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Yamashita commissioned Many believe that video games have gone too farin but he'll continue fight exploiting violence. In response to concerns of Asian stereotyping from JACL otfiaals, the industry for military reform Video seems to be listening, but the issues have not yet Mgl beenUOOII completelyUWHIfilOlCiy resolvedI ... Here is a PC report. Culminating a five-year battle for juatica, former Marine Corps officer candidate Bruce I. Yamashita, 38. was commissioned Mardi 18 as a captain in the Corps in a Capitol Hill ceremmy in Wsishington. Study: Video k In remarks prepared for de Violence gomes encourage By GWEN MURANAKA livery following the official cer Assistant editor 'violence in kids emony, Yama While racism in video gamee shita said, *I ae- is a omcem of JACL, many ore c^tthiscommis- que^oning whether violence sion in honor in video games has aneffect on the generations the behavjor of young diildren. that have come Perker Page, PhD., preddent before me, and ofthe Children’s TelevisioQ Re- withamessageto aouree and Educatkm Center those that wiU (CTEEC) presented the fi^low- follow. Never ingr o eca rch on the influence of give up. Never video game violence before a loae hope. Ri|^t joint hearing of the Judiciary •will be recog* Subcommi ttae on Juvenile Jus nized. And jusr tice end the U.S. Senate Gov tice will tri YAMASHtTA ernmental AfEsirs Subcommit umph.* Aftertak tee on Regulation and Govern ing his oath of office, Yamashita ’s captain's bars ment Information: \ were pinned by Honolulu attorney and former Ma • At least in the dwrt tenn, rine Ccrps officer Ernest Kimoto, who serves as co- children who play violent video counsel in Yamashita ’s case. games are significantly more The ceremony, held in the House Armed Services ASUM BAOGUY—OnaoftheviBains inthe1.«tha]Enk>rcar8’vido6Qan>ebthi$ aggressive aDcrwards than Committee room on Capitol Hill, was attended by ’ sterpotypa of a man drassad in Qiinasa clothing and wialding a knrfa. those diildren who plc^ lees morethan lOOofCapt. Yan^shita ’sfiiends.famny, violent video games. and supporters. Joining them, were aever^ mem Tnteraetive* it the new buzzword town Assauk* section of the Super • Violent TV progtaM and bers of Con^BS, and representetives of tKe na in boms entertainment, with video Nintendo version, some of the eivil- video games have similar ef- tional dvil riidits organisations that had suppostad gBBMs leading the way. Aa yea tom teas todode Adan women •waartog Yamashita in his fi^t against radal diseriminaticsi on your Se^ or Nintendo tywtm. Chinese dressee, an elderly Assn ' in the Marine Corps. you are not just iratching something man, and a cook chasing a chicken. • VicJent video pmes can Among the speakers who discussed the case and happen, but you are taking part, be Besides the Asian chapters, the suppress children’s inclination its accomplishments in advandng equal opportu coming the star in an action/adven other villains appear to be white or towards engaging in proaodal nity and fairriess in the Corps was Randy Senzeki, ture scenario. But what'is the impact their faces are obscured vrith masks. SeeVKXDKE/poge? on Asian Americans, when one of Both the.Sega and Super Nintendo SMYAMASHfTA/pageS these scenarios'involves shooting versionsof the game are recommended Asians in a Chinatown setting for mature audiences with the S^a InvesHgdrion into possiblify of In the game “Lethal Enforcer,* version receiving a MA-17 ratingfsee specifically setin a place in the UB.,* produced l^Konoiniforboth the Segfa story below). said Nakahata. radiation jtests at internment and Super Nintendo systems, play John Nakahata, president, Wash “Ihis is buttressing negative ste ers use a plastic gun called “the ington D.C., Chapter, JA(X, origi reotypes about Chinatown and comps tob^in, Motsui soys Justifier* to shootat digitized images nally noticed the game during Senate Asians,* said Nakahata. of AsiapS^wearing bright blue Chi- hearings on video game violence. An ad for the S^ vereion “Lethal Rep. Robert T. Matsui (D-Calif.) announced neee-s^e clothing and sunglasses Ihe chapter president said that Enforcers* was changed after it drew March 17 that the U.S. Justice Department has set andfwielding knives and guns. Other “Lethal Enforcers* is different from prot^ from JACL. Originally, the up a spedal research team to determine if the ■teiwios in the game include a bank other video games like “Mortal ad, which appeared in the Fd^niaiy government conducted radiation tests at Japanese robbery, airplane hijacking and Kombat ” or “Straet Fighter,* which issue of Gam* Pro magazine, said, American internment camps during World War II. diemkal plant sabot^. \ also have Asian duiracters. “The Chicago PD. needs you to go up The Justice Depart An up^ted shooting gallery, the'' “Ihe distinction is there are a lot of against a slew of terrorists like you ’ve ment action is in re object is to Aoot the bad guys and jnortial arts fighting games set in never eeen.” Among the “terrorists* sponse to a request Rep. avoid shooting the innocent civilians geographically neutral settings. *Le- the ad mentions are “ninjas in Matsui made to Attor- and p^ce officers who occasionally thal Enforcers' goes beyond that. Jt Chinatown.* r»y General Janet Reno pop up on the screen. In the “Down goes from being generic to being very $eeVDEO/poge7 after reports surfaced that the UB. govern ment aiKretly cmducted radiation experiments on UB. dtizms during Two firms issue game guidelines, roHngs the 1940s and 1950s. ‘Ihe Clinton Adminis In an effort to address concerns about violent video lineewhichre^lategamecontentandprovidepaients tration has pledged to in games,faothS^andNintm
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Uon UmMoMW. TftMl Mb, hm reunion, monument planned icawPUca.M«S. Members of the Arizona Chap ter JACL, pftftipated in a recent event whi^ honored the memory of the hertM sacrifices of Native American and Japanese Ameri can veterans. Along with the names of Hma Indians lolled in World War II, Korea and ^^et- nam, the names of il Japanese Americans from the Gila River intemmentcmter who were knied in action during World War II were read at the Mar. 12 re-dedi- cation of the Ira H. Hayes Ameri m can Legion Poet &4 in Sacaton, ilfUnniftM ftrirnnn Chapter member Mas Inoshita reads list of GHa Ariz. (See names below.) River vets killed in action at a recent ceremony. Former MIS veteran, Gila Riverintemee and Arizona Chap Noting the role of Japanese missian. JACL members in atten- ter member Mas^ji Inoehita read Americans in tiie Gila River In idance included: Joe Allman, the list and told the gathering of dian community during World Shigeki Hiratsuka, Ben Inoshita, 100 about plans to createa monu War n, Inoehita said, -We have Betty Inoshita, Tom Ka^moto, ment to Gila River internees, re become p^ of your history.* James Kubota and Rev. and Mrs. ported the Cose Grande, Ariz. ' Others in attendance at the eery Unryu Su^yama. Dupatch. emony included; Mary Thomas, In addition, Inoshita eaid there governor, Gila River IndiM Com- Anthurium flowers were sent are plans to have a reunion of the muruty; arid Tony Machukay, Ari for the occasion by Helen and wm Your Estate Go To GilaRivercampsurvivorsin 199S. zona State Indian AfCairs Com- Rusty Mishim^ of Hilo, Hawaii. Your Heirs Or To Your
Names of vets to appearon monument "Uncle Sam"? ThefoDowingNisei names were Fowler, Apr. 22.1945 Ota. Pvt George, 24. 25-8-A, read at the March 12 re-dedica Ishida, Pvt. Min -Onion,* 59-3- Piaier:jQ]y 15.1944 Join us at our seminar on Estate Planning 6i Gift Planning. tion of the Ira Hayes American C, San Marino. Apr. 23,1945 . Otani, I^ George, 26.22-6-A, Sacurday. April 9. 1994. WeTl show you how you can reduce Legion Post 64. The Gila Rivef »r«n***. Pvt. James J., 21-3-B, 'Visalia, July 15,1944 uxes. keep more in the family, and help our community at the Memorial MonumentCommittee Conawd, Apr. 5,1945 Sakohir^Yc. Todd, 21. Ca- is searching for names of others Kojakn, Pfc. Shaw, 23f^l2> nal, Fowler, Aly 4,1944 \ame time. The fee is $10/person or $15/couplc, includes bento who died serving in the U.S. C. Gardena, July 17,1944 Takasugi, Katsumi L.. 64-9-D. lunch. The seminar will begiven in English and Japanese!. Space Armed Forces during World War Komoto, Pvt Nobuo, 23, 21- Ventura, ^jt. 5,1945 IS limited. For reservations and information, call (213) ^-3729. n and whose parents were in 13-D, Selma, Oct. 17.1944 Wakita, Pfc. Masuo, 34-12-C, terned in Gila Riveri Hondo. Pvt. Henry M.. 23.58- Santa Ana, Aug. 23,1945 LITTLE TOKYO SERVICE CENTER, INC. Anki, Pfc. Masashi, 21. 27-7- I- C, Pasadena, Oct. 19.1944 Veto. Pvt Mitsuru Tom, 51-7- Providing for the future of our communil? D, Selma, June 2,1944 Korokawa. Ben SatOehi, 22, C, Apr. 19.1945 Fv}uio,S/Sgt.Takeo Russel, 4- 47-1-A, Guadalupe, Aug. 13,1945 Yoskihara, Pvt. Makoto, 24, 9-Cl, San Frandeco, August 1945 Masuda, S/S^ Kazuo, 24,49- 47-2-B. Guadalupe, Dec. 22,1944 Centenary United Methodist Church Furukawa, Pvt. Tateumi, 24, II- D, Saata Ana, Aug. 27,1944If you have further informa 21-11-C, Concord, Oct. 20,1944 Masumoto.'PTc. George H., 25, tion, please contact Joe Afiman, 300 South Central Avenue Hashimoto, S^^ohn, 8-14-A, 23-2-A, Selma, Oct. 16,1944 602/942-2832; Helen Mishima, Comet 3rd & Cenm\ in Little Tokyo (Free Parking) Fresno. Nov. 14,1944 Niahi, Pfc. Takanori, 23,16-2- 608/935-6078 or Jim Kubota, 602/ BSyama, Pvt. Yeuchi. 6-13-A. A, San Frandsco, July 1944 996-6138.
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Deep down, of course, your children are far more important than a cigarette. But every lime you light , a cigarette, secondhand smoke damages your children's health. ffsahet. Youngchi, ased to secondhand smoke - fKe up to twice as likely to develop pneumonia, asthma, brondims, and other respiratory diseases, as well as ear infections. Worse, lorvg^erm exposure to secondhand :. emoke can leom childretfwilh permanent lung damage - a horror no amount of love can overcoihe. So Hte next Kme you think about a cigarelte, think oboul !k your kids. Give up smoking now. And give'a healthier to the ones you love the most.
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Commra^i Industrial ArConMoningandRak^atstiott ED SATO Ccntraaor Plumbing & Heating Effect of internment on Glen T..Umemoto .RarMalandRapairs, WatarHaaiats Uc. No. 441272 C3M0 ' Fttmaoas.GarttagaDispesals SAM REBOW CO„1S06W. V«mon SarRpgLoaRngdtaa^Gardana Lot AngttM - 2*»-S2M - Bne* 1 •» (21S) S21-aei0.28S-7D00,7»MSS7 Sansei is subject of study More than SOyearshavepassed War n, but it was not publicly and their experiences. expressed until the heariil Consequently, Kuwahara be " since the forced exduaon, evacu lieves that Sansei feel that ttoSe ation. and detention of more than investigate the justifiability i is a gap in their personal histo 120.000 peraMis of Japanese an- internment were heW by a I - dential Commission in 1981, ries. ces^. In spite of that period rf Kuwahara, then, is conducting time, there ia minimal informa nearly 40 years since the intern tion about thepsydiological toll of ment. a study which is examining the generational impact erf" the World the event, according to Debra War II internment. Kuwahara, who is currently con Researchers are now exploring The study will investigate the ducting a graduate school project how the silence is affecting subse effects irf* the internment on the at California School of Profes- quent generations, accordir;g to psychological well-being and daily siona) Psychology, Los Angeles, Kuwahara. Third generation living of all thirdgeneration Japa in that area. Japanese Americans or Sansei Asmost people know, cm Feb.19, sense that thejr parents lived nese Americans. Ultimately, thestudywill hope- 1942,10 weeks after the bombing through a dramatic and difficult of Pearl Harbor, President episode, but do not know the real fully clarify whether the effects of Roosevelt signed Executive Or impact of the internment since the intemmenthave been carried der 9066 which led to the intern most parents were generally re and possibly will be carried over ment. The United States justified luctant to talk about the camps to successive generations. its actions based on national secu rity, but theOommissiem on War I Btvju.'c lifc ihnwK \ou iim-ehall>, Siimncxno Bank of time Relocation and Internment I Califomu iTWlnl Ihc Time DepcM Au-umublor of Civilians found no evidence in I Actuuni Thi- nMC IS J ime-svjt time deposil thji lets * government and military docu Seeking data ... I \Gu nuke j nithdninul Sun one Vkih onU $W. add ments which supported this justi I manr'mcinei' Rithoui extendingjhe leim. and after sd fication, Kuwahara states. They I months, tike out the addmonal deposits without pcnaln The study is seeking re M A., a third generation Japa concluded that the actions of the search participants who meet nese American, whois working It ha.< a variable nie so you earn more if interest nies jso up. but «ith a government during World War II the following criteria: toward a PhJ). in Clinical Psy ftuarameed minimum of 5-s(fe A P V tf tales go ik»m. And if lou re were caused by r^^prejudice. inieresaed irt an jutnmatic saiings pto. the TO.AC is availaNe *ilh a 1 .Third generation Japanese chology with a special empha war hysteria, and^felure,of po American between -30 to 50 sis on Ethnic Minority Mental free Regubr Oieiking .Acrount Diup by or call yixjr Icnal branch offKV litical leadership. \ lodav Bei-ju«
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RntaAlANKOtOO Marrow transplant milestone Joan Loof (in fiontdf cake) recently celebrated the one-year anniversary of her bone marrow transplanL Seated, from left are Emma Vineza. Lodf, artd Christina Wong. Standing, from left, are Kristi Buk/ran, Kathy Chuck. Toshi Kuramatsu, Else Tsai, Mary Nakamura. Tess Scat and Darlene Hirose. Loof reoeived the transplant throu(^ the Asians for Miracle Marrow Matches, a project of the UMe Tokyo Service Center anda recruitment groapwhose mission istoincrease the number of potent ialmarrow donors in the registry £fii£.9’!k C.5!^ III (its lEI (its Slit! so that more Asian patients ijiay find their match. Informatbn: 213^26-3406. ■ ■ IMO ■ ■ IMO SCdlES 4TEilS suits trip sum sum s mis effort to win his Haritte offioer virdations can be addressed and iiumi uiitisi - YAMASHITA commiseion, Yamashita pledgee (Continued from page 1) to continue hie campaign for re a first step in that effort, Yamashita will file new appeals form of military piwduree that JoiD rilvNorionol iACl Credit Onion. Coll us oi fill out the failed to address hieeituation and with the Board far Correction of natiofud dirMtor oTthe Japanese . informotion below. We will send membersbip iofornolioa. American Citisene League that of other victime of racial, eth Naval Records (BCNR) whirii in (JACL), who noted, *the case of nic, or gender discrimination. I November, 1992, ruled that-fi Brace Yamashita,repreeentingas *Our case pointed out the (lawe lacked jurisdictiao to deal with it does the principles of fairness, in the Marine and Navy adminie- hischargee of discrimination, and justiec. and equal opportuniQ', is trative proeeee which make it in the Naval Discharge Review «d.»«/Oty/Sttii/Zi». the quintessential symbol of all adequate to deal with discrimina Board (NDRB). that JA(X stands for. On behalf tion andharassment,* Yamashita The appeals are aimed atclari- of our national organisation, I aaid. fring the authority of the two extend my oongtatulatipne to “It’s now important to'go for boards to consider charges of dis Q MenalJACL ward and work to make that ad crimination und provide mean Brace on day of oddntian. C-.R EDIT \iW\QM. Purtiwnnore, I also pledge our ministrative pro cess raepoMve, ingful relief when warranted; if so that when a person ’sbaric con unsueceeaful at the administra ODgoing supi^ as he eontimiee ro sox 1721 /^SU, UUH «4n0/ 801 355-8040-/ 800 544-8028 topursue tatecrasede for justice.* stitutional rightaare violated, he tive level, the case eventually Wfafla victorious in his fivf-year or she has a forum where those could wind up in Federal Court. 6—PacUlc aazen, March 25-31,1994
Opinions Letters V Smithsonian official explains 1995 Enola Gay exhibit gfolii the frying paupfi — This letter is in response to an article on BILL HOSOKAWA the front page of the Feb. 11-17,1994 issue of Padfie Citizen. It is true that the National Air antTBpace Museum, Smithsonian Insti tution, ii planning a 1995 exhibition on the' Reunion and redress %tomk bomb and the end of World War II. That exhibition will include a portion of the fuselage of the B-29 Enola Gay. I can assure ommon sense says it’s high time to ter story, and 'May had looked after him for her. Barb Tool told the Register the liiM you and your readers, however, that the ■ put the Evacuation behind us—i^s since diildhood. May was allowed to leave' arent silent for a moment, and then “she leadership of the museum is fully aware of a chapter closed with the United Poston after a few months to joinher hus was talking 200 miles an hour.* the need for honesty, balance, and sensitiv States government's apology and distribu band. ‘The war years were not easy. She May Bretthauer, gray-haired ahdgrand- ity in dealing wiih the wide rai^ of difficult tion of virtually all the Redress cheeks worked asacook,waj tress,clearting woman, motherly,flew to DesMoines recently. Noval issues considered in the exhibition. authorized by Congress. It’s time to go on to andafter herhusband ’s death she moved to and some of his fnends from the nursing The project rests on advice and consulta other things. But now and again, another Truckee, in the Sierras, where she went home were waiting at the airport. “HDTV’s tion with a variety ofindividuals and organi moving and emotional story surfaces to into real estate. my little brother," she said, and her voipe zations in the U.S. and Japan. The director mniiKl us of the terrible human price of After she left Poston May lost track of cracked as she tried to bridge 52 years. and staff members (rf* the museum have that experience a half century ago, and Noval, which is not htf d to do when one is There are a couple of loose ends to this made repeated trips to Japan and held ex each of them makes it more difficult to struggling to survive. Meanwhile, Noval story that need to be tidied up. The first is tended discussions with the mayors of forget. fc moved to Iowa, worked on a fox farm and totellhowTstyii ran across the clipping he Hiroshima and Nagasaki, staff members of I am indebted to Sun Tsujii of Auburn, did odd jobs at places like Goodwill. When sept me. In 1944 he left camp and went to the atomic bomb museums in the two dties, Wash., for the latest such story. It appears he injured a Moulder and had to use a attend high school in Eldon, a town of less and survivors of the bombings. As a result, in a recent clipping from the Des Moines wheelchair he lived in a series of nursing than 2,000 in southeastern Iowa. One of city officials have provisionally approved our (Iowa) Register that tells of a brother and homes. Currently he lives at Clearview Tsujii’s friends from the class of 1946 saw requeA for the loan of objects from both the nster separated as a result of the Evacua Manor in Prairie City, a short drive east of the story in the Register and sent it to him. Hiroshirna Peace Memorial Museum and tion and reunited only last month in an Des Moines. He shares'a room with a re The second is to ask whether Noval the Atormc Bomb Museum, International • Iowa nursing home. tired farmer named Max Lindley. They Shimamoto, in a rural Iowa nursii^home, Culture Hall, Nagasaki. Museum and city flhe story is about Nova! Shimamoto, became good friends. ever heard of Redress and if so, .did he do officials and citizens of the two cities will now 76 years old, and his sister. May Max ’s daiighter. Barb Tool, became in anything about it? It would be nice if some read ahd comment on the .exhibition script, Shimamoto Bretthauer, two years his se terested in Noval ’s stoiy and decided to see one at JACL headquarters made sure that and assist in the development of audio-vi nior. Their family operated a v^etable what she could do about locating May if Noval received his due from a repentant sual materials and other elements of the farm near Bakersfield, Calif., before the indeed she were still living. govem^inrlS war. When the Evacuation was ordered Through persistence, stubborn detective The museum has also solicit^ comment, they were sent to the camp in Poston, Ariz. work and, good 1u<4l, Barb Tool finally Host^wa is the former editorial page advice, and assistance fhmi U.S. veterans Novel ’s legs had never worked and he got reached May Bretthauer in Truckee by editor of the Deng^ Post His column ap organizations, individuals involved in the around on cratches, according to the Regis telephone and told her Noval Was looldn^ pears weekly in tlSlRacifie Citizen. planning and conduct of the atomic bomb missions, and representatives of both the USAF history program and the official U.S. World War II commemorative committee. A formal advisory committee created to assist in the development of the exhibition includes BILL MARUTANI leading scholars who have devoted their ca reers to the study of issues relating to the . early history of tlw atomic age. It is reasonable to wonder js'hy the Na Issei Yiddish tional Air end Space Museum has chosen to pre]»ra an exhibiticm on so difficult and sensitive a topic. Simply put, we believe that ISSEI FOREBEARS con- mind the context in which the Issei was incapable of being translated into English an understanding of the circumstances sur ■ m versed in nihongo among them speaking. Example, in being repritrimanded; withou t losin g its unique flavor. rounding the decision to drop the atomic selves but in communicating out •Osu-mara-yu?" was a reprimand;land; *“What ’s ANOTHER SOURCE is street jargon. bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and the side that sphere, they developed a patch- the matter with you?" Or simply “No guru" For example, when I first heard the phrase human consequences of that decision, are vmrk of pidgin EngUsh-Japanese. This re (no good), which might be expressed as “Da “Drop a di me on hi m " because of the con text matters of great importance to the citizens of sulting amalgamation of languages was me, no guru ” whichisa double-disapproval, in i^hich it was used, 1 fathomed it tomean all nations. The finished exhiUtion will nei complicated ^ several factors: first, the so to speak. Tsu-machi" meant “too much," “to relay (telephone) accusatory informa ther attempt to justify or apologize for the English portion ofthemelding was given a although if the declarant was then in the. tion on another." Of course,mow it would atomic bombings. Rather, it is designed to distinctly nihongo pronunciation or flavor. midst of trying to lightaBull Durham roll- cost a quarter. In the Nisei generation, the provide visitors with information on all as For ex^ple, it took many years'before I your-o"wn (do they stillaell that tobaceo?)it comparable termirwiogy would be "Pnitch* pects a landmark event in the history of could unravel the term 'hd-kin ba-ru* as might, indeed, mean “Two matches." “Yu. or “rat on him’ or “finger him." The actor the 20th century. referring to a “thermos bottle" (vacuum no-s^?" means just what it sounds like: was “a stoolie, ‘’ generally regarded as a I. The spcond mdjor ^fficulty was “You don ’t savvy (understand)?" despicable individual. The military came that the nihongo portion of tbeiherger may rVE WONDERED if some foresighted up with its own set of jargon such as “gold 7 Fsc^ Otisat wdcans kticn k> the editor. Utlen Bust be faeieC SR subject to editing and noR ui^ddiihed (a be neite adanwiedeed nor returned. Reaedgn jwleOerbiifmakesuR we SR able to nad four nsme. bdiide ms&iw saaed lin^sp^ we may andcTK ieltcn ^ SC2<*^ puhtolkm. 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