THE NATIONAL NEWSPAPER OF THE JACL March 5-18, 2021

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HIGASHI HONGANJI TEMPLE HOW TO REACH US Email: [email protected] Online: www.pacificcitizen.org RACIALLY MOTIVATED INTENTIONS BEING INVESTIGATED Tel: (213) 620-1767 Mail: 123 Ellison S. Onizuka St., Suite 313 As the AAPI community “THANK YOU so much for all your generosity. many others in our AAPI community and beyond, , CA 90012 We have blown our $50,000 goal out of the water we feel hurt and saddened and even angered by STAFF Executive Editor continues to see a sharp in- with your incredible help!” Nikkei Progressives the recent attacks on those of Asian and Pacific Allison Haramoto announced in a statement. “It has been amazing to Islander descent. For many of us, the temple is a Senior Editor crease in hate crimes, a be- see how much support the world has for Higashi second home, and this feels like an attack on our Digital & Social Media Honganji Buddhist Temple and Little Tokyo. culture, our history, our community, our family. George Johnston loved Little Tokyo landmark Business Manager HHBT is such a special place for so many of us. Together, we will grieve, and we will heal.” Susan Yokoyama Even in the aftermath of an attack on their front In response to the vandalism of Higashi Hon- is the latest target. Production Artist door step, their inclination was to reach outward ganji, JACL National released a statement in Marie Samonte iolence against the Asian American and see what the community needed from them partnership with community and faith organiza- Circulation Pacific Islander community continues to and how they could move forward while building tions on March 5. Eva Ting friendship and love.” “While the incident is still under investigation, rise, and on Feb. 26, a vandalism attack The Pacific Citizen newspaper Von Higashi Honganji Buddhist Temple in Los NP also announced that all funds raised past and the LAPD has said it is too early to call the (ISSN: 0030-8579) is published semi- Angeles’ Little Tokyo is being investigated as a the $50,000 goal will “go to the temple to use at incident a hate crime, any act of vandalism against monthly (except once in December its discretion for security and operating funds.” a place of worship hurts the entire community,” and January) by the Japanese Ameri- racially motivated hate crime. can Citizens League, Pacific Citizen, Higashi Honganji, located on Third and Central According to Ito, the temple has never the statement read. “The violation of sacred 123 Ellison S. Onizuka St., Suite 313 streets, was breached by an unknown male who experienced such violence in its 45 years in the spaces meant to serve as safe havens for their Los Angeles, CA 90012 community. membership is deplorable. The prominent place Periodical postage paid at L.A., CA hurled a rock through its front window, set fire to POSTMASTER: Send address chang- beloved wooden lantern stands and toppled over “We will work to repair the damage and to restore of Higashi Honganji Temple in the Little Tokyo es to National JACL, 1765 Sutter St., metal lanterns from their concrete bases. the temple. But we need to repair the damage to and Japanese American community demonstrates San Francisco, CA 94115 Los Angeles County Fire and the Los Angeles ourselves as well,” Ito said in his statement. “Like the continuing escalation of hate incidents against JACL President: Jeffrey Moy Police Department were called to the scene; a the Asian American community and must Executive Director: David Inoue suspect who was caught on video surveillance be brought to an end. We all know the P.C. EDITORIAL BOARD has not yet been apprehended. No security guard pain and fear that comes when houses Rob Buscher, chairperson; Ron Kura- of worship are desecrated. All arms of moto, MDC; Danielle Pierce, EDC; was on duty, and an alarm system installed at the Marcia Chung, CCDC; Nancy Ukai, temple was not activated at the time of the crime. government should take every possible NCWNPDC; Sheldon Arakaki, PNWDC; The destruction to the Little Tokyo landmark step to apprehend those responsible and Michaela Ishino, IDC; John Saito Jr., has shocked and saddened the temple’s priests to lead the society-wide condemnation PSWDC; Marco Torrez, Youth Rep. and staff, as well as the community at large. of such assaults.” Subscribe “We are fortunate that no one was physically Get a one-year subscription of the » See TEMPLE on page 8 Pacific Citizen newspaper at: harmed in this incident,” said Rinban Rev. Nori- www.pacificcitizen.org or call yaki Ito in a statement. “The damage was quite (213) 620-1767 visible and led to a full day of news reporters Advertise coming to learn what had happened. . . . Prob- To advertise in the Pacific Citi- ably the reason why it was so widely reported zen, call (213) 620-1767 or e-mail: is because of the growing number of incidents [email protected] labeled as hate crimes against Asians especially LEGAL on the East and West coasts of our country.” Among the damage, No part of this publication may be The community at large immediately reacted. a window was also reproduced without the express per- broken and a fire mission of the Pacific Citizen. Nikkei Progressives, alongside community part- Editorials, letters, news and the opin- ners, friends in Little Tokyo and in partnership with was started on the Higashi Honganji ions expressed by columnists other Higashi, created a GoFundMe campaign to help front steps that was Buddhist Temple than the national JACL president or raise funds for the temple to repair the damage. extinguished by a was vandalized national director do not necessarily re- temple officiant. flect JACL policy. Events and products Since its inception at the beginning of March, the by an unknown advertised in the P.C. do not carry the campaign has raised $85,838 (as of press time). PHOTOS: FACEBOOK assailant on Feb. 26. implicit endorsement of the JACL or this publication. We reserve the right to edit articles. © 2021 Periodicals paid at Los Angeles, Calif. and mailing office. ‘I’m glad to see the Pacific Citizen SPRING growing and evolving with its website, CAMPAIGN and especially LOVE the much easier- to-navigate digital archives. It’s a JACL MEMBERS treasure trove for JAs to learn about our Change of Address JACL MEMBER? q q q$50 q$100 q$150 q$200 qOTHER ——— community’s history, and for scholars and journalists looking to connect the If you’ve moved, past with the present. 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in 50 Seuss books. materials. Dr. Seuss books, there is no filtering. FROM THE Only 45, or 2 percent of the charac- Dr. Seuss’ imagery can play a role Where claims of “Cancel Culture” ters were people of color, and within in establishing the basis for some truly fall flat is when put in context of E X E C U T I V E that, 43 characters were portrayed prejudices in young children, and what it really is, objection to respon- DIRECTOR as Orientalist and the other two as it is for this reason that some of the sibility. We are guaranteed freedom supposedly “African.” worst offenders have been retired. of speech by the government, but Furthermore, they identified white Almost immediately, the outcry not freedom from consequence of supremacist themes with the Asian was loud about “Cancel Culture,” the our speech. OH THE PLACES YOU’LL GO and African characters placed in sub- rallying phrase for those who want The real “culture” that has devel- servient roles to the white characters. to protect the past, what for them are oped is one where the past president (If You Don’t Do Anything Not only is there a lack of people of the good old days and the freedom spread lies about the validity of the color, but also the few depictions to speak one’s mind regardless of election and incited his followers present are of a racist nature. There the impact those words might have to attempt an overthrow of the gov- to Get ‘Canceled’) is much more in this journal article on others. It is that disregard that ernment, thus far without any real By David Inoue, raised my own two children reading worth reading, especially the expla- makes the cries of cancel culture consequences. JACL Executive Director many of his books, this is a welcome nation of the book “Horton Hears a ring hollow. Dr. Seuss Enterprises recognized announcement. Who!” It is available online (https:// They ask, “Why can’t we keep the consequences of continued pub- n March 2, the 117th an- The images in question are among sophia.stkate.edu/cgi/viewcontent. the books and simply explain the lication of the six books was too niversary of Theodor Seuss the worst in promoting racist carica- cgi?article=1050&context=rdyl). offensive imagery to our children?” damaging not only to the children Geisel’s birthday, the estate ture and, in fact, one of the discon- Research has shown that babies Clearly they have not tried explain- who might be exposed to the books, Ocharged with preserving his legacy tinued books “And to Think That begin to discern differences in racial ing racism or any discrimination to but also to the legacy of the name announced it would no longer pub- I Saw It on Mulberry Street” had characteristics as early as three to six a 3 year old who does not have the they are entrusted to protect. lish six of his books that included already been edited slightly in the months. It should be made clear that cognitive ability to understand the We can only hope that more of our hurtful racist imagery particularly of 1970s to change the use of “China- discernment of differences in race is prejudice that is building subcon- nation’s leaders take a lesson they African Americans, Asian Americans man” to “Chinese man,” and the not a problem. sciously. should have learned as children, prob- and Inuits. caricature was toned down, though It is perfectly normal to recognize The other retort is “Why not ban ably as early as when they themselves For , it is well not completely removed. differences in appearance, as without the Bible (or some other adult book)? were reading Dr. Seuss books, that known that Geisel was the illustrator In a 2019 study “The Cat Is Out of this, we would all look alike and It speaks of ownership of slaves, there needs to be consequences for of numerous propaganda pieces dur- the Bag: Orientalism, Anti-Blackness be indiscernible from one another. men dominating their wives and actions. That’s not being canceled, ing World War II depicting Japanese and White Supremacy in Dr. Seuss’ The problem is when prejudices many other bad things.” it’s taking responsibility. and Japanese Americans as subhu- Children’s Books” by Katie Ishizuka are attached to physical attributes, Typically, those passages are not man and with racist caricatures. of the Conscious Kid Library and and those prejudices begin to form included as part of the preschool David Inoue is executive director While some are decrying this as Ramón Stephens of the University of as early as 3 years old, right about Sunday school curriculum, and par- of the JACL. He is based in the “cancel culture” run amok, as some- , San Diego, they reviewed the age when Dr. Seuss books are ents and teachers will filter what is organization’s Washington, D.C., one who grew up with Dr. Seuss and all 2,240 human characters appearing likely in heavy rotation of reading shared with children. With these office.

was called “hop” by users, whites accurate and appropriate plaque. But it’s heartening to be involved referred to the district derogatorily I helped draft a proclamation that in a project like this that reflects N I K K E I as “Hop Alley.” was given by Mayor Michael and remembers the hardships that But the area wasn’t just about drugs. B. Hancock last year for the 140th Asians faced a century and a half VOICE Chinatown was an ethnic enclave. anniversary on Oct. 31. Since then, ago, and use that memory as one Even with Chinese immigration closed the effort became a project led by remedy to fight the hatred that we off, the residents and business folk a group that also includes former still face today. The persistence of returned to Denver’s early Chinatown commissioners (me) and a couple hatred is terrible, but we can fight it REMEMBERING DENVER’S and were part of Colorado’s ethnic of respected historians and academ- with hope and education, looking to mix into the late 1800s. ics, as well as a couple of architects. the past to create the future. Today, LoDo is thriving again. It’s Our immediate goal is to redo the CHINATOWN ROOTS IN anchored at one end by , plaque and then find artists to paint Gil Asakawa is former chair and is bookended by Sakura Square a mural (or murals) on the large wall of the Pacific Citizen Edi- THE MIDST OF RENEWED and Union Station. of the building where the plaque is torial Board and author of A small plaque is attached to the mounted. We also want to eventually “Being Japanese American” (Second wall of a building kitty-corner from place other markers to note China- Edition, Stone Bridge Press, 2015). ANTI-ASIAN HATE Coors Field at the bustling intersec- town locations and hope to launch He blogs at www.nikkeiview.com. tion of 20th and Blake Streets. The annual Lunar New Year celebra- By Gil Asakawa On Oct. 31, 1880, there was an anti- plaque is part of a “Lower Downtown tions in the area. An official proclamation was given Chinese race riot that left businesses Walking Tour” and is titled “Hope This is a long-term project. by Denver Mayor Michael B. Han- ate crimes against Asians and residences destroyed. One man, Alley/Chinese Riot of 1880.” cock last year to mark “Denver’s are on the rise. Again. Luck Young, was beaten to death and It describes the growing Chinese Chinatown Commemoration Day” And this time, there’s a then hung from a lamp post. district but focuses on the opium on Oct. 31. Efforts are underway to Hdifference: The “mainstream” media, The riot was sparked by a bar fight dens and the negative “hop alley” update a plaque that currently is from newspapers to TV news, has in a pool hall between two Chinese reputation. It describes the fight displayed with a more accurate been reporting on the spike. Hate men and four white men. Within a that started the riot and notes that and appropriate description. crimes against Asians in America couple of hours, thousands of white “one Chinese man lost his life” are nothing new, and certainly the folks stormed through the Lower without mentioning his name, but numbers became noteworthy with the Downtown District — today called then goes on to name the white coming of the coronavirus pandemic LoDo — chasing the Chinese out. people who saved fleeing Chinese and political leaders like the former The riot didn’t completely rid by letting them into their businesses. president calling it the “China Virus” Denver of what had been a thriv- I applaud that white people res- or “Kung Flu.” ing Chinatown district. The first cued some Chinese, but the de- Amidst this wave of attacks, a group Chinese arrived in the 1870s, after scription strikes me as a classic of Asian Americans in Denver call- the Trans-Continental Railroad was example of history written from a ing ourselves the “Re-envisioning completed in 1869. white-centered perspective. Denver’s Historic Chinatown Project” They started businesses along the At the time, I was a member of have been working to remind people alleyways of LoDo, and they estab- the Denver Asian American Pacific that the level of hate against Asians lished all sorts of business, including Islander Commission and the com- existed even in the earliest days of laundries and, unfortunately, opium mission agreed to make it a priority Asian immigration to this country. dens. Because of the drug, which to replace this plaque with a more 4 March 5-18, 2021 COMMUNITY/COMMENTARY SENIORS AT SAKURA INTERMEDIATE PHOTOS: SAVE OUR SENIORS CARE FACILITY IN BOYLE HEIGHTS

The existing Sakura ICF GIVEN NOTICE TO LEAVE (right) and a rendering of The Feb. 26 announcement by Pacifica Pacifica’s proposed multifamily housing units Companies announces plans to build high- it plans to build on the rental income property on the Los Angeles site. existing site.

LOS ANGELES —Pacifica Compa- the California Department of Health in 42 CFR § 488.301 and mentioned cifica must continue to Signs in nies, international real estate develop- (CDPH) database, is by far the No. 1 on pages 17-19 of the LAC Office of offer unchanged for five support of ers and current owners of the facilities SNF for cumulative Covid-19 deaths Inspector General Report, October years the same level the Sakura formerly known as Keiro Nursing in California. 2020). of bicultural-bilingual ICF senior and Retirement Homes, officially Conversely, the administration and In addition, Pacifica Companies care the mostly elderly residents announced on Feb. 26 its intentions staff of the Sakura ICF has been stel- did not inform residents, families or residents of Japanese were also to begin ceasing of operation at the lar in its prevention of even a single attending physicians of the change ancestry depended displayed Sakura Intermediate Care Facility case of Covid-19 in that facility. in status. on for their physical on cars. (ICF) in Boyle Heights, Calif. Given the increasing presence of On Jan. 26, only hours before mental and emotional Development of plans to transfer all new mutations of the virus, there Pacifica Companies announced its well-being. residents of the ICF, aged from their is no basis for the families to feel intention to begin development of SOS’ goal that day 80s into their 100s, out of the facility comfortable with the forced transfer plans to cease operations at Sakura was to get an exten- to make way for its conversion to of residents to move them out of ICF, an ad hoc group of community sion on the five-year and other local stakeholders are now a market-rate, high-rental income the ICF while the pandemic is still activists, SOS (Save Our Seniors) agreement for the welfare of the gathering to bring attention to the lack property have been stated to have underway. staged a rally outside the Sakura ICF’s residents, and it had launched of oversight and accountability for the begun on March 1, according to a According to the CDPH, the two Intermediate Care Facility in an ef- a petition drive to gain support for still-rising death count at Kei-Ai LA memo delivered to family members. Kei-Ai SNFs owned by Pacifica fort to save the facility’s 64 residents that plan. and are calling for elected officials The action appears to contradict Companies (the second one, Kei-Ai from being forcibly displaced (see Pacifica, in the fall of 2020, applied to address the matter. a previously released statement by South Bay, is located in Gardena, Pacific Citizen, Feb. 5-18, 2021). to the Los Angeles City Planning On March 1, Frank Shyong, a col- Pacifica Companies issued on Jan. 26. Calif.) had a combined 269 com- According to actor Tamlyn Tomita, Commission to convert the ICF into umnist for the Los Angeles Times, One of the locations being con- plaints and nine serious violations one of the many speakers on that day, apartments. ran a report detailing the numerous sidered as a potential destination since 2018. the situation is bigger than the fate In an official statement by the JACL, Covid-related deaths of residents point for the seniors of the ICF is the By the LA County DPH’s own of those residents. it said, “Sakura Gardens is emblematic at the Kei-Ai Los Angeles facility.” Kei-Ai Los Angeles skilled nursing evaluation criteria, these infractions “It is not just a Japanese American of a growing problem in the downtown Kei-Ai Los Angeles was the site facility (SNF) located in Lincoln should have disqualified Kei-Ai LA issue,” Tomita said, referring to the and East L.A. area and across the of a recent, multidenominational Heights, Calif. from being granted status as a Co- rise of gentrification that has not nation as ethnic enclaves are being public memorial for 113 that had Kei-Ai Los Angeles, according to vid-19 receptor facility (as defined spared Boyle Heights. “It is a neigh- replaced by gentrification. The Covid fallen to Covid-19 at the two Kei-Ai borhood community issue.” pandemic has exacerbated the strain facilities (now 114). Held by Save It all began on Feb. 1, 2016, on neighborhoods like Little Tokyo Our Seniors Network, it was also a A rally was held on when the nonprofit Keiro Senior and Boyle Heights, as we continue call to action from elected officials to Jan. 26 by SOS and Healthcare sold its properties to lose the foundational community explain why skilled nursing facilities community lead- that housed four facilities spe- businesses and residents that made the such as Kei-Ai LA are being used ers and activists cializing in culturally sensitive communities what they are today. . . . as dumping grounds for Covid-19 to protest against eldercare facilities for ethnic “We call upon Pacifica Companies patients without proper oversight Pacifica’s plans to Japanese to the for-profit Paci- to pause and take stock of the dangers and transparency. displace its senior fica Cos. LLC for $41 million. of proceeding with the closure to residents at its The California Attorney its residents, to whom they remain For more information on Save Boyle Heights, Ca- General’s office mandated obligated as caregivers.” Our Seniors, visit https://save lif., care facility. that to approve the sale, Pa- Family members, organizations ourseniors.network.

term. It will create misunderstanding. can feel it. We can suspect it. But Community Relations Service re- “Hate crime” is not itself a crime. that doesn’t reach the legal standard. corded this happening, and we began REFLECTIONS It is a statutory enhancement that What it does is cause anxiety and alerting cases. It took a year before adds penalties if bias motive can be fear of an elevated sense of risk of it broke into public attention. proven. Because that requires having victimization and vulnerability. This is not our first experience “evidence” of motive, of being able With reports that the number of with anti-Asian backlash. It has had to document what’s in somebody’s reported hate crimes against Asians a presence throughout our history head, it is hard to evidence. This chal- increasing by more than a factor of in the United States. In the 1980s, NO MAGIC BULLET EXISTS lenge is over and above establishing 10 during the past year and a steady concurrent with the period of the federal nexus. stream of media reports of serious campaign of Japanese Americans to TO STOP HATE, BUT THERE The legal bar is really complex. assaults, there is deep concern. seek redress for the wartime incar- While I know most law enforce- Understand that the API commu- ceration, the growing trade conflict ment is responsive to major hate nity had anxiety that the hate crime with Japan was the driver for a period IS A GROWING RESPONSE incidents, policing and prosecution rate would rise. We could hear the of increased incidents. have limitations. inciting rhetoric coming from the Before the Vincent Chin murder, By Ron Wakabayashi, ate crime apprehension, The community sense of hate in- Trump administration. Our antenna JACL chapters submitted more than Past JACL National Director prosecutions and convic- cidents is different and more practi- was up. Community organizations 300 media-reported incidents. We tions are difficult and rare. cal. It’s having a strong sense that began to monitor and collect sus- annotated those submissions and (EDITOR’S NOTE: The following, HAt a federal level, establishing nexus an incident has/had a bias motive. pected incidents more than a year published a report that Rep. Norman lightly edited, was originally posted is very rare. What the justice system Sometimes, that is situational and ago. Mineta distributed to Congress. by the author on his Facebook feed requires to label an event a hate crime circumstantial. It’s our basic survival Before I retired almost a year ago, and is reprinted with his permission.) is a different animal from how the mechanisms recognizing a threat. We our regional office of the USDOJ community defines and uses the » See RESPONSE on page 9 DAY OF REMEMBRANCE March 5-18, 2021 5

said, citing how the isolation blocked COMMITTEE Holds DOR Program people from escaping from news coverage of issues like Black Lives The virtual event ties together national events that have occurred within the Matter, which compelled them to pandemic as well as a dialogue sparking hope moving forward. examine the issue on a deeper, more personal level. Curtiss Rooks expanded on that, By P.C. Staff West Coast into concentration camps nationalism and the darker nature number or California ID card. tying the success of the redress without any formal charges or trial.” of a society that seeks to divide us.” “I am currently running the Emer- movement to a congressional entity he Manzanar Committee’s Kitayama reviewed what happened Next came a prerecorded roll call gency Response Network, which is that has not received the credit it was DOR program took place in the year since the last DOR program of the 10 WRA Centers and other a hotline that we have available for due, namely the Black Congressional Feb. 13 and was a virtual in Los Angeles (see Pacific Citizen, incarceration camps operated by folks,” Perez said, adding that they Caucus, and Rep. Ron Dellums’ Taffair. (It can be viewed at: youtube. Feb. 21, 2020) and tied them together the federal government that held want to document every arrest to “impassioned and passionate” speech com/watch?v=AHozc4QX2qk.) with a litany of other disturbing Japanese Americans during WWII, prevent the violation of “numerous in favor of redress. Following video of a live recording incidents that happened during the followed by Manzanar Committee human rights.” He also cited the 14th Amendment to of a band led by taikoists Kenny pandemic-caused lockdown: the member Jason Fujii, who introduced Andie Kimura of the Go for Broke the Constitution that granted citizenship and Chizuko Endo that combined increase in incidents of anti-Asian poet Perrin Tanimoto, who recited National Education Center introduced to any person born in the U.S. traditional Japanese instrumentation violence, the Black Lives Matter her poem, “We Are Americans.” a dialogue between Curtiss Takada “Even our ability to have citizenship with Western instrumentation, Los protests that arose after the deaths of Alan Kondo of Nikkei Progressives Rooks, program coordinator of as Japanese immigrants, migrants, Angeles DOR Chair Glen Kitayama people like George Floyd while under then introduced featured speaker Asian Pacific American Studies comes on the backs of America deal- began the program. arrest by the police, the detention of Mario Perez of the Inland Coalition and an assistant professor at Loyola ing with its original sin, right, of Alluding to the origin of the illegal immigrant families and children for Immigrant Justice. Perez, who Marymount University, and his enslavement, and so the 14th Amend- modern DOR programs, Kitayama by the government and the Jan. 6, was born in Mexico City and came daughter, Mariko Fujimoto Rooks, ment allows for birth citizenship to said, “Seventy-nine years ago, one 2021, insurrection at the U.S. Capitol. to the U.S. with his parents to the a senior at Yale University. all persons,” Rooks said. “So, without of the worst violations of civil rights Kitayama said the Jan. 6 event U.S. illegally at age 5, relayed the Mariko Rooks pointed to some Black folks, the second generation in the United States happened when “exposed to many the serious threat fear his family lived under and how potential signs of hope in the status would not be guaranteed citizenship.” President Franklin D. Roosevelt of white supremacy and domestic the seriousness of his situation really quo. “I’m seeing a lot of shifting in Mariko Rooks noted how her signed , terrorism in the United States” that hit home for him when he tried to people in places that I never expected maternal grandfather, a 442nd vet, authorizing the military to forcibly was the “logical conclusion to a open up a bank account without to, and I think a large part of that was able to take advantage of the GI place Japanese Americans from the presidency that embraced white documentation, like a Social Security was because of the pandemic,” she Bill and get an education, which led to a solid, middle-class life. Black GIs, however, were unable to fully take advantage of the same benefit, which had a negative effect on subsequent generations of African Americans. n Glen Kitayama Perrin Tanimoto Mario Perez Curtiss Rooks Mariko Rooks

Studies and audio engineering, and “We ended up getting material from production and music composition 18 different Cal State Universities GVJCI Features Multiday DOR for Noah — along with their shared and putting it into our website at Cal The Feb. 27 closing event focuses on the ‘Campu’ podcast and heritage as descendants of people State Dominguez Hills,” Williams who experienced incarceration during said. He added that the collection was an update on the CSU Japanese American Digitization Project. World War II. supplemented by materials donated The Maruyamas discussed the by 11 other institutions, such as the By P.C. Staff The live webinar was the final (densho.org/campu/), “ . . . tells the genesis of “Campu” and how the Eastern California Museum and the installment of the GVJCI’s DOR story of Japanese American incar- pandemic-caused lockdown actually California Historical Society. he Gardena Valley Japanese multiday program that featured an in- ceration like you’ve never heard it allowed them to focus on producing The California State University’s Cultural Institute’s Day of terview of “Campu” podcast produc- before” by using Densho’s archive of the podcast in association with Densho. JAD can be accessed at https://csu- Remembrance activities cul- ers (and siblings) Hana Maruyama audio recordings of oral histories that The second half of the Zoom webi- jad.com/. Tminated with a live Zoom webinar on and Noah Maruyama, conducted by weave together “narratives out of the nar provided an update of CSUDH’s “The interesting thing that we Feb. 27 moderated by GVJCI board Taylor Weik. seemingly mundane things that gave progress on JAD, with Williams, the found along the way was that people member and GVJCI DOR committee The second part of the GVJCI DOR shape to the incarceration experience: director of the Archives and Special would also and still are donating member Alvin Takamori. program featured an interview by rocks, fences, food, paper.” Collections Department at the uni- material,” Williams added, noting In Takamori’s intro, he noted that Eileen Yoshimura of Greg Williams The title “Campu” refers to the versity, and Hill, a project archivist. that they are still accepting collec- in a “normal year, the GVJCI would and Jennifer Hill of California State Japanese American “camp” expe- “We’ll be showing you how easy tions. “If the material is sitting in have a bus headed up to the Manzanar University, Dominguez Hills, and its rience, pronounced the way an Is- it is to access these collections and your garage, it’s not going to help Pilgrimage at the end of April, but contribution to the larger CSU Japa- sei might pronounce the word. The documents, and we’ll also be telling anybody.” this year, you won’t need the bus. nese American Digitization Project. siblings combined their differing you about what happens to docu- A recording of the GVJCI’s pro- The Manzanar Pilgrimage, just like “Campu” is an eight-part podcast strengths — history for Hana, who ments once they’re donated to the gram can be viewed at youtu.be/ this program, will be online.” that, according to its description is a Ph.D. candidate in American university,” Yoshimura said. dB9oVnrYW0o. n

Greg Williams Eileen Yoshimura Jennifer Hill Noah Maruyama

Alvin Takamori Hana Maruyama Taylor Weik 6 March 5-18, 2021 DAY OF REMEMBRANCE SANSEI RECOUNT THEIR AWAKENINGS TO THE REALITY OF THE JAPANESE AMERICAN INCARCERATION Panelists participate in several events to commemorate the 79th anniversary of the signing of Executive Order 9066. Panel participants included (clock- By Ray Locker, can dream, they were the American nightmare,” wise from top Contributor Minami said. left) Shirley Ann While a student at the University of Cali- Higuchi, Warren hen members of the Sansei gen- fornia Berkeley School of Law, Minami read Furutani, mod- eration of Japanese Americans the decisions in the Japanese American incar- erator David Ono, realized the scope of what their ceration cases involving Korematsu, Mitsuye Norman Mineta, Welders had endured during World War II, Endo, Gordon Hirabayashi and . Dale Minami and they reacted with a fervent activism born He saw through the thin legal reasoning in Mike Honda. out of the anger of their discovery, a panel three unsuccessful challenges by Korematsu, PHOTOS: DAVID FUJIOKA convened by San Jose’s Japanese American Hirabayashi and Yasui and was determined to museum on Feb. 13 said. right those wrongs. “I got pissed off,” said Dale Minami, a San In 1982, he joined the legal team that was Francisco attorney who led the fight to overturn successfully able to get Korematsu’s original the wartime conviction of Fred Korematsu, the 1942 conviction thrown out. Simpson, a Wyoming Republican who met bill to create a commission to study potential legendary protester of the Japanese American All of the panel said they believed Japanese Mineta while both were Boy Scouts in 1943. reparations for Black Americans. incarceration. Americans needed to unburden themselves of The San Jose event was the first of many Higuchi cited the example set by Mineta Minami was one of four members of the the multigenerational trauma associated with that week in February in which the panelists and the late Sen. Daniel Inouye (D-Hawaii) online discussion that was sponsored by the the incarceration and embrace who they really participated in memory of the 79th anniversary in 1979, when they pushed for a commission Japanese American Museum of San Jose are, not the Model Minority myth foisted on of the signing of Executive Order 9066. to study the Japanese American incarceration. along with author Shirley Ann Higuchi, chair them by Caucasian society. Higuchi spoke with Dr. Rob Citino of the That led to the creation of the Commission of the Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation; While Furutani, Honda and Minami said National WWII Museum in New Orleans about on the Wartime Relocation and Internment Democratic former California Assemblyman they grew up in areas with many Japanese “Setsuko’s Secret” and the incarceration’s of Civilians, which conducted hearings that Warren Furutani; and former U.S. Rep. Mike Americans, unlike Higuchi, they did not see impact on the Japanese American community eventually led to the passage of the 1988 Civil Honda (D-Calif.). Asians represented in the wider society at all. and the rest of the country. Liberties Act. Higuchi, Honda and Minami said their par- The only Asian Honda saw on television, he She told Citino there was no better way to That law apologized for the incarceration ents didn’t tell them much about their wartime said, was the character of Hop Sing, the Chinese examine the systemic racism used against and paid each surviving incarceree $20,000. n incarceration, while Furutani said his father’s immigrant cook on the series “Bonanza.” African Americans than HR 40, the House open discussion of his imprisonment in Rohwer, Honda said he knew something was wrong Ark., inspired his activism. and needed to change. “If you’re not part of the Furutani said he emulated himself after solution, you’re part of the problem,” he said. African American activist Malcolm X because The challenge facing the Japanese American IN HONOR OF 2021 DAY OF REMEMBRANCE he didn’t think the calmer civil disobedience community now, Furutani said, is that the PRESERVE OUR STORY FOR GENERATIONS TO COME efforts of people like Martin Luther King Jr. next Nikkei generation is multiracial, which went far enough. means the community must expand what it The panel was brought together as part of means to be Japanese American. a series of discussions tied to Higuchi’s new David Ono, the afternoon anchor for ABC7 book — “Setsuko’s Secret: Heart Mountain news in Los Angeles, said it was remarkable and the Legacy of the Japanese American how much of a “hellion” Furutani was during Incarceration.” Higuchi wrote that she grew the 1960s, when he led movements to establish up in Ann Arbor, Mich., with no Japanese Asian American studies programs on Califor- American friends or neighbors, and that it was nia campuses and help start the pilgrimages only on her mother’s deathbed in 2005 that to the Manzanar concentration camp. she realized Setsuko Higuchi’s commitment Mineta spoke at the end of the panel and to building something at the Heart Mountain, echoed the need for activism and that Japa- Wyo., site where she had been incarcerated. nese Americans had to remember that they Honda was a baby when he and his family had almost lost their citizenship rights during were forced from their homes south of Sac- the war. He said he will always cherish being ramento and sent to the Japanese American called an American citizen. concentration camp at Amache, Colo. He was The program was organized by Heart Moun- drawn to public service by the examples of tain Wyoming Foundation Board Members JACL Needs Your Help To Tell Our Story – Japanese American leaders such as Norman Lia Nitake and Prentiss Uchida, who was Mineta, a former Heart Mountain incarceree incarcerated at Heart Mountain as a child. who became mayor of San Jose, a U.S. rep- Higuchi mentioned Heart Mountain’s newest “OUR LEAGUE OF DREAMS” resentative and a Cabinet Secretary under project — the creation of the Mineta-Simpson Raising funds now toward production of the first two presidents. Institute, which will be dedicated to the lives feature documentary film on the 90 plus year history “The promises made to us weren’t the Ameri- and careers of Mineta and former Sen. Alan of the Japanese American Citizens League Produced by filmmaker LANE NISHIKAWA Heart Mountain’s newest DONATE NOW ON OUR GO FUND ME PAGE: project, the Mineta-Simp- son Institute, will educate https://bit.ly/OURLEAGUE and feature programming CHECK OUT OUR SHORT SNEAK PREVIEW! on the lessons to be https://youtu.be/R0Yn2vm3fpM learned from the incarcer- ation experience. Japanese American Citizens League (JACL) is a non-profit, tax-exempt charitable organization under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code DAY OF REMEMBRANCE March 5-18, 2021 7

PHOTOS: DAVID FUJIOKA ‘PRESERVING IDENTITY AND CULTURE’ The Day of Remembrance event sparks Clement Hanami Erin Aoyama renewed pride in Japanese heritage. By Ray Locker, in the United States. Contributor Higuchi said the federal government succeeded in fragmenting the Shirley Ann Higuchi he legacy of the Japanese Japanese American community and American incarceration, forcing them to assimilate into wider authorized 79 years ago on society. As a child growing up in Mountain board, Hoshizaki was TFeb. 19, was widespread confusion Ann Arbor, Mich., Higuchi said she pardoned by President Harry Truman among the Nikkei community about knew no other Japanese Americans, in 1947. He earned a Ph.D. in botany, their heritage, members of a panel while her mother strived to have her went on military research missions led by the Heart Mountain Wyoming children emulate Caucasian families to Antarctica and was part of the Foundation said during a virtual in town. space program for decades. event on Feb. 18. Hanami said the incarceration Noriko Sanefuji Takashi Hoshizaki Events such as Heart Mountain’s Shirley Ann Higuchi, chair of showed what can happen when and those around the country over the Heart Mountain Wyoming democracy fails, and the more American History in Washington, and half-Caucasian. Her father, the years have helped each of the Foundation; Clement Hanami, he learns about the experience, D.C. whose family was incarcerated at panelists learn more about their curator at the Japanese American the prouder he is to be Japanese Sanefuji was born and raised in Heart Mountain, said little about that community and how it fits into the National Museum; Noriko Sanefuji American. Japan. It was only after she moved experience during her childhood, and larger history of the United States, of the National Museum of American It was only when he was in college, to the United States for college that it took years for her to learn more they said. All said they would History; Erin Aoyama, a Brown Hanami said, that he realized his she learned about the incarceration. about that part of her heritage. She never remain silent about what University doctoral student; and mother was a hibakusha, a survivor She has remained in the United States now teaches about the incarceration had happened and the lessons the Takashi Hoshizaki, a former Heart of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and clearly sees her identity as Shin- at Brown. incarceration holds for the country Mountain incarceree, joined the in August 1945. Issei and part of the global Nikkei Hoshizaki was 16 when he and his today. online Heart Mountain event. Hanami has spent the last few community. family were forced from their home The “Preserving Identity and All but Hoshizaki acknowledged years curating an exhibit about art She later became the co-curator of in Los Angeles and sent to Heart Culture” event was moderated by they had spent years of their lives not created during the incarceration and the National Museum of American Mountain, where he remained until Dakota Russell, executive director understanding either the experiences bringing the art to museums around History’s “Righting A Wrong” 1944. That was when he was one of of the Heart Mountain Wyoming of their family members during World the country. Last year, he joined exhibit about the Japanese American 63 young men convicted of resisting Foundation, and supported by the War II or, in Sanefuji’s case, what Higuchi at a Day of Remembrance incarceration. the military draft and sent to prison. Embassy of Japan in the United happened to the Nikkei community event at the National Museum of Aoyama is half-Japanese American Now a member of the Heart States. n

had on his entire life. GEORGE TAKEI An unforgettable experience for him was Leads DOR Discussion being invited to speak at the 75th anniver- The Day of Remembrance event features a discussion of ‘And Then They Came for Us.’ sary DOR event at the Franklin D. Roosevelt Memorial Library in New York. By P.C. Staff film “And Then They Came for Us,” followed worked without George and Satsuki in it. “Going there on that significant day — Feb. by a panel discussion joined by Abby Ginsberg, Period. End of story,” Ginzberg said. “I’m 19 is a very important day,” Takei said, elabo- ublic libraries in the State of California Satsuki Ina, George Takei and moderated by so grateful that they each gave me the time rating that the event was led by a member of welcomed a Day of Remembrance Christen Sasaki on Feb. 19. and trusted me enough to let me include the the Roosevelt family. “He understands the discussion sponsored by Berkeley Public The Zoom event centered around the sig- way they tell their stories in the film and their internment story and the cruelty of it and the PLibrary that featured a virtual screening of the nificance and importance of Day of Remem- experiences. It has been a total honor to work untruth and lies that were involved on the part brance, which marks the date, Feb. 19, 1942, on this project with them from Day 1.” of the government to incarcerate Japanese when President Franklin D. The film, which also focuses on the Muslim Americans. It was a strange but enriching Roosevelt signed Executive ban and the Japanese American community’s experience for me. And here we are in the Order 9066, paving the way outcry over it, features clips from a rally held year 2021, and the internment of Japanese to the forced incarceration and in San Francisco’s Japantown that Ina helped Americans is still powerfully resonant today.” constitutional rights violations to organize. Also discussed was the importance of HR of 120,000 Japanese Ameri- “I think what was happening and continuing 40 and its relevance to the Japanese American cans throughout the duration to happen over the past four years has been so experience. “And Then “They of World War II. resonant with the experiences of the Japanese “It’s an American story at its core, and we They Came Called Us “And Then They Came for Americans during WWII, the racist targeting of as Americans need to work in constant with for Us” Enemy” Us” features Takei and Ina, as a community of people. Back then, there was everyone,” Takei said, “because it’s related well as others who were incar- very little organizing and protesting against to the African American story. In many ways, cerated, along with newly dis- our removal and incarceration,” said Ina, a African Americans have a greater reason for re- covered photos taken by Doro- writer, activist and psychotherapist whose dress and restitution than Japanese Americans.” thea Lange, and also features book “Be Strong, Don’t Cry” will soon be Takei also spoke of the importance for young present-day Japanese American released. “The importance of Abby’s film was people to become engaged in activism. activists as they speak out against tying together what was happening historically “Classes and libraries that we’re reaching the Muslim registry and travel and mobilizing the Japanese American com- this afternoon are playing a vitally important ban so that such injustices will munity to use this opportunity to stand up for role in getting young people of Japanese never again be repeated. other communities and in doing that, this very American heritage a sense of who they are Moderator Sasaki, an assistant powerful healing and solidarity was formed and their identity and that they have a very ethnic studies professor at the . . . and we could use our stories as a bridge important role in defining the America that University of California, San so people can have the broader perspective we all envision our future America to be.” Diego, welcomed the day’s par- of how racism has been a part of U.S. history Echoed Ina: “We have a voice . . . to take Panelists participating in the Berkeley Public ticipants and immediately spoke from the very beginning.” action on behalf of other Asian American Library DOR event were (clockwise from top of the importance of the film Actor/activist Takei, whose book “They organizations and groups. There is definite left) Abby Ginsberg, Christen Sasaki, Satsuki with its award-winning director/ Called Us Enemy” details a first-hand account value of having DORs and calling together Ina and George Takei. producer Ginsberg. of his incarceration experience during WWII, our memories as a way to inspire us to keep “This film would not have spoke about the deep significance Feb. 19 has fighting for social justice.” n 8 March 5-18, 2021 COMMUNITY MVBT MEMBER ELLEN KAMEI CHOSEN AS MOUNTAIN VIEW MAYOR She becomes the first Buddhist to lead the city. Her family has long ties with the temple and BCA.

By Jon Kawamoto, parents, Kenzo and Ruth Kamei, Padma Program. became a board member of the Ja- reasons: She is a woman, Japanese Editor, Wheel of Dharma were very active in the temple help- Kamei received her bachelor’s pantown Community Congress of American, and Mountain View’s first ing with various events, especially degree in English at the University San Jose. Buddhist mayor. ountain View Buddhist Obon. Ruth was also very active in of California, Santa Barbara, and As a board member, she served as “Buddhism emphasizes the teach- Temple member Ellen the BWA. Ellen’s extended circle her master’s degree at the Fels In- a coordinator for the Nikkei Commu- ing of equality and, just as Buddhism Kamei, whose family has of relatives that are active in the stitute of Government at University nity Intern Program, an eight-week has been supported by countless Mlong ties with the temple and the temple include the Ozawa, Inouye, of Pennsylvania. She also attended summer internship. She is honored wonderful women, Ellen shows us BCA, made history when she was Nishimoto and Uyehara families.” Harvard University’s John F. Ken- and proud to share that her family clearly how our community is sus- selected as Mountain View’s mayor Kamei was born and raised in nedy School of Government. will provide ongoing funding for tained by many women leaders,” — becoming the first Buddhist to Silicon Valley, the daughter of a After completing her undergradu- one participant of the Nikkei Com- Rev. Mukojima continued. lead the city. first-generation Chinese and Puerto ate studies at UC Santa Barbara, she munity Internship (NCI) Program in “I also believe that Ellen’s great Kamei, who was elected to the Rican American mother from New went to the Mie Prefecture of Japan San Jose Japantown. It will be called achievements will give the young Mountain View City Council in York City and a third-generation as a Japan Exchange and Teaching “The Kamei Family” Scholarship. people in our Sangha both courage 2018, was unanimously chosen by Japanese American father born at (JET) Program assistant language In November 2019, Kamei was and hope about America’s future,” her council colleagues as mayor on Heart Mountain internment camp in teacher, where she taught kindergar- proposed to by Chris Takeuchi in Rev. Mukojima said. “I sincerely Jan. 12. Before that, she served as Wyoming. She is also multilingual ten, elementary and middle school front of the garden at the Mountain hope that, with Ellen as our role vice mayor in 2020 alongside former and can speak Spanish, Japanese for two years. View Buddhist Temple. Kamei and model, we can realize a wonderful Mayor Margaret Abe-Koga. It’s and Mandarin. When Kamei moved back to Cali- Takeuchi were recently married in world where all women are proud believed that Abe-Koga and Kamei Her grandparents, Kenzo and Ruth fornia after graduate school, she the same spot in October 2020 under of and confident in their talents and were the first Japanese American Kamei, met in Mountain View, and moved in with her grandfather and Covid-19 restrictions. abilities and will not be afraid to female mayor and vice mayor, re- her grandfather later owned MVBT Resident Minister become leaders who contribute to spectfully, in the mainland United his small business as a flower Rev. Yushi Mukojima praised the well-being of their community States. grower and passed the tradition Kamei’s selection as mayor and and the world. We stand together “I became a member of the Moun- on to her father. the milestones it marked. in full support of Ellen in her new tain View Buddhist Temple, my “The nursery was first lo- “I am really proud that Ellen, challenges. Again, congratulations, paternal family’s temple, when I cated in Mountain View, and a member of the MVBT, was Ellen!” returned back to the city after gradu- I would spend many days with inaugurated as mayor of the ate school,” Mayor Kamei said in a them at their home in Waverly city of Mountain View in Janu- (Editor’s Note: This article origi- statement. “In fact, it is in the gardens Park, planting the seeds for my ary,” Rev. Mukojima said in a nally appeared in the Wheel of of Mountain View Buddhist Temple roots in the city,” Kamei said statement. “It was an amazing Dharma newspaper and has been that my husband proposed. in her biography on the city Ellen Kamei and historic event for several reprinted with permission.) “I feel renewed hope for 2021,” she of Mountain View website. was chosen continued. “The road ahead is still The Kameis later moved unanimously long, and there is much work to be their nursery to Morgan Hill. as mayor of done. Yet, I am heartened by the path Kamei was an active mem- Mountain of public service to the community ber of both the Morgan Hill View, Calif., INCIDENT REPORT that I learned through my experience Buddhist Community Center by her as a temple member.” and San Jose Buddhist Church colleagues 1. Day and time of the incident: MVBT President Bob Matsumoto Betsuin, where she partici- at the City detailed Kamei’s long ties with the pated in Girl Scouts, Jr. YBA, Council; she temple. Judo and Suzume No Gak- served 2. Where did it happen? (Streets, buildings, signs) “The Kamei family are no strang- ko. She served as a Dharma previously as ers to the Mountain View Buddhist School assistant during high vice mayor. Temple,” he wrote. “Ellen’s grand- school and participated in the 3. What were you doing before the attack? What did the attacker(s) do/say? TEMPLE » continued from page 2

David Inoue, executive director of the JACL, anti-Asian hate 4. How many attacked you? said, “It is imperative that acts of hatred such involving Asian as this are made unacceptable both from our Americans over 5. What did your attacker(s) look like?(Ethnicity, clothing, hair/facial, tattoos, governmental leaders and within the local 60 years old (7.3 height/weight, car) communities surrounding our Asian American percent of total community places of worship, businesses and incidents). households.” “These recent incidents are stark 6. Do you have any injuries? Any that needed medical attention? (To view the entire JACL National statement, reminders that urgent action must be visit www.jacl.org.) taken to protect our AAPI community from hate, discrimination and violence,” said Stop Stop AAPI Hate, the nation’s leading coalition AAPI Hate Co-Founders Manjusha Kulkarni, 7. Are there any witnesses? documenting and addressing anti-Asian hate executive director of Asian Pacific Policy and discrimination amid the Covid-19 pandemic and Planning Council, Cynthia Choi, co- (www.stopaapihate.org), released new data executive director of Chinese for Affirmative Feb. 9 in response to the growing number of Action and Russell Jeung, Ph.D., professor hate crime attacks in the U.S. against AAPI’s. of Asian American Studies at San Francisco “My name is ______and I’d like My local Sheriffs/Police Department: ______State University, in an official statement. “It to report a HATE CRIME that just happened According to Stop AAPI Hate: Officer’s name taking my report: is up to all of us — businesses, government (to me/that I witnessed).” • Between March 19, 2020 (when Stop AAPI ______and community partners — to come together Hate began collecting reports) and Dec. 31, MY CONTACT INFO: ______and immediately support victims and families Incident Report Number: ______2020, Stop AAPI Hate received more than affected by these incidents and work together ______2,808 firsthand accounts of anti-Asian hate to create long-lasting solutions that empower ADDITIONAL CONTACT INFO: from 47 states and the District of Columbia. PACIFIC our communities with resources, support and https://www.fbi.gov/investigate/civil-rights/hate-crimes • Between March 19 and Dec. 31, 2020, education.” n www.StopAAPIHate.org | www.StandAgainstHatred.org Stop AAPI Hate received 126 accounts of CITIZEN COMMUNITY/COMMENTARY March 5-18, 2021 9 Covid-19 Claims Lives of Three Eunice Sato served as the Asian American Journalists mayor of Long Beach, Calif., from 1980-82. David Ibata, Corky Lee and Jimmy Jimmy Lee PHOTO: PEER Lee succumb to JOHNSON

the virus that has Corky Lee EUNICE SATO, FORMER ravaged on for more PHOTO: SHIRLEY NG LONG BEACH MAYOR, than a year. By P.C. Staff five decades. In 2009, Lee won the DIES AT 99 AAJA’s Dr. Suzanne Ahn Award n yet another intersection of for Civil Rights and Social Justice David Ibata By P.C. Staff death and the coronavirus, three for Asian Americans and Pacific PHOTO: COUR- Asian American journalists have Islanders. (Related: See Nikkei View, TESY OF AAJA unice N. Sato, whose many Idied from complications related to P.C., Feb. 5-18, 2021.) accomplishments included Covid-19. One of Lee’s most-famous photos Ryu and James Ryu serving as mayor of Long Chicago-based journalist David was a re-creation of an iconic 1869 and folded in 2015. Lee was manag- EBeach, Calif., from 1980-82, being Ibata, 66, died Jan. 26, New York- photo taken at Promontory Summit, ing editor from 1999-2007. In 2004, honored in 1996 by the government based photojournalist Corky Lee, 73, Utah, where the eastern and western an article he wrote was a runner-up of Japan with a kunsho, the Order of died Jan. 27 and Los Angeles-based lines of the transcontinental railroad for a New California Media Award. the Sacred Treasure, Gold Rays with journalist Jimmy Lee, 48, died Feb. 7. were joined, a photo in which none Lee was recorded in a YouTube Rosette, for her role in advancing The Asian American Journalists of the 12,000 Chinese laborers were video of a roundtable of former U.S.-Japan relations and in 2015 of Long Beach, she broke barriers Assn. reported that Ibata co-founded included. In 2002, Lee re-created KoreAm editors and spoke of the having a Long Beach, Calif., school as the first woman mayor of Long the Chicago AAJA Chapter in 1989 the photograph but with Chinese issue of KoreAm that came out on — the Sato Academy of Mathemat- Beach and the first Asian American with broadcast journalist Linda Yu. Americans in the same spot, and in the 10th anniversary of the 1992 ics and Science — named after her, woman mayor of a city of its size. A Ibata’s career included stints as an 2014, he did it yet again but with Los Angeles Riots. died Feb. 12, four months before her staunch Republican, she is credited editor at the Chicago Tribune and descendants of those Chinese labor- “Putting that one together was 100th birthday. for helping lay the groundwork for Atlanta Journal-Constitution. ers on the 145th anniversary of the pretty daunting,” Lee said. “I think Born in 1921 in Livingston, Calif., the revitalization of Long Beach’s “AAJA is devastated by the loss of original photo. we tried to tackle more than we Eunice Noda was attending San Jose downtown, which was described our longtime member, David Ibata, In a statement, Lee’s family said, probably should have. I think for City College when the U.S. declared as being “at the rock bottom” in the a pioneer whose career and legacy “He did what he loved, and we loved the most part we succeeded, but we war on Japan after its Dec. 7, 1941, mid-1970s. has inspired so many of us,” said him for it. His passion was to re- really tried to take a look at the riots attack on Pearl Harbor. At the state level, Sato’s political Michelle Ye Hee Lee, president of discover, document and champion in a historically comprehensive sort President Franklin D. Roosevelt achievements caught the eye of Gov. AAJA. “He will be remembered for through his images the plight of all of way. I think that the end result signed Executive Order 9066 on Feb. George Deukmejian, who appointed his generosity and service to our Americans but most especially that turned out to be very satisfying. 19, 1942, but Noda and her family her to serve on three state commis- AAJA family, and his dedication of Asian and Pacific Islanders.” “The riots were a very sort of defin- were able to voluntarily evacuate sions, and President George H.W. to helping so many AAPI journal- Jimmy Lee (no relation) was an edi- ing moment for KoreAm, especially from California before the mass Bush, who appointed her to serve ists enter and thrive in the industry. tor at KoreAm, a Los Angeles-based for the community, but specifically roundup and incarceration of thou- on the National Advisory Council We will miss him.” slick, English-language magazine for KoreAm. It was right there at its sands of ethnic Japanese on the West on Educational Research. The Queens, N.Y.-born Lee docu- aimed at younger Korean Americans. infancy, we sort of kind of grew up Coast. She was able to join relatives When the issue of Japanese Ameri- mented Asian American lives for It was founded in 1990 by Jung Shig with it.” n in Colorado, whose Gov. Ralph Carr can redress was heating up in the welcomed Japanese Americans as 1970s and ’80s, Sato was a prominent a matter of principle but at great voice for those Japanese Americans Sikhs. Mistaken identity tied to personal political cost. who were opposed to the proposed RESPONSE » continued from page 4 turbans. The bravery Carr exhibited as a monetary payment component. Will more opportunities for politician may have indirectly in- For her, like Colorado’s Gov. Carr, incidents exist because lockdowns spired her to pursue politics after it was a matter of principle. In a From that flowed the formation father comes.” The guidance was for will decline? her marriage to Thomas Takashi 1987 Los Angeles Times article, she of a coalition of the JACL, Chinese the little girl’s safety. The message The work of Stop AAPI Hate Sato, whom she met in Japan dur- was quoted: “I think it is demeaning for Affirmative Action and the Asian was, “BE AFRAID!” is appreciated as are other ing the postwar occupation, when to think you can pay off with dol- Law Caucus organized a response So now, we have community initiatives launched to protect the he was serving under Gen. Douglas lars,” she said. “Paying any sum of under the coalition name of “Break response. We have escort services community. Women and elderly are MacArthur and she was utilizing her money won’t erase the fact that (the the Silence.” I recently sent Helen for our elders by younger members overrepresented among the victims. master’s degree earned at Columbia internment) took place and people Zia, a journalist and Asian American of the community. We have outright There is a streak of extreme violence University Teacher’s College to teach were hurt and deprived and lost their activist, buttons from that era. She’s security patrols. We have distribution in the physical assaults reported. at Yokohama’s Ferris Seminary. basic lives.” working on a television capture of of handheld sound alarms. We have Immolation, a face slashed with a After they married, their children, When President Ronald Reagan Vincent’s murder. rallies and protests. Hell, I’m anxious box cutter, body slams. daughter Charlotte and twin sons, signed the historic redress bill on Later in my career, when I served as in my retirement as a Ji-san taking No magic bullet exists. I know Daniel and Douglas, were born in Aug. 10, 1988, which included an the director of the Los Angeles County daily walks. And, I am saddened by there is a growing response. USDOJ Japan. apology and a $20,000 compensation Human Relations Commission, I was the anti-Black and anti-Asian tensions incoming leadership is in active The seeds of Eunice Sato’s politi- check, Sato backed her words with on site at a local Japanese cultural agitated in another layer of reaction. preparation. The White House has cal career began after they returned action and without fanfare donated center that had been vandalized with I have written about how the issued one executive order already to California in 1956 and she began her check to the JACL Legacy Fund. racial graffiti. I recall overhearing approach of reopening schools to address the problem. Community volunteering for the PTA and her Sato was predeceased by her hus- a Sansei mother, speaking to her presents another period of anxiety. response has been very strong. Lean church. Her commitment to her com- band, Thomas, who died in 2013, 6-year-old daughter wearing a Will we have a spike in bullying forward and stay tuned. More to munity led to her winning run for and her siblings, Joseph, Rose, Julia, basketball uniform, saying, “Young and incidents that parallel what come. the Seventh District City Council Robert and Art. She is survived by Lady, you can go to practice tonight, Arab, Muslim, Sikhs and others seat in 1975. her daughter and sons and their but don’t you dare come outside. You experienced after 9/11? Most of the Ron Wakabayashi is a former When Sato was elected mayor families. n stay inside with the coach until your worst incidents, murders, involved JACL national director. 10 March 5-18, 2021 CALENDAR A NATIONAL GUIDE TO NOTABLE COMMUNITY EVENTS Info: To purchase a ticket, visit Price: Museum Admission Fees visit https://www.colorado.edu/ VJCCvirtualsake.eventbrite.com. What defines beauty? 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Thru May 2 “Betrayed,” a two-act play by Worcester Art Museum REGARDING THE STATUS OF $10 Nonmembers Info: Visit wingluke.org. All Hiroshi Kashiwagi about a young The new graphic novel “We visitors are required to sign a 55 Salisbury St. EVENTS LISTED IN Nisei couple who meet at Tule Hereby Refuse: Japanese Coronavirus/Covid-19 waiver Price: Museum Admission Lake and fall in love, only to be American Resistance to Wartime of liability. Health and safety This is the museum’s first THIS ISSUE. torn apart by two controversial Incarceration” presents an protocols are in place. Check exhibit devoted to examining “loyalty” questions during World original vision of America’s the museum for exact hours of the kimono as a major source of War II, will feature Helen Ota past with disturbing links to the operation. inspiration and experimentation NATIONAL and Michael Palma. Following American present. Authors Frank in Japanese print culture from the play, a discussion will be Abe and Tamiko Nimura will read Wing Luke Museum Online Digital the Edo period (1603-1868) to Annual JACL National Convention held featuring Satsuki Ina, Soji from the graphic novel. Artist Content the Meiji Period (1868-1912). July 15-18 Kashiwagi and cast members Ross Ishikawa will share his use Seattle, WA This dialogue between print and Virtual Event Ota and Palma. of 3-D modeling to re-create Wing Luke Museum kimono design is illustrated by Info: Tickets are available at Join JACL at its annual scenes from Japanese American Although the museum’s doors approximately 70 Japanese Eventbrite.com: Search “The convention, which will be held history, and YURI Education are temporarily closed, there is prints. Betrayed.” Ticket holders will virtually featuring a National Project creators will demonstrate still a plethora of curated stories, Info: Visit https://www. receive an email with the link to Council meeting as well as a free online curriculum that digital content and neighborhood worcesterart.org/exhibitions/ the virtual play 48 hours before breakout sessions and more! accompanies the book. resources available to access kimono-in-print/. the showing. For additional Be sure to visit JACL’s website for Info: Visit www.janm.org for more and view. Viewers can check information, email Buddhist@ complete convention information information. out Education, YouthCAN, Japan Society of Boston Free wbtemple.org. and announcements as they Collections and Community Art Online Resources become available. JANM Online Museum Collection all online! Boston, MA Info: Visit www.jacl.org. Los Angeles, CA Info: www.digitalwingluke.org. Virtual classes and information PSW Japanese American National Price: Free Museum The Japan Society of Boston is VJCC Virtual Sake Social Online offering free online resources NCWNP Los Angeles, CA IDC JANM’s Museum Collections featuring Japanese language March 20; 2-4 p.m. sake/bento Takaramono Vintage Auction Online features selected How to Talk About What Matters: learning tools, Japanese cooking, pickup; virtual event begins at 6 Fundraiser highlights from the museum’s Anti-Asian Racism in the Time of origami, arts and lectures and p.m. San Jose, CA permanent collection of more COVID much more, all in a virtual online Venice Japanese Community April 10-19 than 60,000 unique artifacts, Boulder, CO capacity. Center Japanese American Museum of documents and photographs. April 7; 5-6:15 p.m. MDT Info: Visit https://japan Virtual Event n San Jose Although the museum is University of Colorado Boulder societyboston.wildapricot.org. Price: $25-$125 Online Event temporarily closed, viewers Virtual Programming Event JAMsj is excited to offer its second The VJCC is hosting a virtual can still experience its inside Price: Free evening of specialty sake and Takaramono Vintage Auction treasures. Join the Center for Inclusion and food pairings curated by Scott ADVERTISE HERE Fundraiser, the museum’s way Info: www.janm.org. Social Change for its virtual, Hada, sake expert and co- of staying connected, sharing interactive dialogue program Events in the calendar section owner of Aki Restaurant. Enjoy are listed based on space love for “cherished” items and that will address issues that 3-300 ml handpicked premium availability. 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Northern California Cherry Blossom Festival San Francisco, CA April 10-11 and April 17-18 Virtual Edition Price: Free One of California’s most prominent celebrations of Asian traditions and the biggest on the West Coast. Since 1968, this event celebrates Japanese and Japanese American culture in San Francisco’s Japantown. Info: Visit sfcherryblossom.org for more information.

‘The Betrayed’ Benefit Screening and Discussion Watsonville, CA OBITUARIES March 5-18, 2021 11

vin) Wakasa, Adrienne (Rick) Oka Center in CA; she is survived by Marsha (Shoye) Iwo; gc: 5; ggc: 1. and Nolan (Trudy) Miura; siblings, her children, Nancy Melgares, Car- Kei Ishigami, Miyo Kunitake and ol Constantin, Paul Odanaka and Oshiro, Satsuki Grace, 90, Pu- Yoshi Dionzon; sister-in-law, Ma- Eileen Vavra; gc: 7; ggc: 3. kalani, HI, May 16, 2020; she was saye Miura; gc: 4; step-gc: 2. predeceased by her husband, Kenneth Kiyoshi Oshiro; she is survived by her children, Carolyn, Tomi (Fred) Nagahori, Mineko (Jim) Lorraine, and Guy; sisters, Ethel, Tominaga, Eiko Uyehara and Junko Jane and Hazel. (Tim) Kajita; 19 nieces and nephews; 21 grandnieces and grandnephews. Yoshimoto, Wayne, 64, Sunny- vale, CA, May 13, 2020; he was Matsuda, Kazue Kay, 93, Rancho predeceased by his parents, Roy Palos Verdes, CA, Sept. 19, 2020; and Dottie Yoshimoto; he is sur- she was predeceased by her sib- vived by his wife, Phyllis; daugh- lings, Shizuko, Kiyeko, Hiroshi, Ta- ters, Lani and Christine (Gary); kashi and Kiyoshi. Hatley, Katsumi, 77, Miamisburg, sister, Dee Dee (Jerry); gc: 2. OH, July 20, 2020; she was prede- Miura, Ruri, 96, Alhambra, CA, Ono, Shiro, 87, Torrance, CA, ceased by her grandson, Paul Hatley Yoshioka, Yaeko, 97, Captain June 22, 2020; she was prede- Odanaka, Katsuko, 94, Mission Aug. 4, 2020; he is survived by his III; she is survived by her children, Cook, HI, June 10, 2020; she is ceased by her husband, Toshio, Viejo, CA, July 21, 2020; during wife, Keiko; daughters, Candace Patty (Tim Hosler) Beavers and Paul survived by her children, Glenn and sister, Susie Emi; she is sur- WWII, her family and she were in- (Lester) Ingram, Susan (Mike) Ono (Brenda) Hatley Jr.; gc: 3; ggc: 1. Yoshioka, Kirk (Melissa) Yoshioka, vived by her children, Marsha (Al- carcerated at the Manzanar WRA Coffey, Stephanie Ono and Cheryl Ono; sisters, Keiko Yamane and Clayton Yoshioka, Sandra Yoshio- Higa, Jon, 76, Honolulu, HI, June 3, ka and Doreen (Gary) Thorne; gc: 2020; he is survived by his sisters, TRIBUTE 2; ggc: 1. n Jane Testa, Sally Koba and Jackie TRIBUTE (Daryl) Wong; 1 nephew. GEORGE TSUGAWA KIMIKO UMEMOTO KISHI George Tsugawa, 99, of Woodland, Wash., passed away peacefully on Nov. Jan. 2, 1922-Feb. 3, 2021 27, 2020. He was born in Everett, Wash., Kimiko Kishi passed away on June 20, 1921, son of Masaichiro peacefully in Orinda, Calif., on Feb. 3, and Kazuno Tsugawa, immigrants from 2021, at the age of 99. Japan. Kimi was born in Los Angeles, George spent much of his childhood Calif., to parents Manzaburo working at the family’s produce stand and Umemoto and Nuino (Takimoto) taking care of his family since his father Umemoto, from Wakayama, Japan. died at a very young age. In high school, Kimi was attending Los Angeles City Itano, Sadao, 91, Altadena, CA, George enjoyed playing basketball. He College when World War II began. July 31, 2020; he is survived by his graduated from Beaverton High School in 1939. Her family was first detained at the wife, Hideko; children, Alan Itano, During WWII, George was incarcerated at Minidoka WRA Center in and later Christine (Christopher) Itano-Cosner Idaho with his family. He has shared recollections of time spent there as incarcerated at the Heart Mountain and Alison (Gary) Itano-Lee; gc: 3. a message of hope during hard times. internment camp in Wyoming. Kimi On April 1, 1950, George married the love of his life, Mable Taniguchi. served as assistant to the block manager at Heart Mountain and, after Kamimura, Charles ‘Chuck’ Seikin, In 1955, George and Mable moved to Woodland, Wash., to establish leaving camp, she worked as assistant secretary at a Presbyterian 89, Hilo, HI, May 4, 2020; he is sur- the Tsugawa Brothers Farm with his brother, Akira. Work on the farm church in Minneapolis, Minn. vived by his wife, Hatsue “Hats” was a family affair with his six children. He was concerned being the In Minneapolis, Kimi met her future husband, Fred Kishi, who was Kamimura; siblings, Eugene Ka- first non-Caucasian family to settle in Woodland. However, being good, attending the U.S. Army Military Intelligence Service Language Training mimura and Alice (Fidel) Salcido; hard-working citizens and contributing to the community, racial prejudice School at Fort Snelling. They married in 1945, shortly before Fred was brother-in-law, Tadashi (Ruth) Na- slowly diminished. sent to Japan as part of the U.S. military occupation forces. After his kashima; sisters-in-law, Lillian Miki In 1981, Mable opened Tsugawa Nursery. Together, they would spend return, the couple settled in Fred’s hometown of Livingston, Calif., where and Elizabeth Nakashima; he is also the rest of their lives transforming a small business into a destination Fred and his brother Sherman built a successful farming business and survived by nieces and nephews. garden center in Woodland, Wash. Always the farmer, George could be became prominent community leaders. found in the greenhouses or in his garage working on plants. His work Kimi and Fred raised four daughters on the farm and played active ethic, charisma, and legacy will be remembered. roles in the local community. They both enjoyed playing and watching In 2013, George was selected “Citizen of the Year” by the Woodland sports. Despite Fred’s loyalty to the S.F. Giants, Kimi always rooted for Chamber of Commerce. He enjoyed his church community at the the L.A. Dodgers, and later in life, she faithfully supported the many Woodland Presbyterian Church. sports teams of her six grandchildren. George lived a life that spanned the depths of the Great Depression, Kimi was active in church activities and enjoyed quilting, playing incarceration at Minidoka War Relocation Center, and the advent of bridge, and traveling. She and Fred traveled to school board conventions the Tech Revolution. His love of country, family, and friends was an and sweet potato growers’ conferences across the United States. Kimi inspiration to all that knew him. also visited Japan several times and traveled to Central America and George is predeceased by his wife, Mable, of 61 years; sons, Martin Europe. She proudly attended her grandchildren’s college graduations Tsugawa and Dan Tsugawa; brothers, Henry Tsugawa and Akira from coast to coast. Tsugawa; sisters, Toshiko Ogura and Sachi Osumi; he is survived by Kimi’s family wishes to express their gratitude to the staff at J-SEI Kawamura, Ben Tsutomu, 72, his children, Mary Lynn Archer, Lori Whaley, Karen Tsugawa and Brian Home, a nonprofit Japanese residential care home in Hayward, for their Berkeley, CA, Aug. 14, 2020; he Tsugawa; brother, Dr. James Tsugawa, and sister, Helen Fujishin; 12 kind and attentive care of Kimi since 2018. In her final years, Kimi lost her was predeceased by his brother, grandchildren and 19 great-grandchildren, nieces and nephews. sight and short-term memory, but she never lost her kind-heartedness, Hiroshi (Pam) Kawamura; he is sur- A service will be held at a later date. Donations may be made in his love of dessert, and surprisingly dry sense of humor. vived by his siblings, Hideo (Jane) memory to JACL. Kimi is predeceased by her husband, Fred Kishi; brothers, Masaru Kawamura, Kimiko (Tom) Inoshita, Umemoto and Kazuo Umemoto; and sister, Kiyoko Takeguma. She is survived by her daughters, Susan Kishi (David Schuricht), Ruth Ann Kishi (Michael Woodring), Patti Kishi (Robert Chad) and Jan Kehoe (Brian Kehoe); grandchildren, Keith Schuricht (Christine Schuricht), PLACE A TRIBUTE ‘In Memoriam’ is a free Sachi Schuricht, Elise Chad, Takeo Kishi (Cara O’Shell), Megan Kehoe, listing that appears on a and Brent Kehoe; great-grandsons River Schuricht, Linden Schuricht, limited, space-available basis. and Kosei Kishi; and many nieces and nephews. Tributes honor your loved ones No public memorial service is planned at this time. Donations in with text and photos and appear in memory of Kimi may be made to Livingston United Methodist Church, a timely manner at the rate of $20/ 11695 Olive Ave., Livingston, CA 95334; UC Berkeley Foundation, column inch. 1995 University Ave., Suite 401, Berkeley, CA 94704-1058, Note: Fund CONTACT: #W8805 (46805) – Kishi Family Endowment for Japanese American [email protected] or Studies; or Japanese American National Museum, 100 N. Central Ave., call (213) 620-1767 ext. 104 Los Angeles, CA 90012. 12 March 5-18, 2021 COMMENTARY

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