• ISSN: 0030-8579 Two Chinese sisters in death leap over dating dispute • J New York but doubled tmck. As a ~ Two Taiwan-born teen• lice car entered the block, PACIFIC CITIZEN age daughters--apparent• Betty stepped off, followed Publication of the National Japanese American Citizens League ly in despair over their fa• by Jean. They were p~ ther's insistence that they nounced DOA at Bellewe No. 2021-Vol. 87 Friday, December 1, 1978 25¢ u.s. Postpaid 15 Cents stop seeing non-Chinese Hospital. • boyfriends-fell Nov. 10 to their-death from the roof Neighbors in the heavily of their six-story midtown Hispanic block told New Manhattan cqmtment York Times reporter Ju• Betty Hwang, 17, a stu• dith Curnm~ that there • dent at Seward Park High was no tenSDn between 'Camp Harmony' remembered School, and her sister Jean, them and the Hwangs who 13, a junior high schooler, have lived on the block for Over 2000 experience the Evacuation in one-day demonstration for redress had been in an argument more than eight years. The with their father who had tragedy was described as reprimanded them for "an old story" of city-raised Puyallup, Wa ton, Ohio, wOO relived the military areas orzones." This was youngsters clashing with • the order, signed by Lt. Gen. J.L East West Players in Los breaking his rule against Upwards of 3,000 came 1942 trek to Puyallup with DeWitt, that three Nisei tested in Angeles, also read a diary dating non-Otinese boys parents struggling to pre• by Army truck, buses and her mother, Mrs. Benko I• court and lost. 'frey were Minoru of camp life-in Japanese, and ordered a'Puerto Rican serve old country ways. # caravan of cars here Nov. toi of Seattle, now 80, told Yasui, Gordon Hirabayashi and belonging to aSan Diego Is• boy friend of Betty's to Fred Korernatsu.) 25 to rename Western the Pacific Citizen that the sei. Born in Kobe, Mako leave the family's top-floor • Washington Fairgrounds Day of Remembrance was The program to remem• came to the U.S. in the late apartment Guyana reveals "Camp Hannony" for one "a positive expression" and ber the 3% years of Japa• '4Os. His wife,Momo Yashi• The Hwang ctuldren Cult's references was "to the IX>int". She ex• nese Americans in Ameri• were celebrating a third sis• day more. It was a day to ma, told the Pacific Citizen: ter's 16th birthday when New York remember and demon• plained: "The buried anger ca's concentration camps began auspicbusly by rais• "The power of the people their father came into the The Guyanese govern• strate for redress. over Evacuation has been apartment, according to corruptive of the Nisei, but ing the flag over Camp poured through the experi• ment publicizErl a list Nov. • Camp Harmony was one ence of re-living the Evacu• witnesses, am ordered the 20 of prominent Ameri• of the 1942 Army reception now our feelings are open Harmony by a detail com• youth to leave Apparently and that's healthy. It's only prised by Nisei veterans. ation in this trip to Camp cans whose favorable com• centers processing some Harmony. I'm glad I carne upset, Betty and Jean went ments on the Peoples Tem• right to show our anger As program emcee, Dr. to the roof's edge, then re• 110,000 Japanese Ameri• here ~as a member of the ple and its leader Rev. Jim cans being interned be• openly over the injustice." Min Masuda roted the fl~ sponded to pleas to leave Her book, "Nisei Daugh• ceremony marks the "years postwar Sanseigeneration) Jones formed character cause of their race. references that attempted • ter" (1953) w~ one of the of hardship Japanese toexperiencethis ... we've ABC-TV s 20/20 News• State panel backs to show why Guyana was first evacuee-written sto• Americans endured to stumbled on to something magazine, local media cov• sympathetic to the jungle ries about the Evacuation, make the US. home for bigger than expected. It's Redress campaign ered the entire proceed• colony, which stunned the where she describes her their parents, themselves, hard to describe." ings, starting at noon at Se• Olympia, Wa world by murdering five their children and all Nik• Hirabayashi couldn't be• attle's Sick Stadium park• Seattle chilc::llnod (her fath• The State Commission Americans, iocluding Rep. • kei generations to come." lieve how gripping the ex• ing lot wherethoseassemb• er owned a hotel on the on Asian American Affairs Leon Ryan (DCalif.), Nov. waterfront in what is now Masuda s~nt time in perience born of the clam• led were registered, given voted unanimously to sup• 18 and then committing Pioneer Square), Camp Harmony andMin,idoka be• or for redress was and said: a buff-colorErl name tag. port the JaJ:BIlese Ameri• mass suicide the next day. Each carne with a tote bag Harmony and Minidoka fore seeing combat with ''We're on the threshold of a can redress efforts, it was or satchel. Under clear skies and in the all-Nisei 442nd Regt. new era." The Nisei is not announced Nov. 13 by Di• Former Rep. Patsy T. • (11lirty-six years ago, the Anny crisp weather, the symbol• Combat Team in Europe. afraid any more to mani• ane Yen-Mei Wong, execu• Mink (D-Hawaii) was ordered all persrnsof Japanese an• ic trek to Camp Harmony The professorof psychiatry fest their emotions about tive director. among those mted as well cestry-alien ani citizen--on the was paced by two 21/2-ton at the Univ. of Washington Evacuation that have long The group was also ac• as First Lady RoSalynn west coast to assemble at a desig• revealed: "I've always had Carter, Vice President nated point to be evacuated from Army trucks from the Na• been held in private, he said. tively involved in the Day the excluded areaby noon of a cer• tional Guard, followed by a sense of injustice that the Born and raised in Seattle, of Remembrance program Mondale, the late Sen. • tain day. Evacuees were told to three buses and a caravan country I lovehas !lever ac• he had refused to be evacu- held Nov. 2S at Puyallup Hubert Humphrey and bring their own hOOding, toilet art• knowledged ror given re• HEW Sec. Joseph Califano. icles, extra clothing, eating uten• of some 250 cars-which Continued on Next Page fairgrounds. # sils, plates, bowls. cups and essen• was stretched some 4 miles dress for the bsses, shame tial personal eff6:tS; but no pets. down Interstate 5 toward and stigma of Evacuation. " Each item was tied and plainly the Puyallup fairgrounds. Shosuke S~, born in marked with the nameof the owner ~arnaguchi-ken, • and family n~r provided by State patrol and local police Japan, the Anny.) escorted the Japanese grew up in Fbmeroy, Wa. The highly visible name tag American families and their Hedescribedhis bus ride to and bag of personal effects non-Nikkei friends to the Harmony in 1942, reading (participants last week site of the wartime assem• from his diary. Now retired • were bringing a blanket, bly center. here from his profession as pillow or cushion, ground• (Any person subject to Exclusion statistician and securities cloth and romething to Orders who failed to romply by not analyst in New York, he ex• leaving the exchxied area at the pects evacuees will win re• share for the potluck din• posted time was liable to criminal ner) added a truch of Evac• penalties, provided by PL 77-503 dress because "I believe in uation realism that shook of Mar. 21,l942,ernitled "An Act to the average American's provide a penalty for violation of sense of justice and fair loose pent-up anger a gen• restrictions or orders with respect eration old. to persons ente~, remaining in, play." Monica Sone, nowof Can- leaving, or rommiting any act in Mako, artistic director of
IMMIGRATION RED TAPE Mom wins right to stay with son Seattle, Wa newspeopJe and readers after the story Perhaps itwas the front-page treatment broke on the front pages earlier this that untanglErl the government red tape month. this past week (Nm . 15) permitting Kazu• The immigration office reversed their • ko Hendrichs a Japanese citizen married previous decisions and issued her a per• to a missing American fisherman, to re• manent registration card, crediting all the main with her in-laws, the Tim FarreUs of time spent in the U.S. (over five years). Seattle. "All she w~ asking was for a chance to She had been refused alien residency stay here and raise her American son• status because she had no American blood now she's got it," said Laura Farrell, Hen• • relative of legal age to sign for her alien drich's sister. registration card. Her husband, Bill Hen• richs, was reIX>rted mis ing at sea and "She was frightened half to death," Ms. pre urned dead a year ago while they Farrell said. "First she lost her husband. were visiting her family in Okinawa. In then her resrlency, for all these months RoseVlle Press· Tnbune ~ the she d been in limbo. September, Farrens managed to get ISSEI PIONEER MEETS 23rd CENTURY SPACE SHIP CREW MEMBER - Charles Nrt• S-year~ld "Now she can settle down, live with us, Mrs. Hendrichs and her son ta, 92 (left), listens to George Takei, member of the Star Trek cast now involved In a full-length Andy. who was bom in alifornia. back to maybe go back to school, concenU Nobuyuki's HQ report headliner at IDC meet &: .. By YUKI HARADA tionaJ poll indicates 94.4 '( up• ret Hasegawa. Idaho Falls welcomed the delegates as POlt: s-Camp Hannony cara• did JAYS president Robert (IDe Correspondent) van: 6--Re enue funding pro• JACL, as National JACL Ontario, Or. gram. Resolutions Committee Sakahara. IDYC chairper• First-hand observations Nobuyuki also com• chairperson and con• son Jeanne Hirai received and reports about National mented on the personnel firmed by President Clif• an allocation of funds to • JACL and o~rations and changes at Headquarters, ford Uyeda. meet their btrlget. Headquarters from visit• the new chapters in pro• IDC went 00 record in ing National Executive Di• support of Mountain Bell's Y oshiko Odti will pre• cess, travel program, sent her report on the Na• rector Karl Nobuyuki scholarships, legal coun• affirmative action pro• headlined the fourth quar• gram and its equal oppor• tional JACL Nisei retirem• sel s concerns, 1980 con• ment planning meeting at • terly Intenrountain Dis• vention, the Mas & Chiz tunity policy. trict session here over the Hid Hasegawa of Idaho the next quarterly session. Satow Fund and endow• She was the roc repre• Nov. 11-12 weekend at ~nt Falls outlined Clarke Ki• fund. sentative at the special Tapadero Motor Inn. do's tentative plans for the District governor John meeting held Nov. 17-18 at Nobuyuki discussed: 1979 IDC convention being Tameno apIXlinted Terry H enclOU(111ers. I- Eastern District's "Japa• hosted by the chapter in • nese American Resource Regis• Yamada, a Boise attorney, try"; 2- Founders' Award, a as Intermountain district November. Kido is the Ida• hC 1928-1978 JACl ccrfounder The People Who Led Placer What is so unusual about this roster of chapter presidents covering SO years is the virtual dominance of the leadership • by the men---except for Ellen Kubo (1961), who continues to be active at the district and national levels of JACL as well. Two years ago, she was the national credentials committee chairperson who successfully challenged the then PSWDC governor Mike Ishikawa's proxy votes. PLACER COUNI'Y %-Jeff K. Asazawa 61-Ellen Kubo PIoneer Chape 47-Tom Matsumoto. 62-Kunio Okusu Organized May, 1928 Roy Takemoto 63-64-Harry Kawahata 28-29-Tom Yego 4S-Kay Takemoto 6S-Dick Nishimura 3O-31- Kay Takem • Placer County JACL celebrates its 50th anniversary Roseville, lA to be known by all . down and pull up your geles, Seattle, Portland, the group. nia. "Star Trek" personality "When I see their deeply sleeves and find new chal• Stockton and Brawley. The organization's cur• "When I return to the George Takei issued a chal• tanned weathered faces lenges. responsibilities and The Placer JACL was or• rent president, former U.S. Enterprise, I will look • lenge for the Japanese and hands, it revives in me projects." the "Star Trek" ganized through the leader• Loomis Judicial Court back to the a>th Century American Citizens League a sense of pride and helmsman told the JACL• ship of its first president, Judge Cosma Sakamoto, is and say the Placer JACL to face and accept new re• strength." ers. Thomas M. Yego, in April. a charter mem~r. has done ;t good job in its sponsibilities during the 1928. first SO years. 38th annual Placer County He added theJACLisata JACL was founded as a Takei currently is in• JACL goodwill dinner held threshold point in striving national organization in "It's amazing the Placer volved in filming a full• "Based on its track rec• • here Oct. 28. to achieve its motto. "Bet• 1929 by delegates from Pla• County Chapter is celebrat• length motion picture of ord," the star ship's helms• The occasioo was super• ter Americans in a Greater cer County and seven other ing 50 years, when the na• the 23rd Century space man added, "the chapter special since the dinner al• America." pioneer chapters: San tional organilation is only odyssey at Paramount Stu• will do an even better job in so marked the 50th anni• "It is a new era to sit Francisco, Fresno, Los An- 48 years old," Takei told dions in Southern Califor- succeeding years." # versary of the chapter and • honored the Issei pioneers. About 350 were present at the dinner staged at John• son Hall at Placer County Fairgrounds here. "Japanese Americans to• day are faced with a new kind of challenge different than the transition faced by the Issei piooeers when • they crossed the Pacific Ocean. "It is time to assume re• sponsibilities on a broader scope and meet new chal• lenges," the 1971-73 presi• dent of the Wilshire chap• ter of the J ACL in Los An• geles said. One of the oldest Issei • pioneers present for the oc• casion was Olarles Nitta, a rancher and agriCUltural• ist, arrived in California in 1903 and Placer County in • 1910. The Issei, according to Takei, had "true grit." "They gave to their chil• dren an abiding good faith -loomIS News Photo , in what America stands The Golden Jubilee of the founding of tre tending were these charter members and and Masayuki "HIke" Yego: seated-Eilc> for," he added. Placer County JACL was oelebrated during their wives (from left) : standing-Cosrre Sakamoto. Harriet Kawahata. Alice Yego. Takei said the story of the 38th annual Goodwill Dinner Oct. 2B Sakamoto, ament chapter president: Kay Alice Sunada. Michiye Hanamoto. Mary the Japanese pioneer to in Johnson Hall at the Placer County Fair• Takemoto. Louis Oki, Uichi Sunada. Tan Sunada. Irene Takemoto. Virginia Naka• America is an epic needed grounds. Among the several hundred at- Matsumoto. Togo Yokota. Harry Kawahata moto and Alice Matsumoto • 4-PACIFIC CrnzEH I ~day, December 1, 1978 • Fourth, new programs bate, Mike Masaoka said this course of action will Comment, letters, features and ideas will be devel• something that really c0n• alienate your neighbor, oped for the betterment of vinced me that this action then fm sorry. It is not a Japanese Americans in a was right question of $25,000 or CHIAROSCURO: wholeheartedly. The JACL ~ greater America; such In essence, Mike said $5.00. The question is to . has, in the {BSt. paid lip programs as antidefama• that during preevacuation right the wroog. The time service to the JAY Pnr tion, international rela• Inflation Finally Hits time, the JACL leadership has come to cD our bit to gram, but during this bien• tions (especially between By DR. KAZ MAYEDA was in a quarxlary as to pay back the Isse~we nium, we will "put our Japan and the United (Detroit JACL) obeying or cfuOOeying the have an obligation (gin). money where our mouth registry States) and Nikkei Executive Order 9066. The To be incarcerated with• • AS YOU ALREADY or a dollar, eventually we is". Our future resides in of talented Japanese leadership at that time, de• know, the National Con• would reach a point where the hands of rur children; out due process of law is Americans will be devel• cided to obey the order unconstitutional I would vention in Salt Lake City our effectiveress as a na• thus I am all in favor of this oped. with the full realization voted to increase the na• tional organization deter• move. like to have an apology that someday this country from this country. tional dues by $4.50. I vot• iorates. The excrutiating Second, the Midwest ONE OF 1HE crucial will make Redress. I am • ed in favor of this move. dues increase this year is District Office will be bud• discussions at the National thinking more of our Issei the price we are paying for (Dr. Mayeda hails from Los Let me try to explain my geted out of the national Convention involved the parents than my own per• Angeles. grew up in Japan in the position. For the past 10 to past mistakes of not keep• fund so that we in Midwest question of Redress. When sonal gain. I am convinced 19305. coming t.lck to be in• 15 years, the inflation rate ing up with inflation. I hope District will not be taxed I was getting ready to at• that we (the JACL) owe our terned at Manzanar. He finished we do not get into this trap hlgh school and ooUege in Utah, in this country has been extra to help keep this of• tend the convention, I was parents this obligation of culminating with a doctorate in near double digit. The Na• again. fice going. not convinced that this was righting this wrong. I am genetics. He bas been teaching tional JACL has done quite WHAT ARE WE getting Third, before the next the right thing to do. The convinced that now is the in the Dept. of Biology at Wayne well in the face of this in• State University since 1961 and for the money we pay to National Convention, the thought of lining my own time, while some of the Is• currently holds an adjunct ap• flation. the national? Several National JACL Constitu• pocket with $25,000 for sei are still with us. I was pointment in pediatrics at Chil• However, when the na• things are happening that tion will be rewritten to re• two years spent in camp as brought up with the idea of dren's Hospital of Michigan. a tional convention is held require your full support. flect the modem needs of genetics counselor at WSU Med• • a youngster was repug• Gin, and this is one Gin ical School and teaching genetics every other year and dues First, the Youth Program the Japanese American nant to me. that we owe our parents. at Univ. of Detroit Dental are increased by 50 cents is going to be supported communi~ and concem However, during the de- If you feel that pursuing School.-Ed.) # "Chiaroscuro" is reserved for JACl chapter presidents.-fditor El PIMENTERO: Frank Fukaz3w3 • The Yanks-Redress By DON ITO Is the yen that strong? (Sacramento JACL) NOW TIIAT the World Senator from California scrap. Shoes are dumped out. Take a shoe factory that any erratic behavior • Series is over, I and (sure- and the miscommunica• on the domestic market be• for example, having an ex• affects the entire world's Iy) other members of the tion of infonnation. As the low cost being afraid of an• port contract for $100,000 currency .. .above all: Chapter can return to do- Yanks have done, the re• ti-dumping laws abroad. in December, 1977 calcu• That it has la;t the conti: ing more everyday tasks. dress program, too, can be• Tokyo What they urgently need is lated at $1/240 Yen By the dence of the leading indus• But before we do, I would gin to make a comeback. A TODAY, TO the non-Ja• CASH! time he ships the goods in trial nations who look upon • like to make a comparison comeback in the sense that panese, Japan gives them One billion dollars in one September, 1978 and Washington's every move between what happened in the leadership and organi• only one striking impres• single day is oought up by changes his Dollars to Yen, with suspicion and doubt. the World Series to the re- zation behind the program sion-that she is floating the Japan Central Bank, in• to his horror, the rate has That America inherent• dress program. has become effective. Pre- on money accumulated to tervening to stop the nose• dropped to $1/180 Yen. A ly has a healthy industrial The New York Yankees liminary work on educat• almost $30 billion in for• diving Dollar. It's support• loss of ¥60 to a Dollar! A economy with vast natural • were down two games to ing the public has been ini• eign reseryes. The tour• ing the ailing Dollar not the loss of 25~ can't be over• resources and self-suffi• nothing when they re- tiated. Meetings have been ist's "Dantai" yellow ban• Yen. come in a night The tragic cient surplus agriculture turned to home "turf" and arranged to plan introduc• ner conspicuously can Unemployment has ris• finale for him is plain products. proceeded to win four tion of legislation. Indica• still be seen by them in en to 1,500,000 which is un• BANKRUPT. With a $17 That it has the interna• straight to become the tions of support have come Honolulu, Hong Kong, usual where life-time jobs million exchange loss, To• tional accOlmtability to champs. How does this from several elected offi• Paris, and even in Buenos are assured. Jobless be• yota Motors might sill sur• stablize its Dollar. Recent• compare to the redress cials. Aires where any currency cause their companies vive. but not the shoe fac• ly, however, it abruptly program? So those of you who view is strong against a 900ft: in• went into liquidation. tOry. woke up and made a blitz• And 4OO,(XX) university In essence, the program . the redress program as an flated Argentina Peso. Of• It all originates from this announcement to support . has suffered setbacks in underdog, remember what ficially and privately, graduates seeking jobs free-wheeling mechanism the sagging Dollar by in• the form of adverse public the Yanks did and what we American and European this year are being cold• called the ''Foreign Ex• tervening with $30 billion statements from a U.S. will accomplish! # politicians are clamoring shouldered by the major• change" where millions of which was welcomed from ity of companies who sim• (Sacramento JACL President Don Ito was recently elected to the NC• to make Japan reduce this Dollars are changing all quarters of the world WNDC executive board. He is an auditor with the State Dept. of Parks reserve at every oppor• ply cannot maintain any hands with Yen, Deutsche However, if this program. and Recreation.- Editor.) tunity they get. But is the further increase in their Mark, Swiss Francs and is not accanpanied by Yen really so strong? Does administration expenses at more drastic measures ... such a critical moment other curreocies every it reflect the true strength day. As BOOft: of the world lowering the inflation rate, Some M.A. degree grad• 35YEARSAGO IN THE PACIFM; CITlZEN of Japan's economy? trade is based on Dollars, reducing oil imports, ab• uates are serving in restau• Dec. 4. 1943 action in Thnisia and in fialy. the impact of a dropping sorbing the $60 billion ~Los Every time the Dollar rants. Nov. Angeles ACLU Dec. 2--Mentally retarded Dollar in value would be Euro-dollars and suppress• may test west coast exclusion evacuee, 22, refusing to answer sneezes on the N.Y. Ex• WHAT'S AlL behind ing money supply, re• ruling. warning of Gila WRA Camp sen• change, its reactions are fatal to world exporters. Nov. 24-War Department try felled by gunIrre after trying this.? Dollar-speculators, the straining wages & prices, protests any proposal it should to walk past. catastrophic, deep and The root lies in the fact adjusting its deficit trade assume control of relocation pro• Dec. 2-Nintb Circuit court wide, in this country. currency hyenas, picking that Japan is traditionally on the ailing Dollar victim balance payment, and gram. upholds Gen. DeWitt's evacua• above all recovering its Nov. 26-Drew Pearson re• tion of Japanese Americans in At $1 to ¥100 rate, more an export-oriented coun• are doing roaring business ports Navy stalling on War Shlp• Korematsu case; minority opin• export-orientoo factories try. Not only traditional economic world leader• ion by Judge William Denman relentlessly regardless of ing Administration ove to use enter the morgue for iden• but its survival is based on its economic and social ship ... it could end up 400 evacuee merchantmen. expresses hope evacuees all be with temporary results at Nov. 26-Native Sons of Calif. compensated. tification by the creditors. export. Export which se• consequences. at Los Angeles organize efforts Dec. ~WRA Director Dillon Bankruptcy is running at cures them the indispen• the best, and an em bar• to prevent release of Japanese Myer aims to relocate 70,000 eli• 1,300 monthly with no fore- sible funds to purchase the WASHINGfON DOES rassing failure at the from relocation centers. gible evacuees during 1944, re• not appear to realize that worst. Nov. 27-Pacific Coast Com• veal about 300 involved at Tule . seeable end. Tragic "Ikka essential foods, iron ore, mittee on Ameri.can Principles "riot"; about 25,000 out of camps shinjyu" (family suicides) oil, lumber, cotton, wool the Dollar is so internation• So, if Washington and Fair Play backs WRA juris• permanently. are daily in the papers. Hi• and practically everything ally utilized, so susceptible Cootimed on Next ~ Dec. 4--San Francisco Police diction of TuIe segre&ation tachi, the giant electronic that can be named natural camp, oppose postwar ban puzzled over status of Cauca• resources. Even ''Nori for against return of evacuees to sian-Japanese girL 17, living with company lost $133 million: - . ISSN: ()()3O..8S79' west coast. Caucasian half-sister married to the car maker Toyota $17 Sushi" comes from Korea, Nov. 29-War Dept. casualty Chinese American. million in Dollar exchange and the shrimps that make lists growing with names of Ni• Dec. 6-LA. Times "Jap Ques• the delicious ''tempura'' PACIFIC CITIZEN sei in Mediterranean Theater tionnaire" shows 14 to 1 favor rates alone! (presumably Italy). deportation of "all Japanese" New Japan Steel Corp., from Baja California But Published weekly except the first and last weeks of the year at Dec. l-Over 15,000 Christ• and 10 to 1 in favor of Japanese the world's largest steel this export in large, medi• 355 E. FIISt St., R'n. 'JJ7, Los Angaes, Calif. 90012. (213) 626-6936 mas gifts gathered by various being permanently excluded um, and small industries is religious groups for distribution from west coast. company, was compelled to DR. OJFFORD UYEDA, NATIONAL JAa.. ~ENT to youngsters inside 10 WRA Dec. ~ongressional storm layoff 7,000 workers, clos• slowing down and in some . ELLEN ENoo, PAm1C CmzEN BoARD CJiAIRP'ERsoN centers. of "Battle of Bathtubs" reported; ing down their Kamaishi sectors it has come to a HARRy K HONDA. EDITOR WRA pamphlet had appealed to factory where the entire complete stop. Dec.. 11, 1943 evacuees heading into Ohlo, Second Oass postage paid a1 Los Angeles, Calif. Nov. 24-AP war correspond• Michigan to teach farmers sani• town and supplier's indus• Because at the present SUBSCRIPTION RATES ent Kenneth Dixoo reports Nazi tation and efficiency. Evacuees tries are dependents. Dollar/Yen rate, their Yen .!ACl Merrtlefs-S7 ~ NatIOnal ~es p!OYIdes one ~ on • on.par. PWs surprised to see Nisei GIs in were described as "daily bath• Famous Kyoto textile mills income doesn't even cover household basis Norwnerrbers payable In IKtvIWlCe-US $10. yNI Allied front lines. ers" and sending them to mid• the cost. Typical are the foreign US$14.50 a)9lr Fa frst cIBssIamlIII- ~re Ibou1 our rlllll Dec. I-War Dept. reveals west might be a problem be• are hacking.. away with tOOth Infantry part of 34th In• cause of a shortage of bathlng sledge hammers, breaking medium size factories News and opinion. apr.... d by column_ta, except JACL staff writers, do not neceuarlly reflect JACL policy. fantry Division during Hill 609 facilities. 11 the soinning machines into which are alroost knocked • r-~~~~~~~Tn--~nTITTI~~~~~flTmmr~~~~-,------F~.o..mbH1.19~'P~~ ~~ ] FROM THE fRYING PAN: Bill HasoUwa 'Japl Flap in Japan • • mE NEWEST NIKKEI MEMBER, Denver, Colo. Yes, there was a letter from B. Saiki• CONGo ROBEKT IMTSU 1/ "HEY, HOSOKA• must be Bany Saiki-which says that 15 A SANSEI. wa, what's that big while Jap is a logical abbreviation for Ja• stack of clippings on panese, ''in the wide range of the Amer!• • your desk?" These? can experience, its use bas been predonu• Oh, these are clippings from the Japan nantly derogatory ... The Japanese Times, Asahi Evening News and other Americans became extremely sensitive English language papers that Kay Tatei• about this awellation after more than SO sm sent me from Tokyo. Most of them are years of offensive and inflammatory • letters to the editor. use." Saiki makes a lot of sense when he ''What are they about? What makes suggests that "if two extra syllables can them so im(X)rtant that good old Kay engender cahn and dignity rather than ill would invest in airmail stamps to send feelings, they should well be worth the ex• them to you?" . tra effort." • They have to do with the use of the ''Wait a mirute, Hosokawa. You've writ• word,Jap. ten on this subject several times and you "You mean the Japanese are uptight seem to say something every time that about being called Japs? I thought that makes somebody sore as a boil" was a strictly Nisei and Sansei pheno• Well, I like to think rm fairly reason• • FROM HAPPY mena." able. What I've tried to say on other occa• VALLEY: Sachi Seko Yes, they are uptight. What touched it sions is that "Jap" has a long history as a off was that the Press Council of Britain, hate word, am because of that it shouldn't the unofficial watchdog body for press be used. But there are some people who conduct, ruled that "Jap" was a shortened don't know its history, and in their ignor• ~ . A good, home-grown idea. form for "Japanese" and ~"'juld not be ance they may use it without meaning to Salt Lake City: group. shy and aggresSIve, a mIX considered ~ting or oftel,.:.:ve. be offensive. In such cases we ought to try THE PHONE BEGAN D . tw I tt f of sales, engineering and "Well, that's a hellova howdy do. Seems to educate without blowing our tops about ~sfPIted ' ringm· g a little past eight. specI IC Irec°b .on e thersta no0 administrative people. to me what the British Press Council is it And eventually, if we're tolerant Not an unus~ <> BY THE BOARD: -George Baba ( ,92261 re• • ~ ceived to date); regional direc• Calendar pulse, memos tor's report-George Kondo (about SSOO raised in sale of vol• Let's Open a JARR leyball tickets). NORTHERN CAL-W. NEVADA DISTRICT John TateiSli of Marin By SEIKO N. WAKABAYASID County and national re• · .. (EDC Governor) dress committee chairper• Washington chapter selection commit- son detailed the progress The JACL National tee to obtain the names of Office manager succeeds inventor of the redress campaign Board on March 11, 1978, outstanding Japanese thus far. He med a nation• adopted an EDC resolution Americans within its goo• By HARRY HONDA Among the number of -and (gratefully) Take• wide opinion plll on the ac• • to establish a talent regis- graphic area. Nominees Covering the fourth quarterly new things the affable shita's writingacwnen has ceptance of a redress plan try of skilled and talented need not be JACL mem• NC-WNDC session was unin• aquanaut fum Sequoia been noted in the chapter in Congress has been pnr tended, but going back to Los An• posed; a major media blitz Nikkei with the coopera- bers. Individual chapter geles after a pair of meetings at JACL initiated, the Ariga• bulletins when he was an tion of the District Coun- members shruld be en• National Headquarters via SMF to Award (i.e., JACLer of editor. He is manager of is being worked out and cils ~d the chapters. The couraged to send names to (Sacramento aiIlx>rt) was m• the Year at the district lev• the State Employment De• legislative strategy is be• • tended. All flights from San el) was accorded to Take• velopment Office at Pleas• ing fonnulated. Washington D.c. chapter, chapter selection commit• Francisco Surxlay afternoon on behalf of the EDC, tees in order to insure that were booked solid by Trojan shita last sumner; Project ant Hill. Steve Nakashima, nafl agreed to develop ground no outstanding individual fans up for the football game at Scatter to have such books The morning session V.p. for membership serv• Stanford. And cur thanks to re• as Weglyn's "Years of In• covered close to 20 agenda ices, believed JACL should rules and procedures to will be overlooked. Infor• gional director George Kondo establish such a registry. mation to be obtained at for giving us a lift to the Red Lion famy", Chmnan's "Bam• items-including commit• be all things to all people • JACL is frequently asked this stag~ will?e limited to Inn and to Percy Fukushima, boo People" and others tee reports on: by assuming the role as a longtime FlorinJACLer, for see• Cultural heritage-Samuel Co• by government agencies the norrunees. name and about Japanese Americans "catalyst" in the commtmi• ing we got to Mass at nearby St. hen (koto concerts Jan. 13-Feb. ty with and private organizations address. N~tlonal Head• Ignatius. There was a time in to public officials and insti• 6); Library/educatio~Ko Ni• respect to social, to furnish the names of quarters will thereafter JACL when no business meet• tutions was ''nationalized''; shimura; Chapter of the Year• political and educational Dr. Tom Taketa (two $100 prizes qualified Nikkei for cer- send each nominee a ques• ings were conducted on Sunday and a complete schedule of endeavors. He also wanted • mornings so that delegates could district meetings to be being offered at 2nd Quarterly to see more people who tain employment and/or tionnai~e , with instructions attend church.-H.H. next year, appUcations due Feb. special opportunities, such to ~ail ~e completed ...... hosted by each chapter in 28); Committee for Internment disagree withJACL to join; Credit-Muts Fbriya (started golfers and bowlers to re• as service on commissions, questIOnnaIre to the Wash• Sacra:nento, Ca. turn is well on its way. For instance, Florin J ACL, campaign in 1972, about $4,000 new their ties in J ACL committees, honorary ington office of the JACL Innovator 01Uck Kulxr spent, will continue committee hosts for this meeting, tournament play. memberships, special acti- It has also been suggest• kawa (in real life, he has an work another year); district con• • must wait eight years be• stitution-Dr. Roo Mayeda; in• It was anmunced Cen• vities, etc. Without some ed that JACLchapter pres• invention of his own pat• fore their next turn. Only ternational relations--Kuboka• tral California will host the kind of registry, more idents and members of the ented) passed the reins of thing to snap the timetable wa (to seek ammdment to Ja• fourth Tn-District Confer• times than not we have National Board for the last Northern California-West• pan-U.S. Friendship Act); dis• would be to break up the ence in Fresoo next April been unable to suggest 15 years be listed in the ern Nevada district gov• trict youth-Bruce Shimizu 31-chapter district council (starting new JAYS in Berkeley 2a-22. "JACL-Growtb worthy Nikkei candidates. Registry. ernor over to his vice-gov• (and this has been consid• area With UC .tSel1 • INTRODUCING OUR tt\\lhen you dont tnake your auto loan payments, you save NEW INTEREST half a percent interest!' • A a i tant vice president Hideo Tanaka explains: "With our auto-• matie transfer option. you don't have to remember t() make any payment - You don't have to write any check. 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Under Construct ton MEMBER FSLlC • ~ J-PACIFIC CmZEN I Friday, December 1,1978 • Carter signs solar bill Keep Up the PC Subscription Through JACL Membership sponsored by Matsunaga Washington ensures early develop- President Carter has ment and widespread use signed. into law the Solar of photov~ltaic energy sys- Photovoltaic Energy Re- terns. which use space-age search, Development and technology to.convert s~ - (; Demonstration Act of light directly mto electncl- i • 1978, sponsored by Sen. ty," stated Matsunaga. in fancy pattern & pastels Spark Matsunaga CD-Ha- "Under the program. ~et wail). forth in this bill, electriCity Hard-to-get: 14% to 16-inch neck "Enactment of this bill generated by the sun's , 30 & 31-inch sleeves . . rays will be in general MItSUI Bank opens commercial use by 1988." • Let us know the size you need (neck & sleeve lengths) . • and we'll send price and kind avallable. Little Tokyo office The bill commits the Mark Tajima of the Pacific Asian Coalition presents Rep Los Angeles U.S. to a 10-year, $1.5 bil- Glenn Anderson (O-Calif) with the Special Services for Though housed in a tem- lion research, develop- Groups Award. Nichi Bei Bussan Since 1902 Ba~k porary setting, Mitsu! ment and demonstration 140 J~cbon St., San Jose, Ca 95112 of California opened Its Llt- program in solar photovol- • tIe Tokyo branch N.ov. 1O .at taic technologies. It would PAC awards Anderson 211 S San Pedro With a nb- d bli ft tal ~ ------~~~~ bon-c~tting witnessed by lead to the o~ ng 0 0 Washington Followmg an award pre• "'L:;~apcmese civic and business dignitar- U.S. production of photo- Congressman Glenn M. CasuallY Insurance Assn. ies. Masato Kaneko, branch voltai.c systems eac~ year Anderson (Calif. 3200 sentation by Mark Tajima, - COMPLm INSURANCE PROTECTION - manager, said the perm~- for 10 years, advancmg the dist.) was presented the Washington coordinator Aiharo Ins. Agy., Aiharo-Omalsu-Kakita • for PAC, Anderson said, nent site will be planned In state of the technology and Special Services for 250 E. 151 St...... 626-9625263-1109 "the large number of Paci• accordance with eRA rede- achieving cost reductions Groups award by the Paci• Anson Fujioka Agy., 321 E. 2nd, Suile sao ...... 626-4393 velopment program. # through large scale pro- fic Asian Coalition for his fic Asian Americans resid• Funakashi Ins. Agy., 321 E. 2nd SI ...... 626-5275 ing in my home district Hirahala Ins. Agy., 322 E. Second SI ...... 628-1214 287-:~ Nationwide Directory· duction. # work on behalf of Pacific gives me a welcome obli• Inouye Ins. Agy., 15092 Sylvanwood Ave., Norwalk ...... 846- • Foreign influences and Asian Americans. An- gation to work for bills like Tom T. 110,595 N. Lincoln, Pasadena ...... 795-7059 (LA) 681-4411 BUSiness - Professional I d derson cosponsored and the Internment Credit Pro• Minoru 'Nix' Nagala, 1497 Rotk Haven, Manlerey Park ... 268-4554 Your business card placed in at co leges eye testified. on behalf of legis- posal. We won on this ef• SIeve Nakaji 11964 Washinglon Place ...... 391-5931 837-9150 each issue here 10: 25 weekS ~t Solo Ins. Ag~ . , 366 E. 1st SI ...... ~29.:.!.~25 .,26~ $25 per Ihree-tines. Nam~ In " Los Angeles lation supported by the Co- fort and have lost on oth• ~~~~..u-_ larger type counts as two hn~ . Prompted by a report alition. The award was giv• ers. Each additional tine at $6 per line that USC has established a en as part of the Special • per 25·w~k period. . "I look forward to work• Middle East Center being Services for Groups' 25th ing with the PAC and the financed by multinational I Anniversary. Special Services for Eagle Produce • Greater Los Angeles American coqx>rations do- Anderson cosponsored Groups organization dur• Asohi International Travel ing billions of dollars of HR 4440 a measure which 929-943 S. San Pedro St., Los Angeles ing the next Congress and 1111 Olympic, Los Angeles 90015 business in Saudi Arab.ia, would p~ovide medical aid 625-2101 623-6125/29 : Call Joe or Gladys hope we wi! have even • U.S.A., Japan, Worldwide Assemblyman Mel Levme to people now residing in more victories then" # BONDED COMMISSION MERCHANTS Air-Sea-Land-Car-Hotel (D-West LA.) said he the U.S. who suffer health -WHOLESALE FRUITS AND VEGET ABLES- M;;-Vifw GARDENS i2~ ~ .;~ would introduce le~la- problems resulting from Flo~~~~G~:/~~e~I~~~e~~2wide ' tion aimed at discouragmg the atomic bomb blasts in c - Mllr Art Ito Jr Call (213) 620-0808 attempts by foreign g?V- Hiroshima arxl Nagasaki MIKAWAYA Aloha Plumbing • Nisei Florist ernments to comprOInlSe during World War II. Sweet Shops Ll C #201875 Nanka Printing inte~.·ty P RT & SUPPLIES In the Heart of Li"le Tokyo the acad.emic. of He also cosponsored and 51 Japanese PhototypeseHing 328 E. 1st - 628-5606 d 244 E. 1st -RepoJ,r' Our SpeCla/ty- ~ber : Teleflor~ . 628-4~~5 Fred Moriguchi Califorrua uruverslties an testified in favor of legis- Los Angeles. CA 1948 S. Grand, Los Angeles 2024 E. First St. The PAINT SHOPPE colleges. lation that would give fed- 2801 W. Ball Rd. Phone: 749-4371 Los Angeles, Calif. La Mancho Center, 1111 N. Harbon Under his proposal, such eral employees pension Anaheim. CA (7 14) 995-6632 Phone: 268-7835 Fullerton. Co . (714) 526-0116 institutions would be re- credit for time spent in in• Pacific Square Three Generations or Yamoto Travel Bureau quired to publicly disclose ternment camps during Redondo Beach Blvd. Experience 321 E. 2nd St., #':JJ5, L.A. 90012 Gardena. CA (213) 538-9389 Shimatsu, Ogata (2 13) 624-6021 the source arxl intent of World War II. This bill was programs financed by for- recently signed into law by 118 Japanese Village Plaza FUKUI Los Angeles. CA 624"1681 arid Kubota • Watsonville, Calif. eign governments. if the President. t....,....~ ...... ,...~ ...... ,...... • Mortuary MortuarY.l.lnc. • Tom Nakase Realty 707 E. Temple St. Acreage, Ranches, Homes, Income 911 Venice Blvd. TOM NAKASE , Reahor Los Angeles Los Angeles 90012 25 Clifford Ave . (408) 724·64n 749-1449 626-0441 • San Francisco, Calif. EIJI DUKE OGATA Soichi Fukui, President • 6.3% Tax Free Income R. YUTAKA KUBOTA James Nakagawa, Manager Nobuo Osumi, Counsellor 'Cherry Brand' . Established 1936 MUTU L UPPL 0 'AA' Rated Municipal Bonds· EDSATO I OQO an om(> <; 1 PLUMBING AND HEATING <;.1n Franu,co. alii $5,000 MINIMUM Nisei Trading Remodel and Repair· Appliance. - TV - Furniture Water Heaters. Garbage 01 posat Furnaces Servicing Los Angeles • San Jose, Calif. ._------NEW ADDRESS: 249 S. San Pedro St. .293-7000 733-0557 . Edward T. Morioka , Realtor 3170 Williams Rd ., Son Jose Los Angeles, Caljf. 90012 • Bus . 246-6606 Res. 371 -0442 8. 75% Tax-Deferred Income Tel.: 624-6601 • Seattle, Wash. No Risk - No Fee - No Probate $1,500 MINIMUM TOYl;~ jnpeRtaL Lanes I Complete ProShop -Reslourant& Lounge ~ 210 1-22nd Ave So. (206) 325-2525 ------IG ...... STUDIO Kinomoto Travel Service PHOTOMART 318 Ea t First Street Fronk Y. KinomOlo 9% APPR. Taxable Income 605 S. Jackson St . 622-234. Clm!'r.l ... PhnlO~rJph,c Suppl,e\ Los Angele , Calif. 90012 Daily Interest - Highly Liquid - No Fee 316 E. 2nd St. , Los Angele Gold Key Real Estate , Inc . 626-5681 • Home and Acreage $1,000 MINIMUM 622-3968 TIM MIYAHARA , Pres . Call Collect: (206) 226-8100 Beacon Travel Service, ltd '• ------Empire Printing Co. George A. Koda , Owner .2550 Beacon Ave . So. 325-584. ~~TIESII\C , O\1MERCHL and OC! I PRI,\TI. G • Fngh hand Japanc\" • The Midwest MEMBER NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE, INC. ll~ Sugano Travel Service (213) 629-5092 Weller St., Los Angeles 900]2 628-7060 17 E. Oh io St ., Chicago, 11160611 445 S. FIGUEROA ST., LOS ANGELES, CALIF. 90071 944-5444 I eve, Sun: 784-8517 Y. CUFFOID TANAKA ~ Name ...... • • Washington, D.C. m _at Address ...... Mosaoka-Ishikawa JON TANAkA City, State, ZIP ...... roYO PRINTING m. 300 So SolO Ihlm SI I.H'i ~fl; 90013 and Associates, Inc. Tel: (Bus) ...... (Res.) ...... Consultants - Washing ton Mo"ers EBJIl~3;/ '2I:1Ifl2R-81')3 900 - 17th SI NW, #520 / 296-4484 • • ---~---.~-----.------Friday, December 1,19781 PACIRC C~9 ~sing ~there . MOSHf MOSHI: by Jin Konomi heard of his away. ' muSt ·· be . ·very This is a long overdue many-would be pleased tribute from his old col- to know he had an admirer Long overdue tribute for Larry Tajiri league. Some of his friends among the Issei # • • fell to my lot to translate many years older than he. and nothing to sniff at. Try orally for Larry some of When the flat presses it some time) for 25 cents. IntrodUcing ... the more significant seem• started to shake the whole Still you could not live for ing news from the Japa• building, someone always $50 a month. When the rival nese agencies. brought up a few copies of paper, the Rafu Shim po, "Chibi-Chan" T-Shirts the first run. The first made me a better offer, I • Richmond, Ca.: In my mind's eyes I can BY AYAKO still see him as he sat at his items I examined were jumped at the chance. TIIE PICIURES of lar• Larry's renditions of the I do not remember see• Popular in the Bay Area ... now available for all of USA ry Tajiri in the JACL con• typewriter desk, facing me with that faint half smile Japanese news. And there ing Larry again. Years af• vention book show him as I they were, tmder smart teIWard I was thrilled to have always remembered on his face, his two index fingers poised over the captions and in flawless hear, by the tidings of the • him. Only he was five keys. Half way through my style, all the important wind, that he was with Bill years younger and 15 points in proper sequence Hosokawa on the Denver pounds lighter. first sentence his fingers would start to fly, like the and all the irrelevancies Post. I wanted to write him Since those far off days hooves of the lead horse in tactfully deleted. To read a note of congratulations, of 1933 I have lived many a trotting race. A few sec• them was such a sheer but I never got around to SIZES: • lifetimes and passed pleasure I used to look for• doing so. Then, again, by $5.95 onds after I finished 'my includes XS (2-4), through scenes and events delivery the item was com• ward to the daily session the tidings of the wind, I posta~e & which are oo.ly blurred pleted. He typed with his with him. handling S (6-8), memories now. But I still But my association with two fingers faster than I Buddhist parents (Calif. M (10-12), remember larry most could with my five. him was all too brief. For I resident add • vividly, for he and I were It was the most awe• left the Kashu Mainichi in in D.C. start school 6% Sales Taxl L (14-16) colleagues, though briefly, some, uncanny display of January the next year. washington Send in the old Kashu Mainichi the intellectual power in a Basics of Buddhism will Check or Money Order ...... ----- ...... of Los Angeles. youth twelve years my WlTIf THE SURE in• be taught to youngsters I was just beginning to junior. It used to make me stinct for survival devel• every secooo and fourth (Note: Recommend buying one size larger) • get the feel of life as a feel immature by compari• oped over the years of Sundays at the home of newspapennan. It had son. knocking about and tackl• various parents starting NIeHI BEl BUSSAN Since 1902 seemed so glamorous and But that was not all. He ing anything that came my Jan. 14 with Ken Naka• 140 Jackson St., San Jose, CA 95112 exciting from the perspec• was the one man editorial way, I had found several mura as' coordinator of the tive of a Master of Arts in staff of the English section eateries on Main Street local Sangha Dharma Indicate size & quantity desired ______• literature washing spinach and he performed all the which offered soup, entree School. Approximately 16 Name ______and polishing apples in a other routine chores, too. - ~sually boiled beef, pork children, between 4 and 16 Address ______produce market, but the Altogether his was an sausage, or meat patty• years of age, comprise City. State. ZIP _ _ _ _ reality was far different. astounding performance. cole slaw, carmed peas or the school. Others on the Still there was that crush- A sort of ideological and beans, bread, coffee and committee ioclude: bread pudding for 15 Norman Kondo, Lillian Oye. • ing depression on, and this semantic rapport devel• Nori Nakamura, Shigeki Sugiya· was my first intellectual oped between us. I am sor• cents. rna, curriculum; Ruby Fujiwara. professional job, and I was ry I never commended At Chitose on the peri• sec·treas; and Mitsu Y Carl, cor eager to make good. I sus• him on his brilliance, for phery of Little Tokyo, sec·pub. pect Sei Fujii, publisher- somehow I felt it would broiled mackerel or arani • owner, never had a more show me up as a bit con• (fish trimmings cooked in HOLIDAY ISSUE DEADLINE willing slave. descending. I was not too soy sauce. Very delicious Final Closing-Dec. 7 My duties consisted of transcribing the short• wave Romaji dispatches • from the Domei and Godo agencies, the two still pri• Excellence vate presses of Japan, tak• en down in large, franti• cally scrawlal hand by • Fred Mittwer, a brother-in• law of Joe Oyama; writing and rewriting the local and downtown news; and read• ing the galleys for typos. • When the pressses started to run, it was time for the others-there were four or five beside myself on the Japanese staff-to lean BILL Y AMASHIRO TATS KU~HIDA, CLU TAKOGINO back on their swivel chairs 20 Years 19 Years 10 Years and put their feet on their "The Private War of Dr. Yamada" is lyrical in its appreci• desks, but I had still anoth• ation of the finer points of Japanese culture ... I predict er chore: writing a column In the life insurance industry there are several standards by this book will soon be considered a classic among World for the next day. War II novels. It is certainly heading for a lasting reputation. which excellence of performance is measured; one is the National • (It must have seemed an un· -Kevin Starr, San Francisco Examiner mitigated conceit for a rank Quality Award, presented annually by the National Association of Mr. Ruttle has painted his character clearly and with sen• greenhorn to ~ on such an Life Underwriters and the Life Insurance Marketing and Research sitivity ... A very believable and moving account of are assignment- which the other Association. man's struggle with the many painful dilemmas brought on veterans apparently shied from by war. -Daniel K. Inouye, United States Senator - and actually it was. I take this The life underwriter who earns the Award has demonstrated a opportunity to apologize to my professional competence of the highest order and a profound dedica· The Japanese are no longer the enemy. Still it is good readers, if they are still around, thet 3PY to learn about the thoughts, fears and hopes of are for all the brash, priggish, half• tion to the principles of life insurance. of them-a very decent human being-by examining the baked pontificatioos I must have We are very proud to be associated with these members of the entries in his private diary. For this reason .. Lee Ruttle's spouted off, for I still wince to Wilshire agency who have earned the Award this year. book deserves to be a successful one. think about it.) -Bill Hosokawa Between these chores it Ruttle makes Dr. Yamada totally believable ... Japa• Be a PC Ad-Watcher nese soldiers in this book are not "the faceless enemy". but human beings, brave and terrified ... This is an im• An American General Company pressive book. -William Hogan, San Francisco Chronicle. Wilshire Agency 3250 Wilshire Boulevard ------~----- Suite 1502 Pacific Citizen, Am 3fI7 Los Angeles, CA 90010 355 E. 1 st St, Los Angeles, ca 90012 Telephone: (213) 388-9631 Please send me ...... copies of Lee RuttJe's " The Private War of Dr. Yamada" (clothbound. Today's Classic looks $9.50 each postpaid). for Women & Men FRANK OHKAW A ARNOLD MAEDA, CLU Call for Appointment s: 10 YEARS 6 Years Name Phone 687-0387 Richard Takata, Manager Address 105 Japanese VUIase Plaza Mall Los Angeles 90012 Tats Kushida. CLU, Associate Manager City State. ZtP Toshi Otsu . Prop 1O-PACIFIC CrnZEN I Friday, December 1, 1978 • Business ter. A graduate ofUC Davis, tbe pointed part-time dll"ector ot the Classified • Alameda JACLer Dr. Roland HoUywood JACl.er received his newly-formed Japanese Amen• pc's people Kadooaga ha moved his opto• law degree from Loyola Univer• can Christian Center by the No. metric practice and Jomed the sity. He is a carrlidate for the Calif Japanese Christian staff of Dr. Ernest . Takahashi Master of Public Administration Church Federation. He was in• as partner at 33 10 Grand Ave .. degree from UOC this winter. troduced No\' 5 at the Pme Seminary appointment focuses Oakland. Kadonaga. who has HonQl ulu attorney Melvin Ma• United Methodist Chuch. ,. been practicing the past 30 year sucla is the new executive direc• · Southern California in East Oakland. is a 1946 grad• tor of the Legal Aid Society of • Sports on Pacific-Asian Americans uate of UC School of Optometry. Hawaii. Masuda. 35. is a gradu• Del ShigemalsU, a sopho• Takahashi is a longtime Berke• ate of Princeton Uni versity and Calif. more from Kauai, is a start• BertBey, ley J ACLer. Yale Law School; was editor of ing tackle on the Univ. of Ne• The Pacific School of Re• Etsuko Tanabe is assistant the Hawaii Bar News; and pres• vada Las Vegas football ligion elected Roy 1. Sano, vice president in the Asia-Paci• ident of the Yoong Laywers SECRETARY • fic/Middle East Division of Well s group of the Hawaii Bar Assn. team. He is 6 ft.4 and 240 Tax Department 01 NatIOnal Compan HQ p0- 47, to a full-t:iIre faculty Fargo Bank's international bank• He was also a White House Fel• lbs. near Los Angeles Allport see s above sition as associate profes• ing group. San Francisco. She low and most recEntly was coun• average secretary Sa lary S18 000 plus per sor of theology and Pacific joined the Bank in 19 2 with five sel in the legislative auditor's of• year Typ ing 70 per minu te. shortmnd and Asian American minis• years' trading and securities ex• fice and taught part-time at the REALTOR 110 Exce llent worlmg conditions and perience . .. California First Univ. of Hawaii Uiw School. benefits Immediate ha1d wri tten replyen• tries, it was announced Bank has named Wilfred Y. Ta• George Nagata clOSing resume reQuested Box T. Pacif IC • Sept. 19 by Dr. John von nimatsu as assistant vice presi• • Education Citizen 355 E 1st SI. Los Angeles -tA de nt of the Gardena office. A na• Jorce N8jita has been appoint• Realty 90012 Rohr, interim PSR presi• ed dIrector of the University of 1850 Sawtelle Blvd. ti ve of Hawaii, he li ves in Tor• EQuat OpportUnity Employer M 'f dent. rance with his wife Gladys and Hawaii Industrial Research Cen• Los Angeles, Ca. 90025 Sano becanes the first two children. Tanimatsu was ter. The first woman to head the 478-8355, 477-2645 seminary professor in the graduated from em Los Angel• center, she has been a research• APT FOR RENT Ore bedroom apt Gardena • es in 1969 and joined CFB's Los er there for 20 years. One of its $210 per monlh Adul ts .no pe lS. secUrity poot history of treological edu• Angeles office. future projects, N2;ita said,'will Complete Home slo e relrlg 13605 S Vermon ApI 33 Gar• be a s~d y of the relationship of ~ de~J?~~ - 1208 or (2E~Ei~ cation with a txrrticular fo• Tomoharu Kita was named Ja• Furnishings __ pan Air Lines southwestern re• c.olIectl,:,e bargaining, affirma• MONTEREY PARK lobed room house Walk cus on Pacifi: and Asian tive action and the merit princi• gional manager. succeeding To• .a\~ to shoppmg and lranspor!alion IMler arwous American ministries, it ple in the public sector. She is H~k,"s shio Kondo. who returned to To• for an olfer 72.500 Herber! (213) was pointed rut. He had kyo. considered one of the state's 151 20 S. W estern Ave. 289-8891 • foremost authorities on coUec• been a visiting professor J ~a rden a 324-6444, 321-21 23 PALOS VERDES-3 Bedroom house TVwo since 1975 also served • Courtroom tive bargaining. balhs Living room double garage Above smog am Dr. Roy I. Sana Nisei Joe Hiroshi Negoro, a li ne. Close 10 elemenlaIy and high school Ca ll as director of the Pacific Vancouver fisherman. was fined • Press Row t213) 375-0117 and Asian American Cen• Sano has written scores $1 ,000 by a U.S. Court for oper• Tourists from Japan are sight• CHIYO'S 4 UNITS- San Gabrel Valley S16 7 000 ter for Theol~ and Stra• of articles for periodicals ating a Canadian Fishing Co. seeing and shopping around Cali• Japanese Bunka Needlecraft There is a S115 000 loan commitment on these • and authored a study book, boat in U.S. waters in Juan de fornia without guides. thanks to new 4 untls R B Rea lty Ask lor Carmen 01 tegies (PACI'S), at PSR shopper publications all in Ni• 29t'J BaD Road Emma f213) 287-8960 or 443-7826 "You Can Be Set Free", and Fuca Strait. The fine and loss of a W. The Brawley-born Nisei week's fishing suffered by Ne• hongo. the "Gateway USA". pub• Anaheim, Calif. ~ FOR RENT- 265 Realands. Playa Del Rey is an ordained minister in lectured to clrurch groups goro contrasts with $SOO penal• lished by Hirolarm Yokoyama. (714) 995-2432 SI 250 pel monlh 3 bd 2 balhs view of bay worldwide. His recent ties and swift court appear• 39. of Los Angeles-now in its Three blocks from beach (213) 287-8960 or the United Methodist ances U.S. fishermen caught sixth year. Press run is about 283-5541 overseas trip took him to (ummer" ,ll & Indu tnal Church, served pastorates operating illegally in Canadian 17,000. He began his publishing • nine countries in East Asia stint about a decade ago with Lit• A ,,·conciilioning & Relrigerallon Pacific Northwest in New York City, Santa waters I,1sually experience. Fed• Contractor Maria, El Moote, Loomis and the Pacific. eral fisheries dept sources sug• tle Tokyo magazine for the kai• gested a look at unequal penal• sha-shosha segment. . . . Unda Oregon Property and Los Angeles and was Pacific School of Religi• Sam J. Umemoto This is a special ore-ol...a-kindproperty WIth ties levied against U.S. and Ca• Marl Taira, 21, journalism senior lie. # 20886.1 C-20·38 chaplain and assistant pr0- on, founded in 1866, is the nadian fishing violators is need• at Univ. of Hawaii and weekend cree k. old hlsloocal barn. woOded aM second anchor of KITV (ABC) Honolulu. growth limber lis custom splil-Ievel home lea• fessor of religion at Mills oldest theological semi• ed. SAM REIBOW CO. tures 2 kilchens walk-Vl freezer wei-bar & won the $2,500 Sigma Delta Chi • College between 1969- nary in the west and related Gov. Brown appointed James 1506 W. Vernon Ave. Slools master bedroom su teWith VIew buill-tn to the Unitoo Methodist Sing Yip. 54. to fllJ a vacancy on Foundation Award named forth.e Los Angeles 295-5204 vacuum syslem-and 200 ACRES FENCED 1976. He is a graduate of the Los Angeles municipal late Bernard Kilgore, Wall Street hpeflenced Since 1939 with a "Wallon's Mounlarl" and deer Can be UCLA, Union Theological Church, the O1ristian bench. A mechanical engineer in Journal president. The national yours for tJ65 000 Ca ll Duane SOlO all503) 390-3337 or IS03)39().OI56 eves Seminary, Gnrluate Theo• Church (Disciples of the aircraft industry before be• award recognizes journalism ex• Christ) and the United coming an attorney, he special• cellence by a student. MARUKYO STAR REALTY logical Union and Clare• ized in civil law. 4660 Portland Ad NE, Suite 6 • mont Graduate School. He Church of Christ. Current• John K.c. Mab, formerly of • Religion Kimono Store Salem, Ore 97303 ly, some 200 students from Los Angeles Mayor Tom Brad• The Rev. 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