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Sansei: a Personal Experience" by Miyuki Akazawa-Eguchi, Hon. Mention
These are some aspects of a environment which makqs a JaThe following essay by ;Miyuki • the cold> Canadian climate. There you how to spell it. It meant find­
growing Sansei’s childhood and panese, a Japanese Canadian.
Rei Real Akazawa-Eguchi of is evidence of an unusual amount ing you were more physically co­
It is the home environment'
environment. I.-et us assume that
Toronto won an Honorable' Men­ of natural wood used. The rooms ordinated than your classmates
an individual is basically created which acts first and with greatest
tionin the Eastern Canada divi­ with the prefix bed most cer­ but also gradually finding in
through heredity and. environ­ impact on the individual. The JC
sion of the National JCCA Japan tainly house the furniture of the time, that you were not; growing
Sansei’s uniqueness is-therefore
same room. If one were to look as big. It meant having to do ment. It would therefore appear
Air Lines Essay Contest.
very much determined to the ex­
carefully in the closets, he might projects in school that were re­ that, genetically, a. Japanese Ca­
tent by which his parents have
*
find an authentic Japanese kim­ lated to Japan and curiously nadian is essentially the same as
ono, (not a Parisien copy), neatly • wanting to do them even if you his cousin in Japan. It also fol­
Cont. on Page 2
By MIYUKI REI REAL
lows,
therefore,
that
it
is
the

didn

t
have
to.
folded and tucked away. in the
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corner.
Sansei: A Personal Experience?
The Nisei household manifests
Physically he has rather slender its Japanese Canadian occupants
eyes, often seen through spec­ mainly in the culinary. Periodi­
tacles resting precariously on a cally, and almost always on
bridgeless nose. His coarse, dark special occasions, the china ca­
hair , although thick on top, binet, styled complimentary to the
An Independent Organ for Canadians of Japanese Origin
body
ensparsely complements a
other .dining and Jiving room
. dowed with a perennial tan that furniture, is locked and its orien­
would take a lifetime of sun- tal prisoners kept mainly for dis­ Vol. 42 — 29
FRIDAY, APRIL 14, 1978 TORONTO, ONTARIO
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Looking at him, with his bc*w- standard mealtime, however, often
legs ill proportioned to the rest maiIifests a duality of cultures,
of his body, he can justifiably beyForks and Cesare coupled with
blamed for lowering the statist!- W00(jen hashi showing traces of
cally recorded height of the aver- chipped enamel, whose premature
age Canadian citizen. All of this j aging is the result of the extreme
rests daintily on feet that would । temperature of unexpected dish­
Age Home) with a capacity of barbef shop, craft room and a
probably. never outgrow a size washer water. Gohan and pota­
By MIN OTA
201 beds. The offer made thro­ roof garden in the summer.
six and one half shoe.
toes are both staples and the red­
In addition to the modern uti­
ugh the Metropolitan
Toronto
The
TORONTO
Our third generation Japanese ness of a Heinz ketchup bottle
Services lity services, there is available,
Care re­ Department of ‘Social
in Canada is as yet indistinguish­ , stands in equality to its black Committee for Elderly
the services of. a doctor and two
Mealtimes eently announced that the newly is that the entire seventh floor
able from previous generations shoyu counterpart.
can be made available to the Ja­ nurses on duty twenty-four ho­
or those residing in the far off find their, end verbally in both opened Spencer House; located
in South Parkdale is prepared to panese elderly. There are twen­ urs a day.
homeland of his ancestors. He is Japanese and English.
The cost at present is $16.00
give special preference and spe­ ty-one beds in a variety of sing­
a hard, industrious worker, but no
This was the household of the
le and double occupancy rooms per person a day on a self sup­
longer has a respect for his elders growing Sansei. The childhood of cial services to the elderly Japa­
porting plan. However, should an
located on this floor.
in a quantity excceeding that of the .Sansei was not without its nese of our community.
'Spencer House is a privately ] Available in this modern rest applicant’s assets be less than
other Canadians. He is still a idiosyncracies. As a Sansei it
operated Retirement Lodge (Old. home is a hair dresser
salon, $750.00 and have no source of
trifle shy and quiet, but when he meant, more often than not to
income, the Department of Soci­
speaks, his ability to pronounce the regret of your parents, the
al Sei vices can make other fi­
r’s is one result of the Nisei contact — with, but inability to
nancial arrangements. (Pensions
struggle a "generation bef ore. He speak the Japanese language. It
WASHINGTON. —■ The Car- . ee, that “it has been the. long- and -annuities are considered as
is deemed inherently abled in meant memorizing and singing
United incomes).
such activities in the martial ar­ Japanese- songs' and not always ter Administration has issued a ’ standing policy of the
Also, the committee has made
disappointing reply to the Co- j States government. .
. not to
ts, the art of photography and knowing the meaning of the
arrangements for these residents
landscape architecture should he words. It -meant answering the mittee of Atomic Bomb Survi­ pay claims, even on an ex gra­ to have access to
Castleviewtia
basis,
arising
out
of
the
law
­
vors
in
the
U.S.A,
request
for
pursue and succeed at such en­ phone, hearing a non English
Christie
ful conduct of military 'activiti­ Wychwood Towers on
support
on
its
drive
to
obtain
deavors.
\
speaking Issei on the other end,
when
Street, Toronto, if and
This is our stereotyped Sansei, quickly verbalizing chptto mate government medical ' assistance es by U.S. forces in wartime.
extended care becomes necessa“
In
accordance
with
this
long
for
victims
of
the
U.'S.
bombing
some of whose characteristics are chodai or some facsimile,
and
ry, (up to 1 ^ hours of nursstanding
policy,

Featherstone

s
of
Hiroshima
and
Nagasaki.
real, often false. Public aware­ then panicking after realizing no
ing care per day).
United
In
a
letter
dated
Feb.
8,
Ed
­
letter
continued,

the
ness has almost vanquished his one was 'around who could speak
In making the offer, the opeknow,
entirety, but parts linger on. It is Japanese. Being a Sansei meant ward M. Featherstone, the Car­ States has not, as you
rators of Spencer House have
ter Administration’s liaison to been directly involved in the tre­
not the hope of this essay to watching
old American war
named April 10th, 1978, as a
necessarily define a Japanese Co- movies and feeling sympathy for the Office of Japanese Affairs atment of those who were aff­ tentative date for the applicanadian nor even a third genera­ those that looked like you and wrote Kanji Kuramoto,/chairman ected by the atomic bombs. This tions. Therefore, all
inquiries
work
has
been
primarily
carried
of
the
A-bomb
victims

committtion Japanese in Canada, for in never won.
should be made as early as poout by the Japanese
Govern-both cases it is impossible to
There was a distinct lack of
ssible, to the following: ment and Japanese medical insti­
make such generalizations and verbal communication with grand­
Fred Sunahara — 783'
Dr.
tutions.

would result in a fictitious figure parents, but if you were fortu­

6409, Mrs. Mary Obata — 239Featherstone
suggested
Kura
­
equally absurd as our stereotype. nate enough to have an Issei liv­
Emory Nose — 221!
6889, Mrs.
:
moto
look
into
private
sources
It is, however, an attempt to ex­ ing in the household, it proved
533- ■
TOKYO. — Unmanned Japa­ for help for U.S. resident vic­ 9590, Mr. M. Amemori —
press and communicate the per­ to be a genuinely priceless ex­
Mr. Dick Takimoto
nese satellites will' orbit - the tims as well as publicly-funded 9585,
sonal experience and thoughts of perience. The language barrier
225-4248.
moon in 1985, and Venus in 1990, assistance programs. He
also
the author as a third generation was a problem, yet provided you
Although this is the
first
government space planners dec- reminded Kuramoto of H.R. 105Japanese Canadian.
concrete step in the committee’s
with an unequalled lesson in
lare.
02,
introduced
in
the
House
of
In most respects, the now, mid­ learning to communicate with
hopes to bring added comfort to
Japan’s 15-year space explo- Representatives which would gi­
dle class JC household is typical I your eyes and body, in tears
our elder citizens, the various
will
involve
ration program
ve relief to bomb victims.
of any Canadian home save for and in laughter, from your head
other projects under- proposal
$12.8 billion, or .08 per cent of
the few odd oriental ornaments. and your heart. The difficulty in
“I wish I could be more enco­ are being continued with rene­
the gross national product.
The most obvious of these are communicating thought in words
uraging, but that is the picture wed vigour.
The country will fire 76 rock­
the delicately, hand manufactured placed .emphasis on bodily comEvery citizen of sixty-five ye­
regarding possible federal assiets which will launch
more
dolls standing dustlessly in glass i munication and in many ways
time,” Fe- ars of age and over from our
than 80 satellites into outer spa- stance at the present
boxes, often feeling uncomfort­ aided in the development of' your
atherstone stated at the close community has the opportunity
ce. A government space expert
ably out of place in an old Euro­ emphatic emotions.
to consider this offer. All app­
said that in 1985 Japan will ha­ of his letter.
pean styled living room. Broad­
Kuramoto said his group wo- licants must be ambulatory, i.e.
Thrust into kindergarten ve a three stage rocket that will
loom is the standard and the
the — Must be able to walk to the
use liquified hydrogen and boost । uld' protest the fact that
society
at
five,
it
meant
teaching
tatami is as foreign here as in
and
satellites as heavy as five tons U.S. is not directly involved in dining room or bathroom
your
instructor
how
to
pronounce
apy home. Not surprisingly,
tend to personal necessities.
treatment of bomb victims.
into Earth orbit.
your
name
who
in
turn
taught
double glazed windows keep out

THE NEW CANADIAN

Metro Tor. Old Age Home Ready for
J.C.’s, Reports Elderly Care Group

Carter Disappoints A-bomb Survivors

Jpn. Satellites
To Venus by 1990

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Friday, April 14, 1978

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Friday^ April 14, 1978

Personal Notes

Guy Gabaldon
Back in News

J.C. Cultural Centre's Shitoryu
Karate Assoc. Dance Friday, April 28

Obituaries

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 dear
wife and mother, Emiyano.

INAMOTO
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Guy
TORONTO. — Mr. Tojuro In­
Gabaldon was back in the news
because of a routine crime re­ amoto, .89, passed away at York
TORONTO. — As in past years, the Japanese Canadian Cul­
port in the local police blotter County Hospital on March 9th,
Mr. Takeo Yano
tural. Centre’s Shitoryu Itosu-kai Karate Club will Jbe holding
1978.
Dear
father
of
Fujio,
Ruby
Fred & Misao Yano
fheir spring dance. This ' year it will be held on Friday, April here. During World War II, he
had won: the Navy Cross for cap­ and Mrs. Tatsuo Matsumura (Ja­
George & Shizu Yano
' 28th from 8 p.m. to 1 a.m.
pan).
Also
survived
by
2
broth
­
A warm welcome is extended to - all members and friends of turing. 2,000 Japanese soldiers,
Hisashi & Setsu Matsusaki.
the various activities and clubs held at the J.G. Cultural Centre. then sent it back to President ers, 6 grandchildren and 6 great
Price for an evening of dancing, dining, and drinking is only $6. Nixon in 1970 because a U.S. grandchildren.
per head or $10 per co up le. Tickets are available at the J.C.C.
Funeral service was held at
border guard in Tijuana insulted
• Centre or from any senior member of the Shitoryu Itosu kai Ka­
CARD OF THANKS
the Toronto Buddhist Church on
rate Clubs in Toronto. Price includes a; buffet. There will also be his Japanese-Mexican wife.
T.
Until a stack of hundred dol­ March 12th with the Rev.
a bar featuring our special “Karate Punch” speciality. A warm
We wish to express our sinMoriki
officiating.
Cremation
welcome is extended to -everyone. —JGC Centre.
lar bills ($5,000) was stolen from
cere thanks to all our many
at
Prospect
Crematorium.
his east central motel, Lo La Mi
friends and relatives for theLodge, and recorded December 1
ir generous expressions . of
by local police, Gabaldon was
sympathy through cards, te­
CARD
OF
THANKS
Albuquerque’s unknown war hero. ?
legrams, floral tributes, ,’Ko­
MONTREAL —The Montreal Seinen Kai (Japanese Canadian
George Johnson of the Albu­
den, Gideon Bibles and dona­
We wish to express our sin­
Young Adults of Montreal) is the name for a new non denomina­
tions to the Heart Fund du­
tional organization which helps' young Japanese Canadian adults querque Journal unearthed the
cere appreciation to our ma­
crime
report
and
the.
Gabaldon
"
to discover more about ■ their cultural heritage inj. Canada through
ring the recent loss of our
ny friends and relatives for
activities in the Montreal Community.
story.
dear wife, mother and grand­
their generous expressions of
The main objectives of the group includes :
Gabaldon, 51, was born in San
mother.
sympathy, telegrams,
floral
1. To encourage dialogue between Sanseis in-the Montreal
Rafael, N.M., but grew up in Los ‘ tributes and koden, during the
region and on the national level.
S.M. Takahashi
2* To communicate with Issei, Nisei and newly arrived Japa­ Angeles with a Japanese Ameri- • recent loss of -beloved wife
can foster family in Boyle
Florence Takahashi
nese in the community.
and mother Chiyo Nishimura.
3, . To organize a delegation of Montreal representatives to Heights where he learned the lan
Ted & Shirley Takahashi
Mr. Toji Nishimura,
attend this year’s National Youth. Conference.
guage that outwitted the enemy
Roy & Minnie ! Nishizaki,
4. To iset up a library of Japanese history plus contemporary during his one-man guerrilla
Kiyomi Judy, Austin and
Cathy, Tracy
information.
Pauline Tanaka, Grand child,
raids
in
the
.1944
battle
of
the
5. To provide cultural and recreational 'activities for young
Frank & Rose OI<ubo, Va­
Kenji
Shane.
Marianas.
Japanese Canadians. — Montreal Bulletin.
lerie & Tammie.
Toronto, Ont.
In 1957, he appeared on Ralph
Edward’s “This Is Your Life”
television . show. That attracted ^iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiihiiiiiiiibihiiiiiiiiiil
production of a movie about his
MONTREAL — If -you are 14 - 22 years of age looking for heroic exploits in “From Here to
adventure, interested to travel in Canada, in knowing different Etenrity,” which still runs on the
regions, different ways of thinking arid making new friends, then
OPEN HOUSE CANADA, Group exchange with West Coast Sansei, late, late show.
proprietor
In 1964, he moved to Mexico
could be for you. This project is in its infancy stage of planning.
JON ONODERA
We have a coordinator and an advisor plus several interested where he married a Japanese girl
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people. Wb must of course make an application for this travel living near Culiacan and started
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believe it or not has the third largest Japanese population in to the Orient. But the Mexican =
government squeezed him out ^llllllllllilinilllllllilllllllllllllllllii
Canada), Vancouver or Toronto, read on . . .
about two years ago. He returned
Who is this open to? ;
People of the above ages. Canadian citizens and landed immi- with his family to Los Angles.
grants are eligible.
Seven months ago he came to
How ?
Albuquerque.
Travel will be in a group or groups with a group leader or
“I love my good odd United
leaders.
ALL HEEL HEIGHTS
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States,” Gabaldon said as he re­
When?
MENS 4 and up
LADIES 2 and up
: The group you visit must return the visit within 6 months. It membered his past. “But there
would seem like early summer and later summer would be the
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best time for such visits. But, this has yet. to be talked out.
nominated me for the CongresWhat will it involve? _
A $10 fee from each individual and the help of your family on sional Medal of Honor — I’ve
the exchange program; accommodation will be with young people single-handedly captured more
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military history of the United
Who will it involve?
You . . . wediope. Remember, we can only make plans with States—but it came back a (Silver
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. _ Star. It wasn’t- until the movie
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PAGE 4

Sato is Most Common Jpnz. Surname Computerized Traffic Control
Possible
for
Tokyo
Followed by Suzuki and Takahashi
TOKYO—Just how many sur­ tors of the Satos had some con­
nection with the Fujiwara family,
names are there in Japan ?
According to a survey con­ which wielded extraordinary pow­
ducted by Univac, Japan, some er from about .858'to 106’8, judgi­
time ago, there are roughly 71,- ng from the fact that Sato Ichi000 family names, give or take rouemon’s full name was Sato
about 300, if only kanji characters Ichirouemon Fujiwara No No(Chinese characters) are con- buhisa and many of his deccendsidered. But if all different kinds ants had added “Fujiwara No Soof readings are included, the fig­ and-so” to their given names.
ure would come to. somewhere
Cartoonist Sanpei Sato' (real
around 107,000.
name Koichi Sato) says he only
Take the name Koyama, for ex­ knows that his grandfather was
ample. It could be read as either, born in Nagoya and does not
Kdyama or Oyanla.
know anything’ about his fore­
Thus’ the Japanese have the bears beyond his grandfather. He
largest- number of surnames in says he as not much interested in'
the world. Even China, which has tracing the orgin of his name .be­
a population of an estimated 800- cause the name is all too com­
million, has only around 300 fam­ mon.
How, then and when did the
ily names. Korea has about 500.
1 One of the reasons why- Japa­ surname. “Sato” originate ? Most
nese have so many family names common Japanese surnames are
is that an the feudal days there really old but their origin can be
was a tendency for samurai (war­ generally classified into those
riors) to make the names) of ter­ that were taken from: (1) place
ritories they acquired their sur- names, (2) professions . and (3)
names. Another reason was the official positions or combinations
fact that it was mandatory of official positions and place
among sons of samurai, except names. Some had been taken
the eldest son, to change, their after noted personalities of the

time.
Historical facts point to the
Satos having descended from the
Fujiwara family. It is said a re­
mote ancestor of the Satos is
Also it should not be over­ Fujiwara No Hidesato, alias Talooked that new names were1 war a No _Tota, who killed the
created for the people not belong­ rebellious general, Taira No Maing to. the warrior class after the sakado.
Fujiwara No Hidesato is a
Meiji Restoration of 1868.' Until
then only rhe military caste' was legendary figure who . existed
years ago
permitted to have a family name. more than a
Among the Japanese surnames,, Kinsmen a,third generation from
the most numerous is “Sato.” Hidesato began 'to produce a
family names. lt was not until
the Tokugawa Shogunate was es­
tablished cirea 1616) that faraily names came to be restricted
to the forefathers’ surnames.

Satos are ^.estimated to number
■ approximately 2 million, spread
across the country. .Sato is follow­
ed by Suzuki, Takahashi,' Ito,
Watanabe, Saito and Tanaka in
that order.
According to the late Ei Sa­
kuma, a noted authority on fam­
ily and personal names, Sato
topped all other surnames in Hok­
kaido, the six prefectures in nor­
thern Japan, Niigata and Oita.
Sakuma had estimated that in ,
northern Japan 8 to 9 per cent
of the people had Sato as their
surname.
The most famous Sato in re-,
cent years was the late Prime
Minister Eisaku Sato. Eisaku’s
cousin, Toshisuke Sato, who lives
in Tabuse, Yamaguchi Prefecture,
says this particular Sato name is
traceable to Sato
Ichiroumon
who lived about 200 years ago.

Generations of Sato were sa­
murai retained by the Mori clan
which ruled over the present
Yamaguchi Prefecture and its vi­
cinity. Toshisuke says he has no
record showing where the Sato
lived before the Tokugawa Sho­
gunate was created.
He believes the distant anees-

number of “saemon no jo,” who
were military officials who guard­
ed the Imperial Palace in the
Heian Era. In modern army a
saemon no jo would 'be a company grade officer.

TOKYO __ : City
drivers of
time
by 10 per cent,
V^y uxivcio
ux the . commuting
—-------o
future may be directed to less [ and that when the system is put
crowded streets and warned of into effect in the future it will
traffic accidents ahead through a reduce congestion by 20 per. cent.
The first stage of the actual
computerized system now being
studied by the Ministry'of Inter­ system is -expected to be put. into
national Trade and Industry s operation !by 1981.
TUA1V

Combining the “so” of the sae- Agency of Industrial Science and
mon no jo with Fuji of Hidesato’s
Technology.
'
.
Fujiwara Fuji also reads “to” (in
The agency recently completed
Japanese), Hidesato”s descend­ a pilot system of the. traffic con­
ants began to call themselves trol plan and will soon begin
“Sato.” This was anywhere be­ holding tests on highways in the:
tween 920 years and IjOOO years
metropolitan area.
ago.
'
The agency, said that while
Many historians regard Sato similar experiments are being
Kimikiyo, the sixth descendant of carried out of the U.S., England
Hidesato, as the first man - in and West Germany, there has
history to call himself Sato. Some
never before .been a project of
of them claim Kimikiyo took the this scale and complexity.
surname because it “angered
Seven computers will be in op­
well.”
eration at the, control ccenter in
Related to Fujiwara are also Ebisu to “digest information
“Ito” (meaning Fujiwara of Ise), coming in and relay directions
“Kato”
(Fujie
Fujiwara
of :
back”

Kaga), “Endo” (Fujiwara of ToA total of 1,330 vehicles will ibe
htomi) and “Saito” (the Fuji­ participating in the experiment,
wara of saigu no kami? an official
including 30 agency cars, 300
post in the Heian Period).
monitored jprivate autos and 1,900
In the medieval age of Japan, taxis cooperating in gathering
“Minamoto,” “Taira,” “Fuji” and
data.
“Tachibana” were considered as
Officials said that those with
the four great surnames And all
equipment will -be able to cut
other surnames were supposed to.
have originated from these four.
From Fuji came the name Fuji-'
wara. It is said that the name
Fujiwara was created when Em­
peror Tenchi in 669 gave the
ALUMINUM SIDING
name “Fujiwara No Tomoomi” to
STORM DOORS
Nakaomi no -Kamatari in recog­
AND WINDOWS
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