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Portrait of Ken Maeda, Canada's National Volleyball Association Coach
For those who remain,
the
It appears he may have al- ong young team,” he went on.
“I look for the big body, the big summer will be spent with travel
ready begun doing that.
WINNIPEG. — Ken
Maeda
and . competition. The
national
“Maeda’s been working with jump and the strong: mind.”
but
speaks . hesitant English,
team, has' an itinerary
which
the team for the past few days
The
building
task
ahead
has
the
that fact doesn’t concern
look
and already they’ve strained mu­ been made more difficult by. the makes Henry Kissinger’s
Canadian Volleyball Association.
scles they didn’t know they had,” retirement of at least two stal- like a trip to the beach —- Pe­
The CVA is confident Maeda is
king and Japan in May, Hong
cracked Fenny.
wart members of the national^
completely ; fluent in the langu­
Kong and Mexico in June, and
Maeda had little trouble ma- team.
age of international
volleyball
the United States and Bulgaria
perfor
the
team
king
his
aims
Pa
ulsen
,
who
has
■Spiker
John
and that’s precisely why he was
in July- before taking on
the
fectly
clear.
team
since
1972,
been'
with
the
hired as coach of the national
best. in the world championships
and
veteran
setter
Don
Michal
­
1980
qualify
for

First
is
to
team.

in Rome.
“We’re confident Ken . will be Olympics,” he emphasized. “We ski have both decided they can
“I guess it goes without sayable to communicate his
vast must beat United States, Mexi­ ho longer devote the time and
h.as
Canada
and Cuba — Cuba is the make the total commitment ne­ ing that Sports
knowledge of. the game to the co
this
cessary^ There will likely be ot­ been unusually generous
Team,” said national team di­ toughest challenge.
“For-that I am building str­ hers of the old guard to follow. year,” said Fenny. “Our travel
rector Mark Fenny.

By BARBARA HUCK

budget has been increased from
$50,000 to $80,000 at a
time
when we desperately need travel
funds because of the pre-Olympic lull in international compe­
tition.”
Maeda, who is a bachelor, co­
mes to the job prepared for the
challenge. He describes himself
as coming from a “volleyball fa­
mily in Japan.” He is a graduate
of Sophia University in Tokyo
where he played before
becoming the first international co­
ach to complete the Asian coach-

Cont. on Page 2

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Wanted: Brides for
Japanese Farmers

THE NEW CANADIAN
An Independent Organ for Canadians of Japanese Origin

me 600,000 to 3.8 million...
Japan’s urban migration began
TORONTO, ONTARIO
FRIDAY; MAY 19, 1978
more than 15 years ago, but the Vol. 42 — 39
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strong movement of young wo­
men away from the farms start­
ed only in recent years. Hokkaido officials estimate now there
are five eligible men for every
the
three eligible women and
gap is growing.
Kaze~No Ko, a Japanese tro­ Theatre pour Enfants du Que­
OTTAWA. — Children’s thea­
developing bec, and Toronto’s Festival Of
For centuries women have been tre companies from the Japan upe specializing in
a prominnt feature of the Japa- and the Soviet Union will tour children’s creativity and imagi­ The Child.
The Japanese troupe, is bring­
Calgary,
riese farm scene, along with plo­ •the country this month and next nation, will travel to
dding oxen, straw roofs and mu­ under special grants from the Vancouver, Montreal and Toron­ ing over its Trunk Theatre, a
show intended to encourage chil­
Canada to.
Through /want ads,
posters, ddy “'paddies. Dressed in hooded touring office, of the
The two groups will partici­ dren’s imagination and creativity
pants Council, it was announced recen­
pamphlets and group tours, the sun bonnets and baggy
pate in a Montreal Festival du in play things normally found
organizations of rural Japan are and stooped almost double at the tly.
around the home. The show also
seeking to solve as best they waist from sowing, weeding and
includes a demonstration of Ja­
know how an increasing problem harvesting the rice. The farm
panese paper-folding,
construc­
of modern-day Japanese society. wives worked long hours with
That is, there simply aren’t eno­ theiF husbands in the fields and
OTTAWA. — Japan lias de- pan because the reactor is being ting a big duck as part of telling
ugh women in the countryside to then , put even more hours work cided -to install two Candu nu­ purchased from a firm outside the story of The Ugly Duckling
into housekeeping and meal -pre­ clear realtors at a remote site the U.S., where Japan usually by Hans Christian Anderson.
go around;
Kaze No Ko will perform in
and
In a society based on the ex­ paration. By some accounts, they on Northern Honshu, the nati­ buys its nuclear reactors
Toronto June 8-10.
tended family where each mem­ often slept only three or four on’s largest island, the Japan enriched uranium fuel.
The touring 'office said a Ga­
’A spokesman for Atomic ETrade
Organization
ber has his or her assigned du­ hours a night to fulfill their du- External
nergy of Canada Ltd., the crown nadian company will be selected
says.
ties, many young women
are ties.
Their vivid memories of these
But the organization says the corporation responsible for sell­ to tour Japan later as part of
choosing not- to have a family,
apparently
quite decision by the Electric Power ing the reactors abroad, confir­ a cultural exchange program for
at least not on a farm. They are ordeals are
the two countries co-ordinated
heading for the big cities. And strong and play a crucial role Development Co., a semi-govern­ med that there remains opposi­
by the Canada Council.
the single farmboys left behind in their daughters’ decisions to ment agency, “runs the risk of tion among the Japanese utilitiown
are faced with a. family-less fu- choose another life, now that a meeting opposition” within Ja- es which would have to
has placed
and operate the reactors.
ture void of heirs and free help. degree- of affluence
thing's like a college education
AECL is not expecting a final
It is an extremely mortifying
__ in the city — within their
KOBE. — A senior high scho­
commitment to construct the two
position socially for the men in
economic reach.
600-megawaitt
reactors
until ol teacher here has worked out
this group-conscious - society; and
“We're trying to tell the mo­
1981, four years before the mo­ a way to cool the interior of a
one that carries potential long­
thers that their work is a lot
WINNIEG,
Manitoba. — A del is expected to go into com­ vehicle by using solar heat.
term agricultural and sociologi­
easier on the farm nowadays,” former city councillor, Mr. Wi­ mercial production. Between now
An Osaka company is plancal implications for Japan, whe­
said one man, Yoshide Nishimu­ lliam Sasaki, 58, passed
product
away and then, the proposal must re- ning to make a trial
re almost 80 per cent of the
ra. “Thanks to machinery, we on May 5th, 1978 at Health Sci­ ceive approval of Japan’s parli- using the system developed by
1.13 million citizens already lived
don’t need to depend on oxen ence Centre.
the teacher,
Yoshiaki Chinzei,
ament.
in congested., polluted urban ar­
anymore, either. But it’s very A Nisei, Mr. Sasaki was born
A Japanese decision to adopt 46, of Kita Ward here.
eas. The population movement is
difficult to change the women’s in Vancouver, British Columbia, Candu nuclear technology^ even
According to Chinzei, the new
also an indication of an increased
thinking.”
and had lived in Winnipeg since only for two reactors, would re­ type air conditioner was deve­
sense of mobility among women
Many of Hakkaido’s 213 com­ 1942. He was a Veteran, of World present a major export success. loped by the application of the
in rural
Japan,
traditionally
munities organized
committees War II. He was a Past Presid­
The Candu system
uses na­ theory that gas absorbs surrounthis nation’s most conservative
of men to combat the local de­ ent of the West Kildonan Kiwa- tural uranium for fuel and hea­ ding heat when it turns into liarea.
arth of potential wives. But no­ nis Club, Past President of the vy water to control the nuclear quid.
In underdeveloped Hokkaido,
ne could’ handle the problem on Manitoba
A pipe of water is mounted
Japanese
Canadian reaction and transfer heat for
an island that is generally, con­
an island-wide scale. So the Ho­ Citizens Association, a former producing steam and electricity. on top of the car and the water
sidered Japan’s last frontier, the
kkaido Farmland Bride Liaison West
Kildonan Councillor and U.S. reactors use enriched fuel heated by the sun will be sent
total population held remarkably
Bureau was formed to deal with was a City
into a box in the car. Then the
of Winnipeg Co­ and light water.
steady in the last decade at 5.4
liquid
this labor problem.
Much of Japan’s nuclear fuel heated water vaporizes
uncillor when Unicity was form­
million. But the island’s
rural
inside
Throughout urban Japan the ed. He was also a Citizen Mem­ for its 14 existing reactors ori- ammonia absorbs heat
population dropped sharply by
group places want ads and dis- ber of the. Winnipeg Convention gin ate s in Canada, but is enri- the car when it turns back into
600,000 to 1.6 million while Ho­
ched in the U.S.
Centre.
kkaido’s cities grew by the saCont. on Page 2

OTOEOHO, Japan. — “Want­
ed: 8,000 brides for 8,000 grooms.
Young women must be willing
to work hard in house and fields.
Daily cooking. Also
husband’s
bath preparation. Desire for ma­
ny children imperative. Must be
Tespecteful of and obedient to
in-laws. Taste for long winters
away from town
preferable.
One-way airfare provided. Flu­
ent Japanese required.
Apply
Hokkaido * Farmland Bride Liai. son Bureau.”

"Kaze No Ko" Japanese Children's Theatre
To Tour Nation on Canada Council Grant

Jpn. To Install Two Candu Reactors

Solar Cooling

Former Nisei
Councillor Dies

t
■•s

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Friday, May 19, 1978

PAGE 1

Coach

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ing course. He coached several high schools teams with great
■success before taking the reins
for the Yashica women’s team in
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Brides
tributes posters in . a “Japanese
gothic- style” 'showing a farmer
holding a pitchfork and standing
by a barn. There is no wife with
him, however, and. the' title says
“Why don’t you come and sweat with us in Hokkaido ?”

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care if she’s beautiful or tall,;
but a wife would be more fun
to work and -talk with.”
.So far, Ichihara remains alone in his field, but another 30Kayear-old farmer, Toshiaki
gecihika, doesn’t. Three years
ago ’ while working winters in a
southern factory he met a 22year-old Tokyo school
teacher
named Yoshiko. Their letters built a ^relationship until Kagechika asked the farm association
to send . someone . with him to
Tokyo to arrange their, marria­

(Recently, the committee paid
all the expenses for a women's
magazine reporter to travel he­
re to write about all the eligib­
le husbands available in
one
town. Some farm association off­
icials are sent south to address
large, gatherings of single fe­
male textile workers in big ci­ ge. "
ties. The airfares for some city • Married last March,' they live
women are paid to live ' for a with his parents in a modern
month or 'so on a farm where sixroom house with a. freezerf
they ask locally shocking ques- console television, microwave otions like “What is hay?”
ven and spring water. They- own
unmarried •a truck, a car, two combines and
Large groups of
women are--even flown to Hokka­ share a tractor, with six other
ido in group tours to see the families.
sights and, almost by
chance,
From her mother-in-law, the
drop in a rural campfire where young bride is learning all about
a large group' of unmarried far­ farm life’ including' the blisters.
mers has happened to
gather. “Compared to my life in
the
“It is a very successful strate­ old days,” said the elder Mrs.
gy;,” said Masao Hashimoto, the Kagechika, “hers is a paradise.”
bride bureau’s director, who is At busy times 'the family rises
married.
at 5 a.m. and works
until 5
In three years the bureau has p.ih. except for lunch, which the
arranged 54 marriages.
Other new wife must make. - .
local groups have arranged anot­
(She must also make dinner and
her 700. But that is just a drop prepare hot baths for the others.
in the milk bucket compared to “I have a Ibt to learn so I expec­
the 8,000 farm' bachelors
the ted being a farmer’s wife was
bureau counts on the island.
tough work,” said ; the
young

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Friday* May 19, 1978

[ Dates & Doings ] Jpnz. Women’s
J.C. Community Picnic Slated July 2

Personal Notes Across Canada*

Dormitories
Said “Feudal”

SASAKI
NISHIMURA
TORONTO. —- One of the many highlights of the Centennial
Celebration was the Centennial Picnic held at Petticoat
Creek
TORONTO. — Mrs. Haru Ni­ WINNIPEG, Man. — Mr. Willi­
By
BOB
HORIGUCHI
Park in Toronto on July 1st when over 3500 people attended the
shimura, beloved wife of
the am Hozumi' Sasaki, 58, passed
event. Due to many inquiries, regarding another picnic this year,
TOKYO. — Parents' with da- late Setaro Nishimura,
passed away at Health Science Centre,
the Picnic Committee had met again to plan the Toronto Japanese
on May 5th, 1978, beloved hus­
Community Picnic to be held at Petticoat Creek Park on July 2, ughters living, in Tokyo’s univer­ away at West Park Hospital on
band of Allan Hanae Sasaki (nee
1978, The Committee extends a . warm invitation to everyone'to ma- sity dormitories have Little re­ May 6, 1978.
; ke plans to attend another “Get Together”^ Please watch for fur- ason to worry about their wel­ 1 Dear mother of George, Sid, Fujii) of West Kildonan, Man.
■— G. Takahashi, Chairman'; fare. The discipline in most of Maise, Marg (Mrs. Mack Oika­
His father predeceased him in
ther news .,
addition to
them is still almost feudal; says wa), Kim (Mrs. Fred Tanaka), 1933. Surviving in
the Sunday Mainichi.
Eddie, John T. and Joe. Survi­ his loving wife. Allan, are a son,
Ryan W. and
daughter-in-law,
Take for instance the Showa ved by 15 grandchildren.
of Winnipeg,
Women’s University in Setagaya
Earle, Elliott Funeral Home. Patricia Sasaki
TORONTO. — The internationally known LITTLE SINGERS Ward. The cuifew
there is 7 Funeral service at Toronto Bud­ three daughters, Elaine and sonOF TOKYO plans a two-day concert at the JCC Centre on the p.m. on weekdays and 9 p.m. on dhist Church. Interment
Pros- in law Ted Keating of Vancou­
11th and 13th of August, and at the Ontario Place on the 12th. As
ver, Janet and son-in-law, Don
one commentator of the Globe and Mail puts it after their concert weekends. Moreover, there is a pect Cemetery.
Hagan of Winnipeg, and Miss
at the Eaton Auditorium in 1964, “Ensemble, attack, balance, blend, bed check every night.
*
*
*
Dianne Sasaki of Winnipeg, his
At Kyoritus Women’s Univer­
all displayed the group’s high accompli
while tonal quality
OHASHI
'
mother, Mrs. Taki Sasaki of Wi­
was glorious — and far more mature and developedi than in other sity, located in central Tokyo,
TORONTO. — Mr. Kiyotaro nnipeg, three grandchildren, two
children’s choirs.”
the dormitory doors close at 10
For further inquiry, call Mr. Harry Kumano (465-3964) — JCCC. . p.m. But any student coming in Ohashi passed away on May 5, brothers, Roy Sasaki of Toronto,
| after 9:30 p.m. has to report to 1978 at St. Michael’s. Hospital Harry Sasaki of Winnipeg, two
sisters, Mrs. Elsie Nishi of Win­
the house-mother’s office. Any in his 96th year.
Beloved husband of the late nipeg, and Mrs. Ruth Usami of
girl who stays out later than
Loving’ • father of Toronto.
10 p.m. three times is summarily Kiwa Ohashi.
Robert Seizo Harue (Mrs. K.
TORONTO. — Participating in-this year’s (the fifth) educa­ expelled from the dormitory.
Funeral service at Thomson
tional trip to Japan by graduating’ students of the Toronto Japa­
(Mrs. M. Funeral Ohapel on May 8th with
The same applies at the Shi­ Mori), Jean Kiseko
nese Language School are Yoshiteru Aoki, Mikiko Hamade, Kazu­
Riyeko ‘ the Rev. Dr. Reid E. Vipond and
Frances
Nakamura),
rayuri
Women

s
University,
but
ko Hashida, Takakazu Hashida, Sachiko Hikida, Misuzu Horii,
;■Nishimura)I, Betty the Rev. Y. Masaki officiating. ,
Nobuyoshi Koyata, Yuko Koyata,- Hiroshi Mori, Kumiko Nishize- here the parents of the deliq- (Mrs. e.
ki, Hiromi Wakabayashi, and Hatsuo Yamamoto. The students uent are called in and asked to Matsuko (Mrs. T.H. Ebata). Lo­ Interment Brookside Cemetery.
an d
ved by 10 grandchildren
will be accompanied by Hiroko Kawano, teacher and trip leader; take their daughter home.
Yasuko Horii, treasurer, and her husband, George, who is going
curfew two great-grandchildren.
The punishment for
as parent representative. '
CARD OF THANKS
Home.
Earle Elliott Funeral
violators at the Bunka UniverAfter arriving in Japan by Japan Air Lines, the students
Services at Toronto
Buddhist
We wish to express
our
will visit Tokyo, Kanagawa, the Noritake and Toyota factories in sity is based on a rule establiChurch. Prospect Crematorium .
sincere thanks and apprecia­
Nagoya, Tenri City in Nara, and Nishi' Honganji temple in Kyoto. shed by the Tokugawa Shogution to our many friends and
■ They are travelling with a trip-to-Japan group departing Toronto nate. to maintain order in Yedo,
on July 11th and .returning’ on August 10th. The group still has as Tokyo was then called. On
relatives for their support and
NOBUTO
a number of seats available for general participants, so anyone the premise that responsibility
kind words, koden, telegrams,
TORONTO.

Mrs.
Fuyu
Nowishing to travel with this group is advised to contact Furuya
floral tributes and donations
rests only with the
individual buto passed away
peacefully
(363-0655) as soon as possible.
—- J.L.S.
to the Ontario Heart Founda­
but also with neighbors, the de­ on May 5, 1978 at York Finch
tion during the recent loss of
linquent’s roommates are also me­ Hospital. Beloved wife of Ka­
our dear Husband,
Father,
ted out punishment. This usually zu ta Nobuto. Loving
mother
Brother and Uncle, J ack Ni­
consists in cleaning out lavatori­ of Mickey, Harry, Jim,
Eric
shizaki. Thanks, also, to Rev.
es for one week, according to and Kimiko (Mrs. T. Sato). De­
TORONTO. — “Education, of Immigrant Children” will be. the
T. Moriki who officiated the
topic for a public forum' to be held at Regent Park (42 Blevins the magazine.
ar sister of Setsuko
(Mrs. K.
funeral service.
At the Tokyo and Nihon Wo­
Place) on Sunday, May 21 at 3:00 p.m.
Ryoji) and two sisters in Japan.
Marion Nishizaki & Verne
Sponsored by the Metro Ad. Hoc "Cross Cultural Alliance, this men’s universities discipline is Also survived by six
grandHarry & Rosemary Nishi­
event is an opportunity for dl parents and concerned persons to carried out by a boarders’ self- children.
become better informed .about a matter that touches all residents government body. Infractions of
zaki,
Earle Elliott Funeral Home.
I the rules usually result in addi­
Taz Nishizaki
of Metropolitan. Toronto.
Funeral service at Toronto Jational
house-cleaning
chores.
Joe & Yumi Nishizaki
Moderator of the Panel will be Esla Richards, a teacher of
panesc United Church.' Intern­
the Toronto Board: of Education who has taught in many schools ; The gates are locked at 1.1:15 ment' at Resthaven
George & Yuri Nishizaki
Memorial
in this area. Panelists include (Myrna Marston, parent, and Execu­ p.m. at the Tsuda 'Women’s collRoy & Minnie Nishizaki
Gardens.
tive Director, Regent Park Community Improvement Association; ; ege located in distant Kodaira
Mr. & Mrs. T. Wakabayashi
Mitsuru Yamashita, past Principal of Kokugo Kyoshitsu Japanese City. Here those arriving late
Mare & Emy Fujii
language school for new Japanese 'immigrant children, and past
have
to
scale
a
two-meter-high
Mori & Yuriko Higa
presidenit, iShin Ijusha Kyokai (New Japanese Canadian Associ­
Mr. & Mrs. Y. Tsukayama
ation); Chris Antoniou, Social Worker with the Toronto Board wall, an exercise in which they
of Education .and Board Director, Greek Community Metropolitan frequently ask the taxi driver
Mr. & Mrs. Archie Shimoda
Toronto; and John Buttrick, professor of economics, York University, who drives them back to college
Nieces and Nephews
author of a recent study of the economic environment of Toronto se­ to help with. The drivers
are
proprietor
condary schools;
always delighted to comply, adds
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Friday, May 19, 197 8

CANA DIAN

Japanese Farmer to Brazil Advises
Would-be Immigrants on 70th Year

The Nishijima Kendo
Equipment Shop

By PATRICIA MASSY
settle down but had not been ded with each other, the first
time I met my wife was at the,
able to make it.
Yatsushiro, Kumamoto' Prefec­
While majoring in
Spanish, time of wedding.”
ture. Behind the stone embank­
Shiraishi belonged to- an immi­
His marriage turned out to be ment that borders the river flogration study group at Taku- a happy one- as he said confi­ wing through this former castle
shoku Univ, in Tokyo to “pre­ dently, “I am very grateful to town stands a string of weath­
For the first time in two de­ pare himself for immigration to my spouse, for she has never ered wooden houses. With dark
ol d
Yoshitake South America.”
cades, 44-year
uttered ah unhappy word during latticed windows arid * kimono
He
left
for
Brazil
in
Februa
­
Shiraishi has returned on a twoour married life, in spite of the night clothes sunning over - the
railing upstairs, they present a
month stay to advise some of ry 1958 with several others un­ hardship we faced there.”
the people who may have plans der 'the sponsorship of the Kotia
About 500 Kotia immigrants scene hardly changed from the
Youth Immigration Organization
to settle in a foreign land.
dwelled
out of the total of 2056 are we­ time samurai families
(KYIO) which consisted of the
- “People shouldn’t
come
to
dded to Japanese after getting within.
Kotia industrial, cooperative- in
As if to give credence to this
Brazil just because the situati­
acquainted with each other thro­
Brazil and a Japanese agricult^
on here has become bad. An im­
ugh exchanges of letters
and .impression,--a simple sign in bla­
ural cooperative.
migrant must be determined ab­
photographs, according to Shira­ ck sumi in front of one of the
A total of 2506 bachelors be­
houses states Nishijima Kendo
out what he wants to do there,”
ishi.
tween the ages of 18 and
27
Equipment Shop.
And every
Shiraishi told a Japan Tinies re­
Shiraishi reminisces about the
went across the .Pacific to settle
morning Shigeru Nishijima, stri­
porter.
time when he had to live in a
down in Brazil as Kotia immigpped to the waist but otherwise
Regarding his own motives to
shabby house with a mud wall
outfitted in the kendo uniform,
rant farmers during* the 1955—
leave Japan, the visitor
said
and using only a kerosene lamp.
1961 period.
goes through the exercise of Ja­
he aspired to go to Brazil un­
“Of course, I had worries and panese fencing just outside.
In 1964, when Shiraishi beca­
der the influence of his father
me an independent farmer, he a "touch .of self-pity about myNow, 57, Nishijima started to
who had wanted to go there to
But
I
knew
I
married a
Japanese
national self at the time.
learn the art of making the pro­
could
endure
any
hardship
after
through a meeting arranged by
tective. covering worn for Japa­
shortage
experiencing
the
food
his friends.
nese fencing practice when he
“Although we had correspoii- during the World War II,” Shi- was_13 years old. The first year
raishi said.
as an apprentice he did nothing
TOKYO. — A Japanese far­
mer to Brazil recently revisited
his native land on the occasion
of the 70th anniversary of immigration to the South American
nation.

earlier
the
Compared with
immigration,
■days of Japanese
greatly
“Our status today has
improved,” he added.

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but running errands, housecle­
aning, doing the laundry, and in
general being bossed around by
the two elder apprentices. “Fi­
nally, at one or two at night I‘d
find myself falling asleep in the
toilet,” recalls Nishijima. “I con­
tinued because I liked kendo, but
looking back, I don’t know how
I got through.”

“We are now accepted by the
community at large and are now
in
playing an important role
?
society.”
272 LAWRENCE AVE. W.
SUITE 103,
now
Shiraishi and his wife
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own 87.5 acres 'of land in south­
1201 Boor St. W.
PHONE 783-8422
Finishing his
training
did
west. Sao Paulo wher they ma­
Toronto, Ont.
532-4267 J
Home 449-9293
nage a combined vineyard and not biing an end to difficulties,
however. Soon came the war, and
chicken farming.
“I see a great improvement in after than an 8-year ban on Ja­
the housing, particularly in the panese martial arts. Nishijima
rural areas. I also' notice that had to work instead at such pl­
Ex-Internees are requested to attend a special meeting
the difference in living
stand­ aces as a soy sauce factory.
to formulate plans for a Reunion to be held later in the year.
His wife Makiko laughs and
ards between the cities and' out­
DATE: MAY 30, 1978
7:30 P.M.
lying areas has been greatly says she had never even heard
of kendo before they got marr­
PLACE: JAPANESE CANADIAN CULTURAL CENTRE
reduced?
The Kotia immigration prog­ ied. When the go-between had
Additional information may be obtained from:
ram, having- been halted in 1961, told her that Nishijima was a
Glen Kawano 755-2732, Yoshikazu Kimura 364-9094; Ki­
may be resumed on the
70th maker of kendo equipment, she
so Sora 444-8373, Hideo Takahashi 461-4961.
anniversary by Shiraishi. As. ma- thought it had to do with prefe­
ny' as 300 Japanese youths, wi­ ctural roads, which also are call­
th experience in
agriculture, ed kendo.
One must admire her great
may be sponsored.
faith in marrying someone with
After four years on the farm,
such an obscure occupation. Fathey may become
independent
and start their own . business,
Shiraishi explained.

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Unilke the prewar immigrati­
on in which ordinary labor hands
were mostly supplied to make
up for work shortage, what is
needed today are skilled
and
knowledgeable
techniciians, he
continued.


Brazil is still a young country
but with a lot of potential. It’s
a big country, Shiraishi enthus­
ed. His sun-tanned face beamed.
“Anyone who has his
own
dream and a strong will to en­
dure can make it here.”
“Go to Brazil” type of pro­
jects have been continuous since
the early days of the 1930s.

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ith was about ‘ all they had to
live on in those years. Makiko,
being a dressmaker,
actually
was., contributing the
greater
share of the family’s
income.
Wfh two children to take care
of as well, she worked herself to
a state of physical collapse. It
is only in the past 15 years thatthey have both been able to de­
vote their full time to the ken­
do costume.

Despite her initial ignorance
of kendo, Makiko is now a skil­
led craftsman in her own right.
Perhaps her training as a seam­
stress has been an advantage in
learning the fine stitchwork., A
good kendo outfit is completely
handmade. -Not only are the se­
ams handsewri, the greater part
of the outfit is covered with mi­
nute quilting. The fineiSt stitch­
ing is made at intervals of only
one ' “bu,” which
equals four
millimeters. This is applied to
the cuff of the gloves ' (kote),
making them as stiff as card­
board.
- .„
The outer material is indigodyed cotton backed with wool,
cotton wadding, and felt. From
the original thickness of
four
centimeters, these four
layers
are compressed to less than one
centimeter by the quilting. Both
the Nishijimas have scars
on
their fingers, souvenirs of the
many times the needle slipped.
Although they may be very sm­
all scars, the samurai who once
lived in their house-would have
been proud of the perserverance
they signify.

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