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The New Canadian
An Independent Organ fpr Canadians of Japanese Origin -
VOL 46 — NO. 9
“Dallas” is
big flop
on Japan TV
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1982
4
J
?
X
-
TORONTO, ONT.'
Cumberland museum
search for Japanese
Canada history items
TOKYO - Japan is one
"country where not even J.R.
Ewing can throw his weight
around/ Television viewers
here couldn't care less who
shot him. The ratings show
they'd much rather watch
teenage singers” and other
variety-show performers.
CUMBERLAND, B.C. — day to Friday from 1:00 to
The Cumberland and District 5:00, and the telephone num
Historical Society is attempt ber is 336-2445. Admission is
ing to bolster its display/re- free and interested people
_ search collection of Japanese and former residents are en
Canadian items and historical couraged to visit and view the
information for the Cumber collection.
Donations are also web
land Museum.
The small collection is part tcome and much needed in
' Dallas, the series that once
of the Museum's historical order to continue the search
captured well over half the
overview of Cumberland, which for valuable additions to the
audience for an episode in
presently occupies the main display/research collection.
^XTsV
—Vancouver JCCA
North America, was introducfloor of the building. Included
x ed in Japan last Oct. 8 by TV
in the Japanese Canadian dis
JAPAN RANKS TOP
Asahi, one bf the country's
play are school documents
IN ACQUISITION
commercial networks. The
and textbooks from the 1930' s,
OF PATENTS
show, with the dialogue dub
as well as old letters, phot
bed, has never lifted itself off
WAHINGTON — Japanese
graphs and even wartime pos
the.floor in Japan's ratings.
ters used by the War Custodian companies are taking the lead '
to mark confiscated Japanese among foreign enterprises in .
Shown on Thursday nights
Canadian property. Also on getting patents in the United
at 9, Dallas began with 10 per
display is a large Japanese States, Japan’s largest single
cent of the audience and
vase given to the Methodist overseas market.
since has declined—- hitting
The commerce depart
Church prior to 1925 by an unr
a lowof/'ust over three per
ment’s patent and trademark
known Japanese merchant/’
MMMMi
v cent on Christmas Eve, figures
What is needed by the Mu office said recently foreign
from the Japan branch of the
seum is additional information enterprises’ patent acquisition
A.C. Nielsen Co. showed.
TOKYO — Toronto model, Susan Daub has a bit of the
and historical documentation totaled 25,603 cases in 1980.
“mixed-blood” look currently favored by the Tokyo fashion
of any kind. Hopefully, much Of them, Japanese companies
The surveys were done in
magazines, though she's not Eurasian. She won hearts all
of this information can be lo- accounted for 7,442, followed
the Tokyo metropolitan area,
over Japan with her sugar-n-spice looks — as they said on < cated and utilized to help im by West German companies
where viewers can choose
Japanese TV, “She may not be sexy, but she's so cute ev
prove the Japanese-Canad ian with 5,867 and British firms
* among seven VHF channels
eryone loves her! “
.
.
collection at Cumberland. For with 2,517.
'and a few more on UHF.
The overall patent acquisi
instance:
“It's a very tough time slot
— Who gave the vase(s) to tion by U.S. enterprises in the
year was given as 40,284
for a newcomer,” said Genji
the Methodist Church?
Seya, a spokesman for.Nieb
—When did Japanese Can- cases.
/sen. The slot, he said, has
ad ians first come to Union
been dominated by Tokyo
and Cumberland and was it Io
NEW
YORK
Rocky
Aoki,
business
trip.
“
I
have
to
go
Broadcasting System' s/TBS)
work in the coal mines there?
a
multi-millionaire
restauraback
to
Japan
to
talk
to
the
popular music show, The Best
—Are there any stories
teur
and
sportsman
who
fre-"parties.
”
Ten, which consistently scores
written down about the evac
“I may run for senator in
more than 30 per cent..Other quently risks his life playing
uation and later treatment of
TOKYO — A monument
Japan
and
it
will
be
easier
for
rich
man's
games,
may
soon
stations appear to have gain
former Cumberland residents?, commemorating Pope John
me
to
negotiate
with
them
as
enter
Japanese
politics.
ed regular viewers during the
—Can anyone" supply the Paul Il's Hiroshima appeal
And if he does, it will be to a senator,” he said. “I think I
■
period, Seya said.
Museum with documents re- for peace has been erected
will win the election because
win.
’
.
lating to the evacuation of here by a. lay protestant or
The music show, on the air
“Winning is easy, if you I am in the public eye. I go
Cumberfanciers (e.g. alien re ganization/
for four years, presents new know how,” said Aoki, the back to Japan quite often. I
gistration cards, evacuation
The 2.4 meter, tall trigonal
talent and the 10 best-selling 42-year-old Japanese founder am a Japanese citizen and I
notices)?
prism was unveiled recently
popular songs of the week in . of the popular Benihana of have a home and office in
/ —Does anyone have phot in a ceremony at the Hiroshi
a format spiced by a quick- Tokyo restaurant chain, “I Japan.
ographs appropriate for the ma YMCA House/
tongued team of master and think I know how.”
collection? The Museum
The monument is inscribed
/ mistress of ceremonies.
Aoki started as ah ice
would appreciate originals with a phrase from the pon
Japanese critics have prais cream vendor in Harlem and
but can make copies of pho tiff's appeal made when Pope
ed Dalias as a fine series, has already compiled a re
tographs if so desired.
John Paul II visited the world' s
markable
winning
record
as
’
Seya said, but it apparently
— Has any advertising for first atom-bombed city this
doesn't go over with TV audi a creator of the Benihana
Japanese Canadian business
February.
restaurant
empire,
self-made
ences that have warmly re
es in the Cumberland area
“To young people every
ceived such U.S. imports as millionaire before the age of
been preserved?
where I say: let us together
Kojak, Colombo, Little House 30, Olympic competitor, U.S.
— Has anyone collected create a new future of frater
on the Prairie, Wagon Train, wrestling champion, national
any coal mining relics (lamps, nity and solidarity,” the in
The Fugitive and Perry Mason, backgammon champion, off
tools, clothing, documents, scription reads in Japanese
“Traditionally,” he said, shore powerboat racer, broadetc.)?
and English.
“Japanese viewers have been way producer, best selling
The Museum would greatly
YMCA officials said the
offered American films stag author and now he is being
appreciate any help in an papal appeal “has something
ed in well-known places such courted by Japanese .politi
swering these and other in to transcend all sects.”
as New York, Los Angeles and cians.
triguing questions concerning
Representatives of the lo
“Two parties are asking
San Francisco. They may not
Japanese Canadians and cal Roman Catholic church
be able to relate tothe up right now for me to run for
Cumberland.
were also present at the ce
start millionaire's life in senator,” Aoki said during a
The Museum is open Mon remony.
Senator Aoki?
recent Southern California
Dallas.”
Rocky Aoki may run
for Japan Senate seat
Monument to
peace-appeal
by the Pope
The New Canadian
An Independent Organ fpr Canadians of Japanese Origin -
VOL 46 — NO. 9
“Dallas” is
big flop
on Japan TV
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1982
4
J
?
X
-
TORONTO, ONT.'
Cumberland museum
search for Japanese
Canada history items
TOKYO - Japan is one
"country where not even J.R.
Ewing can throw his weight
around/ Television viewers
here couldn't care less who
shot him. The ratings show
they'd much rather watch
teenage singers” and other
variety-show performers.
CUMBERLAND, B.C. — day to Friday from 1:00 to
The Cumberland and District 5:00, and the telephone num
Historical Society is attempt ber is 336-2445. Admission is
ing to bolster its display/re- free and interested people
_ search collection of Japanese and former residents are en
Canadian items and historical couraged to visit and view the
information for the Cumber collection.
Donations are also web
land Museum.
The small collection is part tcome and much needed in
' Dallas, the series that once
of the Museum's historical order to continue the search
captured well over half the
overview of Cumberland, which for valuable additions to the
audience for an episode in
presently occupies the main display/research collection.
^XTsV
—Vancouver JCCA
North America, was introducfloor of the building. Included
x ed in Japan last Oct. 8 by TV
in the Japanese Canadian dis
JAPAN RANKS TOP
Asahi, one bf the country's
play are school documents
IN ACQUISITION
commercial networks. The
and textbooks from the 1930' s,
OF PATENTS
show, with the dialogue dub
as well as old letters, phot
bed, has never lifted itself off
WAHINGTON — Japanese
graphs and even wartime pos
the.floor in Japan's ratings.
ters used by the War Custodian companies are taking the lead '
to mark confiscated Japanese among foreign enterprises in .
Shown on Thursday nights
Canadian property. Also on getting patents in the United
at 9, Dallas began with 10 per
display is a large Japanese States, Japan’s largest single
cent of the audience and
vase given to the Methodist overseas market.
since has declined—- hitting
The commerce depart
Church prior to 1925 by an unr
a lowof/'ust over three per
ment’s patent and trademark
known Japanese merchant/’
MMMMi
v cent on Christmas Eve, figures
What is needed by the Mu office said recently foreign
from the Japan branch of the
seum is additional information enterprises’ patent acquisition
A.C. Nielsen Co. showed.
TOKYO — Toronto model, Susan Daub has a bit of the
and historical documentation totaled 25,603 cases in 1980.
“mixed-blood” look currently favored by the Tokyo fashion
of any kind. Hopefully, much Of them, Japanese companies
The surveys were done in
magazines, though she's not Eurasian. She won hearts all
of this information can be lo- accounted for 7,442, followed
the Tokyo metropolitan area,
over Japan with her sugar-n-spice looks — as they said on < cated and utilized to help im by West German companies
where viewers can choose
Japanese TV, “She may not be sexy, but she's so cute ev
prove the Japanese-Canad ian with 5,867 and British firms
* among seven VHF channels
eryone loves her! “
.
.
collection at Cumberland. For with 2,517.
'and a few more on UHF.
The overall patent acquisi
instance:
“It's a very tough time slot
— Who gave the vase(s) to tion by U.S. enterprises in the
year was given as 40,284
for a newcomer,” said Genji
the Methodist Church?
Seya, a spokesman for.Nieb
—When did Japanese Can- cases.
/sen. The slot, he said, has
ad ians first come to Union
been dominated by Tokyo
and Cumberland and was it Io
NEW
YORK
Rocky
Aoki,
business
trip.
“
I
have
to
go
Broadcasting System' s/TBS)
work in the coal mines there?
a
multi-millionaire
restauraback
to
Japan
to
talk
to
the
popular music show, The Best
—Are there any stories
teur
and
sportsman
who
fre-"parties.
”
Ten, which consistently scores
written down about the evac
“I may run for senator in
more than 30 per cent..Other quently risks his life playing
uation and later treatment of
TOKYO — A monument
Japan
and
it
will
be
easier
for
rich
man's
games,
may
soon
stations appear to have gain
former Cumberland residents?, commemorating Pope John
me
to
negotiate
with
them
as
enter
Japanese
politics.
ed regular viewers during the
—Can anyone" supply the Paul Il's Hiroshima appeal
And if he does, it will be to a senator,” he said. “I think I
■
period, Seya said.
Museum with documents re- for peace has been erected
will win the election because
win.
’
.
lating to the evacuation of here by a. lay protestant or
The music show, on the air
“Winning is easy, if you I am in the public eye. I go
Cumberfanciers (e.g. alien re ganization/
for four years, presents new know how,” said Aoki, the back to Japan quite often. I
gistration cards, evacuation
The 2.4 meter, tall trigonal
talent and the 10 best-selling 42-year-old Japanese founder am a Japanese citizen and I
notices)?
prism was unveiled recently
popular songs of the week in . of the popular Benihana of have a home and office in
/ —Does anyone have phot in a ceremony at the Hiroshi
a format spiced by a quick- Tokyo restaurant chain, “I Japan.
ographs appropriate for the ma YMCA House/
tongued team of master and think I know how.”
collection? The Museum
The monument is inscribed
/ mistress of ceremonies.
Aoki started as ah ice
would appreciate originals with a phrase from the pon
Japanese critics have prais cream vendor in Harlem and
but can make copies of pho tiff's appeal made when Pope
ed Dalias as a fine series, has already compiled a re
tographs if so desired.
John Paul II visited the world' s
markable
winning
record
as
’
Seya said, but it apparently
— Has any advertising for first atom-bombed city this
doesn't go over with TV audi a creator of the Benihana
Japanese Canadian business
February.
restaurant
empire,
self-made
ences that have warmly re
es in the Cumberland area
“To young people every
ceived such U.S. imports as millionaire before the age of
been preserved?
where I say: let us together
Kojak, Colombo, Little House 30, Olympic competitor, U.S.
— Has anyone collected create a new future of frater
on the Prairie, Wagon Train, wrestling champion, national
any coal mining relics (lamps, nity and solidarity,” the in
The Fugitive and Perry Mason, backgammon champion, off
tools, clothing, documents, scription reads in Japanese
“Traditionally,” he said, shore powerboat racer, broadetc.)?
and English.
“Japanese viewers have been way producer, best selling
The Museum would greatly
YMCA officials said the
offered American films stag author and now he is being
appreciate any help in an papal appeal “has something
ed in well-known places such courted by Japanese .politi
swering these and other in to transcend all sects.”
as New York, Los Angeles and cians.
triguing questions concerning
Representatives of the lo
“Two parties are asking
San Francisco. They may not
Japanese Canadians and cal Roman Catholic church
be able to relate tothe up right now for me to run for
Cumberland.
were also present at the ce
start millionaire's life in senator,” Aoki said during a
The Museum is open Mon remony.
Senator Aoki?
recent Southern California
Dallas.”
Rocky Aoki may run
for Japan Senate seat
Monument to
peace-appeal
by the Pope
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_
m od e I s an d s i ze s o n d i s p I ay.
The look of paternal pride:
that accompanied the glance
showed where Matsuura
thought ythe world's best
abacuses were being made:
Established 1939 •
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. A member of Ethnic Press
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*
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/ Toronto, Ont. M5V2A9
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J o b sec u r i ty i s n o p rob I e m
for the 32 middIe aged work
ers at the factory nor the
As insurance agai nst such scores of Yokota residents
a Jh orri b I e pos s i b i I i ty, M at- who do piece work at their
suura's abacus factory in the homes. The use of sorobans
alpine village of Yokota in is required in ail Japanese
southwestern Japan has intro schools and the department
duced ^he first major impro of education is the company ' s
vement in the 2,000 year old biggest customer.
computer — the “one touch”
“But we will probably seek
abacus.
a subsidy from the govern
The president of Gyokusan- ment. Not because of a slump
do industries claims: the new in sales,” he added quickly,
“one touch’’ abacuses in the ”but because of increases
hapds of any competent store in material and production
clerk will leave the pocket costs.”
limited-—"
calculators at the post.
Matsuura said it takes the - : 40 Melford Drive, Unit 1
Scartxxpugh,Ontario
“Solving multiplication and average person about six
M1B 2G2 298-3333
division problems would be a months to attain computer
KEN MURATA
toss up,” he explained with a equivalent speed and accur
Home = 291-0952
shoulder shrug and a non acy with the abacus, but again
commital nod. “But in addi he emphasized the necessity
tion and subtraction the of using only a quality abacus.
■“The Chinese have been
abacus user will solve the
problems faster. The larger making and using sorobans
the numbers, the bigger the for hundreds of years, but you
difference in time as calcula can ' t get speed out of them
tors require punches for each because there is too much
unit, while that is completely play on the spindles and their
unnecessary with the abacus?’ beads are larger than ours.
The two-story frame build We are very careful with our
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The “one touch” improve
panies for so long that nobody
remembers how or why Yoko ment is merely a spring but
ta happened to’ get involved. ton that clears the beads,
Matsuura is the third gen eliminating the neeed to run
eration of his family to be in the finger lengthwise along
volved in making sorobans, the abacus., Matsuura said
proprietor
as they are known in Japan. there were conflicting stories
He thinks maybe the different about the invention, but he
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heard
it
was
the
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wood used in the beads is
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wires are all precisionmavery, very important.”
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“But the beads today are chined by batteries of ingeni
made from imported hard ous drilling, cutting and polwoods—mostly from Indo- ishing machines. But the
nesia,” he said “No woods assembly and final inspecfrom our forests are used any tions are all done manually,
}more.”
80 percent at the factory and
Seated crosslegged and another 20 percent in the
459 Church Street
comfortable on the matted homes of Yokota residents
floor of the small showroom, on a piecework basis.
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To clinch his argument on
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OUR CUSTOMERS, AT JOY LOY
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K
ai rfares
hotels
insurance
transfers
Take heart
YOKOTA
world, Shinkichi Matsu ura is
convinced man will prevail
over the machine.
_
m od e I s an d s i ze s o n d i s p I ay.
The look of paternal pride:
that accompanied the glance
showed where Matsuura
thought ythe world's best
abacuses were being made:
Established 1939 •
Second Class Mail! No. 0366
. A member of Ethnic Press
Association of Ontario ?
and Canada Federation
Publisher & Japanese Editor
Kenzo Mori .
*
English Editor
Kei Tsumura
Published on Tuesdays and
Fridays 479 Queen Street West
/ Toronto, Ont. M5V2A9
PHONE 366-5005
J o b sec u r i ty i s n o p rob I e m
for the 32 middIe aged work
ers at the factory nor the
As insurance agai nst such scores of Yokota residents
a Jh orri b I e pos s i b i I i ty, M at- who do piece work at their
suura's abacus factory in the homes. The use of sorobans
alpine village of Yokota in is required in ail Japanese
southwestern Japan has intro schools and the department
duced ^he first major impro of education is the company ' s
vement in the 2,000 year old biggest customer.
computer — the “one touch”
“But we will probably seek
abacus.
a subsidy from the govern
The president of Gyokusan- ment. Not because of a slump
do industries claims: the new in sales,” he added quickly,
“one touch’’ abacuses in the ”but because of increases
hapds of any competent store in material and production
clerk will leave the pocket costs.”
limited-—"
calculators at the post.
Matsuura said it takes the - : 40 Melford Drive, Unit 1
Scartxxpugh,Ontario
“Solving multiplication and average person about six
M1B 2G2 298-3333
division problems would be a months to attain computer
KEN MURATA
toss up,” he explained with a equivalent speed and accur
Home = 291-0952
shoulder shrug and a non acy with the abacus, but again
commital nod. “But in addi he emphasized the necessity
tion and subtraction the of using only a quality abacus.
■“The Chinese have been
abacus user will solve the
problems faster. The larger making and using sorobans
the numbers, the bigger the for hundreds of years, but you
difference in time as calcula can ' t get speed out of them
tors require punches for each because there is too much
unit, while that is completely play on the spindles and their
unnecessary with the abacus?’ beads are larger than ours.
The two-story frame build We are very careful with our
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The “one touch” improve
panies for so long that nobody
remembers how or why Yoko ment is merely a spring but
ta happened to’ get involved. ton that clears the beads,
Matsuura is the third gen eliminating the neeed to run
eration of his family to be in the finger lengthwise along
volved in making sorobans, the abacus., Matsuura said
proprietor
as they are known in Japan. there were conflicting stories
He thinks maybe the different about the invention, but he
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had
heard
it
was
the
braintypes of woods available in
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the nearby forests had some-- child of a clerk working for a
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wood used in the beads is
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wires are all precisionmavery, very important.”
Toronto
“But the beads today are chined by batteries of ingeni
made from imported hard ous drilling, cutting and polwoods—mostly from Indo- ishing machines. But the
nesia,” he said “No woods assembly and final inspecfrom our forests are used any tions are all done manually,
}more.”
80 percent at the factory and
Seated crosslegged and another 20 percent in the
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Page ,3
Mystery Kawasaki children's
disease still stumps experts
Personal Notes Across Canada*
BIRTHS
five days; blood shot eyes; in- lips normalize, the lymph
By Gordon Sakamoto
flamed throat, suggesting nodes return to normal size
TANAKA
HONOLULU — A child
fonsilitis, but which is unre and the subacute stage is
RICHMOND, B.C. — Mr. Hi ren ' s disease found primarily
sponsive to antibiotics; blotchy entered, when there might be
i
n
Hawai
i
and
Japan
has
nriedtoshi Tanaka, aged 71 years,
raised rash; purple-red dis a tendency to think the pat ipassed away on January 4, ical researchers stumped.
coloration and peeling of the ent is well.
1982. Survived by his loving
Particularly puzzling are its
However, 40 percent of the
palms and soles, toes and
wife, Sakiye; son, Eddy of characteristics of an infectipatients still will encounter
fingers.
Vancouver,
son
and
daughterous
disease,
when
in
fact
it
is
"MISTER
Also accompanying onset arthritic joint pain and 40 per
in-law, Yoshimi and Lynne, ' not one.
of the disease are enlarged cent will have arthritic joint
ALUMINUM"
Chilliwack; daughters and
According to statistics
lymph glands on the neck, swelling.
Installations
sons-in-law, Hitomi and compiled by researchers at
“During the convalescent
generally only on one side,
• Siding Soffit & Fascia
George Lum and Annie and Kapiolani Children' s Medical diarrhea, abdominal pain, leth-, period, TOO percent of the
• Rainware
Fred John, all of Richmond; Center, the Kawasaki Syn
children develop an elevated
argy and jaundice.
^ Storm windows/doors
drome
has
several
unusual
also survived7by6 grandchild
Any one of the symptoms is platelet count in their blood,
Metro Toronto Lie. B1971
ren; brother, Takao; sisters, features. Seventy percent of
not indicative of the syndrome. starting a clotting process,”
Mas Aida — 755-6505
Toyokp and Yoshiko of Rich the victims are of Japanese
Diagnosis of the disease, Melish said. “Twenty percent
mond; 1 brother, 2 sisters and ancestry, most are under 3 according to Hicks, usually is. have aneurysms (weakening
his mother in Japan. Funeral years of age — the youngest
made when all or most of the of ballooned walls of the heart
se rv i ce at Steveston Buddhist child treated was 3 months
arteries); 10 percent have
symptoms are present.^
Church
on
January
7th
with
-old
and
the
oldest
8
years
—
Donald I. Kimura the Rev. S. Okada officiat and two-thirds are males.
Melish and Hicks said they some sign of heart disease
Barrister A Solicitor
are not sure if the causes of and nearly two percent die of
And, surprisingly, the dis
ing. Richmond Funeral Home.
Kawasaki lie in the genetic or blood clots within an artery or
T
Cremation Vancouver Crema ease can lead to death from
rupture of an artery.
environmental areas.
155 Main Street West
heart disease during the con
torium.
“Since we don't know the
Statistically, the doctors
Stouffville, Ontario
valescent period.
said they know that the Japa precise cause of the disease,
NAKATSU
In the last 10 years, more
LOH 1L0
the main treatment is support- VANCOUVER, B.C.
Yo- than 200 cases have been nese children who contracted
the disease in Hawaii are of ive, treating the symptoms
640-5454
shiko Nakatsu, 60; late of reported in Hawaii.
the tl)ird and fourth generation and caring for the child while
Vancouver, passed away on
Aside from Hawaii and
the body heals itself.”
December 31, 1981. Survived Japan, cases have only spor of immigrants living in families
“It' s a risky period to live
by her aunt, Tsugi Matsuba, adically been reported in with a predominantly Western
through, but we give anti-in
lifestyle; including diet.
and cousins, Mike, Yukio^and other parts of the world.
However, they added, the flammatory therapy for the ar
Josephine Matsuba. Mass of
Two doctors at the medical
thritic rheumatic symptoms
on*
Christian burial on January 12, center first came across the figure does not correlate with
and, because we know of the
1982 at St. Helen's Church disease in 1971 after they the lifestyle of the 10,000 clotting tendencies, we give
victims recorded in Japan. ;
with the Rev. J. Ponti C.S., were asked to check a small
According to Melish, after an anti-clotting agent - high
Stereos, Microwave
celebrant. Interment Mountain group of patients suffering
an acute phase of roughly 11 doses of aspirin, according to
Ovens, Video Cassette
View Cemetery. Burnaby Fu from untraceable symptoms.
days, a rash disappears, the weight, for both.”
Recorders, and TV
“The symptoms suggested
neral Directors.
Converters
the disease might be infect
ious or related to arthritis, a
Admiral,' Lloyds,
connective tissue disease,
' Panasonoc, Quasar,
TOKYO — An employee of age of 49. Besides the manu\
which is usually chronic,”
Toshiba, Zenith
said Dr. Raquel Hicks, a pedi a town in northern Japan who ally wound clock; a calander
went to the home of a car was turned to January-August'
atric rheumatologist
Japanese fine porcelain
Dr. Marian Melish, an assoc penter found, a skeleton, a 1980.
laquerware and
iate professor of pediatrics at pile of year old New Year's
gift items
Police said Suzuki's skele
the University of Hawaii and cards in the mailbox and a
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infectious disease consultant clock stopped at August 2, ton was found clothed, lying
Fast TV Service
Concourse Level
on a bed. They said he was
at the center, said they did 1980.
741-4236
'
Toronto.
Pol ice said they assumed single and had been living
not know what they found.
2625 Islington Avenue
“Before we saw many the carpenter, Seiichi Suzuki, alone in Kanita about 370
928-3385
(at Albion)
cases, we were unsure what died 17 months ago at the miles north of Tokyo.
Shig Aoki, Prop.
we were dealing with or if it
was a single disease, but we
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can occur during the convaBY JANICE PATTON
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NEW
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Page ,3
Mystery Kawasaki children's
disease still stumps experts
Personal Notes Across Canada*
BIRTHS
five days; blood shot eyes; in- lips normalize, the lymph
By Gordon Sakamoto
flamed throat, suggesting nodes return to normal size
TANAKA
HONOLULU — A child
fonsilitis, but which is unre and the subacute stage is
RICHMOND, B.C. — Mr. Hi ren ' s disease found primarily
sponsive to antibiotics; blotchy entered, when there might be
i
n
Hawai
i
and
Japan
has
nriedtoshi Tanaka, aged 71 years,
raised rash; purple-red dis a tendency to think the pat ipassed away on January 4, ical researchers stumped.
coloration and peeling of the ent is well.
1982. Survived by his loving
Particularly puzzling are its
However, 40 percent of the
palms and soles, toes and
wife, Sakiye; son, Eddy of characteristics of an infectipatients still will encounter
fingers.
Vancouver,
son
and
daughterous
disease,
when
in
fact
it
is
"MISTER
Also accompanying onset arthritic joint pain and 40 per
in-law, Yoshimi and Lynne, ' not one.
of the disease are enlarged cent will have arthritic joint
ALUMINUM"
Chilliwack; daughters and
According to statistics
lymph glands on the neck, swelling.
Installations
sons-in-law, Hitomi and compiled by researchers at
“During the convalescent
generally only on one side,
• Siding Soffit & Fascia
George Lum and Annie and Kapiolani Children' s Medical diarrhea, abdominal pain, leth-, period, TOO percent of the
• Rainware
Fred John, all of Richmond; Center, the Kawasaki Syn
children develop an elevated
argy and jaundice.
^ Storm windows/doors
drome
has
several
unusual
also survived7by6 grandchild
Any one of the symptoms is platelet count in their blood,
Metro Toronto Lie. B1971
ren; brother, Takao; sisters, features. Seventy percent of
not indicative of the syndrome. starting a clotting process,”
Mas Aida — 755-6505
Toyokp and Yoshiko of Rich the victims are of Japanese
Diagnosis of the disease, Melish said. “Twenty percent
mond; 1 brother, 2 sisters and ancestry, most are under 3 according to Hicks, usually is. have aneurysms (weakening
his mother in Japan. Funeral years of age — the youngest
made when all or most of the of ballooned walls of the heart
se rv i ce at Steveston Buddhist child treated was 3 months
arteries); 10 percent have
symptoms are present.^
Church
on
January
7th
with
-old
and
the
oldest
8
years
—
Donald I. Kimura the Rev. S. Okada officiat and two-thirds are males.
Melish and Hicks said they some sign of heart disease
Barrister A Solicitor
are not sure if the causes of and nearly two percent die of
And, surprisingly, the dis
ing. Richmond Funeral Home.
Kawasaki lie in the genetic or blood clots within an artery or
T
Cremation Vancouver Crema ease can lead to death from
rupture of an artery.
environmental areas.
155 Main Street West
heart disease during the con
torium.
“Since we don't know the
Statistically, the doctors
Stouffville, Ontario
valescent period.
said they know that the Japa precise cause of the disease,
NAKATSU
In the last 10 years, more
LOH 1L0
the main treatment is support- VANCOUVER, B.C.
Yo- than 200 cases have been nese children who contracted
the disease in Hawaii are of ive, treating the symptoms
640-5454
shiko Nakatsu, 60; late of reported in Hawaii.
the tl)ird and fourth generation and caring for the child while
Vancouver, passed away on
Aside from Hawaii and
the body heals itself.”
December 31, 1981. Survived Japan, cases have only spor of immigrants living in families
“It' s a risky period to live
by her aunt, Tsugi Matsuba, adically been reported in with a predominantly Western
through, but we give anti-in
lifestyle; including diet.
and cousins, Mike, Yukio^and other parts of the world.
However, they added, the flammatory therapy for the ar
Josephine Matsuba. Mass of
Two doctors at the medical
thritic rheumatic symptoms
on*
Christian burial on January 12, center first came across the figure does not correlate with
and, because we know of the
1982 at St. Helen's Church disease in 1971 after they the lifestyle of the 10,000 clotting tendencies, we give
victims recorded in Japan. ;
with the Rev. J. Ponti C.S., were asked to check a small
According to Melish, after an anti-clotting agent - high
Stereos, Microwave
celebrant. Interment Mountain group of patients suffering
an acute phase of roughly 11 doses of aspirin, according to
Ovens, Video Cassette
View Cemetery. Burnaby Fu from untraceable symptoms.
days, a rash disappears, the weight, for both.”
Recorders, and TV
“The symptoms suggested
neral Directors.
Converters
the disease might be infect
ious or related to arthritis, a
Admiral,' Lloyds,
connective tissue disease,
' Panasonoc, Quasar,
TOKYO — An employee of age of 49. Besides the manu\
which is usually chronic,”
Toshiba, Zenith
said Dr. Raquel Hicks, a pedi a town in northern Japan who ally wound clock; a calander
went to the home of a car was turned to January-August'
atric rheumatologist
Japanese fine porcelain
Dr. Marian Melish, an assoc penter found, a skeleton, a 1980.
laquerware and
iate professor of pediatrics at pile of year old New Year's
gift items
Police said Suzuki's skele
the University of Hawaii and cards in the mailbox and a
MEMBER MTTSA
60 Bloor St. West
infectious disease consultant clock stopped at August 2, ton was found clothed, lying
Fast TV Service
Concourse Level
on a bed. They said he was
at the center, said they did 1980.
741-4236
'
Toronto.
Pol ice said they assumed single and had been living
not know what they found.
2625 Islington Avenue
“Before we saw many the carpenter, Seiichi Suzuki, alone in Kanita about 370
928-3385
(at Albion)
cases, we were unsure what died 17 months ago at the miles north of Tokyo.
Shig Aoki, Prop.
we were dealing with or if it
was a single disease, but we
BOOKS OF INTEREST TO
got so we could predict what
would happen.”
OPEN Mon..-Fri. 12:06-2:30 5:00-10:00
<
JAPANESE CANADIANS
Set.
5:00-10:00 •
Although Melish and Hicks
Closed Sundeys & Holidays
were the first physicians in
the United States to identify
the diagnostic criteria for the
WITHIN THE BARBED WIRE FEW
syndrome, they learned[three
by Takeo Ujo Nakano r$12^5Cb
WICKSVCCP
i
years later they were dealing
postage included $13*00
with a disease that had been
JAPANESE CANADIAN HISTORY
identified by Dr. Tomisaku Ka
-THE ENEMY THAT NEVER WAS”
wasaki in Japan years earlier.
115^00 (Portage 50 Cents) .
by Ken Adachi
Although the causes and
114 LAIRD DR. LEASIDE, dNTARIO
In paperback $8.50 (postage Included] /
• prevention are unknown, ef
PHONE*421-6016
fective treatment for the synRTUICHI YOSHIDA,
A BIOGRAPHY pF ISSEI PION]
— drome has been found.
“What makes this disease in
teresting and important is
that death from heart disease
THE EXODUS OFTHE JAPANESE
on Saturday, February 13, 1982
can occur during the convaBY JANICE PATTON
Tescent phase of from six to
^2.50 POSTAGE ^LFIMED
8:00 p.m. to 1:00 a.m.
eight weeks after onset and
at Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre
no one has known of a disease
The New Canadian
that causes heart attacks in
123 Wynford Dr., Don Mills, Ont.
children,” said Melish.
T0HONT& ONT. MiV4At
MUSIC BY RICK BURK
The symptoms of the Ka
wasaki Syndromeis dramatic. 7
Refreshments and Door Prizes
They include high temperaJ
ture, lasting’for more than
$7.50 per person______ __
MONTREAL -— Mariko Ike
da and Paolo Vida recently
announced the birth of Ann
Vida-Ikeda on January 11/
1982. Anne weighed in: at
6lbs. 6 ozs.
Low Low Prices
New Color TVs
j
New Year ' s visit finds skeleton
Sakura Gifts
SHIG'STV
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i
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Friday, February 5,1982
NEW “CANADIAN
“A baseball could replace
Rising Sun in Japan's flag”
First Black American to set
foot bn Japan came in 18451
TOKYO
first
Amer lowed to anchor
TOKYO —
— The
---------. . after
• the
_ crew
.
ican black person to set foot members explained with gesu p pe r-c I ass u pon thei r retu rn. ■; respected tug h sc hqol cham p- on Japan was the' helmsman tures and hand movements
TOKYO — “No people are
In sum, the fact that baseball ionship tournaments are held of
___a______
____
whaling
ship which sailed that they had only come to
crazier about baseball than the
was introduced before other each year in Japan, one in ^nto the harbour of Edo, now the Japanese harbor to return
Japanese. The rising sun in
Western sports and became spring and one in summer. Tokyo, in the spring of 1845, the Japanese fishermen,
the Japanese flag could well
fashionable among the upper- Each prefectural champion is says aJapanese historian?
According to historical re
be replaced by a basebal I,
class explains its growth to- invited to the summer conHis name was Pyrrus Con- ferences,manycunousJapajoked an American, who is
test, while entrants in the spr cerand he was the helmsman nese came to see the unusual
less than enthused by the wide popu larity i n Japan.
ingtourney arechosenfrom of the whaling ship Manhattah visitors from - abroad. . The
Japanese enthusiasm for
In Japan, basebalI enjoys each of 30 regions by a na which docked in Edo's har black man was described as
. baseball.
extremely wide popularity, as tional panel of experts who bor after the crew rescued.22 being especially; popular
take the past year's results Japanese fishermen who had among the curious onlookers
Certainly, the Japanese both a spectator and a partici and the current season ' s pro
been shipwrecked, according who, the history books say,
mania for baseball is remark pant sport.Several-factors ex spects intd account. Every
to Masayoshi Matsumura of touched his skin, trying to
able. Almost everybody, in plain this development. On a high school ball-player hopes
“erase the blackness:” Goncer
the Japan'Foundation.
cluding old men, housewives prosaic level, the develop to reach one of these tourMatsumura checked Japa- sang sornp songs, prpbably
ment
of
a
modified
version
of
and children, knows about the aame ”^ic^usesAnyone who plays nese history books after re spirituals,^ before Japanese
Hara Tatsunon, a rookie with ine game, wnicn uses a son
jn ceiving a booklet containing a officials. In-accounts of the
the Tokyo-Yomiuri Giants, rubber ball and falls some- baseball
Ko<shi_n dreams
stadiumofsplaying
jte of the
even if they wouldn't recog- where between softball and Koshien Stadium, site of tne reference on the matter from visit, Concer is described as
championship tournaments, American" historian' Arthur - a “black man, black as ink. ’
nize the name of Japan's whiffleball, makes the game
or in Meiji Park, the Mecca of Davis whom he met in New
Historical records in AmerForeign Minister. Everywhere suitable, for. Japan's limited
college baseball.
York eight years ago while ica say that upon his return to
-on the street, or in aresiden- public spaces and widens its
Extensive coverage in the working for the consulate the U.S., Goncer said that the
tial area, even on the roof of a accessibility for children and mass media fuels the popuJapanese fishermen ap
there.
-building - people can-be seen company teams.
larity of baseball. Two of the
According to Matsumura, peared to fear the other crew
playing catch. Commuters
largest dailies, The Asahiand the black helmsman boarded members th in king that they
Baseball's widespread
lose themselves in the sports
Ma in ich i Shim b un s, each
mighrbe killed, but showed
pages, following their team 's popularity is partly due to the sponsor one of the two annual the Manhattan after winning him friendship for reasons he
standing, on the crowded fact that, in Japan, the sport high school championships, freedom from being a slave
in Southampton outside New didn 't understand.
ori g i nated with h i g h schoo I
Tokyo subway.
given even to York.'/
The historical incident oc
— and college teams rather than Coverage is
high school games in-most
The voyage took Concer curred eight years after the
Why is baseball, though with a system of professional
papers and major contests around the Cape of Good American ship Morrison was
Jaoan. so popDOD- clubs; as it did in the States.
not native to Japan,
are televized. The movement Hope, through the Indian chased away by the Japanese
ular? The reasons for its pop Thus, college ball is^ taken of players from high schools1
Ocean and to the Pacific; The Government by cannons and
ular! ty are mai rily h is tori cal . quite seriousIy and the big and col leges to the pros whets
eight years sbefore Admiral
Baseball was brought to Ja leagues seek new talent in a public interest in baseball ship rescued 22 Japanese
Perry demanded the opening
pan in 1873 by an American the schools and universities. by offering exhaustive cov- fishermen sh i pwrec ked off
the islands of tori and Izu, op of the country.
missionary- Horace Wilson, As with American footbal I,
Over 100 years later; Japan
the national interest-ip local erage of trades and drafts, and headed for the port of Edo.
who was teaching at Kaisei- teams is sharpened by the forecasts, and gossip about
the appearance of a foreign, and the United States' are
ko, now Tokyo University.
possibility that a local prod- popular players. Sensational ship surprised the Japanese friendly countries, with over
Many of the students whom igy may receive an offer and
in nature, these cheap papers who were living under a feu- 1,500,000 people crossing the
he taught to love the game go strajght to the big leagues. are extremely popular with dal policy of isolation from ocean from both directions to
the Japanese working class other countries.
- became, in later
visit the respective countries
A life, leaders
u x
High school arid college ball
and create an interest in play
,n 9ove™m^n\and J^ustry are taken more seriously, and
But the Manhattan was al- \ every year.
ers based as much on their
and ^
°/ W®816^ followed dr played more avidpersonal misadventures as
^ h Century Japan. |y . by pjayer and; spectator
on their professional skill.
Also, Japanese who went to a|jke
.
TOKYO -- Americans used
Skipping ant, rat; monkey,
the U.S; to study enjoyed the)
““
The popularity of baseball
Two competing but equally
reflects its consistency with to think of Japan as a tiger, elephant and a few others,
game and introduced it to the
the national characterisitics strong, quick, deserving of 29 percent of the Americans
of the Japanese people. While caution, but now they look decided Japan was like a
the Japanese like heroes, and see a peacock, “vain and peacock, which Sankei interpretted as “vain and gaudy.”
they dqn't stint their applause gaudy.”
For the Japanese, the Am- Another 23 percent picked
for “tragic heroes.” The Japa
nese people feel sympathy ericans have been a lion,.“big the tiger.
During the 1.970's the tiger
for a defeated as well as a and strong,” king of the '
winning team. A shout of en-f beasts, ever since they., start- always finished first, generalcouragement such as ’’Come ed measuring this sort of ly at about the 30 percent
INSURANCE
back next year again!” is cast" thing 11 years ago, as a matter level.
Reservations: 977-2164
to the losing high school team of fact.
But 54 percent of the Japan
The
Sankei
Shimbun
news
in
the
championship
as
its
OPEN EVERYDAY
463 Eglinton Ave. W.
ese chose the lion as repre
players pick up a handful of paper and its broadcasting af
senting the United States,
Toronto, Ont. M5N1A7
sand and stand in silence or filiates Fuji Telecasting Co.,
460
Dundas
St.
West,
followed by the tiger at 32
phone 489-8611
tears in the Koshien Stadium. have been carrying on an an
Toronto, Ont.
percent, the elephant at 25
Home 449-9293
Mass media also plays up the nual poll since 1970.
percent, the fox at 22; percent.
Toward the end of 1981,
“beauty of defeat” to readers
The rat got only 3 percent and
Sankei had the Gallup organi
and listeners.
the ant 2 percent.
zation
ask
1,500
persons
over
Baseball
in
Japan,
though
The New Canadian
“The top three choices ob
age 13 at 300 locations in the
an
imported
sport,
has
been
479 Queen St. West, Toronto, Ontario M5V 2A9
viously mean that the Japan
assimilated into the national United States to stand stilt
ese impression of the United
culture. Japanese values have long enough to be given a list
Please find enclosed &
for which [ ] renew
suffused the sport —in the of 10 animals, birds, insects, States is (as) «big and strong,»”
columnist Kiyoaki Murata
my subscription, [ ] enter my subscription for
discipline practiced, in the or rodents and pick the one
wrote in the Japanese Times.
spiritual content conveyed by Jhey'duse to describeJapan.
year(s)/months.
the phrase Ikkyu-nyukon (one
ball with all my heart), in the
$20.00 per year, $12.00 for six months
analogy, drawn between the
Beauty Salon
AND PARTNERS
art " of kendo (traditional
Name (Mr. Mrs. Miss) _
CHARTERED
swordsmanship) and the duel
1162 College Street
ACCOUNTANTS
between the pitcher and bat
Toronto, Ont.
Address
FIRST
REXDALE
PLACE
ter. In this, way, Japanese
Telephone 535-1992
155 REXDALE BLVD
baseball, in which players cry
SUITE 406
Prov.
Mon. — Fri. 9 to 6 p.m.
Q'ty
out in victory or defeat has
REXDALE, ONT. M9W 5Z8
Sat. 9 to 3 p.m.
become
the
truly
national
; Thursdays closed
745-9800.
Postal Code
sport.
What's your image of Jpnz?
Gertrude Urabe
JUNN KASHINO
HITOMI
Page 4
Friday, February 5,1982
NEW “CANADIAN
“A baseball could replace
Rising Sun in Japan's flag”
First Black American to set
foot bn Japan came in 18451
TOKYO
first
Amer lowed to anchor
TOKYO —
— The
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• the
_ crew
.
ican black person to set foot members explained with gesu p pe r-c I ass u pon thei r retu rn. ■; respected tug h sc hqol cham p- on Japan was the' helmsman tures and hand movements
TOKYO — “No people are
In sum, the fact that baseball ionship tournaments are held of
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____
whaling
ship which sailed that they had only come to
crazier about baseball than the
was introduced before other each year in Japan, one in ^nto the harbour of Edo, now the Japanese harbor to return
Japanese. The rising sun in
Western sports and became spring and one in summer. Tokyo, in the spring of 1845, the Japanese fishermen,
the Japanese flag could well
fashionable among the upper- Each prefectural champion is says aJapanese historian?
According to historical re
be replaced by a basebal I,
class explains its growth to- invited to the summer conHis name was Pyrrus Con- ferences,manycunousJapajoked an American, who is
test, while entrants in the spr cerand he was the helmsman nese came to see the unusual
less than enthused by the wide popu larity i n Japan.
ingtourney arechosenfrom of the whaling ship Manhattah visitors from - abroad. . The
Japanese enthusiasm for
In Japan, basebalI enjoys each of 30 regions by a na which docked in Edo's har black man was described as
. baseball.
extremely wide popularity, as tional panel of experts who bor after the crew rescued.22 being especially; popular
take the past year's results Japanese fishermen who had among the curious onlookers
Certainly, the Japanese both a spectator and a partici and the current season ' s pro
been shipwrecked, according who, the history books say,
mania for baseball is remark pant sport.Several-factors ex spects intd account. Every
to Masayoshi Matsumura of touched his skin, trying to
able. Almost everybody, in plain this development. On a high school ball-player hopes
“erase the blackness:” Goncer
the Japan'Foundation.
cluding old men, housewives prosaic level, the develop to reach one of these tourMatsumura checked Japa- sang sornp songs, prpbably
ment
of
a
modified
version
of
and children, knows about the aame ”^ic^usesAnyone who plays nese history books after re spirituals,^ before Japanese
Hara Tatsunon, a rookie with ine game, wnicn uses a son
jn ceiving a booklet containing a officials. In-accounts of the
the Tokyo-Yomiuri Giants, rubber ball and falls some- baseball
Ko<shi_n dreams
stadiumofsplaying
jte of the
even if they wouldn't recog- where between softball and Koshien Stadium, site of tne reference on the matter from visit, Concer is described as
championship tournaments, American" historian' Arthur - a “black man, black as ink. ’
nize the name of Japan's whiffleball, makes the game
or in Meiji Park, the Mecca of Davis whom he met in New
Historical records in AmerForeign Minister. Everywhere suitable, for. Japan's limited
college baseball.
York eight years ago while ica say that upon his return to
-on the street, or in aresiden- public spaces and widens its
Extensive coverage in the working for the consulate the U.S., Goncer said that the
tial area, even on the roof of a accessibility for children and mass media fuels the popuJapanese fishermen ap
there.
-building - people can-be seen company teams.
larity of baseball. Two of the
According to Matsumura, peared to fear the other crew
playing catch. Commuters
largest dailies, The Asahiand the black helmsman boarded members th in king that they
Baseball's widespread
lose themselves in the sports
Ma in ich i Shim b un s, each
mighrbe killed, but showed
pages, following their team 's popularity is partly due to the sponsor one of the two annual the Manhattan after winning him friendship for reasons he
standing, on the crowded fact that, in Japan, the sport high school championships, freedom from being a slave
in Southampton outside New didn 't understand.
ori g i nated with h i g h schoo I
Tokyo subway.
given even to York.'/
The historical incident oc
— and college teams rather than Coverage is
high school games in-most
The voyage took Concer curred eight years after the
Why is baseball, though with a system of professional
papers and major contests around the Cape of Good American ship Morrison was
Jaoan. so popDOD- clubs; as it did in the States.
not native to Japan,
are televized. The movement Hope, through the Indian chased away by the Japanese
ular? The reasons for its pop Thus, college ball is^ taken of players from high schools1
Ocean and to the Pacific; The Government by cannons and
ular! ty are mai rily h is tori cal . quite seriousIy and the big and col leges to the pros whets
eight years sbefore Admiral
Baseball was brought to Ja leagues seek new talent in a public interest in baseball ship rescued 22 Japanese
Perry demanded the opening
pan in 1873 by an American the schools and universities. by offering exhaustive cov- fishermen sh i pwrec ked off
the islands of tori and Izu, op of the country.
missionary- Horace Wilson, As with American footbal I,
Over 100 years later; Japan
the national interest-ip local erage of trades and drafts, and headed for the port of Edo.
who was teaching at Kaisei- teams is sharpened by the forecasts, and gossip about
the appearance of a foreign, and the United States' are
ko, now Tokyo University.
possibility that a local prod- popular players. Sensational ship surprised the Japanese friendly countries, with over
Many of the students whom igy may receive an offer and
in nature, these cheap papers who were living under a feu- 1,500,000 people crossing the
he taught to love the game go strajght to the big leagues. are extremely popular with dal policy of isolation from ocean from both directions to
the Japanese working class other countries.
- became, in later
visit the respective countries
A life, leaders
u x
High school arid college ball
and create an interest in play
,n 9ove™m^n\and J^ustry are taken more seriously, and
But the Manhattan was al- \ every year.
ers based as much on their
and ^
°/ W®816^ followed dr played more avidpersonal misadventures as
^ h Century Japan. |y . by pjayer and; spectator
on their professional skill.
Also, Japanese who went to a|jke
.
TOKYO -- Americans used
Skipping ant, rat; monkey,
the U.S; to study enjoyed the)
““
The popularity of baseball
Two competing but equally
reflects its consistency with to think of Japan as a tiger, elephant and a few others,
game and introduced it to the
the national characterisitics strong, quick, deserving of 29 percent of the Americans
of the Japanese people. While caution, but now they look decided Japan was like a
the Japanese like heroes, and see a peacock, “vain and peacock, which Sankei interpretted as “vain and gaudy.”
they dqn't stint their applause gaudy.”
For the Japanese, the Am- Another 23 percent picked
for “tragic heroes.” The Japa
nese people feel sympathy ericans have been a lion,.“big the tiger.
During the 1.970's the tiger
for a defeated as well as a and strong,” king of the '
winning team. A shout of en-f beasts, ever since they., start- always finished first, generalcouragement such as ’’Come ed measuring this sort of ly at about the 30 percent
INSURANCE
back next year again!” is cast" thing 11 years ago, as a matter level.
Reservations: 977-2164
to the losing high school team of fact.
But 54 percent of the Japan
The
Sankei
Shimbun
news
in
the
championship
as
its
OPEN EVERYDAY
463 Eglinton Ave. W.
ese chose the lion as repre
players pick up a handful of paper and its broadcasting af
senting the United States,
Toronto, Ont. M5N1A7
sand and stand in silence or filiates Fuji Telecasting Co.,
460
Dundas
St.
West,
followed by the tiger at 32
phone 489-8611
tears in the Koshien Stadium. have been carrying on an an
Toronto, Ont.
percent, the elephant at 25
Home 449-9293
Mass media also plays up the nual poll since 1970.
percent, the fox at 22; percent.
Toward the end of 1981,
“beauty of defeat” to readers
The rat got only 3 percent and
Sankei had the Gallup organi
and listeners.
the ant 2 percent.
zation
ask
1,500
persons
over
Baseball
in
Japan,
though
The New Canadian
“The top three choices ob
age 13 at 300 locations in the
an
imported
sport,
has
been
479 Queen St. West, Toronto, Ontario M5V 2A9
viously mean that the Japan
assimilated into the national United States to stand stilt
ese impression of the United
culture. Japanese values have long enough to be given a list
Please find enclosed &
for which [ ] renew
suffused the sport —in the of 10 animals, birds, insects, States is (as) «big and strong,»”
columnist Kiyoaki Murata
my subscription, [ ] enter my subscription for
discipline practiced, in the or rodents and pick the one
wrote in the Japanese Times.
spiritual content conveyed by Jhey'duse to describeJapan.
year(s)/months.
the phrase Ikkyu-nyukon (one
ball with all my heart), in the
$20.00 per year, $12.00 for six months
analogy, drawn between the
Beauty Salon
AND PARTNERS
art " of kendo (traditional
Name (Mr. Mrs. Miss) _
CHARTERED
swordsmanship) and the duel
1162 College Street
ACCOUNTANTS
between the pitcher and bat
Toronto, Ont.
Address
FIRST
REXDALE
PLACE
ter. In this, way, Japanese
Telephone 535-1992
155 REXDALE BLVD
baseball, in which players cry
SUITE 406
Prov.
Mon. — Fri. 9 to 6 p.m.
Q'ty
out in victory or defeat has
REXDALE, ONT. M9W 5Z8
Sat. 9 to 3 p.m.
become
the
truly
national
; Thursdays closed
745-9800.
Postal Code
sport.
What's your image of Jpnz?
Gertrude Urabe
JUNN KASHINO
HITOMI
Page 5
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