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THE NEW CANADIAN
An Independent Organ for Canadians of Japanese Origin
TORONTO. ONT.
21
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trailin’ light

Bv MARGE

REPATRIATE FORGETS WARTIME ANGUISH,
DESIRES GOOD JAPAN-CANADA RELATIONS
14, recently

Wins Seven Awards
I But
Keeps Only Two

Joyce Mayeda,
won seven major prizes at WestThe passage of time softens people accepted evacuees and
wood
Junior
High
School

s
award
away
from
home,

I
had
remark
­
Glasgow, Scotland
bitter memories. This is the case treated them with kindness; ex­
night.
She gained the general of Mrs. Kazuye Nishidera who change of children's paintings
ed.
ling again. From my
prize and prizes for repatriated to Japan in 194th
and drawing's.
‘•You probably never will,” re­ proficiency geography,
history,
states that
er perch, I watch the plied Enid, who has been in Bri­ English,
Now living in Tokyo,
mathematics.
science,
French,
formed
after
idea;
Canadian
wegians scurrying like tain almost a year. She was born
longer angry with the
Hl
and
instrumental
music.
meeting
a
visitor
to
Japan
with
wartime
government for
the cobble-stoned in England, but had moved with
But she accepted only the treatment of the Japanese Cana­ whom she had spent the war
her family to Canada some ten
years in the ghost-towns. Her
roads, to oe swallowed up by the years ago. Toronto is only 12 general proficiency and mathe­ dians
matics prizes. The remainder re­ Canadian
memories
of those days prompt­
double-decker buses.
she outlines
(T.C.A.) hours away.
verted
to
other
graduating
stu
­
ed
her
to
act
on her wish to bet­
The uast two days have not
her fond dream to promote good
There are a couple, of thousand dents.
ter
relations
between
Canada and
between
Canada
and
airre Totten me accustomed to Indians in Glasgow, most of them
relations
Joyce
is
the
president
of
the
Japan.
AA’aAe going in opposite distudents. I’ve noticed students council and one of the Japan.
^tions—right-hand drive and engineering
Among the details she suga Tew Negroes, but I haven’t seen editors of the Westwood Wind
Ml Its really hazardous since a single Oriental so. far. Oddly
gests are the following: organi­
Up.
the
school

s
annual
magazine.
AT uedestrian never has the enough, I rarely get a curious
zation of nn association of JapaHer brother, Lloyd, won the nese Canadians in Japan; invita­
right of way7.
glance. Enid says it’s not surpris­ general proficiency award at tion of more Japanese Canadian
Aid the currency7 here is most ing since Glasgow is„.a port city.:
pioneer groups to tour Japan; Choir to Tour Europe
but I think I’m get- besides, “it’s not done to stare,” Westwood lash year.
confusir
She is the daughter of Mr. and presentation of Japanese dolls,
'”W on to it now. . . 20 shillings she adds. Glasgow is hardly cos­
The famous Medallion Club
in a pound; a florin is 2 shillings; mopolitan, but the Scots, on the Mrs. Harold Mayeda of East fireworks and cherry' trees to headed by. Mrs. Morn Webb,
former ghost-towns where the
there's 12 pence to a sliding; the whole, are a very friendly lot.
.grand winner of a Choir Festival
cMn’ that look like dimes are
in
Chicago recently, includes the
I’ve moved into Enid’s spacious
sixpence; the nickel-sized ones
voice
of Mrs. Grace Furukawa,
bed-sitting room with its high
are threepence or "thrup’nceJ;
daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Roy
ceiling, most grotesque in its
and a half-pence is called an “ay7- ornate plaster designs. There’s a
Yamaguchi of Hamilton. The
p’ay” . . . It has been fun shop- fireplace here,
Choir is scheduled to leave on a
a commodity
FRESNO, Calif.—Delegates to white.
pimr. just for the sake of figur- found in every room, since there’s
know
3 week tour in Europe which will
Merrill said he does not
the convention of the California
Intcrnnin^ out what coins to give.
include the
how
many
7
funeral
directors
no central heating. Outside are Funeral Directors Association
and
egroes
tional
Trade
Fair.
I still don’t feel as if I m innumerable chimneys, protuding asked that Negroes and Orientals ciations admit
The 34 member troupe will de­
from rooftops like turrets, or re­ be admitted to membership in the Orientals.
part
from Malton Airport on
The
resolution
was
passed
by
7
giments of soldiers. A fire being' National Funeral Directors As­
July
4
and all possibilities show
voice
vote.
There
was
no
discus
­
too tedious to kindle every morn­ sociation.
Teenage Musicians
that
they
will perform this year
ing. Enid snuggled an electric
A resolution to that effect, sion.
Merrill
said
later
that
it
is
a
at
the
CNE
in Toronto.
To Play in Montreal
heater into our room. She calls proposed by the Fresno County
bad
resolution.
A
very
7
bad
reso
­
Funeral Directors Association,
MONTREAL.—On
board
a it “'the fire.”
And to brighten the lower half was adopted unanimously by the lution.”
special train, will be several hun­
5
10,000th on Japan Line
dred teenage musicians, gather­ ..of the room, Enid has postcard­ delegates during their final busi­
ed from Trinidad and the United size reproductions of Picasso, ness session.
Ten
thousand
passengers
States to perform in the Verdun Klee, and Hogarth. On the table
The resolution notes the CFDA
have travelled on the N1 K’s Hi­
Auditorium on the same evening sits a bowl of Cezanne-like fruit. “enjoys a membership of all per­
kawa Maru since U'resumed its
It’s nice and cozy, with an old- sons. regardless of race, creed or O.A.C.
of their arrival, June 22.
trans-Pacific route from Van­
From Trinidad will be a steel world atmosphere. We have use color.
Second year at the Ontario
couver
and Seattle to Yokoha­
band of about 40 youngsters of of the bathroom with pull-chain
The resolution instructs the Agricultural College in Guelph
ma
on
July,
1953. Last weekend
Yoshimura
Chinese, East Indian, Japanese, flush, and the kitchen where we board of directors of the CFDA
the Japanese steamship lines
Neuro and Anglo-Saxon extrac­ often boil a kettle of water for to seek membership for Negroes of Bradford.
presented a memento to its 10,tion who will entertain with coffee. Enid detests tea.
and Orientals in the NFDA.
000th passenger, Lillian Cole,
Calypso songs, limbo dancers and
We shall, however, be leaving
Roy T. Merill of Albion, N.Y'., U of TORONTO
•13,
of Winnipeg. She is the sec­
The following passed their
other novelty acts.
it this weekend to go tramping president of the NFDA, who at­
retary
of the Canadian Em­
From the United States, the about the Scottish highlands, tended the convention, told a re­ years at the School of Medicine:
bassy of Japan.
First year pre-meds: A. R. Ki­
champion high school band will ruck-sacks on our backs, and porter he was against the resolu­
“I
thought it tion. He said it would cause a tamura, pass; Second year presleeping-bags.
perform in addition to a drum
would be nice to get into practice cleavage between the funeral meds: G. Y. Takahashi, second
and bugle corps.
Sugamo Now Empty
for the continent,” says Enid. directors in the southern states class.
All this has been made possible She is something of the same and those in the rest of the coun­
First year medical: S. H. Yo­
TOKYO.—Sugamo prison, the
as a result of the interest of Curt nature as myself.
try.
shida, pass; Second year: Miss big grey jail that housed Japan’s
Watkins of Gardner, Mass., who
He said that admitting Ne­ P S. Kamitakahara, pass; Fourth major war criminals, is empty.
We have no itinerary planned
not only paid the transportation for the next two months. We’ll -groes to the NFDA would not year: D. S. Fujino, pass.
The prison’s last 18 inmates were
cost of these children, but has just follow our noses and the work because in at least one
Diploma
in
Veterinary
Public
released on parole by U.S. au­
provided for a week’s .vacation
state, Mississippi, there are more Health: Dr. V. J. A. Ikeda.
Youth
Hostels
until
our
money
thorities.
The prison held more
travelling down the St. Lawrence,
Negro funeral directors than
than
4000
prisoners during the
runs
out.
via ship.
the years since WW IT. The
building now will be remodeled
and used as a detention house by
the Tokyo city government.

Seek Membership in U.S. Funeral Association

The Scholars

Macbeth in Japanese Dress at Film Festival

There will be Shakespeare at
; this year’s Stratford Festival in
: more ways than one. Macbeth,
< one of Shakespeare’s mature trai gedies, will undergo a change of
i setting—from the Scottish high; lands to the mountains of Japan
i —and a change of dress—from
‘ highland kilt to the kimono and
samurai armor. But the essential
pattern of action and theme will
I still bo there in the Toho Comj pany's production of “’The Throne
i of Blood”, the opus that is to be
| presented as part of the internaI tional Film Festival at Stratford,

o

’ of the Japanese who made
le the superb “Rashomon"
r years back—the Grand
award-winning film which
emains in the memory as
one - the finest ever—will be
Oac
this one. They are the
e"
producer Akira Kurosaactor Toshiro Mifune.
-t*cr will be the Japanese
I 1 ers
of Macbeth, the man who,
«n by an ambitious wife,
d
to a series of desperate
s to attain a kingdom.
li­ the role of the Japanese
Macbeth is veteran actress
Yamada, who is rated on* a
pa- ri th such leading ladies as
po

cumbs to madness. Lady Mac­
Pleads ‘Not Guilty’
beth, after all, is the lady who
says she would murder the babe
LOS ANGELES.—Louis Ya­
at her breast if she had to.
mashiro, 17, last week entered a
As Shakespeare has it, the
plea of “not guilty” when charg­
story is one of the contrast be­
ed with first degree murder by
tween light and darkness, the
the District Attorney’s office in
antithesis between good and evil.
the killing of Richard Sumii, 1G,
Macbeth, like Hamlet and Othel­
at a Chinatown dance. Frank
lo, is one of Shakespeare’s tower­
Chuman, Yamashiros attorney,
ing heroic figures, bowed down
said he expects to interview more
by guilt and indecision. The crux
than 30 witnesses until the trial
of Macbeth’s problem is that he
in defense of Ytamashiro, who
tries to be entirely self-sufficient,
alleged that he acted in self-de­
and will not face the all but
fense.
overwhelming evidence of his in­
sufficiency. He is evil arrayed
against the forces of good.
West Point Graduate
So that “tomorrow and tomor­
row and tomorrow, creeps in this
WEST POINT, N.Y.—Robert
petty* pace from day to day, re­
ISUZU YAMADA
J. Matsumoto, 22, was graduated
flects his utter discenchantment,
TOSHIRO MIFUNE
. full of sound and fury early this month from the U.S.
. tale told by an idiot his dull disgust with life. All life
Military Academy at West Point.
becomes for him, “a tale told by
He received a bachelor of science
an idiot, full of sound and fury, babes, one thinks, should be easy degree and was commissioned a
signifying nothing.” Yet. he Machiko Kyo and Keiko Kishi. never suomits to this nagging re­ for them to handle. They’ve done second lieutenant in the infantry.
Mis^ Yamada has been married frain, and that is the measure of this well in the too few Japanese When Matsumoto entered the
films that have come over: “Ra- academy in 1954, it was the first
six times and divorced six times, his true greatness.
shomon”, “Ugetsu”, and “Gate of time in West Point’s 152-year
and if such matrimonial acrobaIt will, then, be interesting m Hell.”
history that a young cadet re­
tics-far more typical of Hoily- «;ee how the Japanese handle this
placed*
a brother. Bob’s brother,
Mifune
plays
Taketoki
Washi
­
wood movie queens than ihe Ja­ material. The recurring _ element
Glenn,
was
graduated from West
zu,
a
general
who
distinguishes
panese—is a guage of her tem- of the supernatural, vicious and
Point
in
1954
and was the second
himself
in
action
for
his
lord
uerament, then she might come unnatural crimes, the atmosphere
(Continued on Page Eight)
up with a good performance as redolent with blood and burning
the hellbound woman who suc-

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SPORTS

dates and doings

Fukumoto Sparkles in Honest Ed's Win
camdav. June la, saw Honest
"'”^,ieese out a close 8-7 win
Ed':
Columbus. Major Fukumoover
Yied with the bases loaded
to c
Ih? for $ rbi’s in the first
v Ed’s played an errorless
,
with some sensational
Maior at short. KunuN'.; Couthnaw from Hamilton,
Nkhd but Vas relieved in the
JVY bv Percell when he tired.

Bowling Results
rvre
Anita Romaldi 625;
7/J Sora 610. Team results:
fcj s: Kay 1: Lil, Toki, Mary
R Wd Mary H. 2.
jnr-- 14: Ginger Terakita '<80;
aNagami 587. Team results:
qWcv 4: Mary H. 0; Mary E. 4;
mfcToki 3; Kay 1.

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i screen and doors

nth [Two Guest Sneakers at Hamilton Service

Percell weakened in the sever
loading the bases. Manager Maw
Mori sent in his ace pitcher. Jim i HAMILTON. — The Japanese
Rennie, who pur out the fire by ! Congregation of All People's
striking out Kuczwa of Colum- i United Church in Hamilton will
bus. stranding the tying run on have two guest preachers at the
third.
Family Service to be held on Japanese Conference Sunday, June
:30 p.m.
Rev Nozomu Furuya of Winnines-. Manitoba. will preach in
Japanese and Rev. W. R. McWil­
liams, formerly of Tashme and
Eddy Nobuto captured first now residing in Crescent Beach,
prize at the second Nisei and Ja- B.C.. will
the young'
panese Golf Tournament held on people.
Sunday, June 15, at the Rouge
a reception
After th
Hills Golf Course in Toronto.
to the Con­
Nobuto shot a gross SI to defeat ference
i' ministers
all other low handicappers. He
had a handicap of 15.
The tourney was the brainchild
of Consul M. Endo, and the prime
purpose is to better the acquainand Japanese
tance of
businessmen in Canada through
Male Help Wanted
the popular game of golf.
must have driver's license;
The Nisei also swept, the group HANDY-man,
Apply Christie Automotive Engineering,
match, thus reversing last year's 176 Christie St. (Toronto).
win by the Japanese group. The
next tournament will be held in
Rooms to Let
autumn.
A

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At Golf Tourney

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TTWO ooms and kit
Spadina. Also one room, cooking if de­
The New Canadian acknowledges with sired. Phone EM. 8-9653 evenings (Tor­
thanks generous donations from the fol­ onto}.
lowing:
Mr. Uhei Miike of Toronto in memory 2 or 3 boys who work in office wishing
to batch. Quiet heme in ’High Park
of late wife.
Mr. and Mrs. K. Kawamoto and Mr. district. Phone LE. 2-5270 .Toronto).
and Mrs. M. Koyanagi of Hamilton on
occasion of son's and daughter's mar­
For Sale
riage.
Mr. and Mrs. Genmatsu Nakamura of
practically new, reaToronto on occasion of grandson's birth. Pontiac De
Mr. Naka Oikawa of Toronto in mem­
buy 56 model. Reaory of late Yosaburo Hinatsu.
Mr. Tadaichi Sakai of Montreal, Que., son, recalled io J apan. For particulars
on rhe occasion of NC anniversary.
phone EM. 3-6427 (Toronto).
Rev. J. Kabayama of Kelowna, B.C.,
on the occasion of anniversary of NC.
Business for Sale
Toronto Mixed 5-Pin Bowring League.
Mr. R. Uyeno of Toronto.
Mr. and Mrs. Kunio Shinohara of Tor­
MASSAGE STUDIO in OTTAWA
onto on the occasion of daughter's
for SALE
birth.
Established 20 years, good clientele,
all equipment and business telephone
DOLLARS
for
THREE
THOUSAND
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NORTHERN PAVING

The TJCCA picnic committee
headed by chairman Mits Sumi­
ya and Stan Hiraki has again
assembled around them a very
capable group to make this year's
affair a resounding success. How­
ever, due to the ever growing
numbers at this annual event and
the addition of more novelty
games for the young and old, the
committee feels that assistance
will be needed. Therefore, a
meeting' has been called for Wed­
nesday, June 25, 8 p.m., at 415
Spadiiia Ave., for interested

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Ottawa, Ontario.
Phone CEntral 4-7223.

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Last minute Note: The. Hamil­
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fered to perform with the Toron­
to group in entertaining the
crowd. This will be. followed by
the drawing of the winning ticket
re: Air Trip to Japan for 2 under
the sponsorship of the Japanese
Canadian Centre Committee.

LAV/N ORNAMENT

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EM. 4-1394
EM. 4-1395

parties and organization repre­
sentatives for the finalization of
plans which resulted from last

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Sandy Beach is as follows: Take
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tlie first sideroad on the left.

For further information or Proceed to
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transportation
please contact Dot Shimizu at the lake where fun and friends
Ruth Maikawa at await your arrival. Everyone is
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Kisaragi Meeting

and workers of the
The Kisaragi Club’s last dance
Church of Canada will be held in
meeting
to be held on Saturday.
the Church Hall.
June
28.
8 p.m,. st 1131 Dundas
A cordial invitation is
St..
W,.
(formerly Matsuo Stued to all.
diok will also be utilized to
accept the approval from the
Isseibu members and finalize
Buddhist Picnic Site plans
for those who wish to at­
tend
the
Stratford ShakespeareDirections to Spring Hill Park,
the location of the coming Tor­
(Toronto)
onto Young Buddhist’s Society
Union
also
at
this time will ac­
picnic, slated" for June 22, is as
cept
applications
from members
follows: Take 40.1 east to High­
h
to
apply
for the 01
who
way 12. Turn north and proceed
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Hospital
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Reminders: There will be no
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swimming pool located at the
park; bingo game is free.

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THE

ISSEI DOM . . . by t.u.

It’s Folly to Lend Books
Tn the Japanese section of The
New Canadian’s 20th anniver­
sary Issue, staff member Larry
Yamada wrote an article slan­
dering me because I had not lent
him a book on “Nanga” art.
I may lend money to friends,
but when it comes to books I’m
very stingy. There are, 1 think,
good reasons for .this niggardly
behaviour. During the war, for
example, one of my friends who
had been shipped to a road camp,
begged me to send some books
because life there was so mono­
tonous.
Since I understood his
plight, I sent him several books.
I had not expected him to return
the books Immediately, but when
the war ended, the books were
gone, perhaps torn to pieces but
definitely
lost
forever.
The
friend had gone to Japan through
the. repatriation scheme.
Some of the books of fiction
which I had 'lent to my friend
included some priceless copies of
Natsume Soseki’s “Wagahai wa
Neko de aru” (“1 am a Cat”)
and “Bocchan” (“Master Dar­
ling”). These books, were the
first by Soseki which I had read,
and represented an important
part of my youthful experience.
Thus they had a great sentimen­
tal value for me.
In another incident, a friend
dropped into the office, and see­
ing some books on the shelf, bor­
rowed them. Soon after, he had
left for Japan, apparently for-

getting that he had borrowed
them.
Now, if I wish to read
them, I must order them from
Japan. If is, as you will admit,
very inconvenient.
Some of the books which I had
“lost” in this manner- are now
out of print, and are not procur­
able except at the library. One
of these was “Canada and the
Orient” by Charles J. Woodsworth, which has disappeared
from the office, probably trans­
ferred from borrower to borrow­
er, or transported to Japan.
Since this book is an important
reference book, I wanted to buy
another copy. But it was out of
print, and none of the book stores
in Toronto had a copy. Finally
I had to resort to borrowing a
c°py- .
When I talked about this mat­
ter to Ken Adachi the other day
he said to me, “Lend your wife,
lend your cai' to your friends,
but never, never lend your books.
You will eventually get your
wife and car back, but books will
be kept by the borrowers, for­
gotten, and lost. It is a misguid­
ed piece of folly to lend books.”
I think it is sad to see people
who do not appreciate the value
of books, or do not pay, atten­
tion to the feelings of book­
lovers.
Books become priceless
possessions, but other people do
not seem to regard them as such.
I don’t care, then, whether
people call me a “book-monger”.

NEW

Wednesday, June 18, 195s

CA NA DIA N

Largest Japan Church
Now Being Built
TOKYO.—A new church —
largest ever built in Japan—is
under construction in Toxyo with
funds raised by church members
and the general public. It will be­
long to the Protestant faith.
The two-storied building, de­
signed bv Tetsuro Okada, a lead­
ing architect, is large enough to
accommodate 2,000 people.
The construction of the ultra­
modern
church
materialized
through the efforts of Rev. T.
Obara of the Yodobashi Church
of the United Church of Christ
in Japan, supported by his
parish.
The new church building is said
to cost in the vicinity of $70,000
about half of which has already
been raised by church members,
including young Sunday School
students, and many others. “All
the cost will be covered through
donations,” said Rev. Obara.
The. Yodobashi Church was
once destroyed by wartime bomb­
ing, and the church members
have since been holding meetings
in a shaky “portable” church
which can only accomodate about
300 persons.

THE NEW CANADIAN
Published on Wednesday and Saturday of each week
at a medium of expression and news outlet
among those of Japanese origin in Canada

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KANJI HINDRANCE TO SOCIAL PROGRESS
By CHUBEI ITOH

Japanese culture to a higher de­
gree of fullness.
In Shin Nichibei
We Japanese ought to know
Kanji is a major hindrance to more about the virtues of Kata­
the social progress of Japan. For kana. It excels the Roman script,
the future good of the Japanese, in that, on the average, word
formation requires fewer letters
kanji must be totally abolished of the katakana alphabet than of
in favor of katakana.
any other alphabet in the world.
Katakana letters, can be built
That would be a drastic re­
form, to be sure.
But look at into words witholt rule-bound,
the resolute revolution of the memory-taking spelling. A con­
Turkish alphabet and Red China’s versation taken down, in kataka­
decision to Latinize the Chinese na at once makes intelligible sen­
tences — without transcription
language.
No first-rate nations of the which shorthand recording re­
world today use an ideographic quires.
Word - writing in Katakana
script like kanji. They all use
some phonetic alphabet. Kataka­ takes only between 60 to 66 per
na—the Japanese phonetic alpha­ cent of the time it takes to write
bet—is the best script in the words in European languages or
in the Roman script. Greater
world.
Incalculable benefit w o u 1 d still is the difference in time re­
come to Japanese culture quired for typing or- printing.
These facts were pointed out
through a change from kanji to
(Continued from Page One)
katakana as the standard script as long ago as 35 years by the
by quelling a rebellion. On his for Japan.
late Dr. B. C. Stickney, professor
way back to the castle, he meets
of languages at Columbia Uni­
an old .witch who foretells that
Amazed at Typewriter
versity.
he will eventually become lord of
The 48 letters of katakana are
I first saw a typewriter while
the domain, though another man s
I
was
in Manchester, England, in all built of simple strokes and
son will become heir.
yet they are so different from
Taketoki, then, watches for a 1909. I was amazed beyond words one another as to be proof from
chance to usurp his lord’s posi­ -at the difference in office work conusion. Katakana and Romaji
tion. He is tormented by two op­ efficiency between writing kanji are the only two scripts in the
posing forces: ambition and con­ with a brush (use of a writing­ world which, when written in the
By LARRY TAJIRI
and “Dateline Tokyo.”
science, but prompted by his wife, brush was a common everyday Western “left to right” style, are
Lewis
noted
that,
unlike
re
­
“We’ve found the Japanese girl
he slays his master. The anguish practice in Japan then) and writ­ readable only by the upper half.
cent
films
with
Japanese
back
­
we’ve been looking for,” Jerry
of a torturing conscience besets ing the alphabet on a fast
I urge a total abolition of kanji
grounds
which
have
been
cast
Lewis said. We were driving in
Taketoki as he tries to blot out machine.

after a preparatory period of
To me the difference seemed
from the airport in Denver, and filmed in Japan, “Geisha his primal offense with more
five
to 10 years to avoid the
as startling- as the difference in
Lewis having arrived for a show Boy” will be made wholly in crimes.
shock
of an abrupt abolition.
at Red Rocks theatre. The talk California. “We’ve found a home
When told that his enemies efficiency between a spear and
This
period should be used for
got around to “Geisha Boy,” in Los Angeles, built by a Japa­ have risen up against him, .Ta­ a machinegun.
a
more
thorough-going enforce­
I beg-an to have strong doubts
which is the biggest thing in the nese American, which is a per­ ketoki is assured by the witch
ment
of
the language reforms
fect replica of a Japanese house,” that so long- as the whole forest as to the wisdom of continuing
comic’s life at the moment.
introduced
in the early postwar
“We needed a girl to play my Lewis said, “and we will borrow does not rise up and march to­ the.use of kanji as the standard years to the delight of linguistic
For 49 years
sweetheart in the picture and we it for some of our scenes.”
ward his castle, he is invincible. script in Japan.
since
then,
I
have
played a reform advocates—the reduction
must have interviewed hundreds,
Although the Japanese roles The forest, on the day of battle,
in the kanji vocabulary for use
mostly in California,’’ said Lewis. are being- cast in Hollywood, and does rise up to move toward the humble part in the reform of the by the schools, the new method
"Then we found Nobu McCarthy, Sessue Hayakawa already has castle; it is, of course, the enemy Japanese language and script.
Kanji is falling behind the of using kana, etc.
who is the cutest Japanese girl signed as co-star with Marie Mac­ men camouflaged by twigs and
As early as possible during the
I’ve ever seen,” the comic said. donald, there is a single excep­ branches. But this presages Ta- tempo of social progress in Ja­ same period, the traditional prac­
pan today. In big- businesses in
He didn’t know much about her tion. Lewis has released a 6-year- ketoki’s death.
tice of writing Japanese in ver­
background, except that she had old boy of Nisei parents who had
In essence, then, “The Throne Japan—as in other* first-rate tical columns from right to left
been born in Canada? Nobu Mc­ been tentatively signed for an of Blood’ looks to be a direct countries—automation of office should be changed to left-toCarthy, 23, has appeared in three important role. “He didn’t know adaptation of Shakespeare’s play. work is in progress, with type­
right horizontal lines.
films to date, “The Barbarian enough Japanese,” Lewis ex­ What will happen to the rising­ writers, teletypes, and IBM and
Conditions for abolition of kan­
and the Geisha,” “The Hunters” plained. “We’ve decided to find poetry (“Out, damned spot! out, Rand machines In increasing use. ji are now ripe. I am extremely
Kanji Tedious
a boy in Japan for the part. You I say!”), the lurid rhetoric, the
But writing kanji-mixed Japa­ happy that the work we kataka­
can teach a Japanese boy English philosophical utterances is any­
nese sentences on the typewriter na advocates have carried for
easier than you can teach an body’s guess.
Youngest Dean
many years are about to bear
American boy Japanese.” ^
But if this version doesn’t turn is a slow, tedious job. A kataka­ fruit. It is sincerely hoped that
SEATTLE.-—Believed to be the
When he isn’t on stage, mug­ out to be a serious interpretation na typewriter works five to eight a total abolition of the ideogra­
youngest dean appointed to head ging for an audience, Lewis is of the Macbeth story, it should times faster than a Japanese phic script-in favor of the phone­
a department at Seattle Univer­ sober and serious. He has a 38- at least prove to be great fun. typewriter which uses kanji.
tic alphabet will be carried out
sity, Dr. Theodore Chihara, 29, day shooting schedule on ' “Gei­ “Much Ado About Nothing” goes
Use of katakana and katakana- at
the earliest possible date—
will assume the post of' dean of sha Boy” which probably will be oh the Stratford boards in the typewriters saves an enormous for the further flowering of Ja­
mathematics at the Jesuit insti­ released around Christmas-New afternoon of July 5; the “Throne amount of time and labor. Small panese culture.
tution in Sept. A Sansei, he was Year time.
wonder katakana machines are
of Blood” is in the evening.
conferred his Ph. D. at Purdue.
—Pacific Citizen
—ulysses coming- into rapidly increasing
use.
Newspapers, magazines - and
othei* publishing industries could
save much time, labor and money
- Summer Shopping
in printing by discarding kanji
FINANCIAL PROTECTION FOR EVERYONE
in favor of katakana.
Schedule
We Japanese often find our­
in the entire family. . .
for
selves in doubt as to what is the
correct pronunciation of a kanji
through Crown's Family Master Plan
word or words in a sentence. This
difficulty would become a thing
of the past if all sentences were
Here is the new idea in family protection plans, combining 4 special
written
exclusively in katakana.
advantages not available through any other plan.
The kanji vocabulary ha's dif­
ficult or high-sounding words un­


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confusing.
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All these would be done away
coverage for each child, without health evidence.
with by conversion to katakana.
JUNE 17 to August 11
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With kanji eliminated, the’Ja­
•t. Up to t-15,000 on the Father's life may be purchased without medical
panese language would be put in
Thurs. 12 to 6 p.m.
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order and become easier and
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And look at the amount of
energy Japanese are compelled
to expend learning the innumer­
able
kanji
ideographs'
The
energy that would be saved by
substituting the easy 47-letter
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