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‘The Look of Love’ - The Experience’79 Project
If some parents are content dians are feeling the strains of rethnic Relationship Seminar” yabu at 463-7441, or write 1468
Avenue,
Toronto,
to let racial and cultural mat­ assimilation; our very blood will take an active look at Danforth
People get married for the ters drop, then all’s well. But line is vanishing, and with it, people’s relationships with each M6J 1N4.
strangest reasons. In the case for those who want to give our sense of culture. We can other, and the effect this has
The organizers and suppor­
of women, they usually marry their kids something from the say this change can't be helped. on our children’s sense of cul­ ters of “The Inter-Ethnic Rela­
men more intelligent than them­ Japanese culture - things like a We can end the discussion here. tural identity and worth. The tionships Seminar ’79 look for­
selves. Outgoing “social but sense of pride and belonging - We can also go on.
registration fee is $ 3.00 and a ward to seeing you on Satur­
terflies”, seeking a more stable the answer’s harder to find.
October 20th is our chance special lunch was served for day, October 20th, at Ryerson’s
existence, often marry “book­ It’s hard enough to know what to understand the changes in 83.00 until October the 12th. main lecture hall (L 72), loca­
worms” who want some ex­ you can pass on; it’s pretty the Japanese Canadian com­ After that date the fee was ted at Victoria street and
citement in their quiet lives. hellish when you want to find munity. Through talks, films, $5.00. For further information Gould.
And think about this one: we relevant information and get and discussions, the “Inte­ please contact Gordon Mizuchoose mates who help us do some help. Responsible parents
what we want to do; mates who have to think these matters
complement our personality, or through — their happiness, and
who’ve licked the problem we that of their children, depends
still have in our lives.
on it.
In other words, love is not
Such parents might want to
blind. We select our marriage
hear what someone like Gordon
An Independent Or@an for Canadians of Japanese Origin
and living partners for definite
Hirabayashi, U. of Alberta soci­
reasons; usually, they also
ologist has to say on October
happen to have the same edu­
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1979
TORONTO, ONTARIO
20th, at Ryerson Polytechnical VOL. 43 - NO. 79
cational and economical back­
Institute’s main lecture hall miiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiTiiiinnmimmiiiiiiiimiiiiiiriiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiikiiiiiiiiii iiuiiiiiiiiuiiiiiiii
ground as ourselves. Whether
(L 72), located at Victoria and
they’re Japanese Canadians
Gould. Gordon Hirabayashi has
white Canadians, Buddhists or
had a long history of commit­
Christians,
people’s
mating
ment to Japanese Canadian and
habits are strikingly similar.
Japanese American community
We shop around for what we
concerns, and he’s remembered
want.
for his participation in our 1977
And when we find the person
Centennial Youth Conference,
we’ll settle down with, thoughts
turn towards having children. “Where do we go from here?”; *
As key-note speaker for this
Our families then become happy
all-day October seminar, “Inter­
WINNIPEG. — Manitoba $100/ The awards are for
and excited.
OTTAWA. — The 10-point J.C. students entering or students of Japanese origin
Marriage plans get rocky ethnic Relationships: A Positive
or
Negative
Force
in
the
Com
­
when the couple is not from
penalty will be reinstated attending post secondary who are residents of Mani­
munity?

Dr.
Gordon
Hiraba
­
the same cultural backgro­
for independent immigants
und: a Greek father, for yashi will say a few things ab­ and assisted relatives who school, college or university, toba.
instance, is not so Jiappy out Japanese Canadians inter­
will have an opportunity to
For application form and
have
not
arranged
for
em
­
marrying,
and
will
possibly
to see his kids marry an
get financial aid from a further information, please
English Canadian But let’s go say other things we may not ployment in Canada before
arriving, Immigration Mini­ scholarship and bursary.
contact: Mr. Art Miki, 621
further. Everyone gets into, the be prepared to hear.
Until
this
seminar,
little
has
act when it’s an interracial
ster Ronald Atkey said
The two awards are: The Queenston Street, Winni­
been
done
about
this
fact
of
inmarriage. So many people warn
recently. The penalty was
against racially mixed mar­ cedibly high intermarriage, hap­ removed last spring when Kazuko Shimizu Memorial peg, Manitoba, ZR3N 0X6.
riages. At the same time, they pening principally among the
Bursary for 300. and the Phone: 489-5120.
it
was
found
that
the
1979
Sansei:
little
more
than
hopes
say they don’t mind; they’re
target
of Chidorikai Scholarship for
glad that love reaches across that the kids “marry Japanese’ immigration
or, on the other hand, fuzzy 100,900 would not be met.
lines of colour and race (!)
“Love’s great”, they all say; statements' like, I’m happy as
“It now is apparent that
long
as
the
two
love
each
ot
­
but if an Oriental and a Cau­
this expanded immigration
casian marry, and they produce her.” A measure of the growing flow would be more than
WASHINGTON, DC. — publican presidential no­
a child, that child is immedi­ thoughtfulness in the commu­
Canada could comfortably According to a reporter for mination, declaring that
ately coilsidered to have prob­ nity is shown by the kind of
lems. Guaranteed. “Just think support given to this seminar, absorb, making it necessary the San Francisco Chroni­ “Reagan is indeed the kind
of all the prejudice from soci­ a government sponsored “Ex­ to' reinstate the 10-point
cle, Senator S.I. Hayakawa of forceful and determined
ety”, “The children will look perience ‘79” project. Co-spons­ penalty for applicants not
has said that he supports leader the nation so sorely
different”^ “Life's hard for half- ored by Ryerson's Third World having
a
bona-fine
job
Centre, support, has also come
-breed kids”.
Ronald Reagan for the .Re­ needs.”
offer, it said.
Concern for the children is from community organizations
voiced so passionately that you such as the Japanese Canadian
have to be suspicious. The real Cultural Centre, the Annex of
fear, it seems, is that the the Japanese Canadian Commu­
child’s “coloured blood” will nity, The Japanese Canadian
make him, or her, a visible Centennial (Toronto) and the
TOKYO. - The 11.7 million each year by about 1000 jishin on Sept. 1, 1923.
Japanese
Canadian
Centennial
target for society's ignorance
It hit a magnitude of 6 on Ja­
people of Tokyo are living with — earth tremors — strong enoSociety
(National).
The
seminar
and cruelty. Many coloured
a geophysical time bomb that to be felt by humans. Yet few pan’s 7-point earthquake scale
will
also
be
graced
by
speakers
people — Japanese Canadians,
could explode at any moment. Japanese ...have experienced a that measures a quake inten­
and
resource
people
such
as
too - offer the disappearance of
sity. A 5 is considered “strong”
Despite elaborate planning for major quake.
Dr.
Roland
Kawano,
Ken
Koya
­
their blood as a solution to
The last such upheaval in on that scale, a 6. “disastrous.”
ma, Dr. Roy Shinobu and Ron an emergency, nobody knows
racial problems.
how the city would come thro­ Tokyo was the great Kanto In the Kanto quake, collapsing
Shimizu.
The trouble is that with the
earthquake — named for the
ugh a major earthquake.
Cont. on Page 2
Don

t
let
all
these
names
Japanese Canadians our race
coastal
plain
around
Tokyo

“Disaster strikes when we
and culture are seen as the and fancy titles put you off. least expect it,” says Disaster
same thing. If you’re a pure Everyone’s here for one basic Planning Director Yoshinobu
blood” Japanese — even though reason: they want to under­ Asakura, quoting a Japanese
you’re born in Canada
it s stand what has to be done. So proverb.
assumed that you know about there’ll be speakers sharing
HONOLULU — A new degree in Japanese history,
“There are too many unkno­
Japan and its feudal history. their ideas and experiences wns to accurately predict what novel about an American- who served with Nisei in the
But if you’re part Japanese, with you. Many of them are
a major quake would do to this
and part white, it’s assumed parents and have had to deal city. All we know for certain born Japanese who receives Pacific and was stationed in
that you’re Canadian like with raising kids under two is that eventually a big one will his education in Japan, re­ Japan early in that coun­
anyone else, and that you wo­ cultures. Others will serve as hit us, and damage will be turns to America, is embit­ try’s occupation. A newlyuldn’t know much about Japan. discussion guides so that we extensive.”
tered by his life here, re­ established firm called Daiwill
remain
clear
on
what
the
Having two bloodlines - one of
Asakura’s fatalistic preduction nounces his citizenship and max of Pearl City, Hawaii,,
them white - means you’re important issues are. The end
reflects something known to goes to Japan to live bears is the publisher.
culturally a Canadian in ot­ result should be a useful
many Japanese — their nation the simple title, “Kibei.”
her’s eyes, and no longer a set of guidelines for coping
The book is described as
rests atop an unstable archpelaintelligently
with
these
emotion
It
was
written
by
Max
coloured “ethnic”. To put it
go where subterranean distur­ Templeman, a graduate of a sexually explicit novel
all another way: you can -packed stages of love, marriage
bances are a daily occurence.
“pass for white” and mostly and offspring.
the University of Hawaii about Kibei and discrimin­
The
National
Meterolbgical
As a “visible minority” (colo­
go unnoticed as a person of
and holder of a master’s ation. It is priced at $12.95.
ured people), Japanese Cana­ Agency says Japan is shaken
mixed blood.
,

By DAVID FUJINO

THE NEW CANADIAN

K.
Shimizu
Memorial
Bursary
Immigration
and
Chidorikai
Scholarship
penalty
available
to
Man.
J.C.
students
reinstated

Hayakawa supports Reagon for Pres.

Tokyo sitting on geophysical time bomb

WW II Vet writes novel called "Kibei"

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Time-bomb...

Toronto Mayor declares ...

Friday, Oct. 19, 1979

C A N A DIA N
Cont. from Page 1

The New Canadian

Eutabllahed In 1939
buildings and wind-fanned fires aS 38 million hotline linking a
Second Clam mail No. 00366
killed 140,000 people in the distaster control center with
A member off Ethnic Press
Tokyo-Yokohama area and re­ city officies, police, self-defence
Association off Ontario
forces, hospitals and broadcast­
duced cities to rubble.
/ and Canada Federation
ing
stations.
On the Richter scale used in
Published on Tuesdays and
In the event of a quake,
the United States the Kanto
Fridays
quake would have reached 7.9, 70,000 city workers and 43,000
T. UMEZUK1 PUBLISHER
justs short of an 8, or “great” police would report to prede­
TORONTO. — October 24th, 1979, will be the 34th an­ quake. San Francisco’s 1906 signated places to supervise
K.C. TSUMURA
niversary of the signing of the Charter of the United quake, which occurred before relief and keep order. Troops
English Section Editor
Nations, and to commemorate this occasion, the United the Richter scale was devised, would be sent to Tokyo’s KasuKEN MORI
Nations Association in Canada has officially declared also has been estimated at 7.9 migaseki area where most
Japanese Section Editor
.
the week of October 24th to 30th, 1979, “Disarmament on the Richter scale.
government offices are located.
SUBSCRIPTION
Week”.
..
City parks have been named

Today,
houses
are
much
bet
­
$10.00 for Six Months
For over three decades, Canada has been a leader am­
refugee evacuation centers and
ter
built
and
the
city
is
better
ong the nations of the world in both its moral- and fin­
$19.00 for one year.
and on Sept. 1, the annual
ancial support and Canadians have in the forefront of prepared to handle a major dis­ “Disaster • Prevention Day,
479 Queen Street West,
many United Nations projects,-such as peace keeping, aster,” Asakura said. On the 300,000 schoolchildren and the­
other hand, he noted that Tokyo
Toronto. Ont. M5V 2A9
refugee relief and international development.
ir
parents
took
part
in
an
eva
­
has skyscrappers— some
PHONE 366-5005
I am therefore pleased to declare the period October now
cuation
training
program.
stories tall—subways, under­
24th to 30th, 1979, “United Nations and Disarmament 50
More than 2 million servings
ground shopping malls and
Week” in the City of Toronto, and urge citizens to sup­ many
populated resi­ of dried food, 58,000 bottles of
port our national efforts towards world peace and to­ dential densely
areas that didn’t exist milk, 96,000 blankets, clothing
wards the improvement of the lives of all children.
at the time of the 1923 quake. for 120,000 persons and medical
SALE or RENT.
John Sewell
supplies
are
stockpiled
in
14
Tokyo itself is four times
M a y o r.
Mississauga, private sale.
the size of the city whose werehouses located near the
Mayor’s Office,
flimsy buildings were rava­ parks, and the city has con­ Luxurious 3 bedroom condo­
City Hall, Toronto.
ged by the Kanto quake. And a tracts with trucking companies minium, indoor swimming
government report last year to deliver the provisions.
pool, tennis court, etc.
_________
It all looks fine on paper, but $42,000 or $475 per month.
concluded that if a quake of
comparable size struck Tokyo Asakura concecles the plan ne­
Phone 624-1740 days, Mr.
bn a winter evening, . when eds more work — particularly oh
heating equipment was in use, getting emergency supplies to Makino or 275-9587 even­
36,000 people would die, 63,000 shelters.
ings.
LATEST STYLES
ALL HEEL HEIGHTS >
1 would be injured, and almost
In a quake of 5 on Japan’s
LADIES 2 and up
MENS 4 and up
J
| a third of the city would be scale, “I am confident that we
MEDIUM & WIDE FITTINGS
| destroyed by the jolt and en­ could handle the logistics,” he

*
9
said, “But I really cannot say
suing fires.
The report noted these figu­ how well we would be able to
res may even be conservative transport goods if a quake was
1328 Queen St. West
-I since there is no way to cal­ on the scale of the 1923 earth­
Phone 531-1931 Toronto
} culate the toll from panic in quake. Improvements must be
made to get the provisions clo­
buildings and subways.
Tokyo’s situation is different ser to the evacuation centers.”
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Such improvements could
from other earthquake-prone
■ TIMES SQUARE TRAVEL CENTRE LTD. cities.
come none too soon. A study
Unlike San Francisco — where by Dr. Hiroshi Kawazumi of
a major tremor also is pre­ Tokyo University found that
672 No. 3 Rd., Richmond, B.C.
Phone 273-5696
dicted—the Japanese capital major quakes have occurred on
AND ASSOCIATES
1157 Melville St.. Vancouver, B.C.
Phone 681-7251 is not perched precariously atop an average of every 69 years,
CHARTERED
a major fault line. The epicenter within a margin of 13 years,
ACCOUNTANTS
of the great Kanto quake was over the part millenium. ‘
=
Weekly Group To Japan By Japan Air Lines = many miles out at sea.
By that calculatioi), Tokyo
523 THE QUEENSWAY
=
and C.P. AIR; is how available
E j And Asakura said there is entered the danger period this TORONTO, ONT. M8Y 1J7
PHONE 255-7341
comparison with Tang- year, 56 years after the last big
E
For More Information Concerning All Your
E !■ little
rumbier.
shan, China, where collapsing
= Travel Needs, Please Contact us as Soon As Possi- E ! earthen walls caused most oi
Even if the city was not hit
5 ble . E i the estimated 600,000 deaths in directly by a quake, seismolo­
’ a July, 1976 tremor. ‘ Here, most gists say there is a strong
chance it would suffer from a
42 PARLIAMENT ST.
|
We Will Be Happy To. Serve You.
| houses are wooden and it is major
tremor that has been
fire, rather than the vibrations
AT FRONT ST.
iong
predicted
for
the
Tokai
of the quake, that is the real
TORONTO, ONT. M5A 2Y4
coast, 100 miles to the south­
killer,

he
said.
Tel. 362-5094 - 362-0218
“*
Please contact us.
west.
In
the
1923
quake,
40,000
For information concerning all your Travel needs,
A law enacted recently
OPERATED BY
people huddling in one city com­
named
six
states
in
the
Tokai
NAMIKI & TANOUYE
Qq
the place to start your happy holiday pound were trapped and burned region as the object of special
to death by fires started from
overturned stoves and oil measures to prepare for a qua­
ke measuring 6 on the Japanese
heaters.
Tokyo has undertaken a huge scale, which would hit Tokyo
! effort to protect itsvf from an- with an intensity of 5.
“An earthquake of that size
| other such conflagration. TeleSave fuel -- Be warm
I vision ads remind residents to has not hit Tokyo in 50 years,
Typical price $40. total
* shut off appliances and gas and there is no reason to belL
i burners when not in use, and eve that it could not occur
using CHIP program
today,

Asakura
said.
; last April the city inaugurated
Please call
it
'•

United Nations and
Disarmament Week

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Friday, Oct. 19, 1979

THE

NEW

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CANADIAN

JAPANESE
RESTAURANT

Personal Notes Across Canada*

"MICHI"
CARD OF THANKS
We wish to sincerely
thank our many friends
for their kind and thou­
ghtful expressions of
sympathy during our re­
cent bereavement in the
loss of our beloved. da­
ughter and sister in law
Virginia. Michiko. Your
many kindnesses throu­
ghout Michiko’s illness
and, again,-upon her pass­
ing are deeply apprecia­
ted.
• ।
Mrs- Shima Fujisawa'
and family, Vancouver,

KADOGUCHI

Vancouver Fishermen's 5-pin Bowling
to open seasonal Commodore Lanes
VANCOUVER. — The Fishermen’s 5-pin Bowling
League wishes to annouce the beginning of' their 1979-80
season, which will begin either the last week of October
or first week in November, will be held on Thursday
nights. Individuals are welcome to join in the fun, in­
cluding beginners. Those interested may contact George
Hamaguchi at 298-3372 or Kathy Maihara at 299-0416.

TORONTO. — Mr. Taiichiro Kadoguchi, beloved
husband of the late Shigeko
Kadoguchi, passed away on
October 11, 1979.
Dear father of Robert,
Miyoko (Mrs. Frank OhLakeview Library in Mississauga offers
take), Koko (Mrs^ Alfred
Mannix), Yukie Orenstein, English language lessons Wenesdays
Sumie (Mrs. Mits Tabuchi),
MISSISSAUGA. — Having trouble learning English?
loving grandfather of 11 Lake view Library in Mississauga may be able to help.
The library offers lessons in English for people to
grandchildern, and 2 greatwhom English is a second language on Wednesdays at
grandchildern.
a.m.
Trull Funeral Home. In- 9:30
There’s no charge and baby sitting can be arranged.
terment Mount Pleasant
Phone the library at 274-5027 for more information, or
Cemetery.
drop in any Wednesday.
Lakeview Library, 1110 Atwater Ave., Mississauga, is
*
north of Lakeshore Rd, and west of Haig Blvd.

459 Church St.
Phone 924-1303
THE NEW RESTAURANT
“MASA”
At 195 RICHMOND ST. W.
TORONTO, PHONE 863-9519

KIMURA,
CADSBY
& TAYLOR
Barristers & Solicitors
1501 ELLESMERE RD.
Scarborough, Ontario
Telephone: 431-1500
155 MAIN ST. W.
Stouffville, Ontario
Telephone: 294-6393

CARD OF THANKS
We wish to extend our
sincere thanks. to our
MOTOTSUNE
(OKOR’SI
many friends, nighbours
McMaster
Univ.
Art
Gallery
presents
GRIMSBY, Ont. — Mrs
and' relatives for the
beautiful floral tributes Yuu Mototsune, 87, of Fruit­ Jpnz. theatric prints of 18th Cent.
HAMILTON. — The McMaster University Art Gallery
and kind expessions of land, Ontario passed away
SKI
sympathy received dur­ on October 3, 1979. Beloved is proud to present, Japanese Theatrical Prints of the
Eighteenth
Century.
This
represents
an
important
col
­
ALPINE X-COUNTRY
ing the loss of our belov­ wife of the late Unichiro lection of about sixty colour woodblock prints which
1201 Bloor St. W.
ed, father and husband, Mototsune, dear mother of includes works by famous artists as Hoskusai and
Mrs7 Toshio Murakami. Utamaro. These impressive prints are generously loaned Toronto, Ont.
532-4267
Shozo Tomihiro,
Mrs. Shigeko Tjomi- (Ruth), Fruitland, Masao; by the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto; The Yaneff
Stoney Greek, Minoru and International Gallery, Toronto; and the Art Gallery of
hiro,
Windsor. The exhibition runs Until October 28th and is
Michio and •-'/Lillian Tsutomu of Toronto, Mrs. shown in conjunction with McMaster Association for
Low Low Prices
Nobby Idenouye (Susie),
Sachio and Masako,
18th
Century
Studies
(October
26
and
27).
....
On
Toronto, Tom, Stoney Gre­
On Saturday, October 27 at 3:30 p.m., Dr. David WaterYasushi,
New Color TV's
Yoshio and Kazuko, ek, and Mrs. Bill Robson house of the University of Toronto will talk on “Japan­
(Kay),
Hamilton,
twenty
ese
Wood
cuts
and
Eighteeth
Century
Kabuki
Theatre.

Sumio and Shelia,
Stereo’s, Microwave
For further information, call 525-9140, Ext. 4685
grandchildren
and
two
gr
­
Masato and Miyoko
Ovens, Video Cassette
eat- grandchildren.
Sora
'
Recorders, and TV
Donald V. Brown Funeral Vancouver Disco-Pub sponsored by JC
Converters
Home. Funeral service in
Admiral, Lloyds,
St. John’s Anglican Church Young Adults to open November 2nd
CARD OF THANKS
Panasonic, Quasar,
on October 5th. Interment ' VANCOUVEV: — November really is a dull month,
We thank our many Chapel Hill Gardens.
Toshiba, Zenith,
Right? Well not necessarily so. Because following the
friends who so kindly
enorrmous success of our August 18th endeavour, the
helped us through our
SHIG'STV.
Japanese Canadian Young Adults (Van.) will once again
be sponsoring "Asian Canadian Disco” on Friday, Novem­
sad bereavement in the
Say it
Sales
&
Service
ber
2nd,
8:30
p.m.
to
2:00
a.m.
loss of our daughter and
with Flowers
Incidentally, our special thanks also go out here to
Member MTTSA
sister, Miyoko N ancy.
SHARON'S FLORIST three visitors from Toronto who were so helpful in mak­
Your warm concern and
Fast T.V. Service
942 PAPE AVE.
ing the August Disco the good time that it was: Lottie
TORONTO. ONT.
gestures during her ill­ ■
Chiba, Bev Ohashi and Terry Watada.
741-4236
TEL:
425-2122
The upcoming event will again be held at the McPher­
ness together with the
2625 Islington Ave.City
wide
delivery
son
Winter
Club.
7325
MacPherson
Ave.,
Burnaby,
B.C.
floral tributes and kind
(At Albion)
Admission
$2.00
I.D.
required
and
dress
is
casual
(no
Peter
Sasaki
expressions of sympathy
Shig Aoki Prop.
jeans).
4b
have helped us no bounds.
For tickets, reservations and further information
contact: Betty or May Nitta 251-3960 or Alan Hotta
Mrs. M. Okata
731-0358. — JCYA
Montreal, P QAlcan
HYLAND
Hiroko and Harry
I -.
- -.
Building
Douglas Craig and
FLOWERS
Products
Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre to
Dorothy
proprietor
hold first "Flea Market" sale Nov. 25
Elsie and Katsu Iguc­
JON ONODERA
"MISTER
TORONTO. — The Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre
hi
is holding its first “Flea Market” type of sale on Sunday,
489-4654 ---- - 481-8805
ALUMINUM
November 25th, 1979, in the auditorium. Booth space and
(Business)
^Residence)
sales tables will be available.
r. INSTALLATIONS
ENJOY YAKINIKU
540 Eglinton Ave. W.
We would like to be able to display and sell a large Metro Toronto License Bl97»
ON YOUR TABLE
Toronto
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Book Review

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Giving up the Gun

experiment with the gun and
GIVI N G UP THE GUN. more improvements upon it
in doing so brings to the fore
By Noel Perrin, Boston. Bavid than had the Europeans at that the mesage, or moral, contained
time. The government rewar­
R. Godine, 122 P. $8.95
ded the finest of Japan’s gun­ within the experience.\ There
smiths by elevating them to have been times, past and pre­
By STEPHANIE WADA
samurai status and presenting sent, when individuals have
attempted to turn back the
Giving Up the Gun by Neol them with swords.
Perrin is a study of a particular
However, resistance to the hands of timeor at least to
incident in Japanese history use of guns was beginning to haft the progress of something
which the author cites as being surface, stemming, says Mr. they consider undesirable and
representative of 'mankind’s Perrin,
from the fact that dangerous. On the other hand,
ability to consciously reject a “efficient weapons tend to over­ Mr. Perrin points out, most
seemingly practical aspect of shadow the
men who
use modern-day men consider it
" technological development. The them . . . skillhad been moved unfeasible to reverse or stop
“aspect” in question here is back from the soldier to the technological progress in any
the gun, which early six manufacturer of the weapon.. .” area, believing that progress in
teenth century Japan accepted As it took no particular military every aspect of scientific-tech­
as a viable combat weapon and skill to. fire a flintlock, samurai nological development is neces­
then abandoned approximately often disdained to carry them, sary, that without it, civilization
one century later. The story of relegating their use to members must stagnate.
“They see the choice as
japan’s ~ abortive affair with of the yoeman class, the goshi.
firearms is . significant, Mr. The gun acquired a somewhat either continued progress in
Perrin states, not only to the tarnished image, an image all fields, or else a return
social and military historian which died hard. (Readers may to the Da r k A g e s. Either
but to all who are concerned recall the gun-toting young we press on with neutron
about the nature of man’s at­ punk of Kurosawa’s 1960 film bombs and biogenetic engine­
titude towards technological Yojimbo who is defeated by the ering, or we give up dentistry
advances in the modern world. ronin protagonist. Earlier in and window glass. Selective
control of technology is impos­
He begins by summarizing the picture, which is set in sible . . . ”
.
medieval Japan’s early contact 19th century post-Perry Japan,
Tokugawa Era Japan, he
with, acceptance of, and use of, the swaggering youth has argues, did exercise selective
firearms, The gun, he explains, beaten and humiliated the control Over one aspect of their
was first brought to Japan by ronin, yet in the and it is developing technology and yet
s a m u r a i,
Portuguese “adventurers
on the masterless
they continued to advance in
board a Chinese cargo ship the noble semi - anachronism, other areas. This argument sewhich anchored at Tanega- who destroys him and his town ems just a bit simplistic here,
shima Island in 1543. What they of profit-loving, grasping, mer­ Japan’s government did not
brought with them was the chants. And in the 1954 Seven consciously reject a valuable
set in sixteenth
arquebus, a yard-long weapon Samurai,
weapon because it regarded the
of moderate accuracy. The feu­ century Japan, Kurosawa’s se­ gun as a potential danger to the
dal lord of the island had the ven ronin vanquish the gun­ world, rather, it was suspicious
arquebuses reproduce! by his carrying bandit who have been of the Western invention and
chief swordsman. By the mid- ravaging country villages for responding to pressure groups
sixteenth century these “tane- food and women.)
of samurai and anti-Christian
Mr. Perrin describes the forces. Yet the author does
gdshima”, as firearms came to
be known, were being produced attempt, in the late 1580’s, of make the very valid point that
is considerable quantity throug­ Japan’s regent, Hideyoshi, to perhaps human beings can be
control the use of firearms and “less the passive victims of
hout Japan.
This tehnological breakthro­ limit the number of guns and their own knowledge and skills
ugh occurred during the period cannon provided for Japan’s than most men in the West
known as the Sengoku Jidai, a invasion of Korea in 1590’s. suppose.”
hundred-year-long power strug­ During the years following this
Mr. Perrin has made use
gle among Japan’s major feudal unsuccessful invasion, Japan of a variety of sources, am­
lords to achieve military control had several reasons for turning ong them translation of
over the country. Not surpri­ from firearms to more tradi­
military texts,
singly, these warriors recog­ tional weaponry. The samurai, Japanese
nized the potential of the new for one, felt that the use of epics, plays, and firsthand
^weapons and were anxious to guns diminished their military accounts of Christian miss­
make use of them. There were standing; the samurai sword, ionaries and visitors to pre­
critics, of course, who had their with its symbolic, social and, twentieth century Japan. I
doubts about the firearms; the artistic value, was regarded so He has also reproduced a
of illustrations
arquebus and early matchlock highly that to replace it with number
guns were slow-firing weapons the gun would have been to from an old Japanese gun
and the re-loading and priming alter drastically the warrior manual and several Japan­
took up too much time to make code. Also, the reaction against ese prints in which guns are
and
Westerns depicted. He provides some
> them valuable in a pitched Christianity
historical
back­
battle situation (as . defense in general that took place useful
against an army of archers) or in Japan in the seventeenth ground on sixteenth arid
in the chivalrous hand-to-hand Century — particulary against seventeenth century Japan
combat, preferred by the samu­ missionaries and merchants — (though he occasionally
rai. But the supporters of the influenced the attitude of the tends to romanticize a little,
gun were quick to remedy at Japanese military elite towards pointing out all of the per­
least some of these drawbacks the gun. Ironically enough, the iod’s achievements without
They provided waterproof ca­ last premodern Japanese battle emphasizing the fact that
sings for the vulnerable match­ in which firearms played a sig­ the country was, at this
locks, developed serial firing nificant part was the 1647 time, torn by civil strife and
techniques for greater effici­ Shimbara Rebellion, in _which war.)
Giving Up the Gun is writ­
ency and improved the firing Christian rebels and their
mechanism of the gun itself. peasant allies were defeated ten in a highly t readable,
As the Weapon was made more by government forces. During almost conversational style,
. practical, the use of guns in the reign of the first Tokugawa with some humorous asides
actual warfare increased. They shogun, the firearms industry and an interesting selection
played an important role, for was limited to one city and the of translated
quotations
example, in the Battle of Nage- government exercised a total
shino in 1575, thirty-two years monopoly over the manufacture from original sources. It is
after firearms had been intro­ of guns. Firearms were not a delightful and informa­
monograph, worth­
duced into the country. In the officially abolished; their use tive
was
gradually
cut
back
and
late sixteenth century, the use
while reading for anyone i
then
completely
abandoned.
of firearms reached its peak.
with any interest in Japan-.
It is in his postscrips that
The Japanese had taken
ese military, political or i
the weapon brought to them the author makes his strongest
'
from the West and had made statement about .the Japanese social history.

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