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■I wish to mourn the pass­ ance, 1 had always felt tha&^toih,,^
ing of John- Lennon .in my own
-at. times,- John! and - PauL wereT^
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way and in my own rite. He
gave to the । world the count-, as - to' the - idealized • "girl"
less songs,"that will endure, songs like : "We-Can/Wonk - It I? ,
forever. He was a 1 musician
and an artist; yes, let"us say
that without apology -or qua<
the public were read, the
- lification; he^ had the kind of qntly- John, Lennon was also: a I
jokYO. —Ihe/annual- Imrestless energy and?_ intelli- white ma n ;who.: rejected- hisl pgrial New /Year Poetry ' Party eluding Chief 5 Justice of the poems by the meshiudp, Prr’ gence ' that ’ always kept him own ^machismo,- raised:/'his ^jtakpi Hajime' no GipWa’s Supreme Court Takobki Hat- ncess Hitachi^ Crown Princess
moving onward? I will always own: .son, a nd expressed ten- L^j ,< ^-,. the -'I miperialr Palace ’tb’fi, Education Minister Tatsuo Michiko- and Crown Prince
rememberhis voice,' less pretty .derness’ and love. He 'mar^e^-recently in the pfesenceofthe Tanaka .arid Japanese-style were read in that order.
painter Kali Higashiyama .were
At the end of the party, * e
than Paul McCartney’s but Yoko Ono a rid; .took . on the, I-Emperoir. - •
Specially-invited
also invited.
"
• poem by the Empress was
throaty and more" soulful. It anti-Asian ; racey.hatredi.'Of’attended.;//
nainter Gen- recited twice and the one by
" could be -flat' as a .highway, many-people, so vile and un'L^T;he-theme pf this year’s
so Okuda, .68, was. specially the Emperor was recited 'three
or ironic, 'detached and hu­ -just, since. Yoko was, a_well-iimlper^
party was oto
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morous? and.the quaver which known ? conceptual . artist ln M^o’ond). Ten -persons,? whose picked-by the Emperdr.as-this times.
The Emperor's poem was
. stuck in his. voice, would inex- New; .York. .long, before she? 3,] =.Syiiajble Tanka poems 'were year’s meshiudo (poet laure. plicably move me. Like Elvis had ever met ;Lennon. After a I seiected -from, camong: some ate) to submit his poem td the about the sea near the impenal villa at Suzaki, Shimoda,
Preslev or Little Richard, he much . publicized . separation, 33700* entries for reading at '
’ "Every poem selected from' Shizuoka' Prefecture. • The Emwas one of the rock-n-roll - their mariage /became, a bond L^ ^pqrty-,- were invited-to the
the public- was read once in press wrote about a' bamboo
screamers and many of the of equal'partners, af :^9P^^e function.
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its - entirety without melody I grass fi
versions -with
John
- cover
Fantasy.
Nasu, Tochigi Prefecsinging lead did justice to
iu.
Jo^n Lennorrwas a utopian the' rEmperor, the crown PrL by a koji (lecturer) first. After Villa in
_ those' songs,, unlike other ver-1
pure X visions: I, nce<ancj Princessr arid .Prince that, a reciter read the open- ture.
* * *
. sions by so many white P®r'l ••j^^
/‘Strawberry
Ftol<!s l oncj Princess Hitachi attended ing fiyetsyllable stanza with
Emperor
formers. The whiteboy, as they I ^r0ver ’’
“Tomorrow Never I the? traditional new year, fun- melody arid then^four other I
^Through
the ' tranquillity
.say, has soul.
I Knows
“Across the Mni'Lctidn;-.Which/was-s held'at the
■the . Dream. - , songs. I |pperiaj Palace- s Matsu no Ma in reading the second, third > over the Sea of Izu.
His first solo album, 'Pl08"!*verse,"
Comes the whistling sound
.
could; make us/laugh:
|(|(pine tree-room), ^he- Empress fourth and fifth stanzas with
sounded
as
The
man
tic. Ono - Band
of the breathing
J though he was screaming' the the .two books of whimsical Has,a)bs^
melody.
:
Of just surfaced women
After the 10 poems from
agony out of his soul. In that I p’Oems -and stories, ’the out- Lca,use/ofAba£k tpains.j
divers
album,' he-'stripped the music I rageous press, statements, the v^------- -- ------ -—^

. Who gather shellfish.
to its raw basics, with onlV Ghrlstmcts messages, the^ayid
. LQ^Q^eJ '
. guitar,-bass, piano and drum fold-mimi^ pf his voices. He
Empress
instrumentation,' and
spare ga,Vg ^o os , thr^^^^
music , vOTTAWA ,?_'A Haiku, the I conciseness/
I hear the rustle' of the
\ arrangements. The album was his love and, joy as well>aMtiny) perfect poems of Japan,
"The Shakespeare of haiku
meant to repudiate the kind I hs workingclass, pain and I ^- ^^subject of an award-. was Matsuo Basho, said Fin- breeze
That wafts over the bamboo
of ornate studio production of- anger, and the unhealed sor- L^.^ ^ film- ' by
Ottawa I dlay of ythe - 17th century
which the Beatles- "Sergeant rowof his childhood. H®ren-L ^ro-ter S^on ’ Find!- kiboref, poet arid wanderer grass plain
Spreading" at the foot of
Peppers’" album was-, often ,rlched QUr . llves forever. )
who says they fore^char- whose diaries sparked nev^inconsidered the peak. Lennon thlnk of the beautiful new J ^^j by simplicity and] t'erest in the 'centuries-old art. Mt. Asahi.
sought to project the .raw I songs/ the. promise in - them —=------ - ----------- ^
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Haiku should stimulate the
The Crown Prince
- -force of his voice ori that solo cut down,.wasted as.happeps
I senses of sight, sound, and
~ Wheelchairs inyrnotion grate
album and-it was frighten-l lth too many artists in fols
CrOSh COUrSO
touch,, says Michiaki Suma,
ingly effective! The simple fo* COuntty, artists much -less, for
L
' 'Japanese'
ambassador"
to and groan
in the basketball stadium
times simplistic) ■ lyrics', spoke | mous . than Lennon (the-list-of
Canada, who recently- presentwith
musicia ns who 'have, dieq
Riled
of a
ed Findlay
with the gold
; knowledge accompanied by aJ j
TOrineru^
Jmedal award of the-24th, cheers.
* * *
. vulnerability and. nakedness But Lennon also, had that
' I competition for short firns on
<to take risks, •< r.
that one experiences when bc^d-willingness
,
;
Japan and another award
’ Crown Princess Michiko.
;My husband’s car wends, its
confessing out one s soul; the
:- VATICAN ? CITY,
. Pape ^^ - the
English-language
way along an autumn stream
perils that fame brings to the on, even,;.that whole, complex John Paul* II is taking crash! j^|pan Times.
Followed by ..the rippling
' famous When blown, beyond dialectic between the art and •courses .?in Japanese and the
porty_four films of up to an
all sane proportion; his reijecti- the-life, deciding' to cease main native language opt e hour ini length were entered sound of its clear-current.
_on of' 'illusory myths; and recording-for five years after Philippines,-Tagalog, ..in pl^ mostly^ from Japan but also
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while .acknowledging -the in­ being ' signed./? to . a record paratibnfor'his W tO
Following are the poems of
'® from'.Britain, France, Australia

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company - contract for twenty Far /East Feb- l£-27, Vatican I ^ Canada. Findlay’s film, two of the five judges who
years. That he had^amassed officials'said-recently. . ,
rHaiku — Short Poetry of selected this year’s winning
million? of dollars at the time
' They said/ the LPolishrborn ^p^^ also took a "certificate
poems-.
of his death is one of those
Yuichi Yamamoto
pontiff was taking tessons of merit at the Chicago 1 n terugly, insoluble contradictions from a-' Japanese''priest, 'the
The sound of guns .
ednational Festival.
of capitalism that' one must Rey Fedele blishiyama, 40Makes the long grassy hills
John Lennon" was ' a : rock
Both -Findlay and Suma say
also consider. It seem|absyr| kear old Franciscan from .a
star, but he wrote and sang to argue whether or not such
there is growing western inmonastery in Nagasaki, the
many political song? in the wealth is -unfairy when whole
terestin haiku. Suma occasio­ foot
Southern. Japanese city des­
Seem like phantoms.
.lotions7 starve in^Cam- troyed' by an American atomic nally visits Ottawa schools to
' - popular form of -rock music;
* * *
hear readings and the art also
“Power to the People," "Don’t bodia. Of course it- is unfair.bomb in 1945.
Miyoji Ueda
is being taught in Boston,
And
yet,
given
that,"
Lennon
Wanna. Be' A Soldier.
Wor.
The monastery was founded
California and B.C.
was one of those rare people
king Class Hero,” "Woman is
qOirecf the power,' 50 yeajs ago’by Polish missiHis favorite is: See darkness,
who
had
ac
Nigger of the World?" No
' " onary Maximilian Kolbe who sounds of the seagulls faintly
My son son . has ret
..respect and
from his entrance exam.
more war, racism, sexism,
white.
Continued
on
page
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Continued on pa#® 2
homophobia,,. it_was-.all there,

evitable ■ uncertainties
and
confusion of life, the words
express a sustaining faith in
love, and the need to be-love-

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Pope's visit. >\'

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Lennon

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d^ a t th $ - Nazi cancen tra ti- J®^,^* the emphasis is on"’and utilized them to express I expressed such .profound feeion camp at Auschwitz and ■Jaipane^
becq_use ^invthe^dsitiy^ messages Igden^with’rings - of pea£e,; love and joy.
was beatified by Pope Paul PhHippin^y^ he, bopld 7 us^his^^^^
a rid . And so, again, "there? is this
VI in 1971. • ' . '-English/cm
^d&ion.VFpr -instance, “Instant;/utterly reasonless , killing we"
“His
Holiness ,hbpes
to
In Japan, the pope is sched­ Karma”>isan existential ^callLwilj' attempt; to comprehend
; learn enough words and ex- uled to visit -Tokyo arid - Hiro­ to"live fully, tosses the beauty, and- will nol I think of the
- pressions to celebrate Mass shima’ and Nagasaki -where in oneself.
'
' /" I hostility and "resentment that
arid; carry but other ' duties the atomic bomb was dropp­
His ‘ death ,’.comes • as a John Lennon enc8uritered from
ed at- the end^ of World War terrible shock, because he was' the government and the media
Japan,” a Vatican officiant Il to pray with the * survivors a songwriter, a mu'slclan, an during .his marriage-to Yoko,
said.
of the attacks. The. first was artist,-, who- generously gave Pno- and durln9 hls deport/
Vatican officials said . the dropped on Hiroshima..- *v 7 so much to the world, who atl°n Problems ln thls country,
pontiff is also learning TagaJohn - Paul is fluent in .at pdbiicly worked radical ehan- ^? med.fa most ?lmost ^evlt:
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ed to have come to terms with cannot ignore or forget those
I various aspects of- himself facets of his personality, even
► I also recalled to .me The ass- though -Jie is gone. It is one
"I qsssinations of Martin Luther of the saddest aspects of jhis
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j I War as, being racist, while songs on radio stations, that
, J rMalcplm had evolved beyond had already long since restri-;
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I journey to, Africa. The analogy few of his best-known songs
, Hs inexact, . since . King and such as “Imagine” from their
. I Malcolm - were, spokespersons playlists. The death of-a cul­
_ I for social 1 movements, while ture hero does not' end the
“ I-Lennon .was- a, rock musician power of those ideas or the
I whose influence was certainly possibilities for social change.
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Lfurth er re sea rch, J read th e
Kata Director of the Federation Of All Japan Karate
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I determine when they will be l students MUST master before acquiring the coveted Black I
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Kita-Waka era predictedforSumo’til mid-80s
438 pouhds/(198Jx kg),
j .win^The ;Shukun-sho ;;rth^ a near ■ perfect. 1471 recora.
,
By ANDY ADAMS
' r Although Kltanounii contin-‘Zrln -ihelyear^
/straight . times wa's S_also .a His only loss came on the
' *
Tued’ to’ dominate sumo in
32-year/old^ yokozuna^ ; Mie-: :gakusei .yokozuna. L— Yuta- 14th .day ’ at. the hands of
Jn many ways, sumo is uh. . .
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1980, winning Three; of' the
noumi.stunned the..experts..and/ kayama. . (the former ozeki),. yokdzuna rival- Wakahohana,
dergoing the same sort - of ’
'
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j
a
3 I six annual -basho compared to
■fans/aHke^ ty
his : who; turned, the trick Tn? 1962- who' beat out Kitanoumi for
changes it- went through 20'
-one
each "for -the
other
kec6nd.?y^QHin’^
The first Three time Shu- runnerup with a strong 13-2
■years ago; a changing- oh the
three yokozuna-/ -he -'wast nop
third; careeri;tourriey, title,, with - kunsho winner, was,, Yoshiba- mark. Kita finished with 12-3,
guards similar to -that which
quite so overpowering' as he.
y qmg in .1950/Asa hip appear­ while, Mienoumi annouced he
began in 1960. The names, of
has been in the/pasp, especial­ zenshoyushoX perfect 15:0-vic­
ed to be on the verge of pro­ was hanging up his mawashi
course/ are-different, but ’much
ly in 1978/whVn/h^
the; tory)- in,' the -. Hatsu; Basho7 in
motion To ozeki , after, the' following 'two straight losses
else is the-same.
,. -j* - '
January
;j
Ybkbzuna/
Kitanoumi
'
first/ five yusho. Mienoumi:
Nagoya Basho,.. but lost .his, at the start of the basho'to
Instead of the gradual-phas­ started -out _ like a lion and a rid/sekiwa ke Ma suiya ma _ fin chance when "he fell, back, rising ' sekiwake Ghiyonofuji
ing out' of- such yokozuna as went' out like' a .Jarrib;; while- ished/in a. tie second place
and
slipping
-maegashira
Tochinishiki, Wakanohana and Waijima =- did / just - the/Yeverse?. with, identical .-12-3 - records, with losing record s i n th e ,la stTamanofuji.
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As ah io, today we a re watch­ As for Wakqnohgna,; he was. and yolkozu na- Waka n pha na two basho?
Yokozuna-. , Waka noh ana
Chiyonofuji won - his third
ing yokozuma- Mienoumi and little different, from..any of* trailed in .third place, with
Wajima bow- out. Instead of his previous years^ although; A1 *4, while yokozuna ,Wa jima; came - through for. his first straight Gino-sho (Technique
the emergence ~of such bright he did come qn .strong toward, dropped^put/on tne/third d.by} yustio of the year and , his •Prize in the, -Kyushu Basho,
\ , Fourth "career, title with a winnew stars as Taiho, Kashiwa- the end of the. yean ;so?,that without a _win. \ ;
ning J4-1 performance, in the. but
uul it -was 5still two short of
do, Sddanoyama and - Tochin- many sumo commentators feel,
Fn the-Haru Basho-in March,,
Aki Basho, ■ It was an ideal, ex-yokozuna , Tochinishiki s allou mi, toddy we h aye such pro- that he has .reached ♦ a new
mising young rikishi as Hoku- plateau of power and will-be: ed his- string pf three-consecu­ “gift ./for ,his October bride, । time * record of five straight
Sachiko
Hanadq^
eldest ( Gino-sho set-in 1951-52.' Chitenyu, Ozutsu, As’ahio and ready to challenge the suprem­ tive yusho with g strong. ;13-2=
daughter of his stablemaster' , how eve r, - ca m e th re u g h
Sadanoumi. .
acy of-Kitarioumi in 1981 for mark,. .closely.'. - followed $ .vby;
Oyakata
(ex
­
- Waka noha ngj ip- theXunherup: Futagpyama- the big d iffere nee, - of co urse,. the first'time.
with a fine 11 -4 record as did
Waka nohaha
I).
yokozuna.
position, with; 12-3-.and Wqjiis that -thete were no strong,
fakanosato; and. the two sekiand
’ Wajima
Kita
noumi
total to 20 -^- second highest ma' third. with. an . 11,-4
wake seemed firmly;set along
Mienoumi; - withd rew finished out of the money
na around in 1960 like- Kita- sence the Edo Period, to for­ record
flfthr^ay ', .with: with identical'11-4 records, but the road to' ozeki' with per­
nou mi and Wakanohana 11 mer yokozuna Taiko's*all-time on' then
win.' Kita
Kita show- N°- 1 maegashira Tatonosato. haps two more .performances'
with another three of four record of 32 tourney titles., on!yi'ion®
.to; dog?. by a9Sln stumped the experts by of double-digit - wins needed
; good, strong year s still a h ead Kitanoumi -was also - named ed he...was
/hei 'winding up in second placet
of them. Although the Kita- •Rikishi of the Year for the six-‘ Iosing ^ only one b ou t ..in
; to gain ; p romoti onto sumo’s
with a .Brilliant 13-2' record.
noumi Jidai may' soon evolve th straight year for compiling; Natsu^Ba shoin May. To .col­
second highest rank.
Mienoumi
chose
to
sit
out
the
his
second
straight
into a new Kita-Waka Fra, the least annual total of 77 lect
Ri
hopes of; I Mea nwhile, Kas u g ano
tournament, with'
*
tourney
chgmpionship
with
5
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a
;
wins and 19 losses., Waka was;making a comeback in Nozuna should continue to rule second with .72-18,
while 14-1 record. Again^ Wakqnp-:
,
’ shiki) was 're-elected chairman
■ the. roost until the mid-1980s? Waijima and Mienoumi lagged: hana'had To be content' with vemberi '
In the Final basho of 1980, of the Board of Directors for
second/
place/
,
tying
1
Na;;
J
0;
far
behind
with
48-20-22
arid;
1980 saw the beginning-of
his-^ fourth term, Futagoyama
maegashira A Tqchihikari'' with; the Kyushu Basho, -yokozunas
30T8-42,
respectively.
"the end for nearly half of the
'Wdljima — only, two months Oyakata (ex-yokozuna WakaIn other key developments’ a. T2-3 * mark'. Yokozuna Waji-J
Makunouchi rikishi with the
n oh ana< I) wa s b oos t ed to the
ma could' do no better than’ away from' his 33rd birthday,
in
1980,
yokozuna
-Mienoumi;
retirement., of . yokozuna Mie­
j 1-4, .while the fourth yokq- <— soared like' the ' proverbial* ■No. 2 position in the Su mo
hung
up~
his
mawashi
after,
noumi and the beginning of
Kyokai * a nd Taiho Oyakata
zu na’, ; Mienpumi, did^ even । ph oe nix fro m th e as he s of hi s;
two
consecutive

losses
at
the:
the beginning for a whole reyear-long succession of defer (ex-yolkozuna Taiho) was apworse
at
10-5.

start
of
the
Kyushu
Basho?
giment of young Turks with
ats to capture the yusho with pqi nted:a s- a ’ dir ect o r.
Kitanou
mi
com
pletely
d
o
mi-'
Although
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Mie
more,
’the debuts of 'shin-nyumaku
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Basho ,ih July by scoring zenthis" time next year, such
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. Waijima, ozeki—MasuIyama rank for a' shorter time^than tuaily invincible at .that stage
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maegashira veterans Takami­ since the Edo Jidai —.16 repeating his amazing string
ya ma, Fujizakura, Yutakaya- months. His eight basho” as of . five, consecutive tourney:
Yokozuna
the second-snprsecond-shor* titles "in:< 1978.
ma, Aoba jo, Futatsuryu a nd yokozuna, is tpe..
Daio may no longer be ar- test record in modern times Wakanoharia faltered; badlyWithin The Barbed Wire Fence
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Masuiyamcr- wqs promoted yokozuna pulled out of the
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