Page 1
Continued from last issue
Hiroshima—Sansei rock group
Japanese Canadian wins Tokyo Video Festival prize
TOKYO. — The second Tokyo
Video
Festival
announced
recently that a composition
titled ‘‘Bubbling’’ by Tomiyo
Sasaki, Canadian video artist,
living in the U.S. won the grand
prize of Y300,000 in cash and a
free trip through Japan.
Two other entries by Atsushi
Horiguchi and Toshiaki Ono,
both from Japan, were cited as
works of excellence, according
to Victor Company of Japan
which sponsored the annual
event.
It said 328 works, including
30 from the
West
Germany and France, were
entered in the festival this year
from people in all walks of life
including some from elemen
tary school children.
The entries included docu
mentary topics,
reportage,
family themes, drama, public
relations and education. An
average composition was 13:38
minutes long, the organizer
said.
Another veteran member of recalls the Dorsey High School
the group, he worked at vari graduate.
ous jobs while waiting for the
“During the 70s, I began to
band to gain recognition. He realize that if I could adapt it
also had been a member of more to Western music, youn
other Asian American rock ger people could take a closer
bands, but said he grew tired look at the instrument and
of simply “covering” Top 40 its music.”
songs for weekend dances.
Dan ties June’s feelings back
Mori, a Salt Lake City, Utah- to the band’s basic concert.
born Sansei who was raised in
“The whole point of Hiroshi
the Crenshaw-area of Los ma,” he reminds us, “is to take
Angeles, has studied the art an Eastern sense of music and
of pounding the large, barrel- integrate it with Western music
Art Independent Organ for Canadians of Japanese Origin
shaped Japanese drum for nine By this we don’t mean just
years with the San Francisco taking Eastern instruments and
Taiko Dojo and Kenara Taiko. and playing Westem.licks on it. VOL. 43. — NO. 93
FRIDAY, DECEMBER, 7, 1979
TORONTO, ONTARIO
A few years ago, he was a We want to introduce Eastern niiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiTniiniimiiiiiiiiiiiiiHiiinniiiiiiiiiiiiiEiiiiiiiiiBiiiiiiiiiniiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii
member of a Japanese Ameri music, Eastern culture and our
can gagaku (traditional Japa own multi - cultural (White,
nese court music) troupe which Black, Latin, Asian) upbringing
toured the U.S. Midwest.
musically in a cultural fusion.”
But a few years ago, Dan and
Together with Dana Matsu
mura’s bass, Jess Acuna’s con June admit, it wasn’t so easy
gas, and Yamamoto’s drumming, maintaining the idealism of the
Mori’s thundering taiko gives band. They fell on hard times
GRAND FORKS, B.C.
Other Japanese Cana
Hiroshima: as formidable and and into debt. In order to ge Nisei Mayor of Grand dians .elected were: Kichi
unique a rhythm section as' nerate some income, they mo
Yasushi Kumagai as Councillor in
exists in contemporary music ved to Las Vegas, where June Forks, B.C., Mr.
today. Visually, Mori’s stren landed a job providing atmo Sugimoto was re-elected Richmond, BU. and Aaltje
uous live performances on the sphere music at a Japanese mayor in , the November Hoshizaki on the school
taiko (both booming drum tone restaurant on the Strip.
17th municipal elections.
board of Armstrong, B.C.
arid crackling “rimshots”) pro
Looking back on their “Vegas
vide the band yet another days,” Dan shrugs and says
..
/
crowd-mesmerizing dimension. sardonically, “Hey look, June Japan fourth largest trader with
Despite his lack of any for even got. to take pictures with South Africa despite UN resolution
mal 'musical training, Dan Soupy Sales and everything.
Kuramoto is Hiroshima’s prin I mean, it was a meaningful
"
TOKYO. — Japan, which terprises.
cipal writer-aranger. As a yo experience.”
There are about 50 manu
Out of debt, they returned to .signed the 1968 United Natuth, his only encounter with
resolution banning facturing plants in South
music came when he was a Los Angeles in 1975. Dan found ions
member of the Koyasan Boy work scoring plays, films and trade with South Africa Africa which are whollyBEAMS VILLE, ONT. - Camp
Scout Troop No. 379 Drum and TV programs; Hiroshima was and officially
condemns owned by South Africans aign chairman, Kunio Suyama,
Bugle Corps. The son of a Lit reborn. •
reports that Nipponia’s Update .
The Kuramotos’ early strug that country’s racial polic and import Japanese parts and Extention Fund Drive is off
tle Tokyo auto mechanic, ‘ he
did not pick up a flute or gles as a couple and as musi ies, nevertheless has risen to for local assembly. In ex to a goo<^ start. To date,
cians provides the inspiration become South Africa’s .four change for the mandfactu- $18,403.25 has been-sent in
saxophone until his mid-20s.
Besides creating the wealth for some of the band’s best th largest trading partner. red goods, Japan obtains ( towards our goal of $150,000.
of original and inventive music material. “Long Time Love,’ a
Trade Ministry figures foodstuffs and a variety of /These contributions will help to
ballad
from
the
album,
is
a
that has become the Hiroshima
much-needed raw materials provide at Nipponia, a protec
show
trade
with
South
Afri
good
example.
sound, Kuramoto, who grew up
such as chrome, platinum tive, caring environments in
ca
has
doubled
in
the
last
in East Los Angeles’ Boyle
and molybdenum—of which which our Japanese senior
five
years
and
passed
the
Hights district, arranged the Do you remember, though it
citizens can be encouraged to
South
Afica
is
a
major
sup
music for the acclaimed stage
$2 billion mark in 1978,
enjoy life to the fullest.
seems so long ago
plier
—
and
coal,
iron
ore
musical “Zoot Suit.” He also A small,’hot apartment and the putting Japan right behind
Traditionally, the Japanese
and
uranium.
has performed on other artists’
winter night so cold
people have always provided
the United States, Britain
records, written scores for We’d hug together and wish on
Government officials con for their elders, with respect
and
West
Germany.
movies and television programs,
every star
cede their position is an am and honour, and the response
and his compositions have been Let it last forever
Calling the policy "two biguous one where South to our campaign to date seems
recorded by others, including Lef is last forever
faced,” Tadahiro Ogawa,
to verify that this tradition
Japan’s noted, jazz vocalist, We had no money, but we got head of Japan’s Anti-Apar- Africa is concerned, but say lives on.
it reflects the hard reality
Kimiko Kasai. Still, he says,
by anyhow
We have set a policy to ack
Committee,
charges
theid
that resource-poor Japan is nowledge
“I don’t know shit about how So little to live on we was rich
each and every
that Japanese companies dependent on these mate
to play.”
; i
compared to now
donation sent in publicly. In so
While Dan, a former Whittier We’d go for long walks and did have skirted the embargo rials from abroad.
doing, The Board of Directors
on direct investment by
College law student and Cal
n’t need a dime
"In the end, we have no in effect, will be accepting the
State Long Beach art major, It was so fine
setting up dummy corpora choice but to buy from difficult task of updating and
got somewhat of a late start It was so fine ...
tions in third countries such
maintaining Nipponia Home up
in music, June has always loved
The group had offers to sign as Bermuda, Panama and them,” said Shoichi Monma, to the high standards set by
an official of the Trade our predecessors.
the koto and played it since record contracts in the past,
says Kuramoto, but Arista was the United States, which Ministry’s African Section.
she was a child
be
All
letters.
should
Certified as a master koto-r the first label which demon then invest parent firm
He conceded that loans addressed to:
ist at the age of 23, June is strated a sensitivity toward the funds in South African en- from the semi-public Japan
The Nipponia Home,
now rated as one of the top goals of the group.
Export-Import Bank to
three koto players in the United
News of the recent sin
BEAMSVILLE, Ontario.
trading companies are being
States. She has added lilting gle-disc Arista release has alre Glen Yamasaki
LOR 1B0
used to offer credit to South
koto accompaniment to movies, ady created much expectation
television commercials and pro within the music industry. It wins Uchida
Africa buyers. He said the 1 Cheques should be made out
to “The Nipponia Home” (Up
grams, and has appeared as a seems that Hiroshima, by not
government has tried to date
and Extention Fund)
guest artist on several other compromising its sound and Scholarship
discourage major trade
If income tax receipts are
waiting for the right label,
performer’s albums.
dealings
but
is
almost
helpVANCOUVER — The 1979
required, please state clearly
“I’ve always thought the might have chosen precisely
koto was a beautiful instru the correct, time to make their Kinu Uchida Scholarship less to counter the lending your full name, address, and
postal code. Payments may be
ment,” she says, turning seri move toward wider acceptance. Award for University bf practice.
South African officials, spread over several years and
ous for a moment. “But I had
The disco craze seems to British
was
Columbia
to struggle to retain it in my have subsided. And as we move awarded to Warren Glenn too, put the relationship in if it is advantageous, cheques
be post dated for the next
life. It wasn’t considered hip toward the 80s, the music
a practical context. "Coun- can
64th
Yamasaki
of
906
E.
taxation year.
Nipponia
to play the koto among my
Cont.
on
page
2
Ave., Vancouver.
Cont. on Page 2
Public Relations Committee.
peers, especially .in junior high”
THE NEW CANADIAN
Nisei Mayor Yasushi Sugimoto
of Grand Forks, B.C. re-elected
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Ba
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w—
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Nipponia's
Update and
Extension
Fund Drive
off to a
good start
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_ X.
W. T J — —~
X.
Hiroshima—Sansei rock group
Japanese Canadian wins Tokyo Video Festival prize
TOKYO. — The second Tokyo
Video
Festival
announced
recently that a composition
titled ‘‘Bubbling’’ by Tomiyo
Sasaki, Canadian video artist,
living in the U.S. won the grand
prize of Y300,000 in cash and a
free trip through Japan.
Two other entries by Atsushi
Horiguchi and Toshiaki Ono,
both from Japan, were cited as
works of excellence, according
to Victor Company of Japan
which sponsored the annual
event.
It said 328 works, including
30 from the
West
Germany and France, were
entered in the festival this year
from people in all walks of life
including some from elemen
tary school children.
The entries included docu
mentary topics,
reportage,
family themes, drama, public
relations and education. An
average composition was 13:38
minutes long, the organizer
said.
Another veteran member of recalls the Dorsey High School
the group, he worked at vari graduate.
ous jobs while waiting for the
“During the 70s, I began to
band to gain recognition. He realize that if I could adapt it
also had been a member of more to Western music, youn
other Asian American rock ger people could take a closer
bands, but said he grew tired look at the instrument and
of simply “covering” Top 40 its music.”
songs for weekend dances.
Dan ties June’s feelings back
Mori, a Salt Lake City, Utah- to the band’s basic concert.
born Sansei who was raised in
“The whole point of Hiroshi
the Crenshaw-area of Los ma,” he reminds us, “is to take
Angeles, has studied the art an Eastern sense of music and
of pounding the large, barrel- integrate it with Western music
Art Independent Organ for Canadians of Japanese Origin
shaped Japanese drum for nine By this we don’t mean just
years with the San Francisco taking Eastern instruments and
Taiko Dojo and Kenara Taiko. and playing Westem.licks on it. VOL. 43. — NO. 93
FRIDAY, DECEMBER, 7, 1979
TORONTO, ONTARIO
A few years ago, he was a We want to introduce Eastern niiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiTniiniimiiiiiiiiiiiiiHiiinniiiiiiiiiiiiiEiiiiiiiiiBiiiiiiiiiniiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii
member of a Japanese Ameri music, Eastern culture and our
can gagaku (traditional Japa own multi - cultural (White,
nese court music) troupe which Black, Latin, Asian) upbringing
toured the U.S. Midwest.
musically in a cultural fusion.”
But a few years ago, Dan and
Together with Dana Matsu
mura’s bass, Jess Acuna’s con June admit, it wasn’t so easy
gas, and Yamamoto’s drumming, maintaining the idealism of the
Mori’s thundering taiko gives band. They fell on hard times
GRAND FORKS, B.C.
Other Japanese Cana
Hiroshima: as formidable and and into debt. In order to ge Nisei Mayor of Grand dians .elected were: Kichi
unique a rhythm section as' nerate some income, they mo
Yasushi Kumagai as Councillor in
exists in contemporary music ved to Las Vegas, where June Forks, B.C., Mr.
today. Visually, Mori’s stren landed a job providing atmo Sugimoto was re-elected Richmond, BU. and Aaltje
uous live performances on the sphere music at a Japanese mayor in , the November Hoshizaki on the school
taiko (both booming drum tone restaurant on the Strip.
17th municipal elections.
board of Armstrong, B.C.
arid crackling “rimshots”) pro
Looking back on their “Vegas
vide the band yet another days,” Dan shrugs and says
..
/
crowd-mesmerizing dimension. sardonically, “Hey look, June Japan fourth largest trader with
Despite his lack of any for even got. to take pictures with South Africa despite UN resolution
mal 'musical training, Dan Soupy Sales and everything.
Kuramoto is Hiroshima’s prin I mean, it was a meaningful
"
TOKYO. — Japan, which terprises.
cipal writer-aranger. As a yo experience.”
There are about 50 manu
Out of debt, they returned to .signed the 1968 United Natuth, his only encounter with
resolution banning facturing plants in South
music came when he was a Los Angeles in 1975. Dan found ions
member of the Koyasan Boy work scoring plays, films and trade with South Africa Africa which are whollyBEAMS VILLE, ONT. - Camp
Scout Troop No. 379 Drum and TV programs; Hiroshima was and officially
condemns owned by South Africans aign chairman, Kunio Suyama,
Bugle Corps. The son of a Lit reborn. •
reports that Nipponia’s Update .
The Kuramotos’ early strug that country’s racial polic and import Japanese parts and Extention Fund Drive is off
tle Tokyo auto mechanic, ‘ he
did not pick up a flute or gles as a couple and as musi ies, nevertheless has risen to for local assembly. In ex to a goo<^ start. To date,
cians provides the inspiration become South Africa’s .four change for the mandfactu- $18,403.25 has been-sent in
saxophone until his mid-20s.
Besides creating the wealth for some of the band’s best th largest trading partner. red goods, Japan obtains ( towards our goal of $150,000.
of original and inventive music material. “Long Time Love,’ a
Trade Ministry figures foodstuffs and a variety of /These contributions will help to
ballad
from
the
album,
is
a
that has become the Hiroshima
much-needed raw materials provide at Nipponia, a protec
show
trade
with
South
Afri
good
example.
sound, Kuramoto, who grew up
such as chrome, platinum tive, caring environments in
ca
has
doubled
in
the
last
in East Los Angeles’ Boyle
and molybdenum—of which which our Japanese senior
five
years
and
passed
the
Hights district, arranged the Do you remember, though it
citizens can be encouraged to
South
Afica
is
a
major
sup
music for the acclaimed stage
$2 billion mark in 1978,
enjoy life to the fullest.
seems so long ago
plier
—
and
coal,
iron
ore
musical “Zoot Suit.” He also A small,’hot apartment and the putting Japan right behind
Traditionally, the Japanese
and
uranium.
has performed on other artists’
winter night so cold
people have always provided
the United States, Britain
records, written scores for We’d hug together and wish on
Government officials con for their elders, with respect
and
West
Germany.
movies and television programs,
every star
cede their position is an am and honour, and the response
and his compositions have been Let it last forever
Calling the policy "two biguous one where South to our campaign to date seems
recorded by others, including Lef is last forever
faced,” Tadahiro Ogawa,
to verify that this tradition
Japan’s noted, jazz vocalist, We had no money, but we got head of Japan’s Anti-Apar- Africa is concerned, but say lives on.
it reflects the hard reality
Kimiko Kasai. Still, he says,
by anyhow
We have set a policy to ack
Committee,
charges
theid
that resource-poor Japan is nowledge
“I don’t know shit about how So little to live on we was rich
each and every
that Japanese companies dependent on these mate
to play.”
; i
compared to now
donation sent in publicly. In so
While Dan, a former Whittier We’d go for long walks and did have skirted the embargo rials from abroad.
doing, The Board of Directors
on direct investment by
College law student and Cal
n’t need a dime
"In the end, we have no in effect, will be accepting the
State Long Beach art major, It was so fine
setting up dummy corpora choice but to buy from difficult task of updating and
got somewhat of a late start It was so fine ...
tions in third countries such
maintaining Nipponia Home up
in music, June has always loved
The group had offers to sign as Bermuda, Panama and them,” said Shoichi Monma, to the high standards set by
an official of the Trade our predecessors.
the koto and played it since record contracts in the past,
says Kuramoto, but Arista was the United States, which Ministry’s African Section.
she was a child
be
All
letters.
should
Certified as a master koto-r the first label which demon then invest parent firm
He conceded that loans addressed to:
ist at the age of 23, June is strated a sensitivity toward the funds in South African en- from the semi-public Japan
The Nipponia Home,
now rated as one of the top goals of the group.
Export-Import Bank to
three koto players in the United
News of the recent sin
BEAMSVILLE, Ontario.
trading companies are being
States. She has added lilting gle-disc Arista release has alre Glen Yamasaki
LOR 1B0
used to offer credit to South
koto accompaniment to movies, ady created much expectation
television commercials and pro within the music industry. It wins Uchida
Africa buyers. He said the 1 Cheques should be made out
to “The Nipponia Home” (Up
grams, and has appeared as a seems that Hiroshima, by not
government has tried to date
and Extention Fund)
guest artist on several other compromising its sound and Scholarship
discourage major trade
If income tax receipts are
waiting for the right label,
performer’s albums.
dealings
but
is
almost
helpVANCOUVER — The 1979
required, please state clearly
“I’ve always thought the might have chosen precisely
koto was a beautiful instru the correct, time to make their Kinu Uchida Scholarship less to counter the lending your full name, address, and
postal code. Payments may be
ment,” she says, turning seri move toward wider acceptance. Award for University bf practice.
South African officials, spread over several years and
ous for a moment. “But I had
The disco craze seems to British
was
Columbia
to struggle to retain it in my have subsided. And as we move awarded to Warren Glenn too, put the relationship in if it is advantageous, cheques
be post dated for the next
life. It wasn’t considered hip toward the 80s, the music
a practical context. "Coun- can
64th
Yamasaki
of
906
E.
taxation year.
Nipponia
to play the koto among my
Cont.
on
page
2
Ave., Vancouver.
Cont. on Page 2
Public Relations Committee.
peers, especially .in junior high”
THE NEW CANADIAN
Nisei Mayor Yasushi Sugimoto
of Grand Forks, B.C. re-elected
wow aw
Ba
wa
xl zx xl
« ww v
w—
x* I
Nipponia's
Update and
Extension
Fund Drive
off to a
good start
_ J J x^.
_ X.
W. T J — —~
X.
Page 2
Friday, Dec. 7, 1979
PAGE 2
Hiroshima ...
Cont. from Page 1
South Africa ...
Cont. from Page 1
The New Canadian
Established in 1939.
hotel.
.
, Second Class mall No. 00366
listening public will be deman who discoverd Natalie Cole, tries trade not because they
Botha
said
he
knew
noth
A member of Ethnic Press
ding something new and fresh. Peabo Bryson and the Sylvers. love each other but because
Association of Ontario
This Asian American cultural “I think you’re going to be it makes good economic ing of any term such as
and Canada Federation
fusion band may, just be the seeing more Asian American sense,” said J.S.F. Botha, “honorary white” and said
racial prejudice against
Published on Tuesdays and
first new music find of the new bands fromnow on.”
former
South
African
envoy
The album, to be entitled
Fridays
Japanese in South Africa
decade.
to
Washington,
now
his
gov
Larkin Arnold, Arista’s No. 2 “Hiroshima,” was produced by ernment’s
T. UMEZUKI PUBLISHER
consul-general has virtually disappeared.
legendary
Crusaders
trombo
man —beliind Clive Davis-says
K.C. TSUMURA
The two men agreed on
nist,
Wayne
Henderson.
here.
English Section Editor
he’s excited about Hiroshima.
“I was bored with the same
In all there are about 90 one thing-—that the anti
KEN MORI
“There have been a skeptical old approach to music, and
apartheid
movement
has
Japanese Section Editor
few who’ve asked me, ‘What’s Hiroshima helped end that Japanese companies, inclu
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the use of signing a Japanese 1 boredom,” an enthused Hen ding most of the big trading made little headway among
$10.00 for Six Months
firms, motor vehicle and the Japanese here.
American band?’ But I don’t derson said.
$19.00 for one year.
Ogawa said one reason is
see it that way. Today’s there’s
Is Hiroshima good music? electrical enterprises, with
nothing to compare Hiroshima
connections
in that most people here do
“Good -music basically is business
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not realize the extent of
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the band as his project.
strong pulse from the trap offered technological advice said, “The antPapartheid
movement
is
not
a
voice
“This album is going to open drum, to the depth of the to the Public Iron and Steel
Corporation, Hitachi sold 50 that can make impact on the
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a lot of doors,” says Arnold, taiko . . .”
“And the koto as a lead voice railroad locomotives to the facts of life, which are that
LARGE apartment for
. . June is sensitive, lyrical South
African N ational Japan has to trade to sur rent above store, 2 bed
and flowing. She is what we
”
rooms, separate living arid
JUNN KASHINO call an executionist,”/ states Railway, and Nippon Elec vive.
tric Co. is aiding in cons ployment practices and dining room. Close to tran
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Perhaps typical of the at ed not to be identified.
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We
are
not
in
a
position
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Mississauga, private sale.
to
comment
on
the
practice
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bum will go over big.
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“It’s gonna happen. They’re .African investment is that of apartheid. We respect
minium, indoor swimming
innovators, they’re pioneers. of Toyota Motor Sales Co., local customs,” he said.
pool, tennis court, etc.
Hiroshima’s records will be which opened Toyota Mo
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$41,900 or $425 per month.
studied to1 see how it was done. tors South African in 1962
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that
it
was
;
Hiroshima
that
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started it at this level. I’m
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ready for the next album now.”
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rent firm takes a strict “no
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HYLAND
also say they are aware of?
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listening public will be deman who discoverd Natalie Cole, tries trade not because they
Botha
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knew
noth
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ding something new and fresh. Peabo Bryson and the Sylvers. love each other but because
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This Asian American cultural “I think you’re going to be it makes good economic ing of any term such as
and Canada Federation
fusion band may, just be the seeing more Asian American sense,” said J.S.F. Botha, “honorary white” and said
racial prejudice against
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former
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African
envoy
The album, to be entitled
Fridays
Japanese in South Africa
decade.
to
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his
gov
Larkin Arnold, Arista’s No. 2 “Hiroshima,” was produced by ernment’s
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Henderson.
here.
English Section Editor
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“I was bored with the same
In all there are about 90 one thing-—that the anti
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“There have been a skeptical old approach to music, and
apartheid
movement
has
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few who’ve asked me, ‘What’s Hiroshima helped end that Japanese companies, inclu
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the use of signing a Japanese 1 boredom,” an enthused Hen ding most of the big trading made little headway among
$10.00 for Six Months
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American band?’ But I don’t derson said.
$19.00 for one year.
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Is Hiroshima good music? electrical enterprises, with
nothing to compare Hiroshima
connections
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voice
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Friday, Dec. 7, 1979
Sug iy a ma's Sixtieth Wedd i ng An n iv. $ Greetings Omitted
UNION FISH MARKET
VANCOUVER — On No welcomed the guests on be Due To
vember 10th, 1979, over 150 half of his brothers.
friends and relatives gath The Reverend N. Furuya Bereavement
ered at Vancouver’s Arbu blessed the event and Mr.
tus Club to honour Mr. and Koji Tasaka spoke on be GREETINGS OMITTED
Mrs. Iwakichi Sugiyama on half of the congregation of DUE TO BEREAVEMENT
the
occasion
of their the Vancouver Japanese Mrs. Toki Usami
sixtieth wedding anniver United Church Congratula and Familly
tory telegrams were receiv 60 Romulus Dr.,
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even more significant in Prime Minister of Canda,
that Mr. and Mrs. Sugiya the Lieutenant-Governor of
ma celebrated their 88th British Columbia, the Pre GREETINGS OMITTED
DUE TO BEREAVEMENT
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birthday (Kiju) respective Mayor Constable of Burna Mr. K. Tsujiuta
ly, which are Japanese mile by, and friends and relat and Family '
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vember 10th, 1979, over 150 half of his brothers.
friends and relatives gath The Reverend N. Furuya Bereavement
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tus Club to honour Mr. and Koji Tasaka spoke on be GREETINGS OMITTED
Mrs. Iwakichi Sugiyama on half of the congregation of DUE TO BEREAVEMENT
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sixtieth wedding anniver United Church Congratula and Familly
tory telegrams were receiv 60 Romulus Dr.,
sary.
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even more significant in Prime Minister of Canda,
that Mr. and Mrs. Sugiya the Lieutenant-Governor of
ma celebrated their 88th British Columbia, the Pre GREETINGS OMITTED
DUE TO BEREAVEMENT
birthday (Beiju) and 77th mier of British Columbia,’
birthday (Kiju) respective Mayor Constable of Burna Mr. K. Tsujiuta
ly, which are Japanese mile by, and friends and relat and Family '
ives in Japan, Germany, Cal Mr. and Mrs. H. Hoyano
stone anniversaries.
This happy event, an ifornia and Canada. As a and Family
Box 270,
afternoon reception, was ho special surprise, Mrs. F. P.O.
Coaldale, Alta. TOK 0L0
sted by Mr. and Mrs. Su Oishi dedicated and sang
giyama’s sons. The master the Japanese version of the
OMITTED
_of ceremonies was Mr. Tom hymn “How Great Thou GREETINGS
DUE TO BEREAVEMENT
Kawaguchi, and the toast Art.”
The afternoon came to a Mrs. M. Kimura
was given by Mr. Fujio Fu
kuyama on behalf of his close with the happy couple and Family
father, Mr. S Fukuyama cutting their anniversary Toronto, Ont.
who was unable to attend. cake and being heartily ap Mr? and Mrs. H. Kimura
The latter has been the plauded with the guests Hamilton, Ont.
couple’s. close friend for 68 singing of <4For They are Mr. and Mrs. Tom Kimura
years. Mr. James Sugiyama Jolly Good Fellows.”
Scarboro, Ont.
$
&
s)
i:
stJvf.
175 Baldwin Street
Toronto, Ont. —- 363-3394
Owned by Mike Nasu
City Parking next door
^Roofing
I imitr^
°
40 Melford Drive, Unit 1.
Scarborough,Ontario
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ONE HOUR FREE PARKING FOR
OUR CUSTOMERS, AT JOY LOY
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PAGE 4
The New Canadian
Martial art centre
Japanese culture flavors
fishing town Steveston
STEVESTON, B.C. — Rich- [ The most striking part of
culture
is
the
mond has an active arts centre | steveston
in Minoru Park; yet still regi Martial Arts Centre, a facility
sters in most minds as cultural unique in North America and
suburbia — bland architecture, possibly the only one of its knd
shopping centre muzak, and outside Japan. Built in 1971,
lots of television. But most to the tune of $225,000 as a
minds, perhaps, don’t know B.C. centennial project, the
centre is a graceful, Oriental —
Steveston.
style building with two large
Long-time favorite of Sunday wings flanking a delicately
morning seafood-fanciers (you landscaped central courtyard
can pick up your vegetables with bridge and wooden gate.
at farmers’ stalls on the way
Each wing is a practice hall,
out along Steveston Highway),
and those who simply like to with the more numerous judo
wander in a fishing village enthusiasts occupying the west
atmosphere, find this part sideband the east hall given
of Richmond has an unu over to the art of kendo. Jim
sual cultural heritage and a Kojima explains that the 225 —
wide range of specialized acti member Steveston Judo Club is
the largest in Canada, and has
vities.
the most black belts. TwoLocated in the southwest
thirds. of the members are
corner of Lulu Island and da youngsters between the ages, of
ting from the 1880’s, the former
9 and 15, and only twenty-five
“Salmon capital of the world”
is a predominantly Japanese per cent are of Japanese ances
community with strong tradi tryOn the other side of the cen
tions.
Steveston has x seen good tre, we find a different situ
days and bad. As long ago as ation. Kendo, with about 100
1902, the CPR built the Vanco- practitioners, including chil
uver-Lulu Island Railway, and dren, is less well known than
cannery workers arrived in judo (which is now an Olympic
style on the “Sockeye Special” event and practised inter
— a baggage car, a first-class nationally).
Kendo is derived from kenjutcoach with red mohair seats
and a fine steam engine. But su, the ancient Japanese art
in 1942, the Japanese fichermen of’ sword-fighting, and fully
of Steveston were forcibly ninety per cent of the partici
relocated to the Interior, their pants are Japanese. According
property seized and auctioned to Kuni Ikuta, president of the
B.C. Kendo Federation, both
off.
After the war, they trickled judo and kendo clubs surfaced
back, and now Steveston has before the Second World War,
as much of a'Japanese cultural but were re-estabilished in the
flavor as it ever did; Roy ’fifties—judo in 1953, kendo, in
Matsuyama, director of the 1959. A small karate club also
Steveston Community Centre, is active at the centre.
points proudly to the popular
Many people tend to see judo
martial arts clubs, the Japanese and kendo as varieties of sport,
language school, and centre- but the . “art” in the Oriental
sponsored classes like Japanese
martial arts is well deserved
doll-making and Koko John
Judo, for instance, has tradi
son’s cooking courses.
tionally been a method of
Rev. Takao Yokoyama and | countering brute strength with
his wife Michiko run the Japa- . technique,’ bodily
.
control andJ
nese language school with the an almost spiritual kind of
help of one other teacher. The awareness.
school operates out of the com
The Japanese see the martial
munity centre and offers instru
arts as a training for the soul,
ction in writing, reading, a training which has evolved
conversation and interpretation
over many centuries into one
to about 85 children. A small
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By Ryusho Sakagami
“MASTER OF SHITORYU ITOSUKAL KARATE”
Kata Director of the. Federation Of All Japan Karate
Organization (FAJKO)
For the first time in history Karate Master Sakagami
has issued a manual on the art of the five main katas that all
students MUST master before acquiring the coveted Black
Belt in Shitoryu.
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strates how each Pinan kata is performed. Details are given
on each block, kick, punch, strike, stance, and body sh[ftl^g
technique. Each kata is correspondingly illustrated with th«
“Kakushi” or the hidden meaning in each move.
Details are also given on history, and the full spectrum
in performing each kata such as breathing, kiai, body shif
ting, mental concentration, and attitude.
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The New Canadian
Martial art centre
Japanese culture flavors
fishing town Steveston
STEVESTON, B.C. — Rich- [ The most striking part of
culture
is
the
mond has an active arts centre | steveston
in Minoru Park; yet still regi Martial Arts Centre, a facility
sters in most minds as cultural unique in North America and
suburbia — bland architecture, possibly the only one of its knd
shopping centre muzak, and outside Japan. Built in 1971,
lots of television. But most to the tune of $225,000 as a
minds, perhaps, don’t know B.C. centennial project, the
centre is a graceful, Oriental —
Steveston.
style building with two large
Long-time favorite of Sunday wings flanking a delicately
morning seafood-fanciers (you landscaped central courtyard
can pick up your vegetables with bridge and wooden gate.
at farmers’ stalls on the way
Each wing is a practice hall,
out along Steveston Highway),
and those who simply like to with the more numerous judo
wander in a fishing village enthusiasts occupying the west
atmosphere, find this part sideband the east hall given
of Richmond has an unu over to the art of kendo. Jim
sual cultural heritage and a Kojima explains that the 225 —
wide range of specialized acti member Steveston Judo Club is
the largest in Canada, and has
vities.
the most black belts. TwoLocated in the southwest
thirds. of the members are
corner of Lulu Island and da youngsters between the ages, of
ting from the 1880’s, the former
9 and 15, and only twenty-five
“Salmon capital of the world”
is a predominantly Japanese per cent are of Japanese ances
community with strong tradi tryOn the other side of the cen
tions.
Steveston has x seen good tre, we find a different situ
days and bad. As long ago as ation. Kendo, with about 100
1902, the CPR built the Vanco- practitioners, including chil
uver-Lulu Island Railway, and dren, is less well known than
cannery workers arrived in judo (which is now an Olympic
style on the “Sockeye Special” event and practised inter
— a baggage car, a first-class nationally).
Kendo is derived from kenjutcoach with red mohair seats
and a fine steam engine. But su, the ancient Japanese art
in 1942, the Japanese fichermen of’ sword-fighting, and fully
of Steveston were forcibly ninety per cent of the partici
relocated to the Interior, their pants are Japanese. According
property seized and auctioned to Kuni Ikuta, president of the
B.C. Kendo Federation, both
off.
After the war, they trickled judo and kendo clubs surfaced
back, and now Steveston has before the Second World War,
as much of a'Japanese cultural but were re-estabilished in the
flavor as it ever did; Roy ’fifties—judo in 1953, kendo, in
Matsuyama, director of the 1959. A small karate club also
Steveston Community Centre, is active at the centre.
points proudly to the popular
Many people tend to see judo
martial arts clubs, the Japanese and kendo as varieties of sport,
language school, and centre- but the . “art” in the Oriental
sponsored classes like Japanese
martial arts is well deserved
doll-making and Koko John
Judo, for instance, has tradi
son’s cooking courses.
tionally been a method of
Rev. Takao Yokoyama and | countering brute strength with
his wife Michiko run the Japa- . technique,’ bodily
.
control andJ
nese language school with the an almost spiritual kind of
help of one other teacher. The awareness.
school operates out of the com
The Japanese see the martial
munity centre and offers instru
arts as a training for the soul,
ction in writing, reading, a training which has evolved
conversation and interpretation
over many centuries into one
to about 85 children. A small
adult class studies Japanese of the finest and most perfec
, conversation in the evenings. ted of art forms.
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BECAUSE YOU GIVE
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A MUST FOR ALL KARATE STUDENTS. . .
PINAN KATA GRAND MANUAL
By Ryusho Sakagami
“MASTER OF SHITORYU ITOSUKAL KARATE”
Kata Director of the. Federation Of All Japan Karate
Organization (FAJKO)
For the first time in history Karate Master Sakagami
has issued a manual on the art of the five main katas that all
students MUST master before acquiring the coveted Black
Belt in Shitoryu.
■ « -n
This unbelievably easy to follow manual pictorially illu
strates how each Pinan kata is performed. Details are given
on each block, kick, punch, strike, stance, and body sh[ftl^g
technique. Each kata is correspondingly illustrated with th«
“Kakushi” or the hidden meaning in each move.
Details are also given on history, and the full spectrum
in performing each kata such as breathing, kiai, body shif
ting, mental concentration, and attitude.
.Price is $13.50. Limited Supply.
Apply: Canadian Shitoryu Karate Headquarters, 76 Six
Point Road, Toronto, Ont. M8Z 2X2.
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Or do you have to buy mineral water every day? Then why
don’t you try our mineral ores with rare earth to make it at
your own home!
Are You in Need to go to a HOT SPRING or SPA
Away From Home?
Then whv not try our portable Rodan hot spring
for home use You can enjoy the same effectiveness
any time at your convenience.
It Sure Pays in the Long Run.
INTERMESH
145 MARLEE AVE., TORONTO. TEL. 783-7335
Aeent .For Vancouver District.
Forest Co. —• (Yoshi IMon)
512 Woodland Drive - Tel. 254-2724
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