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Vancouver Sansei has "graduate student's nightmare" as PhD thesis theft
VANCOUVER. — The years on the thesis, whichJs ployed as an English in­ early writings of the influ­ his living room to find the
“graduate student’s night­ due Sept. 1 at the Univesity structor at Simon Fraser ential U.S. poet and fiction briefcase and its contents
mare, has just happened to of British Columbia. “I can’t University for two years, writer, William Carlos Wil­ missing.
Roy Miki.
guess about the amount of and was hired on the condi­ liams.
Police were called, but a
time
it
would
take
to
re
­
tion
that
he
earn
his
PhD.
AVith less than eight weeks
Miki said he went down­ search of the neighbour­
construct
the
thesis,

he
to go before the final, subThe thesis was in a fancy stairs to help a carpenter hood failed to turn up the
said.
emission deadline, Miki’s un­
leather briefcase his wife install some windows in the thesis.

A
lot
of
it
was
written
completed PhD thesis and
had given him. “I have a basement of his home at
early
on
in
my
studies
and
Anyone who knows the
most of the research notes
feeling
the
case
was
a
big
2995
West
15th.
whereabouts of the thesis
that go with it were stolen is hard to remember. It’s part of the reason it was
exactly the graduate stu­
A half-hour later his wife can contact Miki through
from his home.
stolen.

dent’s nightmare.’’
left the home, and an hour the SFU English depart­
Miki has worked for four Miki said he has been em­ The thesis deals with the after that Miki returned to ment at 291-3136.

New <fai]n6idn
Vol. 43 — No. 61

"GIVING OP THE GON"
By BILL HOSOKAWA

Friday, August 17, 1979

Tor. Sansei
Coaches top
racing worm

TORONTO, ONTARIO

Japan ready to offer new
innvestment, trade deals

reasons, but perhaps the most
In the year 1543, a small persuasive is the finding that
CALGARY. — Japan is in Canada’s alternative en­
Chinese cargo ship called at war with weapons in the hands
TORONTO. •—Great gobs ready to offer a new deal ergy prospects.
Tanegashima, a tiny island 20 of common people who could
miles off the south coast of kill armored samurai at a dis­ of worms, Nats the winner! in investment and trade pol­ Doko said the restructur­
Kyushu, Japan’s southern most tance simply wasn’t much And George Yamamoto, 8, icies to Canada and any ing of Japanese industry
island. Aboard were three Por­ fun. War in Japan of this period is all a-wiggle!
other interested country, and revamping of the coun­
tuguese, the first Europeans io essentially was a collection of
A slippery thoroughbred says Toshiwo Doko, chair­ try’s trade practices, viewed
set eyes on Japan and also the; personal hand-to-hand battles,
man of the Japanese Cham­ as discriminatory by some
owners of two harquebuses (a with each meeting preceded by named Nat showed light­
countries, will be conducted
primitive type of gun fired by elaborate ritual, and combat ning speed recently—nearly ber of Commerce.
Shooei
Nakayama,
a soon.
matchlocks) and ammunition. was a test of skills. Any clod a centimetre per second—as
“We don’t have the luxury
Lord Tokitaka saw one of the could point and fire a gun; it he slithered to the champion­ banker, forecast that Japa­
Portuguese shoot a duck with required a samurai with great ship of the Great Richview nese banks will establish of time,” Doko said.
the gun and immediately be­
Canadian operations as soon He called on Canada and
skill and training to fight with Library Worm Race.
came fascinated by it.
as the new Bank Act is other countries to under­
(One of the Portuguese is a sword. And so the Japanese
Nat,
a
medium-sized
earth
­
stand the effects of Japa­
recorded in Japanese history warriors gradually rejected worm measuring about 18 passed, expected later this
technology and went back to
nese desire to create freer
year.
as Kirishitamoto and is believed
centimeters
(seven
inches)
traditional armaments.
Doko and
Nakayama world trade and a more
to have been Christopher da
at
full
stretch,
easily
outPerrin cites this historical
Mota.)
were part of a Japanese favorable trade balance.
crawled
all
opposition
in
a
Lord Tokitaka eventually bo­ precedent in asking whether
delegation of bankers, in­ Doko said Japan will in­
the
world
today
would
be
able
scorching
time
of
38
seconds
ught the guns for what was
dustrialists and economists crease imports of manufac­
to
put
aside
plutonium.
The
over a 30-centimetre (one which toured Alberta’s oil tured goods and will elimin­
then a fantastically high prise,
Japanese
experience,
he
says,
foot) track.
then turned them over to his
sands and heavy oil fields ate, wherever practical, do­
proves

that
human
beings
swordsmith with orders to ma­
mestic manufacture of en­
Nat was trained and raced recently.
ke copies. Within a decade gun­ are less the passive victims of
Nakayama said the two ergy-intensive and techno­
smiths all over Japan were their own knowledge and'skills by George Yamamoto, who
turning out harquebuses and than most men in the West sup­ might have been disquali­ Japanese - sponsored
oil logically complicated pro­
quickly adding improvements pose.” Progress, whatever it is, fied if the suburban Etobi­ sands research programs, in­ ducts.
that made them more efficient isn’t an exorable force beyond coke librarians who organ­ volving Petro- Canada and
He said there will be a
weapons than any in use in human control, but it is some­ ized the event had insisted
Noreen Energy Resources new phase in Japanese trade
Europe.
thing we can guide, direct, or on amateur status.
Ltd., are part of future practices following last
This story is told in a slim even stop and forget.
and readable new book, “Giving
Nat was trained and raced plans to increase investment month’s Tokyo summit meet­
Equally interesting are some
ing of the seven major
Up the Gun,” by Noel Perrin of Perrin’s observations and who would probably be vi­
industrialized nations.
(David R. Godine, Publisher, findings about medieval Japan, cious. if he had teeth. When
$8.95). Perrin is a professor of which most persons believed to examined after the race he Nisei appointed
The conference failed to
English at Dartmouth College. be backward in comparison to
result in freer global trade
attmpted to strangle a re­ Gulf Canada
He undertook the research
but it set important goals
(with the help of several Japa­ Europe. During the 16th Cen­ porter’s finger. He was se­
TORONTO.

Gulf
Cannese scholars) and wrote the tury, Perrin says, Japan was a lected from thousands of ada Limited announced re­ for energy conservation. Ja­
book during a year as a Gug­ prosperous nation with 25 mil­ creepy crawlers at a fish­ cently that Mr. Tats Matsu­ pan, the U.S. and Canada
lion people compared to 16
genheim Foundation fellow.
bait worm farm operated by shita has been appointed agreed to reduce oil imports
million
in
France,
7
million
in
The title comes from Perrin’s
substantially by 1985.
George’s father.
Vice
President
of
Planning.
Spain,
4
1
/?
million
in
England
finding that the Japanese, after
The Japanese businessmen
becoming very adept at the and maybe a million in what
George’s first prize was a The announcement follows said Japan, which now im­
manufacture and use of fire­ to become the United States. book called “How to Find the recent formation of Gulf
ports 70 per cent of all its
arms, voluntarily gave them up Japan in 1543 was believed to Worms,’’ although George Canada
Products
Com
­
and went back to fighting with have had a higher literacy rate already knew the answer: pany’s “downstream” divi­ energy, will cut dependency
on imports to 60 per cent by
swords, spears and bow and rate than any European country, “At my father’s farm.”
sion
responsible
for
refining,
During the same period,
arrows. By the time Commodore interest in the arts ran high, and
marketing,
chemicals
and
Matthew Calbraith Perry sho­ European visitors were looked
dependence on oil imports
Librarian Kalene Guyader supply and distribution.
down
upon
because
they
ate
wed up in Japan with his war­
will be redued by a similar
explained that the contest
ships in 1853, firearms were with their fingers rather than was organized as “just a
Mr. Matshushita was most margin to about 50 per cent.
with chopsticks. Early visitors
virtually unknown.
summer fun event” in con­ recently General Manager Japan wants to buy Can­
❖ ❖
also were surprised to see the
junction with bookworm of the company’s Supply adian thermal coal to power
What caused the Japanese to Japanese used soft paper with
summer, which is to encour­ and Distribution Depart­ generating plants now fired
reject the guns? Perrin sug­ which to blow their noses; most
by oil.
age children to read more. ment.
Cont. on Page 2
gests there were a number of

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THE

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Hosokawa ...
Cont. from Page 1
Englishmen at the time were
using their sleeves. Japanese
swordmakers, Perrin reported,
reached a degree of skill never
achieved by European smiths.
Perrin’s findings also give us
an idea of what a wrenching
experience it was for Japan, af­
ter the restoration of Emperor
Meiji in 1868, to eliminate the
samurai. He numbers the Japa­

nese warrior class in 1597 at
nearly 2 million —just under
8 percent of the population. In
Britain about the same time,
there were 30,000 warriors,
about six-tenths of one percent,
and “in no European country
did the warrior class much
exceed one percent.
Since Japanese samurai we>re
romantic but unproductive
members of society, you can
imagine the load placed on far­
mers, craftsmen and tradesmen
to support them.

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Keeping Up Decade-long Feud
been living apart ever since
By BOB HORIGUCHI
the early postwar days.
TOKYO. — There is only one
The third son of Yutaka
thing that age can give you,
Morimura, one of the founders
and that is wisdom.
So wrote S.I. Hayakawa, the of the family fortune, Isamu
scholar turned politician, who attended Harvard University
and later studied for three ad­
is himself in his 60s.
This saying, however, evi­ ditional years in England.
dently does not apply to a
Returning to Japan, he joined
well-born couple that has al­ one of the Moriniura companies
ready observed its golden wed­ which was part of the “zaibatding anniversary.
su” empire with interests in
Isamu Morimura, 81-y ear- banking, trade and pottery. His
old scion of a socially, promi­ father was awarded a baronetcy
nent business family, and his in 1916.
73-year-old wife, Haru, have
Climbing rapidly up the cor­
been feuding for three decades porate ranks, Isamu served as
and their dispute flared up last a director and eventually as
month to the point where po­ president of the various Mori­
lice were called in, reports the mura enterprises.
Shukan Shincho.
His rise, the magazine re­
It is seldom in Japan that the ports, was not only due to his
guardians of law and order are family background but also to
summoned to quell domestic his undisputed ability as an ex­
disturbances.
ecutive. His management tal­
According to the weekly, po­ ents were so widely recognized
lice sirens perturbed the Sun­ in the business world that in
day calm of the usually serene 1967 he was asked to take over
residential district around the the presidency of the then ail­
Okura Hotel at midday on June ing All-Nippon Airways.
3, as officers rushed to the
His wife, Haru, is the daugh­
Morimura residence in answer ter of Yoshihara Tadokoro, a
to an anguished telephone call former vice-minister of educa­
from a woman.
tion and later a member of the
There they found two trucks now defunct House of Peers.
and a wrecker crane, whose
operators were standing around
The couple began drifting
a distinguished-looking elderly apart during the war when the
couple engaged in a heated Morimuras moved to Oiso, whe­
argument.
re they have a villa, to escape
The crane had already torn from the aerial bombing raids.
off a pillar flanking the en­
Having to look after wide­
trance to a weather — beaten,
spread business interests, Is­
Western-style mansion.
amu traveled frequently to To­
The dispute, the magazine kyo, where he came to live
relates on the basis of a police when the war ended, while his
report, was between the Mori­ wife remained in Oiso;
muras and it was the wife who
He eventually established a
had summoned the police, i
liaison with a geisha, who has
The altercation was over the since given him two sons and
sale of the property, effected a daughter. It is with them
by the husband against the that be lives today in a highwishes of his wife.
rise luxury^ apartment house in
The ‘ officers, having deter­ Mita, according to the maga­
mined that this was a matter zine.
in which they should not med­
It adds that the wife bitterly
dle, promptly withdrew.
resents the prospect of having
The mansion, the weekly sta­ to share her husband’s estate
tes, has been vacant for a num­ upon his death with the ex­
ber of year after serving as the geisha, Omasa-san, and her
home of the Morimura’s adop­ offsprings.
ted son Takao, 57, who is mar­
ried to the couple’s eldest daug­
hter. It was requisitioned during
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Geisha
Changing [ Dates & Doings J
With Times Toronto hosts Cleveland in Biennial

Tokyo. — Rieko Mochida’s
day begins at 10 o’clock Tennis Tourney Labour Day Weekend
VANCOUVER—Andy and
KIMURA
TORONTO. —- 1979 marks the 25th anniversay of our
Mimi (Yamamoto) Hatto TORONTO — Mr. Samuel each morning when she sets
tennis tournament between Toronto and
recently announced the ar­ Shiroku Kimura passed out from her Tokyo home international
Cleveland.
rival of a baby boy, Dennis away at Toronto East Gen­ for a music lesson. It ends Do the names Shig and Fred Yamagata, Mitch and Eva
Kazuhito on April 2, 1979. eral Hospital on July 20, after midnight when the Hashiguchi, Shiro and Kimi Shiozawa and Shig and Mary
last customers have left the Okada ring a bell? Come out and renew old acquaint­
First grandchild to James 1979.
come out and make new friends; help Toronto
and Betty Yamamoto.
Beloved husband of Mis­ traditional, Japanese-style ances;
defend its title.
ao. Dear father of James restaurant to which she was- For further information, contact Vic or Bev Suzuki
TORONTO. — Gillian and and Gerald. Loving brother assigned for the evening.
at 889-5988. — V. S.
At 33, Rieko is at the top
Richard Sogawa recently of Hideo of Hamilton;
announced the birth of their Thomas and Tomoye, both of her profession as a geisha"
A MUST FOR ALL KARATE STUDENTS. . .
second child, Graham Rich­ of Toronto, and Mikiko She began the role at 16,
after deciding a year earlier
ard, on July 17th at Welles- (Hirano; of Japan.
PINAN KATA GRAND MANUAL
ley Hospital. A brother for Giffen-Mack Chapel. Sei- that she wanted to become
Christine. Proud grand­ ch o-No-Ie Church. Intern­ a geisha “to sweep away the
By Ryusho Sakagami
parents-are Mr. and Mrs. W. ment Pine Hills Cemetery. twisted notions against us.”
“MASTER OF SHITORYU ITOSUKA1 KARATE”
J. Graham and Mr. and Mrs.
These notions include the
Kata Director of the Federation Of All Japan Karate
K. A. Sogawa.
idea that geisha are women
Organization (FA JKO)
FUJIMOTO
For the first time in history Karate Master Sakagami
TORONTO. — Suddenly of the night whose physical
has issued a manual on the art of the five main katas that all
at her home in Scarborough, favors are readily available
students MUST master before acquiring the coveted Black
Mrs. Ayano Fujimoto, be­ to the affluent customer
Belt in Shitoryu.
along
with
their
music,
dan
­
This unbelievably easy to follow manual pictorially illu­
loved wife of James Ka­
cing
and
conversation.
strates how each Pinan kata is performed. Details are given
name
Fujimoto, passed
on each block, kick, punch, strike, stance, and body shifting
away on July 15, 1979. Dear
The word geisha itself
technique. Each kata is correspondingly illustrated with ths
mother of Ken Fujimoto comes from “gei”, meaning
“Kakushi” or the hidden meaning in each move.
and his wife, Jan. Dear mo­ arts, and “sha”, meaning a
Details are also given on history, and the full spectrum
ther of Jeanne Taylor, lov­ person. Thus, the geisha
in performing each kata such as breathing, knai, body shif­
ting, mental concentration, and attitude.
ing grandmother of Chris­ considers herself a person
.Price is $13.50. Limited Supply.
topher. Dear sister of Ken­ of the arts with a private
Apply: Canadian Shitoryu Karate Headquarters, 76 Six
suke Kosaka, Sumie (Mrs. life and a life style of her
Point Road, Toronto, Ont. M8Z 2X2.
Shoichi Matsushita), Yoshie own choice.
Kosaka, and Kay (Mrs. “My life is a very busy
Robert McBride).
one,” the jeans-clad Rieko
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NEW

A JUDGMENT ON WAR CRIMES

Cont. from Page 3

I Geisha ..

With this background,
served on low tables with Rieko takes a dim view of
’ elusions. At the same time, right, of course. The use of 1 guests seated on tatami the modern, made-in-a-minby DONALD RICHIE
‘ the presentation-is such that the atom bomb quite quali­ straw mat floors—she may ute type geisha. She termed
The "war crimes” trials the spectators can deductiv­ fies as a war crime, or at not eat, but probably will be them bar girls in kimono dis­
held in both Japan and Ger­ ely draw only a single con­ least — one of many — a, invited to exchange many guise with no artistic skills
many immediately conclud­ clusion. This becomes the crime committed during a toast of sake, the tradition­ and interested only in the
money. There are others, she
ing World War II aroused unwritten message, the un­ war.
al Japanese rice wine.
added, who are no more
considerable
controversy. stated moral of the play.
The second of the plays di­ The geisha is booked by than prostitutes. They still
For one thing, were these
rects the audience more ex­ the hour, but Rieko, like
If,
as
in
Brecht,
the
prep
­
courts objective or were
plicitly in that it deals with most of the popular, usually are called "makura,” pillow
they merely marsupial? For aration has been sufficient, anecdotal material, shows is engaged for the entire geisha, because in the old
another, were they even le­ then the conclusions are in­ the war crime in question, evening. At a rate of 2850 days they strapped a pillow
gal? This controversy, like escapable. Through a proL and suggests that the dead yen (about $13) for each on their back for use when
all others, was shortly for­ cess somewhat like that of hero (who appears only dur­ hour, she may make as much plying their trade.
gotten. Nowadays only his­ elimination, one discovers ing the flashback sections) as $2000 a month. That is . , The manager of Rieko’s
torians, legal experts arid a what the play is about. To finally embraced his own far more than the average guild said talent now is
.
few others even remember this extent one creates the guilt and died for it. Thus office girl could hope to hard to find.
meaning of the drama.
"Girls used to have to take
them.
the morals of both plays are earn, but for a geisha there
performance examinations
Among the few others is "Th Judgment” is, thus, the same, though the two are heavy expenses.
to be registered with our
Junji Kinoshita, one of Ja­ an enactment of part of the approaches to this conclu­ Her wardrobe must m guild,” he said, "but now we
pans leading playwrights, Tokyo trials and most of sion are different: we Japa­ elude many kimono, the have a personality check
least expensive of which
who in 1970, a quarter-cen­ the dialogue is taken from nese are guilty.
This concern with guilt is may cost $1000 or more. The
tury after the event, wrote the actual court records,
"Perhaps the most import­
a two-part play about the This is in itself dramatic a singular one— it is not, extremely intricate Japan­ ant thing for a geisha is to
Tokyo trials. This was Be­ in that all trials are drama certainly, a concern endemic ese hairstyles now are re­ be close mouthed. That
tween God and Man (Kami and all lawyers are actors in Japan. One learns that quired only in special occa­ doesn’t mean reticent, but
to hito to no aida) which in that they are imperson­ Kinoshita was at one point sions, but there still is - a they must keep quiet about'
was comprised of two sep­ ating what they do not us­ in his life Christian and this daily visit to a hair dresser
confidential matters They
arate plays (designed to be ually feel. Kinoshita, how-; is perhaps where the idea at a cost of seven or eight
hear discussed by their
alternately performed): ever, indicates the direction . :ame from. Therefore I dollars.
"The Judgment” arid "Sum­ in which he wishes us to wonder just how efficacious Then there are other spe­ clients.”
Rieko, who said she has
Romance of the think by having all the de­ his work was in changing cialized items of clothing
mer
South Seas.” An excellent fendants sitting, not on the spectators from appreciat­ and money- for the music found- "real life is not as
easy as I had expected,”
English translation of the stage, but in the orchestra. ors into creators since he and dancing lessons.
complete text has just ap- They are "with” us and we was suggesting something "If we don’t get help from lamented the - winds of
change that even she has
peared.
are to deduce because they quite alien to the majority a parent or patron, we’re
‘are” us (the Japanese au­ of his audience. If the play likely to be in debt to our left.
"Most of our customers
As Eric J. Gangloff, the dience) and that, by exten­ had been about sham (in the kimono shop,” Rieko said.
translator has noted in his sion, we are all guilty.
personal rather than the "There also is the prob­ these days come from firms
interesting introduction,
public sense) I would, in lem of job security,” she that use Japanese restaur­
Kinoshita is a didactic play­ At the very end of the Japanese terms, believe in it. went on. "Although we are ants for business negotia­
wright who — like Brecht, play a dilemma is intro­ As it is, however, since an lucky in that, if we’re good, tions,” she said. "Many
an apt quote from whom duced: if the Allies (includ­ assumption of moral guilt we can continue as long as Westernized Japanese bus­
serves as epigraph to this ing the Americans) are jud­ is not usually within Japa­ we like. I have a coilleague inessmen do not even under­
edition — is concerned'with ging the Japanese, what then nese capabilities (except who is still working happily stand the tokiwazu songs.
They are not versed in the
morals. The main thing, says of the atomic bomb. Was its within the immediate fam­ in her 70s.
Brecht, "is to teach the spec­ use not also a war crime? ily), it would probably be "But I certainly dont feel subtleties of our dancing.
tator to reach a verdict.” The Japanese defense attor­ a mistake to see these plays very secure thinking what Some even prefer scotch to
To which Kinoshita adds ney brings this up and ex­ 1s? any kind of national will happen when I am not sake.”
There are many who also
that his aim has been "to presses his feelings on the statement.
in good shape. Many geisha
change dur spectators, who subject. These are prompt­ Not, I might add, that any save up to buy a bar or prefer the Western-style
night clubs and cabarets or
hitherto have been merely ly shot down and Gangloff, such claim is made for small restaurant to have the "pink solons,” where
appreciators, into creators.” in his introduction, makes a them. Still, for whatever something to fall back on.” scantily dressed cavort.
The daughter of a geisha
point of Kinoshita’s purpos­
As for her own life as a
The way in which-he choos­ ely showing the character bad reasons, products from mother, Rieko is a member geisha, Rieko said: "t feel
Kagurazaka Geigi
es to do so is to present evi­ and his misgivings as weak Japan are usually regarded of the Guide and looks happy when I can perform
(geisha)
simply to indicate that this
dence and no clear-cut con- is no proper way out of the outside as "typical.” And often to her links with the satisfactorily, and I think
that these plays certainly
it’s a privilege to meet and
past.
problem.
are not. They are best seen
Centuries ago, when To- serve intelligent, top notch
Perhaps (I did hot see the as an extremly personal re­ kyo was known as Edo, the customers. I enjoy my free
KIMURA,
original production of this action to the fact of the first geisha accompanied time as much as anybody
CADSBY
play, but knowing the Geki- trials and the fact of the courtesans to the city’s fab­ else. Wearing jeans and
dan Mingei and its ways war, and a gallant if, I sus­ led Yoshiwara gay quarter. with no makeup. I play mah­
& TAYLOR
and, I might add, the Japa­
Barristers & Solicitors
There they provided music jong with friends for re­
pect,
quixotic
attempt
on
nese audience and its way),
1501 ELLESMERE RD.
and song, but were forbid­ laxation and golf for exer­
I would suspect that it was the part of the author to win den by government decree cise.”
Scarborough, Ontario
Telephone: 431-1500
But she added: "Many
at just this point that the an audience over to his sin­ to engage in prostitution.
155 MAIN ST. W.
spectators made up their gular way of thinking.
They are diminishing now children of geisha mothers
Stouffville, Ontario
minds as to what the play
and there are no official are illegitimate. Our life is
Telephone: 294-6393
BETWEEN
GOD
AND
was about. And they are
statistics on the total num­ laced with pain. It also bub­
MAN, A Play in Two Parts, ber of true geisha in Japan. bles with pride and fun. But
by Kinoshita Junji. Trans­ One authority said he would I am skeptical about the
lated and with an introduc­ guess there are about 2000, future.
Searching For Two Lost Sisters
“I do not want a child
tion, by Eric J. Gangloff. while another said there are
Hanako & Yuki Yuasa
University of Tokyo Press, "no more than 400 or 500 myself, and, if I had one, I
veal geisha” in the entire would not bring her up to
1979.
Pp.
174.
Y2,000.
Lost Contact 42 years ago in Vancouver, B.C.
be a geisha.”
country.
Anyone knowing the wherabouts of any of the
two above women is requested to call Mr. George
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