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Who Will Be Miss Valentine?
KIM KUSANO
Toronto Bussei
.
JEAN SAKAMOTO
Club Phenix
Vying for the Miss Valentine crown for 1958
this Friday night will be
4l nine lovely Nisei girls,
A seven of whom are seen
;y? here.
Kim Kusano, the choice
a,' of the
Toronto Young
V Buddhist Society which is
7 sponsoring the annual Va- A lentine Dance this Friday
at UNF Hall, is 18 years
. old and works as a secretary at the CBC.
Representing Club Phe
nix is Jean Sakamoto, 20,
a typist at Sarco Canada
' Ltd.
Eighteen-year-old
Su‘ san Kinoshita, flying the
■colors for Club Aminis a
.secretary at the Canadian
Red Cross.
April Sugai, 16, a third
" form student at Runny. mede Collegiate, hopes to
■win honors for the Nisei
Anglican Fellowship.
The gridmen’s choice is
20-year-old Jean Waka■ yama for the Nisei Soon; ’ ers Football Club. Her
days are filled with being
secretary to the Dean at
' the U. of Toronto.
The
Mixed
Majors
■^Bowling' League chose
Jackie Abe, 20, a clerk at
the Bell Telephone Com
pany.
Holding the banner for
t Club Rec Socratic is Flor
ence Mukai, 21, a clerk
typist for an engineering
firm.
SUSAN KINOSHITA
Club Ami
APRIL SUGAI
isei oooners
JACKIE ABE
Mixed Majors
a
^
,
*
The two other candi
dates who were too late
for dhe pre-publication
snapping session at Yamada Studio are Virginia
Yoshida,
16 - year - old
third form student at
Jarvis Collegiate, repreT
senting the Metropolitan
Nisei Badminton Club,
and
17-year-old Betty
Yabu, fourth former at
the same school who was
picked by the Nisei Flyers Hockey Club.
_ Popular vote for the
. girls
(each ' admission
ticket as a ballot) will
constitute 25 percent of
the decision, with the re' maining 75 percent up to
- the judges—-Consul and
■ Mrs. Matao Endo, photo■ grapher Sam Yamada,
; artist Fred Kondo, Tosh
■ Tanaka of the Continental
" Times, Marge Umezuki of
The New Canadian, and
: a representative of the
< Toronto Daily Star. The
: 75 percent will be com- posed of points for beauf ty, personality, poise and | other factors.
I
(Continued on Page EighQ
FLORENCE MUKAI
Rec Socratic
—Photos by YAMADA STUDIO
THE NEW CANADIAN
An Independent Organ for Canadians of Japanese Origin
Vol. 21—No. 12
AKA 12, 1908..
TORONTO, ONT.
NJCCA & Chinese Immigration
-- ———----Occidental Donates $50 to TJC Community Centre Committees to Submit grief
• ON THE NEWSFRONT
A cheque for $50 to help get the Toronto Japanese Canadian
Community Centre project under way was recently sent to Consul
Matao Endo from Mr. J. J. Fitzgibbons, son of the president of
famous Plajers (Canada) Incorporated. Mr. Fitzgibbons, who is
interested! in Japanese culture, is one of the influential persons,
iii the art circles of Toronto. The cheque was presented to Bob
Kadoguchi, president of tne Community Centre Committee.
Tokyo Brewers to Put Sake and Whiskey in Tubes
, T0KY°.—Dehydrated alcoholic- drinks, sold in toothpaste-type
tubes, and chemical beer and whiskey will soon be on sale in Japan.
The government’s brewing- laboratory in Tokyo has reported good
progress in '‘improving’” alcoholic beverages and is hoping’ to pro
duce chemically a much cheaper drink than malt-and-hop beer. The
laboratory already claims to have distilled whiskey without malt.
It is now working on chemicals’ that in a matter of weeks would
give this synthetic brew the flavor and smoothness of a 30-yearold whiskey. But the most startling researches are being’ made into
turning Japan’s national drink, sake, into a paste. In future it may
be sold in plastic bags or in tubes to be squeezed out and watered
down to taste. This rice-wine may also appear in the form of cara
mels or chewing gum. .
42 Persons of Japanese Origin Enter in 3 Months
OTTAWA.—According to the Quarterly Immigration Bulle
tin of the Department of Citizenship and Immigration, 42 per-'
sons of Japanese origin entered Canada in the last three months
of 1957. The total number of persons of Japanese background
entering during’ the past year was 178. The 42 persons were all
citizens of Japan before their emigration.
The National JCCA, through the Immigration Com
mittee jointly with the Chinese Canadian Association
will piesent a brief to the Minister oi Citizenship and
Immigration asking for revisions more favorable to immigiants of Chinese and Japanese extraction.
Letters to this effect are being
sent to the provincial and local
chapters of the JCCA requesting
assistance to this vital project. '
In any revision of the Immi
gration Act, the Chinese and Ja
panese Canadians are vitally in
terested inasmuch as there are
still some clauses contained in the
Act
discriminatingagainst
Asians.
The Immigration Committee
is in the process of collecting
data on cases now pending’.
However there will be other ap
plications unknown to the Com
mittee. The provincial and local
chapters are being requested to
help .gather these cases, and to
forward them to the National
Headquarters of the Japanese
Canadian Citizens ' Assbcia lion,
415 Spadina Ave., Toronto.
Last March, 1957, a joint brief
was submitted bv the TorontoOntario JCCA Immigration Com
mittee and the Chinese* Canadian
Association to Minister J. W.
Pickersgill, requesting revisions
m the Immigration Act with re
gard to admission of relatives of
Canadian citizens. The govern
ment has since relaxed restric
tions on admitting fiancees (on a
$1,000 bond). At that time, the
JCCA also submitted its own
brief explaining the present situa
tion of Japanese in Canada with
regard to immigration.
MAH MISSES YU AND $1,000
Chinatown Bulges when Fiancee Backs out
VANCOUVER.-—A Hong’ Kong association.
girl left her city hotel and ap
The others crowded the China
parently went into hiding after town sidewalks waiting for a de
incurring the 'wrath of a large cision while the problem was hot
section of the Chinese community. ly debated inside.
_ Yu Tsui Mee, 19, arrived in
The girl left her city hotel
Vancouver three weeks ago to
marry a young Chinese after a room shortly before the meeting
long courtship conducted by post. and could not be traced after
. She told the boy’s family last wards.
“She fears that some harm
week, however, that she did not
might
come to her,” said a Chinawish-to carry out the marriage
town
spokesman.
contract “because our personali
“Feeling is running so high
ties are different,” and because
against
her that it was wise of
he wanted to go through the cere
her
to
hide.
”
mony immediately after she ar
rived, without a period of court
Relatives of the boy demanded
ship.
News of her decision spread compensation for the broken con
through Chinatown and late last tract and this was almost unaniThursday night 500 Chinese— mously supported by those at
mostly men—attended a public tending the meeting.
meeting convened by the Chinese
. The Chinese Benevolent Asso
Benevolent Association in their
ciation was believed to have call
offices at 108 East Pender.
ed the meeting on Feb. 6 in its
“It was a fantastic turnout”, role as the senior body in Cana
Foon Sien, president of the asso da to which family disputes are
taken.
ciation said.
The girl must leave Canada
“The breaking of the marriage
contract was considered to have and return to Hong Kong on the
trespassed on strict Chinese laws expiry of her 30-day visa.
and the problem of what to do
Chinatown’s jilted lover, 21with the girl attracted wide at
tention.”
year-old Mah Suey Ning, says he
Only about 300 Chinese could will ask immigration officials to
get into the small offices of the detain his ex-fiancee.
“The day after she arrived, she
told me she wanted to marry an
other man and go to live in Los
Angeles. I told her I didn’t care,
that I was going to send her back
to Hong Kong.
“There is still the matter of
the $1,000 bond I had to post to
get her into Candda,” he added,
“and I want compensation for the
cost of bringing here here.”
Mah said it took him two years
to save enough from his $120-amonth wages to bring her to Van
couver.
An attempt to arrange a meet
ing with her will be made by a
small deputation elected at the
public .meeting. They have been
authorized to g’o into the ques
tion of compensation. They start
ed then* search for the young girl
last Friday.
Meanwhile, City police have
been asked* to give protection to
the girl following threats of vio
lence. The request was made by
members of the Chinese com
munity who are. sheltering the
SirlVancouver’s Chinatown is the
second-largest Chinese settlement
outside Asia. But Chinese girls
are scarce and many are brought
from Hong Kong in marriages
arranged by their families.
Japanese Fishing Boat lucky Dragon' on CBC
In 1954 the Japanese fishing boat “The Lucky Dragon” was
showered by radioactive particles from an American atomic test in
the central Pacific. The fate of the fishermen and the effect of the
case on Japanese public opinion will be recounted by the American
nuclear physicist Dr. Ralph Lapp in a series of four radio talks en
titled The Case of the Lucky Dragon on Feb. 17, 18, 20, and 21,
10:20 p.m. on CBC Trans-Canada. A specialist in cosmic rays, Dr.
Lapp headed a scientific group at the 1946 Bikini atomic tests. He
has -written a number of books, including Voyage of the Luckv Dra
gon,-which is being serialized in Shukan Asahi, Japan’s biggest
weekly newspaper, and is due to be published by Harpers in the
U.S. this month.
KIM KUSANO
Toronto Bussei
.
JEAN SAKAMOTO
Club Phenix
Vying for the Miss Valentine crown for 1958
this Friday night will be
4l nine lovely Nisei girls,
A seven of whom are seen
;y? here.
Kim Kusano, the choice
a,' of the
Toronto Young
V Buddhist Society which is
7 sponsoring the annual Va- A lentine Dance this Friday
at UNF Hall, is 18 years
. old and works as a secretary at the CBC.
Representing Club Phe
nix is Jean Sakamoto, 20,
a typist at Sarco Canada
' Ltd.
Eighteen-year-old
Su‘ san Kinoshita, flying the
■colors for Club Aminis a
.secretary at the Canadian
Red Cross.
April Sugai, 16, a third
" form student at Runny. mede Collegiate, hopes to
■win honors for the Nisei
Anglican Fellowship.
The gridmen’s choice is
20-year-old Jean Waka■ yama for the Nisei Soon; ’ ers Football Club. Her
days are filled with being
secretary to the Dean at
' the U. of Toronto.
The
Mixed
Majors
■^Bowling' League chose
Jackie Abe, 20, a clerk at
the Bell Telephone Com
pany.
Holding the banner for
t Club Rec Socratic is Flor
ence Mukai, 21, a clerk
typist for an engineering
firm.
SUSAN KINOSHITA
Club Ami
APRIL SUGAI
isei oooners
JACKIE ABE
Mixed Majors
a
^
,
*
The two other candi
dates who were too late
for dhe pre-publication
snapping session at Yamada Studio are Virginia
Yoshida,
16 - year - old
third form student at
Jarvis Collegiate, repreT
senting the Metropolitan
Nisei Badminton Club,
and
17-year-old Betty
Yabu, fourth former at
the same school who was
picked by the Nisei Flyers Hockey Club.
_ Popular vote for the
. girls
(each ' admission
ticket as a ballot) will
constitute 25 percent of
the decision, with the re' maining 75 percent up to
- the judges—-Consul and
■ Mrs. Matao Endo, photo■ grapher Sam Yamada,
; artist Fred Kondo, Tosh
■ Tanaka of the Continental
" Times, Marge Umezuki of
The New Canadian, and
: a representative of the
< Toronto Daily Star. The
: 75 percent will be com- posed of points for beauf ty, personality, poise and | other factors.
I
(Continued on Page EighQ
FLORENCE MUKAI
Rec Socratic
—Photos by YAMADA STUDIO
THE NEW CANADIAN
An Independent Organ for Canadians of Japanese Origin
Vol. 21—No. 12
AKA 12, 1908..
TORONTO, ONT.
NJCCA & Chinese Immigration
-- ———----Occidental Donates $50 to TJC Community Centre Committees to Submit grief
• ON THE NEWSFRONT
A cheque for $50 to help get the Toronto Japanese Canadian
Community Centre project under way was recently sent to Consul
Matao Endo from Mr. J. J. Fitzgibbons, son of the president of
famous Plajers (Canada) Incorporated. Mr. Fitzgibbons, who is
interested! in Japanese culture, is one of the influential persons,
iii the art circles of Toronto. The cheque was presented to Bob
Kadoguchi, president of tne Community Centre Committee.
Tokyo Brewers to Put Sake and Whiskey in Tubes
, T0KY°.—Dehydrated alcoholic- drinks, sold in toothpaste-type
tubes, and chemical beer and whiskey will soon be on sale in Japan.
The government’s brewing- laboratory in Tokyo has reported good
progress in '‘improving’” alcoholic beverages and is hoping’ to pro
duce chemically a much cheaper drink than malt-and-hop beer. The
laboratory already claims to have distilled whiskey without malt.
It is now working on chemicals’ that in a matter of weeks would
give this synthetic brew the flavor and smoothness of a 30-yearold whiskey. But the most startling researches are being’ made into
turning Japan’s national drink, sake, into a paste. In future it may
be sold in plastic bags or in tubes to be squeezed out and watered
down to taste. This rice-wine may also appear in the form of cara
mels or chewing gum. .
42 Persons of Japanese Origin Enter in 3 Months
OTTAWA.—According to the Quarterly Immigration Bulle
tin of the Department of Citizenship and Immigration, 42 per-'
sons of Japanese origin entered Canada in the last three months
of 1957. The total number of persons of Japanese background
entering during’ the past year was 178. The 42 persons were all
citizens of Japan before their emigration.
The National JCCA, through the Immigration Com
mittee jointly with the Chinese Canadian Association
will piesent a brief to the Minister oi Citizenship and
Immigration asking for revisions more favorable to immigiants of Chinese and Japanese extraction.
Letters to this effect are being
sent to the provincial and local
chapters of the JCCA requesting
assistance to this vital project. '
In any revision of the Immi
gration Act, the Chinese and Ja
panese Canadians are vitally in
terested inasmuch as there are
still some clauses contained in the
Act
discriminatingagainst
Asians.
The Immigration Committee
is in the process of collecting
data on cases now pending’.
However there will be other ap
plications unknown to the Com
mittee. The provincial and local
chapters are being requested to
help .gather these cases, and to
forward them to the National
Headquarters of the Japanese
Canadian Citizens ' Assbcia lion,
415 Spadina Ave., Toronto.
Last March, 1957, a joint brief
was submitted bv the TorontoOntario JCCA Immigration Com
mittee and the Chinese* Canadian
Association to Minister J. W.
Pickersgill, requesting revisions
m the Immigration Act with re
gard to admission of relatives of
Canadian citizens. The govern
ment has since relaxed restric
tions on admitting fiancees (on a
$1,000 bond). At that time, the
JCCA also submitted its own
brief explaining the present situa
tion of Japanese in Canada with
regard to immigration.
MAH MISSES YU AND $1,000
Chinatown Bulges when Fiancee Backs out
VANCOUVER.-—A Hong’ Kong association.
girl left her city hotel and ap
The others crowded the China
parently went into hiding after town sidewalks waiting for a de
incurring the 'wrath of a large cision while the problem was hot
section of the Chinese community. ly debated inside.
_ Yu Tsui Mee, 19, arrived in
The girl left her city hotel
Vancouver three weeks ago to
marry a young Chinese after a room shortly before the meeting
long courtship conducted by post. and could not be traced after
. She told the boy’s family last wards.
“She fears that some harm
week, however, that she did not
might
come to her,” said a Chinawish-to carry out the marriage
town
spokesman.
contract “because our personali
“Feeling is running so high
ties are different,” and because
against
her that it was wise of
he wanted to go through the cere
her
to
hide.
”
mony immediately after she ar
rived, without a period of court
Relatives of the boy demanded
ship.
News of her decision spread compensation for the broken con
through Chinatown and late last tract and this was almost unaniThursday night 500 Chinese— mously supported by those at
mostly men—attended a public tending the meeting.
meeting convened by the Chinese
. The Chinese Benevolent Asso
Benevolent Association in their
ciation was believed to have call
offices at 108 East Pender.
ed the meeting on Feb. 6 in its
“It was a fantastic turnout”, role as the senior body in Cana
Foon Sien, president of the asso da to which family disputes are
taken.
ciation said.
The girl must leave Canada
“The breaking of the marriage
contract was considered to have and return to Hong Kong on the
trespassed on strict Chinese laws expiry of her 30-day visa.
and the problem of what to do
Chinatown’s jilted lover, 21with the girl attracted wide at
tention.”
year-old Mah Suey Ning, says he
Only about 300 Chinese could will ask immigration officials to
get into the small offices of the detain his ex-fiancee.
“The day after she arrived, she
told me she wanted to marry an
other man and go to live in Los
Angeles. I told her I didn’t care,
that I was going to send her back
to Hong Kong.
“There is still the matter of
the $1,000 bond I had to post to
get her into Candda,” he added,
“and I want compensation for the
cost of bringing here here.”
Mah said it took him two years
to save enough from his $120-amonth wages to bring her to Van
couver.
An attempt to arrange a meet
ing with her will be made by a
small deputation elected at the
public .meeting. They have been
authorized to g’o into the ques
tion of compensation. They start
ed then* search for the young girl
last Friday.
Meanwhile, City police have
been asked* to give protection to
the girl following threats of vio
lence. The request was made by
members of the Chinese com
munity who are. sheltering the
SirlVancouver’s Chinatown is the
second-largest Chinese settlement
outside Asia. But Chinese girls
are scarce and many are brought
from Hong Kong in marriages
arranged by their families.
Japanese Fishing Boat lucky Dragon' on CBC
In 1954 the Japanese fishing boat “The Lucky Dragon” was
showered by radioactive particles from an American atomic test in
the central Pacific. The fate of the fishermen and the effect of the
case on Japanese public opinion will be recounted by the American
nuclear physicist Dr. Ralph Lapp in a series of four radio talks en
titled The Case of the Lucky Dragon on Feb. 17, 18, 20, and 21,
10:20 p.m. on CBC Trans-Canada. A specialist in cosmic rays, Dr.
Lapp headed a scientific group at the 1946 Bikini atomic tests. He
has -written a number of books, including Voyage of the Luckv Dra
gon,-which is being serialized in Shukan Asahi, Japan’s biggest
weekly newspaper, and is due to be published by Harpers in the
U.S. this month.
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7
Jh
Letter of Thanks
We from British Columbia,
who were honored to partici
pate in the Alberta J.C. Bonspiel at Taber, Alberta, would
like to take this medium of ex
pressing our most sincere
thanks for the wonderful re
ception -and hospitality accord
ed us during our short stay in
Alberta.
The cordial and fraternal
atmosphere which prevailed
throughout the ’spiel was a
wonderful experience which
will never be forgotten.
To all our many old and-new
friends, too numerous to list,
at Taber, Coaldale, Leth
bridge, Calgary, Rainier and
other
centres,
a
mere
“'THANK YOU” is truly in
adequate to express our ap
preciation, and we trust we
may have the opportunity of
reciprocatingyour
favors
when
you
are
travellingthrough our di strict.
To the hard-working and
efficient “Bonspiel Commitextend to you our
tee’
congratulations on a wonderful ’spiel, and wish you .the
very best for another success
ful ’spiel in 1959.
Seiji Onizuka
‘Husso’ Hasebe
’Midway, B.C.
Joe Fukui
Hiroshi Mukai
Greenwood, B.C.
(advertisement)
dates send doings
*
‘Nippon-nik’ Featured at Merchandise Show
VANCOUVER
last-minute tie-ups, crews had to
work .all night in Hotel Vancou
ver’s Salon “M” to ready the
second
Japanese' Merchandise
Show for its opening on Feb. 4.
The ship bringing the displays
from Japan was late in arriving’.
The show was able to go on when
Japanese officials persuaded cus
toms men to make their checks
after the displays were set up in
the hotSL
The Merchandise Show was un
der the direction of Masao Tobi
ta, assistant director of the Ja
pan Trade Centre in Vancouver.
The show, which ran Feb. 4-6.
catered to everyone from cooks
I
FEBRUARY
To Study in Kyoto
to carpenters with good rang i nil'
PICTURE
Alta. from canned food to plvwood
u cldc
spades and pine-fitting;
There son of Rev. and Mrs.
was a wi<
camera
mura of Picture Butte
equipment
home Feb. 1 after his £
which was b.own in the hotel
main lobby
One eye and ear-catching item in California. He will leave for
Japan on March 12 by A PL to
is “Nippon-nik,” a satellite-styled enter the Ryogoku (Buddhist)
transistor radio which will prob
ably retail for around $80. Other was recipient of a $200 scholar
radios are no bigger than a pack- ship from the Buddhist Church of
Canada.
. NSC’s Glenn Miller-Nite a Huge Success
Ronald Shigeishi and Dorothy ers Nite, designed to acquaint
Shimizu were presented with the the freshmen-to-be with Nisei
ei Students Club scholarship students in the courses of their
mi. Inc., scholar- choice.
.
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No Cause for Prejudice Xtf s^A (not woo as
VANCOUVER.—After looking .previously stated) last Friday
through the Japan Merchandise
Show in Vancouver, Ethel Post of Glenn Miller Nite.
The entertainment presented
the Vancouver Province stated:
“If you’re still harboring pre by the students was considered
war prejudice against the quality the best in several years. George
of Japanese merchandise, you’ll Takahashi imitated Ed Sullivan
he' MC of the
Marie
change your mind I’m sure. And
bear in mind that Japan buys a Takata is credited with rounding
lot of- our grain and other- pro up all the entertainment, and
duce we urgently need to sell
abroad. In fact they bought more George Nishiyama was in charge
\
than twice as much from us last of decorations
Coming up on the NSC Calen
year as we bought from them—
$140 million compared to $60 mil dar on Feb. 21 is the Fifth Formlion.”
Markets or.Missiles?
CALENDAR
oronto. TYSS Valentine D,
UNE
3 contest,
.
15—Chatham, C
i Miller Night.
15—Winnipeg. V
Dance. Bukkyo
15—Calgary,
Al
ot
S.E., S
16—Toronto
Choclo's V
Tw;
em Theatre, 5
19- ■Toronto. NJCC
«9
23—Toronto
gather, s:
n
17- -Toronto.
levies at
o,m.
therhooc
Unitarians.
25—Vancouver
annual Inte:
Jubilee''
Sall, at
its
S10
couple.
28—Hamilton. Carnival-Fun-Nite Da
H’CCA, at Venetian Hall, John St
MARCH
Club El Choclo
1
El Choclo’s Valentine Social is
slated for this Sunday, Feb. 16.
at Armadale. Hall, 1331A Dundas
St. West, Toronto, commencing
from S p.m.
_ A gala, social evening of danc
ing and light refreshments, pre
ceded .by an hour of instructions
is planned. Eddie Hashimoto will
teach, a few new steps in tango
and time allowing, a new step or
two in rumba. ’
We trust, that all members and
friends will be out in force for a
pleasant evening of social’fun.
—R. N.
•Kelowna, B.C. KYBA
vt and Shibas, S p.m,,
1
Chatham. Ont, Kent
nuai xeuokai, b:eu at YMCA.
15—Stoveston,
B.C. SYBA St. Patrick
Dance at Sieveston Buddhist Church.
21—Vancouver. Nisei Fellowship Glenn
Miller Nite, Hastings Auditorium,
APRIL
4-5-6—Toronto. Eastern C
YBS (10th Anniversary),
PATRONIZE
OUR ADVERTISERS
Dr. James G. Endicott, the only
Canadian to attend the AfroAsian Conference in Cairo, will
NOTARY PUBLIC
speak on Markets or Missiles ? on
Suite 502, Temple Building
Wednesday, Feb. .19, 8:15 p.m. at
62 RICHMOND ST. WEST
the Westbury Hotel banquet hall,
TORONTO
Yonge St. above College (Hotel
Res.: RO. 7-3427
EM. 6-0953
parking- off Wood St.). Colored
slides of Cairo, Egypt and Ceylon
will
be shown. A collection will
Ab
I be taken.
RESIDENCE
OFFICE
BARRISTER and SOLICITOR
. H. S. TSURUDA •
(Japanese Canadian: Agent)
35 Rowntree Ave., TORONTO
RO. 9-0673
2 Vesta Drive
MAyfair 1365
EM. 4-1394
EM. 4-1395
f^glHW^:
Andrew E. McKape,
BARRISTER, SOLICITOR
NOTARY PUBLIC
201 Northern Ontario Building
330 Bay Street (at Adelaide)
TORONTO
1384V2 Queen W.
LE. 2-6378
Toronto
CHANGE OF ADDRESS
Mr. and ’Mrs. Sadaki Asao recently
moved to 299 Bain Ave., Toronto G, On
tario.
Their new phone, number is
HO. 1-8605.
Female Help Wanted
COUNTER girl for dry cleaning store.
Apply 2313 Bloor St. West, Toronto.
Phone RO. 6-1007.______________________ _
EXPERIENCED girls to sew caps. Aoply
1209 McCaul St., Toronto. ACME Caps,.
CARLTON-Parliament, bright, convenient
furnished three-room apartment. Suitable
for young couple. Phone LE. 5-4877 (Tor
onto).
Business for Sale
BUSY Bloor Sreet " West, doing good
business) $4,000 will handle.
Many
houses, 8 to 15 rooms, good income,
can buy some with very small down
payment. Phone
Flat Roofing © Shingling © Eavestroughs © Sheet Metal Work
BOND ED ROOFER
T. Nishijima
Phone RO. 2-4911
CLASSIFIED
CONFECTIONERY store
ACCURATE ROOFING CO, LTD,
TORONTO
284.* TONOI »nnr, TORONTO, ONT.
SAM S. TSUMURA
Keith Brooks Real Estate
582 Yonge Street, Toronto
WA. 4-7711 or Res.: AT. 2-3873
VALENTINE
DANCE
FRIDAY, Feb. 14,1958
8:30-12:30, at UNF Hall
(DOWNSTAIRS)
Admission: SI.25
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A Big Majority of Japanese Canadian Customers
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Clubs, Organizations
representing
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Letter of Thanks
We from British Columbia,
who were honored to partici
pate in the Alberta J.C. Bonspiel at Taber, Alberta, would
like to take this medium of ex
pressing our most sincere
thanks for the wonderful re
ception -and hospitality accord
ed us during our short stay in
Alberta.
The cordial and fraternal
atmosphere which prevailed
throughout the ’spiel was a
wonderful experience which
will never be forgotten.
To all our many old and-new
friends, too numerous to list,
at Taber, Coaldale, Leth
bridge, Calgary, Rainier and
other
centres,
a
mere
“'THANK YOU” is truly in
adequate to express our ap
preciation, and we trust we
may have the opportunity of
reciprocatingyour
favors
when
you
are
travellingthrough our di strict.
To the hard-working and
efficient “Bonspiel Commitextend to you our
tee’
congratulations on a wonderful ’spiel, and wish you .the
very best for another success
ful ’spiel in 1959.
Seiji Onizuka
‘Husso’ Hasebe
’Midway, B.C.
Joe Fukui
Hiroshi Mukai
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(advertisement)
dates send doings
*
‘Nippon-nik’ Featured at Merchandise Show
VANCOUVER
last-minute tie-ups, crews had to
work .all night in Hotel Vancou
ver’s Salon “M” to ready the
second
Japanese' Merchandise
Show for its opening on Feb. 4.
The ship bringing the displays
from Japan was late in arriving’.
The show was able to go on when
Japanese officials persuaded cus
toms men to make their checks
after the displays were set up in
the hotSL
The Merchandise Show was un
der the direction of Masao Tobi
ta, assistant director of the Ja
pan Trade Centre in Vancouver.
The show, which ran Feb. 4-6.
catered to everyone from cooks
I
FEBRUARY
To Study in Kyoto
to carpenters with good rang i nil'
PICTURE
Alta. from canned food to plvwood
u cldc
spades and pine-fitting;
There son of Rev. and Mrs.
was a wi<
camera
mura of Picture Butte
equipment
home Feb. 1 after his £
which was b.own in the hotel
main lobby
One eye and ear-catching item in California. He will leave for
Japan on March 12 by A PL to
is “Nippon-nik,” a satellite-styled enter the Ryogoku (Buddhist)
transistor radio which will prob
ably retail for around $80. Other was recipient of a $200 scholar
radios are no bigger than a pack- ship from the Buddhist Church of
Canada.
. NSC’s Glenn Miller-Nite a Huge Success
Ronald Shigeishi and Dorothy ers Nite, designed to acquaint
Shimizu were presented with the the freshmen-to-be with Nisei
ei Students Club scholarship students in the courses of their
mi. Inc., scholar- choice.
.
'
No Cause for Prejudice Xtf s^A (not woo as
VANCOUVER.—After looking .previously stated) last Friday
through the Japan Merchandise
Show in Vancouver, Ethel Post of Glenn Miller Nite.
The entertainment presented
the Vancouver Province stated:
“If you’re still harboring pre by the students was considered
war prejudice against the quality the best in several years. George
of Japanese merchandise, you’ll Takahashi imitated Ed Sullivan
he' MC of the
Marie
change your mind I’m sure. And
bear in mind that Japan buys a Takata is credited with rounding
lot of- our grain and other- pro up all the entertainment, and
duce we urgently need to sell
abroad. In fact they bought more George Nishiyama was in charge
\
than twice as much from us last of decorations
Coming up on the NSC Calen
year as we bought from them—
$140 million compared to $60 mil dar on Feb. 21 is the Fifth Formlion.”
Markets or.Missiles?
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oronto. TYSS Valentine D,
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couple.
28—Hamilton. Carnival-Fun-Nite Da
H’CCA, at Venetian Hall, John St
MARCH
Club El Choclo
1
El Choclo’s Valentine Social is
slated for this Sunday, Feb. 16.
at Armadale. Hall, 1331A Dundas
St. West, Toronto, commencing
from S p.m.
_ A gala, social evening of danc
ing and light refreshments, pre
ceded .by an hour of instructions
is planned. Eddie Hashimoto will
teach, a few new steps in tango
and time allowing, a new step or
two in rumba. ’
We trust, that all members and
friends will be out in force for a
pleasant evening of social’fun.
—R. N.
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vt and Shibas, S p.m,,
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nuai xeuokai, b:eu at YMCA.
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Dance at Sieveston Buddhist Church.
21—Vancouver. Nisei Fellowship Glenn
Miller Nite, Hastings Auditorium,
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Wednesday, February 12, 195g
The Golden Age: It Least 24 Issei Couples Wedded Over 50 Years MISS VALENTINEAt least 24 Issei couples .
have celebrated their Gold- ? <
en Wedding Anniversaries
in Canada, according to a
survey conducted by the Ja
panese section of The New
Canadian last Christmas.
The project, designed to ;
record part of the livings
history of the Japanese s
Canadian Issei pioneers, in- .*
dicated that most of the 24 *
couples who replied are still
enjoying
comparatively
good health.
$
At the top of the -list are
Mr. and Mrs. Eiji Sasaki of
Toronto who were married
away back in 1896 in Japan, s w
They will be celebrating^
their 62nd wedding anniver-^
B'
sary this year.
|
Mr. Sasaki, now 86 years!
old, is one of the few re-|
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age group still in good B
health. Still active in the|
Toronto Japanese Canadian ®
community, he is head of |
Ss
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His
79-year-old I
wife, Chiyo, also hale and
Mr. Sasaki got hitched in '96. . .
hearty, is often seen accom
panying het* husband to JC
Japan Weathermen Amaze Canadian Meteorologist
MONTREAL. — The Japanese
have beaten Canada, and other
countries, to the punch in the
field of meteorology.
This is the estimate of Cana
da’s top weatherman, Andrew
Thomson, director of the Mete
orological Service, after "’travel
ling 21,000 miles around the world
in 39 days.
He was Canada’s delegate to
the Pacific Science Congress in
Bangkok, Thailand. He stopped
off in Japan and was amazed at
the immensity of the meteoro
logical set-up- there.
With headquarters in Tokyo,
there are 5,150 full-time em
ployes in the meteorological ser
vice, Canada has 1.800.
Japan publishes three top jour
nals on meteorology—two in En
glish and one in Japanese. Cana
da has none. " ■
In the Tokyo headquarters
there is a library of 105,000
volumes and 135,000. pamphlets.
Japanese researchers, meanwhile,
are turning out considerable other
first-class meteorological litera
ture.
1
- •
- Canada, he said, is maintaining
its own in meteorological service
for aviation, and some outstand
ing research work is being con
ducted in cloud physics, and Arc
tic meteorology, at McGill, but
broad advances are being held up
by lack of professionally trained
personnel.
What is needed, said Mr. Thom
son, are more men. and women
trained - in mathemathics and
physics. There is a keen, demand
for such trained personnel in me
teorology. In government service,
such people trained as forecasters
might reach a $7,000 salary in
five and a half years.
Forecasting beyond a period of
{Continued' from Page Oney.
gatherings. So far they have Koma Tamemoto of "Winnipeg,
Crowning the n e w
seven grandchildren and five Man., Sentaro and Shika Suzuki
great-grandchildren.
of London, Ont., and Kichitaro ‘ queen at 11 p.m. will be
Mrs. M. Endo. Last year’s,
Other Issei couples who have and Hatsuye Suga of Montreal.
To these happy couples. The
winner, Ricky Matsumo
passed the half-century mark are: New Canadian sent congratulato, will not be able to at
Shinkichi and Sumi Okamoto of ■tory messages and token gifts at
tend as she is in the midst
Taber, Alta., due to celebrate Christmas.
theix* 60th year of wedded bliss
These pioneers who came to
of exams. Each contestant
this year.
Capada over 50 years ago with
will receive a permanent
Nobukichi and Asa Nakashima hopes of gaining some material
miniature
replica of the
of New Denver, B.C., close behind wealth before returning to Japan,
coveted Miss Valentine
are now saying things like, “We
with a 59-year record.
Trophy.
Jiroichi and Yone Shinde have are still strong and will yet en
been married for 57 years and deavor’ for the glory of Canada.”
The dance will take
And just like the grandpa in
are now residing in Greenwood,
place in the downstairs
the song, one Issei woman wrote
B.C.
hall at the UNF, from
of her hubby, “He’s 83 years old
Katsuzo and" Kuni Mayeda of and never saw a doctor.”
8:30 to 12:30.
Toronto, bonded together for 56
years.
Eight couples will be celebrat
ing their 54th wedding anniver
saries this year: Jujiro and Hatsuye Hori of Montreal, P.Q., MatVANCOUVER.
sutaro and Natsuye Kita of West
Recently honored on
Summerland, B.C., Genya and
his fortieth anniver
Shio Ebata of New Denver, B.C.,
sary of teaching at
Gisaku and Tatsu Serizawa of
North Kamloops, B.C., Bunkichi
the Vancouver Japaand Soma Yamazaki of Coaldale,
n e se Lan g u ag e
Alta., and three pairs of 'Issei
School was principal
living in Toronto, Tsuneshichi and ;
T. Sato.
Haruno Matsuoka, Kinzo and Kikuno Kusunoki, and Kisaku and
The graduates of
Kikuyo Nishimoto.
the school presented
In their 53rd year of married
him with a Hi-Fi
life are Jen ya and Haruye Hori
Consol as a token of
of Toronto, Chuzo_ and Namiye
t h e’i r appreciation
Koyanagi of Steveston, B.C., and
and regard for the
Saburo and Moyo Okada of NewDenver, B.C.
teacher. ,
Also due to celebrate their
Mr. Sato is seen
53rd wedding anniversary were at the left, with Dr. Shimokura of Vancouver making
Iwajiro and Ki ku Yamaoka of
Kelowna, B.C., but Mr. Yamaoka the presentation on behalf of the contributors. Contri
passed away on January 21st of butions for this project were collected by the special
this year.
Gakuyukai Committee which was formed last spring in
T. Sato honored by students |
With 52 years to look back on
together are Shinjiro and Kinu
Kondo of Toronto, Motozo and
Kimi Toyama of New Denver^
B.C., Kozaburo and Oiyo Uno of
Montreal, Kamekichi and Torano
Kobayashi of Toronto, Josuke and
five days is* still highly unreliablephe said. Considerable re
search is necessary to secure the
fundamental knowledge which
would lead to accuracy.
Toronto, and graduates now residing in Toronto, Hamil
ton, Winnipeg, Fort William and other points took part
in this program.
The balance of the money collected, after all ex
penses were deducted, was,also forwarded to the teach
er to buy records of his choice.
The Toronto Committee wishes to inform all con
tributors how happy Mr. and Mrs. Sato are over
the gift and would like to thank all those who assisted
in this undertaking. The teachers were also recipients
of a TV set from graduates living in Vancouver.
I Hollywood’s Latest Leading Lady: Michi Kobi
By LARRY TAJIRI
In the Pacific Citizen
DENVER, Colo.—The way Mi
chi Kobi feels, any role in which
she portrays Japanese woman is
a character part. After all, Miss
Kobi is an American, having been
born in Sacramento, Calif.
Michi .is Hollywood’s newest
leading lady of Japanese ances
try and recently completed her
first starring role in Nacirema’s
“DatelineSrokyo” in which she
portrayed a Tokyo girl named
Sumi who falls in love with an
American Marine accused of killling a Japanese boy. The picture,
which has overtones of the recent
Girard case in Japan, will be re
leased shortly by Allied Artists.
According to Michi, her next
role is in a picture called “Behind
Barbed Wire” which presumably
is about the Japanese American
mass evacuation of 1942, a sub
ject which Hollywood has stu
diously avoided foi’ the past 15
years. Actually, there were scenes
of evacuees being- shipped to a
relocation camp in “Little Tokvo,
U.S.A.”, the. 20i.lt Century Fox
item which editorially approved
of mass evacuation. Relocation
centre sequences which Robert
Pirosh originally wrote into the
script for “Go for Broke!”, the
story of the 442nd Combat Team,
were deleted before the MGM pro
duction was started when the
War Department objected to the
picturization of relocation camps.
The price was Army cooperation
in the making- of the film about
the Japanese American Combat
Team, and military help was
needed by the studio in recreatingbattle scenes involving the 442nd
in Italy and France.
If Michi Kobi makes the relo
cation camp picture, she will be
able to act from real-life. “I was
furious at first over being taken
—our whole family—from our
home in the San Francisco area
to a camp at Topaz, Utah,” Michi
told Ron Burton of the United
Press the other day. “I was sep
arated from my friends. I kept
telling myself, T’m an American
—why is this happening to me ?’ ”
. Michi left Topaz forNew York
in 1946 with an acting-’career in
mind. She won a scholarship and
attended classes at New York
University and the New School
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Michi—she used her real name,
Okamoto, then (Kobi is her
mother’s maiden name)—had an
off-Broadway showcasing in the
leading feminine role of Ted Pol
lock’s play, “Wedding- in Japan,”
in which she was a Japanese girl
in love with a Negro GI.
She
later recreated the role in sum
mer stock, playing opposite the
late Canada Lee.
Miss Kobi’s biggest break came
in 1953 when the Azuma Kabuki
troupe, came to Broadway. She
was eng-aged as narrator for the
Kabuki, and played six weeks on
Broadway and made her network
TV bow on the Omnibus show.
Michi has appeared in many
TV prog-rams since. Lately she
was in a segment of the weeklyseries, “The Californians,” in
which she was a Chinese girl who
resists race prejudice in early-day
San Francisco. In last week’s
“Thieves of Tokyo” on the CBS
Climax program she was a Ja
panese girl who is in love with
an American secret investigate!'
who is on the trail of American
steel which is being funneled to
the Chinese Communists. Dewey
Martin was the American.
Miss Kobi’s longest profession
al engagement to date was her
Lotus Blossom in John Patrick’s
comedy, “Teahouse of the August
Moon.” She took over the role
from another Nisei actress, Reiko
Sato, on the road in the Larry
Parks company and played it for
two seasons.
“One of the problems of a Ni
sei actress is type-casting,” says
Miss Kobi. She has played Japa
nese of Chinese in all of her ap
pearances on TV and in films.
OTHER JAPANESE FEMME
STARS
Michi Kobi got her big chance
in Hollywood from Nacirema, the
Nisei-financed production firm.
Marvin Segal, the Beverly Hills
lawyer who is a Nacirema official
and co-authoi' of “Dateline To
kyo” with Norman T. Herman be
lieves Michi is destined for a long
career in the movies on the
strength of her playing in her
first picture. *
Michi is the movies’ latest
actress of Japanese descent. An
other' is Yoko Tani who has been
cast for the leading role of the
Japanese girl in the Betty Box
production based on the Richard
Mason novel, “The Wind Cannot
Read,” which involves an inter
racial romance with a British
soldier in southeast Asia. Miss
Tani is seen as one of the native
g-irls in the picture which prob
ably will sweep all- of the Aca
demy Award, “The Bridge on the
River Kwai.” Another .of Holly
wood’s new Japanese stars is Eiko
Ando, the dancer from Tokyo’s
Nichigeki music hall who was
picked by Director John Huston
to play the geisha Okichi in “The
Barbarian,” in which John Wayne
is Townsend Harris, first Ameri
can diplomatic official in Japan.
The other Hollywood Japanese
actresses include Yoshia Mori,
who was considered one of the
leading prospects of Columbia
studios in the 1930s in such films
as “Bitter Tea of General Yen”
and “Law of the Jungle.”
Of
more recent date there have been
Lotus Long (Pearl Suetomi) who
had leading roles in MGM’s
“Eskimo” and Paramount’s “To
kyo Rose” and Shirley Yamagu
chi who was in “Japanese War
Bride” and 20th Century Fox’s
“House of Bamboo.”
But the Japanese actress who
was once one of Hollywood’s top
performers was Tsuru Aoki who
made her debut in Kay Bee pro
ductions 44 years ago, and later
was starred by Paramount and
Lasky in such productions as
“The Typhoon,” with Sessue Ha
yakawa whom she later married,
and “Alien Souls” with Earle
Foxe.
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Wednesday, February 12, 195g
The Golden Age: It Least 24 Issei Couples Wedded Over 50 Years MISS VALENTINEAt least 24 Issei couples .
have celebrated their Gold- ? <
en Wedding Anniversaries
in Canada, according to a
survey conducted by the Ja
panese section of The New
Canadian last Christmas.
The project, designed to ;
record part of the livings
history of the Japanese s
Canadian Issei pioneers, in- .*
dicated that most of the 24 *
couples who replied are still
enjoying
comparatively
good health.
$
At the top of the -list are
Mr. and Mrs. Eiji Sasaki of
Toronto who were married
away back in 1896 in Japan, s w
They will be celebrating^
their 62nd wedding anniver-^
B'
sary this year.
|
Mr. Sasaki, now 86 years!
old, is one of the few re-|
maining pioneers of that!
age group still in good B
health. Still active in the|
Toronto Japanese Canadian ®
community, he is head of |
Ss
the “Seicho-no-Iye” organ-®
ization.
His
79-year-old I
wife, Chiyo, also hale and
Mr. Sasaki got hitched in '96. . .
hearty, is often seen accom
panying het* husband to JC
Japan Weathermen Amaze Canadian Meteorologist
MONTREAL. — The Japanese
have beaten Canada, and other
countries, to the punch in the
field of meteorology.
This is the estimate of Cana
da’s top weatherman, Andrew
Thomson, director of the Mete
orological Service, after "’travel
ling 21,000 miles around the world
in 39 days.
He was Canada’s delegate to
the Pacific Science Congress in
Bangkok, Thailand. He stopped
off in Japan and was amazed at
the immensity of the meteoro
logical set-up- there.
With headquarters in Tokyo,
there are 5,150 full-time em
ployes in the meteorological ser
vice, Canada has 1.800.
Japan publishes three top jour
nals on meteorology—two in En
glish and one in Japanese. Cana
da has none. " ■
In the Tokyo headquarters
there is a library of 105,000
volumes and 135,000. pamphlets.
Japanese researchers, meanwhile,
are turning out considerable other
first-class meteorological litera
ture.
1
- •
- Canada, he said, is maintaining
its own in meteorological service
for aviation, and some outstand
ing research work is being con
ducted in cloud physics, and Arc
tic meteorology, at McGill, but
broad advances are being held up
by lack of professionally trained
personnel.
What is needed, said Mr. Thom
son, are more men. and women
trained - in mathemathics and
physics. There is a keen, demand
for such trained personnel in me
teorology. In government service,
such people trained as forecasters
might reach a $7,000 salary in
five and a half years.
Forecasting beyond a period of
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gatherings. So far they have Koma Tamemoto of "Winnipeg,
Crowning the n e w
seven grandchildren and five Man., Sentaro and Shika Suzuki
great-grandchildren.
of London, Ont., and Kichitaro ‘ queen at 11 p.m. will be
Mrs. M. Endo. Last year’s,
Other Issei couples who have and Hatsuye Suga of Montreal.
To these happy couples. The
winner, Ricky Matsumo
passed the half-century mark are: New Canadian sent congratulato, will not be able to at
Shinkichi and Sumi Okamoto of ■tory messages and token gifts at
tend as she is in the midst
Taber, Alta., due to celebrate Christmas.
theix* 60th year of wedded bliss
These pioneers who came to
of exams. Each contestant
this year.
Capada over 50 years ago with
will receive a permanent
Nobukichi and Asa Nakashima hopes of gaining some material
miniature
replica of the
of New Denver, B.C., close behind wealth before returning to Japan,
coveted Miss Valentine
are now saying things like, “We
with a 59-year record.
Trophy.
Jiroichi and Yone Shinde have are still strong and will yet en
been married for 57 years and deavor’ for the glory of Canada.”
The dance will take
And just like the grandpa in
are now residing in Greenwood,
place in the downstairs
the song, one Issei woman wrote
B.C.
hall at the UNF, from
of her hubby, “He’s 83 years old
Katsuzo and" Kuni Mayeda of and never saw a doctor.”
8:30 to 12:30.
Toronto, bonded together for 56
years.
Eight couples will be celebrat
ing their 54th wedding anniver
saries this year: Jujiro and Hatsuye Hori of Montreal, P.Q., MatVANCOUVER.
sutaro and Natsuye Kita of West
Recently honored on
Summerland, B.C., Genya and
his fortieth anniver
Shio Ebata of New Denver, B.C.,
sary of teaching at
Gisaku and Tatsu Serizawa of
North Kamloops, B.C., Bunkichi
the Vancouver Japaand Soma Yamazaki of Coaldale,
n e se Lan g u ag e
Alta., and three pairs of 'Issei
School was principal
living in Toronto, Tsuneshichi and ;
T. Sato.
Haruno Matsuoka, Kinzo and Kikuno Kusunoki, and Kisaku and
The graduates of
Kikuyo Nishimoto.
the school presented
In their 53rd year of married
him with a Hi-Fi
life are Jen ya and Haruye Hori
Consol as a token of
of Toronto, Chuzo_ and Namiye
t h e’i r appreciation
Koyanagi of Steveston, B.C., and
and regard for the
Saburo and Moyo Okada of NewDenver, B.C.
teacher. ,
Also due to celebrate their
Mr. Sato is seen
53rd wedding anniversary were at the left, with Dr. Shimokura of Vancouver making
Iwajiro and Ki ku Yamaoka of
Kelowna, B.C., but Mr. Yamaoka the presentation on behalf of the contributors. Contri
passed away on January 21st of butions for this project were collected by the special
this year.
Gakuyukai Committee which was formed last spring in
T. Sato honored by students |
With 52 years to look back on
together are Shinjiro and Kinu
Kondo of Toronto, Motozo and
Kimi Toyama of New Denver^
B.C., Kozaburo and Oiyo Uno of
Montreal, Kamekichi and Torano
Kobayashi of Toronto, Josuke and
five days is* still highly unreliablephe said. Considerable re
search is necessary to secure the
fundamental knowledge which
would lead to accuracy.
Toronto, and graduates now residing in Toronto, Hamil
ton, Winnipeg, Fort William and other points took part
in this program.
The balance of the money collected, after all ex
penses were deducted, was,also forwarded to the teach
er to buy records of his choice.
The Toronto Committee wishes to inform all con
tributors how happy Mr. and Mrs. Sato are over
the gift and would like to thank all those who assisted
in this undertaking. The teachers were also recipients
of a TV set from graduates living in Vancouver.
I Hollywood’s Latest Leading Lady: Michi Kobi
By LARRY TAJIRI
In the Pacific Citizen
DENVER, Colo.—The way Mi
chi Kobi feels, any role in which
she portrays Japanese woman is
a character part. After all, Miss
Kobi is an American, having been
born in Sacramento, Calif.
Michi .is Hollywood’s newest
leading lady of Japanese ances
try and recently completed her
first starring role in Nacirema’s
“DatelineSrokyo” in which she
portrayed a Tokyo girl named
Sumi who falls in love with an
American Marine accused of killling a Japanese boy. The picture,
which has overtones of the recent
Girard case in Japan, will be re
leased shortly by Allied Artists.
According to Michi, her next
role is in a picture called “Behind
Barbed Wire” which presumably
is about the Japanese American
mass evacuation of 1942, a sub
ject which Hollywood has stu
diously avoided foi’ the past 15
years. Actually, there were scenes
of evacuees being- shipped to a
relocation camp in “Little Tokvo,
U.S.A.”, the. 20i.lt Century Fox
item which editorially approved
of mass evacuation. Relocation
centre sequences which Robert
Pirosh originally wrote into the
script for “Go for Broke!”, the
story of the 442nd Combat Team,
were deleted before the MGM pro
duction was started when the
War Department objected to the
picturization of relocation camps.
The price was Army cooperation
in the making- of the film about
the Japanese American Combat
Team, and military help was
needed by the studio in recreatingbattle scenes involving the 442nd
in Italy and France.
If Michi Kobi makes the relo
cation camp picture, she will be
able to act from real-life. “I was
furious at first over being taken
—our whole family—from our
home in the San Francisco area
to a camp at Topaz, Utah,” Michi
told Ron Burton of the United
Press the other day. “I was sep
arated from my friends. I kept
telling myself, T’m an American
—why is this happening to me ?’ ”
. Michi left Topaz forNew York
in 1946 with an acting-’career in
mind. She won a scholarship and
attended classes at New York
University and the New School
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Michi—she used her real name,
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She
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Miss Kobi’s biggest break came
in 1953 when the Azuma Kabuki
troupe, came to Broadway. She
was eng-aged as narrator for the
Kabuki, and played six weeks on
Broadway and made her network
TV bow on the Omnibus show.
Michi has appeared in many
TV prog-rams since. Lately she
was in a segment of the weeklyseries, “The Californians,” in
which she was a Chinese girl who
resists race prejudice in early-day
San Francisco. In last week’s
“Thieves of Tokyo” on the CBS
Climax program she was a Ja
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an American secret investigate!'
who is on the trail of American
steel which is being funneled to
the Chinese Communists. Dewey
Martin was the American.
Miss Kobi’s longest profession
al engagement to date was her
Lotus Blossom in John Patrick’s
comedy, “Teahouse of the August
Moon.” She took over the role
from another Nisei actress, Reiko
Sato, on the road in the Larry
Parks company and played it for
two seasons.
“One of the problems of a Ni
sei actress is type-casting,” says
Miss Kobi. She has played Japa
nese of Chinese in all of her ap
pearances on TV and in films.
OTHER JAPANESE FEMME
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Michi Kobi got her big chance
in Hollywood from Nacirema, the
Nisei-financed production firm.
Marvin Segal, the Beverly Hills
lawyer who is a Nacirema official
and co-authoi' of “Dateline To
kyo” with Norman T. Herman be
lieves Michi is destined for a long
career in the movies on the
strength of her playing in her
first picture. *
Michi is the movies’ latest
actress of Japanese descent. An
other' is Yoko Tani who has been
cast for the leading role of the
Japanese girl in the Betty Box
production based on the Richard
Mason novel, “The Wind Cannot
Read,” which involves an inter
racial romance with a British
soldier in southeast Asia. Miss
Tani is seen as one of the native
g-irls in the picture which prob
ably will sweep all- of the Aca
demy Award, “The Bridge on the
River Kwai.” Another .of Holly
wood’s new Japanese stars is Eiko
Ando, the dancer from Tokyo’s
Nichigeki music hall who was
picked by Director John Huston
to play the geisha Okichi in “The
Barbarian,” in which John Wayne
is Townsend Harris, first Ameri
can diplomatic official in Japan.
The other Hollywood Japanese
actresses include Yoshia Mori,
who was considered one of the
leading prospects of Columbia
studios in the 1930s in such films
as “Bitter Tea of General Yen”
and “Law of the Jungle.”
Of
more recent date there have been
Lotus Long (Pearl Suetomi) who
had leading roles in MGM’s
“Eskimo” and Paramount’s “To
kyo Rose” and Shirley Yamagu
chi who was in “Japanese War
Bride” and 20th Century Fox’s
“House of Bamboo.”
But the Japanese actress who
was once one of Hollywood’s top
performers was Tsuru Aoki who
made her debut in Kay Bee pro
ductions 44 years ago, and later
was starred by Paramount and
Lasky in such productions as
“The Typhoon,” with Sessue Ha
yakawa whom she later married,
and “Alien Souls” with Earle
Foxe.
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