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jpz. Canadian girl friend comforts courageous one-legged runner, Terry Fox
Doctor j have diagnosed a it..-It's a hard thing to* believe, has asked Canadians not to
;NEW WESTMINSTER, B.C. — Co I u mbia n H osipita 1/ Fox wa s
but you can't -sir and moan.
The' heroic: young runner /with s u r ro u nd sc! Ey. his - girl S friehd; spot bn each Tung, and a coll­
“L iust hone that the whole :
,” he said.
I'm
Rika Noda. 22, a Japanese apsed left lung “symptoms of
country ccnf-rues in Terry s
nor pity. Al- Ga nad id n sta i n-gla ss crafts- the disease Fox says ”I figur­ VI’ m taking ore. day at a time.
I'm keeping up hope. I'm be­ support. JjJ because^ he has
though stricken again _ with man, his brother Fred, 23, and ed I had licked.”
'stopped, communities shouldn’t
'Sitting in.a bed at the Royal ing positive I don't want peo­
ca n ce r; o h i s t i m e in the lungs, sister Judith, J 5, and friends.
ple i h here feeI i ng sorry for stop donaling.” said Mrs. Fox. ...
Columbian
Hospital,
wearing

If
there

s,
any
way
1
can
the courageous Fox says he
“He still wants $1 from
finish it off next year or the' -blue jeans and his Marathon me. r m going to; be ds strong
still hopes to
as I can, and maybe even get every Canadian,” Rolly Rox
of
Hope.
T-shkr,
Fox
says
he

s
year
after,
1'11
be
there'.
I
can

t
marathon
run
cross-Canadr!
added. So dark the Marathon
out and do things/ .
v/hich enoeckabruptly in Thun­ do any more right now/1 fdint- accepted this^new blow ”bei Even though their son's, fu' of Hope has raised almost $2
;ed this afternoon just waIking' : cause nothing surprises- me
der-Bay. -Ontario recently.
b nymore. I was rea Hy hurt by ’tuie is inceilqinj the family million for cancer research.
Sitting in c bed at the Royal across the; road.K

TORONTO, ONTARIO.

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1980

VOL 44 — NOr 68

Judo
and
wrestling
stars,
Phil
&
Ray
Kimiko Kojima print|show
at Gallery Ingenu Sept. 19th Takahashi honored in Ottawa
One
TORONTO.
\ Japan’s outstanding print art/ ists, Kimiko Kojima will be
holding a show of her work
at Gallery Ingenu, 577 * ML
Pleasant Road, Toronto '(near
the Crest Theatre) from Sept­
.-ember 1.9th to October 11th,

ABOUT KIMIKO KOJIMA
Kimiko Kojima is ./endowed
witFr an artistic 'talent consist­
ing of afairy-ta Ie-like. touch
and enabling her to create a

OTTAWA. — Two. sons of Judo Team, and Ray Takaha­
Ottawa' s. cutsUi ndi ng
Judo shi, member of the Canadian
Sensei, Mas Takahashi recent­ Wrestling Team.
ly received . City of Ottawa . Mayor Morion Dewar made
Excellence Medals and Pins. the presentations. Also honored
They''are Phil Takahashi, mem­ were Kayaker Sue Holloway,
ber of the Canadian Olympic boxer Ian Clyde, and diver

She: started to draw at the
dge of five and Igter took in­
' 1980.
<
terest i n usi ng th e col ors black
A special Wine and Cheese and white exclusively. ‘'Black
TOKYO. —- An advisory
and
white
q.e
the
extreme
- Previ ew ’ - of.
Ms. - Koji ma s
body to the Health and Wel­
fare Minister announced re­
- works wilI be held on Septem­ colous,” she .says.
Young women are the only cently that 67 medicines still
ber 19th from 7:30 p^m. to
10:30 p.m. Among her work subjects of her prints and into in use at -medical institutions
her compositions she integrates had been founds after tests,
wHL be" silkscreens, limited
objects such as, carps octopus, to be ineffective.
editions, etc._nightingales with plum bios-,
The outcome of the review
sbms, dancing waves; eta, to was presented to Health and
fill the opening in the back­ Welfare
Minister
Kun ikichi
ground. She -utilizes the old Saito on the same day:
technique of the Ukiyoe print,
(considered to belong to the
past), of blending and blurr­
ing the color blue. However,

Reveal 67 medicines have no effect
In response to the recom­
mendation, the ministry plans
to ban. the ' sale -of these
medicines and take measures
to- recall those being put on
the market.
The ministry estimated about
Y£00 mi 11 ion-worth ;of medici­
nes haVing no beneficial effect

Janet Nutter.

All the athletes honored
were zeady for the now pasta nd ta i nted
1 980 Moscow
Summer Olympics.
”We wanted to congratulate
you all and tell, you how pro­
ud we are of you,” ,Dewar told the athletes. “We know
how hard you have worked.
I know there was a time when
you felt disappointed, but
don’t be disappointed. You'll
be greater people for it. You’re
all gold medalist to us.”,

Decrease! n
population seen
by 21st Century

TOKYO. — If the birth rate
in /Japan’ continues to. fall at
the current rate, its population
will begin to decrease early in
the next century, with the aged
ped with two 12-centi meter increasing in proportion, popul­
rodketcannons and one 300ation experts-predicted in a
kilogram torpedo in the bow
report released recently.
but did not carry radios/
The report was prepared by
Arar, in a book published at
his own expense, says 146 the Population Problem Co un­
S'hinyo units were stationed ci I, a n a d vi sp ry b ody to H ea I th
at about 60 bases ranging and Wefare Minister Kupikichi
frorn northern Japan to the Saito.
Japanese, occupied island of
The panel said.that Japan's

Japan's last ditch ^Suicide Squad'
of World War II detailed in book

In a last dlitch
technique, she has cleverly
TOKYO.
succeded in creating a new effort to win World War II,
Japanese forces devised a seri-

es of su icide weapons, a noth
During the past f ou r yea rs,
she has been the recipient of er variety of which came to
the Grand Prix qffered by the I ig’ht on the eve of the 35th
Nichido Art Ga 11 ery i n To kyo. anniversary of the Japanese
surrender oh Aug. 15.
.Her designs in only black
The Shinyo Special Attack
and white have been used
widely in commercial appli­ Corps consisted of about 4000 Borneo.
birth rate has been on the
one-man speedboats made of
He says the Shinyd Corps decrease since 1974. The birth
cations.
'
i
was set up in the spring, of rate is the proportion of the
BRIEF HISi'ORY OF
horsepower second-hand auto 1944 but wasn't launched
number of births in a, year to
KIMIKO KOJIMA
engines and targeted at ene­
until 1945. Arai was a volun- the total population, expressed
Born in Okazaki City, Aichi my ve'ssels.
-teer assigned to a unit in Tai­ as a quantity per 1,000 people.
TOKYO — Huhderds ' of
According to Shiro Arai, 54, wan where he arrived in Jam
Pref., Japan. Received the third
The panel warned that declin­
rooks up to two metres in' diaan
amateur
historian
.from
uary 1945 after training at a ing trend could become chronicprize in the contest for child­
. meter tumbled - from the .upper
Omiya, north of Tokyo, each navy submarine school
in
slopes of Mount Fuji recently, ren’s pictures, tponsored by Shinyo command unit was
Japan’s birth rate reached
Ydkosuka in late 1944.
33-34 in the period between
killing 11 people, and injuring U.N.E S.C.O. i n 1959' Received made up of 12 boats, five
Arai told Japanese reporters
- at least 20 others, police said.
meters long and weighing he was never sent on a missi- 1947 and 1949 after a sharp
drop in the years just before
' Officers ’ in Fujiyoshida . at in 1977, 1978, ond 1979. Held 1.4 tons. They had a cruising
and after World War II.
Continued bn page 2
speed of 23 knots, were equipher own show.

Rockslide
kills 11 on
Mount Fuji

Continued on page 2

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the bpse of the volcanic moun.- Neither the .cause ,qf the slide pm He/described the program - Sea' in. January ■ 1?45;{Damage
tain, Japan’s highest peak,' nor information' ' about' -the as - a “dis mb I - f ai lure’" because caused by' the mini-subs was
‘said the1 hiking party was victim s” was i m med i ate I y avail T only about./10 per cent of the
craft found their targets^ An
Another, was the Kbitem or
about 2±800 meteres' up the able. ■ ,
.3,470-metre mouhtain when /' More than three mH lion peo­ iestrmdted 2100 Japanese died “turn toward heaven.” onethe slide occurred. Rooks Cont­ ple climb or. visit the barren,
i ma n hum an to rp ed o e's.; They
inued to cascade'; down the co nica I- mo u nt a i n eve ry year. ■ Hideo 'Den/an opposition made, up a bizarre, fanatical
slope more than an hour/they Many ascend it at night to party membpr- of the upper combat-group which had -little
see the sunrise from the peak. ■house of the Japanese ^parlia­ success. The J apdnese thought
sa'id. .
.
" Police said a rescue team "Pa ths a re' ca refui I y ma i n Fa i n ed ment, ''who was a., member of the Kaiten sank about 40 Alli?
and a helicopter From a - self and accidents on 'the mountain the~~ Shinyo unit in. southern. • ed ships, -but according to. U.S;”
Japan du ri ng WWi l, described ; .Navy records they hit only
defence force base were on are rar^ officers said.
the boats as “wooden coffins.” Three, American navy' ships in
th e i r wa y to th e a cci dent see ne
7. Arai- - says he spent seven the^Ulithi/ Lagoon in .,1945.
years tryi ng to tra ck down -The operation cost the. Japa­
other Shinyo survivors,.7
nese more tha n 900 men a nd
Extra Short 34 to 46 / Short 36 to.46
“As a survivor/’ he said, eight" Ka iten/which in the -final
Fdr/1// Gentlemen Shorter Than Average
“the only, thing I co-uld do to -stage 'were developed . into
perpetuate. the memory
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-Friday, September 12^1980

The

Personal Notes Across Canada^

Oriental

Obituaries

CARD-OF THANKS
We wcuId I ike\ to tha nk.
all our relatives and. friends
for the acts of kindness,,
'many -floral bouquets, and
Roden, following the loss of
our . beloved mother and
grandmother, Tami'Honda.

Mr. & Mr. Mils Honda, -.
Mrs. Masako Honda, .
Mr. & Mrs. Roy Honda,
-Miss Mary Honda
Mr. & Mrs. Michael Honda

New season for JCCC Film Society |

TORONTO.
Following the summer layoff, tile J.C, ,Cultural Centre. Film Society, will have two screening for the
.monthsof September.
- '
( By /DONALD RICHIE TORONTO.’— Mr. Masaka­
The first fall date is Sunday, Sept. 14, when the Centred
zu Osawa oassed away at
■ A
sage
and
venerable Film’ Society presents ’’Sweet Revenge” starring? Momoye
Kapu'skasing Ontario on Aug­
Yamaguchi, Akiko Koyama, and Rentaro Mikuni, in a tale of
figure; the Oriental Judge?
a woman seeking to avenge her brother’s death.
ust 31st, 1980 Beloved- bus-:
Chinese, Japanese, Burmese, or
’’Bandits Vs. Samurai Squadron” (restricted) will be the
band ok Shizue.' Osawa,-■'dear
Malay, with chin whiskers and Sept. 28 offering, directed by* Hideo Goasha, and starring
father of Shizuo of Kapuskalong fingernails or not; he is Tatsuya Nakadai and Shima Iwashita. — JCCC
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sing and Masako of Japan.

an impartial dispenser of right:
- 'Earle Elliott Funeral Home. he knows- the law-, but * knows
.Mount Pleasant'Crematorium.
the human heart better' — he
is jiustice personified.
' \
TORONTO. — Two new classes have been added to lie
though the West has its fa­
BuiiiimimismiiiiimniHmim^
coming season of the: J.C. .Cultural Centre’s instructional act­
mous Judges as welly its clos­
OKA
ivities.
Mrs. est to this image of dis­
Dahcersize, a combination of acrobatic and dance expercisOAKVILLE, Ont.
interested benevolence is not es done to music, will keep you trim^ as well as make you feel
Umeo Oka1. 84, of■ Oakville;
ajudge. He is instead'mqre of­ and look better. This twice-a-week LTues and Thurs., 5:30
Ontario^ passed away on.Sep­
= BARBARA NIKAIDO ! tember 3; 1 980. Beloved wife ten an attorney ‘(Perry Mason) 6:30' p.m.)' class will be conducted by Ruth Moffatt (493-2965

or an inspector (from Holmes for enquiry).
of
the
laic
Shigeta
Oka.
Dear
Chanoyu
or
Tea
Ceremony
will
be
taught
by
Mrs.
Sohichi

1232 Danforth Ave:
to
Poirot)
or
a
detective
(Sam
mother. of’ ^Dorothy . (Mrs. M.
Yuge bn -Tuesdays, commencing. Sept. 23,'7:30 —• 10:00 p.m.
“Toronto, Ontario M4J 1M6
Spade et al.) — someone with- She is an instructress in the Urasenke School. — JCCC
Yamamoto), of:- Mississauga;
i n the’ legal .m a ch i n e ry b ut n ot
=
Tel. (416) 465-9939
Rbsp ’ (Mrs. J. Takahashi)-- of
of it. The West no longer per­
■ Oakville, and’ Kiyoshi (Kiyo) of
mii!mnmiHHiHiS{B!!HIIMillllih7
sonifies Justice itself, though
Cornwall. , Loved by her ten
grandchildren kind four great- 'some of the Asiatic patina - of
the Oriental Judge, has rubbed
TORONTO. — Most of the Autumm series of courses (10
arandchirdren.' ’ *
'off onto- such Western crea­ weeks’ duration) will commence the week hegining Monday,.
""Ward Funeral Home, Oaktions-_;-as
the
all-knowing September 22, at the JC Cultural Centre. The exceptions ,are
viile. Service 'Gt. Toronto Japa­
Charlie Chan and the all-see­ the Advanced, Intermediate and Extension classes of the Ikeproprietor
nese United Church on Septe­
nobo flower arranging courses, which began the week
ing Mr. Moto. ■
of Monday, Sept. 7. The Extension class is for five weeks only.
mber 6, 1980. Interment TrafalJON ONODERA
- Many Westerners know the
Being offered for this term are Bonsai (dwarf potted
489-4654 — 481-8805
Oriental Judge only through -tree); Conversational Japanese — beginner and extension;
(Business)
(Residence)
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van Guliki but the. figure is Sogetsu school—-beginner, intermediate, advanced and ex­
540 Eglinton Ave. W.
j Say it
Toronto
found (where van Gulik found tension; Ikebana Ikenobo — beginner, intermediate, advanc­
!
with Flowers
ed and extension; Japanese Doll Making (Mataro); Shodo
’ SHARON'S
FLORIST it) in many early Chinese . col­ (Calligraphy) — beginner . and extension; S^mi-e (Brush
lections. And Japanese : .also, Painting) — intorductory to advanced, and extension; Dancer942 PAPE AVE.
TORONTO. ONT.
since the concept of all the a Ik size (Exercise); and Chanoyu’ (Tea Ceremony).
TEL: 425-2122
kn o wi n g, a 11 - ^ e ei n g, a 11 - u n d e rDancersize and Chanoyu are new courses. _
City wide delivery
standing Judge camo to Japan
The Martial Arts classes — Aikido, Judo, Karate and Kendo
Peter Sasaki '
— operate on a year-round basis and will accept new enrol-*
quite early.
'.
ment at any time provided there are openings. There are
Preceded by the magistrate
both adult and junior classes with a range of students from’
himself. By the 16th century
beginners to advanced.
^v .the Judge was a . functioning
For anyone interested in enrolling-or enquiring about the'
entity- in Japan"and useful one? above courses, please contact the Cultural Centre — 441-2345
a. presumably unimpeachable or drop in to obtain first-hand detailed information. Tt: should
individual who stood between be pointed out that while there are no entrance requirements,
the demands of .an isolated- in­ all participants must either be a member of the Cultural
Centre or subscribe to an annual membership ($15.00 single
dividual and representatives of
or. $25.00 family) in addition to the tuition cost.
a monolithic" government.

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- That the Judge did mot al­
ways and invariably (tn life,
in literature) opt for the claims
of power and influence is the
subject of many-approving
Chinese and Japanese ■'collec­
tions.' There are devoted inde­
ed to a delineation of his
power to scent ■ out truth and
give * Judgment
accordingly.
The • rights of individuals or
representatives • concered were
not always consulted Jsince
such rights were held only by
those, the samurai, already in
full power) and the spirit ra­
ther than the letter of the Jaw
was traditionally observed.
As may be imagined; in the
police state of Tokugawa Ja­
pan the existence -of such fairminded individuals was some­
thing in which the common
populace.very much wanted to
believe. It was perhaps. con-

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Offenders or defenders?

What war criminal families are doing today

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sequehtly/ in Japan'as well as pressed wit and ironic flashes
in China,- that. There rose. a 1 for which the author is known”
kind of sub-literary division|:— that, they are, in fact, ”a

which dealt “entirely with such compendium of wry twists on
His
wife
Shizuko
committed
crises.
the trial accounts popular at
By BOB HORIGUCHI
. civilian job.......
Of the -seven Tojo children, suicide on May 18, 1946, short­
, One such collection has now thertime if was. written.”
TOKYO. — Some denounced
two are dead. The surviving ly after the Tokyo War Crimes been for the/first t
trans­
This, may be true but such/
them as “ offenders - a galnst three daughters are all mar-, trials had started with her huslated. (?) It is by. the .famous definition seems to imply -that.
peace' who had revived holo- ried; the youngest, Kimie, ’ to barKTsitting in the defendants’
Ihara Saikaku a man who “Saikaku was in some way.
caustic practices dating back to
an Am e r ica h b u s i n es sma n .
wrote about whatever
he sending upThe origi na Is. 1 eg nz
Genghis Khan to achieve their
Her
'
second
son,
Hiroo,
is
Their mother, Katsuko, who
thought? would sell and to find no evidence of this. Certa- ■
dims of i mperia I oonq uest. :
now
the
managing
director
of
will soon, cel ebrate her 91 st
whom we ■ are, co ns eq ue nt I y in - inly, he never once/doubts the
To others' they were mar-, birthday, lives alone with a, the Ma i son Fra neo-Japanese debted for much of what we disinterested’ benevolence of
tyrs, victim of a vengeful jus­ maid in the spacious Tojo after having retired from the know about the I otter .ha If jdf theJ udge hlmseIf. If, on the \
Bank of Tokyo. The -third son,
tice of the viators.
home in Setagaya, Tokyo.
other hand, merely a dramati­
17th century Japan.
Ma'sgo,
lives
with
his
family
in
With the 35th anniversary of
/Masashi Itagaki, also a secWhen he was* in 1689, past zation of some kind; is to be
the end of World War II ii? the ond.-sbn, won. a seat in the the old Hirota home in Kugehis middle years, having , al­ observed, then Lone< can agree.
numa,
(Kanagawa
Prefecture,
offing, the Sunday Mainichi in House of Councillors in the reready written about courtesans I do-not think, however, that
its Aug. 10 issue took a close .cent elections. He is the secre- with his two sisters who have and stage-people;' about sex, ih this book Saikaku' is approlook at how the families of the tary-generaI of the Japanese never married.
both homo and hetero;, about aching his subject matter in. a
The Hirotas shun publicity.
seven Japanese A-class war Association for the Families of
the family /and unfrligl chil- manner at. all subversive. He
The other families also
cri m i n a Is, wh o end ed their the War Dead, Whose votes,
dren —- in shorty about any­ seems to have only the highest
li ves on- the ga l lows <a few says5' the - weekly, were instru­ avoid the limelight.
,
thing he could think of, he respect for the Oriental Judge
days before Christmas 1948? mental in his -victory at the
The sob/ of Kenji Doiharg', turned to more' moralizing arid his works. .
have fared in the' postwar poJJs.;
one of the mastenminds behind2 works, the audience for which
As detective fiction (which
’ /
years.
■His younger brother, Masao, th e Japa ne se ta keo ve r of Mg n - was the- affluent -new bour­ these stories are admittedly
What emerges from the, is ' president of the ^American churia in; the early?’30s, lives
geoisie, then as now -anxious not) the col I ecti on fa 11 s i nto :
magazine's ■ detailed report is Isuzu /Motors Go. and lives in with his own family and that
the category which finds howTo be taught.
a checkered mosaic of . great the United Sates.
of one of his sisters in a
~ Among the books turned out it-got-solved to be more inter­
success and of, often self-lmTheir mother; Kikuko,., now weather-worn, small house in was a collection of Oriental esting an’d important- than
82,: moved-into the first home Setagaya, Tokyo.
Judge stories —the Honcho who-did-it. In this?, of course,
~On the brighter side can be she could call her own in I960.,- . Now, 63 years old, Migoru Oin Hiji (here . translated as the book is truly'Oriental since
found the kin of Hidek£ Tojo, It was provi d ed by Masa sh i. iDoihara still commutes daily Tales of Japanese Justice). an "interest in legal mechanism'
the wartime prime minister Until then, she' had spent her ,to an officeAof ai trading corn- The title itself J s a va ria ti on on rather than legal morality has ,
and military leader of Seishi- entire married life In rented' many. His mother. Kaya, died that of the Chinese classic long abided. The - collet
ro Itagaki, one-time war' mini- houses.
T’ang Ying Pi Shin (Trials in also very Japanese In that, to
six years ago.
. ster arid of Heitaro Kimura,
iKimura’s widow, Kaho, who
Hatsuko, 78, the widow of the Shade of a Pear Tree), a this day, the hanponious and
who commanded the ill-starred. is 81, succeeded in turning her
solution
is much
another general, Akira -Muto, collection already well known peaceful
J apep es e f o rces i n Burma .Al I misfortune/into riches by hew­ lives quietly with her daugh­ in Japan. But only one story more important than any^ ab­
three were army genera Is v
ing a business career. Now liv­
seems to have been lifted from stract-question of rights or
ter, Ch’iyoko, 46.
Tdjo's second son, Teruo, ing comfo rtab Iy ■ i r\ s emi - rethe, Chinese collection itself. even guilt.
The widow of Gen. Iwane
Whether this interest, is suf­
th e e Idest s u rvi vi ng h eir, who tirement in one of the best re­
Matsui, who was held respon­ The others are Japanese, ei­
is an aircraft engineer, was sidential secitions of Shinaga­
ficient to arouse the desire to
sible by the Allied .Military Tri­ ther fact or folklore.
appointed vice president of wa, Tokyo, she retains the title
Many have been traced to read is something which-each
bunal for the Nanking/Masr
Mitsubishi Motors Co. in June, of counselor to Kawasaki Inreader must decide for him­
sdcre (perpetrated by troops un­ the archives of the Itakura
a move, said to foreshadow.his 'dustries of Osaka, where she
der his command on the fa mi lyjtwo members of which self. The student of "The Con­
early elevation to the post, of - s e rved a s p re s i d e nt and later
tinuing State, of Traditional
Shanghai front in lft37t died were notable Oriental Judges
Japanese - Ways” (Advanced os chairman of the board. v _
p resid ent.
y
of cancer in December 1973. of the period and to other
Course); however (and'all of
.The third son, Toshio, reDuring her T2-years rule as They were childless.
- ;wortks about this family and
’ cently retired from the Air-Self-' chief executive, she built up
us here are, willy-ni Ily, faking
The cremated remains of the about Oriental Judges in geneDefense Force after reaching, the i nterior decorating fi nm,
our Master’s in it), the book is
seven men are buried in the al.
the rank of maijor general. He that she had taken over from
One. at least -seems to be ^interesting ammunition for the
grounds'
of
Koa
.Kan
non
’ is now looking for- a suitable. her' younger brother, . into a
pro side of the continui ng deTemple near Atami, where a from legend. Readers will./be
prosperous/ medium-sized em Buddhist priest, Jinrei Itami, I surprised ;to find in ‘ Twins bate. The Oriental Judge now
prays for them three times a I Who Break-a .Blood Jie,” the is not . much different from
tenprise. •

_ .
t Her son Taro is how Shizu­ day;
'
I same situation that Brecht lat- back 4hen — Saikaku’s wise
oka branch manager of the
On the same grounds stand I er ~-used < in The Caucasian and .benevolent magistrates
Bank of Japan and her daugh- d three-meter-high statue of I Chalk Circle.- Both versions and those now presiding in the
teris happily married..
Kahnon, the Buddhist goddess I have the same. Chinese ances- country’s^ courts are of, a com- /
(Fate has been less generous df mercy that was erected by I tor, long turned Jo .myth.
mon cut.
(*) Tales Of Japanese, Justice,
With the family ol‘Koki Hi rota*,_ Matsui in 1940 honoring the I
40 Melford Drive, Unit 1
Saikaku’s stories uphold^they
Scartx>rough,Ontario
a former foreign minister and' memory of the men who had I infallibility of the Oriental by Ihara Saikaku. Translated
M1B2G2
298-3333
-later premier who was the' died in the Nanking campaign-1 Judge: it is impossible for him by Thomas M. Kondo and
.
KEN MURATA
<
.
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