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haracters Of Japanese
By HISASHI UNO
Mo=t Japanese don’t see so much Red as the Ameri.’ -hawks” do when they look at Peking. Whatever
he difference in political ideologies between them.
ha> Japanese regard themselves as cultural cousins of
he Chinese, having borrowed and later made their
o'n nianv cultural assets of China.
For one thing, the ancient Japanese people adopted
^Chinese characters as their only vehicle to convey
thoughts and ideas. From olden times, naturally, they
y 'heir own language but had no practical ‘ means
tq express it.
The formation of what we call kanji or Chinese
;deo?raphs, dates as far back as 46 centuries ago,
when Huang Ti or the emperor Hwang, a legendary
figure, united a widely sprawling variety of tribe's
into a fairly large empire in China. Thus came into
being the Chinese tongue and written language, per­

ito

initial meanings.
It was not

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survive with their

Japanese

however who
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paL Koiean immigrants
to Japan. When‘durin'Ut^
symbol chaimctePs

nese emperor, Ojin (200-310
were mvited to tutor the CK«Af™J' i p
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c°>’ft>eian classics for textbook/'
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of Chinese HtUaluS l^

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to .th. emperor
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saiolars compiled m
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they used 165S
their niorher ton^
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aH^ber ancient record-book, was written in
• 131 Chinese and its compilers used a total
ot oxi characters.
iduril¥ t ie eisht century, there came out thManjoshu, the oldest collection of Japanese poems”
in which as many as 580 such characters were used
again for their sound value alone. From this svstem’
tie Japanese people next produced completely new
characters, each set containing- 48 symbols
Ihe ordinary roundish symbols known as hirr
developed, as most of Japan’s linguistic experts a<nve
(shorthand) forms of kanii
wilting The other, squarish symbols or katakana
popularly used as a sort of Japanese italics
from abbreviations of the “square-hand
(printed)
forms.

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Ford Motors May Have
First Nisei Vice-President
DEARBORN, MICH. — Semon til the 1971 model year. When he
WASHINGTON.— San Francisco State Colle
E. Knudsen made one of the most joined Ford' in Februarv of 1968
House in as many weeks. Earlier he had met with
startling, job changes in auto in­ the 1970 models — which debut’ acting president S. I. Hayakawa became the first the President to report on campus disorder.
dustry history when he resigned next fall — were largely locked Nisei to attend a White House
state dinner of
During the week, there were published reports
as executive vice president of up. He did foster some changes the Nixon administration for a
foreign head of that Dr. Hayakawa may run for the office of
General Motors, the No. 1 auto
. 1970 lineup — most not­ state recently.
maker since the 1930’s, to become ably in the Thunderbird.
state superintendent of public instruction or for
Dr. and Mi
president of Ford.
were invited to dine the Democratic nomination of U.S. senator.
While Ford originally intend­
Mien he made the shift, spec­ ed to use a “rubber” front end with President Nixon at the White House function
At a San Francisco GOP dinner March 20 to
ulation ran high that sweeping a ^a Pontiac’s GTO, Knudsen nix­ in honor of Canadian
Minister
Pierre
hear
and honor newly-appointed Lt. Gov. Ed Rei­
changes would follow at Ford. ed the idea. Referring to prob­
Trudeau.
necke
(who was confined to bed in Sacramento
Particularly widespread was gos­ lems Pontiac has had with the
it was Hayakawa’s second visit at the White v ith the flu) Hayakawa got a bigger ovation
sip he soon would surround him­ approach,
reportedly said:
self with a new management-, -We don’t he
need that kind of
than the
Republican speakers
team, at least partially drawn trouble,” and
billed
on
the
program. The ed­
the
design
was
from G.M.
changed to one of conventional
ucator was
intercepted outside
, There have been no sweeping steel.
the banquet room as he was head­
TOKYO.
A
former
Vancouver,
ing
toward the radio KCBS stu­
manges. The Ford management
is
clearly
an
absence
of
leader
­
The 1971 .models will give the
team is largely the same as it public its first look at “Knud­ B.C. Japan Consul and present ship at the toil and no realiza­ dios in the same hotel.
Responding to a standing ova­
ws before Knudsen’s arrival.
sens Fords. He has been approv­ Japan’s ambassador to Argenti­ tion of what is best in the na­ tion, Hayakawa
said:
'“Thank
One of the two men he has ing the 1971 designs in recent na, Ichiro
Kawasaki, will be tional interest among most poli­ you for .making me feel the iob
lured away from General Motors weeks.
asked to resign because of an ticians. Generally there is a I am trying to do is terribly im­
b a stylist. He’s Larry Shimoda,
undiplomatic
book he wrote, shortage of moral courage and portant to you. It is terribly im­
-of special projects
portant to me, too. It makes me
Foreign Minister Kiichi Aichi said discipline.”
m lords design office and one
feel it is worth the headaches I
? r
men reporting directly
recently. Kawaski’s book, “Japan
The Japanese themselves, he have to go through.”
V1CvPresident of design,
unmasked,” includes the conten- said, were emotional, child-like,
Hayakawa
said
civilization
Eugene Bordinat Jr.
I tion “the Japanese as an indivi­ courteous “to the point of being looks to education for salvation,
Pointing to a picture of Knuddual is often a moral coward.” officious” and of “a rather in- just as it once rallied around
the church. Little wonder, then,
S!” Inounted prominently in his
This is the first time that a fantile mentality.”
he said, that the community is
’nice, Shimoda says, “he’s the .VANCOUVER. — Substantial Japanese .ambassaddbr has been
He added: “Of all the races of horrified when it “sees these
reason I’m here.” He adds that fish price increases are being dismissed while, in office.
the
world', the Japanese are per­ young bums
tearing
up the
- b ambnion is to become “the sought for B.C.’s 5,000 net fish­
A Cabinet meeting decided haps physically the least attrac­ place”.
ermen by the United Fishermen
'ret Japanese American vice and Allied Workers Union.
that Ichiro
Kawasaki. Japan’s tive, with the exception of pyg­
president in the history of Ford.”
Japan Cites Work
Following two days of meet- envoy to Argentina will be dis- mies and hottentots.”
of the industry’s lead ing with the Native Brother- I missed because the contents of
What may have stung the gov­ Of Dr. Albert Sabin
°i ?’C” which represents the English language book “Ja- ernment most
Fed k nUdsen?s influence on
CINCINNATI. — Dr. Albert B.
was Kawasaki’s
. ‘Indian fishermen, the union has I
.
Sabin,
distinguished service pro-—be obvious un­ made the following price de- pan Unmasked,
published jx statement that “racially, ideolo­
^F
53
^
?f research Pediatrics at
gically, and militarily, Japan is
mands for 1969.
weeks ago, were inappropriate.
the Univ, of Cincinnati Medical
With last year’s prices in parKawasaki OS once Japan’s *- not equal to so grandiose a task Center, has received one of the
enthesis,
new demands
are: IeSate to the
General As- as political leadership of Asia, Japanese government’s highest
awards.
Sockeye 41 cents (37.5); Coho I semblv, wrote in the book, “There let alone of the world.”
In special campus ceremonies,
and -Steelhead 35 (28): Pinks 17
the Order of the Sacred Trea­
(12%);
Chums 18
(12%-15);
sure, a medal and citation, was
Spring 45 (12%-35); Jack Spring
given to Dr. Sabin by Hideo Na­
(less than five pounds), 17 (20
JOKYO. _
kajima
and Katsuhiro Imava,
:ne United
Japan> as in cents a fish).
I CHIBA. — Experts at the tion of both milk and beef, the
Japanese vice consuls stationed
1
^^-J-hei'e has been
In addition, the union wants Agriculture-Forestry
Ministry’s experts explained.
in Chicago, on behalf of chief
MWflu^break of the the fisheries association of B.C. I livestock research station here
According to this new meth­ consul
Umeo Kagei.
* reached
ihls. "^ter which
a some art P‘deni!C Proportions to pay lo cents a case into the | recently reported a minor mnacie od, pregnant milk cows produce
The presentation took place in
union’s welfare fund—up five — a milch cow gave birth to a milk but can bear beef cattle ™e„office of university president
which are in short supply in Walter C. Langsam.
cents over last year
I calf of the beef cattle variety.
office workers shik
c

If this success takes firm root Janam
®n Sabin received the award
dairymen, a big step forThe cross breeding theory is for his role in developing polio­
T^e has
alike^-eve- pn^otiatad ^ ex- M1O
Workmens
Compensa- ward win be made in produc­ not new, but examples of suc­
30 Prevent i?A -^iCKen with it. tentfed
myelitis vaccine
“which
contion coverage to include B.C.’s
cess are very rare, they noted.
greatly
in
combating
2,000
independent
net
fishermen.
Simple in theory as it may be, 3olio in Japan.” The award was
taken £ Measures have
many
difficulties were encounter­ one of 58 conferred on Ameri­
"The
increases
are
quite
rea
­
^;? established'cu^ 1MaS?re’ a
ed in the process of extricating cans during Japan’s 1968 observ­
sonable in view of cost of living
-a
~iom
m
Japan,
® the
a fertilized egg from a beef cow ance of the Meiji Centennial,
1C?
Practice ncreases, running overheads and
and
inserting it in ,a milch cow.
tlie collapse of Japanese
. -Ok
3n. Primary ligher taxes,” union secretaryVANCOUVER.—A §5,000 Sci­
A
healthy calf was born re­ feudalism in 1868 and the start
?< coring rlc® lheir souths treasurer Homer Stevens said
ence Scholarship awarded by the centlv
off a Uj
periods to recently.
of modernization and th* Mmii
Dr. Tatsuo Hosoda of the sta- government.
National
Research
Council was
^mn^^ an almost
“Average wages have risen
tion ssaid that their experiment
Exact date of the celebration
“ co: ^n cold or i °«set of
Hven to R. H. Kuwahara, physthree
times
as
much
as
the
meaningful since beef was Oct. 23, 1968, but Dr. Sabin
Tb­
University of Bri
resource. arc scarce in this coun- vas unable to be in Japan at that
minimum price we are paid for ics, of the
' 35 -nckar W 1 th\s PracUBC
time to accept the honor.
sockeye during the past nine Columbia. Some
The station next plans to at­
aided
scholarships
ilwa^s were g^en for social,
were
dent:
7 =1VQ tn
r“® tender years.”
990 . tain the same results by way natural and economic contribu­
fellowships
:^injapan^ Welfare of
of ectosomatic fertilization, Ho­ tions to Japan. Dr. Sabin’s award
Talks on the new contract be- and
200.
soda added.
gin next month.
was second to the highest order.

B.C. Fish Union
Seeks Price Hike
To Meet Costs

H°ng Kong Flu

Milch Cow Gives Birth To Beef Variety

t

J.C. Student Gets
$5,000. Scholarship

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Tsuruoka Sensei Chief Referee For
^™rn Karate Tourney May 17
Japan Girl Wins All-England Singles Bata

.7hd?'
President ot
of the
th^NationS'Ka-'I^Jn^'T^
will } I
a
^esiaentNational Ka- uocu. xms is the only government
Cta fi“n (N K A ) wil1
®
WEMBLEY, ^^iand.
England. —
- The
The Darmadi, the reigning Iu.
Can U^ v®
U Sixth Eastern chartered karate association in Can-1 ,„
ada and recognized by the Amateur FXd^S
sian champion, 15-1. £5.3'U
h u™ karate Championship to Atnletic Union (AAU)
Ships went East recently when minutes with a brilliant X
Shortt e ^ M°Trea!'S P°ul Sauve
. •
Rudy Hartono of Indonesia
tion of all court craft. He r
Tournament
is
sponsored
by
pained
his
men

s
singles
crown
„f°F Centre, 4000 Beaubien Street
devastating when smash-:,,,, ,
me Iran Quan Ba Karate Doio Q and JaPan’s Hiroe Yuki took the also showed delicate tout
,
the net and rarely made
All rules and regulations of the Montreal. Competition is open to all T’3
___________ members of the National Karate As-' A
th« men’s ror.

doubles title through Henning
put him level v
Boi ch and Erland Kops, while 9 ^artono’s
--all m matches with Data
Sparring will be divided into England won the women’s dou­ a ,247ear'olcl student ar A
at
school of foreign language;
1
1
three categories: Novice (6th to bles and mixed doubles.
said
—-.eu oaseoall team will partiDjakarata.
^^
Ryus,
White,
Yellow,
Orange
-^ftei the brilliant play of ear­
c'-pate in the Global Baseball the team might disband becau. ?e
Belts),
Intermediate
(3rd
to
1st
lier
rounds, both singles finals
Miss Yuki upset the top $
League scheduled to open play of difficulties in arranging for
failed to excite the 7,000 crowd compatriot Noriko Takagi, v
Kyus,
Green,
Blue,
Brown
Belts),
on zpril 24, it was announced' re­ the team’s U.S. trip.
bemuse of the one-sided nature a 11-5, 11-5 win.
and Black Belts.
The 20-vj
cently.
of
the matches. Hartono and Miss °Jd Physical education sifi
Play in the new league is
rl6 OTnouncement was made
There will be ,a Kata (Form) iuki towered over their oppon­ fiom Tokyo had too much dof
scheduled for a 138-game season
ents to score straight game wins. lor her opponent, five ve?.’Y he
Toru Mori, manager of thr
with six teams, one of them Ja- Contest for children and women.
senior, and that was the differ­
Japanese team, after a meeting
Hartono, 19, beat compatriot’ ence.
Also, for the first time, there
with George Yoshinaga, Global panese. The others are the Domi­ will be 2 Team Tournaments. Nonican Republic, Puerto Rico, Ve­
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\ ice Team Category will consist
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Thos. T. Onizuka, B.A.
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PAGE 7

Coveted Gold Pins
Awarded At T.
pring Classes To Begin At J.C. Cultural Centre JCCA Banquet

[ Dates And Doings

; TORONTO.—Spring classes will soon begin at the Japanese
snadian Cultural Centre and applications are being accepted
^v from the new members.
Mondav evening — Sumie, Ladies Judo
' Tuesday evening — Chanoyu, Ikebana, Conversational Japanese. Children’s Judo, Karate
Wednesday afternoon — Ikebana and Sumie
Wednesday evening — Japanese Cooking, Conversational Ja­

TORONTO. — Toronto JCCA
Inaugural Banquet held on Satur-

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Inn will be recorded as one of
the more interesting banquets
with many local and international
personalities attending.
Under the able chairmanship
panese
of Mr. Mits Sumiya the program
Thursday evening — Men’s Judo, Karate
got underway first with greet­
Friday evening — Children’s Judo
ings and welcome from the TorSaturday morning — Children’s Judo, Origami
Nisei with a little knowledge of Japanese should join in onto JCCA president, Mr. Ede Wednesday evening class while those with some knowledge ward Ide, followed by the
ident of the Toronto J CCA
Ire advised to join in the Tuesday evening class. —JCC Centre
bu, Mr. Mitsuo Amemori.
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To those very deserving members,
JCCA GOLD PINS were
Dnt. Puppetry Festival To Be Held April 18, 19, 20
awarded to Mr. Mitsuo Amemori,
' TORONTO.—Puppetry performances, workshops, exhibits and
'ilnis will be featured at the three-day Ontario Puppetry Festival Mr. Hatsutaro Hayashi, Mrs. Ha­
,o be held April 18, 19, and' 20 at the Learning- Resources Centre, ruko Kobayakawa and Mr. T.
Kawabe in absentia.
*666 Eglinton Ave. W.
I Puppeteers from various parts of Canada and the United
The highlight of the evening's
States will take part in the festival, which is sponsored by the program was a talk by Mr. KuToronto Public Libraries and the Ontario Puppetrv Association.
nizo Kawaji. Resident Officer of
PERFORMANCES WIIL BE HELD:
• Friday, April 18—4:30 p.m., Liz Trolove, “Solo Marionettes”, the Japan Emigration Service
Nancy Cole, “Hand'and Rod Puppets”, 7:30 p.m., Jan Van derGun, He gave an inspiring talk in
“Glove Puppets”, Stoney Creek Puppeteers.
which he selected to epitomize
Saturday, April 19—2:00 p.m. Belle Kendall, “Marionette Va­
riety Show”, Ken Wyndham, “Punch and Judy” 7:30 p.m., Rowena the thoughts of man such as the
former Prime Minister of India.
and Rus-Lyn Puppets.
Sunday, April 20—The Harrison’s Marionettes in “Rumpel- Mr. Nehru — proud of his coun­
stilskin”.
try, noble in outlook and who
FORKSHOPS WILL BE HELD :
:
Saturday, April 19—10:00 a.m., Ken McKay, “Making Instant gave much of himself to his coun­
Puppets”, 11:00 a.m., Betty Jane Wylie, “Script-writing for Puppet”. try and the world. It is with this
;
Sunday, April 20—10:00 a.m., Carole Fijan, “Hand Puppet spirit that Mr. Kawaji wished to
^Manipulation”.
offer as a guide to those who
A pot pourri will be held St., April 19 at 9:00 p.m. for re­
leave
his or her mother country
gistered persons only. Registration fees are $5.00 for Ontario Pupipetry Association members and $10.00 for non-members. Admission for another.
to performances: matinees, $1.00; evenings, $1.50.
One of the earlier .arrivals from
For further information, call the Learning Resources Centre, Japan to enter our country under
MS7-1S16.
the new immigration policy for
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periences upon his arrival an d
By KENNETH WINTERS
the more common difficulties the
TORONTO.—The Pacific pendulum, which has brought Japan newcomers encounter.
Ao notably.to Toronto the past few seasons, swung- briskly in the
The banquet afforded Mujoi
■ opposite direction recently when the Toronto Symphony and its
Hiroshi Asano of the Salvation
^conductor Seiji Ozawa boarded a special flight bound for Japan.
The 96 musicians of the orchestra, surrounded by their manage Army in Japan an opportunity
; went, another whole flight of interested Torontonians and various to not only meet a number of Ja­
i members of the press, radio and television, will arrive in Japan panese Canadians but also gave
/ louay and begin preparation- of the program of Mozart, Wagner those attending an insight into
and Berlioz with which they have been invited to open the 1969
his work and his purpose for be­
i spring .Festival at Osaka, April 14.
; . This concert and the ensuing seven (two more in Osaka, one ing in Toronto.
Others who contributed much
: m Nagoya and four in Tokyo) will mark the first Far Eastern
; ^sOy a Canadian orchestra.
to enhance the success of the
:
the programs will be entirely music of the western symphonic
repertory with the exception of two works by the young Japanese evening with their remarks were
: composer Toru Takemitsu — November- Steps No. 1 and November Mr. Katsuhisa hamada, Acting; j^Ps Xo. 2 — both of which have been plaved in Toronto and Consul General of Japan and Mr
i iworded by the orchestra for RCA Victor.
Hiroshi Katayama who introduc­
; k J7?zar^’ .Beethoven, Wagner, Berlioz, Tchaikovsky, Strauss and ed Messrs. Kawaji and Ichiki
Oftoiiev^ will represent the standard repertory.
p ..L01' ^’^ Ozawa, the tour will have a particular significance. Moreover from the Japanese TAcompany were three re? mu lePresent the climax and — virtually if not literally, since
to Toronto for two concerts in May — the termina- present at ives who were interestu i tour-year tenure as conductor of the Toronto Symphony.
recording" part of the
e leases Toronto at the end of this season, bound for a new ed in
i Ji
°^ the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra. And banquet.
Warm welcome
S"enpn
-“tting that, before his departure from the Canadian
C' f !h tour shall have made it possible for him to take his to Mr. Thomas Makino representcuracv° -°^ les^’a — which he once described with limpid ac- ing the Hamilton JCCA, to Mr.
.at F\ ^rs.t own orchestra” — home to Japan in triumph.
Henry Edamura, chairman of the
piavs
n n -W^J almost surely be, if the Toronto Symphony
abroad We. ^his time abroad as it has played on other occasions Board of the Japanese Canadian
remember it with pleasure, for instance, at the Com- Cultural Centre, and to the
been a
°^ the Arts in England, and it has sometimes charming company of Mm. Ka­
epei that it seldom plays so splendidly at home in Toronto.) tsuhisa Yamada. Mrs. Kunizo KaHenry Edamura.
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Toronto JCCA is hankful to
Read Jessie L. Beattie's
those who attended to make this
affair a very successful event,
a note on which to commence
the new term for the new exeA Japanese Canadian story
entire committee.
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Woman, Single, 35 .

Japanese Newcomer In
Search Of A Career
By DONNA ANDERSON

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Trivial Japanese
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Ry RILL MARUTANI
FUNNT HOW SOME little things adhere to the memory.
One of the most irrelevant flotsam that I’ve retained from my
publ,sheVdnSS^
college literature course is that “Parson Weems” was the author
UMEZUKI Pnhii-T,
“Indian Depredation in Texas.” Even had the question in the KEI T.TSUMURA
bS.
course examination, as I recall. Since then the number of times
Ive had to call upon that bit of earthshaking knowledge vou can
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VANCOUVER. — Wanted by her home in Hachinohe in Northnew Japanese immigrant — one ern Japan, Hisako studied Enjob. Qualifications ? Educated in glish and worked for her high
Chicago, New York
and San school diploma by correspond­
Fiancisco
and all by’ mail to ence. She received her diploma
from American School in Chica­
Hachinohe and Tokyo.
go.
Foi starters, she will take a job I
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in any! office.
Most of the people with whom
.MATTER ON COUNTING
“I have my typing .and short- 1 worked were instructors and
SOME OTHER TIDBITS stick to the mind. I recall, as a
hand and am ready! to work,” Ithey tau^t me English too. The
li(!tle bOy,’ my mother asking me why, in counting in Japanese
1
Hisako Hasegawa said.
| ^^^iional advisor said the coribit°tSU,, "futatsu,” etc.), “ten” was not “ju-tsu” instead of
For a
ink
u I ^Po^dence course would be too
Male Help Wanted
“toh.” Pondered that one for a while, and then she told me, with’
J. or a part-time job recentlv, u„,.j rn„
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dressing envelopes. I did 572 oR J°"T
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two “tsu’s” in the line count of ten.
SHIPPER-packer,
them in one day,’ she sighed.

" 1 ^. my diploma
ID FORGOTTEN ABOUT that riddle. The old gal is ram- motive parts. Agressive,‘“good o-‘
Hisako, who arrived here from
,

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steady good waa°s inn\- ■”v
extended trip and she’s due back some- unit,
(Toronto).

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Tokyo four weeks ago, has had . ^ w©ut to work for a Brazil- time this summer. Think I’ll, spring it back on
her; see if she
Female Help Wanted
many types of jobs. When trying uin company’ and there was one remembers.
a
DICTA-typist required, Yonge
to improve her English she start­ problem. Their English was very
ICHI-NI-SAN
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ed writing’. She wrote commen­ bad and I didn’t want to ruin
tor small
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almost perfect English and sub­ guese. I sent out letters in both
system
we’l go to “Jussei” (No, not “Toh-sei” this time) and beyond,
mitted them to the Asahi Even- languages.”
i
ly time-projected sympathies go to those of the ninth generation: ROOM for rent near Hiah Pag 7
way. Large, kitchen etc. lor'gJ
Hisako left full-time employ u.nder ^dain corrupt Japanese idioms they will be known
Phone eveninas and
as the man.
ment to take care of her ailine
762-8063 (Toronto).
PUBLISHED
kusei-de - or smelly generation.
mother and "filled in when pos­
They decided to publish my sible as a part-time worker at
WHEN MORE THAN ONE
articles under the Letters to the various offices — adding more
ALL OF WHICH leads to a letter received1 from a
reader
Editor and asked that I send experience .and more English.
give.*.
" , suytresterf a column on the proper usage of the words

Issei”
them, more.”
and h»” insofar as the plural form was concerned. Although
During this period she also
so more will live
Hisako’s articles were signed
Z i”«m U Ok up tl,eSe 'vords in Webster’s, the alternate
1
obtained
a
diploma
in
author
­
Shyreed. “At first I didn't want
the “s’ Xa'’ u JT6”'
P'«> <«age is without
my name used so I made up that ship by correspondence and re­
ot that H i
’t
H \ ”*y ”‘ b¥e
J^anese linguists
pen name. Then when the news­ ceived a certificate of member­
J
,
13
°
M)
"'
n
°
are
attuned
to
the development
paper was publishing my articles ship from the Newspaper Insti­ and true mean,ng of Japanese words. The “Issei” refers to ‘
ar least once a week, I also sign­ tute of America which also sent ^“T ^ 7 “ “'‘T!’ thUS “
be a“l“s S" «(«■
along a catalogue of publications
ed Hisako and H.H.
t E“
’ (“Isseis”). In this context it is
where she might sell her articles. loitKYlrHil.
“I also made submissions to
.omenhat like referring to a group of Japanese as “Japanese ”
American publications and finally
After her mother’s death, she
had one .accepted last fall. Then went to Price Waterhouse and
someone told me if I kept writ­ Company and started plans to
(Cont. from Page One)
Japanese scholars, closely foling in Japan, nobody would read emigrate to Canada. She was
^n^.an^> women I nese language. They speedily
niy stories because not many" Ja­ helped by .that old chain of cir­ n0?’^ Chinese as the Chinese
Thov
naHot
er
ln ^n3ei’3ca- hurned this to account and soon
W1?te ltj however, had
panese can read1 English. They- cumstances — .a friend
of a i eA la^ t°. adapt themselves
q ’ O1.,,e ,a natter. | became
masters
of colloquial
suggested I come to Canada friend of a friend.
a ?^cher is a base- Japanese.
to that traditional writing. This ball
where I would have a better
nnH^]6 hv? -een highly popular oaii twirler, while, in England
As early as in 1S63' D1‘ Br0G
After
talking
to
a
Canadian
until the Meiji era, giving birth the word means a bowler, but a
chance.”
bowler is a derby. The Derby-1 published a grammar of it, which
Getting to Canada was not a in Tokyo, who gave me the ad­ p°. ,sucn distinguished1 authors of oj\10RSe\iace’ and R's Pronounc-I was then of considerable assist­
dress of a man from Vancouver Chinese poetry as scholar-novel- ed darbv.)
I
.
,
simple matter.
“Soseki” Natsume
1 ance to many foreigners, «
now living- in New lork, I receiv­ (1861-1916) and
1
Genera) of the
At this stage, one can say, the
T am old to be an immigrant,”
ed the address of a girl living Imperial Army Count Maresuke Japanese people have made Chi­ “essayed to learn to speak to ths
Hisako said and admitted shyly
rere.
n184?’1!?12^ nodded with nese culture their own. It ap­ natives correctly in their own
that she would be 35 in a. few
. tongue.”
?
°fT Port Arthur during pears one thing, but there
“When she found out when I the Russo-Japanese War.
days. “Then again. I d'id no have
tually are two completely^ dif- I
Shortly afterwards, in the sun?
a job to come to. It is difficult would arrive she sent me a phoThe Japanese, widely known ferent things.
I mei* of 1867, Dr. Hepburn fob
to apply for a job by correspond­ to graph of herself so I would for such great adaptability, also
Hereby! came the bi°- surpr^e lowed suit and had one of :“
invented their own kanji ideo- of German physician Eno-eW Kirst, English-Japanese, Japanese;
ence, employers want personal know her- when she met me
-‘ C.olPbining one Chinese Kampfer, who visited Janan
English dictionaries published, l
interviews. After I showed the the airport. She also got me a
oid implying a mountain with I960. “Though the two peoples contained quite a few Japanese
people at the Canadian Embassy place to live.
ei7
?UP)
and (down), use similar words,” he onco
words 111 Toman letters, in kauthe clippings from the Asahi
“I think Vancouver is so spa- they produced an entirely new “one wouldn’t be able "u£ k™ and in Chinese characters.
Evening News, they' said all right, cious after crowded Tokyo and ■•4ld’ wh’ch 131 Tapan signifies a stand the other’s tongue.”
I
Dr. Brown’s w. rx was de
mountain
pass. Tim .More or less the same impres- n°ted’ to
I could go and now I am here.” I the people walk, they don’t run riage or
the collw rial and i®
words (tree) and (god) being
calculated
ic be of great
I
find
myself
always running twined together,
,. ,,
She explained that since she
there canm S1i°nAas ?Iso exin-essed by Swed- E,111? .
^«h journal’
Br
•sh
botanist-phvsician
Carl
Pet-musefulness,

the
myself, walla another new word (sasaki) or the
had learned English by herself, and now I tell
Thunberg (1743-1822) who stav lst-author John R. Black said. I
she did not know many big words. don’t run. The car drivers arc K^crea Ttree^” a set of whose ed in Japan in 1775-76 and la^er °?
Dictionary
HePburn’s
twigs a Japanese dedicates to
s.ind
and
the
people
friendly.

published
tlm
niemoirT
of

'also
wrote
wrote
it
it

*
has
proved ®
“1 write just as a
mall
Ehmto shrines on ritual occasi­ global tour in “Resa uti Euroced
h
,
el
+
p
ta
fo
^
lg
^
ers
' “10 ^
ons.
words." she smiled.
Tne diminutive young woman
Africa, Asia,” in four volumes’
lushed to learn Japanese.
who is a few inches short of five hn?eSeT .inventions can hardlv
,
to Japanese who have
RECEIVED diploma
H^jsh diplomat Sir Er- learn English; and it has ^
e found in Chinese dictionaries
feet could obviously win friends
.however, straight- I the means of multiply^.it one came across such in Chi­
in any office.
na
■W
f
admitted a knowledge numbers of both."
na. they! must have been tvpical
01
Chinese was a “necessary
.
.
reimports from Japan.
preliminary” to the studv of Tn
As in the ca’e
•--•.
^nS an<J that process have oanese. Having stayed in Peking T’1’ ithe TSalient ^^S
Jina !y»iade Japanese complete- foi a time before coming to Ja­ 1 of spoken Japanese is mar
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from original Chi­ pan, he “learned a few hundred individual word is a “monos,'*’
nese. Therefore, no modern Ch'- Chinese characters which were lable,” and that the number’V
sounds is ‘Temarxsm
30 1)0111 municipal parking
n®so .can understand Japanese
help to me afterwards.” speech
This
has eren^
a^J1 ’? today without interpret- he said.
seivice- TOMI'S of
small.”
^^^■^^^ ROAD provides a quiet,
“3T E'en when thev exchange
made this language too h3^;.;
Such an acquaintance with, follow and all the more dit‘fj“
modern choice in hair grooming needs.
^ten ”otes- there is often quite
Chinese
..aole to be gi-oss misunderstandmight have been found to understand.
mg of the content of each.
usefully any student of Japa­
most UR2
Therefore, it is
Although the identical charac­ nese. It is “no more dispensable” mously agreed, if sot ior ter is mentioned, the Chinese (m Sir Ernest’s words) than that outstanding contribu on by as.
© Hairstyling — Tinting
Edward.
mean by it to “walk,” and the of Latin is to .a person who wish­ American translator
^jU
• ^ igs — Hairpieces
Japanese, to “run.” -The ideo­ es to learn Italian, Spanish or Seidensticker. Japanesewould
Yasunari Kawaba
graph sigmties a ‘‘mother” in French.
re
have been
aware
cmna.
ami
a

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daughter" in Ja.
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pan. while it is a “wife” in China hUd" 1
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C-. Hepburn largely on translations.
and means an “old woman” in 1
’ hbl)' boch American mis­
Japan. They of course pronounce sionaries.
Here lies the greater ’came
to Japan in 1859.

them differently.
they t
haQ~ a1
—^t0 had the advantage translators in Japan iE
1 an acquaintance with the Chi- most other countries.

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