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'SB 1615 is an essential move by the state of Cal ifomia to ,Two Heroes, Two Wars - A Lifetime of Memories respond to and recognize its growing mixed heritage population. ' - Megan Emiko Scott, Swirl, Inc. Multiple Choices: Identifying With More Than One Race California is poised to collected from the forms she fills Toke Yoshihashi (left) as a b~ome out. But she often wonders, why young man in the OOth the first-state to i can't she choose to identity with Battalion and today as a Go allow mixed race persons to both her Asian and White ancestry? For Broke docent. check more than one race box OIi government forms. The answer may come in the form of Senate Bill 1615, "'The Robert Nakamoto (bottom) Ethnic Heritage Respect and split time between music, By CAROLINE AOYAGI-STOM Recognition Act," proposed by Sen. family and liberating Iraq. Executive Editor Joe Simitian, D-Palo Alto, that will allow all mixed race Californians When Megan Emiko Scott, 25, Time chilnges, but war stays the the option to check more than one same. The pain ofloss and the acts fills out government forms in her home state of California, she's race box when filling out official of heroism carry on from one gen• government forms. passed, forced to make a decision 7 million If eration to the next. For Memorial California would become the first of her fellow mixed race individuals Day, the Facific Citizen inter• state to follow in the footsteps of a must make: which one race catego• viewed two veterans --..: one Nisei, similar bill passed by the federal the other Yonsei -from two differ• ry is she going to"choose - White, Black, Hispanic, Asian, Native " government in 1997. ent wars. Here, they shilre their "SB 1615 is an essential move by stories and remembrances with American or Other? .In Scott's case it's a choice the state of California to respond to you in their own words, as narrat- and recognize its growing mixed ed to Lynda Lin. . between Asian or White and more often she chooses Asian since she knows a lot of government data is See 58 161?JPage 6 TOKE YOSHIHASHI, 83 Entered the service April 1944 100th/442nd back to Washington, at21 D.C. and _we marched down Carving Out the Omaha School Served 21/2 years with 100th Constitution Avenue. President Battalion, A company , Truman was there and he pinned System Along Racial Lines another unit citation on the flag. Kaneko. Since they changed offi• Three new school districts We were the Yoshihashis from cers on us - we didn't know him On the Gothic Line Pasadena. he didn't know us - the 2nd phi~ for three different ethnic The objective for the 100th - I went [into the service] first , toon leader offered to go on the line communities. Critics call and we were the spearheads - was because we were the first group of for us and let us go in reserve. the legislation to divide the to capture Georgia Hill. The 3rd Japanese out of Gila River. My We were along the path and we public school system a set• Battalion was on our right. We brother went into the service a didn't dare go too much off of the back in race relations while would see them climbing the higher month after I did. He ti-ain~d in path to go into the ravines and stuff residents weigh:-in on dis- - mountain. Camp Shelby ' and I trained in because they were all mined. They They had to hike all night where• cussion of a 'learning com• Camp Blandlng, Horida. would bring back wounded. as we didn't start out on April 5, munity.' It was nice to at least get out of Nobody wants to die, but we 1945, until 3:30 or4 o'clock [in the camp life. were there to fight. moming]. We just hiked up and got By LYNDA LIN We didn't have a choice where We would catch a lot of shells AsSistant Editor into position. we were going to go. We knew we too. The same moming, along the Then at 5 o'clock the artillery OMAHA'S CENTRAL HIGH ScHOOL were going to the 442nd. which path there was this big overhang• At the end of her freshman year, came and that's when we started. was strictly infantry. Nowadays, ing rock. A couple of my buddies Kimberly Nguyen, 16, transferred Luckily I was in the 1st platoon. school." the guys have a choice - they can , were there. I'm over here in the from Burke High, a mostly white The night before we were going to Central High's largest minority go into the Navy, the Marines, the hole and I crossed the path and school located near the western bor• go out to hit the line, they pulled group is African American, accord• Air Force. In those days, we didn't went over to talk to them and der of the Omaha Public School wh~ back our platoon sergeant and pla• ing to school data. Nguyen, is have a choice. We just ended up in wouldn't you know it a big shell District (OPS), to Central High on toon leader. They were replaced by Vietnamese American, made the the infantry. came and hit the top of that big the lower east side. When she told a fellow named Kusaka, who came decision because of academics, I was real proud when we came her friends, most were puzzled why out of the 2nd platoon, ,and Ken ' VETSlPage 12 back. We brought the colors of the See she would choose to go to a "black See OPSlPage 6

Phoenix JSansei community members to since the experiences of the intern• and Yonsei become the driving learn the tricks and tips of ment camps left many Issei and See JA ROOTS/Page 4 tracing one's family Nisei reluctant to maintain ties with genealogy.

By CAROLINE AOYAGI-STOM A MEMORABLE Vlsrr• Executive Editor Julie Kawaye (left) and Jennifer Reven (cen• JACL National Convention Most Japanese Americans today ter) visit the family June 21-24,2006 know, often very well, who their cemetery in Tsuta, Chandler, Arizona Ojiichan and Obaachan are but how Hiroshima prefecture about your great-grandfather and with their Japanese great-grandmother? Add more relative Goro Kato. 4 "greats" and you'll likely be lost in WEEIiS a world of unknowns. LEITERS/SPRING CAMPAIGN PACIFIC CITIZEN, MAy 19-JUNE 1, 2006

?' PAQAC CITIZEN ~ SPRING CAMPAIGN 2005 WINNERI !,: ~~ u ~ Editor GMEORIA Be ·the Decider and lR,.. . :...... :.' :' .", '. '. : ..... :...... ,...... '. ' .. " . :. ~ Awards In Writing .A Shosuke Sasaki, leagues may be beginning to feel Make the Pie Higher embattled, with the GOP in some By CASEY CIHNA While you are "working hard to a Man of Convictions disarray and the president they PACIFIC CITIZEN and ANDY UEHARA put food on your family," every lit• It was with nostalgia that I read in helped to elect standing so low in tle bit counts. As individual Spring the Pacific Citizen the excellent col• the polls, we should be extra careful 250 E. First Street, Ste. 301, "I think we all agree, the past is Campaign contributors, we should Los Angeles, CA. 90012 wnn "Use of 'Jap' in Print is Slowly about making statements that may over." While they will not complete• be shouting, "I am a pitbull on the Tel: 213/620-1767, Diminishing After 50 Years" by sound partisan to such members . • ly go away, pantleg of 800/966-6157 Hany K Honda. It brought back Fax: 213/620-1768 printed news- opportunity. " E-mail: [email protected] papers are For we are tak• many memories of very fine, dedi• ~~ www.pacificcitizen.org beconnng a ing aggressive cated people whom I have had the Lake Washington Chapter thing. of the bites into the privilege of knowing such as: Executive Editor: past. These opportunities Sandra Tanamachi of Texas; the late o Caroline Y. Aoyagi-Stom Shosuke Sasaki of New York City - Assistant Editor: days, informa• that the Lynda Lin tion is most Internet pro- and Seattle; Woodrow Asai and A Disturbing Direction quickly and vides! Everett james Starr of New York; Office Manager: Some or the recent articles, posi• Brian Tanaka widely distrib- CASEY CHINA ANDY UEHARA Also, what George Yuzawa and Moonray Circulation: Eva Lau-Tin'g uted via the better way is Kojhna also of New York. All of tions and associations with other Internet. That's why we need your there to "Knock down the tollbooth" them campaigned very strongly organizations attributed to national ' Publisher:Japanese American JACL are disturbing and the current Citizens League (founded 1929) contribution to this year's Spring to accessing the P. e. for J;llany against the word "Jap" 1hrough 1765 Sutter Street, San Campaign, which will go toward the young students? After all, when you major newspapers, the courts, and direction the organization haS taken FranCiSCO, CA 94115, tel: expansion and development of the think of a young person you know, the federal government. is not the JACL that i had associat• 415/921-5225 fax: 415/931- Pacific Citizen Web site. is it ~ier to picture him or her read• Sasaki in particular by his vehe• ed with in the past. 4671, www.jacl.org 'This is still a dangerous world. ing a newspaper or surfmg the ment writings, and consistent appeal I am and have been a Thousand JACL President: Ken Inouye It's a world of madmen and uncer• Internet? Without a doubt, making against tht! word "Jap" made other Gub member for over 35 years and Nat'l Director: John Tateishi tainty and potential mentiallosses." the P.e. Web site even better will a past Philadelphia chapter presi• Pacific Citizen Board of people who respected him uncom• The only way to combat this crazy help us reach out to younger audi• Directors: Gil Asakawa, chair• fortable that they were not doing dent. There are many beneficial world is information! We must dis• ences. person; Roger Ozaki, EDC; ~ enough . .He apparently deeply felt activities that the organization has Casey China, MDC; Kathy pense information about our P.e. to ''I mean, I read the newspaper. I done and is doing for the members. Ishimoto, CCDC; Nelson Nagai, the world, because .the P.e. loves mean, I can tell you what the head• the connotation surrounding the word from his youth, college years, However, there is a vocal group that NCWNPDC; Sheldon Arakaki, Freedom. As we all know, Freedom lines are. I must confess, if I think is pushing the organization to take' PNWDC; Larry Grant, IDC; and war years. is the way to fight the axis of evil! the story is, like, not a fair appraisal, political positions anq promoting Sharon Kumagai, PSWDC; "Rarely is the question asked Is I'll move on. But I know what the It was, therefore, revealing to me associations with organizations that Maya Yamazaki, Youth. our children learning?" Yes, no story's about." I often learn for the to find in Honda's colwnn that in are not necessarily in the neutral r-NEWSIAifoEAOLiNE:--' more elegant words can be said first time what the story's about, 1965 national JACL published its position that is expected of a nation• FRIDAY BEFORE DATE about the state of education in this when I read the original reporting in "Please Don't" leaflet to eliminate OF ISSUE. nation. Therefore, we must promote the P.e. With your help, just as the the use of the derogatory term. al non-profit organization. Editorials, news and the opin• There are common issues that the ions expressed by columnists reading. Putting the P. e. online will reporting in the P.e. stays on the The JACL is a vast organization other than the national JACL make another source of reading cutting edge, so will our online pres• with many opinions and nuances. Its organization can foster but some of president or national director material easily accessible to young ence. the recent positions being taken can do not necessarily reflect JACL membership is motivated by many policy. Events and products students and the public. . In the end, there is nothing more undercurrents, social, political, and only alienate the members resulting advertised in the Pacific ''Will the highways of the Internet that I can say, other than, "Make the in a decrease in membership and not Citizen do not carry the implicit economic. Sasaki nevertheless felt endorsement of the JACL or become more few?" If we let the pie higher! Make the pie higher!" that the word "Jap" could have been attract new members. If the organi• this publication. We reserve the· I P.e. neglect its Internet presence, I With your contribution, you can acted upon more expeditiously. I .. zation wants to cater only to a cer• L ______right to edit articles. ~ : dare say the answer is: Yes. The help us make the tallest pie ever and' understand he subsequently tain group of individuals, JACL's highways of the Internet will improve the P.e. s online presence. PACIFIC CITIZEN (ISSN: 0030- resigned from JACL. membership will stagnate, if not become more few. After all, you're the decider, and 8579) is published semi-monthly I shall be going to the West CQast decrease. except once in December and I know some people might ask: you decide what is best. • this spring and hopefully I shall visit The P.e. needs to present bal• January by the Japanese Can a P.e. newspaper and Internet anced positions of the issues and the American Citizens League, 250 Seattle and Sasaki's grave. The site coexist together? My answer is: Andy Uehara and Casey China, organization needs to temper the E. First Street, Ste. 301, Los "I know that the human being and MDC P.e. board representative, Japanese community in some Angeles, CA. 90012 OFFICE rhetoric on controversial issues. The the fish can coexist." If hllIlliins and respects is a close knit community. HOURS - Mon.-Fri., 9 a.m.-5 write from Denver, Colorado. individual members can take posi• .. p.m. Pacific Time. ©2006. fish can do it, the P. e. in print and Quotes are attributed to George W. Sasaki as a representative of that community was a very fine man tions and express their opinions but Annual subSCription rates: online can do it, too. Bush. with strong convictions. the national organization needs to be NON-MEMBERS: 1 year-$40, more cautious about positions taken payable in advance. Additional LIKE WHAT YOU SEE? since it should represent all of the postage per year - Foreign peri• ~(~) p------members. To arbitrarily assume that odical rate $25; First Class for I U.S., Canada, Mexico: $30; www.pacificcitizen.org ~941H4 Launch the Web site into the next online all members have the same opinion· Airmail to JapanlEurope: $60. Washington, D.e. is a serious mistake. (Subject to change without notice.) Periodicals postage paid If the national organization takes at Los Angeles, Calif. o the position that it only wants mem• Permission: No part of this publi• .'Racist' Immigration ~i11 bers that are in "lock step" with its cation may be reprodu~ with- position, please advise us so that out elQ)ress permission of the Regarding the "Immigration" alternative course of actions can be publisher. Copying for other than article in the Apr. 21-May 4 Pacific taken by the members .• personal or internal reference use Citizen (page 1), I noted the quote without the expr~ permission of P.e. is prohibited. from John Tateishi (page 3) in ~~ POSTMASTER: Send address which he called the Sensenbrenner Marin Chapter changes to: Pacific Citizen, c/o anti-immigration bill one of "the JACL National Headquarters, most draconian, racist immigration 1765 Sutter St., San FranCiSCO, bills" ever, and whose ideals "are 'CA 94115. Send letters only thin smokescreens for racist to the editor: views." If the JACL executive director pc@ pacificcitizen .org JACL MEMBERS has had the advantage of seeing the Calling, Allinfems! whole text of the bill, he may be cor• PACIFIC CITIZEN 'Change of Address rect; .but most of us either have not Wanted: patkfune i:lummetivlntern for the 250 E. First Street, Ste 301 If you have moved, Pacific Citizen. , read the text or have failed to note Los Angeles, CA 90012 please send information Reward: working with an enthusiastic staff the language in the bill, as provided phone: 2131620-1767 envi~ fax: 2131620-1768 and gaining experience in a workplace . in the press, that justifies Tateishi's e-mail: pc@pacificcitizen:org to: ronment cbaracterization of the bill as www.pacificcitizen.org Except for the National Directo(s Report, National JACL The.Pacifip Citizen newspaper, the national "racist." * publication of the Japanese American Citizens news and the views expressed by colum• 1765 Sutter.St. . As a top representative of a non• nists do not necessarily reflect JACL polley. League. is currently looking for someone to work at itsLos The columns are the personal opinion of the San Francisco, CA Angeles office part~t1me, including some evenings and weekends. profit group that defines itself as writers. nonpartisan, John perhaps could. * "Voices" reflect the active, public discus• 94115 Various duties include reporting, :researching, rewriting ofpl'eIls.lrleas" sion within JACL of a wide range of ideas es and produ<:tion duties, KpQWledge of the Asian Q91nn;l:oni,. have cited the language in the bill Allow 6 weeks for address Amro.-. and issues, though they may not reflect the ty ana. t1ieJACL a. plUs. . "y that is undeniably racist. Otherwis~, viewpoint of the edrtorial board of the Pacific Citiien. changes, College orgmd stUdents currendymajorlng in ~gush6r'J~ Republican members of the JACL required.App1i~ts~uld * "Short expressions" on public issues, preferred, but not also'have a California dri* could well be offended; and that usually one or two paragraphs, should To avoid interruptions in receiving ver's license. " , include Signature, address and daytime your PC, please notify your p:st:• ~ application deadfule is Iu;nel could risk our losing another group phone number, Because of space limita• master to include periOOicals in lfjlltere$ted.pi~ of JACL members. tions. letters are subject to abridgement. " Although we are unable to print all the letters your change of address (USPS CitizfrJ •. 25GB. lst S Especially in an election year, we receive, we appreciate the interest and Fonn3575) [email protected]'}fJ!. ~()n: when our Republican JACL col- views of those who talHONOLULU-Federal legislation to recognize Native Hawaiians as suffered from discrimination at the vote." the Congress, demonstrates again indigenous inhabitants of Hawaii is once again set to be considered by the polls and still face language barri• "Discrimination in the electoral that protecting the right to vote is a U.S .. Senate, said Sen. Daniel Akaka, the bill's sponsor. ers when attempting to vote. By process continues to exist and fundanlental American value," Akaka, who has Canlpaigned for seven years for the Native Hawaiian providing APAs with equal access threatens to undermine the said Jerrold Nadler, D-NY, HR 9 Recognition bill, also known as the Akaka bill, said Senate Majority Leader to voting and helping combat vot• progress that has been made over original cosponsor and judiciary Bill Frist, R-Tenn., has agreed to file a cloture motion during the first week ing discrimination, the act gives the last 40 years. By extending the constitution subcommittee ranking of June to force debate and a vote on the measure. APAs power to influence the poli- , . VRA for an additional 25 years, member. • The cloture motion requires the backing of 60 senators to force debate and a vote on the proposal. The bill would establish an office in the Department of the Interior to Matsui to Receive Honorary Doctorate Posthumously address Native Hawaiian issues. It also would create an interagency group composed of representatives of federal agencies that currently administer By Pacific Citizen Staff Sacramento's light rail system, MatsUi's service to the region and programs and policies affecting Hawaiians. build a new federal courthouse and the nation was recognized with In effect, the federal government would recognize Hawaiians as a native The. late Congressman Robert improved flood protection. In one numerous awards. In 2001 he population, as they already do American Indians and Native Alaskans .• MatsUi will be recognized posthu• received the Joe Serna Jr. Unity mously with an honorary doctorate Award from the Capitol Unity from the California State University, CoUncil. The Child Welfare League ·· A ········ · · ·· ····· ··p · ···m " .> . ~ u···· ··· s· ·· =··· · Sacramento. His widow and current of America twice named him .: . a . U.S. Rep. Doris Matsui, D• Congressional Advocate of the Year. in the Sacramento, will accept the award The Anti-Defanlation League May 20. gave him its Lifetime Achievement News Robert spent 26 years represent• Award and he was also recognized ing the Sacramento area until his by national transit and small busi• death in January 2005. ness organizations. Meng's Daughter Enters Race for His Assembly Seat Matsui and his family were Before he becanle a congress• Days after Assemblyman Jimmy Meng interned at Tule Lake. During his man, Matsui served as vice mayor deCided to decline reelection, his daughter. Congressional career, Robert helped of Sacranlento and headed a Grace Meng officially made a bid for his 22nd gUide the landmark Civil Liberties of his last acts as a congressman, he Sacramento law practice. In 2005, Assembly District seat. Act of 1988 through Congress. The secured $950,000 in federal appro• Doris MatsUi was elected to com• Grace Meng, 31, said she would make a for• act led to a formal apology and priations for the planned Science plete his term. mal announcement in coming weeks, but she compensation from the U.S. gov• and Space Center at Sacramento The honor will be presented dur• wanted to end speculation about her future polit• ernment to Japanese Americans State, a figure that has now grown ing the college of business adminis• ical anlbitions. Rumors had been circulating for interned during World War II. to $1.5 million through the efforts tration ceremony at noon, May 20 at weeks, long before Jimmy Meng announced his He advocated for funds to expand of his wife, Doris. the Hornet Stadium. • health would keep him from running again, that Grace Meng intended to follow in her father's footsteps. • I Gov't Endorses National Park Status for Bainbridge Roger Ozaki Receives Asian American Honor The Interior Department has Dr. Roger Ozaki, testing center director for Georgia Perimeter College released ' a · report supporting the in Lawrenceville, recently was honored at an Asiim American gala in inclusion of a Bainbridge Island Atlanta. memorial honoring- the first Former CNN anchor Sachi Koto presented awards to Ozaki at the first Japanese Americans interned during Who's Who in Asian American Communities in Georgia gala, held April I World War II in the National Park 29. The event 'honored 67 Georgians for their contributions to the local System; Asian American community and the state's cultural and economic growth. Under the proposal, the memorial A veteran in higher education, Ozaki is responsible for the operation of would be included in the National GPC's Lawrenceville CanlpUS testing center, which offers academic testing Park System as part of the Minidoka services annually. He eamed his Ed.D. degree from the University of Inslee, D-Bainbridge Island, in the Bainbridge residents, who were the Internment National Monument in Georgia, a M.Ed. from Georgia Southern University and a B.S. from the House and U.S. Sens. Patty Murray first of almost 120,000 Japanese Idaho. University of Georgia. 'and Maria Cantwell. Americans from the West Coast The memorial is to be built at the Results were released just one who were forcibly removed, exiled Eagl~e Kobayashi to Rece.ive John Ca"rdinal O'Hara Award former Ferry Dock on ' month after Inslee wrote a letter urg• . and interned," said Inslee, a resident Bainbridge Island, the site w}:lere the Notre Danle's John Cardinal O'Hara Award for outstanding and distin• ing Interior Secretary Gale Norton of the island. first JAs were shipped off to intern• gUished service to the University of Notre Danle win be presented this year to expedite the report, considering Construction of the .memorial on mentcamps. to Dr. Francis M. Kobayashi of South Bend, Indiana. the advanced age of surviving . Bainbridge Island began in early The study was commissioned and Kobayashi is the professor emeritus of aerospace and mechanical engi• internees. April. Funding for the projeCt has funded over three years ago in legis• neering. He retired a decade ago as assistant vice president of the graduate "TIlis· March marked the 64th come from private donors and the lation sponsored by U.S. Rep. Jay school's research division from 1948-1968. • anniversary of the internment of 227 state of Washington.• 4 NATIONAL NEWS PACIFIC CITIZEN, MAy 19-JUNE 1, 2006 Finding Your JA Roots (Continued from page 1) forces to fmd the rDissing pieces of some at Manzanar and Amache, their family genealogy. and many of her relatives in Japan Sansei-han Jennifer Akiko were directly affected by the atomic Reven, 21, did a family history bombings in Hiroshima. project in high school tracing back ''I've tried to talk to everyone some of the names of her ancestors who is still alive," said Reven, who and soon became interested in has also found extended family doing a full genealogical search. members throughout California and She has managed to trace back her even some who are currently living mom's side of the family five gen• in Brazil. erations and three generations of Hashizume learned details of his her dad's side. family .history that his mom and "I was waiting for years for other dad, now both deceased, did not older family members to do this but pass down to him and his two older the older members started to die," brothers. said Reven, originally from His paternal grandfather Yosaku Sacramento but currently living in Hashizume arrived in Atlantic City, North Carolina at Fort Bragg where New Jersey in 1919 with a cousin to her husband is currently stationed. sell ceramics and laquerware and FAMILY ROOTs-Celebrating ''I started to realize that if I didn't do eventually opened up a giftshop. the 100th anniversary of the this, 10 years from now there would His ~aternal grandfather Hashizume family's confec• be nobody to do this." Katsukichi Munekiyo was in tionary shop (top) are family Reven's quest has taken her to Portland, Oregon from 1905 to members and employe~s. The Japan twice already. On the last trip 1910 before he married his grand~ family business was sold she and her sister Julie managed to mother and moved to California. shortly after World War II. get in touch with her long lost rela• He also discovered that his maternal tives in Hiroshima. Her aunt's ancestors were likely descendants Chester Hashizume's paternal cousin, who spoke English surpris• of samurai and one of his relatives grandparents, Yosaku and ingly well, took them around to the in Japan, Hiroshi Munekiyo, is a various sites and she was able to famous jazz musician. Kimi Hashizume, from make a memorable visit to the fam• Experiences like Reven's and Ishikawa prefecture are pic• ily gravesite. Hashizume's are not unique and tured at right. '''They didn't know that we exist• many JAs have been inspired to ed. It was the first time our family take the first steps to discover their had been back in 20 years," said family roots. Reven, who speaks and writes a bit Sansei Stuart Terashita, 47, from of Japanese but communicates with Seattle has started his own genealo• encourage young people to still her new-found relatives in English. gy Web page (http://www.geoci• speak Chinese. We don't speak She described her recent trip to ties.com/SiliconValley/Garage/446 Japanese," said Reven. Japan as "awesome" and now regu• 41H0me.html) where he not only Reven and Hashizume, like larly corresponds with her Japanese -writes about his JA family roots but Terashita, have also relied on the· relatives, mostly through e-mails. lists techniques and ideas that he Internet in their research. For Sansei Ghester Itashizume, has learned from others. On Genealogy.com several peo• 51, in hi J r ''I th la k of knowledg ple in search of their Japanese never a priority, especially growing about my father's side of the family ancestors posts messages and up in New Jersey with few fellow started me on the se1lrcb. I pub• requests for assistance on the Japan Asian Americans and speaking no lished the genealogy page soother Genealogy Forum. Reven· used Japanese. But 18 years ago he JAs don't have to stumble around• - people searches on Yahoo! and also moved to the West Coast and after a like I did," said Terashita. ''Besides, recommendS cyndyslist.com that stint at the Japanese American with the reach of the Internet these has a Japanese forum. She's also National Museum in Los Angeles, days some long lost relative rnight noticed that many young JAs are Hashizume got inspired to explore read my page and contact me." looking for their ancestors on sites his family ancestry and can now Like many of his fellow Sansei, like myspace.com. trace his family back five genera• Terashita's family did not talk much Other Web sites include: tions. about their Japanese family ances• Keizu-Japanese Genealogy (mem• '''The Nisei have lost touch with try although he now knows they bers.tripod.comlrunkecroomlfami - Japan and so there is nothing to pass were originally from Wakayama lY.htm); Japan GenWeb on to their kids. From the Sansei prefecture. His father's family lived (http://www.rootsweb.coml-jpn• generation on our connection to in Bainbridge Island and was one of wgw); and Ancestry.com. Japan becomes less and less. But as the first groups to be ordered to (www.ancestry.com). adults we have become interested" internment camps during World Although Hashizume is not quite in tracirig our roots, he srud. War II. sure how many people from his -Hashizume's search would ulti• "When they got the order to workshops end up finding their rel• mately bring him to Hiroshima and evacuate, [my grandfather] had one atives or take the big step to visit Ishikawa prefectures for the first of the sons take anything that Japan, he is happy to be able to pass time. He's been back twice now and looked Japanese including corre• on what he has learned from his regularly corresponds with his spondences to relatives and place own experiences. cousins through letters in basic them in a clay pot and bury it on "I like to help other people who English, establishing close-knit their property," he said. 'To this day are interested in finding their ances• relationships that he never thought we still can't find the clay pot or tors. That experience for me was would be possible. their contents." very good even-though for a long Both Reven and Hashizume have Like Terashita, Hashizume has time I wasn't interested in my now collected an immense amoUnt also used his own experiences to ancestry," said Hashizume. of information on their family histo• help those wanting to trace their "Exploring my ancestry has been - Health PIQf\ls ries, facts and anecdotes that had family roots. For the past 14 years very rewarding. This is our her• never been passed down to them Hashizume has hosted regular itage, a way to try to make a con• from their irninediate family mem• workshops throughout Southern nection." fer California bers. California on how to trace one's Reven hopes to pass on what she Reven discovered that her mater• Japanese family genealogy. He has learned of her family's roots to nal side of the family, the shows his clients how to trace your ~er daughter Lillian Kirniko, 1 112 J CL Members Miyamuras and Katos, are original• Japanese family tree, how to find years old, and help her relatives ly from -the area of Suda in your ancestral home or "furusato," rekindle long lost relationships. Hiroshima. Her dad's side (Shingu, and how to obtain your koseki or ''I want to go as far back as I Call the JACL Health Benefits Administrators at Kawaye) come from Kumamoto, "family registry." He also goes over can," she said. ''I have gotten a lot Hiroshima, and Koehi in Shikoku. meanings of family names and of fulfillment but I'm not going to Most of her family immigrated to identifying family cJ;ests. stop." • the United States in the early 1900s, In general most JAs do not speak 1.800.400.6633 returned to Japan, and came once Japanese so the language barrier is For more information about again to the States prior to World the biggest hurdle for those tracing Chester Hashizumes workshops, or visit War II. Several of her family mem• their family roots. contact him at chashizume@earth• link. net or 626/644-1954. www.jaclhealth.org japanes'~ AmNiG10 bers were interned at Tule Lake, "We're not like the Chinese who CWlc!ll~ League PACIFIC CITIZEN, MAy 19-JUNE 1, 2006 NATIONAL/COMMUNITY 5 PSW District Holds 1st Annual Golf Tournament

• TED NAMBA • Why is JACL 2006 in Arizona?

id you know that a exhibits hall. D Japanese man, Hachiro Steve Tokita from Mountain Onuki (aka Hutchlon . West Travel will be coordinating Ohnick), was one of three partners optional activities for convention who first brought electricity to attendees. Steve's pricing is quite Phoenix in 1886? This Issei pio• reasonable so think about taking neer married Catherine Shannon that one day trip to Sedona where from Tennessee in 1888, became a one can enjoy breathtaking scenery prominent civic leader of Phoenix and cooler temperatures (boosters where he served on the Board of only as delegates should not cut The PSW district held its first annual golf tournament May 7 at Tijeras Creek in Rancho Santa any business sessions)! Education, and voted as a natural• Margarita, Calif. The tournament featured 84 golfers in five divisions. Men's !A' Flight winner Rich ized citizen (likely one of the first The excursion to the Ro Ho En . Risberg (above left) is congratulated by tournament chairman Kerry Kaneichi. Gary Mayeda (above Issei inter-marriages in America as Japanese Friendship Garden in well as one of the first Issei to Central Phoenix will surprise right) prepares to drive one dead solid perfect. The results fron1 the tournament were as follows (in become naturalized). JACLers as it's hard to imagine order of finish): 'A' Flight: Rich Risberg, Stan Matsuoka and Shing Yamada; 'B' Flight: Sab Sakamoto, Did you also know that JAs who that such a striking, beautiful Richard Kawano and Mark Taniguchi; 'C' Flight: Jimmy Sasahara, Yoji Niho and Bill Yamane; lived on one side of a major street Japanese Garden can thrive in the Women's Flight: A$h Alidio, Michiko Ok?mura and Kathy Quock; and Callaway Flight: Kelcey Kinjo, in Arizona were forced to go to an desert. The Heard Museum is Nick Saiki and Todd Sato.• . internment camp during World War unquestionably the best Native II but those JAs living on the other American Museum in the side of that street did not go to . Southwest so it's another excursion Go For. Broke Unveils New Name, Future Initiatives camp? you may want to check out. I wanted to share a couple of Steve will be sending details out Plans include the building these tidbits of JA history here in about these optional activities to of an education center and Arizona. It's nice having national those who have registered for con• Littl~ Tokyo headquarters. JACL conventions in different parts vention but if you can't wait, call of the country so we all have the him at 800/487-4574. By Pacific Citizen Staff opportunity to learn and appreciate June 21-24, 2006, will be a fun• the various communities our mem• filled and productive week for bers live in. At the JACL 2006 Con• JACL delegates, boosters and DOWNTOWN LOS ANGE• vention you will have a chance to friends. A nice golf shirt and shorts LES-The Go For Broke National learn a little about Arizona JA his• are appropriate dress for the major• Education Center announced plans . tory and also visit some beautiful ity of Arizona establishments dur• May 11 to build its national head• places that Arizona has to offer. ing the sUJIlIlier. However, make qu~ers and public education center In our convention exhibits hall, sure you pack jeans/Westem wear adjacent to the Japanese American one can purchase wonderful items for the June 21 welcome mixer at National Museum and the current from popular vendors such as Rawhide and a sharp suit/tuxedo or Go For Broke memorial .. Nikkei Traditions from San Jose, evening gown/dress for the elegant The veterans organization, which Calif. and The Sachiko Collection Sayonara Banquet on June 24. from Irvine, Calif. One can also Don't forget to also pack the swim• is . currently headquartered in browse thi-ough educational booths suit as the Wild Horse Pass Resort Torrance, Calif., received a $1 mil• lion grant through the California such as the JAAZ (Japanese and Spa has a nice pool. Manabi Hirasaki, 552nd Field Artillery Battalion veteran and co• Americans in Arizona) Oral . Additionally, JACL 2006 attendees· Cultqral and Historical Endowment chair of the Go For Broke National Education Center. History Project where you will see will get a discount at the resort's (CCRE) to cover preliminary con• interesting items such as artifacts Whirlwind Golf Course and Aji struction costs. from Gila River and Poston. One Spa. Go For Broke anticipates break• three years to raise the necessary focused, interactive exhibits using may also purchase books from a See you at convention! ing ground and opening the building funds to build the center. The organ• Go For Broke's oral history archive half dozen authors whose books to the public in 2010 . . ization plans to raise the $15 million and research assistance. share the JA experience. There will Ted Namba is the chairperson of The 50-year lease with the city of needed to build the center. The organization also unveiled its be many other interesting, fun, and the 2006 national JACL convention Los Angeles gives Go For Broke The center will offer technology- new name, The Go For Broke educational exhibitors in the in Arizona. National Education Center. . Previously the organization's legal .------~------name was the lOOth1442nd/MIS I I WWII Memorial Foundation and I CONVENTION PACKAGE REGISTRATION I operated as the Go For Broke Name ______(includes Individual Events listed below) Educational Foundation. 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This form is fOtconventiQr! registration onlY and.NOT for hotel .•.• ~ ~~*ervations. ~ich should be m~ directly with the Sheraton Witd HorsePas$ $95/night, mention JACL National Convention I Spa and :Resort atGlla River. Phoenix, Arizona. If you are registering for more R.S.V.P by May 31 I E-mail: til than ~ pi\'l'soo. pleasl;' uS\! additlcnal (orml' or copies. . [email protected] ~ ...... - ---.. ' ------.. 6 NATIONAL NEWS PACIFIC ClTIZEN, MAy 19.,1UNE 1, 2006 sa 1'615 with a standardized form and' was there a need for additional programs uals and brg~tions and many well as other traditional communi• forced to choose one side over related to drug abuse and violence believe the current efforts at the ties of color." (Continued from page 1) another," said Jonathan Masaji that specifically target mixed race state level are going to follow the "I think that our commun'ity heritage population. California cur• Brent, executive director of youth? Maybe, maybe not. same route. They believe many in feels like it's shrinking. The phrase rently has the largest number of Multiracial Americans of Southern However, this underscores the power find the current race cate• 'outmarriage' even implies . that mixed heritage residents - 1 in 6 California (MASC). "By passing importance of a full understanding gories "convenient" and changing you marry and you or your chil• babies born in this state are multira• SB 1615, the California State of the community, one that can only to a multirace option would not only dren are out of the circle, so to ' cial," said Scott, a Bay Area chapter Senate affmns the right of these come if agencies that collect data be costly but time-conslJ!Ding. speak, never'to come back in," said leader of Swirl, Inc., a social justice . mixed race children to be part of cease to assign mixed-race people to . "By recognizing that individuals Spry. "I think recording data show- organization serving the mixed her• are becorning more diverse, .ing the growing diversity in demo• itage community. ''If passed, SB 'Every mixed-race person alive can California is recognizing the impor• graphics, will prove to our com• 1615 will set an important precedent relate a story about the first time he tance of multiple races in one's munity that it's changing, but not for similar legislation in other or she ever came face to face with a identity as opposed to one that's being destroyed." ~pry, states." standardized fonn and was forced to 'most important, '" said Joshua Although the 2000 U.S. Census national JACL youth council chair. resuited in some important changes SB 1615 was approved by the choose one side over another. ' Senate Judiciary Committee on 'This might allow the state govern• for the mixed race community, April 25 but still needs to get the - Jonathan Masaji Brent, ment to custom services not only to much more still needs to be done at nod from both the Senate and House executive director of Multiracial Americans White, Blac:k, Latino, or Asian, but both the federal and state levels. If appropriations committees since the of Southern California (MASC) to the African-Asian American, the SB 1615 is successful, proponents bill would have a fiscal impact. The Thai-Cambodian American, and in hope that other states will be bill requires that the state record and the end allow for services that try to encouraged to follow California's report the number of persons who two communities. This bill will not one group or another," said Brent. fit individual needs, identities, and lead. identify as being multiracial and change our world over night, but it ''Without knowing where we are as experiences more closely." "California is the first state to pro• also contains safeguards to allow for is a crucial step in the right direc• a community, it is impossible to . The A~ian American community pose such legislation. We ~ hope• the continued enforcement and tion." know where we could or should be bas been noticeably vocal in the cur• ful that other states will follow suit," monitoring of civil rights. In addition to self-identity, propo• going." rent debates. Of all mixed race per• said Scott. Mixed race persons know they nents of the bill say it will finally In 2000, the federal government sons, AAs have the highest outmar• "Every mixed race person can still have a long fight ahead, espe• allow for accurate data collection on for the first time allowed mixed race riage rates, making the impact of SB remember the first time he or she cially since some Republicans have the mixed race community that up persons to select more than one race 1615 on this group potentially huge. came face to face with a standard• already voiced their opposition, but until now has been sorely lacking, box in the U.S. Census. As a result "SB 1615 is supported by many ized form. And those of us who believe the passage of this bill is especially in areas like health and more than 7 million people took up Asian American organizations," raised our hands and spoke up will important in reaffirming their right education. With recent studies the government's offer, including said Scott, but added, ''While this tell you that our voices seemed to identify with more than just "one claiming a higher occurrence of vio• 1.6 million Californians, the home support is important and encourag• quite soft in comparison to the box." lence and drug abuse among mixed of the largest mixed race population. ing there's still more education and rigidity of the constructs before us. "Every mixed-race person alive race youth, a closer look at this com• But the fight to pass legislation at outreach to be done by and for But seven million voices in unison can relate a story about the first time munity needs to begin. the federal level took several years mixed heritage individuals within are pretty damn loud," said Brent. he or she ever came face to face "Are these studies accurate? Is of advocacy by mixed race individ- the Asian American community, as • 4 ops To keep federal funding and signed the bill into law the same Nguyen. University'S Civil Rights Project. .diversity intact, the OPS tried bus• day. (Continued from page 1) But other .Omaha residents like The redistricting of OPS will ing students and forming magnet Almost immediately, headlines Jeri Endo say there are some posi• take effect in 2008 although the proximity to home and friends. schools on the east side. Last year, screamed of racial segregation and tive points getting lost in the mis• measure has already been met with "And while Central undoubtedly OPS officials announced its "one pundits wrote editorial pieces inton~ leading dialogue about racial segre• opposition from Attorney General has the best academics of those two, city, one school district" campaign ing the Jim Crow mantra of "sepa• gation. For instance, students will Jon Bruning, the OPS superintend• there are a lot more fights and to fold all school districts into the rate but equal." now have the abilitY to choose ent and some local ,civil rights cliques at Central," said Nguyen. "I OPS in order to share property tax ''We will go down in history as where they want to go rather than groups. believe this is true not because kids dollars more equitably. When the one of the first states in 20 years to settle on the closest school. Sharon Ishii-Jordan, a professor from the south side of town are idea was met with resistance by sub• set race relations back," Orn$a Omaha's schools aren't racially at Omaha's Creighton University, rowdy and bad because that's not urban schools, the OPS went to the Sen. Pat Bourne told the AP. segregated, they are the products of said imposing a segregated school true. Legislature. Asian Pacific Americans, who economic growth, said Endo, who system is unfair for ' families that "I believe most of the kids from The Omaha Legislature on April only account for about 3 percent of lives in the suburban Millard School may not have the transportation Central come from working class . 13, in a move criticized by some as the population, are scattered District. means to choose a different school families. They are taught it's a dog• state-sponsored segregation, voted throughout the ci~. Nguyen is con• "People would say 'Oh my gosh system. But she along with other eat-dog world and things aren't 31-16 to pass LB 1024, a bill to vinced that if LB 1024 is enacted, look at this!' But it just so happens community leaders have been work• always fair." divide OPS into three districts - OPS will become more racially that's where people live," she said. ing with the OPS over the years to Like any other city, the school one mostly black in the northeast, divided. The problem of "equal" public build more inclusive communities district's student body is inextrica• one predominantly white in the west 'The fact of the matter is, two dis• education isn't unique to Omaha. and schools. bly tied to demographic changes. and one largely Hispanic in the tricts will end. up having mainly Los Angeles' suburban sprawl "One of the pros of this legisla• Omaha's burgeoning population has southeast. working class/middle class/minority creates large disparities in aca• tion is that it brought all the school led to the formation of racially and The idea came from Sen. Ernie kids, while the other is mostly demic achievement · and the districts in the greater Omaha area socio-economically divided com• Chambers, the state's only African Caucasian [and] upper class," she Chicago School District has together to talk about what it means munities. On the west, more affluent American senator, who later told the said. "I believe if we did enact LB required oversight from the feder• to be a 'learning community,'" said suburban areas boom with its own Associated Press that his African 1024, the bad would get Worse al government for the past 25 Ishii-Jordan. separate school district while older American constituents would have a while the good just gets better leav• years. Chicago's schools and OPS officials are still debating communities on the eastside are better education if they had more ing the kids who live in the 'bad' communities are among the most alternatives for the split. The Omaha mostly made up of lower income control over their district. school district out of the chance to segr~gated in the nation, accord• l00th Legislature is scheduled to housing. Republican Gov. Dave Heineman see new surroundings," said ing to a 2004 study by Harvard convene Jan. 3,2007.• Veterans, Volunteers Needed lor Go For Broke's Hanashi Oral History Interviews REVERSE MORTGAGE The Go For Broke' Educational sizes that all men and women who Foundation's preservation initiative, served played a role during the war Call for a PH- information package the Hanashi Oral History Program, and are essential to the complete ensures the "hanashi" or "story" of story. the Japanese American World War II WOJ;llen are also encouraged to be If you are 62 or older and own your house, veterans is not forgotten. interviewed, as their role in the With nearly 670 interviews cur• Women's Army Corps (yVACs) dur• a Reverse Mortgage may benefit you! rently in its archive, Hanashi's goal ing WWII is important. is to collect another l00-plus by Interviews are not strictly focused • Turn Home Equity into Tax Free Cash year's end. 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"By performing in ice shows, I want to repay my debt of gratitude the United States. dethroned Michelle Kwan as world to the world of figure skating," Arakawa, the first Japanese skater champion. Arakawa said at a news conference. to win a gold medal, was just 16 at Arakawa's departure comes at a "I'm glad I can end my career feel• the Nagano Games, and placed time when Japan is becoming a ris• ing satisfied. I'm not leaving with 13th. ing power in womell's figure skat• any regrets as I embark on a new Although she didn't make the ing. Mao Asada won the Grand road." world team until 2003, she won the . Prix. final, but at 15 was too young Arakaw ~ 24, said she plans to world title in 2004 with an astonish• to compete in Turin or the world l perform in ice shows in Japan and ing display of jumping that included championships. a pair of triple-triple-doubles and a . Miki Ando, Yukina Ota and Yao Pleased with triple-triple in the opening 30 sec- Yukari Nakano also are top-level His Recovery I onds in a performance that skaters . • HOUSTON- Houston Rockets BASKETBALL Since 1947 the JACL HEALTH center Yao Ming said his injured Rex Walters Named Head Coach left foot was improving, but he was TRUST has offered Health Care still wearing a protective boot and I of Florida Atlantic University's was unsure when he'll resume bas• Men's Basketball Team coverage to JACL members ketball drills. Yao broke his left foot on April 10 Rex WaIters was recently named sionally in the NBA for seven sea• in a game against Utah and sat out as head coach of Florida Atlantic sons, including with the New Jersey To protect you and your family from even common the final four games of the NBA University's men's basketball team. Nets, Philadelphia '76ers and the accidents and illnesses the JACL HEALTH TRUST . season. He had surgery that week to This is Miami Heat. He avemged 4.6 points repair the fIfth metatarsal bone in his Walters fIrst and 1.7 assists per game in 13.7 p~ovides Blue Cross of California health care coverage. foot. gig as a head minutes. He also played at the col• Blue Cross of California has been providing health "It's getting better every day," coach. He lege level, starring for two seasons coverage to Californians for over 65 years. Blue Cross is Yao told Houston television station previously at Kansas. committed to keeping you connected to KRN. "Actually, I can walk without served as In the 2005-06 season, Florida quality health care services. crutches. I get treatment every day, associate Atlantic finished its season in the upper body lifting and some (riding) coach of the Atlantic Sun Conference with a 15- bike." team under 13 record overall and the team's best Yao's agent has said he hopes the Matt Doherty. Prior to joining FAU, conference record ever at 14-6 .• Chinese center can be back on the Walters served as assistant coach at court in June and prepared to play Valparaiso University.. for China in this summer's world Prior to taking on coaching championships.• assignments, Walters played profes- ' 8 VOICES PACIFIC CITIZEN, MAy 19-JUNE 1, 2006 COMMENTARY A ' Brief History of the JACL CUrriculum Guide

By GREG MARUTANI . led to the internment, an ad-hoc • HARRY HONDA • group of community educators VERY TRULY YOURS On Sept. 17, 1987, the- 200th managed to assemble a curriculum anniversary of the signing of the guide that was then financed by a U.S. Constitution, Congressman number of donations. The material Amazing Internet Breaks Through the Venerable PC Norman Mineta called for the vote was photocopied, and with the T'S BEEN ALMOST a year Gutenberg established himself in create text, pictures, music and on HR 442, the assistallce of the district administra• I since acquiring a new comput• Strasbourg, Germany (a city famil• video over the Internet. An informal Civil Liberties tion, distributed to every teacher in er with all the bells and grunts iar to Nisei veterans of the 522nd Yonsei survey, I would think:, might Act, which the district. - connecting to the Iriterne4 copy• Field Artillery), and printing reli• put that percentage close to 75 per• was signed At the request of the San ing a CD and whatever else it can gious tracts off his hand press. ' ' cent. into law Aug. Francisco chapter, the national do. So it was rewarding to read As this technology spread acr6ss 10, 1988, by JACL adopted the guide as a proj:• P. C. Board Chair Gil Asakawa's Europe, use of Latin declined and *** President ect, and established the JACL editorial "Expanding P. C. s Online the vernacular rose. Martin Luther The other morning on C-SPAN's Ronald National Education Committee. Presence" for it fits into this col• used the printing press to print the Washingto'; Joumtll, a lad 18 years Reagan. Fast forward to 2006 and that unm about mass media, its begin• Bible and other texts in German. old didn't know what to believe Representatives from the San guide has been printed and updated ning and direction with respect to William Caxton, who learned print• about the news from Iraq as heard Francisco JACL met with then• four times, has been distributixl at JACL's membership publication. ing in Germany, established his on TV. It means young people of Assemblywoman Jackie Speier to more than 60 teacher training work• At a Little Tokyo conference in press at Westminster in 1477. today, or most people in the future, ask for her support in bringing the shops across the country, many 1985 about intmigrant Japanese An illustration of Caxton's hand -. will have to decide for themselves I internment of Americans of through the chapter network of the newspapers and their English sec• press shows it hadn't changed what is real and worthwhile on the Japanese ancestry into the JACL, and has served as a prototype , tions in America, I turned in a much when the Declaration of internet. Meanwhile, the carefully California classrooms. for others, including the Go For paper, 'The Nisei Beat: the Day to Independence was printed in 1776. edited mass media model, the news• Speier introduced Assembly Broke Foundation and the Angel Day Grind," on the origins of print• Its opening line, "When in the paper, often regard..¢ as one source. Concurrent Resolution (ACR) 37 Island Imrnigration- Station ing because it was a Chinese inven• course of human events, it becomes of truth, is hurting as circulation and that stated: ''the state and school dis• Foundation. tion of the Late T' ang dynasty necessary .. . " is still unforgotten advertising keeps dropping. tricts are urged to adopt instruction• At a recent meeting with State (712-756) during its brilliant from high school print shop days to The new culture fosters people to al materials that reflec4 in appropri- Sen. Speier, who is currently run• Golden Age, an account of the first master the California job case become a permanent blogger or a I ate subject matter fields, accurate ning for lieutenant governor in Japanese language "konnyaku-ban loaded with movable type. Such publisher. A former mag!lZine writer and objective ,versions of the California, I thanked her for her (hectograph)" newspaper in San were my first days in journalism - in South Korea, Oh Yeon Ho, is Japanese-American internment work onACR 37 and presented her Francisco in 1886; and how I learning the basics.of printing. known to be the world's most suc• experience as a violation of human a copy of the JACL Curriculum entered the trade in the 1930s. cessful online newspaper publisher, rights, rather than as an act of mili• Guide so she could see the results of Because of the huge numbers of * * * according to The Economist. His tary necessity" and "that the her work and the' support of our characters in Chinese, monks "Movable type" seems to have newspaper has no reporters on its Superintendent of Public Instruction community's efforts to bring the carved on stones, later on wood, a been re-invented by a San staff. He relies instead on articles be requested to notify superintend• story of the intemment into the whole page from the classics, inked Francisco couple who had ample from contributors or "citizen jour• ents of school districts, county classrooms. them to reproduce copies (rub• time on their hands. One began nalists." His Ohmy News has, a "tip offices of education and those text• To date, over 3,500 copies of the bings) of the text. A picture of a "blogging - posting her journal jar" system, inviting readers to book publishers who have provide!i, curriculum guide have been distrib• book of Buddhist sutras printed in online - with little anecdotes of reward good work with small dona• and who are interested in providing, uted through the work of local 1124 - 400 years before her childhood days. Like a printing tions. One good article, it was instructional materials to the schools JACL chapters and placed in the Gutenberg's Bible was printed• press on the Internet, her website reported, produced about the equiv• of this resolution." It passed on Aug. hands of teachers, most who attend• appears in Fairbank's classic East Movable Type opened a new era alent of $30,000 in just five days. 29,1989. ed a teacher training workshop. Asia. that began five years ago, and Then on June 6, 1990, the San If your chapter is interested in Francisco School Board adopted sponsoring a teacher training work• ( swelled with personal participation. * * * *** The Economist calls this a culture In the 1970s, the late Prof. Harry "A Day of Remembrance" resolu• shop, e-mail: [email protected].• Johann Gutenberg, who had "already familiar to teenagers in Kitano had reason to believe the tion based on ACR 37. Recognizing invented the "movable type," pub• rich countries." And tOe paper Japanese American community that the district did not have any cur• Greg Marutani is a member of the lished 200 copies of the Bible in quips: "Most older people, if they would be gone by th~ new millenni• riculum material that adequately JACL National Education 1456, the year when "mass media" are aware of the transition at all, um because of interracial marriages. . addressed the historical events that Committee. was born. Till then, manuscripts find it puzzling." Miraculously, the community press were all hand-written and pages One survey (pew Internet) found has served the JA identity, thanks to Send us'your comments carved onto wood blocks. 57 percent of American teenagers the vernaculars in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle, Denver and to [email protected]. Chicago. The Los Angeles-based Pacific Citizen savors its unique national spread. As the media continues with Inteme4 this past year with my new computer has been a useful and fun experienCe for what's yet to come. As Gil poses, ''Wouldn't it be great if JACL members had access to all . of each issue's stories by logging onT' . ~lIIFtx!!! LOOKS LIKE WE'LL HAVE TO BUILD CMAPS LIKE ROOSEVELT DID BACK IN THE 40'$ ,'

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From Japanese• With the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II, his fam• American Internment ily was sent to the Tanforan Assembly Center in Calif., where Tom founded YUTAKA AMANO Camps to the U.S. the Tanforan Tooters, an orchestra. The group became the Topaz Tooters when they were transferred to the Richard Barlow Hatch is look• Cadet Nurse Corps. Topaz Internment Camp in Utah. They played at school dances and other ing for Yutaka Amano. They functions both in Topaz and in communities outside the camp. went to Mark Keppel High This is the story of Following his release from internment, Tom relocated to New York City, School in Alhambra before where he studied further as a tympanist and percussionist. He became the Nisei cadet nurses - Yutaka's family was sent to of their experiences in chief tympanist of the New Orleans Symphony, and percussionist in the Santa Anita~ ' With information wretched camps, of Minneapolis Symphony, thereby beco!ning the first Nisei in a major people who risked American symphony. Tom is mentioned, cited and quoted many times in on Yutaka please call the George Yoshida's book, Reminiscing in Swingtime: Japanese Americans in Pacific. Citizen, 800/966-6157. public scorn to support American Popular Music, 1925-1960. Japanese Americans, of While in New Orleans, he also was employed by the Hall Drum Co. He DEATH NOTICE prejudicial difficulties came to Worcester when offered a position at the former W.alberg & Auge in entering nursing Music Co. He also was employed at Norwood Music in Worcester and KIMIYOENTA schools, and of a Valente Music in Marlborough, Mass .. CmCAGO-Kimiyo Enta, 82, government that Tom was a life member of Local 802, American Federation of Musicians passed away Feb. 24. Beloved wife reversed its policy of Greater New York City,.and Local 174-496, A.F. of M. of New Orleans. of Chinoree; loving sister of Leo against a people of Tom is survived by his beloved and devoted former wife, Annette Biscari Kiyohiro and his wife Yuriko. Kimiyo was active in odori, Japanese descent. Tsuji, who looked after him in his declining years; a sister, Minnie and her husband Sus Ito of Wellesley, Mass.; their children and families, Linda and shamisen, and koto in the Chicago her husband James Ito-Adler, sons Justin and Jayson; Celia and her husband area for the I~st 48 years. www.cadetnurse.com Barry Doe, children Lisa and Jesse, all of Belmont, Mass.; Daniel Ito and his DEATH NOTICE ORDER FORM: $22.50 $3.00 s/h wife Ellen and their daughter Amanda, of Honduras; and Bruce Ito of San + Francisco.

NAME:------____~~ ______Tom was predeceased by a sister, Marie Toguchi. Her surviving children FUMlYE "TONI" are Robert Toguchi and his wife Janice and their children Michael and TAKAMOTO ADDRESS: ______Allison of Altoona, Penn.; and Susan and her husband Stephen Blair of SAN JOSE-Fumiye !'Toni" Monfort Heights, Ohio. Takamoto, 87, passed away April CITY: ______STATE: ____ ZIP: _____ A memoiral service will be held in Worcster at a later date. In lieu of flow• 19. She is survived by. her ers, donations may be made to the Salvation Army, 640 Main St., Worcester, duaghter, Sharon (Harry) Mail to: Black Swan Mill Press, 2525 Arapahoe Ave., Suite E4, MA 01608, or a charity of your choice. Hasegawa; grandson, Bradley The Athy Memorial Home, 111 Lancaster St., Worcester, Mass. is direct• PMB 534, Boulder, CO 80302 Hasegawa; sister, Yuki Sumida; ing funeral arrangements. and sister-in-law, Grace Takamoto. -. 12 NATIONAL.NEWS PACIFIC CITIZEN, MAy 19-JUNE 1, 2006 VETS a while for me to realize exactly biggest difference is the amount of (Continued from page 1) where I was 'in terms of American electronics and computers the mili• history. Ironically, when I received tary now uses. In Iraq I had a navi• boulder and one of my friends, my alert notification about going to gation computer, night vision Saburo . Tsuchiyama, got hit right Iraq, I had been thinking about the devices and a remote controlled air• next to where I was. example of the 442nd's service. plane. . The shrapnel blew up and hit his After I realized that I was walking On the military front, I don't leg. Right away we cut his pants on the same ground they had prior think you can compare serving in and put a bandage on it and called to going overseas, it was a hum• Iraq to serving in France and the medics. bling experience. Germany during WWII. That evening Kusaka stepped on At the Camp Shelby museum a Iraq, while not safe at times, was a mine and that was very ugly. My seCtion is devoted to the 442nd not like fighting the Wermacht and friend and I tried to cut his boot off ReT. It really opens one's eyes to Luftwaffe. There were many times and the heel of the boot was blown look at it. The 442nd had enormous I thought about how grateful I was apart and you could see the joint . casualties and endured some of the we weren't fighting the Germans and bones. We did what we could toughest fights any U.S. unit saw like th.e 442nd did. for him, but I know he must've suf• during the war. fered. REMEMBERING: Toke Yoshihashi (right) with friend Minoru Ishita, Due to the sacrifice that they, and A Step Back We had this reunion in Vegas for who died during World War II. other Japanese Americans, made in My- Uncle Donald recently the 100th and I asked about the war and the years following the passed away. He was a Vietl'lam Kusaka and they said 'Oh yeah, he know how he got that name! [Military service] was something war, I did not have to endure the veteran. lost his leg.' He died a couple of The Iraq War' seems like a com• that was in me for as long as I can racial discrimination that they did. I often think of him. I'm still ill years ago. pletely different type of war. It remember. I realize it's not every• My analogy is they made a broad sorrow he's gone. I also think of The 2nd and 3rd platoon were seems to me there's no set line that one's cup of tea. I do believe it's road so that their children and Uncle Benard and Uncle Harry right on line, they were right up . you're going to fight and keep important· that citizens serve their descendants would not have to who served in WWII, and who there and Sadao Munemori was in pushing. They have all the car nation, and sometimes that means fight that battle again, at least noth• have also passed away. the 2nd platoon. That's when he bombs. And it seems like they are military service. ing of that magnitude. I also think of all of the others got his Medal of Honor that. first . more mechanized. I had some relatively minor non• There were, and are, times when who served and are now gone. I day. We knew each other enough to I feel for them. Being in the serv• combat injuries at Camp Shelby I feel every time I put on a uniform also think of their families. In many say hi especially when we were in ice, I can Understand partially what prior to going overseas and that I'm at an advantage with ways, lbelieve it was harder on my the Champagne Campaign. We they're going through. headaches from an explosion in "Nakamoto" on my nametag. They, family here at home than it was on were by different outposts. If he'd Iraq. I'm not fully recovered, but and the other JAs who served in me in Iraq. go by, we'd talk. I think we heard ROBERT S. NAKAMOTO, 45 am doing better. . other units during that conflict and [Memorial Day] is a day to the news of his death the next day. Sergeant with the Tennessee I've been working pretty hard on later conflicts set such a good reflect on the sacrifice our ances• National Guard recovering. My wonderful wife, example that in some ways it's a tors made so that we could live in a Remembrance West Point graduate Sherri, is also helping me by feed• given that you are someone who free land: To see the guys getting killed ing me a pretty healthy diet of veg• can be counted on. . TodllY, the United States is facing was the worst part. In our family on my mother's etables and fruit. She held the fort The conflicts are not too similar. many challenges. I believe it's Remembering ... doesn't bother side, one of my ancestors, Monroe down while I was gone for 21 While I'm grateful I've been important for Americans to remem• me too much anymore. McPherson, served as a first ser• months. We have been blessed with allowed to serve our nation, I don't ber their example and participate in For Memorial Day, we go to geant in the Civil War. Two of her five children, whom she home• think the mtensity of combat is trying to ensure we leave our chil• Evergreen and pay our respects. [I uncles served in World War ll. One schools, so you can imagine it was• remotely similar. The 442nd dren a free land. remember] my friends who died. of her brothers served in the Marine n't easy. ~egimental Combat Team, at I believe the Republic we live in Like Minoru Ishita - we were Corps. My father served in the Air times, probably lost more men in a is a rare treasure in mankind's his• drafted together from camp. He Force during the Korean War. One Walking in the Footsteps of few minutes than our Regimental tory. I can't imagine not working to went to G Company of the 442nd. of his brothers, Donald Nakamoto, History Combat Team lost in a year. try to make our nation a better place We called him 'Onions.' I don't served in Vietnam in the Army. At Camp Shelby, it honestly took Equipment wise, probably the to live in .•

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