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life Is Complicated For Deserted Japanese War Brides In America
I LOS ANGELES. — When Yasuko Nakajima mar|ed Bill Brown in 1954 she was a girl from a farm
liiiaee working in a Tokyo restaurant and he was

J lonely American GI.
t Because she had head'd about rich Americans, she
fought Bill v as wealthy, but latex- learned he was
enlisted man with— practically no money.
family did not accept his Japanese bride
^•heii th? couple returned to the Port of Long Beach.
Ige^ayed with her and got a job as a traveling sales­
man. Things didn’t go well so they separated.
S \ow Yasuko Nakajima Brown works as a barmaid,
ifhpc in a run-down house infested with cockroaches,

and often gives dog or cat food to her two children
because she can’t afford anything better.
Officials ,at the Oriental Sexwice Centex* here say
Yasuko’s situation is similax- to many of the 2000
Japanese wives in the Los Angeles area who have been
abandoned by tlxeix- husbands.
Isolated from American society because of their
difficulty in speaking English and cut off from their
families in Japan, who opposed the interracial marriages, many Japanese wives come to the center.
Yuki A amagita said the center deals with about 50
abandoned Japanese wives a year. The center affords
them a place to talk about their problems and it seeks
outside help.
The center, established in 1968 by the Office of

Economic Opportunity, is the only one of its type in
the country.
While some of the estimated 25,000 marriages betservicemen
ween Japanese women
and American
between 1948 and 1958 work out well, the officials
say an alarming number don’t.
“There are a tremendous number of fathers who
are not living up to their responsibilities;” said Henry
Manaka, a social worker for the Long Beach Dept, of

Why do so many of the marriages fail ? Center
officials give as main reasons problems in language,
disagreements over methods of child roaring, and
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Yoko Ono's “Fly” Accorded
Standing Ovation At Cannes

Japanese Doctor Keeps Calf Alive
For 10 Days With Artificial Heart <|

TOKYrO. — A Japanese professor of surgery convention in Moscow.
traces the antics of a common
He has been studying artificial hearts for the
housefly as it walks the length at the University of Mississippi Medical Scool
told
recently
how
he
had
succeeded
in
keeping
young
past
14 years in the U.S. He has developed a
and breadth of a xxude
a calf alive fox* 10 days aftex* implanting an ar­ heart made of silicon rubber and is considered
woman.
the world’s foremost authority in the devising of
“Fly” was filmed in a New tificial heart.
artificial
hearts.
The
professor,
Tetsuzo
Hakutsu,
49,
was
report
­
days
of
York loft. It took two
The
heart
that worked in a calf fox- 10 days
painstaking effort to film the ing on the experiment to a symposium on trans­
was the size of a human heart. It is made of a
“masterpiece” — Yoko had to plants at the University of Tokyo.
hard
outex’ crust containing a soft bag.
Dr.
Hakutsu
was
in
Japan
following
his
audition at least 200 houseflys
By
pumping aix’ into the space between the
and some 20 nude bodies fox- the attendance at an international surgical society
crust and -the bag
and
then
part.
sucking
it
out,
blood
is
driven
In order' to “cast” the flies,
into and out of the bag.
Yoko and co-director John hired
In the past, experiments failed
a man to search the kitchens of
YrELLOWKNIFE. — Three Ja­ Cambridge Bay on, Victoria Is­
a local cafeteria chain. The man panese students from Tokyo Univ­ land on July 22 for Hadley Bay because blood tended to coagulate
brought back 200 potential movie ersity are missing and presumed on the north shore of the island. or ooze out its suture with the
blood vessels. As a result calves
stars at 25 cents a head.
They were to travel by canoe and
drowned in the Canadian Arctic.
subjected to the tests survived
Then the paix* held auditions
overland on the 400-mile trip and only about 35 hours.
The
students
are
members
of
fox- the role of the body. It so
expected to be gone 60 days.
Blood coagulated’ when it came
happened that only one out of 20 the Canadian Arctic Research Ex­
pedition,
a
program
sponsored
by
According to police, they had into contact with the inner sur­
nude girls was not ticklish, so
Tokyo
University,
and
were
sent
sufficient
food and supplies for face of the heart. If clots are
the co-star role was won by a
to
Cambridge
Bay
about
600
bloodstream,
70 days. Last weekend, a pilot circulated in the
tall, pretty, auburn haired1 girl
in the
named Virginia Lust—an “un­ miles northeast of Yellowknife, with Northward Aviation spotted some could get stuck
capillaries
of
the
brain
to
do
a
scientific
study
on
the
to
cause
an overturned canoe about 10
flinchingly serene” body.
thrombosis.
miles northwest of Cambridge
However, as quiet as she was, country and its people.
How to prevent blood clots has
flies seemed to shun Miss Lust. I RCMP said 23-year-old Kazu­ Bay. An immediated -search of
Most would touch down for a yuki Nakaniwa, Tetushi Isono, 21, the area produced no sign of the been considered the major hurdleto be overcome in development
second or two before taking to and Yasumasa Miyaki, 31, left missing men.
of
man-made hearts.
the ail’ again. Yoko reasoned that
This year, the professor hit on
the bright lights and confusion
the
idea of finishing the inner
were to blame, so she put a few
sui-face
of the bag of the man­
flies into a paper cup and drugmade heart with silicone rubber.
ged thenx with carbon dioxide
As a result, calves given this
gas.
CHICAGO. — A $1.25 million j who was seriously injured in the new type of bag survived for
It worked. The flies staggered
FRANCISCO.—A second
damage suit has been filed in incident,
and
Mabel
Okubo, about 120 hours, or four times
Ja
x sailor has axi’ived in about Miss Lust’s body for as circuit court against the Palmer mother of Evelyn Okubo, who the previous record.
HKSan
nc’.sco, having completed long as two minutes—before House Hotel on behalf of two was stabbed to death.
In May, the x’ecord was exranspacific
journey
on a most of them keeled over and Japanese American girls whose
tended
to 247 hours, after imThe girls, both from Stockton,

£j1
died.
wht.
The finished product is a com­ throats were slashed by an un­ Calif., were stabbed at the hotel provements were made.
Ao
-2, arrived at Fishknown assailant in July, 1970. while attending the National JaFuthermore, in the May
erman's \ ' narf recently aboard position of a single fly, trekking
periment,
the five calves were
its way over goose bumps and
The suit was filed recently by panase American Citizens League
his homer
na-xe Ahodbri II.
found to have died not from
freckles, as seen through a close­ Carol Ranko Yamada, now 18, convention in 1970.
Ishizu fishing
Miss Yamada, lone eyewitness blood coagulation but from in­
up lens.
?aKai, Osaka prefecture
to the incident, was able to des­ fection from germs which enterThe soundtrack consists of a
on June 1 3. the voyage took 83
cribe her assailant to police, but ed their bodies through surgical
twanging
constant
hum and
wer the 6000 miles to
accompanying
the
no one has been chax-ged in the incisions
noise.
|San Franc isco.
experiment.
case.
. „
.
I
Yoko provided the hum, a
| Foilowir- a .brief
examination '
Prof. Kazuhiko Atsumi of the
Both girls were sharing a room
. varied-pitched style she had
|b>’ F.S.
migration
authox-ities
with another girl, Patti Iwataki University of Tokyo has termed
Ue ---John prowas permitted to land. “Mv learned in Japan, and
the experiment “a breakthrough
rr^ *_ t
• duced the twangs by strumming
TOKYrO. — Conversion of yen of Los Angeles, who discovered in man-made heart research.”
weak to walk, but his guitar and playing the sound
currency at the rate of 100 old Miss Okubo lying dead in thet r-cl fine,” he said
He said such hearts
bathroom and Miss
Yamada
might
backwards on a tape recorder.
for one new by Jan. 1, 1973 has
f-e came ashore.
soon be clinically used in human
standing
in
the
bedroom
with
her
Yoko’s thesis for the film is been
decided by the Finance
youth had beaten basically that a fly is life and
patients.
throat slashed.
Ministry*, according to informed
,
u
.\
iirsi.
solo
sailor,
Akutsku himself said it was
the body is the female coping sources. It was felt that the
The law suit charges that the
h
Kwho took 93 days
with life. “Fly” is a female libe­ prestige of the yen in world hotel failed to provide adequate too early to conclude that his
C1'ossing. Hox'ie’s ration story, perhaps a comment
new artificial heart could prevent
security for the guests.
jY;
niade in Aug., 1962, on human liberation. “Everyone monetary markets would be re­
blood clotting.
Miss Yamada is asking for $1
5-1’
Merma5d
now is that female,” says Yoko, “just stored if yen parity with the
He added that the device would
in San Francisco Ma- lying down, just taking it. We dollar’ were expressed in a single million in damages, while Mrs.
Okubo is asking for $250,000.
figure.
Museum.
(Cont. from Page One?
don’t live life, we just take it.”

$ Japanese wife of John the
Beetle Lennon, Yroko, is an artist,
linger and film maker' of some
mote. says a recent Life Magatine article.
| As an artist she staged mixed
nedia “events” in the ’’ 60s—
tanging blank canvasses
foi’
Bfcallery visitors to decorate fox*
.Baheniselves. During this period
Wshe also made
“underground”
Bfilms—among them “bottoms,” a
Enuds study in which the subjects
fehim their backs to the camena.
Ill Another Yoko creation was a
■g90-niinute film called “Smile,”
E|which features only her husband,
feJohn, as he smiles before the
Ifehuriiing camera.
fe
might be considered
Eklokos answer to an Andy Worfchal creation, an eight-hour long
femo'ie "'hich shows the Statue
|£|of Liberty—and nothing
more
||?excePt a lone seagull flying by,
gmarking the climax of the show.
-s'Oxv ^-oko has completed a 19Igminute film that drew a standing
^ovation at the Cannes Film Festi||val. Her entry, called
“Fly,”

^Solo Pacific Trip
^Record by Japan

Japanese Trio Believed Dead In Arctic

$1.25 Millions Suit In Killing

Yen Conversion
By 1973 Sees
100 Old For 1 New

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THE NEW

Dates And Doings

CANADIAN

'

Doctor On Desima

Selected chapter's from Jhr. J.L.C.
Japan
(1857-1S63)’.
Translated
by
Elizabeth
P.
Wit
termans
and
John
Z. Bowers.
TORONTO. — St. Andrew's Japanese Congregation ’ will
Published
by
Sophia
University,
Tokyo,
pp
131,
$3.50
or
1,250 yen
'Hebrate chis festivall on the first Sunday October 3rd at 11:30 AM
>n Japan.
v. rh Holy Communion Service.
The Rector will deliver his message from the experiences he
Reviewed by P. N. MASON
n2d in the Holy Land.
“The Japanese cherish their children excessively when they
Evervone'is cordially invited. Choir will sing a joyous anthem.
are young', but when they are adolescent the parents seem to pay
The Rev. Ken Imai hardly any attention to them ...”
“The Japanese people are extremely practical; what is most
*
•mportant to them is practical applicability, not contemplation.”
Japan Society of Canada October Event Is Treat
How often have you heard those views expressed before? If
you
are a foreigner you may well claim them as your own. The
MONTREAL.—The October event of the Japan Society of
Tapanese
have always invited a wealth of generalizations from
Crnada is an outing by bus to Sorel and a luncheon treat at the
Westerners
trying- to get to the bottom of all that inscrutability.
Chez Corona Restaurant of its famous “Giblotte” a typical French
One of the first people from the West to record his observa­
Canadian fish chowder. Telephone your reservations to Mrs. Alice
tions
of Japan and tire Japanese was Pompe van Meerdevoort, a
Bolduc 727-0052.
5
oung
Dutch naval surgeon, who at the age of 28 arrived in Japan
The Society is arranging for classes in: Ikebana. Sumie, Calat
the
request of the Japanese Government to teach Western
lioraphy, Japanese Conversation, English and French Conversation.
For further information write to the society at 4023 Tupper St., medicine. He came to Japan, in 1857 and left in 1862. During these
Montreal 215. or telephone Miss Adele Roy at 729-4327, or 331-0070 five years he founded the country’s first Western medical school on
the island of Deshima in Nagasaki Bay and was its sole facility
(evenings).
New. this year, will be small discussion groups on Japanese member. Deshima had been artificially created in 1635, to contain
and Canadian culture based on books by Reischauer, Maraini, Bene­ the Portuguese, by leveling- a few small hills.
Pompe kept a diary of his stay in Japan from which he later
dict, Elliott etc. —J.S.S.
wrote a book 692 pages long. “Doctor on Desima” is a translation
c f selected material from that original Dutch version in a new
addition to Sophia University’s very fine series Monumenta NipMaple Leaf Cultural Assoc. Wishes B.C. Best
ponica. The two quotations above are from this translation.
TOKYO.—The Canadian province of British Columbia celebrat­
Pompe was clearly a very broad-minded and inquistive person.
es its centenary in 1971, and we would like to take this opportunity Aparat from his specific studies of the problems of illness and
to renew our good wishes of continued prosperity for British Col­
public health, he wrote on a wide range of subjects, including
umbia, our home.
Tapanese history, religions, social institutions, military- matters,
News media have noted the variegated activities which are
being held in Canada to commemorate this joyous event, and there prostitution and education.
As a doctor he was admitted into many Japanese houses when
is celebration planned here in Japan as well.
most
other foreigners were not and was able to get a closer view
It has been decided that the Maple Leaf Cultural Association
will sponsor a program of commemorative events including the than most of Japanese family life. As he himself said: “For the
planting of dogwood trees, tire Provincial Flower of British Col­ physician . . . there comes a time when all pretenses are useless,
umbia, "in the Imperial Gift Park in Hakone in the heart of the when severe illnesses stem the normal course of affairs; then one
Izu-Hakone National Park area.
comes to realize what often could not be guessed at all.”
Place: The plaza of the Imperial Gift Park,
In his visits as an obstetrician he develops a lot of sympathy
Hakone-cho, Kanagawa Prefecture
for the Japanese wife who often had to share her household with
Time and Date: October 21 (Thursday), 1971; 11 a.m.
anything
up to four of her husband’s concubines. He learns that
The association has also obtained permission to hold a Dog­
wood Festival on the Ginza, the best known street in Tokyo, on Japanese children continued breast feeding for at least two years
October 17 (Sunday) during the “Pedestrian’s
Heaven” when and very often for as long as four. Female milk was clearly in
the street is closed to automobile traffic. As a part of this festival, very plentiful supply, because on one occasion when he asked for
we are planning to give information to the Japanese public on
some milk to put in his tea, his deeply apologetic hosts hurried
the Provincial Flower’s origins, episodes related to it, memories
which people have of it, and so forth. We. hope that this festival away to return breathlessly a few minutes later with that real
"ill have the participation of not only Canadians living in Japan milk of human kindness itself.
but also many people from British Columbia. Accordingly, we
His story is full of abundant good humor in what must often
would be most appreciative for any materials which you might be have been very trying circumstances. His experitise as a Western
able to provide to assist our efforts.
medicine man was certainly much in demand, but he would run
into difficulties over importing Western customs. .He tells us, for
Maple Leaf Cultural Association,
16-5, 1-Chome, Wakabayashi-cho, Setagaya-ku, example, how there was much resistance to the beds he brought in
for the hospital. His patients who held deep-seated beliefs in the
Tokyo, Japan. Tel. (03) 421-5538.
efficacy of futons considered beds “an impractical luxury.
He was the only doctor (of Western medicine) for the large
local
population, for increasing numbers of European traders and
TORONTO JAPANESE UNITED CHURCH
ships that often “brought patients who suffered from smallpox,
South of nloor
701 Dovercourt Rd.
typhoid, cholera, leg fractures etc.” However, while he writes at
SUNDAY OCTOBER 3, 1971
length and greal interest on his own practice unfortunately he has
World Wide Communion Sunday — 11:00 A.M.
little to say about Japanese medicine and only briefly mentions
A warm welcome to all.
moxibustion and acupuncture which he calls remarkable.
The man himself comes through as a warm-hearted and
intelligent ambassador of the Netherlands. He devotes considerable
time and energy to relations with the Japanese believing in
TORONTO JAPANESE GOSPEL CHURCH
“firmness and courtesy.” Not many would fault him psychologically
St. John's Presbyterian, Broadview at Simpson Ave.
SERVICES:
on that score.
Sunday: Sunday School and Worship Services 2:00 P.M.
He bewails the fa.ct that toward the end of his stay the in­
Tuesday: Prayer and Study Fellowship 8:00 P.M.
fluence of the Netherlands is declining and its privileged position
Friday: Young Peoples Christian Fellowship 8:00 P.M.
Phone Contact: Mr. S. Yokota 425-6128, Mr. H. Yoshida 461-1686.
with the ear of the shogun being usurped by the perfidious British
and the aggressive Americans. His particular bugbear is Sir R.
Alcock who only mentions his work and other Dutch achievements
in
passing. He ascribes this to jealousy.
TORONTO BUDDHIST CHURCH
His own book was an a.ttempt to right the imbalance and the
SUNDAY OCTOBER 3, 1971
wheel has come full circle now that he has been translated into
10:30 A.M. Religious School
918 Bathurst St.
11:00 £-M- Morning Service ES
English. English, Americans, Dutch and for that matter anyone
2:00 P-M. Japanese Service
interested in the opening of Japan by one of the openers should
Telephone: 534-4302
Monthly Memorial
give Pompe a reading.

DOCTOR ON DESIMA

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Tuesday, September^, 197J

PAGE 8

Japanese Teenagers Are First In Worla1
To Feel President Nixon's Move

Squish! Squish! Welcome
To My Rice Paddy

The New Canadian
S#coxxd class aafl r62ilbe^
number 038S

TOKYO. — Japan’s teenagers 1 announcement it revised the fore­
A member of Ethnic Press Assoaare among the first people in the . cast to “less than 9.7 percent,”
of Ontario,
world to feel the direct impact adding the rate could drop as
my
waist.
I
lurched
forLOW
up
to
of President
Richard’ Nixon’s low as 8 percent if business cou­ By JOHN AND TERUKO
PUBLISHED ON EVERY TUESDW j
In early June, ward. Another fountain soaked
and Friday
|
moves to save the dollar.
ditions didn’t
improve in th e
TOKYO.
my
chest.
I
spat
grit
and
looked
Thousands of jobs they- count­ autumn.
Koichi Sakai, farmer, told us
SUBSCRIPTION
]
ed on getting after graduation
“Personally, I think it’ll be less about preparing paddies and at the world through a brown
next March are vanishing.
$9.00 a Year
i
than 8 percent,” says Eimei Ya­
splotch. .
Japan’s big electrical appliance mashita, director-general of the getting rice started. We returned
$5.00
for
Six
Months
j
Water is a problem for the
makers fear that Mr. Nixon’s 10 foreign trade bureau of Japan’s later to see hoxx- the rice fared
farmers
in a differnt way. At
T. UMEZUKI PuWer I
percent surcharge on foreign im­ ministry of international trade.
and to hear the story’s end.
valley
heads
are
dammed
ponds
ports and the floating of the yen
The grooving rice needs plenti­
From a business viewpoint, the
K. C. TSUMUR4
]
xvill slash their sales in the Unit­
ful
water, three times; during and lakes supplying all the pad­
three
years
that
started
in
Jan
­
English Section Editor
I
ed States. Their plans for future
dies below. Controlling who gets
uary,
1968,
were
the
greatest
in
KEN
MORI
the
transplanting,
xvhen
the
hiring are hurriedly being scal­ Japan’s history. International disJapanese Section Editor
grain carrying stem appears, and how much calls for complicated
ed down.
orders that Japan did nothing to
negotiating in the villages.
BIG REDUCTIONS
bring about gave her an in- when the grain carrying stem is
479 QUEEN ST. WEST |
Every village has stories about
Hitachi Co., one of the biggest credible series of breaks, Her about one-third groxvn.
Toronto 133, Ont.
At times other than those someone who during a drought
electrical
firms,
shocked
the hard-working people and the
EMpire 6-5005
country- recently xvith the an­ shrewd businessmen who govern three, farmers reduce the water snuck out at night to lead a
those
breaks
to
nouncement that it will hire no them exploited
flow, preserving the water for little extra water into his pad­
junior or senior high school grad­ the hilt.:
needed times. Just before harves­ dies. The discovery next morning.
uates in March. Until President
U.S.
TRADE
BOOMING
ting, they cut the flow entirely Angry words. Dykes ripped.
Nixon’s announcement, it had
that accompanied so that the paddy earth becomes

Inflation
After the grain bearing steam
planned to recruit 3,700 teenag­
war
pinched
the
the
Vietnam
'
have
reached half their length,
ers, the same number as this
pocketbooks of American con­ solid enough to walk on.
year.
Female Help Wanted
Try walking in a water soaked requiring thereafter only little
It will be the first year Hita­ sumers, and turned them to Ja­
water, the villagers relax and HOME SEWERS for sewing Horses
chi has failed to hire since World pan’s low-cost products. Japan paddy as I did once near Taka­
Will deliver and pick uo. "Calf 17--'
sold
75,512
passenges
cars
in
the
yama in Gifu-ken. I wanted to prepare for the harvesting.
at 363-4588 (Toronto).
"v
War II.
Sakai told us they watch the
Other companies say there xvill United States in 1967. In 1970 photograph a farmer weeding.
SERGERS single needle. Experienced
be big reductions in hiring plans, she shipped 338,679 autos to the
I had on a pair of below-the- yellow creep two thirds of the on knitwear. Phone 249-84S4 (Torcntcj.
American
market,
a
five-fold
in
­
but so far haven’t given figures.
knee rubber boots. I stepped in. way down the steam and harvest W£ ARE looking for experienced
Among them are Toshiba, which crease.
to sew blouses ci hem
— Communist China’s quarrel My foot went down eight inches them. The farmer cut the rice workers
normally- hires 3,000 teenagers a
deliver and pick up. Call Marv 3;
with
sickles
and
tie
it
in
bundles.
into
the
mud,
to
the
paddy

s
bot(Toronto).
year, and
Mitsubishi Electric, with the Soviet Union caused a
xvhich usuallx- takes on about 2,- break in trade relations between tom. My other foot went; in. They hang the bundles -upside HOUSEKEEPER woman over 30
the two countries. Peking made Camera in hand, one foot eight down on racks for a week.
800.
of age. Live in. 2 children, 3
years old. Child welcome. Cai',
Japan has reveled in one of Japan her leading- foreign trade inches in the mud, the other
After threshing, they dry the 5:30
p.m. 282-3611 (Toronto).
the greatest economic booms in partner, and Japan had a favor­
rice five hours. The rice grains
I
buried
in
mud
as
deeply,
stepable
balance
of
$300
million
in
history for the last three years,
Help Wanted
then separate from the husks.
but. the feeling is widespread dealings last year with Peking. ped forward.
that the golden days are over
Despite curled toes and a hook- Then, they polish the grain, re­ SEWING machine ope:
— From 1967 to 1970, Japan
in factory work. Ap
m
for a while.
more than doubled her sales to ed ankle, the boot stayed behind. moving the bran for next year’s Better Blouse Cp., 460 Richmond St.
The
Government's
economic the European Economic Commun­ Leave it or lurch over sideways. ’ planting.
(Toronto).
planning agency originally- pre­ ity. Exports to the EEC reached
helper. Speak Era
dicted a 10.1 percent economic $2,880 million last year. A small Both arms waving like a naxy | “After all that,” said Sakai, HOUSEKEEPING
fond of children, live in. Own :
i

many
farmers
around
here
go
growth rate for the 1971 Japa­ deficit’in European trade in 1967 recruit trying semaphore signals,
with T.V. Phone 533-7522 (Toron:;
nese fiscal
year,
which ends was turned into a $200 million T regained balance by placing ’ to work in the big sake wine comTANAKA OF TOKYO
.March 31, 1972.
bare toes on a rice stalk’s tip. panies.”
PERSONNEL WANTED: Japanese
favorable balance in 1970.
Two days before Mr. Nixon’s
A graceful pose.
I The villagers themselves are ing cooks, waitresses iu'fi an:
— Closing of the
time, bartenders, cashiers, and
in 1967 created an instant de­
My foot slipped back into the , on to rice economics. When men gerial staff; for 200 seat anther,
mand for giant oil tankers. Ja- tuck-in-the-mud boot. Work the ! do “public works” jobs in their panese Steak House; Bay and
Heart ...
Streets;
opening mid-Novembepan at the time was the only
information and interview call 2
boot
out
That

s
how
it
went
j
villages,
their
wages
are
in
country geared up to meet it.
(.Continued From Page 1)
or 277-0331. (Toronto)__________
bottles of sake.
— The Vietnam war drenched down the row. The farmer and
have to be further improved non-Communist Asia in dollars. his wife, bent over busy* weeding,
“Cutting the weeds on our
For Sale
with use of an automatic time Countries like Thailand, South were amused.
village common, for example, HAKUSAI sale. Daikon too.
533-6196 (Maehara).
pacer to control
systole
and Korea and the Philippines eager­
On the return trip along the pays one big bottle of sake,
ly spent their war earnings on row, I thought to retrace exactly ’ said Sakai.
diastole of the heart.
Prof. Akutsu has been in the Japanese industrial equipment.
my water filled footsteps, reason­ | As we walked, the wind fanned
Peaches, Pears,
Gross
National
Product
shot
U.S. since 195.1 when he joined
up from $150 million in 1967 to ing that xx here a foot xx-ent in and . the green rice. The frogs croaked,
Prunes & Grapes
the Cleveland Clinic from
the just over $200 billion last year. came out, another could slip in । When xve mox-ed, they jumped,
Pick
your oxvn and save money
Medical
Nagoya
Japan became the second largest and out easily. A great gush of Life was a routine tied to the
at
Cherry
Avenue Farms in
been
at
the economy in the non-Communist paddy mud and water fountained [ earth.
School. He
Niagara.
Take
Queen Eliza­
world, after the United States.
Mississippi school since .1959.
beth
Highway
to Vineland.
(Continued from Page 19
War Brides . . .
Exit Victoria Avenue South.
second-generation
Japanese
many husbands’ impatience with a
Watch for signs. Beautiful
their wives’ slow adaptation to man is unusual—an affair maybe,
Buy & Sell — Your Home
farm, adequate parking, clean
but marriage is most unlikey
the American way of life.
washrooms. Open daily.
because of family opposition.”
Through
Most
of
the
Japanese
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Chinese Foods
Most of the .abandoned wives
don’t get divorces unless their
work in restaurants in the city’s
husband initiate the proceedings
Little Tokyo district or other
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Toronto, Ont.
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culture, said Dr. Fred Notehel“They feel comfortable xvorkfer, a historian at UCLA.
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ing in a Japanese
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he
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