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By Marsha Aizumi

t has been a month of highs and lows for a mother of a In April, a number of influential individuals canceled My own family, trans gender child. I still fear that the world will not see their concerts to send a message to North Carolina and the Asamotos and I the value that my son can bring to society. Aiden is in Mississippi that the law they had put into place was not Tamakis, from the graduate school to be a school counselor, and he wants, more right My heart swelled with gratitude that Bruce Springs• Northern Califor• than anything, to create safe spaces for all who are marginal• teen, Ringo Starr and Bryan Adams woukl take such a stand, nia area came out ized, bullied and harassed. I believe he can make a huge dif• knowing it could cost them fans and dollars. Also, over 100 to support us, and ference in the lives of not only LGBT students, blltalso those companies, including Apple, Google, Bank of America, to learn and grow. students who are not what others deem the perfect height or IBM, Facebook and Disney, have voiced their opposition to They walked away weight, the perfect look or whatever category of perfection anti-LGBT legislation. They are all standing up for individu• saying that the that tends to marginalize ollr children. als like my son, and I love them for it day gave them But if Aiden travels to North Carolina or Mississippi, he In between all of these national events, there were gather• a better under• will not be safe. He will not be protected by the laws of ings that were very personal to me. 1 had the opportunity to standing of what families go through, and those states, but rather discriminated against because he is attend "Tadaima" (which means 'Tm home" in Japanese) at I believe they left transformed into more con fident allies for trans gender. When I first heard that the lawmakers in North San Jose State University on April 2. the LGBT community. Carolina went into emergency session and Gov. Pat Mc• Tadaima drew about 150 individuals. Once again, I could Then on April 16, the Sacramento area had aone-day event Crory signed HB2 that very same day, I was furious. HB2 feel my heart feel joy when I heard Congressman Mike Hon• called "APIQ (Asian Pacific Islander Queer) Homecoming" voided any local LGBT nondiscrimination ordinances and da talk about his granddaughter, the work that he is doing at Sacramento State University, which drew close to 100 banned trans gender people from using public restrooms that and wants to do for the trans gender community. Aiden and individuals. Fbrtunate to be invited to lead a workshop on conform to their gender identity. I wrote to the governor, I were honored to sit on a panel with Congressman Honda's Family Acceptance, I shared ourstory and the lessons I have knowing that a mother from would probably have daughter, Michelle Honda-Phillips, who emotionally shared learned. Two individuals came up to me after my workshop no impact on moving him to reverse the law, but it was all her story and her unwavering love for her daughter. And a and shared that they are planning to come out to their par• I could think of doing. fourth panelist asked that photos not be taken and her name ents. I gave them my business card, in hopes that I can be 1 could feel the nation watching the so-called "leaders" of protected, since she is not out to her transphobic father. of support to them or their parents if they need a mother to these states. What happened in North Carolina and Missis• I felt sad for her, but hoped that being among so many talk with. I know that many lives were touched that day not sippi could start a wave of anti-LGBT legislation, or it could supportive Nikkei individuals brought her comfort that necessarily by me, but by the gathering that brought API tell the other states that our country will not stand for this even if her father didn't accept her, there were many in the faces and voices together in community. type of bigotry. community that did. » See HOPE on page 9

A YONSEI TRANSPLANTED KEEP AN EYE OUT By Matthew Onnseth

ast January, Charlie Hebdo became a househokl sophicalline already begun." Thr me, the magazine'S latest hibits its adherents from questioning its dictums - things name when the satirical magazine's Paris offices editorial merely affinned a lingering suspicion that the pub• like women must wear veils, and no one can eat pork. Its L were stormed by two Al Qaeda footsoldiers. The at• lication was not so much the champion of the free press adherents, in tum, prohibit non-Muslims from questioning tackers, two brothers from the Parisian suburbs, killed 12 it was made out to be and more a puerile bully trying to these dictums, and the West, cowed into the timidness of people before fleeing the scene. Paris, and the world, reeled. pass off insults as courageous, avant-garde expressions of the cultural relativist school, is too afraid to even ask those Fbllowingtheattack, thephrase "Jesuis Charlie" - French political activism. questions to begin with. Violent strains of Islam emerge, and for "I am Charlie" - became a rallying cry for supporters of The editorial invents two fictitious figures, a "veiled wom• no one is willing to identify them, lest they come off as an the magazine. It's become something of a byword for free• an" and a "local baker," both of whom are respected mem• Islamophobe. The ones carrying the bombs are responsible dom of expression, the West's sober, collected response to bers of their communities. "She is an admirable woman," the for the carnage in Brussels and Paris, Charlie Hebdo claims, the violent censorship of radical Islam. editorial reads. "She is courageous and dignified, devoted to but so, too, are the veiled woman and the local baker for Charlie Hebdo became the breathing embodiment of that her family and her children. Why bother her? She harms no adhering to such a culture of absolutism, and so, too, are you quote often (and falsely) attributed to Voltaire that goes, one. So why go on whining about the wearing of the veil and I for creating a climate of timidness that allowed such "I disapprove of what you say, but 1 will defend to the and pointing the finger of blame at these women? We should violence to grow from within. death your right to say it" (The line was actually written by shut up, look elsewhere and move past all the street-insults "From the bakery that forbids you to eat what you like, to Voltaire's biographer, Evelyn Beatrice Hall). If the U.S. and and rumpus."The description of the veiled woman ends with the woman who foruids you to admit that you are troubled by French-led coalition was fighting radical Islam in the realm the ominous line, "The role of these women, even if they are her veil, we are submerged in guilt for permitting ourselves of the physical, Charlie Hebdo was leading the fight in the unaware of it, does not go beyond this." such thoughts," the editorial reads, "and that is where and realm of the ideological. The essay then moves to the character of the local baker. when fear has started its sapping, undermining work." Last month, terror struck Europe again when an Islamic 'lIe's likable and always has a ready smile for all his cus• After Brussels, the West has somehow gotten into its head State cell orchestrated two suicide bombings in Brussels, tomers. He's completely integrated into the neighborhood that it wasn't just the Islamic State's :Nrolenbeek cell that was home to the headquarters of the European Union. Unsurpris• already," it reads. However, the baker cannot sell any pork responsible for the attack; it was also the fault of the clerics, ingly, Charlie Hebdo had something to say about the attacks. products - "which is no big deal," the author writes, "be• the fault of the family members who told authorities noth• In an editorial titled 'lIow Did We End Up Here?" the cause there are plenty of other options on offer - tuna, ing as they saw their sons and brothers become increasingly magazine posits that a fear of appearing Islamophobic in chicken and all the trimmings. So, it would be silly to grum• radicalized, the fault of an entire community whose faith Europe, coupled with a culture of absolutism it claims is im• ble or kick up a fuss in that much-loved boulangerie." We'll seems to produce such a disproportionate number of bomb• bedded within Islam, did not just contribute, but caused the get used to it, the author writes, and before we know it, we'll ings, hijackings and mass killings. The New York Times ran Brussels attacks. prefer chicken to pork anyway. "And thus," the paragraph an opinion piece from Roger Cohen titled "The Islamic State Of the actual perpetrators of the attacks, the editorial concludes, "the baker's role is done." of:Nrolenbeek," in which Cohen writes, reads, "Their role [was] simply to provide the end ofa philo- The editorial's line of thought goes as this: Islam pro- » See m on page 9 4 April 22-May 5, 2016 NATIONAL/COMMUNITY PACIFIC e CITIZEN

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David Ono Set to Host JACL's Sayonara Banquet at 2016 Convention WASIllNGTON, D.C. - JACL is excited to announce film producer and ABC7 EyeWitness news anchor David Ono will be the emcee at this year's Sayonara Banquet at the 2016 JACL National Convention. Ono produced the Emmy Award-winning documentary "The Legacy of Heart Mountain," which tells the story about Japanese incarceration in Heart Mountain Relocation Center. This year's National Convention is set to take place July 11-14 at the Monte Carlo Resort Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas. Kelko Fullmorlln a Presidential Runoff Election In Peru LIMA, PERU - After the first round of presidential election vot• ing, Keiko Fujimori, 40, whose father, Alberto, ruled the country throughout the 1990s, will face off in a runoff election against Pedro Pablo Kuczynski on June 5. Former U.S. Transportation Secretary Norman Mineta (center) visited Fujimori, a right-wing candidate, campaigned on promises to Honouliuli after hewas honored by at a luncheon hosted by JACL promote foreign investment while restoring her father's law-and• Honolulu. order legacy of combating extremist groups. Although she garnered about 38 percent of the vote, she was unable to clinch the majority needed to avoid the runoff election. Her opponent, Kuczynski, 77, served as the country's prime minister in the mid-2000s. SECRETARY NORMAN The legacy of Fujimori's father, who is currently serving a 25-year prison term for conuption and human rights abuses, has been a central point of contention for Fujimori's campaign. However, he is also credited with implementing wide economic MINETA HONORED AT reforms that brought the country out of poverty and dismantling Peru's deadliest extremist organization- and Fujimori is campaigning on those issues to once again "reclaim the state's presence," she told reporters. JACL HONOLULU LUNCH Kenta Maeda Continues Strong MLB Debut Showing lor L.A. Dodgers HONOLULU - Earlier this month, Hirano, Congressman Mark Takai, former LOS ANGELES - Kenta Maeda, who signed an eight-year deal former U. S Transportation Secretary governor Neil Abercrombie, former U. S with the Dodgers for $25 million during the offseason, continues to Norman Mineta was honored by JACL Representative Colleen Hanabusaand former impress on the mound since making his Major League Baseball Honolulu at a luncheon held at the Pacific Surgeon General Kenneth P Moritsugu. debut for the team on April 6. Club. Mineta was recognized for his many In addition to Mineta's visit to Hawaii, he To date, Maeda has only allowed one run in his first three starts, accomplishments, including the passage of also toured the grounds of Honouliuli, which pitching 19 innings, and he equaled that run by hitting a home run the Civil Liberties Act of 1988, the legislation became a designated national monument in in his first big-league game, becoming the third pitcher to homer in granting reparations to 2015. Honouliuli was the largest and oldest his debut since 2000. Currently, he has 15 strikeouts and four walks. incarcerated during World War II. used World War II confinement site in The Dodgers signed Maeda after the Japanese right-hander played eight seasons Among the guests paying tribute to Mineta Hawaii. in Japan for the Hiroshima Carp, pitching 206-113 innings in 2015 and averaging 188 innings a year. were Sen. Brian Schatz and Sen. Mazie - JACL National Staff Maeda makes his debut at Coors Field in Colorado when the Dodgers take on the Rockies on April 23. Death Toll In Japan Continues to Rise Following Twin Earthquakes JANM LAUNCHES IMAGES OF TOKYO - The death toll continues to rise in Japan following a magnitude-6.5 earth• quake on April 14 followed by an even more poweIful 7.3-magnitude earthquake 28 hours later on Kyushu, the southernmost of Japan's four main islands. The earthquakes EATON COLLECTION ON FLlCKR were two of the strongest quakes to ever strike Japan. At least 48 people were killed and LOS ANGELES - The Japanese Ameri• The Japanese American National Museum nearly 1, 200 injured. can National Museum debuted new precon• is ever grateful to those who helped and we More than 100,000 people have been evacuated as aftershocks continue to shake the servation photography of the Allen Hender• are now very pleased to share photographs area. The area around Kumamoto has been devastated, with many roads inaccessible shott Eaton Collection, which it acquired last of these important artifacts with the public," due to landslides triggered by the quakes. year, on Flickr on April 15 to coincide with said Norman Y. Mineta, chairman of the The earthquake damage and loss of power is reverberating beyond Kyushu as Toyota the one-year anniversary of the cancelation JANM Board of Trustees. Motor Corp. and other manufacturers have suspended production in the area as a result. of a public auction of the collection. Allen Hendershott Eaton collected the The public can now visit Flickr (flickr.com! art and artifacts while Japanese Americans Sushi Alert: Grim Outlook lor Bluelln Tuna jamuseum) and view images of nearly 150 were incarcerated in camps during World TOKYO - The latest scientific assessment paints a likely bleak future for the Pacific artifacts from the collection. Those with in• War II. In 1952, his book "Beauty Behind Bluefin tuna, a sushi lovers' favorite whose population has dropped by more than 97 formation about the origins of specific items Barbed Wire: The Art of the Japanese in Our percent from its historic levels. are encouraged to share details as comments War Relocation Camps" was published, with A draft summary of a report by the International Scientific Committee forTuna and on the site. Eaton's intent being to call attention to the Tuna-like Species in the North Pacific Ocean shows the current population of Bluefin The collection also includes about 300 injustice of the camps and the resilience of tuna is estimated at 2.6 percent of its "unfished" size. A previous assessment put the photographs taken in America's concentra• the Japanese Americans even in the face of population at an already dire 4.2. percent. tion camps, mostly by the War Relocation their circumstances. He had also planned to The report says that overfishing has continued despite calls to reduce catches to allow Authority. These images will be added to create an exhibition of the artifacts but that the species to recover. In some areas, Bluefin tuna is harvested at triple the levels Flickr in the coming month. Many have never came to fruition. considered to be sustainable. been seen before and most are in the public The majority of the artifacts, other than the Japanese eat about 80 percent of all Bluefin tuna caught worldwide, and stocks of all domain. WRA photographs, are in need of significant three bluefin species - the Pacific, Southern and Atlantic - have fallen over the past "The Japanese American community and conservation work, and JANM is preparing 15 years as demand for the luscious buttery fish has soared globally. its friends saved these items from a fate that them for that process. Following that work, would have broken them up and failed to the museum hopes to make some of the art - P.e. Staff~JACLNational Staff~Associated Press honor their history and respect their value. and artifacts available for public viewing.• PACIFIC. CITIZEN COMMUNITY April 22-May 5, 2016 5 ASIAN PACIFIC FILM FESTIVAL TAKES ON L.A. PH OTO: JANICE TANAKA Now in its 32nd year, the fest will host showings just days before Asian Pacific

Heritage Month, sion on Wartime Relocation and Internment of staff; Aiko Herzig Yoshinaga, chair of the of Civilians, gives a nod to bringing aware- Commission on Wartime Relocation and In• By p.c. Staff ness to the redress movement of the 1980s. ternment of Civilians and CWRIC research- ''When you find a person like Aiko, who er; JACL redress activists John Tateishi and n its 32nd year, the Los An geles Asian is in the same league as Yuri Kochiyama Grant Ujifusa, as well as many others. Pacific Film Festival will show six world and Michi Weglyn, but funny - you have Now, "Rebel With a Cause" reopens the I premieres with 34 feature films and 106 to hear her story," explained Tanaka. During redress movement, but this time with Yoshi• Yoshinaga shorts from 20 countries. The festival will her interviews with Yoshinaga, Tanaka dis• naga's voice, a housewife-turned-activist's holding a host showings throughout Los Angeles and covered that her mother and Yoshinaga were vOice. copy of will run from April 21-28, just days before best friends during the camps and were also "I wanted to show appreciation for her "Personal Asian Pacific Heritage Month. neighbors. "I was looking for that hero as a work, and no one else had done a docu• Justice Visual Communications (VC), the nation's progressive Nisei, and thereweresomeques• mentary on her before," Tanaka said. "She's Denied" premier Asian Pacific American media arts tions I couldn't ask my mom, but I could ask slowly getting that recognition she deserves. center, will open its cinematic celebration at Aiko. She was unabashed and so approach• Aiko is one of the last of that Nisei genera• the Aratani Theater in Little Tokyo with the able, even when talking aboutcamp." tion that can still tell us the impact of camp and Korea and will now be on the big screen fimt of six world premieres with "The Tiger Tanaka and co-producer Nancy K. Araki, and how it changed her life - she's just a with "Silence Broken: Korean Comfort Hunter" from director Lena Khan. The film who is also the former director of commu• cool pemon." Women" by director Dai Sil Kim-Gibson. follows Sami 1fulik (Danny Pudi of NBCs nity affairs for the Japanese American Na• Yoshinaga is expected to make an appear• Gibson's film uses the testimonies given "Community") as he travels to America, tional Museum, released last year "Right of ance at the film's April 26 showing with by the former comfort women and con• looking to follow his father's legacy as the Fassage," one of the most comprehensive Tanaka at the Tateuchi Democracy Forum at trasts these moments with the interviews of legendary tiger hunter back home. films on Japanese American redress. JAN1vi beginning at4:30 p.m. Japanese soidiem, recruiters and scholars, Other premieres include "The Last Tour" Never-before-seen images and footage Another main stage film set to play touches denying their claims. In the film, the vic• from director Ryan Yu; Quentin Lee's "The from the documentary examined the redress on the Korean comfort women issue, refer• tims demand an apology and admission as Unbidden"; 1-htthew Abaya's "Yampariah"; movement and also included interviews with ring to the Korean women forced into sex• well as compensation from the Japanese 1-hryam Kashan's "Signs of a Remarkable former Transportation &cretary Nonnan Y. ual slavery by the Japanese military during government for the injustice. History"; and "Rebel With a Cause: The Life Mneta; Sen. Alan Simpson; Kenneth Du• WWII. The comfort woman topic has been a "Silence Broken: Korean Comfort of Aiko Herzig Yoshinaga" by Janice Tana• berstein, President Ronald Reagan's chief focal point in recent years forthe U.S., Japan Women" will show April 27 at 4:30 p.m. at ka. A Q & A session with the directors will the Tateuchi Democracy Forum at JAN1vf. be featured following the screenings. • VISUAL COMMUNICATIONS pN-'''' ",. For a fu« program list and to purchase Among the features, Tanaka's documen• LOS ANGELES ASIAN PACIFIC tickets, visit www.vconline.orglfestival or tary on Aiko Herzig Yoshinaga, a political call (213) 680-4462, ext. 59. activist and lead researcher of the Commis-

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Minidoka NHS and he Berkeley JACL chapter a foundation for building the Japa• awarded seven scholar• Friends of Minidoka, neseAmerican community into the T ships to high school seniors active and vibrant one we share to• the event will build Cameron Adams, }..hdison Lew, day, as well as linking past leaders :Noel 1-kGuire and Mika Taga• with future leaders. a baseball diamond Anderson, college undergraduates Katsumoto served as the Berke• that will serve Kaitlin HaIa, Jason Nakao and ley Chapter president from 1982- MINIDOKA• Ashley &hroeter and presented 83 and has long been an active as an Immerslve Pioneer Awards to Kiyoshi Katsu• member of the Berkeley Buddhist moto and Gordon Yamamoto dur• Temple, where he served as presi• experience to honor ing its April 17 awards luncheon dent from 2006-10. Active with held at Richmond Country Club in his City of EI Cerrito community, the game that saved Richmond, Calif. he also worked closely with the many during Taga-Anderson, a senior at EI Cerrito Police Department and Head Royce &hool in Oakhnd, helped with the development and World War II. was awarded the Dan/Kathleen fonnation of community policing Date Memorial Scholarship. She - and the formation of "neighbor• atter up! Phy A commemorative Minidoka baseball will enter Wellesley College in hood watch groups."Today, neigh• ball! Baseball is available to purchase at the the fall, majoring in pre-med and borhood block parties are held dur• B season has start• Oregon Nikkei Legacy Center for $10 neuroscience. ing National Night Out in August. ed. Baseball diamonds (case extra). A portion of the sale will 1-kGuire, a senior at Mramonte Yamamoto served as the Berke• across Idaho will echo support the Center Field Project. High School in Orinda, was award• ley Chapter president from 1987- with the sound of fans ed the Bea Kono Memorial &hol• 89. A member of the Berkeley cheering for their favorite arship. She will soon decide where Chapter board of directors since new field will be representative of the teams. The public is invit• she will enter college in the fall. 1976, he also served as recording fields that provided a gathering place for ed to :Minidoka :National Adams, from Northgate High secretary from 2013-15. Following both phyers and spectators. Historic Site on 1-hy 28 &hool in Walnut Creek, was in the footsteps of his father, Ya• Field preparation will take place on the to help build a symbolic awarded the Terry Yamashita mamoto learned about the breach days preceding the Saturday event The baseball field, a unique 1-1emorial &holarship. She will of civil liberties experienced by day's events will include building and field that will tie together enter college at California State Japanese Americans durin g World installing the field structures: backstop, the story of America's A block print of men playing Fblytechnic University, San Luis War II and continues to advocate two scoreboards, two phyer benches, two favorite pastime and the baseball at Minidoka Obispo, majoring in business. for the civil rights of all citizens. bleachers, applying all field maIkings, in• Japanese Americans and Lew is a senior at El Cerrito In addition, Yamamoto has chaired stalling bases, installing a wayside interpretive panel legal resident aliens who were incarcerated at the High &hool and plans to enter the the board of trustees at the Lake and donor phque and creating accessibility paths to Minidoka War Relocation Center from 1942-45. University of Hawaii at 1-hnoa and Park United 1-1ethodist Church in the field. During World War II, baseball was a welcome major in ed ucation. Oakhnd. The public is invited to watch (and, if interested, respite from the hardships of war for the entire na• Newly established 2016 schol• In addition, the chapter recog• help) at the event beginning at 8 a.m. Volunteers will tion. Baseball played a key role in sustaining the arships were awarded to college nized longtime major sponsors also be needed during the week of 1-hy 23 to prepare 13,000 Japanese Americans who were incarcerated at undergIaduate students HaIa, a ju• Union Bank (Dimitry Bokman), the field area for the Satumay event Thepublic is also Minidoka War Relocation Center, also known as nior at the University of California, Wells Fargo Bank (vance Oishi! invited to the formal dedication of the field, which is "Hunt Camp." Berkeley, majoring in molecuhr Jonathan Shindo) and memorial scheduled for 10:45 a.m. on June 26 during the Annual 1-hny of the camp residents - youth, adults, male environmental biology; Schroeter, scholarship donors: the Beatrice Minidoka Pilgrimage. and female - phyed baseball or softball on oneofthe a sophomore at the City College Kono family (George Kono), The Field-in-a-Day project has been approved by the 14 fields throughout the camp. In reading articles from of San Francisco majoring in psy• the Terry Yamashita family (Reiko State Historic Preservation Office. the camp newspaper, it is clear that baseball served as chology; and Nakao, a freshman at Nabeta) and the Dan!Kathleen The baseball field will be more than just a cultural a glue to bring people together and provided bridges to Diablo valley College. Date family (Gail Yamamoto). hndscape for visitors to look upon and learn about - communities outside the barbed-wire fence. Baseball Also during the luncheon, Pio• This year's Schohrship Commit• it will be an immersive experience that will be open helped bring a sense of normalcy into their lives. neer Awards were presented to tee consisted of Chair Ron Tanaka, to visitors, school groups and special events. Visitors The baseball field project became even more excit• Katsumoto and Yamamoto. The 1-1ark Fujikawa, Vera Kawamura, will also be encouraged to go onto the field and "play ing when the idea to complete this project came to award honors those with the vi• Paul Nakao, Neal Ouye, Al Satake catch" or "hit a few balls" once the temporary visitor fruition. This idea is based on the 1952 Rum-in-a-Day sion, compassion and energy to lay and Sharron Sue. • Event that was held on the John Herrmann property. contact station is opened in Spring 2017, which will 1-hny local residents have said that they were one of offer baseball equipment the 1,500 people who volunteered to build John Her• Donations to the Field-in-a-Day project will be used rmann's home, dig irrigation canals, phnt crops or to build the baseball field and its supporting structures, build corrals for cattle on April 17, 1952. Others have as well as support the event and dedication ceremony. remarked that they were among the 10,000 people 1-klnies collected beyond the actual reconstruction who came to watch the activities that had been publi• of the field will be used to maintain the field in the cized for weeks in the North Side News. future. In keeping with the spirit of the 1952 Farm-in-a• Friends of Minidoka and Discover Your Northwest Day event, Minidoka NHS and Friends of Minidoka are official partners on this project. To donate to this (FOM) are planning the Field-in-a-Day event on project, visit the Discover Your Northwest or Friends 1-hy28. of Minidoka websites. On that day, individuals and groups are invited to The paIk and its partners are thankful for all volun• join FOMand paIk staff in building the structures that teer assistance, donated materials and used baseball would have been part of the original fields that were and softball equipment. Berkeley honorees (from Jeft) Joyce Shindo (Wells Fargo), interspersed among 36 residential barrack blocks. For further information on the event, please con• Kiyoshi Katsumoto, Cameron Adams, Madison Lew, Ashley The original 14 fields varied from dirt fields with no tact Janet Keegan, FOM, [email protected], Schroeter, Mika Taga-Anderson, Kaitlin Hara, Noel McGuire, supporting structures to fields with backstops, bleach• Keith Yamaguchi at [email protected] or Jason Nakao and Gordon Yamamoto ers and scoreboards. Using historic photographs, the Carol Ash at [email protected]. PACIFIC. CITIZEN COMMUNITY April 22-May 5, 2016 7

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UCLA Kyodo Taiko, shown here during the 46th Annual Manzanar Pilgrimage on April 25, 2015, will open the MANZANAR 47th Annual Manzanar Pilgrimage on April 30 at the Manzanar National Historic Site. PILGRIMAGE LOS ANGELES - UCLA Kycxlo ny of the University of California, Los ed in 1978 at Gange County Ellddhist Taiko and Daion Taiko will perform at Angeles' commemoration of the 50th Church as an alternative fonn of study• WEEKEND EVENTS the 47th Annual Manzanar Pilgrimage, anniversary of the Japanese American ing and teaching the principals of Jodo sponsored by the Manzanar Commit• internment, which was held in February Shinshu BJddhism tee, on AJXil 30 at the Manzanar Na• 1992 at UCLA's famed Royce full Daion, in Japanese, means "great he Manzanar Nahonal Historic Site invites tional Historic Site located in Califor• Led by201S-16 directors Lea Chang, sound of enlightenment" The group visitors to participate in a weekend of special nia's CWens Valley Nick Petrik and David Riccobono, has perfonned at Saples Center, Angels T events 1ll conJunchon WIth the Manzanar CUltural perfonnances, including UCLA Kycxlo Taiko is comprised en• Stadium, D:>dger Stadium, Dsneyland, Committee's 47th Annual Pilgrimage. All are welcome, UCLA Kycxlo Taiko, begin at 1130 tirely of UCLA students. The group the Gange County Performing Arts and the events are free am, while the main portion of the has perfonned annually at local K-12 Center and at many other venues This year, the pilgrimage coincides with the program starts at Noon schools, Nisei Week, Los Angeles Tofu In addition to the afternoon event, the Sesquicentennial of In}') County and the Centennial of Each year, more than 1,COJ people Festival and the Lotus Festival in La; Manzanarat Duskprogram followo that the Nahonal Park Service from diverse backgrounds, including Angeles, the Intercollegiate Taiko Invi• same evening at the Lone Pine High Following Is a briefschedule of e~ts: students, teachers, community mem• tational, dunng halftime at UCLA bas• School gymnasium bers, clergy and fonner incarcerees at• ketball games, as well as the frstannual The program is co-sponsored by the Friday, ApIil29 tend the pilgrimage, which commemo• USA Slmo Cj:>en, in addition to many Nikkei Student Unions at California • Riends of Eastern California Museum will host rates the unjust incarceration of more cther campus, community and private State University, Long Boach; Cali• a public recephon from 4-6 p.m. at the Eastern than 1l0,COJ Americans of Japanese events fornia State R>lytechnic University, Cahfornia Museum in Independence Exhibits mclude ancestry in 10 American concentration UCLA Kycxlo Taiko has also become f\::lmona; the University of California, 3J.iro and Mary mmura's Manzanar collechon camps, and other confinement sites, a fertile training ground for those who Los Angeles; and the University of during Wortd War II. Manzanar was wish to continue with taiko after their California, San Dego Saturday, ApIil30, and SuuJay, May 1 the first of the American concentration college careers end, as many Kycxlo Ebth the Manzanar Pilgrimage and • The Manzanar National Historic Site Visitor Center camps to be established alumni have become memt:€rs of the Manzanar at Dusk programs are will extend its hours byopening at 9 a.m. A 1943 mural Making its 10th consecutive appear• fCofessional taiko groups, including free and open to the public painted by Tamekichi Cart Hibino, on loan from the ance at the Manzanar Pilgrimage this Nishikaze Taiko Ensemble, Taiko Froj• Eastern California Museum and recently conserved year, UCLA Kycxlo Taiko, the first col• ect and Frogressi ve Taiko (Frota) For more informatwn, call (323) by the NPS, will be displayed on the auditcrium stage legiate taiko group in mrth America, Cbe of the oldest taiko groups in the 662-5102 or email 47lhpilgrimage@ Saturday, ApIil30 made its debut at the Cj:>ening Ceremo- , Dlion Taiko was found- marn:(l1J(UcomiJlee .org. • Rom 9 a.m.-Noon, Madelon Arai Yamamoto am volunteer archeologist Mary Farrell will be at the restored Arai family fish pond in Block 33 to share MNHS BARRACKS EXHIBIT RECEIVES stories about the pond's dixovery and excavation Saturday, ApIil30 • The 47th Annual Pilgrimage Ceremony begins at 2016 STANTON-HORTON AWARD FOR N:x>n This year's theme is "Kodomo No Tame Ni fur the Sake of the Children - Liberty and Justice EXCELLENCE structed on the site where Japanese the individuals themselves for All' The event will feature keynote speaker Americans were incarcerated during These families not only contributed Cathy Irwin and featured speaker Maytha Alhassen Robert "Ebb" Gracey will be honored with the 2016 BLOOMINGTON, IN - wring its W:>rld War II. Its installation was many valuable historical materials but also annual meeting in Frovidence, RI., on years in the making and involved the helped shape the way those materi• Sle Kunitomi Embrey Legacy Award April 9, the Ggamzatioo of American p:uticipation of MNHS site staff, NPS als lIXluld be interpreted to the public • The Manzanar at Dusk Frogram begins at 5 pm at Historians presented Manzanar Nation• personnel frem the Denver Service throughout the planning process Lone Pine High School al Historic Site barrack:; exhibit with Center and the Pacilr West Regional The award was presented by OAH Sunday, May 1 its prestigious 2016 Stanton-Horton Qlre and three outside contracting 2015-16 Fresident Joo Butler and Award for Excellence in National Park frms based 1ll Southern California, OAH 2016-17 Fresident Nancy F • Cathy Irwin will present a special program on the Service History, which is given annu• Virginia and Maryland Cott fuunded in 1907, the Q\H is histcry of the Children's Village in the West Theater ally to recognize excellence in histori• The exhibit inccrporates original the IIXlrld's largest professional asso• of the Manzanar ViSItor Center at 10 a.m cal fCojects for, by and with the NPS archIval and oral history research with ciahon dedIcated to American history For more informatwn on M([IJZfIJJar, call (760) 878- The MNHS barrack:; exhibit was the families of individuals who ex- scholarship With 7, 5XJ members, the 2194, ext. 3310 or visUlIWW.nps.govlmarn:. installed in April 2015 within tllXl perienced life in the barrack:; seven organizahon promotes excellence in the 20-fod:-by-l00-foot barrack:; recon- clecades ago and, in many cases, with presentahon of American history. • 8 April 22-May 5, 2016 NATIONAL PACIFIC. CITIZEN JAPANESE AMERICAN LEADERSHIP DELEGATION COMPLETES SUCCESSFUL JAPAN TOUR

he 10 delegates of the 2016 Japanese American Leademhip T Delegation program returned home 1hrch 12 after a full week of meetings, discussions and networking opportunities with Japanese Leaders. Delegates Bruce Harrell, Eric Shin• taro Hiraga, Bruce E Hollywood, Stan (Left) The delegates met with 1hsamitsu, Kiyo 1futsnmoto, 110nte Prime Minister Shinzo Abe Del }..hr, Eric Nakajima, Darren T. (left, center) in Tokyo. Nakata, 1furk Yokoyama and Tasha A. Yorizu traveled to Japan to visit Tokyo and Kobe from 1hrch 5-12. ed ged the Japanese American support The Japanese American Leademhip for Operation Tomodachi and other Delegation program is sponsored by the American aid after the disaster. Japanese Ministry of FOreign Affairs The delegates also had the opportu• (represented in the U.S. by the Embassy nity to meet with other individuals and of Japan in Washington, D.C., and 16 organizations, including lllH Princess consulate general offices) and admin• Takamado, the Ministry of Fbreign istered by the U.S.-Japan Council. The Affairs, Keidanren (Japan Business program provides the "opportunity for Federation), Ambassador 1-hsaharu a select group of Japanese American Kohno, Representative Taro Kono, the (Top right) The 2016 JALD delegates with USJC president Irene Hirano Inouye and leaders from across the United States to Japan-US. Farliamentary Federation members Scott Sato, Ernie Higa, Janelle Sasaki and Paul Yonamine (al/ seated). travel to Japan to engage with Japanese and other Diet members. leaders in the business, government, ac• USJC Board Members Scott Sato, ademic, nonprofit and cultural sectors." the Kobe City Government and the Hyogo Japan Council President Irene Hirano Ernest M. Higa, Paul Yonamine, as well During their trip, the delegates visited International Assn. Inouye for demonstrating their continued as Council Leader Janelle Sasaki, shared Kobe in Hyogo Prefecture, where they par• The group also toured the Shu-Shin-Kan support for Japan, and he remalked, "Japa• their experience as Japanese Americans liv• ticipated in a symposium titled "Towam Brewery, as well as the Kobe Biomedical nese Americans are treasures in U.S.-Japan ing and working in Japan with the delegation a &cure 8ociety: Challenges in Diversity Innovation Cluster. relations. I am glad that all of you, as active as well. and Inclusion," co-sponsored by the USJC In Tokyo, the group met with Prime leaders in your respective fields, are brid ging To date, 176 delegates have participated and the Japan Foundation Center for Global Mnister Shinzo Abe on 1-1arch 9 to discuss our two countries and further strengthening in the program. Upon their return, delegates Partnership, with support from Kobe Shim• issues pertinent to the US.-Japan bilateral the ties between them." continue to wolk with their local consul• bun, the US. Consulate General in Osaka• rehtionship. In light of the fifth anniversary ofthe Great ates, community and fellow JALD alumni to Kobe, the Hyogo Prefectural Government, Abe thanked the delegation and US.- East Japan Earthquake, Abe also acknowl- strengthen US.-Japan rehtions. •

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AMERICAN HOLIDAY TRAVEL 2016 TOUR SCHEDULE

Washington DC Holiday Tour (Elaine Ishida). .May 12-17 Mount Vernon, Arlington National Cemetary, Annapolis, World War II Memorial, Smithsonian Institution. Grandparents-Grandchildren Japan Holiday Tour (Ernest Hida). . Jun 26-Ju15 Tokyo, Hakone-Atami, Hiroshima, Kyoto. Nova Scotia Holiday Tour (CaroIHida) . Aug10-1S Halifax, Baddeck, Cabot Trail, CharlotteTown, Prince Edward Island, Grand Pre, Lunenburg. China Silk Road Holiday Tour (Ernest Hida). .Sep 12-23 Beijing, Urumqi, Turpan, Dunhuang. British Landscapes Holiday Tour (Elaine Ishida) . Sep 12-21 Dr. Takashi Hoshizaki outside of a barrack during last England, Scotland, Wales. year's Heart Mountain pilgrimage. Hoshizaki lived on Block Korea Holiday Tour (Ernest Hida) Oct 4-17 14, the same block as iconic camp artist Estelle Ishigo. Seou~ Nami Island, Sokcho, Daegu, Gyeongju, Busan, Cheju Island, G\.vangju, Daejon, Suwon, KBS Drama Center, DMZ Tour. his year's Heart 1-kluntain Pilgrimage will take phce July 29-30 New England Autumn Holiday Tour (Elaine Ishida) . Oct 11-1S in Cody and Fbwell, Wyo., at the Heart Mountain Interpretive Boston, Woodstock, Stowe-Vermont, North Conway-New Hampshire, T Center. Boothbay Harbor, Kennebunkport-Maine. Celebrating the fifth anniversary of the Heart Mountain Interpretive Kyushu-Shikoku Holiday Tour (Ernest Hida) .Oct 27-Nov 9 Center, pilgrimage presentations will include a keynote address by Fukuoka, Nagasaki, Kumamoto, Ibusuki, Kagoshima, Miyazaki, Beppu, acclaimed phywright and director Luis Valdez and talks by fonner US. Matsuyama, Kochi, Takamatsu, Shodo Island, Tokushima, Osaka. Secretary of Transportation Norman Mneta and US. &n. Ahn Simpson New Orleans Get-Away Tour (Carol Hida) Dec 12-16 (ret.) at the Heart Mountain Interpretive Center. There will also be special One hotel, City Tour, New Orleans Cooking School-Dinner, Cajun Swamp Tour. exhibits at the center, and lunch is included with registration. For more information and reservations, please contact: Events on Friday will include a silent auction, dinner banquet and a AlvIERICAN HOUDAY TRAVEL dessert reception at the Holiday Inn in Cody. 312E.lstStreet,Suite330 * LosAngeles,CA 90012 Tel: (213)625-2232 * Email: [email protected] For registration infonnation, visit https:llshopheartmountain.orgl (CST #200326-10) Ernest or Carol Hida or Elaine Ishida (Tel: 714-269-4534) productslpilgri11U1ge-registration. PACIFIC. CITIZEN NATIONAL/COMMENTARY April 22-May 5, 2016 9 HOPE » continued from page 3 Stamp Our Story_ I talk often about the fear that still of you who are out in the world off• , remains in my heart for Aiden's fu• setting this hatred and bigotry, and I ture, and that is a reality that will nev• whisper to myself how grateful I am er go away until society sees my son for people who stand on the side of as a human being with rights, feelings love. This is what gives me hope. and value. But I also realize there are Marsha Aizumi is an advocate in many organizations, corporations and the LGBT community and the au• mdividuals that are "coming out" to thor of the book "Two Spirits, One stand on the side of human rights. So Heart: A Mother, Her Transgender I when I see another anti -LGBT event, Son and Their Journey to Love and action or statement, I think about all NISEI STAMP CAMPAIGN Acceptance.}} EYE » continued from page 3 . REQUESTS LETTERS OF SUPPORT "After the carnage in Paris and Brus• phobia in Europe and the US. today, sels, the laissez-faire approach that Charle Hebdo's editorial was irre• he Nisei Stamp Cam• The stamp would be the first of preserve the story of the Japa• had allowed those clerics to prosely• sponsible. paign "Stamp Our Story" its kind to record such an impor• nese Americans who served in tize, private Muslim schools to mul• Placing the blame for Brussels at the T is requesting letters of tant Asian American story. the U.S. Army and were incar• tiply in France, prisons to serve as feet of an already bel eaguered com• support in its campaign for a Need help with finding your cerated during World War II. incubators of jihadism, youths to drift munity might force Belgium's Mus• national stamp that would honor members of Congress? One can We hope to make this stamp to ISIS land in Syria and back, and lims to retreat even fwther inwards, Japanese Americans who served call Congress by phone at (202) a reality in time for next yearJs districts like Molenbeek or Schaer• and push them away from the sort in the U S. Army and were incar• 224-3121 or via the web (www. 75th commemoration of this beek to drift into a void of negligence, of cooperation and transparency that cerated during World War II. house .go vlre presen tali vesl chapter in our nationJs history. has to cease." Cohen baldly claims, might prevent another such attack. It Campaign organizers are ask• find/, www.senate.gov/senators/ The letter is co-authored by "The moderate Muslim communities might also inspire anti-Muslim vio• ing citizens to contact their contact/i· Rep. Mark Takai (HI-OI) and of Europe need to do much more." lence, especially given that prominent House Representative to sign The campaign asks that citi• Rep. Judy Chu (CA-27). Repre• Cohen's words are disturbing. This figures in the Western political arenas onto the letter for Postmas• zens contact all three members sentatives Mike HondaJ Doris "laissez-faire approach" he criticizes (Trum p and Cruz in the US., Marine ter General Megan J Brennan - congressperson and two sena• Matsui and Mark Takano have is something we like to call tolerance, Le Pen in France) have called for ex• and the Citizen's Stamp Advi• tors - and it is recommended already signed this letter. and takes the form of nondiscrimina• tra policing of Muslim communities sory Council. It is co-authored that supporters email their mem• My full name and contact in- tory policy. Both Cohen and Charlie and the expulsion of Muslim immi• by Rep. Mark Takai (HI-01) bers of Congress and follow up formation is ______. Hebdo are guilty of projecting isolat• grants from their countries in recent and Rep. Judy Chu (CA-27) with phone calls and/orin-person Thankyou. ed incidents of honi.fic violence onto weeks. request at the member's office. and signed by Representatives Citizens are urged to contact an entire population, the vast, vast Charlie Hebdo's editorial singles Mike Honda, Doris Matsui and Following is a sample message: their Member of Congress to majority of whom are just as appalled out Tariq Ramadan, a professor of Mark Takano. and repulsed by the Islamic State as Islamic Studies at Oxford, as one Dear Representative/ sign on to the Takai/Chu Letter: The congressi anal 1etter needs we are. of those spearheading the danger• Senator - Japanese American Testament to signers by April 29. Patriotism During WWII. The It's an argument that's been made ous anti-Islamophobia movement. The campaign hopes to gather As a constituent in your dis• deadline again is April 29. before, but when we see an attack "Tariq Ramadan has done nothing enough support to make a push trictJ I urge you to sign onto a carn ed out by a white perpetrator wrong," the editorial begins. "He for a veterans stamp to be issued letter to Postmaster General For questions or help to sign - take, for example, Dylann Roof. lectures about Islam, he writes about to coincide with the 75th com• and the Citizen's Stamp Advi• on, email Kana Smith (kana. the 22-year-old white supremacist Islam, he broadcasts about Islam. memoration ofE.O 9066 and the sory Council urging for the is• [email protected]) on Rep. who killed nine black churchgoers in He puts himself forward as a man of internment next year, 2017. suance of a stamp that would Takai's staff Charleston last year - we see a de• dialogue, someone open to a debate." ranged individual. The essay's nameless author contin• When we see an attack like the ues: ''Tariq Ramadan is never going one in Brussels, we see the tip of an to grab a Kalashnikov with which to iceberg. I say the tip of an iceberg, shoot journalists at an editorial meet• LONG BEACH TO SCREEN AWARO- because that is exactly what Charlie ing. Nor will he ever cook up a bomb Hebdo has called the Brussels attacks. to be used in an airport concourse. "In reality," the magazine's edito• Others will be doing all that kind of WINNING 'LIL TOKYO REPORTER' rial reads, "the attacks are merely the stuff. It will not be his role." visible part of a very large iceberg In the weeks to come, we would be ree screening of the film "Lil Tokyo Jeffrey Gee Chin and starring Chris Tashima, will indeed. " wise to keep an eye out for attacks Reporter," co-sponsored by the Long be followed by a Q & A session, a reading from p.J When we start to view a religious or on mosques, and attacks on veiled each Japanese Cultural Center, Long an upcoming biography by Tashima, a traditional ethnic community as monolithic we women and local bakers who do not Beach Harbor Pioneer Project and the Long Japanese song by Patrick Seki and a reception. forget that those who have the loudest sell ham sandwiches. We should also Beach Public Library, will be held on April 30 at "Reporter" is based on the true story of Sei voices are rarely its truest representa• keep an eye out for new laws that 2 p.m. at the Long Beach Main Library. Fujii, an Issei civil rights pioneer and pub• tives. Just look at Donald Trump - curtail the civil rights of Muslims in The award-winning short film, directed by lisher of the Kashu Mainichi California Daily I've lived in Europe for the past four our communities. The editorialists of News, who made amazing contributions for the months, and everyone here seems to Charlie Hebdo will never carry out Japanese American community. think all Americans support him. these attacks, of course; nor will they Fujii, a USC Law School graduate but denied Freedom of the press is one of ever propose or ratify these discrimi• citizenship and a law license, teamed with civil those f oundati onal tenets of li beral• natory laws. That is not their role. rights attorney J Marion Wright to provide legal ism without which no democracy can But to say that they have not assistance to Japanese individuals and the com• hope to exist. But just because you contributed to such a climate of munity for four decades. Their most significant are lawfully allowed to print whatev• frantic, terribly misguided xenopho• legal achievements included a 1928 US. Su• er you like doesn't mean you should bia would be untrue. prem e Court case that permitted constructi on of The publishing of a charged edito• the Los Angeles Japanese Hospital and the 1952 Matthew Ormseth is currently a rial or cartoon has real-life repercus• California Supreme Court case that overturned student at Cornell University ma• sions, and sometimes, as the attacks the California Alien Land Law, which prohib• joring in English. He seeks to give on Charlie Hebdo's own offices "Lil Tokyo Reporter" is based on the life ited aliens ineligible for citizenship from owning an honest portrayal of life as both proved, those repercussions can be of civil rights pioneer Sei Fujii. property. • a university student and member of violent. Given the climate of Islamo- the Millennial generation. 10 April 22-May 5, 2016 CALENDAR PACIFICO CITIZEN A NATIONAL GUIDE TO NOTABLE COMMUNITY EVENTS

Tran family's escape from is a program connecting The Forum Vietnam, telling the story of Japanese American youth New York, NY NCWNP PSW their capture by the Khmer to the continuing legacy May 2; 7 p.m. Rouge in Cambodia and of the Japanese American Fordham University, Kodomo No Hi Civil Rights Today: their resettlement in the community's incarceration Pope Auditorium San Francisco, CA The Legacy of Minoru Yasui meatpacking town of during WWII. 113 W. 60th St. May 2; 11 am,-4 p,m, Los Angeles, CA Garden City, Kansas. Info: Visit www.jacl Price: Free Japan Center Peace Plaza April 30; 2 p.m. Info: Email 40yearsfallen@ chicago.org. The Asian American Arts Buchanan and Post St Japanese American gmail.com. Alliance, Asian American Price: Free National Museum 2016 Heart Mountain Performers' Action Coalition, In partnership with the 100 N. Central Ave. Pilgrimage Theatre Communications JCCCNC, this annual youth Price: Free with museum Council on Asian Pacific Cody and Powell, WY Group and Alliance for celebration will feature admission Minnesotans Leadership July 29-30 Inclusion in the Arts presents traditional Japanese This year marks Min Yasui's Awards Dinner Heart Mountain Interpretive this national initiative to performances, mochi 1DOth birthday and the 74th Maplewood, MN Center advance race equity in the pounding, youth art contests, anniversary of his voluntary May 20; 5-8 p.m. 1539 Rd. 19 theater. arts and crafts, activities, arrest. Maplewood Community Price: Registration fees Info: Visit http://441. games and more. Info: Visit www.janm.org or Center may vary fordham.edu or call Info: Visit www.sfjapantown. call (213) 625-0414. 2100 White Bear Ave. The Heart Mountain Wyoming (914) 367 -3426. org. Price: Varies $30-$125 Foundation will celebrate five Selanoco JACL 50th Please join the Council on years at this year's pilgrimage Third Annual Military 'Yellow Face' Anniversary Installation Asian Pacific Minnesotans for at Heart Mountain. This year Leadership Luncheon Stanford, CA Luncheon its 2016 Leadership Awards will feature a dinner banquet, APAICS and PPALM May 5; 8 p.m. Cerritos, CA Dinner. silent auction, special exhibits Washington, D.C. Elliot Program Center May 22; 11 a.m. Info: Visit www.mn.gov/ and a special keynote from May 5; Noon-2 p.m. 589 Governor's Ave. Cerritos Sheraton Hotel capm or call (651) 757-1740. acclaimed playwright and Capitol Hilton Price: Free 12725 Center Court Dr. director Luis Valdez. 1001 16th St N.W. The Stanford Asian The South East Los Angeles, JACL Chicago Scholarship Info: Register at The Military Leadership American Theater Project North Orange County Luncheon hearmountain.orgl Luncheon is dedicated to welcomes "Yellow Face," (Selanoco) chapter of the Skokie,IL pilgrimage.html or call promoting leadership diversity Tony Award-winning JACL will celebrate its 50th May 22; Noon (307) 754-8000. and Asian American and playwright and Stanford Anniversary Installation Maggiano's Little Italy Pacific Islander representation al u m David Hen ry Hwang's Luncheon, celebrating five 4999 Old Orchard Center in our troops. The program semiautobiographical decades of advocating for Celebrate this year's PNW will feature keynote speaker comedic satire involving the civil liberties of Japanese scholarship recipients with Lt. Gen. Gina M. Grosso. theater politics, international American and the greater the JACL Chicago chapter. Memorial Day Info: Visit www.apaics.org. intrigue and Senate community of people in color. Students will be recognized Portland, OR Info: Email selanoc050@ investigators. and awarded for their May 30; 1 p.m. Bridging Intergenerational Info: Visit www. gmail.com. academic achievements Rose City Cemetery Differences - Asian Pacific stanfordaatp.weebly.coml as they enter the next 5625 N.E. Fremont St American Heritage Month current-season.html. Emerging Voices of Asian educational steps. Please join Portland JACL New York, NY American Mental Health: Info: Visit ww.jaclchicago. in honoring its veterans on May 19; 10 a.m. Japanese American Panel Discussion org. Memorial Day. The ceremony Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Discussion Group San Gabriel, CA will be short and plans Church Oakland, CA May 29; 1 :30-4 p.m. Japan Festival Chicago include a walk through Rose 7 W. 55th St July 23; 6:30-7:30 p.m. Asian Youth Center Arlington Heights, IL City Cemetery as well as the Price: Free California Genealogical 100 W. Clary Ave. June 11-12 Lone Fir Cemetery near Stark The New York Asian Society and Library Price: Free Forest View Education Street for another ceremony. Women's Center will host a 2201 Broadway Join the Taiwanese American Center Info: Visit www.pdxjacl.org workshop for parents and Suite LL2 Citizens League, Asian 2121 S. Goebbert Road or call (877) 843-6914. service providers who work Price: Nonmembers $5 Coalition and the Asian Youth Hosted by the Chicago with Asian Pacific Islander Join the California Center for a panel discussion Japan American Council, this Community Reception children and want to learn Genealogical Society as about how culture impacts year's festival will showcase Portland, OR about different ways to President Linda Harms mental health. a variety of performances, June 26; 5-7:30 p.m. communicate with API youth. Okazaki opens an informal Info: RSVP at http:// exhibits, foods, music and Oregon Nikkei Legacy Info: Visit www.nyawc.org discussion about Japanese emergingvoicesaamh. special programming. Center or call (212) 732-0054. emigrants. eventbrige.com. Info: Visit www.japan 121 N.W. Second Ave. Info: Call (510) 663-1358. fest-chicago.org. Price: Free, but RSVP is encouraged IOC MOC Kansha Project Culmination The Center for Asian Pacific ADVERTISE HERE Skokie,IL American Women invites all Nihon Matsuri Events in the calendar June 18; 1 p.m. to a Community Reception. 'The Butcher's Son' , UT section are listed based on Skokie Banquet and Register now as space is Liberal, KS April 30; 10 a.m.-5 p.m. space availability. Place a Conference Center limited. April 30; 7:30 p.m. Courtyard Salt Lake City 'Spotlight' ad with 5300 W. Touhy Info: Visit www.apawomen. Showcase Theatre 100S.300W. photos of your event for Price: General tickets $30; org or call (415) 310-6978. Price: Free 1801 N. Kansas Ave. youth and student $20 maximum exposure. All are welcome to celebrate Price: General admission Save the date for a Kansha FOR MORE INFO: and enjoy a performance by $10; Students and seniors Project gathering in an event EOC [email protected] Taikoza. $7 hosted by the Chicago JACL (213) 620-1767 Info: Visit www. "The Butcher's Son" by Chapter. The Kansha Project Beyond Orientalism: Vi Tran chronicles the nihonmatsuri.com. • PACIFIC' CITIZEN OBITUARIES April 22-May 5, 2016 11 MEMORIAM

Amino, Pat Aiko, 85, hlgeles, CA; ,.;pril 10; he was survived by his wife, Tomoko he is survived by his wife, Yoko by many nieces, nephews and Evanston, IL; tv1arch 18; she a U.S. Air Force veteran; he tv1atsunami; siblings, Pat Okamoto; children, Allison other relatives; gc: 5. was incarcerated at Poston is survived by his son, David Kawaguchi, Rose Ishii, Manuel and Evan Okamoto; mother, Camp; she is survived by her Joseph lijima; daughter, (Doris) tv1atsunami, Natchi Yasuko Okamoto; brother, husband, Yosh; sisters, Yuri Elizabeth Ann (Brian Bedesem) (David) Furukawa, Juichi Harry Okamoto; he is also Shibasaki, Shiyu Bob, 86, Nishioka and Hide Tekawa; lijima; sisters, Susan A. lijima (Emiko) tv1atsunami; 30 nieces. survived by many friends and Los Angeles, CA; April 14; children, Kimberely (Eric), and Diana (Robert) Mueller; relatives. he was predeceased by his Mitchell (Oawna) and Jill uncle, Wallace (Fran) Sakaki; son, Bobby; brother, Eugh; (Mark); gc: 7. gc: 3. Miyuki, Mokusen, 87, sister, Toshiko; he is survived Montebello, CA; April 7; he is Okura, Tsuyoshi 'Tee,' 99, by his wife, Msao; daughter, survived by his wife, Toshie; Lomita, CA; tv1arch 30; he Hiromi (James) Toberman; Azuma, Alyse, 100, Ikeda, Donald Shigeo, 78, daughters, Margaret Noriko was predeceased by his wife, sister, Takaka Kawaguchi; Chicago, IL; Jan. 28; she was Gardena, CA; March 22; he (tv1atthew Peter) and Agnes Chiyoko Shiba Okura; son, brother, Yo (Kaoru) Shibasaki. predeceased by her husband, was a U.S. Army Veteran; he Tomoko (Eric McShane); Robert; he is survived by his Fred Azuma; she is survived by is survived by his wife, Beverly gc: 2. children, Albert, Amy and her daughter, Julie; gc: 2. Ikeda; sons, Clifford (Kelley) Susan; gc: 6; ggc: 1. Shigeno, Katie Hisaye, 90, and Rodney (rom aka) Ikeda; Ontario, OR; tv1arch 25; she brother, Kenneth (Jane) Ikeda; Murata, Betty Kikue, 90, was incarcerated at Tule Chikuo, Bill Tsuneo, 95, gc: 3. Monterey Park, CA; tv1arch Sakamoto, Frank, 90, Lake during WWII; she was Ontario, OR; April 2; he 19; she is survived by her Denver, CO; Dec. 12, 2015; predeceased by her husband, is survived by his brother, husband, William Kimio he was president of Mle John; she is survived by her Shigeru (Kyoko) Taniguchi; Imori, Shigeko, 91, Los Murata; daughter, Shawn High JACL; he is survived children, Tina Gibson, Ann nephews, James Otani and hlgeles, CA; tv1arch 27; (David) Tiemeier; son, Rodney by his wife, Toshiko; sons, Francis, Gary Shigeno, Bob Charles Otani. she is survived by her son, Murata; brother, Herbert H. Glenn (Christine) and Randall Shigeno and Steve (Lynn) Yoshihiro Tabata; brother, (Jeanne A.) Nitake; (Tom aka); brother, Fumio Shigeno; brother, Fred (Rose) Sadao Takeuchi; niece, Debra gc: 6; ggc: 6. (Fusako); he is also survived Kawakami; gc: 8; ggc: 4. • Fujii, Midori, 90, Pasadena, Takeuchi; she is also survived TRIBUTE CA; tv1arch 17; she is survived by many other relatives; by her daughter, Reiko; sons, gc: 2; ggc: 5. Musashi, Susumu, 98, Union Ted, Evan, Steve and John; Grove, WI; March 27; he was a SAM SHIMASAKI brothers, Aki and Tony; sisters, 442nd veteran during WWII; he Haru, Sets and Lola; gc: 4. Kakehashi, Hideo, 96, Los is survived by his son, Dennis. Sam Shimasaki oos born in hlgeles, CA; ,.;pril 2; he was a strathmore, Calif., on Feb. 20, 1926, MIS veteran and served during and grew up in the San Joaquin Hikida, Shizuye, 97, Chicago, WWII; he is survived by his Nakanishi, Don, T., 66, Valle 'll He was an Army veteran IL; tv1arch 24; she was wife, tv1ae Michie Kakehashi; Los Angeles, CA; tv1arch 21; and served in Europe, guarding predeceased by her husband, daughter, Colleen Dale (Ken) he is survived by his wife, freight trains with his brother, Fred. Fred Toshio Hikida; she is Hoff; son, Robert Kevin tv1arsha Hirano-Nakanishi; son, He oos devoted to his wife, Mitsuru survived by her children, Kakehashi; brother, Yoshio Thomas Nakanishi; he is also ~rge, and their daughter, Jinx Robert S. (Gerry) Hikida, Kakehashi; gc: 3. survived by nieces, nephews Hatsu Beaumont. He is survi ved Kenneth K. (Nancy) Hikida and other relatives. by his grandson, Carl (Sarah), and Dianne (George) Ichishita; and three great-grandsons, Micah, gc: 5; ggc: 8. Kawana, Lillian, 86, San llrnothy and Isaac. !-is brothers, Bernardino, CA; April 2; she is NoJima, Lyman E, 84, Tom and Ira, preceded him, and he survived by her sons, Jeff (Jill) Gardena, CA; Feb. 11; he is is survi ved by Atsuko, Fred, Walt, Higashi, Yoshihiko Hiko, 50, and Darrell (Eileen) Kawana; survived by his wife, Jean Rinko and Joe, along with many loving family members and friends. Monterey Park, CA; tv1arch 20; sister, Kikue Maye; she is Nojima; children, Darren He passed aooy in his sleep on Sat., April 9, 2016. he is survived by his children, also survived by many nieces, (Patty) Nojima, Lyle (Donna) June Mayumi Higashi and nephews and other relatives; Nojima and Cathy (Scott) Nicholas Hideki Higashi; gc: 3. Rongey; brother, Harry Nojima; JOSEPH ALLMAN mother, Rieko Higashi; brother, sister, Florence Furuya; he is Gary (Cindy) Higashi; he is also survived by many nieces, Joseph Allman (Arizona), Ufe also survived by other nieces, Kovacs, Masako Mary, 87, nephews and other relatives; Member of JACL, activist and past nephews and relatives. Fontana, CA; tv1arch 26; she gc: 5. president of the Arizona Chapter of is survived by her children, JACL, died peacefully at home on James (Yukiko Ann) Kovacs March 23, 2016, at the age of 93. Hyosaka, Yvonne Yoneko and Helen Ann hiizumi; Ogawa, Grace Hiroko, 67, Convinced that hearts and minds Taniguchi, 84, Chicago, IL; gc: 7; ggc: 10; gggc: 1. Kapolei, CA; March 26; she is April 16; she was predeceased survived by her mother, Joy could be changed by people who by her husband, Ernest Sumio Ishii; sons, Mchael, Gregory had witnessed the incarceration of Hyosaka; she is survived by Matsunami, Teruo Donald, and Joseph; sister, Joyce Ishii; Japanese Americans during World War II speaking alongside those her children, Donna (Loren) 85, Omaha, NE; April 4; he was gc: 5. who had experienced it, he and Friesen and Lori (Richard) predeceased by his siblings, his friend, the late ~saji Inoshita, Tanaka; gc: 10. Em Nakadoi, Alice Kaya, Joe ~ _ _ ~ were among the many Vutlo IM"ote tv1atsunami, Doris Okazaki Okamoto, Steve Atushi, 60, letters, met with politicians, spoke and tv1asa tv1atsunami; he is Torrance, CA; April 6; liJima, Chris N" 64, Los in front of civic groups, spoke on radio stations, visited schools and spoke anywhere they thou!jlt they could reach people Vutlo were PLACE A TRIBUTE ignorant about and even hostile to Redress. He coordinated workshops with the Office of Redress Acrninistration, 'In Memoriam' is a free conducted teacher workshops and co-chaired the Gila River Monument listing that appears on a ;'UtHHlfiBfln and Reunion projectand oosactivein many Japanese American cultural limited, space-available basis. ® KUBOTA NIKKEI activities, including the Arizona ~tsuri and Japanese Friendship Tributes honor your loved MORTUARY Garden of Phoenix. In 1995, he was aoorded the Order of the Sacred ones with text and photos and ~.a; /u:t"K4d~..-/1O Treasure, Gold and Silver Rays, by the Japanese government and in appear in a timely manner at 707 East Temple Streef Gerald later years was involved in working for Anti-Hate Crimes Legislation. the rate of $20/column inch. II000M-.:' ""'II'l'-""I!lA.:J-ot-e,,,'::: ~ •• -e "' .... Los Angeles, CA 90012 Fukui His ashes will be interred in the National Memorial Cemetery of Arizona alongside those of his late wife, Toshiko Allman. Memorial donations to Contact: T (213)749-1449 Pfl.213526-0441 President the National JACLand Arizona Chapter. ti tfany@pacificcitizen,org F (213)149·0265 Fax21J1617-2781 or call (213) 620-1767 91 J VE.~IO! »LVI) Los A.~r.!!lJlS, CA 90015 He is survived by his daughter, Karen ~eda Allman of Seattle. 12 April 22-May 5, 2016 COMMENTARY PACIFIC. CITIZEN sound around you. REIMAGINE EVERYTHING Yeh offered other facts about hearing loss: • Hearing loss is associated with six times the risk of falls, as well as an increased risk of dementia and earlier mortality LISTEN UP: AARP IS HERE WITH • Hearing loss is associated with isolation and loneliness as you lose the ability to communicate with your family and friends (grandchildren included!). SOUND ADVICE • There is a long-term French study that shows those with By RonMori hearing aids reduce their risk of dementia to the same as normal hearing, but without hearing aids there is an increased risk of dementia. t should come as no surprise that as we get older, our who is either a parent ora caregiver or a dependent • Early screening and early intervention is important to keep hearing ability can deteriorate. Especially for the baby "In short, just about everybody," Yeh concluded. you connected with others, your children and grandchil• I boom generation, who grew up without the benefit of The fact is, Yeh explained, the National Institutes of Health dren, and keeps your brain active, building cognitive re• knowing how important it was to wear ear protection or that says almost 25 percent of Americans ages 65-74 and 50 per• serve, to keep your brain fit (and reduce risk of dementia). the ringing sound in your ear after a concert was not exactly cent of those who are 75 and older have a disabling form of • It's not about hearing loss. it's about what you gain the best measure of how good a concert really was after all. hearing loss. Younger doesn't mean better, either: 15 percent when you hear! At 54, I already know that my hearing has faded over the past of Americans between 20 and 69 have high-frequency hear• These days, there are plenty of resources avaihble if you're five years. I'm finding myself turning my head and saying, ing loss because of typical decibel levels that assault our ears concerned about hearing loss. AARP has an entire Hearing ''I'm sorry, what did you say?" at sports events, rock concerts, all our digital gadgets that Center (http://www.aarp.orglhearingcenter)thathasarticles But we don't always notice hearing loss right away, either play music and even the hair dryers that many people use. about hearing loss and hearing aids, including how-to's and in ourselves or in those we love. Dr. Charlotte Yeh, chief There are ripple effects associated with hearing loss. Q & As. And there's a new National Hearing Test that you medical officer for AARP Services, wrote in a Washington When someone disengages from people around them, it can take over the phone. It's free for AARP members for a Post article last year how she missed the signs of hearing could be because they can't follow the conversation. limited time (https:llwww.nationalhearingtest.orgl- loss in her father. He was withdrawing from the world and "Hearing loss affects communication, so it is not surpris• Yeh is sounding the ahnn about the importance of hearing not engaging socially like he used to. She noticed he was ing that sever.:t1 studies as well as consensus among medical loss as a huge health issue. She summed it up perfectly in a shuffling his feet, and he wasn 't his previous lively self. professionals point to a stron g association between hearin g report published by the National Academy of 1-1edicine, in She chalked it up to his age, but didn't realize right away loss and depression," Yeh wrote. which she wrote that baby boomers can solve this looming how his hearing was affecting him. And studies found that hearing loss negatively impacted public health issue. 'My dad's situation became an aha moment for me - as a peoples' health more than other causes like heart disease, "Weare the ones who brought civil rights. We puta man on dau ghter and a doctor," she wrote. "To my astonishment (and hypertension or diabetes. the moon. We had rock 'n' roll, which is why we have hear• some embarrassment), I realized that hearing loss, which Yeh is sounding the alarm. We need to pay attention to ing loss, and we brought Woodstock. Ifthis isn' t a generation often is fairly easily alleviated, is about more than it seems. those around us (and to be honest, to ourselves) for signs that can bring about that change, I don't know what else is. " And it continues to be a largely hidden psychological and of hearing loss. And though people may be embarrassed societal problem. These days, hearing loss or the prospect about wearing a hearing aid, they' re less bulky and obvious Ron Mori is a board member for the Washington, D.C., of hearing loss doesn't affect only people age 70 and older. now than they used to be, and the technology is sophisti• JACL chapter, and manager of community, states and It also affects their baby-boomer children and anybody else cated enough to filter voices instead of just turning up every rmtional affairs - multicultural leadership for AARP.

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