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he Nobility Of Failure: Tragic Heroes In The History Of Japan
roes. It is the history written . followers, but
represents an
so rigorously and thoughtfully irrevocable collapse of the cause
that history itself is rendered he
1 ’has' championed,

'
the author
startlingly alive and past conc- feels that “this predilection for
erns ; become recognizably those heroes -^ho were unable to achie­
of the . present.
/
ve their concrete objectives can
This is indeed a part of the. teach us much about Japanese va­
■Reviewed by
author’s intent. Seeing that thr­ lues and sensibility -— and indi­
oughout
Japanese history there rectly about our own as well.”
DONALD RICHIE
is a . typically wel 1-beloved hero
This then is the aspect of his­
represents tory with which the book is con­
This fascinating, moving, and ‘■whose career. .
ery_ satisfying book traces a sin- the .very antithesis of an ethos cerned, and the heroes are Ya­
le theme throughout 16 cent­ of aecomplishemnt,” whose dea­ mato Takeru, Yorozu, Arima no
setback Miko, Suguwara no Michizane,
res of Japanese . civilization th is “no temporary
nd the lives of nine of its he- which will be redeemed by his Minamoto no Yoshitsune, Kusu­
FAILUE: TRAGIC HEROES IN. THE
ISTORY OF. JAPAN. By Ivan
orris. 'iNew York: Holt, Rineart and Winston 1975. Pp. 500,
-ith maps and plates 41. $17.95.
the nobility of

noki Masashige, Amakusa Shiro,
Oshio Heihachiro, Saigo Taka­
mori, and the kamikaze fighters
of the Pacific .War.
From their lives, failures all
seen from7 any rational viewpo­
int, Morris most .persuasively
illustrates his thesis • that it is
precisely the quality of the fa­
ilure which makes these men es­
teemed figures — heroes -which
in another culture might well
have been swept under history’s
rug.
.
Distinguishing the
Japanese

concept is the quality of “makoto.” Though this word is usu­
ally, and somewhat weakly-^.tr­
anslated as “sincerity,'! the au­
thor suggests that " the implica­
tions are much'greater and com­
pares its use to
St. Thomas
More’s praying for the grace “to
set this world at naught,” the
equality of “makoto” having as
its criteria ' “not the . objective
righteousness of a cause,
but
the honesty-with which ;the he(Coot. on P. 2)

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The Octo Canadian
An Independent Organ for Canadians of Japanese Origin
oh XXXIX — 86

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1975

Where The Critics
Right About Bergamini?

Toronto,. Ont.

Japan's Whaling Industry Agree To Adopt
IWC's New Resource Management Formula

NEW YORK. — Japan’s wha­ below maximum, sustainable yi­ Eastern Australia. / Fin whaling =.
ling industry will- fully respect eld levels. It brings all world o- will also be;banned in all but one ?
Bergamini’s
massive : thriller; the new resource . management ceans under IWC quota systems region in the, Antartic and in: the ?
By DWIGHT CHUMAN
“Japan’s Imperial Conspiracy,”
APAN’S IMPERIAL CONSPI- attempts to .‘solve’ World War H formula adopted at the - , June for the first time, including’ the North Atlantic.
1975 meeting of the Internation­ North Atlantic,: which has ne­
The Association said,
“Our ’
lACY.By David Bergamini. 1239 in the Pacific this way/’ ,
al
Whaling Commission (IWC)’; ver before been regulated. •
decision is based on Japan’s/ co-s
ages. William- Morrow. Co., ‘Inc.
However, in defense of Berga­ according to the /Japan Whaling
As a result, there will be a mmitment to 'both protection and
971 _ — \$14.95.
mini, Richard Halloran wrote in Association.
complete halt to all sei whaling prudent use of whale resources.' ;
Almost without -exepetion, ma- ’Saturday Review that the aut­
The new formula imposes a in the North Pacific and West The new 10 per cent guidelines
extensive harvesting moratorium, -or total Indian; Ocean . in the southern will protect species long before
or- reviewers panned David Ber- hor’s sources were
jamini’s massive work, “Japan’s- and -impressive and that Berga­ ban, on species-whose populations hemisphere, sand to all male sp‘e-x they even s approach : endangered *
imperial Conspiracy,” when it fi­ mini’s massive research tempted have fallen’ more /than 40 per cent rm whaling in the vicinity of levels. ’
/
st appeared on. bookstands' in one to f conclude “that, majority
“Implementation of the new.
of scholars / and journalists who
formula
will require further reorOnly now in the face of Japan are students of Japan have been
ganization and reduction of - Ja­
imperor Hirohito’s recent state innocent babes for more than a
pan’s whaling industry.' Howe­
•isitto the United States and ’in’ quarter of a century.” But, even
ver, despite our considerable sa- ’
review of
he aftermath, of this country’s Halloran ended his
crifice, we are confident it will '
TORONTO. — The Toronto/Japanese Language School, com­
wn Watergate coverup episode the book with a cop-out, joining
be possible for us to - continued
las Bergamini’s book reascended the rest of -Bergamini’s critics menced -its new term In September with a total of 98 students whalingunderscientificaljywjust^l
rom the
academic
disgrace in’ calling his thesis too .simplis­ enrolling in Grade one in .the 3 schools.: With a,student population ified .-resource managemait^ptmii-.^
numbering 845 and -28 teachers, classes are held every Saturday, ciples.
t was sentenced1 to by most of tic.
,
/
he' so-called ' “Asiawatchers”
Bergamini reached the conclu­ morning from 9 a.m. to 12 noon.
_ “We. estimate that newregul. Orde School branch saw a total of 42 students enrolling -in
ind historical heavyweights near- sion that Hirohito was/ not the
lations will cut Japan’s , whale?
Grade
1 with -an additional 1'3, attending the special adult class.
y one-half decade ago. into the Imperial Puppet that policy-line
meat production^in- this whaling
,—Total students 150.
>ublic- view as something more historians' have- described for ye­
year to less, than 40,000 ^tons
,
'
2.
Wexford
Collegiate
branch- had 33- students in Grade. 1.
han a vengeance-filled conspir-; ars in textbooks, but that he was
from, last year’s 80,000 ' ‘tons..
— Total^students 81.
x
,-. ..
itorial historian’s hallucinations. a formidable war leader; tireless,
Considering that Japan’s ‘total 3.
Jackman
.
School
branch
which^offers
;
advanced
courseshad
Barbara Ward (“Guns of Aug-, dedicated, meticulous, clever, and
domestic , beef 'production amo- j
— Total students 114.
1
jst”) Tuchman, a respected chro­ patient. A man of superior inte- 23-students in Grade 1.
unts .to. less than 300’000 tons.i
Bergamini’s
nicler of China history. and' Wo- ; lect, Hirohito, in
this reduction will directly; affect';
rid War II herself, called Berga- view/ inherited from . his , great-,
Japanese 'diets,' which
include
tnini’s work a valuable new bit grandfather, Emperor Meiji, a
whale meat as an invaluable -pro-,
of. fresh /information on wartime mission to rid Asia of white men.
tein source.
Japan,; but then preceeded to
. “A protein-poor’nation, Japan
One of the most important
knock the author’s bold asserti­ points Bergamini makes in this
has a historic' commitment, - to ’
ons in an " Oct. 24, 1971;review, book deals with .the myth-mak­
prudent.use of all marine-resour­
which appeared in “Book World”. ing process extant in all societes.
ces.
'
~
\ ‘
In .labeling Bergamini’s thesis He talks of the mass / / blindness : NEW YORK. — The Japanese | price when introduced’here.cont- ^“It is our sincere hope that
“untenable,” Ward-Tuchman wro­ of foreign historians and states can "be tough competitors. For ains a. timer that will, allow pe­ extremist conservation j groups .
te, “I think, because like all sim­ that, > in his, opinion, Western example, while: Detroit- was argu- • ople' to tape shows they cannot in non-whaling nationswill..now
ple, single answers, -it- distracts scholars have failed to uncover ing that it would-not be possible initially watch for: later playing. discontinues boycott- campaigns ?
attentionfrom the fundamental anything about the history of- to "meet stringent: mid-70’s .fede­ They will .even; be: able to watch, and other inflamatory anti-Japan
social forces and the multiple fac­ Japan they were not "purposeful ral automobile pollution-control say, one channel while simultane­ tactics which work against’the"
tors oftime -circumstance/ peop­ lly directed toistandards, ■ The Honda Motor ously .video-taping ^another -chan­ spirit' of international . , ’cbopea^'
le- and pure.chance that com­ ; “Western observers in Japan,”; Company, 'Ltd., was quietly per­ nel for later viewing.- A -less-po- tion to which IWC is devoted. . 7
bine to determine a nation’s des-, wrote Bergamini, “beset as ever fecting a “stratifield charge!’ en-. pular feature with the adverti­
“In recent years, U.S. ^antftiny. That individual's likely to with the linguistic and cultural gine with two combustion cham­ sers is a pause control that will whaling groupsz have- . employed
be the..manifestation, 'hot
the confusions, can fail ‘to
notice bers 1 for 'each cylinder; The re­ allow the viewer to block out boycotts and other extremist eff-.
, /
creator, of a dynamic that is al- anything that .is not deliberately sult — available in Honda’s..CV- ads.
orts tb force Japan , to ./submit’
Once again, this is a_ system to. a global. moratorium 1 on;^all *
ready present.”
< pointed out to Kthem.”
CC model automobile — is a:
Similarly, Newsweek’s Walter /. Bergamini, .who speaks and high-mileage ; engine ' that easily; other manufacturers -are; merely commercial- whaling. Their ef
Cleamons said: “The :lure of a reads, Japanese, 'based his work meets the highest pollution-con-; talking' about. It is ? estimated forts -have - even - reached-* U.S.Conspiracy theory is that, it o- bn the diaries of four key/men ar­ trol standards now contemplated. that some 7,500 of' the Betamax publjc<schools,:. w
antjMviw-^
ye simplifies history for us. Ne­ ound the Emperor .and; a secret Detroit continues . to argue for; ^systems have -been sold in Japan ling propaganda; •has^ ^^
in the last four months. Thefcom- oppression of Japanese Ameri, , -—
ver mind ~how intricate the con­ history of the Emperor’s, reign. more time.
pany
has stated that, at that priT can school/children;
spiracy is; once it‘s laid bare One such 'sources .document,vthe ... -Similarly, Sony ■ Corporation
ce
it
is asking, the
Betamax
*e no ■ longer have to stumble memories of Japan’s
wartime has perfected its - Betamax " home will not be a loss: leader./Rather/ - “Because the total moratorium'
through: the maze r of impalpable Army Chief of Staff, General
has been ^consistently re jectedas/;
.historical forces, mixed motives Hajime Sugiyama, showed; that video TV system,- which.it is’test­ it will make money and even ab­ biologically^ unjustified andscienmarketing . in Japan. The unit, sorb the high initial marketing;
shared responsibilities, not;
which will carry a lofty $2,295 and service costs, Sony says?’
.Rowing whom to blame; David
Cont. on P. 2
'■
v (Cont. .on P. !)
'^.

Toronto Japanese Language School's
3 Branches Attracts Many Students

Japanese Cars Prove Tough
Competitors For Detroit

Page 2

Tuesday, December 16, 1975

NEW

- PAGE 2

Bergamini

Heroes

Ths New Canadian

ps faith, God will be on his side in1 January 1941, eleven -months gamini- said that Reischauer, un­
ro espouses it.”
Association of Ontaris
All ’ of , the men in the book and ;he or his cause will eventu­ before the outreach of .war with til then a close family friend of
many
years,
steadfastly
refused
ally
triumph.
In
Japan
there
is
the
U.S.
Hirohito
had
persona
­
Second Class min
illustrate ^this: : principle,V but • it
lly
ordered
a
secret
1
evaluation
to
read
the
manuscript
and
inst
­
no
such
belief.
The
people
are
No. D-0366
isperhapsmostclearlyseenin
made._of
the
feasibility
of
a
sur
­
ead
began
a-.
one-man
campaign
resigned
to

the
idea

that
-the
the case of Kusunoki Masashige
AMD niDAY
1
After
whose" “makoto” _ was of the pu­ world ‘ and - the human condition prise attack; on Pearl Harbor. to stop its publication.
T.
UMEZUKI
PubliAer
rest, 'though his cause
might are not;essentially benign, (that) ‘The .Sugiyama: Memoranda* ' sta­ letters to the publishers failed
K. C. TSUMURA
(and :-did) cause- some suspicions ultimately we fail.” - Yet this ve- ted that General Hideki Tojo, the from keeping the book from the
English
Section Editor
that
“In? almost any other country,” Ty impermanence and poignan­ purported arch^militarist who he­ stores, Bergamini states
KEN MORI
Morris .writes, “the; hero of such cy has disclosed a special beau­ aded Japans wartime ; cabinet, Reischauer personally wrote re­
JapaneoeSection Editor
an engagement, would be the gre­ ty in evanescence. It is this • qu­ was not told of the Pearl Har­ cognized members of the acade­
479 QUEEN ST. WEST
bor
plan
until
Nov.
1941.
ality-which
the
failed
hero
often
mic
community
and
book
revi
­
at conqueror who led his troops
Toronto, Ont. M5V-2A9
"
to glory and. who. .. would have exemplifies.
Japan’s Imperial Conspiracy is ewers, to insure that the book
366-5005
secured victory ~for Jus- cause, ■ Why it . should be so popular an irreverent work which sheds would receive uncomplimentary
. Being Japanese, however,
the in Japan- is a question to which light on areas of modern Japan­ reviews.
hero unerringly chose' the 1 os- the.;author .devotes considerable ese history never before sugge­ ; : Japan’s Imperial ■ Conspiracy
ing side.”
thought. “In a tight-knit,- con­ sted let alone discussed at 1239- sold ■ a reported 130,000 copies in
Kiisonoki’s adversary was Ashi­ formist' society like, Japan’s,-in page length; Bergamini’s thesis the United - States. - Bergamini
kaga^ Takauji and it was he who which the greatest value is atta- that Hirohito was not the passi­ claims an entire 5000-copy. press
Help Wanted
won. So ingrained is the Japan­ .ched to achieving success within ve dupe to the fanatic militarists run of the Japanese translation REFINISHER, ■ Toueh-up man
paint of the book was purchased by
ese respect for “makoto” and the a conventional and carefully defi- that 'western historians
him
as
IS
simple,
but
no
more the Japanese Foreign Office. A needed for .large piano store;
nobility of failure, however, that ned framework,. there is a spe­
Work on new and used pianos
as late as the 1939s a cabinet cial fascination: about an indivi­ plain'and pat than theconventi- few' liberated copies of Berga­ with lacquer, polyester and spray;
mini

s-Hook
are
said
to;
be;
worth
x minister was ’ obliged to resign dual ;whose" idiosyncratic perso­ pnab view of Hirohito* as a “mild
Phone 363-2750 (Toronto);
; from: the government because
nality and commitment to a set mannered; bespectacled * marine as much as $200 for a single copy,
; a prp-Taka-ujFarticle he had wri­ of abstract ideals impel him to biologist and helpless prisoner of under-the-counter, in - Japanese
tten. “Such,” notes the author, break out of the ‘web’ society’.” Events,” as Ward-Tuchman de­ bookstores.
For this- reviewer, = all Japan’s
_“are ^he'posthumous rewards of i A contemporary case would, be scribes -him.
Imperial
Conspiracy, provides is
Critical assesments of most
(Cont. from Page One)
' failure' and the perils-of success that, of Yukio Mishima (to ’whom
an
:
alternative
- interpretation; of
conspiratorial
explanations
of
in-Japan.”* In alf cases the'failu­ the 'book is dedicated)
tifically groundless by marine
L i n
“. w ° history are sometimes valid, but Japan’s; actions during -World ..-. . . .<
res are affectionately rememb­ chose to ?die "for ideals which-the
War H. It’s definitely not th.' “^
the world,
to
dismiss
a
theory;,
just
becouse
ered. The. victors . “had the dis­ maj ori ty of hi s. c'ontemp arari es
final
source
to
be
consulted,
but

^groups
aye
now
resorted
advantages .of being realistic, regarded as quixotic. Nothing if it forwards - a conspiratorial vi-:
to.irresponsible
and
absolutely
ewppint would seem useful only neither are - postwar ’ apologies
practical, and successful.”
not self-conscious Mishima, howe- in preserving the most conventb and policy . lineevaluations of false charges to sustain their de­
This sentimental
inclination ver, knew precisely what he was onaHand preferred of images.' Hirohito as ; a ..powerless consti­ mands.
“They have ■ falsely charged
for failure is, of course, com­ doing and it seems safe to say Bergamini’s book isn’t gospel, al­ tutional .monarch; who; stood by
that
a . Japanesecompmon to all peoples, but the airt-, that: the celebrated haranguing though ;hemay claim it to be as as: lower caste military * zealots
anyJplans
to
harvest
IWC
of
the
soldiers
was
designated
to.
hor is- quick to point out “an es­
any author would, its -value is led his country down a path of
protected gray whales off the
sential difference.’ - “Napoleon’s fail. As he wrote. Ivan Morris contained in the destruction of defeat and destruction.
panegyrists,” he writes, “rarerly before his death: “I have belie­ much of the mythmaking perpet­
This country, far more than in California coast and . that ; the
dwell on the period after Water­ ved that knowing without acting rated upon the world public since 1971, is more capable of receiv­ company has tasked the governloo, whereas if he belonged to is not sufficiently knowing, and World War II hostilities ended ing such a work as -Bergamini’s, ment of Mexico for permission
the Japanese tradition .his catac- action itself does.not require any about Hirohito, * Japan and phe­ not; only, because- of Hirohito’s to hunt-gray whales.
“These tactics are intended to"
s lysm and -its bitter. aftermath wo; effectiveness.”
nomenon of modern historical in­ recent.yisit,.but because of a mo­ prevent the exercise of logic.and
uld be' central to the, heroic le­ -Mishima’s action, a
failure terpretation.
re questioning' attitude by - the
.
gend.” The Japanese concern is 'from many points of view, .was
issues dialogue, and the development of
Perhaps the book’s
skeptics public at large about,
not the common one of feeling distinguished ' by “makoto,”. and
which do have and will influen­ scientific management decisions
based on the interests of all —
for the underdog. lt is much mo-- his posthumous’ fame not as a are holding out until some for­ ce their lives.
mer
Imperial
staffer
comes
ac
­
re complicated than that.
man of letters but' as a = man. of ross with the information that
While - Bergamini’s topic for­ objectives to which IWC member
nations .are pledged.
x
Central, to .the Japanese assum- action - would lead one to believe
Hirohito, kept secret tape record­ ces the - reader to: reach further i “The- Japan Whaling Associa­
- ption is a.basic philosophic com- that 'the. idea of the nobility of ings of all of his private warti­ back and away in - history than
- plex .which is’ quite different fr- failure, of which - Morris So bril­ me conversations.
let’s say the Kent State Incident,* tion believes that; scientifically
reasonable -decisions can protect
’ om those - of ; other ' cultures. In liantly writes;, is - still a -very live;
Yet another perplexing 'and the -My Lai Massacre or Wound- and preserve the world’s whale
the West, so long as a man kee- part of-Japanese culture
somewhat sinister sounding con­ ed Knee, the myth-violating, po­ population.”
spiracy j-was revealed during, a licy line disruption which: is ' in­
long-distance telephone conversa­ herent in the Japan’s Imperial;
Conspracy is as timely as tom­
TORONTO TAPANESE GOSPEL CHURCH
tion with Bergamini recently.
St. J*ha*a Presbytariaa. ‘ Broadtirw al Simpaaa ' Av*.
' The principal playerin this orrow’s headlines.
BEBVICES: 7
latest Bergamini controversy is
r _ ^ Sunday: Sundar Sch«*l and -Worship Sarrica* 2:00 P.M.
".-’Tuatdry: PnryaZ,and -Study Fdlawihip 'BdD P.M.
evidently* Japan’s _ modern-day
*F-*dayr Young Paoplaa Christian Fellowship 1:00 PM
white father,* former U.S. Amba' Phoua i^atact.- Mr. S. Yokota «M1». Mr. H. Yoahida 4S1-16M.
ORDERS FOR OBENTO
sador to Japan, Edwin O. Reischuer.
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ACCEPTED
Bergamini, who has not’ pub­
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juesday, December 16, 1975

THE

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TOKYO. — A cat followed his
paster \when the man made a
neighborhood burglary ': attempt,
^t When tlie men fled the cat
did not, ■ result,ing in the man’s

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Ogino Rink Leads Toronto
LC. Curling League Action
TORONTO. —• The eighth ga­ tie the game 6 — 6.
me, of the Toronto J.C. Curling
In the absence of Dr. Nishi­
League season at Avonlea Cur- kawa, the sauave vice-skip 'Bob
Jmg Club, December 7th, finally Kimura, took charge to -achieve
gave Matsunaga a point in the a 12 to 7 victory over Takashiba
league standing with a tie. Skip rink. The .two teams are now
Ray Matsunaga, his
vice-skip’ tied for second place in the stan­
Herb Sugie, second Bev Suzuki dings. Ev Sinclair and spare Ju­
and lead Carol Terada did it the lie Roslin made some, magnific­
hard way by tackling the leagus ent shots for the Nishikawa win.
leaders, the Ogino rink.
Takeshiba
team of vice-skip,
Vic
Suzuki,
second
Gunter Wendt
Matsunaga team curled well
and
charming
lead
Ellen Kimura
and almost won the game. Eve­
made
a
strong
-finish
by-adding
ryone converged on the Matsu­
five
points
in
the
last
two ends.
naga-Ogino battle as they ent­
In
the
other
game,
Kilburn’s
ered the eight and final end with
glorious
win
over
Nishikawa
’s
Matsunaga leading 6 to 5. It was
team the previous week
was
an exciting and tense climax.
short-lived by Sano’s victory'over
Faced with a shot rock in fa­ Kilburn 10 to 4.
vor of Matsunaga rink, vice-skip
Yas Shinde and skip. George O- ' League standing, Dec. 7, 1975
gino had a long consultation on Ogino 13 points
the -vice-skip’s next rock. Ogino Takashiba 10 points ~ :
called it right as Shinde made Nishikawa 10 points
a perfect , draw to the button, up Sano 8 points .
against Matsunaga team’s shot Kilburn 6 points
rock. It eventually counted to gi­ Matsunaga 1 point
ve Ogino the point he heeded to
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