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The New Canadian
Anlndependent Organ forCanadiansofJapanese Origin
VOL. 46
it s a
two-way
street
by Bill Marutani
Truth to tell, in my time
I've done and said things for
which l7ve been sorry. And
continuing to be frank, I find
it most difficult to admit it,
particularly by apologizing to
the one I've offended. I tell
myself that the ability to ad
mit error, and[ then to seek for
giveness^ js an act of strength,
not of weakness — but it's still
difficult to express error and
ask to be forgiven. This is not
to say that I ' ve hot done so.
I have. And when I 've done
so, I've felt much, better
about it.
I have a hunch that many of
you out there also have the
same difficulty, and have had
the same experience:
There is another aspect of
this act of admitting error and
seeking forgiveness: it invol
ves the person who is in the
position of granting forgive
ness. Just as the act of see/ring forgiveness involves courage, so the act of granting
forgiveness involves grace —
also an act of strength. In
the fact of contrite apology,
awkwardly extended, a sour
rebuff not only lacks grace
but is a reaction of immaturi
ty. Children often so react. And
greater the perceived wrong,
the more grace must be com
manded in the acceptance.
I recall once reading a para
ble wherein one of Napoleon's
soldiers was court-martialed
for falling asleep while on
guard duty, a most serious
offence. The young soldier
was accordingly condemned to
death. His mother sought and
finally-gained the audience
before Napoleon and pleaded
for mercy for her condemned
son. Napoleon's response was
that her son was not deserv
ing of mercy, to which the
mother replied: “Sire, if my
son deserved mercy, I would
not be asking for mercy.”
I've no familiarity, at least
meaningful familiarity, with
the cultural mores of other
societies. But I'm led to be-
Contiriues on page 2
TORONTO, ©M^
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1982
The Canadian Samurais
Canadian Kendo team
competes with honor
at World Championships
held in Sao Paulo, Brazil
TORONTO - The Canadian
Kendo team has again show
ed the world that the “art of
the sword” is alive and well
in Canada as they competed
with honor at the recent Fifth
World Kendo Championships
in Sao Paulo, Brazil, against
20 nations, including some of
Japan's best.
Th ree Canad ian lady-team
members gave excellent per
formances in the Goodwill
matches, and Wanda Goundrey fought against the Japa
nese player who eventually
<
won first place.
In the first Dan and under
division, Brian Asa took first
place after winning his mat
Instructor Kamata, 6th Dan, ches against nine consecu
received the rare and highly tive competitors.
acclaimed “Fighting Spirit
“After having been present
Award. In the individual tour at all previous World Kendo
nament, Mr. Dave Johnson, Championships,” said Roy
3rd Dan, put forth his best Asa, President of the Cana
Conference on whether minorities effort to beat the European dian Association, “the calibre
and achieve rank and quality of Kendo world
are getting a “fair shake” in media champion
ing in the quarter finals of wide has been greatly up
A twp-day Conference on the matches.
graded, as was evident at
OTTAWA. — A blue-ribbon
conference7 of media and ad Visible Minorities and the
In the team matches, Chief this tournament, and we look
vertising executives will sit Media has been organized by ^Instructor, Tsumura, Captain, forward to a continued trend
down next month with mem the Hon. Jim Fleming, Minis fought valiantly and only towards the improvement and
bers of Canada' s visible min ter of State for Multicultural missed winning marginally. growth of Kendo in the fut
orities to consider whether ism, at Toronto' s Park Plaza The Canadian team ranked ure,” he said.
The Canadian Kendo Fed
the minorities are getting a Hotel, Oct 29-30.
five out of seven players into
Molson Group President the second rounds, while eration will now be working
fair shake in the media.
James T. Black is chairman of many competitors were elimi towards building strength and
Jean Sadako King the event, which will involve nated after the first rounds. skills to ensure they achieve
challenges Ariyoshi senior executives of the ad Dwight Noda and Pat Okano top ranking at the 6th World
HONOLULU — Incumbent vertising industry, print showed excellent form when Kendo Championships which
Gov. George Ariyoshi will face media, broadcasters and rep competing directly with Ja- will be held in three years in
Paris, France.
Lt. Gov. Jean Sadako King, resentatives of visible minor panese players.
Democrat; former Honolulu ity groups.
The conference will grap
mayor Frank F. Fasi, an In
dependent Democrat; and D. ple with two key issues:
G- “Andy” Anderson, a Rep • Are members of the visible
ublican,in Hawaii's primary minorites being accurately,
election.
portrayed in the media. .
By PAUL KING
The 56-year-old Democrat and, in particular, in Canadian
TORONTO — Frank Hatashita, the former Canadian
Ariyoshi has been governor advertising?
'
.
Judo champion and Olympic coach (Black Belt, eight Dan),
since 1973, when as lieute- • Are visible minorities gethas a 28-year-old son named Eric who's a doctor and loves
nant governor he took over as ting employment opportuni
travelling.
acting governor for the ailing ties in the media?
Last October, Eric left Toronto, drove through the
John Burns, who—
died in 1978
Mr. Fleming has been
States, flew to Hawaii, then sailed to New Zealand. Then
Lt. Gov. King Js a Sansei, working with the business
in June he met a 60-year-old Captain Alex Pealing who was
and is the highest ranking ancj advertising community in
looking for crew to sail his 33-ffoot
Nikkei elected state official his concerns on behalf of the
sailboat, the Bilbo Baggins, to Fiji.
in the U.S.
nation's minority groups.
Eric signed oh with two American
The
conference,
in
Cana
Lafleur and
women, and the four hit Fiji in two
da's
media
capital,
will
for
weeks. So far, so good.
Robinson will
the first time bring together
Then they decided to island hop
not be playing
decision-makers from the
for a while. But once off shore, the
hockey in Japan
mass media, advertising
Bilbo Baggins lost its rudder; the
MONTREAL — Hockey
agencies and the corporate
quartet began to drift. They ran out
star, Guy Lafleur of Mont
sector with visible minority
of food and water in two days, then
real Canadiens will not be
representatives to examine
floated for another seven.
playing hockey in Japan
means of increasing minority
On the ninth day, parched, starv
this season, says team
portrayal and opportunity
ing and nearly mad, they saw a ship FRANK HATASHITA:
mate Steve Shutt. Shutt
within the media.
and sent up a flare. They were res Son's ocean voyage
said reports of Lafleur' s
All organizational work for
was a disaster
cued by the cruise ship, Sitmar, which
playing in Japan, along
the conference is being hand
sailed them toAustralia. Eric lost all but his passport, cash
led by Mr. Fleming's Multi
with Canadiens' defenceand credit cards. The others lost everything. But worst of
man, Larry Robinson, were
culturalism Directorate. Sup
all, they lost the Bilbo Baggins. It's still bobbing out there
blown out of proportion.
porting and assisting the con
somewhere in the South Pacific. If spotted, please contact
“Japan is still part of the
ference preparations are the
Lloyd's of London.
International Ice Hockey
Advertising Advisory Board,
Meanwhile, Eric, who made all the Australian front pages
Federation, which recog
the CTV television network,
(and lost 20 pounds), is planning now to sail to Greece. So
nizes all (NHL) contracts,”
the CBC, and the Canadian
keep tuned.
Association of Broadcasters.
Shutt said.
Eric Hatashita, son of Judo
sensei, rescued on sail trip
Anlndependent Organ forCanadiansofJapanese Origin
VOL. 46
it s a
two-way
street
by Bill Marutani
Truth to tell, in my time
I've done and said things for
which l7ve been sorry. And
continuing to be frank, I find
it most difficult to admit it,
particularly by apologizing to
the one I've offended. I tell
myself that the ability to ad
mit error, and[ then to seek for
giveness^ js an act of strength,
not of weakness — but it's still
difficult to express error and
ask to be forgiven. This is not
to say that I ' ve hot done so.
I have. And when I 've done
so, I've felt much, better
about it.
I have a hunch that many of
you out there also have the
same difficulty, and have had
the same experience:
There is another aspect of
this act of admitting error and
seeking forgiveness: it invol
ves the person who is in the
position of granting forgive
ness. Just as the act of see/ring forgiveness involves courage, so the act of granting
forgiveness involves grace —
also an act of strength. In
the fact of contrite apology,
awkwardly extended, a sour
rebuff not only lacks grace
but is a reaction of immaturi
ty. Children often so react. And
greater the perceived wrong,
the more grace must be com
manded in the acceptance.
I recall once reading a para
ble wherein one of Napoleon's
soldiers was court-martialed
for falling asleep while on
guard duty, a most serious
offence. The young soldier
was accordingly condemned to
death. His mother sought and
finally-gained the audience
before Napoleon and pleaded
for mercy for her condemned
son. Napoleon's response was
that her son was not deserv
ing of mercy, to which the
mother replied: “Sire, if my
son deserved mercy, I would
not be asking for mercy.”
I've no familiarity, at least
meaningful familiarity, with
the cultural mores of other
societies. But I'm led to be-
Contiriues on page 2
TORONTO, ©M^
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1982
The Canadian Samurais
Canadian Kendo team
competes with honor
at World Championships
held in Sao Paulo, Brazil
TORONTO - The Canadian
Kendo team has again show
ed the world that the “art of
the sword” is alive and well
in Canada as they competed
with honor at the recent Fifth
World Kendo Championships
in Sao Paulo, Brazil, against
20 nations, including some of
Japan's best.
Th ree Canad ian lady-team
members gave excellent per
formances in the Goodwill
matches, and Wanda Goundrey fought against the Japa
nese player who eventually
<
won first place.
In the first Dan and under
division, Brian Asa took first
place after winning his mat
Instructor Kamata, 6th Dan, ches against nine consecu
received the rare and highly tive competitors.
acclaimed “Fighting Spirit
“After having been present
Award. In the individual tour at all previous World Kendo
nament, Mr. Dave Johnson, Championships,” said Roy
3rd Dan, put forth his best Asa, President of the Cana
Conference on whether minorities effort to beat the European dian Association, “the calibre
and achieve rank and quality of Kendo world
are getting a “fair shake” in media champion
ing in the quarter finals of wide has been greatly up
A twp-day Conference on the matches.
graded, as was evident at
OTTAWA. — A blue-ribbon
conference7 of media and ad Visible Minorities and the
In the team matches, Chief this tournament, and we look
vertising executives will sit Media has been organized by ^Instructor, Tsumura, Captain, forward to a continued trend
down next month with mem the Hon. Jim Fleming, Minis fought valiantly and only towards the improvement and
bers of Canada' s visible min ter of State for Multicultural missed winning marginally. growth of Kendo in the fut
orities to consider whether ism, at Toronto' s Park Plaza The Canadian team ranked ure,” he said.
The Canadian Kendo Fed
the minorities are getting a Hotel, Oct 29-30.
five out of seven players into
Molson Group President the second rounds, while eration will now be working
fair shake in the media.
James T. Black is chairman of many competitors were elimi towards building strength and
Jean Sadako King the event, which will involve nated after the first rounds. skills to ensure they achieve
challenges Ariyoshi senior executives of the ad Dwight Noda and Pat Okano top ranking at the 6th World
HONOLULU — Incumbent vertising industry, print showed excellent form when Kendo Championships which
Gov. George Ariyoshi will face media, broadcasters and rep competing directly with Ja- will be held in three years in
Paris, France.
Lt. Gov. Jean Sadako King, resentatives of visible minor panese players.
Democrat; former Honolulu ity groups.
The conference will grap
mayor Frank F. Fasi, an In
dependent Democrat; and D. ple with two key issues:
G- “Andy” Anderson, a Rep • Are members of the visible
ublican,in Hawaii's primary minorites being accurately,
election.
portrayed in the media. .
By PAUL KING
The 56-year-old Democrat and, in particular, in Canadian
TORONTO — Frank Hatashita, the former Canadian
Ariyoshi has been governor advertising?
'
.
Judo champion and Olympic coach (Black Belt, eight Dan),
since 1973, when as lieute- • Are visible minorities gethas a 28-year-old son named Eric who's a doctor and loves
nant governor he took over as ting employment opportuni
travelling.
acting governor for the ailing ties in the media?
Last October, Eric left Toronto, drove through the
John Burns, who—
died in 1978
Mr. Fleming has been
States, flew to Hawaii, then sailed to New Zealand. Then
Lt. Gov. King Js a Sansei, working with the business
in June he met a 60-year-old Captain Alex Pealing who was
and is the highest ranking ancj advertising community in
looking for crew to sail his 33-ffoot
Nikkei elected state official his concerns on behalf of the
sailboat, the Bilbo Baggins, to Fiji.
in the U.S.
nation's minority groups.
Eric signed oh with two American
The
conference,
in
Cana
Lafleur and
women, and the four hit Fiji in two
da's
media
capital,
will
for
weeks. So far, so good.
Robinson will
the first time bring together
Then they decided to island hop
not be playing
decision-makers from the
for a while. But once off shore, the
hockey in Japan
mass media, advertising
Bilbo Baggins lost its rudder; the
MONTREAL — Hockey
agencies and the corporate
quartet began to drift. They ran out
star, Guy Lafleur of Mont
sector with visible minority
of food and water in two days, then
real Canadiens will not be
representatives to examine
floated for another seven.
playing hockey in Japan
means of increasing minority
On the ninth day, parched, starv
this season, says team
portrayal and opportunity
ing and nearly mad, they saw a ship FRANK HATASHITA:
mate Steve Shutt. Shutt
within the media.
and sent up a flare. They were res Son's ocean voyage
said reports of Lafleur' s
All organizational work for
was a disaster
cued by the cruise ship, Sitmar, which
playing in Japan, along
the conference is being hand
sailed them toAustralia. Eric lost all but his passport, cash
led by Mr. Fleming's Multi
with Canadiens' defenceand credit cards. The others lost everything. But worst of
man, Larry Robinson, were
culturalism Directorate. Sup
all, they lost the Bilbo Baggins. It's still bobbing out there
blown out of proportion.
porting and assisting the con
somewhere in the South Pacific. If spotted, please contact
“Japan is still part of the
ference preparations are the
Lloyd's of London.
International Ice Hockey
Advertising Advisory Board,
Meanwhile, Eric, who made all the Australian front pages
Federation, which recog
the CTV television network,
(and lost 20 pounds), is planning now to sail to Greece. So
nizes all (NHL) contracts,”
the CBC, and the Canadian
keep tuned.
Association of Broadcasters.
Shutt said.
Eric Hatashita, son of Judo
sensei, rescued on sail trip
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parents7 background, that a
genuine act of contrition
means much; that, indeed,
Hamilton Jpnz. Language School
within the ambit of the cul
Courses cover conversation, reading, writing and basic
tural values of that particular
grammar, from beginners to the advanced. Saturday 9:30
society, often a sincere act
— 12:00 a.m. From Oct. 2, at Onteora, 243 Fennell Ave. E.,
of contrition alone, can be
Hamilton. The tuition: $10 ($18 family) monthly. For infor
sufficient. Indeed, even in our
mation call Mayumi Matsumoto 388-8933 or Sumi Nogami
American courts, the perceiv
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is taken into consideration in
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punishment or relief.
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contrition, or regret, is con
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veyed is monetary. This is so
whether it be a traffic of
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ce, criminal act, breach of
WICKSTEED
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dividual will need to make
that assessment - then the
question one is faced with
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W.G.
Scheerer,
BEAMSVILLE, Ont. — Mrs.
readers of The New Canadian to a recently published book
who
recently
visited
Japan
Miyo Ichii passed away -on
that I believe will interest many.
1
I
for
the
second
time
in
nine
September 10, 1982, at N ipAnn Sunahara's The Politics of Racism (published by
ponia Home For The Aged. years, considers the Japan
Dear mother.of Yoko (Mrs. A. ese the world's friendliest, James Lorimer) reveals the dramatic story of the uprooting
Yanoshita), Michiko (Mrs. B. most polite people. “Comp of Japanese Canadians during the Second World War. The
I
1201 Bloor St. W.
Pope), Meiko Tateishi, Keiko lete strangers from many. winner of the 1981 Alberta Culture Award, Ann Sunahara tells <
Toronto, Ont.
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(Mrs. D. Takashima) and lov walks of life and of many frankly what the classified Canadian government documents
ing grandmother of Anjanette ages have been not only cour and records show about an unhappy event in history.
teous but helpful and friendly
and Russell.
Jr*
The blameless minority of Japanese origin, easily mani
Earle Elliott Funeral Home to me,” says the Holmdel,
pulated by political connivance that resulted in the 1942
“Cook Thompson Chapel”, N.J. resident.
Cathleen Parks, who has expulsion, were evicted from their homes in British Colum
r Service at Toronto Buddhist
Church. Interment Mount been teaching English for bia, exiled, dispossessed and deported.
II
two years in the remote city
< Mount Pleasant Cemetery,
This is the first book that details the relationship between
of Kitakyushu, doesn't con
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sider the Japanese polite at racism and political expediency; it describes how the affairs
OKINO
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of the nation were controlled by a small group of politicians .
i
all.
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Japanese
people
seem
:
MONTREAL, Que.—Mr. Jiro
who scapegoated the Japanese Canadian minority to hang
to
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IF WE DON'T SELL IT—
Jerry Okino passed away at
on to power.
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animals
with
no
human
feel
Reddy Memorial Hospital in
The book is aimed at two groups of readers.
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she
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First, it is aimed at the fortunate group of younger Cana
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of
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“
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ke Okino. Dear brother of
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The Japanese are renowned
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to be at the centre of the Japanese-Canadian identity crisis
feel that way. Opinion polls
the Sansei.
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postage included $13.00
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I believe the book has intrinsic appeal and its high quality
(50,000) of the four English^ makes it worthy to be used as a supplementary history text
JAPANESE CANADIAN HISTORY
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“THE ENEMY THAT NEVER WAS”
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by Ken Adachi
leen Parks and Bernard Ross
In paperback $8.50 (postage included)
voiced the opinions quoted that troubled period
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“A Man of Our Times” by Rolf Knight & Maya Koizumi,
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earlier in one such debate a '
couple of months ago; an-,
other began last week.
Garrett Flint, a Brunswick
Corp, vice-president who has, >
lived in Japan 25 years, says. •
the at-best ambivalent atti
tudes toward foreigners here
are “one of the recurring top
ics of conversation” among
’ foreign residents. With more ’
and more foreigners living in <
Japan these days — about
125,000, up 30% from a •
decade ago — that ambivalence could take on increasing importance in shaping
international attitudes.
11_ is easy to see how the
(Cont. on Page 4)
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Ambassador Mikanagi’s visit
A reception for His Excellency Ambassador ;
Mikanagi of Japan is planned for Saturday
16 October 1982 from 12:30 to 2:00 p.m.,
at the J.C. Cultural Centre, 123 Wynford
Drive, Willowdale, sponsored by Toronto
J.C.C.A. and Issei-bu, Toronto
Nihon
Shokokai, Toronto N.J.C.A. and Toronto
J.C.C.A. and it is $3.00 per person. We
would like everyone to take this oppor- :
tunity to greet and meet the Ambassador.; r
Please express your intention to attend
by contacting the J.C. Cultural Centre
at 441-2345. Deadline is Wednesday 6
October 1982.
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J
CANADIAN
Pafle3
Jpnz. ‘rudest 1
or ‘frendliest’
people? I
The Politics of Racism”
vital book forJ.C.'s
THE
NEW
By CHARLES J. TANAKA
y
ICHII
TORONTO — I would like to draw the attention of the
TOKYO
—
W.G.
Scheerer,
BEAMSVILLE, Ont. — Mrs.
readers of The New Canadian to a recently published book
who
recently
visited
Japan
Miyo Ichii passed away -on
that I believe will interest many.
1
I
for
the
second
time
in
nine
September 10, 1982, at N ipAnn Sunahara's The Politics of Racism (published by
ponia Home For The Aged. years, considers the Japan
Dear mother.of Yoko (Mrs. A. ese the world's friendliest, James Lorimer) reveals the dramatic story of the uprooting
Yanoshita), Michiko (Mrs. B. most polite people. “Comp of Japanese Canadians during the Second World War. The
I
1201 Bloor St. W.
Pope), Meiko Tateishi, Keiko lete strangers from many. winner of the 1981 Alberta Culture Award, Ann Sunahara tells <
Toronto, Ont.
532-4267
(Mrs. D. Takashima) and lov walks of life and of many frankly what the classified Canadian government documents
ing grandmother of Anjanette ages have been not only cour and records show about an unhappy event in history.
teous but helpful and friendly
and Russell.
Jr*
The blameless minority of Japanese origin, easily mani
Earle Elliott Funeral Home to me,” says the Holmdel,
pulated by political connivance that resulted in the 1942
“Cook Thompson Chapel”, N.J. resident.
Cathleen Parks, who has expulsion, were evicted from their homes in British Colum
r Service at Toronto Buddhist
Church. Interment Mount been teaching English for bia, exiled, dispossessed and deported.
II
two years in the remote city
< Mount Pleasant Cemetery,
This is the first book that details the relationship between
of Kitakyushu, doesn't con
ALL CASH
sider the Japanese polite at racism and political expediency; it describes how the affairs
OKINO
FOR YOUR HOME
of the nation were controlled by a small group of politicians .
i
all.
“
Japanese
people
seem
:
MONTREAL, Que.—Mr. Jiro
who scapegoated the Japanese Canadian minority to hang
to
think
that
foreigners
are
IF WE DON'T SELL IT—
Jerry Okino passed away at
on to power.
WEBUYITL.
animals
with
no
human
feel
Reddy Memorial Hospital in
The book is aimed at two groups of readers.
ASK-ABOUT OUR GUARANTEE
ings,
”
she
complains.
Bern
Montreal on August 28, 1982.
First, it is aimed at the fortunate group of younger Cana
FOR FREE APPRAISAL
ard
Ross,
who
lives
north
of
4 Beloved son of Tamano Ya
dians that has lived relatively free of such racism, and hence
Dennis
Tokyo
in
Mito,
says
he
is
tired
mamoto and the late Gonsuis ignorant of its pain and its history. Reading this book might
of
being
“
treated
like
a
zoo
Masuda
ke Okino. Dear brother of
even be something of a shock to those previously exposed to
animal
”
and
pIans
to
move
Eiichi, Tomi, Tazu, Miko and
what is mostly “polite” political history.
g£T" 752-7740 the
to
“
a
less
falsely,
polite
counlate Chiyeko; Private
The second group that will benefit significantly from this
.
1885 LAWRENCE AV E
I
book is the Nisei who passed through much of the events
.757-9347 (Residence) * funeral service held on AugThat
is
one
of
the
parado
/ ust 31st.
xes of this paradoxial nation. and experiences.
The many difficult questions asked by their children, the
The Japanese are renowned
Sansei, about the choices their parents and grandparents
world-wide for their hospita made will find enlightening answers and explanations in this
NIPPON VIDEO CENTRE
lity to foreign visitors. Yet
book. Why do Japanese-Canadians have the reputation of be
1993 Danforth Ave./Toronto
some foreigners who live ing a model minority, a quiet, hard-working group of rather
here think, as the Japan ex prosperous and assimilated Canadians? Why after such an
Fall Special
pert Jack Seward once wrote,
.ugly episode full of humiliating and degrading experiences
Panasonic Video Recorder $759.00
that“the Japanese may well did parents and grandparents still decide their place was Ca
’ Telephone 608-0633
be the rudest people on nada? Why were the Niseis reluctant to instill in their children
God's green globe.”
Not all foreign residents their heritage and ethnic history? This latter question seems
to be at the centre of the Japanese-Canadian identity crisis
feel that way. Opinion polls
the Sansei.
BOOKS OF INTEREST TO
suggest that a majority find for This
book, fully documented and researched, has used
Japan and t he J apanese q u ite classified Canadian government wartime writings now ac
JAPANESE CANADIANS
congenial. Debates on the cessible to the public by the 30-year rule, as well as first-hand
WITHIN THE BARBED WIRED FENCE
issue frequently rage in the accounts from many people centrally involved in the political
by Takeo Ujo Nakano $12.50
letters column of the Japan
of the time.
postage included $13.00
Times, the largest circulation activities
I believe the book has intrinsic appeal and its high quality
(50,000) of the four English^ makes it worthy to be used as a supplementary history text
JAPANESE CANADIAN HISTORY
language dailies published in schools and public libraries. It should add knowledge, new
“THE ENEMY THAT NEVER WAS”
here. (W.G. Scheerer, Cath- perspective, and “life” to the history books that deal with
by Ken Adachi
leen Parks and Bernard Ross
In paperback $8.50 (postage included)
voiced the opinions quoted that troubled period
SKIING
YORKLAND
I
A BIOGRAPHY OF ISSEI PIONEER, RYUICHI YOSHIDA
“A Man of Our Times” by Rolf Knight & Maya Koizumi,
$4.00 (Paper back with postage)
-
■
•
'
•
_
—
.
- ~
“OBASAN” by JOY KOGAWA,
In paperback $8.50 (postage included)
The New Canadian
479 QUEEN STREET WEST
TORONTO, ONT. M5V 2A9
# REXWAY TOYOTA
hT
earlier in one such debate a '
couple of months ago; an-,
other began last week.
Garrett Flint, a Brunswick
Corp, vice-president who has, >
lived in Japan 25 years, says. •
the at-best ambivalent atti
tudes toward foreigners here
are “one of the recurring top
ics of conversation” among
’ foreign residents. With more ’
and more foreigners living in <
Japan these days — about
125,000, up 30% from a •
decade ago — that ambivalence could take on increasing importance in shaping
international attitudes.
11_ is easy to see how the
(Cont. on Page 4)
240X
w —■
E
>
o
Donald I. Kimura
* Barrister-4. Solicitor
o
S
240 REXDALE BLVD.
REXDALE, ONT.
GARY ISHII
155 Mg t Street West
Stouffville, Ontario
LOH 1L0 '
401
640-5454
742-7181
I
r
DUNDAS UNION STORE
MOST POPULAR “SAKURA” • BRAND RICE?
Open Sunday — 10. a.m. to 6 p.m;
173 DUNDAS STREET WEST, TORONTO
\ 977-3761 & 977-3765
HALF HOUR FREE PARKING FOR
OUR CUSTOMERS, AT JOY LOY
PARKING LOT (SOUTH OF LICHEE GARDENS)
1
Ambassador Mikanagi’s visit
A reception for His Excellency Ambassador ;
Mikanagi of Japan is planned for Saturday
16 October 1982 from 12:30 to 2:00 p.m.,
at the J.C. Cultural Centre, 123 Wynford
Drive, Willowdale, sponsored by Toronto
J.C.C.A. and Issei-bu, Toronto
Nihon
Shokokai, Toronto N.J.C.A. and Toronto
J.C.C.A. and it is $3.00 per person. We
would like everyone to take this oppor- :
tunity to greet and meet the Ambassador.; r
Please express your intention to attend
by contacting the J.C. Cultural Centre
at 441-2345. Deadline is Wednesday 6
October 1982.
- ;
*
5
Page 4
..
the
new
(Cont, from Page 3)
j
:
I
>
:
j
j
Japanese got their reputation ers suggesting that anyone
for warmth and courtesy. who doesn' t like Japan is
Hotel and restaurant workers free to leave it. Many Japa
and office receptionist meet nese, for their part, are sur
the visiting foreigner with prised at the foreigners's
bows and smiled (at one thin skin.
Tokyo hotel, a coy young
"I would be happy to be
woman helpfully coos "this looked at as if I were a panda
is robby” to foreigners as in a zoo,” says Kiyaoki Mu
they get off the elevator at rata, the Japan Times editor.
the lobby floor). If the foreign "In Japan, the panda is an
er tries to stumble through a honored animal.” The Japan
few words of Japanese from a ese, Mr. Murata says, are
phrase book, people gush at "generally polite,” but they
his command of the language. take "natural human interest
What the tourist doesn't in anything novel.”
realize, the critics of Japanese
-However, the foreign commanners say, is that tourists plainers retort that Japan,
are Okyakusan (guests) and with its we-they mentality,
thus entitled to the best of is unusually hard on outsidtreatment. Foreigners who
live in Japan, on the other
hand, are no longer for most
purposes Okyakusans. They
are simply outsiders.
As. such, they will at times
fell like freaks. "I often see
Japanese parents teaching
their children to point and
say ‘gaijin’ (foreigners) in the
same way that they teach
them to point and say ‘panda’,
or‘monkey’ at the zoo,” Miss
Parks complains. She says
she can't "enjoy a simple
stroll...without being follow
ed by schoolboys shouting
‘haro, haro’ (hallo) and ‘I know
my ABC's’.”
At other times they will feel
rejected. "Many foreigners
have difficulty getting inte
grated in Japan,” says Tada
shi Yamamoto, the head of
the Japan Center for Interna
tional Exchange, a private
.group that tries to promote
person-to-person contacts
between foreigners and Japa
nese. "I often hear foreigners
say things like, ‘After five
years here I don' t have a
single Japanese I can call a
buddy’.”
Mastering the difficulties of
the Japanes language doesn't
necessarily help. "To the
Japanese, a foreigner is a
curiousity, a dog with two
legs instead of four,” says an
American graduate student
here writing a doctorial thesis
on Japanese education. "If
the foreigner speaks Japanese, he is even more of a
curiousity: a two-legged dog I
who also happens to speak I
Japanese.”
J
(The complaint — and the J
use of animal metaphors—is ■
an old one. "Seeing that you ■
speak Japanese,” the British ■
Japanologist Basil Hall Cham- !
berlain wrote in 1904, "they !
will wag their heads and J
smile condescendingly, and ।
admit to each other that you ।
are really quite intelligent — ।
much as we might do in the ।
presence of a learned pig or ।
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attainments.”
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foreign culture. The comp- |
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the Times invariably draw. |
responses from other foreign- ^^'
Friday September 24,1982
Canadian;
ers. Even the term gaijin —
literally just a neutral word
for foreigners — gets used
in a way that offends-many.
"My children, are always ask
ing me what gaijin means,” says a South Asian business
man here. "I tell them it just
means foreigner, but they
say,‘Daddy, what does it real
ly mean?’”
One American reporter
posted to Tokyo a few years
ago didn' t realize how it af
fected his children until he
took them on vacation to
Hdwaii. There they retaliated
by running up and down the
beach yelling "gaijin” at
Japanese children.
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Japanese got their reputation ers suggesting that anyone
for warmth and courtesy. who doesn' t like Japan is
Hotel and restaurant workers free to leave it. Many Japa
and office receptionist meet nese, for their part, are sur
the visiting foreigner with prised at the foreigners's
bows and smiled (at one thin skin.
Tokyo hotel, a coy young
"I would be happy to be
woman helpfully coos "this looked at as if I were a panda
is robby” to foreigners as in a zoo,” says Kiyaoki Mu
they get off the elevator at rata, the Japan Times editor.
the lobby floor). If the foreign "In Japan, the panda is an
er tries to stumble through a honored animal.” The Japan
few words of Japanese from a ese, Mr. Murata says, are
phrase book, people gush at "generally polite,” but they
his command of the language. take "natural human interest
What the tourist doesn't in anything novel.”
realize, the critics of Japanese
-However, the foreign commanners say, is that tourists plainers retort that Japan,
are Okyakusan (guests) and with its we-they mentality,
thus entitled to the best of is unusually hard on outsidtreatment. Foreigners who
live in Japan, on the other
hand, are no longer for most
purposes Okyakusans. They
are simply outsiders.
As. such, they will at times
fell like freaks. "I often see
Japanese parents teaching
their children to point and
say ‘gaijin’ (foreigners) in the
same way that they teach
them to point and say ‘panda’,
or‘monkey’ at the zoo,” Miss
Parks complains. She says
she can't "enjoy a simple
stroll...without being follow
ed by schoolboys shouting
‘haro, haro’ (hallo) and ‘I know
my ABC's’.”
At other times they will feel
rejected. "Many foreigners
have difficulty getting inte
grated in Japan,” says Tada
shi Yamamoto, the head of
the Japan Center for Interna
tional Exchange, a private
.group that tries to promote
person-to-person contacts
between foreigners and Japa
nese. "I often hear foreigners
say things like, ‘After five
years here I don' t have a
single Japanese I can call a
buddy’.”
Mastering the difficulties of
the Japanes language doesn't
necessarily help. "To the
Japanese, a foreigner is a
curiousity, a dog with two
legs instead of four,” says an
American graduate student
here writing a doctorial thesis
on Japanese education. "If
the foreigner speaks Japanese, he is even more of a
curiousity: a two-legged dog I
who also happens to speak I
Japanese.”
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use of animal metaphors—is ■
an old one. "Seeing that you ■
speak Japanese,” the British ■
Japanologist Basil Hall Cham- !
berlain wrote in 1904, "they !
will wag their heads and J
smile condescendingly, and ।
admit to each other that you ।
are really quite intelligent — ।
much as we might do in the ।
presence of a learned pig or ।
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attainments.”
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even the critics concede, | .
crop up in adjusting to any |
foreign culture. The comp- |
laining foreigners' letters to |
the Times invariably draw. |
responses from other foreign- ^^'
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Canadian;
ers. Even the term gaijin —
literally just a neutral word
for foreigners — gets used
in a way that offends-many.
"My children, are always ask
ing me what gaijin means,” says a South Asian business
man here. "I tell them it just
means foreigner, but they
say,‘Daddy, what does it real
ly mean?’”
One American reporter
posted to Tokyo a few years
ago didn' t realize how it af
fected his children until he
took them on vacation to
Hdwaii. There they retaliated
by running up and down the
beach yelling "gaijin” at
Japanese children.
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