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OCTOBER 2020 NO. 10/2020 CANDIDATES FOR 2021-2022 EBOD PRESIDENT’S MONTHLY MONKU ELECTION FINALIZED by Ann Kabasawa With the expiration of the nomination deadline at 12 I can’t believe it is already October and we are pm on Tuesday, September 29, 2020, the Nomination still living through another month of COVID Committee reported that the following 100th members in restrictions here in . Unfortunately, this good standing have qualified to seek election to the 2021 means that the Clubhouse and Office will remain -2022 Executive Board of Directors: closed until further notice. If you need to speak to For President: ANN KABASAWA (incumbent) someone about 100th business or need to visit the For First Vice-President: HARRY NAKAYAMA Clubhouse, please email me at (incumbent) [email protected] or call me at (808) 781- For Second Vice-President: TSURUMI HAMASU 8540. (incumbent) 100th members should have received a letter For Treasurer: BEVERLY SHIROMA (incumbent) from me in the mail regarding the changes that had to be made to the usual nomination and election For Secretary: WARREN YAMAMOTO procedures for the 2021-2022 Executive Board of (incumbent. As there were no other nominees for the Directors also due to COVID. Some of these office of Secretary, the Board of Directors waived the changes were also published in last month’s PPP. two consecutive term limitation for each EBOD office, Thank you to the Nomination Committee members allowing Mr. Yamamoto to seek a third term as (SUSAN HASHIMOTO, JAMES NOGAWA, Secretary.) APRIL NAKAYAMA, JAN SAKODA) and the Personal statements from each candidate will be current Board of Directors for their hard work under published in the November 2020 Puka-Puka Parade. an emergency situation. Thank you also for those There will be no in person voting this year and no members who stepped up and have agreed to run for voting by proxy. Voting will be entirely by mail. office. Members will receive a ballot in the mail and a ballot Even though the Clubhouse is closed, work is will also be published in the print and email version of ongoing at our apartment building next door the November 2020 PPP. Completed ballots must be including the major railing project. It will be a while returned by mail and received by the Nomination before everything that needs to be repaired is Committee at the Clubhouse on or before 12 pm on completed. Thank you to our property manager Election Day, Saturday, November 7. The Clubhouse JOHN COVINGTON of Newmark Grubb who is will be closed that day. working hard to find good tenants for our vacant If you have any questions or comments about the apartments. If you know someone who is looking upcoming election, please contact the Nomination for a new home, please contact John directly Committee at [email protected]. at [email protected] or at (808) 441-0538. Continued on page 2 PRESIDENT’S MONTHLY MONKU AND DOOMO Continued from page 1 ARIGATOO, TAKASHI I hope you had the opportunity to watch the Nisei Veterans TSUESHITA

Legacy’s 2020 Memorial Service which aired on Olelo in Hawaii I was so sad to receive an email from during the last weekend of September. This online program was EVELYN TSUDA, the wife of Baker livestreamed as a replacement for the Annual Joint Memorial Company veteran RIKIO “RIKI” Service honoring our World War II Japanese Americans usually TSUDA, that the wife of TAKASHI held in person at Punchbowl Cemetery. If you missed it, you can TSUESHITA of Japan had informed her watch is on Olelo Community Media’s YouTube channel at that he had passed away on May 14, 2020. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-hNt7hBnek. The Memorial Here’s what I wrote about him in the Service is about 35 minutes in length and starts at the 8 minute October 2006 PPP: mark so fast-forward through the Olelo messaging to get there. It “Thank you to Evelyn Tsuda for letting can also be seen on Olelo Community Media’s Facebook page at me know about Mr. Takashi Tsueshita. He https://www.facebook.com/olelocommunity/ flew in from Yokohama, Japan specifically videos/1572133726322653/. to attend the Joint Memorial Service. He The Maunalani Nursing and Rehabilitation Center has taken told Evelyn that he was very impressed by care of many of our 100th veterans including my dad, RAY the Service and that he was very happy to NOSAKA, and current resident EDWARD IKUMA who is have been able to come to Hawaii for it. He featured on pages 5-6 of the PPP. For many years, members of said this was the one thing he wanted to do our Club and the 100th/442d Color Guard and soldiers have on his trip. Some of our readers may participated in the annual Veterans Day Celebration at Maunalani recognize Mr. Tsueshita’s name as he has but due to COVID, this event has been cancelled this year. visited the Clubhouse on several occasions Making it even worse is that the veterans have been isolated from to ‘talk story’ with the veterans. He has their friends and family members since the start of the pandemic conducted interviews with a number of for health and safety reasons. 100th Infantry veterans including Maunalani is asking the public to let our veterans know that MARTIN TOHARA. Mr. Tsueshita they have not been forgotten and to uplift their spirits by sending devotes a lot of his time researching World a photograph or a short video “shout out” expressing that you are War II Nisei veterans because he believes it thinking about them. The photos and videos will be shown to the is important to make the people of Japan Maunalani residents and also will be displayed on Maunalani’s aware of their many accomplishments. It is website (https://maunalaninursing.org/) and Facebook page interesting to note that Mr. Tsueshita taught (https://www.facebook.com/maunalaninursing/). Please email himself English by listening to the radio your photos or videos to [email protected] by Friday, and watching television! Wonder if we October 30. If you have any questions, please call Community could learn Japanese the same way?” Life Director CZARINA at 695-2072, Recreation Manager Mr. Tsueshita’s name frequently ARCELI at 695-2813 or MARISSA at Hospitality at 695-2860 appeared in the list of donors published in or visit the Maunlani website listed above. the PPP and he spent every minute of his Usually at this time of year, my husband CLYDE trips to Hawaii at the Clubhouse. Evelyn SUGIMOTO and I are preparing for the Las Vegas Mini- shared photos he sent her of him in the Reunion and for the Go For Broke National Education Center’s studio doing a weekly radio show in Japan Evening of Aloha in Los Angeles. However, this year is very about the 100th and the other Japanese different with the cancellation of the Mini-Reunion and the EOA Americans World War II veterans. I take now a Virtual Gala scheduled for Saturday, November 14 from out his self-published book about the 100th 4 pm to 5 pm PST or 1 pm to 2 pm Hawaii Time. Living 100th in Japanese from the Library whenever veterans can be a part of the EOA by joining in the FREE “Living there are unexpected visitors from Japan Nisei WWII Photo Tribute” or friends and family of veterans may who don’t understand my plantation pidgin purchase a $500 pre-show “Thank a Veteran” digital ad by Japanese. October 30. More on page 7 of the PPP. Aloha Tsueshita-san! I am sure you are To everyone in our extended One Puka Puka family all over enjoying a warm beer and a bag of pupus the world, please take good care and stay well. with our One Puka Puka boys in Nirvana! SUPPORT THE MATSUNAGA Conflict Resolution, a Peace Corps Prep Certificate, INSTITUTE WITH YOUR WRITTEN and a Graduate Certificate in Conflict Resolution. TESTIMONY The Matsunaga Institute has placed students with Email received from the Matsunaga Institute on dozens of governmental and non-governmental September 21, 2020 organizations and initiatives around Hawai'i. It has

The University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa’s (UHM) worked in the community to nurture and support Spark M. Matsunaga Institute for Peace and Conflict Hawaiian places of learning. For the purposes of Resolution (Matsunaga Institute) will soon celebrate programming and special projects, it has built ongoing its 35th anniversary. From the beginning, the relationships with numerous local, national, and Institute was an academic community designed to international organizations, including the develop and share knowledge about the root causes Pacific Historic Parks, East West Center, DANIEL K. of violence, conditions of peace, and ways to use INOUYE Institute for Security Studies, Nobel Peace nonviolent means for resolving conflicts. Prize Forum, Ceeds of Peace, Institute for Climate and After the passing of Hawai'i Senator and 100th Peace, educational institutions in Hiroshima Infantry Battalion and Nagasaki, and the United States Institute for World War II Peace, to name a few. veteran (Dog The Matsunaga Institute continues to work actively Company) with the community. During the pandemic crisis, we SPARK M. have been in constant contact with our students, MATSUNAGA alumni, and organizational partners. These dialogues in 1990, the led to a series of online interactive webinars around Institute was “Building a Beloved Community” (learn about renamed in his community building), “Cultural Talk Story Series honor. The name (learn about indigenous communities near and far), celebrates Senator “The Beginning and End of the Bomb talk story Matsunaga's series” (learn about resilient stories from WWII), and vision to promote alternative dispute resolution skills. Some of the world peace, recordings can be found on the Matsunaga Institute beginning in our YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/ own communities. channel/UC1V66wqEGEOEDSch59mPLNQ. Senator Instead of acknowledging our growth and the Matsunaga crucial work we do, the UHM administration has worked tirelessly over his career to establish the targeted the Matsunaga Institute for elimination. We United States Institute for Peace, and he guided the are disappointed that the UHM administration has development of the UH Institute for Peace’s failed to recognize the Matsunaga Institute’s many curriculum and research priorities. (Photograph contributions to our students and the community. We courtesy of MATT MATSUNAGA from continue to believe in Senator Matsunaga’s vision: “If www.100thbattalion.org) we want peace, we must first educate people to want In 1996 the Matsunaga Institute merged with the peace.” At the Matsunaga Institute, we build bridges University of Hawaiʻi Program on Conflict across communities by developing scholars, activists, Resolution (PCR) to form the Matsunaga Institute and peacebuilders in all parts of our society. for Peace and Conflict Resolution. PCR's We ask for your support so we can continue this contributions to the fields of mediation, facilitation, work. Please write a letter of support for the training services, and peaceful resolution of conflicts Matsunaga Institute that can be emailed significantly enhanced the curriculum of the to [email protected]. Letters should be addressed to Institute. PRESIDENT DAVID LASSNER. The Matsunaga The Matsunaga Institute has steadily expanded Institute will collect all of these letters and send them its curriculum and now offers four academic along with our response to the administration’s programs: An Undergraduate Certificate in Peace recommendations. Studies (equivalent to a minor), a BA in Peace and Continued on page 4 HEADQUARTERS CHAPTER NEWS by Janice Sakoda SUPPORT THE

President DOT TAMASHIRO would like to thank those who called MATSUNAGA her to ask how she’s doing. She is experiencing some ear problems so INSTITUTE Continued from page 3 may be unable to answer your call. Other than the ear pain, she is doing well and wishes everyone to stay safe and well. 1. Share how the Matsunaga Institute at UHM has impacted The opening of the National Museum of the United States Army you and your community. (NMUSA) was scheduled to have taken place in June, 2020. A few members of my family had planned to attend. Well, all that was 2. Remind the UHM suspended due to COVID-19 but to the credit of NMUSA, they have administration that the Matsunaga found a way to tell soldiers’ stories despite being closed to the public. Institute helps to fulfill one of Our family was honored to have our dad’s bag featured on the first UHM’s primary institutional episode of “Curator’s Corner”. The following article appeared in the learning objectives: "Students National Veterans Network website in September: demonstrate excellence, integrity, and engagement through civic “The National Museum of the United States Army has just released participation in their ‘Curator's Corner’, a monthly YouTube communities." series that focuses on soldier's stories via artifacts displayed throughout the Museum. 3. Ask the UHM administration to provide evidence Presented by Chief Curator PAUL on how the option to “eliminate” MORANDO, the first episode features the Matsunaga Institute will result GARY UCHIDA's travel bag. Filled with in immediate notations and drawings, Uchida’s bag projected savings. reflects his first stateside experiences during basic training as a member of the newly- 4. Request that the formed 100th Infantry Battalion. administration withdraw their recommendation to “eliminate” He recorded his to the European the Matsunaga Institute. Theater with notes on his landing in Oran, Africa and also listed the Italian towns the To learn more about the recent 100th fought through during the Naples- recommendations and how the Foggia Campaign. ‘No more dry Matsunaga Institute will be runs. Real stuff now,’ he wrote. affected, please see these articles in the Honolulu Star Advertiser, On November 5, 1943, Uchida The Garden Island, and Hawaii was seriously wounded by artillery Tribune Herald. shell fragments near the town of Pozzilli, Italy. He noted on his bag: You can visit the Matsunaga ‘Pozzilli (Finito)’. Institute for Peace and Conflict Resolution website at https:// His difficult recovery period is peaceinstitute.manoa.hawaii.edu/. evidenced by the listing of several hospitals on his bag. It took months Many thanks for your support before he was able to return home, and his sentiment for Hawaii was and do contact us at clearly illustrated on his bag: ‘Aloha Hawaii,’ ‘There’s no place like [email protected] if you have any home! You’re telling me!’” questions. To watch NMUSA’s “Curator’s Corner” featuring Gary Uchida’s bag, go to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCvQ_rsbFY0 (PPP Editor’s Note: If you would like to send a letter of support but For those of you know knew my dad, I think you’ll agree that he was do not have email access, please a pretty humble, soft-spoken man. I’m sure he would have been amazed contact 100th President ANN how much attention this bag, which accompanied him all through KABASAWA and we will training and during his time in Italy, has garnered. I know we are, arrange to email your letter for especially my brother who remembers dad letting him take the bag you.) camping during his hana-batta, small kid time days! 75TH WORLD WAR II Still, Wednesday was a big day for Ikuma and COMMEMORATION: FOR NISEI VETS, other nisei veterans (second-generation Japanese- 75TH ANNIVERSARY OF WWII’S END Americans), who fought in World War II for a country EVOKES MEMORIES OF SHARED that considered them as “enemy aliens.” SACRIFICE After the bombing of Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, by Melanie Yamaguchi, Hawaii News Now, 1941, many Japanese-Americans were forcibly September 1, 2020 relocated to internment camps across the country. https://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/2020/09/01/nisei-veterans-th- anniversary-end-wwii-evokes-memories-shared-sacrifice/ But as the war progressed, tens of thousands eventually volunteered or were drafted into three of HONOLULU, history’s most recognizable all-nisei units: the 100th Hawaii (Hawaii News Infantry Battalion, 442nd Regimental Combat Team Now) - At 102, and the Military Intelligence Service. EDWARD IKUMA’s Composed largely of Japanese-Americans from memory may not be as Hawaii, names like the late U.S. SEN. DANIEL sharp as it once was. INOUYE — a member of the 442nd — were But when he thinks among the tens of thousands who served and back on World War II, sacrificed for the U.S., a country they loved. everything comes flooding back. “We hope for peace and no more any kind of conflict with other nations and other people,” Ikuma “It brings back so said, reflecting on the 75 years that have passed since many memories,” said the end of the war. Ikuma, who served in the famed 100th “I hope that becomes a rarity even in my long Infantry Battalion. lifetime.” (Photograph on the There were also right of Edward Ikuma is courtesy of the Ikuma many nisei veterans family). who weren’t in the As Hawaii marks 75 years since the end of World 100th Battalion, War II with a special ceremony Wednesday aboard the 442nd or MIS, but USS Missouri, it’s lost on no one that the number of were still eager to veterans like Ikuma is dwindling. fight for the country they were dedicated to There are roughly 2,000 World War II veterans — veterans like 97- living in Hawaii. According to the U.S. Department of year-old TATSUO Veterans Affairs, that number will be in the double OMIYA, another digits in just 10 years. Maunalani resident. With the Greatest Generation becoming a (Photograph of Tatsuo disappearing generation, the stories of veterans still Omiya on the right is with us — especially those who remained silent about courtesy of the Omiya their service for years — are all the more valuable. family). Ikuma is one of the oldest living World War II Serving in the U.S. Army as an anti-tank company veterans in the world — and the oldest living nisei driver, Omiya actually found out the war ended a mere veteran living at the Maunalani Nursing and Rehab day after he landed in Italy. Center at the top of Wilhelmina Rise. “I was very lucky,” Omiya recalled, in an Five of his fellow residents are also World War II interview earlier this year. vets. Omiya had been training in with the U.S. Because of COVID-19 concerns, they couldn’t go Army for three months and was getting ready to go to the commemoration ceremony Wednesday aboard overseas when he got word that his older brother, who the Battleship Missouri to mark the 75th anniversary was serving in the 100th Battalion Infantry, wanted to of the end of World War II. Continued on page 6 75TH WWII COMMEMORATION Infantry Division. As the war began, he joined the Continued from page 5 100th Battalion, made up of approximately 1,400

meet up because they hadn’t seen each other in years. Japanese-American draftees. Omiya then packed his bags and headed to New Although many of his close friends went off to York, where his brother was at the time. fight in the war, Ikuma started with extensive training in Wisconsin. “That is why I was delayed. That’s why to me, I was saved by my brother because he wanted to see “We’re introduced to fellow soldiers on the me,” he said. mainland, from the mainland — trained together and later on fought together,” Ikuma said. “Although it The reason why his brother, YOSHINAO was a new experience for the Hawaii guys, we tried to “TURTLE” OMIYA, was in New York: He was make the best of it.” recovering after losing his eyesight as the 100th Battalion crossed the Volturno River in Italy in 1943. After training, he fought in France, where the 100th Battalion and 442nd Regimental Combat Team “He said that he saw the bomb, ‘bam,’ so he joined forces looked up and the shrapnel went in his eyes,” Tatsuo Omiya said. Like many Japanese-Americans of his generation, Ikuma is modest and doesn’t talk about his The 100th suffered so many casualties that it achievements. Instead, he points out the lifelong became known as “the Purple Heart Battalion,” and friendships developed during wartime. the thousands of soldiers who served in the battalion earned more than 4,000 individual medals and awards. “We stayed friends with the mainland boys, the mainland soldiers, made new friends and we got to Among those recipients was Ikuma, who received know new areas of participation in the military and the Combat Infantry Badge, two Bronze Star medals, non-military endeavors,” Ikuma said. “We came to two Purple Heart medals and the French Nation’s know them very well.” Order of the Legion of Honor. After the war ended in 1945, both Ikuma and Ikuma, an original member of the 100th, Omiya went back to their civilian lives. participated in every battle action of the battalion. Ikuma went on to work as an electrician at Fort Ikuma, an original member of the 100th, Shafter and electrical engineering technician for the participated in every battle action of the battalion. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. He got married in Ikuma’s military 1946 and had four career began when he children. was inducted into the Meanwhile, U.S. Army on March Omiya and his 25, 1941. (Photograph brother returned of Edward Ikuma in home to Hawaii to Wisconsin with his live with their fellow soldiers, mother. courtesy of the Ikuma family). Though Yoshinao Omiya Among the many never got married, memories during the Tatsuo Omiya did war, the ones that and had three sons. stick out most were With a love for those early days as a baseball, he became draftee at Schofield Barracks — a “strange period for a Little League coach and also enjoyed a long career me because life was entirely different than the civilian in the U.S. Postal Service. life that I had become accustomed to for so many years.” “After the war, I went to the U.S. Post Office as a mail carrier and we put in plenty overtime, that’s why At the time of the Pearl Harbor attack, Ikuma was I ultimately hit my fortune,” he said, laughing. serving in A Company, 3rd Combat Engineers, 24th GFBNEC TO PRESENT 2020 EVENING OF ALOHA VIRTUAL GALA Press release by Pauline Yoshihashi, Strategic Communications for GFBNEC

LOS ANGELES (September 30, 2020) — Go For Broke National Education Center (GFBNEC) today announced the livestream broadcast of its 19th Annual Evening of Aloha Virtual Gala on Saturday, November 14, 2020, from 4 p.m. to 5 p.m. PST (1 You may also choose to “Thank A Veteran” by p.m. to 2 p.m. Hawaii Time). This event will honor purchasing a digital ad for $500.00 which will be the valor of American World War II soldiers of scrolled during the EOA pre-show on November 14 Japanese ancestry and highlight contemporary issues from 3:45 pm PST or 12:45 pm Hawaii Time and of social justice, civil liberties and democracy. will also be posted at GFBNEC’s Facebook page at While the Gala traditionally has been an in-person https://www.facebook.com/ community gathering, GFBNEC expects its goforbrokenationaleducationcenter/?ref=br_rs and at livestream event to draw a diverse, multi-generational GFBNEC’s YouTube channel at https:// audience from across the country. DAVID ONO, www.youtube.com/channel/UC- ABC7 news anchor and member of GFBNEC’s Board UqSdYoWl0O85JAx3u0m1A. The veteran’s of Directors, will co-host the event with MITCHELL photograph will also appear in an Evening of Aloha T. MAKI, GFBNEC President and Chief Executive wrap up e-blast. Officer. The livestream will be available on To purchase a “Thank a Veteran” digital ad GFBNEC’s website, www.goforbroke.org, Facebook online, please visit https://www.goforbroke.org/news/ and YouTube. annual_events/eveningofaloha/sponsor.php or you The event will incorporate many of the unique can download an EOA sponsorship packet at https:// traditions of the Evening of Aloha Gala that honor the www.goforbroke.org/news/annual_events/ Nisei (second-generation Japanese Americans) eveningofaloha/index.php. The deadline to submit veterans, including The Soldier Memorial Table; “In the veteran honoree's name, photograph and a brief Memoriam” acknowledgments; Veteran Recognition; message or in memoriam tribute to and GFBNEC’s 2020 Student Essay & Poetry Contest [email protected] is Friday, October 30. winners. The virtual program also will showcase In addition, on Saturday, November 7, 2020, GFBNEC’s new online programming, which explores from 10 a.m. to noon, and in conjunction with this the Nisei veterans’ story from different perspectives year’s Veterans Day, donated plants purchased within and beyond the Japanese American through the Veteran Floral Plants from the Go For community. Broke Monument 21st Anniversary Tribute on June 6, New this year, GFBNEC will present two unique 2020 will be on display at the Monument to honor our veteran recognition opportunities. The “Living Nisei Nisei veterans. Donors who wish to pick up their WWII Photo Tributes” will replicate one of the plants must arrive by 12 p.m. at the Monument. Evening of Aloha’s most treasured moments, the live Moreover, GFBNEC Torchbearers, the “next-gen” recognition of veterans onstage. This year, GFBNEC supporters, will do their second Nisei veteran has expanded the opportunity to all Nisei veteran gravesite clean-up on Saturday, November 7, 2020 organizations nationwide, allowing families and at Evergreen Cemetery in East Los Angeles. All organizations to submit an in-service military and a remaining Veteran Floral Plants will be placed by the current photo of living Nisei WWII veterans. All Torchbearers at the Nisei veterans’ gravesites. veteran photos will be displayed during the EOA Individual and corporate sponsorships for Evening program. To participate, please submit an in-service of Aloha remain available. For more information on military photo and a current photo of a veteran and Evening of Aloha sponsorship, “Living Nisei WWII complete the online submission form at the GFBNEC Veteran Photo Tribute,” “Thank A Veteran” digital ad website at https://www.goforbroke.org/news/ sponsorship, and related topics, please contact the annual_events/eveningofaloha/index.php by Friday, development office at [email protected], October 30. or call (310) 328-0907. 100th Infantry Battalion Veterans Non-Profit 520 Kamoku Street Honolulu, HI 96826 Organization U.S. Postage

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Matsunaga Institute for Peace. Free but registration required Please e-mail your articles, comments or at https://sparky.eventbrite.com questions about the PPP to October 14 at 3 pm Online presentation on “Nagasaki Hibakusha (atomic bomb [email protected]. survivors) Stories with SHOKEI TSUIKI and YOSHIRO If you do not have access to email, please mail or YAMAWAKI” presented by the Matsunaga Institute and the deliver your articles, comments or questions to the Nagasaki Foundation for the Promotion of Peace. Free but Clubhouse Office. registration required at https://nagasakistories.eventbrite.com. The deadline to submit articles for the November 2020 issue is October 20

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