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Jpnz. Writer-Actress, Kaoru Kanetaka Criticizes Rudeness Of Countrymen
By John Roderick

| and presidents, sky-dived from to : themselves, generally
don’t I- The reasons, for the first. - at- dustrially in the world, aren’t
la plane; visited the South Pole, bother anyone.
I titude is contempt because Ja­ much better off than other peo­
. TOKYO. — Kaoru Kanetaka
handled 'snakes,- gotten closeups

Young
Japanese
abroad
don

t
V
panese feel Asians and Africans ple.
says many young Japanese who
of whales, written best sellers smile, 'dress in filthy clothes and are* slower moving, less indust­
“They have, material
things
go abroad are. “rude; arrogant,
and advised the Japanese gov­ never think about other people,” rious and seemingly less quick­ like automobiles, television sets
disgracefully dressed and lack­ ernment. <
> •
she says; “They: have very arro­ witted than Japanese, she said. and refrigerators, Tout they need
ing in manners.” She adds, ma­
In her -extensive travels she gant attitudes not at all heal thy.
.The drop in the status of A- more living space and a more
nners are in short, supply everyhas had a better chance than
She says she has often been mericans, Europeans and other comfortable living style,”
she
.where.
most to observe how the - incre­ personally shocked to hear Japa- whites springs from the greater said.
As director, writer 'and a star asing numbers, of Japanese go­ nese- men-; overseas- speaking to familiarity produced by incre­
Her half, hour program, “Seof Japan’s most popular tele­ ing abroad — 2,300,000 in '1973 women in language usually re­ ased. international - travel,
and kai No Tabi” or “Around The
vision travel -program, Miss Ka­ —• behave.
served for inferiors.'
recognition that not all of them
netaka is a woman who has, be­
She says that, contrary to be“They look down on Asians are rich, superior and intellig­ World,” appears every- Sunday
at 11. a.m. over a -network of
en .around.
In* her 15th year' of lief, the group tourists, with- and colored people,” she says. ent. '
,
meetipg an'd interviewing people their flag-carrying leaders, are “And where they once looked f। Miss Kanetaka’s travels have 25 stations with an estimated
.?^®
-jetted to -130 - countries, the bests - Drawn - largely; from up at Caucasians, they now do so . also persuaded her that the Ja- audience of 10 million homes.
She has chatted with* kings farmers’ cooperatives they keep less and less.”’
’ | panese, though rated third inCont. on P. 2
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The Ota Canadian
An Independent Organ for Canadians of Japanese Origin
Vol XXXVIH 40

TUESDAY, MAY 28, 1974

Toronto, Ont.

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Racism
Noted
Convicted
Lod
Airport
Terrorist
A Grandfather's Hope For
In
Chicago
Having

Change
Of
Heart

Children Of Intermarriage
Nisei Police
Officer Trial

TEL AVIV. —- Kozo .Okamoto, in a prison in the suburb of Tel
the Japanese radical serving a li­ Aviv.
- By SHAKE USHIO
personal identity. A beautiful
fe sentence for the Lod Airport
Israeli authorities have so far
Eurasian girl recently remark-massacre, is slowly showing a p erm itted a Jap ane s e
SALT LAKE CITY. — I have
lawyer,
ed to me that though she was
change of heart, Japanese emba­ Tsukasa Matsuo, to meet Okamoa ’ granddaughter named Misti, a
well accepted
wherever
she
ssy sources said.
a cute little gal and sharp as a
to two times. Embassy staffers
went, and she lacked for not->
tack. In the . house next door hing, she sometimes. wondered
CHICAGO.
The
recent
Okamoto, 26, a former Kago­ are allowed to see him once in
there is little Jennifer with dim­ about the onequarter Japanese conviction; of a 14-year police o- shima Univ, student and member every two or three months.
pled cheeks and soft brown, in­
Since Okamoto met a Japanese
blood that coursed through her fficer, Masanobu _ Noro, ? for-.ex­ of the Sekigunha (Red Army Fac-'
telligent. eyes. Then there .is li­ veins. _ ' ■
tortion is- currently being app-- tion), began uttering critical re- religionist Ikuro Tejima last sttle Michael, lovably mischievo­
ealed, but the disturbing aspect marks about Pal est'nian guerill- pring, his attitude has reportedly
Was is an asset of a liabili­
us, full ^\ life and vigor. Beau­
to Chicago JACLer Chiye’ To- as.
changed.
tiful children all uniquely diffe­ ty? Did it. make her something mihiro, chairman of the JACL
He is now engrossed in JudaiImmediately after the intervi- ■
rent and of loving* concern-.-for special ? Should she be proud -anti-defamation committee was
sm, according to recent sources." ew, Okamoto began reading the
of it or? should she renounce it ? “the way the prosecution
me.. .
and
Okamoto murdered 26.travelers Old Testament in English. He has
I hastened to assure, her that press stressed his racial backThey are uniquely, different
because they are- creation of a she should be : proud of it and ground.”
and wounded 71 others at Lod A- said that modern Christianity “is
racially mixed parentage, Japa­ wished that I had the time and r Throughout his trial,
Noro irport here in May of 1972. He corrupt and that Christians must
nese and non-Japanese. They a- information to tell her all- about
used machine guns and hand gre­ return to the origin.”
re not isolated cases
because the rich heritage and the cul­ was constantly - referred to as
Okamoto, who reads English statistically about 50% and up tural value that she had inheri­ “the Japanese” policeman and. nades with two other Japanese

Takeshi
Okudaira
and
Yasuyu
­
ted
from
the
Japanese
grand
­
was asked by the prosecutor, to
to 90% in some areas of Sansei
language newspapers regularly,
parents
which
together
with
her
marriages now involve a non­
pronounce his name. “Masano- ki Yasuda — who died in the blo­ said that the recent Singapore'
and
European .bu”, several times?
Japanese partner and will even­ Scandinavian
thereby od shedding incident.
and Kuwait guerilla warfare ca­
tually affect almost every Japa­ blood should truly make * her so­
impressing upon the jury
his
Okamoto was sentenced by the used by Palestinians and Japan­
nese American family in Ame­ meone very special.
rica.-Host of the resulting chil­ < Mrs. Harriet Kimura in her different background, Miss To- military court to life imprison­ ese Sekigunha radicals had been
dren are very good- looking, enlightening article in> the PC mih'iro pointed out this recently. ment at hard labor. He is now wrong.
vigorous, sharp; and . show pro­ and others- in similar situations,
She was more disturbed by the
mise of great success in life.
have.. expressed: a concern that open hatred expressed by some
I am* lovingly
and vitally the average Nisei attitudes' to­ members of the Japanese" Aconcerned because they are, mb ward? the non-Japanese spouses merican community. She repor­
TOKYO. — Hiroo Onoda,, the wartime buddies outside Tokyo
ne and I wish , them all the-su­ of our-Nisei and Sansei families ted crude and vicious
letters World'War II soldier who came recently. •
ccess and
happiness in
the may be somewhat biased • and written over fictitious Japanese
out March 10 from 30 years hi­ | The former intelligence offi­
world.
racist and prejudical._
names were received by
the ding in the . Philippine jungles,
A wise .and astute professor - If- this is so and I;believe her; Noro family, suggesting he had visited the graves of two of his cer offered flowers and burned
incense sticks at the graves of
,at the Univ, of Utah once re­ point is valid and well taken, disgraced the Japanese ' race
Cpl. Shoichi Shimada, who died .
marked to me - that in. the long we need to do some. soul sear­ and j his family should eradicate
of Malnutrition in 1954, and Pfc.
run and ultimately this
(the ching and somehow mend our itself.
Kinshichi Kozuka, who was kill­
racially‘-mixed marriages) was way.- . .
“If this as the case, the’ en­
ed in a skirmish with a Philipthe only sure solution to the . 'Recently, at a JACL District tire human race should . destroy
hine patrol in 1972 on the Phi­
human - relationship ^problem be­ Convention, as -part of my re­ itself for
man’s ..cruelty to
lippines’ Lubang Island. '
setting- the world; <But in the marks at a dinner meeting, I man,” Miss Tomihiro added..
. Onoda, wearing a dark suit
meantime, while'.we "wait for- the expressed' my feelings and love
To
the
Nikkei
detractors
she
TOKYO.

Emperor
Hirohi
­
and tie, offered condolences to ultimate to happen, ’ there are for the influx of non-Japanese
immediate, up-to-the-minute co­ partners into our. family rela­ reminded that “the inescapable to once again h'as observed the the two soldiers, families in se­
ncerns and problems that we tionships, my hope for success fact is that-it is impossible for imperial palace’s annual _ rice parate meetings. He said he gri­
a- colored "person to get an even planting ritual.
eved over their loss and regre­
need to face .today.
in the resulting formation
of break in this- society- -.because,
tted that he had; not fulfilled his
Historically and
culturally new families, and the great need
Imperial Household Agency owhether the Japanese who wrote
responsibility to safeguard the
speaking, children born of mix- for awerness bn the part of all'
the hate letters will admit it or fficials said the Emperor, wear­ lives of his . subordinates.
ed parentage oftentime face a of - us - as to the realities of this
not, it is their'own lack of se­ ing a gray felt hat, gray tro­
bleak and dismal prospect of not situation andtheneed for c6n“Having , paid last respects to
curity: as colored people which users and an open collar white
my , buddies,
being able to find their just structive, forward looking atti­ motivated them.”
shirt with sleeves rolled up, slo- |। „_
. . ”' Onoda- said later,
and proper, place, in society. In tudes and programs to . cope
seed through a muddy paddy I *“ .“‘™? their families for:
;Noro<
had
been
assigned
for
many countries especially tho­ with it.
near his research laboratory to .?’“ ^aL 4 ^ ' he’’y “ *“
7
se with, homogeneous populati­
been lifted from my shoulders;”
The response, and-the reaction;; the past one and half year to the plant rice seedlings.
ons, hey-becomes a ■ pariah, an I got .was both surprising and vice squad in the Austin district.
I Onoda will shortly return to
outcast, not really knowing, wh­ gratifying. To- bring it out in
The -rice will be
harvested i Kaiwan, Southeastern Japan, for
He and four other officers weere he belongs. This- must' not the open and to discuss it with
Oct 17 during Harvest Thank- his ■ first visit home in 30 years.
^ ^^ two (^u^ng Noro) giving Day and presented to the .He was released from the hospihappen here - in " America;
were convicted.
Ise grand ^shrines.
There is also the question of
recently.

Onoda Visited Graves Of Companions

Jpn. Emperor
Keeps Taditiqn
Plants Rice -

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Tuesday, May 2$, 1974

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At 45,. she is one of Japan’s Hing off in service and lowered
A member of. Ethnid Press
most beautiful women but, tou­ manners in hotels and elsewhere
Association of Ontario
ched twice by tragedy, isn’t in a abroad, she has noted the rise in
Second Class mall
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1959,
T. UM EZUKI Publisher
other after a short illness.
Los Angeles was enveloped in
K. C. TSUMURA
English Section Editor
under
“If I got married, Td have to smog find Tokyo was
KEN MORI
stop the program and look after blue skies. Today the situation
Japanese
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my husband, as all good Japa­ is almost totally reversed.
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In a world of hijacking and
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?
violence, she has had only one
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Her programs steer clear-of unpleasant incident — the thepolitics; or topical events, con­ ft of her camera equipment and
centrate on ordinary and some
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Though she has a reputation have her own radio
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for daring, she says' she takes interv i ewing Japane s e who had tory. Call Mary 363-4588 dr
Her
television 363-3782 (Toronto).
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She shares the general horror sui group and Pan American, sewers to sew blouses. We deli­
and
of snakes, but overcome it by began in ' December 1959
ver and pick-up. Call Mary 363reading, study and proximity. keeps her away six months of 4588 (Toronto).
She did snake programs in Thai-. the year. She interviews> her
land and India, learned how to subjects in English; dubs in coROOMS
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Obviously, she says, things ol for foreign
manners
she
have- changed everywhere in the plans to open in her home this
It is a good policy to
15 years since she began hopp­ spring. She hopes to teach so­
have the BIGHT POLICY
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candor, sympathy and hope ap­ pulatioh and final extinction.
pealed to many. For too long
What I would like to see is
have we turned the other way a bright and glorious future in
ahd wished that it would go a- which throughout this great la­
way.
nd of America there
will be
Being only three-tenths
of many men and women
with
one percent of the total Ameri­ traces of Japanese blood in
can population, and having* achi­ their veins serving with distin­
eved the degree of public accep­ ction as leaders in government,
tance and approbation that we -industry and in the business
have, and having no control as world, with excellence in
the
to who should fall in love with fields of art and sciences and
whom,, it is inevitable that mo­ professions and in the trades,
re than one-half of our young with honor and integrity in epeople will find their mates o- very aspect of life in these Uutside their ancestral bounds.
nited States./
. If the trend continues, and
And may-we 'and our non-Ja­
there is no reason why it will panese partners consider- our
not even accelerate,, by the ye- Japanese heritage a mark of
ar 2000, a scant 25 years; from unique distinction, a something
nowT'the National Planing- Com- special that needs to be nurtumission for the JACL or any red and valued.
Japanese American organization
May we also in the common
will be faced with a situation in bonds of pride in our heritage
which over one-half of the-po- be joined together in an organi­
tential membership will be non­ zation such as the JACL to pro­
Japanese and the bulk of the tect our rights if they are thre­
balance may "have only a frac­ atened, to maintain what cul­
tion of Japanese blood.
tural and ethnic identity J that
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and a refreshing change of at­ means of communication with
titude, we may well be rele­ each other as we as a group
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Tuesday, May 28,. 1974.
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Haiku Poetry In Western Languages!
HAIKU IN WESTERN LANGUAGES: AN
ANNOTATED
BIBLIOGRAPHY (With' > some
Reference, to Senryu), by Gary
L. Brower with the collaboration
of David William Foster, Scarecrow Press, Metuchen, NJ„
-1972, 133 pp. $5.00.

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ss, Seattle, 19/0) and a Rese- subtitle of the word in question sa, Kobayashi” and “Shiki, Maarch Guide to Argentine Litera- or contain only information re- saoka” (Basho is even listed as
ture (Scarecrow Press, Metuch- garding the publisher of the se- | “Basho, M.” on page 76). and in
1271 Tono* Street. Toronto 7, Out.
€n» N.J., 19/0) as well as seve-| ries in which the publication it- the author index such people as
SOUTH OF WOODLAWN
ral monographic studies and ar- self appears. A sizable percent­ Shunkichi Akimoto, Susumu Ka- ToHo Nishimura
923—6877
tides.
age of the entries, in fact, are maike and Ryozo Matsumoto are
In light of their background not even annotated — among entered alphabetically under their
and expertise, the user of this them Donald H. Shively’s “Ba­ personal names.
work should expect to have be­ sho: The Man and the Plant”
Reviewed by
Buy and Sell
Your Home
Fourth; the index itself is di­
fore him a meticulously prepa­ (Harward-Journal of Asiatic Stu­ fficult to use on account of the
Through
FRANK J .SHULMAN
red, comprehensive
bibliograp- dies, June 1953) and Edward D. compilers’ decision to .provide
Putzer’s “The Sound of Basho?’
The first, specialized bibliog­ ical presentation. The. coverage (Literature East and West, Sep­ only the page number on which a
particular author’s name may be
raphy’ of its kind, Haiku in We­ of the present volume indeed tember 1965).
MELL REAL ESTATE Ltd.
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to
be
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­
found. Had all of the entries wit­
stern Languages -is a partially
2008 Lawrence Av. East
Furthermore, one. is left , with hin the main listing been numb­
annotated, classified guide not als dealing with haiku in both
Scarboro* Ont.
only to haiku in translation and English and Spanish, with the the feeling that many of Brower’s ered consecutively from 1 to SOO.
757-5184
to various writings about this li­ acknowledged exception of en­ critical notes are essentially hi­ Brower, and Foster not only could
have obviated this problem but
terary form but also to the in­ tries for haiku written by in­
creasing v number of haiku com­ dividuals in English - — a sub­ ghly personal comments rather also could have provided adequ­
posed in English, ’ French, Ger­ ject treated very selectively in than objective evaluations. Consi­ ate cross-references Within vari­
Made To Measure
man, Italian,
Portugese and order to avoid unnecessary dup­ der, for example, the case of No­ ous annotations, particularly whe­
lication
with
William
J.
Higgin
­
Spanish. The volume brings to­
buyuki Yuasa’s translation of re specific titles are mentioned
SUITS FOR MEN
son

s
forthcoming
bibliography
without
full
bibliographical
infor
­
gether nearly 500 numbered en­
Matsuo Basho’s Okuno Hosomichi
mation.
tries (half of them in English) of such works. At the very least,
that
appeared
under
the
title
The
the
reader
can
be
confident
that
for books and chapters of books,
. n □ i
,
Despite the weaknesses descriPhone 694-9553
periodical articles, conference Brower and Foster have caught Narrow Road to the Deep North bed above, Haiku in' Western
“Will call on you**
papers and disertations comple­ far more items than he could e- and Other Travel Sketches '(Pen- I.Languags is a useful guide for
asily
find
on
his
own
by
consulted through 1970.
(Within Toronto)
tirig readily available reference guin, Baltimore, Md. & Harmon-' specialists in Japanese literature
dsworth, England, 1966). With- and for literary critics who are
Many of these items are now sources.
out any explanation or apparent partifyia^y in^
well known to Japan area spe­
Nevertheless, there are certain • .•,•
n
way the Westerners have handled
cialists and might otherwise be curious omissions: Curtis Hidden
®r(™« ™P‘y ^ this literary form and in the wi­
overlooked in one’s search of the Page’s Japanese Poetry: An His- tes: <<Po01' translation” (page 22). despread popularity of haiku out­
literature^ The compilers . detai­ torical Essay with Two Hundred ' That this viewpoint is debat side Japan. Likewise, as has been
led classification scheme perm- and Thirty Translations (Hough­ able — or at the very least des observed in the September 1972
its the reader to locate referen- ton Mifflin, Boston, 1923), for erves clarification-—becomes ev­ issue of the Wilson Library Bul­
letin (pp. 93-4), it will be “a wel­
instance, has been left out, even
■ces within a wide variety of ca­ though Page is specially referred ident when one discovers that come book for librarians in vari­
tegories, and the four best-kno­ to twice within the volume; there Yuasa’s work was reviewed not ous types of libraries; whose pat­
only by James Kirkup in the Awn Japanese haiku poets (Ba­ is no mention of Kobayashi Issa’s pril.— June 1967 issue of the rons need examples of haiku and
Slocan City, B.C.
sho, Buson, Issa and Shiki) de- A Few Flies and I: Haiku (Pan­ Japan Quarterly (the only book materials about them and for
servedly receive special atten- theon Books, New York, ‘ 1969) review which the compilers cite) whom the material accessible
Phone 355-2211
despite the publicity it received but also by Louis Allen (Notes through previously available bi­
tion.
shortly before this bibliography
bliographical tools is all
too
In addition, the
bibliog- was compiled; and John G. Paige’s Queries, September 1967,) Geo- soon exhausted.
' raphy includes information ab­ doctoral dissertation “Jose Juan ffry Bownas (Journal of the ANevertheless, it is regrettable
out many related publications Tablada: Introductor del haikai merican Oriental Society, July - that the compilers did not take
. that are not individually listed; en. Hispahoamerica” (Universidad September 1968), Kenneth Rex­ greater pains in putting together
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appeared in various issues of 1963) has not been included, even E. Teele (Poetry, August 1968) tainly originated as Brower’s
Through
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leidograph and Quartet:
Prof. lated to Grower’s own thesis wri­ Affairs, Fall — Winter 1967/68), graphical information. As a res­
Brower’s brief essay “A Short tten three years later and was as well ’ as by others in such j o- ult, the volume they have produ­
Representing
History of the Haiku in English” submitted to the same university urnals as the Virginia Quarterly ced is not the authoritative and
Review
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Jo
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(reprinted from a 1966 issue of astwo other, less “important the­
Robt. Owen,
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American Haiku;, and short ar­ sis which have been listed.
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