Page 1
The Untold Story of Nisei
Evacuees of Peru
Nisei Among "Most Powerful LA. Women"
; LOS ANGELES —- Two Japa- te -Board of = Barber Examiners: '. first to ’be called when a fund
dedicates raising drive is in the works.
nese- Americans recently
were Outside her. job, she
Through her efforts,
enough
cited by the Los Angeles' Her 'her time- toward activating* theald Examiner as being’ ■ among, interest of young Asian- Ameri funds were secured to purchase
florists. One-third •>.of-the Japa the' “most powerful” women • in cans in ’politics.
v
By BILL HOSOKAWA
the former Jewish Home for the
. • '
nese population- was Nisei. ' the 'city. • - ''
- '.
Frequently consulted on mino Aged in Boyle Heights for con-.
.
Some of the mystery surfound: These were . the. well-integrated. ■ Toshiko Yamamoto and Ruth rity; recommendations for. . state version into the Japanese Retire
: ing the .evaluation' of Japanese.
people Emmerson was assigned to Watanabe- were: commended
She
serves
on
by and federal posts, •. Mrs. Yama- r ment >Home.
Peruvians - to .the United States
watch over.
.
both
the paper for both their comm moto also helped found the Asian the board of directors of
- during eWorld War :M
lifted in
|| the retirement home and the Ja
<. As .in the United States,, so- itment to minority /interests;
American Political Coalition.
an article by John K; - Emmerson
called patriotic Peruvians, Em
Mrs. Watanabe modestly calls panese American Cultural Com.Mrs. Yamamoto was the first
published in the Foreign Service
merson, writes, “inspired without minority member and is still the herself a “volunteer”, yet
her 1 munity Center, another favorite
•Journal, ’which George ’ Wakiji
doubt by economic motives, vied- only woman- serving on the sta- reputation makes her one of the project of hers.
,
brought to my? attention ‘ recently.
with each other to give informa
This is one of the strangest chap-,
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tion — for a price — to various
ters in the history'of that. war,
competing American intelligence
and Emmerson, who was a Japa
agencies about suspected acts of
nese-speaking U'.S. Foreign Serv
sabotage or- suspicious persons or
ice officer, sheds . considerable
incidents which suggested espion
light on it.
~ . . .
.
age.’’,
>
'
- In January. of 1942, Emmerson
Also as in the .United States,
writes, a <, conference of .Pan- there were no proven cases. of
American ministers of foreign:af Japanese sabotage or espionage.
TORONTO, ONTARIO
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1977
fairs set up an emergency com-. But Washington kept urging 1 Vol. 41 — No. 90
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mittee, ' largely
LUS the deportation and internment in
initiative, tp‘cope with^the poten the United States of Axis na
tial
threat
posed .. by
Axis tionals from Latin America. '(Em
nationals in the. Westem Hemi- merson writes that he understood
- sphere. :Of primary
concern to Gen. George C. Marshall, U.S.
the U.iS.'were the 30,000 Japanese chief of staff, suggested in De
living in .Peru. '
cember, that. Japanese brought
j(The timing is most curious. from Peru might be exchanged
HAMILTON, Ont. — Nisei mony was performed by;the Hon. important. force, in the cultural
The
evacuation
of
Japanese for American prisoners of war architect, Mr. James Koyanagi, of Robert Welch, Minister of Cul Life of the province of Ontario.”
Americans .did J not become U.S. held by 'Japan. He adds that no the Brack. Partners
Architect ture' and Recreation.
Mr. Welch also noted that one
-policyz
until . after , . President such exchanges took place and firm, was-lauded recently for, his
Mr. Welchj whose Ministry pro of the reasons for the need for
• Roosevelt signed Executive- Order the U.S. embassy staff in Lima design of the new addition to the vided more than $1.5 million in expansion of' RB G headquarters,
9066?6n Feb.. 19, 1942.)
was unaware of the proposal.).. ' Royal Botanical Gardens here.
funding for the new $3.8 million on Plains /Road in West Burling
Emmerson, as one of the few
Since in selecting the deportees,
The : project, commissioned 4 headquarters expansion; said:-.
ton, is the success of the Outreach
“People want. cultural experi program which has operated since
UjS. State Department officials no proof of guilt existed, Emmer years ago, has wen a National
fluent., in Japanese, was dispatch son says it seemed logical to put Design Award. Mr. Koyanagi has ences to be a broader part' of 1974. The Outreach program is
ed to , Peru in February, 1942, the finger on individuals con been in charge since the incep their lives,” he told ' about .200 also supported by Welch’s Min
guests, at the ceremony. “The istry, as a means for the province
- along Avith FBI arid other' intel sidered potentially
subversive. tion.
ligence agents.
The corner stone laying cere- Royal Botanical Gardens is a. very to take the. programs of major
(The; same criteria was used in
cultural institutions- to people
> Emmerson found that the first the U.S. in rounding up Issei
right across the province.
Japanese immigrants had arrived community leaders.) ? And since
in Peru in 1899, only a little more Emmerson was the resident Japa
He also thanked the public and
nese
expert,
he
was
obliged
to
dox than a decade after Japanese
business community for its sup
emigration had started to the most of the fingering.
port of the RBG expansion pro
'Deportation
procedure
tufned
While
most
of
United States,
TORONTO. — Toronto Nisei at the Hilton Harbor. Castle gram. The fund-raising goal of
out
to
be
a
hit-or-miss-affair
them started as
the RBG was $650,000. The cam
•
film director, Jesse
Nishihata’s Hotel.
*
comedy
of
errors
except
for
the
workers, they soon moved into
Nishihata’s film won in
the paign has already totalled $685,The Inquiry Film about the Ber
human'
suffering
involved.
Some,
the -cities. Large numbers became
ger pipeline commission won an Best Documentary. over 60 mi 000 — Including $200,000 from
of
the
Japanese
on
the
black
list
barbers. More than half of Lima’s
the RBG membership and Auxil
award at the recent
Canadian nutes category.
•bakeries were Japanese-owned by escaped deportation by • bribing Film Awards presentation
iary — and donations are still be
held
: 1942. They also operated poultry Peruvian _ officials who, on one
ing received. Welch said the gov
occasion,
substituted
Japanese
farms, built bus bodies, manufac
ernment showed wisdom in work
imprisoned
for
petty
infractions
tured rubber products and straw
to support
of
the
law.
Later,
when"
letters
and felt--hats, were producing
capital funding for such instituTOKYO — A radical group message to a Tokyo newspaper
from
the
-States
said
prison
camp
. one-eighth of Peru’s cotton'" and
tions.
calling itself “Pigs, of the .Earth office '(The . Mainichi) claiming
had the reputation of being the life wasn’t bad at all, some-Japa
Burlington ward 1 aiderman
World
Revolution
Anti-Japanese
best carpenters, plumbers^ land nese bribed officials; to get on the
which injured six persons in Walter. Mulkewich said the new
deportation list. Ultimately, 1,024 Front” recently .claimed it . set a
complex "’will be a landmark.
Jinja-Honcho, the association of
Japanese, including 399 women time bomb which exploded in the
Hamilton - Wentworth
regional
a - Shinto religious Shinto Shrines ofice.
and children were deported to office of
chairman Anne Jones said the
foundation here recently.
• The message from the “Pigs of
U.S. concentration camps.
work done at the RBG “forms
the Earth,” police said, denounced
Police
said
the
group
sent
the*
Emmerson, who is now at the
part of the real heart of the com
Japans emperor
system
and
Center' of Research in Interna
munity,” and shows the effort of
threatened to liquidate the em
■KYOTO —- “Inner meditation tional Studies at Stanford Uni
people in wanting to conserve the
peror, his henchmen and support
therapy based on a Buddhist form 1 versity, found the entire experi
beauty of the environment.
ers.
”
of self-discipline is . claimed that ence most distressing and he
Other special guests at the
It also expressed support for
alcoholics can be helped, said an looks back on his role without
ceremony included Halton chair
TOKYO — Japs n’s pro wrester the Japanese Red Army hijackers
expert at the-International Medi-- pride.-His conclusion is that the
man Ric Morrow, and Muriel
cal Symposium on Alcohol and forcible deportation and deten Antonio Inoki defeated boxer of a Japan Air Lines plane last Kempling, wife of Halton-Went
Drug Independence at Kyoto In tion of Japanese from Peru, ac Chuck Wepner of Bayonne, New month and bombing attacks on worth MP Bill Kempling.
offices of large corporation and
complished in collaboration with Jersey, in <a martial arts match at
ternational Hall.
A
new
colonade
running
other places in the country by
Tokyo’s Budokan. Hall.
Dr. Hiromu Suwaki, 37-year the UE., “was clearly a violation
across the front of the existing,
The 35-year old Wepner was other radical groups,, police said.
old lecturer at Okayama Univer- | of: .human - rights and was not
building will give the appearance
The PEWRAJF earlier claimed
counted
out
at
1:35
of
the
sixth
justified
by
any
plausible
threat
sity, said the method is designed
of a single unit to the finished
- to make7 -the alcoholic recall his to the security of the„ western round in a scheduled 10 round it was responsible for an explo complex, and will also provide an
. past, repent and fight his own. hemisphere.” Nor, of course, was mixed boxing-wresf ling match. sion which rocked a Univ, of
Tokyo building, last May.
Cont. on Page 2
Both wore boxing gloves.
' way back to recovei'y.
1 the U.S. Evacuation.
THE NEW CANADIAN
Architect James Koyanagi Designs
Hamilton Botanical Gardens Addition
Jesse Nishihata's Berger Pipeline .
Show Wins Cahadiah Film Award
Pigs of Earth" Bomb Shinto Shrine
Meditation Cures
Drinking Problems
Wrestler Inoki
Defeats Wepner
Evacuees of Peru
Nisei Among "Most Powerful LA. Women"
; LOS ANGELES —- Two Japa- te -Board of = Barber Examiners: '. first to ’be called when a fund
dedicates raising drive is in the works.
nese- Americans recently
were Outside her. job, she
Through her efforts,
enough
cited by the Los Angeles' Her 'her time- toward activating* theald Examiner as being’ ■ among, interest of young Asian- Ameri funds were secured to purchase
florists. One-third •>.of-the Japa the' “most powerful” women • in cans in ’politics.
v
By BILL HOSOKAWA
the former Jewish Home for the
. • '
nese population- was Nisei. ' the 'city. • - ''
- '.
Frequently consulted on mino Aged in Boyle Heights for con-.
.
Some of the mystery surfound: These were . the. well-integrated. ■ Toshiko Yamamoto and Ruth rity; recommendations for. . state version into the Japanese Retire
: ing the .evaluation' of Japanese.
people Emmerson was assigned to Watanabe- were: commended
She
serves
on
by and federal posts, •. Mrs. Yama- r ment >Home.
Peruvians - to .the United States
watch over.
.
both
the paper for both their comm moto also helped found the Asian the board of directors of
- during eWorld War :M
lifted in
|| the retirement home and the Ja
<. As .in the United States,, so- itment to minority /interests;
American Political Coalition.
an article by John K; - Emmerson
called patriotic Peruvians, Em
Mrs. Watanabe modestly calls panese American Cultural Com.Mrs. Yamamoto was the first
published in the Foreign Service
merson, writes, “inspired without minority member and is still the herself a “volunteer”, yet
her 1 munity Center, another favorite
•Journal, ’which George ’ Wakiji
doubt by economic motives, vied- only woman- serving on the sta- reputation makes her one of the project of hers.
,
brought to my? attention ‘ recently.
with each other to give informa
This is one of the strangest chap-,
hiiiiiiiriiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii!iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii!ii!iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii!iii>
tion — for a price — to various
ters in the history'of that. war,
competing American intelligence
and Emmerson, who was a Japa
agencies about suspected acts of
nese-speaking U'.S. Foreign Serv
sabotage or- suspicious persons or
ice officer, sheds . considerable
incidents which suggested espion
light on it.
~ . . .
.
age.’’,
>
'
- In January. of 1942, Emmerson
Also as in the .United States,
writes, a <, conference of .Pan- there were no proven cases. of
American ministers of foreign:af Japanese sabotage or espionage.
TORONTO, ONTARIO
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1977
fairs set up an emergency com-. But Washington kept urging 1 Vol. 41 — No. 90
!iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiini!miiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii!!imiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiii
mittee, ' largely
LUS the deportation and internment in
initiative, tp‘cope with^the poten the United States of Axis na
tial
threat
posed .. by
Axis tionals from Latin America. '(Em
nationals in the. Westem Hemi- merson writes that he understood
- sphere. :Of primary
concern to Gen. George C. Marshall, U.S.
the U.iS.'were the 30,000 Japanese chief of staff, suggested in De
living in .Peru. '
cember, that. Japanese brought
j(The timing is most curious. from Peru might be exchanged
HAMILTON, Ont. — Nisei mony was performed by;the Hon. important. force, in the cultural
The
evacuation
of
Japanese for American prisoners of war architect, Mr. James Koyanagi, of Robert Welch, Minister of Cul Life of the province of Ontario.”
Americans .did J not become U.S. held by 'Japan. He adds that no the Brack. Partners
Architect ture' and Recreation.
Mr. Welch also noted that one
-policyz
until . after , . President such exchanges took place and firm, was-lauded recently for, his
Mr. Welchj whose Ministry pro of the reasons for the need for
• Roosevelt signed Executive- Order the U.S. embassy staff in Lima design of the new addition to the vided more than $1.5 million in expansion of' RB G headquarters,
9066?6n Feb.. 19, 1942.)
was unaware of the proposal.).. ' Royal Botanical Gardens here.
funding for the new $3.8 million on Plains /Road in West Burling
Emmerson, as one of the few
Since in selecting the deportees,
The : project, commissioned 4 headquarters expansion; said:-.
ton, is the success of the Outreach
“People want. cultural experi program which has operated since
UjS. State Department officials no proof of guilt existed, Emmer years ago, has wen a National
fluent., in Japanese, was dispatch son says it seemed logical to put Design Award. Mr. Koyanagi has ences to be a broader part' of 1974. The Outreach program is
ed to , Peru in February, 1942, the finger on individuals con been in charge since the incep their lives,” he told ' about .200 also supported by Welch’s Min
guests, at the ceremony. “The istry, as a means for the province
- along Avith FBI arid other' intel sidered potentially
subversive. tion.
ligence agents.
The corner stone laying cere- Royal Botanical Gardens is a. very to take the. programs of major
(The; same criteria was used in
cultural institutions- to people
> Emmerson found that the first the U.S. in rounding up Issei
right across the province.
Japanese immigrants had arrived community leaders.) ? And since
in Peru in 1899, only a little more Emmerson was the resident Japa
He also thanked the public and
nese
expert,
he
was
obliged
to
dox than a decade after Japanese
business community for its sup
emigration had started to the most of the fingering.
port of the RBG expansion pro
'Deportation
procedure
tufned
While
most
of
United States,
TORONTO. — Toronto Nisei at the Hilton Harbor. Castle gram. The fund-raising goal of
out
to
be
a
hit-or-miss-affair
them started as
the RBG was $650,000. The cam
•
film director, Jesse
Nishihata’s Hotel.
*
comedy
of
errors
except
for
the
workers, they soon moved into
Nishihata’s film won in
the paign has already totalled $685,The Inquiry Film about the Ber
human'
suffering
involved.
Some,
the -cities. Large numbers became
ger pipeline commission won an Best Documentary. over 60 mi 000 — Including $200,000 from
of
the
Japanese
on
the
black
list
barbers. More than half of Lima’s
the RBG membership and Auxil
award at the recent
Canadian nutes category.
•bakeries were Japanese-owned by escaped deportation by • bribing Film Awards presentation
iary — and donations are still be
held
: 1942. They also operated poultry Peruvian _ officials who, on one
ing received. Welch said the gov
occasion,
substituted
Japanese
farms, built bus bodies, manufac
ernment showed wisdom in work
imprisoned
for
petty
infractions
tured rubber products and straw
to support
of
the
law.
Later,
when"
letters
and felt--hats, were producing
capital funding for such instituTOKYO — A radical group message to a Tokyo newspaper
from
the
-States
said
prison
camp
. one-eighth of Peru’s cotton'" and
tions.
calling itself “Pigs, of the .Earth office '(The . Mainichi) claiming
had the reputation of being the life wasn’t bad at all, some-Japa
Burlington ward 1 aiderman
World
Revolution
Anti-Japanese
best carpenters, plumbers^ land nese bribed officials; to get on the
which injured six persons in Walter. Mulkewich said the new
deportation list. Ultimately, 1,024 Front” recently .claimed it . set a
complex "’will be a landmark.
Jinja-Honcho, the association of
Japanese, including 399 women time bomb which exploded in the
Hamilton - Wentworth
regional
a - Shinto religious Shinto Shrines ofice.
and children were deported to office of
chairman Anne Jones said the
foundation here recently.
• The message from the “Pigs of
U.S. concentration camps.
work done at the RBG “forms
the Earth,” police said, denounced
Police
said
the
group
sent
the*
Emmerson, who is now at the
part of the real heart of the com
Japans emperor
system
and
Center' of Research in Interna
munity,” and shows the effort of
threatened to liquidate the em
■KYOTO —- “Inner meditation tional Studies at Stanford Uni
people in wanting to conserve the
peror, his henchmen and support
therapy based on a Buddhist form 1 versity, found the entire experi
beauty of the environment.
ers.
”
of self-discipline is . claimed that ence most distressing and he
Other special guests at the
It also expressed support for
alcoholics can be helped, said an looks back on his role without
ceremony included Halton chair
TOKYO — Japs n’s pro wrester the Japanese Red Army hijackers
expert at the-International Medi-- pride.-His conclusion is that the
man Ric Morrow, and Muriel
cal Symposium on Alcohol and forcible deportation and deten Antonio Inoki defeated boxer of a Japan Air Lines plane last Kempling, wife of Halton-Went
Drug Independence at Kyoto In tion of Japanese from Peru, ac Chuck Wepner of Bayonne, New month and bombing attacks on worth MP Bill Kempling.
offices of large corporation and
complished in collaboration with Jersey, in <a martial arts match at
ternational Hall.
A
new
colonade
running
other places in the country by
Tokyo’s Budokan. Hall.
Dr. Hiromu Suwaki, 37-year the UE., “was clearly a violation
across the front of the existing,
The 35-year old Wepner was other radical groups,, police said.
old lecturer at Okayama Univer- | of: .human - rights and was not
building will give the appearance
The PEWRAJF earlier claimed
counted
out
at
1:35
of
the
sixth
justified
by
any
plausible
threat
sity, said the method is designed
of a single unit to the finished
- to make7 -the alcoholic recall his to the security of the„ western round in a scheduled 10 round it was responsible for an explo complex, and will also provide an
. past, repent and fight his own. hemisphere.” Nor, of course, was mixed boxing-wresf ling match. sion which rocked a Univ, of
Tokyo building, last May.
Cont. on Page 2
Both wore boxing gloves.
' way back to recovei'y.
1 the U.S. Evacuation.
THE NEW CANADIAN
Architect James Koyanagi Designs
Hamilton Botanical Gardens Addition
Jesse Nishihata's Berger Pipeline .
Show Wins Cahadiah Film Award
Pigs of Earth" Bomb Shinto Shrine
Meditation Cures
Drinking Problems
Wrestler Inoki
Defeats Wepner
Page 2
PAGE 2
.. Tuesday,’Novcmber 29, 1977
Koyanagi . . .
Y
Cdnt. from Page 1
The New Canadian
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elevated view .of the-rose gardens ’ washroom A -facilities, a lecture 1 SAN?FR|^CTS(^
shop,; 4344 California St., San
Second Ciaas mail No. 00366;
and grounds across the road.
. 1 room 7 for use: by visiting, school Asian.Americah'TheaterWbrk-- Francisco, Calif 94118.
' “ ' .'
'A member 'of Ethnlc P^’esa
The entrance foyer of -the new: children; a new library,- and; in .shop" J (-AATW) is?' looking for . -Chin learned of the theater acAssociation dfOntario ' "
. building will include space for a struction'. and board room. The Lucille Nakamura, Takashi Kii- itivity at’- Manzanar from . Mary
and ..Canada - Federation
shop to be run by the Auxiliary. - existing, building' will be used by : b'ota and 1 Raymond > Hirai, three’7 ^KitanovDiltz, who, recalled three
Published on: every Tuesdays
/ A‘ new. large auditorium will pro RBGstaff members.
v ’<'.. ;> ■
evacuees who had.written, and - di-‘ : dramatic presentations
and Fridays *.
vide double'the space of the exist
A second phase of’-.construction rected plays at Manzahar. (a) "They Meet It Again at
’
479 Queen Street. West;ing. auditorium—-which now must will include a conservatory and
N p t e d - playwright - director "Manzanar,” written and " directed
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. be booked as • long as a t year in green house. Improved technology Frank Chin-said AATW a s ga ther- by' Lucille- Nakamura.' Cast—Joe
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advance, by community groups; •’ .related to energy problems will ing - all "the -information available Blarney, Kim - ilkimura, Toshi To
The new addition will,.also in likely be . available ' in the near on early' Asian American theater' mika, • Ikiko - Amatatsu, Stewart
clude storage space, horticultural -future to .make;this addition more activity -and. dramatic: writing for Akiho; Walt Watanabe, Tosh Ta:
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TOKYO — Crimas in Japan in'said, Japan is ’ much, safer than ment. Call 869-12911"
BOB MORRISON
countries - especially
the
1976 ' slightly increased from a other
year: ago, but crime rates here United (States.
were... still lower. than. in. . other
In 1975, there were 1.9 murders,
It is a good pblicyto
industrialized countries,' the Jus 31 robberies and .313 rape cases
have the' Right Policy
tice Ministry reported recently..
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elevated view .of the-rose gardens ’ washroom A -facilities, a lecture 1 SAN?FR|^CTS(^
shop,; 4344 California St., San
Second Ciaas mail No. 00366;
and grounds across the road.
. 1 room 7 for use: by visiting, school Asian.Americah'TheaterWbrk-- Francisco, Calif 94118.
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'A member 'of Ethnlc P^’esa
The entrance foyer of -the new: children; a new library,- and; in .shop" J (-AATW) is?' looking for . -Chin learned of the theater acAssociation dfOntario ' "
. building will include space for a struction'. and board room. The Lucille Nakamura, Takashi Kii- itivity at’- Manzanar from . Mary
and ..Canada - Federation
shop to be run by the Auxiliary. - existing, building' will be used by : b'ota and 1 Raymond > Hirai, three’7 ^KitanovDiltz, who, recalled three
Published on: every Tuesdays
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evacuees who had.written, and - di-‘ : dramatic presentations
and Fridays *.
vide double'the space of the exist
A second phase of’-.construction rected plays at Manzahar. (a) "They Meet It Again at
’
479 Queen Street. West;ing. auditorium—-which now must will include a conservatory and
N p t e d - playwright - director "Manzanar,” written and " directed
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countries - especially
the
1976 ' slightly increased from a other
year: ago, but crime rates here United (States.
were... still lower. than. in. . other
In 1975, there were 1.9 murders,
It is a good pblicyto
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Tuesday, November: 29, .1977
TORONTO JAPANESE GOSPEL CHURCH
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z’7^Sundays School; and /Worship Service,' 2:00 p.m.
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Friday:. Young Peoples'Chiiistian Fellowship. 8:00 p.m.
Phone contact : Mr. S?Yolcota 425-6128, Mr. H. Yoshida 461-1686
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"Jap Corners" -- Nisei
Tderate Town Name
By DWIGHT CHUMAN
TORONTO BUDDHIST CHURCH
: 918 BATHURST ST; TORONTO
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- Telephone: 534*4302f
.DECEMBER 4, 1977
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Ripperdan’s longtime monicker
RIPPENDAN, Calif. — This
recently: was unearthed ' by : Fres
village -community located about
no Bee columnist Woody Laugh
17, miles northwest of .Fresno:
man. .He characterized the villa
was ./named for 'Abraham . and
ge as a throwback to' rustic, ruMahala Ripperdan, - a couple who
ral living: “no: matter what they,
.first settled in the farming and
call the place.”
- :
cattle area.-nearly' a century ago,
-- Contacted by The Rafu ShimBut. some'/^people,
particularly
pd for comment' on / the
article
the; oldtimers who- have lived in
about his .hometown, Aoki, "the
or around this hamlet at the int44-year old father of five
and
ersectiiori<of State Hwy. >145 and
proprietor of the Aoki Family
Ave. 7 for the better part of the
Food Market said the name Jap
ir. lives, prefer to call -it .“Jap
Corners didn’t really bother him.
Corners.”
~ .
“It‘s been .nicknamed that for
-- .Legend has it that/Ripperdan’s
“oth er name’’ - came, into' fashi on sb-long now, we don’t even think
around -thei/time the late Hideo about it,” he said. “I don’t think
Mochizuki, a. Japanese
immig-' there is anything derogatory me-.rant* opened the crossroad com ant by it, anyway it hasn’t 7ac
munity’s first- general store du- tually been' referred to by that
name for a long time now. Only
'ring the roaring-20s.
^ Longtime Jap Corners
deniz the real oldtimers know it‘ by
ens like Rose Manchetti,
who Jap Corners, everybody else calls
has operated .her.-.logically-tagged. it Ripperdan Corners or Ripper
/ ’-' ■
■ . • /■ ■
“Rosie’s” lounge and cafe across dan.” '"
Aoki admitted - that he was a
from the Mochizuki store -for g'o'ing on four decades,, remembers little' worried about how Fresno
Mochizuki as a “goodheafted man members of the' JACL -might re
who helped; a -lot of people in the act to the Bee article.
“I thought it would probably
hardtimes.”
. Moahizuki extended
credit to bother them (the JACL) more
•people during the Depression ye- than it does me or- the: people
ars, and more than once- sold who live around here,” he said.
food “on time” to hungry peo- “What can you do? It’s been ca
pay. lled Jap Corners since about 19
pie he knew could never
The Japanese storekeeper’s wife 24.”
The Sansei market-owner said
was recalled as a tiny woman,
gracious, . kind-and compassiona- most of the reaction to the-news
paper article had been positive,
Mits and Erma—Aoki - brought so far. “A lot of oiir friends ca
the old Mochizuki store- about a me by, and we all had a good la
dozen years ago and after the ugh about it. Some people, /who
customers
old- frame store, which the Mo aren’t even regular
chizuki’s: lived behind for - more dropped in too; just to say they
than 40 years, burned down, they had seen the article.”
There was' a time,'
however,
built a modern -tavern and store
when Aoki said he did resent'the
on the old site.
- .
Aoki is a third generation resi- Jap Corners /name a bit. He said
’ dent of Ripperdan.' His
grand while attending high school fo-.
father and ’ father operated
a Rowing World War II the re was
farm nearby which is-still , in the' quite a bit of resentment aga
family. During the relocation ye- inst Japanese* despite old man
:ars of World War II, the Aoki Mochizuki’s contributions to the
' . -- /?
■ . ■• ..■ ’•
spread was leased out to neigh area. _ •■ -.
“I was quite touchy about the
bors. while they were interned in
the Fort Rohwer; Arkansas - camp word ‘Jap’ in my. teens,” he said.
“I remember after coming back
.for Japanese Americans.
from the camp, there were signs
' The village’s busy .section is
Japs
summer through October harvest all over 'the place — ‘No
wanted’ — and things like that.
time, Aoki said, with about half
But that was a longtime ago.”
of the store’s customers
being
' Aoki said that the' younger
migrant farmworkers. About 200
persons actually live in Jap. Cor people - of the- area wouldn’t even
ners, some in town and others, in know, where. Jap Cornells today;
a self-help project, completed at Only the oldtimers really know
the far end -: of town two years about the other name? ' “
YOUR
BLOOD
the greatest
gift of all
He added that discrimination
against Japanese Americans
is
almost non-existent in the area.
. “If there still is any prejudice
against us, it is a subtle kind of
prejudice. Most of those bad fe
elings . disappeared in the
last
ten; to 15 years.” Aoki, who plans
to make Ripperdan (Jap Corn
ers) his home for the rest of
his days, said.
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' Through/
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z’7^Sundays School; and /Worship Service,' 2:00 p.m.
/ 'Tuesday : Prayer and Study Fellowship 8:00 p.m.
Friday:. Young Peoples'Chiiistian Fellowship. 8:00 p.m.
Phone contact : Mr. S?Yolcota 425-6128, Mr. H. Yoshida 461-1686
Page 3
"Jap Corners" -- Nisei
Tderate Town Name
By DWIGHT CHUMAN
TORONTO BUDDHIST CHURCH
: 918 BATHURST ST; TORONTO
-
J
- Telephone: 534*4302f
.DECEMBER 4, 1977
7
MONTHLY MEMORIAL SERVICE
10.30 a.m. /Sunday."School .
,
11:00 a.m. .MorningService \
_ _
2:00. p.m.- Japanese Service ;
Warmf welcome to :^
(Res.) • 461-6670
SEICHO-NO-IE
TRUTH OF LIFE CHURCH
-
’ English Service &. Sunday School
.on.Sundaysat 10:30 a.m. 666- Victoria Park Ave., At Danforth
,
Toirorito, Ont. ..
,/
1055 MIDLAND AVENUE (Oriole Plaza) SCARBOROUGH; ONTARIO
REAL ESTATE CONSULTANT
SELLING AND BUYING OF HOMES
ARRANGING AND SELLING OF MORTGAGES
PLEASE CALL MITS KURODA
'
G. MANSI REAL ESTATE
Member of /Toronto Real Estate Board and Photo . MLS Service
~ ? 2627 EGLINTON AVE. E. 267-1179
Res. 261.2581
When Buying Or Selling A Homi
K. HORI REAL ESTATE
MEMBER OF TORONTO REAL ESTATE BOARS
ale Cm
Phone: 431-9191
and Find. Out Now!
THINK OF THIS:
'
/Unlimited earnings potential • No capital investment • Oppor
tunity for professional development • A constantly expanding
market • Independence . . . just to nam^ a few. Call’ Art Austriaco or Irv' Pitch-at - 445 - 9500 to arrange
an interview, or write to —
SUN LIFE OF CANADA, TORONTO .BAY BRANCH
101 Duncan Mill Road, Don Mills, Ontario M3B. 1Z3 -
Material Wanted For SpecialMssue
L-?
- Storiee^’articles, photographs/ etc. are wanted^immedia- 7
; tely for The New^ Canadian’s annual Xmas 'Issue.
-/z
? We would /appreciate writings on club activities,. sports, short stories, profiles, **think”/pieces, fashions, hobbies; as- .
pirations, poetry, < etc. Accompanying photographs or illustra- 5
tions are, also welcome. About 1000 words is a good length, '
; .but optional.: ■
~ All material should be slanted to interest the readers of .
: The New Canadian. All manuscripts submitted should be
.-' accompanied by self addressed envelopes with sufficient return
: postage. While the publisher will take all reasonable care, they ?
will not be responsible for the loss of any manuscript, draw- /
ing or photograph. Deadline is Dec. 1st.
Mail all material to The New (Canadian Year End Issue,’
479 Queen Strtet West, Toronto, Ontario immediately. ?—..
ago.
;
'
z ■
Ripperdan’s longtime monicker
RIPPENDAN, Calif. — This
recently: was unearthed ' by : Fres
village -community located about
no Bee columnist Woody Laugh
17, miles northwest of .Fresno:
man. .He characterized the villa
was ./named for 'Abraham . and
ge as a throwback to' rustic, ruMahala Ripperdan, - a couple who
ral living: “no: matter what they,
.first settled in the farming and
call the place.”
- :
cattle area.-nearly' a century ago,
-- Contacted by The Rafu ShimBut. some'/^people,
particularly
pd for comment' on / the
article
the; oldtimers who- have lived in
about his .hometown, Aoki, "the
or around this hamlet at the int44-year old father of five
and
ersectiiori<of State Hwy. >145 and
proprietor of the Aoki Family
Ave. 7 for the better part of the
Food Market said the name Jap
ir. lives, prefer to call -it .“Jap
Corners didn’t really bother him.
Corners.”
~ .
“It‘s been .nicknamed that for
-- .Legend has it that/Ripperdan’s
“oth er name’’ - came, into' fashi on sb-long now, we don’t even think
around -thei/time the late Hideo about it,” he said. “I don’t think
Mochizuki, a. Japanese
immig-' there is anything derogatory me-.rant* opened the crossroad com ant by it, anyway it hasn’t 7ac
munity’s first- general store du- tually been' referred to by that
name for a long time now. Only
'ring the roaring-20s.
^ Longtime Jap Corners
deniz the real oldtimers know it‘ by
ens like Rose Manchetti,
who Jap Corners, everybody else calls
has operated .her.-.logically-tagged. it Ripperdan Corners or Ripper
/ ’-' ■
■ . • /■ ■
“Rosie’s” lounge and cafe across dan.” '"
Aoki admitted - that he was a
from the Mochizuki store -for g'o'ing on four decades,, remembers little' worried about how Fresno
Mochizuki as a “goodheafted man members of the' JACL -might re
who helped; a -lot of people in the act to the Bee article.
“I thought it would probably
hardtimes.”
. Moahizuki extended
credit to bother them (the JACL) more
•people during the Depression ye- than it does me or- the: people
ars, and more than once- sold who live around here,” he said.
food “on time” to hungry peo- “What can you do? It’s been ca
pay. lled Jap Corners since about 19
pie he knew could never
The Japanese storekeeper’s wife 24.”
The Sansei market-owner said
was recalled as a tiny woman,
gracious, . kind-and compassiona- most of the reaction to the-news
paper article had been positive,
Mits and Erma—Aoki - brought so far. “A lot of oiir friends ca
the old Mochizuki store- about a me by, and we all had a good la
dozen years ago and after the ugh about it. Some people, /who
customers
old- frame store, which the Mo aren’t even regular
chizuki’s: lived behind for - more dropped in too; just to say they
than 40 years, burned down, they had seen the article.”
There was' a time,'
however,
built a modern -tavern and store
when Aoki said he did resent'the
on the old site.
- .
Aoki is a third generation resi- Jap Corners /name a bit. He said
’ dent of Ripperdan.' His
grand while attending high school fo-.
father and ’ father operated
a Rowing World War II the re was
farm nearby which is-still , in the' quite a bit of resentment aga
family. During the relocation ye- inst Japanese* despite old man
:ars of World War II, the Aoki Mochizuki’s contributions to the
' . -- /?
■ . ■• ..■ ’•
spread was leased out to neigh area. _ •■ -.
“I was quite touchy about the
bors. while they were interned in
the Fort Rohwer; Arkansas - camp word ‘Jap’ in my. teens,” he said.
“I remember after coming back
.for Japanese Americans.
from the camp, there were signs
' The village’s busy .section is
Japs
summer through October harvest all over 'the place — ‘No
wanted’ — and things like that.
time, Aoki said, with about half
But that was a longtime ago.”
of the store’s customers
being
' Aoki said that the' younger
migrant farmworkers. About 200
persons actually live in Jap. Cor people - of the- area wouldn’t even
ners, some in town and others, in know, where. Jap Cornells today;
a self-help project, completed at Only the oldtimers really know
the far end -: of town two years about the other name? ' “
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the greatest
gift of all
He added that discrimination
against Japanese Americans
is
almost non-existent in the area.
. “If there still is any prejudice
against us, it is a subtle kind of
prejudice. Most of those bad fe
elings . disappeared in the
last
ten; to 15 years.” Aoki, who plans
to make Ripperdan (Jap Corn
ers) his home for the rest of
his days, said.
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