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'Wanted: Asian Female for American Male' - Matchmaking Services ~romote Stereotypes of Asian Women By CAROLINE AOYAGI Women," an international website Executive Editor that provides matchinaking services for American men looking for Asian Flip through the newspapers of women to date or marry. any major metropolitan city and Asian women are popular you'll find them in abundance: because of "their exotic looks, their matchmaking service advertise• reputation for being submissive, ments .promoting Asian women for docile, and obedient," said West, 58, the selective American man. an American citizen who is married "American" man in these cases to an Indonesian woman and runs largely mean "White" men and a his business out of Singapore. quick Google search yields hun• 'They are less materialistic, more dreds upon hundreds of matchmak• caring, and more forgiving than ing services promoting Asian American women." women from Thailand, the With several nude and bikini-clad Philippines, Yietnam, Indonesia, Asian women scattered all over his China, and Japan for the discerning website, West provides taped inter• American man. views of various Asian women and Many of these Internet sites pro• their contact information, for a mote a "mail order bride" -type serv• price. He readily calls his service a WOMAN INTERRUPTED-In happier times, Mi-Choong O'Brien freely embraced her youngest ice where Asian women, many from "mail order bride" business and . son, Terry. Now while her future in the United States hangs in the balance, her life is being impoverished countries, are listed . boasts that his site receives 1,000 deconstructed because she never took the American citizenship oath. Paradise Lost Over $70 k: S£XY,NAKE 'ENA.G£ GIRLS.' A Virginia resident feelings" for stealing the money she terms, paying $3,000 in restitu• said she needed to pay bills. She tion and serving one month in for over 20 years prison with three years probation. $tl-loT,YOUN . MEN DISPLAYED faces deportation does not mention feeling enmity . LIKE. MEAT IN A-BurCHER SHoP" towards Son for accusing her of "She just wanted to get every• for embezzlement. stealing $11,000 instead of the $70 thing over with," said Joe softly By LYNDA LIN she admitted to taking. in a telephone interview from 5ELOV~L~ LAO"S OP ALL RACES • • their home in Centreville. He said Assistant Editor She only asks for forgiveness and AND NATIONALITIES III help to keep her family together. But he had called home regularly, but M -,# never suspected that his wife of Last June, Mi-Choong O'Brien this plea for help comes too late for 25 years could be harboring such made the biggest mistake of her the housewife who kept her crime a a horrible secret. U)G (IN TtJ: life. The Virginia mother of five secret-from her husband of 25 years But what Mi-Choong didn't stole $70 from a sushi restaurant and children because she was know was that by pleading guilty www.EXOTICA5/IWVIOMEN.COM where she worked as a waitress, ashamed; A secret relatively easy to to the theft, her title as "legal per• and now because she is not an hide since her husband, Joe manent resident" was changed to "Exotic Asian Women" owner Jack West encourages people to Ameri.can citizen, one judgment O'Brien, 54, worked overseas. "aggravated felon," enabling the download this poster and "print and display where lots of men can error could lead to her deportation Mi-Choong said she needed more U.S. gov~rnment to deport her, see it. In a store front window, on a bulletin board, at a busy bus from a country she calls home. money because her wages and the On Jan. 8, 2004, Mi-Choong stop! Help other guys find great wives!" Mi-Choong, 50, has apologized periodic checks Joe sent home were told Joe, who was home for the for her actions, even penned a not enough. After her arrest, Mi• holidays, that she was going to by· the thousands along with their hits per day and has on file 350 repentance letter from her jail cell Choong quietly accepted the servic• run errands .. In actuality, she was photos and a minimal charge to Asian women, mostly from the to the restaurant owner, Young es of the Fairfax County Public obtain their contact information, Philippines and Indonesia, looking Son, explaining her "sorrowful Defender, accepting plea bargain See O'BRIEN! page 4 much like a "to order" catalogue. for American men. These sites play on the stereotyp• According to West, several of his ical images of Asian and Asian matches have resulted in marriage SPRING CAMPAIGN Anti-Affirmativ,eAction Group Continu~s Drive American women as submissive, and he readily admits that many of By ASSOCIATED PRESS because the petitions don't say the obedient, loyal, exotic and sexual. the Asian women have financial Bringing the proposal would alter existing provi• And many of these sites do not hide motives in seeking an American Membership LANSING, Mich.-A group sions in the state constitution related their intentions partner. But since starting his busi• airning to end affmnative action at to equal protection under the law Jack West runs "Exotic Asian ness 16 years ago, the only com- Michigan's public universities and and anti-discrimination. Together other public agencies said April 19 it . See MATCHMAKING! page 12 The state has appealed the ruling. By LARRY GRANT will continue its campaign despite A Court of Appeals decision could JJtCk 75t!1:j2[nniversafg mep.e. Board Rep. legal and internal challenges. come within the next week. A spokesman for the Michigan MCR! would need to collect g{[tt(()ttalConvention . Civil Rights Initiative said the cam• . , My first reading of the Pacific 317,757 valid signatures of regis• paign still is active and volunteers tered voters to put the issue on the Citizen came as a surprise. As a new are continuing to gather signatures November ballot. The signatures JACL member, I was not told that a on petitions seeking to put the pro• would have to be submitted to the SUbscription to posal on the Nov. 2 ballot: But a plan state for approval by mid-July. the P.c. 'was to put paid petition circulators on the MCR! plan to pay workers to included in my streets has been delayed pending an gather signatures once it knows if its membership upcoming Michigan Court of ballot language is OK. The group dues. It was a Appeals decision. also has drafted alternative language "We definitely are shooting for welcome sur• in case its current language is not November of this year," said Chetly prise. approved, Zarko said. Zarko, a MCR! spokesman: "We Imagine in The Board of State Canvassers' Jio1W{ufu" !J{a'uJa# still have time." approval isn't needed to begin a the hinterlands· 5lftg. ).0-14, 2004 The campaign has been affected petition drive, but state election offi• r , of Utah (l was uneducated regarding by an Ingham County Circuit Court cials most approve a petition and its WEEKS the long history of JACL in Utah), ruling that the form of the petitions signature before an initiative can be '13 should not have been approved by www.jaclhawali.org placed on the ballot. • See SPRING CAMPAIGN! page 2 the Board of State Canvassers 2 LEITERS PACIFIC CITIZEN, MAy 7-20, 2004 er roots and consequences than descent. • PACIFIC CITIZEN R'eaders Respond to "prejudice." (Your previous issue tJatuf tJ~ "dap Road" and "dap Lane" featured "Chink's Steakhouse" Willow Grove, PA 7 Cupania Circle, which is here in the Philadelphia Regarding the article in the April been hurt and outraged by the bigot• Monterey Park, CA 91755 area.) Tel: 3231725-0083,800/966- 2-15 issue. of the Pacific Citizen ed street names but are dismayed at o It is significant that the "Jap 6157, Fax: 3231725-0064 about the racist street names in the lack of understanding and sensi• I read the article "Efforts to Road"/ "Jap Lane" controversy is in • E-mail: [email protected] Texas, I suggest Ms. Sandra tivity of maintaining such street Rename 'Jap Road' and 'Jap Lane' the state of Texas. Texas is the home Tanamachi write some letters to the names. in Texas Still an Ongoing Struggle" Executive Editor: of the 1st Battalion, 141st Infantry editor to the major newspapers in J honestly feel that the rescued in the April 2-15 issue of the Pacific Caroline Y. Aoyagi (the famous "Alamo Regiment"). Assistant Editor: Texas asking for the help of sUlViv• Texans will come through with their Citizen. As the daughter of a third This infantry unit was the "Lost Lynda Lin ing members of the 141st wholehearted support to effectuate generation Japanese Texan, I have Battalion" of World War IT. Office Manager: Regimental Combat Team as well the desired name change. If the res• spoken to Texans who claim that Brian Tanaka In the Vosges Mountains of as their friends and progeny. cued Texans don't come through it Texas has "changed for the bettet" Circulation: Eva Lau-Ting France, the largely Nisei 442nd History will recall that 211 men would make a mockery of naming but after reading this article, it seems Regimental Combat Team was Publisher: Japanese of the 141 st were rescued by the the JA soldiers honorary Texans in to me that it has not. called upon to rescue this surround• American Citizens League lOOthl442nd unit at a' horrendous gratitude for their sacrifices made Maybe some parts of Texas such (founded 1929) 1765 Sutter ed Texas based unit. During the last • cost to the Japanese American sol• many yearsago.• as San Antonio and Austin for Street, San Francisco, CA week of October 1944, the number diers. The 141st had been trapped example have "changed for the bet• 94115, tel: 415/921-5225 fax: ~ ?ItMt 'of those killed and wounded in the behind enemy lines after being cut ter" but in Jefferson County change 415/931-4671, www.jacl.org Oakland, CA predominantly Nisei 442nd was JACL President: Floyd Mori off from friendly troops. Two has definitely not occurred for the about three times the number of National Director: John attempts had already failed when better. Jefferson County may still o Texas soldiers rescued. Tateishi the lOOth/442nd was ordered to res• use oddhouses and may still have The Nisei soldiers fought, some Pacific Citizen Board of cue the 141 st no matter what it cost. The front-page article on "Jap dirt roads instead of paved roads but were wounded, and some died as a Directors: Gil Asakawa, Well, it cost plenty to rescue those Road! "Jap Lane'" in the April 2-15 I guess the only change that has chairperson; Roger Ozaki, sacrifice and statement that we are 211 men. i ue of the Pacific Citizen prompt• occurred for the better is that they no EDC; Ron Katsuyama, MDC; Americans. It is to be noted that Imagine the courage and valor ed me to encourage the remedy longer use a horse and buggy. Grace Kimoto, CCDC; Valerie other Americans, as part of the needed to be willing to take oyer efforts being made and to offer other "Jap" is not only an abbreviation Yasukochi, NCWNPDC; Ann 442nd, fought and died with us to be ' Fujii-Undwall, PNWDC; Larry 800 casualties to rescue 211 men. avenues of approach. As we are well part of this cause. but is a term of hostility and con• Grant, IDC; Andrea Parker, The 141st had suffered 64 casual• aware, "laws" have the ability to suit The Texas situation can selVe as a tempt. Therefore, if Jefferson MPDC; Alayne Yonemoto, ties. In appreciation for the heroic purpose. Appealing to Federal law is reminder to current generations that County does not feel hostility and PSWDC; Maya Yamazaki, rescue, the men of the 141st made one method. However, isn't the fun• Youth. some of their relatives, or even contempt towards Japanese the members of the l00thl442nd all damental issue here one of personal themselves, would not be here today Americans then the Jefferson honorary Texans. Well, it's time to respect and dignity? r------, if it wasn't for the effort of all the County Commissioners Court caq. NEWS/AD DEADLINE: call in a few markers at this time. It is of great concern that current FRIDAY BEFORE DATE Americans who paid the price for If these Texans truly want to anti-Asian issues are so readily start by taking the first step in OF ISSUE. freedom, rights, and dignity. ADd express their gratitude, what better bIVshed off, ignored, and not even changing the name "Jap Road:" • Editorials, news and the particularly in this instance, the opinions expressed by col• way than to come to the aid of the considered to be an issue. 'P~~ . Americans who ' are of Japanese umnists other than the JA community that not only have "Indifference" may have even deep- Torrance, CA national JACL president or national director do not necessarily reflect JACL. SPRING issues I received an announcement semi-monthly. But I still look for• to those who don't yet know the policy. Events and prod• of a reunion of Japanese ward to receiving the P.e. and value of JACL membership. ucts advertised in the CAMPAIGN Americans who attended a local reading the articles, even contribut• oLocal school, university and I Pacific Citizen do not carry (Continued from page 1) high school. ing an article occasionally. public libraries can be contacted to I the implicit endorsement of : the JACL or this publica• receiving timely news of the What a wonderful publication!! JACL members can share the subscribe to the P. e. : tion. We reserve the right to Japanese American community. News of national JACL, local success of the, P.e. How can we o We can give gift subscriptions :L ______edit articles. ~ I The P. e. issues were larger then, in chapters and even local activities contribute to the success of the to schools and libraries. tenn of paper ize, munber of came to my home weekly. P.e. ?: o We can also help support the PACIFIC CITIZEN (ISSN: 0030- dona~ 8579) is published semi-month• pages and frequency. Weekly Today, years later, the P. e. con• • By supporting the staff. We can P.e. with direct financial ly except once in January and issues informed me of national tinues its proud tradition of report• contribute articles and letters to lhe tions. The P. e. Spring Campaign is December by · the Japanese JACL programs and issues. It also ing news and activities of the JA editor. We can bring to the staff's an opportunity for us to give direct American Citizens League, 7 included news of chapter activities community. The size of the publi• . attention news and issues regard• donations to the P. e. One hundred Cupania Circle, Monterey Park, and progJ:lillls. In one of those first percent of these donations go to CA 91755. OFFICE HOURS• cation is smaller. The frequency is ing the JA community. 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And we will continue to make every Visit us at graphs, should include s ",na-ure, effort in providing our customers with al uboc.com address and daytime phone r. To avoid intenuptions in receiving Ihree of these elements,' Because of space limitations your P.C. please notify your pa;t• are subject to abridgemef't. ,. master to include periOdicals in Union Bank of California, we are unable to print all the receive, we appreciate the erest your change of address (USPS The key to all your banking needs. and views of those who !alee tile Form 3575) trne • to send us their comments PACIFIC CITIZEN, MAy 7-20, 2004 NATIONAL NEWS 3 Arkansas Event to Highlight WWlllnternment Camps Claremont Professor Charged with Staging Hate Crime By MELISSA NELSON the experience as well," said Los Angeles-based Japanese Associated Press Writer Masada. American National Museum for the By Pacific Citizen Staff Police Department announced that Organizers expect between 800 project, which was funded by the and Associated Press Dunn was a suspect in the crime she UTILE ROCK-Hundreds of and 1,000 people to attend the four• Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation. herself had reported. Japanese Americans held in day series of exhibits, lectures, and Registration for the conference is CLAREMONT, Calif.-The col• Los Angeles County District Arkansas internment camps during other events - including a docu• under way. Among those tentatively World War IT will revisit their turbu• mentary film debut - planned in scheduled to attend are former pres• lege psychology professor who Attorney Steve Cooley said in a lent past at a planned September Little Rock from Sept. 23-26. ident Bill Clinton, "Star Trek" actor claimed that her vandalized car was statement, "False accusations that conference. The conference will coincide George Takei, U.S. Sen. Daniel the result of a hate crime was recent• imply hate crimes prey on the legit• Suburo Masada, 74, and his sister, with the 47th anniversary of Inouye (D-Hawaii), and U.S. ly charged with filing a false police imate concerns of the public who 84-year-old Miyoko Uzaki, are President Eisenhower's decision to Transportation Secretary Norman report and insurance fraud. . truly abhor violence based on race, among those planning to travel to send federal troops to quell a deseg• Mineta. Professor Kerri Dunn will be ethnicity or sexual orientation." Arkansas for the four-day conversa- regation crisis at Little Rock's Along with the conference, the arraigned May 19 on one count of Dunn reported the vandalism in project to tell the history of the filing a false police report, a misde• the wake of a string of on-campus Arkansas camps includes develop• meanor, and two felony counts of hate-related incidents including a ment of class lessons and other insurance fraud. If convicted on all cross burning and a scavenger hunt materials for use by schools accounts, she could face up to six directing participants to "take a pic• throughout the state. years in prison. ture with 10 Asians." After the conference, an exhibit But in the eyes of some students Asian Pacific American students titled "Against Their Will: The at Claremont McKenna College, and administrators were initially Japanese-American Experience" will travel to cities throughout Dunn's true crime is spurning the fearful that. the Dunn's actions Arkansas. trust of many people who rallied in would make light of race relations Between 1942 and 1945, the two her support in February. issue and reduce attention on the southeast Arkansas camps held The Claremont Colleges, a con• need to teach cultural tolerance, but 16,000 detainees. sortium of undergraduate and grad• university officials have publicly More thaiJ 120,000 JAs were sent uate schools, halted academic activ• assured that the hoax will not under• from the West Coast to 10 intern• ities for one day in March to observe mine progress. ment camps at the beginning of the the importance of recognizing and . Dunn, a visiting professor, war. Eight camps were in the West; thwarting hate crimes on college remains on leave. Her contract with the Arkansas sites were the only campuses. the university ends in June .• ones in the South. A week later, the Claremont Masada, his parents and eight sib• lings - including an eight-year-old brother who suffered from cerebral palsy - were forced to leave their General Overturns Reprimand Fresno, Calif., vineyard in 1942 and taken across country by train to Against Muslim Army Chaplain southeast Arkansas. Three weeks after his family arrived, his father died of pneumonia. By MARK LONG ing unit at the prison while serving "My mother had to take care of Associated Press Writer as chaplain. Yee's lawyer argued both my father and my brother," that the information wasn't classi• . A monument honoring the Japanese Americans detained at the MIAMI-An Army chaplain's said Masada, who spent 42 years as fied . reprimand for committing adultery Jerome, Arkansas relocation camp during World War II. a Presbyterian rllinister before his The government failed to build a and downloading pornography has retirement. capital espionage case against him. been overturned by a U.S. general. He was eventually charged with tion about.civil rights and social jus• Central High School. It will also In his ministry, he tended to gen• Capt. James Yee, a Muslim, was mishandling classified material, tice. At the onset of the war, both conclude two years of intensive erations of JAs as they dealt with once embroiled in an investigation failing to obey an order, making a were sent from California, to research on the largely neglected their camp experiences. of suspected espionage at the false official Jerome, Ark. history of the Jerome and Rohwer "I always felt that pain was still Guantanamo Bay detention camp in statement, Masada's wife, who spent time in camps in southeast Arkansas. inside of them. They had all of that Cuba, where the military is holding adultery and an Arizona camp, and their 44-year• ''The events will be centered crud they were carrying around in suspected Islamic terrorists. But Yee conduct old daughter also plan to make the around the internment camps and their gut," Masada said. "It was a was ultimately prosecuted on the far unbecom• trip. civil rights issues in Arkansas," said love-hate relationship and that's less serious accusations. ing an offi• "We are brin~ing our daughter Johanna Miller-Lewis, chair of the why so many people couldn't talk Yee, now assigned to Fort Lewis, cer. He because she needs to have a hands• history department at the University about it. It was hard for them to say Wash., contested the reprimand, and could have on experience of seeing where we of Arkansas at Little Rock. anything hateful or wrong about Gen. James T. Hill, commander of faced 14 were and hearing from others about The university joined with the your own country." • the U.S. Southern Command, ruled years if con• in his favor April 14. Hill decided victed. that the punishment will not go {)n But Army officials dismissed all Yee's military record. criminal charges last month, saying "While I believe that Chaplain national security concerns prevent• Yee's misconduct was wrong, I do ed them from seeking a court-mar• not believe, given the extreme notD-' tial in open court. riety of his case in the news media, ~~~~~~~~ ''The Army has to be big enough to admit a mistake. In that regard, today was disappointing:' JACL-sponsored Insurance Plans - Eugene Fidell, Vee's ~ttorney Nothing is more important than protecting your family and their dreams. The Japanese American Citizens League understands. That's why JACL sponsors affordable group insurance plans 1. ------•that further stigmatizing Chaplain Yee was then found guilty of the available to JACL members and their families ... so you'll have a Yee would serve ajust and fair pur• non-criminal violations of adultery lifetime of protection for a lifetime of dreams. pose," Hill said. and downloading porn onto his Yee's attorney called the dis• Army computer. • Long-Term Care Plan missal a ''bittersweet victory." .• Customized Major Medical Insurance "I weighed all the equities in the (available to non-California members) "It wouldn't have killed them to case - the cost of reputation to admit a mistake," Eugene Fidell • Catastrophe Major Medical Insurance Plan*** Chaplain Yee, the cost to his family • Short-Term Medical Plan said. "Chaplain Yee spent 76 days in in terms of embarrassment and .• Term Life Insurance** pretrial confmement for no good notoriety, the cost of the ability of • Personal Accident Insurance*** reason. The Army has to be big the soldier to continue on with his • Medicare Supplement Insurance Plans* enough to admit a mistake. In that duties as a chaplain and his 76 days • Cancer Care Plan" regard, today was disappointing." of confinement versus the damage Although the charges against Yee to the institution and to the com• have been dismissed, Fidell said his mand," Hill said. "My decision client's case is far from over. He became one of mercy, not necessar• suggested legal action might be ily law." taken against the government. Yee, of Chinese descent, convert• "People are still very concerned ed to Islam from Christianity in about this," he said. 1991 after his military studies at Authorities had alleged Yec, 35, West Point. Was carrying classified information Yee has returned to his home base when he was arrested Sept. 10, and of Fort Lewis and resumed his had taken secret materials to a hous- duties as chaplain.• 4 NATIONAL NEWS PACIFIC CITIZEN, MAy 7-20, 2004 National Newsbytes APAs in the News · By Pacific Citizen Staff Kenneth Perry, 19, Frederick Perry actually preserves civil liberties, said Ishle Yi Park, 27, was sworn in Japanese Americans during World and Associated Press 17, and Antonio Burnette, 18, all of U.S. Attorney Mary Beth Buchanan. April 23 as the new Queens, New War II. In eight years of unpaid, Chapel Hill. City Council also passed a second York poet laureate, beating out rap fun-time service, Ikeda has led o Three NC Teens resolution that supports the govern• legend Joseph "Rev. Rim" Densho's drive to collect 400 o Pittsburgh Joins ment's fight against terrorism. Simmons ofRun-DMC for the job. hours of video oral histories, 2,000 Accused of Ethnic historical images, and a curriculum Growing List of Park was selected by an independ• Intimidation o Police and ent panel of judges to become the on civil rights co-developed with CHAPEL HILL, N.C.-Three Cities in Condemning borough's third poet laureate. The the SPICE program at Stanford teens accused of attacking an Indian Patriot Act Community author of the book of poems, ''The University. The awards luncheon student after calling him Osama bin PITTSBURGH-Pittsburgh City Agree on Reforms Temperature of This Water," will will be held June 9 at the Seattle 4den will face upgraded charges of Council on April 26 unanimously SAN JOSE, Calif.-Reforrns that hold the unpaid post for three Sheraton Hotel and Towers. years. A Korean American ~m ethnic intimidation. approved a nonbinding resolution seek to improve accountability and and raised in Whitestone, Queens, Journalists Cheryl Diaz Meyer The charge against the teens was condemning the Patriot Act, the sec• reduce tensions between San Jose Park was among 75 people com• and Evelyn lritani were among ·upgraded from simple assault after ond major city in this swing state to police and the community have been peting for the position. Applicants the 2004 Pulitzer Prize winners the victim complained that the teens adopted by the city council. do so. must have lived in Queens for five announced recently. Senior staff should face a more severe charge. The changes, adopted April 27, The vote came one week after years and must have written "poet-. photographer Diaz Meyer of the were sought by· Independent Police "I'm glad," said Gagandeep President Bush visited Hershey to ry inspired by the borough." Dallas Morning News was hon• Bindra. ''These guys were being deliver an impassioned address sup• Auditor Teresa Guerrero-Daley in ored for her work covering the war malicious, and they were trying to porting the anti-terrorist law that the aftermath of the July killing of a Tom Ikeda, executive director with Iraq. She covered the war in intimidate me. The intimidation did• gives the Federal government Vietnamese American mother who of Densho: The Japanese Iraq as an embedded journalist n't stop with words, and it turned to expanded surveillance and detention was shot by an officer inside her American Legacy Project, has won with the Second Tank Battalion of violence. We didn't want to fight. powers. kitchen after waving an Asian veg• the 2004 Humanities Washington the First Marine Division and These guys started it, and they In. joining Philadelphia and five etable peeler. Police mistook the Award for returned to cover the aftermath in ended it. They should be punished other Pennsylvania municipalities to vegetable peeler for a cleaver. . outstanding Baghdad. Iritani was part of the for it." condemn the Patriot Act, Pittsburgh Initially, Guerrero-Daley recom• and exempla• Los Angeles TImes team that won ry achieve• in the National Reporting category Bindra - a Sikh who has brown became the 296th community ·mended that the independent police ment in the for coverage of Wal-Mart and the skin, a beard and wears a Patka, a nationwide to pass such a resolution, auditor be allowed to view the public tactics the company has used to scarf wrapped around his long hair according to the American Civil scenes of officer-involved shootings. humanities. become the largest company in the - met recently with Orange• Instead her office reached a compro• Liberties Union. Statewide resolu• The annual world. Chatham District Attorney Carl Fox mise with police: The auditor will be tions have been passed in Alaska, recipient of briefed by an internal affairs com• and Chapel Hill Police Chief Gregg Hawaii, Vermont and Maine, this award is honored for" devoting U.S. Congressman Mike mander onsite but outside the crime Jarvies. according to the ACLU. imaginative leadership and Honda, D-Calif., will be honored Just after midnight March 28, The resolution, sponsored by scene perimeter. extraordinary vision to increase with a Public Service Advocate Bindra was walking to a restaurant Councilman William Peduto, states Police Chief Rob Davis said that if public understanding of cultural award at the 2004 Asian with friends when a teen in another that provisions in the Patriot Act auditors were allowed to inspect the heritage, community values, and Entrepreneur of the Year Awards. group called him Osama bin Laden. "threaten fundamental rights and lib• scene, they would be taking on the humanity'S creative achievements. Sponsored by the Asian Enterprise After words were exchanged, one of erties." role of an investigator. Police also Ikeda is the founding director of Magazine, the annual event will be the teens punched Bindra in the jaw. The U.S. Attorney for the Westem have agreed to establish a liaison for Densho, a Seattle-based nonprofit marking its 10th year and will be Eventually a fight ensued between District of Pennsylvania criticized the family of any person killed or organization dedicated to preserv• held at Caesar's Palace in Las both groups. the resolution, saying it was based injured during an officer-involved ing rapidly vanishing testimonies Vegas May 21 .• of the unjust incarceration of Charged in the incident are: on misinformation. The Patriot Act shooting .•

O'BRIEN this statement. However, Joe maintains that the "[Mi-Choong] was given another main issue is. not guilt or innocence, 10 years to live in the country [while but the government's mistreatment meeting her probation officer, she was facing deportation]. If you of its own people, which he likens to Cheryl A. Johnston, in an urgently think about it, [the government] had the World War II internment of rescheduled meeting at the almost a year to get it straight," he Japanese Americans. Department of Corrections Main said. ''The harsh, unfeeling and unjust Office. Then, in what Joe calls a . Nationwide, Mi-Choong's plight treatment by the govemment on a "dragnet," Mi-Choong was arrested has become the lightning rod for huge class of people - long-term by Immigration and Customs civil rights and Asian Pacific legal permanent residents such ' as Enforcement agents, allegedly American organizations divided on my wife - is what this is all about," slammed against the wall, put in leg the issue of immigrant rights. Should he said. shackles, chains and handcuffs and legal immigrants worry that their Supporters on all levels have ral• taken to Hampton Roads Regional permanent resident status hangs so lied behind Mi-Choong and Joe. In a Jail, a maximum security facility. precariously on a string? Jan. 27 letter, Rep. Frank Wolf, R• Under the 1996 Illegal If someone like Mi-Choong, who VA, successfully appealed for Mi• Immigration Reform and Immigrant has legally lived in the country with Choong's transfer from maximum Responsibility Act, Mi-Choong's her American citizen husband for 25 security prison to a local jail in criminal conviction and jail sentence years and has American-born chil• Arlington County. of over one year makes her persona dren, can be vulnerable to deporta• A number of APA groups through• non grata in the United States. And tion, then what does this mean for out Virginia including the since the U.S. Department of the rest of America's legal perma• Organization of Korean American Homeland Security took over the nent residents? Women and the Korean American functions of the Immigration and ''There is the viewpoint that obvi• Association of the Washington Naturalization Services over a year ously she chose not to be a citizen. Metropolitan Area have circulated ago, enforcement of this law is being She committed the crime, so she petitions, arranged press conferences more vigorously pursued. should go home. But there's also the and set up websites to gain more The Richmond Times-Dispatch viewpoint that an infraction this public support. reports that DHS is detaining more minor should not elicit deportation," Mi-Choong's lawyer, Jim Tom than 23,000 people across America said Steven Camarota, director of Haynes, has appealed to the Board and Virginia'S regional· jails are research at the Center for of Immigration Appeals and is home to about 500 immigrants wait• Immigration Studies. expecting a decision "in the next few ing deportation. Jack Martin, special projects months." He is optimistic that the Ironically, Johnston wrote a letter director at the Federation for appeal will be granted because the dated four days after the arrest call- . American Immigration Reform, threshold for an aggravated felony is ing Mi-Choong "very responsible believes that immigrants who break $10,000 or more if the sentence is about meeting the requirements of the law must leave the country. one year or more. In this case, the her supervision" and that a recom• "It is unfortunate, in [Mi• agreed upon amount is $3,000, said mendation for early termination of Choong's] case, that this action may Haynes. her probation would have been made harm the children and husband of the Meanwhile Mi-Choong waits in a to the court in October 2004. immigrant who broke the law, but prison cell as an involuntary figure• Johnston did not return phone ours is a nation of laws and respect head in the immigrant rights debate. calls for comment and the for the law will suffer if we fail to Legal experts say that, if anything, spokesperson for the Virginia uphold it," said Martin. this case demonstrates that anyone Department of Correction declined Ernestine Fobbs, a spokesperson eligible should become a citizen . • to comment. from the Department of Another sting arrived in the mail Immigration, said that they were For more infomultion on the Mi• nearly a year later in November simply enforcing and carrying out Choong O'Brien case, visit www.mi• 2003 - Mi-Choong's renewed what the 1996 immigration act pre• choong.com or http://mi-choong.tri• green card. Joe pauses after making scribes. pod. com PACIFIC CITIZEN, MAy 7-20, 2004 COMMUNITI NEWS

Photo courtesy of Howard Lindsay Saibara Family-(L-r, back row): Susan Saibara, Jim Ferguson, Judy Saibara Ferguson, Edward Saibara, Paul Saibara and Ma~orie Saibara; (I-r, front row): Katy Saibara, Emily Saibara, Andrew Saibara, and Mari Saibara. Texans Mark 100 Years of dapanese Texan Pioneers

By HOWARD LINDSAY Honduras or the Carolinas was 18- 20 barrels an acre. Every child in Texas is taught to Saibara asked his wife, Taiko, and "Remember the Alamo," and · that oldest son, .Kiyoaki (1884-1972), to event is even more prominent now bring from Japan 300 pounds of thanks to a new movie. Another shinriki seed, a superior variety. milestone in Texas history was cele• Together, father and son planted brated recently as the "100 Years of 1,000 acres in . Webster. The Japanese Texans Committee" Japanese seed yielded 34 barrels per organized a memorial service to acre. The fIrst crops were primarily remember the pioneer families who distributed as seed in Texas and immigrated to Texas from Japan in Louisiana. Some of the land that the the early 1900s; Saibaras farmed now houses At a sleepy cemetery in League NASA's Johnson Space Center. City, Texas, near Houston, approxi• The Saibaras are credited with mately 100 people gathered around building the multimillion-dollar the tombstone of Seito Saibara, an Texas rice industry with their early pioneer.. Saibara, a lawyer in improved rice strains and produc- • Japan, had come to South Texas to tion techniques. As other families begin a completely different career. arrived to help with the farming, the Saibara (1861-1939), former fIrst Japanese colony in Texas took president of Doshisha University in root. Kyoto, and the first Christian mem• In 1924, Saibara was asked to ber of the Japanese Diet, came to the become Japan's Minister of United States in 1901 to study theol• Education, but he declined. This was ogy at the Hartford Theological the same year the Johnson-Reed Act Seminary. The main reason he was announced by the U.S. govern- . selected Texas was due to then• ment, which halted all Japanese Consul General Sadatsuchi Uchida immigration. Disappointed in this (of New York City), who had advo• development, Saibara moved to cated immigration of Japanese and Brazil where he lived for eight had reported to the Ministry of years. He wanted to return to Texas Agriculture and Commerce that to die, however, and passed away in We've been in Webster in April 1939 at age 78. IS\ your community for America 'was an ideal land for IVlI 50 years. Japanese farmers. At the time, the In addition to the Saibara family, average Japanese farmer was toiling the pioneer families honored at the on 2-4 acres of land. recent event were Kobayashi, Saibara moved to Texas in August Tanamachi, Onishi, Kagawa, 1903 to advise fariners on the culti• Watanabe, and Okabayashi. • vation of rice, which was emerging as a major crop. At that time, the Howard Undsay is the treasurer average rice yield using seed from for the JACL Houston chapter. 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Applicants 10 in Los Angeles. must also write an essay titled: "My For application fonns, send a self• Goals - How I Envision Using My addressed, stamped envel.ope (4.5 Education to Promote Goodwill by 9.5 inches) to: Mrs. Kay Inose, Between the U.S. and Japan." Japanese Women's Society Essays in English should be up to Scholatship Chair, P.O. Box 1628, • Rate effective as of 3123/04 and subject to change without notice. Minimum opening deposit $8,888 with a term of 888 days. Opening deposit must be 'funds new to 500 words and double-spaced; Lomita, CA 90717, or call: 310/541- CB& T in the form of a check, cashier's check, cash, or wire drawn on a financial institution other than CB& T. Must have a personal checking account witp CB& T open and in good standing at the time the 888 CD is opened. Checking account must remain open for the term of the CD. 888 CD is available to individuals only. Withdrawals prior essays in Japanese should be up to 8022.• to maturity are subject to an early withdrawal penalty. See the Deposit Account Agreement and 888 CD disclosures for further Account details. 1200 characters or three pages. 6 COMMUNITI NEWS PACIFIC CITIZEN, MAy 7-20, 2004 NATIONAL CONVENTION San Diego JACL Hosts 47th Annual Scholarship Luncheon Kansha The JACL San Diego chapter gathered at Tom Ham's Lighthouse By DAVID M. FORMAN Hilton Hawaiian Village. The Restaurant on April 25 to honor ten theme for the day will be "Honoring of the community's top high school The 75th anniversary JACL con• Our Past: A Salute to the Veterans of scholars. vention team is planning an historic WWII." David Kunugi of High Tech High event around the core set of values, We are also thankful for our School received top honors and the or kachikan, nation's Asian and Pacific Islander chapter's $1,000 scholarship award. that have guid• Americans in politics. We will He plans to attend the University of ed Japanese honor these public servants for their California, Berkeley and major in Americans for dedication and courage in ensuring bioengineering. decades in the that America remains a place where Bryan Kida (Steele Canyon High United States. we respect our differences and cele• School) and Katherine Santohigashi Kansha (i.e., brate our unique diversity. (La folia Country Day School) each "gratitude, Minnesota State Senator Mee received $750 scholarship awards. being grateful or thankful by Moua, the first person of Hmong Kida will be a pre-med major at (Front row, I-r): David Kawamoto, JACL San Diego chapter president; expressing one's appreciation") is ancestry elected to office, will University of California, Riverside _ Katherine Santohigashi; David Kunugi; Bryan Kida; Dr. Debra one of these core values that now keynote this event honoring all next year and Santohigashi will Kawahara; and Carol Kawamoto. (Standing, I-r): Joyce Vagi; Lauren serve as a compass for the conven• those who have made a difference matriculate at either UC Berkeley or Taniguchi; Stephanie Tashiro; Jenna Lee; Maiya Tanaka; Kate tion team as we navigate toward the by serving in public office. Swarthmore College. Tsunoda; and Keiko Nakamura. 38th biennial national convention These and many other events at Receiving $500 scholarships Aug. 10-14 in Honolulu, Hawaii. the 75th anniversary convention (Francis Parker), and Joyce Yagi Diego. The chapter's scholarship were: Jenna Lee (HiJltop High), A quotation set forth in a booklet would not be possible without the (Hilltop High). committee included: Carol Keiko Nakamura (Bonita Vista published by the Japanese Cultural generous support of those who have Keynote speaker for the event was Kawamoto (chair), Stephanie Hirata, High), Maiya Tanaka (Mira Mesa Center of Hawaii provides the fol• stepped forward to provide financial Debra Kawahara, PhD., assistant Dr. Yuri Kaneda, The Honorable High), Lauren Taniguchi (Scripps lowing universal context for the and other assistance. If and when professor of psychology at Alliant Gale Kaneshiro, Jeanne Kashima, Ranch High), Stephanie Tashiro term kansha: 'The private and per• you have the opportunity, please International University in San and James Yamate, • (Carlsbad High), Kate Tsunoda sonal blessings we enjoy, the bless• thank these companies and individ• ing of immunity, safeguard, liberty uals for their support. They include, GLAS Chapter Donates to and integrity, deserve the thanksgiv• so far: Company, American Cancer ing of a whole life." (Jeremy Taylor, GOLD: JACL National Credit Society. PSWD and National JACL 1613-1667, English Bishop) Union (www.jaclcu.com); Ford In addition to these fantastic JACL members and friends have Motor Company (www.ford.com); sponsors, your convention team also much to be grateful for. For exam• and AT&T Wireless (www.attwire• gratefully appreciates all those who ple, the courage of those who left less.com). have already registered for the 75th behind everything they knew in SILVER: Educare Technologies Anniversary JACL Nationai order to make a better life for them• (www.educaretechnologies.com). Convention. To learn more about selves and their children. The strug• BRONZE: Imanaka Kudo & what we have planned for you in gles they faced instilled in their chil• Fujimoto (www.imanakakudo. 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To honor (www.y.com); and Island Insurance the'co-chairs for the JACL 75th The Greater Los Angeles Singles chapter of the JACL recently donat• them, the 75th anniversary conven• Companies (www.islandinsuarnce. anniversary convention's mar• ed funds to the Pacific Southwest District and National JACL from tion will include a tribute to com). keting and public relations funds raised at the recent GLAS National Conference. Pictured are (1- r): Miyako Kadogawa, chair of the 2003 Singles Conference, PSWD Veterans of WWII on Aug. 13 at the COMMUNlTY: The Coca Cola committee. Governor Hiromi Ueha, and GLAS chapter President Janet Okubo.

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ST. LOUIS-Year 3 of the St. understand most of what's being switch to the United States at age Louis Cardinals' Japanese experi• said to him and make himself under• 32. He was held back his first two COLLEGE FOOTBALL ment appears to be a success. stood as well. seasons by a lack of overall polish UH Football Player Under Indictment for Theft The Cardinals never envisioned Also, he's picked up a lot hanging and spent most of the 2002 and '03. outfielder So Taguchi as the type of around teammates who make it a seasons at Triple-A Memphis, bat• HONOLULU - University of Hawaii running back West Keliikipi said player to rival point to include him. During the ting .247 the first year and .256 last he didn't know why he was named in an indictment returned last week by a lUXUry team's opening trip to Arizona, season. an Oahu grand jury. import such as Taguchi twice was part of big But he had success in his brief tri• Keliikipi, brother Winston Keliikipi, cousin Gordon Keliikipi and four Ichiro~ or even groups that went out to dinner after als with the major league club, bat• alleg~ other people were indicted in connection with an scheme to defraud Hideki Matsui. the game. ting .290 overall with three homers Kaiser Foundation Health Plan Inc. What they "It's not easy for him," catcher and 15 RBIs in 62 games over the West Keliikipi, Jared Santiago and Tasha Black were charged with sec• wanted was a Mike Matheny said. "I can't imag• last two seasons. He won a backup ond-degree theft, which is punishable by up to five years in prison. Winston contributor, ine us trying to learn Japanese and job with a strong spring, batting Keliikipi, Gordon Keliikipi, Coleen Spencer and Shantel Santa Isabel face and in the final season of a three- . going over there without any other .345 and finishing second on the first-degree theft charges, which carries a maximum term of 10 years in year, $3 million contract, Taguchi Americans. team with 19 hits. . prison. Isabel is also charged with first-degree computer fraud. has become just that. "But he's doing better all the The Cardinals had envisioned The offenses allegedly occurred from February to May 2002. The backup outfielder is capable time. All in all he makes a great Taguchi making the team after his Although Kaiser is his medical carrier, West Keliikipi said he didn't defensively, and at the plate he's effort and I think he's coming along play at the end of last season. receive any services or money during the period covered by the indictment. maximized his abilities with a spray not just with that but in baseball, "Really, we saw a big change in Aside from his brother and cousin, Keliikipi said he didn't know the oth• hitting style, hitting .286 through 21 too." him at the end of September," gen• ers who were indicted. at-bats. He made his fourth start La Russa said Taguchi might eral manager Walt Jocketty said. "I Last season, Keliikipi played in 10 games before suffering a knee injury. April 17 and was 3-for-5 with adou• have made more of an impact last think a lot of it is he feels much • ble, stolen base and two runs scored, year, except the team was so well• more comfortable. and also made a nice running catch stocked in the outfield. The offsea• "I think coming over here was a VOLLEYBALL to help Jason Marquis escape a son trade of J.D. Drew and Eli huge adjustment for him, more than Charge Against Kahumoku is Amended bases-loaded, no-out predicament in Marrero, plus the departure of utili• we realize and probably more than the fifth inning of a St. Louis victo• ty players Miguel Cairo and he realized." HONOLULU-A domestic-abuse charge filed against former University ry. Eduardo Perez opened the door. Now that he's found a comfort of Hawaii women's volleyball standout Lily Kahumoku has been amended "He's made some adjustments," "I'm just getting more chances zone, Taguchi wants to put down to misdemeanor third-degree assault. manager Tony La Russa said. "He's this year," Taguchi said. "I know my some roots·. He likes it in St. Louis The original charge was filed April 9 after Kahumoku, 22, allegedly doing things differently at the plate role. Sometimes I start, and most of and would like to sign a contract abused her boyfriend, current UH men's volleyball player Jose Delgado. He and he's making harder contact. the time I'm corning off the bench." extension. suffered minor injuries. And he's outstanding defensively. He's been playing more lately "I'm very happy here," he said. Jim Fulton of the city prosecutor's office said that the $1,000 Kahumoku Excellent." due to Ray Lankford's hamstring Encouraged by the progress of posted for bail will be returned to her because no bail is needed for the new Among the adjustments not to be injury. the team's fust Japanese player, charge. taken for granted is Taguchi's much• "If nobody gets hurt, it's best for Jocketty said he'd definitely explore Kahumoku was scheduled to appear in District Court on April 30. improved command of the English the team," Taguchi said. "[t's too the possibility again. Thc three-time All-American whose college career ended last season has language. He's honed his communi• bad Ray is hurt. But I have to make "Sure. We have to be aggressive said what happened was ""unfortunate." cation skills watching children's good on my chances." in trying to find new sources of tal• "It is strictly a personal matter, and J intend to handle it that way," programming and movies such as· Taguchi is a former No. 1 draft ent," Jocketty said. "Japan in partic• Kahumoku said. 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Manzanar "to preserve the Embrey, a retired school teacher and after the Pearl Harbor attack, the Being designated a permanent Recently, the city was reported close stories of internment of nearly chairperson of the Manzanar U.S. Government seized all the facility in 1992, thanks to the to acquiring a site adjacent to old St. 120,000 Japanese Americans during Committee since J973. Buddhist temples. It was the politi- Yasuda Trust and Banking, Ltd., Vibiana's for a gym with six basket• World War II and to serve as a Throughout the book, one can see cal move that Buddhist temples donation ·of $100,000 over five ball courts, performing arts space, reminder to this and future genera• the revitalization that began in the came to be known as Buddhist years, Little Tokyo Library will con• with programming for seniors and tions of the fragility of American '70s. On East Third Street stands churches," said Dobashi. tain one of the Southland's most youth. civil liberties" (words from the Little Tokyo Towers that opened in Centenary United Methodist accessible collection of English lan• With over 50 stories, it is one of Park's pictorial flytlr and map) 1975 to about 330 Church, after 60 years guage materials about Japan and the better reads on Nihonmachi. opened recently. mostly Asian seniors, Very Truly Yours in the Seinan district, Japanese American culture and her• Info: JAHSSC, P.O. Box 3164, As one of the Little Tokyo octo• 75 percent being women. returned to its birthplace in itage. 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'''This [legislation] "[Caucasian women] are afraid of "Asian women are not as aggres• struggle," she said. 'These are very takes advantage of Asian women will help give women information the competition from Asian women sive, they are more devoted in a much negative stereotypes and these and it's problematic on multiple lev• to decide if they want to enter into a - their reputation for being sub• relationship, more family-oriented, men are not looking for equal part• els," said Josephine Escalante of relationship with a man." missive - that's hard to compete more traditional," said Zhou. "I nerships." Gabriela Network, a Philippine• Although it's true that many for• with," said West. 'The complaints think appearance wise, American Ahuja sees the use of stereotypes U.S. women's solidarity organiza• eign Asian women use the match• from Asian men are that we are men think Asian women are more of Asian women by these various tion fighting for the rights of making industry to seek a better life stealing women from them." attractive, have good manners, and matchmaking services as marketing Filipinas in the United States. "Men in the United States, Escalante won• And there are literally ·hundreds they tend to be more feminine. Also, tools to attract American men look• expect Asian women to be this way. ders, if given a better chance. at ofIntemet sites like West's that pro• Asian women tend to be open- · ing for an obedient, docile woman. Words like 'loyal' and 'traditional' home, would they be so eager to mote stereotypical images of Asian minded about the age difference. "We are obviously concerned are positive words but it doesn't marry American men? women. At "Asian Girl Net" Asian They don't mind a 10 to 15 year age about the kinds of men who would play out as positive in reality." • "It's problematic to use these women are· described as the most difference." be enticed by this type of market• The Gabriela Network is pushing industries to get out of their coun• ideal marriage partners and the site Her sentiments are illustrated in ing," she said. 'They are preying on for the passage of · the 1MB try," she said. "I wonder if given lists the characteristics that make the dozens of photos of her clients these women because of their eco• Regulation Act to give back some greater opportunities at home, if Asian women ideal mates. displayed in her office. Several pic- . nomic situations." power to Asian women, especially they would enter these marriages." "Devotion to one's husband is tures of older men, many gray• And the concern extends to both the portion of the legislation that part of the Filipino culture so they haired and in their 60s and 70s, can Asian and AA women in general, • are affectionate and supportive at all be seen with their much younger added Ahuja. "It is part and parcel of Fresno Chapter Donates times. They love children and give Asian brides. what we struggle with. People can't much of their time and effort to rais• Although Zhou believes most of tell the difference. We are constantly $10,000 to Nikkei Foundation ing a happy family. They are also her Asian female clients fit into the dealing with the exotifying of Asian very good cooks," the site explains. above stereotypes, she believes the women and the perpetual foreigner mdonesian women are described as: images of Asian women seen on stereotype." "excellent wives, mothers and several questionable matchmaking According to NAPAWF, current homemakers and are renowned for mternet sites as submissive· and estimates show a huge growth in the the way they take care of and 'pam• exotic are misleading and false. international matchmaking industry per' their partner and their rich, "They probably just watch with 8,000 to 12,000 marriages spicy cooking." movies and they thinkAsian women between American men and foreign Representatives from "Asian Girl are submissive," she said. "But [my women, many from Asian. countries. Net" did not respond to inquiries clients] are not really looking for the Ahuja estimates that there are about from the Pacific Citizen. submissive type of Asian woman. 200 mternational Marriage Brokers Although these types of mternet Some of them have an image of (IMBs), largely mternet and pen pal sites are the extreme in promoting Asian women that is not right and I services, currently in the United stereotypical . images of Asian will correct it," added Zhou, who States. The JACL Fresno Chapter recently presented a $10,000 check to the women for American men: many of uses a selective interview process to In 2002 Washington State, in Central California Nikkei Foundation for their skilled nursing/assisted the personalized matchmaking serv• get to know her clientS. . . response to several reports of abuse living project. The district was able to raise the funds over a three-year ices that offer a more caring But it is the use of any of these and even homicides in these "mail period J)f fund raising for the Shinzen Run. Left to right are: Sachiye approach still play on these image . stereotypical images of Asian • order bride" marriages, passed legis• Kuwamoto, Ernie Kazato, Tim Kurimaji, Bob Shintaku, Carolyn Diana Zhou runs "Asian . women, whether considered to be lation to provide protection for these Ogawa, President Mel Renge, Emiko Takemoto, Tom Collins, Sam Soulmates" in Irvine, California positive or negative, in their promo• foreign women if they find them• Masumoto, Marcia Chung, Mutsuko Sanwo, Mike Yatabe and Ken promoting "professional Asian tion as ideal matches for American selves victims of domestic abuse. Yokota .•

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