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Ottawa-born Sansei Living in Nagoya, Japan Seeking “Roots”
By AKI SHIMIZU
(The Ottawa News)

I am a Sansei, born and raised
in Ottawa, living in Nagoya, Ja­
pan. I am here for a
school
term, my major at university
being Japanese studies. At pre­
sent, I am taking a wide range
of courses relating to Japanese
studies, including Japanese his­
tory, literature, and ^language.
> To reside in a country'and at
the same time to be able to stu. dy its language, culture, ' and
history is a gratifying experi­
ence. r

ends, and all things that are familiar to me.
The things that make me uneasy being* here, have made me
more aware of how my grand­
parents must have, felt
when
they immigrated to Canada. My
grandmother, who is 87, lives in
Toronto. I think I can apprecia­
te now a' little, better what kind

of courage and spirit it took for
her to come across an ocean, to
marry a man she had never met,
to a country where they spoke a
language she could never mas­
ter. I am lucky, I can go home.
She never dreamed of returning
when she left Japan, her fami­
ly, and friends. Her
children,
for the most part, know little of

An Independent Organ for Canadians of Japanese Origin
TORONTO, ONT.

FRIDAY, APRIL 28, 1978

' Emperor^sNephew

Japan Royalty to Study
At Queen’s in Kingston

A *

Having lived in Japan for al­
most five months now, I have
yet to decide in my mind exact­
ly how I feel about life here.
Every new experience changes
my ideas slightly, while reflec­
tion upon that experience alters
my feelings again.

Yet, I can assuredly say that
I do not feel at home, here. Al­
though I am often mistaken for
a native Japanese, I still get
stared at when I saunter down
the street in my jeans, with a
knapsack slung across my back.
I sometimes have trouble get­
ting around, ‘because I still can­
not read signs properly,
and
when I ask directions,
people
get impatient because I
don’t
understand when they speak qu­
ickly. Although my
Japanese
has improved since, coming here,
it is still weak, and as a result,
it is easy to make acquaintances,
but hard to make friends. Con­
versation
extending
beyond
school and the weather tires me
out quickly, and I am keenly
aware that my grammar is bad,
and my expressions childish. Be­
ing in a, foreign country means
that 1 must repress some of my
accustomed behaviour, or else
abandon it. A good lesson in
discipline and diplomacy,
but
- just once in a while I’d like to
be able to put my feet up and
have a chat with a good friends!
Canada is my home. My heart
lives there, with my family, fid-

guage.
_
Hopefully this i.s only the be­
ginning of
an
understanding
which will come about from liv­
ing here. These feeling’s are only
a few of the many I’m experien­
cing through living in
Japan.
Perhaps they are the most imp­
ortant.

The Deft! Canadian

Why am I studying Japan and
its culture, and why did I come
here? 'Perhaps, to use the wellVol. 42 — 33
worn phrase, to find my “roots”.
I am interested in my f amily hi­
story, in the history of the Ja­
panese Canadians. I want
to
know about the country
that
shaped the way my family thinks
and lives, the country that aff­
ected so greatly the lives of the s
ethnic minority of which I am
a member.

Japan is a fascinating place
to be. Having the long history
that Canada does not," it is filled
with historic sights, age-old arts,
time-honoured traditions. Histo­
ry pervades through, everything,
and in comparison, Canada at ti­
mes appears much less interest­
ing.

the place she. comes from, her
grandchildren, almost
nothing.
She has lived through a
time
when she was uprooted
again
from where she had settled, her
possessions taken, through ord­
ers she probably didn’t under­
stand. She seems content,
but
how can I tell? I have , never
spoken to her in her own lan-

TOKYO.- Emperor Hirohi­
to’s nephew Norihito Mikasa will
study for two years at Queen’s
University in Kingston,
Ont.,
starting this fall, the Imperial
■household announced recently.
The 23-year-old Norihito, third
son of Hirohito’s brother Prince

Mikasa, was graduated
from
Gakushuin University here
in
March^He will join an intensive
linguistic training course at Qu­
een’s University in May,
and
then -will be admitted to the uni­
versity as a special auditor in
September.

Photo by Jack Hemmy

J.C. Beauties Vie for Miss Tokyo ' Japanese Pharmaceutical Company

*
IjMMMnAeA Dkn>*mnAaiifirnl I nmnwH
TORONTO. ■— pretty Noreen. Hoita (centre front row) was
crowned Miss Tokyo 1978 at the Japanese Canadian Cultural Cen­
Named the ONO 802, the prod­
TOKYO — A “morning after”
tre’s Princess Ball bn April 15th. Noreen, who represented the
J.C. ISki Club, will officiate at Caravan ‘78 functions, such as the contraceptive that, unlike the uct has “practically no side, ef­
Mayor’s party, press party, Awards Nite at the Royal York, etc. pill, need not be taken daily for fects and is 90 per • cent effec­
Flanking her are ((right) 1st Runner-up, Ms. Kathy Fujimoto, a
Black Belt holder and representative of the Shitoryu (Karate Dojo effect has been developed by a tive,” according to its manufac­
of the J.C. Cultural Centre, and (left) 2nd Runner-up Marsha Japanese pharmaceutical firm. turer the Ono Pharmaceutical Co.
Tsuda of the Nisei Women’s Club.
But, like the p-ill, it will not be Moreover it is claimed to be
The bther talented beauties entered in the selection were:
back row (left to right) Naomi Nakamura of Haru Yagi, Patti available for over the counter effective even after impregnaOshima of Japanese United Church, Pam Ohashi of Sakura Kai, sales in this country, reports the tion has taken place, says the
Teresa Nishikawa of the J.C.C.C. Womens’ Auxiliary, and Vicki
weekly.
Shukan Sankti.
Asada of the Toronto Japanese Language School.
It will be offered in'suppository
form.

In Southern California

Star Trek's "Zulu" George Takei Transit V.P
LOS ANGELES. — Japanese
American actor-community
fi­
gure George Takei recently was
elected to be the new vice-pre­
sident of the So. Calif. Rapid
Transit District. The 11-member

board also re-elected Marvin L,
Holen as its president at the
same meeting.
Takei has been a member of
the RTD board for five, years.
He is one of two members app-

"Jpnz. Women Beautiful Enough
Without Seal Coats": Brigitte Bardot
Minister seal furs, but is it necessary for
for
Takeo Fukuda has heard from Japanese women, famous
their natural beauty, to further
French actress Brigitte Bardot.
adorn themselves
with
such
•Miss Bardot, a critic of the furs ? The answer will be defini­
clubbing of baby seals by ‘Ca­ tely no.” "
Miss Bardot, also
criticized
nadian hunters, told Fukuda in
a letter: “I understand Japan is the recent slaughter of dolphins
one of the major importers of by Japanese tuna fishermen.
TOKYO. — Prime

dinted by the mayor of
Los
Angeles.
An active member of the ent­
ertainment industry,
Takei is
perhaps best known for his app­
earances on the popular “Star
Trek” television series of a few
years ago.
Takei holds BA and MA deg­
rees from UCLA. He has taken
additional course work iji Japan,
England and Univ, of
Calif.,
Berkeley. .
His past political activities in­
clude a city council candidacy in
the 10th district, service on the
Democratic State Central" Co­
mmittee in 1972 and working on
Mayor Tom Bradley’s 1973 elec­
tion campaign.

Its main ingredients is an ex­
tract of prostaglanzine, accord­
ing to the weekly. In Japan au­
thorization for its manufacture
will be sought from the Welfare
Ministry as a clinical abortifacient, but the same product will
be exported for use as a contra­
ceptive.

On
Shukan

the

same

subject,

Post reports

that

the
the

Ono Pharmaceutical Co. has sign­
ed joint development agreements

for its ONO 802 with the Warner-

Lambert Corp, in the U.S. and
the May & Baker Co. in the
United Kingdom.

In addition, the weekly says
the World Health Organization
has agreed to test the product

in five countries.

.

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Friday, April 28, 1978

PAG® J

Rare Japanese Swords Stolen

A Sansei’s Expression
To a Nisei Parent
In Five Short Chapters

'NEW YORK—■Two
Two men posing their victims.
One of. the samurai swords
as detectives investigating a
previous burglary forced their taken is said to- be valued at
way into the Greenwich Village $100,OGO.
Police said that the burglars
apartment of - Bumper 'Usui, an
artist and antiques collector, and told the Usuis that they werestole a collection of rare Japa­ investigating’ a robbery which
nese swords and other items took place'in. their frame shop on
valued at more than $300,000 W. 17 St. last year.
A Sixth precinct police officer
recently.
I
The gunmen handcuffed - Mr. said that they are in the process
'She’s just my mom. He’s just
Usui, 80/ and his wife Frances,- of “checking out all leads."
Mindful of the possibility that my dad. They’re Nisei and they
and then made Mrs. Usui show
were put in internment camps
them through the apartment to the swords-might be taken out of
during the war and worked on
point out valuable Oriental an­ the country police have alerted
farms and all that, which is sort
tiques which they then stuffed Interpol. There is also specula­
of exciting but I’ve known all
into suitcases, also belonging to tion -that the burglary was com­
mitted “on contract’’ for a person that for years.
II
or persons who knew' of Mr.
One night all the old photos
Usui’s collection.
came out. The farm.
Tashme.
The army. Baseball games. My
mom and aunt at the baseball
game.
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ne, as I was - when I was in full
fury.
■Sometimes they don’t get mad
in return. That always
drives,
me crazy.
Then I go down to the beach,
and scream at the water, shells,
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and small stones, wishing I was
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afterwards how unnecessary they
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Friday, April 28, 1978

[ Dates & Doings^] Roy Asa Captures Canadian Black Belt
Kendo Championship Held in Toronto
"Dream Of Riches" English & French
, By REIMI CHIBA

VANCOUVER. —A Dream of Riches (Sen Gin No Yume) a
190 pages of text and photographs in English and French of the
Japanese Canadian Centennial iPhoto Exhibit that was shown-ac­
ross Canada, including the Bay in Winnipeg, is currently availa■ ble. :•■ • • - ■
..
Cost: soft cover. $13,000 hard cover $17.00.
Send orders to: Japanese Canadian Centenmal Project, P.O.
Box 69747, (Station K, Vancouver, B.C. V5K 4Y7.

Steveston) and Dwight
(Vancouver)

TORONTO. — Roy Asa capOpen, Non-Degree
Individual
tured the Canadian Black Belt
Champion —- Japanese Canadian
Championship-_ti tie at the 5th
Cultural Centre Trophy — Glen
Annual Canadian National Ken­
Morimoto (Steveston)
do
Championship Tournament
Open Non-Degree
Individual ;
held here recently at the Japa­
2nd place — Japan Camera Cennese Canadian Cultural Centre.
Fourth-dan Asa, a. “People- 4re Trophy -— R. Takama (Van­
city”. resident, fought his way couver)
Open Non-Degree
Individual
to. victory over 16 other black
belt representatives from Van- 3rd place — M. Noda (VancoWinnipeg
Steves ton,
couver,
Junior Individual
Champion
Montreal Ottawa and Toronto
couver), M. Noda (Vancouver),
(13
years
and
under)
Canadian
Tak Yoshida, third-dan,, and Mike
S. Okano (Steveston), D. Kishi
Kendo
Federation
Trophy

Pa
­
Shizuru, third-dan' both of To­
(Vancouver), K. Noda (Vanco­
ul
Onami
(Toronto)
ronto, took second and third spo­
uver), J. Tani (Steveston) and
Junior
Individual,

2nd
place

ts respectively in. this Open Cha­
R. Noguchi (Vancouver).
Brian Asa (Toronto)
,
mpionship match.
Junior Individual, 3rd place —
As the biggest Canadian Ken­
do Tournament yet, a crowd of Wendy Nakano (Vancouver)
East-West Junior Team Cham­
300-plus jammed the auditorium
Healthy Body & Mind
of the Japanese Canadian Cultu­ pion — Western Canada Team
Through the Martial Arts
ral Centre to witness close to represented by R. Takama (Van70 Kendoists from Eastern and

"Ghost Towri" Reunion Slated Sept. 12

TORONTO. — The Kaslo, New Denver, Rosebery and Sandon Reunion Committee would like to thank the many supporters
_ whose attendance made the Benefit Dance held at the Japanese
Canadian Cultural Centre on March 18, 1978 such a .success. The
generous contributions of monetary gifts, refreshments and prizes
by individuals and interested firms have made it possible to sub­
sidize the Issei Senior Citizens’ registration fees to our Reunion.
The Reunion, will be held on Saturday, September 2, -1978 at
the Prince Hotel, Toronto, commencing with registration at 4:00 p.m.
and dinner at 7:00 p.m.
Tickets'including dinner and dance are : $17.50 per person, $10.
for Issei Senior Citizens.
;
Registration will close when all tickets are sold, therefore, we
suggest you register as soon as possible, preferably before May 30,
1978. Immediate inquiries for registration for the Reunion should
be made to the following representatives:
,
‘ .
Sue
(Matsugu)
Kai,
62
Coral
Gable
Drive,
Kaslo — Mrs.
. Weston, Ont. M9M 1P1, Phone 742-7429.
.
Western Canada battle it out in
•New Denver — Mr. Joe iHakkaku, 39 Murmouth Road, Agin­
team and. individual matches.
court, Ont. MIT 2P9, — Phond 291-0436.
Demonstrations
of
Nippon
Rosebery — Mr. Ron Matsumoto, ;P.O. Box 175, Postal Stn.
Kendo No Kata, lai-Do and Mo­
O, Toronto, ? Ontario M4A 2N3, —- Phone 759-7873
■• Sandon — Mrsr Terrie (Sugiura) Komori, 51 Fraserton Gres., han Keiko underscored the dis­
Scarborough, Ont. MTK 1S9, Phone 261-1840.
__
, cipline, skill and concentration
Issei Contact — ;Mr. ;Sadamu Sato, 29 Oakdene Gres., To­
that are prerequisites
to the
ronto, Ont. M4J 4H8, Phone 466-6506.
;
mastery of Kendo (the way of
the sword) and were given by
M. Tsumura, 7-dan Kyoshi; K.
Ariga, 6-dan_ Renshi; K. Hao,
5-dan; and S. Kamata, 5-dan.
GREENWOOD, B.C. — More ted in both Japanese and EngH. Renaud of Montreal was
lish,
were
Mr.
Mas
Oyama.
The
­
than 150 people
gathered
at
the first recipient of the Kyoda
re
were
several
speeches
by
old
. MacArthur Centre to create a
Trophy — a new’ award to be
and
new
friends
such
as
Mr.
S.
memorable evening for Matsuji
presented annually to the KendD.
Vallis,
Jim
Tateyama,
Dr.
and Kane'Terada, who were ma­
oist who best demonstrates the
and
Kakuno
Takeda,
George
rried at the Vicarage of the An­
“Spirit of Kendo”.
Mayor
Arnold
Drinkwater,
who
glican Church in
Cumberland,
Among the distinguished gu­
spoke a few words of congratu­
B.C. in 1928.
ests attending the tournament:
lation
in
the
Japanese
language
Masters of Ceremony, conducConsul Yanagisawa; JCCC Pre­
and won applause from the listsident Syd Ikeda; JOCiC Execu­
eners.
tive Director Kaz Okuda; GoMr. .Seiji Onizuka of Midway
Dept, of
vernment of Ontario
read the many telegrams that
Sports
Cultural & Recreation
AND ASSOCIATES
arrived. Included were messages
Mr.
John
Program Manager
from
Premier
Bennett,
Lieuten
­
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ster Pierre Trudeau, and MLA
from- B.C.; Mr. K. Ono & Mr
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Trophy — Roy Asa, 4-dan (To­
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The Japanese Language in Contemporary Japan
THE JAPANESE LANGUA­
GE IN CONTEMPORARY JA­
PAN, by Roy Andrew
Miller,
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Public Policy Research, Washin­
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fied in the remarkable ability spite the manifold changes that
of the Japanese culture to tole­ have occurred over the centuries.
rate diversity without allowing
In attempting to present the
fundamental Change and, in the thesis of this important monoprocess, _ to manage the almost grah I have perhaps simplified
' Just as the Japanese
myth unchanged
preservation
and to a degree unpleasing- to the
about their languages rests up­ transmission of sizable portions
author and, indeed, the
book
on exclusive national - claims, so on intellectual inheritance from
itself must be read
complete
the attitude toward foreigners the remote past down to
the to appreciate its pertinence, its _
speaking this language
rests
present day. A large number of logic and, yes, its humor.
upon sheer (or rank) territoria­
essential concepts, ideas, stand­
•There is some indication that
lity and an assumption of order ards, and patterns of behavior
which exists only in the minds have been . perpetuated more or this is not the complete Miller
manuscript, or rather that it was
The mastery
creating it.
less unchanged across the dim­
present pucut
down for
and utilization of the Japanese
ension of time, despite, the ma­
language by foreigners implies jor alternations in more visible blication. At any rate “The
Journal of Japanese Studies’*, rean upset of the natural order of
aspects of Japanese life. ”
1977)
cently (Vol. 3, No. 2,
a foreigner speakthings
Thus it is that such ancient
printed an essay of Dr. Miller’s
ing Japanese amounts to the pu­
concepts as territoriality,
the
on “The Spirit’ of the Japanblic performance of an unnatural
mysterious koto-dama, the nece­
rightly
ese -Language” which
act.”
'
'•
ssity of feeling exclusive, of fee­
belongs in this book. One hopes
The Japanese attitude - tow­ ling “divinely” protected,
lie
for an expanded edition because
ard their language is seen as a; upon the surface of
Japanese
there is no one in the field wriparadigm of the Japanese atti­ culture. Buried though like ideas
ting with such knowledge, such
tude toward themselves, and if may be in other countries. “. . .
rigor/ and such wit.
is this larger aspect of the atti­ Despite all this change-, one may
Copies of his monograph may
tude that is defined at the con­ still descern the traces of unal­
the
clusion of h’s monograph — a tered and persistent major my­ be ordered directly from
Institute
definition of the
characteristic thic themes in the culture. The American Enterprise
genius of traditional Japanese sociolinguisfic. approach of the for Public Policy Research, 1150
culture.
z
• Jap ane s e to their language de- Seventeenth Street, N.W^ Wa­
“This genius is here exempli- monstrates great continuity de- shington, D.C. 20036.

st and ashes in the mouth of the as he questions his way
into
bread > why this should be so and how
foreigner becomes the
and wine of life itself for the this connects with the Japanese
attitude toward, the . koto-dama.
Japanese.”
belief
•Specifically, it is the
that there is something ineffa­
ble in the language itself. Furt­
her, that “the language is a ve­
hicle that not only sets apart
its speakers and -users but .also
enobles the users of this special
instrument of .communication.

For some years Dr. Miller was
There as no doubt-(and here
troubled by a vexing
question
Dr. Miller’s logic is impeccab­
which is encountered by anyone
le though space prevents
my
involved with the language and
demonstrating it) that here we
literature of Japan . “Why do
have
something
approaching
so many passages . . ..read permysticism. Indeed, “It is temp­
but
fectly well in the original
'
ting to see in the views and op­
turn out to be so vapid when
inions that are so widely held
. rendered in a fairly literal—Engby modern Japanese concerning
Within the
iish translation ?
their own language the gradual
field of linguistic' scholarship
evolution of a full-scale .sociolthis problem is particularly acu­
inguistic._ surrogate for the re­
te because little of what cont­
ligious experience itself. A
emporary Japanese scholars wri­
resulting
He finds that the
te and publish in Japanese could
vague and often impenebe published^intact in a literal dense,
“writing of this
variety
English translation without be­ rable
only prized by many Japacoming the butt of amazement is not
nese scholars and intellectuals,
and even ridicule abroad. Yet
but is (also)
felt to
have a
these works, which are widely
strange and mysterious,
but
read in Japan, are by eminent
very real, power and strength.”
men writing in their own fields.
It is all “part. . . of the ineffa-.
This question provided the in­
ble~process of mystic
ecstacy
spiration for this very import­
through which modern Japanese
ant and highly revealing mono­
The
Buddhist abbot,
Eisai, ed in making sen cha —- green
By LEWIS BUSH
sociolinguistic culture views its
graph. - The search for the an­
who first codified the rules for tea — which unlike black tea
own language. There is great
TOKYO.

According
to
a
swer carries the author past lin­
cha-no-yu wrote a treatise on is not fermehted. And it was this
strength in the unknown; there Buddhist legend the tea shrub
guistic and into much larger tethe subject — “The. (Salutary new type of tea which revoluti­
is
even
power
in
the
unintelligi
­
originated
from
the
fatigue
wh
­
rritories - into, indeed, someJapan
Influence of Drinking Tea” -y onized tea drinking in
ich
Boddhidharma,
or
better
kno
­
ble.

thing of the latitude of a defini­
in which he pointed out the man- and made it available to all cla­
-Conversely, the author finds wn to the Japanese as Daruma
tion of the Japanese character,
.

ner in which tea-“regulates the sses.
that
foreign
languages
are
con
­
suffered
alter
long
years
of
reflected as this is in the JapaSencha is the generally accep­
spidemned for their clearness and prayer and meditation. For it is five viscera and expels evil
nese language and in the Japa­
ted green tea which comes in
that a displayed logic is not po­ said that when the Buddhist sa­ rits. y
nese attitude toward it.
By the 16th century tea had various grades, while bancha is
pular, both flying in the face of int could no longer keep his
He first finds . indication of
the cheapest, made from chop­
the koto-dama as they
must. eyes open and fell into a sound become popular with the wealthy
this typical attitude in the Japa­
ped leaves, stalks and trimmings
He also, and again conversely, sleep he was so angry with his merchant class and Sen no Rikyu
nese regard to the
kotodama
codified the rules of cha-no-yu of the paint, and slightly brown
finds
new
perimeters
in
the
Ja
­
own
eyelids
when
he
awoke
that
(the “spirit of the language”).
rigidly,
decreeing in color.
panese attitude7 toward
their he cut them off. But when they even more
It is seen as something indescri­
that the utensil? should be of
bable or ineffable, leading Japa- langmage in the way they re­ fell on the ground each formed the most plain and unpretentious
gard foreigners who have atta­ into a plant, the leaves of which
nese scholars to make such re­
design and form, without intrin­
marks as X “ancient Japanese po- ined some degree of proficency were henceforth steeped in wa­
ter, to provide a medicinal be-? sic value, and the tea room —- $
DIRECTORY OF
ems generally lack logical el e- in this tongue.
chashitsu

as
simple
as
possi
­
JAPANESE CANADIANS
There he quotes Basil Hall ! verage for those in search of
ments, which therefore are unble.
IN ONTARIO
fit for translation to be made Chamberlin in a passage as true Truth and Nirvana.
The drinking of tea
among t
And so the drinking of tea-in
now as it was then: “Seing that
Names, addresses, and te­
available for foreigners.”
the lower classes did not spread |
the
manner
interpreted
as
a
ce
­
lephone numbers listed
Though, as Dr. Miller obesrv- you speak Japanese, they will
until
the
end
of
the
17th
centu
­
$8. per book, plus 30c po­
indescrib- wag their heads and smile con- remony — cha-no-yu, has always
es, “that something
ry.
In
1737,
in
the
Edo
Period,
stage.
able or ineffable should be the descendingly, and. admit to each maintained a tinge of religious
a certain Nagatani iSocKiro of
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Yamashiro,
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he soon discovers that this is ned pig or- an ape. of somewhat during the night and early mor­
ning hours of devotions,
and
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And here, Dr. Miller’s mono­ who believed in its valuable me­
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