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U.S. Sansei commits ritual hara-kiri in Japan

Discipline of ancient Ninja
spies lives on in Japan
if

TOKYO. —~

Centuries be:

S poison' darts and the James

I of espionage and murder-forg hire that makes modern day
practitioners of the dark arts
°° J * ke inept bumblers.
Or so, it . is claimed by be^eYersJrir n
"men of
stealth - —— the seemingly invisible
spy-assassins
who
took their orders from . the
shogun rulers and feudal war­
lords in. ancient Japan.
Trained from childhood in
°^

IIf

conduct,

ninja

stressed

surprise arid swift, unexpect­
ed violence It is said theycould appear ^ and disappear
at will, scale walls, cling to
ceilings, tread wafer, flit from
tree
to
tree, like
birds,

ings, melt into the:background
until time to
K
I

In
today’s
Japan,
the
science
of
ninjutsu," • or
ninpo, as it also is known,
survives but no longer as an
outlaw trade. It is kept alive
by a handful of dedicated ex­
perts and aficionadoes as a
martial.rartHa^bl
mind;

Ninpo
recently
gained
attention
because
of two
books: James Clavell's
Shogun", published in English
and Japanese and made into
a 15-hourtelevision series;
and "Ninja," bys American
author Eric Van Lustbader,
which is now being made into
a film.
;
is strictly a martial
sport, a practical, ethnical
means
of
unarmed
selfdefense," says Hideyo Saito,
a 37-year old office worker

from a ninpo master.
He now teaches them to
eight
adults,
including
a
housewife, a banker and a
Buddhist . priest,
and
13
children at his school outside

In the still of the night
children dressed in dark trou­
sers abd jackets, slit-toe soft
shoes, and -scarves over their
faces, flip, tumble arid gyrate
like acrobats at Saito's school.
They ciimp ropes like tarzan,

tree and vanish into the foli­
age, hurl small specially de­
signed dirks, scatter powder
as smokescreen, or overpower

The youngsters enjoy it,
Saito says, while it "sharpens
their reflexes, -alerts them to
their surroundings and deve­
lops them spiritually and

he said.
Historians
6th century

trace ninpo
China and

GIFU, Japan. -— A 40-year
old Sansei from Los Angeles.
'committed harakiri with a

Japanese sword at his home
. police reported recently.
to

A Buddhist priest, an ac­
quaintance of the man, Iwdo
. Iwata, found him dead with
stab 'Wounds in the stomach

tri'6 six-mat room of his house
shortly before noon Sept. 12.
According to investigators.
Iwata was lying oh bed­
clothes. Beside, him was a
50-centimeter long sword.
Medical
examiners
said
Iwata died from loss of blood
-abound 3 a.m.

police believe
that
Iwata
committed suicide, although

he 1 eft no notes. Iwa ta often
told his friends that he would
like to die in bushido style?
Iwdta came to Japan in
1977 and lived in Takayamh
where he had friends and had
been studying Buddhism and

master strategist named Sun
Tzu. It came to Japan in the
' Under the circumstances,
14th to V6tb centuries, when
, feudal warlords found it use­ ^^iiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiuHmiimmiiiiiiiiiiiiiinniiiiiiiiniiiinriHnimiiillf lllliiiiiiiim^^^
ful for spying and carrying
out plots against their , rivals
Although
~the
original
ninja were sinister figures
whose
missions
included
An Independent Organ for Canadians of Japanese Origin
murder, a strong element of
romance persists.
VOL 45 — NO.- 68
Japanese history tells of
TORONTO, ONT.
the exploits of such ninja
heroes as "Kirigakure-Saizo,"
who could move like the fog,
and
’’Sarutdbi
Sasuke,"
nimble as a monkey. These
servants of- the feudal sho-

THE NEW CANADIAN

Life expectancy

guns
superstars among
the ancient ninja, ^although
some experts say there is
more-• fantasy.-jthan fact in' the
stories.,
" Like the samurai warriors,
ninja swore allegiance to a
warlord master and dedicat­
ed themselves to his service.
Unlike
the
samurai
to
whom death in battle was
the most honorable objective,
they were seen as social out-,•:asts and t ailors; If caught,
they faced a horrible death
such as having their - skin
in oil or bu ied to the neck
near an anthill.

qnthe decline

. TOKYO. — The average life
expectancy of Japanese meh
and
women,
the world's
second longest-living people,
declined slightly for the. first
time In 24 years In 1980, the
Health .and Welfare Ministry
announced recently.
The annual report said the
shortened life; spans was ap­
parently duetto an Increase
In death! among the elderly
following an. unusually cold
winter.
It said the average Japa*
nese male born In 1980 can
expect to live 73.32 years
down 0.14 years from the
previous years while female
Infants will live to an average 78.83 years, 0.06 years
shorter than in 1979. ~
Ministry officials said the
drop was temporary, and
Japan will continue to vie
with Iceland and Sweden for
the top spof In the world
longevity race. As of 1978,
Icelander meh could expect to
live to 73.4 years, and wo­
men to 79.3 years.
Modern medicine, a sharp
reduction In infant mortality
and the rise in living stand­
ards are cited as reasons for
the remarkable extension of
Japanese life spans.
Fifty years ago the aver­
age life expectancy was in the
forties, and it wg# not until
1951 that the life span for
man reached 60.

something akin to the stren­
uous mental and physical
conditioning that was part of
ninja training, a secret to be
protected at all costs in. feud­
al times. Modern training is
much less intense, however,
and does not include methods
of murder.
Ninpo often has not been
taken as seriously as karate,
judo,
jujitsu,
aikido
and
other,better known martial
arts, although it incorporates
elements of each.; When Gen.
Douglas
MacArthur,
the
commander
of
post-World War II occupation forces in
Japan, -banned other martial
arts, he dismissed ninpo as
a "pointless antique."
In the old days, ninja skills,
were
handed
down
from
generation
to
generation,
with training beginning at
age five or six for both boys
and girls, and continuing for
life. There was no choice for
those born in a ninja tradi­
TOKYO
A major Japation, and most died violently.
nwe. department 'Store and
Ninja worked to soften
supermarket chain, breaking
their bones and make limbs,
precedent with Japan’s exmuscles and tendons pliable
enough to enable them to slip
decided' to hire as many as
through tiny openings or es­
20 foreigners annually from
cape the bonds of captors.
next year.
They learned the ways of

Steveston Reunion theme
infuses “Matsuri” of Song
festival at Centre Oct. 24

TORONTO. —— "Aki no UfqMatsuri" (Autumn Festival of
Songs), will be an evening of
Japanese
songs,
Including
many favorite and familiar
tunes. It will feature some of
the , talented vocalists who
have appeared on the Centre
stage and on Japanese tele­
vision prog-ams in Toronto.
The setting will be a wharf
scene'in a fishing village that
might be reminiscent of bld
Steveston which is very timely
since a Reunion of its former
residents is to take place the
be on songs of and about the
sea. The evening will conclude.
nostalgic songs, with □ verse
or two rendered by a parade

of -singers.
As an added special at­
traction qnd in keeping with
B.C. Salmon will be drawn as
door prizes. That, in itself, is
a tasty enticement for a night
at the Centre on Saturday,
Oct. 24.
Curtain rises at 8 p.m.
Tickets will be sold at the
Centre, available soon, a
$5.00 per person. But In join.
ing the trend of today, it will
be half-price, $2.50 for senior
Issei and retired Nisei

UtaMatsuri include Shoko Iwashita, Yasuko Kano, Hisako
Setoyama, Katsuro Iwashita,
Bob Nishikawa, Ken Orita,
Robert Sasaki and Shigeharu
Wakita.

Yoko admits taking heroin ''but in

celebration, not out of depression
NFW YORK. — Yoko.Ono
acknowledges In a published
report that she and slain John
Lennon used heroin and other
drugs while living in Londbn,
but. said "we were taking.it in
celebration, not out of depre­
ssion."
According to a copyright
article in the current issue of
Rolling Stone magazine, Ono
said she and her husband

both
stopped using drugs
long before the birth of their
son, Sean, who was five at
the time of Lennon’s murder
last December outside his
Manhattan apartment.
Since her husband’s death,
Ono says she has been work­
ing on her music at the □pay­
ment and visiting Sean on
weekends at her estate in
Cold Spring Harbor.

I Seibu breaks with ‘No Gaijin’ hiring practice I

birds and animals, could walk
in at least 10 different ways.

The
Seibu
Distribution
Group, which has 15 depart­
ment stores and 222 food
stores throughout Japan, will

integrate its Japanese statt
with foreign nationals as a
step toward the coming of
global distribution and spe­
cialization, a company spokes­
man said.
Selbu is believed to be one
of the first ma^or Japanese
. corporations to launch an
"open" employment program.
Foreigners hired by Japanese
firms generally are on a part-

time status and are ineligible
for the semi-annual bonuses,
pension plans and other -be­
nefits received by Japanese
workers.

The spokesman said Seibu
is hopeful that it can recruit
new college graduates in the
United
States,
Australia,
Britain,
France,
Italy and

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Friday, Oct 9, 1981

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They will also have the option
of living in company dormi-

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and
recognize and
sound
made by others; They were
masters of disguise, deception,
hypnosis and sleight of hand;
pharmacists able to concoct
and use powders and drugs
from ingredients at hand to,
kill, immobilize or confuse an
adversary.
.
There are today about 10
'training halls in the Tokyo'
area, with about 100 students
all told, attending once or
twice-a-week sessions. Classes
are held mostly at. night-,
partly so the darkness can
add "an element of. mystic­
ism,’.' Saito said.
Teachers include an oste­
opath, a book publisher qnd
officer. Instructors
a
also serve as. consultants For
film and television shows.
/‘You can’t undertake any­
thing
half-heartedly/’
says
Shinichi
Chiba, a
popular
actor and student of ninpo,
“Ninpo teaches that to succe­
ed in your endeavors requires
full physical
and' sipritual

A

31 -year old housewife
said she used to always join
neighborhood wives in gossip
sessions, but since studying
winpo,
"I've
lost
interest.
Ninpo helps me to control my

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Predeceased by her husband,
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Masao,
Toshikazu,
Junichi,
Yoshio; 4 daughte s, Mrs. S.
Shizue, Furukawa, Mrs. Klyoe
Morizawa,
both in Japan,
Mrs. Tsunae Yamashita, and
Mrs. Misea Atagi; also surviv­
ed by many, grandchildren,
great-grandchildren and other
relatives.
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Japan Gov’t wants model ‘Technopolis’ by ’90
TOKYO. — Japan Is taking into such projects, said Sadao
a close look at the concept -Nagaoka of the Ministry of
of a -nationwide string of -International Trade .and Intech n opol i s e s "
little .
cities devoted to high-techhoThe technoloplis idea, coin­
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these "cities for the 21st
century" con structed by 1990.
Inspired by. the success of
" si 1 i co n va 11 ey, " a sp a w H n g
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self-contained suburbs. They
Would combine clean industri­
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and development firms, and
residential "habitation zones."
The concept fits with the
gradual shift, encouraged by

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The problem is that plan­
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rationale for channeling bill­
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ineering p-ofessor Takemochi
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50,000 people around existing "mother cities" by more
than 200,000 people
The economic hubs of theses
hew towns would be industrial plants producing such products as integrated, circuits,
computers,
mirca-processors.

instruments.
The communities would use
the
newest
communication

way television, to become re­
development
search
and
satellites for high- tch o n o log y
industries in
the nation. „

MITI

wa s

deluged

with.

each seeking

Eighteen appeals; from pre­
fectures
adjoining
Japan's
Osaka, and Nagoya — were

is to spread the industrial
base away from’ these areas.
The other 20 were told to
draw up preliminary plans.
Next March, MITI could en­
dorse one or even all 20 of
goverhment will fund them is
still not known, said Nagao-

respond; he said.
So the
movement Is very much volun­
tary- Some are even advocat-

Nagaoka said , the techno­
polis would also provide live­
"People
have
gradually
lihoods 3 for
the / "U-Turn"
developed the belief "that we
generation: young men and
can change society based on
women who moved to the- big technology.
That
kind
of - city for educations and Jobs,
vague hope, br optimism is
but who unlike past genera-,
what’s
driving
the
local
tions, are disenchanted - and
people," Nagaoka said;
want to return home.
. One of the comrhuni ties'
'Its difficult
tfor . these
developing plahs for a tech- ' people to find proper work
Mopplis is Hakodate; a port
because of the lack of intellicity of 350,000 In northern
gent, challenging jobs," he
Japan' hit hard by the depres­
said. "So they’d like living in
sion In the shipbuilding in­
a technopolis."
dustry. The chieF of the city’s
MITI’s
technopolis
would
planning . section,
Takashi
include
"anti-technozones"
Imai, said that while they; — which a simpler age would
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