Page 1
Whites Can’t Relate to John Okada’s ‘No No Boy’
mess hall for the slap of Thanks schools teaching that Japanese j in common with each other:
ence
fiction
creations
and
white
By FRANK CHIN
I
Americans were riot offended by | “We have long dreaded those ed- giving turkey.
Christian
visions
like
Wallace
“Lest the public think us “un
Playwright/Director, Asian
what the Manzanar Free Press Utorial as well, as the one we wrote
Irwin’s Hashimura Togo stories
American .Theater Workshop,
for the Fourth of July, and the grateful,” let us remind them
in
Good
Housekeeping,
featuring and others camp papers called
San Francisco
one we must write on December that it is not the overladen table
coded messages to drag queens, “racial prejudice.”
(Pacific Citizen)
7. It is easy enough to sit back we miss, but the warm- security
Inside
the
camps,
insides
the
like:
smugly and scribble a few pretty and coziness of home. Man is so
Roger Sales, hotshot Univ, of . [Firstly, I. dropped my eye down pages of the censored; papers
quick to adapt himself that he
platitudes.
:
Washington - English department that hole. Nothing to see. Nextly written in tailor made goodie
soon accustoms himself to a new
“But whatever we, say, be it an
beardy and literary .thinker says I poke finger inside. Nothing to goodie American English Accept
mode of .life. But when the holi
expression
of
solace
in
the
many
able
to
white
Americans
wild,
John Okada’s novel, No No Boy feel. I sent all my intellect re
day draws near, the nostalgia for
things
for
which
we
can
still
be
eyed
with
war,
Chiye
Mori,
young
is a book “presumably about him searching below Hon. Water Pipe,
the old remembered things again
and
Nisei
and
fit
to
be
read
by
thankful,
or
cynical
bitterness
in
self,” and “is not literature.” He’s yet similar vacancy was found.
tugs at the heartstrings.
whites
and
camped
yellows,
wrote
the
mockery
of
the
word
“
thankswrong. Poor Roger can’t be blam Hon. Julery went. Togo to blame^
—Manzanar Free Press.
-1942,
'
what
giving*,
”
will
not
assuage
the
ed for his ignorance. No No Boy While thinking' cemeteries, Hon. on Thanksgiving,
Thurs., Nov. 26, 1942, p. 2.
poignant
desolation
that
assails
Nisei, older and freer, are reluc
is the only Japanese American Telephone make jingle.
Cont. bn Page 2
tant
to remember they ever felt the heart as all file into the
novel he’s ever read. He’s not
(Good Housekeeping, March
smart enough to see that he’s
1917, pp. 47-cont. 153)' . .................................................................................................. ..
judging a history, culture, and
I sent a. copy of No No Boy to
sensibility he has never heard or
read about before John Okada’s Ray Bradbury who pointed a
finger at me and said James
book. Roger Sales is . . - ~
Wong Howe was a friend of his I
Pm tired. I .want to go home. (
An Independent Organ for Canadians of Japanese Origin
and probably had a word for me,
J am home. And I’m still tired.
after I had asked him if he knew
Roger Sales. Nice harmless sim
the- word I had for white men,
ple Roger Sales isn’t out to burn
42 — 9
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1978
TORONTO, ONTARIO
what the blacks sometimes call
crosses on anybody’s literary
“hpnkies,” the Chicano’s “gringo” miiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimm™^^
lawn. He’s just stupid; Decent,
simple, even sympathetic whites Kanakas “Haole.”
THE NEW CANADIAN
Everyone Welcomed .
The movie Jimmy wanted to
from William Saroyan to Roger
Sales hurl white racist insults at make was a movie abouU the
Japanese America in the name of Japanese American concentration“literature” and “good grammar” camps. I told iRay Bradbury that
and cut Japanese America off at Jimmys words for me were story
telling. Even the last time I saw
the tongue.
I hate saying this over, and the only American Yellow you
over. Worse, I hate putting up can admire but loud without be
TORONTO. — The ANNEX has been open for, only 3 weeks, I bowleg GREEN, Ohio. —
with the white racist blither of ing called some political or-racial
and that makes it a true child of the Japanese Canadian community. After
nerations. ^ repression
“decent people,” white and yellow name, and put on to pifV- up your
Being so young, the ANNEX has many plans and a lot to learn, I
.
• i jto already some encouraging things, are happening.
and discrimination, including the
about Japanese American writing dukes. Jimmy said:
“I have a story. It’s very good.;I
On Jan. 14th, the ANNEX “Open House” had over 200 persons detention of thousands in concenbeing all autobiography arid
memoir limited by our personal It’s a good story about what hap droppirig in to wish us well. Amidst food and punch and animated tration camps during World War
experience and' otherwise- sub- pens here in America. I think the talk, Sansei composer-singer Terry Watada, sang about love, lone-I ^ As;an_Ame^^
liness, and dreams that, many of us share in the. J.C, community. ^
example of a “model
literary. They all assume that be story should be told about dur
Everyone, we’re sure, had a warm and relaxed time. We hope all of min<^y ^^ to ,Dr. Bob
cause Nikkei wrote a language ing the war, when they relocated you return to the ANNEX again and again.
.
_I
.
understandable to whites as white these Japanese. They put ’em in
One thing we’re happy to report is that a number of Issei and Suzuki, associate professor and
older Nisei are regularly coming by in the afternoons to sip o-cha, I Erector of the multicultural eduAmerican English, white Ameri-; the camps, you know.
can English was what Japanese
“It’s a good story because look, share stories about the trying forties, and above all, they came catjon program at the Univ, of
by to play “go’ and “shogi”. In the planning s^^sare more Pi°"' | Massachusetts, '’here recently to
Americans wrote and white Am you take American citizens of
grammes co-sponsored by Issei groups and the ANNEX stall.
, speak at Bowling Green State
erican is what they wanted to be. Japanese race thrown with the
In other social service areas the ANNEX has begun basic ser
Oh, yeah! We all of us wanted to Japanese that are not citizens be vices such as Free Legal Aid each Wednesday from J:S0
p’m’’ University.
However, Suzuki said that “the
be white. It’s a phase, of childhood cause of a war situation. Hys a Health Seminar especially for Issei beginning February 24th at
1:30
p.m.,
conducted
by
Dr.
Inaba
in
Japanese;
and
for
those
who
celebration of Asian-Americans
we go through, like wanting to teria ! They throw’em into * the
wish to improve,their English writing skills we have a teacher ava
as a model minority is premabe the other sex, be ah orphan, camps. Freeze all their money.
ilable each Thursday from .7 — 8:30 p.m.
. _ .
be a machine, emotional whoop- They have to sell their homes.
ture
'Since the ANNEX is bi-lingual, our concerns ai en tlimited
The reason that many 'Ameri
ing cough and measles. In the Sacrifices! And go out into these any one generation and, therefore, our programmes
concentration camps wanting to prison camps. And they fight are as broad and flexible 'as people want to make them. The Annex cans believe Asian-Americans are
tbe ideal minority is that after
be white became an epidemic■ amongst themselves to prove is available for use-as a meeting space; and s“^
present a personal viewpoint — already Me
?uji o
us World War II, Asian-Americans
among adults. They caught ^ | themselves.” ~
a discussion prepared on his experiences in Japan — then le
from whites down with a terminal s z ^^ was talking about a movie know what you have in mind. There are 3 full-time workers at the went through an apparent change
case of the deep Christian sissies
neVer made, but I saw many ANNEX — Maya, Helen, and David — but we’re only
peop , in image.
“
o
means
do
we
represent
the
many
different
wrests
and
Compared to the unrest in the
that made . Earl Derr; Biggers times, as he told it. Before he
abilities that make up the Japanese Canadian community. ,
1960s among other minorities,
died he bawled me out for making
The ANNEX is free and available space,. yith no • s mgs a
Asian-Americans seemed peace
him seem bitter about racial pre
tached.
Please
give
us
a
call,
and
soothe
us,
^^^x
”
°
im
US
’
“Itis not the overladen table
ful, prosperous and industrious,
judice. He said he’d had ‘some
help us; but please don’t
we , miss, . but the. warm
Suzuki said.
rough times of it” but he had a
security and coziness of
Asian-Americans did not join
(463-7441)
good life here and was grateful
home.” — Manzanar Free
Toronto M4J 1N4
in the fight for civil rights until
to this country. Almost the very
Press; Thanksgiving 1942.
the late 1960s, Suzuki said.
words of Japanese Americans
“Victims
Over 200 People Attend
of
J.C. Annex “Open House” Socialization
The peaceful and industrious
image many Asian Americans de
veloped'after World War II was
because of strong socialization in
died In their madness: these ; and adolescence watching John
KYOTO - Fishermen called it a | of the Impound monster would
aS of good luck this year and he tough and paid only $10.40 schools and the home. Many
whites thought they were acting Wayne kill “Japs” in the camp
Asian-American families were
Chinese or Japanese, some kind messhalls jbehind barbed wire. one official said it was the larg- for it. The squid was caught ip
anxious after World War II for
of Oriental, for it was obvious, ruled* by whites, feared “bitter est he- had seen in 80 years at'nets along the ^seaco^
their children to have good oppor
would be the first and last word the market as a 11% -foot giant | An average squid is 11-8 me
they weren’t acting, writing or
tunities for success and thus en>
talking like “normal” “Main out of the mouths of whites who sauid was brought in recently. | long, weighs about a half p
But buyers thought the meat. and sells for about $ .
’
Cont. on Page 2
stream” white people. What they read No No Boy. Thirty years out ‘
are comfortable with were sci- tof the camps and some are in |
Giant Squid 11 ’A Feet Caught In
Pearl Buck, James Hilton, Alan
Back in 1957 the Nisei young
Watts swish and lisp til they' adults who’d spent their puberty Japan Called Sign Of Good Year
fresh out of camp.
mess hall for the slap of Thanks schools teaching that Japanese j in common with each other:
ence
fiction
creations
and
white
By FRANK CHIN
I
Americans were riot offended by | “We have long dreaded those ed- giving turkey.
Christian
visions
like
Wallace
“Lest the public think us “un
Playwright/Director, Asian
what the Manzanar Free Press Utorial as well, as the one we wrote
Irwin’s Hashimura Togo stories
American .Theater Workshop,
for the Fourth of July, and the grateful,” let us remind them
in
Good
Housekeeping,
featuring and others camp papers called
San Francisco
one we must write on December that it is not the overladen table
coded messages to drag queens, “racial prejudice.”
(Pacific Citizen)
7. It is easy enough to sit back we miss, but the warm- security
Inside
the
camps,
insides
the
like:
smugly and scribble a few pretty and coziness of home. Man is so
Roger Sales, hotshot Univ, of . [Firstly, I. dropped my eye down pages of the censored; papers
quick to adapt himself that he
platitudes.
:
Washington - English department that hole. Nothing to see. Nextly written in tailor made goodie
soon accustoms himself to a new
“But whatever we, say, be it an
beardy and literary .thinker says I poke finger inside. Nothing to goodie American English Accept
mode of .life. But when the holi
expression
of
solace
in
the
many
able
to
white
Americans
wild,
John Okada’s novel, No No Boy feel. I sent all my intellect re
day draws near, the nostalgia for
things
for
which
we
can
still
be
eyed
with
war,
Chiye
Mori,
young
is a book “presumably about him searching below Hon. Water Pipe,
the old remembered things again
and
Nisei
and
fit
to
be
read
by
thankful,
or
cynical
bitterness
in
self,” and “is not literature.” He’s yet similar vacancy was found.
tugs at the heartstrings.
whites
and
camped
yellows,
wrote
the
mockery
of
the
word
“
thankswrong. Poor Roger can’t be blam Hon. Julery went. Togo to blame^
—Manzanar Free Press.
-1942,
'
what
giving*,
”
will
not
assuage
the
ed for his ignorance. No No Boy While thinking' cemeteries, Hon. on Thanksgiving,
Thurs., Nov. 26, 1942, p. 2.
poignant
desolation
that
assails
Nisei, older and freer, are reluc
is the only Japanese American Telephone make jingle.
Cont. bn Page 2
tant
to remember they ever felt the heart as all file into the
novel he’s ever read. He’s not
(Good Housekeeping, March
smart enough to see that he’s
1917, pp. 47-cont. 153)' . .................................................................................................. ..
judging a history, culture, and
I sent a. copy of No No Boy to
sensibility he has never heard or
read about before John Okada’s Ray Bradbury who pointed a
finger at me and said James
book. Roger Sales is . . - ~
Wong Howe was a friend of his I
Pm tired. I .want to go home. (
An Independent Organ for Canadians of Japanese Origin
and probably had a word for me,
J am home. And I’m still tired.
after I had asked him if he knew
Roger Sales. Nice harmless sim
the- word I had for white men,
ple Roger Sales isn’t out to burn
42 — 9
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1978
TORONTO, ONTARIO
what the blacks sometimes call
crosses on anybody’s literary
“hpnkies,” the Chicano’s “gringo” miiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimm™^^
lawn. He’s just stupid; Decent,
simple, even sympathetic whites Kanakas “Haole.”
THE NEW CANADIAN
Everyone Welcomed .
The movie Jimmy wanted to
from William Saroyan to Roger
Sales hurl white racist insults at make was a movie abouU the
Japanese America in the name of Japanese American concentration“literature” and “good grammar” camps. I told iRay Bradbury that
and cut Japanese America off at Jimmys words for me were story
telling. Even the last time I saw
the tongue.
I hate saying this over, and the only American Yellow you
over. Worse, I hate putting up can admire but loud without be
TORONTO. — The ANNEX has been open for, only 3 weeks, I bowleg GREEN, Ohio. —
with the white racist blither of ing called some political or-racial
and that makes it a true child of the Japanese Canadian community. After
nerations. ^ repression
“decent people,” white and yellow name, and put on to pifV- up your
Being so young, the ANNEX has many plans and a lot to learn, I
.
• i jto already some encouraging things, are happening.
and discrimination, including the
about Japanese American writing dukes. Jimmy said:
“I have a story. It’s very good.;I
On Jan. 14th, the ANNEX “Open House” had over 200 persons detention of thousands in concenbeing all autobiography arid
memoir limited by our personal It’s a good story about what hap droppirig in to wish us well. Amidst food and punch and animated tration camps during World War
experience and' otherwise- sub- pens here in America. I think the talk, Sansei composer-singer Terry Watada, sang about love, lone-I ^ As;an_Ame^^
liness, and dreams that, many of us share in the. J.C, community. ^
example of a “model
literary. They all assume that be story should be told about dur
Everyone, we’re sure, had a warm and relaxed time. We hope all of min<^y ^^ to ,Dr. Bob
cause Nikkei wrote a language ing the war, when they relocated you return to the ANNEX again and again.
.
_I
.
understandable to whites as white these Japanese. They put ’em in
One thing we’re happy to report is that a number of Issei and Suzuki, associate professor and
older Nisei are regularly coming by in the afternoons to sip o-cha, I Erector of the multicultural eduAmerican English, white Ameri-; the camps, you know.
can English was what Japanese
“It’s a good story because look, share stories about the trying forties, and above all, they came catjon program at the Univ, of
by to play “go’ and “shogi”. In the planning s^^sare more Pi°"' | Massachusetts, '’here recently to
Americans wrote and white Am you take American citizens of
grammes co-sponsored by Issei groups and the ANNEX stall.
, speak at Bowling Green State
erican is what they wanted to be. Japanese race thrown with the
In other social service areas the ANNEX has begun basic ser
Oh, yeah! We all of us wanted to Japanese that are not citizens be vices such as Free Legal Aid each Wednesday from J:S0
p’m’’ University.
However, Suzuki said that “the
be white. It’s a phase, of childhood cause of a war situation. Hys a Health Seminar especially for Issei beginning February 24th at
1:30
p.m.,
conducted
by
Dr.
Inaba
in
Japanese;
and
for
those
who
celebration of Asian-Americans
we go through, like wanting to teria ! They throw’em into * the
wish to improve,their English writing skills we have a teacher ava
as a model minority is premabe the other sex, be ah orphan, camps. Freeze all their money.
ilable each Thursday from .7 — 8:30 p.m.
. _ .
be a machine, emotional whoop- They have to sell their homes.
ture
'Since the ANNEX is bi-lingual, our concerns ai en tlimited
The reason that many 'Ameri
ing cough and measles. In the Sacrifices! And go out into these any one generation and, therefore, our programmes
concentration camps wanting to prison camps. And they fight are as broad and flexible 'as people want to make them. The Annex cans believe Asian-Americans are
tbe ideal minority is that after
be white became an epidemic■ amongst themselves to prove is available for use-as a meeting space; and s“^
present a personal viewpoint — already Me
?uji o
us World War II, Asian-Americans
among adults. They caught ^ | themselves.” ~
a discussion prepared on his experiences in Japan — then le
from whites down with a terminal s z ^^ was talking about a movie know what you have in mind. There are 3 full-time workers at the went through an apparent change
case of the deep Christian sissies
neVer made, but I saw many ANNEX — Maya, Helen, and David — but we’re only
peop , in image.
“
o
means
do
we
represent
the
many
different
wrests
and
Compared to the unrest in the
that made . Earl Derr; Biggers times, as he told it. Before he
abilities that make up the Japanese Canadian community. ,
1960s among other minorities,
died he bawled me out for making
The ANNEX is free and available space,. yith no • s mgs a
Asian-Americans seemed peace
him seem bitter about racial pre
tached.
Please
give
us
a
call,
and
soothe
us,
^^^x
”
°
im
US
’
“Itis not the overladen table
ful, prosperous and industrious,
judice. He said he’d had ‘some
help us; but please don’t
we , miss, . but the. warm
Suzuki said.
rough times of it” but he had a
security and coziness of
Asian-Americans did not join
(463-7441)
good life here and was grateful
home.” — Manzanar Free
Toronto M4J 1N4
in the fight for civil rights until
to this country. Almost the very
Press; Thanksgiving 1942.
the late 1960s, Suzuki said.
words of Japanese Americans
“Victims
Over 200 People Attend
of
J.C. Annex “Open House” Socialization
The peaceful and industrious
image many Asian Americans de
veloped'after World War II was
because of strong socialization in
died In their madness: these ; and adolescence watching John
KYOTO - Fishermen called it a | of the Impound monster would
aS of good luck this year and he tough and paid only $10.40 schools and the home. Many
whites thought they were acting Wayne kill “Japs” in the camp
Asian-American families were
Chinese or Japanese, some kind messhalls jbehind barbed wire. one official said it was the larg- for it. The squid was caught ip
anxious after World War II for
of Oriental, for it was obvious, ruled* by whites, feared “bitter est he- had seen in 80 years at'nets along the ^seaco^
their children to have good oppor
would be the first and last word the market as a 11% -foot giant | An average squid is 11-8 me
they weren’t acting, writing or
tunities for success and thus en>
talking like “normal” “Main out of the mouths of whites who sauid was brought in recently. | long, weighs about a half p
But buyers thought the meat. and sells for about $ .
’
Cont. on Page 2
stream” white people. What they read No No Boy. Thirty years out ‘
are comfortable with were sci- tof the camps and some are in |
Giant Squid 11 ’A Feet Caught In
Pearl Buck, James Hilton, Alan
Back in 1957 the Nisei young
Watts swish and lisp til they' adults who’d spent their puberty Japan Called Sign Of Good Year
fresh out of camp.
Page 2
, Friday, February 3, 1978
PAGE J
The New Canadian
Cent. From Page 1
No No Boy...
Established to 1939-.:
versal awareness of whites out- now discussing the plan for self ; our neighborhood no longer; play;
> Second Class maiLNo. 00366 "
sides" of our skin who think we’re government. They will vote bn it cops and robbers/ house, or even
' A member of Ethnic Press
' v fag. Children’s games keep step
being bitter and wagging our-fin monday, Nov. 30.
Association of Ontario
. / . Many arguments both for with the modern tempo. Just as
ger naughty naughty at them for
and Canada Federation
children
outside
now
play
“
war,
”
canning a race of people- up like ! and against the proposed, charter,
T. UMEZUKI PUBLISHER
Spam, when we talk about the are . being , heard throughout the our children here play “night
K.C. TSUMURA
center. The FREE PRESS "will checker” and “plasterboard.” ...
camps at all.
English/Section-: Editor
KEN MORI .
It shouldn’t have to be said. attempt to summarize these dis . .Said one little small fry busily
Japanese Section Editor
counting imaginary- beds and
We’re not thinking “nasty old cussions as they are reported.;
. . . Following are questions and blankets, “we’re taking inven
SUBSCRIPTION
white man” when we say “con
answers
heard
to
date:
tory!” NexF these two little 'en
$15.00 for one year.
centration camps.” The term is
$9.00 for Six Months
“I’M AGAINST THE CHAR terprising youngsters, aged 4 and
defined by the experience of the
479 Queen Street West,
people who lived/in concentra TER—We don’t need self-governr 5. began playing “plasterboard;”
7 ' Toronto, Ont.'M5V 2A9
tion camps and call the concen ment here; this is a prison camp huffing as“hey picked up scrap
PHONE 366.5005
tration camps, not a former resi and should be run by the Army.” pieces of plasterboard and went
“I’M AGAINST THE CHAR- through the elaborate motions of
dence, but a former home. A fact
of life. You can read it in the TER—if this is ar prisonvcamp, holding it up and. npiling it on.
Yellow culture flows, glows
hometown paper.-The people of self-government will help change Finally they came to a dead stop,
and grows in the Pacific
Manzanar . called it a “prison it. Do you want this to be a “We cant finish it,” they told us.
“No more lumber — no more
Northwest . . . right here in
camp” right before the eyes, of prison camp ”
Domestic Help Wanted
nails.
”
Then
they
mumbled
some
Dave Ishii’s bookstore. (
That’s on page one of the Man
the censors without making them
Experienced domestic helper,: live
things
about
the
“
quartermaster.
”
zanar
Free
Press
of
Monday,
blink..
in. light ihouse-keeping duties and
Nov. 9, 1942i On page two," a bit That’s when we slunk off in cooking. Two adults and one in
One of the definitive features CHARTER
of storytelling in the editorial shame.
fant family. Lawrence & Avenue
second
thought,
it
’
s
no
But
on
of ' Asian American culture for PROS AND CONS
column:
Road area. iPhone. 787-4944 from
laughing matter. These little
the last sixty years_is the uni-. - ‘The people of Manzanar-are
9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. ask for Pat.
CRYPTIC CONVERSATION—
children, in their most impresLocal references required.
sionable years, will bear the
Over there, over there
The Yanks are coming, the mark's of this physical and emo
tional upheaval long after it has
Yanks , are coming' . . .
We were trudging down to become an unpleasant memory
7 Cont. from Page 1
work, and having exhausted all for us older Nisei. The parents
fertile conversation he started and teachers have a sacred duty phasiized such values as obedi
1
humming. After going through in keeping the children happy and ence, respect for elders, neatness,
Japanese restaurant
his entire repetoire . . . God Bless preparing them for the new world a value of education- and docility,
America, The Caissons Go Rollr that they must battle when they Suzuki said.
INSURANCE
These values were, anu -still
go outside again.’’
;
Reservations: 366-2164
ing Along, etc., he. started:.
It
’ It shouldn’t have to be said at are, highly valued by the employ
You’re a Sap Mr. Jap!”
SEVEN DAYS A WEEK
181 Eglinton Ave, East
Do you really think we are,” all, much less repeated. But it has ers of lower echelon white-collar
Suite 201
to. It’s humiliating to have to workers, whose ranks are filled
we asked.
460 Dundas St. West.
Toronto, Ont. M4P 1J9
“No, they’re not referring to us ignore the^rt of Okada’s book with -Asian-Americans.
Toronto, Ont.
Phone 485-5087
Suzuki said Asian-Americans
.. . . Oh, I get it,” grinning sheep and say John Okada uses the
Home 449-9293
ishly. “Well, maybe I am a sap, words “concentration camp’’ be have been the victims of. subtle
but those songs get in your cause concentration camps is discrimination in- America, such
what his people called home. But .as socialization to ■ Anglo be
blood.”
zDo You Need to Drink a Lot of Water?
We started to make mental j the crackpot shockingly bareassed havior/and being passed over at
Or do you have to buy mineral water every day?: Then why
footnotes. The rabble rousers are ! white racist letters to the editor promotion time in favor of white
don’t you try our mineral/ores with rare earth to make it 'at
wrong, we thought. -.(Cultural in accusing the Japanese Americans males/ c
your own home!
•
'
'
fluences are stronger . than blood of trying to copy the Jews’ a,ction
and begging a comparison to
Are You in Need to go to a HOT SPRING or SPA
tiesl)
Away From Home?
“But,” he continued, “when other people in other camps, that
- Throcgli
they started pushing me around sound like the hate mail the ugly
Then why not try our portable radium hot spring for
home use. You can enjoy the -same effectiveness any time /at
phone calls that jammed the
it sure burned me up.”
your convenience.
(A typical American reaction nerves of TV stations that aired
HIX REAL BSTATE L44.
we noted. If we remember cor- | documentaries on the camps . .
It Sure Pays in the Long Run.
rectly this country was founded • convinces me, that someone has
/by a group of people that resent to look stupid and say the obvious
TSM1M
to
give
John
Okada
a
chance
for
ed being-pushed around.)
:
“Well, if you don’t like it here a fair reading. .
145 MARLEE AVE., TORONTO. TEU 783-7335
A-fair reading by whites who
you can go to Japan after the
JAPANESE
deep down feel the Japanese
war,” we ventured. RESTAURANT
“Nah!” His answer was em Americans have no right to re
phatic:. “I’ve been there. Five member the camps, and a fair
years ago when my grandfather reading by the Japanese Ameri
' 459 Church St.
died. They were plenty nice to cans panicky about “bitterness.”
Phone 924-1303
j me as long as I was spending Asian Americans today fear any
THE NEW RESTAURANT
I money, but I know they were thing. that smacks of bitterness
“MASA?!
the way white European writers
talking
about
ine
behind
my
back.
At 195 RICHMOND ST. W.
Please send ’(
) Copies of the Story of Manzo. Nagano 7
a
few
years
ago
in
the*
Dark
Ages
I wouldn’t get their lingo, any
and Issei Pioneers at $6.00 Per Copy, plus 50c for Mailing
TORONTO; PHONE 863.9519
feared
saying
anything''against
way.
If
I
got
there
now
they
’
d
and Handling
probably call me a ‘dirty Yank’ the Church.
NAME
Even Dorothy, John’s widow illllllllllllllilllllllllilllHlllllllillllU:
’ just like they call me a ‘dirty
Jap’ here. Some life!” An expres put off reading her old man’s
ADDRESS
book because she’d forgotten the
sive shrug of the shoulders.
••••«• |Wlt4< • • *
impression it was bitter.” The
Enclosed is a money order or postal note for (--------- -) copy of
.*
word recurs like code. And she
The Story of Manzo Nagano and Issei Pioneers.
didn’t remember John as a bitter
Manzanar Free Free
.
BARBARA NIKAIDO
Address to and send payable to:
Saturday, Oct. 31 1942 person and didn’t want to.
Until Aast year’s ' NBC.' TV
. - Movie ‘‘Farewell to Manzanar” ir
’was impossible-for a Japanese
American Nisei to not affect
whites as being bitter...Bearing a
grudge bitter. All Asian /Ameri
cans, even the ones who roll up
their windows when they pass me
in their cars, see the: West Coast
as being crowded with whites who
drop everything, hold up the la.test'-version of the cross, babble
and boo hoo at the least hint of
“bitterness” out of a. yellow’s
mouth.
■
Models
ikkd’
sukiyaki
Gertrude Urabe
TOM OMURA
INTERMESH
"MICHI"
THE STORY OF MANZO NAGANO
AND ISSEI PIONEERS (In Japanese)
By Ken Mori A Hiroto Takami
BARBARA’S
Flower Shop
mJ. •
MR. KEN MORI,
c/o THE NEW CANADIAN PUBLISHER,
479 QUEEN STREET WEST,
TORONTO, ONT. M5V 2A9.
AVAILABLE SOON
The Editor’s Cubbyhole.
Out of the Mouths of Babes
, The younger generation con
tinues to aihaze us. Small fry in
She phoned me one night to
say she had been opening the
book at random every now and
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No No Boy...
Established to 1939-.:
versal awareness of whites out- now discussing the plan for self ; our neighborhood no longer; play;
> Second Class maiLNo. 00366 "
sides" of our skin who think we’re government. They will vote bn it cops and robbers/ house, or even
' A member of Ethnic Press
' v fag. Children’s games keep step
being bitter and wagging our-fin monday, Nov. 30.
Association of Ontario
. / . Many arguments both for with the modern tempo. Just as
ger naughty naughty at them for
and Canada Federation
children
outside
now
play
“
war,
”
canning a race of people- up like ! and against the proposed, charter,
T. UMEZUKI PUBLISHER
Spam, when we talk about the are . being , heard throughout the our children here play “night
K.C. TSUMURA
center. The FREE PRESS "will checker” and “plasterboard.” ...
camps at all.
English/Section-: Editor
KEN MORI .
It shouldn’t have to be said. attempt to summarize these dis . .Said one little small fry busily
Japanese Section Editor
counting imaginary- beds and
We’re not thinking “nasty old cussions as they are reported.;
. . . Following are questions and blankets, “we’re taking inven
SUBSCRIPTION
white man” when we say “con
answers
heard
to
date:
tory!” NexF these two little 'en
$15.00 for one year.
centration camps.” The term is
$9.00 for Six Months
“I’M AGAINST THE CHAR terprising youngsters, aged 4 and
defined by the experience of the
479 Queen Street West,
people who lived/in concentra TER—We don’t need self-governr 5. began playing “plasterboard;”
7 ' Toronto, Ont.'M5V 2A9
tion camps and call the concen ment here; this is a prison camp huffing as“hey picked up scrap
PHONE 366.5005
tration camps, not a former resi and should be run by the Army.” pieces of plasterboard and went
“I’M AGAINST THE CHAR- through the elaborate motions of
dence, but a former home. A fact
of life. You can read it in the TER—if this is ar prisonvcamp, holding it up and. npiling it on.
Yellow culture flows, glows
hometown paper.-The people of self-government will help change Finally they came to a dead stop,
and grows in the Pacific
Manzanar . called it a “prison it. Do you want this to be a “We cant finish it,” they told us.
“No more lumber — no more
Northwest . . . right here in
camp” right before the eyes, of prison camp ”
Domestic Help Wanted
nails.
”
Then
they
mumbled
some
Dave Ishii’s bookstore. (
That’s on page one of the Man
the censors without making them
Experienced domestic helper,: live
things
about
the
“
quartermaster.
”
zanar
Free
Press
of
Monday,
blink..
in. light ihouse-keeping duties and
Nov. 9, 1942i On page two," a bit That’s when we slunk off in cooking. Two adults and one in
One of the definitive features CHARTER
of storytelling in the editorial shame.
fant family. Lawrence & Avenue
second
thought,
it
’
s
no
But
on
of ' Asian American culture for PROS AND CONS
column:
Road area. iPhone. 787-4944 from
laughing matter. These little
the last sixty years_is the uni-. - ‘The people of Manzanar-are
9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. ask for Pat.
CRYPTIC CONVERSATION—
children, in their most impresLocal references required.
sionable years, will bear the
Over there, over there
The Yanks are coming, the mark's of this physical and emo
tional upheaval long after it has
Yanks , are coming' . . .
We were trudging down to become an unpleasant memory
7 Cont. from Page 1
work, and having exhausted all for us older Nisei. The parents
fertile conversation he started and teachers have a sacred duty phasiized such values as obedi
1
humming. After going through in keeping the children happy and ence, respect for elders, neatness,
Japanese restaurant
his entire repetoire . . . God Bless preparing them for the new world a value of education- and docility,
America, The Caissons Go Rollr that they must battle when they Suzuki said.
INSURANCE
These values were, anu -still
go outside again.’’
;
Reservations: 366-2164
ing Along, etc., he. started:.
It
’ It shouldn’t have to be said at are, highly valued by the employ
You’re a Sap Mr. Jap!”
SEVEN DAYS A WEEK
181 Eglinton Ave, East
Do you really think we are,” all, much less repeated. But it has ers of lower echelon white-collar
Suite 201
to. It’s humiliating to have to workers, whose ranks are filled
we asked.
460 Dundas St. West.
Toronto, Ont. M4P 1J9
“No, they’re not referring to us ignore the^rt of Okada’s book with -Asian-Americans.
Toronto, Ont.
Phone 485-5087
Suzuki said Asian-Americans
.. . . Oh, I get it,” grinning sheep and say John Okada uses the
Home 449-9293
ishly. “Well, maybe I am a sap, words “concentration camp’’ be have been the victims of. subtle
but those songs get in your cause concentration camps is discrimination in- America, such
what his people called home. But .as socialization to ■ Anglo be
blood.”
zDo You Need to Drink a Lot of Water?
We started to make mental j the crackpot shockingly bareassed havior/and being passed over at
Or do you have to buy mineral water every day?: Then why
footnotes. The rabble rousers are ! white racist letters to the editor promotion time in favor of white
don’t you try our mineral/ores with rare earth to make it 'at
wrong, we thought. -.(Cultural in accusing the Japanese Americans males/ c
your own home!
•
'
'
fluences are stronger . than blood of trying to copy the Jews’ a,ction
and begging a comparison to
Are You in Need to go to a HOT SPRING or SPA
tiesl)
Away From Home?
“But,” he continued, “when other people in other camps, that
- Throcgli
they started pushing me around sound like the hate mail the ugly
Then why not try our portable radium hot spring for
home use. You can enjoy the -same effectiveness any time /at
phone calls that jammed the
it sure burned me up.”
your convenience.
(A typical American reaction nerves of TV stations that aired
HIX REAL BSTATE L44.
we noted. If we remember cor- | documentaries on the camps . .
It Sure Pays in the Long Run.
rectly this country was founded • convinces me, that someone has
/by a group of people that resent to look stupid and say the obvious
TSM1M
to
give
John
Okada
a
chance
for
ed being-pushed around.)
:
“Well, if you don’t like it here a fair reading. .
145 MARLEE AVE., TORONTO. TEU 783-7335
A-fair reading by whites who
you can go to Japan after the
JAPANESE
deep down feel the Japanese
war,” we ventured. RESTAURANT
“Nah!” His answer was em Americans have no right to re
phatic:. “I’ve been there. Five member the camps, and a fair
years ago when my grandfather reading by the Japanese Ameri
' 459 Church St.
died. They were plenty nice to cans panicky about “bitterness.”
Phone 924-1303
j me as long as I was spending Asian Americans today fear any
THE NEW RESTAURANT
I money, but I know they were thing. that smacks of bitterness
“MASA?!
the way white European writers
talking
about
ine
behind
my
back.
At 195 RICHMOND ST. W.
Please send ’(
) Copies of the Story of Manzo. Nagano 7
a
few
years
ago
in
the*
Dark
Ages
I wouldn’t get their lingo, any
and Issei Pioneers at $6.00 Per Copy, plus 50c for Mailing
TORONTO; PHONE 863.9519
feared
saying
anything''against
way.
If
I
got
there
now
they
’
d
and Handling
probably call me a ‘dirty Yank’ the Church.
NAME
Even Dorothy, John’s widow illllllllllllllilllllllllilllHlllllllillllU:
’ just like they call me a ‘dirty
Jap’ here. Some life!” An expres put off reading her old man’s
ADDRESS
book because she’d forgotten the
sive shrug of the shoulders.
••••«• |Wlt4< • • *
impression it was bitter.” The
Enclosed is a money order or postal note for (--------- -) copy of
.*
word recurs like code. And she
The Story of Manzo Nagano and Issei Pioneers.
didn’t remember John as a bitter
Manzanar Free Free
.
BARBARA NIKAIDO
Address to and send payable to:
Saturday, Oct. 31 1942 person and didn’t want to.
Until Aast year’s ' NBC.' TV
. - Movie ‘‘Farewell to Manzanar” ir
’was impossible-for a Japanese
American Nisei to not affect
whites as being bitter...Bearing a
grudge bitter. All Asian /Ameri
cans, even the ones who roll up
their windows when they pass me
in their cars, see the: West Coast
as being crowded with whites who
drop everything, hold up the la.test'-version of the cross, babble
and boo hoo at the least hint of
“bitterness” out of a. yellow’s
mouth.
■
Models
ikkd’
sukiyaki
Gertrude Urabe
TOM OMURA
INTERMESH
"MICHI"
THE STORY OF MANZO NAGANO
AND ISSEI PIONEERS (In Japanese)
By Ken Mori A Hiroto Takami
BARBARA’S
Flower Shop
mJ. •
MR. KEN MORI,
c/o THE NEW CANADIAN PUBLISHER,
479 QUEEN STREET WEST,
TORONTO, ONT. M5V 2A9.
AVAILABLE SOON
The Editor’s Cubbyhole.
Out of the Mouths of Babes
, The younger generation con
tinues to aihaze us. Small fry in
She phoned me one night to
say she had been opening the
book at random every now and
CONT. ON P. 4
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Friday, February 3, 1978
[ Dates & Doings)
T.B.C. Jpnz. T.V. Show Open House
"Kokoro
Article
Lauded
-TORONTO — There will be an open house of the Japanese
T.V. (Show at the Toronto Buddhist Church on Saturday; Feb. 11.
A special ‘program will be shown from 1:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m.
with, tea and refreshments to follow. Everyone is welcome. Admis- Mr. K. C. Tsumura, Editor,
sdon is FREE.---- T.B.C.
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^Personal Notes
Obituaries
IWAI
CARD OF THANKS
We wish to express our sin
cere appreciation to our many
friends; neighbours and rela
tives for their kind words, tele
grams and floral tributes, dur
ing the recent loss of our be
loved husband and father, Rokuro Iwai.
(SCARBOROUGH, Ont. — Mr;
iRokuro Iwai, passed away on Jan
10, 1978 at Scarborough General
Dear Sir:
Hospital after a lengthy illness.
I would like to express my ap- Funeral service was held at
Mrs. Shizu Iwai and Family.
‘ TORONTO.----- This is just a last reminder that there will be predation to you, and to Mr. Yoh
Ogden Funeral Service at Agin
anot. u- Disco-Pub^
sponsored by the JCCC Youth Group on Kawasaki for
:
his fine article on court, Ont., on Jan. ,12 by Canon
Frida. February 10, 8 — T a.m. at the JC Cultural Centre (West
January 6.
Rev. Ken Imai. Cremation at Pine
• Room). Music, disco-dancing:, refreshments. Why riot check it out ?
Toronto Buddhist Church
•I was interested to learn of HilL Crematorium on Jan. 13.
I. D. required.
Pub Committee
Mr. Kawasaki’s discovery of “kokoro” while working with Japa&
j nese Canadians. I. too, have noTORONTO. — ‘Japanese Canadians in the Canadian Mosaic: | ticed this quality of unqualified
NEW MEMBERSHIP CARD
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j sincerity and whole-heartedness
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discussion nights to be held at the Annex. Leading the -discussion
(March
August,
1978)
will be‘Mark Nakamura, manager of Community, Race and Ethnic in the way people do things, and
Only $6.00 per person for
i
Relations of the Ontario Human Rights Commission, Tuesday, Fe- have been curious as to its
6 months period
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bruary 14th, at, 7:30 p.m.
origins. However, the. quality :
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phone
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:
cestry but, speaking very gener
or
KEN MURATA
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TORONTO — On February 1st, at the ANNEX, there will be
ally, in people in; our society at
3
Toronto
Buddhist
Church
an exhibit of paintings and drawings by iSansei artist, Blythe
Home: 291-0952
i
534-4302
Gallant. On exhibit until February 22nd, these works are the ■ large. This has led me to believe
second: in a continuing series of displays and art shows presented that, despite our own wartime’;
- by the-ANNEX.
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experiences, and other , errors of j
If you’re interested in. showing your work — or would like to Canadian . political
judgment, ■
perform at the ANNEX, simply call David Fujino at 468-7441. We’re there is something peculiarly fos
conveniently located at 1468 Danforth Ave., just east of the Coxwell
tering in the religious and politi
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cal foundations that underlie our
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ccess. The7 ANNEX staff, Board of (Directors, and unique friends, even insistence on, individuality,
express deep appreciation to everyone in the community-for their
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warm support arid encouragement. We’ll try to make the ANNEX
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express'
differences.
This
is
just
•available and useful to all the people in the J.C. community.
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a
thought,
but
perhaps
this
toler
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eping away in the storage space, please/donate them to the ANNEX, actual behavior. I hope we can ■
Here’s the list of things we’d appreciate receiving:
460 Dundas St. W
work to keep this quality, al
Couches and easy chairs; television set; vacuum ' cleaner and
Toronto 2B, Ont.
dust pan; bookshelves serving tray; end tables and coffee tables; though cynics would say, I sup
Mar. 2
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lamps; fridge; wastebaskets; umbrella stand; games such as go, pose, that it’s apparent only be
STORE 366-5451
Mar.
31
Apr.
21
shogi, cards; used Japanese books, magazines; step ladder; coffee cause we are such a young
Apr. 11
Open
urn; kitchenware (teacups, spoons, plates, pots and pans).
country.
Apr.
23
May 14
When you want to throw something away, please think of the
I am sure Mr. Kawasaki’s im
May
19
Jun.
8
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pressions were correct when he
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unselfish and unself-conscious ap
Aug. 6
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plication of energies toward the
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come. We promise you a delightful evening of music, songs and ’ sharing of our culture during the
the o-koto, accompanied by the flutes( whose clear, haunting notes Japanese Canadian Centennial,
Apr. 23
at the back of Furuya Store.
Apr. 8
sound almost like that of the shakuhachi. Then comes the. rich
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harmony created by the violins, violas, cellos, bassoons, clarinets, . and at is one of the factors which
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trumpet’s and bells; and we think ... maybe, we have the beginnings . convinces me Japanese Canadian
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Of a new sound . . . the sound of the Japariese Sanseis.
| culture will never die out. SpeakGROUP DEPARTURES TO For package tours in the
The Toronto Buddhist Church Youth > Orchestra is unique i1!, ing as a Nisei, I would like to
Caribbean, Hawaii, etc., call
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that approximately half of its repertoire is based, o^^
however, the possiFURUYA
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tunes; Though its. members may not be able to read the words to.
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say
. . “HARU-NO-UMI” their inherent senses seem - to -echo bility that he was seeing a typical
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and total behavior in people of Japa,
Brenda Uchimaru, both accomplished music teachers from Orillia nese blood.
and Hamilton.
<
Thanks again, and all the best.
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bership includes youths of other .denominations, alb enthused in
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creating music the Sansei way.
u
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A concert is being planned: for (Saturday, February 18th. Do
(Mrs.) Betty Oka Stillwell,
TORONTO —A . young: Sansei skilfully plucks the strings of
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Friday, February 3, 1978
[ Dates & Doings)
T.B.C. Jpnz. T.V. Show Open House
"Kokoro
Article
Lauded
-TORONTO — There will be an open house of the Japanese
T.V. (Show at the Toronto Buddhist Church on Saturday; Feb. 11.
A special ‘program will be shown from 1:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m.
with, tea and refreshments to follow. Everyone is welcome. Admis- Mr. K. C. Tsumura, Editor,
sdon is FREE.---- T.B.C.
- ■
The New Canadian.
^Personal Notes
Obituaries
IWAI
CARD OF THANKS
We wish to express our sin
cere appreciation to our many
friends; neighbours and rela
tives for their kind words, tele
grams and floral tributes, dur
ing the recent loss of our be
loved husband and father, Rokuro Iwai.
(SCARBOROUGH, Ont. — Mr;
iRokuro Iwai, passed away on Jan
10, 1978 at Scarborough General
Dear Sir:
Hospital after a lengthy illness.
I would like to express my ap- Funeral service was held at
Mrs. Shizu Iwai and Family.
‘ TORONTO.----- This is just a last reminder that there will be predation to you, and to Mr. Yoh
Ogden Funeral Service at Agin
anot. u- Disco-Pub^
sponsored by the JCCC Youth Group on Kawasaki for
:
his fine article on court, Ont., on Jan. ,12 by Canon
Frida. February 10, 8 — T a.m. at the JC Cultural Centre (West
January 6.
Rev. Ken Imai. Cremation at Pine
• Room). Music, disco-dancing:, refreshments. Why riot check it out ?
Toronto Buddhist Church
•I was interested to learn of HilL Crematorium on Jan. 13.
I. D. required.
Pub Committee
Mr. Kawasaki’s discovery of “kokoro” while working with Japa&
j nese Canadians. I. too, have noTORONTO. — ‘Japanese Canadians in the Canadian Mosaic: | ticed this quality of unqualified
NEW MEMBERSHIP CARD
A Human Rights Perspective” is the first in. a series of informal
j sincerity and whole-heartedness
NOW ON SALE
x
discussion nights to be held at the Annex. Leading the -discussion
(March
August,
1978)
will be‘Mark Nakamura, manager of Community, Race and Ethnic in the way people do things, and
Only $6.00 per person for
i
Relations of the Ontario Human Rights Commission, Tuesday, Fe- have been curious as to its
6 months period
- — ANNEX
bruary 14th, at, 7:30 p.m.
origins. However, the. quality :
Please
phone
for
your
order
-40
Melford
Drive,
Unit
1
:
* •••
... *
■ *
seems to be apparent .not only in
or inquiry:
Scarborough,Ontario
people of Japanese Canadian an- .
Mr. G. Hayashi 466 1903 3
M1B2G2
298-3333
:
cestry but, speaking very gener
or
KEN MURATA
3
TORONTO — On February 1st, at the ANNEX, there will be
ally, in people in; our society at
3
Toronto
Buddhist
Church
an exhibit of paintings and drawings by iSansei artist, Blythe
Home: 291-0952
i
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Gallant. On exhibit until February 22nd, these works are the ■ large. This has led me to believe
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PAGE 4
No No Boy
Cont. From Page 2
shop when I first saw John Oka grown - adults from reputable in a bowl jby the cash . register,
schools, Steve Sumida and Mako, looking like bigmouthed squawk
da’s. father.
He . walked , by the front win the actors, spent their money ring baby ‘birds.- Just - in case a
dow, from the Science Fiction side traveling to learn about a book ! Chinese-American' here was runn
past the-dead artichokes to the. nobody ever heard of. Sometimes ing for office, J broke the cookie
cases full of David’s pornography. T felt like blackmail was now a open and read the fortune. Out of
Everytime I’m in town, I go out ■possibility. Sometimes I felt like habit, I ate the cookie.
“John said he used to be acwith David and-, watch him eat their family doctor talking about
fish in public. He’s the only-man their one eyed thalidomide baby, companied by a guard everywhere
I’ve ever seen bark at his food, It seemed that by liking. John’s ^ went,” Frank said. “And if
laugh at the sight of it and book, I had hurt them. I present- they ever got in ;a fight, with the
actually say, “Yum! Yum!” on ed my credentials', proof that I enemy Japanese, the. guard was
Bitterness was the least of
the first bite. I met John Oka learned how to read a book with » supposed to shoot John first. So
John Okada’s art even when he
da’s brother, Frank, here. He respect in a real university. Ij he wouldn’t be taken prisoner,
used the words “concentration
wore a fishing hat similar to" Da dropped my resume and names of you see. H was Intelligence. . .
camp.”
vid’s and shifted; from foot to reviewers who’d .praised John’s “John is still intelligence,” I say.
Okada’s art is his exploration
“I got reasons,” said the Japa foot and spent a long time crush work in the New Yorker and And the talk about John Okada
of the meaning of loyalty. In his
and his book, his Seattle, his al
preface, Okada catches the com nese-American soldier soberly, ing out a cigarette with his foot., Rolling Stone.
Frank said he liked the book; ways wanting to he a writer con
edy of cultural loyalties manifest and he was thinking about a lot I pick him up here to drop him
in the Chinese-American “iden-~ of things but mostly about, his off in Eugene, where he teaches but John was his brother, and he tinued out of Portland and south
had to like John’s book, but no- | down Interstate 5/Old U.S. 99.
friend who didn’t volunteer for painting at the Univ, of Oregon.
tity crisis”:
The first time I met Frank body else did. He said it as if |
And so, a few months after the the army because his father had
*
liking
the
book
was
proof
of
i
seventh day of December of the been picked up in the sceond Okada we made jokes about each
year nineteen forty-one, the only screening and was in a different of us both being named Frank, something wrong with him. Peo- 1 John Okada’s “No-No Boy”
. Japanese left on. the west coast camp from the one he and his and looked at the stacks of books pie who like John’s book,- I said, • ($5.95) has gone into second
of the United States was Matsu- mother and two sisters were in: j on David’s floor. He wasn’t talka- feel they’ve had their most per-J printing, the first reprinted edi
saburo Inabukuro who, while- it Later on, the army tried to draft I tive about the book. He was sonal and inexpressible Japa- j tion having soid out. It' is being
has been forgotten whether he his friend out of the relocation John’s youngest brother and j nese. American feelings released published by CARP (Combined
imprisonment and digni Asian American Resources Pro
:
was Japanese American or Ameri camp into the army and the didn’t- ever know him that well, [from.life
fied with the reality of a book ject) Inc., P.O. Box 3828 Rincon
can-Japanese, picked up an “I friend had stood before the judge he said.
We got off the road in Port-, and the universality of art. But Annex, San Francisco, Calif.
am Chinese” — not an American and said let my father out of that
-Chinese or Chinese-Americari- other camp and come back to my land and sniffed our way to they can’t quite believe the book 94119. Calif, residents should add
state sales tax and add 50 cents
but “I am Chinese’’ button and mother who, is an old woman but Chinatown by the railroad tracks. is real.
They read it, I told Frank. And for mailing.
got a job in a California shipyard misses him enough to want to This was Chippie Jack’s China
sleep with him and I’ll try on the town. Someday I’ll talk to him. I order - more ccopies to give to
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uniform. The judge said he hear he’s way into his eighties, their friends to prove that the
PAUL K. ASADA, D.C., N.D.
Roger Sales says No No Boy is couldn’t do that and the friend looks bn all Chinese motion in the anger, the self-contempt the Nisei
“Doctor of Chiropratic”
.a book John Okada wrote pre said he wouldn’t be drafted and Northwest as his Chinatown and need to belong and to be free at
the same time, the strange guts
sumably about himself. Okada they sent him to the federal knows it all.
(»/2 block West of Christie)
it.
takes
to
hold
a
white
liberal
’
s
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I don’t know enough about
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troduces himself in the preface in
“Whit the helhare we fighting Portland to talk to Chippie Jack. coat and be his living Exhibit
a tradition the connoisseurs can for?” said the lieutenant -from “You know that part of the book “A,” all the things they, felt and
savor without my Dick and Jane Nebraska.
where the friend tells the the thinks they did with words
SAY IT
explanation:
“I got reasons,” said the Japa No No Boy to get away from are real, and common among i
WITH FLOWERS
“Two years later a good ‘Japa nese-American, soldier soberly and Japanese and live around other Japanese Americans and not pri I
nese-American who had volun thought some more about his people?” Frank asked, and seem- vate lunatic ravings.
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Frank paid for lunch. Maybe V
teered for the army sat in the friend who was in another kind ed about to tell me what he’d been
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smoking belly of a B-24 on his of uniform because they wouldn’t wanting to tell from Seattle, I’d passed a test. Maybe I’ve
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way back to Guam from ,a recon- let -' his father go to the same these last two hundred miles plus, given a test. Maybe I’d made a
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was to listen through, his ear- • ters.”
cookie on the way out. They were
99.
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phone, which were attached to al Very little of John”s book is
“I forgot the friend’s name. No
high frequency set, and jot down about the camps, but the camps No Boys best friend.”
air-ground messages spoken by .are always in the atmosphere of
“Kenji.”
Japanese-Japanese in Japanese his writings, just as they are in „ “Yeah,” I remembered. Kenji,
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planes and in Japanese radio life.
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the war hero amputee driving a
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shacks.
Buick built for a freak, in :a fit of
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The lieutenant from Nebraska
bitterness, preaches the destruc
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said, “Where are you from ?”
Before I drive South for home tion of the race. Okada, I think,
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wered: “No place in particular.” seems all of Asian
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“Yeah, I got folks.’
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“Where at?” just before getting out of town.
“That’s what John told me,’
“Wyoming, out in the desert.” Pat Morita, the first and still Frank said, and we get back in
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“Farmers, huh?”
only Japanese American standup the 1-5 south. He asks me, like
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Not quite.”
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What’s that mean?”
“Mr. T and Tina” left an auto- Seattle, like his widow in PasaPHONE 255-7341
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.” And graphed picture. I met poet and jena, asked me if I really believe
Well it’s this way.
then the Japanese - American fictioneer Lonny Kaneko between join’s book is any g’ood. The
whose folks were still Japanese- David’s tub of dead artichoke- question out of John’s relatives’
Japanese, or else they would not plants and the wall of science . juouths always catches me off
I guard-and makes me mean. And
be in a camp with barbed wire fiction.
The Pacific Northwest always •I wonder about the family John
and watchtowers with soldiers
holding rifles, told the blond giant amazes me with all the yellow comes from. All of John’s family
from Nebraska about the removal culture flowing, glowing and I ever met. asked me if I really
of the Japanese from the Coast, growing ripe in print, paint and thought John’s book was good for
anything but a relic of social
which was called the evacuation, clay up here.
Right here in David Ishii’s history.
and about the concentration
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sitting
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The lieutenant listened and he stairs in the darkest spot in the why I like the book, why full
then, unplanned, unorganized, so
she wouldn’t become committed to
•reading the whole thing all the
way through. She was sneaking
up on John’s'book after years of
.Lawson Inada, Shawn Wong^-and
me telling her it was a fine book.
“You know. I don’t know what
they’re talking about when they
say it is bitter. I think it must
be the rough, language.”
didnt believe it. He said: “That’s
funny. Now, tell me again.”
The ‘Japanese-American soldier
of the American ' army told it
again and didn’t -change a word.
The Lieutenant believed him
this time. “Hell’s bells,” he ex
claimed, “if they’d done that to
me, I . wouldn’t be sitting in the
belly of a broken-down B-24 go
ing back to Guam for a reconnais
sance mission to Japan.” y
“I got reasons,” said the Japa
nese-American soldier soberly.
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shop when I first saw John Oka grown - adults from reputable in a bowl jby the cash . register,
schools, Steve Sumida and Mako, looking like bigmouthed squawk
da’s. father.
He . walked , by the front win the actors, spent their money ring baby ‘birds.- Just - in case a
dow, from the Science Fiction side traveling to learn about a book ! Chinese-American' here was runn
past the-dead artichokes to the. nobody ever heard of. Sometimes ing for office, J broke the cookie
cases full of David’s pornography. T felt like blackmail was now a open and read the fortune. Out of
Everytime I’m in town, I go out ■possibility. Sometimes I felt like habit, I ate the cookie.
“John said he used to be acwith David and-, watch him eat their family doctor talking about
fish in public. He’s the only-man their one eyed thalidomide baby, companied by a guard everywhere
I’ve ever seen bark at his food, It seemed that by liking. John’s ^ went,” Frank said. “And if
laugh at the sight of it and book, I had hurt them. I present- they ever got in ;a fight, with the
actually say, “Yum! Yum!” on ed my credentials', proof that I enemy Japanese, the. guard was
Bitterness was the least of
the first bite. I met John Oka learned how to read a book with » supposed to shoot John first. So
John Okada’s art even when he
da’s brother, Frank, here. He respect in a real university. Ij he wouldn’t be taken prisoner,
used the words “concentration
wore a fishing hat similar to" Da dropped my resume and names of you see. H was Intelligence. . .
camp.”
vid’s and shifted; from foot to reviewers who’d .praised John’s “John is still intelligence,” I say.
Okada’s art is his exploration
“I got reasons,” said the Japa foot and spent a long time crush work in the New Yorker and And the talk about John Okada
of the meaning of loyalty. In his
and his book, his Seattle, his al
preface, Okada catches the com nese-American soldier soberly, ing out a cigarette with his foot., Rolling Stone.
Frank said he liked the book; ways wanting to he a writer con
edy of cultural loyalties manifest and he was thinking about a lot I pick him up here to drop him
in the Chinese-American “iden-~ of things but mostly about, his off in Eugene, where he teaches but John was his brother, and he tinued out of Portland and south
had to like John’s book, but no- | down Interstate 5/Old U.S. 99.
friend who didn’t volunteer for painting at the Univ, of Oregon.
tity crisis”:
The first time I met Frank body else did. He said it as if |
And so, a few months after the the army because his father had
*
liking
the
book
was
proof
of
i
seventh day of December of the been picked up in the sceond Okada we made jokes about each
year nineteen forty-one, the only screening and was in a different of us both being named Frank, something wrong with him. Peo- 1 John Okada’s “No-No Boy”
. Japanese left on. the west coast camp from the one he and his and looked at the stacks of books pie who like John’s book,- I said, • ($5.95) has gone into second
of the United States was Matsu- mother and two sisters were in: j on David’s floor. He wasn’t talka- feel they’ve had their most per-J printing, the first reprinted edi
saburo Inabukuro who, while- it Later on, the army tried to draft I tive about the book. He was sonal and inexpressible Japa- j tion having soid out. It' is being
has been forgotten whether he his friend out of the relocation John’s youngest brother and j nese. American feelings released published by CARP (Combined
imprisonment and digni Asian American Resources Pro
:
was Japanese American or Ameri camp into the army and the didn’t- ever know him that well, [from.life
fied with the reality of a book ject) Inc., P.O. Box 3828 Rincon
can-Japanese, picked up an “I friend had stood before the judge he said.
We got off the road in Port-, and the universality of art. But Annex, San Francisco, Calif.
am Chinese” — not an American and said let my father out of that
-Chinese or Chinese-Americari- other camp and come back to my land and sniffed our way to they can’t quite believe the book 94119. Calif, residents should add
state sales tax and add 50 cents
but “I am Chinese’’ button and mother who, is an old woman but Chinatown by the railroad tracks. is real.
They read it, I told Frank. And for mailing.
got a job in a California shipyard misses him enough to want to This was Chippie Jack’s China
sleep with him and I’ll try on the town. Someday I’ll talk to him. I order - more ccopies to give to
*
uniform. The judge said he hear he’s way into his eighties, their friends to prove that the
PAUL K. ASADA, D.C., N.D.
Roger Sales says No No Boy is couldn’t do that and the friend looks bn all Chinese motion in the anger, the self-contempt the Nisei
“Doctor of Chiropratic”
.a book John Okada wrote pre said he wouldn’t be drafted and Northwest as his Chinatown and need to belong and to be free at
the same time, the strange guts
sumably about himself. Okada they sent him to the federal knows it all.
(»/2 block West of Christie)
it.
takes
to
hold
a
white
liberal
’
s
TORONTO
I don’t know enough about
was not a No No Boy. Okada in prison where he now was.
651-8060
Res. 621-1989
troduces himself in the preface in
“Whit the helhare we fighting Portland to talk to Chippie Jack. coat and be his living Exhibit
a tradition the connoisseurs can for?” said the lieutenant -from “You know that part of the book “A,” all the things they, felt and
savor without my Dick and Jane Nebraska.
where the friend tells the the thinks they did with words
SAY IT
explanation:
“I got reasons,” said the Japa No No Boy to get away from are real, and common among i
WITH FLOWERS
“Two years later a good ‘Japa nese-American, soldier soberly and Japanese and live around other Japanese Americans and not pri I
nese-American who had volun thought some more about his people?” Frank asked, and seem- vate lunatic ravings.
SHARON'S FLORIST
942 PAPE AVE.
Frank paid for lunch. Maybe V
teered for the army sat in the friend who was in another kind ed about to tell me what he’d been
TORONTO. ONT.
smoking belly of a B-24 on his of uniform because they wouldn’t wanting to tell from Seattle, I’d passed a test. Maybe I’ve
TEL: 425-2122
way back to Guam from ,a recon- let -' his father go to the same these last two hundred miles plus, given a test. Maybe I’d made a
City wide delivery
naissance flight to Japan. His job camp with his mother and sis on the Interstate 5 . . . Old U.S. friend. I picked up a fortune
Peter Sasaki
was to listen through, his ear- • ters.”
cookie on the way out. They were
99.
•
•
phone, which were attached to al Very little of John”s book is
“I forgot the friend’s name. No
high frequency set, and jot down about the camps, but the camps No Boys best friend.”
air-ground messages spoken by .are always in the atmosphere of
“Kenji.”
Japanese-Japanese in Japanese his writings, just as they are in „ “Yeah,” I remembered. Kenji,
940 Mt. PLEASANT ROAD,
planes and in Japanese radio life.
TORONTO, ONT. M4P 2L6
the war hero amputee driving a
2 BLOCKS NORTH
shacks.
Buick built for a freak, in :a fit of
OF EGLINTON
The lieutenant from Nebraska
bitterness, preaches the destruc
TEL. 488-1213
Barristers & Solicitors
said, “Where are you from ?”
Before I drive South for home tion of the race. Okada, I think,
OPERATED BY
1501 ELLESMERE RD.
• The Japanese-Amer lean who down Interstate 5, I stop by was commenting on the possL.
NAMIKI & TANOUYE
Scarborough, Ontario
was an American soldier ans David Ishii’s bookstore where, it bility of a Japanese America out
Telephone: 431-1500
wered: “No place in particular.” seems all of Asian
Americas of the camps that would marry
155 MAIN ST. W.
“You got folks?”
writers and artists stop to say itself outside of yellowness and
Stouffrille, Ontario
“Yeah, I got folks.’
hello to David, a gentle legend/ the race and existence.
Telephone: 294.6393
AND
ASSOCIATES
“Where at?” just before getting out of town.
“That’s what John told me,’
“Wyoming, out in the desert.” Pat Morita, the first and still Frank said, and we get back in
CHARTERED
ACCOUNTANTS
“Farmers, huh?”
only Japanese American standup the 1-5 south. He asks me, like
523 THE QUEENSWAY
Not quite.”
comic and star of the defunct his brothers’ Roy and Robert in
TORONTO, ONT. M8Y 1J7
What’s that mean?”
“Mr. T and Tina” left an auto- Seattle, like his widow in PasaPHONE 255-7341
44
.” And graphed picture. I met poet and jena, asked me if I really believe
Well it’s this way.
then the Japanese - American fictioneer Lonny Kaneko between join’s book is any g’ood. The
whose folks were still Japanese- David’s tub of dead artichoke- question out of John’s relatives’
Japanese, or else they would not plants and the wall of science . juouths always catches me off
I guard-and makes me mean. And
be in a camp with barbed wire fiction.
The Pacific Northwest always •I wonder about the family John
and watchtowers with soldiers
holding rifles, told the blond giant amazes me with all the yellow comes from. All of John’s family
from Nebraska about the removal culture flowing, glowing and I ever met. asked me if I really
of the Japanese from the Coast, growing ripe in print, paint and thought John’s book was good for
anything but a relic of social
which was called the evacuation, clay up here.
Right here in David Ishii’s history.
and about the concentration
ALPINE X-COUNTRY
bookstore,
I
was
sitting
behind
From Okada to Okada I give
camps, which were called reloca
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me, I . wouldn’t be sitting in the
belly of a broken-down B-24 go
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