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December 16,1983 Pacific Citizen ( 45¢ Postpaid) News 'JRn The National Publication of the Japanese American Citizens League ISSN : 003().8579/ Whole No. 2,269/ Vol. 97 No. 25 Stand ~
Supreme Court to rule if labor laws IN ANOTHER CASE ... protect illegal immigrants Justice Dept. opposes affirmative action WASIllNGTON - When the rather than American work• for Detroit Blacks in Supreme Court brief eleven workers at Sure-Tan, ers, because the aliens would a small leather-tanning com• henceforth be afraid of WASHINGTON - The Rea• favor "affirmative action" pany in QUcago, voted to join choosing union representa• gan Administration for the measures that bring in more the Amalgamated Meatcut• tion." /I flrst time argued Dec. 2 be• minority group applicants ters and Butcher Workmen's fore the U.S. Supreme Court for jobs, such as targeted union in 1976, its president, that afflllIlative action plans advertismg. They object to ·John Surak, sent a letter to Reagan refuses are unconstitutional if they giving any race preference in Immigration and Naturaliza• include explicit racial quotas hiring am promoting deci-. tion Service as~ it to to reappoint Smith for employees. sions. check on their immIgration to rights panel Papers were fIled by the status. Most of the workers U.S. Department of Justice Past Court Decisions were Mexican nationals. in the case of the Detroit p0- The Justice Dept. said the TheUNSarrestedfiveofthe WASIllNGTON - President lice department, which vol• Reagan dropped former na• Detroit case differs from the workers as illegal immi• untarily adopted a plan in two major Su{>,reme Court de• grants, and they agreed to tional GOP Chair Mary Lou• 1974 to hire and promote ise Smith from the Commis• cisions regarding affirmative reave the country. But a fed• Blacks and Whites ill equal sion on Civil Ri~ts, White action handed down in the eral appeals court decided numbers. White officers late 19708. that Surak wrote the INS to House officials said, because challenF,e the plan. ~an believes that Smith In the 1978 Allan Bakke sto,p his employees from The oJ ustice Dept. centers has Decome an advocate of case, the court struck down UDlOnizing-an unfair labor its arIDlITlent around the 14th the quota system for admis• practice--:.aoo ordered the busing and quotas and cannot Amen Community-wide' testimonial in L.A. George Imai to sit on Canadian panel Hasegawa decorated with Japanese Order honors Justice John F. Aiso OTTAWA - George Kiyoshi Cultural Organizations of ST. LOUIS-George K. Hase• ifornia and bas resided in presid~nt lo~-time By HENRY MORI Imai of Toronto has been aIr Canada, and in 1981 gawa, JACLer, was St. Louis since the mid-1940s. pointed to the Canadian Hu• of the Japanese Canadian awarded the Fifth Class of the An engineer, he is executive LOS ANGELES - The illustrious career of Justice John F. Business and Professional Order of the Sacred Treasure Aiso, who became the fIrst mainland Japanese American to man RWlts Commission, vice 'president of Horner & announceO Mark MacGuigan, Assn.-(1be New Canadi~) by the Government of Japan Shifrm. gain a municipal court judgeship in 1953, then a superior court Minister ofJustice and Attor• for his distinguished contri• Hasegawa served for many bench in 1957, as well as his inspirational military life, was ney General of Canada. Nikkei landscapers butions toward the prom --- People in the.News Jj 75' Soviet threat alters Japan's American and Japanese police officials 'romantic pacifism' to defense probe yakuza role in international crime Mayor finds job problem. It's when you're ex• peeted to do something with HONOLULU-Japan-Iearning a hard lesson from its "ro• HONOLULU-Japanese and American law enforcement offi• is 'head-slapping' no~ that's hard." mantic paciflsm"-is becoming more conScious of the threat cials convened at Ilikai Hotel Nov. 29 for a three-day meeting He gave no indication as to of Soviet military forces in the Far East, an Asian affairs on how to combat international organized crime. whetlier he would for any LllIUE, Hawaii - Kauai run specialist said. Approximately 125 law personnel attended, including some mayor Tony Kunimura for office next year. But he sug• M~tro- gested he Still feels there's "One may expect a steadily increasing defense effort on the 20 officials from the Japanese National Poice, Tokyo months oow has professed part of Japan, perhaps in spite of rather persistent and clumsy politan Police and seven refectural police forces. . some~ less than joy work to be done, and he wants about being mayor. !O fmish it. /I :pressure from the United States," said Ardath W. Burks, pro• County police departments in Hawaii, san- Yrancisco and He says be's not even sure fessor emeritus of .Asian studies at Rutgers Univ. in New Los Angeles also sent representatives. All have been con• he wants to run for a second Hiroshima cites Jersey. cerned for a number of years about increasing cooperation term. In remarks made at the Nov. 15 luncheon, sponsored by the between Japanese and American organized crime. His 20 years in the state Honolulu mayor Pacific and Asian Affairs CoWlCil and the Educational Foun• Yakuza have been active in Hawaii and, to a lesser extent, House of Representatives dations of the Univ. of Hawaii, Burks cautioned against on the West Coast, for a number of years. metmry. He' TOKYO--In appreciation for are a fond their contributions to the "gung-ho American" encouragement of a stronger Japanese wouldn't mind being back defense role. Harold Ezell of Immigration anf) Naturalization Services there. "Sometimes I wish I well-being of the atomic• bombed Hiroshima in 1945, "It does not pay to put a metronome on the Japanese pace," told conference participants that yakuza proflts from illegal was someplace else. I've said activities "are flnancing investments in the United States and that before and I'll say it the Hiroshima Municipal Of• he said. "IfI were (Defense) Secretary (Casper) Weinberger, ~ain. I never lie. I say how I ffice has honored three for• I'd just subside for a while. If you pressure too hard, you're expansion of illegal activities in California's major Asian feel " he said. eigners with citizenship. going to get exactly the opposite effect. " American communities." # Might he run for a House The honorees are Floyd' Japan has become increasingly aware of increased Soviet seat again? "That's a possi• Schmoe, an American writer seapower in the Pacific and the presence of S8-20 missiles in bility. I haven't decided. I'm residing in the state of Wash• BOSTON------~n; Herbert Schmal• the Soviet Far East. not being coy. But I've got 14 " I have faith in the pragmatic Japanese, who have, I think, Contimled from Front Page ,months left (as mayor) and stieg, 40, mayor of Hanover; and Ellen R. Anderson, 55, learned the lesson of extreme, romantic militarism and are campaign for either City Council or School Committee as a I'm going to do the best job I now learning the equally difficult lesson of extreme, romantic know how." mayor of Honolulu. district candidate." When he first ran for public Schmoe, cited for his, paciflsm," he said. # dedication to the reconstruc• Members of the Caucus see Asian participation in the law• office back in the 1950s, Kuni• suit to be significant in several ways. " [Weare] working with mura said, he claimed tion of the devastated metro• to polis, collected donations o Community Concerns people from the Black Political Task Force and Latino PAC. want only one term. He said through "House of Hiroshi• There's never been a formal mechanism in the minority com• be had walked many picket SAN FRANCISCO-The Evelyn and Walter Haas, Jr. Fund has granted lines and had helped m the ma" campaign in America, $25,000 to the Japanese Cultural and Community Center or NcwtIterD munities with all these groups to work together on this kind of and returned in 1948 to con• ILWU's organizational bat• California, to be applied toward construction. The building fund DOW an issue. People have formed coalitions around other kinds of tinue the project. During his tles. He'd been accused, he totals more than $780 ,000. specific issues like housing, but not specifically aroUIXi polit• said, "of being a Bolshevik" five-year stay Schmoe built ical participation. And that's exciting," Lee said. 20 residential homes and one LOS ANGELES -Asian Americao Drug Abuse Program is holding Michael Liu, an individual plaintiff, believes that, " It's and "I only wanted to clear civic hall. my name." He's been in pub• their annual mochitsuki fund-raiser on Dec. 27 and 28, 5318 So. Cren• important for changing the atmosphere as far as political SclunalstiegandAnderson shaw Blvd. Fresh mochi can be ordered at a donation of $2 per pound. lic office ever since. were made honorary citizens activity and the role of Chinese within this city . .. . 'f.bere's a Advance orders are encouraged. South Bay residents may pick up their large percentage of immigrants and there's a lot of feeling When Kunimura decided to for their efforts to establish orders at the Nakaoka Community Center Dec. 28-29. Contact May siste r ~ity that this really isn't their country. This is also [a concept] run for mayor, he ~ed on ties between their Goya at 293-6284 to place your order and arrange for pick up. shaking things up a little, but own cities and Hiroshima. promoted by outside society, that this isn't their country and The Freedom of Hiroshima LOS ANGELES-Asian AmericaoDrug Abuse Program, Ioc. received that we don't have as much a right to participate as other not on running into crisis, he two $500 grants from the ARCO FCUldation as part of th~ corporation's said. " I expected to straight• committeP. has already con• people." ferred on seven foreigners, volunteer support, it was announced. The agency thanked ARGO em• en things out under normal ployees AD1oDio (Tony) Freire-Alvarez, AADAP board member, and Daniel Lam, former coordinator of the Asian Political Cau• conditions. " including Nor man Cousins, cus, described its goals as increasing Asian particpation in 71 , of Connecticut, who Eliot Omiya for securing the grants. The ARCO Foundation bas also But there was Hurricane been belpful in supporting the agency's renovation project. The funds electoral politics and ensuring that government officials re• Iwa. The refmancing of the helped an atom bomb victim, a girl, undergo plastic sur• will be used to rent space in the Asian Community Service Center in spond to the concerns of Asian Americans. # county debt had left him with Gardena for an outstation. big interest payments. The gery in the U.S. /I federal government was DENVER-Mayor Federico Pena declared the week of Nov. 6 through angry about the county's fail• Skating pair wins 12 as Japan Week. Programs sponsored by the Uolv. or Denver Ceotel' ure to perform millions of world championship for Teaching International Relations and the Consulate Geoeral 01 dollars of work on two sewer Japan in San Francisco featured films, seminars, pboto exhibits and Remember ~stems , and threatened to PLEASANTON, Ca. - John workshops dealing with Japan's culture and trade relations. bill the county for the money Arishita and his partner already spent. Tammy Jerue finished flrst " You know what kind of in the World Artistic Roller JACCC to present Oshogatsu shows April IS! mayor I've been the first six Skating Olampionships held months? Janitor! Kick guys' Oct. 19-21 in Fort Worth, LOS ANGELES-The second Oshogatsu Festival, under the ass. Slap the head," he said in Texas. sponsorship of the Japanese American Cultural and Commu• an interview to The Honolulu Arishita, a junior at Foot• nity Center, 244 S San Pedro St., begins Sunday, Dec. 18, 3 The Japanese American Cultural Advertiser's Kauaibureau hill High School , recalled, p.m., at the Doizaki Gallery, with an opening reception and and Community Center needs one more correspordent. "Working "We were skating with the program. best in the world." 1/ push to put its 1983 Capital Fund Drive long hours bas never been my An exhibition of new year pastime articles, children's Artists Witt, Kondo-Weigl exhibits games, kimonos and other objects associated with the holiday over the top. Lighten your income tax is set. In the South Gallery, some of the rare photos from the burden next April 15 by contributing to draw warm comments from critic newly released book, "Little Tokyo: 100 Years in Pictures," produced by Visual Communications and the Little Tokyo the J.A.C.C.G, duly recognized by the PORTSMOUTH, Va. - Nar• lery, Butler Art Institute in Centennial Committee, will be shown. I. R. S. as a non-profit, charitable organi• rative art works by Jack Witt Youngstown, Ohio, and Women's In conunemoration of Little Tokyo's lOOth birthday next and Jean Kondo-Weigl were Interart Center in New York City. zation for tax deduction purposes. on view Sept. 13 to Oct. 23 at Her work is included in numer• year, community "oldtimers" will reminisce about their Portsmouth Community Arts ous private collections and she Oshogatsu experience. Speakers include Rei Kasama, Roy Center. Witt is a sculptor and has had commissions from the Kita and F lora Kumamoto. A panel discussion will be Conoibutions must be dated before draftsman from Richmond. Univ. of Arkansas Little Rock Op• moderated by members of the Japanese American Historical Kondo-Weigl, paintin~ in• era Theatre, Ohio Bldg. Authority Society. December 31,1983, aM received within Fine Arts Commission, American structor at Old DominIon, isl On Dec. 28, Children's Day (7-12 years old) will be observed a r asonable time thereafter. Thank you also datWrter of George Kon• Standard Co., of Elyria, Ohio, and others. # ' between 10a.m. and 3 p.m ., featuring a special program in the for your support! do, NCW'N-P regional direc• Japan America Theatre. Participants include Brenda Aoki tor. ------ruT ALONG THIS LINE .------Kondo-Wiegl is one of the Asian artists featured from San Francisco's Theatre of Yugen; June Kuramoto, area's strongest painters, re• Johnny Mori and George Abe (koto, taiko and shakuhachi ported art critic Teresa An• in 1984 calendar musicians); and dancer Sumako Azuma II. Actress Saachiko Yes, I would like to help preserve and pro• nas, in the Daily Break, Va., SAN FRANCISCO - Japan• will be master of ceremonies. mote our Japanese American heritage by do- Pilot. town Art and Media Work• Reservations are necessary for the morningl afternoon "Weigl's pictorial structure shop, a ~rofit arts organ• event, according to JACCC's Chris Iwanaga, 628-2725. nating $ to the JACCC. is a triumpb of simple lines, ization, has produced a 1984 ~ Bod idiosyncratic calendar as a t'wxl-raiser. Local corrununity talent will gather for the KotDhajime program at NAME ______coloration reminiscent of Featured artists are Wes the JACCC Plaza program on Jan. 2, 1 p.m ., marking the beginning of (Please pnnt clearly) some Japanese art. As a Ja• Senzaki, Ron Sugiyama, the centennial observance. Rev. Isao Goto of Gardena Konko Church ADDRE~ ______panese American, that is Rich Tokeshi, Mitsu Yashi• will conduct the Shinto ritual. Weigl's rightful inheritance," ma, Jim Dong, Zand Gee, Da• The Los Angeles Kytxio Kai and the Nanka laHio Renmei Kai, the she commented. vid Leong and Stephanie schools of archery and fencing, will formally greet the new year, fol• cnY__ _ _ ~ S TAT~E ___~Z~ w ____ _ The Sansei artist has a BA Lowe. lowed by Beikoku Shodo Kenkyukai's calligraphy demonstration, and in art from ScripP-l College in The $8 calendars, offset in serving of traditional tea by the Omotesenke Dornonkai. TELEPHONE ( Claremont, Calif.] an MA black and white, have a hand• Sumako Amma II, Rokumine Hanayagi and Hisami Wakayagi, ac• from Oberlin; ana an MFA printed silkscreen cover de• companied by nagautamusiclans/vocallsts; Yajuro Kineya IX, Kichi• from the Univ, of Utah, Salt si~ed by Debi Shimamoto saburo Kineya and Jyorokusho Kineya will present Japanese classical Please make checks payabl to: I. A. C. C. C. Lake City. She has a long cre• and WesAoki. program, with guest artist Junosuke Nishikawa. dit of gallery exhibits: Checks should be made Sankyoku Gasso will be perfonned by Hodo Yamaguchi, Ichiho Mail to: J.A. e.e.e. Univ. of Arkansas Union Gal• pa~able to JAM Workshop Yamauchi, Ikuko Yuge and Seishi Kagawa . Taiko drumming by the lery, Univ. of Utah Showcase Gal• an(f sent to 1852 Sutter St., Kinnara Taiko (Senshin Buddhist ChJrch) concludes the day. 244 South San Pedro Street, Room 505 lery, Utah Museum of Fine Arts, San Francisco, CA 94115. " Cross-Rhythms/From Kabuki to J azz: Master Percussionist Los Angeles, CA. ~12 Cleveland Museum of Art, State Mail orders should add $l.50 Katada Kisaku in Concert" on Saturday, Jan. l. , 7:30 p.m., in the JAT, Univ. of New Hampshire Art Gal- for postage and handling. /I concludes the four-week festivities. fI 4--PACIFIC anZEN I Friday, December 16, 1983 ...... --Leffe~ ...... ·1 SOLID EAST WIND: by Bill Marutani BASE? • JACL's Ignorance ed by inaccurate representa• Shinkansen: tion at that. ... " "Futatsu no I was a bit disappointed Sokoku" is a novel. How can when I read Bill H(9)kawa's a novel "be flawed by errors" 'New Trunk Line' piece about "Futatsu no So• or represent something inac• koku." He says, "While curately? Aboard the "Shinkal1sen" defending Ms. Yamasaki's Floyd and Ron were re• FROM TOKYO sTATION to H1l-0- ~ to write as she pleases, cently here in Japan to get a It 18 also necessary to express flrst-hand view of things so shima-eki via the "Hikaru" is a 5-- to. concern about the impact of they can have a better pic• 5lh-hour trip. The time differeree de• her work OIl popular under• ture of what JACL can do to pends on whether one catches the standing of Japanese Ameri• foster better U.S. -Japan rela• ~( u~ train that departs Tokyo on the hour cans boUt in Japan and this tions. If their obserVation is (faster) or the ones that depart between the hours country." He admits he has typical of their comments on not read "Futatsu no Sok~ "Futatsu no Sokoku," which (slower) every ten-fifteen minutes or so. If one cannot ku," but goes on to tell read• they have never read, and board one train, simply arrange to be aboard any num• ers of tl)e Pacific Citizen they only parrot an opinion of ber of the succeeding runs. If you're making a trip of about the novel from a piece someone who doesn't appear more than a couple hours, we recommend reserved . he read in the Far Eastern to know what Yamasaki's seats on the "green car": more spacious, comfortable Economic Review by William novel is all about, JACL had Wetherall. better forget about getting in• and quiet. You are assigned to specific seats in a speci• I have read Wetherall's re• volved in the problem of U.S.• fied car. Our car was No. 11; so we stood on the platform view and his observation Japan relations. by a sign with the corresponding munber and sure about the novel certainly isn't TEDSHIGENO enough the train stopped with car No. 11 right in front. worth repeating as he has Tokyo WE RECOMMEND THE "green car" because there missed completely what Ya• masaki tried to do in her can be hordes of energetic upper-school students in the novel. • Mermership Idea other cars and, polite as they may be, they "takeover." What worries me greatly is You want more new mem• Playing cards-both "poker" and hana-break out· that Bill as well as Floyd Shi• bers? Why don't you have mah-jongboards (in miniature) appear; andhand-held momura and Ron Wakaba• your PC paper in Japanese video games preoccupy those not engaged in group ac• yashi have been taken in by and accept the new Japanese tivities. There is much laughter, joshing, dashing off to somethil'l2 they have read or peovle moving into our coun• heard in Japan without actu• try? They, like our fathers the statioo food kiosks-risking being left behind ally trying to find out for and mothers who first came since the train strictly observes tw~minute stops. themselveS about what they to America, really need help. THERE ARE VENDORS on the train passing up and are ~ the JACL mem• So JACL is to help all who down the aisles, hawking (in gentle tones) bento, ice bers back m the U.S. need help. Ri2bt? That's one. I would like to point out that Now, why aon't you make cream, tea, coffee ($1.15 a small cup), canned and "Futatsu DO Sokoku" is a our dues all the same? Need chilled mikan juice (delicious), and various regional novel and not a historic doc• answers. omiyage for friends at your destination. On the advice ument. Bill re~ts Wether• FUMIO YOSlllDA that "eki bento" usually is better than those available all's words-"flawed by er• Gardena, Ca. on the train, after reviewing those realistic-looking rors which suggest her lack of intimacy with the subject The PC would like to hear samples at Tokyo Station, we laid in provisions. (For matter"-and then goes on to more ~ts ideas on how those wl¥> may be making this trip, we wish to inform say "the novel and the up• membership might be in• you that there's a shoku-ten in the lower level of the coming TV movies put Japa-.. creased. At a proper time af• station.) nese Americans in the un• ter some study, we shall try SOME PASSING OBSERVATIONS of the so-called comfortable position of hav• to answer some of the ques• B~et ing their experience exploit- tions being posed.-GM/Op. Trains. Toilet: the old-fashioned "squat" type, so limber up. No paper toWels, so make preparations accor~ly. Conductor: surely the world's most polite; where else would a conductor doff his cap, bow, Keeping Track introduce himself by name . . . before collecting tick• ets? Wash basins: fine-but a public ' yugai ' cup, not History falsified to win relocation pay for us, thanks. Cleaning lady makes at least hourly nms, usually before-after lunch period, to receive empty " bento bako," cans, wrappers, mikan peels, etc. By KIYOAKIMURATA After each station stop, there are running announce• Asabi Sbimbuo.• Aug. 18, 1983 the evacuation began in early vinced that Japanese armed Japanese sentiment generat• 1942. I had arrived in the forces might even invade the ed by Pearl Harbor, how• ments of arrival times to each statioo down the line• The recent attempt to por• United States in 1941 on a West Coast. ever, many of these states oJ>. , sagaru," the opposite direction consistently enough, tray the World War II reloca• student visa, six months be• jected to the influx of new• being referred to as " noboru." It suddenly dawned on tion of persons of Japanese U.S. Army Apprehensive comers whose loyalty was fore Pearl Harbor. Less than In such an event, first-gen• us that these two simple kanji characters each have descent as a travestY. of jus• a year later I was being evac• considered suspect. In the tice requiring $1 billion in eration Japanese residents, spring of 1942, the Army was fourreadingsorpronWlciations: sagaru, shita shima uated as an enemy alien. who were legally barred com~nsatioil is a falsifica• Since I personally experi• forced to resort to group re• and ka; noboru, ue, agaru and ko. tion of history. from naturalization, were ex• location, and camps were set IT IS IJTTLE wonder we have a dickens of a time enced the resettlement, I pected to remain loyal to This February, the Com• wish to correct some basic up in remote areas of states sorting out the writing. # mission on Wartime Reloca• misunderstandings about it. their fatherland. The U.S. in the interior. tion and Internment of Civili• Army was also a{>prehensive ans found that the forced mi• First, the term "concen• about the loyalties of their Employment Service survivors of relocation be gration of Japanese and Ja• tration camp"; which is American-born offspring, By early 1943, the authori• paid compensation totalling tifled Japanese Americans p'anese Amencans was due to sometimes USe FROM THE FRYING PAN: by Bill Hosokawa Gu~t's Comer. Nisei Dave ltami, Dedicated Patriot Testimonials By JAMES S. ODA he was awarded the Legion of tion and enlisted his services was a cowardly act on the Dave Akira ltami, the real Merit. . toward the allied victory. He part of Keiji Machida to life model for the fictional In pre-war days he worked was to the best of my know• carry out character assassi• Denver leading character in Toyoko for tlie Japanese Embassy in ledge the most capable 1in• nationonIUwW,ademcated Yamasaki's novel "Two WashingtOn, D.C. Later he guist. Needless to say, his patriot. Min Yasui is to be honored by Den• Fatherlands," was a senior became the ed.itor-in-chief of service for America was im• verites ata testimooial next March in instructor at the MIS lan• the Kashu Mainichi (Japa• measurable. It is not an exag• To make matters worse, appreciamn for his many years of guage school. He .was so nese section). He was at that geration to say that his ac• the Toho Movie Company an• eager to serve his country time a controversial figure complishments were a big nOUDced production of a . j dedicated service as director of the that he resigned from his lu• openly supporting the cause plus for America am a major movie based on Macbida's , I Denver Commission on Community crative civilian job, joine9 the of the Japanese militarists in set-back for military Japan. version. Fearful of the conse• Relations. army and voTunteered to ·the Far East. It is entirely The Japanese militarists quences of such an undertak• The word "dedicated" in the previous sentence is serve overseas. In the post• ~ible that he was coerced never forgave him for his ing upon the thousands of properly used. It takes an of dedication to war period he became a mto doing this by his employ• "switch ofallegiance" . oilier Nisei soldiers who intense sort senior monitor in the Far er. At any rate, with the out• served in WWII, Toshiro Hi• take on-1he kind of job Min did. He bad to cope, for more East War Crime Tribunal. break: of the war he complete• In the Jan. 4, 1965 issue of raide, then Gardena JACL hours than anyone should work, with citizens whose For his outstanding service ly reversed his political posi- Shukan Bunshun, a leading Chapter president and Koicbi zealotry for their causes made them less than reason• Japanese weekly magazine, Shibuya, president of the So. able. He had to bring warring factions together, over• Keeping Track a pre-war Japanese army Calif. MIS Club, took upon come finnly held prejudices, pound sense and an under• colonel named Keiji Machida themselves to forestall its conceived a sensational fair production. They succeeded standing ofreality into skulls that were virtually imper• Iricated story that suggested by enlisting the support of the vious to reason. Many times when passions ran high in Article on relocation ltami's true sympathy was National JACL and Toshiro the community he faced down violence with a rare sort .ded with the Japanese militarists Shimanouchi, then consul of courage. One-Sl , wrong while playing both ends of the general in Los Angeles and '~ game; that he did his best as later Japan's ambassador to So it is fitting that now that Min has retired following Kiyoaki Murata's article ~ to th~ ~ncan every_ a monitor to protect and pro- the U.N. a change in the city administration, the testimooial be in tbe Daytoo Joumal morrung ill class. urata mote the interest of the Ja- =n:~: pro~ ~t; held and the proceeds be cmtributed to another cause aDd this could not re.I.ate to _ panese war crime defend- Fifteen years had. passed We up believmg we ts d that h fmall of which he is a principal. That would be the coram grew ~ when Toyoko Yamasaki ap• were protected by the Bill of an .. e y com- peared on the scene to gather nobis litigation in which Min, along with Gordon Hira• By PFl'E HIRONAKA Rights. What did Murata be- lll:ltte4 ~Clde on the day Daytoo Journal Herald, w~ materials on the same sub• bayashi Fred Korematsu, are seeking to overturn lieve in? Thousands of Nisei liIdeki TOJo hang.ed. am Oct7:l,1J83 ·· armed c It must be UDeQ.U!vocally ject. Koicbi Shibuya raised their convictions for violating discriminatory wartime e nlisted m ~ lorces stated that ltami's JOb as the violent objection to h. er nov• orders directed at Japanese Americam. Your decision to run the to prove. thel1' loyalty, ~ monitor at the tribunal was to el's title ''Two Fatherlands". Litigation is costly. Many attorneys have contributed huge spread on theop ed page manY~aid the supreme pnce accurately correct any mis- I also met her and conveyed S:~!fi 30 entitled "History defen the stars and . . our feelings as Japanese their time to the effort which, already, has l~ to the stripes. e heroics of the representation, that rrught f. . ed to win relocation occ~ Americans. federal government ba~ down in the case of Fred pay" was unfortunate and l00th Battalion and the 442nd haye m the course Combat Team have been well o.f mteryretatIon ~ transl:;t- In all fairness to Toyoko Korematsu. It is important, in the name of justice and wrong. It denotes thinking bon. Tliis was to msure a farr Yamasaki, I must say she the long view of history, to pursue these cases to a completely coUnter to other doc~en. ted Onl y recenU y trial for the defendants who changed her original concept pieces you have run on your was It rev~~ that more were being tried in a lan• considerably. While some successful conclusion. So the effort to raise money for pages previously. th~ 6,000 Nl;5el G~ fou~t ~ge fo~ to them By so portions of her novel are still Min's suit is a commendable one. . The bold headline con• agamst TOlO'S IDlperial . th · · ugh , objectionable to Japanese cludes that historical docu• forces in the Pacific theater. omg.e es so t to ~re- Murata stated that the ate an unage ~at the tri~u Americans, she made an in• But this didn't start out as a column about Min Yasui, ments and testiIrlony were depth presentation of the Commission on Wartime Re- naI, wa:; not slffiply the VlC• as much as he deserves one. Incidentally, the new Den• faked in order to get redress Nisei's dilemma during the compensation for the Ameri• location and Internment of tor s trial over the defeated. ver city administration is much more sensitive about Civilians I'e{M>rt, ''Personal Therefore the ~ce of th~ war. cans of Japanese ancestry We must be aware that human rights than the previous one was when Min Justice Denied" was one- whole matte~ IS that ltami who were incarcerated in ~rformE!(j.!Jis ~ Japan is DOW flooded with joined it. The column was intended as a commentary on U.S. concentration camps sided, incomplete am unfair. ~ as ex• anti-Nisei, anti-occupation the way J~ Americans week after week in vari• during World War ll. That Did he hear any of the testi- peeted of him, he per• literature. Comparatively mony from more than 750 f~rm~ excellently. No other ous parts ofthe cOtmtry are scheduling testimonials for conclusion is incorrect, and I ~d speaking, "Two Father• challenge the writer, Kiyoaki witnesses? Did he make any lingwst have done as lands" must be regarded as their peers. effort to read the commis- well as he~ ; . ,. Murata, who wrote the ~lation presenting a view point fav• These testimonials say three things: They, mostly article. sion's 467-page report? As to ltami s ill orable to Japanese Ameri• Nisei bemuse they've been around 10l~er, have accom• Murata, a fore~er who There were no alterations respo~ to TOlO'S ~eath , ~ . there IS no doubt that this was cans. Only the title is mis• plishments worthy of being recognized. The Japanese was given perInlSSion by o f histor ical. lacts to g~ a co~lete fabrication The leading am objectionable. American communities are prosperous enough to sup• Tojo's government to study com~on. As an Amen- .. in . our American schools, can who spent three years in reco shows that '.l'0]0 w~ port these testimmials. And the money raised through a U.S. concentration camp, I hang~ pec: 23, 1948, while James Oda is tbe autbor of could not remotely feel the "Heroic strvggIes of Japaoese the events goes to help further broad community pro• impact to the internment as rebut Kiyoaki Murata's con- ltami died ill Decem,ber. of Americans" . grams. we American citizens did. He clusions, It was unfortunate 1950. The whole fabrIcation was an enemy alien. We were that this warped dissertation Not long' ago I had the privilege of taking part in a American citizens from the was given such prominence . testimonial in Los Angeles for Mas Kawaguchi who bas day we were born. We Nisei and space in The Journal done very well with Fishking, a seafood processing grew up pledging allegiance Herald. II company. Kawaguchi was being honored for the fact that he and his wife, Mitsuko, have shared their good fortune with scores of causes through a benevOlent Medicare Supplement Insurance foundation. II. NEW CAR LOANS The direct beneficiaries f1 the testimonial were the Boy Scouts, whose ideas are more needed now than MEN and WOMEN-Ages 64 and Over ever. &me 700 persons pail $100 apiece to attend the banquet That's a lot of money, but the community sup• ported the functim without an extraordinary amount of • Helps pay your ME.DICAL EXPENSES IN EXCESS OF arm-twisting. THE AMOUNT APPROVED BY MEDICARE. • Offered by an A+ Excellent Company It's great that Japanese Americans, so soon after the (United American Insurance Co., MAXC) economic and spiritual devastation of the Evacuation, • GUARANTEED RENEWABLE for life, subject to have been able to create the wherewithal to support company's right to change rates. good community causes. It's great that they are recog• • Pays your medicare initial hospital deductible, nizing their responsibility to do it. II, and co-Insurance beginning the 61 st day. • Pays for your private room costs. • Pays for blood charges. • PAYS 100% OF YOUR HOSPITAL EXPENSE AFTER BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY MEDICARE RUNS OUT. U(As now available Newer Authentic Jaoanese Restaurant • You choose your own doctor and hospital. Located in modem mall complex.l:.xcel- • Current monthly premium Is $45 for all ages. Now over $5. 5 million in assets lent access and ample parking. Close downtown with high traffic count. Sake, FOR FUR11-lER INFORMATION, CALL OR WRITE NATIONAL JACL beer and wine license. Individual rooms, 100 'seating. Excellent posslbi!ities for SEICHI (SAGE) SUGINO CREDIT UNION growth. Presently under Caucasian man- Sugino-Mamiya Insurance Agency PO Box 1721 agement. $125,000, terms. Salt Lake City, Utah 84110 Contact Wakasugl 16418 S, Western Ave., Suite A, Gardena, CA 90247 Tel ph ne (801) 355-8040 Blackaby Real Estate LA. Phone: (213) nO-4473 P.O. Box 280, Ontario, OR 97914 Gardena Phone: (213) 538-5808 / 329-8542 &---PACIFIC CITIZEN I Friday, December 16, 1983 JACL Chapter Redress --PC Calendar of Events-- -1184- • JAN. 28 (s..day) Pledges for FYl984 St LcJuis..-.blt dnr, Mandarin Hoose; • JAN. 4 (WfIIIItiday) Henry Tanaka, sPa'. FY 191M Goal to be rajsed ..••...... $ UIi,OOO ~ JACIApooaored events are prefaced with name of &be JACL unit West Valley-Bd mtg, Clubhouse, Sequoia---lmt dnr, King Res'!, Received: Oct. I, llm-Nov. 30, 1983 ...... 21,835 7'~ Los Altos, 6 :~; Wendy ~uda, apia; (chapter, c6strict, national) in boIdrace. Social atrairs of Nikkei com• Rsvp 494-7862. listed • JAN.' (Mmday) The final FY1983 chapter redress pledge summary appears in the munity/cluch groups are as a community service. Where fees/ San ~ festival • FEB. 4 (Salunlar) reservatiom are involved, an "info" contact is refJrlred. Items sbould be Nov. 11 PC. As of Oct. 1, the balances have been turned back to zero to mtg, BudlfhmCh, 7pm; iDfi:lf61-3851 Fremoa&.-Washingtoo TownshIp I So submiUed in writing to the PC CaleDiar editor. • JAN. U (PtiDday) Alameda Crunty fOOl RetmDn, Holiday show recent amounts received by National Headquarters. (Some of the San Francisa>--Donad Keme lecture 00 \ Inn, 321m Alvaram.NiIes Rd, Unioo City, amounts received, apparenUy, were intended fortbe FYI983 report, but • DEC. 17 (Salunlay) chiya ~ dancer.l, mochJtsuki, 'East and West in oovel At Rose Hills one visit offers the convenience of a modern Walkers mortuary. beautiful flower Delight shop-and thoughtful. professional counselors who . understand a family's needs and budget. Rose Hills has served families with ------fi:'l HENRY YAMADA, INC .~--- dignity. understanding and L:!.J Creators of Rne Jewelry care for more than a 330 East 2nd Street quarter of a century. Uttle Tokyo. Callfomia 90012 Care-and convenience. 213/628-7865 (Telephone orders) Please send: TOTAL: ...... 10,1124 81 ,fOO 9,347 -MANUALLY ARRIED Name desired ______:-- ______PORTABLE TAND CHAPTERS~RY:PAC~CSOUTHWESTDISTRICT -LIGHTWEIGHT ALUMINUM So much more ... R~iar Special f Red~~ Special _ 2cl8racters$ 7'S,59 $ 61.20 _ $-99:5& 79.00 Chapter Memb Pldl Rec'd Cba2ter Memb PId& Rec'd -LIGHTEST TAND ON costs no more _ 3 characters $ 99.5ti $ 79.60 _ $'tS9:5(T $111 .60 THE MARKET Arizona .••.....•...335 2.512 Pan Asian ...... 177 1.327 _ 4 characters $116:59 $ 93.20_ _ ~ $125,:20 Carson ...... 1011 817 Pasadena" ...... 135 1,012 ONLY 80z. 01 full cut diamond (.04 pt to above $39.50 reg. $31 .60 special. Coachella Valley ....109 817 Prog. Westside ...... 25 187 (SIZes shoM'Ial1l apprmomale.) DowntDwn L.A...... 188 1,410 Riverside ...... 143 I,m -NO BENDING. FOR LUBS East Los Angeles .. ..662 4,965 San Diego ...... 482 3,615 OR BALL ROSE All items come with attractive gift bo . Check enclosed (CA rasidents add 6~% sales t8X~ Gardena Valley .....871 6,532 San Fernando Vly ...345 2.587 -KEEP BAG DRY o Gtr L.A. Singles ...... San Gabriel Valley . .194 I,~ Please add $2.50 for shipping/insurance. P~na -PICKS UP BALLS Charge my 0 Visa 0 Mastercard Greater ....31 232 San Luis Obispo ...... 83 622 HILLS Card;; ______Hollywood ...... 2211 1,717 Santa Barbara ...... 119 1112 200 . - - - _. ------..:- Bank II ______Exp. dat ...e ___ Imperial Valley ...... tt Santa Marla ...... 86 645 GOlf BAG STAND 330 MORTUARY Name ______Las Vegas ...... 40 300 Selanoco ...... 354 2.11i.'i CH "************, F.remont Chapter Mayor proclaims 'San Diego JACL Day' ate resolutions and mementos in 1983 HI Boxscore citing the chapter's golden to hold 50th reunion 1882 TOTALS jubilee. Display Ads ...... 7,329" By BARRY HONDA and evacuation was legal or bers by National Director One-Une GreetJnQS . . . . • ...... 81 1 Assemblyman Larry Sterling UNION CITY, Ca.-Fremont SAN DIEGO, Ca.-Mayor that it was possible to justify Ron Wakabayashi. In that in• JACL·HI Project ...... •.... 20 uflita ~er Hedgecock bad p~ incarceration of Americans (71th Dist.) noted the chapter was JACL's 50 reunion will be 1883 DISPLAY ADS terim, he bad been PSWDC one of the oldest exmmg civil . DEC. 10: 7,3941f.z" (100.8%) claImed SUnday, Dec. 4, because of race. held Saturday, Feb. 4, 1984, governor. He was also secre• rights organizations in the at the Holiday Inn, 32083 Alameda ...... 1 68 Pacifica "San Diego JACL Day" in Patel's Decision ~ to the National Board in county. Two' county supervisors Arizona ...... 21 Pasadena ...... 25 the chap• A month ago (Nov. 10) Alvarado-Niles Rd. Arkansas VIy . ... 2 PhlladIWhla ..•••20 commemorating the mid-OOs. were present: Leon Williams Festivities are under way Berkeley ...... 420 Portland ...... 168 ter's 50th anniversary. Irons was present at the U.S. praising JACL's work in protect• Carson ...... 9 Puyallup Valley · •. 84 with a cocktail hQur at 6 p.m., Chicago ...... 84 Reedley ...... 168 Close to 300 attended the in• district crurt in San Francis• President's Roster mg civil rights, and Tom Hamil• ton (in wOO;e district the chapter followed by dinner at 7 p.m. Cincinnati ...... • 6 RellO ...... •.. 6 stallation dinner at Kona Kai co where Judge Marilyn H. Eighteen of the 27 who The reunion committee is Clevelafld ...... 8 Riverside ....•..14 Club that evening to hear Dr. Patel had granted the peti• recenUy dedicated Kiku Gardens, Clovis Sacramento ....168 served as chapter president a senior citizen housing project) working to assemble a roster Columbia Bsn ... 6 Salinas Vly .....336 Peter Irons disCuss the ~ tion of Korematsu for a writ since San Diego JACL was Contra Costa .. 168 Salt Lake ...... 105 lauding the accomplishments and of the former residents of Cortez ...... 12 Sn Diego ...... 336 called Japanese wartime of error coram nobis. It was a chartered in 1933 were on handing the chapter a San Diego Washington Township area Delano ...... 12 Sn FemVly ... 252 cases of World War II, de• most "emotional" event, hand to receive plaques. Detroit...... 19 Sn Francisro ... 168 bicentenrua1 medallion. so that information on the Diablo VIy Sn Jose ...... 168 claring, ''The time has come some Nisei shedding tears, George Ohashi (193&-37) was , Letters were also acknowl• reunion can be forwarded to Downtown LA ...84 Sn L ObIspo to ~e the record that it Irons noted, as the judge the senior honoree. edged from U.S. Rep. Duncan EaslLA ...... 224 Sn Mamo ...... 6 them, announced Judy Kato, Eden Twnshp .. 140 Sanger ...... ••.49 was military necessity' called on the government to Records show Hanako Mo• : Hunter, State Sen. Wadie Deddeh publicity chair. Florin ...... • . . .. 6 Seattle ...... 168 (with reference to WW2 re• clear the record. She de• riyama organized the chap• (40th Disl), Assemblywoman Reservations for the re• Ft Lupton ...... 6 Selanoco .•.....504 moval and detention of per• scribed the Justice Dept.'s ter, but no woman president Lucy Killea (78th Dist. ) and Fowler . . • ...... 6 Selma ...... 84- Assemblyman Peter Chacon union can be made by con• Fremont ..•.....12 Snake River ....382 sODS of Japanese ancestry• statement to vacate the con• has been elected in San Die• Frenclt Camp ... 9 Sonorre County .. 16 (79th Dist). tacting Eileen Tsujimoto at Fresno ...... l68 S po ~ ...... 12~ citizen and resident alien)." viction was actually a "non• go. The roster of presidents 38815 Sobrante St., Fremont, Gardena VIy ... 168 Stoekloo ...... 186 Autborof"Justiceat War: response". She had gone fur• (·-deceased) follows: Again sharing m.c. duties were CA94539. Gtr LA Sgl ...... 4 Trl-Valley ...... 5 two Sansei, Donna Yamaguchi, Hawaii •...... 42 Tulare Cty ...... 31 the Story of the Japanese ther than expected, Irons Cost is $25 per person. A Hollywood .....• 5 Twin Cities ...... 6 1933 - George Obayashi·, American Internment added. public relations officer for San yearbook is planned with Hoosier ...... 6 Ventura ...... 21 19M-Frank Otsuka, 1935-37- Diet;0 TV-39 , and Robert Ito (not Houston ...... 4 Washington. DC .15 Cases" (Oxford University Irons tokl the PC earlier in George OhEbi. 193i-Isamu Fu• of 'Quincy" fame) . The Rev. photos of those atteIxling. Japan ...... 336 Watsonville •..•168 Press, 1983), further lauded the evening he was always Ka~ Pa}'Illent for reservations UIke Washington . 5 West LA ...•...168 jita, 1939-George Obayasbi·, John of San Diego Japa• las Vegas ... " .. 9 West Valley ...•.45 the work of the 15 Sansei at• disturbed by the wartime 1~1samu Fujita, lMl""::'Fred nese Christian Church; Art Nishi• shoUld be made payable to Uv-Merced .... 168 Wilshire ...... 4 torneys and 30 associates, cases as a law student at Katsumata, 1942-Frank H. oka who led in the Pledge; and Fremont JACL by Jan. 17. Marln Cty MarIna ...... 6 CCDC ...... 6 ~eaded by Dale Mina• Harvard. Under documents Otsuka. installing offICer Wakabayashi Those who wish to stay at Marysville ...... 84 EDC ...... 6 mi of Oakland, over the past obtained through the Free• Reactivated Oct. 1946 were p~am principals. Holiday Inn may call (415) Mile-Hi .•.....•.12 Intermountain .....8 year in amassing the data dom of Information Act was 1946-47-Dr. George Hara., This tee hasn't seen the ~2200 for special room Milwaukee ...... 9 Midwest DC ...... 9 1947-Masami Honda, 1~ Monterey Pnsia 168 Min Plain ...... 14 and uncovering Key he convinced that a grievous customary transfer of presiden• rates if they state they are Mt Olympus ...... 6 NCWNPOC .•.•..20 docu• Minoru Sakamoto, 194&-5O-Dr. ~a vel tial power by passing of the withJACL. II New MexlCXl PNWDC .....•...5 ments from government files error had been made. At the George ~, 1951-Masami in a decade, nor the presenting of New York ...... 56 PSWDC ... •.....20 that glaring judicial errors time, he had not known whe• Olympia ...... 4 Honda, 19&-Moto Asakawa, a JACL past president's {lin. No Omaha ...... 56 Ad Dept ...... 455 were conmutted by the U.S. ther Yasui, Hirabayashi or 1953-Paul Hoshi, 1954-Hiomi other JACL unit in the nation can Right time to make Orange Cty .....88 PC OffI(8 ...... 137 gOVernmE!lt in the Yasui, Hi• Korematsu were living. Such Nakamura, 1955 - George say this. II (74 of 114 chaplBrs.) rabayasbi and Korematsu was the pursuit that culmi• Kodama, ~Dr . Tad Imo~ , calls on U.S. reps ONE U NE GREETINGS: 734 (90.5%) cases. nated in writing the book and 1957-Bert Tanaka, 1958--Moto SAN FRANCISCO - Since Boise Valley ... 20 Riverside ....•... 51 Asakawa, ~eMuto . Cincinnati ...... 6 SI Louis ...... 28 Errors bad to do with with• serving as counsel in the Congress has adjourned and Cleveland .....•57 Sn Berito ...... 27 holding or suppressing evi• coram nobis cases. 196O-Hedi Takeshita· 1961- 1984 JACL Officers Cortez ...•.....16 Sta Barbara Jack Matsueda, 196i-Harry will not be back in session Delano ...... 17 Seabrook ...... 27 dence which would have di• (The PC Office is making Kawamoto, 1963-MaIato Asa• SAN DIEGO JACL until mid.J'anuary, this is an Detroit ...... 31 Sonoma Cty .....21 minished the basis of "mili• arrangements with the pulr Gresh-Tr ...... 89 Tulare Cty ...... 10 kawa, 1964-Joe Miyoshi, 1965- Masaaki Hironaka, pres; Ma• opportune time for chapters Milwaukee .... .35 Twin Cities .•.... 67 tary necessity" in the forced lishers to distribute "Justice Tom Yanagihara, 1966-Abe Mu• sato ~a ! vp ; Yachi Kubota! to mitiate congressional con• Mt Olympus ....14 Venice~lver ... 17 removal of Japanese Ameri• at War," '18.~.) kai, 1967-Masaaki Hironaka, sec; Art Nishioka, treas; AkelDl tacts said John Tateishi, Na• Olympia ...... 20 Washington. DC .36 Horiuchi, property; Dr Mitsuo l Pasadena ..... 23 West LA cans from the West Coast in Hironaka, fIrSt elected pre• 1968-!sao Hociye, 1969-Tom tioll8.l Redress Director. Philadelphia West V)J ...... 32 1942, it was pointed out. That sident in 1967, has become a Uda·, 1970-D0n Estes, 1!r11- Tomita, insur; Wendy Shigenaga, Tateishi urged all chapter Placer County ..49 White River VIy .. 33 was the baSis for filing the legend here, carrying out the !sao Horiye, J.972.--Doo Estes, hist; Tets Kashima, memb; Joe Poe-Blackfoot ....8 1973-7&-Vemoo Yoshioka, 1!r16- Nagase, JCC rep; Glerm Tsuida, presidents to send members JAClIHI PROJECT writs of error coram nobis• office cmtinuously since 17~entAi d 84-Masaaki Hlronaka. youth; James Yamate, s ~l ; to the congressional offices in 3-Aedress Fd asking the U.S. Supreme 1976. "I promise to break-in a Robert Ito, Ben Nakata, SOClal; the members' districts and to 1-£1dg Fd 2-Pac CIt Fd Court for a review of the new {)efSOO to carry on," he EveaiDg Program Drake SOOgun , EEOtCivil make sure letters are sent to Thank You All for the three cases, which had de• said m remarks after being Civic dignitaries added to the Rights; Vernon Yoshioka, representatives urging them clared the military curfew sworn in with his board mem- historic occasion with appropri- UP ACt APAAC rep. to co-sponsor HR 4110. II Magnificent Endeavor! KiBUN Masters of good taste Celebrate your New Year the traditional way with the delicious taste of Kibun. Treat your family to Osechi made by the Purchase Osechi at Hughes Market in West masters of good taste, Kibun. Just pick up a LA or: New Meiji Market, Enbun Market, package of the 8 most preferred traditional Ida Shoten, Modem Food Market and other favorites. We have pre-cooked them for you. Japanese groceries. All you do is thaw and serve, with great pride. Remember the tradition. Enjoy your Shogatsu Kibun Products International. Inc. celebration more with Kibun. We hope you will 150 S. Los Robles Ave., Suite 560 celebrate the very happiest of New Years. Pasadena. CA 91101 (213) 681-0726 ...... ,ACIFIC aT1ZEN I FrIday, December 16, 1983 ~~t!tt!ttr#~t!f;f~lltlt~~~~~i~]i~~~~~~;ili;1;~~~;~~~~~~~I~;~JE~~;m~~~t~i~~~~~~~~?li JA~~ Dues Changing: 1983 & 1984 PANEL-. -- - ~ romFralltPllle Membership fees, In most cases, reflect 1983 dues. chair. Those responding show the 1984 dues as posted Since NatIonal has reminded chapters of a mid-bien- with name of the chapter il CAPITAL LETTERS. Renewal ministration for the laxness nium InCf8lLli8, PC has zked chapters by postcard to notices from chapters to members should also indicate in civil rights enforcement of MIDAS ~rt the dues slructure and name of the membership .!!Ie new rate. six key agencies. The com- ' USTED IN CHAPTER CODE ORDER mission found that budget allocatIons to these agenCies . NO. CAUF.-¥I. NEV.-PACIFIC PACIFIC SOUTHWEST have been "inadequate to OPERANDI alleviate longstanding prob• 101 SAN FRANCISCO (132.50-55, "10~reg MilNlanl, 301 WEST LOS ANGELES ($33-80, aS15)-Fred Miyata, , PO 801122425, San FranciIco, CA 94122. 1711 Federal Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90025. lems." Invest in 'Dollars and Have It 102 San ..... (S32, d10015, ,12.50, "10)-Phll Mallu• 302 GARDENA V ALLEY (140082-50, "'S)-Ronald 001, mura, P.O. Box 3566, San Jose. CA 95156. P.O. 80112361, Gardena.CA 90247. 103 SACRMENTO (1S5-4IO, .m, "12~Percy Masaki, 303 ORANGE COUNTY (134-60, "'0)-8etty Oka, 13228 Singled out for particular Working for You in Yen ... 2739 Riverside Blvd. Sacramento, CA 95818. Ferndale Ave, Garden Grov" CA 96244. criticISm was the Justice 104 Sequo" (135-64, ..., Yl2-50)-Or Harry Hatasaka. 304 SAN DEGO (13O-53)-Tetauyo Kashima. 11071 Iron• 3876 Grove Ave, Palo Alto, CA 94303. wood Rd, San Diego, CA 92131 . Dept. 's Civil Rights Division. With Liquidation in Dollars. 105 SAN MATEO (1S5-4IO)..-Grayce Kato, 1636 CeleSle . 305 EAST LOS ANGELES ($31H7)-Michl Obi, 111 St "Irideed, the conunission be• Ave, CA 94402. Albans Ave, South Pasadena, CA 91 030. lieves a wide range of federal 101 CONTRA COSTA (132-55, x125, "11, ,$3)-NatlUko 306 SAN FERNANDO VALLEY ($35-60, Incl IS conlrlb to • lrai. 5961 Mington Blvd, Richmond. CA 94805. Redre.. Fd)-Masao & Hannah Nakazawa, 14236 Mercer civil rights enforcement ef• 107 IIonte.., ...nlnau .. (S2e...52)-David Yamada. P.O. St, Arteta, cA 91331 . forts have been jeopardized 8011 664. Monleray, CA 93940. 307 SELAHOCO(P5-60,"10)-EvelynHankl,12381 Ar:tdy as much by division poliCies ' 101 STOCKTON (S30-55, "25)-Ruby T oobana. 8223 St, Cerritos, CA 90701 . Rannock Dr, Stockton. CA 9521 O. 301 Arlmna (128.75-51.50, tcS50)-Mrs Hataue Mlyauchl, as by recent resource con• 10t SAUNAS V ALLEY (132-55)-Tad lkamoto. 1118 San 8116 N 45th Ave, Glendale, AZ 85302. straints," the report said. Fernando Dr. Salinas, cA 93901 . 309 VENICE-CULVER ($35-80, "'0~rances Kitagawa, 110 WATSONVILLE ($34)-Wally Osato. 105 Bronson SI. 1110 Barkeleyor, Marina del Rey, CA 90291 . Watsonville, CA 95076 310 Downtown LA. (S3-63)-GraC8 Shiba, 3915 S Syc• Commission chair Pendle• Minimum Investment: $15,000 111 Bertlelly (S3O-50, tcS5O, x$20, y$5, "10, an0S5)• amore Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90008. ton criticized the report in a Fumi Nakamura, 709 Spokane, Albany, CA 94706. 311 Hollywood ($32-S7)-Toshlko Oglta, 2017 Ames SI. se~ate ---DETAILS UPON REQUEST-- 112 ALAIIBlA ($30-55, xl2S)-Mrs Tee Yoahlwara, 560 ' Los Angeles. CA 90027. statement. Queens Rd, Alameda, CA 94501 . 312 PAN ASIAN ($31-S7)--Karen Kishi, PO Box 189, Mon· 'The body of the report Dyke Nakamura, Foreign Department 113 EDEN TOWNSHIP (128.50.54.00, "24.50, JS3.25, terey Park, CA 91754. contains little or no empirical "10.75)-John Yamada, 2125 170th Ave., Castro Valley, 313 San GllJrlel Valley (S31.5o.55)-FI.IllI Kiyan, 1423 S CA94546. Sunset, West Covina, CA 91790. data," he stated. "It is filled Yamakichi Securities Co., Ltd. 114 Locil ($35.5H3.50)-Sumiye Okuhara, 724 S Cali• 314 WUahlre ($39.75-73.50)-Allce Nishikawa, 234 S Ox• with the notion of some vague fornia St, Lodi, CA 95240. ford, Los Angeles, CA 90004. 7 Nihonbashi, Kabutocho, 1-chome 115 WEST VALLEY (132-55, .$26)-Jane Miyamoto, 2850 315 PASADENA($33-58,vS6,"13.S0)-AJdkoAbe. 1850N standard about what could be Mark Ave, Santa Clara, CA 95051 . Arroyo Blvd, Pasadena CA. 911 03. achieved witll unlimited re• Chuo-ku, Tokyo, Japan 103 116 lIa",avllle ($30055)-Ray Kyono. 1648 Melanie Lane, 316 South Bay ($35-60)-Ernest Tsujlmoto , 2047 W 1691h sources." Yuba City, CA 95991. PI, Torrance. CA 90504. Cable: YAMASECURE, TOKYO 117 P~r County (~)-oick Nlshinura, 5867 Eureka 317 lIarlna (S2e...S3, _$24, y-Fr.. , ,,'0)-George Kodama, Rd, Roseville, CA 9$678. 13055-4 Mindanao Way. Marina del Rey, CA 90291 . The report looked at the Telephone: (03) 667-7947 118 SONOMA COUNTY ($33-SS)-Dr. Roy Okamoto, 318 Carson (S3G-54)-Ba1ty Hamilton. 21203 Berendo Ave, budgets, staffing and policies 1206 Farmers Lane, Santa Aosa, CA 95405. Torrance. CA 90502. of the Departments of Jus• 119 CORTEZ ($33.75-a.50, vS7.50, "1S)-Eugene Kajl· 319 Santa Barbara ($3S-55)-Relko Uyesaka, 1236 E Dela oka, 12727Cortez Ave,Turlock, CA 95380. Guerra St, Santa Barbara, CA 931 01 . tice; Education, Health and 120 UvlnastDn-llerced (130.55, xl27.50)-June M Kishi, 320 Coac:hela Valley ($35-85, Incl S5 conlrlb -to Re=" Human Services; Housing 12077 WOtive Ave, Livingston, CA 95334. ~"")-Toru Kitahara, 86-600 Ave 72, Thermal , CA 92274. and Urban Development; 121 FREMONT (S33-54~etty Izuno. 41966 Via San 321 SANTAMARIA ($31-67)-Sam Iwamoto, 605 E Chapel SECOND ST. Gabriel, Fnmont, CA 94538. St, Santa Maria, CA 93454. Labor; and the E«ual Em• ______"'""\ ("( _~ .c.. ' __-;::::: = ::::::.;;:;-_ .. 122 FRENat CAIIP (sa.5o.S2)-Fumiko Asano. P.O. 322 VENTURA COUNTY (Mo-&O)-Shlg Yabu , PO Box 231 . ployment Opportunity Com• 80x 56, French Camp, CA 95231 . Camarillo, ~9301 O. NEW LOCATION .... ~~~ PAIOO NC 123 GILROY (S3O-55, vta, dI)-Mr. Mlsao Nllzawa, PO 323 RIVERSIDE ($30.25-65.50, "10,yt2.S0)-Llly Taka mission: # 80111238, GUroy, CA 9!)Q20. 568 Spruce SI. Riverside. CA 92507. ' INTERNATIONAL \ American JAPAN SPRING ADVENTURE ...... April 9 Japanese American Travel Club GRAND EUROPEAN (8 countries) ...... May 24 ./kI. NIKKEI TRAVEL CLUB Travel Club CANADIAN ROCKIES-VICTORIA (8 days) . June 13 A UDiqae Ol1aniution to lene the Japaneee American community by offering (1) extraordinary organized JAPAN SUMMER ADVENTURE ...... June 25 tr.... el barpiaa at memberabip pricel, poerally unavailable on an individual buit, (2) feUowehip SCANDINAVIAN (5 countries-17 days) . . . .. JUly 6 and podwiIl enriched by pvup tranI, and (3) exceptional travel plaJlJling for maimum LOS ANGELES-The con• ALASKA CRUISE (8 days) ...... Aug. 8 enjoyment and multicultural undentandiq. cept is not new in the travel EAST COAST & FOUAGE (10 days) ...... ' OCt. 1 industry but it appears to be JAPAN AUTWMN ADVENTURE ...... Oct. 15 PROGRAMS FOR 1984 within the Nisei ammunity as a 1984-85 program com• FAR EAST (Malaysia/Bangkok/Singapore/Hong Kong/Japan) .• •• Nov. 3 o 'Aprill9-BLUEIAGOON-I0DAYS • 1767.00 prised of 15 toursl cruises A p-and adventlll"fl to the mOlt esotic wands of the South Pacific: Moorea, Bora Bora, and exquieite was announced this past For full information/brochure Tahiti. Fint CIa.. hotm with moet breakfam and dinnera included. week by the Los Angeles• . based Japanese American o May12-l1EX1CAN GRAND TOUR - 15 DAYS • 1160.00 Nikkei Travel Club. All of the belt of Mexico! The FloatioJ Garden, of Xochimilco, the awe-in.piring Pyramids of . The travel club will -be TRAVEL SERVICE !eotihuacan, Taco, htapan de la Sal Spa, and famed Acapulco. Firet Cia.. hotel., eome meale aimed at the Nisei market 441 O'Far.U St. (415) 474-39111 1M fflDclaco, CA 141112 mcludtd. initially through the Pacific o JODe 16-TREASURES OF EUROPE - 21 DAYS • 1855.00 Citizen because of its nation- A Iplendid three weeb in London, Amlterdam, Bl'Ullele, Vienna, the Cariuthian Alp" Innebruck, wide readerShif and a Rome. Florence. Sorrento, Capri. Pita. Venice, Monaco, The French 1livillra, Parle, and Vereaillee. preponderance 0 Nisei sulr Fint Clue & Superior Tourilt botele throapout with all breakfa,u and 10 memorable dinnen. scribers. Club organizer Tyler Tanaka of Japan & Ori• o July 21-----EMERGING ASIA - 15 DAYS • 1895.00 ent Tours said it had been his Japan Holiday Old and new Manila, the Floalinl Market and temple. of incredible &np;ok, exciting Singapore, and dream to serve the Nikkei fabuloua HOI18 Ko•. Fint CIuI and De Ln.se hotele, all breakfutl, many lunches and dinnera. community by providing high quality tours and o AII8.24-IUCHESOFTBEORIENT-18DAYS • 2885.00 . cruises at the best available, Los Angeles/Tokyo ...... $385 .00 All of EMERGING ASIA, pIa remarkable Chiang Mai in Northern Thailand and the world'. mo.t prices tI:!!'oogh such a club._ (Daily Non Stop) captivatin8 Wand - Bali! HOI18 Kon, of COUJ'le. Fint Cia.. hotele and many mew included. About a year ago, Henry Round Trip ...... $575.00 o Sept. 25--LE GRANDE EUROPE - 21 DAYS • 1895.00 Sakai, former National JACL All oftbia: London, Frankfurt, Munich, Bru.. dl, lnnehruck, Venice, Florence, Capri, Rome, Pita, Travel Program chair, was (213 ) 484-6422 Montecauino, Mouaco, the French Rinera, Aviplon, Lyon, Parle, and VenaiUesl Firet Clu, and ' contacted in regards to the Superior TourUt hOlm throqbout, all breakfalt" many dinnera. desire and need for a travel club. After many meetings o 0e1.22~LDENCmNA-21DAYS • 3077.00 and support from a number The p-eateat attractione in Chinal Pekins (Beijins) and the Forbidden City, The Great Wall, JUan and of well-known professionals the archeolo~cal ditcovery of the century, the Terra Cotta Army! Nanjing, Suahou, Shanghai, in the travel industry who en• Los Angeles-Tokyo GuiIin, and Canton (Guanpbou). Then to exciting Hong Kong. All meala in China, mo.t meale and dorsed the concept, the J apa• fint c .... botele in Hong Kong. nese American NiKkei Travel Club was formed last month. ROUNDTRIP o Nov.l-BEACHCOMBER'SDREAM-I0DAYS • 1767.00 The Travelin~e - Make your "eomeday" come true relaxing by the blue lagoone of Tahiti, under eway~ palme of Bora According to T a, the Bora md watc~ the exciting dancer. of Moorea. Fint Cia.. botele, moet breakfuu and dinnere. Nisei are in the age where $572.00 o Nov.17-GRANDTOUROFMEXICO-ISDAYS • 1160.00 they can enjoy the fruits of All of the belt of Mexico! The Floating Gardene of Xocbimilco, the awe-m.piring Pyramids of many years of hard work. "They have the time and JAPAN CLUB TOURS Teotihuacan, the eilver .hope of Taco, relu at Ixtapan de la Sal Spa, and famed Acapulco. Firlt 354S. SprtngSt. #402 CIa.. boteb, eomemeale included. means for traveling ... They will (have) the fun of travel• l.o8Angeles, CA 90013 ing with other Nikkei to many (213) 689-90148 CRUISE PROGRAMS destinatioos in the world. And as the program devel• o May 19/0 A ..... 2-HAWADAN ISLANDS CRUISE -9 DAYS From' 1553.00 ops, there will be other privi• Fly from Lot Angdee to Honolulu and relax for two day. before boardins your oruite .hip. Tben let leges," the former lATA of• LOWEST TO JAPAN .ail for Molakai, Lna and Hilo, Maui, and Kauai. Lavith mew on hoard lhip with 'wimm.ins, ficial addOO. San Fl'andsoo • Tokyo .. .• •...• ...... •...•••• ..• .. . •• • itT S6B dancins under the Ilart, and all the amenities. Air fare &om Lo. Angelel and fir.t clu. hotel in The program reaches into Tokyo-San Fl'ancisc.'ofYoblyose .• .. ...• . ••...... •••• •• itT 616 HonoJuJu includtd. Final price on all cnWe' depend on deck and cabin availability. Europe, Asia, North Ameri• COMMUNITY TRAVEL SERVICE o Sepl.9--FUN CRUISE TO MEXICO - 8 DAYS From' .1055.00 ca, South America and the 165 O'FarreU St. #209. San Francisco, CA 94102 Sail from Lot Anseles to Puerto Vallarta, Masallan, and Cabo San Lucu (tidal conditione South Pacific with accom• Tel: (415) 398-1146 permiltin8). All meale on hoard included. Special air fare. to Lo. AnpLe. available. Have a ball! modations in first class or superior tourist hotels, o Nov. 100TBE CAIlIBBEAN-8 DAYS From' 1185.00 stressing high values-tbe EXPIRATION NOTICE-If the last four digits on the top row of your After a ni8ht in Miami, cnWe to luch inviting porte of caU u Nanau, San Juan, and St. Thomu best quality for the travel dol• label reads 1183, the tiO-day grace period ends with the last issue in (Virgin "Jande). Vwt the rain foresll and walk the ~ ,treet. of theee tropical itland •. Warm December, 1983. Please renew your subscription or membership. H lar Tanaka explained. membership bas been renewed and the paper stops. notify the PCofIice. waten and blue .lUe. that .eem to go on forever invite you. AU .hipboard meal •. Includes one night in While the club was not or- Miami plue airfare &om over 70 major citie. in U. S. & Canada. ganized as a non-profit orga------..------nization, whatever surplus RENEWAL REMINDER-If the last four digits on the top rON NOTE: Final price on aU cruilea will ckpend on deck and cabin .ype availabili.y. Unum o.herwi.se being derived from the pro- :: indicated all price. are from Lo. Angelea. PIeOJe COM"" for o,her air fare •. Applicable '(Ue.. no' gram " will be used to provide ! of your label reads 0184 (which is your PC expiration date), InduJed. t>enefits to members," as- ~ please renew wi~in 60 days to assure continued service. sured Sakai, who was named '0 : PROGRAMS FOR 1985 club chairperson. Portion of 41 : profits will also be contribu- ~ : o JllllllUY4-S0UIB AMERICAN FESTlVAL-17 DAYS • 3285.00 ~ Visit the Salt Cathedral of Zipaquira in Colombia, then on to Ecuador. A fucinaling vitit to Cusco, ted to other Japanese Amer- : ~ ancient capital of the Incu, and my.terioue Machu Picchu. Vitit Chile, and croll the Andes to Bueno. ican community groups, he : Aires, laq;eet city in South America and capital of Argentina. Fea,t on a typical Argentine BBQ, and added. 5 : ~YearVeteran ~ continue to Isuauu Faile, and romantic Rio de Janeiro. Firat ClUB hotele, all br alda.tI, many meale, >- : t:: : ~ and airfare &om Loe Anselee included. With Tyler Tanaka as club presidenf and his 30 years in ~ iii : ci o Mareb S-DOWN UNDER - 11 DAYS • 2615.00 the travel business the Nik- i : Z New Zealand and Awtralia with many famoue attractiou. In New Zealand the Geyeen of Rotorua, th kei Travel Club Will continu- . ; ';: : Glow Worm Caves, Kiwi birds that can't Oy, and the magnificent beauty of Queen'town. In Au. tralia, ally seek the best tours and . ~ i: • Sydney and itl faDlOUl Opera Howe and a laIte of the outback. Fir. t Cia.. hotele, all br aldaatl and 2 cruises available, Sakai said, g c • N mew plu.e airfare from Lot AnpLee included. in addition to any specialized 8 8 :- g tours requested by club i ~ : Ol loin Now! Remember: The lATe sball be a service to the Japanese members. > CJ • (3 American community, ita program prepared by travel experts wbo are offering It is not the intent of the -g j ~ . : gf club to compete with Nikkei -'11.2 ~ : 'ai high quality tours and cruiaes at the best available prices. travel agents as they are be- ~.8 til : ~ Ol ~ ~ Japanese American Travel Club (213) 624-1543 ing encouraged to partici- Q) =. .... pale in the promotion and ~ (J) 250 E. 1st St, Suite 912 (").g .' marketing. The club does not ~:c ~ ~ ~ Los Angeles, CA 900 12 N o I wish to include __ dependents aim to asswne the functions = j Q) :; : ..... ~ at $1 0 each. of a travel agent, it was CIS -CO ::: -+- E Name ______0 Name of Dependents: Relationship stressed. eft ell DI. .,... 8 An advisory board consist- c " > i : U a: ~ Address ______ing of travel experts will se- oS; ~ : : (ij 0 • ~ lect the travel dates and 0 W U City/StatelZlP ______programs. E a.. ~: • iJiIiii. i lfntil the club acquires its CD >-. ~ a.. ~ N ~: o I wish to apply for membership in JATC. 0 I am a JACL member. Send me information on own staff, information will be ~ oi ;;::: lij checked (~) tours above. available and bookings ftI ca • U (J) Enclosed is $20. JACL members are entitled to a S ~ • . 50% reduction on membership dues for self and 0 I would like more information on JATC. cleared through Japan & g ~ en ... : ,.,.; dependents. Also send me information on (~) tours above. Orient Tour, 250 E. 1st St. >- ~ ~ • ; ~ N #912, Los Angeles, CA 90012; = Z () ...... ***************************************: (213) 624-2866. *