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The New Canadian
An Independent Organ for Canadians of Japanese Origin
FRIDAY, MARCH 16,1984

VOL. 48-NO. 21

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Jeanne Douglas of U. of T.
develop animal pragmatism
By FRANK JONES
TORONTO - Some of Jean­
ne Douglas' friends couldn't
understand why she Took a
job last year as staff vet in
charge of research animals at
the University of Toronto. To
them it seemed at odds with
their image of Jeanne as a
conscientious mother who
has devoted the past 14
years to her husband and four
children.
The fact that Jeanne, as a
Japanese Canadian, was in­
terned on the West Coast dur­
ing the war made it even more
inconceivable to some that
she would now be “jailer” as
it were to animals used for ex­
periments.
I have known Jeanne for
maybe 20 years, and have ad­
mired the sacrifices she and
her husband have made to
help several of their children
to become top figure skaters.
So I thought I'd ask her about
some-of these apparent in­
congruities.
“Ever since I was a little
girl,” Jeanne recalled, “I
loved animals. I was forever
bringing them home when we
lived in Vancouver. We always
had pets in the house — dogs,
cats, rabits.”
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Going to veterinary college
at Guelph had seemed ’a
natural choice for her. “We
weren't supposed to have
pets in the residence, but we
were always sneaking in
animals,” she said, laughing.
“I had two Norwegian hooded
rats that used to sit on my
shoulder while I studied. And
once we smuggled in a lamb
and kept it fed from a bottle.”
In veterinary school she
had no difficulty accepting
that sometimes animals had
to be sacrificed to save
others. “If there's an out­
break on a mink ranch you
have to use animals to iden­
tify it otherwise thousands of
other animals might die,” she
said.

Historic Yokohama
cemetery open
to the public
YOKOHAMA-The historic
International Cemetery over­
looking the sea at Yokohama
is to be opened in the fall on
weekends to the public for
the first time in its 130-year
history. Special paths are be­
ing built to the significant
gravesites.
Fees will be charged to
raise funds for grounds main­
tenance and admission to a
cemetery museum.

She set up as a pet vet,
but soon gave that up: “The
truth of the matter is, I didn't
have the heart to charge,”
she sai-d. Jeanne took a
public health course and
went to work for the Ministry
of Health until she retired to
have her family.
Every morning now, Duke,
the family German Shepherd,
presses his nose against the
window, wishing she wasn't
leaving him. But she sees no
conflict between his affec­
tion and her job.
“Wonderful research is being done at the University of
Toronto,” she said. “It's one
of the foremost universities
for cancer and diabetes research.”
Much of that research, she
said, can only be done using
animals.
Two committees must ex­
amine every .research propo­
sal involving animals to en­
sure the zwork is necessary
and that the animals experience as little discomfort
as possible.
It angers her that animal
activists who recently broke
into a lab at Scarborough Col­
lege, stole some rats, crush­
ed others under overturned
cages and took card off the
cages, destroying a long­
standing experiment to treat
epilepsy.
“Those animals now have
to be destroyed, and the
whole thing has to be started
again,” she said. As a result
of these attacks, $62,000 is
being spent on new security
measures at the medical
faculty. “That money should
be going for research in­
stead,” she said.
Dogs barking
We could hear dogs bark­
ing and when she took me
around the animal facility we
saw a dozen dogs that had
just arrived from a pound.
Like dogs anywhere, they
were wagging their tails and
looking for attention.
In one room, a dog being
used in diabetes research
greeted Jeanne like an old
friend. Down the hall we saw
a heart surgery team opera­
ting on a sheep. But the vast
majority of the animals were
rats living in sterile cages lin­
ing room after room.
“What would you say if you
were ill, if you needed a liver
transplant or a heart trasplant,
and you knew these techni­
ques could only be developed
using animals?” asked Jean­
ne as we ended the tour.

Ottawa's Takahashi Dojo Class of 1984
OTTAWA — The Takahashi Dojo of Ottawa takes time out to pose for their “Class

°* 1984” Picture. Class includes (front row
^ from left) Michel Trudeau, (second row
first from left) Tina Takahashi, (beside her)

Cathy Takahashi, (second row 10th from left)
Justin Trudeau, (second row 15th from left)
Sacha Trudeau, (third row first from left) Mrs^
June Takahashi, (next to her) Phil Takahashi,
(last row far right) Prime Minister, (next to the
P.M.) the Sensei, Mas Takahashi.

After workout at Takahashi Dojo and
night walk, PM makes announcement
OTTAWA — As all Canadians have heard
thought and decision,
by nowj on the eve of his announcement to ..It was a big contrast to earlier in the same
retire, Prime Minister Pierre E. Trudeau took
evening when he sweated and shouted in a
a solitary night walk in an Ottawa snow storm
Judo-gi with his three sons, at the famous
a poetic picture of a great man deep in
Takahashi Dojo of Ottawa.

Kurosawa's ‘career climax’
film is based on Kina Lear
BY TOSHIO KOJIMA

TOKYO. — Japanese film
director Akira Kurosawa is all
set to make the movie he
sees as the climax of his
career, a story inspired by
Shakespeare's King Lear and
based on a sixteenth-century
family of Japanese warriors.
Aides to the 73-year-old
Kurosawa, considered one of
the world's greatest direc­
tors, say he plans to start
shooting the $10-million work

Jpnz. adventurer
Naomi Uemura
presumed dead
TALKEETNA, Alaska — Ja­
panese climbers ignored ob­
jections from U.S. officials
and insisted on searching for
Naomi Uemura, the adventu­
rer presumed killed on Mount
McKinley after becoming the
first man to climb the peak
alone in winter.
Two other searchers had
said they believe he fell to
his death. A four - member
team from Tokyo's Meiji Uni­
versity climbing club, of
which Uemura had been a
member, flew to the Kahiltna
Glacier base camp recently
to start retracing their count­
ryman's steps.

in May and finish it by the end
of the year, in time for the
1985 International Film Festival, the first event of its kind
ever held in Japan.
Kurosawa, who in 1957
adapted Shakespeare's Mac­
beth to the screen in a Jpananese setting as Throne of
Blood, has said he regards
his latest project as the pin­
nacle of his life's work.
His other works include
such generally accepted
masterpieces as Rashomon
(In the Woods), which opened
Western cinemas to Japanese
films, and the Seven Samurai.
Kurosawa, joint winner of
the Golden Palm award at the
1980Cannes Film Festival for
Kagemusha (Shadow Warrior)
started writing the script eight
years ago.
Titled Ran (Rebellion), the
film grew out of his admira­
tion for the story of the Lear
and his three daughters. He
applied the theme to the
story of a sixteenth-century
Japanese warrior leader,
Motonari Mori, and his three
sons.
In the film script, an aging
Mori plans to divide his land
between the three sons, then
disinherits the most outspok­
en of them in favor of the two
(Continued on page 2)

The Prime Minister, who
holds a Shodan Black Belt
degree from the Kodokan,.
and his three sons — Justin,
12 (4th-Kyu), Sacha, 10 (4thKyu), and Michel, 8 (4th-Kyu)
— have all been students of
Mr. Mas Takahashi for years.
They train regularly in the
class which includes Taka­
hashi Sensei's, prominent
martial arts family, wife June
(a^ Black Belt), daughter Tina
(Continued on page 2)

OTTAWA — Mas Takahashi
of Ottawa prepares to throw
one of his students, Prime
Minister Pierre Trudeau in
a Judo demonstration during
last year's Canada Day cele­
brations.

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(Pacific Rim Women's Judo
champion), Ray (Canadian
Olympic wrestling champion),
Phil (Canadian Olympic Judo
champion) and his wife Cathy.
Phil Takahashi is presently
training in Paris, France, pre­
paring for the 1984 Los Ange­
les Olympics. His brother Ray
recently came home from Eu­
rope after a month competing
and training in Russia, France
and Switzerland.
The Takahashi Dojo, loca-

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and Canada Federation
the
time
the
topknots
were
I don't know about you,
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gone, complete with curling
Publisher & Japanese Editor
Takahashi Sensei has had . but one thing that has had me
Kenzo Mori
a distinguished career in Judo mystified through the years is irons, singeing gadgets, for­
English Editor
and trained at Japan's famous the split barber signs over eign-style razors and cologne
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southern Japan.
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To keep his warriorsx)n the pan, it is worthy of inclusion
The two sychophanticsons
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waves were not available to
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the Japanese until the 1930s the Hwy 427-Dundas St. area
father, who is helped by the bled 300 horses specially se­ Records.
After referring to an ency­ and were banned during war­ is looking for an experienced
son he rejected. It ends in lected for suitability in-battle
invoice typist, general office
clopedia the other day, I time.
true melodramatic Japanese scenes.
After wading through such clerk. Understanding of Japa­
figured that the foul-up could
style with the destruction of
The picture is being made have first occurred as far information, I came to the nese would be an asset. Call
all the leading characters.
conclusion that the English 624-3206. (Toronto)
The film will have plenty of by two Japanese companies, back as 100 years, ago, when
term “barber” could have •
drama and sword-play. Kuro­ Nippon Herald Films and the barbering in Japan was in the
been employed for signs by
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sawa is having a fake castle Toho Film company, with the infant stage.
Through
The haircut, I learned, came the time the shops had barber
erected at the foot of Mount Paris-based Greenwich Film
Fuji for his warriors to burn company providing some of in with the Meiji Restoration. poles.
My theory is that dividing of
down. Other scenes will be the financing and distributing It was done at kamiyuidoko, or
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Tuesday: 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Wed.: closed. Thursday
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and Friday: 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Sat: 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
A
few
years
ago,
while
tak
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gunate (1603-1867) to around
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men, women and children.
Tokyo had its first barber­ my eyes peeled for such signs.
Additions-Home Repairs
After spotting one, I came
shop with painted walls in
Thermal Windows
across
another that should I
1868. Enterprising hairdres-.
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light.
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halfway
to
Iwa|
the part of Yokohama earlier
CHARTERED
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Barbershop operators with
from wearing swords about
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five years later, and finally by split signs must have been
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Friday, March 16, 1984

THE

PERSONAL NOTES
CARD OF THANKS
The children of the late
EIMATSU SEKI wish to ex­
press their sincere appre­
ciation to her many rela­
tives and friends for the
kindnesses extended to
her throughout her life;
also, our many thanks for
the words of comfort,
beautiful floral tributes,
and koden.
Oscar & Teresa Kawai
Barney & Setsuko Aihosi
Bob & Donna Moray

CARD OF THANKS
We wish to extend our
sincere thanks to our
many friends and relatives
for their many acts of
kindness, messages of
sympathy, beautiful floral
tributes and koden receiv­
ed during the recent loss
of wife, sister and aunt
Akiko Gladys Kato.
Yosabura Kato.
Mike & Jean Goromaru.
Miyo Goromaru
Mitsu Moriyama
Hisae Goromaru
David Moriyama
Andy & Yvonne Kinoshita

Obituaries
SEKI
CALGARY, Alta. — Mrs.
EIMATSU SEKI, age 90, pass­
ed away peacefully at Rockyview Hospital in Calgary on
February 17,1984. Predeceas­
ed by her husband, MAGOHACHI, in 1962. Survived by
her 3 daughters and their
husbands — OSCAR & TE­
RESA KAWAI, Hamilton,
Ont., BARNEY & SETSUKO
AIHOSHI, Calgary, Alta., and
BOB & DONNA MORAY of
Peace River, Alta/, one grand­
son and four granddaughters;
also brothers, sisters and
other relatives in Japan. Fu­
neral service at Calgary Bud­
dhist Temple. Cremation.

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February 5, 1984
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February 12, 1984
Services at
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February 22, 1984
Services at
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February 24, 1984
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CANADIAN

DATES & DOINGS

Kabuki great
to celebrate J.
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Met'S centennial) Annual Flower & Bonsai Exhibit Mar. 31 & Apr. 1
TORONTO. — The Toronto Japanese Garden Club and the
TOKYO — Bando Tamasa­
buro, the popular Kabuki ac­ Ontario Institute for.studies in Education are jointly sponsor­
tor, will join Rudolf Nureyev, ing “A touch of Japan” on Saturday, March 31 and Sunday
Yves Montand, Martha Gra­ April 1, from 1 p.m. to 6 p.m. at the OISE Building opposite the
ham and other renowned per­ Varsity Stadium.
There will be displays of Ikebana, Bonsai, Sumi-e, Kimono,
formers in a May 13 gala
marking the centennial cele­ Crafts and Dolls. Films will also be shown. A challenge trophy
bration of the Metropolitan will be available for miniature landscape. Admission is $2.50.
ChiIdren under 12, accompanied by adults will be free.
Opera House of New York.
Tamasaburo will be among Canadian Shitoryu Karate Champ. April 14
two dozen performers in the
TORONTO. — The Annual Canadian Shitoryn Itosuka
event for which first lady Nan­
Karate Spring Tournament will be held at the Japanese Cana­
cy Reagan will be honorary
dian Cultural Centre, Saturday, April 14, 1984, beginning at 12
chairperson, said Toyo Kogyo Co., the maker of Mazda noon.
There will be competitors from all across Canada and the
cars and sponsor of the Ka­
U.S. There will be a dinner/dance immediately Following the
buki actor's American tour.
tournament with a hot and cold buffet, disc jockey and cash
He will also perform at the bar. Tickets will be on sale in advance at the Centre. r
Japan Society Theatre in New
— JCCC
York May 4-11 and at the
Japanese Amnerican commu­
nity Cultural Center in Los
TORONTO. — On Saturdayj March 31 at the JCCC, the an­
Angeles May 16— 18.
nual “Haru No Utamatsuri” will be held. This year a $10 admis­
Toyo Kogyo will sponsor sion is being asked to help defray the cost of the new Pana­
Tamasaburo's tour as part sonic Ramsa equipment recently purchased to improve the
of celebrations marking the audio system in the JCCC auditorium and also to pay for a bet­
change of its name to Mazda ter lighting system.
Motor Corp., effective May 1.
As in the past, the Shokokai will fully support the Karaoke
Toyo Kogyo President Yo­ Club in producing this annual event. The evening will be divid­
shiki Yamasaki said the Hi­ ed into three parts. The first part will be a variety show under
roshima-based automaker is the capable direction of George Uyeyama, a veteran Karaoke
conducting a feasibility study member renown for his fluent bilingual skills and MC capa­
on setting up an assembly bilities. He will be concentrating on “Natsu Melo” (Natplant in the United States.
sukashi no Melody) songs and will be recruiting all the ex­
cellent, old time singers. Part Two will again fall on the
shoulders of well known, Noboru Yamamoto, who will master­
TORONTO
mind the musical comedy show. Part three will be a dance par­
JAPANESE
ty beginning around 9:30 to round out the evening.
RESTAURANTS
Udon will be available at 5:30 p.m. and cash bar will be
open throughout the evening. Since showtime is scheduled
for 6:30, we suggest you come early for your udon and then be
459 Church Street
prepared to spend a leisurely evening. Door prizes will also be
Phone 924-1303
available. An added feature will be guest soloists who will
combine forces.with the D.J. to provide danceable and listen­
able music. We suggest you reserve your $10 tickets early to
195 Richmond St. West
avoid disappointment for good seats.
Phone 977-9519
— JCCC

Haru No Utamatsuri, March 31

TSUNE YATABE

CARD OF THANKS
The family of the late
Barry Nishizaki wish to ex­
press sincere thanks and
appreciation to all their
friends and relatives for
their messages of sympathy, beautiful floral tributes, koden and donations to the Muscular Dystrophy Association received during our recent loss.
Joe & Yumiko Nishizaki
Joan Nishizaki
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rite required in his path to stock broker, and pastry shop
becoming an ajari. He spent clerk. But the turning point of
nine days continuously chan­ his life occurred when his
ting the Lotus Sutra in -the wife of three months commit­
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MT. HIEI, Japan - Through­
out the year, except for the
snowbound winter, one of Ja­
pan's most revered Buddhist
monks rises at 2 a.m., dons
a “death robe” and slips his
feet into straw sandals to
start his run along a 25-mile
mountain trail.
Yusai Sakai, 58, the “ajari”
or “grand master” has re­
peated the tough eight-hour
run around Mt. Hiei, north of
Kyoto, 1500 times. Along the
way, the short, stocky, rosycheeked man stops to recite
short sutras, or Buddhist’
prayers, at 260 temples, shri­
nes, river forks and bridges.
Other holy men have com­
pleted the near - marathon
lenghth rugged course 1000
times, but no other priest in
recorded history has match­
ed Sakai's achievement, ac­
complished over 12 years.
Sakai carries a monk's
dagger, a sacred rope and
sealed wallet during the run,
because by tradition and
precept the rite forbids any
monk to return before cover­
ing the entire distance'or to
ask for assistance along the
way. Sakai wears the “death
robe” because if he is dis­
abled along the way, he must
take his own life by hanging
or stabbing himself after
which the money in the wallet
will be used by passers-by to
^arrange a simple funeral.
By 10 a.m. he is back at his
small isolated monastery for
sutra-reading and monastery
chores. Sakai is allowed only
undergoing the ordeal.
Since World War II, only
nine monks have completed
the 1000-run rite, which nor­

mally lasts for 1000 days over
seven years. During the seven
years, the monks are allowed
to speak only with with their
masters. They are asked to
refrain from reading news­
papers or books and most not
descend Mt. Hiei.
During that time, monks hit
the trail, up slopes, down
valleys and across rivulets,
for a continuous 100 or 200
day a year period. Heavy
snow on the 2800-foot moun­
tain bars winter runs.

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