National Publication of the Japanese American Citizens League

Whole 2,028 (Vol. 88) Friday February 2, 1979

'A DAY OF REMEMBRANCE' T anforan: racetrack is no more

San Francisco cussed were: public display the Amen• emblv nter for 0" r In obsen;CI1Ce of "A Dav 1) a sembl~ e point in an can people \>\ii11 be made 4,000 Pel ~ ons of Japan FranCISCO. Eastbly and Pemnsu• of Remembrance" Ba)' la. (2) pnnting of po ter , leaf• con cious of the e\'ent in anc try who et to Area community Japanese lets and auto identificatlon. (3) the history of the Japanese interned for th durati n program ~;th noted speakers for Americans leading up to SOME ~EMEMBER- Bay Area Japa• American organizations of World War Ir'. Plaqu are banding together Feb. a short ceremony at the Tanfor• their incarceration without say Tanforan opened in nese Americans were assembled at T anforan Racetrack n an site, and (4) funds to finance the spring-SlIllmer of 1942 because of the war. Horse 19 to fonn a caravan to the the project. trial or guilt. 1899 and had l-aCing a• stalls (above scene) were remodeled into living quarters. site of the Tanforan As• Feb. 19 was the date in The Tanforan racetrack son until it rumed d v,'T1 On Feb. 19. many will observe " A Day of Remembrance sembly Center in San 1942 President Franklin is no more with a shopping in 1964. by assembling again at Tantoran (now a Shopping Center) Bruno. Roosevelt isrued Execu• center now occupying Any donatirn to help d as a reminder of what transpired and express hope that it At an initial meeting on tive Order No. 9066, and what was the wartime as• fray expenses will be glad• not be repeated. Jan. 11 in theMasao Satow and when in 1976 was the sembly center area. But ly acknowledged. Checks Bldg., Carol Hayashino day President Gerald Ford there stands a plaque not• are payable to Tanforan Canmittee. 17f ~ was appointed chairperson gave "An American Prom• ing ... "In 1942, Tanforan Sutter st.. San FrancL l Tight-spending pressure still of the Tanfornn Commit• ise" by rescirxling the Or• became a tE:nlporary as- 94115. * straps JACL programming tee. Tentative plans dis- der. It is hoped by a large By HARRY HON>A &m Francisco Set Day of Remembrance Till 1979 membership funds allow, the JACL adminis• tration was cautioned this past week to maintain close 'rites in Little Tokyo watch on current expenditures. InLosA~, The National JACL Executive Committee (EXECOM), thePSW• county commenting on Ja• meeting over the Jan. 26-28 weekend here with President JACL Redress Committee panese American evacua• Clifford Uyeda presiding, issued the caution to Head• and Manzanar Committee tion, a vocal number by quarters staff. nat'l committee chairpersons and youth. are co-sporuors of the Warren Furutani, display While no figures were released, national treasurer "Day of RE:nlembrance" of camp life and Japanese George Kodama said that JACL is currently operating program on Monday, Feb. folk-dancing, to be taught from borrowErl funds. 19, in front of the old Nishi by Mrs. Grace Harada, are Kodama said programs, though authorized an alloca• Hongwanji Temple on No. scheduled. # tion of funds in the budget, are subject to review for Central Ave., starting at 1 IIUUllllllllllllllllllllllllfllllUUtllHlllllUlllIl!lllllll,iUIIUt"N implementation since membership, just starting to come, p.m. Continuation of: Shisei Tsureishi, an Issei is inadequate. A youth workshop proposal, for instance, Serialization out of the $42,000 allocated in the budget, was being held who was in Heart Moun• up. In the past., such programs. were approved early in tain, Wyo., arxlBetty Koza• YANKEE the bienniwn because of sufficient JACL reserves. sa, a Nisei, will be among While most committee reports were presented by EX• the speakers of the day. A ECOM members as oversight officials, some chairper• presentation by the East• SAMURAI sons were invited to submit theirs in person. They were: West Players, resolutions See Page 9 from both the city and Continued on Next Page

CENSUS COUNT ON RACIAL INTERMARRIAGE

Increasing, but only 1% nationally

Wasbingtoo 'creased from 148,000 to sample. ban fringe and 69,000 Another JACL contact Inten-aciallT'arriages of 310,000 (l0S0k ). Corres• Of the 276,000 Japanese (25~) in the rural area. Of all kinds continue to in• ponding increase between who were IT'arried as of the the 66,000 JalElese mixed WashingtonJACL Representative Ron Ikejiri (right) con• crease, the Census Bureau 1970 and 1977 was 360k 1970 Census, 66,000 or 240k couples, nearly 46,000 tinues to make the rounds in the Nation's Capitol-the said in its report, "Perspec• from 310,000 to 421,000. were IT'arried to non-Japa• (700/c) lived in the rural latest being with the junior senator from . Sen. S. tives on American Hus• Blacks and whites ac• nese. The length of their area. I. Hayakawa. at his office in the Dirksen Bldg. Principal bands and Wives", issued counted for 125,000 of IT'arriages can be assessed areas discussed included redress, U.S.-Japan relations and uan. 13. But trey still com• ·those marriages, the bu• 'as follows: Geographically, Japa• its effects on Japanese Americans. and minority concerns in prise less than IOfc of the 48 :reau said, an increase of nese couples were spread the U.S. When Married Both-J Mixed million married couples in '60,000 (920/( ) over the 1970 out as follows: Pre-1939 ...... 53.860 15,994 Area Both-J Mixed the . figure of 65.000. Black 1940-4!f ...... 49.680 3.183 Northeast ...... 12,196 7,823 Hayakawa named to Senate Between tre 1960 and iwomen are much less like• 1950-59 ...... 55.438 17.158 North Central ... .10.986 9,515 .1970 censuses, the number ly to marry ootside their .1960-69 ...... 52.006 17.67<; South ...... 5,066 10.383 foreign relations committee of married couples consist• race than black IT'en, white Of the 66,000 Japanese West ...... 182,738 38,213 Washingtm ish education, I have always seen ing of husbands and wives women or white IT'en. the mixed marriages, Nikkei America's foreign affairs prob• of different races in- report noted. women outnumbered the And the geographic pic• Sen. S. I. Hakakawa (R• lems from a sanewhat special men in marrying outside ture by mixed marriage Calif.) was selected by the perspective. .. • * "I believe the Foreign Rela• their race, as noted in the only shows: Republican Corrunittee on Mineta named to (Pending receipt of the 19-7 Area J-Hsb J-Wife Committees to serve on tions Committee is one in which I report. here is the Japanese pic• next table: Northeast ...... 1.600 6.223 can serve America and Califor• the Senate Foreign Rela• nia especially well. California's Smithsonian board ture as noted in the 1970 Census NON Spouse J-Hsb J-Wife North Central ...... 1.716 7,799 Bureau report. "Marital Status". South ...... 1 ,248 9.135 tions Committee Jan. 18. proximity to Mexico and there• Wasbington White...... 9,872 44,138 fore to the problems of Latin published in the May 31. 1974, Chinese ...... l,294 2,418 West ...... 9,012 29,201 He will remain on the Sen• House Speaker Tip O'Neill Pacific Citizen.) America. as well as its position Filipino ...... 608 1.995 ate Agriculture Commit• as the gateway to the Orient. appointed Rep. Norman Mi• Negro ...... _.... 137 1.793 The Census Bureau divided neta Jan. 18 on the Smith• the nation in fourparts: NORTH• tee. Here's his statement gives us a partirular sensitivity As of 1970. there were Mexican ...... _.... 517 852 to events abroad. sonian InstitufuD board of Puerto Rican ...... ll0 220 EAST-Nine states north and upon learning of the ap• 591,290 Japanese in the east of Pennsylvania; NORTH pointment "Given the timid and don't• regents, a governing OOdy United States. And 2. 6.920 Other Hispanic ...... 480 870 rock-the-boat attitude that per• composed of tre Vice Presi• Am Indian ...... 130 235 CENTRAL-Twelve states in (46q. ) said they were IT'ar• midwest; SOUTH-Sixteen "I am delightal and honored vades the foreign policy estab• dent, Chief Justice of the Su~ that I have been appointed to lishment in our government. I l;ed at one tirre or the oth• (46~) states from Texas to Delaware; preme Court. three Repre• Over 126,000 WEST-Thirteen states north to serve on the Senate Foreign Re• think a Western voice can add a sentati, es, three Senators er. The sampling that fol• couples lived in the central west of New Mexico, Alaska and lations Committee. Being born great deal to the vigor of discus• and nine citizen members. lowed \\ as based on a SG7( city, 81,000 (3(YJk) in the ur- Hawaii # of Japanese parrots and brought sions on our international rela• up in Canada with a strong Brit- tions." # 2-PACIFIC CmZEN I Friday, Febru. 1\ 2, 1979

Sakai said his travel com• ed a draft may be ready for PC Directory: 1979 Memberships mittee is worried that if the EXECOM consideration at the Tri-Dist• Contlrwed from Frout Pap: APEX program becomes ef• Membership fee (after name of chapter) reflects the 1979 rate for ingle and Coup~e. rict Conference (Fresno Hol• ~he fective over the Pacific, it Thousand Oub members contribute $SO and up. but their spouse (x) may enroll at special Heruy Sakai, travel ; MOOo Ucrn• iday Inn, April 20-22). Wash• rate shown; otherwise., the Single member rate applies. Student dues (y) do not mcl~ PC may wipe the JACL travel as yama, constitutimal convention; ington representative Ron subscription but such members may subscribe at the JACL rate ($!). Dues ~ payable and Frank Kasama, Comm for A• program as presently orga• Ikejiri figures the new cons remitted to the JACL Chapter of the individual's choice. z-Retired sr CItlZens bomb Survivors; Ben Takeshita. nized with elimination of the tution is settingJACL into the As of FebIwry 2, 1979 personnel. Group Affinity-100 fares. PACIFlC NORTHWEST year 2000. Other committee reports cov• Judge Uchiyama said key Columbia Basin (SZZ.SO-4O, yS7 NORIHERN CAUFORNIA.-WlSIDtN NEVADA To insure a synchroniza• ered were given by: issues facing the constitutio• zS17.50) _Edward M Yamamoto AIa,""",-(S2O-38,yS6) ...... NancyTajima Frank Iwarna,Dr Jim Tsujimu• nal convention could be the tion of the near-40 commit• 4502 Fairchild lDop, Moses Lake. Wa 98837 1165 Sand Beach Place, Alameda, CA 94S01 ra Floyd Shimomura, Lily Okura, citizenship requirement, pro• tees and sharing of accounta• Gresham Troutdale (S') Hawley Kato Beneley (S2O-aS.yS6) ...... Teny yamashita St~ve Nakashima, George Koda• - ...... West Cal Realty,l700 Solano. Berkeley, Ca94707 portional representation and bility for directi>n, a commu• Rt 1 Box 187, Gresham. Or 97030 . . ma Cathy Hiroruka, Dr. Uyeda, nication channel between EX• Mid-Columbia ($?) ...... Ron Yamashita Contra ~ (SZl-3&, yS6) ...... John Shinagawa K~l restructure. Shimomura add- Nobuyuki ani Staff. ECOM and the Committees , 3790 Mountain View Dr. Hood River. Ore 97031 3011 Pbillips Ct. Riclunond, Ca 94806 Masuda with the Vice President and Portland ($?) ...... Nobi Azumano Corta(St7..51O-3S.JS5) ...... RORer PC seeks update 2802 SE Moreland Lane. Portland, Or 97202 14925 W El Capital, Delhi, Ca 95315 Building to start National Executive Director Puyallup VaDey(S2O.3S, y$S, 70$10) .Hana Yoshida Diablo Valley ($2D-36..SO, dl6.S0) .Nancy A. Noma on scholarships in between Wale say Jan Ken Po. On reluctant black row in tow. In the morn• searched for and unpacked a kerosene new Ford truck for $500. Not a whole "Po," each displays one of three hand ing, after last minute packing of beds lamp. When he struck a match, lit the truck, mind yru, but just what was positions. An q:>en palm means paper. and nighties, we climbed onto the loaded lamp and set it in the middle of the called a running gear. It looked like a Two fingers are scissors which can cut truck, the FUjii version of the Grapes of wooden plank floor, shadows danced skeleton with a complete head. The head the paper, thus winning. A fist is a stone Wrath. An excited tot was bundled into grotesquely across the bare walls. was a sharp frur-cylinder engine under than c:an break the scissors. If paper and each apple box, and the baby-me-was There were some leftover rice balls a shiny. black hood. There was a plate stone appear, paper wins; it can wrap up warmly wrapped for there was no cab to for the hungry kids, then quilts were glass windshield but no cab to protect us a stone. protect us fran the November chill. hauled in and rolled out for us on the from sun, dust, wind, or rain and snow. They selected two articles of like Papa checked the front tires. The floor. As we slept my parents took on 1be rest was the skeleton; a live, moving value, and the winner chose the one he wheels had wooden spokes like wagon the urgent necessities, like struggling to skeleton. wanted. wheels, but they boasted the wonder of Jan Ken R>! Rocking chairs to the unload and assemble a heavy wood stove With harruner and saw in hand and a .. · Hail ' air-filled tubes that cushioned riders and its black dtimney pipes. My mother FUJUS. . against bump; but got back at them by mouthful of nails. Papa built a wooden Jan Ken Rl! Hasbitanis kept the made her way down the lane and across truck bed with sideboards to keep our going flat at the slightest provocation. the road in the dark to pump a bucket of round. oak kitchen table. Oh, such a nice The rear tires were tubeless-solid worldly goods from falling off. He made table. water. a wooden seat and nailed on either side rubber. Jan Ken Rl! Sewing machine to the Back on the trail, my tmcle continued an apple box fur Ida, five, and Howard, The next step was the arm-breaking Hashi1:aI1.i&-Mama wanted a new one by starlight Around midnight, three three. I was ttE baby. and Mama would job of cranking the trunk. I don't know anyway. And so it went, chairs, churn, miles short of journey's end, Kuro, . carry me all the way, seated on the whether the word cranky is supposed to cream separator, hand cultivators, hand ghostly white with dust, reached the end homemade seat Innersprings? No such plow. everything. The entire process describe the automobile or the man, but

thing! Only flat zabuton. was a comedy of suspense. delight and it is an apprq>riate idea either way. Contbwed OIl Page 10 ~Fri~y,~~~1~9==z======~------ISSN: 0030-8S79 PACIFIC CITIZEN Comment, letters, features Published weekly except the first and last weeks of the year. at 355 E. First St., Fm.3)7, Los ArgeIes, Carlt. 90012. (213) 62&Em6 DR. C:LIFl'ORD UYEDA, NATIONAL JAO- ~IDENT Eu..EN ENoo, PACIFIC Cm:zEN BoARD CHAIRPERsoN Are our civil rights being eroded? HARRy K HONDA, EDITOR

Second Oass postage paid at 4>s Angeles, Calif. To many Japanese Americans, any discussion of civil watching to insure that fight agaimt inflatim does not SUBSCRIPTION RATES rights is something which is not relevant to one's every• overshadow the primary and foremost concern of all JACL Member&-$7 d National Dues provides one year on a one-per• ~ basis. NorHneni>ets payable In advance-U.S. $10 a yea-. day existence. Americans ... civil rights. 'The Japanese Americans Foretgn US$14.50 a~ . For frst classlaimaJl- ~re about our rates. The "have to make it" syndrome due to the relative during WW2 placed their trust in the American govern• News and opinions expressed by columnists, except JACL successes of the Japanese Americans in the economic ment to protect their human and civil rights. 1be intern• staff writers, do not necessarily reflect JACL polley. areas provides sufficient security or immunity for most ment camp is evidence of the lack of trust which the Japanese Americans, to such a degree that coping with government IBd for its own citizens. DOWN TO EARTH: Karl Nobuyuki any fonn of discrimination, whether it be employment, The President in his State of the Union address sig• housing, business, or racial, becomes bearable. naled the first steps toward his "austerity" program, and There is an inherent danger in allowing ourselves to be the responsitility of all Americans to shoulder and help lax and nonchalant about our social and economic se• with the fight against inflation As Japanese Americans Off the Ground curity. we share in that responsibility. However, as Japanese When one looks at the history of American racism, the Americans, we must refuse to allow our civil rights to be greatest and most insidious times have occurred during eroded by ecmomic policies, particularly when our civil San Francisco times ofwar

Good advice. Howe\' r, I had mad Den er, Colo. some inquiri of my own ba ed on \ hat Some readers of little detail she had provided, and purely this column with long by chance located her stepfather. He was memories may recall living in Denver but had mo ed and hi one published in this telephone nmnber hadn't been listed. I space last spring, May 26 to be exact. It called the girl and put h r in touch with was titled, only half accurately, "Adopted him. & Abandoned.' Happy ending to the tory? Not quite. It was about a Japanese girl who carne A few weeks ago the stepfather tele• into my office seeking help in finding her phoned me. "I ha e bad new," he said. birth certificate, which she said she need• "My daughter is dead." ed to apply for a driver's license. Some• He told me he and the girl had re• thing about her prompted me to ask some established ccntact. She lived in apart• questions, and she told a pathetic story. an ment, but less than a month earlier they She had been born in Japan, possibly had coffee together. She told him, he said, Tokyo, she said, and had been placed in an that some man was harassing her. The orphanage at a very young age. An Ameri• stepfather san he told her to notify the can serviceman and his wife adopted the police, or get in touch with him if she had trouble. She ~med to be in good spirits EAST WIND: Bill Manrtani child and brought her to the United States. After rome years the couple was when they parted. That, he said, was the divorced. The girl stayed with her foster last time he saw his adopted daughter. father who ranarried, but she didn't get ~en o~e day the police called. They Why Fight It? along with him or his new wife. At age 19 s81d the grrl hal been found hanged in the the girl left rome. Now she was 23, had basement of her apartment They called it country, but you can't take ing a certain distance from lost contact with her family, had no a suicide. the country out of the boy. each paintiJl?;, and ex• papers or identification aside from the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization I asked the father to let me make a copy NOV.. IT ISN'T that I'll' changing seeIl'ingly know• of the death certificate so the proper Japa• a complete cultural. uh ... ledgeable corr.rnents. I de• Service "green card," and didn't know where to tum She thought her adopted nese authorities could be notified. He said slob. Some years ago. cided I wasn't going to be he would bring it in, but so far he hasn't. when I first saw Michael• left out. Country boy or no. father had some papers relating to her ...... Philadel phia status, but where to find him? angelo's "Pieta". its deli• So I stood. stu:lying intent• An experieoce like this provokes some A FEW WEEKS AGO, a cate, haunting beauty alr ly. following the lines. the friend had an invitation The girl told me she had worked briefly soul-searching. What unbearable misery solutely overwhelmed me. shades. placifl?; myself in in a massage IID'lor but quit when she dis• had caused this young woman to take her sent to me to attend a pri• And I savor the "shibui"• the artist's shoes and vate viewing of oil paint• covered what the boss wanted her to do. life? When she came for help, I had locat• ness of Japanese art: I nev• fr8Il'e of Il'ind. and when I She was empbyed currently as a sort of ed her family for her. Should I have done ings which was to be held er tire of it. But when J look thought I seized a glirrrrer at a local art museum. The housekeeper. She looked Japanese but more? Could anyone have done more to upon abstract art. J can't of sOll'ething, it blanked spoke only English. She wanted to apply help her? I dro't know. invitiation. plus the fact help it: I keep thinking to out. that I had acquaintance• for American citizenship but in the ab• myself that someone is I HAVEN'T GIVEN up But she leaves a haunting questIon. ship with the artist's sister, sense of proper papers, didn't know how Are there others like her-Japanese pulling Il'Y leg. And when I all hope that I'm beyond re• the artist being deceased. I to go about it youngsters adopted by people who for see the price tag on alr dell'ption. but at the same put on the prq>er attire (a many reasons have become alienated stracts. I conclude they're tirre neither arr I sure that * * * vested suit) and attended. from the children, divorced Japanese war not only pull~ Il'Y leg but I'll be spending an awful After the coh.Imn was published, a num• This was the other Sunday. also Il'y pocketbook. ber of readers, one from as far away as brides cast out on their own and unwilling lot of time ... redeerring. I or unable to go home, people with prob• AT TIIE OursET let me They'd have a better think I'll have to correct Hawaii, respmded. Se~ral suggested say that this rort of thing is chance with my leg. that inasmuch as the girl had her green lems too complex to cope with and search• that: J an' sure that t:iJTle ing for help? not my regular fare. As a . BUT GETTING BACK will not be spent redeerr• card, all she needed to do was go to the Il'atter of fact it was the ing. Shucks. why try to be Immigration and Naturalization Service to that other Sunday. Since And if there are, and there must be first time I had attended sorrething I'rr not. I'll just and ask for t:re information that was pro• all these cocktail-wielding many, what can we do to help them? one of these events. And folks appeared to be stand- enjoy rryself. As is. vided when she was registered. what follows in this col• umn is meant for those few Nisei who are in the same WASHINGTON WRAP-UP: Ronald Ikejiri boat as I. FIRST. TIIERE IS this attendant at the door who controls who may enter. The First 180 Days: An Offer to Share And upstairs and down• stair there are tables where one may have cock• departmental agencies. work closely with mem• the introduction of a re• key congressional person• tails. free. Which is a During the first 180 days, bers of Congress, the legis• dress bill, reintroduction nel, and Federal depart• shame, because I'm not a I was pleased to find the lative committees and oth• of the medical payments mental directors during drinking man. But then high regard that JACL en• er Asian American groups for atomic bomb surviv• monthly meetings to re• coll'e to think of it, if one joyed with IIlfIIlbers on the for the benefit of JACL ors, and legislation which view and assess the na• e\'er bothered to read the Hill, based primarily on during his temre as Wash• will designate all the in• tional status of Asian New Yorker Magazine. Wasbington the hard work and person• ington representative. ternment camps as nation• Americans ac; percei ved one would know that as one One hundmi and eighty al trust which the first The efforts of JACL and al parks. from Washington. Sharing "iews paintings, the hold• days have passed since I Washington Representa• the Washington office dur• The Washington Office the ideas and thoughts will ing of a cocktail glass in first joined the National tive established during his ing the 95th Session Con• will also be engaging in prove to be invaluable in one hand adds a certain JACL staff as the Washing• ~plus years in Washing• gress were relped by the weekly meetings with the providing t:re combined elan. Elan or rot, I did not ton Representative. Dur• ton continued coq>eration and Executive branch of the support and cooperation government ro that JACL needed by all Asian Ameri• bother with any cocktails. ing this time through the Taking on the responsi• support by the Japanese Americans in Congress, can be kept abreast of the cans to insureour interests E,'en for free. Now. "kaki• advice and colIDSel of bilities of the Washington specifically Sen. Inouye, internal policy decisions are properly represented Il'ochi" ... JACL's first Washington Office was made especial• Sen. Mats~a and Con• which ultimately afeet Ja• in national politics and pol• IEf ME PAUSE right Representative Mike M. ly manageable due to ef• Masaoka, guidance gressman Mineta Without panese Americans. Hope• icies. here and confirm a suspi• am ... forts of the interim Wash• their support, the success• fully, with regular contact .. ... cion that some of you al• from Was~n Office ington Representative, es of the 95th Congress with members of the White During May 411, the ready may be harboring: I advisory brerd. which is Harry Takagi, who through composed of distinguished his Taw-related work in which the JaIEIlese Amer• House staff, the Japanese JACL will sIXmsor at the am .not a comoisseur of ican community enjoyed Americans and Asian national, state and local classic art. Some of the longtime JAG.ers, Cherry Washington and his even• tsutsumida, chairperson handed manrerwas able to would not mve become Americans may be better chapter level the Asian Pa• paintings I trought were prepared to act swiftly on cific Americrm Heritage "not bad", especially the Pat Okura. Kaz Oshiki, and maintain JACL support law. Dr. Ray Murakami, the and presence on three ma• matters of national im• Week. At the present time ones that caIre from the As President Carter em• portance. the national JACL staff ~ Smithsonian. 1llere were a Washington Office has jor bills. The p:lSsage of the barked on his New Founda• Since the latter part of planning for the participa• couple abstracts-and been able to establish civil service internment tion and ~erity, the 1978, the Wac;hington Of• tion and involvement of all these alwa~ Mgrab" Il'e working relatDmhips with credit bill ani the Asian Washington Office will be fice has met regularly with Japanese Americans and the same way: blah. V. hich members of Congress, the Pacific Heritage Week l• resolution is evidence of undertaking a legislative representatives of national Asian Americans in cele- f just goes to pro,'e. you can staff of tre Executive Harry Takagi's ability to agenda whidt will include Asian Ameri:an groups, , take the boy out of the branch, and the Federal CoDlinaed 011 s.ck Pate 6-PACfFfC CrnZEN I Friday, February 2, 1979 -~------...;...------....:,. Classified ~. CHIAROSCURO: ' PC CtassIIIed Am is '0 car*s ~~ , word. $3 mIrW'num_~~ Calendar! pulse S8m8copybt:M-~ discouIltit Paymen\~ordaflftMS~~ Politics: a Matter of Heritage • FEB. 2 (Friday) *A non-JACL event 1Iit1S~~~L Tri-Valley-Koto Ensemble ByGEORGENISBIMOTO could win as a non-partisan continue to remain N~ concert. Santa BartJara.-Imt dnr, MOil• Sou1IIem Cliitomil (ClevelaDd JACL) Re~Inst dnr, Pioneer Inn, tecito Country ChD, 7;3Opm; Paul candidate over a group of bodies victimized by a Tsuneishi. spkr. weak and divided partisan poor, ineffectual govern• 7pm; Dr Clifford Uyeda, spkr. , STATISTlCIAN "Bank on Hank" was "Los Angel~Westn Adult .FEB.l1(~) Non-prolit organezalicn seeks person WIth highly successful slogan in candidates". Then he con• ment? Is there to be a heri• Buddhist Lg conf (2da), Hompa Pbiladelpbia-Gen mtg, Jef• good EDP backgrcurd for clencal SlallSb• 1972 at the National JACL cluded "even if he lost, we tage we can leave for our Hongwanji; Sat dnr-dance, New fersonville CC, 3pn. cal po5It1On Typng ~ essential Send Otani Hotel Puyallup Valley-Memb pot• resume to J Jaoo.:IlO'3 Metropohllrl Of Convention in Washington, would win." children that we ought to be Sulle 500. Orange Ca~ ·Fresno-NiseiFarmers LgannJ luck. D.C. that elected Cleveland I wondered later how building today? mtg, Sheraton Hotel, 7pm. o Chapter's Henry Tanaka to many Asians were active • FEB. 3 (Saturday) be the NationalJACLPresi• politically in greater Cleve• Contra eost.-Inst dnr. Berkeley Marina Marriott Ho• dent land; how many of us had Tai Hong IDC to meet tel, 7:30pm; Yon Wada, spkr. RESTAURANT At a recent monnaI din• thought about the possibili• San Mat~Irllt dnr, Black ner party, are of Hank's ty of an Asian American Angus Restaurant. 7pm. M"rtant moti• New Year reception, Rayrum Hank Tanalm elected vating factor would be Prudential Bldg., 3300 S. House Off Bldg Gold Rm, Bpm. State St., it was announced ~Inst dnr, Twin Dra• Eagle Produce Mayor of Cleveland!" COMMITMENT. , gon Restaurant, Anaheim, 7:30pm; That was a mind-boggl• by !DC Gov. John Tameno. We'll have to find a new 0 Mt. Olympus JACL will Dr Hi.roo Kanemri, spkr. 929 943 S. San Pedro St., Los Angeles ~ ing thought tmt had never slogan, of course; maybe l~ Freocb anny dnr, 625-2101 occurred to me only be• something a bit more dig• host of the session. For Comm Hall, S::rJpm. cause my politi;al perspec• nified like: cal arranganents, call Fremont-FunNire-potluck, So BONDED COMMISSION MERCHANTS ~ Cty Buddhist OlUrch, 6pm tive was parochially limit• VOTE FOR MAYOR Doug MatsllllDri, chapter -WHOLESALE FRUITS AND VEGET ABLES- HENRY TANAKA president. • FEB. 4 (Sunday) ed. aev~lnst dnr, Tokyo A Man of Destiny ~ The speaker pressed his • Eden Township Garden, Fairview Park, 6:30pm; point: "Hank's the right Is there a part for us all to Dr Toaru Ishiyama, spkr. EdmT~KotoEnsemble Los Angeles J..-ese Casualty Insurance AsSIL age, with full credentials, play in shaping the destiny KOTO CON Angeles principal issue of the REDRESS campaign is that of edu• Los Angeles, Calif. precede the concert. A merce,7pm. Phone: 749-4371 cating the American public of the existing danger of the Marin County-Potluck social, Phone: 268-7835 $2.50 donation will be law of the land which allows the suspension of consti• Buddhist Church, Mill Valley, ThrE'(, CC'nNdlion 01 charged to help defray ex• 6pm. [xpCflt'ore tutional guarantees solely on the basis of ancestry. RE• penses. Tickets may be ob• 'San Francisco-Prof Garden• Shimatsu, Ogata DRESS is by no means a total answer to curb such abuse tained from Aki Hasegawa ers Fed dnr, Grosvenor Inn So of governmental power-but that it is one approach that San Francisco. ' and Kubota FUKUI or Tosh Nakashima, C. 1m Ahn. ,,\>; Ho" ard \\ alam pr Torr. \. TING co. yalt'oro. LI '1'. Henr~ Kura akl. ~nd Don Okano, sec; nne I 'omura, :nI So San fhlro ~_I n; Arwft 9OOl3 treas. Andy t'ducta. hist; Oint Oka• yp: Ma K3 ham. trea 3Y Yana• mura. sgt-at arms Donna Cchida, gIla. rec 5«. Ky' "ahara. Col'. memb. harM Raw8.hur . pub ~~a-~-V~i:ll~e------~~~~~~~1m / P~IACCmZE~7 NOBtMJKI ADDRESSES INSTAUA1l0 • Orange Cou_nty 1bose whowere unable to attend the Marysville J AU. CHAPI"ER PREXY AT lAST-A 4().YEAR VIGIL installation dimer Jan. 13 missed the opportunity to meet Veteran JACLer Ken Hayashi will be installed as presl- and hear ~1 obuyuki, national exerutive director, dent of the Ornnge County JACL at their annual installa- speak and expand on the topic of Redress. tion dinner-da1ce on Feb. 1 ,7:30 p.m., at the Saddleback Mayor Gndy lamon of Marysville installed new cha.~ Inn in Norwalk. Hayashi, a pre-WW2 Tacoman, sen'ed ter president Roy Hatamiya and the cabinet and board the Taroma JACL chapter as vice pres. in 1940. He was a members. vice pres. of the New York JACL chapter m the late Frank Nakanura, 15 E. 15th St, Marysville, is gather- 1940's and a vice pres. of the Southwest LA chapter in ing the names and addresses of former Tule Lake camp 1960. George Kodama, National JACL treasurer will be residents for the JACL mooument dedication May 27-28. installing offi:er. ' Pilgrimage by chartered bus or train is being planned. Installatioo dinner chairman Mike Ishikawa an- George Naalgawa and Ray Kyono, membership cxr nounced thatRobert Matsui, newly~ected congressman chair ask for the immediate renewals of membrship 50 from the 3rd Congressional district will be guest speak- that the chapter directory can be updated as soon as er. Matsui is making his first speaking engagement be- possible. fore a South6n California gathering since his election • East Los Angeles Nobu McCarthy, film, stage and 1V actress will be the SAN FRANCISCO JACL scholarship in the amount of on his First 100 Days at Na- mistress of ceremonies. An added attraction will be the $500 is presened to a Lowell High school graduate, now a JUDGINST:I~IC'ro tional Headquarters. Nisei Week Festival Queen and her court who will be the pre-dental student at UC Berkeley. In the picture are (from ~ Jack NishXla was re- hostesses for the evening. The program will also include Federal Juige Robert elected president for 1979. Disco dancmg.· left) Steve Teraoka, scholarship committee cO-chair with Jan Yanehiro; parents of the recipient, the Howard Itos, Takasugi wiD install the OuyManna' ~.I~~eredRobethert Tickets at$12.SO per person may be reserved by calling: 1979 officers of the East e dUJ1W~l: Yasuko Ohta at (714) 827-8410 (days), Betty Oka (714) 835-S330 awardee Rooney Ito, a 3.89 GPA scholar and 13th in his Los Angeles JACL at the oath of office. Ted Ourein (days), Iris Ikem (714) 897-3081 (eve.) and Ben Shimazu (714) 541- class; and Mike Ito, chapter president. installation dDner set for was emcee. 2171 (days) and 892-6378 (eve.). Saturday, Feb. 10, 7 p.m, at The chapterS new re- • Sacramento Stevens Steak House, City tirement study committee, A SAN DIEGAN TO BE INSTAI.IED of Commerce. Attorney co-chaired byOifford and -_._- Doug Masuda is the new Nancy Nakajirn~ met Jan David Takashima will become president of the Sacra- 13 at the JA

~~Eachcustomer I meet is a challenge.:: "A a cu, tamer ervice repre entative, I meet many kind of people, both old and young. When the come to me with a banking pr blem, it make me happ when I can introduce them to one of our ervice that uit their need perfectly." Alice ishimoto i ju. tone of 3,500 employ c at California Fir, t. BlIt the attitude he bring to her job i. one we hope all l ur emp\ yee hare. alif rni.l Fir 't, the former Bank \.l1(')k\ (\ \.')f California, i.' now a ' tatt:,,·id\.: bank with

\.)"cr 1 I. tfice .

CALIFORNIA

FIRST BANK " I.

ANNUAL INTEREST RATES ON INSURED SAVINGS All Interest Compounded Oaily • Account Insurance Now Doubled To $40,000

CertIficates 01 DepoSIt may be WIthdrawn poor to maturlt)'. but ,n accordance WI h Federal Regula 11 0n requIre· ments. Interest lor the entIre lime 01 depoSIt WIll be re calculated at Ihe prevallong saJlngs passboo rate less 90 days interest. MERIT SAVINGS AND LOAN ASSOCIATION LOS ANGELES : 324 E. First SI. 624·7434 • TORRANCE/GARDENA: 18505 S Western Ave 327-9301 MONTEREY PARK; 1995 S. Atlantic Blvd 266-3011 • IRVINE: 5392 Walnut Ave (714 ) 552 -4751 MEMBER FSLlC ~, . 8-PACIFIC CITIZEN / Friday, February 2, 1979 ------__----~----_~..------.-.---.-..-- MIKAWAYA Japan decorates Issei master teaching ikebana for 57 years Sweet Shops 244 E 1st st by MITSU Y. CARL At the request of succes• Mrs. Fujikado was a stu• Los Angeles. CA 62 -4935 c Washington sive Japanese Ambassa dent under the present 2 01 W BaURd. Fifty-seven continu• dors' wives, she bas been Headmaster's father, Ko• Anaheim. CA (714) 995·6632 ous years of teaching teaching ikebana to Em• un Ohara Pacific~aTe bassy staff members. She Mrs. Fujikado has been Redondo Beach Blvd flower arrangement to stu• Gardena. CA (213)538-9389 dents of both the West and also conducts other private living with her daughter's classes. family in Alexandria since 11 Japanese ViIBge Plaza East Coasts of America Los Angeles. CA 624-1681 culminated in the award• She was founding presi• her move here from Seat• ing of the Order of the Sac• dent of the Washington tle in 1964 following the red Treasure, 6th Class, to D.c. Ohara Chapter, ap• death of her lrusband. Mrs. Matsu Ito Fujikado, pointed to the position by She was a teacher at the 80, of Alexandria, Va She the headmaster Houn pre-war Japanese Lan• traveled to Japan with her Ohara of Tokyo and Kobe. guage School in Seattle. # (ommerci,,1 & Indu Inal Alr·condiIlOnln& & Refngeration daughter, Mrs. Katsuko (onlractor Lee, to receive the medal AFFIRMATIVE ACTION Sam J. Umemoto Nov. 9 at a special cere• lie #2088&3 (·20-38 Today's C ....lc Looks mony at the Foreign M• for Women &: Men fairs Ministry in Tokyo. State Dept. agents sought SAM REIBOW co. Call for AAX>intments: Wash~m 1506 W. Vernon Ave. Phone 687·0387 On Jan. 30, Mrs. Fumihi• for employmmt with the Los Angeles 295.5204 105 Japanese vm.ge Plaza MaD ko Togo, the wife of the The u.s. Department of Department's Office of Se• h penenced SIn(C' /919 Los Angeles 90012 Ambassador, hosted a tea• State's Mfinnative Action Toshl Otsu. Prop. ~eception curity are that the candi• at the Em bassy Recruitment Program is date must be at least 21 m honor of Mrs. Fujikado. now seeking qualified mi• years old and a U.S. ci tizen. Mrs. Fujikado, an Isse~ nority applicants for spe• College-Iegel education is is believed to be the first cial agents/security offi• not a prerequisite for the Japanese American to re• cers. The agents are re• position, but is suggested ceive the award for long sponsible for protecting The Bamboo People: The L~w ~ J~nese Americans, by Frank For more information, Chuman. L~al and legIslatIve history of the Japanese in years of devotion to ikeba• U.S. diplomats and consuls America. A must" for every collectIon. against foreign intelli• write: D Hardcover, $11.70 postpaid. na and her use of ikebana The Office of Recruitment, as a means of fostering un• gence activities and terror• Examination and Employment, Japan~ American Ston', by Budd Fukei. A good taste of the derstanding between the ism. PERJREEIRECISP, U.S. Dept. (If hIstory and culturallierttage. One chapter by Mike Masaoka State, Washington, D.C. 20520. # recalls JACL's role during Evacuation. East and the West. Minimum requirements D Hardcover, $7.70 postpaid. A group of 13 people They Called Her To~o Rose, by Rex Gunn. Documented story of ' from around the world-of a yvw2 legend by a Pacific war correspondent who stayea which Mrs. Fujikado was PACE handymen help elderly WIth the story to its unimagined culmination. D Paperback, $5.50 postpaid. the only woman-was los Angeles Nisei: the Quiet Americans, by Bill Hosokawa. Popular ~.is(ory of granted a special audience Handyman Project, a new The Pacific Asian Con• program, will provide mi• the Japanese in America, 18f,Q-1 %Q. ,ith the Emperor at the . D Hardcover, $9.70 postpaid. C Softcover, $4.70 postpaid. sortium in Employment nor home reJlrir services ..o. mperial Palace. In a short Rule~a~ers of the House, by Spark M~tsunaga-Ping Chen. An to elderly residing in the inSide look at the most powerful committee in the House o( speech to the honorees, he Repres~ntatives, _ thanked the ''persons of Feb. 20 deadline for Los Angeles Westlake dis• based on Spark's 1O-vear experience in that trict. committee. (The Senator has autographed a limited uppfy cultural merit" for their tor PC reaoers.J educational grants PACE handymen will of• C Hardcover, $7.70 postpaid. decades of dedication cre• Mrs. Matsu Fujikado Washington fer-free of charge-mi• Camp II Block 211 , bY,lack Matsuoka. Daily life in internment camp ating good will, and for dis• of Washington, D.C. Colleges have until Feb. 20 nor home rerair services at Poston as sketched by a young cartoonist. seminating the cultural to apply for a U.S. Office of D Softcover, $6.70 postpaid. traditions of Japan in their ter outside Jap:m. to homes of senior citize\!S Education funding for prr dollar. a from either Kobe or Osaka suffer serious financial Yoshida")byYoshida-Hosokawa; Irans. YukioMorita . lncrediblesto• beller buy for your money Spend hardship in an amount of Couturier Min\( Wraps JUst hundreds 01 dollars instead 01 by surfac.! transportation. ry of a Nisei stranded in Japan during WW2. (English not aVolllablt".1 more than $100 or 200/( or $6.00 postpaid. from '158! thousands for Ire finest '1l1 nk. But Population is near 85.000. D bette, corne ea.1y1 more of the victim's net mostly in retirement or rec• RECENT ARRIVALS Full-l.ength Mink Coats monthly income, whichever You will also hnd a large chOIce reation. The old castle town Thirty·five Years in the frying Pan , by Bill Hosok.1wa. from t588 1 of NEW one-of-a-klnd furs . . is less. Bannai says that this is also known for raising Selections from his popular column 10 The Pacifi CililEYl mink. lynx. fox. raccoon and more new bill would eliminate the allow. k1N. pricesl Matsuzaka beef cattle and with new background material and 3 runn108 ommenLlry. theArimaS~. requirement of serious fj• Master Charge. Visa . # D S10 . 95 . IPostage is on the PC on thiS book,) nancial hardship. If American Express (SPECIAL LrTHOGRAPH 'lINT) I he Issei by Pete Hirona.. 21 X 21", ... \ Of Use Our Free Layawayl color, limited edition, first of thlft paintinp. Concert held for Chat Soo Lee defense o S30.00 ~id. LosADgeJes who summarized the p~ Postall~urllnce Extra PC Will Insure all orders over $50 \ Holidaylnn The Cool So:> Lee Defense gram as follows: C up to $15: 50e up to $50: 8St ,.,.. 9901 La Clenega Blvd Committee oonsidered the Dance by NoWko Miyamoto. o NaVIgator Room fund-raising concert held one-act Flay on life and predica• Name ment 0 Chol Soo Lee. Piano Los Angeles. (213) 649-5151 Dec. 29 at the Embassy Au• ditorium a sucress with 600 artistry of Benny Yee. g,uitarist Address and song-writerOlris IiJirnaand CCv. State, ZIP present, according to War• songs by NobuJco Mi}'amoto and P.:jIc c:.z., 355 E. fft;W Loa AngIIeI C& 1iOO12 ren Furutani (381-3069). Atomic Nancy. " 1. a •

------Friday. February 2. 1979 I PACIFlC CmZEN-9 VA KEE SAMURAI: (PC 'ExckJsive ..serialization of 16 Chapters) Secret role of Nisei i n America's Pacific victory by Joseph Hanington CHAPTERl family laundry at Kona, on and DeWitt wanted the Japa• o..h .. r....I.rWeek Hawaii, while his Dad was n ~s ~ Wecker ling as his staff intelligen e offi• THAT first Sunday of De• out picking coffee for which that area is so famous. He cer. orne screaming tele• cember was an unmitisated phone con ersations took disaster. Despite frequent heard, "This is no maneuver. This is the real McCoy! " place, and Rasmus en' ra~ warnings, the Army and when radio anoouncer We~ id return was arranged. The Navy in Hawaii were literal• ley Edwards screamed it in• Danish immigrant directed ly caught with their pants to a microphone. the language training pro• down. Except m board those gram thereafter. It earned ships with rmrtinets for Explosions wrecked a him a Legion of Merit. commanders, no reveille store a few blocks from Sam Anxiety bred problems, was held that day. Peacetime Takamura's hruse in down• the War Departm nt sud• "late hammocks" prevailed, town Honoluln Until the denly proclaiming no Nisei Navy men ris~ when they Navy admitted its own de• could be shipped overseas. liked. and few crewmen fective ammunition did the There went theentire reason were stirring about when damage, Sam thought Japa• for language training. S~ Japanese planes attacked nese pilots had deliberately more angry telephone calls, Battleship Row. Bombs and attacked unanned civilians. more cursing, more sending bullets came crashing Up until the attack, Mak«r of What the military calls through the canvas awnings. to Sakamoto's morning was "nastygrams." The order a peacetime indulgence in cheerful. Sunday work, like was rescinded. warm climes. In ships truly Saturday work, meant over• Earl Warren, the attorney cleared for action. these time pay helping construct a general of California, would have been earlier new building for the Navy, planned to run for the gov• stowed so that guns might alongside the drydocked ernor's office. He fell into elevate and traverse. No battleship ~nnsylvania. ranks on the side of the writer has earlier comment• The steelworker dived for angels, if the State's white ed on this. Nor on the fact cover as bombs fell. When he supremacists might be called that, in those days, the Navy came back to work the next that. Along with the Native paid its people 00 the 5th and day, Maxie was suddenly Sons and Daughters of the 20th. Adm. Chuichi Nagu• marched off the base at bay- . Golden West and the Hearst mo's carriers hit Pearl on onet point with 31 other newspapers, Warren began payday weekerxi, the twice• slant-eyed constructionmen urging that all persons of Ja• monthly occasion for sailors' Gulstan EIXIIloto, in Wai• panese ancestry be ordered getting bent outof shape. Of• luku, Maui, had an appoint• inland, away from the coast. ficers of all services had par• ment to sell a local police• Some Issei and Nisei could tied well the night before, man some insurnnce. When he read the handwriting on the and I wilei District whore• arrived at the station, a radio T /3 Robert Shraga and Sgt. Tatsuo Tanaka transcribe shortwave radio messages. wall and began a mass volun• houses did their usual bustl• was blaring, 'This is war! tary move eastward. This ing Saturday night business. This is war!" The elder En«r grew until General DeWitt, So did the taverns on Waiki• moto was nowhere around. he did help Navy men load hopped onto an Army truck, formal title of respect Japa• although he favored evacua• ki Beach. The author, sta• Nor was his massive radio, up his giant home-built radio panicking their parents for nese give all teachers. "Sen• tion, had to order the activi• tioned at Pacific Fleet head• and his wife wruldn't talk. It set and transport it to the three days. Tom then went sei," Kozaki pleaded, "why ty stopped because of dis• quarters in 1956, was as• took time to unravel the puz• field. For the rest of the war, home. He'd been riding back don't we run away now, ruptions it was causing. signed to do an anniversary zle, but on the tmllc-stricken while holding his job with and forth between mid-Island while we have a chance?" He Things weren't getting done story on attack survivors mainland, Japanese Ameri• the Maui Railrood, David se• and Schofield Barracks and was sure Kibei would be the "Army way," and DeWitt then stationed at Pearl Har• cans known toown shortwave cretly maintained his own Kapa Hospital in downtown shot in retaliation for the couldn't handle that. bor. He quickly learned that transmitters were getting and other equipment for the Honolulu, sleeping when and Pearl Harbor attack. Language students at the not all had been "just head• jailed. At the same time, on Navy, in his free time and where he could. The kids had' Nso wasn't sure what to Presidio, who still liked to en• ing for church," or "coming MaW, one Japanese-5cot• without pay. It took the Navy been taking cots, beds, say. He'd just dashed down• joy delicious food at China• out of the YMCA," as earlier tish-Hawaiian-American was Department 25 years to say blankets, mattresses and town himself to wire his fi• town restaurants when off• versions had it. being begged to enlist, so the thanks officially. medical supplies to where ancee in Los Angeles he was duty, began to feel conspicu• Reaction against the 159,- Navy could have his radio Fumio Kido heard expl«r they were needed. O.K. but sweated his way ous in a sea of white faces as 000 Japanese Americans in set! sions at nearby Hickam Inside Pearl Harbor, on back to the Presidio on a trol• other AJAs began staying in Hawaii was a bit less para• The Navy had a small air• Field, then saw the hino ma• the shore of Aiea Bay, the ley car while a hysterical fe• their homes for safety. They noid than against the 127,000 strip at Puunene, and its ru, the red ball that identi• famil~ of Harold- . Onis~ ma:e . pa~se.nge . r k~pt were cautioned to pair up, on the mainland. It had to be. equipment wruldn't trans• fied planes overhead as Ja• lived ill a small fishing viI- sCleammg, Kill him! He sa and stay in uniform whenev• Many Nisei had been work• mit. The airfield commander panese. Kido pined other lage. His parents, his broth- Jap! Kill him!" All. Aiso er leaving the Presidio. To ing undercover for the FBI wanted to enlist David En«r teenagers in a pidgin chant er Hatsumi and Hatsumi's could do was share his own sustain themselves, Nisei lan• and military intelligence for moto and his equipment, so of, "Oh, them dumb bug• wife and so~ all saw the bat- anguished experiences at guage students drew upon years. Cecil Coggins, a Navy Pearl Harbor could be gabs! Now they get it!" tleship Arizona blow up, a Brown, Harvard, and else• the Japanese teachings that doctor who was actually a raised. David pointed out Military police barreled half-mile from their front where. "We'll have to be pa• immigrant parents insisted counterespionage specialist, that the Navy would never into the middle of Tom Ma• door. When steel rained tient," he told Kozaki. "Up to they absorb. They knew that had more than 100 Nisei vol• honor enlistment of some• sui's baseball game to get down, the Onishis decided to now, there hru! ~ways been a man sometimes had to unteers. unpaid, under him. one with Japanese blood, b~~ 1:telp. Tom and 20 other kids give up their front-row some CaucaSJa1l around "sleep on firewood and lick Code-named Orange Group. seats. All six piled into the when . I've hB:d ~rouble, ~ gall". In early 1942, the thought rney identified many dozens 1937 Plymouth they jointly step ill and lDSlSt on farr helped, but only a little. of potentially-dangerous ali• owned and chug-chugged up play." Time passed. Not all stu• ens, who were scooped up the slope of Koolau Range, . Kozaki subsided. F~ar le~t dents did, when the pace of within hours of the first away from thewater, amid a him. He became the fIrst Nl- the course was doubled. At bomb's falling. As it did for swarm of other refugees. sei to win the Silver Star. April's end, 39Nisei and two the European ~ggle, Ha• Caucasians celebrated their waii supplied a Mst of anx• * * • The rest of Weckerling's graduation with a festive din• iously-loyal Nisei to serve in At Crissey Field, on the men also calmed down and ner in Chinatown. A 40th Ni• the Pacific war. They recall mainland, 1580 Kusuda grew returned to their studies, sei did not gradmte with them December 7 vividly. increasingly glum. This stu• which were accelerated, Kei Kiyoshi Sakamoto was Warren Adadli lived a bit pid war probally meant he while the colroel tried to pulled out of school early and west of Pearl Harbor itself. wouldn't get tre leave he'd maintain an island of calm in a sent away on a ~et mission, Exploding boni>s woke him. been promised when school hysterical military sea It the first Nisei into the South He responded with friends was over. And re'd be sure to wasn't easy. General De• Pacific from the mainland. Ar• to emergency calls on the get frozen in service, too. Witt, his fears fed by anti• thur Komori was already there radio for help. But Adachi, Rumors flew as fast inside Japanese elements in north• from Corregidor. And Yoshi• friends. and the truck they the Presidio of San Francis• ern California, exhibited an kazu Yamada from Mindanao. took to e\'8CU8te Navy co as elsewhere. increasing suspicion and The latter, a graduate student wounded, were turned away Weckerling tried to re• fear of everything Oriental. in chemistry atthe Univ. ofMi• from the base a gunpomt. assure his charges, telling Panic began to rule the day. chigan when drafted, had been It was drilled into Herbert them he'd had !Vme trouble Kai Rasmussen was sudden• evacuated frem the Philip• Yanamura that a man in an earlier war because of ly yanked out of MIS and pines on a stretr;her after be• mustn't marry until be could German ancestry, but that sent to a coastal artillery ing snatched up for the lang• properly support a wife. He things would turn out as well unit when rumors pour ed in uagework. was therefore trained in d«r for them as they had for him. of Japanese submarines and Sgt Yoshio Hotta led Sam mestic tasks in case be, like Pvt. Kazuo Kozald wasn't aircraft carriers offshore. Sugimoto, Masami Mayeda, -Presidio pia'EeIs and David Kato were in the his father. might bave to live alll buying it. A Kibei, he got The 4th Army automatically _Hideo Suyehiro and Willliarn any length of time bride• vanguard of wrat later became more than 75,000 Americans John Aiso outside the hangar became Western Defense Cootimed on Next Page less. Herb was ironing the trained in 50 Hlguages. and addressed him with the Command at war's outbreak, .11 '10--PACIFIC cmZEN / Friday, February 2, 1979 ------

everywhere lurniliated by lingui t later to face death n Japan. In San Francisco. even GuadalcanalaroNewGuin a HARRINGTON Continued from Page 9 Kai Rasmussen's proud grin were no longer safe on faded. New and. different Francisco' tree Nishikawa north to the Aleut• gration official called to active problems cropped up. Like ians and the 1east-heralded duty from the Reserve, led John Also's having to be dis• theater of war in May. eight men to Australia. They charged. Then he had to bere• Sgt. Mac Nagata took Masa• were William Hirasruma, Ga• hired as a civilian. It would CHAPIER2 ru Ariyasu, Iwao Kawashiri, ry Kadani, Steve Yamamoto, have been easier to give John Yosruo Noritake, Srugeru Ya• Kazuo Kawaguchi, Paul Ku• a commission commensurate Americans of Japanese an• masruta and IsaoKusuda along yama, Fred Nishitsuji, Hiromi with his post but, according to cestry evoked deep affec• with him to New Caledonia. Oyama and G€orge Taketa. directives, he was too old to tion or deep mistrust in the There they woukl join the new• The Taketa family was gath• qualify for the ra1kconsidered first four decades of this ly formed Americal Division, ered up, allowoo to take only meet. So, civilian it had to be. century, dependent upon the which rushed to that island what they could carry in their Many officers would be com• life situation of any Cauca• before the Japanese could arms, and. shiPl8i to a concen• ing to study Jatmlese, and the sian encountering one. take it and shut off Australia tration camp rot long after he pompous niceties of military Whites of accanplishment• from America reached the laOO Down Under. tradition had to be observed. ministers, physicians, and Two Caucasialswho a1ready Hideo Tsuyuki came down It wouldn't do to let them feel men of other disciplines-• knew some Japanese, and had withjaundicearxl was hospit• in any way inferior to a Pri• took AJA's in stride. But per• taken the course mostly for alized. He later led a team to vate, even one with a Harvard sons still struggling for a brush-up purpa;es (and per• Australia, arriving in early education. place in the sun-notably haps others described by Shel• 1943. James FUji.mura, Kamo Nor could the Pb bedoneany politicians or business fail• don Covell later in this story), Kozaki, Masanori Minamoto, longer at the Presidio. Earl ures-looked askance at led teams out. John Burden, a Tateshi Miyasaki and David Warren, the Hearst papers, these stri~, energetic doctor from the island ofMaui, Kato would lea\e the mainland and others urging Japanese• people. Issei ("first genera• had the Kubo brothers, Tadao before him. Elevenothergrad• American evacuation from tion of Japanese in America") and Takashi, buthedidn't know uates, official plans for them the West Coast finally got their and their children, the Nisei that until he met them on board changed, would remain in the way. President Roosevelt ("second genemtion of Japa• Unidentffed graduates of Camp Savaoe cla~s . ship. E. David Swift, an immi- States. signed an order that let Gen. nese in America"), made un• ...... DeWitt round up and ship east sure Caucasians feel more The war news was continu• anyone with Japanese blood unsure. ously bad throughout the -includingirifants!The black• 8alionwide ':Direcfoq MOVING DAY course of study at the Presi• est blot on America's escutch- ' True, AJA's did display '~ several admirable qualities. ;t,:"';'fUllness·"PrMestlonal ntinued from Page 3 dio, America am her friends eon began to blossom. Student ;::~: z· .... ,~ ~ '-.':~. ~ ~~ Co bull-headed row and her feet ::;:; V~r · PIa¢" ~. ,n %: Like love of children, re• business .card, of her rope ani refused to hurt. My weary but sympa• r ~Qt1 ;Issue here f(r 25 ¥lEfekS at:::; spect for elders, capacity for r ~ three-liles. Name. la ~ pI od another step. With rope thetic uncle said, "Uncle". He ~ r : per~ ~ · aS · tNo 1n8S ' ~? uncomplaining hard work, . . :;.; .. , . ~ s tretched tight, she stood her tied her to a tree and urged Gold MOlIltain reverence for scholarship, . i? ~ · .oo-afP. : ~ ' iiri& ground. My uncle had already f 1» ti iS: :: ttij'~~~ ;~;, ~~ ; .. :;;::<;f:rK1 the horses on oown the dark and a grim enthusiasm for milked her.. Now he pulled trail. Asian writers, artists needed anything red-white-anci and he pushed and he plead-' In the momi~ he returned blue. But they did exhibit Greater Los Angeles ~BeIdJ,Ca. Submit to: EcMes from • ed. He lectured her about the on horseback, and there she certain bebavDral oddities. Asohi International Travel cows that had walked the Or• was condescending now to do Short stories, essays and Gold MoUn1mn, Asian They ate lots offish and rice, 1111 Olympic, los Angelel 90015 e gon Trail. But Kuro was the last leg of her long walk, poetry are being accepted cNitjIjIPd OD 62l-6125/29 : Call Joe or Gladys American StWies, CSUlB, Nut .... U.S.A., Japan, Worldwide bringing with her the milk for the secmd issue of 1250 Bel.lfkMrer Blvd, Air-Sea-Land-Car-Hotel pulse for our breakfast. ''Echoes from Gold Moun• Long Beach, CA 90840. 1"'(I;iI;;;~i!i=i!il. 1iiiIiI_a;;~. RQWi;Ww GARD96 #2____ ~ - HoIII ' This should have been the tain, an Asial American lliustratim work is also The SHeA INU end of our rrove, but two 110 S. Los Angeles St. LA 90012 ; C ontinued from Paae 7 Journal," until March 15. needed, and irterested per- . elrUocb:inQ AIrefb 10 te,. al~ F1owen/Gitts/Plonts Deliveries City Wide days later the horses were ...... the EFGM 00g 01 ~ I~ alISIn 10 te AIdIa- M , Mill' Art 11o Jr Call (213) 62G-0808 _ The material must be re• oon~ e rvations by Feb. 7 were missing from their new bam. sons can SHlBA 1M.). f'lClS Milable.b\ 15. 1979._1(s1. Nisei Florist Several anxious days later, a lated to the AsianlPacific staff at (213) 4984821. II neI Cktl RtgistTy r equested to be made with ~ In the Heort of Linle Tokyo , letter from Hashitani told us American experience; be ShlblHnu USA 328 E. 1st - 628-5606 Reiko '(962-2534) or Jane Box 458, ForesMIIe. Ca 95436 what we'd hoped-the horses doubl~spacOO, typewrit• Fred Moriguchi Member: Teleflora ( 967-2526). (?On 525&495 had performed their own in• ten, 15 pages maximum; CHIVO'S The PAINT SHOPPE I credible journey and were and be accompanied by a Jep.ne. Bunke La Mancha Center, 1111 N. Harbon.\ • Selanoco Needlecmt back on their old stomping self-addressed, stamped Fullerton, Ca. (714) 526-0116 EARTHQUAKE EXPERT 2943 W. Ball Rd. VANIATO grounds in Emmett. envelope if return of ma• Anaheim. Ca 92804 Yamato Travel Bureau TO SPEAK FEB. 3 So Pap, with rus friend 321 E. 2nd St ., #f£J5, l.A. 90012 terial is desired (714) 9S5-2432 (213) 624-6021 Selanoco JACL installa• George Yamamoto, drove tiondinnerFeb. 3,7:30p.m. back to Emmett. Since Belle Naomi' 5 Dress Shop Watsonville, Calif. t Twin Dragon, 1550 S. and May were plodding farm Calif. Dateliners-' IEM .. LOYMIENT a Sports & Casual ! Sizes 3 to 8 • ~im, will fea• horses, not Pony Expressers. "- Harbor, Yamamoto came home by Need for trained Pacific• 133 Japanese Vilage Plaza Mall Tom Nakase Realty ture Dr. Hiroo Kanemori, Los Angeles: 680·1553 312 E. 1st St., Room 202 Acreoge, Ronches, Homes, Income moonlight, riding one and Asian social workers to work Open Tue·Fri, 9 : 30~ : 30 Los Angeles, CaUf. TOM NAKASE , Reoltor well-known seismologist at leading the other, singing a in their own community was s~ Sat 11 ·9 / Closed Sun·Mon NEW OPENING DAILY 25 CUfford Ave. (408) 724-64n Cal-tech, to and srow Japanese song like an Ameri• emphasized by the Coalition a film on earthquake. 624-2821 San Francisco, Calit can cowboy. of PIA Social Work Students, • Tickets at $11.50 per When the bam door was se• 1300 W. Olympic Blvd., Los Complete Home person may be obtained curely latched, our 1918 move Angeles 90015 (936-8236), ~ F,,"""'"" from Jun FUkushima, 18714 was ended. who are holding recrui tment -QUON BROTHERS S. Godinho, Cerritos, Ca I wonder ho\.v my grand• meetings. Application dead• line at UCLA is Feb. 1 and .S'~~~A" 90701; or call Jim Seippel children will move fifty years .. from now. # Mar. 1 at USC for classes Gardena DA 4-6444 FA 1-2123 Mutual Supply Co., Inc. (714) 527-5947. 1090 Sansome 51. , 5211 Francisco 94111 commencing in the fall of Nat' I JACL credit 1979. - - • Wasatch Front North MARUKYO San Jose, Calif. union declares 7% East L.A. College's Asian l G REGULAR MEE'I'INGS American StucUes Dept. isof• Kimono Store ClllltE. _ tUI'I •Edward T. Morioka, Realtor ON 1ST F1UDt\y Salt lake Oty fering three courses in the ~\ 3170 Willioms Rd ., Son Jose IPICIIL_ Res. 371-0442' Wastach Front North The Natbnal JACL spring semester starting New OtanI Hotel & Ft...... AlII "" Bus. 246-6606 ~--- ~ JACL meets on the first Credit U nin roard of direc• Jan. 30. Tuition is free. Call ~I_'-- A __ ..I_ 11 .. .-,.nt_..--.- Seattle, Wash. Friday of the month from 7 tors declared a 70/c per an• 265-8681 for schedule and 110 S. LoeAngel_ ...... 21.2215 • p.m. at JackOda Insurance num dividend for the 1978 registration information. ~~ Agency in C1earfield. On fourth quartEl' and paid a Kay Tanegashima is instruc• 11---':"_"-;"-=-=-"-'_:"'_'_=-_1 __ jnpeRTaL Lanes tor. on .,..~ .. *~ Complete ProShop -ReslOuront& lounge the agenda for the Feb. 2 20/c interest refund r...... =2101 -22nd Ave So. (206) 325-2525 meeting will be the mem• loans current as of Dec. 21, The MIS QJb of Southern ~I!!~I!! lola",,,,, Kinomoto Trovel Service bership drive. /I it was annollI1Ced by Ichiro California will have its new Fronk Y. Kinomoto Doi, treasurer. year party FEb. 17,6:30 p.m. -POLYNESIAN ROOM 507 S. King St. (206) 622-2342 at Kawafuku Restaurant in I (Dmner & CocktaIl • f100r Show) , The annual credit union IMA;U ~EA5T Gold Key Real Estate, Inc. dinner mee~willbe held Gardena's Pacific Square. -COCKTAIL LOUNGE Home ond Acreoge 9WE T on Saturday,Feb. 24, at the Reservations should be EntertaInment TIM MIYAHARA, Pres. made with Sho Nomura, Coli Collect: (206) 226-8100 PLAYERS Prudential Bklg., at 33rd president (3S.S{)5S2). or with The presenr I JAPANESE t Beacon Travel Service, Ltd: and State Sooth- Two seats Soichi Fukui (626-0441) or ~ George A. Kodo, Owner AVOCADO KID RESTAURANT or Zen in the Art of Guacamole on the board of directors Ko Shibuya (293-m8). 2550 Beocon A e . So. 325 - 584~ will be open for nomina• Fne JapIWleee Food e low Prices "5" by Philip Kan Go18nda 0riaraI Mood e P818OI~ A mtLSical odyssey basced on tion. Any member interest• Montebello Adult School The Midwest Momotaro. the Peach Boy ed in ~ for office or conducts classes in Japa• FREE PARI 900 S 9J4 . Sun 18.. ,851- CHAMPAGNE PREMIERE 12-2:3Opm) at Montebello Dl8MrI.·". Kubota, nominating com• .....,1U1-11. Thursday, 8 p.m. High School am child study ~ 1267 W. Temple t '--.- Washington, D.C. Fri.• S.t.-8 pm mittee chainnan. through (M-W 9-120 at Washington • Sun. 7:30 pm the Credit Union Office, \ Los Angeles \ 226 South Harbor Blvd. Masaoka-Ishikowa NOWI Visa I Mastercharge Elem Adult Ctr)_ Call Ray• and Associates, Inc. 880.0388 PO Box 1721, Salt Lake mond Hooper 022-2173) for ~ 624-0820 ~ Santa ArIa, Caif. 92704 Consulto nts - os 'ngton Moners 4424 Sub Melia BIYd, City, Ut 84110. if registration information. # ' ...... ,...... (714) 531-1232 900 - 1 7th S tN 520 2 6-44S. ------Friday, February 2. 1979 1 P CIFtC C TJ4:E:N-11 rna cally gi\"mg the new country their full love and HARRINGTON Caad..... 'rumPft loyalty. Forever. It was the Japanese way. E 'en Tenno• for instance, SIttmg on the They worked bard, kept knew that. ~en san. the Emperor. floor. With tic , spotless homes, and sent How could dEse "round- yel Many diem't celebrate well-scrubbed, properly• eyes" not understand? - Christmas, but went aU out mannered children to school. The round-eyes didn·t. and for ew Years. Strange lot. Why, then. did the hakujin Nisei paid the price. Encour• And how abwt those slant• still treat them like foreign• aged. even haJassed, by iro• ed eyes'? A feUeM' neverreaJ• ers? Whites were PU22ling mi~t~~tobegocd Iy could tell whX:h way a Jap people. Had they no cul- Americans. N~i tried. In a (they were rarely called Ja• ture? All Japan knew that a continual outpruring of love, panese) was looking. Better yoshi let himself be adopted Issei compounded the pro~ keep an eye on them. just in into a family tmt wanted its lern. Scraping together pen• case. Thu did ignorance line carried on. He surren• nies. then oollars, Issei produce 5uspi:ion, which dered himself to his ado~ established Japanese gave birth to fear. 1be tive family, becoming a per• schools, making children at• fourth generation of these manent member of its house• tend these after coming sick emotioos-senseless hold. They, the Issei, bad home from public ones. They hating-logically followed. chosen to bec:ane yoshi to felt that two centuries of Kai Rasmussen's first view of Camp Sav• he had it dug ali before the June. 1942. class This confused the Issei America. That meant auto- American culture were O.K.. age in 1942 was this flower bed. Aware ~hat of MISLS students arrived. but adding 26 Japanese ones many of his men no longer had a place to live. ======~ wouldn't hurt anything. From 9 a.m. t02 p.m., Nisei YANKEE SAMURAI indigent males. One of Ras• sea to shining sea, Amenca ers of many were holed. learned in public schools mussen's frrst sights at was infuriated into unity. that a group of portly gentl~ Most Nisei were. in fact. off Camp Savage was a flower something it had not been duty and away from the post (Japanese Americans in the Pacific War) men with ~ribboned hair bed. It moved him deeply. able to achieve via peaceful on the morning of Dec, 7, an• were their "forefathers." He knew the families of means. by Joseph Harrington From 3 p.m. on weekdays other clue to OOW lax things many of his students, pres• As mentioned, Hawaii's were on Oahu. and on Saturday mornings, ent and future, would spend AJA populaoon suffered they bowed to their sensei, Among those free that the war in ooncentration less right after Dec. 7 than weekend were Kazuo Yama• who were quick to knuckle camps. So it was especially did AJA's along America's the knobs of tlx>se who for• ne. Masami Tahira. Seian ironic that the bed's flowers west coast. Hokama, Rkhard Omori, got for a moment the glori• spelled out "Homeless Hawaii's Japanese could ous sacrifice of the 47 ronin, Kenneth Harano, and Goichi Men's Camp." Nearly all not be pushed around, as Shimanuki. So were Ben Ya• the "master-less samurai" those on the mainland were. who avenged their lord's mainland Nisei who studied mamoto, Richard Ishimoto, at Savage knev.r no other Locking up 159,534 men, treacherous death. and Sadao Toyama, the last home. women and children couldn't trying to recover from a Japanese studies preclud• Of the Presidio grads, even be considered. Japa• ed other extrarurricular ac• whopping party he'd attend• Jack Ohashi am Yoshio Mi• nese were needed for the ed the night before. All tivity. It was a rare Nisei yaoi were assigned to handle labor force. Thousands of Ja• who played high school obeyed promptly a radio Savage's supply problems. panese were already busy, sports, or debated, or had command to return to their Also kept back from over• strengthening Hawaii's d~ posts, but all had. great diffi• time for the dramatic socie• seas assignment, to teach, fenses, and more were need• ty. In desperafun, trying to culty getting back to Scho• were Arthur Kaneko, James ed for construction yet to get along, Nisei let things J a• field. The road between Pearl Matsumura, Gene Uratsu, start. So, except for declar• panese slide out of their lives Harbor and dE mid-island Thomas Sakamoto, Joe Y. ing martial law, setting a whenever given a choice. It Anny postwasjarnmed with Masuda, Ichiro Nishida, Mo• curfew, and restricting the wasn1t easy, trying to ob• vehicles of all kinds, rushing roi Nishita, Ryoichi Shinoda, movements of certain aliens back and forth to help the serve two sets of traditions and James Tartizawa. it was not thought necessary and live in two cultures. Navy with its dead and * .. • to pick up, officials general• wounded. When Richard Guilt beset some Nisei. In• ly left Hawaii's Japanese feriority complexes infected • On Feb. 19, 1912, Franklin Ishimoto's bus passed Roosevelt signed the in• civilians alone. others. Psychologists, pro• through the Hickam Field faJI)ouS Executive Order It was a different story for area, a hysterical MP kept fessional and amateur, later 9066. Gen. Dewitt began Japanese in the military. had a field day with this di• jabbing a rifle toward him. herding AJA's into assembly What would the unifonned The over-wrought soldier All of America knows how Nisei fought with mind• chotomy. centers, for allocating to AJA's do? wanted to shoot Ishimoto be• What it meant to Kai Ras• boggling bravery-in Europe. concentration camps. Some• A lot of people wondered. cause "the Japs blew up my mussen was that damned one in Washington must Pvt. Torao Migita might buddy!" few Nisei knew much Japa• "Yankee Samurai" tells• the story of "the other Ni- have realized how stupid have told them, but he died Among the handful of men nese! sei" who served secretly in the Pacific-and shortened this looked, when DeWitt's for his country on Dec. 7, on duty at Schofield that trying to reach his duty sta• that conflict by at least two years. Three problems presseu own headquarters was train• morning were Hoichi Kubo the Dane while Japanese ing Japanese Americans. tion. and Edwin Kawahara. Kubo • troops were taking Hong Language training was then They could have asked Sgt. was a medical technician, They saved more than 1,000,000 lives. Kong, Manila, Singamore shifted to the direct purview David Akui, of the 298th In• made one because he took and Rangoon. His course of the War Department. fantry Regiment. On Dec. 8 some college chemistry Their story was buried •in the Pentagon files for 30 was cut to six months, re• Meanwhile, much had ha~ he captured the first prison• courses and had inoculated a years. quiring instructors to cram pened in the 15 weeks since er of war, when Ens. Kazuo few pigs on Maui. He was en• craniums at a double clip. war broke out. Sakarnaki swam ashore route to early chow, a privi• • This reduced dE time period lege of dispensary staffers, "Yankee Samurai" tells how your uncles, brothers. available for identifying and when he saw planes coming cousins, fatha's-yes, and grandfathers-did a vital jOb, bringing in new students for through Kole Kole Pass from while often in danger from both sides! the next class. Too, he had to On Dec. 10, rifles were taken the island's north side, but get his operation out of San away from all Nisei soldiers at he paid no attention. • Francisco, to some place Kubo then heard explo• As part of your bicultural heritage, a copy of "Yankee where Nisei might apply Schofield's tent city ... sions from the direction of Samurai" should be in your home. tt can be part of your themselves to arduous study Pearl Harbor but thought legacy to Sansei and Yonsei. tt can also be an exc~lI~t without being distracted by them "more blasts from that gift to friends of different ethnic backgrounds, gl,,:,ng sneers of ''Dirty Jap!" Near panic reigned a from a midget submarine construction going on over while in coastal cities, east them more proof that Nisei and are, solidly Rasmussen g)()n pinpointed he'd abandoned there." He didn't know he were, and west, once Americans • • • was at war until haggard American. Minnesota as t:re geographic realized how inadequate The Hawaii National messengers rushed in and area with the best record of their armed forces really Guard had been federalized demanded "all the plasma June publication price will• be $11.95 ($12.95 postpaid), racial amity. Tmugh only 51 were and became aware that 15 months earlier. Nisei vol• you guys got!" AJA's lived in Minnesota at but you may order an "autographed" copy NOW for a they were not going to "lick unteers and draftees then Kawahara was the "intelli• the time of the 1940 census, those little yefuw bastards gence Corporal for the 1st May mailing. substantial discount Complete the cou- swelled its ranks, until 1,300 he figured the Gopher State in about three weeks! " The or so were serving in the Battalion headquarters of pon below an::l mail with your chec".:.. ______could absorb more without battleships Arizona, Okla• 298th and 299th Regiments. the 298th. I saw the planes on E';-e~-; , ~';:- strain. Mter consultation homa, California and West The latter were scattered my way back across the road Pettigre"'; --- ';";'blication Discounted Offer with Gov. Harold E. Stassen, so Victor St., Detoit, Mich. 48203 Virginia didn't look half so through the ruter islands. from the latrine, where I'd he obtained for Army use imposing in Pearl Harbor's Had the Nagumo Force fol• been brushing my teeth. I ran a) Please send me autographed COpies of Yankee SamuraI ' at 132 acres near Ft Snelling, mud as they had at Pathe lowed its air attack with an to sound the alann, but 11 '75 postp~lId each southwest of Minneapolis, b) PleaSe "Yankee newsreels. A host of senior invasion of Mau~ Kauai, or someone beat me to it. Then send me autographed '6-pack$ of Samurai" called Camp Savage after at $65 00 each postpaid. officers were yanked out of Hawaii, troops there to stop I began calling up my super• the tiny contiguous town commanding billets and them were mostly Nisei. iors on the telephone," he My chec for S . payable to Petti9rew Enterpnses. lnc., IS enclc.sed there. and I understand ShIpment ....,11 begin In May stashed where. if they The 298th wac; at Schofield said Until Nisei made the place couldn't do good, they at least Barracks, later made famil• Not one could be found Full name (pnnt) . ... famous for patriotic effort, could do no harm. iar to the American public that dreadful morning. "No Address Sayage had been noted as Early panic became rage via the movie "From Here one answered his phone," To Eternity". In a Tent City City. State ZIP the horne of Dan Patch, the on Dec. 8, after Roosevelt said Kawahara. internatioually-famous trot• crossed out "history" to sub• there, 350 Nisei inductees "Not the CO, the exec, the • Bulk Sales Discounts to JACL Chapters, Nisel veterans organ .. ting horse. Earlier, Camp stitute "infamy" in a speech were undergcing recruit 5-1, 5-2,5-3, orS-4. I tried all Dltions and other groups on request. • Buy an extra copy fa Savage bad been part of the he prepared for Congress, a training. None were wound• the company commanders. your local school or library. Civilian Conservation Corps, piece of purple prose that ed by strafing that took Once the books are out, it will be available at Pacific Citizen and after that a shelter for still helps bate well up. From place, although the footlock- Continued on Next Page - things Sgts. Richard Sakaki• ey, "chasing prisoners. We'd sweeping all Nisei Gl's in- sweep streets, cut grass and HAR R IN GT ON Cootinued from Previous Page da and Arthur Komori had run them over from Ord," he land from tre U.S. west haul garbage, but not get been doing for eight months said, "to do landscape work" coast. Many were put on a promotions for which they No luck there, either. Just stand why the 298th wasn't in Manila. Off-post and off-duty when roster none hal ever heard had been scheduled. Insult then, in walked Lt. Robert He helped set up one of his Men of the 298th, wonder• the attack began, Te"1' of before, SOIrething called was added to injury when Louis SteveJ13)n, a deputy unit's two 7Smm field pieces ing what migth happen next, headed ho~ There he the DEML ("Detached En- these menial tasks were pe .... company cormnander." facing the entrance to Hilo '~ started deploying to previ• found his mother, brother listed Man's List). This ap- formed under supervision of Kawahara told the young harbor to stop the Japanese ously-assigned dispositions and stepfather "destroying peared to be some kind of armed Caucasian soldiers. man, "You are senior officer fleet if it came. He then went along Oahy's oorth, wind- the Emperor's picture and military limbo in which • • • present, sir," and Stevenson to beach defense with the ward coast. Sadao Toyama everything else Japanese, soldiers were allowed to ThBeCaadDDed went directly to the office crew of a 37mm anti-tank might have had more to won• for fear the'd be charged safe. "He took out the M-94 gun. "The only ammo we had der about than some other with disloyalty." OOOOOOOOOlOOOOOOOOOOOOO~OOOOO~~O cipher and the division field for it was tracer," he said. Nisei. His father, Tetsuo, Mike Sa.kaIroto, George pu~ Kayano, Ronald Chagami codes," Kawahara recalled Uchiyama's gun would have had for 30 years been JACL South America Tour "and told me, 'Edwin, guard made a bright show, but it lishing Jitsugyo Hawaii ("In- and Satsuke Tanakatsubo these with your life! '" couldn't do any damage. dustrial Hawaii"), a Japa• were among tre many Nisei Throughout his life to that * ... • nese-language publication. at Camp Rorerts., Calif., $1,940.00* FBI agents earned him off whose weapons were taken point, the insurance sales• NAVY Secretary Frank' man had felt the weight of before noon of Dec. 7. Sadao away. June 23-July 10, 1979 Knox, who flew from Wash• would not see his father Caucasian suspicion. Nearly ington to see what had hap• No one took guns away ESCORTED TOUR INCLUDES four decades later he still re• again for 10 months and then from Walter Tanaka, Roy BRASIL-Manaus, Amazon cruise thru the jungles. BraSilia, Ro pened, must have been in a Louisiana prison camp. garded the iocident as the briefed by some pretty para• Uyehata, George Ichikawa De Janeiro. Sao Paulo, Iguacu Falls; ARGENTINA-Buenos most exhilarating experi• noid people. Eight days after • • • or Joe Yoshiwara at Ft. Ord. Aires; PERU-Lina. optional tour to Cuzco Machu Picchu (Lost ence of his life. "It was mag• the attack he was telling a Kai Rasmussen probably Joe helped guard the fort's City of the Incas). nificent," he said, "to be the press confermce, "I think didn't even hear for some water supply that night, and ·PRICE INCLUDES recipient of such total trust" the most effective fifth col• time about the Dec. 10 inci• Walt developed a monstrous Round trip air fare from San Francisco, first class/ deluxe hotels. Richard Mirutsugu was Imn work of the entire war dent, when rifles were taken callus from hand-loading sightseeing tour in each city. transfers to/ from airport, daily break· one of Schofield's soldiers fast and lunch or dinner. Price based in 1978 tariff & subJect b was done in Hawaii, with the from all Nisei soldiers at machine gun belts when the change. who reacted. With another Schofield's tent city, and machine loader broke down. possible exception of Nor• Apply thru your Travel Agent or Local Administrator man he heaved a machine way." they awoke next morning to The four, with Shigeo Yasu• gun onto a truck and drove The "token" Republican on find themselves ringed by take, Tetsuo Hayashida and QQQ90~QOQQQOQOQO~OQOQQQQQQQQQQQ off, his assigrurent to defend a Democratic cabinet, Knox machine guns. The incident a lot of other Nisei, were sent Honolulu. ''Pearl Harbor was a newspaperman who still had a bad taste in Nisei off to guard the shoreline was a shambles when we i must have seen too many mouths 36 years later. So did north of Golden Gate Bridge, .******* ••****.* •••• passed it," he said. movies about newspaper• the visits of Caucasian offi• but that didn't last long. Ni• Thomas "Kevvpie" Tsubo• men. All FBI checks were to cers to the 27-mile defense sei were pulled off it Their JACL Friendship Tour to China ta was on duty at Bellows faces terrified the civilians Field, detached from Scho• they had to challenge at field. "I thought the Rising Col. Wilhelm Anderson was asked night. $2,857.00* Sun insignia was camou• Dye Ogata, Calvin Mori• Nov. 16--Dec.6, 1979 flage for war games," he how he could sleep "where these matsu, Richard K. Hayashi said, "when the planes made and Shigeo Ito were at Ft. a pass without firing. But Japs can slit your throat?" ESCORTED TOUR INCLUDES Lewis, Wash. There confu• Changsha, cultural & educational center of Hunan Province. Can• when they came back and sion ran ramlElt. Some Ni- , ton, trade & industrial center of southem China. Nanning. agri• opened up on us, I realized show AJA's innocent of any line some 800 9)ldiers of the sei had their guns confiscat• cultural & communes, communications & modem industrial sites they were real Zeroes!" ed, some didn't. Robert Yo• Peking, political, economic, and cultural center. The Nagumo Force was sabotage in Hawaii. Clearly, 298th hoped to hold on Oa• Knox had let emotion over• hu's north shore. The offi• shioka did. He was then sent ·PRICE INCLUDES racing back toward Japan to help guard the mouth of Round trip fare from San Francisco with Hong Kong stopover, before Tsutomu Yamada, of ride intellect. There was on• cers kept asking Col. Wil• on~. the Columbia River but as• Tokyo stopover on retum, hotel accommodations, three meaa the 299th, knew it had at• ly "legitimate" spy in helm Anderson, CO of the re• daily in China, transfers, domestic travel. Price based on 1978 HawaIl, Takeo Yoshikawa giment, how he could sleep sured, "You'll get your rifle tacked Pearl Harbor. He was hi~ tariff & subject to change. off duty, fishing on Maui. who operated out of "where these Japs can slit back if there's an attack" Herb Miyasaki was at home country's consulate under a your throat?" While the Ja• Had Lord Corwallis' red• on the island of Hawaii. Re• cover title, the same device panese-fluent Rasmussen coats marched through Ft LIMITED TO 24 PASSENGERS Amerians and others used was urging some Nisei Lewis, playing "The World porting in, he was sent to Ko• Application Deadline: Feb. 10, 1979 hala airport to act as a worldwide. Two other spies soldiers to .give their all, oth• Turned Upside Down," no weatherman. On the same is• arrived in November to col• er CaucaslallS were insult• Nisei would have been sur• prised. Some were on one Apply directly to National JACL Travel Program. 1765 Sutter SI, land, Fusao Uchiyama came lect Yoshikawa's informa• ing the men he'd later need. San Francisco, CA 94115. Send $500 deposit. If more than :;l4 side of a road, confined to in from protecting Hilo's tion and collect some them• Kan Tagami was to be applicants, a drawing will be held to determinr IIr'" ?4 and walt list. power station against sabo• selves: They were Suguru among the latter. On Dec. 7, barracks, while others were tage. He'd been standing Suzuki and Toshihide Mae• he was a member of the Pre• on the other side, getting jima. They posed as mer• porcessed out of the Army watches there for two sidio's ga.rrisoo fon::e as• ~------weeks. Like Miyasaki, he chant seamen. the same signed from the 7th Inf~try and given the draft classifi• ...... ----.------.------was shocked. "What were Division at Ft. Ord. Three cation 4-F, for "undesir• • Information Coupon able." Nisei were being those guys doing over nights after the attack, Taga• Mall to any JACl·authorized travel agent, or 10: Insurance group kicked out of the Army at there?" he demanded. The mi pulled sentry duty on National JACL Travel 299th had been fully alerted. marks 28th year ~sherman's Wharf, guard- other posts, too, in spite of some having records any 1765 Sutter St., San Francisco, cal". 94115 Uchiyama couldn't under- Los Angeles 109 a small motor pool the Los Angeles Japanese Cas• Army had there. During the Old Soldier would have been Send me information regarding the , 979 ualty Insurance Assn., wee hours he encountered proud of. Most officers who Nat'l JACL Flights. especially Group # tried to speak for Nisei Tuttle to handle founded in 1951, celebrated and challenged a drunk, who Name______~ ______its 28th year at a gala New streaked off into the night soldiers were told to shut up. Greene's book Year dinner at Lowenbrau screaming, 'The Japs have Someone in Washington Address, ______San Francisco Keller Restaurant Jan. 21. landed! The Japs have land• finally wielded a big broom, Author Vaughn Greene Fusao Kawato is the new ed!" Tagami'sweapons were City, State, Zlp ______this past week revealed president, succeeding An• later confiscated, and he was Charles E. Tuttle Co. is tak• son Fujioka. shipped inland., as were IKEJIRI Day Phone ______'Chapter ______ing over publication of "As• Agents in tre early days thousands of other Nisei His tronauts of Ancient Japan" worked through two insur• family was rounded up, Cootinued from Pa~ S (PC Jan. 19) and will list at ance firms; today the associ• forced to live in Santa Anita $7.~. Copies currently ation members represent an racetrack's horse stalls for brating their oontnbutions available at Merlin Engine average of 20 companies, weeks, then shipped to a Pos• to the AmeItan way of N Works, Box 169, Millbrae, newly-named secretary ton, Ariz. concentration life. Cfi· 94030, are $5.50. # George Morey pointed out camp. As the 96th Congress Terry Takahashi, also i •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• moves along the legislative • • from Ft. Ord., was at another agenda, with the first San• : ~ - ~ . Presidio, the one in Monter- sei elected to Congress, : TULE LAKE INTERNEE FAMILY REGISTRY ~ Chinese new year Rep. Robert Matsui the • Washington Office' will • Data IS to be cxrnpiled as a directory for placement in a time capsule' : dinner offered : by the JACL Tule Lake Historical Plaque Dedication Committee in tI'e : share with all JACLers in : Tule L~ke Plaque Monument at ceremonies to be held May 27,1979. : LosADgeIes future articles or columns : Committee would also appreciate the help of other persons or groups • Quon Bros. Grand Star in its triumphs and frustra• • to collect data for thiS project. : New Chinatown is offering ~ . tions in the Nation's • • its special OUnese New Capital. : Infonnatlon Helpful for the Directory • Year's dinners from $1250 : 1. Family Name, WRA 10 Number, Block Number at Tule per person with service for The Washington Office • 2. Names of eech family member that lived at Tuie. . two or more persons through invites all JACl.ers and Ja• 3. Present name, address, ZIP. February to include: panese Americans to ac• 4. Deceased or living. Water chestnut delight in let• tively communicate with tuce shell, Wor MXlton soup, Hot "Those who were residents at Tule shall not remain nameless.' this office by phone or 'Spicy shrimps. Quon's Mongob- (202-~1240- • an beef with straw mushrooms. mail )0> MAIL DATA NOW 10: MARY T. TSUKAMOTO : Filet of chicken rubes with bab}' Washington JACL Office. 6615 FLORIN-PERKINS RD .-sACRAMENTO, CA 95828 • com and Chinese vegetables. 1730 Rhode Island Ave (916-383-3906) : Grand Star gowmet fried rice; NW, Suite 204, Washing• : Ginger ice crean and almond i ••••••••••••••••••••••' • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • cookies. ton. DC 200(6). iI