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Seiji Ozawa apologizes to Boston Symphony

Michael Bullock and
the Japanese culture

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BOSTON. —- Boston Sym­ ner party he gave for or­ unable to study as a music
phony Orchestra Musical chestra members in Salz­ student in Japan.
Director Seiji Ozawa has burg, Austria, according
“I thought I was the fam­
apologzed for frequent ab­ to the Boston Globe.
ous conductor, going from
The 43-year old former city to city,” he said. “No
sences, telling members of
By Patricia Iwabuchi
the orchestra, “I want to be conductor of the Toronto more. I want to be with you.
France.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Symphony Orchestra, who I hope you can help me.”
with you.”
Ozawa, who has been criti­ is leading the orchestra on
Orchestra members cheer­
Born a Nisei-Sansei in
Author Patricia Iwabu­
chi has worked for Madem­ Winnipeg during the Evac­ cized for absenteeism and a European tour, said he ed and clapped when Ozawa
globetrotting, made thej often left Boston to conduct finished speaking.
oiselle Magazine in New uation she has written sev­ promise recently at a din­ opera, which he had been
York as a Special Editor eral pieces about that time
and as a writer for World for several newspapers. She
Review Magazine in Toron- enjoys dancing and is pres­
to. She is presently finish- ently teaching at the Uni­
ing her first novel: Of Time versity of B.C.
“I would like to let you
and Creatures.
An Independent Organ for Canadians of Japanese Origin
She has read at Univers­ know what the literary com­
TORONTO, ONTARIO
FRIDAY, SEPT. 21, 1979
ity C ollege,rOxford Univers­ munity of Canada is doing VOL. 43 - NO. 71
ity in England and studied for the Japanese and how
at the University of Geneva they are introducing Japan­
in Switzerland and Sarah ese culture to the general
Lawrence in the South of Canadian public. ” she said.
TOKYO, -— Three drug । ently to pay the equivalent. from SMON, a disease
firms and the Japanese gov-1 of $3.5 million in damages Japanese courts have ruled
ernment were ordered rec- to 25 patients suffering as being caused by the medicine quinoform, a diarrhea
and perches in the surf
Since the beginning of
medication.
up above
his professional activity at
Tea-master
Sosa
Sen
dies
at
78
The decision by the Mae­
the moon
a very early age author,
- is drowning in clouds. ,
Sosa Sen 120,000 members in Japan bashi District Court outside
TOKYO.
poet Michael Bullock has
“Evening by the Shore” president of the “Omote as well as about 500 in Cali­ Tokyo brought to $59 mil­
had an intense interest in
lion the total compensation
Mr- Bullockk has trans­ Senke” School of Tea Cere­ fornia and Hawaii, the awarded to 458 patients in
Japan and Japanese arts
mony, died recently of Old spokesman said.*
and literature. Reviewers lated from German, French age a spokesman for his
The eldest son, Soin, will nine trials. The outcome of
said of his first book that and Italian and has won the family said. He was 78.
assume the 14th presidency 16 other legal battles involv­
many of the poems in it Schlegel-Tick Award and , Sen was the 13th president and the traditional name of ing more than 2500 plain­
tiffs are still being conside­
read like translations from the Canada Council Trans­ of the school, that dates Sosa, he said.
red before the courts.
lation French Prize in 1978. back 360 years and has
the Japanese.
The Maebashi court found
He
has
been
the
chairman
He has been particularly
Ciba-Geigy Japan Ltd., the
influenced by the Haiku of the Translator’s Associa­ Rakugo storyman Sanyutei Ensho dies Takeda Chemical Co. and
and some of his own “haiku” tion and a member of the
Pharmeceuticals
evening shortly after he Tanabe
TOKYO.

Sanyutei
En
­
in English have been pub­ Executive Committee of
completed a brief perform­ guilty of marketing medic­
sho,
one
of
Japan

s
best
lished in magazines such as
ance at Narashino, they ines containing quinoform
rakugo
storytellers
died
of
Nippon and Eureka in Ja­
and the Japanese Ministry
said
cardiac
infraction
at
a
hos
­
He is responsible for
pan. One of his greatest
Skilled in narration of, of Health and AVelfare of
pital
on
Sept3rd,
his
79th
admirers is Emperor Hiro­ bringing many Japanese
rakugo and human nature approving the sale of the
birthday,
his
relatives
said.
hito of Japan.
drugs despite a known con­
writers such as Kobo Abe,
Death came suddenly to stories, he was one of the nection between the subs­
Bullocks journeys be­ Hagiwara Sakuto,. Haro Ensho, whose real name was few remaining rakugo story­
tween dreams and the real Shibua, Shiro Murano, Kus­ Matsuo Yamazaki, in the tellers of the orthodox style. tance and SMON —-Suba­
cute Myeloplical Neuropa­
world are seductive in na­ ano Shimpei, and Some
thy— a nerve paralyzing
ture and Japanese in its
Ikeida to the attention of jpn. novelist Shigeharu Nakano dies disease.
simplicity. Many of his stor­
Sokesmen of all three
ies such as Sixteen Stories such magazines as Prism
World War II broke out in firms aS well as the minis­
TOKYO.

Novelist
Shig
­
as They Happened feature and Expression.
eharu Nakano died August 1941, and as a novelist of the try said they are contemp­
a young Japanese girl who
His works are Green Be­ 24 of cancer of the gall democratic literature move1 lating further action. All
appears and disappears
ginning Black Ending, Ran­ bladder at a hospital in To­ ment after the war.
four defendants have appea­
seemingly at will. More
Nakano
was
born
in
Mar
­
dolph . Cranstone, ...Savage kyo. He was 77.
led all previous eight decis­
than one story has Tokyo
uoka,
Fukui
Prefecture,
and
He
was
well
known
as
one
Darkness, and Black Wings
ions.
as a background.
White Dead. He is presently of the representative writers graduated from Tokyo Uni­
“The connection between
His poems exist as jewels professor of Creative Writ­ in the leftist proletarian versity in 1927quinoform and SMON has
in concise form, and emit­ ing at the University of B.C. literature movement before
not been proven. We have
ting such brilliant lines as:
had no such trials in foreign
Evening the river
countries—only in Japan,”
sleeps in its bed
a spoksesman for Takeda
dreaming of fish and
Chemicals said.
flowers
SMON sufferers complain
United States, Canada and
rangement,
modernized
the
TOKYO.

Sofu
Teshiga
­
Gently
of paralysis of the legs and
wara, one of Japan’s leading art and founded his own such European countries as of severe eye problems.
Its green hair drifts
flower arrangement masters school named “Sogetsu” — France, Italy, and the Neth­
I walk on tiptoe.
The father of a dead pat­
“The Sleeping River” with hundreds of followers “Grass and Moon”— in 1926. erlands.
ient, a plaintiff at Maeba­
His surreal verse and throughout the world, died
Sofu was also a prolific shi, told newsmen his son’s
He
founded
many
Sogetsu
of
a
heart
malfunction
in
a
prose are* exhilarating and
writer.
ailment would deteriorate
Schools
throughout
Japan
Tokyo
hospital
recently.
He
exciting. Characters come
after each visit to the hos­
He
leaves
a
son,
Hiroshi,
with
thousands
of
followers

was
78.
to life with a form of energy
Teshigawara, better and won international fame who is a renowned film dir­ pital.
which can be both menac­
“The more medicine my
known by his first name, after World War II. He es­ ector, and a daughter, Kas99
ing yet quite lyrical.
umi,
who
has
succeeded
her
so
^
took
the
worse
he
got
umi
tablished
the
International
Sofu, “Green Wind,” broke
The waves
away from Japan’s tradi­ Flower Arrangement Asso­ father as member of the sa^ the 70-year old Junichi
-whisper to the sand
Cont. on Page 2
tional “ikebana” flower ar- ciation with members in the Sogetsu School.
A heron swoops

THE NEW CANADIAN

Court awards $3.5 million to "SMON" victims

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Sofa Teshigawara of Ikebana fame dies

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Friday, Sept. 21, 1979

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Cont. from Page 1

Court

In search of "a job
of happiness"

The New Canadian

ties because of the possibi­
Second ClMB miil No.: 00366
Nakai.
A member of Ethnic Preau
Another patient said it lity of an out-of-court settle­
Association of, Ontario
was common for doctors to ment between the defen­
and Canada Federation
prescribe larger doses of dants and more than 4000
loathe to ride a train with
By Sachi Seko
Published on Tuesdays and
quinoform when patients SMON sufferers, many of
reserved seats.
— Fridays
compained of no improve­ whom are plaintiffs in pend­
Fairy tales used to end,
So scratch this and scrat­
T. UMEZUKI PUBLISHER
ment in intestinal problems. ing trials.
“And they lived happily ch that, my son jabbed; his
K.C. TSUMURA
The trials have gone on ever after:” At least I re­
A spokesman for the
English Section Editor
Ministry of Health and Wel­ for more than a decade with member those that did. It pen through possibly accom­
KEN MORI
fare- said drugs containing the Maebashi lower court all seemed so believable modating employers. I wip­
Japanese Section Editor
ed
away
the
ballpoint
ma
­
decision
taking
six
years
to
quinoform had been appro­
'back then, when the distinc­
479 Queen Street West,
rks on the counter, mute
run
its
course.
ved for internal use since
tion between fantasy and testimony to the paper
Toronto. Ont. M5V 2A9
The SMON dispute has reality was comfortably
1936 and were widely pres­
PHONE 366-5005
massacre.
“Then
wash
cribed until 1970 when the attracted attention around vague.
government withdrew them the world because of con­
Almost everyone believed dishes,’’ I said in exaspera­
at the beginning of the flicting claims concerning in dreams. And those who tion- I am a generation dis­
CLASSIFIED
the orgin of the ailment. .W; didn’t had the kindness or tant from him and still re­
SMON trials.
In the past patients in unkindness not to discou­ member the plight of Nisei
Commentators see the
Help Wanted
Maebashi trial as the last wheelchairs have occupied rage the dreamers- Living college graduates, condemn­
in the series of SMON bat­ the lobbies of pharmaceu­ happily ever after, was the ed to work beneath their SALES lady wanted for ski
tical firms demanding dam­ triumphant chant I shriek­ skills because of racial fashion, Egliriton &Bath­
ages The president of the ed- And failed to read the discrimination. But I stilled urst, 781-9232 (Toronto).
Tanabe Company, Ichiro shadowed warning in my my tongue that wanted to
EXPERIENCED technician
HOME
Matsuda, said his company grandmother’s face -or to strike at him.
ski repair
As my son’s contempor­ wanted for
has proof that the disease heed the mourning of her
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voice that said, ’’Girls do aries were gradually situat­ 9232 (Toronto).
ed in positions, my concern
“Doubts have arisen ab­ not wish for happiness.”
Typical price $40. total
increased. And frankly, it
HOUSEKEEPER requi­
using CHIP
program out the quinoform theory
That was a long time ago.
since the first decision’’ I have no memory of what was wearing on my nerves, red for doctor’s family. Five
Please call
told reporters
I anticipated happiness as having him around day days a week, 10 a.m. to 7
homesulation Matsuda
the being when I believed in after day. We had spent a p.m. Please apply: The New
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spokesman
for
535-0659 .
oeing wueii A r :
year together in this house Canadian, Box 11, 479 Queen
patients’ association was fairy
tales.
And
I
wote his thesis
9 to 12 a m.
2 to 4 p.m. not available for comment.
thought of happiness as a and I was feeling a despe­ Street West, Toronto M5V
2A9.
quintessential
condition
rate need for privacy.
until the last few months.
“What are you waiting
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What brings all this to
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for?” I asked.
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is
my
son

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recent
mind
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for
employment.
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The answer, “a job of
INVENTORY
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Armed
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at the university, the quest
the time when I believed
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began. Forecasts indicated
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everyone lived happily ever
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good
employment
year
for
Richmond Hill
after. That was a world
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full
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dreams.
I
re
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piness” had been rubbed
tions.
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Some promising leads out of my vocabulary When
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my
son
used,
it,
I
said,
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"TORASAN MEETS A LORD
(Todajido to Tonosan)

Sunday, Sept. 30th at 3 p.m. and 8 p.m-

Director: Yoji Yamada. iGast: Kiyoshi Atsumi, Kyoko Mano,
Chieko Daisho. The familiar vagabond takes on a quest for
a strange old man he meets in Shikoku who is the 18thgeneration descendant of the feudal lord of Ozu. Torasan
falls in love again, hopelessly, and also gets entangled in the
lord’s own dreams.

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Friday, Sept. 21, 1979

Personal Notes Across Canada*
Obituaries

Births

Buddhist

Dates & Doings
Seventh-Day World Service Appeal

by Roy Sato
KUNIHIRO
TORONTO. — Ron and
TORONTO. — Toronto Japanese Seventh-Day Ad­
(Guiding
Light)
Pauline Kishimoto are hap­
ventist Church will begin the . annual World Service
NORTH BURNABY, B.C
py to announce the birth of —Michael Alphonse Kuni­
on September 23.
Many peole live from day Appeal
The Seventh-Day Adventist Church has been engaged
their son, Daniel Isao, 7 hiro passed away suddenly
to day, not knowing and not in the community and welfare work and has been carrying
lbs. 9 ozs., on August 21, in North Burnaby on Sep­ caring where they are, or the disaster relief work all over the world1979, at 10:30 p.m Thanks tember 6th, 1979. Dear son where they are going. They
Last year, through the church’s world service^d^partto Drs. Kurdvak and Lucas of Rono and Judy, dear have only a vague notion as ment, $6,612,791 of food and cash was given and 9,428,614
and staff of Humber Mem­ brother of Gerald.
were helped. In Toronto, their Community Center
to the places they have persons
at 528 Bathurst St. has helped many Vietnamese and
orial Hospital.
Paul O’Connor Funeral been. Perhaps they are the other refugees and the needy people
Home in Scarborough, Ont. lucky ones. The rest of us
The church people wish that the public would support
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Funeral Mass in St. Augus­ must "toil” and “spin ”, up­ the work by their liberal contributions.
Say it
tine’s Cemetery Chapel. In­ tight over everything; mon­
with Flowers
terment Resthaven Mem­ ey, position, school marks,
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possessions, clothes, etc.,
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really
think
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died at theage of 63 years ful, when the weekly dance
I lesson most be skipped due
on
August
22nd,
1979.
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Study relationship between anxiety & originality in Jpnz. students

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more oriqinal a human being whereas the Japanese did not.
"MICHI"
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vafarc
elaboration

refers
. By JUNICHI KOBAYASHI
^acfalWer^solated^re<eaocentric", j is, the deeper his anxiety is The term '
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to
the
development
of
orginal
Phone 924-1303
Junichi Kobayashi graduated withdrawn, self-rejecting, less (Kierkegaard). Goldstein wrote, ideas by adding new ideas.

The
creative
person,'
who
from Sophia University in 1952 hi o t i v at ed, and • introvert.
THE NEW RESTAURANT
Concerning fluency and flex­
with a B.A. degree at Boston Some findings showed that ventures into .many situations
‘"•“MASA” , ‘ .
University. He has been profes­ high creativity test scores which expose him to shock, gets ibility, the American students
At 195 RICHMOND ST. W.
sor of .educational psychology were correlated with low lev­ into these anxiety situations were always higher in verbal
TORONTO, PHONE 863-9519
since 1975 at Sophia University. els of anxiety, whereas others more often and more readily creativity than the Japanese,
but
there
were
no
significant
than
the
average
person.

He has recently completed a did not show convincing evi­
differences in non-verbal crea­
four-year comparative study on dence-that either general or
Dread and Greatness
tivity between them. The group,
the creativity of American and test anxiety significantly af­
Furthermore,
Kierkegaard of American students got signi­
Japanese college students.
fects creativity.
said, “He therefore who learned ficantly higher test scores in
KIMURA,
— Editor
A research study on scien­ rightly to be in dread has lear­ total creativity than the. group
CADSBY
tists reported that creative per­ ned the most important thing. of Japanese students i»i the
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sons were characterized by re­ If a man were a beast or an three consecutive years. Those
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During the past decade, pression' of emotionality and a angel, he would not be able to
Japanese who scored high in
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there has been increasing in­ low level of interpersonal in­ be in dread. Since he is a syn­
total creativity were fewer in
terest in the Japanese people. volvement.- Other research has thesis he can be in dread, and
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number than those among the
Many books and articles have shown that artists and writers the greater the dread, the grea­
Scarborough, Ontario
American students.
been written on characteristics. engaged in creative . occupa­ ter the man.”
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Concerning
the
relation
be
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Creativity or orginality seems tions showed high anxiety test
155 MAIN ST. W.
May clearly states, “Re-ad­
to be one of the major traits scores, whereas biologists and justment of personality ten­ tween creativity and person­
Stouffville, Ontario
ality,
those
students
beloging
which have been dealt with physicists scored low levels of sions is synonymous with crea­
Telephone: 294-6393
to
the
high
creativity
group
of authors. anxiety in the same study. tivity. The especially creative
by a number
------From the psychological pi­ This suggests that divergent person is precisely he whose were found to be socially in­
int of view, it has been al­ thinking depends on person­ personality tensions are espe­ troverted persons who had feel­
leged, in general, that the Japa­ ality dynamics. Some psycholo­ cially susceptible to adjust­ ings of isolation and loneliness
nese are weak in creative abili- gists have even reported that ment; he is more sensitive and as well as alienation, and who
tes or orgininality. However, creative persons were espe­ suffers more, but he enjoys tended to be very introspective.
there does not seem to exist cially disposed to admit com­ greater possibilities
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------------The They were aware of their lonely
existence
and
yet
found
mea/wnnflirD
lYirll'Vl
any scientific studies to pro­ plexity
into
t___ w and even disorder
.
.
most creative
individuals
are
ning in their lives.
their
perceptions
without
being
often
the
most
obviously
neuve it.
Those belonging to the low
In connection vith the pre­ made anxious by the resulting ,rotic in tendency . . . The
creativity group were found to
sent system of college entrance chaos.
great artist have a greater
SKI
examinations, the criticism has
Maslow seems to admit neurotic potentiality . . . The be socially extroverted persons
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adults,
empha- the creativity.”
and
who
tended
to
be
inter
­
in students, they do not favor sizing the unity and integration
jn order to investigate theocreative abilities or... divergent of the personality of these retical relationships of crea- ested in social relations with
thinking. Another criticism is persons who were distinguished £jvj£y to personality traits in others. They were unaware of
that too much emphasis on from specially talented people terms of anxiety, a four-year any meaning in their existence
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formance in the present educa­ self-actualizing creativeness se-1 rants from the foyota Foun- themselves.
Those who were found to
tional system has .been seri­ ems to be synonymous with dation has been conducted on
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ously affecting the personality health, defined as “the Coming conege students who were en- be high in creativity were in­
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development of youth in Japan. to pass of the fullest human- ronedas freshmen in 1975 clined to be those persons who
Many education critics write ness or as the ‘Being* of the -n japan and in the United tried to reflect on themselvs
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in
terms
of
interpersonal
rela
­
that superiority or inferiority persons.” In his subjects, neu- States. A total of 730 students
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complexes, egotism, a feeling rotic persons were those who I at seven Japanese and eight tionships, to face their person­
■ Converters
of isolation, social disability, disapproved and did riot accept u
unjversities were used as al world directly and to make
Admiral, Lloyds,
their new ideas realities. It
high anxiety, extreme introver­ their deeper selves, whereas subjects for this study,
Panasonic, Quasar,
sion, inflexibility, etc..are major self-actualizing persons were
R attempted t0 find out how may be said that a definition
characteristics of highly aca­ those who approved and accep- r
Toshiba, Zenith,
erea1:ive JapaneSe students of creativity given by May —
demic high school students, and ted their deeper selves; the for- dj££ered from the creative “Creativity is the encounter or
' furthermore, that individual mer were afraid of their own Americah students in terms of the intensively conscious hu­
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man
being
with
his
or
her
characteristics, interests and impulses, emotions and tho- personaiity traits and human
self-confidence are being lost ughts, whereas the latter were relations> and how both groups world” — is supported by the
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results
of
this
study,
and
that
during the high school years. not. He stresses the role of
students developed their creMember MTTSA
The content of these criticisms integration or self-consistency, at.ve abilitles as wen as their creativity is closely related to
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college life, and also to iden- iety as well as to self-aware­
ness
through
interpersonal
students who are forced to veness.
tifv some possible educational
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relationships.
Creative
persons
study anxiously under various
• Anxiety was understood as a imphcations for promoting ere(At Albion)
pressures imposed by parents diffuse and objectless appre- |
Japanese youth Cre- are likely to be those who are
and teachers, as well as the hension with feelings of im- ativ|ty tests, personality tests able to cope with themselves
Shig Aoki Prop.
at
a
deeper
level
and
to
ex
­
high aspirations of the students certainty
and
hopelessness
-uestionnaires were used
press themselves at the exper(Frend,
Goldstein,
Horney,
themselves.
to obtain statistical data, toMay), threat of meaningless- gether with interviews with ential level.
Contradictions
The creative American stu­
Alcan
What about the college stu- ness or fear of nothing ness the subjects. Since the data dents were different from the
Building
(Kierkegaard), threat of dis­ are still being analyzed, some
. dents who have had to face
creative
Japanese
in
human
Products
solution of self (Goldstein), of the major findings to date,
harsh realities in coping with
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relations
with
parents
and
the process of adolescent devel­ and threat of non-being (Til­ will be presented here.
friends. The former related
lich). In agreement with Gold­
opment in high school? How do
Development Different
more to parents and friends
"MISTER
stein, May defined anxiety as
they develop their person­
It was found that the Ameri­ than the latter. The creative
alities and creative abilities in “the human being’s or organ­ can students were significantly Americans were extroverted,
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higher in orginality than the realistic and engaged in deep
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value he identifies with his
the society of Japan as well as
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original ideas were produced were introverted, unrealistic
The specific nature of the tration, existential vacuum, a by the American students than । and superficial.
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relationship between creativity fatalistic attitude toward life,
While almost all of the Amer­
the Japanese students each
• EAVESTROUGH, Conti­
and personality is still unde­ collective thinking, and fanat­
ican students had made voca­
year.
icism
were
found
to
be
some
fined and little is known about
However, for the freshman tional decisions by their junior nuous lengths
characteristic phenomena of
the role of personality, espe­
* SOFFIT & FASCIA, for
modern men, living in the age and sophomore year, i.e. for year, less than one fourth of
cially in terms of anxiety in di­
roof overhang
the first two years, the Japa­ the Japanese students had. It
vergent functions or creativity. of anxiety, untrust and apathy.”
• SIDING ♦ SHUTTERS
Basic to these anxiety, views nese students scored higher in may be strongly suggested
Currently, there seems to
elaboration than the Ameri­ that the process of problem­
• STORM DOORS &
exist apparent contradictions of anxiety, distinguished from
finding
rather
than
problem
cans,
but
there
were
no
signifi
­
WINDOWS
among the results of various neurotic anxiety, are the human
solving
as
well-as
interpersonal
cant
differences
between
them
* studies. In some studies, crea­ being’s freedom and possibiliti- in the third year. This means relationships should be empha­
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tWe ‘persons ’were found to be ’ es from which creative anxiety
sized
in
youth
education
in
or
­
that
the
American
students
desocial independent, self-asser- derives. It is said, in general,
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