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011 the 20th Anniversary of Redress, JLAs are Still Fighting for Justice Many Japanese Latin American former internees continue to wait for an apology and their redress payments.

By CAROLINE AOYAGI-STOM Executive Editor

Dr. Thomas Noguchi was chief medical examiner from 1967-1982. As Japanese Americans across the nation celebrate the 20th anniversary of the landmark redress legislation, Art In -L.A.; He was the 'CorOner to the Stars' Shibayama, 78, wonders if justice for Forty years after the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy, the him will ever come. man who met him after death talks about his career and In 1988 Art watched as tens of thou• chance meetings with injustice. sands of former World War n internees started to receive their presidential apologies and $20,000 in redress pay" By LYNDA LIN ments for their forced incarceration. But his reparations never arrived. Assistant Editor It's a battle he and other Japanese Latin American former wwn For over a decade, 'some of the world's most famous dead bodies came to Dr. internees have been waging for more than two decades: But with an internment Thomas T. Noguchi's doorstep. upcoming Congressional hearing in July, Art dares to hope that justice for him may soon arrive. camps Their names make up a who's who of tragedy and infamy: Marilyn Monroe, "I'm surprised I'm still fighting. I wasn't a person who would do (above). Art Natalie Wood and even Sharon Tate all found their way to the bowels of the old something like this before," he said. "The U.. has aln

PHOTO: BONNIE CLARK I By P.C. Staff and Associated Press restore Guantanamo Bay detainees' Dr. Tetsuden Kashima and Constitutional right to habeas corpus. the Hon. Dale Ikeda will be LOOTERS STAY AWAY: These artifacts tell priceless historical stories. The JACL is commending the The civil rights group calls it a huge honored with the JACL's Supreme Court's June 12 ruling to step toward restoring a basic tenet of Japanese Americans of the due process. Biennium awards at the upcom• Future Archeologists Hope to In its third rebuke of the Bush admin• ing Salt Lake City national con• istration's treaiment of prisoners, the vention. Uncover Mysteries of Amache court ruled 5-4 that the government is Kashima will be presented The summer field school former site of Camp Amache for violating the rights of prisoners being with the JA of the Biennium will give local high school artifacts to literally bring internment held indefinitely and without charges at award in the area of education students the chance to history back to life. the U.S. naval base in Cuba. and humanities, and Ikeda will It's been dubbed "CSI: Amache," JACL leaders liken the weakening of receive the award in the area of walk in the footsteps of history. after the popular CBS television See HABEAS CORPUSlPage 4 See AWARDSIPage 7 series. But this version isn't highly stylized or scripted - it's based on By LYNDA LIN the real life human drama of nearly Assistant Editor 3 WEEKS 8,000 prisoners who once called the July 16-20 This summer, a group of young Colorado camp their home. aspiring archeologists will comb the See AMACHElPage 11

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. ~"" - P4CIFIC 1JIP.04 CITIZEN Letters to the Editor 250 E First Street, Ste_ 301, Los Angeles, CA 90012 Tel: 213/620-1767, Keep Little Tokyo Safe for Future Generations , The Future of JACL 800/966-6157 Fax: 213/620-1768 I am a 14-year-old We face a significant problem. There is nQ certainty that we shall be E-mail: pc@pacificcitizen_org Hapa living in Arizona. I led to a sense of mission as compelling as the one that droVe previous www_pacificcitizen.org care very, very deeply generations. That time of clarity may be over. Executive Editor: about Little Tokyo, even We must also be aware of our temptation to expend all our resources Caroline Y. Aoyagi-Stom though the first time I vis- and energy in shoring up collapsing structures by holding onto the Assistant Editor: ited was only about a familiar long after it has lost its possibility for a new life. Lynda Lin Office Manager: year ago_ Now I love to Within aU of this, the local JACL chapter is critical_ The chapter is Brian Tanaka visit Little Tokyo_ I have where people touch the JACL organization and are touched by it Circulation: Eva Lau-Ting visited three times since Our task now is to look at how our vision of the mission of the then, and I seriously -would rather go there than Disneyland or the JACL comes into sharper focus, shaping the way we organize our• Publisher: Japanese American Citizens League (founded 1929) 1765 beach. selves, and the roles we assign each other to carry out that mission. Sutter .Street, San Francisco, CA I feel that it is a place where all Japanese Americans can share their Only then can we look at an emerging sense of JACL mission and 94115, tel: 4151921-5225 fax: 4151931- heritage and feel immersed in our own unique culture, both Japanese . begin to forecast the kinds of changes that will require ordering our .4671, www.jacl.org and American. Little Tokyo is a place where aU Japanese Americans input within'the JACL. JACL President: Larry Oda have a connection to their past, a place that unites us all_ Nat'l Director: Floyd Mori But much to my Little Tokyo is slowly shrinking. When I Pacific Citizen Board of Directors: dismay, TAKASUMI KOJIMA Gil Asakawa, chairperson; Margie read that the Little Tokyo Mall was bought, I almost cried. Too many Berkeley, Calif. Yamamoto, EDC; Lisa Hanasono, Japanese Americans are taking Little Tokyo for granted, thinking it MDC; Kathy Ishimoto, CCDC; Judith will be the same year after year. It won't. Aono, NCWNPDC; Justine Kondo, Little Tokyo is a place . ~t needs to be visited to be kept alive_ So Thanks to Our Famous Cartoonist Pete Hironaka PNWDC; Jeff Itami, IDC; Ted Namba, PSWDC; Naomi Oren, Youth. go to Little Tokyo once in a while, see the sights, keep it from being r------, converted to condos or office buildings and keep it safe for our future. NEWS/AD DEADLINE: FRIDAY BEFORE DATE OF ISSUE. ALEX HARBOTTLE Editorials, news and the opinions Arizona Chapter expressed by columnists other than the national JACL president or national Hironaka's director do not necessarily reflect JACL Why is Watada Still Being Punished? policy_ Events and products advertised cartoon ran in in the Pacific Citizen do not carry the Regarding "1st Lt. Watada's Future Still a Mystery" (Pacific the June 6*19 implicit endorsement of the JACL or this publication. We reserve the right to Citizen. June 6--19), I am deeply disappointed .that the U.S. Anny has issue of the edit articles_ chosen such a dishonorable course of action as to punish Lt. Ehren Pacific Citizen. ·1L ______~ Watada by withholding from him his freedom. even after District PACIFIC CITIZEN (ISSN: 0030-85791 is Court Judge Settle ruled in his favor. . ' Yes! Believe it or not, our 1000 Club is 60 years young_ At the . published semi-monthly except once in Despite the fact that more and more evidence is coming out vindi• national convention in Salt Lake City in 1948, the staunch JACLers December and January by the Japanese cating Lt. Watada's d~laratioDS that the people of the United States American Citizens League, 250 E First went on the record that if they could get 1,000 members at $25, they Street, Ste. 301, Los Angeles, CA 90012 Were deliberately given misinfonnation in order to justify our invasion would have enough money to cover our national budget, which was OFFICE HOURS - Mon.-Fri., 9 a.m.-5 of Iraq (as detailed in fonner White House press secretary Scott $250,000. This group will be called the 1000 Club and they will host p.m. Pacific Time. ©2008. McClellan's recent book) the military continues to pursue harassing the fun part of the ·convention. Annual subscription rates: NON- this young officer who would have, at any other time, been what our Of course because of inflation it has gone up in dues to keep up with MEMBERS: 1 year-$40, payable in Armed Forces really needs ~ a person that thinks before acti.ng. the times. See you in Salt Lake City! advance. Additional foreign postage per instead of just following the party line. year (1st class) - Canada and Mexico $55, Japan and overseas $60 (Subject DR. FRANK SAKAMOTO to change without notice.) Postage paid DONINO Chair, National 1000 Club at Los Angeles, Calif. San Francisco Co-Chair, Millennium Club Pennission: No part of this publication may be reproduced without express per- SPRING CAMPAIGN mission of the publisher. Copying for otper than personal or internal reference P.C.: A Gateway ·to News on Engaged APA Youth use without the express permission of P.e. is prohibited. By NAOMI OREN other minority groups. for coverage of current APA news. Whether POSTMASTER: Send address changes The APA population is said to be one of the I'm in the East Bay going to school, in Los to: Pacific Citizen, do JACL National 1\vo years ago, I joined the Pacific Citizen fastest growing minority groups in the US., Angeles visiting family or hanging out at my . Headquarters, 1765 Sutter St., San editorial board as a way of continuing to be a yet, it seems that major news outlets have con• grandmother's in Japan, I can get the latest · Francisco, CA 94115. part of JACL. I have sistently forgotten to include us in their reports. infonnation on what is going on in JACL while always been a fan of the In an age where the way we consume news being infonned on news in my community. JACL MEMBERS P. C because it provides is no longer limited by newspapers and nightly As a young reader, I look forward to reading news and infonnation television news programs, the P. C is a refresh• articles on how young APAs from JACL and Change of Address from the perspective of ing ,way of getting an APA twist on current other organizations are getting involved and If you have moved, please Asian Pacific Americans issues. striving to make change in their community. send information to: that is largely ignored by The P. C has expanded its readership base From coverage of the Count Me In! Campaign mass media markets. from the newspaper fonnat to its outstanding all across the University of California campus• National JACL Issues regarding immi• Web site. With constant updates of news sto• es to articles about the fight to save Little 1765 Sutter St. gration rights are generally broadcast in com• ries fresh off the printing press, access to story• Tokyo from being bought out by major invest• San Francisco, CA mercial news outlets as a ''Latino issue" and related videos and links, and an archive of past ment companies, I know I can rely on the P. C 94115 ,. are not represented as an issue'that also deeply stories, the hard-working P.C staff has bril• for the scoop on the latest APAyouth activism. affects the APA community. News about the liantly brought close to 300,000 hits to its Web It's inspiring to see the people that I met at Allow 6 weeks for address changes, struggle to keep or even implement Ethnic site. past youth conferences and read about how we To avoid intenuptions in receiving Studies programs at institutions of higher edu• That means people from across the country, have all grown from being completely your P.C, please notify your pa;Imas- cation is often neglected. Discussion about if not around the world, are reading and look• unaware of the JACL to becoming strong• ter to include periodicals in your race in the presidential campaign has been lim• ing up infonnation about APA news - and are minded advocates for change. chcmge of address (USPS Form 3575) ited to either the African American communi• constantly coming back for more! ty or the Latino community but rarely includes Personally, the Web site is a wonderful asset See OREN/page 5 PACIFIC 51 CmZEN NATIONAL JUNE 20-JULY 3, 2008 3 , Report: Model Minority Myth Hides Racial Balance is Long Gone in Seattle Schools By P.C. Staff and i\ss()ciated Press plans to ovemaul how APA Academic Trouble Spots it assigns students to By P. C. Staff and Associated Press Nearly three decades after Seattle schools. Do they public schools integrated through assign more students A new education report has confIrmed what busing, racial balance is now long to schools close to Asian PacifIc American community members gone. their homes? Do they have talked about all along - APA students' rep- Seattle schools don't look exactly try to ensure racial utation for academic success has created a false like they did before district-wide diversity? sense that all their education needs are being busing began in 1978. 13ut the city's The board is more met. public schools, like many districts limited than ever in The report, titled "Facts, Not Fiction: Setting across the nation, have slowly reseg• what it can do, espe• the Record Straight," reveals that APAs have regated. cially after the U.S. earned above average incomes and achieved David Fukuhara, who went to Supreme Court ruled high average levels of education, said Rep. Franklin High- when it was equal that Seattle and David Wu at a news conference to release the parts white, black and Asian, says Jefferson County pub• Time circa 1987. report. But they are clustered both at the high and he's watched the diversity of Seattle lic schools in Kentucky could no schools' genenil counsel, said busing low ends of the scale. schools decline as his children have longer use a student's race in decid• "crippled us and diverted us froni ''The conversation in our society has had this high-income, high-education grown, and he thinks they're missing ing where some students attend pursuing quality education." group completely overshadow this other group of folks," Wu said. "It has something because of it. school. "Was it the right answer?" he been an education process to convince folks that we are not an ethnic group, The segrega!ion is often the In the past, Seattle had housing asked. "Yes, in 1972." But in 2008, every one of which has just graduated from Harvard." byproduct of who lives where. North covenants and other discriminatory he said, "It's clear under the law that Compared to other minority groups, APAs have been extremely success- Seattle is mostly populated by practices that limited minority fami• mandatory assignments based on ful by many academic measures. Excluding PacifIc Islanders, over 44 per- Caucasians while the south end is lies to certain neighborhoods, so the race are not appropriate." cent of APAs have earned a bachelor's degree - this is 20 percentage points home to many ethnic minorities. In district's busing plan was adopted in As the district ended busing in higher than the national average. the north, there is just one elemen- 1977 to help change the schools' 1997, the racial balance at rpany In the prestigious University of Califomia system, the number of APAs " tary school where three-quarters of racial imbalance. schools continued to unravel. enrolling each fall has shot up 59 percent in the decade since a ballot initia- students qualify for free or low-cost "When I fIrst moved to Seattle, The challenge now is to foster tive ended racial preferences in admissions. lunches. In the soqth, there are 14. children were bused from the south diversity without mandating it, said But the study notes often overlooked disparities in achievement among the "It's true that families move where end to north end schools, but there Ikeda. Some districts now are look• 48 Asian and PacifIc Islander groups that fall into the category under the cen- they can and where they feel com• was not much reverse busing," said ing at basing some school assign• sus. fortable, but in Seattle that has made Akagi. ments on family income. Just 7.5 percent of Hmong immigrants, 9.2 percent of Cambodians and 7.7 for inequitable schools," said Elaine Mandatory busing did not create Today, Asian PacifIc American percent of Laotians had earned a bachelor's degree in 2000. Akagi, JACL PNW district governor. much diversity - white enrollment students make up 22 percent of the ''The myth of student achievement throughout our communities has and a Seattle schools teacher of the dropped by 28 percent in the fIrst mix in Seattle. masked particular linguistic and cultural needs of our young people for far visually impaired. three years of busing, with many stu• Many stress the social benefIts of too long," said Rep. Mike Honda. Because of insufficient state fund- dents moving to the suburbs or pri• diverse schools. Robert Teranishi of NYU acknowledged that the end of affirmative action ing, many schools rely on parent vate schools, according to a district ''I personally think that students signifIcantly boosted the number of APAs at schools like the University of associations to provide some of the history of its desegregation efforts. who grow up and spend their entire California. But he says it's not clear that the narrow admissions criteria that 'extra' things -like extracurricular More minority than white students school life in a one culture situation replaced the old system have benefIted APAs overall. activities, said Akagi. ended up riding buses, despite care• lack the opportunity to learn from "Just as some Asians have probably benefited from the narrow definitions ''The schools in the areas where ful planning to avoid that. And too their peers. Their views and experi• of merit that have been applied in the UC system, I think there are also a lot immigrant and other people of color many schools, integrated on paper, ences are limited," said Akagi . • of Asians that probably are disadvantaged because of that," Teranishi said. • reside don't have those luxuries," . were still segregated in the lunch• she added. rooms and classrooms. On the Web: Download the report: www,nyu,eduiprojects/care/reports-IJubs.html The school board is weighing Gary Ikeda, Seattle public www.seattleschools.org Minidoka Group' Pushes for Statewide Internment Education By JESSIE BONNER month with a group of Centennial Idaho Department of Education has 'Associated Press Writer High School students on a fIeldtrip, agreed to consider and former the culmination of several weeks the detainees support, could be compli• The farmland faces a skinny students spent studying the WWII cated because the development of stretch of Hunt Road, rural fields that interment camps such as Minidoka. the monument is still in early stages. 'barely resemble the sagebrush-rid• Coiner is among those supporting Plans for a visitor . center at den piece of desert where Charles early efforts by the Friends of Minidoka are targeted for 2010, said Coiner learned to drive as a teenager Minidoka nonprofit group to bring a National Park Service education in southern Idaho. comprehensive history of the WWII specialist Annette Rousseau. The state senator, a Republican internment camp hIto Idaho public ''That's one of the difficulties of from Twin Falls, grew up about 15 schools. going out there," Rousseau said. miles away from the site where As of now, students are being ''There's not a lot to see." Thorson has plans to hammer out Saito said. Japanese ,Americans were detained taught little, if anything, about the Densho, a Seattle-based nonprofIt the details of a statewide curriculum "It's part of our history," said behind fIve miles of barbwire during history of the site and what took founded to preserve the history of with the Idaho Department of Saito, "what one group of people in World War II, living in tarpaper-cov• place there, said Friends of the camps, was awarded a state grant Education, such as how much imple• our country had to go through." ered barracks at the Minidoka Minidoka board member Steve last year to build the Washington mentation would cost and how it Nick Wassner, a 14-year-old from Relocation Center compound. Thorson. state curriculum. would fIt in with current statewide Boise, was among the Centennial "Even driving by here as a kid," ''There isn't a broad understand• The teaching materials include standards for history education. High School students who visited Coiner said, "nobody talked about ing of what happened," Thorson videos and oral,history lessons and ''We're willing to talk about it," the Minidoka site in May. He stood it." said. are designed for elementary, middle, said department spokeswoman on the concrete base of a former Minidoka has been in the news The program Centennial High and high school students. The mate• Melissa McGrath. warehouse and said he didn't know ever since Jerome County commis• School teacher Gena Marker rials meet statewide curriculum stan• While the initiative is still taking anything about the site before his sioners in October rejected an appli• designed prompted the Friends of dards and are now available to shape, the initial steps to ensure stu• class began its project. cation for a 13,OOO-anirnal feedlot Minidoka to pitch a statewide ver• Washington state teachers for use in dents know what happened to JAs "Romeo and Juliet, yeah, that stuff from Big Sky Farms Limited sion. Thorson said his proposal the classroom, said Patricia Kjyono, during WWII are necessary, said you have to learn," he said. "But this Partnership, planned for a location could be modeled after a similar cur• a Densho spokesperson. Oregon resident Joe Saito, 90, a stuff hits home a lot better." . ' just more than one mile from the his• ticulum adopted in Washington The group is now creating 442nd veteran. toric site. Big Sky Farms' appeal is state. Minidoka educationhl materials for Teaching younger generations On the Web now being considered in court. But the initiative to build a the National Park Service, Kiyono about what happened is the only way www.minidoka.org, But Coiner revisited the site last statewide curriculum, a proposal the said. to ensure it never happens again, www.densho.org 4 JUNE 20-JULY 3, 2008 NATIONAL PACIFIC is CrnzEN Education Officials Investigate Possible APA Bias at Princeton Critics say Princeton isn't department NationalNewsbytes the only elite university spokesman." By P.e. Staff and Associated Press accused of making it harder Department for APA students to gain officials, accord• Victims of World War II Share Stories of Camps admission. ing to Bradshaw, SAN JOSE, -Calif. -Former ,.------::; are specifically ' JA internees and survivors of the looking at admis• Holocaust recently swapped sto• By P.C. Staff and Associated Press sions data for the ries of loss and hope at the sec• The U.S. Education Department class of 2010, ond "Gathering of Friends" has broadened a review into whether which Li applied event. Princeton University discriminates to join. Event organizers emphasized against Asian Pacific American "I filed the that the Holocaust and the'intern• applicants. complaint not for ment cannot be compared, but The university said that it's pro• my own sake, but Nassau Hall is at the heart of the Princeton similar themes of egregious , viding admissions information to the rather to hold University campus. injustice are woven into these two historic events. The event's purpose Education Department as part of an Princeton was to share not compare, event organizer Harvey Gotliffe said to the investigation into whether it com• accountable for racially discrimina- Princeton isn't the only elite uni• San Jose Mercury News. plies with civil rights law. tory standards," Li, who now goes to versity in the country to face com• The fIrst gathering was held three years ago at the San Jose Japanese , The case stems from a federal Harvard, said to the Daily plaints that it makes it harder for American Museum. Princeton ian. ''Therefore, I had APAapplicants to gain admission. In civil rights complaint filed in 2006 Honolulu Councilman Unde,r Fire for Slur by Jian Li, a Princeton applicant who hoped from the starl that the scope of his book 'The Price of Admission," HONOLULU-City Councilman Rod Tam has refused to meet with was rejected from the elite institution the complaint would be much wider Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter members of the Hispanic community to discuss his use of an ethnic slur even though he had perfect SAT than my individual case." Daniel Golden described the prob- during a Zoning Committee meeting last month, Hispanic leaders said. scorxs, was in the top one-percent of After Li filed the complaint, a lem as widespread at top schools, Princetonian joke issue last year fea- and compared it to the way the Ivy Tam, who has repeatedly apologized for using the term "wetbacks" his high school class and had earned tured a parody of Li using a mock " when referring to undocumented workers from Mexico, said he wants to other honors. League schools once handled Jewish Asian dialect. It infuriated many move on. Li claimed that Princeton has set a applicants decades ago. APA leaders and prompted debates Tam was censured by the council June 4, and publicly apologized. cap on its admission of highly quali• over the status of APAs at elite col- Princeton says that the year Li But Hispanic groups are working to have Tam removed from his high• fied APA students while taking in leges. applied, 14 percent of the admitted powered post as committee chair, or booted from the council complete• less qualified applicants from other Affrrrnative action critics have class was APA. The university ly. racial groups. highlighted the case to argue that insists no discrimination is taking Earlier this year, the Education highly competitive colleges' com- place. Sikhs Want City's Bias Crimes Tracked Department decided not just to look mitment to diversity results in ''We consider each applicant as an NEW YORK-The city's Sikh community wants the Department of at Li's complaint, but to conduct a tougher standards for APA students. individual, taking many factors into Education to track bias incidents after one Richmond Hill High School general review of whether Princeton College officials note that Princeton account as we seek to emoll a class student punched Jagmohan Singh Premi in the face and tried to remove is complying with federal civil rights each year rejects thousands of well- that is both excellent and diverse," his turban. regulations with regard to APA qualified applicants of every racial said university spokeswoman Cass Police are investigating the incident as a hate crime. In May, a Sikh and ethnic group. Cliatt. • applicants, said Jim Bradshaw, a student at another Queens school had his turban removed and his w.aist• length hair cut off. HA'BEAS CORPUS Roughly 270 men remain at the The court has ruled twice previ• Activists say that half the Sikh students at Richmond have been island prison, classified as enemy ously that people held at (Continued from page 1) , harassed. School officials have promised a full investigation, combatants and held on suspicion of Guantanamo without charges can go habeas corpus rights to the World terrorism or links to al-Qaida and the into civilian courts to ask that the JA Church Turns 100 War II internment of Japanese Taliban. govemmentjustify' their continued SEATTLE-Saint Americans. The JACL has continually detention. Each time, the adminis• Peter's Episcopal "TIns right was at the core of the opposed legislative and administra• tration and Congress changed the Church is celebrat• World War n 'incarceration of tive attempts to curtail or weaken the law to try to close the courthouse ing its centennial this 120,000 Japanese Americans, who right of habeas corpus, doors to the detainees, year, The lA church, were stripped of their due process ''The laws and Constitution are The court specifically struck located near the rights and detained for years in designed to survive, and remain in down a provision of the Military city's International America's concentration camps," force, in extraordinary times," wtote Commissions Act of 2006 that District, has been a said Floyd Mori, JACL national Justice Anthony Kennedy oil behalf denies Guantanamo detainees the religious mainstay. director. of the court. right to file petition of habeas cor• for the community o.J....i...... ,L~~_--.....:=:=.i:::r..._ ....._-1Q since the late 19th The administration opened the Kennedy said federal judges could pus. ,detention facility at Guantanamo ultimately order some detainees to The head of the New York-based century when Japanese pioneers came to Washington to work a~ labor• Bay shortly after the Sept. 11,2001, be released, but that such orders Center for Constitutional Rights, ers. terrorist attacks to hold enemy com• would depend on security concerns which represents dozens of prison• During the WWII internment of its congregation, the church was batants, people suspected of ties to and other circumstances. ers at GUahtanamo, also welcomed maintained until the post-war years when St Peter's continued to thrive. a1-Qaida or the Taliban. Since then, it The ruling could ,resurrect many the ruling. The church will be celebrating its humble beginnings during a June 28 has been harshly criticized at home detainee lawsuits that federal judges ''The Supreme C:ourt has finally celebration and banquet to acknowledge key' events and people who and abroad for the detentions them• put on hold pending the outcome of brought an end to one of our have been part of their history. selves and reports of aggressive the high court case. nation's most egregious injustices," interrogations. In dissent, Chief Justice John New Fu Manchu Restaurant is Criticized as said CCR Executive Director Racist Habeas corpus is a centuries-old Roberts criticized his colleagues for Vrncent Warren. "By granting the MAPLEWOOD, Mo.-A new self• legal principle, enshrined in the striking down what he called "the writ of habeas corpus, the Supreme proclaimed pan Asian restaurant called Constitution, that allows courts to most generous set of procedural pro• Court recognizes a rule of law estab• Fu Manchu has drawn criticism for its determine whether a prisoner is tections ever afforded aliens lished hundreds of years ago and being held illegally, detained by this country as enemy use of the stereotypical Hollywood essential to American jurisprudence The administration had long combatants." character's name and image to hawk since our nation's founding." argued that the detainees have no Justices Samuel Alito, Antonin "tapas-type dishes along with sushi." In addition to those held without rights and that the system and review Scalia and Clarence Thomas also The restaurant, located at 7336 charges, the U.S, has said it plans to process put into place to classify a dissented. Justices Stephen Breyer, Manchester Road, is ' adorned with try as many as 80 of the detainees in detainee as an enemy combatant are Ruth Bader Ginsburg, David Souter images of the evil Fu Manchu character war crimes tribunals, which have sufficient substitutes for civilian and John Paul Stevens joined that was historically played by white not been held since WWII. • court hearings. Kennedy to form the majority. actors in yellowface . • PACIFIC =CmZEN NATIONAL JUNE 20-JULY 3, 2008 5 Support the National JACL APAs Scholarship Program N in the JACL is currently conducting a volunteer committees, the JACL has . ews fundraising campaign for its national been able to run the scholarship pro• scholarship program. gram with very little administrative By Pacific Citizen Staff consumer safety. Many past recipients of national costs. However, the costs of attend• 'The priorities of the people of my district and the JACL scholarships have made ing a university have continued to Yamada Wins Democratic challenges they face will be addressed in the committee, recent donations to the program. rise. Nomination for Calif. Assembly and I look forward to bringing a strong voice for them, One past recipient expressed appre• The JACL is incorporated in the Marilm Yamada has beat out the Northern California, and all of the diverse communities ciation to the JACL for its assis• state of California as a not-for-profit mayor of West Sacramento to cap• across the country," said Matsui. tance in her pursuit of her goals, charitable corporation. Any donation ture the Democratic nomination for and she generously donated to help should be tax deductible under appli• California State Assembly in District Hayashi Commissioned future scholars in meeting their edu• cable statutes. The JACL's federal 8. as Navy Officer cational goals. tax identification number is 94- With a win in the November gen• u.s. Navy Ensign John T. Thanks to the generosity of past 1245885 .• eral elections, Yamada would be the Hayashi, has graduated with distinc• recipients, the JACL has recently third consecutive Davis woman to tion from the U.S. Naval Academy Donate received more than $10,000 in dona• hold the Assembly seat. . and was commissioned a U.S. Navy tions to the scholarship fund. Checks should be made out to Yamada has been a Yolo County Supervisor since officer. However, donations should not be 'JACL.: with a notation of 'scholar• October 2003 when she was appointed as the 4th District Hayashi completed four years of ship fund' on the memo line. limited to past recipients. All Yolo County Supervisor by Gov. Gray Davis. intensive academic, physical and pro• JACLers are urged to support this All donations can be sent to: fessional training to receive his bache• vital program. The JACL Scholarship Program, Matsumoto May Become First APA lor's degree in mechanical engineering. Since 1946, the JACLhas assisted c/oJACL Judge in Eastern New York He has been assigned to Naval Post Graduate School many young scholars through its 1765 Sutter Street, in Monterey, Calif. before heading to South Carolina to Kiyo Matsumoto, a U.S. magistrate judge for the scholarship program. To date, over San Francisco, CA 94115 begin nuclear power school in preparation for serving in Eastern District of New York, is moving closer to getting a thousand scholarships have been the submarine force. For more information, contact a Senate confirmation to become a lifetime U.S. district awarded and more than a half mil• Hayashi is the son of David and Ann Hayashi, a for• David Kawamoto, national JACL judge in Brooklyn. lion dollars in awards have been scholarship committee chair at mer tennis player who won 14 national junior titles and If confirmed, Matsumoto will become the first APA in made. 619/287-7583 or a junior Wnnbledon singles title. an area that includes Long Island and the second APA Thanks to the hard work of its [email protected]. federal judge in New York after U.S. District Court Takei Plans to Wed His Judge Denny Chiri. . published because we didn't have Partner in September OREN Matsumoto spent 11 years as a federal prosecutor in the funds. Less papers means less George Takei, 71, (Continued from page 2) Brooklyn, where she helped investigate the Lucchese visibility, which negatively affects has announced plans and Gambino organized crime farnilies. 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In ner," said Noguchi, who occupied crazy to work in the coroner's office, 1969, charges of nllsconduct ranging Noguchi is work• the post of chief medical examiner of said Noguchi. The 60s ushered in a from threatening anotheF employee ing on his new the Los Angeles County Coroner's turbulent time of civil unrest - the with a knife to enjoying publicity too autobiography. His Watts Riot., increased recreational much were levied against Noguchi. Office from 1967 to 1982. last one, 'Coroner,' drug use and murders. Needless to · But neither the couple nor the JA A~ chief, he was the first Japanese was a bestseller. American to occupy such a high pro• say the doctor was very busy. community took the accusations sit• file position. But by all accounts, When his ·boss retired in 1967, ting down. They won a spectacular being chief coroner isn't a job that Noguchi became an obvious choice , battle in 1969 reinstating Noguchi's have the same support from JA lead- him," said Sathyavagiswaran. "He reaps much glory. That is unless for a successor, but there were prob• good name. ers, many who felt slighted that the put the L.A. County Coroner on the ''I said we can't let it go. We have you're Noguchi and your notable lems from the beginning with the doctor didn't give back to the com- map." to fight it.," said · Hisako. ''With the cases include a U.S. president in the county Board of Supervisors, the munity after his first decisive victory. But for a few years, he said he was group in charge of hiring the new evacuation and all the prejudice making. So Noguchi permanently lost his not allowed to set foot in the coro• There was a time when he couldn't chief coroner. agains us, I figured we had to stand chief badge in 1982 and moved to ner's office. 'That's okay, I under• walk down a street without someone '''They didn't want a Japanese up some place." County-USC Medical Center. stand," he whispered. Looking back, stopping him to shake his hand. It American," said his wife Hisako '''The charges were truly nonsense, He says he doesn't have many . Noguchi says he only remembers the was a title that the doctor used as a Noguchi, a Nisei who was interned but we battled it out.," said Noguchi's regrets. Today, he's actively retired good times. during World War IT at Amache. longtime attorney and friend Godfrey badge to fight like a scrappy Don and working on a new autobiography ''If someone asked would you do '''They told him he was a good second Isaac. '''There were a lot of racial Quixote for truth and honor - some• because he still has stories to tell. everything the same knowing what man." overtones ... it wasn't too long after times his own in the face of contro• Things have come full circle - happened to you? - of course! It's a versy. The board eventually gave in and WWlI after all." . Noguchi still actively chairs comntit- matter of dignity," he said. Now retired at 81, Noguchi still at 40, Noguchi became the first JA But in 1982, a newspaper detailed tees, teaches and meets weekly with And looking forward, the former appointed to the post. He was given a evidence of nllsmanagement at the seems to carry with him the same the current chief medical examiner "coroner to the stars" still has ·ambi• six-month probation period, after , coroner's office and pointed the fin• ideals of his youth. He likens himself and former student., Dr. Lakshmanan tious goals. to a samurai who perfects the art of which he still believes he would've ger at Noguchi, who blamed it on Sathyavagiswaran. "I have every desire to live and been fired had it not been for a turn- lack of funding. This time he didn't tolerance, but knows when to strike ''I came to the office because of work until 100." • ing point in American history. back. June 4, 1968, something big •So many years after he turned in "On his chief badge, Noguchi sits in a happened," he said. disheveled office in the back of his Los Angeles home and reflects on the 'Meeting' RFK luxuries his career has afforded him. Forty years after Robert F. "I never have to watch scary Kennedy was gunned down in L.A.'s movies," he cackles while printing Ambassador Hotel, the man who met :'<' out his resume. him after death still sounds wistful about what could have been. The Road to the Top ''If Bobby were not assassinated, ''I can't think of any other Asian he would've been president.," said American in a position of that stature Noguchi. before Dr. Noguchi," said John Saito, Five years earlier, John F. a former JACL PSW regional direc• Kennedy's lifeless body was taken to tor. ''He did break ground." Washington, D.C. without a post• But the road to the top was twisted mortem exam, fueling everlasting banking'on a for the Kyushu-bom Noguchi. It was speculation about the president's should be from his father Dr. Wataru Noguchi cause of death. Noguchi did not want that he learned his first lesson about to make the same nllstake. much mo're personal level. The New York senator survived the vulnerabilities of being a doctor. Y¢1.J sh¢uld have y¢ur own personal banker who's dedicated to your Young Noguchi, who often visited for about 25 hours with the head ~ound , said Noguchi, who met with financial success. You should have a skilled professional who will help make his father at the office, once walked your day~to-day banking effortless. You should have a financial ally who can in on Wataru unsuccessfully giving a the Kennedys and members of the leverage Union Bank's· global resources on your behalf. You deserve the patient CPR. At 13, he got his first district attorney's office at the Good . e> ofUie Priority Banking program are subjec.. t Y~u You can sleep ... 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I PETER SHIGEKI FRANDSEN] [ HARRY HONDA ]

THE SHIGEKI SHAKE DOWN VERY TRULY YOURS

What Does America Idolize? The Loving Case, Bill Marutani and Hapa Identity

Recently, Fox wrapped its seventh season of "American Idol." Seven HAPA IDENTITY, one of the issues to be ex;plored tiage was illegal- a strange marriage, driving 80 seasons - does this seem outrageou.s to anybody else? It begs the question: at the National Japanese American Museum's national miles to Washington, D.C., to be married almost secret• VVhat does America idolize? conference over the July 4th weekend in Denver, ly by a pastor who wasn't theirs, just picked out of the Let me begin with this disclaimer: I've never really watched an entire indeed focuses on changes stirring in the Nikkei world. telephone book, and driving back again. But they had• episode of ''Idol,'' so I could be just one of those outside cynics too prideful Census 2000, the first to permit two or more n't talked about legalities. She felt lucky to have him. to embrace this wild, overly popular game show. racial/ethnic categories, revealed 2.1 million Asians of "She told the sheriff, 'I'm his wife' ... ·pointing to a Even though I did not follow the latest season of "Idol," being a Utah mixed heritage - 352,232 being of Japanese ancestry framed marriage certificate above the bed. 'That's no native and fellow Mormon I could not avoid hearing the inn~erable exag• or Hapa. Most of them live in California and Hawaii. good here,' Sheriff Garnett Brooks said." gerations about the wonderment that is David Archuleta, the recently And the U.S. Supreme Court decision invalidating She had said the wrong thing. Had they just been declared runner~up. I admit I see his charm and understand why America Vrrgirua's anti-miscegenation law in Loving v. Virginia going together, no one would have cared much. But the loved him enough to vote for him. case [388 U.S. 1] comes to mind. VIrginia was one of certificate meant that under Virginia law they were pea~ In fact, Fox proudly declared that there were over 97 million votes in the 16 southern states that had laws that prohibited and cohabiting "against the and dignity of the season finale. Let's put that into presidential voting perspective. Barack punished racial intermarriages. Commonwealth"- a felony for blacks and whites to Obama recently proudly announced that he reached just over 1.5 million And the 1967 Pacific Citizen Holiday Issue explains do so. The Lovings got up to go to jrul. donors since his campaign began, which is an obscene number for a presi• JACL's position supporting the plaintiffs (the Lovings) Faced with a year in jail or exile, they chose to live in dential primary. Or on the night of the last Democratic primaries, Hillary that was written by Chicago JACLer Harold Gordon. Washington, D.C., for 25 years, though she hated it. Clinton boasted about her roughly 18 million voters during her un-conces• Last month, Mrs. Mildred Loving, 68, passed away. Mrs. Loving returned for good when the Civil Rights sion speech. Several obituaries mentioned the counsels for the prin• Act was being debated in 1963 and she wrote to Pick your favorite ratio 97 to 1.5 or 97 to 18; either is disturbing. cipals but not Bill Marutani of Philadelphia, represent• Attorney General Robert Kennedy asking whether the I know this comparison is a little apple-orangey (votes vs. donors), but ing the JACL, who was invited to address as a "friend prospective law would make it easier for her to go the difference is staggering. And yes, I know "Idol" does not have any of the court, " arguing against the law. The court ruled home. He told her it wouldn't but that she should ask restrictions on the number of times a voter - ofhny age - can vote. But, unanimously (9-0) that states cannot outlaw marriages the A,CLU to take on the case. 97 million in one night compared to a combined 36 million from over 16 between whites and nonwhites, noted here in italics·as Within two years, the two ACLU lawyers in New months of campaigning? That is a serious social commentary. one of the JACL highlights in Bill Hosokawa's ''Nisei, York working pro bono obtained a unanimous ruling Is voting for "Idol" on a comparable voting-value scale as voting in a the Quiet American," 1982 revised edition. from Earl Warren's court in 1967 that "under our political election? And which voting voice is more democratic? • Constitution, the freedom to marry, or not to marry, a I cannot help but think of our democratic predecessors, the patriots: * * * person of another race resides with the individual and Adams, Jefferson, Hamilton, and Franklin. How The Lovings knew each other since they were young, cannot be infringed by the State." The Lovings were would· these great min4s of the enlightenment view Richard, 17, and Mildred, 11. Referring to the obitu¥}' free to live together in their new cinder block house published in The Economist (May 19), "she passed as Richard,had built himself. . '/5 voting for the voting phenomenon we know as "American Idol"? Would they consider this text messaging, her father was Cherokee and her mother Rappahannock "ldoJ"on a obsessive fan culture as the true offspring of their rev• as well as black. Her hair could easily set straight or * * * comparable olutionary designs? wavy. If Mrs. Loving considered herself, it was The day the court issued its ruling on June 12, 1967, voting-value There are many more things at play in this simple [American] Indian like Princess Pocahontas and was proclaimed "Loving Day" by interracial couples. Pocahontas married a white man." The P. C. added the Warren court was impressed by scale as and strained comparison, but the situation demands ' us to confront certain realities: which contest more Richard was a gangly white lad who took her out for JACL's amicus curiae and Bill Marutani's plea before voting in a acutely epitomizes democracy? years in Northern Virginia, used different counters from the court. Marutani [1923-2004] was then national political Even though I often vocally decry "Idol" and most the whites when they ate lunch in Bowling Green in the JACLlegal counsel, 1962-1970. election?' other reality TV shows, I can't help but wonder if middle of the Caroline County of scattered farm houses For the record: The 1967 Holiday Issue features a there is something inherently American about it drying tobacco leaves. review of the case written by Gordon, a Chicago (please try to forget that we stole the show's premise VVhen the Caroline County sheriff, his deputy and attorney and the frrst non-Nikkei (he was Jewish) from the British). Think about the essence of the show - families and jailer broke into their bedroom in Central Point, Va., elected to the National JACL Board as 1000 Club friends banding together to fight the good fight and cheer on their standard• that warm July night in 1958, Richard and Mildred . chair (1952-54). He often sang Shina no Yoru at bearer. It's intrinsically American and democratic. I were asleep. The sheriff asked her husband: ''What are 1000 Club wing dings, a tune he learned in occupied It's clear that from our nation's founding, Americans have thrived in you doing in bed with this lady?" He didn't answer. Japan. Every time I hear that song, Harold comes to environments where opinions are debated, common aims decided and ' I "She thought he might have known that their mar- mind.• actions deployed. This is the definition of democracy, a system where opin• ions are translated into action both great and small from the Boston Tea Jf~ Party to text message voting during prime time television. Hey- JUNe! A SPECIAL 60NANZA As an organization, we the people of the JACL are vulnerable to this FORTHE 8A/6HAKIlNIN.• , TIle democracy. From our own founding, we have been driven by the people, of the people, and most definitely for the people. We have both the responsi• MARRIAGE I14rCHI4AKER/ bility and privilege to define and decide what we are and what we will be as an organization. . , I recently finished reading "The World Is Flat" by Thomas Friedman who convincingly describes the flattening of the world as globalization plows forward. He speaks of flat platforms in businesses, communities, and nations. The JACL too can excel by hamessing the flat platform approach by enlisting and empowering the members to define who we are collective• ly. This is the truest sense of democracy. And we should embody it. It is in our purview to discuss how we will handle the next great epoch in our organization's history. As JACL membership declines and we look to save this great organization, we need to debate our opinions, find common aims and dem~d action that will allow our JACL to stay buoyant for those who will follow. We need to ask ourselves: what does JACL idolize? It may not be as easy as a text message, but it will be as simple.•

Peter Shigeki Frandsen is currently a student at Columbia University, College of Dental Medicine. He is also a Mt. Olympus JACLmember. .. PACIFIC iii CI11ZEN ENTERTAINMENT JUNE 20-JULY 3, 2008 9 Resurrecting Vincent Chin Filmmakers Curtis Chin and Tony Lam dissect the APA icon's legacy in their new documentary.

By LYNDA LIN ~tEditor

The question mark in the new documentary, "Vrncent Who?", screams for attention. It punctuates a horrifying idea about the Asian Pacific Ame~can community that is only now, 26 years after the murder of its namesake, being examined. Hopefully, it's not too late. Most of us know the true story about the June 19,1982, Detroit murder of a 27-year-old Chinese American man by two white former autoworkers who called him a "Jap," while they beat him with a baseball bat. Most of us can recognize the ubiquitous photo of the man with the fluffy hairdo smiling contently before he became known as a hate crime victim. series about Vrncent Chin. He asked Tony to put togeth• But is it really a stretch to say that many APAs today er a video highlighting the speakers, and the idea evolved don't know who Vrncent Chin was? into the documentary. Filmmakers Tony Lam and Curtis Chin decided to . It's been so long since the sensational trial and the test this premise at a reputable college campus with 1987 seminal documentary "Who Killed Vrncent Chin?" good APA student representation. They went· to the - why not revisit the case and examine its impact? CHIN University of Southem California and asked a random For Curtis, the Vmcent Chin story has a personal note sampling of APA students if they knew Vrncent Chin. - he was a f&mily friend. The day after the attack, some• The litany of "no's" is almost chilling. Out of about 70 one burst into Curtis' family restaurant to announce that respondents, only one could muster a vague recollec• Vrncent was in the hospital. For a while even after his tion of the name that she associated to some bar fight death no one really got angry, said Curtis. Everyone somewhere. assumed the justice system would take care of it. when he heard the name Vrncent Chin for the first time. Then they knew it was a much bigger·problem. But when it became apparent that justice was not He began reading about the case and brainstorming ideas 'The fact that one person had heard of Vrncent working - Vrncent's assailants Ronald Ebens and for. the documentary. Chin's name ... that says something about our commu- Michael Nitz were sentenced to three years probation Other communities have their icons. Names like LAM nity," said Curtis. "It means we don't know our own and each fined $3,000 plus $780 in fees - the commu• James Byrd and Matthew Shepherd roll easily off the history." - nity rallied and protested under a united banner. It's been tongue. called the nexus of the APA movement and the awaken• "What does the Asian American community have?" A Personal Project ing of political consciousness, so why has his.1egacy fall• asked Curtis. . The idea for "Vrncent Who?" started last year, on the 25th anniversary of en by the wayside? Vrncent Chin's murder. Curtis, a Detroit area native and board member of What if instead of USC, the filmmakers went to a pre• Why Do We Settle? Asian Pacific Americans for Progress, spearheaded a national town hall dominantly African American college and asked students You can call "Vrncent Who?" a revival. It doesn't if they knew Martin Luther King, Jr.? What if no one focus on the case so much as examines the enormous knew? It would be considered a national tragedy, said legacy it left behind. So far, the documentary is still a YAMATOTRAVELBUREAU® Tony. ' work in progress. Curtis and Tony are hoping for a fall "It's the founding story for our community," he added. premiere. But the rough version of the documentary pro• (CST No. 1019309-10) h;~i.-~to);'(" It,;<-fJc "APA identity is meaningless without a shared history." vided to the Pacific Citizen delivers a powerful message In a way, Tony could personally identify with some of about a painful reality. PROPOSED TOURS FOR 2008 • these USC students. He grew up in Miami, Florida In one scene, journalist Lisa Ling's eyes flash with Sept 11-21 Yamato Colors of Canada & New England, aboard Holland America's new ms Eurodam - 10 days sailing from Quebec to Saguenay, St. Lawrence River, ChariottetOWf1l?rince Edwaro where the only APAs he knew were his relatives. anger. Enough with trying to fit in and appease, get up Island, Sydney and HalifaxJNova Scotia, Bar Hartlo

.._-- ~ 10 JUNE 20-JULY 3,2008 NATIONAL - PACIFIC II CrnZEN 'JLAS the age of 13 he watched helplessly something wrong," fighting for justice. as his matemal grandparents were he said. 'They clas• ''I don't think it's right," (Continued from page 1) taken by U.S. Army transport to be sified us as illegal said Art. ''We had it rougher thing." used in a prisoner of war exchange alien'S when the .than JAs. When we came Unlike the JAs interned at various with Japan. U.S. government here we didn't speak the internment camps during the War, He knew the rest of his family was brought us here by language. When we came Art and qther JLAS were kidnapped soon to follow. gunpoint. Where is out of camp we had a hard from 13 South American countries "Because my grandparents were the illegality?" time because we didn't by the U.S. government to be used in taken I figured we would be taken Like Art, Hector speak English." PHOTO COURTESY OF SAN FRANCISCO HISTORY CENTER, SAN FRANCISCO PUBLIC LIBRARY prisoner exchanges with Japan. eventually. I didn't know what was Watanabe, 67, and Some JLAs returned to Many were held at the Crystal City, going to happen to us even after we his family had been Italian, German and Japanese residents of Latin America Japan but Art and his fanii• Texas Department of Justice camp. were taken to the U.S." living a prosperous leave a temporary camp in the Panama Ganal Zone to join ly chose to remain in the The July 31 House judiciary With his parents and six siblings, life in Peru when their male relatives in U.S. internmect camps on April 7, 1942. U.S. after the War. After the Committee hearing will look at a Art was forced to board a ship to the U.S. Army officials camps the Shibayarna fami• proposed bill to create a commission U.S. Women and children were arrived during wwn. of the historic legislation by ly headed to Seabrook, New Jersey to investigate the unlawful intern- housed in upstairs cabins and Hector's family had owned asuc• President Ronald Reagan, JAs and a few years later to Chicago. . ment of over 2,200 JLAs. Many had because he was tall for his age, he cessful department store called across the country rejoiced. But soon "My father finally gave up on been stripped of their citizenships joined the men below deck. "Kasa Watanabe" and his father had afterwards, due to a technicality, going back to Peru," said Art. and faced deportation to Japan after Their first stop was in New been the president of the Japanese some JAs and many JLAs discov• In Chicago he continued to fight the War. Those who remained in the Orleans. The women and children Peruvian Business Association. For ered they were not included in the for his legal status even amidst U.S. were labeled "enemy aliens." were marched into a warehouse and U.S. officials, this was enough of a bill. threats of deportation. Ironically, it "We are realizing now, in a post- ordered to stand in line while they reason to intern the family. "Families started getting denied was during this time that he received 9/11 context, that the JLA experi• were sprayed with what Art thinks "Of course this was a civil rights redress," said Grace, 54, whose his U.S. Army draft service notice. ence is part of the broader wwn was insecticide. He and his fellow violation. These were innocent peo• Japanese Peruvian father was held at "I was worried they may deport enemy alien program, and it calls on male prisoners soon followed. ple. Greed was a big factor, there's Crystal City during the War. me so I thought I better sign up." our community to come to under• In March 1944 the family arrived no question," said Hector, who was Grace had just started volunteer• Art would go on to' serve in the stand how we look at the JA intern• at the Crystal City DOJ camp where . taken to Crystal City when he was ing with the Japanese Peruvian Oral U.S. Army during the Korean War ment and internment of JLAs," said other J A families, Germans and three. History Project helping JLA families and a few years later his younger Grace Shimizu of Campaign for Italians were being held as prisoners. Like many of the JLA families, with their redress applications. But brothers followed his lead. Art final• Justice, a coalition group including This would be their home for the the Watanabe family business and soon the applications . were being ly gained permanent legal status in JACL that is fighting for JLA next three years. their bank accounts were seized by rejected. 1956. redress. Art - who is supporting the cur• the Peruvian government. They Since JLAs were stripped of their Like the Shibayama ·. brothers, "In understanding our legacy it's rent JLA legislation (S. 381 and HR were also no longer welcome in citizenships and were not given legal Hector and his siblings felt a calling important we realize that what hap• 662) along with his two younger Peru. status upon entering the U.S., they to serve in the U.S. military even pened to JAs was not limited to per• brothers Kenichi and Takeshi - "We were not guilty of any were considered to be "enemy after the mistreatment they h~d sons in the U.S. but it spanned two hopes the formation of a commis• crimes. We were hostages." aliens" at the time Cif their intern• experienced. continents. " sion will help lead to their long ment. For this reason they did not Although Hector and his family awaited apology and reparations. 1988 Ci . Liberties Act quality for redress under the 1988 were one of the few JLA families to From Peru to Crystal City ''I hope they keep investigating . When the decade long Redress Civil Liberties Act. . receive redress under the 1988 Civil Art was born in Lima, Peru and at what happened and realize they did Movement culminated in the signing And after 20 years, JLAs are still See JLASIpage 12 Join us for ian CO,nference, High lights . ;: ,~;:¥: , ~nforletta ·.h le Featured Speakers experience ••• • U.S. Sena~ " or Daniel K. Inouye v • George Tak~i Whose America? Who's American? • Dale Minami • John Tateishi Diversity, Civil Liberties, and Social Justice • Aiko Herz.ig~Yoshina9a July 3-6, 2008 .

Registration after June 5th is on-site only. Individual tickets still available for the Conference Luncheon and Dinner. PACIFIC S CrnzEN NATIONAL JUNE 20-JULY 3, 2008 11 AMACHE officials call a long-term archeology Up until now the Amache and heritage project at Amache. The Preservation Society, a group of (Continued from page 1) former internment camp located local high school students and their And the cast of characters is not near the town of Granada in south- teacher John Hopper have main• the usual slate of people commonly eastern Colorado has the greatest tained the site. But there is only so . associated with camp reunions and integrity as an archeological site much they can handle, said Clark, so pilgrimages. They are college stu• among the 10 main War Relocation the University of Denver came to the dents like Greg Zuckerman, 22, who Authority camps. . rescue. has no personal ties with the World Unlike other camps, Amache has "We didn't need to reinvent the War IT internment of Japanese never been redeveloped. Parts of the wheel here," she added. Americans, but looks forward to dig• site had been used for cattle ranching In 2003, the town of Granada was ging for forgotten treasure under a and as trash dumps, but it has large- awarded a State Historical Fund Amache internees made an arid hot summer sun. ly been inaccessible to the public grant to survey the site and create an waste land liveable. This summer, "It's a once in a lifetime experi• since wwn ended. historical site management plan. field school participants hope to ence to be a part of these people's '''The tangible evidence is really Back then, surveyors just looked for find some remnants of the past. li\res," said Zuckerman about the there," said Dr. Bonnie Clark, an all the surface artifacts and devel• June 16-July 11 University of assistant professor at the University oped a-detailed site map. unforgiving environment." Museum in the afternoons. Since it is Denver field school in historical of Denver who will be leading the This summer, it's time to dig . . a field school, students will also be archeology at Amache, also known summer field school. One of their goals is to find living Attracting the Youth graded. Clark is looking for reliabil• as the Granada Relocation Center. It's almost as if the Amache of evidence of plante

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WWW.UTJACl.ORG • LINK TO: 2008 CONVENTION 12 JUNE 20-JULY 3,2008 NATIONAL PACIFIC II CITlZEN JLAS passed as soon as possible," said ·AMACHE that goes along with the preservation of the camp Christine Oh, recently hired legislative itself, whether it be mowing the lawn or putting up (Continued from page 10) (Continued from page 11) campaign manager for Campaign for signs," added Otto, 26. "I think it is pretty amazmg to casual reference like a vacation spot, not a barbwire Liberties Act, he continues to support Justice. ''We're still holding hope the have aclass the students are able to take that is so rel• prison. Hamasaki was in her teens when she was incar• those JLAs still seeking reparations. bill can pass this session but if not ... evant to the history of both the area and the U.S. as a cerated. At 80, anger and bitterness still sometimes 'The U.S. needs to acknowledge we hope to introduce it again next whole." bubbles to the surface. this civil rights violation. Hopefully year." "I'm happy that there is that interest in the younger Because of Shew's family history, she is inextrica• they will realize and admit to that and With an election ye,ar and time people," said Gary Ono, 68, a former Amache bly linked to Topaz. And that connection has made her mend their ways," he said. running out in this legislative ses• internee. ''Especially since it's dying out with older sion, Christine knows that passage closer to Amache. people." ''When I first found out I was going to be working Mochizuki of the bill is going to be an uphill This summer, Ono is taking tris 16-year-old grand• F.rom to 2008 on !his project, I was trying to figure out how to sepa• In 1998 JLAs finally saw an battle. But the July hearing is also a son, Dante Hilton-Ono to Amache for the field school. rate the research from my own personal past. It felt acknowledgement of their suffering chance to garner some much needed There, the former professional photographer who weird that we were academically studying something with Mochizuki vs. USA, a class action publicity on the JLA issue. coined the "CSI: Amache" name, will help chronicle that I am," said the Yonsei graduate student. lawsuit that offered an official apology ''With the election I think it is going the events and maybe even dig a little. But then she realized that her family connection and $5,000 each in redress payments. to be difficult, but we are going to try "I just thought it would be great to get the family ~ould actually enhance the experie~ce. She plans to tap Although some JLAs did accept the to do everything we can," she said. connection," he said. "Maybe Dante will get interest• mto her family's memories to interpret her field study redress offered in the settlement, many ''We want to get as much support as ed." • findings. And Shew is not alone - she is among some JLAs, like Art and his brothers, reject• possible in the given time' so in the of the younger generations of future leaders hoping to For more information on the University ofDenver ed the lawsuit opting to pursue equi• next Congress we will have an easier connect with the past. field scho?l: www.portfolio.du.edulamache. table redress in the U.S. Congress. time." Archeological projects have taken place at the other "It was like a slap in the face," said Campaign for Justice is hoping to camps - including last month's dig for rock garden JA Alumni Reception & Exhibit Open House Art of the Mochizuki settlement. raise about $30,000 to help send for• remnants at ¥anzanar's Merritt Park - but Amache July 3, 7-9 pm ' In 2006 the Commission on mer JLA internees to the July hear• continues to excite young preservationists. University of Denver, Sturm Hall 102 Wartime Relocation and Internment of ings. ~ill The students are passionate about the project The University of Denver be 'hosting a dessert Latin Americans of Japanese Descent · "We need to get proper ackno~l­ because the community is passionate about it, said reception and open house for its JA alumni to coin• . Act, a bill to create a commission to edgement, an apology and redress cide with the Japanese American National Museum Clark. 'They see themselves a part of something larg• study the JLA internment and recom• for our families who suffered conference, 'Whose America? Who's American?' er." mend remedies, was introduced by human rights violations at the level "I think young people are drawn to this time in his• Rep. Xavier Becerra in the House and of war crimes violations" said Did you attend the University of Denver? The tory out of respect tu the ~ple who experienced it. Sen. Daniel Inouye in the Senate. The . Grace. "Part of preserving fuis lit• department of anthropology is compiling a list of JA It's not exactly our proudest moment in American his• . legislation was reintroduced in 2007. tle known part of history is the his• alumni to be used to send out announcements for tory," said Zuckerman. events. To include yourself on the list, e-mail your S. 381 has already passed a Senate tory of not only our families but of Many of the APS high school students want to tell contact information. and years you attended DU to committee and HR 662 will be dis• the JA community and U.S. histo~ the internment story to as many people as possible, [email protected]. cussed in a committee hearing on July ry." • said Jennifer Otto, a graduate student who will also be 31. Art and other former JLA internees involved in the field school. For more information: plan to provide testimony. For more information: 'Many of them also really enjoy the physical work www.alumni.du.edu/Welcome/Alumni "Our ultimate goal is to get the bill www.campaignforjusticejla.org PACIFIC !Ill CrnzEN NATIONAL JUNE 20-JULY 3,200813 ANNUAL' GIVING CAMPAIGN Thank you for your support of the Annual Giving Cynthia Nitta-Roe and Jeff Roe, Takeko Nomiya, Campaign. TOTAL $64,160 Dale Nomura; Susan Obayashi, Mary Oda, Rose The National JACL thanks everyone who Oda, Tamaki Ogata, Stanley Ogi, George and Haru contributed to this important campaign. Your Ohama, Shag Okada, Nancy Okada, George and Kazue Harada, Julia Haramaki, Fred Hasegawa, generosity provides resources to our programs Mary Okamoto, Miki Okamoto, Patricia and Allen including educational awareness of the Japanese Michihiko and Bernice Hayashida, George Okamoto, Keiji Okano, Noboru Ok~aki, Gerald American experience in our public schools, Higashi, Miyo Himeno, William and Judy Hinkle, Okimoto, Elaine Okinaga, Tom Okubo, William opportunities for leadership development, May Hirata, Shigeki Hjratsuka, Masao and Amy Kent Okuda, Chiyo Okumura, Lucy Okuye, Ken initiatives promoting diversity and tolerance, and Hitomi, Gregory and Phyllis Hiura, Masaye Hiura, Onishi, Thomas Oshidarl, Tom and Mary Ota, advocacy for our rights as citizens. Matsue Pat Honda, Takashi Hori, Florence Hori, Thefollowing contributors donated $100 or more Yukie Ota, Ida Otani, S Paul and Alice Otsuka, Bernadette Horiuchi, Betty Hoshiko, Buro . to the JACL which was received between December Neal Ouye, ~oru Bernice Ouye, Ted Oye, Kazue Hosoume, James and Yoshiko Huseth, Edith 1,2007 to December 31,2007. Oye, Jane- Ozawa, Veronica Pastel, Lyle Quock, Ichiuji, San and Susan Ikeda, Kay Ikeda, Daniel Yuki Rikimaru, Masao Sagara, Larry Saito, Yeichi Ikemiyashiro, Frank and Kiyoko Ikenaga, .Bill Sakaguchi, Bo Sakaguchi, George Sakai, Alice $1,000 + Imada, Ben and Alma Imada, Hideo Imamura, Sakai, Sady Sakai, Yasuko Sakamoto, Mae Minoru and Tayeko Inadomi, Masuye Inamura, Anonymous Donation, Yosh and Ruby Amino, Sakasegawa, Grace Sako, Masami Sakomoto, Martha inouye, George Iseri, Allen Ishida, Tadashi Hiram and Helen Akita, Joe Akiyama, Sheldon Giichi Sakurai, Hiro Sato, Harry and Yuriko and Carolyn Ishihara, Edward Ishii, Sharon Ishii• Arakaki, Bette Hamachi, Jun and Yasuko Shibata, Yoshimi Shibata, Joe and Kikue Shikami, Jordan, George Ishimaru, Sunao Ishio, Ben and Hatoyama, Ford Kuramoto, Sam Naito, Ronald Chiyeko Shikuma, Kyser and Nancy Shimasaki, Mary Ishisaki, Tomio Ito, Akira Ike Iwasaki, Fumi Nakano, Clarence and John Nishizu Families, Alice Shimazu, Hitoshi Shimizu, Kenneth Iwata, Norio Iwata, Nami Iwataki, Janice Jones, Sanbo Sakaguchi, Fumi Utsuki. Shimokochi, Warren Shimonishi, Frank Shoda, Harold and Mary Jonokuchi, Karen Jordan, Albert Karlyn Sugai, Randy Sugihara, Nobuyuki and Jung, Frank Kagawa, Elsie Kagehiro, JoAnne Kimiko Sugisaka, Richard Sugiyama, Henry $150-$500 Kagiwada, Fred Kajioka, Michael and La Donna Sugiyama, Rio and Midori Sunahara, Ryoji and Kaku, Richard and Mary Karasawa, Mitsugi Kasai, Nobuko Suruki, Hiroshi Suzuki, Shizue Tagami, Jerry Katayama, Terry Katayama, Larry Katayama, Miyo Berger, Mabel Shoji Boggs, Shirley Chami, Ayako Tagashira, Naomi Tagawa, George Sakaye Kato, Henry . Kato, Rod and Kris William and Nancy Demichelis, Louis Dicerbo, Takehara, Taketsugu Takei, George Takei, Joel Kawakami, Eric and Vera Kawamura, James and Edward and Bernice Endow, Edgar and Helen Takemoto, Noboru Taki, Lily Tamura, Calvin and Shigeko Kawano, David Kawano, Kiyoshi Hamasu, George and Sumiko Hirokane, May Tae Mayho Tanabe, Masato and Miyeko Tanabe, Kawaratani, Daniel Kikuchi, May Kimura, George Hond~, Chiyo Horiuchi, Martha Horiuchi, Kazuo Kouichi and Olace Tanaka, Joe and Hiromi Kimura,. Rocky Kimura, Taro Kimura, Cherry Ikeda, Rita Inoway, Frances and Bruce Kaji, Linda Tanaka, Billie Tanigoshi, Barbara Taniguchi, Mary Kinoshita, James and Frances Kirihara, Kay Kasai, James Komatsu, Ard Kiyoshi and Mary Tanimoto, Shiro and Kimiko Tanimura, Hugo Kiyokawa, Richard Klein, Sam Kodama, Mits Kozono, Jack Kuramoto, James Kuwada, Roy and Taniwaki, Ethyl Tashiro, Thomas Teesdale, Tadao Kojimoto, Thomas and Janet Kometani, Mary Joyce Maeda, Richard and Margaret Matsuishi, S Terajima, Kazuo .Teramura, Florence Teshima, Kubota, Chika Kujiraoka, Fujie Kunimoto, Floyd and Irene Mori, Tsutomu Nakano, Lex Mary Toki, Masaji Toki, Jean Tsuchiya, Marlelle Kazuko Kurasaki, Mitzi Kurashita, Jack Kusaba, Nakashima, Bobby Nakata, A Hirotoshi Tsukamoto, Toshio Tsukamoto, Hiroshi and Richard Kushino, Paul and Atsuko Kusuda, Lee Nishikawa, Jo Okura, Roger Ota, Kathryn Shigemi Uchida, Helyn Uchiyama, John Udaka, Kusumoto, Ray Kyono, Richard Mamelok, Yukio Rodriquez, Mark Sakata, William Shimamoto, Matt Ueno, Edward Utsumi, Kazuo Utsunomiya, and Masae Maruyama, Amy Masaki, Myrtle George Shimizu, Nao and Judith Takasugi, Joy Paul Uyehara, Koichi Uyeno, Mary Uyesugi, Masumoto, Kenneth Masumoto, Kent Matsuda, Tsurui, William and Setsu Umeki, Sho Wakagawa, Mi,neko Walterhouse, George Watanabe, Selma George and Amy Matsumoto, Yutaka and Yoshiko George Yoshino, Patricia Yuzawa-Rubin. Yagi, Doug Yamada, Craig Yamada and Monica Matsumoto, Jeffery Matsuoka, James MatSUOka, Kwok, Shogo and Hiroko' Yamada, George and Moo Mayeda, Bryan and May Mayeda, Jim and Miyako Yamaguchi, Tsuneaki and June Yamamoto, $100 Sue McClure, Surniko Mekaru, Atsumi Minami, Wendi Yamap.aka, Hiroko Yamaoka, Asako Tom Mine, May Mineta, Hisako Minobe, Fumi Yamashita, Gary Yamauchi, William Yamazaki, Mita, Ralph Mitarai, Kenneth Mitsuhata, Jimi . Albert Abe, Yorko Abiko, Ronald Adachi, Arney Harry Yanagihara, Masami Yasuda, Thomas Mitsunaga, Betty Mitsunaga, Yoichi Mitsutome, Aizawa, Nelson Akagi, Taneo Akiyama, Miyoko Yasuda, Margaret Yasuda, Ted Yasuda, Christine Shizuka Miyamoto, Shu Miyazaki, TOfU and Aoyagi, Harold and Aiko Aoyama, Yoshikane and Yokoyama, Arthur and Helen Yorozu, Kiyoshi and Jeanne Miyoshi, Scotty Mizukami, Nobuo Mori, Peggy Araki, Yoneo Asano, Robert Broucaret, Midori Yoshii, Henry Yoshikai, Gordon Tom Mori, Tom Morikawa, Richard Morimoto, Hugh Burleson II, 'Robert Campbell, Melvin Yoshikawa, Hatsuko Yoshimoto, Hizeko George and Bette Morita, E. 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For questions and Caroline Nakashima, Patricia Nakashima, Yoshimi and Keiko Furusho, Teruhiko Hagiwara, Gordon concerns, please contact National and Kikuko Nakauchi, Tokie Nerio, Saburo and Amy Hamachi, William Hamada, Kazue JACL at 415/921-5225 Nimura, Masako Nishimoto, Dorothy Nishimoto, Hanabusa, Bobbi and Steve Hanada, Chiyome or [email protected]. Hanada, Keisuke and Diane Hara, Irene Harada, Fusae Nishina, Yuki Nishinaka, Robert Nishino, 14 JUNE 20-JULY 3, 2008 CALENDAR PACIFIC II CrnzEN

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Reservations: Sam Honda, 6511429-3410 or sarnlilyhonda@ Stockton Buddhis( Church' $225/regular, $150/youth; early bird $7/adults, $4/children 10 and under; ~egistration aol.com. through June 30; events proceeds benefit the chapter mclude, welcome mixer, youth PacifIC Northwest Education fund. luncheon, awards luncheon, say• PORTLAND WATSONV1LLE onara banquet, workshop, optional Sun., June 29-Book Signing, Sat., June 2S-Watsonville-Santa tours and a golf tournament; hotel George Sidline signs his book, Cruz JACL Community Picnic; 11- rate $119/night plus tax (reserve by "Somehow We'll Survive: Life in 4:30 p.m.; Aptos Village Park, 100 www.u~acl.org June 24); Info: or Japan through the Eyes of a Young Aptos Creek Rd.; food, races, games, www.jacl.org. Caucasian Boy"; noon-3 p.m.; raffle prizes and entertainment by WASIDNGTON, D.C. _Oregon Nikkei Legacy Center, 121 Watsonville Taiko; $7/teens and PHOTOS: AKIRA KUMAGAI AND LINDA MARSH Thurs., Sept. 25-National JACL NW 2nd Ave. Info: 503/224-1458 or adults to 69 years, $4/seniors 70+ Gala Dinner, "Celebrating www.oregonnikkei.org. and children 6-12, under 6 are free. Herb Ohta, Jr. (left) will join his father Herb Ohta (right) for 'Ohta-san Champions of Redress"; 6 p.m. Live' on June 27 at Santa Clara University. TIu'ough Aug. 31-Exhibit; "Go ~n recepllon, 7 p.m. dinner; Grand For Broke: Photographs by Motoya Calforria Hyatt Hotel, 1000 H St. NW; GARDENA Nakamura; Tues.-Sat. 11-3 p.m., Anniversary Dinner and Gala Central). $200/person, $150/non-profits, Sat., Aug. 2-GLAS JACL Hana Sun. noon-3 p.m.; Oregon Nikkei RIVERSIDE $l00/JACL members~ sponsorships Uno Shepard Scholarship and Celebration; 6 p.m. cocktails, 7 p.m. Legacy Center, 121 NW Second' . 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Elghty-yeer-old Jimmy Mlrikitani survived the trauma of WWt! interl)ment «"TIPS, HirQ~hima. and homelesmes~ by crl;1ating art. But willen 9111 threate(lS Ili~ life on the New York City $treet$ and a local flImrrfaker brings him to her home. the two embark on a journey to confront Jimmy's painful past.

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Sat. 7/05 - Klamath Falls, OR - Ross Ragland Theater Fri 7/11- Seattle; WA • Wing Luke Asian \ Museum , , ; ...... NOW AVAILABLE ON DVD """" . ..:::;. TO ORDeR YOUR COpy ., JImmy Tsutomu Mirikitani and Filmmakers Linda Hattendorf """::.... P"LEASE GO TO :::: and Masa Yoshikawa will attend. For more information. see ~,~ ...... WWW.AAAOVOSTORE.COM . -. . www.thecatsofmirikitanLcom. ~.J -""""'~ Gardena Valley Japanese Cultural Institute Cver,Y Ficture Tells A Stor~ ... 1964 W. J 62nd Sf. • Gardena. CA 00247 • 3 J 0.324.661 I 02008 Arts. Alliance Amenca. All Rights Reserved PACIHC III CI11ZEN OBITUARIES JUNE 20-JULY 3,200815 Nakagawa; and brother-in-law, Joey In Memoriam - 2008 (May) Kitayama. Seattle Civic Leader, Ruby Okamura, Ichiro, 92, Menlo a~ All the towns are In California except as noted. Park, May 25; Army veteran; sur• Chow, Dies 87 vived by wife, Patricia; daughters, By ASSOCIATED PRESS King County Council t5efore retir• . Bowersox, Suzuko "Sue," This compilation appears on a space• Nancy (ferry) Glomski, Andrea Oxnard, May 23; survived by hus• available basis at no cost. Printed obit• ing in 1985. In the late 194Os, she band, Michael; sons, David uaries from your newspaper are wel• (Jeff) Chambers and Tracy; son, SEAT:fLE..-Ruby ' Chow, a and her husband Ping Chow opened Bowersox, Edward and Harold comed. "Death Notices, n which appear Gareld; and 2 gc. longtime matriarch of Seattle's Ruby Chow's Restaurant, a land• in a timely manner at request of the Harter; daughter, Esther Harter; and Tsukui, Robert, 88, April 2; Chinese American COll'lmunity, mark that attracted politicians and family or funeral director, are published 7 gc. at the rate of $20 per column inch. Text wwn veteran, 442nd; sUfYived by successful celebrities. Among those who Hedani, Tokuji, 91, San is reworded as necessary. wife, Jeanette; sister, Florence restaurateur worked at her restaurant was a Tsukui; and sisters-in-law, Laurette and a pioneer young Bruce Lee. Francisco, April 24; survived by Village Plaza until 2006. daughters, Janet (Steven) Yip and (Norio) Mitsuoka, Ayako Tanabe in Washing• Chow began to make a name for Muramoto, George, 81, April Barbara (Leroy) Hedani-Morishita; and Josephine Tanabe . • ton state poli• herself by building a loyal clientele 30; Air Force veteran; survived by son, Dean (Melanie); 6 gc.; sister, tics, died June as a waitress at a restaurant in wife, Kikue; sons, Gary (Linda) and Junko (Tom) Takahashi; and brother, 4 of heart fail• Seattle's Chinatown, and that fan Glen; daughter, Nancy (Gary Whereabouts Ken. ure. She was base followed when she' opened her Mamallo); 1 gc.; and sister, Shiiue rm-. section runs on a 8JI'Ice 87. own establishment It was one of . Kano, Nobuyoshi ''Nobi,'' 93, Akada. .vallable basis'st tlO charge. April 10; wwn veteran, MIS; sur• "She was an incredible trailblazer the first Chinese restaurants outside Nagata, Alice M., May 24; sur• vived by wife, Tomoko; son, Philip; ROKUMIE HANAYAGI and adv~ate on behalf of Asian Seattle's International. DIstrict. vived by brother, Harumi Donald Main is looking for and daughter, Barbara Joy. Americans, the Asian American She used her status in the com• Kamimoto; sister, Yoshiko Harada; Japanese Classical Dance artist community in politics, and a trail• munity to help Wmg Luke become Kuboshima, Toshio, 87, Los and step-children, Geroge Nagata Jr. Rokumie Hanayagi. Mr. Main Angeles, May 22; survived by wife, blazer for women," said 'former and Loretta Nagata. remembers being told that she the first Asian American to win a Yaeko; sons, Robert and Russell was moving to San Pedro. He Gov. Gary Locke, the nation's first seat on Seattle's City Council in the Nakagawa, Dave Yutaka, 86, (patty); and brother, Fred. would like to say thanks to her for Chinese American governor. "She early 1960s. Temple City, May 28; Army veter• the introduction to her great art. helped shatter the glass ceiling on She' is survived by her husband, Miyagisbima, James Kazuichi, an; survived by wife, Helen; sons Mr. Main can be contacted at SO many different fronts." .five children, nine grandchildren, 84, May 28; part owner of Enbun Wayne; daughter, Janet (Dr. Kent) · 269/345-0820 -or donald robert• Market in Little Tokyo's Japapese Miyamoto; 2 gc.; sister, Akiko [email protected]. She served three tenns on the and three great-grandchildren..

SOUP TO SUSHI DEATH NOTICE (a special collection of tamrite recipes) MAUDE M. ISIDDA Maude M. Ishida, 88, passed away at the home of her daughter in Sonoma, New Deluxe 3-Ring Calif. on May 30. Born in Corinne, Utah on Mar. 25, 1920, she was a resident Binder Cookbook With of Strathmore, Calif. for the past 60 years. ·REUABl.E. COMPASSIONATE. PERSONALJ2Et> Over 750 Recipes Maude worked in the nursery at Sierra View 707 East Temple Street Hospital in Porterville for over 25 years. She was an 91 1 VENICE BOUl.EVARD Gerakl Ftki $25 (plus $5.50 handling) active member of the community as she was a past Los ANGELES. CAUFORNIA 900 15 Los Angeles, CA 90012 PresOlflI TEL<2 13) 749-1449 president of the local chapters of the PTA, JACL, VFW FAX (213) 7490265 Ph. 2131626-0441 Wesley United Methodist Women Ladies Auxiliary, and the AARP. She was also a gover• a-*Ul'~~t:81t"~t!"".t..t" · 'n ' ''1'. nor of the Central California District Council of the Fax 2131617-2781 566 N. 5th Street www.kubotanikkelmortuary.com San Jose, CA 95112 JACL and a member of the Palm Methodist Church in Dinuba and the Strathmore Town and Country Women's Club Board of Directors . Mrs. Ishida was preceded in death by her daughter, Gloria Takarabe and her husband of 64 years, Ralph. She is survived.by daughters, Kathy Jarrett of ..Blue Shield of California... Sonoma, Marie Ishida of Watsonville and Margie Ruska of Ontario, Ore.; sis• All ~1ItM«ubeJ uribe B~Sbid(j~~il)u ter, Ruth Sugimoto; brothers, Hideo Morinaka of Utah and Ted Morinaka of ~ Ore.; 4 grandchildren; and 6 great-grandchildren. . ::x Memorial services will be held on June 28 at the Lindsay United Methodist Church at 11 a.m.

DEATH NOTICE DEATH NOTICE FUMIKASAI MARY IRENE Died at the age of 91 on May 27 BONZO SUZUKI in San Leandro at the home of one Born June 26,1931, in Chicago, of her children. Her family had m. and passed away May 11, 2008, .gathered from as far a.way as in Berkeley, England and were all present at her Calif. A life• passing. long peace In addition to her five daughters, activist and she leaves behind one sister, two educator, grandsons, a granddaughter and Mary is sur• three great-grandchildren. She was vived by her beloved not only by her offspring husband of but also three sons-in-law and a 55 years, granddaughter-in-Iaw. artist Iwao In accordance with, her wishes, Lewis Suzuki, her son Masao an infonnal gathering celebrating (Susan) Suzuki and daughter Fumi Fumi's life was held on June 1 at Suzuki. She is the sister of t:ht: late Sycamore Church in El Cerrito, Cecil and late William Bonzo, where she had been an active mem• Trudy (Charles) Chastain, Pat ber for more than 40 years. Gregory, and Richard Bonzo, and If you wish to make a donation graI,ldmother of Maya and Sequoya in Fumi's memory, please consis• Daniels, and Mei Suzuki. Family, der one of her favorite 'charitites: Health Plans for California friends, colleagues, and the com• Sycamore Congregational Church, munity are invited to a Celebration 1111 Navellier St., El Cerrito, CA of her Life to be held June 22, 3-6 94530; JASEB, 2126 Channing JACL Members p.m. at the' Berkeley Friends Way, Berkeley, CA 94704; or Church, 1600 Sacramento Street Special Olympics East Bay Call the JACL Health Benefits Administrators at (comer of Cedar), in Berkeley. Region, 3480 Buskirk Ave., #340, Donations may be made to the Pleasant Hill, CA 94523. The fam• 1.800.400.6633 Middle East Children's Alliance, ily can be reached c/o Sandy or visit www.jaclhealth.org 1101 8th St., Suite 100, Berkeley, White, 274 Lynn Ave., Milpitas, ; 1lj.is.",".I.Y.~ "i;l«'tl ' ~ :' '''''J~ CA9471O. CA95035. 16 JUNE 20-JULY 3, 2008 ADVERTISEMENT PACIFIC IICmzEN

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