JACL mourns death of Saburo Kido, 74 N FRAN I CO-Th Ja- the Jllpanc melican mmunlty ~CIFIC pane Am rican itiz n with vi. ion nod hope In troubled rime : ht' in. pired u, to beU Vel in the CITIZEN League mourn the 10 of dcm rad plin Iple and 10 prac• Publication of the National Japanese American Citizens League buro Kido, a re peeted ti~ I{ ltizen hlp: he I{0ve so un- lead r in th Japane Amer• 'Ifi. hi . (or th ~nefit of all We t • 0\ e 8 d bt ot (lratitude 10 him and Vol. 84 Postpaid In 20C ican community ov r th pa hi fomlly for al.1 they We now ask No. 14 Friday, April 15, 19n u.s. 15 CENTS half ntury. GOO ' comfort be with his (amUy In In failing health in e h thi dark hour \Va trick n in 1970. the 4- (Tum 10 Pare 3 for • btocnpbJc: tribute written by PC usbtant edt• yeaN>ld attorney and JACL' tor Jon Inouye.) I-That PAA mala OIl tbeaverage wartime national pre ident had more education (6S.~ had de• (1940-46 died Monday. April grees vs. S9.7O/C; for whites) and loot· Gov't hearing being sought to er work experience than whites. but -1, at his home, 16_8 Anza t. on the average one pay-grade lower (9411 ). Family service wa and received signiftcantly leas pay held April 6 at Chri t Pre by• (51,107 • 56.731) than whites in all t nan Church with th Re . probe anti-Asian bias in jobs rour employee categories. David Na.kaga\ a pre iding. 2-That PAAs were about one year My findings to date (April 5) longer in grade than the whites In all The body wa remated and By TOM TAKETA, Ph.D. San Francisco Bay area felt groups except the B.~ grouP. inurned at Green Hill Mem• Special to The Paclnc Citizen in a federal installation and that they were being denied in which the average years in grade orial Park, San Pedro. A final an Jose, Calif. in university faculties indi• equal employment opportu• were the same. Are the case of discrim• cate that prevailing discrim• nities, a comprehensive stu• 3-That there were no PAA! in de• memorial wa conducted cision-makin~ (division or higher lev· April by the Rev. Harry ination again t Japanese inatory employment prac• dy was made on the job sta• el) administrative or management Murakami of the We ~ t Lo Americans (JAs) in employ• tices against PAAs are ex• tus of PAAs (the largest positions, Angeles United Methodi t ment that we occasionally tensive and serious in these group of ethnic minority em• • read or hear about isolated two sectors. ployees there) as compared Only in the case of the DOD• hurch at Green Hill . The materials thus far as• The family had reque ted or are they, in fact, part of to wrutes by an aa noc com• degreed group can the $1,107 an insidious pattern of wide• sembled-if they substanti• mittee of PAA employees. higher average salary of the no flO\ ers and uggested ate my gut-level feeling of contributions in memory of spread job bias against pan• Study was confined to white male be justified on Asian Americans (PAAs) in widespread discrimination males-64 PAAs and 1.295 the basis of longer work ex• Saburo Kido be sent to the against PAAs in employ• National JACL cholarship general? whites; females were not in• perience by average years Toyo Miyatake Studio ment-<:ould fonn the basis Fund, 1 6S utter t. . San To detennine the extent, cluded because of the small (23.4 vs. 19 yrs). In the three SABURO KIDO. 74 nature and gravity of pre• of a request for a congres• number of PAA female em• de greed groups, significant• Franci co 9411 . JACL's wartime national pres• sional hearing. Such an ac• Jame ~Iurakami . national vailing bias against PAAs in ployees. The study was bro• ly higher average salaries of ident (1940-46) died April 4 in employment practices. this tion is required to expose ken down as follows: whites than the PAAs cannot JACL president. said: San Francisco The Hawaiian• the prevailing racist atti• Education-Non-degree. BS. MS. JACL IS grateful for the life of . writer is gathering material be similarly justified. On the born attorney was a founding tude against PAAs. doctorate. buro Kido and for his numerous sac· on the tatus ofPAAs in pub• Averages-pay grade, annual sala· contrary, PAAs received less rifi es to aid to the fonnation and member of the National JACL lic and private employment • ries. years of work experience (est· pay even when they had long• growth of our organization HIS pro• In 1929. national legal counsel DISCRlMlNA nON IN A imated from employee age). years in found knowledge aod tireless effort and of known meritorious er work experience that the (1946-53). Pacific Citizen pay grade. mspired us all We will miss him cases of bias against indivi• FEDERAL INSTAllATION whites. greatly Board chairman (1953-56) dual PAAs in hiring, ad• In 1973, because a large The results were quite re• In the BS-degreed group, Donald L. Hayashi, acting and had been in failing health vancement or denial of man• number of Japanese and Chi• vealing and confirmed the average years of work ex• national director, noted: since 1970 Picture was taken agerial or administrative J» nese Americans employed at feelings of the committee. perience were nearly alike Saburo Kido pro\New York City, substantiates the statement pairs. "valuable and educational", Races investigate the situa- The U.S. government was Mar. 31-Apr. 1. 0 CODdDued OD Pap 12 2- Pacific CItlzen4rtday, April 15, 19n 1976 JAL-JACL Cultural Heritage Fellowships Transpacific Connections A Dormant Sense Awakened

Two hom 1976 ~Dts of the JAWACL cu). about her deci ion as a young woman to go to By LAUREL KIMURA and teachers, some of whom were dedicated tural Hert~ hDowshlp mat 101M of tbe .cdvtdd America and become the wife of my grand• As a learning experience the summer in to Peace Education efforts in the city. aDd e.xperieoce be1q olfeM to youna people throutb father.And so, beyond the considerable val• JAa.. AppUcadoa deedIlDe for t~ 1977 prolf'Ul baa Japan was a prism of many dimensions. On the return to Tokyo, I stopped in Kyo• ~ Ob~ ue of the academic. intellectual experience been to April 20.. CaD R.:cbard at JAn flashing aU at once. What I valued most was to, where I stayed in a very old, beautiful, Headquarters (415-921-5225) for debll1s.-F.dJtor provided by the scholarship at Sophia Uni• the unexpected awakening of a dormant sparsely-populated village at a mountain • versity, the opportunity to make friendly sense within myself of "Japanese culture" . connections and reaffirm family ties was summit. There were small waterfalls and By JOHN ESAKI Having been isolated from many Japanese streams flowing on all sides of the house, to me the most valuable and personally af• American communities which could be said A couple of days ago the mail brought a fecting aspect of the Cultural Heritage Fel• and mossy verdure everywhere. to be more culturally-aware and conscious It was something to go from the height of wallet-sized. brown paper packet pasted lowship. of their roots than myself, I came to Japan over with customs designations and in• Yamanaka-cho, where water is pumped CourtemesofJ~B quite open-eyed. But perhaps this permitted from wells and where my host couple taught scribed with the address of a friend in Yoko• the freshness, the desire to savour observa• hama, one of the guides in Tokyo for last Although the selection of Fellow hip re• village children, to the bustle of modern tions and experiences: the ordinary became Kyoto below. There it was all the more summer's Fellowship recipients. On eagerly cipients is administered by the JACL, and exciting as I related new patterns to old shredding the covering I was delighted to recipient receive a generous stipend from crowded due to the Gion Matsuri, when reminiscences of my very early childhood everyone appears in yukata and geta to discover within a special-issuecoin and a Japan Travel Bureau, the JACL program is years. couple of stamps commemorating the fif• actually a part of a larger educational ven• watch elaborately decorated floats being In Proustian fashion, I often felt trans• wheeled down the streets and to listen to tieth year of Hirohito's reign. Accompany• ture underwritten by Japan Air Lines. A ported to a world present and past simul• ing these fine souvenirs was a letter-and a model of corporate conscientiousness and ancient strains, all in celebration of the ex• taneously. What soon became apparent was pulsion of plague from the city in 869 AD. Fujicolor of my friend prominently dis• generosity. JAL bring together in Japan a strong affinity I felt for these new habits, playing Converse All-Stars (tennis shoes) each ummer students from Indonesia, Ma• bents of mind and expressions; an exciting Summer Session at Sophia that had attained Japanese citizenship ow• laysia. Hong Kong, Hawaii (separate from revelation emerged. The return to Tokyo for the summer ses• ing to my frantic efforts to lighten over• the JACL program) and the U.S. In addition, Much of what I had experienced in the stuffed baggage the last few days before therefore. to the cultural heritage emphasis sion at Sophia University, initiated another U.S. as a Japanese American in my (cul• kind of learning. The program was well or• returning to the States. placed on the program by JACL, Fellowship turally) isolated environment was alienat• The letter informed me of Wataru's intent recipients are fortunate participants in a ganized and provided structure and regular• ing. and I continually felt myself "in opposi• ity to our lives. Classes were very well to visit California this June, confirming quest for international understanding. tion"; here I suddenly experienced an other• plans we had discussed last summer. Arriv• The lengths to which JAL went to care for taught and were particularly interesting for wise foreign society in an affirmative, ful• the Asian perspective they took. ing now at about the time the 19n JACU u were remarkable and fully appreciated. filling way. JAL Cultural Heritage Fellowship Program From the more-than-adequate meaJ allow• The mingling of students from many is concluding its initial application phase, ances- which allowed us to satisfy our curi• Self-Created Myths DispeDed Asian cultures was a feature of this period, the coin, the stamps, the photo and the letter osities about Japanese cuisine-to the hand• Living in Japan for even a brief period and I enjoyed the somewhat unusual chance are all very concrete reminders of the rela• ling of our domestic air travel-which al• gave rise to other insights as well. which dis• to visit Tokyo in their company. tionships made possible by this worthy pro• Jowed us to taste the geographical unique- peUed many society-created and self• At the end of summer session, I moved to gram. ness of the land-JAL's concern was ever created myths (for being Japanese Ameri• another part of Tokyo to stay with another A month has not passed since August in evident and did much to lessen the anxieties can does not make one immune to the one, branch of my relatives, the Kinoshita fami• which I have not received a communication of travelers in a foreign environment. nor incapable of the other). One is not aided ly. Here I met with a wonderful receptioQ from either a friend or relative in Japan. A It is difficult in such a small space to relay in one's efforts to understand Japan by cre• and renewal of exchanges, as well as the fonnal wedding portrait of a bride and all of the significant, beautiful experiences ating an image of its people wherein the chance to-continuaUy practice my Japanese. groom in traditional attire arrived in Octo• of the summer in Japan. To say that it was delicacy of ikebana is juxtaposed to the dis• Soon thereafter, I travelled north and ber announcing the marriage of my cousin totally exciting, intellectually and emotion• cipline of education, both physical and men• throughout the island of Hokkaido. There I who was so solicitous of my well being in ally rewarding, and ultimately fulfilling tal, the self-reflective· aspect of gardens is made many friends on the long train ride Tokyo that he offered to have his then• would still merely be the understatement of juxtaposed to the fast, technological and throughout some of the most beautiful1ake fiancee do my laundry-by hand! A poig• words. economic giant of modern Japan; but rather, and hill regions I have seen. nantly sad message relayed the news of my But for four more people this summer by the effort to observe points of delicacy grandmother's brother's death. This vital and strength, of introversion and extrover• Finally, during the last part of my travels, the connections will certainly be made. ["I I went to Nagano in the Japan Alps with my man who had not seen his sister or anyone sion, where and as they are put by Japanese 1~ from the American branch of the family in John Esaki. UC Berkeley graduate in Eng• in day-to-day encounters, by different kinds friend Yoshiko. We stayed in a lovely year~ld house with thatched roof on the invi• over 3S years gave to me in a couple of lish, in a high school with the Carmel Unified of people in different kinds of life roles and unforgettable evenings a wealth of stories School District. He is also a Buddhist Sun• professions, in different parts of the coun• tation of the Kawakubo family, who are typi• about my grandmother's childhood and day school teacher in Monterey. try. cal of the hard-working rice farmers of the region. ------4 This intuitive or sense-approach did more to awaken an unconscious empathetic The rice which I saw growing in Kyushu understanding of Japanese culture and to at the beginning of my visit as small green itelllper 5-story main building design keep it alive than any previous word of shoots, was here at the end of my travels, tall and bent, yellow with ripeness. Eagerly I advice I had read or heard before. inch for community center OK'd reached for a bunch of it, but was reminded The opportunity created by JACL, JAL, by Yoshiko that it was such hard-working • and JTB for the summer in Japan made LOS ANGELES-The final Designed by architects rice fanners who made the backbone Gerald Ford Bldg. possible an extremely favorable blend of strength of contemporary Japan. I then design drawings for the Adachi, Sawano and Matsu• flexible and structured learning and of dif• WASHINGTON-The House sub• first phase of the proposed naga, the center will be lo• plucked a single stalk with but a few grains committee cbaired by Rep. Nonnan ferent kinds of learning, all of which height• on it, to remind me of the debt and respect Mineta (D-Calif.) approved legisla• Japanese American Cultur• cated on San Pedro St. be• ened by receptivity to people and experi• tion naming the Federal Bldg. in al and Community Center in tween Azusa and Third Sts. owing to countless fanners of the older gen• ences. A few of these I would like to share eration, quite literally bent from their work. Grand Rapids, Mich., the Gerald R Little Tokyo has been ap• Initial phase of develop• below. Ford Bldg. "Ibis is a small tribute to proved by the board of the ment consists of a five• Such was the great variety of enriching man who served Grand Rapids as its Relatives in Kyushu experiences which provided the opportuni• congressman (or 25 years and who Community Redevelop• story, reinforced concrete stepped in to serve his country h0n• ment Agency of Los Angel• building containing 43,000 The first night of my stay, as well as many ty to meet many Japanese men, women, orably as both Vice President and es, it was announced on square feet of space above heart-warming subsequent nights, was children and old people alike, remarkably President," MiDeta commented. April 4. ground and a lower level of spent at the Higaki family's home, the home open to ways different from what they have 8,500 square feet. of my friend and Japanese teacher, Yoshiko. known; to speak with them about aspects of little Tokyo construction The structure will contain I immediately travelled south, to make American life in answer to their queries, LOS ANGELFS - The Community Minute of Silence exhibit facilities, confer• memorable visits with my relatives Naka• and to share in their aspirations. Redevelopment Agency Board ac• GARDENA, Calif.-Assem• cepted a low bid proposal from RST ence rooms, classrooms, mura-Saito and Sa.kimura, in Kumamoto and blyman Paul Bannai c0- Fukuoka respectively, on the island of Kyu• A debt of gratitude is due the Japanese Construction Co. to build a two-story with library and offices pro• American Citizens League, Japan Air Lines, bulding at 327 E. 2nd St., it was an• authored legislation (AB shu. Here I was able to reestablish kinship vided for various non-profit, and Japan Travel Bureau International, for DOunced Mar. 28. The building will 843) which would authorize cultural groups. ties left by my grandparents on what was be used to relocate displaced busi• governing boards of each coincidentally the festival of Obon, when their sponsorship of the Cultural Heritage nesses within the project area. Construction of the first Fellowship and the generous contribution school district to establish phase of development will one's ancestors are especially remembered. daily observance of one they make to the cultural learning experi• start in mid sum mer. Through a host family organization (SER• ence for Japanese Americans. In Japan, Tsutsumu: an art show minute silence in eve r y VAS International), I was able to stay in Groundbreaking is sched• special recognition should be expressed to CINCINNATI, Ohio - The Japan classroom to "exercise ... many parts of Japan with Japanese families House Gallery exhibit, Tsutsumu: uled April 30. 0 Kiyoshi Ikenaga (JAL) , who patiently at• his or her individual choice, of many different backgrounds who were Art of the Japanese Package, will be meditate, or pray, or engage tended to all our needs, and to Father Bairy shown at the Contemporary Arts Nisei play in debut very interested in cultural exchange. I (Director, Sophia University Summer Ses• Center April17-May 22. Local people in any other silent activity stayed with a shoemaker's family, a den• are being sought who can demon· which does not interfere, at Asilomar confab tist's family, a music teacher and his wife, sion) and Ms. Amano, his assistant. 0 strate Japanese arts and crafts. distract, or impede other SAN FRANCISCO - The and in Nagasaki, with a high school English Laurel Kimura, a doctoral candidate in students in the like exercise S.F. Center for Japanese teacher's family. The host of the latter in• political science at Massachusetts Institute 'We Are One' of individual choice .. ." American Studies will pre• vited me to teach several English classes in oj Technology, is active with World Affairs CULVER CITY, Calif.-Tom Shima• The bill would be added to sent its second Asilomar his high school, and through the experience Council, has lived in Switzerland jor two zaki heads We Are One, a club for the Educational Code as an widowed, divorced or singles Conference June 17-19 at I gained a pleasant familiarity with students years and traveled throughout Europe. fonned eight years ago for fellow• article providing the right the Monterey peninsula ship and community work. Other of every student to free ex• grounds. Hiroshi Kashiwa• Symphony of Fashion ~1i~t~ntR~ ~*II>-r officials include Lorie Inouye, Has! I.' * To ercise of religion. gi's new play, Mondai wa LOS ANGELES-Ladies Auxiliary Sato, James Masuda, Hana U. Shep• -~J'c., l'+~, ~~, ard and Kazumi Fujii, past pres. Akira, will be premiered. of the Japanese Philhannonic Socie• t: (7)it!!.Wr'Wr'<7)D[R{• Anti-bias clause The conference is geared ty will present its Symphony of Fa· t~ (k!U~, ~li t~ shion luncheon May 22, 11:30 a.m. at .::. 1:t 9 n 11, AIM. :tIJ:r" l: {• LOS ANGELES-Contractors and toward individual and col• ~II>-r) r!C(7)ttfflr':'cBi*f)r~l.'o Wendy's exhibit vendors doing business with Los the Biltmore Hotel. HoUy Mitchell {-, SAN FRANCrSCO-Eight years of lective growth as Japanese will coordiate the fashions from Bon· Angeles County government are (JlIM.'H~IJI.1¥Xl., it Ivo ) drawings, etchings and watercolors prohibited from discriminating Americans in a white-domi• wit Teller of Beverly Hills. Proceeds * by Wendy Yoshimura will be shown against their employees, subcon• nant society. Registration go toward the orchestra's cultural in a special exhibit at Glide Memor· tractors or suppliers because of forms are available from: activities. Tickets at S15 per person P.o. Box 40093, Washington. D.C. 20016 ial Church, beginning April 3 and race, creed, ancestry, national origin are obtainable from Ty Hamano Jane Horn, 2711 Sacramento N3, (624-01n) or Naris (299-1888). will run through the month of April. or sex under a new ordinance. San Francisco 94115. i p ge fh nor Pacific Cltlzen-Frlday. April 15. 19n .3

through Congref8. Kido gave 50 years to the Nikkei Between 1941~3, Kido be• came the national JACL le• gal counsel. He represented JACL and the Civil Rights community and socie in general Defense Union of Northern alifornia to fight escheat BY JON INOUYE In 1931. an ominou event cases of the State of Calif• took plac . ornia. Edison Uno on e wrot in Th Japane e Army in• A prolific writer in the Ja• hi column. Minority of One, vad d Manchuria. pane e American press, he "General Douglas MacAr• Kido began a s ries of I c• decided to become a pub• thur revived an old army ture at variou colle~e, lisher. In 1953, he became tune with the quote of 'Old uch a' Mills olleg. an president of the New Japa• Soldiers ne er die, the_ ju t Jo tat 011 ge and erv· nese American News, a bi• fade away.' That thought ice club in th n Francis• lingual Los Angeles news• come to mind every time I o Bay region on the Japa• paper no longer published. think of old time JACLers, nese people and their cui• In 1964, he was decorated especially ome of the early tur . by the Japanese govern• pioneers who are fa t ap• During thi pertod of in• ment with the Order of the - proaching their g 0 Ide n crea ing military cnSlS Sacred Treasurer, 4th class. years." He retIred from active Autographed picture of Sen. Daniel Inouye for Mr. and Mrs. from Japan, and the possi• Saburo Kido was taken at the JACL Building Fund kickoff barM One such pioneer wa Sa• participation in 1966. leav• As Mr. Kido a ble danger thi might bring quet at San Francisco Oct. 28, 1973. buro Kido. National JACL President (1944) to Japanese American , Sa• ing an undeniable impact on Some SO years ago, a the Japanese Americans he buro Kido did hi best to ments will not be easily for• young Nisei from Hawaii the Nisei with Kido as chair• touched. Some of his past The Kidos returned to San familiarize the general pub• Francisco in 1972 after a gotten. graduated from a law school man. The first national con• activities included: lic on the Japanese charac• lapse of 30 years. Sacramento-based col- in San Francisco and be• vention met in Seattle. ter. National Committee of American Civil Uberties Union; Board of DI• As an elder, he reaped the umnist Phil Jordan had writ• came an attorney. The name Wash .. 1930. During the 1930s, he de• During this convention rectors. .F International Institute; benefits of a lifetime of ten in the Hokubei Mainichi Saburo Kido carne to play an bated at the University of attorney. Japanese Emergency important role in the future (Aug. 29-Sept. 2), Kidodraft• service to civil rights and and Kashu Mainichi, July, California-Berkeley on the Committee of San Franci!CO; scout• 1975: of all persons of Japane e ed the constitution which master. Scout Troop Committee the Japanese Americans. Manchurian crisi under Kido was called the "gen• "In his time, Sab IGdo had ancestry in America. established the National JA• ponsor hip of the Asiatic Troop 12. San Francisco CL. In this sense, IGdo be• California Advisory Board mem• ro" of National JACL when an influence on national and • tudie honor SOCiety . ber. U Civil Rights Commission; Saburo Kido was born on comes the "Thomas Jeffer• he and his wife were guests even international events. He spoke to a teacher's Pacifl Citizen board chainnan; Ja• and he wanted that influ• Oct. 8, 1902 in Hilo. Hawaii. son" of the JACL. pan Society of n FrancIsco; secre• of honor at an informal din• conference at Watsonville ner held in San Francisco, ence to be for good. How His parents were Sannosu• In addition to a law prac• before 1.500 delegate on tary. California Federation of CiVIC tice. Kido was an active di• Unity; Vice president. Japanese Oct. 13. 1973. A crowd of old• many of us will ever be able ke Kido and Haru Hirabara. the ino-Japane e War. Chamber of Commerce of Southern He was baptised by the Con• rector of the Sumitomo Bank time Nisei, many close to say as much?" C Although his work did fa• CalifornIa: senior vice presIdent. Ja• friends of the IGdos, gregational Church. of California before he miliarize elect groups of pan America Society of Southern Jon Inouye is the nephew retired. California for three years; preSident acknowledged him for his oj the late Mr. Kido. people on Japanese custom Pacific Southwest JACL Credit many achievements. Attending school in Hilo Civic Leadership and traditions, the crisis UOIon, 1949-54. 1958. 1964. His last years were, as and graduating in 1921 from But his list of achieve• went unchecked. Member. board of directors Some Past Hila High School, IGdo went of the Japanese Assocl8tion of San Edison Uno described, "a Pearl Harbor on to attend the Univ. of Cal• ments within the JACL and FranCISCO. very quiet life". Tributes ifornia at Berkeley. In 1923 the Japanese American On Dec. 7. 1941, Japan at• "It is very sad to see him community reads abundant• "Sab has been a human corner• he entered the University's tacked Pearl Harbor. declining." Edison said in stone of the JACL since its found• law school, Hasting College, ly: During the wartime hys• August, 1976, "especially af• ing." in San Francisco. He gradu• In 1930. Kido presented teria, Kido was a decisive ter such an active life and a LARRY T AJ1RI two resolutions. the repeal Denver. Colo .. Dec. 12. 1955 ated in 1926 with a bache• leader. From 1940-1946. he sharp mind. ready to dis• • lor's degree in law. of the Cable Act which had served as the JACL's nation• cuss any topic under the "His fIrSt. war-time visit to the Kido then entered private deprived citizenship from al president. Perhaps some sun. Growing old and fading East Coast created nationally an un• practice after acceptance Nisei women who had mar• of his greatest contributions away is a difficult and de• derstanding of the Japanese Ameri• ried Issei and the granting cans. He appreciated and helped into the State Bar that same carne during this period. pressing situation. One awaken the JACL to the hard facts of year. of naturalization privileges Despite the challenges to must develop a great deal of life: that most of those who wielded Kido married Mine Hara• to Oriental World War I vet• his loyalty. the barbed wire patience and understanding national power in America lived on da of Riverside, Calif., on erans. Through support of and the concentration the East Coast .. and knew nothing the newly formed JACL. about the Japanese Americans, or May 20, 1928. Their family camps he. along with other "His pace has become worse. had been misled by the rac• included a daughter. Rosa• these resolutions were later Issei and Nisei, managed to slow, his balance unsure, his ists." lind Mitsuyo (Mrs. Edison enacted by Congress. pull through. reactions irregular, and a DR T. SCOTT MIYAKAWA Uno) and two sons. Laur• He served as San Francis• During the war years, IG• disorientation that makes Boston, Mass.• May 28.1966 co chapter president in life a gradual fading away • ence Mineo and Wallace Te• do and his family had evacu• "In our book. Saburo Kido is one of ruyuki. 1928-29, 1932, 1938-39; two ated to Visalia in Central . . . Although the picture is the great Nisei of our times .,. I can separate terms as Northern California; then to Camp II not too bright, we are grate• testify that as history has proved JACL Founder California District Council of Poston, Ariz. and, finally, ful for the strength and en• over and over again, the leadership He was very active in the chairman, and National Sec• couragement expressed by of Kido in World War n has been to Salt Lake City, Utah. vindicated time and time again." Japanese community and retary for two terms prewar. While anti-Japanese senti• many who remember the MIKE MASAOKA was one of the founders of As a vigorous young man, ments were running high, old man as Sab Kido, a cour• Washington. D.C .• ~. 23, 1970 the national J a pan e s e Kido represented Nisei Re• he participated in many leg• ageous leader, visionary, • American Citizens League. "It is largely because of the vigor publicans in Northern Calif• islative cases to ensure civil and unselfish contributor and wisdom of such men as Saburo Working fIrst with the San ornia during this era. rights for Japanese Ameri• towards the cause of Japa• Kido that all persons of Japanese an• Francisco JACL in 1928, IG• Kido participated in the cans. He worked to secure nese in America ..... cestry in America today enjoy the do was one of the charter repeal of the Japanese Ex• the franchise rights of As guest of honor at Down• Although the aged body is great opportunities, freedoms and town L.A. JACL's 35th anni• the position they now occupy." members and its first presi• clusion Act, defeat of the American citizens of Japa• dead, the spirit of Kido lives NAT'L JACL CONVENTION dent. In 1929, a conference Alien Fishing Bills of the nese ancestry; he partici• versary party in 1964. The on. His many accomplish- Chicago. m., Oct. 2. 1950 was held in San Francisco to California State Legislature, pated in the Mitsuye Endo Kidos lived in Los Angeles for discuss the formation of a and the introduction of Ja• case to test the constitution• 25 years. bold,new organization: a na• panese language in the Cal• ality of confining citizens in tional organization among ifornia public schools. relocation camps without During the war years, IG• hearing as to their loyalty; do and his wife were invited he participated in testing to meet the late Eleanor With Profound Sadness the constitutionality of Roosevelt at the W hit e evacuation cases and cur• House in 1943. Kido ap• few laws. pealed to the President to The Board of Directors and the employees ofThe Sumitomo open the U.S. Army to per• Kido also encouraged Bank of California join with me in this exrression of deep sons of Japanese descent. sorrow over the death in San Francisco Apri 4 of Mr. Saburo young Nisei to volunteer for Kido, who served with uncommon distinction as an Honorary military service, an unpopu• For this, he was among 19 to receive the Selective Serv• Director of the bank. lar position during that era. ice Medal for his patriotic A respected leader of the Japanese American community for Because of his stand on mili• service. many years, Mr. Kido gave unselfishly of himself to improve tary service, he was beaten In 1961 President Eisen• the quality of life for all Americans of Japanese ancestry, as up by thugs at Poston. hower cited Kido for his well as the United States of America, which he dearly loved. His vast store of knowledge and his tireless activities on At the war's end, he and work on civil rights and im• proving human relations. behalf of his fellow man were an inspiration to all who were his family moved to Los An• fortunate to know him. His life was a model of dignity, good geles where he resumed Kido was the first Japa• will, and faith in the future, and he leaves that priceless legacy privat~ practice of law. nese American awardee as a beacon to guide generations to come. when he received a Los An• Postwar Acdvides To the family and friends of Mr. Kido, all of us extend geles City Hall award for comfort and compassion in these trying hours. ~ In 1947, Kido went to Ha• community service. of the 1966 National JACL Convention testi• waii to join the JACL contin• MIsfortune struck Saburo YOSHIOTADA monial at San Diego, Mr. Kido rubs the papier-mache "Hotel" gent to raise funds for legis• Kido when he suffered a President presented him, reminiscent of the lean JACL years when nation• lative activities. He fought mild stroke in 1970. He was The Sumllomo Bank of Califomia al membership was under 4,000. He picked up the Japanese folk to pass the Evacuation forced to retire from his law practice of rubbing Hotei-san for good luck and invariably his claims bill and the immigra• practice and community ac prayer was answered with an unexpected contribution to JACL. tion and naturalization bills tivities. PACIFIC CITIZEN Comments, letters & features James Murakami, NatIOnal JACL President Alfred Hatate, PC Board Chairman JA L "on the spot" is If JACL did Harry K. Honda, Editor The Bakke Case nothing. Loyalty Issue Concentration camp Permit me to explain my position. nQt>Itls Ctlht Su Wlphon m! . Pi ynblc In In the event that JACL ii, supportive Editor: FAltor: , foo'lQtl:S! Jr FIlS! closs /wollnblo upon ! Dear Harry: m~oritydecl810n Every Memorial Day when our While the definition or "concentra• Ordinarily J would not comment of the for disallow• J L ffie'IT1 ~ due tor 000 r ubSCf1P\lon th/OlJQh JA L Ing minority enrollment, JACL will family lay flowers at my brother's tion camps" as used on the plaques on anoth r person's Interpretotion of rtars 1765 SuMr! an Fnncr.;oo C ht 9411 (4 I . 9.1-JACL) :ertalnly be placed "on the spot" grave at San Bruno J remember the identifying the misnomered "reloca• a judicial decl ion unless It Involves since the CaUfornl Supreme Court great sacrifice he, along with the tion centers" is obnoxious and con• News nd opinions expresMd by columnlst1l. except JACL on of ub tantlal Importance and utilb..ed the Koremalsu ond ll1raba· many Japanese American young troversial to a few concerned Ameri• staff WTfters. do not neoeu.arily reftec:t JACL policy, gravity I find this to be the case yu hi decisions to buttrcs Its rul• men of the lOOth. 442nd and MIS, cans with guilty feelings at this time, relatinR to your editorial of April 1, ings. If JACL Is strongly opposed to made for us they must remember that back in IQ77, wherein you qu te from the After 30 years or so we still find Fnday, April 15, 1977 No 1941 th ' decision, and I'm certain that It 1942 they felt no guilt or shame nor 4 'lntement attribut d to Frank Iwa• should be, this i the ideal case to that there are still America.ns who raised any objections to innocent rna, q., the National Legal ounsel, initiate a coUateral attack on the question our loyalty! victims or bystanders being round• and can Illd your editorial with the Recently it was disclosed during gros~ error made by the United ed up, tagged and herded Uke cattle stat ments cons I tent with that of President Carter's transition team EDITORIALS: tate~ Supreme Court some thlrty• to internment camps. Mr Iwama The ubJ t motter re• three years ago. (Marc:h 4, PC) discussions of the pos• Very little is written in the U.S. I hng to th racially controversial sible appointment of a Japanese The approach should be that the hinory textbooks regarding the dt."C1. Ion of Bakke \I Re8ent~ of the American, one of the members of the "compelling tate Interest" Is the mass Evacuation of Japanese and Ja• Univaslfy of ali(ornia presently be• transition team asked, "Can the Japs Saburo Kido: 1902-1977 erroneous standard used in Bakke panese Americans during WW2 so fore the United tot upreme be trusted?" How quickly they for• that the general public is still un• No single man ha affected the lot and live of Japanese The special admissions criteria was ourt. not promulgated for the purpose of get or choose not to remember! aware of what happened back in Pur unnt to your editorial" . As a mother of an only son, J truly in America individually and collectively as had the late Invidiously excJudlnR 0 racial group 1942. leRal coun. I Frank lwnma openly (Caucasian In the Bakke case) but to cannot say that r would be strong RICHARD K. HAYASHY Saburo Kido, who died on April 4 in San Francisco-the wondered about the propriety of provide a benign and remedial class• enough to ask or support my son's Stockton, Calif. arena of his early years as an attorney defending the rights JACL upportlnR a case which heed• decision to sacrifice his Ufe if there ed th precedent (rom co that ification to rectify the po. t discrimi• • of Issei and Nisei against the immense odds and pressures nation of the minority In this way. is another war as my Issei mother JACL 10nR uRht to overturn did for my brother so many years has you are cro~slng swords with the Short Notes that germinated the Evacuation. Indeed, Sab is the "great• 'The CallfomJa upreme ourt has Koremat~u and Hirabayashi deci• ago. really put JACL on the spot by quot• Dear Friends: est Nisei": sions The benign and remedial I can still rec.all the many sleep' ing from Korematsu and Hirubaya• less nights my mother went through The new format and exceUent sh l' " cia lIification theory Is not novel It printing mean that now this SS-year• The many who knew him are comforted today by the fact Is used repeatedly in affirmative a~ In the American Concentration I have spoken on the Bakke de• Camp in Colorado worrying about old great-grandmother can read it all that Sab li ed to hear and accept the tributes from near and tion cases regarding employment and with pIea!ure. Having had cataract Cision (PC, Dec. 1(}'17, 1976) from and in civil rights cases. my four brothers who were fighting decL~ion surgery on both eyes, very little was far overthepast fIfty years of his public life. Yet he was coast to coast ince the was For the reasons above stated, it for us to prove our loyalty to the rendered and minority and other possible before without eye-strain. never content to rest on his laurels-always yearning and would be totally consistent for JACL United States When the fatal day sensiove group and persons came when we received the dreaded Mr. Hosokawa's was plain but not continuing to work for the common good for there was still to attack the Bakke deci ion and the much more. throughout this nation are preparing "compelling tate interest" stand• news of the death of one of my broth• much to do. It was a tiring heart which untracked him about amicus curiae bnef in opposition to ers, I cannot recaI1 one bitter word MARGARET FLEMING ard Pasadena, Calif. six years ago. the decision ROBERT M TAKASUGJ uttered by her against the country In my opulion, only way that the U.S District Judge who upset her Ufe and treated her • California Supreme Court is placinR Los Angeles family so brutally. • From our perspective, Sab practicing law was the bread t thanle; God that there are strong 'Years of Infamy' His counsel remains steadfast, despite occasional ex• Japanese Americans like our own & butter so that he could engage in perhaps a more satisfy• NC-WN Governor Kubokawa who Editor: ing but impecunious vocation of newspapering. When he pressions of concern as to whether the PC is a house organ are WLllJng to speaJc; out for us (Mar. With graduation days just around penned his final "Observation" on March 31, 1966--8 daily of the JACL or not. 25. PC). The day of "ko-rae" or sup' the corner, wouldn't it be a good for pression must be over and we "Quiet all Japanese American groups to column that he had started 30 years earlier as "Timely • Americans" must speak out and copy the Philadelphia JACL gestUre TopiCS" -he accomplished a writing record even the news- Kido seldom exuded humor in his columns but his fmal urge organiultions like the JACL to of buying copies of Michi Weglyn's paper pros will strain to achieve. "Observation" ended with a smile. "Now when business vigorously campaign against those "Years of Infamy" to present to high friends meet me, they will not have to worry if I had come who question our loyalty. school and college graduates? If we are to keep our beloved coun• And when I think of the thousands He had been president of the Shin Sekai-Asahi, prede• for an advertisement or not. I am a free man without any try strong and free. we must also do of Japanese Americans who have not cessor to the Hokubei Mainichi of San Francisco, at the tIme newspaper connections. " our part by being aware of racial read this book and whose attitude is bigotry in high political offices and the sloppy "let bygones be bygones", the Japanese ernacuJar was shut down in 1942. Postwar, Today, Kido is the free spirit regenerating the JACL as it to speak out against these grossly I get pretty mad for they are insur• he was president of the Shin Nichibei, defunct since 1965, approaches its 50th year. The current generation can be unfair accusations when needed. ing the certain rerum of bygones. which also was the "home" of the PC. He was instrumental reminded of what the organization contributed to the wel• MARGARETl'E MURAKAMI YONE U. STAWORD Sonoma County West Chatham, Mass. in launching the PC, first known as the Nikkei Shirnin, in fare of the community in years past and pause to pay 1929 in San Francisco, and then having it relocated from its respect to those who had served. As he reminded, "Fifty wartime home at Salt Lake City to Los Angeles in 1952, years is a long period for any organization to claim as part East Wind: by Bill Marutani because he believed the PC should be self-sustaining. His of its history. Unless they had some worthy cause for its counsel when this editor was hired was unfettered: "Do purpose, most organizations will not be able to survive that nothing to diminish the Nisei as Americans". long a period." Ct Food for Thought Philadelphia THE OTHER EVENING while getting a quick snack at a A Corner for Our Guests: nearby restaurant, I was struck by the sight of a big, grown man nearby drinking a comparably large glass of milk. I couldn't remember the last time that I had milk, straight that is. Indeed, I can't recall the first or the last time that I He's enthusiastic, optimistic, humble. • • ever saw any Nisei gulp down a glass of milk, straight or not. By CHEZ SATOW to have the opportunity of his style would appeal to any needs to be done, aiding in AS I MUNCHED on my corned-beef-on-rye sandwich San Francisco meeting you and discussing age group. the cohesiveness w her e with cole slaw dripping from its edges, I wondered just why I think we have a winner! JACL in general and what• Karl admits he didn't chapters are faltering, this was_ In terms ot regular tare or ruShes, tne at-least-once• The announcement (pc, ever it was that made Mas come up the ranks in the adding strength and guid• a-day fare of "gohan" and "okazu" must insulate Nisei from Mar. 25) that National JACL so effective." And he said, JACL circle, but he grasps ance to JACL as a whole. I developing a broader taste. And this includes this writer: has an executive director "Even if I don't get the job, his role to be in defining the am confident he can fill the give me some oriental soul food, and you get no complaints may give many members a I'll have gained because you bill. from me. It's seen me through thick 'n thin, and it was importance of JACL as be• particularly good during those thin days. sense of relief. But on the would have shared with me ing a very wealthy and pre• • other hand, some may feel your ideas and opinions." I cious 0 r g ani z a t i 0 n• We owe much to the JACL TAKE FOR INSTANCE, cheese. I have a hunch that if a uncertain. Is this person was flattered and im• wealthy because of the dedi• personnel committee, the poll were to be taken of Niseidom, one might find that as really qualified to han dIe pressed-and it certainly cated volunteers giving National JACL Board mem• a group we Nisei are not sophistic ted to the consumption this awesome responsibility reflected a lot of his make• countless hours that money bers, etc., who gave up so of cheeses. And again that includes this writer. Oh, not that and w 0 u I d he be handi• up. could never buy, and pre• much time going through I'm completely alien to cheeses: mozzarella is delicious, capped by the pain and • cious because it was created reams of material on the ap• tacky; spaghetti without parmesan is just spaghetti; and scars he might inherit from During our conversation, and nurtured to remedy the plicants. Though it has bleu cheese, as ripe as that deteriorating stuff is, is de• his predecessor? he came through to me as whole arena of injustices di• taken longer than antici• licious. As a lad I don't recall my Issei mother placing Let me assure the mem• being a very warm, very rected at us, touching the pated to select a national di• cheese on the table with any memorable regularity: on the bership and everyone con• sincere, comfortable to lives of everyone, giving us rector, it is a credit to the contrary, if she placed cheese on the table, that would be cerned that I had the good communicate with-and a some semblance of security committee and board that memorable. Perhaps the stuff was too expensive. fortune of meeting Karl No• feeling came that I had and dignity as Japanese they proceeded with caution BUT EXPENSE CAN'T have been all that determina• buyuki over dinner, very in• known him for a long time. Americans. And over the as they approached this tre• tive. For just as you will recall, so my Issei parents put stuff formally but on an honest His desire to be of service, years of struggle and sacri• mendous task. on the table ~t was expensive based upon weight. I never one-to-one basis. And if I am and his excitement to be so fices, JACL has become a Of course, the proof of the knew what "kazunoko" cost back in those days-I only know any judge of character, I close to the realization of very influential voice. pudding is in the eating. But today the stuff is worth its weight in gold-but it couldn't can honestly say we have a getting this opportunity was He keenly recognizes that as that weekend ended and have been all that cheap. And bamboo shoots, tohfu, kama• winner. refreshing. he needs everyone, voung Karl was appointed by the boko, and so on must have been much more expensive,• His modus operandi re• I don't think he is going to and old to be able to attain Board, he added another pound for pound-than, say, cheese. vealed a lot to me. Prior to perform miracles, but I am his goais in the various di• thoughtful touch in calling his appointment, he took the confident he will I ear n SPEAKING OF KAZUNOKO, unfortunately I did develop rections JACL must take• back to give me the good a fondness for the stuff, after initially detesting its re• time to call and introduce quickly. He will be effective and to lead the way. He news. He thanked me for himself: "Please don't think in getting the cooperation of pulsive odor. Similarly, I got hooked on sturgeon caviar, comes highly recommend• having spent time with him. which is about as hard to find. And even on raw clams, juice it presumptuous of me but I all he encounters, because ed by many important pe0- He left me with a good feel• am one of the candidates for he is enthusiastic, optimis• and all. Artichokes, I can take 'em or leave 'em: too much ple who have followed his ing. He said half the battle trouble for a hungry person. final consideration as Na• tic and humble. But he pos• career and his varied activi• had been won because his tional Director of JACL and sesses an air of confidence ties-as a doer and a getter. family, especially his wife ALL OF WHICH is to say: you can taken an inaka-mono whether I get the position or that seemed very much at• He comes to JACL at a time (Hiromi), is all for him out of the inaka, but you can't take the "chazuke-'n-koko" out not I would like very much tuned to our peer group but where much fence-mending 1000/(. L' of an inaka-mono. CI Pacific Cltlzen-Frtday, AprIl 15. 1977 5

From the Rrying Pan: Bill Hosokawa

OK_IF YOU'RE GONNA Choice for Ambassador Denver, Colo. marshaled for him. More than 100 members CALL ME \ Ll1.: ROOTS'. u If it couldn't be Mike Masaoka for United of Congress had expressed their backing, a States Ambassador to Japan, then President most unusual action. Asians and Blacks rallied FROM NOW ON, YOU'RE Carter's selection of former Senator Mike behind Masaoka. 'iAKENOKO' ! Mansfield for the Tokyo post was an excellent Mike and Etsu Masaoka were of two minds alternative. I hasten to applaud Mansfield's about the possible appointment. It would qualifications for representing us in a criti• have been a great honor, and it would have cally important capital before the more mili• given them an opportunity to work for even tant critics in our midst scream racial dis• flrmer relations between the COWltry of their crimination and Carter insensitivity. birth and citizenship, and the country of Masaoka and Mansfield have more than their ancestry. their initials in common. They are personal On the other hand, taking the appointment friends, their association dating from the would have posed a heavy financial burden days when Masaoka as JACL's Washington on them. In a post like Tokyo, ambassadors representative was prowling the halls of must draw extensively on personal resourc::es Congress for support. And, in fact, it was to supplement an inadequate entertainment Senator Mansfield who last year was named budget. MaBaoka, who spent his most p~ for JACL's Mike M. Masaoka Award for his ductive years working for JACL, certainly role in promoting good relations between has no personal fortune. In addition, his the United States and Japan. Washington consulting business is pretty • much a one-man concern (with apologies to Like Masaoka, Mansfield has had a long- his hard-working stafO, and its prospects time interest in Asia. Before he went to would have been doubtful with the boss off Congress for the first time 34 years ago he in Tokyo. was a professor of Asian studies at the Uni• That Masaoka was considered at all is an From Happy Valley: Sachi Seko versity of Montana. Last July, as the then important milestone. The Carter administI-. Senate majority leader, Mansfield went to tion was made dramatically aware of the Japan to study problems facing the United Japanese American minority. The fact that Lesson of Lillian Hellman States. Masaoka was a contender made it certain In his report to the Senate foreign relations that anyone chosen over him had to be th0- Salt Lake City others, only regarding her• Sometimes the sheer committee, Mansfield noted that strong ties roughly qualified; it guaranteed that no stodgy One event distinguished self. They weren't consid• magnitude of these histori• with Japan are a "fundamental pillar in' bureaucrat or political hack would be sent to this year's A cad e m y ered noble by the citizenry cal events, falsely lulls us present U.S. foreign policy whose goal IS Tokyo as a reward for past services. Awards program. It was the in those days. They were as• into a state of apathetic un• continued stability in the Western Pacific." There are not fully confirmed indications appearance of Lillian Hell• sumed to be Communists concern. We believe that "Unlike our ties with Great Britain," his that Tokyo itself was only lukewarm to man, who was invited to because they chose to re• since we are ordinary citi• repOrt continued, "language and cultural Masaoka's appointment. Hostility toward make two presentations for main steadfast to a personal zens, we are granted a sort differences have been obstacles to mutual N~i apparently was not involved. The Japan• of immunity from responsi• best documentary flIms. code of justice which es• understanding between Japanese and Ameri• ese foreign ministry, given its 'druthers, Lillian Hellman is probab• capes the understanding of bility.We do not believe our• cans. Trust does not come easy under these would prefer to deal with a Washington insider ly one of the greatest living most of us. And that is why selves capable of participat• playwrights and writers of there are few who will ing in modern day cruci• circumstances. Extraordinary efforts by with close ties to the power structure and this century. She is also a achieve that particular no• fixions. both sides are nece&sary." direct access to the Oval office. And this is symbol of the McCarthy bility. • And now Mansfield, who did not run for understandable. And sadly, because as Ja• re-election, has an opportunity to exercise Mike Masaoka and those who supported era. Those were treasonous Some went to prison, panese Americans we have years, equal in terror and among them Dashiell Ham• those "extraordinary efforts." him made a good try, and in no small part to experienced the same type trauma to the Evacuation. mett, an American literary As for Masaoka, the word is that he was a this effort, an ambassador of Mike Mans• Perhaps it was not coinci• genius. He was the man Lil• of skulduggery, we tend to believe ourselves above contender right up to the final selection. An field's abilities was selected. We have nothing dental that the witch-hunt• lian Hellman loved and unprecedented amount of support had been to be downhearted about. ing of the 'SOs was a monster persecution. lived with. Prison wasn't This was disproved to me creation conceived by the quite enough penance in the House Committee on Un• by the board of the Salt Lake From Mid-America: Tom Hibino judgment of some ultra-pat• JACL in 1973. Their quarrel American Activities in 1947. riots. Many in the film in• This time the attention was with me was an article I was dustry were further pun• preparing in defense of a focused on alleged Com• ished by their peers by be• local white teacher, whom I Compelling State Interest munists. ing black-listed from em• believed had been misrep• Chicago justification for utilizing port for affirmative' action While the Evacuation was ployment, among them Lil• presented, had wrongly The April 1 PC editorial racial factors in the minori• through minority admis• largely based on a suspicion lian Hellman. been accused of racist tac• concerning the minority ad• ty admissions program. sions progress need not be of race and national origin, missions programs of state In the brief filed in the based on a "c 0 m p e 11 i n g the purge of the 'SOs was Maybe the forces of fate tics. and time combined, in some The board did not know universities w hie h use Supreme Court by the Univ. state interest" and, there• directed at another selec• the contents of my column of Washington, it argued fore, the acceptance of pre• tive segment of American mysterious way, eventually "race" as a criteria was since I was writing it as they based on an 0 v err i din g that the University had cedents set in the Relocation society. Or so it seemed. Be• balance the judgments of past. Richard Nixon, who were conducting their meet• "compelling state interest," "never supposed that they cases. In the JACL brief cause it questioned the loy• ing. And it was not their in this case, the need for are required to justify the mentioned above, the Kore• alty of those particularly achieved national promi• nence for his participation, prerogative to know, since more minority profession• affirmative consideration matsu case was referred to prominent for their creati• PC columnists, ,other than als and an integrated stu• of race in their admissions as "one that involved the vity and intellect. today lives in the isolation of a disgraced presidency. JACL staff writers, express dent body. policy by showing that it is most b 1a tan t 1 y inferior • And Lillian Hellman, years their own opinions and not Since the same rationale, necessary to fulfill a com• treatment and stigmatiza• I think that one of our necessarily JACL policy. the best interests of the pelling state interest ... " tion of a racial minority." largest American failures is late, is recognized with a standing ovation in the are• state, was used to uphold the Furthermore, it argued that The JACL's position in the inability to grasp the What astounded me was the Supreme Court itself this area might best remain na from which she was ex• personal attack I incurred, constitutionality of reloca• fact that when any minority had "never yet held or ~d as it was stated in the De pelled. in absentia, as I 1 ate r tion in the Korematsu and is assaulted, be it of race or Hirabayashi cases, the PC that race is a "suspect class• Funis case brief: of art, it is essentially an at• • learned from witnesses at In a later analysis of this found it "ironic" that JACL ification' requiring a com• Having suffered through one of tack on all of us. the meeting. One of their pelling state interest in jus• the most intense periods of discrimi• American agony, perhaps concerns was my political would support the universi• nation in the modem history of the As even the most de• ty's position. It was also re• tification when the major United States-the exclusion of over tached student of recent prompted by the need for proclivity and this is where exorcism, many who re• ported that legal counsel purpose and effect is to ex• 100,000 persons of Japanese ances• American history knows, I lost my respect for the try from the West Coast during mained silent during this Frank Iwama, at the recent tend equality to an under- . the McCarthy years were board. represented minority race." World War n~apanese Americans period, have publicly be• It is one of my quirks, call National Board me e tin g are acutely aware of the potentially terrible for their fury and "openly wondered about the The JACL, as one of a invidious and unjust consequences fear. Some who thought rated themselves for not it a lesson of my own bap• having had the courage to propriety of JACL support• number of organizations of governmental programs based ex• they were men, proved they tism into American politics clusively on race. However, JACL is stand up for justice and be ing a case which heeded the who joined in a brief filed by were not. shortly before McCarthy's ioiniruz in this brief hef-.11I1V' if hP• counted. precedent from cases that the Children's D e fen s e Iieves that it is imperative that af• They provided the Com• troops moved in, but my pol• Fund, argued that the Wash• itics are an entirely private JACL had long sought to firmative efforts be made to irr mittee with lists of persons The blame is therefore ac• overturn. " ington Supreme Court had crease educational opportunities for whom they believed to be cepted by those who did not matter. It is something be• "erred in [its] over-reading individuals who are disadvantaged tween me and the ballot box, For the record, I think it is in our society because they are mem• un-American. Self-preser• speak out. We are almost in• important to make clear the of the law" by presuming vation was the demon which clined to forget the real vil• a guarantee of the Com:;titu• that the University needed a bers of riunority races that have tion. stand taken by a university been traditionally discriminated consumed conscience and lains, those who talked too and the JACL in the De F\1- "compelling" reason for us• against and denied access to the ad• contributed to the destruc• much. Those, who in trying And whether or not I ing racial criteria. It called vantages of American society. agree with someone else's nis case. Contrary to what tion of other Americans. to salvage their own skins, was stated in the April 1 edi• "inappropriate" the need In the words of one legal But a few noble men and projected suspicions into a ideology, I will defend to the for a "'strict' requirement end, his constitutional privi• torial, neither the Univ. of scholar: "Equal protection, women would not be co• cauldron which not only de• Washington nor the JACL of 'necessity' and 'compell• not color blindness is the erced by the Committee, in• stroyed innocent individu• lege to it. This is what Lillian ing' justification." Hellman tried to tell this contended that a "comjlel• constitutionai mandate." 0 cluding Lillian Hellman who als, but threatened the con• ling state interest" was the Thus, it is clear that sup- refused to testify against cept of American justice. country. CI 6 Pacific Cltlz n-Friday, April 15, , 977 D. C. sets date for San Francisco JACL officers, past and present chapter classified EDC-MDC confab PC ClaSSIfied Rale II 10 cents per pul e word 53 mInImum per InsertIOn. 3% WASHINGTON -The 12th discount If same copy for four tImes. • Cincinnati biennial Eastern-Midwest Payment with order unless prIOr ae• joint district council con• dll IS established with our PC OffiCe. inc inn a t i JACL an~ vention, being hosted by the nouned it would like to spon• Washington, D.C. JACL, will - Announcement sor a regular, possibly bi· be held over the Aug, 4-7 WILL FORMS: Make Your Own WUJ monthly, Sunday afternoon wee ken d at the Twin Easily! Ready to fill In. Only S2.00 (2 tea for old friends who have Bridges Marriott Hotel. for 53.SO). P.O. Box 3609, New celebrated "Kanreki" (60th The reparations cam• Haven, cr 06S2S birthday) to get together paign and JACL legislative _ Rental-Tahoe Area and chat. programs are expected to SOUTH LAKE Tahoe lUXUry con• The first of the "teas" will be the main topics for dele• dominium, three bedrooms. three be held April 24, 24 p.m., in gates representing the 13 baths, furnished. Ten minutes from Heavenly Valley and casinos. Two• the home of Tak and Sachi chapters comprising the day minimum and deposit. Phone Kariya, S809 Bluespruce Ln. two district councils. (916) 925-0019 after 6 p.m. Anyone over sixty is in• vited, according to Fred Morioka (563-6718). Terry Ishikawa, Kazuya Sato, and Gordon Yoshika• IMMEDIATE OPPORTUNITIES WITH wa formed the local JACL GIBRALTAR SAVINGS & LOAN ..• Japanese American History W~ are all&r~ulveh _king qualified peop~ lor Ih~ lollowinll posillom. Committee to collect infor• W~ orr~r ~ mation on early Cincinnati • ."lIenl ,Ianing \alanet and benefili. Issei experience. They are ACCOUNTANT Jr 'ilarr Actl. lor IXv Hills BS dellree or equiyal~nl plus 1·2 vn looking for photos, informa• financillacrounling. tion, memorabilia. Written APPLICATIONS PROGRAMMER and oral interviews are also IX. Hllb. 2 )'n. prollrammlng rap. 'R«~nl ~.I~n".~ COBOL huvy BAL planned. lie Ilnln".1 app'. APPRAISER • Hollywood Full~rll," brlnch Siale apprm~d (Ias\ II or III ApIXr San Francisco JACL installed its 1977 board Steve Okamoto, Nob Mihara, Ken Nakamura, Through courtesy of ASSISTANT BRANCH MANAGER of governors Feb. 26 at Forest Lodge and Bob Fujioka, Daro Inouye. Ted Kltada, Frank NHK (Nippon Hoso Kyokai) IFYln t>rln,h .l Yr\ In S&L I" ~upcnl"'n up honored 11 of its past presidents. Program Minami, Richard Kiwata. Jan Yanehiro, Bob and the Los Angeles Japa• BUYER consisted of slide presentation of 1976 chapter Kiyono, Gary Nakamura, past pres .. miss'ng• Be> HII" Min 2 '" In S&L or r~laled Ileid Formal Iralninll In nese Consulate, Hollywood purcha\ln!! dt'>lrable activities, recognition of Frances Morioka for Nancy Okada, Louise Koike Steve Treaoka, JACL and the LA Union her volunteer work with chapter and her In• Chiz Satow, Cherry Tsutsumida. CLERK TYPIST Church presented the three• Be, H,I" An'l, P.nahl.. Depl Tvpe SO·IIO "pm. lO·ke' proliC1enc~ volvement with the Soroptimists and installa• LOWER : The' 1 past presidents (from left) : hour film, "Kohaku Uta Bkkptc cap clNrlbl.. tion of officers by Dr. Terry Hayashi, 1934 back-GeorQe Yamasaki Jr ('71) : Garv Naka• Gassen" of 19n as an Eas• FACILITIES MANAGER chapter president and a past national JACL mura ('76) ; Mike Ito (77); Donald Negl ('66) ; Be, HIII\ IXtcree In Bu, Admin Indu,. M!!ml d~lflb~ . ) )'n. relaled ter Sunday treat at the new up. Kn.", bluepnn". pl.n~ cIc ,pc;:, officer. Evening concluded with dancing to Steve Doi (,59) : Wes 001 ('69) ; front-Yas Abi• Union Church on 3rd and George Yamasaki's Trio. ko ('51) ; Yo Hironaka (,67) , Dr. Terry Hayashi LOAN PROCESSORS (SENIOR) San Pedro. Be, HIII~ de Ful~rlon Eap In ,'on'enllonll loan documentilion. ton· TOP. The 1977 board (from left) : front• ('34) ; Dr. George Togasaki ('31). Years shown Every New Year's Eve ,Irucllon &< dl\bu~m.nl Allyn Yamanouchi, Gail Uyehara, Mike Ito are for the first year only as some have served NHK tapes this big three• LOAN SERVICE REP (SENIOR) (pres.), Yo Hironaka, May Ochi ; back row- more than one term. &. HHls b mO't Bene &. Demand eap. In SdcL or mortlll~ company hour productIon '\0 'which 10- kcv proli"en, the most famous and popu• SECRETARY lar singers compete for hon• Rellremenl Sel'll.es Dept. In Be. Hil". Good _relarial skills. S&'L eap. calendar ors. dnirab~ . A.ml In d.-'eloplng Ind malnlalnlng pr~dure manuals &. 1977 Officers preplration (If Keotch cIc IRA \Ialemenl, WhIle the CalencIar features JAa. events ard deadlines. we I"CW weloome non• JACt.. groups II:> noIJfy us oIlhBrt public events Non·JACl. rtems lW'e 1/Q /I ClZed.-€d ARKANSAS VAU.EY JACL • Hoosier TELLERS The Hoosier JACL potluck Costa Mesa (PT) EntinolPT) W Valley (FTcltPT) I yr. recenl Teller exp. or JAa..DEADUNES West Los Angeles- Benefit wine• George Ushiyama (Rocky Ford), 2 yn rettnt heavy tashlerinll eap. plus lighl typing. May I-Nat'l JAa.. Graduate tasting, Yamato Restaurant, pres, Harry hlrokana

OPEN EVERY DAY GRAND STAR 8;r~ lllndl - Dinner __ Cock!ajls - Entertaument 7 Time Winner of the Prized PLAYERS Restaurant Writer Award PRESENT 226 South Harbor Blvd. . BANQUETS TO 200 ~n Santo Ana, Calif. 92704 '943 N Broadway New Chinatown), LA And the Soul ,ValidatIOll. Free Parking 626-2285 (714) 531- 1232 b 'E=;;J I. Associate Memberships Shall Dance $ 10 Yr-lndlvlduols a reminiscence by .... . per $25 per Yr- JACL Chapters Wakako Yamauchi PALACE and Other Organizations "A beautiful play .. . " GENUINE TATAMI ManufllCturw • Sullivan, L.A. Times '11 be Check Payable 10: "Eloquent .. ." West Los Angeles JACL's benefit wine tasting party WI NICHIBEI ENTERPRISES, INC. CommiHee of Atomic Bomb Survivors Warfield. Free Press held this Sunday, 12:30-3:30 p.m. at Yamato's in Century City 260 E. 31stSt., Los Angeles, Calif. 90011 Moil to: JACL, 125 Weller SI. los Angeles, Calif. 90012 FRI.-SAT.-SUN. for the March of Dimes and American Cancer Society. Pre- Tel. (213) 232-1728 Nole: Membership is nol tox-deduclible. -66-0--'036"'6d paring for the event are (from left) Veronica Ohara, Taye l50no, ______-' Aiko Takeshita and Stella Kishi. TATAMI Pacific Cltlzen-Frlda, rl115,1m SHIATSU San Jose champions for VA.NlA-TO ------MASSAGE ontmul:d from PN"lou~ "1\111: ,., FhJ(l'r·Tlp Therapy fur Relief of H, rry Tashiro n in fourth consecutive year Pain. Circulation Improved eh r~ . .• M .. LOYM.NT BERKELEY, Calif. - The '.. ... " "a • .,ey _ 0"'0'0 Kazuko Terada Paul 1 'hiuji is a' 'tcptiug San Jose JACL won the 31 plication f r h ap t r Berkeley JACL invitational 312 E. 1st St., Room 202 244'/2 E. 1st St. holar'hip . basketball t 0 urn a men t Los Angeles, Calif. L.A. • San Fernando Vly. (Mar. 25-27) for the fourth NEW OPEN INGS DAILY Appointments Only An ducanonal program consecutive year in a hard- 624-2821 628-3873 261-158 on th Manzanar Camp ex• fought 75-72 game over a I ------+------:------1 perien will be pon red fine Sacramento JACL team. 1- • b ' the n Fernando Vall San Jose's defense and re- AI h PI bl ED SA TO serves played key roles in 0 a um ng PLUMBING AND HEATING JA L in conjun ti n with ' d . Lie *20187'\ Remodel and Repairs the Manzanar ommitt t h e come-f rom-behlD VIC- PARTS & SUPPLIES Water Heaters, Garbage Disposal on unday, April 1", 1 p.m. tory, making up a H)-point RppoJ!1I Our Sppddlry- Furnaces at the FV Japane om• deficit in the second half. 1948 S. Grand, Los Angeles Servicing Los Angeles munity nter, L 53 Bran• Two San Jose starters were Phone: 749-4371 .l93-7000 733-GSS7 ford t, Pa oims, saddled with four fouls 1------+------1 Among tho expected on early in the third quarter the teach-in panel are Dr. and another fouled out early Arthur Han en, hi tory pro• in the final quarter in the fe SOl' at C U-Fullerton, championship play. Judge Robert Taka ugi and Contra Costa JACL won Warren Furutani. third place honors after an 250 E. bt St. rti· 91 83 . t KaJlma Arcade A·5 The eighth annual pilgrim• ove me - VIC ory over One of th. large.' SelectIon. Los Anseles_ age to Manzanar i set for a faltering San Francisco 2421 W. JeHenon, LA. Lqa A~69 Ma 14. For details, write to: JACL team. The Contra Cos- 731-2121 ~ tanzanar Commit( . 1 Cur- tans made up 8 points in the JOHN TY SAITO & ASSOCIATES ran ., los Angeles 9001b. final 1:38 of regulation play ~=~-=-::.:..::-=-~~7--~~~~~~~~~~ • Tri-Valley to tie. Complete Home ReedJey JACL won the Furnishings rM--ikawara Tn-Vallev JACL has its IjJ consolation prize 73-54 over .'• l\~m~ Sweet Shop first benefit teri aki box ~ lunch sale on Sunday. April Stockton JACL. Berkeley I I 2 .... E. 1st St. 1-'. JACL and Eden Township 15120 S. Western Ave. I Los Angeles MA 8-4935 The box lunch will in• cG~a~r~d~en~a~~3:24~-6~~4~44~,~3:2~1-~2~12:3~~.~~~~~~~~~~ clude teriyaki chicken. mu• semi-finalJACL were rounds. eliminated in the LI subi. tsukemono, fruit, and All-Tournament stars . Established 1936 cookies. Ticket are obtain• were: Ask (or . able from members at $2. S. Craig Morioka (SJ), Russell Mori· Tho e who ha e tickets ta (S,n. Jeff Ota (Sac), Dean Matsu· Nisei Trading 'Cherry Brand' can pick up their box lunch• mura (Sac). James Endo (Con) .Ipfr Appliances - TV - Furniture MUTUAL SUPPLY CO Tokunaga (Stol, and Randy Iwasaki 1090 Sansome St. es at 6'76 Via San BIas, (Ree) San Francisco. Calif. Pleasanton between 11 a.m. To commemorate the 20th 348 E. First 51. to 2 p.m. annual invitational, the Los Angeles, Calif. 90012 The benefit is b e i n g Berkeley JACL presented Tel.: 624-6601 chaired by Sam Cohen (443- recognition plaques to five 5290) and Sally Morimoto. Carey IIda Photo men for their continued sup- I------i An "Odds and Ends" sale at Glen Fujii (44) of Sacramento slipped past the outstretched port and hard work of the Tovl;~ the pick-up point is being arm of San Jose defender Craig Morioka (42) and John Hohu, tournament. The recipients chaired by Frank lnami and (22) to lay up a field goal during Berkeley JACL Tournament. were: Sam Cohen. San Jose turned back the Capital team 75-72 to clinch the 4th WiUie Osada (SF). Bob Kojimoto consecutive championshtp. (SF'). Frank Kitagawa (Sto). Tosh STUDIO Matsuura (Sac) and Tom Taketa Diablo Minyo 318 East First Street RICHMOND. Calif.-Lssei will be ~ Toll-free number (5.1). rertmned by the Diablo Minyo Doko Cameras 8. PhotographIc SupplIes Los Angeles, Calif. 90012 ACRA ~ENTO. Calif -The new Shimizu wins Kai, headed by Hiro5hi Morodomi. at Eastbay Asian Group the annual Cootra Costa JAn poduck tate Office of Business Develop• 316 E. 2nd St., Los Angeles ment has a toU·free phone (800-952- OAKLAND. Calif.-The East Bay 622-3968 626-5681 dinner April 16, 4:.»8 p.m. at Kennedy coach honors Asian Loca1 Development Corp. High School. Jerry !rei will emcee.. 5S02) to help local businessmen cope with complex government regula• (EBALDC) received a grant of tions. Ou:-of·lttate firms interested LOS ANGELES - Yutaka $25 000 from the S.H. Cowell Foun· OVER 50,000 READERS In relocating will be helped, accord· "Tabo" Shimizu, varsity dation of San Francisco towards SEE THE PC EACH WEEK ing to A semblyman Floyd Mori. basketball coach at Hamil• building a multi·service center to Empire Printing Co. ton High School, was named serve the East Bay Asian Communi· COMMERCIAL and SOCIAL PRINTING ty last March. Payment is contingent English and Japanese "Westside Coach of the upon funding of the balance of the Nationwide Business and Professional Directory Year' by the Los Angeles $2,500.000 proJect. 114 Weller St., Los Angeles 90012 628-7060 Your bUSiness card placed In each Issue ~e lor 25 weeks (a Times during ceremomes ____ hali year) at S25 per three-hnes Name In targer type counts honoring 80 outstanding as two hnes. Each addloonat hne at S6 oer hne uer hall vear Commercial & Industrial prep basketball players Air-conditioning & Re(lIgeration • Greater los Angeles • Seattle, Wash. from Greater Los Angeles. Contractor Nanka Printing IToyo Printing One of the most notable 2024 E. First St. Offsel - letterpress - linotyping Asahi Intemational Travel tMPERlAllANES players produced by Shimi• Sam J. Umemoto 309 S. SAN PEDRO ST. 1111 W OlympiC. LA. 9OOt5 - 623.0125/29 210 I . 22nd Ave . So. 325·2525 lie. *208863 C-20-38 Los Angeles, Calif. USA· Japan • Worldwide NiseI Owned --Fred Takagi. Mgr zu was Sidney Wicks, the los Angeles - 626-8153 AIR-SEA-tANO-{AR~OTEl former UCLA great now SAM REIBOW CO. Phone: 268-7835 Please Coli, Tom or Glodys GOLD KEY REAL ESTATE INC Homes and Acreage with Boston Celtics. 1506 W. Vernon Ave. Flower VIeW Gardens: Flowers & Gifts TIM MIYAHARA. Pres. Shimizu, 49. was de• Lo. Angeles 295-5204 Three Generations al lOOt N WeSlern Ave .• LA. 9OO'JJ Call Collect: (206)226-8100 scribed by bis associates as Ex.perienced Smce 1939 Ex.perience ... Shimatsu, Ogata Call ICXXler Arllto· (213) 0\6(>.7373 local or Fro Service Worldwide KINOMOTO TRAVEL SERVICE a "bard worker". Fronk Y KlnomolO ( ' FUKUI and Kubota NISEI FLORIST 605 S Jackson 5, 622-2342 In the Heart of Urtle Tokyo Mortuary, Inc. Mortuary 328 E. 1st St. - 628-5606 Fred Moroguchi Member, Telefloro GALA SUPERMARKET BAZAARS America's 707 E. Temple St. 911 Venice Blvd. THE PAINT SHOPPE lo Mancha Center ..I, --..:II Los Angeles 90012 Los Angeles 1111 N. Harbor 8lvd -n Fullenon. Calif (714 ) 526-0116 Human 626-0441 749-1449 • • Soichi Fukui, President YAMATO TRAVEL BUREAU - SEIJI DUKE OGATA 312 E Is, 51. l.A. (90012) Judo·G . Korate ~~_ Secret James Nakagawa, Manager 624·6021 Pofl.,.y Ch ino Nobuo Osumi, Counsellor R. YUTAKA KUBOTA • Watsonville, Calif. Weapon .~------Story of the Military Intelligenoo Service Language School IF YOU ARE MOVING ••• Tom Nakase Realty Camp Savage and Fort Snelling. Minn. - 1942-45 US Acrt:oge tMissouri-Sf. Loois, Washington Uru• Why Do People Join? May 5 marking the dedica• Prince Fushimi versity, Sf. Loois-Suwa Sister City Henry Tanaka, executive ti.on of Seiwa-En, the "gar• May 7 (Saturday) is devot• Committee. Terry Ishihara (Hoosier JACL) director, Hill H.ouse in den of pure, clear harmony ed to "Nihon: the World of • Cleveland. and peace" at the Miss.ouri • Indiana Officially, the Hoosier ancestry were born in Japan the Japanese Child" with Or. Kuzuhara .opened Botanical Garden. w.orkshops and special JACL is less than a year .old. and thus d.o n.ot necessarily with an .overview of the pro• A delegati.on .of 15 from In Japan a baby is consid• have U.S. citizenship. events designed f.or child• cess of aging and implica• sister city Suwa and f.our ren, their parents and teach• MICHl BEl KAt ered a year .old at birth. So. Younger members with an ti.ons for the Nisei. The sec• from sister state Nagano (317) 787-0381 ancestral mixture .of paren• ers. Children will be able to ,.. &' 45145. EM£RS<»jAVE. in this respect, the Hoosier ond phase, which concen• Prefecture will also come. ~ JACL is m.ore till year .old. tage are emerging. As a re• build a kite with Tal Street• INOIANAPOUS, trated .on the institutional The $1.2 milli.on Japanese er of New York, author of ~ 1NO. 4620J The chapter was conceived sult the term "Japanese and other resources avail• (t) garden, spanning 12 acres, 1975 American citizen" is n.o long• "The Art of the Japanese '1-465 at Emerson Ave. in the fall .of by a small able to retirees, was led by will be the largest of its type B6aCh Grove Exit - Located Inside group where the first task er appropriate, but, on the Kite". Also on tap at the JA• Masaru Nambu, w h .0 S e in N.orth America. Contrib• CUSt. Louis-Suwa Sister Ci- The PILGRIM INN MOTEL was t.o decide Whether there other hand, I cann.ot think of age n c y presently works uting t.o the project were: was a real need f.or a JACL a better term .other than t.o National Endowment for the Arts, with Issei. Send the PC t.o a School chapter in Indiana. hyphenate and refer t.o its The "how-t.o's" of confer• Japan World Exposition Commem• The question of justifica• members as Japanese-Amer• orative Fund, Missouri Dept. of Nat• or Public Library ence planning, chaired by ura! Resources, other organizations tion and pur+.ose for the ex• ican or American-Japanese Lillian Kimura, closed .out A-B Oriental and individuals. Groeery istence of the Hoosier JACL citizens. the afternoon. Small group Designed by Koichi Ka• • Michigan is one that can be asked of • discussions were held after wana, professor .of environ• and Gift Store any organization. each presentation. A work• mental design at UCLA, and tBImported foods Irom China. India. Japan. Am.ong the reasons Hoos• Kuwahara Traer.. Post sh.op highlight was the Korea. Phillipines & Thailand • ier JACL was formed were inspired by the St. Louis JA• 0nentaJ Foods & Gifts Two Locations Having had many years of to preserve Japanese heri• showing of a film on Issei CL, the garden culminates KOKUHO RICE 3709 N. Shadeland Ave. (317)5.45-3438 values, which was produced Joponese RecOfd. & Magazines 7019 Northwestern Ave. (3m251-3929 experience in vari.ous orga• tage, to assure that children years .of eff.ort by many to• 3126 Cass Ave., DetroIt. Mdl. 48021 nizati.ons, the main reason by JASC and the Midwest ward ensuring the authen• (313) 831-91 16 INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA in the U.SA benefit from it For personal service and Sl)ecial OIders. f.or them in my .opinion was Regional Office as part of ticity and .originality .of the FRANK KUWAHARA, Prop. ask lor Mr Ki C Vi. Owner and Manager and to educate the larger LDrgesl Oriental SIOre In Mlchlgan to get people.of common in-· community about the pres• the Gerontology Project. 0 project. According t.o Dr. terests and concerns to• ence of Japanese culture Peter Raven, direct.or, Mis• gether. It is important for and customs. For s.ome of souri B.otanical Garden: Grand River Collision Service groups t.o form because a us, the Japanese way of life This part of what freedom is "The importance of Seiwa• Tune-Up. Brakes. Transmission. Motor .overhaul unified voice speaks loud is inherited while for others all about. En lies in its authentic Ori• 13222 Grand River Ave. 12920 Grand RJver Ave_ er than a single. It is through it is adopted. I happen t.o be• JACL will be what its ental design, offering visit• Delriot Mlcb. 48227 Detroit, Micb_ 48227 gr.oups that we as individu• members want it to be. ors a landscape experience (313) 834-1024 (313) 8J4-10n lieve that the qualities and Auto Electric Service. Complete Auto Repairs.All Work Guaran.leed als are able t.o improve upon beliefs that I have acquired Hence, we should partici• which expresses the ancient, .our .own personal beliefs. as a result of my Japanese pate actively and offer any unique characteristics asso• • Illinois services that we can. In this ciated with the Japanese Also, through my experi• upbringing had made me an advantaged rather than a way, JACL will continue to style.of gardening." Whatever your reason, be sure to see us for all your real estate needs. ences I have seen organiza• be a vital and beneficial en• tions change with the pas• disadvantaged person. I'd May 6 Program like to see .others benefit tity in the U.S. and offer op• TAKOCHIAI sage of years because dif• portunities f.or rich experi• May 6 (Friday) will be a from the advantages I have REALTY WORLD - DON WILUAMS & ASSOClATES ferent people j.oin. This re• ences and cultivation of day f.or B.otanical Garden veals the necessity for JA• enjoyed, but most .of all, I members. Sachiko Kacho, would like t.o see it continue meaningful friendships 4141 N, Lincoln Ave., Chicago, m. 60618 • (312) 549-1404 CL t.o remain flexible and among its members. Such great-granddaughter .of for the future. P!inc~ ~danaru dynamic t.o accommodate benefits are the greatest of Fushimi, pew members, changing N.ot all ~ple who share a all for any organization. • Ohio needs and fresh ideas. comm.onness in the Japa• • Minnesota Serving the Dayton Area Dayton Paraphrasing one .of our nese element due to inherit• Over 10 Years .. , greatest Presidents, JACL ance or ad.option will join st. Louis Issei should be an organizati.on of JACL. Some will even reject Bob McMullen Oriental Food its members, for its mem• it f.or one reason or another. project proposed Bi9'O'R=~~~58-1111 812 xe~~a1~~e~sa;-~:n16 45410 bers and conducted by its This is true of any organiza• ST. WUIS, M.o,-John Ben• MINNISEI members if it is t.o continue. tion. F.or example, for my nett, professor.of anthropol• PRINTERS, INC. 2214EntradaDr.,Daybl,O. 4543i Rlch~"!~~~~o~~~eLfsh I am a JACL member professi.on there is the Amer• .ogy at Washingt.on Univer• _____~M~e~m~~~r~JA~C~L~ ____~------mainly as a result of my an• ican Society of Engineering sity, t.old the St. Louis JACL 2534 Nicollet Ave. (513)681-2473 cestry and birth. I am a Japa• Education that does not in• he is willing t.o work .on a Minneapolis, Mo. 5S404 2960 W McMicken Soya Food Cincinnati, Ohio nese American citizen. How• clude all those who teach en• local Issei hist.ory, provided (612) 827-5671 Products, InC. ever, there are .others who gineering. However, it is im• s.ome supportive funds are Letterpress - Offset PatIerson Metli SpeciaIsIs are U.S. citizens by birth but portant that those do join available. Screw Machine Products 23S6 Wyomlnar AvemJe not of the same racial heri• any .organization d.o so be• ancumati, 0Iii0 45214 FUMIO· HANGAI Barbara Oda Patterson, Owner ORIENTAL FOOD SUPPLIES tage. Still .others .of the same cause they choose to join. Be a PC Ad-Watcher 10 Pacific Citizen-Frlday, Aprll15, 1977 Spartan Beat: Mas Manbo plenty of support. Oakland to start Chinatown project In Japan, a business suit topped with a necktie has OAKLAND. alif. - Th four blocks, bounded by long been the uniform of of• ()akJ.and ty lID it on Broadway, 11th, W b't r fice workers, even in the Mar. 3 voted in favor of and Ninth treet, include Anti-Neckwear Time Nears tropical heat of August. Operation Hong Kong/U A, three large tow r for a 450- As the torrid sum mer an estimated $100-million room hot 1. an ffic build• "Rumpl d ordlJro,Ys of the Sun." library clad in a sweater, aJ• weather approaches, there d velopment rebuilding ing, a cultural c nt rand arc optional. The n w look Ishihara is a yachting en• though he did wear a tie. are always antinecktie stor• Chinatown. ISO-unit r id ntial t wer in tfl White Hou ' (> IS thu iast, and, it was glaring• The Associated Pre s s ies appearing in the news• Hong Kong de loper Y. with underground parking om/onable. ,otrle might ly revealed the other day, quoted White House press papers. T . hou ha propo ' ed th for 2,000 cars. 0 call it sloppv" AP r . also a tenni player. He ran secretary Jody Powell as Last year, an Asahi Shim• Washin~ton . port from into trouble when it was saying that for Car t e r, bun column pointed out that • claimed that he was out on a "clothes aren't part of the the barong tagalog serves as TOKYO hintaro 1 hiha• t nni ' court when he should trappings of formality and formal dress in the PhiJiIr ra, director general of the have been hearing the com• power. They aren't impor- pines while India has the nvironm nt afi{ency. ha plaints of citizens about pol• tant. " Nehru coat and dhoti and been taking a lot of Oak late• lution. That's what Ish i h a r a China the Mao suit-all not ly. But he i the Jap nese Before that, Ishihara in• seemed to think when he requiring neckties. ASIA TRAVEL BUREAU 'S abinet minister who s e curred the wrath of neck• called the necktie an utterly It said that Amiko Kujira• thinking com losest to wear manufacturers by say• useless male adornment. oka, a fashion critic, had Pre ident ,Jimmy Carter' '• I-Iolidoy owinqowoy Tours ing that there was no sense Perhaps Ishihara should• come up with the suggestion at lea t in r gard to dress. n't have blasted the necktie that a new shirt with pat• ~ ~ in wearing a necktie. GRANO CANYON - LAS VEGAS till in hi mid-40, I hi• He told reporters at the in public, but it was a re• terns be worn by Japanese youn~est MA Y 27 - MA Y 30 (Memonal Day Holiday) hara is the mem• end of January that while in mark that made sense to office workers in the sum• ber of Prime Minister Takeo Tour F ;]re "50 00 per person doublL' occuP,"'t" his office, he would dis• many. If he had made it in mer. FUkuda's Government. He pense with his necktie and midsummer instead of mid• Without coat and tie, of Includes: ha been in the public eye • Round tr,p bus larll wear a sweater. winter he would have had course. L' • Grand Can on tour of South R,m al'u ov 'rnlqht al ince hi college day when Just a few days I a t er, Yavapl Lodgll he authored a hit novel on what happened? President • Las Vegas overnIght 01 Roy I VtlgilS HOtll1 on tha his generation caUed "Tai• Carter delivered his fire• Strop yo--no--Kiset u," or "Season • 2 breakfasts. 1 lunch. Jl1d 2 donners side chat in the White House • Snacks and r~f. 'shments Sl)rved on board Escorted by Mrs Eth I Kamlyam Japan film industry 1977 JACL ~ CANADIAN ROCKIES ~ still on downside Travel Program JULY 2 - JULY 8 (Fourth of July week) TOKYO-The Japan Film Library Council chairman Tour Fare - $825 00 Pt" pt·.son double Ot;CUP,Jllcy SPONSORED BY Includes: Kashiko Kawakita recently • Round np aIrfare from Los Angeles declared, "Japan has exper• National Japanese American Citizens League • ComprehenSIve slghlseelng by motorcoach and ienced a bigger and faster admISSIons where applicable decline in the movie in• Open to All Bonafide JACL Members • Forst class or deluxe accommoda\lons each nIght dustry than other coun• • All breakfasts and donners throughout the tour Group Flights tQ Japan Itinerary: tries." Los Angeles. Vancouver. Harroson Hot Sprongs In the last 15 years, the Via JAL 747/GA 100 Round Trip Fare $460* Okanagan Valley Kelowna Vernon Rogers Pass. number of theaters dropped GROUP NO OEPART FROM OATES Glacier and Yoho NatIonal Parks. Lake LOUIse. from 7,SOO to 2,500. The four 2- FULL San Francisco ...... April 11-May 2 MoraIne Lake. Bow Valley. Banff PeYlo Lake. ColumbIa Icef,elds. Jasper. M\ Robson ProvInCIal major film companies re• 3- FULL Los Angeles ...... May 7-May 28 Park North Thompson R,ver Valley. Kamloops. leased 169 feature films last 4- FULL ~n Fr::lndsco ...... June 19-Juiy 13 Fraser Can on. Vancouver. and return. year as compared with 552 Shintaro Isblbara 5- San Francisco ...... -...... ·June 22-July 14 Escorted by Mrs. Toy Salo in 1960. 6- FULL Los Angeles ...... June 22-July 13 7- FULL San Francisco ...... July 20-Aug. 17 For further mformatlon and reservatIons. call or wrrte to: 8- FULL San Francisco ...... Aug. 7-Aug. 28 TOUR WITH ... 9- San Francisco ...... Sept. 25-Oct. 16 Asia T pavel Bupeau 11- FULL San Francisco ...... Oct. 2-Oct. 23 102 so SAN PEDRO STRHT . LOS ANGELES. CA 90012 Japan Travel Bureau International 12- Los Angeles ...... Oct. 9-Oct. 30 PHONE - (213) 628·3232 8-Day MAIN TOUR: TOKYO TO HIROSHIMA 13- San Francisco ...... Oct. 9-Oct. 30 Basic Fare: $510*; Sgl Rm Supp S117 14- San Francisco ...... ()r.t 11-Nov. 1 Tokyo (2 mght ). Toba ( I I, Katsuura (1 l. htrahama ( 1). Kyoto (2). Group Flights to Japan 6-Day KYUSHU EXTENSION: Hiroshima to Fukuoka Via PanAm 747/GA 100 Round Trip Fare $460* Basic Fare: $358*; Sgl Rm Supp $41 16- Los Angeles ...... Aug. 13-Sept. 3 Beppu (I rught). M1ya1.aJl.l (1). lbusuku (1). Kagoshtma (1 >, FUkuoka (1) 10- Los Angeles ...... Oct. 1-0ct. 22' JACL Theater Tour of Japan 6-Day TOHOKU EXTENSION: Tokyo to Tokyo Round Trip Fare: $680 Basic Fare: 5421·j S81 Rm Supp $SO 18- New york ...... Oct. 24-Nov. 7 $800* Tokyo (J mght>. Asamusht (1), Yasurruya (1), HanamaJo (1). Matsushima (1) Kabuki - Nob - Bunraku - Gagaku - Takarazuka (ThIs tour operated from June to October.) Charter Flight to Japan • TOUR PRICES based on 15 or more members traveling together. Via Japan Air Lines Round Trip Fare$549* In Conjunction with the Includes hotel accommodations. land transportation, English'speaking NEW YORK JACL GROUP FLIGHT guide and escort. All fares may be subject to change. 17- FULL Chicago ...... Oct. 2-Oct. 22 Via PanAm 747 from New York Oct. 24 and Return Nov. 7 First JACL Group Flight to Europe • All hotel accommodations. theater tickets, transpOrtation 27~ay with Japan, continental breakfasts. some lunches and dinners. Arrival and Departure Packages Via Lufthansa 707 excursion: $1,870- 15- Los Angeles ...... June 9-July 5 For Reservations, Write or Call: Arrival: Transfer to hotel, overnight in Tokyo ...... S28 CONTACT YOUR ADMINISTRATOR FOR FOlLOWING FLIGHTS Ruby Schaar, SO W. 67th St, New York, N.Y. 10023 Sgl Rm Supp $14.50 No.2. 4, 13-Grant Shimizu (408-297-2088) (2U-724-S323) Departure: Overnight in Tokyo, transfer to airport .... S28 San Jose JACL, 724 N. First St., San Jose, Calif. 95112 Sgl Rm Supp $14.50 No. 6, 10, 12-Akira Otmo (213-477-7490), 2007 BarTy Ave.. Los Angeles 9002S. No. ll-Tad Hirota (415-526-8626),1447 Ada St, Berkeley 94702. No. 15-Tom Okubo (916--422-8749) Sacramento JACL. P.O. Box 22386. Sacramento. Calif. 95822 Un Tour Series No. 18-Ruby Schaar (212-724-5323), SO W. 67th St., New York 10023 • AIr tare subject to revision pending airline's fare mcreases tor l!1n; prices based on 1976 fare and includes round trip air fare, $3 airport departure tax $20 JACL administrative fee. Adult and child seats same pnce on any flight; infants two years, 10 pet. of applicable regular fare. Hokkaido/Tohoku Hokuriku/San-in \LL FARES, DATES, TIMES MAYBE SUBJECT TO CHANGE. •• Air fare to Europe subject to revision pending airline's fare'increases Departure: toe Angeles, July 26 (Tue.) Departure: toe Angeles. October 1 (Sat-) for 19n; price includes round trip air fare. tax, JACLadministrative fee, via Japan Air Lines via Japan Air Lines hotel accommodations and some meals. All fares, dates, times may be subject to change. $1,654.00 $1,597.00 ------• Hokkaido- Sapporo, Shirao! Ainu Village, • Hokuriku- Kanazawa, Eiheiji Zen Temple. Information Coupon Noribetsu Spa. Showa Shinzan (Active Tojimbo Cliff, Awara Spa. Volcano), Lake Toya, Onuma Park and Mail to any JACL-Authorized Travel Agent, ChaIr Amanohashidate, Tottori, Daisenji Hakodate. • San-in- ter Travel Chairperson or President, JACL Regional Temple, Kalke Spa, Matsue, lzumo Office or to: Grand Shrine, Tamatsukuri Spa, Hag! • Tokuho- Nebuta Festival at Aomori (One of the National JACL Travel Big Summer Festivals), Asamusll Spa, (Historical City), Akiyoshi Cave. 1765 Sutter St., San Francisco, Calif. 94115 Lake Towada, Morioka, Chusonji • Sanyo- Yuda Spa, lwakuni Kinta! Bridge, Temple and famous Matsushima. Mlyajlma, Hiroshima. Send me information regarding 1977 Nat'} JACL Flight, especially Group No. _____ Most meals Included. Two-weeks, escorted tour in Japan. After Most meals Included. Two weeks escorted tour In Japan. After the tour, you can stay in Japan up to 35 days. Land Tours Only the tour, you can stay in Japan up to 35 days. Land Tour Only Name ______also available. also available. Address ______FOR BOOKING Japan Travel Bureau International City, State, ZIP ______PLEASE CONTACT YOUR TRAVEL AGENT 510 W. 6th St., Los Angeles 90014 WITH $100 DEPOSIT ... OR (213) 687-9881 Day Phone,_____ Chapter ______'" Pacific Cltlzen-frtday, April 15, 1977 11

islation to restrict immigra• tion of Chinese pulled rU"St in 1882 and subsequently re• World study on human rights monumental newed and strengthened in succeeding }tears, and ''The Gentlemen's Agreement" of mak s a most timely ap• Recent Conflicts in Buraku came last month, is one on legalized oppression, dis• 1907 between the govern• pearance and should ~ Liberation (Vol. 3) by Hiro• crimination, and abuse of an CASE STUDY ON HUMAN America' Minorities by S.J. ments of Japan and the RIGHTS AND FUNDAMENTAL come a standard reference. shi Wagatsuma. extent matched only by the Makielski Jr., professor and United States to refuse pass• FREEDOMS: A world surwy. " chairman of political d • Japan does not escape Jim Suzuki is one of the treatment of black Ameri• "lum set, ed. WllIem A. Veen• scrutiny in this set as the seven assistant editors of ports to potential Japanese boftll. FouDdadoD Cor the Stucly 01 ence at Loyola University, cans and Indian Americans. immigrants. Both groups in ~de case of the Korean Minority the five volume work. A na• Phmtl Martinu NlJboII'. New Orleans. One chapter Significant immigration addition faced deliberate The Rape. NetheriaDds, 1976- deals with "Oriental Ameri• (Vol. 4) is stated by Profes• tive of Japan who teaches of both Chinese and Japa• sor Changsoo Lee, director social anthropology at To• barriers to citizenship and cans", which is carried ver• nese to the United States fonnal and informal exploi• The Foundation for the of Asian American Studies kyo Metropolitan Univer• occurred at approximately Study of Plural Societies, batim to how how well the tation in employment prac• topic is presented. The same at the Univ. of Southern Cal• sity, he specialized in prob• the same time, in the period founded in 1969, to conduct tices. In addition, both sets attention and balance is ifornia; Ethnic Minorities in lems of the blacks and beginning with the 1860's. a world-wide scientific in• American Indians and en• of immigrants were the fre• noted in other papers on the Japan (Vol. 1) are discussed However, the major thrust quent targets for individual, vestigation of discrimina• state of human rig h t s in by William Wetherall and gaged in further research of Chinese immigration was tion, commissioned scholars on minorities in mainland mob and police violence. Al• other parts of the world. George A. DeVos; Discrim• a bit earlier than that of the though Japanese and Chi• from all parts of the world to ination Against Foreigner China, Southeast Asia and Japanese. The former in• prepare a series of case stu• With President Carter and nese by preference e a c h oj Japanese Descent in Ja• India. creased in numbers until sought out the respective dies. the U.S. Congress inquiring pan 2) Sakamoto, a USC gradu• 1890; the latter did not peak (Vol. by Jiro Suzuki societies of their own eth• There are 92 papers in the about the human rights of ane! Mickey Sakamoto; and ate, received his master's until the period 1901-1907. set, all academically pres• nations seeking U.S. econo• degree at Tokyo Metropoli• nic groups, ghettoization of the Political Problems of Both groups, for obvious was further imposed on ented In Volume 3, which m.lC aid this fiv~volume set, a Minority Group in Japan: tan in 1974 on the Nikkeijin reasons, tended to locate on Situation in Japan. them by community prac• the west coast of the United tice, leading to the "China -HARRY HONDA States, although significant Towns" which still endure. Hokusai touch graces book about Hiawatha • numbers of both g r 0 ups One result was that munici• By S. J. M.aJdelsId, Jr. have appeared in virtually pal services ranging from all the major entry ports of It is in part an injustice to health and sanitation to p0- Iroquois. Like Hiawatha, Herbert Meyer (1882-1960), lump together Chi n e s e the country. lice protection, fire protec• THE SONG OF HIAWATHA, by Chinese and Japanese im• ae.y W*'*"'* lit LoacfeDow, dec• Longfellow was concerned who had early come under Americans, Japanese Amer• tion, and public education orated by Rerbert Meyer, Tuttle, that oral traditions " fade the spell of the ukiyoe school icans, and other As ian migrants qui c k I y en• were easily denied them. 222 pp, SI7.so. and perish". Like Hiawatha, of painting. Seeing the American groups as though countered a wide range of The conditions were per• he wanted to preserve the woodblock prints of Hoku• they constitute a single mi• prejudice and discrimina• haps worse for the Chinese Long before ethnic litera• sai's "Views of Mount Fuji", tion apart from white Amer• ture had become compart• traditions for "the genera• nority. Each has its own sig• Americans, for of the two tions that, as yet unborn, are at 23. Meyer changed his nificant history, culture, icans (although many mem• groups they were the most mentalized into a separate artistic views as Hokusai bers if not the majority of genre, Henry Wadsworth waiting . .. " and pro b I ems of human urbanized, while a large March 1855, nine months opened to him a "new and rights. The collective treat• both groups were Chris• proportion of the Japanese Longfellow wrote it with enchanting world." In a tian), and as competitors for elan. In his epic "Evangel• after beginning the poem, ment can in this case be became fanners. Longfellow finished it. The foreword. Teiji Chizawa .. justified to some degree by white work forces, they The discriminatory prac• ine", he writes of lovers were often greeted as pre• parted in 1755 when the legends tell of the West• chief curator of Tokyo Na• the broad commonality of tices imposed on each group Wind seducing an earthly tional Museum, traces the, reaction by white America cursors to a "yellow horde" British, at war with France, caused them to withdraw maiden who bears Hiawa• Hokusai suggestions in the to the most "foreign" of mi• which would ultimately evacuated 6,000 F r e n c h within themselves, to create tha and dies of heartbreak .Meyer technique. norities in the United States, overwhelm white America from Acadia, eastern Ca• virtual governments-with- because her lover had de• For the "Hiawailia" illus• a reaction characterized by The result was national leg- nada. serted her; of the grand• Contioued on Next Pale Adumbrating the plight of trations, Meyer did exten• mother, Nokomis, rearing the Nikkei after the Pearl sive research into American = Harbor attack, "Evangel• the child; of Hiawatha grow• Indian lore. But he says, ing up and confronting his "What I learned from Hoku• ine", appearing in 1847, sets a mark of literary excel• father; of his meeting with sai, I employed in my Hia• Minnehaha: of his wooing lence for writers about the watha pictures." ORDER YOUR COPY TODAY and winning of her and Wedding the Meyer illus• Nikkei evacuation of 1942. much more. "Hiawatha" ~ trations to the Longfellow Longfellow had been born came an immediate success. test, the publishers have To", C. Cllrtr, Associate Justice of the U.S. in Portland, Maine (then a Enhancing this edition are created a beautiful volume. part of Massachusetts), Feb. Supreme Court (rel) scores of illustrations by -Au.AN BEEKMAN "A historical treatise that needed to be wrmen 27, 1807. 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Popular history Americans) and their decisions." boyhood must have resem• of the Japanese in America. 1869 - 1969. Tamoo 01111, Orientaloglst, Art Objects Expert bled the "forest primeval" o Hardcover, $9.35 postpaid. 0 $4.30 softcover ppd. "A book for your desktop ... not just for your his ancestors in the region NIeeI: Kooo 0t0nMhH Amertbjln. translation of Hosokawa's bookshelf.".. had known. In such poems "Nisei" in Japanese by lsamu Inouye. Ideal ~ for nev.ooomers Hlnk Silo; Honolulu Star-Bulletin as "My Lost Youth" he gives to U.S. and friends in Japan. Ubrary edition. "Books about court cases are often difficult to us glimpses of ''the beauti• $13.50 pos1paid. (Only supply In U.S.) read because they contain to much 'legalese', the o language used by Judges and attorneys. But ful town . . . seated by the .Ian Ken Po, by Dennis Ogawa. On the heritage ofJapaneseAmerl• in which he had grown Chuman has succeeded in writing his book In sea" cans in Hawaii. An exc.eDent introduction. nonlegal language." up. o Hardcover, $7.30 postpaid. legal History of He had observed Algon• RuJaneken of the ttou., by Spark Matsunaga - PIng Chen &onlon HlraHyn"', Unlv. of Alberta quin Indians at firsthand. An inside look at the most powerfu1 committee in the House of the Japanese in America "You have plugged a significant gap in our history with your carefullY documented report .•• An Ojibwa chief is said to Representatives, based on Spark's 1~ experience in that written in layman's language. have been a guest in the It is history of the tenacious hopes and dreams committee. (The Senator has au~ a limited supply.) of a particular minority group coping with per• Longfellow home. Longfel• Hardcover, SPECIAl.. $6.95 postpaid. Illustrated, 386 pp, Preface, Footnotes, Index. sistent racism . . ." low had inc rea sed his o Camp 0 Block 211. by Jack Matsuoka. Dally life in Internment Published by Publisher's, Inc., Del Mar, CaIH. knowledge of Indian lore camp as sketched by a young car100nist through reading the works List price: $12.95. o Softrover, $6.45 postpaid. of Henry Rowe Schoolcraft Amertca'. ConcentratIon CanIpe (Japanese translation of ABan (1793-1864), explorer-eth• Bosv,.ath's book) by Yukio Morita. ------... ------nologist, who had married o Softrover, $5.35 postpaid. Umited supply. JACL -Japanese American Research Project an Ojibwa and had made a HawaU.anT.-byABanBeekman.Elevenmatchiessstorlesofthe cJ 0 Midwest JACL Office special study of that tribe. Japanese immigrant In HawaH. 5415 N. Clark St., Chicago, III. 60640 After reading a Gennan o Hardcover, $4.45 pos1paid. SPECIAL OFFER translation of the Finnish Thunclel'ln the Rodda: the incredible DernIa PMt. by Bill 'Please send me copy(s) of Frank Chuman's national epic "Kalevala", Hosokawa. PersonaDyautographedcopyfrom the authortoPC "The Bamboo People" at the special rate of $10.95 plus 55 cents Longfellow wrote in his dia• ent~ment TO JACL for mailing and handling per book. readers. Packed with hours of Name ______ry, "I have ... hit upon a Hardcover, $13.30 postpald. plan for a poem on the o Years of Infamy. by Michi WeWyn. Shocldng expose of America's Address ______American Indians .,. I have concentration camps as wx:overed from hitherto secret archives. MEMBERS hit upon a measure, too . .. " o Hardcover, $11.30 postpaid. City, State, ZIP ______The measure was the troch• aic meter of the "Kalevala". AND FRIENDS ~ ------Make Check or Money Order payable to: JACL-JARP. Hero of the epic was to be Address ______---- Hiawatha, the legendary On• Amount Enclosed: $, ____--- ondaga chief who is said to City, State. ZIP __ ----- have tonned the League or Five Nations known as the Check payable to 'PACIFIC CITIZEN'. Enclosed: $ ------' E?G % 12 Pacific Cltlz n- Frlday, April 15, 1977 The true worth of a man is what he does with what he $5,109. By 1970, the median determined by not what he has. Asian American men pace white collar force figures for the Japanese has in his possession but -SHOKOMASUNAGA American topped the whites, $12,515 to $9,661. on federal payroll with top median income (The Sacramento Union recently recalled as early as TAX TIME WA HINGTON - Among that half th propl mak Service or blue-collar forcp. 1960, Japanese Americans th fed ral whit nar more and half 1 ' than the that were not part of the workers, th A inn Ameri• figure shown.) in California outranked all urvey, Causey added. other ethnic groups, includ• can men have the highe t The salary survey taken MEDIAN INCOME ing whites, in educational median income at $1 ,575 of in November, 1975, covered M- White (Over SOtYo )...... $ 18,200 attainments. They also See U'.s;..-. any 1 cial, thoi or ex 774,500 men and 545,899 F White (30.6) ...... 10,106 came to occupy more pro• group, accordin to Wa h• F-Blu k (7.7)...... 10,107 women employed full-time fessional and technical posi• ingt n Post writ r Mike in the government' cl ri• M- Blll k (4.4) ...... 12.080 M 'pnnish· pkg (1.5) ...... 13.385 tions in ratio to population Causey. Anoth l' e-open• cal, admiru trative and pro• F 'pani h·. pkg (l.0)...... 8,586 than any ot her e t h n i c National JACL Credit Union ing tatistic is that th y are fe ional arm. Causey used M - A ian-Am rican (Y2)...... 18,575 ju~'t group.) 0 1'2 of 1 of th fed- th new alary cale (Oct. M- -American-Indian (Y2) .... 13,004 Thus in certain eyes the P.O. Box 1721, Sah Lake City, Utah 84110 ral whit ollar work 1976) in his Dec. 29 report. F Allian-Am rican (J)...... 11.428 F-American·lndion (11:1) ...... 9,568 Japanese Americans have Office: 242 S. 4th East, Sah lake City f rc . Most black government been a notably successful Tel.: (801) 355-8040 Median figure mean worker are in the Postal While figures mean dif• ferent thing to different minority in terms of educa• people, Causey said, "Any• tional levels attained, in• Remember, you can borrow $3,000 on your uch practices exist on a come bracket, and profes• larg cale in all public agen• way you slice it, it seems signature with a qualified credit rating. TAKEDA that when women- black, sional and technical posi• de and in the public sector. tions. To ubstantiate this feel• white, red or Spanish- peaking-yell about pay Certain members in the made in 1 2 by the then ing, PC reader can help by Japanese American com• nding this writer (3295 discrimination. they have white Equal Employment omething to yell about." munity express a concern, ,INTERESTPLUS. ••• Opportunit) officer at the Lindenoaks Dr., San Jose, however, for more Asians in faciJit)' to a oupl of PAA Calif. 95117) tatistical data National Figure governmental leadership employee that a minority a developed in the federal Nationally, the 1960 Cen• positions, and more actual A new concept In ha~ to be 10 time betterthan installation study cited and sus showed median income political responsibilities in a white to yen qualify for a material on meritorious ca- of Japanese Americans was Congress, the Senate, and time deposits. given position. e where ethnicity i su• $4,388-far less than the local government. 0 • pected as the basis for bias white median income of DISCRIMINATION IN against individual PAAs. UNIVERSITY FACULTIES If a fairly large number Large East Asia libraries combine UCLA Professor Thomas of PAAs are employed and Sowell determined the influ• bias is felt, a tudy should be STANFORD, Calif. - Stu• rary and Center for Chinese ence of affirmati e action initiated. This writer will dents, staff and faculty of Studies Library. on the 1972- 3 employment gladly provide counsel. both Stanford and UC It was estimated the three In the race for top interest rates in time tatu of whites, blacks and This subject will be a ma• Berkeley have had access to libraries together hold over deposits. all good banks finish about the same. PAAs in university facultie jor topic at the JACL Tri• East Asian library collec• 650,000 books, over 20,000 But now Sumitomo moves ahead with the new while he wa a enior re• District Council conference tions at both univerisities current and noncurrent per• InterestPlul ... earch fellow at Stanford next weekend at the Mapes since March 1. iodicals, over 12,500 reels of Hotel. Reno, Ne ada. Now, $2,000 in a one-year Time Certificate of Hoover In titute. That por• An agreement was made microfilm. Deposit earns a full 6%, the highest bank interest tion relating to PAAs follows: between the two universi• It might be the single larg• rate . .. PLUS ... one of the most generous and I-PAAs ~ less on the average Bataan-Corregidor ties for broader use of Stan• est library of East Asian unique package plans ever offered! than black or wlute even though they ford's Hoover Institution materials in the Western were better qualified than ather "'he• Day in U.S. sought A maximum $1,000 credit line East Asian collection and world outside the Ubrary of ther measured by percentage holdlng WASHINGTON Sen. (overdraft protection) ! a doctorate. the proponion of doctor• Berkelev's East Asiatic Ub- Congress. 0 ate . or the number of pubUcations park Matsunaga has intro• Free checking account per person. duced (Mar. 31) a resolution (no minimum balance required) ! 2-More than ~ of PAA faculty to have Feb. 16 designated Commission-free travelers cheques! had published five or /11()re scholarly articles. compared to 31 "< for wh.ltes as "B a t a a n-Corregidor HOME PLUS many more opportunities ~ and 12"'( for blacks. Day" in memory of the gal• FINANCING! to save! . ~ J-PAAs were in the high-paying lant American and Filipino So get the best run ever for time natural sciences to a greater extent defenders of Bataan and ATIEN110N! than either the blacks or wlutes. so deposit money at Sumitomo. I-rIu that they would tend to have the Corregidor during World Brokers, DeveJopen Regulations Impose substantial Inlerest penaltIes upon premature WIthdrawal highest salanes overall if everyone War II. and Homeowners were paid the same witlun each field HOME RNANCING But PAAs were invanably the lowest ~e 8umitomoCfJankgfGaJiforflja In EQUAL HOUSING + paid by S2.000 or S3.000 every Stiffer penalties field for any given level of degree LENDER Member FOIC • and any given number of article sought in bill published Call us for conventional • SACRAMENTO, Calif.-A Loans with fixed monthly We've got a yen for your new car MY CONCLUSION AND bill (SB-S68), introduced in amortization payments March by State Sen. Alex P. PROPOSED ACTION Aak for Tom IUraDo V.P. Loan OffIcer (213) 624-7434 at a low interest rate. How extensive is such dis• Garcia (D-Los Angeles) will crimination against PAAs? stiffen penalties against im- . MERIT SAVINGS AND LOAN ASSOClAT1ON migration consultants who LOS ANGElES 324 E flnl $1 624·7434 • TORWCElOAROEIIA. 18$05 $ WIIII,n An. 327·9301 My gut-level feeling is that MONTUlEY 'A11It. 1995 S Allln1It ShO. 216--3011 Come Drive a Bargain With "knowingly mislead their clients." books A mandatory penalty of ../--=--______,1 CALIFORNIA $5,000 or imprisonment of Los Angilis Japanisl Casualty Insuranci ASIII. FIRST BANK Continued from Previous Page one year wiJI be brought Complete Insurlnce Protection about to immigration con- (Formerly the Bank of Tokyo of California) in-the-government, and to sultants for violation of cer- Aihoro Ins. Agy., Aihoro-Omatsu-Kokito-Fujioko MEMBER FDIC embark on an extensive de• tain state laws relative to 250 E. 1st St...... 626-9625 Son Francisco Main Office ...... (41 5) 445-0200 gree of self-development immigration assistance if Anson Fujioko Agy., 321 E. 2nd., Suite 500 ...... 626-4393 263-1109 Son Francisco Japan Center Office ...... (415) 445-0300 and determination. In spite the bill is passed. Funokoshi Ins. Agy., Funokoshi-Kogowo-Monaka-Morey Oakland Office ...... (415) 839-9900 of, or perhaps because of 32\ E. 2nd St...... 626-5275 462-7406 Fremont Office ...... (415) 792-9200 this isolation, both groups Whereabouts Hirohata Ins. Agy. , 322 E. Second St...... 628-1214 287-8605 showed remarkable gains. SALT LAKE CITY-John Badger Inouye Ins. Agy., 15092 Sylvonwood Ave., ·Norwolk...... 864-5n4 Palo Alto Office ...... (415) 941-2000 Japanese American farm• from Finders Trust is looking for Tom T. Ito, 595 N. lincoln, Pasadena .. 795-7059 (LA) 681-4411 San Mateo Office ...... (415) 348-8911 ers in California, for exam• Jack M. Osako who returned to Ja- Minoru 'Nix' Nogoto, 1497 Rock Hoven, Monterey ~ork ...... 268-4554 San Jose Office ...... (408) 298-2441 pan before World War n. According k ple, l' a p i d I Y outstripped to Badger. Osald had over Sll,OOO Steve No oji, 11964 Washington Ploce ...... 391-5931 837-9150 Westgate Office ...... (408) 298-244 1 their white competitors, insurance due. Soto Ins. Agy., 366 E. 1st Sf...... 629-1425 261-6519 Salinas Office ...... (408) 424-2888 thanks to superior organiza• 11111111 1IIIIIIIIIIIiiillllJllllllllllllllllUIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII 11111111111111111111111111111111111111111 1IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIUllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllnlllllllllllili11111111111111111111111111111 Sacramento Office ...... (916) 441-7900 tional skills. Chinese Ameri• Stockton Office ...... : ...... (209) 466-2315 cans showed great skill and Fresno Office ...... (209) 233-0591 energy as small business• FRIENDLY North Fresno Office ...... (209) 226-7900 men and minor capitalists, The Mitsubishi Bank SERVICE and brought acceptance by J. l.A. Main Office: 616 W. 6th ...... (213) 972-5200 white America. Both groups of California los Angeles Office ...... (213) 972-5500 have been patient and have Montebello Office ...... (213) 726-0081 overcome numerous formal and informal obstacles to HEAD OFFICE Crenshaw Office ...... (213) 972-5440 follow the prescribed route 800 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles, Calif. 90017 (213) 623-7191 Western l.A. Office ...... (213) 391-0678 Gardena Office ...... (213) 327-0360 to success and respectabili• LlTILE TOKYO OFFIC[ Torrance Office ...... (213) 373-8411 ty, yet each still remains 321 East Second St., Los Angeles, Calif. 90012 (213) 660-2650 outside the mainstream of Panorama City Office ...... (213) 893-6306 GARDENA OFFICE A mer i can acceptance. Artesia-Cerritos Office ...... (213) 924-8817 1600 W. Redondo Beach, Gardena, Calif. 90247 (213) 532-3360 While 0 the l' minorities Santo Ana, 5th and Main Office ...... (714) 541-2271 SAN FRANCISCO OFFICE might well envy the Orien• Irvine Office, 17951 MacArthur Blvd ...... (714) 549-9101 tal Americans' success, he 425 Montgomery St., nr. California . (415) 766-3600 remains conscious of his Member FDIC -With 75 Additional OfIIca- outsider status. O . ____UIIdlWllWIIIJIWIIlIJUWIWlllmllllllllt'VIIUlIlUilUlIMlHfMWfMWUlIMI"UlIUlIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII1IIIIIIIIIIIIIUIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIJIIHlnllllllllllllili1111111111111111