Page 1
Former Warld & Olympic judo ehamp Geesink says Japan, again, the best
the clock had ticked away the ' Yasuhiko ' Moriwaki
gained
formerc/wbrld: < h nd/ Oly^Pic j/co m e/*th e/ h ew /o pen^ca te g o ry
/MAASTRICT,
Netherlands.
regulation siven. minutes of
-wbrld^
J
another.
champion-.; Anton Geesink ot
: ~ Former World and Olympic
. Holland / "but -now- T think ' ' The .-capacity - crowd ^ of }’ the title bo ut.t "
Japan's Matsuhiko Mashi-:
judo champion, Anton Geesink
5,000 /spectators/in. the Eurothe'
tide
has
turned
wazaki and Chong-Hak Park
of Holland
attending
the
Reszko was awarded the » of South Korea won gold in
haL-hbre saw-the 26-year-old
again;/Jdpg^^
once- more
world championships
here
siliver, with Belgium’s Robert
Japanese ' student win his
tke strongest-nation in Judo.
and
thd.
half-lightweight
recently
said
Japan., is
Van De Walle and : Andras
Japan’? ‘ Yasuhiro
Yama- -second gold - medaj of the
on
lightweight
categories
again, the strongest nation in ' /
Oszva
r
ofH
u
n
g
ary
:
taki
ng
th
e
shita, already title-holder In
four-day championships in an
their day./
<
bronze
medals
in
the
open
the heavyweight class, defeat- impressive style. -Reszuko was
Mashiwazaki needed less ' "There Had been a period
category.
ed Wojciech Reszko' of Poland - already , way behind on points
' than two minutes to defeat
when Europeans were strong
Yamashita's
countryman
in a five-minute final to bewhen he went down before
^Continued oa page 2
er^- than the Japanese," said
An Independent Organ for CanadionajrfJop®'^^
VOL. 45 —- NO. 66
New material from archives
Japaa’s
caataiariais
tap 1,000
Politics in Racism” new
book by Ann Sunahara
*?OKY-O. — Ine number or
centenarians in. Japan has increased by 104 from last year
and . now totals 1,072 topping
the 1,000 figure for the first
time, a Health and Welfare
Ministry survey - showed, re
cently.
Shigechiyo Izumi, 116, of
Tokuno Island,. one of the
y Amami Oshima groups of is- lands lying between Kagoshima Ond Okinawa, continues to '
head the centenarian list.
The ministry said the oldest
person up to now has been
Yaso Kobayashi of Yamanashi
Prefecture who died in May
1964 at the age of 118.
ilzurni was born on June -29,
1365. He is the only living
person born in the Edo Period
t !
Two beauties to represent Japan
TOKYO. — These two Japanese beauties, Miss Naomi
(left) and: Miss Yukiko Tsutsumi were chosen recently
as Japan’s contestants for the 1982 Miss World and Mis§
International competitions, respectively. A national
competition, was held on Portopia Island in Kobe.
(1600-1867.)
. Izumi, who is listed in ths
Guinness Book of Records fit
the oldest man in countries
where the family registry
; system exists, is to be visited
at his home on Sept. 15, Respect-for-ihe-Aged
Day,
by
Prime Minister Zenko Suzuki ^
Suzuki
is
visiting
the
Amami Oshima islands in the
Alta, adori group daacad at LA
By T. NAWATA
CALGARY.
The
41st
Annual Nisei Week Japanese
Festival- ; held/-; in.; Los ; Angles
had a{j^Wi<^ta
this year by their: co-celebration withStj^
course of a two-day trip to
Okinawa beginning Sept. 14.
The second oldest person is
Mrs. Wo to Michii, HO, of
events. Through ■ the : kindness
Hakui, Ishikawa Prefecture.
of Mr. Nagahisci Ohp, General
The ministry said there are
Chairman of the Nisei Week
• two persons aged 109. Five
— Festival*/and. his committee,
are aged 107, six 106 and 19
the/Ali^^
aged 105.
invied to support the annual
Qf the 34 aged 1Q5 or
event;
more, only five are men- .
Women account for 870 of
the
1,072
centenarians
males only 202.
Continued on page 2
WW^, ONT.
FRIDAY, OCT. 2, 1981
end
A contingent of 21 odor!
dancers from Edmonton,: Cal
gary and Lethbridge respec-
tively travelled to Los Angles
and participated in the ondo/
street dancing. The colorful
ondo with the taiko acoompaniment
and with thouspectators
was
sands
the clumination of the success
ful week long festivities.
Tired
but
happy,
the
dancers found that the trip
was 'exciting and educational,
^especially with , the 'contact
and rapport, made with their
Japanese American counter
parts.
The
welcome
and
hospitality extended to the
dancers were greatly appreciated by the Alberta dancers.
ions with the country’s officiTORONTO. — With access
al custodian, the government
to material not avilable be
fore, a new book on Japanese
was already making plans to Canadians and the evacuation
dispose of them?” said Mr.
- has - recently been released by
- Tanaka, who., has ,. read,- the . James/.Lorimer Publishers, of * book. "More such revelations
Toronto. The book "'Politics In
are in the book.”
Racism” has been written by
All those interested in the
Ann Sunahara of Edmonton,
book will get. a chance to
Alberta.
meet the author Ann Suna
hara. The Toronto JCCA is
sponsoring "An Evening With
. Author Sunahara is report
Ann Sunahara” at Toronto’s
ed to have used material reNikko Gardens, 460 Dundas
leased
from
the
Ottawa
/
j
Street West, on Wednesday,
archives
after
a
30-year
.
• .
■
,
■
■
.
J
xi
r
October 72 1981 from 8 to
moratorium, and files of the
. *
9:30 p.m.
National JCCA, and much aid
from Mr. George Tanaka.
According to Mr. Tanaka
and insiders -at the Toronto
JCCA, the book has been des
cribed as "painfully revealmg .
.
"How would you feel if you
were to learn that while you
’ were entrusting your possess
Rev. H. Iwai is L
elected Pres.
ofNipponia
Bd. of Directors
BEAMSVILLE, Ont. — The.
Rev. Hiraku Iwai has been
elected
President
of
the^
Nipponia Board of Directors
for the 1981-82 term at their
General Meeting on Septem-
f^fORfO HIOI11
her 20, 1981.
and daughter
Mits Sumiya will act as
Vice-iPresident.
Other
key
posts are to be held by Mr.
Jack Oki — Corresponding
Secretary, Mr. Harry Yoshida
_ - Treasurer, and Mrs. Ruth
Penfold — Recroding Secret
fashion article
TORONTO. — A Toronto
mother and daughter team
was one of the subjects of a
fashion article in a recent is-'
sue of the Toronto Star. Mrs.
Izumi
Nakata,
wearing
a
fust-knit 'Suit from Bruestles,
and - daughter Hitomi,- 4, in a
gray-crocheted sweater*' over
ifore; dress, were
in
their
autumn
aryOther members of the board
include: Mr. Mas Endo,' Mr.
Toyoshi Hiramatsu, Mr. Tom
Hori, Mr. George ,Miyagawa,
Mr. Norman Oikawa,' Mrs.
•Be.tty Naruse, Mr. Tom Saka
moto, Mr- Kunio Suyama,
Mr. Tom Nakashima,. Mrs.
Yasuko Tsuchiya, * Mr. Tosh
. Uyede.
.
the clock had ticked away the ' Yasuhiko ' Moriwaki
gained
formerc/wbrld: < h nd/ Oly^Pic j/co m e/*th e/ h ew /o pen^ca te g o ry
/MAASTRICT,
Netherlands.
regulation siven. minutes of
-wbrld^
J
another.
champion-.; Anton Geesink ot
: ~ Former World and Olympic
. Holland / "but -now- T think ' ' The .-capacity - crowd ^ of }’ the title bo ut.t "
Japan's Matsuhiko Mashi-:
judo champion, Anton Geesink
5,000 /spectators/in. the Eurothe'
tide
has
turned
wazaki and Chong-Hak Park
of Holland
attending
the
Reszko was awarded the » of South Korea won gold in
haL-hbre saw-the 26-year-old
again;/Jdpg^^
once- more
world championships
here
siliver, with Belgium’s Robert
Japanese ' student win his
tke strongest-nation in Judo.
and
thd.
half-lightweight
recently
said
Japan., is
Van De Walle and : Andras
Japan’? ‘ Yasuhiro
Yama- -second gold - medaj of the
on
lightweight
categories
again, the strongest nation in ' /
Oszva
r
ofH
u
n
g
ary
:
taki
ng
th
e
shita, already title-holder In
four-day championships in an
their day./
<
bronze
medals
in
the
open
the heavyweight class, defeat- impressive style. -Reszuko was
Mashiwazaki needed less ' "There Had been a period
category.
ed Wojciech Reszko' of Poland - already , way behind on points
' than two minutes to defeat
when Europeans were strong
Yamashita's
countryman
in a five-minute final to bewhen he went down before
^Continued oa page 2
er^- than the Japanese," said
An Independent Organ for CanadionajrfJop®'^^
VOL. 45 —- NO. 66
New material from archives
Japaa’s
caataiariais
tap 1,000
Politics in Racism” new
book by Ann Sunahara
*?OKY-O. — Ine number or
centenarians in. Japan has increased by 104 from last year
and . now totals 1,072 topping
the 1,000 figure for the first
time, a Health and Welfare
Ministry survey - showed, re
cently.
Shigechiyo Izumi, 116, of
Tokuno Island,. one of the
y Amami Oshima groups of is- lands lying between Kagoshima Ond Okinawa, continues to '
head the centenarian list.
The ministry said the oldest
person up to now has been
Yaso Kobayashi of Yamanashi
Prefecture who died in May
1964 at the age of 118.
ilzurni was born on June -29,
1365. He is the only living
person born in the Edo Period
t !
Two beauties to represent Japan
TOKYO. — These two Japanese beauties, Miss Naomi
(left) and: Miss Yukiko Tsutsumi were chosen recently
as Japan’s contestants for the 1982 Miss World and Mis§
International competitions, respectively. A national
competition, was held on Portopia Island in Kobe.
(1600-1867.)
. Izumi, who is listed in ths
Guinness Book of Records fit
the oldest man in countries
where the family registry
; system exists, is to be visited
at his home on Sept. 15, Respect-for-ihe-Aged
Day,
by
Prime Minister Zenko Suzuki ^
Suzuki
is
visiting
the
Amami Oshima islands in the
Alta, adori group daacad at LA
By T. NAWATA
CALGARY.
The
41st
Annual Nisei Week Japanese
Festival- ; held/-; in.; Los ; Angles
had a{j^Wi<^ta
this year by their: co-celebration withStj^
course of a two-day trip to
Okinawa beginning Sept. 14.
The second oldest person is
Mrs. Wo to Michii, HO, of
events. Through ■ the : kindness
Hakui, Ishikawa Prefecture.
of Mr. Nagahisci Ohp, General
The ministry said there are
Chairman of the Nisei Week
• two persons aged 109. Five
— Festival*/and. his committee,
are aged 107, six 106 and 19
the/Ali^^
aged 105.
invied to support the annual
Qf the 34 aged 1Q5 or
event;
more, only five are men- .
Women account for 870 of
the
1,072
centenarians
males only 202.
Continued on page 2
WW^, ONT.
FRIDAY, OCT. 2, 1981
end
A contingent of 21 odor!
dancers from Edmonton,: Cal
gary and Lethbridge respec-
tively travelled to Los Angles
and participated in the ondo/
street dancing. The colorful
ondo with the taiko acoompaniment
and with thouspectators
was
sands
the clumination of the success
ful week long festivities.
Tired
but
happy,
the
dancers found that the trip
was 'exciting and educational,
^especially with , the 'contact
and rapport, made with their
Japanese American counter
parts.
The
welcome
and
hospitality extended to the
dancers were greatly appreciated by the Alberta dancers.
ions with the country’s officiTORONTO. — With access
al custodian, the government
to material not avilable be
fore, a new book on Japanese
was already making plans to Canadians and the evacuation
dispose of them?” said Mr.
- has - recently been released by
- Tanaka, who., has ,. read,- the . James/.Lorimer Publishers, of * book. "More such revelations
Toronto. The book "'Politics In
are in the book.”
Racism” has been written by
All those interested in the
Ann Sunahara of Edmonton,
book will get. a chance to
Alberta.
meet the author Ann Suna
hara. The Toronto JCCA is
sponsoring "An Evening With
. Author Sunahara is report
Ann Sunahara” at Toronto’s
ed to have used material reNikko Gardens, 460 Dundas
leased
from
the
Ottawa
/
j
Street West, on Wednesday,
archives
after
a
30-year
.
• .
■
,
■
■
.
J
xi
r
October 72 1981 from 8 to
moratorium, and files of the
. *
9:30 p.m.
National JCCA, and much aid
from Mr. George Tanaka.
According to Mr. Tanaka
and insiders -at the Toronto
JCCA, the book has been des
cribed as "painfully revealmg .
.
"How would you feel if you
were to learn that while you
’ were entrusting your possess
Rev. H. Iwai is L
elected Pres.
ofNipponia
Bd. of Directors
BEAMSVILLE, Ont. — The.
Rev. Hiraku Iwai has been
elected
President
of
the^
Nipponia Board of Directors
for the 1981-82 term at their
General Meeting on Septem-
f^fORfO HIOI11
her 20, 1981.
and daughter
Mits Sumiya will act as
Vice-iPresident.
Other
key
posts are to be held by Mr.
Jack Oki — Corresponding
Secretary, Mr. Harry Yoshida
_ - Treasurer, and Mrs. Ruth
Penfold — Recroding Secret
fashion article
TORONTO. — A Toronto
mother and daughter team
was one of the subjects of a
fashion article in a recent is-'
sue of the Toronto Star. Mrs.
Izumi
Nakata,
wearing
a
fust-knit 'Suit from Bruestles,
and - daughter Hitomi,- 4, in a
gray-crocheted sweater*' over
ifore; dress, were
in
their
autumn
aryOther members of the board
include: Mr. Mas Endo,' Mr.
Toyoshi Hiramatsu, Mr. Tom
Hori, Mr. George ,Miyagawa,
Mr. Norman Oikawa,' Mrs.
•Be.tty Naruse, Mr. Tom Saka
moto, Mr- Kunio Suyama,
Mr. Tom Nakashima,. Mrs.
Yasuko Tsuchiya, * Mr. Tosh
. Uyede.
.
Page 2
Friday, Oct., 2, 1981
NE W
Page 2
Continued, Troip poge ^
Centenarians ^.
Nikko
.
INSURANCE
Reservations: 977-2164
OPEN EVERYDAY
: 460 Dundas St. West,
Toronto, Ont.
The New Canadian
surveys conducted as of Sept.
Of (the centenarians, 107
1/there were only 153 aged.
. < z
live, in Tokyo, 73 in Kagoshi' .
ma /53jeach 4 n Ku ma m o to <qnd > 100 or more.
Okinawa, 52-fn Hokkaido, 49
: This means that the number
EstabHshad in 1939
ih Hiroshima’ and' 48 in
of' centenarians
increased /
Second Class mail No; 0399
Fukuoka.'
' seven^ times in the pasClo.
Okinawa has- .4.8 center
aria ns' per - population
of
Gertrude Urabe
years.
, Meanwhile, the government
will . present citations and
TOO,000, followed by,.4.2 in
' Kagoshima, 3.3 in . Shimane ' silver cups, to the 684 persons
and 3.1 'each in Tottori and
who will become JOO during
this fiscal year on Respect-torEhime.
c.
the-Aged Day. The 684 per-When7 the ministry started
sons are broken down to 152
compiling: the : list of centen
men and 532 womprtarians in 1963 based ' on
463 EglintonAye. W.
Toronto, Ont. M5N 1A7
/
phone 489-8611
x
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Continued from page 1
Yasumiko Moriwaki won the
gold medal for Japan, defe' ating Pavel Petrikov- of Czechoslovqkia in the final of the .
extra - light-weight
division
. for competitors of up to 60
”lt\seemed easy/ bu’ you
kilograms (132 -pounds).
hove' no idea - Kow long two .
minutes can be when' you pre<
on the mat,” .the :29-yearrpld - ;
.The silver was for Petrikov
schoolteacher said after • his
and; two' bronze- medals? in
.victorious final.
'
this, class went to Philip
Park had a hard time de-; Takahashi - of Canada and
Constantin Nicolae of' Romania oh'. ippon- in the final
bout of'the-60-65 “kilograms
fl 32-143 pounds) halF-Hghtweight* category.
ing Serge Dydt.of France in a
<
5:16-minute final, to take the The two title victories on
title in the 65-71 kilogram , the-.final day'of the 1981
T143-157. pound) lightweight
championships
confirmed
class.
Japan's regained dominance
“Dydt was a difficult opin the sport./ In the course of
, ponent,”- said
24-year/old
the tournament, Japanese en
trants -won four gold and two
Park after the finaL ’’He
"silver. medals to put their
knows a lot of holds. t^at
country ahead . of the Soviet
< many of us have forgotten.
Union, which'finished second
But when I Survived the first
.with one -gold; one silver, and
■ four minutes, I knew I could
two bronzes.
win on condition, and I did.”
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Continued, Troip poge ^
Centenarians ^.
Nikko
.
INSURANCE
Reservations: 977-2164
OPEN EVERYDAY
: 460 Dundas St. West,
Toronto, Ont.
The New Canadian
surveys conducted as of Sept.
Of (the centenarians, 107
1/there were only 153 aged.
. < z
live, in Tokyo, 73 in Kagoshi' .
ma /53jeach 4 n Ku ma m o to <qnd > 100 or more.
Okinawa, 52-fn Hokkaido, 49
: This means that the number
EstabHshad in 1939
ih Hiroshima’ and' 48 in
of' centenarians
increased /
Second Class mail No; 0399
Fukuoka.'
' seven^ times in the pasClo.
Okinawa has- .4.8 center
aria ns' per - population
of
Gertrude Urabe
years.
, Meanwhile, the government
will . present citations and
TOO,000, followed by,.4.2 in
' Kagoshima, 3.3 in . Shimane ' silver cups, to the 684 persons
and 3.1 'each in Tottori and
who will become JOO during
this fiscal year on Respect-torEhime.
c.
the-Aged Day. The 684 per-When7 the ministry started
sons are broken down to 152
compiling: the : list of centen
men and 532 womprtarians in 1963 based ' on
463 EglintonAye. W.
Toronto, Ont. M5N 1A7
/
phone 489-8611
x
Extra Short34 to 46/Short 36to4i
Rr/f/ZGenttemen Shorter Than Average
Fnbliaher A Japaneas Editor
Kenzo Morl English Editor
Ksi Tsumura
Published on Tuesdays and
Fridays
; 479 Queen Street West/
Toronto, Ont. MSV 2A9
PHONE 399-5005
Judo.
-
iefSaOMSBSMElU^
1
DUNDAS UNION STORE
MOST POPULAR “SAKURA” BRAND RICE
Open Sunday —16 a.m. t® 9 pan.
173 DUNDAS STREET WEST, TORONTO
977-3791 A 977:3795
HALF HOUR FREE PARKING FOR
OUR CUSTOMERS, AT JOY LOY
PARKING LOT (SOUTH OF LICHEE GARDENS)
Continued from page 1
Yasumiko Moriwaki won the
gold medal for Japan, defe' ating Pavel Petrikov- of Czechoslovqkia in the final of the .
extra - light-weight
division
. for competitors of up to 60
”lt\seemed easy/ bu’ you
kilograms (132 -pounds).
hove' no idea - Kow long two .
minutes can be when' you pre<
on the mat,” .the :29-yearrpld - ;
.The silver was for Petrikov
schoolteacher said after • his
and; two' bronze- medals? in
.victorious final.
'
this, class went to Philip
Park had a hard time de-; Takahashi - of Canada and
Constantin Nicolae of' Romania oh'. ippon- in the final
bout of'the-60-65 “kilograms
fl 32-143 pounds) halF-Hghtweight* category.
ing Serge Dydt.of France in a
<
5:16-minute final, to take the The two title victories on
title in the 65-71 kilogram , the-.final day'of the 1981
T143-157. pound) lightweight
championships
confirmed
class.
Japan's regained dominance
“Dydt was a difficult opin the sport./ In the course of
, ponent,”- said
24-year/old
the tournament, Japanese en
trants -won four gold and two
Park after the finaL ’’He
"silver. medals to put their
knows a lot of holds. t^at
country ahead . of the Soviet
< many of us have forgotten.
Union, which'finished second
But when I Survived the first
.with one -gold; one silver, and
■ four minutes, I knew I could
two bronzes.
win on condition, and I did.”
A&T REALTY CANADA LIMITED
Toronto Real Estate Board Member
For collate professional and
* confidential real estate advice
TOSHIE
HAYASHI
— '
A msmbar of Ethnic Press
Association of Ontario
and Canada Federation
^ R ^ garden
47 © 2J o
ENTERPRISES LIU
ft&HNisli
FGUR SEASONS LANDSCAPING
GARDENS OF THE WORLD
• Planning, design and construction by
Japanese landscape architects and
horticultiirists.
• Commercial, industrial, large estatesand
residential including townhouses.
• H^oraridoutdoor
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♦Friday, Oct. 2, 1981
Personal Notes Across Canada*
I:
Birth
WINNIPEG.
— Zel
and
■ Naomi
Krasovec
recently
announced
the arrival
of
Niki Hisao on July 15, 1981
at the Women’s Centre'.
- weighed 8 .1bs. 8 ez;
He
and
Grace i(nee Trussler) recently
^announced the birth of their
WINNIPEG. ^—7
Fred
daughter,
Katherine
Anne
" Aiya me, a sister for Robert
and first granddaughter for
Mrs. S. Aoki. She was born
July 172 1981 and weighed1
7 lbs; 4 oz.
Anniversary
WINNIPEG. — Mr. & Mrs.
Willie Oye celebrated/ their
25th
wedding
anniversary
, with family and friends at
Luigi’s Motor inn on Septem
ber 12, 1981.
HIGA
TORONTO. x — Mr. . Seizen
ember 21,/ 1981 at -Toronto
Ea s t Gen era! H os pit a 1. B elov
ed- husband of Aiko. Sadly
missed by a nephew and.
several nieces.
Earle Elliott Funeral Home.
' Service at Toronto Japanese
United,-Church. Interment Pine
Hills Cemetery.
TAKASHIBA
TORONTO. — Mr. Harry
Takashiba passed away at
Toronto Western Hospital on
September 2F, 1981. Husband
of th et la te Ch iyo, d ear fa th er
of Bot, Lilly (Mrs. A. Tsubaki)
and Alice (Mrs. R.. Ohashi).
Will be sadly missed by all
of his grandchildren?
Paul
O’Connor
H o me. Cre m a ti on.
Funeral
INOUYE
CARD OF; THANKS
;
The family of the late
Charles-- Masato Yoshida
wish
to . express
their
sincere “Thank You” for the
beautiful .floral
tributes,
koden, telegrams and kind
words of comfort during
their recent bereavement.
The many acts of kind
nesses extended during this
time of deep sorrow will
Mr«. Masako Yoshida
Eric M. Yoshida.
M.
Yoshida
Kenneth
Ont.
Mr. .& IMrs. Shigekaz,
Fukuhara, Vancouver, B.C.
Mr. & Mrs. John S. Naga
ta, Burnaby, B.C.
HYLAND
FLOWERS
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540 EfiintoR Are. W.
Toronto
WINNIPEG. — On SeptemBer 6, 1981, Sada Inouye,
aged 88 years, passed away.
Mrs. Inouye was born in
Japan on September 5; 1893.
She came io Canada in 1921,
lived in B.C. prior, to the
Second World War- and moved
to Winnipeg in 1951. She was
predeceased by her. husband,
Seddayu in 1949.
IMrs. Inouye leaves to mourn
a son Kiyoshi (Butch) of Winni
peg; three daughters Hideko
(Nancy) Endo of Winnipeg,
Masako . (Martha) khiiwa of
B.C. and Mary Sasaki of
Winnipeg; six grandchildren;
a brother,
Ryoichi Uyeda in
Japan.
•
/Funeral service was held
Sept. 9, 1981 at, the Ma nitoiba
Buddhist
Church.
Rev.
Y.
Hayashi officiated.
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ober: 28, 1981, at 7:30 p;m. at the Manitoba Buddhist Church.
New dancers, age 5 years and overrate welcome.
. If interested, place contact Mrs. Tatsumi at 783-8562 or Mrs.
June Yoshino at 667-3406 for further information. — Outlook.
TOKYO. — More Japanese
youths are content with their
lives, value friendship highly,
Winnipeg International film festival
report by the Prime Minister’s
office published recently.
-The report is based on q
nationwide survey made last
October of 3000 youths, aged
-
WINNIPEG] — The University of Winnipeg Students’ As
sociation is sponsoring an International Film .Festival. French,
German,Japanese, Polish and Quebecoise films will be shown
during the year.
Japanese films with English subtitles will be shown from
October 19 to 22, 1981. These are: Monday, October 19 —
“Through the Days and Months?’, Tuesday,, October 20 —
“Tales of Genji”, Wednesday, October 21 — “Tpra san’s Shat
tered Romance”, Thursday, October 22 — “Ballad of a Silk
Tree.”’
Films will begin each day at 7:00 p.m. in Manitoba Hall,
Theatre B, University of Winnipeg. Free Admission.^ — Every
one Welcome.
15 to 23.
Seventy-seven per-cent re
sponded, said the Youth- De
velopment Headquarters of
the Prime Minister’s office.
The survey found that 78=3
per cent were content with
their lives, compared with
61.7 per cent who gave the
same answer in a similar sur
Miss Japan for Folkora ma '82 wanted
vey 10 years ago.'More youths' than before ,
want to stay in their home- A
towns. A reported 80=8 P^r
cent said they were attached
to their local communities-, up
from 60,2 per cent a . decade ago. Those willing to spend
‘ the rest of their lives in their
hometowns rose dramatically
from 27-8. per cent a decade
ago to 41.8 per cent.
.
Practically all harbor tradi
tional family values, with 96
per cent saying their mother
should be “family-oriented”
58.9 per cent saying their
fathers should be
familyoriented” against 40.9 per
cent saying they should be
"work-oriented.’’
f
The survey showed
WINNIPEG. — The Manitoba JCCA is looking for contestants
to compete for the postition of Miss Japan for Folklorama
’82.
Bursaries offered to the winners include 1st Place — $500.,
2nd Place — $100., and 3rd Place — $100. Duties of the Queen
Will be to act as hostess at Folklorama’82’s Japanese pavilion,
and to attend some functions before, during \and after Folk
lorama week.
All candidates should be preferably 18 years or older, and
of Japanese ancestry. She should be interested in learning
about the Japanese culture, and enjoy meeting people.
■ Please send application stating name, address and phone
number of candiate to: Queen Contest, Manitoba J.C.C.A., 120
McPhiHips Streets Winnipeg, Manitoba, R3E 2)7.
Entry Deadline: February 14, 1982. Winner will be announc
ed March 6, 1982 at the Spring Dance.
SHIATSU DOHJOH
that :
with 58.8 per cent saying they
KEN SAITO
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Telephone number is (418) 466-8780.
The hours are, Monday to Saturday, 18 a.m. to 8 p.m.
spend their happiest times
with friends, up from 38.8 per
cent 10 years ago.
Despite the upbeat
.
mood
JAPANESE CANADIANS
. majority ■— 53-7 per cent —
said they weren’t satisfied
with Japanese society as a
whole. Only 6.3 per cent were
fully satisfied.
The
youths
complained
about the Japanese social
system saying that justice
was limited and few people
were rewarded for honesty.
Asked what they believed
would make an ideal society,
41 per cent cited affluence,
19 per cent welfare, apd 13
per cent said one that would
the world.
Sakura Gifts
J«|UMt fin* i«rc»Iai«
k^umra ®n<
Dates & Doings
J pnz. youths
prefer home
to city glamour
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OBASAN” by JOY KOGAWA,
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♦Friday, Oct. 2, 1981
Personal Notes Across Canada*
I:
Birth
WINNIPEG.
— Zel
and
■ Naomi
Krasovec
recently
announced
the arrival
of
Niki Hisao on July 15, 1981
at the Women’s Centre'.
- weighed 8 .1bs. 8 ez;
He
and
Grace i(nee Trussler) recently
^announced the birth of their
WINNIPEG. ^—7
Fred
daughter,
Katherine
Anne
" Aiya me, a sister for Robert
and first granddaughter for
Mrs. S. Aoki. She was born
July 172 1981 and weighed1
7 lbs; 4 oz.
Anniversary
WINNIPEG. — Mr. & Mrs.
Willie Oye celebrated/ their
25th
wedding
anniversary
, with family and friends at
Luigi’s Motor inn on Septem
ber 12, 1981.
HIGA
TORONTO. x — Mr. . Seizen
ember 21,/ 1981 at -Toronto
Ea s t Gen era! H os pit a 1. B elov
ed- husband of Aiko. Sadly
missed by a nephew and.
several nieces.
Earle Elliott Funeral Home.
' Service at Toronto Japanese
United,-Church. Interment Pine
Hills Cemetery.
TAKASHIBA
TORONTO. — Mr. Harry
Takashiba passed away at
Toronto Western Hospital on
September 2F, 1981. Husband
of th et la te Ch iyo, d ear fa th er
of Bot, Lilly (Mrs. A. Tsubaki)
and Alice (Mrs. R.. Ohashi).
Will be sadly missed by all
of his grandchildren?
Paul
O’Connor
H o me. Cre m a ti on.
Funeral
INOUYE
CARD OF; THANKS
;
The family of the late
Charles-- Masato Yoshida
wish
to . express
their
sincere “Thank You” for the
beautiful .floral
tributes,
koden, telegrams and kind
words of comfort during
their recent bereavement.
The many acts of kind
nesses extended during this
time of deep sorrow will
Mr«. Masako Yoshida
Eric M. Yoshida.
M.
Yoshida
Kenneth
Ont.
Mr. .& IMrs. Shigekaz,
Fukuhara, Vancouver, B.C.
Mr. & Mrs. John S. Naga
ta, Burnaby, B.C.
HYLAND
FLOWERS
JON ONODERA
459.4554 — 4RBB
540 EfiintoR Are. W.
Toronto
WINNIPEG. — On SeptemBer 6, 1981, Sada Inouye,
aged 88 years, passed away.
Mrs. Inouye was born in
Japan on September 5; 1893.
She came io Canada in 1921,
lived in B.C. prior, to the
Second World War- and moved
to Winnipeg in 1951. She was
predeceased by her. husband,
Seddayu in 1949.
IMrs. Inouye leaves to mourn
a son Kiyoshi (Butch) of Winni
peg; three daughters Hideko
(Nancy) Endo of Winnipeg,
Masako . (Martha) khiiwa of
B.C. and Mary Sasaki of
Winnipeg; six grandchildren;
a brother,
Ryoichi Uyeda in
Japan.
•
/Funeral service was held
Sept. 9, 1981 at, the Ma nitoiba
Buddhist
Church.
Rev.
Y.
Hayashi officiated.
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• Rainware
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155 REMBALE BLVD
SWTE 486_
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Wpg.Sakura Dancing School meets
WINNIPEG. — Registration and the first meeting of the
Sakura Dancing School will take place on Wednesday,. Oct
ober: 28, 1981, at 7:30 p;m. at the Manitoba Buddhist Church.
New dancers, age 5 years and overrate welcome.
. If interested, place contact Mrs. Tatsumi at 783-8562 or Mrs.
June Yoshino at 667-3406 for further information. — Outlook.
TOKYO. — More Japanese
youths are content with their
lives, value friendship highly,
Winnipeg International film festival
report by the Prime Minister’s
office published recently.
-The report is based on q
nationwide survey made last
October of 3000 youths, aged
-
WINNIPEG] — The University of Winnipeg Students’ As
sociation is sponsoring an International Film .Festival. French,
German,Japanese, Polish and Quebecoise films will be shown
during the year.
Japanese films with English subtitles will be shown from
October 19 to 22, 1981. These are: Monday, October 19 —
“Through the Days and Months?’, Tuesday,, October 20 —
“Tales of Genji”, Wednesday, October 21 — “Tpra san’s Shat
tered Romance”, Thursday, October 22 — “Ballad of a Silk
Tree.”’
Films will begin each day at 7:00 p.m. in Manitoba Hall,
Theatre B, University of Winnipeg. Free Admission.^ — Every
one Welcome.
15 to 23.
Seventy-seven per-cent re
sponded, said the Youth- De
velopment Headquarters of
the Prime Minister’s office.
The survey found that 78=3
per cent were content with
their lives, compared with
61.7 per cent who gave the
same answer in a similar sur
Miss Japan for Folkora ma '82 wanted
vey 10 years ago.'More youths' than before ,
want to stay in their home- A
towns. A reported 80=8 P^r
cent said they were attached
to their local communities-, up
from 60,2 per cent a . decade ago. Those willing to spend
‘ the rest of their lives in their
hometowns rose dramatically
from 27-8. per cent a decade
ago to 41.8 per cent.
.
Practically all harbor tradi
tional family values, with 96
per cent saying their mother
should be “family-oriented”
58.9 per cent saying their
fathers should be
familyoriented” against 40.9 per
cent saying they should be
"work-oriented.’’
f
The survey showed
WINNIPEG. — The Manitoba JCCA is looking for contestants
to compete for the postition of Miss Japan for Folklorama
’82.
Bursaries offered to the winners include 1st Place — $500.,
2nd Place — $100., and 3rd Place — $100. Duties of the Queen
Will be to act as hostess at Folklorama’82’s Japanese pavilion,
and to attend some functions before, during \and after Folk
lorama week.
All candidates should be preferably 18 years or older, and
of Japanese ancestry. She should be interested in learning
about the Japanese culture, and enjoy meeting people.
■ Please send application stating name, address and phone
number of candiate to: Queen Contest, Manitoba J.C.C.A., 120
McPhiHips Streets Winnipeg, Manitoba, R3E 2)7.
Entry Deadline: February 14, 1982. Winner will be announc
ed March 6, 1982 at the Spring Dance.
SHIATSU DOHJOH
that :
with 58.8 per cent saying they
KEN SAITO
822 Broadview Ave., Toronto, Ont.
Telephone number is (418) 466-8780.
The hours are, Monday to Saturday, 18 a.m. to 8 p.m.
spend their happiest times
with friends, up from 38.8 per
cent 10 years ago.
Despite the upbeat
.
mood
JAPANESE CANADIANS
. majority ■— 53-7 per cent —
said they weren’t satisfied
with Japanese society as a
whole. Only 6.3 per cent were
fully satisfied.
The
youths
complained
about the Japanese social
system saying that justice
was limited and few people
were rewarded for honesty.
Asked what they believed
would make an ideal society,
41 per cent cited affluence,
19 per cent welfare, apd 13
per cent said one that would
the world.
Sakura Gifts
J«|UMt fin* i«rc»Iai«
k^umra ®n<
Dates & Doings
J pnz. youths
prefer home
to city glamour
YOUR
BLOOD
OBASAN” by JOY KOGAWA,
in hardback, $14.80 plus
.30# postage
WITHIN THE BARRED WIRE FENCE _
by Take* Vl« W»m $LM«
in hardback, pwW included
WAS”
“THE KNEMY 'THAT
by Kan Adachi
>15^8 (Mage 58 Genta)
In paperback $6.56 fpwtaga included)
A BIOGRAPHY OF ISSEI HONBU, RYUU
YOSHIDA,
THE EXODUS OF THE JAPANESE
BY JANICE PATTON
$2.50 POSTAGE IN€fcWD
$4.50 with Foatace
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Page 4
Friday, Oct. 2, 1981
Sansei in Mexico aware of heritage
. By “ESTEBAN”
NAKASHIMA
I should- point out that the
■Boarding the plane in San
Francisco, I . really" did not. with, the Sansei from’ other
countries. Steve Sagara and
know what to expect of this
Keith Ak’ada of Toronto were
first Panamericah Nikkei Con
both quite tolerant, of the
vention. I knew of its struc
antics of we California Sansei.
ture: a three-day series of
workshops^: involving people
Ron Mochizuki of Kalamazoo,
"from all the Americas, a sort
Ml, was found to be quite
of catalyst for cross-cultural
similar to west coast Sansei.
Unfortunately, there were few
m eeti n gs. ■ Wha t I did n ’ t know
Sansei. from South - America
was what to -expect of the
people. Who would they be?
th a t everybody wa s op e n a nd
-Would
friendly. That . includes, many
be ? common
Would ( there
of the Nisei from South Amconversation?
for
Would they; be near my age? eerica/ ^
an age
Surveying dur contingent of ~ gap. of up to 25. years, would
about 70 and finding myself
greet
and? converse
with
one of four Sansei, I was hot
complete strangers. There was
an atmosphere of genuine
too sure about" the last two
fellowship in the air.
_
Sankei. We are quite clearly .Americans,- and this is not
meant in a derogatory sense.
It is simply that being born
here we are Americans, we
are not Japanese in America,
' we are Japanese Americans.
ln the same sense, I found the
. Canadians to be the same.
We _ as a group, the; North
- Americans; behaved similar-.
ly, even looked “Westerniz
ed.” The Mexicon Sansei, how- <
ever, are a little different.
They are all Mexican citizens
and do not think of them
selves as anything else, bub
their appearance and beh a vi or follows much more
closely with that of Japan
rather than that of the country in which the live.
<
From The Frying. Pan
K-9 Corps vs.
25 Nisei GIs
pulling oh their chains when
they saw us. coming.; Going
What follows must qualify
through this .process we had
as one of the zanier stories
no
protection
except
our
of World War U. It has toxdo
with an old Swiss who had ? fatigue clothes.
'Tri the next process the
a theory that clogs could; be
doas learned to bite the
taught to seek out and attack
knotted burlap . bags. This
Japanese, soldiers by their • .
time we used a helmet with a
smell in . the jungles of the
Southwest Pacific, and the 25 . neck guard, face mask, and
By BILL HOSOKAWA
Hawaiian
Nisei
who
were.
hockey gloves. We held the
knotted burlap in front of our
detached from the TOOth In-,
fantry Battalion then training, necks, then at the trainer’s
in Wisconsin, to take .part, in- command of "Kill, Kill? the
dog would rush- the knotted
the experiment.' When we arrived (July 23),
This difference was someThe Story Ts told in,; the burlap at out heck. The dog
the hotel lobby was in chaos.
greater
than
just
thing
would bite it and try ta rip if
March-April
1980 issue of
11 s e em s ■ t h a t th e ,..r a t h e r r el a x- <
and
hairstyle.
- ~ *
ed style of issuing keys and ? The person., responsible for
Mexico n
Sa n sei _Puka-Puka Parade, the public away,. - The
translating The schedule of
‘The attack dogs were Just
ation of Club 100 in. Ibwou,
assigning rooms broke down
the . same
desiwore
beginning to understand their
events should look up the
. entirely when more than six
.gri'er jeans that, anybody else . which ’ was sent along by
word “workshop”. According
mission to. kill when the head
friend^Sobel Yamale, the Ho. people arrived' at once. Our
wears. It was something in
noluI u ’ s tockbraker: Sohei is a ; trainer -—■ the ■ old Swiss
to this ’ schedule, the opening
group,- now numbering nearly .
their mannerisms, their extre
speeches were . to be followed
story in himself. As guard
was asked to leave after the
me’ politeness, .their express
100, simply sent them into
by
“workshops.”
However,
big shots from-Washington
and ■ interpreter at Sugamo
complete .panic. The - net re
ions. It is difficult to explain,
inspected our program . . . The
these workshops? more closely
sult was five very confused
but when in the presence of - Prison in Tokyo after WorId
high command finally con
War II, he became acquainthotel employees confronting . resembled leeturesf this was
the Mexican Sansei, -1 some
fine for the first day. By the
100-grumbling, tired Nikkeis.
times felt like the bumbling. - ed with, many of the Japo-, eluded that the Buddaheads
second day, these lectures had
nese leaders ..who were Ideo
from Hawaii did - not secrete
American.
digressed considerably. While
and executed as war Crimin
ly behind this scenario were
1 have not had this feeling
1 appreciate the effort being
als. But thbtls another "tale.?
al ancestors
a dozen or sb of--young Nikkei
since the timeswhen I was the
made to inform me of life in
The Puka-Puka Parade story
fee^ us ’chazuke, koko and
from Mexico, patiently trying
bumbling American wander
other countries, I could not
is by Yasuo - Taka ta and Ray’
takuwan (rice with tea and
to' register us for the confer
ing in Tokyo.
become; too excited ; about
mond
Nosaka -who
were pungent picked vegetables)’?’
ence. They wrere doing their
The Mexican Sansei import
Peruvian waterways.
~
among the 25. On Nov. 3.
The Nisei worked only a
best to speak English to us,_
an aura of “Japanese” not
1942, they were flown with
^ hours morning and afterFor me,- the most beneficial
although it was obviously not
found in their contemporaries
great
secrecy
from
Camp
workshops were conducted in
noon? which left them plenty
their best language (register- ,
in ' the United States, Canada,'
McCoy, Wis., to what seemed ' of time to fish and rake up _
formally talking with other
ing the South American Nikkei
Peru, Colombia or anyone
to be an abandoned airstrip
dysters
to
supplement G!
Sansei. This meant discussing
was no
else at the confrence. In’ fact,
the
near
fare? One day a couple of the
somewhere
prejudice in public schools
Spanish.)
naturally
I think that the Mexican
boat
River.
with Steve and Ron over beers
Mississippi
men rowed out to buy, several
Communication'barrier or not,
Sansei may have treated me
what
to
in the hotel bar: Or it could
buckets of shrimp from a
took
them
the - friendly, helpful assistwith more Japanese courtesy
was : fisherman for-a tempura feast.
they
later, learned
mean chatting with Michiko
anee we received from - the,
• than the people I met in
Ship Island in the . Gulf of
Shortly some officials showed
and Harumi . (from Mexico)
young Mexican Nikkei was
Japan.
Mexico about 20 miles off
up to investigate reports of
reassuring.
Gulfport, Miss. They settled
strange
soldiers,
possibly
the tables in front of the;
Once the confusion had
'into
an
old
bprraiks
type
Japanese, landed from a sub
auditorium where the other
subsided, I met the leader of
building . at. ancient
Fort
workshops were taking place.
marine on Ship Island.
_ In general, my, trip to the
the Mexican Sansei, Yasuo
Massachusetts.
Then,
for
the
Cat Island was stocked
Copahime ’81 convention was
Iida. We talked about our exTruthfully,Thad to forego
one of the most rewarding < first time they learned they
with a three-month supply pf
pectations of the conference, . a couple of the formal work
his being very similar to mine,
the desire to understand the
world wide. I was very happy
to hear of somebody else with
the same hopes; what initial
doubts I had w^re quickly
erased with this man and the.
30 or so people he led. We
had common ground, age,
interests, and above all they
were friendly and receptive
I
anxiously
awaited ^he
beginning of the conference.
shops for the informal ones,
but I do not regret it. The ex
posure was
invaluable,
learned a great deal in these
brief . talks, - I wish I had
another week fust to talk.
When I Ihink of myself, in
international terms, I am de-
be seen in' the; way I dress,
walk, think. I think,this can be
said about all the American
trips in my: life. The calibre
of the people I met was _ ex
cellent. This means all people
all ages, from: all the. coun
tries in attendance. I was
there only' one week, yet I
felt that I had known the
friends I made for years.
When departure time came,
I felt this strange lump in my
throat, as if I were leaving
my lifelong friends. In reality,
I was.
Ed Note: Steve (we called
Donald I. Kimura
Barniiter A Mldtor
; 155 Main Street West
Stouffvllle, Ontario
LOH HO
KENMUR*^
640-5454
- him Esteban, the Spanish for
Steven, * in Mexico) was pro
bably
the
best .educated
JACLer in Spanish on tour,
having studied it continuously
from junior high through' the
conversing with his newlyfound Spanish-speaking Sansei
friends in their language.
would be traveling by boat
each day to nearby Cat Island,
’covered with jungle growth,
to train sentry dogs, A scout
dogs and attack dogs.
Scouting
and
sentry
training was fairly, routine,
but the attack dogs was
something else. The authors
write: “
•'To train attack dogs to
hate us, we began by beating
one dog at a time chained ta
a tree, with a knotted burlap
bag. Can you imagine the dog
growling?-snarling, and spring
ing at you every time you
hit him With a burlap bag! It
didn’t take too long before
the dogs were growling and
beer. It was used up in three
weeks .because, the authors
assure us, “the drinking water
was ’ brackish, : sulphur taste
and smelled like rotten eggs”.
By the . time the dog trainers.,
rejoined their buddies with
the 100th, they were so badly
overweight from good* foud
and limited duty that It took
them a while to catch up.
Their
commanding
officer.
Maj. Jim Lovell, observed not
long ago that the “hate-Jap
training for the dogs, on the .
theory that blood and sweat
smelled different one. from another, was a total failureBut now nearly 40 years
later, it makes g good story.’
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BEST RESULTS FROM THE J.G. COMMUNITY
Sansei in Mexico aware of heritage
. By “ESTEBAN”
NAKASHIMA
I should- point out that the
■Boarding the plane in San
Francisco, I . really" did not. with, the Sansei from’ other
countries. Steve Sagara and
know what to expect of this
Keith Ak’ada of Toronto were
first Panamericah Nikkei Con
both quite tolerant, of the
vention. I knew of its struc
antics of we California Sansei.
ture: a three-day series of
workshops^: involving people
Ron Mochizuki of Kalamazoo,
"from all the Americas, a sort
Ml, was found to be quite
of catalyst for cross-cultural
similar to west coast Sansei.
Unfortunately, there were few
m eeti n gs. ■ Wha t I did n ’ t know
Sansei. from South - America
was what to -expect of the
people. Who would they be?
th a t everybody wa s op e n a nd
-Would
friendly. That . includes, many
be ? common
Would ( there
of the Nisei from South Amconversation?
for
Would they; be near my age? eerica/ ^
an age
Surveying dur contingent of ~ gap. of up to 25. years, would
about 70 and finding myself
greet
and? converse
with
one of four Sansei, I was hot
complete strangers. There was
an atmosphere of genuine
too sure about" the last two
fellowship in the air.
_
Sankei. We are quite clearly .Americans,- and this is not
meant in a derogatory sense.
It is simply that being born
here we are Americans, we
are not Japanese in America,
' we are Japanese Americans.
ln the same sense, I found the
. Canadians to be the same.
We _ as a group, the; North
- Americans; behaved similar-.
ly, even looked “Westerniz
ed.” The Mexicon Sansei, how- <
ever, are a little different.
They are all Mexican citizens
and do not think of them
selves as anything else, bub
their appearance and beh a vi or follows much more
closely with that of Japan
rather than that of the country in which the live.
<
From The Frying. Pan
K-9 Corps vs.
25 Nisei GIs
pulling oh their chains when
they saw us. coming.; Going
What follows must qualify
through this .process we had
as one of the zanier stories
no
protection
except
our
of World War U. It has toxdo
with an old Swiss who had ? fatigue clothes.
'Tri the next process the
a theory that clogs could; be
doas learned to bite the
taught to seek out and attack
knotted burlap . bags. This
Japanese, soldiers by their • .
time we used a helmet with a
smell in . the jungles of the
Southwest Pacific, and the 25 . neck guard, face mask, and
By BILL HOSOKAWA
Hawaiian
Nisei
who
were.
hockey gloves. We held the
knotted burlap in front of our
detached from the TOOth In-,
fantry Battalion then training, necks, then at the trainer’s
in Wisconsin, to take .part, in- command of "Kill, Kill? the
dog would rush- the knotted
the experiment.' When we arrived (July 23),
This difference was someThe Story Ts told in,; the burlap at out heck. The dog
the hotel lobby was in chaos.
greater
than
just
thing
would bite it and try ta rip if
March-April
1980 issue of
11 s e em s ■ t h a t th e ,..r a t h e r r el a x- <
and
hairstyle.
- ~ *
ed style of issuing keys and ? The person., responsible for
Mexico n
Sa n sei _Puka-Puka Parade, the public away,. - The
translating The schedule of
‘The attack dogs were Just
ation of Club 100 in. Ibwou,
assigning rooms broke down
the . same
desiwore
beginning to understand their
events should look up the
. entirely when more than six
.gri'er jeans that, anybody else . which ’ was sent along by
word “workshop”. According
mission to. kill when the head
friend^Sobel Yamale, the Ho. people arrived' at once. Our
wears. It was something in
noluI u ’ s tockbraker: Sohei is a ; trainer -—■ the ■ old Swiss
to this ’ schedule, the opening
group,- now numbering nearly .
their mannerisms, their extre
speeches were . to be followed
story in himself. As guard
was asked to leave after the
me’ politeness, .their express
100, simply sent them into
by
“workshops.”
However,
big shots from-Washington
and ■ interpreter at Sugamo
complete .panic. The - net re
ions. It is difficult to explain,
inspected our program . . . The
these workshops? more closely
sult was five very confused
but when in the presence of - Prison in Tokyo after WorId
high command finally con
War II, he became acquainthotel employees confronting . resembled leeturesf this was
the Mexican Sansei, -1 some
fine for the first day. By the
100-grumbling, tired Nikkeis.
times felt like the bumbling. - ed with, many of the Japo-, eluded that the Buddaheads
second day, these lectures had
nese leaders ..who were Ideo
from Hawaii did - not secrete
American.
digressed considerably. While
and executed as war Crimin
ly behind this scenario were
1 have not had this feeling
1 appreciate the effort being
als. But thbtls another "tale.?
al ancestors
a dozen or sb of--young Nikkei
since the timeswhen I was the
made to inform me of life in
The Puka-Puka Parade story
fee^ us ’chazuke, koko and
from Mexico, patiently trying
bumbling American wander
other countries, I could not
is by Yasuo - Taka ta and Ray’
takuwan (rice with tea and
to' register us for the confer
ing in Tokyo.
become; too excited ; about
mond
Nosaka -who
were pungent picked vegetables)’?’
ence. They wrere doing their
The Mexican Sansei import
Peruvian waterways.
~
among the 25. On Nov. 3.
The Nisei worked only a
best to speak English to us,_
an aura of “Japanese” not
1942, they were flown with
^ hours morning and afterFor me,- the most beneficial
although it was obviously not
found in their contemporaries
great
secrecy
from
Camp
workshops were conducted in
noon? which left them plenty
their best language (register- ,
in ' the United States, Canada,'
McCoy, Wis., to what seemed ' of time to fish and rake up _
formally talking with other
ing the South American Nikkei
Peru, Colombia or anyone
to be an abandoned airstrip
dysters
to
supplement G!
Sansei. This meant discussing
was no
else at the confrence. In’ fact,
the
near
fare? One day a couple of the
somewhere
prejudice in public schools
Spanish.)
naturally
I think that the Mexican
boat
River.
with Steve and Ron over beers
Mississippi
men rowed out to buy, several
Communication'barrier or not,
Sansei may have treated me
what
to
in the hotel bar: Or it could
buckets of shrimp from a
took
them
the - friendly, helpful assistwith more Japanese courtesy
was : fisherman for-a tempura feast.
they
later, learned
mean chatting with Michiko
anee we received from - the,
• than the people I met in
Ship Island in the . Gulf of
Shortly some officials showed
and Harumi . (from Mexico)
young Mexican Nikkei was
Japan.
Mexico about 20 miles off
up to investigate reports of
reassuring.
Gulfport, Miss. They settled
strange
soldiers,
possibly
the tables in front of the;
Once the confusion had
'into
an
old
bprraiks
type
Japanese, landed from a sub
auditorium where the other
subsided, I met the leader of
building . at. ancient
Fort
workshops were taking place.
marine on Ship Island.
_ In general, my, trip to the
the Mexican Sansei, Yasuo
Massachusetts.
Then,
for
the
Cat Island was stocked
Copahime ’81 convention was
Iida. We talked about our exTruthfully,Thad to forego
one of the most rewarding < first time they learned they
with a three-month supply pf
pectations of the conference, . a couple of the formal work
his being very similar to mine,
the desire to understand the
world wide. I was very happy
to hear of somebody else with
the same hopes; what initial
doubts I had w^re quickly
erased with this man and the.
30 or so people he led. We
had common ground, age,
interests, and above all they
were friendly and receptive
I
anxiously
awaited ^he
beginning of the conference.
shops for the informal ones,
but I do not regret it. The ex
posure was
invaluable,
learned a great deal in these
brief . talks, - I wish I had
another week fust to talk.
When I Ihink of myself, in
international terms, I am de-
be seen in' the; way I dress,
walk, think. I think,this can be
said about all the American
trips in my: life. The calibre
of the people I met was _ ex
cellent. This means all people
all ages, from: all the. coun
tries in attendance. I was
there only' one week, yet I
felt that I had known the
friends I made for years.
When departure time came,
I felt this strange lump in my
throat, as if I were leaving
my lifelong friends. In reality,
I was.
Ed Note: Steve (we called
Donald I. Kimura
Barniiter A Mldtor
; 155 Main Street West
Stouffvllle, Ontario
LOH HO
KENMUR*^
640-5454
- him Esteban, the Spanish for
Steven, * in Mexico) was pro
bably
the
best .educated
JACLer in Spanish on tour,
having studied it continuously
from junior high through' the
conversing with his newlyfound Spanish-speaking Sansei
friends in their language.
would be traveling by boat
each day to nearby Cat Island,
’covered with jungle growth,
to train sentry dogs, A scout
dogs and attack dogs.
Scouting
and
sentry
training was fairly, routine,
but the attack dogs was
something else. The authors
write: “
•'To train attack dogs to
hate us, we began by beating
one dog at a time chained ta
a tree, with a knotted burlap
bag. Can you imagine the dog
growling?-snarling, and spring
ing at you every time you
hit him With a burlap bag! It
didn’t take too long before
the dogs were growling and
beer. It was used up in three
weeks .because, the authors
assure us, “the drinking water
was ’ brackish, : sulphur taste
and smelled like rotten eggs”.
By the . time the dog trainers.,
rejoined their buddies with
the 100th, they were so badly
overweight from good* foud
and limited duty that It took
them a while to catch up.
Their
commanding
officer.
Maj. Jim Lovell, observed not
long ago that the “hate-Jap
training for the dogs, on the .
theory that blood and sweat
smelled different one. from another, was a total failureBut now nearly 40 years
later, it makes g good story.’
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BEST RESULTS FROM THE J.G. COMMUNITY
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