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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
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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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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Friday, Oct. 9t 1981
UYEDA
NOMURA
VANCOUVER. — Mrs.
Fuji
away on August 31, 1981.
Predeceased by her husband,
Torazo. . Survived by ' 4 sons,
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.
Funeral service z at Stevestton Buddhist Church. Vancou- yer Crematorium.. The Rev. S.
Okada officiated. -Richmond
Funeral Home.
TORONTO. —'Mr. Matsuichi Sao passed away
at
Castleview-Wychwood Towers
ed husband df the late Mat(Mrs. W. Kai), Viola (Mrs. A.
Nagai) and Kathleen (Mrs.
Matsushita)
Earle Elliott Funeral Home.
VANCOUVER.
Ihachi
Uy«aa passed away -on Sepb
ember 8, J981 at the age of
$2 years. Survived .by 2 sons,
Toshio (Bill) and his wife
Mabel, Masuo and his wife
Mrs. Nawoki Takeuchi, Mrs.
■Ma-garet Kayoho, Fujita; 6
grandsons,
great-grandchildren.
Service at Vancouver Japa
nese United Church with the
Rev. N. ? Furuya officiating.
GTenhaven Memorial Chapel.-.
IntermentMountaihview
Dates & Doings ]
TOKYO,
Women are
beginning to make a dent in
Japan’s diplomatic corps, a
trditional male bastion.
For the first time, in more
than 20 years, women have’
fleet of
career diplomats, a Foreign
Ministry spokesman said re- .
received
assignments.
The inclusion of the two
young women means there
are now six /females among
Japan’s 695 career diplomats,
man said. Three of them are
still trainees.
SAISHO
WATERLOO, Ont. —- Mrs.
Masue Saisho, 88,
passed
away on September 25, 1981
at her- residence in Waterloo.
Wife of the late Hikoemon
and loving mother of Takako
Iwasa, Tetsuo Jim, Keigi, Aki,
Esther
Kawabe
and Amy
Wiffen. Dear grandmother of
ten.
Jerrett
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112 Scollard (north of Bloor Between Bay and Hazelton)
Toronto.
, Her paintings are a combination of sumie and western water
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Vancouver - Born Ruth Yamada studied art in Canada and
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closed Sundays and Mondays.
A cordial invitation to all.
Kaoru Kisuda, 26, has been
named third secretary, to the
Japanese embassy in Singa
pore and ’Mikie Kiyoi, 27, has
become
the
fourth-ranking
member of the first African
division of the Foreign Minis
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Affairs Bureau , in Tokyo, said
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VANCOUVER. — Mrs.
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Predeceased by her husband,
Torazo. . Survived by ' 4 sons,
Masao,
Toshikazu,
Junichi,
Yoshio; 4 daughte s, Mrs. S.
Shizue, Furukawa, Mrs. Klyoe
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both in Japan,
Mrs. Tsunae Yamashita, and
Mrs. Misea Atagi; also surviv
ed by many, grandchildren,
great-grandchildren and other
relatives.
Funeral service z at Stevestton Buddhist Church. Vancou- yer Crematorium.. The Rev. S.
Okada officiated. -Richmond
Funeral Home.
TORONTO. —'Mr. Matsuichi Sao passed away
at
Castleview-Wychwood Towers
ed husband df the late Mat(Mrs. W. Kai), Viola (Mrs. A.
Nagai) and Kathleen (Mrs.
Matsushita)
Earle Elliott Funeral Home.
VANCOUVER.
Ihachi
Uy«aa passed away -on Sepb
ember 8, J981 at the age of
$2 years. Survived .by 2 sons,
Toshio (Bill) and his wife
Mabel, Masuo and his wife
Mrs. Nawoki Takeuchi, Mrs.
■Ma-garet Kayoho, Fujita; 6
grandsons,
great-grandchildren.
Service at Vancouver Japa
nese United Church with the
Rev. N. ? Furuya officiating.
GTenhaven Memorial Chapel.-.
IntermentMountaihview
Dates & Doings ]
TOKYO,
Women are
beginning to make a dent in
Japan’s diplomatic corps, a
trditional male bastion.
For the first time, in more
than 20 years, women have’
fleet of
career diplomats, a Foreign
Ministry spokesman said re- .
received
assignments.
The inclusion of the two
young women means there
are now six /females among
Japan’s 695 career diplomats,
man said. Three of them are
still trainees.
SAISHO
WATERLOO, Ont. —- Mrs.
Masue Saisho, 88,
passed
away on September 25, 1981
at her- residence in Waterloo.
Wife of the late Hikoemon
and loving mother of Takako
Iwasa, Tetsuo Jim, Keigi, Aki,
Esther
Kawabe
and Amy
Wiffen. Dear grandmother of
ten.
Jerrett
“Sea-borough ‘'Chapel.
Toronto
Japanese
United Church. Inte-ment Pine
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TORONTO. — Ruth Yamada show of “Watercolours in the
Japanese Manner”’ opens October 17, 1981 at Gallery Quan —
112 Scollard (north of Bloor Between Bay and Hazelton)
Toronto.
, Her paintings are a combination of sumie and western water
color technique, achieveing anjmpression of tranquility.
Vancouver - Born Ruth Yamada studied art in Canada and
Japan. In Toronto she received instruction from Marjorie
Pigott who introduced the Nanga technique of Sumie in
Canada. In Kyoto, Ruth studied under Kohako Kawabata, a
prominent master artist. She is a member of the Satsuk-kai
of Kyoto, the Nippon Nanga society of Japan, Canadian Socie
ty of painters in watercolor and the sumie society of A'merieia
Inc.
■
The show continues to Nov. 5th, 1981 10:30 a.m. to 6 p.m.’
closed Sundays and Mondays.
A cordial invitation to all.
Kaoru Kisuda, 26, has been
named third secretary, to the
Japanese embassy in Singa
pore and ’Mikie Kiyoi, 27, has
become
the
fourth-ranking
member of the first African
division of the Foreign Minis
try’s Middle East and African
Affairs Bureau , in Tokyo, said
the spokesman.
For Best Results \
.
Use New Ctmadiac Adi I
Kiyoi, who speaks French,
says it
good to get women
into Foreign Service.
-
Steuffville, Ontario
LOH 1L0
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weekends from
9 a.m. to 6 p.m.
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Last year’s prices
Barrister A Solicitor
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"There are many sections
where women can work better
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Cultural Affairs and Inform
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follow the problems there be
cause in political affairs, even
now, women are more or less
excluded."'
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After first'passing a battery
of tough "high diplomatic
service” exams in 1978, and
then undergoing two years of
training, the two were named
their country’s second and
third
female
full-fledged
diplomats this summer.
S’
WICKSTEED
I
V* 5 H
i»
114 LAIRD DR. LEASIDE, ONTARIO
PHONE: 421-6016
Their sole senior female
colleague, who passed the
Foreign Service exams in 1958,
is now ax counsellor at the
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’spokesman said.
BOOKS OF INTEREST TO
JAPANESE CANADIANS
In 1979, two women were
admitted to the Foreign Minis
try as trainees along with 27
men.
In
1980, one
more
woman and 28 men were ad
“OBASAN” by JOY KOGAWA,
- in hardback, $ 14.00 plus
.30^ postage ~
WITHIN THE BARBED WIRE FENCE
by Takeo Ujo Nakano $10.30
in hardback, postage included
mitted. One
Foreign
Ministry
. spokesman balked when ask
ed his personal- opinion about
letting
women
into
the
Foreign Service. He said he
could offer no official commet \ adding "I’m not chau
vinistic, just careful."
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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
high culture. The government
wants to see at least one of
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
complex of electronics . firms
in California, Japanese plan
ners want to build similar
self-contained suburbs. They
Would combine clean industri
al plants, "academic zones”
of universities and research
and development firms, and
residential "habitation zones."
The concept fits with the
gradual shift, encouraged by
industry to a more
high
technology-oriented economy.
The problem is that plan
ners have not developed a
rationale for channeling bill
ions of yen in public funds
ineering p-ofessor Takemochi
Ishii and former MITI planner
Michinab Takahashi, is aimed
at spurring local development
by spreading Japan’s industri
al base into less populated.
areas.
A J report published
by
MITI last March called for the
"technopolises"
creation
with populations of about
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
have .yet to designate key
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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
high culture. The government
wants to see at least one of
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
complex of electronics . firms
in California, Japanese plan
ners want to build similar
self-contained suburbs. They
Would combine clean industri
al plants, "academic zones”
of universities and research
and development firms, and
residential "habitation zones."
The concept fits with the
gradual shift, encouraged by
industry to a more
high
technology-oriented economy.
The problem is that plan
ners have not developed a
rationale for channeling bill
ions of yen in public funds
ineering p-ofessor Takemochi
Ishii and former MITI planner
Michinab Takahashi, is aimed
at spurring local development
by spreading Japan’s industri
al base into less populated.
areas.
A J report published
by
MITI last March called for the
"technopolises"
creation
with populations of about
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
have .yet to designate key
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