ISPECIAL NEW YEAR EDITIO NewsstaDd: ~ (60e Postpaid) :: 2.512 Vol. 108 No.1 ISSN: 0030-8579 941 East 3rd St. Suite 200. Los Angeles, CA 90013 (213) 626-6936 Friday, January 6-13,1989 Son Rises to Throne Only $20 Million in Redress Budgeted for FY 1990 Japan~s Emperor Hirohito Dead at 87 By Carole Hayashioo and Rita Takahashi SAN FRANCISCO - Reactions to the Responding to President Reagan's Bush revision, if any, and Congress's TOKYO-The era of Heisei (the pur­ Reagan Administration's fmal budget recommended allocation of only $20 response to it will determine our final suit of peace) has begun with the acces­ proposal to Congress may have been million in FY 1990 for P. L. 100-383, number." sion of Crown Prince Akihito to the mixed, but Japanese American redress Grant Uj ifusa , JACL-LEC strategy Ujifu a stated that changes can be Chrysanthemum Throne upon the proponents were unanimous in their chair, said , "We are very disappointed, lobbied, but that it would not be easy, death of his father, Emperor Hirohito, displeasure. but not surprised given Gramm-Rud­ with much dependent upon the Nikkei 87, who succumbed Saturday morning The president's budget, submitted man and new money for legislation with members of congre s. "We knew all (Jan. 7) of duodenal cancer. Jan. 9, asked for a $20 million approp­ a IO-year stretch out provision." along that the appropriation battle Thus ended the 62-year reign of riation in FY (Fiscal Year) 1990 for 'The important thing to remember," would come upon us, and now we have ,Showa (1926-1989), the longest impe­ eligible redress recipients. In other Ujifusa aid, "is that this marks the be­ it," he said. rial period in Japanese history. word , the FY 1990 budget allows re­ ginning, not the end, of the budget pro­ Letter Writing Akihito, the 55-year-old emperor, dress payments for only 1,000 eligible cess. In the past, many Reagan budgets , Ujifusa added, "But, per pective in his first public remarks Monday former internees; the earliest the pay­ when the administration was fully em­ tells us that we have gotten over the (Jan. 9), pledged to uphold Japan's ments would begin would be Oct. I, powered , have come to Congress dead big hump of passage of the authoriza­ postwar constitution, which restricts 1989, the beginning of FY 1990. on arrival ." He went on to say, 'The tion bill in the looth Congress and him to a symbolic role, and said he enactment by an administration long would carry on the spirit of Hirohito opposed to the legislation." "who devoted himself unassumingly Congressmen Slam Redress Appropriations Ujifusa urged Japanese Americans to the cause of peace on Earth." WASHINGTON - California's two ments next year completely unaccept­ to write to both President-elect Bush The state funeral for Hirohito will Nikkei House members have found able and said he has begun contacting and Budget Director Richard Darman , be held on Feb. 24, the 49th day from President Reagan's final budget entree congressional budget leaders regarding reminding them of candidate Bush 's the day he died, with political leaders HIROHITO before leaving office a rather unpalat­ the problem. support of H.R. 442 during the cam­ from around the world expected to at­ able dish. Rep. Norman Y. Mineta, 'The president's figure is far below paign. The strategy chair said that re­ tend. To an American reporter who inter­ (D-CaJif.) criticized President what is needed to make payments on dress advocates should also begin to In Washington, a spokesman for viewed Vining last fall in Pennsyl­ Reagan's Jan. 9 budget allocation for a timely basis," the California law­ lobby House and Senate members of President-eJect Bush's transition team vania, she said that Akihito "won't be redress recipients, charging that the maker said. 'The law states that pay­ the Budget and Appropriations Com­ suggested that Bush himself would a carbon copy of his father. He wasn't president raised "the hopes of ments be made within a lO-year mittees. lead the U.S. delegation. Meanwhile, hidden away like his father was. He thousands of loyal American citizens period. At the president's rate, they According to Ujifusa, lobbying is former U.S. prisoners of war of Japan will be much more visible, more like of Japanese ancestry in 1988" but ig­ won 't be completed for another 60 most effective when the person writing during World War II opposed the de­ Queen Elizabeth." nored his promises in his budget sub­ years. " the letter is a constituent of the member cision. Continued 011 Next Page mitted to Congress in 1989. In letters to House and Senate of Congress. "People shouldn 't send Budget Chairmen, Rep . Matsui said a letter to someone repre enting Ban- Breaker of Traditions "I am hopefuJ that the incoming that it would be inefficient and costly Continued on Next Page Akihito, the first Japanese emperor Nisei Vets' Group Bush Administration will be more sen­ to stretch payments over a long period to marry a commoner, broke tradition sitive to this commitment," Mineta of time. He also pointed out that those again and raised his own family of to Build Monument added. "On behalf of the thousands of who waiting for redress have three children: Crown Prince Naruhito, loyal Americans still living who have are Judge Rules Parts 28; Prince Aya, 23; and Princess Nori, in Washington, D.C. waited most of their lives for justice waited long enough. 'The Justice Department is well 19. WASHINGTON, D.C.-Plans are after the tragic evacuation and intern­ of McCarron-Waiter ahead of expected schedules in locat­ Like his father who was known for being developed to formally incorpo­ ment, I ask President-elect Bush, ing recipients," Matsui said. "There is his research in marine biology, Akihito rate the Go For Broke National Vete­ 'How much longer must they wait?'" Act Unconstitutional no reason to delay the proce snow. is said to be an expert on the classifi­ rans Association (GFB NY A) as a not­ At the same time, Rep. Robert T. We are talking about a majority of el­ LOS ANGELES - Federal Di trict cation of fish and has published three for-profit, nonpartisan, educational, Matsui CD-Calif.) called Reagan' derly citizens who may not be here in Judge Stephen V. Wilson , ruling on volumes on the fishes of the Japanese charitable, and service organization of , proposal of $20 million to fund pay- 5 or 10 years, much less 60 years ." the "L.A. Eight Deportation Case" on archipelago. California to promote the designing Dec. 22, declared that key part of the On his trip to the United States in and building of an heroic war,memo­ 1952 McCarran-Walter Act are uncon­ October. 1987, Akihito had a dramatic riaUmonument in the · nation's capital, stitutional. The ruling extend First reunion with his boyhood English lan­ according to Toro Hirose, a 442nd NEWS IN BRIEF Amendments rights of free speech to guage tutor, Elizabeth Gray Vining, RCT veteran and temporary secretary non-citizen , declaring uncon titu­ now 86, who recounted those years in to the Organizing Committee. San Francisco Fires Nikkei Cop tional parts of the act subjecting non­ her 1952 best-seller, Windowsjor the The decision to move ahead with SAN FRANCISCO - The San Francisco Police Review Commission voted U.S. citizens to po ible deportation Crown Prince. Continued on Next Page on Nov. 30, 1988, to fire Officer Patrick Miyagishima for involvement with a for their political view . The McCar­ teenage prostitute. The 32-year-old Miyagishima pleaded guilty in October to ran-Walter Act deals with immigration Response to Rumor misdemeanor charges of having sex with a l7-year-old girl. The charge stemmed regulations and was instrumental in the from a grand jury investigation into a teenage prostitution ring operating out of granting of naturalization rights for the Mission Di trict. Fourteen others were also charged. Miyagishima wa first generation Japanese Americans. Congressmembers Warn Census sentenced to a suspended one-year jail term, 18 months of probation and a The mling aro e from the ca e of $1,000 fine to be donated to a city program for runaway . American Arab Anti-Discrimination Bureau to Honor Its Commitment Committee v. Meese , where even JACCC Receives Donation of Nearly $10,000 Pale tinian traveling on Jordanian WASHINGTON - Three members They warned that forms printed with­ LOS ANGELES - The Japanese American Cultural and Community Center pas ports and a Kenyan were arre ted of Congress who were given a commit­ out the sub-groups (such as. Korean, (JACCC) received a donation of $9,923.23 in early December from the Japan and ordered deported by the Immigra­ ment by the Census Bureau to include Japanese, Chinese, etc.) would have Busines A sociation Women' Committee. The donation wa from proceed tion and Naturalization Service for al­ Asian American sub-groups on its to be reprinted at taxpayers' expense. of the group' Oct. 12 annual Charity Bazaar. "We congratulate the JBA women legedly upporting the Popular Front 1990 form have warned its director of 'The decision to u e the write-in for their hard work and concerted effort to benefit the community in thi way," for the Liberation of Pale tine, a the consequences he and American format ~ould in fact be counter-pro­ tated Tosh Tera awa, JACCC pre ident. "The JACCC i plea ed to offer it charge denied by the eight defendant . taxpayers could face if recent rumors ductive for the bureau and unfair to facilities to the JBA for the Charity Bazaar.