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YouthCoriference

Sansei /Opinions Vary
PART./ONE
Bv DAVID N..MURATA;
*
(Lethbridge) '

THE NEW CANADIAN

‘.radicals’ were able to speak so­
undly:. at -the : discussion ■ settings;
Some. ’ older ■ -Nisei / people ■ at 'the f
Vol. 41 — 69
:
' FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1977
Conference credited such shyness
iimiiiiiiiimiiirmiiiniiiiiihiiriiiifiiiiiiiiiiiiHiHiHiiiHMm^
as; a .typical • Japanese^Canadian ’
style arising from’? the old. Japan
such as ‘ enryo’ and ' ‘ gamman’.
Some ? others_ .said . that /the shy
appearance came from The' Japa'nese • saying,.-- ‘No aru taka ; watsume ■ wo kakusu .’> In ■ Engli sh,
“Clever hawk hides its claws.”

TORONTO, ONTARIO

On July'29th to. 31st, 1977 at
the ‘ ’Japanese Canadian ' Cultural
Center^ in Toronto, the Japanese
Canadian ; Centennial Yoiith Conf erehce'~ was-1held:;uhd!e;f’!the;/t the­
me of-~“ Where do we go i from
here ? ” Among , the seriousness .-of
various '/^speakers,•/ workshops
and discussions^ .rWe ^found plenty ; Maybe' f or some people , it was1
of ‘good t times’ -at^thet ? banquet.- this' mentality which didn’t allow
and the..after-hour/parHes./Might? them' to speak "up. I felt differen­
TORONTO — We’re having, a other, centennial projects has to join, with hundreds of others
1 add that, the southern Alberta tly.; During the' ohe-sidedness of walkathon, to .raise..' funds - for brought Japanese Canadians . to­ in the ' MINN A-.SAMA WALKAdelegation was met .with . ;, more the ’discussion and' the deafening Japanese Canadian youth and. gether in a refreshingly unique THON, to help raise funds for
issei . and san sei projects which
than adequate ‘To-rotato -hospita­ silence at"’the closing, I
didn’t elderly' projects which are pres­ way. • ' .
Will you help sustain this spirit have grown out of our Centen­
lity’ at a couple of those .parties. sense ' the gentle vibrations'of the ently being organized throughout
.
. .y .
by 1 supporting and p articip ating nial. /
In preparing‘ this report, T ha­ approaching hawk'; rather, I saw our community.
Participants will , register-at the
The J.C. Centennial Youth Con­ in - the MINNA-SAMA- WALKA­
ve talked to' several :: delegates what happens if the ’hot-so-clever
jlC. Cultural Centre on WynforJ
.
and found that Jtheir-opinions^ to­ hawk hides its claws, v . it cat­ ference and J.C. Youth' Jamboree THON ?
Bring your family and friends Dr., Don Mills, at 7:30 a.m. (do- .
ward the .Conferencevariedcon- ches nothing. The air of the se­ at 'Lake Scugogg. and various,
nuts and coffee will be served),:
siderably, but their general tone rene di scouragement over the lost
and at 8:00 a.m. will proceed
indicated their disappointment in hawks made a curious, blend with
leisurely or quickly to . Ontario
loud rain outside at the closing
the Conference., • -v
'.. ; - <
Place; in time for the dedication
of5 the Conference.
:
CALGARY. — ^ShouldWe Go from Toronto, San Francisco,. Se- ceremony of the Japanese Bell, to
First. of all^, /they said/ ' that
For most of the delegates, this On From Here ?” is the theme of■ attle and , Vancouver'and will disthe Conference didn’t - really ./balk
•the province from Japanese Cana­
to the Alberta Japanese. Canadian cuss such things, as intermarria­
about c the- theme .“.Where. ,do,- we .was their first opportunity
dian communities in Ontario, at
attend
such
a
national
conferen
­
ge,
.
sustaining
a
.
JC
community
,
Centenniak
Youth
.Conference,
:
to
go from here ? ” Instead,' „most of,
4:00 p.m.
the speeches, . and - workshops in ce': Most ‘ of/the delegates were be' held at Mount Royal College, 5th and 6th. generation JC’s, etc.
As a special attraction to all
For further information, please
28-30,
general were geared.;., as if . we, quite young, enough' not .to have Calgary, from . October;
participants, Centennial T-shirts
contact one of the following:
the younger generation,
were been, faced with any of the real 1977..
/
and Centennial frisbees will, be
Jayne
Takahashi,
9652-69A
the
living- in the past. I heard - sever-’, issues facing the - Jiapanese-Ca- • Alberta 'sansei ■ felt . that
available at prices you can’t re­
these strong attendance and. great, enth­ Street, Edmonton, T6B 1W3; Hpral criticisms, from various pe­ nadians today. Perhaps
fuse!'.
"
attended wiie Shikaze, Nd. 7-6115 Bowness
ople. th at the , Conference as < a were the two main reasons for usiasm of ' those . who
Arukimashoo
minna-sama!
or
the
unenthusiastic
attitudes
felt
Rd.
N.W.,
Calgary,
T3B
0C9
;
the Toronto Youth
Conference
whole was- rather ■ depressing:- ‘I
Hundreds of friends will be re­
within
these
people;
Most
of
them
demonstrated_a ■ need for an .Al­ Brenda Kosaka, , 1601-2 Ave.
know what my : parents >
and
united' and many new friendships
North, Lethbridge, T1H0G2.
grandparents 7 went: through': I’ve caime to get something out of berta seminar..established in this
extremely
putting
Guest speakers will’be coming
heard it/'enough . times'. Why do the conference without
worthy ■'cause.—Toronto Centen­
they keep dwelling on such a'mi- anything into it. Tn' their*- naivenial Minna-Sam a Walkathon Com­
that
serable past, rather than focusing ness they didn’t realize
mittee.
no ‘ real
on ; a . mol;e-..optimistic future, .es­ without input' there is
pecially at ' tB e ^national \ youth output in this kind of a conferen.TORONTO-—The Toronto Cen­ syllables.
.
conference ?’?• This was their key. ce. -^ .
A second WTNTARIO grant for
iniability tennial " ■ Committee
has
been
frustration. I guess -what they • In my -opinion, this
the amount of $3,643 to defray a
wanted to say'is this, ‘We know to equip the delegates with rea­ awarded a non-recurring WINportion of the costsA-associated
we have to live WITH pur past, diness for the discussions before TARIO grant from the Ontario
BOSTON (AP) — A beer a day
the conference was the key mis­ Ministry- of Culture and Recrea­ with hosting the JC Centennial
but we can’t? live- IN it.’
of tion, in the-amount of $5,825 to Cultural Workshop JamBoree has. may keep heart attacks away, a
take, if any, in the plannin
Their second major
concern
new study says.
the conference.
>
assist with the “Haiku-Shu” pro­ been awarded to the Toronto Cen­
’ Researchers on. a project called
was, oddly .enough, that no one
.
ject, a collection- of Japanese tennial Committee.
the- Honolulu Heart Study have
spoke up. They were frustrated
(To Be - Continued)
poetry composed in seventeen
found that deaths from heart dis­
by the fact that . , only ^ certain
ease were almost twice as com­
mon among teetotalers as among
men -who downed one' or
beers a day.
The.
exchange
of
information
co
­
“This finding is consistent with
Following the J community service; to local J.C. to establish personal . contact
TORONTO
uld
include
items
of
interest
ran
­
a possible direct beneficial effect
an workshops on communities whicTi are common with dth>r J.C.’s. A fcm of /gene­
Saturday afternoon workshops on
ging
from?
-community
sports
and-1
ral communication will facilitate
of alcohol intake on the risk of
Communication, a number of the to all or many of the localities.
social news to -government policy coronary heart disease,” the re- .
the
establishment
of
personal
participants, sharing a concern Persons concerned with planning
contact, which wilt
compliment and program’s. Information con-, searchers wrote.
that a form of national commu­ and implementing these services
ceraing expatriate Japanese co­
Their findings were published
community development.'
nication should - be
established,. "often Ifeel discouraged when they
mmunities
in
other
countries
was
Communication will also provi­
in a recent issue of the New Eng­
metSo. dWcuss ' this -idea.? There recognize the difficulties.’ They
also
mentioned
as
being
'
of.int
­
de a general exchange-’ of infor­
land Journal of Medicine. An ac­
were representatives from major might benefit - from knowing that
erest.
Finally,
it
was
suggested
companying editorial in the jourthey are not alone in their con­ mation about the community and
centres across .Canada.>• a
that
the
communication
could
how it relates to society at lar­
anl warned that while moderate
The . Tollowing questions were cern and1 might gain support and
also
include
creative
writing
and
ge? To this end, the medium of
dinnking may be beneficial, heavy
debated?' ^
communicate? comfort through communication.
the
expression
of'opinion;
..
.
communication' will provide a fo­
use of alcohol has been shown to
With /whoih. might we communi In 'addition, information regard­
?
ing strategies being tried in ot­ rum'of opinion and debate which \ WITH WHOM? The concens­ cause serious heart trouble.
cate ? -What format might the
can promote community,'conscio­ us was that “young” JjC.’s, ma­
The researchers examined the communication take ? VTihat pro­ her areas might assist the deveusness and development;
inly sansei and. ydnsei . would be drinking habits, over six years, of
blems. might be. encountered in -lopment of the local area.
WHAT? Ideas and strategies tlie .primary target group. Includ- 7,705 Japanese men living in Hue to the degree .to
which
maintaining communication.
would be an important element
WHY?It was pointed out that J.CA are disbursed - throughout
Cont. on Page 2
Cont. on Page 2
of what is to be communicated.
there exist, numerous .problems pf the country, it 5s often impossible

Walkathon to Raise Funds
for Sansei and Issei, Oct. 1
"Should We Go On From Here?

Tor. Projects Awarded $9,468

Youth Conference Produces Newsletter Committee

Page 2

' Friday, September; 16, 1977

PAGES

Newsletter./ .;

: Cont. fromPagel

Kazuko Sought by Husband

ed would be both individuals-’and well-known 'Japanese inven tiyegroups.' ‘“-Older” J.Cjs and new rie s s - we • should be. abl e to- over­
- - d mm igrants .-woul de /be /^'included -come .'thisrto a. degree.^- ' ' • “ '
* within - ah?‘ important -7 secondary “ In the long term, a ": magazine,
target group -as -well as providing .type .periodical seems most likely.
input and discussion.
- ^ ’ ~ Wealsoconsideredthepossibililit was’ recognized that the -cd-' ty-^of publi shirigL with ahrexisting
v: m
would,’ of 'necessity, origan * - such as . .The : New • Cana­
By BOB HORIGUCHI
/ have to .start small. It was felt dian. This .idea might be conside­
that /those in attendence .-at. the red for the.'.long term. However, ; i; POKYO —. He was. a dedicated
. workshop .would provide .a nucle­ it ■ was felt«that a new identity pathology researcher at a; medic al
college’ ih the? daytime jand an
us from which > * / communication should first be established. ' '
amiable' f amily; doctor at night;;
might spread. It was -also - - felt
'PROBLEMS! Three major pro­
that the riucleiis could provide fe­ blems .were identified. They are with ; a reputation. that ? he - never,
ed-back wihich would indicate the.; input? distribution and • financing;- jr^used/a .house; call regardless of


'
viability- of extehding the commu­ Financing is -likely the .least diff i- the hour.

After Missing Cherry Blossom
Viewing with Kiyoshi....
bership club for women. Its head­
quarters'. consisted simply of an
office'that was first .located in
her home ’ then in the Hotel New
Ja'pan and 'finally in an . office

The NewCanachan
. Established? in 1939 \
' Swoiid Cluuiiiiil Na OOaM
A 1 member: of'Etlihle ? Press
Association, of . Ontario and/ Canada Federation '.
“ T.UMEZUKIPUBLISHER
■?
K.C. TSUMURA^ ^\. English Section "Editor .
-KEN MORI
.
Japanese Section? Editor
SUBSCRIPTION " A
$15hQP;for~orie year.
$9.00 for Six Months

Published on every/Tuesdays
and Fridays' -

building. 479 Queen Street West,. ■ <She was - also ■ an influential
- Toronto,. Ont.~M5V'2A9..
member of the . Ladies’. Club
PHONE 366-5005
_
affiliated with . the Society of
nication to the broader, commu- cult ? since - it is 'Something which
iShe was^more 'socially oriented Friends of Mitsukoshi, that is run
nity. It would - be> the initial res- 'individuals can identify and work, and sought pleasure in organizing for its customers by the departe­
ponsibility of - the -workshop; par­ towards; with definite objectives. balls,^^' charity;"bazaars' and black- ment store. This club, joined the
ticipants to\ provide material >fdr However, - input? and distribution tie dinners,- besides . frequently “.Salon du Koi” to hold' a cherry.
communication;, and - to gauge the. -are-far more difficult; since they Roppongi bars.
this
blossom
viewing
party
A -maturef person -to^do occasi­
amount of interest within their-/ depend upon a virtual unknown
They were' married, in 1953' and spring, says the weekly. .
onal' evening babysitting for two
are
the
parents
of
.a
boy
and
a
■ local areas.
'
It adds that she is alleged^ to ■girls, ages 2 and '4. Martingrove
which .is the responsiveness. of the
- This is a conservative appro-’ target group. The only -way th at girl? already in- their twenties.
have taken advantage/ of - this and Eglinton area. -626-3471.
ach. However;- • due to •’a- lack - of we were: able • to identify. to test
She is now being . sought by connection and the fact that, al­
initial - funding/ incomplete: infor- this responsiveness is ..to publish police on a fraud charge after though she was ho relation, she
iROOM FOR RENT/. '
miatioii on ; the. receptiveness ■ / of what we feel is a worthwhile pu- having. ' disappeared^ , with , the had the5 same ‘surname as MitsuFOUR Bedroom, duplex' for rent
the community and ’the . experien-, biicatibn 'and-.let it be tested am^ manager of.- the social. club she ? j^Qs^j (president, Shigeru Okada, at Broadview and Gerrard,' with
ce of previous attempts at “san- ong the^target group.
garage;
utilities
extra.
$450.
operated.
. . - I to obtain credit. sei” communication, this approach
Phone
after
7

p.m.4.65.-7487
(To­
began", the
'A - group of-Toronto-based san­ ■ The 52-year-bld/ doctor.-husband ? - Her difficulties
ronto).
; '
would appear; to be the most re­
sei have- taken on . the ’ assignment of Kazuko Okada, 47, reports the magazine relates? when she turn­
alistic.
j
'
’ .'
of publishing >the . newsletter 'for. Shukan iShintaho, has' sought .police ed her organization into -a recruit­
HOUSE FOR-SAXE
. ^FORMAT! The printed
word
creditors
who
ing
outfit
'for
a
money-making
protection
from
the time being. (Future editions
Private^!! rooms, furnished and
appeared to present - the.^onily 'ri
m-ay be published eleswhefe but were> ; harassing him over his •scheme based on the “pyramid”
alble form <of communication, at | princi pie and later turned to de al- rented,/ $70,000. 162 Westminster
the concept’ and -material ‘ w
re- wife’s debts.,
least in the beginning. , Other
Ave./ Tor onto. -Phone ? 534^9693
t —
main national) Nancy Moritsugu ■ .These, * he told the authorities, ing in gems.
. media might be consider once-re- ■is to be'the first month’s' editor. amounted: to *110 'million yen. In
(Being sought with her. by the (after 5 p.m.)
establiguTar communication : is
authoritiesis Kiyoshi Sato, who
The first edition will, be sent addition, 'he 'is said to have
' might
shed. (The other forms
Healthy Body & Mind
alleged; < according ; to the magai- kept the “Salon du'Koi” accounts.
include film, videotape and audi­ out with the;, proceedings to ,all
Described : as .
being
about
who were registered at the Cent­ ziine, that his • wife had surThrough the Martial Arts
otape.)reptitiously used''his,; seal to issue fortyish by those who know him,
.
In' the short term, a newsletter ennial Youth - Conference. If you
promissory-:-notes- and -had";even says the weekly, Sato has lost
type format .would beestablish - were? not, . and.>would<..like. to T®, mortgaged their home without his ; the tip of one of. his Little fingers,
PAUL K7 ASADA, D.G; N.D.
> ed. It’s advantages are the rela- ceive the, newsletter or have, so­ consent.'
“Doctor of Chiropratic”
- x.
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Amputation of the little finger
me
matrial
to
.submit,
plase
send
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- tive ease in production, its. econoFour years ago, Kazuko start—- is a common .practice among
?
(
Vz
block
West of Christie)
my ’ and its ease in distribution. a stamped-self-addressed . envelo-. ed the “Salon du Roi;’h a mem- hoodlums . as punishment.
; , TORONTO - ■
Its drawbacks' include its lack of pe to 479 Queen St. W. Toronto.
651-8060 - . Res. 621-1989
;
“gtababili'ty”; However, with bur (.861-1061). ' " '

CLASSIFIED

Beer. .

Cont. from Page 1, .

the! -difference, but they
speculated that, drinking may.
alter, the cholesterol level in the
blood.'

About two-thirds of the drink-:
ers in the study used only beer,
so the researchers were not able
to determine the - effects ofwine
and hard liquor on heart disease.
The report 7 also found no link
between coffee-drinking and heart
disease.

■Hawaii;-'. Of. these,- 294 developed plain

WANTED
.
In view of the impending retirement of the present Ex­
ecutive -Director, the Japanese .Canadian .Cultural Centre is
■ presently--seeking a replacement. This is an interesting" positi­
on for a person who wishes to ^be.involved • in community ac- tivities and is able to manage , the various y 'administrative
functions and programs of a cultural organization.
Please send a resume to the: Executive Board, Japanese
Canadian Cultural Centre, 123 Wynford Drive, Don Mills.

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heart disease; and the -report said
the v illness was far less ' common
in -those who drank up to four
- beers', a day.
। . Among^the- noh-drinkers,' there
’l were 6.8 deaths due toz heart dis­
ease? for- every 1,000 people.
Among/ those .who drank the.
equivalent of one or two beers a
day, there were 4 deaths per
1,000.

.The researchers could not ex­

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ORIENT
; * IF. you can't take too much
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less salt.
* Instant Somen Tsuyu? .Use
Kikkoman Memmi Sauce.
^ Sesame Oil/ as
medicine?.
Yes,. Orientals discovered long
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Friday?^ September?J.6/:1977
CARD OF THANKS

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To /dear/ friends ■ and relativtaj /we thank ;you7 for your?
.beautiful flowers and for your ?many ? kihdhesses ;<to- Martha?
Hisaye ''Hayashi; Your love
warmsahdsustains us, especiallyatthistime.
‘ ■/ /.
Frank Hatsutaro .Hayashi
Winston - and1 Fumiko Hay ashi 7
Ken and Jan Hayashi Kei? and Yoshiko Hirano
Paul and Joan/Hirano
Yori and Tish. Tsujimura

/ WITH FLOWERS

SHARON'S
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NextSqnsei Disco Night Sept. 3O

/
’? TOKYO —^ A boom' in minia­ for l .rnillion yen.
TORONTO! -7 The next sansei IMSdO -NIGHT will1 be/held on
ture books is underway in. Japan. / Another rare book; is; one; by
September .30, at 8:00 p.m. in the/West Room of the/JCCC. Come
the
Russian early .(which 4s 8:00, Japanese .time)/for the best seatsIBringyour
One /reason for: the boom Vis any-' Maksim' G-orkii,
one ■ can publisn- his; or. her/own writer, which is expected to at­ friends!. -Bring .' your / boyfriend! . Don’t' bring your mother! Make
book -for. the modest sum of tract a large number of buyers if new. {friends, .acquaintances, contacts, ^enemies. Everyone?) .will be
-' ' <-* ■?
~
it’ is _put up for auction -for 500,- there?
20;000 yen to 100,(XM) yen/ „
- .
■ There are more than 30 com- 000? yen.
pahies across the . country which . Ogasawara . started collecting
specialize in printing. such books., miniature books about 20 years
TORONTO —1 Judo, Karate,, Kendo, .Aikido, laido, Odori demon­
'Some of ’ the publishers are - lo­ ago, which was, a result of hi s’
strations
/and;, display® of arts and * crafts will : be featured at the
cated. ini 'Nara-, .Hiroshima and cherished desire to publish a book
Japanese ’Martial'; Arts.'.Culture.^
/at ' the Sheraton. Centre, 123
F ukuok a p refectures. but man y of of his own litexary work.
.Queen-.'St. W., .Sunday,.-October 2nd,’ 1977 from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.
From time’ to time, he traveled This’’is 'a Japanese? ■Canadian .Centennial Project sponsored’ by the
them are located iin /northern
throughout the country Exhibiting? Sheraton' Centre and the Ontario Martial Arts Organization. .There
Honshu.
'
'
J?
- Dr. Toru Ogasawara, a medical his collection' of miniature books, is no admission charge.
practitioner, of Fujieda, Shizuoka- which, in fact, helped spark the
ken, runs a library of miniature current miniature book boom.
It. also helped him expand; his
books, probably the only; one of

Japqne.se. Martial Arts Culture Day

.^^pjj£»t'^otirI|>._ she said.
Ifs a time of joy^
when .we go to God.—.

' ।

■''^V'-§AY4T

Doctor Sparks
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its. kind in Japan; in the city;
collection.
. There has been no .'definite rule
His
collection ' totals
4,000
■ *

*
books
books, of which 1,000 are always as to the size of miniatuire
on exhibition in a building which in Japan although it is generally
considered tihaf they • should be
also houses a coffee shop.
. The /Books ’ include- one. volume smaller than half' the size of a
on the; late John. F. ' Kennedy’s postcard. '
Internationally, they musf be
presidential
inaugural . speech,
which has become so scarce, that smaller than 3 x ‘3 inches.
it ' could not be purchased .-. even

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sent to the London-St. Thomas Centennial Committee, Unit 45 - 711
Osgoode Drive, London, Ontario N6E 2C8.

Winnipeg Dates for Judo Mission
.WINNIPEG---— The Centennial Judo Mission will visit Winnipeg
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The Japanese Consulate in Winnipeg is planning a reception to
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banquet for the guests.
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PAGE 4

Kusawake Koromo

JBut I remember also very vivid-, When I became a writer; Father,
ly that -Mother always.: asked, - and and Mother were equally delightalways listened^ with /greatVinter- .ed? To [Father, - who had wanted: to
est • to~ what- we were learning in be a poet at one time, I realized
school. .We worked ’outbetween- us some ■ of '/his, ^unfulfilled - dreams. =
a mixture; of *Eriglish/- and /’Japa­ To? Mother,' the fact that I had
nese.- As T grew older and Tried become a writer “ and.: -professor’
to - explain . abstract ideas-, - com­ 'was' ’ a: fulfillment . of ,tlhe Jiream.
munication . became ;more ’ compli­ she had bitThe 'farm in the . old.
cated; but we managed, using our days in 'Canaday when she quizzed
'me about my studies.
peculiar language.
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It was a dream she carried con‘ ilt; occurred to me long after I
had become a* writer to ask -my­ fidently duiing the long separa­
self :; Why is it that I don’t feel I tions when- our only communica­
tions were by; mail !— and during
./The, following.article abou tearly’Japaneses pioneersinCanada have understood a difficult Theory
x
is a translation from a - series of recollections in . ar book,, edited by: until .1 can write it-in a way that the (Second World \ War, when
J inshiroNakayama, “CANADA• DOBO HATTEN TAIKAN”, pub­ every one -; can un derstand 7. -I sud- there - was no' communication- at
lished (in 1922. The translators' were Hanako Sato and Tsutae: Sato deniy;knew. In a very real way, all. It was a dream'as niaitural to
of Vancouver, Siimi Nogami, -Dr. "Yuki Nogami, Mitsu*-Moriyama, I’m still explainihg/jthings to ’ my Mother as the fact that, once back
and Tom Yoshida’of Hamilton and Wakiko Haruki of Waterloo.; Roy
in Japan, she went back -to her

Ho acted as editor and co--ordinator. Assistance for the- project was* mother.;
the IHe-hi*tory of a
As ^the children /grew : up; cultural pursuits —«. art and calli­
given by the National Japanese Canadian 'Citizens* Association. r
Japanese-Canadian
;-■<: -A ?/? fisherman
Kusawake koromo -can be translated -. as “one- who? parts .the. Mother got .out more and- made graphy an d, tea ceremony. And
grass.
■friends, ■ especially! in Methodist- during the decades when Japanese
church circles in Winnip eg. She women - were taking to Western
was such a. lady that she made- a’ dress, she went back to the kim­
deep impression on people despite ono — for keeps.
her halting English.
V ancouver-born S. I. Hay akawa '- father .consented ’to unite his
. Father and Mother; returned to
is writer, and Semanticist; from daughter ^wiith what seemed to be
1 Japan when I was still in college,
1969, to 1973 he was president >of a promising young~~man indeed.
and- ever the years there have
San Francisco State University. The marriage was To. .last. . '71
■ been:long separations between us.Last November he was elected years. (Father died last year at
But we /have never forgotten how
Unfitted States senator from Cali­ 9i).
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to talk to each other. (Mother is,
■ Father Took?
<bride[ to, Van­
fornia. IiT 1936 he-was-of the four
BARBARA NIKAIDO
iri fact, the only person with
Nisei delegates who went to couver, British Columbia, and.- the
whom I can speak Japanese with­ 3
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< * 'Ottawa to seek the franchise for following year, 1906, I was ihorn,
out self-consciousness. .
^Toronto,-^Ontario M4J' 1M6 ; I
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By S. I. HAYAKAWA
adjust to a much humbler life,
This paist June, my mother cele­ first in a; rooming-house, then on
brated her 93rd birthday, in Yama­ a small farm-in British. Columbia.
nashi City; Japan. .She us a-finy-, She had to' '[iearn housekeeping
impressive, v dignified- lady>..of .>a and The British--/Canadian ways [of/
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very, for writing a story so
' / - (Mother’s health is good and her table; -1; remember during . my
Japanese restaurant/tavari/
• i mportan LfbrrJapanese
mind is sound. She enjoys tending Childhood that Father/ always reCanadian s'to read, especi­
- -.the garden, going to: flower, shows garded Mother’s cooking as good
ally Sanseiwho are trying
. and practising the Christian faith- en ough f or weekdays? / but he’d
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There were few? other Japanese
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deal of television — happily, families in Vancouver then /and •
Japanese television ’draws , much hone at all in the other places
' brought sixty years of
Where.
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we.lived
in
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those
years
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from,(history and .national culture,
-wo rk^as fisherman,
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Calgary,
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and. these Mother has.always apJ
logger, plant worker
ultimately
Winnipeg.
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to

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predated. iShe understands- some
-R y u i ch i. Yas h i d a' h a s 1 i v e d
• < English,: esped ally .when, spokenj speak / English; and with Father
with the racism and exploita•beginning

to
travel
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to her by her non-Japanesetioh^whicli^have been .- daily
tured
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War
speaking; children like me. But
she .has never learned to speak into an import-export business,
. immigrant; w
-In his
Mother spent most -of her time at
more than a few words. activities as laBour organizer
In a sense, the years that have home with the-children. She; used
arnong Japanese-Canadians,
brought Mother, to this age have to tell us. stories about; Z the
also brought her back to the /kind Russo-Japanese War. She read us

Pioneers

Ryuichi
Yoshida’s
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Communicating with Mother

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the life-history of a
Japanese-Canadian
-fisherman
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Nikko

Gertrude Urabe

Will it keep
^eating?

of life'which would have seemed
to have been in store for. her.
iShe was -born in. 1884, the
daughter of a physician. "Her
father was a pioneer in .intro. ducing Western medicine to Japan
and was held in high -respect by
all.
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Miy father, was the son of a
- rural land awn er and not in any
way the social equal of Mother’s
famiily. But education counts a
great deal in Japan,- and Father
had excelled in high school and
had learned English and had been
to the United States to. study
. and work. 'So my maternal, grand-

‘Japanese fairy tales.
, But she was often lonely. She
read a lot of magazines.'I didn’t
know .until dong. • afterward. thiat
they* were rather highbrow maga­
zines — the Japanese equivalents
of Harpers (and Atlantic Monthly.
One' day her parents sent to her.
from. Japan a koto, a stringed
musical instrument. Playing ..a
•koto is a ladylike accomplish­
ment tin Japan^I remember when
it 'arrived -it [ reminded'her of all
that she 'hid left behind.. She
tried it .out, and wept. Ultimately,
any brother and I played with the
thing as a big Toy.

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