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Monument erected Magazine's 'Japs' at WW2 camp site statement rebutted
HEART MOUNTAIN, Wyo.-A WASHINGTON-The New Re monument to Japanese Amer public has printed one of the let icans interned at this camp who ters of protest it received after fought for the u.s. during WW2 stating in its Nov. 18 issue that will be fonnally dedicated at 'Jap" is not a slur. ceremonies to be held this sum In response to a letter from mer, according to fonner intern JACL national director Ron Wa ee Bacon Sakatani of West Covi kabayashi protesting the title of na, CaJ.if a Sept 2 New Republic editorial, The monument consists of a "How to Gyp the J aps," columnist boulder, set in cement, brought TRB wrote, ''Don't be so stuflY. from mountains near Cody. A 'Japs is not an ethnic slur, like plaque attached to the boulder Tritia Toyota 'Niggers' or 'Kikes ... It is a na in August displays the names of tional nickname, like 'Yanks' or 21 Nisei and a Caucasian teacher 'Brits' ... " from Heart Mountain High School some federal protection as well scheduled for June 21. A benefit Fujita gets negative Lisa Parola Moore (nee Tong) who were killed in action. as a plaque designating it as a to help defray expense of the of Ann Arbor, Mich., rebutted The plaque reads, in part: ''De historic site. monument and dedication and ruling from county TRB in a letter printed Dec. Z3: dicated to the more than &X> in The new memorial was a joint to honor fonner internee Estelle ''Don't you be 0 arrogant! As ternees who left Heart Mountain project, directed by Chet and Ishigo will be held May 3 at the LOS ANGELES-Pharmacist F. an Asian American, I have never to serve in the U.S. anned forces Mary Blackburn of Ralston, of LA Mart in Los Angeles. For in Carole Fujita's sex discrimina found the use of 'Jap' to be any during WW2, and to the memory the Heart Mountain High School formation on both events, contact tion complaint against the county thing other than an ethnic slur. ofthe 22 Heart Mountaineers who Class of '47 and homesteaders of Sakatani at210N. ShadydaleAve., was dealt a blow Dec. 18 when In case you do not ha e access gave their lives for our country. Heart Mountain. West Covina, CA 91790' (818) 338- the County Civil Service Com to a dictionary, here is what a "May the injustices of the re The ceremony is tentatively 8310. mi ion unanimously agreed few say: moval and incarceration of with a finding that women are •'Webster's Unabridged: An l.2n,
ment in China, and Taiwan too. OCA angry over Chinese loyalty issue They can play on Chinese Ameri Demos retake rtonoIulu rouncil seats cans' pride in China and make NEW YORK - A Dec. 11 New ber of fonner CIA analyst Larry threats about their family mem HONOLULU - In a Dec. 28 spe the GOP a majority of 5 on the York Times article with the Wu-Tai Chin on charges ofspying bers still in China It's a dimen cial election, Democrats regained 9-member council. Democrats, headline "Chinese in U.S.: Ques for China 'The issue of whether sion other Americans donl ap the three city council seats left. including councilwoman Patsy tion of Loyalties" has drawn a Chinese Americans face a prob preciate." vacant when councilmen Toraki Mink, who had been ousted as protest from Organization of Chi lem of divided loyalties is a But Woo Chia-wei, head ofNa Matsumoto, Rudy Pacarro and council chair, camprugned for a nese Americans (OCA) president deeply sensitive one," Butter tional Assn. of Chinese Ameri George Akahane were recalled recall of the three, charging that Andrew Chen, who said the title field notes. cans and president of San Fran from office Oct 5. they had violated the public trust "appears to raise a cloud of Mass. Institute of Technology cisco State University, says in the The victors and their Republi by switching parties in mid-term. doubt" about Chinese Americans. political scientist ·Lucian Pye is article that it is "totally unfair" can rivals were: Randall Iwase Appealing a Hawaii Supreme The article, by Times staffer quoted as saying that Chinese to suggest that Chinese Amer over Peter Brltos, 4,00 to 791, in Court ruling that the City Charter Fox Butterfield, was written in Americans "are often under tre icans are disloyal to the U.S. ''It's the 1st District; Donna Kim over forbids recalled council mem the wake of the arrest in Novem- mendous pressure by the govern- like the attitude toward Japanese Jean Pacarro, 5,450 to 2,447, in bers from running for the seats Americans in WW2. rve been to the 7th District; and Arnold Mor they lost, Matsumoto and Pacar China many times, and rve never gado over Ron Kimura, 6,640 to ro sought to be placed on the sensed any kind of pressure other 2,526, in the 8th District Dec. 28 ballot Their request for than that they wanted me to be Iwase, a deputy state attorney emergency relief was turned Henry Hayase school fund established an American friendly to them" general running for office for the down first by U.S. Supreme The article points out that ac first time, outdistanced 8 fellow Court Justice William Rehnquist Conn-Yale Uni NEWHAVEN, worked with other Asian Amer cording to current and former Democrats vying for the seat and then by Justice John Paul versity has announced a cam ican Students Assn members to State Dept officials, "Chin is the Kim and Morgado, both former Stevens. paign to establish the Heruy Ka~ establish Amerasia Journal, now first Chinese American they can state representatives, also ran Matsumoto and Pacarro are zumi Hayase Prizes in American the leading scholarly publication recall who has been arrested as against a slate of Democrats as now seeking a full Supreme will Studies, which be given an in Asian American studies. an agent for China" well as Republicans. Court ruling on their case. In an nually to the best undergraduate Hayase's research on the num Chen, in a Dec. 18 letter to the Democrats now have a 7-to-2 effort to run in this year's regu paper and senior thesis on the ber ofAsian Americans who had Times, said the headline was voting majority on the council. larly scheduled council election, historical and contemporruy ex preceded him at Yale--about 100 particularly inappropriate be The ratio was 4 to 2 following the they are also engaged in a legal periences of Asian Americans. -is credited with changing ad cause the article's content "was recall, but 5 votes are needed to challenge of the City Charter's be The prizes will adminis missions policies for Asian Amer just the opposite of its sensa pass legislation. provision that recalled council tered by Yale's American Studies icans at Yale, and eventually at tional title." Matsumoto, Pacarro and Aka members are barred from hold Dept and will be the nation's all Ivy League institutions. Over ''What distressed me most is hane, elected as Democrats, be ing elected or appointive office first undergraduate prizes in 500 Asian Americans are now that when Chinese Americans came Republicans June giving for two Asian American studies. part of Yale's undergraduate stu have just emerged as important According to campaign c
MY GOO~ESS-JS Winning in Losing IT 1986 ALREADY?! HAPPY NEW YEAR! CHOrrO ftt47Te. course, the chances of our realiz ing the goal are not anywhere near being a "sure winner." But then, as our Issei folks also taught EAST us, what in life that is worthwhile WIND is easy? Invariably, the more worthwhile, the more important the goal is, the tougher it is. And Bill so, if any one of us backs off be Marutani cause there is no guarantee we'll attain our objective of restora tion ofour dignity and the dignity of our nation, then we will have WE NISEI, PARTICULARLY lost-by default Much to the glee having been brought up with s~ of those who proclaim that what much emphasis on ''winning'' whether it be getting grades in befell us and our parents in 1942 - was justified school, competing in an athletic competition, or succeeding in Now, that is h4fi. WE ARE LAUNCHED on a business--that we tend to shy is? Will you be better off, will you crusade to symbolically-and solved. Affecting our very dignity sUmmarized in -the praise of away from any venture that is not have greater peace of mind, will in so many ways, including a mat "Yoku yatte kureta." ''You gave it a "sure winner." The flip side of that's all it realistically is, consid ering the enonnity of what befell the nation's honor be preserved ter of our own self-respect Yes, a good try." And hearing those this ethnical value (if it may be -ifthe present cause should fail? us, both qualitatively and quan it's painful to articulate these re-assuring words, even in losing, loosely called that) is that to at If your answers are ''yes'' to hidden restraints. But it's all too we can walk with our heads held tempt something, and then not titatively-right a grievous wrong A correction long, long each of these queries, then, most true. If we, as an ethnic group, up high. In ''losing,'' we won. win, is failure. Dismal failure. respectfully, I suggest a re-exam are to be left to drift, then Very much so. No h4fi. On the The concept of hoji very much overdue; but not too late. Rest0- ration of dignity can never be ination of your reasoning perhaps we'd better begin pad other hand, if one continues to lurks heavily in this equation dling our own boat Even if it in quibble and find "fault" and I knOw. Like many of you, rve ''too late." And thus the question ROCKlNG THE BOAT. Yes, for some AJA's who remain on that's another thing which we evitably involves rocking the therefrom excuses himsel17her been nurtured since childhood boat a bit Paddle. self from supporting the cause, on all ofthis. And it's a handicap. the sidelines, who shy away from AJA's, or a goodly number of us, joining the cause, is simple: are reluctant to do. With the com BUT THERE'S YET other we shall have lost by default TAKE, FOR EXAMPLE, the Would you prefer that the cause ment shikata ga nai we endure, positive concepts handed down WE CAN WIN, win at "lose." current drive for redress. Of fail and the record remain as it even as grave wrongs go unre- to us from our parents. That's The chojce is ours. Yours.
work But thanks for the sugges Dress for Success tion anyway. Others have commented, ''Bob, Executive director Wakabaya you always want to be treated Asians and GOP this country into financial chaos, with respect But you dress like with huge deficits we all must ONE THING shi would probably comment, I am delighted, along with ''Bob, you look like a drag a slob. How can you expect any many others, to see Asian Amer pay, including our grandchildren LEADS respect?" and their children TOAN'OIHER queen" EDC Gov. Mike Suzuki, icans are more likely to accept a who always has the good one-lin What can I say? My fashion conservative view rather than The ever-increasing Asian ers, would likely comment on the consultant, Mira, is in Portland liberal endeavors ofthe past and population, particularly Chinese, flame. "The heater in the office About this time last year I was present C'Asians prefer GOP, sur;.. Korean and Vietnamese immi not working now, Bob?" in the process of selling my ma vey suggests," Nov. 29 pc). grants, have seen enough ofcom Bob PresidentFrankSato, as we all chineIy and debating what to do I personally cannot under munism back home, so they Shimabukuro mow, has often commented on with the few extra dollars that I stand why the Nisei have been seem to have a strong tendency the importance of appearance in had, trying to decide what I heavily leaning toward liberalism to lean toward conservatives, A while back, I wrote about leadership. Pressed suit, shiny would need in LA when we don't believe in hand who are anti-rommunist So with the phone calls and letters re shoes, neatly groomed hair, etc. 'Take all the cash you got and outs at the expense ofthe people, the Asian population of Califor nia predicted as the number two ceived here from disgruntled What would he think? Maybe as plunk it down on a complete cus the overburdened taxpayers. ls minority by the year it readers (Oct 25 pc). A long-time long as my shoes were shined it tom tailored wardrobe/, advised sei and Nisei are all hard work aw, an LA expatriate friend An wouldn*t be surprising that a con JACLer had some words of ad would be all right-ifl wore shoes. ers and have been Even through other advised, ''Get a s~look vice: 'Tty placing an imaginary Polished zoris, perhaps? the tragic temporary adversity servative Asian may be sitting in gold shield around your self, with I realize that this advisor did ing automobile." But a thend with time spent in camp, we the governor's seat The foregoing does not neces purple crystals and a dazzling say ''imaginaIY,'' but rve tried Norio commented, "Bob, don't came out as winners, economic white flame daily, and try bless imaginaIY shields before. waste your money on clothes. All ally and in tenns of respect. This sarily reflect the opinions of oth ermembersofmyJACLchapter. ing those -, even if it is hard" Being an experienced and ac you need are 3 pairs of001 Levis: was a result of the traditional When long-timers offer advice complished daydreamer ever a grubby pair for everyday wear, hard work and believing in per Wll..LIAM KASHIWAGI on how to maintain your sanity since I could remember, fve imag a seasoned pair for work and sonal achievements regardless Sacramento in this organization, I listen But ined myself in all sorts of situa play, and a new pair for fancy of being rich, middle class or lefs Go For Broke I wondered what effect this tactic tions, especially when what was affairs." (As you can tell, this guy poor. could possibly have. I mean a would get along well with Sato.) Back in the '405 the Nisei vol going on around me was painful I can remember when Ronald unteered for the military to gold shield with purple It all sounded reasonable to c~s and/or boring. (Of course, as we Reagan was running for gover prove our loyalty to the United and a dazzling white flame (?). I me. Until he added, ''You can all know, this is not the case at nor of California in the late '00s. States. Although small in nwnber could just see myself covering the even wear a coat and tie with Nat'l Board meetings.) And with He couldn't understand why a the RCT became the most next National Board meeting in 501s. Really fashionable." A 442nd all my experience, I don't believe large percentage of the Ni ei decorated unit in the annals of such an outfit that imaginaIY shields would dubious proposition at best were liberal Remember, we But the pay here being what it military history, and hundreds of were all thrown into the deten others w nt to the Pacific Theatre ISSN' ooaO-8S79 is, the Levis sounded like the best tion camp by the liberal demo idea; went and bought a used car of Operation and saved untold cratic part' of the '40s. Franklin liv s with their skill in b:anslat instead, got rid of my beat-up van D. Roosevelt was in trumental in and pickup (talk about stereo ing captured en my do uments. .pacific citize11, putting us in camp. He also start~ Now we are being asked to get typically Oregon vehicles!). De ed a socialisti platfonn placing . Nan JACt Hea/lqU81ter8. 1765 Sutter St., San Francisco. CA 94'15. cided to use myoId suit instead. behind the chall ng of the re (415) 921-5225 Big problem, of course, is that dress program. NlIished by the Japanese AmerIcen CitIz.et-d League every Friday except the first and last weeks The bill in Congre for re 01 the year 81941 E. 3Id St., Los Angeles. CA 90013; (213) 62&6936. e 2nd Class postage I'm wearing out my suit There etc. But no one comments on the paid at Los Angeles, Ca. • Annual Stilea1ption&-JACl members: $10 01 national dues seems to be a lot of fund raising clothes. People really get dressed dress are asking for the sum of prcMdes OOjryear on a per-househoid basis. NonmembenI; S2Q¥ .. $38 two years. payable In $W,OOO to each evacuee stillliv aQvance. e Foreign adch&&es: Add U.S.S12.00; 1st class aJr - U.S./Canada addresses: $25 dinnEm3 here. Honor some people, up around here. And those $15()1 8XInI, JapIw\IEurope. U.S.sao exira. ing who was incarcerated in con e News ~ opirWons ~ by ooIIMnnists other than the National President ~ National bkector pay some hotel $25 a head, and plate dinners-definitely ho do not I'18Ce8&aIiy reflect JACl poEy. charge $5O-$15Q1person for the polishing time. centration camps, euphemistic ally OFRCERS dinner, make a few bucks. The Coming up Jan. 17 is the big called evacuation camps by Frank SDl, NIII'I JACL Pr1I8Ident Or. CIIIIord Uyade, PC Board O\ai' meals are almost always terrible. LEC dinner with Sens. Inouye the unconstitutional Executive Order exter EDrr0RWJ8U81NES8 STAFF The speeches are always boring. and Matsunaga along with Reps. 9000. To pay for the nal public relations program to Adilg EdIor. ~ SIWnIb\.4cun) Aa8t. EdIIor: J.K. Yamamoto Day- I do not know how the Japanese that it would be extremely dif from America," a frank look into Death of the Digest edition compared with the others ficult to separate the magazine current affairs. since I couldn't read it But given from other operations-prima JRD also published stories But for even more reasons, the the high literacy rate of the J apa rily because the company's labor about Japanese Americans, their death of the Japanese edition of nese people, their enormous cu union would not cooperate. activities and their triumphs in Reader's Digest is to be riosity about the world, and the ''I believe strongly that the American society, the inspiring mourned. JRD, born June 1946, dedication of the staffheaded by death of the magazine is a great stories ofJapanese American suc its astute, bilingual editor-in FROM THE when the Japanese were still a loss for Japan, where faithful cesses despite numerous handi confused, dazed, hungry people chief Ko Shioya, it must have caps. There were also essays FRYING PAN: r subscribers have regarded it as trying to recover from war. Laid been one of the best a genuinely international family about U.S ..J apanese relations Bill to rest January, 1986. The tragic part of JRD's death magazine, steadfastly turning to from the American point ofview . Hosokawa is that it was struck down in the us for information, healthy en While relations between the As you may know, the familiar full vigor of life. There was no tertainment and enlightenment two countries have had their ups American Reader's Digest Asso- thing seriously wrong with the over these 40 long years." and downs, we understand the ciation publishes a number of magazine itself, but its parent, Japanese people continue to For those of us' in the writing editions in various languages Reader's Digest of Japan, Ltd., The Japanese learned a great hold the U.S. and Americans in business, the death of any publi around the world-Spanish. Ger- which was involved in a number deal about America and Amer high regard. I would guess the cation is sad Publications like man, French, Arabic, Dutch, Chi- of endeavors, was in trouble be icans through JRD. They read Japan Reader'S Digest has more magazines and newspapers are nese, etc., etc., etc. They are all cause of intractable labor prob some of what Americans were than a little to do with that almost human in that they have patterned, more or less, after the lems. Shioya explains: reading. They gained an insight It was a shame to let a good birth, maturity and death, they original American magazine, de- "Various studies have been into middle American values. little magazine die when it was talk to us, they serve a function, veloping some stories locally, but ' made to find a way to save the They found out what was impor doing, and could continue to do, they come visiting regularly with also translating and reprinting magazine, which is still viable. tant to us. One of its best-read so much for understanding news of the world about us. the best of the U.S. edition However, the conclusion was features was a monthly ''Letter across the Pacific. see the business and financial such stories as the Fumiko Ki provide opportunities for new PC Board's Views of PC matters of the PC. Just prior to mura case seems questionable, columnists to be brought in" his PC post, Hank was JACL Na particularly when the House co ''Consider cutting back on the tional Treasurer. Hank visits the sponsors news was buried at the regular contributors to every by Cli1ford Uyeda PC Board members' term ofof.. . PC office at least once a week bottom of the page." other week" PC Board Chair flce is three years, and they may There was a majority re ''Concerned with the lack of 'There are too many columns, In December· 1985 a survey be reappointed They are ap sponse, and I thank the board coverage of chapter news." and to the exclusion of the JACL was conducted among the PC . pointed by the National Presi members for their cooperation 'The choice and length of news." Board members to see how they dent on the recommendation of Below are the results: some stories are questionable.' "Simply not enough officers' felt about the PC's performance. the district governors. Therefore, (1) Are the major furu;tians of the (3) Is JACL adequately covered columns. There is a responsibil The present PC guidelines for most members have years of ex- PC, as defined in the guidelines, in the PC? ity they have to the membership f perience on the board. to let them know what they are operation were the p rod uct 0 It was felt that the most frank being adequately met? The st:rcmg ''Complaints from the general many years of extensive discus- points? The weak points? membership is about not know doing in the organization." sions by the board opinions can be elicited with a One of the fonner columnists, ______promise that ''replies will not be ''Good in fulfilling its major ing what is going on in JACL Either Headquarters is not feed Sachi Seko, was sorely missed by identified with any particular in function as a medium for Asian a board member. dividual." American news." Then the same ing newsworthy items to PC, or LETTERS there is a failure of PC to use (5) Any other comments? Cootinued from PrevicU P-age Not revealing the name(s) of individual added, ''Neither the the person(s) requesting the sur [Fumiko] Kimura story nor the such material ifmade available." ''Major stories are allowed to National JACL president Shig vey gave to one individual a "hint Alhambra city council English ''Perhaps, PC must aggressive run too long' Wakamatsu has come up with a of SUITeptitioUS maneuverings only hearing (which was a Rafu ly seek out infonnation from More prominent headlines figure of 1% of ~, Following is a list of c(}-spon California: Douglas Bosco (D-1st) M.aJ:yJand: Barbara Mikulski (D-3rd) sors of redress bills HR 442 in Robert Matsui (D-3rd) Steny Hoyer (D5t.h) the House of Representatives Vic Fazio (D4t:h) (Sept. 20, 1985) . and S 1003 in the Senate. Those Sala Burton (D-5th) Parren Mitchell (D-7t.h) listed without dates were c(} Barbara Boxer (D-001) Michael Barnes (D-8th) Smtus Report sponsors when bills were intro George Miller (D-7th) Massachusetts: Barney Frank (]).4th.) Ronald Dellums (DOOl) Nicholas Mavroules (D-6th) by Grayce Uyehara are Zl. This bill is assigned to the duced Jan 3 by Rep. Jim Wright Pete Stark (l).9th) Edward Markey (D-7th) The first session of the 00th Senate Governmental Affairs and May 2 by Sen Spark Matsu Don Edwards (D-lOth) Joe Moakley (D-9th) Congress ended on Dec. :?D. It is Committee and is presently in naga, respectively. A date after Tom Lantos (l).llth) Geny Studds (D-lOth) time to look at the status of H.R the subcommittee, Civil Service, a name shows when subsequent Norman Mineta (D-13th) Michigan: John Conyers (D-lst) 442 and S. 1003, the two bills Post Office and General Services. c(}-sponsor signed on. Tony Coelho (D-15th) Howard Wolpe (D-3rd) which will implement the recom It is chaired by Sen. Ted Stevens Leon Panetta (D-16th.) Mark Siljander (R-4th) mendations of the Commission (R-Alaska) who is a strong suP-. Charles Pashayan (R-17th) M. Robert Carr (D-6th) porter of S. 1003. Senate (Oct. 29, 1985) Dale Kildee (D-7th) on Wartime Relocation and In Alabama: Jeremiah Denton (R) Richard Lehman (D-18th) David Bonior (l).12th) ternment of Civilians to redress There is a strong possibility Alaska: Frank Murkowski (R) that the Senate bill will be able Anthony Beilenson (D-23rd) George Crockett (D-13th) the Japanese Americans who lost Ted Stevens (R) (Apr. 2, 1985) Minnesota: Bruce Vento (D-4th) their freedom and constitutional to move to the full committee California: Alan Cranston (0) Herny Waxman (D-24th) Geny Sikorski (D-6th) guarantees during WW2. through the efforts of those who Colorado: Gary Hart (D) Edward Roybal (D-25th) (Feb. 27, 1985) A year after being introduced are supportive of the bill When Connecticut: u>well Weicker (R) Howard Berman (D-21)th) Missouri.: William Clay (D-lst) by House Majority Leader Jim the bill does get to the full Gov (June 1985) Mel Levine (D-27th) (Feb. 27, 1985) Wright and 99 c(}-sponsors on ernmental Affairs committee, it Hawaii: Spark Matsunaga (0) Julian Dixon (D-28th) Richard Gephardt (D-3rd) Jan. 3, 1985, HR 442 presently will meet some strong opposition Daniel Inouye (D) Augustus Hawkins (D-29th) Alan Wheat (D-5t.h) lllinois: Paul Simon (0) Matthew Martinez (D-3Oth) Nevada: Hany Reid (D-lst) has J.2[) c(}-sponsors. The bill from the leadership of that com Iowa: Tom Harkin (D) Mexvyn Dymally (D-31st) New Jersey: William Hughes (D-2nd) rests with the Judiciary subcom mittee. M.aJ:yland: Paul Sarbanes (D) Esteban Torres (D-34th) James Howard (D-3rd) mittee on Administrative Law The accompanying lists are Massachusetts: Edward Kennedy (0) George Brown (D-36th) Robert Roe (D-8t:h) and Governmental Relations. Of published as part of the end of John Kerry (0) (Apr. 2, 1985) Robert Torricelli (D-9th) the ten members of this subcom the 00th Congress, first ession Michigan: Donald Riegle (D) Jim Bates (D4.4th) Peter Rodino (D-lOth) mittee, we have four c(}-sponsors. Carl Levin (D) New York: Thomas Downey (D-2nd) report The first list is the status Colorado: Timothy Wirth (D-2nd) Minnesota: Rudy Boschwitz (R) Joseph Addabbo (D-6th) ThechallTnanofthissubcommi~ profile for S. 1053 and H.R 442. Connecticut: Samuel Gejdenson(D-2nd) (October 1985) (Apr. 2, 1985) tee, Rep. Dan Glickman (D-Kan), The second lists the committee Bruce Morrison (D-3rd) Montana: John Melcher (D) Raymond McGrath (R-5th) has expressed support for this members for the House Judici Dist. ofCohonbia: Walter Fauntroy(O) bill, so one more vote is needed Nebraska; James Exon (0) (Sept. 20, 1985) ary Committee and the subcom New Jersey. Bill Bradley (D) Florida: Lawrence Smith (l).16th.) to move the bill out of this sub Gary Ackennan (D-7th) mittee and the Senate Commit Frank Lautenberg (D) William Lehman (D-17th) James Scheuer (D-8th) committee. tee on Governmental Affairs and New York: Daniel Moynihan (0) Guam; Ben Blaz (R) Thomas Manton (D-9th) S. 1003 was introduced May 2, the subcommittee. These are the Alfonse D'Amato (R) (Apr. 30, 1985) (Apr. 30, 1985) 1985 by Sen Spark Matsunaga people who hold the votes neces North Dakota: Quentin Burdick (0) Hawaii: Cecil Heftel (D-lst) Charles Schumer (D-lOth) with 25 c(}-sponsors. Today there sary to move the bill forward. Ohio: Howard Mefzenbaum (D) (Feb. 27, 1985) Edolphus Towns (D-11tb) .------_. Oregon; Mark Hatfield (R) Daniel Akaka (l).2nd) Major Owens (D-12th) Washington: Slade Gorton (R) Charles Rangel (D-16th) lllinois: Charles Hayes (D-lst) Daniel Evans (R) Ted Weiss (D-17th) JACL Legislative Education Gus Savage (D-2nd) WlS(X)nsin: William Proxmire (0) Robert Garcia (D-18th) la Committee Fund Drive Report Herny Hyde (R-6t:h.) Mario Biaggi (»-19th) (Sept. 20, 1985) Total.: 28 (19 D. 9 R) Hamilton Fish (R-2lst) Cardiss Collins (D-7th) No.~.7 . 1985 Klml}'e Ishlmo,>. George lzIIlo. JACL52.130. Puyallup Valley Benjamin Gilman (R-220.d) Targeted DonaIJon by Dec. 7. Dallas Kanagawa. Mane & Chap JACL S400. Lake Sidney Yates (D.9th) John Kanegae. Bob & IItlbte Washington Chap JACl $300, House Frank Horton (R-29th) 1985 .. . . . $176,000.00 Alaska; Don Young (R) Edward Madigan (R-15th) Donations ReceIVed. Kawahara, Henry Kebo, BtU & Unknown (S 100 ) Ohio: Thomas Luken (D-lst) No Cal-WN-P (24): Kenlctu ...... $82.306 .11 Jennie Kobayashi. Barry & American Samoa: Fofo Sunia (0) Lane Evans (D-17t.h) Tony Hall (D-3rd) Kazuyo Kondo. Sono Kordo. Bunden. Violet de CnSlOtlro (Oct. 29, 1985) Pac Northwesl " $17,597.34 Donald & Kaltly Kos/"u. Helen 51 , 195. Jerry Enomoto S470. Arkansas: Tommy Robinson (l).2nd) Edward Feigban (D-19th) No. Cal-WN-P .... 7.681 .00 Krogh. FredeR:k Kubota, ..bhn Molly FUjioka (KP) $60 1. Mike Indiana; Andrew Jacobs (D-1Oth) Central Cal . _.... _8 ,707.40 (Ju.4J 31, 1985) Louis Stokes (D-2lst) Kubota. Aikll Pennsylvania: Thomas Foglietta ~lst) The President of the United William Gray ~2nd) States, in his speech on Nov. 14 Robert Borski (D-3rd) given at the White House before Joseph Kolter (D4th) LEe his trip to Geneva for the first UPDATE: Robert Edgar (D-7th) meeting between an American Peter Kostrnayer (D-8th) President and a Soviet Premier George Gekas (R-17th) Grayce (Nov. 18, 1985) . in six years, said, in part: Austin Murphy (D-22nd) 'This, then. is why I go to Uyebara South Dakota: Thomas Daschle (D-1st) Geneva: to build a foundation for Tennessee: Harold Ford (D-9th) lasting peace. Texas: Charles Wilson (D-2nd) 'True peace rests on the pil Jim Wright (D-12th) lars of individual freedom, gle to seek passage of the two Mickey Leland (D-18th) Albert Bustamente (D-Zh'd) human rights, national self-de bills, S. 1053 and RR 442. It is (Mcm:h 26, 1985) termination. and respect for the morally right to continue with Solomon Ortiz (D-Z7th) rule of law. our fight to correct an injustice SPOKANE LEC TEAM-Seated (from left): Ada Honda, Thelma Yasuhara " . . . Am'encans d etest war, we which happened over 40 years vermont: James Jeffords (R-lst) Yoshiko Nakagawa, Laura Watanabe, Aiko Kadoya. Standing (from left): VIrginia: Frederick Boucher (D-9th) love freedom and stand ready to ago because it is immoral to fail Jim Watanabe, Roy Soejima, Sam Nakagawa, Harry Honda, Dean Naka (Oct. 29, 1985) sacrifice for it We love freedom to take respollSibility. Washington: John Miller (R-1st) gawa, Satoshi Terao, Denny Yasuhara, Ed Tsutakawa, Harry Kadoya. not only because it's practical It is immoral to turn our faces Sid Monison (R-4th) and beneficial, but because it is away from protecting the foun (Apr. 30, 1985) Spokane JAs donate to LEe fund morally right and just datiOIlS of our great democracy Thomas Foley (D-5th) "The rights of the individual so that no other group of men Mike LoWlY (D-7th) will ever take our laws lightly \Vismn resolved by able representation in Washington, D.c., is one. NCWNPDC Director's Report Two: one of the chapters is MDC Governor's Report having internal problems. Is the issue a matter of personalities? by Thomas l Hara tition This well be held in St by George Kondo first tw(}-year pledge. In the cur So far the district has not been Louis in late April, for Sansei rent year, over tw(}-thirds have approached for advice or to me It is with great expectations and other JACL youth aged 12-23, The year-to-date report from met their commitments and we diate. We hope that clear heads that I write as JACL Midwest Dis in separate divisions. Although the Northern California-Western are confident that the balance of will prevail and that this prolr trict Council governor for the not yet finally determined, there Nevada-Pacific District" Council the chapters will have paid their lem will soon be settled to every 198&87 biennium I attended my may also be a national competi can be summarized in a few pledge in full by year's end. one's satisfaction first National Board meeting in tion held in Chicago in conjunc wo~'business as usual" As for tlte fundraising for the Also: were we in error when September and presided at my tion with the 1986 national con There has been no outstand Legislative Education Commit the district acquired chapters first District Council meeting in vention ing event taking place dwing this tee, all~ut efforts are being geographically too remote to ac early October, and I believe that Interested chapters will be period, depending on the inter made by the prime solicitors. tively participate in the District I have developed already an aIr asked to undertake the cost for pretation of what is outstanding However, the LEC fund drive is Council? With due respect for a propriate perspective for the and supervision of their respec All the activities of the NCWNP being met with resistance be chapter in this situation, this con work of the new cabinet tive participants at St Louis. If chapters are outstanding cause of the district's commit dition tends to jeopardize its The significant dollar ques the national competition, pro Our regularly scheduled quar ment to the J ACL Redress pro status as Chapter in Good Stand tions all relate to our pursuit of posed by the Leadership DeveioIr terly meetings were held with gram and the difficulty of SUIr ing. Should chapters circumvent the redress objective. As you are ment Task Force, comes to pass, better than 00% attendance by porting an additional fund drive. their accountability to the Dis aware, JACL has organized a MDC has agreed to bear the ex the chapters. This is when the We underwrote the expenses trict Council and deal directly, separate entity, the LEC, for pense of the district winners g(} delegates detennine the policies of two Sansei to attend the 1985 as is being done, with the Na mally to undertake the direct ing to Chicago. A reincarnation and programs of the district Not Washington, D.c. Leadership tional organization? Will a change legislative lobbying effort in of the old JACL national orator enough credit can be given these Conference; this turned out to be in the National By-laws creating Washington, D.c. The prognosis, ical contest, this competition dedicated JACLers whose voices a treasure trove. Consequently, a special category for chapters as Rep. Robert Matsui advised may have great appeal for youth detennine our course of action. we are comfortable with the feel under these circumstances solve during his visit to Milwaukee, is membership and for chapters in Like the mailman, neither rain ing that with this class of Sansei this gratuitous situation? very good if we can make a con identifying and encouraging the nor sleet nor snow-and add dis the organization will be in capa Are the problems delineated certed effort now and in the skills of future leadership. tances-impede their attendance ble hands at all levels. With our above serious? We think not We l00th Congress. As we approach the time of at the quarterly meetings. blessing and support they are have confidence that solutions Of course, this takes money, year when chapter leadership 1985 saw five of our chapters our next leaders. Many of our will be found which is being solicited by your changes by election and inaugu celebrating their 50th anniver chapters have already installed To recapitulate, NCWNPDC is local prime solicitor and also is ration, I wish to reiterate that I Sansei as their presidents and saries. The district commem(} shipshape. In addition to comply being transferred ($75 (XX) in llB» truly welcome as much contact rated and commended their half committee chairpersons. We en ing with directives from the Na by National JACL. The latter can from Midwest JACLers as you century of dedication and seIV courage this trend We are ready tional organization, our immedi only be made available by sizable may wish to direct to me. Com ice, despite WW2is years of ad to place alongside our ''Business ate and future plans are to fully budgetary readjustments to the ments or questions favorable or versities, to the principles of our as Usual" sign one that reads utilize the brains and brawn of JACL biennial budget, discus negative, let me know. I will al organization and seIVice to the ''Under New Management" youth who have now come of age. sions on which occupied a sulr ways respond While only dele Japanese American community. Are we plagued with prolr Turn over the helm of our ship stantial part of the National gates can say whether my leader As redress is the National lerns? Perhaps. The Internal Re to the Sansei to ensure ourselves Board sessions. ship is responsible, I can guaran JACL's first priority, all of our venue SeIVice audit, which we a safe voyage into the future of Perhaps the most exciting tee that it will be responsive. understand will satisfactorily chapters have satisfied in full the be JACL. news out of the Saint Paul MIx; Again, I look fOIWard to work meeting is the forthcoming dis ing with and for each of you dur hand experience on the operation trict speech and forensic compe- ing the next two years. PSW coveIS wide range ofactivities al workings of the National Board. This program will un by Linda Hara The Women s Concerns Com doubtedly be continued and LEe With ~ c(}-sponsors in thel mittee, as reported by Mary should give other PSW leaders House, only 00 more representa Despite the lure of gaming ta Nishimoto, recently held a well and future leaders a golden op Continued from Previoos Page tives need to be persuaded to bles and slot machines, PSWDC attended workshop on cultural portunity to expand their hori support redress. Both Reps. Nor valiant efforts, with the support delegates were too deeply in barriers of Asian immigrant rons. man Mineta and Robert Matsui volved with the full day's agenda women Topics discussed were Results of the district's survey of some 00 ''prime solicitors," to ha e been tremendously helpful of the fourth quarterly meeting the Asian mail order bride ser on prime interest areas were re raise the $100, LFX:Board Senator recalls lessons of relocation 1!£J.86 Tenn JACL opposes Ed. Dept decision At Large WASHINGTON-Sen Bob Pack gone from school, thought I didn't SAN FRANCISCO-Secretary of tested in a Dec. 18 letter to Ben wood (R.{)re), in a DeclO Wash Grant Ujifusa fully grasp it until he explained Education William Bennett's de nett from JACL national director ington Post inteIView, recalled ''Especially during my high Shig Wakamatsu cision to abolish his departmenfs Ron Wakabayashi and national being taught about the WW2 in JACL Board Representatives school years he drove it into me Office of Asian Pacific American youth director David Nakayama ternment of Japanese Americans how wrong a majoriW can be, Hany~ihara Concerns (see Dec 6 PC) was pro- Noting that Bennett has made by his father, a Republican who and that that was the reason our Rose Oehi . Denny Yasuhara ''vel)' kind remarks about the was liberal on civil rights: Bill of Rights was codified" achievements of Asian Amer ''I recall my dad explaining However, unlike fellow Oregon 1984-87 Term Submissions sought icans in education,' the two vel)' firmly the unfairness of the senator Mark Hatfield (R), who At Large pointed out the need to ensure relocation of the Japanese in was once his teacher at Willam Arthur Morimitsu for Nikkei anthology ''that the words of support have WW2. It was brought home to me ette University, Packwood is not JosephRauh actual substance" when kids were just suddenly co-sonsoring redress bill S 1053. SAN FRANCISCO-The Asian Grayce Uyehara American Studies Dept at S. .F. 'With the tremendous expan JACL Board Representatives State UniversiW is seeking mate sion of population that Asian Pacific Americans are experienc Cherry Kinoshita rial for FitsitJn,.San, an anthology Chevron to fund speech contest ing, it seems that the reduction Frank Sato ofJapanese American literature. of two staff positions dedicated SAN FRANCISCO - Chevron tions, scheduled for late spring' 1985-88 Tenn Professor Jim Okutsu, project to that special circumstance ... USA recently announced that it early summer, in prepared infor At large director, said, ''The publication sends our community a message will become a sponsor of the Na mativelpersuasive speech and of this annual anthology will that this administration really extemporaneous speech. Jerry Enomoto hopefully encourage Japanese tional JACL Speech & Forensic James Tsujimura does not recognize or upport the The competition is for JACL Americans to creatively express Competition, which was created Minoru Yasui record of achievement to date. to develop verbal communica members ages 16-19. Those in themselves. " Please reconsider. terested in participating in the JACL Board Representatives tion and creativity among JA Deadline for short stories, CANADA BY OWNER youth. district and national contests Mollie Fujioka poeby, and graphics is March 31. WEST VANCOUVER, B.C. should contact their district of Kaz Mayeda A rare oppo rtooity to acquire a much sought-,>lter Chevron will fund major por Material should be sent to: Fu property with magnificent V18W overloo Ing sea tions of the competition and has fices or JACL National Head Staff sion-San, Asian American Studies With snow-covered mounlafls behind ~rox area 1902 SQ yds. Close to golf course Pnvate agreed to house contestants in quarters, 1765 Sutter St, San Grayce Uyehara, Exec. Director Dept, San Francisco State Uni sale, no ageot. USS175,OOO cash pref. For Info the Chicago Hyatt during the Francisco, CA 94115; (415) 921- Colleen Darling, Assoc. Director versiW, &F. 94132, Attn: J. Okutsu. Reg Bennett. (416) 461-8109 or Wille « Charles July 1986JACLNational Conven 5225. St W. • Sle 4408. Toronto. Ont M4 1RS . Canada tion and present cash awards of $aX) and $100 to first and second '86 TOYOTAS Season's Greetings place winners in the two speech ARE HEREI divisions. NORIO OKADA. S lea Manager The contestants will have won 5944 N. Figueroa St., DOHERTY 8fDUNNE INC. their respective district competi- Highland Park, CA 90042 (213) 259-8888 Sporting Goodr, Sp«J./Izing in THfTI EquipmMt San Francisco Store Naomi' 5 Dress Shop ~-. 1307 Sutter St., San Francisco, CA 94123 (415) 771·3 100 5pons& Casoole S.3 to 8 South San Francisco Store 133 Japanese Village Plaza Mall 76 Camaritas Ave., South San Francisco, CA 94080 (415) 952-6060 LalAngelese680-1553 I Open Tue..fri: 9:30-6:30. Sat: tr!Jj Concord Store Sun: 11-5 CIo&ed: Monday 4330 Clayton Rd., Concord, CA 94521 (415) 687-6800 1IJ-.-.PACIRC CITIZEN I Friday. Jlnuary3--10. 198& 1985 Chronology Compiled by J.K. Yamamoto ~ Legislation 4110, it would implement Commission Apr. 17-After heated debate and a July l3-JACL, LEC, National Coal on Wartime Relocation and Intern 61-35 state house vote, Washington State ition for RedresslReparations (NCRR), Dec. 6, 1984--New York State Senate ment of Civilians' 1983 recommenda Legislature sends joint resolution to National Council for Japanese Ameri unanimously passes resolution endors tion of monetary compensation for JAs Congress recommending passage ofre can Redress (NCJAR) and Washington ing redress. interned during WW2. No hearings are dress bills. Coalition for Redress (WCR) hold Dec. 17, 19M--Carnbridge City Coun held on bill in 1985. April-Rep. Manuel Lujan Jr. (R "summit" at JACL Headquarters in cil unanimously passes resolution en Jan. 20--C0-sponsor Rep. Gillis Long N.M) says he wants to add amendment San Francisco, agree to support each dorsing redress. (D-La) dies (see necrology). to HR 442 allowing survivors of 1942 others' efforts. Dec. %7, 19M-Sen Pete Wilson (R Feb. ~Fund drive chair HCln1' Kaji Bataan Death March sue Japanese July 18-Calif. State Senate passes Call£) states that he prefers "a national hara presents fund-raising plan for companies that enslaved them resolution supporting redress bills monument, a museum or a scholarship l..egislative Education Committee (LEX;), Executive committee of American with 3 opposed and 29 (22 Democrats, fund" over monetary payments to for JACL's redress lobbying ann. Elected Lutheran Church in Minneapolis en 7 Republicans) for. mer internees. to LEC executive committee are Min dorses redress. Aug. 7-11-Young Democrats of Jan. 3-HR 442. Civil Liberties Act Yasui, Cherry Kinoshita, David Nikai May I-Roseville (Calif.) City Council America, meeting in Miami, vote to of 1985 (named for 442nd Regimental do, Grant Ujifusa, Frank Sato, Rose unanimously adopts resolution sup support redress. Combat Team), is introduced in House Ochi, Yosh Naka hima and ShigWaka porting redress bill . Aug. 9-Chinese American Citizens by Rep. Jim Wright (D-Texas) with 00 matsu. May 2--Sen. Spark Matsunaga (D Alliance, meeting in Los Angeles, pass C(HIDonsors Like its predecessor, HR Feb. l~A 17-member commission Hawaii) introduces Senate redress bill es resolution supporting redress bills. establi hed in 1983 to investigate WW2 S 1053 with 25 co-sponsors. Bill is simi Aug. 2O--Lane County (Ore.) Demo internment of Santa Clara Valley (Calif.) lar to S 2116, which was in1roduced cratic Central Committee announces JAs presents detailed report to San during previous session of Congress. its support of redress bills. Rep. Charles PashayaI"J (R-Calif.) Jose City Council, recommends redress. No hearings are held on bill in 1965. Sept. ~Episcopal Church, at con Berkeley (Calif.) City Council votes May 17-National JACL Board gives vention in Anaheim. Calif., passes res ernmental Relations (where HR 442 re to endorse redress. LEC full responsibility for redress lob olution supporting redress legislation sides) becomes. co-sponsor. Feb. 23-Sen Alan Cranston and bying. Sept 2O--Noted consexvative Rep. Oct..-Sen Rudy Boschwitz (R-Mion) Rep. Mervyn Dymally (both n.caIif) May 3I-Calif. Assn. of Human HeDIY Hyde (R-ill) agrees to co-spon becomes second new S 1003 co-sponsor. give update on redress bills at Gardena, Rights Organizations, meeting in San sor HR 442. Another .Republican, Ray Nov. 7-8-Executive council ofAmer Calif., Day of Remembrance program Franci co, votes unanimously to en mond McGrath ofNew York, also joins. iean Federation of Teachers, meeting March ll-Auburn (Calif.) City Coun dorse passage of redress bills. Grayce Uyehara becomes interim in New York, votes unanimously to cil unanimously adopts resolution up May-At national council meeting of executive director of LEe; Grant Uji support redress bills. porting passage of redress bills. Fellowship of Reconciliation in Berke fusa presents LEe's fonnallegislative Nov. ~Rep . George Gekas (R-Pa), Mareh ~ornia Democratic ley, resolution 'endorsing redress bills strategy for getting bills passed JudicIary Committee member, be representatives Don Edwards, NOlTnan is adopted by acclamation. Oct. 4--Rep. Charles "Chip" Pashayan comes HR 442 co-sponsor. Mineta, Robert Matsui, Sala Burton, June I-LEe is fonnally activated to becomes first California Republican to Nov. 2O--Incumbent LEe board George Miller, Matthew Martinez, Mer begin lobbying activities. co-sponsor HR 442. members Min Yasui and James Tsuji vyn Dymally and Esteban Torres, Hany June-Sen. Lowell Weicker (R Oct. 5-At a joint program in Los mura reelected; Jerry Enomoto re Reid (D-Nev.). and CWRIC'sJoan Bern Conn) becomes co-sponsor of S 1003. Angeles, representatives of JACL, places David Nikaido. Kaz Mayeda and stein and Arthur Flemming hold press Second Unitarian Church in Chica NCRR, NCJAR and coram nobis effort Mollie Fujioka are nominated by JACL conference urging passage of HR 442. go endorses redress. urge mutual supportand cooperation to succeed Yosh Nakashima Photo by Roy Nakano Ap'. 8--Rep. Sid Morrison (R-Wasb.) Minister and elder commissioners of Oct. ~Rep . Frederick Boucher (0- Dec.. I-Rep. Richard Chaney (R Sen. Alan Cranston speaks of re says he will co-sponsor HR 442 after 94th Presbyterian Synod of Alaska Va), who sits on Judiciaty subcommit Wyo.), fourth hlgbest ranking House dress at Day of Remembrance. meetingwithJA community members. Northwest endorse redress. tee on Ad.mi.nistrative Law & Gov- Republican, co-sponsors HR 442. to fire 314 Nisei working for state. Isen Jan. 2&-U.S. government attorneys berg says law was created for the sole request more time to prepare response purpose of firing J As. to Gordon Hirabayashi's coram nobis Feb. 16-17-American Indians living petition, filed in January 1983, charging in Poston, Ariz., site ofWW2 camp, host the government with suppressing, al a reunion, sponsored by Baptist Church, tering and fabricating evidence attest with J As who were interned there. ing to the loyalty of JAs during WW2. Feb. 17-"Day of Remembrance" Supreme Court upheld Hirabayashi's program held in San Jose, Calif. conviction for violating curlew and Feb. 1~ Memorial to symbolize evacuation orders. internment, created by ceramic artist Yoshio Taylor and poet Hiroshi Kashi February-Attorneys for Fred Kore " agiois unveiled at Sacramento Coun whose petition charginggovern matsu. ty Building ment misconduct in his WW2 Supreme Berkeley City Council votes to d~ Court case was granted by a federal nate Feb. 19 (the anniversary ofPresi judge in November 1983, file a brief dent Roosevelt's signing of Executive supporting the case of Min Yasui In Order 9066, which led to evacuation January 1.984, U.s. District Judge Rob and internment) as a Day of Remem ert Belloni agreed to vacate Yasui's brance and to compensate JA city em wartime conviction but refused to rule ployees fired during WV\'2. on whether the government had been City of eattle makes final ~vments in the wrong; Yasui is appealing the to three isei-Thomas Kobayashi, decision The brief accuses govern Sumiko H~i Kuriyama and Ruth Ka ment lawyers in the Yasui case ofmis zama-\ ho were fired from their city representing the Korematsu verdict in jobs in 1942 because of their ancest:t:Y. order to discredit it Law authorizing payments was passed Mareh 26-Y asui, Korematsu and in 1984. Judge Nanette Dembitz, a Justice Los Angeles County Board ofSuper Dept attorney during WW2, speak at visors unanimously passes resolution New York Univ. Law School declaring very Feb. 19 a Day of Re Apr. 29-U.S. District Judge Donald membrance. Voorhees denies government's motion Day of Remembrance programs also to dismiss Hirabayashi's petition and held in Salinas, Calif.. and hicago. also denies a government request for Feb. 23- Calif. Supreme Court a stay pending final. disposition of hief Justice Rose Bird is guest Yasui's case. peaker at San Francisco D~. of Re Karl Bendetsen, major figures in in Class Action Suit docum nts w re ntly mad availa membrance program. May 24-JACL and American Jew ternment., are not called as witnesses. ble; go emment contends fonner in ish Committee file legal brief in sup July l3-WiUiam Hohri, Ellen car D~' of Remembrance programs also July 8-16-Hirabayashi tours Wash tern could hav rued suit soon after held in New York and Gardena, Calif. port of Hirabayashi ington D.C., Boston and New York to son and Lloyd Wak of National Coun- WW2 but fhlled to do so. No dat is t cil for Japan American Redress March 4-Ne\ York Tim reports June 17-2'7-Evidentiary hearing in raise funds for his case. for deci ion. Karl Bendetsen, who advocated and Hirabayashi case held in Seattle U.S. U.S. Circuit Court of Ap (NCJAR), which ks redre through Oct. 5-Attorn y Peter Irons, peak Oct. 4-9th 0\ W WW2 internment a War District Court Testifiers include Ed peals orders Judge Belloni to deter class action uit rued in 1983. partici ing at joint program, , two pate in redre. .. ummit" with groups Dept and W em Defense DlDland ward Ennis, director of Justice Dept's mine whether Yasui met hi appeal of th judg in NCJAR' appeal, official, u; n , a k y advi or in Reagan Enemy Alien Control Unit during deadline in March 1984. Government Ii king passag ofred bill in on Sk tly Wright and Ruth Gin bw . ha gress. All groups agree to support both Administration' ·'Star Wars" project WW2, who supports Hirabayashi's p0s argues that Yac;ui's appeal was tued c II nt ci il rights rd and m~1 and h to PI .dent ition; fonner intelligence officer David effol1:s; NCJAR propose inb'OClucing after lO-day deadline for criminal ap therefi re be symp th tic to plaintiflS. March 7-Uni . fCalif. regent Yori Lowman, who says ''Magic'' cables jus peals. Court rules 2-1 to order Belloni enabling I gi lation in Congre to allow law uit to proceed; uit was dis Remembrances of JA Wada • h nsid internment tified fears of espionage by JAs; archi to find whether Yasui qualifies for a .. vii" but op redI becau val researcher Jack HerLig, who rebuts ~ay extension. missed in May 1984 on ground that WWl Experience . statute of limitations had passed. many ld r J ha died and . Lowman's testimony; William Ham Final legal briefS in Hirabayashi Jan. 8-Calif. • mblvman Phillip "has paid in th kind m\ , li, .. mond, head of combat intelligence in case filed with the court, with opposing Sept. U-Attorneys for NCJAR and Isenberg (D-Sacram nto) introdu • March 16-"Bom Free and Equal," Western Defense Command during arguments presented by Rod Kawaka U.S. government p nt .th ir ca AB 198, a bill calling for th removal an exhibit f Manzanar ph t tak WW2; researcher Aiko Hel"lig m~ Hirabayashi's lead attorney, and before District of Columbia Court of of tion 10073, a 1942 law which by the lat Ansel danl in 1943, Yoshlnaga; attorney Peter Irons; and Justice Dept attorney Victor Stone. No Appeals. NCJAR argues that uit was sanctioned dismissal of stat employ Hirabayashi himself John McCloy and date is set for Judge Voorhees' ruling. possible only after key government ees with dual citizenship and wa used Continued 00 Neat hie friday, January 3-10, 1986 I PACIFIC CITlZEN-11 Oct. 5-Honolulu city councilmen Asianand Americans Politics I George Akahane, Rudy Pacarro and 1985 Chronology Toraki Matsumoto are ousted from of Feb. 3-New1y elected Democratic fice in a special recall election. Sen. National Committee chair Paul Kirk L.------=====::-::------:-:------:-:--:----: ====:::::=' Daniel Inouye had spoken out against declares political caucuses such as Los Angeles city council campaign be them while President Reagan had those for Asians, Blacks, and Hispanics tween challenger Mike Woo and in· given them his support are "nonsense" and that he will end cumbent Peggy Stevenson, charging Nov. 5-Yoshio Fujiwara, who gave them . that Stevenson used racial innuendos up his Fremont (Cali£) city council seat Marcb--Cali£ Gov. George Deukme- against Woo in the 1981 election, which to run for mayor, loses to fellow coun jian's office announces 32 Asian Amer- Woo lost cilman Gus Morrison. icans have been appointed to manage- June 4-In runoff election against Successful candidates in California rial and advisO:lY positions during his Stevenson, Woo becomes LA's first school districts include Ann Ito (San second tenD, making a total of 48 ap- Asian American city councilman with Mateo), Judy Chu (Garvey), Tonia Izu pointments during last two years. 58% of vote to Stevenson's 420/0. (Benyessa), Victor Nakamoto (Alum Apr. 9--Charter Amendment 2, June 6-Honolulu city councilmen Rock), Richard Tanaka (Eastside which would have added two seats to George Akahane, Rudy Pacarro and High), and Michael Honda (San Jose). the Los Angeles city copncil and re- Toraki ~atsumoto, elected. as Demo Nov. ~Democratic National Com drawn district lines in order to in- crats, SWItch to the Republican Party, mittee chair Paul Kirk proposes the crease Asian and Hispanic voting enabling Republicans to gain control formation of a national federation of power is defeated by a 660/0-34% vote. of council and oust former congress- Asian Pacific Democrats to fonn a link May'I4-Republican Richard Take- woman Patsy Mink ~ council chair. between communities and the party. I7i Dean Wexg chi is elected to the Districts city coun- June 15-Randy Horiuchi, a partner Some Asian Democrats are skeptical cil seat in Omaha, receiving 64% of the in a government relations finn, is Irene Natividad, Pilipino American head of National Women's Political Caucus. as to whether the federation would be vote to incumbent Connie Findlay's elected Utah Democratic state chair. as powerful or effective as the now- Battalion for obtaining honorable dis Sept. l2--Cali£ State Assembly charges for them in 1981. Joining Army passesJANM funding bill by 57-~vote. REMEMBRANCES prior to Pearl Harbor, they were consi Sepl24--Calit: Gov. George Deukme Continued from Previws Page dered troublemakers because they jian signs both AB 100 and J ANM fund on view at Denver Art Museum, fol protested internment of relatives. ing bill lowed by appearances in Philadelphia May 2O--Ca.li.( State Assembly votes Oct. l2-Dedication of a commemo June 14 and Los Angeles Oet 19. without debate to pass AB 198. ration plaque is held at Minidoka, Ida March 2O--Fonner state employees May 24--Secretary of Interior Don ho, ite of WW2 camp, during JACL Shiz Ueda and George Muraki testi..tY Hodel tells Rep. Nonnan Mineta (D. Intermountain and Pacific Northwest before Calli Assembly's Public Em Calif) he will recall Apr. ~ press re conference. Speakers include Idaho ployees and Retirement Committee, lease which says Manzanar was estab Gov. John Evans, n. Jam McClure describing how they were fired be lished "for protection against pion (R) and Rep. Richard taIlings (R). cause of their race in 1942. Committee age and sabotage." Mineta and Rep. Nov. IG--Clarenc Matsumoto. who passes AB 1.98. Don Edwards (D.Cali() called state was with 552nd Field Artill ry Battal March 26-First broadcast of "Visi ment false and misleading ion when Dachau, Germany death camp was liberated. i one of 11 honor ble Target," a 3O-minute documentary June 14-"Japanese American Ex Photo by Ken Kitamura. on the WW2 evacuation of Bainbridge perience" exhibit opens at Balch Insti ees at Simon Wiesenthal enter din ner in LA Island JAs produced by PBS station tute for Ethnic Studies in Philadelphia. Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone (right) discusses U.S.-Japan rela KCTS-TV in Seattle. During same week, an agreement is Nov. 15-"Nisei Soldier" wins gold tions with JACL President Frank Sato and Vice President Rose Ochi. Marcb-Ruby Miura and Fuji Taka reached whereby reproductions will medal in history and biography cate ichi, fonner Santa Clara County (Calli) be made of "Born Free and Equal" gory at International Film & Tel vi ion March-J community members will edit position papers on relations be employees, are given approval for com Part of Balch exhibit, the Adams photos Festival in New York raise concerns about 1984 ad campaign tween U. •Japan and western Europe. pensation for having been fired during have been unexpectedly recalled by JAs and U.s.-Japan Relations which portrays Hyster. a Portland J une 5-Economist and author Wil WW2 because of their race. Law estab Library of Congress. Curator Emily based lift truck company. as being at liam Ouchi stat that J can help lishing payments was passe in 1964. Medvec suspects government censor Jan. 2--JACL president Frank Sato war \vithJapan and allegedly uses pho U . .Japan relations on an individual. Apr. 2-President Reagan and other ship; Rep. Nonnan Mineta disagrees. and v.p. Rose Oehi meet with Japan' tos showing the Japanese as menacing infonnal basis but that an organization prime minister Yasuhiro Nakason in Glen Fukushima of Los Angeles as formally placing itself in an inter officials honor John McCloy, who over July-Pasadena, Calli-based Inner saw internment as asst. secretary of Los Angeles to express conc rn about sumes post of Director for Japan in mediary position "will be more a hin Circle Productions announces plans to effects of U.S ..Japan trade tensions on Office of U.S. Trade Representati e in drance than a help." war and now opposes redress, on his produce 1(). or J2..hour TV mini-series roth birthday. Japanese Americans. Washington D. He will help formu July 2'7~ACL hosts reception in on JA WW2 experience, called "U.S. March 2-Chrysler chairman Lee late U.S. trade policy toward Japan San Francisco for LDP International Apr- ~Documentaty "Nisei Sol on Trial," for possible 1987 broadcast dier" by Loni Ding wins an Emmy in Iacocca, speaking at House Democrat· Apr. 21-Editorial in Seattle Times Bureau diJ tor Wataru Hiraizumi. Input from JACL and other community ic Caucus meeting, states, "While we links anti.Japan sentiment and hostil Sept. 2O--Reps. Nonnan Mineta and San Francisco for editing achievement groups is solicited. Apr. 2'7-Manzanar, site of WW2 stack the missil up in the front yard, ity toward Asian Americans. Robert Matsui (both D-Call£), inter camp, is formally declared National Aug. 16-Japanese Peruvians in all aimed at our enemy [Russia1 our Apri1-.JACL president Sato and na vie\ved in Wall Street Journal, 'Press Historic Landmark by National Park terned in U.s. duringWW2 and refused fHend [Japan] is taking over the back tional director Ron Wakabayashi visit concern about anti.Japan sentiment Service official in ceremony held dur reentry to Peru afterwards, at reunion yard" Rep. Robert Matsui (DCalif.) Japan, meet with Nakasone and other "When congressmen talk about the ing Manzanar Pilgrimage. in LA, express desire to be included says Iacocca is trying to create "anti officials. trad problem toda..v. they use the Apr. 28-Seattle Times asst. manag in u.s. redress legislation. Japanese feeling ... the same thing my Delegation of Sansei, consisting of rhetoric of war," says Mineta "So we ing editor Lane Smith apologizes for Aug. 22-Calit: State Senate passes parents heard and r heard before we John Tateishi, Mike Mitoma, Debra start thinking about 1942 and the an Apr. 14 article about redress oppo bill, introduced by Sen. Art Torres (D. were sent to internment camps." Nakatomi, Kri Ikejiri, Beth Reng and evacuation. I just hope this trad ten nents Mary Lou Winchell, Bob Auchter S. Pasadena), providing $750, cial abbreviation of" Japan" and "J apa Slurs and Stereotypes no value for life." The statement is blasted by Rep. Norman Mineta (D nese" in dictionaries, the media, etc.. Dec. 17,1984-In frontofPenthouse's Cali(),JACLpresidentFrankSato,and Publishing companies in Japan are New York offices, a crowd of 00 (five a number of Washington-area Asian also being asked to comply. of whom are arrested) protests photos Pacific groups. Trible says he was mis June 2l-In response to protests in the magazine depicting Asian and quoted, but Post reporter Myra Mac about JAPSS hair salon, West Holly Black women in bondage and hung pherson says quote is accurate and wood Mayor alerie Terrigno says she from trees. also quotes Trible as saying. "In the will ask city attorne to see if any state Jan. 4-Idaho State Sen Walter Yar Asian world they do not share the same or federal law prohibits raciall:y offen- brough (RGrand View) says, in refer Judeo-Christian values of life. " si igns; there is no such city law. ence to selling beef to Japan, "When During a broadcast on radio station Aug. 16-Asian Americans picket you start dealing with those slant-eyes, KZIA in Albuquerque, Ford sal man theater in New York showing Michael you'd better be pretty sharp." He later Jerry Groner blam Japan for U.S. Cimino' fllm "Year of the Dragon," states that he "didn't mean it as degrad economic ills, using uch plu1lses as ch81'ging that its racist white hero and ing" and that "All the Japanese are my "Jap car" and "calling tbe Japs ·Japs.· .. hinese mobsters promote anti-Asian good ftiends." He is criticized by Poca When Heruy Watson of New Mexico sentiment Pickets in Los Angeles, San tello Blackfoot JACL JACL complains to program director Francisco. Seattle and Boston follo\ . Jan. 7-A readerboard in front of a J. Howard Deme, he is told, "'Jap' isn't JACL, Organization of Chinese Amer 7-Eleven store in Kent, Wash., is re a derogatory term and no apology is icans, LA City Councilman rYlike Woo worded by vandals to read "Get gooks appropriate." and others also voice objections. and nips." It originally read, "Look, it ApriI-Colorado State Sen Ray Aug. I9--In a front-page article in happened again-two percent milk A coalition of Los Angeles-area Asian Americans staged a march in Powers (R.colorado Springs) says a lAng Beach (Calif.) Press-Telegram, a $179 a gallon" front of Mem's Chinese Theater in Hollywood on August 23. Hawaii-based Japanese American reporter describes a winning entry in January-&me negative reaction firm, Koga Engineering & Construc a sand sculpture contest (which the from Asian Americans results when charged that the character per town and Asian gangs. tion, shouldn't have gotten a state con newspaper co-sponsored) as Ha larger white actor Joel Grey is cast as an el petuated negative stereotypes. Marcb-In Los Angeles, Chinatown tract becau "the Japan bombed than-life, buck-toothed Chinaman" derly Korean in the Orion fUm "Remo March 18-Assn of Asian Pacific Merchants Assn and LA hinatown P arl Harbor." Mile-Hi JACL and Or After local Chin Americans protest Williams." The fUm's producers state American Artists honors individuals Corp. demand mandatory script re ganization of Chinese Americans pr0- slur and large photo of th: caricatw that none of the Asian actors tested who have promoted positive and real view before allowing TV and movie l CivilItighCs Jan. 2:l--Sen spark. Matsunaga (D Hawaii) joins 16 other senators in spon 1985 Chronology soring Equal Rights Amendment Jan. 26-President Reagan says which a college program can continue gees to an inner 'city housing project, after 10 years of eligibility for promo some civil rights organizations are no to receive federal funds even ifanother allowed project to decline and evicted tion An adminis1rative complaint on longer needed because they have ac program in the same college practices the Vietnamese in order to tear down behalf of Tom Ohgi and other Asian complished their goals but continue discrimination. project and sell the land for a profit, employees is still being planned. ''to keep the people stirred up as if the Sept. 26-Secretary of Education apparently in the belief that evicting Oct. 2S-Settlement reached in Jes cause still exists." William Bermett's statement that he Vietnamese would cause less uproar sie Furukawa case. As part of agree Feb. 8-William Bradford Reynolds will seek to deregulate federal biling than evicting Blacks. ment, terms cannot be publicly dis of Justice Dept's Civil Rights Division ual education programs by giving local March-Tom Ohgi and Wally Shishi closed, but Furukawa says she is says court-ordered job preferences for school districts more autonomy draws do, both Los Angeles County Health pleased with outcome. minorities and women are on the way negative response from Bay Area Chi Services Dept employees for over 2{) Nov. ~ames Ristow, former em out nese Americans, who say such a move years, file a complaint with Calif Dept ployee of Toshiba America in Tustin, March ~U.S. Commission on Civil could encourage districts to abolish of Fair Employment alleging that they Calif, files suit against the Japanese Rights chair Clarence Pendleton says bilingual education have been repeatedly passed over for company, alleging that it discriminates Black leaders are theIJ5elves racists Nov. 26-Rep. Norman Mineta (D promotion because of their race. A against Americans in its hiring prac who refuse to help Reagan create a Calif) protests Bermett's decision earli class action suit against the county is tices. "color blind ' socieW. Angry at his re er this month to abolish Education considered. }-j marks, NAACP, NOW, Mexican Ameri Dept's Office of Asian and Pacific Con July-Washington, D.c.-area Asian Photo by Sachi Yamamolo can Legal Defense & Education Fund cerns and Office ofHispanic Concerns. American groups raise concerns about Other Migor Stories of 1985 DOWN TO EARTH - Astronaut and other groups boycott commission Dec. 4--Asian American students, over 00 Asian refugee families being Ellison Onizuka was grand mar Action Against Apartheid-Asian hearings on aflinnative action the next excluded from original language of evicted from Chillum Heights Apart shal of the Nisei Week parade held ments in King Georges County, Md Americans take part in protests in .day. Higher Education Act Reauthorization Aug. 11 in L.A. 's Little Tokyo. Apr. 2-Justice Dept announces it bill in House, are restored by amend Many of the tenants have already relo front of South African embassy and has asked 56 city, counw and state gov ment introduced by Rep. Sala Burton cated more than once since arriving in consulates; those arrested include Asians in Spare-Air Force Maj. El ernments to abolish race and sex (D-Cali.() and will continue to be the U.S. Stan Shlkuma, former JACL PNWDC lison Onizuka, 38, a native ofKona, Ha quotas in their aftinnative action counted as minorities when schools re Critics see a UCLA Communications assistant, Pacifica Radio exec. ciirector waii, becomes first Asian American in plans. New York and lAs Angeles are ceive federal funds. Board proposal to merge the school's Sharon Maeda and Jack and Aiko Her space Jan 23 as a crew member of Asian, Black, Hispanic, and other mi zig ofNCJAR JACL Board condemns among cities that decline to do so. GIses space shuttle Discovel)'. Dr. Taylor , Apl". 26-Federal Communications Discrimination noriw newspapers into a single month apartheid, reviews investments to en Wang goes aloft in shuttle Challenger Commission rules that "racist and anti Dec. 19, 1984--Preliminary hearing ly publication as an attempt to limit or sure none are with businesses dealing Apr. 29. Semitic" broadcasts are protected by held in Sacramento in case of Dexter control the papers' editorial content with South Africa Anti-apartheid edu Anniversaries of events significant to First Amendment free speech rights. Del Mar, a Pilipino American who Aug. 21-LA County Civil Service cationals for Asian Americans held in Asian Americans are marked in pro Case involves Kansas radio station that charges that he was called a "Jap " and Commission hearings in pharmacist Los Angeles and San Francisco. grams and media events throughout urged listeners to kill Jews and de shoved out of an exercise club by the Carole Fujita's sex discrimination case Henry Liu Case--Members of Con the year. 100 years have passed since nounced other groups, including Viet owner, Sherman Chavoor. against County Dept of Health Serv gress, including Rep. Norman Mineta a ship brought first Japanese govern namese. Deoombe.r-Hawaii chapter of ices begin; further hearings held in Oc (D-Cali.(), criticize the Reagan Admin ment contract laborers to work in Ha May 16-During Los Angeles visit, NAACP charges that the Atlantis Club tober and November. Fujita charges istration for its silence on the 1984 mur waii sugar plantations; 40 years since Clarence Pendleton says he agrees of Pacific Beach Hotel, site of 1984 she was not rated fairly in a promo der of Henry Lillo a critic of the Taiwan WW2 ended with the destruction of Hi with perception of Asians as "model JACL National Convention, discrimi tional examination and that require government, in Daly CiW, Calif The two roshima and Nagasaki by atomic minority" and praises them for "quietly" nates against Blacks. ments were changed for a male appli alleged assassins, caught and tried in' bombs; and 10 years since Vietnam relying on their own strength to suc Jan. 31-Feb. 2.-Pilipino delegates cant after he was promoted Taiwan, are found to have ties to a high War ended and mass exodus of South ceed rather than ''protesting loudly" at assembly of Asian American United Sept. 9--Cali£ State Personnel Board intelligence official, who is also tried. east Asian refugees to u.s. began like other minorities and demanding Methodists in San Francisco charge holds hearing on discrimination Liu's supporters believe Taiwan is cov government help. that their group is underrepresented charges by education consultant Jessie ering up involvement of higher-level May 2O--OOl Circuit Court of Appeals among board members and nominees. Furukawa against state Dept of Edu officials; House demands extradition JACIJPacific Citizen rules in favor of San Francisco State Feb. 7-Derrick Bell. Univ. ofOregon cation She says she was demoted and of the killers but Taiwan refuses. Typesetter Fund Fumiko Kimura Case-Kimura, a na students arrested in 1900 confrontation law School dean, resigns in protest of fired for advocating programs for 941 E.3nI St., Rm. 200 with then-school president S.l Haya the school's refusal to hire a Chinese Asian immigrants and supporting tive ofJapan , drowns her two children kawa and orders the arrests taken off American woman to the faculty. Three equal employment opportunities for in an unsuccessful suicide attempt in Los Angeles, CA 90013 the students' transcripts and payment faculty members had insisted that she Asians within the department Santa Monica in January. Her case, of their legal fees. Hayakawa calls de was kept in the applicant pool only be Sept I2-Un Chong Kerr, a Korean which many see as having cultural cision "ridiculous" because mass ar cause she is a minority. i..mmigrant who e lawsuit charging her overtones, attracts nationwide atten @ C!.{IIU" restswere "completely constitutional." Feb. 16-Speaking at JACL Inter employer with sexual harassment tion and draws support from JAs who JUD&-Us. District Judge Robert mountain District meeting. Be~ Waki, drew communiw support in 1964, dies question whether she can receive a Across St . .bhn·s Hosp_ Takasugi declines reappointment to teacher at Sharpstown High School in in Sunnyvale, Calif (see necrology). fair trial in an American cowt She ·rm-2032 Santa Monica Blvd. pleads no contest to manslaughter and Salta Monica, CA. Calif State Advisory Committee to U.S. Houston, says she will pursue her case Her husband Michael saying that sex IOR.ISH.IZUKA 82~11 Commission on Civil Rights, saying againstschool district through commu ual harassment caused his wife's ill is released on probation in November. Pendleton's major objective is ''to nity political action rather than the health and eventual death, vows to con abolish civil rights." courts. Her job is in danger because tinue suit against San Francisco Com July 2-JACL and other civil rights she is classified as white; district does muniw College District and his wife's organizations announce support of not recognize Asians as separate group. employer, William Tresnon Civil Rights Restoration Act of 1985, March 19-At a public hearing, Sept.19-Wally Shishido announces Books from Pacific Citizen introduced in response to Supreme lawyers charge that Houston Housing he has been made a chief sanitarian All of JUNE 1.1985 Court's 1984 Grove City decision, under Authority "steered" Vietnamese refu- in LA County's Health Services Dept Some books llSled pre\/louslyllr o ut oC tockat th PC. Comfort AU Who Mourn. By H V Icholson and RECENT ARRIVALS Margate' Wilke. U fe story o( Hcrben and Madebne vets raised the money for their monu The Lo.' V.r.: 1942· 1946. Edit d by uc Kunl · Nicholson Includ first-hand account of WW in· ment without using public funds and toml Emb...... Features 'Why It H ppencd Here' ternment oCJaP3nese Amencans SLURS by Roger Daniels ( 1967). a h lst orl ~ n '$ \/l ew of the o S7 20 ppd. softcover that JAs should do the same. Ellacuadon alt ,25 years . Pictures, poems lind CootiDued from Page l.Z .Iuelle•• t War. By Pte, Irons. Th .. behtnd-the Oct.. ~Iowa Agriculture Secretary pi c of camp life . , . lect d bibliography o S5,OOwel. $Oftcover sc n stocy oC th Vasul. Hlrab4yashl and Ko,ema munities" and any similariW between Robert Lounsberry apologizes for a tsu cas 01 WW2 and the CUfN nt campaign to re- film's portrayals and real Asians "is statement he made Sept 30 in refer little Tokyo: 100 Veare In Plctur•• . By lehlro II rse th IIDd Polltlce 01 Raelal Ac:commod. Beach) opposes the measure, saying '1 (or now P.rrericens to understand how 0110 mlnorlcy tloo: Th. ".,.,ao... ofloe Ansal .. 1900-1942. gerous image" of Asians. group wal IIbI to 011 rcome discrimination. By John Modell. (Pan of JA L.JARP·s d"Jiniti remind you of WWZ' and eliciting Nov. l8-In response to JACL na o $1375 ppd, ha,dcover. socl I "lslol'II! Mod U's rese reh [ndud • ch«klng chants of"Rambo, Rambo" from fellow tional director Ron Wakabayashi's Thirty-Five V..... In tb. Frying Pan. by Bill Hoso. oulth41 prewAr Ralu htmpo EnglISh s cllon. kewo, Sol lions Irom his popular olumn In tho 0 $13.75 ppd, hordeo r (Ne", stocl...) Republicans. His remarks are de complaint about an editorial titled Pacific Citizen with background mat rI land fUnning nounced by Assemblyman Richard "How to Gyp the Japs," The New Re lOll THE commentacy. J.p.n.... Au>arICAlD Story. by Budd Fuk 'l. III I o $11.20ppd,nllldcolier. ofnlstocyandcuJturolh lit On ch p r by Mlk" Floyd ~Hawthome) and Rep. Robert public, an influential magazine, says, SHORTER MAN Masaoko nxalls JACL' ro dunng W 2 '$ Ello(uo, Matsuj~). "'Japs' is not an ethnic slur, like 'Nig Through Ha"" Winter" Th. lIf. of • Jap.o... lion or J pane$e, Immlgran.t Woman. By Ak ml Klkumura An Is· 0 $ .20 ppd. I"utl 0 ' r Sept. 14--National Coalition for Reo gers' or 'Kikes' ... It is a national nick SHORT MEN lei moth rs ability to Irlwnph ov r h rdshlp Ion • dres&'Reparations and other commu name." line and despair will be femlll r to II immlsrant Camp Il Block 211. by J ~ M \$UO A ung 4'10'~ 5'7" who hall mad Am rial! tn Ir hom\), cenoonist 510; tch 11~ In Ide Inl rnm nt mp Ilt first nitygroups stage ofseveral pickets Nowmber-Asian American Re £VfRYT/ liNG IN 'rOUR )I'CCI l ~llE~ o $ 8.20 ppd, solt. Autogruphed copy Goolloble. P Ion., The humorou touch. to b" u • in front of JAPSS hair salon source Workshop in Boston is awarded X-SHORT • SHORT • PORTlY SHORT o $ 7. ~ 5 we1 . soft 0 r Sept. 17~ACL, Nisei vets and other $10, ~ Muraye,86, 1973 San Francisco Hurlbert, Clarence Roy, 55, political practor, died May 28 after prolonged Takahashi, Barbara Yamamoto, 91, Cheny Blossom Festival Mother of the writer and columnist for Peninsula illness. fonner public health nurse with Berke Year and San Jose Buddhist Church Times Tribune in Palo Alto, Calif., and Maruyama, Mary, 70, charter mem ley Unified School District and Berke member who, with husband Yoshio, an advocate of redress, died Feb. 15. ber of St Louis JACL who ran Maru ley Health Dept, member ofJACL and opened her San Jose home to return yama's Oriental Art & Gifts with hus Berkeley-Sakai Sister City Assn and ing internees after WW2, died Nov. 15 Ichisaka, Vernon, PC's frrst business band Paul for 30 years, died Jan 5 at firstJA school nurse in California, died at her Morgan Hill home. manager lOO94l, member of Seabrook St Maly's Health Center. She was Oct 'Zl. Awamura, Tokuyoshi, 83, of Hon __1000 Club Roll ... Fowler: 28-Kazuo Hiyama. San Diego: 21-Abe K Mukai. Fresno : 3O-Dr Akira Jitsumyo, 16-Willy K San Francisco: 13-Kikoman International (Year of Membership Shown) Suda . lnc** , Eddie Moriguchi· . • Century; •• Corporate; L Life; Denver-area oommunity leader dies Gardena Valley : 15-KeiNishino. San Mateo: 1o-Miles IOto. M Memorial; CIL Century Life Milwaukee: 15-Henry K Kanazawa. Santa Barbara : 27-George I Nishimura. Summary (Since Dec 1,1984) Monterey Peninsula : 2O-George Y Uyeda. Seabrook : 32-Kiyomi Nakamura. stepdaughter Mari Murayama of Active (previous total) ...... 2 ,108 New England : 3-Margje Yamamoto Hop- Seattle: 27-Yosh ito Fujji, 2-Paul lsaki*, 1- by George Yasukocbi Total this report: #48 ...... 36 kins. Doulgas Palmer. Boise, Idaho; grandsons John H. Current total ...... 2,144 New York: 26-Shig Kariya. Snake River: 21-George T Okita. George Mitsuo Kaneko of Ar Neely of Salem, Mass., and Mark DEC 9-12,1985 (36) Orange County: 19-Dr Samuel R Maehara. National : 32-Mats Ando, S-Frank Iritani* . vada, Colo., died unexpected1y K. Kamiyama of Everett , Wash. Chicago: lS-Henry H Fujiura, 4-Tad Kj Pasadena : 29-Kay K Monma. CORPORATECLUB** Dec. 1 while undergoing medical mura, IS-Roy M Kuroye, 31-Dr Harry I Philadelphia: ll-Noboru Kobayashi. 13s-Kikkoman International Inc (SF) Kaneko is a past president of Omori, 26-Kenji Tanj, 21-Isamu Sam Portland: 7-Sho Dozono. CENTURY CLUB- treatment at Estes Park, Colo. the Public Accountants Society of Zaiman. Puyallup Valley : 26-Miyo Uchiyama. 5-Noboru Kobayashi (Phi), 12-Eddie SeIVices were held Dec. 4 at Simp Colorado, and was a long-time Delano: lO·Ben Nagatani. Reedley : 27-Tak Naito. Moriguchi (SF), I-Paul Isaki ISet) , 1- son United Methodist Church in Downtown Los Angeles : 25-Harry Yama Salinas Valley : 3O-George Higashi. Douglas Palmer (Set) , 5-Frank Iritani member of the Japanese Ameri (Nat). Alvada, where he was a member. can Citizens League and the moto. Salt Lake City : 24-Mitsugi Kasai. Kaneko was born in Visalia, Denver-Takayama Sister Cities PC Classified Advertising Calif., July 13, 1917, and grew up organization. He was a 3~year in San Francisco. Like many member of the JACL Thousand Nisei of the time, he worked as a Club. 4-Business Opportunities 5-Employment . 5-Employment farm laborer in the San Joaquin Mits, as he was known, had Valley during summer vacations countless friends. His work took ATTN INVESTORS BY OWNER NISEI-SANSEI APPLICANTS We have many attractIVe opelllf'95 now In LA. SUrrounding WE NEED YOUR HELP! to help support his family. He was him to farming communities Fresno County ClUes and Or.rlge County College graduates or equivalent married to Tsuyako Alice Yura in throughout Colorado, and he was 67 acre almond ranch, excellent productive or preferred Gall us for an appointment or send In resllTle To Locate Contacts, Reps, Etc. the chard in prime location. FlO water w/pump. Man· JAPANESE IS NOT ESSENTIAL REQUIREMENT 1941. At time he was working widely known in Denver Japanese agement available. Will lease back. Ask $8000/ SALARY RANGE $1,440 - S45.000 To Sell Our Choice Sunbelt Real Estate to acre. Cash preferred. Call Owner as a sales clerk in an Oriental gift American circles, where he parti Exec. Secretary/Secretary/ReceptlonlSVGeneral Office/Admin Overseas Investors. (209) 264-1713 Ass 'VAccountlnVBookkeeperlSales Rep.lMarkebng Ass 'V shop. cipated in a variety of activities. National Sales Manager/Wareoouse Supervlsor/MaJ1(ttlng Re · In the evacuation of Japanese During the war, when efforts searchlelc. etc. Extremely Desirable Parcels Priced to ATTN INVESTORS Attract An Buyers with Low Down & Easy Americans from the West Coast were being made to pass legisla TOPSKOUT PERSONNEL SERVICE Payments. Texas Motels (213) 742{)810 in 1942, Kaneko was sent to the tion discriminating against Japa Profitable motels wllh S80 ,OOO to $1 1543 W. OlympIC BI.. #433. LA. 90015 million down . (Many can be family Uberal Commissions with Total Support War Relocation Camp at Poston, nese Americans, Kaneko made Program. Ariz. Dissatisfied with camp life, many public appearances to operated) . Call (5121 366-3273 or COUNSELOR write GARY COLLINS ALLIED HEALTH/SOClAL SCIENCE For information: he volunteered for labor in the plead for fair play. His office, Eagle Investments, 12134 COIWICk, Requires MS in counselling/gUidance, coun American Land Group San Antonio, 1)( 78216 sugar beet harvest that fall in which for many years was near selor psychology, rehabilitation counselor or 2621 E. Camelback Rd. Nebraska and subsequently re 20th and Larimer streets in the equivalent, Qualify or hold California Commun Suite 185 NORTH CAROLINA. U.S.A. ity College credential. Advise students in social Phoenix, Arizona 85016 USA settled in Denver. There he heart of the Japanese American science, voc. nursing , psychiatric program . (602) 957-4000 established an accounting firm, community, was a popular ga INVESTORS Fluency in Vietnamese or Spanish . Knowledge U.S. company forming a New Venture Capital of computer assist. systems . $21,718 to George M. Kaneko and Associ thering place. Several years ago, Company seeking $2.000,000 Wrrte or call $31,968. Submit application , resume Ques- ates, which he was operating at when oldtimers tried to revive in tionnaire by Jan . 24. 1986. 9-Real Estate the time of his death. terest in the Mil~Hi J ACL chap CAPITAL INC. West Valley Mission College District., Kaneko's first marriage ended 1107 Crawford Rd. Personnel Services, 14000 Fruitvale Ave., ter, Kaneko agreed to serve as Saratoga, CA 95070, 1,05OACREHAY RANCH in divorce in 1969. In 1978 he was treasurer and secretary . Statesville, NC 28677 (408) 867-2200 Ext 233. Loc. adjacent to the Alaska Hwy. at Pink married to Sachi Yasukochi Mu In his youth Kaneko was an out (704) 873-2163 AAlEOE MountaIn. 700 acres under cultivabon, seed to rayama in San Francisco. In ad hay. Good year round aeek through property. standing basketball player d~ GOVERNMENT JOBS $16,040 - S59,Z30lyr. Small comfortable house with some out bldgs. dition to his wife, he is survived by TEXAS By Owner Unlimited crown range grazing righ5 avarl. spite his short stature. But per Now Hiring. Call (805) 687-6000 Asking $295,000. Info. calf (6041 459-7978 or daughter Carole Kamiyama of haps his best-known trademark Busy Recreation Park Ext. R-1317 for current federal list. write A.H. Fit:h, Box 116, Clinton, B.C. ~K 1KO . Everett, Wash.; son Darryl G. was a friendly grin for everyone No money down . Slrallng rink, With Kaneko, an attorney in Tokyo ; stage, dance floor 9-hole minia· Wesleyan UnIVersity seeks a phYSical anlhropologisV NORTHWEST USA hemet ture golf course . Y2-acre public archaeologist for a tenure·track position at the assist· Cattle Farm Investment Oppty. pool, sprirYJ-fed swimming pool wI ant professor level, commencing 1986·7 PhD. strong 2000 deeded acres w pnvate BlM allotment of 525 2 bath-houses. 4 ptillic restrooms, undergraduate teaching I/lterest, research 8lIPerience AUM 350 A. maurtained roads . Excellent water sup 2 concesSiOn stands Game room . and willingness to develop undergraduate field re plies. Extensive wildlife and fine hunting . Bldgs 10- Japanese Charms 2 residential houses each has 2 search programs required Geographical area and clude 2 homes, bam. corrals. livestock scale, small bedroom, 1 bath . FIShing pond, 4 penod open . Preference 10 CiIldldales whose research gralnery. All mUleral nghts included S485, Greater Los Angeles Greater Los Angeles Ventura County Watsonville Seattle Seattle, Wa. ASAHI TRAVEL Tama Travel Int rnational Calvin Matsui Realty De Panache superu"en.(;roup Dioc:ounu Martha Ip ....hi Tamuhiro Homtll & Commercial Tom Nakas R ahy Apex F arcs-Compukrized-Bonded 371 N. Mobil A"c, 'Ie. 7, r .g~, Ranch~ , lI"m. , In'''''I1' Today'. Cluaic Lookl One WiUhireBldll., te 1012 TOM \M h, Hullor ompl Fremont ~SFurukawa 77- William Sakakura JACL Chapter Presidents ~':.';.7.'s ~Percy F'ukushima 78-Walter Hasttimoto 67~Paul Takahara 79-Ron Nakayama Here is a six-year update of the roster of JACL chapter presidents, which last appeared in the ~~a~~ara 69-7~Wm YKashiwagi 8(}.82...... Ted Imuye January 4-11, 1980 New Year edition. The roster had been an annual reference for 20 years from 1955 Eiji Tanabe (Kibei) 71-74--Dr David Asahara 83-Moss Kiriyama, Ted 75-76--Wm YKasruwagi Inouye (ropres.) - on the occasion National JACL celebrated its 25th anniversary. (Corrections should be submitted in ~~:~:~~~t.) 77-ToshiheiFukushima 84-Aileen T!l1jimoto Judy Kato (ro-pres.) Ted O~to (Kibei) 78-79-Peul Takehara writing to the PC Reference Section editol'.) 85-Mrs. Kay Iwata Ark Vall Cincinnati 66-7~Inactive Dayton 3!}40-EI]1 Tanabe 8(}.82...... 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OR WRITE 5 Days: Expo '86 daily Ir Vancouver ...... fr May 2 269 • Los Angeles or San Francisco. 8 Day: SeattJe/VoctonaNancouver Republic, a study of ideol Chikara Mochi A Short Story byManzen man's a snap. The way everyone hustled, the darn thing ''You're different," and though they meant it as a just grew like Topsy. Don't mind being the Chairman compliment, to him, it was a barrier, a barrier separat Plip .. plup .. plop. Plip ..plup .. plop. Plip .. plup .. again. " He laughed again and his eyes sparkled ing him from everyone else. He resented it. He fought it. plop. The staccato of the mochitsuki sticks reverber jubilantly. He argued vehemently against it. Tore at it. Pounded it. ated in the halls vibrantly joyfully, matching the en · 'Sure have to hand it to you, Nobe, no lie. ' Stomped it. And yet, it was always there ... immortal, thusiasm and the gaiety of the people within. And the " Oh, I don't know . It's not really much compared to immoral, and ever present. hot, white rice in the usu jumped with visible vapors of all the things you do, Tak. I guess I have to do some This sensitivity was not an obsession. It was funda joy, ecstatically, gleefully anticipating its transfor thing. Besides, this is just a one-shot deal. Start in, work mental, basic. All that he was, all thathe could be, was mation. on it for a while, and then, boom, it's over. Maybe a dependent on it: his dreams his hopes, his faith, even It was electric. month, a month and a half, and it's through. What you his very life. The good, clean smell of cooked rice was everywhere do is endless. Year in and year out. Don't see how you do Life was noble, fundamentally and essentially. It was filling every nook, and the smell and the sounds it. I like to help out more, but I'm so darn busy at work I the primeval expression of totaIity . ofOneness , of Faith mingled and blended into a Oneness that was pure joy. just can't fmd the time. I can't even get around to all the in itself. And aU individual life was but the awareness of crumm work around the house. I'd better get to it this and its subsequent action. The hearty beat of the Japanese music laughed gaily pretty oon though, or my wife'U really scalp me. Once His life was meaningful, even if only to himself. And and prompted a merrier beat. And immediately the things quiet down a little, I'll help out more. ,. he lived it, in this awarene ,striving to bring this animate hammers quickened its tempo. In rhythm, "Sure," aid Tak reality into better focus. He could not, would not, do nearby, the feminine hands of the molders brough t in a " But boy, I sure hav to hand it to you, no lie," Nobe otherwise. searching melody, soft and rhythmic; their deft hands continued. "You're in everything! Where d'ya fmd the And it was in this awareness that he fought the bar rolling the white life tenderly, lovingly, transforming time?" riers which threatened to separate him. The reality of them into a new form, a new life. The gleaming white "Oh, I don't know. Just fmd the time, I guess." Tak this awareness was the mandate which governed his rows of rolled mochi counted the measures distinctly, said it casually, but he, too, wondered. Where did he action. beaming happily. And the whi te steam from the steam fmd the time? And yet, e enas the question entered his And on the surface his actions were simple. So simple oven cooking the rice rose in a crescendo of clouds mind, he knew. "How about you, Nobe, and all this it fogged the structure upon which his actions took heralding each new birth. mochi tsuki bit? Where did you flnd the time for all this place. It was simply this: rfpeople who thought "1 have The hall was alive. And Tak Arai tending the steam planning and committee work ... not to mention all the to hand it to you" were truly complimentary and sin oven, watched enthralled. He felt the life of the ham pegging in and the chasing around for all the stuff you cere, and looked upon what he did sincerely, why should mers and the joys of the rice. He felt the loving caresses brought?" they not come closer to that which they feel to be right ofthe women as they tended their wards. And the music Nobe shrugged his shoulders. " Just one of those themselves? Why should they separate themselves and the rapture danced in him, making his feet come things, I guess. Things gotta be done. And if you gotta, from that which they feel to be good? To say "You re alive ...making them tap on the wet cement floor. He you gotta. " different" automatically separates one from the other. was alive, alive with the life that was life. He opened his Tak nodded in agreement, and wondered whether It is an excuse to not tr. harder. It sets them apart arms and it embraced him, and he would not let it go. Nobe really understood the deeper aspects, which had automatically, away from ilieir life's stream, away to He could not let it go. to do with his interest and concern. "Yeah, thats true. where it cannot touch them intimately. Why should they But why do YOU have to do it? " di orce iliemsel es, cut themse1 es adrift, from their Tak Arai was not a young man. But then again, he was "Cuz I'm Chairman, that's why!" own longings? not an old man neither. He just felt old. He had spent "Yes, but why are you Chairman?" Tak prodded. This was the substance of his sensitivity tempered in most of his life here. He could not imagine his life with "They couldn't get anyone else." the awarene s of totality. This was the es ence of his out a church. It was a part of him, and he a part of it. To "But why did you take it?" Faith. him, it was an expression oflife. And he lived it gener "Aw, come on now, Tak, you're getting too deep for * * '" ously. But then he was always that way ... in whatever me. I don't know. Maybe .... Whoops, it's my tum to The white steam hissed and the apors curled into the he felt deeply. Watching the scene, he felt a warmth, a pound again. See you, Tak ... and thanks again." With air mischie ously. Tak Arai rearranged the steaming satisfaction that comes none too often. And he enjoyed that, Nobe hurried away. As an afterthought, he turned boxes of rice and looked about the hall. It rang with the it immensely. and said, "Anyway, Tak, you're different." joviality of people at One \! ith life. And the music and "Hi Tak! How's it going? Boy, sure is a whiz bang, The words truck Tak like a blow. There it was again. the beat of the mochi tsuki sticks echoed a before. He huh?" "You're different!" felt a need to belong to them. To be a part of them, "Hi Nobe. Yeah! Have you pounded yet?" Kats had said this too, and so had Sakai. And both intimately, and iliey a part of him, intimately. He "Oh sure. Catching my breath right now .. then I'll were his closest friends; they each worked and helped reach d out. But the wall loomed dogmatically. give it another go." Nobe laughed for no apparent rea with the same interest and energy as Tak. He turned and walked slowly to the torage room. son. It revealed his enjoyment. "By the way, thanks for Was he really different'? Different from other people? And th r in the storage room he wept. taking care of the steam oven, neh?" How could he be! H wa n 't different. He ouldn 't be! * '" '" "Oh, that's OK, Nobe. I'm enjoying it. Boy, I think He was just th same! The same as anyone el e. He ddl nough, the hall was till elechic, charged with everyone's getting a great big bang out of it. Sure is fun, was! He wa ! He fill d his mind with these two littl the jubilanc of One people_ And the taccato of the no lie. Must have been a lot of work putting it together, words. And made them push out all oth r thoughts .. . mochi tsuki rucks pOlmd d a distinct tattoo. Th sound huh, Nobe?" Over the many year~, Tak had devel p d a ensitivit breached th door fth sto~ room and entered .. "No ...not really. Things just fell in. Being the chair- to that particular phras . P ople had alway told him, And died in the sprawling figul' 'obbing there. 'KUBOTA NIKKEI' Four GeneralJons PARADISE OKAZU-YA RESTAURANT of Expeflence 1~ n H wa.lan