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THE NEW CANADIAN

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VOL. 15 — NO. 3
SATURDAY, JANUARY 12, 1952

the weekly habit

SB Per Year — 10 c Per Copy

Groups Aid Ham. JCCA
To Help Fire Viictms

JCCA In Alberta. To Seek
HAMILTON — The Hamilton
By TOYO TAKATA
JCCA wishes to acknowledge the Help From Beet Growers
By7 now everyone from the picking up hitch-hikers. You receipt of $10 each from the
Okanagan to Opasatika is aware don’t have to wait long before Hamilton Dance Class and the On Immigration Problem

Hamilton Bowling League for a
that Toronto’s
touted a car will stop for you.
transit system has gone under­ _ But there are those small­ Christmas basket sponsored by
LETHBRIDGE, Alta. — In a meeting held at the
ground, and not because of the time opportunists, the kind that the chapter which was sent to
the JC family in Vineland who Lethbridge YMCA on Jan. 6 by the Lethbridge JCCA
subway either.
will take advantage of any7 situ­ very recently were the victims Issei Division, in which were present Alberta; JCCA
Those fortunates who are res­ ation. Some are trying to gouge
J}}evident Ted Aoki and Lethbridge JCCA president
iding beyond the reaches of the fares and there are the pedes­ of a fire.
The
JCCA would especially Sachi Nishikawa, it was decided ta approach the Al­
Toronto
Transportation
Com- trians v ho will hop into a stopped
like
to
commend the teen-agrs berta Sugar Beet Growers on the question of Japanese
mission (TTC) and who
have vehicle’ without the invitation of
of the Dance Class who gave
friends and relatives livin withthe driver. And there are the from a pool which was being- immigration to Canada.
in must be wondering how the
Discussion at the meeting
Olivers who are more interested saved foi' their own
latter are faring.
Generally7
centred
around the possibilities
in preserving their upholsteryThe Occidental members who
wa of the JCCA and Ichiyohei
speaking, theyve made adjust- than helping out. B
of Japanese immigration to Al­
But
they
seem
i
comprise
e percentage
ments to meet the tramless situaHisaoka and Sadayoshi Aoki of
berta.
to be in the minority
of
the
class
voted
without a
tion and are managing quite
Wish they would get it over moment’s hesitation in favour of
Since the war, the JC relo- the Issei Division are expected
well.
th it, though. Our pockets are the project, disregarding any ra­ cees who moved to Alberta as to meet shortly with the Alberta
The JC s shouldn’t experience
aking a hole in the car-tickets. cial bias.
sugar-beet workers have gained Sugar Beet Growers executive
too much difficulty. They, after
a notable reputation among the on this matter.
all, have fared and overcome
different communities as honest,
They
will
many7 abrupt changes from the
submit
several
sincere, and diligent workers.
points
to
the
normal course of things; hasty
growers group
According to reports, it was stat­
such
as
wages,
guarantee of
packing, Hastings Park, sugar­
ed that in contrast to other
beets,
ghost-towns, road-camp,
workers who were hired by the work throughout the year, hous­
internment. This time, more than
MONTREAL — A Montreal doing work mainly* on industrial farmers, the JC workers com­ ing accommodation, choosing of
a, 1,000,000 are faced with the Nisei architect, Nobuichi Ya­ buildings. The work also consists pleted the beet harvesting while applicants, contract duration of
same situation.
two years, group immigration of
maoka, who graduated from the of doing all the expansion work others often failed to do so.
two or three persons in a group.
JC’s in Toronto are coping with University of Alberta prior to for the Northern Electric Co. at
There has been a consequent For reference purposes, the JC­
the problem in many7 ways. For the evacuation is presently7 hop- Belleville, Ont., and
Montreal, demand for Japanese workers in
CA will check details governing
example, Mr. Umezuki, our Ja- ^^g to establish his own practice. and the Canadian Marconi Co.
Alberta as a result of satisfac­ immigration of European impanese editor, who for* some
Tamaoka who lived in Van­
In addition, he has done con­ tion in their work.
niigiants, and to inquire how
couver
before
relocating
to
dubious reason about
countrv
siderable amount of work on ofThe
JCCA
feeling
that
this
much manpower the sugar beet
air” has hi s' homestead some- Montreal, has been working with fices,
commercial
buildings, was an opportune time, now that industry7 requires and the cost of
where up thataway so that he’J- C’ Meadowcroft, F.R.A.I.C,, schools, huses and a bank.
the Japan Peace Treaty hqs been
practically mushes into work by One °^ ^e foremost industrial
The Nisei who is a full-fledg- signd, will delve into the pos- ti ansportation to Canada.
dog-team, has temporarily locat- architects in Canada The latter ed architect with
On March 26 In 1951, 133 deB.Sc.
and sibilities of getting the Occi­
IS
past
president
of
the
proed himself downtown. Some are
M.R.A.I.C. degrees, will become dental farmers in Alberta inter­ । legates in the Alberta Beet
better off than usual as their j ■\ince of Quebec’s Association of the first JC to operate his own
i Growers had passed a resoluested in the Japanese immigra­
bosses or fellow employees pick 1 Architecture, member of the business if his hopes materialize.
tion urging that Asiatics be per­
tion question since it may bring
Council
of
the
Royal
Architec
­
up and deposit them right from :
mitted to enter Canada as immi­
more workers to the sugar-beet
door t door, for free. Some are • tural Institute of Canada, con­
AMONG AIR VICTIMS
grants. The resolution had also
area.
actually commuting by train, sulting architect for the Alustated that the growers object
ELIZABETH, N. J. — A NiseiThe JCCA in Alberta will to the prohibition on entry,7 to
Others are hitch-hiking or are nm.um Company of Canada, and
graduate student at Harvard,
hoofing it on their own heels,
also winner of the Silver Mas­ Frank Noro of St. Petersburg, speak to employers who wish to Canada of all Asiatics with the
have Japanese workers and who
With more than 500 cars, in­ sey7 Medal for 1950.
Fla., was among the 56 victims wish to arrange for the bring­ exception of those having near
While employed by- Meadow­ of a commercial airliner which
eluding
relatives in this country7.
commercial
vehicles,
In
ing over of stranded JC’s in the case of Japanese, not even
croft
for
the
past
seven
years,
owned by7 Isseis and Niseis here,
crashed here last month as it
a major portion of them are Tamaoka has been occupied in was taking off.
near relatives are allowed to im­
Ted Aoki and Sachi Nishikamigrate at the present time.
taking care of themselves.
If
the strike came two or three
years back, it could have hit the Kabuki In New York
JC’s a lot harder. But we un­
derstand that only7 a very7 few
have been unable to go into
work on account of the street­
By LARRY TAJIRI
ener all were in Japan recently,
car strike. And that’s the point
of the performance.
Americans
are
going
to
get
a
dances and heavy drama. There
It is to be a goodwill project
that counts most.
The
only
change,
according
to
liberal helping of Japanese cul­
are delicate vignettes, tales of
We’ve never attended an Issei ture in the year to come if some with a touch of showmanship Sam Zolotow’s account recently
great loves and the sagas of the
dance, so we can’t say7 much plans now on the boards materi­ thrown in and Mr. Logan also in the New York Times, will be
warring clans of old Japan.
is to have the cooperation of an­
about them. But one thing we do alize.
Most interesting is the other of Broadway's fabulous en- that the New York performance
Two
representative Kabuki
know, you ain’t seen nothin’ yet.
will
not
be
of
the
traditional
Ja
­
project of Joshua Logan, Broad- trepeneurs, Leland Hayward.
plays are to be performed on
Wait till you see an fssei (in­
panese length. In Tokyo the Ka­ the American tour. One is a
^ay producer of “Mr. Roberts”
A troupe of fifty, including buki performance takes some
cluding women) thumbing a lift.
and other hit shows, to move Japan’s
light play called “Revenge” and
outstanding
Kabuki ten hours. The show starts at 11
They’re out there jerking their the famous Kabuki Theater of
will be brought from a.m. and the final curtain does the other will be a serious drama
big digit like anybody else. One Tokyo to New York City* for a players,
titled “The House of Precious
Issei woman proudly explained to three months stay, to be follow­ Tokyo and one of New York’s not fall until 9 p.m. The New Dishes on Ban Street.”
biggest theaters will be convert­
her friends at work that she
ed by a two-month tour of other ed into a Kabuki playhouse, York presentation will probably
The major musical accompani­
made it on the first “thumb.” । cities. .
start at about 8:30 p.m. with ment for the Kabuki dramas are
complete with a “hanamichi,”
Anyway, in times like these, it
rushing fcr the
Mr. Logan, just returned from the runaway which will take up the audience
provided by the three-stringed
doesn't pay to be backward or
taxis,
the
subways
and
the
in
­
a world tour, hopes to realize one side of the orchestra floor
samisen, the koto and by various
bashful about looking for a ride.
his plan with the assistance of and which allows for impressive terurban trains by 11.
percussion instruments.
But still lot of us are.
The Kabuki is stylized and
*
*
*
'Governor Thomas Dewey and exits and entrances. In keeping
static, in that it has not changed
Toronto is not noted as a John Foster Dulles, James Mi­
The forthcoming tour by the
with the Japanese theme conces­ materially in
friendly7 city. After more than chener, the author of the stories
the past 250 Kabuki players and the current
sions will be set up in the lobby, years. Classical in
seven years we’re more than con­ which inspired the tremendously
is pageantry, success of the Japanese
film,
in the maner of the Kabukiza in it is still kin
to the modern ‘Rasho-Mon,
vinced. But the strike, in its successful “South Pacific,” and
in New York re­
Tokyo, and Oriental foods, de­ Broadway musical
better aspect, has made friends the Rockefeller Foundation, as
like “South present something of a renais­
licacies and souvenirs will be Pacific” and “The
out of strangers. Motorists are well as the United States and
King and I” sance in American interest in
sold.
in that employs all of the arts the Japanese theater. There was
extremely co-operative and al­ Japanese government. Messrs.
Costumes and
masks, some and magic of the theater to tell
most seem to take delight in Logan, Dewey, Dulles and Michcenturies old, well be a feature its. story. There are songs, a period during World War I

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THE NEW CANADIAN

PAGE 7

Boiling Top Sport In Lakehead Mustangs Nip Highly Touted Junior Quintet
Want Inter-City Series With Winnipeg Nisei, Memorial to American With Spirited Last Quarter Drive} 49-44
“They Never Change
; Who Taught Baseball
Sure-Shnts Squeeze Out First Series Title
Their Expressions"

In a Sabbath exhibition en­
counter at the spacious St. Mi­
chael's College gym last week,
FORT WILLIAM — In this LaLehead centre, j TOKYO — A movement has Mustangs took on the. potential
Some of the comments ut­
bowling is king among winter sports with the Nisei. i been started in Tokyo to design- Eastern Canada junior champ­
ions, the Cottage Restaurant
tered by Occidental spectators
Evidence of this can be seen in the number of enthusi­ i ate as a “cultural landmark’’ the Comets,
and wrested out a 49-44
while watching a Nisei team
place in. Tokyo where the first
astic Nisei keglers who vie in the Lakehead Nisei Bowl­ baseball game is reported as be­ thriller with a last-quarter drive play any kind of sport are al­
ing League which holds regular session on Sunday ing played in Japan 80 years that netted them 18 points to ways bound to be amusing.
afternoons and who also bowl for other leagues.
the losers' 10.
Take the Mustang-Comets
ago.
The Nisei league was first or­
Mustangs
who
were
outweigh
­
basketball game at St. Mike's
Saburo Saito, sponsor of the
ganized by Joe Konishi, who
ed and outreached by the Cot­
gym. For most of the fans,
Final statistics for the first idea, claims to have discovered tage team who have been banded
shifted to Winnipeg and Johnny |
this was probably the first
Umakoshi who is still very act­ j series as released by scorekeep- that baseball was imported by together in order to make a
quintet in action. Typical of
! ers Pinky and Shig Mitsuki are
an obscure sports-loving Amer­ serious
ive. The main prize which the I as follows:
threat for Dominion
time they ever saw a Nisei
bowlers shoot for every year is
Averages: Tony Tatebe ican, Horace Wilson, an Amer­ junior basketball honors which
their comments were:
(SOW)2u7, Dick Mitsunaga ican instructor at a Tokyo mid­ have gone to 'Winnipeg for the
the Fred Nishikawa trophy.
“These guys never change
Several Nisei bowl for other (GFB) 206, Johnny Umakoshi
last
two
years,
outhustled and
their
expressions. I've never
(SS) 204, Yuke Tatebe (GW) dle school. He says that in 1872
leagues. Chiyo Inaba and John­ 199, Bo Tonkin (GFB) 199. Hay­
outfought their opponents
to
seen such a bunch of quiet
ny Sunohara roll for the Sani- ami Nishimura (SOW) 1S3, Sue Wilson gathered a group of come up with the narrow win.
guys”.
torium League, Sue and Sam Mitsunaga (SS) 178, Katie Ari­ school boys to teach them the Paul Hirano who Jias been un­
Mitsunaga for the Automotive nobu (SOW) 169,, Chiyo Inaba American game for the first able to hit the hoop with any city leag’ues so a high calibre
(STS) 167. Triples: Bo Tonkin
league. Dick Mitsunaga captains (GFB) 778, Shig Mitsuki (FB) time in Japan.
degree of consistence in his last of play is insured. Mustangs’
claim to a senior player is Herb
a Nisei team in the C.P.R. Mix­ 770, Johnny Umakoshi 740, Dick
Saito said that the backers four games, came up with a bril­
liant last quarter performance, Miyasaki who plays regularly
ed League which includes Pinky Mitsunaga 738. Hayami Nishi­
suggest
the
erection
of
a
monu
­
Mitsuki, Min Togawa, Gloria mura 704, Chiyo Inaba 699, Jean
netting 9 pts. to lead the Ni­ fol- Central YMCA in the city’s
Nishimura
641.
Singles:
Bo
Ton
­
ment
at
the
exact
spot,
with
­
Senior basketball loop. In his
seis’ drive.
and Ken Nishimura, and two
kin 330, Shig Mitsuki 323, Sid
Mustangs led 15-11 in the first last outing, Herb snared 15 pts.
Occidentals, Betty Ross and Bet­ Nishimura (GFB) 316. Tam Mi­ in a mile of central Tokyo in
ty McKee.
yazaki (GW) 306, Hayami Ni­ what is today a crowded district quarter, 25-23 in the second, and in a losing cause against a
fell behind 31-34 in the third strong Varsity Orfuns quintet.
Some of the bowlers are hop­ shimura 277 Jean Nishimura 275. of office buildings.
quarter.
ing for. an exhibition with the High Games: (without handi­
The professional baseball lea­
cap) Gio-Worms 1,354
single,
CHESTERFIELD SUITES
The game was tightly fought
Nisei in Winnipeg in the spring Sure-Shots 3,523 triple. (With
gues
of
Japan
are
among
the
all the way with Mustangs click­
of this year with a return match handicap) Go For Broke 1,400
at factory price
backers.
single and 3,821 triple.
TATS SUM IOKA
ing on their long shots but
in Fort William in the fall.
(rep.
of a high-grade
muffing on their free-shots, |
In the Lakehead Five
Pin
furniture
mfg. co.)
making only five out of 19. Herb i
Bowling
Association’s
annual
Phone
PL. 3657
Miyasaki although hampered by !
tournament for the Matt Jurvis
TR. 1728. evenings.
four personals hanging- over his ]
Trophy at Port Arthur on Box­
head- early in the third quart- i
ing Day, a team sponsored by
er, made a capable floor-general
the Nisei league finished in 40th
SAN FRANCISCO — A Ja- her ability.
Imported English
for the Mustangs, while Maka
position in the 77 teams entered. panese woman is to compete
At 38, she is an old hand at
The Nisei quintet’s total score against nine of the outstanding the game. She first started play­ Makimoto with 13 pts., Roy Mi­
Blue Serge Suits
yasaki 11, Paul Hirano .11, Ken
was 3,344. The winner was the billiard players of the world, in­
ing when she was 14 years old.
Miyasaki 10 pts., led the attack.
Lions club which amassed 3,922 cluding many times champion
For all occasions.
In 1937, she met Matsumoto,
With
a minute to go, the Nisei
pins. Scores for the Nisei read 'Willie Hoppe, in the world three- !
Tailored to your measure.
who impressed by her exception­
boys put on and effective job of
Sid Nishimura 609-214, Johnny cushion
billiard
tournament al talent offered to teach her.
BY
Sunohara 592-200, Yuke Tatebe which opens here on March 5. Shortly Miss Katsura was mas­ freezing the ball in play that
587-238, Bo Tonkin 543-236, and She will be the only woman in tering all comers and became stymied the Comets.
Harry Miyasaki
Two of the Cottage stalwarts.
Sam Mitsunaga 496-182.
the championship contest.
178 Beverley St.,
Toronto
the women’s champ. Then she Ed Boguski and John Elder,
Three Nisei keglers on the
The billiard expert from Ja­ competed against the men in
W.A. 534-2
C.P.R. Mixed entry were Dick pan is Masako Katsura, 38, now Japan and by 1950 she placed threw in 13 and 11 pts. respect­
ively to form a constant threat.
Mitsunaga 698-330, Pinky Mit­ the wife of U.S. Army Sergeant second.
She did not compete
In their regular Community
suki 643-313, and Kenny Nishi­ Vamon Greenleaf whom she met last year.
Leagu
game at the UNF Flail
mura 575-239,
while she was giving an exhibi­
Following the tournament, she this Sunday, an. 13, Mustangs
The next major event will be tion in Japan. Her G. I. husband is expected to tour the United
i
the Byrons Trophy competition was stationed with the occupa­ States before settling down as will tackle Estonians in the sec­
ond game with starts at 3:30
on Jan. 26.
O Fine Store:
1300 block,
tion forces in Japan.
an American housewife. He sol­ p.m. They are currently tied
southside
with
garage, 4- ■
Meanwhile the Nisei league fin­
Not only is she taking part in dier-husband wryfully admits,
with
Yugoslavs
for
third
place
room
apartment
upstairs, f
ished the last game of the first the contest, she is given every “I’ve never been able to beat
$11,500,
$3,000
to
4,000'
with five wins and three losses.
series on Jan. 6 with Sam Mit­ chance to beat Hoppe. This is her.”
down.
St. Stans head the loop with
sunaga’s Sure-Shots winning the according to another billiard ex­
® 7 rooms: brick, detached,1
first round with 115^ pts., nos­ pert, Walter Cochran, another Illlillliillllllillllllillllliuiliiiiiliiiii! eight straight wins.
2-car garage, end of DunNisei
fans
are
urged
to
come
das
carline, large lot, $10,-<
ing out Dick Mitsunaga’s Go champion in his own right, who
000,
half down.

out
and
support
their
represent
­
For Brokes’ 112. Well behind recently saw Miss Katsura de­
©
6
rooms:
brick,
semide$
were Strikes to Spares 100, monstrate her skill in a private iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiKii atives in this inter-racial league.
tached,
fine house, on Lan-'
Most of the teams feature out­
HELP WANTED
Strike O’Ways 92, Fireballs 84, match.
gemark St., $10,500, $4,000 J
standing
senior
and
intermediate
to
$5,000 down.
1
Gio-Worms 81J4.
When Kinrey Matsumoto, the —TRUC K~DRIVER, for dry-©
10
rooms:
brick,
detached*
players
who
also
cavort
in
the
Strikes to Spares
were the Japanese billiard star who won cleaning store, steady work.
oil-heating, 3-car garage, on<
Phone LO. 6141, Toronto.
top team in the day’s play, garn­ the United States national threeAlbemarle near park, fac-/
FEMALE HELP WANTED
ing south, $16,900, $3,000 to (
ering 15 pts. Bo Tonkin broke cushion
championship in 1934,
$4,000 down.
j
GIRL for light duties and baby­
high triple with 778, shattering first told Cochran about her, he
® 6 rooms: brick, newly dec--'
sitting,
in
exchange
for
room
and
Shig Mitsuki’s old mark of 770. wouldn’t believe it. So he had board. Phone MA. 8839, Mrs. H.
orated, on Niagara near/
Other highs were recorded by his son go and watch her when Hutner, 279 Chaplin Crescent,
Every SUN., WED.
Bathurst.
$8,500, $4,000 /
Shig Mitsuki
676-266, Johnny he was in Japan. The son report­ Toronto.
down.
’i
GIRL
OR
YOUNG
woman
to
Sunahara 640-272, Eddy Mochi­ ed back to the pater in glow­
BEGINNERS' CLASS at
M. YANAGISAWA
zuki 636-255, Isa Sunohara 633- ing words but he still wasn’t assist mother with three young
children and to help housekeep­
Agent
for K. Wiles, Realtors
Gordon
Burke
Studio
230. Rookie Jean Nishimura roll­ convinced. But seeing for him­ er with light household duties.
West Office: KE. 7941
Phone KE. 5334
ed best for the ladies with 641- self, Cochran is now raving about Small modern home, generous
East
Office:
GE. 1178
time off, good salary to right
Archie Miyashita
Residence:
659
Bathurst
St.
person. Phone RE. 0674, To­
LL.
2447
OL.
1427,
Toronto
ronto.
?
Come lo the
HAT CHECK GIRL, $35 weekly with meals.
Apply Lichee
Gardens, Mr. Kimura, WA. 9919,
Toronto.

Japanese Woman Billiard Player in World
Tournament Given Chance to Beat Hoppe

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THE NEW CANADIAN

The New Canadian

Hamilton. Hamilton Nisei
Now that the holiday season €>——__________ ______________
Published on Wednesday and Saturday of each week
Basketball League Dance, at is over, the Toronto AYPA has
as a medium of expression and news outlet
Casa Romana, 8:30—12.
lined up another programme of HAM. JCCA, KYOWA
among those of Japanese origin in Canada
18—Toronto.
Toronto
J CCA interesting activities
479 Queen St. W. — PLaza 5005 — Toronto, Ont.
SET ANNUAL SOCIAL
Badminton
Dance,
Authorized as second class mail, Post Office Dept., Ottawa.
The first big event will be the
Hall, 8 0 to 12.
big sleigh ride on the night of
HAMILTON
The second
18 — x oromo. Toronto AYf* riday, Jan. 18. Since the peop- annual Issei-Nisei social is to be
• ^^^j^TiSffl^fe
PA’s sk igh ride, at Fantasy
ple who attended last year had seld at St. Stephens Church Hall
7:4o p.m.
such
a wonderful time, the at Barton and Mary on Sat., Jan.
By Archie Miyashita
19—Hamilton. Hamilton JCCA "XY PA is holding one again by 19, at 7:30 p.m., sponsored by
nd Kyowa Club’s Issei-Nisei popular request. As only the the Hamilton JCCA and the
What is the best way to
social t St. Stephen’s Church
keep
my dancing partner from
smaller lodge with a capacity Kyowa Club.
Hall,
30 p.m.
holding
me too tight?
for 60 persons could be booked,
The event held last year was
»4-A YONGS STREET, TORONTO, ONTJ
all
reservations
will
have
to
be
A:
Simply
tell
him
not
to
hold
of such success that it was a
FEBRUARY
made by Monday night, Jan. 14. topic of conversation all through you so tight or else push his
15 — Toronto. Toronto YBS
Lucien C. Kurata
The admission will be $1.50 the year whenever social events left hand down and away from
annual Valentine Dance, at UNF per person, the place is Fantasy
Barrister and Solicitor
were discussed. It was the first you with your right hand.
1 Adelaide St. E., Toronto
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(This column is open to ques1st and 2nd Mortgage Loans {
Ciub Ami Election Off
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their voices and laughter mix­ questions to the NC office).
scheduled for Sunday Jan. 13 has lowing executives: Mark Nagata
ing in a happy combination.
been cancelled. New date will be MI. 7665; Fumi Sasaki LO. 1198;
310 BLOOR ST. WEST — TORONTO
An
interesting
programme NC Staff Correspond
anounced later.
Sumi Takashima GE. 4552; NobOPTOMETRIST
planned for the evening is
OFFICE HOURS:
by Matsubayashi LA. 2048; or
Asks
Co-Operation
hoped to be the best ever. There
^erson Sought
Clara Seo EM. 3-5923.
Genichi Ohashi, The New Cawill be a movie, a sing-song in
Anyone knowing the where­
a
Sunday, Jan. 20 will be the
both Japanese and English, draw nadian’s staff correspondent in
abouts of Air. Juzo Sato
9
a.m.
to
5
p.m.
^•^ PA’s Worship Sunday. AlemTUES-WED-THURS-FRI-SAT
(birth place: Kumamoto-ken,
prizes,
entertainment by Issei I Vancouver, requests full co­
bers will
THURS. EVENING
TELEPHONE
all meet at St. and Nisei talents, comedy (man- ! operation from Issei and Nisei
Japan), please contact the JaBY APPOINTMENT
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George’s Church to attend the 11 gai) tasty fancy
Guve in merit
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foods and other NC subscribers in forwarding
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o clock service as usual.
items.
Bldg 88 metcalfe St., Ottawa,
news items of interest which he
FOR BETTER HEALTH CONSULT
Something
really
different
Ont.'
The social will be an occasion does not cover. Because of uni­
has been planned for the gen- where all will
let their hair versity studies, he is unable to
eral meeting on Jan. 25.
This down and enjoy themselves. A cover all events happening in
* DOCTOR OF CHIROPRACTIC
Me wish to thank the manv
will be a
“Progressive
Card
larger
hall has been rented this
kind friends for their wonder­
690 YONGE ST.
Game Nigh
and
it
promises
to
OFFICE RA. 6540
year
in
order to accommodate
.YONOH AT BLOOrI
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be full of fun and entertain­
Toronto
ance,
ts. of clothing
and
more people and thus avert any
Rashomon"
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other
ment.
o m
art es
we received
possibility of being sold out.
X-ray service available
when
home was desov fire recently This
NEW YORK — The National
done
much to enable us to get rcBoard of Review of Motion PicA
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ture,

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as
the
best A
(cont'd from P. 1)
and Family
XX
foreign
movie
of
1951,
and
also
and
shortly afterwards when the Japanese theater
Harold
Kutsukake
t
intrigued selected Akira Kurosowa as the
there was considerable interest,
Patronize
6
Rednor
Road
the dramatists and players of the best director of foreign films of i
particularly among the avant- area.
Our Advertisers
A
GRover 1307
i the year for his work in the
garde theatrical groups, in the
Toronto
This year, of course, Broad­ film. Other selection in foreign
Japanese drama. This was the I
Will
Call
£
pictures were (2) The River (3)
period in which the Province- way in the persons of Air. LoMiracle in Milan (4) Kon-Tiki
town Playhouse and the Wash­ gan and Air. Hayward propose
. FREE
(5) The Browning Version.
MOVING TO B. C.?
ington Square Players of New to bring the original Kabuki theWe have no
atei
of
Tokyo
to
the...
United
York’s Greenwich Village pre­
Contact
service charges.
States. The presentations will be
sented such plays as “Strains of
JIM KAKUTANI
the Samisen” and a drama call­ in the Japanese language and
H. A. ROBERTS LTD.,
ed "Bushido” in which a young only a fractional minority of the
933 West Pender St.,
JIRO
KURAMOTO
expected
audiences
will
underVancouver, B. C.
actress from Buffalo, name of

stand
the
dialogue.
Like
other
STEVENSON,
B.
C.

Jiro
Katherine Cornell, made her
Established 32 Years
famous
companies
before
them,
Kuramoto
passed
away
on
Dec.
New Nork debut. “Samisen,” in­
TRAVELLING TO
Members of Vancouver
the
Abbey
Players
of
Dublin
24
at
St.
Joseph
Hospital
in
cidentally, featured a young
Real Estate Board
JAPAN
Funeral
services
Phone MArine 6421
dancer named Alichio Ito whose I and London’s Old Vic, Tokyo’s X ancouver.
theater will enrich American were held on Dec. 28 at the T.
Day or Night
use of traditional Japanese dance
dramatic
forms.
Or bringing
Edward Funeral Home by Rev.
forms was to have considerable
someone over?
Another recent visitor to Ja­ S. Ikuta.
impact on the modern dance.
We represent
During this period, a genera­ pan, the noted American drama­
all lines including
TORIC OPTICAL I
TOKUGORO SATO
tion ago, the emphasis was upon tist Paul Green, recently expres­
American President.
Canadian Pacific,
English language adaptations of sed the opinion in Tokyo that
CROWSNEST, B. C. — TokuPan American, and
the
Kabuki
Theater
was
the

Japanese dramas, such as a free
goro Sato, 72, died on Dec. 25
Northwest Airlines.
greatest
living
theater
in
the
translation of “Chushingura” the
at home. Funeral services were
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today.
Air.
Green
will
in
­
Japanese
samurai
classic,
and
held
on Dec 28 at Coleman
tor full information
Plays inspired by Japanese and corporate ideas from the Japa­ United Church by Rev. J. Kabaor rates.
OPTOMETRISTS
“Tale of the nese stage into his pageants and yama. Cremation took place in
' (
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as well as on original plays.
Calgary, Alta.
Complete Care
The latest revival of interest I
Oriental themes. There is no eviFor Your Eyes
deuce that any of these produc- in Japanese art and
dramatic
tions were great popular
In the Hamilton JCCA greetsuc- forms undoubtedly is purred by
cesses but the fact that
ad. which
aneared last E
>ynvn
dpuaxeu
they the international situation,
week, Air. U
Koyanagi's
was I i
presented indicates that well as by the fact that hun­ incorrectly printed" as name
ShikanoUS W. HASTINGS ST
dreds of thousands of Americans suke Koyanagi. It should have
hare visited Japan in recent lead Matashiro Koyanagi.
■sasa
} ears as GIs and civilians.
In the period between the two
at
V orld Wars, the ascendancy of
the warlords to power in Japan
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