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PSWDG opposes Reagan's proposed immigration policy BUEN~ PARK, C:a - The JAQ.. Pacific Southwest District I status in 10 years, but there are no guarantees: Also, at the end of poraxy residency status" were among the points that both Cowtcil passed a resolution QRX>Sing the Reagan Administra- 10 years, the worker must demonstrate English language capa- MALDEF and the PSWOC fowxl objectionable. Both groups felt ~m's immigration refonn p~am at its third quarterly meet- bility and ~~ be "otherwise excludable"...... that the existing policy is "harsh and ineffective" and that the mg here Aug. 23, supporting the stand of the Mexican American -Leg~ refugees from CUba and HaitI Wlthin flVe years. ' proposed refonn was "harsher and probably more ineffective." Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF). -AdmittIng up t~ SO,OOO Mexican "guest workers" a year for Both MAIDEF and the PSWDC also felt that the p~ 1he new U.S. Immigration and Refugee Policy, proposed July ~ m:o:year test xx:nod. ~owever, these guest workers would be program would have a heavy impact on A.siarrIPacific immi- 30 by the Department of Justire, contains five key elements· meligi.ble fOF baslc :;ervlces such as welfare, food stamps, un- grants as well as Hispanic newcomers...... '. employment benefits and federally assisted housing, even At the JACL Tri-District Cooference last April, a resolutioo . II'1J1'?SID8 ~ctIms agamst employers ~y hiring though they must pay federal, state and social secwity taxes. had been passed supporting the need for a guest worker ~egal ~ens, Wlth rmes of $S(X}1,000, together Wlth a general Also, the workers' spouses and children are excluded as well program, specifically the ooe proposed in Senate Bill 47 spoo- tigb~ of Border Patrol and other enforcement m~ -Raising the annual immigration allotment for Mexico and sored and introduced by Sen. Harrison Schmitt of New- Mexico -GMDg legal status to what may be as many as 6 millioo Canada to 40,000 each, with the unused visas from one trans- on Jan.5. undorumen.ted aliens living here.as of J~ 1, 1980, ~,~ting fe~ble to ~ther. Schmitt's bill called for controls over smugglers of illegal ~ "renewable teJ?ll tempocary residency ~tus , if they Asiao-Pacif'lClmpadCouidBeHeavy,PSWDC-MAlDEFFears Mexican aliens and a legal framework for Mexican labor (PC regISter now. 1he action would enable them to gam pennaoent The guest wOrkt:r program and the "renewable temi ~- May 8). # CWRIC staff director Bannai to resign his post Sept. 20 WASHINGTON-Paul Ban• who was recently hired as as• nai, executive staff director of sociate director of research the Canmissioo on Wartime Cnnrinned OIl Next Page Relocatim and Internment of Civilians, has decided to ten• CWRIC site in der his resignation effective Chicago changed Sept 20, it was learned last CHICAGO. ill-Site of the week from sources close to CWRlC hearings here Sept 22-23 the CWRIC. Upon learning of ' has been changed to Northeastern this infonnation 00 Sept 4, the illinois University Commuters PC was unable to rontact Ban• Center, Alunmi Hall, SSOO N. St nai or chairperson Joan Z. Louis Ave., according to JACL re• Bernstein for oomment gional director Bill Yoshino. As a prelude. Dan Kuzuhara, It was also discovered that asst professor of psychology at Dr. Tom Taketa, associate NIU, is co-director of a campus staff director of the cwruc, symposiwn Sept 19 and 21, on the resigned frun his post Aug. 31 wartime evaruation and redress issue: "With Uberty and Justice for persooaI. reasons. for Some: the Case for Compensa• Sources here have also re• tion of Impri• vealed that Olarles Smith, soned During World War il". California labeled the 'melting pot of the 80s' by N.Y. Times LOS ANGELES-Over the last population researcher for the decade, California has supplanted Rand Corporation. New York as the principal ethnic Just as New York's Ellis Island melting pot eX America, according was a gateway for the tide of Eu• to data from the 19m census, says ropean immigrants, noted the The New yen. Times in an article Times, California's proximity to Aug. 23. Uitin America and the Pacific has Monuments at Rohwer, Ark., shown in this picture taken in 1961, honor the Center's dead (at left); the other, the 30 young The tide of immigration from made it the gateway for the CUl"• men from Rohwer who died in U.S. military service in Europe. Constructed by the and at Rohwer in 194445, rent wave of immigrants. Southeast: Asia. UlI:in America and these cement monuments are rapidly deteriorating. Contributions are being solicited for a permanent memorial. many ocher coontries with ear White Popdatjoo Dedioes nomic and political troubles is While the numbers of immi• making California, the nation's grants and other ethnic groups most ~ state, a port of en• have increased, the white popula• Permanent Rohwer memorial proposed try for tens of thousands of ref- tion has declined, according to the of interned families, who died fen~" said Hunter, who U.S. Census Bureau. Fnm 1970 to LI'ITLE ROCK, Ark-A new Griswold. ~lifomia Rohwer and Jerome were on European battlefields while served as an assistant director has becoole the Ellis 19m, Californians whose roots are and pennanent memorial serving with American mill- of the Rohwer center. Island of the 19IDs," says Dr. Ber• predominantly frun Western Eur the two relocation centers lcr marker for the site of the tary forces. Some of the men Hunter and Griswold, who tram Brown. a psychiatrist and cared furthest east among the 0IIIfIn""" OIl P-. s fonner Rohwer Relocation were also from the Jerome were directors of community Center was proposed here re• ten that were built to incar• cerate the over 120,000 Japa• center. activities at the center. met re• 'Pacific Overtures' may be cently, it was reported by the ''We need a pennanent cently with the Yadas in North Arkansas Democrat The idea nese Americans during World Warn. marker to remind us Ameri- Little Rock to plan a fundrais• was originated by two fonner cans that America will never ing campaign for the proposed totally reworked for England internees of Rohwer-Mr. and About the only reminder of SAN DIEGO, Ca-The Sondheim-Prince musical show. "Pacific the Rohwer center is a small, again do the sort of thing she memorial. Mrs. Sam Yada of Sherwood. did here, sending boys off to The Yadas chose to remain Overtures", is being reworked totally for England and it may Ark.. and two Little Rock re• well-kept cemetery with a ra• come off as a kind of a Gilbert & Sullivan copy of ''The Mikado" pidly deteriorating cement war while keeping their pa- in Arkansas after the war in• tired ministers who served on rents and sweethearts con- tead returning to Califor• production-wise. if what Harold Prince is quoted as saying to obelisk which bears the names of the Rohwer staff, Or. Joseph fined behind barbed wire nia Their two sons, one of Scott Hewnann succeeds. Boone Hunter and Rev. Nat of 32 Nisei soldiers, members whom was born in Rohwer. The Heumann article, appearing in the San Diego Civic Light are graduates of the Univ. of Opera program Aug. 20, quotes Prince: 100th/442nd/MIS exhibit foundation fanned Arkansas. "Everything he (Steve Sondheim) does" may include a total "What w will be able to do fundraising and Richal'd K Haya• reworking of Pacific Overtures for England. "Steve wants it SAN J.1W\lCISCO-Represcnta• Th missioo and obj tive of about the Rohwer memorial badly. lives from the 100th, 442nd and this new foundation is to raise shi. public relations. funds for th coll tion, preserva• onsultants to the uti will depend upon the contribu• "Ihaveagreed--if'wecan do it totally differently. All I mean is Military Intelligence Sel>'1ce comrruttee are: Eri Saul, Presidio tions we receive." Mr. Yada very simply, that's all. Cut it Everything's too long (about the clubs and associations held a three tion and exhibition of aU artifacts -day conference on July 24-26 to and memorabilia pertaining to the Museum lU'ator; Col. Jam ' 1. musical dramatizing the opening of Japan to the West which met 0J0tin0 ..... OIl Pa&e establish a permanent foundation extraordinary World Warn mili• Hanley (ret) of Mountain Vi w s an Wltimely death on Broadway because, the director feels, it tary history of the lOOth Infantry and Col. Tom Kobayashi (l~t.) of for the 100th/442nd Exhibit at the Daly City. Contra Costa JAn lacked universality for the mostly Caucasian audience). Presidio Army Mwewn. Battalion, th 44.2nd lK'T and rvu . "I think it should be done with Caucasians. And I don't think The name "lOOth/442nd Muse• in the Pacific and EW'Opea!l thea• Held coordinators from Hawaii looking for off"JCe site and oth r outlying cities will be they should wear make-up. Now of COllrSe we could never have wn foundation" was adopted as t rs of operation. RICHMOND, Ca-TOOl Arima K. '[bomas Kawaguchi. of Rich• appoUlted to augment tile various has accepted to chair the Contra done it with Caucasians in this country because the Asian com• the official name. With the an-I conunittees. Tom MasanlOti and noun cement by th.e MIS AsSOCUl• mond, was named executiw direc• ' ta JACL ad hoc coounittee for mwtity would have been so upset. And I didn't want to; I really '01. Harold Riebesell (ret.) will be tion of Northern California that an tor of the new foundation and II building, which will tucly the wanted to do it with Asians, and I loved them, they were M1:, exhibit will be dedIcated 'hester Tanaka of Oakland as de• fi id COOrdinatol ' for th Denv r feasibility and potential plan of ac• area and Lt. C I. Willia.m Oda (I t.) wonderful. alongside the "00 «'01' Broke" ex· puty directol'. tiOtl f r tablishing a pemument will be th Bay Area field C lui• beadQ~ "But in a weird way, paradoxically, it removed the public fran IS Others on the board include: m ting place and hibit Nov. 1. the new foundallon natoI'. TIl orgrul11atiooal so'\! it '!bey refused to see that people are people all over the world. expected to be called the LOOth/ H UTY Iwafuclu, de .e10pmem and f r the chapter, aa:ording to the 442nd MIS (Allitld Forces Pacific) research; Hil'oslu Takusagawa. ture I ' , imilru' to II "task 1'01 .. chapter newsletter. Rappa. in Au• 'The story is universal. It should have been accepted that way in ~OIlNestI'llp , Museum Foundation. field operations; Young O. Kim, gust the first place. " 2-PA~C~/~,~1~~1------~------Klan, Viets have an Inouye, Spark concerned over GOP tide rolling into Hawaii HONOLULU--Senators Daniel gress have been coming since the ~ed national tren~ t he said, . the GOP's attempt to seek candi- Inouye and Spark Matsunaga of mid-I960s, said Inouye. However, "It will .be because we uemocrats dates for all offices. He added that uneasy peace in Texas· Hawaii expressed their views OD in Hawaii the same trend is evi- caused It".. Nofziger's statement was made to the possibility of a Republican dent although not as strikingly as ~ Hawanan Scene "encourage candidates to ftle." HOU!:I'TON---A u.s. Federal Uona1d said a hearing on the para• takeover of the state's coogres- in many Mainland states. Regarding ~ w~~ of The Republicans have been Judge says most of the issues have military camps had not been sional seats in articles appearing "Our profIle doesn't match up the Democrats m ~au, Inouye looking ~ ~ n _ A: " n.n been settled in a lawsuit med by scheduled. in dle Hooolulu Advertiser Aug. with the profile you fmd else- noted that the PU?!ic tends tb look or a ...... JU!UcU.C: to oppose Vietnamese refugee fJSbennan Texas KUm leader Louis Beam 21. where," Inouye told Advertiser re- down OD ~ coalitloO o,f 10 ~ Matsunaga, and the most visible at who charge they were being inti• denied fishennen had received Sen Inouye said that the 19805 porters. Still, Hawaii's Democrats crats and eight Republicans ~ t:he ~ I

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4-Friday.Seotemberll,1981===='SS=N=:=OO=30=_8=57=9~I~Le-tt-e-r-bo-x----- r------=_------__:------, pacific citizen ;~:::.:::::.,.,tme ~ PublIShed by the Japanese Amencan CitIZens League every Fnday except Aug. 21 PC about the submarine the first and last weeks of the year at 244 S. San Pedro St. Los Angeles. attack on California during World Ca 900 12; (213) 626-6936 • 2nd Class postage paid at Los Angeles. Ca. WarIl. Annual Subscnptions-JACL members: $8.00 of national dues provides On Feb. 25 I was stationed in one-year on a per·household basis. Nonmembers: $16. payable In ad· Pasadena, near the Rose Bowl and vance. Foretgn addresses. Add U.S.$8 • News or optruons expressed by I about 3 miles from home. with the columnISts other than JACL staff do not neoessanly reflect JACL polICY. 19th Engineer Regiment That evening I was serving as charge of DR. JAMES K. TSWIMURA ...... Natlonal JACL President quarters at Headquarters and re• DR. CLIFFORD I. UYEDA ...... Chair, PacifIC Cmen Board ceived a phone call. Before I could HARRY K. HONDA ...... Edltor identify my unit the caller was PETER IMAMURA . . • ...... AssIstant Editor frantically shouting that naval ships were shelling the coast. I cut him off shaq>ly. telling him to withhold his message until he had CLIFF'S CORNER: by Dr. Clifford Uyeda I received proper response. and GOSH,MOM_ALL! hung up. The phone call was intended for SAID WA51HAT r. the Southern California Sector Student Aid Headquarters which was located CAUGHT AFI, Y BAlL San Francisco in downtown Pasadena. Within a Cases Facing JA~'s Student Aid Pro• half hour our unit received. orders IN WE OUTFI ELD from them to rush one battalion to j ~ gram: A Japanese American family lives TODAY ••. the Santa Barbara area within an annual income of $5,000 and with a Just before the battalion was to family vegetable garden to supplement leave, the Major in command \ their food ... Illness-stricken parents are no came into Headquarters and re• longer able to work and send their kids to college ... A cata.neralities, tractors from the 19th spent some because even after all the hearings this situation? longer be at his post and we will . The JA~ Abe and Esther Hagiwara Student Aid Program time helping salvage lwnber that are successfully concluded we will For instance, we understand have lost a very capable coordina• was set up for the precise purpose of helping these worthy but had washed ashore. still be only at the halfway mark of that to date in the NCWN-P Dis• tor. We will also have lost the c0n• unforttmate students. The ftmd is woefully inadequate One of the assignments of the our mission. The most difficult, olct Council only 14 of the 34 tinuity of effort so desperately 19th. after it moved into Pasadena This year, for instance, out of seventy deserving applicants we and the most demanding part of Olapters have turned in their al· needed in !be final moments of a a week after Pearl Harbor, was to great struggle. What a shame it are extending a modest aid to four at the most! our task will be to make sure thaI located contributions, while others locate all bridges in California the CommJssion makes suitable have so far delayed or failed to would be if we were to floooder There is an urgent and immediate need to build up the student south of San Luis Obispo. and to recommendations to the Con· turn in their share of the needed and drown within sight of our goal! aid program. The Abe and Esther Hagiwara Student Aid Pr0- determine how to destroy them in gress. contributions, explaining that the After 40 years of i..ndividuaI gram is administered through the JA~ Natiooal Hq in San the event that an overwhelming This can only be done if addi· money is needed locally. or post• mortification and suffering we fi• Francisco. Cmtributioos to this fund are being solicited enemy landing force crossing tional facts and ftgUres are made poning !beir contributions so that nally have an opportunity to thousands of miles of ocean could available to the Commission, and if their funds can draw additional achieve Redress for the irijustices cause our military defense forces adEquate I.iai.son is maintamed be- . interest and degradation we suffered in si• .YE EDITOR'S DESK: by tlarry Honda to withdraw. As other available tween the JAG.. National Redress These may seem like logical rea• lence fer so loog. This is our last maps were incomplete, the more Coordinator and the Commission. sons to those involved. but the Na• chance and, if we let it slip through current maps of the Automobile as well as the media. tional Headquarters cannot fmc• our fingers because of avarice, in• Oub of Southern California were To accomplish this task It will be tion without funds, and dedicated dolence, and mcoocem we will 'Port l' used to spot the bridge locatioos. necessary to have at the helm a individuals like John Tateishi and have DO other chance. we will have It was three weeks later that I Between the PC Office and Tyler Tana• person who is not only altruisllC, Carole H.ayasbioo cannot be kept no recourse. joined a trainload of Nisei GIs Long ago you elected to make ka's Japan Orient Tours office two blocks experienced, and dedicated to this on the payroll if there are no funds from other units to be transferred ISSue, but so~e who is skilled to pay them. the Redress Issue "our issue". Sup• away, our video tenninal which has as• to Ft Sill, Okla with gt. George in liaison work, well versed in the Please be aware that !be Re• port it to a oiumphant cooclusiOD swned the computerizatiw of our JACL Kanegai in charge. aims of JAG.. Redress, articulate. dress Issue has not been sucoess• with your money and your per• membershipIPC circulation file is ad• HIGEOTAKAYAMA able to educate the members of fully completed yet There is till sonal efforts! dressed as 'Thrt I". It represents a scheme Pasadena, Ca the Congress In the lSSUes at stake, much to be dale and we must keep VIOlEI' KAZUEde c:.Im>lOFORO We'd like to hear fnm any Nisei which has been in the works for nearly three years. When Tyler and who is skilled in the way of our helmsman at his post. We must WilFRED H de CRISfOFORO GI who was stationed at Hoff Washington lobbyists. close ranks and unite to bring this Co-O:lai.rs, Redress Owtlltlinee Tanaka offered us access to his ~tioo within the past year, it General Hospital at Santa Barbara Salin.asJACL~ certainly accelerated the process of auttmating - that is, we at this time.--Ed. FROM HAPPY VAWY: by Sachi Seko didn't have to worry about what computer to lease or pW'Chase. • CWRIC Hearings The first test-printout, as promised, was an expiratioo report Editor: of San DiegoJA~ members in alphabetical order. That chapter You can't imagine how viVldly Purpose of the Redress Hearings has doggedly pursued the idea of computerizing since the first emotioned I became watc1ung our pilot study was authorized in 1966. This report listed the "SD" TV sets, presenting this week Salt Lake Oty younger sister never really knew their fa• people, as of May I, 1981, with PC expiratioo dates appearing in (Aug. 8) for the first time, news THERE IS nothing as disarming as can• ther. He had died on the Bataan Death the left column before each nam~address. boole and work about the CWRIC and documen• MarciL her heart. Lois held me partially tary scenes of "relocation camp ''', dor. particularly in a woman. The poet. In telephooe numbers (if mown) and space for comment We think Including interviews Wlth some of Muriel Rukeyser, wondered about the con• responsible. I would remind her that I was a membership committee would find this a useful renewal tool the victims of the drasti govern• sequence of one woman telling the nuth an American adolescent. locked away in an Those whose subscriptioos expire early in the year can be asked ment measure. American concentration camp during the I have been follOWlJ'lg th Re• about herself. '''!be world - would split by phone to renew before the PC is cutoff. war. he didn't require reminding. Lois Mas Hi.rmaka, San Diego JA~ president, was handed the dress campaign through the PC. open." In the last decade, there has been and I sincerely hope from the was one of the most infonned persons I report Aug. 16 at the PSWDC session Since then, it's been "let's considerable progress in this direction. deepest of my heart the :ommis. have known. Yet. she persisted in associat• acquainted with Port 1", updating the file with changes that have sion may reach con rete results. 111 Whether or not the world will split open is transpired since May I, repositioning entries 00 fJ.le, inserting order the whole Japan Ameri· yet to be seen. ing me with the enemy because of physical whatever was missed, (telephooe numbers and other member• can conununity may say after its Lois was ahead of the times. In the '60s, similarity and common ancestry. She be• ship data). conclusion: "It was w rth to esta• she was already telling the nuth about h~ lieved the incarceration of Japanese blish the CWRJ . m.amly and Full service, such as membership renewals, various kinds of self. I remember our first telephone con• Americans was justified In grieving for above all to rehabilitate all th vic• ~ reports and regular PC labels, is still several months away. But tims of the arbitrary act, W\iustly versation. We had not yet been properly her lost father, emotion prevailed over we thought you'd like to know "I\)rt 1" is here. /I considered of being potential pies introduced I called to remind her that she tellect "l can t help what I feel." and saboteurs." • It is never the intention of the law that anyone shall live in The Evacuation and Nisej in the and her husband had an engagement at our I remember the last time we saw I..ois. It p(WeTty or die in anguish.-Justinian Code, war are two COllemporary and pa• house that weekend It was one of those was a winter's night, just before their radoxa! events that must be large infonnal affairs where a few more move to California We had taken a h0me• learned by all Americans. of the guests could always be acconunodated. ~O present and future generations. made pound cake and a bottle of wine. She 35 __'\ears • Pa::Jftc 0Ibe0 . JORGE l.1J:1DA My husband had impulsively invited her wanted to show us a quilt she had finished Si¥:> Paulo. Brazil SFPI'. 14, 1946 loyalty". husband to bring his wife and rome. They As she reached the French doors to tum em Aug. 21-Canadian parliament Sept 7-Wasbingtoo Slate Dem• Editor: were newcomers to the city. Lois said her the outside lights, our eyes happened to told British Columbia still refusing ocratic party aDventloo approves The July 31 PC issue just ar• husband had neglected to oonvey the invi~ meet across the room. It was only for a few to issue ammercial fIShing per• moves to create evacuation claims rived. The coverage on the hear• tation She referred to him as, "that rat", mits to Canadian Japanese. con:unissioo and removal of racia1 ings at Washington, D. was ex• seconds, although it seemed we remained Sept 1-Two Hawaiian Nisei bars to immigratjoo and naturali• cellent Thank you very much. Not once, but several times. An honest wo• locked for an intemlinab1y long time. I n0- GIs fl'OOl Ft Lewis refused entry zatioo. NOBUMIYO HI man, I thought I liked her immediately. ticed the familiar shrug and the wry smile by . Canadian border off~ .to Sept. 7-Mrs. Tamaki Uemura, Philadelphia It was one of my disappointments that before she ~ed the quilt It was an VlSlt Vancouver, B.C; NISeI 10- president of Japan YWCA, first Editor: we could not be friends. Not in the total fonned refusal based on racial postwar civilian pennitted from eloquent statement, one I have not forgot• 1 have noticed in the Aug. 21 PC sense of friends. She was great company. I ~ grounds ... C8nad!an Nisei GIs Japan to visit U.S., in Cincinnati; that my name was incorrectly ten. "If only ....." In the illuminated also baITed fran coastal British w-ges Nisei to take Occupation spelled as Mike Koawchi. peak• admired her intelligence and creative abi• den, icicl glistened lik glass swords. Colwnbia. jobs, and d.\sa)urages Issei to re• ing for the Asian and Pacific red· lity. Probably because she sublimated her Sept 5-Calif. appellate court rum to Japan. As I write this, the Redress hearings will era! Employees Association of ' .. abWldance by being witty and fwmy, We backs Issei (H.any S. Hayashlno) Sept 9-U.s. opens limited pos• and the Veterans Leadership Con• ha moved to Califonria. I am certain that businessman's right to lease p~ tal service to Japan. ference (of Qricago). Jt was Vin• saw each oth r frequently. I looked fol'• Lois will be following th proceedings. The erty, ovenules lower court decl• Sept. 12-Nat'l Opinion Re• cent Rios in a wheel chair who ap• ward to the mornings she dmpped in Wlanw primary purpose of th h ings is to edu• sioo in Stockttll theater test case. search Center (Denver) survey peared for the veterans in support noWlced. Few peopl aft t me this way. Sept S-Reinslatement of Nisei finds hostile feelings against U.S. of JACLnatiooal redress. cat til publi It is n bl oal. I am sorry decreasing; 25% still be• state civil service personnel in Cal• Japanese R MIKE HAMA HI WE WANTED to be friends. but it w it will fail with Lois. Nothing can chan8e ifornia indicated as Personnel lieve Japanese in U.S. were dlB• Danville. histox:ically impossible. Lois and her Board fails to press cha.rHe of "dis- loyal to AmeJi,qm government. ca. what she feels. # Friday, September 11, 1981/ PACIF1C CITIZEN-S FROM THE FRYING PAN: by Bill Hosokawa EAST WIND: by Bill Marutani 'WartiIne Tanka': Evacuee poems The Nobility . . Denver, Colo. On relocation: little by little, n~ly four decades . Among the group ofpeople who left ~wnan of Culture .. after the event,. the fme nuances After exchanging smiles Philadelphia ~acuatton . -t ?f the expenence are com- Was my daughter IT'S RATHER STRANGE how little mg to light For the latest, we are in- Departing all alone · . things stick in one's mind, even that of a little ~ debt~ , • I to J?r.. Peter :r- S.uzuki's study, and sobbing. 1 kazo. For it was as a curious pre-schooler 'Wattime Tanka: Issei and Kibei Contnbuttons to a liter• ( , ~ing aro,und that I recall a scene etched ature East and West", published in the current issue of On loneliness: mto my mind. We were then living in Kent, Literatzue East and West, the scholarly Jownal of Com• More than ten thousand - Washington, next door to the Tsubotas. I parative and World literature. Japanese in Chicago--• remeIJ.?berZJ Mr. Tsubota, a gentleman who was given to saying Suzuki has gone through the National Archives and Yet not a single one very: little and whom I "feared" in awe and respect On this wood~ sought out from WRA records the Japanese-language Can I call on as a.friend. part:J.cular day, he was engaged in on a flat board appro~tely two by four feet It w~, as I recall, of a Japanese poems-in classic tanka, haiku and senryu fonn-written reli~f, On volunteering for military service: scene m open of sloping pines. tittle as I was, I appreciat• by Issei and Kibei evacuees to express their hopes and ed the beauty of his work and watched in silence as Tsubota-san frustrations and innennost thoughts. The strainingfigures of the parents silently worked, his spectacles precariously perched on his nose Suzuki points out that while it is true many Issei were of For that parting look of their son -as he pretended not to notice me. Departingfor the front, peasant stock and made their living as farmers, "It does r DON'T KNOW how many years later, perhaps it was ten not automatically follow that they were boors." In the Move me to tears. years or so later, perhaps more; I only recall that by that time prewar communities there were poetry clubs and it was And on loyalty. Tsul;x>ta~san had ~ away. ~ was attending some community only natural that they should be continued in the camps. The sincerity of our loyalty affarr at the Buddhist Sburch mAuburn when, upon looking up "By means of this paper," Suzuki writes, "attention is Is just beginning to dawn on some toward the altar, I notlced panels of exquisite carvings across the front My eye caught one of the panels and it immediately called to the contributions of America's Issei and Kibei to a After sacrifices are made. genuine literature incorporating Eastern and Western registered: it was the very same panel that I had seen Tsubota• elements ... it is hoped that, with this paper, the legit• Unfortunately a great deal is lost in the translation an san silently working upon, as that kow equally (respectfully) imate contributions of the Issei and Kibei to a literature inevitability when something as delicate as haiku or~ silently stood by, watching. And I then realized that his work had East and West will at long last be accorded the recognition is rendered in English. been one of piety and love. While I was not sure of it,-since I did not see him work on other panel carvings,-I assumed that he which they deserve." ...... had indeed laboriously carved all of them. And I marveled, as I Suzuki, a Seattleite, was 13 years old when he was evac• thought back to those earlier years when I had watched this Fommately for Suzuki, he found in WRA files transla• stem and gifted man working as a craftsman. tions of the poems by George Kushida., identified as a uated with his family. Reali1mg after reaching adulthood that so much of the Japanese culture was unappreciated, . BECAUSE I HAD seen the Issei in their respective roles as member of the Rohwer conununity analysis section. Here slIIlple laborers. I had not viewed them as possessing noble . are a few of the more trenchant samples: he studied the Japanese language with tapes and records. He received his bachelor's and master's degrees in an• cultural skills. They had very little time in which to pursue On camp life: thropology at Columbia University and continued at Yale cultural hobbies and display their hidden gifts, of which I was to become aware much later. Indeed, contrary to my early impres• Yuma sandstorm before going to Holland on a Fulbright Fellowship for his Take heed when you blow sion of the Issei, they were very much more than the ''peasants'' doctorate. He has worked in Indonesia, Bwma, Germany that I had viewed them to be. The book "Beauty Behind Barbed Scare the flowers and Tukey. Suzuki is professor of anthropology at the blooming in the spring desert. Wire" spoke eloquently to this. Univ. of Nebraska at Omaha MY OWN MOTHER played the samisen, often getting to• gether with others of like mind and talent And while I neither NISEI IN JAPAN: by Barry Saiki CWRIC at San Francisco ... ~derstood nor appreciated the twang of that tbree-stringed ~ent and the accompanying nasal sing-song, I appreciated !he obvious fact that they were thoroughly engrossed and erijoy• Redress Publicity in Japan mg themselves_ For all the bard work they had to endure, it was heartwanning to see them so engaged Tokyo news widely if some fonn of compensation is awarded. so that The initial hearing of the CWRIC on July the claimants in Japan can put in their applications. WI-llCH BRINGS US to today's N'J.Sei Among my N'JSei ac• q~tan~, 14 held in Washington D.C. was widely cov• Radio FM Tokyo also asked for infonnation on future dates of I know of pitifully few who are able to play a ered in Japan by both the news agencies and the Redress hearings. mUSlcal mstrument or have some outstanding cult:ural talent. the major newspapers, based on reports Asahi Journal, an intellectual magazine, requested if there Certainly I do not, unless ooe considers fiddling with a har• sent in by foreign correspondents. was a possibility of sponsoring a discussion on Redress. To monica (and very poorly at that) as "talent" , which it definitely is An ex:aellent coverage of the highlights provide for a wide range of viewpoints, the journal wanted not (With that statement, very few will admit to being an ac• from AP and UPI and other items appeared in all four of the panelists of varying background Besides myself, Sen Nisbi• quaintance of mine.) But I cannot help but wonder: Did the Nisei Eilglish-language general newspapers here. y~ Sony consultant and widely known throughout Japan as a "miss out" somewhere? Personally, I think we did, and I think we Japanese correspondents in Washingtoo for the Mainichi ~ top mterpreter, Dr. Harry Okamoto, who recently left the U.S. can come up with a nwnber of reasons. Good reasons, included Tokyo Shimbun also reported the hearings, while Kyodo dis• Navy in which he served as a dentist and Prof. Kaname Saruya patches appeared in Sankei Shimbun and a number of the news• of Tokyo Women's Qrristian University were selected as parti• EAST-WEST kawa's call to intern all the lran• papers in rutlying prefectures. cipants. Cootl.nued from Page 2 ians sometime back, that prospect is closer than one likes to think. Comments on the hearings also were made on most Japanese Prof. Saruya, an expert on American History, served as the at the past and where to go from . television programs as foreign news. These items made millions moderator in a discussion that covered Japanese immigration there. pre-war discrimination, the evacuation and relocation and view~ Interspersed between the ID8JOr This could be a very depressing of Japanese aware of the difficulties enCOWltered by the Nikkei season. Magwili told Maku Camps points on the Redress. The feature appeared in the early Sep• productions will be two Plays.In• during World War II. Progress and readings about the are a very ''heavy" subject, said • • tember issue of the Asahi Journal.. Although the discussion was Japanese American Conc:entra• Magwili Mako shook his head in held in Japanese, Dr. Okamoto proved to be quite fluent since he tioo Camps. It is Mako's hope that disagreement There will be One of my local friends, who saw one TV report, remarked, laughter in the plays because "'That's one of the remarkable aspect of the Americans. In what has been studying Japanese with the aim of taking a dental the sum total of this season will be examination in Japan. In fact, the 28-year-old bachelor plans on a message for all Americans: there was laughter in the camps. other COWltry could you expect to have a commission set up to developing bilingual capabilities that would qualify him to serve THIS COULD ALSO HAPPEN TO There bad to be to surnve probe something that occurred so long ago. Anywhere else, such YOU. In light of Senator Haya- them. as interpreter for international dental and medical conferences. things would be buried under." . . . ~------~ A reporter from the Yomiwi called me for information re• The indications are that the final outcome of the CWRIC garding the number of persons in Japan that would be entitled to reports and what happens thereafter will be a subject of con• DAILY receive compensatioo, if such reconunendations are made. I tinuing interest to the Japanese press. said that there is no lrnown figure but that several hWldred Nisei At this point, it can be said that the initial goal of the Redress . are CUITeDtly in Japan for business and that some Issei and their program-to educate the public on Relocation-bas been h.ighly children are living in Japan. successful, well worth every cent that JACL has contributed Currently 7%. paid quarterly He said that his paper will be interested in circulating the .towards the program. 1/

Half of the national Asian latioo (3 c;:nn,636) live in ~ York, noted the Times. Koreans immigrants without much mooey, ~ own dozens of shops and restau- officials say that teD.sioos are IMMIGRANT (1,253,987) and Hawaii (583,660), rants along Olympic Boulevard in rising between different ethnic ~from~~ _ _ says the Census Bureau. Los Angeles, while Mexican iromi- ~ps because of competition for ope ("Anglos") decreased 76 per• .Imndgrana Numbers UnlaloWn grants use the downtnwn area (3rd Jobs and housing. As the minority am fnm 89 percent of the popu• The Times notes that because and Broadway is the hub) as their population grows, the teD.sioos be• 10 $4000 (previously $2000) latioo. much of the imm.igratioo is illegal, . principal slloA>ing area. tween people at the lowest rung of Every other ethnic category the nwnber of newcomers amv- More than one-third of the pop• the ecooomic 1adder may in• have ~ substantially. Blacks ing in Caljfornia f~ abroad is ulatioo in Mmterey Park are Clli• crease. have increased 30 percent over W1known. The Immigration and nese, while 10,00> Samoans live in "It's like a keg of dynamite with the last decade, to 1.8 m.i.llioo. Naturalizatim Service, however, and near the suburb of Carson a one-inch fuse," says a depoty Hispanic Americans have grown estimates that the legal migration There is a heavy population of superintendent of schools in Los 92 percent to 4.5 m.i.llioo. to the stale from abroad last year Indochinese refugees in the com• Angeles, who the tensions Asian POpll1ation ~ed frem 150,00> to 200,00>, in- munities of linda Vista, north of mounting amoog blacks. Hispan• As the PC reported Aug. 7, the cludiJIg 50,00> Southeast Asians. the San Diego stadium (7,00>, an ics and Indochinese refugees. to any amount (pre iousl S40.000) 1980 Census indicated that the The immigratioo has had a var- increase of SO percent since 1975) Doyce Nunis, a professor of his-• Asian (lq)UIatioo increased at the iety of effects 00 life in Califomia. and in Orange County, southofLOO tory at USC, said that so far the fastest pace, 140 percent over the In places like Beverly Hil1.s and Angeles (50,00». "Uttle Saigon" is state's new immigrants are more NATIONAL JACL CREDIT UNION last decade to 1.25 millioo. Marin County, money brought by the name given to the community "ghettoi7.ed" than "melted l0- Now over $4.5 million In assets Ca1ifornia has 3S7 ,514 Fllipinoe, immigrants frun Korea and Hong of Westminster, where 6,00> of its I g: ther." up .158 percent since 1970; 322,340 Kong has been cited as ooe of the population of 71,00> people are About 8S 1anguag , are now Olinese, up 90 percent; and reasons for the state's hyperin- Vietnamese. sPOken in CalifonUa. he said 261,817 Japanese, up2Jpercent flated real estate market over the Probltms in the Melting POt "What do you do when there are read of April 1, 1980, the state also last six years. However, the Times cited many Vietnamese who don't or As their languag • , U lIFlEO II0M0WERS has 89,5lrl Vietnamese; 20,096 Sa• The increased cosmopolitanism problems due to the influx of new- . writ ven own ? has brought about diverse neigh- comers. In S(Jlle areas of the state, There's no way to melt them to• PO 1721 Salt lake City. Utah 84110 (801) 355-8040 lD08Il8 and 17 f>62 persons frun. gether." Guam borhoods reminiscent of New which attract a large proportion of 6-PACIFICU'I'1ZEN I Friday, September 11, 1981------An inside look at Selanoco EDC-MDC-A Huge Success By F1lANK SAKAMOTO, 1000 Oub

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