Industry. I and five escorts from KagO$hima, Blackstone, Barney Cohen, Ed their facility, followed by a sump• Community cooperation was Tokyo Japan, were thrilled to visit Santa Farrell, Jack Healy, Charles La• tuous buffet IWlcheon. outstanding. CoWlcilwoman Don• TIle trend is definitely toward macho Rosa, home from 1875 to 19J.t of vall, John Lawrence, Jim MitcheU, Vice-Mayor William Barone na Born aided planning. The Fla• their illustrious COWltryman, Ka• Roy Okamoto, Will Phillips and graciously welcomed the visitors, mingo Hotel provided a reception names in this country currently, one can naye Nagasawa (See story "Sa• Ransom Turner. distributed packets from the room, and the Japanese American easily gather from the handles of new soft murai of the Wine CoWltry", PC The sightseeing day for Japa• Chamber of Commerce, and gave Citizens League helped with re• drinks advertised on television. Holiday Issue, 1975.) Students nese and host families began at.. a Key to the City to MBC Vice• fresrunents. Producers no doubt think that simple were sponsored by the Minami• Nagasawa's FOWltaingrove' President Taneda The afternoon In appreciation, MBC ga ve $_>()() ~ names like ''Kirin Lemon" and ''Ribbon Ci- nihon Broadcasting Company to Ranch. Robert Fitzpatrick, presi• drive past vineyards to Sonoma which will be used to further no Jmger ~ do. The result bas been an array of Japanese commemorate a like group of dent of 1MI which owns the and a special tour of Sebastiani Wi• friendship and exchange between In?O" which Nagasawa was a member in Ranch, arranged admittance, and nery provided Wlderstanding of Santa Rosa and Kagoshima Jack tl:.II"St quencbers tha! don't exactly seem palatable,lf you ask me. 1865. historian Gaye LeBaron led a most Nagasawa, whose knowledge as a and Fern Harger were coordina• One of the new drinks is "B & L", produced by the Calpis tors for the visit of the 1980 MBC Students. company. "B & L" means "Bitter and Lemon," which is not so less. And so he killed himself. In I shouldn't protest too much. After bad. But what about "Salty Dog," turned out by Suntory, ''Re• YEED ti:le latter ~ of the "Shogun" ge• all, it's not every day that I see guts" and "Pocari Sweat?" IContinued from Page 4 nes, there IS a scene where Mariko Japanese superstars like Mifune Japan birthrate Pocari Sweat? That name is enough to arouse anyone's curio• confesses to Blackthome about and hear so much Japanese on 'would have fulfilled his quest to the Akechi family's ignoble past Ametican television. And real dia• still lowering sity and I bought a can of the stuff, shelling out a little over ¥ 100, unify Japan Wlder one rule. But which pretty much resembles the logue, too, not all that nonsense of T OKY~apan 's birthrate, de• myself the other day. Sharing it with my wife, I asked her how it Nobunaga's goal literally perished facts in the history books. tl1e old Hollywood films on Japan clining over the years, dropped be• tasted. "Like sweat," was the reply. in flames with the temple of Hon• But what about the torture (remember Marlon Brando as the low the 1966 level during the first Actually,according to the legend on the can, "Pocari Sweat is a no-ji in Kyoto, a fire he set to avoid scenes, the boiling of people-is it Japan.ese gardener in "The Tea• half of 1980, the Health-Welfare health oriented drink which supplies water and electrolytes lost I capture, realizing that he had been true? WeU, I do remember the house of the August Moon"?) Cla• Ministry reported in August. The betrayed and the situation hope- case of Ishikawa Goemon, the fa• vell obviously hired a native rate per 1,000 people was [J.b as through perspiration! n ,. . mous thief and murderer who was scriptwriter, thereby eliminating compared with it2 in 1979 and Poston III reunion captured by Hideyoshi's soldiers most of the awkward Japanese of d.7 in 19M-the year of "hinoe• My vote as the store with the most outlandish nam&-wholly and thrown into a cauldron of boil• his novel) except for some clWl• uma", which comes onee every 00 unintentional-the one below the raj.lroad tracks at Nakanobu FRESNO, Ca.-Fonner Poston ill ing oil We named a type of bath• kers like the karma and the mama• years and tradition holds women residents are invited to the third tub after him - the Goemon Buro. san bit later on in the show). But I born in such years devour their Station along the Oi Line in the capital. The store, selling maga• high school reunion slated April zines, soft drinks and confectionery, bears the name "TOKUS"in Now, that's one real hot tub. 'The was surprised to find so much dia• husbands. 17-19, 1981, at Hacienda Inn. For Birthrate during the first post• big, red capital letters. amazing thing is that before he logue Wltral1Slated. I can see it program, write to Minnie Yama• was dunked, this Wlcommon cri• does present a problem to the mil• war baby boom of 194749 was 33.0 It no doubt acquired the name because it is a store along one of mura, 16U N. Maple, Fresno minal composed a poem which is lions of American viewers who do and J.LJ. There were 789,892 ba• the Tokyu Railway lines. No one seemed to have been aware that 93703 or Kenji Osaki, -1938 N. 11- still celebrated today. not Wlde~tand the language. bies born in Japan during the first shaAve., Fresno 93711. half of 1980. if it so happens that Tokus is a slang word stemming from Yiddish, J r did enjoy the show, warts and Honto. Wakarimnsuka? meaning "buttocks." all But it should have been edited .. ,. The L.A. Festival much more tightly. The 2b-hour LOS ANGELES--Two Japanese version which will be shown at mo• 1be Yomiuri Sbimbun on Sept 8 announced that henceforth vie theaters in Japan in November dance groups, Fujima Kanswna STATEMENT OF OWNERSHIP. MANAG EMENT AND CIRCULATION the name of Republican presidential candidate Ronald Reagan should be much more digestible. (lfftlW""'t-, )flVs..C J.VJ and Bando Mitsuhiro, are among , 'TIT ... , or ""' ....,(: ... ItO" A I.OAtC 0' e;; would appear as ''Ray-gan'' in Japanese syllabary instead of The audience there will probably ",I., .. the many performing artists who Paci fie C1 t 1 ;ten So t. 17 • 8 .''Ree-gan'' in the paper. It said a check had shown that Reagan will entertain at the Street Scene find the sword fights not up to preferred the Ray-gan pronunciation. Other Japanese publica- . Festival Oct 11-12 in the nine• standards they're used to and may find the portrayal of the Japanese 244 So. San P.dro Sf... R• . SOb. Los An . los , Callf. 90012 tions have also made the switch. block Civic Center area t 1.0<. .. "0.'-0'-;... .,.ADGU"".,.:,.'i.o;, C;;'I;;;;~- .v.. .. c .."o u u:.c. 0,. .... t" "" v . ... , ...... (/li..:"nII1rv samurai a bit too stereotyped. But 2044 So. San Pe d.ro St.. RD . 506. Los A.nl~1cs. Calif. 9"0012 Foreign names may be hard to get straight in this country, but itA""''' .. ""oca...,. ... fT, ... 00"1.$51$.0" .. "' ..... $10" ... '0"0,.. AHD .,,,""AQIWC. t.DITOft it's nothing compared with the way Japanese names in kanji I'U ...... "' ""_.JA"'.... A Japanoso Aaerican Clti;tons Leajuo (JACL) YOUTH Co';tlnued from Page 9 ••~!,:; ,! ~!!~.c:;.u.u.o. l..U SJ>_ S .... ~"'-..oS"-....JlA..-.Ji.Oil>..-l.a..s.....6..D.a.o.J..o.'--''''- -j characters can become balled up. Thus, to avoid misreading, Harry t.. Honda, 24-4 ! o ._~n Podro__ St .~. Ro . 506. Lo. An 01 •• , CA g0012 Kristen is a junior at Terra Linda High School and caught ....,."'GI .. or. COItO. ,.,, ___ ...... 1 when a new Japanese cabinet is formed, the lineup appears in None quite a few glances from the Japanese guys and gals for her , 0 ...."" ,"--.la, 4 ...... , ....." ",'1Ik "'41...1rJrnl ....,~ 1I ."~.I.-.J ..Q,, ..-.I . ld, l"d~(7""'~ 4aJ-.J.! ~CI{UJ>,i. the papers with kana syllabary alongside the kanji names of the ItrtIIIJr.,t" .. fItIo¥OI'~_' FW"! .... '.1# _ ...1 ftJ...Jil~/ •• ,/J«i.II_ct-.Jt. •• ~pq.,-.I-...... udd*t,..., >[,., ....,..,,~ ,... ," "" .. n tar ",..... 11 ., ••"Jl\, 4 ""'~"""I''' .. ,.-...... ,"' ... ,.....,troJ/It ... UI""""" J""~Il, ., ..A,n flJir CI/ _11 ;..tr""""")PI'U' ~ ministers. orthodontal art work (braces), something not widely seen in Cn,ott. II , ... ,...Ma..U..... }'- Gliding Competition in Kyushu was not on the itinerary. ('/~_ ~~~ ,...... t_.t~ My own name is misread sometimes, as Manpo, Mankata or .. ,,.,,,",- ,,,""'-".. '" .. _...." .. Kay Fujita of Berkeley, a recent graduate of UC Davis, suf• ...... IVtoO( ,,"0 4;01'11' "AC" ,..c;:;'1'\JAI,...HO COf"'U 0" .....~o .... r Yorozukata At a hospital once, people thought my son Jun's ,.otl"'" IVoO",,"A""'" OJ C"o.C:ULA' ION IPut OIJ.UHCi ""'CIOlHO dSul ..-u.US'"'IOJOol .... "'I1' 1'0 name was Man Hojun. fered from American Tourist Disease by investing heavily in the f------U WONT~ " I ~ O ..Tl ,. .. .. Japanese economy during her stay. Recent UC Berkeley gradu• 24.280 21 . S 24 2S 24 There's one good thing about having an unusual name: it's ate and wife of the Youth Director Bruce Shimizu, Paula (Mi• 21.789 23 . 0 35 . easier to find in the telephone directory. An item appearing in tsunaga) Shimiru, was the remaining member of the tour. She the papers in the early 1970s came up with the information that was also the pseudo-den mother for the group helping to keep C 'JO-'''''' ..... 0 c ... CU ... .. "O .. j;)"... e/11i"''''' , •• 21 205.8 14 23, OS9 o ,... 1: &-01110 '''' •• '''' '1010 ...... 11. .. " "',.,, ••• Oill 0 ' ..... "VA''''' 194 189 there were 32,000 Suzukis, 13,000 Satos and 20,000 Takahashis things running smoothly...... '''L. (:0 ...... " .. , ,...... 00'"1 ...... e co ... o listed in the Tokyo telephone book. This first tour to Japan by JACL youth was a success and will .. • 0' ..... o.51'.; . ... HO .. Q ...... tc .. ..,...JjJJ :zc ~OO. 21, 24 • r CO""" "0' Q ...-. ... ,, "',oro In contrast, when I took a peek the other day, I noticed that be a continued program in years to come. I O",,,1''''.,..CCUIl...... , ,...'''... " • .,.,,0,,",1: . ...., .. CCO ...____ ",.. O "'0",.. 0,,,, 1- ____260 -1- ____261 -; there were just six whose names could be pronounced Manbo in 11 11 the directory. This was an increase of four over the last time I B,SH looked # West Los Angeles JACL's ,. ~ C)Op. ... Oor ...... _U_\o.4OI'\ h._._ ... """-...... ,." __ III_tII ...... _tt· ...... ·, _ ~ _ .. .l$•• 'fII •• II » _ . I . If\O< ' . tllW'. '.PII.... _,,_.. ,"," __.-...... '-' ...... _.u,.. .. 11 .. ~l-o tt" """"~ ,, _,'ITtI<*~ 101_...... Special Dec. 1980 Japan Tour . .' At. You A AIR FARE TO JAPAN - $599 round trip plus $3 departure tax and a $20 administrative fee ~ ___~ft ______L.t Frequ.nt Travel.t ~:'7:" J. l~~ "''4' II I ~ ilntN.,",1o.Irb 1)1\ IC\cnt) SPEND CHRISTMAS AND NEW YEAR'S IN JAPAN "~ ____I - Depart LAX: Dec. 20 I Depart lYo: Jan. 3 CJ Z ~. No. 2,106; To Tokyo? ~. (t) ~- • Optional individual return dotes to Jon. 24 • Optional Hawaii ~ 2'::; ~ Do not miss out any longer on the many stopover: $25 plus tax • Optiona l Land Tou r: $850 (J) ~ benefits (including reduced room rates & ft~ FOR RESERVA TION/ INFORM.o..TION, CALL O R WRITE S' 6: ~ Complimentary Full American !3real~fast) of• $ ~ ~ gc: '1l fered with a FREE Kioi Club International TOUR ESCORT: GEORGE KANEGAI, (213) 826-9448 (I) 9..1» ~ 1857 Brockton Ave., Los Angeles, Co 90025 ~ ~ Membership at The New Otani Hotel & Tower Or call 820-4309/397-7921 ~ ~~ ~ in Tokyo! Just complete the coupon below & CD Travel Meeting every third Sunday, 1 p.m., Felicia Mahood Rec• I