.Single Copies Due to !be increase in traosieDt 2nd ~ (newspaper) rates. requests for extra <XJpies by mail eX !be regular issues wiD be~ each when eight1lQgeS and 4S¢ each when 12-pages. Payment in •• •• mint~is~ 1e. U.S. aCl lC Cl lZen June 12, 1981 NStandews ')ftn . The National Publication of the Japanese American Citizens League ISSN: OO J O-Il -79 ! Whole No.2, 1.J 2! Vol. 92 No.2J (4S¢Rlstpaid) _"" • NBCassures JACL its 'bad' 1st CWRIC hearings set July 14,16 in DC ~::::R: WASHINGTON-The first could attend all of the hear- tional Redress Committee co- ing bilingual, he said efforts site of the Senate Watergate hearings of the Commission ings. Other sites may be con- ordinator Jdm Tateishi said would be made to obtain trans- hearings, was obtained with reruns no go on Wartime Relocation and In- sidered if they are deemed ne- that a memo was sent to com- lators for witnesses whose the help of Sen. Daniel Inouye LOS ANGELES-In wake of JAQ. tenunent of Ovilians cessary, added the CWRIC di- mittee chair Min Yasui in re- first language was one other (D-Hi). The two dates are split protests to National Broadcasting (CWRIC) will take place on rector. gards to obtaining persons than English. because of the heavy calendar Company's recent showing of anti­ Tuesday, July 14 and Thurs- Regarding the Washington who were involved with U.S. Bannai noted that the eom- commitment of the room, ex­ Japanese and racist sequences on day, July 16 in the Senate Cau- hearing, Bannai explained government relocation deci- mission will try to give as plained Bannai. "Saturday Night live", Richard P. Room here, it was an- that the commissioners sions during World War II). many persons as possible a The hearings in Alaska will Gitter, vice president, East Coast, cus broadcast standards, of NBC's DOlUlced last week by CWRIC wanted to hold the first hear- The Washington hearings chance to speak and get test- investigate the evacuation of headquarters in New York as­ executive director Paul T. ing before the 97th Congress would start at 9 am, but the imony from people who have Aleuts from their Pribilof Is­ sured Gary K Yano, PSWDC Bannai. breaks for sununer recess, as time length of the sessions never told their story for the land homes in 1942. 1his hear- JAQ. ethnic concerns chair. this Invitations to the hearing CWRIC chair Joan Z. Bem- would depend on the nwnber record The CWRIC will seek ing will take place in Septem· past week by telephone (Jwte 3) have been sent to President stein had speculated at the of witnesses present to testify, a cross section of testimony, her because most of the Aleut that the offensive segment will not bere-nm. Reagan and former pres- JACL Tri-district meeting in said Bannai. The hearings both positive and ·negative, fishermenwillbeavailablefor And if it becomes necessary, idents Jimmy Carter and Ger- April could possibly extend into the and will ask organizations testimony, noted the CWRIC Yano would be consulted by NBC, aId Ford, according to Bannai Bannai said the first day's evenings, if necessary, he wishing to testify to name director. # the Sansei attorney, here added. Tentatively, subsequent testimony will probably cen- added p . In view of the continuing wri­ hearings are scheduled for teron the government's role in Although Bannai does not ter's strike with the major 'IV opular Japan series With networks, the stations have heavi­ Los Angeles, San Francisco the Evacuation. (JACL Na- foresee the first hearings be- ly relied upon re-runs to fill their program schedules, Yano had in­ ~~ttl!t ~t ~ ~~ Seattle redress witnesses tell it Nisei figures m~y be film . sisted on the point in protesting to tember. MONfEREY, Ca.-Popular novelist Toyoko Yamasaki's S~ part NBC 'There needs to be some Bannai said that definite like it was during '42 removal ~ries in the " ~hukan Shincho", a T~o weekly, "FUtatsu ~o conference set up between (NBC hearing dates could not be set :;okoku", covenng the l00-year expenence of the Japanese lD and JAQ.) before a public contro­ versy emerges on a larger scale," Wltil the proper facilities at SEATTI...E-A successful redress workshop was conducted May America is so well received that film producers are looking for Yanourged. those sites are secured. The 23 by the Japanese American Cormmmity Committee on Re- rights and some would like to see it translated into Engli.sh, Cartoonist Garry Trudeau, ad­ CWRIC decided to limit the dresslReparations with some 200 people in attendance at the according to Shig Kihara, who has been following the story since dressing the Colby (Me.) College DlDIlber of hearings to six be- Nisei Veterans Hall. Clleny Kinoshita, JACL Seattle Chapter June, 1980, when it first appeared. commencement this past week cause of budget constraints redress chair, and Dr. Gordon Hirabayashi co-chaired the prac- Last January, Toshiro Mifune said in a Los Angeles interview (May 31), also expressed his criti­ and also to accommodate the tice hearing, in which Commissioner Hugh B. Mitchell of the that one of his future roles would be in a film of this novel cism of the "slash and bum" hu­ S~part mor that searches for easy targets, . schedules of all conunission- CWRIC attended Another series ending in June, 1982, might be putr particularly the "Saturday Night ers, noted Bannai. In this way, Witnesses presented their poignant testimony during the lished in hard cover and subsequently most likely softcover, live" show, "where the lame, the most of the conunissioners hearing that was moderated by Dr. Cllarles Z. Smith, fonner Kihara added weak, the infirm, blacks and wo­ J~ Seattle bel dean of the Univ. of Washingtm and a U-year member of the Central figure in the story is a Kibei newspapennan who is men are the easy targets of those '--L to.p Seattle JAG.- board caught up in the violent confrontations between pro-U.S. and who will place themselves above Aleuts prepare testimony The roles of the commissioners were played by City Attorney pro-Japan elements at Manzanar. He volunteers to become a the rest of us". The JAQ. protest was made by SEA'ITLE, Wa-Seattle JACL Douglas Jewett, Municipal J,vl"'e Ron Mamiya and State $en- civilian instructor at Camp Savage. His younger brother joins was asked by Michael Stepetin, 10- ""'6. th 442nd Th ' f th respond winds 'T'. t the PSWOC 00 Mar. 24. The offen­ cal director of the Aleut-Pribilof ator Ruthe Ridder. e err a el', a n<roo ee, up at ~ we sive segment was telecast earlier Island Assn, for assistance in pre- Witnesses Tell of Their Tragic Losses Lake as the first year's installment ends. # in the month. A comic, standing up paring Aleut witnesses in the ~ One witness, Theresa Takayoshi, 63, a retired bookeeper, told of how 111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 mnmmlllllllllllHl1 before backdrop depicting the attle area for testimony before the she was exempted from going to camp because she is half Irish. How­ U.S. flag and portraying a well­ CWRIC The chapter said it would, ever, her two children, ages 2 and 6, were coosidered "dangerous" 1981 Freshman Scholarship Winners lmown entertainment figure, ex­ according to Olerry Kinoshita, because their father was a Nisei, making them ''three-fourths'' Japanese. horts his audience to buy Ameri­ chapter redress committee co- The whole family ended up going to Minidoka, and relocated to Omaha. NAME, HOMETOWN NOMINATED BY can cars, and demeaning the chair, and invited them to redress The family eventually returned to Seattle in 1967, but had been denied a $l,OOOIYr for 4 years Callfomia First Bank "Japmobiles" in the same breath. workshops. # request to return there in 1944. Mika Hiramatsu, Los Altos, Ca. ........... ... .. ... ..Seq uoia JACL Under the 1948 claims act for Japanese Americans, the Takayoshi $I.OOO MJM Talamll MoriudJi family got $100 for their ice cream parlor business, which was worth an Mark H. Yasuda, Caldwell, Idaho ............ .. Boise Valley JACL Racist campaign alarms L.A. estimated $10,000 but was sold for $1,000 because of the Evacuation. $J..OOO MJM Talamll Moriuchi William Kawata was 11 years old when he was sent to Minidoka from Roger H. N<YZaki, Ul Grange, ill. ............ .. ..... Olicago JACL Alaska His mother had died when he was eight, and during the war his Times over Mike Woo's defeat father was dragged away at gunpoint and sent to a Lordsburg, N.M. camp S700 Keoji Kasai MemQrial for "aliens dangerous to this country." Jessica K Kojiro, Mili.Iani, Hi ................. .....Honolulu JACL By PEI'ER IMAMURA Actor George Takei, who The frightened young Kawata had to live with other bachelors at S700 So. Park Japanese Glmnumily mSeattle helped Woo's campaign, said Minidoka and had to depend on the kindness of others as well as Red Stephanie J Lee, Cannichael, Ca. ............ .. ..Sacrament o JACL LOS ANGELES-Although Cross dooatioos. that Stevenson targeted her $600 Dr. Ta.IaLW Terami Memorial 22, too Michael Woo was soundly de­ general election campaign to Another witness, Bill Isen, a Univ. of Washington student, was Gayle Yuri Sato, Richmond, Ca. ......... ..... .. .Contra Costa JAQ. feated by incumbent Peggy r.oung to be in the camps himself. But he told of how his father, during an voters who did not come out illness, began screaming about the misery of camp life. $SOO MJM James A. Micbeoer Stevensoo in the June 2 runoff for the primary. Karen G. Amano, Woodland Hills, Ca. ......SanFemando Valley JACL electioo for the 13th District -~5iiiibiiediiiiNt~ Prior to the nmoff election, $SOO MJM James A.