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Dr. Fuse's cross-cultural su icide study yields surprises
_ SSSSSKSi ^In^adbitlon. he states that suicide rate Io the world; the ceptlon because traditionally
Canada is retreating into its ■ In addition, he states that suicide rate in the world; the
“The Soviet Union and the
Catholic countries suicide
own . identity! and is not as socialist countries have very latest 1979 figures show the
People’s Republic off China
high suicide rates - particularly rate of 45 persons per 100,000. rates have been always low.
internationally involved.
Roman Catholicism maintains
have steadfastly refused to
“There has always been a Hungary, Czechoslovakia and Life in this land-locked country
a strong sense of community.**
release any data on suicide.
discernible inverse correlation East Germany - because Marx­ is “very tough and depression
" Surprisingly countries which
According to one researcher
between suicide and homicide ism has left a “value vacuum” seems to be very widespread”;
do have highly developed
in the Soviet Union, “official­
because homicide is an exter­ by destroying the traditional for instance, citizens must
ly suicide does nol exist in
nal ized aggression against philosophy of life; as a result, wait several years to acquire social welfare systems still
demonstrate high suicide
. the Soviet Union’.”
others, and suicide is an inter­ people are apathetic. Also, apartment accommodation, so
This is the discovery of social - nalized aggression against medical facilities for the pre­ that divorced couples are forc­ rates. Prof. Fus6 explains that
science professor Toyomasa
in these countries people are
one-self. In societies where' vention and counselling of ed to cohabit.
Fus6 who has been studying
While Poland is in a similar well taken care of and thereone finds high rates of homi­ suicide are not well developed
the sociology of suicide since
situation, it is more Gatholized
cide, one also finds much in these countries.
Continued on page 2
1974. In attempting to collect
than
Hungary
and
not
as
urProf. Fus6 notes that Hunlower suicide rates and. vice
data for his research on a
cross-cultural study of suicide
in Europe■ North America and
Japan, he found an “enor­
mous reluctance” among
some socialist countries to
release data on suicide. He
An Independent Organ for Canadians of Japanese Origin
.
gives the example of Hungary,
r where “from time to time there (
TORONTO, ONT
FRIDAY; JANUARY 29, 1982
was a considerable official re- I VOL. 46 — NO. 7
- si stance to my gathering data,
and some individuals gave me full cooperation at the risk of.
their political danger.”
He has found that there are .
some discernible patterns in
suicide among the nations of
the world. “Generally speak­
ing, highly developed and
industrialized countries in
central and northern Europe
(e.g., Hungary, Czechoslovakia,
Austria, Sweden, Denmark,.
LIMA, Peru -A Pan Americ­ Citizens League was elected
Finland, . Western Germany,
an Nikkei Association (PANA), as the Secretary-Treasurer.
Belgium, Switzerland, etc)
PANA hopes to promote
involving organizational repre­
have shown co n s i ste n 11 y h i g h
sentatives from eight Western international understanding
suicide rates over the years,
Hemispheres
c Lu d: and friendship among Nikkei
Whereas most Cathblic.coun-?
ing Canada, was initiated at (persons of Japanese ances­
tries in Latin America and
a founding meeting in Lima, try) throughout the Americas.
southern and western Europe
Peru; on December 6, 1981. Through international confer­
(e.g., Latin countries in the
Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Ca­ ences, student exchange pro­
Americas, Italy, Spain and
nada, Columbia, Mexico, Peru grams, a Pan American Nik­
Portugal, etc.) have manifested
and the United States were kei historical project and
lower rates.” !
represented by organizations commerce, PANA represents
' Prof. FusS offers some ex­
from those respective coun­ the first effort of Nikkei
planations for this trend.
»i
throughout the Americas to
tries.
Suicide rates usually decrease
come together on .common
sharply in times of war and
The founding meeting was goals.
revolution because people
hosted by the Estadio La
externalize aggression; during
Union Association of Peru,
Mr. Kubokawa commented:
peace, they tend to be more in­
WASHINGTON, D.C. — A Japanese American Nisei following recommendations
trospective. In a similar vein, woman, Karen Uemoto (above) heads the United States Postal developed at the First Pan “With theworld becoming
economically underdeveloped Service's new Electronic Computer-Originated Mail (E-COM) American Nikkei Conference, smaller in terms of travelling
countries maintain lower sui­ started recently. Ms. Uemoto displays envelopes that are us­ which was held in July of last distance and communication
cide rates because they “exter­ ed in the service and some off the equipment that prints the year in Mexico City. The foun­ time, I felt it necessary to
nalize the problem necessary messages. E-COM wiH allow volume mailers to electronically ding meeting accepted a Con­ share experiental information
for the struggle to survive.” transmit computer messages to 25 specially equipped post stitution, which representati­ about each of our countries
with others of my ethnic back­
Other correlations exist: sui­ offices ffbr delivery by first-class mail.
ves of the various organiza­ ground. As we learn more
cide is predominantly a male
tions will take back to their about others, we really learn
phenomenon and, with few
organizations for ratification. more about ourselves and
exceptions, tends to occur
Formal ratification ceremo­ how each of our cultures in­
where there is a high degree
nies are plannedfor the Se­ tertwine. With so much rich
of urbanization.
cond Pan American Nikkei cultural and ethnic heritage
Drawing from the noted
MEMPHIS
Visitors from ing temperatures to file past Conference, which will be information to learn about
Protestant theologian Paul
the gravesite which was held in 1983 in Lima, Peru.
from each country, and how
Tillich, who defines religion . as far away^as Japan and Can? adorned with dozens of
as man’s ultimate concern, ada surrounded the windswept wreaths, floral arrangements
Secretariat offices have various Nikkei groups have
Prof. Fusd asserts that the grave of Elvis Presley on Jan­ and pictures of the late en­ been proposed for two sites, contributed towards the great­
one each in North and South ness of their nations, there
past 35 years has seen a de­ uary 8th, the 47th birthday of
tertainer.
is a lifetime of learning.
America.
The
Estadio
La
cline in religious attendance the king of rock ‘n’ roll who
For Japanese teenager Ku­
and religiosity of Europeans was born in a tiny house in nihiko Hayashi, the visit to Union Association offices in
and North Americans. “It.is in Tupelo, Miss.
“By using our time wisely,
the grave had special impor­ Lima, Peru, and the National
Presley
died
Aug.
16th,
those countries where there
tance. It was part of a show of Headquarters of the Japan­ learning about the various
1977,
but
his
admirers
contin
­
ese American Citizens League cultures and customs, we will
is no committed religious
independence
that
young
faith that the highest suicide ue, to flock to Graceland Man­ men make as they approach in San Francisco, California, be able to better understand,
sion where the entertainer
are the identified sites.
rates are observable”.
relate and share our expe­
adulthood.
spent
most
of
his
adult
years.
In the past 50 years, the
Carlos Kasuga of Mexico riences through the genuine
Hayashi, who belongs to
Presley
is
buried
alongside
overall rate of suicide in the
the 5,000 member Elvis Pres­ was elected President of the friendship and common per­
his
parents
and
grandmother
United States has declined,
ley fan club of Japan, also organization, PANA. Senor spectives established among
in
a
circular'

memory
garden

but Canada’s has doubled.
member nations of this newly
Prof. Fus6 explains that the next to the white columned visited Presley’s birthplace Hiroshi Banno of Brazil is the formed Pan American Nikkei
and his former home in Holly­ Vice-President. An American,
States, which has one of the mansion.
wood as stops along his jour­ Charles Kubokawa, represen­ Association. PANA is a first
By
midday,
several
hundred
highest homicide rates in the
ting the Japanese American step.”
ney to manhood.
visitors
had
braved
nearfreezworld, has a culture that fosBY TOYOMASA Fuse

Canada in Pan-Am
2 Nikkei Association
। (Pana) formed at
Lima, Peru meeting

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Nisei woman heads U.S. Postal
Service's hew computer mail

Jpnz. visitors pay homage to
Elvis on 47th birthday anniv.

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Continued from page 1

fore are less involved with the
survival struggle. ~
a
He points to another in­
teresting phenomenon. In the
past 25 years, suicide rates
among teenagers have tripl­
ed, especially in the United
States; “most astounding, is
the sharp increase in the
suicide-rate among young
blacks.
The increasing equality (ex­
perienced by blacks in the
United.States) has led to an
increasing degree of partici­
pation in the occupational
community, thereby exposing
the blacks to the same de­
gree of stress as whites. And
as indicated in the Durkheim
study on suicide, suicide rates
tend to increase among those
people who are experiencing
very rapid social change,
mobility and economic de­
classification.”
Prof. Fus6 hypothesizes
that while males have always
outstripped \ females in sui­
cide, this pattern will change
when the women’s equal rights
movements gain acceptance
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Obituaries^.

KOZAI
TORONTO 4- Mr. Tomisabu ro Kozai passed away on
KONDO
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TORONTO— Mrs. Take Kon- husband of the late Suite Yado passed away on January moto, dear father of Tomie
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Young Sansei
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Montreal Buddhist Valentine Dance

(Van. JCCA Bulletin)
MONTREAL — The Montreal Buddhist Church' s'Dana and
Unlike Sangha will be sponsoring their annual Valentine 's Dance on
VANCOUVER
many children her age, young February 20,1982 at St. Vita! Parish Hall, 3644 Martial Street in
Chfistine Ishikawa seems to Montreal North. Time is 8:00 p.m. to 1:00 a.m.
have found something to do
The Dana women are making plans and preparations for
with her hands, and is having refreshments to be served. There will be disco and ballroom
precious little trouble con­ dancing, door prizes, raffle draw, and refreshments. It's also
vincing music judges of the B.Y.O.B. Regular admission is $12.00, full-time students $7.00
value of her playful prowess. and senior citizens $5.00., Because there is a rumour that a
Over the past year, the “child dollar more will be charged at the door, buy"your ticket now
pianist” has become quite through any member of the MBC, Sangha, or Daria. See you
adept at demonstrating her there for a great evening.
musical attributes, -winning
several competitions both in
and out of the province.
By Dave Azuma
At the 1981 Kiwanis Music
Festival,-Christine received
(Guiding Light)
the Jean Lyons medal I ion
TORONTO — December 20th was a very special day for
and scholarship for a per­ the Toronto Buddhist Sunday School. It was our annual “Year
formance which brought her End Party” in conjuction with the family service.
the title of Junior Champion
Mr. Dick Tanaka chaired the family service, followed by Mr.
at the popular annual event.
Tosh Hori who took over for the Sangha, calling out the names
She also won high marks of of this year's recipients for the Sunday School awards. These
91 at both the Festival Music awards and gifts were presented by Bishop Tsunoda, Sid
Workshop hosted by the Van­ Ikeda and myself. I am proud to say that we had more than
couver Community College twenty students with less than a three day absence record,
(Langara Campus) and the led by nine year old Ted Wakabayashi, with an impressive
Western Board of Music Grade record of perfect attendance for the past six years.
2 Competition. And as though
Also, this year all the students received a small gift from
all this excitement wasn't the Sangha to encourage them to attend Sunday School re­
quite enough, Christine jour­ gularly.
neyed eastward to Quebec
The Rev. Fujikawa and Mr. Kunio Suyama presented “Gift
City where she was named Certificates” to our dedicated teachers for their tireless efforts
the winner of the 7 years and during the past year.
under category at the Cana­
After the service, a capacity crowd of more than two hund­
dian Music Competition held red and fifty people were treated to a delicious turkey dinner
prepared by the parents and Dana ladies. Thiis was followed by
in July.
Of course, the apparent a slide presentation of some of the years's activities.
ease with which Christine
I would like to take this time to thank the parents of the
has been winning of late is Sunday School children and the Dana ladies for the lovely din­
not meant to imply that she is ner and to the Sangha members for their help.
in any way lightweight when
it comes down to hard work.
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Friday, January 29,1982

Japan quintuplets go home

TOKYO — To sei! a bar of ector is a drug,addict. Test­ contribute significantly to a
soap in Japan, a foreign pro- , ing of imported autos adds growing trade Imbalance in
Japan' s favor, foreign busi­
ducer must have a full-time thousands of dollars to their
nessmen say. In official jar- ,
pharmacist in its Japan of­ cost.
These are but aJew of the: goh;they are called non-tariff
fice. Dental gold importers
must prove no company dir- many arcane regulations that barriers, or NTBs.
NTBs include such things
as quotas on meat and citrus,
stringent .-customs examina­
tions and approval standards, ~
officially backed “buy Japan”
policies and impenetrable THE QUINTS ARE COMING HOME! Born to Mr. and Mrs.
the
information-oriented
spTOKYO — The number of
distribution systems.
Mikihiko Tanaka, the five are held by their parents and rela­
jciety,

matching
road
and
rail
computers operating in Japan
tives before leaving the Japan Red Cross Medical Centre in
trade officials
networks
in
significance.
has shot up sevenfold over
Foreign trade officials say Tokyo's Shibua Ward, 76 days after their birth.
the past decade, with
The development of_the Japan mustopen its doors to
computer-related investment information-oriented society foreign products. The Japa­
expected to increase 1.9-fold will hinge largely on the nese say outsiders just have
in the next five years,, an spread of digital communica-: not tried1 hard enough to crack
annual ‘‘white paper” on tion lines, it says.
the lucrative and highly com­
computers says.
petitive Japanese market.
TOKYO — Nearly 70 per- computerized society would
The
success
of
corporate
In early December, a U.S. cent of the Japanese fear the be easier, more diff icult to
As of the end of September
management will be greatly in­ trade mission told the Japa­ increasing use of industrial live in or little changed were
1980, there were 79,281 com­
puters reported in operation, fluenced by the skill of using nese that'the NTBs must be robots will lead to higher equally divided among all
valued at Y3,850.8 billion (17.5 those lines, the report added. removed; “quickly to avoid a unemployment, a newspaper three opinions.
political reaction in the Unit­
billion).
survey shows.
ed States.” Deputy U.S. trade
Large-sized machines' ac­
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Of 3,000 people aged over
counted for 3.9 percent in
nald said: “I tried to explain 20 interviewed by the MainiBeauty Salon
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Mon. -1 to 6 p.m.
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However, the survey reveal­
society,’’, according to; the re­ pinned him against another
Japan this year can be elimi­ ed 50 percent of those taking .
port, issued by the independ­
machine, a government report nated if trade barriers are part in the poll felt that The |
ent Japan Information Process­
said recently. ;
removed, saida U.S. official, introduction of robots was
ing Development Center.
It was the first recorded who didn 't want to be named, desirable compared with .44
But it says Japan's com­ fatality blamed on one of the “but the anti-import bias is a percent who considered their
puterization drive is notwith- about 70,000 robots in use in fundamental problem that per­ -arrival undesirable?
vades the.Japanese system.”
( out problems, citing increasing Japanese industrial plants.
Housewives were asked
The accident occurred at
An example of the Japan­
i crimes that capitalize on
1 banks’ computer systems and the Kawasaki Heavy Indust­ ese attitude is. the Japan if they would oppose their
INSURANCE
the possible impact of increas­ ries in Tokyo last July, but Lawn Tennis Association rule husbands working at home
ed use of micro-computers on it was kept secret until re­ that no foreign-made balls through television telephon­
cently, after the investigation are allowed in domestic tour­ es and 66 percent were opemployment.
463 Eglinton Ave. W.
was completed.
posed to the move, against 30
naments.
The stepped-up computer­
The investigators said the
Often it is just the network percent who said they would Toronto, Ont. M5N 1A7
ization, although adding to the victim, Kenji Urada, stepped of regulations —- they some­ welcome it.
phone 489-8611.
amenities of national life, is at across a safety barrier and in­ times exasperate Japanese
Home 449-9293
the same time raising a number advertently started the robot, producers, too — that stops
Opinions as to whether the
of problems requiring urgent whose arm stabbed him in the foreign trader right at
’solution, such as disclosure of the back.
the docks. For example:
information of a public nature
BOOKS OF INTEREST TO
The report concluded that
• The Ministry of Interna/
and protection of privacy, Urada was guilty of careless- tional Trade and Industry re­
JAPANESE CANADIANS
it says.
ness but also said safety fuses to accept foreign safety
measures in the plant were tests, which means more tests
The report also touched on a inadequate, said Hiroshi Go­ must be conducted in Japan,
growing demand in the private to, chief of the local labor adding to the cost arid mak­
'WITHIN THE BARBED WIRE FENCE
sector for the liberalization of standards bureau.
by Takeo Ujo Nakano T$j2” 5^.
ing the foreign brands less •
the use of communication lines
“There's been a tendency competitive.
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• Cosmetic makers must
strict controls by the Nippon in the labor standards" law face six months' testing on
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Telegraph and Telephone with these new machines,” any change, no matter how
by Ken Adachi
$15^00 (Postage 50 Cents)
Public Corporation (NTT).
an official at the labor stan­ slight, in lipstick pigment.
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dards bureau in the western “The Japanese face the same
Private businesses are press­
problem, so it's not really
A BIOGRAPHY QF ISSBI PION H S.' RYUICHI YOSHIDA,
ing for the liberalization, province of Hyogo said.
“The unfamiliarity of the a trade barrier. But it's not
saying it is vital for the
economically feasible to intro­
development of computerized workers also contributed to„
duce new ingredients,” said 4
the accident.”
data processing — a must for
Urada apparently hit- the F. Langhammer, head of the
THE EXODUS OF; T0E JAPANESE
drastic stream ling of corporate
on-switch accidentally after Japan office of the Estee <
BY JANICE PATTON
management.
Lauder
cosmetics
company.
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The report endorses the im­ leaping over a chain fence
• The Tokyo Metropolitan
built
around
the
robot
that
portance of the liberalization,
saying communication lines was labelled “Off Limits”, of­ Government rejected a rust
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retardation paint developed
constitute an “infrastructure of ficials said.
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Robot stabs
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