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Sansei singer’s record “Runaway Horses” is runaway success
TORONTO.. — Singer Te-1 second album,1 entitled Bi- on sale at the following Hastings Street; Windchi­ certified cheque for money
rry Watada’s first record rds on the Wing. Release locatioris: Japanese Cana­ me Records, 99 Ivy Ave.; order ($6.42 plus $3.00 shi­
a Runaway Horses, after one
pping and handling). to Wi­
date has not yet been est­ dian Cultural Centre (To­ Toronto, Ont. M4L 2H8.
The cost per album is ndchime Records, 99 Ivy, \
year, has, been distributed ablished but should be so­ ronto), 123 Wynford Drive;
The Annex (Toronto) 1468 $6.00 plus tax. Out of town Avenue, Toronto,. Ontario,
from Toronto, to Vancou­
metime
in
1979.
Danforth Av^.; Tonari Gu­ sales can be arranged thro­ M4L 2H8
S.N.F.
ver, to Hawaii. .Reaction to
the album has been over­ Runaway Horses is now mi (Vancouver) 573 East ugh
% the mail. Please send
w
SB
whelming; sansei’s especij-.'ally>haye: listened .with erithiisiasm r There are those
/ who feel the record is too
^sophisticated, that Watada’s
“raw and /rough’’ style . has
: >beeh processed^ out; the em­
otion—gone. This may well.
be, but, comments from ac­
An Independent Organ for Canadians of Japanese Origin
ross the country tend to di­
sagree with the criticism: Vol 43 — No 41
TORONTO, ONT.
Friday, May 25, 1979
“Women of the Earth”, a
song about the heartaches
of a Sansei girl becoming
a woman in western society,
js a favourite. A sansei in
Montreal writes, “Someti­
mes I wake up and call my
Dad to talk about “Women
CCI, a non-profit organi­
DUNDAS, Ont — Four
of the Earth”.
months ago Laura Suenaga zation sends qualified vol­
VANCOUVER. — The sp- Queen Elizabeth Playhou­
The Nisei, on the other couldn’t tell you what a Si­ unteers to developing coun­
hand, identify strongly wi- erra Leone was let alone tries in Asia, Africa,. South irit of “Oni” cast a power­ se oh Sunday, May 6th. In
th “New Denver”. . The song where you would find one. America and the Caribbean. ful spell twice over packed performances marked by
depicts the growth of love
“I received a letter just be­ houses at the Vancouver’s subtle flowing hands*; and
It

s
a
different
story
now,
between a Nisei man and
flutes as well as pounding
fore Christmas telling me
however.

Sierra
Leone
is
a
woman throughout the cha­
drum rhythms, Ondeko-za
where I would be going. Ha­
small
country,
about
three
otic war years. The intern­
played its way into the he­
lf the family thought Sierra Calgary Sansei
million
people.
It

s
a
deve
­
ment camp, New Denver,
Leone was in Africa and awarded scholar arts of the audience. The
loping
nation
in
West
Af
­
has come to symbolize the
favourite number of the yohalf thought it was in So­
rica,

the
21-year-old
Dun
­
pain and struggle that has
CALGARY. — A two ye­ unger spectators was their
uth Amrica, I can honestly
das
resident
says
matterfilled the lives of every
say I had never heard of it ar Ministry of Education’s new one, “Gojin jo Daiko”,
of-factly.
Japanese Canadian family,
before.”
(Monbusho)
Scholarship in which they mixed clowMiss
Suenaga
hasn

t
star
­
ning and drumming to grethe song has put it all into
A
third-year
nursing
stu
­
was
recently
conferred
to
ted taking a course in geog­
at effect. But it was the
perspective.
dent
at
McMaster,
Miss
Su
­
Warren
Dale
Nagata
of
Ca
­
raphy. Her sudden interest
To comfort through the in the African nation stems enaga said she got into the lgary. The scholarship will driving intensity of the fi­
articulation of experience form the fact she will be Crossroads program almost enable Warren to further nal drum piece, “Chichibu
and emotion is the act of sent there for three months by chance.
his research studies of Ma­ Yatai Bayashi”, which sent
a humanist, . a ; role Terry by Canadian Crossroads In­
“I saw a" poster adverti­ rine Biology at the Uni ver- everyone home buzzing ab­
Watada wishes to develop ternational.
sing an information ses­ siy of Kagoshima. A gradu­ out Ondeko-za.
The performances were
throughout his life. Among
sion so I dropped in. I didn’t ate of the University of
academic circles the record
stay for the whole program Calgary and Victoria, Wa­ benefits for Tonari Gumi;
is being treated as a credi­ "Buy© no Yube"
but it caught my interest rren was, prior to departu­ which also hosted the On­
ble statement from the Ja­
so I filled out an entry re tb Japan, involved with deko-za members while they
panese Canadians. ...In Ha­ by Chikuya-kai
form, sent it in and was ac­ graduate work on red tide played for the Vancouver
waii, the lyrics are requir­ at J.C.C. Centre
phenomena and marine in­ Children’s Festival on the
cepted.”
ed reading for Professor
. While no specific skills vertevrate at the Banfield following two days. They
TORONTO. — On Sun- are required for entrance Marine Research Station, were greeted with equal
Dennis Ogawa’s Asian American Studies course. The day, June 17, 8:00 p.m. at into the program, Miss Su­ British Columbia. Warren enthusiasm at the festival
album, itself, is part jof an the J.C. Cultural Centre, the enaga feels her nursing bac­ Dale is the oldest son of and as the word spread, mo­
education kit about the Ja­ Chikuyu-kai will be presen­ kground will be helpful.
Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Naga­ re and more adults began
posing as kids in order to
panese Canadians, c^strib- ted “Buyo no Yube”, an ev­ Sarah Freke of Oakville ta of Calgary.
catch a glimpse of the Oh- „
ted by Ottawa’s. Museum ening of Japanese classical and David Foster of Ham­
deko-za hurricane;
of Man; as part of a Van- dance, featuring Fujima ilton will be making their
But their visit meant
couver islide presentation' Chikuyu, headmaster of the second trips as part of the Dictionary rapped
much more than great.
of Japanese Canadian Hist­ school, who will be visiting Crossroads program.
on
use
of
"Jap"
shows, it was an opportuni­
Miss Freke will join Miss
ory (now available in edu- from Japan. and
cation kit form) the record Miss Fujima will be gi­ Suenaga in Sierra Leone
ASHLAND Ore. - Professor ty for the members
has been heard at various ving a lecture after her while Mr Foster will be Lawson Inada of Southern workers at Tonari Gumi to
west coast universities in- performance, on what to lo-; sent to" Ghana Both were Oregon State College said he share a few days of camara­
_ eluding the University of ok for, and how to get the in Kenya in 1977 as part of was going to discourage his derie with the Ondeko-za
students from buying Random members whose open warm­
British Columbia and the most out of watching Japa- the program.
Each of the' Crossroads House’s new paperback dicti­ th defied the pressures of
University of Washington. nese classical dance. For
Runaway Horses was also the budding Nisei or San­ volunteers must contribute onary and so told the publi­ daily performances and ti- ...
used at an Asian music sei dancer, she will give $750 towards the trip. They sher, Ballantine Books in New ght travel schedules. Per­
seminar in San Jose, Calif­ advice on technique that are encouraged to collect York, because of the entry haps the grace of their vi­
will make one’s performan­ donations and approach apparling on page 606 under sit was wrapped up in the
ornia. .
manner of their departure,
church and school groups the word, “Nisei”.
All in all, the album re­ ce interesting- to watch.
In brackets appears (Jap: as they clapped hands and
presents a unique collecti­ Also performing will be with the idea that they will
second generation.)
sang the folk songs of Sado
on of songs and. thoughts the head of the Toronto give talks or presentations
about a unique community Branch of the Chikuyu-kai, about the Third World na­ “A little thoughtlessness with the seniors in front of
and ignorance can go a along Tonari Gumi- — Tonari Gu­
of people. At present, Terry and some of the students of tions when they return.
way,” Inada said.
mi.
Spectator (J.K.)
Watada is working on a the school.

"Ondeko-za"
thrills
Vancouver
Sansei to get first hand
audience
at
Q.
E.
Playhouse
lesson in world geography
for "Tonari Gumi" benefit

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Friday, May 25, 1979

PAG11

Japanese saxophonist awarded
honor for artistic excellence

Tokyo not as safe as
made out to be?

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K.C. TSUMURA
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was honored b$0he Japan­
A perennial winner * of cluded, Tokyo has 34 times as reported.
ese government with the Swing Journal’s redress many crimes as shown in official Police statistics show that in
KEN MORI
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Award for ArtisticExcell­ polls, Watanabe was honor police statistics.
the same one-year period about
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own Berklee College of Mu­ His report was based on a busy to keep a detailed record, downtown Brampton. Tel.
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job and
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pleasant working conditions.
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crime over a one year .period
The survey results will be re-, Will retrain. Apply Better
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In the survey he first com­ shortly in -Freiburg, West Ger- St. West, Toronto.
Are You in Need-to-go to a HOT SPRING or SPA
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Commenting on Ishii’s report. with figures, for interesting
any time at your convenience.
Masaki .Sumita, an assistant pro­ position in the Keele and
the set period.
It Sure Pays in the Long Run.
/By applying that ratio to the fessor- at Kagawa
University, Highway 7? area. Call Mrs.
appointment.
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crimes in the ward and compar­ degree of security in a city are 669-9633.
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I Michibata off to European tour | Nuisance calls

Personal Notes Across Canada*

IRVINE, Calif..?— Hopes to the juinor quarter-finals.
Annivexsc^ry
Obituaries
are' high for Toronto San­ The 16-year-old student at
sei Glen: Michibata, who University High School in
SASAKI
50th —
just may be the hottest Ca­ Irvine, CaliL, also won the
TORONTO. — Mrs Ino
nadian tennis talent in the Rolex under-18 tourney in
Sasaki, wife of the late Kipast 10 years, as he left New. York last January,
kusaburo Sasaki, passed
recently for the Italian then played for Canada in
away on May 15 th, 1979 at
Open. in Rome.: From there the ■ Sunshine Cup, making
Scarboro General Hospital.
Almost 50 per
he’ll go to Germany for it to the semi-finals. He got TOKYO
Loving mother of Peter,
workouts prior to . the Fr-'to the quarter-finals in a cent of Japanese homes are
ench Qpen ; in Paris, then < pro tournament int Califor- plagued by panting/ prattling Daisy (Mrs. Minamata), Do­
and proselytizing of nuisance reen (Mrs. Nakashima) and
to Spain and Wimbledon j nia
calls, according to a survey Martha (Mrs. Seki), fondly
where last year he made it I THUNDER BAY, Qnti
by the Posts and Telecommu­ remembered by 8 grandchil­
nications Ministry.
dren, and '8 great-grandchil­ Mr. and Mrs.„ jtarcT Horigi|The office called 2000 hou­ dren.
chi of 123 Regent St?\ s Th­
Most expensive cities in world
seholds and 50 companies
Danforth Chapel of Mc­ under Bay, .celebrated their
GENEVA. —Tokyo and earch company based in Ge­ and found that 960 homes
50th Wedding Anniversary.
Dougall
and
Brown.
Fune
­
and 48 of the businesses had
Osaka are easily the worl­ neva.
A dinner was held at the
ral
services
at
St.
Alban

s
d’s most expensive cities, ac­ With New York provid­ experienced offensive or ob- the Martyr Anglican Chur­ Lotus, Inn,, Thunder Bay,
telephone" calls
cording to a worldwide co­ ing a base figure of 100, the jectionable
recently.
ch.
Interment
Mount
Plea
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from
anonymous
callers.
st-of-living survey by Bu­ two Japanese cities were
' The Wete married FebruThe poll found that most sant Cemetery.
siness International, a res­ rated at 180.1. Zurich and
ary: 19th, 1929 in Shigaken,
Geneva followed with 146 5;o£ them> which came when
Change of Address
japan.
London and Paris were also, housewives were alone at hoJpnz. Yuzen-zome among 44 cities
ALDERGROVE, B C. — Their son Tom Horiguchi
found to me’ were heavy breathing
be more expensive than tyPes’ °bscure religious culti- Mrs. Midori Miyoshi anno­ proposed, the toast in their
art seen in
*.*r -.‘-A -.I f,--‘
, sts and outright obscenityNew York.
honour.' They also
have
unces
her
new
address
as
-ranting males.
action in Kyoto
Big cities found to be che-, The ministry spokesman 3170 Bradner Road, R.R. 2, two daughters, Anne (Mrs
TOKYO. — The Yuzen aper to live in include Ro- said that 17 per cent of those Aldergrove, B.C. VOX 1A0. E. Morinj of Thunder Bay
Cultural Hall of Japan’s me, Moscow, and Hong who received home calls said
and Martha (Mrs. G. Yaculture capital at Kyoto is Kong.
they were obscene. “But we
nai) of Whitby and seven
a workshop-museum of the
Japanese cities were fou­ believe there are more,” he
Centuries-old art of yuzen- nd to be the most expensi­ said.
z Thank you to the Tor - grandchildren.
zome.
ve in all categories measur­ One 31-year old housewife onto Buddhist Church &
It features a unique hand­ ed, such as business lunch said that she received foul the TBC’s Sangha for
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C A N A DIAN

Three lives of the Buddha

Why didn’t multimillionaire
brother bail out jet-set sister?

The Lives of the Buddha

no’. A 2jOOO-ton yacht, converted
for this purpose,’ was - moored
I skeptic. Consequently, Ash- piled: one on top of the ot­
By DONALD RICHIE

TOKYO. —- The first Japanese -near' the development site;
I vagosha (and subsequently her and the conclusion is
easin. There are locally in print Conze) creates a Buddha very Indian-poetic. “So'Ma­ horn casino operator has gone • - ■ The’; ■ operation of
three lives of the Buddha. who has many supernatur-? ya, defeated, ran away. . . bankrupt and questions are- be­ bs - in - - France '-is ’ limited
The first is the Edward al adventures, who has a The great seer, free from ing'asked as to why her multi­ to • persons . who " have Fre­
Conze selection and trans- quick eye for poetic detail, the dust of passion. . . had millionaire brothers didn’t try' nch nationality. Kuniko had ac­
quired. the necessory qualificati­
: lation called Buddhist Scri- and loves to linger among vanquished him. And. the to keep her afloat.
; ptures (The Penguin Clas­ his emotions. His Buddha moon, like. a maiden’s gen- Unable - to make an Y18 millir ons to obtain a license, says the
sics, L88, 1959). In it he is like himself, a rather tie smile, lit up the heav- on repayment on a Y25 million weekly, ■ as she had married a
bank loan, the Soeiete Lydia, he­ Frenchman from whom she was
translates (and abridges) fanciful kind of poet, giv­ ens. . . “
Buddhacarita by the first- en to whimsy and extrava­ Ikeda disposes of Mara aded by Paris-based Ms. Kuniko later divorced?. '
•'■■■ century Indian poet, Ash- gance. The result well "at once. “(He) is that force Tsutsumi, was officiallydeclared .. It. .was the .casino operation
vaghosha —1 the first full- justifies Conze’s calling his which wells up within a to have failed on Oct. 23, reports that seems -to ’have provoked
the < breach between- Kuniko and
length biography of the translation “The Legend of person who Is ! advancing the Shukan1 Shincho.
' Buddha, and the basis of all the Buddha Shakuyamuni.’’ toward the goal of enlight­ Kuniko is the sister of .Seiji her two brothers. First, the ca­
further biographies.
Ikeda’s Buddha, not to enments and truth and who Tsutsumi, chairman of . the .Seibu sino; lost money as it was fre­
Second is the “retelling” put too fine an edge on it, is exerting every effort to Department Store and president quented only during the summ­
of the story by Daisaku is a nonsense businessman. attain; that goal,1 and which of the 'Seiyu chain stores. She' er 'vacation season, and ’secondly,
Ikeda in his -The Living Bu­ That is, he is a great admi­ tries to block such attain­ is half-sister of Yoshiaki Tsut­ 100 condomium units? . remained
while the hotel was far
ddha, subtitled “An Inter­ nistrator—- as indeed, gi­ ments Further, “I believe sumi, .president of the Seibu ra­ I unsold,
\
pretive Biography” (Weat­ ven the sheer logistics of we may take the episode as ilway company and of Kokudo from being a success.. .
her ill, 1976). The third is his teaching methods, he descriptive of something th­ I Kaihatsu, a land development Another reason, the magazine
a new one, Gotama Buddha must have been. The mi­ at iiR fact occurred, within company. The latter, not \ too indicates, was that- the Tsutsu­
by Hajime Nakamura (Bu­ racles are all dismissed or Shakyamuni’s mind.” And long ago, paid Yl billion to pur­ mi- brothers looked askance at
ddhist Books International, played down, and the sup­ only there. The psychologi­ chase the Nankai Hawks base­ being' associated with a gamb­
1977, pp. 154, cloth Y2,000, ernatural is accepted. only cal ^lesson is then spelled ball team, the weekly points, ling enterprise from, a fear it mi­
ght damage their business ima­
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dered from Buddhist Books this Buddha is something graph. “Demons. . . may be Why then did they let . their ge.
■ The relationship between the
International, Box 8, Ya- of an armchair psychologi­ thought of as pervading the sister’s company go under ?
mahana PO. Sapporo^064). st and finds a ready ans­ entire universe, but essen­ The reasons seem to be mani sister and her brothers became
so sour that in May 19.7.6, Kuni­
Nakamura has two books wer to the more puzzling tially they reside in peop­ fold, the magazine states. v
on the Buddha, both con­ inner problems. If Dale le’s minds.” Real demons Kuniko went to Paris in 1966 ko resigned, as a director . of the
sidered authoritative. This Carnegie could ever have would, indeed, complicate to open a purchasing office for Seibu Department Store and as
is a translation of the first been enlightened, it is he this kind of argument. They her brother’s department - store. its Paris representative.
half of the Gotama Budd­ whom this Buddha would would interfere unreasona­ After acting as a buyer for. . Kuniko is quoted by the. we­
bly with the actual task at clothes and furniture for a num­ ekly as saying that soon there­
hano Shogai, 1958.
have resembled.
All three are quite diff­ Nakamura’s Buddha prof­ hand —- spreading the fa­ ber of years, ‘ she began making after major French banks : were
investments in France on behalf informed that as she had brok­
erent from each other, tho­ its from the great amount ith.
ugh all seem to depend of archaeological work done
Nakamura first identifies of herv brother. Four years ago en relations with Seibu she had
upon the same major sour­ in recent years, and ■ some­ Mara as a holdover from she undertook the- development belcome a credit risk -and the
ce, the. Ashvaghosha biog­ thing is made of the Pip- earlier beliefs, and finds of a seaside resort near Perpig­ Credit 'Lyonnais closed ’ her acc­
raphy. Writings about gre­ rahwa discovery of the Bu­ parallels for this scene, and nan, close to the Franco-Spanish ount with it.
Another aspect of Kuniko’s ac­
at religious figures often ddha’s alleged relics. This the Katha Upanished. The border.
display this disparity — Buddha is, like Nakamura, episode is to be interpret­ The state-supported ' project tivities on the Paris scene is
think of the differences a- well up on archeology and ed historically as illustra­ into which the Seibu “distribu­ her role as a member of the
S mong the Renan, the Ro- shows a definitely Japane­ ting a clash of religions. tion group,” consisting of. the so-called “jet set,” according to
B bert Graves, and the autho­ se propensity toward the Then, “the rise of such new department store and the chain the magazine. Together with
rized versions of the _ life sweeping statement coun­ ethical thought can be clo­ stores, invested the sum. of Y3.5 Dewi Sukarno, she was the only
of Our Saviour.
tered by the niggling detail. sely related to the social billion, called for the constructi­ other Japanese-born woman ta
One of the peculiarities Much sociological evidence change occurring in the re­ I on of a 200-room hotel and a be mentioned in “Tapis Rouge”
' of this kind of biography is I is amassed and the econo­ gion of the central Ganges 240-un.it condominium as well as (Red Carpet), a caustic chroni­
that the author sees the my of the times is also we­ River.” and we are off on the opening of a shipboard casi­ cle of the antics of the rich.



religious figure in terms of ighed. This Buddha is de­ some theories about the
himself t Renan’s Christ, finitely a scholar.
sociology of the Aryan ra­
for example, was almost a Let us examine these at­ ce, and eventually, a page,
titudes in their treatment or two later, come to the
of a single episode. I have conclusion that in discuss­
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