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By HARRY K. HONDA thusin^jerihng minority vot­ *E(Aor^meritiis America ’s method & tracking tbe P.C. lest issue) checked in the was rmtoated by this writer eta, ing districts and fiimndng fcR- mi­ race has always differed. A preliminary decision 1990 census. Ihe U.S. totals are woricsbop at the Pan Ai&rican nority aid programs. The first census in 1790 gave whether the next U^. census will 24$.7 million, 9.2 million being Ifikkei Association convention in Rep. lliomas Sawyer (DOhio), three dunces; fiw white male, fi^ includeanewcat^[CByfi)rmultira- Asian Padfic Islanders (APD as Vadeouver, B.C., in 1993. who chaired a House subcommit- white female or slave. In 1890. the , said popula- census included cat^ories for elthegov- octoroon and quadroon to measure wuuc Ml MMIJ, unuuiiaj lureau) to those ofone-eij^th and one-fourth press accounts indicated the first ------by 412.6% from fffirmatioh. But some dvil rights accurately reflect “who we really black ancestry, asemimerators des­ of April 1992 to 2050 as compared to 50.2% advocates worry the new category are.” For example, 60 percent of ignated a mixed-race person hy Etebate looms over the chet^nsfiT for all groups, which would cradc would reduce the number ofblacks Japanese people in America wed color. Ihe census began to list Chi- of racial category “others,* which the tr^ition^ dual black/white and Hi^ianics recorded in the cto- someone of another race. See CENSUS/page 12 COMMENTARY: Eureka! ^ Caiifomia ’s Prop.209: What Next? Arizona relic — By ALBERT Y. MURATSUCHI first introduced, to 54 percent on JACL PSW Regionai Otrector election day. JAQ^aiso helped a Poston barrack deliver a strong majority of Asian LOSANGEL^S—OnApriid, fed ­ American votes against 209 — 61 eral appeals judges ruled that percent, according to the Los Ange^ ^PpSTON in CAMP REUNION for former CaBforrHa's Proposition 209 is les Times Poll. residents gathering the first week in April at constitutional, overriding aur lower After the Initiative passed, the the campsite discover (at left) Poston bar ­ court that blocked the initiative ’s American Civil Liberties Union and rack, which had been moved into the city of enforcement last December. other legal groups filed a lawsuit to Parker, entrance to Poston WRA Reloca ­ Prop. 209 is the state ballot inHia- declare 209 unconstitutional. tion Center and the lar>d of the Colorado tive that pA peirpent of California JACL joined a national coalition of - River Indian Tribes. voters pa^ed in the November1996 Asian American organizations in fil­ The unvarnished barrack is being used by election. fThe measure wW aboKsh ing a legal brief to support the the owrter for storage, according to the ail states^ local affinnative action ACLU’s lawsuit.-- WM Parker Historical Society. In front, tin-can programs in emp*ney for Governor Wilson and other state scramble around the Kiosk and Monument to defeat the initiatrve. and local officials to be^n (isman- (bottom right), which were constructed Although 209 passed, JACL tlingawideraf^of programs that severtf years ago by vot unteere from Sac- helped bring the initiative's support iiKlude mirrority scholarships for ramento, led by GeorgeOld (Poston 11). The down from over 80 percent ^vhen See PROP. 209/ page 12 palm trees were plai^ in 1992. The 30r foot tail Poston Memorial was dedicated to the memory of 25 Nisei soldiers. kHled in study: Nisei have greater risk of action, who were eifrter interned and had volunteered in the Army or whose parents Alzheimer ’s than native Japanese and famtfies were interned at Poston. SEATTLE—Elderly Japanese Dr. George Martin, director of The kiosk is dedicated in memory of the Americans have greater risk of the UW Al^eimer Researdi Cen­ 18,000 persorrs of Japarrese ance^ who developing Alzheimer’s disease ter, and UW epidemiologist Walter errdured the hostile desert environment ■ than the natives in Japan, accbrd- KukuU called the White-Larson Md ingtoresearcheTs in Hawaii and in research a landmark study in that Ki^ County, Washington. Find­ it is the “best available on the ques­ © ALL PHOTOS BY JEM LEW ings were reported in the Sept. 25, tion of whether the introductionof 19%, edition of the Journal of a new environment can iii^^ a American Medical Assodaticm. difference in the occurrence of Dr. Lon White, chief of the Asia- Alzheimer’s disease.* Padfic Office of the National Insti­ While no one knows what envi­ tute of Aging, said the “good news ronmental factors are at play, epi­ is that if there are environmental demiologists have found evidence factors that make iUworse, there that active minds last longer—tlie are sure to be environmental foe-, scientists sa> the more stimulated tors to make it better.* the brain, the more connections Dr. Eric Larson, director of the there are between brain cells, leav­ University of Washington study, ' ing a greater reserve of working said if the/actors were something cells, notes Warren King, Seattie like lifestyle or diet, perhaps ^ey Times medical repoiler. could be Stared enough to elimi­ For example, researchers find nate much of the disease. See ALZHBMER’S/pege 12 U.S. Attorney Yamaguchi “Year of Raf stamp ‘least necessary urged for federal bench Kahuku evacuees SAN JOSE—By tdl press ac- Each January Linn’s Stamp 10 votes. eligible to get redress counts, Michael Yamaguchi, 46, the Nativeive HiHawaiian residents News conducta among its readers. (The “Year of the Rat* stamp U.S. Attorney for Nortiiem Cali­ By ALLAN BEEKMAN were not alsoavacuated.als^ a poll frr the best deeigi^ worst was the “most seen* on incoming fornia, has emergedas the top can­ Special to the Pacific Citu^ mail to the Pacific Citizen this The Kahul^ihulm group was initially didate for San Jose’s newest fed­ HONOLULU—More than 70 turned down becauae they did not necessary ofUJS. postage stamps past year.) eral judge and the first Asian for the prior year. A total of 4,365 voted, some former Kahuku residents of Japa­ have enough dowimAntjitioo to American' federal judge in San nese ancestry are eligible for |HYwe diacriminatioiL Last Decem­ There were 27 commem- choices iinmarked, according to Francisco Bay area history. oratives, 21 definitivea^annaal the bestread weekly stamp pub­ $20,000-a-person redress and an ber, the key was fbond when non- Afonner Mountain View youth, specials, and 28 lication, printed in apology fv their forced evacuation Japanese nei^rbors who Ih^ in be was recommended to the fed- fiiom their homes during World the area at the time of Evacuation postal stationery Sid^, Ohio. The eral'lsendr by Sen. Diaime Fein- (cards, envelopes) topvotegettgrsin War II. it was aimoimced Mardi 7 were located. stein (IWklif.) last December, to by Honolulu JACLchapterand the OtherNikkeiresidentsm IwileL on the ballot and the other catego­ suobekYd U.S. District Jud^ Robert the purplish^Year ries were: (a) Best National Asian Pacific American Puuloa and Lual\iakei were also Aguilar. The nomination from Association. declaied'eligible. of the Rat* stamp design—“River- President Clinton was erqjected. with “Hai^y New boat,'apanecJ‘six The goy^mmenfs finding cov­ Of the 80,000 internees overall, Yamaguchi started his career as ers peofde who lived near the form­ neariy 2,500 fit>m Hawaii have re­ Year*and two Chi­ sta9ipsi(b)Wont an accountant after earning a nese diaracters in design — ing community then known as ceived'their redress drecks. But master’s d^ree firom New York Marconi and near what is now the the Office of Redress Administra- calligraphy was barely outvoted “Majatbon, ”(c)Mo6timpottant^ University, and developed exper ­ 'Turtle Bay Hilton. tifilM. 673-646. One ooUectar found a positive into the Criminal diviamr in 1984, on ca^ the An^ ordered those Claims and app^nic must be The Kid’s Vote rated “Year of aqiecttotwostanqisontl^pane. focusing on white-odlar pneeca- of ancestry, about 75 in theRat*the “leastneosasaiy* with made by February 1996 to assure “lusetbeVultureandtheUoco- tioos. He wasrecommendedfay Sol number, in Marconi to leave thar review by August 10, 199 6 the 24 votesand “JamaaDean”was dik on Internal Revenue Service Barbara Boxer(DJCalif.)fiveyears homes because the militarv was date after which funds for redress in a four-way for aizili place wit^ mail.* —HKHM ago for hispcesentgovernment post building an airfield nearby. They payments will do longer be avail- in Sah Francisoo. —BH ■ were qualified fin- redrM because 8. PAcme crnzEN, april is-may i, i»7

10OOOubceMration, Caous Pete's, Jadreot, FRB4CHCAMP Pacific Southwest Nev., info: Hid Hasegawa, Idaho Falls 206/ SyK'April27—47lhannual JACL community picnic, 11 a jn., Micke Grove Park (5 of Lodi, NATIONAL JAa YOUTH off Armstrong Rd); info: Gail Matsui 209/ Fri.-St«iv Me 20-22-Nat'l lAa Youth toiin CA«7« folendar Pacific Northwest 623-8964. Conference, UC Irvine ; info; Nafl HQ 415/ RB40 921-5225. BI-OISTRICT COUNOl-Tufcwfla, Wadh Sun. April 20—Children's Day potiuck TRI-DISTRICT ATTIhmON:Allcalendarriems —^and July IB-19 —6i-Oi$tria PNW-Intermounuin luncheon; info: Cynthia Lu, chapter pres. Fri-Stm., |uoe6.«—CCDC hosts: Tri-Owtria Di«r>a Council mee ting & conference. Best ESN;003»4579 Community—will beconuinedon thisone 702/827-6385. PSW/CC7NCWNP ConfererKe, Stardust Western Southcemer.Tukwi la (adjacent toSea- page as far aspossiWe. TIME-VALUE is the SACRAMENTO Hotel-Casino, Las Vegas.; info: Patricia Tsai.' c& chief considmtion. fteiTts should have Tac). comments and info: 206/623-5088. Sun. June 1—47th annual JAQ Corrvnunity CCDC director 209/486-6815. NOTE—for Pacific Citizen 'publicity ^STue' indirect connection with NOTE—Mention 'JACl' for special room Picnic, 10 a.in.-4 p.m.. Willi^^t-Land Park, •JACL Group 697' room leservatfons 800/ thedateofpublicatioo.Fax 213/725-0063 rates, 800/544-9863- Publidwd $«tniynonWyeccqx once in Oecembef adjacent'to Riverside Blvd. 634-6757. The Stardust isunable^o accept or E-mail: paccitOaol.org. PORTIAND Penod«l$ PotUM PmJ « Mootwey Pad. CA and SAN MATEO any Saturday anivals. ai additional maH>f« oAcn Sun., May 4—Greater Ponland JA Craiiuation Wed. April 30—Tomodachi (Sr. Women's) DISTRICT COUNOL Howe Mon.4rt.. «:30-5p.m. Pacific Jme barxMl. 5 pjrt.. House of Louie Restaurant Oub program on Mission Hospice fnc. of Sun.. May 8 —2nd quarterly sessioo,Wilknv IWdwest ~ info: Ken Ono, Daihonzan Hen^oji Buddhist San Mateo County, 1:15 p.m., JACL Street Center, 4101 E. Willow Sl, Long Temple 503/232-6352. NOT£-/red Community Center, 415 S. clatemont St, Beach; into: 213/626-4471. ONCINNATl Morishiu. Oregon '% Teacher qf the Year. 415/343-2793. ARIZONA Sat May 3 (Rmdate May 10)—Yard/Bake Edtor/Ce oe ril »tai>ige r (vacant) North Clackamas School District, keynote TRI-VALLEY Sun. April 20—Keirokai luncheon, JAQ Sale. 2933 MadisOh Rd (1-71, Smith- MKrita: HarryrylCHowJa K. H speaker. (Committee seeks names of graduates Sun.April 27—21 st annual Teriyaki chicken Hall. Info; Hide Watanabe. 602/939-6486. «etfler Ooime»V.Y Aora^i Edwards Rd exitl.dinciruiati. info: facqui who should be invited.) dinner SchoiarsKip fund-raiser, 11 a.m.-2 Complimentary bento for those 70 & up. lore Patricia Arra. Allan Bee Vidouiek 513/861 -4860. Shire Tanaka 489/ . p.m..AlamedaCountyFaifground5Cafeteria Sun. April 27—Scholarship’awards (36th > Toko Fuiii. Bob Hirau. Ada Hcnda. Mat bnon. 9079. NOTE—Used but not abused ilons. Mike lierv.Haami Kathrwabara. Bill Kathiwagi. NCd-WWadfic (Pleasanton Ave. emratsce), info;Nadine Lai annual) banquet, 1 p.m., Embassy Suites. aEVElAND WilUam Manjmoio, Ctsu Masaoka. Bill Matsurmi TRi-Dtsnucr 51 (V462-3585, Dean Suzuki 51 (V820-1454. Phoenix Biltmore. 2630 £. Camelback Rd.; Fred Othima. td Si^uro. George Wakiji Sat. May 24—Youth picnic al Strawbeny info: Kathy InoshitB, 602/937-5434. AccWvec Harry K. Honda Fn.-Sw., |une6-8 —CCOC hosts: Tri-Disrtict Lane, lunch provided; info: Hazael Sat., May 10—Seminar. Immigration issues, Wiiter a Blo.|en»lew PSW/CC/NCWNPConference, Stardust Hotel- Centra C^ortiia Asamoto, 216/921-2976. 9 a.m.-noon, JACL Hail, 5414 W. Glenn Casino, Las Vegas.; info: Patricia Tsai, CCDC EdMonal. newt and the opinrons expretted by Sun. Me 1—New lACL direaory deadline TRI-DISTRICT Of.. Glendale; mfo: foe All'man 60-2/942- extended, info: Hazel Asamoto. 3097 director 209/486-6815. NOTE—For *JAa ' -'^nlumnitQ othertKan the Naoonal (ACl Prewdent Ffi-Sunv Jime6-8 —CCDC hosts: Tn-Distnct 2832. National Oirecior do not necetiarily reflect Croup697' room reservations 800/6 34-6757. Ashwood Rd.. CIveland, OH 44120. 216/ PSW/CC/NC:WNP Conference; Theme; 1996: Jan. 5-Feb. 19— Smithsonian the ngN to edit aniciet The Staidusi is unable to accept any Saturday 921-2976, Bening cm the future to build a stronger Institution'straveling exhibit: 'AMorePerfea berore dace oi ittue arrivals. HOOSIER JACL.' Stardust Hotel-Casino. 3000 S. Las Union,* Phoenix Public Library. .!T / Adiertidng. Kerry S Ting Sat, May 10—Asian-Pacific Rim hieritage BERKaEY Vegas Blvd. Las Vegas., remit TOC APAN (Asi Pac Am Nerivork) e Margot Bruntwick. Brian Tanaka Month program, 7 p.m., Franklin CoUe^, Sat- May 10—Scholarship awards luncheon. registration $85 p/person to Larry Ishimoio. Wed. May 28 —Deadline for chapter - afer. Lani M/yamow info: Charfes Matsumoto 317/888-8505. nooo-2:30 p.m., North Berkeley Sr. ' 2316 W Whiten^le Suite B, Visalia CA scholarships toc^liege-bound Asian/Pacific Anoual oAacriptton rater lACL MEMBERS $12 oi NOTE—Stewart David Ikeda. speaker and 1901 HearstAve.SISp'person.RSVPI the natKnal duet provide one year on a one^' 93277 by May 1. no refunds after May 6; Islander high sch^graduates;applications/ TamikoNimura,1235SolanoAve#5,y . houtehoW bawt NON-MEMBERS 1 year-$JO. 2 author of 'Vyhat the Scarecrow Says.' info; Patricia Tsai, CCDC direaor 209/486- info: Elaine Kojima 310/473-7094; Erk ST. touts CA 94706. NOTE—Winnets; Kai Ouye. Anne yeart-SSS. 3 yeart-SBo, payable m advance ^6815, Larry Ishimoto 209/627-0442. Kunmura 3ia782-9765. MOTE—Asvards Additiortal potuige per year-Foretgn U S $22. hrt> Sun. April 27—Polluck dinner with Fujimolo, Hilary Nakao. ^NOTE—for 'JACL Group 697' room based on commitment tb community, datt: U5. Canada. MexKO: U S. $30. AirTrtail lapan/ program, 3-7 p.m., Kirkwood Middle CONTRA COSTA / Europe: U.S. $60.|ea to chartge without notice.) reservalk>ns800/634-6757. TheSurduStis leadership potential and oi^rall achieve ­ School, info: Irma Yokota 314/921-7933. Sat April 26—Panel: Affirmative Aaion/ unable to accept any Saturday arrivals. ments; CPA are not primary factors in what's next?, 1:30-3:30 p.m.. East Bay Free al Pretidenl Helen DISTRICT COUNCIL selecting winners; $1.200availabte. Kawagoc. VP General Operabont. Richard Uno; VP Methodist Church. 5395 Pptrero Ave., El MowtainPi^ ' Sun. May 18 —CCOC Scholarship I unchcoi. DOWNTOWN LJL. Public Affairs. Lon fu)irttoio. VP Planning and Cerrito. NOTE—Panelists: Lance Izumi, Keiko ” • — 'ajVPMemberthip, Karen- and 2d Quarterly Session Sun., April 27—Women of the Year DISTRICT COUNCIL Kobayashi, Pam Lewis, Ken Vabusaki. FRESNO luncheon, 12:30 p.m.. New Otani Hotel, Sat. May 3-5—District meeting at Omaha; Sat, May 3—Childnm's Culture Dayt, 1-4 NationalYouihCcxj Sat. May 3—*E* Street fair, Celebration oi RSVP by April 18, $2Ek/persbn, info: Amy info: Emilie Kutsuma, gov.. 303/368-8075 p.m., E.B. Free Methodist Church, El Cemlo. Asian Pacific blander Heritager^l a.m.-3 Tambara 213/722-3897; Lillian (Japanese (h). RSVP by4/30; Info: Esther Takeuchi 510/223- pjn., 'E' & Kem Sts; Info; Leroy Gee, 209/ speaking) 310/822-3633. NOTE— Nithi.'CCbp. Grace Kimoto: PSW. Oat OMAHA 2258. NOTE—Children mustbe accoFT^nied PNW. Terence Yarrtada; lEX. Yatuo loKiia: MIX., 495-1 ’ai. Honorees: Hiroko Ikut, Marian Masako Sat., May 3-5—Omaha JACL s 50th by an adult. loanne Kumagai: MPOC Emilie Kutsurrsa. UX. S^. May 3—Family fun night & polluck. 5- Kubota. HarukoShinryoku, Sanadaand Alice ThomatY.Komeuni PacffkOkiwiUtarialBoarxK Anniversary celebration. FREMONT 9 pjn.. United Japanese Christain Church. A. Yamada; DTLA JACL and Japanese Osair, Mae Takahath.; tOC. Oyde Nrthunora; MOC. Sun. April 27—lASEB Bowlathon. Albany 136 N. Villa Ave., Cfovis (btwn Sierra Ave. Women's Associatiton of So. Calif., co­ Patricia I Carper CCOC. Deborah Ikeda; PSW. Sam iritermbmtain ______Bowl, 540 San Pablo. Albany. Shimoguchi; NCWNP, IGm. Yoshino; PNW. Aaron and Herndon Ave.); RSVP Izumi Taniguchi sponsors;. Fri., May 2—Chapter bingo. So. Alameda Owada: IOC: Silvana Watan^: MPOC Or. Frank BI-OISTRICT COUNai-Ttikwila. Wa*. 209/439-8769; Marcia Chung 209/439- GREATER LA. SINGLES County Buddhist Church; info: June Handa Sakanroio; NYSC Kelly Wicker ' July 18-19 —8i-Oistrici PNW- 9192. Sw. May 18 —Hosting2nd PSSVDC session. lACl NaMU Heidgiiwfcr 1765 Sober Street. San 510/793-1810., InteiTTKXjntain Dislria Council meeting & LIVINCSTON-MERCED Willow Street Center. 4101 E. Willow St.. Frar>ciico,CA»411S: Tel: (415)921-5225; far (415) Sun. May 18-^ —Craduates/Scholarship- conference. Best western Souihcenier, 600/ Sat. April 26—JACL golf tournament; into: Long Beach, 310/42b-05.55. 93l-467lV,e4na>l: hqC^l.org National Oirraor. luncheon, 1 p.rn.. Nijo Castle, Newark; RSVP Heiberi Yahtanrihi; Business Manager, CFyde (aumc S44-9863 (mention *JACL'forspecial room CCDC Gov. Grace KimolO 209/394-2456. LAS VEGAS Gail Tomita 510/657-4498; Diane Endo 510/ Membership Admmifiraior. Donna Okubo; Adnunn- 'rales). Info: 206/623-5080, Sun, May 4—JACL picnic. Sun limr* 79 —Intr^m >»ir.n od Festival trair.TAstisam.DeirdreHowilTl.fln oHKeprf.f..n.rr 797-3684. NOTE—lames HaBori, Channel 4 +4ATT. |ACl 1000 CLUB teriyaxi/sushi booth. Cashma'n Field Exhibit KartekoS BegMMi Officer PacrhcMortfiwesi District TV reporter , guest speaker. Oiieaor- KarertVoshnomi. B^TSooth lackson Street Fri.-Sun., Oct. 10-13—Fiftieth anniversary Hall, info: George Goto 7QV382-4443. ■ •206. Sealtie,WA 9B104; Tel. (2061623-5088. Fa.; ' U06) 623-0526; e-mail: pnwC^ljxg.: Adminis­ trative assistant; Nobi Su^i ■ Midvv« Distnci^ I COMWJMTY 1st -floor rotunda. NOTE—Saturday South of Market Cultural Or, 934 Brannan Media Or, 213/743-1939. . Oireaor Bill Yoshirw. S415 Nonh Clark Street symposiums: May 3, 10 am.. 'Players from St.; RSVP by 4/26, Kimochi Inc., 1684 Post Thu. May 1—fon Shirota's Enlightenment (a ' Chicago. II 60640; Tel; (312) 72B-7I70; fax: (3)21 theleagues.'TomFujimolo.moderalor; May St.. San Francisco 94115. new play reading). 7:30-9 pm.. JANM. RSVP 72B-7231; e^il: mB^l4>igS Northern CaMorma 10.1 p.m.,'More than Just a Ciame,' Wayne Sun. May 4—NJAHS-MIS Nor Cal 'Park 213/626-0414. Western Mevada/Pacific District Oirecsdr Patty Wada. Calendar '1765 Sutler Street San Francisco. CA 94115. Tel. Mayeda, mod'r; May 17. 11 am.. “Bridge Partner' cefemonies and tour, 10 a.m.. Sat May 3-Koio/Shakuhachi concert by (415) 921-5225; fa.: (415) 931-4671. e-mail Across thePacific, Nisei Touts to Japan Prewar Presidio of San Francisco; info: National Hiromi Hashibe and Masakazu Yoshizawa, ncwnpO^.orgaCentralCaldomiaOisirKt Director and Postwar,' Kerry Nakagawa, mod'r; May Japanese American Historical Society; tour 2-3:30 p.m., JANM, RSVP 213/626-0414. Patricia Tsai. 1713 Tulare Street *133. Fresno. CA Eastern ______31, 11 am., 'Spo^ Media and the Nisei RSVP 415/431-5007. NOTE—Yoshizawa movie soundtracks 93721; Tel; (2091 4B6-68I5/66I6; Fa. (209) 4S6- SEABROOK Baseball ExperierKe,' Kerry Nakagawa. mod’r. Fri. May 30—Sung j Rho s play starring include Jurrassic Park. )oy Luck Club. 1 Corinec-ii SaL May 17—75th anniversary of Upper Sat. April 26—'Diamonds in the Rough' Steve Park in 'Gravity, Falls from Trees," 8; Dragor>--the Bruce Lee Story. AverueNW.Suiie 704. Washington, DC.)C. 20036:120036; Tel: Deerfield Township, N.J.,info: SECC, 609/ alumni benefit luncheon, Holiday Villa 30 pm., preview. Magic Theatre, Fort Mason Sat. May 3-5ept. 14—Jban Myer s (202) 223-1240. Fa.: (202) 296-B0B2: e-mail: 451-8393. NOTE—Seabrook Educational Restaurant, 7007 Land Park Dr., info-RSVP; Center, Bldg 'D'; info 41S/440-5S45. photographic journey of all ten WRAcamps, dc4>aclprg ■ Pacific Southwest District Oreoor 'Whispered Silences,' jANM, 213/626- Abert Muraisuchi. 244 S San Pedro Street «507. Los and Cultural Center is housed at the Tom Fujimolo 916/4127-6730, Toko Fujii , NOTE—Runsthrough|une22.T^-Sai8;30 Township municipal building. 916/421-0328, KuniHironaka916/424-1648. pm.. Sun. 2 & 7 p.m. 0414. WASHINGTON, D.C SAN FRANCISCO SAN JOSE . Sat-Sun.May 3-4—Children's Day Festival. Ffi. May 2—Asn Pac Am Heritage Council Sat April 19 —US-Japian Taiko concert, 7 Sat. AprB 26—Nisei Ski Club dinner-dance. 10 a.m.-4 p.m., JACCe Plaza.; info: Chris scholarship dinner, 6:30 p.m., China p.m„ AMC Kabuki Theatre, info: 415/563- Sheraton at Fisherman's Wharf, San Aihara, Meg Imamoto 2-13/62^2725; 3rd POSTMASTB: Send sdekess dirges to: Cardens, 1100 Wilson Blvd:. Arlington, 2313. Francisco;info:PamYoshida 408/293-4432. ' annual Asn Pac Martial Arts Festival. May 3, jACL National Headquanets. 1765 Sutler Va.; info: Shu-Ping Chan 310/816-0767. Sa^-Sun. April 19/20 —30th Sakura Matsuri/ Wes Kawase 415/383-7151. 11 am.-4 pm.; 'Chibi-K Run' for children St.. San Francisco. CA 94115. Mon-Thu. May 5-B—Federal Asn Pac Amer 40th S.FADsaka Sister City Festival, 11 a.m.- 4-12; Surrey, May 4 (register by April 25). Council reception, Mon, 7 p.m., seminar 5 p.m„ Nihonmachi; info: K1415/227-0402. Southern Cal Sat-Stm. May 3-4—Kodomo no Hi/Mothers and conference May 6-8, Cannon Caucus Sal.-Sun. f(»d fair at Sutter and Webster; arts Day, Japanese Village Plaza, First St. btwn Sat.-Sun. April 19-20 —Cherry Blossom Room, 8:30-5 p.m.; Training & leadership 6 crafts by Bay Area artisans. Post St. & San Pedro and Central Ave.. Little Tokyo; Festival. Japanese Village Plaza, First St. JACLBOffiOZS conference, May -7-8.3. 8:30-5 p^.. Buchanan Mall; Saturday children kimono info; Kathem Irvxrye 816/280-4432.' between San Pedro and Central Ave., Little el. Roc show, 2:45-4 pm., AMC Kabuki Theatre, Sun. May 4—^TangorK>Sddcu at the Museum, ) 818/280-4432. CSKDige Of Address Yong2C info: Glenda Okamura 415/202-0353; Sunday 1-3 p.m., JANM, 213/626-0414. nshow, Japanese LOS ANCEliS-MANZANAR If you hove moved, 202/632-3254. Grand Parade preview at.Union Square, noon, Wed. May 7—3rdannual gala CAPxCI Ifor Sumiyoshi Taisha Funa Mikoshi from Osaka, Sat Apri 26—Annual MvuanarPilgrim^, . please send information to: drunvners, performers from Japan; parade SaL-Sun. April 19-20 —Torrance Sister City irdo; Sue K Embrey,2 13^2-5102. route: I p.m„ Ovic Center. Polk. .Post Sl Assn. Bunka-Sai/lapanese cultural festival, SAN DIEGO NcdkxiolJACL 11 am.-5 pm.,Ken Miller Recreation Center, ending at Webster; Oassical puppet drama. Sat. May 10—Union of Pan Asian 3341 Torrance, Blvd., Torrance: info; Hazel Conference briefings follows May 8. ^ Sun., 6 p.m., AMC Kabuki (tree, tickets Communities 'Magic of Asia' dtrwier, 6 1765 Sutter SL Taniguchi 310/328-1238. Fri.-Sat. May 9-10 —4th annual Nat'l required, call 227-0402), performed by p.m,, Sheraton San Diego, RSVP by May 2, Tlw. April 24—American Friends Service Son EYcmdsco, CA 94115. ConfererKe on Korean American Leader ­ Katsuura-za Ningyo Joruri/Tolajshima. UPAC, Lana Tom 619/232-6454. ship, 1 pjn., 6p.m. dinner Fri., JWMarrion Sun. Aprfl 20—No. Cal Japanese American Committee Bookstore event: Puppe's Story VENTURA COUNTY and Visas(orLife.7 p.m., 980 N. Fair Oaks, Hotel, info: Jocelyn Hong 202/484-4884, Seniors appreciation awards AT&T brunch, Sat May 3—Fuji Matsuri Festival, 11 am.- Not* To ovoSd II Pasadena, info: 818/791-J978. Hiroki David L Kim 202/293-2174. info: Jeff Murai 415/388-3655. 7 p.m., Oxnard Buddhist Oiurch, 250 S. H Sugihara and Anne Hoshiko Akabori, Sat May 10—APAHC Festival, 11 a.m.-5 Sat. April 26—Asian Law Caucus 2S(h Sl.: info; 805/483-5948. speakers! p.m.. Freedom Plaza. 12th and anniversary event, 6 pm. codOaijs, 7 dinner, 7939. Sat April 26—Hawaiian Slack Key Guitar Pennsylvania NW; info: Shu-Ping (Dian 8 prpgram,'9:30 po«-receptioo, Grand Hyatt, 310/816-0767 Sutter-Stockton Garage; info; 415/391-1655 Festival, 2 ar>d 8 p.m., UCLA Schoertberg Alaska , ext 13; NOTE: Dale Minami, keynote; Sherry Hall, box^jffice 310/825-2101. Mdwest Hu. KP1X-TV news anchor, and Steven C. Sat Aprif 26—Coffee Cupping leaure by Thu. May 15-Hne 26—Smithsonian's 'A P41SAVE Owyang, executive & legal affairs secreury, Robert lida, 1 -3 p.m., JANM, 369 E. 1 st St., More Perfect Union' travel exhibiL Loussac CLEVELAND FEPC, emcees. RSVP 213/625-0414. NOTE—On the finer Library (level 3), Aischofage. NOTE—7 pm Sun. May 4—Spring concert at St. Paul tue. April 2»-Piweniation; Next generatfon points of select ing coffee through taste, aroma pfocram speakers. May20;RonlrK(oye,UA Episcopal Church; info: Japan Society of audio and virtual technologies in the U .5. and and texture. Faiitonks, 'Impact on Jj^sanese American Cleveland 216/694-4774. J^»n, 6:15 pm., Dolby Laboratories. 100 Mon. April 28 —East West Players' 31st internment (118 were evacuated from Potrero Ave., info: Ja^ Society. «41 S/986- annivers^awardldinner, 6pm. reception, Alaska) anU Aleut removal'; May 29: Sylvia The Rockies 4383. NOTE—David^nson, Cary Brown ' dinner-sh(wat7,8onaventureHotel,404S. Kobayashi, tjpnor Boutid film; June 3: (both from-Dolby), Takashi Nishimura (NTT Figueroa St., RSVP 213/66CK)366. Discussion of Guterson's Snow FaHim on OB4VBt Software), speakm. Tha-SatMay1-3 —USaAnnenbergCenter, Cedars; junef 1: Mary Jo arfo Midbtei Thill,'' Tue. May 6 rvPac Women's Network SaL May 3—Steve Nakajo's 50th Birthday Network for Promotion of Asia-Pacific producers of Aleut Evacuation;'June 18: of Colorado awards lurKheon, St. CajeUn's Party&B^ Boomers'BirthdayBash, 7pm., CinemaA ’SC Film Series, info: Asia Pac Brenda Wong Aoki, sioryielier. ■ Church on the Aurariacampus. RSVP.info: Betty Inouye 303/857-4494. NOTE— sitecTlptlon Honorees; Kathpm Inouye (arts & culture). rates are Angel (Oii (business & pt^essional), Teresa cais^ Kostenbauer (eduAlion), Saba jalili Small kid time Gwen Muranaka 'pdequatdy, (entrepreneurial business), Lily Nie (health and to help & human services), Marr^Ua Lee Auaettre. vf*> «ir) bring P.C. (communKaiions). Die c*t j back to a weddy pubileationi Please send your tax deductible donations to: P.C. SAVE. Nortiiwest T« PMOXIA-Tiy 7 CupanU

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e Bottom Liim By HELEN KAWAGOE, National President The fixst 8 months

A PRIL 10. 1W7. mariced my bers to be elected or appointed to • Wasatch Front Nortti Chapter increased ▼ unie known teete ... -^Milontrfilion in revenue. Matsushita was a /-\ 8th month as nationaj presi- goverTKnent positions in order to their membetsh^ by 200%. The City of Carson, California, is lif^toog_ learner, a visionary, a risk *^(1001. Many positive happen ­ have a voice at the table. In Califor ­ • Mount Olympus Oiapter increased thek a general law dty with a directly taker and innovative marketeer. One ings have occuiTMckiringthis time. membership by 67%. nia, we are proud to have Assembly elected mayor and dty derk. tf ths of his aphorisms was to Treat the Amongthese happenings was that I • CivI Lbertes Public Education Fund members Nao Takasugi and Mke mayor is not available or the office people you do business with as if graduated from ^ Academy pro­ (CLPEF) awarded 100 grants tor a total ol Honda representing us in the state approximately $2.6miSon. Several JACL becomes vacant before the next they were a pah of yourfamily. Pros­ gram spoftsored bythe LosAngeies legislature. chapters were among tbe redpienls. election is held, the dty-derk is first perity depends on'how much un­ CountySherffTsDepartmentforcon- But the concern is that were (only • JACL Curricalum and Resource Gude in line to be in charge of the dty. released, thanks to Greg Marutani and derstanding one receives from the tract cities. The purpose of this class ­ have Congressmembersigressmembers,^ ^ob people with whom one conducts room and field training program for Education Committee. Matsui andj PatsyI Mink and Serta- ▼ OnDofng pro|oets business." Throughout his life. elected officials is to educate dty • 'Japanese of the Monterey Peninsuta' tor Dan iTKHiye in Washington, O.C. by David Y«aada is availabie through the Membership bnves and leactershto de- Matsushita had his focus on con­ officials to better understand the JACL is fortunate that Doris Monterey Peninsula JACL Wei written. velopmenL tinual change with ^ unshackled lands of situations, some very dan- Matsui isonstaff at the WhiteHouse. Contact Paul Ichiuji. 406/422-7748. O CoHaborative efforts to improve JACL's visto^ in the community with other orga ­ mind. geroMS. that deputies must face ev ­ I want to credit Doris for her assis ­ • Northern CalHomla-Weslem Nevada- JACL needs to follow Matsu ­ ery day while on duty. What a chal ­ Pacific (NCWNP) JACL District Council nizations. tance with the'meeting with Bob • Fundraising sources to meet stafftog shita's leadership style. lenge it was. and exciting, tool hosts a CaBfomia Leadership Conference Nash, Assistant to the President Sunday through Tuesday. April 20-22. needs of regional offices. (continue to be erxxxjraged with and Director of President Person ­ 1997. in Sacramento. • Furxlraising sources to meet program the new leadership coming aboard T Lagl^a^ alwt... nel. Also attending were Michael • JACL Youth Conference 'Leading into needs. Met with Donna Ikema Chancel ­ lor and Ntta Song of AT&T and Bob Park at the chapter and district levels. Proposition 209, the CaBomia Lin of the Organization of Chinese the Future.* June 20-22.1997, at Univer ­ Being a perennial optimist. I look CivirRights Initiative (CCRI) regard ­ sity of Cafilomia at Irvkie. contact Mromi of Imada Wong Communications Group. Americans, and representatives Inc. Donna wants to join JACL forward to next year's Philadelphia ing affirmative action was approved Uaha at 714/559-1353. from the Filipino community and the • Nominations Co-chairs Khn Nakahara • Support of the National Japanese Amerv conventkxi where we will welcome by the voters in November 1996. Natioria! Asian Bar Association. and Rick Aizawa charged irith the re- can MefylaJ Foundation project in Wash ­ new leadership at the national level. This measure eliminated affirmative Bob Nash is from Arkartsas and is sponstNiity to recruit candidates tor aN the ington, tyc. This will be our *Slatue of I am positive that JACL will be con­ action programs for women and national offices at the 1998 Philadelphia Ljbehy*iotoa«e lor all to witness, if we fail a Razorback fan. I told him that my stantly wining to change to meet the . rriioorities run by the state or local Convention. Be ready to accept. to raise the func^ to bufld this memoriaf^ godson was a kicker on the Razor- our nation's cafirtal. we will never get an- needs of our constituent members. governments in the areas of em ­ back team, and Bob and I imn>edi- (Xher chance/ I can unequivocally state that JACL ployment. contracting and educa ­ ately communicated and connected ▼ Adopt a Campua... • U.SJJapan Relations. is alive, well and in good working tion that give “preferential treatmenr in “l^'s heaven!" . South Bay. Selanoco and San • Social Security & Immigration issues condition. My mission is to “commu- - on the basis of sex. race, color, Immigration and social secumy Fernando Valley chapters have suc­ • Affirmative Action. • Philadetobia Chapter progressing with nicate and connecT as 1 carry out .ethnicity, or national origin., issues affect all of us in one way or cessfully adopted campuses and de ­ my responsfoilities. I welcome your The measure was heM unconsti­ veloped young adult groups with 1996 Convention ^ans. July 1-5. the arK)ther. The recent John Huang Sheraton Society Hill Hotel. corpments. ■ tutional' by the lower court but the fund-raising scandal impiacted all programs that are attracting mem ­ appellate court ruled on April 8 to Asiars. The media generated nega ­ bers into the JACL family. The South ▼ Th« *i>onom line”... sustain tt>e vote. The decision is tive news and produced racist car ­ Bay Young Adults Group (YAG) was In the March-31. 1997, issue of PSW office to offer now in the process of seekir>g fur­ formed by my grand niece. Chris­ toons immediately. Again, as identi ­ Fortune magazine, a book excerpt summer internship ther rerr>edies and may lead to a fiable minorities we are all lumped tine Sato, who has now assumed of MATSUSHITA: The World’s hearing before the U.S. Supreme into the same basket. the co-presidency of the South Bay- Greatest Entrepreneur? by John P, LOS ANGELES—A stipend of Court If r>o further remedial a^k>n As a member of the Board of JACL with Christine Ige. i am en ­ Kotter is very interesting. The article $1,500 will be offered for 10 weeks can be taken, the n^ng will take Directors of the League of Calif omia couraging an chapters tp look to is about Konosuke Matsushita, who of full-time work (some evening and effect in 21 days.This will be a major Cities, president of Asian Pacific their nearby campuses andinitiate a founded Matsushita Electric. He cre ­ weekends) as a summer intern at setback for women and minorities. American Municipal Officials with similar program, These young adults ated the Panasonic brand that is the JACL Regional Office, it was H is certain that this Caiifomia the National ^League of Cities, and can come together at our biennial known to mHiions around the globe. announced. Contact Al Muratsuchi, decision vnH move across the r)^ ^ board member of Women in Munici­ convention and network throughout Throughout his life, he workedhard. 244 S. San Pedro St.. #507, Los tion, with other states following wHh' pal Government I have addressed the year. With their involvement and I n 1917, he began his business with Angeles 90012, 213/62&4471. Ap­ similar initiatives just as with these concerns at the table and development. JACL will have a con­ savings of 100 yen, which grew to a plications for the position must te California's Proposition 13 regard ­ voiced myjfcpieasure of the treat-, stant reserve pool.from which to tap business that now generates $42 postmarked by May 9. ■ ing property^es. merit of Japanese Americans and our future leaders. CaltfoniM ’s Proposition 208 re- Asian Pad^ by the media. garcfing campaign financing reform was also approved by the voters in ▼ What*a new ... Chapters, in addition to South Bay November 1996. •JUMP STAFTT JACL* initiated by Sac ­ JACL, attracting new and young Announcing new auto rates &. terms This measure addresses cam ­ ramento JACL with thek $1,000 contrtxf- leaders are San Fernando Valley paign Contributions arxJ sperxing bon, has generated another $3,000 from (Akemi Kayleng Knight). Philadel ­ limits and restrictions on lobbyists. Arlzofia and Gardena Vatey chapters and phia (Paul Uyehara, son erf Hiroshi from my personal friends Id Brea Canyon and Grayoe Uyehara), Washington, The loophr^e is that if you are OilCornpany.Anotherfriendhasootnfnit- wealthy, there is no limit on the ted to locate $2,500 to add to ttib Leader ­ D.C.. (Rich Amano and Bartxara amount that you can contribute to Teraji), New York (Ron Uba), AUTO LOANS ship Devalapment fund. My gc»l Is to have your own campaign for office. every chapter participate with any amount Gardena Valley (Ron Doi, son of Therefore, the “rich man" can that they can aflord. pest president May Doi).Seattle(Jef- spend as rmjchas he wishes butthe frey Hattorl), Selanoco (Ken • JACL membership hcra ssed by ^ “poor rrtan* will find it extremely dif- proxi ma tety 1.600mewtieri. AltWsfate, ioouye), Salinas Valley (Carol Lee ficuKto amass erxxjgh funds to cam ­ JACL shCRid meet twir 10% increase Yoshimura), Sacramento (Dick paign for office at $100 per person. adopted at the 1996 San Joae Conventian. FukusMcna), and Torrance (Steph ­ This action wiR certainly discourage • Seattle JACL celebntadttwir TSthArmi- anie Nakang). This Ust may not be and^orefifninatequalifipHcafvjKjater vrraary. complete Please te« r™? about the • Sacrwnenlo JACL celebrated their 65th from seekirig pubfic office . Th is rnea- others because these young presi ­ sure, too, will move across the na ­ • RmS^ JACL. Detroit JACL. Twin dents 3re to be congratulated for tion in like fashion. Cities JACL... marked »thek 50th Annivefsa accepting their responsibaities and We rteed to erxxMjrage our mem ­ believing in JACL 7.9 ”^ carefully to tbe national uproar in New or Used Cars the Asian American community, National Review founder rather than callously HininiiMngit as whining of the pt^tically New cars: Upto60mos. defends ‘racist ’cover cor rect, • continued Muratsuchi. “Buckley and the National Re­ TORRANCE.CAUE.—Wniam theduration wartime hysteria, which uMinately CIEDIT UNION they were rounded up after Peari of conservatism and the RepuUi- led to the incarceration of 120,^ HariiOT and held in detention for can Party, then he should listen /Vnericans of Japariese ancestry. ■ fo 1721 / sicirauun 10 / SOI jss^o / too iMoori / ta ooi 521.2101 PACIFIC CnWN, APRIL 18-MAY Cl997 9 JOT;^ID0,64 ^ camp, I learned a lot from this man, a recently wounded Pacific Theater Retii^ Air Foix::e cok^l hec^ New Mexico JAbL veteran, who. in 1951. went out of Gitnes. rebellious young man. always on think "they were content to leave his way to help a young Japanese /r MW nor Jbr i/w Crystal City tntefn- Tagged by the Army as Fam&y the frtoge of getting caught." American, ’ Joe said. merit Camp SOth Amrversary Reunion A>- Frank in^il," Joe recalled. bun. tfiis story Mbukrnor/law Pean deMsT- #7413, the Andos were trucked to in 1946, his brother George en ­ Texas Ranger takes interest . Joe then descrtied his flying as- oped in detail. It Vomwo" Or. Frai* Turlock Assembly Center, followed tered the Army. That March, his A court-appointed...... attorney was__ signrnentsduringtheVietoam*build- Sakamoto, now ol Deflvee. and recentty by a long train ride with window father made arrangements with not particularty interested in an Issei up—all over Vietnam and the Pa ­ designaiBdmentiefshipdevelopmentehair shades drawn, to tbeGia River WRA camp adrmnistrators to move to the in jail until a Texas Ranger named ctfic. from his base at Travis Air by national vice prasktant Karan-Uane Center in mid-1942. Solomon Ranch in nearby Carnzo Alfred Allee told authori^^, "You■VA,?''^P<-krr-o "Force BaseRace andanH in theffia Philippines. > Shba. after ha tVKi instated Joe Ando as •At many block meetings, father New MaxiooJACL president, to learn that Springs, ostenstoly to receive land got the wrong man up in that jail!' After the Paris Peace Accords in he was intemed al Cr>sta/ City (Texas) expressed his opinioRS—one being to farm. Seeking si^iport from the ACLU and 1973 and withdrawal of all troops withltsfarntyandretitadasafulf-fledged that it was basicaHy wrong to incar ­ By June, it was apparent the fam ­ others the task fell on his sister from South Vietnam, he was the Air Force cotodel.—Ed. Note. cerate parents and draft their sons ily was to be Solorrion's gardener Lguise, then 16. to type letters to key Chief of Plans section in Saigon and ALBUQUERQUE—The Ando for war. I remember two Army sol­ and houseniaids. When his father peopie'who could make the phone left that post In 1974. reass&ned to Family story begins with the Issei diers with rifles and bayonets were decided to move to another farm, cans for action. Calls were made to U.S. European Command Head ­ parents, Frank Shokichi, who emi- stationed outside the barricks, and Solomon warned he would regret [Kenji] Kasai of San Francisco who quarters in Stuttgart, Germany. giatedto theU.S. in 1906aftercorrh the FBI searching our small apart ­ the attempt but his father thought contacted the ACLU there and then Saigon fell in late April 1975. pteting^ schooling at Gifu School ment. Father was taken away for iightty of the threat and proceeded Sylvia Lang. San Antonio ACLU. Joe adds that he has often won­ of Agriculture, and Kiku from further questioning at Lordsburg, to move. On July 4, Solomon went “Abthis stage. Solorhon wanted dered what happened to the many Yamaguchi-ken. They had farmed N.M., Santa Fe, N.M., and eventu ­ the sheriff, reporting that Frank Ando father to repent and he would take loyal South Vietnamese-personnel in various parts of Northern C^ifor- ally to Cry^l City," Joe recalled. cursed the Miencan flag, spat and us all back on his farm, ’ but the that didn't make it. nia and by the 1930s settled inTracy. While at Crys^ City, his father, stomped on it. Without warning or authorities concluded Solomon had There was a train ride with .his Other numbers of the family were was informed his 1942 crop was evidence, the sheriff contacted the lied to force the Andos to stay on the family in Germany to Berlin, when Georg^Cbuise and Joe. totally lost due to lack of labor at the FBI office in San Antonio and the farm. His father languished in jail as the guards on the train made sure With Evacuation In 1942, which time of harvest. Then he was told his father was jailed. Solomon sold his property and left the window shades were pulled -his father thought would be tempo ­ farm equipment, the Caterpillar Without money, the family moved the county. He was soon released. down while crossing through the rary. the household goo^, farm tractor, and all persona! belongings into a shack in the least desirable Through high school. Joe played Russian sectorof East Germany. ‘I equipment and tomato crop were were lost due to Are. It was also the part of town. That was our introduc­ fTOtball with classmates whose fa- had flash-back to the days of the pl%^ in care of his landlord. H.H. time, Ando recalled, of his being “a tion into Carrizo Springs, Texas. I tNers and uncles were employed at Evacuation! ’ he said. CfV^aLCity as camp guards or in His final assignment found Joe at some o^r capacity. “Football was Kirtland AFB. Albuquerque. Re the turr^ point, astohow my friends in 1980, Joe has b^n dividing V and as^iate viewed me. ’Joe said. time as a production engineer w Local merchants gave him a hard Martin-Marietta and serving on the time when he first tried to sell his city's human rights board, and-with father's produce in town, but after the JACL chapter. his starring role on the football field. Ando's parents passed away in “they bought all the vegetables l976.Georgeretiredasalaborunioh could bring into town.r _ secretary-treasurer and lives in San As student-body president, Joe Francisco: Louise has been with the worked cldsely with the principal. IRS in Austin. Ando's children are King Moss, a wounded Marine vet ­ married, daughter Lauri in Orlando, eran of many Pacific campaigns. sons Tobin with a law firm in Los Joe confided to him that he wanted Angeles, and Kerry in his last year of to become an engineer but that his residency in 1993 at Texas Medical family had no money. That spring, Center, Houston. the principal (Mr. Moss) took him to Joe has visited Crystal City peri ­ High School Day at Texas A&M, odically. The granite markerstands; where he toured the campus, and the swimming pool is filled with dii(, met with various counselors. After a “the only remin^rs that are left," he small scholarship and odd jobs on noted. Through all adverslbescome campus, he was graduated in 1955 some good. We are very grateful for with his degree and a commission in our friends and family and the many . . :Lols the Air Force. opportunities that make America - .------— o------. —.....^ Tomomatsu. v.p., “After four years in an internment great!' —HKH ■ (MitHiral af/air«- PctKcr v< n Malcolm Mori, sec.; Calvin trKobayashi. _l___ &______traas.;. iJoe a Ando, i______pres.;_ and

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■ Adopted by The JACL ftettonal Bpwtl, Uw Angeles, March 22.1997

The National JACL Investment Policy I. PurppMs The purpose of the several Na- . dations to the Nationa] Board and government, its agencies or instru­ currency options, futures and for­ minimum include: a detaileddescrip- tiorwl JACL endowment funds (the the National Council; and advise the mentalities, the Funds shaH not hold wards wH be peimitted but only for tion of the assets held, actual fu^ Tunds") is Jo finance the proj^ National Board and National Coun­ more than five percent (5%) of the hedging purposes. The intenvational and bencfvnark pertormarK^ and programs of the JACL in accor­ cil of anyemergency situations which Funds’ assets on a cost basts, or investment managerm^ not take arxi purchase and redemption 8um- dance with Article XIV: Budget and the Comrriittee deems requirmg con­ eight percent (8%) of the Fund's r>et currency e)q>osure heater than I maries. The maximum eiqsosure to Rnance. and Article XV: Segregated sideration by the Chapters to utilize assets on a market value basts, with the net asset value of the interna ­ i any sirtgle active irtvestment marv Accounts underthe Constitution. In­ any portion or aU of the principal of any single guarantor, issuer or pool tional portfolio (i.e!, leverage is not i ag^ sh^ not exceed seventy per- vestment of the Funds is the re- those Funds whidi are imrestricted. of assets. Fixed income securities permitted). j cent (70%) of the Funds’assets on sponsibtlrty of the National Invest ­ ITteCommitteedefmespoficies, sets issued by artd guaranteed by the a market value basis. ment Policy Committee (the “Com­ asset allocatidn, selects investment Full Faith and Credit of the U.S. VI. Intended Asset mittee ”). The Committee shall su­ managers, and monitors the imple ­ Government may be held in unlim­ VIII. Dafinition Of pervise ar>d administer the prudent mentation of investment pro­ ited quantities, the overall quality Allocation: investment of the assets of ^ Funds gram of the Funds. The Committee rating of the fixed income portfolio It is expected that a significant Prifieipat: with the approval of the National is composed of seven members shall be AA or better. The average portion of the Funds wiB be invested Prindf^ shall be defined and de- 6o^ adviseandm^ recommen ­ elected by the N^ionel Board. duration of the bond pog.shouldt>e in Cash and Fixed trxxxne securi ­ tennined on an annual basis. For no greater than the current duration ties. Once'per year, the Committee the purposes .of the Fund, principal II. Scop«: of the Merrill Lynch 3-5 YearTreasury will review the Funds’ overaH asset shall be defined as the original cost allocation. If needed, the Commit­ basis, plus investment income At the date hereof, the relevant Funds within the mandate of the Commit- Index ptus one year. tee win rebalance the portfofio to earned, plus realized capital gains v^®e are as follows and which are further identified as to the “restricted ” or mainU^ the Fund's allocation within and losses, less income expended, '^nrestricjerf nature of the account: Mutual Furid Investmenta: The Funds may invest in mutual the investment confines that reflect less any distrtxjted principal. investment funds or pooled asset prudent ^versification ar>d stated portfolios provided that these invest ­ asset limits. During the rebaiar>cing IX. Other Fund ment vehicles invest in the permis- process, the Committee will to its Restrictions: best ability execute trades in a man ­ si>lesecuritiescited herein arti meet All accounts of the Funds are cash . the stated objectives of the Puod^ ner that maximizes the return poten ­ tial within acceptable levels of risk. accounts. Sales or purchases For consideration, a mutual furw through margin accounts or similar must have an actual performance fadiities are prohtonpd. Personal track record of at least seven yeais VII. Professional . checking accounts arxj credit facBi- and a net asset value in excess of Investment Managers: ties(e.g..lir>esofcre(fiLcredricards. - one hundred million dollars The Committee may appoint prc- etc.) linked to or securitized by the ($100,000,000). fessional investment managers assets of the Fur>ds are forbidden. when appropriate. Appointed invest ­ The assets of the Funds may not be International Investm ment mana^rs must haye a mini­ pledged as collateral 6r used as a The Funds may invest in intema- mum of: fiVe^ars of actual perfor- guarantee or security for any loan, tkx)al(i.e.. norvU.S.)equity and fixed mance history, at least thirty million except for those segregated ac ­ income securities, as well as inter ­ ’doHars ($30,000,000) in actual as ­ counts approved for contingency col­ national funds end indices. The cu­ sets und^martagement, and a mini­ lateral with the JACL Creagement Stock Indices An active investment manager seeks and ^versification. An incficator that measures the value The overall cash portfolio is expected to provide total returns which are in of a representative asset group. The IV. PMmissibto And Non- to reflect a reasonably cfiversified excess of some pre-defii>ed berx:hmark Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJl^ is Permissibte Investments: portfolio subject to prudent levels of portfolio. Professional investinent managers that a price « rage of thirty i All investments in the Funds must risk. Securities issued by and guar ­ .create portfolios that replicate the total tively traded blue chip stocks, fl is the anteed by the fidl faith of the U.S. American Depository Receipt (AOR) returns of a market index Index portfo­ okf^ and riKtst wkf^ quoted index have a rearfty ascertainable market A receipt for shares of a forei^ based lios are created by investing in the secu ­ The S&P500 isamarket weired index value and must be reacfity market ­ Government such as, U.S. Trea ­ sury and Agency Obligations, and corporation held m a vautt of a U.S. rities contained in the incfex in their exact that shows the value of the aggregate able. The Furrds may only acquire bank. The AOR entMes the shareholder proportion. market value of 500 stocks. The VAsNre instruments or securities whidi are Mortgage Backed Securities of the -to an (fivkfends and capital gairts. U.S. Government may be held in 500 Eqiity Index measures al NYSE. identified as “Pemussble .”The Com­ ed Assets AMEX and over-the-couiter issues tor unlimited quantities. Double tax-ex- mittee and its agents are prohibited Aseet Allocation The pari of the net assets of a not-for- which price quotes are avaiyite. ernpt cash instruments are non-per- from invesfrig in “Non-Permissible ’ Ihe dstribution of a portfolio's assets profit organization resuming from (a) corv missible investments. amor>g the varkxis investment classes tributiorrs and other inAows of assets investments. Such finanda! instru­ (i.e.. cash, fixed income, equities, and ments or securities which are not whose use by the organization is limited The pari of toe n^ assets of a not-for- intematkxtti). AssetaBocationsare usu- by donor-imposed st^xilatiorrs that nei ­ profitorganization lesufling (a) tosmcorv identified as “Permissible* shall be Equity Securities: The Committee will exercise pru­ alty expressed as percentages. Asset ther expire by passage of time nor can trtoutions and other inflows of assets deemed “NonPermlssiWe. ’ dent diversification in the manage ­ allocalipn affects portfolio risk and re ­ be fuifiled or otherwise removed by ac ­ whose use by the organization is fimited turn. Jt is a central concept in portfoiio ment of the equity portion of the tions of the organizatipn, (b) from other by donor-impKieed Mpulations that ei ­ PermISBfble Investments: asset enfaixement s and dmirishments ther expire by passage of time or can be Common ar>d Preferred Stocks, investment portfolio. Portfolio diver ­ sub)^tothe sarne kindsofstipdations . kittBed and removed by actions of the sification shall consider exposures Convertible Securities, American Common Stock ar>d (c) from reclassifications from (orto) cxganization pursuwit to those stipula ­ to: individual companies and issues, Unitsofowr>ershipinapubiiccofpora- other classes of net assets as a conse ­ tions. from other asset enhance- Depository ReceiptsfADR ’s”), as., sector risk. indus% risk, ar>d yrtien tkxi . Owners are typic^entioed tovote -Treasury and Ager)cy Obligations. quence of donor-imposed stipulations nierits arto dkniriishrneiits subject to the appropriate, exposure to active in­ on the selection of (firectbrs and other (FASB Concepts Statement 6. aements same kinds of stipufatiorrs. and (c) frorn Mortga^ Backed Securities of the important matters as w^ as to receive ofFinandaiStatemer^.paragraph 92). reclassifications to (orfrom) other classes U.S. Government. Money Market vestment marragers. The maximum equity exposure to any single com­ dividends on their hokfings. of net assets as a consequence of do­ Funds^hortTerm Investment Fund pany or issue shall not exceed five Prefeited Stock nor-imposed sttotiatiorrs. their expira ­ Accounts, Certrficates of Pepo^, Commercial Paper (CP) tion by passage of time, or titeir fitiffl- percent (5%) of the Funds' assets An equity invest int that has fixed- Bankers Acceptances, Commercial A short-term obigaton with maturities income-fike character. Preferred shares merit and removal by actions of the Paper. Corporate Securities, Invest ­ on a cost basis, or ten percent (10%) ran^ng from 2 lo270day& CP is issued have fixed-dividerK} payouts which are organization pursuant to those stipula ­ of the Funds' asseto on a market by top-rated corporations, banks and stated as a percentage of par value. tions (Concepts Statement 6. paragraph ments in broad market indices in­ value basis. The Funds will not hold others. The securities are unsecured cluding but not limited to: the S&P Preferred shares usuaUy do not have 93). more than 20% exposure to any and usualy discounted, allhough some voting rights and are senior to common 500. Wibhlre 5000 Index, Morgan industry group. Total equity expo ­ are interest bearing. Both Moody's and shares in the event of liquidation. Total Return Stanley Europe Far East and Aus­ sure shall not exceed seventy per ­ Standard 4 Poor's assign ratings toconv The total change in the value of an tralia Index (“EAFE”). Solomon cent (70%) of the Funds’ assets on merdal paper. Purchasing Power inve stment over a given time period Brothers World Government Bortd ’a market value basis. The Funds A relative measure of the Miiity of an measured as a percentage. Total return Index, or MeniB Lynch 3-5 YearTfea- Consumer Price Index (CPI) investment to purchase goods and ser ­ is the sun^ income and dhrictends shall also maintain prudent diversi ­ The Consumer Price index is a U.S. vices when atfiusted for inflation. An earned pMs capitai gains and tosses .-^ sury Index; and Stock and Bond fication with regard to the selection Mutual Fundsthat invest inthe above government provided statistic intended investment portfolio's purchasing power of investment managars: Exempt to measure Ihe relative cost of a basket securities. is the national size of the poitfofio mtiti- Treasury Bifla, ftotae tetd Bonds from this Investment marw^ di­ of goods and services through time. In pfied by the experienced Inflation, ad- Treasury securttias we nsgotiabis dsbt versification clause are passive in­ geiWral. changes in the CPI are fell to be jiWf kx the timing effects of redernp- obligations secured by tos Ul taito and Non-Per vestment maruigers, who are ^ aretatively (air surrogate for e)q>eitsnced tions texj purchases. credit of the U.S. govemmenL T-Bils Commodities,Futures. Forwards, lected to replicate thetotal retums'of -tnpation. are short-term securitie s wftometurtties Margin Purchases. Short Selling. a major market index. OuaAty Ratings equal to or less than one year. T-BM$ are Optm (puts, cans and exotics) and Fixed Inobme Security There ate numerous rating services isaued in minimum denon tiriations of ten other Derivatives; Struct!^ Notes. A security that pays a fixed rate of tt>at pubish their analyees of toe invest- tooustexf dofiars ($10,000) and in five Fixed Income SecuritA: return. This term usualy refers to gov- rrterrt quaRty of fixed income securities. thousand doflar ($5,000) jncmmants Stnjctuied Investment s. Direct in­ Fixed income securities are readHy vestments in Ofl and Gas participa ­ wTvnerS,coipor8tearxfrnunidpefbonds,- Two of toe better known services are: abdvs toat lavei. Treasury Notes havs marketable instiuments with ma ­ and may refer to preferred stock as weM. SlHYiard& Poor's (“S&PO wxf Moody’s. maturities of one to ten years. T-Note tions. Direct investments in Real turities greater than one year. Typi- The tabto below shows toe quatty rat ­ denominations rangt from ons toou- Estate, Unregistered Securities, caHy, fixed income securities make Index Fund ings and correspondtog levels. ' sand to one mKon dofiars ($1,000 to Double-Tax Exempt Securities, Lim­ semi-annual intorestpayments. The A portfolio that matches the perfor ­ $1{000,000). Treasury Bonds havs ited Partnerships, and any financial mance of that of a broad based index, maluritiss of ten yssra or tongsr and are Funds win exercise prudent dNersi- such as. the S&P 500. sap... instniment not spedficMIy identified licatton in the management of the ieauad in minimum denominations of as pennissble. one thousand dofiars ($1,000). fixed Income portion of the invest ­ Mvgin Account BRB ment portfolio. Portfolio dhrersifica- A brokerage account thatalows cus­ ocoo CMbC V, Sblactiofi OuldalfMst tion shall consider exposures to: tomers to buy securftiee'with rrxxwy The pari of toe nelassata of a nol-tor- in addition to the Rmilations de ­ creAfisk, indhridual companies, in­ borrowed from a broker. Real Value pratt organization that is neitoer penna- scribed in Section IV above, the dividual issues, and sector risk. Ex ­ A measure of the pumhaai ng power of nardy restricted nor tsmporarly re- following quality and investment cri­ cept for fixed income securities is­ Mutual Fund an investment Real value is the total stocted by donor-imposad stipMatio ns teria are to be applied. r sued and guaranteed by the U.S. A fund that invests in assets as de ­ annualized return from an investment (Concepts Statemsrti 6. paragraph 94). PACIFIC CITIZEN, APRIL 18-MAY 1,1997

Agenda ‘The Jew and the Roofs of Japanese ’ ■PeisoncdJiistioe. ByZenkrtiiioOyat» “Nippon-jinnoRootewaYliclaya-jin ” (1929) engaged in weaving of silk doth. It is for the Ainu in Hdckaklo. To the best of Denied’avcDkd)]e "W This past year has seen an increase in out common features in the two cul­ my knowledge, no other scholar ever the "Japanese Schin/Uer" stones. The tures going l»ck to premod^ times. said that an individual unreded a silk thread off a cocoon bolding it in his theorized that the Aiiiu migrated from SAN FRANCISCO—Copies oi JACL has been among organizations 1) On New Year’s Day, it is custom­ the Middle East I would lib to dabo- Personal Justice Denied (1997, relating the iOga of courage and com­ ary for Japan^ to make mochi (rice mouth. People who tFou^iTsil^wl- ture were kno^ as the Hata cbn. rate on this matter further on the ^asis University of Washington Press, passion of Chiune Sugihara, the Japa­ cake) by pounding boiled rice and offer­ of his book. P.O. Box 50096, Seattte, WA98145. nese diplomat in Lithuania, for rescu­ ing it at the family altar, detorating the Kata in J^mnese and (Sun in Chinese are spelled the same, and mean they About 1000 B.C., there were two 52 pp., notes, index, $16.95) are ing theUoesofanes^matedb,000 Jews frmt ^trance of the bouse with pine main groups of Ainus; Etxs and Eso, in inPolandfle^theHolocaustinI939- tree iFanches bound with thick straw are Jewish Chinese. availal^ to JACLers a! Headquar ­ the area ioduding Siberia, the Mari­ ters. the regional offices (Los Ange ­ 1940 by issuing them transit visas to ropes with papa* tufts, and drinkings 15) Thee are many similar words in the HdFew and Japanese languages, time Province (eastern Siberia facing les. Fresno, San Francisco. Seattle, Japan. sweet sak^ wine (toso). On the seventh the Japan Sea), eastern Manchuria, Chicago) and the Washington J ACL Delving, th^ore, iiytoJewishJapa- day, they remove the {xne branches particularly in andent literature. For instance, hara means fidd in both lan­ northern Korea and west«n Japan. Office, which also serve as distribu- nese connections, James Oda has re­ and eat a stew made up of rice and Ebis originally migrated from the Elbus viewed several books in Japanese seven different herb v^tables. guages. Forest is more in Hebrew and tipn points. area of Israel and Elso from the Edom The 1997 edition has added a armind the popular subject of the "Lost A similar custom is featured during mori in JapMese. Common women's prologue from the Civil Liberties Tribe <4 Isnel," which some scholars Jewish Passover festivities. Someffli^t names such as Misa, Isa and Tama in area. Public Education Fund, a foreword find fascinating as an explanation to disagree by saying that Passover falls Hebrew could be Japanese. Abraham ’s There was another group called by Tetsuden Kashima, University of the oagins of the Japanese pec^le. Oda in tbetoonth of March or April in the son Isaac could be Isaku in Japanese. Orochi, an aggressive group in Siberia, Washngtcxi, and the Recommen- has concluded with his own observa­ modem calendar. However, the Torah The Hebrew language is written from disrupting peace among the immi­ diMts, Part III, which were not in tions which appeared in the recent Jan. refers to the month of Nisan (when right to left and Hebrew books are read grants. Ashnazuchi, chief the Elns, the 1982 publication. 24-Feb. 6 issue. — EdiUw. Passover occurs) as the first month of from right to left, just as in Japanese. asked Susano-ono-mikoto to subdue the The JACL offices can expedite the year in the Jewish calendar and 16) Buddhism was introduced troublesome Orochi. Susano-ono- bulk orders in incremer^ of 10 or BOOK REVIEW rnaki^ Dereference to aday to be known to Japan, it swept the whole country mikoto raised an army and wiped the more.books at a discount ($10.77 as New Year’s Day. (Ref; To Be a Jew" like a hurricane. The whole natiem was Orochi out: As a result he was allowed per book) plus shipping. Sub^uent by Rabbi Hakim Halevy Dooin, page converted toBuddhism practicaUy over ­ to many the chiefs daught^ and be­ orders may be placed by the chap ­ 243). night Yet it did not bring about any came the chief ofboth Ebis and Eso. so ters cfirectly with the UW purchasing Japanese simply celelFate with no —no^ceable change in the customs of the goes the stcFy. department.* religious sentim^t the coming of an Only doctrine and teaching There are conflicting repoffts about (Hit auspicious new year, whereas Jews . Previously, Chinese Confiidan Susano-emo-mikoto ’s identity pd per­ observe Passover as a solann ceremony ling had beoi introduced with little formance. He was the brother of ChCQjtK lauds kxxd to commemorate the historical event of or no effect on the Japanese way oflife. Amaterasu-o-mikami, the l^endaiy their exodus from Egypt They would OfBdally. Judaism never made a debut founder of the Japanese race, and was newspaper reportage relive the hardships experienced by in Japan, yet its influence on theJapa- the king of Susa in theMiddle Bast tber ancestors by eating unleavened nese way of life is tremendous and There exists an artist’s sketch of In a letter to tt>e‘Idaho State Jour­ bread imatzoh) a^ bitter herbal veg­ beyond imagination. 'Hiis success^* Susano-ono-mikoto, whose face and at­ nal, the Pocatello-Bladdoot Chap ­ etables. not be attained b^ siroFriy propagating tire are made to resenUe an Israelite. ter applauded ‘our local media, ” for The Torah prohibition against leav­ one ’s ||oep»l. It is only possible if tens of This case suggests that high-rank­ its presentation of the Democratic ened foods gnes into effect at the noon of thousands of disdples migrate here en ing Israelites readily married Ainus or National Committee's fund-raising By James Oda the fourteenth day of Nisan. Indden- masse and mingle with the local inhab­ Orientals. It would seem that controversy in selectir>g AP articles talfy, January 14th was o^ce a widely itants. In this respect, we must take Abraham's teaching of radal purity which specifically named the T the beginning of the 1990 ’s, the acclaimed holi^y in Japan in andent into consideration that the Ainu, the was modified ctmsideraUy in the course sources of/questionable ccMitrftxi- tim^.butthe practice gradually ceased original, indigenous people, were also a ofhundreds ofyears ofwandmng. Thus tiorts: ”Ast$n governments or busi- I subject of the Lost Tribe of Israel ^ be(^e a focal^pic in Japan's to exist, probably in the spirit of ‘Jet Semitic peojiJe from the Middle East there was an infusion of races by inter­ r>ess... U.S. citizens promoting con­ bygones be bygones." Religiously they were differeoL but marrying, a policy that might have struction between Armenia ar>d pubbcadcK) wnJd. was a fasdnat- ingdevelopmenL 1 am not a new stu­ 2) Both Jews and Japanese pay re­ homogeneous radally. been forced upon them by necessity. I Azerbaijan... Cheyenpe-Arapaho dent of this sulgect In (act, 1 have spect to elders. The Jewish community 17) In Israel as well as in Japan, only surmise that the Lost Tribe of Israd tit>es, ” and dapicted afrecMe-faced is beaded by an elder cypress is used in building a shrine. lost a considerable number of women in kid in a oartobn about pending the writtsi and even published a pamj^et on the origin of the Japane^ My theme 3) In both cultares, when tliQ’ greet Peculiarities of construction are simi­ its rank during many yean of wander­ night in the White House. each other, they bow their heads many lar having a main building in the inte­ ing and had to marry outside the group. The tetter commended the paper \was that ^ andenUlapanese migra^ from Euro-Asia through the Siberian times. If the other person is a highly rior and auxiliary building in fiunt; It has been cwtmided by Western ar­ fdr not giving space to such biased respect^ person, one kneels down and no staircase anywhere inside the build­ chaeologists that the Yayoi peof^ (Ko­ articles as the New YorkTimes ccA- st^)p^ Manchuria and Korea. Raising the conjecture (^Israel as bows his head. ing; instead, ^adually elevated hall­ rean, blanchurian, or Isra^te) came umn by Wiliam Safire on the ‘Asian 4) In both cultures, the home is ways; prese^ erf* torii (two 1^ posts frean the continent and intermarried connection, ’ and the Wall Street the birtiqilace of the Japanese Impe rial Family, postulated by Japanese deaned throu^ut before a festival. conneried with lumber cm tc^) in front; with the Jomon people (indigenous Journal coverage descrtong Asian They bathe before attending a shrine. a set of two sitting liems, male and Ainu), rieating the new Yamato Americans as ‘people with tenuous edwlars,seemed ixapoetaous initially. Buteventually I came to the cendusion 5) In both cultures, shoes are re­ female, carved out stone (note; lions Recently this theory was enhanced connections to this country.” ^ moved when entering the house. Un­ never lived in Japan). immeasurably when the Shihaya- ‘Americans can be proud of^me that I had made a grave error in not dehing into the possibility of the Lost der certain circumstances, the feet are 18) TTiere is a cornmem belief among RoF^xnunatsu cemetery site of the Yayoi historic contributions Asian Pa ­ washed before entering. Jews and Japanese that God lived above period was excavated in Saga Prefe- ' cific Americarts to our country over Tribe Israel as a source (rf* the Japa­ nese Impoial Family. 6) In both cultures, the garden is the doud. During the Exodus, Jews ture. A total of 39 skeletons were found. the last 150 years —from the con­ made on the sunny side of tl^ house. followed the direction of God, who was Of these, it was d^ermined that the struction of the Central Pacific Rail ­ In 1978, I interviewed extensively Ms. Ydu» Iwawab of the nationalistic 7) In both cultures, a-tFazier {hiba- living above the doud. God told Moses men we% of the Yaya arigin (oval fece), road to the many advances being ckz) and a hearth (n>) firqjlace is {daced that he lives in the thidt of the doud. whereas the wmnen were of Jomon made today by APAs in sdenoe. Japanese historical aodety, whose view was that Japan’s hieroglyphic letters in the center of a room. 19) Both Jews and Japanese bdieve origin Jrpund face), indicating that in education and government.. 8) Jewishattire was basically differ- that salt has the capadty to disinfect earlier days, the Yayoi migrants were ‘Whie we strongly condemn any woe used in the jQmon<^ture 100,000 years ago (Feoeding the HetFew lan­ from that of Europeans, but more and deanse. Japanese sumo wrestlers bachelors and married local Ainu illegal fund-raisir>g.ert>d careless sumlartoJapanese.TTkeyuBedobriwide always sprinkle salt over the platform women after settling down in Japan. fund-raising practices in the last elec ­ guage and that Japan’s imperial ances­ tors desc^ukd on the Middle East from sash) and carried a sword tucked in before a match. (Ref.; The Rdfu Shimpo, 6-8-91). tion, we believe it is important for under the obi like the Japanese samu­ 20) [hiring the festivals both in Is- TTiis policy radal infuskm in the politicians and members to ensure heaven and became the Jewish people, and that with the defeat of the Je^h rai. rad and Japan, about 15 selected young (Focess of conquer^ other nations be­ that their actions and statements do 9) Andent Japanese did not cook rice peoiJe carry on thdr shoulder a por­ came the traditional policy of the not unfairly impugn an entire enthnic kingdom, ten erf* the twelve tribes mi­ grated to Japan across the Asian conti­ in the way they do today. They made table shrine imikoshi) and take part in Yamato race. For instanra, vriien Ja­ mir>orrty. We value those leaders dumplings out of various grains and the parade marching through the pan annexed KcFea in 191<^daughters arxf reporters who have avoided nent 1 rgected such a view in 1978 as put them into a soup. Jews used’ a streets. (Mikoshi was carried 1^ the of the Japanese impe^ fiu^y mar­ stereotypes and careless ger>erali- gniilar method to prepare foods. refugees in the Exodus). ried into the royal family ofKmaa. TTiis zations. ” The letter was signed by lunatic and discontinued further study* 10) Whenever the Japanesehave a The for^dng 20quotations are out­ IFactice existed fo mident C^lpna and Micki Kawakami. president, in that direction. However, the times ’’ have changed. Now the subject of the banquet, small salto cups (sakazuki) standing excerpts taken from Dr. also, to some eztoiL in Western coun­ Pocatello-Blackfoot Ch^er. are pas^ to consume liquor. When Oyabe ’s book. The (Figinal quotations tries. «. •Workshop on maldhg hapi Lost Tribe is a prominent issue. If and when the legitimaiy of the Lost Tribe the empty cup is passM, one is obli^ were supplied with elaWate notes in­ In the thirteenth century, when coats —Thiit)^rrve JACL and Sister tofill it and drink. Jewshave a similar dicatingthe sources. Oyabe studiedthe City Association members worked as the fotmder of Japan is accepted, the Genghis Khan’s army overran Europe Imperial Family has a ready-made an­ custom. Hebrew language at Yale University and the Middle East, itis report^ that several hours over the Feb. 22-23 swer 'We preceded the Jews." 11) Hie Bon festival became a Bud­ and was wdl versed in the dassical Israelites in the Diaspora rqoiced, weekend to create red or blue hapi HelFew literature including the Old thinking their loSt tribe hwH fi. coats. The (coats) were harder to I have r^ several Japanese books dhist ritual after Buddhism was intro­ duced to Japanin 552 A.D. But even Testam»L the Torah, and other an­ nally regained strength and had come nruto than anticipated, but they will writy on the subject, and reviews of befd Taka Kida were the . Zatiduro Oyabe. This book was pub­ X 'JLautfacFitative because he spent in Genghis Khank world-wide ezpedi- ■ H^Few mt .______—Or. Oyabe sending theirs by mail for years.* various portions of the book that ppint PACIFIC crrragM AP

Jewish attire tras ... more similar to Japanese. They used obiandcar- Pt pcoj>!c ried a sword tucked in under the obi like the... samurai. Days of VWxld W I ENGINEER-DENTIST-F-In- stalled as president of the 19, 000- Jewish 0ctto in member Califijrnia Dental Asso­ ciation at its annual narting in San Diego in Shanghai fecafcd^ Decemb^.Eu- gm SeUgv- I nwakeoftheaward-winningfilm no rabbis among the chi. DDS. of I I Schindler's List and wide Nikkei There were a doz^ qualified rab­ Monterey Park interest in the heroics of Japanese bis, and several Jewish schools and said, “Patients consul general ii^Lithuania Chiune kindergartens in the restricted today have bet­ Sugih^ who iiJiored his countiy ’s area. ter health order and issued transit visas to (6) There were in Hongkew sev­ than their par­ pi Jews Bering Poland in the summer eral synagogues, clubs, sports or­ ents. Grand­ of 1940, ihejre was an account of “a ganizations and Zionist groups; children and I Jewish concentration camp in TTiere were shops, restaurants and their children ' 'mm Shanghai* appearing recently in will have better oral health than theaters. Despite the confinement the Ij06 Angries Jewish commu­ and poverty, they built for them­ their parents. Fm going to work nity weekly. Heritage. selves ‘a piece of Europe" from the very hard to continue that trend * What prompted two readers to deserted and filthy slums of He served on the CDA board of immediately react was the pitch Hongkew. trustees and executive ccxmnittee, IB related to Heritage founder-cri- on many American Dental Asso­ (7) It was very easy to visit any ­ umnist Herb Brm that a Jewish GI one living in the restricted area. ciation committees and with the was at Shanghai to ‘rescue* the However, it was impossible to exit San Gabriel Valley Dental Society. Jews from concentration camp. Tt without pas^, given out by the After a 11-year career as dectri- is difficult to imagine (that) and Japanese military anri under su­ cal engineer with the LA. Depart­ remrin anonyrtmus for 50 years," pervision "of a sadist known as ment of Water and Power. Izzy Lias and Va^acqv Liberman Goya. ” He was feared andde^iised Sekiguchi switched gears in the expressed, in their reb^ftal printed by aR. And he did not "push preg­ 1970s, graduating in 1974 fiom two weeks later. Reaton for the nant women down flights of steps* use Scho(J of D^tistry. To sup­ ‘well-kept secret of ^e rescue is ncH* did he cause fatal harm to port himself and his growing fam­ simple: It never took place." ily while attend!^ dental sdxKri, >«>!•*• to anyone under his j urisdictiem. Nev- In presenting their story to Heri­ ertiieless, Goya was known tojump he operated a series of busi­ tage, the two China-born Jews in- on tables, scream at the refiigees, nesses.' m tr^uced themselves. They had cut beards of the rabbis and slap Bom in National City, be, his looms in the possessioo of the Ainu enslaved. lived a quarter century prewar in people acroBsthe face. The day the wife Clairfe, reside in La <3a^da- chieftains that would be traced to thedr 2) From 1635 B.C. to 1451 B.C. Harbin and Shanghai, spent the ' war «nded, he was mercilessly Flintridge. They have three chil­ days in Mongolia more than 1000yean After Joseph’s demise, discriinina- war years in Shanghai and Ipft for beaten by some young Jewish men. dren, two of whom are dentists. ■ ago. tion against the Israelites worsened. the U.S. and Israel in 1947 and He was never brought to justice Dr. Oy^ maintains that no man in were forced to perform hard labor 1948, respectively. They explained and there were rumors that he was YOUNGEST COUNCIL­ wdentiimes ever lived in heaven. He as in the constructioa rf the pyramids. the facts were— ‘an American spy*throu^outthe MAN—In a special Honolulu dty s^ysit is a matter of expression: when Moses led them out of Egypt, but they (1) Over 25,0eech of surren­ mary and£ji<^ter Sansei things get a little fuz^, and awarded to three scientists, one of whom duced a great piece of sdence but he also (Asia)” finm New Englanders and wonder I’m uncertain as to whether Rokusei (sixth was Charles J. Pedersen. Depending on the displayed the personal characteristics my about “da kine* with the Nisei from Hawpii? generation) and so on will be identifiable. definition one uses, Pedersen might be con­ father sought to teach me. He was humble, W^t a chattering air it w^ this Angeleno— Somewhere along the way, when it be­ sidered a Nikkei. You be the judge. always honest and honorable. At the same away from Southern California for the first came desirable to find a generic term cover ­ This is the situation: Ikeda sent me mate­ time, he was tenadous in his search for time. ^ ing all Japanese Americans regardless of rial which states that Pedersen was bom in knowledge ^d willing to work hard and When you read how English language is generational status, Nikkei came into use. Pusan, Korea, in 1904 ofa Norwegian father persevere wiilmut accolades. ” spoken around the world, English has be­ It was adopted by the Japanese American and a Japanese mother. He received his It does not add- to Charles Pedersen’s come “a ^obal-phenomenon ”—to quote a press—it’s short, pronounceable and fits into early education in Japan, first in Nagasaki stature to be considered a Nikkei. But it line from the 19^ PBS series,*^ory of En­ headlines—and is now widely accepted al­ and later at the French-American school in would do gr^t hoifor to the Nikkei commu­ glish.” And we all know learning how to though it confuses some Japanese. V^at the Yokohama run by the Marianist order of nity if, in life, he would have considered ' speak comes first. For example: our grand­ peopleof Japan know as Nikkei is the short Catholi c priests who steered him to the himself to be one of us. ■ son Joey, who's 21 months old, will point term for Nihon Kazai Shimbun, the influen­ order ’s UlBversity of Dayton in Ohio. He straight at and holler “big truck!" The first tial economic daily which holds a position went on to get his master’s degree in oiganic Hosokawa is the former editorial page editor Anglo-Saxons were illiterate. The late like that of The Wall Street Journal. The chemistry at the Massachusetts Institute of for the Denver Post. His columns have ap­ Charles Kamayatsu used to entertain by Japanese prefer to know us as Nikkei Technology.joining DuPont ’s Jackson Labo ­ peared regularly since June 1^2 in the —riedting some noble lines finm Chaucer, and America-jin, or Nikkei Americans. ratory in Deepwater, N.J. in 1927. Half Pqcific Citizen. that was “speak only English" that none of us understood, but might “IT you saw it written—a big “ir at that. Spelling of lE^wind Chaucer’s time — 14th century Middle En- ^ish — is unlike Modem En^ish. By BILL MARUTANI The debate over “English as the official r#. language of the United States government ” has been in the implementation — votmg ballots, government forms, examinations and Eternal Torch bilingual education. Our piece here ski^ that and prefers to wonder about Qie music of English, about the accents and dialects. Is - •■"N THE SPRING of 1992, there was phase of this process. This is attested to by THERE ARE YET other compelling rea­ Scottish English, for instance, a language or I introduced in the U.S. Congr^ Hoiise the comparative paucity of memorials in sons for Washington, D.C., as the universal a dialect? (I’ve read where Kanaye Naga- !^LJoint Resolution 271 authorizing the Washin^n, D.C. focus for the Nikkei monument. Our govern­ sawa, the Samurai Grape King of erection iii Washington, D.C., ofa memorial Thus, in many respects this Nikkei me­ ment officials — people who shape and en­ Fountaingrove, spoke with aSrottish brogue. to recognize “the sacrifices of American men, morial will be unprecedented, marking a force the laws of this land, both presently He was taught in the 1850s in England.) women and children of Japanese ancestry contemporary epi^e in American history and in the future —will continue to gather Which brings us to a journalistic note of who were .uidustly categorized, evaoiated for all to reflect upon, presently and, more there; foreign embassies from throughout English as spwken by the Japanese%iand and interned during World War II, and to particularly, for the future. the world are assembled there, where they renditions sometimes.in pidgin. Japan has th^stead&rtpatziotic supportofthe United The Commission considered the Nikkei may be exposed to a facet of American his­ been borrowing foreign words since thgj^or- States, its people and goven^ent that took memorial as being worthy ofbeingenshrined tory wherein a democratic system responded tuguese landed in the 16th centui^ We their baac ri^ts as Americans without rea­ in our Nation ’s capital. affinnatively. Each and ev^ year, literally mentioned some in “The Past MiUennium* sonable cause.” In so declaring, then-Repre- millions of otir fellow Americans, from every C96 Holiday Issue) —kasutera, pan and" sentative Norman Y. Mineta further stated; WHY WASHINGTON D.C.? It was in nook^d craimy of our laird, visit our nation ’s tempura *Ihe memorial is a tribute to the indomi­ Washington, D.C., where principal events capital, folks who otherwise may not be Headlines in Japanese newspapers ren­ table spirit of a segment of our citizeniy — took place involving all three branches ofour TO^ed. Each of these groups of people, for der, for instance, inflight, infield, influence d^ned not by themselves but by the govern­ Govemment which forever impacted upon centuries to come, will have the opportunity (ea^ begins with *inff) in kana as “in-fu-re.” ment—who (nonthdess) remained stead­ the lives of Nikkei — the Isaei and their to visit the Nikkei monument — and learn. “De-mo* often means “demonstration, ” not fast in their faith in the democratic system of ofispring. First, the Executive Branch on So that past iiyustices hopefully will not be democracy. government and fought for its preservation, February 19,1942, issued E.0.9066 leading repeated and the luster of our system of Oocasicnial columns by Bill Hosokawa have it is a oeldiration of our system of govern­ up to the uprooting and confinement of the governance will not again be tarnished. reported fractured Japanese English, some­ ment which demonstrate its stren^ and Issei and Nisei residingm the Pacific Coast times called “Japlisb” (or .Tangtiah to avoid dignity by admitting a wrong and correcting area. Then the L^^Iative Branch followed THE NIKKEI MEMORIAL will not only the pejorative syllable). Jin I^nomi has a on Mflreh21, idfe, pHR.«ringalaw making be a focal point; it will nlao be the central keen ear for Japanese words as Spoken and On the Senate side, U.S. Senator Daniel it a criminal offense for failure to comply anchor for each and all other regional and has, thus, engaged himself in a scholarly K. Inouye simultaneously introduced a par­ with edicts issued under E.0.9066. Thirdly, local Nikkei memorials located t^ughout effort to replace the Hepburn sjatem in allel bill. Senate Joint Resolution 161. the Judicial Branch handed down decisions our land. spelling Japanese words in ron^i—Roman in Hirayabashi (1943) and Korematsu (1944) It would be hoped that aU of America, letters. He often hears the *1 ” rather than the THERE THEN REMAINED a m^jor upholding convictions of two men who defied including particularly the progenitors of the “r” and says the “u" is often silent as in hurdle to approval, namely, clearance by the restrictions imposed based upon one ’s race. Issei who sao^ced and endured so much,' “sam’raiBill Marutani has devoted many a Natioiud Capital Memorial Oommission, And some 40-plus years-later, again it was in will join in to make this unprecedented me­ column on Japanese words. Another look at which is oidowed with Omnipotent author ­ Washington, D.C., that the Civil Liberties morial a reality. ■ the English language was our reprinting the ity to approvddisapprove any and all pro- Act of 19^ waspassed whereby our Govern ­ “WRA Camp Lexicon, ” a collection of En­ po6^ for o(mstruction of monuments in oui ment acknowledged that a wrong had been glish as spoken by the Issei and the Japa­ Nation ’s cfipital. Many monument propos­ inflicted and proceeded to demonstrate its After leaving the bench, Marutani resumed nese used by the Nisei. als, thou^ clearing both houses of (in­ streng^ and di^ty by apologizing and practicing law in Philadelphia. He writes We’re oversimplifying here, but the En- gress, expire aborning at the Commission tendering symbolic solatium thsefor. regularly for the Pacific Citizen. ^ish language has been column fodder for many years in the Pee-Cee. E>^r try to phonetically write down how a Nisei who grew up in Terminal Island. Wal­ nut Grove or on a Hawaiian plantation speaks?! rr WAS ENTERTAIWIWG LAST

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Is the 1QQ/442/l\/IIS monument ‘controversial? ’ ‘Of course not!’ By OR. FRANK NISHIO The East Coast has many stat­ other deseiving participants will (Special to the Padffc Citizen) Public relations firms have taken be nt. Tlierhe ripplea of Che ues rfCivil War and Reihlutionaiy be listed. No one can aigue that over and th^r publicize, publicize, AN the title to the Pacific Triad’s waves readiedr fer. Wargeneralg^manysculptedriding there weren’t many stalwarts and publicize, even little Without the Nisei’s a I , Citizen story (March 21, p. on their horses. The hkaes were achievers among the survivors. ments, ifone has tbe«onnecS^. V_^ 5), -Nisei VFW Reunion ments Mr. Mexita, Sony ’s I posed in three ways. Some horses And times change. Statues of So today, it’s also connections, oon- maw said, Japan’s ’fvfnfftri*** backs controvenrial moncunmt,* be had their two fi^t iro in a Napoleon and Grant have given nections, connections. prDiMiatdy so. bying and rampaign fimds. Whidi servations are astute. Probably, difi^ring opinions. But should it finir legs on the platform. The dif­ Honor Roll for An also become-numbers, numbka, the acceptance erf Asians was en­ be?Ofcourse n<*. Prom my view­ ference was exidained. A bucking But there’s another change tak­ niHnbers, numbers of supporterk hanced by the Triad also. point, the answer is a resounding pose indicated the Qfeteral died in ing |daoe. In many towns ofdoQars, ofmdustriee, ofdissemi- There is neverequality to satisfy -no.* Let me express my view and combat Onelegup meant^ (jen- USA, they>e erecting Honor Rdls natoia. How does that relate to the everyone. But let us recognize our that of many others. eral died finrn oompUcaticms fbl- naming all who serv«L monument? You griesaed it The indebtedness to all our savicss. The 10Q(442/MlS(1heTriad)wa8 lovring a wound. Four 1^ on the Many who fed that eervin^our ■rpQiy namaa nn It behooves us to bury our minor the savior of J^aneee Americans platftm meant the Gene^ died a country is a natural duty and more peojide come to touch and say, differences and give cr^t and rec- during and after WWn. made natural death. doesn^ need recognitiem have a “That’s my grandpa, great- ogmtiem to the deserved. Letfs all it pos^le for us to remain in these Times change and so hai; the good point Some erf ns poo-poo ’d unite to give a resoundingracogni- United States, the envy of the rest mode of memfirialfl. There prob­ the idea of receivpig a medal or a The greater the nuinber, the tiem to our valorous saviexs. of^i^woiid. There were two U.S. ity was an outcry: -Why should dtation. Some of us are not ostai- greater the -puUicity, the greater Nisei tend to in-^^t. Let’s fig^ senate committees trying to devise only officers and generals be recog­ tatious. the connectioas and the greater our real adversaries. They ’re otit a plan to depart ail (if us (see nize when many of the others Sloes not wearing cnir ribbons the legacy. The legacy is Kodomo there.! V!e^yn,Yearsing back to monuments list­ ber of the Triad, who as a unit reading the article (Feb. 21. p. 9, people in 50 years or so and also the most elaborate, most impres­ ing KIAs, the ultimate monument broke records on all &t>nts, by con­ Redress plea made for Japanese some members have the s^e sive and most vu^le monument is the Vietnam Wall. We can pic­ sistently conquering what others American railroaders, et al.), how­ name. I was in the 442nd “crigi- cannot be b& enou& for our grati­ ture the families, relatives and could not by accomplishing ever, she is in need of an address. nals” and two distant cousins took tude to the^ The one controvei^, fiiendsofthe KIAs tenderly touch­ innovative plk^ and procures, Can you help? basic with me (in] Alaska. I was in which pal^ in contrast to the im­ ing the wall, choking bade their deserve the lai^t and most im- Co. L, 2nd platoo^ 1st squad. SAOetijet portance c^the successful building teark That is omst appropriate. pressve monument. A shrine to Sutie “yffitattuSa. of the planned mombpent, is the Ttk l(XI/442/MlSmonumeQtwill our outstanding warriors. [email protected].^u listing of KIAs-only versus liking have a star before 600+ names, In the old days, people who ac­ MichiNishiura Wegiyn, 957Park (Co.L, 442nd) SA Jose all partipip^ts. Let c6e address KIA or from other war-related complished tried to be modest and Ave., New York NY 10028-0317. A good suggesticn: when news­ deaths. But in addition, 14,000+ not publicize. Today, it’s different. It's not P.C.’s practice to publish letters come from 442nd Clubs in addresses, but she is anxious to Honolulu and Los Angeles, weshall hear from pecqyle about this issue. check their "Taps’ cUumn for the Itoteeorasaiisci ■ infiormation. P.C. Wish List ©ByAKEMIKAYLENG Dear Harry: Your column (April Keepitup,Nat8uto 7-17) about the “P C. Wsh List” Without Natsuko Irei (Feb. 21- prompted me to write a check fbr March 6 P.C.), a JACL convention the cause. We ^oyed the latest will not be a JACL convration. Abancloned belongings issue Pacific CHtizen as well. She's the one who greets you with a big amilA and a handahaka Of Fve heard Bob out on this topic WASP baby boomers, like me, are Ventura CJountyJACL course, she sells you a raffle book IVI aSTtall^*^ ^stoneham butnevertheless shealways greets so often I could go on for hours beginning to look at the dismal The ’we’ includesher husband, you likea fast friend. Keep it up, In particular, we oftra focus on describing bis be^ list about his state of the eldcriy which White Alan; both longtime JACLers. cultural diversity and upward own people. About the over-em ­ society has waiting for them. Marilyn’s uncle,AmbroseUchi- Natsi^. Her diapter should recommend mobihtyissues.WediacusstbeiBxie phasis Blades place on worship­ Whit^ could have bettered them­ yamada ofMaine,wasa MarykhoU bCT for tiie JACLRuby Pin. and cons (rf various methods. ping Blac^ athlete heroes, while selves by becoming more like us. School Gjos Angeles) buddy the Bob ’s really lost interest in the neglecting their sdiool studies. late Larry Tqjiri, wartime editor of Zk. methods of the mxties. They were Almt Blk^ on Black crime, the In my inooming JACX presidenf s the P C., and later Denver Post JACL Membership an adoleecxinfs first attempts at high rate of Black children bom remarks, I stat^ that Manzanar entertainment editor through the Developm«it chair, 8elf-aa8ertioo.Wediantfld slogans, out ofwedlock, and 80 forth. V was not of our choosing. For so ’50s and mid-’60s. CaierTY Hill Village. Colo. waved bannoB, staged media-grab­ many years, our actions were dic­ bing demonstrations. We were im­ I tmderstand his frustrations tated by hftH thinga imposed on us REDRESS FOR RAILROADERS: bued with romantic idealism. The very well. Ifeelthesamewayabout by others. problem was, emotions aside, we Japanese Americans. like Bob, I I went on to state that today, we Agreement by Navel/Army \ had no structured, well adminis­ have a sentimental thing about my-> are reaping the success of our evo ­ tered plan for adiikang those ado> race and culture. Like Bob, Fve lutionary iHocess, so our destina­ intelligence with FBI cited '-also gotten so angry at some ofcnir tion, this time, is not Manzanar. lesoent vi^ons. Another problem By MICHIN. WEGLYN was that we were naively aimpfis- own self-defeating tendencies. Too It’s of our own choosing. regardiiig the Japanese, whidi in- tic in our pere^rfions of ourselves many of us aaaimnatpH indiscrimi- We can no longer blame White The operative document in the duded the maintaining of careful andofmainstzkunsodety.Wewere na^y, without thinking. We have society for all our misfortunes. case of the railroad workers (see watch of eadi worker, wifo was to the victims and they were the op­ a growing white collar crime rate, Because we are the ones making P.C. 2/21-3%) comes down to the he i^aced on weak wb^ of^Krtu- pressors, pure and simple. If only our strong femily system is tweak­ our choices, our bad destinations *ddimitatiM>ri«h TTiiatime , ince of the FBI. wearing white hata. When we look crisis. All the classic WASP-styie the tinshing is of our own ekeweing. Almost immediately following at our own aelMefeating tenden­ tymptoms are there. For the feat I still stand by the Japanere Pearl Harbex, railroad offidals'dis- employment ” without J. Edh^ cies, we feel fer less comfortable. ; to realise, on a American oopimunity. Fm commit­ trust of Japemese employees rose Hoover ’s fxior a^xoval? Bob is cross cultural. He grew up that I wemt be ted to us in spite of our stupidities, sharply, but Hoover ’s Special A February 13 l^ter to Hoover .Tm dogged by a riot because^them. Iremain com­ Agmxts counseled them to keep from President W. M. Jeffers erfthe African American and poor in Uniem Pacific, arpJaininghis in- Watts. Neither one of his parents sense that time is running out, mitted, because the Japanese cool, fixr the FBI had already thatifthms’sanything Iwant to do American experience is so inextri ­ had thdr lists, from whidi arrests tenticxis to proceed with the mass graduated from high sdiocJ.Today layofi “providing they have the he's Uy^ the American Dream. I must do it now. My health is cably a part of my own personal could be made. penniaskm of the Federal or State He holds a graduate sdKwl degree, excellent for a person in my^ge hist^. But Fm weary of watching On December 10 the fVesident a university adminiwtx fltivg posi- bra^et, but it won'tbe good fix ’- our own bad decisions of the Union Paeffle had been ad- authorization to move, ” ixoves oon- dusively that officiaU had sought tiem, and lives in a beautiful sifour- ever. Someday I, too, will be one of I really understand how Bob vis^ by G-2 of Headquarters Sev­ Stoneham feels.AfricanAmericans enth Cerps Area not to dismiss (and bod received) the govern­ banhmne those sad nursing hooie cases. Tliat ment’s go-ahead. will always be his peopl^ and bell Japanese bift. “where su^feaon vl9M. Dome aiigatol nese ancestry who served in the tJyematsu further stated, “All nation ’s arm^ forces from 1950 to the names being received after the HARRY K. HONDA Edita emeritus' 1953 and have since passed away banquet publication deadline (April CAROUNE Y. AOYAGL Assistant edita or died while in the service. 15) will be entered in our planned ' KERRY S. TING, Business nnonger These names will be listed on the CD-ROM for placement in Japa­ Memorial Honor Roll page in the nese American museums and his­ booklet, Uyematsu stressed. The torical societies throughout the honor roll page is for names of all countty." (A questionnaire form 1995 Portland, Or^., $50; Tosh Kasai, Forest Park, Korean War Era veterans, regard­ was published a fortnight ago in Kea AJdra Nakaoo, Kirkland, Wash., $100; m., $50; Noboru Morio, Bellevue. Wash., $25; less of the location of their service. the Pacific Citizen.) Further infor­ Monroe Markfiweetland, Milwaukie, Oreg., $15; Yukio Tazuma, Seattle, Wash., $20; Susie S. - TheMemorialWallwilllistthose mation: RobertM.Wada,davs(714) Donald Kanesaki, Fresno, Calif., $100; Mae Sato, Mesa, Ariz., $50; Pat Matsumoto, Seattle, with Japanese surnames who died 992-5461; fax; JAKWV, (714) 525- Takahashi, Fresno, Calif., $100; Mitsuho Alwin Wash., $25; Nelson Kitsuse, Chicago, 111., $20; in Korea during the war; the honor 9761. ■ Sate, Sacramento, Calif, $10; Takashi Hori, Se­ Sam Nakano. VaUey Park, Mo.. $100; attle, Wash., $25; Dr. Frank Sakamoto, Glenview, Shiro & Ikuko Takeshita, San Leandro, Calif, ni., $1^ Sanaye Okamura, Pocatello, Idaho, $100; Ozzie Shimada, WatsonviUe, Calif, $100; Hawaii crime a topic in Japan; $15; Paul Okamura, Pocatello, Idaho, $25; Bill Walt & Fumi Moriya, Camarillo, Calif, $50; __ Hosokawa, Denver, Colo., $300; Edna Iwakiri Richard Tani, Mt. Prospecty.IU., $50; Frank & time to clean up, says official Chung, Pwlland, Oreg., $50; John & Miyuki Karen Nishio. Fresno, Calif, $100; Kaz & Kiku Takeuchi, Richmond, Va., $20; Sequoia JACL, Tateumi, Seattle, Wash., $100; Greater LA. HONOLULU—Two TV pro- lems," Towili told the Honolulu Palo Alto, Calif., $400; Sain Saburo Nakagawa, Singles JACL, Los Angeles, Calif, $200; Contra 8 in Japan highlighted Advertiser. Seattle, Wash., $25; Karl K. Nobuj ’uki, Sepulveda, Cost JACL, Richmond, Calif, $100; MarySutow, ii’s drug problems and crimes In 1994, the most recent year Calif, $100; Joseph R. Allman, Phoenix, Ariz., Houston, Texas. $70; FrancesSugiyama, Whittier. against'lnurists during January, with available data, there were $30; Arizona JACL, Glendale, Ariz., ^50; Hiro & Calif., $25; Seiya Tanaka, San Luis Obispo. Ca­ and they ^ec^e a public issue 5,536 crimes against the 4.6 mil^ . Teru Imai, Lake View Terrace, Calif, $50; Jerry lif, $20; Ken Kashiwabara, Pentyn, Calif, $25; that contyriis the president of the lion tourists who visited Oahu. Fig-* & Natsuko Irei, Richmond, Calif, $100; Ted Hem ~ ■ “ - • - ~ • Hawaii Hotel Association, Murray ures also show Jap^ese tourists Kunitsugu, Whittier, Calif, $30; Towili. contributed $3.7 billion to Hawaii ’s Martha Inouye, Idaho Falls, Idaho, $250; Elmer The first show. “Japanese Tour­ $ll-billioh visitor industry. S. Tazuma, Seattle, Wash., $100; Frank Lupton, Colo., $20; Kazumi Fujii, Birmingham, ist: 24 Hours with the Honolulu Japanese Consul General Yoshimura, Salt Lake City. Utah. $20; Clifford I. Mich., $50; Ernest Urata, Inglewood, Calif, $100; Police," aired on TBS Network; the Kishichiro Amae last October . Uyeda, San Francisco. Calif, $100; Buster & Nelson Kitsuse. Chicago, 111., $20; Victor I. second. “Japanese Are^ Targeted: -wbrned that vigorous action must Yukiko Ota, Torrance, Calif., $20; Bette C. Moriyasu, Sumner, Wash., $100; the Hawaii You Don ’t Know About," be taken ‘immediately," after a Kurokawa, Santa Maria, Calif, $50; Clarence & Henri & Tomoye Takahashi, San Francisco, appem^ on. caMe TV, showing gunpoint robbery of Japanese tour­ Leatrice Miyashiro, San Diego, Calif, $100; Fred Calif., $1,000; Akira Ohno, Los Angeles, Calif, prostitutes in Waikiki being ar­ ists at the Sheraton Makaha Re­ Nakagawa, Seattle, Wash., $50; May Hirata, $100; Helen Kawagoe, Carson, Calif, $100; Jim rested and a Japanese tourist be­ sort and Country Club. He told the Lancaster, Pa., $100;Tosh& Fumi Ike, Gardena, & Matilde Taguchi, Uttleton, Colo., $100; Ron • ing dragged down the street dur­ Advertiser editors that “1997 Calif, $100; Geri & Dolly Ogata, Riverside, Ca­ Shiozaki, Torrance, Calif, $100; Harold & Chiye ing a purse snatching. ‘The com­ should be the year to combat crime lif. $50; H. Toi^ Tamaki, Norristown. Pa., $2M; Harada, Culver City, C^f, $50; Art ^ Elsie munity needs to address these prob­ in Hawaii." —Alan Beekman ■ Hiroichi Shimizu, Hillsboro, Or^., $20; Nami Nozaki^fcas V^as, Nev., $25; Kaiyl Matsumoto, Iwataki, Alameda, Calif, $50; Kikuko South San Francisco, Calif., $127.98;Anonymous, Tanamachi, Harlingen, jexas, $25; Gep^e San Jose, Calif, $ 100; Hiroshi & Grayce Uyehara, Iwasaki, Hillsboro, Oreg., $35; Geoi^ F^jii, Medford, N.J,. $50; Arthur & Elsie Nozjiki, Las Modesto, Calif, b 5j^ Joanna Sakata, Vegas, Nev., $50; Tsutomu Nakano, San Pedro, Cbrac Brighton, C(^o.; '$250; Homer & Miyuki Yasui, Calif, $25; Tamaki Ogata, Cupertino, Calif, $50; Portland, On^., $100; Anna Yata^, Osmard, Sohei & Margaret Yamate, Honolulu, Hawaii, Calif,»$100; $100; STUDIO Meriko Haya^, Seattle, Wash., $100; Mae T. 1996 Snoroc Tokio Ishikawa, San Joee,Calif, $100;Arnold Hada, ^illfiboro. Or^., $50; Mike M. Namba, SAN GABRIEL VILLAGE I Japanase Chaims Stockton, Calif, $100; David C. Moore II, Phoe­ & Gabriella Miyamoto, Palos Verdes Estates, Japanese Haines nix, Ariz., $50; Tom & Janet Kometani, Warren, Calif., $100; Noriko Yano, Renton, Wash., $20; 235 W. ^rvtew Ave. Japanese Famly C^iests Jf., $50;^yoko Kakehi, San Mateo, Calif, $30; Hiroshi Uchida, Monterey, Calif. $20; Arthur San Gabriel. CA 91776 ISMValeyVievSt Jean Y. Koda, Cressey, Calif., $100; Sachi W. Gorai, Seattle, Wash., $20; Virginia Fumi Tomita, Phone; (800) 552-8454 Oakland, Calif. $20;Chizu & Ernest liyama, El I Gardan Grove. CASBM5 Seko, Salt Lake aty, Utah, $ 100; Keith E. Matsuo. Faz;(8l8) 289-9569 Modesto, Calif, $100; Masuno Nisbihara, Cerrito, Calif, $50; Tadao Yamada, Fort Lee, (71^MM276 Makawao, Hawaii, $25; Alice S. Uchiyama, Chi- N J., $1,000; Jack & Margaret Ugaki, Idaho Falls. ^cago, ni., $20; Ventura County JACL, Camarillo, Idaho, $500; Eddie Ito, Seattle. Wash., $40; Ben Cotnvsfciaii inOustna/ Calif, $250; Masao & Cherry Kinoshita, Seattle, & Yolm Umeda, Watsonville, Calif., $50; Kaoru Air CortOtioning and Refrigeration ED SATO Wash., $100; Chidori Reynolds, Honolulu, Ha­ Masuda, Turiock, Calif., $100; Miyoko O’Neill, ContTKtor Plumbing & Hewing waii, $50; Henry & Amy Konishi, Rocky Ford, Birmingham, Mich., $50; Mary & Henry Mori, Glen T. Umemoto Los Angeles, C^., $100;Edne I. Chung, Lake- Renadet and (tepai/s. Watar Haatars Colo., $20; Wayne Y. Ctyafuso, Makawao, Ha­ Lie. No. 441272 C38-20 Furnaces. Gart>ageCX^oaals wood, Colo., $50;Mollie Fujioka, Walnut Creek, waii, $20; Victor Izui, Northfield, 111., $50; Fred & SAM RQ80W CO.. 1506 W. Vamon Serving Loa Angelas, Gardena Irene Hoshiyama, Culver City, Calif, $100; Calif. $100; Mei Nakano, Sebastopol. Calif. $150; Lot Angatee- 295-5204 -Sinca 1939 (213) 321-6610. 293-7000.733-0557 Yoshimi & Grace Shibat^ Atherton, Calif., $100; Kentaro & Jane Yasuda, Southin^n, Conn., Roy W. Ota, Spokane, Wash., $50; $20; Nelson Kitsuse, Chicago, 111., $20; Joe Allman, Akira Sam Mukai, Puyallup, Wash., $100; John Phoenix, Ariz., $25; Matsumoto, Mercer Island, Wash., $20; George • Jerry & Natsuko'Trei, Richmond, Calif., $100; & Ruth Ige, West Covina, Calif., $100; Shiro & Carson JACL, Carson. Calif, $100; Sakae Ishizu,. Catherine Shiraga, Northbrook, HI., $100; Betty Petaluma, Calif., $20; Matys^e Reunion-YSBC, . Meltzer, Beaumont, Calif, $20; Eric Kira, Hono ­ Marysville, Calif, $200; Allan Carson, Benida, lulu, Hawaii, $50; William Sakayama, Florham Calif, $20; Taiynn Yokomizo, Princeton JCT, Park, NJ., $100; Nelson Kitsuse, Chicago, 111.. N J.,$100; Paul Okamura, Pocatello, Idaho, $100; $20; Anonymous, Los Angeles, Calif, $20; Rob­ Henry & Chiyo Kato, Gresham, Oreg., $50; John ert T. IQmura, Manhattan Beach, CaM., $50; & Grace Kanda, Sumner, Wash., $150; Henri Mary Suenaga, Camarillo, Calif, $ 100; Yoshiyuki Inano, Upland, Calif., $20; George & M^ 199% & Takako F^jirntfra, Los Alamitos, Calif, $100; Shimizu, Greenbrae, Cahf., $100; Sachi Seko, / APR Hisao InoiQre, San Francisco, Calif, $50; Anony ­ Salt Lake City. Utah. $1,000; John Matsumoto, mous. San Francisoo, Calif, $20; Ken & Emma Mercer Island, Wash., $20; Tami Ogata, Sato, Monterey, Calif., $100; Amy & George Cupertino, Calif, $50; Jerry & Natsuko Irei, / no AllNUAL FEE Matsumoto, Stockton, Calif, $ 100; Mitsu Sonoda, Richmond. Calif. $100; Michi Wegiyn, New York, F^le Bea^ Calif., $100; William Marutani, N.Y.,$100.- 25 DAY GRACE PERIOD Media, Pa., $100; Ateuko & Paul Kusuda, Madi­ 1997 son,^., $20; Mack Yamaguchi, Pasadena, Ca­ Robert Yamamoto, Bell Gardens, Calif., $100; lif., $20; South JACL, Rancho Palos Verdes, Calif.„$100; Mei & Shiro Nakano, Sebastopol, Calif., $100; Florence Teshima, Seattle, Wash., $50; Arthur lily T. Alnko. San Francisco, Calif., $25, Jack & Gorai, Seattle, Wash., $18; Estella Hoshimiy^ Yuki Kanegaye, Malibu. Calif., $20; Henri *& San Francisco, Calif., $10; George & Janice Masako Inano, Upland, Calif, $20; Mrs. Bobby Hi^hi, Salinas, Calif., $100; Steven J. Doi, San Endo, Pocatello, Idaho, $100; Hirao Smoky Fr^dsco, Calif., $50; Harry & Jane Ozawa, Sakxirada, Chicago, 01. $100; Maty Ann Masaoka, Monterey Park, Calif., $100; Nobuo Mori, Fresno. Mountain View, Calif, $100; Lorraine Calif, $20; Seichi Hayashida, Nampa, Idaho, Komatsubeu^a, Yuba City, Calif; $100; Commis­ $100; Pete & Jean Hironaka, Dayton, Ohio, $200; sioner Echo Goto, Alhambra. Calif, $ 100; Miyako Haduro Kita, Wheat Ridge, Colo., $50; Helen Kadogawa, Culver City, Calif., $ 100; Pete & Jean Kawagoe, Caison, Calif., $1,000;Duval Edwards, Hironaka, Dayton, Ohio, $100; Mae A. Miyake, Tucson, Ariz., $5; Marilyn T. Fordney, Oxnard, Mi Hu.miMM ua Mir Ml ii4 btexM illgiMi M in yiU Seattle, Wash., $100; Geozge & Nobuko Azumano, Calif., $100. tvi. Call. In « nlj rin riMmitiM biln l« mimbinblp lafumnl*: 30 My Ua nabrahip iMuinil l« nw miabin.

Jen. 1,199&Oec. 31,1996 TOTAL;...... $16,397.98 cm/si/ti/w - Jon. 1,1997-April 11,1997 T0TA1>...... ;...... SZ003.00 GRAND TOTAL...... !...... $18,400.98 7 Jfafional JACL C ( E 0 I r U N I 0 K ro IQX 17JI / SIC, UIA1H4110/Ml 355*040 /800 544*820 / Fn 801 52I-2I0I PACIFIC CmZRW, Apwn, IS-MAY L 1097

B NIcho. sisters4n4aw wte brolhers-b>- law(aiof Jteten). MsMmura.RoyR^64. Cypraaa.|ilwch Lyn (>ost, 80: chfoi^ of Nise! MS in action ObitciaRf(6s IS; Kaneohe, Hawtf bom, siavfeed by wife Kay. daughters Karate Holand..Gey WASHINGTON-Lyn Cnwt, administration, a White House Lm. Lori Niahimura. Jci Nitetenura. 4 gc.. author of Honor by Fire, the gtoiy- special assistant. An the towns era in CaiKomia except aa nolad. btofliets Tom, Stenley. Harold, siatefs EdVi of Japanese Americans during In the 1990a, while trade die- Kunishige. Betty Medeiros. Worid War II in Military Intelli­ putes were fanning anti-Japanese Choi, Irena. Los Artpeles, March 16; James Kai, sister Sarah Tanenoto, broth- NIshimoto, Thomas Klyoto. 78. gence, died April 7 of a brain tu­ prejudice in the U.S., Crost de­ survived by husband Fukma hwamolo, sis­ ers-in-faw Aben TosNmi. Dick Isamu, Penryn. March 22; suMved by wife Afice. mor. ter Aiyoung Choi, brotfter Chwies. 8isters-in4aw Grace Ktei, Masano Hot. sons Ronnie. Steve, daughter Gtorte Oye, cided to researchtmd tell the story Doi, Ima, W. Loomis. March 21; sur­ Kobayaahi, team. .90, Loe AngetbSK.^ brother Yoehiharu, Iwami, sist^ Toshie In 1944, she was the Associated of the Nisei role cm the other war vived by Frank and Florence Kajieta. March 29 service; forvived by sons Frank, Shimokon. gc. • Press correspondent in Washing ­ front, in the Pacific, which was Jonalhan and Keren Talagishi. 6leven Jerry, Richard, daughters Margaret De Nomura. Ted TerasM, 69, FremonL ton who had interviewed Joseph published in 1994. and Chartotte Doi. Roy and Joan Doi. Young. LRkan Kobayashi, 2 gc.,'2 ggc.. March 20: sunrtvedby son Bruce, daugh ­ Farrington, territorial ddegate to Raised in Hartford, Corm., Crost We^andTMokoDoi. Ugc.. iSggc. sistefsToshiye Suzuki, Surd Kobayashi. ters Suzanne. Tna, Julia, brottter Jerry, Bgaetin,Ktkuno, 82. Seattle. Feb. 7; sisters Judy iura, (alorta Nomura.. Congress and publisher of the Ho~ was graduated from Brown Uni­ Koizumt. Sant SeHcM. 83. Chicago. noluluStar-Bulletin,who wascon­ survived by eon Julius (San Leandro). Ray March J1; Yamanashi-bom, survived by Okawa, Marforte 1C. 82. Pico Rivera. versity. She visited h^ nunt in (Seattle), brother and sister in Japaa chidron Herbert. Wood. Uly. 6 gc. March 24; Hdrtokjlu-bom. survived by cerned about the casualties taken Hawaii prewar, landed a job with daughter-in-law Yasuko Egashita (Bend. Kono.Chi2uko.90. Loomis. March 16; daughters Frances Hirayama. Joyce O- by Hawaii’s soldiers in Europe. She the Star-Bulletin, «nd later Ore.), 3 gc.. predeceased by husband sunrtved by son James, daughters Yaeko kawa, Pabicia Kochi, Carol Asakura. sons then was hired by his paper to switched to the HonoluluAdver- Reyaaku, son Bea Nshina. Grace Nakao. Yoshflio Yamashiro. Richafd, Ronald, I0gc.,3ggc. Endo, Yona, 78, Los Angeles. March •Mdymna, Takato, 78. Swi GMmeL cover 4he I00th/442nd —Hawaii’s tiser. Her career is recalled at the Teruko Burchfield, broth^ Isao Nishika wa men figfating' ln Etirope. 23; survived by husbartd Katsuo, son Jim, (Japan), sister Fumie Matsuoka (Japan), 9 March 23; Pasadena-bom,survived by Smithsonian ’s display on Japanese 3 gc.. sisters Natsuto Takenaka, MarT gc.. 3 ggc.. predeceas ed by son Daniel husband Mnoru. son Thomas. 4gc.. sister After the war, she was the Star Americans, “A More Perfect Teruya. Kono. daughter Masae Hirata. Fupcolshizu. Bulletin ’s correspondent in Wash ­ Union,” at &e National Museum Fulihara. Haruml. 69. Laguna His, Konya. WtelerSedao, 89. Montebeflo. Sako, Alan Aktra, 44. Saugus. March ington and, during the Eisenhower of American History. ■ March IB; Termitral Isiand-bom. wrvived March 16; Hlo. Hawai-bom, survival by 16; Los Angetes-bom. survived by father by husband TadasW. sons Roa Dennis, wife Mi)roko, son Waller Jr., daughters Mchaei. brothers Ira. Byram. daughter Janet Anderson.' 1 gc.. brother A^ Kondo. Joyce Mito. Sal^ Wtewi. Sakuma. Ken. 58. Seattle. Feb. 25; James Ogawa, sister Chtyeko Hino, Shirty Konya. 7 gc.. 1 ggc.. brothers Me- sunrtved by mother iQmi. sisters and brolh- T. Teny Hayashi, 75: professor d metfidne at Pitt brother-in-law i^osN Fuphara. sisters-in- gumi. Hideo. sister Hanayo Kokuso law Miyaki Tftkeda. Denako Yanaoka fjapan] Sested, Fufiko ‘Fudge ’. €7. Reedtoy. PITTSBURGH—Sacramento- was the personification of humil­ (Japan), Michiko Kawahara. Yasuko Kosaka. Kimlye, 74, Los Angeles. March 25; survived by husbarte Jim. sons bom T. Terry Hayashi, MD, died ity: -He wasn’t in his field for the Takeda. Fukuye Matsumoto. March 17; survived by husbarte Mirtoru. Paul. Brian, sister Yoshiye Kata. Toshiro Feb. 7 at his OTlara home, about a prestige but for the ideal of trying Fufbnl, Talstaio,92, CulverCity. March 4pns Terry. Darryl. 3 gc.. brother Masao Ntetagawa, Emflro Kaita. 9; Wakayama-kan-bom. survived by Segimolo. Matsua *MM(o‘ UHun, 65, year and half after he retired in to make the specialty more scien­ fiakamura. daughters Rinko Kiriyama, Fume Iwata. MaruM, John SMganori. 82. Garderta. Seattle, survived by husbarte Arthur, chfl- June 1995 from the University of tific rather than the old mechani­ daughter-ir>4awQrace Fluent, 7gc..6ggc. March 13: Ftorirt-bom. surviv^ by wife dren J^ (South Pasadena), Gene iSan Pittsburgh School of Medicine, cal art of catching babies.” Fukuda, EUen Hatsue, Garden Grove. Chiyoka''8'son Dennis, daughters Setsuko Ramon). Kevin (Renton. Wash.). . where he chaired the obstetrics Harger added, *T1ie wdiole thrust March 13; Waimanalo, Hawak-bom. sur­ Marukj.'^ KathyKi Thom. 4 gc.. sister Yuki (Seattle). 1 gc.. sfeings Tsugio Nakamura and gynecology department at of Terry's tenure as chairman was vived by husband Frank, son' Theodore, HayakBwa. (Warden, Wash.). Tosh Nakantura (Thw- Kr>«nttal *Ko tn make fhe department more ac^ rta'fohters Aikn M«»r> Hnr>rv Kawa Matsunami.Joelweo.74 Saemmentn mopolis. Wvo \ HtsasN Nakamura (Pasco. mura; CandaceGreenewatt. I6gc..9ggc. March 14; Sacramento-bom, survived by W8Sh.}.4«acDEyer (Thousand Oaksknaiu IHtt Medical School from 1974- demic, more research-onented, to Hayakawa, Louiae Harumi, 69. sons Dennis. Ron. ftchard. 6 gc.. sisters Matsuura (Newbury Park), brother-in-taw 1988. He remained a professor at make its place among the top m^- Altaderia. March 16; East Los Angeles- Mfenako KawaucN, ToeNye Kaya. Rose Andrew Segimoto, sister-in-law Meriro Pitt until his retirement. cal sdiools in the country. ” Among bom. survived by husband Kazuo 'Katch', tshi. Nalsumi Furokawa. brothers Manuel. TestwogL Hayashi was in his junior year the leadership positions he held daughters Terri Shintaku. Sandy Haya- Don, Juied. brothers-in-^ Bob Nakadoir^ glsmssn. Carol Jean, 49, Garderte. iawa. son Jon, 1 ga, brother Aired Fuka^, End Okazaki. Kinya Nodueshi. ' March 9; Detrofl-bom, survived by hus­ at B^keley in ’42 when his family induded chairman of the Ameri­ band OavM. parents Atera, Anna Yatabe. can Board of Obstetrics and (tyne- sister Hanrtah Kepford, brothers-in-iaw Menda, Albert Yoehlo. 75. Sacra ­ was evacuated to Tule Lake. With George, Toshio Hayakawa. mento, Feb'. 27; survived by wife Steuka. brottter Michael, sister Barbara. help of the Quakers, he was able to oology. Society for Gynecologic In- Hayashida. Shidow, 66. Los Angeles. son Waiter, brothers Frank. Harry. Arthur, Shimada, Yoahio. Oaldarte. March 16; continue his studies at Temple vestig^on, andNational In^tute March 12; Los Arrgeles^bom. survived by (aoro. sisters Mitsuye Mukai, Joan Ariyasu. survived by wife Sue. sons Mark, Scott, University. He receive^ his m^- of Child Health. brothers Keishi. Kozaburo. sisterJakeko 2gc. sbiings Hatsuye Kawahata. CNyo Otsu|i. Ogata. , Miyamoto. Shizuko Yamafl. 79. Los Yuki Takei. Sumi Hartea. Masao Shimada. cal degree in ’48, ser^ for two Heissurvived by wifeof43yeaiB Fumi Lim. Kaz Shimada. predeceased by yearswith the>'Aimy in Germany Ursula, William (Denver), Peter HIra. Masatake, M. Torrance, March Angeles. March 16; survived by husband 26; Taiwan-bom, survi^ by wife Kiyoko. Masao. son Bob. daughters Janet Sugite, brother George. and returned 'to Temple for his (Boston), James (Quines^ 111.), Rob­ son John. 2 gc.. sister-irv-l^ Chioko Omori. Artene Murata. 9gc. sisters Miyoto) inouye, Suzuwa, RyoichL 101, Los Angefes. residency in Ofa/Gyn beforejoining ert (Amheret, Mass.), dau^ter Ann Hoehiko. BrlghL 87, Denver. Dec. 16; Nobuko Yamada. March 18; Hiroshima-ker>-l>om. survived the Pitt medical school fri^ty in (Maui),' sister Florence Ishibashi World War il veteran, survived by daughter Mizusawm, Hiaao ‘SmHey'. 79. Chi­ by daughters Yasuko Hitomi. Mryoko '55 and becoming tenured as.4>ro- (Chic^), and 6 gc. Bonnie (San Frarrcisco), sisters True cago. March 0 service; HonoltAi-bom, Nakagawa, Shigeko TaKayanagi, 6 The HayashisofSacramento are Broadwater (Marietta. Ga.). Jisre Iwata survived by daughter Oariene Rih. Joyce ggc. fessorinl965. ^ (San Frartcisco), brothers Henry (Denver). Shinomiya. sisler Florence Tokioka. Suzuki, Yoahi, 100. Seattle. Feb. 15; One of many doctors trained well-known to JACL old-timers. A Show (Anchorage. Alaska). Yoshflro B>isu. Matsuo Mizusawa. Stella Japar>-bom, surv?^ by daughters Suzuko Hayashi, Dr. Jmnes Haiger, pro- ne^lbew, David Hayashi of Minne- Hoehizaki; Rika. 83. Los Angeles. Uno, 3gc. Twnura. Aid Ito, Alice Hayashida. 5 gc.. i fessorof ObASyn and repi^itctive ap^, is currently National JACL March 23; Mie-ker>-bom, survived by son NMcaba. George Masalmni. 84. Loe ggc., predeceased by husbarte George, sdenoes at Pitt, said his mentor treasurer-secretary. ■ Tom Tomatsu. daughter Ritsuko Yama ­ /ytgeles. March 13; Torranca-bom. sur­ dauber Grace. moto. 5 gc.. brother and sister in Japan. vived by son Kenneth, daughter Georgia Tada, Mar)orle Masako, 88, Seattle. Imazuml, Roy M.. 37, Berkeley. March Btevirts, 1 gc., brother Frank. Feb. 18: survived by sorts Harry (Seattle), 2S; survived by father Masaharu. brothers Nakamura, Janet Chlye. 71. FrerrKtnt. Roy (Kent). Ronald (Seattle). Jetted (Buena Nisei churchman’s Demis, Michael, Gary, slstars F^trida. hbrch 14; Berketoy-bom, survived by hus­ Park), dau^ifers UKan Nakarte. Jartet Na- Jeannie Wong, predeceased by mother barte Sh^eharu, daughter Wendy (San kano, Nancy Nishikawa. sisters Ruth Scholarships Yayoi. Diego), ^cy (Fremont), daughter-in-law Sumida. Betty Fuktetera (an of Seattle). 13 46 years haiied Imura, Takeo, 63. Sacramento, March Gal Nakamura, brother BH Umeki (Ma ­ gc.. 2 ggc.. predeceased by husbarte CHICAGO—As an Episcopal 7; Oregon-born, survived by son Edmn. 1 rina). sister Maureen Nakarro (Union City). Sadahei, son Bob. available priest active in human ri^ts and g&.brothersS~c.. brothers Shigeo, Yoshio. sister Ctvyoko I. Jennifer ChSta. 28. Rolling Totsubo, Jack Huneo. 72, Los Ange ­ California Japanese American peace work for 46 years, tire Rev. Nakayama. His Estates. March 28; Los Angetes-bom^ les. March 19; Pasadena-bom. Worid War Iwata. Susan Sachiko. 45. Hacienda sixvrved by parents Robert Nakamura (Las II veteran, survived by wife Kazue, son Alumni Aasm, for continuing or re­ S. frfichael Yasutake was hon ­ Heights, March 24; Los Angetes-bom. sur­ Vegas), Frances Nakamura, sisters Ron. daughters Suzanne To^. Jamie Ha- turning graduate or undog^uate ored at an Evening in Tribute din­ vived by husband Don. sons David, Stephanie Tokorozaki. Alison Nakamura. marte. 6 gc., sisters Mary Sumi, Mitzi studoitB who are Americans of Japa­ ner last Nov. 9 at the Chicago Tem­ Brandon, daughter MeSssa, parents Fred, gran*nother Suzue Takahashi. Kiyokane. B^ Sugiuchi. si$tars-in-law nese ancestry attending one of the cam- ple attended by some 250 people. Lou Harada. brothers Richard. Tom, sis­ Nakamura, Rhea Rlye, 73, Torrance. Chris Toteubo. Hiroko Nojima. ters Gay Gin. Carrie Harada. mother-irt-law March 16; Fresno-bom. survived by hus­ Tautauntt. Ula Abe. 72, Copteie. N.Y.. iwses of the University <£ California, Proceeds of $2,500 fit)m this event Nov. 11; Seattfe^rom, survived by hus­ went to support the workof the Myoto iwata (Sacramento), brother-in-iaw barte Hiroshi, son Steven (Torrance), and for the 1997-98academicyear, vdio Dennis, sister-ir>-iaw Mieko Iwata. daughters Martha Osborn (Mission Vieio}. band Ken. son Edward (New york). are studying in Liberal Arts, the sec­ Puerto Rican Cultural Center. Kaw aha ra, Yoahiko, 90, San Jose. Jane Rhoads (Long Beach). 5 gci, sisters daughter Joan Muencir (Ridfey Park. Pa). ond annual Moriaki We- Rpprwntatives fiwm varinii«s March 20; survived by so"«5 Tom Edward, MRsuye Okamoto (San Jose) Chiyoko Su- 5 gc . sister Kazuko Nishimura. brother morial Sdwlarship. named for the long ­ organizations paid tribute, and a daughters BeUah Shinta. Edith AocN. Jean kekane (Menlo Park). Yoshimi Nakwnura Arthur Abe (i^ of Seattle). (Correeboo) Honkawa (Japan). 12 gc.. 7 ggc., brother (Berkeley). Emi hterata (Los Angeles). Uthiywna, Takao ‘Nagy ’, Los Ange ­ time CJAA laesic^t, is the tc^ award. slide presentation of Yasatuke’sv les. March 25; survived by wife June; sons AnyonewhohasreoeivedapnOTCJAAA life was shown. Also Included were Joe Sasaki. MryuU Roberts (Alameda), brother Kaz Kawai, KUoiye, Costa Mesa, -March 4; KawagucN (Union City), brother-in-law RarteaK. Garret daughter Cynthia Hanson, award of $1,000 or more is ineligiMe; letters of appreciation from priaon- survived by daughters Kathryn Cwnpbell, Richaid Nakamura (Michigtei). sisters Surriiro Shiteta. Fumiro Sawarnura. those who receive m<»e than $5,000 in en to Yasutake, who is director of Kaien Nakai. Judy Ogawa, 4gc.. brothers Nalrano, John Goro,^ Corona del Uymia, Stmitoy. 63. San Jose\March other adxdarships and grants for the Interfiaith Prisoners of Conscience Tadao. Masanobu Kobata. predeceased - Mar. March IS; Syracuse, Ulah-bom. sur­ 6; survivedby son Jarttes. mother Frances, same academic year will have the Project (IKK)), for having visited by husband Eric. vived by wife Fumi. son Ronald, daughter brother Wafted, sistors May Nakagawa. ^Kawai. Toahi, 86, Monterey Parte, Jermy Mizusawa. 4 gc.. brothers George. Amy Nishttrare. amount over $5,000 deducted from the them and for continuing to mobi- YaiDMioto, Maaako. 68, Omard. lize.8upportfortheir release. ICOP March 21; Yamaguchi-ken-bom, survived Jtfh. Kazuo. sisters Shizu Miya, Fusako CJAAA award in mder that otbo- wcr- by son Kryoshi, 4 gc., 1 ggc.. brothers and Kakuda. March 8; KochMcen-bom. survived by sons thy students are recognized. (Fui^ding keeps in ccmtact with some 100 sisters (^1 of Japan). Mcho, Chtzuko, 59. Los AngelesMard) WBiam. George, daughters Mary Mttsu- for the awards comes from a trust fond -prikmersofconscaence in that they Kikuchi, IWd, 66. Los Angeles, March 14; Kagoshima-ken-bom. survived by hus­ uchi. Daitene Uyemori, 1S gc.. 17 ggc. estaUisbed frtan thel972sale ofEucUd chose to resist and oppose ir^’us- 19; Cutter-bom. survived by husband David, band Tsilcasa. son Thomas, daughter Yamamoto. SMgaru, 76. Patterson, son Gregory, stepchildren Michele Nancy, 1 gc.. mother Sumiko Sakaguchi March 22; San Dimas-bom. survived by Hall, tfaeJapaneeeMeo’sStotots Club tioe." wife Mitsue, sons Toshio. Hkteo. Bob. (An appeal for contribution of Richanls, PaJ. Annie. 5 gc., sisters, and (Jwan), brothers Hiroyuki. Takayuki SMo- dormiUsy, to the Umversity Students brothers. gucN, sisters lkuk& Nakaebisu, Keiko daughters Yuriko, Kiyako Duport. 8 gc. ■ Co-Op a W Near the Berkd^ cam­ support was made in January by Kita, George, Chicago. March 5 ser ­ Wakamatsu, ChiyokoKubo. mblher-inJaw pus, the donnitory was built by Issei- ICOP, 2120 LuKxrln St., Evan^n, vice; sunrtved by brother Cart sister Grace OCA1M NOTICE Nisei pioneers and met a deaerate IL60201. Chairingthe IPOC Board Honda, Kazuko Ikeda. Hcnummli A Itertms lor Al OmfliriM is the Rev. C Nosomi Ikuta, Ktiuka, Ruth Jllauko, 79, Los Ange ­ CliFFDRD MATSUKANE United Church of Christ Uberaton les, March 19 service; Wakayama-bom. SANTA ANA Calif.-Clifibrd Matsu- Ministries, Cleveland, Ohio.) ■ survived by son Allen, daughters Joyce kaoe, 51. Sod of Harry and Yoko. Christine Kizuka, 7 gc.. brother suivirod by three brotbera, Mdvin (Bar­ KUSMYAMA SaCH^HA Pinanwal AH •«y Tlfl wiTnpiia; bara), Edward (Gerry) arte Howard; four EVERGRSHKMMBfTCO. tine is June 2. Notifrcatioo will occur nieces, M^han, Erin, (kra and R^an 4548 Floral Dr.. Lot Angten. CA 900Q around Aug. 1. Fa- frutber infonna- plus many uodes, aunts and cousina. (213LS1-7m tion: Mkbde Kato (sdMlaiship com­ mittee chair) 415/474-2144; Mas Okamoto 80fr968-1147; Tak Sii^o ALOHA PLUMBING CAJJFORNIA WboicBle K CASKET to the public 213/39(^7; Kurt Yoshii 714/367- Ue. #440840 COMPANY 1144; Tom Sonoda 619724-3025. EMPLOYMENT —SINCE 1922- I1$12W.Washington Blvd. TEACHERS 777JuniperoSarraOr. MFORHAT10R SYSTEMS SPECIAUST Los Angela. CA 90066 Oiganixatioo of Chinese Aineri* BIngual ttecheis needed, vald CalK. / (RPOGRAMMBt) S«iGabrM,CA 91776 eansis (fieringthreejoumalist awards credertlal leq'd. Must be fluent in both DA. BAN Profitable Southern Ccifomia Manu- (213)283-0016 (213)727-7137 ' for the most enli^tening artide or facturirg Cki.seeks indMdual withmini­ TgSrS^UMREO SCHOOL OiST. series of artides concerning Chinese •' 2335 Plaza Del Amo mum of 3 yeas related ekpertenoe and Computer Science or other applicable and/or Asian Americans in English or Torrance, CA 90504 Smwig ^ Community C^eae ($200,300, 500) and three to 310^7-6763 degrM to develop business appbea- EeWCW4Mey,TterX;>awWwA- ploring 209-type initiatives rn ^ waiian, Samoan, Guamanian and debate with the UC, Berkeley, cam­ appellate dedston is “enorpiousty 209, the choices that they make will■■ many as 10 stales, including Wash ­ ‘other API,* and space to write in pus-based Hapa Issues Forum. troubfing because it is so at odds vary depending on their political ington. Oregon, Colorado, and the name of race. Debate over the new category with the law. Three very conserva ­ pMlosophies. Berkeley, for ex ­ Florida. The Census Bureau tabulated underscores what some demogra­ tive judges obviously were deter ­ ample, plans to be aggressive in /Ufinnative action is not dead. the write-in responses showing phers call a ‘silent explosion ” in mined to uphold the anti-affirmative defending their exisling programs. JACLchaplere and members across numbers for 16 more API catego­ the number of multi-racial people action initiative and were not about Others may be mote wtIHng to over ­ the aruptry need to rise up to meet ries: Cambodian, Hmong, Laotian. in the United States. Befyveen 1960 to let the law, procedural orsubstan- haul their policies. We need to pro­ the challer^ge. B Thai, Baiiglade^, Burmese, In­ and 1990, the number of interra­ tive, get in their way." test as (Governor WHson and other donesia, Malayan, Okinawan, Pa­ cial marriages ballooned from Moreover, the appellate judges kistani, Sriljankan, Tongan, Ta­ 150.000 to more than 1.1 million, were sharply critica] of ‘a system hitian, Northern Mariana Islander. according to census figurra. And ftiatpennits one ju(ige to block . . . Palauan and Fijian. the nun^r of diildren of interra­ what4.736.180 state reddents voted Prop. 209: Its background The other ‘other race (not API)" cial families leaped from 460,3(X) to enact." Our legal system, how­ 1 at the Spanish/His- in 1970 to more than 1.9 billion by ever. is supposed to protect the Historical origins of frirms of Btate-spODMred affirma­ people who would write 1990. ■ constitutional rights of minorities Affirmative Action tive action not required by federal from the excesses of majority rule. law. The Legislative Analyst has Affirmative action policies be­ eonduded that Prop. 209 will do have the disease, a rate akin to the Just as the (xxirts failed to protect gan in the 1950 ’sand 1960 ’s, when ALZHEIMER’S overall U.S. population. Involved the constitutional rights of Japanese the following: (Continued from page 1) the dvil rights movement called were 382 of3,045 men and women Americaris from widespread preju ­ ^national attention to the racism that JapaneseAmericans who are • Prohibit government agendee in the ‘Kame Project," a long-term dice and wartime hysteria (luring land inequality of American sod- bilingual tend to fare better men­ study of dementia, which found WortdWarll,so the appellate panel finm tarpting recruitment efforts Hyr -Pne outcome of this struggle at minoritiesor women even ifsuch tally and physically in later life the disease increased dramatically failed to protect the rights of women for equality was the Civjl Ri^ts than others. They are taxing more with age: 85-89— 14 %. 90-94 — and minorities from the majority who efforts do not give these grodps an Act (^T964, which oflfidally barred advantage in the actual sele^on of their brains every day and every 36%, 95/older —58%. voted for Prop. 209. disenmination based on race and week of their lives,”Larson said. process. White’s study involved 3,734 Prop. 209 wiM not be enforced for gender. In 1965, President Lyndon White and his colleagues found surviving members of t^ Hono­ at least a few more weeks. The B. Johnson issued Executive Or­ 5.4% of men age 65 and older suf­ • Prop. 209 would eliminate over lulu Heart Program, wluSh started ACLU and other legal groups are der 11246 that required federal fered from Alzheimer’s, compared 25 public contracting pre^ams in 1965 to study the incidence of working on their counterattack, and agendas to take ‘affirmative ac­ .with 1.5% in a recent study in that benefit Asiari Pacific Ameri­ heart disease among Japanese the initiative is expected to be ap ­ tion’ to expand employment qg? Japan,as reported at an interna­ cans, as well as the state dvii ser­ American men living on Oahu. pealed eventually to the U.S. Su­ portunities for pfeople- of color. vice affirmative action program tional meeti^ in Osaka. Alzheimer’s, a degenerative dis­ preme 0>urt President Bill Clinton has repeat­ The Larson study found that 3.5 ease of the brain, causes memory In the meantime, what can we do that has helped Asian Pacific percentofa group ofelderly Nikkei edly stated his support for affirma­ Americans break throu^ theglass failure, confusion, disorientation to defend affirmative action? tive action polides. men and women in King Ck)unfy and speech problems. ■ Weshould rememberthat regard ­ ceiling in numerous government less of Prop. 209 ’s constitutionality, Effects of Prop. 209 agendes. Ofginoi Handcast Bronze KAMON many affirmative action programs The California Legislative Ana­ • It would wipe out numerous pro­ in CalHomia continue to be legal lyst, a nonpartisan government and worthy of $up)|:^rt. Forexamf^e. grams that promote increasing the body, has stated that if Prop. 209 number of Asian Pacific Ameri­ ail affirmative action efforts in the goes into effect it will eliminate all cans who become graduate Svnibo/ of you! Surname & it% hivor,' dents and teachers. It would also o / .iPffv ’atc library of Kanwn references forbid the government from taking 1997 ESCORID) TANAKA TOWS race into consideration in award­ J. A. / Research i^ompiling of ATomon in-c ing finandai aid, resulting in the Our brotize J. A. Karrion are designed to preserve loss of millions of dollars to Asian vrour suniome & its history in a uniquely "Japanese Pacific Americans students each American' form that will last over 2000 years! year. ■

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