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Japan Travel Office Is Eyed by British Columbia Provincial Government
VANCOUVER
VANCOUVER? — ' The
About50,000
50,000 ’Japanese-tourists
Japanese- tourists
The-, nr6vin?
provin ' About
■,^caal government; js - considering visit Brisish /Columbia eachFyear
. setting "up' an *office, in Japan- to and. another ; 20,009 ' come • from
promote? tourism - an d; tra de^/Mini­ other'Pacific-nationsy: she: told. the.
ster \ of- Travel;'- Industry Grace Fan Pacific'Congress of rReal Es­
tate Appraisers. / - ,
\
MrCarthy saidrecently.
_

manyiyears, B.C. has maihmain- Japar
Japan, "but statistics . are .being
being problems ~ and there, must.be a
./-For
-For many;years,
tained trade and tourism promo­ compiled to help the cabinet in greater focus on unemployment. ,
' With all the talk* about the
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tion offices sin* San Francisco and -reaching a decision'. '•
The minister of .‘travel told the environment, “there is a worse
Los' Angeles, she- said. MeCarthy said no final decision _congress that there has been an pollution problem: in the province
has-been reached on the office in over-reaction to ' environmental'

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An Independent Organ for Canadians :cf Japanese Origin
FRIDAY, JUNE-17, 1977

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JC Honors
Elders in
Kent County

Kusawake Koromo

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CHATHAM — In a tradition
almost foreign to North Ameri­
can lifestyles, the Kent County
Japanese community paid tribute
to, 25 of its elders. This is the
20th annual - Shinboku Keirokai,
which translated means “a social
gathering to show respect for the •

Pioneers
The following article . about' early Japanese pioneers in. Canada*
-is a': translation a from a series, of recollections int a book edited? by
Jinshiro Nakayama, /.‘CANADA D.OBO. HATTEN TAIKAN”, pub­
lished iin. 1922. The translators were Hanako Sato and Tsutae Sato
of Vancouver/ Sumi • Nogami, Dr. Yuki -Nogami, Mitsu Moriyama,
and Tom Yoshida of Hamilton and Wa.kiko Haruki of Waterloo. Roy
Ito acted as editor and: co—ordinator. Assistance_for the project was,
given by the National Japanese Canadian Citizens’ Association. ; ;
? - Kusdwake' koromo can be translated as /‘one Who parts Ahe
grass.”
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aged.”
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About 200 persons from Kent
County and the surrounding area
enjoyed traditional Japanese and
Canadian, dishes : at the Chatham
-Masonic Temple. Then the young
people offered their respect to the
■elders in the form of traditional
songs and dances.
^ > This year* marks the 100£h anni­

-People Who Shine Like The Stars

The first Japanese to fish on * cutting wood. He seemed Lo have
versary of the arrival of the first
the Fraser River _ was Manzo prospered at this but in 1897 he
Japanese immigrant to Canada.
Nagano in- 1877. In 1884 a -num- run: into difficult times and came
To commemorate the occasion, the
■A ber of Japanese arrived in Van-, to Vancouver- and then r to New
couver, two or three coming- from Westminster, where he' worked
•chairman of the Ontario Japa­
nese Centennial Society, Mikio
Seattle. At that . time/ there was hard* at logging. He became seri­
Nakamura, presented each of the (
ho one who * arrived, directly from ously ill, died and was buried in
25 elders^with a centennial sou­
Japan. -Victoria was established Mount Pleasant Cemetery.
ii^H
In'1887 C.- F. Dunsmuir ran a
by the Hudson Bay Company and
venir- teacup.
store
in
Victoria.
He
hired;
Katpredated Sari. . Francisfco. About
In an interview, Nakamura said
sura
1884 - 1885 in Victoria a French­
Kamiya, Yoshimotsu Suya
it is important to keep traditions
man, called Chales Gabler (sic) and Kichinoshin Morita. Dunssuch as Shinboku Keirokafi, since
took an interest in the Japanese. muir was also an agent for a
there are only 40,000 Japanese
company
and
he
_ The Japanese in Victoria at that steamship
TORONTO — The Nikka * Festival '.Dancers will open their Canadians left in Canada.
time included Manzo Nagano, brought over Japanese to work in National Tour on June 21st and 22nd at the MacMillan Theatre in - Nakamura said after a centuryKinsuke • Takahashi,
K i s u k e the coal mines at Comox. Among Toronto beginning 8 p.m.
■,
long struggle to claim a home in a
The
Nikka
Festival
Dancers
touring
troupe,
.
comprised
of two
Mikuni, Shinkichi Tamura, Arimi- those who came and are still liivpioneer- country, the number of
chi Shino. Coal was discovered on ung in B.C. are Kanekichi Nakani­ dozen Sansei dancers from the Toronto-Hamilton and Vancouver Japanese-Canadians. is dwindling.
areas, have been practising intensively, for over a year for the Con­
Tonbo (sic) Island, and Gabler shi, -Matsutaro Iwasa, Tazo ShinHe said nearly 80 per cent, of
cert, which will take them to. Lethbridge, -Calgary,. Edmonton, and
" and IMikuni went- to Japan .and tani/ Tokutaro Chikamura. A man Vancouver in August; after-the Eastern Tour. The Concert, a "major the Japanese are inter-marrying
" recruited twenty workers. But the called Saburo Banshin of Tacoma part of the Centennial program will help promote the Centennial in Canada? That, Nakamura- said,
twenty didn’t seem to like the was a great leader at that time. and introduce elements of the Japanese Canadian cultural heritage.
“will eventually lead to total as­
Teachers"’from Toronto'and Vancouver..have been working long similation.- . . and idealistically
He was also very wealthy. Others
work and quit;.
wiho worked in. the mines were hours with the dancers to produce a top-notch show. Hinaaka Otowa, it’s the best thing that can hap­
A Friendly Frenchman
Shiros-uke. Nomura,. Kichinoshin YoshikJiyo Tatsumi, Sadayo Hayashi, Irene Tsujimoto, and Chiyoko
pen.’’
*
Mr. Gabler took a personal in­
Izumiwill give guest* performances, dancing with their students.
Murata, and Kinyu Obazaki/
London Free Egress
Others who will be performing in the concert are Masa Hirano,
terest in the-Japanese and was a
At this time many vessels Theresa Kobayashi (koto), Takeo Yamashiro? (shakuhachi) and
great supporter and. defender of
docked at Victoria. They were Harry Aoki (bass),. _

* ...
the Japanese people. Some who
The Nikka Festival Dancers are: (from Vancouver) Leane Kishi,
catching seals and sea otters on
- came at that time and remained
Amy Tanigami, Janet Makihara, Sherri Kajiwara, Midori Yamanaka,
the - B. C. coast. Sometimes there
in Canada were Ryokichi Kaji­
Sherry Minamimae, Shirley Nakata, Linda Oishi, Masumi Hamawere eighty ships in port; at zake, Yuriko Maekawa,- Bonnie Morishita, Joyce Murao, Marisa
hara, Momosaki, Yoichi Yamada.
other? times 150 . to 160 vessels.. Nishi. (From Toronto) Wendy Kumoi, Midori Carney, Maya Suefuji, - LOS ANGELES — Actor Pat
Gabler later , sold his store to Mr.
Japanese were able' to get em­ Jane Yoshida, Karlyn Yoshida, Sharon, Morishita, Kathy Fujimoto^ Morita was signed by Paramount
•Fouchard (sic). The Japanese in
ployment on these ships. One man Megumi Nakamura, Naomi Tanaka, Karen Mori, and .Midori j to continue his role as. Arnold in
Victoria scattered about after this
A
I a new TV situation comedy. The
called Shotaro Shima became Yamamoto.
This assembly of the finest performers from the two extremities
Blansky’s Beauties”, stars
known- as a sharpshooter with the:
of Canada is a unique gathering and will probably never happen series
: /Mikuni bought; land. on Saturna
Nancy Walker.
Island and started farming and
again.

Nikka Festival Dancers Open
June 21 & 22

Morita's New Role

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Friday, “June 17, ,197

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rant had to close amid jeens^from
.prevailing "in/the country,, the
. At^-this.. time most ., Japanese - the Japanese. This was- one of the
early wedding -season is on and
who . lived in Victoria worked in first' busines s ventures . of Japa-r:
young' couples —^ thousands of
the. coal .mines, in logging or- nese in Canada and- the-men had
them —^/are being hitched left
clerked in; general-""stores. There: really worked hard'.
hnd right.
was one-group that tried a res / Canada-Dobo Hatten Taikan’,
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apanese
■ t a ur ant . Am on g them i were the
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.collegiate baseball, " the year -can,
third- son of the famous Kenkichi
138. ‘
be split-into? two seasons, s
Ka taako, Tsunekichi, Yonejiro Ito ;
and autumn.
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oneof many held at ’the' Taito
Ward-Hall in . Asakusd _ oh the
Emperor's Birthday.
" A year earlier, the wiTe and-J
479’ Queen Street West,
- < Toronto/„Ont:\M5Vj 2A9.
were at -a -wedding -reception in
PHONE 366-5005 \
the classier surroun'dings of the
Palace Hotel, and the set procedure was followed. The/wedding
cake -bit at the reception .as in
most- cases was* just - make-believe.
Help' Wanted "
The guests all get • a piece of
.-WeddingsinJapan
HOUSE ‘cleaning person-for evei'yed since" the old .days.; They - are cake but it is not part of a regu-^
other week. English and experi­
apt to be (held under ja■ mixture -of lar wedding cake.ence ' not necessary. Phone 483foreign and Japanese customs. . w-Although love matches are on
6597 (Toronto)-. ’
r ' ~
, I ' attended a wedding along ■ the - in crease, engagements ;. ar-,
with the rest of the family on the ranged . through miai meetings WANTED university /student for
Emperor’s Birthday near the end lead to .most marriages in Japan." driving; panel ? truck during sum­
of “April 8 tin -which a d ouble-ring The custom . of the exchange of mer months- for, gardening work.
ceremony ’Iwas -worked into the yuiinootr-nuptial presents goes on. Phone 763-6220-(Toronto)._.
traditional Shinto rites. . ' , ■
And a popular addition is the'
GARDENER’S helpers 1 wanted.
In addition to the - customary engagement ring. / ’
"
Physically. fit to work outdoors
sansan-kudo/Lor exchange.- of ; sake
The smart thing for a justcups,' the. priest. in.- charge’ officir married couple. is to honeymoon. during summer months. : / Good
at-ed over" the / exchange of wed- ,J abroad' and ^Hawaii is the ; top pay, phone. 266^7918 after 6 p.m.
'
/
'
(ling: -rings by- the -r bride ■ and choice among -destinations' vyith (Toronto.)
groom> who were both in' Japa- Guam / second. Among honeymoon
nese garb.- -Shinto weddings were spots in Japan,' Hokkaido, Kyushu
OLD Japanese 50 Yen bilL Hated
never: like this before.
and. Okinawa are the most popu­
1899-1910.. Asking $i00,000L All"
■ Wedding -receptions, wherever
lar!
replies a nswer ed. B ox - 123, San-"
they are held - in the • country to­
A new. tAv.ist is- to get: marriedgudo, Alberta, TOE 2A0.
day, have taken on a set pattern,
in Havzaii and send wedding
*a combinationof Japanese and
notices'home.
fo-reign convention.
A recent survey of .wedding
I .After the. guests are seated, halls revealed / that couples <in
the • bride ■ and groom invariably these -more affluent'- times were
•make--their entrance to the- re­ prepared to spend about $1,600 than the environment can ever be,
and that is the ^pollution / of un­
corded strains of “Here comes^he on -honeymoon-trips.
employment,” she said.'
bride”. A full set of recordings of
No’ doubt .the most - popular
The Social ’ Credit government
the “Wedding March” is a must
omiyage for the" folks iba>ck :home
has been trying, to fight the prob­
for every hotel and wedding hail.
honeymooning'
picked
up
lem, through encouraging .private
There is / always ar multi-tiered;
couples - are packages of choco­
enterprise, she said/ adding that
fake "wedding cake for the couple
late-covered macadamia nuts. All
to simulate cutting. Then, there is
mining exploration zhas> tripled in
visitors -to Hawaii seem to .buy
the 18 “months' since her party
a‘ champagne toast to/ the. newly
them.
came to power. —
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married. , .’
Along with this-^-is/the inevit­
able long-winded speech by the
nakodo or go-between, a Japanese
custom which remains a fixture.
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-■ THUNDER BAY —- Ori Satur:day, May 28th, Churchill -High
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Annual Japanese Canadian Cen­
tennial Judo Tournament. ’ Judoka
-from < ■ a cross
the ' Northwe'st
Region participated in the martial
arts experience which marked 100
’yearsS^of Japanese’ residence - in
Canada (1877-1977). Mayor Assef
was on hand * to receive a gift
from Mr. Fred Nishikawa, Chair­
ss»o
man 'of the Japanese-Canadian
Centennial Committee in Thunder
NORTH SHUS WAP
Mr. Frank Mitsuo Jmai, 73, and Bay. Mr. Kaz Iwasa explained
his /wife, Akiko Imai, 70, recently the importance of the • event to
celebrated their Golden Wedding both participants and spectators.'
Anniversary at. a banquet held' in Mr. Norm .Sakamoto was • meet
the Highlander Restaurant- in director-.
The Judo Challenge Trophy/
Kamloops, B.C. /with their family
donated by .Lakehead Japanese
and many .friends..
Canadians was won by the Budo.At the head table, 'besides' the kan Judo Club at Confederation
honoured couple, were : their sori,' College. Kenora Judo Kai placed
■‘daughter? in-larw/' . and grandson, second; Dryden third; and LakeMr. and ’Mrs. Leo Imai and head University, fourth. Sandra
Bobby; Mr. and Mrs. K. Ogawa Greaves and', Rick Samas, both of
and Sigh Kobayashi who acted the Budokan Judo Club were se­
as master of ceremonies.
lected the outstanding jukoka of
the tournament.
. Mr. and -Mrs. .Imai were mar­
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In 192S Frank.' landed in Van­
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Friday,' June ;17,*<197.

Self-made: Scientist

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He was. cbnfered a doctorate ?>tional/ vb udget With this ,; .sum, that 5 construction ; work L
only 5 per "cent .of'the total land
By KEISUKE OKADA"
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U.S.'’ our' nation‘-'can"' be- the;? Messiah started;iri?'two years? And his .tar- —
area on' earth.--About 30 per cent degree .in-1974 from the
get number of supporters is set
TOKYO. — He is neither an I of? the ?;tbtal viand : ar ea ? i s .v. 'either .International ' University in . Cay for the- world,’V,he „ says;
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iifornia;;xor.?his treatise oh Fuji- *' As promoter/of the ^project, he af^-“one' million.”-;.
evangelist “nor a prophet. .He is inhabitable deserts / or^ marshy :arbeton * and’ is' -concurrently an. ; establishe d^-the-So ciety-. to <Reyita.- '. He also says' he welcomesfo- ,
,/a =; elf-made scientist with ho bac­
reignsupportersinlig-lit-ofthe
Fujimasu says if* Fujibe ton * is :h6-norary profes sor*;at a- Private. lize the Earth .and ds now/appeakground . of higher* education. - : ling * to a scienti sts; business : firm^^ project’s - aim.- —r* “the .: salvation
■ ,But he is confident he can sa- used to: creates, anv ' underground university ' an' Kyushu. '
of entire mankind.” . , ' ‘
The current subjects of , has vand^ndividuals^o^become^
to
ve entire’ mankind, not from - any “waterproof”;-layer designed
voiding :members?of ihe project.
spiritual agony but from -- the stop rainwater,- ^deserts and . mar­ research are:- 1) ’ creation^of;pulp
out .of.; “sweet-potato • vines” - to .-. According 'to the rules of the
dire -possibility, bf -.exhausting shes . could .be changed . to-, use­
reduce- man’s 'dependency on tim-; Society,van-rindi^
supporting
- natural resources,with'whathis ful-land for. human’.-, habitation
ber, 2) - production, of-, artificial member is . requested to.
?
pay
/ 40-year-old research has achieved: and agriculture?
timber
out
of
.,
small?
annual'shru
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/Tt‘is not at all-a fanciful idea
fYl,000 as an initial fee and Y500
"The latter-day savior is ' Jirb
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as
a
.b
uilding
material
;
and
3).;
. as., the annual fee while r a. ? corpo­
Fujimasu, 64, of Ota Ward, To­ that the'. Arab nations- could be^-.
development
of
a
chemical-fertili
­
Barristers ’&' Solicitors.
rate .Sup port-er is to pay YlOjOOO
kyo, 'who is now launching a come the { world’s ■ ■major supplier
zer
-that
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incredibly

increases
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initia 11 y and Y5,00 as >the,. ahnual
fund-raising campaign to open of. agricultural products, even ; if
livestock production. .
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fee.
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a - large-scale research institute their oil resources run out in the'
*
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■ Fujimasu claims-he has already
v Fujimasu- says' he is planning
where he • hopes ? to have young future,”, he says.
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It : is • ? quite questienable. ■ whet­ developed the method- of produ­ to collect up to 10,000 supportresearchers complete his
yet
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cing “inexhaustible” resourceszin
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.ers' by the end of this year so
unfinished study.
the
above-mentioned
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cate
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“Scarcity of natural resources will adopt' his', proposal for t^
gories, noting that these . new viiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii
.has long been the primary cause expansion"” of Japan’s territory:
■sub stances w ould b e . m arketed
: of human agony arid strife such with - “ wastes”."But • ■ : F.ujibet on,
within a few years. - as war and hunger,’’
Fujimasu now bn the domestic market; has
Another subject of.,his rese—
agent
says. “But there is ? n need to been widely' used as an
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resources.
.iron. This new substance is be­
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He
claims .that
not _ only- of the country.
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Fujimasu.. Synthetic ■ Chemical lieved to, be a mixture of Fujibe­
are resources-scarce in
Japan
ton and some .synthetic resins,
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JULY 10
but also every nation on earth Laboratory Co. which the chem­
AUG. 12
JULY
22
although
he-admits
that
the

ma
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; will be able to attain self-sufficie­ ist established in 1968 now has
SEPT,. 4
AUG. 7
ncy in energy and food^with his. 18 affiliated plants for the pro­ ll eabi'lity” of, the.--substance is not
SEPT. 9
AUG..
19
inventions, some w complete and duction* of Fujibeton and 25 sa­ yet greater than, that "of iron.
SEPT. 23
SEPT. 2
A
far more curious invention
les
agents'
throughout'?!apan.
OCT. 23
SEPT.
18
some vyet incomplete.
heis
tacklingis:
what
he

terms
:.
Fujibeton
claims-'a
share
of
a-,
His key approach is simple —
YOBIYOSE KANKODAN
the utilization of waste miaterials, bout 10 per .cent of’-the. domestic as a “luminous substance” which
As usual; Yobiyoshe-kankodan will be ready; from July ~
or according to
his words, “to market for soil hardening agents will glow: eternally “without- any
8th, 1977. Please ask for details from iis.
,- and supply of energy.”
produce an inexhaustible amount with this 'specific product^
The “luminious substance” cla
of resources out of .limited reso­ the product . has been, exported
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hardening agent; a mixture of or- deserts” ..is sbiH^at the blueprint -scent, dye and ^actually -“glows.”
"dinary cement and several chemi- stage.. But Fujimasu .-says he has. ~Bpt he again refuses to .identify
- cal compounds. The agent, -brand-.. gained confidence in his . bold the components ;of the?substance.
He claims that—mankind- will
7 named Fujibeton (Fuji
from plan with- the fact that Fuji-,
Fujimasu and beton is “cement” beton is .expected to be. used as no longer .have to depend on el­
finite
large-scale ectricity,’ produced. from
in Frendh), solidifies almost eve- raw material in a
in
Qatar, ..natural resources, in the- future,
proj ect
rything from industrial waste to 'housing
now - being if he completes this.. invention;
This
project
is
salt water.
A BIOGRAPHY OF ISSEI PIONEER, RYUICTI YOSHIDA,
Fujimasu'says Japan will be promoted by two- Japanese busi­ He; however,-admits that it -wo­
uld
take
another
decade
to
per
­
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able to expand her land terri­ ness firms and a South Korean
fect
the
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Nobody, knows whether -FujiAccording, to one of the JapaKogyo masu xwill’ succeed in the? devel­
According to the inventor, ab­ nese promoters Congro
out 5 billion tons - of industrial K.K.; in Tokyo, the so-called block: opment of the “eternally glowing
waste and home garbage are an­ panel method is" to be applied in substance”'7 and; “malleable^ connually produced in Japan. These the construction of luxury resid­ crete’ but Fujimasu is confident
wastes will turn out to be mate-, ences in a desert of the , .Arab, he will with the help of younger
rials for land reclamation if pro­ nation. And Fujibeton is to be researchers. ”
According-to his plan, the re­
cessed wih . Fujibeton, says Fuji­ used as an agent for solidifying
masu. If this amount of waste, desert sand into the block papels. search . institute will be construcA spokesman for. the company, I cted on a, tract' of land 'covering
dumped in to. the waters -along
the coast of Japan, a 50-square however, says he is less optimi­ one million square meters at the
metre plot could be created for stic about Fujimasu’s idea of the foot of Mt. Fuji,, or close to At-/
greening. • of -:: Arab deserts,” .no­ ami, Shizuoka Prefecture, at a
> every Japanese.'
- . '
“Japan then will be free not ting that the Arab nations are .cost, of Y24 .billion.
only from housing shortages but now much -more interested in the . About 10,000 young researchers
also from, the problem of -the creation of urban centers, than will be accomodated at the faci­
the in the - creation of new farmland. lity to complete his work; A gro­
- international -trend toward
enforcement -of * 200-mile, exclu­ * In spite of the big success in up of seven researchers will be
sive fishing limits,” ■ he
claims. the production of ’ the-^oil-fharde- dispatched from the facility to
Fujimasu is . interested
not ning agent on a ; commercial ba­ each- of the. 145 .member states
only, in Japan’s expansion of her sis, Fujimasu has seemingly op­ of the United Nations in the fu­
scientist ture to help ..each nation attain
territory but also in the creation ted to- be a life-time
energy
and
'of new fertile land for mankind. rather than to be an entreprene­
, '
.
According to Fujimasu,
the ur. In actuality, he is still spen­ food.
“The sum of Y24 billion is you
world’s total population now resi­ ding most of his available time in
know, only one-tenth of our nades in an. area which represents research.
in 10 years by using Fujibeton.

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