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Open Letter from Montreal to 1967 Donors for Authentic Japanese Garden
To: The New Canadian, 479
Queen St. W., Toronto, Ont.
By VIC iOGURA
An open letter to those who
donated towards the
establish­
ment of an authentic Japanese
Garden within .the Montreal Bo-,
tanical Garden, in
celebration
of Canada’s
Centennial
Year
1967.
In June 1971 a group of con-

cerned vdonors wrote the .execu­
tive committee as follows:
(a) — that a general meeting
be called to communicate
the
present situatiom._pf the garden
project to all concerned.
(b) — that a report be. made
on the current status of the in­
vested fund.
(c) — that the committee’s fu­
ture plans and possible dispo-

sition of the fund be resolved.
On" September 30th,
1971, a
response was received, and one
have
paragraph .reads: “there
been .suggestions calling for a
general meeting but we - feel
that until we receive .a .definitive
and concrete answer it will not
serve' the purpose other than .to
receive suggestions and recom­
mendations.”

-'Notwithstanding the above posture,- shortly thereafter a gene­
ral meeting of donors was held,
and the following specific, direc­
tives were given to the executi­
ve:
.
(a) — a letter be sent to the
city with a definite time limit
that if the city could not accept
the garden project, we
would
cancel our obligations.

(b) — that the legal aspects
of the fund be studied, as
to
whether the money could be us­
ed for other purposes or give
the money back to the donors if
that was the only alternative.
The pervading theme of the
meeting was that we had a moral
obligation not only to expedite
Cont. on Rage 2

he Ueto Canadian

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An Independent Organ for Canadians of Japanese Origin
VOL. 42

Sansei In Tokyo.,

"Collapse or Cope"
Challenges Sansei in Japan
By JANET YASUDA

TORONTO, ONTARIO

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1978

NO. 75

,

TQKYO. — Japan. . . a land
which for many Sansei represen­
ts an aspect of their heritage
which often is at best
vague.
Of course, there is ahvays the
food, the New Year’s Day cele­
bration, and the. Nihongo-gakkowhich many of us attended. . .
all to remind us of our ances­
tral culture. Unfortunately, ho­
wever, few iSansei have the op­
portunity to visit and'experien­
ce the Japan of today. The me­
mories of parents and grandpa­
rents are usually of another Ja­
pan _ ‘that of another age and
often as distant as another world.

Dr. David Suzuki to Appear in Gov’t of
Japan Film Produced by Ont. Company

. TORONTO. — Dr. David Su­
zuki, internationally
renowned
Sansei geneticist, will
narrate
and appear in a film by the Go­
way system at rush hour is in­ vernment of Japan to be produ­
famous for its crazed appearan­ ced . by Crawley Films Limited
ce with people literally shoved based in Ontario.
The film, to be produced in
in and packed like sardiries in
an amazingly developed
rapid .both English and French versi­
transit system. Tokyo-ites are ons, will be distributed to Cana­
forever rushing to their destina- । dian television and to key <comtion in >a seemingly endless race . munity and business groups in

an effort to enhance Japanese- each other in shooting sites ar
ound the world.
Canadian relations.
Both the director and writer
Crawley Films has produced
for-the film will be Canadian wi­
more than 3,500 films over the
th Japanese film crew being us­
past 40 years and specializes in
ed on location thanks to Craw/ international production. Includ­
ley Film’s association with the ed in the company’s 234 national
International Quorum, of Motion
and international awards is an
Picture Producers (IQ). IQ ^ a Academy Award for the
do-'
network of. .100 film companies
cumentary feature about a Ja­
which provide footage,
crews,
panese adventurer in The Man
equipment and counselling
to
Who Skied Down Everest.\

with the clock. Though already |
Crawley Film’s has produced
a "world leader in many fields,
five travel films for the Onta­
the Japanese are indefatigable
and
the rio ministry of industry
Uemura, day, 800-kilometer trek to
in their efforts to modernize, ab- ? TOKYO. — Naomi
tourism and a number of verinfluences Japanese explorer who was the North Pole. Later, he was flown
sorbing all foreign
sions in different languages of
seemingly without discriminati- first' man to make a solo over­ to the northern tip of Greenland
those films. The latest product
land trip with a dogsled to the and on May 12 began a 2600-kion.
for the ministry, Ottawa. CanaAnd yet, there is another as- North Pole and across Greenland, lometer trip to Nararssuak, so­ da’s Capital, has been seen by
pect of Japanese culture which returned home recently after a uthwestern Greenland, which en- approximately 22 million peois omnipresent — from the “ir-' seven month absence from Japan.
Cont. on Page 2
pieevery
rashaimase” that greets
He was accompanied by his
Many descriptive names have store customer to the total prio- wife, Kimiko, who joined him
been applied to Japan. To me, rity accorded to the guests’ wh in Copenhagen after his Green­
the most appropriate would be shes. In addition, the Japanese land journey for his trip home
that of an enigmatic lad
of are a people who practice the via the United ‘States.
He looked slimmer as he step­
contrasts ^and constant change. disciplined art of cha-no-yu, who
WHEELING, Ill. — Whee­ silver and 2 bronze. The United
The examples^ are as numero­ respect the beauty inherent in ped out of the plane at ^arita
simple creations, and whose tem­ Airport, but looked in high spi­ ling Township High
School in States finished with 3 golds, 6
us and varied as the people.
ples and shrines are reverently rits and in g'ood health, despite Wheeling, Illinois was the si­ silvers and 11 bronze. Canada
A glance down any street will
visited by millions annually. The a snowburn.
te of the 3rd United States Wo­ was third in the standings gra­
illustrate the most obvious cont­
traditional aspects of Japanese
The 37-year old
adventurer, men’s A.A.U. Open Judo Cham­ bbing 1 silver and 3 bronze.
rasts. Huge skyscraper
office
society have hardly disappeared. who said his next adventure may pionships on Saturday, July 29,
106 lb.
complexes dominate the view whi­
A. Hernandez of the United
THESE ARE THE contrasting -be conquering the iSoutlh Pole, 1978.
le old one-story traditional style,
States clashed with
Canada’s
was welcomed by Hirohide Ishi­
homes and shops are sandwich­ and, to me, problematic trends
An International
tournament
Sharon Miura of Toronto’s Ka­
da, a Liberal-Democratic Party
ed in between them. The appa­ that I have found in Japan of
teams from Republic of China,
of
wano Judo Dojo, under the tu­
respect Congressman and president
rel seen on the street varies from today, I sense a deep
Canada, West Germany and the
telage of Sensei Glenn Kawano,
of Uemura’s support group.
/the dark suits of salarymen to for the traditional qualities
United States were. present. The
He told Ishida that he lost we­ shiai was governed by I.J.F. rule ■for this division championship.
the rolled-up T-shirts and slick- equanimity and inner peace on
At “hajime”, Hernandez
griped-back hair of “Grease” influ­ the one hand, while on the other ight because he couldn’t eat much and was run under the repacha­
pping right, opened up on the
and
enced teenagers to older women hand, there is also practically an meat on the last part of his jo- ge system. One hundred
Canadian with a tai-otoshi att­
obsession with the frenzied pace urney.
in
in their summer yukata and ge­
forty contestants competed
ack that dropped Miura for a
There was no extravagant heof modern life.
the tournament.
ta.
Koka. Miura’s strong defensive
■Perhaps this is an enigma for ro's welcome at the airport but
These surface differences only
Assessing the competitive sta- posture managed to off subsequ­
hint at the deeper contrasts and no one but me. . . perhaps the he waved his hand and said thank
ture of the teams entered, West ent ouchi-tai-otoshi attacks for
changes which I sense in Japan Japanese are able to grow and you to the handful of well-wishmost of the contest. However,
prosper in this type of society. ers before he was whisked away Germany as being superior. The­
today.
ir movements were precise and in the last seconds Hernandez,
In Tokyo, there is never a mo­ Tf this is the case and the Japa­ in a car to Tokyo.
Uemura set out with a team aggressive. Their condition was again scored Koka with tai-oto­
ment when the streets and sho­ nese are able. to cope, this is the
Cana- keen. West Germany led in the shi, winning the gold medal with
ps are not alive with ‘the sights quality I would like to learn so­ of dogs on March 3 from
da’s Ellesmere Island on a 57- medal winning with 5 golds, 1 a slight margin.
and sounds of people. The sub­ metime in my lifetime.

Adventurer Uemura Returns To Japan

Toronto Sansei Girl Wins Silver
Medal In U.S. Women’s AAU Judo

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Friday, October 6, 1978

PAG® 1

Letter...

Cont. from Page 1

Nisei and Sansei Gap
In Musical Taste

The New Canadian
Established in 1939

matters but also to continually have moved from Montreal,
Second Class mairNo. J00366
A member of Ethnie Press
communicate to the public what an obligation to the former. and
Association of Ontario
a committment to the latter, we
was happening.
and Canada Federation
Eleven years have passed sin­ in Montreal, would -like to resol­
ned up so high to
appreciate
. Published on Tuesdays, and
ce the fund drive, and six . years ve this project. To those outside
By BILL MARUTANI
the delicacy- of drums crashing,
Fridays
have now passed since that last of Montreal, may we request yo­
electric
THE (OTHER NIGHT, as I cymbals clanging, and
meeting, and we wish one could ur opinion, and we assure youi
T. UMEZUKIPUBLISHER
guitars twanging dn a high pitch.
I
was
driving
our
teenage
daug
­
K.C. TSUMURA
say no news is good news! It your comments will be expressed
All
at
the
same
time.
If
it
were
English Section Editor
hter and her girlfriend to do
must be emphasized that public at the next general meeting.
a
fine
recording
of
Jascha
Hei
­
KEN MORI
some shopping, I inserted into
funds in the least amount carri­
and.
Respectfully submitted,
Japanese Section Editor
solo of
the tape player one of my fa­ fetz playing a violin
es a burden: the money invol­
representing a group of
SUBSCRIPTION
vorites: an updated rendition-by Brahm’s lullaby, then I could see
ved in the Garden
Project is
concerned donors, we arer
$10.00 for Six Months
Hugo Montenegro of some Glenn why the volume might be sligh­
quite substantial, thus the expe­
$17.00 for one year.
Miller arrangements such- as “Be- tly fine-tuned up.
c/o Vic Ogura
dition of the project is urgent. .
COME TO THINK of it, tho
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renade in Blue”, “String of PeAmongst those who -donated,
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ugh,
do
you
remember
some
of
With.
a
sigh
of
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some have passed away, many
the
classical
music
some
of
oui
contentment, I was adjusting
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Issei
parents
revealed
in?
The
­
the volume and balance to be
Cont. from. Page 1
enraptured by some
soothing re’s something that my boyhood
stereo sounds to
smooth out ears understood to say “namuand samples of 70 different kinds
ded Aug. 24.
some of the edges of the day. abushi” which reached my audi­
the of snow, which he hopes will be
During both stages of
Almost immediately there ' was tory receptors (then much more
Help Wanted
keen
than
they
are
today)
as
journey, his progress was trac- a contribution to science.
protest from y the rear
passen­
WAITRESS, full or part time.
, ked by the U.S. National AeroHe has scaled the highest pe- gers, demanding to' know what whines interspersed with grunts
Apply Furusato Inn. Phone 967nautics and Space Administrati- aks on five continents
Eve j
or
moans
here
and
there.
And
kind of “junk” that was., and
7223 ’(Toronto).
on’s Nimbus-6 satelite,
which rest in Asia, Mount Blanc in E- i
I coupled with a. directive to .shut to my matured ears, “gagaku”
received signals from a beacon urope, Mount Acconcagua in So-j
doesn’t particularly set my fe­ NIGHT time caretaker wanted.
it off. Gads.
on his dogsled.
uth America, Mount McKinley
441-2345^
I ASK YOU: Have you heard et to tapping. I’ve often thou­ For interview--ph one
The
The device
device also kept track of j in North America and Kilimanj-. some of their undulating, repe­ ght that some of to day’s teen- Japanese Canadian Cultural Cen­
time, temperature and baromet- aro in Africa. He also has.sailtitious cacophony of noise which agers’ tunes bear a - striking re- tre (Toronto).
ed a raft alone down the Ama
ric pressure along the way.
they call “music” — the “lyrics”’ semblance to the musical into- YOUNG woman 23-35 years old
■•Uemura collected air,
water zon River.
of which often consist of a sing­ nations that our Issei parents for general housework. Live in,
le, disjointed garble being, repe­ listened to, often seemingly in No', cooking. Phone
449-3518
a
trance
with
eyes
-closed
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ated over and over. . . and over ?
(Toronto).
(Who of you parents hasn’t ?) deeply absorbing the sounds.
GETTING- BACK TO today’s
Yes, in our house they have a
surfeit of platters and
tapes teenagers again: have you.se-.
which boom through the speak­ en some of their latest dance Usa Naw Canadian Ads
proprietor
ers such as to bounce off the steps ? I remember when jitter­
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I HAVEN’T FIGURED
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Or do you have to buy mineral water every day? Then why
finally rationalized that the ho­ thing. I’ll tell you what, though,
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I

m
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out
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use, after all, was their home
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following
too, and that they had a right the next generation
up
to their tastes in, uh, . . . music. our teenagers will come
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Friday, October 6, 1978

Mggili^^

Personal Notes

Cartoons
Depict
A-bomb
Tragedy

Dates & Doings
Tor. Buddhist Church Bazaar Nov. 11
TORONTO. — The Annual Fall Bazaar of the Toronto Budd­
hist Church will be held on Saturday, November 11, from 1:00/
6:00 p.m. We are grateful for the wonderful support given by
members and friends to this annual event, May we count on you
again.
'
T.B.C.

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Obituaries
NUMADA

By RICHARD BILL

Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre's!
Shitoryu Karate Club (Dance Oct. 21st

tokvo.

a

Ja

KELOWNA, B.C. — Rhuji.ro
Numa da, 95, husband of Tomiyo
Numada, passed away on Sept­
ember 8th 1978. Funeral service was held at Okanagan Japanese United Church. _

TORONTO. — Saturday, October 21st is the date for one of I West, isn’t supposed to make
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the biggest annual dances held at the Japanese Canadian Cultural I ou j
h. It tens the story of
Centre, 123 Wynford Drive in Don Mills. That’s when the Centre s *
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TAMURA
bombing of Japan
Shitoryu Karate Club presents their Halloween Masquerade Ball, tfte a omic
TORONTO. — Mr.
George
Arid* as usual, everyone is cordially invited to attend. A special inyita- I in 1945.
“Barefoot
Gen,” Kikuichi Tamura, beloved hus­
tion is extended to all members of the Japanese Canadian Cultural I Through
Keiji
Nakazawa band of Kichiyo Fujinaga, pass­
Centre and all J.C. social and sport groups.
/
.
I cartoonist
Masquerades are optional. If you want to wear that beautiful | himself an orphan of the bom- ed away on September 23rd, 1978
gown or that new fall outfit,, please do. Action starts at 8 p.m. and
bing, recreates’ his childhood in at St. Michael’s Hospital^ Dear
continues until 1 a.m. Advance tickets are $5. and, hey .tM includes
a buffet. Tickets at the door are $6. So get serious. There will Hiroshima, one of two Japa­ father of George, Grace (Mrs. S.
nese
cities devastated by the i Takata) and Victor; also survi­
be two bars — one for liquor and another for beer\t™e**
be door prizes, costume prizes, etc. And great >m^ic FOR 1
ved by 5 grandchildren.
atomic, bomb.
AGES” — Glenn Miller types, Old rockers, ballads, waltzes, and |
The hero of the . story 'is a
Turner .& Porter “Yorke Cha­
disco. As usual, it’s going to be a good time for all ages. We
' boy called “Gen” whose parents pel”. Service Toronto Japanese
' love you. Come on out. — Committee (Oikawa, Mori, Fujimo o
and brother are killed in
the | United Church. Glendale Memo& Gorulchuk (how’d he get in there?).
blast Nakazawa’s pictures and rial Gardens.
words describe Japan’s war effort and the life of children be-.
I fore and .after Aug. 6, the day
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butors -said.
Nakazawa
told
the
press
recently in an interview
he
wants children around the wor­
ld to understand the
horrors
of atomic
bombing so
-there
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ON FRIDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1978 AT 8:00 P.M.
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atomic blasts killed as
many
as 200,000 people.
Thousands
more were badly hurt, crippled
or disfigured. Radiation-related
diseases continue to maim the

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into the sky. . •”
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he
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the |
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scene of destruction with diseyes. “The
people
believing
look like monsters! What hap-

pened?” he asks.

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In “Barefoot Gen” the dropp- | 1
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Hiroshima is described as be­
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atomic cloud roared six miles

We wish to express
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recent loss of my beloved hus­
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The Japanese l& World War Two

People’s Attitude in Japan’s Somber Years

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the destruction of war (migra­ re killed in the. great earthquations to the countryside, suffer­ ke of Sept. 1, 1923. This-and ot­
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toward total .mobilization after than .10 million Japanese fled to
1941, the Japanese government the countryside. By the summer
By RICHARD H. MITCHELL
moved gradually and 'sometimes of 1945, the major cities were I
Scholars have produced a mo­ grudgingly toward a total warti­ wastelands of twisted metal and
untain of paper on World War me footing.
blackened concrete.
.
II in the Pacific, but the story
Why did a majority of Japa­
Japan’s slow mobilization re­
of how ordinary Japanese reacted sulted from a feeling of over- nese loyally support their gov­
to the impact of the war .and how confidence and a long-held plan ernment throughout these terri­
Barristers & Solicitors
much these traumatic years tran- of the military to -fight. Wars ble years right up to the bloody
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’ sformed society is first told in of short duration. '.Consequently, end of the massive fire raids on
Scarborough, Ontario
English . in this absorbing1 and in spite of spiritual mobilization Tokyo and the destruction of Na- I
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campaigns, drives against extra­ gasaki. and Hiroshima? One po­
war
in
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Stouffville, Ontario
For .Americans,
vagance, increased propaganda pular view is that “militarists”
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startling
cific began with the
and censorship, and
tighten­ duped the people and led them
news of Pearl Harbor. For the
ing of control , over industry and down the road-to war (the Inter
Japanese, however, .it began in
foi
labor, the government’s mobiliza- national Military Tribunal
July 1987, with a skirmish bet
tionr campaign was poorly coordi­ the Far East was formed in To­
ween Chinese and Japanese tro­
nated and lacked vigor during kyo after the war to punish this I
ops near Peking, the
so-called
Japanese
leadership) postwar
the war’s first three years.
Marco Polo Bridge Incident. This
By 1940, though, most people Marxist scholars reinforced this
renewed fighting with the Chine­
knew that the country was in­ view with their .argument that
se was little noticed by. most
Japanese restauraRt/toem^
volved in a real war, as all asp­ the people were misled by ’‘fas­
Japanese, who saw it as another
ects of national’ culture
took cist” leaders who pulled them in-’
minor clash in a series of con­
with to an unwanted war.
on a wartime coloration
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frontations. But this time things
On the other hand, some rec­
most of the media in hot com­
were different and the minor
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battle expanded into a major
ing people to peak performan­ a majority of the people stron­
war. After the Marco Polo Brid­
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ce in support of the war effort. gly supported Japan’s war aims
ge- Incident. Japan’s leaders took
Toronto, Ont.
There were numerous signs that and war- efforts and began to
their nation step-by-step along
1940 marked a turning point in have second thoughts only when
the road to a wider war and
the war: rice was rationed, dan­ the tide of battle turned against
disaster, or, as Japanese schol­
ce halls were closed by govern­ them. Havens thinks that ordina­
ars term it, the nation descended
ment order, -and the postal de­ ry citizens supported the war
into a “valley of darkness”.
partment announced that it would effort and endured disaster beca­
This book is nicely organized
be 'Unable to deliver New Year’s use of fear of authorities' and
bobh chronologically and topica­
greeting cards.
The following- the unknown. He1 quotes the diary
lly: chronologically the period
year saw the enactment of harsh of a home economist written in
between Marco Polo Bridge and
legislation, such as a
revised January 1945: “Most people al­
Hiroshima is neatly divided by
(used ready believe that we won’t win.
the attack on Pearl Harbor: the , Peace Preseivation Law
Japanese usually refer to
the to intimidate anyone who held They just think about how mifirst half as the “China Incid-. ?» anti-state view) and a new seraible it will be if we lose .
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ent” and the second as the “PaR.R. NO. 2, ACTON, Ont.
this (used to protect the nation from people saying these things, still
cific War.” Furthermore,
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vens, into four main phases: ear­
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This
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(Mr. J.K. Hisaki)
ly mobilization until September
have
that if we lose, it won’t
1940, consolidation and regimen­ and economic vise.
656-1247
been
the
people

s
fault.

Yet
the
nation
never
gained
tation until May 1942, full-scale
VALLEY OF
DARKNESS:
THE
JAPANESE ! PEOPLE
AND WORLD WAR TWO. by
Thomas R.H.- Havens. W.W. Nor­
ton & Co., New York, 1978. xi
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general participation to late 1944,
and destruction and defeat.
Topically, the author turns the
historical spotlight on three is­
sues connected with wartime life:
mobilization (propaganda, ideoland ' economic
ogles, political
controls), social changes (varithe
ous aspects of changes in
life cycle, such as eating habits,
entertainment, wages, sports, ed­
ucation, health care,
women’s
roles in the work force),
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a full wartime economic footing,
despite a serious labor shortage
by 1944 and other -compelling
needs for full-scale mobilization.
Women, for example, remained
an “underused, asset,” with the
methodically
state unwilling’ to

some
There was, of course,
in
opposition to Japan’s war
China :and in the Pacific. One
Japanese scholar finds evidence
of at least passive resistance by
citizens in .anonymous letters to
officials complaining about eco­
put them to work. This illustra- nomic hard times .and anti-gov­
tes, according to Havens, “how ernment graffiti in public toilets
slowly old social attitudes come and on garbage cans._ Yet Ha­
of vens’ argument that citizens ma­
unstuck," even in the midst
inly supported the war
effor*
war.”
because
The war’s most dreadful episo- in a passive manner
des came near the end, with the there was no alternative misses
beginning of large-scale bomb­ the fact that during these years
ing raids in November 1944. Ma­ many Japanse were very patrb
ny Americans assume that Na­ otic and were strong supporters
gasaki and Hiroshima were the of their nation’s overseas conq­
supreme agony for the Japanese, uests. In a sense, then, Havens has
forgetting Tokyo’s nightmare of taken us a step backward to the
firebomb raids, especially
the old idea that the leaders were
unforgettable attack of March bad and the people were good,
10, 1945 that destroyed the pac­ and that people supported the
ked residential districts
along war effort because they -feared
the Sumida River. Up to 100,000 the authorities and because of a
people perished, as many as we­ feeling of resignation.

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