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Nisei soldiers of the 442nd who Uberated Dachau revisit site
• The following article, one of a series that appeared in the Honolulu
Advertiser, describes a visit to the site of the Nazi death camp by the
Nisei 100th/442nd veterans during a tour of Europe last year. Reporter
Mark Matsunaga accompanied the vets as they revisited places where
they had fought 40 years before. A ceremony at Bruyeres, France,
marked the 40th anniversary of the 442nd 's liberation of that town.
On Jan. 19, Matsunaga, the only Journalist from Hawaii to cover the
event, was given a plaque by Wilbert “Sandy” Hoick, organizer of
the trip, for “comprehensive and diligent coverage.”

By MARK MATSUNAGA
DACHAU, West Germany — “We got here after the first guys. But
the incinerator was still warm. There were bones inside,” Ray Kunimura recalls. Kunimura, a semi-retired contractor who lives in Lanikai,
is one of several hundred veterans of the 442nd Regimental Combat
Team who last year revisited the European battlefields where they
fouaht 40 years ago.
In October 1984, some of the veterans made a grim visit to the
Dachau concentration camp, which is
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The New Canadian
An Independent Organ for Canadians off Japanese Origin

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TORONTO, ONT.

FRIDAY, MARCH 15,1985

VOL. 49 - NO. 20

Third Annual Ont. Japanese
Speech Contest March 30th
at University of Toronto

Speaking
English in
Japan gets
better action

TORONTO — For many peo­ entered the contest. Details
ple, delivering a speech is of the event are circulated to
challenge enough. But im­ institutions where the Japan­
agine having to do it in a ese language is taught; con­
second language. sequently, those entering the
To encourage people in contest are often studying at
Ontario to speak Japanese, universities or taking night
the Japan Foundation in Ja­ courses through boards of
pan and Mitsui & Co. (Cana­ education or Japanese cultu­
da) Ltd. are sponsoring the ral centres.
third annual Ontario Japa­
MaruOka emphasizes that
nese Speech Contest on
>
all
members
of
the
public
are
March 30 at Univertsity of
Toronto. As an incentive, the welcome to enter. The dead­
first prize in the two divi­ line for this years's contest
sions, beginners and advan­ is early March.
ced, is a round-trip ticket to
This speech contest is just
Japan courtesy of Mitsui.
one of a variety of activities
Entrants each deliver a being held during “Japan
three-minute speech on a Week”, March 24-30, in To­
topic of their choice and are ronto. Also featured are art
judged by a panel of five. This exhibits, films, concerts, lec­
year, the panel will include tures and cooking demonst­
U of T Japanese language ex­ rations.
perts and members of the Ja­
For further details on the
panese Canadian community.
speech contest and other
Organizer Akiko Maruoka “Japan Week” events, please
TORONTO — Showing the delicate touch of angels,
says that in previous years contact Wayne Murphy at the Mariko Anraku of Toronto performs on the harp at the 42nd
about 25 people from London, Japan Information Centre — Annual Kiwanis Music Festival held recently. Ms. Anraku
Ont., and Metro Toronto have 363-5488.
was presented with a trophy by Ontario Lieutenant-Governor
John Black Aird as one of the top nine performers from the
festival which featured over 28,000 paricipants.

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Mariko Anraku in top 9 out of 28,000

Japan develops 3-D television set

OSAKA-Matsushita Elect­
ric Industrial Co. has devel­
oped a three-dimension TV
(3DTV) system which re-

quires no special glasses for
watching, the company said
recently.
The company will display
the TV at the Science Expo­
sition ’85 to be held in Tsu­
kuba, Ibaraki Prefecture, for
six months starting March 17.

The 14-inch screen TV en­
ables viewing of three-dimen­
sional images by synthesiz­
ing pictures taken by five
separate cameras, each with
a different shooting angle
and recorded on videotape
recorder. Lenticular lenses
A model presents the 3-D TV, are used to secure maximum
a three-dimension system de­ directness.
veloped by Matsushita Elect­
A company spokesman said
ric Co. The system will be
demonstrated during the Tsu­ the TV provides ideal viewing
kuba Science Exposition ’85 when watched 1 meter from
that will be held from March the screen and within 24 cm
of the axis laterally.
17 to Sept. 16.

Susan Iwai of Toronto wins
Intern'tl. Youth Year Ont. medal
TORONTO — Susan Iwai,
24, of Toronto has been
chosen to receive the Ontario
Youth Medal by the provin­
cial government as part of
their celebration of Interna­
tional Youth Year. Some 500
achievers, from 15 to 24 years
of. age, will be presented the
medals — specially struck for
International Youth Year of

Ontario gold on nickel —
across the province this
month.
Ms. Iwai was nominated
after spending some 680
hours as a volunteer at
Quetico Provincial Park and
edited the staff newsletter
called “Distant Voices”. She
is the daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Tosh Iwai of Toronto.

B.C. Buddhist priest agrees with prayer
proclamation not Judaic-Christian tradition
VICTORIA, B.C. — The Rev. Yasuo Izumi of the Vancou­
ver Buddhist Church agrees with the B.C. cabinet procla­
mation that April 6th be “Prayer Day” — as British Colum­
bians cay pray for “repentance, peace and prosperity” —
but questions the emphasis on Judaic-Christian tradition.
The cabinet order, signed by Premier Bill Bennett and Pro­
vincial Secretary Jim Chabot, reads that prayer is “a per­
sonal extension of the Judaic-Christian tradition”.

By GEORGE YOSHINAGA

I have often
TOKYO.
contended that it is better to
speak English than our Niseism Japanese when in
Japan. At least if you want to
get quick action.
One day I was sitting at the
counter of Japan Travel Bu­
reau in the lobby of the Otani
trying to get some informa­
tion on train schedules.
There were three young
girls servicing the counter.
One was working at a com­
puter. The other was reading
a book and the third was
about to come over to help
me.
However, a Caucasian
tourist came over and she immediately went to him in­
stead of me.
She couldn't quite under­
stand what the tourist was
asking so the other girl, the
one who was reading a book,
went over to assist her.
They spent about three or
four minutes before one of
them looked in my direction. I
put on one of my dirty look
faces and she finally asked
me, (in Japanese) if she could
help me.
I responded in English,
“First of all, I was here before
that other gentleman and I' m
upset.”
She became rather fluster­
ed and stammered, “Oh, I'm
so solly. Please beg to forgive
me.”
Now if I had responded in
Japanese, she probably
wouldn 't give a tinkers damn­
ed if she did wait on the other,
guy first.
That seems to be one trait
of the Japanese, however.
They will fall all over them­
selves when they are dealing
with non-Japanese but don't
seem to give the same atten­
tion to a Japanese, which I
assume she thought I was.
And for that, J'm solly too.

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Lehner pointed out the
former
administration
building, which now houses
several hundred photographs
documenting the horrors of
the Nazi camp.

One series of photos
shows a Dachau inmate
undergoing a simulated highaltitude test at the hands of
an SS doctor. The prisoner,
suspended in a parachute
harness in a pressure
chamber, contorts with pain
and then slumps heavily in
the harness. The last shot
shows his brain after the top
of his skull was removed.

Lehner led the group
through a reconstructed dor­
mitory designed to hold 45
. prisoners but more usually
stuffed with 200 living in the



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most inhumane conditions.
No one really knows how
many people were killed at
Dachau. Estimates range
from 30,000 up to more than
200,000.
The gas chamber, located
ne.J to the crematorium in a
small forest off to one corner
of the camp, was never used.
Instead, many of the Jews,
clergymen and others at
Dachau were executed else­
where. Death at Dachau came
in the form of an SS guard's
bullet or bludgeon, a hang­
man's rope, starvation or
sickness.
Lehner does not remember
much about the camp' s liber­
ation. He had typhus and was
in a weeklong delirium. He
was 20 at the time, guilty of
nothing more than being a
Jew.
Rabbi Paul Biberfeldt of
Munich led a service honoring the veterans and the vic­
times of Dachau at a
memorial that has been erect­
ed at one end of the camp.
Later in the day, the Anti­
Defamation League of B'nai
B'rith European Federation
the the B'nia B'rith of
Munich hosted the veterans
in Munich.
Shimon Samuels, Euro­
pean Federation director,
said his organization started
as a Jewish organization 71
years ago but is today “con­
cerned with all forms of preju­
dice and discrimination
against all minorities” and
has helped lobby the U.S.
Congress for payments to
Americans of Japanese an­
cestry who were interned dur­
ing WW2.
Several of the men in the
room, in fact, fought and bled
for America 40 years ago
while their families were
locked behind barbed wire.
“The same way you fought
for the values of democracy
and against the oppression of
Nazism here, so today you
are a symbol to a resurgent
extreme — (the) voice of hate
that is growing in Europe,”
Samuels said.
Racial prejudice in an
economically
troubled
Europe is growing against
the Turks in West Germany,
Jamaicans in Britain, and
North Americans in France,
he said, adding that there is a
group in California that is try­
ing to revise history, to say
the depravities of Dachau did
not occur. Thus, he conclud­
ed, the AJA veterans of the
422nd, who saw Dachau first­
hand, must never forget.

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JUNN KASHINO

Two veterans split over J.C. Redress issue
By RON LOWMAN
The memories of war hero Leonard
Birchall, a retired air commodore,
and Tsutoma (Stum) Shimizu, a
former army intelligence sergeant,
are the stuff of today's government
problem.
Birchall, 69, who became famous
as “the Savior of Ceylon,” says it
“borders on the insane” for the
government to consider using tax­
payers' money to compensate Japa­
nese Canadians for their internmenl
during World War II.
He remembers a second-gener­
ation Japanese Canadian from Bri­
tish Columbia who incited, then
praised, savage beatings of Cana­
dian prisoners of war before Bir­
chall's eyes in a Tokyo dockyard.
Wearing the dockyard company's
■ uniform, but on loan to the Japanese
army as an Interpreter in a PoW camp
housing the Canadians, the man de­
lighted in sticking lit cigarettes up
prisoners' noses, Birchall says.
. He recalls that the interpreter also
boasted that the Japanese were the
superior race and would win the war.
He told the Canadians that he
already had decided which members
of his family, still living in Canada at
the time, would become mayor of
Vancouver, chief of police and the
like.
Grim camp
Shimizu, a Toronto resident who
now is vice-president of Noxzema
Inc., also has bitter memories.
He remembers the uprooting of his
family from Victoria, a grim intern­
ment camp in northern Ontario, and
Canada's eventual, reluctant deci­
sion to accept him as a volunteer in a
Japanese-speaking intelligence unit
of the Canadian army.
“But even as an army veteran, I
wasn 't allowed to go back to B.C. un­
til 1949 (four years after the war end­
ed), without special permission from
the RCMP,” Shimizu, 62, says. “Defi­
nitely, there should be compensa­
tion.”
Some 17,000 Canadian-born or natu­
ralized persons of Japanese ances­
try, and 4,000 Japanese nationals liv­
ing in Canada, were plucked from
their homes and businesses on or
near the B.C. coast after Japan
bombed Pearl Harbor Dec. 7, 1941.
Imprisoned inland camps, they re­
ceived little compensation for their

Stum Shimizu

Leonard Birchall

homes, cars, fishing boats and other
equipment. They also lost their jobs
and, in some cases, their educations.
Shimizu's parents had to sell their
grocery store in Victoria, plus a car,
radio, hunting rifle, boots and other
items. For the second-hand car, the
family got $10, although it was worth
$100.
As for the rest of their property,
Shimizu says they had to sign “a
piece of paper” saying they were
handing everything over to Canada's
Custodian of Enemy Property.
The federal government has of­
fered Japanese Canadians an official
apology and a $6 million trust fund.
Huge gulf
But the National Association off
Japanese Canadians wants a say in
the wording of the apology, more
money, and amendments to the War
Measures Act to ensure that what oc­
curred in the 1940s never happens
again to other minorities.
Separating Shimizu and Birchall is
a yawning gulf between the social
mores of the war years and hufrian
rights today. The cast of a man's eye
or the color of his skin were like bea­
cons in wartime. If they happened to
coincide with those of the enemy, he
was labelled immediately.
Today, the screams of outrage
from human rights groups over such
automatic classification would wake
the dead. Then, Canadians were over­
whelmingly white, now, we are a na­
tion of many cultures.
But time has not eased Birchall's
feelings. He is so incensed over the

government proposals that he has re­
signed from the Progressive Conser­
vative party.
“Not another dime” of financial
support, he warned party headquar­
ters, until he finds out precisely what
will be done.
“I never believed they could be
this stupid,” he said from
his Kingston home.
A graduate of Kingston's Royal
Military College — he later was the
school's commandant — Birchall
was piloting a Catalina flying boat
when it was shot down in April, 1942,
off Ceylon (now Sri Lanka).
Was beaten
He earned his “Savior of Ceylon”
nickname and was awarded the Dis­
tinguished Flying Cross after his
wireless operator managed to get off
a warning that the Japanese fleet
was approaching the island.
Picked up by a Japanese warship,
the wounded pilot was beaten. He
suffered the same fate repeatedly in
prisoner-of-war camps.
;Once, he intervened in a hammer­
ing being given a sick Canadian PoW
by a Sgt. Ushioda. Birchall broke the
sergeant's jaw with one blow.
The Japanese sentenced him to
death, blindfolded him, and made
sure he heard rifles being cocked.
Then they told him that he would be
beheaded instead, but the execu­
tioner swung to miss. He was told
they had changed their minds again.
For his prison camp leadership,
Birchall was made an officer of the
Order of the British Empire.
He had never intervened before in
the long-playing drama between
Japanese Canadians and the govern­
ment. But a recent spate of publicity
and the offer of a trust fund and
apology was the last straw.
On Jan. 17, Birchall wrote a scath­
ing letter to his MP, Employment
Minister Flora MacDonald.
He told her that, in 1985 — which
marks the 40th anniversary of the
end of World War II — memories of
horrible experiences come flooding
back with great intensity.
‘Must suffer’
Many drastic measures had to be
taken because of circumstances that
left little alternative. The sudden ac­
tions of the Japanese — bombing
Pearl Harbor, and attacking unde­
fended and defended areas in the Far
East, all without a declaration of war
— “shocked us all into a state of hav­
ing to over-react.”
Birchall said that, throughout the
world, Japan had a very efficient
espionage network and an under­
ground system of foreign residents
dedicated to the Japanese war effort.
That, he said, became most evident
with the launching of hostilities.
“Time did not permit the screening
and definite identification of the guil­
ty, leaving only the alternative of
mass action, with the full knowledge
that under the circumstances, the
good must suffer along with the
bad,” Birchall told MacDonald.
“It was necessary to err on the
side of over-reation, at least until we
were able to respond to the threat we
faced.”

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Birchall's letter said Canada's ac­
tions were as humane as possible
and no Japanese Canadian died of
malnutrition, starvation, or a lack of
medical treatment, adequate hous­
ing, clothing or amenities. But Japan,
he noted, ignored international con­
ventions, laws and regulations in its
treatment of civilians.
Shimizu agreed that Japanese
Canadian internees “were not treat­
ed badly.” He said that only those
who resisted internment were put in
PoW camps with Italians and Ger­
mans.
Birchall said he returned to Japan
for war crimes trials and asked a
Japanese why they treated their
PoWs and internees so inhumanely.
He was told Japan had been con­
fident of victory and felt it would
have to answer to no one for its ac­
tions.
A government apology now would
show “a sheer lack of moral fibre,”
he said, adding that Japanese Cana­
dians are able to raise a hue and cry
now only because of the humane
treatment given them and their
parents at the time.
But Shimizu is equally incensed
about the treatment that his native
land — Canada — gave him and his
family. He was one of a group of
about 125 who joined the army in
1944 in special, Japanese-speaking
intelligence units. Many served with
the British in Burma, India, Hong
Kong and other corners of Southeast
Asia.
Shimizu noted that in 1982 a U.S.
Congress commission recommend­
ed every Japanese American who liv­
ed through those times should get
$20,000 compensation.
In light of that, Shimizu said, each
Japanese Canadian should get
$200,000, because the treatment
here was 10 times worse.
Compare situations
Shimizu, a ,19-year-old student
when he and his family were intern­
ed, said the only way Japanese Cana­
dians can make their point is by com­
paring their situation with the Japa­
nese Americans'.
They also were moved from the
West Coast, but were given a chance
to prove their loyalty by joining up.
Some 30,000 did, in a combat group
that distinguished itself in Europe.
And in 1943, Japanese Americans
were allowed to go back to their
homes, Shimizu said.
Canada, on the other hand, did not
take Japanese Canadian volunteers
into uniform willingly, Shimizu said.

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