o- $1 JO podpcM <UJ^CanJ / $2.30 (Japan Ah) Eat^hed 1929 Pacific Cifizeil JoJionai Publication o n Citizens Leogu First-ever nat’L convention Low response rate from in Phiiadelphia a success JLA former internees by HBtB HORIKAWA TWo years of preparations were ffsmited in lees than five dsQU This is reminiscent ofthe Ilie naticmal oonventioii, my^opcal Sissypbus, vfbo la- worries redress advocates wfakfa started oo June 30 and bniously pushed the huge boul­ OQ Jufy5, drew over der up a long hill only to see it .ugust 10, 1 der the settlement former m- violation of ri^ts at the hands of 550 people, moetly from the ndl down in an instant All na­ temees will lose their n^t to the the U.S government” said Robin West ‘'Riis may have been the tional cemvention planners prob­ formerN-Internees who redress if they (ail to apply to the Tbma, lead counsel for JLA for­ largest gathering of Japan^ ably feel similarly. have not applied lose U.S. government by August 10, mer internees. “It would be a Americans ever in Philadelphia. ^ TW Philaddphia ch^ter is 1998. tragedy if these former intaroees Fran all accounts the event by JACL standards, thus the right to U.S. apol­ Of the 2J264 men, women and never learn of the opportunity for was very successful in providing uired a hi^er rate of ogy and compensa­ children forced fium their homes, redress from the U5. govern­ the necessary envircnunent for a r partidpatioD to. put on tion in 13 Latin American countries ment until its too-late to apply.” productive convention and in The cooperation and and imprisoned in the UJ. dur­ JLAs were taken prisoner hostingall of the peof^ in the ^wdpatioD of our members ingWWL roughly1^00 are be- the United States to be used as Earlier this year Japanese many activities. M^y ofthe con- speak weH for the morale and Ueved'to be alive and eligiblefor hostages in ezdiange for U.S. dt- Latin Americans kidnapped and ventioneere went out of their commitment of our members. imprisoned by the Unit^ States the redress. Sofer.justSOOa;^- xxea& held by Japan. Of those tnkpn hostage 865 JLAs were way to us of the w<mderfiiJ The mmmiiifif was never turned during World War II won an cations finm JLAs are pending of time they had at the amvention, down when it asked fafadp; the which only 10 were filed after the sent -to Japan and the Philip­ agreement from the U5. govern­ the hot^ and in the dty. The only exception wps from these' announcement of the settlement. pines during the war; the re­ ment to provide a presidential mainder were deptntod to J^ian, credit for this success cleariy who would not be' in the dty at letter of apologyand $5,000to Advocates for former internees goesto all the many people who the time of the convention (the say as many as 600 more people returned to Latin American each surviving internee or their participated in the preparations 442nd reuniem was held over the heir, under a settlement agree- may (ail to apply berause they countries, and a small number remamed m the U.S. and performed the many tasks same time period). m^t of a federal class action did not learn of the settlement. which were vital to the operatiem “We know that there are many See CONVBmftfpage 5 lawsuit iMochizuki vs. U.S.)- Ad­ SeeJtAs^tiageS of the amventioh. vocates warn, however, that un­ more inlemees who suffered this lOlM ANNIVERSARY OF THE CIVIL UBERTCS ACT Future bright for Rhodes Scholar A moment in time — Reagan signs BY CRAIG ISHIHARA Spedal to theCttum the Civil Liberties Act, Aug. 10,1988 Cullen M. Thniguchi is a 22- On August 10, 1988, Presi­ camps. Tlus action was taken year-old Yonsei from Hawaii who dent Reagan signed into without trial, without injury. It is anythingbut your tyincal guy. law the histdrie Ckni Liberties was based solely oo race — for these 120,000 were Americans. Not only was he «ie of three stu­ Act; legislation ’ that redressed dents at Occidental College in more *han 81,000 Japanese of Japanese descent “\’es. the nation was then at California to score strai^t ”A”s Americans unjusdy placed into thmtighout his four years of tm- concentration camps during war. struggling for its survival deigrad.he’s also goingto goto World War 77. The following are — and It’s not for us today to passjudgementupon thosewho medical school for free — at Har­ his remarks from that momen ­ vard. Ifthat doesn't impress you, tous day. courtesy of the White may have made mistidces while engagedin that greatstruggle. thm maybe this will: He was one House, Office of the Press Secre­ of32 collegegraduatesin the na­ tary. “Yet we must recognize that the internment of Japanese tion to be selected as a Rhodes “ .. My fellow Americans, we Americans was just that — a scholar this year. Rhodes scholar Cullen TanigucN arxl his chemistry professor, Dr. Don TTie Rhodes Sdiolarahip is a College. gather here today to right a mistake. For throughout the DeardoR.Deardofl. show off their HHawaiian shirts in their lab at Occidental war, JapaneseAmericans in the two-year sdiolarship whidi sup­ grave WTOTig “More than 40 years ago. tens ofthousands remamed ut­ ports tuition, expenses, and room stud^t was something special. he went to coU^ in California, and board at Oxford Umversity. In the lab where they'd worked because Hawaii is Thniguchi’s shortly after the bombing of terly loyal to the United States. “Indeed, scores of Japanese It also provides for a $22,000 toget^for two years, Thniguchi home state he had the c ^od of Pearl harbor, 120,000 persons of Americans volunteered for our budget ioT travel and other ex­ h^ been indispoisable. competing there instead..He opt­ Japanese ancestry living in the penses. “Cullen makes things h^^pen ed to run for the slot intlawaii United States were forcibly re­ Armed Forces — many step- *T really didn't want to go for it in the laboratory. You can give in­ since the selection process had moved form their homes and placed in makeshift internment SeeREAGAT«page4 at first,” TlEmiguchi said. *TTien I structions to one studoit and the See RHODES SCHOLAR/page 9 learned more about Oxford and studoit wont get any results. the process and I said to myself, You can give Cullen the same in­ ma)i>e I could do this. It was a structions, identical, and hell long-shot, but I just said, why make it happen. Hell make the Book Controversy: not ni give it a shot” reaction go,” Deardoff said. It was Thnigudii's chemistry With his professor’s recom­ professor, Dr Don DeardoS; who mendation, Thhiguchi was one of Lois-Ann Yamanaka remains fearless first suggested first he ^>iJy for two nominees O^dental select­ the Rhodes Sdiolarship. Deardoff ed to send off to be eligible for the BY MIKA TANNER American knew fitnn the b^d^ming thathis state-level oomp^tiai. Tliou^ Special to tbe PiKffIc CUtefi community. Others fed Author Lois-Ann Yamanaka, that Yamana- known for her raw and searing ka's strength 1- dictions of life in working-class lies in her no- Is Hawaii, finds bditelf m the mid­ holds-barred ensre dle of a natianaPoontroversy that writing style, Zl(X “iias critics denouncingb»as a and fiiat it is d5. *- o “ raost and supportas defianding “ridiculous” to -Is* §m-m an aitisfis ri^t to creative fr«e- assume tLe Aran wwprpiprim. author in- At issue is tbe suthor’s third tended fiie . iricr r bosk, BtaV Hanging, s butsUy character of honest portosysl of three JapaD- Uncle Paulo me AmeeioaD children on ths is- to represent AiAnrU dfooueaaaffiaracart lOi Aism , Isnd oOWkkii lAo sn b;ii«to aU Rhinos. sy duikiga isoeniiMtoLosll eon with Ihiir mslhsrti dssdh &einn(for . 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