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Hamilton Nisei Act As Hosts For Visiting Japanese Education Experts
Later the visitors had a vari­
— Eight Also attending was ^Miss<r-Haw­ a; regular high school it is 40,1 ch includes facilitie for te ach ing, food services, graphic arts, ety of questions for Mr. Roth­

Hamilton Nisei acted as hosts kins, a former Anglican ^missio­ said Shigeo Sato, an English
language teacher who acted as building construction and land- well to answer — including the
when the Board-of Education eri- nary to Japan.
minimum qualifications for gra­
scape gardening.
- ;
tertained 27 - Japanese.; sec onda- : This group was one of 42' interpreter for the group.
duation, how often students are >
Through Mr.> Sato, Shiro Ku­
ry school, teachers and ; princi­ groups sent overseas ; by
Even the heating and air con­ tested, how they are disciplined, _
the
pals at a. luncheon on .Septem- Japanese Ministry of Education roiwa, /a principal, commented, ditioning pl ant s eem ed , of inters who approves textbooks,
why
- ber 23 at the Education Centre. on a one-month tour. J^rom Ha­ “You* have very good facilities est to them, said principal Doh vocational schools are not mix-;
The Japanese group spent. three milton the group flew- to Europe here, ; and a, lot of space.” Rothwell.
'
ed.

, .
days in Hamilton visiting secon- visiting Rome, Prague, Paris and " There is no exact equivalent
At lunch-time, the
visitors
Victor
Kadonaga,
an adjust­
of a vocational school in Japan, enjoyed a meal prepared: by the
; dary and vocational schools in London.
and those which ,do provide te­ students,. and insisted on giving ment counsellor for the board
Portland, U.S.A.
. .
Ontario teachers sometimes co­
have -them some. Japanese coins as of education, assisted with- the
The. 8 Nisei were teachers Jim rnplain classes are to large; but chnical training do not
interpreting.
teachers drawn from
various
Kadonaga, Kats . Oikawa,- • and Japanese educators think
souvenirs.
But-the session was not with­
the trades and industries, as Ainslie
Tim Oikawa. - Principal 'Roy Ito/
out
amusing moments. At one
numbers are enviable.
The study team members co­
Wood . does.
and members of .the Japanese
Snapping cameras and taking mmented on the friendly .rela­ point Mr. Kadonaga. unthinkin­
equivalent, a
Canadian Community
Mrs. Y. ■ In the near
gly rattled- off‘a question to Mr.
Nogami, Paul Tokiwa, Margaret Japanese technical school, the copious notes, the visitors tour­ tionship betwe en the' teachers Rothwell — in Japanese.
Taniaka and -Mrs. Hatsu Uchida. average class size is 45, and in ed-every area of the school, whi- and students.
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The Dcto Canadian
An Independent Organ for Canadians of Japanese Origin
Vol XXXVIII__ 76
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TUESDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1974

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; Author Of Nisei

Japanese Said To
Fear "Asian Flood'

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Bill Hosokawa Coming To Toronto

TORONTO: — Nisei * author,
Bill. Hosokawa will be the gu­
est speaker at the Japanese Ca­
'for population problems has beBy ROBERT WHYNANT
nadian Cultural Centre, on Fri­
?en formed with over. 100 memTOKYO. ,— The/former Japan­ "bers of the Die.
day, November 8th at 8 p.m.

ese ’prime minister
Nobusake
The invitation was extended on
J

This
problem
has
been
one
Kishi, has come out, in:favor of
behalf of the. Centre by Admi­
Tor
the
^scientists
so
far,

Kishi
compulsory vasectomies for manistrator, Mr. Sam Hagino:
les in Injdia7?and .other develop­ ^explains?“Now it is one’ for top
- The much-acclaimed-s Associa­
ing Asian nations with bulging ileyeV politicians "and ’ parliament
te Editor’ of the Denver Post and
populations, on , what he J calls tarians to deal with.”
author of “Nisei” (The Quiet
It is less generally
known
“humanitarian grounds.”
Americans) and “The Two Wor­
; He says that the; operation that Kishi managed to get go­
lds Of Jim Yoshida” will speak
vernment
aid.
to
developing
co
­
should be . enforced by law in
on “The Past, Present and Fu­
untries
tied
to
birth
control,;
sta
­
circumstances where people are
ture of Japanese^ Canadians.
rting-this
year.
deprived of human dignity by
There will be no admission cha,

From
April,

he
says,

we
' population ' pressures.; Japan’s
rge. .■,./ . _
.
(the
Japanese
government)
have
food and . raw materials. Kishi
• Bill Hosokawa’s biography re­
says; may be jeopardized by?'the specified that 10 per cent of
ads like a novel. Here is a brief
excessive population growth in grant aid to. Indonesia, the Phili­
background and some ’ of
the
ppines,
and
Thailand
must
be
developing Asian countries. \
interesting highlights of his ca­
used for family planning purpo­
reer.

:. _ An eminent Japanese economic ses.” ■ .
Born in Seattle, Washington
st,' Saburo Okita, president of
These - were the
impressive
in 1915, Bill Hosokawa attendthe Overseas, Economic Co-ope­ results of recommendations Kb
ded Seattle public schools and.
ration Fund' is equally- blunt: shi .made, folio wing his- visit last
received his B.A. from the Uni- .
The: security of Japan, he says; year to India, Indonesia, Thail­
versity of Washington in 1937.
is seriously threatened by Asia’s and and the Philippines, at the
population growth, and; invests head of a 25; man group of Diet
His newspaper career began
ment in family planning is a members and government officin 1933 as part-time editor with
better .safeguard than, military ials.
the Japanese American Courier
in Seattle. Prior to evacuation
forces. .
It was in the course of this
j Kishi, prime minister . from tour that Kishi witnessed a va­
to Heart Mountain, . Wyoming,
1957 to. 1960j and Okita, are sectomy operation performed in
where he was editor of
the
Noted Author Hosokawa At His Desk
the country’s most prominent Calcutta. ■
local weekly, he worked as a
.... disciples* of population ^control ? “Family planning methods ha­
clerk at the Japanese Consulate
in developing Asian nations, and ve so far failed in. India,”, he
in Seattle, was managing editor
see Japan ;as the best suited to declares? “The solution is vase­
of the Singapore Herald, writer
guide them: to eutopic “zero ctomy. It is quick and it is .simfor the Far Eastern Review and
growth”? In separate interviews, pie.” *
Shanghai Times, in Shanghai,
’ “
the two? men told how they saw
and executive secretary of the'
He says the’ degradation? in
Japan’^iole in bringing down which: India’s ' -masses live appaJ.A.C.L., Seattle. In 1943 he be­
Asia’s tbiithrates., “<.
v lied him.- 1
.
Goto will start out his career came copy editor’ for the Des
23-ye'ar-old
TOKYO.
' Kishi, who still exerts formjr ■ “One and a half million peo­ physieally ’handicapped man who as ’ a counsellor at a public em- Moines Register and since 1946
dable political influence . from ple ’are? born, brought up, and took -a highly competitive - civil 'ployement office in Yamaguchi has held various positions at the
retirement, js better known for die , in Calcutta’s
streets,” he service * examination in a wheel­ or Hiroshima Prefecture in Apr-. Denver Post including overseas
assignments to Japan,
Korea,
>his far rightwing views than his says.

chair ■ and passed it. with flying
Vietnam and France.
- •
expertise in planning families.
.“People shouldn’t be allowed colors has been . accepted
forIt will be the culmination of
-His accomplishments have won
v The 77-year-old... former prime to have children in such circum­ employment * by the Labor Mi­
an
uphill
battle
he
.
has
fought
him the following honors:
minister says he was recruited, stances.' They have no dignity nistry — to carve out his future
ever, since he came down with
President . American Associati­
into the movement in 1972 by. any more. Vasectomy must be as the first .handicapped man infantile .paralysis^-when he was
an old friend and helper from made compulsory, ‘enforced- by in a high-ranking - Government only 22 months old, leaving his on of Sunday and Feature Edi| tors, 1956; Nisei of the BiennU.S. military occupation days, law, on humanitarian grounds.”
legs permanently paralyzed.
post? * • r •
J ium Award, J.A.C.L., 1958; Un­
ex-General William Draper.
Another of Kishi recommenda­
The
man,
Junichi.
.Goto,
.a

se
­

Barred
from
admittance
4
to
a
iversity of Colorado
Outstan­
.Through the-good, and
by tions was that Japan increase
nior < student of English literatu­ high school, he subscribed to co­ ding Journalist Award,
1967;
• no means defunct,. offices of the its bilateral aid, which is very re at Yamaguchi ' ^University,
rrespondence
courses
to
earn
the
Western
Heritage
Award,
Nati
­
former prime minister, Japan small at present. He expects the "passed the test for top Govern­
. has' doubled its contributions to government will soon lift its ban ment posts for psychological qualification of a high school onal Cowboy Hall of Fame, 19graduate and eligibility to take 67; Pulitzer Prize Juror in Jo­
- UNFPA over the last year. Fu­ on supplying condoms to South
work at the top of the group. A: an entrance examination for a urnalism,1969-70; Member Ad- '
nds have.been raised from Ja­ Asian countries. (Japan
refu- total of 27-took the test conduc­
panese' industry/ and the world*s
(Cont. on P. 2)
(Cont. on F, 2)
ted" in early August.
Cont. on P. 4only parliamentary
federation

First Handicapped Jpnz. Man
To Make High Gov't. Post

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1
I

£

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Tuesday, October 8, 1974

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Riddle Of Prehistoric
Japanese Culture

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Japanese bilateral aid in Asi­
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By Allan Beekman
an family planning is all cond­ occur--if population outruns fo­
Nara.
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.
ucted on the private level, thro­
K. C. TSUMURA
The author believes the peo­
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Section Editor
ugh an agency called the Japa­
Whether the motives are to
JAPANESE CULTURE: A St­ ple of W$< to be the ancestors
KEN
MORI
nese Organization for Internati­ preserve the archipelago or its udy of Origins and Characterist­ of the Japanese.
Japanese
'Section
Editor.
onal. Co-operation in
Family wider' Asian interests. Japan’s ics^ by lEiichiro Ishida, JUniverThe Gishi Wajin Den descriPlanning. It is financed by do­ expansion into' overseas family sity Press of Hawaii, 156 pp., bes the people of Wa as being
MW
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Ont.
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nations from big business, which planning - is based on a totally
without horses. On the
other
must find it hard to refuse a re-, false asumption: That Japan has
366-5005
Published’ in Japan as Nihon hand, the Tomb (Kofun) period,
quest from the persuasive Kishi,-- successfully overcome its own Bunka-ron, this book is based beginning about the 3rd century:
who besides being UN adviser population problem.
on lectures at Seijo University and extending to > the 6th, .has
and parliamentary population fe­
It is true that. Japan has the dn 1962 by the author (1903-68). bequeathed claw figures, hanideration. president, is also the. lowest population rate .in Asia The dust jacket describes him as wa, portraying the inhabitants
chairman of the Organization — 1.2 per cent — and that zero a distinguished scholar of ethno­ as a conquering, equestrian peo­
for International Co-operation in population growth may be reach­ logy, cultural anthropology' and ple who must have come from
Help Wanted
Family Planning.'
ed by the year 2015 according Japanese cultural history.
the Korean peninsula.
SERVICE station attendant re­
The reasons behind Kishi’s in­ to government projections; But
The book carries a chronology
Of 'this later wave of immi­ quired. Phone 691-5691.
Steve
volvement are . down-to-earth, by that time; Japan’s populati­ of both Japanese and ‘ Chinese grants, the author says, “Even
Sano’s Esso (Toronto).
concerned with the future of Ja­ on will have increased to 137 history, which shows the fra­ if the founders of the Yamato
million. Yet, Japan, with a curr­ mework on which historians bu­ state were an alien conquering OFFIC.E girl needed. Please con­
pan.
“It’s a , question of food and ent 109 million population, is al- ild their speculations about Jap­ people, they were probably. > . tact Mr. Sam Hagino 429-0676
grossly
overpopulated, an. But since the Japanese achi­ a-relatively .small mobile milita­ (Toronto). Japanese
natural resources. Japan’s po­ ready
Canadian
pulation will reach zero growth Poor in raw materials, with lit- eved literacy late, the history of ry force consisisting largely of Cultural Centre...
. in about 60 years, but with our tie flat land for living space, I the early period of the archipe- men. Even though politically
SEWING blouses at home. We
few natural resources we will' Japan would need to hold?
they completely
overwhelmed deliver and pick up. Experienced
. Iago is obscure.
population at the present level,
still face a food crisis?
The earliest period of Japa­ and controlled the kingdom of
or
actually
try
to
reduce
it,
ac
­
While Japan held its popula­
nese history, according to the the Wa people. . . froriti the ling­ only apply. Better Blouse Com­
pany, 460 Richmond St. ^ West,
tion steady, he said, “it’s supp­ cording to some experts, in or- chronology, is the pre-Jomon, uistic and cultural point of vi­
1st floor (Toronto).
lies will, be endangered -by the der to avoid the crisis Kishi be- beginning about 150,000
B.C., ew it was rather the conquer­
massive growth in India and el- lieves could arise within 60 ye- characterized by a
stone-age ors who were assimilated and SEWER: able • to cut and sew.
ars.
culture. The Jomon Age follows, absorbed by the people ■ they Experiences or willing to learn
sewherc.”
beginning
about 7,000 B.G.
custom home furnishings work;
of
rulled.”
Saburo Okita, president
METHODS SUSPECT
Few,
if
any
,
will
dispute
his
Dressmaking knowledge helpful.
The Jomon people, or peoples,
the Japan Overseas Co-operati­
Japan
qualifications
,
for
lead
­
pursued a hunting and gathering conclusion that - Japanese cultu­ Accuracy and neatness a must.:
on Fund, vis as recent a convert
ership
in
this
sphere
appear
eto family
planning aid
for
economy, leaving us examples re derives from a rice-growing Cal! the Workroom, 925-9163 or
ven
more
suspect
upon
examin
­
Asia as Kishi, and equally pa­
of the pottery from which the economy while that of the West evenings 925-6294. (Bay Bloor
ing the- methods used to. achie­ age' derives its name. \ The Jo- derives from a pastoral. But area). Toronto.
ssionate and practical.
ve the low birth rate. While the
Japan’s security, Okita belie­ Japanese Organization for In­ mon- used rope (jo in modern there was far less -difference be­
Domestic Help Wanted
ves, is vitally, affected by bur­ ternational Co-operation in Fa- Japanese) to make impressions tween the conceptions of medi­
geoning population
growth in mily Planning sends its experts (mon) on their pottery - before eval Europeans and the people BABYSITTER Wanted for baby
hardening it, thus giving it a of Yamato than he assumes.
and toddler. We stem area, live
Asian countries. ' '
to -Asian countries, and. invites distinctive pattern.
Medievela Europeans
loved out. 247-5517 (Toronto).
“Our security,” said Japan’s Southeast Asian doctors and
During
the
.Meiji
era
(1868the
land
on
which
they
dwelt
but
leading authority on aid and ec­ nurses to seminars * on family
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onomic planning, “is best served planning in Japan, the domestic 1912); the Jombn were conside­ had no conception of themselves
’ not by strengthening our milit­ state of birth control, is, to use red the ancestors of the Ainu, as a nationality. Their loyalty COZY little Japanese restaurant
ary forces but by_ controlling- Okita’s words, “not very sop­ a Caucasoid-like people, a still was to the lord who ruled over in Montreal. Ideal for sisters,
.unassimilated remnants of which them. ’ All educated Europeans brothers, or a couple to operate.
the rate of population growth.” histicated.”
is found in Hokkaido. .This theo-, of the time cummunicated in a Price reasonable. For particul­
Its geographical location maThe most widespread: method ry has since been discredited.
common language: Latin. A si­ ars phone (514) 845-2746 after
, de Japan extremely vulnerable./ in Japan is abortion — an estiakin to 7 p.m. Japanese owner.
About 250 B.C., the Yayoi A- tuation, in principle,
operations ge succeeded the Jomon.
“We are right in the 'midst, mated two million
The what existed in the Japanese
surrounded .by .poorer neighbo- are performed annually, or rou­ name Yayoi derives from a stre­ archipelago.
. urs _^ 800 million Chinese, 500. ghly the same as the number of et in Tokyo where artifacts of
As a nation,' the Japanese are
million ; Indians, 300 million in births that come to term. The the period were found.
unaware of .the science of ety­
Y. Glen Katsuyama
Southeast Asia. Tire problem is sale of the pill is still /unavaila­
The Yayoi. people used bronze mology. They may accept wit­
most serious in thus part of the ble in Japan -— unless you know and iron and grew rice. Rice hout question the. claim of the BARRISTER & SOLICITOR
world — so 'we feel we should a “good“ doctor, who charges production had begun two cen­ author that the people of Wa
play a part in stabilizing popu­ ‘exorbitantly for selling it. As- turies eariler in the southern spoke Japanese. But trained to
■37 MAIN ST. N.
tonishingly.. a ban. on the sale part of the Korean peninsula. think of language as a continu­
lation.”
MARKHAM, ONTARIO
until
Self-preservation appears, to of IUDs was not- lifted
- From about -500 B.C.: to the ally evolving process, America­
underlie Japan’s increasing aid July 30 this year.
Christian- era, life in that area ns will be skeptical; they may
PHONE (416) 294-5230
As a result,/ more than one of the ? peninsula had much in concede that the people of Wa
for population activities. ; But
half of married women in Ja­ common with the later Yayoi. spoke a language ancestral to
Residence 294-5950
pan have had at least one abor­ Immigrants from the peninsula Japanese.
Hosokawa. . .
tion, a survey has shown. Femi­ brought their culture,
across
nist
movements
here
decribe
the
the Tsushima strait, to the ar­
(Cont. from Page Oue)
HANDICAPPED. . .
state of affairs as “barbaric.” chipelago.
visory Council in Technical Jou- For the nation’s gynecologists,
In the archipelago, the chan­
(Crat from Page One)
rnalism,. Colorado State .Univer­ who perform the abortions/ it is
ge
to
a
rice-growing
culture
ca
­
sity, 1969; Member Editorial Ad- unbelievably enriching. But cleuniversity. He was admitted to
used
a
sharp
increase
in
popul
­
visory Board
]y\ cq^^
Board, of The QuiL,
Quill, boSq- .
countries ation. A - Chinese work; known Yamaguchi State University in
----- of Professional . Journalists, | uke South Korea and ^
ciety
1971.
to
the
Japanese
as
Gishi
Wajin
Sigma Delta Chi; and
«o- । ^.^ where the pill .wy bejboAlthough his major is English
vernor’s Invitational^ Writei s. ^ in any drug stare Japan Den, describes the life of these literature; -he had studied (psych­
still ^nohliterate inhabitants in
Day. Award, State ot
as- in- mus^ ^^ jn y^-control-js a the middle of the third century. ology as a minor and bn his own
ton, 1970.
to prepare for .the - test. :
grossly underdeveloped nation.
People
of
Wa
Bill and his wife, Alice, have sed to give as aid any consum/At that time,. the country, ap­ 1 “Past hardships- I have 4 had
four, children.
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er items.) And there existed a peared to be divided i into : 30 to go through have, given me a
strong possibility that a Japa- kingdoms; the Gishi Wajin Den new vista of understanding m
J.C.C. Centre
OCT. 2nd. WINNER
concentrates on the people - of emotional and aptitudinal aspec­
YOSH FUJIOKA
Wa. According to one theory, ts in the problems of the handi­
SCARBORO, ONT.
the kingdom, of Wa was in Ky­ capped,” he told Labor Ministry
NO. 282
ushu; according to another, it interviewers. '

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"EXODUS OF JAPANESE"
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TORONTO. — “Ibuse Masuji ganic- adaption of the western
is like a mediaevel craftsman influence;” Young Japanese wri­
who takes pride in his skill but ters often write extremely west­
does not analyse it,” according ern ■ things, then turn to more
n
later yeavlauiuxviia
to Prof. A.V. Liman from the fwnidirvpn
Department of East Asian Stu­ rs after discovering that their
dies at the University of Toron­ real identity can only be Japan­
to. In his recent research and ese. This is analogous to a phe­
scholarly writings/ Prof. Liman nomenon among Western youth
is attempting to' give overdue who flirt with eastern thought,
credit and exposure to this Ja­ Prof. Liman explained, but be­
panese author who is little kn­ come'disillusioned when they re­
own in the West and even some­ alize they cannot become Orien­
Their
vision
what neglected in his own coun­ tal themselves.
may
be
enriched
but
,
they
inevi­
try.
Prof. Liman's research in the tably fall back on traditional
past year was aided by a fellow­ patterns of their own heritage.
ship from the Japan Foundation, Ibuse is sensitive to his own li­
of which he was the first Cana­ terary tradition and has tried to
dian recipient. While studying establish the link between the
in Japan, he stayed with Ibuse period before the influx of Wesat his mountain retreat. Their tern culture in 19.68 and the
friendship, which * spans 11 years* period after that, Prof. Liman
has been nurtured by their com­ asserted.
mon' interest in fishing. . After One thing that has never infiltr­
translating Ibuse’s short story, ated Japanese thought though, is
“^hite Hair” in 1963, Prof. Li- the West, dichotomy of animate
man sent a copy. of the tran&la- and inanimate objects. In Ibuse’s
tion to the author with a coup­ work, we find the same sympath­
le of Canadian fishing
flies, etic portrayal of both man and
When he returned from his re­ nature. “The whole ecology of
cent trip to Japan, Prof. Lam­ a certain place is. important,”
an carried with him a handma­ Prof. Liman contends. :A . river
de bamboo fishing rod— a gift for example, is a story by that
from Ibuse. Western critics may name, becomes the locus from
scorn? this / intimacy between which all life, natural and humscholar and author because - of an, is viewed.
the prevailing feeling here that
Ibuse is a “painstaking craftthe artist and his work are ve­
considers' a
ry separate entities not to be sman’ who never
confused or connected. However, work completed. He has a “liv­
there is a familiar adage in Ja­ ing relationship with his work”,
pan that a “writer is his style,” Prof. Liman says, which makes
revision of his work a continual
Prof. Liman stated.
Eager scholars and journalists process in his life. The author’s
must be warned though, if they collected works run to 14 vo­
contemplate interviewing . the lumes, but so far only one novel
author, that a most' unreceptive and several short stories have
welcome awaits * them. Ibuse do­ been translated into English.
esn’t like to talk about litera­
ture;. His work speaks for him,
he says. Prof. Liman indicated
that younger Japanese writers
are successful* at selling their
names but their style is often
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an Ibuse story,” he contended,
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roduced humour into a genre
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where it was not expected to be
used?’ Pre-war- Japanese litera­
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mour ( was not thought to ■ be a
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