Page 1
An Issei in
Internment Camp
< By Takeo Ujo Nakano
Takeo Ujo Nakano is an Issei poet who writes mainly tanka
but also some haiku. In 1964 he had the honour of being one of a
dozen winners of . the Imperial Poetry Contest in Japan. He was
the first Canadian winner. He currently resides with his wife in
Scarborough, Ontario.
*
Tokyo Admirer of James Dean Builds Memorial
CHOLAME, Calif. — Total ad businessman Seita Ohnishi.,
Actor Dean was killed when he
miration for an American movie
star has led a Japanese business missed a turn on Calif. Hwy. 4^
man to erect a $15,000 memorial and wrecked his silver Porche
at- the site of-the now cult fig Carrera on Sept. 30, 1955.
The sculpture was dedicated
ure’s death, in 1955.
: The memorial to James Dean is two months ago on the 22nd anwrapped around the trunk of a ; niversary of Dean’s death.
The Japanese (businessman retree in front’of this hamlet’s 9by-9 foot"’ post office. It was portedly made three Tokyo-to-Los
totally financed by wealthy Tokyo j Angeles trips and three trips, to
Cholame, 25 -miles east of Paso
Robles, solely to complete his tri
bute to the actor.
Ohnishi, 50, is a stranger to So. /
Calif, and speaks no English. He .
contacted a Southland architec
tural-firm seeking help with his Dean memorial.
.
“Mr. Ohnishi had total admira
tion for James Dean, for his life’
Cont. on Page 2
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♦
(SECTION 6)
THE NEW CANADIAN
For some weeks now, at Descoigne road camp, other work crews
had been hurrying to complete the tenthouses. On May 15, a month
An Independent 'Organ for Canadians oi Japanese Origin
after tKe arrival of out group from Yellowhead, we were able to I
move into them. We must have composed, quite a scene when, like a
troupe of snails, we, bearing our belongings, slowly made our way
in a long straggling line, winding in and out amongst the trees, Vol. 42 — 8
TUESDAY, JANUARY 31, 1978
TORONTO, ONTARIO
j from the boxcars to our new homes. “What a strange fate is ours,” giiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiifmirniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiuiiuiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii iiiiiiiiiiiii!II Him
I thought to myself. ,
Five brandnew orange canvas tenthouses lined up on the green
xs s-
1 ■k u,d h ” '-■■ Japanese American Citizen’s League
- Inside, these new quarters were set up much like our old : From
the' one entrance I saw that fifteen bunk beds lined three walls. In
the centre space.was a stove for heating. Beside it stood a table I .fl
and chairs. The spaciousness of these forty-foot by thirty -foottentUvllldl
B VIB V i ■ 3
B BB
B ■ UWIIIUI B*
houses at first ^j* ^
DOS ANGELES, Calif.
,
In a letter to the Commissioner salient examples; exclusionary
the^ay^wfen allwere out atwork, the tenthouse was in silence. | ' Calling “yellow peril” an “anti- of Patents and Trademarks, the immigration laws, ineligibility to
^ftfil
But in theevenings itwasalive
with the largergroup, allengaged
Asian racist concept,” the Civil chairman of the JACL committee, become citizens thiough naturaliland - laws,
in playing go or'cards, or iin group singing. And as at least half of Rights Comhiittee of the Japa- Shigeru Kaneshiro, pointed out ; zation, restrictive
the camp of one-hundred and fifty were men from places other ■ nese American.iCitizen-’s League’s that the offensive term “has been forced expulsions (from numerous
than Yellowhead, the conversation was again lively with the ex
manifested in the United States in communities arid, during World
changing of experiences. Surely the scene was unique to such road Eastern District has urged the
Patent and Trademark Office . of laws and in'fact to deny'persons War II, incarceration in , Americamps, of that time.
Because the tenthouse was one large room, with no partitions, the Department of Commerce to of Asian ancestry to participate can cencentration camps.
“With a record of such egre
even the beds had no privacy. Like it or not, we were all one big ^eny the request of a Washing- equally and fully in the social,
family. If the noisy partying continued late into the night, not tion^ DC# publication for exclu- economic and political life of our gious injustices, it is surprising
one person could sleep. But goodwill prevailed amongst tose ^ trademark rights", toy the country.”
that any fair-minded publication
sharing\a common fate, and soothed any irritation at the loss ot
He went on, “To cite a few should apply for, say nothing of
sleep. With familiarity, I came to. quite enjoy tenthouse living phrase.
,
appealing a denial of, the ‘Yellow
which I was then experiencing for the first time in my life.
I
Peril’ trademark. The JACL,
At dawn, the tunes of many varieties of birds come to me ’
Eastern District, is unqualifiedly
while I am still lying in beds. Still drowsy, I can sink into the bedclothes for those luxurious few minutes more, then be gently and |
HAMILTON^-At a service on January 1st, 1978 at the Hamilton opposed to having . . . any indivi
gradually brought to waking. From a distance, the murmur of a Japanese United Ghurcch, Pamela Lynn Kuwabara was presented dual or organization be granted
small creek trickling over pebbles is faintly audible.
the Tagashiro Scholarship. Pamela, daughter of Tom Kuwabara and a legal and exclusive right to
Just a step outside the tenthouse, I take a-deep breath of the the late Aya Kuwabara of Hamilton, studied at the Toronto Institute
‘Yellow Peril.’”
exhilarating air and come awake. I am heartened by the sight of the of Medical Technologist. She is presently continuing her studies at a
The letter concluded with “the
Seven Sisters, visible from here as from Yellowhead. Just steps hospital in London, Ontario. -The Tagashiro Scholarship of $800.00
from the entrance, I kneel to rinse my face in the pure waters- of was made possible by the interest accrued on a donation fiom Mrs. hope that the Patent and Tradethe mountain stream. One morning, a flock of mountain sparrows M. Tagashiro of Vancouver in memory of her husband.
/ mark. Off ice will stand firm on its
settled into the trees across the stream. Unable to resist the sudden
initial denial” of the trademark
urge, I clapbed together my wet hands making a smacking iwiseat
rights.
which the birds, all at one instant? took flight, scolding me for the
For" the information of the
mtnAs° l’ take a short stroll the sun shows his^fac^ in the Pink
Commissioner, Mr. Kaneshiro en
eastern sky. A light breeze now stirs the young leaves of the
closed chapter - and - verse docu
poplars and sets them shimmering silver-white in the early sun
mentation of the origins of the
light. Today .my customary morning walk is interrupted by the
phrase “yellow peril” and such
whistle of a CNR. train emerging from a tunnel in the mountaincompanion terms as “yellow
side. Emitting clouds of gray smoke, the train passes slowly.through
WAKAYAMA, Japan—During r After three years in Wakayama
the valley.'Though not an uncommon sight, a traan still catche
y the past ten or more years, it has City, Mrs. Shigeko’Kato has come hordes'-” and the uses to which
attention, perhaps because it seems somehow incongruous with the
to the realization that her month they have been and could again
not
been
uncommon
for
retire
oeaceful seclusion up in these mountains. As if with the intently
ly Social Security’ check for $220 be put.
curious eyes of a child, I happily follow the train until at disappears ment-aged Issei to return to Ja
Entitled “YELLOW PERIL”:
around a bend in .the tracks. I hear the whistle sound again, and pan to live out the remainder of cannot be stretched to meet even
this time it is- likb a call to work, for soon the rest of the camp their lives on Social Security her basic needs. After paying her ITS ROLE IN THE ASIAN
AMERICAN EXPERIENCE, its
starts' to stir and I am launched into the clay’s activities. I head to
benefits earned during their rent and utilities bill she was
the camp kitchen for-breakfast, marveling that some Department of
forced to draw upon her savings, text follows.
NatS Defence officials fear that the likes of us road camp scores of years in the . United
depleting that resource.
States..
workers would sabotage the railways.
, ,
So Mrs. Kato is returning to
. In most case's, the repatriates
Mid-May was also when for the first time since, I had begun
By Shigeru Kaneshiro
work in the road camps,'I received a pay. I opened the envelope found that they could live mode Los Angeles where she had lived
Webster’s dictionary defines
expectantly thinking that though the wage scale was low, seven rately comfortably
on • their for about 50 years and where her
weeks’ accumulation would- be substantial. To my surprise, there -monthly payments that would not children and grandchildren now “Yellow Peril” as follows:
“1. a danger to Western
have -seen'them through half the live. She will miss her dawn hikes
civilization held to arise from
month in the U.S. without, sup: up a hill to Wakayama Castle
expansion of the Oriental peo
with fellow members of her
plemental aid.
ples (as the Chinese and Japa
^follows • After a deduction for room and board, the basic pay was
The recent upward spiral in the “Early Bird” group. But she will
this, $15.00 wnnt_ to__± support ofmy value of the yen and the concomi now be able to again enjoy her
nese). 2. threat to Western liv
ing standards developed through
favorite foods—tuna sashimi and
Hon That left me with $4.75. “What a miserable sum, I couldn j tant drop in the value of the
the incursion into Western
dollar has changed. all that for beef—which she found “incred
countries of Oriental laborers
many of the Issei, some of whom ibly expensive in Japan.”
...
first time in the two months since I had left Woodfibre,
willing to work for very low
Mrs. Kato had lived in the
have chosen to return to the
Kuwabara Wins Tagashiro Scholarship
Retired Issei in Japan
Now Finding Life Harder
for the , first .time m '
Cont. on Page 2
| States.
Cont. on Page 2
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Internment Camp
< By Takeo Ujo Nakano
Takeo Ujo Nakano is an Issei poet who writes mainly tanka
but also some haiku. In 1964 he had the honour of being one of a
dozen winners of . the Imperial Poetry Contest in Japan. He was
the first Canadian winner. He currently resides with his wife in
Scarborough, Ontario.
*
Tokyo Admirer of James Dean Builds Memorial
CHOLAME, Calif. — Total ad businessman Seita Ohnishi.,
Actor Dean was killed when he
miration for an American movie
star has led a Japanese business missed a turn on Calif. Hwy. 4^
man to erect a $15,000 memorial and wrecked his silver Porche
at- the site of-the now cult fig Carrera on Sept. 30, 1955.
The sculpture was dedicated
ure’s death, in 1955.
: The memorial to James Dean is two months ago on the 22nd anwrapped around the trunk of a ; niversary of Dean’s death.
The Japanese (businessman retree in front’of this hamlet’s 9by-9 foot"’ post office. It was portedly made three Tokyo-to-Los
totally financed by wealthy Tokyo j Angeles trips and three trips, to
Cholame, 25 -miles east of Paso
Robles, solely to complete his tri
bute to the actor.
Ohnishi, 50, is a stranger to So. /
Calif, and speaks no English. He .
contacted a Southland architec
tural-firm seeking help with his Dean memorial.
.
“Mr. Ohnishi had total admira
tion for James Dean, for his life’
Cont. on Page 2
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♦
(SECTION 6)
THE NEW CANADIAN
For some weeks now, at Descoigne road camp, other work crews
had been hurrying to complete the tenthouses. On May 15, a month
An Independent 'Organ for Canadians oi Japanese Origin
after tKe arrival of out group from Yellowhead, we were able to I
move into them. We must have composed, quite a scene when, like a
troupe of snails, we, bearing our belongings, slowly made our way
in a long straggling line, winding in and out amongst the trees, Vol. 42 — 8
TUESDAY, JANUARY 31, 1978
TORONTO, ONTARIO
j from the boxcars to our new homes. “What a strange fate is ours,” giiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiifmirniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiuiiuiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii iiiiiiiiiiiii!II Him
I thought to myself. ,
Five brandnew orange canvas tenthouses lined up on the green
xs s-
1 ■k u,d h ” '-■■ Japanese American Citizen’s League
- Inside, these new quarters were set up much like our old : From
the' one entrance I saw that fifteen bunk beds lined three walls. In
the centre space.was a stove for heating. Beside it stood a table I .fl
and chairs. The spaciousness of these forty-foot by thirty -foottentUvllldl
B VIB V i ■ 3
B BB
B ■ UWIIIUI B*
houses at first ^j* ^
DOS ANGELES, Calif.
,
In a letter to the Commissioner salient examples; exclusionary
the^ay^wfen allwere out atwork, the tenthouse was in silence. | ' Calling “yellow peril” an “anti- of Patents and Trademarks, the immigration laws, ineligibility to
^ftfil
But in theevenings itwasalive
with the largergroup, allengaged
Asian racist concept,” the Civil chairman of the JACL committee, become citizens thiough naturaliland - laws,
in playing go or'cards, or iin group singing. And as at least half of Rights Comhiittee of the Japa- Shigeru Kaneshiro, pointed out ; zation, restrictive
the camp of one-hundred and fifty were men from places other ■ nese American.iCitizen-’s League’s that the offensive term “has been forced expulsions (from numerous
than Yellowhead, the conversation was again lively with the ex
manifested in the United States in communities arid, during World
changing of experiences. Surely the scene was unique to such road Eastern District has urged the
Patent and Trademark Office . of laws and in'fact to deny'persons War II, incarceration in , Americamps, of that time.
Because the tenthouse was one large room, with no partitions, the Department of Commerce to of Asian ancestry to participate can cencentration camps.
“With a record of such egre
even the beds had no privacy. Like it or not, we were all one big ^eny the request of a Washing- equally and fully in the social,
family. If the noisy partying continued late into the night, not tion^ DC# publication for exclu- economic and political life of our gious injustices, it is surprising
one person could sleep. But goodwill prevailed amongst tose ^ trademark rights", toy the country.”
that any fair-minded publication
sharing\a common fate, and soothed any irritation at the loss ot
He went on, “To cite a few should apply for, say nothing of
sleep. With familiarity, I came to. quite enjoy tenthouse living phrase.
,
appealing a denial of, the ‘Yellow
which I was then experiencing for the first time in my life.
I
Peril’ trademark. The JACL,
At dawn, the tunes of many varieties of birds come to me ’
Eastern District, is unqualifiedly
while I am still lying in beds. Still drowsy, I can sink into the bedclothes for those luxurious few minutes more, then be gently and |
HAMILTON^-At a service on January 1st, 1978 at the Hamilton opposed to having . . . any indivi
gradually brought to waking. From a distance, the murmur of a Japanese United Ghurcch, Pamela Lynn Kuwabara was presented dual or organization be granted
small creek trickling over pebbles is faintly audible.
the Tagashiro Scholarship. Pamela, daughter of Tom Kuwabara and a legal and exclusive right to
Just a step outside the tenthouse, I take a-deep breath of the the late Aya Kuwabara of Hamilton, studied at the Toronto Institute
‘Yellow Peril.’”
exhilarating air and come awake. I am heartened by the sight of the of Medical Technologist. She is presently continuing her studies at a
The letter concluded with “the
Seven Sisters, visible from here as from Yellowhead. Just steps hospital in London, Ontario. -The Tagashiro Scholarship of $800.00
from the entrance, I kneel to rinse my face in the pure waters- of was made possible by the interest accrued on a donation fiom Mrs. hope that the Patent and Tradethe mountain stream. One morning, a flock of mountain sparrows M. Tagashiro of Vancouver in memory of her husband.
/ mark. Off ice will stand firm on its
settled into the trees across the stream. Unable to resist the sudden
initial denial” of the trademark
urge, I clapbed together my wet hands making a smacking iwiseat
rights.
which the birds, all at one instant? took flight, scolding me for the
For" the information of the
mtnAs° l’ take a short stroll the sun shows his^fac^ in the Pink
Commissioner, Mr. Kaneshiro en
eastern sky. A light breeze now stirs the young leaves of the
closed chapter - and - verse docu
poplars and sets them shimmering silver-white in the early sun
mentation of the origins of the
light. Today .my customary morning walk is interrupted by the
phrase “yellow peril” and such
whistle of a CNR. train emerging from a tunnel in the mountaincompanion terms as “yellow
side. Emitting clouds of gray smoke, the train passes slowly.through
WAKAYAMA, Japan—During r After three years in Wakayama
the valley.'Though not an uncommon sight, a traan still catche
y the past ten or more years, it has City, Mrs. Shigeko’Kato has come hordes'-” and the uses to which
attention, perhaps because it seems somehow incongruous with the
to the realization that her month they have been and could again
not
been
uncommon
for
retire
oeaceful seclusion up in these mountains. As if with the intently
ly Social Security’ check for $220 be put.
curious eyes of a child, I happily follow the train until at disappears ment-aged Issei to return to Ja
Entitled “YELLOW PERIL”:
around a bend in .the tracks. I hear the whistle sound again, and pan to live out the remainder of cannot be stretched to meet even
this time it is- likb a call to work, for soon the rest of the camp their lives on Social Security her basic needs. After paying her ITS ROLE IN THE ASIAN
AMERICAN EXPERIENCE, its
starts' to stir and I am launched into the clay’s activities. I head to
benefits earned during their rent and utilities bill she was
the camp kitchen for-breakfast, marveling that some Department of
forced to draw upon her savings, text follows.
NatS Defence officials fear that the likes of us road camp scores of years in the . United
depleting that resource.
States..
workers would sabotage the railways.
, ,
So Mrs. Kato is returning to
. In most case's, the repatriates
Mid-May was also when for the first time since, I had begun
By Shigeru Kaneshiro
work in the road camps,'I received a pay. I opened the envelope found that they could live mode Los Angeles where she had lived
Webster’s dictionary defines
expectantly thinking that though the wage scale was low, seven rately comfortably
on • their for about 50 years and where her
weeks’ accumulation would- be substantial. To my surprise, there -monthly payments that would not children and grandchildren now “Yellow Peril” as follows:
“1. a danger to Western
have -seen'them through half the live. She will miss her dawn hikes
civilization held to arise from
month in the U.S. without, sup: up a hill to Wakayama Castle
expansion of the Oriental peo
with fellow members of her
plemental aid.
ples (as the Chinese and Japa
^follows • After a deduction for room and board, the basic pay was
The recent upward spiral in the “Early Bird” group. But she will
this, $15.00 wnnt_ to__± support ofmy value of the yen and the concomi now be able to again enjoy her
nese). 2. threat to Western liv
ing standards developed through
favorite foods—tuna sashimi and
Hon That left me with $4.75. “What a miserable sum, I couldn j tant drop in the value of the
the incursion into Western
dollar has changed. all that for beef—which she found “incred
countries of Oriental laborers
many of the Issei, some of whom ibly expensive in Japan.”
...
first time in the two months since I had left Woodfibre,
willing to work for very low
Mrs. Kato had lived in the
have chosen to return to the
Kuwabara Wins Tagashiro Scholarship
Retired Issei in Japan
Now Finding Life Harder
for the , first .time m '
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Tuesday, January 31, 1978
PAGE a
Yellow Peril..
Cont. from Page 1
Issei
The New Canadian /
Gont. from Page 1 .
/ Established in 1939 .
wages
and
under • inferior ' firmly fixed by the consolidat was able to bathe in a Japanese bath. Back in Woodfibre I had
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ing influence of ages upon ages ; ' become accustbmeckto -bathing in one nightly. But in the- life of the
working conditions?’ ’
479 Queen Street WesV
—we should be prepared to bid road camp, even showers were not to.be had. Instead we heated
Webster’s Third New Interna
Toronto, Ont. M5V 2 A9
basins of water on the stove in our tenthouse, then rushed outdoors
farewell to republicanism and
tional Dictionary of the English
with them to sponge bathe in privacy. This made for a short scrub,
RHONE 366.5005
democracy.”
- Language, Unabridged,1966.
as the cold quickly chased us indoors again. But-now the newly built
T. UMEZUK1 PUBLISHER
The single tax-< economist, Japanese bath was a popular spot’ indeed. Though makeshift, it
The Random House dictionary,
K.C.TSUMURA
Unabridged, 1976,-gives essenti Henry ’George, wrote ominously served its purpose."A roughly, constructed . shed housed a wooden
/ English Section' Editor
in /he New York Tribune, May boxlike tub some five feet by five feet and about three feet deep.
ally the same definition.. KEN MORI
This was filled almost to the top with water which was continuously
Historically, the phrase “Yel 1, 1869:
Japanese Section 'Editor
warmed by a wood fire burning underneath the brickwork base of
“The sixty, thousand or one the wooden structure. Up at one side, a pipe from outdoors reached
low 'Peril” did not appear until ’
A member of Ethnic Press
hundred thousand Mongolians in past the rim of the tub. It served to fill the tub initially and
about 1905. But the concept was
Association of Ontario
on our western coast are the then to add cold water to adjust the-temperature. On the wooden
expressed at least as. early as the
and Canada Federation
thin edge- ofthe wedge which platform outside the tub, four or five men would be busy; soaping
mid-nineteenth century when the
themselves and then .rinsing off in preparation for getting into .the
Chinese began migrating to the - has for its base the five hund
jtaib. Meanwhile’two. of three others would already be in it, squattingred million of Eastern Asia.
West -Coast in sigifieant numbers.
on -their haunches so that the water-came up to their necks,
. . . The Chinaman can live thoroughly warming them and relieving their muscles, sore from
Although commonly viewed as a
where stronger than he would the day’s work. How happy we all were with this last vestige of a
situation confined to the Western
Domestic Help Wanted
life-style,
how
far
behind
us
both
in
time
.and
space..
starve.
,
Give
him
fair
play
and
states, it was? in fact, .of nation
Experienced domestic helper, live,
-Sunday mornings we indulged in the luxury .of lying late in bed.
this quality- enables him to’
wide scope.
in. light house-keeping duties -and
drive out the stronger races . . . One such morning , my young friend and- I took a long walk along
In 1854, Horace Greely in' his •
the river bank. The. sky above was clear^but up the river a distance cooking. Two -adults and one- in
(unless Chinese immigration is ;
New York Tribune wrote:
the day’s work. Howhappy-we all were with this last vestige of a1, fant family. Lawrence & Avenue
checked)
the
youngest
home
of
The Chinese are uncivilized,
sional faint cry of a beaver. But otherwise, as there was no work Road area. Phone -787-4944 from
its
early
the
nations
must
in
in progress today, a deep hush covered-all. ;
.
unclean and filthy beyond all
9:30 ajm. to 5‘p.m. ask for Pat.
Fuku walked behind me. I turned around when he suddenly
conception without any of the - manhood follow the path and i
Local references required. , _
meet the, doom of Babylon, broke .into:lively song. Looking into his face, I saw a sunny expreshigher domestic or-social rela
Ninevah and Rome. -. .
Here si01! ^nd eyes twinkling mischievously. The song was a familiar
tions;.- lustful and sensual 'in
' , .
,
.. , .
, .
Japanese tune. The lyrics told of a young university student playing
plain
to
the
eye
of
him
who
A
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k
It is a good policy to
their dispositions; every female
1
a shakuhachi,-not because he enjoys it, but because he must. He has
chooses to see are dragon’s been given up by his parents as a ne’er-do-well and has, besides,
have the Right Policy
is a prostitute of the basest
teeth (which will) spring up failed his -examinations. He has no choice but to - go from door to
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—
around men marshalled for civil door, disguised by’ a large hood covering his head, playing the
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Greely approved of California’s
I shakuhachi and begging for his livelihood. Though the lyrics were
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war.”
attempt to stop “this flood of
’ not happy, the liveliness of the tune .and Fuku’s fine singing .
Toronto 2-A, Ont.
Such was the thinking of white irresistibly drew me into participation.
ignorant idolators.”
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And so it often was with my friend. It was he who at YellowIn 1865, the New York Times Americans about the “yellow hor
linked the presence of “Asiatics” des” in the latter half of the ni head had urged me to join the outing to the watershed site.- He
neteenth century. And indeed the possessed an infectious enthusiam. He was lighthearted,- and I
to the post-slavery issue:
remember him as-constantly amusing me with witty jokes.' He-was
“Now we are'utterly opposed “floodtide” of Chinese was stopp a handsome and’spirited young man, and one of those: who skilfully
- to the permission of Chinamen ed-with the passage of the Chi managed the horses which towed logs down from the mountainsides.
An Issei of thirty years-, he had arrived at Woodfibre at age .twenty..
or any other Asiatics to any nese Exclusion Act of 1882.
Sealing out the Chinese made We -had known each other there, but it had taken the altered-' circum
part of -the United States . . .
stances of wartime to turn us into friends.
/ .
. The Maintenance of an ele for the influx of Japanese from;
Authentic Oriental Gifts
Having eaten our sandwiches and washed them down with cool
vated national character is .of about 1890. The Japanese situadraughts from the river, we continued for some -distance along with
Kimonos & Accessories
.-higher value than-' the mere • tion was further- complicated by bank. We picked horsetails and watercress to be enjoyed that
Noritake China ‘
growth in physical power • • • the rise of Japan as a military evening as a special -treat. While’ we were thus absorbed, a small
with'Oriental blood will come. power and a threat to the United plane, perhaps on patrol, flew by -high overhead. Tlib somehow
463 Eglinton Ave.W.
Oriental thoughts and the at Sbates with her victory over a ominous sound of the engine made me look up, my nerves suddenly
phone 489-8611
a
little
on
edge.
How
near
the
surface
of
my
consciousness
lay
the
tempt at Oriental social habits. European nation, Russia, in 19,05.
constant awareness of our uncertain, lot, even here in this decep
. . . We have four millions of As Dr. Edwin 0. Reischauer, in tively peaceful existence.
degraded negroes in the 'South. The United States and Japan
. Back from the river on the grassy hillsides, dandelions were
... And if there were to be a points out: “The charmingly qua- blooming like stars. The wild roses of Alberta were growing at our
.floodtide-of Chinese, population int and admirably quick Japanese feet. T picked one, then added one each of the daisies, buttercups, •
—a population befouled with had suddenly become for us the violets and other flowers which were around us in colourful pro
fusion. Even today, several-decades later, the names of these pretty
all -the social vices, with no sinister Yellow Peril.”
flowers remind me of the peace of my days at Descoigne camp, -and
knowledge or appreciation of
The San Francisco Chronicle, comfort me as I cope with the restless big-city life of the postwar.
free institutions or constitu- which had earlier directed -its at. While spring slowly passed Through the Rockies, I delighted in ^SERVICE IS QUICK and Eco.
tional liberty, with heathenish tack on the Chinese, now turned the beauty of the wild-flowers of Jasper National Park. Oftep I lay_ nomical. Since all works —
habits, and heathenish propen- upon the Japanese. Its headlines down amongst them on the grassy slopes and wrote long letters, to. from picture taking - to print
~ my wife and daughter. Each time I included poems I had composed
sities, whose character, and ha read:,
Crime and Poverty. Go; /^ spot M late Maymy family was still in Woodfibre. In ■ finishing, is done by our staff.
bits, and modes of thought are Hand in. Hand with Asiatic those days Yukie would put in her letters to me pretty sweetpeas
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Labor;” “Japanese a Menace to and carnations from the garden of our home.-Sometimes
home. Sometimes there were
American Women/’ “The Yellow several poems. One told of the Japanese .woman in Canada, now
Peril—How Japanese Crowd Out alone coping with the rearing of a child. -She was to be brave in the
face ox
of' adversity,
as her
thp Whi+p Rapp ”
idte
auvciai^, taking
icuunii, ao
nvx model the renowned stouthearted
.
Cont. from Page 1
I Japanese, woman of the Meiji period. Another poem told of the !
The Chronicle " was joined by lively children’s song Yukie sang to Toshimi, 'to distract her when
style and philosophy.. That’s why
he placed the sculpture in Cho- others, most notably William she persisted in questions about her father.
In mid-June, when I had been at Desco-igne for two months^ two.
lame, where Dean lost his life,” Randolph Hearst with his chain
officials.from the B. C. Security Commission came one day with an
Takuji Funaki, vice president of of newspapers and cinema and V.
announcement. We all gathered in the cariip kitchen,. , wondering
the firm which assisted with the S. McClatchy of the Sacramento what was to happen next. Great was our relief- and joy at the news.
erection of the memorial, ex Bee and Fresno Bee. And Richard Soon Descoigne camp would be closed and then all the men with
Pearson Hobson, a naval hero and families would be sent to the ghost towns where those families were
plained to the L.A. Times.
' A memorial sculpture was cast i congressman from Alabama, from living. With this to look forward to, we were to work obediently
until the happy day came. Upon hearing, these words, I felt a burden
in Japan. It includes the actor’s 1907. on spoke endlessly of an
lift from my heart. With new hope, I told myself to endure for
name, date of birth, time and imminent Japanese invasion em just a little while longer. Soon I would be on my way to Green
death and a figure bellished with the charge that wood, there to be reunited with Yukie and Toshimi.
side, the symbol for Japan’s troops were already in
(TO BE CONTINUED)
. . '' ,
eternity. A stainless steel shaft the United States'in the form of
mirrors the bend in the road its immigrants —- a. hysterical
charge that was to be echoed in
where Dean was killed.
Cont. from Page 1
Ohnishi did not divulge to any many corners until World War II.
What then were the conse United (States since 1924 when | one of her children who persuadone duringhis visits to the small
town why he decided to erect the quences of the “Yellow Peril” she left Japan to many the late / ed her to return to Los Angeles
memorial 22 years after the ac- • xenophobia upon Asians in Mr. Kato. She has been widowed./during a visit with her in Japan
for 12 years. She will live with | last month.
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Issei
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/ Established in 1939 .
wages
and
under • inferior ' firmly fixed by the consolidat was able to bathe in a Japanese bath. Back in Woodfibre I had
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ing influence of ages upon ages ; ' become accustbmeckto -bathing in one nightly. But in the- life of the
working conditions?’ ’
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—we should be prepared to bid road camp, even showers were not to.be had. Instead we heated
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basins of water on the stove in our tenthouse, then rushed outdoors
farewell to republicanism and
tional Dictionary of the English
with them to sponge bathe in privacy. This made for a short scrub,
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democracy.”
- Language, Unabridged,1966.
as the cold quickly chased us indoors again. But-now the newly built
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The single tax-< economist, Japanese bath was a popular spot’ indeed. Though makeshift, it
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K.C.TSUMURA
Unabridged, 1976,-gives essenti Henry ’George, wrote ominously served its purpose."A roughly, constructed . shed housed a wooden
/ English Section' Editor
in /he New York Tribune, May boxlike tub some five feet by five feet and about three feet deep.
ally the same definition.. KEN MORI
This was filled almost to the top with water which was continuously
Historically, the phrase “Yel 1, 1869:
Japanese Section 'Editor
warmed by a wood fire burning underneath the brickwork base of
“The sixty, thousand or one the wooden structure. Up at one side, a pipe from outdoors reached
low 'Peril” did not appear until ’
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hundred thousand Mongolians in past the rim of the tub. It served to fill the tub initially and
about 1905. But the concept was
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on our western coast are the then to add cold water to adjust the-temperature. On the wooden
expressed at least as. early as the
and Canada Federation
thin edge- ofthe wedge which platform outside the tub, four or five men would be busy; soaping
mid-nineteenth century when the
themselves and then .rinsing off in preparation for getting into .the
Chinese began migrating to the - has for its base the five hund
jtaib. Meanwhile’two. of three others would already be in it, squattingred million of Eastern Asia.
West -Coast in sigifieant numbers.
on -their haunches so that the water-came up to their necks,
. . . The Chinaman can live thoroughly warming them and relieving their muscles, sore from
Although commonly viewed as a
where stronger than he would the day’s work. How happy we all were with this last vestige of a
situation confined to the Western
Domestic Help Wanted
life-style,
how
far
behind
us
both
in
time
.and
space..
starve.
,
Give
him
fair
play
and
states, it was? in fact, .of nation
Experienced domestic helper, live,
-Sunday mornings we indulged in the luxury .of lying late in bed.
this quality- enables him to’
wide scope.
in. light house-keeping duties -and
drive out the stronger races . . . One such morning , my young friend and- I took a long walk along
In 1854, Horace Greely in' his •
the river bank. The. sky above was clear^but up the river a distance cooking. Two -adults and one- in
(unless Chinese immigration is ;
New York Tribune wrote:
the day’s work. Howhappy-we all were with this last vestige of a1, fant family. Lawrence & Avenue
checked)
the
youngest
home
of
The Chinese are uncivilized,
sional faint cry of a beaver. But otherwise, as there was no work Road area. Phone -787-4944 from
its
early
the
nations
must
in
in progress today, a deep hush covered-all. ;
.
unclean and filthy beyond all
9:30 ajm. to 5‘p.m. ask for Pat.
Fuku walked behind me. I turned around when he suddenly
conception without any of the - manhood follow the path and i
Local references required. , _
meet the, doom of Babylon, broke .into:lively song. Looking into his face, I saw a sunny expreshigher domestic or-social rela
Ninevah and Rome. -. .
Here si01! ^nd eyes twinkling mischievously. The song was a familiar
tions;.- lustful and sensual 'in
' , .
,
.. , .
, .
Japanese tune. The lyrics told of a young university student playing
plain
to
the
eye
of
him
who
A
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k
It is a good policy to
their dispositions; every female
1
a shakuhachi,-not because he enjoys it, but because he must. He has
chooses to see are dragon’s been given up by his parents as a ne’er-do-well and has, besides,
have the Right Policy
is a prostitute of the basest
teeth (which will) spring up failed his -examinations. He has no choice but to - go from door to
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attempt to stop “this flood of
’ not happy, the liveliness of the tune .and Fuku’s fine singing .
Toronto 2-A, Ont.
Such was the thinking of white irresistibly drew me into participation.
ignorant idolators.”
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And so it often was with my friend. It was he who at YellowIn 1865, the New York Times Americans about the “yellow hor
linked the presence of “Asiatics” des” in the latter half of the ni head had urged me to join the outing to the watershed site.- He
neteenth century. And indeed the possessed an infectious enthusiam. He was lighthearted,- and I
to the post-slavery issue:
remember him as-constantly amusing me with witty jokes.' He-was
“Now we are'utterly opposed “floodtide” of Chinese was stopp a handsome and’spirited young man, and one of those: who skilfully
- to the permission of Chinamen ed-with the passage of the Chi managed the horses which towed logs down from the mountainsides.
An Issei of thirty years-, he had arrived at Woodfibre at age .twenty..
or any other Asiatics to any nese Exclusion Act of 1882.
Sealing out the Chinese made We -had known each other there, but it had taken the altered-' circum
part of -the United States . . .
stances of wartime to turn us into friends.
/ .
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Having eaten our sandwiches and washed them down with cool
vated national character is .of about 1890. The Japanese situadraughts from the river, we continued for some -distance along with
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.-higher value than-' the mere • tion was further- complicated by bank. We picked horsetails and watercress to be enjoyed that
Noritake China ‘
growth in physical power • • • the rise of Japan as a military evening as a special -treat. While’ we were thus absorbed, a small
with'Oriental blood will come. power and a threat to the United plane, perhaps on patrol, flew by -high overhead. Tlib somehow
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Oriental thoughts and the at Sbates with her victory over a ominous sound of the engine made me look up, my nerves suddenly
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a
little
on
edge.
How
near
the
surface
of
my
consciousness
lay
the
tempt at Oriental social habits. European nation, Russia, in 19,05.
constant awareness of our uncertain, lot, even here in this decep
. . . We have four millions of As Dr. Edwin 0. Reischauer, in tively peaceful existence.
degraded negroes in the 'South. The United States and Japan
. Back from the river on the grassy hillsides, dandelions were
... And if there were to be a points out: “The charmingly qua- blooming like stars. The wild roses of Alberta were growing at our
.floodtide-of Chinese, population int and admirably quick Japanese feet. T picked one, then added one each of the daisies, buttercups, •
—a population befouled with had suddenly become for us the violets and other flowers which were around us in colourful pro
fusion. Even today, several-decades later, the names of these pretty
all -the social vices, with no sinister Yellow Peril.”
flowers remind me of the peace of my days at Descoigne camp, -and
knowledge or appreciation of
The San Francisco Chronicle, comfort me as I cope with the restless big-city life of the postwar.
free institutions or constitu- which had earlier directed -its at. While spring slowly passed Through the Rockies, I delighted in ^SERVICE IS QUICK and Eco.
tional liberty, with heathenish tack on the Chinese, now turned the beauty of the wild-flowers of Jasper National Park. Oftep I lay_ nomical. Since all works —
habits, and heathenish propen- upon the Japanese. Its headlines down amongst them on the grassy slopes and wrote long letters, to. from picture taking - to print
~ my wife and daughter. Each time I included poems I had composed
sities, whose character, and ha read:,
Crime and Poverty. Go; /^ spot M late Maymy family was still in Woodfibre. In ■ finishing, is done by our staff.
bits, and modes of thought are Hand in. Hand with Asiatic those days Yukie would put in her letters to me pretty sweetpeas
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Labor;” “Japanese a Menace to and carnations from the garden of our home.-Sometimes
home. Sometimes there were
American Women/’ “The Yellow several poems. One told of the Japanese .woman in Canada, now
Peril—How Japanese Crowd Out alone coping with the rearing of a child. -She was to be brave in the
face ox
of' adversity,
as her
thp Whi+p Rapp ”
idte
auvciai^, taking
icuunii, ao
nvx model the renowned stouthearted
.
Cont. from Page 1
I Japanese, woman of the Meiji period. Another poem told of the !
The Chronicle " was joined by lively children’s song Yukie sang to Toshimi, 'to distract her when
style and philosophy.. That’s why
he placed the sculpture in Cho- others, most notably William she persisted in questions about her father.
In mid-June, when I had been at Desco-igne for two months^ two.
lame, where Dean lost his life,” Randolph Hearst with his chain
officials.from the B. C. Security Commission came one day with an
Takuji Funaki, vice president of of newspapers and cinema and V.
announcement. We all gathered in the cariip kitchen,. , wondering
the firm which assisted with the S. McClatchy of the Sacramento what was to happen next. Great was our relief- and joy at the news.
erection of the memorial, ex Bee and Fresno Bee. And Richard Soon Descoigne camp would be closed and then all the men with
Pearson Hobson, a naval hero and families would be sent to the ghost towns where those families were
plained to the L.A. Times.
' A memorial sculpture was cast i congressman from Alabama, from living. With this to look forward to, we were to work obediently
until the happy day came. Upon hearing, these words, I felt a burden
in Japan. It includes the actor’s 1907. on spoke endlessly of an
lift from my heart. With new hope, I told myself to endure for
name, date of birth, time and imminent Japanese invasion em just a little while longer. Soon I would be on my way to Green
death and a figure bellished with the charge that wood, there to be reunited with Yukie and Toshimi.
side, the symbol for Japan’s troops were already in
(TO BE CONTINUED)
. . '' ,
eternity. A stainless steel shaft the United States'in the form of
mirrors the bend in the road its immigrants —- a. hysterical
charge that was to be echoed in
where Dean was killed.
Cont. from Page 1
Ohnishi did not divulge to any many corners until World War II.
What then were the conse United (States since 1924 when | one of her children who persuadone duringhis visits to the small
town why he decided to erect the quences of the “Yellow Peril” she left Japan to many the late / ed her to return to Los Angeles
memorial 22 years after the ac- • xenophobia upon Asians in Mr. Kato. She has been widowed./during a visit with her in Japan
for 12 years. She will live with | last month.
America ?
tor’s death,
Dean
Retirement.
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Tuesday, January 31, 1978
TORONTO JAPANESE GOSPEL CHURCH
Large U.S. Cars Dominate
japan's Funeral Business
St. John’s Presbyterian; Broadview at -Simpson Ave.
Sunday School and Worship Service, 2:00 p.m..;
? Tuesday: Prayer and Study Fellowship 8:00 p.m.
Friday: Young Peoples Christian Fellowship.8:00 p.m.
' Phone contact: Mn S. Yokota 425.-6128,’Mr. H. Yoshida 461-1686.;
of the deceased.?
Each of Yoshikura’s 12 Ameri
- TOKYO—Japan may be known
can cars is used an average of 47
for its compact cars, but there is ,
times a month. The trip usually
one field here where big Ameri- j
covers about 16 s miles and cost
can'vehicles dominate. This is the ;
18,000 yen (about $68).
reikyu-sha, or “soul forever” car
It is a “very modest fare, set
used as a hearse and complete
with a built-in,- Buddhist-style by government regulations,” Yo
shikura said. Driving the “soul
temple to hold the casket.
forever car” is a difficult task in
“Engine. output, size and digJapanese traffic and on narrow
nity inake us use the full-size
streets.
American cars,” said Kiyoshi
“You have to be very careful
Yoshikura, director in charge of
not to make & sharp turn, which
vehicles for one. company in To
happens frequently in Tokyo,”
kyo, in an interview.
Yoshikura, the son of an under
“Japanese cars are too small taker, said. “The car is top-heavy
to carry caskets. as long as seven and may capsize if banked more
feet,” he said, “American cars than 49 .degrees.”
with their bigger space are much
The first motorized reikyu-sha
easier to operate.”'
in Japan appeared in 1923 when
Yoshikura’s firm owns 12 U.S. a Tokyo undertaker converted a
• funeral coaches. Mechanics cut Model-T Ford into a funeral
away the rear section of . body to vehicle complete with Buddhist
install the heavy, decorated tern- temple^ Yoshikura said.
pie structure. Each, weighing .at
.
1
Before that, the temple cart
least 1,100 pounds, is made of
.
’
;
was pulled -by animals, usually
select Japanese Cyprus wood, its
cows. And before that the potwalls and ceilings covered with
shaped caskets then in use, were
silken cloth. The floor is of taplaced in a temple-like structure
tami the traditional .. Japanese'
carried bn human shoulders.
straw matting.
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TORONTO JAPANESE GOSPEL CHURCH
Large U.S. Cars Dominate
japan's Funeral Business
St. John’s Presbyterian; Broadview at -Simpson Ave.
Sunday School and Worship Service, 2:00 p.m..;
? Tuesday: Prayer and Study Fellowship 8:00 p.m.
Friday: Young Peoples Christian Fellowship.8:00 p.m.
' Phone contact: Mn S. Yokota 425.-6128,’Mr. H. Yoshida 461-1686.;
of the deceased.?
Each of Yoshikura’s 12 Ameri
- TOKYO—Japan may be known
can cars is used an average of 47
for its compact cars, but there is ,
times a month. The trip usually
one field here where big Ameri- j
covers about 16 s miles and cost
can'vehicles dominate. This is the ;
18,000 yen (about $68).
reikyu-sha, or “soul forever” car
It is a “very modest fare, set
used as a hearse and complete
with a built-in,- Buddhist-style by government regulations,” Yo
shikura said. Driving the “soul
temple to hold the casket.
forever car” is a difficult task in
“Engine. output, size and digJapanese traffic and on narrow
nity inake us use the full-size
streets.
American cars,” said Kiyoshi
“You have to be very careful
Yoshikura, director in charge of
not to make & sharp turn, which
vehicles for one. company in To
happens frequently in Tokyo,”
kyo, in an interview.
Yoshikura, the son of an under
“Japanese cars are too small taker, said. “The car is top-heavy
to carry caskets. as long as seven and may capsize if banked more
feet,” he said, “American cars than 49 .degrees.”
with their bigger space are much
The first motorized reikyu-sha
easier to operate.”'
in Japan appeared in 1923 when
Yoshikura’s firm owns 12 U.S. a Tokyo undertaker converted a
• funeral coaches. Mechanics cut Model-T Ford into a funeral
away the rear section of . body to vehicle complete with Buddhist
install the heavy, decorated tern- temple^ Yoshikura said.
pie structure. Each, weighing .at
.
1
Before that, the temple cart
least 1,100 pounds, is made of
.
’
;
was pulled -by animals, usually
select Japanese Cyprus wood, its
cows. And before that the potwalls and ceilings covered with
shaped caskets then in use, were
silken cloth. The floor is of taplaced in a temple-like structure
tami the traditional .. Japanese'
carried bn human shoulders.
straw matting.
By NAO AKI USUI
TORONTO BUDDHIST CHURCH
918 BATHURST ST., TORONTO
Telephone: 534-4302: SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1978
10:30 a.m. Sunday School
11:00 a.m. Morning Service
2:00 p.m. Japanese Service
Rev; T. Moriki (461-6670)
SEICHO-NO-IE
TRUTH OF LIFE CHURCH
English Service & Sunday School
>
on Sundays at 10:30 a.m. .
666 Victoria Park Ave., At Danforth
Toronto, Ont.
REAL ESTATE CONSULTANT
ph*.
SELLING AND BUYING OF HOMES
ARRANGING AND SELLING OF MORTGAGES
PLEASE CALL MITS KURODA
RfHjl/OH
G. MANSI REAL ESTATE
Member of Toronto Real Estate Board and Photo MLS Service
2627 EGLINTON AVE. E. 267-1179
Res. 261-2581
■out
When Buying Or Selling A Home
They cost between $27,000 and
$34,500.
'
Cail KEN HORI
K. HORI REAL ESTATE
MEMBER OF TORONTO REAL ESTATE BOARD
14 Terivih "Crei
Phone: 431-9191
Scarborough, Ontario
,
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