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jisei Architect Commissioned To Design $14-Million Motor Hotel

'^nvTO-The firm of Raymond Morivama, ArjOBONTO. me------------ _----- ^
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5 recently commissioned to design a $4,motor hotel, with convention facilities, on
corner of Don Valley Parkway and
fS-^Avenue East. This 9.5 acre property backs
fe the Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre.
% Moriyama explained why he accepted. “Aside
b^*being an unique 20th century phenomenum deE
a special architectural solution, I was parti।^Hy interested in not only protecting the Centre
^""creating a compatible relationship between tlie
fro projects.”
‘ His commission includes the Landscaping.

Stella Ito’s
'Sukiyaki Cookbook”
Only $1.50

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_^_ith construction well under way on the $30,000.000.00 Centennial Centre of Sciences and Technology
Mr. Moriyama is busy on a wide range of new assignPai'tiaI &t includes: Pining and design
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acre res°rt village and convention centre
m Nassau, the Bahamas; research of concept and site
fW the pr°posed Metro Toronto Zoo; a
Health Services Building and Graduate Residence for
n
mversitJT of Waterloo; Group Homes for menJ?I1'!tUrbed ^^^ ^r the Metro Toronto Catho­
lic Children’s Aid Society; Don Mount Village, a down­
town subsidized housing project for the Ontario Hous­
ing Corporation; site development of a 180 acre park

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for Metro Toronto; acting .as a consultant to the
new New lork State Museum.
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Expansion and diversity of his activities reflect­
ed in the acquiring- of a 9,000 square foot office at
32 Davenport Road, and in ihe number of specialist­
professionals on his staff which include, aside from
architects and planners, researcher, landscape archi­
tect, and interior and industrial designers.
The firm is planning to install a computer as soon
as it becomes feasible.
Asked what his major problems are, he chuckled,
Trying to finish our own office and trying to raise
our five children properly.”

iht D® Canadian

Jessie L. Beat tie’s
Strength For The
Bridge. Only $5.00

An Independent Organ for Canadians of Japanese Origin
Vol. XXX—No. 79

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 12 1966

MW™™—.........

Thomas Kakinuma

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Praise For J.C. Artist

By PEGGY KURATA
: TORONTO.—Visitors from .Japan and some leading Canadian
tafcmen were among the fortunate “invitees” to Thursday even­
ts preview of Thomas Kakinuma’s latest one-man exhibition
lit the Canadian Handicrafts Guild, 77 Bloor Street West. They
tare unanimous and enthusiastic in ’their praise of one of the
0® outstanding shows of its kind that this writer has ever had
rie pleasure of viewing.

k WANTED
■Articles, vignettes, short sto­
ws, poems, cartoons, and phojiipaphs for The New Cana­
an’s big special Holiday Is®. Address all manuscripts
de. to:

The sixty-two pieces of pot­
tery and ceramic sculpture pres­
ent a breath-taking variety^ of
form, design,, color and glaze.
“To think that all this is the
work of one man,” commented
one guest. “Like Hamada,” said
another, of a strong traditional
piece.

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Toronto, Ont.
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1966 Japan Youth Mission North
American Team In Toronto Oct. 13
TORONTO.—The’ 10-member group of the 1966 affairs, the group will visit Toronto’s new City Hall ?
Japanese Y outh Goodwill Mission North American and the Children’s Welfare facilities. On Saturday
Team will be arriving in Toronto tomorrow, Oct­ they will visit the Japanese Language School, ;
ober 13th.
the Royal Ontario Museum, and sight-see metro
The group, under the leadership of Prof. Nobu- Toronto. In the evening they will make a visit :
yoshi Hirai of the Ochanomizu Women’s Univer­ to the Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre. They’- ;
sity, hope to meet and exchange views with leave for the U.S., via Niagara Falls, on Sunday.
various Toronto Nisei and Issei group leaders at
Included in this year’s group are:
the home of the Consul General.
.Mr. Mitsuo Hashimoto, Asst. Leader, who is the
On Friday, after a brief orientation of Ontario Assistant Chief of Planning Section Children’s .
and Family’s Affairs Bureau in ?
the Ministry of Health and Wei
fare.

Fourth Annual Issei Pioneer
Day Set At Centre Oct. 23

Miss Kuni Tarumi, a graduate
of Literature of Rikkyo University.

It would be impossible to make
a “gallery choice”. There ’ are
beautiful ceramic sculptures —
TORONTO.—The Issei generation will once again be honored
Miss Reiko Kodama, Children’s
many
of theni “collector’s piec­
I - “Holiday Special”
es”, for- example, the delightful at the Toronto Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre on Sunday, Oct- Instructor of Matsue Prefectural
s The New Canadian,
bronze-glazed dancing child fi­ ober 23rd with the Fourth Annual Issei Pioneer Day froni 2 to Rehabilitation Institute for Han­
i ID Queen Street West,
gures reminiscent of Crow Boy 6 p.m.
dicapped Children.
; Toronto 2-B, Ont,
in Taro Yashima’s lovely child­
This is the day set aside .at the Centre for the Issei generation,
Miss Toshiko Mitsuoki, a lec­
tale (but three little boys instead
of one); and a whimsical owl, in commemoration of the “Issei Day” Opening of the Centre on turer of the Hiroshima YMCA.
wings drooped like kimono sleev­ October 27, 1963.
Miss Hiroko
Murakami, a
“As a ■way of showing our indebtedness to them,’ suggested
es, posed for a Sado Island odori
teacher
of
Nakai
Upper Secon­
but minus his straw hat. In a- Centre Managing Director Bob Kadoguchi, “we ask that all Nisei
W Character
nother mood are two studies of and Sansei provide their parents and grandparents with transpor­ dary School.
Mother and Child — a “traditi­
Virtues Mistaken
Mr. Yoshio Enomoto, a clerk
onal” and a most beautiful and tation on this day.”
A special invitation is being mailed out to all Issei pioneers.
in the Service section, Business
sensitive semi-abstract. Present,
also, are his. famous chickens
ners
Division of Daiichi Hotel.
—- a gorgeous big red “rooster”,
Mr. Kazunari Honda, a Secre­
— It is a cliche a pair of birds’finished in an un­ 157 J.C. United Churchers Tour Japan tary, Wakayama Office, Waka­
™ ntaIs , are inscrutable, usual light green glaze, and
^ be that the, Jak another pair in a sober “old
TOKYO.—A gi-oup of 157 members of the Japanese United yama Prefectural Commercial
^ne e]^ as mutable as bronze” green. There are pen­ Church of Canada arrived1 safely in Tokyo by PAA from Vancouver Credit Association.
guins, too, and a variety’ of owls
on October 1st for a one-month tour of Japan in commemoration
Mr. Seishi Yamane, Secretary
and some unusual fishes.
of
the
20th
anniversary
of
the
church

s
establishment.
The
group,
a JaPa’
of Kumamoto YMCA.
For the practical collector,
»of
wb°te his analyled
by
S.
Sasaki,
Chairman
of
the
Church
Committee
of
Canada,
Mr. Kiyofumi Yatsunami, an
lod^311636 character there are unique bowls and vas­
Action?0
f0Und
will
visit
United
Churches
in
Japan
and
also
take
in
the
sights
agriculturalist from Fukuoka Pre­
es, large and small (treasures
fecture.
essays have for the flower-arranger), and at Nikko, Kyoto, Nara and other places.
by Kndan- lovely tea bowls and serving
^X ?Tal of Pal° Alto, plates. An exquisite stoneware
to be equally true to- vase in a red and moss-green
mottled glaze drew considerable
attention, along with a deep tea­
took, entitled “The Ja- bowl
in similar graze.
The way to stop bacteria from those treated, he reported. Among
^nj ^cter: A Cultural
By MASATOSHI YAMAGUCHI
growing in such food deposits, the students who relied on or­
Each item is an individual
Tgawa finds that
TOKYO. — A Japanese dentist and thus creating the acids that dinary dental care, there were
!ieirinr a?ese are noted work of art by one of Canada’s
•® at m € °^ gardens, they leiading artist-craftsmen, and the thinks a plastic coating on teeth make cavities, says Takeuchi, is 21 cavities in the nine-month
is more effective than anything to seal off the caves — generally period.
® ,a® tested
'ili^'l Practically no entire exhibition is still another so far discovered — including they are about a millimetre deep
Takeuchi says teeth can be
reason why our entire Japanese- fluoridated water — in prevent­ — so that food can’t get into sealed using his method in a
their cities.
them in the first place.
matter of minutes. A colorless
_ _
M
for their. Canadian community can lool< ing tooth decay.
The idea is not original with liquid plastic known as “alkylDr.
Mitsuhara
Takeuchi,
who
he says their with pride upon the achievement
? combine a Lbat is hiaeous
. eir
unveiled a method of applying him, he says. Dr. M. G. Buoncore, cyanocryolate,” a powerful and
of one of its most gifted mem­ such a coating several years de­ a U.S. dentist working at the instantaneous adhesive develop­
^
WorlcL Though
Eastman Dental Dispensary-, first
ls Wrongly bers. Japanese-born Canadian veloping it at the Tokyo dental proposed the idea in a dental ed for surgeons by a U.S. medi­
cal firm several years ago, is
* Mt L v Japanese, they Kakinuma is one of the very iew college, claims that it appears
journal
in
1963.
first applied.
to
be
100
percent
effective.
*ood an?- j311^ exclusive- Canadians whose work is repre­
seldom on a grand sented in the permanent collec­
Before announcing his new
A few seconds later, powdered
Takeuchi said in an interview
method,
Takeuchi tested it with methacrylate polymer, another
that
most
cavities
start
m
tiny
tion
of
the
International
Muse
­
the Japanese
“caves” in ordinary teeth, where 160 primary school children for surgical plastic, is applied on
^ bv
are -Hot only um of Ceramics at Faenza, Italy. sweets and remains of chewed nine months last year.
top of the drying liquid.
r "tot L ^e^ners,” he
He coated the teeth of half of
Takeuchi says that the coating
food
pile
up
They
are
inacces
­
The
exhibition
continues
at
j^ood bv ^nently misthem.
will
last about nine months and
sible
there
to
ordinary
methods
?^Ts *
ihe Japanese the Gallery ‘to and including Sat­
There were no cavities among then has to be. replaced.
of tooth cleaning.

| Dentist Uses Plastic To Eliminate Decay |

urday, October 15th.

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Canada
Savings Bonds
Centennial Series

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LC. Cultural Centre Sansei Choir Wants Recruits

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Salad Dressing
re’s nothing fresher than salad -made from fresh vegetables,
salad becomes an. underrated dish, something to
R£h‘because “it’s good for us.”


W11 it’s time to give it a boost with a new dressing that
it up. Oil-vinegar dressing is the most simple and
ifnr its tartness whets the appetite, and its flavor blends
K» .W tyre of main dish.
immend these below -for your next salad bowl . . . and
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U likely be given a choice of three salad dressings and if you
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dressin®’- This French dressing or its variation is a favorite
r n-r restaurant chefs. Try and see how long before it’s yours.
„ DRESSING
CREAMY FRENCH

L Ingredients:
4 small clove garlic
III L5P- salt
, ,
tiro-third cup salad oil
oe-third cup wine vinegar
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one-third cup heavy cream, pepper to taste, red pepper, “ you
| can take it.
Method:
Cut garlic into pieces on a chopping board and sprinkle with
[the saltMash the salt and garlic together with the flat side of a knife
blade. Continue rubbing the garlic until it is completely blended
IM the salt.
! Combine the garlic salt with the remaining ingredients. The
cressing is best allowed to ripen for several hours before serving.
Stir well or shake just before seiwing on wedges of lettuce
or on tossed salad.
SPECIAL BLUE CHEESE DRESSING

TORONTO. In preparation for the Centennial Year, the Tor­
onto Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre’s Sansei Choir is looking
for new recruits especially in the 12 .and 13 age groups.
Mr Harry Kumano is anxious to start on .the “Can­
ada Ondo - selected as a Centennial theme song Its Composer,
ma will attend and assist the choir in its presentation.
Sansei Choir’s first fall practice will be on Sunday, October
16th at 2:00 pan. in the West Room of the J.C. Cultural Centre.

Advanced Sumi-e Course Starts At J.C.C. Centre
p TORONTO.—The Extension Course in Sumi-e (or Japanese
Brush Piling) — designed for those who have had at least 20
practical instructions in the art — commenced Hrt week at the
J.C. Cultural Centre with Mr. Yen Chin as the first -uest artist '
This
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sP°ts fihea by such colorful and well known artis
as Mr. Walter
Sunshsrs,
Miss
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Yamada and Mr
Kazuo Maim_ . ^X’^
aformentioned Mr
I en Chin. —J.C.C. Centre

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TORONTO.—The Toronto Buddhist Church will hold its Annual Fall Bazaar on Saturday, November 12. The Bazaar Comniittee promises to make this annual event an even big’ger and
better one than in the past.
The dining’ room service will provide a wide selection of tempt­
ing Japanese dishes served piping hot, while take home delicacies
include, home baking, sushi, mochi, chicken teriyaki, etc. Don’t
forget to pick up little gift items that will also be on sale, such
as doll clothes, knitted goods, aprons, and other novelties. Come
early to avoid disappointment.
Kindly note the correction in date, erroneously reported to you
in the last issue. — T.B.C.

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Tor. Nisei Women's Club Holds Their 1st Fall Meet
TORONTO.—Paintings in unexpected places, original creations
and unique articles from foreign countries, startling different
redecorated interiors — this was the unusual background for the
first fall meeting of the Toronto Nisei Women’s Club on Wed­
nesday, September 28th.
Mr. Carlos Marchiori, a well known commercial artist, opened
his intriging home at 18 Roxborough West for the evening. Mr.
Marchiori’s home has been featured in local newspapers and maga­
zines to show what can be done to an old house when you have
ingenuity and creative ability. His work can also be seen from
time to time on films and television.
Introduced by Mrs. Koto Adachi, Mr. Marchiori answered
question after question on art and his experiences with witty com­
ments, frank observations and practical suggestions. Many of these
remarks were made in fluent Japanese.
During the brief business period, the members voted on con­
tributions "to the following organizations — The Nipponia Home,
JCCA (Welfare), Miss Hirano’s Orphanage, Rev. Yada’s Senior
Citizens’ Home and the local Centennial project.
Refreshments were provided by the East Group to round out
a wonderful evening. —T.N.W.C.

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Ingredients:
Ji lb. Blue Cheese
sae-third cup heavy cream or undiluted evaporated milk
Ji cup mayonnaise
sne-third cup red wine vinegar
1 clove garlic, chopped
H tsp. Worcestershire Sauce salt to taste
tsp. coarse black pepper
Method:
Have cheese at room temperature. Place in a small mixing
bowl and mash well with a fork.
Gradually beat in cream,- then mayonnaise, oil and vinegar.
Add remaining ingredients, blending well. Cover and chill
several hours to blend flavors.
. Delicious on any green salad.

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Insurance Agency

TORONTO.—As reported earlier, the latest branch of the
Toronto Japanese Language School System held its first class on
September 24th in Islington Public School, Etobicoke. Twentynew pupils attended the first class and there are indications that
more may be coming.
Inunediatslv after the introductory7 talk by the Chairman, Mi.
Ken Saito, the new teacher Mr. Gohi Uyemura, a graduate of
Nippon University in Tokyo, began the lessons.
By September 10th there were 73 new enrolments in the
Toronto J.L.S. and the total number of pupils is now over 200.
Among them are a few Caucasians including a Telegram reporter,
Mr. Adilman.
On September 25th, Mr. Sato, the former principal of the
Vancouver Japanese Language School and his wife, visited Orde
School. At a welcome luncheon party’ with the members of the
system, the noted educator praised the calibre of the movement
and expressed his expectations for the future.
The Toronto Japanese Language School Board has been constantlv improving and expanding the schools, but _ this semester
another important improvement was effected by increasing t e
teaching staff. The members of the staff are all well qualify
and are zealot supporters of Japanese language education. They
X = « Vano, Nakada, Mrs. Nakamura, Mrs. Tasa£ Okazawa. Mrs. Kono, Uyemura, fc ^i, Mrs. Kusakabe,
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of that day remain remarkable.
The Yomiuri once sent a reporter-photographer team to write
TOKAO.—Imagine 500 reporters and photographers camping a grisly series from inside Mount Mihara, a volcano best known
in tents on the White House lawn for a couple of days just to be as a suicide' leap for the lovelorn. It was called' a “scientific ex­
sure they were present when President Johnson announced a few pedition.”
changes in his cabinet.
The Asahi sent a man to the United States in a dirigible, and
Imagine an executive of a major newspaper attacking the hardly blinked when he failed to send back any stories for several
publisher of another with a sword because the competition was months. Its inventive rewrite ■ men put together lengthy stories
getting too fierce.
on his “adventures,” and when his first words did come in they
Imagine sending reporters down into a live volcano to check were in the form of a simple cable: “Need money, regards.” Thd
on lovers committing .suicide.
paper sent it. ?
. Now you have an idea of some of the things that ge .with
Of course; there are more than 100 daily newspapers in cities
newspapering in Japan, past and present.
— The
'
largest of these so-called provincial dailies
outside Tokyo.
When Japanese newsmen camped out on the
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of Prime is the Chubu Nippon Shimbun, or “Chuniahi,” of Nagoya with
Minister Eisaku Sato’s official residence for two days at the a circulation of‘1,900,000. But still, the real giants are'in Tokyo
end of July, nobody batted an eyelash.
with its population of 11 million.
The Mainichi, Asahi and Yomiuri each sell about four million
It was nothing more than a repeat of an annual perform­
papers
a day. Actually, 'their total circulation is double that since
ance. Six years ago when the late Prime Minister Hayato Ikeda
each
produces
both morning and-afternoon editions. This is more
formed his first cabinet 1,500 newsmen showed up.
than
the
combined
circulation of all the daily newspapers in any
Forty-odd years ago a predecessor of Sato awoke to discover
other
country
except
the United States or Britain.
that an enterprising reporter had achieved a scoop on a new
They
got
that
big
through fierce circulation wars that saw
cabinet list by creeping under* his house and eavesdropping from
gangs
of
rival
newsboys
beating up one another in the provinces,
beneath the floor boards of the smoke-filled room for 36 hours.
along
with
extreme
pressure
tactics-applied to get subscribers.
But that was in the 1920’s, another era of Japanese journalism
In
the
20

s
and
30

s
when
Matsu
taro Shoriki, owner of Yomiuri,
altogether, when the three great newspapers of today, the Maiwas
building
his
paper
from
a
tiny
sheet
in Tokyo to a great-daily
nichi, Asahi and Yomiuri were engaged in open war. The exploits
rivaling 'the Mainichi and Asahi, he used all kinds of circulation
gimmicks.
He sponsored free fairs and chrysanthemum-'shows (a flower
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He was the first to sponsor and publish, the results of “go”
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and “shogi” (forms of Japanese chess matches among the masters,
the first to publish a page devoted to radio, and he brought base­
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The fight for circulation has quieted down since then, partly
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In 1959, Mainichi mobilized around 100 newsmen to get the
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daughter of Emperor Hirohito. The paper maintains more than a
dozen airplanes and helicopters to get the news.

Like the other two big papers, the Mainichi prints simultane­
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Tokyo and Osaka in the midlands to Fukuoka in the south of this
1,500-mile island chain.
To do so it must maintain an enormous and complex system
of private conununications facilities, including electronic facsimile
machines that can transmit a page at a time,, and “kanji” teletypes
capable of printing in all 1,850 Chinese characters, 96 letters of
two Japanese alphabets, the English .alphabet and numerals.

Japan Decides
Not To Import
Foreign Workers
TOKYO.—Crowded Japan has
tentatively decided not to import
workers from less - developed
countries to help alleviate a
growing scarcity of labor.
The Labor Ministry is authori­
tatively reported to have reject­
ed a proposal that 3000 to 4000
young workers be sent here from
South Korea. It favors retrain­
ing and re-employment of older
workers, more technical educa­
tion and streamlining of business
structures to increase produc­
tivity.
In recent years, Japan’s laborsituation has changed from chro­
nic over-supply to a growing
shortage,
particularly
among
youths.
While industry expands, the
post-war decline in the birthrate
and the almost universal desire
Tor more education is reducing
the number of high school and
junior high school graduates en­
tering the labor market "by about
three percent annually.
Last spring, even with Japan
in the grip of a recession, there
were two jobs for each high
school graduate in Tokyo.
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other major cities have been
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