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Nisei Writer Remembers His Father In fl Portrait Of A Typical Issei
others. Toramatsu and Shigematsu, prefererd to stay in Japan.
For as far as I can remember,
Yoshimatsu worked hard, like an
Issei is supposed to. He put-in
12-13 hours a day, half a day on
Sundays. Like nearly 20 years as
a merchant in Old Nihonmachi.
Returning from Mindoka after
the Great War, at 65 years, he
worked another 17 years. Final­
ly, on a technicality they stopped
seems the Union has
him
rules against 82-year-olds work­
ing while youngsters are waiting

By JOE

__ My father was

is one, for having
He qualifies
country in 1907.
cine 1°
Fo- having come on a boat. His
"kori” bamboo
belongings in a
For having
Nisei his start in life.
Hi? name was Yoshimatsu, a
from the Meiji era (1868bid his coming alone was
;ied by the presence earlier
older brothers, Takematsu and
Hidematsu in Seattle.
Two

for iobs. He retired with a cute sleep and eat a lot. Naps were
$26 a month pension.
‘ an any time-he at-down
He was a healthy man. Never And he found time for garden­
the
hospitalized, until his death bed. . ing, fixing things around
house,
running
errands,
etc.
And
day of work as
of course, there was television,
a merchant, in camp, or a
janitor after the war.
Hi but the English from the tube
came too fast for him and he uwealth was his health.
sually dozed off in short time.
A simple man. A quiet man.
Retirement meant a trip to
many
A man with not
too
needs. He appeared satisfied Japan, after 46 years, But he had
with a simple life. An uncomli- become a stranger in Japan,
Relatives were few and what
cated man.
came, was familiar had changed. And
And when retirement
involuntarily, he had time .to he had changed.

After four years of soft living,
a so often happen to retired
1: sei, he was dead at S6.
Writers will not dig-up the
early Issei doings, such as their
use of guns and knives,
the
killings. Their gambling, bootleg­
ging, smuggling, even prostitu­
tion — yes, in Seattle. Some got
rich from such activities.
But not Yoshimatsu. He was
like
too honest, law-abiding
most Issei. Poor, but honorable.
Don’t bring shame to the Japa-

(Cont. on Page 8)

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“SUKIYAKI”
Practical Japanese
Cookbook $1.65
WITH POSTAGE

The Ueto Canadian

"A CHILD IN PRISON
CAMP’*
By SHIZUYE
TAKASHIMA
$7.95 WITH POSTAGE

An Independent Organ for Canadians of Japanese Origin
Toronto, Ont.

TUESDAY, JUNE 27, 1972

No. 50
Vol.
XXXVI
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Issei Gillnetter Presumed
Drowned In Nass River
VANCOUVER. — A two day
search by fishing craft and a fe­
deral transport department heli­
copter was called off recently
after failing to locate Vancou­
ver Issei fisherman Kiyoshi Ya­
da. missing and presumed drow­
ned after apparently falling over­
board from his 34-foot gillnetter
Ocean Breeze 2 off . Portland

Nisei MD To Take
Over Etobicoke
Hospital Position
OAKVILLE, Ont. — Dr. John
Yoshioka, chief of the OakvilleTrafalgar Memorial Hospital, is
leaving to head the department
of anaesthesia at the Etobicoke
General Hospital.

At a reception held in his ho­
nor at the Oakville Club, Dr.
loshioka was presented with a
set of four framed prints of
Oakville historical sites.
Dr. Yoshioka has been pract­
icing in Oakville since 1958, and
has been chief of the hospital's
anaesthesia department
since

Point near the mouth of the Nass
iRiver May 29.
RCMP at Prince Rupert said
the 60-year old fisherman is be­
lieved to have fallen while trying
to clear his net of logs and other
floating lumber debris.
The unmanned gillnet boat was
found close to shore on the mor­
ning of May 29 with several logs
entangled in the two-thirds of the
net which was out.

A number of other fishing
craft were in the area at the ti­
me. One of them reported that
smoke was seen briefly emitting
from Yada’s boat earlier that
morning but it cleared rapidly
and no immediate concern was
felt.
A check shortly afterward, ho­
wever, revealed that Y ada was
missing. It is assumed that a
combination of circumstances,
including the fouled net and per­
haps some engine trouble as well,
led up to his death.

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J.C. Judo Champ Will Go To Court
To Get To Munich Olympic Games

se the man he beat in the Canadian championships
at Halifax — Bill McGregor, also of 1 oronto.
"It was a very strange selection and when they
were made May 20, no reasons were given why
Goki was left off the team and why McGregor was
on it,” commented Barnett.
Tt is our opinion that because of Uemura’s ability, their selection wasn’t a proper one”.
Uemura has defeated McGregor twice recently.
First on March 11 during the Ontario judo chainpionships at Hamilton and on May 20 during the
Canadian finals at Halifax.
It was also pointed out that
McGregor had lost five times in
various tournaments during the
past 15 months.
"Uemura wrote a couple of
The baby’s mother, Diane Oi­
letters to various people, inclu­
kawa, took 14-month-old Patrick
ding the selection committee, but
to the Hospital for Sick Children
he didn’t get any reply,” explai­
Nov. 23 with a fractured skull
and five broken ribs. The infant ned Barnett.
“I belive he has a legal right. I
died Nov. 29.
don’t think that the selection
Gwozdowski testified he had
committee should p:ck
anyone
struck the baby twice in a La­
except for his competence in the
ppin Ave. apartment Nov. 13. The
sport.”
baby was teething and cranky,
Barnett explained that he had
Miss Oikiwa said.
also written letters to the Cana­
dian Olympic Association and to
the Canadian Kodokan Black Belt

By Kaye Corbett
TORONTO. — Goki Uemura, the Canadian light­
weight judo champion from Toronto, plans to take
his case to court unless he’s given a place on the
Canadian Olympic team, competing in Munich,
West Germany this August.
The 28-year-old Uemura and his lawyer, Syd
Barnett of Toronto, made this quite clear recen­
tly, claiming the national selection committee for
the Canadian Kodokan Black Belt Association, the
sport’s governing body, bypassed Uemura and cho-

Common-law Husband Of Sansei Girl

Gets Life For Murder Of Infant Boy
The commonTORONTO.
law husband of a Toronto San­
sei girl was sentenced to life im­
prisonment recently for murdeiing his baby son.
Mr. Justice Edson Haines sen­
tenced 19-year old Richard Wal­
ter Gwozdowski after a jury de­
liberated more than 12 hours and
found him guilty of non-capital
murder.

Free Terrorist or Chance Trouble

(Cont. on Page 8)
ZURICH. — Swissair,
the । Okamoto has detailed a num­
Swiss airline, has been warned ber of targets for future attacks,
that one of its planes will be hi­ a Japanese embassy spokesman
pre- !
1968. Mrs. Yoshioka was
jacked and destroyed unless the reported.
The attacks, which might taseated with an orchid corsage.
Israelis release the Japanese te­
soon, may involve New
rrorist who survived the massac­ ke place
York or Europe. The report on
HONOLULU.— One of the 14 re at the Tel Aviv airport, the
Okamoto said he admitted he had
Sofu
VANCOUVER, B.C. — A Ja­
candidates in the 1972 Cherry airline said recently.
received training somewhere in
panese
Canadian workman was
Blossom queen contest was found
A spokesmen for the airline Lebanon and that another JapaSculpture
recently refused to give any more infor­
dead at her home
nese who had received training killed and several others recei­
minor injuries recently
strangled with a nylon stocking mation, but a spokesman for the had flown back home to attack ved
Planetarium
when
steel
and timbers collapsed
Israeli Transport Ministry in Je­ several persons in Japan, inclu­
lying nearby.
at a 240-suite apartment building
TORONTO.
Astronomers
Edean Yamashita, 17, was the rusalem said the Ministry had ding the Israeli ambasador.
under construction in Burnaby.
and weather experts might have victim, according to police, of a been told the hijacking wouid^ be
a little trouble indentifying the "boy friend-girl friend argu­ done by members of the West
Police said Augustine Ishida of
huge wood, aluminium and bron­
German
Baader-Meinhof
gang
of
Burnaby
was working below the
ment” as Earl K. Yamasaki, 19,
main floor
checking concrete
ze sculpture that stands in front was sharged with the death. A anarchists.
01 the McLaughlin Planetarium first-degree murder indictment
forms when the floor caved in,
"We are on the alert, as al­
a cloud formation.
killing them. Eleven other men
ways, and not too worried,” said
was being sought.
were pouring concrete from aa spokesman for Swissair. One
But that’s what it is.
Police said the couple apparen­
SAPPORO. — A 36-year man bove. The 11 working above rode
of its planes was blown up in
_ The g f00j. g incH creation by tly had an argument sometime
the air in 1970 by a bomb put who refused to work finally the debris or leaped to safety.
^med Japanese sculptor Sofu after the young woman gradu­
aboard by Arab terrorists, and starved to death, police repor­
Teshigahara is his personal ex­ ated from Kaimuki High School
ted. They found his body and a velopers of the site, said the pro­
47 persons were killed.
pression of a "Happy Cloud.”
earlier in the week.
Police sources in Tel Aviv re­ diary saying: “I have no money ject had been checked on recen­
the sculpture, unveiled reworking, tly by officials of Central Mort­
The death was the ninth mur­ ported today that interrogation, and no intention of
cent’v 5 the gift of Toronto der since April 4 in the islands,
of the Japanese terrorist, Kozo .Electricity and* water have sto- gage and Housing Corp., the
bu:
the
previous
eight
believed
to
be
u^anian and art connoisseur
Okamoto, had been completed pped and I have not eaten for Burnaby engineering department
and a structural engineer.
«itr Carsen through
the all connected with the under­ and he soon would be put on trial, the past three days.
^ario Heritage Foundation.
world.

Sansei Queen
Hopeful Slain
At Her Home

Vancouver J.C.
Workman Killed
In Collapse

Teshigahara
As Tor.
Gift

Work? Bah!
Rather Die!
And He Does

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An Introduction To A
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Ahouch place is reserved, come early and take your table on Man> oshu, translation and commentary by Kenneth Yasuda. Char­
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Among the most revered literary works of Japan, a nation of
pay regular car-admission at the Gate. Bring your entire
poets,
is the ‘Alanyoshu”, an anthology of poetry compiled during
thmily and friends and guests for a day of fun.
In case of rain, or the day is uncertain, LISTEN to C. J. A. D. the Nara Period (710-i84). The anthology was completed about AD
(SOO). RADIO STATION Saturday Alorning between 8:00 to S:30 159, though improvements were added later, and includes poems
written in the preceding 100 years.
am. In case of postponement, it will be on the next day, July 9th,
Of the 450 poets represented. 70 are women. Contributions co­
and the outodoor service at 11:30 a.m.
me from all classes: there are poems by beggars, workmen, soldiers,
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courtesans, courtiers empiesses and emperors.
About 4,500 poems are included, one in a six line form known
Mrs. Ikegami Is President Of Mont. Ikenobo
as bussoseki, 62 known as sedoka, 265 epics known as choka, and
MONTREAL. — Montreal Ikenobo Ikebana Society hosted Prof.
4,000 tanka. Though the other poetic forms have declined in favor,
Masavuki Nagura from Kyoto and Miss Teruko Kashima, manatanka, maintains its popularity today. A form of 31 syllables, arran­
o-eress of San Francisco North American Ikenobo Ikebana Head­ ged in lines of 5-7-5-7-7, tanka is still the prescribed form for poems
quarters, at the Japanese Community Center on May 15th and 16th submitted in the annual Imperial Poetry Contest.
for Ikebana demonstration and workshop. Talented artist, Prof. NaThe title of the 20 volume work, Manyoshy, literally means "co­
srura demonstrated and displayed many beatiful Ikebana for us. llection of ten thousand leaves,’' and implies that the anthology is to
We take this opportunity to thank all who made this a very success­ be passed on to countless generations. This prediction has been rea­
ful event. Also, especially to the dance gToup, we are greatly inde­ lized.
bted to your kindness and help received at our fund-raising dance
On New Year’s Day in modern Japan, people play a traditional
held on the 13th of'May.
game called “Poems of 100 Poets,'” (Hyaku-nin Isshu). Players gat­
For the coming year we have a new slate of officers: President her around 100 cards placed on the floor, each card bearing a single
— Mrs. Mitsuko Ikegami, Vice-ppresident — Mrs. Toki Ishihara, tanka from the Manyoshu, and each tanka by a different author.
Exec. Secretary — Mrs. Miori Mayeda, Advisor — Mrs. Fusa Koya­ From a duplicate set in hand, one begins to read one of the poems.
ma. Secretary — Mrs. Honami Zanger, Treasurer — Airs. Harumi The players vic to be first in indentifying the poem by picking the
Yamamoto, Assistant Treasurer — Airs. Ruth Horibe, Committee card bearing it.
Members — Airs. Yaeko Kido, Airs. Masako Suga, Airs. Annie Shi­
When the Alanyoshu was compiled, Japan had only recently
nohara.
achieved literacy, and it had done so at the expense of its own langu­
Mont. Bull.
age; the literate wrote in Chinese. Some must have looked back
nostalgically to the braver, purer time when native thought had
been uncorrupted by foreign cultural transfusions.
The poems of the Alanyoshu were composed in the native Ja­
Toronto
panese language. To record the sounds of the Japanese language,
TORONTO. — On July 2nd, 1972 at Stanley Park in Erin, Onta- the compilers ascribed phonetic values to certain Chinese characters,
rio the Japanese Canadian Citizens Association will be holding its which ordinarily represented meanings rather than sounds. In this
22nd Annual Picnic. This is the largest single social function of way they recorded the poems in a script known as Manyogana.
the Japanese community in Canada. In this day and age when we
Among the most venerated of the poets in the Alanyoshu is
are so busy with our daily lives the Picnic serves as a social get- Hitomaro, surnamed Kakinomoto because he is said to have been
together for many who normally have not met each other within the discovered, as a child, at the foot of a persimmon tree. Sixty-one
year. In the early 50’s the Picnic was the place to see friends that tanka and 16 choka in the Alanyoshu were composed by him; others,
we had not seen since before the ‘war days’. Today many people co­ though of doubtful authorship, are also attributed to him.
me from other provinces to see their friends here in Ontario.
The translator-of the present, volume introduces the reader to
For the Issei, the Picnic serves a multi-purpose of seeing the the Alanyoshu through an eight page preface, in which he supplies
Nisei's successful in the work world and their grown-up Sansei information such as the Alanyoshu probably having drawn join
grandchildren graduating from High Schools and colleges. It is not earlier collections such as the Kokashu (Collection of Ancient l’oonly an outing for them, but a reflection of seeing their hopes and ems). now lost, ‘The subject mater is • . • varied, though with a few
dreams come true, as they reminisce of the past with their* friends. recurring themes. . . love in all its aspects, from the most spiritual
So keep the date open for the 22nd Annual J.C.C.A. Picnic at to the frankly sensual; the sorrows of parting and separation; fealty
Stanley Park in Erin, Ontario.
to one’s sovereign or lord; longings for home and loved ones; and,
— JCCA
always, the beauties of nature.”
At the end of the book is an index of first lines, and an index
of authors and other items. The main part of the book is devoted to
100 poems he has selected, some poets being represented by more
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