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THE NEW CANADIAN
An Independent Organ for Canadians of Japanese Origin

Vol. XXVII—No. 96

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER IS, 1963

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Vagaries
By LARRY TAJIRI

The Japanese American Story

Toronto, Ont.

Court Calls Bombing Against Int'l Law. . . .

Japan Not Obligated To
Pay A-Bomb Victims

ONE OF THE most dramatic stories of this American genera­
tion concerns the wartime experience, of Americans of Japanese ancestry—mass expulsion from the coastal areas of the Pacific coast,
TOKYO.—The Tokyo district rest among the people, must take Peace Treaty.
mass detention in concentration centers rimmed by barbed wire and' court ruled that the Japanese
ample measures for the relief of
The plaintiffs’ compensation
punctuated with watchtowers, and the eventual return and reinte- government was not obligated to A-Bomb
victims.
demands ranged from 200,000 to
o-ration into the mainstream of the nation’s life. It is the drama of pay compensation to atom-bomb
The suit for compensation was
wartime loyalty .and heroism, and the less dramatic but heartwarm­ victims in Hiroshima and Naga­ filed in April 1955 by five plain­ 300,000 yen (.about $560 to $830)
ing story of reacceptance.
saki, but unequivocally stated tiffs, including 65-year-old Ryui­ each.
The Japanese American story, however, has been told only the United States dropping of the chi Shimoda of Hiroshima—the
In the course of the prolonged
obliquely in novels, on the theatrical stage, in films and in televi­ bombs on the defenseless cities world’s first atom-bombed city.
trial, the court asked three legal
sion. No Nisei writer, for example, has succeeded in telling it and constituted a violation of the In­
They claimed the government experts to state their views. They
the reason may be that the experience is too painful and subjective ternational Law.
had an obligation to pay compen­ were Prof. Kaoru Yasui of Hosei
fora Japanese American to detail. From him, the anger is too real
In handing down the ruling, sation, on grounds the govern­ University, who is chairman of
and what he may say may sound like special pieaiding.
however, Judge Toshimasa Ko- ment on its own responsibility the Japan Council Against Ato­
But the story is getting told, and one of the better examples zeki of the court declared the had waived the right to demand mic and Hydrogen Bombs (Genoccurred several weeks ago on television's “Dr.. Kildare" show in a government, responsible for the compensation for the illegal war­ suikyo), Prof. Shigejiro Tabata
drama entitled “It was a Fine Clear Thursday Morning." The guest war which killed and injured time acts of former enemy na­ of Kyoto University, and Prof.
stars for Richard . Chamberlain, who plays Kildare, and Raymond many Japanese and caused un­ tions under the San Francisco Emeritus Yuichi Takano of ToMassey, who is Dr. Gillespie, were James Shigeta arid Miyoshi Ume­
kyo University.
ki. The drama revolved around a Nisei doctor on a research project
They were unanimous in coir ,
in the hospital and his Japan-horn wife -whose pregnancy was threat­
eluding that the atomic bombened with leukemia.
ing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
The story elements—a doctor worried about his ailing wife, and
in the closing days of the Pacific
the fight to save the unborn child—are familiar these days on tele­
war constituted a violation of the
vision thanks to such medically-oriented shows as “Kildare,” “Ben
WEST HILL, . Ont.—Two Ja- Award ($50.), Federal Packag­ International Law.
Casey,” “The Nurses,” “Medic" and the like. What took the drama
They were
out of the ordinary were the additional personality elements. The panese Canadian students attend­ ing %& Partitions Co. Award divided, however, on the compen­
($100.),
West
Hill-Highland
writers had woven the Nisei story into the drama.
ing West Hill Collegiate Institute Creek Kiwanis Award ($100.). sation issue.
It seemed as-if the writers of this sho-w had decided to demo­ were recipient of 6 .awards during
Yasui, winner of the Stalin
lish each of the various stereotypes which have become familiar in
Miss
Donna
Fujiki
won
the
Peace
Prize, asserted Japan and
entertainments concerning persons of Japanese ancestry. Shigeta's the school's 8th Annual Com-’ Canadian Johns Manville Trophy
its
nationals
had the right to
I Highest Standing Comm ercial
doctor was no bowing, hissing Japanese with a perpetually silly mencement Exercises.
claim
compensation
—Prof. Taka­
smile. He was brusque (it was explained’ that he was too worried
Mr. Kenji Ito won 3 awards: I Graduates Award and S.A.C. no said the Japanese people had
about his sick wife to worry about the amenities) and- articulate West Hill-Highland Creek Lions I Ring.
no such right—and Prof. Tabata
when he .chose to speak. Shigeta's character used the best of the .
opinioned the government was ex­
King's English without an obvious accent and he spoke in the Ame­
empt from an obligation to pay
rican idiom.
compensation as far as wartime
The plot later revealed that Shigeta was a veteran of the U.S.
damage and losses were con­
Miss
Oinuma
was
crushed
be
­
TOKYO.—A historic medical
Army in World War II . and that his wife was a girl from Japan.
But when the cameras moved in on Miss Umeki, it showed herein breakthrough was claimed this tween a moving train and a rail­ cerned.
high heels and a high fashion dress, rather than in a kimono which week by Japanese surgeons who way platform in 1960. Injuries
would have been tire cliche way of handling it.
said they successfully rejoined left her incapable of any move­
When Shigeta invites Chamberlain to dinner at home, the camera
showed a tastefully furnished apartment and the guest was treated, severed nerves in the shattered ment. Dr. Nakayama said) she
not to a sukiyaki dinner, but to chicken cacciatore. The effort to spine of a train-accident victim. eventually may be able to move
break the Japanese stereotype was almost too obvious, since Shigeta
Dr. Tsuneaki Nakayama, sur­ about on crutches but there is
explains that his wife also makes a fine Hungarian goulash.
gery chief of Cliiba University no chance of complete recovery
Then the . mother of the Nisei doctor was introduced, but she Hospital, said the operation 15 permitting her to walk.
FUKUOKA, Japan. — Sumo
refuses to come into the room to meet Chamberlain. It developed months ago has given 28.-yearA 10-man Chiba University wrestlers are generally popular
that she had been sent to a war relocation camp during the war with old Kiyoko Oinuma partial con­
her husband: and that he had died in detention. The Japanese woman trol of her legs.
team used a special device, a everywhere, but during the Kyu­
had’ renounced the United States and had returned to Japan. She
nerve inosculator, that Dr. Na­ shu sumo tournament that has
just ended, they were mighty unhad come back only to help care for her daughter-in-law during- the
kayama invented. Four of 14 in­ populai' with the operators of
latter’s pregnancy.
tercoastal nerves in the spinal public bathhouses in Hakata.
The mother is bitter against the United States and its people
column were rejoined in a fivefor the treatment accorded her and her family during the war.
This was because everytime a
When it becomes apparent that the wife is gravely ill and may
hour operation, Dr. Nakayama group of hefty .sumo wrestlers
not survive the birth of her child, the mother insists on taking i-.e
came in after training or after
said.
baby back to Japan.: The drama then shows how the doctor s mother
bouts,
they caused so much of
The surgeon said eight months
comes to change her mind and decides to permit her grandchild co
the
hot
water in -the bathtub to
after the operation Miss Oinu­
overflow
and disappear.
remain in the United States.
ma was able to move her hips,
Readers of The New Cana­
*
*
Sumo
wrestlers
all seem to be
*
dian will be receiving our spe­
and she now is able to bend and
fond
of
baths.
The
bathhouse
about
the
relocation
story,
stretch her legs.
cial “Holiday" issue with 62
A FEW books have been written
operators
complained
that the
the
Sun"
as
well
as
Monica
pages of interesting reading
among them Karen Kehoe's “Island in----- ~ —
wrestlers
used
too
much
hot
Sone’s “Nisei Daughter’.” Artist-Mine Okubo used her considerable
in both Japanese and English
water
and
stayed
a
long
tme,
talent to depict in picture and text her personal experience in re­
some time next week.
making it inconvenient for the re­
location camp (Topaz) in “Citizen 13660." But the subject has not
Following this special issue,
gular customers.
challenged any of the country’s major writers.
TOKYO.
Emperor
Hirothe next regular edition will
hito, an accomplished amateur
“During the sumo season we
The evacuation-relocation drama has intrigued many writers and
be
dated December 28, 1963.
ought
to charge by the weight/
playwrights, obviouslv, but the works have not been produced. An
botanist
and
zoologist,
has
pub
­
The first issue of this paper
one bathhouse operator declared.
lished
his
fourth
book,
a
24example was “Some of the Sky," a play about a 442nd Combat Team
in the year 1964 will be dated
veteran which Joseph Anthony, now one of the top directors in films
page volume that supplements Otherwise, I lose money every
January
4th. PLEASE NOTE!
“The Plants of Nasu/' a book time a sumo toumament is held
and TV,- wrote from wartime experience. “Some of the Sky was
in this city.”
of his published last year.
optioned for Broadway but was never produced.
On the other hand James Clavell, who spent most of his war
years as a prisoner in. the Japanese POW camp, and is now one of
Hollywood's top writer-directors, produced and directed a film in
Vancouver a year ago called “The Sweet and the Bitter.” But oecause of technical problems, the film has not been released and no
Please date is set for it.
.
,
. Perhaps .the first’ time the Nisei wartime story was mentioned
I light cords to ensure that they
TORONTO. — Each
year, process.
Hi a film was a 20th Century Fox's “Daisy Kenyon," in which one Christmas tree fires cause a dis­
3. Provide support for the tree I are not frayed and do not have
the main characters, played.by Dana Andrews, goes off to de- astrous loss of life and property. so that it will remain standing loose connections, and only- use
lend a Nisei in a landlaw case in California. Then Samuel Fuller Dy following these simple rules after a slight impact.
| light sets that bear the Canadian
made ’The Steel Helmet,’' in which one of the GIs in the vai in set down by the Ontario Fire
4. Do not place the tree in a Standards Association label.
orea, a 442nd Combat Team veteran, explains to a taunting ^ortn Marshall's office, the serious location where it can obstruct an
8. Do not use any highly flamn °.Yan prisoner-of-war why he is an American soldier despite ex- hazard created by a dry Christ­ exit.
able decorations on the tree.
Pu Bion and ostracism at home.
.
9. If
metallic
decorative
5. Drying out can be retarded
mas tree can be eliminated:
In 1952 Dore Scharv produced and Robert Pirosh directea, from
streamers
are
used
on
the tree,
by
cutting
the
butt
at
an
oblique
1. Do not bring the tree inside
on script, a film about the 442nd, “Go for Broke!" This MGM until a day or two before Christ­ angle and immersing it in a con­ it is essential that care be exer"’hich starred Van Johnson as an officer assigned to the Ja- mas, and do not keep it inside tainer of water, and by keeping ’ cised to ensure that they are not
, 656 American Combat Team, found a wide audience but the pic- for more than 10 days.
in contact with or do not become
the container full of water.
.ch appeared on the screen was neft all that Producer Schai.»6. Do not use wax candles on wedged in the lamp sockets in
2. Place the tree as far as pos­
writer Pirosh interided. They wanted to tell the whole Nisei sible from any source of heat the tree.
order to prevent a short circuit
7. Inspect
Christmas
tree through the streamers.
which -will hasten the drying out
(Continued on page 8?

Two Smart J«C« Students
Capture Six Awards

Historical Medical Breakthrough

Sumo Wrestlers
Unwelcome At
Japan Bathhouses

Please Note
New Canadian
Printing Dates

Emperor's Book

Watch That Tree!

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Tokyo Opens Fashion Doors

By STELLA ITO

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LIFE.

ALL FORMS
OF

By YUKO NAKAMIKADO
no shocking'
ge in fashions
Wkio.

Japan,
in
the
pro
­
Soups
xrom one season to the next.
cess of liberalizing her interna­
consult
Japanese designers have had
This is a perfect weather to begin adding soup to our re^-ul'^i' tional trade, has flung open her
evening meal. Not a heavy soup in a large bowl, but a clear %uHd doors to French and Italian fa- opportunities in the past to learn
KIYO TAMURA
about
Paris
and
Italian
models
soup with few vegetables and maybe a dumpling, tofu or chicken
TORONTO
shions this year.
through fashion shows and faCHICKEN AND MUSHROOM SOUP
Bus, 366-5812 Res. Pl. 9-8317'
A New York haute couture shion magazines. Some have stu­
Ingredients:
group
has
also
_ .
held a fashion died in oi- travelled to Europe.
% lb. chicken
show in Tokyo in an attempt to
5 dried mushrooms
break into the Japanese fashion
spinach few sprigs.
market,
already heavily influenc­ studied at art schools for- five
NISHIMURA
4 cups soup stock
years each in Britain and the
ed
by
Paris.
cornstarch
At home, a few Japanese de­ United States, said: ‘‘It is about
3 tsp. shoyu
that Japanese designers sup­
signers have begun to challenge time
% tsp. saltPicture Frames
plied
suitable wardi-obes to Japa­
14 tsp. Ajinomoto
the French fashion imports with nese women.
Method:
what they claim to be indepen­
‘•'Paris fashions are fine, or
dent
ideas designed for the Ja­
Cut chicken into thin slices. Sprinkle with salt and cornstarch.
CUSTOM FRAMING
course," she continued, “but they
Put chicken in boiling vater and cook 0 minutes. Soak dried mush­ panese woman.
1278 Yonge St. — Phono: 923-6877
rooms in water till softened and remove stems. Simmer over low
(S. of Woodlawn)
Most of Tokyo’s department are designed spicifically for wo­
fire in % cup soup .stock and' soyu for 1 minute. Tn. solid stork- stores have concluded contracts men in Europe and the United
Toronto
add % tsp. salt and XA tsp. Ajinomoto.
with haute couture groups in States. We Orientals have a dif­
Put chicken, mushrooms and spinach (cut hi 1 inch len<dhs) in France or Italy, and salons in de­ ferent physical make-up from
individual soup bowls.
&
7
partment stores are staging- high­ Caucasians.'’
Pour piping hot soup stock over these ingredients
ly publicized campaigns to sell
Mrs. Nakabayashi said that Ja­
TOFU DUMPLING SOUP
copies of French and Italian panese women would look better
Ingredients:
autumn-winter collections.
with the natural shoulder line to
1 square tofu
produce
slim sleeves rather than
The biggest and most conser­
Barrister & Solicitor
4 cups katsuobushi stock

rath
wide,
stressed shoulders,
vative department store in To­
vegetables, few sprigs of spinach, chopped green onions and parslev kyo joined the race this autumn. and with a relatively short hem­
Cameron, Weldon
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*
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rather
than
the
below-theIn the pre-winter season, a fa­
4 thsp. flour
Brewin & McCallum
shion
show of one kind or another knee length which appeared in
1 tsp. shoyu .
372 Bay St.

Toronto
was held almost every dav some­ Paris tills season.
H tsp. Ajinomoto
EM. 3-4391
where in Tokyo. French and Ita­
She introduced1 a collection of
Method:
lian
haute
couture
models,
indi
­
30
models,
drawing
L„
her
inspire
Squeeze, and remove excess moisture from tofu. Put it through
fjr™er or work it into pulp in a suribachi. Add 1 tsp. salt anef 4 vidual Japanese designers helped tion from authors or heroines o
by textile makers, and organiza­ literature. The costumes hac
tbsp, flour. Mix thoroughly.
Make small balls of this mixture and place in boiling water tions such as the international names such as Margueriete Gau­
wool secretariat, all gave fashion tier, Mona Liza, Melanie Wilkes,
Boil until the dumplings rise to the-top.
.
0
shows.
George Sand, Madame Bovary
To the katsuobushi stock, add 1 tsp. salt, shoyu and Ajinomoto.
and
Jane Austin.
Place tofu dumplings arid pieces of greens into soup bowls.
Imported Textiles
Four the boiling stock over and serve hot in covered bowls
All kinds of imported textiles,
Culinary Cue: For those of you blessed with wealth, but sliort ranging from British wool to
on time, the market shelves are groaning with labor-time savin"- Italian silk, and costume jewel­
shortcuts to successful meals. One of the “instant" products is lery from Austria and Germany
138472 Queen W. ,
commercially prepared soup stock that comes in cute little ba-s 6 are also flooding into the Japa­
J0 * box- Each pages simmered from 5 to 7 minutes in 4 cups of nese market.
Toronto
LE. 2-6378
TORONTO. — As a highlight
boiling water makes ;a delicious base for countless varieties of soup
But unlike Hie d'ays of the late of the holiday season, make plans
Christian Dior, there has been now to attend the Y.B.A. YearEnd Dance on Friday, Dec. 27.
For Service and Repair on
This social highlight starts at
TORONTO BUDDHIST CHURCH llt ..ta, S1.
RADIO
TV
8:30 PM. in the Social Hall of
SUNDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1963
STEREO-HI-FI
Nikko Gardens (Dundas and Spa10:30 A.M.—Religious School
nunllHU
offset an d letterpress dina). Come out and join in the
11:00 A.M.—Morning Service
OFFICE FORMS, BROCHURES, LETTERHEADS
fun of the club’s festive merry­
2:00 P.M<—Japanese Language
making. The dress is white shirt
Rev. Newton Ishiura
//Q/</ina ^nvi/afivni ^aen^/v m a t c h e s
and tie for guys and the girls
Phone: 759-1583
EVERYONE CORDIALLY INVITED
dress accordingly. Here’s hoping
T. Iwamoto
• HARRY S. KONDO
you join us in closing the club’s
84 Marcos Blvd.
1963 activities with this gala af­
: 627 BAY ST., TORONTO
Phone 368-9768
Scarboro, Ont.
TORONTO JAPANESE UNITED CHURCH
fair.
(Toronto)
SUNDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1963
Don’t forget:
11:30 A.M. English Language Service
Date: Friday, December 27
11:30 A.M. Sunday Church School
Time: 8:30 P.M.
The Rev. Minoru Stephan Takada, B.A., B.D.
Place
: Social Hall in Nikkp Gar­
A HEARTY WELCOME TO ALL

701 Dovexcourt Rd., Toronto
SKI RENTALS
DANFORTH
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SPORTING
Dress: White shirt and tie.
Admission: Only $1.00.
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Yank Nisei Story, ...

Continued from page 1

THE NEW CANADIAN

story, Jrom wartime evacuation to wartime heroism, but were °rven
W un^rafcaiid that if the evacuation (which was carried out bv th^
War Department) was shown, the film-makers would be denied
Army cooperation in the filming of war sequences. The War De­
partments reason was that, such a scene would be used as antiAmerican propaganda.

, Authorised as- second class m^n
and for payment of noqH^88 •
Post (Mfi« DepartSr Ot? ^“k

Mils NEAPOLIS. — A seventh I of Americans.
grade English teacher at Lincoln
“Therefore, I felt duty-hounc
Dv High School, who had her and obligated to write to Youi
class respond to “pen pal” letters Excellency and request your co­
Editor, ”K_.
*
*

from Japan was embarrassed to operation in seeing to it that
Section Editor and Advertising
is st.m
the Nisei story to be-told, in a major
team some of the Japanese pen some immediate program of edu­ ,
SUBSCRIPTION
pals did not want to write to cation be instituted in your coun­ X ® -nd«n a.n-^or fJln? James-Michener made it a part of a larger
_.
PGr ytxxr
stoiy in Hawaii and the Japanese American wartime experience
•4.00 per 6 months
try toward people of different
the novel, may-become an important part of the
“Japanese have peculiar feel­ colored skins or religious beliefs.
479 QUEEN ST. WEST
production for at least a year. Dalton
ings towards Negroes, Koreans
“The virus of hate knows no
* H““’ d°K !“>t li* f«
Toronto 2-B. Ont
and Jews as in your country," boundaries or oceans. We have knowledge on “Sf® “'^
EMpire 6-5005
the teacher was informed in a just witnessed in the past few
*
*
letter from a Nagoya school weeks a' terrible price a country
teacher who now seeks advice on pays for not trying to. eliminate u_q+PERI^-^ the. JACL History. Project, which should result in at
one book on Japanese Americans, may provide the documenhow to overcome this problem the virus of hate from its citi­
tation
which will inspire a novel and later a'film
after urging his class to corres­ zens.”
pond with American students.
(Scheiner was confident that
The Jewish Community Rela­ educational work in Japan would
Female Help Wanted
tions
Council
of Minnesota, be started to improve race rela­
OPERATORS, experienced "on ladies'
through its -executive director Sa­ tions and attitudes in Japan.
TOKYO.

An
empty
eight-car
-rear,
Apply Miss Sun Valley P
The pen pat letter campaigns
muel L. Scheiner, has brought the
passenger train with a sleepy-endoor, 96 Spqdina Ave., Toronto.
have
been
promoted
through
the
problem to the attention of the
Railway officials and police
gineer in the cab rammed a 32Japanese Embassy in Washing­ Youth Council for International car freight 50 miles north of- ’n”estigators said the passenger
Domestic Help Wanted
Contact in Tokyo.
ton.
train smashed through the ca­
The seventh grade class "at ’okyo. recently, landing atop a boose of the freight, and:its lead;
Writing to Ambassador Ryuji
tank
car
full,
of
liquified
petro
­
h°me. Permanent oo~
Lincoln Jr. High is comprised of
car derailed. ,The second car m W w
Takeuchi, Scheiner said:
hL^X® good references. Box
leum
gas
but
not
causing
an
ex
­
45 students, about 10 of whom
the passenger train piled up on 1U. New Canadian.
“I do hope you will understand who wrote were Negro and alb out plosion.
™^nFf1NE-t Pers°n -as housekeeoer for
that I am not complaining (the the same number of the Jewish
The accident occurred about top of the gas-filled tank-car.
small family. One room-and bath. Char
Nagoya teacher’s letter) for I faith.
1:33 this morning (4:33 p.m.
The investigators said an in­
believe this letter has done much
Fred P. Roessel, principal, in GMT Saturday) near Kuragaya quiry established that, the en­
to awaken some of us to the fact bringing this problem to light in Saitama prefecture north of gineer of the passenger train,
that all is not well in our world hopes “another situation like this this city, as the passenger train 27-year-old Yasuto Ikeda, bli
Business Personal
with reference to brotherhood and would be prevented.”
was being shuttled from one yard thely went through a yellow sig­
addresses of stamp, enthusiasts
educating our youngsters toward
nal a mile. and a quarter from,
The Nagoya teacher Shozo to another.
?
exchange stamps. Send
a proper appreciation of peoples Asai said he was surprised by
the crash, and a red)-one a third 25c to Mr. H. Fiesta, 28 Esgore Dr.,
No
one
was
seriously
injured.
.Toronto
12.
of different colored skins, nation­ the many letters he had .received
of a mile away.

The
freight
train,
bound
for
alities and religious beliefs.
in reply for pen pals, but was
Male Help Wanted
“Foreign countries point the “sorry" to find the school includ­ Nagaoka in the northern part of
Japan s main island, Honshu, on
finger of accusation against the ed Negroes.
I YOUNG MAN /for sports shop. Expert
United States because of its ra­
I ence, not necessary. Must be willing to
Of the Japanese students’ at­ the Japan sea coast, was stopped
Formal Rental
I
SPOI;ting Goods. Phone
cial and religious problems but it titude, the teacher noted it was at a station when the passenger
I Lil. Z-4zo/ (Toronto).
appears that other countries as ,not the proper attitude and that train rammed* into it from the
Reserve Now
well, have developed prejudices ‘“we are under an obligation to
and attitudes which need correct- ।educate students not to have such
ALF BARCLAY
Weddings
It is a good policy to
ing by proper programs being a racialism.”
Dances
Parcels, Cartons and Baggage
have the RIGHT POLICY
developed to counteract such pre­
“But at present it has not come
etc.
Moved
judices and misundersbaindings into successful effort,” he conConsult
Delivery
Service
which are as prevalent in other tinueld. He also apologized for
Sus Nagai
WALES and DUNCAN
countries as they are in the Unit­ tire students.
Phone 363-6530
Aina
of
Toronto
ed States.
.
70 Lippincott St. - Toronto 2B.
The pen pal exchange is con­
INSURANCE AGENTS
“I am confident that the Ja- tinuing, he added, but his stu­
437
Danforth
Ave.,
l>anese Government is as con­ dents do not know their Ameri­
464 Yonge Street, Toronto
(near Logan)
cerned about- educating their fu­ can friends may be Negro. “I
Phone WA. 1-3171
Phone 463-8104
ture youth toward a better under­ will explain about it some day,"
standing of their world neighbors he concluded. “Would you advise
of all religions, colors and na­ me if yo>...have a good idea on
tional origins as are the majority the above subject?”

ken ®?

®^

CLASSIFIED

Another Train Wreck In Japan

'TORONTO JCCA

Young People's Movie and Dance
Come enjoy an early movie and then
twist away the night
at the
Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre
On Friday, December 27th
Movie — internationally acclaimed “Seven Samurai”
Directed by Akira Kurosawa, commencing at 7:00 P.M.
Dance to follow until 11:30 P.M.
Admission — $1.00
123 Wynford Drive, Don Mills
ALSO,
PUT ON YOUR GAYEST OF HOLIDAY (MOOD
AND COME TO THE

JAPANESE CANADIAN CULTURAL CENTRE'S
Holiday Season Dance
on
Saturday, December 28th
8:30-12 P.M.
Orchestra
Refreshment — “Udon will be served"
Admission — $2.00 per person 123 Wynford Drive, Don Mills

Annual New Year’s Day Dance

CROWN

LIFEV^

WISSMlLAJIm
REPRESENTATIVE

Gertrude Urabe

Jan. 1, 1964
8:30 P.M. to 12:00 P.M.

UN.?. ,Hall

(College & Spadina

Office: 505 Eglinton Ave. W.
phone: HU. 1-6877
Home phone: HI. 7-8905

Quality Japanese Giftware
ORNAMENTS—in bronze, lacquer, etc.
bronze, porcelain.
—all sizes and price range.
^ke^'^®1’ ACCESSO.RIES—baskets, bowls,
scissors, kenzan and others.
*
BAMBOO—trays, tumblers etc

t6a * “

Open

■and many other - items ■ to suit any budget.

-Metropolitan Nisei Badminton Club Presents

5NOBALI. ’63
When?
Monday, December 23rd. from S:00 p.m.

Where ?
Inn-on-the-Park, Ballroom. Leslie and Eglinton

What?
Butch Watanabe and His Orchestra, Bar. Refreshments

How ?
Limited tickets to avoid crowding, now on sale: S6.00 per couple
Pho™, 231-32.3. HU. 1-1333. „ 433-4173 „ „„ „T M.Nlc. M^„

Dress—optional

WE INVITE YOU TO COME AND JUST BROWSE AROUND

THE EGLINWOOD SHOP
1558-Eglinton Ave., W.
(at Oakwood)

RU. 2-7571