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THE NEW CANADIAN
J^nJndependent Organ for Canadians of Japanese Origin
Vol. 21—No- 60_________ _ _________________________

TORONTO. ONT.

BRAZILCLIMATE CHILLY, COUNTRY AFFORDS
STARTLING CONTRAST BETWEEN OLD AND NEW

JCCA Committee Accepts
offi
cials were
a
'History of JCs in B.C?
lines by note disclosing plans
cars, some

TOKYO. — Government
­
thrown into
flurry
By REV. G. G. NAKAYAMA
routers have to wait in long
a
to have
­ Vle. W01'W!s first atomic-powered
Sao Paulo, Brazil for buses or street
An 18.000-word "History of the towns and road camps.
times over two hours. Most of
The Super H Constellation of the automobiles are about 20 freighter call at two Japanese Japanese Canadians in British
The issues that aros, after
ports in 1960.
Brazilian International Air- years old, and even
Columbia, 1877-1958”. written by evacu: 11ion—dispersa 1 and
taxis are
The freighter is the 12,000 ton
wavs left Miami on July 21,.flew using 1938 models.
The street Savannah, the first atomic-pow­ Ken Adachi, has been accepted, turn "east ot the Rockit?s”, the
over the beautiful islands of Ja- cars are of the kind that were
edited and approved by the Na­
ered commercial vessel, schedul­ tional JCCA History Committee, repatriation and property■ claims
’naica the Bahamas, and landed used 30 years ago in Vancouver
ed to be completed in early 1960 and will be sent shortly to the p r obi e m s—a re c o ve red by the
2 popt of Spain on British Trini­ —old and faded..
by the New York Shipbuilding B.C. JCCA, according to Com­ tHist
dad at midnight. Shortly after
u rn
re-establishment of th<
Yet in contrast to these anti­ company in New Jersey.
a? the Mane took off again, I
mittee
chairman
George
Tanaka.
Canadians
in the coast
A message from the shipbuild­
could see the flat rugged forest quated vehicles there are the big.
The
History
has
been
written
al
area
from
which
they
were upof the Amazon stretching as far towering buildings that reach 20 er told the Japanese government' for the B.C. JCCA as its contri­
2a. the eye could see. This was to 30 stories high. And the Rom­ of plans to have the Savannah bution to the proposed Centennial
niy introduction to South Ameri­ an Catholic churches here are al­ call at Y okohama and Kobe when Year history of ethnic groups in
most indescribable in their beauty she goes on her maiden voyage.
that
The Vancouver
ca.
and grace.
It
asked
the
Japanese
for
a
This, too, was the kind of land
The first two days of my stay report on
from which the hardy Japanese were spent in visits to the news­ gulations Japanese laws and re- planning to compile a volume of
pioneers wrested a living.: But as papers, consulates of Japan and the vessel which would apply to ethnic histories in conjunction Pi'ison For Bad Chequ
and tlie effects of the with the B.C. Centennial Committhe plane neared Sao Paulo, the Canada and the Japanese Brazil­ visit upon the
atom-shy Japanese
OKYO.—U.S. Army civilforests changed to neatly,arrang- ian Cultural Association, which people. .
ian
employee William Yokoyaproached
to
contribute
a
history
ed-farm lands and towns.
serves as a kind of JCCA. I gave
Yet Japan’s Kawasaki dock­ of the Japanese Canadian group,
ma,
29, w a s s c n t o n c cd r ec c n 11 y
One of the first things that I its officers the message from the yard company located at Kobe
to
four
years imprisonment
but
it
turned
the
task
over
to
the
noticed in Sao Paulo was that JCCA which I had been carrying announced recently that it has
and
fined
$3,000 for passing
the South American continent with me.
unveiled blueprints for the na­
29
bad
cheque
Adachi
was
subsequently
com
­
was
undergoing
mid-winter
In the following days, I expect tion’s first atomic-powered vessel
weather, a strange contrast to to take part in the commemora­ —a 3,200-ton craft capable of missioned by the National JCCA
checks totalling $3,120 during
the mid-summer heat tliat Cana­ tion of the 50th Anniversary of sailing three full years without to write the history.
March and April nt various Air
da is experiencing. Indeed, the Japanese Immigration in Brazil.
refueling.
JCGA history
mornings and evenings here are
Tokyo-Yokohama area.
man
Geo re Tahaka, Frank
so chilly that one could easily
Moritsugu, and Raymond Moricatch a cold.
yama
—had this to say about the Share Film Prize
Another surprise I felt is that
work:
thejpeonle’s faces all look alike.
Czechoslo"This is vividly interesting his­
This, despite the fact that there
vakia

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tory which uncovered many facts
are so many races living here.
that
even we had not known be­ tival at Karlovy Vary onded last
Perhaps this is the outcome of
week with its grand prize shared
NEW- YORK. — About 100 presented by the Canadian con­ fore. We feel proud of having by the Soviet Union and Japan.
inter-marriage or environment.
And the Portugeuse language dancers from Toronto and Hamil­ tingent. These included Goshu this work to pass on to the B.C. The joint winners were the Soviet
that they speak .. sounds very ton took part in the International Ondo, Shin Okesa, Gunjyo Bushi JCCA. We also feel that this B.C. Union’s "Quiet Flows the Don”
history; is a ipajor step towards
and Tanko Bushi.
gentle and rhythmical. The de­
and Japan’s "The Stepbrothers.”
O-Bon
Festival
held
in
New
York
About 20,000 spectators watched the success of our final national
portment of the people is also
history.

on July 26 at the Riverside Drive the dances which depicted tales
calm and placid.
The History is a straightfor­ Tojo’s Daughter
The transportation facilities mall. The Festival also had' an of the harvest, of fishing, of min­
ward
account, covering broad
here are extremely bad.
Com- added international flavour- since ing, of young lovers, of a young
TOKYO.—-Kimiyc Tojo, 26.
movements
and
developments
Buddhist hoping for a better
youngest
daughter of wartime
from the time of the early Japa­
it was recorded for later broad­ world.
cast to Japan by the State De­
On a 25-foot high lantern-de­ nese settlers to the present day
Tojo said recently that she had
U.S. Evacuee Claimants
partment.
corated platform in the centre, situation. Adachi begins by trac­
been offered a scholarship by
Most of the celebrants were of called a yagura, six prettily at­ ing the ^stages in immigration,
WASHINGTON.—Forty
evathe Portia law school in Boscee claimants were awarded Japanese origin, but there was a tired girls repeated the series of the economic expansion of the
ton.
graduate student
$299,505.89 from June 18 to June sprinkling of white Americans, a basic steps as the dancers circled. settlers, the hostility against
Also on the yagura were seated them, and the changing face of
30, the Japanese Claims Section South American and a Greek.
The Festival is held annually a drummer, a gong-beater and a the Japanese communitv up to
of the Dept, of Justice informed
to go to the U.S. to study and
1941.
the JACL. The largest and in commemoration of the dead. master’ of ceremonies.
seek
true understanding be­
Next he moves on to the tur­
The New York Times reported
smallest awards were both made In Japan it originated as a Bud­
tween
the two countries. Ul­
bulent period of Pearl Harbor
to claimants residing in Seattle. dhist ceremony but it has become that Japanese Consul General and
timately
she hopes to study in­
evacuation, looking particu­
The largest was for $45,093 and a national; fete. .Here because it Mitsuo Tanaka was so entranced larly at the established preju­
ternational politics at. Columbia
the smallest for . $50. Eight- has proved, in addition, to be of by the dancing that he quit his dicial notions that had been cir­
but
first
awards were in amounts over intercultural value through its place in the stand for distin- culated about the Japanese Can­
wishes to brush up her English
$10,000. The total for the. entire. growing popularity outside the guished guests and joined the adians. The pressure applied by
in a small college.
month of June was 92 claimants community, it has received wide- throng in the mall. He seemed B.C. politicians and groups for
especially pleased to dance to the
being awarded almost $600,000 in spread support.
the wholesale evacuation of all
evacuation claims.
Four special numbers were Tanko Bushi.
Japanese from the "protected
LONG BEACH.—Miss Japan
area” is related, followed by the
and
entrant in the recent Miss
account of the removal to ghost
Universe Contest, Tomoko Mori­
Earnest Trueman
taka, told her beauty secret. She
said,
"Our women use a certain
East Meets West
flour made of rice polishings.
They put this in a little bag and
In Young and Old
the face with it.”
PIEDMONT,
Calif. — Krist
Tong, Miss West InAt the time of the outbreak of God, his love and understanding
Mr. G. Ernest Trueman, wellGudnason, 75-year-old president
known among the Japanese Can­ the Pacific War, Mr. Trueman of the Japanese people, his con­ of a clothing firm, has taken out dies, had this to say: "The woviction of the ultimate triumph
men put olive oil all over their
adians as one of their most un­ was the secretary of Montreal of the cause he was called to a license to wed . a 27-year-old bodies just before going to bed.
YMCA. In the spring of 1943, he
derstanding friends, passed away was asked to visit the relocation serve, and his sanguine sense of Japanese girl who has nursed But I don’t do this.”
during several recent illnes­
Alicja Bobrowska, Miss Poon July 24th after a brief-illness. centres and camps to inquire into humor could have kept him in the him
ses.
job
so
effectively
through
those
land:
"Wash yourself with soap
He was 76. He left behind him the living conditions of the Japa­
Gudnason’s fiancee, Betty Ka­ and
years.
water. That gives the
his beloved wife Cecilia May, a nese evacuees, and to listen to
meshima, said. "We both feel beau tv.”
their complaints, hopes and de­
After retiring from the Japa- that God has led us.”
&on Wilbur and a daughter Mar- sires.
In this work, Mr. True­ nese work, Mr. Trueman was- en­
The couple took out a marriage
garet, who is in Japan serving man’s knowledge of Japanese, his
gaged by the Dominion Govern­ license last week at the Alameda Nippon Maru on TV
25 a social worker in connection understanding of the people, and ment for the placement of Dis­ County
VANCOUVER. — On CBC
courthouse.
Gudnason
^A the United Church overseas his Christian attitude of identi­ placed Persons who were coming was so tired and upset from the
TV this Saturday. Aug. 9, at 6
fying himself with others were in great numbers from Europe. trip to the marriage bureau that
p.m., in the program “Here
service.
very valuable assets.
Here again, his knowledge of, and he had to go to bed in his luxurand There” will be shots of the
Trueman was born in Stracrew of Nippon Maru in action.
In August 1943, Mr. Trueman sympathy for, the suffering peo­ ious home.
22° ■ Ontario, and as a young
ple helped him to discharge the - Relatives _said Gudnason and
The
Nippon Maru, a fourWeni t0 jaPan to teach En- was appointed by the Department work most efficiently.
masted training ship, has been
his late wife had met Miss
t
at ^e Second High School of Labor as placement officer, to
on a 39~day training cruise
Mr. Trueman was an ardent meshima in Chicago whilei she
Kanazawa. After a furlough, help the Japanese Canadians in
that included calls at Victoria
was going to school there. Thev

Ya Wen$ hack to Japan as a relocation centres to re-settle in Churchman. He was a member of said she came to live with them
and • Vancouver as a friendly
?unS Men’s Christian A ssocra- Ontario. It was to this important Islington United Church. A few while she studied music in near­
gesture towards B.C.’s Centen­
ia^i?rser’ an.^ served as secre- but difficult task that Mr. True­ years, ago, he headed the com­ by Berkeley. Miss Kameshima
nial Celebrations. CBC TV
cameras were on hand as Ca.pt.
2- \-iIr5t at Yagasaki, and then man poured his very life-blood^ mittee to raise funds for build­ nursed Mrs. Gudnason during an
L‘ a®°J’2- During the twenty- Day in and day out for the next ing a new Church. Today, a beau­ illness before her death about a
Numeo Chiba and his crew of
TrnJears ^e spent in Japan, Mr. five years, he discharged thia tiful modern Church stands- in year ago.
87 cadets tacked the 25,800
^:.N2an familiarized himself thankless and often disappointing Islington to give testimony to his
A native of Iceland, Gudnason
square feet of canvas up the
JaPanese language and cul- work with utmost efficiency and faithful and sacrificial service,
Strait of Georgia to Vancou­
is a former state president of
ver.
acQhired a deep under- courage. Nothing less than his
the
Gideon
Bible
Society.
(Continued on Page 7)
strong faith in the Righteous
‘ i5g oi the people.

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Wednesday. August 6. 19-58

THE

; dates and doings

ABORTIONS DECREASE
| JAPAN BIRTH RATE

NEW

CANADIAN

Story of Celestial Love

TOKYO.—J a pan. which at one
time had one of the world’s
highest birth rates,
the other extreme, according to
statistics disclosed by the WeL
fare Ministry.
The birth rate in Japan during
1957 was 17.2 per 1,000. approxi­
mately the same as in Denmark
and Switzerland; This compared
with 14.0 per 1,000 in Sweden.
The rate was almost exactly
half that of the postwar reconi
of 34.3 per 1,000 in 1947.
The net increase in population
last year was 810,000, the smal­
lest since the war.
The declining birth rate, is
ascribed to the adoption of family
planning on a growing- scale. An­
other important factor is the
Mother's Health Protection Law
permitting legal abortions.
It is estimated that there are
about as manv abortions is
births every year in Japan.
Last year there were 1,200,000
legally registered abortions.
The Welfare Ministry estimmates that in addition to these
there were about 500,000 or 600.000 illegal abortions.
This estimate is lower than
usually calculated, but the WeL
......
fare Ministry points out that illegal abortions are much more
expensive and dangerous than
those performed by registered
doctors.
It says mothers need
only to go to a licensed doctor
and invoke the Mother’s Health
Protection Law to have an abor­
tion performed safely and cheap-

Club Rec Socratic is' sponsor­
ing- its “Summer Outing” this
Saturday. August 9. rain or
shine.
There are facilities for
boating, fishing, swimming, with
a dance to conclude the day with
vour friends.
Place to be held is Big Bay
Point Beach Park at Lake Sim­
coe. Directions are as follows.
Take Highway No. 11 north to
the town of Painswick (conces­
sion 13), turn right and follow
the signs directing you to the
park where an enjoyable day
awaits you.
Club executives, again, would
like to stress everyone to take
the bus reserved for the outing
if at all possible.
The bus is
scheduled to leave the corner of

Spadina and Bloor Sts., at 12:30
p.m. Price is $2.00 per person.

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George Takahashi at HO. 1-2259
or Fumio Nakagawa at OX.
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The number of abortions has
been decreasing since 1955, as
planned
parenthood
becomes
more popular.
The widespread practice of
abortion has causes rooted deep
in the past.
Before the sharp rise in popu­
lation during the Meiji Era, Ja­
pan had a very low birth rate.
This was due to the widespread
practice of infanticide as a
means of “'weeding' out” unwant­
ed babies.
The decline in the birth rate
will not ease the competition for
entry into universities and for
jobs until 1965 when those born
in the “baby boom” after the
war come of age.
Experts say that unless there
is a change in social customs
when the “baby boom” genera­
tion reaches marrying age, there ,
will be a problem of balance be- j
tween the sexes.
I
They say that if the men want ।
to marry women four or five I
years younger than themselves, j
there will be a shortage of I
eligible brides because of the I
subsequent drop in the birth rate |
after the “baby boom.”
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Julv

although past
mnnv
anee in Jana:
(he Milky Way. Because there
1 remember. This is no bridge spanning the Milky
beginning of the W
date mark
th
uple are unable to
of

unite.

al) for which nil J a pm- dons a bit teriv.
111 agpie ha ppons
festive mood. The
v is one
along and feeling empathetic for
of the more popular cu toms of her
ti tires the prinJapan today.
The Xisi is, howwould
build a bridge
ever, mav not be too familiar
her
a year so she may
with this annual event and might
find it interesting.
nany magpies
The Star Festival is based on
a romantic legend to the effect the princess cross<
that on the eve of July 7. Vega,
But. the legend
otherwise known as the Weaver rains on July 7 th magpies will
Star Princess, is supposed to not form a bridge and the celesmeet Altair, or Herdboy Star, on tmi
must. wait another
the bank of the Anumokawa
which is more commonly known
Although >omewhat sad in its
as the Milky Way for their an­ theme'. Hu
nual tryst,
observed in a spirit: of joy. Supplications
are -made to the Weav­
The legend behind this meeting'
er
Princess
on July 7 by those
is that the celestial princess, a
and wishing- to improve their weavvery accomplished
well
their
daughter of the celestial king', ing.
falls in love with a very hand­
some cowherder. To reward her as music,
for her industrious accomplish­ of which the princess later bements the king' permits their came the patron. At the same
marriage. However, the pair so time the farmers petition the
much in love arc romantically Herdboy Star for a bumper
blinded from their work that the harvest.

TRUEMAN
In 1956, Mr. Truemnn went to
Japan to see the post-war Japan,
former
renew friendship
colleagues pnd students, and to
accompany home his daughter
.Margaret who was returning to
Canada on furlough after a term
of service in Japan. Needless to
say. he was welcomed every­
where he went, and the strenuous
program his- friends planned for
him was a bit too much, and he
became ill, from which he never
quite recovered even after he
came back to Canada.
The Japanese Canadians can
afford to forget a bencfactor like Mr. Ernest Trueman,
When we find ourselves achieving success in Eastern Canada,
we should like to remind our­
selves that we owe so much to
our friends who sacrificed them­
selves so much for us, such as
Mr. G. Ernest Trueman.

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branches are hung love poems
written on cards, kimono-shaped
paper hung with colored thread
and paper balloons. Also offered
to the spirits of the two stars are
, cakes
and candy.
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PAGE 8
‘THRONE OF BLOOD

Callouses Where You Sit

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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as he and another samurai cap­
Authorized as second class
tain gallop along the woods to­
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wards their lord’s castle. It’s a
editor of this paper asked about sequence
full
of
galloping
a report on the Japanese film, glomps, masculine noises, murky
“Throne of Blood,” which was rain, ominous trees and bramble. Japan Revisited
publicized in these columns and And instead of the three witches
shown at the Stratford Film Fes­ toiling and troubling over a caultival. Only summer laggardness dron.
meet an old wailing
has .prevented me from leaping woman who is as scary
the
gallantly (the letter was from a worst Japanese oba-ke can be.
given by Ambassador and Mrs. perhaps like the Benny Goodman
By ED IDE
lady) to fill the breach. Because Later on when Macbeth murders
Canadian quintet and Jack Teagarden.
I was among the sprinkling of Banquo, or Washizu murders his
I have been in Tokyo for only Frederick Bure at the
-------- I met Shinobu They pl Dy all modern music—
Japanese in" Stratford’s Avon former comrade, this is a grip­ five days but Teel as if it were Embassy. There,
mambo and spring, not rock ’n’
theatre on Saturday night, July ping sequence in which you feel two weeks. The UNESCO^ Mis­ Higashi? He expressed his view­ roll.
9. when Kurosawa’s film was un­ the murder take place just by sion is being received very well points on Japan today. One point
Also visited _ the Kokusai Gehe made very clear was that I
veiled at the Festival.
watching Lady Macbeth's immo­ in Japan.
kijo
Theatre. Here, all perform­
We were about two hours late was the first person to bombard ers are women, very lavish and
The theatre was about two- bile Japanese face.
him with so many questions. This
And Lady Macbeth's “out, out, in our departure from Vancouver, man is quite famous and respect­ entertaining.
filled which was pretty
One girl sang in
good going, considering the other damned spot” scene is a hypnotic, arriving about 8 a.m., July 15 in ed here.
English “My Destiny”. It’s pretty
rival attractions in Stratford mad episode in which Isuzu Ta- Tokyo. Incidentally, in Vancou­
hard to describe on paper the
face ver, as our plane was late I was
that night. After a lengthy wait ma da’s powdered
beauty
of the stage scenery and
July 19. — Off to Canon the performers.
while the PA system played folk breaks apart in lunacy. Again, having coffee when I happened

songs (not Japanese), the Nor­ when the woods of Dunsinane to hear flight 403 being an- Camera factory. We toured the
Ginza is very brightly lit with
man McLaren short, “A Chairy march upon the castle, except nounced for departure. Percy entire plant and saw the work neon signs of all descriptions. It’s
Tale,” was shown to a round of here they’re the trees of the En­ Williams had nothing on me in involved in making a camera. We crowded with people both day
Breathless,
minute.
------------------------ I understand that they employ and night.
applause. H’s an ingenious thing chanted Forest, this is the first the next ----sat
in
my
seat
and
commenced
1000 persons with the wages
about a man who finds a kitchen time for me that this bit has
Japan has obviously gone wes­
higherthan most factories.
speaking
in
Japanese
to
the
chap
chair which won’t let him sit seemed real enough to drive Mac­
tern since J was here 19 years
down on it. After all kinds of beth to terror. There is no IMac­ next to me, only to find to my
ago.. One seldom sees a person
strategems, including mad chas­ duff, and Macbeth-Washizu is embarassment that he was Albert
July 20.—Leisure all day— wearing nihongi and many of the
ing of the chair to and fro, the slain by his own men who rebel Sung from Berkeley, Calif., on spent the entire day with rela- Mission people were a bit disap­
man finally figures out what’s because the forest moves on the his way to Peking.
pointed. It seems' the people are
In brief about the plane trip: • tives.
troubling the chair. It wants to castle. This slaying is the highest
trying so hard to become recog­
Tokyo is the home of the
sit on him first.
The film is point. Scores of arrows whistle the flight was very nice—plenty mikaze taxis, Pachinko’s, Tea nized and it is easy to see how
amusing' but tends to go on a bit through the air at Washizu, to eat and drink. A Manhattan or Rooms, bars with beautiful hos- much the American influence has
too long. And on the Avon thea­ pierce his armor and finally the a martini costs 50 cents and a tesses.
rubbed off here. .
tre’s antique and bumpy seats, coup de grace, one arrow neatly pack of" American cigarettes 25
Tokyo has approximately 12,- , I would like to say that the
boredom is underlined by cal­ penetrates his neck, emerging on cents. While on the subject of. 000 cabs and last week one dayCanadian UNESCO delegation
cigarettes Marlborough filters saw six deaths and 48 accidents attended, a meeting of the Gen­
louses.
the other side.
“Throne of Blood" also causes
There is no Shakesperean cost 150 yen (41 cents our caused .mainly by traffic.
The eral Assembly of 'the UNESCO
callouses. It was introduced by a poetry in this version of Macbeth. money) in Tokyo.
Pachinko

s
remind me of our slot of Japan which is held twice
We arrived on a muggy ort machines only they have some­ yearly. We had the distinction of
somewhat halting though brief The film tells in Japanese guise

of
a day and were met bv thing to do with a small ball being the- first visitors to attend
and nicely phrased speech by the the basic story of ambition,
imbassador, Mr. Toru murder and tragedy. Another' UNESCO officials. Customs did going through the proper places such a gathering.
Then wham with omission is such bits of comedy not take very long and the group in order to get a prize of some
Hagiwara
We are to visit the Nippon
brooding atmospheric shots it as the scenes with the "gatekeeper was amazed at the speed in which sort—haven’t tried it yet.
Television tower and the Japan
e title is in the original play. In fact, we were “pushed” through. They
was on.
I have visited a few bars which Broadcasting Corp., and also the
“Kumo-no-su Jo,” or The Cob- “Throne of Blood5' has no light had a special bus waiting for us are generally dimly lit. One place Mainichi Newspaper.
web Castle.”
Which is rather moments to change the pace from decorated with lanterns and what I visited was called Ciro’s—very
I hope the readers will. get
pretty but not very Macbethish. the unrelenting' grimness—and so looked like maple leaves. Later, neat with union combos.
This some idea in what Japan is like
So "Throne of Blood” is much when the pace slows to a plod, a reception was held in our honor particular place had two groups today through my interpretations
better.
the film becomes hard to take. by Mr. Tamon Maeda, chairman playing. The music is jazz style. of modern Japan.
of the National Commission for
Akira Kurosawa directed "Ra­ And, as 1 said, callouses where UNESCO.
shomon.'’ that memorable film you sit.
Dai Ichi Hotel where we
It is rather fitting that this areThe
that introduced modern Japa1-.
staying,
although it is consi­
movies to 'the west—and un­ Kurosawa film was a Festival dered to be second or third class,
doubtedly everyone in the theatre entrant at Stratford and again at is very nice and air-conditioned.
was expecting another master­ Vancouver. It is not a commer­
We are bunked two to a room
piece.
Although
“Throne
of cially acceptable product, even if and although it’s a trifle cramp­
Any Japanese Canadian Contractor interested in
Blood’’ tells the Macbeth story hunks of the draggy and repeti­ ed we manage fine—no com­
• tendering on the Nisei Chapel, Toronto Japanese United
well and in Japanese samurai­ tious parts were scissored out.
plaints at all. Because of the fact
days idiom, it falls far short of
But when .Kurosawa’s flair that we all had not slept for*
Church, kindly notify. . .
the other Kurosawa work. Too shows up as it does often.
often, the film goes over and ‘‘Throne of Blood” becomes larger about 20 hours, all were in bed
Raymond Moriyama
over the same ground—and those than screen-size and for those by 9:30 p.m. on the first night.
of us used to the faster pace of moments it's worth seeing. If
71 Yorkville Ave. • Toronto
July 16.—A four-hour sight­
North American films grit, our you go in for that sort of thing. seeing
tour
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But the good
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good. Wo first meet Macbeth Van Gogh’s life. Wow, imagine few important tourist attractions. S'
(called Washizu and played by Toshiro Mifune ripping off his In the evening, buffet-dinner was
FOR THE LARGEST SELECTION
Toshiro Mifune, that sweating, ear while samisens strum and a attended at the home of Mr. lyefa sc in a ti n g' t h ief in "Rashomon") shakuhachi wails!
masa Tokugawa, president of the
OF IMPORTED CARS,
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THE FAMOUS MORRIS "1000"
I would like to say here that
wherever I go I speak of the Ja­
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$1546
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are doing.
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gion, Ethnography, History LiJuly 17.—Attended a very in­
HEATER — TURN SIGNALS — LICENCE PLATES —
terature, Music. Theatre and
After "preaching" for many various
—in teresting' lecture on Japanese
rts and
LEATHER
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the the many learned Societies who Mr. Yukio Yashiro of the Society
to appreciate more
For friendly Service. . , .
priceless heritage of their Japa­ would gladly help them in any of International Cultural Rela­
nese culture, it is indeed encour­ project.
tions.
aging' to see that our JCCA has
The evening of the same day,
At this time, it would be seem­
f
finally appointed a Committee of ly to pay tribute to Mr. T. Ka- we were invited to a reception
?
several members to further this
given by Mr. Akira Miyazaki,
has
placed
work.
director of United Nations Bu­
It must be breathtaking indeed
as well as in Japanese) within reau._ This reception was really
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July IS.ted a primary
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by the young Nisei
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master
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