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On Being Japanese. >.

Kathy Uyeyama of Toronto, Eastern National JCCA Essay Contest Winner
The following essay-by Kathy that the Nisei experience encomUyeyama of Toronto was • the passes a true fight, a struggle, an
National JCCA Eastern Canada • intense, upstream desire to obtain
winner of the Japan Air .Lines ; that freedom I have and have alEssay Contest. She along with ways had. The Nisei experience
Western Canada winner ; Sally is really a valuable lesson an the
Sue Nakauchi (published here J struggle for human rights. It is
earlier) won a trip to Japan and a lesson that all Canadians should
$1,000 for expenses. Judges for be educated to know about. It
the essay were 1 Mr. Mel Tsuji, could happen again.
welbknown CBC newsman, Rick
If I have gained anything from
Matsumoto, Mr. Bob Mukai, edu­ my Japanese Canadian heritage,
cationist from Richmond, B.C., if I have gained anything at all,
and Mrs. Susumu Chiba, acade­ it would be my high value of
mician from Vancouver.
freedom, colour blindness, hatred

and the evacuation had taught
them that being different dbsen’t
work, being different gets you
spat upon. .So, to insure their
place in Canadian society, the
Nisei began to camouflage them­
selves, They began to blend into
white Canadian lifestyles, they
began measuring their status on
a Canadian scale. They camoufl­
aged their Japaheseness in their
clothing, jobs names,
lifestyle,
mannerisms .habits, values, view­

points and even their children,
the >Sansei.
In fact, the Nisei, for the most
part, have “bananas”: yellow on
the outside, white on the inside.
They had been bruised by the
trauma of their experience and
camouflage themselves as banan­
as, “bruised bananas.” Of course
this analogy does not apply to
all Nisei. Tt applies to some Issei
and iSansei as well. The “150 per­
cent Canadian banana” hides all

labels that even hint at “Made in
Japan”. “It is better to assimilate
than to be different.” •
“It is impossible to access the
psychological effects of the eva­
cuation on the Nisei. Many, like
members of other ethnic minori­
ties, have come to be hypersensi­
tive on the subject of prejudice
and are quick to assume discrimi­
nation where none is intended.
Cont. on Page 2

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THE NEW CANADIAN

of bigotry and discrimination in
any form and a great tolerance
and appreciation of a cultural and
By KATHY UYEYAMA
racial mosaic in Canada today. If
An Independent Organ for Canadians of Japanese Origin
a similar incident like the Nisei
experience occurs again, I know
VOL. 42
NO. 59
FRIDAY, AUGUST 11, 1978
TORONTO, ONTARIO
I will have the political
con­
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from that of the Issei or the San­ share in doing something about
sei. Perhaps the experienec can it. If I have learned anything at
be viewed in the light of freedom. all from the fact that I am Ja­
The Sansei are free from intense panese Canadian, it would be the
discrimination not having gone keen awareness of what happened
through the War, the evacuation. to freedom during the Nisei and
.
'
TORONTO. — Glen Michibata the offensive.”
The Sansei lives in a society that Issei experience. I have learned
“He was coming to. the net
is not overtly or destructively that freedom, in order to keep it of Toronto came within one set
bigoted towards the Japanese. The a tangible thing for all, must be । of winning the West Berlin ju­ and he hit the ball! real hard. He
plays a lot like Bjorn Borg.”
Issei, on ifhe other hand, once fought for. One must strive to j nior tennis tournament, recently,
Michibata was the most im­
losing 3-6, 6-3, 6-1 in the final
knew freedom from racism in maintain freedom.
to top-seeded Hans Simmonson pressive Canadian. Scouts in at­
Japan. (It was only once they had
The year is now 1977, the Cen­
tendance were surprised to learn
established themselves in Canada tennial of the Japanese in Can­ of Sweden.
Michibatay later teamed with Michibata had two years rema­
and had problems assimilating ada. The evacuation prejudice,
Wostenholme ining as a junior, coach Dave
that discrimination was encoun­ Powell Street, the Asahi team, Ottawa’s Martin
Wightman of Vancouver said af­
WASHINGTON. — Nobuhiko
tered. The Nisei, however, for the the labour camps, and the ghost to take the -doubles title with a
ter the tournament.
Ushiba, Japan’s
. Minister of
majority, were born without the town settlements are all a ghost 7-6, 7-6 victory over the West
In the doubles
competition State for External Economic Af­
German pair of Beutel and Zits.
kind of freedom the Sansei take memory now. It is now the pre­
Wostenholme and Michibata sa­ fairs and former Ambassador to
for granted. The hakujin friends sent, not the past. How do the Both events were in’ the highiled through the tournament wit­ Canada, was selected to receive
with whom they, associated with Nisei-feel about their experience calibre under-18, Class A age
groups, even though both Cana­ hout losing a set, defeating the the Japanese American Citizens
and associated themselves with now?
dians are eligible for under-16 top-ranked Swedish players in League Mike.M. Masaoka Distin­
‘“spat on them anyway.” Why an
Assimilation. Sociologist Toyo­
the semi-finals before topping the guished Public Service Award, at
“enemy alien of Canada” .if you masa Fuse points out an interes­ tournaments,
Although the
After winning the first set West German team.
twenty-fifthBiennial
were born, felt, thought and be­ ting fact that the Nisei prefer
by playing aggressively in the each set went to a tie-breaker National Convention of the Lea­
haved Canadian ? "The Nisei grew to go by their English first na­
singles competition,
Michibata in the final match, the Canadian gue in Salt Lake City, Utah.
up in a .fettering, closed, bigoted mes or an Anglicized ^version of
changed his style to a defensive duo maintained control to win.
• He was cited “for his years
society not knowing what free­ their Japanese name (Mas, Tosh,
Michibata
"and
Wostenholme
game and Simmonson took ad­
of dedicated and inspired service,
dom, freedom to be an individual, Yosh, Shiz, etc.) while the Frenleft
recently
with
the
five-man
vantage and attacked.
first as an official of the Forsocial, cultural freedom, freedom ch-Canadians, one the other hand,
team
for ign Ministry, then as
“I was pushing the play in Canadian under-16
Japan’s
to be! what-you want to be. Quite have stubbornly and consciously
the first set,” Michibata said, Luxemburg on a 15-hour train Ambassador to the United Sta­
touching is ^George Tanaka’s’ first maintained the use of French fi­
“but Simmonson changed
his trip from West Berlin to comp­ tes, and now as Minister for Ex­
■encounter with “freedom”:
rst names.
style. He was really
forcing ete in the Becker Cup.
ternal
Economic
Affairs, to

The
history
of
the
civil
rights
“1 i’emember coming out of the
me. I never got a chance to take
promote trade, cooperation, and
Union Station (Toronto) and struggle in the United,.- States
goodwill between
the
United
going across the street to Mur­ and the concentration camp expiStates and Japan for
mutual
ray’s Restaurant. A waitress erence of the Japanese-Canadibenefit, prosperity, and peace of
came up to me and said, “What ans during the last war are pain­
both nations, as well as of all
nationality are you?” I said, ful reminders to us all of this
mankind.”
tragedy. Many Japanese-Canadi“I a m a Japanese Canadian,”’
. LOS ANGELES. — Jack Soo came out of it, hale and hearty.
“Since trade and economic re­
and she said, “Oh, I have never ans went overboard^ to the “150 is about to begin his fifth sea­ But it was touch-and-go for
lations are among the most dif­
percent Canadian” to no avail. son in Hollywood on television’s awhile.
met a Japanese person before.”
ficult problems now confronting
Then I remember walking up In time of crisis, they were sim­ “Barney Miller.”
“I wouldn’t have made it with­
United States — Japan relations,
Bay Street —- it was a cold, ply “Japs” to the Anglo-Europe­
But he may not have, had he out my wife’s strength,”
says'
and since Japanese American re­
sleety day — and realizing I an groups.”
not survived a bout with lung Soo with much emotion. He has
lations are one of the main it­
Toyomasa Fuse
could go where I wanted withcancer earlier this year.
“I’m been married for 35 years
to
ems on the forthcoming agenda
After the war, the Nisei, felt a lucky to be walking again,” says the former Yugoslavian model
out having to report to any­
for the National Convention, we
body or ask permission or get a new, regained freedom. After the 61-year old Soo whose name in Jan Zdeler, the King Features
think that the selection of Mi­
permit for anything II felt like trauma of War and discriminator private life is Jack Goro Suzuki. Syndicate article in the Fresno
nister Nobuhiko Ushiba is a most
the
shouting out, “I’m free, I’m ry rejection from society,
East January, the Nisei actor Bee TV Magazine reveals.
appropriate one, especially sin­
' ' free.” Then I understood what Nisei, in order to protect that who plays the role of Detective
The ordeal was
almost too ce he has been so dedicated and
newly found freedom, assimila­ Yemana in “Barney Miller” fini­
freedom meant.
much for Mrs. Soo before Jack
devote to the cause of freer
Janice Patton, The Exodus of ted into the mainstream of Cana­ shed taping a segment, and qui­
bounced back; but between the and more expansive trade rela­
dian society to establish “new etly checked Ito a hospital two
the Japanese
surgeon, and his wife and their tions between our two countries.
Being -Sansei, I have taken my roots”. The Nisei no longer wan­ days later for surgery.
Apparently, none the worse, he
own freedom for granted. I realize ted to appear different. The War
Cont. on Page 2
Cont. on Page 2
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PART TWO

Toronto Sansei Top Canadian
in European Jr. Tennis Tour

Jack Soo Back on ‘Barney Miller’

Former
Amb. to
Canada Is
Masaoka
Awardee

Page 2

Friday, August 11, 1978

PAGE I

Suzuki.

Cont. from Page 1

Cont. from Page 1

kids, a rooting “Barney Miller”
squadrons of well-wishers, Soo
couldn’t give up.
Son of a tailor, who taught
himself English by reading bo­
oks, Jack Suzuki grew up in to­
ugh West Oakland, the
only
person of Japanese ancestry at
the time.
It was tlhe inspiration' receiv­
ed at the age of 14 when Jack
won an oratorical contest, sponsored- by the Japanese American
Citizens League, that the lowkey comedian decided to' get into,
show business. He said he was
hooked by the' applause.
He finished Oakland Technical
High School, then went on to
the Univ, of , Calif, at Berkeley.
He occasionally found nightclub
work. But when World War II'
started, he and -his family were
put behind barbed
wire at a
Utah internment camp.
While beginning an acting career in New York after the war,
he changed his name to
Soo.

Then came the Korean conflict
and Suzuki discovered his " name
sounded “too much Like a Kore an.”
He returned to his family name of Suzuki.
Cast in the Rodgers-Hammer“Flower
Drum
stein musical,
Song,” he understudied the star
Larry Blyden and eventually be­
came hero Sammy Fong.
Again, Suzuki had name-tro­
uble. This time, his costar was a
lady by the name of Pat Suzu­
ki, and two iSuzukis were just
too- much.
“I milked ‘Flower Drum Song’
for the next 16 years,” Soo ad­
mitted, putting three
.children
through college with the pay­
checks from theatre versions, the
movie and shortened Las Vegas
editions.
It. was : in the famed. Gambling
Strip that “Barney Miller’s” Da­
ny Arnold first spotted iSoo, -and
decided to use the star
some
day.

Others increasingly have come to
share the prejudices of the majo­
rity or at least a relatively un­
conscious aversion, to members
of particular ethnic groups aga­
inst Jews, Chinese, blacks, Indi­
ans -— but that is not unusal in a
society which has~ historically
proclaimed the superiority of spe­
cific ethnic groups over others
and has articulated comprehen­
sive and coherent ideologies of
racism. “Scratch a Nisei and you
will find a WASP,” it’s often
claimed. But the' memories
of
their incarceration in the British
Columbia camps remain an in­
delible scar which is generally
carefully concealed from the pu­
blic eye, puzzling researchers and
Sansei who find Nisei reluctant
to talk of the past.”

nese in Canada ? JWell, the young
people those born here, are alre­
ady Canadian in the way - they
think. That is not necessarily a
bad thing for them. And there as
so much marrying with the whi­
te people today. As is said, Wh­
en the river enters the sea, the
muddy water mixes with the sea
and is gone.”
Koizumi-Knight, A Man Of Our

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Cont. from Page 1
type and will not settle for the
There can be no peace and pro­
short, ugly, unconfident, clumsy,
sperity in the Pacific, or in the
arrogant (Oriental man that we
world for that matter,
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are all plagued with.
there is mutually beneficial tra­
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de and commerce between the
“We sansei, most sansei, do not
United States and Japan
and
feel Japanese or know what is
with other nations,” Chairman
meant
by

feeling
Japanese

.
We
Ken Adachi, The Enemy That
Kaz Oshiki of the Selection Co­
j wonder what it must be Like to
Never was,
mmittee declared ii announcing
I feel Japanese, when we look at
the 1978, honoree of the JACL
The analogy of the “150 per
old photographs of our grand­
Mike M. Masaoka Distinguished
cent Canadian” .banana does tie
parents. The pictures, like our
Public Service Award.
in and explains some of the iss'
grandparents, the issei, are1 fa­
ues ad problems involved with
ding away. Maybe when both ha­
the Sansei experience and the
ve disappeared, we will not be
Sansei’s need to search for his
troubled by this problem of our
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Hamilton Bon Odori On August 13th
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SUMMER [HOLIDAY
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’ From July 24 to Aug. '8, 1978
Gont. From Page 2
are very aware of their Japanesecanadian heritage. Others aga­
in may have had negative expe­
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and have turned away from it.
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individual one. There is less of a
cohesive community force in the
case of the Sanseis than there
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good number of miles, had turned into a country road. It wasn’t
J am not .saying that all San­
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■ After this brisk workout led by Ken Noma of the ANNEX,
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the mediately and as much as possi­
1
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TORONTO. -— Perfect; weather prevailed over Toronto for
the Toronto Buddhist Church Obon weekend — cemetery visita- own “Sansei experience” that aw­
■tions in the morning, Obon Odori in the- evening, Bon Services areness of one’s cultural heritaSunday morning and* afternoon — July 8th and 9th respectively. I ge, awareness of one’s “roots”,
Close to 3,000.enthusiastic onlookers stood and applauded as ’; awareness that a lot of what you
Omatsuri Ondo revealed the 4 lines of odorikos dancing in uni-t
' are as a person communicates
son. It was a sight to see as the 4 leaders in their new kimonos
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and dipping gracefully.
ing Japanesecanadian can only |
Before the dancing began in earnest. Rev. Yu jo Omori add­ enrich one’s identity, expand one s
ressed the throng followed immediately by Bon Odori Uta in
dedication to the deceased. Kotobuki Ondo was the third number self-knowledge.
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My own “Sansei experience”
— this congratulatory dance 'being specially dedicated to a FuPhone 531-1931 Toronto
jinkai member, Mrs. Tomi Kitamura, who was in her 25th year therefore, is unique, different in
of bon odori dancing. Nippon Bon Uta, a gay number, Non Noko content from the experiences of
Bushi, Nippon Daiko and Manmaru Ondo followed in quick succ­
ession; The first portion ended on a snappy note, with Minami other individual Sanseis. My fat­
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No Hanya, Saigo Takamori, a new number for this year.
Teenagers from Sakura Kai took the stage next with Yagi Vancouver Island, Nanaimo. My
Bushi, followed by dancers from Haruyagi Kai with Sakura Sa- Mother however, is an immigrant
kura. Finishing-off the stage dances was Saikai No Himatsun or an Issei from Japan. From
Ondo performed by 15 dancers from the Toronto Buddhist Church.
my Father I have learned ab­
(This was a beautiful dance utilizing 2 different coloured scarves
and as they were waved in a circular motion, the effect was a out the “Nisei experience”; from
my Mother, I understand what
firey torch. .
Please send (
) Copies of the Story of Manzo Nagano
- JSecond part of this year’s, bon odori began with 4 straight it is like to be an immigrant in
and Issei Pioneers at $8.00 Per Copy, 50c for Mailing
lines of amigasa and tasukied odorikos — teenagers and admits Canada.
only. The immediate impression left on the spectators was very
I grew up in a traditionally
NAME
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Japanese-structured household. A
big winner.
ADDRESS
Bayashi,
Tambourines made their appearance in Nippon
__
.... follo-, typical household in Japan would
wed by Idagoro Odori, Taiko Odori and -Bamba Odon, the final consist of a tight-knit family
number .before ;the spectator participation numbers being YosaEnclosed is a money order or postal note for (--------- ) copy of
with the grandparents living to­
The Story of Manzo Nagano and Issei Pioneers.
koii Naruko Odori.
, ,
,
.Quite a-large number of the spectators had been at the To- gether with their children’s fa­
Address to and send payable to:
kyo Pavillion during Metro Caravan and they eagerly jumped in mily. It would also notbe unusu­
take nart in Tanko Bushi, (Goshu Ondo and finally Chowa Ondo al to find uncles, aunts, cousins
MR. KEN MORI,
to end the evening with a bang over the half hour of entertain-, and other “adopted” members of
c/o THE NEW CANADIAN PUBLISHER,
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ment.
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CONT. ON P. 4

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PAGE 4

Cont. from P. 3
creatively authentic Japaneseca- ( regurgitating things like “Ohayo- I tional Japanese family structure.
Well, I grew up in a huge, old
gozaimasu” or “yakamashi!” or ! Because the Japanese family
house which encompassed
my nadian dishes” such as “osushi
,rs structure differs from that of
years
Jichan and Bobbie on the first with Kentucky Fried Chiken”, “ibakatare.” Those seven
tsukemono of “Friday Frightnight” Japane-. Western cultures, my influences
floor, our family, my .uncle and “peanut-butter and
with se (homework with my’ Mother incorporate not just my parents
another Japanese couple on the sandwiches” or “hotdogs
threatening me with all sorts of but also my “adopted grand­
second floor my cousin and aunt miso and relish” could, cause so­
dubious things if I didn’t do it, parents”: Bobbie and Jichan, my
on the third floor. Our cats, bud­ me very odd reactions as well as
seemed like a tedious Hell at aunts, uncles, cousins and close
gie, fish, and plants resided on sickened palates fron- non-Japatimes. Kids always sat at the friends as part of a culturally
all floors. (Another uncle, aunt nesecanadians.
Japanese was the predominant back of the room shooting elastic reinforcing mechanism.
and cousin lived directly across
The Japanese word “ie” incor­
bands or spitballs at the kids
the street). It was an extremely language spoken, although my
who knew more kanji than they porates and means three different
active, "vibrant and animated ho­ Father and uncles spoke -to me
did. Japanese school however, re­ Western ideas: the home, the
usehold. One could imagine a zoo in English and I played with my
mains a warm memory. It was household and the family. When
from my description but really, “hakujin” friends. In fact, thro­
fun. It was there that I first felt I speak of my “ie” or of growing
there was plenty of room in that ughout Kindergarten and Grade
a sense of community and com­ up within the structure of the
‘ huge, old house-room for every- 1, I was encountering language
mon bonds with other Japanese- traditional Japanese family, it
one. If a stranger should enter ■difficulties. My Grade 1 Teacher
canadians my own age. I am now therefore means that my home is
the house, he would get a taste wrote in my report card:
thankful my parents forced me my family, my family is my
of Japan as well as Canada. The
“This pupil has tried very hard
school. (I houseehold, my household: home.
of to improve her English. " This is to attend Japanese
house was an odd mixture
am not trying to write a Japa­
It is said that for the Japanese,
things Japanese and things not the only thing that holds
her
nese school valedictorian, speech “freedom is only felt when one
^Japanese. Bobbie loved to buy back in school; I feel af she were
here). When I think that now is either very old or very young.’
up antiques at auctions. All the fluent in English she could be at
I can still haphazardly blurt out There is truth in this statement.
furniture consisted of
various the top of the class .as -she.inca­
my thoughts in broken-Japanese I was the “very young,” the child.
antiques she had picked up at one pable and persistent. She
has to an Issei conversationalist or
As a child I had the freedom to
auction or another. It was not many. reading skills now and a
a lost Japanese tourist, I feel do what I wanted to do, to be
unusual however, to find cabinets reakin terest in books, and I know
that those seven long years of creative and free from the re­
of hand-crafted Japanese dolls in she will make good progress next
Japanese school was worth it.
sponsibilities, conventions and de­
the same room as the European year.”
Language is a means of- com­ mands of society. Bobbie and
antiques or to see a beautiful
By the time I finished Grade
municating; being able to pene­ Jichan were the ‘“very old.” They
hand-embroidered Japanese scre­
II, I could no longer speak Japa­
trate cultural barriers, generation were also free in the same sense
en behind the television set.
nese. To counteract this revoluti­
barriers and communicate with I was. There was abundant leisure
The parlour was a special room
onary assimilation, I was sent to
the Issei in their mother tongue time for myself, Bobbie and
always filled with friends who
every
Japanesecanadian
kid s
is really a valuable asset. I try Jichan. My mother was busy
had come over for the afternoon
nightmare, Japanese school.
and keep up with my Japanese teaching;, my father, uncles, aunts
treat of green tea with a slice
Every Saturday' morning for
and the other couple on the
as much as possible.
of chocolate cake or coffee with
the next seven years was spent
For my own experience, it was second floor (they were really
. semsbe or omanjyu. It never se­
with other kids whose parents had
the household, the feeling of fa­ adopted uncles and aunts since
emed odd to me then but going
forced them to learn Japanese so
milial closeness and sharing that they had no children of their
out on picnics and relishing such
that they too could come home
influenced me the most. For most own) were all busy working. Most
non-Japanese persons, the great­ of my time therefore, was spent
est influencing factor is that of playing with my cousin, playing
’ the parents. I cannot say how- with my friends and spending the
: ever, that my parents were the day with my Bobby and Jichan.

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