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Yasukuni makes controversial decision as Tojo enshrined as “Sowa Era Martyr”
“Now that 33 years have
TOKYO. — Fourteen con­ class criminals, however, Oct. 17 last year following Shigeo Nagano, president
victed or suspected A-class has been postponed for a decision by the, shrine aut­ of the Japan Chamber of elapsed since the end of the
war^ it isi high time to en­
Commerce and Industry.
war criminals including for­ over 30 years apparently horities to do so.
Chief Priest Nagayoshi shrine the: top wartime le­
mer Prime Minister Hideki because of national senti­ They also said that the
shrine had obtained a con­ Matsudaira of the shrine aders who. dedicated their
Tojo have been enshrined ment.
as “Showa Era Martyrs”
Officials of the shrine sent on its decision from said that the enshrinement lives for the state,” he add­
in the Yasukuni Shrine, it said that the 14 convicted 10 advisory board members of A-class war criminals ed.
was learned recently.
or suspected A-class war who include former Tokyo has long remained a maj­
Coht. on Page 2
or
issue.
Gov.
Ryotaro
Azuma
and
criminals
were
enshrined
on
A spokesman for the
shrine, once a supreme sy­
mbol of \ state Shintoism,
said that the shrine autho­
rities decided to pay homa­
ge to the 14 wartime top
military and political lea­
ders who had devoted their
lives for the state and the
An Independent Organ for Canadians of Japanese Origin
Emperor.
The enshrinement of ATORONTO, ONT.
Friday, May 11, 1979
class war criminals at the Vol. 43 — 37
shrine in Tokyo’s. Kudan
area, however,, stirred pro­
Month long celebration
mpt criticism from pacifist
and Christian groups still
concerned with war respon­
sibilities.
The 14 persons enshrin­
ed were made up of seven
A-class war criminals sen­
tenced to death by the To­
kyo Tribunal of the Allied
Forces and executed at Sugamo Prison after the end
of World War II, five oth­
er convicted A-class war
crminals who died in prison
TORONTO — His Excel etc.
and two A-class war crime
lency Michiaki Suma, Amb­ “People will walk into
suspects who died of illness
assador of Japan officially the Tower and think they’re
while under trial.
opened the salute to the in Japan,” beams Garrick.
The seven hanged war
50th Anniversary of diplo­ “Where they buy the tick­
criminals were, besides for­
matic relations between Ca­ ets, there’s a Japanese gar­
mer Prime Minister Tojo,
nada and Japan by the CN den. Outside the lobby are
Seishiro Itagaki, Kenji DoiTower on May 2nd. Some Japanese automobiles and
hara, Iwane Matsui and
200,000, visitors are expec­ tractors. In the lobby, we
Hyotaro Kimura, all form­
ted to be whisked-up the have everything from folk
er generals of the defunct
tower during the month dancing to the martial arts.
Japanese Imperial Army,
Upstairs at the indoor ob­
long celebration.
Akira Muto, former lieute­
“Each May, the CN To­ servation level, there are
nant general of the Imperi­
wer throws- a salute to a exhibitions ranging from
al Army, and Koki Hirota,
foreign country,” explain­ kimonos to calligraphy. Itfs
former Prime Minister and
ed Mr. Dave Garrick, “and a complete look at a diff­
a sole civilian wartime po­
erent, fascinating way Df
this year it’s Japan.”
litical leader designated as
“It is the only major life”
an A-class war criminal.
stifled the once flourishing event in Canada to honor The celebration opened
By TOYO TAKATA
Five convicted A-class
Japanese dry-cleaning ser­ that anniversary. In fact, for the public on May 3rd
TORONTO. — Do you re­ vice.
criminals who died in pri­
son were Toshio Shiratori, member when the Japanese Why the Chinese opera­ it’s the biggest Japanese and continues until June
former ambassador to Ita­ had a good chunk of the ted the laundry, and the event ever held in Canada. 3rd.
“We also chose Japan be?
ly, Shigenori Togo former dry-cleaning market in To­
Japanese ran the cleaning cause it, too, has a tower,
foreign minister, Kiichiro ronto? About 15 or more and
pressing establish­ third highest in the world. Farewell dinner
Hiranuma, former prime years ago, at the peak of ments, was that in pre-evamirtister, Kuniaki Koiso and the dry cleaning business, cuation times, there were We like the idea of a tower- for Montreal
Michio Umezu, both former they controlled as much fewer women in the Chine­ to-tower salute. The Japa­ Consul leaving
generals of the Imperial as 30 per cent of the city’s se communities than there nese are enthusiastic; It’s
cleaning business. The first were in the Japanese. It surprising how much they for riew post
Army.
The two others were Nikkei dry-cleaning shop is was the Issei Japanese wo­ know about our tower —
Osami Nagano former ad­ believed to hae been . ope­ men who were the true pil­ much more than people fr­ MONTREAL. — Mr. Mitmiral of the Imperial Na­ rated byxMr. Koji Nakatsu­ lars of the family-owned om Pittsburgh or Miami.” suaki ; Sano, a consul at
Mr. Kazuhiko Okuda, the the ; Consulate General of
vy, and Yosuke Matsuoka, ka who opened the Avenue dry-cleaning,
enterprises. former Executive Director Japan in Montreal, will
former foreign minister, Dye Works, in 1909.
Anyone could learn to press
who were charged with A- Today, all the major cle­ trousers^ but it was the of the Japanese Canadian soon be leaving for a new
devoted
class war crimes but died aning businesses owned by nimble needlework of the Cultural Centre has been post. He has.
of illness while under trial. Japanese have vanished. Al­ wives that provided such retained by the CN Tower much time and effort to
for the duration of the ce­ the Montreal Japanese co­
All the Japanes executed though there are still some
by the Allied Forces as war in operation they are no services as mending, se­ lebration. Mr. Okuda will mmunity.
criminals have been enshri­ longer on every other block wing on buttons and zipp­ co-ordinate the various lo­ A farewell dinner, under
ned at Yasukuni along with as in the past. Permanent ers, or putting up cuffs cal activities such as mar­ the sponsorship of the Mon­
Japanese soldiers who di­ Press, the trend toward ca­ that kept the business go­ tial arts, Japanese gardens, treal Japanese Canadian
sual clothing and the emer­ ing. Consequently, the mo- tea ceremony, flower arr­ Association, was given Mr.
ed on the battlefields.
anging, sumie, caligraphy, Sano on April 30th.
gence of the big chains have
Cont. on Page 2
The enshrinement of

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Jpnz. Ambassador Suma
opens 50th Anniversary
salute to Japan-Canada
relations at CN Tower

Photo of pre-war Nikkei
pool hall wanted for history

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Friday, May 11, 1979

Novels on Japan

To jo.,.

Cont. from Page 1

The New Canadian

Incensed by the enshrin- by the Emperor whereas
Established in 1939
the
war
was
actually
an
act
ment decision Tomomi Ku­
Second Class mail No. 00366 '
territorial
A member of Ethnic Press
By DONALD RICHIE
piece of the money given mura, a leader of a Christi­ of Japanese
Association of Ontario
aggression he charged.
her by her sailor lover.
an
association
campaiging
Though some countries
and' Canada Federation
Yasukuni Shrine was de­
against
the
planned
state
Equally
mordant
and
ob
­
prove good novelistic mate­
prived of state patronage
Published on Tuesdays and
rial for the noh-native No­ servant is John Haylock’s control of Yasukuni Shrine, at the end of the war and
Fridays
velist- (Henry James on- See You Again (a 1962 no­ said that the shrine was allowed to survive as a pri­
T. UMEZUKI PUBLISHER
England and France, Jo­ vel out-of-print, originally established for the sole vate religious organization.
K.C. TSUMURA
seph Conrad oh East Asia, published by Chapman and purpose of enshrining as There has been a persis­
English Section Editor
Nabokov on the United Hall, London), a comic no­ “gods” the persons who di­ tent lobby over the past
KEN MORI
ed
for
the
cause
of
the
Em
­
vel
which
rises
straight
out
States), others do not. Am­
Japanese'Section Editor
two decades in the conser­
peror.
of
its
genre
to
describe
ong those which don’t. Ja­
SUBSCRIPTION
The enshrinement of A- vative sector to put the
pan — given the very small with wit and dispassion a
$10.00 for Six Months
shrine under state control
class
war
criminals
mean
a
Japan
which
really
'
exists.
number bf good novels wri­
$17.00 for one year.
through legislation.
de
facto
acknowledgement
Just
part
of
the
fun
of
the
tten on the country by the
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Cont. from Page 1
Unfortunately, many of Pool hall photo
Still there are some. The the best'novels on the cou­
st successful were those lo­ a store on King St. West.
Honorable Picnic, for exa­
ntry are out-of-print. The­
CLASSIFIED
mple, published first in 19? se include the stories (Four cated near popular dress In Winnipeg, S. Shibata
shops from which they con­ ran the “Sun Rise” store
24 and still as fresh and
Countries, 1949) and .novels tracted all the
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alterati­ (probably the equivalent of
true as “the day it was wri­ (Paper Houses and Sado —■
Asahi) on Portage Avenue. HOUSE for sale. York Mills
tten. The work of “Thomas the latter published twice, ons.
Later, there were similar Don Valley Parkway, $66,Raucat” (an elegantly ri­
Most
pioneer
Issei
Japa
­
in 1931 and 1951 — every­
shops in places such as Que­
bald nom-deguerre —pret­
visions
of bec City and Swift Curr­ 900. buys three bedroom ho­
thing originally by Jona­ nese had
end the name is Japanese, than Cape) of the late Wi­ becoming independent, and
me with rec room, den, and
ent.
pronounce it as such, then
offce, on direct route to sub­
ano­
lliam Plomer. A long-time at one time or
One
of
the
more
popular
see what you get), it is a prewar resident, he illumi­ ther, engaged in
way with wide choice of
some
richly comic
account of nated the foreign experien­ form of private enterprise. forms of business in which schools. Hersh Rosner, 297many Issei Japanese attem­ 2533, Century 21, Armour
the collision of cultures —
From
the
early
times,
the
ce of this country. One of
the only proper subject I the stories, “A Brutal Sen­ Issei attempted a variety of pted to get into, was the Real Estate member brok­
think (The Amabassadors. timentalist,” remains per­ undertakings with varying pool hall. It was a relative­ er.
Youth. Lolita for the non­ haps the most powerful fi­ degrees of success, as well ly easy enterprise to operate
native novelist. It also got ction a foreigner has yet as failures; a few hit it spe­ since: rent was low due to □se Hw Canadian Ads
the location; there was mi­
the author, goes the story, written on Japan.
ctacularly.
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nimal equipment required;
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Some
businesses
such
as
' Another forgotten book is
inventory was limited to
nese authorities.)
rooming
houses,
barber
John Goodwin’s A View of
tobacco, pop and candy;
Though how anyone co­ Fuji (1963, originally pu­ shops, and food and dry and above all, a knowledge J NT Auto Service
uld have taken such excep­ blished by Neville Spear­ goods stores operated with­ of English was not critical.
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mischief is never malicious. vel makes it quite clear that, st of the businesses that atchewan.
Despite the popularity of
Only a prson who deeply in the Japanese experience were located outside the
pool hall establishments,
understood and, consequ­ he recounts, it is the-foreig- community were shops th­
ently, loved the country ner himself who is found at sold Japanese ware to we have yet to find a pho­
to of a pool hall that has
could have written this wanting. I would also in­ the general public. Even
novel. “Raucat” indicates clude another unpleasant before World War I such been or is owned by a Japa­
as much himself in that book, William Butler’s The stores were found in East­ nese. If anyone has know­
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1,000 yen now like SI in Jpn.

Novels on Japan Cont. From Page 2

-fairly ordinary supper st­ the people they are writing
about — Japanse or not —
arts
at
around
$7.50.
Ho
­
TOKYO; — So
you’re
and because they tell us
ve
ver,
the
problem
with
ea
­
planing to visit Japan. Gre­
nothing real about their
at. You’ll have fun. But ting out in the morning is meeting. My criterion is
bring money,
lots of it. that none of the restaur­ that we experience somet­
You’ll need it. Japan is fir­ ants outside the hotels se­ hing real about it.
/
ems
to
open
until
about
11
mly in -the grip of inflat­
Given this, the last book
ion and the natives treat a.m.
on this list qualifies highly,
LOOO-yen bills with the sa­ Taxis in Japan used to though as a novel almost'
me contempt Americans ha­ be a pretty good bargain. everything else is the mat­
ve for the dollar bill. But Now the meter shows $1.60 ter with it. It is The Jour­
there’s one big difference as soon as the driver drops nals of a Man Who Found
1,000 yen is the equiv­ his flag and Tokyo traffic Love by the late William
alent these days of $5 U.S. moves so slowly that you L. Clark — though origin­
Travel light. If you need can expece to pay the bet­ ally published (1974) un­
porter service at Narita ter part of a 1,000-yen bill der a pseudonym. A novel
airport or the railroad sta­ just getting from one part only in its intentions, it
of downtown to another.
tions, you’ll be
charged
The one redeeming factor is rather a series of jottings
from $1 to $1.25 per bag to
is that cab drivers still which, in a completely fr­
tote it even for a few
don’t expect to be tipped. ank manner, indicate so­
yards.
Not so among: bellhops at mething important about
We stayed a few nights the Imperial. At one time the. people and the kind of
at the Imperial Hotel, still they adhered to a strict ho- person who chooses to live
an excellent and convenient tipping rule, but now they among them. It is a good
place, where the rate, dou­ stand around in anticipati­ book in that, even if you I
ble, is about $75. To that on like American bellmen. are not interested in its
add 10 percent automatic Window-shopping is a ostensible subject and are
service charge, plus 8 per­ popular Tokyo pastime completely unfamiliar with
cent tax.
and one Sunday we joined its somewhat louche, thou­
The hotel food prices are the throngs. Even in the gh very Japanese, locales,
equally devastating. You bargain-basement type ar­ the . feelings are real and
can get a continental break­ cades, there were domestic honest and require only so­
fast at the coffee shop — made men’s shoes- in the me emotional translations
a small glass of canned windows for $50, and one to make themselves felt,-or
orange, coffee (refills free) shop was featuring rather recognized.
and toast or a couple of ti-_ ordinary-looking readyma­ To*be sure, the book was
ny sweetrolls for $4.50. Plus de dresses off the rack for never meant to stand alo­
10 percent service charge; $50 apiece.
ne. It is one of the middle
If you want a full break­ Department store base­ volumes of a tetralogy to
fast —• juice, two eggs, a ments feature all kinds of be called Jacob’s Ladder of
thin slice of ham or a co­ foods, available in great which only the first volu­
uple of little pieces of bac­ abundance, but not cheap me, Rings (1976 — not ab­
on, toast and coffee — the (which was obvious even out Japan) was also pu­
charge is $6 plus 10 per­ though it was almost imp­ blished. The other two vo­
cent. Or you can go ala ossible to translate grams lumes existed only in ma­
carte and pay $3 for two and yen into
pounds nuscript and I do not know
little pancakes, $3.25 for a
and dollars). If you have what became of them after
small glass of fresh oran­ plenty of yen, you don’t ne­ the author’s death. Nor do
ge juice and $1.50 for a cup ed to cook even though you I know where the two pu­
of coffee..
eat at home. Almost every blished novels are now aA glass of coke on the kind of dish except grilled vailable. They were priva­
room service menu is $2, or beefsteak — dishes that wo ] tely printed and never com­
you can pick it up for 75 uld take a housewife half mercially distributed.
cents a paper cup at the a day to prepare — are ava­ Such then is my list. AU
McDonald’s on the Ginza, ilable in the stores.
the authors are concerned
or for 50 cents a pony-size
Since what the native Ja­ with a delineation of Ja­
can at a streetside stand.
pan and their place in it:
panese
consume
is
priced
At McDonald’s Big Macs
all write only about the
not
too
much
differently
and quarterpounders are
they
themselves
from what we foreigners Japan
$1.75. And you can get shirts
know; all, more or less, dr­
consume
in
the
hotels,
it
is
done — washed, not manu­
difficult to see how they amatize this experience and
factured
at the hotel for
make do. Still, in Tokyo the result is a good hovel
$1.65 apiece.
and elsewhere, they are in that their experience is
Of course you can eat like well-dressed, appear well- honestly communicated.
the ordinary folks here, but nourished, and bank an im­ Looking it over I see that
a light lunch seems to ran­ pressive amount of their in­ most of the books are sad
ge from $3 to $6, and a come. In fact, some who lo­ —. even, eventually, the
ve their golf can afford to “Raucat” and the Haylock.
fly to Honolulu where they I thought at first that this
can play the equivalent told me something, about
number of rounds more eiher Japan or the people
cheaply than they can here who come here to write novls. Upon consideration, ho­
in Japan.
No wonder they peel off wever, I have decided that,,
and spend those 1,000-yen rather, all good novels are
serious (if'not invariably
notes so casually.
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Mysterious death focuses unwelcome
attention on Tokyo’s largest night club

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By^BOB
HORIGUCHI
sisters, she did not hesita- makes about Yl.5 million
s
The mysterious death of, te to do some moonlighting monthly. .
one of its members has fo­ to add to her income, accor­ She says she chose to
cused an unwelcome publi­ ding to the magazine. The become a hostess so that
city on the perfumed phal­ tariff for her favors was her mother, a divorcee, cothe standard Y30,000 a ni­ ould lead a leisurely life
anx of 500 hostesses of To­ ght.
;
after having worked hard
kyo’s largest night- club, so­
A Mikado hostess is, quo­ to bring her up.
me of whom earn up to Y1.5
ted by the weekly as say­ Last year, Eriko offered
million a month.
ing that “it is the only her mother a trip to Hong
Hiroko Suda, 38, ra 9-year way in which we can afford
veteran entertainer at the to fork out Y6,000 a day at Kong and this year she is
paying for a tour of Hawaii.
Mikado cabaret, was found the beauty parlor.”
dead in her bathtub, a fort­ Ninety per cent of the Another hostess with a.
night ago. Because police entertainers at the establi­ bachelor’s degree in Japa­
investigators found her clot­ shment are single and the nese literature has adopted
hes neatly folded nearby reason they choose their the pseudonym of Yamaoka.
and did not detect any tra­ profession is generally be­ Her hobby is traveling ab­
ces of a struggle they sur­ cause of an unhappy love road and she has already
made 28 trips overseas and
mised that she died from affair.
plans to tour Europe for
natural causes.
y But there, are exceptions, 14 days in April.
An autopsy, however, es- the magazine reports. Take
She has been working at
' tablished that she had been for instance the 33-year-old
strangled and a more thoro-'jgraduate.of one of the most the Mikado for six years.:
ugh check of her apartm­ prestigious women’s colle­ She evidently comes from an ’
ent revealed that 'the key ges, who won her degree in affluent family for she told
to her front door was miss­ English literature with a the magazine that when she
ing.
thesis on Julius Ceasar. She was a student at Aoyama
Further complicating the goes under the name of Miss Gakuin her parents gave
case; says the Shukan Shin- Umeda, one of the business her three golf club memb­
cho, is that the authorities aliases the hostesses choo­ erships When the value of
cannot determine how ma­ se from a list of 900 names these increased threefold
ny people had similar keys. when they first go to work in the wake of the golfing
boom she sold them for Y15
They know that so far, mo­ for the Mikado.
re than three such keys are This erudite woman ad­ million and banked 4he mo­
in possession of the wom­ opted her profession becau­ ney.
an’s wide circle of male se it did not interfere with The Mikado hostesses ran­
friends.
her daytime studies of an­ ge in age from 18 to 50 plus,
Hiroko, adds the weekly, cient Japanese culture at the average age being 28.
was known as a hard work­ Sophia University.
Operated by Yoshiaki |
er who, having abandoned Seven years ago she built Konami, known as the “ca-1
the hope of ever getting a Y10 million house in Shi­ baret king” of the Kansai 4
married, was sedulously buya. When she had comp­ region, the night club is ’
building up a nest-egg big leted paying off the mort­ open seven days a week |
enough to make a first pay­ gage she built another ho­ from 6 to 11 p.m. except
ment on a coffee shop. Her use which she now rents during the New Year holi­
attendance record at the out. She earns $500,000 to days.
Mikado was impeccable. She Y600,000 a month at the
When Konami took over
was never late for work night club.
:
the once-bankrupt night
nor had she taken a day The highest paid Mika­ club 13 years ago, he inves­
off in nine years except to do hostess, whose professi­ ted Y70 million in a cam­
attend her mother funeral. onal name is Eriko, is an­ paign to attract hostesses.
Like the majority of her other college graduate. She
He baited his job offer
with the gift of an automo­
bile to the first 50 girls who
would ring up the largest
KIMURA,
HYLAND
monthly sales by inducing
CADSBY
FLOWERS
their customers to spend
freely.
& TAYLOR
proprietor
Barristers & Solicitors
Today, says the weekly,
JON ONODERA
1501 ELLESMERE RD.
when there is a vacancy at
489-4654
- 481-8805
Scarborough, Ontario
the Mikado all he needs to
(Business)
(Residence)
Telephone: 431-1500
is to run a newspaper want
155
MAIN
ST.
W.
540 Eglinton Ave. W.
ad. Half the
applicants,
Stouffville, Ontario
K Toronto
who are selected on the ba­
Telephone: 294-6393
sis of age and looks, are
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rejected.

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