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ISSN: 0030-8579 / Whole No. 2,336 1 Vol. 100 No. 16 244 S. San Pedro St., Am. 506, Los Angeles, CA 90012-3981 (213)626-6936,628-3768 April 26, 1985 'Asians don't value life,' U.S. senator says
WASHINGTON-Sen. Paul Trible ta (D-Calif.) sent Trible a letter that our servicepeople bad to fight (R-Va.) resurrected a Vietnam• of protest which read as follows: against inhumane and bizarre era stereotype earlier this month " I am writing to express my Asian forces. Such a blanket when he said that he didn't think anger at your highly offensive and statement is no substitute for a his fighting in Vietnam ''would racist statement ... thoughtful analysis of our involve• have saved the world" because 'Please consider what you have ment in Vietnam. " Asians have no value for life. " said with that remark. You have "The Vietnam War was tragic During the war, a similar state• said that you believe that an entire and complex and there are many ~_ ~bOl ment was made by Gen. William race of people does not value or differing views and opinions about . Westmoreland. understand life the way other hu• our country's role. Statements Trible's remarks appeared in man beings do. With your state• such as yours do not address the the Washington Post on April 15 as ment you imply that an entire race issues involved, are clearly in• part of a series on the Vietnam of people feels no compunction flammatory, and only continue to war. The Post noted that Trible, a about killing other human beings create an atmosphere of hatred member of the Senate Foreign and that an entire race does not and misunderstarr:ling about Asia Relations Committee, was photo• care about the conditions in which and its people. graphed for a campaign ad wear• they live their lives. "I fuxi it outrageous that you, a Photo by George Thow ing a pilot's uniform in the cockpit "As an American of Asian an• member of the Senate Foreign DESERTED - Remains of garden at Manzanar are inspected by of a military plane despite the fact cestry, I am personally offended Relations Committee, would have members of Manzanar Committee and officials of Los Angeles City that he received a medical defer• by your remark. such a distorted and racist view of and Inyo County water departments. (Story on page 9.) ment during the war for a slight , Perhaps you are trying to give the world. I urge you to withdraw malformation of the right arm. the American people a new expla• the statement and apologize to On April 17 , Rep. Norman Mine- nation for our defea t in Vietnam- those whom you have offended. " Taiwan official sentenced in Liu murder 'Kuei-sen, is still at large and is . • TAIPEI- The former headofTai• were implicated by two of the men believed to be in. the Phi:lippines. Support group for Kimura formed wan's military intelligence bureau who actually carried out the kill• Wang's deputIes, Maj. Gen. Hu was convicted April 19 of planning ing, Cren Chi-Ii, leader of Tai• Yi-min and Col. Chen Hu-men (no by Katie Kaori Hayashi the murder of Chinese American wan's United Bamboo gang, and relation to Chen Chi-Ii), were She allegedly became despond• writer Henry Liu and sentenced to fellow gang member Wu Tun. found to be accessories to murder LOS ANGELES-More than 55 ent after finding out that her hus• life imprisonment. Acording to Chen, who was also and were given prison tenns of persons attended a meeting at the band Itsuroku was having an af• A military tribunal found Vice an intelligence agent for Taiwan, 2% years each. The three intelli• Japanese American Cultural and fair. In Japan, parent-child sui• Adm. Wang Hsi-ling guiltyof"tak• Wang told him that Liu was an gence officers aM the two gang• Community Center to help Fumi• cide, known as shinju, is more ing advantage ofllie opportunities intelligence operative for Taiwan sters had all faced possible death ko Kimura, a native of Japan who common and more accepted than attempted suicide by walking into arising from his performance of who became a double agent for sentences. it is in the U.S. the ocean near Santa Monica Pier official duties to collaborate in the China and that the "traitor" had Court observers representing During the April 12 meeting, in• murder of Liu, a critic of Tai• to be killed. Wang admitted men• Liu's family complained that the on January 29, taking her two chil• itiated by Yoshiko Yamaguchi, a wan's government, who was shot tioning that Liu needed to be possibility of higher-level govern• dren with her. social worker at the San Fernando to death at his Daly City, Calif. , "taught a lesson" and giving Liu's ment involvement was not exam• Kimura was pulled unconscious Japanese Community Center, ~ome on October 15, 1984. photo and address to Chen, but he ined at any of the trials. Liu's wid• from the water by two bystanders, people from all walks of life ex• Liu, who wrote for the Chinese• denied actually giving orders to ow Helen who strongly suspects but her 4-year-old son Kazutaka pressed their support for Kimura. language San Francisco Journal, kill Liu. th~t her husband's murder was ~d 6-rronth-old daughter. Yuri Some participants were affiliated had written a biography critical Chen and Wu were sentenced sanctioned by officials higher than dled. She has pleaded not guilty to with Christian and Buddhist of Taiwan President Chiang April 9 to life imprisonment. A Wang, said, CI A lot of questions ' two cOWlts each of murder and churches or with Onnatachi no Wa, a Japanese women's organi• Ching-kuo. third gang member said to have still need to be answered. " CommentaIy on page 8. Wang and two of his deputies taken part in the killing, Tung At his trial, Wang said that his zation; others were individuals superiors had no knowledge of a felony child endangering but could who sympathized with Kimura. plot to kill Liu. Government offi• face the death penalty if the pros• The main theme of the discus• cials have maintained that Wang ecution's allegation of special cir• sion was to help Kimura get a fair Congress requests extradition ofkillers ordered Liu killed for unspecified cumstance of multiple murder is trial and to prevent future parent• personal reasons. accepted. child suicides in the Japanese WASHINGTON-A request that signal that we will not stand for corrummity. At the end of the Taiwan send anyone implicated in any stonewalling in this case, and meeting, participants agreed to the murder of Chinese American that we want those responsible for News in B r.-ef---- form a group to support Kimw-a, journalist Henry Liu to the U.S. the killing to be brought to justice. including three committees- for trial was passed in the House The murder of Henry Liu was an fundraising, translation for peti- of Representatives by a 393-2 vote act of terrorism and it is repre• Woman jailed for 9 hours, gets $25,000 tions,andagenda. April 17. The Taiwan government hensible that more has not been Gerald Klausner, Kimura's at• CHICAGO - A federal jury awarded $25,lXX> to a women who was torney, explained the court pro• rejected the non-binding resolu- done." jailed after being arrested for feeding pigeons and walking un- tion, as it has done with other such Th fi . l' ted ' th leashed dogs in a small park, reported the Pasadena (Call£) Star- ceedings. He said that Kimura re- requests. e ve men unP. lca ~ e sented being rescued and was sur• . Rep. Robert Matsui (D-Calif.) . murder have ~trl.ed, conVIcted News. Anita Kirchoff, who' was locked in a jail cell for less than 9 prised when she learned that she said that the overwhelming mar- and ~ntenced m TaIwan, but the hours, said in U.S. District Court that, "It's not the amount of the had beEn charged with murder. o~ m~er award but the principle that counts" gin of support in the House " left questIon whether the Kirchoff was awarded $5,lXX> more than each former internee Although she felt that the whole no question that Congress is un- was sanctioned by the TaIwan world was against her, Klausner happy with the lack of progress" government ~ not. been . ~ would receive for an average of 3 years spent in concentration added, she found the will to live in efforts to extradite two gang swered to ~e satISfactIon ofLlU s camps if JACL-supported redress legislation were enacted when she knew some people cared members who confessed to killing supporters m the U.S. about her. He urged participants Liu and military intelligence offi- The resolution also called for the S.F. may name street after Chinese activist to write letters of encouragement cials who allegedly ordered the conclusion of an extradition agree• SAN FRANCISCO - The public works committee voted unani• to Kimura. killing to punish Liu for his writ- ment between the U.S. and Tai• mously April 12 to change Brenham Place to Walter U. Lurn Place. Concerned individuals can write ings, which were critical of Tai- wan, which have not had such a No street in the city is currently named for a Chinese American to Kimura cl o Gerald Klausner, wan's government. treaty since diplomatic ties were Lurn was a civil rights activist and journalist of the early ~ 4676 AdmiraUy Way, Suite 336, Matsui called the House vote " a broken off in 1979. The board ofsupervisors will consider the committee's resolution Marina Del Rey, CA 90292. 2-PACIFIC CITIZEN I Friday, April 26, 1985 Domestic violence project started
LOS ANGELES-Asian Pacific are poor and non-English speak• American Legal Center of South• ing. ern California has launched a The Asian/ Pacific American domestic violence project for Legal Center has initiated a proj• Asian Pacific women who have ect that provides free bilingual low incomes. le5al counseling and referral; The U.S. Attorney General's of• multilingual infonnational bro• fice estimates that 50% of mar• chures on battered women's ried women in California will be rights and legal procedures; a assaulted at some time by their multi-service referral guide, in• husbands. Separate statistics for cluding agencies that are Asian/Pacific marriages have not equipped to help the Asian/Paci• yet been tabulated. Domestic vio• fic woman in a culturally appro• lence does occur in these house• priate and respectful manner; holds, as evidenced by Asian/ and community education. Pacific counseling centers and The center's domestic violence battered women's hoUines and project committee includes vol• shelters. unteer Asian/ Pacific attorneys and lavy students, as well as cen• The Center for the Pacific-Asian terstaff. Family, for example, served 1,571 For further information call battered women in 1983. Many of (213) 74&0029. ~------. these women are also impover• ished, non-English speaking, and pressured by culture into silence. STORE FOR MR. SHORT Everywoman's Shelter, of the III·~ Jose~~' ~ Center for the Pacific-Asian Fam- I \ ~ ily, Inc., is the only shelter that SINCE 1946 MEN"S W.AR focuses primarily on Asian/Paci- fic women. The Korean Family 238 E. First Street. , Los Angeles, CA 90012 Counseling and Legal Advice Cli- Tel.: (213) 626-1830 nic is one of the few clinics that Specialist in Short and Extra Short Sizes counsels on family matters in the .'------=------' Asian/ Pacific community. And throughout Southern California, there are no legal service centers BIG MONEY IN SPORTS! that have the bilingual staff or FOR MEN & WOMEN culturally sensitive programs to low Dealer Prices· Be Your Own Boss· Part or Full· Time provide legal assistance to Asian/ Brandname Items lor All Sports Pacific women who have been Work From Your Home Photo from collection of The Morikami Museum battered, especially those who financial Indepell"dence Jo and Sada Sakai, pioneers of Yamato, Florida. Only $1,500 Required LeI us make you an ,.6- N Immediate succ~ss Sada returned to Japan with the chil• '- . In your own sporllng dren in 1924 following her husband's -I·t I-O.....,t.... DI"- A good buSiness! Descendants of Yamato colony to return death. SpO rt nc., ep. rV'"t Tamemasu and Etsu Kamiya. They ~NPoII" ;;m 554331-aoo-32t,3820 l-e12-757-2II3O MN to site of former Florida settlement raised six children in Yamato after their marriage in 1909. Kamiya re• ::.::I:~~rl::." DELRAY BEACH, Fla.-One The shelters are being named mained in the area for a time follow• $lort It could call it a ghost town, but 43 after five of the mst remaining ing his wife's death in 1936, then years after its demise, the spirit families of Yamato, which was joined the family of his eldest daugh• of Yamato, Florida, will come establ~ in the summer of 1905 ter in California shortly before the alive again as survivors and de• by Jo Sakai and some fifteen set• outbreak of World War II. scendants of the defunct agricul• Jinzo and Naka Yamauchi. Mar• tlers fr(Jl1 Japan. The five fami• ried in 1915, they raised one son, born tural conununity reunite. lies, continued to farm land be• in Yamato. The family moved to On May 4, some 35 members of tween Delray Beach and Boca Miami in 1928. Fast action, Yamato families, as well as doz• Raton into the 19205 and '30s. Hideo and Umeko Kobayashi, mar• ens of oJd-timers who knew them, Plaques will identify each shel• ried in 1!m. Four children were born their parents, and grandparents, ter and provide biographical in Yamato. The family was evicted lowrale will come to Morikami Park, west notes on the Issei who settled Ya• from their property in Yamato by a of Delray Beach, for the dedica• mato and chose to raise families federal judge in 1942 to make way for tion of four wooden pavilions to there. Briefly, they are: the construction of an Army Air Corps car the Sakai, Kamiya, Yamauchi, Jo and Sada Sakai, married in 1906. training facility. and two Kobayashi families. Five daughters were born in Yamato. . Susumu and Suye Kobayashi, mar• ried in 19Z1. One daughter was born in Yamato before the family moved to Illinois in 1925. Yamato family members are coming from California, Michi• Nebraska Nikkei in city council race gan, Massachusetts, Pennsyl• OMAHA, Nebr. - Former city "That area is supporting my posi• vania, New Jersey, and Japan to councilman Richard Takechi, a tion of, 'Let's be responsive to the share memories with each other 47-year~ld jeweler, will run people,' "Takechi said. and with those still living in against District 5 city council• Takedli, a Republican, has the Florida. woman Connie Findlay, who un• support of Rep. Hal Daub (R-2nd) The land where Morikami Park seated him in 1981, in the May 14 while Findlay, a Democrat, has now rests was donated to Palm general election. been endorsed by former con• Beach County by George Sukeji After receiving 51.8% of the gressman John Cavanaugh (D), Morikami, an original Yamato• Select your new car April 2 primary vote to Findlay's who represented the same district. ite, who remained until his death loan with the same care and 27.8%, Takechi said, "The feeling Fonner Douglas County Re• in 1976. consideration you use in choosing the right car. I'm getting is that she wasn'tgoing publican chairman Chuck Siger• The Morikami park, museum Automobile financing has been one of our Sp& out into the district that much." son said, "Richard's friends in the and Gardens preserves and inter• cialties for over 30 years. Come to Sumitomo for As an example, he cited Findlay's Republican Party will rally behind prets the culture of Japan and the low competitive rates and fast action. council vote supporting the One him. " State Democratic chair Japanese American heritage in Pacific Place development proj• Thomas Monaghan and Douglas the 15O-acre park. The museum, ect, which many area residents County Democratic chair Herb principally run by the Friends of opposed. Millard have vowed to' support the Morikami, has exhibits that In the eight precincts nearest Findlay. chronicle the early Yamato days, One Pacific Place, 609 voted for -from a report by as well as displaying current Ja• Takechi and 241 voted for Findlay. Omaha World-Herald panese culture. friday, April 26, 19851 PACIFIC CmZE~
Also returning is "Hito Hata: Asian American -film festival slated Raise the Banner, " the first Asian Hibakusha medical team coming to U.S. American feature film, produced SAN FRANCI8a>-ln June, a to begin next week in Northwest in 1980, depicting the life story of a There are an estimated 1,000 team of doctors from Japan re• survivors (hibakusha) of Japa• Japanese American immigrant. SEATI'LE-Next week marks ican fllmmakers from around the turns to the United States to con• nese or Korean ancestry residing duct medical examinations on the flrst Seattle Asian American country. The local premieres of seven re• in the United States and Canada. fllm festival to be held May 2-5 at To be featured is ., Beacon Hill American survivors of the Hiro• The CmuniUee of Atomic Bomb cently completed films will high• shima Nagasaki bombings. the historic Nippon Kan Theatre Boys," a locally produced film light the festival, including the am Survivors (CABS) urges all sur• 628 S. Washington St.. in the In• about Japanese American life in This will be the team's fifth visit vivors to register for the exami• Oscar-nominated shorts "The since 1971 sponsored by the Japa• ternational District) . Sponsored Seattle during the early 1970s. Silence' and "Sewing Woman." nations. Travel stipends am ac• by King treet Media, the festival "Beacon Hill Boys' premiered in nese government. The doctors ar• Other films are' 'Freckled Rice, " rive in San Francisco on June 12 commodations may be available. will showcase the best feature• Seattle this January to sell-out "The Departure," "Fool's Dance," All participants can be assured of length and short dramatic film crowds, and has been selected to and will conduct examinations in · The Only Language She Knows," fIve cities: San Francisco, Los confidentiality. For more infor• made by irxlependent Asian Amer- open the 8th Annual Asian Ameri• and "Fei Tien: Goddess in Flight." can International Film Festival Angeles, Seattle, Honolulu, and mation, write to: CABS, 1109Shell in New York City. The festival Tickets for the film festival are Vancouver, Canada. Gate Place, Alameda, CA 94501. then tours 15 cities in the U.S. and available at Uwajimaya stores, Affal-rs-..- Michigan Asians Canada. Mich's Short & Small Shop l2122 ""'-'-'-'-____· Communl-ty I_ continue coalition The Seattle film festival also Third Avenue), Cinema Books features the return of "Chan Is ( 4753 Roosevelt N. E.) and The LOS ANGELES - The 22nd annual Featured will be an array of fresh pro• TROY Mich.-About 300 people Missing," the critically ac• Chop House (2552 Beacon Ave. Mothers of the Year Luncheon will be duce, plants, games, arts and crafts and -primarily Asian Americans of claimed 1982 fIlm about two San So.). Tickets are $5 per show, $4 held Sunday, May 5, noon, in the Golden food booths. Ballroom, New Otani and Gardens, ~ Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Pili• Francisco Chinatown cab drivers for senior citizens. Tickets will be UCLA Asian American Studies Center s. Los Angeles Sl Cosponsors are Down• pino Vietnamese and Indian an• searching for the man who has sold at the door only as available. is sponsoring a public lecture by Dr. Alan town LA JACL and So. Calif Japanese disappeared with their money. Information: 624-8800. T. Moriyama on May 4, 2 p.m, at JACCC, cestry-rededicated themselves Women's Socief¥. Honorees are Shizu 244 S. San Pedro Sl Moriyama will speak to the principles of equality and Abe, 76; Tsuchiyo Domoto, 89; Takayo Ka• about his research on Japanese emigra• justice which united them two to, lt3; and Fusayo Sato, 89. Reservations tion to Hawaii Infonnation: 825-2m4. years ago. (by Apri129): Mary Nishimoto, (213) ~ The American Citizens for Jus• Playwright Yamashita to be honored 8616; TedlChristine Miyashiba, (818) 35f). KENTFIELD, Cali.( - N"lSei Widowed tice held a "rededication dinner" LOS ANGELES-Karen Tei Ya• fIrst place in the fIrst James Clav• 3004; or Frank Hirata (213)478-7845 (eves). Group holds its monthly meeting at the home of Harty Murata, May 5, 1:30 p.m on March 30 at the Hilton Hotel, Asian/Paci6c American Heritage Week mashita the award-winning ell American Japanese Short Information: (415) 453-9248; Yuri marking the second anniversary Committee hosts the annual Heritage author, playwright, and poet, will Story Contest. Her plays include Moriwaki, 482-3200; Elsie Chung, 221.«.!fi8. since the group was founded on be honored at the third annual • Omen: An American Kabuki," Dinner in honor of the First Asians in March 31 , 1983, following the sen• Space: Mlij. Ellison Onizuka, Dr. Taylor SEATILE - The city's 10th annual Author Recognition Benefit and 'The Misokai Bridge " a Cherry BIAlssom and Japanese Cultural tences of probation and flnes to Luncheon given by the Friends of series of plays for story theater Wang, and R Eugene Trinh, Friday, May 10,6 p.m, San Francisco Room, Bonaven• Festival, takes place May 3 to 5 at Seattle the killers of Vincent Chin, the 27- Little Tokyo Public Library based on Japanese folktales. Center. The free festival features photo• year-old Chinese American com• ture Hotel, 404 S. Figueroa Sl Tickets Services. The luncheon takes place on $30. RSVP by May 3: 4ffi.5198. graphy exhibits, textile demonstrations, puter technician who was brutally Yamashita, who recently Saturday, May 11, at the Akasaka performing arts, martial arts, games, and slain by two auto workers who brought her play " Hiroshima Hanten Restaurant in Weller Centenary United Methodist Church films. Information: ~ 7900. presents an Arigato Bazaar, named in ap• were angry about Japanese auto NEW YORK - Presbyterian Church Tropical" to East West Players Court. Also featured will be a spe• preciation of the support received imports. (USA..) is seeking Japanese American as part of their works-in-progress cial auction of valuable new art through the years, on Saturday, May 4, Addressing the group was Mich• bilingual elementary teachers for the series, is well known for her many collectibles. Cost per person is 11 am to 6 p.m, at 35th Sl and S. Nonnan- . 1985-86 school year in Alexandria, ~ igan Lt. Gov. Martha Griffiths, literary works. Her short stories $10, which includes Yamashita s die Ave. The Rev. George Nishikawa said Certified teachers may contact Doris who spoke on what Asian Ameri• include "The Bath," "Tucano," the bazaar is "one fling at a comer readings, luncheon, and art auc• last Caldwell, Presbyterian Church (U.s.A), cans can do to be represented in that has been a special place since 1926" ., In Brazil, the Earth is Red," and tion. For more information, call 475 Riverside Dr., Room 406; New York, Continued 00 Page 6 " Asaka-n economic crimes, primarily ex• "tortions against corporations. EAST , The sokaiya acquire corporate WIND _ ' stock thus entitling members to ~ attend stockholder meetings where subtle pressures are used, Bill ~ and if oot successful in gaining Marutani ~( their goals, not-so-subtle tactics _ ~ ' are employed lIDless manage------. ment capitulates with a pay-off. EARLIER THIS YEAR the 0 pervasive is this problem that U.S. Dept of Justice, Federal Bu- the Commerce Act of Japan was reau of In estigation, issued a re- revised, making it a crime for any port titled . 'Oriental Organized corporate officer to divert any Crime." The report covers Chi- portion of the corporate assets to nese, Japanese and Vietnamese anyone other than stockholders. biiiIII~_L-.lliL..~_...aI:WL __.L--=L- ______~"';"'_""" 'organized crime." Focusing up- Sony Corporation reportedly had on the Japanese phase of the re- a stockholder meeting that lasted port we'd like to share some of some thirteen hours because of the infonnation with you. the activities of the sokaiya. Isuzu Heroes Reflect Value System THE TERM FOR Japanese Motor C?mpany had a stockhold• Got any heroes? According to gangsters that most of us have er. meetmg. that ran ten ~ours. ''progressive,'' and that's proba• ~enc~ a U.S. News and World Report, bly a euphemism heprd in recent years is yakuza ; WIth. corporate mter• my generation (1~2A in the HnOs) ONE THING however, the constabulary in Ja- es~ JOuung w~th Japanese enter• ''Sun Yat Sen [the Chinese rev• didn't have any heroes. Well, all LEADS olutionaryl Harriet Bouslong pan refer to these organized prlSes, there IS concern. that the right, rm stretching it a bit - I TOANOIHER crime groups as boryokudan gangs.ter elen:ent may. infiltrate [who was defending the n..wu was 25 in HnO, but what's a year meaning "violent bands ' or such mternatIonal busmess con• and the Hawaii Seven from or two. HUAC intelTOgationl and Patsy I gangs." The derivation of the glomerates. The report went on to say that Takemoto Mink [who at that time term yakuza is from the num- THE "TAKE" by these crimi• ~ are different now. The pe0- Bob was defending crew members of bers 8, 9 and 3-taking the fIrst nal elements is estimated to be ple 18-24 year olds most admire Shimabukuro the Phoenix - the pacifist boat syUableofeach ofthese numbers. some $31.72 billion, translated and emulate are - are you ready cruising the nuclear test areas in While this writer is not a card- into U.S. dollars. That's only for for this? - Clint Eastwood and the Pacificl" I offered cautiously. player ( hanafuda), we under- the year 1977. In the PacifIc basin Eddie Murphy. Now what does Eisenhower mentality. But never I agreed with my dad These stand that the worst hand that one area, including centers with siz• that say about our young adults. fear. The '005 followed the '50s. were courageous people. _ can be dealt in such a card game able Japanese American popula• The list is one ofglamour, fame Right now, more people are My teacher didn't agree, need• is " 8, 9, 3." In short, yakuza is a tions, boryokudan elements are and wealth. Men chose Eastwood, falling under the poverty line. I less to say. rll never forget the " loser. ' being detected by law enforce- Murphy, Ronald Reagan, Steven look outside the JACCC building look on her face. Or the reaction THE LAND OF the Rising Sun, ment agencies. Criminal activi• Spielberg, Julias Erving, Joe Mon• and I see these folks running of the rest of the class. Until I while reportedly having one ofthe ties focus upon gambling, narco• tana, Doug Flutie, Harrison Ford, around with their cardboard went to college the only heroes lowest crime rates in modern so• tics, prostitution and pornogra• and Lee Iacocca, with - how's looking for a place to sleep. rd admit to after that were good ciety, nonetheless is said to have phy. Reportedly» the boryokudan this for bizarre - Pope John Every night A little further down safe ones: Jackie Robinson, Roy almost 2 500 boryokudans with a has made inroads into the control Paul IT and Michael Jackson tied the road, they line up to sleep on Campanella, and Don Drysdale. total membership slightly in ex• of Japanese tourist trade into the for 10th. the sidewalk on 5th, 6th, 7th St I Sandy Koufax was not a hero. He cess of 100,000. This calculates to States. It is reported that yakuza Women chose Jane Fonda, wonder who their heroes are. was a god, somebody you wor• elements have been making over• an average of 40 members Sally Field, Eastwood, Mother shipped. His fastball and CUIVe• (kobun) in each gang. Reported• tures in Las Vegas and Atlantic Teresa, Murphy, Nancy Reagan, Mario Savio is back on the ball was evidence enough that he ly, member hip and structure are City. Pope John Paul IT, Geraldine Fer• campus at Berkeley where a new was divine. highly formalized with an initia• IN THIS WRITER'S compara• raro, Reagan and Meryl Streep. round of sit-ins takes place. C0- In college, I said, "Che." After tion ceremony into a kai (club), tively sheltered world, we know Overall, the order of the top lumbia University students are all, he was an asthmatic rev• with the initiate pledging eternal next to oothing about the work• flve:Eastwood,Murphy,Reagan emulating their 1960s ancestors olutionary. Talk about identifica• fealty to the oyabun (boss). ings arx:l scope of the yakuza. (Ronald), Fonda, with Sally Field also. All for divestiture of school tion Got a pretty good respoose There is an underboss (daigishi) However, it is reported that in Ja• and Spielberg tied for 5th. Think funds in South Africa It used to in college. who " takes the heat" for crimes pan it is not unknown for politi• about that All six spots occupied be free speech Now it's school in• Later, at a JACL wine-tasting sought to be ascribed to the oya• cians and yakuza elements to by show-biz people. The next four vestments. The young seem to gathering of ''youngsters'' who bun. These gangs have their own have an open relationship, such as were the Pope, Mother Teresa, understand the connection be• were being recruited, I offered strict code of criminal honor-if at a fureral for an oyabun. For Michael Jackson and Tina tween wealth and power and sta• the same answer to the hero criminals can have honor-sub• most Westerners, and those with Turner. tus quo. Is this the generation of question The reply? 'Ole? Che, scribing to precepts such as jingi a Western mind (which includes But with a show-biz president Eastwood and Murphy? who?" I knew I was in different (humanity and justice), giri• this writer), it is said that one what can we expect? People are I was in the seventh grade (or company. Shades of 7th grade. ninjo (duty and love) and Tlinkyo may well associate quite inti• impressed with glamour. With eighth, I can't remember, it's How about you? Have any (ChIValry). mately but unkn{>wingly with wealth. They don't want to hear been a long time) when my teach• heroes? Asian American ones? about what's wrong, just what's WITHIN THE GANGS there yakuza elements. er asked who my heroes were. Write, let us know. rn write are groups with specialties, one WELL, SO MUCH for law and nice, what doesn't jog our con• My dad, who influenced my think• about one who qualifies next known as sokaiya engaged in order. science. We're in the '50s again. ing a lot, was what you might call week ISSN: 0030-8579 U.S.-Japan Relations: What Can We Do? pacific citizell by Floyd Shimomura rights laws in their own hiring and the conduct of a few; and to wel• What specillcally can we do to promotims; to create jobs and come them into the civic and s0- Nat'l JACL Headquarters. 1765 Sutter St.. San FranCISCO . CA 94115, help U.S. -Japan relations in our not unemployment for our Ameri• cial life of the communities in (415) 921-5225 own communities? can workers; and to support the which they reside. In other words, Published by the Japanese American Citizens League every Friday except the first civic arx:l cultural life of the com• to again help create "goodwill" and last weeks of the year at 244 S. San Pedro St.. Los Angeles, CA 90012; (213) Certainly there are many possi• 626-6936 • 2nd Class postage paid at Los Angeles, Ca. Annual Subscrip• munities in which they do busi• and not "bad will. " lions-JACL members: $10.00 of natIOnal dues prOVides one-year on a per-house• bilities. However, I would begin ness. In other words, we should In this way, I believe we can hold baSIS. Nonmembers. $18. payable In advance. Foreign addresses: Add by encouraging Japanese com• U 5 .$8 • News or opinIOns expressed by columnists other than JACL staff do not encourage the Japanese to create begin to make a positive contribu• necessarily reflect JACL policy. panies and individuals to be good "goodwill" and not "backlash." tion to better U.S.-Japan relations OFFICERS in our own community and mini• Frank Sato, Nan JACL President Dr. Clifford Uyeda, PC Board Chair On the other hand, we should mize the possibility of backlash EDITORIAL I BUSINESS STAFF Fourth in a Series. Editor:. Karen Seriguchl Ass't Editor: Bob Shimabukuro encourage our fellow Americans and ill-feelings. Advertising: Jane M. Ozawa Edit. Ass·t:J.K. Yamamoto Circulation: ...... Tomi Hoshlzaki, Mitsuko Sakai be fair "hosts" to the Japanese ======Typesetting: Mary Imon Mailing: Mark Saito " guests" when they are in our companies and individuals that country; to learn about the his• Gen Mgr/Operalions: ...... Harry K. Honda come to the U.S.; to treat them Remember tD double-space aD tory of the treatment of Japanese with equality-neither better nor POSTMASTER: Send address changes te. f> .l ~l to C Cillzen. submittal articles and letters to 244 S. San Pedro St., #506 . Los Angeles, C ~ 90012. Americans so they can better ap• worse than anyone else; to judge the editDr. preciate the opportunities they them on their irxiividual merit possess; to abide by our civil and not condemn all because of ======FrkIIY, Aprtl28, 19851 PACIFIC CmZEN-6 Prewar Pigskin Preview A I \ as a ing b for running vertisers were the T. Iwata Art out of pac 1a t week, Ameri an Store at 256 E. First; 1. Nishi• football was introdu d to Japan kawa, jeweler at 233 E. First, the in th 1930s by Ni ei who were Olympic Hotel at 117 N. San there to tudy in J apane e col• FROM THE Pedro, Tanaka Photo Service at lege . In 1934 Nisei at Meiji and FRYING PAN: 114 N. San Pedro, Nada Sake & Wa eda organized pickup teams Wine Co. at 459 E. Third; Ten• which played to a 0-0 tie. Bill shodoDrugCo. at260E. First; G. In the fall of that same year a Hosokawa Sumida Co., sporting goods and Nisei college all-star team played musical instruments, at 325 E. the Yokohama Country and Ath• First; San Pedro Garage at 211 N. letic rub. ince the Country San Pedro; S. Kataoka, jeweler, Clubbers were mostly overweight athletes were. at 301 E. First; and Mikawaya Europeans who knew something The people who put the pro• confectionary at 246 E. First. gram together employed the frus• about rugby but not much about Considering that the only way to Photo by Chris Komuro American football, it s under• trating Issei custom of simply us• SURPRISE - The widow Chizuko (Shizuko Hoshi) beams upon ing initials instead of first names. get from one side of the Pacific receiving a gift from Kawaguchi (Soon Teck-Oh) in East West Players' standable that the Nisei won 26-0. ocean to the other was by steam• By 1942 there was a six-team in• Thus the starters on the Japanese production of Wakako Yamauchi's "The Music Lessons." team are listed as M. Shimoda, M. boat, am that the voyage took two tercollegiate league. weeks, it must have been a stag• In the last few years American Inouye, A. Fukuda, T. Imamura,. S. Machida M. Hata, T. Ariga, A. gering mdeavor to get the team college teams have been playing from Y(j{ohama to Los Angeles 'Music Lessons' a Powerful Play in Japan, but against each other Nagai, K. Nakamura, S. Yasuda and H. Hata. The Americans had and back again. And what kind of by Elizabeth Lu in the absence of suitable oppo• shape were they in for playing fann with a painful past of his names like J . McDonald, W. LOS ANGELES-In "The Music nents. But I ve learned recently, football after all that time cooped own. As the visiting stranger, vet• Blaisdell, H. Sargent, E. Demp• Lessons," playwright Wakako there was a trans-Pacific football up in a ship? eran actor Oh has the good looks game back in 1936, played on Sun• sey, B. Clow and L. Bach. The one Yamauchi dares us to bare our and gentle manner that makes the day, Dec. 'Zi, at Gilmore Stadium recognizable name is Dean Crom• Unfortunately, George Kondo feelings. The consequences, as subtle Jove triangle believable. in Los Angeles. well, listed among the officials. If didn't tell me who won the game. the hardworking widow Chizuko However, Oh at times looks inap• George Kondo of San Francisco memory doesn't betray me, he Maybe some fan with a long Sakata (Shizuko Hoshi) discov• propriately dazed when he should passed along the information and was track coach at USC. memory can recall. Or some kind ers, can be painful, buttakllgthat express only mild surprise or loaned me a four-page souvenir Somewhat more interesting are person will take the time to look risk, going out on a limb, is a part embarrassment. program (which sold for a dime) the program advertisements pur• into the fIles of the Rafu Shimpo of loving and living that makes Dana Lee, as the affable old as proof. The game was between chased by Li'l Tokyo supporters. or Kashu Mainichi, which certain• each of us feel alive. neighbor Nakamma, is wonderful the "Japanese All-Star Squad" The Miyako Hotel at First and San ly must have covered such a mo• Building on Yamauchi's suc• as comic relief. He shutlles to and and the "Southern California All• Pedro, and the Japanese Theatre mentous community event, and cinct but effective script, set in fro and downs cheap red wine Star Squad." Unfortunately the Assn. at 201 N. San Pedro bought give us a brief rundown if not a the Imperial Valley during the De• while he quips with Kawaguchi, program doesn t explain who the the biggest ads. Among other ad- play-by-play account. pression, director Mako com• f1l.ijng the audience in on each municates to the audience the vul• character's past. Darrell Kuni• nerable, feeling side of every par• tomi as Chizuko's eldest son Ichi• ,~~ ... Letters ent. Mako skillfully choreographs ro provides the solid yet low• Cbizuko's transformation from a keyed support appropriate for his Praise for PC cific Citizen were an unwarranted I look forward to seeing more of beleaguered mother of three who character. Janellen Steininger as This letter is an enthusiastic burst of outrage triggered by Shinji 's cartoons. hides her emotions behind farm• the waitress spices things up with support for your fme newspaper more than dislike for the content. PATTI ADACHI work am drab, unisexed overalls, her very brief but interestingly and its excellent coverage. I am sorry the book disturbed him Chicago to a woman with emotions, de• sultry moment with Kawaguchi I recently took a copy of your so much. sires, arxi dreams that go beyond at the bar. Yes, as he said, I am a white More Conference Kudos the obligatory ones centered on The physical production has issue to an Asian community I wish publicly commend and man. But when a writer is down to to her children. some minor flaws.For example, meeting. People attending were express appreciation to J.D. Ho• the bare bones searching for The production features a there is the impoosible angle of ages 24 to 70. All were very im• koyama, chairperson of the re• pressed with the issue; in fact, an truth color is hardly important. strong performance by Shizuko view fum the house to Kawa• cent PSWD community outreach Hoshi, who portrays with special guchi's separate shed. The back• older couple has decided to resub• Two of the greatest facets of tl}e " Japanese American Involve• scribe and rejoin JACL. You can Japanese Americans have been insight the lonely mother and drop of what is supposed to be the ment: A Commitment to the widow Chizuko. With every long hills and fields seems to . be expect many more new subscrib• their fierce patriotism and adher• 80's" conference, co-chair Irene ence to the concepts of democ• day she labors away in the fields trapped in papermache. Then ers from our area. Hirano, Shirley Chami, Ron Doi, racy. I care about those JAs who and with every heavy sigh, she there are the occasional slips in Our group agreed that your ar• Glen Fukushima, Linda Hara, found something of value in Chi• epitomizes the self-sacrificing synchrooizing Oh's violin playing ticles on community networking Moo Himeno, Janet Kajihara, kara!-something of pleasure, parent that each of us remem• with the soundtrack. These short• to grapple with racism, articles Midori Watanabe Kamei, Harry or maybe pride ... which is why I bers. comings tend to distract the audi• raising awareness of discrimina• Kawahara, Sandi Kawasaki, Bet• dedicated the book to them. I am In what was the most powerful ence from the action am dia• tion against Asian people (wheth• ty Kozasa, Ford Kuramoto, er it is police brutality or problems thankful that I was able to write it. scene in the play, Chizuko am her logue. George Nakano, Marilynn Na• daughter (Susan Haruye Ioka) Despite these minor problems, in the schools), articles about im• ROBERT SKIMIN kata, Mary Nishimoto, George portant Asian leaders, interna• open a floodgate of emotims as "The Music Lessons" at East EI Paso, Texas Ogawa, Patrick Ogawa, and Emi• they throw accusations back and West is sure to set one thinking tionally and nationally, made your ly Takeuchi. paper more valuable than ever. Cbikara! was reviewed by Ray• forth and say things they had al• about its message of hope am dis• mond Okamura in the June 22, 1984, The conference was superbly ways felt but dared not express. illusiorment. The production of• We also enjoy the editorials, and done. Tre national JACL director contributions by writers. Another PC. Ioka, in what was an otherwise fers a provocative evening of Ron Wakabayashi commended unassuming performance, is at powerful emotions. aspect of the paper we especially the conference planners. He in• appreciate is more news which Shinji's Cartoons her best in this mother- the Pacific Citizen since Sep• Pacific Citizen editor to leave tember 1983. Bill Sing, AAJA ---Chapter Pulse--- LOS ANGELES - Pacific Citi- '1t's vital that more Asian chainnan and business reporter for the Los Angeles Times, noted zen editor Karen Seriguchi has Americans attain key manage• Marina from all over Northern Califor• been named the first national ment posts in the news media," that, ''Many community leaders have credited her with signifi• MARINA DEL REY, Ca1i£-Har• nia typically participate. infor• executive director of the Asian Seriguchi said '1 would like to ry Kitano, professor ofsocial wel• mation: Tom Oshidari, (400) 251- American Journalists Assn stress programs to help Asian cantly improving the quality and scope of the newspaper." fare and sociology, UCLA, is 5fm; Robert Setoguchi, (400) 247- (AAJA). She leaves her current American journalists improve guest speaker at the chapter's Seriguchi, a JACL staff mem• 1494- position May 7. Bob Shimabu- their job skills. May 2 meeting. Kitano will be ber since October 1.900, is a kuro will become acting editor. '10 addition, more Asian presenting new findings on why former regional director of the Venice-Culver 'Karen's outstanding skills Americans in the newsroom will people seek interracial relation• LOS ANGELES-The highly ac• and experience as a manager, help the media become more Pacific Northwest District, based in Seattle, and was assistant di• ships. Information: Larry Taka• claimed documentary ''Un• community organizer and jour- sensitive to minority issues. My hashi, (213) 479-8479. finished Business" by Steven nalist are ideal for our efforts to hope is that the number of rector of Performing Arts Ser• vices in San Francisco, manag• Okazaki will, be shown with the increase the number of Asian Asians in journalism will double film strip ''Gaman'' on Friday, Americans in news media and within the next few years." ing director of San Francisco's San Francisco Asian American Theater Work• May 3,7:30 p.m, at the Venice improve coverage of our com- AAJA's membership includes SAN FRANCISCO - The chap• Japanese Community Center, munities," AAJA president Tri- nearly 100 working journalists shop, and an editor at the Car• ter voted unanimously to spon• negie Council on Policy Studies 1244B Braddock Dr. Admission is tia Toyota said throughout the nation, in such sor a track team in the 1985 free. Seriguchi's appointment comes cities as San Diego, San Fran• in Higher Education at Berkeley. Junior Olympics. President Cres• as the Los Angeles-based AAJA, cisco, Sacramento, Stockton, ------sey Nakagawa said that, "Since Ventura County a four-year-old non-profit profes- Seattle, Milwaukee and Wash• For the Record the San Francisco Chapter origi• sional corporation, is beginning ington, n.c. nated the Junior Olympics 33 OXNARD, Calif - A cooking to organize on a national basis. Seriguchi has been editor of In the April 19 issue, a line was yearS ago, it was felt that the demonscrationof~Japanese omitted from Henry Sakai's com• chapter should become involved dishes is offered on Sunday, rights of Americans of Asian an• mentary ("On Nikkei Celebrities again." Anyone interested in April 28, 24 p.m, at Oxnard High cestry, by their efforts personally and PSW Conference, ' p. 8). The joining the team may pick up ap• School Information: Ann Asa• ACJ and governmentally in the Vin• paragraph originally read: oka (fffi) 484-0481; Marcia Miya• Continued from Page 3 plications at the Paper Tree in cent Chin matter." "One thing that bothered me at Japantown, or call David Naka• saka 400-2117. the decision-making levels of gov• Entertainment at the event was the conference was that Frank Sa• yama, JACL headquarters, (415) ernment. Griffiths served in the also notable. Jerry Woo , a 17- to, JACL national president, said 9211--52'25. U.S. Congress for 20 years and year-old Pilipino award-winning that U.S ...Japan relations was South Bay was the chief sponsor of the Equal singer-breakdancer performed J ACL' s second highest priority. It TORRANCE, caw: - An udon Rights Amendment. several popular recording hits. would seem that some other San Jose booth is the offering of the chap• Griffiths also announced the ap• China's prima ballerina, Hui• programs have equal priority> HAYWARD, Calif - The 33rd ter at the 12th Bunka-sai, a pointmentof ACJpresidentHelen Fang Mao, who played the star• including aging and retirement, annual JACL Junior Olympics Japanese cultural festival spon• Zia to a newly formed state com• ring role in the movie "White youth, women's concerns, health will be held June 2 at Chabot Col• sored by the Torrance Sister City mission on criminal justice. Haired Girl," performed classi• fairs, employment discrimina• lege. By virtue of its second con• Assn, April Zl-28, at Torrance Michigan Dept. of Civil Rights cal ballet. And famed folksinger• tion, etc. Let's not forget we are secutive team victory last year, Recreation Center, Torrance director Ronald Quincy spoke on songwriter Charlie Chin flew in supposed to be a civil and human San Jose JACL again acts as the Blvd and Madrona. Hours are 11 the growing awareness by state from New York to sing pieces rights organization. Maybe the host organization am to 6 p.m, Saturday; 10 am. government of the concerns of from his show, "An ABC from National Board needs to reevalu• Age divisions from 10 years old to 5 p.m, Sunday. Free admis• Asian Americans. The civil rights NYC, " and his "Ballad to Vincent ate where they are spending our and under the masters divisions sion to exhibits and demonscra• department currently has no bi• Chin. " time and money. What has hap• for adults are open to particip• tions of bonsai, karate, callig• lingual Asian employees, a situa• Last year, ACJ organized a pened to outside fund-raising and ants in a long list of track and raphy, dance, sumie painting, tion which exists in most of the courtwatch in the federal ci vii membership recruitment? field events. Over 350 entrants music, and other activities. state's service departments, in• rights trial of Ronald Ebens and cluding the bilingual education Michael Nitz, which resulted in program. the conviction ofEbens, who was MEDICAL TRANSCRIBER To remedy the absence of Asian sentenced to 25 years. Nitz was California Medical Facility, Vacaville, is accepting applications WE OffER THE PROf't:SSIOIYAL MAIY Americans in meaningful posi• for Medical Transcriber. Starting salary is $1,349 . Require- acquitted of all charges, but now A cOPlrurt: 8USINfSS WARDR08E. tions in state government, ACJ faces a civil suit for his part in the ments are: Two years of experience in typing and clerical president Zia advocated the for• wrongful death of Vincent Chin. work, at least one year shall have been in medical nature CARRYING OUR 500 SUITS, SPORT requiring transcription of dictation from a dictating machine . mation of a Governor's Advisory is COATS AND OVt:RCOATS BY GIVfNCHY. Ebens free on bond, pending Academic education above the 12th grade may be substituted LANVIN. VALfNTlNO. ST. KAPltAfL ~ Commission on Asian American appeal; ACJ continues to monitor for one year of general experience . Mail applications to: LONDON fOO IN SIlt:S .)4·42 SHORT ~ Affairs. ACJ has been working the case. Califomia Medical Facility· Vacaville, P.O. Bo)( 2000, [xTRA SHORT. OUR ACCt:SSORlt:S with the_governor's staff, in con• But with the completion of the Vacaville, CA 95696·2000 INCLUDf DRfSS SHIRTS. SLACKS. AND junction with other groups, for TIt:S IN SHORT ~ SJllAll SIlt:S I LfNGTHS. federal trial last June, ACJ's ef• FINAL FI LI NG DATE: April 30 • 1985. over a year to establish such a forts to obtain equal justice for IN ADDITION. W[ RfCfNTLY [XfANDfD body to improve communications Equal Opportunity Employer TO INCLUDf AN ITALIAN DRfSS SHot: Asian Americans have not les• L1Nf IN S11t:S 5· 7'h. about Asian American concerns. sened. ACJ successfully led two ACJ presented its 1985 Justice , 785 W HAMIL TON A VENUE other national campaigns to re• CAMPBELL., CALIFORNIA 95008 Award to a number of individuals move a racially derogatory ex• PHONE. 4081374· 141111 M·F·72·8:30. SAT 1().6. SUN·72·S in the U.S. Dept of Justice, includ• hibit at the federally funded Six ";-; ..e ,.- ing William Bradford Reynolds, Flags Auto World in Flint, Michi• who heads the civil rights divi• gan, and to eliminate the demean• ~~~J;!LR~!!!EfE!~tS~::M sion; Leonard Gilman, local U.S . ing ' Charlie Rum" character + HOME OOMPUTERS · WATCHES · TV· RADIO attorney (posthumously) ; and from a local television station. 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April 26. 1985 I PACIFIC CmZE~7 Also mcluded in this tour will be JACL scholarships attendance at the "La Scala' the benefit of the Japanese 'Let's Samba' Cabaret with its show-stopping American scholars, $5,000 to Har• DC alumni to expand programs ry L. Kingman Memorial Fund, by George Kondo Samba Revue, cocktail and dinner included. This trur will be from $1,500 to the UC Berkeley Asian As of now , approximately 100 SAN FRANCISCO-California 3. To amend the name ofCJAA American Studies Library, $5,000 July 23-August 3. Japanese Alumni Association to reflect more clearly the com• persons have registered for the Those who were unable to attend to UC Berkeley Alumni Assn. Pan American Nikkei Conference (CJAA) board of trustees at a position of its members; Le., Scholarship Fum, and $5,~ to the 1983 conference are extending meeting held in San Francisco on Americans of Japanese ancestry. III being held in Sao Paulo, Brazil, their travels to include Lima, with nationalJACL redress campaIgn. July 25-28. Many have attended the March 15 proposed the following In the past, the present name has visits toCuzco and Machu Picchu, resolutioos : been misinterpreted. To berome a member of this conferences in Mexico City and/ or which are must places to see in organization a1\DTlni of the Uni• Lima Peru, with fond memories 1. To increase the number of During the past few yearsCJAA South America. Others are taking scholarship recipients and/or to has contributed $10,000 to the na• versity of California system may of a very enjoyable time, espe• individualized tours which the op• send one-time membership dues cially visits with the host families. increase the amounts of the tional JACL scholarship pro• erator can arrange. awards for 1985 by adding $15,000 gram, $10,000 to UC Berkeley of $5 and/or contributions to: These experienced travelers are Varig Brazilian Airlines will be to the fund allocated for scholar• Alumni Assn. 's 50th Anniversary CJAA, 1890 Sutter St., *305 San from throughout the States and the principal carrier from gate• ships in the national JACL schol• Scholarship Endowment Ftmd for Francisco, CA 94115. their itinerary is being processed ways New York Miami am Los arship program. This will result by Unique Adventures who suc• Angeles, as well as for air travel in a total of $25,000 available for cessfully handled the tour to Lima while in South America. In addi• distribution. The eligibility re• in 1983. Unique Adventures spe• tion those flying Varig will re• quirements remain the same: Japanese Charms cializes in Latin American travel ceive an invitation from Amster• Any student enrolled in under• Japanese Names and has been designated by the dam Sauer of Brazil, gem dealer, graduate or graduate studies at Japanese F amity Crests North American and Royal Cana• for cocktails and a jewelry fashion any of the University of California 12558 Valley View, Garden Grove, CA 92645. (714) 895-4554 dian Astronomical Societies and show in the Bandeirantes Room, campuses will qualify. the Smithsonian Institute as their Sao Paulo Hilton, at 6 p.m., July 2. To expand its programs to official operator in conjunction 24, the day of arrival in Sao Paulo. cover social activities and mem• Architectural Travels with Pratt with the Peruvian Astronomical All persons attending the 1985 bership recruitment. The present Alvar Aalto In Finland May 21-June 4 $1875 Society for the Halley's Comet Pan American Nikkei Conference membership of CJAA, approxi• Watch Tour in the spring of 1986. must preregister by sending the mating 150, are principally gradu• Join us for Pratt's eighth annual Finland tour. Study the major works of Alvar $100 Aalto in Helsinki, Turku, Jyvaskyla and Imatra on this 15-day workshop tour. The majority of tourists are tak• registration fee of to Pan ates of the UC Berkeley. Efforts Led by Michael Trencher, Professor at Pratt Institute, this tour will provide an ing a tour which, in brief will American Nikkei Assn. North will be made to recruit graduates extensive review of the Finnish cultural context in relation to the broader cover Sao Paulo, the conference, America) 1765 Sutter St., San from other campuses. With nomi• European framework. overnight tour of Iguassu Falls, Francisco CA 94115. After June 1, nal membership dues and tax CITIES AS DESIGN IN ITALY JUNE 28-JUL Y 20 - $3,400 staying at the Tropical Hotel das registration fee will increase to exempt donations the programs Cataratas, Rio Palace Hotel in Rio $125. Additional information on the benefitting Japanese American All iIlruaJ 3-week travel Sludy tour locuslng on the history and development of the vcMectuAl & design 01 the Italian cities: Ibne. SIenJ. florence. Bologna & VfIIice. Come enjoy an IIillin summer de Janeiro and the Rio Corcovado, conference can be obtained by students can be expanded to in• wrth our urtal stIJIy progr.rn leatunng lectures WIth many AlfIOWed in:hiteds. planners & designers & and Sugar Loaf Tour with breath• reading the article by Charles Ku• clude cootributions specifica1ly to 1st class hotel accommodallons . taking views and historical sites bokawa, secretary / treasurer for campuses which have a large • Round trip air transportation from NY, chartered bus th~hout tour as well as lunch am a special jew• PANA, in the April 5 edition of the • Full schedule of architectural study visits & sightseeing number of Japanese American • Undergraduate credits or CEUs Included (graduale credit addjtionaJ~ elII f~on show. Pacific Citizen, page 6. students. May be tax d~du~ble fo~professionals. 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In Japan, to be raised by a single shinju survivors would be relegat• captured by the enemy. When joins the PC as afreelance report• If they commit no crime while on parent or in an oqjlanage is a stig• ed to the ranks of "hinin," the low• they were surrowxied by the ene• er. A native of Japan, she will be probatioo, they are released with• ma. Those experiences trauma• est rank in the social caste, and my force, they often killed each writing about Japanese newcom• out serving time in prison. tically damage children's lives. also deprived of human rights, re• other because they did not want to ers to the U.S . Those drildren are looked down gardless of their previous status. surrender themselves to hwnilia• This commentary concerns the Inseparable Bond upon and often discriminated tion. The Japanese prefer com• case of Fumiko Kimura, a Japan- . But the law didn't prevent lovers ese woman who attempted suicide Th~ Japanes~ ~on t see stunJu against in employment and mar• from c 316 E. 2nd l.. Lo Angeles Features "Why It Happened Here" by Roger (213)622-3968 Daniels (1967), a historian's view of the Evacu• ation after 25 years ... Pictures, poems and THE NAVAL INVESTIGATIVE SERVICE pieces of camp life ... Selected bibliography. U.S. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE SERVICE Commeraal & Industrial Air Conditioning & Pacific Citizen, Refrig...,tion 244 S. San Pedro Sl CONTR.ACTOR Los Angeles, CA 90012 AN EQUAL OPPORTUNIlY EMPLOYER Please send __ copies a\ $5 each postpaid of Glen T. Umemoto "The Lost Years: 1942-1946". lie. #441272 C38.20 Name ______SAM REIBOW CO. Address ______1506 W. Vernon Ave. Los Angeles /295-5204 City/StatelZlP ______Since 1939 Amount enclosed: $ ______friday, April 28, 1985 I PACIFIC cmZE~ of $664,400, shares on deposit of $665,370, total assets of $766,175, Credit union enjoys year ofgrowth and the dollar value of loans made CHI AGO-Dudley Yatabe was roye, Aki Matsushita, JanetSuzu• during the year of $452,392. Al• Storm Lake, Iowa re-elected to a third onsecutive ki Tak Tomiyama, and Carol though gross income of $83,381 was not a record, it was second term arrl ten years in the aggre• Yoshino. ------relatively moderate. Rep. Berk• gate as pre ident of the hicago only to that of the previous year. Pursuant to the bylaws, two At Dec. 31, 1984, the loan/share REDRESS ley Bedell from northern Iowa, JACL Federal Credit Unionat the non-directors will be appointed by who became a multi-millionaire fIT t meeting of the newly elected ratio was 101.84 and the per• UPDATE the board to serve on the supervi- centage of delinquent loans was in the manufacture of fIshing board of directors held on April ory committee. A replacement equipment, is rated as an open• 11. 2.74 /1 . An all-time high was also by Minoru will likewise be appointed for attained in the declaration of an Yasui minded representative. We know er ing on the 1985 board are John Tani, who ha ac epted a 81,,, dividend per annum. Legislative that his local office sent a repre• Roy Teshima, ice president; Su• po ition with Kimberly-Clark Education sentative to hear me speak at the Among the significant events of Committee mi himizu, secretar ; Ari e orp. at it headquarters in 1984 were, once again, the ap• college in Storm Lake. Oda, treasurer; and Sumiko no, Wisconsin. praisal of a # 1 rating by the feder• Four other Iowa congressmen, asst. treasurer. Credit Commit• The 38th annual meeting of al examiner, the purchase of a Chiye Tomihiro of Chicago Rep. James LeacP of Davenport, tee: hairman Roy Te hima, shareholders was convened at computer for the automation of knows the country around Storm Rep. Tom Tauke of Dubuque, Rep. Richard Hikawa, Thoma Masu• omo Inn on March 29, at which all records and accounts, and Lake, Iowa, in the northern part Neal Smith of Altoona, and Rep. da, John Tani, Dudley Yatabe. President Yatabe reported that reaching the $750,000 mark in as• of Iowa, about 120 miles north of Cooper Evans of Grundy Center, Supervisory Committee: Chair• the past year was another year of sets. It is hoped that the $1 million Des Moines. It is a pretty, bucolic, are all rated as being liberal. The man Rich Yamada. Education growth, surpassing records of the mark will come to pass in 1986 to rural am agricultural part of sixth congressman is newlyelect• Committee: Chairman Jack Na• previous year. Historical highs coincide with the 40th anniversary Iowa-and no doubt beautiful dur• ed Jim Ross Lightfoot, reportedly kagawa, Mits Kodama, Roy Ku- were evident in loans outstanding of this credit union. ing the spring, summer and fall. a former sheriff from soutbwest• But, during winter, it is bone• ern Iowa. chillingly cold! We were in Storm The two Iowa Senators are in• Tokyo area charter may be made Lake lecturing at the small Buena fluential. Sen. Charles Grassley Manzanar desert may bloom again by calling (213) 626-2249. The bus Vista College during January. We has alrmdy held hearings on re• departs from in front of JACCC, were struck by the sense of isola• dress, as chairman of the Senate MANZANAR, Calif. - Members square area where more than 20 244 S. San Pedro St. , at 7 a.m. San tion and provincialism of that sub-committee on Administra• of the Manzanar Committee met gardens have been identified by Fernarrlo Valley residents may community, at least during the tive Practices and Policy of the with Duane Buchholz northern members of the Manzanar Com• reserve seats by calling Nancy bitter cold of winter. Most of the Judiciary Committee. Sen. Grass• district engineer, Los Angeles mittee. Gohata, (818) 8994237, in the eve• 900 students at Buena Vista are ley is a businessman, and relative• Aqueduct Division, for a walking • Manzanar must not become a ning. Departure location is the Ja• local, and after graduation, we are ly conservative, but not unreason• tour of the former WW2 intern• divisive issue in carrying out the panese Community Center, 12953 told, most stay within a humred• able. The other Iowa senator is ment camp on March 28. The pur• water agreement," Manzanar Branford St., in Pacoima. Depar• mile radius of their home towns. newly elected Sen. Tom Harkins of pose of the meeting was to discuss Committee spokespersons em• ture time is 7 a.m. We were trying to bring the Ames. Sen. Harkins is known as a an Enhancement/Mitigation Pro• phasized. " It would be nice to see For the tourth year, the Asian message of redress to this part of civil rights advocate and was a ject one of 17 projects mandated Manzanar green again with de• Iowa. We emphasized that what liberal member ofthe House until in the pending Inyo-Los Angeles bris cleaned up. However, we do Pacific Committee of the United Teachers of Los Angeles is spon• happened to Japanese Americans his elevation to the U.S. Senate: 5-year water agreement recently not wish for this project to take could well happen to German approved in San Bernardino Su• precedence over other projects soring a district-approved, one• salary credit workshop/pilgrim• Americans, or Russian Ameri• We kmw of Dr. Neil E. Naka• perior Court. which would benefit Inyo County c~r to anyone who might be date, a professor at Iowa State residents," stated Sue Kunitomi age for teachers of the Los Ange• Joining the tour were Greg les Unified School District. willy-nilly ancestrally linked with University in Ames. However, we James, water director for Inyo Embrey, committee chairperson. a perceived enemy. That seemed do not have contacts with other County, and Shiro Nomura, cura• She added, " We are anxious not to Persons attending the pilgrim• like a far-fetched possibility to Nikkei, or friends in the State of tor of the Manzanar project at the disturb what is left since it is a age are reminded to wear com• most of the students, because they Iowa. We believe that the Iowa Eastern California Museum of In• historic landmark. " fortable walking shoes, clothing were secure on their farms and delegation can be of great help to dependence, and other staff from Pilgrimage for both warm and windy weather homes that had been in their fami• us in redress, if only we could both water departments. The committee reported fur• and to take flowers for the ceme• lies for several generations-and reach them. The tour was to familiarize ther that plans for the April 27 pil• tery, as well as food and drinks. despite the fact that many were of Could any Pacific Citizen read• agency officials with the gardens grimage are proceeding smooth• For additional information, in German ancestry. ers give us names, addresses and and other remains in the one-mile ly. Bus reservations for the Little Los Angeles, call (213) 662-5102; We noted, too, that the mem• telephone numbers of friends or 11IIIIIIII..-----. in San Francisco, (415) 567-1814. bers of Congress from Iowa were relatives in the State of Iowa? 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Flo- ~ ==-=(8=1=8=) 2 :: 84- = 28 = 45 ===~ matlon, cal (605) 342·1140 COMMUNrTY COLLEGE rin (4 cs @ 18.95 p/bk - 30 t- or (605) 34&-1869 nights. disc) $955.08, Florin (3 cs (gI lOS,INC. 3000 College Heights Blvd . . 27 Signal Dr. , Year of Iember hip Shown I larysvllle: l}-Thomas H ry Osuml , 14-Ducht Sa- 25 p/bk) $1.350. Ridgecrest. CA 93555 Plaza Stores Rapid City. SO. USA entury; - orporal Teesdale, 23-lsao Tokunaga . (619) 375JjQ() I, ext 201 kur l. ::!""'!!~~~~~~~~~ L Life. M 1emonal: Ionterey PE'ninsuia: 3- San Jose. lJ-Yoneo SeW, 18- or Offices IDElAAE I L Century Life Richard Hideml West. Karll 1949, when he returned to Califor• The Man Who Saved nia. His surgical practice ended Little Tokyo cultural center in 1975 after four coronaries and Democracy in Missouri arthritis in his hands. Now living celebrates 5th anniversary Wh n '. Fred Fujikawa mad a ra ial bigotry and intol ranc in Seal Beach, Calif., he and his by Hany Honda and the Community Redevelop• wife Alice have three children, one sight ing top in Mi ouri lat lift th ir r king banner in oth r LOS ANGELES - Before a ment Agency of the City of ws la tar, littl did he u peet that land , or ven in other tat of of whom was born in camp. Angeles (CRA) in the develop• The Fujikawas met Armstrong happy audience of500, the Japa• he would me t om on who had this Union , I t Mis ouri remain nese Arnetican Cultural and ment of the JACCC in particular changedhi life 40y ar earlier. forev r a refug of tolerance. " once in 1946 when he was passing and in the community in general by their Mount Vernon home and Community Center celebrated Fujikawa, a 1934 graduate of the Also defending Fujikawa were its fifth anniveI'S8lJ' this past The JACCC President's Award Creighton Unl ersity School of Rep. Elsie Langsdorf (D-St. Lou• stopped to introduce himself. He was bestowed upon Mr. and Mrs. later became a congressman. week (April 17) with dinner at Medicine, had a practice in Lo is) and Ira Jones, head of the state the Bonaventure Hotel Takio Fukuwa for their work in U.S. .Japan cultural affairs, spe• Angeles when war broke out be• hospital board. Jones said that Unexpected Reunion Imbedded in the opening Ie• tween tre U.S. and Japan. He was without Fujikawa "we would have 'marks of Judge Katluyn Doi cifically through the JACCC, its In November 1984, Fred and interned in Jerome, Arkansas, had to send 150 patients home, and Todd, mistress of ceremonies, theatre and the Ambassador's where he was paid $19 a month to many of them would have died." Alice Fujikawa visited the site of was the explanation of the enig• Council treat fellow internees. the Battle of Wilson Creek, fought matic theme, "Century IT: The Restrictive Licensing Amendment Defeated in 1861 , in southwest GreeneCoun• He applied for an opening at the Center Comes Alive." Now that Missouri State Sanitorium in The amendment was later de• ty, Missouri. By chance, Fred Little Tokyo has completed its The federation was fonned in found out that the Armstrong resi• 1006 following legislative efforts Mount Vernon and was accepted feated 00 the grounds that it dealt first centw:y, the JACCC is off' and as a chest surgeon in November with employee qualifications and dence overlooked the battle site. running as Japanese Angelenos to impose stiff licensing require• 1943. Fujikawa's employment at was therefore not germane to a Although he thought that Arm• commence their second century, ments on gardeners as profes. strong had long since died, a park the hospital created a stir in the bill on employee salaries. House she said sionals, thus resbicting many ranger said that he had seen Arm• state legislature, where Rep. A.J. Speaker Howard Elliot said that Japanese Consul General Tai• from entering this seIVice. strong the day before. Not long Gray lR-Atchison County) de• the debate over the amendment ro Watanabe congratulated SCGF, one of the co-sponsors after that, the Fujikawas paid a clared, '"This doctor may be skill• showed that ,. as long as this nation J ACCC's accomplishments and of Little Tokyo Towers withJACL ful, but by the eternal gods a Jap can handle a challenge of this type visit to Armstrong and his wife predicted the centerltheatre is and the Buddhist and Japanese Marjorie. is a Jap. We 've been too lenient in time of stress, we need have destined to play an even more Christian church federations, with the Japs. We can't trust Japs little fearoflosing those principles During the visit, which FuJIka• important role in Century IT. l'We today has medical insurance, re• wa called "the high point of my in America. " which have made us great. " cannot afford to destroy the lines tirement plan, credit union and trip " he left a note in the Arm• No Japanese Wanted of communication which exist a purchasing cooperative. It also An editorial in the Pacific Citi• strongs' guest book: "I cannot regularly conducts specialty In March 1944 Gray L1troduced zen praised Armstrong's defense between Japan and the United thank you enough for your kind States," he emphasized. classes on such topics as tree a ridertoa bill dealing with salary of Fujikawa: " It is such men who ness and support during those try• trimming, landscaping, pest cOD• increases for doctors. The amend• keep alive the American docu• ing days in 1944 ...you alone stood SCGF and CRA Cited trol and soil improvement ments offreedom.' , ment required that a doctor who up for me in the state legislature. " JACCC board of directors rec• Seiji Horio, SCGF president, had not been licensed to practice Fujikawa remained at the hos• -from reports by ognized the role of the So. 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