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Experience 79 Project: Japanese Canadians are changing says Sansei
ing inexperienced opinions ibly Japanese. Concerned ound us who are partially ations, will look straight at
and instant moral judg- and thoughtful parents, as Japanese? Or will they turn the facts, and show them­
- Japanese Canadians have ments.
well as the community’s their backs on them and re­ selves to have open hearts
and open minds.
really changed since World j There’s change in the very organizations, have got ~ a fuse to do anything?
I’ve written this article in
War II. I don’t mean that .blood of our community. hard task before them. Can
— David Fujino
we’ve now’ got the vote and And rather than shake our they provide support and the hope that Japanese Can
(“Experience 79” Project)
university educations and heads and tell our sons and information for those ar- adians,' and their organizcomfortable homes and good daughters to “marry a Jap­ iiiiniiimiijmiiiixiiipiqjimsiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiHniiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiicJiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiKiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiin
jobs.
anese,” we’ve got to look at
I mean were starting to our attitudes and we’ve got
look different. Were not to look at our community
just black-haired and brown­ organizations. You can’t
eyed. Were also red-haired stop the wheel of change
. Ao'
Orgasm for
of Japanese Origin
with green eyes. Sometimes from spinning. However, you
brown-haired with blue eyes. can develop a plan for al­ VOL. 43 - NO. 63
FRIDAY, AUGUST 24, 1979
TORONTO, ONTARIO
We don’t always look “ori­ lowing the Japanese Can­ niiiiiiiiiiii inniimi! iiinuniiin um i mirnsi n i i si uui ihii n hihiiiiiiiiii imimumi uiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii u iiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiii
ental.”
adian community and fam­
Obviously, one of the par­ ily to grow larger. Allow all
ents is of Japanese descent, those mixed blood people to
and the other parent is not benefit from the commun­
And their child, you might ity’s social activities, cul­
say, has the best of both tural teachings, and relig­
ious services.
worlds.
But that child gets lab­ How. do you do this? First
The Award was established Modern Standard Japanese. The
elled by Japanese Cana­ of all, you love them. Sec­ TORONTO. — The University
of Toronto’s Office of Student in March 1979 to commemorate scholarship is awarded by the
dians as a “half-breed,’ or ond, you treat them no dif-1 Awards
announced recentlyMiss one hundred years of Japanese Faculty of Arts and Science on
worse, as “ainoko.” In the fer'ently than the so-called Sara Grace McDowell as the immigration to Canada and will the recommendation of the’
Japanese Canadian commu­ “pure Japanese.” And third­ winner of the first annual Tsu­ be presented annually to a sen­ Department of East Asian
nity the term “ainoko” is ly, you explain the Japanese tae and Hanako Sato Scholar­ ior undergraduate student attai­ Studies.
ning the highest mark in
used a lot, even though it’s values of “respect” for life ship in Japanese.
Tsutae and Hanako Sato of
and
for
others,
and
how
Vancouver, donors of the
rather crude Japanese.
these “respect” values are
award, together taught the
So far, the majority of not only part of judo and Dilemma of being Chinese Japanese
Japanese language for more
“pure blood” Japanese Can­ flower arrangement, they
“We are never regarded as than 50 years to JapaneseTOKYO. — “I was born and
adians,. and their, organiz­ also inf luence our treatment raised in Japan. And I feel I’m a real part of this society,” she Canadian students.
ations, have not caught up, of fellow workers and people Japanese. Yet I cannot be real said, impressing the large con­
Sara McDowell, .21, is a third
test
audience,
packing
the
year student at Trinity College
Japanese in the true sense,”
after all, very few Japan­ we meet during the day.
explains Ms. Houshu Chin of International Salon of the Maini- and attained a mark of 87 per­
ese Canadians ever interOf
course,
if
the

pure
Hyogo’s Kawaifsei Gakuin Univ., chi/Kaikan, as well as the four cent in Modern Standard Japan­
married during the 1940s
ese. She is hoping to spend a
winner of the’ 33rd Anmial competition judges.
and 50s. And ail the while blood” Japanese don’t know National
Intercollegiate English
Terming her success in year in Japan to further her
it’s known that the inter­ how to love and respect Oratorical Contest held in Osaka Japan’s most prestigious En­ knowledge of the language.
marriage rate among Sansei others, they can’t teach last month.
glish oratorical contest as “just She is a graduate of Toronto’s
those
who
are

part

Jap
­
and Yonsei has jumped in­
“It is simply because l am of lucky,” the “Kwangaku” stu­ Jarvis Collegiate Institute.
anese.
They

d
have
nothing
Chinese descent,” she said. Ms." dent said that she spoke about
credibly high (some esti­
to
teach.
Chin is a third generation “Chi­ what had frustrated her for the
mates are as high as 80%-—
Luckily, though, this isn’t nese-Japanese.” Her grandpar­ past several years and what she Japan Nobel
but what can be done?
the case. There are com­ ents came from Suzhou, China wanted other people to know. Prize winner
The few progressive “pure munity people with a before the war and settled here. Ms. Chin said that every three
In a soft but articulate voice, years she has to renew her
bloods” have suggested to broader and more practical
Tomonaga dies
their organizations that the view of community. They the 21-year -old business-major “little green book that says I
that there are some 700,000 am an alien” at the immigration
TOKYO. — Shinichiro
Sansei be given a direct say understand that if their cul­ said
non-Japanese permanent resi­ office. She was born in Osaka Tomonaga, one of Japan’s
in their management; that tural. organization, for ex­ dents in this homogeneous so­ and went through Japanese
Sansei receive help in pro­ ample, is going to survive, ciety who feel exactly like her. public elementary and high leading scientists and win­
gramming for Sansei; and it will have to fit the needs
schools, although there is a high ner of the 1965 Nobel Prize
that leadership training for of its members, who will be
school for Chinese residents in in physics, died of cancer at
They all look
nearby Kobe. Her father oper­ a Tokyo hospital recently.
Sansei be considered a pri­ “pure Japanese,” hakujin,
ates a Chinese restaurant in
to
ority.
Since early November,
black, “part Japanese,” and, alike''
Kobe.
If the active Sansei are en­ essentially, anyone interest­ U.S. Senator
Her parents prefer their cur­ when he was hospitalized
couraged to develop their ed in the particular cultural
rent status partly because they for treatment of cancer of
Sen.
WASHINGTON

ideas—with few strings at­ organization. Religion and
worry about their position sho­ the esophagus, Tomonaga
tached—then a new and social groups also have to Frank Church (D-Idaho) re­ uld a war break out (between had undergone a series of
realistic view of the Japan­ adapt their minds and pro­ cently had to leave a hear­ China and Japan), and partly operations, his doctors said.
the formalities of
ese Canadian community grams to The fact of our ing he was chairing, so he because
Tomonaga graduated from
acquiring Japanese citizenship
announced
he
would
turn
might grow. For it’s the San­ changing blood.
the Dept, of Science at Ky­
are too complex, she said.
the
gavel
over
to
Sen.
Haya
­
sei and Yonsei who are in­ This cultural change has­
But I myself think in a dif-. oto University in 1929, and
kawa,
sitting
to
hi$
right.
clined to marry out of the n’t happened over-night.
ferent way. I would like to ob­ started a career as a re­
The
man
at
his
right
was
community. And if the com­ Ever since the Issei set foot
tain Japanese nationality and I’d searcher at the governmentnot
S.
I.
Hayakawa,
the
Cal
­
like to marry a Japanese if I can backed laboratory of science
munity is going to exist-— in Canada whatever Japan­
even in an altered form- it ese culture they brought ifornia Republican, but Ha­ because I know nothing except and chemistry under Yoshio
Japan. I’ve never been to a for
needs leaders who know with them began to lose its waii Democrat Spark Mat­ eign
country. I only know the Nishina, a pioneer in nu­
sunaga.
what they’re talking about, purity—slowly at first, then
Japanese language and; a little clear physics.
“It’s Matsunaga,” said English,” said Ms. Chin.
who know through personal more dramatically with
Tn 1965, he was awarded
experience, what inter-racial their baseball-playing and Matsunaga.
“Will it ever be possible to the Nobel Prize for physics
and inter-cultural marriage ballroom-dancing children,
“I said Matsunaga. What’s see or hear the words, ‘Ameri­ with two U.S. physicists—
is, and isn’t, about. There’s the Nisei.
wrong with your hearing?” can-Japanese’ or ’Chinese-Japa­ Richard Feynman and Ju­
nese?’ ” she asks.
surely a world of difference
the
blushing
Church
said.
lian Schwinger—for in quan­
between those who’ve ex- - In the 1970’s we’re at an­ “They all look alike,” said
What she wants to see more tum electrodynamics, which
than anything else is the day
nprienced a relationship other turning point-—and it’s Matsunaga deadpan.
“When I can say without hesita­ contributed to the under­
with someone from another of major importance. It’s
culture and race and those about the loss of a blood- Church and the audience tion—“I am a Chinese-Japa- standing of elementarypar­
ticles in high-energy physics.
nese.”
who’re on the sidelines offer- line which has made us vis- dissolved into laughter.
by David Fujino

THE NEW CANADIAN
First annual Tsutae and Hanako Sato
Scholarship in Japanese won
by Sara McDowell

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Friday, August 24, 1979

THE

NEW

Personal Notes Across Ganado^
Anniversary

CANADIAN

Canadian
buckwheat
popular
in Japan

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PAGE 3;

[ Dates & Doings ]

Tor. Jpnz. U.C. to sponsor refugee

-50thKAMLOOPS, B. C -Mr
TORONTO. — At a recent board meeting, the Toronto
Japanese United Church Nisei Congregation decided that
Yosomatsu Nishizaki and
MONTREAL, Quebec —
an Indo-Chinese refugee family be sponsored. One of the
wife Kimi celebrated their Mrs. Tora Ono, 83, wife of
given was that after World War Two, Japanese
VANCOUVER — Cana­ reasons
golden wedding anniversary the late Rinzo Ono, passed
Canadians also felt like refugees and people who were
recently at China Village away on July 26, 1979 at the dians may be missing out strangers had once helped, too.
Restarant here in Kamloops home of her daughter Toyo. on a good thing. Canadian
Heading up the refugee family committee are Irene
buckwheat
is
better
known
Kagawa and Brian Kai. The Fellowship Club is collecting
with their three sons and a Dear mother of Takashi
and more popular abroad housekeeping items and the United Church Women are
daughter.
(Tod), Isao (Squat), Aya than,
gathering clothing. Additional support is forthcoming
at home.
Congratulatory messages (Mrs . Jack Kobayashi) and
the Issei Congregation, who have expressed a great
Buckwheat is known to from
from Governer •— General, Toyo (Mrs. Michael Ochiai).
interest. For this project to succeed, much time and ef­
Lieutenant Governer-Gene­ Survived by 9 grandchildren most Canadians only as an fort will be required. Anyone who is willing to help
ral of B.C., and provincial and sister Momoyo in ingredient in special pan­ please contact Irene at 625-8722 or Brian at 231-7884.
—TJUC
minister and ML.A. were Tokyo, Japan. Service con­ cake mixes. It can however,
read by Mr. T. Kitamura. ducted by the Rev. Don Jess. be used as a stuffing for
Dr. M. Miyazaki and others Interment at Rideau Memo­ poultry, in bread and mix­ Jpnz. youth orchestra wants members
ed with other ingredients
made congratulatory speech­ rial Gardens.
TORONTO. — The summer season of the Japanese
as
a
natural
breakfast
food.
Youth Orchestra is in full swing Monday evenings at the
es. .
*
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In addition, it makes a ,tasty Buddhist Church. Being rehearsed are Wagner’s Intro­
TAKAHASHI
replacement for rice or po­ duction to Act III, selections from Tschaikovsky’s Nut­
CARD OF THANKS
RICHMOND, B C. — Koji tatoes.
cracker Suite, a medley of tunes from “Annie,” and
others. In order to fill out our instrumentation
We wish to express our Takahashi, 64, passed away
The buckwheat crop is many
sincere thanks and appre­ on May 30th, 1979. Sur­ also the source of buck­ we need a string bass, two cellos, a second trumpet and
an oboe. We would also welcome a tuba, trombones (or
ciation to our relatives vived by loving "wife Mary, wheat honey. This dark baritones),
and, of course, violins and violas. All that is
and friends for their acts sons Ken and David, and two honey fetches about the required from members is enthusiasm and a desire to
of kindness, messages of grandchildren.
same price as No. 1 White make musical sounds with other Canadians of Japanese
sympathy and beautiful j Mr. Takahashi worked as Honey in Canada, but in origin. Instruments can be supplied.
floral offerings in the re­ agillnet fisherman from 1928 seme export markets it com­ under the direction of Brenda Uchimaru and Mayami
cent loss of a dear mother, until the evacuation in 1941. mands a premium over Kumagai on Monday evenings from 7:30 to 9:30 at the
Buddhist Church, Bathurst and Bloor.
_
Chiye Hirose.
He worked on his boat white honey,
For further information, please contact Gloria Sumida
Harold and Fusaye Hi­ “Midas” until ill health for­ The Japanese are the big­ 491-5652—M.K.
rose, George and Kinuye ced his retirement in 1975. gest consumers of Canadian
Hirose, Takeo and Sak- Then he joined his son Ken buckwheat More than 80 Tor. Japanese Language School starts^
aye Hirose, Mitsuo and on his packer “Feelin’ Free”. per cent of last year’s crop
TORONTO — The Toronto Japanese Language School
*
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Yoshiko Hayashi, and
was shipped to Japan for will resume its Saturday morning classes from Septem­
families.
YODOGAWA
use in combination with ber 8th, 1979 at the following locations: Orde St. Public
• STEVESTON, B.C.-Mr. wheat flour for the manu­ School (18 Orde St.); —Wexford Collegiate (1176 Pharm­
Miysuru Yodogawa, 64, of facture of noodles, called acy Aye.); —Wilkinson School (advanced studies) (53
Steveston passed away on soba, which are cooked like Donlands Ave.)
x
CARD OF THANKS
The
hours
are
3
hours
(9:00
a.m.
to
12
noon)
every
We express our sincere May 24th 1979. Born in 1914, spaghetti.
Saturday morning.
,
appreciation to our many Mr. Yodogawa was a river
Although reading and writing Japanese are taught,
friends and relatives for fisherman since the age of
considerable stress is placed on teaching conversational
Japanese. Here is an opportunity to do something about
their kind assistance, deep of 17. After returning from CARD OF THANKS
We wish to express our youT “roots”.
sympathy, floral tributes, the internment camp of
A special adult class will again be set up at the Orde
Koden, telegrams of con­ Greenwood and a few years sincere gratification to
dolences during the re­ of work on track-laying ere-! our friends and relatives School branch for beginners as well as for those who wish
improve what they already know.
cent loss of our beloved ws for the CPR, he returned | for your frequent visits toTuition
fees are $7.50 per month for 1 child, $12.00 for
husband and father, Sam io fishing in 1950 with his to the hospital during 2 children, and $15.00 for 3 or more.
boat “Naomi Y.”
Larry’s illness. Also for
Kimura.
For further information please contact either Mr. Yuki
Mr.
Yodogawa
is
survived

the
beautiful
floral
trib
­
Mizuyabu (chairman of the School Board) 343 Durie St.
Mrs. M. Kimura, James
by his loving wife, Mariko, ! utes, Koden and commis­ Toronto M6S 3G2, Tel. 767-6301, or Mr. Hideo Takashashi
and Gerald,
sons Doug of Steveston, Ri­ eration shown during the (secretary) 11 Playter Cres., Toronto M4K 1S1, Tel.
Mrs. R. Kimura,
Mr. and Mrs. H. Kim­ cky of Surrey, and daugth- 9 loss of Larry Levitte, Jr. 461-4961.
—Toronto Japanese Language School
Mrs. Susan (Kayama)
ers Mrs. Pearl Morioka of
ura,
Mr. and Mrs. T. Kim­ Surrey, Mrs. Patsy Wood of Levitte.
Vancouver, and Hiromu and
Mr. and Mrs. Larry Lev­
ura,
itte Sr. and family.
Amy of Steveston.
Searching For Two Lost Sisters
Miss T. Kimura.
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*
Mr. arid Mrs. Sam Kay­
Hanako & Yuki Yuasa
MIZOBUCHI
ama and Family.
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Lost Contact 42 years ago in Vancouver, B.C.
CARD OF THANKS
Umekichi Mizobuchi, 92, one
We wish to express sin­ of Canada’s oldest Issei
Anyone knowing the wherabouts of any of the
CARD OF THANKS
cere thanks to our rela­ pioneers, passed away on
two above women is requested to call Mr. George
We
express
our
sincere
tives and friends for their July 29, 1979 at an old age
Yuasa at 274-1679 in Mississauga, Ont.
thoughtful expressions of home. Funeral was held on appreciation to our many
sympathy, kind assist­ August 2nd, 1979, with the-I friends and relatives for
ance, the beautiful floral Rev. Iwai officiating. Inter­ their kind assistance, deep
tributes, koden and tele­ ment Mount Royal Ceme­ sympathy, floral tributes,
koden, telegrams of con­
grams received during tery.
dolences during the re­
our recent bereavement
cent loss of our dear hus­
of a dear mother and
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The myth and reality.

Friday, August 24, 1979

Japanese sets adrift on raft

MIHO, Japan. — A 29-year old West Coast and down -to Cen
>
freelance journalist set out re-, tral America.
Yamamoto said he was sure
cently to cross the Pacific alone
on an 11- meter long bamboo to make it to Mexico on the raft
raft in an effort to prove that as he successfully drifted on a
In these small firms, the annual ancient Japanese crossed to similar float from the "'Philip­

lifetime

employment
becomes
By ANTONIO KAMIYA —
income tops at a still younger Central America in prehistoric pines to Kagoshima, in 34 days
even
less
meaningful
for
those
TOKYO. — Izumi Abe pins
a couple of years ago.
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in
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depressed
sec
­
the tiny diamond-shaped badHe said just before sailing,
Even for major corporations
tors
of
the
economy.
Reflecting
Toshiyuki Yamamoto said he “I am in high spirits and-good
... ge on the left-hand lapel of
with
over
1,000
employees
his newly-made business suit, no doubt the economic diffi­ where the basic wages still would reach Mexico in five physical condition and in top
bows, and returns to his seat culties of the present low increase until one retires, the months, drifting 13,000 kilo­ shape.”
among a group of eager- growth era, nearly 15,000 com­ curve ot pay increase flattens meters on the Japanese Current,
The vessel has no engine and
looking and straight - sitting panies went bust last year, and toward the retirement age. which runs toward the U.S. no sail but does have radio
freshmen recruited this year tens of thousands of people Back in 1973, there was a wage
equipment.
were thrown out of their sup­
by the Sumitomo Bank.
differential of some Y9,000
This simple but solemn cere­ posedly “lifetime” jobs.
Total unemployment now between those in the late forties J NT Auto Service
mony marks a sort of official
and those who were five years ;
42 PARLIAMENT ST.
association of the 22-year-old stands at 1.24 million, or 2.2 older. But the differential has
business administration grad­ percent ' of the total working recently shrunk to just a little
AT FRONT ST.
•population.
Admittedly
still
a
uate with the third largest bank
TORONTO, ONT. M5A 2Y4
over Y2,000.
in the country in what is com­ very low figure when compared
Tel. 362-5094 - 362-0218
Thus Japanese enterprises
monly known as “lifetime” With most other developed
countries, the number of jobless now face what labor advisers at
OPERATED BY
employment.
has
increased
by
half
a
million
the
J
a
pa
n
Committee
for
NAMIKI-& TANOUYE.
Barring major economic
over
1973,
the
year
of
the
oil
Economic Development (Keizai
upheavals, young Abe has no
Doyukai) call “radicar trans­
fear for his job. He is in fact crisis.
With the GNP registering formations” in the employment
guaranteed of annual pay in­
creases, and periodic promo­ only single-digit growth rates under Conditions of low growth From July 29 to Aug. 14,1979
SUMMER HOLIDAY
tion, which means, if everything ever since the oil shock, and an aging work force.
FLORIST
goes well, he is more or less rationalization has become a
In a paper calling for a “new SHARON'S
942 PAPE AVE.
certain of getting a supervisory key word among personnel employment order,” the Doyu“
voluntary
and
managers,
TORONTO. ONT.
or junior management position
kai experts point to the neces­

or
even
straight
TEL: 425-2122
before he. reaches his mid- retirement
sity of “increasing the weight
PHONE
layoff
a
contingency
which
thirties; And until he retires,
City wide delivery
of competency pay.” Compan362-5311
he thinks little of switching Japanese workers must now ies should, according to these
Peter Sasaki
face. To workers in such
jobs.
experts, “establish a closer
depressed
industries
as
textiles,
In short, Abe has become the
correlation between pay and
shipbuilding,
arid
steel,
life
­
“Sumitomo man,” his com-,
work” in order to promote
time

employment
sounds
very
mitmerit to his employer notgreater efficiency and to hold
A MUST FOR ALL KARATE STUDENTS. . .
hollow
indeed;
only firm but visible — in the
down labor costs. In other
The
aging
of
the
working
form of the tiny lapel badge he
words, a merits system as
PINAN KATA GRAND MANUAL
population,
together
with
the
' proudly displays in the tightly
practiced in other developed
packed commuter trains as well lower rate of economic growth, countries.
"x
By Ryusho Sakagami
as in his office (mandatory in has also forced employers to
Such a system also seems to
“MASTER OF SHITORYU ITOSUKAl KARATE”
tinkle with the seniority sys­
the latter case).
find favor with the young
Kata Director of the Federation Of All Japan Karate
This then is the prevailing tem, another major character­
workers.
According
to
a
survey
Organization (FAJKO)
image of the employment istic of the Japanese emloyment
conducted by the Japan
structure.
For the first time in history Karate Master Sakagami
system of a country whose
Recruitment
Center,
two
out
of
“U n d e r t h e present low
has issued a manual on the art of the five main katas that all
economy was catapulted from
every
three
hew
employees
students MUST master before acquiring the coveted Black
the ruins of World War II to the growth era, many companies
prefer
to
be
paid
according
to
second most powerful in the find it difficult to cope with
Belt in Shitoryu.
'
their
abilities
rather
than
the
mounting
personnel
costs.
This
unbelievably
easy
to
follow
manual
pictorially
illu­
non-Communist world; secured
number
of
years
they
have
piled
strates how each Pinan kata is performed. Details are given
job, guaranteed promotion, and Thus, instead of letting the
up
in
their
company.
This
trend
on each block, kick, punchy strike, stance, and body shifting
above all a loyalty to the em­ basic pay increase each year
is
particularly
noteworthy
in
technique. Each kata is correspondingly illustrated with the
ployer as intense as one due to until retirement, as has been
small
firms
rather
than
huge
the traditional practice, they
“Kakushi” or the hidden meaning in each move.
a feudal lord.
corporations.
Details are also given on history, and the full spectrum
But how far does the image now start to draw a line where
in performing each kata such as breathing, kiai, body shif­
automatic pay increase by ; The survey shows that about
correspond with the facts?
ting, mental concentration, and attitude;
To begin with, the appelation seniority stops, say, at around 70 percent of young people
.Price is $13.50. Limited Supply.
itself is to some extent a 45,” says Tadao Tatewaki, employed this year in the small
Apply: Canadian Shitoryu Karate Headquarters, 76 Six
misnomer. “Lifetime employ­ director of the Japan Federal enterprises with less than 100
Point Road, Toronto, Ont. M8Z 2X2.
ment is hardly lifetime in the tion of Employers’ Associations workers support the merits
literal meaning of the term. (Nikkeiren) in charge of em­ system as against 62 percent in
big corporations with a staff of
" For most employees, including ployment research.
A
recent
survey
released
by
most of the civil servants, it
over 5,000.
ends in his late fifties, whereas the Ministry of Labor also
Despite such adjustments to
an average Japanese now lives provides figures to substantiate the seniority system, most
BOOKS OF INTEREST TO
Tatewaki’s remarks. Last year, analysists agree that, truly
well into his seventies.
Only a scanty 4.4 percent of the average basic monthly pay । lifetime or not, neither Japan­
JAPANESE CANADIANS
received
by
Japanese
salaried
ese
employers
nor
employees
the enterprises set their
retirement age at 65, as com­ workers peaked with the 45-49 have the inclination to change
pared with a whopping 41.3 age group at Y217,300 whereas the practice of staying with a
JAPANESE CANADIAN HISTORY
percent which require their for those in the 50-59 age group single company for most of
“THE, ENEMY THAT NEVER WAS”
employees to go at 55. Most of their basic pay stood at their working life.
$15.00 (Postage 50 Cents)
by Ken Adachi
the rest have to retire between Y215,700. This is the first time
Reflecting no doubt the
the age of 55 and 60. Most wage that more senior employees are practice of other big business­
A BIOGRAPHY OF ISSEI PIONEER, RYUICHI YOSHIDA,
earners therefore fipd it neces­ being paid less than their juni­ es, a Sumitomo Bank personnel
“A Man of Our Times” by Rolf Knight and Maya Koizumi,
sary to find a post-retirement ors in this country.
$4.00 (Paper back with postage)
This picture is particularly executive says that the bank
job, if only to keep themselves
evident in small enterprises has an established policy of not
occupied.
SUKIYAKI Japanese Cookbook
hiring people who are not fresh
In addition, the so-called with less than 100 employees. from college.
for Cosmopolitan Gourmets
60 Favourite Japanese Recipes
“To us, working for the
$2.00 postage included
Sumitomo means more than
KIMURA,
HYLAND
earning a living. It is almost as
A CHILD IN PRISON CAMP
if we belong to the same
CADSBY
FLOWERS
By SHIZUE TAKASHIMA
family,” says the 39-year-oId
executive, who like all the
& TAYLOR
$4.00 + 25c POSTAGE
proprietor
17,000 members of the Sumi­
Barristers & Solicitors
JON ONODERA
tomo staff have been in service
1501 ELLESMERE RD.
489-4654 ----- 481-8805
to the “Sumitomo family” ever
Scarborough, Ontario
The New Canadian
(Business)
(Residence)
since
he
finished
his
university
Telephone: 431-1500
479 QUEEN STREET WEST,
education.
155 MAIN ST. W.
540 Eglinton Ave. W.
TORONTO, ONT. M5V-2A9
Stouffville, Ontario
For young Abe, that is still
Toronto
Telephone: 294-6393
how he wants it to be.

The Jpnz. workers lifetime employ

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