• • •• aCl lC Cl lZen ~ove~eT30,1979 , national publication of the Japanese American Citizens League ISSN: 0030-8S79 I Whole No. 2,071 Vol/ 89 25¢ U.s. ~ I l~ , ~ copy ;' _7 W - ?c . - zx: -. -- .- . - -,- -- i· 1 AAti-lranian passion reminiscent of Pearl Harbor era. LOS ANGELES - On the WASlllNGTON-Amongper- ternment program, he added, heels of President Carters an- sonal perspectives on the Ira- "But it was difficult for us at nouncement that oil imports nian crisis added to a Wash- that time (1942) to believe from Iran were being halted to ington Post Sunday feature what was happening to us. We OOtmter the political game be- (Nov. 18), "Our Resilient Sup- thought we had these constitu• ing played in Tehran, the Los erpower Hunts a New World tionalliberities." Angeles Times commented Role", that reviews some of During WW2, Masaoka re• Nov.130nthepassionsagainst America's frustrating post- called U.S. officials had jUcSti• Iranians are"nmning high" . . . WW2 history, was one from fied the camps as a wartime ''but the shameful bullying ofa Mike Masaoka necessity . OnlyJ~Amer­ generation ago must not be The onetime evacuee and ieans were confined, though repeated" two blac~an oilman and a U.S. was also at war with Ger• The editorial recalled that preacher-saw painful remind- many and Italy. Something "ethnic Japanese on the U.S. ers of their own private strug- similar, he warns, ''might hap• mainland, many of them gles against racism in the new pen again in another guise ... American citizens were arbi- hostility toward Iranians in But I do believe America has trarily interned by the govern- America progressed farther down the ment" When Masaoka heard Amer- road of human rights." TIlatAmericanshavearight icans shouting, "Go home!" in ' Still, Masaoka says, his emo• to be outraged by the events in front of the Iranian embassy, tions are in conflict He "hates" Iran was understandable with he thought, "Damn it, this is what the Iranian students are the provocative demonstra- just the kind of thing that doing in Tehran. But he also tions by Iranian students in the caused us to go to concentration says it troubles him to hear Ira• U.S. in support of Ayatollah camps-unreasoning people nians here marching and shout• Khourneini adding to the ef- shouting slogans and epithets ing slogans against-a country, frontery, but the Times urged just because they're mad" in spite of the WW2concentra• "respect for legal rights,., in- While anti-Iranian anger of tion camps, has provided sig• eluding the right to show pub- today has some definite dis- nificant opportunities for lic support for tmpopular tinctions from the anti-Nisei countless foreigners. causes." hostility of World War 2 that "America will gain no- led to detention, Masaoka said Cries of deportation of Ira- thing-and could lose much- Anti-Iranian demonstrators hold signs and wave flags at Washingto~ W:c:.~~ the American counter-demon- nians are not only drastic but if its people seek to express strations brought back "too frightening, Masaokasays. "As their opprobrium in ways that JACL I be fi· ed many melancholy memories'" one who knows what it is to be =P=~~':rhl;~o;;. health pan, ne its I~P~OV . !.~p=~~~~~~ ~=~~~~:I the Times concluded SANFRANCISCO- As are- $2 million in-claims to JACL ' ~tm~bospital.before.~- I niabappenagainheretoanoth- hope the government, having Central Califomla JACL suit of the high level of claims subscriber/families, according IDJSS10D toa skilledIlW'SlDgfacility er group?" learned from he experience of Dist.ictCouncil, At its Nov. 17- duringthispastyear,theJACL- to John Yasmnoto, JACL ad- . tothree(3)days. Whil :t' difficul ~ th World War IT, would not.treat '" ..... ~.-n.ve oomnu'ttee chair. f. Increase the $300,000 Major e I IS t or e 18 convention in Fresno, Blue Shield Health Plan admin- . I~UG Medical maximum to $1,000,000. onetime National JACL legis- all Iranians in this country as a added its strong support of the istrativecommitteethisweek The committee also reported ThenewcontactstartingJa- ' lativedirectorinthecontextof single group," Masaoka con- NationalJACLappeal toPresi- announced several changes the following improved bene- nuary 1, 1~, will require the these times to see another in- eluded # dent Carter ~ the and improvements effective : fits have been negotiated with following quarterly rates, in- . ' Iranian issue. Jan. 1, 1~. . Calif. Blue Shield as follows: cludingadministrativecbarges. Shades of WRA questions 27 and 28 ... United States on combat daira, ~ SeaJI\CL,tt1e ' residM~e'nt wnM«;Itmg~ NewportHillsareaisnamedin c. Increase the hospital room al- f dditi nal be efirs" will be noned as to whether they sup- duty, wherever o~ered? 28-;-Will n; p memory of Borghild Rigdall, a lo~ance from three beds to semi- 0 a. 0 , n . ported the U.S. government or you swear unqualified allegumce to .President Carter, said he Norwegian American woman pnvate. proVIded. to each. subsc~ber had ever participated in anti. to the United States of Arnericaand eoDdDDedOllNatPap who was cited as a distin- dlncreasethe$SOambulanceal- soonForinfo~non,wnteto: US demonstrations I faithfullydefendtheUnited~tates :".:,,~ hed W hin . . ' 10wanceto$100. JACUBlueShield,176SSutter 'D"d C lanA tho ctm" from any or all attack by foreign or ta ...:" .. gillS. as gtoman m ' e. Reduce the eight (8) day re- ' St,SanFrancisco,Ca941l5. . aVI I"?S u, e a g domesticforces.andforswearany 1979 H r cia I 1970 by Gov. Dan Evans and director, saId he had told Kel· fonn of allegiance or obedience to 01 Y ssue commendedfor"exceptional C __ ~oc/''+'on A/"se" s ~I rt logH Whittick,directorofthe the Japanese emperor,orany other Boxscore service to others" by Presi-. CA-~lt nil ,yl I Oil expe Washington office, that thd fon:ign _ govemm~nt, ~weror?r- 1978TC1fAlS 1 dent Nixon She died in Seat- order he issued earlier in the garuzation? Quesno~ was m: Display ••.••.•..••••••.•••••.. .6,1m" tle July 30 at the age of 76. becomes Fellow in two groups day ~as"the ''wrong kind of ~~~: ~= ando~~r Ooe-LiDeGn!edogs •••••••••••.• ~ I As a Highland School Fr. COllJN.S, Colo.-Dr. Joe Dr. Kubo""" has developed a quesnon. A lawyer .repre- that followed in the camps were DISPlAY ADS I board member (1932-42) and ..a, senting Iranians had com· enormous.) # Alameda 168 Sn Diego 336 a farmer's wife, she was Kubota, a research soil scien- research program national in - ~Y ~ ~~~nci% ~ among the few speaking out tist,SoilConservationService, scope that has led to the identi- UCLA Asian Amen"can stu'dl"es Chicago 70 So Mateo 6 about the injustices being in- u.s. Dept of Agriculture, and fication of the low cobalt areas Cortez 61 Sonoma Cty IS flicted on farm neighbors professor in agronomy at Cor- associated with cobalt defici- t '" ~~ 2~, ~Cty 1~ . when the government began nell University, was elected a ency in grazing animals in the cen er gears lor 80 p~ogram French Camp Twin Cities 8 sending Japanese residen.ts Fellow of the American Socie- eastern U.S. and the naturally Fresno 21 West hA. 168 to relocation camps in World ty of Agronomy and the Soil occurring areas of molylxle- LOS ANGELES-The UCLA AsianAmericanStudiesCenter, ' ~ Vly 3112 ~est valley 6. W IT Science Society of America at num toxicity in grazing ani- graduate program in Asian' not~ The MA program is Monterey Pnsll68 eeoc 6 ar. the annual meetings of the So- mals in the West He was a American Studies welcomed the first two-year curriau- NewMexi.oo MOC 8 Library project : ~ieties h~d ~tly in Fort member of the research group four new students to the fall lum of its kind in the United ~y ~ ~ FRESNO,Ca.-Underagram qillins: tbe moors recog- that.develo~amapofseleni- quarter. They are the fourth States. Reno PSWDC 10 from National Endowment for nizedhis research on traceele- urn m crops m the U.S., a map class to be iuimitted since the Hirata added that students ad- Sacramento 1 Ad8fEe 22S the Hmnanities the San Joa- ' ments in soils and plants and widely used to relate inci- program's approval in the miiredti;theProgramintheFall Salinas Vly S)4j PC 100 quin Valley Library System their relation to nutritional de- dence of ''White Muscle di- Spring of 1976. They are: of 198) will be eligible for over NOV. 23=== col in. and Fresno County Public li- ' ficienci~ and toxicities in sease'~infarmanimals.He~ Marjorie Lee, los Angeles; T• LOSANG~Newofficers which resounds with "emo• time situation" , one administration ing their taxes subsidize the educa- etry, novels, and drama, giv• and directors were elected for tional racism". official noted. . f ~ ing examples both in Japa• President Carter had ordered :~ 0 these people." Cra\ ord the coming two years as 32 The Chicago JACL chapter nese and in English transla• chapters comprising the Pad• board, in supporting individu• the action Nov. 10 following nation- A state attorney general's opini• tions of Waka and Haiku for fic Southwest District Council wide demonstration the previous on. meanwhile. said the action ap• poetry, and descriptive char• al rights of all people including day by many clairning to be stu- pears to violate the due-process held their fourth quarterly Iranians residing legally in the dents supporting the U.S. embassy and equal-protection clauses of the acteristics of Noh, Kabuki, meetingNov.10atAirportMa• U.S., defended the rights of takeover in Tehran Hth Amendment to the U.S. Bunraku, and Shingeki plays, rinaHoteL Iranian students not to be takeover in Tehran. Hecklers in Constitution. for drama. The newly elected officers: harassed by government Was~gton were .sh?,uting. "De- The opinion, which does not have A nwnber of excellent an• PACIFIC SOUTHWEST D1STR1Cf agencies. portatIon. deportatIon the force of law. also cited violation thologies in English transla• . Wiley Higuchi (HoI), gov; Dennis Ku• Immigration lawyer David Car- - of rights under the Civil Rights Act rusaki (Pan), vg; Toshiko Yoshida (Prog tion are available, she indi• liner of Washington also compared of 19M "to the extent that federal• cated, which provide favor• W), sec; Kathy 0I0n0 (Pan), treas; new In Sacramento, JACL presi• the action to the internment of Ja- ly funded programs or activitie; bel dir-Ken Hayashi (Ora),lian)1Ka• dent Dave Takashima con• able entry points into appre• wahara (GPA), Mike Mitoma (ElA), panese Americans and Japanese are affected. .. . Chester Sugimoto (Gar), Ron Wakaba• demned the violence against nationals during World War n. "It's Crawford saJd he disagreed With ciation of Asian literature. yashi (MSo), Gary Yaoo (New Age). Iranians in the U.S. and now reaching peopie who are legally the civil rights arguments because She believes that a desirable "~y Meeting was hosted by the expects the state legislature to here and illegally. It's singling out opinion is that when someone Kyoko Hayashi Morris approach would be to intra- pass the Lehman resolution one nationality because of a speci- StlCks a gun to your head they lose MILWAUKEE, Wis.-Kyoko duce the students directly to newly chartered Marina South, fic foreign poliCY concern ..." their civil rights." which already boasts a mem• and bill (ACA 20 and AB 262) - Reaction to the board's decision Hayashi Morris appeared as a high-interst examples of the bership of US, according to placing restriction on foreign In Greenville, South Carolina, I has been largely favorable. Craw• featured speaker on Asian lit- literature-such as adven• Paul Suzuki, president Marina ownership of agricultural the local technical: college board of ford said. "From doctors to labor• erature in a symposiwn on "A ture stories with plenty of ac• South was sponsored by the fannlands in the state in view regents told I.rarllan students they ers. they all tell me 'Way to go!" he Multicultural Look at the Eng- tion, or beautiful examples of of anti-foreign feelings - al• couldnotretumuntiltheAmencan said The few negative comments Venice-Culver JACL. Lunch• hostages in Tehran were released. he has personally received have lishOassroom",presentedfor lyric poetry-rather than at• eon speaker Kerry Doi, exec. though Takashima says there "'This is a punitive action and it's come from Iranian students at the some 400 secondary English tempting a survey approach, dir., Pacific Asian Consortium is no logical connection Most intended that way." said RobertC. I college. "They say. 'We need your teachers of the Milwaukee historical or otherwise. for Employment, related the foreign purchasers hail from Crawford. vice chainnan of the technology.' I said. 'That's true'. public schools. After completing her bach• plight of Southeast Asian ref• Western Europe rather than state supported Greenville Techni- Then they say. 'It's not the students - The symposium, held at elor's degree in English Lit• OPEC nations, he noted in a cal Co!-':ege board of regents. who are doing this in Iran. it's Kho• Alexander Hamilton High terature at Kobe Jo-Gakuin urgees, their problem in find• "Some innocent people (Iranian maini. Please don't do this.' But ing employment and adjusting recent GAO study. students) will suffer. But there are we've made up our minds." School, focused on U.S. liter- (Kobe College) in Nishinomi• to life in the U.S. ary heritage of the Afro- ya, Mrs. Morris has majored J.D. Hokoyarna, associate American, Latino-American, in English and Education for national director, gave a brief Native American, Jewish- her master's degree at North• overview of Operation '80s• Tamaki ends 31-yr. career with L.A. city utility American and Asian-Ameri- east Missouri State Universi• the program planned by JACL ImAngeles appointed executive assistant - Tau-Beta Pi and Pi Tau Sigma, ty at Kirksville, and her s~ for the coming decade. Carl M. Tamaki, 59, assist• to the general manager in honorary engineering societies; ~rs. Morris stated that cialist degree at George Pea- Washington Representative ant general manager and , May 1972. American Society of Mechanical Asian literature embodies body College, Nashville, Tn Following his 10 months as I Engineers; Westside Optimist Ron Ikejiri reported on the re• chief engineer, has retired Club; Westchester WMCA; and vast and rich cultural heri- Two Nisei teachers in the Los dress bill now in the commit• from the Los Angeles Dept. of interim general manager, he DWP Speakers ClUb. tages, the principal traditions Angeles Unified School District tee stage in both houses of Con• Water and Power, ending a 31- became the DWP's assistant In his renre' ment Tamaki being the Arabic, Persian, In- are using their personal handicap gress. year 10-month career. general manager and chief , of blindness to become more ef- engineer. plans on traveling, fishing dian, Chinese and Japanese fective. sensitive instructors. Las Vegas JACL, recently Tamaki served as interim I and jogging. He and his wife in novels, short stories, es- Marilyn Murata communicates A Calexico, Calif. native, transferred from Northern DWP General Manager from Anna Mae, Leimert Park resi- says, poetry, drama, and reli- through the universal language of California-Western Nevada April 1, 1975 to Feb. 2, 1976 Tamaki attended UC Berke• dents, have two sons and a gious and philosophical writ- musicwithasmanyas400students District, and the New Age JA• while a search was made to fill ley and also the Univ. of Mis• daughter. ings. While no one person can atherPacoimaschooLKengoSaka- CL, sponsored by West Los An• the top management post on a souri, where he received his (The Dept. of Water & Pow- be an expert in all of these O1Oto teaches English as a second geles JACL, were admitted in• pennanent basis. (The in• bachelor of science degree in er was probatlly the first mu- diverse fields of literature, language and Braille to students in mechanical engineering. the adult education program. The to thePSWDC, bringing the to• terim GM position reportedly nicipal facility to hire Nisei in she explained, the nature of district has employed 18 legally or tal to 32 chapters. # paid in excess of $70,000 a He is a member of: the 1930s as clerks, drafts- the symposium fonnat ne- totally blind teachers during the 4 year-much more than what men or engineers.) #~ F~ cessitated______treating~ ______Asian ~ past______year and a half, it was~ reported.____ JACP catalogue the Mayor received.) SAN MATEO, Ca. - Japanese Joining the Department in American Curriculum Project 1947 as a mechanical engi• (JACP, Inc.) has a new 20-page neering assistant, he later «Setting Up a trust can fall catalogue describing over was involved in the design of 300 different items, such as Valley, Scattergood and taxes~ books, filmstrips, games and Haynes Generating Stations. reduce your estate Asian American baby dolls. 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co, It wore me out and I am snli • A~1~m.wbllDdtoatt, JACL initiate contacts with Mexico Nikkei thinking of all the things that St Paul's Episcopal Cathedral was were left unsaid Carlos stated sold to Mitsui FUdosan (USA), Inc., By OIARIES KUBOKAWA an organization like JACL and tive as chairperson of JAO:s do It over agam. HIs home 15 these facts: subsidiary of Japan's largest real that only a few Nikkei were International Relations Com• (1) Mexico City has a Nikkei pop• estate canpany, for a reported ~ Palo Alto, Ca. next to his large toy manufac• million cash deal. The quake-San Diego, 2459 Market St, Aug. 4-5 at the Uinta National ActiveSequoiaJACLersCharleS San Diego 92102 (714--2324L54) is Forest Camp to hear from sev- Kubokawa and his wife Beth re• accepting clothing, food and finan• eral speakers from the Asian cently vacationed in Mexico to not ._------. American community: Jimi Mi- only enjoy its culture and history cial help to assist victims of the Oct APPROX·7.5% 28 rain disaster hitting American tsunaga, pres., Asian Assn. of butaIsoseekouttheNisei-Sanseiin. Tax Free Income Samoa where four villages were Utah; Dr. Wen Kuo, Dr. Cheng that cozmtry because of his ties as destroyed MyunLee, Univ. of Utah profes- chairperson of the National JACL 'AA' Rated Municipal Bonds Equivest Associates, a business sors; Dr. Geoffrey Lieu, asst. International Relations Commit• development organization under admin., St. Mark's Hospital; tee, which seeks to develop under• "10 Federal and State Income Taxes contract with the State of Califor• Shu Cheng, exec. dir., AAU; and standing of other Nikkei on the nia to provide advisory business Moon WonJi, conf. coordinator. western hemisphere.-Ed. $5,000 MINIMUM =~~--- transfer services in Southern Cali• There were youth leaders from "'--- __' ...... l fornia, may be reached by writing the local Chinese, Japanese, Ko• to Teresa Iizuka or Toot Uchida, rean, Philipino and Vietnamese ------9550 Flair Dr. Suite 409, EI Monte, communities ...The Asian Ca 91731 (213-448-9803). Assb. of Utah was organized in November, 1977, with seven • San Francisco major Asian groups represent• (213) 629-5092 SECURITIES1f\C , Second annual series of the Stan• ed: Salt Lake J ACL, Cambodian MEMBER NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE, INC. ford University's Takahashi lec• Assn. of Utah, Chinese for Com• Y. CLIFFORD TANAKA . 445 S. FIGUEROA ST., LOS ANGELES, CALIF. 90071 tures will feature Yasuo Sakata munity Action, Korean Amen• Nov. 28 and Yuji Ichioka Dec. 5 at can Society of Utah, Philipino the Christ United Presbyterian Largest Stock of Popular m.p Jjt 14E American Society of Utah, Lacr & Classic Japanese Records Name ...... Church. SaI"LFrancisco. Both lec• tian Community Assn., and Magazines, Art Books. Gifts JON TANAKA Address ...... turers "'1 __ American studies Vietnamese Friendship Assn. : Two Shops In Little Tokyo are based in Los Angeles: Sakata is Its major undertaking has been G30 E. 1st St.-340 E. 1st St. Bltftv 3 ' ;/ City, State, ZiP ...... with the USC-UClA Joint East Asi• the annual AsianfPacific Festi• Los Angeles, Calli. 90012 Tel: (Bus) ...... (Res.) ...... an Studies Center; Ichioka, with val with Society of Polynesia of S. Ueyama. Prop. UClA Asian American Studies Utah at the Salt Palace. Center. Co-sponsoring the series are JACL, Japan Society and SF. Center for Japanese American Studies. seafood treats San Fraocisoo Slate University's Asian American studies program DELICIOUS and A COIN WORTH FAR MORE will be hiring a full-time assistant professor in Japanese American so easy to prepar~ studies. A Ph.D. equivalent is re• THAN MONEY ... quired, according to Dr. Jeffery MRS. FRIDAY'S Chan, AAS chair. Resumes are due Dec. 31. Gourmet Breaded Shrimps Think of where we've come since 1929, and you 'll understand the • Northern California significance of the Japanese American Citizen s League's Fiftieth Rev. Dr. Donald Toriumi, pastor and Fish Fillets Ann iversary Commemorative Coin. From emeritus of Altadena First Presby• immigration quotas to detention camps terian Church, returned to his hometown to address a fellowship to our respected position in today's Nov. 2S at the Sacramento United ...... , .... ' America, JACL has supported our Methodist Church. I · • struggle fo r freedom and equality. Asian Slate Employees Assn. is .. Christmas party And now, th is outstanding organ• holding a disco •e , Dec. 15 at the Sacramento Buddhist Hanayome ization is proud to offer this special Church as a fund-raiser for its year · round activities, such as forums coin as a symbol of our pri de and ac• and community workshops. Agency complishment. Pressed from 24K If)!' ~~= ::::::-- ~ electroplated gold sterling silver Matrirnorual - Confidential • Seattle · ~ ~ by the nation ally respected "WintenneJoo", a group of Asiail Marutama Co. Inc.: A f..IJV-4/i' American teachers and writers in 321 E. 2nd St., Suite 703 . So. ~ Franklin Mint, this hand- the Seattle area, will presenta read• · . l.#~' ing of a new book, "Got Me a Story · Fish Cake Manufacturer Los Angeles, Ca. 90012 I;;..; some coin depicts the to Tell: Asian American Stories for Los Angeles (213) 680-0790 Q 00'>n ~ JACL emblem on one Children" at the Wing Luke Memcr ~ · ~ . side and the Golden Gate •• • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •• t U.IIIIIII~.IIIIIIIIIIIII rial Museum, ·U+-8t.h Ave. So, on ,", -~ - - -~ Dec. 8, 2 p.rn. Co-authorsKatWong, "'~~"""""""'I---...-.c.--1 rJ Bridge on the other. Why Valene Ooka Pang and Lily Wooo I : not order one for every will read selections from their book. Y~SA TIN SING member of your family? ~ ~ ""' i %"i" ~ "-':"" ~~ I I ...... v .. §.; .. I KAMABOKO : RESTAURANT ~~~ili:~''( And give them a gift worth ISSN: 0Q30.a579 - far more than money. ,-. ~ EXQUISITE PACIFIC CITIZEN , CANTONESE , j CUISINE * Publi.hed weekly except first and los1 weeks 1523 W. of rile yeor at 355 E. 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(3) The Japanese cultural educa• best omiyage (gifts) you can bring commission members and the staff Nikkei consultants beappoint• Nov. 2S-Absentee ballOlS from Dec. 2-Army casualty lists once the bills become law, and tlve'process is handled by the tothem . military show 3-1 oppose Amend- from Vosges mountains, France, preparing for the commission hear• ed to the work of the commis• MeXI~government schooL Japa• (9) Most Mexican Nikke~ when ment 3 on Nov. 7 ballot: anti.Japa- show many Nisei enlisting from ings themselves. sion in order that we will have nese IS taught and spoken only up they travel to the States or Japan, nese alien land law; civilian vote WRAcamps. WRAreports262cas- 3-Lobbying effort towards pas• vital input to the final recom• through the first grade, then the come back loaded Wlth Japanese was 166,000 Yes-I77,SOO No. ualties as of Nov. 22 sage of legislation which will im· mendation presented to the other activities such as tea ceremo• foodstuff. plement the commission's recom• Congress. ny, odori, kendo, Judo, karate, etc. (10) Nisei in Mexico can not hold ! From Nobuyuki Nakajima mendations, to including pushing are taught as an elective along with SPy high ranking government posi• for amendments oftbe recommen• * * • the core Mexican school courses tions but Sansei will be able to, so Invitation to Participate dations if we feel this is necessary. These decisions wereneces• and language, inclusive of theJapa• long as parents are native born in Oeveland, Ohio ~ lan~e. Apart from a number of pro• because we are attempt• nese Because the Japa• Mexico. When I joined a chemical industry in 1960, Asian employees" nese MeXIcan population concen• (11) Most Sansei and Yonsei cedural decisions that had to mg to get committee hearings were rare. Some large corporations had one or two. Others had in the Senate and the House. trated school has one of the highest speak and write Japanese as their be dealt with, the primary in• scholastIC a~erages, the very elite fir:'t or second language, Spanish none. I was a first in my company. Twenty years later, Asian tent of the meeting was to es• Hopefully, these hearings will class of MeXIcans send their child· bemg the other language. faces are very common come about sometime .early tablish a clear definition of ren to the schooL Sixty percent of (11) A Nikkei convention was ~hile I was shooting the breeze in my boss's office recently I JACL's position on some ma• next year, and before we ap• the students are native Mexicans held in Peru last year and another is saId that there were so many orientals nowadays that I couldn't pear at the congressional hear• and forty percent Nikkei planned in Mexico City in 1981. jor questions. (4) The Mexican government JACL members are invited tell one from another. My boss almost fell off his chair. The first was to define what ings, we have a lot of work to Most Asian employees (men and women) are either scientists get done. And we nec!d to make helped pay for half their huge cul• (13) Only two Nikkei persons at• we are seeking as our ultimate ture Center. tended the Peru Nisei conference or eng;meers, but some are in such fields as accounting. They can goal in the current first phase sure that we have a cohesive . (S)TheJapaneseMexicanschool from the U.S. be Chinese from .the mainland, Taiwanese, Koreans, Filipinos, Oegislative enactment) of the position, and one that is solid• IS supported by the Mexican (14) Discrimination is ever pre• and some from VIetnam Practically all are foreign-born. campaign: compensation or ified. government sent .in Mexico, but the Japanese Ja~ese Americans are very, very rare. Is this telling us (6) Pa~ent t:eIative to items (4) MeXIcans are highly praised and the establishment of the com• . The work is in progress, and something? MaybeJapaneseAmericans found their niche some• m the meantime, we continue and (5) IS consIdered as a minor accepted (like the Nikkei in the mission? It was a WlaIlimous redress for wartime treatment U.S.?) where else. to ask JACLers to make con• Just in some young Japanese Americans interested in decision to accept the recom• (7) The Mexican Nikkei were The above listed points are case are tact with their congressional almost interned at the request of pursuing a career in industry, I would like to say that industry mendation that our current of• some of the inputs made by ficial position should be one repn;sentatives for support of the U.S. Government but was not t~y wel~mes anybody of any background; moreover, aff"tr• ow: bills. As Ron Ikejiri has ex• carried through after all the Nikkei our new contact in Mexico. As ~ttv~ ~ctton ~ which seeks only the establish• were gathered into Mexico City chairperson of the Interna• created an aonosphere that makes qualified ment of the cominission, with• plained, this is a most impor• mmonttes parttcularly welcome. The future is very bright; in~ tant part of the current cam• (D.F.). They were not allowed to tional Relations Committee I out regard to compensation leave the Federal District dw'Ulg avenu~s d~! the .opportunities are unlimited. There are already two paign. So let's go for it! # intend to keep all di~Ion VI~presidents It was felt necessary to de• the war but were able to move open for exchange of informa• in large chemical companies; both are aroWld freely ~'hin the city and ~nginally ~rom fine ourofficial position on this Freedom in general may tion and sharing of the Nikkei qrinese the mainland There is one corporate particular point because there work for their lIving. VIce-presIdent who IS from India. There are some directors and be defined as the absence of (8) Products which can be made experience. seemed to be some confusion obstacles to the realization or produced in Mexico can not be Our Nikkei brothers and sis• many managers. Then, there are scientific staffs of the highest We have been queried what of desires. imported into Mexico, therefore, if ters up nOlt.h i.n Canada are rank. should be when you have Nikkei friends that enjoy There will be more discussion on this to come. #. the response -BERTRAND RussEll. also not forgotten. fF Friday. November 30, 1979/ PACIFIC CI11ZEN-5 fROM THE fRYING PAN: Bill Hosokawa IInportant and Interesting Individuals Denver, Colo. DR THOMAS K MIWA, who recently retired from the When this column began to list Japa• U.S. Department of Agriculture to join Jojoba Plantation . nese Americans whose accomplish• Products, Inc., to develop industrial and consumer pro• ments were both large and interesting, ducts from jojoba oil. Jojoba oil, which replaces spenn the criterion was national significance. whale oil in highly specialized products, is produced from ~ J Not all the people listed below may meet the seeds of a small shrub that grows in the desert South• that reqwrement, but all have done or are doing important west. and interesting things. So here, in no particular order, are GEORGE NISHINAKA, honored last spring with a Distin• more nominations by readers: guished Service Award by the National Conference on BilL KA.mNew York City, partner with the law research at the National Eye Institute in Washington. finn of Wender, M urase and White, legal counsel for some The Sumitomo Bank of California FRANK S. SAm, former deputy assistant secretary, De• 200 leading U.S., European and Japanese multi-national • • Member FDIC partment of Defense; and more recently appointed In• corporations engaged in international trade, banking, fi• spector General, Dept of Transportation. nance, manufacturing, shipping and other activities. F. ROBERT NAKA, chief scientist, office of the Chief of Among his other posts, he is a member of the State wmrr: _I_I _I . ; .ldI~ . Staff, U.S. Air Force. Department's Advisory Committee on Transnational En• L COL. GLEN MATSUMOTO, presidE?nt of the Physical Eva• terprises and International Investment, a regent of luation Board, Department of the Anny. Georgeto'wn University where he recei ved his doctorate, JAMES Y. NISHIMURA of Greenlawn, N.Y. president of and recently was named a trustee of the prestigious Asia the Huntington TV Cable Corp. Foundation. :;: J.., FROM HAPPY VALLEY: Sachi Seko I hope that the United Na• tions will ever remain the su• The Mitsubishi Bank preme forum of peace and of California Member FDIC Nicholas and Our Iranian Neighbor justice, the authentic seat of Uttle Tokyo OffIce freedom of peoples and indi• Salt Lake City employed as chief chemist for a large in- viduals in their longing for a 321 East Second St, Los Angeles, Calif. 90012 Every morning, I call the weather station dustrial finn. We met him when construc- better future. (213) 680-2650 for the recorded conditions and forecast tion began two years ago on the condomin- .___ -=:PO~PE~J~O~HN~P~A~UL~II~:!:====~======~ The accurate temperature is almost pre• iums across the street He used to come by dictable, but I go through the routine to sat• to inspect the progress on his unit He is a isfy Nicholas. He doesn't trust my state• suave and stylish bachelor approaching I came here because your ment, "It's too cold to go outside yet". Pla• mid-life. During the s~er, he could be cing the phone receiver to his ear, I repeat, seen on his balcony entertaining guests, interest was high enough "At 8:00 am., temperature is 27 degrees." often wearing native Iranian garments. By early afternoon, sun reaches most of . Before the Shah was toppled, rumbles of to attract 'my attention. the upper level and the thermometer Iranian discord reached Happy Valley. climbs to the lower 405. I wear two heavy Anti-Shah sentiments were strongly ex• sweaters and Nicholas his thick fur coat pressed by some Iranian students in Utah. when we venture out for our customary au• Once, I made a small reference about it to tumn chore of raking and collecting leaves our friend He pretended not to compre• that have fanen the previous night Fall hend my idiomatic English, although I knew was late arriving and the leaves have been he understood me penectly but chose to slow to drop. This time, last year, the trees ignore my statement He comes from a were already bone sculptures. But today in wealthy, educated and traveled family. I mid-November, maples blaze in a brazen can only speculate his political sympa• and bloody display. Aspens shower gold thies. But I am certain that he harbored an pieces while fruit trees hoard their curren• unarticulated fear this summer when he cy green. inquired twice about Nicholas. He said his Each afternoon I fill a sack with l~ves, family used to own a German shepherd in a scant collection considering the time and Iran. He wanted to purchase a guard dog. effort it involves. But it is difficult to com• 'This week, anti-Iranian demonstrations plete the simplest chore quickly or effi• have extended to several Utah campuses. ciently with Nicholas around Being out• Americans are concerned for the safety of doors encourages the beast in him. He hostages in the American embassy in Teh• tears around the yard, runs up and down ran Yesterday, the local paper published a the hill He investigates, smells and tastes letter suggesting that all Iranians living in the yard's abundant variety. Later, he this country be rounded up for their own throws up from such forbidden fruit But "protective custody". no matter, he lives only for the moment, * * * the pursuit of puppy pleasure. Thirty-eight years ago, about this time in Sometimes, in exasperation, I threaten California, autumn leaves had fallen. I re• to give him away. Pointing toahouseacross member walking through them, the smell the street, I say, "You can get a job as a and sight and feel of leaves. It was my last guard dog over there." California November. The last autumn of '" .. .. my aborted adolescence. By the time I left, ANNUAL INTEREST RATES ON INSURED SAVINGS Our neighbor is Iranian. He has a doc• "protective custody", and realized my first All Interest Compounded Dally. Account Insurance Now Doubled To S40.OOO torate from a European university and is 73~ ".~ 63~ ,,~U , free autumn, I had grown old before my twe-.I.I HOI 4OX C.l1JIt. I. 711/:2 0Yc ....C. n.J'.Ul, 40Yc Ct30 (\lI. ..IU, l . 6 1/:2 OX (""'", ''...t l, 51/: °X '4","' ,,00 1 ' 100 ~ ~ ~ ,.. . ~ """ ... 1 O S"'09' time. BOX0 III...... 0 "M,00 ... 0 "'"Yt,"'" 0 .... 0 '" __ 2 The38th anniversary of December 7th is Certificales 01 Deposl1 may be wlth,drawn proor 10 maturity. bulln accordance with Federal Regulallon requirements. Keep on going and the chances are you Interesl for the entire lime of depOSIt will be recalculated al the prevailing savings passbOOk rale. less 90 days interest wiU stumble on something, perhaps when almost here. There is no political similari• you are least expecting it. I have never heard ty between the Iranian crisis and Pearl MERIT SAVINGS AND LOAN ASSOCIATION of anyone stumbling on something sitting Harbor. But I feel a familiar anxiety as I LOS ANGELES: 324 E. First SI. 624·7434 • TORRANCE I GARDENA: 18505 S. Western Ave 327·9301 down. -CHARLES F. KE'ITERING watch for the lights to go on each night in MONTEREY PARK: 1995 S. Atlantic Blvd. 266·3011 • IRVINE: 5392 Walnut Ave. (714) 552·4751 my Iranian neighbor's house. # MEMBER FSLlC 6-PAClFlCClIIZEN/FridayNovember30,1979------FROM 'ACIFIC SOUTHWEST: Joim J. Saito 1980 Officers 1000 Club - FOWLER JACL (Year of Membership Indicated) , Geor!!e Tanl!. .' l.lCtu. pres; MIke Yoshi• moto. 1st \Tl: Re\' K. \1iura, ~d vp; Nov ~Ui, 1.979 (23) Proactive Retirement Complex ALAMEDA: IS-Betty Akagi, 2O-Hero• Frank Fujik.'\wa. n-e.1S· Haruo Ii, roc remember events that took Nisei are approaching, if not impart some valuable experi• sec: Stug K R1l1lne. ror sec: Frank Osaki mu Hi Akagi. place a month ago. del: 1\lakoto \Iukai, alr del: .Joe Yokoml. CHICAGO: l+Ullian C Kimura' . already, retirement. ences to the next generation. 1000 Cluo: 'Ian" Honda. [Ssel I :'IIrsel GARDENA: 2-Dorothy Hokoyama, • • • Tho ma~ Hokoyama. Many years ago when I was Retirement has often been chmn: Tovama. nuo 2-Ken enrolled in Freshman English LIVINGSTON-MERCED: 17-Agnes It seems to me that there is a synonymous with idleness. But SACRAMENfO JAn Winton, 2J.Gordon H. Winton, Jr . and had to write a 2SO-word wealth of talents and resour• to me, it means a different lev• David Taka! hima. [Ires: Keith Yama• LONG BFACH HARBOR; 14-J'effrey composition every week, I ces that can be harnessed by el of challenge: a challenge naka. 1 t vp: Rand\" , himl. ~d VP. Y Matsui. Angeles struggled every weekend try• the productive use of the Nisei Ste\'e YOkOl. trea . .foe\' Isluhara. UXXl MONTEREY: ISJames Tabata. that is ''proactive''. ORANGE COUNTY: 28-Harry H Getting older is not all nega• ingto put the woI'ds together to , experiences_ Club: Percv !\IIa."1lki. memo; Cia\' Tana• The many faceted programs ka. Don Ito. del: JoAnne Takashima. wo• Matsukane. tive even though the gray be turned in at 8 am. Monday. I am not saying that the Issei men' allX pres POR1LAND: 17-Dr George S!-Iara, 18- The quality of my writing of Operations '80s under the SAC70 WOMEN'S AUXY. William Y Sakai, 2S-Dr Roy Yamada. ' hairs now outnumber the black experience was not valuable SAN FERNANDO VAllEY: 29-Susumu probably has ootimproved that aegis of education calls for a JoAnne Takashima. PI . Ruo\' :'I 1a· ones and standing up from a for the Nisei but the majority r uhara. sec-treas. Yokomizo. seated position takes a little greatly but the quantity has in• of the Nisei / Issei contacts proactive retirement complex. SAN JOSE: 13-KarI Kinaga longer and often times needs a creased merely from added were hampered by language. SEABROOK: 2J.Ola.rles T Nagao. Hopefully, this program will SFATILE : 9-Roy Y Sakamoto. bracing hand for support. I can years of living and exposure. If we can transcend values allow us to spend many of the SELANOCO: 2O-CIarence I Nishizu. recall vividly things that hap• In general I am speaking that might separate the Sansei talents stored in our experi• SNAKE RIVER: 26-Abe Saito. pened 30 years ago but can't about the Nisei experience. We / Nisei contacts, maybe we can STOCKTO . ~"- . am M (tava wr Ted ence bank. # Yoneda TWIN CITIES: 19-Toshio W Abe, 26-Dr FROM THE MIDWEST: Bill Yoshino George Nishida. CENruRY Indianapolis, 6:30pm. Folk songs by Phil Gotanda. ' ki in Hawau. icansdwingandajiertheSecondWorldWar . .. The New YorkFUnd-raiser. ~Christrnas party, inter• Chicken Tenay OWashingtoo-APAFEC Conf: "Mov• national Inst works for the novel does anejfectivejob ojcapturing the hearts and ing In. Moving Up", Hvatt Regencv. PbiladeIphia-Christrnas party. Eden TownshipJACIJMYS U.S. Almyas minds oj Japanese Americans caught in a time oj will sponsor its annual chicken ~ pu'-- ______chief of Its ens' IS' • _ _ Sen Daniel K Inouye • Dec. 1 (s.mrday) • DEC. 11 (Tuesday) w...,..~ - educaoon Milwa~Bd mtg, EdJonokuchi's F'remIJm-Inst dnr, Centerville teriyaki sale on Saturday, Dec_ branch. He ma- ; Send $11 .95 and instructions to DAlMAX PUBUSHING res, 7:30pm. las vegas Comm Ctr, 7pm; John Tateishi, George 8,3- 5 p.m., at Eden Japanese . Mochitsuki jored mJapa- HOUSE,860HoomaernaeSt.,PearlCity,HawaJi96782for Koodo, 5Pkrs: _ Stockton-Gen mtg, Cal 1st Bank, • 00:. 2 (&mday) 8pm . ~:::.~~~~~tPs:J;~ Las Vegas JAo.., will have ~~ . ~tor ya r =~= to be mailed >MIh your greetings any- SeaIJnok-Sr cit appreciation day, 6 • DEC. 12 (Wednesday) Orange County-Annual mtg, Cal 1st (351-8373) for tickets. its annual mochitsuki on Dec_ ~H~ a :w~au:.. . ______-"- ______pm; Buddhist Church hall Bank, SOl N Main, Santa Ana, 7:30pm. .DEC.S(W~) --­ ~c~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Washington, DC-Bd mtg, G Yama• The 'No-no Boy' Who Persisted ~Bd mtg, JACL Office, 7:30 da, res, 7:30pm. Author Miyakawa's confrontation POL • DEC. 14 (Friday) • DEC. 7 (Friday) _ ~Bd mtg, wmtomo Bank, EAST WEST FLAVORS I & II with this past resulted in an emotional, WaDaaWle-Inst dnr-

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RANDOM MUSINGS: RoINtrt H. Kono the point of unforgivability. That is challenge and a source of ad• all there is to it. T'h<.:y overstepped venture that is all too lacking the limits, and restitution in some form or another is in store and ex• nowadays. Without a sense of Sansei, Yonsei ni Yobikakeru pected. Forgiveness does not enter adventure, we wither away and..wow old too soon. # to, we can't be WASPish, bom• combmed with a sense of responsi• pandable and, if necessary, we into the question at all. Justice is not bility which comes with maturity must help each other break that cruel, only sometimes indifferent and-bred, dyed-in-the-wool mold 'That does not apply to as• white. I don't think there are enables us to build beliefs and enter into commitments. It is the tem• pects of our identity that serve the Fourth, we must take theini• very many of us who would pell!d qualities weseek in thedeve• purpose of holding ourselves to• tiative. We play second fiddle like to any more, anyway. Of lopment of our personality for the gether. 'Those aspects, such as healthy ethnicity, should be nur• to none. Not if we know better course, we can't be Japanese, growth of enlightened individual• and can perfonn better. We ism. Being ourselves implies rec• tured and become part of the either, however much we grounding within ourselves. What must make for greatness in ognizing ourselves as human be• Salem, Ore. might be drawn to Japan. That should be destroyed is the external ings full of all kinds of potential It leadership in all realms of Now that rm on this tack, it is no option We might natural• imposition of unfair presumptions; ) implies a heightened c0nscious• endeavor. seems that rm really diverg• p0- ly be interested in things Japa• of worth. what should be nurtured is the ness our tential of growth and change that This is our home. This is our soci• ing. Such is not the case. I'll get nese, but that is not the sameas ety. It is up to us to make it a better I gamily (!U1.t back to the cultural scene in being a Japanese. Second, we must help each comes from within, for nothing other. Nobody else will - worthwhile ever comes from with• place to live for ourselves, first of due time. But I thought rd ex• all, and for others as well That is YOSHIDA KAMON ART We've got to be ourselves, which has been demonstrated out a person. If we ever looked out• 312 E. lst St., Hm. 205 plore the question of Nikkei side of ourselves for change, we our task, and it is a welcomed task, identity and status a little and that means we mine our over and over again Help is for it takes us out of ourselves and Los Angeles, Ca. 90012 not really help unless it consti• are looking in the wrong places. We further. resources as individuals and' are in a unique position. We are in makes us, in many ways, bigger (213) 629-2848 / 755-9429 than ourse1ves. This society needs find a grounding within our• tutes an opportunity to expand the position of mining our te- \ p~ Kei Yoshida. Instructor "Yobikakeru" is a word the selves as enlightened indivi• ourselves and be ourselves. sources asenlightened individuals. our brains and guts. If we can vide them as free men and women, Japanese use often It means duals who are liberated and . We share what we learn: That And we help each other to do this:.. Creator of Embossed Art the world is.all the better for it But (1) The Kaman (Japanese Family Crest) is a "call out, appeal to, address". yet responsible. means unless we are our• Third, we must deal with the I first we must have the conscious• "Ni" is the preposition "to". So selves and find ourselves, we legacy handed down by Japanese ancestors, Being ourselves means first of issue of the camps, once and I ness of freedom. something that wishing for their descendant's prosperity I thought I'd address a few re• all placing primacy on our own im• cannot lead or help others. The for all. They are not to be dis• the symbol of the camps have (2l All Japanese-Americans have Kamon s marks to the Sansei, my own portan~to stereotyped mold this society, worked against (3 By tracing through one's name and Ka• ourselves-and to missed. But that does not man, one can discover his family history (4) generation, and Yonsei who others, especially ot'1er Nikkei. superimposes on us is rigid, mean we must fall victim to The-task that lie before us There will come a time when the way to read are f~t growing up. Self-importance usually has a pejo• brittle, and dangerously the "gun tower syndrome" I , are numerous and some very and write one's name in Japanese will be rative impact, but when you think fJ.CU!ile. once mentioned in aPC article. demanding and complicated, forgonen. (5) Let us leave 10 our descen· First, we've got to be our• about it. everything begins with We must help each other render dants our hand·crafted Kaman and Japanese selves. Although we might like self-importance. Self-importance that mold more flexible and ex- Wouldn't the racists love that, but if we are worth our salt, we name, because we, too, will become ancestors. though? It will take a healthy not shirk from them but, will Please enclose $1 when inqUiring by mail JapanToday attitude-as free men and wo• rather, wel~me them as ~ shift plant in 1945. TOday, it circu• ing popularity. First opened in 1964 men-to confront the issue , .. •••••• .....••• ...... ~ ' ...H~#M#M. Skybigb traveloosts in Japan are lates 40,000 a day throughout the . between Tokyo and Shin.Qsaka, d.iscowaging foreign visitors more U.S. anned forces in the Pacific the line now extend,g to Hakata-• frontally, wrestle with it and and more, notes the Japan National theater in South Korea, Philip• nearly 670 miles away. Aridingtip: come up proud and strong. I Our 1980 Escorted Tours Tourist Organization, which re• pines, Hong Kong, Japan and a the ''no-smoking'' coach appears to can't think of a more cosmical· MEXICO YUCATAN (1 0 days) ...... Feb. 16th ported sightseers declined 100/c nwnber of other countries. carry the fewest passengers. ly pleasing spectacle than a NEW ORLEANS DIXIElAND (6 days) , ...... April & November during the January.July 1979 period Japanese mMfiena>s were being The famous box4laped London racist's chagrin at witnessing GRAND EUROPE (22 days) ...... 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