Civil service retirement credit bill heard in Senate WASHINGTON- The U.S. Muts Furiya of the Com• Senate last week (May 17) mittee for Internment Cred• heard testimony on a bill, S it, who was accompanied by PACIFIC CITIZEN 244. to give credit service re• his associate, Toshi Yoshida. tirement credit to federal both of and in• Publication of the National Japanese American Citizens League employees for time spent in terim Washington JACL rep• Japanese American intern• resentative Harry Takagi al• Vol. 86 No. 20 Friday. May 26, 1978 20e Postpaid U.S. 15 Cents ment camps during WW2. so testified in support of the '-=- S 224, introduced by Sen. bill. Daniel Inouye (D-Hawaiil, is Both Furiya and Takagi SPECIAL ELECTION - CHICAGO 48TH WARD a counterpart of HR 9471. hoped the subcommittee . authored by Rep. Norman would report favorably to Mineta (D-calif.), and which the full Committee on Go - was passed by the House last ern mental Affairs and they Harano leads, now faces June 13 runoff Jan. 23 by a vote of 366-12 were encouraged by the fact Special to.The Pacific Citizen were refused. Volini was en• The special election was Speaking on behalf of S that the Civil Service Com• CmCAGO-Ross Masao dorsed by the Republican called to fill a vacancy after 244 before the Senate sulr mission has withdrawn its Harano, 35, finished in the Party. Harano led through• Dennis Block (R) moved to committee on civil servie:e former objections. lead in a special 48th ward out the night as the tallies run for the mayor's office in and general services, Takagi afterwards said in• election for alderman here were being made. suburban Glenview. chaired by Sen. Jim Sasser di vidual letters of support to May 16 with 45.91 of the Harano, a IIlst Chicago CD-Tenn.), were Sens. Ino• members of the full commit• votes cast and now faces The 48th Ward, which cov• JACL president and Mid• uye, Spark Matsunaga (D• tee and to individual sena• Marian Kennedy Volini in a ers the Uptown-Northside west District Cauncil gover• Hawaii) and Rep. Mineta. An tors should be continued. June 13 run-off. She had district, has the largest con• nor, is president of a graph• interesting sidelight of Ino• "This legislation hold. 43.61 Ck while the third candi• centration of Asian Ameri• ics art company and has uye's testimony was a sug• special significance for me date Terry Brauer culled cans in the city of Chicago been president of the U~ gestion that his bill be for it would restore sorr.c:: 1O.48Ck of the total 10,509 with pockets of Irish Catho• town Chicago Commission. amended by the subcommit• measure of justice to fl<' c;e votes tallied. lics and Jews. The Midwest Married to the former ,. tee to eliminate the over age- Japanese Arr.ericans who A Fresno Assembly Cen• JACL Office, Japanese busi• Cheryl Endo of Washington., 18 eligibility requirement. suffered personal hU"1ilia• ter-born Sansei, he secured ness and professional people D.C., the Harams have three The House bill would cred• tion, severe financial lo ::= s. endorsement of the Demo• and residents are clustered children, Michelle, 11, Mi• it any federal worker con• and emotional trauma at th~ . Ross M. Harano cratic Party after two others here. . chael, 9, and Mark, 7. 0 tributing to the civil service hands of their own govern• retirement system for time ment," Mineta said. spent after the age of 18 in Similar provisions have al• BETWEEN U.S. AND CANADA ready been passed inte law the camps in the period Dec. 7, 1941, through Dec. 31., for contributors to the Social 1946. Security system. 0 Evacuation experiences compared The history of Japanese By CLIFFORD I. UYEDA What they were not pre• towns. Canadians, "Images of the Census plans block data on (SPt:c1al to the Pacific Citizen) pared for was the magnitude Gordon Nakayama was a First 100 Years," was pre• BELLINGHAM, Wash.-It and the harshness of the Christian minister, and the major Pacific/ Asian ·groups must be considered a bold treatment meted out to Japa• only Nikkei allowed to keep sented by Canadian Sansei mOT,'e when the Western nese Canadians. a camera. He documented from Vancouver. Made in the summer of it is be- PALO ALTO, Calif.-Asian Manual D Plotkin. DIrector. Bu· Washington University here In 1941 there were 22,000, the exodus on fllms. Slocan 19n, . ing used in ethnic study Americans for Community reau of the Census. U.S. Dept. of in co-sponsorship with the or 950/( of all persons of City was an abandoned min• Commerce. Washington. D.C. 20233, courses in British Columbia. Involvement (AACI), a San with copies to: National Archives and Rec• Japanese ancestry in Cana• ing town, surrounded by in• Francisco Peninsula organi• ords Service put together a da, living on the West Coast Slides and narrative ,copies Tani Awres, AsianlPacific Census credibly beautiful mountain will become available later zation, has announced its en• Advisory Group for the 1980 Census, two-day conference on this near Vancouver, B.C. Al• ranges. There was no need dorsement of the Census Bu• c/o Bureau of the Census, U.S. Dept. subject: "Americans and Ca• though Asians in Canada for guard towers or fences. this year from the Powell of Commerce. Street Revue, 425 Powell St., reau's plan to make 1980 • nadians of Japanese Ances• could become naturalized ci• Should one attempt to es• data available on major Paci• try: a Comparative Experi• tizens, voting rights were cape, a person with a Japa• Vancouver, B.C . In other action, the AACI An American detention fic/Asian ethnic groups. has registered complaints ence during World War II." Provincial matters. Japa• nese face could not get far. The availability of such What was unveiled May 4-5 nese Canadians in British Armed guards were strate• camp life was featured in an• with Penny Paper Plate, other slide presentation, data would have made was a part of North Ameri• p>lumbia were not allowed gically located at the per• Inc. in Pennsylvania over "This was Minidoka," by AACI's recent attempt to can history so little known to to vote. iphery of the town. The 2,300 the use of the name "Takee Jack and Dorothy Yamagu• assist mental health needs of the public, and even to most 'In the , as Ja• children of school age and Outee" for a fast-food res• chi. Asian/Pacific Islander com• taurant chain. Asians. panese immigrants in• two Nisei teachers started murutles easier, AACI Attempts to expel persons creased during the early One presentation centered AACI was infonned of the instructions without a school on the responses and views spokesperson Cheryl Fong of Japanese ance~try from years of this century, Gover• building. use of the "offensive" and of the Christian churches in said in a letter to Manuel D. "racist" name by the Asian the West Coast of North nor Hiram Johnson of Cali• Winter in interior Canada Plotkin, director of the Cen• Seattle area during World American Council of Great• America had been going on fornia proposed a 'constitu• is long and harsh. Windows War II. Their IQyaity to fel• sus Bureau. er Philadelphia. "We are out• for half a century before tional amendment to re• on shacks were only open• move voting rights from low Christians in the Ja.,. "Our organization has raged at your indiscriminate World War II. Pearl Harbor ings without glasses. Many nese Empire was greater been and is currently in• use of 'Takee Outee' and are was the opportunity, not the descendents of "aliens ineli• had to endure the first win• gible for citizenship." His at• than their loyalty to fellow volved in the advocating and furthermore insulted by the reason, for the expulsion and ter in tents. Suffering was Americans who were non• planning of social and hum• obvious insensitivity you incarceration of Japanese tempts, fortwlately, failed. severe. Canada's plan for seizing Christian. The Christian an services delivery to Asian have displayed by choosing Americans and Canadians. Back on the West Coast ministers did not protest the and Pacific Islander Ameri• at• fishing boats owned by Japa• the Canadian government li• to ignore the objections treatment of Buddhist and can people in Santa Clara tending the conference were nese Canadians was planned quidated all their property, raised by the Pennsylvania Shinto priests because to well aware of their own his• in conjunction with the Unit• both real and personal, with• County," Fong continued. State Human Relations Com• them good Americans meant ed States in May 1941. On out consulting the owners. "Census block data on the mission," AACI officials tory, and had some vague good Christian Americans. Nov. 10, 1941, United States Mter four years of deten• diverse Asian and Pacific Is• wrote. knowledge that Japanese The church itself did not dis• and Canada agreed to co• tion, the embittered and lander populations residing The restaurant also has Canadians were also forci- tinguish between citizens in Santa Clara County would outlets in New Orleans. 0 ~y removed from their ordinate policies concerning despaired Japanese Ca• Japanese Americans and Ja• and Japanese nationals. facilitate the effective plan• homes and moved inland. nadians faced a second They looked upon every ning of these services." panese Canadians. forced migration in April 50 Years Japanese Canadians oper• Japanese face as a foreigner, The 1980 data will be pro• 1945. Refusal to resettle . it was reported. The Seattle ated 1,200 fishing boats in vided for Chinese, Japanese again, this time East of the Council of Churches even British Columbia. With the and Filipino populations Rocky Mountains, meant de• turned against Japanese outbreak of World War II, portation to Japan after with a catch-all "Others" cat• Americans. egory. The ACCI has encour• these ships were immediate• annistice. ly seized by the government Professor Gordon Hiraba• aged the bureau to also in• Japanese Canadians were yashi touched upon Japa• clude Vietnamese, Korean, In February 1942, a few days excluded from the Pacific nese American mentality. It after Executive Order 9066 Samoan, Guamanian, Indian Coast until April 1949, over appears that Japmese ~ was issued in the United and other large groups. four years after Japanese ieans are still mlding on to States, Canada ordered the Americans were able to re• Block data will only be tak• that part of their cultural heri• removal of all 22,000 persons turn to the West Coast states. en in cities with total popula• tage which emphasizes COIl: of Japanese ancestry from Furthennore, Japanese Ca• tions of 50,000 or more, with formity. Their has . the Pacific Coast. nadians did not possess a full method data being provided for been to fathom how to cope those blocks which record 10 Their temporary deten• franchise until 1949, some• thing Japanese Americans with dignity the status of a or more Asian or Pacific Is• tion center was the over• second class citizenship. crowded Livestock Barn at never fully lost except landers. This appears to be a pe~ Hasting Park Vancouver. while incarcerated during still Community support for in vasive trait among many J. There families were separ• the war years. the proposal should be sent panese Americans, although ated and dispersed. Men . to: The Gardena BuddhIst Church Japanese School celebrates The War Measure Act they are no longer in a over 16 years of age were re• Its 50th Anniversary WIth a banquet April 29 Mayor Ed Russ of which was used to uproot strictive society. He charac:• Miss Teen Sansei shipped to road camps to toil Gardena and Assemblyman Paul BannaI presented speCial and incarcerate Japanese terized this as a fint ella -The 14th annual on roads, "going from no• Canadians is still the law of Miss Teen Sansei coronanan WIll be plaques With the commendattons are (from left) · John FujIkawa citizen with a second CM held July IS at the Beverly Hilton Church Board chaIrman: Mayor Russ: Rev Kenyu Masuyama. where to nowhere" in many the land. In October 1970 it mentality. "It is this outlook WIth as manv as IS aspirant -, an• Gardena BuddhIst Church . Assemblyman BannaI emcee Dr instances. Women, children was used to arrest 400 that we must ovetUIIne," be nounced the NiseI Memonal VFW under 16, and the elderly Tom Maeda PTC past preSIdent and Mlnoru Yonemura JLS French Canadians from urged. 0 Post 9938. CandidateS are between 15 were held in interior ghost which 70 were incarc:erated. and 17 50th Anniversary chaIrman 2-AA~Rccm~N/~d~M~~'1~8-~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~C-Iass-~~ifi-ied-~-A--d~~~~- -~ he~~~~~underournoses." overlooks the eXpertIse _ Gov" Brown calls Nikkei businessmen • Rental-Los Angeles • Career Opponunities 'GARDENA APT lot rn. ()le bedroon 00- West Vallev CO'TmJf\ity Colleges th!h?o~f~~~o~ra~~~~ furnished S205 per II'lOmII 0IIe bedroom fuf. TIle 101lOWIll9 leaChing posibonS all Mitable on plan to improve trade with Japan ~ paign to help balance the ",shed $215. Iurnlsned scl1lle $175 (2131 ART 1208 or 532-7466. 13605 So V~ #33. ANATOMY & PHYSKllOOY SACRAMENTO, Calif. - A of whom are deeply involved buo Ishizaka. pres. Toshiba Intema- U.S. trade deficit by increas• DRAMA "natural resource" that can in trade with Japan. tiona! Corp: Edward Y. Kakita, char· ing exportS. He is READING (2 part-time) ter pres, Japanese-American Bar measurably boost the state's The Governor has been in- Assn: lsao Makino, Pres, Toyota Mo- author of the legislation cre- Appllcabon maleflals roost be received \11 the No. 2 FBI man by Monday, role in international trade terested in increasing the tor Sales. USA. Inc.: Hiroshi Matsu- ating the State Office of In• OtIice 01 Personnel SeMces JlJ18 i was introduced May 10 by sale of California products oka. exec dir.Japan Business Assn. of ternational Trade. 0 studied Nihongo 1978 "~:Or 01 Personnel Servces Assemblyman Floyd Mori abroad to provide the pri- Southern California: Kazeyoslu Ma- west Valley Cooroonity Colleges ~II , (D-Pleasanton) to Governor vate sector more jobs and tsuoka. marketing ooord. Toyota Mo- WASHINGTON - Veteran 44 E.laIl1ner Ave. Ca 95008 tor Sales, USA, Inc.: Edward M. Na• FBI agent James B. Adams. (.all) 379-5891 Jerry Brown here as the improve the economy. kata. partner in Edward M. Nllkata Ethnic studies S 1, who was appointed to the AlfirmalJve AchonlEquaI OpportIrIltf EmpIo~ "California-Jat:an Economic Fifteen leading members and Co; Shinichi Suzuki. exec v.p., Development Conference". of the Japanese business Kikkoman Internatimal, Inc.; Yosht- No. 2 job April 7 as deputy • Real Estate-So. Calif. ml Takemoto. pres, Sanyo Electric. bill sought director by FBI Director That resource is California community met with the Inc.; Y. Yamaguchi, pres, Melco USA. Williarri' . bs d CU5I'OMSun.T4bdrm,3bothtxme businessmen of Japanese the Governor. "1'0 put it sim- Inc.: Yoshio Yamashita, srv.p .. Maru- We ter serve as a with swimming POOl. 2-car garage & WASHINGTON An Japanese interpreter during view in Mooterey Park. SI36,

people. ure. I kOO\\ how people ices at Hiroshima. The trip was .DOWN TOEARTH: Karl Nobuyukl 1\'isiting the camps oecome Ditter over the mtern• made possible through funds Editor: ment. It is one of the darkest collected by the Rev. Herbert I am interested in taking the shadows upon the history of this Nicholson, an 86-year-old re tl~ family to see the relocation cen• country. Please leave 1t that way minister in Pasadena and life• ter sites this sumner. What are so no one in this country will long friend of Japanese people. Children's Children the nearest towns to Heart ever forget. or worse, be able to Dennis Roland says it is not for Mountain. Minidoka. Tule Lake. say that the Japanese were "paid the thrill of travelling that he is Topaz and Amache? I was in off' so why should they cry over going as he spent 42 years sailing San Francisco screening will remain in the hands of Tule Lake and Heart Mountain, it. I would be most happy if all with the merchant marine and In 1972, the first JACL JACL membership as it is now. and visited Minidoka briefly. Japanese Americans would rise eight with the Na\ry. (Walter Topaz and Amache I cannot find above the humiliation of "Repar• Weglyn refers to him as a Lt youth convention - SELF-DIRECTDN on the map. apart from the JACL ations or Redress '. Commander.) Roland's purpose Third and most significant change will GENE WAKABA YASHl Regardless of the amount of is to promote Peace, Love and - took place in Salt Lake City. In 1978, the Chicago money requested for each in• Disannamen!L and to ask for• be the role of the National Youth Coordi• Heart Mountain is between JAYS convention will again be held in Salt nating Council (NYCC). Proposed is the ternee, I still feel it is a shameful giveness for me A-bomb. Lake City, but much more closer to the Cody and Powell, Wyo.; Minido• and degrading request to make. ELSIE RENNE placement of the youth program in the ka is N oJEden, Idaho, near Twin Hold your heads high! Do not Menlo Park, Ca. JACL national convention This is a posi• Falls; Tule Lake is 10 miles S oj stoop for Reparations or Re• hands of the NYCc. A sum of $10,000 will the Cal-{)re border on Cal Hwy ~ tive indication of the times; that js, the be set aside as "feed money" for NYCC to dress! Strive for lofty goals! Re• Candidate Explains need for a closer binding of the JAYS and 139 at Newell. Directions to the fuse to be bought by a payoff of Editor: develop a youth program for the national Topaz campsite are shewn in the JACL. There appears to be a gap be• any magnitude! Thanks a lot for your front organization. The use of these funds will memorial plaques in the City KEIKO D. HODGE page article on my candidacy for tween the JACL and the JAYS arxl it is Park at Delta, Utah, on US 6-50. Los Altos, Ca. Congress from the 31st District be detennined by the NYCC in concert Amache is S of Granada, Colo., time to bridge the two entities. The man• ~ (pc May 5). Asa quiet American, with Headquarters. on US 50. Japanese-ness who only seeks to serve his fel• ner by which we choose to link the two Here aTe the nearest towns oj Editor: low man, I appreciate any publi• will, of course, be just as important as the Most important is that this approach of• other campsites. Rohwer is 15 Bully for Nobuyuld Nakajima, cation of my views on important decisiotllo do it fers to the youth project more self-direc• miles N ofMcGehee, Ark., onArk who has been setting our think• issues, even if somewhat inac• tion. It encourages the JAYS to seek out 1; Jerome is about 15 miles S oj ing straight in tenns of under• curate. In all probability it will be a debated McGehee on US 165 between potential resources that exist in their local standing the Japaneseness of the May I correct the potential topic for the upcoming convention for Hutlspeth and Jerome. Gila Riv• two great cultures of which we misintel1>retation of my stand on both the JAYS and JACLers. areas. Possibility for use of these funds er, about 5 miles W of Sacaton. are a part. subjects like "reparation" by The proposed budget for 1979-80 sug• could be the hosting/sponsoring of vari• (Probably new Interstate 10 be• I hope those who have been submitting a philosophical ob• tween Phoenix-Tucson would be nominated for the Japan-U.S. servation: gests a modified approach to the JACL ous youth workshops throughout the closer to the site today.) Poston is Friendship Act commission Isn't it a shame that man youth program. I believe this will be a country; seed money for youth develotr S of Parker, Ariz., on Mojave Rd know their cultural heritage, the can take beautiful. vibrant more effective and viable approach to our ment, grants and other creative ideas that (State Hwy 47); inquire with best of both, the essence of both. hills of forestland, r.nlorado River Indian Tribal Of• teeming with song and dance youth's interests, youth program for and the NYCC develops over the course of a ... And keep setting the rec• of birds and rus tling fices at Manataba Parle Manzer ord straight so that our perspec• forest creatures . by youth. .year. Mr, on US 395, is between Lone ti ve is right-on. and with axes. chain saws Pine and Bishop, Calif-Ed. (Incidentally,) the resolution and logging trucks MERGE As in the past, key role of the youth pro• strip it bare of foliage passed at the joint Eastern-Mid• _ -and of life? Initially, the proposal set out to merge gram will rest with the local and regional 'Relocation history west JACL Convention in Wash• Editor: Isn't it a shame that a man the youth program into normal operations units through the JAYS chapters, local ington, D.C., July 1977 in favor of can take a beautiful, vibrant JACL chapters, and district councils. This The conference on Japanese the Peace Academy Commission lifetime of endless hours, of the JACL, rather than have it as a setr American and Japanese Canadi• Act of 1977 is e.xpected to be di - teeming with with shining arate entity. Clerical and staff assistance approach is intended to encourage leader• an Relocation in World War n at cussed on the floor of both hOllses opportunities for music, will be provided by the administrative ship development on the part of our youth Western Washington University of the Congress soon. laughter and good works, (PC, May 19) was quite a learn• and fill it so full of fears and It MIYO MORIKAWA resentment of past injustices staff at National Headquarters and thus encourages planning and program de• ing experience. After all these velopment and provides for a process and Chicago that it becomes as barren as eliminate the position of the National years. this backward glimpse in• Ms. Morikawa has long cam• the denuded lulls? Youth Director. No layoff will be neces• participation that is, in and of itself, a goal. to those days made me realize paignedfor the creation oj a Na• Wouldn't it be better how much I had forgotten. if you and I sary as the presen~ national youth director THE CHALLENGE noMI Peace Academy and KIM! TAMBARA establishment of a Dept. of open our hearts am mind (Richard Okabe) will be vacating his post Portland, Ore. to the guidance . This youth operation is a challenge to Peace as per bills initiated by of the Infinite Wisdom in late June to pursue his career in pur• our youth. _The budget provides for addi• ~ Reparation Sen. Spark Matsunoga.-Ed. of our All-Loving Creator chasing and finance. It is proposed that Editor: and thru the cleansing power tional $5,000 travel funds for the district ~ Dennis Roland of faith and repentance this vacancy rot be filled, but rather that youth chairperson and NYCC chair. Several of my Caucasian reactivate our free-flowing the functions be shifted to Headquarters friends have said things that Editor: River of Golden Dreams? These funds Will. allow the elected repre• have prompted me to write the The story of Dennis A. Roland administrative staff. following regarding Redress or (pc, April 21) is remarkable for In short, I believe that instead sentatives of the NYCC to meet and con• of fixating on the bitter past, we ... SCHOLARSHIP fer to work out the logistics and goals of Reparations: its spirit of forgiveness. During REPARATIONS-NO!! ! World War n the merchant Japanese Americans must direct Second adjustment will be in the ad• the national youth program. It will be the My great personal pride and marine ship on which he served our attention to the magnificent ministration of national scholarship pro• challenge for these elected youth repre• dignity which were born and was sunk in the Indian Ocean by future that beckons our chil• nourished on a solid foundation a Gennan raider and he was tak• dren! gram. These scholarships are expected to sentatives to carry forward the objectives MASODOI ~ of honesty and morality now en prisoner. Soon afterward he triple by 1979 due to a major endowment of JACL that are meaningful to youth, seem about to be OOrtered or sold was sent to the jungles of Thai- Gardena, Ca. to JACL this year. The administrative developed by youth and intended to serv• on the open market for money• land to work for three years on ~Short Notes assistant and clerical support staff will ice youth. After all, isn't that what the eparatic Reparation !!!! the "death railway", a Japanese . ' . . project to link Thailand and Bur- EdItor. . process applications. Selection and youth program is all about? Since WW2, the Japanese C~tn 0 Americans have demonstrated rna. Both .1'!ly and. nephew great industriousness. intelli• Of those 36 mODths, 13 were are. wrltmg therr thesIS at the gence, and achievement in the spent on the bridge over the Riv- Uru ~. of Tennessee on I,:,a To• fields of Education, Law, Medi• er Kwai. An estimated 40 to 116 ~rJ. Send me two copIes o,~ Asian Americans 'forgotten' cine, and Political Agencies of thousand died as they slept on They Called Her Tokyo Rose city services to Asian immi• Government. We are no longer mud and had only rice and what hy Rex Gunn. grants. looked uponasaminority. Wedo greens they could find in the M.L.C. among New York's millions In view of past "discrim• not stand at the welfare window. jungle. Roland points out that the Kenton, Tenn. prisoners fared about as well as NEW YORK - New York Programs in existence .inatory policies," the report We are achievers. We obey the also recommended Con• laws of this land. We, by our very the Japanese subordinates. City's Asian Americans-re- lacked the necessary under• conduct and industriousness, In October, 1976, Roland West L.A. JACL portedly accounting for 3% standing of and sensitivity to gress consider granting am• have the respect of all Ameri• joined a friendship walk over the of the population-are de- the historical and cultural nesty to undocumented ali• cans. This respect was earned at Ri ver Kwai bridge with fonner queen selected scribed as "a forgotten mi- background of various Asian ens who have lived in the great cost and effort on our part. Japanese guards. The walk was ar ranged by Takashi Nagase, LOS ANGELES--Christine nority" in a report issued by groups, the report said. U.S. at least five years and Now, I ask, "Can we be absolute amnesty for those 'bought' by reparations"? Shall who had been an intel1>reter in Emi Kato, 23, was nominated the New York Advisory The committee urged we demean our hard earned the Imperial Japanese Anny and by West Los Angeles JACL Committee to the U.S. Com- President Carter or Con• six years and older. lofty status in this land by de• had made 21 pre" ious annual In a 'comment to the TV as its candidate for 1978 Ni• mission on Civil Rights. gress to establish an Office manding or begging for repara· trips to the bridge in sorrow over sei Week queen. A Yonsei The report., based substan- of Asian American Affairs to media, New York JACL tions? .We are a very proud the many deaths. Nagase's sor• executive director Ruby Y. row was matched in spirit by now studying for teaching tially on a four-year study cope with the problem. It al• Dennis Roland who said, "I just credentials, she is the daugh• completed in 1974, was up-' ';0 asked the governor and Schaar said the Asian Amer• ter of the Kei Katos and a ican was "an ignored minori• had to goout there and promote a dated statistically at a news mayor to appoint advisory 35 Years Ago little love in the world ... I just graduate of Cal State-Long conference held Jan. 18 at bodies to improve state and ty." 0 IN llE PACFIC aT1ZEN had to go out there to support Mr. Beach_ the Phelps Stokes FUnd May 27,1943 Nagase, to show that the hate May IS-DIes Canmmee a"

FROM THE FRYING PAN: Bill HosoIrawa Adopted & Abandoned

Denver, Colo. Well, what was she doing to support her• The girlish voice on self? telephone said she Her first job, she said, was in a massage was a resident of the parlor. She w~'t trained to do anything United States but had been born in Japan else. Then she found out what they really and what should she do to get her birth wanted her to do in a massage parlor so certificate? she quit, and now she was working in a Write to the municipal office of the city home as a sort of housekeeper. or town where you wereoom, I said. Give I asked more questions about her fam• them your name, your parents' names, the ily. She said she had no recollection of her date of your birth, and ask them to send mother~ not the faintest idea about woo she you a certified copy of your koseki sho• was or what she looked like. She recalled hon. She asked how that was spelled, and I nothing about the orphanage. The only explained that koseki shohon was her family she had ever known was the Amer• birth certificate while a koseki tohon was ican serviceman who had adopted her and the family record now he had vanished. She looked Japa• She asked if it were okay to write them nese, but she didn't speak a word of it. And in English, and I said yes, they'd probably because she didn't have a birth certificate, find someone to translate the request. The she had no way of getting a driver's li• EAST WIND: Bill Marutani birth certificate would be in Japanese, too, cense or of applying for Amencan cIt1Zen• but she could get a translation made and ship. have it certified in this country. How does me help a person like that? Convention Rhetoric Something about the way she asked the She has no roots, and apparently no family question signaled that she wasn't quite to fall back on She cannot prove who she sure about the whole business, so I did a is, although she does have an alien regis• ly formulated by the na• see where there are several tional council. Up until then. candidates for the national little probing. Eventually she came into tration card, a "green" card issued by the it is essentially talk and pap• presidency. The1ime for se• the office for more help. Immigration Service that identifies her as lection of one of them will It turned out that she was a .Japanese a resident alien and enables her to work if erwork. shortly be upon the dele- It is then in the ensuing gates. .. who had been adopted by an American she... can find anyone to hire her. But she two years that the elected What criteria, meaning• serviceman and his wife. They brought isn't trained for much. and designated JACL admin• ful criteria will the delegates her to the United States when she was Does she have friends? I don't kmw; I I Philadelphia istration has the sober re• have to exercise their about 6 years old. She might have been in didn't think to ask. Does she want friends? \ IN BIENNIUMS PASf sponsibility of carrying out, choice? The narrow, confin• an orphanage in Shizuoka-ken, but she Same answer. (\ our JACL conventions have implementing the actions of wasn't quite sure. She thought she had Are there many others like her in this the council. Or at least "do ing provinciality of "region• been given to adopting alism", the favorite son? been born in Tokyo, but she wasn't SW'e country~apanese children adopted by catchy and promising con• their damndest" to carry out Campaign rhetoric of vague people who eventually lost interest in _many, if not all of them. about that, either. vention themes, pregnant promises, devoid of speci• What about her adoptive parents. them, divorced war brides who failed to with undefined promises of It's a tough task: make no fics? Hoopla, as has been the something just beyond the mistake about it. It requires Wouldn't they know or have some rec• make personal and cultural adjustments case in some instances in the ords? to an alien 1aIxI) who found the men they horizon. a finn resolution by the lead• past? . There's nothing wrong ership, the staff, and the co• She said the couple who had adopted married weren't what they had seemed to with that; in fact, it's good, operation of the districts and By what guidelines, if any, be, who desire to go back to Japan, are the delegates to select her had been divorced, and her stepmoth• had no I for delegates come charged the chapters, including of the national president who is er was somewhere in Texas. Her stepfath• or perhaps had nothing to go back to? with enthusiasm to mold course their memberships. to lead the organization for er had remarried, but she hadn't gotten And how many such peOple are looking • those vague aspirations into . along with him or his new wife. She had for help and are unable to find it? I something concrete. FIRST AND FOREMOST, the next two years? Lead the maintenance of the where? left home when she was 19", and now she I don't have much hope of being able to After days, and often . help the girl who wanted to find her birth nights, of debate, committee "spark", the drive, must I FIRMLY SUGGEST that was 23. She thought her adopted father emanate from the leader• had some papers relating to her status, certificate, but it is difficult not to want to meetings, compromises, a ship. Such a leadership must the membership and the series of resolutions and chapters are entitled to but now she didn't know where to tmd see what can be done. 0 be willing to demonstrate him. mandates are hammered imagination, resolve, a bit of know now, should · know in out. daring, sensitivity to the advance. The stakes are too At the end, the delegates pulse of the membership• important for haphazard wearily depart for home, and then "lead", not simply selection based upon any Aid to.A-bomb victims contented and hopeful, car• provincial "thinking". rying a load of reports and follow . (Editorial, The Denver Post, May 8) , If the membershio senl':p_c;: YES, IT'S EASY, indeed all The long shadow of an unfortunate chap• medical treatment available to American other papers from the ses• the tremor, the vitality of the too easy, to urge others from sions. movement of action-and it ter of history loomed over two recent events citizens who survived the A-bombs. The bill the sidelines. But then that's on opposite sides of the Pacific. In a way, was co-sponsored by Representatives Ed• BUT THAT IS not the end; has and shall-it will be the prerogative of a mem• it is but a beginning. Now they were related. ward Roybal and Norman Mineta, California more willing to lend support. ber; at times it's an outright The first event took place in Tokyo. The comes the hard task. the re• including financially. Democrats. sponsibility of implement• Continued on Next Page Japanese Supreme Court ruled that an il• Witnesses testified that an organization ing the mandates laborious- FROM THESE PAGES, I legal Korean immigrant named Son Jin Du called the Committee of Atomic Bomb Sur• was entitled to free medical treatment for vivors in the U.S.A. bad located 392 Ameri• ailments he now suffers as a result of the cans who had lived through the Hiroshima atomic bombing of Hiroshima. and Nagasaki bombings. They are U.S. citi• JACl Son was 18 years old and living in Hiroshi• zens of Japanese ancestry who were strand- . NATIONAl ma when that city was A-bombed in 1945. Af• ed by the war and have returned to their RE COMMITTEE fer the war he went to Korea. homeland since then. Proposal . Japan, meanwhile, passed a law providing Many of these persons are in ill health, PARTXXVll • free treatment for A-bomb-related ailments. Some, who can afford the cost, travel to Ja• . DRESS By Clifford I. Uyeda Son's health deteriorated and in 1970 he re• pan for treatment and the twice-yearly entered Japan in search of medical help. checkups prov¥:led by that government. The first step in our eoinrnittee's effort cept was the key to its acceptance. However, he was arrested for illegal entry. The congressmen heard that the United to come up with a proposal was the April • A citizens' group took Son's case to court. States had appropriated more than $SO mil• 29-3Oth meeting in San Francisco. Repre• By convention time the proposal will The Japanese high court ruled in effect lion since 1948 to support medical programs sentatives from each of the eight Districts undergo several necessary modifications. that medical care is a fonn of national repar• in Japan for A-tnmb victims. But nothing is met with the Committee. These will be reported to you from time ations to which all A-bomb victims are en• available for Americans who were unlucky titled. The decision is expected to affect enough to be in the two bombed cities. We were all aware of the differences to time. The proposal obviously will not some 20,000 current residents of South The Supreme Court of Japan has ruled that that divided those Nikkei interested in satisfy everyme, and will undergo. furth• Korea who were in Hiroshima and Nagasaki all persons injured by the A-bombs, regard• this redress campaign. We all knew that er adjustments, refinements and clarifi- during the atom bomb attacks in the last less of nationality, are entitled to medical compromises were necessary for both cations. . days of World War n. care. Can the United States do less for its sides to get the program moving away We have been criticized for·not moving The second event was a U.S.-House judi• own citizens who suffered the same misfor• from the dead center. fast enough. We share the impatience of ciary subcommittee hearing in Los Angeles tune? We are no longer talking about just the progress. But the campaign of this sig• on HR 5150, aDiIIWhich would make federal Approval of HR 51SO is long overdue. 0 pushing for one concept over that of an• nificance and magnitude cannot be just other. We are beyond that point. We are at thrown out to the public and to the Con• the stage of necessary compromises that gress and be expected to produce mean- ' will produce a realistic proposal accept• ingful results. It requires meticulous plan• Salt l.ake's Great in 18! able to most Japanese Americans. ning and preJXUQtions. 25th Biennial National JACL. Convention What was produced and reported in the It has been only six months since our -- ..... --- May 12 Pacific Citizen was the first draft present Committee was fonned. We be• I .July 17-22, 1978 • Little America Hotel, The combined individual and trust con- lieve we have not been idle. 0 6-PACIFIC CmZEN I Friday May 26, 1978 ______...... 10... ____ _ Calendar, pulse & memos

EXECOM ACTION SUMMARY duct; proXies and election San Benito County strategIes are among the topics on the agenda Constitutional amendments noted In his report, Kubokawa SAN FRANCISCO-The Na• sanc l10mng agreement Board c verv two years. and an IOte . hosts NC-WN session proposed a "hall of fame" for _ tional JACL executive com• Program/Legal Director (lorrie In~ 1m chal rperson to ~ apPOinted by til<: outstanding Japanese Amer- I• gaki}-Under a J apan 1ravel Bureau Pre ' ldent unlll the next PC Board SAN JUAN BAUTISTA. Cal· Sacramento and Fremont mlttee took action here May Inte rnat'l one·year grant enci1ng meeting sometime 10 1979 if.-Northern California chapters shared the NC• icans, requested leads I 13-14 on the following sub• May J I. 19-9. JAG- capabilities to f l Change 10 the 1000 Club Rate Western Nevada Distnct WNDC Chapter of the Year whereby a video-recorder jects pending before the deal with programs and Issues are to • trucrure to accommodate the 19 7 ~ Council gained a new cha~ Award in recognition of might be bought, loaned or conventIOn. be deve loped. Report hsted under 80 budget requests. IB y·law· II. 2( a). donated to National JACL to ( b ). (Cl. t ter in Solano County at its their outstanding activities Budget-Approved for presentanon Program- I. J a pan-V.S. Fnendshlp Act; 2. Anti·Discriminatlon (former, Nat'l Talent RegistTy-Appro\'ed second quarterly session this past year, award chair• chronicle JAne effort national JACL San Benito County JACL, which NC-WNDC will con- lations hips between District Offices service of profe IOnal court report· fund' raising for ACLU·Wirin Me• the host chapter led by presi• knowledged. 0 and Headquarters have been con· er to timely produce tbe minutes and morial Fund; initial goal of $10.000 fused due to Distnct Funding guide• dent Ec,i Shiotsuka, featured official action ' ummanes was ap• for law student iternship and recog· lines. A "Memorandum of Under· a chicken barbecue at noon proved. nitlon of an outstanding contribution standing" IS to be drafted by Nation· JAYS Voting Privlleges-JA YS• by a wnter to civil liberties. that was the talk of the dis• Nationwide Business and Professional Directory al. have no official status on the Nation· trict. Your buSiness card placed ,n each Issue here for 25 weeks (a half yearl Guldeline9--Since panern Travel al Council. Their request for voting at 525 per three·IInes Name ,n larger type counts as two lines now is for more flights being admin· privilege was referred to the Consti· Each addillonal hne at S6 per I,ne per half·year pertod istered locally. (local administrator tutional ReVISion Committee. handles all paper work, collects the Detroit JACL installation I ~ . JACLer of Biennlu~Paclfic Greater Los Angeles. Seattle, Wash. . money. etc.). a modified 1978 agree• Northwest District request to delete ment for such flights was approved. International Travel a rule that district councils should Asahi IMPERIAL lANES Signature of chapter president or dis· ~geles rank nominees was approved. 1111 W. OIXmpic, los 90015 Complete Pro Shop--Restouront & lounge trict governor will be required on the 325-25~ Constitutional Amendments-Fol· 623·6125/29 : Please Coli Joe or Glodys 2101-22nd Ave . So. (206) lOWing were approved by the Board U.S.A.·Japon-Worldwide AIR-SEA-LAND-CAR~Orn - KINOMOTO TRAVel SERVICE . for presentation to the Nanonal Council: A.O'MR Vf£'N GARDtNS #2~ Otani Hotel S J ksFranks Y. Kinomoto 622-23Q MARUTANI a ) Chapters to be in good standing 110 S. los Angeles St. LA 90012 1-60;.;:;:5:.:.:.. ..:.a:.:c::::a::.:n..;:.;.:t .___ .... _~~ Continued from Previous Page shall ... have paid all national and Rowers/Gifts/Plants Deliveries City Wide GOLD KEY REAL ESTATE, INC. responsibility, if one pur• district fees. dues or assessments by Mgr Art Ito Jr Coli (213) 62CHlSOS Homes and Acreage ports to care. Notwithstand• June .30 in the non-ronvention year or NISEI FlORIST TIM MIYAHARA, Pres. 60 days prior to convention in the con· In 'he Heart of little Tokyo Call Collect: (206) 226-8100 ing what some (hopefully vention year. [By·law: m. 2(b).] 328 E 1st SI . 628·5606 few) may otherwise care to b) Proxy voting must be "signed" Fred Moriguchi Member: Telelloro BFACON TRAVEL SERVICE, LTD. believe, we speak out-not to by chapter delegate or president. dat· George A Koda, Owner ed. etc .. and no more than "three The PAINT SHOPPE • 2550 Beacon Ave. So . 325-58A9 destroy, not to be negative, proxies" per delegate. [Constitution: La Mancha Center, IIII N. Harbor Blva . but because we care. Dee~ Vrn.4.] , Fullerton, Calif. (714) 526·0116 " ly. [] . c ) Adding the PC Board chairman I, to the EXECOM. [By·Law: V. IC .] YAMATO TRAVEL BUREAU GALA SUPERMARKET BAZAARS d) Changing "chairman" to read Photos by Tom HashImoto 321 E. 2nd St .• Suite 505. l.A. 90012 Employment service "chairper on" for consistency. [Con· The 1978 officers for Detroit JACL gather fer their first official (213) 624-6021 stitution: I. 6; X. 3; XI. la. Ie; By· G iftS SAN FRANCISCQ...... fob training re• Laws: V. 2c (I I. (2).J picture during the 32nd annual installation dinner Mar . .11 at the • Watsonville, CalH. Cooking U'enl!!' ferrals. counseling and placement e ) PC Board is compnsed of one Bonnie Brook Country Club. They are (from left): Rex Oyafuso. services are being offered by the FOod delicaCI es representative from each District Dr. Kaz Mayeda, JACL pres; Mary Kamadoi, Tak Matsui, Kathy Judo-G •. Korot_ United Japanese Community Serv· Council and a chairperson. all ap• Tom Nakase Realty Yee, Min Togasaki, Elaine Prout and Hal Izumi. lncom~ Pottery (tuno ices. 2012 Pine St (563-8418). Latest pointed for the biennium by the Na· Acreoge. Ranches, Homes, listings have summer jobs for youth. Tom T. Nakas". Reahor tional President in consultation with • East Los Angeles Los Angeles JACL Emerald 25 Clifford Av" . (408) 724-6477 Song contest District Governors. Three new sec· -I. Coronation -of the 1978 Ball ~his .S~nday. May 28. ~t LOS ANGELES-Radio Li'l Tokyo tions (By·law VII!. 3. S) added to glA\MV provide four·year terms. first half Fr•• Parking amateur song contest will be hosted Miss East LA. by Suzan Ta- Lummarta s Restaurant 10 San Jose, Calif. serving only two years and subse• Seottle 6th S ond Southe_n,., Store by Matao Uwate on May 28. 2 p.rn. at kai, last year's chapter Mo~terey P~k. I. EDWARD T. MORIOKA. Realtor quent appointments of half of the ~ K~ n X1~t& ~':tk-; ' ~01fO Nishi Hongwanji Hall. Call 628-4688 queen for Nisei Week, high- .omner ~111 be served at 6 3 170 Williams Rd .. Son Jose for contest details. May 2S is the clos· board for four years. board to elect its own chairperson subject to ap• lights the 24th annual East With dancmg to Val John- l Bus . 246-6606 Res . 371-0442 ing date. pointment of President and National son's "Good Sounds" music • Washington, D.C. from 8 till midnight. Reser• • The Midwest MA~AOKA-ISHIKAWA 'Los Angeles-Radio Li'l Tokyo Awds, Denver Athletic Club. vations are being taken by AND ASSOCIATES, INC. amateur song contest, Nisei Hong· 'Washington-J"apan American SUGANO TRAVEL SERVICE Consultanl . Washlng,an MOilers Deadlines wanji, 9 p.nt. Society bazaar. Mt Vernon College. Mattie Furuta (262-8580). 17 E OhiO S, Ch icago. III 6061 I 900· 17,h S, NW Rm 520. 296·H84 jUne 1-Entries 'from- JAG- chap• East Los Angeles-24th annual • JUNE 11 (Sunday) -- 944-5444 ; eve/Sun 784·8517 ters for Inagaki Prize to JACL Hq; 'Emerald Ball, Luminaria's Restau• San Mateo-Keiro kai. • Fresno awards announced during Conv. rant. Monterey Parlt, 6 p.m . dnr. 8 West Los Angeles-Police Apprec The annual Fresno J ACL Joponese Phototypesett,ng .... June 1G-Nomin reopened for p.m.·midnight dance• BBQ. Nora Sterry School, 2-S p.m .. Japanese American of the Biennium; • MAY 29 (Monday) Monterey Peninsula-Comm Pic· steak barbecue picnic will be submit to JAG- Hq; presentation July NC· WNDCISan Francisc»-Me- nic. County Fairgrounds. . held June 4, 3-7 p.m. at the 22. Salt Lake Convention. morial Day rites. Golden Gate Nat'l ~ rraDClsco-JACL Olympics. TOYO PRINTING CO: June l~hapter bids for 1982 Na• Cemetery. 10 a .m.; Karl Nobuyuki. Laney College. Oakland. 9 a .m . Parkview Shelter in Wood• ~ tional Convention; JAG- Hq. spkr. 'San Jo~Nisei ~ls Club picnic, ward Park. Reservations 309 So. Snll I-\'(Ira SI. Los 9OOl3 l~hapter Fremont-Memorial service. Ed Levine Park, Milpitas. June Proxy Authori· Irvington Memorial Cemetery. should be made by May 26 (213) 626-8153 zation and Voting Delegate Forms, • JUNE 13 (Tu~) c/o Credentials Comm at JAG- HQ. • MAY10 (Tuesday) Stockton-Gen mgt. Calif First with Jack Harada (266- San Mateo-Mtgon Prop 13, Sturge Bank,8 p.m. June 19-BudgetJConv Age~da ~byt~rian Church, 8 p.m. 8826). from Hq to all JAG- chapters (30 • JUNE 17 (Sa~) On tap will be a softball days prior to Conv). _ • JUNE 3 (Saturday) EDC-Pre-Conv mtg. Seabrook San Fernando Valley-Scholarship JACL hosts. / game between the seniors Eagle Produce June JO..-Contribs to JACL Okuoo. Awds, JACC. 7:30 p.rn. Seabrook-lnst, grad dnr; Rep and the JAYs. volleyball and Yamada Fund, JACL Hq. 'San Francisco-Thle Lake Pilgri· Norman Mineta. spkr. June 3G-Applic papers - for mage (2 da). UvingstoD-Me~rads' out· games before the diuner be• 929-943 S. San Pedro St., Los Angeles JACL·Haeiwara Student Aid grant, 'San Lorenzo-Eden Sr Center 6th ing, Seacliff State Beach. ing served at $3 adult, $1.50 625-2101 JACL Hq. Anny party. Eden JCCC. 11:30 a.m. Monterey Penhs~lssei·kai for children 11 and under. benefit movies, JAQ. HaJJ. July ts-=-Applic for Tom Hayashi • JUNE 4 (Sunday) BONDED COMMISSION MERCHANTS Memonal Law SchOlarships. clo New NC·WNI>C--Pre-Convention mtg. • Los ~eles-Dragon Boat races York JACL. SO W 67th St, New York. San Francisco. (2 da). Whittier Narrows. 10 a.m . • San Mateo -WHOlESALE FRUITS AND VEGET ABlES- NY 10023. l'SWDC-NiseiReiays. West Los An• • JUNE 18 (Sunday) Plans are being completed geles College, 8 a.m. · Monterey-l..angI.Bge School pic' Fresno-Steak BBQ PICfllC, Wood• nic. for the San Mateo Keiro Kai. Calendar ward Park. 3-7 p.m. 'Monterey-EI Estero church pic· an event honoring all those PIJyaJlup Valley-Crad's banq, Iro~ nic. over age 65, on Sunday, June ------~~~ gate Restaurant. Puyallup. 6 p.m . • JUNE 20 (Tuesday) II, at the Buddhist hall un• - COMftfTf llUUIMCl PIOTKTIOII- • MAY 26 (Friday) San Benito County--.O\ap picnic . San Mateo-Bd mig. Sturge Pres· San Die~Bd mig. Bolado Park. byterian Church, 8 pm. der co-sponsorship of the Aihora Ins. Agy., Aihoro-Omatsu-Kakita • • San J~NIsel Sgls mtg. Sumito• • JUNE 6 (Tuesday) • JUNE 23 (Friday) Gardeners Assn., Buddhist 250 E. 1st Sf...... _...... 626-9625 mo Bank, 7:.30 p.m. Chlcap-Bd mig. JACL Office, San Di~Bd mig. Temple, Sturge Presbyteri· • MAY 27 (Saturday) 7:30p.m. Detroit-Far Eastern Festival (3 Anson Fujioka Agy.;321 E. 2nd, Suite 500 ...... 626-4393 263-1109 MDYC-Spring workshop; An• da). an Church and San Mateo ' cient Arts of Japan, Mich State Univ. • JUNE 9 (Friday) Funakashi Ins. Agy., 321 E. 2nd St ...... : ...... _.... _._626-5275 'Los Angeles-MaryknoU Carnival • JUNE 24 (Sa~) JACL. campus. . (3 da), 222 S. Hewin St. PbiladeJphIa-New Memb potluck. Hirohata Ins. Agy., J22 E. Second St ...... 628-1214 287.860S 'Los Angeles-Pac/Asn American . Sahna.s-Nat'l Seminar on Filipino Gypsy Lane Condominium comm Tickets are $S for those Inouye Ins. Agy., ISOIh SyfvonwaOO Ave., NaNoIk .._...... 846-5n4 May Day. ACSC Bldg. 1851 S. West· Americans (3 da). Santa Lucia Hall. ooll!,_~2:'!I. _ under 65 obtainable from moreland Ave. 9 a.m4 p.m.; Tritia PNWUC-Qtrly sess: Puyallup Val· Tam T. Ifa, 595 N. lincoln, Pasadena ••••••._ ••. 795-7059 (1.A)681-4411 • JUNE 10 (Saturday) members of the sponsoring Toyota. spkr. -Monterey-Japanese Language ley JACL hosts (ovrnt) Sat-St. Minoru 'Nix' Nagata, 1497 Ratk Hoven, Monterey Port .. ~5SC • San Jose-Ondeko-Za concert. Ctr School potluck dnr. JAG- HaU. Mlchael's Church. Sun-Sheraton. groups including: Steve Nokaji. 11964 Washington PIoce _._•. _ ..J91-S931 837·9150 for Performing Arts. 8 p.rn. 'Seattle-Kelro Benefit Garage Olympia. Sadako KItagawa. Aya Takahaslu. • MAY 28 (Sunday) Sale. NVC Hall 'GardeM-Surruner carruval (2 Klml Watanabe. Suzu Kunltanl. ShIZU ~o ~ ~ ~E . .!!.. S,:=.. ~ ._ ~ ... ~29.:.!....42S_26~19 _ Stockton-Picnic. Micke Grove • Denver-Comm Scholarship da). JCI. 3 p.m Tabata. Grayce Kato. Tom Grubb ~~.~ ------~~Frid.YMay28, 1978/PAQACQ'RFH l' I GUEST COLUMN: George E. Condon name to Soo and getting a job He was one of the most popu• II 'Are we that bad?' I can Indian than Jack 500. He in a war plant here. Jar perfonners for a long asked. looked more like an Indian. That's the way Tony Gra- time at Chin's Restaurant "Veeck just laughed. certainly, than he looked Sao: A Singing Indian nata, president of the Musi- here. Late in the 194Os, he " 'You're hired,' he said. either Chinese or Japanese. (Condon is a columnist WIth the energetic reaction it pr

warehouse into center E.lclbli~hed 7936 OAKLAND, Calif. - Partial EBALDC expects to MRS. FRIDAY'S release of a $1 million grant assume ownership of the Gourmet Breaded Shrimps building and property by Nisei Trading 'Cherry Brand' was made to the East Bay M TlJ \l '>UPPL Y co Asian Local Development July, with renovation of the and Fish Fillets \ppliancp< . rv· FurnIture warehouse slated for late 1!ll)() ",m'om '>1 Corp. (EBALDC) to pur• NEW ADDRESS: '-.In Fr,1n( "( 0 (.,111 1978. Fishking Processors, 1327 E. 15th 51. , L~ ngeles (213) 746-1307 chase a site for an Asian re• 249 S. San Pedro St. source center. Seeking additional funds, EBALDC officials reported Los Angeles, Calif. 90012 The grant, authorized by YAMASA Tel. : 624-6601 the U.S. Economic Develop• the Ford Foundation's Office KAMABOKO ment Administration, will of Program Related Invest· enable EBALDC to purchase ments returned for a second TOYl;~ the Lyon Warehouse in Oak• visit to consider a major loan land . the pr(' Communlt\ IOHN TV SAI TO & ASSOCIATES Oldc. t man prescnt- He\ Kmlshl count. Please come to the Califorl1la First Bank in Stockton Youth ' llllm:1I -1.:;(lQ for ,Iapan' o'.... kl. 92. MOlllltam VIeW oluest for information and enrollment on the followtng dates: tOlln An l\ IO\enlent. and "2.100 lor Com plete Home woman- Momore Kawunanll. . I' the 19- O"hogatsu l\!atSUri Furnl<,hmg, SCI parent: with mt grandchlluren Friday, June 2, 10 a.m. - 6 p.m. Mikawa)'8 Ilck Kumagai . 1.1. nsel parents Statue stolen Friday . July 7, 10 a.m - 6 p.m. \\ Ith lar~e t tanllly-Dr Frt.>d :hlra· 1 .'s&IPW~ DENVER. Colo - A three-f t bron7c Sweet Shop kl:. - fUl1he. t ill mnc(' tra\" led• statue of l ' hlllran was stolen Mar RAY WONG QUEN , authorized agent, ~ 2~" E. 15t St. Mun Kawunaml Somekawa. ~hnn e­ ~:! from the counyard of the Dem'er wtll welcome you. 1 ') 120 •. W lern A\ . Los Angeles MA 8~935 sOtll cam~born anendee, Karen _Ga rdenJ l24·1>444 321-21 23 Shlrakl. Dr Tom DotIl hI. Larr\' Do• Buddhl· t Temple. It was a !:ift from a bashl. Kazuyo Yonemoto man In Japan In memory of hi son =- ~ACIR~alaEH IFridayMay26,1978------______------

Tomlsaburo Fujii, 70, a naturalized first piece was eX her grandfather, BEN TAKESHITA: Contra Costa JACler pc's Australian and retired trochus shell Jitsuji, an Issei dairy fanner in Kent. diver of Thursday Island off Cape Wash., at the outset and when busi• 20-year Calif. service staffer in new post -people York Perunsula, Queensland. ness took a tum for the worse, he Glenn Natsuhara. son of Mr. and tried work at the sawmills and then Assn. of Personnel in Em• Mrs. Giichi Natsuhara of Sacramen• engaged in a variety of srnaIl busi• SAN FRANCISCO-Ben Ta• portunity Center, which con• • Honors to, received a $6,000 scholarship nesses in SeanIe. "He never found his keshita, who has been long tinues today as the EDD fa• ployment Security (!APES), Peter Ohtald Jr., honor student at from Campbell Soup Co. Natsuhara pot of gold, but no one can say he active in Bay Area civic af• cility in that area a world-wide organization of Menlo Park's Woodside High School, didn't tty," Kathy oonCiudes. "'You will enter the Univ. of Padfic in fairs, returned May 1 to the Takeshita held several professional workers in em· is a Lions Club district-wide student Stockton this fall. HIS father has seldom hear about the ones who ployment security. During speaker champion now priming for worked for Campbell's 17 years ... didn't quite make it ... but at the San Francisco-Oakland Bay staff positions between 1967 the area-wide contest at Santa Rosa in Joann Tatami was crowned the 1978 same time, we should not be ashamed Area as manager of the and 1976, while the depart• !APES international conven• May. He won three local contests to Dream Girl of Reedley High School. of our Jitsujis. They are our roots." Pleasant Hill Employment ment undelWent several tions, Takeshita serves as win district honors. Representing the Science Oub, Tata• SeanIe Times reporter Mayuml Development Department organizational changes. He official Japanese interpreter Two Hawaiian Issei, Hisashi Fuku• mi was judged on poise, school activi• Tsutakawa won the first prize for (EDD) employment office. was -assigned to the U.S. for Japanese delegates who hara, SO, of Kona; and KazumI Matsu• ties, and personality.. .. Steve Isoza. special articles on government for represent the Japanese moto, 76, of Kalaheo. who were de• ki, a Toronto Sansei, won the grand her piece on the International Takeshita joined the state Dept. of labor in San Fran• tained In mainland camps during prize in the Great Japanese Canadian Women's Conference in Houston dur• employment service in 1958 cisco in 1976 as Trade Ad• Ministry of labor, bureau of WW2 were among the four recently Photo Contest. Judges said his photo ing the annual competition of the after he received his Bach• justInen.t Act specialist, employment security and decorated by the Japanese govern• of the Japanese Canadian Cultural Washington Press Women. Her ar• the !APES chapters all over ment in recognition of their work u~ Centre depicted ''the spirit of the Cen• ticle has been entered in the National elor of Arts degree in busi• handling employment serv• lifting the status of Japanese in the tennial" and were impressed by the ederation of Press Women competi• ness and public administra• ice and training assignments Japan. community. Other two were Toshio "vitality and feeling of excitement" tion ... Salt Lake JAQ.er Bruce tion from the University of in California, A.rizona, Neva• He is active in Contra Cos• Tanjl, 77, of Wahiawa; and Ginlcbl in the shot. Weigl, 29, wj1S named editor of next California at Berkeley. . da and Hawaii. ta County, district and na• Murakami. 73, of Honolulu. All were year's Quarterly West magazine, recipients of the Order of the Sacred • Media published by the Univ. of Utah. A Mter working in Oakland, He returned to the Em• tional activities of the Japa• Treasure, 6th Class ... Sixteen oth• Kathy Tagawa. recent Univ. of teaching fellow in English and assis• Takeshita began his super· ployment Development De• nese American Citizens ers In North and South America were Washington School of Communica• tant editor, Weigl bails from Lorain, tions graduate and news editor of the visorial career as unemploy• partment last August to League. He is also active in also decorated, including Edward M. Ohio and is a graduate of Oberlin Col• the Sakura-Kai senior citi• Matsuda (one-time Downtown LA. Asian Family Affairs monthly publi• lege with a master's degree from ment insurance section manage the Gilroy, Califor• JACL president). Tomiko Nakazawa, cation in SeanIe. made her debut Feb. Univ. of New Hampshire. supervisor in the Berkeley nia employment security of• zens center for elderly Japa• 78, Los Angeles. 18 in the SeanIe Post-Intelligencer as EDD office in 1962. In 1966 fice. nese in the El Cerrito-Rich• A surprise on the April 29 list ~ its " Minority Voices" columnist. Her he was appointed branch Takeshita has served as mond area. . -----~------. • Medicine president of the California Takeshita and his family Mary Ann Kimble (nee Koda) is the supervisor of the China· second woman and first Asian Ameri• town-North Beach Adult Op- .C!mpter of International live in Richmond 0 can to be named to the California , The 1978 JACl • Organization State Board of Pharmacy by Gov. . . Brown. A native of Merced, Kimble Sene! IkeDObo, the 45th grand mas• attended the University of Pacific be• ter of the lkenobo School of Flower YOU ARE ALWAYS A WINNER AT TRAVEL PROGRAM fore transferring to the Un iv, of Cal• Arrangement, donated 55,000 to the t t l Sponsored by .the National Japanese American Citizens League ifornia at San Francisco. After gradu• Japanese American Cultural and ating in 1969, she served one year at Community Center on the 20th anni• Open to All Bonafide JACL Members Kaiser Foundation Hospital before versary of the Los Angeles branch of tRAINBOW rejoining UCSF as a staff pharmacist. his school. More than soo instructors , Later, she became a clinical pharma• and students, some from branches in As low as $20, • Group Flights to Japan cist, then instructor in charge of third Sacramento, San Francisco and San VEGAS Diego gathered for the school's anni• Certain Flights have lOCal administrators as /i~ted below. year clinical courses. Finally, she was . HOTE Spacious rooms, named vice chairman of the Division versary celebration.... Kats Wana• L Kitchen units, Pool VIa JAL 747/GA100 - Round Trip-Fare: $564* of Clinical Pharmacy. Married to a be is president of the San Jose Japa• f t For ,... vdoI., C8II: pharmacist, Kimble is a member of nese Ammcan Community Senior Group No. Departs from Dates Nishizu Bros. Development (213) 622~ Lambda Kappa Sigma. an interna• Service, which meets every fourth 1O--=-San FranCiScO July 24-Aug 21 Full tional sorority in pharmacy. Friday at 7:30 p.rn. at Fuji Towers, , 401 S. Casino Center, Las Vegas (800) 634-6421 (To!' Free) 56S N. Sth St. 11-.!:-os ~~geles/San Francisco July 25-Aug 22 -~ t 12-San Francisco July 31-Aug 31 ...... Tad Hirota. 1447 Ada St .. Berkeley. Ca !:i4'Ua.. LOS ANGELEs--Flrst Tuesdays, 7 p.m" Calif First Bank. 120 S San Pedro St. ,~ a.. For Info, call Akira Ohno (213-477-7490). ;;: N ~ II' SAN FRANCISCO-Third ThI..fSdays, 7 p.m., Mas Satow Bldg., 1765 Sutter SI. N II' c:::t For info, call Yuki Fud'igaml (415-921-5225). =v -a GENERAL INFORMATION .• • Air fare (!l~ Au!! 1, 1977) includes round trip, $3 airport departure tax, and $20 Co) JACL administrative fee. AdUlt and child seats same price on any flight; Infants 2 years old, 10% of applicable regular fare. I ... Charter price includes round trip airfare, tax. JACL administrative fee and may vary depending on number of pas• senget;S. All fares, da ••, times .ublect to change. If there are any questions regarding !he N,at'l JACL Travel Committee policies or deciSions. write or call Yuki Fuchigaml, Nat I JACL Hq. 1765 Sutter, San Francisco. Ca 94115 (415--921-5225) ------• Infonnation Coupon MAli to any JACL-au!honzed travel agent. chapter travel chairperson or WHEN YOU DEMAND THE VERY BEST, National JACL Travel TRY OUR UNIQUE GIFTS 1765 Sutter St_, San Francisco, Calif. 94115 12 cuts of speciaUy selected Filet Mignon st~ks 4 .5 lbs nel wt. 10 cuts of spedally selected New York steaks 5 Ibs net wt Both Steaks are carefully aged and vacuum sealed 10 be Send me information regarding 1978 packed In our reusable styrofoam cooler - wilh blue ice ~at'l JACl Flights, especially Group *__ _ *Six 13 oz roll of San Francisco's favonte hors d'oeuvres in a Name ______handsome easy carry package * Both certiIled by the U S D A to easily dear Japanese customs. * Ask aboul our services from Hawaii Address ______

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