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A Portrait Of Hanna-Barbera’s Creative Director, Iwao Takamoto
Rafu Shimpo

possible.
'and animation head with Para­ director of Hanna-Barbera Pro­ Butch Cassidy, Quick Draw McA graduate of Jefferson High, mount Studios, Toyo Miyatake, ductions and the artist behind Graw, Speed Buggy and Addams
An intrepid young man, still
in his teens and youthful enough two years earlier than those dean of west coast photogra- the design of the pen-and-ink Family.
Takamura, characters appearing in most of
He shared director’s credit on
to be more bold than sensible, with whom he had started school, ! phers, and Kango
the
16-year
old
found
time
at
artist
par
excellence,
among
the
more
than
GO
cartoons
the recently
released musical
trod the streets of Los Angeles
Manzanar. besides indulging in others.
produced
by
th
:
s
company,
which
and animated version of Elwyn ■
in the spring of 1945 while the
athletics, working
at
making
Instilled
with
the
ambition
of
is
the
world

s
largest
producer
-Brooks
White’s
“Charlotte’s
war in the Pacific still raged.
camouflage nets
and
helping becoming an artist and undaunt­ of animated TV programming. Web,” which Hanna-Barbera co­
This lad with a desire to try with the educational system in ed by any obstacles he might
Takamoto has had a hand in produced with Saggitarius Pro­
his hand in the field of art the camp, to receive a full do- encounter, he searched for work
almost all of the well-known ductions.
hastened out of the Manzanar sage of art.
in the art field and
received Hanna-Barbera animated
tele­
When he was asked about the
Relocation Center as soon as the
He was in the best of com- employment at the Walt Disney vision programs, such as the
challenge presented by “Char­
ban against Japanese Americans * pany.
Studios as an apprentice anima­ Flintstones, Jetsons, Yogi Bear,
lotte’s Web” a children’s classic
from living on the west coast
There was Ed Imazu, director tor.
Josie and the Pussy Cats, Scoowas lifted and lodging was made with MGM, Al Nozaki, director
He is Iwao Takamoto, creative by-Doo, Inch High, Private Eye,
(Coni, on P. 2)
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An Independent Organ for Canadians of Japanese Origin
Vol. XXXVIII 6

FRIDAY, JANUARY 25, 1974

Toronto,Ont.

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What Has Happened
To Jim Yoshida?

World-Wide Use
Of “Jap” Noted
In Book Indexes

By Bill Hosokawa
HONOLULU. — Some months ago I helped Jim Yoshida,
now a Honolulu home builder and real estate developer, write
the story of his experiences. It was published by William Morrow
& Co. under the title, “The Two Worlds of Jim Yoshida*.” I hope
you will not consider it self-serving if I told you some of the
things that have happened as a result of rthat book. But first, a
little has to be said about his story.

Yoshida was a Seattle high school football star when he and
his mother and sisters took father’s ashes to Japan in the spring
of 1941. Stranded by the impending war, he was unable to return
to the U.S. to accept a college athletic scholarship. Yoshida was
drafted into the Japanese Army and forced to serve in China. His
inability to read and write Japanese led to brutal beatings by his
non-coms. Back in Japan after the war, he was told he had lost his
citizenship and could not return to the United States. When the
Korean war broke out Yoshida talked his way into going to the
front with an American outfit as an unpaid volunteer. Eventually
his citizenship was restored in a landmark federal court case and
Yoshida settled in Honolulu.
The book has had notable success in Hawaii, thanks in no
small part to a warm introduction written by Senator Dan Inouye.
Among others, the Japanese Women’s Society is now selling the
book to raise funds for one of its charitable projects.

In the years covered by Yoshida’s story he encountered

a

DAYTON, Ohio. —.Uprooting
the use of “Jap” in abbreviat­
ing the names
of Japanese
jornals will take time. Dr. James
T. Taguchi, past Dayton JACL
president and chiefof medical
services at the Veterans Admini­
stration Center here, was in­
formed recently.
Dr. Taguchi had protested the
continued use of the offensive
abbreviation to the editors of
Index Medicus, published by the
National Library of Medicine of
NIH Bethesda, Md.

“Morning” Theme Of 1974
Japan Imperial Poetry Party
TOKYO.
The
annual the public for reading at
the
Imperial Poetry Party (Utakai party.
The 31-syllable poems of the
Hajime no Gi) was held at the
10
winners were selected from
Imperial Palace recently in the
among some 30,000 entries, in­
presence of the Emperor and
cluding many from abroad.
Empress.
The winners
included Mrs.
The traditional function also Shizue Iwatsuki, 77, a resident
was attended by the Crown of Oregon.
Prince,
the
Crown
Princess
The theme
of this
year’s
Prince and Princess Mikasa,
poetry party was “Asa.” (MorEducation Minister leisuke Oku­ ning).
no and about 90 other guests,
The 10 winning poems were
including 10 persons
whose
poems were selected from among read first and followed by those
of the reciter and members of
the Imperial Family.

The poems of Their Majesties
dealt
with the-morning scene as
It’s high time
we
cease
observed from the
Imperial
immediately utilizing ‘Jap’ as in
Villa
in
Suzaki,
Shizuoka Pre‘Jap
Internal
Medicine, Jap
fecture.
Heart Journal or Jap Circulation
Meanwhile,
the
Imperial
Journal’,” Dr. Taguchi declared,
Household
Agency
announced
and suggested the acceptable
TOKYO.
Two Japanese recently that the theme for next
“Jpn” be substituted.
scientists say they have discover­ year’s poetry patty will
be
“The Japanese in Japan do ed a process to produce hydro- “Matsuri” (Festival).
not recognize this, thus do not ; gen, the dream fuel of the future,
Kyodo translations of the
protest,’ Taguchi continued. He by harnessing sunlight and using
poems
composed by the Emperor
recalled the reference made water as raw material.
and other members of the Im­
during the Watergate episode
In utilizing hydrogen as a perial Family on the 1974 theme
when
lawyer Wilson called
Senator Inouye a “Jap” to re- fuel, the gas is first liquified of “Morning” which were recited
emphasize the historical signi- by subjecting it to high pressure1 at the party.
and low temperature. It burns
ficance of the term
in
history.
when ignited to produce water The Emperor:
by
combining with
oxygen
Beyond the lulls
Dr.
Clifford
Bachrach,
contained
in
the
air.
It
is
there
­
Is faintly seen
chief of the bibliographic serv­
fore non-polluting as a fuel.
The island of Toshima
ices division with the National

Hydrogen By

Using Sunlight

And Water

number of people, then lost all track of them. Thanks to the book,
several have popped up to re-enter Yoshida’s life. There were his
boyhood friends, of course, now scattered to many parts of the
country. He had a letter from Corporal Victor Castro, who witness­
ed Yoshida’s signed statement that he was volunteering for U.S.
military service. Castro, now retired from the Army, is living in
the -San Francisco Bay region. Yoshida also heard from Sergeant
John F. West and Sergeant Joe Metzger, with whom he shared
a Jeep in Korea. West is running a resort in the pzarks, Metzger
is a merchant patrolman in Tacoma, Wash. And from New Zealand,
In the waveless, windless
Library
of
Medicine,
said
Yoshida heard from Harry Bleasdale, the officei* in the British
sea1 of morning
national standard authorities are
Commonwealth Forces who gave him his first postwar job.
receptive to the idea of chang­
The Empress:
Yoshida wants very much to locate two others, Kenneth J. ing the abbreviation “but the
The light of dawn shines
Peterson, the commander of the military police company
who task of obtaining international
On a crimson bank of clouds
may
be
time­
agreed to take him to Korea, and Kunizo Iwata, the Japanese concurrence
And morning breaks suddenly
4:.officer who befriended him in Shanghai during the last days of consuming”.
Over the land of Izu
World War II, Yoshida fears Peterson was killed in Korea.
Indexing services in the relat­
As pleasurable as it was to hear from old frends, Yoshida told ed fields of physics, engineering,
TOKYO. — Year-end bonuses The Crown Prince:
etc.,
the
Biological
Abstracts
| received in 1973 by employees of
me his biggest thrill was being recognized by Gen. Frederick C.
The sky was beginning to
and
Chemical
Abstracts,
would major
Japanese
Weyand, commander in chief, U.S. Army Pacific, in an address
companies
whiten
to the Nisei Veterans Reunion in Honolulu last July 1. Yoshida need to be changed, Dr. Bach- averaged 279,569 yen (about
On the first day of the year
$1000) per person, up 42.4. per
had written of his service in the Japanese Army: “My war was rach pointed out.
As I proceeded along the
a special kind of war... because I was on the wrong side in a war
wooden walkway
sustained effort to win cent from a year earlier, the
IDOIT AilHlSuy &8iu.
between the land of my birth and loyalty, and the land of my other editors and index
Leading to the shrine
comancestry. And because my heart was American and my face was pilers should be considered. “I
The ministry surveyed about
Japanese, because my uniform was Japanese and my dreams see no means of substantially 280 companies in 23 industries. The Crown Princess:
American, I went through a personal hell whose fires could be reducing the use of the offensive
Methinks a peaceful morn
Labor
union
extinguished only by a special kind of atonement.”
representing
greeted
abbreviation in journal citations
workers
employed
in the 23 in­
The goddess transferred
General Weyand quoted this passage in his speech and remark- by any unilateral action on our dustries, had initially asked for
To the new (Ise) shrine
part” Dr. Bachrach concluded.
bonuses averaging 321,799 yen,
Through the’ serene darkness
Cont. on P. 2
(Cont. on P. 2)
they added.
of yesternight

Jpn. Co. Workers

Year-end Bonuses

Are Sky High

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Yosihida. . .

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(Cent, from Page One)

N E W

CAN A D I A M

Iwao. J - -

(Cont. from Page One)

Friday, January 25, 1974

The New Canadian

ed: “At least part of that atonement was made when Jim Yoshida
worked his way into one of the first U.S. combat units to- enter
the Korean war from Japan in 1950. He fought without pay or
official status until his distinguished service earned him the
recognition that he sought — simply that he was an American
who loved his countjyfand1 was willing to die for it. Jim Yoshida’s
anguish and his jeactiqn? to it was in its way a reflection of the
dedicated loyalty, to America which has become commonplace
among the/Nisei, families throuhout America.”

which was first printed in Donald Duck and on such fea­
A member of Ethnic Press
Harpers in 1952, Takamoto re­ tures as “Song of the South.”
Association of Ontario
plied, “We wanted to interpret
Second Class mall
After three years he was as­
No. D-0366
the characters and the scene just signed to work on “Cinderella”
as E.B. White meant them to which was the first movie on
T. UMEZUKI Publisher
be with his full implications. We which he worked as an animator.
English Section Editor
did not want to adapt as we
K. C. TSUMURA
Soon, Iwao was promoted to
Japanese Section Editor
could have from our knowledge
designer in the cartoon design
KEN MORI
of animated features.
department
of
Disney
Studios.
PUBLISHED ON EVERT TUESDAY
Later in his speech, ^describing Yoshida’s reaction to seeing
“We were also pressed, for
Takamoto
delighted
in
his
new
AND FRIDAY
the American fl^g, General Weyand said:
time. Our schedule was cut to
task.
He
discovered
creative
half.”
479 QUEEN ST. WEST
“That was the emotipnaj response of a Japanese American
If
any director was to correct­ satisfaction in supervising the
Toronto, Ont. M5V-2A9
who had seen hipth sides. And it was the essence of the patriotism
design of new cartoon charac­
ly
interpret
the
writings
of
of the Japanese'" American servicemen who fought for their country
366-5005
ters.
self-styled
philosopher
E.
B.
and whom we honor in these ceremonies. It is a lesson in patrio­
After 12 years with Disney,
tism which generals and civilians of other ethnic origins should White, who received the Gold Takamoto felt he wanted to ex­
Medal Award of the United
learn well.”
Editors’ Club and the Gold Med­ pand his creative talents. This
Incidentally, Yoshida was in Seattle recently to be introduced
al of the Institute of Arts and opportunity came with the de­
into his high school’s alumni Hall of Fame.
of
Hanna-Barbera
Letters, in its true significance, velopment
Help Wanted
into
a
major
Hollywood
studio
Iwao was the man.
This was the key to Iwao’s and its need for a top creative EXPERIENCED sergers and sin­
(Cont. from Page One)
Epithet ...
gle needle operators. Preferably
success—his diligent application director.
national
Standards
Organization.
The National Library of Medi­
This affable, competent and on knit goods. Apply, Holiday
to details and his preserving re­
Knitwear, 93 Spadina
Avenue,
cine has been conforming to These standards have been fully
gard for the author or other deft artist and creator of de­
standards established by the accepted by the national stand­
signs and characters qualified Toronto (4th floor).
person

s
intent
plus
his
tremen
­
American National
Standards ards organization in Japan, it
dous grasp of art design and for the position. His art knowl­ OSCAR
Ski and Sport Shop
Institute (of - 1430 Broadway, was noted.
edge
and
experience,
his
talent
­
requires person to train as ski
The American Medical Assn., technique.
New York City) and the Intered
dexterity,
all
assisted
in
the
technician,
racket springer, and
The son of Chitoshi and Aki­
of Chicago, advised Dr. Taguchi
the matter would be brought to no Takamoto from Hatsukaichi, development of Hanna-Barbera tackler repairer. Phone 532-42a major source of television 67 (Toronto).
Paul K. Asada, D.C., N.D. the attention of the National a fishing seaport near Hiroshi­ into
Library of Medicine when its ma, Iwao recalled his first in­ programming.
“Doctor of Chiropractic”
Apartment For Rent
Every television program and
board of regents convenes next. terest in art developed as a
728A St. Clair Ave. West
Susan Crawford, director of the child when he became fascinated movie project in production at ONE bedroom basement apart­
(kz block West of Christie)
AMA archives, is a member of with characters appearing in Hanna-Barbera first starts with ment, unfurnished. Keele & EgTORONTO
the board of regents.
Japanese books.
Takamoto’s initial design con­ linton. Phone 651-9026 (Toron­
651-8060
Res. 621-1989
to).
Takamoto’s parents reside in cepts. He supervises and ap­
the Crenshaw area of Los An­ proves the work of other graphic
geles. His father had been
a designers at work in the studio
Auto-Fire-Life
produce
buyer
for
Roberts which employs more than 600
AU Forms Of
Market before evacuation.
artists and technicians.
2239 Bloor St. West
INSURANCE
During his early school years,
This master of design, who
(At Runnymede) Toronto
Consult
Iwao was involved in designing put the finishing touches to his
Phone 766-4292
posters and other’ display art­ artistic ingenuity with studies
work for plays and sports events. at the University of California.
OPERATED BY
SKIS
At the Walt Disney Studios, Immaculate Heart College and •
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Home 759-8317
his career began with an assign­ the Los Angeles Art Center,
1201 Bloor Street West
ment in the shorts department. lives in Tarzana with his wife
Here, he worked on such popular Barbara and their young son
532-4267
cartoons as Mickey Mouse and and daughter.

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ALL-WAY ROOFING LIMITED.

Personal Notes

Dates And Doings

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“COVERING ONTARIO

Births
DOWNSVIEW, Ont. — Mr. &
Mrs. Hiroki Nakaza are happy
to announce the birth of a son
“Lloyd Naoki” on Jan. 1st, 10.05 A.M. at St. Michael’s Hospitai. Baby weighed 7 lbs. 1 oz.

BRADFORD, Ont. Mr.
and
Mrs. Yoshihei Yoshimura cele­
brated their g’olden anniversary
on Jan. 12, 1974 at their home
here with son and daughter and
more than, seventy people were
invited.
Congratulatory
notes
send from Premier Davis, and
governor General.
Mr. & Mrs. Yoshimura have
operated a successful
vegeta­
ble and fruit market in the city,
for many years. Both are from
Kumamoto-Ken, Japan.

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We wish to express
our
Heartfelt appreciation to our
relatives and friends for their
many acts of kindness,, mess­
ages of sympathy and beau­
tiful floral tributes during our recent loss of Dear father
^ Grandfather, Buyemon Araki.
Takeru & Aiko Araki
Takeshi & Tomoye Takehara
(Japan).
Ronald Araki
Karen Araki
llac & Mary Kawamoto

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April 5 to May 1

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n
TORONTO.
Sang'ha-Dana Dance Group are sponsoring a
Pre-Valentine Dance on Saturday, February 2 at 8:00 p.m. at the
Toronto Buddhist Church. During the first hour 8-9
congenial
Ethel” win ^ive group instructions. Admission $1.50
with light refreshments. Come join us it’ll be fun!
__ T.B.C.
*

Anniversary

SMALL

Pre-Valentine Dance At Toronto Buddhist Feb. 2

Richmond, B.C.

It is with sincere gratitude
that we express to our relati­
ves and many friends our appreciation for their kind ex­
pressions of compassion and
condolence during the illness
and the loss of our beloved
one, Francis Nobuo (Nobby)
Fujisawa. Special thanks for
donations to the JCCA Senior
Citizens Building
Fund; to
the many Masses and prayer
offerings;
especially to Dr.
S. Isomura and to the Doc­
tors and Nurses of the B.C.
Cancer Institute.
Mrs. F.N.
Nobby Fujisawa
and son, David.
Mr. & Mrs. Masayoshi Fuji­
sawa and family.

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BARRISTER. SOUCITOB
NOTARY PUBLIC
2 Carlton St.. Toronto
Boom IMIS

BENEFIT DANCE

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Johnny Kunitomo & Quartet of the Embers Band
will take charge of the music. All who can dance are
welcome, and sometimes it is nice to have a few “wall­
flowers” in addition.

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Ham.-Tor. J.C. Anglers Donate Fish To Nipponia
TORONTO. — We want to thank the members of the Hami'ton
— Toronto Japanese Canadian Anglers’ Club for the.r wonderful
contiibution to The Nipponia Home Residents.
They donated six large rainbow trout for our New Year’s day
(.Gochiso). Our chief, Mr. Izumi, is an expert on Japanese Ryori. He
S°ied °Ver 40 lbs* of fish meat for about thirty residents and our
otaff.
We had a most delicious Sashimi and salted Rainbow Buloylar
It was the most delicious tasting fish any of us had ever had and
so very plentiful.
We are all very tliankful to the members of the' Hamilton __
Toronto Japanese Canadian Anglers’ Club for this most thoughtful
and generous donation, as we
we could
could not
not have
have bought
bought anvthinir
anything like
it on the market.
Thank you, members of The Anglers' Club, for making our
New Year’s Day, 1974, so memorable.
The Nipponia Home
*

*

Tor. Buddhist Sun. School Kids Make Donation
TORONTO. — A story that needs to be told revolves around
a small group of nine-years-olds who attended the Sunday School
at Toronto Buddhist Church. It’s almost a year ago when they
started collecting returnable pop bottles for the new zoo fund The
adults paid very little attention then. They even made a collection
box for these bottles and placed it in the church foyer. The only
kind of attention, it got was people mistaking it for a trash box.
Then months went by, these ‘tiny hands’ kept up bottle collection
until one day, their paternal groups offered to allocate what was
the family bowl to call it, “bowl-a-ton” for the Zoo Fund, which
raised roughly seven hundred dollars.
The children got busier and this time they thought of selling
a key chain with the zoo emblem, so they wrote to the Zoe Commi­
ttee for permision to use the emblem. They were more than delig­
hted even encouraged to promote the idea, among other groups
and churches in Metro. Coincidentally, the emblem of the Zoo Committee is a deer, the very animal these Buddhist children would
like to donate.
On Dec. 23rd, 1974, a cheque of $1,139.21 was presented to
the Toronto Zoological Society from the Buddhist Church. Recei­
ving the cheque was Ms. Cecilia Long, head of the Society, and
representing the class was Ian Izukawa. Miss Dana Ishiura and
lei former class that started it ail were present. Other guests
at the service were, Lady Henrietta Banting and Mr. Walter Gray.
3ne behalf of the Zoo Society, Ms. Long presented a certificate to
the children, and spoke highly of their effort in caring about nature<
— T.B.C.

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“ The Annual Eastern Canadian Sangha Dana Le­
ague benefit dance will be held on February 23rd, this
year in the Antique Hall, 213 James Street N., in Hamil­
ton, opposite the Armouries). There will be dancing from
8:30 to 1 in the morning. Refreshments will be supplied
and the bar will be open. (The Youth Group is invited).



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CANADIAN

Back From A Bout With Cancer..

Gahn” Or Cancer A “Verboten” J.C. Topic?
By William Marutani

Friday, January 25, 1974

Diary From An American
Concentration Camp

friends refer to “gahn” (usually room, when a nurse slipped me
•As a; country lad I was both it was “i-gahn”) and I had iqo a cube of ice, against regula­
By ALLAN BEEKMAN
oblivious and impervious
to idea of what they spoke, al­ tions, it was one of the most
The Kikuchi Diary: Chronicle From An American Concen­
disease, infections and all those though judging from the hushed -refreshing, welcome violation of
tration Camp, Univ, of Illinois Press, 258 pp, $8.95.
other maladies that seemed to tones and the furrowed brows, rules I’v ever enjoyed.
A student at the School of Social Welfare, Univ, of Calif, at
befall
others.
Rusty
All this was more than a year
nails I knew it wasn’t good. Whatever
it
was.
puncturing me
through
ago and I should hastily add that Berkeley, when Japan attacked Pearl Harbor, Charles Kikuchi was
my
sneakers some dirt ' in a cut
Well,
“gahn”
struck
this after a brief, wobbly period I interned at the Tanforan Assembly Center, May 1, 1942. Until he
finger, consuming an. apple that writer and they took out some surged back to full and active was transferred to the Gila River Relocation Center, Arizona, in
may have hit. the floor, — these inside plumbing, so to speak. participation of work, play and September of the same year, he kept a diary of Tanforan life.
things fazed me not one: whit. It was my first experience with the joys of living. I write about This volume is an edited account of that experience.
Born about 1916 in Vallejo Calif., near the Mare Island Naval
And albeit within somewhat all those life-sustaining lines in all this for several
reasons:
more cautious limits
today, I the nose, mouth, veins, etc. — from far and near, friends had Station, Charles was the oldest child of an Issei barber. Having
essentially remain relaxed, about and I leave to your imagination been writing me, unknowing turned against his Japanese heritage, the embittered father had
this sort of thing. And in those what the “etc” means, — plus what went on and, thereby, per­ settled in Vallejo for the dual purpose of avoiding other Nikkei
youthful days, every once in a blood transfusions which I’d haps imagining the worst when, and being- near the American sailors he sought as customers.
The elder Kikuchi resented Charles and finally, when the boy
while I’d. hear my parent’s Issei never had before. In the recovery in fact, I’ve been back in full
stride of things;
also,
there was eight, placed him in a Salavation Army Home. Here Charles
seems to be an ethic among us remained for 10 years, separated from his family and almost un­
Nisei
that somehow
it
is conscious of any Nikkei heritage or identification.
A Japanese Canadian
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At 18, having- graduated from high .school, he sought employ­
“shameful” to incur a serious
ment
in San Francisco. In that depression year of 1934, work was
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illness. Unfortunate and un­
pleasant, yes; but shameful, no. particularly hard to find. His appearance evoked a conditioned,
Especially if Fate is
kind unfavorable response.
Consequently, he began to identify with the Nikkei as a group
enough to permit one to bounce
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the limited readership of “East through ten years of separation.
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He reintroduced himself to his family, found work as house­
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and who, on the basis of the ge. After graduation, among other things, he surveyed the Nikkei
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felt awkward about mentioning
Ordered to evacuate, he chose to Be interned with his family.
the matter. Now, by this, I of Housed in a stable at Tanforan, he found work as reporter on the
course am not advocating that camp paper, the lanforan Totalizer. Some of his diary entries ex­
one collar the nearest person and press exasperation with the censorship the camp administration
begin describing
“the
opera­ imposed upon stories for this paper.
tion”. My point simply is that
Official restriction of informatinn eygn extended to denying
cancer will inevitably strike, as visiting privileges to some seeking it, such as sociologist Dorothy
well as other maladies that beset Swaine Thomas, who had persuaded Kikuchi to1 keep a diary as a
mankind. And while I sincerely contribution to the Japanese Evacuation Research Study, and Mor­
hope it won’t descend upon you, ton Grodzins who was gathering material from which he would
if it nevertheless does, don’t be write Americans Betrayed.
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Nevertheless,
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is
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Choice This Sunday
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a delegate publicly refers to the Caucasians as Americans and
the evacuees as Japanese, Kikuchi is outraged. “The nerve of the
O.fSET AND LETTERPRESS
guy. . .”
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too, sometimes falls into it. He identifies the Kikuchi family as
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“biologically Japanese.” He says The Salvage, by Thomas, Kikuchi
MARCH 9
MARCH 27
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