•• •• paCl lC Cltlzell March 2, 1984 (sot Postpaid) News 9t:d The National Publication of the Japanese American Citizens league ISS~ : 0030-457'11 ~ Mol, No. 2,Z1'1 Vol. 9' No .• Stand: IftItIII-
Calif. Democrats support Remembrance ... redress at Feb. 5 convention OAKLAND, Ca.-Delegates to the California Democratic Party's platform convention voted unanimously on Feb. 5 to ... Salinas approve a platform that includes support for compensation to Los Angeles Japanese Americans interned during WW2. , To Japanese Americans, who make up an important part shows plaque remembers of the Democratic Party, the California Democratic Party condemns the internment of Japanese Americans during the SALINAS, Ca.-A memorial LOS ANGELES-About 350 garden and plaque to the persons gathered in Little To• second World War, ' Los Angeles Assemblywoman Maxine 3,600 interned here at historic kyo's Noguchi Plaza for a Waters told the 1,200 conventioo delegates. Waters presented Rodeo Grounds, which was Day of Remembrance pro• the " equality of opportunity" plank of the state's Democratic converted to a camp of tar• gram Sunday, Feb. 19, to platform, wlllch supports recommendations of the Commis• papered barracks by Army commemorate the 42nd an• sion on Watbme Relocation and Internment of Ci ilians bi• Engineers during the early niversary of the signing of lingual programs, the Equal Rights Amerxlment anti-discri• months of World War n, was Executive Order 9066. mination legislation, freedom of choice regarding abortion, dedicated Feb. 19. It capped Bert Nakano of the Nation• afflrmative action, the inclusion of gay men and women in a project started by local al Coalition for Redress/Re• civil rights legislation, and the strengthening of the ocial area JACLers in September, parations (NCRR) delivered 1982. (Picture and text of the the keynote address follow• security system. plaque appeared in the PC ing a taiko performance and Tom Hsieh, national chair oftbe Asian/Pacific Democratic last week.) Buddhist and Christian invo• Caucus, told East/West reporter Robert Tokunaga that the Last May, the state Histor• cations. Nakano gave a pro• platform bad the caucus 's' footprints all over it' especially ical Landmark Commission gress report on the redress the passages concerning redress and bilingual education. approved the text and the campaign at local, state and Hsieh felt that with the help of the California Democratic Salinas City Council voted to federal levels and called on Party, the 1984 national Democratic platform will support pay $1 ,000 for the plague and the Nikkei community to join many Asian American concerns. construct a walkway ill Sher• other minorities in mutual " We hope to have some 50 to 75 Asian American delegates to wood Park, where the plaque support. " In so doing," he is mounted on a huge boul• SaId, ' westrengllienourown the 1984 Democratic convention in San Francisco," Hsieh der. It was unveiled by proj• struggle for reO.ress and re• said. # ect coordinator Violet K. de parations. " Cristoforo in an afternoon " It is also critical that we 'Sanga Moyu' in U.S. postponed Photo Courtesy Salinas Californian program attended by several become involved in the entire Violet de Cnstoforo unveils Historical Landmark plaque in hlllldred persons. (Sherwood electoral process," Nakano LOS ANGELES-Yasushi Hareda, president of Unital Tele• Sherwood Park, Salinas, a WN2 temporary detention center. Park is on the northside of US continued. " The Asian vision Broadcasting System, announced on Feb. 22 that show• 101 at the Main St. ramp and agenda which lists redress ing of 'Sanga Moyu," the dramatic NHK series based on the Kinenhi monument is and reparations as one of the Toyoko Yamasaki' s novel, "Futatsu no Sokoku," bas been near the Salinas Community key issues, must be aw.es• Prewar UW Nisei employees Center.) sive1y raised to all preSIden• postponed indefInitely upon notification from the local NHK Program participants all tial and congressional candi• representative. It was set to air on Ch. 561ast Saturday at 7 spoke with a spirit of hope• dates. It goes without saying p. m. given reparations share awards that internment would not that each and every one of us (In San Francisco, Fuji-TV general manager Yukio Shoji occur again. 'It was a gross must get out and register to said Sanga Moyu, scheduled to air from Ma r. 18, has been SEATTLE - Fonner Nisei Japan in any department, violation of the rights of all vote." postponed to April 29. Queried by Hokubei Mainichl, national employees of Washington school or college. citizens-rights that are en• Political Support JACL director Ron Wakabayashi said he told NHK that the state who have received their 'BeautiIuJ Gesture' shrined in the Bill ofRi~hts ," Pledges of support came flrst payment of $2,500 in re• The sclx>larship was estab• guest speaker Judge William from U:S. Rep. Mervyn Dym• timing of the broadcast in the U.S. was unfortunate in View of parations for wrongful dis• lished through the generous the current campaIgn for redress. It may convince orne Marutani from Philadelphia ally (0-31st Ca.) and Edward missal from their jobs in 1942 donations of Nobutaka Ike, declared. Even good nations, viewers that the U.S. government was justified in interning have been generous in shar• professor of political science such as the U. S., can inflict Japanese Americans during WW2 because of th " two• ing their awards. at Stanford University, and wrongdoing and citizens fatherlands" theme.) One of the beneficiaries his wife, Tai Inui Ike, both of must remain vigilant, 'not Instead, two Tokugawa Ieyasu features were to be substl• has been the University of whom were graduated from keep mute as they did 42 tuted, followed by a fo ur-part NHK dramatic series, " Mari• Washington. Two former the University of Washington years ago," he said. ko," from Mar. 10, UTB announced. (Based on a book with the unIversIty employees are prior to the war. As graduate Recognize Wrongs same name by Kunio Yanagida, " Mariko" relates the life of each donating their - entIre student employees of the uni• $5,000 to create a scholar ship versity who were terminated Min YasuiofDenver, JACL• the daughter of Termessee-born Gwen and Hidenori Terasaki, in honor of retired professor due to the exclusion orders, redress chair, said part of " a the Japanese diplomat in Washington at the time of Pearl Henry S. Tatsumi, who the Ikes each received $2,500 great nation is to recognize Harbor. Mariko and her mother returned to the U.S. after the taught Japanese language in in September. In a letter to the wrongs of the past," such death of Hidenori. In 1961, Mrs. Terasaki had written of her the University's Department UW president William P . as the Evacuation and intern• WW2 experiences in Japan in "Bridge to the Sun" that was of Far Eastern Languages. Gerberding, the !kes ex• ment of Japanese Americans. Tatsumi, himself a recipient, pressed gratitude for the The government Commission subsequently made into a movie starring Carroll Baker and on Wartime Relocation and James Sbigeta. Mariko is married to Mayne Miller, a Wyo• began teaching in 1927 and state's action and their de• after the interruption of the sire to donate their joint Internment of Civilians has ming attorney.) determined Evacuation was Japanese American Reactions Noted wartime years returned to award of $10,000 to the uni• the faculty until his retire• versity. not based on military basis NHK chief correspondent Kuniyasu Hanaoka in UlS An• ment in 1967. He is believed to In thanking the donors, but on racial discrimination geles said the decision to postpone was based upon reactions have been the fIrSt Japanese Gerber~ wrote, "Nothing and wartime hysteria. LA. Mayor Tom Bradley received in Japan of Yamasaki's book from Japanese Ameri• American to have achieved can erase the damage caused (Salinas was especially (right) reads 'Day of Remem• cans and unnamed organizations. professorship rank at the by those unjust actions, but anti-Nisei after Pearl Harbor brance' proclamation in City While in Japan ,-national JACL president Floyd Shimomura UW. your decision to turn this un• when news of the Bataan Hall chanbers. Seated are The university has desig• savory part of our national death march broke since (Nov. 25 PC) was told by one U.S. Embassy official in Tokyo National Guard troops from Dennis Nishikawa (left) and that Sanga Moyu "could have no other effect except arouse nated the Henry S. Tatsumi history into a positive ex• Emest Fukuda. Scholarship Fund to be ad• perience for others is a beau• the Salinas area were serv• anti-American feelings in Japan" and both Yamasaki and ing in the Philippines and NHK were so informed. Shimomura also told NHK a Japanese ministered under the Henry tiful gesture and a healing Roybal O-25th Ca.), mem• M. Jackson School of Inter• act." captured by the invading bers of the House Black and American story told from a Japanese perspective in the u.S. national Studies, with grants Redress Donations Japanese military forces. Hispanic caucuses, respec• could lead to " profound misirnpressions that could lead to a to be awarded annually or bi• The PNW JACL office also Many were reluctant to re• tively. Both are co-s{>onsors distortion of our true history and image in Japan," adding annually to undergraduate acknowledged other dona• turn after the war as anti• of HR 4110 (Wright bill and parenthetically another concern because ABC, CBS and NBC and graduate students in• tions by former state em• Nisei violence continued. HR 3387 (Lowry bill), which were " reportedly" interested in Sanga Moyu . # volved in studies related to - Continued 00 Page t2 (In recent years, however, provide $20,000 in compensa• community attitudes had tion to fonner internees. completely reversed with Also speaking were the election of at least three Nisei Rev. Carl Segerhammar, mayors in the area, a thriv• former bishop of the Pacific 27th Biennial Nat'l JACL Convention ing agricultural-horticultur• Southwest Synod, Lutheran ALOHA al industry with Japanese Church of America; Eric Americans in key roles and a Mann of United Auto Work• Aug. 12-17, 1984 Nikkei population estimated ers Local 645 ; and George 24 Weeks Until . .. at about 4,000 in the county.) Ogawa, redress chair for • - See Page 7 Inside. News about Pacific Beach JACL rroress director John JACL Pacific Southwest Dis• Conllentlon registration , hotel and Tateishi said, " We have a trict. MiyaIwatakewas mas• trallel packages. Where to inquire Hotel * Waikiki responsibility to make this ter of ceremonies. P.O. Box 3160, Honolulu, Hl96802 • (808) 531-7453 country remem~r what hap- NCRR and JACL-PSW Continued OIl Page 8 . -- 00 Page 1.2 2-PAQAC CITIZEN I Friday, March 2, 1984
most highly decorated Army unit, composed entirely of Lions Club fetes Susuki Japanese Americans. PROfES S IONAL After the war, he attended pring '84 Suits It port5 Coats by LOS ANGELES-Takeo Su• Santa Monica Mountains and Long Beach City College and Glvencby, Y t , and Sl. Rapbael are arriving suki has been honored as the Seikan tunnel project in then UCLA, receiving his In Slles 34·42 Sbort It extra Sbort LtngUu. " Man of the Year' by the Japan. bachelor's degree in geology ror a good selection shop early. West Angeles Lions Club Los He has organized fossil in 1949. Desplte his combat j.--=:.--i----... for 34 years of community l ·---'~-+---J field trips for schoolchildren, record and academic qualifi• service. cations, he ran into the {>re• As senior museum scien• serves as the department s unofficial host for visiting valent post-war discrimma• tist and geology lecturer in N• foreign professors, and has tion against Japanese Ameri• the UCLA earth and space cans and could not find a job. sciences department Susuki become an authority on three-dimensional specimen His UCLA professors, KEN & COMPANY has been counselor and hearing of his plight, created friend to a generation of stu• photography. clothing merchants the posltion of museum tech• SHORT & SMALL MEN'S APPAREL dents and a prime source of During the Lions Club nician in the geology depart• 78) W. "amll .... A.. .. (.lmplKll. CA 9)008 fossil lore for geologists luncheon at the Masonic ment! initiating -his long "ou",, 'H 11'8:)0. SAT 10-6. SUN 11·' around the world. Temple, Susuki was honored working assoclation with (408) 374' 1466 His community services by ttie community organiza• Takeo Susuki UCLA. Susuki subsequently might tax the energy of a pla• tion he has ser ed and was· Susuki was born in Oxnard, earned his master's degree toon of volunteers. Among snowered WIth congratula• Calif., the son of farmers, at UCLA and the doctorate at 'Our' Advertisers are good people. They support 'your' PC. his main involvements are tory proclamations from and attended schools in Ven• Tokohu University in Japan. the West Los Angeles JACL, Governor George Deukme• tura. During World War II, Susuki's wife, Marian, is a whose earth science section jian Mayor Tom Bradley, he served for more than four senior clinical dietician in the I he founded Westside YMCA state legislators county su• years in the Army and fought outpatient department of the Los Angeles-Nagoya sister pervisors, city councilmen, with the 442nd Regimental . UCLA hospital. The couple city proJect, Friends of the overseas friends and UCLA. Combat Team, America's has three sons. #
_--People in the News lli1!llli~- Sugihara heads parade committee
• Business SAN FRANCISCO-June Su• they have not taken part in • Awards gihara, assistant vice presi• previous years. Sarah Caswell Angell Chapter Linda Oshiro, asst. vice presi• dent of California First Applications must include of the National Society of Daugh• dent of California First Bank, has Bank s Japan Center branch, the full name of the organiza• ters of the American Revolution been appointed manager of the has been named chair of the tion/ group, I a description of presented a good cili2ens award bank's Stevens Creek office in 1984 Cherry Blossom Festi• participation-J apanese to Dexter (Mich. ) High School San Jose, Calif. She has been in dance, music, float (specify senior Anri Doi on Feb. 18. The banking since 1963. Oshiro was val Parade Committee, an• daughter of Mr. and Mrs . Bmichi born in Arizona and spent her nounced Ben Nakajo, gen• theme), etc.-the number of Doi is student go ermnent presi• childhood in Kumamoto, Japan. eral festival chair. participants, and a ~eneral dent of Dexter H.S., var ity She is also a classical dancer of " This will be the second description of costunung. cheerleading captain and mem• the Hanayagl school ... Cynl.bia year that Mrs. Sugihara has The name, address and ber of the varsity softball team Smota has become business man• chaired the paraJfe commit• phone number of the person and yearbook staff. She plans to ager of the Seattle architectural tee,' said Nakajo. "She did m charge also should be in• attend the Univ. of Michigan and and planning firm of Hewitt/Daly an outstanding job in 1983 and cluded along with back• SUmitomo's Individual major in business administration. /lsley. Shiota was employment we are extremely fortunate ground infonnation with the and economic development coor• Retirement Account dinator for the Seattle Dept. of to have the benefit of her or• group, its purpose, when it • Government Community Development prior to ganizational skills and inno• was established, how many LOS ANGELES-General mem• joining the firm. vative leadership again this years it bas participated in All Wage bership of the Los Angeles Coun• year." the parade, and other perti• cil on Aging begins its 1984 activi• • Education Workll1g along with ugi• nent data. Tbis information ties on Saturday, Mar. 10, 9:30 hara WIll be 'parad or~aru will be used by the parade Earners Eligible! Ronald Tsukasbima, associate a .m. at City Hall, led by Betty zers Joe Dai]o, Higashi Fu• emcee as the group ap• • Deduct up to $2,000 on your federal Kozasa, president. Among the professor of sociology at CSU-Los proaches the reviewing Angeles. received a Fulbrtght• kawa, Kiyoshi aito, Nobu• tax return committee chairs is Mabel Ola, stand. Hays award to teach SOCiology 10 yoshi Ando, and Kanji • Protect your savings for retirement for legislation and advocacy. Kuramoto. uglhara tr s d that Mandates of AB 2860, which wlll Japan in 1984-85. Tsukashima • Choose from several Sumitomo IRA Plans teaches courses m social prob• Festival dates are April 20- the event is a Japanese• change the long-tenn care of • Check our floating rate account with high state's elderly, will be explained lems, race and social conflict, and 22 and 27-29 with the grand style parade and the themes at the public meeting. urban social change. His research parade scheduled for Sunday of participating groups must money market interest and an automatic interest is 10 the adjustment of .afternoon, April 29. fit thIs format. depOSit plan immigrant Japanese Americans, Groups wishing to partlCI• Applicaltons should be sent Keogh plans afe also available ViSit your • Medicine the ethnic Identity of children of interracial marriages, and pat• pate in the parade are invited to : 1984 CBF Parade Com• local Sumltomo Bank todayl Ted M. Nakata of Fresno was terns of conflict in BLack/ Jewish to submit written apphca• mittee Attn: Mrs. June Sugi• recently elected president of the relatIons. tions by Mar 26, saJd Ugl• hara, California First Bank, 300-member California Society of Califorrua Teachers Assn. pre• hara. Interested groups from Japan Center Branch, 1675 Periodontists. 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LITTLE TOKYO UFE (No. 7): Fund-raiser planned for community center Crab feed to benefit A Backward Glance SACRAMENTO, Ca.-A fire V Street, which suffered ex• Serna, and reporter/pro• Issei housing project By HARRY HONDA of suspicious origin des• tensive damage. ducer Sandra Gin Yep. EL CERRITO, Ca.-An " all• troyed the furniture, equip• In an effort to help these Tickets are $15 for general you-can-eat" crab feed will Los Angeles ment and supplies of two agencies relocate, support• admission, $10 for students Another unusual book - this time in be held Sunday, Mar. 11, community organizations ers have organized a rent and low-income persons. from 4 to 7p.m., at the EI Cer• English and fIlled with pictures, "A Back• shortly after Christmas. party for Saturday, Mar. 3, Checks should be made pay• rito Community Center, 7007 LITI1.E ward Glance-Los Angeles 1901-1915 by Asian Legal Services Out• from 7 p.m. to 11 p.m. Live able to " ALSO/UCWSC Moeser Lane. Tickets for this Robert G. Cowan (1969) - has surfaced reach A.I1;O) and the United music and a dance party Building Fund." For infor• year's event are $15 per per• 10IGQ and in it are orne scenes of Little Tokyo. Cannery Workers Service share the evening with mation, call Goldie Lew Eng, son, with a discount price of Such was what the Issei (like my dad) must have first en• Center (UCWSC), were speakers Assemblyman Phil (916) 451-7952 ; or Paulina ViJ• $12 for senior citizens over 65 countered upon arriving here soon after the San Francisco housed in th building at 1520 Isenberg, Councilman Joe laneuva, 456-1890. # years old and children 12 earthquake/ fire. The comfortable atmosphere of those years years and under. Proceeds are most evident in the photos. Architecture is hodgepodge; Issei names sought benefit East Bay Issei Hous• the air looks clean (no smog); the streets downtown show a ing, Inc. in Orange County All proceeds from tius be• quiet pace. Looking over this book. even the Nisei who can nefit will go towards the com• remember the early '20s might recall the charm of L.A. with DENVER - John K. Matsu• ta." Currently, he works six SANTA ANA, Ca.-The Spe• pletion of a housing project in its yellow trolley cars, popcorn endors at the corner and the shima 63, who was re pon- month as CSU instructor and cial Issei Pioneer Selection Hayward. Construction on nickelodeons and sliooting galleries on Main St. ible for fattening cattle m the other half in Japan and Corruruttee of the Japanese the 100 stuwo and one-bed• feedlots by giving them hot other countries as a re- American Council is seeking room apartments is under cornflakes on breakfast earcher/consultant. He IS a mformatjon regarding Issei way, with completion expect• menu, was awarded the J er• pioneer in animal nutrition in pioneers of Orange County. ed ill October Applications ry Litton Memorial Award developing hot flaked gram The Japanese American for illterested persons are ex• for agricultural achievement for cattle feed m the early Council of the Bowers Muse• pected to be available m July at the seventh annual ban• 1960s um FoundatlOn in Orange 1984. Approximately $40,000 quet on Jan 17 Matsushtrna said he wants County and the Japanese 15 still needed to cover the ob• Matsushima was recogniz• to convlIlc the Japanes to community are sponsoring a ligations of sponsoring ed for his 35 years of teaching lmport more Amencan beef. Special Issei Tribute Dinner groups. and research at olorado one of th US-Japan trade Mar. 31. Issei pioneers who For further information on State Univer ity in Fort Col• sore spots. settled in Orange prior to th crab feed, call co-chairs lin and the University of e• The Litton Award, named Jan. 1 1930, will be honored. June akaguChl, (415) 235- braska. He also announced in memory of J rry LItton, a The council has been active 8625, or Grace Goto, 233- retirement after 20 year as Missouri congr man/ cattle in the collection of historical 2586. To obtain tickets cali superintendent ofth ation• produc r who was killed in photographs and the docu• Rlchard, 832-{)152, or Laura al Western lock how - a the 1976 plane crash, was pre• mentatlOn of oral history of (mornings only), 832-8300. # Little Tokyo-1911 . Once the home of lumberman Wallace Wood• fed beef of carcass comp ti• sented by \. U's Alpha Gam• pioneer Issei. Yone Iwatsuri, worth, 143 W ilmington (now Weller St. at E. 2nd St.), fronts the three tion. ma Rho fraternity. Charles Ishii, Clarence i• New state prison brick structures which are familiar: the Palace Hotel (at left with the The awardee gr w up near fhis teaching care r, Ma• shizu, Grorge Nagamatsu, cigar sign), backside of Miyako Hotel (now replaced by Kajima Bldg.) Platteville, and obtajned hi tsushima said, " By next fall , and Jim Okazaki are mem• won't be in U'I Tokyo and still-standing S.K. Uyeda Bldg. (at right). bachelor's and master' de• I will have records on 10,000 bers of tile Pioneer Selection SACRAME TO-In a sur• grees from U. He earned tudents. I am pleased that I Committee. Please notify the prise move Feb. 16 the state An additional item about the above photo : The Newmark f1is Ph.D. in animal nutrition still get calls from former Japanese American Council Dept. of Corrections selected Brothers tea, coffee and spice warehouse the Uyeda Bldg.) at the University ofMinn 0- members." # of any Issei Pioneers who are a 5GO-acre site north of Lan• belonged to a pioneer Jewish merchant family of the 1850s. It living in range County or caster in Antelope Valley to was nearly gutted by fire in the 1930s. Joseph Newmark had Hi-tech seminar explore cooperation who may have since moved build a men s prison in Los come from San Francisco in 1854 with a Chinese servant, it is to out of Orange County. The Angeles County. A site close said-and probably the first Asian resident in Los Angeles. contact numbers are: (714) to Little Tokyo on Vignes St. SAN FRANCISCO-Japan Group on U.S.-Japan Rela• 5~5 , ~67 , ~9552 . # bad been considered. # External Trade Organization tions; Naohiro Amaya, advi• (JETRO and the Confer• ser and former vice minister ence Board, Inc .. 9iilLboJrl for international affairs, seminar called " japan and MIT!; Akio Morita, chair and U . S . ~rating in HiJ'til CEO of Sony Corp.; Frank CAREER OPPORTUNITY Tech," Mar. 13-14, at ilie Press, president of the Na• Fairmont Hotel. tional Academy of Sciences; PC Editorial Assistant The two-day conference and Takeo Kondo, president The Paci Cruzen IS seeking a full time edlto nal assISta nt. Duties WIll will give individual com• of Mitsubishi International. include newsgathenng and newswntlng. copy-ediling and proof-read• panies opportunities to meet Simultaneous translation Ing Famltianty WIth cold-type operatIOn and camera· re ady paste pro• with key leaders from Ameri• will be provided in English cedures Preferred candidates should have a BA-BS degree In Jour• can and Japanese high-tech and Japanese nalism, English. related field or comparable work expenence Typing mdustries and to discuss c0- skills of at least 35-40 wpm Pnor newspaper experience IS preferred operative methods m ad• JETRO's main function is Photography skills and knowledge of 35mm camera helpful but not vanced technology, licens• to help facilitate trade be• reqUired Some evenings and weekend hours reqUired ing, joint venture, and re• tween the United States and Candidate should be familiar wrth the Japanese Ame ncan com• Santa Fe Station-l908. At the foot of E. 2nd and Santa Fe Ave., the search arxi development. Japan through its five Japan mUnity at large and/ or Japanese Amencan Cluzens League. station is remembered by those who took the train from here In 1942 to Trade Centers in New York, Participants include Sho• Salary range $900 to S1 ,300. depending on qualificat10ns and such places Manzanar, Poston, and Heart Mountain. The onion• Chicago, Houston, Los Ange• as ichi Akazawa, presldent of experience domed structure no longer stands, but the Santa Fe still rolls over the the Japan External Trade les, and San Francisco. same tracks. Homes (in the background) to the west subsequently Organization; David Pack• Deadline for reservatIons Persons nterested should submit resume and samples of pnor work became part of prewar Little Tokyo. to the PaCifIC Clllzen, Box 33. 244 S San Pedro SI. #506, Los Angeles, ard, chair of Hewlett-Pack• is Tuesday, Feb. 21. For fur• CA 90012 Deadline for submiSSion of resumes/ work samples is March Of Other Pictures of Little Tokyo ard and head of theAInerican ther information, contact Te• 3,1984 contingent of the Advisory tsuo Okubo, (415 392-1333. # Perhaps the best collection of photos of early Little Tokyo •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• life are in "The Japanese ofLoo Angeles County" by William • Community Affairs Mason and John A. McKintrey (1969 : L.A. County Museum of Natural History) showing interiors of Japanese-owned shops SEATILE- "The Fall of the I Hotel," a documentary film about elder• in the 1890s, the Akita Bamboo Factory at 504 S. Broadway in ly Pilipinos and their struggle to preserve low-cost housing in an JACL Chapter-Sponsored 1901 (when President McKinley rode down the street, Bun• Francisco's Manilatown, premieres Saturday and Sunday, Mar. 3-4 , at goro Tani's bamboo factory at 527 S. Spring St. in 1904, and the Langston Hughes Cultural Center, 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. It will be shown Group Medical Insurance with " Hito Hata: Raise the Banner," a drama about Los Angeles Issei. Yamato Dept. Store at 635 S. Broadway in 1908. These stores The program benefits the lnternatiooa.1 District Housing Alliance. For Endorsed by were located in the heart of L.A.'s downtown shopping ar.ea. information, call 623-5132. Visual Communications, on the third floor of this build• Pacific Southwest District JACL ing (JACCC), has just published with the Little Tokyo Cen• Educational Concerns CONTACT LISTED BROKERS BElOW tennial Committee a commemorative pictorial history ($20 in the Little Tokyo bookstores) on Little Tokyo. More will be said FRESNO, Ca.- Amerasia Week 1!114 will be held on the Calif. Slate about this in a later column. Univ. campus during the week of Mar. 5-10. Sponsored by the Amerasja LOS ANGELES (213) . Masaru Kagawa ...... 624-0758 Saburo Shimada ...... 82(}-4638 For bini's eye views of how the Little Tokyo area appeared Club, Asian American Studies Program, and Associated Students, the celebration features speakers, cultural performances, a ftlm showing, Kamiya Ins. Agy ...•. . . • 626-8135 Paul Tsuneishi ...... 628-1365 in the 1880s and 1890s, check them by perusing any number and a community night. All activities take place in the new Satellite Art Nishisaka ...... 32 1-4779 Yamato Ins. Sv ...... 624-9516 of panoramic views taken from Ft. Moore Hill (where the L.A. College Union. For further informat¥>n, call (209) 294-3002. # ORANGE COUNTY (714) School Board has its main office today) toward the Plaza Ken 1ge ...... 943-3354 James Sei~1 .. •. .... 527-5947 Church and Pico House in the center. However, familiarity Maeda-Mizuno Ins. Agy. 964-7227 Ken Uyesugl ...... •. ... 558-n23 with the geography of the area is a must when studying such EAST LOS ANGELES / MONTEREY PARK (213) pictures. -. - Takuo Endo ...... 265-0724 Robert Oshita ...... 283-0337 Early Feedback-Two Issei who rem er the names of Ogino-Aizumi Ins. Agy .. .571-6911 George Yamale ...... 386-1600 towns listed in "The Heydays of 19OOs" (No. 5) waxed nostal• or283-1233 gically with us this past week. Haiku poetShisei Tsuneishi, 95, !KAMON GARDENA VALLEY (213) Jeff K. Ogata ...... 329-8542 Sugino-Mamtya Ins. Agy 538-5808 of prewar Monrovia recalled when he first came to L.A. in Stuart TSUJlmoto ...... n2-6529 George J. Ono ...... 324-4811 1907. He had spent his first night in a Japan~ ~ hotel at First & Japanese American WEST LOS ANGELES (213) Alameda (still standing) and the manager told him work was Arnold Maeda, CLU .... 398-5157 Steve Nakaji ...... 391 -5931 aY.ailable.at Tropico to pick beri'ies '" Pc's issei columnist Family Crest Onglnal, Bronze "JA" Kamon • History of the Kamon & Surname DOWNEY: Ken Uyetake ...... (213) n 3-2853 Jin Konomi, 21) yearshter, remembered taking the red car out KEI YOSHIDA, Researcher/ Creator NINA YOSHIDA, Translator SAN DIEGO: Ben Honda ...... (619) 277-8082 of Subway terminal for his weekend fruitstand job in Lan• SAN FERNANDO VL Y. Hiroshi ShimIZU, CLU . (213) 363-2458 kershim (now North Hollywood )-Tropico was eastward Yoshida Kamon Art down the L.A. Rlver banks ... Another old-timer sitting next Open to anyone, citizen or non-citizen, 312 E. First St., Suite 205 who becomes a member of the JACL to us is Henry Mori, who has been asked to pen a few memories Los Angeles, CA 90012; (213) 629-2848/755-9429 here. We welcome others, too. # •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• 4-PACIRC CITIZEN I Friday, March 2, 1984
• [] WEU5EDTHE CAT- SCANNER 10 co SHOW YOU THE NIKKEI MAKE-UP EAST WIND: by Bill Marutanl IS DIFFERENT FROM YOUR INTERPRETATIONS • Japan's Double Standards Philadelphia IMAGlNE, IF YOU will, meeting a person who speaks your language (E nglish, in your case) in a broken fashion, interspersed with malapr Putting Out Some Fires, Lighting Others By OZZIE IMAI improperly. We hope that she understood our point of view. I thought that " Diane's" response was good after reading it Chair, Ethnic Concerns Committee Advice to Young Asians initially but after thinking about the comments made by our Lodi, Ca. , Dear Diane,' a book written by an Asian woman, contains committee member, I agree that " Diane's" response is not National JACL's Ethnic Concerns Committee had its flrSt a section in which a young Korean girl, apparently aboUt 17 or altogether sufficient. meeting in January. The committee comprises eleven mem• 18 years old, poses a problem to" Diane." A young Sansei boy If the girl's parents were Caucasian and her father was bers plus one representative from each district. Because of asks the Korean girl for a date. Her parents object strongly. killed as a result of the bombing at Pearl Harbor, would we distance, district representatives communicate their con• She states that they are against him even before they meet have responded in the same manner as "Diane" did? I don't cerns by letter to the rest of the committee. him. She asks what can be done to change their minds. think so. We came to conclusions on some topics at the January meet• "Diane' answers that Japan's colonization of Korea may A meeting has been scheduled with "Diane" to discuss her ing and formed subcommittees to pursue others. have an effect on the girl's parents. She further explains that response. The following missions and objecti ves were developed : ber parents lived through those times and do not have fond Textbook Revisions . Missions: 1) To explore civil rights issues as they impinge memories of the Japanese and that they associate the Sansei on the Nikkei; (2) to develop response capabilities on matters with those memories. It is krnwn that information pertaining to the Japanese of civil rights· and (3) to develop appreciation of Japanese • Diane" suggests that while the young Korean girl may not American experience is lacking in our state textbooks. A sub• American heritage. be able to get her parents to like her friend as an individual, committee has been formed. Objecti es: (1) Identify incidents and issues · (2) gather she should be patient, put off the first date for a few weeks, and Our irrunediate objective is to get Asians on the various basic information necessary to understand issues; (3 take have a small group, including him, over to the house for some state education corrunittees tbatevaluate textbook materials. action after assessing the issues or make recoIDIDerdations activity and introduce him to her parents with others. There are also positions for volunteers to perform these tasks. for action; (4 communicate these fmdings to National JACL Diane" suggests that as she has her friends over more Mike Honda, principal of McKinley School in San Jose, is and all other appropriate parties; and 5) monitor. often, her Sansei friend could volunteer to help do some of the presently a member of the State Commission of Instructional The majority of the committee's concerns deal with acts of chores around the house. Material, whose tasks are to evaluate the content of textbook racial discrimination. I am sure that this will be a continuing If all this fails, her friend can go to her parents to tell them materials. His term on this commission will expire during problem but I hope that our committee will be more than that he s sorry that Japan invaded Korea. but that he had October 1005,. and we need to start looking for someone, pre• a ' pu t~~-the-flre ' operation. We need to develop an effective nothing to do with it. 'Diane" explains that while it may not ferably an Asian, for his replacement. We also need persons to educational program. I encourage readers to send us sugges• change their minds at least it might get them to laugh and see join the Commission on Legal Compliance, whose function is tions as to bow wecan best deal with this important issue. how unreasonable they're being. to make sure that legal requirements are met. The Term Jap' One member of our committee felt that since the problem IS The State Board of Education is charged with the constitu• We received a letter from a Nikkei woman living in Tulsa, not the girl's or her Sansei friend's, the focus of "Diane's" tional responsibility of education in California and is the ulti• Okla. stating that when she was in Atlanta Ga., she turned answer should be directed at her parents. The young boy need mate authority. Some who select members for this group are on the television to watch WAGA TV-5's 6 o'clock news on not ingratiate himself by doing chores and by saying that he the governor speakers of house and senate, the superinten• December 7,1983. She stated that the broadcaster was using was sorry that Japan invaded Korea since that doesn't ad• dent of schools and others. the term "Jap" during his commentary. dress the problem or serve to liberate the parents. Please pass on to us names of those who would be suitable She contacted the station. They suggested she contact the The committee member suggests that a possible solution for any of the commissions or the board of education. Specific program's executive producer. She wrote a protesting letter. would be to explain that tlus vexmg problem has been around informatJon describing these bodies will be forthcoming. As of this date, a response has not been received by her. for generatIons of Americans. Inter-ethruc social intercourse Meanwhile, we welcome any comments, suggestions or criti• In cases such as these, the committee strongly recommends is a fact of life m our heterogeneous society. Statistics showing cISms regardIng ethnic concerns -Ozzie 1mal, that local chapters take appropriate action. We think this figures of marnages among young Asian Amencans can be 630 Drus Ave LodL CA 95240 , would be more effective. If help is needed, however we cer• shown. Without intendmg to be cruel. a suggestion could be tainly will be more than willing to do what is necessary. made that one of the optIons open to the parents ill a free We also received a letter from a Nikkei teacher wboobject• SOCiety IS to consIder movmg to more homogeneous soclet} SEABOARD Con1lDlled from pag ed to the tenD "Jap" used in one of her elementary textbooks. more acceptable to them The word was used in quotes to describe how in the early 1900s, Another alternatIve mIght be to exp\am to the parents that fortable margin m 1978, for a third term, but 15 up for re• other Californians discriminated agamst the Japanese. having come to a heterogeneous. multJ-ethruc society, one electIon m 1984 He may become If the Democrats WlD a As much as we abhor the word "Jap," it was the commit• must often find wa. s of eleclmg as ociate other than majority ill the Senate, chair of the Senate JUdiCIary Commit• tee's opinion that this term was not used lIDproperly in the on etbnicity alone. Perhaps tlus means that we must examme tee, replacmg Strom Thurmond of South Carolina. Biden is context in which it was presented. At times, we realize that it our immigrant cultures to see what we value and then make also third ranking mmority member of the Senate Budget is very difficult to decide whether such a term is beIng used our choices based on sunilarlty of personal values Committee Although a number of JACLers live in Virginia, and work in Washmgton, D.C., apparently none are particularly close to the local politIcs of that area. Sen. John arner (R- a ) is up FROM THE FRYING PAN: by Bill Hosokawa for re-election in 1984. There is some doubt whether he will be able to retam his Senate seat. In the 1978 election, he was greatly helped by his well-known wife, Elizabeth Taylor '.' but 15 now divorced. The Democrats may be making anall-uut Check Those Ads in PC effort to take away Warner's seat, since his election in l!178 was by less than 5,000 votes out of a total of 1.2 million. Virginia s Denver, Colo. An invitation to open up a $100 000 line of credit. bloc of 10 House votes will be important to redress, too. We Sometimes when you have A fllm studio in Vancouver, B.C., for $2,200,000 need to have constituents organized to poll candidates for election m 1984 as to their attituies toward redress. # nothing better to do, you might Canadian. take a close look at the adver• A 5,OOO-square foot brick rome with swimming tisements being published in pool on 81 acres in South Carolina for ~ 000. Pacific Citizen these days. It is flattering that advertisers believe there are _ IJ _ Since advertisers pay good a substantial number of Japanese Americans in money space in which to peddle their wares, position to spend or invest tre kind of money the successful ones are quite canny about where required to take advantage of the opportunities they maketbeirpitch. For example, you wouldn't listed above. And no doubt trere are numbers of advertise hernia trusses in House Beautiful. Nor them - attorneys, doctors, real estate develop• 11.9::cARLOANS would you advertise a Florida condominium or a ers, businessmen - perhaps more than we real• $3,200 000 golf course for sale in any old publica• ize, with just such assets built up amazingly tion unless you fIgured its readers had money to enough after the economic devastation of the invest. Evacuation just four decades ago. Here are some of the items advertised in recent But chances are that for every reader of the issues of Pacific Citizen: Pacific Citizen in position to invest a million Vacation tours to Japan ($2,150), Australia arid clams or consider a $6,000 vacation trip for man New Zealand ($2,000), Britain and Scandinavia and wife, there are many more of the middle class ($2,895), Greece arxi Egypt ($2,995). A21-day tour who have to be satisfIed with mutual fund invest• of China for $3,077. ments. And of course some with serious concerns A bar and restaurant in Pennsylvania for about the price of rice and gasoline am whether Ins\lrance $250 000. Social Security will cover tre difference between A six-building apa.rtmentcomplex with 69 units the pension check and the cost of living. in Saskatchewan for $1,250,000. Advertisements directed to the fa t cats are wel• A 23 OOO-acre ranch in New Mexico, no price come so long as payment is prompt, and I hope given. they get the kind of response that will encourage A concrete building requinng development in continued advertising. -"\ 'f ~5 t; rr,lilIon m ssets downtown Salt Lake City for $1,500,000. But deep in the back of my head is a suspicion. NATIONAL JACL A townhouse in a Colorado ski resort for Are these advertisers, like so many others, con• CREDIT UNION $195 000. fusing Japanese Americans with the Japanese P( b)' 17 '. Four-day salmon fIshing trips to British from Japan? Are they mistaking Japanese S I'L ke Cl y Vt h 84; 10 (0). in Columbia for $1 Americans with the well-heeled Japanese who Ten )n _ '80 I) 35::>-804 An opportunity to pick up a public campground the manner of SaOOi sheiks are looking for oppor• franchise for a minimum of$100,OOO . tunities to invest their millions abroad? # 6-PACIRC CITIZEN I Friday, March 2, 1984 Keeping Tra<;k 'Still a lot to do,' state senator tells Seattle JACL at installation dinner SEATTLE--Approximately 250 chapter members and supporters attended the 62nd Rebuttal to Kiyoaki Murata annual JACL installation and awards banquet at Double• By WILLIAM HOHRI tree Plaza Jan. 21. (Chicago) State Sen. George Flem• The following respon es ar~ made to the A abi himbun ing, who played a key role article by Kiyoaki Murata, reprinted in the Pacific itizen on winning compensation for Dec.i6: Japanese American state 1. The CWRIC reporti a " falsification of history ." emllloyees who lost their jobs durmg WW2, was keynote The CWRIC report is historically correct. It is ba ed upon speaker. KOMO-TV reporter primary and secondary historical materials. Murata's state• Marcus Mukai hazxiled the ment seems ba ed upon a naive acceptance of U.S. propa• ceremonies. ganda. personal recollection, and faulty logic. " This turnout shows soli• 2. The CWRIC claims as causes ' racial prejudice and war darity that flows through hysteria. your community," Fleming said. 'We have all made pro• The CWRIC states as causes 'race prejudice, war hysteria, gress, but much progress is and a failure of political leadership. ' yet to be made. In the strug• 3. "The congressional body was not established to examine gle for full civil rights and the relocation program objectively.' liberties you can be proud." But even though Japanese Newly elected officers and board membersot Seattle Chapter JACL The stated purpose of the CWRIC was to " review the facts Americans have come this and circumstances surrounding Executive Order Nwnbered far, Fleming said, they still Fourteen awards were ~iv Aki Kurose was awarded Shimizu, 3d vp; Kathy Kozu, 4th en out at the banquet. ReCipi• for her peace work, and vp ; Ayako Hurd, corr sec; Gail 9066 ... and the impact of such Executive order on American have not made their presence Tanaka, ree sec; Janice Nishl• c.itizens and permanent resident aliens. ' That's pretty objec• known in many places such ents were: Sen Fleming, Cherry Kinoshita received mori, treas; Jiro/SheaAoki, hist; tive , at least considerably more objective than Murata' as in state government. State Sen. John Jones, Ron the Dr. Minoru Masuda Com• Mako Nakagawa, del. treatment. "There is still a lot to do," Sims, Tim Gojio, and Ruth munity Service Award. Sil• Bd members: Ann Fujii, Frank he said, citing President Woo for their work on the ver pins were given to Uoyd Fujii, James Hatton, David 4. "The inquiry was like a trial where the accused is pre• Reagan's recent attacks on state employees compensa• Hara, Bill Ishii and Mako Hoekendorf, Bev Kashino, Rod sumed guilty from the outset." affUiOative action and the tion bill; Dr. Dennis Short for Nakagawa. # Kaseguma, Diana Kato, Doug Unlike a trial none of testimony heard was sworn testi• U.S. Civil Rights Com• his assistance to hibakusha Kinosnita, Jan Kumasaka, A1 (atomic bomb survivors); Kurimura, Ron Mamiya, Hana mony. The hearings were not adversarial. The only person I mission. SEATI'LE JACL Masuda, Ellen Miyasato, Ken know who brought an attorney with him was John J . McCloy. " Complete miscarriage of Dr. Ben Uyeno for medical 316 Maynard Avenue So. Nakano, Arlene Oki, May Sasakl, justice is still possible,' service to the commuruty; Takag ~ 5. I was in California when the evacuation began in early Seattle, WA 98104 Robert Sato, Cal Theresa Fleming said. ' Not all of our the chapter redress comrrut• Jerry Shigaki, pres; David Oki• Takayoshi, Ted Taniguchi, Masa• 1942 . .. , Since I personally experienced the resettlement I opponents are bigots, but all tee; and the Puyallup Monu• moto, pres-e.lect; Wayre Kimura, ko Tonuta, Vicki Toyobara, Joan wish to correct some basic misunderstandings about it. " ' bIgots are our opponents." ment Project Committee. 1st vp ; Sam Shoji, 2d vp ; Roger Yoshitomi Personal experience is a poor substitute for a docwnented record of government actions. Most victims still do not know what hit them. ecretary of War McCloy that there never exi t d rruJitary 15. ' The camps were elf-governing, and peopl who 6. "Japanese subjects ... and American citizens of Japa• necessity for such exclusion zone . worked rec i ed compensation." nese origin were relocated from the states of Washington, In the same month of April 1943, McCloy Informed Bendet• By the tandards of the Geneva Convention on the treatment Oregon, and California into the interior." sen that militarY necessit , such a it was, no longer existed in of prison of war, the camps were substandard in many Of the four states-Murata omits Arizona- which had ex• the Western Defense Command. But it would be some 20 re peets, in luding wages, the quality and quantity of food , clusion zones, only California's covered the entire state. months before mass exclusion was lifted. In other words, we housing and the right to be represented. Curiously, citizens of would spend more time in camps without military n essity Japan could appeal to the Spanish Embassy for violations, 7. 'The commission's finding that there was no military than we would with it. necessity' begs the question. " whereas citiz ns of the United States had no court of appeal. 8. " The U.S. Army (was) also apprehensive about the loyal• 16. "This ahistorical argument pro es nothing." Military necessity was based on three " facts" : 1) shore-to• ties of ... American-born (J apanese Americans ... ' ship signallings, (2) illegal radio transmissions, and (3) the When applied to Murata, I couldn't agree more! inability to distinguish the loyal from the disloyal. The FBI On April 3, 1942, General Raymond E . Lee wrote to Chief of Staff George C. Marshall, " It is the consensus of opinion of refuted the first ' fact. " The Federal Communications Com• WOMEN'S CONCERNS: mission refuted the second " fact. ' And the third " fact' is most officers who know the Japanese and Nisei best that the contradicted by the assessment of the United States intelli• great majority of the Nisei want to be, and will be, loyal. ' Gap' gence community, including the Office of Naval Intelligence 9. " German and Italian citizens .. were not mo ed to relo• Closing the 'Gender and the FBI. They preferred a selective procedure for appre• cation centers (because) the presumed threat to the West hending disloyals, not a mass approach. In fact, all suspect Coast came from Japan, not from Germany or Italy." in Politics disloyals had been identified and apprehended before E09066 There was no mass exclusion and detention of German and BY ffiENE HIRANO was issued. Italians citizens or aliens, even though there was a serious Los Angeles butter" issues have become In addition zones of exclusion based on military necessity threat of espionage on the Ea t coast. The year 1984 has been iden• priority concerns of national were declared for each camp outside the main exclusion zone. There were, however, cases of indi vidual exclusion orders, tified as a significant mile• women's organizatioos. Many These zones prevented the irunates from leaving a camp's numbering in the hundreds, issued mainly to Germans and stone in the growing involve• of these organizations are perimeter; in leaving, they would trespass into an exclusion Italians. Each such order was processed with a hearing, a ment of women in the nation• beginning to have a signifi• zone. In April 1943, Col. Karl R. Bendetsen reminded Assistant choice of places to which to relocate, family relo ation op• al . political scene. The so• cant impact on nationaf pol• tional and no detention. called " gender gap" may re• icy and there needs to be vo• Moreover, on October 12, 1942, Columbus Day, President sult in women determining cal Asian American input. Roosevelt declared that Italian aliens would no longer be con• the outcome of local and na• One of the more sidered to be enemy aliens. Wasn't that nice? tional elections. The num• encouraging developments bers of women in political in the past few years has been 10. ' The U.S. Army encouraged and assisted those who parties and national wom• were willing to evacuate voluntarily." the leadership roles assumed • MAR. 2 (Friday) Mountain View - Bay Area JA Sr en's organizations has in• by Asian American women in Mtn-PJains DC-.'Spmg session, Fl Ctrs Sbinnen Kat, Buddhist Ch, 575 Oh, really? Did the U.S. Army find them housing? Jobs? creased significantly over the some of these organizations. Lupton JACLhost, Ft Luptoo HS, 7 pm; Stierlin Rd, IO:3Oam-3pm. past several years. For ex• Harry Honda, guest spkr. West Valley-New Member Wel• Provide a stipend to tide them over? While their numbers have ample, membership of the • MAR. 3 (Saturday) come, EI Paseo Shoppmg Ctr Cornrn 11. " Given the widespread anti-Japanese sentiment gen• been small, it has been Denver--Cornm t.estimooiaJ dnr for HalJ, 6pm. National Organization for through the involvement of Min Y35m, Hyatt Regency Hotel, 6pm ; Sacrarnento-3d ann'l APAAC Conf, erated by Pearl Harbor ... " Women increased from Rep. Robert T Matsui, spkr. Woodlake Inn, Hwy 160 & Canterbury Murata ignores the years of alien land laws, anti-misce• 40,000 to 250,000+ - between these women that the con• Berkeley-Asn/ Pac Student Union Rd, 8am-5pm; award banq,6pm. genation laws, housing and job discrimination, and just plain cerns of Asian American Calif statewide conf, Univ YWCA , 2600 • MAR. 11 (&1Dday ) 1978 and 1982. women have been raised and Bancroft Wy, 9am, 'Taking a Stand in HolJyw~hinese Wd< dnr, 5pm, red-necked racism. As stated in this PC colurim ~es to these groups '84 ;' info (415) 642-6728. call 661-0048 by Mar 9 for locale. last week, few Asian Ameri• that • MAR. 3-4 Los Ange1es-Higasht Honganji les· 12. 'The Army was forced to resort to group relocation .... " exist. Folfowing are some of can women have been active• Marysville--Teriyaki dnrs, Buddhist tun lnchn for Rev Horyu Ito, Hyatt Mass exclusion was planned from the beginning. It could not these organizations. All have Church Annex. Regency, l2n. ly involved in national wom• state and local chapters or • MAR. 4 (Sunday) E1 Cerrito-East Bay l$ei Housing be implemented upon the issuance of E09066 because there en's groups. Historically Los Angeles-Premiere of Buddhist spag/crab feed , EI Cerr Comm Ctr, existed no legal penalties for violations of exclusion. The afftliates which can be con• art: Light of Asia, LA County Mus of 7007 Moeser Ln, 4-7pm. NOW or National Women's tacted: Art (to May 20). • MAR. 12 (Monday I Army had to wait for Congress to pass Public Law 503 which Political Caucus attracted .MAR . ~10 Seattle-E:xec bd mtg, JACL Office, provided penalties. In the interim, what Murata improperly few minority women to their National Organizatioo for Wom• Fresno-Amerasia Wk, CSU-Fresno 7pm. ranks. Many of these groups en, 425-00 St NW, Suite 723, SatelliteCoUege Union. Sked info: 294- Fresno-Bd mtg, CFB on Shaw Ave, describes as " voluntary" movement was permitted. (There is Washington, DC 2CID4, (202) 3002.) 7:30pm. nothing voluntary about being ordered from your home and have recognized this prob• 347-2279.- Patricia Brandt, San Jose-JANBA t.oumament, Oak• • MAR. 15 (Thursday) community.) lem and have sought out National Board Member: ndgeLanes. Oakland-Pianists Aki Takahashi & minority women leaders to (808) 548-4313. • MAR. 7 (Wednesday) Rae Imamura concert, Mills College, 13. 'Camps were set up in the . .. states in the interior." West Los Angeles-CityVlew Hosp's 8pln. assist m their recruitment National Women's Political Cau• Family Heahh: Heart/ Hypertension, • MAR. 16 (Friday) Four of the ten camps were in the exclusion zone. efforts. cus, 1411 K St NW, &tite 1110 ora Sterry Comm Lighted School, Omaha-Hina Matsuri, First North• 14. ' Those who remained in the centers until the end of the In large part, however, it Washington, DC 20005, (202 ) 1730 Corinth, 7:30pm ; Gen Niwayama, side Bank. will be the changing focus in 347-4456.- Irene Natividad, MD ; Thomas Kanegae, MD, spkrs. • MAR. 17 (Sa turday) war did so primarily because they preferred the security of priorities of national wom• National Vice President, 890 • MAR. 9 (Friday) Carson-Steak dnr I Las Vegas nite, the camps to the uncertainties of life on the outside." West End Ave ., New York, NY Phildelpbia-Bd mtg, J Ozawa res. Gardena Buddhist Ch, 1517 W 166th en's organizations hat mar 10025, 201 ) 595-246l. New York-Aso Am Artists for Jesse San Jo_Ann'1 bridge tourn't, The exclusion order was not lifted until January 1945. Until begin to attract a more di• American Assn. of University Jackson program, Wash'n Sq Ch, 133 W Wesley UMChalJ, 7:30pm then, neither those interned nor those excluded but not verse segment of women into 4th, 7pm (Info: ~7 .) • MAR. JB (&1Dday) Women, 2401 VirgiItia Ave NW , • MAR. 10 (Saturday) Contra Costa-Golf tourn't, South interned could return to their homes or communities. Those their membership. Economic Washington, DC 20037, BOO) Intermountain DC-Spring SesSion, Course Alameda, 8am: Info : 233-2602 who did decide to leave and passed the leave clearance pro• issues including pay equity, 424-~717 . ~r . Tin Myaing Cactus Pete Conv Ctr, Jackpot, NV , or 234-4911). comparable worth, child Them, National Membership lOam. • MAR. 21 (Wednesday) cedure, including the loyalty oath were given a one-way Director. San Francisco-Night at the Races, Seattle-Gen bd mtg, JACL Office, ticket and $25-provided they declared indigence. care, employment discrimi• Tanforan Turf Club (SchoIFd bnfl). 7:30pm. nation am other " bread and Continued on Page II friday, Mlrch 2, 1984 I PACIFIC CITlZEM-7 1984 Convention package, tour details announced SAN FRANCISCO-Brochur s and registration forms for th The above hotel rates for Convention week are available tinue in the mornings through Friday aftenoon when elections 28th Biermial National JA L Con ention Aug. 12-17 ar bing only through Gelco Travel and must be purchased with air are scheduled. distributed through H adquart rs, regional offic and th travel. Sample fares for JACLers and accompanying family Afternoons are devoted to speCIal events, sucn as me A ri• chapter . and friends are: zona Memorial Tour on Tuesday, convention workshops on As the official con ention travel agency, Hawaiian San Francisco $329. 1..0 Angel $319, D nver $578/618* , SeatU $390/ Wednesday. the sunset luau at 5 on Wednesday ; a Furusato 410*, Chicago $594/615*, and New York $525/525. (* Higher fare applies Ad enture and Gelco Tra el ervice are organizing the for weekend travel. ) Childr n under two travel fr , children 2 - 11 Matsuri (entertainment) on Thursday at 7:30 ; the Washing• hotel, travel and tour packages during pre- and po t-amven• tra el at 75 ' of the fare. (Agency has blocked seats from major Cities ton Place reception (pending at 5) and climaxing with the tion periods. Northwest Airlines and Hawaiian Airlines are the official Convention Sayonara Ball on Friday. carriers as arranged by Gelco Travel.) Convention hosts, the Honolulu JACL, has elected the Paci• Optional Tour fic Beach Hotel in the heart ofWaikiki Beach as the con ention Registration forms are due May 15 with $200 d posit p r Bro hure lists a vari ty of optional Lours and social events in headquarters and site of the National Council se sions. p r on for air and hotel / land package. Convention regi tra• Honolulu, Maui , Kauai and the Big Island. A JACL hospitality Basic con ention co ts per person through Gelco include: tion deadlin is June 1. Full prepayment is due July 15. Th desk will aSSist in th se arrangements as well as car rentals, land-package d po it of$100 becomes nonrefundabl on July etc. Occupancy (7 Nights) ...... Double Siog1e 1. Re ervations re iv daft r July is subject to availability at The Neighbor Islands tour packages before or after the Hotel-Land Package (-) ...... $205 $405 an additional fe of$50 per person. convention include 3-nights stay at Sheraton hotels. but one• Third person (w/dbl) ...... 98 Fourthperson (w/dbl) ...... 98 on entionProgram day tours from Honolulu are also a vailable to Kauai and Maw. Child, up to 12 w/parents ...... 25 Program open Sunday (Aug. 12 ) with a r ception and 1000 Convention Package Child, up to 12 w/rollaway ...... 98 Club whing ding. Golf rs te off at 8 a.m. Monday at the Thr e convention packages are being offered. The official Additiooal (pre- Ol'post-{:onvenwn) .. 60 60 International ountry Club whH th atlOnal Board m ts at del gat can b expected to Sign up for Package A-the basic - RWl ofthe bouse; 4% state tax; fresh flower lei greeting on arrival; 9. Orientation for delegates follows at 1 p.m. with an op ning packet WIth regIstration, whing ding, Aloha banquet, Arizona r.t. airport.ootel transfers; r .t.luggage transfers; airport porterage on Memorial Tour and Sayonara ball ($125 before June 1, $155). arr/dep; welcome orientation briefing; garment factory visit; Hawai• cer monies Aloha banqu tat 6. Business sessions commence Tuesday at 9 a.m. and con- To attend the Sunset luau, Washington Place recepton and ian Adventure escort services. Furusato Matsuri, order Package B (which includes Package A) at $180/$220. Package C which includes Package B plus golf ------Lettern------Tatsumi chosen and tennis co ts $217/263. A separate or ala-carte fee is also • Docwnentary novel which has reconstructed his• basis for regarding Futatsu posted and much higher. torical facts. ' no Sokoku as something forD.C. The opening ceremonies Aloha banquet will include greet• Sunlight is 8 minutes old by Following the epilogue, in more than fiction, I would SAN JOSE, Ca.-Masako Ta• mgs from dignitaries and dirmer with a Japanese theme• the time it reaches the earth, which she explains how she like to hear why. tsumi, daughter ofYoshiyuki sushi, sashimi, tonkatsu. tempura and Shogun steak. The and my PC's drift to Japan, researched the novel and cre• WILLIAM WETIIERALL Tatsumi, has been chosen to sunset luau at Paradise Cove, about 30 rrunutes away. will alwa ~ not in the order they dits some of her ~factors , Nagareyama, Chiba represent the San Jose Chap• take place at an exclUSive beachside location in Ewa. Local are published, as late as two she lists the names of over ter in the Presidential Class• fans and top Japanese vocalists will entertain at the Furusato months after they are • A 'True' happening room for Young Americans two hundred of the over three Matsuri while the bento and drink will be served by the chap• shipped fromL.A. So in offer• hundred people in the United in Washington, D.C., Mar. 10- in~ this rebuttal to Ted Shige• As the 28th Biennial JACL 17. Each more than 3,000 ter . The best gounnet dinner at a reachable cost is being States, Japan, and the Philip• Convention draws nearer I rear no s letter "JACL Ignor• pines whom she interviewed senior high school leaders offer d by Pacific Beach Hotel at the Sayonara banquet-ball. ance" (Dec. 16), I am aware would like to share a singular from 50 states travel to the For travel infonnation and reservation, contact Group over the five years (two incident that happened mid• that I am responding to a years in the field, three years nation's capitol for the D pt.• Gelco Travel ervices, 550 Hamilton Ave., Palo Alto, dated rather than current way during the 1982 conven• program. # writing) that it took her to tion that was not particularly CA 9430 , 415 ) 321-2890 or (800 821-2494 (except Calif.). # criticism, and I apologize to complete the novel. Finally him if his views have since earthshaking but ofsome sig• she gives nine pages of the nificance as to the character TM changed. " principal reference works" Frankly, his letter puzzled of the constituency. A modest (160 books and articles in J a• episode that I shall never for• me. He claims to have read panese, and 43 books, arti• my critique of Toyoko Yama• get. cles, and other sources in On Thursday, the fourth saki's Futatsu no Sokoku in English) of the many more ZElIISION day of the convention week, Far Eastern Economic Re• materials she seems to have view (Oct. 13, 1983). He ex• delegates were bused from consulted during this five• the notel for a ' Day in Gar• presses his opinion that (1) year period. my observations are not dena," beginning at the Mas worth repeating, (2) I have - ClaveU's Disclaimer & Chiz Satow Memorial Li• Wiring Contracts completely missed what Ya• JameS Clavell made no brary. Everything appeared masaki tried to do in her pretense of being possessed to be going rather well until Cablevision of Sacramento, an equal by a "social misslOn' shakai Chester Sugimoto, the co• novel, and .(3) fliave no basis employ~r, for claiming that her novel is shimei) to set the historical chair, and I discovered that opportunity will hold a bidders' "flawed by errors which sug• record straight. He very there were more people lined gest her lack of intimacy with modestly claiined ' I'm not a up for boxed lunches than conference on external and internal cable the subject matter' - be• novelist, I'm a storyteller," was anticipated. Amid has• wiring of single-family residences March 6 cause a novel, Ted implies, is and he always denied that tened apologies, Chester not supposed to be factual "Shogun" was in any sense a rushed to get more of the and of multiunit dwellings March 7 at Sierra and so should not be expected statement about history. Not 'bento bakkos" while I tried 2 Center, 2791 24th St., both starting to represent something ac• so Yamasaki, who has gone to placate the sun-soaked curately. out of her way to convince her delegates. We did manage to at 1 p.m. If Ted was present at the Japanese readers that she dispense enough IWlChes that August 5, 1983 Japan Chapter rubbed elbows with genuine day but Chester, my wife, Company engineers will explain plans JACL dinner in Tokyo where relocation carol> survivors Mlchl, and I had to go with• I asked Ms. Yamasaki, " as a human bemg with the out. It would have been of for a cable television system serving " Would you classify your same Japanese blood" (onaji little consequence had it not novel as a so-called kiTOku Nihonjin no chi 0 motsu nin• been for the fact that neither Sacramento, Folsom and Galt and spec shosetsu (docwnentary gen to shite), and that she of us had eaten since early sheets for bidding will be distributed. novel)?" then he must have knows more about such Nisei the day before. This plus the heard her reply "Mattaku no than the "Americanized" emotional edge of a hectic dokyumento de wa arima• (Amerikanaizu sareta) San• convention was havin~ an sen .. . .BakkuguraWldo dake sei who she claims are saying impact upon our well-bemg. wa zenbu dokyumento, shi• " rash th.inJ:!:s" (namaiki-na Somehow, Mrs. True Yasw kashi, jinbutsu wa akuma• koto) aboutfier novel. sensed this. She offered her demo sakka no tsukutta mo• Japanese Americans who lunchbox to me saying that Training Contract no desu" [It is not wholly are easily flattered at having the "bento" Min had was documentary. . . . Only the their suffering vicariously more than enough for two. I backgrOlmds are all docu• shared by Japanese should refused, of course, but this Cablevision of Sacramento plans to estab• mentary, but the characters bear in mind that Yamasa• very astute lady would not lish training programs for semiskilled and are entirely something that a ki's novel ultimately has lit• hear of it! To me it was a writer (I) created]. tle to do with Japanese magnificent gesture from unskilled local residents. We invite all Opening Reminder Repeate,! Americans, and even less to someone who I knew very re• do with Japan's own colonial motely and had conversed groups interested in bidding on our installer If Ted has read the novel, and indigenous ethnic mi• with so little before. A lady then he must have noticed norities NISEI IN JAPAN: by Barry Saiki From the Youth Director: David Nakayama Thoughts on Dual Loyalties Carleton • Tokyo What is the loyalty of an insurgent, a rebel or a revolution• JACL Scholars Pointed objections have been made ist? He may be against the government in power but may not about the title and the context of Toyoko necessarily be disloyal to his country, if he is part of the Last November, U.S. News & World Re• Yamasaki's novel "Futatsu no Sokoku," oppressed majority. His loyalty can be questioned if he is port conducted a national survey, using or Two Fatherlands. The primary criti• fighting for a minority view or a foreign ideology. But what polls from 1,308 college presidents, in the cism is that the Nisei have only one about Gordon Hirabayashi, Fred Korematsu and Min Yasui? top undergraduate institutions in the Uni• fatherland, the United States and that Were they disloyal for opposing the evacuation and not loyally ted States. something wrong with an individual who believes in entering the enclosures? , Carleton College, located in Northfield, two fatherlands. Right or wrong, loyalty cannot be dismissed What then is loyalty to an irxlividual who has cultural and . . , was fourth overall of the national liberal arts in a simple manner. familial ties with two countries, as was the case of the Kibei colleges and universities. According to U.S. News & World To most of us, loyalty to our country is a cut-and-dried issue. and the Issei? To which country does he owe his loyalty? Will Report, "Carleton College ... emerged as the top liberal-arts One is either loyal or he is not. The premise is completely he fight against the other country? Or does he want to remain college outside of the East ... [for its] general excellence and acceptable to a monocultural person, who was born and edu• neutral? If he had a twin, would one fight for each of the its impressive graduate school placement record." cated in one country. countries? The JACL and Carleton College conduct a program to re• Yet, even among our American youth today, the question of cruit students to the top-rated college. Chapters are en• loyalty is not cut and dried for some, who offer conscientious When placed in an unenviable position of being inducted to couraged to nominate entering freshman students, who are objections to military training or who refuse to participate in fight against the other country, would he seek a noncombatant assisted by grants, scholarships, loans and work study op• what they construe to be an " illegitimate war," as in Vietnam. role? To a dual cultural person, loyalty may not be a cut-and• portunities. These educational benefits are important at Then, there are some who do not owe loyalty to any country, dried choice. It is oot the question of black or white, but one of Carleton College, and are of great assistance to promising but to mooey or their ideologies, and in some cases, their black and white, or varying shades of gray. students. theologies. Thoughts of the Issei & Kibei Applications and information on the Carletonl JACL Scho• lars program are sent directly from the college. If you know of The typical monocultural person also tends to equate loyal• young scholars planning to attend an undergraduate institu• ty to a love or hate situation. One must love one country and MOSID-MOSID: by Jin Konomi tion in the future suggest that they contact Carleton College. hate the other. Yet, the dual cultural person loves both I ts toll-free number is 1-800-533-0466 (outside Minnesota) or countries and hates neither. But in a state of war, he is asked (507 ) 663-4193 insid Minnesota . # to choose between his mother and his foster-mother. In Ofukuro no Aji actuality, what he really desires is peace and mutual under• standing between the two countries he loves. Such were the -----1984 Officers ----- Albany, Ca. thoughts of the Kibei and Issei. The large bulk of the Kibei Some years ago an old friend of mine chose the U.8. and the Issei aligned themselves with the loy• CLEVELAND JACL gawa, Tatty Kikuchi, Ron Wata• from USC days came by San Francisco on alties of their children. Tom akao, Jr., pres; Sets nabe, Dave SakaI, Jeannette a trip around the world. After the usual We live today in an era of polyculturalization. The head• Nakashige, ~/prog ; Karen Ebi• Yoshida, &Je Kamimori, Howard round of the city's tourist spots it came quarters of multinational corporations and joint ventures hara, ~ / social ; Asae Honda, Watanabe, Art Okuno, Ray Uchi• lreas; Diane Asarnoto, see; May yama, Tom Kamimori, Rose Tsu• time for a reunion dinner. And what did he may be in New York, London, Amsterdam, Paris or some want? You guessed it. He wantedtogotoa Ichida, lsiet; Bob Taldguchi, nekawa, Toshi Tanaka, Miyo tax-sheltered Caribbean outpost while the staff may be citi• redress; Peggy TanJ!, memb; Watanabe, Lucille Hitomi, Bob Japanese restaurant. That less than a day out of Japan, and zens from a dozen countries. Does the loyalty of the person Masy Tastuma, 1000 Club; Don Togasaki, Flo Takei, May Yana• for the first American meal in 35 years! What a japansy guy, I belong to the country he was born in, the one he is living in, and Hashiguchi, newsletter; Wade gita, Kayo Kikuchi, Ko Same• Kojima, directory. Bd members: shima, Dave Muraoka marveled the one be is paying taxes to, or the ODe his wife is from? If he I've always wondered about the why of this episode. I've Dr. Craig Shimizu, Hank Tanaka, moves about on various assignments, does he split his loyal• Mary Obata, Rev. Koohin Ogui, also wondered: does an Italian on a world tour head for an GREATER L.A. SlNGLES ties into multiple parts? Some of these people will fa per• Beverly Kerecman. Tom Shimazaki, pres; Kazue Italian restaurant for his first American meal in New York? sonal crises when war occurs between the countries he feels Yoslutomi, lst vp; Tad Hiray.r Or a Swede in a similar situation. Does he look for a smorgas• closest to. What about the UN personnel who are supposed to WEST VALLEY JACL rna, 2d vp; Midori Watanabe, 3d 1~ Teresita Dr. bord in the massive Manhattan directory? take an objective view on all international situations? Or what vp; Ada Shimabuku, ree sec; San Jose, CA 95129 Taeko Kalli, Grace Tanaka, corr Not knowing the answers to these questions, I am oot in a about all recent immigrant groups? position to generalize-or rather, particularize-about the J a• J OM Tauchi, pres; Aron MIlJ"ai. sec; George Kamei, treas; Aya Well, is this internationalization bad? On the contrary, this lst vp; &uni Tanabe, 2d vp; Otsu, pub/bist; Bd membs: Bea• panese. But if my limited observation can be compared to the Lillian Kimoto, ree sec; Ruth trice Fujimoto, Jim Riga, Yo Fu• random sampling technique of the opinion polls, I dare say a interchange is a practical way of hearing ideas and promoting Sakai, corrsec; JudgeTak Takei, ruta, Roy Kayano, HanK Kimura, great many Japanese are like my friend. Wherever they go in worldwide cooperation. Still, it can create divided and dual treas. Annabelle Lee, Yoshio Minami, loyalties among those with bicultural or multicultural back• Bel members: Jim Sak.amoto, Yoshio Oshiki, Akira Ohoo, Alyce the world, comes the meal time, they tend to gravitate to the Jane Miyamoto. Marti Naka- Shirunoto. local Japanese restaurants. If they are stationed abroad for grounds. lengthy tours of duty, they regularly eat Japanese as a matter The simplest solution to this hodgepodge is the perpetual of daily routine. For them eating native is for special occa• maintenance of world peace. In the interim, I believe that the •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• sions, either in the nature of a treat, or of unwelcome polycultural persons can best serve as the links in creating necessity. stronger mutual understanding. Who can best explain the ~ How deep the reluctance for this necessity is may be gauged merits and faults of both than the one who knows aM loves \/IDI!V AC71VN by the term yokomeshi. To bear them use this word, you both. Perhaps, by being purely monocultural, it is we who are would think they are performing an act of martyrdom. Yoko wearing blinders. # PRESENTS is sideway, not straight up as things should properly be, ac• o Love and Folth (0gInscrna) cording to Japanese thinking. Yokomeshi is any meal not Toshiro Mlfune. Tokoshl Shlmuro Japanese or Chinese. o The PhoeIix (Hinotorf) Mosoo usokori. Tolruyo NokodOl Food preference is an addiction. The types of foodstuff and styles of cooking on which you were weaned usually tend to o Murder in the Doll House (Midare Karakuri) determine your taste through life. So the nostalgic yearning Vuso u Motsuda. Hlr 0 Shlno for the pies and stews and roasts "like mom used to make" MIDAS o Nomugi Pass seems a universal phenomenon. In Japan the most craved (M Nomugi Toge) dishes are the ofukuro no aji, or the taste of the Old Lady. Shinobu Oloke. 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I do not see any such behavior on the part 200/0 NET per Annum of Japanese tourists in America. The only American dishes Erclosed Is' Check Q Money Order they genuinely enjoy seem to be fried chicken and Minimum Investment. $15,000 o VISAlMC# hamburgers. I anticipate some flak on this last paragraph, especially --DETAILS UPON REQUEST-- Expiration Dote from those of you who have been to Japan in recent years. Dyke Nakamura, Foreign Department Add $3 each for shipping and handling and 6"10 CA or What of the plethora of restaurants in Tokyo and other leading 6'/2"10 LA County resident soles tax. Delivery 3-5 weeks. cities which offer exotic cuisines from all over the world from Yamakichi Securities Co., Ltd. Name ______Turkish to Mongolian to Polynesian? Will you not say J apa• 7 Nihonbashi, Kabutocho, 1-chome nese taste is ecumenical? Chuo-ku, Tokyo, Japan 103 Address ______• • • City, ______State, ___Zip __ These were exactly the questions that had puzzled me for Cable: YAM ASECURE. 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Our innovatIve business strategies have • A proven system made us a leader: now we're keepIng In (213) 628-7060 If you believe in yourself, why not work for yourself? touch WIth the future by fOCUSing our GRAPHIC ONE FRANCHISING pro Ides a full array of graphiC servlClls efforts on expanding the horizons of Typesetting. Des'9n. LayoUl. Mechanical Art. (No Pronllng). experience," the bUSiness communications Rapid growth graphiCS industry IS NOT reqUired A background," Bus . Sales or Marketing of our ElectronIC Products Division has IS Cash Outlay $18.500 l~lTERESTED call or wrote today created an opening for a Customer Graphic One, Inc., clo Walt W illiams Service TechnIcal Representaltve. ~ 11111 E. MISSISS lppt, Suite 204 Plaza Gift Center You must be able to read, Wrtte and speak ~ Aurora, CO 80012 Call Collect (303) 363-9696 Japanese and English fluently Four years RNE JEVv'ELRY CAMERA VIDEO SYSTEM experience in field maintenance and + HOME COMPUTERS · WATCHES· TV· RADIO repair of office or Informatton processIng SOFTWARE· DESIGNER S BAG - BONE CHINA eqUIpment, and an ASSOC iate degree or equivalent In ElectronIcs, Englneerrng or Authorized SONY Dealer JOE PRIEST Computer Science IS required. III Japanese ViDage Plaza MaD If your expertence matches our reqUIre• Los AQgeJes, CA 9OOJ.2 ments, contact us today. We offer a (213) 680-3288 REAL ESTATE competitIve salary and extensive com • SeNing you w it h S~cces s pany benefits. Opportunity for advance• ment is frequently available due to our Specializing in Recreation and Game Properties c ontinued growth and an active Internal promotion policy. For prompt considera• These Texas Properties tion call toll free between the hours of 10 A M & 12 Noon (CST). M onday and COMPUTER TRAINING OFFERED FOR SALE: Tuesday only, 1-800-435-2222, or w rite us a letter indicating your experience and • 1,SOO ACRE wheat or c attle farm. $7SO.00 per acre, salary history. Enclose your resume if you owner financed, yielded 40 bu. wheat 1983. Y2 m inerals. have one. • 2 ,400 WEST cattle and game ranch, very scenic, good house and barns. well watered, from wells and city water line. $225.00 per acre_ FEDERAL EXPRESS • 4 ,400 ACRE West Texas ranch. Fronts on paved road. CORPORATION 500 acres in faf!T1, cotton and wheat, 3 sets of cattle pens, Electronic PrOducts D ivision Plaza Gift Center good fenses. Priced at $215.00 per acre. P.O . B ox 727, D ept. 351 4-236KS • IN ENGLISH & JAPANESE • SHOW PLACE 45 m iles out of Dallas. 300 acres, lovely Memp his, T N 38194 main 4000 sq. ft brick home, 2 bams, 2 sets pipe corrals, 7 acre lake, paved drive, fronts on paved road. A good buy at $625,000. • 200 ACRE ranch 40 m iles out of Dallas . Carying 60 big Reg. cows, 25 acre deep la ke , b ig barn. Owner fina nced. • 3 ,500 ACRE T rinity R iver Valley farm. Deep Trinity soil, NORTHWEST IOWA exce lle nt for alfalfa, whe at, co rn, cattle. Well watered, some ' Equal Opportunity Employer MI F FOR SALE BY OWNER imp rovements, fronts o n a paved farm road, 25 miles from 160 A cr e grain and hog operation, w ith corn being t he principal D allas courthous e. c rop. Depreciables in clude large 4 bdrm home, 3 car heated • NEW M EXICO ranch and retreat. 400 acres. Priced at g arage. and comp lete hog sel ·u p w h ich includes gestalton house. $800.00 per acre. Terms. 7,000 ft. elevation, spring water, farrOWing house, nursery. grower and finishing operation. Nearly spruce, aspen, beautIful mountain ranch just out of Raton. n ew feed grinr.lng area w hich Includes corn drYing and storage • 640 ACRE ranch, lake, house, 50 m iles from Dallas. facility lor 100.000 bus hels. Nearly new machine shed and 240kw $1 ,1 25.00 per acre. automa t ic standby generator. Excellent tax shelter. $660.000. 312 GLENDALE AVE_, Additional 300 acres available includtng remodeled 3 bdrm home, good out buildings and new deep well that can be used for hog SEAGOVILLE, TX 75159 finishing. $600.000. Can be sold separtely. Owner and Sons (214) 287-4548 - 287-5965 avatlable to stay and manage. LOCAL MANAGEMENT AVAILABLE KEN BORCHERS Rte 1, Holstein, Iowa 51025 (712) 368-2508 or Eves: (712) 368-4 703 Friday, March 2, 1984 I PACIFIC ClTlZEH-11 1000 Club Roll National Business-Professional Directory Greater los Angeles San Diego San Francisco Bay Area (Year of Membership Indicated) uyama. 27-Kay Watanabe, 27-Ooug • Century; " Corporate; Monterey Peninsula: 30-Hoshilo Yamada, 14-Dr James Yasuda, 29- PAUL H. HOSHI ASUKA Japanese Antiques L Li~ ; M Mem'l; CIL Century Life Oyster Miyamoto. Hisao Bill Vebisu. Asahi Travel I"suranco Service Wholesale -:- Relail Supersall ,. . Group Di.counlS Apex Mount Olympus: 15-Kenneth Nodzu. Twin Cities: 16-Nobu Harada, 16- 852- 161h 51 (619) 234-0376 25A Tamalpoi.AII ., Son Anselmo CA 94960 MMARY (Since Dec. I 1983 ) For s · Compu l efll~d - Bonded ew ork: 4-William S Fujimura. Albert Tsuchiya. Son Diego 92101 res. 264- 2551 (415) 459-4026 Juli (Yorich!) Kodani Active (previous total) ...... 450 Oakland: 19-5hizuo Tanaka. Wasatch Front North: 26-Toyse T I I I I W OlynlplC Blvd, LA 900 15 Total thiS report ...... , 133 Olympia: 12-Edna J Ellis, 12-Dr Paul Kalo. 623-6125/29 • Call Joe or Gladys Ventura County Current total ...... 583 Ellis. alional : +James T Omai. FLOWER VIEW GARDENS #2 If"/J) IY. Keiko Okubo FEB. 7-10, 1984 ( 133 ) Pasadena: 15-Dr Robert Shimasakl. ENTURYCL B'" 1..0:::= - REALTOR, " '3,000,000 Club" New Olani Ho' I, 110 S lo. Angeles CALVIN MATSUI REALTY Boise alley: 2O-Yosie Ogawa. Placer County: 16-Tom Takahashi 4-S Tom Hatakeda ( Ede), I~Tak Coun"~ los Angeles 90012 Arf ho Jr Homes 3. Commercial Serving Alameda 3. San'a Clord Chicago: 3-Hiroto K Hirabayashi, 2- Pocate1J~Blackfoot : 23-Masa Tsuka- Kawagoe (Gar), 3-Roy R Hatamiya J.,,812 MISSIon 81vd ., Fremonl, CA 94539; Citywide Delillery (2131620.08081 371 N. Mobil Ave, Suile 7, Camarillo Jane B Kaihatsu, 20-Ted I Miyata, moto. (Mar), 4-Yoneo Suzuki (Sac), 4-Dr (805) 987-5800 ( 4 15) 651~500 9-George T akao, ll-Frank K Portland: 12.Jerry Inouye, 31-Dr Frank Y Tanaka Set) CUSTOM MADE FUTON Sakamoto, 4-Tadao Tanaka. Matthew M Masuoka, 20.Jim S (2131243-2754 SanJoie Lake Tahoe Cincinnati: 23-Ben Takesbi Yama• Onchi. SUZU I FUTON MFG guchi, Sr, ll-Gordon Yoshikawa. Puyallup VaUey : 26-Dr Victor Late Classifieds Kayo K. Kikuchi, Realtor Cleveland: 2O-Richard Y Fujita, I-Dr Moriyasu. TOKYO TRAVEL SERVICE SAN JOSE REAlTY RENT! Soles, RenlOl., Managemenl Kayoshi Masooka. Reedley: 23-Kiyoshi Kawamoto. MISCELlANEOUS (Baby CaJ.) (02) 530 W b,h SI # 429 996 Minnesola Aile. , 11100 Box 65, Cornelian Boy, CA 95711 Contra Costa: 23-Meriko Maida. Reno: 100ArthurK Donoghue. los Angeles 900 14 680-3545 Son Jose, CA 95125-2A93 FREE SAMPLE-A new, sale solulion to (91 6) 5-46-2549; Shig 3. Judy Tokutso Detroit: ll-stanley HiroUlwa, 12- Riverside: 12.James Urata. diaper raSh. With NiteComfort DIaper (408) 275-1111 or 296-2059 Hime lwaoka, 3O-Sue Omori, 14-Dr Sacramento: 2O-Harvey T Fujimoto, Rash Buffers your baby can be free from Travel Guild Masamichi Suzuki. 6-Kuni Hironaka, 28-Kiyoslu Imal, diaper rash! Save ~our baby hours of suf· 404 s. F' TOlslika "Totty" Kikuchi Seattle, Wo. faring, contact KaJ Health ProdUcts Inc .. Igveroa SI , l lIelb Generollnsurance Brolcer DBA Diablo Valley: 3-Mike Hamacht, 18- 28-T Dean llano, 28-Amy Masaki, losAngeles9 71 /(213) 624 1041 Richard T Kono, 18-Dr Harry Dept. J, Box 53, Walton. KS 67151 FREE ·k h· ' 12-Robert T Matsui, 25-Dr Richard Sample ol1ers ends Mar. 3 1, 1984. JmpeR~al Manji, 24-Dr H Quintus Sakai, 8- T Matswnoto, 22- Yoneo Suzuki·, 14- YAMATO TRAVEL BUREAU-I Ki UC IlnsuranceAgy. Lanes Dorothy Togasaki, 5-Kiyoslu Toga• Hen;y Y Yamada, 29-Frank T EMPLOYMENT (Calli.) (06) 321 E 2nd 51 , #505 996 MiMesola Ave., '" 102 Complele Pro Shop, Reslauranl, lounge saki. los Angeles 90012 6 4 6021 Son Jose, CA 95125-2493 21 0 1- 22nd Aile So. (206) 325-2525 Yoshimura RESIDENT MANAGER-£asl Bay Issei Downtown Los Angeles: 29-Chester 1 Salinas Valley: 13-Shiro HIgashi. (408) 294-2622 or 296-2059 HOUSIng Inc., is looking lor couples who The Ir.ten-nountain Katayama, 4-Dennis M Kunisak.i, San Francisco: 6-1sao Kawamoto. are Interested In being R8Sldent Mana· Om nge County EDWARD T. MORIOKA, Realtor 26-Dr Robert M akamura, 27- an Gabriel Valley: 16-Deru Y gers In their I OO-Unlt elderly/handIcapped 580 N. SlhS!. , Son Jose Jerry S Ushijima. Uejima. hOUSing prOlact in Hayward. CA Must be EXCEPTIONAl HOMES (408) 998-833415 res. 371-0442 Mam Wakasugi Eden Township: 19-5 Tom Hatakeda·. San LuIS Obispo: 19-Hilo Fuchiwaki, bilingual In J/E. Willing to lraln Preter AND INVESTMENTS Sales Rep , Row Crop FOrms Fremont: 14-Dr Eiji C Amemiya, 12- 23-Kazuo 13-Ken Kobara. some background In home repaor/maln• WAYNE NISHINAKA, Agent 81ackaby Real eslale, RI 2 Bx 658, Onto• Ikeda, tenance, and bookkeeping/ record keep· VICTOR A KATO Shizuo Harada, 14-Dr Walter Kita• , flO, 0,97914 /(503) 881 .1 301 , 262-3459 San Mateo: 6-Robert Shod a , 24- Ing. For mora Informalon, conlact Laura Residential 3. InveSfmen' Consultant Formers Insurance Group jima. William A Takahashi. Date at (415) 832-8300 (wortl) . EOE. 18682 Beach Bllld, Suile 220 2680 Cropley Ave ., Son Jose 95132 Fort Lupton: I-Donald CUmmins, 8- Seattle: 22-George S Fugami, 12- Exp. 3-31-84. Hun!lnglon Beach, CA 92648 (408) 943-0713/5 res. 996-2582 The Midwest Edward Duckworth, 30-Floyd Masao T Sotow, ll-Dr Frank Y REAL ESTATE (Ariz.) (09) (71 4) 963-7989 Kosbio, 2-Sam Koshio, I-Robert Tanaka*, 31-Dr Kelly K Yamada, Watsonville Sugano Travel Service Maul, 3O-Jack Tsuhara, 2-Hirato ll-Takako Yoda. 17 E Ohio SI , Chicago 60611 Uno, 29-Frank Yamaguchi. SeQuoia: 17-Ronald Akio Enomoto, 4- Ariz. Retirement Prop. The Paint Shoppe (312) 944-5444 784-8517, elle, Sun Gardena Valley: 8-L Dale Gasteiger laMoncha Cen'er, II I I Harbor Tom Nakase Realty Mary Ann Masaoka. SALE BY OWNER Acr&oge, Ronches, Homes, Income 20-Dr Harry T !.ida, 16-Tak Kawa• Snake River: 2~Bob S Uriu. Fullerton, CA (71 4) 526-01 16 N.J.-Po. g~ , 26-Dr Masashi Urlu. 40 Acres in southeastern Ariz. TOM NAAASE , Reoilor Sonoma County: 7-Thomas K Yokoi. 25 Clifford Ave. (408) 724-61.n Greater LA Singles: ~orge K Stockton: 23-0r Kenneth Fujii, Complelely fenced , only 10 min. tram shopping center, Includes brand new Kane's Hallmark Ctr. Ben M. Arai EguchL 6-Chester Y Fukuhara, 3-Grace R Anorney 01 low Gresham-Troutdale: 3O-Hawley H 1,600-Qal. sepbc system. Telephone. laMancha Cenler, I 117 N Ha rbor agai, 4-Ben Oshima , 7-BiU Shima. electn.clty and water already on pr D~ rty , Fullerton, CA (71 4) 992- 1314 126 MercerSI., Trenlon, NJ 0861 I Kato. TuJare County: 23-Tee EUlki, 5-Kay including 2 shallow wells. EJccellenl hunt• Hrs by Apml. (609) 599-2245 Hoosier: 4-Olarles Matsumoto, 4- Hada, 24-.Jun Jimmy Hatakeda, Ing & fishing. Guaranteed deed Asking MIKAWAYA Member N.J. 3. Po . Bor Mary Matsumoto. 2-Ben Hayakawa, 29-Mike lmoto 2- pnce $60,000. Priced below martlel. Marin: 3-MoNoguchi. ------SWEET SHOPS Maude Ishida, 2-RaIpb Ishida, 17- W.H. MULLINS Tell Them You Saw It Washington, D.C . Marysville: l-George S Hatamiya, 5- Robert Ishida, 26-Williarn Ishida, Box 741 , Pima, A.l. 95543 Roy R Hatamiya·. 29-Hiroshi Mayeda, 24-Harry Mor~ (602) 485-9327 In the Pacific Citizen MIKE MASAOKA ASSOCIATES Mid-Columbia: 21-MasamiAsai fuji, 29-Ed agata, &-Stanley 244 E. 1st St, Los Angeles CansuftanlS - WashinglOtl Matters Mile-Hi: 23-Dr Bob T Mayeda, 20-Dr agata, 27-George Oh , 26-Gene (21 ) 628-4945 900-171h SI NW, WO$hingtoo, DC 20006 Ben Miyahara, 28-Minoru YasuL Shimaji, 33-Tom Shimasalti, 23------(202) 296-4484 Milwaukee: 27-Robert Dewa, 23-Roy 56 unit/Phoenix, Az. 2801 W. Ball Rd .. Anahe1m Jack Sumida, 28-Ethel Y Tashiro, Corr-pIete A Mukai, 21-Nami Shio, 16-Tamio 34-Kenji Tashiro, 4-Yeoo Tasluro, Established apartments, ona-half 1BR , (714) 995-6632 one-half 2BR. Concrele/ block construe· ~ome Furnishings tlon, OWC. easy terms Call Pacific Square, Gardena PC Directory Rate Allan (801) 2n-9048 1630 Redondo Beach BI d. Your business card in each issue NHK 'Sanga Moyu' drama becomes 'soapy' orWrile ~ Ill!]l' DOO! (213) 538-9389 for halfyear in the PC Business-Pro• 1 703 E Woodbndge Dr • TOKYO-Perhaps the Daily pan. ter a big spread when Salt Lake Crty, UT 84117 1 18]apanese Vl11age Plaza fessIonal Dlreaory aI $25 per three 151205. WestemAve. Lo Angeles I (2 13) 624-1681 lines, $6 per additional line. Larger Yomiuri TV Channel Guide the program began to air on REAL ESTATE (Calif,) (09) Gardena,CA Jan. 8 the program went un• 324-6444 321-2123 (14 pt.) type counts as two lines; indicates the amount of inter• SALE BY OWNER Logo at same rate as additional line. est in NHK's "Sanga Moyu" noticed for four weeks. on Sunrlay nights has in Ja- Then the sixth episode Lake Tahoe, Ca. Brand new home, ne er been lived In, Jopanese Phototypesetting (Feb. 12) , this capsule: 1920 sq It 4 BR. 2Y2 BA, frplc In I,v rm, " Emi's father suggests to 2-car g8l, separate storage House has own well & water, one mile to skiing tore ~o. Kenji's father (Toshiro Mifu• Heavenly Valley. 1 mile to Stalellne T( ~O PRl T I WOMEN-- ne) that Emi and Kenji s.et Easy wlnler access, $1261<, neg for cash (916) 544-671 3 Continued from Page 6 married but Otohichi (KenJi's \ ~ ;ewOtanI Hotel& 309 So. San Pediu father) avoids an answer say• REAL ESTATE (Nev.) (09) ,\ ' Garden--Arcade 1 1 YWCA, NationaJ Board, 135 W ing Kenji doesn't have a Job '\ 110 S. los Angeles 50th St, 4th Fir, ew York, NY yet. Meanwhile in the Tanu• Las Vegas, Nev. 10020, (212) 621-5115.-Lillian I LosAn..... @ ya family, Kayo urges child• BUILDER CLOSE'()uT , 628-4369 Kimura, National YWCA For a limIted time any remaining unit at WANTED Board; Jo Uehara, Washing• ren Charlie and Mari to re• Cedar Park condominium Will be sold b&• ton Representative, (202) turn to Japan with her, but low appraIsal and WIll Include your chOIce - FOR SERIOUS INVE~TORS - # ot one at three different appliance pack· 887-0377. Charlie refuses." ages. State money IS available along With 24 INVESTORS NEEDED FHA, VA 3. FHA shared equrty and can· ESTABLISHED 1936 These organizations are ventlonal AR.M al 9~% finanCing to form a Japanese-American CorporatIon good resources for informa• Model open weekends 12-4pm. Take I WILL SHOW YOU HOW TO BECOME A MILLIO AIRE IN Bonanza Blvd. east, past Easlern 5 blks NISEI tion on women's issues and to Warde lie St., turn rlghl & go 1 Y2 block ONE SHORT YEAR S20,OOO PER SHARE I VEST IE T women's programs. Local to Ced81 Park on teft R aUIRED FOR SERIOUS INVESTORS PLEASE ENCLOSE Softball team No.1 Phone days TRADING YOUR NAME, ADDRESS, CITY, STATE, ZIP CODE ,l. D speakers are often available (702) 385-3050 Appliances - TV - Fumiture to present information on SAN DIEGO- 'Who are PHOflJE UMBER WRITE TO MARK SAKA. 33509 REAL ESTATE (Wash.) (09) specific topics. JACL mem• those guys?" the San Diego 249 S. San Pedro St. MIC I ~IGAN AVE .. WAY E. MICHIGAN 48184 E : LL Chapter men's softball team, bers are encouraged to util• 13 Acres MIL Los Angeles 90012 NOTIFY YOU WHERE WE WILL MEET IN CHICAGO. IL took fIrst place in the city's THIS IS STRICTLY A NEW VENTURE - NO ONE IN THE ize these women's groups Zoned Commercial softball league on Jan. 25. # (213)624-6601 WORLD IS MANUFACTURING THIS PRODUCT and to support Asian Ameri· Possible uses Include: Mobile Home can leadership within. # Park - Multi.tJnits • Shopping Center - Small Industrial Park - Retail · Commer- cial Strip Cenler - and . Restaurant including bUSiness fixtures & equipment. Ask for complete package for NOTICE OF ENTITLEMENT TO more detailed facts & figures. FILE CLAIMS FOR REP ARATIONS CALL Jerrv Lawson NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to the provisions of (206) 841 · ~ or (206) 848-3841 TOYl; ~ the subject to the limitations contained in Sections or WRI'TE 7.01.000 2821 E. Main SI., Puyallup, WA 98371 through 7.01.<170 of the Sacramento County Code, the County of Sacramento will pay reparation to any person employed by the . CHINESE "DEEM SUM " LUNCH County between March 2, 1942 and June 30, 1946, who terminated ED SATO PIKING DUCK such employment by reason of relocation required pursuant to PLUMBING & HEAnNG STUDIO BY CHEF'S FROM CHINA Presidential Executive Order 9066 and subsequent orders and Remodel and Repairs & enactments, and who incurred salary loss as a result thereof. Water Heaters, Fumaces CANTONESE MANDARIN FOOD Garbage Disposals 318 East First Street STEAMED FRESH FISH I The purpose of such reparation is to memorialize the injustices Serving Los Angeles Los Angeles, CA 900 12 FOR BANQU(TS & RESERVATIONS CAll624·6048 resulting from the evacuation of Americans of Japanese ances• 293-7000 733-Q5S7 try from the West Coast during World War II. The amount of /213) 626-5681 10 AltllO 10 PM lunch · Drnntl · Coduil s reparation which an individual may receive may not exceed 944 N. Hill Sl LA. $1,.250 of salary loss incurred during any twelve month period - - between March 2, 1942 and June 30, 1946, nor a total reim• AT NEW LOCATION bursement which exceeds $5,000, representing forty~ight cal• endar months of salary losses. Aloha Plumbing Llc. # 201875 -- Since 1922 Claims by qualified individuals forsucb reparation must be filed PARTS - SUPPLIES - REPAIR on forms prescribed by the County Executive. Such forms may 777 Junipero Serra Dr. be obtained from the Clerk of the Board of Supervisors at the San Gabriel, Ca 91n6 address stated below. (213) 283-0018 • Polynesian Room: Dinner & Cocktails, Floor Show Any claim for reparation must be received in the Office of the De Panache • Teahouse: Teppan-Yaki, Sukiyaki Clerk of the Board of Supervisors not later than 5:00 p.m., on NEBRASKA: March 31, l!ll4. The address of the office of the Clerk-ofthe Board Today'. o....c Look. • Sushi Bar of Supervisors is 700 H Street, Suite 2450, Sacramento, California for Women It Men • Cocktail lounge: Entertainment Hog Operations • Banquets 95814 (916) 44O-Mll. 960 Sow Capacity Call for Appointment • Open Dally: Luncheon 11 :30-2, Dinner 5-11, Sunday 12-11 Farrow to finish Phone 687-0387 DATED: March 2,1984 On 80 acres, 40 acres irngallon tarm· 105 ...... _ Plu. 226 S. Harbor Blvd., Santa Ana, CA 92704 (signed) BEVERLY Wll.LIAMS, land. Ask $12 millIon cash or lerms. Call: vw .... Clerk of the Board of Supervisors Ray Elwood, Heritage, Realtors MaU. Loa AageI. 90012 (714) ns-n27 , (402) 362-4427 Toshl ~ Prop. 12-PACIAC CITIZEN I Friday, Marctl2, 1984 Kazuyoshi Miura case attracts Japan's media to Little Tokyo Our 1984 Escorted Tours LOS ANGELES-The widow• she and her husband were tak• million-YE!1 (about $640,000) les." The story is rejected by er of a Japanese tourist killed ing pictures in the ~ block of insurance policy on his wife's Lt. Dan Cooke, public affairs JAPAN SPRING ADVENTURE ...... , ..April 9 here three years ago has sued North Fremont St. She died in life before they set out on their officer, woo insists that inves• GRAND EUROPEAN (8 countries) ...... May 24 Tokyo tabloid Shukan Bun• a coma a year later. The southern California honey• tigators have no evidence Mi• CANADIAN ROCKIES-VICTORIA (8 days) . June 13 shun for implying that be ar• couple lost $1,200. moon. ura " is an~ other than a JAPANSUMMERADVENTURE ...... June25 ranged her murder for insur• Miura was wounded in the And Cbizuko biraishi victim." He adaed that LAPD ance mo~y, staff writer Ker• leg, and was generally re• The magazine revealed that has no missing-person report SCANDINAVIAN (5 countries-17 days) •.. .. July 6 ry Webster reported Feb. 16 in garded as an innocent victim. Miura's former lover, identi• on Shiraishi, and has recelved ALASKA CRUISE (8 days) ...... Aug. 8 the Herald Examiner. The case rereived wide atten• fied as Cbizuko Shiraishi, 39, no request from Japan to look EAST COAST & FOLIAGE (10 days) " ... . , Oct. 1 But Japanese press agen• tion, and for a time hurt the disappeared while (ll a local for her. U.S. Customs records JAPAN AUTUMN ADVENTURE ...... Oct. 15 cies say authorities are inves• flouris~ West Coast tourist trip m Hm. Miura immediate• show she entered here Mar. FAR EAST (6angkol