The New Canadian — December 30, 1986

Logo contest planned

Momiji Health
Gala Evening
“event of 1987”

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Sadayo Hayashi has receiv­
ed assurance that a special
guest speaker will attend
from Queen's Park. From
New York City, a featured per­
former will join the troupe
already rehearsing under the
guidance of Irene Tsujimoto
and her assistant, Sharon
Morishita.
Kay Fujiwara has made ar­
rangements for Ed Gresko's.
five-piece orchestra to per­
formfrom 9:30 p.m. Live mu­
sicians will also provide din­
ner music.

Consul General's
New Year Levee
at JCCC January 7th
TORONTO. — The office of
the Consulate General of Ja­
pan will be holding their New
Year's Levee at the Japanese
Canadian Cultural Centre on
Wednesday, January 7th,
from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.
Consul General Hikaru Oka
extends a cordial invitation to
the all members of the Japa­
nese Canadian community.

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TORONTO. — The Japanese brate the occasion.
Canadian Cultural Centre is
The contest is open to all
approaching a major mile­ people with no age limit.
stone. The Centre was com­ There is no restriction on the
pleted in 1963 and officially number of designs a person
opened by the late Lester B. can submit. All submissions
Pearson in June 1964. There­ will become the property of
fore, the Board of Directors the Centre and cannot be re­
have announced that the Cen­ turned. Entries will be judged
tre will celebrate its 25th an­ by members of the 25th Anni­
niversary from October 1987 versary Committee. Submit
to October 1988.
your design on a white sheet
of paper approximately 8-V2
To begin celebrations, the by 11 inches. Write your
25th Anniversary Committee name and address on a separ­
is announcing a contest to ate piece of paper and attach
design the logo that we will it to the design. Mark your
use to mark the 25th anniver­ envelope “25th Anniversary
sary. The winning logo will be Logo Contest.” All entries
used on Centre stationary must be received by the Cen­
and on special memorabilia tre office by February 1,1987.
that will be produced to cele­
— JCCC

Sid Ikeda, who is planning
the whole event, states that it
will be The Event of 1987.

— JCCC

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J.C. Cultural Centre to
celebrate 25th Anniversary
starting October, 1987

TORONTO. — As a major
fund-raising event for 1987,
Momiji Health Care Society
will be holding a Gala Evening
at the Inn on the Park, Cen­
tennial Ballroom on Saturday,
April 4th.

Cocktail hour begins at 6
p.m. and a sumptuous dinner
will be served at 7 p.m. Tickets
will be available at $100 per
person. Table reservations
(10 maximum per table) may
be made through Katie Nishi­
no - 463-3681, or Mickey Kan­
eko - 267-5220.
Half of the price of the
ticket will be deductible for
income tax purpose as a do­
nation and receipts will be
issued. If donation receipts
are required for 1986 taxation
year, please reserve your tic­
kets early and the receipts
will be issued accordingly.

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Japanese Canadians urged
to attend “Joya-No-Kane”
bell ringing at Ont. Place
P Fi I M E

MINISTER

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ministry

Mila and the children join me in wishing the
readers and staff of The New Canadian, a joyful holiday
season.
The many festive celebrations and observances
taking place across Canada mark a time of joy and peace.

In declaring 1986 the International Year of
Peace, the United Nations challenged each of us to work for
peace as both individuals and as citizens of the world
community.
This season offers Canadians an opportunity to
pause and reflect upon our good fortune as a nation free of
war and civil conflict.

We are a nation of immigrants.
ror generations
people from many lands have come to this country to find a
new beginning -- to seek the peace and freedom they were
denied elsewhere.
In Canada they established a society
which honours its multicultural heritage, a fact t.hat is
apparent as a variety of celebrations take place throughout
this festive season.
May each of you
this holiday season.
And
and happiness will follow
and your community in the

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share in Lhe special spi i it of
it is my hope that peace, health
you , you r fam i1i es, your f r i ends
coming year.

TORONTO. — The “Joya-No-Kane” bell will ring out for all
Japanese Canadians on the New Year's Eve at Ontario place.
Since 1977, the Japanese Canadian Centennial Year, this
bell at Ontario Place has tolled at midnight to bring in the
New Year. 1987 is the 10th anniversary.
The people are expected to gather at Ontario Place around
11:30 p.m. and, after a brief service, the ringing will start
shortly before midnight — for 108 times.
The committee hopes that all Japanese Canadians will at­
tend this bell-tolling ceremony. Ontario Place can accom­
modate any number of people and parking is free. _______

Yutetsu Kawamura first
Albertan to receive a
Japanese Govt, award
EDMONTON. — An Alberta
man who helped relocate Ja­
panese from British Colum­
bia during the Second World
War was honored by his for­
mer country recently.
Yutetsu Kawamura, 78, was
awarded one of the Japanese
government's highest honors
— The Order of the Sacred
Treasure, Gold and Silver

Rays — at the Edmonton
home of Japan's consulate­
general to Alberta, Mamoru
Funakoshi.
Funakoshi said the medal
was the first ever given by
the Japanese government to
an Albertan.
Kawamura, who came to

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Kohaku Uta-Gassen ’86.
The success of this event was due to Japanese busi- j
nesses who supported us through their advertisements •
in the programme, who loaned us the audio equipments,
and the whole-hearted co-operation of the various Ja­
panese Canadian organizations, performers, behind-thescene helpers. We deeply appreciate the feelings of good­
will that permeated throughout the performances.
As reported previously, the net proceeds from this
event will be donated to the Momiji Health Care Complex
Building Fund.
As an event that benefits the Japanese Canadian com­
munity, we hope that this project will continue to receive
your support in the future.
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JAPANESE GARDEN SOCIETY

“Home” — Where My Heart Is
by Toyo Takata
". . . About cheese sand­
wich, how to have avoided
evacuation and coming full
circle. ”

It bagan in 1959. That was
the first time I had returned to
my home town after getting
the boot. Since then, I've
gone back on trips with the
family, for public and high
school reunions, while doing
research for my book, and for
no reason at all except nos­
talgia and the strong tie that
binds me there.
We were back this sum­
mer as a part of our Expo '86
travel. Through a stroke of
good fortune, as well as the
concern and sincerity of a
young family who was entire­
ly blameless, a part of a silver
tea set that was looted from
our home was returned to
us. I also made the round of
classmates and friends en­
ding up with a barbecue at­
tended by a dozen of them in­
cluding three from my 1927
Miss Walker's grade one
class.
According to my rough cal­
culation, that was my 19th
trip to Esquimalt, described
by Peter Newman in the Nov.
3,1986 issue of Maclean' s as
“a sleepy suburb of Victoria.”
Now, less than a month ago, I
returned from my 20th visit
since living in Ontario.
That jaunt was totally dif­
ferent from the others. I was
invited to speak at a public
meeting of a newly formed or­
ganization established to re­
surrect a Japanese garden
that was a part of Gorge Park
within the Municipality of Es­
quimalt. There were a hun­
dred people in the audience
including school friends, Es­
quimalt Mayor Ken Hill,
whose brother was a class­
mate, several old-time cus­
tomers, our former butcher
and the printer's now middleaged son who presented me
with our 1939 menu in mint
condition, the widow of the
beach lifeguard, and memora­
bilia collectors who possessed
postcards of our garden
which I had never seen
before.
Although we were the only
Nikkei family to be removed
from Esquimalt in 1942, hav­
ing lived there from 1923, and
continuously from 1927, the
West Coast naval town has
a very iong relationship with
Japan and the Japanese. In
all my research, I have not

Kozuki's were at the Esqui­
malt Hotel. Fred Kozuki, who
currently lives in Williams
Lake, B.C. was the first stu­
dent of Japanese descent at
its Lampson St. school. I fol­
lowed him ten years later to
become the second.
Across the street by the
streetcar terminal was the
Rainbow Hotel. Its cafe was
run by the Nakashima's. Mrs.
Mitsuru Nakashima, 83, who
now lives in Toronto, remem­
bers the young Japanese sai­
lors waiting to go downtown.
She could hear the officer in
charge warning his men not
to do “tachi-shoben” but to
use the washrooms, and
when they were on the tram,
they were to give their seats
to the ladies.
Both the Kozuki's and the
Nakashima's put signs out­
ESQUIMALT, B.C. - Japanese Tea in 1906 by two Issei pioneers, Yoshi- side in Japanese that there
were washrooms in their
Garden in Esquimalt, B.C. was opened jiro Kishida an Hayato Takata.
restaurants. The men lined up
to use them, but to their dis­
found an older Japanese and who is still remembered (pleasure boat) which served appointment, it did not gener­
grave than that of Midship­ in and around Victoria as tea and refreshment while be­ ate much revenue since
man Haruma Kusano of the Harry Takata, built and open­ ing towed around the gorge these sailors had little money
Japanese vessel, Kongo, ed the Japanese Tea Gardens waters.
to spend.
During World War I
who, at age 22, was buried in at Gorge Park, in Esquimalt.
The Nakashima's first
the Esquimalt Military This Park was the amuse­ (1914-18), Esquimalt was a child, now Mrs. Hatsuko
Cemetery in 1892. The first, ment centre for Greater Vic­ hive of Japanese activity. Ja­ Asada of Toronto, was the se­
Japanese ship to visit Cana­ toria residents, a sort of mini­ panese naval ships which pa­ cond Nisei to be born in Es­
da, the Tsukuba, dropped an­ Coney Island with rides, trolled the B.C. coastline quimalt, being preceded in
chor in Esquimalt more than games of chance, outdoor were in and out of Esquimalt 1915, by the Kishida son,
100 years ago, in June, 1880. theatre, dance pavilion, to load coal and other sup­ Miharu George Kishida. And I
In 1906, two Issei pioneers, bathing and boating. This plies. During this period, two finished third.
Yoshijiro Kishida and Hayato was followed by Zenkichi Nikkei familes operated res­
Now, back to by spiel. I
Takata, who was my uncle Nishimoto's yakata-bune taurants in local hotels. The readily accepted the invita­
tion by the President of the
Society to speak at their Nov­
ember meeting. The group, by
the way is called the Takata
Japanese Garden Society, a
name suggested by my friend
Dick Nakamura of Victoria
and accepted by the Commit­
tee. Dick, by the way, is the
only Japanese Canadian
member of the Society. It has
been duly registered as a
non-profit body in B.C. whose
purpose is to rebuild the
Japanese garden and tea­
house for the appreciation
and enjoyment of the general
public.
It is interesting to note that
none of the Officers of the
Society were old enough to
remember our place before it
was destroyed by vandals in
1942.1 suspect that none was
VICTORIA, B.C. — Indian canoe race the Annual Victoria Day Regatta held even born by then. It turned
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(taken 1908) was a popular feature of in the Gorge waters.

Japanese Tea Garden opened in 1906

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It was a special triumph for villand, remained in Victoria and shrubs. And after being crucible to promote friendship,
out that the Secretary's
double-dealt by the Govern­ understanding and apprecia­
grandfather was one of my the senior Kishida, the land­ during those years. But, on
ment, the custodian sent a tion between two major
uncle, Harry Takata's poker scape master. From here, he second thought, I said, I still
trading partners washed by
playing crony whose family I was commissioned by Jenny wasn't prepared to eat cheque for $440.89, the net
proceeds to be split between the Pacific Ocean.
knew and remember better Butchart to work on her Ja­ cheese sandwich. That was
my father and uncle, for a tea­
panese project, by Senator worth a good laugh.
than she.
Only time will determine
That gave me a chance to house and garden that ex­
I opened my talk with a Frank Barnard on his estate,
whether the Society will
sentence lifted from Peter and by the coal-mining indus­ note the dramatic change of isted for 36 years.
I
concluded
my
talk
with
reach their objective. But I am
Newman's Maclean's article trialist, B.C. Premier (1900-02) beliefs and attitudes.
some of my ideas as to what impressed, and indeed, very
discribing an election rally and Lieutenant-governor Although we were raised in a
the teahouse-garden com­ grateful, for their dedication
held by Premier Bill Vander (1906-09) James Dunsmuir at non-Japanese community, all
plex should be. I visualized a and effort that they are
Zalm in Esquimalt in which Hatley Castle, now Royal six in our family married
row of Japanese cherry trees devoting to their purpose.
he writes about the audience Roads Military College out­ Japanese. Today, I said, I
have a daughter, four nieces along the shoreline, an Never in my wildest fantasy
being “made up mostly of de­ side Victoria.
But the heydays couldn't and two nephews, all married, elaborate miniature garden could I have dreamed up what
cent, middle-aged, middle­
(haku-niwa) that was a they are attempting. What is
class citizens confused and last forever. People were but none to a Japanese.
But even Esquimalt, I rea­ feature, and a place for out­ particularly noteworthy is
troubled by a world they seeking other excitement and
door musical program or that all the key people in­
never made.” I enjoyed family cars were providing lized, has changed.The Presi­ demonstration of martial
volved are relatively young
chiding the meeting about more mobility. And the fire in dent of the Society, Floyd
1925 that destroyed much of Cowan, is married to an Ira­ arts. Then, inside the temple­ men and women who never
those remarks.
like structure which would knew us, so it's not for the
Then I knew exactly what I the amusement area just nian. It was not until I reach­ house the tearoom, giftshop­
sake of nostalgia that they
about killed Gorge Park. And ed Nanaimo that I learnt that
wanted to say next:
art gallery, a library which have become committed.
“It's always good to come that's where we came in, too the new MPP for Esquimalt could serve as a resource
was a lawyer of Pakistani des­
home. Although I've lived in late.
To realize that we who
I strongly suspect that Mr. cent. No one in Esquimalt centre for students studying
Toronto far longer than in Es­
or interested in Japan and the were considered to be
quimalt and although I was Kishida realized that the thought it was news enough Japanese, and rooms to hold devious and something less
chased out of here, this (Es­ business was in a tailspin so to tell me.
Back to my discussion. I lectures, demonstrations, than Canadian are now to be
quimalt) is still my home. I in 1923, he gladly sold out to
workshops and film screen­ remembered and honoured
was born here, I was edu­ my father who was then related that from the day after ing of many aspects of by a Society that bears our
we left, vandals were busy
cated here. My roots are here, fishing at Rivers Inlet.
family name is incredible. We
My story in Esquimalt, and people came in trucks to Japanese culture. I further
my friends are here. But,
noted that it could be the have truly come full circle.
above all, My Heart is Still however, begins in 1927, dig up and cart away the trees
returning there after 11/2
Here.”
I got a great ovation, and all unhappy years in Hiroshima.
That same year, I was enroll­
went well.
Then I proceeded to relate ed at Lampson St., with little
that Mr. Kishida brought over knowledge of English and
his father, Isaburo, a profes­ without kindergarten prepara­
sional gardener in Yokohama, tion. I told the gathering that
to design and oversee the among them were a couple of
construction of the garden. girls (now women) with whom
Local Japanese laborers to I started school nearly 60
clean out the brush, cut down years ago, but I wouldn' t em­
the trees, remove the stumps, barrass them by pointing
to level and contour the land them out. (After the meeting,
S 8 X 1 rt
in the days before dump one of them, Barbara, a hum­
trucks, power tools and bull­ dinger of a looker at high
dozers, that they really carved school and a long-time friend,
460 Dundas St. West
out a Japanese garden out of said she wouldn't have cared
the Canadian wilderness with if I did.)
Toronto, Ont. M5T 1G9
And I talked about that very
their hands, sweat and mus­
first day at school, the only
cle.
non-hakujin, frightened and
When the Japanese Tea surrounded by dozens of
Gardens opened in 1906, it curious kids sticking close to
was an instant hit. This was my only friend, Bob Webster.
the time before the automobile When noon came, I didn't br­
age, so Victorians seeking ing a lunch so Bob shared his
pleasure and relaxation could with me. I bit into his sand­
only go as far as their legs or wich. Ugh, that was terrible, I
the streetcar could take could still taste it. That was
them. People claimed that cheese sandwich, I told the
the Japanese Tea Gardens audience, and I've never had
served better tea than the cheese (grilled cheese ex­
Empress and its poached cepted) sandwich since, as
eggs on toast was the best in my wife and family well know.
Then I continued about the
town. I mentioned this in my
talk and I spotted two elderly ups and downs, mostly
ladies in the audience nod­ downs, of our Tea Gardens,
ding approvingly. The Japan­ plus bits and pieces of my life
ese Tea Gardens and Gorge in Esquimalt, particularly at
First Rexdale Place :
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Len Shimoda, C.A., Henry Coke, CA, Sheldon Lerman, C.A.,
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A Silent Flash of Light
The following is a memoir by Mrs. Setsuko Thur­
low, a survivor of the Atomic bombing of Hiroshi­
ma. She recalls the nightmare world of August 6th,
1945 when the Americans dropped the atomic bomb
wiping out family, friends, and the city itself at one
cruel stroke. Mrs. Thurlow's article, published here
with permission from Saturday Night won the 1986
Author's Award from the Foundation for the Advan­
cement of Canadian Letters.

By SETSUKO THURLOW
Forty-one years ago, on
August 6, 1945, the day the
United States dropped the
atomic bomb on Hiroshima,
I was a thirteen-year-old stu­
dent at Hiroshima Jogakuin,
a girls' school. Approximate­
ly 140,000 people died as a
result of that single bomb. I
was among the survivors and
much of my life has been
spent trying to prevent a
repetition of the horror and
suffering that I witnessed.
Those of us who crawled
from the rubble glimpsed the
nuclear apocalypse that now
threatens the entire world. I
tell my story not to elicit sym­
pathy but as a warning.
My life before the bombing
was, in some respects, ex­
ceptional for a young Japa­
nese girl. My family was of
the samurai class. Although
the samurai had long since
lost their feudal privileges,
a definite social prestige was
still attached to those of
samurai ancestry. There was
a sign on the gate outside our
large house in Hiroshima in­
dicating we were samurai.
We were also exceptional
because of our knowledge of
the West. Before the war,
my father and his German
partner had run a thriving
fruit business in California,
the Western Fruit Company.
Some of my six sibblings
were born there. Our family
was familiar with middle­
class Western entertainments
such as golf and skiing — ac­
tivities most Japanese knew
almost nothing about but
wanted to learn.
I was born Setsuko Naka­
mura in Hiroshima on Janu­
ary 3, 1932. Most of my
brothers and sisters were
already young adults. As a
result, I grew up as an only
child, precocious and pam­
pered in a world of adults.
There were many happy times
for me, but war was always in
the background. I remember
the radio announcement of
the beginning of the war bet­
ween Japan and the United
States. I was nine years old.
Stirring martial music pre­
ceded reports of military and
naval victories; but, as the
years of the Pacific war pass­
ed, the music became som­
bre. Heavy losses were con­

into units, each headed by a
chairman responsible for or­
ganizing civil defence pro­
cedures. Women were not
allowed to wear skirts or high
heels; instead, they wore
functional baggy pants for
freer movement in emergen­
cies. When we went out, we
had to carry a cloth bag with
a first-aid kit and a bag of
roasted beans so we would
not starve if stranded. At
night, all the windows had to
be covered to prevent enemy
planes from targeting the
houses. Our sleep was
always interrupted by air­
“Tea cups and rice bowls were melted together, but we
raid sirens. We slept in our
clothes, ready to run to a were able to salvage an ornate clock in a cast iron frame.
I have it still.”
shelter.
Normal classroom activity
ceased and school children were chosen for the task. It Ayako and her son set out for
were mobilized. At the time of shows how desperate Japan the doctor and beauty par­
the atomic blast, most was that thirteen-year-old lour. At about 7:45,1 left home
students in grades seven and school girls were put in and walked to the railway sta­
eight — more than 6,000 — charge of such important in­ tion to meet my group of
were working near the centre formation. We didn't know, students, of whom I was the
of the city, preparing fire of course, that the United leader. We formed ranks and
lanes, wide paths made to States had long since broken at my order of “Quick
march!” we paraded off to
prevent the spread of fires our codes.
after bombing. Houses had to
As the summer wore on,
be pulled down to create the the expected attack on Hiro­
paths. Assisted by adult vol­ shima still did not come. Peo­
unteers the students had the ple became increasingly jit­
job of clearing timbers and tery, wondering if perhaps
tiles.
the Americans had some spe­
I didn't work on the fire cial plan for us.
lanes. Along with about thirty
My first day as a fullgirls from my school, I was
given special training to help fledged decoding assistant
decode messages from the was to begin at 8 a.m. on
front lines. It was compli­ Monday, August 6, 1945 —
cated work requiring quick exactly fifteen minutes be­
adding and subtracting, and fore the atomic bomb erupted
rapid consultation of code over the city. The previous
books. Only the top students evening, my thirty-one-yearAfter the explosion Setsu­
old sister, Ayako, and her
four-year-old son Eiji, had ar­ ko's thirty-one-year-o/d sis­
rived in Hiroshima from the ter, Ayako, and four-year-old
country. She had come for a nephew, Eiji, suffered for 10
brief visit, to see a doctor days before finally dying.
about a sty that was bother­
ing her and to get a perma­
the army headquarters, a big
nent at a beauty parlour.
wooden building about 1.8
Ayako's husband was away
kilometres from the centre
at war, and she had moved
from Hiroshima to the coun­ of the city. After smartly
saluting the sentry at the
try to protect their son from
entrance, we were met by
the expected air raid.
That night there were the Major Yanai, who was in
usual air-raid warnings, and charge of the coding opera­
we slept badly. But the next tions. We assembled in a
morning the all clear sound­ large room on the second
ed, and people set about their floor. Major Yanai gave us a
pep talk, telling us to have a
everyday tasks. It was a
good day and urging us to
In the garden of the family home, seven-year-old Setsuko beautiful summer day, with a
work hard for the emperor's
(second from left) poses with her mother, Father and other clear blue sky. I rose from
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bed at 6:30 and had breakfast.
members of the Nakamura family.

stantly reported, and we were
reminded of our commitment
to the emperor. Things grew
steadily worse. Everything —
clothes and especially food
— was rationed. We mixed
our rice with-cracked wheat
or whatever was available;
sugar was scarce.
I remember, one day near
the end of the war, going
upstairs in our house and
finding my father sitting at
a low-legged table. He was
reading a foreign publication.
When I asked what it was, he
said, “It's an English gram­
mar book.” I was surprised.
He said, “Well, I think we're
going to be needing this.” At
the time, this remark didn't
mean much to me. Now I
realize that he knew Japan
was almost defeated. He had
lived in the United States and
was well aware of its tremen­
dous strength.
That spring and summer,
the American forces captured
the airfields on the island of
Saipan, Tinian, and Iwo Jima,
which meant their airplanes
could attack our
cities.
Shortly before the bombing
of Hiroshima, they launched
terrible raids on Tokyo and
other major cities. We knew
that it was just a question of
time before Hiroshima was
attacked. With a population
of 370,000 and a good port
from which military person­
nel were shipped to the battle
fronts of the Pacific, our city
was a prime target.
We tried to prepare our­
selves. The city was divided

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sake. Just as we said, "Yes! so, to a hill side where we'd started to burn.
us just stood in stunned
Ayako and Eiji? They could
We had an agreement in no longer walk, and if you silence.
We'll do our best,” the en­ been told to go in case of
tire window was filled with a emergency. On the hill, I look­ our family that, if anything touched them, the flesh came
The day after the surren­
ed at Hiroshima. Everything happened, we'd escape to off. My father couldn't go der, we moved to our uncle's
bluish-white flash.
I heard no explosion. Miles was in flames, black smoke the Fuchu area — a suburb of to the shelter and leave my house just outside the city.
out of the city, people appa­ and dust filled the sky, and it Hiroshima where a relative sister lying in the room, so His wife and two daughters
lived. My mother went there he tried to carry her. She never returned from Hiroshi­
rently heard a thunderous got darker and darker.
At the foot of the hill immediately, but my father screamed with pain. It was ma. Fortunately, our uncle
roar. But like all survivors
close to the hypocentre, I was an army training ground. went to a relative's summer awful, but he didn't have the had food for us and some
heard nothing. There was just Every inch of it was covered house in a different suburb. heart to leave her.
clothing, and let us live in a
the silent flash. The moment I with the dead and dying. He'd heard that Ayako and
After ten days, Ayako and tenant farmer's house on his
Eiji
had
survived
and
were
There
were
tens
of
thousands
saw it, I tried to duck under a
Eiji died.
I watched their property. Life was a question
there.
I
am
not
sure
how
my
desk. But I had a sensation of of them, groaning and begg­
blackened, swollen bodies of sheer survival.
floating. Together with the ing for water. Those of us parents were reunited, but it being unceremoniously cre­
At this time, one of our
building, my body was falling. that could walk went down is likely that they met the mated in a ditch. The soldiers main activities was searching
When I regained conscious­ and tried to help. Everybody next morning at the summer soaked them in gasoline, lit a for my sister-in-law, who'd
ness, I found myself in wanted water. They were suf­ house. The same morning, match and set them ablaze. been at the centre of the city
silence and darkness, buried fering the most terrible sen­ my father set out to look for They had to turn the bodies at the time of the bombing.
under the debris of the sation of heat and dehydra­ me. He'd heard that the peo­ over with bamboo sticks so For days we sifted through
building. I thought a bomb tion. We didn't, however, ple from the military head­ that they would burn. They rubble, turning over the char­
had dropped right on me. have cups or containers to quarters where I worked had talked while they worked. red corpses. We also busied
Everybody in the city had this carry water. We went to the escaped to the hill. I heard “Oh, the stomach is only half ourselves with trying to find
impression.
nearby stream and took off my name being called by a burnt,” they said. “The brain personal belongings. We went
Lying in the rubble, I could- our blouses and soaked them. soldier: Nakamura Setsuko!” is not quite burned.” I could back to where our house had
n't move and I knew I was Then we rushed back and put I replied, “Here I am!” And not even cry, and my memory stood. There was little but
faced with death. Mysterious­ the cloths over the mouths of there was my father. He said of this bothered me for a long ashes and broken tiles. Tea
ly, I never had a feeling of the dying. They desperately a simple “Yokatta,” which time afterward. Similar ex­ cups and rice bowls were
panic. I felt calm. After a sucked at the moisture. That means “Thank goodness periences are reported by melted and stuck together,
you 're alive!” Fora long time other survivors. One of my but we were able to salvage
while, I started hearing my was ail we could do.
We kept busy at this task we said nothing more.
classmates. In weak voices,
classmates told me of not be­ an ornate clock in a cast-iron
My father and I then joined ing able to cry when she re­ frame. (I have it still.) Though
they were asking for God. all day. When night came, we
“God help me,” they said. sat on the hill watching my mother, Ayako, and Eiji in turned to what had been her we searched through Septem­
“Mother help me.” At that massive fires sweep over the the summer house. My sister home and found the burnt ber, we never found my sistermoment, I felt a hand touch­ city. In the morning I saw that and her little boy were alive, corpses of her entire family.
in-law.
ing my left shoulder. It was Hiroshima had been com­ but in terrible condition.
Last summer I was talking
Much later in life, when I
At
the
time
of
the
explo
­
someone buried near me. pletely levelled. The moun­
began to study the psycho­ to her son, who was at their
sion,
they
had
been
crossing
Then hands started loosen­ tain at the end of the city,
logical effects of the atomic house outside the city at the
ing the timbers around me. In which ordinarily had appear­ a bridge on their way to the bomb, I understood better the time of the bombing. He is
the darkness, I heard a male ed so far away, now seemed doctor. There was nothing to emotional numbness we felt. now a professor of electro­
voice. “Look,” he said, close. It was obvious that we shield them from the searing In Death in Life, a book on nics at Hiroshima University
“don't g ive up! Keep had experienced something heat, which at the hypocentre Hiroshima survivors by the of Engineering. I asked how
pushing, keep moving. I'm other than conventional bom­ was 6,000°C. Many people American psychiatrist Robert he felt about the fact that his
helping you. See that sun ray bing. Hell seemed to have were simply vaporized.. My Jay Litton, I learned about mother never came back. He
coming through?” There was been unleashed from a clear sister and herchild, who were what he calls “psychic clos­ said that it had taken him
a glimmer of light to my left. blue sky.
farther from the blast, were ing-off,” a paralysis of the a long time to face it. He was
The man said, “Get moving,
It would be a long time covered with hideous burns. mind that prevents stimuli just five years old at the time
and crawl through that open­ before most survivors heard Somehow Ayako was able to that are too hideous from of the bombing. Though he'd
ing.” I couldn't see him, but the words “atomic bomb.” crawl with her son back to entering the consciousness. I been told that his mother was
the two of us crawled out of But I heard them the very day where our house stood. There believe it was this numb­ gone, he went back to the
the darkness. The building of the disaster, while sitting a neighbour saw my sister ness that enabled me to con­ train station every day and
had started burning.
on a hill side watching the digging in the ruins of the tinue functioning in a night­ waited for her to come home
My clothes were tattered city burn. Major Yanai, our house. From the rubble she mare world where everything from work in Hiroshima. He
and covered with blood. I had boss at the decoding head­ extracted a bottle of cooking familiar to me — home, did this for several months.
cuts and scratches all over quarters, was standing be­ oil — apparently to soothe friends, school, the very city
In mid - September, five
me, but all my extremities side me. Looking at the their burns. My sister asked itself — had been obliterated weeks after the bombing, a
were there. I looked around destruction below, he said, the neighbour to help her get at one stricke.
typhoon struck Hiroshima.
me. Even though it was morn­ “This must have been the to our relative's summer
On August 15, nine days Returning home, I was caught
ing, the sky was dark, as new bomb the Americans house. This neighbour car­ after the bombing, soldiers in the rain. I had to wade
dark as twilight. Then I saw have been developing. The ried Eiji, who was nearly came around with megapho­ knee-deep through a flooded
streams of human beings atomic bomb.” As a decoding dead, while Ayako virtually nes saying that there would area where garbage and ex­
shuffling away from the cen­ specialist, he knew secret crawled alongside with the be an important announce­ crement were floating. For
tre of the city. Parts of information. His words, of bottle of cooking oil in her ment on the radio at noon. the first time since the bomb­
their bodies were missing. course, meant nothing to me arms. By the time I saw them We were told to assemble on ing, I broke down and sobbed.
Their eyes had been liquified. at the time. Ten days later, the next morning, their a nearby hill side for the When I got home, drenched
They had blackened skin, and posters started going up bodies were swollen to twice special broadcast. My father and exhausted, I cried out
strips of flesh hung like rib­ on telephone poles saying: normal size. Their skin was and I joined the crowd. From my misery to my father. He
bons from their bones. There “HIROSHIMA WAS DEVAS­
melted and covered with leak­ a loudspeaker in the tree scolded me. “What right do
was an awful smell, but it was TATED BY A NEW TYPE OF ing blisters.
branches came the emperor's you have to complain,” he
a bit like broiled fish.
BOMB.” A primitive scienti­
For ten days we stayed in voice. The quality of the demanded, “when we have
The strangest thing was fic description followed. The that house, with my sister sound was very poor, and we life, each other, and a roof
the silence. It is one of the Japanese term it used and her child dying in slow were not used to the em­ over our heads?”
most unforgettable impres­ means, literally, “the bomb agony, with no medication. peror's formal court IanAt first I was devastated by
sions I have. You'd think that which pulls the light.”
They couldn't eat anything. age. But we were able to his lecture. But eventually his
people would be panic-strick­
When the bomb exploded, The little boy would cry, understand that he was an­ words made sense, and forc­
en, running, yelling. Not at my father was fishing on “Grandma, give Eiji boo­ nouncing Japan's decision ed me to come to terms with
Hiroshima. They moved in the Inland Sea, one of his boo.” Boo-boo is a child's to surrender. He mentioned the reality of our lives. My
slow motion, like figures in favourite pastimes. From his word for water. But we could- the destruction of Hiroshima parents set a remarkable ex­
a silent movie, shuffling boat, about ten kilometres n't give either of them water and Nagasaki (which was ample. They never once com­
through the dust and smoke. from Hiroshima, he saw the because we were told by the bombed three days after Hi­ plained. They'd lost every­
I heard thousands of people mushroom cloud rise over the soldiers that if we did it roshima). He seemed to be thing, yet were not defeated.
breathing the words, “Water, city. Immediately he came would quicken their deaths.
saying that the fates of these Maybe that's stoicism of the
give me water.” Many simply ashore and rushed back to
Enemy planes were still fly­ cities had something to do son and daughter of the
dropped to the ground and the city on foot. My mother ing over Hiroshima to inspect with the decision to sur­ samurai. I don't know. But
died.
was clearing the breakfast the destruction. Each time render. The emperor closed that remark of my father's
With a few of my class­ dishes at the time of the the planes came, we had to by saying that he expected gave me the strength to re­
mates who were able to crawl explosion. She was buried escape to shelter. It was easy his subjects to bear the sume life, to rebuild. That
out, I joined the ghostly pro­ under our house, but man­ for me to run to the shelter, unbearable. A few soldiers
cession. We walked a mile or aged to free herself before it but what were we to do with broke into tears, but most of
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day marked the end of my My parents and I continued from an American bomb test white races of Europe. When­ dying at Hiroshima. The only
emotional numbness. I had living outside the city. My at the Bikini atoll killed a ever I was asked to give a moral response I could make
faced the facts of our terrible school eventually moved from Japanese fisherman, sicken­ speech or was approached was to shout indignantly at
deprivation and misery. Now the temporary shelter on the ed the rest of the crew, and for an interview, I did what I the judge, “But people are
I was determined to carry on. hill to a proper building near contaminated vital fishing could to inform Canadians. still dying!” I expected to be
Around October, my school the centre of the city. I con­ waters. The whole of Japan But it wasn't until that con­ thrown out of court or charg­
reopened. The original build­ tinued my studies through was bubbling over with fury. ference in Hiroshima in 1974 ed with contempt but, the
ing had been destroyed, but high school and college in Asked what I felt, I said that I began to take an active next thing I knew, one of
the school had property in Hiroshima.
that Hiroshima and Nagasaki role in the peace movement. the defendants, a former U.S.
the hills where a temporary
Though Hiroshima appear­ should have marked the end I decided to seek out oppor­ Marine captain, put his arm
shelter was built. It was just ed to be rebuilding itself, it of nuclear experiments, not tunities rather than to wait around me and began to sing,
a hut with a corrugated tin was a long time before the the beginning. After my re­ passively.
“We shall not be moved.”
Back in Toronto, I gathered Others joined in. The judge
roof. Every time it rained, the psychological suffering of marks were published, I re­
noise was so great we could- the victims abated. During ceived letters telling me: a group of trusted friends lost control of the courtroom
n't hear the teachers. There the seven years of the U.S. “Go home!” “Remember from various professions, in­ and had to call a recess.
were no windows, so the occupation, the Americans Pearl Harbor!”
Several cluding clergymen, scien­
Have I made a full psycho­
wind blew in and we froze. imposed a press ban on all threatened death. I was badly tists, a lawyer, a sociologist,
But we didn't mind. We were information regarding the shaken, and for a time won­ a writer, and another survivor logical recovery from Hiro­
happy to be reunited and to bombings. The Americans dered if I should speak out from Hiroshima. Together we shima? Am I still haunted? I
feel life return to some said that this was to prevent again. In the end, the incident planned and carried out prog­ am having a full, rich life,
degree of normality.
the expression of anti-Ameri­ only strengthened my com­ rammes of public conscious­ and I am grateful. Heel I am
ness raising, such as exhibi­ a full-fledged Canadian. I en­
We rejoiced in our survival, can sentiment. But many Ja­ mitment.
but this didn't last long. panese concluded it was to
After my year in Virginia, I tion of photographs donated joy social work. I have raised
Mysterious symptoms had prevent the world from learn­ married a Canadian I had met by the city councils of Hi­ two fine sons. I think I am
appeared in the survivors im­ ing about the horrors of nuc­ before leaving Japan. (My roshima and Nagasaki show­ socially productive, and that
mediately following the blast. lear war.
husband had been working ing the devastation caused has always been important to
me. But I suppose that to
Like many others, I'd ex­
For ten years, the Japa­ near Osaka as an English by the atomic bombs. Since
perienced internal bleeding, nese government did not give teacher with the United then, I've also spoken exten­ some extent it is necessary
diarrhoea and bleeding of the medical or monetary assist­ Church of Canada.) When he sively in the U.S., Japan, and to lead a double life. Not just
for survivors like myself, but
gums. We'd also begun to ance to survivors. Finally it returned from Japan in 1955, Britain.
On several occasions I for everyone in the world. We
lose our hair. I didn't lose as was pressured to do so by we married in Washington,
much as some girls, who be­ survivors' lobby groups. The D.C. (there was a law against have been asked to testify make plans for the future
came completely bald. They'd survivors, feeling abandoned interracial marriage in Virgi­ in defence of peace activists assuming that there will be a
appear at school wearing by their own government, had nia and another law against accused of non-violent civil tomorrow; at the same time,
bonnets. Then people quietly to mourn quietly in isolation. Asian immigration into Can­ disobedience. I tried to tes­ we know that we and every­
started dying — even those Only in 1952, after the occu­ ada except for close relatives tify at a trial of activists in one dear to us could be inci­
without any external sign of pation, were we able to dis­ of Canadian citizens). We Lowell, Massachusetts, but nerated today.
In the Peace Park in Hiro­
injury. They started develop­ cuss our experiences public­ moved to Toronto, and I the judge would not let me.
shima, there is a cenotaph
ing small purple spots on ly. A flood of information on enrolled at the University of He said that Hiroshima hap­
with the inscription: “Rest
their bodies. Some students Hiroshima and Nagasaki be­ Toronto where I received a pened so long ago that it was
in peace; the mistake will
stopped showing up at came available.
Gradually master's degree in social not relevant. At that moment, not be repeated.” This has
I had a mental immage of my
school. Our teacher would people started coming out work.
become the vow of the sur­
In Canada, I was again ap­ sister and her child, my aunt
say, “Miss so-and-so isn't of their emotional numb­
vivors. Only then will our own
with us today.” Then we'd ness. They wrote memoirs proached by the media for my and uncle, and the thousands survival have meaning.
hear that she died. We knew and articles. They drew and views on nuclear war. With I had seen „suffering and
that it was related to the pur­ painted what they remem­ Canadians I found not hosti­
ple spots. Every morning we bered. They began making lity so much as apathy and
would check for them. If you public speeches and involv­ ignorance. Many Canadians,
had the spots, you were ing themselves in political and particularly the press,
action. By doing so, they not saw my experience in Hiro­
going to die.
My favourite aunt and uncle only aided their own psycho­ shima as good human inter­
died this way. Even though logical recovery, they began est story but nothing more.
they were far from the blast, to warn the world about the They were unwilling to iden­
tify nuclear weapons as their
on the outskirts of the city, danger of nuclear weapons.
they started developing the
I became actively involved problem. It was easy to look
from the members of
symptoms. My parents look­ in this mission in 1974, after at atomic bombs as a Japa­
ed after them as they died. attending a disarmament con­ nese or an American matter,
According to my mother, their ference in Hiroshima. There I forgetting that Americans
internal organs and tissues came into contact with other used Canadian uranium to
OF TORONTO
seemed to be rotting, melting survivors, courageous people make the bomb, or that Prime
and coming out in a black, who had transcended their Minister Mackenzie King re­
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marked
that
he
was
glad
the
watery liquid. They had to personal tragedies and were
themselves
to bomb was dropped on the
wear diapers. My mother used devoting
whatever was available. For a peace. While peace and dis­ Japanese and not on the
while she used old kimonos. armament had been import­
When these ran out, she had ant to me before, I realized
to use newspapers. Finally that they'd now be the focus
my aunt and uncle died, like of my life. This reordering of
thousand of others. Only later my priorities was liberating
would we learn about radia­ and empowering; in many
tion sickness. This was one ways it was similar to a reli­
of the many hideous aspects gious conversion.
Befor 1974, I had not been
of Hiroshima — the slow,
incomprehensible radiation completely silent on the
issue of nuclear weapons.
deaths.
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Those who endorse nuclear After graduating from college
NASHUA - DISKETTES
BROTHER - PRINTERS
DISC PACKS
EPSON - PRINTERS
weapons don't think of this, in Hiroshima in 1954, I re­
PLESSEY
D.E.C. COMPATIBLE SYSTEM
MANNESMANN
TALLY
PRINTERS
of the horrible and barbaric ceived a scholarship to study
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MEGABASE - DISKETTE STORAGE SYSTEM
effects on living people. They in the United States. I studied
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think of strategy and statis­ sociology for a year at Lynch­
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burg College in Virginia.
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tics.
When
I
arrived,
I
was
inter
­
Over the next few months,
people gradually began to viewed by newspaper report­
move back into the city. Like ers about Hiroshima, and
many others, my brother, about my feelings on the
who'd returned from the war, hydrogen bomb tests of the
cleared some ground and 1950s. It so happened that
built a hut. He lived there five months before I left
with his wife and daughter. Japan for the U.S., the fallout

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TORONTO, ONTARIO M5S 1R1
TELEPHONE 921-2338

116 GUELPH STREET
GEORGETOWN, ONTARIO L7G 4A3
TELEPHONE 877-0145

Dr. & Mrs. E. Hisaki & Family

R. R. 2, ACTON, ONTARIO

55 ONTARIO STREET SOUTH, SUITE 23
MILTON MALL, MILTON, ONTARIO L9T 2M3
TELEPHONE 878-2874

Mr. & Mrs. Kanekichi Hisaki
Mrs. Hatsuye Hirabayashi

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A Happy New Year To All

Restaurant
Seafood
On December 31st, 1986 at 7 p.m.
we are having our
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Japanese Seafood Restaurant
55 Adelaide Street East
Toronto, Ontario

2nd annual
New Years Eve Dinner
and
Karaoke Party
The dinner is an authentic style

have in Japan at New Years,
it is called Osechi Ryori.
Usually this food is
eaten on New Years day.
Dinner will be served at 7 p.m.
Karaoke will start after dinner.
Later in the evening
we will have dancing.

Included in the dinner is
1 drink per person

362-7373

The Price: $60.00 per person
(tax and service charge included)

* Bento box to be taken as gift *

Fred Kumoi & Staff

ADVANCED TICKETS ONLY
Phone 362-7373 (ask Roy)
55 Adelaide St. E. Toronto, Ont.

Season 's Greetings
UOYASU
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Hakkusai
Daikon, etc.

818 EASTERN AVENUE
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Tuesday, December 30, 1986

NEW

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CANADIAN

What's “news” in Japan?
By ROY ITO
This past October, I was a
member of a tour group spon­
sored by the S-20 and Nisei
Veterans Association, visit­
ing Hokkaido and Tohoku in
Japan, China and Hong Kong,
Bangkok and Singapore.
I dicovered that visitors to
Japan can purchase interest­
ing, well-written English lan­
guage newspapers. On one
day, November 13, my eyes
caught several articles which
I thought might be of interest
to readers of The New Canadiam
Former Vancouverites will
remember the name Yoshie
Fujiwara who came to Van­
couver to sing in the Japan­
ese Hall on Alexander Street.
I spotted his name in the
Japan Times:
Imao Hirano, a poety and scholar
of French literature, died of cardiac
Infarction Tuesday at Matsudo Muni­
cipal Hospital in Chiba Prefecture.
He was 86.
In 1953, Hirano, together with
opera singer Yoshie Fujiwara, form­
ed Remi no Kai, a group for protec­
ting children of mixed parentage
against discrimination. In those
days, prejudice against such chil­
dren was strong In Japan.
Hirano's father was a French
American and his mother a Japan­
ese. Fujiwara was also a child of
mixed parentage. .
When he was 18 years old, Hirano
published a Japanese translation of
selected works by Maupassant.
He turned out about 300 books, in­
cluding a translation of Poe's “The
Murder In the Rue Morgue.”

was very surprised to see a sumo
wrestler speaking English so fluent­
ly. Though I could not understand
what he was saying at ail, I waitched
him and listened to him with great in­
terest. He was certainly a sumo
wrestler with his “chonmage” on his
head. I called to my mother in the kit­
chen, “Hey Mother, a sumo wrestler
is speaking English.” She came to
the television and said “Oh, it's Ta­
kamiyama. He was born and brought
up in Hawaii.”
Since that time, I have been in­
terested In Takamiyama. Before that
I don't think I liked sumo very much,
because it takes five minutes for the
wrestling to start. In the ring, two
wrestlers stare at each other again
and again. As soon as the match
begins, it finishes, In most cases,
within 30 seconds. So I always got
bored, But Takamiyama was an ex­
ception. He pleased me with his
humorous gestures every time he ap­
peared on television.
One day at school, our English
teacher came over and asked me to
take part In the recitation contest.
He showed me some materials and
asked me to chose one of them.
Among them I found a story about
Takamiyama. I chose it instantly. I
memorized the story and learned a
lot about Takamiyama. I was lucky
enough to get the first prize in the
contest. Perhaps I did this well,
because I was so interested in Ta­
kamiyama.
Let me tell you a little about him.
The first Japanese word he learn­
ed was “Shimbo” (endurance). He
could not speak Japanese and could
not eat Chanko-nabe. He had special
training day after day. When he rose
up to juryo, he said, “Sekitorl is in
heaven, and makushita is in hell.”
Takamiyama pushed Yokozuna out
of the ring 20 times In his sumo
life. At other times he quickly lost
matches and showed his regret with
his huge body. He pleased all sumo
fans even when he lost.
One day when he was in Kyushu,
one of his sons wrote him. The letter
read:
Dear Dad,
Why did you fall down? Try your
best!
He was greatly encouraged by this
letter and the next day he pushed a
yokozuna out of the ring.
He left the ring In 1984 leaving
some great records In the history of
sumo: He wrestled 1,231 times In
makuuchl, 1,654 times in his long
20-year career of sumo, of course,
without any absence.
He also left one funny record: He
was 192 centimeters tall and at one
time weighed 192 kilograms.
Takamiyama pleased all sumo fans
in every way. But the reason why
he was loved by everyone was his
serious and optimistic attitude tow­
ard his life itself.
In our mind Takamiyama is and will
continue to be the great grand cham­
pion forever.

The Daily Yomiuri, on the
same date, printed the full
texts of speeches of the first,
second and third prizewin­
ners in the 38th H.I.H. Prince
Takamatsu Trophy All Japan
inter-Middle School English
Oratorical Contest held in
Tokyo. Twenty-seven students
took part.
A student from Urasoe Mid­
dle School was awarded first
prize for his talk on “The
Dignity of Human Life”. I
found the second and third
winners speeches interesting
reading. The title of the se­
cond winner, “The Cherry
Trees Taught Me Why I Should
Learn English” was intriguing,
while the third place winner's
tale on “Takamiyama and I”
A contribution by Ciark B.
had me engrossed since at that Offner of Nagoya to the Ja­
time the big sumo tourna­ pan Times was amusing but it
ments were being held in left me thinking. Have you
Fukuoka and I had become ever noticed that two married
acquainted with terms like people tend to look alike after
yokozunka, ozeki, and fasci­ a number of years? Will Cana­
nating names like Chiyonofuji, Futahaguro which had dian diet and immersion in
me glued to the TV set with Canadian culture change the
appearance of people of Ja­
the rest of Japan.
panese descent living in Ca­
nada?
Takamiyama And I
By Kei Tanaka
Yamagata 6th Middle School
I am very proud of my long 20-year
career In sumo,” said Takamiyama
when he left the sumo ring at the
age of 39.
One day, when I was an elementary
student, I turned on the television as
soon as I came home from school. I

“gray.” And in reference to faces,
the color changes to “pale” or
“pallid.” Since my genealogical
heritage is seven-eighths German
and one-eighths English, in my Ame­
rican homeland, the natives could
consider me a “paleface”, and that
must have been the Impression I
gave to Japanese when I came to this
land as a green missionary some
decades ago.
During my early years In this coun­
try, I will admit that there were times
when I felt a bit blue, but I will always
treasure the “compliment” I was
paid quite unknowingly by a little
Japanese boy who lived In the neigh­
borhood of our church. I frequently
saw him when going to or from the
church and he had attended one
of our special children's meetings
there.
One day, he was playing with a
friend In the narrow street next to the
church. Greeting them as I passed
by, I entered the church and, through
an open window, heard the boy's
playmate say to him with a note of
surprise: “Hey! That was a foreign­
er!” “Naw,” replied the neighbor­
hood boy, “it's only his face!”
Hearing this comment, I felt that my
efforts to identify with the people I
had come to serve were not entirely
futile.

The Japanese color ao(i) has a
wide breadth of meaning. Referring to
the sky, it is translated “blue.” When
speaking of paddy fields or traffic
lights, It becomes “green.”
However, an ao-uma is “a horse of
a different color” and that color is

SHIATSU DOHJOH
Again in 1987, Shiatsu Dohjoh
intends to put forth its best effort
to develop Shiatsu Therapy
in Canada

822 Broadview Avenue,
Toronto — 466-8780

Compliments of the Season
from

Mr. & Mrs. Edward T. Ouchi
307 - 24th Street
Vernon, B.C. V1T 7M2
(604) 542-6817

(Cont. on page 12)

Season's Greetings
Toronto Japanese Garden Club
6 Forest Laneway, Suite 105, Willowdale, Ontario, M2N 5Y9
Telephone: 229-2708

1952-1986
A World of Thanks to Friends and Supporters
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
President — Mamoru Nishi

OFFICERS
Eto Tomi
Nishimura Tomi
Nishi Hanae

Oikawa Toshi
Sumiya Gloria
Tamura Michiyo

Kinzaki Kiyoshi
Kitazaki Roy
Kusano Tsurukichi
Koyama Susumu

Campbell Jim
Goto Kay
Hiramatsu Kazuko
Ishii Sueko

Miyamoto Taye
Nagata Kay
Nishikawa Sahei
Seko Shigeo
Yano Masayuki

SHOW ASSOCIATES

Aitken Ross
Asa Yukie
Edwards Jackie
Flint Pat
Fujita Yonizo Scott
Hayashi Kay
Hiramatsu Toyoshi
Kamitakahara Natsuko
Katayama Hiroshi
Kikukawa Masako
Kitazaki Kay
Kondo Yuki
Kitamura Misao
Matsui Rick

McVean Rachael
Morishita Kimi
Mori Isao
Morita Tokijiro
Maeda Dan
Morishita Chizuko
Nagata Ken
Nakabayashi Hiroshi
Nakamura Mitsuko
Nellis Harry
Nellis Eivia
Nishioka Kogiku
Nishiyama Sue
Nobuto Miki
Nose Mitsue

Oda Kay
Okura Hatsumi
Okwara R.
Page Sidney
Swain Wilma
Shiegefuji P
Sanders Philip
Takazaki Matsue
Takazaki Wataru
Tanaka Tatuo
Teshimo Yaeko
Torizuka Tamotsu
Tsujimura Ruth
Williams Gregory
Yakura Ken
Yamanura Mary

HONORARY MEMBERS

A colorful development
By Clark B. Offner

Compliments of
the Season

Izumi Kin,

Katsuno Chiaki,

Matsuo Chiyoji

AND MEMBERS OF PARTICIPATING IKEBANA RYU
Ikenobo — Kadoguchi Sue; Kako — Mitsui Nobuko; Koyru; Misho — Tamura N.;
Ohara — Yoshikawa Toshiko; Ryueseha; Sagaeoryuo; Sogetsu — Ruravina M. and
Abe Kiyoko. BONSAI Mame. CHRYSANTHEMUM.

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Season’s Qreetings
THE JAPANESE CANADIAN
(TORONTO) CREDIT UNION
LIMITED
do 24 Fundy Bay Blvd., Unit No. 31
Scarborough, Ont. M1W 3A4
Sec.: 699-1474
Pres.: 491-4373

Season's Greetings
Hoping the New Year brings you a more healthy and
enjoyable life to each of you.
My thanks to the many Japanese Canadians who
read my humble book “Healthful Eating for Healthy Liv­
ing” — A Macrobiotic Approach.
Since last January, I have opened a Japanese Cooking
School and am glad to report that the class has continued
to grow and the staff is doing its utmost to respond to
the student's enthusiasm.
May we continue to receive your strong support in
: the future.

Teruha Kagemori

Ecole de Cuisine Japonaise
(Japanese Cooking School)
331 Emery St., No. 103, Montreal, Quebec H2X 1J2
Tel. (514) 842-9672

Season's Greetings
KAYA KAYA' s
items are all imported
from Japan; Fukugawa,
Arita, and Imari porce­
lain .... Mashiko ware
. . . . Nambu cast iron
cookware . . . lacquer
and bamboo products.
... bridal gowns, kimo­
nos, happicoats, wall
hangings ... textiles ..
. National Kabuki The­
atre calendar. . . rice­
paper notebooks and
cards . . . folktoys and
many other items.

Japanese porcelain and
Traditional crafts
1104 Yonge St.,
Toronto, Ontario
M4W 2L6
Tel.: (416) 925-5292

Season's Greetings

(Cont. from page 11)
On periodic visits to my homeland,
as I found myself bowing to people
— even while speaking on the tele­
phone, I recognized how my behav­
iour had been Influenced by my Ja­
panese surroundings, but I never im­
agined that my facial features or skin
color might change to resemble this
people. Various incidents have trans­
pired, however, that have caused me
to ponder whether living for many
years In Japan, eating Japanese food
and accommodating oneself to Ja­
panese culture may affect one's ap­
pearance as well as one's behaviour.
Although I admit that I tried to
reflect a Japanese viewpoint in dis­
cussions with fellow-Americans back
in the States, I always thought that
friends were joking when they told
me that my skin was gaining a yel­
lowish hue and that my eyes were
getting slimmer. But back in Japan,
i heard another remark by another
Japanese boy, through another open
window that again caused me to
smile — and wonder.
With a Japanese friend, I had been
chatting with two boys of upper
elementary school age. After the car
we were awaiting came to pick us up
and began to drive off, through the
open car window, we heard one boy
say to the other, “That one man
looked kind of like a foreigner.”
If he had said “kind of like a Ja­
panese”, I would have been simply
amused, but he said “kind of like a
foreigner”, and I was provided more
food for thought.
Last year I was in line with a friend
from America in front of the check-in
counter at Tokyo International Air­
port. As the line slowly moved for­
ward, we were speaking In English.
When I reached the counter, the
check-in lady spoke to me In Japa­
nese, but to my friend she spoke In
English. On the plane, we spent a few
moments trying to figure out how
she had ascertained that I spoke
Japanese and that he did not. Our
conclusion was that there was some­
thing in our appearance or bearing
that imparted this Information.
This past summer, my wife and I
took a trip to China. In Beijing, we
found ourselves in a tour group with
an American lady (from my home
state of Illinois) whose husband was
connected with the American Em­
bassy. As we spoke of Japan and our
life here, she inquired whether I was
of Japanese lineage. Back in our hotel
I again peered In the mirror to try to
discover what prompted her to ask
such a question.
Finally, last month, I visited a
blood donation center. Following the
preliminary examination, I handed
my card to a nurse who led me to an
open reclining chair, in which I settl­
ed down to have the blood extracted.
Another nurse came by and whisper­
ed something to her, after which she
looked at me with a surprised expres­
sion. She later told me that, until she
was so Informed by the other nurse,
she hadn't realized I was not Ja­
panese.
What am I to make of this series of
events? Does Japanese diet and im­
mersion In Japanese culture effect
a physical change in appearance?
Obviously, environment as well as
lineage affects one's character and
now that I am a “permanent resi­
dent” of this country and my hair
color is getting to resemble that
of “mature” Japanese men who per­
mit their hair to show its natural
(“horsey”?) color, I presume that
my “transformation” is continuing.
I am reminded of the words of Jere­
miah, the Old Testament prophet:
“Can a . . . man change the color
of his skin...? If (he) could, then you
that do nothing but evil could learn
to do what is right” (13:23). In the
light of this verse, depending on
one's interpretation, my “apparent
change” may signify that there is
still hope for me — and for the world.
Clark B. Offner

JAPAN
NATIONAL TOURIST
ORGANIZATION
Toronto Office

Director Takashi (Tak) Nagaoka & Staff
165 University Ave., Toronto, Ontario M$H 3B8

Tel. 366-7140

Season's Qreetings
M

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260 Niagara Street — Toronto, Ont.
Bus.: 368-2446 — Res.: 533-7651

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BEAUTY SALON
1209 College St. (at Brock)

Toronto, Ontario

Telephone 535-1992

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New Japan Ambassador to Canada's
address at Ottawa's Rideau Club

The following is an address given by His Excellency,
Yoshio Okawa, Ambassador of Japan at the Rideau Club
in Ottawa on October 28, 1986.

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Distinguished members of the
Rideau Club, ladies and gentlemen:
I am very grateful to you all for so
kindly accepting me among your
ranks as a privileged member of this
prestigious club. It is also a very
great honour for me to be able to ad­
dress you this evening.
Five months have passed since my
wife and I arrived in Ottawa. As the
days go by, the more we seem to
realize how little we knew about
Canada before we came here; and we
are also coming to realize how little
the Japanese people as a whole
know about Canada. But we are ra­
pidly learning. The day before yester­
day we attended something called
“the Crosbie Roast.” We vaguely ex­
pected we would be having roast
beef and Yorkshire pudding and then
Minister Crosbie would pay tribute to
the heroic efforts of Mr. Rick
Hansen. We were quite mistaken. In
fact it gave us a most revealing, intri­
guing, and hilarious glimpse into the
political camaraderie of this country
— its political maturity, I should say.
Last night we had the pleasure of
seeing “Anne of Green Gables” at
the National Arts Centre; this
delightful story is certainly wellknown in Japan, especially among
the young women to the extent that
your new Consul General in Osaka
lamented to us that each time he in­
troduced himself to a Japanese as
the Consul General of Canada, the
response would be, “Ah, the country
where the little girl with the red hair
comes from!” Plenty of Japanese
tourists are flocking to Prince Ed­
ward Island to see the house with the
green gables; thousands also visit
places like Banff and Jasper; and
their image of Canada is of a country
full of beautiful scenery, with moun­
tains and lakes and forests all over
the place. They are also coming to
know a few Canadian products, like
maple syrup, and Cowichan sweaters
from Vancouver Island, for instance.
But that is about all. They have cer­
tainly never heard about “roasts.”
We do not have a federal system of
government in Japan, so it is difficult
for us to understand that in many
fields the provincial Governments
are more powerful than the Govern­
ment in Ottawa; the delicate task of
co-ordination between the Federal
Government and the provincial Gov­
ernments is something quite unknown
to our politicians. And I am afraid it is
true that the United States comes up­
permost in the mind of the average
Japanese when he thinks of North
America, and then he remembers, al­
most as a second thought, that there
is a country called Canada to the
North of the USA. This state of af­
fairs is a pity, and that is why, while

my job is primarily to promote Japan
in Canada, I am also constantly trying
to help my compatriots understand that
Canada is a lot more than the Cana­
dian Rockies, Anne of Green Gables,
and maple syrup.
Now let us take a look in the other
direction. I think that perhaps Cana­
dians know a little more about Japan
than the Japanese know about Cana­
da. One could probably say that Ca­
nadians also still have a lot more to
learn about Japan. In the first place,
Japan must be a difficult country for
a Westerner to understand. And it is
too bad that somebody decided a
long time ago to call our region the
Far East — which makes one feel
that places like China, Korea and
Japan are very remote indeed. Do not
forget that from our part of the world,
England and France are in the Far
West. Mr. Keith Spicer of the Citizen
calls our region the Near West. I
would prefer to avoid using the terms
“far” or “near”, and simply say Japan
is in the East Asia — although the
term “the Western Pacific” may be
more fashionable nowadays; anyway,
we are beginning to realize that
Japan and Canada are now virtually
neighbours facing each other across
the Pacific Ocean.
Tonight I would like to mention a
few things that may help you to un­
derstand Japan and the Japanese
people. And I shall touch on three im­
portant events in our more recent
history which constitute the back­
ground from which present-day Japan
can be said to have emerged. They
are the national seclusion decrees
issued in the first half of the 17th
century, the opening up of the coun­
try again in the mid-19th century, and
Japan's unconditional surrender to
the Allied Powers in 1945.
When you in Canada became a
Confederation in 1867, we in Japan
were just about to terminate nearly
seven centuries of feudal rule under
a series of dominant military dynas­
ties. The last of these was the Toku­
gawa family, which began their rule
at the beginning of the 17th century.
Now the Tokugawa Shogunate, through
a series of decrees issued between
1633 and 1639, took the drastic step
of closing the country to all for­
eigners and forbidding all Japanese
from venturing outside the country.
The only exception was the permis­
sion granted to a small number of
Dutch and Chinese traders to visit
Japan for trading purposes, although
their access to the country was limi­
ted to a tiny enclave at the port of
Nagasaki on the island of Kyushu.
The motivation behind these famous
Tokugawa decrees was to shut out
the Christian missionaries and other
“evil” foreign influences that might

“corrupt” the country ana unaermine
the political authority of the Tokuga­
wa regime.
This policy was to result in the
almost total seclusion of the country
from the outside world for over two
hundred years; this is how we man­
aged to guarantee our peace and
security and, indeed, our indepen­
dence, until the mid-nineteenth cen­
tury. Thanks to the relative tranquilli­
ty that prevailed throughout the
country during the period, the Toku­
gawa Shogunate was able to con­
solidate its rule and encourage inter­
nal development: a variety of handi­
crafts of high artistic quality and
many other cottage industries grew
up and prospered, means of trans­
portation and communications came
to link key cities, a system of basic
education spread through town and
countryside, and the great culture of
the Edo period flourished among all
classes. The city of Edo boasted a
population of over a million people
— comparable to London or Paris of
the same period — and it naturally
developed its own urban structure
and social organization, its own sys­
tem of distribution of merchandise,
and so on, all of which have left their
mark down to this day. This state of
affairs helped to nurture a sense of
national unity and of national unique­
ness, although it also meant that we
were cut off completely from com­
mercial, industrial and scientific
developments in other countries.

When the Western powers started
knocking on our doors in the 19th
century we were totally unprepared
to counter their military might; and
the decisive turning point was the ar­
rival in 1853 of an American fleet of
four “black ships,” as they were call­
ed, led by a certain Commodore Per­
ry, who insisted that we open up two
ports where American ships could
take on fuel, water and food, that an
American consul be allowed to be
stationed at one of them and that
most-favoured-nation treatment be
granted to American ships and na­
tionals. The initial reaction of the
Tokugawa government to this and
similar approaches from the other
Western powers was consternation
verging on a state of panic. However,
it had no choice but to sign treaties
half-heartedly, that granted the
foreigners what they demanded and
which resulted in the gradual
breakdown of the policy of national
isolation. Militant elements in the
country vilified the government for
so readily capitulating to the Western
“barbarians;” they linked up with
forces loyal to the Imperial family,
and took advantage of the disarray of
the Tokugawa's to plot the overthrow
of the Shogunate and restoration of
the Emperor to power. But even
these men were quick to see that na­
tional isolation was no longer feasi­
ble, and they in turn had to espouse
that cause of opening up. The last of

the Shogun relinquished his power
and, in 1868 the Emperor, whose
forebears had been confined to the
old capital of Kyoto for centuries
with no political authority, moved to
the city of Edo, renamed Tokyo, and
became the new head of state in
name and in reality. This was the
beginning of the Meiji Era, and Japan
finally started out on the road +o
modernization. Building up the na­
tion's wealth and creating a strong
army — “catching up with the West”
— had become the national goal. In
those days “modernization” and
“Westernization” were synonyms —
but nationalism was the driving force
behind both these notions.
When looking back at the rapid
progress Japan was able to make in
the ensuing decades, we must not
forget the high level of literacy, the
brisk industrial activity and the rudi­
mentary infrastructure that had al­
ready existed during the centuries of
national isolation. The economic,
social and intellectual foundations
were there to be built upon.
The switchover from feudal to mo­
dern state was achieved within a rela­
tively short period, without prolonged
internal strife as in the case of China;
and we were spared the fate of many
other Asian nations which were first
colonized by the Western powers
before they gained their independence
quite recently. Japan was lucky in
these several aspects. The tragedy
was that the nation started veering in
the wrong direction from the 1920s,
and you all know where this led us to.
But that is another story.
The Japanese people willingly say
that they have an “island nation men­
tality” — which can be attributed to
the facts of geography, but also to
the political, economic and almost
physical isolation of the archipelago
which prevailed during those more
than two hundred years of the
Tokugawa Era. We have thus indulg­
ed in a feeling of smug uniqueness,
of being different from others; we un­
consciously built up a sort of
psychological wall around ourselves
— a wall that gave us a false sense of
protection from the outside world
but which also perhaps held us back,
served as an excuse for our not mix­
ing with and getting easily assimi­
lated into the company of other na­
tions.
I am not offering this theory in any
sense as an excuse for certain of our
national traits, but rather in the hope
that it may help you to understand
one aspect of our “Japanese-ness,”
so to speak.
After out total defeat in World War
Two, Japan literally had to start form
scratch and reconstruct the national
economy. In 1945, I had just come
out of university, and I never dreamt
in those days that we would eventually
arrive at our present state of econo­
mic prosperity. But you know that it
took well over a decade for the Ja­
panese people to recover from the
momentous psychological shock of
unconditional surrender at the end of
the war in 1945. It took at least a
decade for our economy to recover
from the ruins. And it has taken quite
some time for us to realize how far
we have come since '45, how our
economic and technological levels
have come to compare favourably
with and even to surpass the levels
of many other countries. The old
mentality of the Meiji Era, when we
were just emerging from that long
period of self-imposed isolation from
the rest of the world, the national
goal of “catching up with the West,”
could not be easily shaken off and
the famous inferiority complex of the
Japanese, however unjustified today,
has continued to be a part of the Ja­
panese mentality until quite recently.
And that is why we are only just
beginning to feel that we too have
some sort of political role to play in
international relations.
I would now like to turn to another
factor which may help you to under­
stand the country. And that is that
“competition” is or might be said to
be a very fundamental principle of
life in Japan. We are a nation of over

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120 million people — nearly five
times the population of Canada —
living in an area less than one twenty­
seventh of the land area of Canada;
and less than thirty percent of our
land is arable and inhabitable. In
1984 the population density was 319
to a square kilometre. We are literally
squeezed and it becomes almost a
struggle for survival. Of course I am
exaggerating, but sometimes you
have to exaggerate to make you point.
Anyway, competition is very much a
fact of life in Japan, it begins very
early — when you are still a tiny
child. In order to get a good job, say,
with one of the top trading firms or
banks, or a good position in the bu­
reaucracy, you have to produce a
diploma from one of the good univer­
sities. But you cannot get into a good
university unless you have done a
good deal of cramming at a good
senior high school and acquired the
know-how and the skill to pass the
extremely difficult entrance exams
to the university of your choice. And
in order to get admitted into a good
senior high school, you must have
studied hard at a good junior high
school (we call them “middle
schools”). And coming from a good
solid primary school will naturally
help you to get into the elite middle
school. Thus the battle starts when
you are still at the age of kindergarden. This is a regrettable aspect of
our educational system, and it re­
sults in our universities each year
sending out hordes of young men
and women who all resemble each
other; they seem to be lacking in
originality and everybody is suppos­
ed to conform to the mould.
Even after the young man or woman
has managed to get into, say, one of
the big trading companies, for exam­
ple, the competition continues, this
time to see who climbs up the ladder
the fastest and who will drop off on
the way. Each of the departments
will be competing with each other to
see which is going to make the big­
gest profits for the firm during the
fiscal year; for the head of that
department is going to make it faster
to a directorship and so on right up
to the top management. And the
company will be competing with all
the other companies in the same line
of business, to see who can get the
largest share of the market — not on­
ly the domestic market but foreign
markets as well. And so it is intense
competition among Japanese com­
panies struggling to get a foothold in
a foreign market that generates the
incessant waves of penetration of
Japanese products into that market,
as a consequence of which the local
product is often eliminated. '

This all sounds very simple and ob­
vious, but the urge, the need to com­
pete is a basic fact that must be
realized by foreign company who
wants to get into the Japanese
market. The domestic Japanese mar­
ket is highly competitive and is get­
ting more sophisticated year by year.
The consumer is very selective be­
cause he has so much to choose
from and he is becoming more and
more particular in his tastes any more
demanding each year. And it is not
just the quality of the product that
counts, but the manner in which it is
advertised, especially on TV; the way
it is packaged — the colour and
design of the box, and the wrapping
paper, etc.; the speed and the deft­
ness with which the girl at the
counter serves the customer; the ex­
tent and the promptness of various
forms of after-servicing — all these
are elements in the intense competi­
tion to win over the customer.
And naturally the foreign product
is compared with the local product,
but once its reputation is made, it
will sell steadily. There is no
chauvinistic preference for the local
product — it is quality, precision, de­
pendability and reputation, that
count.
The Canadian businessman has to
bear all this in mind. He should ap-

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proach the Japanese market with
those 120 million consumers, with
sufficient prior knowledge, a great
deal of perseverance, and a certain
measure of aggressiveness.
And here I would like to point out
something I have been stressing to
Canadian audiences whenever I have
a chance to do so, and that is the im­
portance of learning the language. I
know that Japanese, especially in its

written form, may appear to the Wes­
terner as extremely difficult to learn.
But even with our approximately two
thousand Kanji, which came from

everything.
In the past forty years since the
end of the last war, it has usually
been the Japanese businessman
who has taken the trouble to learn
foreign languages in order to com­
municate with his counterparts in
Europe, in North America, in Africa
and so on — and thus discover and
open up new markets for his wares. A
similar effort on the part of the North
American or the European business­
man has unfortunately been lacking.
The American company executive
would most likely be waiting, with his
interpreter, for his Japanese contact
to visit him at his five-star hotel. But
nowadays the foreigner must go out
and visit the Japanese company, and
talking through an interpreter is
never the same thing. And if the
American executive keeps on com­
plaining that the Japanese language
is a kind of non-tariff barrier, then
English is certainly a non-tariff bar­
rier for the Japanese.
The language is the key to the cul­
ture of any nation, the key to the very
heart of the people of that country. If
you can understand and speak a little
Japanese, it will go a long way to
helping you to understand the way in
which your interlocutor's mind is
working, his reasoning, his psycholo­
gy; it will help you to begin under­
standing the different business prac­
tices, the “unfathomable” distribu­
tion system, the tastes, the changing
preferences of the customer, the var­
ious taboos in social conversation —
in short, everything that is going to
help you to penetrate the Japanese
market. I really cannot overstress
this point.

China, there is a system, a logical
process of construction, which will
make the learning of these charac­
ters much easier — or at least less
difficult — once you have grasped
the idea. And remember that it is just
as difficult for a Japanese to learn
English or French as it may be for a
Westerner to learn Japanese. In fact
Italian or Spanish are much easier for
the Japanese because of the almost
identical vowels, whereas English is
probably one of the most difficult
foreign languages for a Japanese —
with all the exceptions to the rule in
spelling, pronounciation, grammer,

Season 's Greetings To Ait My
Fellow Japanese Canadians!

Barry Furukawa, Sales Rep.M. PRISTUPA REAL ESTATE
460 Renforth Dr.

Tuesday, December 30,1986

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Phone 621-6400

Season rs Greetings
Dr. and Mrs. George Hori
231 Grove Street,
Boston, Mass.
02138, U.S.A.

Happy New Year
from Japan

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Debbie Hanako Collis (daughter)
Apt. 1112 — 191 Main St. West,
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Let us take a look at the highly
competitive society of Japan from a
different angle — the field of cultural
events. We are now at the end of the
October and, as everywhere else, the
music season in Tokyo began again
this year in October. There again we
have been witnessing the same sort
of severe competition as in the eco­
nomic market place. Besides the
regular concerts given by Tokyo's
six principal symphonic orchestras,
there were performances by the
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, the
Leningrad Symphonic Orchestra and
the Covent Garden Royal Opera.
Music lovers of Tokyo had such a
wide range from which to choose and
they naturally went for the highest
quality. Last year Tokyo had the plea-

sure of welcoming three Canadian or­
chestras — the Montreal Symphony,
the Vancouver Symphony and the
National Arts Centre Orchestra. I im­
agine these three orchestras were
able to feel how stiff the competition
is in Japan, even in the field of music.
We are certainly great music lovers.
And we have a special weakness for
orchestras and musicians coming
from abroad — whether they offer
classical or ultra-modern music. The
same can be said of ballet, for in­
stance. Maurice Bejard is now very
famous in Japan, as a result of the
several visits he and his corps de
ballet have made there in recent
years. I hear that the Grand ballet of
Montreal was highly successful
when it toured Japan in 1984.1 watch­
ed on TV the other night a perfor­
mance of a new Canadian ballet call­
ed “The Blue Snake.” That is the sort
of thing that would be successful in
Japan, I should think.
Painting and sculpture is another
field in which competition is ex­
tremely keen. I will not go into details
but I would like to mention that a
one-man exhibition in Tokyo of the
work of Alexander Coville, the painter
from Nova Scotia, was quite a success
last year.
We are also great readers. The for­
eigner who takes a ride in a city train
is always impressed by the number
of passengers who are engaged in
some sort of reading, even in the
most crowded circumstances when
you feel like sardines packed in a tin.
Perhaps this is why there are so
many publishers of pocket-size pa­
perback series which you can hold
open in one hand while holding on to
the dangling strap with the other. Ac­
cording to one survey, there are 43
major publishers in Japan producing
61 paperback series; they specialize
in detective fiction, in historical no­
vels, in Japanese classics and mo­
dern literature, and in current
economic topics like trade liberaliza­
tion, the stock market, etc., in the
cheapest of romantic nonsense, any­
thing under the sun. The number of
new books published in 1983 is given
as 31,297, of which 7,100 were in the
field of literature. And there are a
great number of translations of
modern and classic literature from
Europe and the United States, in­
cluding the latest contemporary
best-sellers. The Japanese reading
public has an avid appetite for trans­
lations of foreign literature. And that

is why I would like to see more
modern Canadian literature trans­
lated into Japanese: Margaret At­
wood, Robertson Davies, Anne
Hebert, Gabrielle Roy, etc. — although
“Anne of Green Gables” would still
go on selling steadily.
Coming back to the train in Tokyo,
many people will be spreading their
morning or evening papers; there six
major national newspapers, which all
issue morning and evening editions,
the largest being the Yomiuri Shim­
bun with a circulation of 8.8 million
for its morning edition and 4.8 million
for its evening one. What is interest­
ing is that these big national papers
have frequently been the financial
sponsors of visiting foreign artists,
orchestras, theatrical groups, base­
ball teams, tennis players, etc. and
so they play an important role in cul­
tural exchanges.
What I am trying to say is that the
Japanese, while preserving their uni­
que cultural traditions, have always
been eager to absorb foreign culture
and adapt it into their cultural heritage.
Cultural exchanges can lead to
greater trading ties and should not
be neglected; culture could be the
spearhead of commerce.
I have given you a somewhat ran­
dom account of a few aspects of
Japan that may help you to under­
stand it better. My conclusion is pro­
bably that Japan, while having a very
different historic background and
consequently different social cus­
toms and ways of thinking, has also
been rapidly transforming itself —
undergoing a process of “interna­
tionalization,” as we love to say. I
myself have witnessed enormous
changes take place in the course of
the last forty years. The young men
and women of today have different
ambitions, different objectives in
life, and the teenagers are becoming
almost a differnt breed. This process
of transformation is no doubt going
to accelerate in the decades ahead,
and by the turn of the century people
of my generation will be lost! I think,
therefore, that Japan offers exciting
prospects to the foreign visitor and
especially the foreign businessman.
It is there for the Canadian to go and
discover. But at the same time
Canada itself must do a lot more to
make itself better known to the
Japanese — and not just the Japanese
customer, but also to the Japanese
reader, the Japanese music lover, the
ordinary Japanese in the street.

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Wish You
The Very Best In The Coming Year

Tuesday, December 30, 1986

THE

Kodomo No Tame Ni
— Nanoka Shogatsu
By MARY ASAZUMA
Many Japanese Canadian
Sansei have not heard of
“Nikka Shogatsu, Nanoka
Shogatsu.” Shogatsu is a
meaningful holiday season in
Japan and the custom was
carried on by the pre-war
Issei in Canada.
In Japan, Shogatsu can last
a whole week — a big holiday
season, having much more
meaning to the Issei, who
cherished the old traditions
of Japan much more than
Christmas which was not
even celebrated by the ma­
jority of Japanese in the old
days.
On New Year's Day, the
older traditions reinforced
the feeling of gratitude for all
good things that happened
during the past year; hopes
for even a better New Year.
Thus most homes celebrated
Shogatsu, first by cleaning
the home spick and span so
that no unsightly mess would
greet the New Year.

Some families took bean
bags and threw the beans
outside from the bag. They
brought out their best dishes
to serve the new year food.
The doorway was decorated
with welcoming Kadomatsu
and Take, there the Akagami
— (a nest of 2 mochi, circular
in shape, flat on the top, plac­
ed one on top of the other)
with Konbu and a Mikan on
the top of the okazami would
be put out with Matsu bran­
ches on each side of the oka­
zami.
On New Year's morning,
the family would assemble,
give thanks (Gassho) to
the okazumi representing the
year's plenty in food, wealth
and health, and partake of the
New Year breakfast of Ozoni
and a drop of osake.
They greeted the New Year
usually behind a okagami, a
“Shodo” inscription on a
clean white sheet of paper
which would be placed to ex­
press their hopes for the New
Year. They greeted the New
Year with gratitude and hope
for the coming year by star-,
ting out on a clean sheet, like
the white paper behind the
okagami. They cleaned the
house, paid all their debts,
made all their calls on their
friends, and the New Year
was greeted with great happi­
ness.
After the family breakfast
of “Ozoni and omiki,” the

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men would go calling on their
friends, saying “Sakunen, iro,
iro osewa ni nari mashite.
Dozo mata kotoshi mo yorushiku onegai itashi-masu.”
This expression was a tradi­
tional New Year greeting
after the initial greetings had
been exchanged.
The offering of the okaga­
mi, matsu and osake repre­
sented
their thankful
gratitude for a past year of
plenty — rice, orange, sake
and matsu represented good
health, strength, while the
Shodo script on the clean
white sheet of paper would
express their hopes for the
New Year.
The food prepared for the
New Year also had traditional
meaning — “Ebi”, represen­
ting long life until their
“koshi” bent over like a “ebi”
or shrimp. “Kuromame” to
work hard and get black like
black beans attached to each
food. “Hasu” (water lily root)
represented good eye-sight,
many eyes, kazunoko (herring
eggs) represented many chil­
dren, etc. The food, the deco­
rations, the preparations for
New Year expressed a great
deal of thought and grati­
tude.
Many Japanese firms gave
a New Year's bonus and
vacation time for employees
to go home to their “Furu­
sato” to pay respect to
those who had past away, by
visiting family cemeteries
and to exchange New Year
greetings to old friends still
living in the “furusato”.
Nanoka Shogatsu was a spe­
cial time for the women to
celebrate, the closing of the
holiday season and for them
to be able to visit their friends
— the women and families,
so busy with entertaining
New Year's guests at home.
It was quite a traditional
Shogatsu for the women. In
my home, my mother always
celebrated both New Year
and Nanoka Shogatsu.
New Year's Eve was always
a night to eat soba, “buck­
wheat soba”, after midnight
as anyone who went to sleep
before midnight, New Year's
Eve was a fool (Baka and
“soba” eating so the family
would be close (soba).
Kodomo No Tame Ni decid­
ed this year to hold a Nanoka
Shogatsu party on January
2nd, 1987 and honor all the
mothers who have partici­
pated in our efforts to try to
introduce things Japanese,
the Japanese tongue to the
Yonsei children, and to Cana­
dian mothers who have mar­
ried Japanese Canadian men
and to whom the Japanese
language is foreign.
VVe hope that our efforts
will open new doors for
Sansei mothers and Cana­
dian mothers with Japanese
Canadian children.

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MERRY XMAS
AND
GOOD WISHES FOR THE
HOLIDAY SEASON
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BOARD OF DIRECTORS:
President Mr. Jack Oki

Mrs. Terry Akiyama
Mr. Tom Hori
Mrs. Susie Kondo
Mr. Tom Sakamoto
Mr. Tosh Uyede

Mr. Mas Endo
Mrs. Vi Kagetsu
Dr. Yoshi Okita
Mr. Mits Sumiya
Mr. Harry Yoshida

Mr. Toyoshi Hiramatsu
Rev. Shinji Kawano
Mrs. Kazuko Onishi
Mr. Kunio Suyama
Mr. Eiji Takeda
Mr. Tom Torizuka
Superintendent Mr. Shinichi Sawada and Staff
Nipponia Recreation Club Members, President Mr. Takeo Yano

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R.R. Nd. 3, Beamsville, Ontario LOR 1B0
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Season 's Greetings
Toronto Japanese Language
School

18 Orde Street, Toronto, Ontario
Telephone: 921-2926

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CANADIAN

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Season's Greetings

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SEASON'S GREETINGS
from

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between Yonge & Bay
a block south of Richmond St.
TEL:(416) 368-2470

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MOMIJI HEALTH CARE
SOCIETY
Applications are invited for a Co-ordinator to oversee
volunteer activities and programs for elderly Japanese
Canadians living in Castleview Wychwood Towers and
Greenview Lodge and to work with Outreach Committee
to develop community support services in Metropolitan
Toronto.

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Japanese Canadian community. Interest and experience
in working with seniors and in co-ordinating volunteer
activities is essential. The position is salaried.
Resum6 should be directed to:

MOMIJI HEALTH CARE SOCIETY
C/o Dr. Roy Shinobu
Ste. 406, 75 The Donway West
Don Mills, Ontario
M3C 2E9
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Minutes from the Airport at the Cambridge Motor Hotel
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Deadline for applications January 31, 1987.
Position to begin March 1, 1987

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J.C. Cultural Centre
heart of Toronto's
Nikkei community

JCC Centre administrator Suyama

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Parkway, the Japanese Cana­
dian Cultural Centre is the
main focus of the Japanese
community from Burlington
east to Pickering, and from
Metro north to Newmarket.
A spring cultural festival,
weekly gatherings for senior
citizens and special events
Lori Tabata
like this weekend's exhibi­
tion and sale of arts and
And she saw first-hand the
crafts help bring people of feelings that forced many Ja­
Japanese ancestry together panese to blend into the com­
to explore their heritage.
munity.
“There is no residential
“My dad felt very intimi­
Japanese section and no con­ dated and almost ashamed
centration of Japanese busi­ that he was Japanese,
nesses, so people come here because of the war and all
to share our culture,” said that kind of thing.
centre administrator Kunio
“And my Ukrainian grand­
Suyama, 59.
parents had a hard time ac­
“Our children are well assi­ cepting the fact that my Mom
milated, but they still like to married a Japanese man,”
retain some of their Japanese she said.
heritage.”
“My dad would never en­
There is a touch of sadness courage our culture at all
in Suyama's voice when he because he felt ashamed and
talks about the further ero­ had the whole stigma of the
sion of Japanese culture in ‘hate Japs’ attitude he had to
Metro, as younger people grow up with.
marry into other nationali­
“When I matured more and
ties.
once my dad matured and
realized he had a lot to be
proud of, it all sort of came
together,” she said.
“Now I feel a lot warmer
toward being Japanese, and
I have a lot of pride in that
heritage.
“The Japanese are very
strong and independent,” she
said. “They don't need a com­
munity to build their strength.
They have it within them­
selves.”

TORONTO. — Mr. Kunio Suyama, new administrator at
Forced relocation
the Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre, watches a group of
seniors at a dance class at the Centre. “Our children are
“The reason for that is the
well assimilated, but they still like to retain some of their influence of the Canadian
Japanese heritage,” Suyama says. Built 20 years ago on government's policy of disWynford Drive, the Centre is the main focus of the Japa­ persment during the war,”
nese community in Metro.
said Ken Mori, the 72-yearold editor and publisher of
Metro's Japanese newspaper
The New Canadian.
He said attitudes that forc­
ed the Japanese to blend into
AND
communities to avoid linger­
ing prejudice after the war
continue to isolate them to­
day.
“In Canada, the Japanese
could be good citizens indi­
vidually, but not as a group,”
he said.
“If you did that, you would
be accepted as a good citizen
by your neighbors.”
Seasons Greetings to Ali Our Many
Ken Mori
Like most west coast Japa­
Japanese Canadian Friends & Patrons
nese in Canada, Mori was
He said only about 5 per­
forced out of his Vancouver cent of his generation mar­
home during World War II and ried non-Japanese mates, but
sent to a relocation camp in
among people of his chil­
the interior.
dren's age, the figure has
Mori was born in Canada in
jumped to 75 or 80 percent.
Main Office 5227 Yonge St., Willowdale, Ontario
1914. His parents came to
“That's the way it's going
3601 Lawrence Ave., Scarboro, Ontario
British Columbia 10 years
to be,” he said. “It's sad
earlierand he thought he was
in one way, but we have to
as Canadian as any of his
accept it.
neigbors.
“Our children go to schools
But none of that mattered where they are maybe one Ja­
to Canadian officials who, in
1941, imagined a fearful Japa­ panese among 100 Cauca­
sian or other nationalities.
nese menace in this country.
Mori spent four weary years Most of your friends won' t be
during the war as a farmhand Japanese.”
in interior B.C. Kelowna. He
Lori Tabata grew up in Burl­
moved to Toronto in 1945 and ington and was teased by the
got a job in an auto parts other kids because of her
from
shop. He has edited The New Oriental looks.
Canadian for the past 30
The 25-year-old Toronto
years.
woman is the product of a so“The Japanese have re­ called mixed marriage. Her
markable adaptibility,”
he father is Japanese and her
said. “But many of our people mother is Ukrainian.
get together at social gather­
“I looked different than the
ings held at the cultural cen other children and I'd feel
tre.”
embarassed,” she said.
271-1296
Built 20 years ago on Wyn­
Mickey Murakami
Stigma overcome
ford Drive near the Don Valley

Season 's Greetings

Best Wishes To All
The Toronto Nisei Women's Club

Arnold A. Hock
Hearing Aid Service

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By JIM WILKES
TORONTO. — It's a com­
munity of 25,000 that you
can 't find.
Metro's Japanese aren't
defined by geographic bor­
ders, but by a spirit that
clings to a colorful heritage
in the face of cultural assi­
milation.
They are unlike other
groups in Metro's ethnic
mosaic. They share their
culture privately, in churches
or at special gatherings at the
Japanese Canadian Cultural
Centre in Don Mills.
If you want authentic Chi­
nese cuisine, all it takes is a
walk through Chinatown to
take your pick from the seem­
ingly endless string of restau­
rants there. But a trip to a
Japanese restaurant begins
in the phone book because
Japanese eateries are scat­
tered all over town.
And so are the people.

Season fs Greetings

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Toronto, Ont. M6B 2L8

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DUE TO BEREAVEMENT
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P.O. Box 196,
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4836 Daihousie Dr.
Calgary, Alta. T3A 1B2

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Montreal, P.O. H3N 2H3

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SURREY
By MIKE HOSHIKO
Like some powerful psy­ years until they saved enough
chological magnet, Surrey to buy their own place. He
draws me back. I left it just was one of the few original
after my high school days Surrey farmers whose parents
and this summer when I re­ lived there. It appears that
turned for the Surrey reunion when he was a young man to
I wandered around looking for avoid the draft for their son,
something familiar. The old his parents moved to Canada.
one-room Hjorth Road School His mother used to practice
where I started first grade is midwifery and delivered
still there. It has had several many Nisei babies in the
additions put on but the lower Fraser valley. He was
original two front entrances also one of the first Surrey
with stairs on either side of Isseis to own an automobile
the building remain. There us­ in the late twenties, a Model
ed to be a flag pole just next T Ford. In my father's funeral
to the building centered bet­ picture (Jan 1932) Mr. Fuku­
ween the two entrances. We naga's Ford shows up park­
used to go early in the morn­ ed in the driveway of the New
ing and would stand on the Westminster Buddhist Temple.
top step of one entrance
with the flag rope in our
During the War Broder op­
hands and swing out in a
huge arc and land on the erated canneries in Leth­
other stairs. There was no bridge and in Taber, Alberta.
playground equipment back In 1967 they were sold to the
Safeway Stores. In the early
then.
B.C. days Broder owned the
Royal City Cannery,and the
The whole Hjorth Road ranch provided some of the
(now 104 Ave) has changed. It berries for canning. Mrs.
used to be a winding road Fukunaga said she was paid 8
with a few houses here and cents for peeling a bucket of
there hidden behind thick peaches in those days. To my
brush and scrub trees. About knowledge Mrs. Broder is still
a mile or so from the school living in Lethbridge.

Happy New Year to all our readers
and advertisers from The New Canadian!

“Even if it were cheap I can't
because I don't have the
money.” The other guy said,
“If you want it, you can have
it real cheap, how about
$5.00?” And so 5 acres was
sold for $5.00. Itwas reported
later that George sold it for
$35,000. I used to pal around
with Jim and his younger
brother Fred when I was a kid.
Jim said that he worked for
the contractor that built
houses on 1.6 acre plots for
veterans on my mother's
farm after the war. That con­
tractor because he was living
too high went bankrupt and
left some veterans who con­
tracted for houses holding
the bag. Broadfoot mentions
Bruce McCurrach as offering
8
to buy the Hirose farm.
According to Bruce the story
is not quite accurate. He was
actually looking after the
farm for Hirose and when he
heard about the impending
sale to veterans he offered to
buy the farm because he
Royal Bank Plaza, P.O. Box 53
wanted to save it so that after
the war he could give it back
Toronto, Ont.
to Hirose. Bruce McCurrach
is an old family friend who
M5J 2J2
helped my mother a lot after
my father's death. He is the
one person who did more for
there was a pocket of Japan­
ese families living in what is
Clustered around the Bro­ the Japanese in Surrey than
now the thriving Guilford area der ranch area were some any other Hakujin. I hope to
anchored by the huge Guil­ pioneer Japanese families; write about him in the future.
ford shopping mall. Doug Fujii, Fukunaga, Hirose,
Arai, Kayo (Nakamura) Yama­ Morimoto, Nakano, Urano,
moto and their wives and I ate Shimamoto and Kuwahara.
at a Japanese restaurant Some others came and left by
there after our High School the time of the evacuation.
Reunion was over. I would The story about the Hirose's
not have dreamt even in my strawberry farm and its sale
wildest dream of such a through the Veteran's Land
change in that part of Surrey. Act is told by Broadfoot in his
The Broder Ranch and the book “Years of Sorrow, Years
(RAYMOND) LIMITED
land where the Japanese had of Shame.” I know the veteran
their strawberry farms is now who bought the farm. George
RAYMOND - ALBERTA TOK 2S0
a part of the Guilford area. was a kid several years older
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Office phone: 752-3402
The new highway now actual­ than I when I attended Hjorth
ly bisects the original ranch. Road School. I visited with
Management & Staff
In Lethbridge I stopped and his brother Jim and he told
General Motors Dealers
visited with Colleen Fukuna­ me another story. Someone
Chevrolet - Oldsmobile - Pontiac - Buick
ga (Sekiya) and her mother. came by and said to George,
Chevrolet & G.M.C. Trucks
Mr. Fukunaga was the labour “How would you like to buy
Gulf Gas & Oil Products
contractor for Broder, and the the five acres next to the
family lived on the ranch for Hirose farm cheap?” He said,

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(CANADA), LTD

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JUB1I.EE MOTORS

Happy Hew Year
si

Season’s Greetings

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Sunday School Junior Y.B.A.
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Season 's Greetings
MOMIJI HEALTH CARE
SOCIETY
Season's Greetings and Heartfelt Thanks for the
generous support received during our first of a three
years' fund drive.
May we continue to receive your support until the
Nikkei seniors' facility becomes a reality.

Donations may be addressed to:

MOMIJI COMPLEX FUND
6 Roundwood Court, Agincourt, Ontario M1W 1Z2
Tax receipts issued

Season's Greetings
in®n

Tokiwa's
Paul Y. & Toshiko Jean
Paul, George & Michael

Reason's^leetings
The International Year of Peace
is almost at a close. As zve pause
to reflect, it is our hope that zve
continue to zvork for zvorld
peace and harmony.
In Canada, zve share a
special sense of family and
community, particularly at this
time of year.

To all — a zvishfor
happiness and prosperity
in the coming year.
The Hon.

David Crombie
Secretary of State
and Minister Responsible for Multiculturalism.

105 Bellingham Dr.,
Hamilton, Ontario L8V 3R5

Season's Greetings
Trend Custom
Tailors
Tom Battista

129 Spadina Avenue
6th Floor
Toronto, Ontario
M5V 2L3

phone 596-8744

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MITSUBISHI BANK OF CANADA

THE MITSUI BANK OF CANADA
Head Office, Toronto

2 First Canadian Place,
Suite 2531, P.O. Box 409,
Toronto, Ontario M5X 1E3
Tel: (416) 369-8531
Terutaka Nakayama

Eitatsu Tanabe

President

Senior Vice-President

Commerce Court West
Suite 2300
Toronto, Ontario M5L 1A1

Granville Square, Suite 48
200 Granville Street
Vanvouver, B.C. V6C 1S4

Phone 365-1940

Phone 683-9151

Vancouver Branch
Four Benthall Centre, Suite 2394,
P.O. Box 49331,
1055 Dunsmuir Street,
Vancouver, B.C., Canada V7X 1L4
Tel: (604) 688-8631

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