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FounMd Oe1. 15, 1929 February 11, 1983 Pacific Citizen .II~ l '11.,l p,thl 1 The National Publication of the Japanese American Citizens League ISSN 0030 ll:t79 / Whole No l ,12.1 / \'ul 00 No. 5 ~ll~~~ 20¢ Hirabayashi, Yasui fi le suits ; Nikkei communities plan to JA support group seeks funds hold a 'Day of Remembrance' SEATI'LE-Gordon lhrabayashi. Jan 19. other groups are plarulL'<t . The who wa:; convit.:tcd 111 19-tl of v1ul aL In f'onland, Ort!., Yasui, chair Japanese American com mg curf~w ,,rders und refusing tu of ,JACL 's Nall'"1al Committee fur munity organizations across tilm, --The Pride und the report tu a govt:rnment 111tern Redress, nlt!CI !us petition 011 Feb the country are planning LO Shame" narralL'<i by Waiter m1.:nl ~.-amp, has fil~ sun m U.S I. commemorate the Ust anm Cronkhtle will be slmvn. as J.)1stncl Coun to have hL-; co1w1t: None ol the lt11·L-'C men arl! set!k· versary or 1':xecuuv~ Ord,•r -.ell as an w,;ccrpl from the tlon~ uverturnt!d mg damages and U1e1r srnb do no1 9066, whid1 precipi1a1ed the Asian Amertt'an Theater J (e ijssertt:'d 1n hi!,. l 'IVIJ SUll lilt:d address the lSSUt! of rei>ardltulb Comµan y's production or .Jan JI that tho Li .~ govtn1,ne111 for .Japa11c.st! 1~1enca11s who were evacualiun, iuternmenl dnd .supfJ rt::s.scd dtlCt11ncnts sl11m mg 111 uprooted and :sent tu 111lernmcm relocatiou or Nikkci during " l'uint ofOrder " a pill> about temment of lltl,l.00 JJ1>an~M! camp:; durmg Lhe war Worlu War II t,urdon llirabayaslu Photo Aml.!ncan~ un 1hc west n~st wa!:> l l1r..1bayash1 ·s :HO-page pt:lilltlll In San Francisco, Plul udel displays uud litcrnlure will n t nt.'i?Ck•d for the ndllurl°:, c:onta1ns documtnts purportlng Ln phia Court uf Common Pleas abo be exhibited st.'<.:Unly sho" Lhcit the late Lt C:e1) John In Berkeley, a smu lar pro At a Ile\\:, rn11lcrc11\:1!, l11rahu OeW1ll, the Anny·:; Western Dt.... Judge William Man,tam will gram will be held later that ya~h1 , a_ faculty mem lJm at the r~nso Cununander, supµurwd 111- pai'licipalc in a si~•l'l pro Uhi.:Crs1ty of' Alberta, Sil.Id 111:; de termllt!nt dcsp11c Flil and Nav)' Ul· gram on Feb. 19 al JACL day at 7.30 p.m. at lite ,Jeffer ciblon to tr)' to u\·c11un1111;; conn 1dhgence reports that said IL ~as Photos by Kaz Takeuchi National llcadquarters, 1765 :;on School, l~OO Ada St Fur lions Vtas based nil a ·· rt!.Sf1lve tudo n't nL>t:?ded JACCC'S THEATER-The Japanese American Cultural and Sutler St Marntani, a mem more 1111iJ on either program tL, ra1her 1.han 111 anger The mlll1..a1;, was given Uu~ tw,k Community Center 1n L. A. dedicated 11s new theater (N1ch1be1 ber of the Commiss10n on call NaOLlll Kubolll al 14 15 1 ··I want lll reassurc. L; S c 1LJ ZC!b: ol mternmg Japanese Amcrlt:allli Gek1Jo) on Jan. 21 . Above, an ,_ntenor view of the theater; 53ii-U30 lhJI consutuUunal guarantee::;. rt:· by then-Pr..,;1dent Franklin I) below, the theater's Kyoto N1sh111n -woven doncho, or stage Wartime Relocation and lu gardless- nf rau:, (!rct.-d 11r national Roo,cvelt sh,.-Uy allcr U1e boml>- curtain, 1s unveiled during th€! ded1cal1on ceremonies. ternment of Civilians, has In Seattle, the local JACL ungiu still starvl , part1culJrl1· <lur 111g ot' J>earl llarbor m l&-11 asked for a --simultaneous chaplet' will hold a .. Fun ing urnes uf crls1:s when It ,11unb The pctilion also clauns !he War moment of silence" by all Run" on F'eb. 19, 9 a.m., l.he most,'· he said Department mul U1 e .I uslic e I.N JACL distl'icts and chapters. whel'ein part1cipan1.s have a In HM2, faeed With U1c d111u:t:: ul partrntml withheld from the cow·t:, l\.larutani plan,; to speak at ubey1n~ or def},ing un mdur he a report frum the la LC FBI U1rt:c1Ur choice of running eitiier 9,066 thought was unconst1tu11nnal. 111 J Edgar Hoover staling that a re National I IQ al l:30 p.m. PST, meters or 9,066 feel at Seward rabnyashi, who was a senior at 1h~ pc,rt by DcWmuu t.hes1tuauon L'oll· and a;,ks that the moment or Park Registrauou of $7 .50 in University ,1f \\'ashmgtun JI Lhe tarnt.'Cl mac-cw·ate mfonnauun on silence be olJ><!rved IJy all u,s cludes a T-shu·t which says " I ume. stud I.he ·dt-c:1s1on tn duf; the da11ger of .Japatleit: American~ tricts and chapte,·s al this Survived 9066," came w1thou1 ht::jllalinn un m; c\lmmitung espionage lime. part l lirabaya:-.h1 , 6-1 , a Sealllt: native Al 12 noon, a speakers pro Elsewhere Ill San F'ran I le gctU11..-d OttllOllJI uulnncl)i who L'0mplct~ a doctoralt' 111 ::;.() gram will be held al U1e Nisei al\er his an~l. and i;pum 1wo cltllogy at the UW aller the 1,1,ar. ctsco, two progrnms are Veterans Hall, 12l2 S King yean, 111 county Jails a1x:1 reddral said his dec1s1on to wurh. 111 Can.Jda platmed by the Bay Area Da) St., featuring Washmglon prtsuns ""lulc h1~ case w:..1::, bt!mg has ol\cn been nusinterprt!tcd us a of Rememuranc;, Committee, Rep. Mike Lowl'y, author of a appealed sign or bmemess towanl the I S which consists or representa proposed redress bill and I le said U11! move wc:18 stri!!Lly a tives from the National Coa The U.S Suprem• Court upheld mauer of professional opportumty Kathryn Baru1ai, past Seattle U1e convlt:l 1m\S of Fred Korcma Mew.1~hile, in Oakland, Ca., U1~ lition of Redress/Hepara ,JACL prnsident and attorney tsu, ~l111 Yasui anrt l~rJWJ)'ash1 m Committee tu J{~versc lh e: Japa tions ; the Japanese Commu 19-l~ uud 194 -1 Both Korcmatsu and representing Gordon Hira ncsc A111encan Wartime (;ases an nity Progressive AlLiance; the Yasui spent tune tn u,tcmment bayashi in his Coram Nobis camps. nounced recenLly that all U1e ,.,_ Berkeley Asian Youth Cen petition, A pot-luck lunch and search and legi:tl preparation tor ter, the UC Berkeley Asian The two olhcr ,lupan""" Amorl lhese cases have been done by law entertainment by a local taiko cans convict.ed of simtlar viola· yers, law students. and ol.her:; on Student Union; the Japanese group are also slated. t1011s have law lChed sum lar ef an entirely volwll.t.'t!r basis. The American Community Cen A photo exhibit LS also forts KoremalSu tiled a wrH in ter; the American F'riends federal court in San Prdnclsco on Contlnll<d oo Page 4 FDR ordered interning planned for Feb. 16 al the Service Committee l East University of Puget Sound, False redress claim forms circulated Bay l; and the Marin, Contra and a slide show is scheduled SAN FRANCISCO-The JACL has received telephone calls of Hawaii Nikkei in 1936 Costa, Diablo Valley and San for Feb. 17 at the University of over the past few weeks regardiJig a so-called --cJaims fonn " to F'ranc1sco Chapters of the Washington by the Asian Stu HU, OLULU-Pres1dent F'ranklin D. Roosevelt told military JACL. be filed for time spent in camp. These · ·claims·' for redress has authorities tu lay the groundwork for interning Japanese dents in Action , created much concern and confusion in the .Japanese American In San Francisco, the Com Americans in a -- con<.-entration camp" more than live years mittee will hold a speakers In Chicago, the Japanese communities througoout the country. The fonn apparently ori before the 19'11 Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, an author American Redress Cnmmlt ginated out of Los Angeles at the time or the CWRIC hearing program at the Christ United oharged Feb. 5. tee of Clucago and U1e Asian there. Since that time, the form has been circulated in the San Presbyterian Church, 1700 Roosevelt told the chief of naval operations in 1936 Uial per American Law Students As Francisco Bay Area and Chicago. Sutter St. on Feb. 19, l:30 p.m. sons who had contact with Japanese merchant ships in Hono sociation will hold a panel dis The Japanese American community has been misled by this Remembrances of fo rmer lulu should be --secretly but definitely identified" so they could camp internees, an update on cussion and open forum en existing form , acmrding lo JohnTateishi, JACL Redress Direc be sent to a camp "in the event of trouble;· according toa memo tor. "There is no reason to file any kind of form at this time," the CWRIC, a keynote state titled, "Day ofBetrayal: Per- made public by Tony Hodges, author of a book about Pearl ment by the Committee and C-OOtlniied on Pago :I Tateishi stated, "unless individuals wish to have their indivi Harbor.