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The New Canadian
An Independent Organ for Canadians of Japanese Origin
FRIDAY, JUNE 7, 1985

VOL. 49 — NO. 44
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FUND RAISING . . .

Some old
fashioned
I
ethics
By BILL MARUTANI
THE CAR RADIO was tuned
to one of those radio talk
shows. A caller mentioned
that his daughter had been
teaching
English
and
literature at a school in Hok­
kaido where it was a pleasure
to teach because the
students were so eager and
attentive.
It was sad
because durf
/
ing one of my
\ several visits
jt° high school
classrooms in
^T^^/ years past, I'd
seen students
“Cockroach” at Richmond festival
j^M who were visRICHMOND, B.C. — Vancouver potter, Masatada Funo,
ibly intoxicated:
glazed, watery shows one of his artfully crafted raku works entitled “Cock­
eyes, head going from side to roaches” at the Japanese Canadian festival held at the Rich­
side. The teacher seemed not mond Art Centre recently. Funo, who allowed viewers to hold
to notice. In a way, desperate the work in their hands, said the name “Cockroach” comes
as the situation was, there was from a science-fiction story he's writing about a species of
a tenuous positive side: at least roaches without arms or legs. The insects, who evolved shells
the lad was in school, clutching for aesthetic reasons, are freed of gravity and haven't a
to get back to reality, back “on .need for up and down._________________________________
track.” Since that time, I've of­
ten wondered whether that boy
was ever rescued.
THINGS WERE DIFFERENT
— decidedly different — when
all of us attended school.
TORONTO — A general feasibility report will deal
. Sneaking a cigarette could be a
basis for expulsion; gum chew­ meeting of the Momiji Health with:
1. Development and docu­
ing in class was prohibited and Care Society will be held on
mentation of operational and
a second infraction meant a trip Monday, June 17th in the
to the principal's office which West Room of the JCCC from building program.
2. Site search, analysis,
was always an unpleasant ex­ 8 p.m. All members and con­
rezoning, suitability, pur­
perience. In high school, there cerned friends who wish to
were rumors that so-and-so obtain an update on the care chase options.
3. Conceptual design.
was bringing “booze” every so and outreach programs for
4. Capital and operation
often to school, and if so-and- the elderly Nikkei of Metro­
so was ever caught — well, that politan Toronto and surroun­ proforma.
5. Design and program
was it. Swiftly. No more so-and- ding areas are urged to at­
presentation.
tend.
so.
6. Market study.
Reports will be given on
During a high school class
A committee headed by
the latest developments at
reunion (I attended my first and
the Castleview Wychwood Kaz Oiye, Q.C., Dr. Roy Shi­
only one soJar), there was a vi­
Towers, and at Greenview nobu, Fred Sasaki and Mas
vacious matron who recalled
Dazai has been giving inputs
she had been expelled and had Lodge.
The scholarship committee to the feasibility consultants
not graduated with her (my)
composed of Martha Onode­ on behalf of the OHC Society.
class.
Should the feasibility rera, Dorothy Nakamachi-and
As I say: they didn't fool
Dr. Fred Sunahara will be an­
(Continued on page 2)
around in those days.
nouncing this year's scholar­
FROM TODAY'S PERSPEC­
ship winner (or winners) for
TIVE, I suppose many, particu­
students pursuing studies in
larly young folks, would assess
fields related to geriatics or
the schooling of my generation
gerontology.
to have been stifling or repres­
Sab Takahashi, chairman
sive. Well, I never thought so of the outreach committee,
then, and looking back today I will be reporting on a number
don't think it was. Of course, if of innovative home care ser­
one resisted or hated leaning, vices which his committee is
then it could be both stifling prepared to initiate soon.
and repressive. It wasn't that
A major agenda item will
we took to learning; on the con­ be a report on the Senior
trary, children being children, Complex feasibility prepar­
we would rather have been ed by Matsui Baer Vanstone
playing baseball. But some- Freeman Heinrich Group of

Momiji Seniors' Complex
feasibility report June 17

(Continues on page 2)

__________ ___________ JORONTO.Ofm

consultants. Phase one of the

Lights for Stanley Park's
War Memorial is Vancouver
J CCA Centennial project
VANCOUVER - The Greater
Vancouver JCCA recently an­
nounced significant progress
with their planned Centennial
Project to restore the light
of the War Memorial in
Stanley Park.
They report that a total of
$7,000 is required over two
phases with the first objective
being to restore the light
($3,000) and the second to
undertake specific repairs on
the memorial itself.
Fund raising efforts have
resulted with a grant from the
City of Vancouver for $1,500.
It is planned to raise the

balance over the next 3 to 4
months so that the project
may be fully realized for
Remembrance Day, Novem­
ber 11, 1985.
“The general public and all
Japanese Canadians are invi­
ted to participate with their
donations so that once more
the light may shine for those
that served and fell,” said the
Vanouver JCCA.
All those wishing to contri­
bute should make cheques
payable to JCCA — W.W. I
Memorial Fund, Box 2108
Main P.O., Vancouver, B.C.
V6B 3T5.

Mont. JCCC announces
young people's essay
composition contest
MONTREAL — A project to
publish a collection of es­
says, written by children of
Japanese origin who reside
in the Montreal area, is plan­
ned by the Japanese Cana­
dian Cultural Centre.
The purpose of this project
is to give an opportunity for
children of different cultural
backgrounds to freely ex­
press their feelings on many
aspects of life.

The last day to send in your
composition is Sepotember
14,1985. To make this project
a success again this year, we
will ask for your cooperation.

Please send to: Essay Com­
mittee of Japanese Canadian
Cultural Centre, 8155 Rousselot, Montreal, Que. H2E 1Z7.
- Montreal Bulletin

Toronto Sansei student's
team comes third in
Anybody under 18 years of
Int'nl computer contest
age is welcome to send in his

TORONTO — Toronto San­
sei computer whizz, Harry Mi­
zutani and four of his team­
mates — Tin Kit Chan, John
Our last year's issue was Kim, Rory O'Connor and Kai
well received by the commu­ Wah Tang — all from East.
nity, but we are trying to im­ York Collegiate, were among
prove it by adding more com­ the big winners in internation­
positions in English and also al computer science competi­
tion in Elizabethtown, Pa. re­
in French.
The works we are looking cently.
The team came third against
for could be either newly writ­
ten ones or previously written 60 teams and won themselves
a $5,000 IBM computer system.
as school assignments.

or her composition (either in
Japanese, English or French)
to the Cultural Centre.

“Robotta” would
make Van Gogh
cut off all ears!
TSUKUHBA, Japan. — Artists
passe? Japanese robot artist.
“Robotta” seems to say so as “it”
can draw a person's portrait in
just three minutes flat. He
demonstrates daily at the Mat­
sushita Pavilion here at the
Tsukuba 1985 International
Science Exposition.

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(Continued from Page 1)

Marutani
where deep in the recesses,
there was instilled into the
Nisei the awareness of the
need to gain knowledge, to
learn, if one were to survive.
and, truth to tell, if we didn 't
learn, we “|paid.” Our parents
saw to that.
LOOKING AROUND TODAY
in our adult world, we contin­
ue to see indifference, now in

Momiji
(Continued from page 1)
port be favourable, the mem­
bers present will be asked to
approve a fall fund-raising
campaign. In anticipation of
such a favourable report
and subsequent membership
backing, a committee headed
by Charlie Ogaki, Roger Oba­
ta, Sid Ikeda, Bill Kobayashi
and Dick Takimoto has begun
preliminary brain - storming
sessions for a fund-raising
and publicity campaign.
Since the Seniors' Com­
plex proposal would become
a major community undertak­
ing requiring the consent and
backing of the whole commu­
nity, we urge all interested
people to attend this import­
ant June 17th meeting sche­
duled at the Japanese Cana­
dian Cultural Centre, 123
Wynford Drive, Don Mills at
8 p.m. in the West Room.
— MHCS

the workplace; a lackadais­
ical attitude. Pride in work­
manship, the seeking of ex­
cellence, attaining quality for
are attiquality's sake
tudes that are not common.
Instead, the focus appears to
be on monetary returns and
the quitting time hour. Not
that financial rewards and
hours of labor are not impor­
tant, for they are. But so are
quality and quantity of output.
Very much so.
GETTING AN EDUCATION,
learning is no easy matter. At
least, it wasn't for me. For
me the process very much
continues, albeit with ques­
tionable results. But we con­
tinue to try. And when it
comes to formal education,
we're definitely of the old
school. No monkey business,
no “horsin' around” as they
say^ No radios blaring, no
boozing, no sloppiness. If
they do not tolerate these
conditions in the workplace,
then they certainly shouldn't
tolerate them in the learning
process. Not if they hope to
gain good results.

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PERSONAL NOTES

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bureaucrats reincarnated
Fame? I Japan
as high-paid executive types

ISOZAKI
TORONTO — Mrs. Michiko
By DELPHINE HIRASUNA
TOKYO. — Every year hundreds of
NISHI
Isozaki (nee Nagano) passed
Several weeks ago a New retiring Japanese bureaucrats are
RICHMOND, B.C. — Mr. away at Wellesley Hospital York magazine ran an article reincarnated as high-paid executives
Toshio Nishi passed away on on May 24,1985. Beloved wife featuring interviews with “12 of semi-governmental corporations
May 20,1985 at aged 65 years. of Soichi (Jimmy) Isozaki. leading” people in the com­ in a custom known as “descent from

Survivied by his loving wife, Dear mother of Steve and his munications business. For heaven.
The government has ordered a
Sally; 3 sons; 1 step­ wife Nancy. Daughter of the some reason unbeknownst to reduction in “ama-kudari,” and U.S.
daughter; and 1 brother. late Mr. and Mrs. Rikimatsu me, I was picked to be one of officials have cited the practice as an
Funeral mass held at St. Nagano. Dear sister of Mae the featured subjects. I didn't example of how old-school ties
Joseph the Worker Church, (Mrs. Buzz’ Ogaki), Tosh, think much about it at the among Japanese decisionmakers
make it more difficult for foreigners
Rev. Williams Paschal Breau Tom Nagano and late sister time because I never heard of to
prenetrate markets here. But there
celebrant. Richmond Funeral Amy Tagochi and Sue Brown. the magazine and I had no appears to be an increase in those
Home.
Earle Elliott Funeral Home idea what the piece was sup­ “descending.”
According to a survey announced
“Cook-Thompson Chapel”. posed to be about.
PARSONS
this month, 79 percent of the ex­
Funeral service held at Tor­
A couple of weeks ago, a
HAMILTON, Ont.
Mrs. onto Buddhist Church Pros- copy of the magazine arrived ecutives of 81 government affiliated
corporations examined came from
Katherine Loraine Parsons . pect Crematorium.
in the mail. I turned to read the ranks of government, up slightly
(Masuda) passed away at St.
my interview, which was from the previous year.
The council of government special
Joseph Hospital in Hamilton
okay. Then I turned to see
MATSUI
corporation
employees, representing
on May 7, 1985 in her 30th
who else was featured. That's 95 corporations,
said in its annual
TORONTO — Mr. Toshiro when I became very impressed.
year. Beloved wife of Kenneth
survey on “amakudari” that 379 of
Parsons of Kincardine, On­ Matsui passed away at Hum- I know all the other people in 480 executives surveyed were ex­
tario. Dearest mother of Sara, ber Memorial Hospital on the article; not necessarily officials, and that in 35 of the 81 cor­
dear daughter of George and May 29, 1985. Beloved hus- personally, but by reputaion. porations, all senior employees were
Carol Masuda, dear sister of band of the late Evelyn “Wow! Look at this,” I ex­ graduates of government jobs.
Toyoshima, who compil­
Marcia and Larry Shimoda, Worsnop. Dear father of Te- claimed, shoving the maga­ ed Eizaburo
the survey, said it also listed 131
dear daughter-in-law of Jean ruko(Mrs. Michael Bird), Hiro­ zine under Mark's nose. “wataridori” or “migrant birds” —
Parsons, dear sister-in-law mi (Sharon) Deroo. Brother of “Those guys are biggies. executives who have worked in two
Bob Parsons, Kathy and John Minnie, Chikuma, Kyo, Yone They put me in with the big­ or more corporations. By moving
from one company to another, they
Weaver, and Kim Parson. Priv­ (Mrs. Coby Kobayashi) and gies!”
are eligible for severence pay that
ate family service was held at Ichiro (Roy). Dear fiancee of
Mark looked at the other in­ averaged 13.5 million yen (54,000 U.S.
Hamilton Japanese United Catherine Takiguchi.
terview subjects. “I never dollars) last year.
Ward
Funeral
Home.
Ser
­
Church. Interment White
The survey found that 35 people
heard of any of them,” he
vice
in
the
chapel.
Interment
had
served in three or more corpora­
Chapel memorial Gardens in
said.
Highland Memory Gardens.
Hamilton.
“Well, take my word for it, tions.
Competition for corporate plums
they're heavy-weights,” I can be fierce.
TANOUYE
said.
KAWAHIRA
Japanese news media widely
TORONTO. — Debra
reported
how . top officials of such
VANCOUVER. — Mrs. ImMaeko (Debbie) Tanouye, 16,
That weekend I Went to ministries as post and telecom­
iko Kawahira passed away on
munications, finance, and interna­
passed away on May 25, 1985
May 18, 1985 at the age of 52 visit my parents and took the tional trade and industry scrambled
as a result of an accident.
years. Survived by her loving magazine with me. I also took for posts in the Nippon Telegraph
Beloved daughter of Martha
family, husband, Masanobu, a photo taken at a sushi dem­ and Telephone Corp. (NTT) before it
and Mits Tanouye, loved
son James, and daughter onstration that my sister and was made private on April 1.
sister of Donald M. Loved
U.S. Commerce Undersecretary
Rumiko; also 2 brothers in i did in Sacramento. I put the Lionel
Ollner, who has led recent U.S.
grandaughter of Mrs. C. Japan.
two items in front of my par­
-Trade
negotiations centering on the
. Harada. Sadly missed by her
Funeral service held at the ents. “Oh how nice,” Mom liberalization of NTT. said in a recent
many aunts, uncles and
Vancouver Buddhist Church said, glancing at the magazine. interview with the Japanese monthly
cousins.
with the Rev. Y. Izumi of­ She picked up the sushi dem­ Shoken that “ ama - kudari” is a mjor
Ogden Funeral Home.
source of trouble for foreign firms
ficiating. Gienhaven Mem­ onstration photo to study trying
to sell telecommunications
Private family service in the
orial Chapel Vancouver more carefully. Dad looked equipment here.
chapel. Interment Highland Crematorium.
up from his newspaper to
He quoted as calling this passage
Memory Gardens.
peek at the magazine article, into public corporations, and often
then went back to reading the onward into top industry positions, a
news. “Mom! Dad!” I said, “non - tariff barrier” for those trying
shoving the magazine back at to crack the Japanese market.
In the late 1970s, after the high
them. “This was an honor.
salaries of “ama - kudari” executives
These other people are im­ became an issue in the Diet (parlia­
portant.”
ment), the cabinet proclaimed that
“How come you're in officials should not move from one
there, then?” they asked. public company to another and that
“Who are these people? “ama-kudari” officials should not
exceed 50 percent of total staff. It
Never heard of them.”
also ruled that government officials

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Mom showed the magazine
article to O-baachan, explain­
ing, “Delphine says these
other people are important.”
O-baa-chan found the sushi
demo picture more interes­
ting.
I sighed and put the
magazine away. I suppose
there are lots of “famous”
people out there. People who '
have the most outstanding
bubble gum card collection,
people who know the most
bird calls; people who man­
aged to set a record for hold­
ing their breath without dying.
They are probably admired by
a few dozen people who
yearn to have the best bubble
gum card collection, etc., too.
The other four and a half bil­
lion people in the world
couldn't care less.

YOUR
BLOOD
; the greatest
gift of all

should wait at least two years after
retirement before taking a job in the
private sector related to their public
responsibilities.
But these resolutions have been
hard to enforce. Retirement for most
civil servants was fixed at 60 this
year, but before that people in their
late 50s were asked to make way for
their younger collegues.
Because of this early retirement, a
throwback to an age when Japanese
lived shorter lives than they do today,
and the temptations of lucrative
salaries, the demand for slots in
government affiliates is heavy.
Ministries with the most political
clout tend to win out. The survey
found that 63 “ama-kudari” ex­
ecutives had their origins in the
powerful International Trade and In­
dustry Ministry (MITI), Followed by
40 from the Agriculture, Forestry and
Fisheries Ministry and 39 from the
Finance Ministry.
The Mainichi Shimbun, a nation­
wide daily, said in an editorial that
“we cannot overlook the fact that
misuse of the government corpora­
tions violates the spirit of public
worker regulations and ad­
ministrative reform programs, and
even undermines cabinet resolu­
tions.
The national personnel authority
last year gave approval for 295
government workers to take jobs in
the private sector in unrelated fields.
But Toyoshima said there are “far
more hidden, more scandalous, cas­
es of people who move into private
jobs through “tunnel” or fabricated
corporations.
A “tunnel” corporation, he explain­
ed, is one whose main function is to
provide a seat for ex-officials and
ease their way into private industry.
One example, he said, was the port
modernization promotion council, a
small 10-person operation that has
been the temporary landing site for
five of the last six Transport Ministry
adminjnstrative vice-ministers.
“The basic problem,” said the '
Mainichi, “is that efforts at administrative reform have been extremely haphazard. Work which can
be adequatedly done by private in­
dustry should be rapidly turned over
to the private sector, and un­
necessary government posts and
special corporations should be
disbanded.

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CANADIAN

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anymore
By ELLEN ENDO-DIZON

40 Melford Drive, Unit 1

Seven-Eleven store. I picture a pair of
“I lament the passing of dear
armed guards not unlike the soldiers
friends. I would no more tamper with
in front of Buckingham Palace. Their
the formula for Coca-Cola than I
orders are precise: Protect the for­
would try to improve on the writing in
mula from falling into enemy hand.
‘Gone With The Wind.’ “Atlanta
The formula is known as “Mer­
magazine publisher Walter M. Mit­
chandise
7X,” and the basement
chell said last month, commenting
vault
at
the
Trust Company Bank is
on the revelation the early 100accessible only to a handful of
year-old beverage was changing
Coke's top executives.
its taste.
Coca-Coia Company chairman
Mitchell is but one of a legion of in­
Roberto
C. Goizueta claims his firm
dividuals, this writer among them,
simply has developed a better for­
who bemoan the alteration in the taste
mula. Of course, he fails to mention
of Coca-Cola. It's not that I'm heavi­
that
for the first time in the comly into soda pop, it's just that the
pan's history, Pepsi-Cola has over­
taste was one of the few dependable
taken
their product in sales. Ob­
aspects left in life. Some things
serves see Coke's and intends to
should never change, like George
keep it as an investmnet. It could be
Burn's cigar, the color of President
worth a great deal to a memorabilia
Reagan's hair, Dodger dogs, Jackie
Onassis' lifestyle, and the gap bet­ buff in years to come.
I'm tempted to buy a case or at
ween Lauren Hutton's teeth.
least a six-pack for old times' s sake.
I balked when the beverage's logo
One
day while cutting through the
went from the cursive fluid style of
lettering in “Coca-Cola” to the more alley on my away to work, I spotted
direct, “Coke.” I grimaced when the an old Coca-Cola sign which had
been discarded. Propriety and a fear
slogan no longer indentified Coke as
the “pause that refreshes” and in­ of being mistaken for a bag lady for­
bid me from rummaging through the
sisted that it was “the real thing.” I
gasped when it went from “thing” to dump to retrieve the sign, so I
“it.” I still hadn't figured out what went inside the office and asked a
nice but surprised gentleman if I
the “thing” was when “it” came
could
take the sign. It majestically
along.
graced
the wet bar area until I sold
So now they tell me that after
the home, and the sign disappeared
years of testing, they've come up
somewhere between my house and
with a better formula. I can't handle
it. And what would John Styth Pem­ the moving van.
I feel as though I'm giving up my
berton say? “Who's he?” you.ask.
childhood. My husband claims I've
Examine a can of Coca-Cola closely,
held onto it a quarter of a century too
and you won't find his name any­
where, but he's the Atlanta phar­ long anyway. No longer will that first
swig of Coke make the nerve endings
macist who 99 years ago blended
between my eyes bristle. No longer
water, sugar, coca leaves, and kola
will I turn to the beverage to settle
nuts into a sticky sweet syrup. Since
my upset tummy. No longer will I be
that time, only one ingredient was
dropped from his concoction — co­ able to dissolve grease and en­
crusted bugs from my car wind­
caine. For the record, I'm certain
shield.
that wasn't the “thing” or “it” to
All this nostalgia has made me
which the jingles-referred.
hungry.
I think I'll go out and have
Since the turn of the century, the
myself a burger, fries, and (whimper)
formula, printed on an 8V2 x 11
Coke!
” After all, things do go better
piece of paper and probably leather
with Coke, even if Coke isn 't the real
bound, has been locked in an Atlanta
bank vault the size of an average , “thing” anymore.

M1B2G2

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Van Blitter lacked the “capa­
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veys Wagon Wheel.
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Van Blitter said she wrote
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