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During the turbulent war years, the Thna Canyon Detention Center imprisoned hundreds - mostly ISsei PHOTO COURTESY OF WN.l.Y PARKS NHRA MO:ORSPORTS MUSEUM men -labeled as 'enemy aliens ..' The Oka brothers display their 'Best Appearing Car' award at Carrell speedway in 1948. Pictured above (I-r) Yam Oka, HarrY Oka, Tom McLaughlin, and Chickie Hirashima. By LYNDA LIN Assistant Editor Nisei hot rod racers of the 1920s and down Fords and Chevys would be pimped for showca£; ing while adrenaline junky hot rod drivers would com• 1930s made their mark in a racing world For three ears durin World War n, a chain link fence ~ with barb- pete for the fastest clocked speeds. surprisingly free of discrimination. wire enclosed the open grounds of the Verdugo Hills Golf Course in Thjunga, Here is where the legends of racing were born, Calif. and separated Issei men from their families. including famed Nisei racers like Yam aka, Tsuneo By CAROLINE AOYAGI-STOM Sumi Sliimatsu was 13 and a half when she stood five feet away from the ''Tunney'' Shigekuni, Frank Morimoto, Danny Sakai, Executive Editor fence to peer at her father, photographer Toklji Utsushigawa, on the inside of and Takeo "Chickie" Hirashima. But like the thick the Thna Canyon Detention Center. California's Murdoc Dry Lake was the place to be dusts of the lakebeds, the stories of their record setting for the hot-rodders of the 1920s and 1930s. On the dry, speed times and their innovatively modified roadsters See TUNA CANYON DETENTIOt:J CENTERlPage 12 flat lakebeds that stretched for endless miles stripped- See NISEI RACERSlPage 6 Eddy Zheng Returns A League of Their·Own to the Free World 'Everything is beautiful,' Scrapes, dislocations and' · said the co~unity some good old-fashion com-' leader who was released > petition - a Boston area from Yuba County Jail Asian flag football league into a superviSed pro• ta){es the recreational sport gram. to another level. By LYNDA LIN PHOTO: VAL MAUN By LYNDA LIN Assistant Editor Assistant Editor Young APAs battle each other on the field in a Boston league. After spending 21 years They've played through intense heat, rain and seven "It's war out ·there every weekend," said Binh behind bars: Eddy Zheng, a con- inches of snow. For the members of the Boston Asian Nguyen, a commissioner and founder ofB.Q\FL, the first · vict turn~ co.rinnl,lplty youth . Football League (BAFL), the elements don't stand in the Asian Pacific American flag football league created by educator, caught his first breath of .rights protest ... ·it was Sb$udden . way of a good game. three young APAs in 2005 who just freedom on Feb. 27 after he was One minute I was in jail and the wanted to play the game. released into a supeIVised program next I was in the free world," said SPRING CAMPAIGN What . started . out as informal • to await his deportation to China. Zheng. 37, to the Pacific Citizen weekend outings to the park has · "I walked straight out onto the . from his parents' home in. Oakland, Keeping the ,street and into an immigrati(jn' P.C. Competitive See BAFLJPage 6 See ZHEt:JGlPage 4 By GIL ASAKAWA A Newfound Friendship Ends in Tragedy Pacific Citizen Chair On a mission to locate the heroic 442nd vets who saved I do~'tknow what the weather their father during WWll, the Hardwick sisters found a is like where friend in veteran Jim Tazoi. Sadly he died in a tragic car you live, but accident less thaii a week later. here in Denver, it's almost 70 By CAROLINE AOYAGI-STOM degrees, and Executive Editor gorgeous. That combined with The three-page handwritten note along with the pamphlet-sized book the new, earlier Susan Hardwick found in her mailbox one recent Saturday morning was the launch of Daylight Savings Time, saddest of ilOnies. The package was from 442nd veteran Jim Tazoi, an 87- year-old Nisei from . Utah she had See CAMPAIGNlPage 2 recently befriended. ~arlier that same See FRIENDSHIPlPage 4 JIMTAZOI 2 LETI'ERS/NATIONAL PACIFIC CITIZEN, MAR. i6-APR. 5, 2007 what's happening at the national lev• Either way, you're showing your Please show how much you PACIAC CmZEN ~ CAMPAIGN f'.. els of JACL, and what's happening direct support for the P. C. s efforts to appreciate the hard work of the P. C. 2005 WINNERI (Co':!tinued from page 1) ifii,;\ NEW AMERICA across the country that affects our modernize and proyide the best of its staff - they're maintaining the Web V'MEDIA seems to herald the arrival of Spring civil rights and the civil rights of oth• content to users over the Internet. site without having added new per• ~ Awards In Writing ~ with certainty - and I welcome it! ers. Once again this year, the money sonnel, and they've always m~t fueir .Springtime is also when the Unfortunately, many of the issues raised during the Spring Campaign national budget figures - and how Pacific Citizen has launched for sev• that affect us slmply are not covered will go towards the Web site; the much you appreciate that the news• eral years its Spring Campaign, in the pages of the "mainstream" new design in fact is the result of last paper, and now, the Web site are which raises funds that go directly to media. That's why the P.c. is so year's Sprin.,g Campaign. ~ your lifeline to the JACL and its 250 E. First Street, Ste. 301, the operational budget of the P.c.It's important. It brings you the news It's an' exciting time for online important work. 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Events and products the situation to Vietnam, but each don't want us there and we're not ed to and were reinforced by cultur• advertised in the Pacific Reader Chastises Citizen do not carry the implicit Asian Week's Eng ' war is different. The way the war · sure what we are doing there. al . memories, especially from a endorsement of the JACL or was started should be protested, but I read once the book, ''The medieval past, e.g. code of the samu• this publication. We reserve the In the Feb. 23 issue of AsianWeek, :L ______right to______edit articles. _ protesting the war at this time is only · Uncertain Trumpet," written by ' rai, real or imagined. Such memories Kenneth Eng wrote, "Why I Hate helping the insurgents and hindering General Maxwell Taylor. In it, the have been a common experience of PACIFIC CITIZEN (ISSN: 0030- Blacks." Eng lacks life experience redressing the mistakes made. heroic general wrote that if the lead• emigrant lives. 8579) is published semi-monthly and possesses little knowledge of Pulling out of Iraq without resolv• ership fails in leading, the mission is Moreover many of us in the 442nd except once in December and U.S. history to be allowed a platform January by the Japanese ing the situation would be like · sure to fail. Sadly, President Bush is regarded our families in the concen• American Citizens League, 250 for his ignorance. His own preju• throwing the Iraqi people to the failing in his leadership, and the war tration camps as hostages, a version E. First Street, Ste. 301, Los dices have been generalized to dogs . . in Iraq is failing. of Sankin-Kotai. Although the Angeles, CA. 90012 OFFICE demean African Americans, to . If! see Lt. Watada today, I'll salute brooding was infrequently uttered or HOURS - Mon.-Fri., 9 a.m.-5 whom the Asian American commu• p.m. Pacific Time. ©2007. ~'l~ him and sadly say to him: 'There by discussed within the Regiment, it nity is indebted. Woburn,MA the grace of God, go 1." was in our hearts and minds. Annual subscription rates: We, as Asians, have endured NON-MEMBERS: 1 year-$40, War is now an anachronism, payable in advance. Additional much the same discrimination for o ~A.~~ President Bush notwithstanding, a postage per year - Foreign peri• decades that black Americans have Via e-mail failure of diplomacy and misunder• odical rate $25; First Class for suffered for centuries in this country. Korean War Vet stood historical and cultural differ• U.S., Canada, Mexico: $30; Their travail is familiar to us, and we Airmail to Japan/Europe: $60. Supports Watada o ences. We need more than ever (Subject to change without . share their pain. African Americans before, Lt. Watada. He is one of us .. notice.) Periodicals postage paid have destroyed many social barriers I am a Korean War veteran. I was Watada Is One of Us Is JACL another anachronism? at Los Angeles, Calif. and eliminated discriminatory laws sent to Korea during the height of the Army veteran Leo H. Hosoda Korean War in August 1950.. Permission: No part of this publi• which have allowed Asians and (P.c., Feb._16-Mar. 1) in rebuke of &jiS~ cation may be reproduced with- other minorities to enjoy and pros• I have long agonized over the 1st Lt. Ehren Watada declares that Ft. Meade, SD out express permission of the per. Too bad Eng does not under• stand taken by 1st Lt. Ehren Watada. publisher. Copying for other than the hitter displayed lack of "strict personal or internal reference use stand the sacrifices and contributions What if I was in his shoes, what military discipline" and that it was a without the express permission of of African Americans. would I be doing? Then, I remem- ' major basis for the 442nd RCf's ' P.c. is prohibited. bered a lesson on leadership from superior "performance and success." s~ial POSTMASTER: Send address 7ud1lt'lt;e my high school studies class. It has been my imp~ssion and expe• changes to: Pacific Citizen, c/o Downey,CA Abraham Lincoln once said: "To sin rience that it was a minor factor inas• VACATION SPECIAL JACL National Headquarters, by silence, when he should protest, 1765 Sutter St., San Francisco, much as discipline is second nature CA94115. o makes cowards of men." I therefore to a Japanese, national or Nikkei. Watada's Dilemma owe Lt. Watada a salu'te because I During my long journey with the believe he is practicing what I 442nd I recognized that we respond- leamed years ago. JACL'MEMBERS While I support 1st · Lt. 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Because of space limita• Securitas Security master to include periodicals in tions, letters are subject to abridgement. Shites are adding fuel to the fire in home, and 7) to help the Iraqis settle Mhough we are unable to print all the letters Services USA, Inc. your change of address CUSPS their "civil war." Today, after four we receive, we appreciate the interest and (Securitas USA) Forrn3575) their power struggle. views of those who take the time to send us years, over ~O percent of the Iraqis Securitas USA Is An Affirmative Action! Anti-war protesters try to equate their comments. Equal Opportunity Employer. PACIFIC CITIZEN MAR. 16-APR. 5, 2007 NATIONAL NEWS 3 NationaZ ·Newsbytes Watada's Second Cou~.martial Set for July 16 ByMELANTHlANUTCHELL ·ing forward with the . By Pacific Citizen Staff Associated Press charges," Piek said. . Military judge Lt. First National Asian American Theater SEATILE-A second court• Col. John Head orig• Festival to Run in June martial is scheduled to begin July inally scheduled a NEW YORK-The first ever 16 for aI} Army lieutenant who new trial for March National Asian. American Theater refused to go to Iraq with his Fort 19 after Watada's Festival is kicking of in the Big Lewis-based Stryker brigade and first court-martial Apple June 11-24. The event will National Festival '- ',;;";.:;;;;.;;;:;;;;;;.;,,.;.;.;; '-~' spoke out against the Bush admin• abruptly ended Feb. feature performances from more istration. 7. Seitz· pad said he than 25 APA performing arts compa• The first military trial for 1st Lt. likely wouldn't be nies and solo artists from across the Ehren Watada ended in mistrial after able to make that nation. three days when the judge said he date because of con• The festival will celebrate the important .contributions Asian American didn't believe Watada fully under• flicting court sched- artists make to the cultural landscape of the nation. stood a pretrial agreement he'd . against double jeopardy. On Feb. 28, ules. signed and that would have cut his he said he would likely fJ.le motions The conduct unbecoming an offi• Second Man Pleads Guilty in Attack on Asian Teens sentence to four years'. . by April. cer charge against Watada accuses NEW YORK-A s~ond man has pleaded guilty to a hate crime for the On Feb: 23, the Army refJ.led He said he and Watada still hope him in four instances of making pub• racially motivated beatings of two Asian American teens who were attacked charges of missing movement and to reach some soI! of an agreement lic statements criticizing the Iraq war last August. conduct unbecoming. an officer - with the military, but as of-yet have or President Bush. Paul Heayey, a 21-year-old college student, and 19-year-old Kevin Brown the same charges Watada, 28, had had no communication with the Watada has acknowledged mak• were driving early Aug. 12,2006, when they spotted another car driven by initially faced. If convicted, Watada Army, other than an e-mail' listing ing the statements and missing a Reynold Liang with three APA friends as passengers. , could be sentenced to six years in the court dates. . June deployment with the 3rd . Cursing and spewing racial insults, they slat:nmed their car into Liang's prison and be dishonorably dis• . "Our understanding is that they Brigade, 2nd Infantry Divi~ion, white Lexus. When Liang pulled over to check his car for damage, Heavey . . charged. , want to continue with this and we're which is currently . in Baghdad. and Brown began pummeling Liang with a metal automobile steering wheel Pretrial motions llave been set for happy to oblige," Seitz said. Just before the mistrial was lock. May 20-21, with the cOOrt-martial Prosecutors would not comment declared, he had planned 'to take Heavey pleaded guilty March 9 to two counts of third-degree assault as a scheduled to begin the week of July on t:4e . case, said Fort Lewis the witness stand to arg~e that his' hate crime. He faces five years probation and 75 hours of community serv- 16, according to the office of Eric spokesman Joseph Piek. However, motives were to avoid committing ice. Seitz, Watada's Honolulu-based recently he said that double jeopardy war crimes by participating in an lawyer. was not a factor in the case because illegal war. State House Passes Bill to 'Increase Seitz has said he will seek to have Watada's first trial "had not reached Watada is currently assigned to an Unmarried Partner Benefits the charges dismissed as a violation a position of finality." administrative position at Fort HONOLULU-Same-sex partners and family members who live togeth• of the Constitution's protection "As far as I'm aware we are mov- Lewis . • er could receive similar health benefits as mairied couples under a bill passed March 8 in the state House. The bill extends state and county health coverage to couples who aren't Filipino American Veterans legally allowed to marry. The measure passed by a 34-6 vote, with 11 repre• sentatives absent. It now advances to the state Senate. .Lobby Congresswoman for Benefits The measure was' proposed as a replacement for legislation that would have allowed gay couples to enter into civil unions.

Survivors ofWWII U.S. Firebombing of Tokyo Sue Japanese TOKYO-Survivors of the u.s. firebombing of Tokyo during'World War Iland bereaved family members sued the Japanese government March 9 for $10.3 million, alleging it did not assist victims in the aftermath: This is the first group lawsuit of its kind seeking damages from a wartime air raid in Japan, Japanese media said. The raid on March 10, 1945, inciner• ated wide areas of the capital and killed 100,000 in a single night of fire. The 112 plaintiffs in the lawsuit allege the government did not provide aid to raid victims and accused Japan of starting the war and inviting the attack by refusing to surrender.

AsianWeek's Why I Hate Blacks' Columnist is Fired SAN FRANCISCO-The writer of the controversial Asian Week column was fired in late February. . AsianWeek Editor-at-Large Ted Fang said at a community meeting that the . paper is cutting its ties with ...-_____' ______---, 22-year-old Kenneth Eng, I !i·.u;,,· "i,," I Filipino veterans helped honor Sen. Daniel Inouye at the 2004 JACL Honolulu Convention's Vets Luncheon. wh"", recent pioce "Why I A ..w., k ~:;~:c:cr:tr:~~:'~~l:~~l By ASSOCIATED PRESS going to be able to get some justice." . panion bill to the Filipino Veterans 'w' n ' .§tan . ee ... d_,m Filipino American veterans have Family Reunification Bill in the ..... g s con overSla CD- Dozens of Filipino American vet• pushed for decades to obtain immi• House. . umn appeared in the Feb. 23 edition of the 27-year-old AsianWe~k, which erans of World War II lobbying gration rights for their children and Akaka first introduced the bill last considers itself the ''voice of the Asian American community." On a March are for legislation entitling them to the the same access to benefits as other year and the Senate passed it after 5 appearance on '''The Big Story with John Gibson," Eng said he was not same benefits as the American sol• World War II veterans . . att;lching the measure to its immigra• sorry for his column. diers they fought with side-by-side They've had some victories over tion reform legislation. But the Senate and House couldn't agree on State Programs Could be in Jeopardy against the Japanese. the years, gradually winning benefits They also asked U.S. Rep. Mazie promised to them long ago. In 1990, . a compromise bill, and the legisla• LANSING, Mich.-Eight of 45 state programs or statutes reviewed could Hirono recentl~ to support legisla• Congress passed a bill all9wing tion was never enacted. be in jeopardy or in need of changes because of a new state law banning tion that would enable the aging for• thousands of veterans in the The benefits bill has also hadtrou• some public affirmative action practices, according to a report adopted mer soldiers to quickly bring their Philippines to immigrate and ble making it through Congress. March '7 by the Michigan Civil Rights Commission. sons and daughters to the. United become U.S. citizens. Burial rights Family-sponsored immigrants They are connected to the state's department for Spanish speaking affairs, States. in national cemeteries came a decade from the Philippines have the' women and minority business owners, foster care.and special needs adop• "We're growing old every day later. longest wait times in the world tions, higher education and collective bargaining programs. and we don't know what will hap• In 2003, President George W. before they're allowed to obtain Proposal 2, approved by voters in November, bans the use of race and gen• pen · tomorrow," said veteran Jose Bush signed a bill making Filipino visas because of the large number of der preferences in university admissions and government hiring. The law Vizconde Basug, 81, explaining American veterans in the United applicants. The average wait for took effect Dec. 23. why he and his comrades need help States eligible for the same;: federal Filipinos.to receive a, visa is 20 years. urgently. • healthcare oth(!r American veterans About 200,000 Filipinos served in Honda Introduces Bill Supporting Korean The men fought as guerrillas to receive. World War II. Victims of Immigration Fraud resist Japanese troops who invaded But problems have remained, Art . A. Caleda, president of the Washington, D.C.-Rep: Mike Honda introduced HR 1397, a piece of the Philippines, then a U.S. cOm• such as immigration laws that con• Hawaii chapter of World War II legislation that would provide relief to a group of Korean victims of irprni- monwealth, in 1941. spire to keep the families of Filipino Filipino-American Veterans, said gration fraud. . Hirono vowed to champion their American veterans apart. there are about 7,000 Filipino Many victims and families are.still suffering the consequences of an immi• cause, saying she hoped Congress To fIX that; Sen. Daniel K. Akaka American veterans in the United gration supe{Visor who accepted $500,000 in bribes from iminigration bro• would pass both measures this year. has introduced a bill that wQuld States, including some 2:000 in kers in exchange for green cards that he later illegally authorized. "Yoo've waited way too long," anow children of Filipino veterans to Hawai'i, who don't receive the same pension benefits as their American The supervisor and four imilligration brokers were convicted of participat• . Hirono told. veterans . and their be considered for immigration out• ing in this green card scam, which affected 275 Korean immigrants~ This bill wives, about 60 people in total. "I'm side the quota for visas for Filipinos. counterparts. . There . are another would prevent this type of injustice.• really hopeful that this year, you're Hirono plans to introduce a com- 18,000 in the Philippines, he said .•

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·· ··· .. ·_···P··.. l····;-· ...... ZHENG Eddy Zheng takes in A:w .... i."aS (Continued from page 1) the sights and sounds of the city in the Zheng is waiting for the Chinese he left behind over ' govemment to issue travel docu• N two decades ago. . ews .ments for his repatriation, which He attends the could happen in weeks or years. He (Left) was.released from the.Yuba County recent San By Pacific Citizen Staff .Jail into the Immigration and Francisco Chinese Customs Enforcement's (ICE) New Year Parade. Gary Yamauchi Takes Oath of Office as City of Intensive Supervisory Appearance Alhambra's Mayor Program, which requires Zheng to PHOTO: ANMOL CHADDHA . Alhambra City Councilperson Gary wear an ankle monitor, check in with Yamauchi has taken an oath of office as the ICE officials regularly and a~lde by ''We are still appealing the under• with the flow" and not wasting any city's new mayor. curfews. lying deportation order at the Ninth time before working with the com• Elected in November 2004, Yamauchi also These are minor inconveniences in Circuit - that could continue for at munity. runs one of the largest independent vending exchange for freedom. On the second least another year," said Nightingale. Zheng has already committed to service businesses in Southern California, Tri• day of his release, Zheng used the The journey to freedom has been two speaking engagements at the Star Vending. The company's success led it to Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) sys• long for. Zheng, who immigrated to University of California, Berkeley to being named "API Business of the Year" of tem to get to San Francisco; he Oakland on a green card in 1982. talk to young APAs about the impor• the 49th Assembly District. Through his asso• watched the Chinese New Year Under the Immigration and tance of grassroots movements and ciation with Father Gregory Boyle of Homeboy Industries, his company also parade make its way down the street Nationality Act, any non-citizen - ' justice. He's· also received job offers, but won the distinction of Homeboy's first-ever "Employer of the Year" award. and he took a waik around Oakland's even one with a valid green card - Lake Merritt. is subject to deportation if convicted his dream is to start a nonprofit organization to help -APA youth. Nguy~n is Head of the Calif. State Lottery "Everything is beautiful," said of crimes as minor as shoplifting. Zheng, who cited his biggest chal• In January of 1986, when Zheng During his two decades in prison, he Linh Nguyen, 33, of Sacramento, has been appointed chief deputy direc• lenge adjusting to life outside of bars was only 16 years old, he along with saw the number of young APAs in tor for the California State Lottery. He has served as deputy director for bust-. is keeping up with the technology. two friends · broke into a home, prison skyrocket - he wants to keep ness planning for the California State Lottery since 2006. He has a ell phone and is slowly robbed and held the family hostage. them off of the path he has traveled. . Nguyen previously served as chief of the Office of Strategic Planning and navigating through e-mails and the He was tried as an adult and pled Young APAs are still trapped Oversight at the Department of Motor Vehicles (D~) from 2004-2006. internet. guilty to 18 felony counts to receive under the modd minority myth and Prior to this victory, Zheng had a sentence of seven years to life. rarely receive the support they need; UCSF Names New Chief of Gynecologic waged a largely unsuccessful series In jail, Zheng started to tum his life said Zheng, who also wants to help Oncology of courtroom battles for his freedom. around. From his cell, he eamed a APA prisoners and give them alterna• John K. Chan, MD, assumed the post of the new chief of the Division of Zheng, who has a green card, also colleCT degree and petitioned for tives to violence. Gynecologic Oncology, Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and fought hard to stay in the country that Asian American studies in the prison According to Zheng, young APAs .Reproductive Sciences at the UCSF School of Medicine. wanted him to lyave. system. His work won him the sup• equate success and happiness to As chief of gynecologic oncology, Chan will oversee all of the division's Last July, a U.S. imrnigration port of Asian Pacific American com• money and prestige. It's the same clinical, researc4 and edu.cational activities. judge ordered Zheng's deportation munity leaders including mentality that made him commit Chan is currently on faculty at Stanford University. Also a clinical and for a crime he committed while he Congressman Mike ·Honda and civil crimes two decades ago. translational scientist, Chan recently has focused his research on ovarian can• was in his teens. ICE asked for travel rights legend Yuri Kochiyama. But these days, he counts his life as cer. . papers from the Chinese embassy, In July 2005, Zheng managed to a success . but they had no record of Zheng and find love. He married Shelly Srnith, a "I consider myself the richest per• Secretary of Labor Chao Honored with the National needed time to research. By law, the U.S. citizen who volunteered at the son in the world. I'm healthy. I am Legislative Award .;-, government has 90 days to deport prison. Smith told the P. C. that she free. I have unconditional love. You someone. After 90 days, the govern• was really happy to hear the news of can't beat that," said Zheng . • The League of United Latin American ment can release a person from cus• her husband's release. They don't Citizens recognized Secretary of Labor Elaine tody, said Zachary Nightingale, live together currently because the Annual ation Legislative Zheng's attorney. . govemment has restricted Zheng to On Feb. 1, the Department of the 20-mile area around his parents' The Legislative awards were established to Homeland Security rejected Zheng's home, which 'is his last known recognize individuals who have gone above and release, so Nightingale proposed a address before going to jail. Smith beyond the call of duty to support issues impor• deal: they would withdraw their lives in nearby Marin County and tant to the Latino community. Attendees includ• appeal if Zheng were to' be released visits regularly. ed members of Congress, ambassadors, federal into a supervisory program to await a "We talk every day," said Zheng. officials and Hispanic leaders to honor the award recipients .• response from the Chinese govern• He doesn't know what tomorrow ment. is going to bring, but he is "going

Tragically, rirll was killed March i , FRIENDSHIP 'It crushes me. I would have loved to have met him. ' hero," said Janet. "He was humble, while parking his car at a restaurant brave, he almost doesn't believe he (Continued from page 1) to meet his son. His wife Kimiko has done.anything extraordinary, but - Susan Hardwick (be/ow, right) with sister Janet morning Susan had leamed of Jim's suffered serious irijuri~s but is cur• he did." tragic death in a car accident. rently recovering from the accident. After Jim was discharged from the Just one week before Jim's pack• "He was my best friend ... it real• Anny, he met and married his long• age had an:ived, Susan, 61, and her ly hurt me," said Taichi, 81. "My time sweetheart Kimiko and had sister Janet Hardwick Brown, 64, older brother was so nice, he' had three boys. had begun a friendship with the class." "We at JACL express our deepest World War IT veteran. For the past In late February, Taichi contacted sympathy for the loss of a rrtodel , several months, the Hardwick sisters the Hardwick sisters via e-mail. husband and father," said Floyd have been trying to locate members "Janet was the second person I had Mori, JACL national director. "It is of the 442nd to thank them for rescu• ever e-mailed," he said. . In one the courage that he displayed· that ing tbeir father Sgt. Bill Hardwick, a phone call to Jim,:Taichi mentioned allows the Japanese American com• member of the "Lost Battalion." Jim that Janet and Susan had found an munity to hold their head high and waS one of the dozen vets they have . oral interview on the Internet Jim participate as fully as we do in the managed to find so far. had done a few years back. democratic process. His legacy is a "It crushes me. I would have "I told my brother, 'Now the sis• part of all of us and will remain for loved to have met him," ,said Susan ters know how ugly you are, '" Taichi future generations." from her home in Indiana a few days said with a sad chuckle. We were Taichi hopes to keep in touch with after learning of Jim's passing. "He like that, he said, always joking was ·eventually rescued. ized for eight months. Although the Hardwick sisters, especially sounded so wonderful, his corrtribu• around with each other. . "It was like finding a neeAsian Americans Camps and Tour 01 Bainbridge Memorial Set lor March 30 United for Self . Empowerment By Pacific Citizen SWf (CAUSE) recently kicked off its 2007 California Asian American Student Internship Coalition The first Japanese Americans to be forcibly removed from their "Nt~o Nat \'6n1 (CASIC) Leadership Academy pro• ~lC""'~~ homes and sent to World War II gram. OnI~~OI~ Bainbridge Island, Washington. In wm~by~mttd'~t~tlIt~fulr~ n..,• ership program which trains gradu• ~~!Nfmy~4~,*",.tb.lm":lI1tfy~ ating high school seniors and college total, 227 J A residents left the island ~~ . dMN'mn~($t\ students to become future l~aders on March 30,1942. Thty .._nlltd"r~ J:lMtt",,0rd00t~.h4 th1lWa f~~OlWf~I"""'_Wty~~ti.d-~..rI~ through an intensive eight-week This year is the 65th anniversary ,~ , Wi!l!.ay It'<~M1!(~II\c}'l<>_ !~J.lOlwt'uy.&..~, leadership program. This program of that fateful day and a special cer• ~"..u~k4~«II1t#'~~_~, Thry ",.",~",w~ ..~"""""",,<'>flY«"'t'~f, provides a stipend of $1000 per emony will take place on March 30 ~"ffl'llIt-foot.,(mcuWn.~~nit~ intern, upon satisfactory completion at the site of the former Eagledale bt~t_"lft<"".b&I-..~"".~f~~"''''' f)i_l"~I.'*,,.~n" N"' ....~.m«'r~ ~ of the program. The · CASIC ferry landing. In addition there will ___ .~'-IIw: ...... tr WUI!"'m~"It_~ · Leadership Academy runs from June be a public tour of the fIrst phase of iI'4 __• .-.,l""'-'" -"'J'''_futt ..~ro~ 25 to Aug. ~\"':Wi<"'''I!!ls_''''-''')~'''lo>lOIl!_...t,..dotRob 17. construction for the Bainbridge ~!''''''''''''_7''''ili.>dloydwm ..... ,.~t As part of this eight-week acade• Island Nikkei Memorial. ,,,",,,,,- 1\Vju..>iM""'W.,-..I~ An artist's drawing of the Bainbridge ~ .... "".~»f~""""'''~~~.a my, CASIC Leadership Academy In 1942 Bainbridge Island JAs Island Japanese American Monument participants will receive an intern• were given six days to gather only (above), The monument will feature the ship placement in the offices of what they "Could carry and were "Nidoto Nai Yoni" plaque (left). elected officials throughout taken by U.S. Army soldiers to the , Southern California, participate in Eagledale ferry landing. From there passed the Bainbridge Island development.' The first phase of directly to the site will be provided the Annual Legislative Leadership they boarded the ferry Kehloken" Japanese American Monument Act' construction was completed this by the Bainbridge Island School Conference in Sacramento, actively and headed to the internment camps of 2007 on Feb. 6. The bill- spon• year. The second phase - a 227- District. For information, contact engage in civic issues and develop where they would be joined by sored by Rep. Jay Inslee, D• foot long stone-and-wood story Clarence Moriwaki at 206/855~ leadership skills through collabora• 120,000 Americans of Japanese . Bainbridge Island - would make wall, one foot for each Nikkei who 9038 or clarence.moriwaki@ tion on a group research project ancestry. the Bainbridge Island "Nidoto Nai lived on Bainbridge Island at the mail.house.gov. • focused on APA issues, register new Participants for the March 30 Yoni - Let it not happen again" voters and participate in local APA outbreak of WWII - will begin 65th anniversary ceremony will community events. In addition, Memorial site a satellite unit of the construction this year. include former JA Bainbridge Info171Ultion: interns participate in weekly semi• Minidoka Internment National Future phases include a 5,000 sq. Island residents who were interned; • Ceremony and pu~lic tour oj nars led by politicaL community, Monument and part of the National ft. interpretive center and a 150-foot former Go\\ernors Qary Locke and Parks Service, . long departure pier, one foot for memorial - March 30, 11:00 a.m. business and media leaders, who to 12:30 p.m at the site oftheformer . serve as guest lecturers. Mike Lowry; former Secretary of The measure awaits action by the each Nikkei who returned to Eagledale ferry landing Serving as chair of the CASIC State Ralph Munro;' and various U.S. Senate and President Bush. Bainbridge Island after WWII. .. Open house and Reception - program is Ben Wong, Regional community members. To date, the memorial project has Parking is extremely limited at March 30, 1:00 to 2:30 p.m., Public Affairs Manager for the The U.S. House of raised more than $2.4 million - $1 the ceremony site. Carpooling is Bainbridge 1slarzd City Hall League of Califomia Cities and for- . Representatives unanimouslx million for land and $1.4 inillion for strongly requested. Free bus service mer Mayor of the ' City of West Covina: ''The generous ongoing commit• Asian American Justice Center 'Releases Groundbreaking ment of the Los Angeles Lodge of CACA (Chinese American Citizens Report on Adult Literacy Education in Immigrant Communities Alliance), CAUSE, and other many With interest ip the pressing need draws heavily on testimony from the Office of Research. Advocacy other community organizations over to improve programs for English to more than 50 ESOL practitioners and Legi lation at the ational the years has allowed CASIC to pos• Speakers of Other Languages. and experts from immigrant, adult Council of La Raza, which con• itively influence over lOO past stu• (ESOLs) at an all-time high, the literacy, education, labor, business, tributed to the study, noted that four dent interns, many of whom are Asian American Justice· Center government and faith-based groups. million American citizens stand to actively involved in their communi• (AAJC) has released a comprehen• Irene Lee, senior associate at the benefit from ESOL programs. ties" said Wong. "One of the primary ' sive report detailing strategic invest• Annie E. Casey Foundation, noted "Interestingly, a significant por• goals of CASIC is to train and edu• ments and approaches that can trans• that increased iJrunigration, poorly tion of this population consists of cate our next generation of leaders, form this critical educational arena. funded ESOL programs, and a native~bom Americans - including and its great that we already can see "A number of demographic, eco• severe lack of understanding of their Puerto Ricans, Hawaiians, PacifIc the fruit of the seeds we have plant• necessity by lawmakers and the pub• Islanders, Alaska Natives and Native ed." nomic and social factors have con• Americans." The deadline to submit an applica• verged to dramatically underscore lic> at large are at the heart of the "Adult Literacy Education in tion for this summer's 'program is the need for both the. private and problem. May 25. College students and grad• public sector to increase research· "Stronger networks for informa• Immigrant Communities: uating high school seniors in good and support for the full range of tion sharing are needed to build sup• Identifying Policy and Program standing are encouraged to apply. effective ESOL programs," said ing the quality and quantity of deliv• portive communities that strengthen Priorities for Helping Newcomers The CASIC Leadership Academy AAJC President and Executive ery of such programs." families - and effective communi• Leam English" can be downloaded application brochure and application D~tor Karen K. Narasaki. The report, "Adult Literacy cations strategies supporting ESOL at http://www.advancingequality can be downloaded online at '''The inability to speak English Education in . Immigrant programs and the development of .orglfiles/AAJC_AduICLiteracy_Ed www.causeusa.org in the programs fluently is a powerful barrier to Communities: Identifying· Policy ESOL programs are a key to imple• ucation_report.pdf or printed copies section. attaining jobs that pay a living wage, and Pr~gram Priorities for Helping .menting this effort," she said. "We of the report can be ordered by' con• For more information or to request economic advancement, citizenship Newcomers Learn English," was also need to develop private sector tacting Pang Houa Moua at 2021296- • the brochure and application by and the opportunity to vote. It is published with support from the support for ESOL programs." 2300 ext. 122 or pmoua@advancing phone, contact the CAUSE office at imperative that we invest in irnprov- Annie E. Casey Foundation, and Cecilia Munoz, vice president of equality.org . • 626/356-9838 . • Japanese High School in Sweetwater Graduates Final.Class By ASSOCIATED PRESS Japan this week for the March 9 directors decided in 2004 to .close the graduation ceremony after complet• school with its [mal class. SWEETWATER, Tenn.-Japan's ing their courses in December. A closing ceremony and gathering fIrst accredited high school in the They reflected on how their edu• for students, parents and staff took United States graduated its [mal cation in the rural hills about 40 place March 10. The school is leav• class. and will be closing after years miles southwest of Knoxville. ing a monument to the city in thanks of slipping enrollment attributed to "The fIrst year was difficult for the hospitality of local residents. heightened security after the Sept. because we were always fIghting,'" The stud~nts' spirit "was nurtured 11,2001, terrorist attacks. Mayu Tezuka, 18, said. "But !be last here in Sweetwater ... from the local Tennessee Meiji Gakuin .High year was (the) happy life." people to the teachers," English School is a three-year private acade• Sachi LomimatSu, 18, said the teacher Hiromasa Okamura said. my founded in 1989, mainly forchil• quiet, pastoral setting of the school More than 160 Japanese compa• "dren of Japanese industry executives became so comfortable that she was nies, including Nissan Motor Corp., who moved to the U.S. bothered by the crowds and noise of employ about 40,000 Tennesseans. The boarding school, with an her native Nagasaki. In January the Japanese government · "I'm sad because no more announced its plans to move its emphasis on English language life,,,'said Machiko Tezuka, Mayu's administrators said it dropped after instruction, was housed at the 144- Japanese (students) can experience long-time consulate from New mother. ''That's a very good experi• Sept. 11. Visas became harder to this kind of thing," Sachi said. Orleans to cover Japanese interests acre site of a fonner military acade• ence for them." obtain and more Japanese parents my and is now up for sale. Their education at Sweetwater in Arkansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, The school once had a peak were reluctant to send their children prepared them for "a global way of Mississippi and Tennessee .• Twenty-six seniors returned from enrollment of 194 students, but overseas. The school's board of 6 NATIONAL NEWS PACIFIC CITIZEN, MAR. I6-APR. 5, 2007 NISEI RACERS racers, "one day the age of 87, grandpa purchased a they're on the hybrid Honda and joined an electric (Continued from page 1) dry lakes just car club." normal guys After the War many of the same have largely been swept away and racing then the Nisei faces co~ld be seen racing on forgotten, until recently. following day the dry lakes and the newly popular From his earliest childhood mem• they're the circular tracks of Southern ories, Tom Shigekuni, 77, of enemy," he said. California. Racers aka and his Torrance, Calif. recalls his older In their day• brother Harry, · Fred Jge and brother Tunney always being sur• to-day worlds Hirashima simply· continued where rounded by his beloved roadsters the Nisei racers they had left off. . and his racing buddies like the faced the anti• The Nisei drivers also furthered renowned Vic Edelbrock, Sr. and Japanese senti• their racing careers. Hirashima Bobby Meeks. As a lO-year-old kid ment prevalent would use his inasterful skills as a Tom would follow his older brother in those early mechanic to earn his way to an Indy ·around their garage as Tunney days but on the 500 win. In 1960, he was the crew worked on his cars and modified his dry lake beds chief for driver Jim Rathmann when engines. they were treat• he took the coveted prize. Hirashima "I was always there watching and ed as equals. passed away in 1980· and was TOP PHOTO: EDELBROCK MUSEUM listening. I leamed a whole lot about Fellow racers inducted into the Indianapolis Motor engines, about racing. Tunney was didn't care about Speedway Hall of Fame in 1998. always around Vic Edelbrock, Sr.... the color of their Tsuneo 'Tunney' Shigekuni Nisei racer Larry Shinoda became they did everything together," he skin, only that (above) poses with his Ford V8. a renowned car designer, helping to recalled. "I don't know what it was they had the cars Seeing the old photo brought create the 1963 Corvette Stingray, [about racing] but Tunney was and the speed to back a lot of memories. " I the zJ28 Camaro and the Boss 302 always involved with the sport." compete with remember helping him with that Mustang. Many today may not Nisei Mas Okumura, 87, idolized the best. car," said his younger brother know Shinoda by name but they the legendary Nisei racers of the And in an era Tom. knO'vV his cars. 1920s and 1930s and he himself where people Mas Okumura kept up his interest headed to Murdoc Dry Lake shortly were very con• Mas Okumura (left) headed to in racing after serving in the Military after Word War ll. With his partner scious of race, California's Murdoc Dry Lake Intelligence Service during WWll. Shoji Yamada they would set a num• many of the JA shortly after WWII and set a As soon as he came home he ber of records in the late-50s with racers were number of racing records. hopped-up his four-~ylinder Ford· their 1944 Ford V-8 in the gas coupe members of Model-A and headed to Murdoc Dry and sedan class. The Russetta prestigious racing clubs like the 1941. With the Japanese bombing of or so," said Tom. Lake, winning a number of fIrst Tuning Association clocked their Road Runners, the Throttlers, and Pearl Harbor the following month Some of the Nisei racers sacri• place ftnishes. highest speeds at 122 miles per hour. the Screwdrivers Club. the JA community would be forever fIced their lives and volunteered to Eventually, Okumura turned his "When I got out of the service I '''The Nisei had no problems get• changed. serve in the U.S. military during love of cars into a business and hopped-up every engine I could get ting ~to the best racing clubs," said Tom, Tunney, and · their ~arnily WWTI. Nisei· racers Yam aka, opened up his own wheel alignment my hands on. I've worked on a Tom, whose brother Tunney was a were rounded up like the other J As Hirashima, and Morimoto were a shop in Santa Monica, Calif. - Model-T since I was 12. I got my member of the Road Runners. "Bad and sent off to WWll intemment p~ of the famed 442nd Regimental ·"Samo Wheel & Brake" - andhis driver's license when I was 14 years things were happening but this, camps. The Shigekunifarnily would Combat Team, the most decorated son continues to operate it today. old," said Mas with a chuckle from group of people was supportive of end up in Amaclie, Colorado. unit for its size in U.S. military histo• Whenever a hot rod i~ brought in, his his home in Mar Vista, Calif. "I've the Nisei. All that mattered was rac• - Still, the racers did their best to 'ry. son calls him to come and help work always liked mechanical things." ing. They didn't care what you stick together. At Morimoto's funeral this past on it. Writer Tom Madigan spent over looked like." Vic Sr. watched helplessly as his May, his grandson Andy Seshiki "We were all comrades [on the eight years researching the story of '''There was no prejudice on the good friends were sent off fIrst to the spoke about his grandfather's love of Dry Lakes]. We were just buddies," 1 dry lakes. Everyone raced and Santa ~ta Assembly Center and . cars and racing. said Mas about his racing days. lished his piece in The Radder's everyone was friends. JA racers then Amache. On one of his visits to "As a young man in the early . '''There was no discrimination during 'Journal. A former editor of Hot Rod were just good racers. If you're a · Santa Anita, Vic offered to take care 1<)30s, his passions were fast cars all those years. It was just a bunch of magazine, Madigan came across racer, you're a racer. At ,the dry lakes of and maintain Tunney's precious and his girlfriend Yuri. He owned a good guys." • their story while researching another that's all they cared about," said 1941 Mercury racing engine. When 1927 Ford Model-T, which he .book. He was amazed to see so Madigan. the Shigekuni brothers came home worked on at every opportunity. He many Japanese names in the racing With the world facing the after four years, the engine was still modifIed the engine in order to eam· Tom Madigan's article "The Nisei record books from the 1930s. prospect of another World War, the as good as new. bragging rights for the fastest hot rod Racers" is currently in The "I was very interested in the U.S. military took over Murdoc Dry "During the whole evacuation on the Murdoc Dry Lake race beds Rodder's Joumal, issue number 35. internment. I tried to visualize lbsing Lake and the racers were banned time [Vic] took care of it. He agreed ... Even -in his later years, his life• For more injoT11Ultion, www.rodder- everything, instantly." For the Nisei from racing in the area in November, to tum [the engine] every few weeks long love of cars remained strong. At sjounzal. com. . BAFL the Titans' and how the coach talked league," said MallO. the players to tears? It's like that. To promote the new football (Continued from page 1) They'd huddle [and say] 'We've got league, they made flyers to distribute mushroomed into a full-fledged to win tIi.is! No one can tell us we at universities and boba shops. The league of about 300 players on 13 can't win.' It's very spirited," said reactions they received were always teams all vying for their team names Naomi Tokko, another BAFL com• positive. to get permanently etched onto the missioner and Nguyen's girlfriend. "We step out there for the love of BAFL trophy. Each player on the the game," said Maun. winning team also receives individ- The Beginning of And yes, the league is co-ed, but ual trophies and bragging rights, of . Beantown Football there are currently no women signed course. The idea for an organized league up to play, even though Nguyen This isn't backyard football - was born out of frustration. knows some "badass" women who the rules are strict, the competition is "We would call up everyone to would excel. intense and injuries are guaranteed. come out and play some tackle foot• "It's too rough for girls," said Tn flag football the plays usually stop ball, but because they weren't com• Tokko. '''There's a lot of hitting and when a player's flag is yanked off,. mitted, only four people would show falling and scraping of the knees." but in BAFL's world it's a full con• up and we would have to cancel the But so far, she is the only girl to PHOTO: VAL MAUN tact sport where players push and game," said Maun, a graphic design• catch a pass. throw each other to the ground. Last er and freelance photographer. "[Nguyen] said, 'Go straight. Go Ahmad Polad (left) tries to stop What's Cook'n's Mike Son. season, Nguyen, 32, dislocated his Obviously the players needed dis- fIve yards and tum left.' I was like, shoulder and Val Maun, another cipline, so they drafted up ---strict wait what's fIve yards? Your left or Festival. at each other and fIght. Now those commissioner, got 12 stitches. league rules, including a "death mine?" !laid Tokko, who caught the "We're making inroads into the rowdy teens have matured and have "We aren't a bunch of yahoos run• penalty" clause that prohibited teams pass on her second try. '.'It was very community and giving back," said taken leadership positions," added ning around, we're serious ... we from forfeiting games without nerve wracking. They always threat• Nguyen. "It's an outlet for players. Nguyen. have Gatorade stands," said Maun, severe penalties. Weight require• en to throw me in again." We have kids who are 17-18 years Many of these teens are from 27. ments were instated (120-pound old, and someone who's 40. We have tough neighborhoods and at times Their fourth season started March minimum) because no one wants to For the Love of the people from different social eco• have difficulties conforming to rules, I} and promises to be the most com• see a 90-pound high school kid Community Too nomic backgrounds who come here but on the football fIeld, their wor• petitive especially after one team last scrimmaging with a 230-pound In the Boston area, the APA com• and are forced to play by the rules. It ries melt way. season was caught sending a cousin engineer. And since it's an A.-PA munity is growing rapidly and really breaks down barriers." . '''The fIeld is their second home," to videotape an opposing tcam's league, the rules limit the number of BAFL's popuJarity has given the Since the league inception in said Nguyen. "Where do these kids practices and games. non-Asians on the fIeld to two per commissioners the opportunity to 2005, the commissioners have seen go if they get kicked out? They No one is more intense than the team. give back. They are planning on the players mature and evolve as always come b\.lck." • founders: Nguyen, Maun and Kaz "If you don't follow the rules donating $2,000 from membership well. Niirni. you're not just disrespecting the dues ($40 per person per season) to '''The fIrst year, the teams were . For more information: "You know the movie 'Remember team, you're disrespecting the the Asian American Boston Film fIlled with rowdy teens. They'd yell www.bostonasianfootball.com PACIFIC CITIZEN, MAR. I6-APR. 5, 2007 SPORTS 7 BASEBALL HOCKEY Dice-K Struggles in Another Kariya Wins Finnish League's SCQring Title Second Exhibition S.tart HELSINKI, Finland-A 'Paul is such a world class player, and he has proven that at every step he's Canadian hockey player named gone to. '- Martin ~ a rfya about his brother Paul FORT MYERS, Fla.-Welcome league games, all with San Diego, Kariya won the Finnish league's to the big leagues, Dice-K. and led Triple-A Portland with 32 scoring title for the second time in Boston's $103 million pitcher homers last season. three years - and once again his with the winning smile allowed Matsuzaka signed a $52 million name isn't Paul. homers to two contract after Boston posted the win• Martin Kariya, the NHL star's non-roster ning $51 million bid to negotiate 25-year-old brother, finish~d the players, strug• with the pitcher, who spent the past regular season for the fifth-place gled with his eight seasons with the Seibu Lions. Blues of Espoo on March 6 with control and He pitched two scoreless innings 18 goals and 43 assists for 61 even threw in a home game against Boston points in 51 games. away a poten• College on March 2 and three score• That feat matched 29-year-old tial double• less innings in a road game against sibling Steve Kariya's scoring play grounder Florida March 6. title from 2005. He had 24 goals against Baltimore on March 11. But on March 11, Matsuzaka and 35 assists for 59 points in 55 Daisuke Matsuzaka left after threw only nine first-pitch strikes games. He was third in scoring last four innings with the Red Sox trail• to 18 batters. Of the 11 he faced in year. ing the Orioles 4-2 and with his the third and fourth innings, only "Steve said congratulations to impressive spring training hitting its four saw strikes on the first pitch. me over the phone," Martin thre~ first bump. In all, Matsuzaka 63 pitch• Kariya said. There were no early signs that the es, 40 for strikes. "Obviously, he's very happy for Japanese right-hander would strug• He started the fourth by allow• me and it's something special that gle against an Orioles lineup that had ing a single to Miguel Tejada. . we both won this scoring title now. first-stringers in the fIrst six spots. Hernandez then brok-e his bat as he It's not that big a deal for me, but ~ard He retired the side in order in the hit a grounder to the mound. having Steve and myself engrav~d first - Brian Roberts on a fly ball to Matsuzaka backhanded it then on that trophy is something to look center and Melvin Mora and 'Jay threw toward second. The ball back on for a long time." just as happy play- Giblx>ns on strikeouts. In the second, sailed wide to the left of shortstop Steve Kariya played briefly for ing in Europe in he allowed a single off his glove to Julio Lugo, putting runners at first the Vancouver Canucks, but these great Martin Kariya and third. Corey Patterson fol• Ramon Hernandez, who was strand• Martin Kariya is still looking for a leagues." (top) and Steve ed at first. lowed with a sacrifIce fly. chance to join his 32-year-old Martin Kariya, a Kariya (right) With a 1-1 count, DuBois then Then Jon Knott led off the third brother Paul in the NHL. forward found by prove talent on with a homer to right-center field. hit a 90 mph fastball for his homer "Paul is such a world class play• the Blues in the ice runs in Jason DuBois then hit a two-run shot and a 4-2 lead. After Knott fol• er, and he has proven that at every Norway,' also was the family. in the fourth to left-center. After each lpwed with a one-out single, step he;s gone to," Martin Kariya voted the second• Boston pitching coach John batter swung, Matsuzaka· turned said. "He has had an unbelievable best player in the around and stayed expressionless as Farrell· visited the mound and career anyone would just dream league by sports writers. and next season Martin Kariya ~e he watched the ball fly over Matsuzaka retired Adam Stern on of. Steve and I would like the . Steve Kariya moved to Swedish will move to the Zurich Lions in fence. a fly ball before Knott was caught opportunity Paul has, but we're league team Frolunda this season, the more lucrative Swiss league . • Knott has played in 12 major- trying to steal . • SPEEDSKATING BASEBALL Ohno Returns and Wins Worl d Title az a sui MILAN, Italy- Five-time Olympic medalist Apolo Anton Ohno TUCSON, Arizona-Kaz returned to international competition March 9 and won the 1,500 meters at Matsui is comfortable in a Colorado the World Short Track Speedskating Championships. uniform. The American won with a time of 2 minutes, 33.793 "I wasn't Kaz Matsui in New seconds. Nicola Rodigari of Italy was second in York. I'm not sure why, but I wasn't 2:33.841 , and Olympic champion Ahn Hyun-soo of the player I really am," the 31-year• South Korea was third at 3:22.818. old Japanese said through his mter• Ohno took nearly a yearlong break after winning the. preter. 500 and taking two bronzes at the Thrin Games in The fourth-year veteran of U.S. 2006. He started training again only two months ago Major League Baseball second base• and won the eighth national title of his career at the U.S. man never lived up to the hype after championships in Cleveland last month. signing a $20.1 million, three~year Matsui is ready for his comeback after l?sik surgery. At the 2002 Salt Lake City Olympics, Ohno won gold in the 1,500.• contract in 2003 with the Mets, who traded him to Colorado last summer. York baseball spotlight may not After spending two months in the have let- Matsui, a former shortstop, top-level of the American minor fInd his own place at second base in leagues, Matsui hit .345 in 32 games the American game. for the Rockies, compiling a .392 . The Mile-High City isn't the pres• on-base percentage and swiping sure-cooker New York is, . and the eight bases in nine attempts. Colorado clubhouse isn't full of big That was enough to convince egos and bigger contracts. Colorado to make re-signing the ''I'm really coinfortable now. I switch-hitter a top priority and make like the atmosphere of the city Jamey Carroll a utility man. It also and the team. It really fits me," Since.1947 was enough to show Matslli that he Matsui said. "I also liked New could still make it in the top level of York: very crowded and exciting The JACL Health Trust American baseball. and had so many things going on. So, he didn't even think about It's just that I didn't have good Has offered Health Care returning to Japan or going any• results there." Coverage to where else and re-signed with the To help him change that in JACL Members Rockies for $1.5 million. Denver, the Rockies are working Along with newcomer Willy with him to polish his glove and Taveras in center field, Matsui gives footwork at second and to be more To protect you and your family from even the the Rockies something they've long consistent at the plate, where he hit common accidents and illnesses the JACL Health lacked: speed at the top of the order. .299 against right-handers last sea• Trust provides Blue Crdss Of California health "What Kaz brings us is dynamic soli but just .119 against lefties. insurance coverage. Blue Cross of California has speed, game-changing speed," gen• He thinks offseason Lasik: surgery been providing health coverage to Californians-for eral manger Dan O'Dowd said. will help him fInd that balance. over 66 years. Blue Cross is committed to keeping Matsui insists he's up to the task. "It was good last year, but I need you connected to quality health care services. And he thinks he's in the perfect to hit more, steal more," he said. spot, at last. . Matsui . also spent time over the . To learn more about the plan and how to become a Matsui played for the Seibu Lions winter taking English lessons .• from 1995 until he was signed by the rriember please Gall the JACL Health Trust Mets. Colorado manager Clint Stories by Associated . at 1-877-848-4875. Hurdle said the glare of the New Press and P.C. Staff 8 VOICES PACIFIC CITIZEN, MAR. I6·APR. 5, 2007

• HARRY HONDA • Hometown Tribute Honors VERY TRULY YOURS Mineta; Highway 85 Could Be Renamed in His Honor Sequel: 'Letters from Iwo 'Jima'

HE LAST TIME this col• stretcher with otheJ Americans at · it way to find more water;" He did T umn mentioned "Iwo.Jima," the beach and Bean's brown book• this by engineering a system that it was connected to an let made my day at this luncheon. harnessed the many small geysers important date in Japanese to make water drinkable. He was American history - Feb. 19,1942, *** rewarded with 3.6 liters of the kind when President Roosevelt signed This past week, Hy Shishino also of sake reserved for officers. E.O. 9066. that led to the at the luncheon, passed a story that The diary tells how Japanese sol- . Evacuation of some 110,000 per• unfolded in the San Jose Mercury . diers survived, hiding in rock-cov• sons of Japanese ancestry from the News of a Menlo Park resident, ered holes, avoiding gas and West Coast to inland concentration Miyuki Hegg, whose father sur- . flamethrowers U.S. troops used to camps. vived the Battle ofIwo Jima. Brad ' .smoke them out Mashiyama's hole On the same date in 1945, the Kava's warm story tells of the was finally found by troops who Marines landed on Iwo Jima, some hand-written diary written by threw candy and cigarettes, trying 650 mile south of Tokyo, that was Yosbikumi Mashiyama, "a reluctant to get Japanese soldiers to surren• More than 1,000 friends, community members, and dignitaries held a the costliest Marines Corps cam• soldier ... a civil engineer who had der. Humiliated and expecting to be hometown tribute for former U.S. Secretary of Transportation Norman paign.in the Pacific. What was three young children when he was killed, he was first treated at the aid Mineta in San Jose recently. Speakers included actor George Takei, expected to be a 14-day offensive drafted in 1941." station, then shipped to a hospital in Congressman Mike Honda, and Sen. Daniel Inouye. During the ceremony, for the force of 70,000 Americans The diary tells "a tale strikingly Hawaii for intestinal problems. He Sen. Elaine Alquist and Assemblywoman Sally Lieber announced that a res• against Japan took 36 days and similar to that of the movie's main was down to 90 pounds, almost ______dead from hunger olution had recently been introduced to rename Highway 85 in honor of ended with 5,961 killed and 17,372 Mineta. wounded. and thirst. 'The entire Japanese garrison 01 22,000 The San Jose airport is already named after Mineta and after learning of The entire Japanese garrison of Months later, he the plans to rename Highway 85 he joked: "If you get a ticket on lIighway 22,000 army and navy troops died army and navy troops died in battle except and other Japanese .85, don't call me!" in battle except for prisoners of war. • prisoners were lor prisoners 01 war. The Daily Variety Proceeds from the event will go towards archiving Mineta's historic papers The Daily Variety review of Clint taken to the main• and artifacts at the Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles and Eastwood's "Letters from Iwo review 01 Clint Eastwood's "Letters from land and across the will also benefit the Japanese American Museum in San Jose. Pictured here Jima" says only 216 survived. U.S. by train and Iwo Jima'~ says only 216 survived.' (l-r) are: Mineta, Makoto Yamanaka, Takei and Congressman Honda. bus. That he spoke *** ------some English .~. At the All Veterans Reunion for character, the baker Saigo. In fact, helped Mashiyama to meet with Americans of Japanese Heritage last Mashiyama's writings inspired Americans troops. month, my tablemate was Beans Eastwood's movie." On his 40th birthday, Mashiyama Blue Shield ofCalifornia Sogioka of Chino Hills, a WWII The reporter adds, "Mashiyama"s returned to Japan in January, 1946. An Independent Metiiber ~fthe.alue Shield Association medic at Fort Lewis General journal df

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Eric Byler picks up where 'Charlotte Sometimes' left off with a darker tale of love and infidelity.

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n Eric Byler's "Tre," it's all about the The screen sizzles with currents of energy between Tre leads up to a surprise ending that will leave you breath• and his best friend's fiancee and the dynamics of four less. sensation of touch and the chemical friends living under the same roof is forever changed. "At some screenings, no matter how intrusive [Tre's] I "I wanted to capture the surPrise, the discovery of questions got, people would still laugh. Then we knew reactions it unleashes. Early on, the question is posed: attraction that sometimes comes with the sensation of that it was an audience of anti-romantics," said Byler, touch," said Byler, 35, by phone from Washington, D.C. who again left the ending for the actor to determine. can you imagine someone you love betraying you with where he is currently leading a revolution (more on that Since "Charlotte - Sometimes," APA filmmakers someone else for 10 seconds? So in a drug addled moment later). approached Byler to say the film influenced them to look In "Tre" truth and lies slide back and forth between deeper than .the color of their skin and intergenerational lit by a weak beam from a flashlight, Tre (Daniel Cariaga) intersecting lives like in Byler's 2002 breakout film conflicts. Byler calls it the "license to look inwards." "Charlotte Sometimes." He calls this one a mini sequel He will be screening ''Tre'' at the upcoming San decides to try - he touches Kakela's (Kimberly-Rose . and revisits some similar themes of love and infidelity Francisco Intemational Asian American Film Festival that made his name so synonymous with controversy where it is up for a Best Narrative Film award, but he will Wolter) hand and counts to 10. (remember the boycott campaign because ' the· Asian also be taking part in a fundraiser for APAs for Progress, American guy in the film didn't get the girl?) a national organization that encourages electoral empow• - The filmmaker, who identifies as Hapa, is inspired by erment. truth in everyday life. You know, the kind of truth that Byler was spurred into action by the now infamous Fillmore Street. San Francisco. 1948. • was "inherited from the sexual revolution - prolonged ''Macaca'' slur that rolled off of the tongue of then A place to call home? periods of courtship and emotional train wrecks," he Virginia Sen. George Allen dUring his recent t:eelection said. . campaign. The filn;nnaker was in Los Angeles at the "After 'Charlotte Sometimes,' I was just dying to time, but he returned to his horne to start a grassroots rev- make movies," said Byler, who has since worked on 01ution, which will be the subject of his next project - a three projects he couldn't turn .down: '.'Americanese," a documentary. . PBS pilot called "My Life Disoriented" and ''Tre.'' He "Representation in the media is good, but representa• also worked on a script for a Showtirne miniseries called tion in politics is better," said Byler. • '1nfidelity," which has not yet been made. . He cailed thi period of creativity a "frenzy of' 'c energy" and "the last gasp of my 20s." e "Charlotte Sometimes" was a breakthrough, but there was another story knocking around Byler's mind - a darker version of the idyllic love formed between "Charlotte Sometimes" actors Michael' Idemoto and theWar Eugenia Yuan. He had developed a darker character for Idemoto who in the original script went closer to the by PHILIP KAN GOTANDA edge of psychological breakdown, but the actor brought Oire!:ted by CAREY PERLOFF his own sense of dignity to·the film that precluded the . ending, so Byler threw out the l~t 15 pages of the script and filmed an impromptu ending. . "I was wise enough to let things develop organically and capture truth rather than fiction," said I}yler. ''Tre was a part of my psyche." • Tre, on the other hand, is the kind. of character arm• chair psychologists would spend hours trying to peel away the protective layers. He is also the kind of guy you would avoid eye contact with if he were walking towards you. Tattooed and armed with an acidic tongue, he cuts down his victims and then dominates them. ''Tre is a charaCter who always doubted that if they're worthy of love. He's aggressive and manipulative because he has an innate sense of competing for love," said Byler. "He builds up this self-doubt fortress to pro• tect himself but in his heart of hearts, 'he fears that he is unworthy of love." . When Tre and Kakela touch, the tension explodes and

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WWII veteran, U.S. Army; sur• All the towns are in California except as .noted. Joan (Richard) Kirihara; 2 gc.; 5 Nakano, Masako, 93, Jan. 25; vived by wife, Yasuko; daughters, ggc.; step-sons, David (fenny), survived by daughters, Lillian Susan, Karen (Robert) and Linda Abe, Michihiro, 51, Lomita, and Sharon (Robin) Nakazaki; 7 Steven (Sudie) and John (Sharon) (Jim) Takarni and Jean (Dr. Arthur) (Frank) Mariani; 3 gc.; and sib• Feb. 26; survived by wife, Kinuko; gc.; 3 ggc.; and sisters, 'Miyo Koyama; and step-daughter, Linda Tsutsui; 6 gc.; and 7 ggc. lings, Toru (Seiko) Sugita, Frankie brothers, Keisei (Satomi)· and Tachiki and Chiyo Kobayashi. (Mike) Toda. Ninomiya, Setsue, 94, Los (Hiroshi) Fukuda, Chizuko Kazuto; and sisters-in-law, Katue Endo, Kathleen Haruye, 57, Matsuda, Steve Masami, 56, Angeles, Mar. 5; survived by (Richard) deQueiroz. (Kenichi) Inoue and Motoko (Eiji) Agoura Hills, Feb. 26; survived by Feb. 22; Vietnam veteran; survived daughters, Linda and Sheila. Tajiri, Charles Shuichi, 84, Takeshita. husband, Thomas; daughter, by wife, Kim; and mother, Nishi, Yoshio, 77, Orange, Feb. Los Angeles, Feb. 26; survived by Abe, Shizu, 100, Los Angeles, Cheryl; son, Keith; mother, Masako. 23; survived by wife, Masako; son, Kay; daugher, Susan Sawaye; Shizuko~ Feb. 19; survived by sons, Kazurni sisters, Joyce (Jerry) Matsuda, Yaeko, 96, Torrance, daughters, Helen Templin and Ana broth~r, George; sister, May Imai; (Keiko) Morinaka and Jirni Abe; Endo' 'and Janet (Benson) Chin; Feb. 12; survived by sons, Ben Nishi; son, Thomas; and 4 gc. and sisters-in-law, Amy Tajiri and daughters, Nancy (George) Murata and brothers, Kenneth and Jeffrey (Patsy) and Larry (Florence); Ohira, Ted, 82, Mar. 5; Ohira Fay Tajiri. and Yaeko (Hank) Nakano; 6 gc.; (Shelley) Endo. daughters, K~thleen DeCardenas, Tanji, Fukuji, 87, Orange and 8 ggc. was a member of the 442nd RCT Furuya, Rev. Kensho, 59, Los Carolyn (Tom) Drake and Jeanne that rescued the Lost Battalion in . County, Feb. 1~; survived by son, This compilation appears on a space• Angeles, Mar. 8; aikido master and Yanai; 6 gc.; and 9 ggc. the Vosges Mountains in 1944. He Frank; daughters, Alice (Dick) available basis at no cost. Printed obit• Zen priest; established the Aikido Matsumiya, Masai "Mike," was awarded the Purple Heart and Horio and Merry Jitosho; and 2 gc. uaries from your newspaper are wel• Center of Los Angeles in 1974. 84, Los Angeles, Feb. 21; survived two Bronze Stars. After the war he Yamamoto, S~igeto ''Fred,'' come. "Death Notices," which appear Hamamoto, Toshiko, 94, Feb. in a timely manner at request of the by wife, Tomi; sons, Don (Yayoi) was active in veterans organiza• 91, Gardena, Feb. 25; survived by family or funeral director, are published 27; survived by son, Kio; daughter, and Terry; daughter, Suzanne tionas and served on the Go For sister, Harumi Kato. at the rate of $20 per column inch. Text Yumiko; 2 gc.; 2 ggc.; and sister• (James) Allen; 2 gc.; and sisters, Broke board of directors. He is sur• Yanamoto, Miwako, 83, Los is reworded as necessary. in-law, Toshiko Terarni. Miki (Joe) Uyeda and Eiko vived by wife, Chiz; son, Dr. John Angeles, Dec. 16; survived (Tomio) Miya. Higashida, Mitsuko, 76, Los (Dr. Pamela Dolin) Mitamura; and Yoshimura, Yukiye ''Yuki,'' 82, Adachi, Nobuko, 84, Los Angeles, Mar. 1; survived by son, Matsushita, Shizue, 98, Palo 4 gc. Angeles, Feb. 18; survived by hus• Feb. 24; survived by husband, William Motokazu; 1 gc.; and sis• ,--____--, . Alto, Nov. 27, band, Isamu; daughter, Sharon; Ozawa, Yutaka,' 80, Feb. 20; Sam; son, Cedric; daughter, ters, Takako (Wataru) Tabuchi and 2006; survived survived by wife, Sumie; brother, Jeanette; brothers-in-law, Roy brothers, Isamu (Suzy) and Masako (Yosbiyuki) Takata. by daughters, Masurni (Mildred) Kinjo; and sis• Harry (Tomiko); sisters, Klmiko (Setsuko) Yoshimura and Tom Ikeda, Kazumi Frank, 91, Los Haruko ter-in-Iaw, Tae Kinjo. Nakagawa and Mineko Tstsurni; Nakano; sisters-in-law, Mihoko Angeles, Feb. 27; wwn veteran; (Azusa) and sister-in-law, Hisarni Tsuda. Akiyama, Tom Tsutomu, 78, Saito, Kazuko (Harvey) Kitaoka survived by wife, Emiko; son, Tsuneyoshi and Sasaki, Katherine Tsuneko, and Amy (Frank) Nishikawa. Torrance, Feb. 19; survived by Sadako (Hairy) Steven; brother-in-law, Masashi 86, Glendale, Feb. 8; survived by Yuge, Kanji Kay, 91, Torrance, wife, Erika; sons, Thomas, Justin, Hatasaka; 6 (Dorothy) Miyamoto; and sisters• husband, Nobuo; and son, Feb. 26; survived by wife, Yukiko; and Ron (Wendy); daughters, in-law, Tsuemi Ikeda and Miriam gc.; and 7 ggc. Nicole, Jenny Kan, Kathy (Ken) Raymond. sons, Steven and Kenneth (Dora); Miyamoto. Mikami, Sasaki, and Naomi (Sauron) Sasaki, Masako, 9t,- 1 gc.; sisters-in-law, Fumiko Yuge • Imada, Hatsuye; survived by Satoshi Mike, 104, Torrance, Mar. Terrill; many gc.; and sisters, Terry Montebello, Feb. 23; survived by and Midori Sakamoto; and broth• daughters, Evelyn (Harry) Sasaki, 5; survived by wife, Toshie; son, Akiyama and Nancy Murakami.· son, Harry (Kathy); daughters, er-in-Iaw, Masakazu Sameshima. Jane (Jim) Kishiyama, Carolyn Richard (Ann); daughters, Kiyoko Atsuko (Roy) Noritake, Miko Boyar, Lee "Sets," 73, Feb. 18; (Tony) Lanl\on and Beverly (Rick) (Buster) Uyejo, Meiko (Mits) • survived by son, Bruce; sisters, (Hiroshi) Tanaka and Judy DEATH NOTICE Paderes; sons, Leonard (Mun-Cha) Inaba, Carol (Vern) Matsuura, (Wayne) Tada; 10 gc.; and 7 ggc. Miyo Ujiye and Kaz Nakaba; and Lynn and Shirley Mikarni; 4 gc.; MIWAKO and Ron (Sharon); 20 gc.; and 25 Sato, Shigeru, 79, Seal Beach, . brothers, Mas and Nob Yamashita. ggc. and 7 ggc. YANAMOTO Feb. 23; Korean War veteran; sur• Miwako Yanamoto, 83, of Los Endo, Asako, 88, Santa Monica, Kato, Mitsuo, 74, Arleta, Feb. Muraoka, Yoneko, . 72, Mar. 5; survived by husband, ' vived by wife, Yoshiko; son, Angeles passed away Dec. 16, 26; survived by wife, Kebo; son, Monterey Park, Mar. 1; survived Randy; daughters, Denise (John) 2006. She was laid to rest with her Hiroshi; sons, Alan (Sue) and Dale; brother, Takeo (Doris) Kato; by husband, Tadashi; son, Sam parents. Ichizo and Kinko Wayne; daughters, Marlene (John) Hudson, Sharon (Curt) Arakawa and sisters, Surnko Tsuchiyama (Ikue); daughter, Grace (Ron) and Deann (Alan) Sechrest; and 6 Yanamoto at Evergreen ·Memorial Itagaki, Carolyn Endo-Tenorio, and Toshiko Uyemura. Goo; 2 gc.; sister, Haruko (Hideo) Cemetery in a private interment DEATHNOTICE ___ . __ _ service Feb. 24, She is survived by family and · close friends: James KATSUJI GEORGE and Karen Hirose Okada, Kenneth HASHIMOTO and Dorothy Hirose Hamada, Katsuji George Hashimoto, 76, Larisa Hamada, Jonathan Hamada; passed away Feb. 23 in Vista, Edward, Eiko, David, Joyce, Calif. Formerly of Guadalupe, Christopher, Martha and Tina Calif. he is survived by brother, Matsuoka; Marge Wada; Yosh Tom, sister-in-law, Betty Hamaguchi; and relatives in Japan. Hashimoto, nephews, Gary and Donations in her memory may be Alan Handa, Dennis Kono; nieces, sent to: JANM, 369 E. First St., Darlene Mathews, Diane Springob, Los Angeles, CA 90012, c/o . and Retha Handa. Florence Ochi in memory of Miwako Yanamoto.

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