JACL Women's Concems Committee Articles aci ic citize11 (65¢ Postpaid) National Publication of the Japanese American Citizens League News 9~ Stand: ~ # 2,474 Vol. 106, No.9 ISSN: 0030-8579 941 East 3rd St. Suite 200, Los Angeles, CA 90013 (213) 626-6936 Friday, March 4,1988
California State Treasurer Legislature Splits in Confinnation Vote, Lungren Nomination Still Uncertain
SACRAMENTO - U.S. Representa• Rep. Lungren served as chairman tive Daniel E. Lungren of California for the Commission on Wartime In• is a man with a choice. The choices ternment and Relocation of Civi• are running again for his House seat lians which examined the cir• or letting the California Supreme cumstances of the evacuation and Court decide how to interpret the relocation of Japanese Americans California Constitution to deter• and Japanese legal resident aliens mine if he is or is not the new state from the West Coast during WW2. treasurer. The dilemma is because Lungren voted against individual of the result of the confIrmation vote monetary compensation which by the California State Legislature. would be provided by H.R 442, On Feb. 25, the California Senate which resulted from the findings of vote 21 to 19 to reject the confirma• the commission. RR 442 was ap• tion of Lungren, while the Assembly proved by the u.s. House of Repre- voted 43 to 32 confIrming him. It is not completely clear whether or not Photo By Martie Quan WARRIOR WOMEN-The Asian Pacific Women's Network honored four women for their contributions to it takes both Houses of the Califor• the development of Asian and Pacific Women at their Seventh Annual Woman Warrior Awards dinner held nia Legislature to confirm a Feb. 19 at the Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles. Pictured above, left to right: Aiko Herzig-Yoshinaga, June nominee for a state post California Kuramoto, Marguerite Archie-Hudson, mistress of ceremonies Joanne Ishimine and Beulah Quo. Gov. Deulonejian, who appointed Lungren for the treasurer post, be• Asian Pdcmc Women~Networic lieves that since both Houses did not vote him down. Lungren was con• firmed as treasurer. However, oppo• Four Honored With 'Women Warrior' Awards nents to Lungren's nomination be• By Laurie Mochidome ment interned those of Japanese an• performed for community events lieve that the California Constitu• LOS ANGELES - Researcher Aiko cestry during WW2 on the basis of and eventually turned to jazz. Since tion stipulates that either House Henig-Yoshinaga and musician their race. Kuramoto's involvement in may veto the nomination. June Kuramoto were two of the Initially looking through the U.S. "Hiroshima," the first Japanese Complicating the matter is "warriors" honored by the Asian government's archives on the exclu• American jazz band has sold over whether or not Lungren would Pacific Women's Network (APWN) sion program to trace her own fam• 300,000 record albums and toured rather let the court decide his future during its seventh annual Woman ily's history, Henig-Yoshinaga even• throughout the country. or run again for the U.S. House of Warrior Awards dinner held Feb. tually discovered a report that was Crediting her family and other Representatives, which has a March Rep. Dan Lungren 19 at the Biltmore Hotel. drafted under the direction of Gen. ba'ld members with her success as 11 filing deadline. If sworn in as Inspired by writer Maxine Hong• John DeWitt, the program's com• a musician, Kuramoto paused in a treasurer, Lungren must vacate his Kingston's retelling of the legend of manding officer. The report., which heartfelt moment to acknowledge House seat Although there were sentatives in September of 1987. the original woman warrior, Fa Mu the War Department had ordered who she called the ''woman warrior" tentative plans to swear in Lungren Lungren's confirmation was ini• Lan, in her book, The Worrum War• destroyed, stated that the exclusion in her life. on March 2, it did not occur. tiallyviewed by many as a "shoe-in." rior: Memoirs of a Girllwod Amang order was necessary because Japa• "I would like to dedicate and give Should Lungren decide to go for However, because of questions G~, the APWN award recognizes nese Americans could not be phys• this award to the person who is the the state post, it is possible that he about his voting record on civil women and men whose contribu• ically differentiated from Japanese unsung heroine, the true woman could lose in comt, thus becoming rights issues, questions originally tions to their communities lead to nationals. Later, it was re-written by warrior, to my mother who just neither treasurer nor U.S. con• raised by the Asian American com• the advancement of all individuals. Assistant Secretary of War John J. passed away this month," said gressman. Ifhe decides to forego the munity, Lungren's confirmation has Upon acceptance of her award for McCloy under the rationale that the Kuramoto. "Mama was my strength treasurer spot to keep his current become one of California's most community service, Henig• exclusion program was needed be• and my back bone. She was a true job, he will face the usual risks in heated legislative cont.-oversies in Yoshinaga said: "My dictionary de• cause of the military threat posed pioneer and she was the connector the bid for U.S. representative. years. fines 'warrior' as a man who en• by Japanese Americans and legal of the East and West for me." gaged in or experienced warfare. As resident aliens. Other 'warriors' you can see, I don't fit this descrip• Until Henig-Yoshinaga's discov• Other "warriors" recognized by NEWS IN BRIEF ' tion. But I did find a synonym that ery, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the APWN included educator Mar• is more applicable and that is the legality of the order. Now, how• garet Archie-Hudson and actress 'fighter.' ever, proof of the program's racist Beulah Quo. Matsui Joins Platform Committee Fighting Adversity nature has re-{)pened cases filed Archie-Hudson serves as the as• "Like many women of my genera• against the government and led to sociate director of the Academic WASHINGTON - Democratic National ChaiIman Paul G. Kirk, Jr. has tion," she said, "I have fought adver• the filing of a class action lawsuit Advancement Program at UCLA, announced that Rep. Robert Matsui (D-Calif.) has been selected to be a sity on many fronts, as a member of by the National Council for Japa• which is designed to help minority pelmanent member of the 1988 National Democratic Convention Platform an ethnic minority, as a female dis• nese American Redress. students obtain their degrees. Be• Committee. Matsui is one of25 party and elected officials who were chosen criminated against in schools and in Henig-Yoshinaga, whose commit• fore holding this position, she by the national party to serve on the committee. Chaired by Michigan jobs because of gender and race, as ment to social justice is also evident chaired minolity education pro• governor Jim Blanchard, the committee is charged with drafting and recom• a prisoner for three years incarcer• by her involvement in Asian Amer• grams for Occidental College in Los mending the party's platform. Its 161 additional members will be elected ated by this country, by my own gov• icans for Action during the '60s and Angeles and the California State at the state level. (California will elect 14 members to serve.) ernment, based solely on my ethnic her recent arrest for protesting University system. ancestry, and raising three children against the apartheid government of Quo, a character actress, is a ACJ Opens Office as a single parent in a stress-filled South Africa, thanked APWN for its founding member of the EastlWest concrete jungle city called New own commitment to advancing the Players, the first Asian American DETROIT - American Citizens for Justice (ACJ), a Detroit-based Asian York. role orthe Asian Pacific community. theater company in the U.S. She cur• American organization, recently opened an office, th.e Asian Center for "As a fighter," Henig-Yoshinaga 'The past decade has seen signif• rently serves as vice president of the Justice, under Director David Fukuzawa. The office represents a new phase icant development and sense of United Way's Region Five Board of for ACJ, which was instrumental in bringing the killers of Vincent Chin to continued, "I did my best to over• trial. The office will continue the spirit of ACJ's early work by monitoring come these obstacles. It was well community," she said, ''which is in• Directors and is a member of the fluenced by organizations like the board of directors for both EI Nido anti-Asian violence and sentiment Other objectives include human rights past my half century mark before I advocacy, and ducation leadership development was able to make some contribu• APWN. Through unity from ac• Social Services and the United tions to this community--especially tivities, such as APWN scholarship Board for Christian Higher Educa• through my research for the Na• and leadership programs, I see tion in Asia. Ishimine, Machado to MC AAPAA Awards tional Council for Japanese Amer• great potential for our own empow• Also recognized during the even• ican Redress that culminated in a erment" ing were APWN scholar hip reci• LOS ANGELES - Joanne lshimine and Mario Machado will be co-Ma teI class action lawsuit for government Artistic Contribution pients Joyce Sanghi Jun, Hong-Hea of Cel'emonie at the fOUlth annual AAPAA M dia Awards dinner for wrongdoing against Americans of Also honored for her contribu• Kheav, Nancy Lee and Mu Dan Ping. March 21 at Ule Beverly Hilton Hot 1. I himin is a reporter and anchor for KABC-TV Channel 7 Eyewitnes~ Japanese ancestry during WW2. I tions to the Japanese American Forming a Common Vision hope that my endeavors and ac• community was June Kuramoto, News, and Machado i a seven-tim Emmy award winner for his national complishments reflect the feminist koto player for the jazz fusion group Explaining th signi/icance of the TV series. "Medix" and i a form r new anchor. spirit that guides the Asian Pacific "Hiroshima." awards ceremony, Marion Fay, elebrity presenter scll dul d to appear include Michael Landon, Joan Women's Network." Kuramoto, whose instrumentals chair of the scholarship committee, Chen, Victor French, ea sal' Romero, Rae Dawn hong, France Nuyen, Herzig-Yoshinaga, a former inter• many would say charactcrize the referred to the goals 0(' APWN. The Du tin Nguyen, David ouI. John Randolph, Debra Raffin. Richard Round• tree, KT. Stevens, James Shig ta, Mako. Juli Nickson. Finola Hugh , nee of the Manzanar camp. is I'C• band's sound, began playing the ,J 3· nonprofit organization was (ol'med sponsible for finding a document panese classical instrument at the in 1980 with the obselvance that John Reilly, Rip 1'a..vlor, Margaret e1'Y. Barbar Luna. Rosalind hiao, which proves that the U.S. govern- age of six. Throughout heryouth, she ('Olllllllll'll 011 I>II!!(' :1 Danny Kamekona and Richard Narita. 2-PACIFIC CITIZEN / Friday, March 4, 1988
Wash. Stare Governor , ------f------~------• <_ __. No. 2,474 _ , Arco Offers Aiso Scholarship , Anow 6 weeks advance notice to report address change wlth label. on front, LOS ANGELES - A scholarship death. The Los Angeles County Remarks Jolt I If you are moving / Wish to subscribe, I foundation established by the Japa• Board of Supervisors has offered a , Write New Address below. Effective date ...... , nese American Bar Association of similar $25,000 reward. Minorities I Please send the Pacific Citizen for: , Greater Los Angeles in memory of A. Los Angeles police department SEATTLE - Comments made by , 01-Yr$20 0 2-Yrs$38 03-Yrs$56 I former State Appeals Court Justice composite drawing compiled from Washington state Gov. Booth Gard• John F. Aiso will receive a $5,000 eyewitness descriptions depicts the ner at a luncheon meeting of the grant from Arco, it was announced suspect as a black male, 30 to 35 Governor's Affirmative Action Pol• ~:~;.:;~,~I~· ' . Feb.18. years-old, transient in appearance icy Committee in Olympia on Dec. i ! The 78-year-old Aiso died De• with a moustache and slight goatee: 15 were considered racist by some , All subscriptions payable in advance. Foreign: US$12.00 extra per year. t cember 29, 1987, from head injuries about 5 ft 8 in. and weighing be• and insensitive by others. r Checks payable to: Pacific Citizen, 941 E. 3rd St., Los Angeles, CA 90013 I sustained when a mugger shoved tween 150 and 160 pounds. At the meeting the governor said I, EXPIRATION NOTICE-If the lasl four dlgilS on Ihe lop raw of your label reads 0388 the SOiIay grace I him to the ground during a mid-day AlSO was a co-tounderoftheJapa• that minorities have to be willing to period ends with lhe lasllssue In May. 1988. Please renew YOlir subscrfpllon ormembe,;hlp. If membership I t hasbeenrenewedandthepape'slopS.~lifythepCofflce . __ _ _ I robbery attempt on Dec. 13, at an nese American Bar Association and work 10 to 12 hours a day if they AMlPM mini market in Hollywood. the first Japanese American judge want to advance in their jobs. He pioye;s should -;orklO;-t2hourS-g;e~~;:;nd frequ;ntly-;cts -;hl~ Arco Petroleum Products Com• in the United States. He was also told of an instance when he was a day in order to get ahead. Gladden spokesperson. pany, the marketing and refining di• the highest-ranking Nisei in the U.S. Pierce County executive of a Black said he was defending worn ell's di- After meeting with the governor, vision of Areo, has also offered a Armed Forces during World War II employee who was unwilling to lemma of family obligations that Harold Riach, president to the $25,000 reward for information lead• advancing from the rank of army pri• work overtime. made it impossible for some of them Asian American Commission, said ing to the arrest and conviction of vate to lieutenant colonel within Th..e governor said the Black em• to work extra hours. his group was satisfied with the gov- the man responsible for Aiso's three years. ployee told him, "After 5 p.m., my Dick Milne, the governor's press ernor's explanation on the subject hours are my own." That's why the secretary, said that some people governor said he didn't promote . misinterpreted the governor's re• Riach said he has some Korean him. mark and that the governor was con• clients who work from 10 to 16 hours . Following the governor, William cerned that there aren't enough a day, so he was outraged when he Gladden, head of the state Human mi{1orities in middle and upper first heard the governor's remark Rights Commission, spoke and said management, but it wasn't because Now, however, he said the governor it wasn't always possible for women they didn't work hard enough. explained himself fully and cleared to work 10 to 12 hours because of Most minorities would agree that the air. family commitments. Some people the governor's minority hiring re• Nevertheless, some representa• interpreted this comment as sexist cord appears to be good, and there tives of minority organizations said Interviewed later, Gladden said is a Nikkei on his staff as one of his they wanted to know more about the that Gov. Gardner's remarks were administrative assistants. Paul situation; the Seattle JACL is send• not racist and that he disweed with Isaki, formerly from the San Fran• ing a letter to the governor expres• the governor's comments that em- cisco Bay Area, is an assistant to the sing concern over the matter.
The individual sections of the Three Generations' Premieres in PhiHy piece are called "Issei," " Nise ~" and MIS ACHIEVEMENTS DOCUMENTED IN FILM-Loni Ding's new "Sansei," Japanese for first, second film, The Color of Honor, examines the Nisei of the U.S. Military Intel• PHILADELPHIA - Three Genem• musicians Rufus Reid, bassist, and and third generations. The first sec• ligence Service. Above are MIS men questioning a Japanese soldier. .ti.ons is an evening offilm and music drummer Akira Tani. tion, Family Gathering, written and The film will be shown in a benefit premiere March 6 at the Japan by two Japanese American artists Her music reflects those jazz directed by Lise Yasui , is a 3O-min• America Theatre in Los Angeles at 2:00 pm . Tickets are $50. who have created works, three gen• greats she's always admired and by ute film inspired by the experiences erations later, in response to the in• whom her own music has been influ• and reflections of Lise's grandpa• Movie Review carceration of their families in the enced-artists like Duke Ellington, rents in the 1940s. The musical score United States during World War n. Thelonius Monk, and McCoy Tyner. was composed and performed by 'Color of Honor' looks at the Overlooked Both pieces will receive their world In his book In The Moment: Jazz in Sumi Tonooka Yasui, who also was By George Johnston The Color oj Honor also tells the premiere on March 5 at 8:00 p.m. in the 1980's (1986), Francis Davis de• born in Pennsylvania, is a niece of Filmmaker Loni Ding's latest story of the most significant and Hopkinson Hall, at the Interna• votes a full chapter to Sum1, intro• the late Minoru Yasui and has done film, The Color of H01UJ7', tells many complex event in Japanese Amer• tional House in Philadelphia ducing her as one of the most nota• a short documentary on the Yasui stories. Most of the stories are told ican history, the evacuation and de• Sumi Tonooka is an accomplished ble young jazz artists on the scene case. - by by the people who lived them and tention of immigrants and offspring jazz pianist and composer. Pre• today. Both of these projects are original lived through them. Most of all, it is of immigrants of Japanese ancestry. sently living in Brooklyn, New York, Out oj the Silence is an original full scale works, dealing with the im• the story of the Nisei men of the Mil• This WI-minute movie begins with Sumi was born in the Powelton vil• three-movement 'musical tone pact of the internment of Japanese itary Intelligence Service (MIS) and a wider overview ofthese events, in• lage section of West Philadelphia poem,' or triptych, inspired by Americans. It is a historic event both how they served the United States cluding some background on life be• She was the 1986 recipient of the Sumi's mother and other Japanese in jazz and film, not to be missed. in the Pacific War against Japan as fore and during the internment Hemy & Chiyo Kuwahara Creative Ameticans and their experiences Admission for the evening's per• linguists, interpreters, translators More for the benefit of those who Arts Scholarship awarded by the during the 1940s. The composition formance is $12 and $10 for students, JACL National Scholarship Pro• blends traditional Japanese in• and interrogators. Continued on page 3 International House members, and gram. Her album, With an Open strumentation-the shakubachi and senior citizens. Please call (215) 387- Heart, released earlier this year, in• koto-poetry, and prose, \vith jazz 5125, ext 2219 for more information cludes Philadelphia and New York and contemporary music. 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Japanese Farplers' Winter of Discontent wheat, beans, and beets. "If the bot• WOMEN WARRIORS event, emceed by KABC-TV An• tom falls out of the market for chorwoman Joanne Ishimine, were Continued from page 1 By Sbigeru Kimura already exceeded the original potatoes, the quality and quantity of Los Angeles City Councilman Mike Mainichi Sbimbun minimum of 70 dairy cows and 30 all the other crops are bound to suf• Asian and Pacific women lack a Woo, Carson City Councilman Mike Fanners on Japan's northernmost calves. The community also boasts fer. And if agriculture goes under, , voice in the public arena. Mitoma, State Sen. Diane Watson, island of Hokkaido, already hun• automatic feeders and other state• the town's entire economy will col• Said Fay: ''The concept of the actor George Takei, Rita Walters, kered down against the bitter Sibe• of-the-art fann machinery, To pay lapse." Asian Pacific woman in this country president of the Los Angeles School .rian cold, are bracing for a gust of for this equipment, farmers ac• Consumers are also concemed is a relatively new one ... and in a District and Warren Furutaru, trade liber.UUation from cumulated debts averaging $615,400 about the ramifications of the ex• sense each woman warrior, each member of the Los Angeles School Washington that threatens to de• (at ¥ 130 to the dollar). Annual loan pected GATT ruling. "We worry scholarship recipient, contributes District stroy family agriculture repayments per family range from about the agricultural chemicals to the work of this group and sews Last year, the United States filed $46,000 to $00,000. used abroad," says Mieko Ito, a con• the thread in the rich fabric that Past recipients of APWN's a complaint with the General .Agree• Hokkaido potatoes are used to sumer advocate from Bibai city, She we're weaving to form a common vis• Woman Warrior Award include ment on Tariffs and Trade (GAm . make 00 percent of Japan's starch. voices another widespread anxiety. ion of strength, legitimacy and effec• Philippine President Corazon that Japan's import restrictions on According to prefectural au• ''We can't depend on other coun• tiveness that we achieve in our Aquino, artist Yoko Ono, actress 12 agricultural products blocked thorities, 56 percent of the island's tries for our food supply. How do we unique ways." Jane Fonda, Mayor Tom Bradley ·tree trade. In early December, a output would be undercut by im• know they'll always come through Among the 450 who attended the and author Maxine Hong-Kingston. GA'IT panel found Japan guilty on ports if starch were liberalized. In with what we need? We still re• 10 Items. 1987, the national government paid member the consumer panic• Nisei Cooperation The Japanese government has in• starch producers almost$l,OOO a ton. hoarding, high prices, shortages• COLOR OF HONOR America was in a bind. In order dicated it will expedite liberaliza• But American cornstarch costs during the 1973 oil crisis. A food em• Continued from page 2 to leam Japanese intelligence data, tion of eight items but is still balking around two-thirds that amount, and bargo would cause havoc." may notlmow much about them, the the U.S. had no choice but to ask at concessions on powdered and European Community starch is even "People are more concemed movie also spends time on the most those it imprisoned to provide a .condensed milk, and on starch, both cheaper. Starch from Thailand is about safe food than low prices," celebrated of Japanese Americans, service that, realistically, only Japa• mainstays of Hokkaido's agricul• only a fourth the price of the domes• says Junko Yamamoto of Sapporo, those of the l00thl442nd Regimental nese Americans could provide. The ture. Although a final GA'IT deci• tic orod,uct a vice-president of the Hokkaido Combat Team. As the movie prog• amazing thing is, to their credit, that 'sion has been deferred until Feb• The Tokachi region of central Consumers' Association. resses, though, the focus is mostly the Nisei did the job and did the job ruary, most observers believe that Hokkaido is a major potato-growing Nearly everyone in Hokkaido, upon the lesser known but no less welL Despite advantages over non• Japan will eventually have to lift im• area. About 7(11/0 of the farmers in . farmers and consumers alike, fears important MIS veterans, The story Japanese Americans in Nihongo, the port quotas on all 10 items. Urahoro, for example, raisE: liberalization and awaits GA'IT's of how the United States recruited Nisei MIS men still had to endure The dairy aDa potato farmers of potatoes, and the town has a large decision with trepidation. To para• Japan~c:p Arnpriran for the MTS a grueling mental trial of studying Hokkaido fear free trade will ruin starch factory. phrase Shakespeare, 1988 is the after puttmg lIlany oUts "potentIally andleamingtheJapaneselanguage them The Hokkaido Union of Ag• Hiroshi Baba, head of the Ura• winter of their discontent dangerous" Japanese and Japanese under the pressure of war. ricultural Cooperatives estimates horo agricultural cooperative, ex• -The Asia Fouruiaticm.'s Translati.an Americans into camps is a compel• Furthermore, MIS men had to that liberalizing all 12 items on the plains that potatoes are rotated with Service Center. ling one. deal with institutional discrimina• Reagan administration's original tion policies. For instance, the late wish list would throw 43 percent of John Aiso, who was in charge of the Hokkaido's 720,000 farmers and ag• PICllTR to Receive Another Grantfrom Japan This Year Japanese language schooling, had to ribusiness employees out of work temporarily become a civiljan in Last November, embattled Hok• WASHINGTON - Sen. Spark Ma• conducts and sponsors research in dent Reagan and former Prime Min• order to be in a command po ition. kaido farmers burned caricatures of tsunaga (D-Hawaii) announced Jan. elected fields of high technology ister Yasuhiro Nakasone in Tokyo The Color of Honor tells us that trust Ronald Reagan, speared straw ef• 12 that Hawaii's Pacific Interna• development and seeks to foster in• to undertake joint ventures in high by other Americans was hard won figies of the president with Amer• tional Center for High Technology ternational cooperation through technology research and develop• for the Nisei MIS men. The upside ican flags, and destroyed U.S.-made Research (PICHTR) will receive joint research with Pacific Basin ment in the Pacific region, the is that respect and admiration were farm machinery. Their anger was di• another $1 million grant from the countries. Hawaii senator said. eamed. rected at Washington, but they Japanese govemment this year. ''Word that Prime Minister Take- Draft Resisters should have saved some of their ire Japan's ambassador to the U.S., hita has approved continued sup• Japan's first $1 million contribu• The smaller story of this film is for the Japanese govemment whose Nobuo Matsunaga, telephoned Sen. POlt for PICHTR is very significant," tion wa pre ented to Governor also one that is significant but Ie er policies have failed to make agricul• Matsunaga to inform him of the con• said Matsunaga. "This mean Japan .John Waihee by Japane e Consul Irnown. It is the story of the i ei ture more competitive against im• tribution, which was discussed in will very likely contribute to General Tadayuki onoyama last who refused to erve the .S. be• ports. If the fmal GA'IT ruling goes Washington, D.C. during the visit of PICHTR for several more years• May in a State Capitol ceremony at• cau e they felt that the internment against them, farmers will suffer for new Japanese Prime Minister No• ensw'ing Hawaii' development a tended by Matsunaga, PICHTR violated their constitutional rights. this lack of foresight buro Takeshita. the focal point of high technology Chairman John Bellinger, PIeHTR Though they were eventually able Hokkajdo dairy farmers have The PICHTR, first conceived by and energy research in thePacific." President Dr. Paul Yuen, Hawaii to prove their ca e , many went to ample cause for worry. They pro• Matsunaga and established by coop• Japan' contribution reaffu'ms a Natural Energy In titute Director prison and had to deal with the duce almost 36 percent of the na• eration of the State legislature and 1986 agreement reached at Matsu• Dr. Patrick Takaha hi and othe! . tigma of cowardice or disloyalty. tion's milk prodUCts. But the prefec• former Governor George Ariyoshi , naga's suggestion between Presi- ·tural government estimates that low-cost imports would drive 82 per• cent of the island's powdered and condensed milk off the market, leav• Pacific Business J3ank ing only pasteurized milk In 1982, the central government proudly launched the so-called New Offe.rs "No-Delay" Dairy Farming Village, a settlement created in the plain stretching from Mortgage Money Nemuro to Kushiro in eastem Hok• kaido. This experiment in large• scale dairy fanning would re• volutionize the industry, the au• thorities promised. If you are looking for a low interest home loan, Pacific Business Ban k has one offer-and four guarantees-you cannot refuse. The lJluJeCt got oU to a good start Each farm has 110 to 1M acres of Because of the drop in rates, most banks have been deluged with pasture, and most housenolOs nave applications for new home loans or refinancing of existing trust deeds ". and consumers have found endless delays. "","me'Cla! & In rURN'Tum: SIIOWCAHr: THE FIRST AUTOFOCUS SLR Pacific Business Bank 2975 Wu .. hirc· Blvd" Lo~ /\nH("('~ (213) :i83-4100 • WAJlfJIJUUflE SHUWIIOOM (213) 680-3288 612 JlIl'luMJn 81" 'A). /\nS.· ..• .. , (',/\ 90012 (2131 ri20·0flfl2 111 Japanese Village Plaza - Little Tokyo 4--PACIFIC- ._ CITIZEN---= ''-Frrday, March 4,1988 ISSN: 0030-8579 ON NOVEMBER 28 of last year, Korean Air Lines Flight No. 858, KA.L.858 light of Ms. Kim's revelations, the while on the leg of its flight from Japanese constabulary has revived ~ pa~ific Bagdad to Seoul, disappeared some• its investigations by renewing inter• citizen where near the Thai-Burmese bor• views among villagers near the der. The death toll: 115. There were EAST beaches. 941 E. 3rd St, No. 200, Los Angeles, CA 90013-1703· (213) 626-6936 two passengers who survived; they WIND Published at Los Angeles, Calif. by the Japanese American Citizens League PRIME MINISTER TAKESllTA [National Headquarters, 1765 Sutter Sl, San Francisco, CA 94115, (415) 921-5225] survived because they had de• condemned the bombing of KAL every Friday except the first and last weeks of the year, biweekly during July planed before the plane continued Bill Flight 858 and the Japanese Govern• and August, and one week in December prior to the year·~md. its flight These two--a 70-year-old Marutani ment intends to impose some sanc• • Second Class Postage Paid at Los Angeles, Calif. • Annual Subscription Rates gent and a young woman rep• - JACL Members: $11.00 of the national dues provide one year on a one-per• tions against North Korea. Japan household basis. Non-Members (Regular): 1 year - $20, 2 years - $38, payable resented to be his daughter-were does not have diplomatic relations inadvance .• Foreign: add $12 US per year. Air mail-U.SJCanada: add $25 US confronted in Bahrain to be ques• South Korea this summer. In fact, with North Korea, so the customary per year; Japan/Europe: add $60 US per year. tioned. While awaiting questioning, those fanatic North Korean agents sanctions of withdrawing diploma• Tbe news and opinions expressed by columnists other tban the National President the two asked permission to smoke. or National Director·do not necessarily reneet JACL policy. set off that bomb in Rangoon in 1983 tic representatives or, more se• OFFlCERS Granted permission, they bit into a which killed a number of South Ko• verely, severing diplomatic rela• Hally H. Kajihara, National JACL President Peggy S. lJggen, PC Board Chair vial of deadly poison hidden in the rean officials. tions, are not available. Therefore, EDITORIAL - BUSINESS STAFF cigarette: the old gent expired, the Madness. Absolute madness. reportedly the sanctions will in• Hally K. Honda, General ManagerlOperalions young lady somehow survived. Just George T. JoIvlston, AssisIanI Ed~or Tom! Hoshizaki, Subsaiption, Circulation ACCORDUNG TO REPORTS in clude more stringent immigration Laurie Mochidome, Assistant Edb M8I1< Saito, Bookkeeper about that point, the news disap• the Times, Ms. Kim is contrite, wish• checks on North Korean travelers. Mary H. lmon, Produclion peared from the pages here in the Po8tnBSfa. Send Adm.a Change PacIfic CItIzen, 941 3rd St, Angeles, CA90013-1703 ing to die a hundred deaths. Japa• Annually, about 160 North Korean to: E. Loa United States. nese governmental officials pro• ships call on Japanese seaports, and Not so in Japan. ceeded to South Korea to interview prior lax immigration checks will be tightened EDITORIAL OF THE PACIFIC CrnZEN: HAVING RECENTLY TAKEN a this female agent about how she ac• subscription to The Japan Times, I've quired a forged Japanese passport I DON'T KNOW that North Ko• been scanning its pages to learn and how she managed to "pass" as reans look any different from South San Diego's House of Japan what news is being reported across a Japanese national. As for the lat• Koreans; for that matter, I don't the Pacific and how it is rated. And ter, it appears that the agent was know that any given Korean looks EDICATION rendered in capital letters was evident at the 25th annual lunch• the dastardly incident of KAL 858 trained in North Korea by a Japa• any different than a Nikkei, and vice Deon meeting of the House of Japan in San Diego held last Sunday at Harbor continues to remain as copy. You nese woman in language, etiquette versa. Since I'm told that I look like Island, where the panorama burst with sailboats, the fleet when it's docked by see, the two passengers were travel• and general behavior. And yet a Korean (however, it is that a "Ko• North Island, the still-growing downtown skyline, the graceful arch of the San ing on forged Japanese passports. another bizarre twist to the story is rean" is supposed to look like), the Diego-Coronado bridge and birds of the sea Paul Hoshi, who chaired the affair, The 25-year-old young lady, "Kim that this Japanese woman herself next time I go through customs at has been the House of Japan's president since it was established in 19m as a had been kidnapped by North Ko• Narita, it may be that this time I volunteer organization with help of members from the Buddhist and Christian Hyon Hui," and her "father" com• panion are reported to be North Ko• rean agents as she was strolling won't breeze through. churches, JACL, Gardeners' Association and cultural groups. Its roster now boasts That bombing in the skies of the some 45 clubs, kenjinkais and schools of Japanese arts, craft, dance, tea ceremony rean agents who had planted a along a beach in Japan. In fact, ap• and martial arts. bomb on the plane. The diabolical parently there have been several Thai-Bunnese border may have purpose was to disrupt the Olympic unexplained disappearances of wider repercussions that one antici• The House of Japan was started through efforts of the late Saburo Muraoka of Games scheduled to be held in women strolling the beaches, and in pated. Chula Vista and Will Hippen Jr., honorary Japanese consul general at San Diego, who just passed away Feb. ro at his home. A son of Oklahoma, Hippen, 00, was a merchant marine, earned his degree in foreign service at Georgetown University in Washington, and served with the State Department in occupied Japan until 1951, JOHN AlSO: 1909 - 1987 when he came to San Diego to enter the aircraft and insurance business. He was a founder of the San Dieg THE PACIFIC CITIZEN BOOKSHELF: Ma.saoka Book Offers a Selective History • They Call Me Moses Masaoka. Mike Masaoka with Bill Hosokawa William Morrow & Co., New York, 383 pp, $18.95 hard. By William Hohri "Moses" Masaoka stumbles from his opening use of the story of God's barring the entry of Moses into the Promised Land by making this singular prohibition against Moses into a general one against a group. The Children of Israel entered the Promised Land. Moses, because he sinned against God, did not Nor was Moses the prophet Masaoka says he was. Nor was he the speechmaker or public relations expert that Masaoka became. Moses was a liberator and a lawgiver. He was slow and hesitating in his speech, so he convinced God into using his brother Aaron as his mouthpiece. He used, of course, extreme confrontational tactics, scaring the living daylights out of the Pharaoh, by turning water into blood, summoning up invasions of frogs, maggots, flies, and locusts, and finally killing the first-borns throughout the land. He did not urge his people to co-operate with the Pharaoh. The rest of this book fails in its attempt to project Mike Masaoka and the Japanese American Citizens League into "An American Saga," but it does provide insights into one aspect of the Japanese-American character particularly as embodied in the Nisei. Among the principles Masaoka affirms are these: 1. "The greatest good for the greatest number over the longest period of time." (p. 157); 2. "Do not judge long-past decisions by contemporary values." (p. 1(0); 3. "My disagreement with Yasui [over his challenge of the curfew order) was less over policy than timing. I had been convinced the challenge must come later." All but a Handful Accepted Mike's Recommendation (p.100); '. 4- "Co-operation [with mass exclusion and detention) would be our contribution Without intending to revive a mat• ulations, denial of due process of the to the war effort and proof of the Americanism oftheJ apanese American" (p. 156); ter best laid to rest, I must ask FROM THE law, arbitrary suspension of the writ 5. "Japanese Americans, and other minorities, today would not be enjoying whether you noticed something FRYING of habeas corpus, discrimination in unrestricted citizenship rights without the Nisei record of unswerving loyalty" (p. curious in the late and lamentable PAN all its forms." That is a formidable 179); and flap over They Call Me Moses Masa• and laudable agenda 6. "If identical circumstances [to 1942) should arise tomorrow-and I pray that they never aris~hances are that I would urge the same acceptance of patriotic oka, the autobiography of Mike Bill After Masaoka left JACL employ• duty." (p. 158) Masaoka. Hosokawa ment to seek a greater measure of This account of his life illuminates these by example. He describes his childhood , While the book covered his life• security for himself and his family, and early years in Utah, his role with the JACL during the critical wartime years, time of intense activity and ac• he had an impOltant part in the re• the exploits of the 442nd Regimental Combat Team, the legislative victories sup• complishments, virtually all of the tion order. In reality made no vival of Japan's economy. In view of ported by the J ACL, and his encounters with prestige and power to validate thellt - criticism was focused on the deci• decisions. His role as an employee the staggering U.S. trade deficit, In this last capacity, he may follow after Moses. Like Moses, who had the chutzpah sions Masaoka advocated dw-ing a of JACL was to make a recommen• there may be reason to wonder ifhe to negotiate with the Almighty and to share in numerous conversations with the few weeks in 1942--46 years ago. dation, which was to cooperate. It weren't too successful. On the other Nameless One, Masaoka drops name after name of enator, congressman, judge, That was a time of confusion, fear, was endorsed at an emergency hand, contemplate the burden we ambassador, general, admiral, capitalist. attorney, and others. Perhaps,like Moses, high emotion, paranoia, partial meeting of JACL representatives, he wants to be not merely credible but compelling. But I think his excesses in would be facing today if postwar self-promotion may prevent all but the gullible from being compelled; most will paralysis and irrationality induced and accepted by all but a handful Japan had turned out to be an ponder this account as revelation into the contradictions in the Nisei character. by Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor. of the 115, the idea of a full-time legal counsel to support a harmoniou and con i - For th present, th idea of a legal LEGAL COUNSEL would have been beyond the reach tent presence to bring a pres ure on t am me ting the need of the JA L of JACL. However, at the present legislators and jurists that are in ha worked velY well. To enumerat Continued from prevIoua page time, a full-time civil rights lawyer Washington, D.C. th number of is ues and ituation based specifically in Washington, I see that th LEC board and op• that the PI ('nl legal COUll el and every time a new legal counsel D.C. would bring this organization eration form an excellent model tor the ubcouns('l have partkipat din comes on board. into the reality of how civil rights the operation oftheJACL in the pre• would double this m1id and they To meet the present and future organizations get things done. In 'ent and lUlur . With I s lhan al' very wen documented in oth r legal needs of the JACL, it must be suggesting this I ('an only say that twenty five percent of th JACL r pOl1 . understood that if non-attorneys this is not what I see as a good idea, budget, the LEC maintains a continue to oversee the legal prob• I see this as a musl We cannot allol'd Washington, D.C. prcscnce, ('al'l'ies 1 want to thank at thi. time th lems of this organization, we will to leave our ability to respond to on lobbying, does I\md-rai ing, has UbCOlll1 el who has done an out• continue to be bumped around with civil rights i8sues with a letter of organized a grassroots organization standing job in thc advice to me and our legal picture appearing more support and a vote on the board. and maintains a very good mi' of the organization. WhC'n 1 was otht'r• like a mine field that a new legal Washington, D.C. is where the ac• bOUI Nisei and San. ei who work wise involved in pel onnel issues. counsel must enter at his peril. tion is in civil rights. Both Nisei and quite hannoniously on redress and r view of appeals, I't'view of all I can understand that at one time Sansei alike and future Yonsei need a variety of civil l'l~hts issues. . board documents, ovel. ecing all _~ __~_C_IF_IC_CI~~_U~~_I_Fr_ld~ay~. _ M~ _ a_rc_h~4._1Y __8 __ ------NEvvsMAKERS------SELECTIVE dress Committee of the Seattle Chapter of the JACL researched HISTORY and fonnulated the demand for re• Continued from page 5 dress and pressed the national and his history is flawed. One enol' JACL to adopt redress as its pro• leads to another. He fails to ac• gram. The National Council for Ja knowledge the informant role of panese AmerIcan Redress was leaders of the JACL in providing the fonned in 1979 in opposition to the FBI with names of persons whom JACL's decision to switch from seek• these leaders felt had suspect loy• ing redress legislation to establish• alty. He states, "We were never in• ing a congressional study commis• fonners in the sense that we ran to sion. NCJAR subsequently went on the FBI with information in hopes to initiate a class action lawsuit on of cunying favor." What he fails to behalf of the entire class of Japa• state is what they did when con• nese-American victims. The case fronted by the FBI for concrete de• has been in the Supreme Court, is monstrations of their loyalty by pro• now in the Federal Circuit Court of viding names of suspicious persons. Appeals, and will probably return When-so confronted, leaders of the to the Supreme Court. The National JACL did name names. He then im• Coalition for RedresslReparations plies that the Manzanar uprising was formed in 1980 and has played Kitagawa Kaji Itatani was caused by the decision of the a significant role in raising the is• JACL to support the reinstitution of sues and lobbying for legislative re• ~ Keith M. Kitagawa of Irvine, Calif., the JACL SELANOCO Chapter. treasurer of the City of Gardena. The Selective Service. The uprising was dress. I am at a loss to understand has received an appointment to the ~ Tim Tadashi Itatani, 33, is the first real estate consultant is president caused by an attack on a person sus• why he omits mention of Con• United States Naval Academy at Yonsei to be selected as general of Japanese American Minority En• pected of infonnant activity and by gressman Mike Lowry's vigorous Annapolis, Maryland, Class of 1992. chainnan for the 48th annual Nisei terprise, Inc., a member of the board the unrestrained use of deadly force support of redress legislation and Kitagawa, a senior at University Week Festival to take place Aug. 6- of directors of Project Restore and by the military police. names only five of the nine mem• High School, is an honor student 14 in Los Angeles. a board member of the Los Angeles He diminishes the heroic and his• bers of the Commission on Wartime with a G.PA of 4.03 and a member ~ Jonathan T. IDtii, business, Baptist City Mission Society. He is toric role of the draft resisters by Relocation and Internment of Civi· of the AS.B. Cabinet His parents, church and civic leader, has re• also a 3-tenn president ofthe JACL arguing that their resistance had no lians. Harry and Carol, are members of cently announced his candidacy for Gardena Chapter. effect on subsequent legislation, as Much of what Masaoka has to say though the modest legislation vic• are no more than one man's opinion, tories he supported were of more interesting to him perhaps but SAMURAI view, conveys the essence of Japa• not only had access to Japanese nese melancholy. However, be enduring significance than the will• hardly authoritative, despite his un• Continued from page 5 comic books, but those who could ingness of these men to go tQ prison relenting name-dropping. For good forewarned-preconceived notions read Nihongo. Now, thanks to First to preseIVe their constitutional and for ill, the contributions that to grab readers, Suddenly, Ogami is based on American comic books Publications, Americans can enjoy rights. It was their imprisonment for Masaoka has made through his life not just a "killer on the run," but a may set you up for a shock Lone Wolf a comic book that can be read by constitutional principle, not the loy• are substantial. But I get the sense father, a man who loves and protects and Cub, since it is a samurai drama adults without embarassment It's alty of the JACL and Masaoka to that he is a man whose ideas are his family. is also one of the most graphically that good. their government, that anticipated frozen in time. When our Constitu• Throughout the comic series, the violent comic books you may ever * * * the imprisonments of the 19605 that tion was being threatened, he made storytelling of Kazuo Koike is mas• see (the Japanese don't have a Those of here at the Pacific Citi• led the way to sweeping victories in the decision to submerge the threat terful and cinematic, far deeper and "Comic Book Code" like we have zen would like to take this opportu• civil rights for blacks and other with an appeal to patriotism. Given more profound than any comic book here). Since it is in black and white, nity to wish the best of luck to our minorities. Loyalty to the Constitu• the failure of most liberal and civil you may ever read. The dialogue is your imagination makes the story former advertisinglbusiness man• tion, not government, undergirds rights groups to see the threat and kept to a minimum, allowing the even more powerful You might not ager, Rick Momii. He just left LA our freedom. Archibald Cox, in The the enonnous hostility towards J a• reader to savor the illustrations of want to buy this for your children for the San Francisco area to be Caurt and the Const:itutimt, writes: panese as a perceived racial group, Goseki Kojima. He employs or grandchildren. with his lady love. ''The roots of constitutionalism lie that decision is understandable. He brushwork, pen and ink, and ink Since it's original inception back In addition his daily chores, Rick in the hearts of the people." now claims, even with the benefit of washes to convey just about any in the 1970s, Lone Wolf and Cub was handled the difficult task of Holiday Masaoka's account of the repeal hindsight, that were history to re• mood and effect desired. Some only known to but a few Amer• Issue advertising. We miss ya al• of Title II and the redress movement peat itself, he would still make the pages have as many as 8 panels, icans-those comic book fans who ready, buddy. is simply inept He omits mention same decision. And that is sadden• while sometimes one complete il• of key players and organizations in ing. lustration covers two pages. CA.~.'LL II · S Check out, for instance, page 59 of ED SATO 1 ". both events. The key players in the PLUMBING & HEATING Wi11i.am Hohri heads the Chicago• jI r~ _ issue seven. That one page, with a Remodel end Repeirs, Water Heaters repeal were Raymond Okamura based NaOOnal Cauru:il jor Japan£Se I Across St. John's Hosp_ few strokes and a creative point-of- Furnaces, Garbage Disposars '-and Edison Uno. Key organizations American Redress. I 2032 Santa Monoca Blvd. were the Asian American Political Serving Los Angeles. Gardena Santa Mon,ca. 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City /State/ZIp ______• . :92645 - (114)895-4654 ! , PHONE : 408 I 246-21n Phone ( ) o Work Gl Home ------International Women's Week Section.______F_fi_da_ Y_,_M_a_fc_h_4,;...,1_9_8_8_'_P_AC_I_FI_C_C_IT_IZ_E_N.:-_ · _7 Mirror, Mirror, on the Wall ... JA Women Today: The Personal/the Political By Mei Nakano submit candidate for beauty con• By Peggy Saika bucket of dishes up two flights of tests. anc\ they will ha ha in your When I was £h'St asked to write stairs so she can wash them. This is EvelY year, right after grey winter face. Why then, isJACL, a civil rights this article, my first response was, the Asian community I see. gives way to dazzling pring, comes organization, involved in beauty "Are you sure I'm the right person?" The same conditions exist for the Cherty Blossom Festival in San contests'? Now this is not out of extreme hum• Asian women. While some of us Francisco. This year, however. this JACL's involvement in this activ• bleness or my being "nihonjin." have become lawyers, doctors and major cultural event comes with a ity, I am told. began in pre-WW 2 Rather it is out of my deep belief other professionals, the vast major• significant difference: fe tival co• Los Angeles when, in an effort to that each one of us as Japanese ity of us work in clerical, service and chait'S Steve Nakajo and Yukio boost business in Lil Tokyo, local American women, as Asian women, light industry related jobs. We com• Murakami amlOunced that the merchants (many of them JACLers) has experiences to share, stories to prise 4(}.50 percent ofthe total Asian Queen Pageant would be elimi· hatched up the idea of a queen con• tell, lessons to teach each other. workforce. We sew and wash . nated in favor of a co-educational test for the annual Nisei Week Fes• As I began to conceptualize my clothes, clean hotels and houses, contest for two scholarships. Whoa. tival. Queen candidates were nomi• remarks, I thought what should I em• wait on tables, type letters, take care You can imagine how this an• nated; chits were issued for pur• phasize. Should I write about my bi• of the children, the elderly, the ill. nouncement rattled the community. chases from these merchants which cultural marriage? My work with the Over 55 percent of the Asian Law The vernacular newspapel'S picked could then be exchanged for votes Asian Law Caucus? My involvement Caucus clients are women, most of up on the resulting brouhaha, the for the queen. This produced the with women's groups? My political whom are in their late 40s to early tabloid Asian Week, for instance, de• rather loony result of the richest or perspective? The struggles of trying Peggy Saika 70s. The majority are immigrant, voting over two pages banner-head• most influential "beauty" becoming to balance work, family, community monolingual and work in the gar• lined: "The Queen Is Dead?" the queen. The contests also pro• activism? anti-Asian violence and the overall ment and restaurant industries. The lines have long been drawn duced some pathetic side effects. At Time Tempers Idealism rise of anti-Asian sentiment The They are mostly secondary wage on the debate over beauty contests. least one candidate that I know of That's when I realized that the fatal stabbing of a Vietnamese high earners, generally non-unionized On the one side you have the defen• was sent by her parents toJ apan-at personal and the political are so in• school student in Davis, the brutal and sometimes face the threat of de• ders of this "American institution" some considerable fmancial sac• tertwined that I cannot separate murder of Vincent Chin in Detroit portation. They are easy prey for who will tell you that it's a tradition rifice-to get her eyes "doubled" to them. and the subway killing of an Asian abuse and exploitation by employ• . that shouldn't be tampered with; compete in the contests, and I know When I first started working in the woman in New York City are all ers. This is the Asian community I see. that there is nothing wrong in of more than one household in community in 1970 in Sacramento vivid reminders ofthe history ofvio• What does all of this mean? I think . awarding feminine beauty; that the which sacks of rice became stacked developing programs for the el• lence against Asians stretching back it means that we may think that contestants are not judged on phys• to the ceiling in order to pile up vot• derly-the Issei, I was young, to the 19th century. we're very removed from all of these ical attributes alone, but must pos• ing chits. idealistic, a crusader-I wanted to Beyond the blatant physical vio• issues, but Vincent Chin was killed sess talent, be intelligent and I remember as a pubescent teen• change the world. I'm still idealistic, lence, there has been the more sub• by two unemployed auto workers poised; that the queen enjoys many ager gazing at the glossy photos of but time has tempered idealism tle attacks such as the "English who thought he was Japanese and benefits from winning, including these models of beauty displayed in with realism. I still want to change Only" movement and renewed nega• blamed him for problems in the that' of broadening her horizons; store windows, tlying to mine the the world, but I now realize what a tive stereotyping of Asian culture by auto industry. It does not matter and that the community benefits . mysteries of what it was that consti• long term process this really in• the media and the Hollywood film whether you are a recent Cambo• from the contests as a means of sol• tuted beauty. In a sense, these volves. industry. dian refugee or a third generation idifying togetherness. women, whom I knew absolutely Looking back, in 1970 there were I'm sure all of you who support Sansei attorney, you will still be Physical Image Still Most Important nothing more about than that they few if any social services for our redress/reparations have felt and asked where you were born and how Oh, give us a male! say those on were regarded as beautiful and that communities, no health clinics, no heard all the racist, negative com• you learned to speak English so . the other side. Admit it: no matter they were thus esteemed by the Asian Law Caucus, no Women's ments opposing such a move by Con• well. For Asian women, even if we what the other virtues of the queen, community, became my role mod• Concerns Committee of the J ACL It gress. wiped out violence against Asians the single most important factor of els. Never mind that they might have was the massive social movements AcJmowleding the Struggling in general, there would still exist the contests is the physical image. possessed intelligence, or talent, or of the '60s and '70s which were actu• We may want to believe that we violence against Asian women be• A woman has to be born with the wit Never mind that they were ally grounded in the Black Civil are the model minority, that we are cause we are victims of both domes• "right" physical components, put to• being exploited by commercial in• Rights movement that sparked our all as Asian Americans, educated, tic violence and racist violence. gether right, to be a contestant in terests. All I was interested in, liter• national consciousness, gave birth affluent, middle America There is For Asian women of my genera• the first place. No matter how smart, aHy, was their face value. to large-scale organiting in ethnic no denying that we should be proud tion, it is important to realize that how self-possessed, how great a You get the point In my inno• communities and began to develop of our accomplishments but, at the our consciousness was raised in re- pianist she is, a woman will not get cence, I was surely being con• an understanding of the contribu• same time, we should also acknowl• . sponse to the racism in ow: society. a foot in the door of the contest un• ditioned to the notion that looks was tions of women. edge the large sector of our commu• Unlike women in the broader or less she has the other. Aren't there important, perhaps more so than any We created an entire infrastruc• nity which is still struggling ''white'' women's movement who be• some screwed up values here? You other feature a woman might pos• ture within minority communities in Three out of five Asians in came involved in response to sexism should also admit that the winner sess. I have had to struggle to rid order to provide services and pro• America today are immigrants and or gender inequalities, it has been is most apt to be one who most re• myself of that shallow notion and, grams that were relevant to our folk. the Asian American population has a very different experience for sembles Miss America-slim, tall, quite frankly, have not even now The term "Asian-American" was more than tripled since 1970. In 1970 women of color. We have been in• round-eyed and light-skinned, a completely succeeded. I am still coined for the purpose of identity there were more American-born volved \vith community issues. look not exactly inherent in mostJ a• prone to knuckle under the assump• and empowerment Sure, we all than foreign-I;>orn Chinese in the We've fought for services and pro• panese American women. And tion that looking good makes me feel know we're Japanese, Chinese, Ko• U.S. In 1985, over 65% are immi• grams, built organizations and most about benefits-most of these go to good about myself. And it doesn't rean, Filipino, Pacific-Islander, Vie• grants; over 80% of the Koreans, ()1% importantly, struggled to empower the winner, not to the community. help that the world around me con• tnamese, Laotian, Cambodian, but of the Filipinos, 70% of Asian In• our communities. But the ultimate lunacy: pitting face stantly reinforces that assumption. as Bill Hing, one of the attorneys we dians, and 28% of the Japanese are And in thi process we have had against face, body against body in a IftheJACL began its involvement work with, has said, "We need a com• immigrants. Many of these immi• the opportunity to develop and em• race to determine the ultimate with beauty contests in order to help mon identity--one that recognizes grants face the same problems that power ourselves. And to ultimately beauty, as if beauty can be defined, stimulate local business, it does not our commonalities and respects ow' . faced our Issei when they first came understand how it is the combina• quantified and given its just due. It's now have the same motive. Now, it differences." Why do we need to do to this country. tion of racism, sexism, and a bizarre carry-over of the western would seem, beauty contests "are this? Because this has been and con• So while I read in the papers how economic status that work against Snow White myth in which The Evil tradition," they ''bring the commu• tinues to be a direct response to the well we are doing, I also go into one u . Queen relies on a mirror to satisfy nity together," and "bring benefits racism that exists in this society. of the buildings where the Asian I know this all seems so obering, her neurotic need to know "who is both to the queen and the communi• Racism Alive and Well Law Caucus is representing tenants so serious, but it's also an exciting, the fairest of us all." ty." You have to call these to ques• It is important to realize that the living in sub-standard conditions. I challenging period when we can All Hell Broke Loose tion. racism which put us into concentra• see 25 units, 1 common kitehen, learn from our past experiences, The recounting of this debate is Not All Traditions Are Positive tion camps during WW2 is alive and families of four to five or more utilize our contacts, build coalitions, hardly exaggerated. At no time was First, not all so-called traditions well today. The decade of the 80s crowded into one room, a little girl put our skills to the best use and this more evident than when the are positive. Take, for example, the has marked the re-emergence of about 7 years old carrying a plastic Continued OIl page U Women's Concerns Committee of tradition of slavery, or long-standing NCWNP JACL put forth a resolution roles assigned to women and men. at a Tri-District meeting in 1985 to All human conditions bear careful "strongly urge all chapters within examination and if they do nothing Women and the Courts the Tri-District area from sponsor• to enhance lives, they should be nip• ing candidates for beauty contests" ped in the bud before they ever be• By Peggy Uggett Major lawsuits have been succe s• considering, among other things, come traditions. Breaking tradition The women of America have fu] in recovermg millions of dollars that such contests contained dis• comes hard to the Japanes&-by looked to the courts as well as to by women in instances where they criminatory rules (such as requiring tradition, if you will. All the more legislative bodies to seek recogni• have been denied raises or promo• contestants to have at least one par• credit to the chairpersons of the tion that they are entitled to qual tions or hiring where no objective ent who was 100%Japanese) in blat• Cheny Blossom Festival for their protection and dignity under the basis for uch unequal treatment ant violation of J ACL's goals of civil courage. law. wa shown. rights and fairness. As for the claim that contests The last twen~ years have seen In 1986, sexual hal1'assment on All hell broke loose. Though we bring the community together: significant improvement in the the job was recognized by the had directed the resolution atJACL I'bringing the community together" status of women as they have begun United Stat s Supreme Court as a chapters, it hit the fan and every JA means bringing people together in to take their place in formerly male sex discriminatory act in violation vernacular newspaper in the area a common interest, like working on exclusive professional and social of Tit! VII of the' ivil Rights Act. as well as two pages in the Hawaii an elder citizen's project, say, in enterprises. JanualY 1987 was a ignificant Herald carried the debate; it even which people work together for the State and federal civi l rights laws time lor wom n, when the Unit d resonated as far as a major radio good of the whole. It's a collective have been passed prohibiting s x Stat s Sup!' me ourt uph Id tho station (CBS) in Seattle, which inter• effort which results in a !ong.term discrimination and educational in• Califomia law that l' quires an m· viewed us. In spite of all that com• cementing of relationships. Beauty stitutions that receive federal 01' ployer to grant a pregnant emplo motion, we were forced to table the contests, by their velY scll ~ serving state funds. up to lbul' month pregnancy leav Peggy Liggett resolution for lack of votes. Even so, nature, hardly fit that description. The Fair Employm nt Opport.u• enabling her to r tain hOl'soniority we felt we had "done good" for we Finally, while it's truc that beauty nity Act of um, and later cxtcn· and related mploymenl statu . before the court , But. th wOl'kgoe. had at least put the sacred cow on contests do bring short term be• sions, spcciflcally prohibits sex dis• Ther a1' ctln ntly pending over on hecal! it is til I to be done. the table to be disemboweled. nefits and glory to the winner, those crimination in employmont includ• ont' hundl' d ca es which asses thc By the year 2000 we look to a \ orid The pageant and all that it means rewards arc mostly matcrial, the ing major industries, corporations status of wom 11 in thi cOllntly b where . consid ruble Pl'ogl ha tells us a lot about our oddities, our glOlY short-lived. "Beauty," says Dr. and univCl'Sities. Women are lore state and f del'al courts. been made and th world will be a innocence and our mind-sel Ask Robin Lakoff, a professor at U.c. guaranteed equal treatment in hir• Those who use tll . court syst m more lmll1an(' place whet p opl any civil rights organization like the Berkeley, "is sometimes the only ing, promotional and pay oppor• know that thore will be triumph a can xp , t equal protection and dig• NAACP or B'nai Brith if they ever ContfnUCld 011 page 8 tunities. w 11 as failures in issu s Pl sent d nity as a basic right 8-PACIFIC CInZEN I Friday. March 4. 1988 ------....;;.;.,---.,;.------International Women's Week Section------a martyr. One can't do it all. Accept Caring for the Caregiver help, especially if it's sincerely of• A Nikkei Looks at the Japanese fBy Lucy Kishaba are all stubborn and set in their fered. Seek and obtain help from Recently I overheard a conversa: ways." Become familiar with the other members ofthe family. I know Women's Movement tion between two fathers lamenting changes that occur emotionally and of one family whose father has a By Chizu Jiyama women, and 78% of the working the teen years of their children In psychologically as well as physi• church member look V1 on him in women replying favorably. the course of the discussion a ques• cally. How can we help the parent the mornings and then sends him While in Japan, I asked my niece' Before WW2, Japanese women tion was raised, "What about the who has lost a spouse, his health off to the adult day center. Each if she could introduce me to some had very few rights. Feudal customs other end of the spectrum-tbe 70 andlor familiarity of his environ• evening he has supper at one of the women active in the feminist move• still prevailed in patriarchal family and OO-year-olds?" One of the ment? An understanding of the children's homes. Fortunately he ment Kimiko is a wonderful mother systems, where males acted as fathers expressed concern regard• losses suffered can be helpful in our has seven children: each one taking of two teen-age children, wife of an heads of families. and womp,n hlld ing.his father who was recently hos• approach to helping the elderly in a day of the week, thereby dividing engineer, an officer in her PI' A, and status only as mothers. Feminist pita,uzed for an unknown diagnosis. coping. Maintain an open, tw~way the responsibility equitably. There works part-time in the junior high movements such as the Western The', other deplored his mother's communication. Understandably, are numerous resources available school. "Fujin undo desu kaT' she Women's Temperance League chariges in behavior: "She is down• one with Alzheimer's Disease or in the community from a few hours asked, looking puzzled. "I don't sprang up in the Meiji era in the right mean to my brother with whom another who has sustained the loss to all day to respite care when tbe think we have any in our area." late 1880s primarily to combat al• she lives!" of speech would have difficulty caregiver can take some Rand R (Sagata is a suburb of Hiroshima.) coholism, eliminate prostitution, More and more will the concerns doing so, but it's important to con• (rest and rehabilitation). Set time And although she and my relatives and to agitate for women suffrage. and is$ues of the elderly become tinue communicating by speaking, schedules for when care will be asked around in Hiroshima, they With the occupation of Japan by prevalent as the older population touching or using other forms of given and also set time aside for could not come up with a name or the U.S. after WW2, and the adop• increases. Today 12 percent of the communication Be interested in yourself and adhere to it as closely an organization. tion of the new constitution in 1947 population is described as over 65, what elderly individual have to say as possible. Seek support groups to There is no broad women's move• which gave women equal rights, and it will continue to grow as im• and respond appropriately. If time establish or to develop a network ment in Japan that compares, for there was a flurry of feminist ac• provements are made in modern does not permit conversation now, Believe that you are doing the best example, to N.O.W. (National Or• tivities. In the nrst postwar election medicine: and in the delivery of then by all means return later. you can and do not allow others to ganization of Women) in the U.S., in 1949, thirty-nine women were health care. Contra!)' to popular be• send you on a guilt trip. nor is there a strong consensus elected to the National Diet lief, manY elderly family members Recognize the fact that the care• Finally, caregiving can be a joyful about the effects of feminism in In recent years, political careers are cared for by their immediate or giver is also in need of emotional experience, especially when ap• their lives. Again, this is in contrast for women received a shot in the extended families. At an intergener• support Anger, guilt, frustrations, proached with a positive attitude. to a recent Gallup poll in the U.S. arm with the election of Takako ational conference on aging held in one's own vulnerability to aging, and True, it is not a bed of roses, but that seven out of ten American Dol\, an attractive, pinball-playing Sonoma County a few years ago, anxiety will occur. Be aware that the there will be moments of laughter, - women feel they have benefitted woman, as head of the Socialist many of th~ Sansei said, "I don't recipient can be manipulative, that memories recalled, and most of all, from the women's movement; with Party, the flrst female leader of a want to see my parents in a nursing problems will arise. Be realistic, not love. a high of 92% of the professional major pol itical party. A charismatic, home." But do we as children of el• articulate and intelligent woman, derly parents realize the enormous she has received national and inter• implications of such a statement? The Changing Nikkei Fiunily national media coverage. She is cur• As it often happens in life, unex• rently serving her seventh term as pected circumstances make us un• By Alice Nakahata what decisions are made about of both kinds. Hiring a "nanny" is a member of the House ofRepresen• prepared for occurances such as Becoming parents has never been work Some may remember Mom as expensive and finding someone tatives; immediately after her elec• taking on the role of a caregiver. I an easy task, but for today's Sansei full-time homemaker. Others may whom you trust requires persis• tion as chairperson of the Socialist might add ' here that Eleanor and Yonsei entering the family have had working mothers but usu• tence and luck Currently, both our Party in September 1986, party up• Polansky, in ~er book Women's Is• scene, there are questions that arise ally when the children were older, government and private industries port increased by 4%. sues and Social Practice, states that and decisions to be made that may or when there were other famjly are not addressing the problem of In the latest prefectural assembly it is usually th~ woman in the family be very different from those that members available to care for them, child-care. elections. 52 female candidates who assumes this role. Financial ob• confronted their Issei or Nisei par• or the nature of the work allowed Questions About Identity were successful, as compared to 30 ligations, career concerns, the ents. If any generality can be made, the children to be present at the in the previous campaigns. "empty nest" syndrome, it is that there is no typical Nikkei work place. (How many of us played Another area of concern for our In a very revealing interview in menopause, retirement and even family. under the watchful eye of our work• young families is the question of the Japan-Asian Qoorterly Review failing are aITlong the areas of con• One central issue is that of the ing mothers in restaurants or stores identity. Because so many mar• (Fall, 1986) Akiko Yanagiya spoke cern in our own lives. Despite the working mother. Can we afford not or in the fields?) riages are inter-ethnic or inter-ra• about her election to the Municipal situation we rpay find ourselves in, to have me work? Should I stay home Currently, some of our young cial, the introduction of children Assembly of Fujiasawa we do cherish our independence full-time with. the baby like my Mom women are choosing to stay home brings a host of new questions. WJud. She supports projects for the and self reliance, certainly no more did? Should I go back to wark when while their children are very young, family ce~brations do we observe? And aged, the handicapped, and the pr~ than our parents who have arrived my accumulated sick ~ave ru;ns out? consciously deciding to live more _ with whom? To what la1'lflUl1{les is OUT tection of the environment In her at the threshoJd in their lives where Will I still have my job if I tak£ a ~ave frugally in exchange for the knowl• child exposed? WJud. is the dominant desire to demyst:i1y politics and to they must give up this privilege due farfiyurmonths? If I choose to drop out edge that they are a vital part of la1'lflUl1{le in OUT houselwld? 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Friday, March 4, 1988 / PACIFIC CITlZE~9 ------.International Women's Week Sectionl------..:...... ~.=....:....:...:...:.:..:..:::.:.~...:..-...::....------=.- tion of the city's rapid growth, I de• my own pharmacy provide the pre• cided the new place would be lo• scriptions and pharmaceuticals to The Joy of Business cated north and found a site at the the hospital. To successfully fulfill fringe of the city. Today, it is practi• this position and also to enjoy the By Mae Takahashi of the family. The hard and tedious During this phase I was able to cally the geographical center ofthe opportunity to test my potential in farm work instilled in me the discip• develop the essential tools and city. Thus, it was a good decision in the area of clinical pharmacy, 1 When I was asked to write an ar• line that later guided me through aI,>ply them to the challenges in the terms of a market area. lrnew I had to scale down my busi• ticle for the Pacific Citizen to cele• school and that has helped me as a business. I realized my potential The challenge to manage two nesses. This led to the decision to brate International Women's Day, it businesswoman. was manifesting itself more and businesses was overwhelming, but sell one of the pharmacies. 1 was forced me to reflect on the years I've First Real Job more. This process is the main joy stimulating. The real challenge for back to one business and I was on been in business. I never thought My first real job was in a local of being in business. One of the me with the expansion was to shar• my way to a new challenge. During being in business was something hospital in Fresno, Calif I was very things I remember creating was a pen my skill& to manage and lead a this transition, I learned that small unique I engaged in as a woman, fortunate to interview with the med• large number of employees. I found is beautiful. I began to have more but rather something I've enjoyed ical director of the hospital who this responsibility was consuming a time for getting involved in commu• through the years. This article is not created a position for me as a stu• lot of my time. I was managing em nity service activities. written to view my career from the dent intern in the hospital phar• ployees to manage my businesses Comfort Phase _. standpoint of success, but rather macy. Another person who played and I realized 1 was caught in a situ• The last nine years I have been from the joy of achievement and an active part in my life during this ation where I spent all my time set• at the comfort phase of my career. also as shared experiences in the phase was Dr. Masao Yamamoto, a ting policies and it was taking away The comfort phase is the luxury to world of business. very close family friend who was my from my time to be creative and in• take on risks without the worry of The Preparation Phase mentor. novative. finances. During this phase, I was As I reflected on my years as a I believe it was during this phase Prospering able to create a balance within my• professional in business, it dawned where the most contributions were In spite of my feelings, the self and between all aspects of my on me that I have gone through cer• made to my attitude and character businesses continued to prosper life. I started to feel I had reached tain phases to get to where I am now. as a person. I shared my parents' and I continued to go with the flow. the apex of this joy of business and The first was the preparation phase. values and I learned to appreciate During this period, I was still spend• of achievement I am not sure what Of course, my parents were very in• the richness of my heritage. I feel the next phase will be, but I'm look• that it gave it also gave me the com• ing time as a consultant pharmacist fluential during this period I was at the skilled nursing facility and ing forward to more experiences by born on a farm in Clovis, Calif., the petitive edge in business. taking advantage of the oppor• Phannacy Business had become good friends with the' youngest of eight children My par• administrator. He was expanding tunities and challenges the world Two months before I completed ents valued the work ethic, service his business to a five-story facility never fails to offer. I want to stay to their community, living by the my doctoral studies, I was offered Mae Takahashi challenged an opportunity by Dr. Yamamoto to to accomodate 400 patients. He en• teachings of their rel'igious faith, drug information service in the To conclude this article, I am com• venture into a pharmacy business. I gaged my services to design the med and providing the necessities for pharmacy for a pediatric group. rooms and to develop a drug distri• pelled to address the issue of the accepted without hesitation and a . their children to prepare them for After working nine years in my bution system for the new facility. status of women in business. It is month after I graduated I was in bus• the world. Education being the key business, I felt the urgency to ex• naive to accept that businesswomen iness, fmding myselfinstantiy in the This task was very rewarding be• to that goal, they sacrificed and pand and move into a second risk do not have some unique disadvan• learning, leadership and risk ph• cause it allowed me to be creative worked against great odds to phase. Coincidentally, a pharmacist and innovative and to actually see tages. But I am encouraged to see ases all at once. In my doctoral pro• achieve that for us. My parents made friend who was retiring and who my plans and programs im• some positive changes in the at• gram I pursued the clinical practice it possible for me to attend U.C. Ber• owned a full line pharmacy/gift shop plemented. And eventually I be• titude toward women in business keley for my undergraduate studies of pharmacy instead of the commu• business a few blocks from mine of• and that the atmosphere for women nity or retail practice of pharmacy. came one of the partners in that ven• and to complete my education at fered to sell me his business. I ture. in business is improving. This is U.C. Medical Center, San Francisco, So, there I was in a community prac• formed a partnership with Joyce happening because in this world the tice in business. I can't recall if at Financial Rewards Phase Pharmacy School, where I graduat• Rosetta and purchased Manor About three years later, I was human spirit cannot be contained that time I really lrnew the differ• ed with a Bachelor of Science and Drugs, relocating my practice to the moving on to the financial rewards indeflnitely. ence between a debit and a credit Doctorate degrees in pharmacy. larger facility. Joyce's creativity and pbase. During this time, I went Fortunately, the business was a I was a very competitive child. artistic abilities brought a balance through a mid-life crisis in my specialized prescription pharmacy Being from a large family makes you to my new business. career and started consideIing in a medical center which required Empire Printing Co. competitive by nature. The best other alternatives. About the same Commerc ial and thing my parents gave me were my minimal business skills. I learned Another Business time, I was offered a consultant quickly that it was survival time. The Shortly after the purchase of the Social Printing rive sisters and two brothers. They pharmacist position at a nearby ENGLISH & JAPANESE have been my support system. They rent, salaries, taxes: etc., had to be new business, I acquired a substan• rural hospital, which I decided to gave me the confidence to be what paid. So I became a fast learner. tial account servicing a skilled nurs• take. 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" women, Japanese style in the not so For the past few years, they have colleges and 40 percent four year She spoke about the initial resis- distant future. strongly opposed the sexual exploi• colleges and universities. tance by some residents to political It is in the grass 'roots campaigns tation of Thai, Korean, and espe• Some universities have estab• selor in private practice is one of action by women, but who were won that women have begun to realize cially Filipino women by Japanese ,lished Women's Studies classes; in the women who grew up under the over by the women's persistence their strengths. There are many promoters who supply night clubs 1984 there were 92 institutions, or American occupation of Japan. In• and sincerity. small organizations, focusing on is• and bars with hostesses, strippers, some 9 percent of Japanese colleges spired by Fusae Ichikawa, famous 'This nuclear recycling plant sues specific to their neighborhoods and prostitutes. and universities offering a total of feminist and suffragette prior to · would provide work and funds for which network and meet together 144 women's studies courses. Se• WW2, Buto has been with the league the townspeople and some people periodically to discuss common venty percent of all of these classes, since its inception in 1945. It was are weak in the face of money. But problems. Others have concen• , , , sex tours have and 91% of comprehensive courses modeled after the American League we, as women, weigh money against trated on conditions and wages of were started after 1979. of Women Voters, and focuses pri- the lives of our children, and we working women. on health and abor• decreased although Also, there are some young . marily in disseminating information know that children come fU'St," she tion, human rights, sexism in educa• exploitation continues, women in the period of life after about current issues and the legisla• commented thoughtfully. tion and the media. Often they are graduation from college and before tive process; the league has led They did not elect their mayor, on the cutting edge of the consci• marriage who work in temporary drives to revise election laws and but as of now, theya re still debating ence of the Japanese people. Their Several years ago, the Asian jobs and spend their money travel• reform local campaign practices. about the nuclear waste disposal natural allies are women from Women's Association joined other ing abroad. Their exposure to the Most of the women present were plant in Aomori. minority groups (and there are some women's groups to protest the prac• family lifestyles of other countrie&• "old timers," elderly, soft-spoken, Watanabe is representative of a in Japan}-the Ainu, Korean, and tice of sex tours for Japanese men especially the U.S. and Western dressed conservatively, gentle in number of Japanese women who be- Burakumin. They use protest forms to other Asian countries. As a result Europe-ehanges their expecta• manner, and very knowledgeable come active because oflocal issues, such as meetings, sit-ins, marches, of ensuing publicity, the sex tours tions about women's roles and mar• about domestic and international generally revolving around their demonstrations, petition campaigns have decreased, although other riages. affairs. Tbey were discussing very concern for children, peace, and the as well as running their own candi• forms of exploitation continue. Japanese television occasionally critically the role of the ruling Lilr environment For example, women dates. Ms. Tono comes with a back• reflects the real problems of women eral-Democratic party in domestic in the city of Zushi, a conservative International Flavor ground of student activism in the in this society. The media primarily spying of groups opposed to the upper middle class community, or• There is an international flavorto '60s and '70s. There is a sizeable rei nforces the image of women as growing militarism in Japan. ganized protests against the prop• the women's movement in Japan. number of young women who were pretty, helpless, passive, and com• ''We cannot allow a drift back to osed construction of military hous• The United Nations' Worn ens Con• introduced to issues of the world pliant, especially in the samurai the authoritarianism of the past," as• ing on a national nature preserve of ferences in 1970 and 1980, the U.N. community (including agitation dramas; and women are often serted one of the members. There beautiful green hills to accomodate Decade for Women starting in 1975 against the Viet Nam War) on the treated as sex objects. However, was much animated talk around this American families from Yokosuka gave a strong impetus to the college campuses and who are now there are times when TV dramas issue with some of the women draw• Naval base. The community voted feminists in Japan. Women or• active in the women's movement will depict the impact of working ing on their past experience before five times to express their opposi• ganized associations such as the In• One such person is Ms. Michiko women on family relationships, or 'and during WW2. There are 20 ac• tion to the project, in the process ternational Women's Year Action Sugiyama, a bright, sensitive, and the effect of women's political ac• tive members in this chapter; there electing their own mayor. Group which attracted broad sup• thoughtful editor of a feminist news• tivities on the people in a communi• are over 5, Sonoma County . 2S-James Murakami-. ENTURVCL B greaUy to Ule acceptance of I i ei a full• Thousand Club Reports Venice-Culver: I-Melvin Shimizu. IO-David Murakami ISon). 14-WiUiam H tledged American citizen in the po t• Wasatch Front North : ll-Toyse Kato. Marumoto ( woe ). LlFE warel'a ( Year of Membership Shown) San Gabriel Valley a-Gerold ,'vlvrll.<1 Hi wmtime l\Il men went on to par• ·.Century ; •• Corporate; L Life; SequOia. 19..(.oorge Y lruml S Daniel Date (Ser), Kathleen S Date M Memorial ; CIL Century Life Snake Ri ver ; J2·Mas , anv (Ben. JohnR Kado (Gil), MasaoFujikawa AlSO ticipate in MacAlthw" enlightened oc• Spokane. I3-LoUIs Kurahara, 19-Roy W (Sac), Dr Mitsuo Tomita (SO). Continued from Page 4 cupation of Japan. the rebuilding of the Summary (Since Nov 30,1987) CENTUR Y CLUB" Active (previous tolal) ...... 80 Ola. country as a democratic ally of the Stockton : 21-Dr KengoTerashita. James Murakami (Son). Now the cU11'iculurn had to be Total this report: If 3 ...... 61 changed to civil afTail to prepare tu• nited tate and laying the foundation Currentlotal ...... 141 Twin Cities . 17-George Ono. for the economic revival of Japan Venice Culver. I-Gram Noriyuki. Summary (Since Nov 30,1987) dents for occupation duty in Japan. It Jan 11-15, 1988 (61) * Ventura County : I2-Akira Yatabe. Active (previous tolal) ...... 171 was done. John iowa the key i ei figure Alameda : 22-Hajime Fujimofl fi'Om before Pem'l Harbor and through• West Los Angeles : 31-DrToru lura. Totallhis report : 11 5 ...... 43 In January 19-16, Ai 0 wa given a di• 19-5etsuko Yoshisato. West Valley ; 20-Dr Raymond Uchiyama. Current total ...... , .... , .214 out WW2, \ ho paved the w~ to changing Berkeley: 34-Beatrice K Kono. National : lO-East West Development rect commi ion as Major and a igned Boise Valley : 21-JamesN Oyama. Jan 25·29.1988 (43) to Gen. harle Willoughby and hi Civil the tatu of i ei in America fl'Om one Corp", 29·Kimiko F lnatoml. Boise Valley : 25-MlchioTakasugL of prejudice and exclu ion to one of Chicago: 9-Dr Ben Chikaraishi. 19-James C L1f'E Information ection, G2, CAP ( u- Henneberg, Life-Albert M Koga, 20-Dr Clovis : 14-Roy Uyesaka. tmst., digni\;)' and acceptance. Albert M Koga I Chl l. Richard Y Kornura Contra Costa: 25-James Kimoto. prem ommand Allied Powers), a Steve Kumamoto, Hi-Rose Marie Kurata. LELA I . George Limemura IHooJ, Jean In the proce he brought life and S-Harry Onishi·, 3I-Dr Arthur T Shima, Delano: 34-James NagatanL legal a i tanl to purge the Japane e Umemura IHoo) . East Los Angeles : Hwbert Takasugi. Govel11ment of mililal'i m. meaning to the democratic principle 3-Carol Yoshino. CENTURY CLUB" enunciated in tit United States Con• Cincinnati: 29-Fred Morioka. Fresno: 8-Edward Ku lDkawa. Discbarged ill lM7 S-Harry Onishi (Chi), 10-Robert T Yoshi• Marysville : I2-Mark lwanaga, 7-Ben Ka• titution. when Pre id nt Roosevelt and Dayton: 17-Sue Sugimoto. Ai 0 relir d from the Army in 1947 oka (Dial , 16-Henry J Ishida I NSDO, to• wada, 4-Helen Manji, I2-Masao Sagara. th COngl failed to protect the rights Detroit: IS-James Kushida , 4(}.Dr Joseph 0 Akito Masaki (Sac). and reentered the practice oflaw in Los S-Ron Yoshlmura. of Japanese American citizen in 1942. Sasaki. CORPORATE CLUB' Monterey: 34-Hoshito Miyamoto. Angele . In 1953 he wa appointed a Diablo Valley : IO-Robert T Yoshioka·. IOd-Sumltomo Bank of Calif (SF), lOs· JohnAi owe agreat WW2 isei • Downtown Los Angeles: 33-Chester I Kata• Oakland : 23-Shizuo Tanaka. judge to th Municipal ourt of Lo East West DeveloOPlentCorp (Nat) . Pacifica-Long Beach : 17-Ka.zuko Matsu- Angele and a year lat r to the uperior Tile Editor' Notes Well? irlSerted to round yama, 32-Ge0rge Nakatsulca. It. moto. East Los Angeles: Life-Richard Y Komura. Summary (Since Nov 30, 1987) Court of Lo Angel Coun~. out the Kiham tl'ibute, Eden Township : 13-Dr George Y Taka• Parlier: 18-Noboru Dol. Active (previous tolal) ...... 141 Pasadena: 32-Chlyeko KishI. In 1967 he wa appointed to th pp 1- hashi. Totallhis report: II 4 ...... 30 late Court of Ul State of alifornia. H Hoosier: Life-George Umemura, Life-Jean Riverside: to·James Amao, Currenttotal ...... 171 Sacramento: 2-Craig Maklshima. 16-Yo)i al 0 clved as Ju tice pro tem of th '88 Chapter Umemura. Jan 18-22, 1988 (30) Nukaya, 32-Noboru Shirai, 2S-Tomoye uprcme COUIt in 1!n2. Japan: S-James S Frederick. 12-Kow T Berkeley: Life-Daniel Date, Life-Kathleen Takesako. Tsukamoto, 33-Frank Yoshimura. Thus did John i 0 car.ry out the I Date. San Benito : 31-Sam Shiotsuka. Board Elections Marysville: ll-Larry Matsumura. Chica~o : 19-Charles MlD'akami. ponsibiUtics that h had ace pt d at Mile-Hi : 12-William T Yoshida. San Francisco: 13-SF Japan Amencan the Presidio of an Franci 'co in October DAYTON Detroit: 35-Minoru Togasaki. Travel Bureau, II-Kiyoshi Yukawa. 24- Kazuo KKimum. pres; DaIyt Sakada. lsi vp, Ayako Milwaukee: IS-Lily Kataoka. Florin: I-Masako Asahara, I-Percy Fuku• 1941. little knowing how far and where Mount Olympus: IS-Minoru Jim Matsu• Teruko Yukawa. Watanabe, 2nd vp; Eugene O'Oihecs. 3rd vp h1eIT1brs. shima.I-Ald Hisatomi, I-Tom Nakagawa, San Gabriel Valley : 8-Yasokazu Nomura. his mission would lnk him and his fel• mori. I-Bill Tsukamoto, I-Richard Uno, I-Ida Sue &IgIrroto, roc sec. Robert 8/1031110, treas: May New Mexico ; ll-Rlfliaolph Shibata. San Jose: 3-Tad Tomita. low Japune.e III ricans. Kimum. mernbr chr, Vee Salo. rocchr. DaIyII ~ Zodrow. San Mateo : l3-Jane Oto, 25-Mary Sutow, 19- North San Diego : 34-Henry J Ishida·, 17- His 6,000 graduate in military int ' 1Ji• Titus, Fremont: IS-Walter Kltajima. Mitch Wakasa. prognact chr, Lea Nakauctu. scthsIllchr: FrarJ.. Yoshiko Ishida. Gilroy : Life-John Kado. gcnce served in every thc C\lcl' and cam• redress chr. Kazuo Kimura. ole del, Kazuko Radtke. Omaha; 26-James T Egusa. Santa Barbara. 39-Tom Hirashlma. Hoosier : IS-Mary Sato. Seattle: 28-Hobert Matsuura. paign in the Pacilie and AsiA General hlStr; Kazuo Kimum. PC rep nell'sltr I'd Portland: 4-Eugene K Sakai, IS-Robert Houston : I-Toshio Matsumoto, I-Harvey Willoughby, Mut'AI1hur's G2. tated that Soga, 19·Jack S Walari. Snake River: 24·Shigeru Ilironaka. FREMONT Onishi. Sonoma County: ll-Hltoshi Kobava.;h, 14 Ihe MI men ~ hor( ned Ihl' war by Iwo Ted T Inouye, pres: -All\\! Hashunoto, 1st vp: Alan Puyallup Valley . 29-Tad Sasak i. Marina: 7-Kiichl Namba. Riverside . 17-Gen Ogata. David Murakami·. . cnr~ ami ~nve d a million cllsualties. Mkuni. 2nd vp: Aileoo TSII(101Oto. 3rd I'll: l\ilV Monterey Peninsula : 26-Aklo Sugimoto. VeOice Cu lver: l6·Chiye Harada, 4 Huby Tsuyama. roc . Mary l\I\S!II11:1. COlT : YUtilk,l Sacramento; IS-Joey T Ishihara, 15-Dr Pasadena: 19-Mlnoru Takagakl. III Retrospcct AklO Iwanalla, 32-AJ(lto Masaki', 15·Dr Malkin. Aiso's lit :t graduatt's pnssl' cl the arid Handa, treas; June Hashimoto. menn chi. rlim\.. Philadelphia; 18-Albert Ikeda, 4-Rodger Wasillngton DC : IS-Wm Mo Mm·ul11oto·, 2 Kosama. 1000 CI chr, Toct Inou\'\) rae chr: PCOIlte Robert M Shunada, IS-Henry Y Yamada . Nogakl. tests ofloya lty and intell igl' ncl worlh in St LoUIS ; 34-0r Jackson Eto. Mays Nakashima , 2·&Iward Sawada . Bowles. Chnsl11la TaI1Ll<1w, r act 11'; C'>a~ To• Sacramento Llfe-Masao Fujikawa, 32- Wesl Los Angeles. Life-Masumunc Alas ka and l.undalcannl in 190t .. , \l'hit'h Salmas Valley . 22-Roy Sakasegawa. Dean Hano. ml! schIr chr: Moss Klshivan"1 red d\( .)Ill Kojima. led t1 il ct iy to the fo rmat ion nfthe 442n In the process of 10 preparlOg limited Community Calendar ~--- are assem ling the public. The works to be orofessklnal.l We allow for the pOSSibility of IRVINE 1203 W. Puente Ave., West Covina. Seallle, WA 98166 or 206 878-4513. orf,jinallty. Someworks may be I make the Deadline for the firSl catalogue is • The University of California, Irvine Info: Ma'rvel Miyata, 818 337-9123 or second catalogue-3 mooths later. presents Japanese Cultural Night, Bruce and Sumiye Arnheim, 213 679- STOCKTON a extensive campaign to publlclze our artists. promote. exhibit. their works and 1559. reputations . AII.rtli,'t~/"wn'"'' who feel they CJJalily and wish to be considered are Invrted to write for Info March 4, 6-8 pm, in the Fine Arts Vil• • The San Joaquin Nikkei Widowed leading up to a free evaluatioo of their work. Japan Americas Artists' COOPERAllVE will Include all phases 01 lage. Free. Info: 714 856-7215. • The San Gabriel Valley Singles and Divorced Group monthly meeting, art media . For free info and submission Instructions. write to: Champagne Brunch, 1 pm, March 20, Jepan Americas Artlsta'Cooperetlve, c/o Japanele American Culturel & Community Cen• 2 pm, March 13, Stockton Buddhist ter, 244 So. Sen Pedro St, Suite 411, Los Angel", CA 90012; Yukio Iwame... Director LOS ANGELES AREA U.S. Amada Show Plaza, 7025 Fire• Church, 2820 Shimizu Dr. Carole • Present-March 27-'The Scenic Art stone Blvd., Buena Park. RSVP re• Hayashino Kagawa will show slides of Setsu Asakura," contemporary Ja• quested. Info: 818 285-8895 or 714 and speak on the Japanese American panese Stage Design, Doizaki Gallery, 861-9676. exhibit of the Smithsonian. Japanese American Cultural and Community Center, 244 S. San Pedro SEATTLE St. Noon-5 pm daily, closed Mon. • July 29 & 30--The Minidoka Reloca• Publlclly Items for The Calendar must be typewntten (double'spaced) or legibly hand·printed and mailed al Weekends, 11 am-4 pm. tion Camp Hunt High School classes least THREE WEEKS IN ADVANCE. Please specify a of '43 and '44 reunion. Info: Frank day or mght phone contact for further mformatlon. • Present-March 6-East West Muramatsu, 20005 3rd Ave., S.w., At Miner's Prices Less Than $300.00 Per Ounce Players presents Mother Tongue, 4424 Santa Monica Blvd. Fri. & Sat.- Direct From The Mine Supply Limited - Call Now 8 pm; Sun.-7:30 pm. Tickets: $12. Info: 213 660-0366. Auditions for 'Tea' Still Open • Present-April 3-"Paris in Japan: 704 Santa Monica Blvd .• Santa MOnica. CA·90401 The Japanese Encounter with Euro• PORTLAND - The !FCC Theatre counter the cultural stereotypes of pean Painting," UCLA's Wight Gallery has announced open auditions for Japanese women, while facing ra• (lower level), Tues., 11 am-8 pm; the play Tea, by Velina Hasu Hous• cism in their own families. YOU CAN PURCHASE PURE GOLD Wed.-Fri., 11 am-5 pm; Sat. & Sun. ton, which will be performed in Five actresses are needed for the 1-5 pm; closed Mon. Free. Parking: Portland April 22 through May 22. IFCC production of Tea. Auditions DIRECTLY FROM THE MINES! $3. Sponsors: Washington University will be held between now and Gallery of Art, SI. Louis and the Japan Tea will be the final production Foundation. Info: 213 825-9345. of the !FCC 1987~ Theatre Season. March 12th. Please call the IFCC Tea was originally produced by the Theatre, (503) 243-7930, for more spa• • Present-March 24-Japanese films Asian American Theater Company crnc information on dates and times, with English subtitles will screen at the in San Francisco and is the third and to schedule an audition ap• GOLD AT University of Southern California. The play in a trilogy by Velina Hasu pointment free screening tJegins at 7 pm in rm. Houston that focuses upon the ex• 108 of the George Lucas Instructional $333 Building on the Universtiy Park cam• periences of Japanese war brides. Rehearsals for Tea will begin in pus. March 10--Tara-san Goes Religi• In this comedy-