PACIFIC CITIZEN Publication of the National Japanese American Citizens League

No. 2,008-Vol. 87 Friday, September 1, 1978 20c Postpaid U.S 15 Cents

CIVIL SERVICE RETIREMENT BILL A FOLTA FIRST-(From left) : Les Hamasaki. Ruth Watanabe. Toyo Miyatake ard Marjorie Shinno. Senate votes unanimously to pass

WASHINGTON - By a the overwhelming support Senator Sasser CD-Tenn..) Sen. Daniel Inouye said. Friends of Uttle Arts unanimous voice vote, the given this measure by both who chaired the subcommit• "Many of these former in• Senate Aug. 18 approved HR the House of Representa• tee. ternees most affected are honor photographer Miyatake 9471, sponsored by Rep. tives and the Senate. This The bill was amended now among the eldest mem• Norman Y. Mineta CD-Calif.) legislation will provide some slightly, to make its effec• bers of their communities, granting civil service retire• redress to those Americans and I am sure that this ac• Acknowledging the com• tive date Oct. I, 1978. The LOS ANGELES-Friends of ment credit to Japanese of Japanese ancestry who House is expected to agree tion will be much appreciat• Little Tokyo Arts last week mendations from state and American civil servants for wer unjustifiably denied to this Senate change, send• ed by them," he said. (Aug. 24) conferred its first local officials for his father the time they spent in the in• their constitutional and ing it to President Carter for The bill expands legisla• cultural achievement award was Atsufumi "Archie" Mi• ternment camps during human rights," Mineta stat• his approval. tion enacted in 1952 which to Toyo Miyatake, 83, es• yatake. Marjorie Shinno was World War II. ed. "I asked the Senate Gov• granted Civil Service credit teemed as the artist-poet dinner chairperson. "I am deeply gratified by Retirement credit for Ja• ernmental Mfairs Commit• to persons who were already with his camera, before a panes Americans covered tee for favorable considera• in the Civil Service system happy crowd of 650 at the by Social Security was tion during its hearing in at the time of internment. Biltmore Hotel. passed into law in 1972. May, and I am very glad that This gives retirement credit This legislation now goes they chose to respond to this to those who joined the Civil The dinner, emceed by back to the House for con• ned for correcting this Service after their intern• Bruce Kaji who grew up currence on Senate amend• grievous past injustice," ment. - with the Miyatake children ments. in prewar Boyle Heights, Mineta expressed his cer• premiered a slide presenta• tainty that the legislation tion o"f Little Tokyo history would be on the President's Sansei seek seats and some of Miyatake's his- r desk prior to the adjourn• I toric pictures of wartime ment of the 95th Congress. Manzanar. Char les Kamaya• The legislation grants in Washington state tsu, Bob Okazaki and George credit under the civirServ• OLYMPIA, Wash.-Christine E. Yorozu, 28, and Paul Shin

JACL EXECOM ACTION: • =Io=~ 0181 soon ltairdfesset The PC Classified Rate IS 10 cents·, and ilSSlSIMII appIlCItJon aYilJlabIe Write III ~ 11 women to head national 'committees £~~~t'~~£i~~~u=~~E ~R!KX)1eail05EJapnsestateWlvlPtm.lOSAnje Ies. has been established WIth our otf1ce Special to The Pacific Citizen Eleven women were named· to bring new officers up-tOr vision: Mikio Uchiyama (Fowler): 2 • Business Opportunity FORs:~~ . ~u::: SAN FRANCISCO - A con• to chair a national committee,' date on current programs, Political Education: Olerry Tsutsumi· COMPlfTE ~illasIgrow- HOUSE~ ~ da (Washington, D.C. ); 3. International -UOOUR & e: 2.,., baths. 2700 II. En- the most in recent memory· activities and pending issues IIlg uppeI desef\. Ideal !of lamly 01 pa rtnershi p. lertainment area WIth covered patio. buill-in baf. scious effort by Dr. Clifford relations: QlUck Kubokawa (Sequoia); for in the past, there were no: and to organize for the corn• Highly Plobitable. Sales lMIlI1lhon. low 00wn. ~ . and solar healed pool. Phone R Delqe. Uyeda and the new National 4. Employment Discrimination: Dr. ~enns. Wnte Agt:rt Box 12:E. Pam Des8t. CA, (714) 598-510) ~ a itusnled blOCl'lJl8. JACL officers to bring more more than three or four to" ing biennium. Tom Taketa (San Jose); S. Against Def· women to roles of national gether, according to Pacific· The four appointees to the amation: Margie Yamamoto (San Fran• lIOUOR STORES R ~ 1SiIe COU'IiY 8 mmey Citizen records. National JACL Board were cisaJ); 6. Awards & ReoognitXlns: = = ; makers. Some WIth ~ ttl! allectal by Fa r leadership was demonstrat-, 7. A·Bomb survivors: Frank Kasama Trade Repeal. Gross fran i8 to!n( roori Low Be a PC Ad-Watcher ed here over the Aug. 26-27 The Executive Committee also approved: (Fremont): 8. Pacilk Citizen: Ellen down. easy temlS. WnE IgerC. 1m 1236. Pa m Frank Iwama (Sacramento), leg· Oeser\. CA 92260. weekend. meeting was called primarily Endo (Metro L.A.). al coWJSel; Dr. Toaru Ishiyama (Oeve• Vice Pres/Research & Services .• Announcement land), Judge Mikio Uchiyama (Fow• JIM TSUJIMURA-l. Redress (John WORK AT horne eamill;! up kl $250 weekly ler), board members; and Ellen Endo Naom 0, D - Endowment Fund committee filled Tateishi (Marin); Retirement Dr. Min stuffing envelopes. Send ~ , seI~ - • J S Cess Sh - (Metro L.A.), Pacific Citizen Board ,..~_._ Masuda (Seattle); 3. Youth: Cathy Hi• addressed envelope to' Pea::Iltree une Studios. Sports & 0 _ Op _," SAN FRANCISCO- Two va· committee in the past and chairperson. ~ helped to raise some of the ronaka (NYCC); 4. JARP: Shig Waka• p O. Box 246. Evans. Ga. 30800. - / Si2es 3 to 8 cancies on the JACL Endow• The list of national com• matsu (Chicago); S. JAQ.er rL Bienni· • Motorcycle Us N. San Pedro St ment FUnd committee were contributions that comprise mittees and chairpersons um: = =; 6. Japanese American of Bi• FOR SAlE 1976 Yamaha 400 Enduro less than Los ~ : -1SS3 filled by Dr. Clifford Uyeda the fund. Tomio Moriguchi of (some remain unannounced ennium: Cherry Kinoshita (Seattle); 7. 4.000 mil es, su per cl ean and fast $750 Ca ll Oall , Open 1Ue-F);, 9'~ Seattle, fonner national trea• Census: Anna Peterson (St. Louis); 8. (213) ~6-6936 days. 323-6494 nights ~t 1).9/ ClosEd Sun. :30 and approved by the National pending acceptance [ is surer, succeeds Dr. John Kan• = =]) Nikkei Registry:= = ; 9. Resolutions: :o~::: ~ --~n JACL executive committee shown under the particular li' ...... 6- ...... at its Aug. 26-27 meeting here. da, Puyallup Valley, for a national officer who will Vice PresidentlMembership Services year tenn. Other committee oversee and serve as its liai• STEVE NAKASHIMA-I. 1000 Club: Dr. Roy Nishikawa of Los members are Yone Satoda, son before the National Board Steve Doi (San Francisco); 2. Health Angeles was named perma• San Francisco, and Tom Ma• Insurance: Vernon Yoshioka (San Di· as follows: ego); 3. Travel: Hank Sakai (Orange Midwest District JACL nent member, succeeding suda of Chicago. A new chair• Vice Pres/General Operations LD.-Y County); 4. Bowling: ==. the late George lnagaki. Ni• man is to be elected by the OKURA-I. Personnel: Ben Takeshita Treasurer GEORGE KODAMA-l Regional Director shikawa had served on the committee members. (Contra Costa), 2. Convention Guide• Endowment Fund: (selected by com· • lines: = =; 3. Credentials: Helen Kawa· mittee); 2. Satow Memorial Project: IMJOa1lE5PON5I1'unES - , goe (Gardena Vly); 4. Nominations: Mike Masaoka (Washington, D.C.); 3. Director will be responsible for the admirllstrabon of the RegIOnal Office and Grayce Uyehara (Philadelphia); S. Ina· Hq Operations Fund (formerly Bldg staff which Includes the day·tcrday superviSion of the clencal and volunteer gaki Prize: = = ; 6. Scholarships: Helen Fund): Steve Doi (San Francisco); 4. personnel. Nisei Week honors three Mineta (San Jose). Yamada-Qkubo Fund: Frank Oda (S

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This appeared as a guest column j ne Hokubei Mainichi, Aug. 23.- Ed. By CLIFFORD I. UYEDA A CASE ·FOR REDRESS San Francisco: Similar labels do not necessarily mean similar contents. soon as they showed signs of we~ sufficient numbers of media falsely depicted Japa• Because the post World War II United States court convicted initiative they were per• Japanes women pioneers nese Americans as agents two Nisei on charges of treason, the public is lead to believe ceived as threats to white who gave birth to an Ameri• for Japan. Newspapers in• that the caes are somehow similar. Nothing can be further dominance_ Japmese farm can-born generation, and flamed the ''Yellow Peril" laborers, together with Mex• from the truth. families decided to make the myths on the West Coast; ra• ican farm laborers, conduct• United States their perma• dio, movies and comic strips Recently I was notified by phone from a journalist friend ed the first successful' agri• nent home. As the exclusion• spread the disease of prej• in Tokyo that an article will appear in the Los AngelesTimes SECTION 3: cultural strike in California ists intensified their efforts udice throughout the United on Kawakita (Aug. 2S PC). A year ago in Tokyo I disagreed JAPANESE ARRIVE in 1903. Japanese farm la~ to get rid of the Japanese, States. with the same journalist who said that the cases of Iva Ter orers were well organized As the Chinese population their campaign was en• Trapped in segregated guri d'Aquino and Tomoya Kawakita have interesting simi• and engaged in rollective rapidly declined due to the hanced by the development . neighborhoods and with no bargaining for higher of a powerful new weapon• larities. lack of women and the men access to the media, Japa• wages: many saved enough Tomoya Kawakita, born in Calexico, California in 1921,' returning to China, an acute the mass media. nese Americans were unable money to lease or buy land. attended Meiji University in Tokyo during the war. In 1943 labor shortage developed in to counteract the false ster• The Japanese farmers re• . Newspapers, radio, and he renounced his American citizenship, took out Japanese the Western states and the eotypes. Even though those claimed much of the unwant• motion pictures stereotyped citizenship, and during wartime he traveled to China on a Territory of Hawaii in the Japanese Americans as un• born in the United States 1880s. The agricultural in• ed land and developed it into Japanese passport. In 1945 he stated he was a U.S. citizen and trustworthy and unassimil• were culturally American, dustry wanted another rich agricultural areas. In able. The media did not rec• spoke English fluently, and received his U.S. passport to return to America. group of laborers who would California, Japanese farm• ognize the fact that a large were well educated, they The indictment against Kawakita ' was mistreatment of do the menial work at low ers produced 50-90% of number of peroons of Japa• faced almost insurmount• U.S. prisoners of war (POWs). His defense was that he could wages, and looked to Japan some fruits and vegetables nese ancestry living in the able discrimination in em• not be compelled to stand trial as an American for acts com• as a new source. At that time, despite operating only 4% of United States were Ameri• ployment, housing, public mitted as a Japanese citizen. however, Japan prohibited the farmlands. Envy led to can citizens. As Japan be• accommodations and social laborers from leaving the hate, and the prevailing anti• The court ruled Kawakita a U.S. citizen, and following came a military power, the interaction. # conviction he spent 16 years at Alcatraz until pardoned by country. The United States Asian animosities became President Kennedy on condition that he be returned to Japan pressured Japan to relax the focused on the Japanese. The anti-Japanese cam• and never seek entry into United States. ban on labor emigration, and CROSSROADS TO SOMEWHERE: Wimp Hiroto Japan consequently allowed paign began with acts of vier Iva Toguri had steadfastly refused to renounce her Ameri• laborers to leave in 1884. lence and lawlessness: mob can citizenship although harassed unmercifully by the Japa• The American agricul• assaults, arson, and forcible An Open Letter to JACL nese police. She refused to seek Japanese citizenship, was tural industry recruited Ja• expulsion from farming outspokenly pro-American despite personal danger, and panese laborers to work in areas became rommon• Gardena, Calif.: naga. Forsooth and for risked her own safety to aid the sick and the weak Allied the sugar cane fields of Ha• place. Soon these prejudices WHEN FACED WITH a shamel POWs at the Bunka Camp in Tokyo. waii, and the fruits and vege• became institutionized into flight of stairs, a ladder or an • Iva was convicted solely on the uncorroborated testimony table farms of California law. As with the earlier Chi• escalator, which foot goes up . BETHATASITMAY, you of two prosecution witnesses who had renounced their From the handful who were nese pioneers, the Japanese first? How about when put• (JACL) have succeeded in American citizenship, and who later admitted to fa1se testi• here prior to the Chinese Ex• were also denied citizenship, ting your pants on in the disrupting the life and times prohibited from certain oc• morning (okay ERA, panties, mony at the trial. clusion Act, the Japanese of this observer. population increased to cupations, forced to send too)? And if told to ''put your Former acquaintances, The war produced untold sufferings to many Nisei about 61,000 in Hawaii and their children to segregated best foot forward," which . unheard from for years, stranded in Japan. But it is blatantly "unfair to Iva not to 24,000 on the mainland by schools, and rould not marry would it be? have made cmtact in hopes recognize that she remained a proud and loyal American 1900. The Japanese replaced whites. In addition, some • of tapping the ''maybe'' mon• before, during and after the war in spite of her ordeal. the Chinese as the largest laws were specifically di• BEI1WHATSOEVER, the ey. A former Riversider and non-white ethnic group in rected against the Japanese, Japanese American Citizens pre-war pal claims he de• the West Coast and Hawaii including the denial of the League today must be won• serves some loot "because if History is little more than the register of the crimes, • As long as the Japanese re• right to own, lease, or giye dering about the old political we hadn't booted you out, follies and misfortunes of mankind. -EDWARD GmBON mained docile, their hard gifts of agricultural land. ploy called a trial balloon you'd be eligible for nothing labor was welcomed, but as Like the Chinese exclusion You know, have an unidenti• except taxes_" Solid think• movement before, Califor• fied "high government offi• ing_ The Milwaukee Journal Saturday, Aug. 12, 1978 nia lobbied the federal gov• cial" take a public stand on a Even the family is stand• ernment to stop all ~a­ controversial issue and then ing in line_ 8m 11 oontends tion from Japm. As a result see how the politicos, editor• he deserves a separate share A cruelty we should remember of these pressures, Japanese ial writers and public react. because he had no choice in Sen. S.I. Hayakawa of Califor• restItutIon etlort does more was much truth in what Young laborers were excluded by Had JACL approached the the evacuation brouhaha• nia is an extraordinarily forgiv• hann than good. In the first said, if only he had taken care to executive action in 1907, and S2S,OOO Evacuation Redress let alone being born a Japa• ing man. He offers to turn the place, those who were uprooted focus his allegations on certain all Japanese Unrrrigration for question in this manner and nese American. Son #2 feels other cheek, not primarily on his suffered real damages and have periods. permanent residence was nothing happened, great he should get a double por• own behalf but on behalf of a right to seek recompense. No one could have found rea• prohibited by the Asian Ex• But if slings and arrows re• tion since fatberlmother thousands of fellow Japanese Furthermore, anything as seri• son to fault him if he had con• Americans who were cruelly up• ous as the wholesale violation of centrated on such travesties as clusion Act of 1924. Japan sulted, then it would be back . weren't manlwife at the time rooted and placed in internment the basic rights of Japanese the jailing of civil rights activists considered the Exclusion to the drawing boards for he coulda been sbelit, not to camps in the western U.S. during Americans shouldn't be pushed and Vietnam War protesters in Act a national insult, particu• Prez Dr. Cliff and PC Chap• mention twins. As for Son World War II. into the nation's subconscious. the 19605, the imprisonment of larly since the United States ter 1001-a. '3, his comment can't be The senator opposes the ef• Even in times of relative har• Socialists in the early decades of had insisted upon Japanese Since the JO,()OO.member quoted in family newspaper. forts of the Japanese American mony in race relations, the put>• this century or (most tyrannical ~uest Citizens League to win restitu• lic needs to be reminded occa- ' of all) the internment of Japa• immigration in the first JACL sincerely believes it But the weirdest tion for tho e who were deprived sionally that the veneer of civil• nese Americans. place. President Theodore represents the total Japa• was a call ffOOl Canada. He of their freedom in a period of ized conduct is thin, that some Thus, Hayakawa's "forgive Roosevelt once remarked: nese American populace wants to start a drive to war hy teria. He says the resti• future national emergency could and forget" attitude about the "The infernal fools in Cali• (please don't edit to read make anyooe ever impris• tution effort will rekindle resent• revive hostile feelings and pro- _ internment may be commend• fornia msult the Japanese "Nikkei, it sounds like a di• oned agaiqst hislber will eli• ment and racism that no longer vide the pretext for again perse• able up to a point, but he should recklessly and in the event sease), wouldn't it have been gJDle for a piece of the ac• e ist. A proof of that hostility to cuting a minority. be careful just how much he en• Japane e Americans has van- Incidentally, if some persons courages Americans to forget. of war it will be the nation as wiser to test the tepid waters tion. This would, he explains, 1 hed, Hayakawa cite hi own had a little better memory of There is a lesson in the mistake a whole which will pay the before launching the Salt embrace not only the 110,000 ele tion from a state that once past repression of racial and p0- this nation made when it sum• consequences." Lake City bmlbshe1l? Why evacuees but all the drunks \ a ' a center of such prejudice. litical minorities in this country, marily deprived a whole cate• To the dismay of the exclu• shucks, people, you not only and wife beaters, not to men• Indeed. that animosity has there might have been Ie s in• gory of people of their freedom. sionists, the Japanese popu• didn't check signals with tion income tax evaders and dllnUllshed,and PUnericans of all clination to thorooghly denounce That lesson must not be forgot• lation did not quickly de• Carroll Rosenbloom but you Watergate principals. He background can be grateful for UN Ambassador Andrew Young ten, because it can help Ameri• the more benign climate of opin• recently when he spoke of poli• cans avoid the same tragic error crease as the Chinese popu• failed to touch "se with the claims this would water- ion. Y t \ e do not agree that the tical prisoners in the U.S. There again. lation did earlier. There Hon. George "Horse" Y Cl6bi- Friday, September 1, 1978 I PACIFIC CITiZEN 5

WE. CALL THIS THE FROM THE FRYING PAN: Bill Hosokawa S.I. HAYAl-which is said ing, although I've been and women at the convention, the old bulls about the realities of American politics back, I don't yearn for fancy to be the "Artichoke Capital meaning to do so. are dande• seem still to be in charge of the herd. They and govenunent. dishes as some people ap• of the World". No doubt lions, both as a salad or in dominated discussions in the National They shouldn't be; they were the vic• place of spinach. Wife Vicki, pear to do. Not that I'd ever there are a number of Nisei Council. Where were the young turks who tims of the worst kind of power politics turn them down: it's just artichoke growers there who has much more exotic during World War II. They shouldn't be, tastes than her inaka-hus• should have been on hand to challenge the that, well, to me "gohan is who make a fair, country liv• because they overcame mountainous gohan" and that's it. Toss in ing growing that spiny-look• band, prepares a mean spin• oldsters and bring a new thrust to the ach dish with goma and con• organization? Except for a few, they odds to win citizenship for the Issei, eli• some takana-tsukemono ing vegetable. If they de• minate race as a restriction in immigra• • backed up with two helpings pend on the likes of me to dim~nts , but I can't get her weren't there. What JAG.. needs, as much of rice, and after it's allover keep the industry going. to try some dandelions ... as anything, is a program that will attract tion, and repeal Title II of the so-called - you'll see a satisfied face they would go kaput tomor• thus far. In fact, in these the young. Designing that program wm concentration camp law. But perhaps the emerge. row. parts. just across the river in become an ever more difficult problem as struggle that preceded these and other New Jersey. they actually NOW YOU TAKE some of ON THE OTIIER hand, Sansei and Yonsei find other interests legislative victories has been forgotten, or raise dandelions commer• come to think of it, we Nisei drawing them away from the Japanese is not understood by the present genera• • those fancy vittles that some cially. Which I don't under• nonethel~ss ingest yet rather American community. tion. Many doors in Washington can be people serve. Example: arti• stand. I' e been growing lux• chokes. The first time I saw opened for us now by Nisei members of strange vegetation. To name urious crops of dandelions With proper deference to Dr. Clifford one of those frustrated em• but a few that quickly come on my lawn without trying. Uyeda, the new president, let us say his is Congress, but we must not expect to get bryos of a banana plant, I to mind: burdock roots ("go• From the first hint of spring a fresh face little known to the JACL what we want just by making a pitch for couldn't imagine anyone bo", terrific as kimpira). but• membership and alien to JACL politics, justice. There is much more than that, and chewing on them. Surely the terbur stems ("fuki", often Continued on Page 6 but he is retired from his profession as a the sooner this is understood, the better. # tough-looking leaves would hang up in one's gullet, or passing that it would leave a El PIMENTERO: Frank Fukazawa real Latin American feel• trail of lacerated esophagus. ings. HIROTa Getting past all that, the S. There are only limou- worst was to come when that sines parked at all first-class Continued from Previous Page pointy leaf headed into the Tips on Panama hotels. Don1 t ride them re- down (sic) any possibility of stomach-point first. Ouch! gardless of the driver's wel- racist backlash. And show• YES, I'LL CONFESS I've It's the pride of the Ameri• broad daylight. It ne er coming grin. but do so if you ing great fiscal responsibili• partaken of artichokes. You'll cans. comes to his mind to chase can negotiate the fare in ty, he suggests a rider that note I didn't say "eat", for Once at the terminal. El the attackers who can be Spanish. Otherwise. you will would make tlx>se still lJe. it's more like scraping the Colon, stay in the premises seen fleeing into the laby• pay three times the normal hind bars, trial pending or leaf between slightly of the station which is guard• rinth of slums. He is very ef• rate. It's the same shopping writing a book ineligible. Panama: ed by the U.S. police and ficient and swift in forcing clenched teeth. For the well• Since the ratification of on the streets. • howe er tempting. NEVER the victim into a car to bring bred connoisseur there's the Panama Canal. our ad• 6. Airport lounge for pas- WHATEVERINTHEHELL supposed to be a subtle, deli• venture into town.! him to the police station "pa• sengers is packed on both becomes of Evacuation Re• vice is: don't come to Pana• ra la investigacion seria" cate flavour (not "flavor")• ma unless you speak Span• 3. Near the station an inde• sides with free-duty goods. dress, the $3 billion question which manages to escape scribable mess of slums (solemn investigation). Nev• It's useless to buy anything; persists. But if you belated• ish. Their ownership of the er does he make any inquir• this inaka-boy. If you hap- grand Canal has changed swarm with hungry people the prices are too high. Wait ly wanna conduct a public everywhere. You could be ies on the spot where about till the next stop. you will poll, chalk me up as "wave.... their mentality and attitude 20 witnesses are still tand• towards all foreigners. al• stripped naked in three sec• have better luck ing". 35 Years Ago though some still retain their onds! If you must go th rough ing. CASH is the word here. If JACL can guarantee _ IN THE PACAC crT1ZEN Well. I was one of the rou• Personal checks are not ac- there'll be no shortfall from "corazon simpatico". If you the ghetto. TAKE a taxi : it tine victims. Robbed of $300 Sept. 4, 1943 still wish to visit Panama. strangely protects you like it ceptable and $100 bills are' the windfall, vunderbarl Aug. 2O-American Federation of does in the wild zoo of Ken• by slicing my back pocket received with suspicion for Then 1 can tum around and Teachers. AFL, in national conven• here are some tips. with a knife while I threw ]. Regardless of the sink• ya. where the lions touch fear of counterfeits. When contribute the S2SGs to any tion, urges release of loyal Nisei from one guy by a "seoinage" on camps. ing value of the dollar. Uncle their no e on the gJas but checking in the hotels. you public official who persim the ground. Two had at• Aug. 27-Few oppose postwar re• Sam's dollar still maintains do not harm. must fill in a certain column in putting his (rightJleft)foot turn of evacuees to west coast as tacked me from behind. So. its good old purchasing pow• While local policemen marked "Representan- in his mouth. State Senate Interim Committee on always learn judo. karate. d~- (representing X • "Japanese Problems" opens hearings er here because dollars are stand here and there. their wrestling or any defensive in Fresno. their currency. main concern is not to pro• company). E en if a make- IN THE EVENT PC read- 2~Hawaii sport when you are young. Aug. dispute over ha• 2. The anallT'ust be seen. tect you but only to make believe company is not filled ers are still wondering beas corpus proceedings seen as test in. you can be charged a "de-- where this contributor By paying C' nh'S I 9;:; the Die-• long documented reports af• 4. Don't expect to be treat• of military rule over two men held posito". 100<, of your tayin 'standson''TheQuestion'',he incommunicado under mllimry law. sel locom tive t<'ke you ter you have been robbed. ed like a welcomed visitor if advance. They don't eem to submits quotations from Aug. ~Nisei baseball players at• from Pana rr a ell) n th~ At• Nobody come to -your res• you speak English. although tend Brooklyn Doclger tryouts at Og• lantic to Colon on the Pacific cue. The crowd enjoys the they under tand it. Regard• understand that many elder- Thomas Carlyle and Bert• den' Afneck Park. ly rich tra\'ellers don't have ram Russell to "clear" the side in I I : hours through ca• crambling cene which is Ie of race or color. they Aug. 31-ldaho Attorney General any occupations. air: "I do not believe in the Miller's opinion that children placed nal . mar hland and for them a daily normal hap• will confront you with an at• My conclusion: Panama i collective wisdom of indi- by federal war relocanon not entitled jungle . It' beautiful and pening. 0 i it for the police titude which the minority to free chooling In Idaho is reaf· you can ea ily imagine the who oddly i punctually at groups in the states had ex• a place for Panamanian and vidualignorance."-Carlyle; firmed. great hard hip encountered the ,cene RIGHT AFTER perienced for many year . not for out iders. If you "If fifty millioo people say a Sept. I-New barbed-wire fencing mu t go. double your insur- foolish thing, It is still a fool- erected at Tule Lake for segregation to conduct uch a large canal the victim i as aulted and WItch to Spanish and it ance. rr ish tbing."-Russell. center. onl with shovel and pick knocked flat on the treet In will bring out theIr warm ~PACIFIC CmZEN I Friday, September 1, 1978------.------• San Mateo Calendar ·:~tshOW .Japan It was a large turnout of 65 ·AnarNAa. ... Ctr Theater. San Fnmc:isc». :JO pm.: Calendar, pulse, memos at the San Mateo JACL Kei• Teddi & Nancy Tanaka. • SEPT.3 , Japanese Reo• tJ.rement Home. 9a.m. s.HDas V.oey-a.pter picnic. naka, well-known entertain• host cocktails from 6:30 p.m. Ranch, committee chairmen each toward expenses. Oth• .SEPT.19~) e5EPT 10 (Sunday) ~8d ers from Hawaii, on Sunday, and a reception after the Jack Imada and Jerry Irei er contributions in the way An~lssei Sa mtg, SlUrge Pre9- West Los apprecia• byterian Church. 8 pm. Sept. 17, 7:30 p.m. at the Ka• show. said it was the biggest turn• of prizes. flowers and money tionlunch buki Theatre, 1881 Post Tickets at $10 per person out yet. were also acknowledged • SEPT. 11 (Mo~) • SEPT. 21 ('I1waidl(f) west Los AngeJes-l orrin mt!!. "Sacrameuto-As AIDer PUblic Em• Street, San Francisco. are available from: Besides the usual picnic from: ployees 0lIIf (3 dl). Woodlake Inn William Nakatani (526-9228), John e SEPT U (TUesday) Teddi and Nancy Tanaka, features of good food, games Sumitomo Bank of Calif.. Califor· Stocktoo-Gen rrq!. Cal 1st Bank. 8 • SEPT. 22 (F'rIdIJ) Shinagawa (222-{)141), EBJA (848- nia First Bank. Takahashi Co .• Mid· Sa DIeto-Bd m_. popular entertainers with and fellowship, picnickers p.m. .. 3560), San Ftancisco-National JACL Peninsula Gardeners Assn .. Mas Ka• Sequo'-Gen mtl!. Palo Alto Issei • SEPT. 24 (s-IIy) American and Japanese Office, Califo~ First Bank, Japan saw a nearby grass and riya. f:l aI1. 8 p.m. NC-WNDC-Invit volleyball tour• brush fire being doused by nament, Marin JAa.. basts, Terra Richard Kume and Sak • SEPT. 13 (WedDe8day) Linda High, U:30 pm. . two airplanes dropping Yamaguchi were emcees. -Los AngeIes-lntemrcial mar• "San Di~Piooeer day, Bud• Fresno JACL awardees .. . chemicals. riageseminar,PimeerCenter,120N. dhist Church. Sahei Kawakita responded Sari Pedro, 7:30 pm. for the Issei guests. The Ikoi• .SEPT.lS~) • SEPT. 29 (FridIy) ~Benefit movies (2 HoastoD-Intemational Folk Fair no-Torno entertained with (3 da). • Fresno songs. Greetings were ex• da)t Buddhist Church, 6:30 {1m . "LOS Angeles--Oty Employee As • SEPT. 30 (~) Gary Yamamoto will be tended by Richard DeLong. Am Assn dnr, Hyatt Regency, Broad• ro Yama• There were 54 partici• KAMABOKO moto; Nakayoshi Oub-Susie Miya• pants in spite of four other MAJOR RE SPON SIBILITIES gawa, K. Akeda; VFWPost 162~im Suzuki, John Baker, Bob Mirikitani Nikkei golf tournaments and Director will be respatslbkl for the overall ajmlnlstratlon 01 the Regional ONlce and siaN Iltuch mcludes prOlecl clerical are volt.f1teer pe!sonnel ThiS Will inclLXle SupefVlslon 01 general olfice three big picnics scheduled actiVities and the operalion 01 JACL sponsored projeds and sefVlceS . the same day. James Matsu• Other responSibilities are oka and Luana Yoshino co• 1 PrOVi de techntcal asslstlnce to chapters are the District Crunal on progranmabc matters MARUTANI chaired. Prize winners (han• -WAIKIKI BRAND- membership developmEl1l etc Marutama CO_ Inc. 2 Establish and mall1tain eflectlve contact and cormluntcalion with AsIan Amencan organ· dicaps in parenthesis) were: Izatlons. public and private I1Jman service agenaes local. state and federal govemmenl oIIlres Continued from Previous Page MEN'SFUGHT Distnbu!or:s: Yamasa Entel1l.rises 3 Pfan and Impferrent programs and protects authomed by the District COlIna I and by 61-John Matsumoto (23). John Sa• Fish Cake Manufacturer 515 Stanford Ave. National mandate till the first stiff frost, I yank to (14); 62-Kay Yamaguchi (21); acad~ i a . Los Angeles Los Angeles 4 Represent JACL in public contacts With govemmEl1t bodies busmess minority them, poison them, stamp on 63-Dr. Pete Yoshino ( 11 ); 64-Frank and Civil rights group ~. etc Phone: 626-2211 them-and they thrive. Kawashima (2 1); 6S-Roy Sakamoto Dffector must be atile to funcllon WIth limited SupefVlslon and directIOn General SUpelVlSIon (22). Toru Sakahara ( 18). Hiram Aki· Will be given by the district governor and the dlstnct board Dlslrlct po licy and direction IS set by THE NISEI GALS in these ta ( 13); 66-Dr. Terrance Toda (22) .. the district council' • GARDENA-AN ENJOYABLE JAPANESE COMMUNITY parts are pretty dog-goned ~ OMEN' FLIGHT OUALIFICA TlONS good cooks, I must say. It 6~Helen Akita (23): 72-Luana Poinsettia Gardens Motel Apts. Two years work experience In a human Service CIVIl rights orgamzalion. or related expeflence doesn't take much urging Yoshino (30). Aya Shimomura (24 ); Ab ili ty 10 wllte reports ntact LISted Brokers Below Inouye Ins. Agy., 15092 Sylvanwood Ave. , Norwalk ...... 846-5n 4 rolled up on their shoulders. has been a ten• LOS ANGELES Tom T. Ito, 595 N. lincoln, Posadena ...... 795-7059 (LA) 681-44 11 While at the disco, I had an dency on my part to try not Funakoshl lns Agy ...... 626-5275 Saburo Shimada ...... 933-5568 Minoru 'Nix' Nagata, 1497 Rock Haven, Monterey Porte.. 268-4554 to stick out too much from interesting experience Itano, Morey & KaQawa, re.624-0758 Tsuneishi Ins Agy ...... 628-1365 which many Sansei may be Steve Naka ji, 11964 Wosh ington Ploce ...... 39 1-5931 837-9150 everyone else, at least ex• Kamiya Ins. Agy ...... 626-8135 Yamato Ins SVc ...... 624-9516 So!9 Ins. Agy., 366 E. 1st St ...... 629-1425 261-651L ternally, so that someone a able to relate to. I met this Art S . Nishisaka ...... 731-0758 ~ mile away will not automati• Caucasian guy named Jeff ORANGE COUNTY Established 1936 cally notice that I am a "gai• from California. He had Ken Ige ...... 943-3354 -James E. Seippel ...... 527-5947 -k 10' jin". been working in Japan for Mack Miyazaki...... 963-S021 Ken Uyesugi...... 54().3nO In the process of attempt• about P h years. He was Walter E. Plegel.. ... = ... 639-0461 Nisei Trading 'Cherry Brand' ing to superficially blend in able to speak a fair amount MONTEREY PARK Appliances - TV - Furniture MUTUAL SUPPLY CO with the crowd, I have na• of Japanese. After we were Takuo Endo ...... 283-0337 Robert Oshita ...... 283-0337 1090 Sansome I, an FranCI co, Caltl. ticed a few interesting inside a few hours, a couple Dennis Kunisaki ...... 381-3774 George I. Yamate ...... 386-1600 NEW ADDRESS: things. of us wanted to go outside to Ogino Ins Agy ...... 685-3144 249 S. San Pedro St. As far as casual dress is walk around the Shinjuku GARDENA VALLEY Los Angeles, Cal if. 900 12 Tel.: 624-6601 concerned, I haven't had area and then return to the Jeff K. Ogata ...... 329-8542 Sugino-Mamiya Ins Agy ..... 538-5808 much difficulty in this area disco after a brief period. So Stuart Tsujimoto ...... n2·6529 George J. Ono ...... 324-4811 because the is pretty Jeff explained in Japanese to WEST LOS ANGELES TOYl;~ much the same as in the U.S. the doorman what we Amold T. Maeda ...... 398-5157 Steve Nakaji...... 391-5931 wished to do: to obtain a pass - , A lot of students wear blue DOWNEY-Ken Uyetake ...... n3-2853 jeans and T-shirts. It was in• to re-enter. PASADENA-Toshio Kumamoto ...... 793-7195 teresting for me to discover The man at the door then SAN DI~Ben Honda ...... 2n-8082 STUDIO that absolutely none of the T• directed aquestion to me (in SAN FERNANDO VAllEY-Hiroshi Shimizu ...... 463-4161 PHOTOMART 318 Ea t Firs Street shirts worn have Japanese Japanese , ofcourse)~ead SAN GABRIEL-Rocky Iwamoto ...... 285-nS5 Camera & PhOlograph,c 5upp/le- Los Angeles, Calif. 90012 characters written on them. of to Jeff because I looked 316 E. 2nd St., Lo Angeles Words are either in English Japanese. After a brief peri• 626-5681 or French. A popular T-shirt od of silence, Jeff had to ex• 622-3968 worn by thousands is black plain that I couldn't speak Eagle Produce with white block lettering• Japanese, much to his shock "JUN cool elegance" and an• and amazement. 929-943 S. San Pedro St., Los Angeles Empire Printing Co. other with "ROPE" written It seemed rather humor• 625-2101 ous and somewhat embar• COMM ERCIAL and 0 IAL PRI 'TI G • across it. It's not uncommon English and Japane ~ to see three or four people in rassing. but this experience BONDED COMMISSION MERCHANTS a group with the "JUN" T• is quite common. Unlike Is• -WHOLESALE FRUITS AND VEGET ABLES- 114 Weller St" Los Angeles 90012 628-7060 shirt in. ntirwed on Next Page r ~EA5T Japonese Phololype eUlng ~WE TOYO PRINTING CO. T 309 So. San PNlro SL Los Angel 90013 LAVERS (2 13) 626 -8153 4424 SANTA MONICA BOULEVARD LOS ANGELES CALIFORNIA 90029 Aloha Plumbing 660-0366 lie # 20 18- 0; Nanka Printing PART _U PPLI E Japanese Phototypesetting -Rep,)" Our \pen,l/lv- 2024 E. First S t. ee 4 Plays For The Price Of 3! 1948 S. Grand, Los Angele los Angeles, Ca lif. • Phone: 749-4 371 Voice the Shadows By Edward Sakamoto Sept. 21 Phone : 268-7835 Thr ~ Gene,allOll of Dlrec' ty r. d starring Mako • 1978 Rockefeller PlaYWrlght··m-Resldence. A dark mournIng . f pe,ience con fil e Jon! r..l ntatlon the echoes of a Nisei American family Shimatsu, Ogata FUKUI Frogs By Arlstoph anes Nov. 2 and Kubota Directed by Kat hl een Freeman • An antic, irreverent. risque. modern look at a classic comedy. Mortuary Mortuary, Inc. 911 Venice Blvd. 707 E. Temple St. By Leigh Kim By Kiyoshi Tanaka Da Kine Hoomalimali Jan. 25 Los Angeles Los Angeles 90012 ltwo one-acts) • Two views of li fe m Hawaii -one young, the other mature-both filled With laughter, 749-1449 626-0441 woman and 3 2 bee r Soichi Fu kui, Presiden t EIJI DUKE OGATA R. Y T KA KUBOTA James akagawa, Manager Pacific Overtures Book by John Weidman . Additional material by Apr. 26 Nobuo Osumi, Counsellor Hugh Wheeler . Directed by and starring Mako . • Music and lYriCS by Stephen Sondhei m Pl ays and performances su bject to change . MARUKYO Season T icket O rde r Form EXTR A: Guarantee your subscro ptlon by callong th e Easl West (Please Pron t or Typel Players speCia l Cha rge· Card Hot Line at 666·0867. Performance s. Please Indicate a forst chOice (I ) and an alternate Name New OtanI Hocellt chOice (21 lor performance evenings you would like to attend. Gardeo--An:ade 11 Address Ope ning Night Champagne Party Series- S21 .S0 One o f I n@- lorg e s' Se lec lions. 110 S. Loe Angela Save S6 50 o ff slnqle ticket rate. Loe Angeles - City, State. Z,p __ Thursday 2421 W, Jeffenon, LA. 731-2121 628-4369 Saturday Night Subscript.on Series-S18.50 Day Phone # Nig ht Ph one .. JO HN TY SAITO & ASSOCIATES Save 55.S0 off smgle tocl(et ra te. I would like subscrop tlon(s} to the 1978179 Season _ _ 1st weekend __ 2nd weekend __ 3rd weekend Complete Home of En tertainment at $ each Total $ _ _ _ _ Sunday N.gh t Subscroption Seroes- S17.S0 Furnlhrng ~ l Please charge my subscrop llons to Save 5S.00 off Single ti cket rate MiliawaJa o Bank Amerocard Visa 11 Masler Charge __ 1st weekend __ 2nd weeke nd __ 3rd .... eekend I .sh\~ Froday Night Subscrlpt.on Sero es-S17.S0 Sweet Shop Account it Expires Saye 55 00 off sm gle ticket rate ~ 244 E. h t St. 15 120 S. Westem Ave. __ 1st wee kend _ _ 2nd weekend __ 3rd ",eek~nd Los Angeles MA 8-4935 J ~ ardena 324-6444, 321-2123 8-PACIFIC CmZEN I Friday, September 1, 1978------,.______, I pc's people Aid to Hib akush a· bill The 1978 JACL before House JudiCiary TRAVEL PROGRAM • Business KTLA's "Gallery" smw. was elected WASHINGTON-The Mine• members are: Rocky Aokf, 39, the Japanese wres- president of the Los Angeles·based ta-Roybal bill (HR 5150), Democrats-Jack Brooks (Tex.), tler-sportsman turned restaurateur, Association of AsianJPacific Ameri· Robert Kastenmeier (\Vis.). Don Ed• is now starting another cbain-gam• can Artists (AAPAA). She also ser ves providing payments of med• Sponsored by the Nabonal Japanese Amefican Ciuens League ~ards (Calif.). John Cmyers Jr. bUng casino hotels As principal on the national board of SAG and ical services to the Hibaku• (Mich.). Joshua Eilberg CPa,). Walter shareholder of Hardwicke Co., New AFTRA. sha, Japanese Americans flowers (Ala.). James R. Mann (S C.). Open to All Bonafide JACL Members ~rchase SOI ~ Yark, he announced of John F. Seiberling (Ohio). George interest in the fonner Ritz-Carl• suffering from physical in• pet. • Government Danielson (Calif). Robert F. Drman ton Hotel at the Atlantic City Board• juries due to the atomic • Group Flights to Japan (Mass.). Barbara Jordan (Tex.). E1.iz&• walk. Another front-runner for anAt· bomb explosions of Hiroshi· bethe Holtzman eN.Y.), Romano 1.. CertaIn Flights have local administratofS as listed bebw. \antic City casinol.icense, the Howard rna and Nagasaki, is now Mazzoli (Ky.). William J. Hughes Johnson Regency Motor Hotel, is in pending before the full (N.J .). Sam B. Hall Jr (Tex.). Lama VIa JAL 7471GA100 - Round Trfp·Fare: $564- Litigation over control against Cae• Gudger (N.C.). Harold Vol.krner ~ se~ House Judiciary Committee. No. Departs from Dates sars Palace of Las Vegas. In a (Mo.), Herbert E. Harris n (Va.). Jim arate deal, Aoki and another Japa• The bill was favorably re• Santini (Nev.), Allen Ertel (Pa.). Billy 14-Los Angeles Sep 5-25 nese businessman rope to convert ported last June 12 by the Ju• Lee Evans (Ga.). Anthony Beilensoo the aging Shelburne Hotel on the (Calif.). 15-San Francisco Sep 25-Oct 16 ~ino diciary subcommittee on ad• Tad Hirota. 1447 Ada St., Berkeley. Ca 94702 (415) 526-8626 Boardwalk into a hotel next Republicans-Robert McCory year. ministrative law and gov• (Il1.), Tom Railsback (III.), Olarles E. 17-8an Francisco Oct 3-27 Tom Okubo, 1121 Lake Glen Way, Sac·to. Ca 95822 (916) 422-8749 A transplanted Gardena Valley ernmental relations, chaired Wiggins (Calif.), Hamilton Fish Jr. JACLer, Virginia C. Lee has started by Rep. George E. Danielson (N.Y.), M. Caldwell Butler (Va.), Wil· l8-San Francisco Oct. 2-23 Full her own real estate fIml, Puna Real· (D-Calif.). liam S. Cohen (Maine), Carlos Moor· Grant Shimizu. 72bO first woman proserutor when she , Arrive ot NEW International Airport (NARITA). After the entry proc..... I joined the Hawaii County staff as Ice . he is associate professor at the sei and Nisei, most third gen• , the Shadow of Hiroshima", I posseoger will be greeted ~nd tran.ferred,to 0 hOlel in Tokyo. I deputy. A graduate of Univ. of Puget chool of Social ,"" ork at the UntV of eration Nikkei are not fluent she teaches English as a sec• Sound Law School, Tacoma, she is the Il linOIS. Urbana and active with re• in the Japanese language. EXTENSION: ¥6.569 per night 'ruM.o ngn maxm.m II ond language at the Univ. of I FOR EITHER ARRIVAL OR DEPAR RE niece of former state senator Percy earch groups on the probl em and TItis communication difficul• Mirikitani. need of A ian and Pacific Amerl· California Extension and al• ty I DEPARTURE· ¥12 000 per person Sgl rm supp· ¥4560 I can sponsored by the U.. Dept of is compounded with the so taught English in Hiroshi• Holel occommodotions for ane nighl, Iransler by molorcooch from hotel to I . Health. Education and Welfare and fact that Sansei look some• I NEW Internatio"ol Airport (NARITA). I • Education ational Institute of Mental Health ma from 1960 to 1963. Prof. Ronald Takalti was appointed what similar to native Japa• For "tlrther informotion or resen;otion. please consuh your local JACl an Jose attorney George Hinoki LI ______~ I coordinator of the Asian American nese youth and also have Ja• Not only is medical care I AUlhorized Relail Trovel Age'" or Jopan Trovel Bureou In'erno'ional I Studies Program at UC Berkeley's was selected chairman of the anta Clara County planning comrrtssion. panese surnames; therefore, costly, but specified treat• Dept. of Ethnic Studies. He s ucceeds The an Jo e JACLer has been sen· ment for radiation victims is Prof. Ung-clli Willig. who returns to the assumption is often ORIENTAT1ON MEETINGS full·time teaching after serving the tn/! on the corrmissloo tnee 19-:;. made that we are able to currently not available. the LOS ANGELES-2m Tuesdays, 7 pm Cahl First Bank. 120 S San Pedro St program as administrator for two article noted. The U.s . gov- . For info call Aktra Ohno (213-4n-7490). speak Japanese. FRANCI~Third years. Takaki hails from Hawaii, SAN Thu-sdays."7 p.m .. Mas Salow Bldg .• 1765 SutEr St. • Press Row Most of the people I've en• ernrnent, on the other hand, For info. call Yuki Fudligami (415-921-5225) graduating in 1961 from the College Koji AJiyoshi editor of the Hono• $83 in Wooster, earning his doctorate in countered in Tokyo have has spent million on re• lulu Recol·d II ho died 10 I(rl' \\a. 10- search for A-bomb victims history in 1967 from UC Berkeley dueted Into the Honol\llu Pres. (Iuo·$ been quite understanding GENERAL INFORMAllON and briefly taught at UCLA. . Hall of Fan·e 0\· the elllo·l' hoard of with my lack of fluency and. in Japan where medical • Air fare (elf Aug 1, 19n) Includes round t~. S3 airport departure tax. and $20 Janice L Yoshiwara, graduate stu· 11 0\ emors reeertli y fortunately, many of the col• treatment is available free. JACL administrative fee. Adul1 and child seats seme price on any flight: infants 2 dent at Western Washington Univer· years old. 10% of applicable regular fare. I •• Charter price includes round trip sity. was appointed director of minor• lege students are able to un· airfare, tax. JACL administrative fee and may vary depending on number of pas• ity affairs at Fort Steilacoom Com· • Religion derstand a little English 'Reflections' sengers. All fa,., dI.... t/mea .ubJec:t to change. If there are any questions munity College, Ta::oma. Wash., it Cardinal Paul Yoshiro Taguchi, 76. SACRAMENTO. Calif.-A 3O-minute . regarding the Nat'! JACL Travel Committee policies or decisions. write or call Yuki which combined with my Fuchigami. Nat'! JACL Hq. 1765 Sutter. San Francisco. Ca94115 (41~21.5225) was announced by Robert Stauffer. archbishop of Osaka, will be among broken Japanese has al• film on the hardships within Japa• coUege president. She will also teach members -of the Sacred Col1ege of lowed me some amount of nese relocation centers will be srown courses in ethnic studies. counsel stu· Cardinals assembled in to elect on KXTV (10) on Sept. 3. 6:30 p.m. ------dents and develop programs. She is the successor to the late Pope Paul VI. communication and contact Portions of the TuIe Lake Pilgrimage • Information Coupon the daughter of florence Yoshiwara Taguchi studied and was ordained in with individuals,here. this past June will be included. and Dr. Andrew Yoshiwara of San Rome in 1928. became apostolic ad· Mail to any JACl·authorized travel agent. chapter travel chUperson or Mateo, Calif. ministrator of Osaka in 1940. arch· president, ·JACL Regional Office or to: bishop in 1969 and cardinal in 1973. II 1111111 III 11111 1111111111111 IIlIlIIUlIIlIIlIIlIlIlIIIIIlIlIlIIlIIlIlIlIlIlllIlIlIlIIlIlIlII1I II 1111 11111111111111111111111 11111111111111 • Entertainment Only other Japanese cardinal was the National JACL Travel Sumi Haru. producer·moderatorof late Peter Doi, archbishop of Tokyo. TAIPEI & HONG KONG 1765 Sutter St., San Francisco, Calif. 94115 z Send me information regarding 1978 for JACL'ers Nat'l JACL Flights, especially Group #.__ _ Nationwide Business and Professional Directory Oepa1s Oct, 13 from Tokyo Your buSiness card placed In each Issue here for 25 weeks (a half yean at S25 per three·llnes Name In larger type counlS as Iwo lines 6 DAYS - S595 Each additional line al S6 per lIoe per half·year penOd INCLUDES · roundlrlp airfare from Tokyo, 3 nlghlS In Hong Kong Name ______and 2 nlghlS In Taipei. transler baggage tips. hotels. Sightseeing. • Greater Los Angeles • Seattle, Wash. Taipei dinner show and Hong Kong harbor cruise With dlnoer Address, ______

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