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nese Weddings Blend Change And Tradition Suitable For 21st Century
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By SAM JAMESON

pO. __ The time was right—autumn, the peak
|‘wedding season” in Japan. The setting and
Inony. however were out of tune with tradition.
I in the Bukokan (Hall of Martial Arts) oribuilt for judo events in the 1964 Olympics, the
k- featured Mendelssohn’s “Wedding March,”
llelujah Chorus from Handel’s “Messiah” and
pt-tall cake.
redding oath was set to the music of “Home
Home” with special lyics, and Hawaiian leis
^hanged in place of wedding rings.
Kng the ceremony was a popular television

After signing their certificates, the newlyweds were
encouraged to indulge in yet another tradition-defying'
act—a kiss—as 5000 invited guests sang “Happy
Wedding to You” (to the tune of “Happy Birthday
to You”) and'showered the young people with rice.
To the surprise of the wedding organizers, cognizant
of the tradition of avoiding public displays of emotion,
the newlyweds responded. Or, at least most of them.
No one was able to count the embraces as the rice
poured over the 137 couples who had agreed to be
married in a mass ceremony that cost about $75. The
137 were selected from more than 100 couples who
applied to participate in the wedding arranged by
the mass circulation newspaper Yomiuri and 10 com­
mercial firms, who used the occasion to plug their

products.
“It was part of our bridal campaign staged last
April. We’re trying to develop a new form of wedding
suitable for the opening of the 21st century," explained
Mamoru Nakai, deputy director of the newspaper’s
promotion departmentWhether the ceremony was destined to set a trend
remained debatable, but one thing was clear: no cam­
paign was necessary to lure young people to the altar.
An estimated 1,049,000 couples, representing a new
peak of the postwar “baby boom” who have reached
what is called “tekireiki” (the age at which one is
expected to marry), were getting married this year
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By SHIZUYE
TAKASHIMA
$7.95 WITH POSTAGE

SUKIYAKI”
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jokbook SI.65
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An independent Organ for Canadians of Japanese Origin
XV—No. 88

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER. 16, 1971

Toronto, Ont.

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Racial Pride Vs
Racial Obsession

Japanese Doctor Makes New Artificial
Kidney Machine For $14 (5000 Yen)^|
A new type of artificial kidney
TOKYO.
machine which' is claimed to be cheaper and easier
to manipulate than conventional machines now in
use has been developed by Dr. Tadamasa Kon,
instructor at Hokkaido University and head physi­
cian of the artificial kidney center of Iwamizawa
Municipal Hospital here.
Artificial kidney machines are used by patients
suffering from chronic kidney disease to cleanse
their blood through dialysis of accumulating
poisons normally gotten rid of by the kidneys.

Use of such kidney machines in various countries in the world have enabled patients to live
remember a party of graduate students to which I was inlonger and return to active life in society.
at the University of Chicago many years ago. The young
In Japan, some 10,000 persons die annually of
g| had just received’ their degrees and were celebrating. A
kidney disease. But, doctors said that more than
Bblonde girl from Alabama, having just got her M. A. in
70 per cent of them could be saved if artificial
apology, was especially radiant, her graduation being a symkidney machines were used. All of the machines
Eher of her intellectual liberation from the prejudices of the
in use now in Japan are imported products.
Southern town in which she had been brought up.
The cost of using the machine amounts to
git a Negro socialist kept bugging her. “What would they
400,000 yen (about $1200) monthly.
gof you in Alabama if they knew you were at an interracial
Dr. Kon has been continuing
he would jask. “Forget it. Joe,” she would say. “We’re
research on an artificial kidney
ticago.”
machine which can be used by
lowever Joe would persist, “What would your parents say if
patients at home with a subsidy
saw you sitting on a sofa having drinks with a black man.”
of
30 million
:
yen from the
ly the host had to intervene with, “Lay off it, Joe. Can’t you
A bi­ there is a federal charge of in­ Research Development Corp, of
SAN FRANCISCO.
| about anything but race?” But the trouble was that Joe
zarre story about a U.S. Nisei terestate transportation of stolen Japan.
Int­
who has been rotting in a Mexi­ property pending against him in
The doctor succeeded recently
rust as there are Negroes who can’t think about anything but
can prison for nearly four years San Antonio, Tex., and that the in completing a kidney machine
^blackness, there are Jews who can’t think about anything but
and has yet to be sentenced was FBI would like to talk to him. in which cellophane films are
Jewishness. The world is full of people obsessed by their
His friends say he went to
reported by George Draper of
used foi- the dialyzer part of the
■Bhality or race.
Chronicle Mexico six or seven years ago machine, He said the machine
the
San Francisco
Uggl use the term “obsessed” to convey a distinction. It is one
and was engaged, in building
recently.
developed by him is simple to
|NHd to be proud to be Negro or Jewish or whatever. Pride is
condominium
apartments there. use and
Draper said James Kayashima
it did not require a
■Hn on love of fellow-members of one’s group.
Draper' quoted a friend of Ka­ pump to
of Bakersfield is being held on
send the blood to the
I^gput obsession is a different emotion. It is often disguised as charges of attempting to
sell yashima, Victor Jolley, as saying dialyzer.
||||> but’it is actually based on fear and hate. The obsessed Jew stolen securities to a Mexican he had written to President Ni^Bne who fears and hates gentiles. The obsessed black is one who
He believes that the machine
xon and ' other high officials in
bank.
Hf65 whites. The obsessed white, like the Ku Klux. KLansman, does
coukl
be made at a cost of some
Prison his friend’s behalf.
He is in Lecumberri
jSE l°ve his fellow whites nearly as much as he hates blacks.
Kayashima, Jolley said, was in 5000 yen (about $14.)
near Mexico City. Details of his
H There are no problems between Irish Catholics and Irish background and’ the circumstan­ prison for .a full year before he
Hbtestants that cannot be solved with reason and good will. But ces of his arrest at his Mexico even had a preliminary hearing. [apanese Work 10-times
At the time of his arrest in
Ms Catholics obsessed with their hatred of the British and British- City apartment on Dec. 8, 1967,
Longer For 1-lb. Steak
1967, Jolley said Kayashima had
Hemed Irish Protestants obsessed, like Rev. Ian Paisley, with are sketchy, Draper said.
WASHINGTON. — While the
®lr hatred of Catholics have neither reason nor good will. They
However, it is known that $8000 in cash that has since dis­
Canadian
consumer works
27
®1 continue fighting each other until the end of time.
appeared.
minutes
to
purchase
one
pound
Also, Jolley said, the Nisei has
Spegroes had reason to fear and hate whites after' more than
spent
at least $10,000 on Mexican of sirloin steak, consumers must
> ears of slavery, exploitation and second-class citizenship in
attorneys who have “done nothing work 110 minutes in France; 132
US. However, to speak only of recent times, men of law like
minutes in USSR; 118 minutes
g^ignod Marshall and men of religion like Martin Luther King
U.S. embassy
officials
told in Brazil; 269 minutes in Japan;
people fighting for their civil right how to contain their
Draper,
Kayashima and
two and 24 minutes in the U.S. to
arid hatred and how to advance their cause by appeals to the
CHIBA. — Police reported a
other Americans arrested with get the same item.

human reason and human nature.
woman lay beaten to death by an
I No one can say their tactics were fruitless. Enormous strikes ax and her common-law husband him had not wanted the embassy
jpards legal justice, educational equality and the advancement had hanged himself, leaving a to intervene in their case, but Half Of Japan Homes
f economic opportunity were made in the 1950’s and 60’s — at a note: “I can’t stand her flirting Kayashima now wants the em­ Now Have Color TV
bassy to find out why he has not
। e oi advancement without precedent in American history.
any more.”
TOKYO. — Nearly five out of
been tried and sentenced.
The
man
was
88
.and
the
wo
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also in the 60’s there was >a new development. With the
households
Jolley, who believes implicitly every 10 Japanese
U9- '“r|a*lU:s to television, of dramatic “instant leaders” like Sto- man 71, they said.
purchased
a
color
television
set
in Kayashima’s innocence, said
Kj- Carmichael, Rap Brown and Eldridge Cleaver — and above all
downfall

during
the
summer
season
betthe 51-year old Nisei’s
the tragic .assassination of Dr. King — the civil rights climate I0-Million Year Old
came about when he met three ween June and August and one
dramatically. The new militants did not believe in trying Fossil Is Discovered
other Americans in Mexico City. of every two households in Ja­
o control their fear or hatred. Instead they moved from racial pride
NEW DELHI. — A Japanese
Ben Kayashima, a Pomona at- pan now owns a color TV set,
racial obsession -— oerhans because they didn’t have enough pride geological team has found a fos- j tomey, who visited his brother according to the Economic Plan­
0 begin
with.
rp,
j gii of a new species of rhinoceros ; six weeks ago told Draper his ning Agency’s latest consumption
-rd tkf power of law, so .ably demonstrated by Thurgood Marshall, believed to be 10-million years ' brother said he had introduced survey.
Md
?°wer of moral example demonstrated by Dr. King, were । old_
one of the three to officials at
The survey also showed that
iCorn m favor of a belief in “the power that flows vhe ; Found in the Shilvalik range = the Banca National de Mexico.
2.5 out of every 100 households
TnZ1
^Un’
! °f the Himalayas was a complete * This man arranged for the sale ' bought a passenger car during
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Nations between white and black in America are coni- । |ower jaw—different than
any of stolen securities and was ar- the three-month period, thus
-x wyond description. They are a mixture of trust and distrust,} prevjOusly found anywhere
in rested. Mexican police later ar- boosting the diffusion ration to
the world, Indian officials said, rested Kayashima.
28.7 per cent.
By S. I. HAYAKAWA

American Nisei Found Rotting In
Mexican Prison 4-years Without Trial

Jealous 88-yr.-old
Husband Kill Wife
71, For Flirting

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iesday. November 16, 19'71

PAGE 7


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Dates And Doings

Canadian Nisei Vets Leader
Writes To Van. Sun On Book

-’Mamoru Nishi Is Hon. President Of Toronto Bonsai

®
TORONTO. — The Toronto Bonsai Society, at its tenth Annual
‘iGeneral Meeting elected its slate of officer’s for the coming season
The following is a letter sent as God made them, but as war
jflas follows; Honorary President — Mr. Mamoru Nishi, Willowdale, ■ to the editors of the Vancouver’ and
circumstances
changed
wOnt.: President — Mr. Jim Campbell, Rexdale, Ont.; Vice-President Sun in response to the reaction them,” That is the point of view
’I— Myron Meeh, Toronto: Secretary — Mrs. Edith Kenzie, Toronto, ! of the publication of Shizue Ta- also of my book.
The savage treatment of some
ibnt.: Treasurer — Mrs. Margaret Hearn, Toronto, Ont.; Committee- ■ kashima’s book about tire evacua- prisoners of the Japanese does
TA.t-Large — Miss Carolyn Stiff, Leaside, Ont.; Mi-. Buddy Verdi, ■ tion “A Child In Prison”. The not justify the persecution by
froronto. Ont.; Mr. Gordon Scott, Toronto, Ont.
| letter writer is Mr. Llewellyn C. some Canadians of their fellowCanadians of Japanese racial
The Toronto Bonsai Society is a group of 80 enthusiasts who • Fletcher (Capt. retired) former origin, a treatment not meted
Le actively engaged in the growing of Bonsai. The Society meets member of S-20 and the Nisei out to those of enemy German
'"fat the Civic Garden Centre, Edwards Gardens on the second Mon- Veterans Association of Canada. and Italian racial origin, nor the
fanning of racist hatred by some
'4v'av of each month. Everyone interested hi learning the art of Bonsai
B.C. politicians to gain political
hs inv:ted to attend the meetings. Mr. Mamoru Nishi of Willowdale, ’EDITOR, THE SUN
advantage. Lester Pearson, Pierre
Dear Sir:
Elliott Trudeau
are included
^Ont, was a founding member of the Society and continues as its
I
Letters
in
your
October
2
edi
­
among'
Canadian
statesmen
who
President.
A
large
collection
of
the
member

s
Bonsai
(Honorary
tion by Prof. David T. Suzuki, have repudiated such behaviour,
1 a as on di play at the Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre in conjunc- ■ E. Carley, Bill Trump, and J. saying that it was the greatest
'it-’on with the Japanese Garden Club Show on October 30 and 31. Nixon, replying to the letter in stain on Canadian history.
My book will reveal some little
— Toronto Bonsai Society ! your September 21 edition by
i G. E. Fox, and other similar known facts about the valuable
: letters, regarding your publica- contributions made by Japanese’ tion of the series, A CHILD IN Canadian Intelligence work to­
When Buying Oi Selling A Home
PRISON, by Shizuye Takashima, wards the end of World War II,
Call: KEN iaORl
। contain some statements I, also when they were almost smuggled
a veteran, had planned to make. into the army, and after World
However, here are a few extra War II. Major T. P. Horne, our
i considerations from the
view­ commanding officer, was quoted
point of a member of a Canadian by the press as saying, “The best
military unit, of whom a large' advertisement Canada had in the
MEMBER OF TORONTO REAL ESTATE BOARD
1 proportion were Japanese-Cana- Far East was our Japanese-Ca­
, i
14 Perivale Cres.
iPhone: 261-5194
diar.s, engaged in military ope­ nadian soldiers.”
rations in the Far East during
Scarborough
Another little known
tragic
and after World War II.
fact of history is that Canadian
We translated captured Japa­ prejudice is partly
responsible
nese documents, interrogated Ja­ for tens of thousands of Bri­
panese prisoners of war and tish lives in the Burma campaign.
Buy & Sell — Your Home
post-war surrendered personnel, Military Intelligence was lacking.
and collected evidence for War The British sent an S.O.S., at
Through
Crimes trials. Thus I am very first ignored, to the Canadian
Chinese Foods
much aware, not only of what government asking for the help
Mr. Cox and family suffered as of Japanese-Canadians. We could
prisoners of the Japanese, but not send them till too late, beeven worse cases than his. Some (cause they weren’t even allowed
Representing
469 Queen St. W
of the information will be includ­ in the army.
Toronto, Ont.
ed in a book which I am now
Robt Owen
In contrast to this, from 80%
writing.
to
90% of American Army In­
Realtor
My book will not “bring up the telligence in the Far East was do­
tke.Out Service
past” for its own sake, but rather ne by loyal Japanese-Americans.
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to emphasize Professor Suzuki’s Furthermore, the all Japanesestatement, “. . . it is important American 100th Battalion and
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Tel. 387-0444
to know about the past, . . . not the 442nd Combat Team in
to revive past stupidities
and Europe covered themselves with
horrors, but to recognize our own glory more than have any other
a
potential for error and inhumani­ units of the size in all military
ty.” Also it is a dedication to our history. (Read the book or see
comrades killed in battle in the the film, GO FOR BROKE, by
words I read July, 1970, in Ja­ U.S. Senator Inouye, from Ha­
panese and English on the Me­ waii.)
RCA — ZENITH
morial plaque of atom-bombed
Llewellyn C. Fletcher
Hiroshima, “May your
spirits
SALES & SERVICE
(Capt. retired)
rest in peace, because this mis­
Member Royal Canadian
take shall not be repeated.”
1055 MIDLAND AVE. (ORIOLE PLAZA)
Legion, Branch 217, Salmo,
In the book, THREE CAME
B.C. Member S-20 and
SCARBORO
Phone 759-1583
HOME, by Agnes Keith, a pri­
Nisei Veterans Association
soner of the Japanese, she says,
Between Eglinton &. Lawrence Ave. East
of Canada
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Marriages . . .

its
' make a success of their new life miai’ has come back into
—and spending- $2.9 billion in estimated 20,000 couples took
own,” said Mrs. Fusayo Hosono,
i together.
, their vows.
the process.
! Even though most couples director of a marriage counseling
The future of what the Sanwa * For example, five years ago
' nowadays fall in love on theii service known simply as “The
Bank called “the bridal market” many couples heeded the advice
Social Club.”
i of fortune tellers—at least m own. they often insist on having
looked even brighter.
Her service which has accumu­
a middleman. In times past he
By 1975, tlie average couple ' part. That was “hinoe uma,” the was a friend of both families lated 500 files of young people
will spend $4250, compared with year of the horse, and according
who brought the couples together searching for mates, is one of
$2850 at present to stage a wed­ to tradition female children born
and arranged the marriage ce­ an estimated 60 in Tokyo.
ding, hold a reception, go on a in such a year were destined to
Yet it seems clear that for a
remony.
honeymoon and set up a house­ grow into women of fierce tem­
Instead of the traditional mid­ large number of urban young
hold, the bank said in a special peraments. To avoid such a fate,
dleman, couples sometimes hire people “o-miai” itself has changreport. It estimated the “bridal , fortune tellers warned young
professionals, whose fees range i ed.
market” would reach $4.6 billion ! couples to abstain from marriage
For young men today,
the
around $30.
i or childbearing.
in 1975.
overwhelming
priority
in
the
Travel agencies also contribute
The ceremony in the Hall of | In that year, 1966, births de­
wife-to-be
is
beauty,
she
said.
to the changing times by making
Martial Arts, although an oddity clined 312,000 compared with
“Any girl who submits a pretty
arrangements
of honeymoons as
in itself, did serve to underscore (1965 figures. In the next year
photograph
with her application
part of what they call the "wed­
that marriages are not what they ‘ births rose again, even higher
i
to us is assured of getting at
ding package.”
used to be in Japan. Yet at the , than the 1965 level.
least 30 or 40 dates,” she said.
The
Japan
Travel
bureau
offers
same time, the fact that the 137 [ Other ominous years for wedFor young women, the No. 1
couples went off to traditional ’ dings are the year of the tiger a “Hawaiian Wedding Package”
consideration is that a man be
“hiroen” (announcement parties) । (the next one will be in 1974) for $1000. It consists of round
.
tall,
she said.
trip
air
tickets,
a
ceremony
in
afterward"
demonstrated
that ’ and the year of the monkey
“A short man, even if he was
Hawaii, witnesses, a photogra­
change has a way of snuggling (coming again in 19S0).
graduated
from Tokyo Universi­
pher,
an
organist
who
plays
up beside tradition in Japan.
Tigers, everyone knows, run
(“Hawaiian Wedding Song” and ty (the Harvard of Japan), is
Elsewhere, the overwhelming away—and men are warned not
going to have a hard time,” Mrs.
five nights’ lodging.
majority of young- people were to take wives in such years. Si­
Both American and Japanese Hosono said.
getting-married in Shinto rites— milarly, the word for monkey,
airlines
have
been
pushing
Such standards do not hold
a simple 15-minutes ceremony in ’ “saru,” happens to coincide in
, “honeymoon-in-Guam”
package true everywhere, however. A
which the bride and g-room seal pronunciation with another Ja­
!
deals
for
as
little
as
$484
for marriage counseling service at
their vows by taking three sips panese word meaning “to disap­
two
nights.
Tokyo Women’s Univ.—the Vas­
apiece of sake and uttering an pear.”
For
the
truly
economic-mindsar of Japan—listed women’s
oath that combines the ‘til-death“The are no especially good
|
cd
couple,
a
wedding
can
be
ef
­
demands in a future husband* in
do-us-part philosophy of the West years for marriage,” said Fuku­
fected
for
no
cost
at
all
in
Ja
­
this order: education, family
with a Confucian ideal of giving moto, who himself disclaimed any
pan.
Here,
only
the
act
of
regis
­
background, income, age (at least
oneself to the service of the state. belief in superstitions associated
tering
a
marriage
at
the
local
two or three years older than
“Having received the blessing with fortune-telling.
ward
office
constitutes
a
legal
the woman), health
(including
“If the mass mediayvould stop
of (Shinto) god, we pledge hen­
wedding

and
that
costs
nothing.
hereditary
consideration),
and—
ceforth to abide together in har­ propagating the superstitions of
A
ceremony,
regardless
of
at
the
bottom
of
the
list

perso
­
mony and respect, protecting the fortune-telling every time a new
whether
it
be
Christian
or
Shin
­
nality and appearance.
path of husband and wife, plan­ year starts, nobody would think
to.
has
no
legal
standing
and
all
ning a household of peace and anything about it,” he said.
In spite of Japan’s growing af­ marriages must be registered at
the prosperity of our descendants,
the local ward office.
together sharing- in pain and fluence. the “tekireiki” or mar­
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It is virtually the same cere­
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“For a while, ‘love marriage’
lyweds’ parents, who often were found in a survey that the age
757-5184
bound in wedlock by the orders at which the greatest number gained popularity but now ‘oof their parents, were married of men plan to marry this year
was 27. For women, it was 23.
before World War II.
The center also discovered that
“This is a ceremony which oc­
curs only once in a lifetime and 76 per cent of this year’s grooms
that sort of thing' doesn’t easily were still obeying* the custom of
lend itself to innovation,”
re­ “yuinokin”—a dowry in reverse
marked Shotaro Fukumoto, ma­ j in which the groom pays a connager of a wedding hall called sideration to the parents of his \
Sanpuku Kalkan (Hall of Three : bride-to-be to formalize the en- j
Fortunes).
; gagement. The median amount j
Nor have young couples dis­ ; paid was $300, the center found. ’
pensed with the
tradition of
On the other hand, the center I
getting married in the spring* or : reported a virtual disintegration
fall.
of the. pre-war concept that a
“Entire weeks go by in the ‘ wife s place is in the home. Of
summertime when we have no this year s brides 64 per cent are
weddings at all.” Fukumoto said. planning to work after marriage, i
Similarly, few couples gamble
Fukumoto
complained
that ?
with fortune by marrying* on such । young couples refuse to break
days as “butsumetsu” (disinteg­ j away from the stiff pattern of ;
ration of the Buddha)
even ! the "hiroen” (announcement cere- ■
though wedding* halls offer 20 \ inony) centered on
formalized
to 80 per cent discount on those speeches by the “nakodo” (mid- i
days.
dleman) and business associates !
Young people are also as punc­ ot the groom. The speeches usualtilious us their parents were in ly sound like recommendations
selecting fortune-based days for for a job lor tr.e groom and i
their nuptials. On Oct. .10,
a beseech guests to think well of
“taian” (great peace day), an him and help the newlyweds '

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played on each other over the centuries, of cultural interpenetration,
raid ultimately of mutual dependency. Like a long-married out
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without each other.
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and welded them into an ideology. To hear some of -hem tcdk -W
the problems o America, if not of the world, are due to mMci
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