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Pacific Citizen$1.50 Potlpom (U.S U' L J Established 1929 Pacific Citizen$1.50 potlpoM (U.S.. Con.) / $2.30 (Japan MO 2839 / Vol. 126. No. 4 ISSN: 0030-8579 National Publication of the Japanese American Citizens League (JACL) February 20-March 5.1998 Memories of ojichan in Nagano Cefisus Bureau addresses APAs’ As the Winter Olympics kicked off operate the Sah Jose location, on Feb. 6, Rod TbZsuno shared -v^ch ‘originated in 1948. memories of his grandfather and I held my grandfather’s hand concerns over Census 2000 *of his ancestral home of Nagano. as he expir^ and it grew cold, in ■ Japan 1^. On it was his gold ring with BY CAROLINE AOYAGI ourfamily mon. Ihe ringthat had of Its first meetings held in Mon­ Through these meetings the Assistant Editor BYRODTATSUNO witnessed the hard woi% ofman­ terey Park, Calif on Feb. 10. Next Census Bureau is calling on APA stops for the community rollout When the Winter Olympics are aginga business while cooking, organizations, the local govem- MONTEREY PARK, CALIF. — include New York, New Jersey, menL and busineases to hdp ed­ held in Nagano, Japan, there will cleaningand launderingfor three With concerns already being andlhxas. ucate the community, to aid in be a symbolic “Return of Gold, in diildren, the youngest only two raised d»ut the detri- _____ the implementation ofthe exchange for Gold. y^re old, as a single parent after My grandfather, Shqjiro Tht- thCHL^ther left them to return mental impact the up­ census, and to let pet^le coming Census 2000 Imow that the bureau is sxino, immigrated to San Francis­ to Ja^i> co in 1891 from the village ofSh- 'Hie 'justice of the incanxra- could have cxi the Asian IcK^cing to hire more than American community, the 250,000 people to com­ ioda-Machi in Nagano Prefecture, tion at the Tanfbran assembly United States C^isus Bu­ plete the entire process. ^ located close to the Olympic center, where he had pushed me reau is, sponsoring a se­ And, the AA community venues. He established the Nichi around the race trade in a pram, ries of national meetings Bei Bussan mercantile business and the cold and bitter snow- will also ^t a diance to to create a better aware­ on Dupont street in 1902 and blasted winters of Tbpaz, Utah, have their concerns ad­ ness of the census moved to another location during where he pulled me throughthe, dressed. ■^process. When the Office of the Great Earthquake and Fire of barren landscape ofttar-papered CaUed the Census 2000 Managementand Bud^t 1906. The business was later re­ shacks on^ a home-made sled, Asian Pacific American (0MB) made the decision located to Buchanan street My were once reflected in the still- uncle, hfasateru 'fetsuno, shiny Surface ofthe simple ring. Community Partnership late last year to allow mul­ Rollout, more than 50 operated the store until this past It had also been raised in a tiracial individuals to people, including repre­ year, when it was ^osed. My fa­ pledgeofailegiancewhen Ojichan check off more than one sentatives frum Japanese ther, Dave Tatsuno'-wntinues to race eatery in the 2000 See NAGANCVpage 6 American, Korean Ameri­ Census, many AA individ ­ can, Chinese American, uals and organizations, Vietnamese American, Jerry Wong, Assistant Regional Census Manager of the including the JACL, Sen. Daniel Inouye and Filipino American or- Los Angeles Regional Office, eiqilains the Census 2000 ganizaticms, attended one process to APA community members. See CENSUS/pege 10 ready for a ‘Last Hurrah ’ HONOUJLU—Sen. Daniel In­ There’s no doubt the voters will ouye will seek his seventh senate send one of the most powerful moi ORA urgesclaimsbe filed byApril 10 term this fall even while some kmg- in Washington back, for in Hawaii’s time members of the Sen­ stagnant economy his BY USA JOHNSON ou^ review of each claim by reach out to every possible ORA. Generally, ORAtakes about daimant and will continue to do ate dub—Alan Simpson of ability to deliver federal Office or R« Wyoming, BiU Bradley of dollars is becoming in­ More than 2,000 Japanese 6-8 wedcs to make a determina­ so," said DeDe Greene, ORA Ad­ New Jersey and Nancy creasingly importent, the Americans who were interned tion once s- daim is fully docu­ ministrator. “No cases may be Kassenbauro of Kansas— political watchers say. His during Would War II are running mented. (^lened or paymaits made after decided not seek re-elec­ congressional aitics dub out of time to sedc redress com­ This was a tragic chapta- in the dosing of ORA cxi August 10, tion because “it isn't hm ; Inouye as *Senator Pork." pensation, Attorney General the History of our nation. It was a 1998." anymore.” Altbou^ proud of "de­ Janet Reno announced on Feb. time when we took away the lib­ Over the past 10 years. ORA “Tve never looked upon livering' fin- Hawaii, In­ 12. erty of an oitzre community of has organized more than 100 wdk as being fun. I’ve ouye takes issue with the The Civil Liberties Act, s^ed Amaicans," said Reno. Thne is community woikshops; spoken to looked upon it as a dial- suggestion that it’s just into law on August 10, 1988, ac­ running out I urge anyaie who huiidreds of church, l^g:al and lenge," said. Inouye. “Ufe without pork: Tn my mind, I can justify knowledge, apologizes, and might be eligible to come fa- community gro<^; ccmducted na- dialloige for me is whai I will every item." makes restitution for the fiinda- ward.” tioDwide hi^ri^ reseasdi; and leave." He is the fourth-most senior moitel iiyusbce of the evacua­ Since the program's inceptiem, sent thousands of letters and In what could be his final cam- member of the Senate, the rahlong tion, relocation, and internment ORA has provided ^,000 in re­ appbeations. 1, Inouye says his focus is help Democrat on the Appropriations of JAs during WWn. dress to 81J278 eligible daimants. Theprogram has paid out near­ /Hawaiians, MidWeek writer Defense Subcommittee, a member Historical research sugge^that ly $1.65billion in reparations to I Bqylan was tdd recently. As ofthe Commerce, Science & TVans- The Justice Department’s Of­ fice of Redress Administratirxi, an additional 2,200 individuals ffie 81,278 eligible daimants. The the last memb«- of Hawaii’s Demo­ portetion and the Rules & Adminis­ tration Committees, vice-chair of diaiged with administeringx the may be eligible for redress. De­ IMX^ram has more than $19 mil­ cratic oongresrional staff of 1954 lion remainingto compensate any stiU in <^ce, the 442nd veteran Indian Affairs Committee, ranking ten year program whidi ends on spite extensive outreadi efforts, refers to them and himself as “the Democrat on Surface TVansporta- August 10.1998, is urging poten­ these persons ranain unaoxHiht- additional claimants who are dindeaurs of 1954." The lone Nisei tion & Merchant Marine, and a tial claimants to file daims by ed for. found eligible. senator in Washington was Mid- member of five other committees. ■ April 10,1998, to allow for a thor- “We have been working hard to SeeORA^ge9 W^k's cover story Feb, 4. Topaz Museum buys over Irvine man convicted in Inside the P.C. 400 acres of Topaz site first-ever hate e-mail case Calendar ......page 2 By tbe Board column; BY CAROLINE AOYAGI But over the last few 3'ears, one In the first-ever prosecuticm of a ofthe jrivate landowners of the Asians, accused Asians of being re­ Nicole Inouye & AsMtant Editor hate crime in cybeiap^, a federal sponsible for all crimes <xi campus, For more than forty years the former campsite decided to begin jury in Santa Ana, C^., oriFeb. 10 and threatoied to personally make HiromiUeha......... S farmer Tbpaz Worid Wair B in­ developing ^e area. It wasnY found former UC Irvine student it his life career" to “find,” “hunt ternment camp located in Central. before bouses were being Richard Machado guiltyofsending P.C. Editorial Board down” and “kill' the individuals if Utah had been slowly deteriorat­ built and tdef^one wires were hate e-mail to several Asian stu­ th^ did tint leave the university. Meeting .......... 3’ ingin the desert wilderness, un- being set up on the site; a site that dents on campus. Madiado sent the hate Tnail anony­ touchedtbydevelopn^t^ a simple once housed mare than 8,009 JAs During the first trial fir the 20- National News ..... mously uaing the alias "Asian- 'reminder of the injustices com­ forcibly interned by the United year-old last November, the jury Hater." States government deadlocked 9 to 3 for aajuittal. But Community News . S: mitted against Japanese Ameri­ Several Asian UC Irvine stu­ Dismayed that the historic in the second trial a jury of ei^t P.C. Feamre: cans more than a half century dents testified at the trial that ftiey ago. SoeTOPAZ/jpagee womm and finir men took less than had been iqisd and frightened after ShiroKashino’s honor a day to dedife that Madiado was receiving Madiado's e-mail. Other guilty of one count of vidating the studrats said the restored .................. stodoits’dvifri^t to attend a pub- than angry but ^ley Very Truly Vouis ... ^ university. But on a seomd, iden­ thou^ it was a bad joke. Close to tical count the jurms deadkidted 9 half of the UC Irvine student popu- VoiceofaSansei to 3 fir convictiafi. latfon of 17.000 is ofAsian descent A Bridge Across “ i The oonvictioD carries a maxi­ Machado testified that be mum senteooe of one year in prisai thought the message was a joke, the Pacific .........8 but because Madiado-has ali^y and that be did not believe t From the ftying Pan .
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