•• •• • PC Chronology February 12, 1982 aCl lC Cl· lZel1 (45¢ Postpaid) News 20¢ The National Publication of the Japanese American Citizens League ISSN : 0030-8579 f Whole No. 2,175 f Vol. 94 No. 6 Stand; Immigration raids alarm Uttle tokyo By PEI'ER IMAMURA tight six-block Little Tokyo that 38 were arrested, 27 of LOS ANGELES-Recent large- wnented Japanese and four zone in search of undocum• them being Japanese. scale arrests of Japanese, Mexican workers. ented aliens, Pursglove said Both Landon and Pursglove Mexican and Latin American Dan Pursglove, supervis• that INS agents had been noted separately that the ar• illegal aliens by agents of the ory criminal investigator in working only from informa• rested aliens have been re• Immigration and Naturaliza- the Little Tokyo section, said tion givel'l to them and were leased on bonds ranging from tion Service this past week in an interview Feb. 4 that only concerned with specific $3,000 to $5,000. None was be• ~Feb. 2) in Little Tokyo have these illegal aliens were as• places as cited on the com- ing held. Two were dismissed alarmed businessmen and certained through complaints plaints. . without charges, while sev• community organizations and filed with INS. Total number of illegal ali• eral are scheduled for immi• caused panic among both doc- Agents returned to JVP on ens arrested is uncertain. gration hearings. Those who umented and undocumented Feb. 2 with more information According to Pursglove's flg• were released on bond had workers here. on illegal aliens working in ures, 34 persons were taken several charges against But INS officials said that several other restaurants as into custody. But INS district them, Pursglove noted. Some the Japanese American com- well as a travel agency and a director Mike Landon, who were visitors who were work• munity is "overreacting" to gift shop, where, Pursglove called a "unique" press con• ing illegally; others had over• the raids. which took place at said, 18 Japanese nationals, ference Feb. 5 in response to stayed their yisas. No charges various restaurants, a travel four Mexicans, one Guatema• concerns of the Japanese $15,~ MORE, FOR JACCC-So. Calif. Gas Co. grants $15,000 American community, said Contjmpd 00 Back Page for Little .Tokyo S Japanese American Cultural and Community agency and a giftshop. Ian and one Thai were arrest• Center Six-StOry center building. Pictured (from left) are JACCC The flrst series of arrests ed. leaders Manuellnadomi, Frank Kuwahara, Katsuma Mukaeda came Jan. 27 as INS agents In an attempt to quell rum• Lawyers plan to oppose INS actions JACCC executive direct!lr Jerry Yoshitomi, Alex Douglas of th~ entered Oomasa Restaurant ors from within the commun• LOS ANGELES-In response teet itself from sllch INS raids ~as .Co., Les Hamasaki and George Doizaki. Under construc• in Japanese Village Plaza and . ity that the INS was "sweep• to the recent Immigration and is through direct political ac• tion In the background at left is the JACCC 800-seat theater. took into custody eight undoc- ing" and "shotgunning" the Naturalization Service raids tion-lawyers and business in Little Tokyo, several Japa- and community leaders must nese and Asian American at- voice their complaints direct• FDR 'Tapes' tell more"than a few racial slurs torneys expressed their inten- ly to officials in Washington. NEW YORK-The recent re• Japan: "There will be no war with a New York woman. man said. It's perfectly true tions to oppose the tactical " It won'tdo much good to deal velation of the "FOR Tapes" with the United States ...on FOR also decided to keep that the Axis Powers-there's "sweeps" of the INS, during a with the INS at the local Ie-. by American Heritage maga• specjal meeting in Marina Del vel," he said. one condition, and one condi• military units segregated, in no question about it--they'd Rey Feb. 7. zine lFeb./March issue) dis• tion only .. .The United States spite of protests by black lead• give anything in the world to Attorney Fred Fujioka closed a bit more than a few lmust) demilitarize all of its ers. In attempts to quell their have me licked on the fifth of Attorney Dennis M. Mukai, whose office handles many speaking on behalf of both the racial slurs made by Presi• naval and air and army bases bitterness, he suggested to November. " Pacific Asian American dent Franklin D. Roosevelt in in Wake, Midway and Pearl Navy Secretary Frank Knox Lehman had said durmg the immigration cases, said that Round Table (PAART) and the raids have thrown a scare 1940. The recordings made in Harbor." on Oct. 10, 1940 that "since we Democratic state convention the Japanese American De• aliens, the Oval Office during his pri• He reacted, "God! That's are training a certain number a few days earlier, "Nothing into many Japanese and even those who are legal• mocratic Club said the INS vate conferences revealed the first time that any damn of musicians on board ship• that could happen in the Unit• raids are "outrageous ' and ly allowed to work in the U.S. that domestic politics and f~ Jap has told us to get out of the ship's band-there's no ed States could give Hitler, that both PAART and the are afraid to go into Little T~ reign policy were issues Hawaii." reason . .. why we shouldn't Mussolini, Stalin and the gov• JADe plan to express their which perilously inter• He added, "The only thing have a colored band on some ernment of Japan more satis• kyo and other areas where Ja• opposition to the INS tactics. mingled a problem which has that worries me is that the of these ships, because they're faction than the defeat of the panese are employed. He add• Leslie Furukawa JACL plagued many presidents in Germans and the Japs have darned good at it ... Look, to man who typifies to the whole ed that as a result, Japanese• PSWDC legal counsel) said the past. gone along, and the Italians, increase the opportunity, world the kind of free, hu• owned businesses are being J~A "devastated" since em• will consider lending Much of the news media's for -oh gosh-flve, six years that's what we're after." mane government which dic• theIr support, while Heroica ployees aren't showing up for attention was focused on without their foot slipping• In addition to these candid tators despi.s&-Franklin O. M. Aguiluzsaid thePhilippino some of the comments R0ose• without their misjudging f()• but private comments, FOR's Roosevelt. " work, forcing temporary closures. Lawyers Association will also velt made on his secret re• reign opinion ... And the time conversation with House The New York Times, how• offer their help. Mukai feels that the only cording device'in regards to may be coming when th.e Ger• Speaker Sam Rayburn and ever, said in an editorial Oct. way the community can pr 2-PACIFIC CITIZEN I Friday, February 12,1982 community on expanded programs. Recipient donates to REDRESS At this time, we do not specify an amount which we feel to be Hayashi law fund Redress Reports appropriate as total compensation. H you recall, it was the WASIDNGTON-The Th A reglstrallon Statement relating to these securities has been so~ Poly 50 Cott n White T- hirt Plaza Gift Center filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission but has o ign print d in Red, old, Bla " not yet become effective. These securities may not be sold FINE JEWELRY CAMERA VIDEO SySTEM nor may offers to buy be accepted prior to the time the WA TCHES P8~ TV - RADIO· CAlCULA TORS Registration Statement becomes effective. 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San Pedro St., Los Angeles, Ca 90012; (213) 626-6936 • 2nd Class postage paid ,at Los Angeles, Ca. • Subscription payable in advance: $16 a year, foreign $24 a year. Eight dollars of JACL member dues to Nat'l JACL provides a year's subscription on a one-par-household basis. Opinions expressed by columnists other than JACL staff and presentation of the news do not necessarily reflect JACL policy. Dr. Jim Tsujimura: Nat'l JACL President Editor: Harry K. Honda Dr. Clifford Uyeda: PC Board Chair Ass't Editor: Peter A. Imamura Advertising: Jane Ozawa Subscriptions: Tomi Hoshizaki, Mitsuko Sakai , Typsetting: Mary lmon. Mailing: Mark Saito YE EDITOrS DESK: by Harry Honda .'. \ Midweek Pandemonium Little did I realize one The PC was unable to get IN&S conflI1lla• afternoon in search of a tion or information that afternoon. There bowl of hot noodles that a were rumors of similar raids elsewhere. The major story of the week Japanese Chamber of Commerce and Little was unfolding. Ironically, Tokyo Service Center were getting queries. the unfolding came as a Those represented by counsel were dashiilg result of the Japanese restaurants nearby over to the Federal Bldg. to assist their cli• Dad who took this bold.step in having folded for the day, as it were, with all ents. tinally, on Friday the immigration of• COIIMENTS & LETTERS her behalf. Needless to say, their help gone so abruptly. fice called a press conference to quell the • 1000 Club Honor Roll and in 1971, I received a beau• reporters from the local pa• rumors and calm down Little Tokyo. While Editor: tiful Certificate of Life Mem- pers came to the house for in• Routinely going about their appointed du• the Japanese vernaculars related the events This is the 2nd time that the bership (20 years cumula• terview, picture taking, ties, immigration agents had turned up at as they were breaking, the metropolitan me• ~~~J~es~~enbinLi~ Holiday issue (actually Jan. tive) dated December 2,1971- etc , . JIlUCb to father's great dia had waited till Saturday to report the 15 PC-Ed.) goofed on its list- Does this mean that I have satisfaction. It made im• Tokyo that day. And as we later learned, they raids. an bad arrested about 30 Japanese aliens who ing of our chapter Century reached the Life Member pact on the entire community. bad overstayed ~ visas, working without JACL, which was most instrumental in en• Life members. Contra Costa status? I have been sending BESS (MATSUZAWA) SAITO permit or otherwise undocumented. One Ni• abling Issei to become naturalized and at the chapter bas 6 Century Life $50 a year for the past several Torrance, Ca. sei attorney in LitUe Tokyo handling immi• same time lift the Japanese Exclusion Act members. They are: years, and I intend to gration matters said, it appeared to be the and later eliminate the Asia-Pacmc Triangle Tom Arima, Jerry !rei continue. '. Long range goals biggest crackdown on the Japanese since the limit on immigration, hasn't asserted its (names omitted 1981, 1982), Will you please set the re• Editor: war. Over a dozen Japanese restaurants twin mottos of " Better Americans in a Great• Natsuko !rei (Names omitted cords straight and let me Good judgment, the wisdom were shut down as a consequence. Some er America" and "Strength Through Unity" 1981,1982), HeizoOshima, Dr. know whether or not I'm a that accrues only from long were still closed at week's end because em• by Americanizing the newcomers from Ja• Shobei Shirai, Peggy Shirai Life Member. years of successfully meeting ployees were either fearful of being ques• pan. What happened in Little Tokyo and what (nameomittedl982). FREDT. TAKAGI life problems, like raising a tioned or detained by immigration officials. might happen in other clusters of Japanese We have been informed by Seattle, Wa family, is needed in planning It was pandemonium plus. A Times reporter businesses show there can be issues more Emily Ishida National JACL We appreciate tile iDdividual long range goals for the Na• • I • letters pointing out the discrepaD- tional JACL (PC Jan. 29). in a Weller st. shop was even mistaken for an compelling than redress, compelling from Membership. Coordinator, cies in the 1000 Club HObOI' RolL immigration agent! the standpoint of numbers and immediacy. (I that she furnished the correct The records have been correct.ed One group of JACLers that information to Pacific Citi- in the above cases aDd there sbouId have such a proven record of zen. But because of Pacific Ci- be DO probJems hereafter.-Ed. experience and dedication tizen's ~lopp~ ~ecord keeping, • 35 Years Ago ar-e our former chapter presi• 35 Years Ago $100 judgment against his removal Feb, ll-State Dept. explains the Pa~ific ~ltizen has goofed- Eclito. dents. May I suggest that the 10 die Pacific 0tiIm by Lt. Gen DeWitt. procedures for return of stranded up agam this year. r... . various districts hold work• FEBRUARY 15, 19f7 Feb. 8-FCC monitoring suspi• Nisei from Japan; JACL explains We demand an immediate Of~e.many mteresting re- shops for these men and wo• Feb. 3--WRA Final Report cious broadcasts during WW2 Lack of personnel, facilities (Nisei correction of your records, so gulars m you;. paper, I fin~ men to outline possible goa.ls shows Nikkei evacuees having re• foWld none attributed to persons of requests processed by U.S. consul ~ at YokohamaonlyJ andfuumcesm this error will not be repeated. the co1ur:m on Years Ago for the coming decade. Ifsuch settled in 47 states (none in South Japanese ancestry in coastal area. p~cular mt~est-per- lOne of the reasons for the 1942 Japan caused unnecessary delays again next year. of meetings can be held in the Carolina), about half (50,000) re• ~aps ~ ~eep '~o- ported back on Pacific Coast. evacuation cited by DeWitt was in processing ... U,S. subconsul• NATSUKO IREI It to alive the next few months, resulting Feb. ~ Angeles Issei group "radio signaling" Ulough it was ate added in Kobe. Membership Chairperson mgs on durmg the depressmg ideas can be presented to the commences legislation campaign not directly charged that Nikkei Feb, ll-Utah senate defeats Contra Costa JACL war years and shortly there• National CoWlcil forconsi• Selvin-Elggren bills on anti-dis• for naturalization privileges. were responsible.' after. deration during the conven• Feb. 9-Sen. McCarran authors crimination, Civil rights and fair Feb. 6---Wartime aide to Gen. Editor: My name was listed One item lJan. 15 PC) was tion in Gardena this August. DeWitt (Hubbard Moffit, Jr., Oak• bill to authorize payment not over employment practices, (Jan. 15 PC) as 13 years in• Feb. 12-UC Berkeley Nisei vot• of particular surprise and de• The vital question "What's land attorney and colonel in civil $1,000 for damages of "contra• stead of3O years. Actually it is administration dept.) backs Army band" articles (swords, cameras, ed 3-2 against reopening Japanese llght to read with reference to important to JACL", can best move for mass evacuation. guns, shortwave radioo, etc. turned Student Clubhouse (1m Euclid) supposed to be 31 years be• Dec. 19-"First Issei tl\tlrs. be determined in the gi e• Feb. 7-No. Calif. JACLers, led in by "enemy aliens" after Dec. 7, on segregated basis; had housed 32 cause I have a charter mem• Kazue Matsuzawa of prewar and-take of informal discus• 1941). students prewar. by Keisaburo Koda, start JACL• bership certificate printed by Los Angeles tactually Gar~ sion by people closest to the Feb. lO-Waivers from Calif. of• Feb. l:>-Collier's article, ADC fwld drive in Hawaii. Mas Satow and dated Jul 19. dena in Cincinnati files flrst grass roots membership-tbe Feb. 7-Homer Wilcox (the San ficials produced to clear title in "Home Again" by Frank Taylor. 1950. San Diego escheat case for Lt. shows bright spot for evacuee fam· papers in federal court for na• chapter presidents. Diegan excluded from West Coast However, somewhere along turalization"), That was our area in 1943 fonowing conviction to George Asakawa and his brother ilies in Santa Clara Valley. MASODOI commit seditioo) wins appeal and Motoharu, court rules. the line, one year was missed mother, however, it was my Torrance Ca. • International Relations Report ceiving and sending information from th delegates of the respect! e countries to the delegates signing here. The delegates present hereby agree upon and sign this act at 7 p.m., 26th of July . 1961. Time to Consider JACL's Next Priority ARGENTINA BOLIVIA . T ugimaru Tanoue Alejandro Oizwni By CHUCK KUBOKAWA and Mr. carlos Kasuga as secretary, both ofMex:ico. BRASJL CANADA Official representatives from eight countries met at the Liceo 2-That it is necessary. desirable and beneficial to hold a second Pan Masahiko Tisaka George Imai and worked until the Sayonara Party to compose and sign an American Nikkei Conference. COLOMBIA ESTAl)()S UNIDOS agreement which in essence carried out the recommendations 3--That the convention should be biennial in the odd-numbeJ'ed years, Alfonso Tokunaga harles Kukokawa of the conference attendees. The Act reads as follows: the next one being in 1983. PERU ME.XlCO CoodItlOO8lor Selecting &be 1983 Convention Site Enrique Yara Carlos Kasuga Act of July 26, 1981, Mexico City After the first vote to select the next site, Peru obtained 6 votes, Unlted TESTlGOS (Witnesses) Slates 3 and Brazill. At the result of this vote, Peru propsed as follows : Enrique Shibayama Rene Tanaka (a) That due to the United States system of organization, it would be MEXICO MEXICO Today, 26th of July, 1981, at the close of the first Pan American Nikkei better for the U.S. to be the next site, but that if after consultation the U.S. Joe Yoshida Floyd D. Shimomura (In Mexico, the tenn, "Nisei", Is used in place of Nikkel) Convention delegation cannot accept, notlficaUon of acceptance or nonacceptance PERU ESTADOS UNIDOS Mexico '81) gathered in the conference room of the Mexican Japanese must be made no later than the 5th of December, 1981. On My Way to Peru Liceo A.C. were the delegates representing the fonowing countries: (b) In case North America does not accept, Peru accepts to be the next As a result of this I have been charged with continuing Re~nmUv~ Act. OMmVy site on condition that by Dec. 5, 1981, (to) meet personally ifit is possible JACL's efforts to form the "FINE" organization, r shall be Argentina ...... TsuglJnura Tanoue and if not in W1'iting officially giving their support as well as their pro• ~livia ...... AJej~()~ posal, ideas and recommendations which they feel are necessary in order going to Lima, Peru, in December, lthis report was ritten a Brazil ...... Masahlko Tlsaka to form one Pan American Nikkei group. month earlier) to giv our oft'icial response to support the sec• ~ ...... ~rgelnnai (C) At this reunion of Dec. 5, 1981. in Lima, Peru, details wiU be dis• ond Pan American Nikkei Confi renee in Lima in 1983. Though Colombia, ...... Alfonso Tokunaga cussed such as the name, objectives, statutes, regulations and estab• this decision ha been mad , th re are many questions that Mexico ...... Carlos Kasuga lishment of by-laws for this Pan American Nikkel group, which hould be need to asked and nsw red, such as: l a) personal safety of Peru ...... ' ...... Enrique Yara coordinated by the delegates present, and that beforehand the (represen• attendees tU.S.-P ruvian relati nsar n't the be t in th United Slates ...... Charles Kubokawa tatives) should bring 'recommendations agreed upon by their respecUv countries. world), \. b) proper and om ial tablislunent of tile Pall Am r• (who) agreed upon the following points: ~ I- That Mexico being the country of this first Pan American Nikkei (d) The United Slates has oilered to be the coordinating COWllry for ican Nikkei Organization, c) what i 'The Fukuyama Family' Filmstrip an "outstanding example of this new edition to its Cata• logue of Hwnan Relations Materials" designed to con-• Denver, Colo. takes a picture bride who in time bears him twin sons, front prejudice and discrimination which have too long a Chances are you haven't heard of Yoshio and Hiroo. Keikichi prospers·as a hardware mer• history in America. It helps provide a window on Japa• Keikichi Fukuyama and his wife Chi• chant and his mother comes to live with him and his nese American culture and reveals its unique character• ZU, or of their sons Yoshio and Hiroo, family. The stories of all Japanese Americans i$ told istics, its strength and tenacity, both an object lesson in or of their daughters Fwniko Ide and through the Fukuyamas-the growing discrimination, survival and a point of comparison with other cultures, Kiku Uno. But you will be hearing the Oriental exclusion act which blocked further immi• other traditions. " , I J more about them and their Sansei off• gration, the American way of life of the Nisei children, ADL's objective is to make copies of these fIlmstrips spring and getting to know them even though from a the ultimate discrimination.of the Evacuation, and the available for use in schools and adult discussion groups. distance. way the Sansei generation is both clinging to and drifting A discussion guide and list of suggested reading are The Fukuyama family is the subject of a 23-minute away from its cultural roots. Keikichi's grandchildren provided. The goal is to encourage acceptance of the filmstrip produced with skill and understanding by the include a musician who also owns a music store, a social different peoples of America through an understanding Anti-Defamation League ofB'!Jai B'rith, one of the coun• worker, a State Department offidal specializing not on of their different cultures, different experiences and dif• try's most active hwnan rights organizations. "The Fu• the Orient but the Middle East. ferent values. kuyama Family" is a series of still photographs, accom• While about 50 percent of the Sansei are marrying From this observer's viewpoint, "The Fukuyama Fa• panied by narration, that tells the story ofKeikichi Fuku• outside their racial group, in the Fukuyama family itself mily" is remarkably well done. With Dr. Harry Kitano yama who arrived in Los Angeles from Japan in 1905, the "none of the grandchildren is dating or is married to as consultant, the producers were able to avoid all but development of his family, their trials during World War Japanese or Japanese Americans." Interestingly minor and hardly objectionable errors of fact while re• II and their ultimate triwnph over discrimination. enough, one of the Fukuyama sons married a French girl creating a true feel for the three generations of a Japa• The fll.mstrip is the fifth in a series of 12 produced by he met while in military service in Europe, the other nese American family. ADL is to be congratulated on an the Anti-Defamation League under a grant from the Na• married a girl from Japan and managed to get her to the excellent job, which leaves one wondering why JACL tional EndoWIIient for the Hwnanities to tell the story of States only after U.S. immigration laws were changed in didn't come up with a like public relations project. As it various ethnic groups in America. It was premiered in 1952. turned out, another ethnic group is carrying the ball for San Francisco in October and it will be introduced to the In presenting "The Fukuyama Family" ADL calls it Japanese Americans. # Denver area in a few weeks. Already completed in the series are fLl.mstrips (ieallng with families of Polish, Ger• MUSUBI: by Ron Wakabayashi man) Mexican and Greek extraction. The balance of the series will tell the story ofItalians, Jews, Blacks, Puerto Ricans, American Indians, Irish and Swedes. u.s. and Japan Businesses Are Missing the Boat The Fukuyama story begins with Keikichi starting his American caret:~ as a houseboy. As his lot improves he I am now getting much copy about It is more than a coincidence that the initial inroads of the trade deficit between Japan and Japanese companies entering American markets are the United States. Before occupying a very often in areas with an existing Nikkei presence and EAST WIND: by Bill Marutani position with JACL, my only concern acceptance. The criticism of the Japanese companies is in the matter was personal. First of often that they built upon the good relations that Nikkei ~ Year of the Dog all, if racial animosity was generated have developed in various communities, but contribute € .{ from economic contention between the two countries, I little back. It seems that these criticisms have reached '-_. Philadelphia did not want it to be transferred to me, just because of Japan, and the shosha have been admonished by the ~ FOR SOME PUZZLING reason un- lineage. Secondly, I as an American of Japanese ances• Japanese government. known to "East Wind," every few try, it was just plain uncomfortable to be in an environ• I have been told that people in Japan are aft1icted with years or so, a comment drifts our way ment where two differing facets of my background were the vestiges of Anglo supremacy and somehow feel that that someone "out West" (once from ~ in conflict. their interface with the United States should come via , the Midwest) heard that this writer By birth and life experience I am an American. At the . the upper crust of the American racial hierarchy. Mixed ~ ~ wasill~r, _ worseyet,ondeath'sdoor. same time, there is no doubt that I continue to carry in with this fable is the inference that Japanese look I mention such rumors to Frau Vicki whose reaction is to some of the cultural baggage that was the consequence down on the Nikkei in the States because the Issei stock burst out laughing, for, at times, she wishes Herr Spouse of having parents of Japanese ancestry. Actually, I had originated from the lower classes. They are wrong in this would slow down a bit. In the last decade, Herr Spouse no choice in the matter either way. But, my reality is that perspective. People from Japan speak about the charac• has had nothing more serious than a cold, and even those my fellow Americans often think that I am from Japan, ter of pre-war Japanese. The same is true of the Nisei are infrequent. There are some winters we escape even and that persons from Japan think I am a funny kind of and the Issei. Overwhelmingly, my perception is that catchlng a cold. We don't even bother to take aspirins, let Japanese. Neither one pays too much attention to me Nisei work hard, are competent at their work, and for the alone prescription medication. We tend to be old• most of the time. I only become visible when the two most part are good people to work with. In a word, pnr fashioned about ingesting medicines: we figure that countries are getting annoyed at each other, and I ma• fessionally, they represent a very dependable group. Ni• Mother Nature can handle the situation. And so far, she nage to get caught in between. sei are ultra-cl1anto. has. My thoughts are that as the folks that get caught in Japanese business misses the boat, when they do not TIllS IS NOT to say that the sacroiliac doesn't ache between anyway, we ought to jump into the controversy involve the Nisei at significant levels in their grade every so often. They do. Especially after we put in a more readily. We ought to do it, if only to protect those operations. Ifthey did this at a greater level, I Urink that weekend's work in the yard digging, hauling and clean• aspects of the conflict that are injurious or beneficial to their sensitivity to potential confficts would be enhanced. ing. And, yes, the following morning, we then ache in us. For example, economic contention and racism ought The same is true of American corporations doing busi• spots we didn't even realize we had. I don't know about not to be equated. However, when people's livelihood are ness with Japan. /I blood pressure, but about a month ago when nurse• at stake, the reversion to racist attacks in dealing with an daughter applied that unpronounceable instnunent economic issue become more prominent and frequent. I called a "sphygmomanometer" she announced that 120 think we ought to speak up when this occurs. over.80 wasn't bad "for an old man". I simply took her It also strikes me that as Nikkei, we occupy a unique word for it. Even ifit were bad, I don't feel it. position in all of this. In many ways we are a historical IRAACCOUNlS PERHAPS NOT UNLIKE my contemporaries, I fight bridge between Japan and the United States. The kind of available in 1982. Call us for details the losing battle-of-the-bulge. We try, not always suc• socialization that we experience as Nikkei, who have a cessfully, to stay away from those things that delight our greater contact with both things American and things palate: fried shrimps, pastries loaded with nuts and Japanese than the major players involved in the process 7%INlEREsr cream, chocolate covered walnuts, butter pecan ice• of economic contention, perhaps, makes us middlemen, Interest computed daily. paid quarterly cream, and anything greasy. There used to be a time who can facilitate resolution. when we could indulge in this fare without the avoir• dupois being affected. But no more. Indeed, the problem KUBOKAWA UFE SAVINGS . I seem to have is adding about two pounds if I eat only a member delegate country, dues, etc. - single cream eclair. It defies all the laws of physics. ButI Much needs to be done before 1983 but 1 am sure with support INSURANCE manage to do it regularly. (I know none of you out there of the National JACL Board, of Floyd Shirnomura, the V.P. to $4000 (previous I $2000) have this problem.) under whom the IRC falls, plus the IRC members, realization for formation of the International Nikkei Organization will not I MUST SAY, though, that among the Nisei out this be too far in the distant future. J ACLers hould be v ry proud of way, the longevity rate has been remarkably good. Both the fact that the National Board is supporting this new program INSURED the Nisei men and women remain generally hale and and avenue of involvement. hearty and so far I haven't had to attend any funerals. Aside from redress and Nikkei retirem nt programs, I ~ I SAVINGS to ny mount And I hope not to for a number of years. Perhaps it's our this international relations activity hould be th n xt priority. peasant stock: hardy and vigorous. Hopefully we can Anything to improve understanding, relations, cooperatlv pro• (r i usly $ 0.000) manage to parallel the longevity record set by our Issei grams, support and experi nces with Nikk I in. lh .if untri . parents. But only time, of course, will tell. will without a doubt, improv our own U.S. Nlkk 1 ommuru• NATIONAL JACL CREDIT UNION ties: future outlook and ffOl'ts. Finally, thanks mu t be giv n to INDEED, IN TIllS year of the inu, we wish all of you, Now over $4.5 million In assets Karl Nobuyuki for getting me to reactivat the JA Lint rna• PO 1721 Sail Lake City. Utah 84110 (8011355·8040 Nisei and non-Nisei, a good barking time. May you bark tional Relations Committ e. The IRC has added another di• long and heartily, and may your life be blessed with mension and excitement to ow' organization. # many fire plugs. /I (Commentaries or the Dec. 5, 1981, meeting In Peru wlU rouow.) 6-PACIFIC CITIZEN I Friday, February 12,1982 1000 Club Roll Santa Barbara NC-WN-PDC begins 1982 program (Year of Membership Indicated ) STt.o, 23-Ryozo F Kado, 27-Dr C Hobert Ryono. Nishimoto. duates (90%) and the highest recognition was given to Issei Wasblngton, DC: 4-Keoneth K Yama- literacy rate in the world. The chapter members, Mrs. K. moto. West Valley: 13-Taketsugu Takei. Fremont JACL honors Kurokawa, Mrs. T. Ichikawa, Wilshire: ~TatsuoTut Yata. Mrs. M. Shigetoma, Mrs. o. National : 3-New Japan Travel Center". dedicated members Hayashi and Mr. and Mrs. CEN'IURY CLUB- ARE YOU WORKING TOO HARD TO Z-Altira Nakamura (Ser), Hak FREMONT, Ca. _ Special A.M. Watada. Kawagoe (Gar), I-Roy R Hatamiya (Mar), I-Thelma K Randlett (Mil), 6- achievement awards were Buddhist lecture Sakura Travel Bureau (SMC), 3-New FIND TIME TO EARN MONEY? presented to several mem- Japan Travel Center (Nat). Learn how to eam 20% to 25% with as little as $1 ,000. bers of the Fremont JACL by slated Feb. 13 president Ted Inouye during BERKELEY, Ca.-Dr. Shoyu Three Generations MKA Asn - Investment Diy the chapter installation din- Hanayama, guest professor of Experience ... ner Jan. 24- Kaz Shikano was at Univ. of British Colwnbia, Call RONNY KIMURA for Appointment honored for his tireless efforts will lecture on "A Compari• FUKUI (213) 365-8231, eve (213) 559-3746 to the JACL over the past se- son of Buddhist & Christian veral years, while Mrs. Chi- Thinking" at the Institute of Mortuary, Inc. yemi Sakuda was feted for her Buddhist Studies here Feb. 13, 707 E. Temple SI. efforts in the Irvington Cem- 9-12. Dr. Hanayama. who stu• Los Angeles, CA 900 12 etery Restoration Project and died at the Univ. of Wisconsin 626-0441 JACL activities. in addition to graduating from Gerald Fukui, Pr8SJdent Kudos went to Masutaro IG- Tokyo Univ., served as minis• J8~ Nakagawa, Manager Nobuo Osuml, Counsellot The IRA Account tani for his donation of $10,000 ter of the Seabrook Buddhist ....;T~e;m~p:le~fro~m~l964-=~l968:. ~======~ shipto the awards, Fremont and JACL a scholar- .... __ ship will be named in his honor. Robert Gin was award- ed for his creativity in design• It could be ing the Chapter's logo. Deatm May KubotaJkeda, 72, of Bridge• the difference too, N.J. died in Bridgeton Hospi• tal Jan. 12 after a brief illness. Born in Salinas, ca., Mrs. Ikeda was a lab technician at both Sea• brook Fanns, Inc. (1944-1959) and between Bridgeton H~ta1 (1960-1971). She had been a member or the JACL since 1932 and was to be f booored by the Salinas CbapteJ' retiring as a Feb. 2Jl. 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YUTAI\i\ IWUOTA © California Flrst Bank, '981 Friday, February 12, 19821 PACIFIC CITIZEN-7 60th Anniversary Installation: Why the JACL Endures By DR. FRANK MIYAMOTO offers further illwnination. Most Jews arrived during the "late Professor of Sociology, Univ. of Washington immigration." Racially, of course, they are not distinct from The Japanese American Citizens League, when compared to the white majority group. Yet, unlike other white ethnic groups, national organizations of other ethnic groups, is a unique orga• they have active national organizations of the native-born. nization. The following comparative analysis of the JACL with What accounts for the difference? Jews have suffered an incre• other ethnic organizations is offered to indicate what I see as the dibly long history of persecution and segregation; they ex• JACL's unique features. And it may help to explain why it perienced much more discrimination in America than other endures. . white groups; and they have unusually strong ethnic ties. Like The "late immigration" from Europe, the large inunigrant Japanese Americans, also, they seek direct participation and str.eams from countries like Italy, Poland, Czechoslovakia, and acceptance in the larger society. Unlike the JACL, however, Hungary, came here in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, their organizations are much more fll1llly based in a sense of just before or about the same time as the Japanese immigra• ethnicity. We Japanese Americans would be hard put to explain tion. The Italian immigration, for example, which brought our ethnic traditions, although a sense of linkage with our Japa• 4,700,000 immigrants by 1930, had its peaks in 1907 and 1913. nese heritage no doubt prevails. Our group cohesiveness, I Large national organizations were established by all these think, is largely based on an interwoven network of personal groups, but they generally were, like th,e Japanese Association histories more than on a body oftraditions. 'BAINBRIDGE REVIEW'-Mr. and Mrs. Walt Woodward, re• of North America, oriented toward immigrant concerns. To my Finally, the JACL may be compared with Black, Chicano, tired co-publishers of the "Review", one of the few West Coast knowledge, none with lasting influence was organized by na• and Native American organizations. The latter suffer not only publications protesting the WW2 evacuation during the war tive-born citizens. The reason seems obvious. Although the ethnic differences from the majority group, but social class years and supporting Japanese Americans upon their return, American-boM offsprings of these populations did not escape differences as well. The Japanese minority is not handicapped are recognized by Seattle JACL at the 60th Anniversary gala. discrimination, they gained acceptance into American society in the same way by class disadvantages. Thus, we may feel much more rapidly than did Japanese Americans. Thus, if the sympathetic with affirmative action policies in education, but their courageous and out• Hugh Mitchell, CWRIC mem• Japane~e minority had not been racially distinct and subjected they are not critical for us precisely because the policies are spoken opposition to the evac• ber; Rep. Joel Pritchard; to severe prejudice and discrimination, there might not have intended to overcome class more than ethnic discrimination. If uation during the war y~s , newly-€lected King County been any reason for JACL's existence. the J ACL is less acti vist than organizations of the other groups, and their constant support Executive Randy Revelle ; Yet the Chinese minority, whi~h of all immigrant groups is it is because the others are engaged in a more intense struggle during the post-war period, state legislator Gene Lux ; most like us and likewise suffered severely from racial discri• for social change. despite jeopardizing their City Councilwoman Dolores mination, has no well-established national organization of Chi• In summary, the absence of national organizations of the newspaper business and risk• Sibonga ; and other civic fi• nese Americans. Why so? It cannot be due to a lack of organiza• native-born among white ethnic groups suggests that racial ing their own personal gures. From out-of-town were tional motivation or ability, for their complex community hostility toward the Japanese minority was a critical factor security. Professor Kenji Okuda, form• structures attest otherwise. The main reason Chinese Ameri• motivating JACL's organization. However, the counter ex• Chapter certificates of ap• er past president, from Van• cans failed to develop an organization like JACL, I believe, is ample of the Chinese Americans indicates that a positive in• preciation for specific contri• couver' B.C.; George Taki that they were slow to develop an outward orientation, a posi• terest in gaining an acceptable position in American society butions were awarded to and Bob Takami from Chi• tive interest in gaining acceptance in the larger society. The was also necessary for organization. Comparison with the Jew• Frank Abe for his Days of Re• cago; and ~ Arai & Masa• fierce hostility faced by this population historically forced them ish organizations suggests that the JACL is not similarly deeply membrance projects; Sho• ko Takayoshi from Los Ange• into ghettos. Their traditional conservatism about adopting ex• embedded in a sense of distinct ethnic identity. Nor does it have suke Sasaki and Karen Seri• les, as well as District Gov• ternal ideas further retarded their outward movement. The the kind of militancy characteristic of organizations which feel guchi for their redress ef• ernor Dr. Homer Yasui and r~sult was an inward orientation of the Chinese communities themselves a part of the class struggle. But especially among forts ; and Paul Tomita and Miyuki Yasui from Portland. that was not reversed until recent decades. By contrast, the the older Nisei there is unquestionably a sense of having shared Kaz Tatswni for service to Credit for the resounding Japanese minority developed an early interest in winning an in a common struggle and a body of common experiences. JACL. success of the anniversary accepted place within the large society. The JACL was a pro• These feelings serve as the basis on which the organization event go to Shea and Jiro duct of this outward orientation. persists. With only 18 silver pins hav• Aoki, general chairpersons, A comparison with organizations of the Jewish community -Seattle JACL 60th Anniversary Booklet ing been awarded in six de• and their hardworking com• cades, a step toward rectify• mittee. spirit of what JACL is all ing the neglect was taken as A striking silver-covered Sansei majority now at Seattle helm about. three past presidents, Chuck GOth Anniversary Booklet fea• Recognitions chair Dr. Kato, Mich Matsudaira, and turing the history of the Seat• SEA TILE-A record crowd Service Commission, and a gram included greetings from Kelly Yamada, who coordi• Ben Nakagawa; five board tle Chapter an article by Dr. and a record number of J ACL board member for close the Consul General of Japan nated the nwnerous chapter members, Shea Aoki, Hana Frank Miyamoto, "Why the awards marked the gala 60th to four years, defmed pro• Naoki Nakano, musical rendi• awards, presented indivi• Masuda, Henry Miyatake, JACL Endures", lists of past Anniversary Seattle JACL In• grams and goals of the chap• tions by Keiko Nakayama and dualized plaques to charter Ken Nakano, and Charles Z. award winners, and photos of stallation & Awards Banquet ter in her inaugural remarks, Mike Ishimitsu, and award• members of the 1921 Seattle Smith; and a 1925 pioneer , all past presidents, was Jan. 17 when nearly 500 mem• stressing the need for a "pro• ing of two National JACL re• Progressive Citizens League, chapter member, Keriko No• passed out as the program bers and guests filled to capa• active" rather than a "re-ac• cognition plaques by National Professor emeritus Henry gakl, were all cited for their booklet. Copies are available city the spacious Atrium of tive" approach to civil rights President Dr. James Tsuji• Tatswni, Tama Arai Sakai, ten years of loyal and out• ($3 donation from Shea Aoki, Butchers Restaurant, festive• issues. She and her cabinet mura. Outgoing president and to Mrs. Shigeru Osawa, in standing service. 3007-23rd So. , Seattle, WA ly decorated for this event in were installed by National Lloyd Hara received on be• the absence of her husband. Among the notables seen in 98144 723-6061, or the PNW red, white and blue. Exceed• President Jim TsujiJnura of half of the chapter a hand• Also unable to be present was attendance were former Sen. Qistrict Office. # ing all expectations of a heavy Portland. some plaque commemorating a fourth surviving charter turnout, it was an evening for Bannai, who received her the Seattle Chapter's 60th member, Yuki Higashi, now FDR'TAPES' McCormack then asked old-timers and Sansei alike, law degree from Hastings birthday, and Henry Miya• residing in Sacramento. Cnrih.... fromFhlot Page FDR if he was aware of a College of Law, was formerly take was presented with a Honored with special distin• statement that another Re• many of whom arrived from gesting the Axis Powers were out-of-tow.n, to celebrate and with the local Office for Civil special commendation for his guished service awards were publican opponent in 1936), principal role in the rescission Rep. Mike Lowry (D-Wa.) for " taking a course of interfer• Alfred M. Landon, had made to witness the installation of Rights, U.S. Dept. of Health, ence" in U.S. local affairs and the first Sansei woman presi• Education and Welfare, and ofE.O. 9066. his sponsorship of redress le• in Hasting, Neb., which indi• For the pioneer chapter, the gislation and his continuing that they and Wilkie have cated that Roosevelt was go• dent and the flrst chapter last year chaired the Japa• some type of" arrangement." board to be comprised of a nese Canadian project of the . event inspired an opportunity efforts on behalf of all mi• ing to drag the U.S. into war. to catch up, to remember norities; and to Mr. and Mrs. Roosevelt, angered by the majority of Sansei and a ma• Seattle Chapter under a Times' criticism of Lelunan, $10,000 grant from the Wash• those who had enriched its 60- Walt Woodward, co-publish• Landon had told his audi• jority of women. read an Oct. 3 front-page ence Oct. 1, that Roosevelt Kathryn Bannai, attorney ington Commission for Hu• year history, and to recognize ers of the Bainbridge Review, story of the newspaper to "wants to dominate world p0- in private practice, currently manities. and greet the many whose who accepted their award services and volunteerism amid a standing ovation. The Rayburn and McCormack: litics, just as he dominated the chairperson of the City of Sen. Slade Gorton (R-Wa.) " . . .'Moreover' -this is was the keynote speaker. Pro- over the years has typified the Woodwards were cited for Democratic party, and now Seattle Public Safety Civil about this (Brenner Pass) seeks to dominate the record meeting of HiUer and Musso• of all other Presidents by lini ... 'Moreo er, the Axis is serving a life term. If I were out to defeat President Roose• Hitler, I would rather wage velt not as a measure of inter• war against Mr. Roose elt ference in the internal policies than against Mr. Wilkie, be• of the United States but be• caus Roose ell's leadership, cause of the President's fo• while more spectacular is reign policy and because of flighty ." everything for which he Upon being asked whether stands in the eyes of the he was aware of his attack Italians and the Germans. upon him, FOR merely re- Th coming United States ponded: . 'Sure, ure I k.n w. election is realized to be of That was vicious. Horrible." vast importance to the Axis. Therefore, the normal trate• Fresno Nisei wins gy fQr the Axis is to do some• school board post thing before November 5 th t · would somehow hav a great BIOLA, . - M M rita ffect on the eiectoral · am-• wa 1 ted Dec. 22 t the new CHARTER MEMBERS-Recognitions chair Dr. Kelly Yamada U.W. professor emeritus; and Mrs. Shigeru Osawa, in absence paign.' Now, if that isn't SUD• entral Unified hool Ok'- (right) presents individualized plaques to founding members of of her husband, charter president. Fourth surviving member stantiation of what Lehman tri t board as trust , recei ~ the 1921 Seattle Progressive Citizens League (called JACL Yuki Higashi lives In Sacramento and was unable to attend. said! ' ing 59 per cent of th t . after 1929): Mrs. Tama Arai Sakai (far left), Henry Tsutsumi, ~ACIF.IC CITIZEN I r=~lday, Februa~ 12,1982 Nisei scientist wins £hronology aeronautics award Continued from Hoffman of Cornell win 1981 Nobel Jan. 22, Jan. 29 issues Prize in chemistry; both worked separately on quantum mechanics TROY, N.Y.-Professor Henry T. Nagamatsu, an aeroacous• tics and hypersonic research scientist at Rensselaer Polytech• SEPTEMBER, 1981 theory with respect to chemical re• Sept. I-Buddhist Churches of actions. nic Institute here, was recently presented with the Aeroacous• America names its fIrSt non-Asian Oct. 2O-First Kay Sugahara tics Award by the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astro• (Rev. Willis Castro of Santa Clara) Awards presented at U.S.-Asia In• nautics (AIAA). Nagamatsu, a graduate of UC Berkeley and to head a temple (Sebastopol's En• stitute gala held in Washington, the California Institute of Technology, was spotlighted in the manji). D.C.; recognizes contributions and . continuing potential of young U.S. Nov. 30 issue of the RPI Review, the Institute's newsletter. Sept. 9-11-Fourth CWRIC hear• No Newcomer to Research ings held at Seattle Central Com• Asians, Rocky Aoki, founder .of munity College; different from Benihana restaurant cham, Although Nagamatsu is no newcomer to the field of aero• L.A. and S.F. as witnesses chal• among recipients. acoustics and hypersonic research, the faculty post he holds lenge wartime role of JACL arid Oct. 23-Anti-DefamatlOn LeagUe here was the beginning of a new career for him. When he Nisei leadership; Nisei panel from premieres "Fukuyama Story" in arrived at RPI in 1978 as professor of aeronautical engineering, Hawaii testifies. San Francisco, fifth of 12-part ser• ies on Americanization of ethnic he had just retired from an illustrious career as a researcher at Sept. 12--Former Utahns return General Electric's Research and Development Center in Sche• to Salt Lake City for fIrSt old-timer groups. Nisei reunion. Oct. 26-S0ny Corp. to appeal nectady, N.Y. Sept. 15, 17, l~Fifth CWRIC U.S. appellate court rule on use of An acknowledged leader in hypersonic gas dynamics, shock hearings held in Alaska, at Anch• VTR (video tape recorder); ma• twmel techniques and jet noise research, Nagamatsu is cur• kers, distributors may be liable for BUDDHISTS HONORED IN D.C.-Sen. Spark M. Matsunaga orage, Unalaska and Pribilof ls• honored last Nov. 5 the founders and supporters of the new rently delving into new areas of basic research. lands; nearly 1,000 Aleuts were damages since copyrighted ma• terial can be recorded. Ekoji Buddhist Temple in Springfield, Va. (From left): Re-Entry Technology for NASA evacuated by U.S. gov't from an• Japanese guests Toshio Watanabe and Kohan Takashima; He is concerned with applying re-entry technology to energy• cestral homes during WW2 to' NOVEMBER, 1981 Bukkyo Dendo Kyokai founder Yehan Numata; Matsunaga; related problems, which he studies both theoretically and ex• makeshift. camps in Alaskan pan• Nov. I-MISLS' 40th anniversa• Ekoji chairman Shig Sugiyama and Bishop Kenryu Tsuji. handle. ry observed at gala Presidio San perimentally. In a project sponsored by NASA's Langley Re• Sept. 21~rge Doizaki, JA• Francisco event. nese fl8g in protest; flag was flying search Center he and RPI Professor William B. Brower are CCC president, pledges $100,000 Nov. 2-3---Seventh CWRIC hear- to honor three visiting Tokyo bus• working on research to decrease the wind drag in commercial over five-years to JACCC to help ings back in Washington; JOM J inessmen. 1982 Officers transport planes like the Boeing 747. "If we can decrease the (Installatioo Date Shown) assure mortgage to Center Bldg. is McCloy, Karl Bendetsen defend Nov.~EighthCWRIChearing consum~ prudoff. drag of the wing by one percent, for long flights, fuel their WW2 decisions for evacua- held in New York City; small tion could probably be decreased by 1,000 pounds, and the pay• Sept. 22--Olicago federal judge tion, author Jim Michener holds "back to Africa" group testifies EAS1ERN DJSI1UCTOOUNCIL Bernard Decker holds in Canon evacuation was economically m~ against Nikkei redress; plight of (Oct. 31. 19111. New York) load could be increased accordingly," says to!agamatsu. USA case U.S.-Japan trade treaty tivated; and Mike Masaoka re- evacuees at Seabrook told. Teresa MaeOOri (Phi), gov ; Betty Another of his current interests is high-temperature heat not crutch to skirt U.S. civil rights spondstoJACLcritics. Nov. 29-White House Confer- Jane Watanabe (NY), Mike Suruki transfer-in the jet engines of the future as well as in gas law; William Porto contended he Nov. ~Nikkei elected in local ence on Aging opens; 4 Nikkei (WOC), Ellen Nakamura (Sbk), vg; turbines. He is working with RPI Professor Robert E. Duffy to was fired by Canon as sales man• elections: Fumiko Wasserman to among 136 in Calif. delegation: George Higud1i (Phi), treas; RubyY increase the efficiency of these engines and, again, cut down on agerbecausebewasnotJapanese. Scb8ar (NYT.-pubrel: Torrance (Ca.) school board; Bob Rev Shinpachi Kanow, Frances fuel consumption. The National Science Foundation's Lewis Sept. 22-23-Sixth CWRlC hear• Mizukami, mayor of Fife, Wa.; Kobata, Nora Mitsumori and Bet• DEIROIT JACl.. ings in Chicago spotlightU .S. "kid• Dick Osaka, mayor of Milton, ty Kozasa. (Nov. 7, 19111) Research Laboratory is funding this research. nap" of 1,800 Japanese Peruvians Wa.; Eugene Matsusaka, Tacoma DECEMBER, 1981 Rooa1d Yee, ch; Elaine Prout, ch• Nagamatsu is also involved in theoretical work to develop a during WW2 ... Myron Kuropas, school board; Vic Nakamoto, Al- Dec. I-District Attorney de- elect; David FUkuzawa, sec; Mary high-power circuit breaker for use with large power lines. The who recalled his role to have Pres• urn Rock (San Jose) school board; clines to prosecute fonner L.A. Kamidoi, treas; Kathy Vee, memb; Electric Power Research Institute and General Electric are ident Ford nullify E.O. 9066 in 1976, Richard Tanaka, Eastside Union county affirmative action compli• Dr Kaz Mayeda, ~; Toohi. ~ at hearings finds graffiti "Nip cosponsoring the research, which attempts to understand the High School District, San Jose; ance officer Mike Ishikawa for al• moora, spcl events; Quist Doering, Lover" sprayed on his garage Alysa Watanabe, youth; Kathy Yee, fluid dynamics of such advanced circuit breakers. Michael Honda, San Jose Unified leged use of county employees and Leading Authority in Hypersonics door. School District; Shiro Tokuno, Na- time to operate own private travel youth adv; Min Togasaki, PC'{A; Art Sept. 26-San Diego Mayor Pete . tomas Unified School District, Sa- firm; evidence held legally insuf• Teshima, soc; Jim Shimrura, hmn The Nisei scientist began his work with GE in 1955, and had Wilson declares Saburo Muraoka cramento; Don Sato, Folsom.{:or- ficient; also recommends against rts; E Prout, nwsitr; Frank Watana• already been considered one of the world's leading authorities Day, marking Issei's 25-year con• dova School District, Sacramento. county rehiring him. be, stud loan; R Yee, M Kamidoi, 5 tribution to S.D.-Yokohama Sister in the field of hypersonics (studying velocities of Mach and Nov. ~Kashu Mainichi (Japan Dec. ~Fortune Magazine re- Jean 1Jurni, E Prout, K Yee. T ~ greater-i.e., five times the speed of sound ). At GE he orga• City activities. Calif. Daily News, Los Angeles) ports Japanese semiconductors moora, ways & means. Sept. 28-Washington, D.C. at• nized and directed their Hypersonic Laboratory and designed observes 50th anniversary; found- lize 64K RAM U S FOWLERJA(L torney Angus MacBeth appointed mar- the hypersonic shock tunnel that contributed extensively to the ed in 1931 by Sei Fujii, closed dur- monopo - . . (Nov. l.5, 19111) CWRIC special counsel to "com• ing Evacuation period, resumed in kebec. S-Pan American Nikkei company's pioneering research into re-entry physics. His find• plete hearing process and prepare Joe Yoshimura, pres; Rob't Tern• ~ ings were applied to manned satellites 8!}d the space shuttle. report and recommendations for A~~~~LAsian American Jour- Organization formalized in Lima, aka, vp; Rev K Miura, 2d vp; Did< President and Congress". Peru; JACL Headquarters to serve Iwamoto, treas; Tad Nakamura, rec In addition, Nagamatsu worked on controlling jet engine nalists Assn. 's first scholarship as North American secretariat. sec; Roy Kato, cor sec; Joe YOOmi, noise, with research involving the GE engine for the Boeing benefit dirmer at Los Angeles hotel Dec. 7-Media recall 40th anni• 100 Club; Harty H
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