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THE NEW CANADIAN
An Independent Organ for Canadians of Japanese Origin
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‘1 fl MOST NISEI WOMEN, at one
Hi'dime or another, have probably
* Pondered just what kind of talk
> ’goes on among their men during
S fishing trip. If they ask, you
'Usually tell them it all depends
^n what fish you are after. For
’ example, vou explain, that in
'out fishing there is very little
onversation. Except of course, if
nother angler comes stomping
long the top of’the river bank
Ind starts casting anywhere near
And you wouldn’t exactly
^^all'that conversation. But when
■ „rit comes to bass fishing, you ext^plain that it becomes quite a dif’ Afferent story. Talk takes up a
'Agood 75 percent of the time,
f'^ Last week four of us—complete
/with a “bento” (lunch, you
Square!) of nigeri-meshi (rice
Stalls), umeboshi (pickled plums),
.(eggs fried in soyo sauce, a therl^mos* full of steaming green tea,
rhvo cases of brew and a couple
f Wof hip pocket coolers—took our
E ^fishing gear up to Georgian Bay
Bfor some bass. After listening to
/'the usual propaganda on the
'Mrsreat” bass ^rom ^e ^a^ yo‘
3kels — “gamest little fighters
kpound for pound.” and “cleverest
■/dish in the Great Lakes!” etc.—
^(all vicious lies!) we rented a
ilittle boat and put-put-puttered
lout for a day on. the high seas.
A One of the chaps had brought
■(■along his Honest Ed’s battery
Of
.^operated tape recorder with a
^dozen extra tapes. And the folflowing are some edited portions
%from those tapes. Perhaps from
^these bits of conversation you
/girls can surmise what your own
’(man thinks and talks 'about when
'^You’re not around. Maybe not.
/^Anyway. a quick sneaky little
fgawk through, the keyhole, at
/four average Japanese Canadians
6
-^awaits you. And as the boys down
Hat the Lux burlesque theatre always say. “On the runway of
life, who knows what will pull off
next?’’

Vol. XXVI.—No. 56

WEDNESDAY, JULY IS, 1962

Architect First Japanese
Immigrant Under New Act

•‘Art must have some basis in
TORONTO.—Canadian
archi­
tecture has no national character, the character of a country,’’ he
but mirrors the styles of 1,000 said in an interview. “In Japan
countries, says Japanese archi­
their traditions and
sence
tect Hideo Tomiyasu.
Mr, Tomiyasu is the first Ja­ adapt it to the needs of the peo­
panese to enter Canada under the ple.”
He became interested in mov­
new Canadian immigration regu­
lations which provide for entry ing to Canada through the promp­
on the basis of education, skills tings of a Canadian friend who
and work prospects, regardless worked in his architectural firm
of race, color and country of
Entering an architectural conorigin.
test
sponsored by the Canadian
In his native country he. has
won first place and
an impressive background. A
a
formal
invitation
to emigrate.
member of the
tects Association, his latest pro­
He
has
found
Canadians
ject involved the construction of friendly and proud of their coun­
30,000 apartment units in the city try. “When they ask me how 1
of Osaka.
like Canada, they hope my an­
^r«^
swer will be that it is the best
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country in the world.” he said.
He has found problems of Can­
Lord Abbot Ohtani, Wife Return Home
adian and Japanese, housing to be
SAN FRANCISCO, Calif.—Lord Abbot and Lady Koosho Ohta­
completely diffm-ent.
ni who recently spent one week at .Banff and Jasper in the Canadian
“.In Japan there is scarcity of
Rockies as the guests of Rev. and Mrs. Y. Kawamura of Lethbridge
land,
but not of people; in Can­
are shown here at San Francisco International Airport prior to their
TOKYO.

Two
French
deep
ada
the
reverse is true,” he said.
departure for Tokyo aboard a Japan Air Lines Jet Courier. Lord
sea
explorers
rode
a
bathyscaph

Most
of
the apartments here
Ohtani, head of Honganji Nishi Buddhism and patriarch of all branch
nearly
six
miles
down
into
the.
are
built
by
private enterprise,
temples in Canada and the U.S., and his wife also attended ceremonial Kurile-Khamchatka trench early
while
in
Japan
it is done by the
services in Vancouver, and visited Seattle, Salt Lake City and this week in the second-deepest
government.

Yellowstone National Park.
plunge made by man. They re­
He estimated that between SO
ported finding “intensive life” to 90 per cent of all Japanese
during their three-hour stay on people live in apartments.
For His Pad?
the bottom.
French Commander Georges
Houot and navy engineer Pierre
Henri Willm made the near re­
cord dive of 31,350 feet in their
third descent off Japan in the
The staff of The New Cana­
French bathyscaph Archimede,
dian will be taking a wellwhich Willm designed.
earned vacation on the week of
The
latest
dive
was
120
miles
July
29 to August 4. There­
TORONTO.—A stony-faced Ja­ original might have been stolen
fore,
there
will be no publica­
south
of
Urup
island
in
the
Ku
­
panese Buddha was stolen from if I’d put it out; it’s worth $1,riles
chain
east
of
Japan

s
north
­
tions
on
August
1 and 4th. Re­
a Church St. lawn late last week 000,” he said. “It was probably
gular
issues
will
begin with
ernmost
island
of
Hokkaido.
the
beats
in
the
neighborhood
by thieves considerate enough
®
$
$
$
Wednesday,
August
8.
The
depth
was
second
only
to
who
wanted
it
for
their
pad.

not to distrub the flowers.
that
reached
by
U.S.
Navy
Lt.
Three of us are sprawled lazy
The owner of the 125-pound
He had considered chaining it
I on the floor boards as Shig steers standing Buddha, Frank Crane, to the house but abandoned that Don Walsh and Jacques Piccard
? the boat. He is the “nisan” (the placed the stone reproduction of idea because the statue was so of the famous Swiss scientist Eight Men Killed
5 oldest of the group so is given a Sadho Buddha (fourteenth cen­ heavy, and it also remained partly family in the navy bathyscapth
: all the important jobs—he had tury) on his front lawn for a obscured by rose bushes and Trieste Jan. 23, 1960 in the In Mine Cave-In
Marianas trench off Guam.
TOKYO.—A coal mine explo­
} even gone out of his way in the few’ months ago as an ornament. flowers in front of his house.
sion
and cave-in killed eight men
/ old Japanese fashion of promis- When he went outside his Orien­
Walsh and Piccard, who reach­
“The curious thing about it was
, ing our- safety to the old folks. tal art and antiquities shop last that whoever stole it was careful ed 37,800 feet and remained one- last week-end in central Hokkai­
1 About an eighth of a mile out he week he noticed it was missing". not to trample any of the flowers half hour, also reported seeing do, police reported. Hokkaido is
| stalls the outboard motor. ReasWho would, steal a three-foot- all around it,’’ he added. “It living and moving objects near the northernmost main Japanese
; sures us that everything is under tall idol ? Mr. Crane suspects it must have been a flower-lover as the bottom of the deepest known island.
i control. Pulls the starter. Noth- was one of the bearded and sun­ well as a beatnik.”
hole on earth.
A spokesman said 11 men were
5 ing happens. Pulls it again. And ■ glass wearing inhabitants of the
replacing an air pipe about 16,000
■ again. And again. Nothing. He beatnik colony in his district.
feet from the pit opening when
curses glaring around at us.
the gas exploded and the work
“The -police who came to make
party was buried.
Three men
/ “This looks like a good place a report said they would keep
i for bass,” he nods expertly. He their eyes open for it when they
were rescued.
throws the anchor overboard investigate wild parties in this
4 splashing everyone. We eye each vicinitv,” he reported.
TORONTO. — Canada’s recent tant third at $5,965,000.
s other. The simple fact that Shig
The* statue, valued at $175 is emergence as one of the world’s
Canada has become the world’s Majestic Mt. Fuji
is an ex-judo artist beclouds any the only one of its kind in Cana­ leading exporters of oilseeds has largest exporter of both flaxseed Gets Needed Cleaning
show of indignation. Besides he’s da, he said. It was shipped from opened doors to increasing vo­ and rapeseed.
HAKONE. Japan. — Majestic
a bruiser. No one protests. The New York among other reproduc­ lume in a multi-million-dollar
Lately, Canada’s exports have Mt. Fuji got a much-needed
' silence is deafening.
Everyone tions he has since sold as lawn trade with Japan.
increased in both variety and vo­ face-cleaning recently.
; baits up, casts and relaxes. All ornaments or stage set pieces.
Canada has increased her oil­ lume with the addition of soy­
An estimated 1,000 volunteers
except Shig.
He is changing
This was one of the few’ he seed acerage to about 4,000,000 beans, rapeseed, mustardseed, trudged up/he 12,385-ft. moun­
plugs, casting, changing plugs, had left and he refused to sell it, acres, set new production records, sunflowerseed and safflowTerseed.
tain, picking up beer cans, soda
- casting and changing plugs and although he claims he had several and exported oilseeds, vegetable

At
the
present
time,

Mr.
pop bottles and other assorted
still casting. He is showing us opportunities to do so.
oil and oilmeal worth up to $100,- Stanton wrote, “Japan’s produc­ litter tossed on Fuji’s slopes by
what an expert angler he is. His
“It wasn’t a prank.
And it 000,000 a year.
tion of oilseeds and oil-bearing careless climbers over the years.
- niono-filament line spins off in a wasn’t another collector because
materials appears to have reach­
These
highlights
are
reported
The cleanup, scheduled to con­
clustering tangle. He throws the it was just a reproduction. The
ed a maximum. Domestic pro­ tinue through the weekend, was
in
an
article
by
A.
J.
Stanton,
j rod to the floor and starts cursing
Chief of the Plant Products Di­ duction now accounts for less sponsored by a local high school.
• Han-y for grinning. Eddie and I
vision
of the Department of Trade than half of total requirements
- /art laughing. Shig is ready to Freighter Sinks After
and
Commerce,
in the depart­ and therefore she has become
- Lil] us. It’s pitiful. He is standInland
Sea
Collision
ment

s
publication,
“Foreign one of the world’s largest im­ Yank, Japanese Wife
: ing up. if he charges me. I will
porters of oil-bearing materials.
KOBE, Japan.—A small Japa­ Trade.”
1 throw a block into him. He’ll fly
Arrested In Mexico
“The prospects for continuing
.
Today.
Mr.
Stanton
reports,
Ja
­
nese freighter sank last _week
. end over teakettle.
TIJUANA, Mexico.—Robert A.
Harry finally comes to the re- after colliding with an 1,859-ton pan ranks second only to Britain sales of Canadian oilseeds to Ja­ Garman, 34 and his Japanese
- scue. He asks Shig what kind of passenger ship in the inland sea as Canada’s major customer for pan are good and there are op­ wide, Keiko, 36, were arrested
ping is best for this type of near Kobe, the maritime safety oilseeds, while Canada ranks sec­ portunities for increasing them. here and are now being held in a
Three seamen ond to the United States as Ja­ With a fast-growing consump­
"'Vater. Harry really doesn’t care board reported.
Tijuana jail as suspects in a
tion of edible oils and, at the $23,000
- about plugs; he simply can’t from the 179-ton freighter. No. pan’s major supplier.
theft in Stockton, Calif.
( /aP^ the slightest violence. And 75 Tatsumi Maru, are missing.
Figures for 1960 show that Bri­ same time, little expansion in
The
Sacramento
couple was
Asides he can’t swim. The first There were no injuries among the tain’s purchases of Canadian production of domestic edible oil­
taken
into
custody
in
connection
450
passengers
and
58
crew
. subject is fishing:
flaxseed, rapeseed, mustardseed, seeds. the future prospects for with the loss of clothing, jewels,
members
of
the
Kogane
Maru
of
rapeseed
SHIG; Try a Johnson Minnow.
and soybeans totalled $25,982,- marketing Canadian
the Kansai Shipping Company. 000: Japan’s totalled $14,508,000; and mustardseed appear to be coins and furs from the home of

HARRY’: What about a live The Kogane Maru rescued six
Albert E. Radinsky in Stockton.
while the Netherlands was a dis- good.”
freighter seamen.
i
(Continued on Page 8)

Two Divers Descend Six

Beatnik Flower-lover Blamed
For Buddha Statue Theft

Canada Developes As World’s
Leading Oilseed Exporter

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Wednesday, July <18, 1962

NEW

C A N A DIAN

PAGE 7

The Kimono Will Never Go Out Of Fashion
A designer expressed the view purchase better, and perhaps, ex­ wearing' a kimono encouraged
TOKYO-—The Kimono, tradiJapanese dress, never that women today regard kimono pensive kimono.
them considerably. “So long as
to go out of fashion, al- as something to look at—an ac­ _ Thus, the kimono is the tradi­ the Tatami remains a part of Ja­
it is still difficult to de- cessory of social life aimed at tional costume of the Japanese, panese life, kimono stays," a ki­
termine to just what extent it emphasizing beauty. Prof. Yanagi not national dress today’. It is a mono dealer declared.
remains in the everyday ife of says that while western dresses fashion now, not a custom, a cri­
Despite the recent fad, it still
^g Japanese as a cultural hen- are- made to measure, when worn tic said.
remains to be seen whether the
it loses its individual character.
,^cre from our ancestors.
Nevertheless, kimono dealers kimono will regain their former
However,
kimono, though un­ are optimistic of the future of position as home wear in the
' Some of the traditional styles
ip/Kimono such as those worn changed in its pattern and style the kimono. That Princess Mi­ everyday* life of the Japanese
bv the women of Ohara in the for ages, brings out its owner’s chiko toured foreign countries woman.
outskirts of Kyoto, have been de- individual personality when worn.
Prof. Yanagi also stresses that
;’°iied as local cultural assets to
the Japanese women who forget
preserve them for the future.
1 ThF seems to point up popular the beauty of the kimono in the
contention that the kimono has hustle and bustle of postwar life
TOKYO.—Chewing gum has those in the shape of cigarettes,
now disappeared from Japanese have begun to rediscover the uti­ become popular among the Japa­ etc.
home life as daily wearing ap­ lity of the kimono as both home nese in recent years, both among
As to flavor, several kinds of
parel and is now praised as form­ and formal wear. And this is the the young and old.
mint gum. are proving to be the
al attire for special occasions best explanation for the. recent
Chewing gum sales in Japan in most popular. The so-called Umesuch as weddings, parties and fad for the kimono. In fact, until 1961 totaled $43 million. At pre­ boshi gum is a Japanese spe­
a few years ago when the Paris
visiting.
sent, more than 100 varieties of cialty.
A visit to the famed Muroma- mode charmed the heart of wo­ chewing gum, both domestic and
There are also several types of
chi Kimono Market area in Kyo­ men, few expected the revival of foreign, are on sale. The demand chewing gum with medicinal pro­
to will speak most eloquently of kimono among the youth of to­ is expected to grow.
perties such as chlorophyl gum,
the declining favor of the kimo­ day.
In line with this trend, chew­ Guronsan gum, etc.
no.
Of some 1,000 wholesale
Kimono comes in an unending ing gum manufacturers are ex­
One of the new varieties to
dores specializing in dress ma­ variety of designs, the principal panding their equipment while appear on the market is Haris’
terial only 20 per cent remain as materials being cotton and silk. manufacturers
of
provisions, Vic gum (named after victory)
kimono specialists.
In the old Some, called Somoyo, have de­ pharmaceuticals and liquors have whose proceeds over a three-year
days, the area was the centre of signs all over from the shoulder also entered this lucrative field. period will be donated to the
the clothing field.
to the sleeves and shirt, and
A joke among these circles is Olympic Fund.
One of the reasons why the others called Susomoyo have de­ that the subway platform has be­
Another is Fujiya’s Sherbet
kimono has disappeared from Ja­ signs running diagonally across come “two inches higher because gum which follows this year’s
panese life as home wear is due the bottom of the skirt.
fashion trend of the Sherbert
of castaway chewing gum.”
to its “restrictiveness.” The fullToday it is an entirely another
There are at present about 40 Tone.
fledged kimono, complete with a story. The exclusive conception manufacturers of chewing gum.
As a recent trend, greater use
suffocatingly tight Obi sash tied of the orthodox kimono is regard­ The first to enter this field in the is being made of automatic vend­
around the waist and several ed an anachronism.
postwar period were Haris and ing machines for the sale of
pieces of underwear to go with
Kimono has undergone many Lotte.
chewing gum.
In the case of
it, is the most impractical of all modifications. During the early
Haris,
large-size
vending ma­
From 1960 Morinaga, Meiji and
wearing apparel in existence.
days of Japanese history, the Ezaki-Glico
chines
are
being
sold
to distribu­
began to manufac­
For example the pulse of a ki­ people first adopted what was in­
tors
for
$420
each
and
those of
mono wearing person registers troduced into this country from ture chewing- gum followed by smaller size for approx. $100
112 against 100 for those wearing China, and gradually it was mo­ Morishita Jintan, Chugai and each.
The electricity cost to
other pharmaceutical companies.
western clothes.
dified to the pattern of ancient Kotobukiya, manufacturer of li­ operate one such machine is esti­
So long as Japanese women Japanese life.
mated at about 28 cents per
remain at home, the kimono has
Through various stages of de­ quors, joined in 1961.
month, these machines are win­
Each of these manufacturers is ning popularity’ because of the
its value as daily dress.
But, velopment and modifications, it
under the constitutional declara­ has reached the present forms— turning- out from five to 10 dif­ growing labor costs and increas­
tion of equality of both sexes, fantastically rich in variety and ferent varieties.
ing labor shortage.
In addition, more than 10
women have advanced _ into categories—and in prices.
The
Automatic chewing gum vend­
v arious fields which had hitherto present form is said to have first varieties of American chewing ing machines are appearing in
been occupied by men alone and appeared in the middle of the To­ gum are being imported and sold. increasing numbers in depart­
thus have to bid farewell to ki­ kugawa period.
The varieties include stick gum, ment stores, railway stations,
mono. They adopted western dress
Formal kimono including Obi sugar- coated chewing gum, bub­ gasoline stands, coffee shops and
for a better and freer activity in and accompanying undergarments ble gum, marble gum, as well as hotels.
made in famed Nishijin Kyoto,
society.
Prof. Yosgutaja Yanagi of the can be quite an expensive affair.
Women’s University of the Fine
The debut of woolen and syn­
Arts, defending the value of ki­ thetic materials for kimono in
monos, says: “Kimono has _ its recent years, however, brought
own place in our life. It certainly about a revolution in the kimono
The sudden death of the late Rev. K. Shimizu was a shock to the
provides the wearer freer acti­ world. Some present-day kimonos entire Japanese community. Again, we have been brought face to
vity. Only problem is that they are washable, while traditional
do not know how to adopt kimono kimono are taken apart and face with the ugly- fact of death: death that mocks at our ambitions
and leers at our hopes. It is still the last enemy of human happiness
into working clothes.”
washed piece by piece.
Modern
postwar
girls
began
to
and the greatest tragedy7 of life.
Fashion critic Nobuhiko Mura­
kami, on the other hand,, main­ take to the kimono, following
A Nisei widow once uttered a forlorn cry7 that though medical
tains that kimono developed as sales promotional drives.
Dress and dress materials science has so marvelously7 advanced and man is at the verge of
an accessory that makes women
beautiful—a plaything of men, occupy some 50 per cent of all Oh, how true is her anquish! Death is still shrouded in mystery. It
thus losing its original purpose department store proceeds m Ja­ conquering outer space, she was helpless to save her drtng husband,
pan today, half of which is oc­ is still one great realm of darkness that the light of human wisdom
as “clothing.”
cupied
by the kimono. A depait- has not penetrated, and man feels his finitude at the threshold of this
The attention of post war wo­
nvmt
store
salesman said: We
men has invariably been limited
domain. It is yet one area in which God retains His sovereignty and
to those kimono meant only for advertise the washable synthetic
formal occasions. But then why kimono for business girls. If they keeps absolute control. Is there no hope for man? Can he not con­
do women still wear kimono des­ learn how to wear a kimono and quer the fear and the mystery of death ? Must the dying cry of man
pite its restrictions on their acti­ discover their beauty they will be alwafs like that of Sir Thomas Scott?
eventually* develop the desire to
vities ?
“Until this moment I thought there was neither a God nor
a Hell. Now I know and feel that there are both, and I am
doomed to perdition by7 the just judgment of the Almighty.”
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Thank God, No! He offers victory7 over death and the grave!
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“So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this
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Wednesday, July la ,i(l

THE NEW CANADIAN

(Continued from page one)
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SHIG: If you want to do some
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Published, on Wednesday and Saturday of each week
EDDIE: Pass me another botas a medium of expression and news outlet
tie, will yah ?”
among those of Japanese origin in Canada
SHIG: That’s your fourth pint!
T. UMEZUKI, Publisher
And we’ve only started fishing!
RICK MATSUMOTO—___________________ -English Editor
Have some lousy considerations
KEN MORL.
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for the other guys, yoh!
ME:
Come on. He paid his
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share. Give. it to him.
EM. 6-5005
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SHIG: (pure hate in his eyes
for me) O.K. But remember. I’m
keeping track.
ME: (loving the look on Shig’s
face) And I’ll keep track of your
score.
* HARRY:
(looking worried)
Female Help Wanted
What do you think of these JaFlat For Rent
panese plugs, Shig,
TELEPHONE RECEPTIONIST
THREE ROOM flat ■with garage, Dun^SHIG: Oh, shutup!
^ud
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Must have some experience in general
On Women:
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HARRY:
Hakujin guys like office in Lawrence Plaza, Kazmar ConJapanese girls. Japanese guys sultance, 534 Lawrence Ave., West. RU.
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SHIG: That’s true. You’re a
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You’re like me.
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ME: Yeah.
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EDDIE: Let me try a bottle Finance, Mr. Stoddart. Phone EM. 2-1935
(Toronto).
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read in The Continental Times
and The New Canadian. Nothing
at all. Except advertisements.
HARRY:
Do you ever read
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Warden Ave. at Colony Plaza)
EDDIE: Yeah, crap. Can I have
sunburn.
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Phone: 755-2206
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the degree of illumination of the
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fishing grounds but not to trace of experiments off northeast New
SHIG:
Hunting’s cruel. All
the movements of the fish them­ Zealand he found this depth pat­ hunters should be hung up as far
selves.
tern unchanged.
as Trii concerned.
Nishimura’s, finding’s will be
HARRY: . Oh, I don’t know.
He also found that the tuna,
presented for study at a world although a mighty swimmer in There are certain aspects in. . . .
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SHIG: Who asked you?
^wwj««» w s^^r
of tuna at La Jolla.
EDDIE: That last bottle of
than had been believed. His fish
BiW
The conference, called by the finder showed maximum speed stout tasted like sho-yu. Give
LUN. food and agriculture orga­ for the big bluefin, yellowfin and me what’s left'of that mickey.
nization, will bring together 250 albacore as only two to three
fishery experts from around the knots.
Fishermen had thought - So now you know, eh girls.
world in a major attempt to learn these species swam at 10 knots. There’s really nothing out of the
more about the little known tuna.
ordinary goes on, is there? So
Spawning .Areas Unknown
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Many Methods Used
The fish find also showed that
“To fish for tuna scientific­ tuna schools generally were less if you mind him going on a fish­
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Prepare a little luncli of riceballs
cessary to have a knowledge of
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out with the boys. Our Issei wo­
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Little is known about their men knew how to treat their men.
ly related to the catch.
“Many methods have been used spawning. Mediterranean fisher­ That’s why there were so few
and separations among
to observe this data, but have men believe many spawn; in the divorces
them.
Black
Sea
and
pass
through
the
offered no conclusive evidence.”
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