aci ic citizen National Publication of the Japanese American Citizens League NewsstaDd: 25e (soe postPafd) Whole No. 2,421 Vol. 104 No.1 ISSN: 0030-85790 941 East 3rd St. Suite 200, Los Angeles, CA 90013 (213) 626-6936 Friday, Jan. 2-9, 1987 Special New Year Edition
NEWS IN BRIEF
Inouye to Head Iran Investigation
WASIllNGTON -Sen. Daniel Inouye (D-Hawaii) was named Dec. 16 to head an ll-member Senate panel that will study the Reagan Ad ministration's secret arms deals with Iran and the diversion of the profits to the cantros in Nicaragua The committee was formally established when Congress reconvened Jan. 6. First elected to the Senate in 1962 and now the third-ranking Senate Democrat, Inouye seIVed on the special Senate committee that investigated the Watergate scandal during the Nixon Admini stration and became the first chairman of the Senate Select Commit tee on Intelligence in Un6.
Onizuka's Family Gets Settlement WASIllNGTON - The families of four astronauts killed in the explo sion ofthe space shuttle Challenger lastyear-Ellison Onizuka, Fran cis (Dick) Scobee, Christa McAuliffe, and Gregory J arvis-have set tled with the government for damages, 00 percent of which will be provided by Morton Thiokol, maker of the shuttle's failed rocket boosters. Although the Justice Department declined to disclose the exact amount of the settlement, it is believed to be at least $750,
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Nothing Left in My Hands by Kazuko Nakane (Young Pine Press, 110 pp., $11.95) Nationwide Membership Drive Gets Results Traces the beginning of a rural Japanese American community in California's Pajaro Valley to its eventual dispersal on the eve of SAN FRANCISCO - More than country, and begun work on what bicentennial celebration of the WW2. Mail orders only. Send check to Kazuko Nakane, P.O. Box 700 new members have joined the it hopes will be the most com U.S. Constitution. 45286, Seattle, WA 00145-0086. Washington residents add 79¢ sales tax. National Japanese American prehensive and extensive Japa Membership is open to all. Fee Historical Society (NJAHS), head nese American oral history col for on&year membership is as Portrait of One Nisei quartered at 1855 Folsom St, lection in the country. follows: student, $15; regular, $25; by Buddy T. Iwata (!'be Ink Spot, 358 pp., illustrated, $29.95, hard since the launching of its first The most widely anclaimed family, $35; supporting, $50; con bound, autographed) membership drive in early De project by the historical society tributing, $100; and patron, $500. An autobiographical account of a California-born Japanese Amer cember. to date is its efforts to place a Life memberships are also avail ican. Chronicles the internment experience of WW2 and lighter, The drive, under the direction major exhibit about the Japanese able for a on&time payment of humorous aspects of the author's personal life. Mail orders: send of Dr. Clifford Uyeda, NJAHS American experience in the $1,000. Checks, made payable to check, payable to The Ink Spot, to The Ink Spot, 1212 J St, Modesto, vice president and former JACL Smithsonian Institution. The ex NJAHS, should be sent to the his CA 95354. For shipping ahd handling, add $2.50 for first book, $1.50 national president, and John Ta hibit, scheduled to open in Oc torical society, 1855 Folsom St, for each additional copy. Soft-bound copies are $24.95, plus shipping teishi, former JACL redress di tober, will be the Smithsonian's Suite 161, San Francisco, CA and handling. California residents add 6 percent sales tax. Tel& rector, kicked off with a nation centerPiece for the nation's 94103. phone orders: (200) 529-5130. wide solicitation mailing to more than 2£),000 Japanese American The Hantest of Hate households. by Georgia Day Robertson (California State University, Fullerton, The historical society has Oral History Program, J~panese American Project, 586 pp., $22 existed on a limited membership Originally written in l.946, this book recounts the WW2 evacuation basis for the past six years, and and incarceration of more than 110,000 Japanese American citizens has amassed one of the largest and resident aliens. The story centers on the post-Pearl Harbor and most comprehensive private uprooting of the Sato family from their Southern California farm collections ofJapanese American and their wartime plight To order, call (714) 773-3500, or write: artifacts and photos in the coun Japanese American Project, Oral History Program, Library 431, try. The collection has a current California State University Fullerton, Fullerton, CA 92634. . estimated value of more than $500,000. Barefoot Gen: A Cartoon Story of Hiroshima Founded as Go For Broke Inc. by Keiji Nakazawa (New Society Publishers, 284 pp., $29.95) in 1001 to tell the story of the The powerful and tragic story of Hiroshima is depicted in cartoon Nisei veterans througb an form as seen through the eyes of the artist as a young boy. To order, exhibit which premiered at the send check, payable to New Society Publishers, to New Society San Francisco Presidio Army Publishers, 4722 Baltimore Ave., Philadelphia, PA 19143. For ship Museum, the organization main ping and handling, add $1.50 for first !><><>k, 40¢ for each additional tained a steady focus in its first copy. Telephone orders: (215) 726-6543. two years of existence. After those first two years, Village Scene, Village Herd however, the organization saw a by Yasuo Sasaki (Balconet Press, 74 pp., $4) need to preserve more than just A collection of ''poems of vintage 1968 and sequel" by Dr. Yasuo the narrow focus of the veterans' Sasaki, who started the Nisei literary magazine Reimei in 1931. story. What began as one exhibit NOW AVAILABLE IN MAINLAND Copies can be ordered from Balconet Press, 2iO) Cherry St, Berk& soon expanded into a commit ON THE LIFE OF THE FIRST J.A. ASTRONAUT ley, CA 94705. ment by the organization to col Published for the Onizuka Memorial lect and preserve the entire story Price: $19.95 Calif. res. add 6'h% sales tax. The Tecbnopolis Strategy: Japan, High Technology and the Control of Japanese Americans. Available at the following locations in So Calit.: Little Tokyo-J.A.N.M .• 941 E. of the 21st Century Consequently, the historical Third St. , Suite 201 ; L.A., CA 90013; Travel Bee. 1018 Gardena Blvd., Gardena, CA 90247. LIMITED SUPPLYI by Sheridan Tatsuno (BradyJPrentice Hall Press, $19.95) society name was adopted in lllt3 ------ORDER BLANK------Tatsuno, a senior indu.stry analyst for Dataquest's Japanese Semi to reflect the organization's Please send book(s) to: conduct6r Indu.stry Service, looks at Japan's plans to achieve a high change in purpose. Name: ______tech advantage for the next century by building 19 Silicon Valley-type In addition to its extensive Address: ______research communities. memorabilia and photo collec City, State, Zip: ______tion, NJAHS has also maintained Please make checks payable to Onizuka Memorial Committee. and send to Keeper ofConcenfration Camps: Dillon S. Meyer and American Racism nine traveling photo exhibits Japanese American National Museum, 941 E. Third St., Suite 201 , Los Angeles. by Richard Drinnon (University of California Press, 340 pp., $24.95) which have been seen by more CA 90013. Add $3 for shipping and handling for each book. The author takes a critical look at the career of Dillon Meyer, who than 3Y.l million Americans, par headed the War Relocation Authority (194246) and the Bureau of ticipated in the production oftwo Indian Affairs (1950-53), drawing parallels between his actions and documentaries which have aired attitudes toward the two minority groups. on PBS stations throughout the Japanese Phototypesetting - - Empire Printing TOYO PRINTING CO. COMPANY KKRC 309 So. San Pedro St .. Los Angeles 90013- CommerciaL and SociaL I(ENNETH H. KUSUMOTO (213) 626-8153 EngLish and Japanese RARE COINS 114 WeUer St. Rare Coin Investments Los Angeles, CA 90012 Gold/Silver Bullion Sales (213) 628-7060 714 / 541-0994
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for Ihe SHORTER MAN SHORT MEN UNITED WAY DONORS Support Japanese American community social 4'10"-5'7" services by DESIGNATING your United Way F..VERYl'HING IN YOUR SPECIIII. SIZES donations to the: X-SHORT· SHORT • PORTLY SHORT 30"-31"·32" SLEEVE LENGTHS Little Tokyo Service Center, Inc. 1275 Marker Streer SAN FRANCISCO (415) 86-4·7140 ANY other Incorporated non-profit social service 1 233 Broadway PlaltO agency can also be designated. The foilowlng Is a list of WALNUT CREEK (415) 930-0371 some agencies who arA I TSC members: 103 Town & Country Village Aslen Rehabilitation Servlcee PALO ALTO (415) 321-5991 Jepaneee American CO!!'l"unlty Servlcee Fremont Hub Shopping Center Japan... Amerlcen CultUriT end ComMunity Center FREMONT (415) 791-8149 Jepene.. Welfe,.. Rlghte Organization 683 Pashion Valley Little Tokyo People'e Rlghte Orgenlzatlon SAN 0l1!GO (619) 296-9210 So. Calif. Society For The JepMe.. Blind c,,11 01 Write f01 PREE c"ralog Friend. of the Little Tokyo PUblic Ubrery Servlee. 4--PACIFIC CInZEN I Friday, January 2-9, 1987 HAPPV 19871 AND DON'T FORGET-7HEIle~ A Rich Resource MO~e 7H4N ONE lIME IN 71115 N£WYe;w ~~-:P OF 11I611ABfJIT. community leaders who were FROM THE snatched up by. the FBI following FRYING PAN Pearl Harbor and locked up in enemy alien detention camps, as differentiated from the reloca tion camps. One is by Tetsuden BiD Kashima, director of Asian Amer Hosokawa ican studies at the University of Washington The other is by John C. Culley, professor of history at West Texas State University, who Back in March of 1983, a sym used 71 footnotes to cite sources. posium on the Japanese Ameri can experience was held at the The mix of scholars and lay University of Utah Scholars, writ writers leads to a certain spotti ers, ObseIVers and just ordinary ness in the book, but also to a folk gathered to deliver papers certain charm. Further, the lilr about prewar Japanese Ameri eral footnoting, a necessity can communities, the evacua among scholars, indicates the tion, the postwar era. vast store of literature that has If the conference didn't attract become available on Japanese The 'English First'Mentality' a great deal ofnotice, it produced Americans and their travails. a lot of new and interesting ma Of particular interest is the people who can't read or speak alone, some ~,
Chapter Pulse Puyallup, Olympia JACL Pay Tribute to Ellises CAR SON TACOMA, Wash. - JACL Life eInstallation dinner will take place Jan 17 at the Reef Restau Achievement Awards were pre rant, 800 Harbor Scenic Drive, Long Beach. Cocktails will be sented to Dr. Paul and Edna Ellis served at 6:30 p.m, followed by dinner at 7 p.m Entertainment by the ,Puyallup Valley and will be provided by Vocal Jazz. Tickets are $20 per person and Olympia chapters during the Oct may be obtained by calling Agnes Hikida, (213) 59().6752 or 19 Pacific Northwest District 500-2564. ' Council meeting. - Among those in attendance CONTRA COSTA was National JACL President eChapter's installation dinner will take place Jan 24 at Yet Wah Harry Kajihara, who thanked the Restaurant, :n>5O Highway 40. No-host cocktail hour will begin Ellises for their contributions to at5 p.m followed by dinner at6 p.m. Installation of new officers the J ACL and especially for their will begin at 7 p.m. Guest speaker will be Peggy Saika, executive work in the Olympia Chapter, director ofthe Asi~ Law Caucus. Tickets are $16 per person. which he said "is very special to me, for I was born in Olympia" LAS VEGAS Also on hand to honor the eChapter's installation dinner will take place Jan 11 at couple was PNW District Gov. Chinatown Cuisine, :DX> E. Charleston Blvd Cocktail hour will Denny Yasuhara, who called the begin at 6 p.m, followed by dinner at 7 p.m Cost is $10 per Ellises an ''inspiration to me" for person. For reservations or further information, call Tom all their work as members of the Tanaka, (702) ff13..7757. PNW District Council over the .' . Edna and Paul Ellis, seated, receive JACL ute Achievement Awards during MILWAUKEE last ~ years. He thanked them for being the "backbone of the the Oct. 19 Pacific Northwest District Council meeting in Tacoma. Presenting e Installation of1987 officers will take placeJan 18 at the Country district council" and for the the awards are, from left, John Umono, Olympia Chapter; Harry Kajihara, Gardens Restaurant, 911 W. Layton. Cocktail hour will begin "foundation of love they've given national president; Denny Yasuhara, PNW district govemor; and Jan at 3 p.m Program will follow at 4 p.m, and prime rib dinner us." Yoshiwara, Puyallup Valley Chapter. will be served at 5 p.m Cost is $11.25 per person Info: Margaret The Ellises began their in Igowsky, (414) 281-0046. volvement with the Japanese American community in Salem, MONTEREY PENINSULA Ore., where they worked with Housing Project for Seniors, eInstallation dinner will take place Jan 17 at Rancho Canada youth groups before YVW2. Golf Club. Gocktail hour will begin at 6:30 p.m, and dinner is In 1009, they moved to New Disabled Near Completion scheduled to begin at 7 p.m Judge Robert Moody of the Munic York, where Dr. Ellis earned his ipal Court will install new officers. U.S. Rep. Leon Panetta will doctorate in economics at Col deliver the keynote adddress. Tickets are $17.50 per person umbia University. They played a PORTlAND, Ore. - Construction Applications may be obtained part in the formation of the New ofIkoi-so Terrace, a housing resi by writing or calling the Nik NEW YORK York JACL Chapter and became dence for retired citizens, is keijinkai, 'm NW. Crouch St, eMembership meeting will take place Jan 17 at 3:30 p.m at the the organization's first associate scheduled for completion in Portland, OR 97200, (503) 223- Japanese American United Church, 255 7th Ave. Meeting will members. March, and applications for sub 2454; or the Guardian Manage be preceded by a 2 p.m memorial service for Min Yasui, former During the war, they assisted sidized housing in one of its 35 ment Corporation, P.O. Box JACL-LEC chair. evacuees in the relocation units are being accepted 06058, 3526 SR 52nd Ave., Port camps and also provided aid to The apartment complex, initi land, OR 97200, (503) 775-1982. SEATTLE students who left camp to attend ated in lOO2 by the PortlandJACL eChapter's installation banquet will take place Jan 24 at the college. and Nikkeijinkai, is located one Atrium, 57016th Ave. S. No-host cocktail hour will begin at 5 After the war, the Ellises block west of the intersection of p.m followed by dinner at 6 p.m Tickets are $20 per person moved to the West Coast, settling S.E Oak Grove Boulevard and Retired Colonel and may be obtained by sending check;, payable to Seattle in Washington state. In 1967, they River Road, just south of the sub JACL, to Ayako Hurd, 9040 Meridian North, Seattle, Wash. joined the Puyallup Valley urb of Milwaukee. 98100. Chapter, and in 1983, they helped The retirement center will fea Gets Master's to start the Olympia Chapter. ture four specially designed units SELANOCO Paul served as Puyallup Valley for the handicapped, a multiser FRESNO - Taro "Kaf' Katagiri, eGrant Ujifusa, JACL-LEC acting chair, will be guest speaker president in 1970, and he also vice meeting room, l2 off-street employed at the local office of at the chapter's installation dinner Jan 10 at the Buena Park served as PNW Districtgovernor. parking spaces and laundry facil Sun Life of Canada, has been Hote~ 7675 Crescent Ave. Cocktail hour will begin at 6:30 p.m, Edna served as secretary of the ities. awarded a master's degree in fi followed by dinner at 7:30 p.m Info: Frances Hachiya, (714) PNW District for seven years. Income limitations for appli nancial services by the Graduate fro.3416. cants are below $10,550 per year School of Financial Sciences of for one person, and $12,000 for a the American College, Bryn WAS H I N G TON. D. C EDSATO two-person household. At least Mawr, Penn. PLUMBING & HEATING one person in the household Kat.agiri, a retired u.s. Anny eU.S. Sen DanielK Inouye will be guest speaker at the chapter's Remodel and Repairs. Water Heaters must be 62 years of age or older, Furnaces, Garbage Disposals colonel, is a member and former installation dinner-dance Jan 31 at the Ft. Myer Officers Club or be disabled (any age). president of the JACL Fresno in Arlington, Va Cocktails will be served from 643:45 p.m, and Serving Loa Ange .... Gardana (213) 321~610, 293-7000. 733~557 Chapter. He also is a member of dinner will be served at 7 p.m Tickets are $18 for members, DB IT the Million Dollar Round Table. $20 for non-members and $16 for students. For reservations, ;a\-ll Kikue Helen Otani call Barbara Nekoba, (700) 300-4820, orKatherine Matsuki (301) . ~CA ••alL~ 811112-12122186. urvi vors include hu band, ~. lzuto; sons Dean & teve; brother. Dr. Raj' ~ Across St. ~nn'S Hasp. Ishikawa; ister, Margaret Kawaichi. WEST VALLEY IJ' 2032 Santa Monica Biv{' A JACL member, he and husband owned Salta Monica...cA. MART & oper.lted Ot:llli Fish Market in Oxnard . • Installation dinner will take place Jan 17 at the Officers Club KIRK ISHIZUKA 828·0911 Cameras & Photographic SupplIes at Nas Moffett Field, Mountain View. Cocktail hour will begin OBI T 316 E. 2nd St, Los Angeles, CA 900 12 at 6 p.m, followed by dinner at 7 p.m Guest speaker will1 be FOR ALL OCCASION (213) 622-3968 Dr. William Y. Takahashi of the Mile-Hi Chapter. Tickets are RECIPES TO SHARE 287 pages-616 favorites We wish to express $15 for prime rib dinner and $l2 for baked red snapper. Info: and Asian recipes CHIYO'S Susie Sakamoto, (400) 252-W72. our appreciation to Japanese Bunka Heedlecraft CALVARY PRESBYTERIAN Framing. Bunka Kits , Lessons. GiftS CHURCH friends for their (714) 995-2432 Stockton, California thoughtfulness and 2943 W. Ball Rd , Anaheim . CA 92804 Donation: $6.50 plus $1 .50 (213) 617-0106 424 E. 2nd St., Honda Plaza, l.A. 9t,~12 postagelhandllng sympathy on the death Send to: of mother. Calvary Presbyterian Church Cookbook Committee Ed Mitoma & F(lmily 1239 S. Monroe Stockton. CA 95206
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Counse/lor PO Box 1721 I Solll.ake City, Utah 841 10 /80 I 355·8040 Friday, January 2-9, 1987 I PACIFIC CmZEN-7 CDmmunity Calendar Fellowships for Jan. 10-24 DELRAY BEACH Sociological Jan 11 Traditional Japanese New Year activities including Noon kite flying, the writing of the year's first calligraphy and m.ochitsuki will take place at the Lake Biwa Pavilion at Study Offered the Morikami Museum of Japanese Culture, 4000 Mori kami Park Road Info: (300) ~ WASHINGTON - Doctoral fel LOS ANGELES lowships in sociology for the Jan 15 Garret Kaoru Hongo, associate professor of English at 1987-88 school year are available 7p.m the University ofMissouri and author ofYeUow Lightand to prospective and current minor 'Fhe Buddha Bandits Down Highway 99, will be presented ity graduate students through the in a poetry reading at Cal State LA in the University American SociOlogical-Associa Student Union The reading is being made possible by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts that tion's Minority Fellowship Pro was awarded to the university's Writing Center. gram. A maximum stipend of up to ASPEN $6,552 is provided. Arrangements Jan23.:J) Third biennial Asian Ski Week, sponsored by Asian for the payment of tuition will be Skiers International Association, will take place in made with the university or de Aspen, Colo. For further information on the ski trip or partment Approximately 10 fel Deni Uejima, president of the San Gabriel Valley JACL Chapter, presents ASIA, call Stan Eng, (415) 676-Z1W, or write him at P.O. lowships will be awarded. Box :1)155, Oakland, Calif: 94004. a check for $1,410 to Gladys Lee, left, director of the Asian Pacific Family Upon degree completion, and Center, and Sachiko Reece, second from right, APFC counselor, for the SAN JOSE unless otherwise noted, ASA fel purchase of psychotherapy equipment for the center. Also taking part in are Jan 17 "One Night in Morocco," sponsored by the Asian Ameri lows required to engage in the presentation is Marvel Miyata, right, director of the East San Gabriel 7p.m can Social Club, will take place at Menara Moroccan , behavioral research and/or Valley Japanese Community Center. Uejima, who was instrumental in sec Restaurant, 41 E. Gish Road Cost for the evening offood training for a period equal to the uring the funds from the JACL National Endowment Fund, presented the and entertainment is $18 plus tax and tip. For further in length of support beyond 12 check during the annual membership meeting of the community center, formation, call (415) 7m-~17 or (400) 219-1067. months. Failure to perform this which also benefits from APFC services. GARDEN GROVE requirement entitles the United States government to recover an Jan 17 Free legal counseling will be provided to members of amount specified in National In lOam-4p.m the Asian community during Law Day at Sl Anselm's Church, 13001 Galway Sl Event is being organized by stitute of Mental Health guide DELIGHTFUL Judge B. Tam Nomoto of the Central Municipal Court, lines provided all awardees. seafood treats and members ofthe Orange County Asian Bar. Info: K~ Applications must be received rean, (714) fm.()111; Chinese and Filipino, (714) 647-5ro1; by Jan 15, 1987. For application DELICIOUS and Vietnamese, Cambodian and Laotian, (714) 537- Greater Lo8 Angele8 San J08e MIKAWAYA ASAHI TRAVEL EDWARDT. MORJOKA, Reahor SWEET SHOPS Supenave~ Group Dilcounb. Apex Far·ee 580 .5th t., SanJo.., CA 95112 998-8334 p. m. Compute,.;..,d·BoDded (408) 559-88J6 a.m. 244 E. 1st St. Los Angdes;(213) 628-'1935 1 J J J W. Olympic BI.d, Loo AotIdeo 9OOJ5 (213) 623-6J25/29 • CaU Joe or Clady. 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Earlier this year, I wrote wise is demeaning and an insult VP of General OperatIbns that could be spent on more im some incentives for energistic several memos of concern and to each of us. portant things. promotion; sent copies to chapter presi Finally, our national sta£fper Although it would be good to National committees must act • Identification ofa fund-raising dents. Rather than give input, sons deserve better treatment write an article full of optimism with greater. continuity so that team and program for implemen many said that they would rather than what they have received in and positive attitudes for and valuable time is not lost and tation of other important pro the national leaders try to work recent months from some. There aboutJACL, we have not dOne so many of the structured, mechan grams, i.e., youth, aging and re things out on their own seems to be a serious lack of un in the recent past for a variety of ical processes and programs can tirement, women's concerns and derstanding of the workload of benefit, rather than be constant anti-Asian violence; We may have been elected to reasons. assume certain decision-making the staff and the demands made ly reinvented by new chairper • Implementation of a nation Many of you are saturated by roles, but not without grassroot of them from a variety ofsources . our writings, but I ask that you sons and committee members. wide network of volunteers for Too often, staff is placed in a maximum service, when needed; input There must be a team con bear with us and show some pa JACL is one of a few organiza cept of leadership to properly "damned if you do and damned tience by not ignoring our con tions that does not have a process • Development of individual manage this organization. Every if you don't" situation. Trying to cerns. for overlapping committee terms and general grass-root formats read minds is impossible, and for getting acquainted with member, as well,as elected offic JACL does not lack for the spok to assure constant movement ers at all levels, must participate clarity is seriously lacking And,' en or written word about the fu and gain. We seem to be bogged newly elected legislators, as well there is no pleasing some, even as for renewing contact with re in the development and imple ture and what we might or will down with committee work rath mentation of of JACL policy. with maximum effort. As stated accomplish. The face of JACL is er than getting more important elected officials. (Is the Washing 'before, one needs to spend some to show a united front, but we items of business in gear. ton effort adequate?); At the same time, the National time at National Headquarters know that too often it is just a The following are things I feel • Fulfillment by each elected Board must deliberate and seek and at regional offices to appre facade with no substance. we should be doing or should officer of his or her respective solutions to make the general ciate the tireless effort and Every two years, we elect new have accomplished by now: job without outside interference membership and local leaders energy expended on our behalf leaders and they take up to six and within the framework ofhisl more knowledgeable and parti by all sta£fpersons. months deciding who, when, how • Establishment of a definite 'her official duties and respon cipatory, and react when neces Can we somehow move the and where energies are to be funding mechanism to assure ad-' sibilities. sary to assure the best result for agenda and make progress, or spent in the remaining 18 months. equate funds for redress, and Chapter leaders must show all of us. We must remove our are we destined to linger in the Too often the last three months identification of a team to main greater interest and participate selves from decision-making by present muck and mire and go ofa biennium are spent planning tain such a mechanism; in decision-making by early and one or a select few and move to in reverse? What is the answer? the National Convention and we • Development of a creative relevant input to the National ward team effort. To do other- Does anyone care? The Generational Changing ofthe Guard by William Marutani tween and among us. a blemish that every American fronting the organization in Defamation League remains fully VP of Planning & Development The Nisei Generation who takes pride in this nation terms of objectives, there inevit geared and active, thereby bene My generation experienced a will wish to see removed. ably arose new ones. And there fiting all, incuding you and me. The national JACL organiza trauma of rejection by our own And so, if the Nisei, many of will continue to be major issues It: after completion of our re tion, as I see it, is in the midst of government when it rounded up whom remain "gun shy" as a re confronting A.JA's, and thereby dress crusade--a glaring and ob an organizational change-of-life, and incarcerated some 115,000 sult, continue to adhere to the presumably the JACL organiza vious issue-we cannot compre a time when the "old guard" (my Issei and Nisei into barbed-wire old ways which somehow permit tion, which will require our com hend that there are many, many Nisei generation) must inexor camps. That grossly unjust act, ted us to survive, and cause us bined energies. We are,let us re other hurdles to surmount to ably relinquish leadership to the which continues unremedied to shy away from bold steps, to mind ourselves, far from having ward gaining that minimal qual new wave of A.lA's. over four decades later, had a shy away from trying new ap realized our entitlement as citi ity of life to which all Americans This is not always easy, for ripple effect, and whether we're proaches, some understanding is zens of this great land, far from are entitled, then we shall be there is a tendency on the part willing to acknowledge it or not, called for. Even if-nay, particu having gained what our potential doomed to second~lass status. of the old to adhere to the com continues to have a ripple effect larly-if one may not agree. can and should provide. But I do not choose to believe fort of the tried-and-true old on the well-being of all Japanese Inevitability of Change If A.JA's entered the domains that such is the makeup of the ways, wary of new concepts, new Americans today and those to On the other hand, the Nisei of membership on the Cabinet, A.JA's. We've already sacrificed proposals and new directions come. must pass on the torch, even ifwe the U.S. Supreme Court, leader too much to permit such a fate that the new wave would seek to Indeed, the ripple effect rocks -in turn-may not always agree ship in industry, banking, mass to settle upon us. introduce. Asians other than those of J apa with the new. Yes, even if we at media, the national arts, and so Mutual Understanding This is not to suggest that in nese ancestry. Vincent Chin The times think that the new are on, would we then feel we've And so, to get back to the initiru some regions some meaningful ripple stormed and destroyed the about to commit errors as we "made it" and then relax? None thesis that we are at the cr0ss transition has not taken place; it well-being ofJapanese Canadians view things. The inevitable wear of these have we gained, although roads ofthe changing ofthe guard. has. But on a broad scale, we con and Japanese Peruvians as well, iness of our bones and the accel I have no doubt whatsoever as Change does not come easily. But tinue to be in the throes of the just to name two other groups. erating toll of Father Time man to our capabilities and qualifica change we must The thrust for shifting change which does not And, of course, the episode tar date the changing of the guard. tions. Yet, these are accomplish change, by the way, is not neces always come easily. Perhaps a nished the tranquility and pride Beyond Redress ments attained by our brethren sarily confined to a generation brief, albeit superficial, review of of what we call America, and Some voices have posed the of the Jewish faith and they, in as such; for there exist timid and some factors--again, as I see thus affected our noble princi question for JACL, "What beyond their wisdom, have not ceased "old thinking" among the new. them-may help to place matters ples, and until meaningful re-' redress?" Posing such queries is their efforts in maintaining and But old or new, we must begin in perspective and therefrom demption is realized, continues to not new, for in years past, what continuing their quest for digni thinking, planning and acting for lead to better understanding be- remain as a shamefill blemish- ever major issue was then con- ty. Among other things, the Anti- the transition. It is inevitable. Fourth-Year Pledge Standings Non-Deductible Contributions Through December 31, 1986 Chapter Pledge ($) Red ($) Chapter Pledge ($) Red ($) Clarification ofLEC Fund-Raising PACIFIC SOUTHWEST: Santa Maria ...... 430 Arizona ...... $1670 Selanoco ...... 1740 1740 Carson ...... 525 525 South Bay ...... 885 Coachella Valley •...... 545 So. Cal. American Nikkel .... by Hany ~ihara Example: If the chapter puts come do not require 501(h) elec Downtown Los Angeles .. 690 Torrance ...... 225 LEC Fund Drive Chair on a spaghetti dinner to raise tion. East Los Angeles ...... 3220 2000 Venice-Culver ...... 1310 500 funds for LEC, the purchasers of (3) A chapter that has a ques Gardena Valley ...... 4235 Ventura County ...... 930 To clarifY fund-raising proce the dinner ticket cannot deduct tion should call Legal Counsel Greater L.A Singles .....865 West Los Angeles ...... 5455 dures for LEC, a memorandum the money as a charitable contri for JACL on questions on state Greater Pasadena ...... 140 Wilshire . ....•...... 670 was developed and reviewed by bution All literature relating to law requirements for foreign cor Hollywood ...... 1145 Imperial Valley ...... 220 District Total: 37,345 8380 a consultant finn. The proce the dinner should include a state poration solicitations. Chapters Las Vegas ...... 185 N.Cal-W.Nev-Paclflc/Japan: dures are detailed below. For ment that "contributions are non outside of California should con Latin America ...... 285 specific questions not covered by Alameda ...... $1250 $1250 deductible." The money should sult with a local counsel Marina ...... 665 Berkeley ...... 1665 1075 the memorandum, please direct not go through the chapter treas (4) The redress pledge program Nikkei Leadership Assn. Contra Costa ...... 2000 2000 your inquiries to the LEC Fund ury but should be sent to LEC. of$5 per member goes to National North San Diego ...... 310 Cortez ...... •...... 990 506 Drive Chair, 1765 Sutter St, San (2) A chapter that wants to send JACL from chapters for the JACL Orange County ...... • 2685 Diablo Valley ...... 565 565 Francisco, CA 94115. chapter (c)(3) dues or money to Redress Program. This pledge is Pacifica ...... 260 Eden Township ...... 1000 1000 (1) Fund-raisers for the 501(c) the as chapter contribution presently deductible. If this $5 is Pan Asian ...... 870 150 Florin ...... 600 600 LEC Pasadena ...... 635 705 (4), LEC, must be solicited as non should keep that contribution to earmarked for LEC by donor, it Fremont .•...• ...... 500 595 deductible contributions and said is not deductible. A chapter can Progressive Westside . •. 130 French Camp ...... 720 720 under a> percent of its overall an Riverside ...... 435 contributions kept in a separate ask for $5 from the members and 435 Gilroy ...... 675 675 nual income and it can file its San Diego ...... 2315 Golden Gate ...... •...... 20 20 account The checks should be own 501(h) election under the In say that we may use the money San Fernando Valley .. . 1725 1725 for legislative purpose but there Honolulu ...... 420 160 made out to JAClrLEC and funds ternal Revenue Code. Contribu San Gabriel Valley ...... 930 Japan ...... 375 375 sent directly to LEC and not tions from chapters which are less is no promise on the use of the San Luis Obispo . . .• .. . .415 through the (c)(3) or JACL. than 5 percent of its ~ual in- money; then it can be deducted. Santa Barbara ...... 600 600 OWinued 00 ~ 9 -- A Look Back: 1986 Year-End Reports JACL Membership Count : Jan.1/NoY.30, 1986 Month Reg Fam TC-SO TC-100 Corp Stdnt Youth Auoc: Total A Few Words of Gratitude Jan ...... 1,841 614 189 13 1 31 4 2,693 Feb ...... 1,671 882 276 22 2 28 2 8 ' 2,891 by~I.1Iara (Milwaukee), Dr. Kaz Mayeda waukee), George Sakaguchi (St Mar ...... 2,261 1,317 243 16 48 6 2 ;1,893 Midwest District Governor (Detroit), Hank Tanaka (CLeve Louis), Matt Abe (!'win Cities) and Shirley Nakatsukasa (Hoosier), Apr ...... 1,226 637 234 16 39 2 2,1 54 land), and Joe Tanaka (St Louis), May ...... 916 416 .. 104 10 27 2 1,476 As governor of the Midwest who in their respective chapter, chapter presidents past and pre Jun ...... 699 327 152 13 37 9 1,238 District Council, I would like to areas did an outstanding job in sent, who have made our district redress solicitations; government a truly ~ollegial af Jul ...... 888 21t 104 13 20 1 1,236 forgo the usual laundry list ofdis Aug ...... 456 189 65 4 • April Goral and Margie fair; and 9'1 8 3 727 trict activities in the past year Sap ...... 534 319 56 4 s-1 10 2 926 and instead express my thanks Randlett (Milwaukee) and John • Bill Yoshino, our regional di to some of the many people in Hayashi (St Louis), the MDC rector in Chicago, who has been Oct ...... 326 163 89 10 11-1 6 2 598 Nov ...... 240 87 123 10 our region who have helped cabinet, who have made my job a friend and collaborator (not to 11 3 474 make 1986 a successful year for easier by helping with the mis mention interpreter and defend YTD ...... 11,056 5,163 1,635 131 6 265 32 16 18306 us all: cellany of administering our er) as I worked my way through (Reports 1 and 2 were not printed, thougl released to the PC.) '- ' • Ron Yoshino, Chiye Tomi nine-chapter district; the vagaries ofthis term as gover 1985 Final Membership ... " ...... , • .• • ..... 26,478 nor, 1986 Y..,-~ta (Each Family unit courts as two merrbers) ••.. • ••.•••.• , .•..... 23,469 biro, Carol and Joyce Yoshino, • May Tanaka (Twin Cities), YTD Pet'centage of 1985 ...... "...... 88.6% Art Morimitsu, and Lary Schect Tom Nakao (Cleveland), and All of us out here in "flyover man, all of the Chicago Chapter ·Kathy Hironaka (St Louis), each land" have been strong and con and all hard-working members of whom selVed with distinction sistent supporters of JACL over PLEDGE---- the years, and I have no reason ofthe committee which organized on a National JACL standing or Membership Income' Continued from page 8 and hosted JACL's successful select committee; to doubt that we shall continue Report #2: As of Nov. 1986 and enjoyable 1986 National • Roy Sugimoto (Dayton), to offer our ideas and viewpoints Month Groaa -Rebete Total Chapter Pledge ($) Red ($) Convention; Elaine Prout (Detroit), Paul Iga to the future strength of a pro Jan ...... 103,373.00 · 898.00 102.475.00 Livingston-Merced .. .. . ~940 94Q., • Shig Wakamatsu (Chicago), saki (Chicago), Jacqui Vidourek ..gressive and meaningful JACL. Feb ...... 118,765.00 - 693.75 11\1.071.25 Lodi ...... 1450 1450 March .... 159,814.00 ' 626.00 159,188.00, Marin County ...... 425 Dr. Jim Taguchi (Dayton), AI Hida (Cincinnati), Diane Aratani (Mil- Best wishes for the New Year. 425 Marysville ...... 1360 1360 Aj)ril ...... 87,077.70 · 262.00 86,815.70' Monterey Peninsula ...... May ..... 59,195.00 · 182.00 59,013.00 Oakland ...... 490 580 June ..... 49,435.50 ' 178.00 49,257.501 Placer County ...... 1370 1370 July ...... 45,927.50 · 154.00 451,773.50 Reno ...... ,385 385 Come Home to Seattle in '88! August ... 29,000.50 '126.00 29,126.50 Sacramento ...... 4500 4500 Sept ..... 38,062.00 '142.00 3Il,204.00 Salinas Valley ...... 1910 1910 by Tim K. 0Cani able rates. In addition, we will ing it possible for the entire fam San Benito County ...... 365 3~ Oct ...... 45,171 .50 ' 166.00 45,337.50 San Francisco ...... 5000 250Q PNW Regional Director be showcasing the City of Seattle, ily to participate and enjoy all Nov ...... 45,927.50 ' 336.00 26,579.00 which Rand McNally rates as the that Seattle has to offer. San Jose ...... 3000 3000 San Mateo ...... 3200 3200 The goal is to provide a con YTO ..... 763,170.70 3,763.75 759,406.95 With the success of the Chicago number one vacation area in Sequoia ...... convention behind us, the Seat America vention that delegates and non Solano County ...... 250 250 delegates can both feel comfort tle Chapter is well on its way to The co-chairs for the '88 con Sonoma County ...... 1500 1500 provide all JACLers with an able at In the past, JACL has fo Stockton ...... 2025 2125 vention are Tomio Moriguchi cused on the business sessions as Tri-Valley ...... 285 285 equally impressive experience in and Ben Nakagawa Both are Redress Pledges um. The theme, ''Coming Home," the major draw to attend the con Watsonville ...... 1710 1710 planning activities that will ventions. The Seattle Chapter is Actual amounts acknowledged by JACL Head West Valley ...... 1515 1515 emphasizes the unique nature of hopefully attract those who are quarters (or tbe period ending: the upcoming National Conven planning to expand this to in #33: NOVEMBER·DECEMBER, 19M District Total: 42,460 38,911 looking for a more relaxing time. clude involvement from more of 1986TotaJtoDate: $ 85,7H.1% tion These activities will include golf Pr~v . Gross Total : ...... 335,043.06 PACIFIC NORTHWEST: the general membership. By offer ThIS R~rt : ( 6) ...... 8,399.00 Gresham-Troutdale .... $660 Seattle, along with the rest of .and tennis tournaments, reun Grand otal: ...... $343,442.06 660 the Pacific Northwest, is a place ing a "membership convention," Lake Washington ...... 305 ions, sightseeing trips, work we hope to make the 1968 gather Sonoma County JACL $1 ,510 ('86 pledge); Mid-Columbia ...... 870 where many have their roots. We shops, and an expanded youth Fowler JACL $450 (3rd yr pledge), $450 (4th ing the largest and best in JACL yr); MarysvWe JACL $4() (bal o( 4th yr); Reed Portland ...... 780 800 hope to attract many JACLers convention ley JACVL$644 (bal 0('86) ; PSW District $4 935 Olympia ...... 205 210 history. (3rd &< 4th yr pledges: East Los Angeles who have never attended a Na $2,000- Puyallup Valley ...... 940 tional Convention before. The local youth group, the The Seattle Chapter extends 4th ; Selanoco $1,900 bal o( 3rd, 4th;Riverside an open invitation to allJACLers $435, 4th; and Pan Asian $600 (450-3rd , ~th Seattle ...... 3030 2835 This will be done through a Seattle JAYs, is working on a yr) ; Sanger JACL $480 (4th yr). Spokane ...... 610 630 to save Aug 411, 1968 as a time 1986 DISTRICT BREAKDOWN multifaceted approach that will program package that will offer White RiverValley ...... 345 (Actual: Jan.-Dec. 1986) include utilizing the facilities of a variety of events and activities to visit Seattle and attend the convention With your participa NC-WN-Pac ...... 34,260 .50 District Total: 7745 5135 the University of Washington that should make this one of the Pac Southwest ...... 19,875 .52 campus as the site of the conven largest youth conventions in tion, it should prove to be as suc Midwest ...... 12,985.00 MOUNTAIN PLAINS: tion. This site will' allow us to many years. This gathering will cessful and well-run as the Chi Central Cal ...... 8,608.50 Arkansas Valley ...... $370 offer rates for housing (on and be held concurrently with the cago convention Pac Northwest ...... 6,300.00 Fort Lupton ...... 475 Houston ...... 170 170 ;off campus) at extremely afford- National Convention, thus mak- Come home to Seattle in 1968! Intermountain ...... 1,500.00 Eastern ...... 1,400.00 Mile High ...... 435 Mtn-Plains ...... 862.50 New Mexico ...... 300 Year-End Total : $ 85,792.02 Omaha ...... 545 294.50 District Total: 2295 464.50 A Broad Range of Legal Talent EASTERN: New England ...... 130 Redress Support New York ...... 995 995 by Gene Takamine nent attorney, he is a great addi U.S. Supreme Court This is to Tbese amounts come with membership form cbeck-offs, Actual amoWlts (rom the JACL Philadelphia ...... 775 845 National Ugal Counsel tion to the pool oflegal knowledge be a legal team that will advise Chapters acknowledged by JACL Seabrook ...... 890 and protect this organization in Headquarters (or the period 0(: Washington D.C ...... 1245 in the group. #ll-NOVEMBER, 19" the present and provide a rich Seven contributions totaling $125 were re Since assuming the position of The use of the legal talent in District Total: 4035 1840 resource oflegal talent for JACL ceived at HQ San Francisco during th.ls mO&lJl. Legal Counsel, I have been work JACL in this manner has already in the future. 1986 Redress Support Summary MIDWEST: ing on a new organization for this borne fruit The varied legal back Month Count ReceIved Chicago ...... $3915 office. I planned to implement ground of this tine group pro '85 Oec ...... " .... l62) $ 420.00 Cincinnati ...... 545 the expansion of the National vides broad experience that has Jan ...... " ... ( 164 ) 1,001 .00 Cleveland ...... 990 500 Legal Counsel with the use of Feb ...... " ...... (\87) 1,298.00 Dayton ...... 505 505 been utilized in matters of em Marc" ...... (105) 1,062.00 many of the good attorneys in ployment and tax. The other areas Donations to Pacific Citizen April " ...... (204) 1,174.00 Detroit ...... 885 this organization. ofexpertise include immigration May ." ...... (33 + ) 309.00 Hoosier ...... 355 355 With regard to geographic dis law, corporate law, non-profit For Typesetting Fund June .. " ...... (47+) 323.00 Milwaukee ...... 515 515 July ...... (27 + ) 225.00 SI. Louis ...... 555 555 tribution and to distribution of August ...... (12+) 172.00 corporate law, and constitutional Twin Cities ...... 880 905 expertise in various areas of the September ...... (13) 131.00 law. October ...... " .... ( 5) 30.00 As of Jan 5, 1987: $39,179.54 (1m) 9145 3335 law, I have asked the following November ...... " .. ( 7) 125.00 District Total: The many facets of the legal This week's total: $ 700.00 ( 18) people to serve as deputy legal CENTRAL CALIFORNIA: counsels, and they have assented. life of JACL require such a wide Last week's total: $38,384.54 (881) range of expertise that it is no Clovis ...... $625 625 They understand that they will Delano , , ...... 200 200 longer reasonable to think that act in a capacity to work with and $ 5 from: Pa1riela Yuzawa-Rubin. The Mike M. Masaoh Fowler ..... , ... . , ...... 350 350 advise me that I may ''pass upon, one attorney can have the back Fresno , ..•.....••.....2075 2085 review, suggest, and consider all ground to correctly advise the $a! from: Mat)' Tani, Satoru Tsune FeUowsFund Parlier ...... 745 President and National Board. ishi, N. Henry/A Etsu Yui. Membership In the Masaoka Fellows Is Reedley ...... 745 745 legal matters pertaining to this achieved by fndlvldual or corporate contribu· The concept of a legal team was Sanger ...... 1030 480 organization or opinions on law $25 from: Tom'Hanako Hirose, Sakae lions to the MUte M. Masaoka Fund, a pe~etual fund from which proceeds would annua sup· Selma .... _...... 485 485 and legislation": developed by Bill Marutani, who Ishizu, A Miehi Nakagarna, Louis Old, suggested that the JACL Consti port the general operations o( the JA L, to Tufare County ...... 1290 510 Pacific Southwest: Susan Ka Kazu Oshima, Kaye Patterson, GeorgeJ which Mike has devoted over 40 yenrs. tution have the Sub-Legal Coun Jean Umemura, George Watanabe. Contributions to the fund, c/o JACL HQ, are mei; Cenfl'al California: Peggy S. graded as follows : Fcllow- $1 000-$2,500 ; District Total: 7545 5480 sel embodied in its Thus, Emerltus-$2,500 minimum ; Sustalning-4200 Liggett; Mountain Plains: Paul text INTERMOUNTAIN: rereading the constitution and $:l> from: Kei Ishigami. (or 5 yrs; AmiCUS-Less than $1,000. Shinkawa; Midwest: Tom Hara; THE 1986 REPORT DistrictCouncll ... , .... 5570 $1500 Eastern: Bill Marutani; Northern finding the tool to expand this $50 from: May Doi, Jon Inouye (in Total This Report 120: ...... $400 .00 Boise Valley ...... , ...... office already in place made the memory of Ike Masaoka), Mat)' Murata. Futaml Hayashi $400 (4th, final). Idaho Falls ...... Qdifumia.Westem Nevada-Pacific: Fund Summary: Nov 30,1986 Cressey Nakagawa; Pacific North task simply a matter of recruit $100 from: Milwaukee JACL Emeritus (1'1 ...... " ...... $ l 500 MounlOlympus ...... ment and selection Fellows (10) ... " .. "" ...... " ..... 10'000 Pocatello/Black toot ...... •.• west: (?) $250 from: ArthurlElsie Nozaki. Sustnlnlng Members: . IstVenr(I?) .. , ...... 3,900 Sail Lake City ...... As a special note, Bill Marutani Plans are on the drawing 2nd Vear( 13) ...... 2,600 Snake River ...... , .. is to selVe with the title of Honor board to have members of this 3rd Vear (1\) .... " ...... " ...... 2,200 Wasatch Front ...... 4th Vear ( 7) .. ""." ...... "..... 1,800 ary National Legal Counsel Be group who are not so licensed to 1bankYou! 51h Vear ( 4) ...... " ...... 1,000 ing Legal go to Washington, D.C. to be Amlcus(4) .... , ...... 520 District Total: 5570 1500 a former National Coun Contribution (3) ...... "" .. ".... 850 sel, a former judge and an emi- licensed to practice before the Fund TotaL ...... " .. "" .... ,181 Grand Totala: .•.. $116,140 65.045.50 1O--PACIRC CITIZEN I Friday, January 2-9,1987 . 1986 Chronology Compiled by J.K. Yamamoto Apr. 10 - Rep. Joseph Addabbo (D S.l Hayakawa; David Lowman, ex at LEC fund-raiser held by Americans Aug. 24 - Rep. Mel Levine (D.Cali£) Redress Legislation N.Y.), a c()-sponsor of RR 442, dies. Nafl Security Agency official; Lillian for Fairness in San Francisco. reiterates his support ofredress during Apr. 15 - Rep. Harley Staggers (D-w. Baker; Catherine Treadgold; aparlotte Redress resolution is adopted dur Pacific &luthwestJACL District Coun Nov. 17-21, 1985 - American Public Va), C()-Sponsors RR 442. Elam; Karl Bendetsen, ex-Western De ing Cali£-Nev. United Methodist An cil meeting in Los Angeles. Health Assn, meeting in Washington, Apr. 16 - Jewish Community Rela fense Command official; Asst Atty. nual Conference in Reno. Aug'. 25 - Rep. Terry Bruce CD-Dl) D.C., passes resolution backing redress. tions Council of Southern New Jersey Gen. John Bolton (written testimony). C()-5ponsors RR 442. Dec. 7-n, 1985 - National League of urges support for RR 442. April- Reps. Martin Olav Sabo (I) June - Reps. Eugene Chappie (R Aug. 30 - LEC chair Min Yasui re Cities, meeting in Seattle, passes pro Apr. 17 - California State Senate Minn.), Pat Williams (l}-Mont), Bill Cali£), George Wortley (R-N.Y.), James signs because of poor health. He dies redress resolution. passes pro-redress resolution, authored Richardson (l}-N.M), Barbara Kennel Florio (l}-N.T.), and Jaime Fuster (D on Nov. 12. by State Sens. Milton Marks and Ralph ly (D-Conn.) c()-sponsor RR 442. Puerto Rico) c()-sponsor RR 442. Sept. 15 - Jewish Community Rela 15 - JACL redress director Jan. Dills, by :19-1 vote. ~ 9-10 -Coram rwbis attorneys for July 7 - Rep. Dean Gallo (l}-N.T.) tions Council of San Francisco, the John Tateishi resigns after working on Apr. 24 -Rep. Matthew McHugh (I) Gordon Hirabayashi in Seattle and c()-sponsors RR 442. Peninsula, Marin and Sonoma Coun redress for more than seven years. N.Y.) c()-sponsors RR 442. Fred Korematsu in San Francisco send July 8 - San Mateo County Board ties endorses redress. 17 - Sens. Daniel Inouye and Jan. Apr. 25 - Rep. Mineta says 64,000 of statements to House subcommittee to of Supervisors votes unanimously to Sept 20 - JAClrLEC, NCJAR, Na Spark Matsunaga (D-Hawaii) and Reps. lal,OOO wartime internees are still alive. rebut Justice Dept's position on redress. support redress bUlS. tional Coalition for RedresslRepara Norman Mineta and Robert Matsui (I) Apr. 28 - House Judicimy Subcom May IS - Washington Gov. Booth July ZJ - House subcommittee hears tions, and coram rwbis legal teams hold Cali£) urge continued redress lobbying mittee on Administrative Law & Gov Gardner asks fellow governors to urge testimony on Aleut redress. Rep. Don joint conference in San Francisco. during LEC fund-raiser in Los Angeles. ernmental Relations, chaired by Rep. their states' congressional delegations Young (R-Alaska) promotes RR 2415, Sept 29 - Rep. Jerry Lewis (R-Calif.) Jan. 21 - Sen. Alan Dixon (l}-Dl) Dan Glickman (l}-Kan.), holds hearing to support redress. Massachusetts Gov. which would compensate Aleuts only. c()-sponsors RR 442. co-sponsors redress bill S. 1003. on RR 442. Testifiers include: Michael Dukakis complies. Arthur Flemming of Commission on Oct 17 - Redress resolution passed Feb. 6 - Rep. Patricia Schroeder (D 'May 1&-17 - JACL National Board Wartime Relocation & Internment of at convention of Episcopal Diocese of Colo.) co-sponsors redress bill RR 442. For - Sen. Matsunaga; Reps. Mineta, votes to ask National Council for ad Civilians backs JA and Aleut redress. Chicago. Feb. 28 - Rep. Stephen Solarz (I) Matsui, Jim Wright (l}-Texas); Mervyn vance of ~,OOO from Endowment July 25 - House Majority Leader Nov. 4 - Following elections, redress N.Y.) CO-SPOll&Ors RR 442. Dymally (D.CaIif.); Mike Lowry (D Fund to LEe for redress effort. Jim Wright, prime sponsor ofRR 442, bills lose three c()-sponsors in Senate March Rep. R James Saxton 13 - Wash.), Father Robert Drinan; Edward May - Rep. Bernard Dwyer (l}-N.T.) addresses JACL National Convention and 14 in House. Reps. Tim Wirth (I) (R-N.T.) c()-sponsors RR 442. Ennis, ACLU; William Robinson, Amer c()-sponsors RR 442. in Chicago. Colo.), Barbara Mikulski CD-Md), Harry March 20 - New York City Council ican Bar Assn.; Eugene Rostow, Nat'l Jllt1e 1-Seattle JACL rebuts anti Resolution asking for $200,000 for Reid CD-Nev.) and Thomas Daschle (I) unanimously passes resolution sup Defense University; Frank Sato, Min redress statement by Rep. Al Swift (0). LEC is defeated; National Council S.D.) move from House to Senate. porting redress. Councilwoman Miriam Yasui, Grayce Uyehara, JACL; Mike June 2 - New York Mayor Ed Koch calls for continuation of Endowment Newly elected Sen. Brock Adams CD Friedlander sends copies to New Masaoka, Go For Broke; Ruth Lansner, expresses support for redress bills. Fund line of credit Wash.) and Rep. Patricia Saiki (R York's congressional delegation. Anti-Defamation League; Joseph Rauh, June S - American Jewish Commit illinois Gov. James Thompson en Hawaii) are probable C()-5ponsors. March 2ti - Matsui distributes copies Leadership Conference on Civil tee urges House subcommittee to sup dorses redress bills. With RR 442 sponsor Jim Wright of National Geographic article on Ja Rights; Mal)' Tsukamoto, Yoshiye Toga port redress bill. During same month, July 26 - Reps. Jim Weaver (D-Ore.) becoming new Speaker of the House, panese Americans and their WW2 ex saki, Robert Moteki, ex-internees; Jewish Community Relations Council and Doug Walgren (l}-Pa) c()-sponsor Rep. Tom Foley (l}-Wash.), the new perience to members of House sub Philip Nash, Asian American Legal De of United Jewish Federation of San RR 442. Majority Leader, is expected to be the committee handling RR 442. fense & Education Fund; Tim Gojio. Diego Courity announces its support Aug. 1-Rep. William Coyne CD-Pa) new prime sponsor. March - Walter Mondale signs a let Wash. Coalition on Redress; William June 9-U.S. News & World Report c()-sponsors RR 442. Nov. 29 - Americans lor Fairness ter supporting JACL's redress effort. It .Hohri, Nat'l Council for JA Redress; article by Edwin Yoder supports re Aug. S - Rep. John Porter (R-Dl) holds LEC fund-raiser in Sacramento. is included in a mailing soliciting gen Miyo Hayashi, JA Redress Committee. dress. Matsui distributes it in House. c()-sponsors RR 442. Speakers include Mineta, Matsui, As eral membership and support for re Against - Reps. Dan Lungren (R June 13 - Mineta, Matsui and Calif. Aug. 8 - Rep. Robert Young (D-Mo.) semblyman Philip Isenberg and Mayor dress education. Cali£), Sam Stratton (l}-N.Y.); ex-Sen. Secretary of State March FongEu speak c()-sponsors RR 442. Anne Rudin. Remembrances of JA Capitol in Sacramento for Go For Coram Nobis Cases WW2 Experience Broke's "East to America" exhibit Speakers include Gov. Deukmejian, State Sen. Ralph Dills, Assemblyman Patrick Johnston, Supervisor rna Col Feb. 10 - After hearing arguments from both sides in the reopening of lin, and Mayor Anne Rudin. Day of Remembrance program held Gordon Hirabayashi's wartime Su preme Court case, U.S. District Judge in Salinas, Cali£ Speakers include Salinas Mayor James Barnes, Monterey Donald Voorhees rules that the gov ernment concealed evidence that the Mayor Pro-tem Dan Albert, Marina Mayor George Takahashi and Marina internment ofJAs was racially motivat ed in order to sustain its claim ofmili Councilman Robert Ouye. tary necessity. He vacates Hirabayashi's Seattle JACL, Washington Coalition conviction for violating exclusion or on Redress and other groups hold Day ders but lets stand the conviction for of Remembrance program in Seattle. violating the military curfew, which Feb. 22-Day of Remembrance Pf() was "relatively mild" An evidentiary gram held in New York. Speakers in hearing was held in Seattle in clude William Hohri of NCJAR and 1005. Apr. 28 - Judge Voorhees denies Councilwoman Miriam Friedlander. requests from both sides to reconsider Day of Remembrance program held his decision. The government, which in San Francisco. Speakers include has defended the internment, contests Rev. Jesse Jackson. Photo by Sachi Yamamoto the vacating of Hirabayashi's convic Feb. 23 - Day of Remembrance pro Plaque designating Manzanar camp site as a National Historic Landmark. tion for resisting exclusion; Hirabaya gram held in Los Angeles. Speakers in shi's attorneys seek to have the convic clude U.S. District Judge Robert Taka tion for violating curfew vacated. Marker at Crystal City camp site. sugi, Rep. MelVyn Dymally and City May 17 - 442nd veterans march for June IS - ''Visible Target," a doclJ May S - In Portland, U.s. District Councilman Mike Woo. first time in annual Armed Forces Day mentaIy on the vacuation of JAs from Judge Robert Belloni grants Min Yasui Febl'Wll1' - Smithsonian Institution Parade in Torrance, Cali£ at invitation Bainbridge Island, Wash., duringWW2, an extension oftime for appeal In 1984, Nov. 16, 1985 - Unveiling ceremony officials visit Los Angeles and San of Councilman George Nakano. is broadcast on PBS. Belloni agreed to vacate Yasui's war held for historical marker at site of Francisco to obtain artifacts for 1987 May 24 - Memorial dedicated to Michi Yasui Ando, who fled Oregon time conviction for violating curfew, Cxyst.al City, Texas internment camp. exhibit on JAs to be held in conjunc Prowers County (Colo.) residents killed in 1942 to avoid internment, receives but refused to rule on whether the gov Jan. 6 - California Gov. George tion with bicentennial of Constitution. in action in WW2, Korea and Vietnam her diploma in a special presentation ernment was guilty of misconduct; Ya Deukmejian declares Feb. 19, anniver Exhibit, put together in consultation includes names of31 Nisei from Ama from University of Oregon in Eugene. sui filed an appeal, but the Court of sary of signing of Executive Order 9066 with JACL and Nat'l JA Historical 8() che camp. Marker is in Lamar, Colo. June 21- Dedication held in Heart Appeals ruled that be bad filed too in 1942, a Day of Remembrance ciety, will include guard tower and bar May 26 - Monument to deceased JA Mountain, Wyo., for monument bonor late. The granting of an extension bas Jan. 14 - Monterey County (Cali£) rack from wartime camps. veterans dedicated in Chicago, Mayor ing 22 soldiers from camp killed in ac kept the appeal alive. supervisors pass resolution proclaim March 15 - Katriel Schory's Eur0- Harold Washington proclaims"JA Vet tion. Also noted is designation of site Sept. 30 - Hirabayashi files his ap ing Feb. 19 as a Day of Remembrance pean documentary "Yankee Samurai," erans Memorial Day." as National Historic Place Speakers peal of the ruJi.ng on the curfew viola Jan. 21 - LA County supervisors a profile of 442nd RCT, makes its U.S. include Rep. Norman Mineta, who was tion \vith the Ninth Circuit Court of pass Day of Remembrance resolution. debut in San Francisco. Film is sub interned there. Appeals. The government is required January - Nisei living in Japan in sequently screened in Fresno, Los to submit a reply brief: terviewed for Loni Ding's follow-up to Angeles and San Jose. June 22-California's 14 Nisei VFW posts dedicate memorial to past state Nov. 12 - Plaintiff Yasui dies of her documentary ''Nisei Soldier." Work Apr. 2 - Washington Gov. Booth cancer in Denver. on film continues throughout year. Gardner signs bill authorizing pay commanders Alva Fleming and Hisao Masuyama in Sacramento. Nov. 26 - Government attorney Vic Feb. 5 - Steve Okazaki's ''Unfinished ments to JA ciliY employees fired dur tor Stone moves to dismiss Yasui' peti Business," a film about the Korematsu, ing WW2. Seattle School Board pays July 4 - On PBS' ''MacNeillLehrer Newshour," former internee Tom K() tion. Hirabayashi and Yasui cases, is nomi $5,000 each to 24 former school clerks. Dec. 4 - Members of Yasui' legal nated for best feature documentary Apr. 26 - National Park Service metani speaks on 'The Meaning of Freedom" He appears \vith a former team, relati and other supporters Oscar. It loses on March 24 to ''Broken plaque declaring Manzanar a National declare they will pursue the case until Rainbow," a film about recent removal Historic Landmark is unveiled during Iran hostag , an Ausch\vitz smvivor, and a formel' Vietnam POW. there i a finding of government mis of Navajos from their native land Manzanar Pilgrimage. Speakers include conduct Feb. IS-By a 82-15 vote, Washington coram rwbis attorney Peter Irons and Sept ZJ - Gov. Deukmejian asks State House passes bill, introduced by LA Councilman David Cunningham President Reagan to lend hi name in Rep. Gmy Locke, to authorize cities to April-This month's National Ge0- support of Japan e Am rican Na Class Action Suit compensate JA employees fired dur graphic includes feature entitled tional Museum. ing WW2. State Senate passes bill on "Japanese Americans: Home at LasL" Nov. ~ - Photographic exhibit high March 6 by a ~1 vote. May 7 -Exhibit on San Mateo Coun lights tw()-day ev nt in Bainbrldg Js.. Jan. 21-A panel of the U.s. Circuit Feb. 18 - Berkeley Mayor Gus New ty JA history goes on display in super land d picting wartim treatment of Court of Appeal forth Di llictofC& port and City Council give $5,000 and visors' chambers in Redwood CIIiY, Calif. local JAs. umbia 1 verses th May 1964 dismissal an apology to Bess Fujim~ Yasukoch~ May9-Go For Broke's ''Yankee Sa Nov. 9-Nikkei Veterans Monum nt of tile class action lawsuit rued in ted who was fired by the city in 1942 be murai" exhibit on Nisei of the Military unveiled in LA' Uttle Tokyo Square. eral cowt by Nat'l Council for JA Re cause of her ancestry. Intelligence Service is dedicated at dress (NCJAR) in 1963. JudgesJ. kelly California State Senate proclaims Gen. Douglas MacArthur Memorial in Dec. 4 - The ABC News series ''Ow' Wright and Ruth Bader Ginsburg rule Feb. 1.9 a Day of Remembrance. Norfolk, Va MacArthur's widow Jean Memorial at Heart Mountain. World" features a segm nt on the JA Feb. 19 - Dedication held at State attends ceremony. experience in the summer of 1943. Coodnoed OIl ...., 11 Friday, January 2-9, 1987 / PACIFIC CITIZEN-11 - 1986 Chronology CLASS ACTION Asian Americans cilman Ron Nishinaka retires. Tom Hsieh to Board of Supervisors et Councilman Ken Nishino, Alameda! and Politics Lee Maglaya, a Democratic candi after Louise Renne vacates post Contra Costa Transit Board member O!ntInued I'om page 10 date for lllinoi$ state representative, is Sept. 2 - Nil Hul, first Cambodian Roy Nakadegawa, S.F. CommunityCoI defeated. American to run for office, loses in lege Board member Alan Wong May 24 - Warren Furutani an L<>ng Beach City Council election. Mi that of limitations does not a~ Confirmed to Appellate Court: statute Dec. 7-11 - Members of National nounces candidacy for 19r7 Los Angeles neo Miyagishima loses also. ply because u.s. goyemment concealed League of Cities, an organization of Morio Fuiruto, Elwood Lui, Hany Low. School Board.race. Sept. 3 - Following death of LA evidence favorable toJAlduringWW2. local elected officials, form Asian Defeated challengers: David Kaki June 3 - In California primary, Reps. Councilman Howard Finn, council a~ Judge Howard Markey dissents. Pacific American Municipal Officials. shiba and Dorothy Miao, Berkeley Norman Mineta and Robert Matsui proves new redistricting plan giving March 7 - U.s. government rues for Seattle· City TreasUrer Uoyd Hara is School Board; Julie Tang and William and Secretary of State March Fong Eu, Woo and Ferraro separate districts rehearing by full Court of Appeals. chosen president in March. Gee, S.F. Board of Supervisors; Leland all Democrats, are renominated; Sato while retaining vacant Latino district May 3D-Government petition is de January - Supervisor Toru Miyoshi Yee and Gilman Louie, S.F. Board of of Long Beach loses runoff; Republi Asian groups still object to division of nied because of ~ tie vote p.y Court is chosen to chair Santa Barbara Coun Education; Mark Min, Berkeley Rent can Mas Odoi loses in bid to run against communities. Mayor Bradley's veto is of Appeals. Judge Robert Bork writes ty Board of Supervisors. Stabilization Board. Rep. Mervyn Dymally (1)31st); Santa overidden Sept 12 a dissenting opinion, maintaining that March 19 - Vice President George Barbara County Supervisor Miyoshi In Utah, Shimizu loses congressional Sept. 9-Margaret Chin elected state JAs could have filed suit as early as Bush endorses Patricia Saiki, Republi reelected. race; Frank Nishiguchi elected Box committee member for New York 1950. He is joined by judges Kenneth can candidate for Hawaii congression June 19 - Honolulu Councilwoman Elder County commissioner. Starr, Laurence Silbennan, James al seat held by Rep. Cecil Heftel (D). Patsy Mink announces candidacy for Democratic Party; irregularities cited in Civil Court race between Dorothy In New York, challenger Robert Ma Buckley and Antonio Scalia (later a~ March 21 - National Democratic Hawaii governorship, which George Chin Brandt and Louis York chida (D) loses race for 5th District pointed to Supreme Court). Council ofAsian and Pacific Americans Ariyoshi is vacating this year. Sept. 13-14 - California Democratic State Senate seat Aug. 2J6 - NCJAR files petition ask formed; it replaces Democratic Na-. July 15 - LA Councilman Mike Party's Asian Pacific Caucus holds con In Washington, state Reps. Art Wang ing Supreme Court to revie", suit The tional Committee's Asian Pacific cau Woo objects to new redistricting plan and Gary I.oc.ke are reelected; Seattle petition seeks restoration of21 claims, cus, which was disbanded in 1985. In that places him, the council's only ference in San Francisco. Municipal Court Judge Ron Mamiya is including various constitutional viola terim chair Tom Hsieh is succeeded Asian, in a mainly Latino district Sept. 20 - Councilwoman Mink and reconfirmed. tions, that Appeals Court eliminated in by Ginger Lew in June. July 22 - LA Mayor Tom Bradley ex-Rep. Heftellose Hawaii Democrat Janwuy, CUJTentJy, only claim dealing March - UCLA study results indicate vetoes redistricting plan. Council pass ic gubernatorial nomination to u Gov. In Oregon, George Iseri loses mayor with property loss remains. that Asian Americans in LA County es new plan which creates vacant La John Waihee. Sen. Daniel Inouye (D) al election in Ontario. OclIO-Asian American Legal De do not represent a solid voting bloc for tino district, puts Woo and Councilman renominated; Saiki unopposed for Re In Texas, Hannah Chow (D) is elected fense & Education Fund files briefurg either Democrats or Republicans. John Ferraro in same district Korean publican congressional nomination. Hams County Criminal Court judge. ing Supreme Court to restore claims Apr. 8 - In California elections, win Americans say plan divides Koreatown. Oct. 17 - Dorothy Chin Brandt's peti in NCJAR suit JAClrLEC, Asian Law ners include Gardena Councilman Mas July -John Lee Bingham, a Korean tion for new election is rejected by Nov. 19 - Le.land Wong announces Caucus and Anti-Defamation League Fukai, Delano Councilwoman June American, announces candidacy for New York Court of Appeals. candidacy for LA's 1st District also sign brier Fukawa, Fairfield council candidate Chicago alderman election in 19r7. Nov. 4 - In Hawaii, Saiki is first"Ha Nov. 20 - Sen. Inouye reelected as Ncw.17 -Supreme Court grants gov Gany Ichikawa; losers include Monte Aug. 19-Tom Shimizu wins Repub waii Republican elected to House; Ino Secretary of Democratic Conference. ernment's petition for review. Govern rey Park Councilwoman Lily Chen and lican nomination for Utah's 2nd con uye is reelected. Dec. 1 - Sen Spark Matsunaga (D ment's arguments and NCJAR's rebut Carson council candidate Mike Mitoma gressional district Reelected in California: Mineta, Ma Hawaii) named Chief Deputy Whip. heard llB7. tal will be in early No de Long Beach Councilwoman Eunice Aug. Z7 - S.F. Mayor Dianne Fein tsui, Eu, Oxnard Mayor Nao Takasugi, Dec. 8-Rep. Mineta named Deputy cision is made on NCJAR's petition. Sato ends up in runoff: Reedley Coun- stein appoints ex-police commissioner Marina Mayor George Takahashi, Hem- Whip in House. 'Ofticial English' Movement Anti-Asian Violence Jan.l0-In Boston, Robert Lee Stev April-A popular song by Philadel Van de Kamp announces passage of ens is arraigned for repeatedly harass phia rap group M.C. Breeze describes legislation providing victims of hate ing Cambodian refugees at their Re an angl)' encounter in a Chinese take crimes with attorney's fees, increases vere home in 1005. He is found guilty out in which the rapper pulls a gun on in damages, and other relief a restaurant worker. Chinese are called on assault and civil rights charges on Sept. 11 - 6th U.S. Circuit Court of "Chinks." The city's Commission on Apr. 15 and sentenced to 7-10 years. Appeals overturns 1984 conviction of Human Relations asks that the song Ronald Ebens for civil rights violations be pulled from the ainvaves. Feb. 7 - San Francisco Supervisor in 1982 beating death of Vincent Chin, Louise Renne distributes J ACL report The murder of four Korean mer ruling thatEbens did not receive a fair on anti-Asian violence to local officials. chants in the mostly Black South Cen trial Community groups urge Dept of February - California Assembly tral LA area renews media focus on Justice to pursue case. On Sept 19,Jus man Gray Davis declares anti-Asian tensions between the two groups. But tice Dept says it will retry Ebens. violence "a black mark on the soul of community groups doubt that killings Sept. Z7 - Cheung Hung Chan, own Los Angeles" and calls for interethnic are racially motivated. er of Washington, D.C. cany-out, pulls cooperation. gun l\1ay 1-In Boston, John Febbi and on Black customer after argument Black residents, led by Rev. Willie Wil March 23 - After four white men Scott Arsenault, tried for assault and son, hold daily protests to keep cany scream racial slurs and throw rocks at manslaughter in 1985 attack on cambo out closed. Wilson Asians take the Philadelphia home of a Vietnam dian refugees Bun Vong (who died) sa.vs profits out of community and mistreat ese family. two of the Vietnamese and Som Bunnyoeun in Medford, re customers. Photo by J.K. Yamamoto shoot at the attackers, slightly wound ceive 6-month sentences for assault Unda Vv0ng (at podium) speaks at rally of Asians, Hispanics and others ing one. All six are an-ested. charge; Febbi is cleared of manslaugh September - U.s. Commission on opposed to Monterey Park City Council's endorsement of "U.S. English." ter and Arsenault is to be retried. Civil Rights releases report on "Recent Apr. 8 - In Philadelphia, Anthony Asians for Justice coalition protests Starks is sentenced to 2Y.! to 2J) years Activities Against Citizens and Resi sentences and charges that racial as dents of Asian Descent" after 2 years for taking part in a 1984 attack by a pect of attack was ignored. Nov. I, 1985 -Coalition for Harmony McCarthy and LA Councilman Mike group of Blacks on Seng Vang, a Hmong of investigation. Report finds anti Woo voice opposition to "Official Eng in Monterey Park (Cali£), made up of refugee. who was left with both legs May 10 - JACL, Asian Law Caucus, Asian attacks are widespread and lish" at conference of Nat'l Assn. for Asian, Latino and white residents, an broken and a lhlclllred skull A second and Chinese for Affirmative Action 'caused by many factors. Asian & Pacific American Education. noUDces its opposition to proposed man was acquitted Jan. 29 because of hold conference on anti-Asian vio Community leaders fear that Prime measure, authored by Frank Arcuri May 30 - Asian Pacific American insufficient evidence. lence in Berkeley. Speakers include Minister Nakasone·s controversial re and Barry Hatch, to make English the Voters Coalition urges support for con Rep. Norman Mineta mark about Blacks and Hispanics may city's official language. Opponents say tinwilg bilingual ballots in Los Angeles. Apr. 12-American Citizens for Jus increase anti-Asian sentiment among proposal is anti-immigrant May 31-California Assn. of Human tice, the Detroit coalition formed after May 12 - Report by California Dept those groups. Nov. 25, 1985-Alhambra (Cali£) City Rights Organizations passes resolution the Vincent Chin killing, holds its third of Education and its Advi 011' Council Oct.l-AmemberofOakland's io Council refuses to take action on pro against ''Official English." annual rededication. on AsianlPacific lslander Affairs, lence Against Asians Task Force voices posed "Official English" resolution. June 3 - Monterey Park City Coun made public by Supt of Public Instruc Apr. 17 - California Attorney Gen concern that fatal shooting of Black Dec. 17, 1985-Mayor Pro-Tern Roger cil passes resolution urging Congress tion Bill Honig. notes problem ofracial burglar by Southeast Asian refugee Eng and other members of Los Altos to support English as nation's official eral's Commission on Racial, Ethnic, violence on campus. Religious & Minority Violence con family may increase racial tensions. (Cali£) City Council approve "Official language and opposing sanctuary move Oct. 18 - Coalition of Asian Amer English" resolution. ment; local Asians and Latinos protest cludes hate violence is a serious prob May 31 - Gruy Moy is tabbed in lem and recommends steps to deal New York' Coney Island when four ican groups hold fomm on anti-Asian Dec. 20, 1!185 - Rep. Robert Matsui June 25 - Initiative that would make violence in New York says Dept. ofEducation proposal to limit English the official language ofCalif or with it Atty. Gen. John Van de Kamp Hispanics attack him 'IWo of the attack bilingual education could have "devas nia qualifies for November ballot announces findings. ers call Moyand a lHend' hinks.'· One Oct. 22 - Tlm~e Black lUgh school assailant., Raymond Cruz, i arrested. tating effects" on immigrant children. July 24-Residents of predominant,. tudents are arre ted for taking part in group attack on 8 ian teenage! Dec. 24, 1985 - LA County Superior ly white Olney area of Philadelphia May - Sens. Dani I Inouye and Court rules that English resolution vote to have street signs in Korean re Spark Mat unaga and R ps. Norman in San Francisco. cannot be placed on Monterey Park moved. Most signs have already been in San Francisco and Lo Angeles. Tes Mineta and Robert Matsui distribut Oct. 24 - In New York. Raymond ballot because legal guidelines were . mangiea or spray-painted. tifiers include Hayakawa, Diamond, copie of JACL's anti-Asian violence Cruz pleads guilty in Gary Moy stabbing not followed in gathering signatures. JACL Nat'l Director Ron Wakabayashi, Aug. 5 - LA Cil¥ Council votes to l-eport to members of ongre Oct.31- ewlvfonnedAsianAm r Feb. 24 - Local Asian Americans Atty. Gen. John Van de Kamp. After oppose Proposition 63. ican Caucus of COlUlecticut calls for picket as former Sen. S.l Hayakawa hearings, Assemblyman Paul carpen June 10 - Davis (CaliJ:) Asians for Aug. 13 - JACL, ACLU, Mexican retraction of anti.Japan peech appears in San Diego to speak on be ter says he opposes proposition. Racial Equality and Davi High School American Legal Defense & Education by enst candidat Roger Ed~ . 0r- Oct. 1 - Community groups assail tudents and official rededicate half of U.S. English organization. Fund and other civil rights groups an ganizers say rh tolic can alate int Gov. Deukmejian's veto of bill extend memO\;al to Thong Hy Huynh. a Viel Apr. 8-Monterey Park City Council nounce anti-Proposition m campaign. ing California's bilingual education law. names tudent tabbed to death by l"8cial violence. incumbents Lily Chen, David Almada Aug. 20-Asian, Hispanic and other James Pierman in 1983. The memorial October - Asian American Legal and Rudy Peralta, all opponents of Eng civil rights groups in Washington, D.C. has been the target of vandals. Deli nse & Education Fund call fbr lish resolution, are unseated. "Official announce opposition to Proposition m. Oct. Z7 - Monterey Park City CounCil congre ional hearings on anti- ian English" proponents Bany Hatch and Sept 2 - California Gov. George rescinds resolution on English and im June 17 -In Boston, Scott Arsenault viol nce. Pat Reichenberger are elected, but Deukmejian opposes Proposition 63. migration after Councilman Cam Brig- is fbund guilty of involuntary man Frank Arcuri loses. Sept 16 - San Jose City Council op 110 is persuaded to change his vote. slaughter in death of Bun Vong He is Nov. 25 - In Washington, D. • Apr. Debate between Allan Seid 21- poses Proposition 63. sentenced to 7-12 years on June 2d heung Hung Chall pleads guilty to of Asian Paciftc American Coalition Sept 19 - San Francisco Mayor Di Nov. 4 - Proposition m passes by charge of failure to 1 gister a firearm and Stanley Diamond of California Eng anne Feinstein opposes Proposition 63. margin of 73% to 270/0. Assemblyman June 25 - National onIi I nce of But prote~tors say th y will continu lish held at JACL Headquarters. Sept. 25 - California Catholic Confe1' Frank Hill plans legislation to elimi hristian &J ws· Asian Pacillc Ame1' until Chan agt , to etas businesl Apr. 22 - LA County Board of ence of Bishops opposes Proposition 63. nate bilingual voUng materials, wel ican Focus Program announces anti D . 4 meeting between .han, Wils n. SUpervisoni oppoees ''Official English." Sept 2&()ct. 1 - California Legisla fare forms, driver's tests and student bigotry campaign in Los Angele Mayor Malion Ben and othel' fun Mr. 24 - California U Gov. Leo July 10 - In SaCI"8mento, Atty. G n. to 1 solve dl put & • ture holds hearings on Proposition m financial aid forms. 12-PACIAC CITIZEN I Friday, January 2-9,1987 1986 Chronology Slurs and Stereotypes bayashi urge him not to refer to Asians for LA-area Asian community groups. hell out of the Japs in automobile man that way. On Apr. 17, Gam promises During production, activists had feared ufacturing." Mineta, Matsui and Waka not to use the term fIlm would be like 1985's "Year of the bayashi send letters of protest Dec. 23, 1985 - The New Republic ing their colleagues in the House to Apr. 25 -JACL's Wakabayashi pro Dragon." tests MG Mitten ad that appears in July 8 - After repeated complaints Aug. 29-Nevada Secretary of State prints a letter rebutting the magazine's support a bill changing the abbrevia Las Road and Track mag~e, which fea and help from Rep. Mineta and JACL William Swackhamer, quoted in claim that "Jap" is not an ethnic slur. tion of "Japan" or "Japanese" from Vegas Review, says state will use only The statement is not retracted, however. tures a caricature of a Japanese who officials, Amy Chihara of Highland, "Jap." to "Jpn" The resolution is a pro U.S.-made cars ''until the Japs start Jan. 17 -In a discussion with report ject ofPacific Northwest DistrictJACL mixes "r" and "1" sounds. Ind, receives assurances from Chicago April - Makers of "Gung Ho" TV Tribune that it will avoid using "Jap" playing fair with free trade both ways." ers, Deputy U.S. Trade Representative March - Rep. Mineta criticizes a Wakabayashi sends letter of protest Michael Smith refers to the Japanese radio ad by Republican Tom Skornia, series pilot hire JA consulting firm to as abbreviation in crossword puzzles. as "nippers." He is criticized by Reps. congressional candidate for California's ensure accuracy and avoid stereo~ July 23 - By a voice vote, House OcWber - In Washington, Senate Norman Mineta and Robert Matsui. 12th District It begins a talk about U.S. May 24 - Owners of JAPSS hair passes resolution changing abbrevia hopeful Brock Adams (D) and Asian Jan. 31-Appearing on PBS' "Wash Japan trade with, "Do you remember salon say they are in the process of tion of t'Japan" to "Jpn" supporters accuse Sen Slade Gorton (R) ington Week in Review," Washington Pearl Harbor?" changing the name of their business. July 31 - Ron Iseri of Long Beach, of running inflammatory commercials. Post reporter Haynes Johnson refers Apr. 3 - West Holiywooq City Coun June Z'I - A cartoon in Times High Calif, objects to Long Beach Press Referring to Adams' lobbying activities, to the late astronaut Ellison Onizuka cil passes a resolution recommending er Education Supplement, published Telegram's use of photo of prize-win one spot says, "We didn't need the as "an Asian American from Hawaii, that JAPSS, a local hair salon, change in England, shows wartime college ning sand sculpture which is a carica Japanese taking our fish, and we didn't Japanese descent, our enemies during its name. The salon has been picketed graduate Michi Ando wearing a Japa ture of an Asian. The same photo, and need Brock Adams helping them" the war." Mineta and JACL's Ron Wa by angry Asian Americans. nese fighter pilot's uniform JACL's a writer's desCription of it as a "China In Connecticut, GOP Senate candi kabayashi condemn the remark John After Sen Jake Gam (R-Utah) says, Wakabayashi sends letter of protest on man," drew protests a year ago. date Roger Eddy gives anti.J apan cam son apologizes in May. "You don't see people as black, white Sept 1 Aug. 18 - General Motors chair paign speeches, charging that ''to lie, Feb. 10 - Reps. Mineta and Mike or slanted eyes" when describing his July 2 - Producers of "Big Trouble Roger Smith, in Fortune magazine inter cheat and steal from foreigners is ... an Lowry (D-Wash.) distribute letter urg- space shuttle flight, Minet.? and Waka- in Little Ch.ina" hold benefit screening view, expresses the need to "beat the accepted part of their culture." Other Major Stories of 1986 Discrimination/Civil Rights Issues University of New York instructor and 9-year U.S. resident, is detained by INS upon return to U.s. from visit to Europe. Challenger Disaster - The explosion is introduced in Congress to halt rel Asians May Be Largest Minority in Wash. by Jackie Jamero She cited such problems as un second largest minority in 1984 International Examiner derrepresentation in high levels with 4.9 percent SEATTLE - Asians have sur ofgovemment, growing anti-Asian "It just proves what we ars passed Blacks and Hispanics in sentiment and violence, and low the gateway to the Orient," said population growth and comprise academic achievement and high Dorothy Cordova, executive direc the largest minority group in the dropout rates among certain sub tor of the Demonstration Project state, according to two recent re groups of Asians. for Asian Americans. She attrib ports. In addition, Hayasaka said, utes the tremendous population The most recent report, re economic and social barriers growth to high birth rates, the leased in August by the state Of have resulted in the concentration proximity of Seattle to Asia, spon fice of Financial Management of Asians in small businesses, sorship of relatives entering the (OFR), shows that the number of mom-and-pop stores, and restau country, and phenomenal growth Asians in Washington State in rants. Asians are not participat among Filipinos and Koreans. creased 38.8 percent from 1900 ing in large numbers in the wider She added that the Puget to 1986, compared to 25.4 percent economic sphere, she said. "Soci Sound area is a "pretty good for Blacks, 10.3 percent for His ety needs to be aware of our pres place for people of color" to set panics, and 7.0 percent for the ence. We have a great deal to tle because Asian have a dis overall population. From 1970 to contribute. There's a lot we have tinct and thriving community 1900, the Asian population grew contributed and continue to con and other p ople eem to have an asto ing 144 percent tribute." open attitud s toward Asians. Included in the Asian tabula A July l.9OO repolt by the Labor Although Asians enjoy a great tion were Japanese, Chinese, Fil Market and Economic Analysis er share of the population, they ipinos, Koreans, Asian Indians, Branch of the state Employment rec ive less govemm nt aid. In Vietnamese and other Southeast Security Department also dem King County, Asian receiv d Asians, and Hawaiians, Guam onstrates that Asians arc the fast 15.2 percent of total public assist Kazuo Ikeda, Ph.D., right, head of neurophysiology at the City of Hope's anians, Samoans, and other Pa est growing segment of the popu anc fund in Octob r 1985, com Beckman Research Institute in Duarte, Calif., receives a gold medallion cific Islanders. lation. Asians and Pacific J land pared to 23.2 perc nt for Blacks from City of Hope President Abraham S. Solsky, marking his induction into Population estimates for 1986 ers raised their share of the state and 55.3 perc nt for white . the medical center's Gallery of Medical and Scientific Achievement. Ikeda place the number of Asians in population from 2.7 percent in Economically disadvantag d received the medical center's highest honor for "having provided outstanding the state at 152,~, followed by 1900 to 3.3 percent in 1984. Blacks population projection for 1987 leaders~ip" in the field of neurophysiology. He joined the City of Hope in 1967. 132,438 Blacks and 132,409 per trailed with 2.9 percent in 1984, show the same ranking. In King sons of Spanish origin. Out of a an increase of 0.3 percent from County, the numbel of econom In King ounty, 5.4 perc nt ofth becoming a 1m r share of th total state population of4,419,700, 1900. ically disadvantaged p 1 on job applicants 1 gi tel'ed fl:om population-because "Asians ru: there were 3,981,572 whites and Over the past decade, the Asian aged 14 or old l' w re: 104,370 July 1, 1985 to Jun 30,1986 w 1 more work-ori nted and hav 438,128 non-whites. population in King County has whites, 15,210 Blacks, and 12,360 Asiml, compared with 76.9 per trong fam~ ti which ncow" The statistics are significant, skyrocketed, becoming the larg Asians. The statewid figures c nt white and 11.9 pel ntBlack. ag work" said Lois Hayasaka, director of est minority group in the county are: 428,840 whites, 30,790 Blacks the state Commission on Asian Pat Bott miller, labor mark t Hayasaka ountered, "Asian by the 1900 census. Asians and and 26,890 Asians. analyst for Employment wlty, American Affairs, because they Pacific Islanders increased their The report also includes statis 00 often being ov rlooked." Sh help others realize that Asians share of the county population tics which indicate that Asians explained that Asian account added, "If\\' show a united fhmt, for a smaller proportion of job exist and have unique problems from 4.9 percent in 1900 to 6.0 are not proportionately selVed at I beli v w can begin to g t at "deserving of attention." percent in 1984. Blacks were the the state's Job Service Centers. vplicants-although they moe tention." Friday, January 2-9, 1987 I PACIFIC CITIZEN 13 LEC EVENT Sheriff's Order Continued from page 2 Although some may worry Angers Blacks, about the expense of compensa tion, said Matsui, 'This is not a question of budgetary priorities, Pleases Whites but one of equity and fairness on which this country rests ... We are here because of a greater NEW ORLEANS - Harry Lee, purpose to correct a wrong of 44 the Chinese American sheriff of years [ago]. Jefferson Parish, has drawn fire for a remark about Blacks-and "Justice must remain vital and received approval from his pre strong. A democratic govern dominantly white constituents, ment believes in the rightofindi the New York Times reports. viduals to live freely without gov At a Dec. 2 news conference, ernment interference because of Lee announced that he would a person's race, color or creed combat a sharp increase in crime If we succeed in the effort, we by having officers "stop every can say democracy works." body that we think has no busi Lane Nishikawa of San Fran ness in the neighborhood. Ifthere cisco, giving his monologue on are some young Blacks driving a Japanese American life on the car late at night in a predomi streets in his slam-bang style, nantly white area, they will be commanded the audience'S atten stopped" tion. His performance consisted , The statement was assailed by of excerpts from his one-man the Black community, and Black play, ''Life in the Fast Lane." ministers called for a boycott of Mayor Harold Washington is applauded as he addresses the Chicago JACL Chapter during its Nov. 15 Inaugural Kim Miyori, formerly ofthe TV Jefferson Parish stores. Lee re Dinner at the Fireside Inn in Morton Grove. Shown with the mayor are, from left, Mrs. Yoshio (Yoshiko) Karita; series "St Elsewhere," gave a scinded his order the next day YO$hio ~, the new Japanese consul general in Chicago; Tina Adachi, radio talk show host; and Paul Igasaki, profile of her life as an actress. and apologized, saying deputies chapter president and Asian American liaison for the city's Commission on Human Relations. Mayor Washington "I speak from my heart," she said would stop Blacks only ''for prolr paid tribute to the late Minoru Yasui, fanner JACL-LEC chair, saying "Mr. Yasui will live forever in the hearts of all ''1 am here tonight because I able cause" of us who love and struggle for the rights and freedom of all. It is up to us to follow his lead and make sure that have a spirit of an artist, a spirit But many whites supported proper retribution and redress is given by the United States govemment for the violation of Japanese American to be free to perform regardless Lee. ''Everyone says 'good for rights during that nefarious period." of what body we are filled with" him,'" said Jefferson Parish resi -a reference to limitations she dent Dale Star, who added, ''He has faced as an Asian American should not have said 'Blacks.' He JAPAN'S TREATMENT OF MINORmES ------actress. She expressed the belief should have said 'suspicious char that support from the community acters.' Everyone would have for meaningful Asian American known who he meant" . CoatiDued from FroIIt Page Won Rhee, Korean Institute for threatening the very livelihood roles would be helpful in making Starr said she and a compan Human Rights; Alan Nishio, Na of numerous workers and com an impact on the entertainment ion were recently robbed by two them The relationship should tional Coalition for RedressIRe munities." industry. Blacks on the front porch of her be reciprocal" parations; Evelyn Yoshimura, 'That sounded a lot like [Chrys Enomoto, co-chair of Ameri home. Japanese companies tend to Asians for the Rainbow Coalition; ler's Lee] Iacocca or [GM's] Roger cans for Fairness, called for a Lee's public relations agent, be "as anti-union as possible" Richard Katsuda, Asian Pacific Smith, rather than the Rainbow," moment of silence in remem Bernard Klein, said that tele and show ''real insensitivity to American Coalition; John Saito, commented Wakabayashi. brance of former LEC chair Min Yasui, who died Nov. 12. phone calls, letters and tele women, to Hispanics and Blacks Pacific Southwest District JACL; But after meeting privately grams Lee has received have in and their struggles for affirma and David Hyun, Korean Feder Americans for Fairness is a with Jackson, Wakabayashi said, grassroots committee formed cluded 700 positive and 55 nega tive action," said Jackson, who ation of Los Angeles. "I think he'll be more sensitive tive responses. expressed his concerns to Naka Misgivings About Speech from JACL chapters in the Sacra in the future." mentolSan Joaquin Valley A SOlVey conducted by the sone and corporate leaders dur Speakers at a reception for area In response to a Los Angeles to support LEe. Remarking on ABC-TV affiliate in New Orleans ing his trip. Jackson held at Christ United reporter's question about the re the success of the evening, Eno fuund that of 28) people polled, He added that both Japan and Presbyterian Church in San Fran lationship between trade friction moto emphasized that it was the 68 percent had a favorable opin South Korea must negotiate cisco's Japantown included and anti-Asian violence,Jackson beginning of a renewed effort ion of Lee. ''mutually beneficial, fair, recip Mabel Teng, Northern California himself had said, ''We must not One of the sheriff's supporters rocal trade agreements" with chair ofthe California Democrat which would carry the redress be party to any of this kind of movement into a new phase with is New Breed Civic Association America as a whole. ic Party's Asian Pacific Caucus, Asian-baiting" president Leon Williams, who is Jackson also urged the Japa and Murase, both of whom were the 100th Congress. Black Williams, maintaining nese to take a ''more moral pos part of the delegation. that Lee is not a bigot, said that ture" toward South Africa be the remark was ''just a mistake JACL National Director Ron JEWISH COUNCIL cause of Japan's position as that Wakabayashi, who also spoke at that he said" He propoSed a country's top trading partner. Continued from Front Page the reception, told Pacific Citi ing for economic restitution." meeting of Black leaders to "put of Greater Washington strongly The Jewish Community Coun this problem to rest" Japanese Minorities zen that he found parts of J ack Jackson took issue with Naka son's statement to the press dis supports the [1983] recommenda cil of Greater Washington is the Martha Kegel, executive direc tions of the national Commission sone's recent assertion that Ja quieting. central representative body of tor of the Louisiana chapter of on Wartime Relocation and In 220 Jewish organizations in the the American Civil Liberties Un pan has no minorities. 'That is Jackson had said ofJapan : "As not correct," he said. ''The Ko they take over more of America's ternment of Civilians, acknowl Distlict of Columbia, Maryland ion, who has twice called for the edging the wrongs committed and Virginia, and is a member sheriff's resignation, said that reans in Japan want their rights industrial heartland, unions and against Japane e-American by agency of the ~ational Jewish her office has also received calls of citizenship affirmed, and they workers fear that they will liter deserve it They've died together ally deindustrialize America, the United States government Community Relations Advisory supporting Lee. 'The thing that during World War II and provid- Council. . to me is most unbelievable is that with Japanese [in Hiroshima], Mr. Lee seems to be picking up they were born there, they speak support," she said the language ... They deserve to Born of immigrant parents, be respected" Lee was a lawyer, an aide to Rep. While in Japan, Jackson met Hale Bogg.c; (D-La.) and a federal with representatives of Korean, magistrate before being elected Ainu and Burakumin rights or sheriff in 1979. Some Black ganizations. He compared the ministers speculate that Lee mandatory fmgerprinting of Ko made his remarks to gain favor rean and other non.JaPanese resi with his white constituency in dents with South Africa's pass preparation for his re-election book system campaign next fall "If the Japanese fail to lift dis East West, a San Francisco crimination against minorities based Chinese American news and change their behavior toward paper, has called for Lee's resig South Africa," he warned, "their nation. A Dec. 11 editorial said economic juggernaut will face that Lee ''revealed not only his the moral authority ofthe world's racist attitude but his inability to peoples, who are tired of demo make sound and fair judgments cratic values being used to cloak in his position as a sheri.ff" discrimination." South Korean Refonns Jackson said that he pressed Nikkei Appointed the South Korean govemment to uextend democratic freedoms, SACRAMENTO-Glenn Y. Yo release its political detainees, koyama of Rolling Hills Estates and set a finn date for open, free has been appointed to the Cali and fair elections." Harry Kadoshlma, an officer, board member and active volunteer at Nikkei Concems In Seattle, receives the fornia State Board of Pharmacy Jackson was joined during his MakJng A Difference Award from Pat Finley and Cliff Lenz, co-hosts of KING-TV Channel 5's "Good Company" by Gov. George Deulanejian. Yo Los Angeles appearance by program, during Oct. 24 award ceremonies at the Bellevue Red Uon. The awards, sponsored by KING-TV, koyama, 46, replaces Clarence K Charles Kim, Korean American Metrocenter YMCA and Pacific Northwest Bell, honor outstanding community volunteers. Kadoshima is also an HilD'8 of Los Angeles, whose Coalition; Mike Murase, Califor adviser and active member of the Japanese Community Service, Chinese Nursing Home Society. Mayor's Small tenn expired. nia Rainbow Coalition; Jong Busihess Task Force and Association of City Treasurers. 14-PACIAC CITIZEN I friday. January 2-9. 1987 Necrology s Addabbo, Joseph, Democratic con Miyanaga, Tom ''Lefty,'' m, diedJune 5. Uyeda, Kenichi "Kenny," m, of Tor gressman from New Y Olit's 6th Dislrict He was the only mem~r of Salinas rance, Calif., died Jan It He selVed since 1900, died Apr. 10. He had co-spon JACL to be awarded both the Sapphire as a Torrance planning commissioner sored redress bill HR. 442 since 1985. and Silver Pins and strongly supported from 1956-84, was vice president of the the PC. He was also a member ofMon LA Association of Planning Officials, terey County Historical Society, Mon Akagi, Margaret SaeIJo, frI, vice pres and president of Gardena Valley Japa ident of Mesa Group advertising agen terey Parks and Recreation Commis nese CUltural Institute. sion, VFW, and Native Sons of the cy, was struck and killed by a truck Golden West Wtlson, John, M, died May 18. As an near her New York office Nov. 13, 1985. attorney for Nixon aides HR Halde She was active at Riverside Church. I Mizuha, Jack Hifuo, 72, former as man and John Ehrlichman in 1973, he I sociate justice of the Hawaii Supreme made headlines by referring to Senate I AoId, Dan, 68, died June 12. A 442nd Court, died Sept 7. Shortly after the Watergate Committee member Daniel veteran, he was instrumental in re Pearl Harbor attack, he led a squad Inouye as "that little Jap." .1 building Hawaii's Democratic PaI1y. sent to assist residents of the island of I He was a chief aide to John Bums, Nilhau, where a Japanese fighter pilot Wong, Ken, 60, who wrote features who was a delegate to Congress before had crash-landed. and a weekly column about the Asian i statehood and elected governor in 1961. Nakamura, Kiyomi, 70, longtime American community for the San Fran JACL 1(XX) Club member and a Bridge cisco Examiner, died March 24. When Cbbl, Lany Wu-tai, a CIA analyst ton, NJ. accountant, died July 30. He he started at the Examiner in 11171 , he I found guilty of passing classified infor was a past president ofSeabrookJACL, was one of the few Asian Americans I mation to China forover30years, appa a founding member ofJACL's Thomas working at a major Bay Area news Donald Kazama I rently committed suicide in his jail cell T. Hayashi Memorial Law Scholarship Jack Ozawa paper. He also worked for two commu I Committee, an active member ofBridge nity newspapers, Chinese World and Feb. 21, two weeks after his conviction lingual Advisory Commission, Urban i ton Lion's Club, and one of the found Ol.awa, Jack, m, president of Phila East West I League, and Seattle Human Rights delphia JACL, and former Eastern Dis Oillins, Lany, 75, an advocate of JA ers of Seabrook Young Buddhist Assn Commission He was Seattle JACL trict JACL vice governor and New i, rights, died Sept 25 in Los Altos, Calit: president in 1!170 and Pacific North Nakayama, Yoshikatsu, 61, of York JACL president, died Nov. 8. He He was buyer-manager ofthe University west District JACL vice governor in Gardena, Call£, president of Military had recently retired from Areo and Students Co-op Assn at UC Berkeley 1!172. He chaired the Nisei Aging Pr0- Intelligence Service Club of Southern was active with Pan Asian Assn of in the mid-l!ln;, organized co-ops in ject Community Advisory and Re Call1orniasincel~,diedJuly5.He Philadelphia, Nationalities Service the WW2 internment camps as a War source Committee, was instrumental was a board member ofJapanese Amer Center, and other community groups. Relocation Authority official, selVerl as in obtaining federal civil service retire ican National Museum. He served as Red Cross field director with the 442nd ment credit for JAs interned during a translator in occupied Japan Pratt, Sunya, 88, of Tacoma, a retired RCl', headed Associated Cooperatives WW2, and was honored as Senior Citi Buddhlst minister, died Feb. 11. She in the postwar years, was regional man zen of the Year in 1985 by Senior SeIV Noda, Steere, 94, died March 29. A received her tokudo in 1939 and be ager for Mutual Service Insurance, and ices of Washington Born in 1913. he native of Hawaii, he was the first Nisei came a Buddhlst Churches ofAmerica worked overseas with the Volunteer 'was a medic in the 442nd RCT and was to be work for the federal government minister in 1900. Development Corps after his retire on the staffof Veterans Administration (with the 00), to work for the judicial ment in 1!174. Hospital from 1950-76. system (in a Hawaii district court) and QuOD, Howard, 54, fonner president Kishi, Komataro, 100, believed to be to enlist in the U.S. military (with the of Chinese American Citizens Alliance, FIgii, Rev. ~cbi, 94, died Aug. 9. the oldest Japanese American in the Hawaii National Guard in 1916). He be collapsed and died in LA's Chinatown He served Buddhist Churches of Amer Mainland U.S., died Jan 8 in his New gan to practice law in 1924 and was on Oct :1D while participating in the ica Kyodan at LA Betsuin; he also was York apartment in an apparently acci elected to the Tenitorial House of Bradley Run for California, a fund-rais a minister in Hawaii for ~ years. dental bathtub drowning He came to Representatives in 1948 and the State ing event for Mayor Tom Bradley's un this country from Wakayama in 1890. Senate in 1959. He promoted sports successful gubernatorial campaign FlQiShige, Masao, 61, an Anaheim, events between teams from the U.S. Salvatiera, Oscar, a staffer at the Phil Calit: strawberry ~er whose land Kodama, George, 66, of San Diego, and Asia He helped found Honolulu ippine News in Los Angeles, was shot to was being condemned to make way for JACL and was active in many other died Apr. 19. He was president of San death at his home in February. The kill Minoru Yamasaki a hotel-office building-condominium community organizations. Diego JACL in 1~. ing was at first believed to be tied to project, apparently killed himselfwith Yamasaki, Minoru, 73. a noted ar his newspapel~ s anti-Marcos stand, but a shotgun July 2. The City Council had Koga, Herbert Takemi, an active Noda, Takashi, of College Park, Md. chitect, died of cancer Feb. 6. Among the killer turned out to be his son, who voted to condemn land that the Fuji member of San Francisco Taiko Dojo. died Sept 24. He was a member of the the buildings he designed were the had used the political motive as a ruse. shige family did not want to sell But died Aug. 16. American Dental Assn and Southern World Trade Center (New York), the the family, citing Fujishige's failing Maryland Dental Society. He was a Sato, Sho, 62, UC Berkeley law profes Century Plaza Towers (Los Angeles), Lancaster, Cecile Elizabeth, 90, of health, did not hold the city responsi past president and board member of sor and fonner Berkeley JACL presi the St Louis Airport terminal, the Houston, died Jan 2. She taught at the ble for his death. the Hawaii State Society. dent, died .July 'Xl. He was a deputy Rainier Bank Tower (Seattle), the Gila River, Ariz., internment camp dur California attorney general from 1952- McGregor Memorial Conference Cen ing WW2 and did evangelical work in Okamoto, Joseph Kazuma, 72, ofChey 55, selVed on the California Law Revi ter at Wayne State University (Detroit), Bara, T~ 00, an active member of Hawaii. She was honored by Houston enne, Wyo., a renowned watchmaker sion Commission from 1~ , and and the Woodrow Wilson School of the Bay Area community, died Aug. 1 JACL in 1976. who rejuvenated antique clocks, died while jogging in Oakland The owner June 22. A native of Florin, Calif, he wrote a textbook, State and Local Gol} Public and International Affairs at of Edwards Clothiers for 36 years, he Masuda, Thomas, 00, died Apr. 4. He moved to Cheyenne after WW2. ermrumJ: Law. in 1m. Princeton He also designed buildings was organizer and chair of the annual was a founding member of Chicago Re in Japan, Saudi Arabia. and other Oki, Kenicbi, 72, Sacramento-born Kirnochi GolfToumament, which raised settlement Committee, which helped Set». Masaharu, 73, of Sacramento, countries. He was honored by JACL as head of Standard Advertising in Japan funds for senior services. former internees relocating to the died of a heart attack Dec. 15. He was Nisei of the Biennium in 1962 and was and a U.S. government witness in the Chicago area; it was later renamed as a member of the Sacramento County the subject of a Time cover story in postwar trial of accused ''Tokyo Rose" Ikf2oe, Duncan Kazuma, 74, board Japanese American Service Commit and El Dorado County medical associ 1963. Iva Togwi D'Aquino. died Apr. 2D in chair of the Nichibei Times in San tee. He also helped start Japanese ations as well asJACL 1 Masujl"'tiii (Ber) Noboru Honda (Chi) Takeshi Kubota (Set) Dr GeorRe Miyake (Fow) SaUy Nakashima (WV) Lily Okura (WDC) F'usa)'o F'Iijirun «(i)os) Lily Y Hori (Set) Dr Koki Kumarmto (Chi) Walter IIMiyao (Del) Ken Osaka (Gar) As of Nov. 30, 1986 S Stephen Nakashima Fred K Oshima (Sal) &.aIinuS"'Uimua «(i)os) Takashi Hori (Set) TCompKw"armto (Ari) Yoneichi MiYasaki (Ora) Ford H Kw"armto (Pan) Nobu M1yoshi (Phi) (WY) Heizo Oshima (enc) QIenturn roife HaIlluroAlzawa(SF) Mollie T ~iioka (Dia) Tatsu Hori (Seq) Judy J Nii2awa (SJo) Hide Oshima (enc) - 0;; ~ Ronald H AkaIbI (ELA) Dr OllIS Fujisakl (MHi) Mitsuo Hosaka (SF) Frances Kuramoto (Pan) HarTy Mizuno (Chi) Y8IIUO WAbiIr.o (SF) Harvey AId (011) Henry H Fujiura (Chi) Fred Ho&hiyama (vnC) Paul H KuuIa (Mil) GeorRe Morikawa (Chi) ~rf:~>'01C) GeorgeOta (Puy) TcmArima(OC) HeIen~(Set) Yallo 0 Gochinas (Mil) Mickey N Id!Iuji (MP) Lee EKuswnoIo (Pia) DaleMorioka (SF) Dick Nishi (SF) J~ ~yoshi Ota (WLA ) Jerry Irei (OC) Hiram G AkIta (Set) Mrs Harold Gordon (Chi) Yoshim E Icbluil (MP) Maryann Mahall'ey (Del) Frances Morioka (SF) George 1N'1Shirrura (SBa) Seichi Otow (Pia) NatIuko Ire! (OC) JoeS AkiYama (Ora) Henry H Gosho (Nat) ~ Y Ida (MIti) Roy H Makino (SFV) Sadao Morishita (Ida) Arthur Nishioka (SO) Edward E 0tsU JA Incorporates Ethnic Background Into Ad by Jane B. Kaibatsu inal idea to the final printed some of the traditional cultural stage. He was prepared and will associations which emphasized The next time you are sitting ing to defend his contribution beauty, quality and commitment, in your favorite optometrist's or because ''whenever you take a he has learned subliminal lessons ophthalmologist's office, find chance and put something out of about the way ofdoing things and and flip through one of the June the mainstream, like an ethnic, how culture is really an impor issues ofthe trade magazines, like you never know what the reac- tant part of his life. :na>. In an advertisement for the tion will be." Thus, many aspects, both per eyeglass manufacturer Varilux, Before his presentation, Kosa sonal and professional, came to you'll find a Nisei woman with ka reviewed his rationale of the gether for Kosaka in the Varilux an ikebana arrangement whys and philosophical aspects ad. It was shot in Los Angeles by With the slogan, ''We Have a of doing ikebana He decided photographer Carl Furuta. The Tomiko Bristol is featured in Wayne Kosaka's advertisement for Varilux. Special Way of Seeing Things," that he would change the con woman featured was LA resi the elegant pink orchid arrange cept if necessary, but would do dent Tomoko Bristol, and home ment and the serene Japanese so reluctantly. He entered the grown family orchids were used American femininity represent a meeting prepared to fIght a bat ''I don't often get the chance to ground-breaking idea in trade tle which, unbeknownst to him, explore the emotional side in advertising. This is perhaps one had no opponent this business along with the ra of the few times that an ethnic ''Varilux was all for it," he re tional," he reflected "And I have Pacific Business Bank minority and an unusual hobby/ called ''I had absolutely no resis feelings, emotional thoughts rd occupation have been used to tance." Both his fellow account like to see expressed rm sur present a company's corporate executives at the agency and the rounded by traditional advertis Offers "No-Delay" identity. client were extremely support ing every day- why not take a This bold, yet successful con ive of the ikebana concept and chance?" Mortgage Money cept was initiated by senior art the use of a Nisei woman If Kosaka can continue to play director Wayne Kosaka, a Sansei ''I think they understood im a significant role in the business, who works at Impact., a division mediately what the visual is by for his career and for the por of the advertising agency Foote, ing to convey. I was told that the trayal of Japanese Americans in If you are looking for a low interest home loan, Pacific Business Bank Cone & Belding. concept met every single require advertising, chances are they're has one offer-and four guarantees-you cannot refuse. Kosaka, an award-winning ment in their marketing strategy both headed for even more spec professional who has worked on and exceeded their expectations." ial things. Because of the drop in rates, most banks have been deluged with corporate logos, brochures, and He also credits his co-workers applications for new home loans or refinancing of existing trust a television spot for Pacific Bell, on the account management side deeds . . . and consumers have found endless delays. was assigned to a campaign aim at Impact for supporting his idea ing to convey Varilux as a com ''Because they are aware ofthe II At Pacific BlJsiness Bank, however, there are no delays-and pany concerned with quality and image of Japanese Americans --Deaths'--- we guarantee It. leadership in the eye care indus and how it has changed over the a At Pacific, we guarantee we will determine your qualification by. As an art director, Kosaka's years, they viewed the Nisei Takeyo Okano, 00, member of within five days. primary responsibility is to effec woman in a positive light Their the San Jose JACL Chapter, died tively convey the client's image awareness level and flexibility Oct 28 in Campbell, Calif. II We guarantee that once you qualify, we will have money in your through visual communication allowed them to be open and Okano, a na.tive of Hawaii, also hands within 60 days. ''Because of Varilux's dedica look beyond racial connotations, was a member of the San Jose II We guarantee one other thing-Pacific's service will be the tion to quality, 1 chose an unusual like Pearl Harbor or Japan trade Fujinkai and the San Jose Bud best of any bank you have ever visited, because you talk to hobby that would capture a problems ... I got 1000/0 of my dhist Church Betsuin people, not departments. quickly identifiable, high-level idea I was lucky." She is survived by three daugh Now that offer . .. commitment to quality and e)f.e Just why did Kosaka decide to ters, Satomi Hashimoto, Sumako cution, as opposed to something use.that particular idea? He felt Kanaya and Elsie M. Suyenaga; If we fail to live up to those guarantees, and the delay is ourfault, we trendy," said Kosaka. "1 thought that at this point in his career he two sons, Richard and Howard; will give you $100 for the inconvenience. that ikebana would be a perfect had an opportunity to put some and eight grandchildren. Don't delay. Interest rates wiil not remain low forever. Find out how example of t.his---6omething that thing back into the advertising you can finance or refinance your home-without a delay-today. you completely envelop yourself industry that acknowledged his Cail Tom Hirano, who heads our Mortgage Banking Department, at in because you believe in it Japanese heritage. ''I wanted to Novo KaIG, 72, of Bellflower, 533·1456. Or stop In at our office: 438 W. Carson Street in Carson. ''I also felt that flower arrange put my profession into its best Calif., died Nov. 16 following a ment's creativity and its sensitiv use to further our image to its brief illness. ity to that which is special and highest quality and best advan Kato, originally from Idaho, was unique met every single criteria tage," he explained a founding member of the Poca for using it as a promotional con The Hawaiian-born, Los An tello-Blackfoot JACL He later cept for this client" geles-bred artist remembered a served as a member of the Long , For a concept to reach the strong Japanese cultural influ Beach and Selanoco chapters. point ofa printed advertisement, ence during his upbringing. His He is sUlVived by his daughters many steps are taken, including father had grown orchids as a Sharon Kato Palmer and Bonita selling the idea to accountexecu hobby and his mother arranged Kato Stern; sisters Miyoko Naka Pacific Business Bank tives and the client Although it those flowers. mura, Asae Nishimmoto, Junko is a collective effort, Kosaka stat,. Kosaka holds a first.degree Kato and Sachi Kumagae; and • ed that an art director tries to get black belt in karate and has stu granddaughters Staci Midori the largest percentage ofhis orig- died kendo. He feels that through , Palmer and Sarah Kato Stern. 16-PACIAC CITIZEN I Friday, January 2-9, 1987 CiLorporafe Ben Ezaki Sr (Twi) 19-5higeo Futagaki &-Ridlard Maeda COACHElLA VALLEY 24-Yukio Wada Lire-Fusayo F\Jjimura 3-Sumlko S Kaz.awa 1000 (lHuh Bob ~tomi (Vnl) ~Icliiro Isokawa 37-Masuda, Fwal, Eifert I-Robert W Prodw ll-Mldori Wedemeyer Lire-Susumu S Fujimura :J2..Dr SlUg J Ma9Joka DIAM Joseph Heco and the Joseph Heco Society by Andrew Y. Kuroda It is said that some 150 ethtiic their diplomatic negotiations They were rescued by an ratifIcation of the 1858 Treaty of ican who could speak Japanese, groups are represented in the with Japan in the turbulent dec American whaling ship. The four Amity and Commerce. he bridged a gap between the United States of America How ades of the mid-19th centw)'. men were put on shore at Hono N akahama was appointed to two countries. many can say that they know of Townsend Hanis, the first lulu, but Manjiro became a pro the Naval Training School and Heeo's linguistic service was the first American citizen oftheir American minister to Japan, tege ofthe skipper, who gave him assigned to the Kanrm Maru on widely utilized, not only among own ethnic group? noted in his journal (April 29, the name of John Mung and who her solo voyage to San Francisco. Americans, but other nations as Japanese Americans are fortu- 1857) that Japanese interpreters brought him to America for an Upon returning to Japan, he re well. Two months after the Amer nate in that they know that Joseph "are so absurd as to wish to have education There Manjiro also ceived an invitation from a for ican Consulate was opened in Heeo (1837-1007) was the fIrst every word placed in the Dutch received training and experi eign ship anchored in Yokohama Kanagawa, the Russian fleet Japanese to become an American version exactly in the order it ence in seamanship and whaling Innocently, he visited the ship under Adm. Popoff entered Edo citizen He earned that distinction stands in the Japanese .. .. for six years, eventually attaining and was summarily dismissed Bay and anchored off the coast in Baltimore, Md., in 1858. Few, Their lrnowledge of Dutch is im the rank of chief mate. from the Naval Training School. of Shinagawa however, know that there exists perfect They have learned the Smitten, however, with home Heeo was also a castaway One day, a purchasing party of in Japan the Joseph Heeo Society language as spoken by traders siclrness, he resolved to return to Japanese. Unlike Nakahama, officers and shipmen were sent (Josefu Hiko Kinenkai), and that and sailors, and the Dutch they Japan He stopped at Honolulu however, he returned to Japan ashore to Kanagawa for fresh its members gather once every use is not only that of 250 years in AugUst 1850 and persuaded as a naturalized American citi provisions. On the street, they year on Dec. 12, the anniversary ago, but it is limited to the sub two of his former castaway fel zen. With advice and help from were attacked by several Japa of his death, at Aoyama Cemetery . jects above referred to; hence, lows to join him. They managed his benefactor in America, Be nese swordsmen One officer was in Tokyo for graveside memorial we have great difficulty in con to land at the southern tip of verly C. Sanders, a prominent killed and two sailors severely services. veying an abstract idea to them, Ryukyu Island in February 1851 citizen of Baltimore, Heeo was wounded. The Joseph Heco Society was and it is almost impossible to and were promptly arrested. able to obtain naturalization on News of this greatly alarmed founded by Haruyoshi Chikamori, speak figuratively to them" They were taken under guard June 30, 1858, in Baltimore. foreign residents of Kanagawa who, after graduating from Wase- Sir Rutherford Alcock, the to Kagoshima, then to Nagasaki, Heeo met Harris, the newly Overnight, the Russian admiral da University, began his news- first British minister to Japan, and finally to Kochl At each lo promoted American minister to came down in a corvette to Kana paper career as a reporter with cation they were detained and Japan, in Shanghai, China, and gawa for the funeral and tried to the Mainichi (Osaka) newspaper, also mentioned in his memoir, questioned. After landing on showed him his na~tion negotiate a settlement over the and retired from the Yamiuri The Capital of the Tycoon (1863, Ryukyu, it took one year and 10 certificate. Harris promptly a}> incident with the governor of (Osaka) newspaper as an editorial Vol. I, p. 102), that ''the interpret months for them to return to their pointed Heeo as an interpreter Kanagawa writer. While he was with the ers in Yeddo hitherto have only native villages in November 1852. of the newly created American The admiral found negotia Yamiuri, he researched the his- spoken Dutch - the Dutch of two After their absence of nine years Consulate at Kanagawa When tions almost impossible because tory of Japanese newspapers and centuries back - and vexy em and 10 months, they were placed they anived at Kanagawa on the his interpreter could not speak discovered that Heco was the barrassing to those fresh from under a lifetime injunction, U.S.S. Mississippi, the governor Japanese that well, although he Europe, from the use of old and publisher of the first Japanese obsolete forms of expression never again to step one foot out of Kanagawa came on board for did speak English and French newspaper in Japan side of their lord's domain a courtesy call. Harris intro The American consul offered the Interested in the life of Heeo, which, with all the tenacity of a In July 1853, Commodore duced Heeo to the governor, and admiral the services of Heeo . . .ted his Japanese who understands noth Chikam. on VJSl . grave. There ing of the mutation of languages, Matthew Calbraith Perry landed explained to him that, although with 1ns consent he found a sign asking anyone at Uraga to establish diplomatic Heeo was born in Japan, he had Atone pOint during C1 recess with knowledge of relatives of the or progressive theories of any relations with Japan After he de become a naturalized American in the shipboard negotiations, deeeased to report to the office. kind - they are ready to main livered a presidential letter to citizen He requested that the the admiral took Heeo out on Chikamori was told at the office tain as the only true and pure the Japanese officials, he left governor treat Heeo as an Amer deck for a walk and asked him that the maintenance fee of the Dutch, all more modem phrase with a promise to return the fol ican The governor agreed to do whether he thought the Japanese grave had not been paid foryears. ology being spurious .... It was lowing year for the reply. Masahi so. authorities were sincere in their amusing, sometimes, to hear Alarmed at the possible removal them sparring on this subjeet ro Abe, chief senior counselor of More than 10 years prior "to effort to settle the matter. Heco of the grave, he paid the year's fee with the legation interpreter, a the Tokugawa Shogunate, recall Heeo's naturalization three replied that he thought they and started a campaign to save ing a report by the governor of Japanese were naturalized as were. The admiral reportedly the grave of the "Father of Japa- gentleman brought up in Hol- Nagasaki about an English-speak Hawaiian citizens by virtue of said that he also sensed their sin nese Newspapers." Thus, the So- land - and to mark the astonish ing Japanese in Tosa, called their maniage to Hawaiian cerety but wanted Heeo's opin ciety for the Preservation of the ment of the latter, on being told Manjiro to Edo and gave him women They are believed to ion The incident concluded Tomb ofJoseph Heco was found- by his Japanese colleague that samurai status. Thereupon, Man have been the fellow castaways satisfactorily for Adm. Popoff ed in 1006. The society changed he really did not lrnow Dutch jiro of Naka no Hama, a tishe~ of Nakahama Two of them re when the shogunate acceded to its name to the Joseph Heeo S0- grammatically!" . man, became Nobuyuki Manjiro turned with him to Japan, aban all the demands of the Russians. ciety in U172. It goes without saying, there- Nakahama Abe must have doning their wives. The third Later, the admiral sent Heco a For 221 years, during the so- fore, that if there had been an thought that N akahama would man, Kalaimo, is believed to gold watch as a token of his ap called period of national OOla- English-speaking Japanese or a be useful in the forthcoming have been Toraemon who chose preciation tion, Japan had no diplomatic re- • Japanese-speaking American in negotiations with the Americans. to remain permanently in A reader of Heeo's autobiog lations with foreign nations, ex- Japan at that time, he might have N ariaki Tokugawa, a powerful Hawaii raphy, The Narrative Q{ aJCl'{KrfI€Se, cept Korea Curiously, the rela- greatly facilitated international adviser to the shogun, objeeted, It is theOlized that, because is struck by how American his tionship with Korea was largely communication Actually, it so however, saying that Nakahama the Hawaiian language lacks a behavior was for an Issei born in - ceremonial in that an official de- happened that there were in could not be trusted because he "t" sound, his name Toraemon Japan A few examples taken legation was dispatched to the Japan, at that juncture in histoxy, . was obligated to Americans and became Koraemon, which was fl:om his two-volume autobiog respective capital city when a a Japanese who spoke English should not have access to any shifted to easiel' Karaemon, and raphy are as follows: new king was enthroned in Korea and an American who spoke Japanese confidential informa eventually shortened to Kalaimo. Three weeks after the opening or a new shogun was installed in Japanese. The former was Man tion, nor should he be allowed His naturalization record is in of the American Consulate, Lt. Japan jiro Nakahama and the latter, to make contact with foreigners. the old archives of Hawaii, but Cmdl·. John M. Brooke al1ived at An insignificant trade was con- Joseph Heeo. Give him an ample stipend, how there ls no way to find his grave Kanagawa aboard the U.S.S Fen ducted at the Japan House in Manjiro (1827-1898) ofNaka no ever, advised Tokugawa, and or trace his descendants. (Wata imore Cooper, a SlllVeying Pusan, Korea, between Korea and Hama, the province ofTosa (pre keep him under constant surveil nabe Reizo, Hawai no N~ schoonel: Brooke was one of the Tsushima Clan Far greater sently Kochi Prefeeture), was 14 lance. Nikkevm, no Rekishi [A History of Heco s close fliends in America but still limited trade was al- years old when the fishing boat Abe accepted this advice, and the Japanese and the Japanese Amel'ican Consul DolT invited lowed with the Dutch and Chi- on which he and four older men N akahama was never used as an Amel'icans in Hawaii], 1986, vol. Brooke to dinner. Heeo and Eu nese merchants in Nagasaki were aboard was disabled by a interpreter in any negotiation 1, p. 36.) gene M. Van Reed, secret&y of Dutch, therefore, was the only storm. Swept away by wind and with the Americans, even though - We know that Heco retumed the consulate, also attended the Western language that the J apa- current, they crash-landed on the he was the only English-speaking to Japan during the fateful and dinner. 'nese knew during those two cen- rugged shore of an uninhabited Japanese the shogunate had. He historic junctUl'e of her erne!' During the dinnel', the consul turies. Itwas in this language that island, likely to have been St was even excluded from the en gence fi'Om the cocoon ofnational I POltedly a ked Heeo how he American, English and other Peter's Island (Torishima), north tourage of the 1800 Japanese de isolation into the jostling intema Western nations had to conduct of the Bonin Islands. legation to the United States for tional arena. As the only Amel'- Continued on page 20 Friday, Jaooary 2-9,1987 I PACIFIC CITIZEN -19 Ichiro Tanaka by Manzen When the hospital called, I was and Jon saw him, they immediate Chicago for a short spell, then with people and suitcases all changing the subject if need be, bewildered They said they had a ly took him to the hospital. His came directly to Berkeley. around. and spit out whatever it was that man there named Itch Taka and pockets were empty and George It was difficult to fathom how It had its smell of food, too. was on his mind Once we were wanted me to come right away. I and Jon gave the hospital all the they became such good friends, Some good and some bad Some talking about our folks back in didn't know any Itch Taka And infonnation they could - which so close. The bond which existed so bad you had to open the will camp. He was saying our folks, too, I wondered how they got my wasn't much - for admission My was real and deep. It may have dows. For sure, if we had any the Issei, were survivors, always name. I presumed it was because name and phone number were been quite amorphous and liquid extra money, we went out to eat adjusting to change, surviving. I was involved in community af on the cardboard backing of a at first, but obviously, it became rather than wait around for our Elaborating, he cited the Meiji fairs, especially senior citizens little note pad he carried in his more and more adhesive and so turn to cook and eat But that Restoration, which tore up the concerns, and the JACL, the shirt pocket Two or three other lidi.f:Ying, bonding them tightly wasn't very often since we were fabric of old Japan; the Seinan Japanese American Citizens names were also listed, but they like some sort ofpenn anent glue. sending money home to our folks War, which was the rebellion led League. I rushed right over, won were all out of town or out of The bond seemed to transcend whenever we could. They were by Saigo Takamori that ravaged dering who he was and what had state. mere interest and concerns. still in camp. Kyushu (where both our parents happened. After taking care of the essen Perhaps they each had a sensitiv It was in that setting that I first came from); immigration to When I saw him, I recognized tials at the hospital, I went to visit ity and an innate awareness of met Itch. He had come from the America; and then the evacua him immediately. I had not seen George and Jon The address the being a human being which was camp at Jerome, Ark, Block 28, tion and internment And then, him for 40 years or more, but he hospital gave me was not too dif thrust upon them by their varied the Fresno block I, too, had all of a sudden, he asked, ''What was the older image of the same ficult to find It was in Berkeley experiences, a thrust to which come from Jerome, Block 7, the do you think of haji [shame/dis 01' lean, wiry sort of guy I knew on the south side of San Pablo they were so responsive. Long Beach block, but I didn't honor]?" And just like that, we long ago back in Detroit He was Avenue, near the railroad tracks Talking to them, it seemed know him there. We were both were in a discussion about h.aji. a little thinner than I had re not too far away from the Bay. It strange to find they had never 2D or 21 then Both young, eager, It threw me for a moment, the membered him, and too, with was not in the best part of town, really talked much to each other full of anticipation, dreams, way he shifted gears, but only for white hair and a gray moustache, but it was not in the slum area about their own lives. This be hopes and somewhat idealistic. a moment I still remember that' but essentially, he was the same either. came quite apparent as I tried Itch had come to Detroit about discussion clearly. guy. His name was Ichiro Tanaka. They lived in a three-room to find out more aboutItch. Some a month earlier than I, and he Haji was a word I had heard His eyes were closed and his . apartment with an alcove and a of the things they said were quite had already found himself a job. all my life. I think my folks used high cheekbones were more kitchen The apartment was new to the other, judging from He knew his way around Detroit it on me to keep me in line. They noticeable with his skin pulled clean and neat apd even had a the way they responded. I added a little, but he spent most of his used to say, "Don't ever do wrong, taut and free of wrinkles, except couple of flowering plants. A flat what I knew of Itch and tried to time at 253, either washing his because it will bring haji on you, for some "crows-feet" around his bowl with three large camellias piece together what they had clothes, writing letters or read not only you, but the family as right eye. His left eye was swol floating in it sat on a doily atop told me, but it was still spotty. ing. I didn't really know whether well, and on all Nihonfin. You are len and black and blue, as was a coffee table. On the wall was a I first met Itch in Detroit, back this was because he was saving an ambassador. You represent his left cheek - at least the part Monet print of a pond, framed in in '44 or '45, at 253 E. Forest St his money, didn't care to roam all Nihonfin at all times." They that wasn't bandaged. His lips raw wood with a glass cover, and It was a hostel where relocating around, or just wasn't an outgo emphasized the word itsumo (all were grotesquely swollen and too, an American Gothic print by evacuees stayed temporarily ing guy. times) with a stern look Some there were tubes entering his Wood, the one of a fanner hold while seeking new beginnings. It I saw him quite often and said how, saying it in Japanese made flat, broad nostrils. He was ing a pitchfork with his wife was right off of Woodward. Ave ''Hi'' once in a while, but I really it sound all the more ominous. breathing heavily. His right standing next to him. There was nue, the main arterial street of didn't get to know him until one I guess Itch had heard it often shoulder was taped and his right also a TV with a rock and a Detroit, and close to John R, the night when we got to talking also, since he said, "Now that's a ann was ill a cast I didn't know kokeshi doll on it The apartment main street of Black America about camp, our folks, home and tall order for a little kid to shoul more than that, but the sheet that: spoke kindly ofthe two who lived A$ I remember it, it was a where we grew up. After that, we der, especially when he's grow covered him seemed to indicate there. three-story wooden structure got together quite often We ing up, exploring and experienc there was more. They were quite hospitable and overshadowed by a bigger brick began going out to movies, stage ing new things. ... " At the desk, I learned he had helpful. Talking to them, I building right next to it It was shows, restaurants and even "But it sure was a way to make been mugged and brought to learned that the three were real quite modest by any standard, sightseeing. Once we went out to us toe the straight and narrow, emergency the night before last close friends. Itch had come to even for the m~ighborhood it was Belle Island, which was at the that's for sure," I had interjected, by the police. Two of his friends laughing. the Bay Area about six or seven in But it was relatively clean. foot of Grand, just off of Jeffer had come with him, giving the years before. From where, they "Yeah, that's true, but it's like And it was a haven. It had a wITe son It was strange to note that hospital the pertinent infonna didn't know, but they thought Canada, or at least the Windsor walking on eggshells or a razor's tion required for admission somewhere in the Midwest or fence in front with a gate that edge," he commented And I knew clicked shut when you went part of it, was south of Detroit They had stayed the night, dozing East since he used to talk about But the thing I remembered exactly what he meant Some Chicago, Des Moines, Detroit and through it The first floor had a times I had thought there was a off and on in the waiting room small kitchen where we all took most about Itch was our discus after having been given special New York. They also mentioned sions. We used to sit on our cots conspiracy going on among the Columbia, but they didn't know turns cooking and eating. There parents and that they were all pennission They had been told must have been a bathroom and and talk about all kinds of things. they might as well go home since it was in Maryland Most of our discussions were saying the same thing. If there They had met at a senior center small apartment, though I wasn't, they certainly were ofone there wasn't much they could do, couldn't really remember for light and casual, and not too but they had insisted on staying. fellowship some years before academic. But sometimes we got mind and struck it off quite well They sure. The second floor had a Itch continued, ''I don't think Their names were George Taylor couple ofapartments and a bath into some deeper, heavier stuff and Jonathon Bates. They were had become quite active there, It was the deeper stuff I enjoyed you should lay such a burden on helping out in whatever way they room, but the apartments were a little kid. Maybe Pm wrong, but good friends and neighbors of not really apartments. Theywere the most I looked forward to Itch. could, and had even developed those talks. I knew when he was boy, it's too much!" He paused, some social and outreach prog just rooms, cut up and par then continued, "Maybe it builds I also learned that Itch was in titioned and called apartments. heading into these deeper, seri very critical condition He had rams to get more people interest ous areas by the way he tilted character? Maybe that's what ed in sharing and caring about The third floor was the "dorm" gaman [bear with it], shikata, ga been beaten severely. His rib where most of us single guys his head slightly towards me and cage was crushed and he had lost each other. They worked well to softened his voice. And too, by nai [can't be helpedl and un [for gether and developed a close lived. It was really an attic made tunelfate) is all about? They help a lot of blood. There wasn't any over - one great big room with the way hiis eyes began to gleam indication of a skull fracture, but bond They feltlike brothers, like like a three-way lamp going on people to endure" family, even though they were no partitions or furniture - just He said it like an afterthought, he was comatose. His right ann cots, about 10 or 12 of them. We high. Once into it, he would glow was broken in two places and he not related by blood or ethnicity. with seriousness and enthusiasm then continued as ifarguing with George was Black and Jon was used the cots for chairs and our himsel.£ "Sure, but gosh, it had a knife wound in his right suitcases for tables where we put I really enjoyed the discussions side, as though the assailant had white. Itch was a Nisei. And, we had. They were stimulating doesn't mean to just lay back and too, they came from different our incidentals and pictures. It take it! You have to bear with stabbed him with his left hand did have a window or two which and insightful, and it was quite and roundhoused him with his backgrounds. beneficial to exchange and air some things, sure Life is like looked out at the wall of the solid that It's not a bed of roses ... and lright His assailant or assailants George was born in Harlem, brick buildingjust five feet away. our views. It was like building a were unknown and the police spent his childhood in Cleveland, philosophical stlucture and test you have to accept some things, had no leads. and then, after serving in the All in all, there must have ing it upon one another to ee SID-e. But it' not luck or fate that It seemed Itch had rung George Anny during WW2, bummed been at least 21J-25 people living what stood up, what didn't and deals the hand. Things just don't and Jon's doorbell and co)~ around Los Angeles, finally find there at any given time. At least what to strengthen. Only we happen out. of the blue. There's lapsed. That was about 11 p.rn. ing .his way to Berkeley in the it seemed that way. The people didn't know that at the time. alway a reason, a cau e, and you How he got there, no one seemed mid-'OOs. Jon, on the other hand, were always moving in or out, Most of the time when Itch got to look for it, find it And, too, to know. Itch lived alone, a bach was born in Iowa and spent most and there was a lot of jabbering started a serious discussion, it things don't always stayth same. elor, about two blocks away in a of his life there. After his stint going on, especially when some would evolve slowly and quite The change. All things change. small two-room apartment with a with the Marines in the Pacific, one new came in, It was some casually. But sometimes, he You make it change. You have to nook for a kitchen. When George be ..yent back to Iowa, then to thing like Grand Central Station, would just jump right in, even ('ontinucdonpag 21 20-PACIRC CrTIZEN I Frfdly, Jlnulry 2-9, 1987 JOSEPH HECO AND THE JOSEPH HECO SOCIETY Continued from page 18 got along after he arrived at San such discrimination and asked sul scribbled the application and -States returned home in the U.S.s. The first issue in handwriting Francisco on his second voyage the minister about it told Heco, "Joe, sign here." Heco Niagara At their departure nine was published under the title to America. Heeo explained how The minister replied that it signed his name and his long months earlier, Heeo went to the Shinbun sm on June 28, 1864. he stayed temporarily pn the had always been like that due to pending problem was solved U.S.S. Powhatan to officially After several issues, the title was Frolic, a revenue cutter, until he an agreement with the shogu In this episode, 'Heco as an wish them bon voyage. Deputy changed to Kaigai shinbun, and it found a permanent job. One day nate. Heco asked if the minister American never hesitated to Ambassador Muragaki felt at was printed by woodblock pro the ship departed for San Diego would talk to them about chang state his own mind, but at the . that time that Heeo was an impu cess. In addition to foreign news, on an emergency order. Heeo ing it The minister replied that same time, was never too insis dent Americanized young man it carried the local trade news, was not officially a member of neither he nor the consul could tent or pushy. On their return, Heco greeted current prices for imports and the crew, but he worked as hard do such a thing His resemblance to a Nisei them as a private person The exports and even local advertise as any man in a similar cir- Although Heco did not mention rather than a Japanese-born Issei ambassadors were happy to see ments. It also carried the first cumstance . it in his autobiography, it is sur is best illustrated by his language him and asked him to thank the Japanese translation ofthe bibli Impressed by the way Heeo mised that he also brought up the faculties. He had only two years captain and the officers on their cal creation stoIy, and the history worked, the two lieutenants matter with Harris, from whom of terakoya (temple school) edu behalf for their kindness and at ofthe United States ofAmerica ~ested to the captain that Heeo received the same answer. cation prior to his shipwreck He tention They also asked Heeo to Heeo printed 100 copies of each some renumeration be given This time, however, Heeo had could, therefore, speak and write write several thank you letters to issue for two years. Butthere were Heco after the ship returned to recently returned from Washing the commoner's Japanese with a individuals in the United States only four subscribers, two in the home port. The captain rejeeted ton, where he had received a per limited vocabulary. It was un in their names. first year, and another two in the their suggestion, saying that sonal appointment to the bud likely that he could read and He could have continued to second year. Heeo did not know enough En geted position of interpreter at write the written Japanese, provide useful services like ''It was a strange fact," said glish, and the free meals and bed the Yokohama Consulate from which in those days was in a liter these, had he stayed in the consu Hero in his autobiography (Vol2, were enough for him. William Henry Seward, the sec ary style, nor could he handle the late, but he resigned twice. He p. 00), ''that although the native· Angered by the captain's in retary of state. Heeo was not only sora style, the use of which was had worked for seven months in public were anxious to read the sensitivity, the two officers told the first Japanese American citi mandatory for writing letters and the first period, and for 11 paper, they were afraid, I believe, Heeo to find a job elsewhere as zen, but also the first Japanese documents. months in the second Why did on account of the government and soon as possible, and not to hesi American federal employee. And, An interpreter's job could not he resign? He must have re the law at that time, to subscribe tate to ask for their help if he with his new official status, he be limited to oral translation signed because, being a man of to it or buy it; so I had to give it needed it wanted to eliminate the di.!r Heeo, being the only Japanese integrity, he came to realize that away mostly for their benefit" The consul asked Heeo for the criminatory exchange arrange speaking interpreter, was inevit he was not really qualified for Financially, it was impossible name of the captain ofthe cutter. ment ably asked to handle documents the position of a diplomatic in for Heeo to continue in this way. Heco answered, "A certain insen A short while later, the Amer and letters. It was the pioneering, terpreter, due to his inadequate He closed the newspaper in 1)e. sitive man with the name ofH-." ican minister asked the governor predictionary period of lnterlan knowledge of the Japanese lan cember 100>, and moved to Naga The consul said, ''Now, Joe, of Kanagawa to come to the con guage communication Heeo must guage. saki. He was 29 years old don't speak of him like that H sulate for a conference. Heeo have felt that the Japanese lan Heeo had the talent of a jour In Nagasaki., too, many Japa is my friend and if you dare to served as an interpreter. The guage was a formidable task On nalist and turned his attention to nese came to Heeo for infonna speak of him like that again, rll minister asked the governor why the other hand, Heeo had lived an information service. With his tion about the outside world kick you out from the room" the French and English fleet in America during his formative experience in a business firm in Among them were Takayoshi Ki Heco said that he was sorry and commanders were allowed to ex years, and studied at Calvert Hall San Francisco, he knew that in do and Hirobumi Ito of the that he did not know that the cap change $30 per day, while the School in Baltimore, and St Ig formation such as shipping news, Choshu Clan, who were later tain was the consul's mend Heco American commander was al natius College, the predecessor commodity prices and exchange known as 'the veteran statesmen then asked, ''Don't I have the lowed only $3 per day. of the present University of San rates were indispensable for of the Imperial Restoration of right to express my own opinion?" The governor replied, ''The Francisco. traders and merchants. So he Meiji." ''No, you don't Not in that commanders of French and Eng He also had worked in a cus started a semi-monthly publica In response to their questions, way," said the consul lish fleets are admirals, but the toms office, a bank, and a busi tion in English called Price Cur Heeo explained that in the United At that point, 11. Cmdr. Brooke captain ofyour ship has the rank ness firm in San Francisco, and rent, both times after he resigned States of America, the President, spoke up. ''Mr. Consul, Joe said of commander. That's why." even in the Washington office of from the consulate. the head of state, had a four-year that he was only expressing his The minister, however, rebut Sen William Gwin of California The paper was handwritten at tenn of office, and that he and the own opinion about that captain ted, ''I know that the captain of He shook hands with three pres first, and later it was printed. members of the legislature were Yet, you said that if Joe repeats our ship is a commander, but he idents of the United States - Even the Japan Commercial elected by the people. He told it, you will kick him out Now, is at present the senior officer of Pierce, Buchanan and Lincoln News, an English language news them that he had shaken hands Joe is my friend and I should like the United States Navy in the In nine years, he had not only paper published in Yokohama, with President Lincoln, who be to see you dare to do it" Orient I expect you to treat him mastered English but had grown obtained permission to carry in lieved in the idea that the govern The consul then said that as equally with the senior officers into a fine, educated, promising formation from Heeo's Price Cur ment existed for the people, not his guest, Lt Cmdr. Brooke had of the French and English navies young American man During rent. the people for the government no right to interfere in the mat in the Orient" these years, he had no occasion In 18t)!, on his third trip to They were amazed to know that ter. Brooke countered that the The governor, smiling at the to use Japanese. America, he saw many old mends there existed a countIy across the consul had no right to use such clever logic of the minister, said It must have come to him as a in San Francisco who were eager ocean with such an undreamed language before his guest, but that he would look into the mat shock to realize that his Japanese to hear news about Japan After political system. since he had used it, he (Brooke) ter and correct whatever error proficiency was so inadequate his return, he began sending a Heeo died on Dec. 12, HID, in had a perfeet right to interfere, he might have unintentionally compared to his English. As an monthly newsletter about the cur Tokyo at the age of00 . The follow since it had been addressed to a made intelligent and honest person, he rent events of Japan for circula ing year, Choko, his wife, con friend of his. Then the minister turned to must have been deeply tormented tion among his mends in the Uni structed a grave in the foreign sec At that time, the main course, Heeo and said, ''Heco, why don't by the realization ofhis linguistic ted States. tion of Aoyama Cemetery in a roasted pig's head, was placed you ask the governor about your limitations. Just as Americans were eager Tokyo. They were childless. On in front of the consul As he exchange problem now?" At that time in history, Heeo to have news of Japan, so the the tombstone is inscribed ''SA carved it, he said, ''If any man Heeo was taken back by the was the only American in the en Japanese were hungly about any CRED TO TIfE MEMORY OF dares to interfere with my busi minister's sudden change of the tire world who could speakJapa news of the outside world. While JOSEPH HECO WHO DIED DEC. ness at my table, I would cut his subjeet He replied, ''But Mr. nese. Therefore, if he could bear he was still on the staff of the 1ZI'H 1007 AGED 61 YEARS," and head up like this." Minister, you told me the other with himself, his linguistic ser consulate, a number of Japanese, below in Japanese "JOSEFU At that point, Brooke replied, day that that agreement could vice was good enough to meet the particularly those working in the IIDm NO HAKAfl'ombofJoseph ''Consul Dorr, I accept your chal not be changed." need of the time and was widely office of the governor of Kanaga HeeoJ" lenge. Choose your weapon and ''Never mind," said the minis appreciated. wa, used to visit Heeo. They Heco had a dream that some step outside," and he rose from ter, ''tell the governor your prob Despite all of this, Heeo re wanted to learn English from day after mastering the reading the table lem" signed from his position at the him, to hear from him anything and writing ofJapanese, he might Van Reed and Heeo got up to ''But Mr. Minister," said Heeo, consulate in February 100). About about America and the outside be able to regain his Japanese smooth things over and the con ''1 would like you to take up that a month later, on March 2A, how world. citizenship (Hycnyuki, vol 2~ It is sul confessed that he did not subjeet with the governor." ever, Tairo Naosuke Ii, the chief At that time, a couple of news reported that in his twilight years know how to use a sabre or a The' governor, watching with exeeutive officer of the shogun papers in English were published he practiced calligraphy eva)' pistol Everyone burst into laugh curiosity the discussion between ate, was assassinated outside of in Yokohama for foreign resi evening for one hour. Unfortu ter and the consul said, "Let's the minister and Heeo, asked, the Sakurada Gate ofEdo Castle. dents, but no newspaper in J apa natelv, calligraphy is an rot, and have a drink" ''Mr. Heeo, what are you two di.!r The consul, under the instruc nese had been published for the is not an effeetive m thod fur mas In this episode, Heeo's be cussing?" tion of Minister Harris, immedi Japanese readership. Heeo per tering the reading and writing of havior was typically American Heeo explained his problem, ately summoned Heeo to the con ceived the real need for a J apa Japanese. He died as an Ame" Another example of Heeo's to which the governor replied, sulate. His autobiography does nese newspaper for the Japanese ican citizen before his dream of American behavior is illustrated ''Oh, your exchange! You have not specuy why Harris made this people mast.et'ing the reading and writing by an incident involving the ex not applied before. You have emergency call to Heeo. Probab Heeo, however, could not write ofJapanese was fWfllled, and two . change rate of his salary into been so helpful to us that we ly it was because he wanted to in Japanese FOliunately, he ob years prior to th enactment of Japanese CUITency. would be only happy to approve hear from Heeo the true stoIy be tained the assistance of two edu the naturalization law in Japan The new American minister hind the news, together with a cated Japanese, Ginko Kishida your new exchange rate. Please Joseph Heco left two publica and the consul were exchanging send in your application without "people's voice" regarding the and Kiyoo Honma. As Heeo read assassination, since information seleeted articles ft'Om the newly tions, HyortjUki rI1le StOIy Q[ a their salaries into Japanese cur delay." Shipwreck) (yokohama, 1863, was not available to Henry Heuk arrived American and English rency according to the worth of Heeo translated to the minis woodblock, two vols.) and The American dollars, while Heco's sen, the Dutch interpreter in newspapers in Japanese, Kishida ter what the governor said Then Narrative Q[ a Japayl&'e (Tokyo, exchan&e was based on the worth Edo. at first, and then Honma as his he told the governor that he Maruz n, 1892-95, t~ 0 vols.). Th of Mexican dollars, which was would send in the application On Nov. 9, 1800, the first Japa replacement, put it into literary :lower. Heco was bothered by later. In the meantii'qe, the con- nese delegation to the U~ted Japanese. . Continued on page 11 Friday, Jalllary 2-9,1987 I PACIFIC CITIZEH-21 ICHIRO TANAKA Continued &om page 18 make it change. There's a word George answered it I heard him nephews with their birthdays had compassion and the gift of being. They should have kept the in Japanese, on, obligation, re say, ''Yes, he's here. Oh, I see. All and birth cities. empathy. Quietly, he had mold that made him" sponsibility. You have the obliga right, rll tell him Thank you." Tucking the notebook under realized the essence ofhis being, Thinking back now, I agree tion, the responsibili1¥, to do He put the phone down and my arm, I asked George and Jon his oneness. He was unique. with Jon Itch was not just a something. You owe it to yourself looked at me. But I already lmew to help me look for other things Earlier, on the way to the hos model minority or a model to do something." what he was going to say. Itch I should take with me for safe pital, I had asked George and Jon had died keeping. about Itch being a "model minor American He was more. If any Itch was off to the races, ram thing, he was a model human bling, sometimes chaotically, The hospital wanted me to Driving home after visiting the ity." It was a tenn being bandied come right over and make some hospital and dropping George about in recent years, which I felt being. A human being to emu hardly catching any breath. Once late. They should have kept the ;arrangements, so I decided to go and Jon off, I thought about Itch was divisive and condescending, he was on a roll, you couldn't stop mold that made him hlin, not even with a truck -over to Itch's apartment first, to and his life. I tried to imagine even though it was meant, ''Besides, there is Mstanding See what information I could what kind of life he had I recalled perhaps, to be co·mplimentary. I As I turned onto the freeway, still," he went on 'Things are al find, especially regarding his again the Detroit years, the dis was curious to see how they I looked at the old qjuzu I had ways changing, constantly. You next of kin George had a set of cussions we used to have, and all would respond found in Itch's dresser. I remem got to face it Doing nothing is keys so the three ofus went over. the things George and Jon had George replied, ''Yeah, I guess bered the story he had told me doing something. It's doing no Itch's apartment was similar to told me. Down through the years, so. I never gave it a thought To years ago. Looking through it, I thing! The question is: Is it help George and Jon's, but smaller. It I had met many interesting and me, he was a great guy, a great saw the distant peak ofMt Tamal ing or is it making it worse? was a Spartan apartment, clean memorable people, but never one friend" pais rising high across the bay "Lord, grant me the serenity to and sparse, with a minimum of like him He was so concerned, Jon agreed, expanding it a bit and the white clouds blooming accept the things I cannot furniture. There was a potted so involved, so intense. He had ''Yeah, he was that all right But in the clear blue sky. I was flying change, the courage to change plant near the front window, and reached out and touched so many he was more than just that Ifany with the seagulls and felt the soft the- things I can and the wisdom although I had expected to see people. His address book, the un thing, he was a model human ness of the wind to lmow the difference. Some a picture or painting on at least finished letter to theo congress wise man said that A saint, I one of the walls, there was none. man, the ojuzu, how George and think. And, it's true. It's the cour On a card-table desk, there was Jon felt about him, what he had. age to change the things you can a battered old typewriter. It had done. He was the very incarna that makes the difference!" an unfinished letter to a con tion of his discussions. He lived JOSEPH HECO SOCIETY ----- He lost me for awhile, he was gressman still inside of it In the what he thought He was what he Continued &om page 20 going so fast I didn't really follow bedroom, there were a lot of thought He was extraordinary. him, not right away, but there books, mostly paperback non-fic Some might say he was a was a connection tion, and several loose-leaf dreamer, or an idealist But he latter title was reprinted by Caucasians. Of the 22 Japanese Itch continued ''Rounding us notebooks. They were sitting on was not He used to say, ''Dream American~apanese Publishing Americans, 13 live in Japan, one up and putting us in concentra an impoverished bookshelf made ers who merely dream are better Association (San Francisco) in in Hawaii, and eight in the main tion camps, that's wrong! Without of wood planks and bricks. It dead They should strive to make llfi>. land United States. charges, without due process? suggested a transient sort of life. their dreams reality, not just sit It is largely due to Chikamori's The year 1987 marks the ses That's wrong Relocation cen Other than that, there was nothing around dreaming" He also said labor of love that Heco was quicentennial ofHeco's birth. In ters? Ha! It's a concentration unusual or exceptional ''Descartes said 'I think, there brought back from historical ob celebration of this event, it is camp! Look at the barbed wires, I found an address book next fore I am' I say, I dream, there livion. Chikamori and his wife hoped that many Americans, the searchlights, the watchtow to the telephone in the front room fore I am striving to make those traveled twice to the United whether they are ofJapanese an ers, the soldiers and their guns. It was not an ordinary address dreams reality." As for idealists, States, visiting the places histor cestry or not, join the Joseph Hal For our protection? Ha! book, but a regular loose-leaf Itch used to exclaim, ''Idealists, ically associated with Heco, Heco Society in supporting its Look at the way they're pointing notebook with the word "Addres true idealists, long-lasting checking with archives, libraries, worthy cause. All of them They're pointing in ses" on its cover. Leafmg through idealists are in reality, realists! and historical associations. He is There are three methods of ward. At us! And military neces it, I was amazed at all the names They have to be. Otherwise, they the author of Joseju Hiko (fokyo, sending money to the society. sity. Ha! That's the biggest joke that were listed. There must have have to prostitute their ideals in Yoshikawa Kobunkan, 19m, new One is to send a personal check of all It's prejudice, discrimina been hundreds of names, maybe order to exist" edition 1006), Jinhutsu Nihart. The drawback of this method is tion, out and out No question thousands. The book was well or He had a lot to say about a lot ShinlJun Shi. (fokyo, Jinbutsu that a bank in Japan charges ap about itr' ganized, not only alphabetically, of things, including religion And Orai Sha, H170), Joseju Hiko proximately $14 for handling a He was fired up. Listening to but also by cities, organizations he was quite a religious person, (fokyo, Japanese Britarmica, check The other method is to him, I remembered getting caught and topics, all neatly sectioned although not in the traditional Hm), and Christian Joseju Hiko buy an international postal up in it I thought he was going In the front, which was untitled, sense. One of the most interest (fokyo, Amurita Shobo, 1005). He money order at any Unite<;l to go on But for some reason, he there was a list of names which ing things he said about religion is the president of the Joseph States post office. The handling suddenly changed Something I took to be that of close or im was, ''Why not a religious in Heco Society, and the editor of charge is $2 per money order up snagged in his mind Perhaps it mediate friends and family. I terpretation of history? We have its organ, Joseju Hiko Kirumkai Shi to $700. The handling charge in was a remembrance ofsomething; found my name, but glancing an economic interpretation, a (Bulletin of the Joseph Hero Soci a Japanese post office is about a precipitation of something that through the list, I became dis political interpretation. Why not ety). Heco's The Harrative of a ¥2 50 per $1. A payer's name and had floated and h~d finally set heartened I didn't lmOW which a religious interpretation? All Japanese was translated into address and the society's name tled in his mind ones were his relatives. The endeavors of mankind are essen Japanese by Professors Tsutomu and address (J osefu Hiko Kinen ''You lmow, just before 1 left names were all unfamiliar ann tially religious. They are based Nakagawa and Osamu Yamagu kai, 1-10-13 Hattori Yutaka-cl1o, camp, my father gave me some there was not one Tanaka. on 'Who am I?' and 'Why am I chi, both members of the society, Toyonaka 561, Japan) must be thing," he said quietly. "An old We decided to split up and look here?' and 'For what purpose?' under the title AmeriJal Hikozo written or typed on the money ajuzu." He searched in his suit around George took the front And, those are all religious ques Jiden (Autobiography of American order before mailing it to the s0- case, found it and showed it to room and Jon and I took the bed tions, so why not a religious in Hikozo), (fokyo, Heibonsha, 1964, ciety. An overseas airmail stamp me. "'It's an old one as you can room and the closet As I finished terpretation of history?" And he 2 vols.). costs 44 cents. see," he said ''I think his father rummaging through the dresser used to leave it hanging there. The purpose of the Joseph Those who do not wish to go gave it to him Being in camp, without finding anything except Like a challenge. Heco Society, according to its to the post office to purchase that's all he had But that wasn't an old qjuzu with a lmot in it, Itch was a thinker and a doer. bylaws, is to maintain penna money orders may end their the reason he gave it to me. He George joined us. Jon found some And, too, he was a visionary. nently the tomb of Heco in the personal checks for $15, payable laid it on the box we used for a banded shoe boxes, but they only Perhaps it was this that made Aoyama Cemetery, to hold an to the Joseph Heco Society table and asked me, 'What do you contained dated check stubs and him so intense. He saw things be nual graveside memorial ser American Committee, to the see?' And I said the usual, obvi old paycheck statements. Suit fore they happened. At least vices, and to memorialize him as committee, 1Z721 Robindale ous religious ~ But he said, cases were not much help either. that's what people said And he the father of Japanese newspa Drive, Rockville, Md. ~ The 'No, what do you actually see?' We were getting discouraged. couldn't understand why other pers and a cultural benefactor to committee will forward con "So I said, 'The box, the grain But I lmew there had to be some people couldn't see what he saw. Japan The society collects mate tributions to the society in Japan. of the wood, and part of the box thing which contained the vital Yet, when people called him a rials pertaining to Heco, engages and send membership cards. label on it, as well as the qjuiu.' information Itch was too well or visionary and said he saw things in research, and publishes the The American committee was 'Then he said, 'Bring it close ganized not to have kept a family that weren't there yet, he just bulletin recently formed to serve as a to you, to your face, to your eyes. recoro somewhere. laughed and said, ''Yeah, I know. The society has officers who liaison between the society and Now what do you see?' Of course It was in one of the loose-leaf There's a place for people like serve without salary. The ex people living in the United I saw the room and all the things notebooks on the bookshelf Neat that It's got bars and padded penses of the society are paid States. The committee is com in it, and I told him so. Then he ly typed, but somewhat yellow walls." And he let it go at that from the interest of the endow posed of the following members: said, 'Keep the qjuzu close to you, with age, was a listing of his fam He could have been a social ment fund and other donations. Frank S. Baba (chair), Nasuo always,' and without explaining ily. As I read it, I was saddened activist, a very active social ac The capital of the endowment Hashiguchi (treasurer), Key K it fluther, my father said, 'Keep It listed his wife, who had died tivist, except that he was more of fund cannot be expended Any Kobayashi (secretaIy), Andrew in mind, we are all like circles, A son, who had died And a daugh an evolutionist by temperament one who contributes ¥1,(XX) a Y. Kuroda, Yoshio Sakaue (vice like the ajuzu. If we shrink it, we ter, who had died Curiously, they than a revolutionist He was sort share (or as many shares one chair), Katsuyo L Takeshita, and become a dot If we expand it, were all1i,sted as having died on of laid back in personality, quiet cares to donate) to the endow Chiyoko Yoshihashi we become the universe. We be the same day. Looking further, a and unpretentious. He shunned ment fund becomes a member Heco's gJ.llve i within easy come one with it' Then he gave brother was listed with a nota the limelight, preferring a low of the society. For those who live walking distance from the Gaien it to me." tion: Died, Italy, 442. Another profile. But he worked hard. He in the United states, $10 (about mae station of the Ginza subway I remember Itch was silent for brother, noted: Died, Iwojima, was like a swan gliding on a pond ¥1,5(0) seems to be appropriate line. The address is Aoyama a long time after he told me that MIS. A sister ... There it was! with his feet, unseen, constantly for a share in the endowment Reien (Cemetery), No. 32, 2- But then, so was L His sister was listed with her in motion He made a difference. fund. chome, Minami Aoyama, Minato Reliving the past was wann manied name, maiden name, ad He was dedicated and had the The society has about 500 ku, Tokyo 1<17. Directions to th and nostalgic, but it was rudely dress and phone number, along drive and the commitment to go members. 22 of whom are Japa grave can be obtained at th interrupted by a phone call with two niece's. and two along with it And, above all, he nese Americans and two who are cemetery offic at th no-ance. 22- PACIAC CITIZEN I Friday, January 2-9, 1987 JACL I California Blue Shield' Health Plan HEALTH COMMITTEE: John Yasumoto, chair; Dr. Jim Yamaguchi, v.-chair; Kikuo Nakahata, treas. 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(702) 882-0121 PRIVATE ISLAND MONTAZAH TABARKA Delta Farm Land Outside Fl toll-free (800) 327-7050 . 66 acres, near Vancouver. 3 homes. 3.000 acres excellent lor cotton, rice and MEXICO Sell-trade. The newest holiday resort soybeans. Also, catfish ponds in produc tion.Call: CENTRAL ILLINOIS Call: (619) 329-9992 in the Mediterranean Interested In having your prockJct manufactured or as (601) 887-3514, 94-Space Mobile Home Park sembled In low labor cost Mexico? established Mexican Price: $600,000 CF 887-3888,887-1470 manufacturer HSS cutting tools & fractional HP electric We are a subsidiary 01 a development on 20 acres, includes 17 rental homes, all in motors is IookQIlor US partner lor joint venture "In bank in Tunisia (STUSID). We are 01- top conditon on city water & sewer. Located bond" in Mexico lor export to USA . Space & equipment AUSTIN, TEXAS Superb Hudson Riverfront BY OWNER in NW central Illinois. $706,000. 9% available. Contact H. Young. Box 476, Lafllyette, fering investment opportunities in a 6 rm alr·cond modern condo . Upper Nvack, NY. 40 min $150,000 assumable loan. Balance cash CA M549 (415) 832-2827 RANCH FOR SALE to New York City. In palatial mansion in 4Y,·ae park. 3 BR furmshed house on 118 acres ; 7 producing brand new holiday resort CClmprising Huge terr, mag ViewS. 2 BAl new Euro kitchen, 2 Irplcs. PrinCipals only. (309) 853-8407 oil wells; 30 miles SE of Austin, off paved highway. grand piano . FuIiV equippeo . All sportS-boat moorings. Opel YIIIr .... Inncll 01III:I aI Trlftl IIIIIICY in or Excellent lor game hunting; 4 tanks stocked with over 10,000 beds in different categories For sale or rent, lUXUriOUsly lurnlshed . S540,OOO. lish. 54,200 p/acre. Serious inquirelS call: Montana Gold Mines outside 01 california. PaclliUe includes reservation (deluxe villas, hotels, apart-hotels, etc.), (212) 838-5310, (914) 353-3223. FOR SALE BY OWNER computer. Previous experislce prelerrable. From (512) 478-9498 lor details. TLX: MELUP UNATIONS 82731 NY. and a programme 01 touristic entertain 50% interest il operating placer gold mine. Over 52,000. (213) 4134402. $1,000,000 in equipment. PalBnted claims with heavy Trlftl AIIacv seeks lull or part time bilingual Buy Real Estate-No Money Down ment including a 27-hole goll course, TEXAS gold reselV8S estimated to be ilexcess 01 $15,000,000. (English/Japanese) to work in sales or operation depart Price: $1,700,000 . For additional information call ments. $6IHr. 7days. (213)413-0402. No clOSing costs. Income producing rental prop marina and much more, including In 1,011 ACRES erty In Texas, Florida, Colorado. Investor gets 90 ml NWof AusUn , TX . 4 s10ck tanks, 2 windmills , one Charlie or Gloria at (408) 923-7411 wnteoff, no cash outlay lor 1 yr. Buy houses, du ternational Airport. plexes, or some very large deals available with 5-ae lake (stocked). v, minerals , natural gas, public TITANIC experienced management. Contact: We also have apartments within the water. Excellent grazing . Good deer and turkey. Priced MISSOURI GMI HOLDING, INC., 4144 N. Central Exprswv, to sell. Owner financing . Call Brooks Atwood , It sank, we won't! I! Su~e 1222, Dallas, TX 75204; (214) 826-9925 marina and plots lor villas overlooking day: (512) 752-3266, night: (512) 752-3143 Truck Plaza / Mini Mart Fastest growing boat company in U.S. the sea. FOR SALE on 1-44 surrounded by indUS1riaJ park on investment may be ripe for development. Excellent location for motel, I Outstandin~eturn FLORIDA FRANCE expected. ri9.U,- investors 01 $250K + FOR FURTHER INFORMATION restaurant and RV park, etc. Hi traffic count, a only. all t615) 729-4203 Provence steal al $875,000. Terms. Condominium and/or Marina on direct or joint venture, (314) 364-8949 Project ready lor Immediate development. Last FOR SALE BY OWNER NEAR SALON large tract available on Fort MyelS Bead!, FL. please contact: 30km Aix, 30 km Marseilles Airport, 5 km NORTH DAKOTA ATTN. INVESTORS Call Mr. Crane or Mr. Bonneau FOR SALE BY OWNER access to Paris-Nice Highway, luxurious CALIFORNIA (800) 237-\3342 Montazah Tabarka villa, total surface 210 sq/m on 2nd floor. 5 FOR LEASE OR SALE. Historic The Fabulous Monte Carlo CENTURY 21 I AAIM REALTY GROUP,INC. 66 Rue Mouaouia BDRM, 3 BA, 60 sq/m marble lloor recep pierce Arrow Bldg., convenient Polk/Geary cor ner. approx 40,000 sq It plus basement; 2 modem CASINO NIGHT CLUB Ibnou Abi Solyane, tion w/large marble terrace, 3-car garage, MIAMI, FL AIRPORT passenger elevatolS, air-rond'd throughout, large A stellar offering, Fargo, NO. Gall collect Cite des Ambassades, large swimming pool, in 10,000 sq/m park attractive lobby. Call owner at (218) 741-3464, Gino, or write 401 South HOTEL / MOTEL EI Menzah VII, 1004 Tunis, with pine trees, Bldg permit lor a 200 sq/m (415)261-7500 X248. Mr. Seymour. 38 St., Fargo, NO 58103. Brokers inquiries invited. 75 rooms, completely remodeled '84-'85, Tunisia house. 3,000,000 Irancs. Tel.: 90551230, excellent condition With superb Italian res Telex 440685 or write: CALIFORNIA taurant. Approx 2 acres. 5 min to airport. NEW YORK CITY Tel.: 239.777 Telex: 15268MONTA Simonot, Route de Lambesc, 13330 Investment: Chance of Lifetimel $3.5 million. Prime Office Building (305) 276-2163 or (305) 884-3517 Pelissanne, France ContractOlS services. S60,OOO 33 stories, 475,000 sq ft under master $100,000 to expand 7-yr-old business. new con REAL ESTATE FOR SALE lease. Anr.Jal income $6.8 million, priced oepIs and maJketing program, retum 01 30%-35% ·$92 million. Also hotels and other prime in 12 to 18 months glllranteed. Call Ed. 2 Membership Campgrounds for Sale German Rock House F~r~~ch Riviera near Cannes properties available. Call or write: (714) 523-1310 Completed lacilities at both resorts . 60 acres, 1-million HORSES An extraordirery residence, uni!lue in the world, people in Mall Universe within 100 miles. $30 .00 75-acre horse ranch with 2-story German masterpiece 0( future archiecture. l00-m above Steve Birbach Average Client cost 2". average mail pull . Possible to rock home, guest house, and 9-stall horse sea-level. Exoeptional vi_overlooklng the whole BIRBACH & ASSOCIATES UNIQUE GIFT assume receivable financing. 800 totai members now. barn, located 35 miles Irom Kerrville and bay of Cannes. Ideal res for a large l.mly, int'l 120 West31st, New York, NY 10001 $15-20 million to Iell to sell. Fredericksburg, Ironts FM 385. Ideal lor ' company or loundation. Price 40 million French Product. $1.5 miUion In orders since Oculber. Al Call Bill at (615) 436-3392. training horses. Owner anxious to sell. Iranes. nx 340207 or call: 93 75 46 12 TELEX # : 6973404 CONTI ready in major stores and novelty shops, demand Call or write. exceeds capital. Need investors desperately. • Prfncipals ort-j. Call Danny or Patty, Monday OKLAHOMA AABERG & ASSOCIATES REALTORS,INC. Orange, Texas TEXAS Friday. (213)516-0166 For sale: 1,320 Acres 508 Jefferson St, Kerrville, TX 78028 Office Bldg. or (213) 859-5711 Osage County ranch land between Skiatook and Birch (512) 257-2100 For sale before January 1. Rental property. $475,000 invest. $9,260 month present in TRIPLE NET LEASED AM TENANT lakes. II has V. miles 01 county roads. $400 p/acre . Day 100% leased, approx. 33,000 sq It ExcetIert come. Selling due to illness. phone (918) 396-2894 . Nigiltphone (918) 396-2762. ARIZONA R.O.C. Downtown Price $4.5 r11I1Uon. Pp (409) 883-2183 or area Beauty Supply House H.R. COLLIER, 644 N. Quapaw, 40 Acres of Land (409)8~ in HAWAII Skiatook, OK 74070 By Owner (214) 258-0330 with 2 beauty salons located In shopping FOR SALE FOR A REGIONAL SHOPPING CENTER IN SHOW LOW, AZ. centres. Will sell separately. Gall owner, TEXAS Paul, anytime (808)239-5181 orwrite French Hotel Firm Major tenants ready. Site work is in prog Can you move fast to buy right? Box 1164, Kaneohe, HI 96944. Specializing In the hotel management and investment ress, To be built in 1987. Marketability Take Advantage of Hundreds of great new opportunities in Oallas! field seeks financing or partners to buy hotels in Paris. analysis and other pertinent data available. Houston's Oil Dilemma Fort Worth fNery month. Call David Matthews, Good investment and retum, good resale value. No CASCADES II, INC. HIGH OUAUTY OFFICE BUILDING risks, amenity advantages. Contact: P. JUGEAT, P.O. Box 11469 Prestigious location in downlown. Tenants: DSM Company Inc., Insurance Company Commercial-Industrial Realtors FOR SALE 35 Rue Jules Michele! , 60140 Uancourt, Phoenix, AZ85061-11469 BrookS Brott'eIS, a barW<, exclusive clW. others. France . TeL 44 73 54 60 (602) 898-9036 479,151 NRA-5O% leased. 4.n% current retum (817) 332-5550 Holding company whose wholly-owned on cash price of $44 sq/ft. subsidiary is an Insurance company char Other offICe buildings available. TENNESSEE tered to sell lile, health and accident Miami Garden Apartment WEEMS & CO. INC 11-Travel coverage. To be sold 10:00 a.m .. Sun seeker~tlre w/dlonlty and a htt1e something to Timber and Develop Rrst City Tower, # 1410, 1001 Fannin St., Jan 16, 1987, at do . Buy our lully rented ~ bldg, 16,uRlt garden apts in 100-2500 acres total of 10,000 acres. 19-mlllion Houston, TX 77002 (713) 658-0442 Miami Beach Art Deco dishiel. A few blocks Irom 811 S. Central Expressway, 2d Floor, bd It hardwood tlmber + 85,000 cords chipwood. VACATION RENTALS ocean , park w/tennis courts and conv ctr Low dn 25 miles of Satum, 45 ml SW NashVille. RaHlron· ARIZONA Richardson, TX 75080. payment, to maintenance, . and po sl~ve cash lIow Prime vacation timeshares. worldwide. tage. near 1-40. Water & gas. $550 p/ac. (615) Finest resorts, suites, apartments available Craig Barnes - (214) 235-1201 Asking S425 ,OOO , pnnClpals only Call Owner 833-9248. NUNN REALTY, 895 Edmondson I nvestors/ Entrepreneurs 10 am-5 pm (718) 845-2620 or eves (516) 239-3599 Pike, Brentwood, TN 37027 Estabhshed PhoenIX, AZ. real estate developer from owner. Call for Iree directory. and bUilder seeking IOvestor/partnelS to caprtal (800) 624-2391 TEXAS KENTUCKY TEXAS tze new developmenlS, Will consider JOint ven- (305) 561-0400 (Florida) INVESTORS By Executrix of Estate Bosque County Hill Country tures. Marquis Developmen~ 727 Acre Farm . Approx 300 acres OhiO River bottom (602) 375-0210 High-tech award-winning robotic lawn land . Great duck and deer hunbng. Well-knOVoTl fishing 1214 beautiful, heavily wooded acres teem 'PC' Advertisers Look mower patented. Coming to market spring lake. 2,380 sq It equipment shed, 2,400 sq It shop; ing With deer and wild turkey. Ranch house, Part interest lor 4,200 sq It stock bam ; 4 Butler gra n bins. 3-yr-01d THE RIGHT TIME TO BUY IN FRANCE '88. sale. manager's quarters. Lakes & morel Forward to Serving You home can be sold with larm. Located In Smithland, KY, Don't Get Left Out! (713) 438-6926, anytime UVlngston County (502) 928-2936 $1 ,090 p/acre. Owner financing available. CIS. CAP FERRA T-lovely small Villa, periect con 1------ditIon, 5 bdrm, 3 ba, 1000 sq/m flat garden wI NEVADA CONNECTICUT CLIFFORD R. ALLEN pool. 3,500,000 /ranes. IIIhnIfIT IPPUTI flY OPPORTUNITY BEAULlEu-IJnique. "Belle Epoque" town $2,000,000 (Maximum) (817) 772-2337 house to be res10red. 10 rms, 520 sq/m IMng Su*rtptIon of TOWN OF space + 260 sq/m oulbidg living space. Pano Minimum to purchase Nevada licensed thrift Old Lyme, CT ramic view, garden, 8,000,000 /ranes. 2 Unlta at $5,000 HCh company. Many advantages NEW HAMPSHIRE EXCLUSIVE AGENT: AGENCE BOVIS both investment and tax-wise. "Point OWoods" EQUESTRIAN ESTATES B.P. 63-{)6310, Beaulieu. France ~ ~ROHAR • Concord vicinity, t700 colonial on 55 acres, with 3 Tel: 93 01 0036 FOR INFORMATION Private beach association barns, 38stails, l2Ox70 Indoor riding arena, $675,000. IIE:NTURE: FUND INC. Large beautiful summer home on bluff with • Manadnock region 1700 col on 325 ac on the base 01 Call: R. BEACH beautiful view of Long Island Sound. 8 Mt. Manadnock region, also Includes l20xEQ riding ~~r~~t~~O~~~t~~ ~~~l(N~ I ~li rooms, 1112 baths, lireplcice, enclosed porch ' area+bam w/a total 01 28 stalls, Indoor kennels, car purchue IhatM In .wo.tar Cor (702) 329-3900 with attached expansive deck, with view of riage shed, $1,500,000 . All TYPES OF poratlon which will manufacture and market an Innovati .. ultra Plum Island and Orient POint, N.Y., 8 miles • Lakes region, 1700's cape, 355 acres, w/55x48 STORE DISPLAY FIXTURES Maht alRnft known .. the W.T.-12 distant. barns , 2-story gambrel garage, helicopter hanger, w/ Uquldatlon SalesH All PrIces ReducedH Montoon (one 01 three pIaMa In movable landing pad, completeeQulpment list, Slocked CALIFORNIA Showcase , racks, shelves, counters, cubes, etc. 1M world !NIt can~ be put Into a Private boat dock, 2-car garage, lrontage trout brook, own priv ski slope, $950,000 . New and used. Also terms availab e lor entire eplnJ. The W.T.-1 2It dNIgnad ~ Central San Jacinto Vallev 125 leet on water and approx 7,800 sq ft 01 HEPPLE WHITE REALEST ATE, (603) 472-2260 stock. 643 W. Broadway, Long Beach nwtIy for agr1cuIturaI crop ..,. FOR SALE BY OWNER-USDA Kosher Slaugh land. (213) 436-7293 ter House, v.tlolesale & I1Itaii. Family operated. ~~~~~~ Two homes on 3 acres Irduded, 4 BR and 2 BR GREAT BRITAIN Imperial Store Fixtures ~1~~theW . T~ respectively. Prioe: 5459,000 negotiable lor cash. $775,000. LONDON KNIGHTSBRIDGE pma .. organlz.attons~ ~ Ask lor JACK of countrl .. Including Kenya, Principals only. CADOGAN SQUARE Kuwait. India, Plkl.tln, Brazil, (209) 485-2782, (209) 673-3749 Splendid, unusually spacious 4 BDRM, 2 BA,long AualraIta and Italy. Owner offered, lease lIat, newly & Imaginatively modemlzed, "-lUrea: .3O% \ICC Tax 0-.cIt massive storage space, 2 garden patios, use 01 • ~ Federal Share PurcIIUe Tax Square Gardens, leMls courts, C8l11teker. 0-.cIt Two Attractive (203) 658-0582 or (203) 527-4226 .Invular Prer.rentlal ~ £375,000. Tel: 730 1632. ~I • Blnk Prima Financing Option North Coast Wineries Available FOR SALE Breckenridie MIAMI, FLORIDA TEXAS For _ "Iom\etlon '* to,..... One located Mendocino County with 20 acres 01 & Vall • copy 01 fhI 0IIetttg ~ vineyard, home! and 20,000 case capacity User/Investor Bargain Hunters / Investors FREI:. ,... call or ""'" II>: winery. • One ocaled Napa County with 30 24,500 sq ft office building, Listed lor 2890 acres 01 Texas Hill Country. This Medina VACATION acres 01 vineyard. large home, and 20,000+ $1,300,000. Reduced to $950,000. No County Rand! Is Ioeded with trophV bucks, wild P[;\NNER AEAOSTAR VENTURE FUND INC. turkey, dove and quail. Prced right today's mar Box110 case capacity winery . Contact: money down or trade, Assume 8% mort IlQO-525-11583 P.O. ke!. Financing available. TIM BROWN, Broker, S7K 3K1 PAUL SPITLER, gage+huge tax savings. Discounts lor or Saskatoon, Sask., Canada (512) 257-6900 or (512) 257-2063 \306) 664-3704 V & E Consulting & Management Co, cash offers. Call owner, (305) 948-e603 800-525-3S11:! (707) 944-2815 This Advertisement is not to be construed CALIFORNIA FOR SALE ARKANSAS ,Va/mnol Rp\en'vllun\ Nl!lu ~-Tom Furukawa '" 14-Akio J Mochi2Uki Life-AlCred Nitta 22-George K Goi 23-Dr Joo K~ e23-Eddle Moriguchi. S-RobertSOOda LIFE-Kenjl Murata 24-YoshioBob~amada ~e-FrankSato ~Eugene Noddlara e26-Ge0rJ(e Hamai :D-George T SufowO ZoBarry MoriSUta LiteJohn K Yarnaguchi" UfeJune N Sato 2>Kunio 0Iaw :D-Seiko Rare ~: ~e-DaIeMo~ 23-Mary Sutow LIFEaarenoe I Nishiru 21-M Lincnln Yamaguchi ~~9JiromaO 17·Helen Otow 32-Dr Akio u •• _ ..., I.Walaru MIsaka ~e-Frances l\bioka e2O-Tomiko Sutow LIFE-Henry Nishiru Lite-TerukoTYamaguchi S-Toku M~ ~,,~._ eZ7.EdwardA'H;;aW ~imi MitsI.tnaRa Lite-Tamotsu Murayama I·Masako M Suzuki l3.James E SeiweJ 13-T Ted Yoneda 24-Mil