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Home
Nipponia
By BRIAN MOORE
\®EAMS VILLE, Ont.—A story in a Vancouver news-B^1' about the hard and lonely life of a pensioner
‘^the beginning of Yasutaro Yamaga’s dream.
UiyThree years and $100,000 later, the dream became
-aWeality with the opening here of the Nipponia Home
itoi S
f^elderly Japanese Canadians, the only one of its
r
^^^in Canada.
^pat was 10 years ago. Today the project is thriv"ing^as never before and faces a bright future — tesTUmony to Mr. Yamaga’s vision and his tenacity in
Ole Nipponia Home is a handsome, one-storey,
b-washed building with a subtly Japanese air that
Where
Senior
J.C/s
grows more evident as you enter.
Prints marked with, delicate Oriental calligraphy
hang on the walls. Two budg'ies chirp in a cage sur
rounded by fragrant flowers and well-tended plants.
Outside, beyond a glass wall, is a tiny garden with
a pond and a stone replica of a Japanese house. Books
and magazines in Japanese are everywhere.
.Nipponia is home for 27 elderly Japanese Canadi
ans, including Mr. Yamaga, 82, Ms wife, Fumiko, and
three other married couples. Residents, most of whom
were born in Japan and speak little English, come
mainly from Ontario, Quebec and British Columbia.
“They have made Canada their country and wans
to spend their final years here,” said Mr. Yamaga,
Can
Find
a small, round-faced man with arching black eye
brows and close-cropped gray hair.
“I wanted to establish a place where elderly Japa
nese Canadians could live together as a family, with
companionship and comfort.”
Life at the home is a curious blend of East and
West. Residents eat a typically Canadian breakfast
and lunch, but dinner is always in Japanese style,
with chopsticks instead of knives and forks.
A male chef was imported from Japan after news
paper advertisements placed across the country fail
ed to turn up a suitable candidate.
“The people at Nipponia wouldn’t want to eat only
(Continued on Page 8)
he T)tw Canadian
“SUKIYAKI”
Cookbook By
MISS STELLA ITO
Comfort
STRENGTH FOR THE
BRIDGE
A storv of J.C.’s By
JESSIE L. BEATTIE
An Independent Organ for Canadians of Japanese Origin
Toronto, Ont
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1969
^’W XXXIII—No. 9
1: J aimiiiiinniiiuiiiiimiiiiiim
Japanese
Serum
Aids
Transplants
Nisei In Europe
Says Visiting Japan Heart Doctor
lies
"
=)
tf^This week we continue our series entitled “Nisei In Europe”
"" byjNew Canadian writer Thomas T. Mitsunaga ,of Lethbridge, Al— berta on his impressions of his recent visit to Europe.
VANCOUVER. — Fresh advances are expected right procedure for terminal cases for whom they
this year in control of rejection in heart transplant offer* the only hope of continued life.
By THOMAS T. MITSUNAGA
“It is good for them and good for them famipatients, according to a leading Japanese heart
Pizzas, Art Treasures and Roman Ruins
lies,” he said.
surgeon.
w^^On the Italian side of the pass, the terrain is much the same
Dr. Wada, who is on a round-the-world trip
Dr. Juro Wada, who performed Japan’s only
7? asUt was in Austria and slowly it gives way to hills and plains, heart transplant operation last Aug. 8, said in that has taken him to South Africa, Germany,
for- Iritis part of Italy which is called the Dolomite, the people of
Vancouver, Jan. 20th he expects the improvement France and Britain, has performed 3,000 open
— the'north are strongly loyal to Austria though the land is politi- because of an anti-rejection serum being develop heart operations and 350 heart valve replacements.
, c^ Italy’s. Many acts of terrorism against the Italian governHe is a pioneer in use of the Teflon replace
ed by fellow countryman Dr. Hiroo Iida.
“ ment are reported. The architecture gradually changes which re
Dr. Wada defended heart transplants as the ment valve. Forty-six of 50 patients given this
flects the increasing amounts of sunshine. The roofs are low pitchvalve by Dr. Wada have suvived.
ed^iid are tile. The sun is warm and the skies are a deep blue.
His first transplant patient, an
“ ’Vineyards growing on mountainsides clinging to slopes so steep
18-year-old youth, died S3 days
.on ponders how the grapes are harvested are everywhere. By
after receiving his new heart.
’clock that evening we had arrived at Hotel Sirio just outside
Dr. Wada plans to do another
s most unusual city, Venice. Here on the Gulf of' Venice,
transplant when he returns to
TOKYO. — The British paja in Japan.
i is part of the Adriatic Sea, the weather was hot and humid.
But he is glad he brought the Sapporo, Japan.
ma salesman, who came to Japan
otel room was uncomfortable and the streets outside were with Oriental styles in his sample Oriental styles to Japan.
While he was in South Africa,
isiest in our experience.
case, left recently without hav
he
said, he examined Dr. Philip
enice, somehow is a letdown after the idealized picture one ing sold any, ’but he figures they
BLaiberg, the world’s longest5 of it in his mind from travel folders and advertising. The may go over better at his next
surviving transplant patient and
stop
—
Hong
Kong.
d Canal is choked with traffic, motorized traffic, to such
The
British
colony is the
found him in “perfect shape.”
an^xtent. that one wonders where all the gondolas are. Garbage,
source
of
the
print
design
on
the
He said he put his stethoscope
ndebris and smell are all residents of the canals. The buildings
British-made
Oriental
style
pa
on
the patient and found his
are^^ecaying at the water level. Nevertheless a whole city built
jama
and
robes
brought
by
De
heart was very strong.
- ori^illars driven into the shallow mud flats, most of which are
TOKYO. — Ed Sullivan will be
now^petrified, is a sight one will long remember. The Adriatic rek Rose, 36, managing director among entertainers at the 1970
In Vancouver, Dr. Wada lecworld exposition in Osaka, spon tured at Vancouver General HosSea|has no tides to speak of and the Gulf is shallow. The average of Bonsoir.
Rose figures his selling chanc sors said.
■‘.depth of the canals in Venice is 18 ft. A motor launch loaded to
pital, visited his brother, Prof.
■etfi^brim with cases of Pepsi Cola does nothing to enhance the es for- the bright red, gold and
Also about 30 popular music Juhn Wada at the University of
royal blue Oriental styles are programs will be staged in a spe
- sglbries of Venice, which once was the most influential city in
B.C., and attended1 a UBC rebetter in Hong Kong because cial pavilion during the exposi
ception.
(‘Europe.
* fA. visit to a Venetian glassblower’s shop was interesting. The “they are very conservative here” tion, they said.
■arttis handed down from father to son. We were shown red Venetian
fgl^vare which is the most expensive. For glassware, one should
imake his purchases in Venice, just as the best cuckoo clocks were
’t^He had in Germany. In St. Mark’s Square, where Coca Cola costs
An amateur astronomer since office.
'I^cents, we sat at outdoor tables and saw a panorama of Italian
TOKYO. — A 14-year-old ToShe confesses that she does not
^society pass by. At St. Mark’s one pays not for the refreshments, kvo junior high school student she was a primary school student,
but^for the privilege of sitting. For lunch, Joe found an out of recently was the first Japanese Chizuko closely followed Apollo have the fund for the tour or
the^av place where the fare was Italian onlv. Musicians serenad- to have a reseiwation on the first 8’s moon trip in the newspapers any idea when such a tour would
commercial flight to the moon.^
and on TV. When she learned materialize.
edYhe troupe with Italian tunes, one of which I recognized as SorChizuko Hiroike, a student at
“I must live long because it
’rento. A university professor showed us through St. Mark’s and Gakushuin school, called Pan Am that the airline had started ac
ith^loge’s Palace. This splendid palace contains a museum and erican World Airways to reserve cepting applications for a future would take quite a long time
. . it^was here that I saw a piece of cruel hardware which I had en- a seat on the Airlines first moon visit, Chizuko applied im before commercial trips to the
mediately to the airline’s Japan moon will be started,” she said.
' vcountered many times in reading history. That hardware was the flight to the moon.
Pan American will forward
? charity belt. The belt was fitted over the nobleman’s spouse her
reservation to its Moon
1 sy^0e be was awav doing battle for his king and kingdom. The Flight reservations department in
*£ mental anguish, let alone the physical discomfort must have been Boston.
ROME. — The world’s total metric tons — 5.5 percent more
I ^unbearable.
She was advised by Pan Am
1 ^^^oe’ OUr English guide, displayed one unpleasant facet of his erican that, though there 1= no haul of fish surpassed 60 million than the 1966 haul of 57 million
metric tons in 1967. Peru became
।' personality when four members of the troupe failed to rendezvous. estimated date of the first flight the first nation to take more than metric tons.
?^^ieraiiy blew his head and began to make obscene remarks departure, the airline assumes it 10 million tons, the Food and
Peru, already the world’s No.
'
the missing members. This was taken very poorly by the will be the first one to schedule Agriculture Organization report 1 fishing nation in terms of
service there.
volume of catch, hauled in 10
ed.
’
members of the tour and Joe after this point in the tour
There are already 168 pro
Japan had the second largest million tons of fish. Almost ail
*
accorded the same respect as he had received earlier. It spective passengers on the firs, haul: Communist China presuma the Peruvian catch is anchoeveta,
1 •1?!^)U^t resulted in the small number which turned out for the moon flight listed by Pan Amer bly was third; the Soviet Union used for fish mea.
I ^°^^a hde that evening. I, myself found a pizzeria restaurant ican’s Boston Moon Flight res was fourth; and Norway placed
Japan, with a smaller tonnage,
I '^^^ ^e chef took us into the kitchen and showed us first hand ervations department. The bulk fifth ahead of the United States. had the -world’s best catch in
of them are Americans.
The figures were given in terms of total value. Japan
howgpizzas are made, Italian style.
FAO’s yearbook of fisheries brought in 7.8 million tons, an
Chuzuko
’
s
father
is
the
presi
' - ^'j^he experiences of the day showed that the Italian tempera- dent of Pveitaku University in statistics , which gave the total increase from the previous year’s
catch for 1967 as 60 million seven million.
Kashiwa, Chiba Prefecture.
(Cont. on Page 8)
on
iu’iNY.
1
British Kimono-Style Pajama Maker's
Attempt For Japan Sales Falls Flat
Ed Sullivan To
Appear at Osaka's
1970 Exposition
Japanese Girl Signs Up For 1st Moon Trip
Japan Has Second Biggest Fish Haul
s’
I
sb
VI le
Home
Nipponia
By BRIAN MOORE
\®EAMS VILLE, Ont.—A story in a Vancouver news-B^1' about the hard and lonely life of a pensioner
‘^the beginning of Yasutaro Yamaga’s dream.
UiyThree years and $100,000 later, the dream became
-aWeality with the opening here of the Nipponia Home
itoi S
f^elderly Japanese Canadians, the only one of its
r
^^^in Canada.
^pat was 10 years ago. Today the project is thriv"ing^as never before and faces a bright future — tesTUmony to Mr. Yamaga’s vision and his tenacity in
Ole Nipponia Home is a handsome, one-storey,
b-washed building with a subtly Japanese air that
Where
Senior
J.C/s
grows more evident as you enter.
Prints marked with, delicate Oriental calligraphy
hang on the walls. Two budg'ies chirp in a cage sur
rounded by fragrant flowers and well-tended plants.
Outside, beyond a glass wall, is a tiny garden with
a pond and a stone replica of a Japanese house. Books
and magazines in Japanese are everywhere.
.Nipponia is home for 27 elderly Japanese Canadi
ans, including Mr. Yamaga, 82, Ms wife, Fumiko, and
three other married couples. Residents, most of whom
were born in Japan and speak little English, come
mainly from Ontario, Quebec and British Columbia.
“They have made Canada their country and wans
to spend their final years here,” said Mr. Yamaga,
Can
Find
a small, round-faced man with arching black eye
brows and close-cropped gray hair.
“I wanted to establish a place where elderly Japa
nese Canadians could live together as a family, with
companionship and comfort.”
Life at the home is a curious blend of East and
West. Residents eat a typically Canadian breakfast
and lunch, but dinner is always in Japanese style,
with chopsticks instead of knives and forks.
A male chef was imported from Japan after news
paper advertisements placed across the country fail
ed to turn up a suitable candidate.
“The people at Nipponia wouldn’t want to eat only
(Continued on Page 8)
he T)tw Canadian
“SUKIYAKI”
Cookbook By
MISS STELLA ITO
Comfort
STRENGTH FOR THE
BRIDGE
A storv of J.C.’s By
JESSIE L. BEATTIE
An Independent Organ for Canadians of Japanese Origin
Toronto, Ont
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1969
^’W XXXIII—No. 9
1: J aimiiiiinniiiuiiiiimiiiiiim
Japanese
Serum
Aids
Transplants
Nisei In Europe
Says Visiting Japan Heart Doctor
lies
"
=)
tf^This week we continue our series entitled “Nisei In Europe”
"" byjNew Canadian writer Thomas T. Mitsunaga ,of Lethbridge, Al— berta on his impressions of his recent visit to Europe.
VANCOUVER. — Fresh advances are expected right procedure for terminal cases for whom they
this year in control of rejection in heart transplant offer* the only hope of continued life.
By THOMAS T. MITSUNAGA
“It is good for them and good for them famipatients, according to a leading Japanese heart
Pizzas, Art Treasures and Roman Ruins
lies,” he said.
surgeon.
w^^On the Italian side of the pass, the terrain is much the same
Dr. Wada, who is on a round-the-world trip
Dr. Juro Wada, who performed Japan’s only
7? asUt was in Austria and slowly it gives way to hills and plains, heart transplant operation last Aug. 8, said in that has taken him to South Africa, Germany,
for- Iritis part of Italy which is called the Dolomite, the people of
Vancouver, Jan. 20th he expects the improvement France and Britain, has performed 3,000 open
— the'north are strongly loyal to Austria though the land is politi- because of an anti-rejection serum being develop heart operations and 350 heart valve replacements.
, c^ Italy’s. Many acts of terrorism against the Italian governHe is a pioneer in use of the Teflon replace
ed by fellow countryman Dr. Hiroo Iida.
“ ment are reported. The architecture gradually changes which re
Dr. Wada defended heart transplants as the ment valve. Forty-six of 50 patients given this
flects the increasing amounts of sunshine. The roofs are low pitchvalve by Dr. Wada have suvived.
ed^iid are tile. The sun is warm and the skies are a deep blue.
His first transplant patient, an
“ ’Vineyards growing on mountainsides clinging to slopes so steep
18-year-old youth, died S3 days
.on ponders how the grapes are harvested are everywhere. By
after receiving his new heart.
’clock that evening we had arrived at Hotel Sirio just outside
Dr. Wada plans to do another
s most unusual city, Venice. Here on the Gulf of' Venice,
transplant when he returns to
TOKYO. — The British paja in Japan.
i is part of the Adriatic Sea, the weather was hot and humid.
But he is glad he brought the Sapporo, Japan.
ma salesman, who came to Japan
otel room was uncomfortable and the streets outside were with Oriental styles in his sample Oriental styles to Japan.
While he was in South Africa,
isiest in our experience.
case, left recently without hav
he
said, he examined Dr. Philip
enice, somehow is a letdown after the idealized picture one ing sold any, ’but he figures they
BLaiberg, the world’s longest5 of it in his mind from travel folders and advertising. The may go over better at his next
surviving transplant patient and
stop
—
Hong
Kong.
d Canal is choked with traffic, motorized traffic, to such
The
British
colony is the
found him in “perfect shape.”
an^xtent. that one wonders where all the gondolas are. Garbage,
source
of
the
design
on
the
He said he put his stethoscope
ndebris and smell are all residents of the canals. The buildings
British-made
Oriental
style
pa
on
the patient and found his
are^^ecaying at the water level. Nevertheless a whole city built
jama
and
robes
brought
by
De
heart was very strong.
- ori^illars driven into the shallow mud flats, most of which are
TOKYO. — Ed Sullivan will be
now^petrified, is a sight one will long remember. The Adriatic rek Rose, 36, managing director among entertainers at the 1970
In Vancouver, Dr. Wada lecworld exposition in Osaka, spon tured at Vancouver General HosSea|has no tides to speak of and the Gulf is shallow. The average of Bonsoir.
Rose figures his selling chanc sors said.
■‘.depth of the canals in Venice is 18 ft. A motor launch loaded to
pital, visited his brother, Prof.
■etfi^brim with cases of Pepsi Cola does nothing to enhance the es for- the bright red, gold and
Also about 30 popular music Juhn Wada at the University of
royal blue Oriental styles are programs will be staged in a spe
- sglbries of Venice, which once was the most influential city in
B.C., and attended1 a UBC rebetter in Hong Kong because cial pavilion during the exposi
ception.
(‘Europe.
* fA. visit to a Venetian glassblower’s shop was interesting. The “they are very conservative here” tion, they said.
■arttis handed down from father to son. We were shown red Venetian
fgl^vare which is the most expensive. For glassware, one should
imake his purchases in Venice, just as the best cuckoo clocks were
’t^He had in Germany. In St. Mark’s Square, where Coca Cola costs
An amateur astronomer since office.
'I^cents, we sat at outdoor tables and saw a panorama of Italian
TOKYO. — A 14-year-old ToShe confesses that she does not
^society pass by. At St. Mark’s one pays not for the refreshments, kvo junior high school student she was a primary school student,
but^for the privilege of sitting. For lunch, Joe found an out of recently was the first Japanese Chizuko closely followed Apollo have the fund for the tour or
the^av place where the fare was Italian onlv. Musicians serenad- to have a reseiwation on the first 8’s moon trip in the newspapers any idea when such a tour would
commercial flight to the moon.^
and on TV. When she learned materialize.
edYhe troupe with Italian tunes, one of which I recognized as SorChizuko Hiroike, a student at
“I must live long because it
’rento. A university professor showed us through St. Mark’s and Gakushuin school, called Pan Am that the airline had started ac
ith^loge’s Palace. This splendid palace contains a museum and erican World Airways to reserve cepting applications for a future would take quite a long time
. . it^was here that I saw a piece of cruel hardware which I had en- a seat on the Airlines first moon visit, Chizuko applied im before commercial trips to the
mediately to the airline’s Japan moon will be started,” she said.
' vcountered many times in reading history. That hardware was the flight to the moon.
Pan American will forward
? charity belt. The belt was fitted over the nobleman’s spouse her
reservation to its Moon
1 sy^0e be was awav doing battle for his king and kingdom. The Flight reservations department in
*£ mental anguish, let alone the physical discomfort must have been Boston.
ROME. — The world’s total metric tons — 5.5 percent more
I ^unbearable.
She was advised by Pan Am
1 ^^^oe’ OUr English guide, displayed one unpleasant facet of his erican that, though there 1= no haul of fish surpassed 60 million than the 1966 haul of 57 million
metric tons in 1967. Peru became
।' personality when four members of the troupe failed to rendezvous. estimated date of the first flight the first nation to take more than metric tons.
?^^ieraiiy blew his head and began to make obscene remarks departure, the airline assumes it 10 million tons, the Food and
Peru, already the world’s No.
'
the missing members. This was taken very poorly by the will be the first one to schedule Agriculture Organization report 1 fishing nation in terms of
service there.
volume of catch, hauled in 10
ed.
’
members of the tour and Joe after this point in the tour
There are already 168 pro
Japan had the second largest million tons of fish. Almost ail
*
accorded the same respect as he had received earlier. It spective passengers on the firs, haul: Communist China presuma the Peruvian catch is anchoeveta,
1 •1?!^)U^t resulted in the small number which turned out for the moon flight listed by Pan Amer bly was third; the Soviet Union used for fish mea.
I ^°^^a hde that evening. I, myself found a pizzeria restaurant ican’s Boston Moon Flight res was fourth; and Norway placed
Japan, with a smaller tonnage,
I '^^^ ^e chef took us into the kitchen and showed us first hand ervations department. The bulk fifth ahead of the United States. had the -world’s best catch in
of them are Americans.
The figures were given in terms of total value. Japan
howgpizzas are made, Italian style.
FAO’s yearbook of fisheries brought in 7.8 million tons, an
Chuzuko
’
s
father
is
the
presi
' - ^'j^he experiences of the day showed that the Italian tempera- dent of Pveitaku University in statistics , which gave the total increase from the previous year’s
catch for 1967 as 60 million seven million.
Kashiwa, Chiba Prefecture.
(Cont. on Page 8)
on
iu’iNY.
1
British Kimono-Style Pajama Maker's
Attempt For Japan Sales Falls Flat
Ed Sullivan To
Appear at Osaka's
1970 Exposition
Japanese Girl Signs Up For 1st Moon Trip
Japan Has Second Biggest Fish Haul
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Page 7
PAGE 7
Wednesday. February 5, 1969
s ;
Coates And Doings
I
“Bin-boh” Means Poverty In Japanese |
exhibiting a bit of that savoir
faire. I’ll hold a glass or two
WHILE IT MAY SOUND like during the course of a social
Toronto West End Y Judo Tourney This Sat.
ORONTO.—The Toronto West End Y Judo Club will be hold- a ping-pong game, “bin-boh” in evening. After all, no one wants
ts 4th Annual Invitational Junior Judo Tournament Sat. Feb. Japanese means “poverty” or to be that “nesshin.”
969 beginning at 1.00 p.m. in the YMCA gymnasium at 931 “being poor.” (Neither is it a
SHOYU. RICE & DIAMONDS
ege St.
pitch by a Japanese, hurler aimed
Competition will include individual matches and team matches, at the head). Anyway, not unlike
SPEAKING OF FOOD, havingwinners and runner-up fox- each weight category will receive .a numbex* of other Nisei, in those
been
hardened to a regimen of
ophy. The Team Challenge Trophy will be presented to the youthful years this writex- lived
S
®
Ing' team from the 15 participating clubs.
simple fare, among othex- things
£
under very modest circumstances
'The public is invited to attend. Admission: SI.00 for adults in the small farming community I savor to this day weiners and
boiled eggs. While other more’ $.50 fox- children.
of Kent, Washington. Perhaps
advantaged, if not more refined,
“how modest” might be best
*
Nisei will argue that one shoyu
judged by relating to you that
better' than anothei- brand of
40*Issei Enjoy Beginning Of New Club At Centre as a boy I figured that anyone isshoyu,
or that “shinmai”- rice is
TORONTO.—On Sunday, January 26th, some 40 enthusiastic lived in a house that was paint better,etc. to me “shoyu is sho
ei gathered at the Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre to spend a ed had to be rich. However, with yu” and “rice is rice.”
MAX |
oyable afternoon arranged by the Toronto Nisei Women’s in the family and the “Nihonjin”
then, the deprivation was con
AMONG THE THINGS that I
On! |
fined
to
material
poverty,
fox*
both
once vowed I’d nevex- own are a
• The program, M.C.’d by Mrs. Kaz Umemoto, was as follows:
family and community otherwise diamond ring for myself (and I’m
1. A brief explanation of the preparations leading up to the provided many other more im
confirmed on this), a mink coat
tmg by Bob Kadoguchi
portant and lasting basics.
for the wife I’d have (she’s work
2. An illuminating talk on “Aging” by Mrs. Setsuko Thurlow
ing on this), and a tuxedo (rent
ON THE ROCKS, PLEASE
3. An enlightening talk on “Public Health” by Dr. Mamoru
imoto
THE OTHER DAY I got to ing, still don’t own one). As to
tuxedoes, in those early years I
4. Lilting piano selections by Hiroshi Katayama.
thinking whether or not that pro
After a question and answer period, refreshments were served longed material poverty had af had reasoned that a neat suit
should suffice for any occasion
the Women’s Club members.
fected my (and perhaps yours)
The first general meeting will be held on Tuesday, February current standard of values. And and that putting on a tux was
“putting on the dog.” However,
'tli* from 10:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. at the J.C.C. Centre. Subsequent I think it has, at least for me.
one can rationalize away almost
^■•meetings will be held on the second Tuesday of each month. A
TAKE FOR INSTANCE drink anything and it appears we may
^fight lunch will be provided by the Women’s Club for this initial
ing, the spiritous stuff I mean. rationalize way “the dog” . . .
- meeting.
Not being able to afford liquers or at least before “the mink” any
^»' All those Issei interested in attending but who do not have I never learned the “art” — yes, way.-But be careful on which you
f transportation, please phone one of the following as soon as pos- they tell me it’s an “art” — ox
place youx* money: a wife has a
Isible: Mrs. Aki Id'e 221-7809, Mrs. Kak Oki 447-8814 or Mrs. Kazuko drinking. I still don’t know the way of being mighty persuasive
^Umemoto 267-3930. •— T.N.W.C
difference between whisky, rye,
POVERTY SYNDROME
scotch, etc.; the brand names
—
mean nothing to me and when
IF THERE BE a point to any
it comes to mixes, Im really lost. of this, now that Nisei generallly
A real unsophisticated boob. But do not suffer anymore from ma
* FEBRUARY 23rd, (Sunday)
not all is lost: I think, and I’m terial poverty, they may suffer
not sure because I’m embarrassed from “poverty syndrome”: that
MARCH 30th, (Sunday)
to reveal my ignorance by openly is, having been so poor- for long,
MAY 11th, (Sunday)
asking my “drinking friends,” it some may so feax- hard times and
For detailed information contact
shows good taste and breeding so rely on material support that
Compass Travel Service Ltd.,
to order your* scotch “on the
they are, in fact, yet poor. Right
Phone 682-2241
rocks” as contrasted to mixing
515 Main Street, Vancouver
in the midst of plenty.
it with soda or, horrors, 7-Up.
ON THE OTHER HAND,
I DONT HAVE an emotional
or religious-founded aversion to more encouraging way to view
that spiritous stuff. To be quite all this may be this: Knowing
It’s Private! No Time Limit!
honest about it, that stuff actual that we can survive poverty, ano"
w
ly tastes downright bitter. But having proved it by going
Get the most enjoyment from your wedding
for the sake of covering up my through it. perhaps we need not
reception or anniversary
“inaka” upbringing and instead fear material poverty.
fit
Plenty of delicious food! Plenty of free parking!
By BILL MARUTANI
I SPRING TOUR TO JAPAN, 1969
■
w
j^ ^
i
CHINA
! 925 Eglinton W. Toronto
HOUSE
—
RU. 1-9123
Your Homs
Buy and Sell
I
It to a good policy to
bare tRs RIGHT POLICY
Consult
William Wales Ltd.
Insurance Agents
2 Carlton St. 10th floor
Toronto 2-A. Ont.
Phone 36S-46SI
Residential Painting
And Decorating
KAZ KATO
Call 221-7841
A uro
FIRE
—
life;
—
ALL FORMS
or
INSURANCE
consult
;
KIYO TAMURA
|
TORONTO
Bu«. 366-5812
Bus:
Res. Pl. 9-8317 j
824-8153
922*1353 !
ERNEST JOMORJ
Chartered
Accountant
Suite
130 BLOOR ST. W.
403
TORONTO
Custom Picture
Framing
NISHIMURA
PICTURE FRAMES
1278 Yonge Street. Toronto 7. Ont.
SOUTH OF WOODLAWN
Tokio Niahimura
923-6877
KINO'S MARKET
Red & White
Food Store
Sloccm City, B.C
Phone 355-2211
Through
MELL REAL ESTATE LTD.
DANFORTH
MAS. (Ron) MENDE
SPORTING GOODS
Takara Jewellers
EAR PIERCING"
By Appointment
»
Mon. — Friday 9—6, Sat. 9—-1.
21 Dundas Sq. Toronto, Suite 1402. Phone 363-0952
s
Eve. By Appointment
Hiro Kawaguchi, Art Watanabe
Lichee Garden
i
Tosh Iwai
1527 O'Conner Dr.
757-5184
Toronto 16
(near Carlaw)
George Fukusaka
Phone: HO. 3-7400
Sales - Service
Franchised Dealer For
RCA. Victor — Color & B.W
Raienr
Now For
Weddings
Dances Etc,
Television — Stereo — Etc.
Phone 364-3481
2893 Lawrence Ave. East At
Brimley Rd.
For Business Or Private Parties
WEDDING RECEPTIONS (Large or Small)
DINNER MUSIC NIGHTLY
Scarborough
ALNA
Of Toronto
CUSTOM MADE SUIT
Phone 759-1583
Banquet Facilities
OPEN FRI. UNTIL 9 P.M.
Formal
Rentals
(Dining Lounge)
Toronto, Canada
118 Elizabeth St.
(4 Lines To Serve You)
CATERING SERVICE — “TAKE-OUT” ORDERS
SKATES
Hockey Equipment
Skate Sharpening
551 Danforth Ave,
TOM'S TELEVISION & RADIO
Sus Nagai
Tom Iwamoto
Tosh Muraki
|
437 DANFORTH AVE,
PHONE: 463-8104
Wednesday. February 5, 1969
s ;
Coates And Doings
I
“Bin-boh” Means Poverty In Japanese |
exhibiting a bit of that savoir
faire. I’ll hold a glass or two
WHILE IT MAY SOUND like during the course of a social
Toronto West End Y Judo Tourney This Sat.
ORONTO.—The Toronto West End Y Judo Club will be hold- a ping-pong game, “bin-boh” in evening. After all, no one wants
ts 4th Annual Invitational Junior Judo Tournament Sat. Feb. Japanese means “poverty” or to be that “nesshin.”
969 beginning at 1.00 p.m. in the YMCA gymnasium at 931 “being poor.” (Neither is it a
SHOYU. RICE & DIAMONDS
ege St.
pitch by a Japanese, hurler aimed
Competition will include individual matches and team matches, at the head). Anyway, not unlike
SPEAKING OF FOOD, havingwinners and runner-up fox- each weight category will receive .a numbex* of other Nisei, in those
been
hardened to a regimen of
ophy. The Team Challenge Trophy will be presented to the youthful years this writex- lived
S
®
Ing' team from the 15 participating clubs.
simple fare, among othex- things
£
under very modest circumstances
'The public is invited to attend. Admission: SI.00 for adults in the small farming community I savor to this day weiners and
boiled eggs. While other more’ $.50 fox- children.
of Kent, Washington. Perhaps
advantaged, if not more refined,
“how modest” might be best
*
Nisei will argue that one shoyu
judged by relating to you that
better' than anothei- brand of
40*Issei Enjoy Beginning Of New Club At Centre as a boy I figured that anyone isshoyu,
or that “shinmai”- rice is
TORONTO.—On Sunday, January 26th, some 40 enthusiastic lived in a house that was paint better,etc. to me “shoyu is sho
ei gathered at the Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre to spend a ed had to be rich. However, with yu” and “rice is rice.”
MAX |
oyable afternoon arranged by the Toronto Nisei Women’s in the family and the “Nihonjin”
then, the deprivation was con
AMONG THE THINGS that I
On! |
fined
to
material
poverty,
fox*
both
once vowed I’d nevex- own are a
• The program, M.C.’d by Mrs. Kaz Umemoto, was as follows:
family and community otherwise diamond ring for myself (and I’m
1. A brief explanation of the preparations leading up to the provided many other more im
confirmed on this), a mink coat
tmg by Bob Kadoguchi
portant and lasting basics.
for the wife I’d have (she’s work
2. An illuminating talk on “Aging” by Mrs. Setsuko Thurlow
ing on this), and a tuxedo (rent
ON THE ROCKS, PLEASE
3. An enlightening talk on “Public Health” by Dr. Mamoru
imoto
THE OTHER DAY I got to ing, still don’t own one). As to
tuxedoes, in those early years I
4. Lilting piano selections by Hiroshi Katayama.
thinking whether or not that pro
After a question and answer period, refreshments were served longed material poverty had af had reasoned that a neat suit
should suffice for any occasion
the Women’s Club members.
fected my (and perhaps yours)
The first general meeting will be held on Tuesday, February current standard of values. And and that putting on a tux was
“putting on the dog.” However,
'tli* from 10:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. at the J.C.C. Centre. Subsequent I think it has, at least for me.
one can rationalize away almost
^■•meetings will be held on the second Tuesday of each month. A
TAKE FOR INSTANCE drink anything and it appears we may
^fight lunch will be provided by the Women’s Club for this initial
ing, the spiritous stuff I mean. rationalize way “the dog” . . .
- meeting.
Not being able to afford liquers or at least before “the mink” any
^»' All those Issei interested in attending but who do not have I never learned the “art” — yes, way.-But be careful on which you
f transportation, please phone one of the following as soon as pos- they tell me it’s an “art” — ox
place youx* money: a wife has a
Isible: Mrs. Aki Id'e 221-7809, Mrs. Kak Oki 447-8814 or Mrs. Kazuko drinking. I still don’t know the way of being mighty persuasive
^Umemoto 267-3930. •— T.N.W.C
difference between whisky, rye,
POVERTY SYNDROME
scotch, etc.; the brand names
—
mean nothing to me and when
IF THERE BE a point to any
it comes to mixes, Im really lost. of this, now that Nisei generallly
A real unsophisticated boob. But do not suffer anymore from ma
* FEBRUARY 23rd, (Sunday)
not all is lost: I think, and I’m terial poverty, they may suffer
not sure because I’m embarrassed from “poverty syndrome”: that
MARCH 30th, (Sunday)
to reveal my ignorance by openly is, having been so poor- for long,
MAY 11th, (Sunday)
asking my “drinking friends,” it some may so feax- hard times and
For detailed information contact
shows good taste and breeding so rely on material support that
Compass Travel Service Ltd.,
to order your* scotch “on the
they are, in fact, yet poor. Right
Phone 682-2241
rocks” as contrasted to mixing
515 Main Street, Vancouver
in the midst of plenty.
it with soda or, horrors, 7-Up.
ON THE OTHER HAND,
I DONT HAVE an emotional
or religious-founded aversion to more encouraging way to view
that spiritous stuff. To be quite all this may be this: Knowing
It’s Private! No Time Limit!
honest about it, that stuff actual that we can survive poverty, ano"
w
ly tastes downright bitter. But having proved it by going
Get the most enjoyment from your wedding
for the sake of covering up my through it. perhaps we need not
reception or anniversary
“inaka” upbringing and instead fear material poverty.
fit
Plenty of delicious food! Plenty of free parking!
By BILL MARUTANI
I SPRING TOUR TO JAPAN, 1969
■
w
j^ ^
i
CHINA
! 925 Eglinton W. Toronto
HOUSE
—
RU. 1-9123
Your Homs
Buy and Sell
I
It to a good policy to
bare tRs RIGHT POLICY
Consult
William Wales Ltd.
Insurance Agents
2 Carlton St. 10th floor
Toronto 2-A. Ont.
Phone 36S-46SI
Residential Painting
And Decorating
KAZ KATO
Call 221-7841
A uro
FIRE
—
life;
—
ALL FORMS
or
INSURANCE
consult
;
KIYO TAMURA
|
TORONTO
Bu«. 366-5812
Bus:
Res. Pl. 9-8317 j
824-8153
922*1353 !
ERNEST JOMORJ
Chartered
Accountant
Suite
130 BLOOR ST. W.
403
TORONTO
Custom Picture
Framing
NISHIMURA
PICTURE FRAMES
1278 Yonge Street. Toronto 7. Ont.
SOUTH OF WOODLAWN
Tokio Niahimura
923-6877
KINO'S MARKET
Red & White
Food Store
Sloccm City, B.C
Phone 355-2211
Through
MELL REAL ESTATE LTD.
DANFORTH
MAS. (Ron) MENDE
SPORTING GOODS
Takara Jewellers
EAR PIERCING"
By Appointment
»
Mon. — Friday 9—6, Sat. 9—-1.
21 Dundas Sq. Toronto, Suite 1402. Phone 363-0952
s
Eve. By Appointment
Hiro Kawaguchi, Art Watanabe
Lichee Garden
i
Tosh Iwai
1527 O'Conner Dr.
757-5184
Toronto 16
(near Carlaw)
George Fukusaka
Phone: HO. 3-7400
Sales - Service
Franchised Dealer For
RCA. Victor — Color & B.W
Raienr
Now For
Weddings
Dances Etc,
Television — Stereo — Etc.
Phone 364-3481
2893 Lawrence Ave. East At
Brimley Rd.
For Business Or Private Parties
WEDDING RECEPTIONS (Large or Small)
DINNER MUSIC NIGHTLY
Scarborough
ALNA
Of Toronto
CUSTOM MADE SUIT
Phone 759-1583
Banquet Facilities
OPEN FRI. UNTIL 9 P.M.
Formal
Rentals
(Dining Lounge)
Toronto, Canada
118 Elizabeth St.
(4 Lines To Serve You)
CATERING SERVICE — “TAKE-OUT” ORDERS
SKATES
Hockey Equipment
Skate Sharpening
551 Danforth Ave,
TOM'S TELEVISION & RADIO
Sus Nagai
Tom Iwamoto
Tosh Muraki
|
437 DANFORTH AVE,
PHONE: 463-8104
Page 8
Wednesday,i—
February
5, igeqI
----------———i—^.
PAGE 8
^J
(Cont. From Page 1)
The New Canadian^
Nipponia . - .
(Continued from Page D
Authorized as second class xnc2
The area’s climate and the
Japanese food,” said the home s
Post Office Department, Ottawa^
ment is quite dissimilar to the
- - Germanic personality. I had administrator, Norman Oikawa. fact that many of the .country’s
and for payment of postage in cash
witnessed two guides in a heated quarrel at the Doge’s Palace and “'They’re too fond of porridge, Japanese Canadians live there
numerous entanglements, albeit verbal, in the streets and in t
bacon and eggs and that kind of where also points In its favor.
Coming east to Hamilton,
hotel. Perhaps the hot sun and humidity account for this. It is thing.”
,
.
i3^
where
their daughter, Mrs. Toshi
A few of the residents, who
an interesting contrast, however, from the reserved English range in age from 73 to 92, pi’ac- Onishi of East 23rd Street, lives,
5
bei
character.
tice traditional Japanese pas Mr. Yamaga and his wife bought
in^
The cities of Padua, Ferrara and Bologna all lie in the flat times like flower-arranging and a house on the Mountain, and he
T. UMEZUKI Publisher ;0t
plains of the Adriatic. Great hills of marble can be seen around writing haiku — short, free- began looking for a site for the
KEI TSUMURA English Edi^aS
Ferrara where Italy’s best marble is quarried. Fruit orchards and verse poems that are the Japa Nipponia project, to cost around
KEN MORI Japanese Editor
$100,000.
equivalent of cross-word
rice paddies start to make them appearance. We had lasganas in nese
And Advertising.
He chose 3% acres of land off
Hl;
an old reconverted monastery at Bologna. One member remarked puzzles.
SUBSCRIPTION
However, watching the home’s Highway 8, at Thirty Road, on
Th
that we had no interesting places like this back home. I must Re colored television set remains the outskirts of Beamsville. Put
S4.0C per 6 months
$7.00 per year
to
mind the reader that in Italy, one does not even think of having the favorite activity of most resi ting up some $25,000 of his own
money,
Mr.
Yamaga
raised
a
-dr
coffee or tea at mealtime. It is wine, wine and more wine. Wine dents.
479 QUEEN ST. WEST Le^
Practicing karate, judo and similar amount by appealing to
taken with your meals is dry wine and of low alcoholic content.
Japanese
Canadians
through
Can
other Oriental martial arts is
Toronto 2-B, Ont.
Japanese-language
One gets accustomed to it quite readily and soon most of us were ruled out bv their advanced years, ada’s two
‘on
ordering wines by names.
although Mr. Yamaga was a newspapers.
EMpire 6-5005
The
provincial
government
con
en
Mil
The highways or autostrada as the Italians call them connect kendo — stick-fightin,
tributed $50,000, putting the pro
thusiast
in
his
youth.
all the large cities of Italy. These roads are equivalent to our
activities to keep ject over the top.
Finding
divided highways. In a poor country like Italy, these roads are
When it opened in December,
occupied is probably
paid for mainly by huge tolls and large contributions by the oil everyone
1958,
the Nipponia Home — the
our number one problem,” said
name
comes from the Japanese
companies. From Bologna, the highway enters the Appenine mount Mr. Oikawa, who was born in
word
for
Japan — had seven
ains and there are 18 tunnels between there and Florence.
Vancouver.
Female Help Wanted
double and four single bedrooms,
“Some day we hope to build but only half a dozen occupants.
Florence has been called the cradle of Western civilization.
OPERATORS
experienced on bei
It was here that painting, sculpture, architecture, science, political a recreation room. Once a month
The number of residents has dresses. Apply Miss Sun Valley.
we
have
Japanese-Janguage
mo
and economic theories developed to their zenith during the Italian vies provided by the Japanese grown steadily over the years, Spadina Ave. (Toronto).
Renaissance. Florence was home to Dante, Petrarch, Michael— consulate-general in Toronto. And and six more double rooms and
Male Help Wanted
ji
angelo, Galileo and Michiavelli to name only a few of the great in the summer there are bus and two single rooms were later add EXPERIENCED, TV serviceman want i ^
masters. Even the Italians call Florence “Firenze Bella” or Beau car trips to points of interest in ed to keep pace with the increase. Phone 781-1002 or 781-2810 (Toronto), f -g
No further expansion is en __ ________________________________
tiful Florence. Standing in front of the cathedral of Santa Maria the area.”
visioned
for a few years, as the SEWING machine operators AooP
Nipponia draws its share of
Canada Pants Co., 225 Richmond St s s
del Fiore, second only to St. Peter’s in Rome for importance, one
visitors, among them Japan’s home is still three residents un- West. Phone 368-9560 (Toronto)
; ^
can easily see the high water flood marks of the disastrous Nov Prince Mikasa, a brother of Em- der its capacity of 30.
Mr. Yamaga noted that Nip
ember floods of 1966 when Florence lay under more than 15 ft. leror Hirohito, who with his wife
For Sale
ponia
residents help pay their SPECIAL SALE prices on SINGER sew 8a
of silt laden waters from the Arno River. The autumn rains falling toured the home in 1965_ while
own way by turning their pen
machines; limited time offer on ci
on hills devoid of vegetation were channeled into the Sieve and on a five-day goodwill visit to sion cheques over to the admin ing
your trade-ins — call — Mrs. Tsuji w<
Canada.
mura, 621-0684, SINGER COMPANY.
the Arno Rivers. Millions of dollars worth of art treasures were
Relaxing in an easy chair in istration. They get back 15 per Toronto.
flooded and two year’s of work had not finished the work of resto the airy, memento-crammed room cent as spending money.
Provincial grants cover about
ration. For instance, in the cathedral of Santa Croce, restoration he and his wife occupy at the
30
percent of operating costs,
home,
Mr.
Yamaga
recalled
the
was being carried out on Cimabue’s priceless painting, the
room near High Park Sub is
said Mr. Oikawa, who took over FURNISHED
royal
visit
with
nostalgia.
way
for
gentleman.
Kitchen etc. Phons ha
CRUCIFIX. In the floor of the church itself, were many cracks
It was a highpoint of his years from Mr. Yamaga as admin 762-8063 (Toronto).
cis
in the marble floor where huge pressures had buckled the thick in Canada, an indication of how istrator in 1966 after the lattei
Bi
marble. Here too, in the church were the tombs of Mchaelangelo, far he had come since leaving was injured in a traffic accident
in
St.
Catharines.
ag
Galileo, and Michiavelli (let not your left hand know what your Hiroshima as a young man to
Born
in
Vancouver,
Mr.
Oika
rtart
life
anew
in
British
Columright is doing). In the Museum of Science, the telescopes used
wa speaks Japanese, but can’t
th
by Galileo are on display. The Octagonal Bapistry by Santa Ma bia.
m
Going into farming, he in time read its complicated script.
ria del Fiore contains the chiselled bronze doors by the sculptor, acquired 20 acres in the Fraser
“I’ve never been to Japan. All
ju
Ghiberti. The work is so magnificent that Michaelangelo on seeing Valley on which he grew straw I know about it is what I see in
w<
the
movies.
”
en
the work is said to have cried, out, “These are worthy of the Gates berries.
a full-time liveThe
home
has
at
He
also
launched
a
berry
grow
of Paradise”. These doors which depict Biblical scenes were crafted
ers’ co-operative, only to lose in staff of . six, plus four partover a period of 27 years. Michaelangelo’s immortal, DAVID, is both ventures when the federal time personnel. Across Thirty
PJ ^to
nearby as are his unfinished figures. Florence is also noted for government forced* Jananese Can Road is a 2%-acre vegetable
leather goods and it is here that one should purchase gloves and adians to evacuate British Colum garden belonging to Nipponia.
he
bia’s coastal areas in the after which residents tend with the
handbags, just as one should purchase glassware in Venice.
aid of a gardener.
rsn
The Jolly night club across the river Arno is a crowded place math of Pearl Harbor.
“It’s beautiful here in the sum
Sto
Mr. Yamaga worked as a book
and the management seems more intent in packing the people hi keeper for several years, then mer,” said Mr. Yamaga. “This
GIVE TOGETHER tsi
than in providing entertainment or accommodation. The place with a Dartner started a sawmill is a place where even the old
Ye
can be happy.”
.w
was dark, noisy and loud and we stood half of the time we spent in the Cariboo district.
of
He sold his interest in 1956.
'.here. Our encampment this night was the Pension Michaelangelo,
. qi
a former mansion belonging’ to one of Florence’s wealthy families. when he turned 70 and decided
al
it
was
time
to
retire.
A
story
in
TORONTO JAPANESE GOSPEL CHURCH
I was fascinated by the multi-levelled structure of the palace a Vancouver newspaper about a
St. John's Presbyterian, Broadview at Simpson Ave.
as well as its odd shaped1 rooms and hideways.
111
nensioner’s plight gave him the
!w
SERVICES:
.
idea
of
founding
a
home
for
The next morning’s tour included tracing Napoleon’s Walk
Sunday: Sunday School 2:00 P.M. Worship Service 3:00 P.M.
ec
Tuesday: Prayer and Study Fellowship _ 8:00 P.M.
a grove of trees where Napoleon used to plan his day’s strategy elderly Japanese Canadians ^o
Friday: Young Peoples Christian Fellowship 8:00 P.M.
they might be spared similar
to
and a panoramic view of Florence from an elevation across the hardships.
Phone Contact: Mr. S. Yokota 425-6128, Mr. H. Yoshida 461-1686.
Arno just up from the Uffizi Palace. Later standing on the Ponte
Study showed that southern
‘■10
Vecchio, I found it hard to picture how this slow, sluggish, silt laden Ontario would be the best spot
’ki
river flowing beneath me could cause so much havoc as it did to build such a home because of
W
When
Buying
Or
Selling
A
Home
financial aid to charitable insti
w
one November night back in 1966.
tutions provided by Queen’s P.ark.
Call: KEN HORI
It is difficult to leave such a beautiful city as Florence. It
is a different feeling from that which one experiences in say,
London or Paris. In the two latter, it is the excitement of being
I th
in a great city whereas in Florence, one feels not so much the
MEMBER OF TORONTO REAL ESTATE BOARD
A
pulse of a great city but an inner inquietude at the thought of
14
Perivale
Cres.
Phone:
261-5194
^
so much priceless works of art. But in Itall, all roads eventually
By Air, Rail,
Scarborough
lead to Rome and by early afternoon, we were on the Autostrada
Land
&
Sea
cm
del Sol, oi* the Highway to the Sun. Rome was just 300 kilometers
away. The Auto del Sol is a super highway and its gentle grades
Overseas
and wide turns go through valleys and countryside which take
at
on a decidedly drier appearance as you go southward. The environs
ir
m
of the Eternal City are hilly and dry.
Are you thinking about a change of occupation for economy 111
or other reasons? An EXCEPTIONAL opportunity exists tor w
(To Be Continued)
All Custom Papers
an ambitious individual to establish themselves in the in b(
in
surance business.
Arranged
ai
TORONTO JAPANESE UNITED CHURCH
fi
Fully Insured
Due to growth of "The Gertrude Urabe
w
Nisei In Europe . .
sIm.
BE BLOOD
DONORS
Nisei Service and Church School — Sun. 11:30 A.M.
English — Rev. G. S. Imai, 444-5159
Japanese — Rev. Y. C. Horikoshi, 766-5632
701 Dovercourt Rd.
A warm welcome to all.
S. of Bloor
TORONTO BUDDHIST CHURCH
SUNDAY. FEBRUARY 9. 1969
Nirvana Sunday
10:30 A.M. Religious School
11:00 A.M. Morning Service — Rev. Newton Ishiura
2:00 P.M. Japanese Service — Rev. Fumimaro Watanabe
Telephone: 534-4302
SIS Bathurst St.
SHIPPING
K. HORI
REAL ESTATE
Packing Crating
UNUSUAL OPPORTUNITY
surance Agency" positions are open in the
following income categories.
Call
Arrow World Wide
Shipping
889-6269
Metro Toronto
Category I
Category II
Category III
bi
$4,800 to $6,000
$7,200 to $9,400
$9,600 to $12,000
&
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Applicants will be considered for aptitude rather than es- tl
: penencc.
,
5
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485-5087.
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The New Canadian^
Nipponia . - .
(Continued from Page D
Authorized as second class xnc2
The area’s climate and the
Japanese food,” said the home s
Post Office Department, Ottawa^
ment is quite dissimilar to the
- - Germanic personality. I had administrator, Norman Oikawa. fact that many of the .country’s
and for payment of postage in cash
witnessed two guides in a heated quarrel at the Doge’s Palace and “'They’re too fond of porridge, Japanese Canadians live there
numerous entanglements, albeit verbal, in the streets and in t
bacon and eggs and that kind of where also points In its favor.
Coming east to Hamilton,
hotel. Perhaps the hot sun and humidity account for this. It is thing.”
,
.
i3^
where
their daughter, Mrs. Toshi
A few of the residents, who
an interesting contrast, however, from the reserved English range in age from 73 to 92, pi’ac- Onishi of East 23rd Street, lives,
5
bei
character.
tice traditional Japanese pas Mr. Yamaga and his wife bought
in^
The cities of Padua, Ferrara and Bologna all lie in the flat times like flower-arranging and a house on the Mountain, and he
T. UMEZUKI Publisher ;0t
plains of the Adriatic. Great hills of marble can be seen around writing haiku — short, free- began looking for a site for the
KEI TSUMURA English Edi^aS
Ferrara where Italy’s best marble is quarried. Fruit orchards and verse poems that are the Japa Nipponia project, to cost around
KEN MORI Japanese Editor
$100,000.
equivalent of cross-word
rice paddies start to make them appearance. We had lasganas in nese
And Advertising.
He chose 3% acres of land off
Hl;
an old reconverted monastery at Bologna. One member remarked puzzles.
SUBSCRIPTION
However, watching the home’s Highway 8, at Thirty Road, on
Th
that we had no interesting places like this back home. I must Re colored television set remains the outskirts of Beamsville. Put
S4.0C per 6 months
$7.00 per year
to
mind the reader that in Italy, one does not even think of having the favorite activity of most resi ting up some $25,000 of his own
money,
Mr.
Yamaga
raised
a
-dr
coffee or tea at mealtime. It is wine, wine and more wine. Wine dents.
479 QUEEN ST. WEST Le^
Practicing karate, judo and similar amount by appealing to
taken with your meals is dry wine and of low alcoholic content.
Japanese
Canadians
through
Can
other Oriental martial arts is
Toronto 2-B, Ont.
Japanese-language
One gets accustomed to it quite readily and soon most of us were ruled out bv their advanced years, ada’s two
‘on
ordering wines by names.
although Mr. Yamaga was a newspapers.
EMpire 6-5005
The
provincial
government
con
en
Mil
The highways or autostrada as the Italians call them connect kendo — stick-fightin,
tributed $50,000, putting the pro
thusiast
in
his
youth.
all the large cities of Italy. These roads are equivalent to our
activities to keep ject over the top.
Finding
divided highways. In a poor country like Italy, these roads are
When it opened in December,
occupied is probably
paid for mainly by huge tolls and large contributions by the oil everyone
1958,
the Nipponia Home — the
our number one problem,” said
name
comes from the Japanese
companies. From Bologna, the highway enters the Appenine mount Mr. Oikawa, who was born in
word
for
Japan — had seven
ains and there are 18 tunnels between there and Florence.
Vancouver.
Female Help Wanted
double and four single bedrooms,
“Some day we hope to build but only half a dozen occupants.
Florence has been called the cradle of Western civilization.
OPERATORS
experienced on bei
It was here that painting, sculpture, architecture, science, political a recreation room. Once a month
The number of residents has dresses. Apply Miss Sun Valley.
we
have
Japanese-Janguage
mo
and economic theories developed to their zenith during the Italian vies provided by the Japanese grown steadily over the years, Spadina Ave. (Toronto).
Renaissance. Florence was home to Dante, Petrarch, Michael— consulate-general in Toronto. And and six more double rooms and
Male Help Wanted
ji
angelo, Galileo and Michiavelli to name only a few of the great in the summer there are bus and two single rooms were later add EXPERIENCED, TV serviceman want i ^
masters. Even the Italians call Florence “Firenze Bella” or Beau car trips to points of interest in ed to keep pace with the increase. Phone 781-1002 or 781-2810 (Toronto), f -g
No further expansion is en __ ________________________________
tiful Florence. Standing in front of the cathedral of Santa Maria the area.”
visioned
for a few years, as the SEWING machine operators AooP
Nipponia draws its share of
Canada Pants Co., 225 Richmond St s s
del Fiore, second only to St. Peter’s in Rome for importance, one
visitors, among them Japan’s home is still three residents un- West. Phone 368-9560 (Toronto)
; ^
can easily see the high water flood marks of the disastrous Nov Prince Mikasa, a brother of Em- der its capacity of 30.
Mr. Yamaga noted that Nip
ember floods of 1966 when Florence lay under more than 15 ft. leror Hirohito, who with his wife
For Sale
ponia
residents help pay their SPECIAL SALE prices on SINGER sew 8a
of silt laden waters from the Arno River. The autumn rains falling toured the home in 1965_ while
own way by turning their pen
machines; limited time offer on ci
on hills devoid of vegetation were channeled into the Sieve and on a five-day goodwill visit to sion cheques over to the admin ing
your trade-ins — call — Mrs. Tsuji w<
Canada.
mura, 621-0684, SINGER COMPANY.
the Arno Rivers. Millions of dollars worth of art treasures were
Relaxing in an easy chair in istration. They get back 15 per Toronto.
flooded and two year’s of work had not finished the work of resto the airy, memento-crammed room cent as spending money.
Provincial grants cover about
ration. For instance, in the cathedral of Santa Croce, restoration he and his wife occupy at the
30
percent of operating costs,
home,
Mr.
Yamaga
recalled
the
was being carried out on Cimabue’s priceless painting, the
room near High Park Sub is
said Mr. Oikawa, who took over FURNISHED
royal
visit
with
nostalgia.
way
for
gentleman.
Kitchen etc. Phons ha
CRUCIFIX. In the floor of the church itself, were many cracks
It was a highpoint of his years from Mr. Yamaga as admin 762-8063 (Toronto).
cis
in the marble floor where huge pressures had buckled the thick in Canada, an indication of how istrator in 1966 after the lattei
Bi
marble. Here too, in the church were the tombs of Mchaelangelo, far he had come since leaving was injured in a traffic accident
in
St.
Catharines.
ag
Galileo, and Michiavelli (let not your left hand know what your Hiroshima as a young man to
Born
in
Vancouver,
Mr.
Oika
rtart
life
anew
in
British
Columright is doing). In the Museum of Science, the telescopes used
wa speaks Japanese, but can’t
th
by Galileo are on display. The Octagonal Bapistry by Santa Ma bia.
m
Going into farming, he in time read its complicated script.
ria del Fiore contains the chiselled bronze doors by the sculptor, acquired 20 acres in the Fraser
“I’ve never been to Japan. All
ju
Ghiberti. The work is so magnificent that Michaelangelo on seeing Valley on which he grew straw I know about it is what I see in
w<
the
movies.
”
en
the work is said to have cried, out, “These are worthy of the Gates berries.
a full-time liveThe
home
has
at
He
also
launched
a
berry
grow
of Paradise”. These doors which depict Biblical scenes were crafted
ers’ co-operative, only to lose in staff of . six, plus four partover a period of 27 years. Michaelangelo’s immortal, DAVID, is both ventures when the federal time personnel. Across Thirty
PJ ^to
nearby as are his unfinished figures. Florence is also noted for government forced* Jananese Can Road is a 2%-acre vegetable
leather goods and it is here that one should purchase gloves and adians to evacuate British Colum garden belonging to Nipponia.
he
bia’s coastal areas in the after which residents tend with the
handbags, just as one should purchase glassware in Venice.
aid of a gardener.
rsn
The Jolly night club across the river Arno is a crowded place math of Pearl Harbor.
“It’s beautiful here in the sum
Sto
Mr. Yamaga worked as a book
and the management seems more intent in packing the people hi keeper for several years, then mer,” said Mr. Yamaga. “This
GIVE TOGETHER tsi
than in providing entertainment or accommodation. The place with a Dartner started a sawmill is a place where even the old
Ye
can be happy.”
.w
was dark, noisy and loud and we stood half of the time we spent in the Cariboo district.
of
He sold his interest in 1956.
'.here. Our encampment this night was the Pension Michaelangelo,
. qi
a former mansion belonging’ to one of Florence’s wealthy families. when he turned 70 and decided
al
it
was
time
to
retire.
A
story
in
TORONTO JAPANESE GOSPEL CHURCH
I was fascinated by the multi-levelled structure of the palace a Vancouver newspaper about a
St. John's Presbyterian, Broadview at Simpson Ave.
as well as its odd shaped1 rooms and hideways.
111
nensioner’s plight gave him the
!w
SERVICES:
.
idea
of
founding
a
home
for
The next morning’s tour included tracing Napoleon’s Walk
Sunday: Sunday School 2:00 P.M. Worship Service 3:00 P.M.
ec
Tuesday: Prayer and Study Fellowship _ 8:00 P.M.
a grove of trees where Napoleon used to plan his day’s strategy elderly Japanese Canadians ^o
Friday: Young Peoples Christian Fellowship 8:00 P.M.
they might be spared similar
to
and a panoramic view of Florence from an elevation across the hardships.
Phone Contact: Mr. S. Yokota 425-6128, Mr. H. Yoshida 461-1686.
Arno just up from the Uffizi Palace. Later standing on the Ponte
Study showed that southern
‘■10
Vecchio, I found it hard to picture how this slow, sluggish, silt laden Ontario would be the best spot
’ki
river flowing beneath me could cause so much havoc as it did to build such a home because of
W
When
Buying
Or
Selling
A
Home
financial aid to charitable insti
w
one November night back in 1966.
tutions provided by Queen’s P.ark.
Call: KEN HORI
It is difficult to leave such a beautiful city as Florence. It
is a different feeling from that which one experiences in say,
London or Paris. In the two latter, it is the excitement of being
I th
in a great city whereas in Florence, one feels not so much the
MEMBER OF TORONTO REAL ESTATE BOARD
A
pulse of a great city but an inner inquietude at the thought of
14
Perivale
Cres.
Phone:
261-5194
^
so much priceless works of art. But in Itall, all roads eventually
By Air, Rail,
Scarborough
lead to Rome and by early afternoon, we were on the Autostrada
Land
&
Sea
cm
del Sol, oi* the Highway to the Sun. Rome was just 300 kilometers
away. The Auto del Sol is a super highway and its gentle grades
Overseas
and wide turns go through valleys and countryside which take
at
on a decidedly drier appearance as you go southward. The environs
ir
m
of the Eternal City are hilly and dry.
Are you thinking about a change of occupation for economy 111
or other reasons? An EXCEPTIONAL opportunity exists tor w
(To Be Continued)
All Custom Papers
an ambitious individual to establish themselves in the in b(
in
surance business.
Arranged
ai
TORONTO JAPANESE UNITED CHURCH
fi
Fully Insured
Due to growth of "The Gertrude Urabe
w
Nisei In Europe . .
sIm.
BE BLOOD
DONORS
Nisei Service and Church School — Sun. 11:30 A.M.
English — Rev. G. S. Imai, 444-5159
Japanese — Rev. Y. C. Horikoshi, 766-5632
701 Dovercourt Rd.
A warm welcome to all.
S. of Bloor
TORONTO BUDDHIST CHURCH
SUNDAY. FEBRUARY 9. 1969
Nirvana Sunday
10:30 A.M. Religious School
11:00 A.M. Morning Service — Rev. Newton Ishiura
2:00 P.M. Japanese Service — Rev. Fumimaro Watanabe
Telephone: 534-4302
SIS Bathurst St.
SHIPPING
K. HORI
REAL ESTATE
Packing Crating
UNUSUAL OPPORTUNITY
surance Agency" positions are open in the
following income categories.
Call
Arrow World Wide
Shipping
889-6269
Metro Toronto
Category I
Category II
Category III
bi
$4,800 to $6,000
$7,200 to $9,400
$9,600 to $12,000
&
W
n
Applicants will be considered for aptitude rather than es- tl
: penencc.
,
5
: For appointment, contact: Mrs. Betty Stein* j •w
|
485-5087.
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