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by J.K. Yamamoto ruled that the government's ac• dence in," said Hirabayashi. "If I were not involved, I would LOS ANGELES-Gordon Hiraba• tions were justified by military protest that our tax money is used yashi, speaking ata reception held necessity. so poorly by the government," he in his mnor May 30, expressed The Court ruled against Fred joked, "because I think we could confidence about the outcome of Korematsu and Minoru Yasui, have much better representation an upcoming trial in which his 1943 who had been similarly convicted ofthe government's case." Supreme Court case will be re• of violating government orders, examined. as well. Scheduled to Testify The reception, held at the Japa• In 19m, attorneys representing Witnesses to be called by Hira• nese Alrerican National Museum Hirabayashi, Korematsu and Ya• bayashi's legal team include: Ed• in Little Tokyo, was part of an ef• sui had the cases reopened on the ward Ermis, the Justice Dept.'s fort to raise $50,000 to cover the basis of recently declassified gov• director of enemy alien control cost of preparing for the trial, ernment documents indicating during WW2 and a critic of the in• scheduled to begin June 17 in that War Dept. and Justice Dept. ternment; Peter Irons, the attor• Seattle. officials presented the Court with ney who obtained many of the rel• faise infurmation in order to por• evant documents through the California Secretary of State March Fong Eu hands LEC finance chair Now a resident of Alberta, Ca• nada, Hirabayashi was a student tray Japanese Americans as a Freedan of Infonnation Act and Harry Kajihara a $1,000 check as LEC chair Min Yasui and chief ass't. military threat. author of Justice At War; Jack Secretary of State Florence Ochi look on. (Story on page 3.) at University of Washington when WW2 broke out. He spent 3lh years A Full Hearing and Aiko Herzig, who have done in prison for resisting curfew and In Korematsu's case, Judge extensive archival research on the evacuation orders directed at Ja• Marilyn Patel vacated the war• interrunent; and Hirabayashi AlP women briefed at White House panese Americans. His appeal time C
eral government has changed a -----~------great deal under this Adminis• C\I Matsui urges political involvement Trible responds ~ I~ tration," he told the audience. N ;j _8 ill "Instead of talking about the ci cal ll to protests z sS i~ ja: by Mei Nakano Committee but to chair that value of programs, they ask first § . WASIllNGTON - Rep. Robert body. how it impacts on the budget" ~~~ WASIDNGTON~n. 11)) Matsui (D-Sacramento) deliv• Speaking to the redress issue, And despite the Administra• Paul Trible II C\I • ~U 0" II::2J ered a rousing speech to a which had earlier been brought tion's campaign pledge to get rid (R-Va.), who received protests 81 Q.~ largely enthusiastic, responsive to the floor by Grayce Uyehara of the deficit, the fact is that, in from Asian American organiza• ~. i~t audienc at the National Net• of EDC JACL, Matsui repeated a ~year period the deficit has tions when the Washington Post I 13.~ quoted him as saying that "Asians ~8 c- work of Asian Pacific Women's her obseIVation that the issue ballooned to $1.lt3 trillion, or It 0::1 .. ~-;e Conference, May 19. Keying his was not a Japanese American double what it was when Reagan have 00 value for life," has g; claimed that his statements were liloa .E • ~-5~ speech to the notion that Asian issue; it was an American issue. took over, Matsui stated. In the (0)1 .!!1 fn l;I;9 .90 Further, the incarceration of a process, the defense budget ex• taken out of context. ~ -6 -e .g'i-e . Pacific no longer need be con• .. Cl-a -~.8tJ JACL president Frank Sato said =~ Czj ,S ~ tent to take back seats in any certain group solely because of perienced the largest growth in ->0 ~Ql4»'o ::lce!:: a letter Trible, "I am shocked - (I) arena Matsui urged the women, race could happen again, he said, its history and social programs in to .. as ::J c =~8u en c"'c'l := . :so. for example, to aspire not merely and all Americans should be vig• were cut by $750 billion and saddened that a member of CD.E the United States Senate ...would c: ~l§~ to be members ofthe Democratic ilant against such a circumstance. Not mincing any words, the "5 ~ ~u; ~ tl'&.,?;- display such blatant racial pre• 0 E-o~ . _::l With the re-introduction of the congressman declared that, in =.lI:: o ... 0 judice." W~N redress bills (HR 442 and Sl(53), the area of civil rights, the Ad• E ~ . § >-j c_ JCCCNC receives Trible's statement was one of l!"~ • i the alignment in the two houses ministration's policies had been ~ ~~g! many about U.S. involvement in ~ Naomi's Dress Shop the National JACL Sports & Casual. Sizes 3 to 8 133 Japanese VilIagePtaza MaU Credit Union. Just fill Los Angeles. 680-1553 Open Tue-Fri: 9:30-6:30. Sat 11-9 in below and mail. Sun: 11-5 Closed: Monday •••••••••••••••• I am interested in joining. Please send Select your new car me your informational brochure. loan with the same care and Name ______consideration you use in choosing the right car. Automobile financing has been one of our s~ -... Address ______cialties for over 30 years. Come to Sumitomo for low competitive rates and fast action. LARGEST STOCK OF POPULAR & City/S tate/Zi p ______CLASSIC JAPANESE RECORDS. MAGAZINES. ART BOOKS. GIFTS -Two stOres In Uttle TokYo' 300 E. 1st - 340 E. 1st PO Box 1721 / Salt Lake City, Utah 84110 los Angeles, CA - (213) 625-0123 62!H)123 • 625-8673 Telephone (801) 355-8040 S. Uyeyama, Prop. friday, June 7, 1985 I PACIFIC cmZEN-3 California official City council gives to LEC fund endorses redress PENRYN, Calif - The Roseville LOS ANGELES - SecretaIy of City Council aUts regular meet• State of California March Fong ing on May 1 unanimously adopt• Eu on May 31 presented a $1 past weekend lMay 18 ) we at- tended her funeral. ~ -. ~ WERE h e l ~at EAST ( . THE SERVICES WIND . . the Deerfield Presbytenan ~ ~ ' Church, one of the centers of life ~~ ~or Mary and her family. Among other things, Mary sang in its Bill choir; we understand that she had Marutani """,r ,. a very enchanting singing voice, __ but we were never privileged to ------.. . hear it. The church, erected over two centuries ago in 1771 , is dig• FOR'IUNATELY, JUST ABOUT nified in its simplicity in its arbor every chapter has a few : dedica• setting. We had been in this same ted, highly competent, reliable church previously when we all women members who keep the celebrated the happy occasion of chapter going and on its feet the wedding of one of the Nagao (even as we men occupy the pros• daughters. As I sat in the church cenium and take the bows). In the this past weekend, I harked tionals in Salt Lake City in 1968. AT THE DINNER I managed to church, I was struck by two obser• Eastern District JACL and in the backed to that joyful day when Whether in office or not, Mary chat and reminisce with her be• vations: the mix, the amalgama• Seabrook Chapter in particular, Mary was the radiant mother of a continued to diligently serve and tween Mr getting up from the tion of AJAs, White and Black for some four decades we'd been radiant bride. help. On more than one occasion table every so often to tend to Americans; also, the number of blessed by such a lady: Mary Chi• MARY AND CHARLIE were she oversaw the chapter dinner• some detail to make sure that young people who were present to yoko Nagao, nee Yama hita, for• among the stalwart supporters of dance Mid at the Centerton Golf everything was proceeding smooth• pay re~t to Mary's memory. merly from San Bernardino, J ACL and over the years we had Club. If she was in charge, one ly. She was relating some of her Both of these reflected Mary's Calif. With her husband, Charles, occasion to ee them often at could relax in the assurance that early experiences in Seabrook, in• life , the impact that she has had in Dectmber 1944 she left. the JACL gatherings, whether at Sea• , everything was going to be done cidents only she would know. I and the scope of such impact. barbed-wire Manzanar and plant• brook or at district meetings. In right away. And it was. Last year urged her to reduce all this to Spe~ of young folks, I had ed her roots in the Seabrook area, fact, the entire family was in• she was in charge of the 40th An• writing, 'for posterity," and she always marvelled over the years active not only inJACL affairs but olved in JACL operations, both niversary Celebration of the replied that she had started to how Mary st ayed so youthful, in very much so in the civic and eco• husband and wife holding J ACL chapter which involved much write a few things down. I also spirit as well as appearance. It nomic concerns of the overall offices, followed by son Scott serv• planning, including assembling recalled this conversation as I sat was amazing. community. ing as chapter president. Daugh• personages from far and near. It in the church at the funeral ser• She was a tiny person. But she Following an unexpected ill• ter Pauline was our district ora• was a memorable affair as only vices. leaves some awfully big shoes to ness, Mary died last week. This torical representative to the na- Mary would do it. AS I LOOKED about the fIlled fill. HIRABAYASHI cause working on the case has Memorial Day, 1985 American servicemen buried at Cootinued from Front Page been " like going to several post• Arlingtm are as follows: graduate schools." Buto, Jtm Col, 442 that allegedly show that Japan Although the attorneys are ------Hada, Victor K. PCc , Co. K 442 planned to recruit JAs as spies. It was my honor to lay a wreath Henjyoji Grant Lt., Vietnam working without compensation, at the Tomb of the Unknown Sol• Hirabayasbi reported that Voor• $50,000 is needed for witness-re• Ishida, Haruo T/4, Co. G 442 hees w~ familiar with "Magic" dier at Arlington National Ceme• PRESIDENT'S Kokubu, Jimmie T. Cpl, Co. G 442 lated coots, archival research and tery in behalf of the J ACL on May -having read the docwnents and other expenses. Hirabayashi cre• CORNER: Kozai, Kenneth Lt. USMC, Vietnam 25. This is an annual event spon• Kuge, Thomas T. Pfc, Co. K 442 written two papers on them-and dited the Committee to Reverse considered it " not pertinent." sored by the Washington, D.C. Masaoka, Ben F. Pvt, Co. E 442 the J apanese American Wartime chapter of JACL for the National Matsumoto, Hisao T 13, MIS The cables, Hirabayashi added, Cases with helping to raise the by show "what the Japanese govern• JACL. Morihiro, Roy T. Pfe, Co. G 442 needed funds . Frank Sato Murakami, Kiyoshi PCe, Co. G 442 ment san they wish to do or intend While a victory in the tr ial will Accompanying me in the honor Nagano, Hiroshi Pvt, Co. B 442 to do. That doesn't mean they not involve monetary compensa• this year were Lt. (j .g. ) TOOlOko ___.... ______Nagato, Furnitake PCc , Co. G 442 succeeded." tion, Hirabayashi feels that " it'll Ishikawa, U.S. Navy (the first Ja• Nakamura, John M. PCe, Co. K 442 The trial is expected to last two give very good ammunition for the panese American woman gradu• I believe Mrs. Kido expresses Nakashima, Raito Pvt, Co. B 442 weeks. redress movement .. .it should be ate of the U.S. Naval Academy), the feelings of other families of Nakashima, Wataru Sgt, Co. M 442 Legal Team helpful. " Col. Harry Ota, U.S. Army, and the other families of the men bu• Nakayama, Homer Cdr USN, Vietnam Oba, Stanley T. Pvt, Co. G 442 Hiramyashi praised his legal Hirabayashi also advises Japa• Col. Frank Nekoba, U.S. Air ried at Arlington for what the Onoye, Uoyd M. PCe, Co. I 442 team, which includes Kathryn nese Canadians who are seeking Force. Ofparticular note was that Washington, D.C. chapter has three of the armed services were Osato, Timothy LTC,442 ~ , NlichaelLeong , Carnden redress from their government. been doing for many, many years. Sakai, Paul Col, MIS Hall, alii Rod Kawakami. In order " I'm living up there, so I'd like represented, in contrast to earlier We all thank them, particularly Shimizu, Jimmy T ISgt, Co. F 442 to prepare for the trial, the attor• Canada to do the right thing." times wMn the service represen• Key Kobayashi alii his committee Shimizu,Osamu Sgt, MIS neys are "putting in practically The reception was jointly spon• tation was limited for the most for this service to our Japanese Shimomw-a, lehiro S/Sgt, Korea full-time .. .they're not well-ta-do, sored by Asian Pacific Bar of Cal• part to tre Army. American community. Key has Shiozawa, Roy R. Pvt, Co. A 442 and they're only spending part of ifornia, Japanese American Bar Earlier on that day, memorial chaired this event for over 15 Tanaka, John Pfe, Co. C 442 their time on bread-and-butter Assn., Pacific Southwest District services were held at the gravesite years. Ira Shimasaki headed up Tanamachi, Saburo Pfe, Co. E 442 cases. " JACL, Japanese American Dem• of Pfc. Saburo Tanamachi; next this annual service beginning in Tomita, Theodore LTC, MIS/FA to his grave is the burial place of Toyota, Shichizo PCe, Co. E 442 Over the past 21f2 years the at• ocratic Club, and Japanese Amer• 1948, and continued until Key took Yamaguchi, George T/4, MIS torneys have become " a pretty ican R~ublicans , with Ron Ohata Pfc. Fumitake Nagato. These two over arOWld 1970. Mike Masaoka experienced group," he said, be- serving as chairperson. Nisei heroes were the first Nisei has been directly involved over The day's services were attend• to be buried at Arlington, on June the years also. This is another ex• ed by more than 60 people, includ• ing some next of kin: Mike and ISSN : 0030-857~ 4,1948. ample ofwhat JACL is all about. Etsu Masaoka (brother of Ben Col. Ota gave the keynote ad• HarryWalters,administratorof Masaoka), Mrs. Yuri Tachino dress and spoke eloquently of the the Veterans Administration, (sister of Fwnitake Nagato), and ~ pacific citize11 sacrifices ofthe men buried at Ar• speaks of veterans as very special Mrs. Tae Matsumoto (wife of Hi• lington and elsewhere around the citizens. Those that have given sao Matsumoto). Flowers were world and the legacy they have Nan JACL Headquarters, 1765 Sutter St., San Francisco, CA 9411 5, their lives in service to our country also laid at the graves of Joseph (4 15) 921-5225 left for us. have made the ultimate sacrifice. Harrington, author of Yankee Published by the Japanese American Citizens League every Friday except the first Three weeks before this day, I Our Japanese American veterans Samurai, and Virgil Miller.. for• and last weeks of the year at 244 S. San Pedro St. , Los Angeles, CA 90012; (213) 626· 6936 • 2nd Class postage paid at Los Angeles, Ca. Annual Subscriptions-JACL had visited the Snake River chap• honored this day across the United mer conunanding officer of the members: $10 of national dues provides one·year on a per·household basis. Nonmem· ter JACL in Ontario, Oregon. Mrs. States are particularly special, for . 442nd Regimental Combat Team. bers: $20, payable in advance. Foreign addresses: Add $10.50 • News or opinions expressed by columnists other than JACL staff do not necessarily refl ect JACL policy. Hiro Kido came up to me during many served wxler trying cir- If anyooe should be visiting near OFFICERS the visit and relayed her thanks to cumstances while their families Washington, D.C. around Memo• Frank Sato, Nat'l JACL President Dr. Clifford Uyeda, PC Board Chair the Washington, D.C. chapter for were incarcerated and their loy- rial Day, please plan to join us for EDITORIAUBUSINESS STAFF the annual memorial service and alty to this country was being this most memorable annual ser• Acting Editor: Robert Shimabukuro Edit. Ass'!: J.K. Yamamoto the placing of flowers at each of questioned. vice. If)'Ou are in the area at other Advertising : Jane M. Ozawa BusinesslMalling: Mark Saito the 30 Japanese American grave• We thank these war heroes and times of the year, please plan to Cirrulation: ...... Toml Hoshizakl Production: ...... Mary Imon sites, including her brothers' . Her remember them, for they have include a visit to Arlington, which General Mgr/Operations: ...... Harry K. Honda two brothers, Wataru and Raito made the lives ofJapanese Amer- is the nation's greatest military POSTMASTER: Send address changes to PacifIC Citizen, Nakashima, are buried near the icans better today and every day. shrine--and a nminder that we 244 S. San Pedro St., #506, Los Angeles, CA 90012. site of the service this year. The names of the 30 Japanese must beever vigilant. Friday, Junl 7, 1985 I PACIFIC anZfl S ball in Japan. And to make his 'Nichibei Futoboru' point, the Rev. Mr. Otani sent Odds and Ends along copies of the relevant Here it is June already and pages. In May, the National Board we re still talking about football concentrated on discussion of in this space. Excuse me ladies, Rusch wrote that the sponsors two major items: insurance, as BY but our reader keep coming up wanted the first football game in relating to Sequoia chapter and THE FROM THE with material that s just too inter• Japan, in 1934, staged with proper its 501(c)(3) status, and LEC BOARD: esting to ignore. FRYING PAN: fanfare. Tadao Kaneko went to changeover. Both of these issues the Florida club dance hall and will have major impact on JACL by Beans Sogioka of Chino Calif., Bill asked Tib Kamayatsu to bring his chapters and the national red• MikiHhneno writes to say he saw, and remem• Hosokawa bers well, the 1936 Japan-U.S. a11- Jazz bam to the game to play the ress program. star football game in Los Angeles national anthems of the U.S., Ja• Budget requests were put on which was the subject of this col• pan and Great Britain. ''hold'' for this reason and for the wnn a few weeks ago. " At half time the announcer reason that not all committees sentation before the Board. " When the great day came," "It was pretty much just an in• asked the Japanese coach to say a have submitted fonnal requests. National Singles committee is Rusch says in his book, "His Im• ternatiooal goodwill event be• few words. All he said was 'Mina• They will need to be studied in co-sponsoring the 3rd Annual perial Highness Prince Chichibu cause from the opening kickoff it san dozo YOToshiku.. The an• context with other program de• Singles Convention with the was strictly no contest,' Sogioka nouncer made up what he thought was present as guest of honor, and mands, and the changes being Greater LA Singles chapter in recalls . . When the Japanese ar• the coach said-'I'm very happy he was seated with the American made in JACL structure. San Jose, August:D-September ambassador, Joseph P. Grew. rived the local football officials to be here. It s a wonderful ball THANK YOU to Jan Yoshi• 1, UBi To maintain independent saw the size of the players and game. We look forward to these The pregame ceremonies went wara and the scholarship com• funding GLASC hopes to sen rat: off very well, but the renditions of quickly decided to get some local international contests' -and a lot mittee for the tremendous work fie tickets. It is hoped that eveJy the national anthems were the high school kids instead of college of other stuff. accomplished with the selection chapter will purchase at least 2 all-stars. " There was a murmur allover jazziest versions ever recorded. " of scholarship winners and re• books of 10 $1 tickets to help de• "None oftbe Japanese weighed the stcilium like the fans were Bringing football to Japan in• porting so quickly, in time for the fray expenses for their ambitious more than 150 pounds. The Hata asking, 'Did he say all that just by volved more than playing a game. national board meeting. Forty• and worthy project brothers, who were the ball car• saying dozo yoroshiku.?' The A rule book had to be written for one scholars will be awarded a Congratulations to Mika Hira• riers, weighed only about 135. All stadium was maybe a half full and "Nichiliei futoboru" and uni• total of $58,500, according to the matsu, National Youth Council they could do was try end sweeps 75 percmt of the crowd was local forms manufactured for the slight report. chair, who missed part oftile Na• because they were fast. Trying to Nisei with their enryo syndrome. Japanese. JACL's Women's Concerns tional Board meeting to attend charge through the line was im• Nobody yelled, nobody clapped. I Committee became organiza• her graduation at UC Berkeley. possible. was a junior at Covina Union High Rusch remembers that the tional members of the National Her major was genetics, and she " Even our high school boys School at the time. " game against the Southern Cali• Network of Asian and Pacific will resume studies in medicine Women as a contingent, led by this fall Mika also won the JACL were big, averaging around 200. 000 fornia All-Stars was Jan. 3 1937. It's a wonder the Japanese didn't The garre in Gilmore Stadium re• Irene Hirano, national chair, at• Aibara Graduate Scholarship get killed. I don t remember the The other communication is membered by Sogioka was Dec. tended that convention in Wash• Award of$1,000. Double congrat• score. The Americans made four from the Rev. Andrew N. Otani of 27, 1936. Since the dates are a ington, D.e. Lia Shigemura, JACL ulations! touchdowns, I think. The Japa• the Japanese Christian Union week apart, there may have been program director, presented a Many thanks to staff members nese flnally got a touchdown in the Church of Minneapolis, remind• two games. Enroute home the Ja• paper on Asian Catalog Brides. David Nakayama and Lia Shige• fourth quarter, but I wouldn t be ing me that Paul Rusch in his panese played a scoreless tie They were invited to a White mura for their outstanding work surprised if our team let them book ' Road to KEEP," had writ• against Roosevelt High in Honolu• House briefing the next day. in support of these committees. score to make them feel good. ten about the early days of foot- lu for a moral victory. Marshall Sumida, veterans af• Attention given to the finest de• fairs liaison, has drafted an tails, the hours spent in research amicus brief from the veterans' and preparation that facilitate point ofview for the Gordon Hira• committee work are greatly ~ bayashi case and gave a brief pre- preciated. Ad Not Bad better than Asians has hurt Asian Thank You, Karen Americans. Most of those who saw I am rather puzzled by the furor the ads were presumably business Crossroads of the Far East people mpable of recognizing the It is with sincere regret that we accompanying the appearance of bid farewell to Karen Seriguchi, Hyster's 1984 ad campaign which purely business-related message of the ads. Hyster's other activi• the former editor of Pacific Citi• top talents in entertainment, who consisted of " menacing" photos zen. fmd in Japan a lucrative mine of of a kabuki actor, sumo wrestler, ties, however, such as blaming the closure of a Portland plant on "un• In the relatively short time NISEI "gold." . etc., and text ' proclaiming that On the other hand, thtre are vis• Hyster had met the competition free and unfair' Japanese trade Karen was editor, she did a splen• IN JAPAN: ...• itors who come to Japan for more practices, appear to have inspired did job, and the dedication, loyalty .. ..''.:""' ,;".,''. head-on and come out on top" .•..r .. ". anti-Asian sentiment in the com• and professionalism she brought . . . personal reasons, usually educa• March 22 PC). tional or cultural, and who main• munity and should be made to to the PC will be missed by the Barry First of all, I find the photos ,,:". tain their personalized interna• striking and powerful, character• bear some of the blame. But I feel many devoted readers of the Saiki that the business ad campaign is a newspaper. tional relations in seemingly in• istics that are desired in any ad. significant yet vital ways. They are beautiful evocations of situation apart that should be The Redress Committee of the certain traditional aspects of Ja• treated as such. Salinas Valley Chapter joins me In recent years, Tokyo has be• Among the recent visitorsoftbis panese culture, and I would call Real examples of ethnic stereo• in expressing our appreciation for come the crossroads of the Far genre were Mr. and Mrs. JOOn To• the expressions of their subjects types abound in ads. How about the support and encouragement East, augmented by the growing land (though prominent), who , determined" rather than "men• the "German" Dr. Frank 'n' Stuff she has given us, and we wish international trends in Hong spent about two months in Japan acing. " Inasmuch as the ad focus• on the 1V wiener commercial? As Karen all the best in her new en• Kong, Singapore and South during late 1984 to gather more es on the competition between a German American I ought to be deavors. Korea, as well as the opening of material for what is to be a three• incensed. As an Irish American I Communist China. volume historical novel aboot Ja• American and Japanese compa• ~ nies, the photos serve as clearly should find the Irish Spring com• VIOLET K. de CRISTOFORO An increasing flood of visitors is pan. The first volwne is set to identifiable Japanese images mercials degrading. Are they try• Salinas, Calif. making the long air passage from pear in early spring this year via Doubleday. The second volume without being racially offensive. ing to say the Irish stink?! Of de Cristoforo is redress chair of the United States and Europe, will deal with the wartime and As for the text, business entails course, I realize that European Salinas Valley chapter JACL. while the brisk economic activi- postwar Japan, to be followed with competition, international as well Americans are today rarely the ties of Southeast Asia and Austra• victims of discrimination and lia have added to the flow. the events covering the U6B to as local. Hyster pays tribute to the 1970s. Hopefully, this work depict• great achievements of Japanese have less need to be sensitive to A Good Question And these waves of wayfarers such portrayals. I hope this time ing the fortunes and frustrations industry by citing it as "fierce The PC is doing a damn good are c?~d of numerous ~r will also come for Asian Ameri• w~o c~e of two families will encountel'less competition," but goes on to say job in educating the Nikkei in sonalitIes for a variety misunderstanding than that sub• that Hyster has "transformed it• cans in the country as a whole as it · b . .. . of reasoos, mcluding commerce seems to have come here in Ha• AmerIca, ut who IS gom~ to or IS . and tourism. As a highly ad- jected towards "Sanga Moyu ... self into a company on the leading suppo~oo edge" (quotes from the ad). Fine! waii. Nobody locally seems to to be educatmg the vanced industrialized nation, Another recent visitor was Key Mter all, we should be proud that have ccmplained about a Charlie ~~~~ mass about the wi~h a tremendous volume of fo- Kobayashi of Washington. D.C. an American company, stimulat• Chan coodominium commercial, . reign trade, Japan attracts gov- He was a sopbomore at UC Berke• ed by a foreign example, took whereas Mainlam groups are at• ALEX YORICHI ernmentand business leaders and ley in 1941 and we had not met measures to improve itself. I fmd tempting to ban Chan films from Zama, Japan representatives from all major since Pearl Harbor days. Dr. }fa• TV. countries, as well as developing ruyoshi Chikamori, the founder of nothing offensive to either Japa• Believing that PC is capable of nese or Japanese Americans in The Hyster ads, however, are countries, that seek the facilita• the Joseph Heco Society, phoned not in this ethnic stereotype cate• serving both functions, we have been from Osaka to inform me ofKey's these ads. sending it to various non-Nikkei tion of foreign trade or of loans gory. They are imaginative ads of groups and individuals, including and grants for development. projected visit to Japan in late But Philip Tajitsu Nash of the great impact that perfectly make members of Congress. If you want to While VIPs merit the public at• January and I asked him to send Asian American Legal Defense their valid point. educate a non-JA friend about the JA tention of the mooia, their visits Key my phone number. While and Education Fund says that the CHRISfINE FROECHTENIGT community, why not gi ve him or her a are mainly political or economic Key was in Tokyo, we had luncb implication that Americans are Honolulu gift subscription? -Ed. in nature. This also applies to the Continued CIII Page II 6-PACIRC CITIZEN I Friday, June 7, 1985 Women's Concerns public relations with the Japa• cultivate her personality; (3) win• leadership development, techni• nese cmununity, rather than the ners can work to strengthen cul• cal and interpersonal skills, men• The Other Side of Beauty Contest alleged violation of civil rights of tural ties within the community toring and networking and expan• women." and to enhance the image of JAs sion of scholarship programs in workshop was a one-sided rout in by MeiNakano Note what is being conveyed vis-a-vis the outer society. traditional and non-traditional favor of the pro debaters. fields." here are the concerns of the pro Oppooents argued that: (1) a Let it rest, my instincts told But that isn t the reason for this In spite of these cogent argu• response. More important, some• position (sponsoring beauty con• clause in the contest rules which me--at least for the moment. It tests), certainly not what we, of ments, the resolution was doomed seemed a good idea in view of the where lost in the swirl of the wri• specifically requires one parent the Committee, consider to have to defeat. We women ofNCWNP acrimooy it had inspired. But now ter s various observations was of the contestant to be "100% Ja• • the major focus" of the work• Women's Concerns had pretty I am convinced that the issue of the point that the bottom-line panese," blatantly violates civil shop. Note also that the writer much anticipated that from the JACL-~nsored beauty contest• question posed at the workshop rights laws, a feature which names panelists Jon Kaji and outset, knowing how hard-set are ants will not lie down, nor should was: Should J ACL be involved should be of grave concern to Deena Hard, who, she states, JACL; (.2) beauty contests rein• traditi Chennault, an author, lecturer, WOMEN business executive, and interna• Continued from Front Page tional business consultant, de• Plan For Action no 85% of whom are on the wel• nied that she had "made if' be• fare rolls. cause of her husband, Claire, who The "l00-hour rule" stipulates had been an advisor to Chiang by Sandi Kawasaki that if a person on public assist• Kai-shek and had organized the Do you want to see JACL more ance works more than 100 hours famed American volunteer group, active in community and civil in any given month, he/she will "Flying Tigers." She declared rights projects? The PSWOC be deprived of that assistance. that she earned her niche with Women's Concerns Committee The newly-arrived refugees her persistence and hard work. (WCC) wants these things too! want to work, Ishii contended, Asked what she herself had And we want to help men and but with their large families, they done to promote Asian Amer• women learn skills to assume often cannot afford to work at the ican women, Chennault pre• leadership positions to attain low-paying jobs available to vailed on two Chinese American these objectives. These leader• them without some sort of sup• women said to be active in the ship skills will help you at the plement; hence, they sometimes Washington scene to stand and chapter level as well as at the work up to 99 hours and are idle be recognized, leaving the audi• District and National levels. the rest of the time. ence to come to their own conclu• The WCC would also like to On other matters relating to re• sions. hold workshops that will provide fugees, it was revealed that ap• Bruce Chapman, deputy assis• women with infonnation on how proximately 711,(XX) AlP refugees Photo by George Wakiji tant to the President and Direc• to deal with issues such as abuse, currently reside in this country, WOMEN'S DELEGATION-Front row (trom left): Mei Nakano, Mollie tor of the Office of Planning and sexual harrassment, discrimina• 65% of whom are Vietnamese. Fujioka, Grayce Uyehara, Lillian Kimura. Back row: Mae Takahashi, Evaluation, spoke on the subject tion and stress. We would like to The Vietnamese, though still on Jeannette Ishii, Irene Hirano, Clare Kawamura, Karen Seriguchi, Mary of families, saying that the social have several workshops each the bottom rung of the economic Nishimoto, Rita Cates, Betty Waki, B.J. Watanabe, unidentified, Lia policy of the government could year and we need your input as scale, have been moving into the Shigemura. not be considered outside the to the topic of the workshops as mainstream in a remarkably short family. The clue to poverty was well as to help participate in time, owing to the advantage of The problem which under• In other workshops, children to be found in family composi• working committees. having had some education. scores the plight of these women and youth needs and exclusion tion, he said, and single-parent We therefore extend an invita• The newer arrivals, however, as well as some wives of military of AlP women from programs and families are growing at a rapid tion to all interested parties to are less educated (in the case of personnel is that, once in this seIVices were the topics of dis• clip, swelling the welfare rolls. attend a potluck dinner at our the Hmong, have not even the be• country, they are usually at a cussion. In these and other work• ''If we didn't have single-parent next meeting on June 19 at the nefit of a written language) and great disadvantage, ignorant of shops, the one negative note that family situations, we wouldn't regional office, 244 S. San Pedro greater efforts must be put to• their rights as well as the rules was sounded again and again have poverty," he told the audi• St, Rm fm. wards upgrading their condition. of the Immigration and N aturali• was that the Reagan administra• ence. Please join us to make JACL zation Service (INS) and vulner• tion had not been particularly Bruce Chapman, deputy assis• become a stronger and more ef• Mail Order Bride Catalogs able to abuse because of a lack sensitive to the needs of women tant to the President and Direc• fective organization RSVP to Lia Shigemura and Irene Hi• of a support system and lack of of color, and, in fact, had demon• tor of the Office of Planning and Carol Saito, regional office sec• rano provided the groundwork English skills. strably failed to grapple with Evaluation, spoke on the subject retary. and impetus for a workshop that The goal set out by the work• their problems. of families, saying that the social revealed that businesses, now shop was to curtail the activity policy of the government could family unit, including a tax prop• apparently burgeoning because of these mail-order bride busi• The Briefing not be considered outside the osal designed as an incentive. of media exposure, offer photo nesses by bringing public pres-• In the briefing session, held in family. The clue to poverty was The speakers, without excep• catalogs of women from various sure against their practices the Old Executive Building May to be found in family composi• tion, seemed genuinely impressed Asian nations (primarily the Phi• through publicity and education W, several emissaries from the tion, he said, and single-parent with the caliber of comments lippines and Malaysia) to Amer• and working through various gov• Administration presented facts families are growing at a rapid and questions advanced from ican, Australian and European ernment agencies such as the and views on the topics offamily, clip, swelling the welfare rolls. the floor, and expressed interest men. For a fee, marriage ar• Postal SeIVice, the INS and Fed• employment and policy-making ''If we didn't have single-parent in meeting with the women again rangements are made between eral Trade Commission, to un• Among them was Anna Chen• family situations, we wouldn't That fact, said many women af• the client and the woman. cover any regulation that might nault who proved to be a vigor• have poverty," he told the audi• teIWard, was possibly the most In the process, the women are have been breached. The matter ous, energetic speaker. "Speak ence. valuable facet of the briefing. It flagrantly exploited, advertised will also be brought to the atten• up, organize, and do your home• Chapman added that the Ad• would be hard to calculate what in sexually suggestive ways and, tion of Congress where hearings work," she exhorted, punctuating ministration was striving to al• ftuits this precedent-setting en• at the same time, presented as and investigations could take the advice by offering her own leviate this problem by doing ev• counter might bear down the passive and submissive virgins. place. motto: "Success is persistence." erything it could to preseIVe the road friday. June 7. 1!185 I PACIFIC CmZEII-7 LEC/JACL page courtesy of Frank Watase, chairman, YUM YUM DONUT SHOPS, Inc., 18830 E. San Jose Ave., City of Industry. Calif. 91748 ~ rrrrtar!J of ~tatr 1210J ....., "",WtNTO. Allr aNt " 9!1i 14 May 31, 1985 LEGISLATIVE EDUCATION COMMITTEE JACL REGIONAL OFFICE: 244 S. San Pedr~ St., Rm. 507, Los Angeles, Calif. 90012 June 7,1985 1inoru Yasui, Chairman Legislative Education Committee LEC Fund Drive Campaign Gets Underway Japanese American Citizens League 1765 Sutter Street San Francisco, CA 94115 by Harry Kajlhara calls for each district recruiting a "LEC REDRESS DONATION Dear Mr. Yasui: number of PRIME SOUCITORS. APPEAL" mailer, a solicitation A PRIME SOUCITOR is a person letter, and a Congressperson In 1942, a shameful chapter was written in our count ry ' s The Legislative Education history, when one hundred twenty thousand persons o f Committee of the Japanese Ame• who volunteers to assume the support letter to be sent to the Japanese ancestry , mostly United States citizens, we r e rican Citizens League targets task of raising $2000 and more prospective donors. Please con• placed in detention centers . raising $1.5 million over 3 years by any method best suited to the tact your District KEYPERSON Now, through redr ess legislation HR442 and 51053 , re• to implement the redress pursuit person. Redress is an American for a supply of mailers. Who is a cently introduced in Congress, action is needed to plan described elsewhere in this issue. PRlME SOUCITORS KEYFERSON? right the wrong that was committed against the 120, 000 blameless victims . issue. LEC must recruit 2500 should outreach to their non• To ooordinate and oversee the Concerned Americans to donate JACLer friends for donations. LEC Redress Fund Campaign, The Legislative Education Committee of t he Japanese $200 per year over 3 years, or All concerned Americans each District has a DISTRICf American Citizens League is now launching a major fund• raising drive to pursue redress. 10,000 persons to donate $50 per should be given the opportunity LEC FUND DRIVE KEYPER• year over 3 years or 20,000 per• to support the redress pursuit SON. The KEYPERSONS are I am in total support of your effor ts and am enclosing my contribution of $1 , 000. I wish you a ve r y successful sons to donate $25 per year over fundwise. Paul Shinkawa, MP; Mike Su• fundraising d r ive and for the passage o f HR44 2 and 51053 . 3 years, and so on ... . Arithme• I know that each PRIME SOU• zuki, EDC; George Sakaguchi, tically, if everyone participated, CITOR will pursue the method MDC; Peggy Sasashima Ligett, Sincer e l y , a smaller donation from each best suited the person. However, CC; Denny Yasuhara, PNW; Hid person would quickly total $1.5 I have found that mailers to my Hasegawa, IMT; Molly Fujioka, ~~L; million. Anyway, you can all "Christmas Card Exchange List" NCWNP; and Harry Kajihara, MARCH FONG EU calculate for yourself the num• does result in good responses. Of PSW. The KEYFERSONS duties ber of donor/donation ratio LEC course, if time permits, nothing and responsibilities include co• Encl-l must meet in order to raise the beats a personal contact when ordinating, publicizing, acting .. 0 ' ,.. ... ' 1 0 £, _ _1,,"(' ...... $1 .5 million . soliciting donations. In regards as a conduit of information be• The LEC fund raising plan to a mailer, LEC has developed tween the JACL National Board! LEC Board and the grassrooters, promoting, pushing and pulling maining 10% votes, 30 more yes FUND RAISING The LEC Executive Board to make LEC fund raising a suc• votes for HR442 and 6 more yes cess. In addition, the KEYPER• LEC Timetable Announced votes for S1053, to bring the re• agreed at the May meeting in San Francisco that the LEC SON is responsible for recruit• VOTES Secretary-Treasurer, says, "Of dress pursuit to the 100% sup• ing PRIME SOUCITORS and port vote point (These redress operation could not be set in mo• To bring the Concerned Ame• course, if something develops tion until a cash reservoir of submitting their names to the ricans redress pursuit to a suc• for earlier legislative success, we bills may have other identifica• LEC Finance Chair, Harry Kaji• tion numbers in the 100th Con• $150,000.00 was in place. The cessful conclusion requires 218 can all REJOICE, but for now we gress). - target for achieving this cash hara. The KEYFERSON also re• yes votes for HR442 and 51 yes stay on line with the 3-year pool is early October, 1985. ceives the donations from the votes for S1053. The Legislative plan." BUDGET LEC needs to reach quickly a PRIME SOUCTIDRS, maintains Education Committee of the Ja• All lobbying activities must To obtain the needed votes, cash position where the salaries, donation records, and submits panese American Citizens focus on getting member of con• LEC must fund sufficient per• rentals, and other high priority donations to the LEC Finance League has formulated the lob• gress support votes. For June sonnel to "walk the corridors of expenses are covered. This can Chair. The breakout of the tar• bying portion of the Concerned 1985 we are 50% along the mem• Congress." There are 535 Mem• be achieved if $150,000 can be geted PRIME SOUCITORS to be Americans redress pursuit plan. bers of congress support vote bers of Congress. The LEC per• raised by very early October recruited by the District KEY• this plan incorporates a coordi• timeline. By December 1986, sonnelmust attend to the admin• 1985, then the funds raised fol• PERSONS are as follows: nated timeline for members of eighteen months from now, we istrative work associated with low the timeline shown in the Keypersons Prime Solicitors congress support votes, fund• must add, at minimum, 90 more the lobbying effort. They must chart, reaching $600,000.00 by Molly Fujioka, NCWNP .....60 raising, and budget require• yes votes for HR442 and 20 more communicate, orally and in June, 1986,$1.1 million by June, Harry Kajihara, PSW ...... 60 ments. The chart below shows yes votes for S1053. This brings written fonnat, with the grass• 1987, and $1.5 million by June, Denny Yasuhara, PNW ...... 12 the timelines in graphical us to the 90% support vote point root concerned Americans to 1988. Peggy Sasashima Liggett, ex; .12 display. (If more support votes, super! If keep them abreast of the redress It is essential to have the funds George Sakaguchi, MDC .....12 The lobbying portion of the re• the bills pass bv then, super!). pursuit accomplishments. LEC raised stay ahead of the bud• Hid Hasegawa, IMT 8 dress pursuit plan is a three-year In another 1: -months, Decem• staff must conscientiously give geted expenditures because a Mike Suzuki, EOC 7 plan. As Shig Wakamatsu, LEC ber 1987, we reed to add the re- an accounting for the funding portion of this difference is in• Paul Shinkawa, fvtP ...... 5 TIMEUNE FOR TARGETED FUNORAISI NG: BUDGET: MEMBERS OF CONGRESS SUPPORT VOTES support provided by the Con• tended for usage to engage the cerned Americans. The volun• 176 M : MILLION services of a professional lobby• 16M teer redress workers and grass- ist at the appropriate time The recruitment tasking to the ~ root lobbyist must be reim• should assessment of the redress KEYPERSON is a huge one. But 14M bursed, at least in part, for the pursuit progress show a need. note that if each of the 176 expenses incurred. LEC Board Also, the fund raising conform• PRIME SOUCITORS raises only meetings are essential. Salaries, ing to this timeline gives assur• the minimum of $2000.00, the 12M facility rental, telephone bills, ance to the LEC staffer that their total amount raised is utilities, resource materials, etc. immediate salary is assured. $352,000.00, far short of must be paid. The bottom line is The LEC fund raising plan $500,000.00. The Finance Chair 10M that this redress pursuit is going calls for recruiting 200 PRIME is counting on each PRIME SO• to cost money. SOUCITORS amongst the LICITOR to exceed $2000. When The 3-year lobbying redress 27,000 JACLers who will volun• the ux:::; Fund Drive gets into 0.8 M pursuit budget approved by the teer to raise a minimum of high gear and donations are LEC Executive Board meeting in $2,000.00 per year over a three coming in at a torrential pace, San Francisco on May 17,1985, 06M year period. It is hoped that once your Finance Chair is counting is given in detail elsewhere in the fund-raising goes well, other on other PRIME SOUCITORS to this LEx:: edition for scrutiny by PRIME SOLICITORS will come voluntarily emerge so that the 0.4 M Concerned Americans. This de• forth to join the original PRIME total PRIME SOUCITORS will TARGITEO VOTE SUPPORT TlMEUNE tailed 3-year budget is based on SOLICITORS. The PRIME SOU• reach 200-250. Certainly among I SI053 best information and factors CITORS should outreach for do• the 27,000 JACLers, there must 0.2 M 25 4S 51 56 available to the planning com• nations to their non JACLer be at least 250 who will volun• HR442 mittee. It should be understood friends because redress is not a teer to raise $2000 a year for the 192 218 240 that corrective actions may be re• duratim of this plan! Please 90% 100% sole JACL endeavor. All Con• 0.0 M 11 0% quired and will be implemented cerned Americans should be rush to your District KEYPER• M J S M S M S M S as the redress events unfold in given the opportunity to support SON and offer your name as a 1985 1986 1987 1988 the future. the redress pursuit fundwise. PRIME SOLICflUR. 8-PACIFIC CITIZEN / Friday, June 7, 1985 Paid polhlcal advertising LEe Is on Its Way sors oJ'S. 1053, we need only one LEC is planning the full opera• efforts than in other regions be-I _------more Senator on this sub-com• tion of the Washington, D.C. of• cause there are relatively few Th L gislative Education mittee to assure afavorable vote. fice for direct lobbying in Con• Nikkei in critically sensitive ommitt e (LEC) of th JACL REDRESS Both Nfathias of Maryland and gress. Efforts in Washington, areas. wa flash d a green 1ight by the D.C., must be supported by UPDATE Gore of Tennessee appear to be Harry Kajihara and the District National JACL Board in an likely prospects. but both must grass-roots constituents efforts Franci co on Friday, Ma 17, Keypersons are recruiting 200 by Minoru be contacted and persuaded by in the home districts and states 1985, to be fully respon ible in of the U.S. representatives and "prime solicitors" to raise a Yasu i onstituents. minimum $2,000 each for a tar• lobb ing for redre in Congress. U.S. Senators. Legislative geted goal of $400,000 per year. With redre bill , H.R. 442 and Education . 1053, introduced in Congre Committee Harry Ka jihara of the Pacific We have kicked off the LEC LEC i on it wa ! ______Southwes t JACL district per- These efforts must be concen• fund-raising drive as of June 1, 1985. We are most gratified that LE i go erned b a 15-m m• form h rculean tasks to assure trated in the Midwest and on the b r board, chaired by Minoru a ot an be tak n. Unfortunate• that the LEC fund-raising drive East Coast, where the struggle March Fong Eu, the secretary of Ya ui of Den er. Dave Nikaido ly e do not hav a roster of will support the legislative ef• for redress will be won or lost• state of California, has led the of Wa hington, D.C. and Cherr members on these ommi ttes at forts of LEe. Shig Wakamatsu, as because these regions have the way in making an initial person• Kinoshita of Seattle, are vice• the pr sent moment but we hall Secretary-Treasurer. has submit• votes to pass or to defeat redress al contribution of $1,000.00. chair , and Shig Wakamatsu of let you know th key members of ted a budget of $3 75,530 for June on the floor of the Congress. It is Others have followed her lead. Chicago erves as secretary-trea- each committee-so you can 1985 to June 1986. It's a big job also true that these regions will We're on our way, and a-wing• urer. help in persuading them to up• facing us. require more money and more ing for victory! JACL i represented by Frank port redres . S. Sato, as National JACL Pre i• And, even before full commit• dent, with ice-President : Dr. tee consideration of redress, the Yosh Nakashima of San Francis• ub-committees in both houses A Time to Give co, Dr. az Mayeda of Detroit, must "mark up" the redress and Rose M. Ochi of Los Ange• bills, and report the bills to their by Shig Wakamatsu achievement of our 1st Amend• entirely within the current day Ie ; and JACL district governors respective committees. It is my sincere hope that the ment rights of redress of griev• economic strength of JA com• Denn Yasuhara of the Pacific Key members in the House ju• launch of the LEe fund drive for ances stemming from the injus• munities throughout our nation Northwest and Harry Kajihara of diciary sub-committee, for the $1 .5 million dollars will spark tice of WW2 mass evacuation to give it substance. All of us the Pacific Southwest, all serv• Democrats. are: Sam B. Hal l of the final coalescence of all seg• and incarceration. know this. ing on the LEC Board. Texas, who will probably be re• ments of the Japanese American The three year budget present• The key to utilizing this Grant Ujifusa of New York is placed by Dan Glickman of Kan• community. The goal is the ed here is a minimal one. It is strength lies in the three words of the Commission report title: legislative strategies chair, and sas; Barney Ford of Massachu• JACL I Legislative Education Committee Budget Harry Kajihara is LEC fund-rais• setts, Howard Berman of Los Personal Justice Denied. The in• 1st Year 2nd Year 3rd Year dividual must make up his/her ing chairman. Angeles, Frederick Boucher of (The LEC Calendar year stMs In June) 1985/1986 1986/1987 1987/1988 At-large board members are: Virginia, George Crockett of Mi• mind to stand up for his/her A. OFFICES / PERSONNEL rights as Americans. The screen Joseph L. Raub of Washington, chigan, and Harley Staggers of 1. Redress Chair - Denver Ottlce S 3,000 S 3,300 S 3.500 2 Washing IOn . D.C. Office of years has brought compla• D.e. (with impressive civil West Virginia. The Republican Rent ...... 18.000 18.000 19.500 Phone ...... 2.400 2,500 2.700 cency upon a whole lot of the rights credentials); Arthur Mori• members are: Thomas Kindness Oftlcesupphes ...... 1.500 1.600 2.000 SubscrlplJOns to Fed Register. etc ..•.••.. 750 750 900 WW2 Nisei. We're doing okay, mitsu of Chicago, with extensive of Ohio (ranking minority mem• Postage. UPS. Express Mall ...... •... 5.000 5.000 5.000 connections with veterans ber, and opposed to redress); Insurance ...... 1.000 1.000 t .OOO we are enjoying our remaining Office fumlture ...... • . .. 1.500 days, we dislike rocking the boat Hank Brown of Colorado, Pa• Electnclty ...... _ ...... 1.200 1.200 1,500 groups; Dr. James Tsujimura of EqUipment lease ...... 3.600 3.000 3.600 Portland, as a past National trick Swindall of Georgia and and besides, due process is a ------34 ,950 33.650 36,200 JACL President; and Grayce K. Howard Coble of North Carolina. term only for lawyers ..... So we 3 . Personnel Salaries - D.C. must ask those of us in the welI• Uyehara of Philadelphia, who is We need a majority of six mem• Staff ...... 111 .000 116.800 123.000 the East Coast dynamo for bers on this sub-committee, and Fri nge. Workmen s Comp. FICA ... ' .. . 20.000 2 1.000 22,000 to-do group, How valuable are redress. at present are assured of the 131.000 137.800 145.000 your $400,000 homes, your ex• pensive country club dues, your Ultimately, LEC must per• votes of only Frank, Berman and 4. ClearingHouse - Chicago Secretary/ Operator ...... 16,000 17.000 18.000 executive positions, if you do suade 218 members of the House Crockett. We desperately need Supplies. phone. postage .. .•...... ••.... 4,000 4.000 4,000 of Representatives in the U.S. three more! Fringe. Workmen s Comp, FICA ...... •------2.000------3.000 3.250 not lift a finger to right an in· 22.000 24.000 25.250 justice when an opportunity tl Congress, and 51 U.S. Senators, In the Senate sub-committee, 5 Contract Services - JACL HO. San FranCISCO do presents itself? to vote in favor ofH.R. 442 an d S. the Republican majority mem• Minutes of LEC meebngs ...... •... ., 800 800 t .OOO 1053, the redress bills. on the Maintain financial records/reports ...... 4.000 4,000 4,000 Come alive, we say, we were bers are: Sen. Ted Stevens of DeSign/develop materials as reqUired ...... 2.000 all in the same boat in 1942. To floor of the Congress. Alaska. Sen. Chas. Mathias of Coord inate contacts-Nan orgs w/ LEC·DC . 2,000 2.000 2.500 CoordWla te local Redress w/ LEC-OC ...... 2.000 2.000 2.000 the various JA community Before that can happen, a ma• Maryland. and Sen. Dave Duren• Coordinate hearing testimonies w/ LEC·DC ... 2.000 1.200 1.500 Maintain evaluated lists of materials. localities. costs 1.500 groups, we must ask, What good jority of the members of both the Rental of facilities ...... • . .. .. 500 500 600 berger of Minnesota. The mi• are our various JA cultural cen• House Judiciary Committee. and ------14.800------10.500 11 .600 nority Democrats are Sen. Albert ters, our church edifices and all the Senate Committee on Gov• Gore of Tennessee and Sen. Carl TOTAL. OFFICES / PERSONNEL S 205.750 209.250 221.550 our good works when we cannot ernmental Affairs, must report Levin of Michigan. Since both take time-out and swing our col• out favorably the redress bills so Stevens and Levin are co-spon- B. MEETINGS / TRAVEL 1. LECChalr (average 2-yr. experience) . 14.000 14.000 10,000 lective strength to reinforce the 2. LECChalr ·2 mtgs (15x2) ...... t5,OOO 16.500 18.000 3 . LEC Exec. Comm. - 2 mtgs (9x2) ...... 9,000 9.900 11 .800 fundamental tenets of our demo• LEGISLATI VE EDUCATI ON COMMITIEE ------38,000 40.400 39.800 cracy which ensures our 00 JAPANESE AMERICAN OlllENS LEAGUE I§ '~N~NfM.M.tw~ H~Soi ~"~SonF'QnQ~Co'\ol" 94t~l.t~IW ' $n~ freedom. "lGC::lho\lOflct ,44 .o..""5or r.o.OSJ'H' tDl~COIICfr.oOOll,I' Rtoom~7(1 1 )10'o- "11 C. FUND DRIVE EXPENSES We ask the leadership of these !.l ay 1985 Key persons (8) ...... 5.000 6.000 6.000 Prime solici tors (225. 250.267. respecuvely) .. .. 11 .250 18.750 20,000 groups to take action to affirm Printing, ads ...... _...... 2,000 2.000 3.000 Dear Friend Phones, acknowledgments. communicatiOns . . . .• 3,000 3.000 3.000 the goal of redress: the affirma• Clerical/records/ reports ...... 5.000 6.000 6.000 tion of our Bill of Rights. For some year s now, we have wo r ked t ogether wi th concerned ------Ame r icans to seek a l egisla t ive remedy for t he wrongful xclusion 26.250 35.750 38.000 And to the rest of us, the and det ention of Ame r J~a n s or Japanese ancestry during the Second Wo r ld War. It has been nn e f ror t In wh ich signi f ican t progr ess 60,000 survivors of the camps, bas been made. we must ask: wherever you are, I n 1980, t he President Signed PubliC Lnw 96- 3 17 . est a bl i s hi ng D. MATER~LPROCUREMENT the Commission on Wa rt ime Re l oca t ion nnd Inte r nme nt ot Civilians, Books · Justlce for all - 535 @$ 10 ...... 5.350 in whatever station in life, is whicb conducted t he fi r s t o ffi c ial investigat10n o f the gove rnme nt' s Justice at War - 535 @$8 ...... 4.280 2ctlons against J apanese Ame r lcans and p r o~ id c d the PresJdent and Bamboo People - 535 @$7 ...... 3,750 there anyone of us who cannot Congr ess wi th an ot f lc l a l r e por t a nd r ecommendations. Years of Infamy - 535 @$10 ...... 5.350 Go for Broke ...... 7,000 manage a $100 or $200 or even a Those r comme nd.t lons formed the basis of HR44 2. the Civil Le~ISla\lVe handbooks. brochures. tapes. slides. Liberties Act of 1 9 8 ~. wh ich is the r cdr 58 l eg i s l a tion no~ Ilms, media kits, pinS ...... 12,500 10.000 10,000 $300 donation for a cause such befor e Co ngr ess. As tho 99th Congr ess co n ve n ~s we look for ward to our eont i nued e ffort with t he J apanese Ame rican Ci t izens ------25.880 15,350 17.000 as redress? League and Legisl . t ive Edu ca t ion Comml tt ~e to sook the passage or l egislat ion 1n o rde r t ha t ~ e might bring a n hono r nble con clus ion We must recall all the inci• t o one ot the mos t s home t ul cha pt. e r s in our gr oa t nation 's hi s tory . E. LOBBY EXPENSES 1. Wash.,gton. D.C. Staff/ Office dents of our lives-the whimsi• The Legl&l. t lve Educa tlon Commi t tee has embarked on a fund ~~~~~:;:r~~' ~~ . s .' ~~ . s . ~ ~~~~ ~ ~ ~ ~~ . f~ ~ ~~ . ~ : ggg ~ : ~ ~ : ggg cal expenditures, those trips to r . lsing efrort t o provide tho kind o f l obbying s upport needed :: if we hope t o achi eve a ny degr ee or 1 glsl a t tvc s uccess. We a r e Pay phones. miSC. kllty ...... 500 500 500 Vegas, those hopeful invest• joini ng ' 8 co ll ~agues I n t he United Stat es Co ng r ess t o ur ge your Volunteer lObbYISts , office ass ts ...... 12.000 12.000 14,000 s uppo r t o f t h LEC's fi na ncial e ffo rt ror n most worthwhile caus e . StaH travel gUidellne-S165/ day (max. 10 oy) 1.650 1.650 3.300 ments we've made. All of these Fare ...... ••. . . . 1.500 1,500 4,000 Although we can all be proud at ou r achiovements thus (ar LECmeetmgs (4 x 2) ...... 4.000 4.400 4.800 we know will pale against the t owa rd r ec tlfylng the t erri bl e Inj us tices o f the e v~ c u a tl o n a nd 2. Grassroots Volunteers i nternme nt , we $ tl11 face mnny difricult. obs t acles in our e fforts. Areacoordmators ...... 5,000 6.000 6,000 value of the investment in jus• A l eg i s lat i ve campa l Kn s uch as this I s cos tly . and we the r e fore Local congressional districts ... ..•..•...... 25,000 30.000 30.000 hope tha t you will II l ve the LeclslBtlve Edu cation COI1'II1itt ee )'our ------tice that we are now calling f l n.nc lat . s upport . 56.650 63,450 71.800 upon you to make as an indivi• you 1t....:r u l y ~A. • F. SPECIAL EVENTS, CONFERENCES dual American. P.R. and presence at banquets. politICal. CIVil rlgnts and government funct,ons. media events. RemEmber the title Personal ~ ) ~ LECreceptlons ...... 15.000 15.000 15.000 Justice Denied. The injustice hit ~~ G. MISCELLANEOUS EXPENSES us personally back in 1942. It is Robe rt T . ~ a t 8 u l Finance Chair ~ c mb e r o f Co nKr ess SecretalY/ Treasurer our turn to respond personally to LJ eglslallve Chair Consultants. Legal Counsel. Auditor . . .. 8.000 8.000 10.000 the challenge of being an Ameri• can citizen. Let's all fight the BUDGET TOTAL 5375.530 387. 200 41 2.950 good fight and go for it! Friday, June 7, 1985 I PACIFIC CInZEN-9 KATO by Shima ~ Kato's father's reply was a sur• The bus finally slowed down ~ ---..""".~- " Yes, they do, but lately, it~ad has prise to him, although in thinking and stOWed opposite a break in W~ ~ ' ~ --- .. been so cold~e that there .is a back, he should have expected it. the barbed wire fence that the rush for coal when It arrlves After a slight hesitation he road had been paralleling for and all of It is gone within minutes brea~ ~ut solemnly said, "Just because orne tune. Outside a nondescript _ _ _ - -: _ - -.;;;., = --.:2 and, often fights .among your government has not seen fit ha k lolled several armed . . - , the Coal Prospectors. His mom oldiers. --- - had a small box in the room where to grant you the rights and privi• leges due every American citizen It was a cold winter's after- she kept Cl!l emergency supply of by the Constitution, does not in noon. Kato had taken a train from the screerungs. Recently they had any way relieve you of your re• Livingston. Montana to a small been out of coal for two days in sponsibilities to your country." town in northern Wyoming where sub-zero weather and the family he had transferred to a bus to had had to huddle together to keep What sort of man was this that complete his trip to the intern- warm ..As soon as Kato's mother could say this after having lost his ment c~p . to visit his family be- saw hm .she ~hed ov~r and life's work and was being interned fore bemg mducted into the U.S. greeted hlffi With tears m her under guard? His only son had Army. He had ridden for several eyes. just anmunced that he would be hours through this desolate area They went back home and sat donning the same uniform as the seeing only scrubby sagebrush aro~d ~ng about camp, the guards who manned the machine covered by occasional ragged outside slde, school, etc. It was guns in the guard towers sur• patches of snow. In the mid-dis- time for supper. They all went rounding the camp. His father ~an~e could be seen a range of ma- ~ ove~ to the du:ung hall where they was a very strict disciplinarian Jestlc rro.untains. the foothills of g?t mto a typIcal chow line. They who in times of crisis had no the RockIes. In the midst of this picked up compartmented metal doubts as to what was right and desolation there was a certain l trays, and as they walked down wrong. Kato realized that he serenity and calm in the vastness the line, portions of food were lad- should have known this from his and the solitude. led out into the trays. Usually they experie~es The guard shack consisted of had butter, bread, some kind of as a child, as he went thr~ugh high school and especial• two rooms one to register visitors vegetable, milk for the children l~ m th~ agonizing days when and the other side was used by the and some kind of meat. He was h~ family, having lost every• s old ie~ s . ~ato . walked up to the informed that for the past month receptl MY FATHER AND MYSELF FACING THE SUN We are both strong, dark, bright men, There are differences, however, if you care though perhaps you might not notice, to discover, coming close, respectfully. finding two figures flat against the landscape You must discover the landscape as you go. like the shadowed backs of mountains. Come. It is in the eyes, the face, the way Which would not be far from wrong, we would greet you stumbling as you arrive. for though we both have on western clothes He is much the smooth, grass-brown slopes and he is seated on a yellow spool reaching knee-high around you as you walk; of emptied and forgotten telephone cable I am the cracks of cliffs and gulleys, and I recline on a green aluminum lounge, pieces of secret deep in the back of the eye. we are both facing into the August sun But he is stili my father, and I his son. as august as Hiroshima and the coming of autumn. After a while, there is time to go fishing, both of us squatting on rocks in the dusk, leaving peaks and treeline responsible for light. There is a lake below, which both of us acknowledge, by facing, forward, like the sun. And I am not at aI/ certain what all this means, if this mean anything, but feel with all my being Ripples of fish, moon, luminous insects. that I must write this down, if I write anything. Frogs, owls, crickets at their sound. Deer, racoon, badger come down to drink. My father, his son, his grandsons, strong, serene. At the waters edge, the children are fishing, Night, night, night, before the fol/owing moming. casting shadows from the enormous shoreline. Everything functions in the function of summer. 8/18/76 © Lawson Fusao Inada And gradually, and not by chance, the action Poet Lawson Fusao Inada is currently a professor of English at Southern Oregon stops, the children hush back among rocks State College. of one of the Jerome inter- and also watch, with nothing to capture but dusk. His father, Fusaji lnada, was born and raised in Watsonville, california. He Is a graduate of Gilroy High, San Jose State, and the UC Dental School, and presently nees. Photo from U75th Anniversary" of the Japanese resides in Fresno, California. Congregational Church (Bancroft Library Collection) . There are four of us, together among others. February Third -a short story by Mira Shimabukuro ''Sharon, time to wake up!" "We'll talk about it tonight• ''It's a deal. I'll talk to you later. might drop by, for your party," Sharon pointing at her dad yelled Mrs. Akune. after your dance class " said Mr. Okay?" said Sharon 'Tve got to John Akune grinned. Lucy smiled, "Well, that was 'Tm already up, aunty!" Sha• Akune. "But you two better go, go, 'bye." Sharon practically jumped your dad's idea" ron yelled downstairs. It had or else both of you will be late." "'Bye!" Lucy yelled down the into her father'S anTIS. She was Sharon grinned. This was the been about three months since "Your uncle s right, Sharon hall to her friend. 'Just wait until so happy to see him. best birthday she had ever had she had started living with her We have to go. Goodbye, Tom," 3:30, Sharon,' Lucy said to her• After Sharon calmed down, There were all her favorite foods aunt and uncle and it was working said Mrs. Akune. sel( and with that she walked she went over and hugged both like sushi, miso soup and pizza. out fine. Sharon missed her dad "Okay. 'Bye,uncle," said Sha• home. her aunt and uncle. Then she And cake and ice cream, of a lot He had moved to Boston ron It was 3:2D by the time Sharon went over to Lucy. course. earlier. But at the end of this Sharon's classes had never arrived at the dance center. As ''I can't believe you knew Sharon was very happy, but school year, Sharon would be been longer. She knew it was be• she walked up to the second about this all the time," said Sha• she needed to do one more thiJW. moving to be with him cause she couldn't wait until that floor, she hummed her favorite ron She walked over to her father. As she combed through her night to hear if she could have a song, ''Lucky Star" by Madonna Lucy grinned, '1 knew you 'Thanks tor coming, dad 1 hair, Sharon thought about what party. Sharon walked down the hall to loved surprises, so I asked your missed you a lot" was happening that day. ''Not Finally the last bell rang Sha• room 2m. When she got to the aunt and uncle ifwe could throw o much at school ...," she thought ron and her best friend, Lucy, door, she noticed the lights were a surprise party for you." Miro Chieko Shim.abukttro is a to herself: ''but I have my dance walked to their lockers from sci• out "That's funny," she said to ''Well, you were right! And I seventh grader at Beaumont MXf.. class at 3:30." Just as she parted ence. herself as she opened the door. especially love that one," said dIe School in Partland, Ore. her bangs, she remembered what ''I can't wait until tonight Oh, "Mrs. Cornell is always early." today was - February third. It did I tell you? My aunt and uncle Sharon put her bag down and was her birthday! Sharon grabbed said maybe I could have a party!" turned on the lights. her pack and ran out ofher room Sharon said excitedly. "SURPRISE!" Wt: Offt:R TUt: PROffSSlOIYAL MAIY ''I can't believe I forgot it," she crYes, Sharon, but only a Sharon turned around There said to herself as she ran down• hundred times," sighed Lucy. stood almost every single person A COPlFLt:Tt: 8USINt:SS WARDR08t:. stairs into the kitchen where her Sharon giggled, 'Tm sorry. I she knew. Her aunt and uncle, aunt and uncle were eating break• guess Ijustreaily wanta party." Mrs. Cornell, her entire dance CARRYING OVf:R 500 SUITS, SfORT fast 'That's okay. I'd be excited class, Lucy and just about every• COA TS AND OVf:RCOA TS BY GIvt:NCHY, ''Good morning, Sharon," Mr. too," said Lucy. one from school was there. LANVIN, VALf:NTlNO, ST. RAfHAf:L tt Akune smiled. CCY ou look very Sharon dialed her combina• ''Happy birthday, Sharon," a WNDON fOG IN SIlt:S 34·42 SHORT tt nice today. Is today something tion ''I have dance, so I can't walk voice said from behind her. f:XTRA SHORT. OUR ACCt:SSOKlt:S Sharon knew that voice. She special?" home with you, Lucy." INCLUDf: DRt:SS SHIRTS, SLACKS, AND "Why ... yes, uncle," Sharon "Okay, but call me when you turned around again said sarcastically. "My dance find out about your party. All ''DAD!'' she yelled. TIt:S IN SHORT tt SMALL SIlt:S I Lf:NGTHS. class is today." right?" said Lucy. ''Hello, darling. Thought I IN ADDITION, Wf: RfCf:NTLY f:XfANDf:D ''Really?'' Mr. Akune acted sur• TO INCLUDf: AN ITALIAN DRfSS SHOf: prised. "Had I any idea I would L1Nf: IN SIZt:S 5· 71h. have gone out and bought you a Happy new radio." And with that, he put FATHER'S DAY& GRAdlJATiON 785 W. HAMIL TON A VENUE a brand new radio on the table. CAMPBELL, CALIFORNIA 95008 Father's ''Happy birthday, Sharon," Be prepared for summer' heal in -lighlweighl wrinkle PHONE: 408/374·1486 Day free clothing. Comfonable and virluaUy care free 10 M-F:12·8:30, SAT:10-6, SUN:12-5 smiled Mrs. Akune. ''It's from day's graduale and tomorrow's businessman. your uncle and me." MWT 1'0 ''Oh, thank you!" gasped Sha• ...~ ron ''It's just what rve been ~ ; . • 0 ; •N wanting" " 'Tm glad you like it, but right H •• ,,,, TO. &VI SiI! ! now we'd better leave if fm to Anaheim 2951 Wesl 0011 Rood SUite 202 (7 14) 995-J804 get you to school on time," said Gardena 1607 Wesl Redondo Oeoch Olvd (21 J) J21 -6804 Mrs. Akune. Mont rey Porl~ 615 South Allontlc Olvd (818) 281 -8J68 ''Okay, but can I have a party 10. 00·6.00 Mon. Tue. Wed & Sal. 10.00-8.00 Tnu & Fn Visa. Maslercaro & American Express this weekend?" asked Sharon Friday, June7,1985/ PACIFICCITIZEN-11 Father Knows Best My uncle, after receiving his of respect, for as we all know pete with the South as long as teacher came up to me before citiz nship paper around 1900, ONE THING teachers were held in veIJ1 high the South had free labor." class and said that she had done convinced my dad that he could LEADS esteem by immigrants from Oki• some research and that there nawa and the rest of Japan. And I thought, "Oh no, here probably get his too, if he would TO ANOTHER was a lot of truth to what I said" comes another unasked-for his• And then he laughed long and nly attend citizenship chool. About the third or fourth class, Being an ' amateur," but riou tory lecture from dad" hard, relishing his moment of my dad came home looking pret• But I was wrong. Instead, he triumph. student of histoIJ1, dad found th ty smug, just waiting for me to American history taught at citi• laughed loudly, saying, "You Bob ask what happened Being a duti• should have seen the look on her Now I could go on and on zenship school to be condescend• ful son, but not knowing what to ing and mildly offen ive, but nev• Shimabukuro face. She just sat there with her about my dad but with all the expect, I tentatively asked, "So mouth open" dress-for-success, "successful" ertheless, tolerable. -----.....:.. .::::;;~;;;;;;;;=~ . how was class?" Featuring the limited and image-reworking emphasis going Realizing that my dad had the around, I thought it would be barely factual this histoIJ1 class turing all the haole American ''Why was the Civil War fought, gift ofexaggeration, I didn't know wise to end with my dad's per• was more like an Amelican cate• history trivia one could stomach. Bob?" for sure what transpired in the chism which asked questions My dad, needless to say, often spective on the subject ''Never Finding myself to be a straight class, but having given off-beat trust a man in a three-piece suit," such as 'Who is the father of our came home from these classes man in a comedy routine, I again answers in class to ~ed teach• countIy? ' and other stimulating ftustrated, complaining often he used to say, ''he's out to put dutifully answered what was ex• ers myself, I assumed he was not something over on you" questions such as, ''Who wrote about his teacher who didn't pected, 'To free the slaves." stretching the truth very much. the the Declaration of Indepen• know anything other than what Well, you know what flashes dence?' and 'What were the ori- she read in that "dumb" book "Hah!" said dad "Just what my Next week, dad came home, through my mind whenever I put . al 13 colonies and why did teacher said" walked into the house with a very on my three-piece suit?~e was they revolt against England?' I generally viewed all this with boastful demeanor and said, "So what did you say?" most definitely tWtt The "correct" answers, of a lot of amusement, since he was ''Guess what, Bob?" He paused course, were spelled out for the always advising me to listen to ''Because the North felt that long enough for me to ask, From one father to all the rest, students in their textbooks, fea- my teachers and show them a lot there was no way they could com- ''What?'' and continued, 'The Happy Father's Day. nual Northern California Young an outdoor judo dojo and sumo able fathers and I was the small People's Christian Conference in area in their backyard. "My fa• helpless boy. My Dad, the Writer Berkeley before the war. ther, woo was an early riser, "When the revelation occurred, , This was a solid house with would awaken us before 6 a.m. I quit judo. oak furniture, and the breakfast and we would be out on a winter "One cold winter day, as I by Richard Oyama cative memories he summons in room was in the front with white morning on the frozen mat white crossed Fifth Avenue, a bus Hokubei Mainichi his work. laced cwtains, the early morning with early morning frost ...He stopped near me, suddenly I In the above passage, I get a sun striking golden rays into the wasn't really what a Nisei boy slipped on the icy street, falling 'As I listened to the poems, I true feeling of camp life with room. There were doilies, silver• could call 'Dad,' he was then right in front of the bus in full view was transported to the barracks " mud clinging to my boots," his ware and white napkins and a 'Father,' somewhat formidable of the passengers. I broke my fall and was once again an internee unspoken sorrow at the loss of his thick white tablecloth on the and unrelenting. " with a beautiful 'ukemi,' landing with the deep Arkansas mud parents, the silent snow, the diz• table-and grapes on each dish! Oyama recalls the time when on my back with my head safely clinging to my boots the stickiest zying spiral of time and the solace In the center of the table, there my grandfather challenged my tucked up. This is the only time mud in the world, good for the ?f shared understanding. In writ• was a vase of yellow am red father to hit him on the head with that judo came into practical use creation of ceramics). And I mg . about a poetry reading, he roses. a bamboo pole after my father for me, am I thank Father." thought of my father with his soap achieves a kind of poetry in his "The hnstess, an elderly wom• had studied kemo for only six Much as we try to disguise the factory project ... in camp and own recollection. an (I do not recollect her name), months. "Deflecting my pole with fact, we all embody the various my mother so proud of the minia• . " Ho~en has a decrepit old soft-spoken, sat down with us for just a flick of his wrist, suddenly roles we've played throughout our ture cloth dolls that she made and city hall, but (it also has) a won• breakfast and offered a simple he would swoop down on me with lives; we might be child, adoles• how important I thought I w ~ s in• derful old-fashioned bandstand in prayer. She ate the grapes with a hard blow on the head. What a cent, adult, lover and parent all at once. It is my father's confession dependent of them. My parents the middle of a tree-shrouded the skin on, bcause she said that sobering experience. Mama nowdead ... park in the center of the city. On the best part of the grape was always did say we had one extra of the "small helpless boy" within " I was once again transported the Fowth of July, standing on the under the skin. We all did the 'kodomo' (child) in the family him trying to battle a train of in• back to the International House in banks of the Hudson River at same thing, chewing very hard, and that was Dad! " nwnerable fathers that makes New York, and watched the snow night, we saw spectacular fire• spitting out the seeds. " In much the way childhood is, this passage so poignant. this passage is both funny and a My father is a good writer, but coming down silently outside on works from the Manhattan side The telling detail is that " she this quiet night, and thought how and . listened to Dixieland jazz little cruel. It is as much a por• he writes in a style that doesn't ate the grapes with the skin on " trait of some achetypal stern, call attention to itself, doesn't unbelievably long ago! The young commg from the sightseeing ex• which reveals the unfamiliarity, actors and actresses on stage cursion boats plying up and down foreboding patriarch as it is about show off. The writing does its the strangeness even, of both the his own authoritarian Issei fa• work quietly and with a minimum hadn't even been born then. How lighted with colorful Japanes~ place and character, the sumptu• could they feel that experience we lanterns. Fireflies whirl and dart ther. He makes this point in a of detail, but the details he does ous delicacy of "grapes on each startling revelatioo: choose are the right ones: the thought no one would ever Wlder• among the trees . .. " dish! " stand? There was comfort in the I lived in Hoboken for a while, "One evening after an especial• clinging Arkansas mud, the si• One of my favorite PC columns lence of the drifting snow, the knowledge that they knew, and I too, and my impressions of the ly rigorous practice, completely by my father is the one he wrote whirling fireflies, the unpeeled had to suppress a tear. " town were quite different from exhausted and drenched with about taking judo when he was 47 grapes. The ability to make writ• Joe Oyama, a long-time Nisei my father's, but I remember the perspiration from head to foot, I years old with his two sons, my ing look effortless is one of the writer and colwnnist for the Paci• meditated after the evening prac• things he saw as well. And he saw older brother Bob and me. hardest things learn. fic Citizen, wrote the above para- tice was through. Enveloped in a to them clearly: 'Fireflies whirl He writes that most men of his My father has attained that gift raphs about "Cold Snowy Wind cloud, I saw myself trying to de• and dart among the trees ... " In age ' would have taken to a mild• of simplicity in his work. of Missoula," a dramatized read• that northern New Jersey town, feat my father. There wasn't only er sport like fishing, bowling, father, but many indistinguish- -Reprinted by permission. ing of haiku, senryu and tanka there were moments when it had aikido or tai chi," but that he written by Issei internees in a quaint, turn-of-the-century feel• ch?se judo out of a "certain para• camp. Oyama is also, incidental• ing and my father captured that nOId fear that someone might be ly, my father. leisurely feeling in his passage. after me," a not uncommon fear Treat your Dad on I have always liked my father's In one Pacific Citizen column, in New York City where we lived Father's Day iting. I've admired the simpli• he wrote about staying in an at the time. "ity, humor, honesty, and the evo- " American home during the an- He recalls when his father built Short & Small Men's Happy Father's Day Clothier Don't Forget Father's Day @ June 16, 1985 CRENSHAW LillvfBER CO. Clothes that take you where you want to go looking the way you always 1860W. 166th St. knew you could. Gardena, CA 90247 (213) 321-1850 323-1337 SEATTLE SOUTHCENTER BELLEVUE DOWNTOWNRAe." SEA1TU: 6th So. & So. King 50uthcenter MaU lS6th NE & NE 24th 2122 ThiJdAvcnuc. 682-7364 JIM POITRATZ 62-1-6248 246-7077 747-9012 12-PACIFIC CITIZEN I Friday, June 7, 1985 - Chapter Scholarships . Students to be Jays workshop Placer Chapter as well as serving scheduled Stockton Michael Ishii is currently com• awarded as its first president (1928-29) . Placer JACL is one of the national SEA1TLE-"Focus on Your Fu• STOCKTON, Calif.- Recipients pleting his fi'eshman year at by Roy Yoshida of the 1985 cholarships were Oberlin College as a music organization's charter chapters. ture," a student development honored at a J un 2nd IWlcheon major. PENRYN, Calif.-Placer County Placer JACL also presents the program for college/career suc• at Kazan at 1 p.m. Main speaker Special recognition was given JACL's annual scholarship fund Okei Memorial Achievement cess, will feature a panel of dis• for the e nt was Mitsuaki Ohata, by Seattle JACL to Mr. Uhachi raising dinner has been slated for Awards to outstanding graduates tinguished members of the com• winner of the JACL-Elizabeth' Tamesa in grateful appreciation Saturday, June 8, 6 to 8 p.m., at of Gold Trail Elementary School mWlity who will share their pe Hwnbargar H.s. scholarship. for the scholarship fund he set the Placer Buddhist Church, ac• at Gold Hill near Coloma. The sonal experiences regarding the Ohata was a participant at the up in memory of his son, Minoru cording to Lee Kusumoto, com• awards memorialize Okei Ito, a advantages and disadvantages Presidential Classroom in Feb- Tamesa Tamesa recently cele• munity services chairman. Cost member of the ill-fated Wakama• being a minority in the work mary. He attends Stagg HS., brated his 101st birthday-an of the dinner will be a donation of tsu Tea and Silk Farm Colony at place and school where he is enior class presi- event which was also l'eCOgnized $7.50 a person. Gold Hill, who died in 1871 at the The program will be held on dent and has been active in the by the chapter. Amy Tokutomi, general chair• age of 19. JWle 22 at the University ofWashI Key Club, Interact Club, Asian Tri Valley person for food, said the menu will In addition, the chapter admini• ington, ComrnWlications Build• Club and Band. "Mits" has been - feature chicken teriyaki, chow sters a $200 scholarShip awarded ing Room 12D. accepted to UC Davis, where he SAN RAMON, Calif.-Sharon mein am the customary trim• by the California First Bank of Workshops addressing publie plans to major in Biological Sci- Kamegai and Tina Takemoto are mings. She will be assisted. by RosevilJe, conveying its spirit of speaking, stress managemenl ences. the winners of the 1985 chapter Kiyoto Hamasaki, well known comrmmity service with this and studying skills will also bJ Other recipients were: scholarships. Kamegai attends chicken teriyaki chef. worthwhile grant. held Sumitomo Bank of California Granada HS. is a member of the The three chapter scholarships The four fmalists for 1985 awards The program was created by Award: Michele Fujihara California Scholarship Federa- to be presented this year are: are: Karen Alaman and Katsuo JACL-JAYS to bring togethe California First Bank Award: tion and is listed in Who's Who JACL-ThomasM. Yego, Sr. Award Morimoto, Placer Union H.S., Au• students, educators and comrn Judy Fujii. Among American HS. Students. ($500); S/Sgt. Masa Sakamoto burn; and Dorothy Hirota and nity leaders in an effort to a(} Fred K Dobana Memorial: He is active in the French Club, Award ($300); and Placer JACL James Takahashi, Del Oro H.S., tualize the talents within the com Lynn Saga lteract, Speech and Debate, Span- Award ($200). Loomis. Recipients and their par• munity. Stockton JACL: Don Satow, ish Club and JACL Jays. Yego, a co-founder of JACL, ents will be introduced during the For information, call theJACL Janet Fujii, Joyce Nishioka Takemoto also attends Grana- headed the establishment of the evening. office at 6Z3-5OO8. JACL-E1izabeth da HS. and attend UC Berke• Hwnbargar will Just before her departure for been arranged by Mrs. Tanimoto ScholarshipforSanJoaquinDelta ley in the fall. She is also a the U.S. from Japan, a Mrs. Mary her ikebana teacher (now 00), t College Foreign Students: Wilson member of the California Schol• SAIKI Bowman of Sumi-e Studio, 28239 visit the 95-year old Inada in Wa Che Wa Luk, Dickey Lee, Louisa arship Federation and includes Continued ti-om Page 5 Ridgebrook Road, Michigan kayama for a reunion_ Through• Mei Lee. among her awards, Student of 48018, phoned me, having ob• out her three weeks in Japan, sh Seattle the Week, Bank ofAmerica Math and compared notes subsequent tained my number from a Sansei stayed with Japanese frierxfs in SEATTLE _ Presentation of and Science, Most Valuable to evacuation. He had assisted. Dr. JACLer. She said that she was Nagasaki, Osaka, Mino, Kyoto, Gymnast and Alameda County sc h 0 Iars hi p awards was held on F' Stud t Art Co titi Chikamori in the 1960s at the Li• a former Dayton JACL Chapter Toyota, Gifu and Tokyo, renewing May 15 with an informal dinner HaIr ti .~n . I d m~ ?~ brary of Congress when Chika• member and was currently con• contacts with swni-e teachers, H reception following. Recipients er ac VI es .mc u e p~ mori visited to check historical nected with the Detroit Chapter, Hirayama of Tokyo and S. Tsu· of awards were' Club, Gymnastics Team, Sernor records of Joseph Heco. With Key through Mrs. Toshi Shimeura, kada of Toyota, and learning ad• Tam~ Minoru Scholarship Food Drive, Art Club and JACL volunteering as interpreter, Chi• who had assisted in selling her ditional techniques. Bowman d Fund; Jill N ism, Lee Ann Tanagi. Jays. kamori was able to verify much sumi-e note papers as fundraisers cribed SlUIli-e as a Zen Buddhist Reverend ErneI)' Andrews Me- Portland data in both Washington am Bal• for chapters. She wrote me later art rooted in the subconscious and morial Scholarship: Michael PORTLAND, Ore. - Ryan Tsuji• timore; and the two families about her visit. its beauty exists here, now and Ishii. mura from Parkrose HS. re- maintained excellent relations. Majoring in fine arts, she re• everywhere. Most touchingly Jill Nishi is a 1985 graduate of ceived the 1965 JACL scholar• Key, the Far East representa• ceived her B.A. in 1949 from An• both Inada and Tanimoto told h Franklin HS. and will be attend- ships at the annual ~duation tive for the Little League, came tioch College in Ohio and has stu• that they will live to be a htmdr ing the University of Puget banquet held at the Red Lion on this occasion to teach wnpiring died swni-e for a year in 1965 un• so that she can visit them again' SOWld this fall where she will May 5. to the Japanese Little League ar• der Mr. Beiko lnada, Iwado, Wa• two or three years. major in business. Tsuj imura , a 4.0 student, be- biters. In view of the popularity of kayama. She began teaching Interesting personalities lik Lee Ann Tanagi is a 1985 longs to many clubs and organi• the Little League in Japan, Tai• sumi-e in Ohio in 1968 before mov• Key Kobayashi and Mary Bow graduate of Rainier Beach High zations within the school, includ• wan, South Korea and the Philip• ing to Detroit in H174. She current• man are some who weave the low School and plans to attend the ing the German Club and Na• pines, his active involvement is ly teaches at the Farmington profIle, cultural threads that c University of Washington this tional Honor Society. He is a noteworthy. I later read Ron Ike• Community Center (for the past promote better understanding a fall as a pre-medicine major. member of the soccer team and jiri's commendation of Key for 10 years), Grosse Point War U.S_-Japan relations, unclutter Sheri Nakashima will be grad- captain of the Parkrose varsity his voluntary work on redress Memorial Art Assn., Mainstreet by the high-image, often obtuse uating in June from the Univer- tennis team. activities, indicating that people Art Gallery in Royal Oak and the political and economic issues sity of Washington and will at- He will be attending the Uni• who are concerned about others Jewish Community Center in which like a football, rise am f tend University of Puget Sound versity ofWashington and major- find time to be active in many West Bloomfield. to suit the whims of the respectiv Law School ing in pre-med. areas . Her eighth trip to Japan had populaces. • • • • • E Vear. of Infamy. by Michl Weglyn. Shocking story Heroic St11l88le. of J.pane •• Am.rtcana: P.r• The Bamboo Peopl.: Th. La... nd tbe J.p...... of America's concentraHon camps found In the gov• tI.an Flgbten from Americ.·. Concentr.tlon Amert_ By Frank Churn an. The popular ref· Books from Pacific Citizen ernment archives. C.mp.. By James Cda. An eye opener! The erence on issei-Nisei legal history In layman's lan• o $12.20ppd. sohcover. trauma of Evacuation as recalled vividly by a young guage. Rulem.kera of the Houn. by Spark Matsunaga· man. 28 years old. at the time. o $9.25 ppd. soltcover. 383-pp. index. footnotes. Ping Chen. An Inside look at the most powerful o $ 9.75 ppd, softcover. 3d Ed. 289·pp. As of JUNE 1. 1985 Comfort All Who Mourn. By H V Ni cholson and o S14.75ppd. hardcover, 275-pp. footnotes. Some books listed prev,ouslyare out of stock at the PC. Margaret Wilke . Life story of Herbert and Madeline committee 1'1 the House of Representatives. based on BOOKS IN JAPANESE Nicholson. 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The behind·the .. dividual MIS names. behavior .whln this grouP. and the changes; 87 tables o( partlcular value. pieces of camp liIe .. . Selected bibliography. scenes story of the Yasul. Hlrabayashl and Korema· o S14.20ppd. hardcover. Jim Yo.blda no Futatau no Sokoka. Japan .... o $5.00 ppd, softcover. tsu cases of WW2 and the current campaign to re• o $19.20ppd. hardcover. 242·pp. appendix. edition of "Two Worlds of Jim Yoshida" by Yoshlda• verse the wartime convictions of these three. Mlnl.try In the Auembly.nd Reloc.tlon Cent.,. Hosokawa. translated by Yuk!o Monta. Incredible of World War II. By Rev. Lester SuzukI. A unique little Tokyo: 100 Year. In Pleturea. By Ichoro o SlO.OOppd . sohcover. Leg.1 Problema of Japana.e Am.rteane: Th.lr story of a Nisei stranded In Japan during WW2. (Eng• focus of the Protestant. Catholic and Buddhist lish verstonout-ol·prfnl) Murase. A medley of Images of Little Tokyo's past; The Nllh.u Incident. By Allan Beekman. 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Autographed copy aual/ab/e. o 7.25 ppd. soltcover. 941 East 3rd Street, Mezz, Los Angeles, CA 900 13 Friday, June 7, 1985 I PACIFIC CITIZEN-13 • Dance Deaths Four Generations KUBOTANlmJ Bob Okazaki, 83, of Los 01 Expeflence .. Sh h ed M . ina Chiseye Fujima, who has Angeles, raconteur, actor, wa on or lVr Im- dur~'t> the community's 7th ht J ~nese I' al ~ . provrng• octaJenuc....I ..l: pe1lorm· annual luau held May 18 at dtaug . th c Cal'asslC ~ ournalist and the Tokyo- FUKUI ~w~~~ an , .m 0 Ivmg ' par nts , Arcade Square in down- a. nce~ m25 u ernhas bllor- rn son of a pioneer Seat- ~ Ogata & Kubota · , do bse t rua lor ) y~ars, een tIe Baptist preacher, died Mortuary, Inc. Monuary) brmgmg wn a nee- town Dayton. named offiCial ch,oreo, gra- May 28 ~ollowm' g a pro- i m, positiv human rela- f N W k " 707 E. TempleSt. 911 Venice Blvd. tions ande.x ptionallead- Denise Kato, a enior at pher 0 the l~ 1001 .. ee longed illness. Surviving Los Angeles, CA 90012 Ond~ . 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Sugimura. for Oller 30 Years tn~~r . ~eda~~g~~~t~tfutern.~~ ______===~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ mumt~ ~rvlce _____ Dr. BOO Suzuki, dean of . award 10 tional and the Federation of recogruti~n of hi . upport Soroptimist International graduate studies and re• Pac~c earch at Cal tate Los An• of th.e J\SlarI com- of the Americas, Inc. She muruty ill the Wflght Pat- plans to enter UCLA this WOMEN AS PATROL OFFICERS gel , has been appointed terson am Greater Da~ton fall as a biology major. i e president for academ- area. The award wasgl en ic affairs at al tat orthridge. The Portland• AGE: 20-31 SALARY: $2082-$2487 per month born Nisei, a graduate of ST. MARY'S SCHOOL Cal Tech and UC Berkele , Cbnducted by the Christian Brothens was chosen from four fmal• offers your son a secure, caring istsand tarts work in July. and structure environment. He has taught education and engineering at se eral Applications now Ope~ ..~or Summer & Fall '85 uni ersities and was assist• FAll. 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'85 SPECIAL cookilg school, unique meals, Tsukiji Fish Mar1 ~"'''''''''''''''''''''''''.al ~iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii~ 1!;;;;;==Loa=AngeIee,==C;;;;;;;A;;;;;;;9OO1=7;;;;;;;1;;;;;;;{2;;;;;;;13;;;;;;;);;;;;;;62;;;;;;;7-;;;;;;;2820==!I A.J4.A.~IUU~~..JUt..IU'..~~IUUUUIIJUI,..JUt.J1J 16-PACIFIC CITIZEN I Friday, June 7, 1985 Kimura pleads innocent at arraignment Editorial position open at Amerasia by Katie Kaori Hayashi "The purpose of this group is not SANTA MONICA, Calif.-Fumiko to determine whether Fumiko Ki• Kimura, a Japanese national who mura is innocent or guilty, but to LOS ANGELES - The Asian ensure her the right to a fair trial American Studies Center at UCLA attempted parent-ehild suicide at is offering a half-time position as Santa Monica Beach on January ... we want to educate Americans about her cuI tural act. " associate editor of Amerasia Jour• 29, pleaded not guilty to two counts nal, a national scholarly journal each of murder and felony child Ono said that as a social worker, she 'couldn't overlook Fumiko devoted tn publishing works on the endangering. The May 17 arraign• social, historical, cultural ani eco• ment at Los Angeles Superior Kimura's tragedy. I don't dis• agree that she killed her children nomic aspects of the Asian Ameri• Court was over within 15 minutes. can experience. Kimura, who allegedly became .. .but through this case, I, as an immigrant, want to learn how Duties include working with the despondent after learning that her editor in planning, soliciting and husband had a mistress, walked American justice treats a cultural Carol Ogawa act. " editing manuscripts, and compil• into the ocean taking her 6-month• ing the annual bibliography for the old daughter and 4-year-old son "The United States consists of vari?usnationalgroups, and each AA woman appointed H.S. principal journal. The position is 20 hours with her. Bystanders pulled Ki• per week and pays $800 per month mura out of the water, but her has Its own culture," said Yama• guchi. "I don 't want Kimura's act LqS ANGELES - Recently ap- come head counselor at Gardena plus university medical and dental children subsequently died. benefits. Defense attorney Gerald Klaus• to be judged by American stand- pomted as principal of Reseda assistant principal of Virgil Junio; ards. I want Americans to under- High School in San Fernando Val- High School, and LAUSD's coor• Minimwn qualifications are: 1) ner requested that Judge David publications or journalism expe• Fitts reduce the $100,000 bail, but stand cultural differences and re- ley, Carol Ogawa is the first Asian dinator of instructional planning spect other cultures ." American woman to serve as a and development for junior high rience and demonstrated writing the judge refused on the grounds and editing abilities; 2) working that Kimura might commit sui• Tanaka said that when he at- senior high school principal in the schools. tended the second preliminary Los Angeles Unified School Dis- She is a forceful advocate of knowledge of Asian American stu• cide if freed. dies, canmunities, and issues; Fitts did, however, grant Klaus• hearing he found that the Japa- trict. participatory management, a style nese ability of officer Mitch Kato, "There have been only a few of leadership in which admini• 3) bachelor's degree in a related ner s rmtion to hold a pretrial field ph~ one year of graduate hearing on June 14. Klausner said who interrogated Kimura while Asian women woo served as top strators, department cha.irpErsons she . washospita~, work ani/or related working ex• that he made the motion partly to was poor. "I administrators in our secondary and other faculty members, par• serIously ~ou~t if sh~ understood schools, and I am proud to be the ents and, in many instances, stu• perience. determine additional details. Deadline for applications is July Some members of the Fumiko her comtltutlOnal rIghts. After first in a senior high school" she dent representatives express their that, I became concerned about said. 'opinions on important issues fac- 15. Send resume and one repre• Kimura Fair Trial Committee ap• sentative sample of writing, pub• peared in court. The support group her case. " A graduate of Manual Arts High ing the school. " In my 25-year American life, School and USC, Ogawa taught Ogawa lives in Rancho Palos lished or unpublished, to: Amer• chose its official name at its sec• asia Journal, Asian American Stu• ond general meeting on May 10 at many people helped me when I math at Adams and Wilmington Verdes. Her husband Kamo is was in trouble," said Forman. "By junior high schools and Gardena math advisor for the senior high dies Center, 3232 Campbell Hall, the Little Tokyo Service Center UCLA, Los Angeles, CA 90024. Call (LTSC ) in Los Angeles. helping Fumiko this time, I am High School. She went on to be- schools division ofLAUSD. just returning their kindness and Russell Leong or Jean Yip at (213) The steering committee consists r---n-o-n-a-ti-·o-n-s-t-o-J-A-C-L--P-a-cl-· fi-.c-C-i':""t""':'iz-e=n":"':":="':"---' 825-2968 for more information. of: Bill Watanabe, executive di• showing my thanks to the people rector ofLTSC ; Sumiko Ono, a so• who helped me. " For Typesetting Fund "For me, a Nisei, Fumiko's As of June!, 1985: $28,549.03 (731) Rernerri)er. All artides ard cial worker at LTSC ; Yoshiko Ya• This week 's total: $ 125.00 ( 3) maguchi a social worker at San s hinju .is still a mystery," said Last week's total: $28,424.03 (731) letters to 1he editor stn.oct Fernando Japanese American Ren Kimura. 'She committed $ 5 from: Grace Kayatani. be typed or 00f1l)Uter murder ... but her act wasn't done $20 from: Yukio/Kimi Tazwna. Community Center ; and Walter printed, doubI&6paced. Tanaka. by malice or hatred. She did it ac- $100 from: N~~~H;o~~ · The ftmdraising chair is Yaeko cording to Japanese custom. I am r;;;;;iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii------;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;....!;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;. Suki" Forman and the public re• not trying to dismiss the case, but lations chair is Ren Kimura (no I ask for leniency for her. I want NOW AVAILABLE ON THE MAINLAND relation to the defendant), a min• Americans to understand her mo• ister and director of a human serv• tive. I feel real compassion for Hawaii's Number One ices program at San Fernando Ja• Fumiko." Hawaiian Host ip) Chocolates panese American Community Desai said that she lives near CHOCOLATE CQltERED MACADAMIA NUTS Center. 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