UtIle Tokyo may have been ire of plot to kill Pres. Carter
National Publication of the Japanese American Citizens League Gas shortage postpones Whole #2,043 (Vol. 88) Friday, May 18, 1979 25C U S PostpaId 15 Cents Pilgrimage to Pomona 1m Alllelies "A Day of Remembrance" pi.lgrimage born Little 'r: kyo to Pomona VIa Santa Anita has been postponed from Jun 23 to late November because of the current gasolin hortage here, It Hayakawa replies to open letter-adv. was decided by the steering oommittee which held its first session last week (May 12) at the JACL Regional Office. w...... Heve" that the JAU redress a whole. By their tenaclty, coo.r• shoulder of giants. In this case, is• Santa Anita and Pomona The pilgrimag will be simi- Sen S.I. Hayakawa issued a committee wouJd be that mor• tesy, industry and good sense, Ja• sei and Nisei pioneers who created were both served as Army as- Jar to earlier Day of Remem• reply of about the same num• ally insensitive to "wildly ex• panese Americans have created the favorable environment in sembly points for most of the brance programs in Seattle, the favorable atmosphere in which we are now privileged to ber of words to an open letter aggerate the hardship of the which one of the1r members oould live. Japanese Americans being Portland and San Francisa> advertising appearing May 9 Japanese". be elected a senator for California evacuated in 1942 from South- where caravans motored to in the Washington PosL It was Noting that the $25,000 is DO only three dec-Ades after the Pacif• "Since the redress committee is em California. sites of the WW2 assembly placed by 8 Seattl~based Days longer being asked, "what the ic \\ar. I ha\'e received such no longer asking for money, it's This was probably the first centers. heights; it IS only because I have hard to figure out what they are of Remembrance for Japanese committee wants in place of Nikkei event being affected monetary redress remains stood, as Sir Isaac Newton said of asking for. So let's drop the whole American evacuees seeking his predecessors in science. on the matter." # by the gasoline crunch. Court rule aids redress. vague for very good reasons". At the same time, Hayaka• Japanese Americans, he foreign shippers W8 wrongly afTiliated the Days continued. Washi.qton of Remembrance group with ... ..endured the injustice of the Nakao murder trial transcript studied the JAn. Redress Committee, reJocation with patience and dig• The U.S. Supreme Court although both are involved in nity ... The Japanese Americans. death of an ll-year-{)ld boy, burg Nakao) was notified by April 30 overturned a Cali• SaD Francisco fornia property tax on for• similar redress campigns. by their own record, by their in• The murder trial trans• Gary Ellenburg. telegram after an angio• dusny and good citizenship, by eign-{)wned cargo contain• (The Seattle-based group is cript of the Charles B. Nakao The coroner's testimony gram was performed though their subsequent S1JCQ!SS In agri• ers in an 8-1 decision. Case expected to propose a differ• aJIture, business and the profes• case has turned up a new from the transcript ex• prior parental consent was ent kind of bill to the one Na• plained a person who had required. The boy's body was brought by the Japan sio1s, earned by their own efforts twist in what now appears to Line Ltd., which objected to tional JACL Redress Commit• more redress for the injustice be a bizarre situation, ac• died of starvation would was cremated without legal tee suggested, which might done to them. They have earned the taxation since the con• cording to the Committee have suffered from stomach parentll consent even tainers were part of the ship bener distinguish the two the affection. admiration and res• for C.B. Nakao. ulceration, shrinkage of the though records showed she groups.-Ed) peet of their fellow Americans. itself. They have all but destroyed the An irregularity, which the stomach, and decay of teeth was three floors above in the The California junior cen• last traces of anti{)riental racism Committee found bizarre, and gums. But the coroner's same building. The court previously held alor criticized use of such that has been such a blot on Calif• noted Nakao was found finding indicated no ulcera• The committee needs help ships in foreign commerce words as Days of Remem• ornia history . . . guilty of second-degree tion, a normal size stomach, in ascertaining whether Na• could be taxed by the coun• brance and concentration "The fact that I was elected to murder by starvation in the gums and teeth intact in the kao had received a complete tries where they are regis• camps as an attempt "to the U.S. Senate from the State of ll-year-{)ld boy. and fair trial. Information tered. This past week, the equate the Nazi death camps California, the smte that was the Nakao, 31, is scheduled to may be relayed through court said the state tax was which few Jews survived home of anti.()riental agitation appear May 21 before a JACL Headquarters, which unconstitutional because it with the Japanese American since the Gold Rush days; the smte u.s. probe of was a multiple taxation of that provided the impetus for the parole board hearing in San has taken interest in the relocation camps of World foreign commerce. I; Olioese Exclusion Act of 1882 and Quentin. matter. # \\ar II". the Japanese Exclusion Act of Chol Soo Lee The committee also clari• He found it "inexcusable 1924 says less about me than it fied an earlier report (PC and almost impossible to ~ says about Japanese Americans as case asked April 27) concerning the Be• que~ce of events for the rec• Gov. Brown snubs -~---u. New York ord Mother (Shirley Ellen- MUTUAL STATEMENT A rally demanding free• dom for Chol Soo Lee instead ILWU endorses of the death penalty to which Asian Heritage Wk. Re: Amy Doi v. JACL he was sentenced in Stock• $25,000 redress ton, Ca., in April was con• San Diego, Ca. Sacramento, Ca. On January 26,1979, the case of Amy Dol v . .lACL was ducted here at the Federal The'International Long• The first Asian/Pacific American Heritage Week end• settled. 1be settlement consisted of a payment of $30,000 Plaza April 30 under spon• by the JACL insurance carrier, and the publication of this shoremen's and Ware• ed without Gov. Brown's blessing as he vetoed a staff rec• sorship of the Chol Soo Lee mutually agreed upon statement concerning the incident in housemen's Union reaf• ommendation to sign a symbolic resolution proclaiming question. defense committee. the commemoration 1amations. A later check, Supporters charge myriad firmed its stand against Mrs. Doi was hired as Project Coordinator in March of any fonn of racism, con• A press conference was however, showed guberna• 1976 to direct a project funded by the Campaign for Human irregularities and "unethical actions" by the court at the centration camps ar_,j called May 4 by some of torial proclamations this Development (OlD) of the United States Catholic Confer• the state's most influential year with Brown's signa• eoc:e. In late April, Mrs. Doi raised questims about the second trial and are demand• pledged to help JACL pass administration of the project aDd the submission of finan• ing a federal investigation of a redress bill in a resolution Asians and friends of As- ture covered: cial reports. the entire case. passed during its recent ian Americans to indicate Einstein Day, Martln Luther On July 7, 1976, Mrs. Doi was dismissed as Project Coor• Lee, 26, had spent five convention here. their dissatisfaction Parti- King Day, Arbor Day, Year of the cipating were: Child, and White Cane Safety Day. dinator by Mr. David Usbio, former Natiooal Executive years in prison following The resolution was intro• Director. 1be grant was subsequently terminated by CHD. conviction of a Chinatown duced by Karl Yoneda, Ur Secretary of State March Fong Brown also implied that slaying of Yip Yee Tak. But Eu, Assembl~ Paul Bannai Unable to resolve the differences between her and the cal 10 pensioner of San Mori was an unknown leg• JACL to her satisfaction, Mrs. Doi filed a lawsuit iD ()ero. the conviction was over• andS. F1oydMon,AssemblySpea- islator seeking pUblicity ber, 19n. Tbe lawsuit charged defamatioo aDd slander, as turned on appeal when a Sac• Francisco. ker Leo McCarthy; and Secretary d dded h h uld be . Resolution mentioned MarioObledo of Health & Welfare an a e s 0 cn- well as cSa.mqes for the JAa. iDa derivative action against ramento judge found impor• Agency. ticizing President Carter the offic:en and directors for the loss of the grant The JAU's campaign to seek tant evidence had been with• Brown reacted by telling for removing Asians from complaint named former Natiooal Executi've Director, Mr. held from the defendant's $2S,OOO for each person David Usbio; the former Assistant Natiooal Dinlc:tDr. Mr. reporters he supports the protected categories of so• lawyer. In April, Lee was "unjustly incarcerated". .Doo Hayashi; Mr. Masato IDabe, ooosultant to the project; observance of a special cially and economically found guilty of slaying of a Many delegates later told and forty-ooe (41) past members of the Natiooal Board. week for the state's 1.5 mil- disadvantaged citizens. fellow inmate at Deuel Voca• Yoneda "we should have The JACL regrets any misuodersbmding that may have tional Institution and given a lion Asians, but said he nor- Brown had appeared on arisen from the incidents in question. - April S. 1979 asked for more". It was death sentence. ¥ mally does not issue proc- c ...... _ Nat PIp unanimously adopted. /I 2-PACIFIC CmZEN I Friday, May 18,1979------In WasbiDgton, the Nation• HERITAGE al Bureau of Standards high• Little Tokyo to get major medical complex lighted the contributions of internationally famous sci• Los Angeles based in San Francisco and International Medical will provide industrial medicine April 26 at the Miyako Ho• entists of AsianJPacific ori• A 5.S-acre site adjacent to Pasadena. The plan also calls as well as health care to the com• Corp.• a general partnership munity in general te~ gin through a series of scien• San Francisco, with As• Little Tokyo has been se• for construction of a high composed of Drs. Robert Phase 11: Relocation of City ian American community tific lectures during the cured for the relocation of rise, physician-{)wned medi• \\ atanabe. Tadashi Fujimo• View HospItal's Intensive Care leaders to oppose the pro• week. Nobel Laureates Sam• City View Hospital and its cal office building which will to. John Yoell and Henry No• Unit and medical and urgical uel C. C. Ting of MIT (1976) posed interpretation of the affiliated units, Keiro Nurs• provide multi-specialty gucru. is currently develop• beds plus the relocation of Keiro and Leo Esaki of mM (1973) care. The project. in its en• and Minami Keiro ursing Addabbo law (PL 9S-S07). ing Home, Minami Keiro ing a multi-specialty physi• headlined the list of speak• Nursing Home and the Japa• tirety, will be known as In• cian group practice in an ef• Homes and Japane Inter• ers and presentations. Em• mediate Care Facility, a total of In New York, artist-author nese Intermediate Care Fa• ternational Medical Center. fort to provide a wide range 449 beds. General surge!)' and Mine Okubo described her bassy officials from the Phil• cility. Five levels of progres• as it will serve an interna• of primary and specialty emergency medical care will life in internment camp ippines, Korea, Indonesia sive patient care will be pro• tional population. health care. continue to be provided by the and Japan spoke on scienti• hospital with the medical office through slides of her draw• vided in this single, central• Edwin Hiroto. present ad• This ambitious project is fic developments in their ized complex. The site is ministrator of City View building providing ancillary ings May 6 at Fordham Uni• designed to minimize the service and a 24-hour outpa• versity at Lincoln Center. countries and discussed c0- bounded by Third and Hospital and its affiliated operative programs be• units. will manage the entire cost of health care to pa• tient unit. Meanwhile, Mayor Edward Fourth Streets and Central tients. It is planned to devel• Relocation of the Phase 11 Koch declared May 410 as tween their country and the Avenue and Alameda Street, medical complex. United States. Cultural pro• op in two phases: medical facilities will re• NPA Heritage Week. "It is excluding a l.3-acre parcel quire a state-appro\,ed Certi• appropriate that we recog• grams were presented each on the southwest corner of Phase I; Construction of a midday. For the record 56,000 square foot medical office ficate of Need which is cur• nize the outstanding enter• the block. rently being prepared by Other speakers were: Our apologies to the Ger• building which v.ill include a prise and vitality of Asian Relocation is the result of laboratory. radiology. physical Rothrock International. # Chia-Chiao Lin, MIT professor a comprehensive master ald H. Yamadas, parents of Americans," rus resolution of applied math; Hyuk Yu, Univ. therapy, inhalation therapy, re• stated. of Wisconsin professor of chem• plan recently conducted for Nicole Yamada, whose photo habilitation and pharmacy serv• At • El Segundo's Aero• istry; Chihiro Kikuchi, Univ. of City View Hospital, the hos• appeared on the front page last ices plus a unique preventive To diejor an idea is to place space facility, classic Asian Michigan professor of nuclear pital of the Japanese com• week handing a woodcut medicine health club and run• a pretty high price upon con• art was being exhibited dur• engineer; Frank F. Kuo, Univ. of munity. by Rothrock Inter• print to Prime Minister Ohi• ning track. The medical group ;ecture.-ANATCLE FRANCE. ing the week. Oriental art Hawaii professor of electrical national, a health care and ra. Our caption had misiden• historian Tomoo Ogita of engineering. hospital consulting firm tified the parents.-Ed. Hollywood JACL was instru• Among the NBS staff mental in organizing the dis- organizers were: S.S. Chang, Ruth Davenport, Los Angeles Japanese Casuahy Insurance Assn. play. _ George Furukawa. Steve Hsu and Justine Kim. - a.tm IN5WMa PIOIICT1ON- Aihara Ins. Agy ., Aihara-Omatsu-Kakila, 250 [ 1s1 SI 626-9625 Items APAHW feature: Anson FUjioka Agy ., 321 [ 2nd SI. SUlle 500626-4393 263-1109 Calif. First Bank's resi• Maj. Gen. Lowe Funakoshi Ins. Agy .. 321 E. 2nd SI. Suite 300 626-5275 dentiallending office, now at Hirohata Ins. Agy., 322 E. 2nd SI. .628-1214 287-8605 its Panorama City branch, Sacramento, Ca. Inouye Ins. Agy . 15092 Sylvanwood Ave .. Norwalk 846-5774 has moved to 4827 Sepulve• Asian/Pacific Americans Ito Ins. ArJI., Tom Ito. Pfiiliio. 595 N Lincoln. Pas 795-7059 (LA 681-4411) da Blvd., Sherman Oaks and at McClellan Air Force Base here celebrated Heritage Minoru 'Nix' Nagata. 1497 Rock Haven, Monterey Park .. 268-4554 another such office opened in Steve Nakaji , 11964 Washington Place . .391-5931 837 -9150 Fresno on May 10. All the Week with Maj. Gen. Dewey paper work including es• K. K. Lowe as luncheon key• Sa to Ins. Agy .. 366 E. 1st SI...... 629-1425 261-6519 crow is processed in the note speaker May 11 at the single office. Officers Club on base. Calif. First Bank has pur• Sponsored by the Asian chased 24 Diebold automatic advisory subcommittee of Empire Printing Co. teller machines to be in• McClellan AFB's affirma• stalled in San Diego County. tive action program, the OMMERCIAL and OCIAL PRINTI G System will be expanded to luncheon culminated a English and Japanese cover other high-traffic week's program of cultural W 11 branches in the state, said demonstrations and exhibit. ~l =14=~e=e~r=s~t.~, Lo=s=A~n~g:e~le~s~9~O~O~1~2===~6~2:8~-7~O~6:0~ I Ben Matsui, senior V.p., Base has 365 AsianiPacific ' I It you right_ American employees. Japanese serves operations. PhototypeseltJng Commodore Perry Post Gen. Lowe, a Chinese Sumitomo serves you right. ThaI's because the 525, American Legion, will American, is director of con• people working for us are especially trained to give conduct its 30th annual in• tracting and acquisition poli• TOYO PRINTING CO, you prompt, courteous service paying careful cy at Air Force Hq, Washing• 309 So. San PN-lro , L l,os Angelp.s 90013 attention to the small details that could make the stallation of officers on big difference. And Sumitomo is an Innovative Saturday, June 9, 7:30 p.m., ton. He was an Army air (213) 626-8153 corps pilot in 1943. # full-service California Bank which continually at Imperial Dragon Restau• strives to bring you the very best In banking rant, 320 E. 2nd St., it was an• Three General/ons of services. nounced by Ben Hirano, ad• fxpe"ence .. So whatever your banking needs may be. from jutant. personal to commercial to international, come to i)eadHne for the second FUKUI Sumitomo Bank. It serves you right. annual MGM bowling tour• nament sponsored by Sacra• Mortuar.y-,_Inc. The Sumitomo Bank of Calrfomia PHOTOMART Memb~, mento is June 1. For applica• • FDIC tion, call Dubby Tsugawa 707 E. Temple St. C.Jmera~ 8. Photograph,c Suppltel (916) 457-8585, Jim Matsu• Los Angeles 90012 316 E. 2nd St., Los Angeles moto 383-8885, or Bubbles 626-0441 622-3'968 Keikoan 391-2800. --l Soichi Fukui, President East San Gabriel Valley Japanese Community Cen• James Nakagawa, Manager Nobuo Osumi, Counsellor Comparinq ter in West Covina is hosting Shimatsu, Ogata a Las Vegas Night May 19, ••••••••••••••••••• Kubota 7:30 p.m., with proceeds for and newears'l its building fund. Maj. Gen. Dewey K.K. Lowe Mortuary Pacific/Asian Coalition re• 911 Venice Blvd. ceived a $70,926 grant from TOY /. the Administration on Aging mtnt~.9 ~I,/~ Los Angeles to develop a national Pacificl 749~1449 Asian Elderly Resource Cen• Dr. William G. Obat&, 47. of Mill Valley, Ca, died of heart attack STUDIO EIJI D KEOGAT,\ ter development project as while playing tennis on ApriJ 25. A R. YUTAKA KUBOTA an information clearing• native of Hollister. he was associ· 318 Ea t Fir t Street house and technical assis• ate clinical professor of radiology Los Angele , Calif. 90012 Compare us. tance center. Louise Kami• at UC Meclical Center. San Fran• kawa-Swanson is the project CISCO. Surviving are w Betty, four 626-5 681 r-'-~Jb;/:~;;;;;;6--l 100% financing on new cars. director. The office is at children, brs Tom, Jack, Joe (Gil• 17«) The Alameda, Suite roy), James (San Diego), Bob (San National JACL Credit Union Jose) and sis Dorothy Kobara (Sa· r"UUnl'U'U'•• • • ....• IU.uuntll'• • · •.... • "HUlIt'n'• • • .... · u""ltUUN'·J.l1 •• · •• tNl-sel-t Trading',.. 210, San Jose, Ca95126; (408) ratoga). PO Box 1 721 Bouow up to 13000 285-4808. I Nanka Printing II ppltanc€'< - TV - Furnllure Salt Lake City, Utah 84110 on your Signature Yokio "Eke" lDouye, 68, of Sage United Methodist ~ Japanese Phototypesetting ~ NEW ADDRESS: Telephone (801) 355·8040 to qualtfled borrowsrs Shelley. Idaho, died April 26 at ~ ~ I Church's annual Oriental ba• the Uruv. of Utah Medical Cen• 202 E F' S 249 S. San Pedro St. ~ 4 . IrSI t. ~ Los Angeles, Calif. 90012 zaar will be held on Satur• ter, Salt Lake City. A pioneer In· ~ ~ tennountain JACI..er, he found• los Angeles, Calif. Tel.: 624-6601 day, June 2. noon to 8 p. m., at ~ Phone: 268-7835 ~ i ed the Southeastern Idaho JACL ImUI'III"i.'U.tI'~ l-..-.~~. ~ 333 . Garfield Blvd., Mon• l11ItIUIIII"'lltlll"lIlltllllll"I"IIIII' ___ ...... -.... ,..... (Idaho Falls) 1Jl 1940 and served Eagle Produce terey Park. A special Manza• as its charter president, Chalred nar Committee display plu the IDC in 1952 Until lus retire- EDSATO Aloha Plumbing 929-943 S, San Pedro St., Los Angeles the cultural exhibIt, demon- ment.hefanned.didmechanical . PLUMBINGA:-.IDHEATJ 'G II( .. 20UI 'i work and served as volunteer Remodel and Repair 625-2101 tratlons. food and games fireman. He i un;\,ed by w Water Heaters. Garba~e Olsposal are on tap. Dick Kit u e and .. FUrnace BONDED COMMISSION MERCHANTS Martha I Iuoka. Lindsay, d Se" Los Ang I Ed Toke hI are bazaar co• Candice Ochi (Los Angeles). br I I"Vlcmg e es -WHOlESAU FRUITS AND VEGET ABU5- hairmen. Kay (Boise Valley). 293-7000 ~5S7 F. soc ElY OF THE JAP ESE au D 'What i essential is invisible to the eye'
p and needs of the fonned by an ethnic-orl n - t. ... h. H further explamed. blind. prvgrams to help pre• ed c' than the ore Cover our ey for a few Having expeneoced bhnd- ~ ent blindne • and to begin generalized pu li agencie boo and try wal ~ smce binh, I can en a recorded tape e change According to \\akabayashi. through } our room v.-nhout you this is not a umque ex• program in which materials this demoru tration project bumping anto a chair Try penence. If )'OU do get help may be shared by all mem• ha nine person rairung in putting your c on. crossing the street, rune bers. such subjects as Braille and right aide out. TI") eatIng at tim out of ten, it is not g<>• T1Ie club meets at the . n• typing. The goal wa to de• the table WIthout sptlhng a ing to be a person of J apa• ion Church of Los Angeles, velop basic skills and elf• pea. It will not be easy. Sud• nese ancestry who ~ilI be of• located at 401 F.. Third St., confidence in social itua• denJy these activibe5 will fering assistance. You might every two months from 11 tions so they could make Members 01 the Southem Cahfornla $oclet J lor th Japant;'S become major tasks. nh• call this insensitivlty, but in am. to 2 p.m. Transportation further use of the services of Bhnd pose outSide the'r meettng place In los nQe!e out haVlng gIVen much some ways it comes out of a to meetings and luncheon the Department of Rehablli• ~econd thou~ht. thought, for example, as to more intimate sensith'ity, at are provided. Membership tetion and 0 ther community bers m the group. achi On a Am8- how far our mouth was least.; from a Japanese is open to men and women of agencies. Amano. who ha been a no' last mark tak 'on :lR from the table or where the American point of view. Ja• all ages, blind and sighted. One of the major accom• member for four year . per- nificance when we now tabl and chai were locat• panese would assume that The group, which started plishments of the mstitute haps expre ed the feelings the word from th roll ed in the Jivmg room, nna• offering assistance to a with 10 members. now num• was a tape library. with ma• of the ighted member pre ented to the Re . Tonu• gin yourself facing these sightless person would em• bers 22. This year's presi• terials which would not ordi• when she said, "I sure have ml, which ontains thes tas permanently for the barms or offend the per• dent is Becky Tsurumoto. a narily be found in other lib• learned a lot." In the meet- words from Antoine de amt re t of your life. son." blind Braille instructor. raries for the blind. ings, Amano forgets at times u'Upery' "Little Prin e'" But this i the world that In Southern California, For the blind, learning to and raises her hand instead "And thi I m ecret. a Social and educational Ont~ ha become all too real for there are various institu• use the other senses to their programs for the Society of of using her oice when she very implc secr t. can tho who have visual im• tions for the blind to serve full potential becomes all im• the Japanese Blind, usually wishes to speak. "I alwa see rightly only with tile paJnnent. Often in our soci• the general public, but very portant. The popular belief scheduled in the first meet• keep forgetting that they heart. What is entiails In• ety, the visually handi• few to serve the special that when one becomes blind ing of the new year, included can't see!" visible to the eye." II capped have been the vic• needs of the persons of Japa• the other senses become in 1978 a trip to the Hunting• III 1111 1111111 III 111:1 ·1\I 'I1I]1,IIIIII!!! .1111II! 1111 IlIIl illllllllllllllllllllll llll1i1ll11ll1!l111l1l !!!1111111111 1111111111111! 1IH1l1l1ll1l1l1 ll1lllllilU tim of attitudes based on ig• nese ancestry, although the keener is a myth, according ton Library, a wedding party norance, hostility and suspi• area has the largest concen• to Harry and Ruth Honda. for a departing member, a cion. The unsighted are con• tration of Japanese in the One just uses the other sur• summer picnic and the an• sidered less than whole per• continental United States. viving senses more. nual Christmas party. In son . Sakamoto points out that it May, the Los Angeles Police WHEN ODe • the organizations Herman Ishino. who is is harder for those who once Asian Task Force represen• fonned to meet the needs of had sight to adjust to blind• blind, once stated in an arti• the Japanese visually handi• tatives presented a lecture ness than for those who are cle, "Blindness in itself is a capped is the Southern Cali• on crime prevention. CARE burden that only the blind fornia Society of the Japa• born blind. Blind members A pet project of the socie• can bear, but problems of nese Blind. The club was stressed that they do not ty is its annual visit to Hope seek pity but appreciate aid blindness must be shared by formed in late 1969, led by House, located in EI Monte. society as a whole; the blind in direction and transporta• It is a home for 36 multiple• MEANS the Rev. Howard Toriumi, tion. did not manufacture stereo• Roy Yamadera and Harold handicapped children. Since types that isolate them from Since it was felt that many 1975, financial assistance Honda, the latter two blind. blind in the Japanese com• the mainstream of life." For his leadership and guid• and various items have been EVERYTHING munity have yet to study A slgbdess person of Japa• ance, the Rev. Toriumi was donated to the home. Braille, the society initiated There are 12 sighted mem- neae ancestry perhaps faces presented a scroll of appre• a Braille class in 1972 which special problems stemming ciation recently. was conducted at the Union from an attitude formed The club works toward Church in the evenings with Asian businessmen dispersing information rele• deeply in the Japanese cul• Sakamoto and Ishino as in• in L.A, organize ture-that of extreme shame vant to the blind, educating structors. in being blind. This results. the public about blindness, Los Angeles at times, in the sightless be• providing a common ground Also in 1972, onder the di• The Asian Businessmen's ing concealed from public where mutual problems in rection of Rev. Toriumi and Association celebrated its view. overly protected or adjusting to blindness could Jun Taira, the society helped inaugural installation of offi• wholly rejected. be aired and keeping abreast develop the Japanese Amer• cers May 4 in the midst of Kengo Sakamoto. who is of current legislative items ican Sightless Institute un• AsianlPacific American blind. once stood on a street affecting the blind at gov• der the sponsorship of the Heritage Week at the Golden corner in Lo. Angeles'Little ernmental levels and explor• Japanese Community Pio• Palace Restaurant One vi it conve• Tokyo for almost two hours ing opportunities for em• 'neer Center. The institute Secretary of State March nience is part of without anyone offering him ployment The' club main• was funded for two years by Fong Eu, guest speaker, not help. According to Sakamo• tains contact with other the federal government un• only encouraged members caring a( a djfficulr to, the ightle s in the Japa• clubs for the blind in Japan til June of 1974. The pro• to become a force in the com• rime. That's why nese community face a prob• and Hawaii. grams were coordinated by munity but to push for inter• lem of being "doubly blind." Long-range plans include Ron Wakabayashi. national trade. Tritia Toyota Rose Hills Morru:uy "We have the impairment to participation in public mfor• The project's aim was to of KNBC was emcee. 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(213)626-6936 was a key topic wherever I fits for losing from five to Numerous Nisei couples went during my short visit to ten of their most youthful were going to the Aragon "backlash' toda\'. It is also DR. CU:FroRD UYEDA, NATIONAL JAG. PREsIDENT California where J met at years. The consensus was and the Trianon for Satur• another form 'of "Uncle ELLEN ENoo. PACIFlC CITIZEN BoARD CJiAIR.PER.soN least a hundred Nikkei pe YOUTH WOAKSHOP- ILWAUKEE Nisei evacuees relate camp experiences B1 n~ Red,., m 1 remain. The intern• the 'can do it 0 an group in 1id\\ e~ t in an ndan . L To schiele tht goa) fJlIT'• ment was a final. inescap• America. Allu take is a lit• The MlEDYC L planning a iJ· n on the E '8CU8tion \\ere able shapmgof the feeling of tle h ·steria." foilo~ -up workshop in re• hosted the hawn, and lIlan} I j re Bt• being second class." Many of the youth bad dre at the MIED C Con· Midwest/EaJtem District ed their carrp expenences ID Ishiyama stressed that the questioned a monetal)' fig• ference m th Twin iue. Youth Council spnng work- rraJI g. oup IOns. '.set internment bad not been an ure as an attachment to the Jut' 19-22. ThIs \\ ill deter• hopal the Holiday Inn West partiCI pan I mcJuded: isolated act but "the cumula• legislation. "How can you mine the progre of redres In Wauwatosa, i. Michae1 Yasutae, Mira Ha• tion of 100 years of oppres- pay someone for the loss of at each of the youth "So many Sansei kid don't yashi, Chicago; ToanJ Ishiyama, ion". his pride?" one youth asked.. chapters. know about the internment OeveJand; George Sakaguchi. Fr. Michael Yasutake, an There was a lot of ground to 5 Louis; Gordon Yoshilutwa. because their parents don't Cineumatl; Roy M ultai, Ed Jooo• Episcopalian priest. re• cover in one afternoon. but In dosing. Roy Mukai want to talk about it," said kuchi, Takio Kataoka, Tats Tada, viewed the rationalizations all in all, it was a fairly suc• from Milwaukee stated. Dave DeKing, Milwaukee Jim Miyazaki. Milwaukee. offered for the internment cessful workshop. Mter it "The process of trylOg to g t JAY president. Because of In his opemng remarks to "We were at war with Italy, was over, that the youth re• something passed in Con· but DO one ever thought of thi it was the purpose of the the workshop, Dr. Ishiyama alized that this is not a Japa• gress would be a kind of edu• Rep. Mineta addressing workshop to make the San• said, "TIle Nisei idea is DOt to putting Joe DiMaggio's fam• nese American issue, but a cation program to show that semmar on the Redress issue ily in jail even though his sei aware of what the Issei look back. This was a revolt human rights issue. this (Evacuation) has hap• dUring a DetrOit JACL·Univ. of and Nisei experienced in the against the historical ap• pareDts were not citizens." The workshop was very pened and that it can happen Michigan project at the Ann Ar· camps and for them to bener proach that said history de• Yasutake further stated, "If informative, with about 50 again." This is something we bor campus. understand why JACL I pur- they can do it to Japanese, termined what you were and JAYs from throughout the should all think about! * - Wayne Oyafuso Photo. Japan and U.S. as partners in a common future character and achievements self. They have imported, man rights and free expres• ours. Where the American's (Editor's Note) of a country which, one adapted and controlled the sion in their country postwar first thought is the freedom JAPAN TODAY ia a three-month program presenting would think, is big enough to technology and ideas of the with almost unsurpassed of the individual. the Japa• CODCUJTeDt eveuta in seven cities across the country. Many speak for itself? It is impor• West-despite cultural vigor. nese think first of the com• facets of Japan will be illuminated through panel discus• tant precisely because Ja• • • • munity's well-being. sion; films; exhibitiooa of art, erafh and technolosY; per· shocks, economic crisis and foJ1llllDCeS of music, dance and drama; and numerous spe• pan's story. as we hear it or one disastrous war-without Far more than we realize, Where Americans are a li• cial event&. Museums, art galleries, movie houses and var• read it. is told almost solely in any way abandoning their the Japanese resemble us. tigious people, creating ever ioua institutions in each of the seven cities are hosting these in terms of statistics and own strong ancient culture: No two modern nations are more complex laws, suits programs. graphs and trade balances its arts, its ethics, its tradi· so close in the complexity of and contracts for ourselves, and adversary relationships. tions. From China to Mrica their civilization, the big the Japanese prefer har• B1 FItANI GIBNEY And to many Americans, As an economic competitor, to the Middle East, every scale of their undertakings, mony through compromise. auc.tm CeIaaItIM. GIcap growth of Japan's competi• Japan is over-advertised As modernizing nation still the hustle of their enter• Yet theirs is by contrast a le• c-.m.., ...... T... ' .. tive strength, in worldwide a remarkably intelligent, looks to Japan for that elu• prise and the democratic galistic society. premises they share. They markets and in our own, has vigorous modern society of sive but successful blue• Surrounded by obligatory In certain ways Japan and share our problems, also. the United States have come been a matter of troubling 115 million people, the Japa• print ceremonies and procedures, nese are badly under-sold The Japanese version of Their domestic debates• the Japanese envy us our in- very close together. We all concern. Yet most of us, if from consumer's rights to recognize the achievements poils are to be believed, see and poorly understood. modernity is too native in its Continued ~n Back Page Japan also as a force for sta• It is the aim of JAPAN TO• inspiration to merit that nuclear energy-are mir• of this unarmed economic rors of our own. superpower, third after the bility, a sincere advocate of DAY to show us something overworked adjective Yet though our goals are Americans and Russians in world peace, a free demo• of these people: who they "Westernized". They have the same, the Japanese ap• CHICAGO JACl terms of Gross National cracy with whom it is worth• are, what they are, how they shown that a culture from proach to today's problems while to maintain a firm mili• live, what they mean to us as the East can adapt to ma• Federal Credit Union Product; first-some would is strikingly different from say-in its industrial tary alliance. Call it Nippon, partners in a common chines, mass communica• 5415 North Clark Street future. Chicago. Illinois 60640 productivity, the efficiency the picturesque Land of the tions and scientific thinking (312) h18-7171 with all the efficiency of the Weekday tfours: 1 10 S p.m. of its goods, the intensity of Rising Sun or Japan, Inc., • • • • Illinois its worldwide selling. The this nation has become a fac• In the century since their West. In many areas they tw~way trade between our tor in our lives. Meiji Restoration of 1868, have gone us one better. Illj"IIIIIIIIUllllllllllllllllllll'IUllltllllll'II'It'IIIIIII"IIIIUIIIIIII''''' two countries bas now ex• Why. then, JAPAN TO• the Japanese have proved They may indeed be the ~WATCH CliNIC San Juan Drugs, Inc. DAY? Why is it important at the one non-Western nation modern nation best ceeded the $32 billion mark 17 N. WABASH AVE., LOBBY 916 W. Belmont annually. this time to dramatize the to successfully modernize it- equipped to meet the chal• lenges of the 21st century. CHiCAGO, ILl. 60602 - 372-7B63 Chicago, III. 60657 (312) 248-2432 Certainly the current Dave YOShimura. Plopflelor SPEAKING OUT: achievements of the Japa• Aulhomed Selko ond (,h,en • Sole~ & Service ~~;~Ie~=~ . ~~h . U1IKttt"I"I."t.. ullmIUIl"II"I'I ... ll1lttt"lUmUIIUlitlUfflll'"&A-_____...... ;.;.;;~o.;....."-- __ nese have far outrun our badly dated "images" of Are We a Scapegoat? them. Still dismissed as mere - Yamada Travel Service By CIUYE TOMlHIRO asked myself lPany ques• were interviewed, and in imitators, the Japanese have ~ AIIIfIoriHd .!ACL 1ml' lOlncy (Chicago JACL) tions. \\ ould she have had t.he each case, they blamed brok• actually been taking the lead DOMESTIC & FOREIGN COMPLETE TRAVEL SERVICE \\ hen I ride a bu , 1 usually same reaction if these were en families, JX>Or schools and in technological innovation, European iJTIlPigrants? Is a "lack of job opportunities" in research and develop• JA.CL Group Flights from Chicago to Japan bury my head 10 a news· thi resentlT'ent a pre\aihng for their joining gangs. AJ• ment, in adapting invention Summer group' June 24 • July 15 • Fall group Sept 30 - Oct 21 paper or a book and am ob• most all of them are now livioUS to the conversation sentirrent aD"ong black and to use. Latino? Are the Asians go• either dead, in prison and 812 N. Clark St., Chicago, 111. 60610 • (312) 944-2730 around me. But just recently forming gangs there, or if on Still thought of as a chroni• ing to be scapegoats for the cally "warlike" and "aggres• there was a black couple sit• the streets, involved in some ting behind me whose con· frustrated and discontented sive", the Japanese have ~************************** young blacks and Latinos? criminal activity. This is cer• versation ga\'e me cause for tainly discouraging, but been extraordinarily consis• An Asian iD"IT'igrant is cer• tent in keeping their postwar real thought. The young worse, it sounded as if woman, who was obviously tainlya less fonridable oppo• armament to a barebones Chicago's Northside Community Bank nent than the U.S. govern• everyone, including their well educated, was talking to own people, had given up minimum. her companion about the rrent or the white IT'ajority. trying to help these young Still widely regarded as a Gerhardt E. Umlauf, President problem of her relative, a people. repressive, secretive soci~ Vietnam \\ ar veteran, was In a 1V document31Y on Ross Harano, Vice President - Loans and Marketing Ybu can't help wondering ty, with a history of "thought Yukio Hashiguchi, Operations Officer having finding a job in \\ ash• March 28 entitled "The End where our priorities should control" and individual coer• ingron, D.C. Justifiably or of the Line", Channel 2, Chi• OO-.-to help our own or cion, the modern Japanese not, she blamed a part of his cago's CBS affiliate investi• others. # have, in fact, defended hu- problems on the fact that so gated the reasons for the many of the senice jobs black street gangs of the '60s were being taken by Taiwan• and the Latino gangs of to• • Ohio ese.. Vietnamese and the day, which essentially are io• Airline Carrier for Dayton JACL's 1979 Korean immigrants, most of to the same things as their whom she thought were predecessors - extortion. 1050 W.Ison Avltflu. It e'o.d ..... , Cltocego III,nOt' toe4O 13<121271 1000 illegal. drugs and murder. JAPAN ~ MEMBER FDIC As an Asian American. I Former gang members of FLIGHT , was velY much disturbed to the '60s and others who July 7 - 28, 1979 hear this. and since then I worked closely with them JAPAN AIR UNES JP Odie 0I:st Mgr. (513) 2.1·Z320 **************************~ j!:-PACIFIC CITIZEN I Friday, May 18, 1979------"'\...... ___ ~ ...... ~ ...... ",.__...... ,....., go until next fall. Nationwide Directory The Bellwood case illus• Business - Professional Chicago suburb battle trates the problem of com• HOME DNANCING! Your business card placed to munities wanting to stabil• each Issue here b 25 weeks at A1TENTION1 525 per lhTee~iles Name in for race balance renewed ize and integrate their Ikokers. larger type counts as two liles neighborhood versus the Developers and Each additional line at $6 per 100e Chicago in the community. real estate agents who ar• per 25-week peri Japanese Baptist Church ttEventho~youbank to observe its 80th anniversary in San Francisco,youcan cash Seattle, Wa, be guest speakers at anni• The Japanese Baptist versary services during the a check inLos Angeles? Church was founded here on week starting May 20. May 23, 1899. The congrega• The anniversary banquet "Our computer system enable:'. u~ to c(l~h your check if VUlt ha\'l' an tion and friends will observe is scheduled for Friday, fol• the 80th anniversary fitting• lowed by a Sunday luncheon account "'ith LI ' in an Francisco, Los Angde'\, San Ok-go CH their po 0 g ready for non of t ~k id on the deC and languag _ at nelling, rna and hi dl u.·j n gone a elsewhere.. ~. here be \\ oold find the ter they mmitted uicid . and on until T _h.lm. T n One the small among the off or cial.Iy smce their bulls COUI"Se cut to three man Ben \\ ould e a ~ ond da a · up k ~ t r. called Geruma. Here wen n to detectJorl by The accent DOW was aIm l Bronze tar for kinaw8. in~ 8'· Ou hin . ht t! t of the 77th met. for the fi die probing f of radar. The completely focused on spok• adding it to th on h ot for hot. ~ h \\ I 8"unlh ttme the results of indoctri• shin)1O. Wte the k.aikn (human en Japanese. Graduates Smpan He found himself. af• into the aid tatl n nd _ Id rpedoes) aod koryu (midge natlOn given civilians and were pouring out of n I.S ter Japan· surrender. flying h 'd run· a PurpJ rt ldiers of the Imperial submarines), Wen! another ex• amp e of mH~lltl\'eness that in preparation for an Occu• a 'er an enemy holdout area, no\ , lf you plea . H ed Army. w 'chdrewonatroci• startled Americans. who re• pation that could not be very dropplOg leaflets g1nng on . 000 ties committed elsewhere. mained sruck throughout (be far in th future. In the Urut• 8nd put mto I..andbued them the news. It startled He also got ano h 'r w und So convinced were people on WaT WIth preconces\'ed con nc• ed States. news from Europe him to recognize it a the on Okmawa. a much d ~l air would then CO\'er the t:ions about "copycat Japs" But pti A (I ng ~8B Geruma that mothers stran• and the Pacific was beglO• same area into which he had one. It happen d whIle h Jot oftou the vel) radar used by U.S. war• expected on kinawa and it gled babies, and people lined ning to spice the 8lr with the n ~ ships was built around an anten• gone, weeks before, to help wa doin interrogation. '1 ould be r It to bring la up in such fashion that aU tang of victory. find a Caucasian Gl who'd mada had one to Japan in ~ na m 'ented by a Japanese. lifted J In c1 to hare ile the could simultanteously from his published papers by the hi t r III the ,. . . gone souvenir hunting and 1941 with mother. i enemy C01J'manded strangle each other. They Bntish and lent to their Ameri• beachc!S.So Kerama ~as the key, been killed. and brother. he alone return• did this to avoid the treat• can cousins. Eddie Fukui was not to Hiroshi "Bud" Mukaye, ing in the summ r of 1 1. and the iith DiviSlOl1 "II! gJ\ en Perhaps a look at histol)' and celebrate it The 77th com• lhejobof ta ng It ment they bad been told, such a troublemaker in con• and he'd had no communica• over and over again, they Jearning that the Japanese in• pleted its job in the Kerama The force dispatched aglllnst vented the cigarette lighter 2S) centration camp before en• tion with his family ince. It Okinawa W88 BWefIOI1'Ie. it ID• would receive at the bands Retto, got back on board its listing and a headache to turned out that some POW years before Pearl HaTbor, transports, and moved off• cluded the 1st. 2nd and 6th Ma• of "brutal Americans." might have given American Savage staffers later, con• he talked with actually had rine DiVl ions, plus the 7th. 27th, shore to be in the floating re• Intelligence felt that there campaign planners a better idea tinued to develop his leader• known his brother. who was nth and 96th Army Infantry Di• of what to expct from their serve. On the day after four \rWoo with the 8151 standing by might be large coastal guns ship and other skills. Cosma stationed on Okinawa awhile enemy. marine and Army divisions Sakamoto wrote of Mukaye before getting ordered to the in reaen'e. About 300,000 troops emplaced in the Kerama hit the beaches, a kamikaze had bren assembled to pIt Retto, able to shell the invad• ...... "with his close-<:ropped head Philippines. As soon 8S To• against the estImated 70.000 that dived into the ship carrying ing fleet. The Navy was When the Okinawa cam~ and winning smile, he can shimi learned the name of w~re ashore. Not at all counting the command staff of the melt the coldest and most his brother's unit, he real• the small escort carriers, the wrong. The 77th. searching paign opened, Phil Ishio was 77th's 305th regiment Fukui sullen prisoner into telling ized from earlier intelli• number o( Bnti.h and American for these guns in order to de• on leave in California, first was among those who died carriers asaj~ to cover Oki- stroy them, found something Mainland Nisei in officer's him. everything." Sakamoto gence information that he • • • asked in a letter that his was dead The ship carrying The 7th Division drove all younger brother, then a stu• that organization had been the way across Okinawa on dent at MISLS, be looked af• spnk with aU hands before it YANKEE SAMURAI its first day. There was to be ter and that it be seen to "he got to its destination. @ by Joseph D. Harrington, 1979 no criticism from the ma• gets evetything possible out Mukaye loomed "bigger rines about "keeping up". of those classes, because he than life," according to Howard Moss had Ben Hon• will need every bit of train• Dare, and "somehow nawa totalled more than the U.S. far deadlier, of which Navy uniform to step foot in that da, Mike Sakamoto and Mi• ing out here in the field." seemed to have the bulk of 8 and JmpenaJ navies owned on noTU Nakanishi on his team Toshimi Yamada, who had sumo wrestler, although he Dec. 7, 1941. intelligence had not told state. Kazuhiko Yamada was ...... tbe~360 shinyo. wrapping up his own war, al• now, replacing those no the nickname "Kuuipo," really didn't." He was three though be didn't know it, as longer with him who had found his buttocks creased times recommended for bat• IT was fitting that the main Shinyo were suicide craft, been at !.eyte. Hiroshi Mu• by a bullet accidentaUy dis• tlefield commissions, and all assault on Okinawa com• mass-produced boats about he left Finschbafen for a well-deserved bome leave. kaye led the team for him. charged from the carbine of three times the word "No!" menced on April Fool's Day, 20 feet long and driven by a Mike Sakamoto was another Nisei, Tommy Ha• came back. There was an but the 77th was bard at motor that could propel each Dick Hayashi was in the figbting around Leghorn, in stunned to find his outfit had mada, while Hamada was FBI file on Bud, who had a work before that Seven at 35 knots. They had a high beaten the marines across cleaning it Toshimi had the football scholarship at Santa days before the main attack, freeboard (water-line-t<>• Europe, and other Nisei were hard at it in New Guin• the island His first day at wound cauterized and ban• Clara University [actually it began landing on seven is• deck distance) and a covered Okinawa was quiet, and be daged at the first aid tent, he played at St. Mary's Col• lands in Kerama Retto. All deck so they could operate in ea, New Britain and the Phil• ippines. Burma, too, where spent it trying to get civil• then demanded a Purple lege at Moraga] and resist• told, the 77th landed in 15 the open sea. A fork-like de• Art Morimitsu had learned ians out of the way of the Heart recommendation for ed, while also getting others places, aU the while aware vice permitted mounting that bullets from retreating fighting. The second day, he it. to resist, tbe entire idea of that there were at least 3S depth charges in the bow, Japanese killed people just did the same and entered a "No dice," said the doctor• Evacuation. Japanese airfields that while a third sat in the stem as dead those from charg• cave for the first time. He major. ''Wounds have to be a Ben Honda was "one of might strike at them and Vic Nishijima found many as ing ones on Guadalcanal had, got two sisters, 16 and 18, to result of Japanese action!" those brilliant quiet ones," that whatever remained of mounted on narrow gauge two and one-half years earli- come out. He went in again, "Well, what the hell doyou Dare said, and Karl Akama the Japanese Navy was not rails inside caves, ready for and found a little girl, 4, with call the guy?" said the indig• was quieter than Mukaye al• faraway. rapid launch into the sea er. In Manila, Clifford Konno one arm blown off. GJ's had nant Toshimi, pointing out though just as big. Tatsuo Frank Mori and Mac Miya• The idea was that the pilot was already beaming broad• sprayed the cave with ma• that Tommy was an AJA. "Elmer" Yamamoto was an• bara were with the first would take his boat on a one• casts toward Japan, trying to chine gun fire~ earlier, as a According to Robyn Dare, other Hoichi Kubo type with, troops to land; Kunia Endo way mission, running up inform its citizens that their safety precaution. wbo had joined the team and at times, more guts than and Vic Nishijima, the sec• against an enemy ship and war was already lost Le• Few people are aware that was witness to the whole in• brains. Only 102 pounds and ond group and Tetsuo Ya• then detonating all three May's B-29's punctuated the fighting on Okinawa con• cident, Toshimi felt he had 5'-1", Yamamoto walked into mada and Mitsuo Shibata the charges, which had five-sec• each of Konno's statements tinued right up through Ja• evety right because it actu• a cave on Okinawa with third. The other four mem• ond fuses. Three depth with ordnance exclamation pan's surrender, and after• ally was an action involving more than 350 enemy wea• bers of the team, and Har• charges, that close aboard, points. Masatoshi Nonaka, of ward. Ben Honda inter• a Japanese. The doctor then pons at him and calmly con• vey Daniels, were with divi• could break the back of most Honolulu, whose home had viewed the personal cook of said it had to be an enemy vinced the colonel in charge sion headquarters. There American warships. been missed by a defective Gen. Mitsuru Ushijima, Japanese, and Toshimi re• to have the holders of the was not much opposition on One can only imagine the de• U.S. Navy shell on Dec. 7, commander of the Japanese sponded with "Well, he's weapons lay them down and the 10 smaU islands invaded, StructiOD that these boat~ 1941, was recovering from garrison, and went with him sure as heck my enemy surrender. many of the enemy having about which U.S. naval intelli- an illness at Fort Meade, to make positive identifica- now!" rubbing his tender - After servIce In the Paci c and ge 'og wounded tWice in Europe, Dick HayashI (left) JOined Akira HenryKuwabara. who later would retire as a lieu tenant colonel, gets Bronze Star for servIce with Oshtda m the research secttOrl at MIS language School at FOrt Snelling, Minn. the British Army's 36th Division in its fe-taking of Burma. YANKEE never forget" The two then early 1945. A sergeant from troops. They were OD no Navy former sensei, Shosei Kina. didn't make it to Okinawa as pressed their backs against California who grew up with muster list! who had been his teacher bead of John F1ag}er's team - The bitterest pill came in the assigned the slope of a hill for protec• Nisei boys treated him well, spring of 1946. The new Grs when his parents sent him to that got to the 10th SAMURAI Okinawa for schooling while Army staff. His group was at Continued frOO1 Previous Page tion, and Dare said, "You but also told Kajiwara that a didn't have enough points to know, if we get out of this Chinese-American in the qualify for discharge under the a youngster. sea for 52 days and twice got mess, I don't think I'll ever bunk beneath him slept with demobilization program, and .. . . missed by Japanese tor- Dare couldn't remember, 32 stop laughing." a loaded M-1 rifle. Drawing neither were they on any T/O. Warren Sakuma almost 0-: '.Nest .. y'ears later. "which one of them it on the sergeant's friendship, The pals they'd left in Hawaii was," so It could have been Sam George Oujevolk was with Kajiwara managed to get the were, however, and arrived on S. Rokutani, Frank Y. Masuoka, Okinawa or Saipan in early 1946, DELIGHTFUL Gus Hikawa, FUtoshl Inaba, or the 6th Marines. So were hell out of there, and to Fort with lovely new stripes-or, one of the other members of the James Shigeta and David Shafter, where he sought re• sometimes, gold lieutenant's seafood treats bars. Plus-money! It was just I 7th's team, but, "whoever it was, Kurisu, but the Nisei were turn to Europe. DELICIOUS and he'd line up all males 15 to 25 stuck on the command ship It was not to be. One day a too much. Shikata ga nai didn't . years old, and assume the stance USS Panamint until a shore colonel came in, had Kajiwa• help. so easy to prepare of a very tough Japanese drill command post could be set ra translate a Japanese instructor type. We'd watch for . . .. reactions while he barked out up near Yontan airfield newspaper, and within 24 GEORGE Inagaki made the MRS. FRIDAY'S drill commands," Dare said. when it was captured. hours he was on a plane to Okinawa campaign, again Michael A Braun, Richard Saipan. Walt was handed a Gourmet Breaded Shrimps "Then he'd start his sales with the marines. Before pitch, consisting of praise for the Schneider and A W. Stuart carbine, a portable loud• that he had developed a and Fish Fillets patriot who served his country, were among the hakujin who speaker and told, "Get up in warm admiration for Glen from lowly support troops to did language work in the the hills and get those J aps to Brunner, a prewar State De• Fishking ProcesSOlS, 1327 E. 15th front-Hne infantrymen to sailor. campaign, and all used their surrender! " partment staffer who head• He'd strut back and forth in linguistic capabilities to Two weeks of this was fol• ed up the Nisei contingent at front of them like a Hitler, build• good ends later. Stuart rose ing his sales talk and voice to a lowed by a transfer to the ar• Honolulu for awhile, and pitch, and then he'd suddenJy to general officer rank in the riving 98th Division and get• made JICPOA duty as com• shout, 'All right, officers, fall in Army, Schneider made a ca• ting told, "You guys will be fortable for them as he over here, non-commissioned of• reer of the U.S. diplomatic hitting Kyushu after Okina• could. It was a challenge be• ficers there, and other enlisted service, and Braun dis• cause although the Nisei got men over there-further!' Sure wa's cleaned up!" Walter 8 played raw guts making as hell, by that time they'd got• wasn't a Nisei. He was San• per diem-the Gl's wartime ten so hypnotized by him that sure war criminals got a sei ("third generation of Ja• dream-they well knew it they obeyed! The ones who did proper defense when the panese in America"). His was given them so they'd eat mlYRKO line up as told were given treat• war was over. He later took father was Nisei, born dur• in restaurants instead of get• LuacJaeoa DIDur CocktaU, ment under the Geneva Conven• up law practice in Tokyo. ting admitted to military PASADENA 139 S. LSI. Robles. 715·7001 . tion and marched off to the reg• ing the reign of Hawaii's last ular POW camp. We had found ...... monarch, Queen Liliuokala• messhalls. Nisei still weren't OR.ANCE 33 Town a Country. IU-330S out they were really soldiers. Be• ni. Walt, however, knew welcome on naval installa- TORR.ANCE 24 Del Amo Fash. • 542-1171 fore they left, some others who'd IN Hawaii, a desperate Na• held back would join them, and vy had paid the price for bar• our whole problem of separating ring Nisei from service, and civilians from soldiers would be now was changing its mind When Tom Riga entered a cave, solved. We'd take the rest, the -although only enough to an Okinawan lady grabbed him civilians, to other units waiting borrow a larger supply of to process them." them from the Army than and said, "Watch out! There are • Plaza Gift Center • * .. before. To help the Navy, the Ameri~ just oustide!" At one time the 7th's lan• Army employed an old Navy FINE JEWELRY - CAMERA - VIDEO SYSTEM guage team set up tents on technique. It shanghai'd a SPORTING GOODS & HOME APPLIANCES Okinawa in a small ravine bunch! Edward· Sumida's enough about Japan from his tions, no matter how valu• they were sure was totally brother Haruo was among elders to realize that if he able their contribution to the 111 Japanese Village Plaza Mall protected, so they hadn't them, hauled off to the bat• 'ever got to see Japa.{l, he war effort. Dick Hayashi Los Angeles, Calif. 90012 even dug foxholes, when Ja• tle area without language . might never get to see home and others were kept out of (213) 680-3288 panese artillery began show• training or even indoctrina• again. Kyushu was the home sight early in the war, when ering them with tree bursts. tion. The stories of two oth• of Japan's most terrifying Chester Nimitz visited New Robyn Dare did what the er men perhaps best tells the infantry division-the 6th. Caledonia, although William rest did, hightailing it down• tale for everyone. Walter Halsey was plenty glad to hill to a lower level for shel• Kajiwara's is first. * .. • have their help when he took ter. As he did, he saw Tom• Kajiwara had volunteered over the South Pacific my Hamada racing off to for the 442nd, declining lan• "I guess we got selected I!:[lj *fl The New Moon forces. one side of him and a slowed• guage school "because I because we had done so well in Japanese school," said ...... Banquet Room, IVillalt" down piece of hot shrapnel wanted to fight!" He was A man who didn't get for 1111111 or ,.". troup, heading on a line for Tom• among the first batch of re• James Furukawa of himself fW;lD and others who were shanghai'd to Okinawa, but my's buttocks. "Pull it in! " placements for the 100th who was surprised to go yelled Dare, and Hamada grabbed on Oahu before 912 So. San Pedro St., Los Angeles MA 2-1091 and made the Anzio landing there and at what happened did. The piece of metal hit in Italy. Kajiwara completed they ever completed infan• try training. Furukawa was to him, was Thomas Higa ~11I111I111I11.lInIIIIIIIflIIIIlIIIIHlllllllllijlllllllllll~111II1I1IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII"NIIIIMIIIIIIIIIIJIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII the ground, caromed, struck the march into Rome before Owner of a name easily rec• a rock, and started past getting one of the 100th's drafted in December, 1944. E GARDENA-AN ENJOYABLE JAPANESE COMMUNITY He hoped to go and share in ognized by other AJA's as Dare. It missed Hamada's 1,703 Purple Hearts. Hospi• deriving from that prefec• ~ Poinsettia Gardens Motel Apts. derriere. Dare fielded it like talization in Italy, Washing• the 442nd's glory. So did his J ture, Tom had been on active a grounder and flipped it to ton and Honolulu followed, friends, but "some started ~ 13921 S. Normandie Ave. Phone: 324-5883 duty in Hawaii when the war ~ H~oted Hamada, saying, "Now and he was sent back to duty leaving for the Pacific front 68 Units • Pool. Air Condilionmg • GE )(If' hen' • 1f!1f"v"lon started. On Nov. 20, 1941, in ~ OWNED AND OPERATED BY KOMTA BROS there's a souvenir you'll at Schofield Barracks in line duty almost as soon as we got drafted," Furukawa fact, he'd been deployed with RlIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIHlllllIllIlllJllllllllllllflllllllllllllllllllllllllllil"1I111111111111111111NIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIKIIIIIIIINIIIINNIIIIHIIH , remembered. "I guess it was others of the 100th along the ...... •• .o •• .o •• .. because they were the best north side of Oahu and given TIN SING ...... linguists. " three rounds of ammunition ...... Here was a really ridicu• "in case of an attack. II Higa'd RESTAURANT lous situation. Caucasians been nearby when Sgt. David Akui captured Kazuo CANTONESEEXQUISITE had tried, over and over CUISINE * Sakamaki from the midget 1523W again, to close the Japanese Redondo schools in Hawaii, afraid submarine on the day after the December 7 attack. Higa Blvd .... YANKEE they were hotbeds of sub- I GARDENA 1:1 ~AlIClKlIRAND- version. Now the files of had gone to Europe, took OA 7-)177 ;I part in the savage house-to• Food to Co ,,~ Olslnhull)r•. YamllS3 Entc'rprr every AJA draftee there ~ house fighting around Cas• Air Conditioned 515 Stanford Ave. SAMURAI were being pored over, to Banquel Rooms The secret role of Nisei in AmericaS find who'd attended and ac• sino, and took two wounds. 20-200 Los Angeles Pacific Victory tual records scanned to de• "My lack of height probably L .!~.D!:.!~~221~ ,_ termine each man's degree saved my life," Higa said, af• JOSEPH D. HARRINGTON ter a German bullet tore his •••••••••••••••••••••••• June publication price will be $12.95 postpaid, but you may order of proficiency. Furukawa and a host of others spent helmet away without harm• an autographed copy NOW for a May mailing at substantial ing him. discount. Co~e the coupon below und mall with your check. about 32 days on an LST and were assigned to 10th Army Pettigrew Enterprises, Inc. .. Tom got back to Hawaii. ------_Pre-Publication Discounted Offer as soon as they arrived at 50 Victor, Detroit, Mich. 48203 He was asked personally by Okinawa. A lot hadn't even Gen. Kendall Fielder to go to a) Please send me autographed copies of ·· Yankee Samurai·' at been taught how to fire a Okinawa and help out, so he S, 1 75 DOstpaid each rifle but were put directly in• did. He entered caves 12 Largesr Srock of Popular b) Please send me autographed "6-packs·· of "Yankee Samuraj" to a combat situation. times to get holdouts to sur• & ClaSSic Japanese Records at $65 00 each postpaid. Magazroes. Art Books. Glfl :Marutama Co. Inc. What griped the men most ac• • render and was successful Twa Sbops In LIII. Tallya • My check for $ payable to Pettigrew Enterprises. Inc .. is enclr,sed tually wasn't the fact that they'd 11 times. When Higa en• • and I understand shipment Will begin rn May 330 E. 1st St. -340 E. 1st St. • Fish Cake Manufacturer been shanghai'd They turned to tered one cave, an elderly • with a will and did a reasonably III AII,.'n. Clift. .,2 • Los Angeles FUll name (pnnt) good job-flushing caves, inter• Okinawan lady grabbed him S Ueyama. ProP • in the semi-darkness and .•...... ddre~s rogating captives, and translat• ing documents. The bulk of their said, "Watch out! There are City State ZIP work eventually centered on Americans just outside!" @cu!.. '/}u- nelpmg tile native popuJabon ad• Tom's face and dark com• • Bulk Sales Discounts to JACL Chapters, Nisei veterans organi• just to peacetime liVIng. But an zations and other groups on request. • Buy an extra copy for awful lot didn't get paid for a aw• plexion had misled her. ~Sl""""""" your local school or library. ~.ta fully long time! The Na\'Y ran Higa had one truly unique o Malia 8.... experience. He ran across, s.ta _lea, CaUl. Once the books are out. ft will be avaIlable at Pacific CitIzen the islands and had no way of paying these impressed garrison and was able to protect, his MAllY & GEORGE ISHIlUU 121..,11 ------F 1 YA KEE You're SAMURAI d '. ma CJ ii- usuall)? did. In most in- staloces. or a f" Japa- ldiers held large nurn rs of chilians with them in the burial chambers or ca VI orking with " ar• Ten and Taltejll'o Higa, Ta• Ireo onaka and Fred Fuku• shima. &SUi and the rest of the team saved thousand of live Herbert Yanamura. Yo• ichi Kawano and Akira Hori were on the team with Ma• sui Herb came away from the war with fond memones MIKAWAYA of Dick Kesner, a Vlolinist Sweet Shop Tom Masui was with the Nisei still weren't welcome on 96th Division. He personally naval stations, DO matter how got nearly 2,000 civilians to PM,fl( Sl1"llfl give up and emerge from valuable their contnbutioD to Rcdcmdo B(',1(h Blvd caves or burial chambers. (It the war effort. ardl'l1i1-- A - (213) r;~, ')', q was Okmawan custom to 11, J L-______~~* ~~~ I ~ ______~ __ _ 12-~aACaTI~N/~~~M~1~19~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ •••••••~ ••••••~.~. SPARTAN BEAT: Mas Manbo fmd that it fails to say when tice in Dlinois on June 10, the first hotdog made its ap• 1937. 1979 JACL Travel Program pearance. The first Japanese ambas• ~" .. JIJ •••AnIIrIcu~""" However, the book com• sador to the U.S., according From Roppongi piled by Joseph Nathan to the book, was Niimi R~ Open to AlllDIIftdl JACl fllllllbers IIMI Fantlly o.Iy Kane has plenty of other in• nnokami, who went to Amer• duggery, a plot to subvert teresting facts to make up ica in 1860. The IJISt Japa• CftI&"riall1)N .-cliNGS • HmonII ~ 1765 s..... 9.. ftr.ll Aoo!. 7.31 pJll DRs. lilly 311usd1r. t2 American democracy and for it nese legation was estab• TtlJrsdIy. SepIerrar 13, TIlnIIr. replace it with a police state. For instance, it says that lished in Washington in Oc• • west LA JACl "lQI!I'bur meetilgs art IleJd e,.y t Id SIrldly, I ~ 11.111. •• Ftlca In the story, Tule Lake, de• ice cream' was being sold tober 1870. It was raised to Mahood CeIlltl. 11338 sna Monica Blvd . WesslA. scribed as "one of the worst commercially in 1786 and an embassy on Jan. 7, 1906. • For Downto-n LA. JAQ. fflQ'-'lOtJ mettlngs. cal A 11 (WIno 1213)411-7490. Tokyo American concentration that the first ice cream cone The first Buddhist temple June 18· July 16 The Nikkei drive for re• camps," is rebuilt secretly. was said to have originated in the U.S. was established 6 ~nona~gL~~ CLO~~~UChl9lU11l dress because of incarcera• And this isn't the only in 1904. on July 15, 1904, in Los LOSANGElES ...... June 19-JuIy 17 7 San Oligo C"-Pte, Fllght-.... HIrcInIIka tion in camps during World novel referring to wartime _The book contains facts on Angeles. War II should have the sym• CHICAGO ...... June 2' - July 15 concentration camps for 20,000 subjects, and among Something I never 8 Midwest District Council flight-Frank Slurn.-o pathy of a good section of the Nikkei. them area few of Japanese dreamed of is that the Unit• LOS ANGElES . .Ally 31·~ 2e millions o(readers who go in In the very neXt book I in America, I found ed States Naval Academy 9 Downtown LA. Fllght-Akl Ohno for novels of suspense and SAN FRANCISCO July 30 - Aug 27 read, "Marathon Man" by Some are easy to recall. had a Japanese attending be• Nat'l JN1 flight-Yuki Fuctllgaml intrigue. 1 0 William Goldman, the main For instance, the first con• fore it admitted its first SAN FRANCISCO . . Aug 12· Sept 2 I mean in particular those character, Baby Levy, men• gressman of Japanese an• black midshipman. _ 11 Nat'! JAn. Flight-Yuki Fuclllgaml who have read "The R Docu• tions "Roosevelt putting Ja• cestry (Daniel Inouye), the The name of the Japanese LOS ANGELES (ReI. stopover Honolulu) . Sept 29· Ott. 20 13 West LA. 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