Page 1
%t Ke iv Canadian
An Independent Organ for Canadians of Japanese Origin
VOL. 44. — NO. 75
Tracfitioii and statistiCiisto
japan is not male-dominated
TUESDAY, OCT. 7 1980
'
„
“Within the Barbed Wire Fence new
book by Takeo Nakano of Toronto
I cordance with inflation and th^
I rising wage level. But the esTOKYO. —
Despite +^e j sential husband-wife relation- |
efforts made, particularly 'n' ship has'not altered.
TORONTO,
recent years,-to --..make Japanl
. conditions J winner of .
By KIYOAKI MURATA,'
TORONTO, ONTARIO.
_
accepted1 the fact that the Canadian history .—? the jorced evacuation during the sec
whites were the elite.
Nine months later, Takeo ond world war of 21,000
less inscrutable, the , nation ^^ causej men’s position rel-1 Poetry Contest, Mr. Takeo Nastill remains an enigma 'n I ahve to their wives' to dete- kano and his daughter Leatrice was behind wire, interned in Japanese
from
Canadians
ah
old
prisoner-of-war
camp
some areas — due largely to 1 riorate thanks largely to the Nakano have written a book
B-c
' ' .
false . assumptions by those new |egal status women pc-. of a -pe/sonal account of intern north of Lake Superior, dn those
More than fust a social
- .who try to understand it. .
| quired in - terms of sexual ment I ife in Ca na da du ri ng, months he had been taken
is an
The status of women in JQ-j eqUa|ity. This change jgave World
War
Two.
Entitled. from h i s f a mi ly, and sent • to document, "Mr. Nakano
pan and how citizens view h I ^.^^ to ^^ expression, ram- “Within
The Barbed
Wire road camps in the mountains accomplished poet, a master
hear the Alberta border. He of the traditional tanka verse
have often baffled outsiders. It J pan| ^jn immediate postwar Fence", the book was publish near
has also been baffling to Japa-4 .y^,^ ‘ "women and ' stockings ed recently by University of was told he would be reunited form, and even in this period
■with his family in?the interior
nese women whom outsiders I re s-hongef" than before the Toronto Press.
of anxiety and sadness his
have urged to “liberate" them-I wa r — stockings because of
“On December 7, 1941, Tak
when this promise was not vision was illuminated 'by the
selves. Japanese women’s re-1 yJon .
eo Nakano was living peace
action has not been dissimilar I
Sti|| another po.stwar addi- fully with his wife^and young, ikept, and a result was shipped natural splendour surrounding
, to that of the Japanese farmer.I.on ^ ^ Ja,panese yocdbu? daughter in Woodfibre, B.C, a to an internment camp at the camps. He turned to writAngler, Ontario,, where armed .^ poetry for sustenance, and
to the postwar land ref°‘m ,,afy was the term "kyosa^^^^^ company town^O miles up theguards watched.,
I several of the tanka he compprogram carried out at4he in- (wife.feoring
husband),
for' coast from Vancouver. He calls;,
He tells his story of upheay-1
,
in ^
stance of the Allied Occupa-1 ^.^ ^^ seems to be no, lit an "idyllic town where the
tionv
I Western counterpart.. The clos- .Japanese lived in their tight. al, jailing, and months within
the double barbed wire?fence..I
The book is based on diaries
The fact was these farmers!
^ ..uxojjous hus?.I itt I e co m mu n ity . i n 9 n e secIt is a personal account of one I |\jaKano
kept
during
the
had emerged from the war "ot | band,” which, however, means tion,
•
the whites doing liikej
only unscathed but also richer [ ^ mcl.n ".excessively or Joolish-. wise in a better section ... I of the blackest episodes °J]94Q,S translated and extend
than any other segment of the.
fond of Qpe.is wife.- This.
ed with the assistance of a
population because they
9 I linguistic gap may suggest, in
‘population
M
daughter born after the war.
'been able to secure food tor .^ tha+ the West is more, 1
l ends w^ the departure bom
■ themselves and earn extrq ;maIVOminated than Japan.
-I Angler, relocation in Toronto,
blackmarket rice. I
. _ ..
r
•
J
More; recent illustration of
TOKYO. — With one year I the sports extravaganza.
I reunion with his family, and
As has been pointed outL^e ^^^^ ^ men) tr-nd -s a
remaining before the Internal!-I
''Our last hurdle is to ob- eVentuaI decision to become a
from time to time, Japan has opu|ar song which- became
onal
Olympic
Committee tain government recognition L^^.^ cit1zen.
been, stillis, and is even more ^ rage in 1979,' entitled.,
chooses the site for the 1988 and financial support for the
.
so today fh_en before, p. mat I
Kanpaku Sengeh," ''a'
summer games, the central Ja- games,” said a spokesman for
In
an
Afterword
Peter
riarchal society. It is the su- dec|ar^tionof a husband as
panese city of Nagoya plans the local Olympic Council.' We Ward p|aces the story of Takeo
perficial pattern of social be- master of his own household,
to spread the games, contender plan to have that recognition Na)<ano in its historical cohhavior among the Ja'Panese’p?^^
to host the international event, by the time we send a delegat-1. of continuing anti-Asian
. which - misleads outsiders to|
re|a^shi,p
with
his:
An automotive centre with a ion to the international ,^r*s
Hm^ B.C. from the ninethink'that this is a male-dom.- l
think of making
population of two million, Ja- .Federation meeting in Monte
teeth century until after the
noted one.,
: ;
. Lach g declaration. The popupan's fourth largest city was Carlo next month."
,
,
Even the seemingly
aut°’| |arity this song won has been considered an unlikely dark
The government has balked war. cratic” husbands in prewar Ja- lnterpretec| a.s ah index of the horse when it announced last at the three billion dollar price
Nakano’s account is unique '
pan had no real. control. of |
eva|ence ,ot henpecked hus-.
year its intentions to, bid for- tag Nagoya put on the games, in EngLish-and-Japanese liter
their households’. The- term bands jn Japan.
,
the games. Japan had already half of it to come from goyern"ofukuro," an informal and.enThe Jq nese press did its hosted the games twice — the ment coffers. It has asked the ature. It is the only substania! dearing term used by men ’° utmost in covering the World 1964 Tokyo Summer Olympics city to go back to the drawing account of the experiences ana
refer to their mothers, ^
of the United Na- and the 1972 Sapporo Winter board once more to cut budget reflections of an Issei immicinct illustration.
O is, ™ tions Decade for Women, held Games __ and Nagoya was corners in half.
_
■
•fukuro
”
honorific and
"fukuro
is .^ Copenhagen from July 14 relatively unkown compared to
?But we are confident that
It is a moving and unforgett
"bag" — the “money bag the| ^ ^ ^ sending many women,
I we will be able to come to.
■mother controls
* Melbourne, Brussels, London, terms with Tokyo," the spokes- able document of forced separ
reporters to do justice to the
And she does so even today.
Sao Paulo, Helsinki and Seoul man said. •
■
. . ation, loss of freedom, fear,
event.
interest in
The bulk of the budget
The tradition acquired a new
As reported by the mass
expression
in
the postwar media, however, most of the is- hosting the 1988 games, in would go toward building vision that surmounted all indecades. Some ‘ 20 years ago, suesffaken up by the confer sharp contrast to Los Angeles’| roads and subways linking he
the average wage-earner of a ence seemed irrelevant to uncontested bid for the 1984 three
prefectures
'
—
Takeo Nakano: is also the
•family was called "the Y100 Japanese women. An AP story
over which Nagoya plans to,
games.
husband.” It meant that after from Copenhagen reporting on
But Nagoya has now join spread the games. The rest author of a Japanese-language
' turning his monthly pay en the end of the conference, for- ed Melbourne, host for the would be used to build d collection of poetry and prose,
velope over to -his^ wife
instance, said:
1956 Summer Games, as the 70,000 seat main stadium, a “Sensei." His daughter Leatrice
payday, he was given by his
“The clear winners . . only city to have both the fac main indoor stadium/a new is a graduate student in Eng
wife Y100 per day to cover hi s were women who suffer under ilities and the. expressed de-’ swimming pool, and an athlethe multiple burdens of pover- termination to come up with te'.s village Idter to be used for lish Literature at the University
incidental expenses.
I of Toronto.
- The allowance, of course,
the funds necessary to stage public housing:
Continued on pO9e ^ <
has since been increased in ac-
Canadian
1988 OlviiiDics in Nagoya f
An Independent Organ for Canadians of Japanese Origin
VOL. 44. — NO. 75
Tracfitioii and statistiCiisto
japan is not male-dominated
TUESDAY, OCT. 7 1980
'
„
“Within the Barbed Wire Fence new
book by Takeo Nakano of Toronto
I cordance with inflation and th^
I rising wage level. But the esTOKYO. —
Despite +^e j sential husband-wife relation- |
efforts made, particularly 'n' ship has'not altered.
TORONTO,
recent years,-to --..make Japanl
. conditions J winner of .
By KIYOAKI MURATA,'
TORONTO, ONTARIO.
_
accepted1 the fact that the Canadian history .—? the jorced evacuation during the sec
whites were the elite.
Nine months later, Takeo ond world war of 21,000
less inscrutable, the , nation ^^ causej men’s position rel-1 Poetry Contest, Mr. Takeo Nastill remains an enigma 'n I ahve to their wives' to dete- kano and his daughter Leatrice was behind wire, interned in Japanese
from
Canadians
ah
old
prisoner-of-war
camp
some areas — due largely to 1 riorate thanks largely to the Nakano have written a book
B-c
' ' .
false . assumptions by those new |egal status women pc-. of a -pe/sonal account of intern north of Lake Superior, dn those
More than fust a social
- .who try to understand it. .
| quired in - terms of sexual ment I ife in Ca na da du ri ng, months he had been taken
is an
The status of women in JQ-j eqUa|ity. This change jgave World
War
Two.
Entitled. from h i s f a mi ly, and sent • to document, "Mr. Nakano
pan and how citizens view h I ^.^^ to ^^ expression, ram- “Within
The Barbed
Wire road camps in the mountains accomplished poet, a master
hear the Alberta border. He of the traditional tanka verse
have often baffled outsiders. It J pan| ^jn immediate postwar Fence", the book was publish near
has also been baffling to Japa-4 .y^,^ ‘ "women and ' stockings ed recently by University of was told he would be reunited form, and even in this period
■with his family in?the interior
nese women whom outsiders I re s-hongef" than before the Toronto Press.
of anxiety and sadness his
have urged to “liberate" them-I wa r — stockings because of
“On December 7, 1941, Tak
when this promise was not vision was illuminated 'by the
selves. Japanese women’s re-1 yJon .
eo Nakano was living peace
action has not been dissimilar I
Sti|| another po.stwar addi- fully with his wife^and young, ikept, and a result was shipped natural splendour surrounding
, to that of the Japanese farmer.I.on ^ ^ Ja,panese yocdbu? daughter in Woodfibre, B.C, a to an internment camp at the camps. He turned to writAngler, Ontario,, where armed .^ poetry for sustenance, and
to the postwar land ref°‘m ,,afy was the term "kyosa^^^^^ company town^O miles up theguards watched.,
I several of the tanka he compprogram carried out at4he in- (wife.feoring
husband),
for' coast from Vancouver. He calls;,
He tells his story of upheay-1
,
in ^
stance of the Allied Occupa-1 ^.^ ^^ seems to be no, lit an "idyllic town where the
tionv
I Western counterpart.. The clos- .Japanese lived in their tight. al, jailing, and months within
the double barbed wire?fence..I
The book is based on diaries
The fact was these farmers!
^ ..uxojjous hus?.I itt I e co m mu n ity . i n 9 n e secIt is a personal account of one I |\jaKano
kept
during
the
had emerged from the war "ot | band,” which, however, means tion,
•
the whites doing liikej
only unscathed but also richer [ ^ mcl.n ".excessively or Joolish-. wise in a better section ... I of the blackest episodes °J]94Q,S translated and extend
than any other segment of the.
fond of Qpe.is wife.- This.
ed with the assistance of a
population because they
9 I linguistic gap may suggest, in
‘population
M
daughter born after the war.
'been able to secure food tor .^ tha+ the West is more, 1
l ends w^ the departure bom
■ themselves and earn extrq ;maIVOminated than Japan.
-I Angler, relocation in Toronto,
blackmarket rice. I
. _ ..
r
•
J
More; recent illustration of
TOKYO. — With one year I the sports extravaganza.
I reunion with his family, and
As has been pointed outL^e ^^^^ ^ men) tr-nd -s a
remaining before the Internal!-I
''Our last hurdle is to ob- eVentuaI decision to become a
from time to time, Japan has opu|ar song which- became
onal
Olympic
Committee tain government recognition L^^.^ cit1zen.
been, stillis, and is even more ^ rage in 1979,' entitled.,
chooses the site for the 1988 and financial support for the
.
so today fh_en before, p. mat I
Kanpaku Sengeh," ''a'
summer games, the central Ja- games,” said a spokesman for
In
an
Afterword
Peter
riarchal society. It is the su- dec|ar^tionof a husband as
panese city of Nagoya plans the local Olympic Council.' We Ward p|aces the story of Takeo
perficial pattern of social be- master of his own household,
to spread the games, contender plan to have that recognition Na)<ano in its historical cohhavior among the Ja'Panese’p?^^
to host the international event, by the time we send a delegat-1. of continuing anti-Asian
. which - misleads outsiders to|
re|a^shi,p
with
his:
An automotive centre with a ion to the international ,^r*s
Hm^ B.C. from the ninethink'that this is a male-dom.- l
think of making
population of two million, Ja- .Federation meeting in Monte
teeth century until after the
noted one.,
: ;
. Lach g declaration. The popupan's fourth largest city was Carlo next month."
,
,
Even the seemingly
aut°’| |arity this song won has been considered an unlikely dark
The government has balked war. cratic” husbands in prewar Ja- lnterpretec| a.s ah index of the horse when it announced last at the three billion dollar price
Nakano’s account is unique '
pan had no real. control. of |
eva|ence ,ot henpecked hus-.
year its intentions to, bid for- tag Nagoya put on the games, in EngLish-and-Japanese liter
their households’. The- term bands jn Japan.
,
the games. Japan had already half of it to come from goyern"ofukuro," an informal and.enThe Jq nese press did its hosted the games twice — the ment coffers. It has asked the ature. It is the only substania! dearing term used by men ’° utmost in covering the World 1964 Tokyo Summer Olympics city to go back to the drawing account of the experiences ana
refer to their mothers, ^
of the United Na- and the 1972 Sapporo Winter board once more to cut budget reflections of an Issei immicinct illustration.
O is, ™ tions Decade for Women, held Games __ and Nagoya was corners in half.
_
■
•fukuro
”
honorific and
"fukuro
is .^ Copenhagen from July 14 relatively unkown compared to
?But we are confident that
It is a moving and unforgett
"bag" — the “money bag the| ^ ^ ^ sending many women,
I we will be able to come to.
■mother controls
* Melbourne, Brussels, London, terms with Tokyo," the spokes- able document of forced separ
reporters to do justice to the
And she does so even today.
Sao Paulo, Helsinki and Seoul man said. •
■
. . ation, loss of freedom, fear,
event.
interest in
The bulk of the budget
The tradition acquired a new
As reported by the mass
expression
in
the postwar media, however, most of the is- hosting the 1988 games, in would go toward building vision that surmounted all indecades. Some ‘ 20 years ago, suesffaken up by the confer sharp contrast to Los Angeles’| roads and subways linking he
the average wage-earner of a ence seemed irrelevant to uncontested bid for the 1984 three
prefectures
'
—
Takeo Nakano: is also the
•family was called "the Y100 Japanese women. An AP story
over which Nagoya plans to,
games.
husband.” It meant that after from Copenhagen reporting on
But Nagoya has now join spread the games. The rest author of a Japanese-language
' turning his monthly pay en the end of the conference, for- ed Melbourne, host for the would be used to build d collection of poetry and prose,
velope over to -his^ wife
instance, said:
1956 Summer Games, as the 70,000 seat main stadium, a “Sensei." His daughter Leatrice
payday, he was given by his
“The clear winners . . only city to have both the fac main indoor stadium/a new is a graduate student in Eng
wife Y100 per day to cover hi s were women who suffer under ilities and the. expressed de-’ swimming pool, and an athlethe multiple burdens of pover- termination to come up with te'.s village Idter to be used for lish Literature at the University
incidental expenses.
I of Toronto.
- The allowance, of course,
the funds necessary to stage public housing:
Continued on pO9e ^ <
has since been increased in ac-
Canadian
1988 OlviiiDics in Nagoya f
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THE
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NEW
i
Statistics..
SEICHO-NO4E
TRUTH OF LIFE CHURCH
_
ty, race discrimination’, illiter
acy and-statelessness.’’
-‘The program of action;cd I ls
’on governments npt/o view
women as welfare .cases but as
principal players in- national
development roles.” •
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and, Canada Federation .
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Published on Tuesdays and
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77.3 said yes while 14.3 said
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miuri, in its readers’ column the. remainder had no answer.
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on Aug. 1.1, said reader /reac .. Li kewise, 89.1 percent of
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tions to -reports on the Copen-' men thought women’s responsi
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hagen.;''conference were’-mixed. bility was,/not at-gll light.”
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• (Related to this question was
•Nakano Ward, Tokyo, said: “I “not commonly recognized.”
To the question of whether “'If you* could be reborn, would
gm one of the women df.Japan, who applauded the news the housewife deserved some you dike to be a man?” To this
that ’ Japan- signed the , U.N. kind of reward for her work, 33.4 of the women said yes.
This does not' mean,- how
/Convention on - Elimination of 48.6 percent of women' said-no
that " ^Japanese
men
'Al I forms of.' Discri mi nation while 37.5' percent said yes., A ever,
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'ence. I hope that, .with this-' men (38.6 percent) thought the question, ‘‘Are" you happy that
signing’ as an. occasion, Japa ■housewife deserved some kind (you were born a man?” 90.1
nese society will measurably of reward for her work.
of men ‘ said they were, • and
• Perhaps
more ■’ significant only 3.5 percent of them wish
change its course.” •
' Also .significant was ’a sur are figures concerning the ed- to be .born as . women in
vey conducted / by the same question, “Are you happy that another incarnation.
■
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By and large, these statistics
a sample ,of 1,012 men and which 72.3 percent replied in seem to indicate that Japanese
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ty, race discrimination’, illiter
acy and-statelessness.’’
-‘The program of action;cd I ls
’on governments npt/o view
women as welfare .cases but as
principal players in- national
development roles.” •
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on Sundays at 10:30 .a.m. .
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’
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• '
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Thursday: Prayer arid Study Fellowship 7:45 p.m.
Friday Youth Group
Pastor S. Yokota 265-3386, Mr. H,; Yoshida, 461-1686
TORONTO JAPANESE SEVENTH-DAY
ADVENTIST CHURCH
Saturday
Continued from page 1
9:30 a.m. — Bible Study
11:00 za,m. — Worship Preaching Service
19 Mortimer Ave., Toronto — Tel. 491-6740
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Established in 1939
• Second. Class mail No. 0368
A member of Ethnic Press
was: Do you think ihe houseAssociation of Ontario
wife 'work - is decent and
and, Canada Federation .
Among • men,
worthwhile?”
Published on Tuesdays and
age-
77.3 said yes while 14.3 said
Fridays
no. Among women, .76.7 said
Publisher & Japanese Editor
-yes and 17.2 disagreed while,
Kenzo Mori
miuri, in its readers’ column the. remainder had no answer.
English Editor
on Aug. 1.1, said reader /reac .. Li kewise, 89.1 percent of
Kei Tsumura
tions to -reports on the Copen-' men thought women’s responsi
CirculationManager
hagen.;''conference were’-mixed. bility was,/not at-gll light.”
K. Sho
The
percentage
was
higher
To illustrate; -the newspaper
479 Queen Street West,
carried letters from two wom among women -—at 92.5 per
Toronto, Ont. M5B 2A9
en representing two-'opiposite cent. And " more women (68.5
PHONE 366-5005
percent); than men (58.1 per
views> ' • .
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.
A 42-year-old housewife in. cent)- thought that this was
• (Related to this question was
•Nakano Ward, Tokyo, said: “I “not commonly recognized.”
To the question of whether “'If you* could be reborn, would
gm one of the women df.Japan, who applauded the news the housewife deserved some you dike to be a man?” To this
that ’ Japan- signed the , U.N. kind of reward for her work, 33.4 of the women said yes.
This does not' mean,- how
/Convention on - Elimination of 48.6 percent of women' said-no
that " ^Japanese
men
'Al I forms of.' Discri mi nation while 37.5' percent said yes., A ever,
Against Women at the confer-' slightly higher, percentage of ■really,, envy women. To the
'ence. I hope that, .with this-' men (38.6 percent) thought the question, ‘‘Are" you happy that
signing’ as an. occasion, Japa ■housewife deserved some kind (you were born a man?” 90.1
nese society will measurably of reward for her work.
of men ‘ said they were, • and
• Perhaps
more ■’ significant only 3.5 percent of them wish
change its course.” •
' Also .significant was ’a sur are figures concerning the ed- to be .born as . women in
vey conducted / by the same question, “Are you happy that another incarnation.
■
''journal in- May-this year.’with you were, born a woman?” to
By and large, these statistics
a sample ,of 1,012 men and which 72.3 percent replied in seem to indicate that Japanese
1,148 women over -20 years of the affirmative.
women are content with their
status because they are aware
of th e i mp o rta n ce of th e i r f u n cJ C. CULTURAL CENTRE FILM SOCIETY
tion ancl also'probably because
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SUNDAY, Oct: 12, 1980
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