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The New Canadian
An Independent Organ for Canadians of Japanese Origin

I VOL. 51 — NO. 75

TORONTO, ONT

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1987

Mike Masaoka as keynote
speaker at NJCCA anniv.

Smithsonian's
U.S. Nikkei
exhibit opens

By DENNIS MADOKORO
TORONTO. — Remember
1947? How about the NJCCA
(Nat'I
Jpnz. Cnd. Citizens
Assoc)?
Mike Masaoka?

J.A.C.L. anti-discrimination
committee, Mike has fought
the ‘good fight’ for Japanese
Americans as full fledged
American citizen. He helped
win citizenship for the Issei
and he helped change the
U.S. immigration laws. We
Canadians can learn from the
grit and determination of
Mike Masaoka.
It was 40 years ago (that's
why we are celebrating) that
Mike Masaoka helped form
the NJCCA and which is now
the NAJC (Nat'I Assoc, of
Jpnz. Cdns). Mike helped
create the Chapter organiza­
tion which saw chapters in
Vancouver, Montreal, Toron­
to, Winnipeg, Thunder Bay
and others. Canada is a dis­
tinctly different country than
the U.S.A. The lack of Cana(Cont. on page 2)

WASHINGTON, D.C. - The
National Japanese American
Historical Society has an­
nounced the release of the
script for the Smithsonian
How about Tom ShoyaInstitution's upcoming exhi­
ma, Gordon Kadota, Harold
bit, “A More Perfect Union:
Hirose, Ed Ide, Art Miki,
Japanese Americans and the
Rosie Okuda and Roger Oba­
U.S. Constitution.”
ta?
The exhibit, which will
What do all these dates
open Oct. 1 in conjunction
and organizations and people
with the 200th anniversary of
Two grand ladies honored by church
have in common?
the Constitution, will deal
TORONTO. — Two missionaries who have spent their
It's the ‘40th anniversary’
with the 100-year history of lives dedicated to Japanese Canadians were honored re­
Japanese Americans and cently by the Toronto St. Andrew's Anglican Congregation. celebration banquet at the
their relationship with that They are Miss Grace Tucker (left) and Margaret Foster of Skyline Triumph (2727 Keele
in Toronto) on November 14,
document.
Richmond, B.C.
1987. Tickets are $50. per per­
The idea for the show was
son, 40. for Issei and 1940sproposed by NJAHS based
1950s music will be by Bob
on an exhibit that was dis­
Henmi.
played at the Presidio of San
For tickets see any of your
Francisco in 1981. Gen. W.R.
Peers, who commanded an By REV. ROLAND KAWANO dians before, during and Toronto Chapter executive, or
call Jeannine and Harvey
OSS commando unit in Bur­
TORONTO. — On Sunday, following the Second World
Moritsugu at 481-4088.
ma during World War II and May 18, 1987 the Japanese War.
Japan has 2,271
Our key note speaker will
Both women are graduates
served with the Nisei of the Canadian congregation of St.
aged 100 or older
of the Anglican Women's be Mike Masaoka. He visited
Military Intelligence Service, Andrew's
celebrated
the
Canada
40
years
ago
and
suggested that this would be I ives of M isses Grace Tucker Training College in Toronto
TOKYO. — Japan has 2,271
an appropriate exhibit for the and Margaret Foster of Rich­ in the 1930s, the predecessor helped us start the NJCCA. centenarians, according to a
of the present Centre for It's the chance of a lifetime report issued by the Japan
Smithsonian.
mond, B.C. Miss Tucker had
Dillon Ripley, then-secreta­ just previously received the Christian Studies. For that to hear from one of the most Health and Welfare Ministry.
influential Japanese Ameri­
ry of the Smithsonian, had Order of Canada for her work reason, Miss Marion Niven,
The figure outnumbers last
cans.
Mike,
as
a
spokesman
also served with the Nisei among the Japanese Cana- former principle of the AWTC
year's record by 420 people
and the Centre for Christian for the J.A.C.L. ( Jpnz. Ame­ and represents the first time
MIS men. He agreed with
Studies, preached on the ne­ rican Citizens League), has that the number of Japanese
Peers and suggested that the
built a reputation of breaking
cessity of making brave and
exhibit coincide with the
CBC-Van. radio
aged 100 or older has gone
courageous stands in diffi­ many barriers of prejudice above the 2,000 mark.
1987 celebration of the Con­
program on JC
with his bold and challenging
stitution bicentennial.
cult situations.
The oldest person in Japan
internment wins
Toronto's
Archbishop personality. From the early is Mitsu Fujisawa, 111, of
Among the highlights of
years (1941) when Mike
the exhibit, which is being
1987 Gabriel Award Lewis S. Garnsworthy greet­ war
was National Secretary of the Suwa, Nagano Prefecture.
ed
the
congregation
which
paid for by federal appro­
She was born on April 9,1876,
TORONTO. — “The War
J.A.C.L.,
to
his
service
with
came from throughout On­
priated funds, are the follow­
and has been the oldest per­
We Fought”, a CBC Vancou­
the
famous
442nd-Go
For
tario, from Hamilton, St.
ing:
son in Japan since May last
ver special about the intern­
Broke
combat
division,
to
his
Catherines, Chatham, Otta­
• The interior of a concen­
year.
ment of Japanese Canadians
wa, Kapuskasing, Montreal, return as Director of the
tration camp barrack with
during World War II, was one
etc. They had come to wor­
objects actually used by in­
of four CBC Radio programs
ship with and give thanks for
ternees;
to win a 1987 Gabriel Award.
the lives of these two women.
• A replica of a War Relo­
The awards are given for pro­
Archbishop Michael Peers,
cation Authority camp guard
grams that address issues of
VICTORIA. — A Japanese tage la Prairie, west of Win­
the Primate of Canada, sent
tower, complete with ma­
“positive human values.”
a letter of congratulations, adventurer who survived how­ nipeg.
chine gun;
Arai landed in Victoria Aug.
remembering the days in the ling winds during a 70-day
• Items created in the
3 million Jpnz.
1950's when Miss Grace solo crossing of the Pacific 15 after sailing his 7.3 metre
camps, including furniture,
Tucker worked with Sunday has been killed while bicy­ (24-foot) sailboat from Japan,
hand tools, and musical in­
travelled abroad
encountering 6-metre waves
School by Post in Saskatche­ cling across the Praries.
struments;
during first 6
and strong winds that nearly
wan. The Archbishop of Can­
• Writings, sketches and
months of 1987
Takafumi Arai, 23, was capsized the vessel. He had
terbury, Dr. Robert Runcie,
paintings from the camp as
planned to cycle across Ca­
well as artwork made from in­
TOKYO. — The number of also sent his congratulations sucked under the wheels of
a semi-trailer truck when nada, then pick up his sail­
digenous materials, such as Japanese
who
travelled by telegram.
The grace at the reception caught in the vacuum created boat in Vancouver for the
jewelry, carvings and sculp­ abroad during the first six
return voyage.
tures;
months of this year was up following the service was by the passing truck near Por­
• Work implements from 21.7 percent from last year given by Canon P. Ken Imai,
Hawaiian plantations and at 3,075,000, according to former pastor of St. Andrew's.
BEAMSVILLE, Ont. — On Sunday, September 20, 1987 the
Mainland farms and ranches; figures released Sept 6 by After a potluck meal, Mrs. Su­
• Anti-Japanese immigra­ the Justice Ministry's Immi­ mi Yamamoto, Choir Mistress Annual General Meeting of the Nipponia Home was held in
and Organist, spoke of the Beamsville, Ontario. Harry Yoshida, was elected president
tion and propaganda material gration Bureau.
from 1885 to 1945;
The figure topped the 3 different kinds of work both and the immediate past president is Jack Oki. Others elected
• Original material from the million mark for the first women did. Mrs. Kayo Okada, to the executive are: 1st vice president — Dr. Y. Okita, 2nd
former head of the Anglican vice president — Mickey Takeda, treasurer — Mas Endo,
Supreme Court test cases time, the bureau said.
challenging the constitution­
If the number of travellers Church Women, thanked the secretary — Vi Kagetsu, recording secretary — Kay Onishi.
Lord and the two women for
Board members include the following: T. Akiyama, T. Hira­
ality of the government's increases at the present rate,
treatment of Nikkei during fugures could hit a record 6.5 their work. Mrs. Okada lived matsu, T. Hori, S. Ikeda, Rev. S. Kawano, S. Kondo, T. Saka­
in Kapuskasing after the war moto, M. Sumiya, K. Suyama, T. Takashima, T. Torizuka and
World War II (Korematsu. Hi- million by the end of the year,
(Cont. on page 3)
T. Uyede.
V Kthe bureau said.
(Cont. on page 2)

St. Andrew's Anglicans honor
missionaries who aided JCs

Japanese solo Pacific conquerer
dies biking across prairies

Harry Yoshida Nipponia president

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THE

NEW

Friday, October 9, 1987

CANADIAN

(Cont. from page 1)

Anniversary . . .

dian constitutional gruaran- Tom, Gordon, Harold, Ed, Art,
tees until the recent Charter Rosie and Roger. Mike Masa­
of Rights meant that the oka will be there to remind us
Jpnz.
Canadian evolution how much we need to con­
was different than the Jpnz. tinue the good fight and look
American
experience. To at the problems from an Ame­
commemorate our Canadian rican perspective. As Japan­
experience all past presidents ese Canadians, we can be
of the NJCCA have been in­ taught much from this out­
vited to receive their long standing Japanese American
overdue recognition. To date, spokesman. The ‘good fight'
seven of nine past and cur­ still needs to be fought.
Let's celebrate the forty
rent presidents will attend
our celebration banquet on years, our leaders and our ac­
November 14, 1987. Come complishments on November
and see and talk to Mike, 14, 1987.

Childhood sketches in Hawaii

The New Canadian
Established 1939

Mrs. Mahalo sew leis each
By BILL HOSOKAWA
It isn't likely you've heard Saturday to earn the dime she
very much about Jessica needs to go to the movies.
Saiki. You should hear more, This is the way Keiko's story
much more. Jessica Saiki is a begins:
“Saturdays she hears the
writer. Her first book, a slim
paperback titled Once, a Cheong's old rooster crow­
Lotus Garden", was published ing as she leaves home. Over­
not long ago by New Rivers head, the night sky is ashen
Press of St. Paul, Minn. Her gray blue. Papaya-yellow
son, Mark, a Denver attorney, sunlight cracks over the
sent me a copy and I have horizon, squeezing just
been engrossed in it ever enough light through clouds
for her to see the road leading
since.
to the Mahalos'. On the way,
Once, a Lo­
besides seeing a sneaky,
tus Garden is a
(Cont. from page 1)
Smithsonian . . .
brown mongoose dart across
collection of
• The original Executive short stories,
the road, she passes Fats
rabayashi, Yasui and Endo);
order
9066,
signed
by
Presi
­
Pacheco the milkman in his
or more to the
• Military objects, includ­
dent
Franklin
Roosevelt;
white uniform and white
point, sket­
ing an original jeep with

Materials
relating
to
the
truck. 'Where you going?' he
ches drawn
442nd RCT markings; a 105
asks her.”
mm howitzer, the type used current redress efforts and from Jessica
And in the story titled “The
by the 522nd Artillery] 100th/ othe tissues of concern to Saiki's child­
hood in a prewar rural Old Ways”:
442nd regimental standards; Japanese Americans today.
One of the unique features Hawaiian village. She has a
“Of the two women, both
battle streamers; Sadao Munemori 's Medal of Honor and of the exhibit will be an audio good memory, an eye for stubby and squat as shoyu
Purple Heart; Kazuo Masuda visual program through which detail and a sensitive way kegs,' Mrs. Watanabe was
and Bob Kubo's Distinguish­ visitors will “interact” with with words and dialogue. The notably more passive. She
ed Service Crosses; a com­ Japanese Americans. Through stories read as though they had a flat, round face like a
sopping
up
plete list of medals received television monitors, visitors were written effortlessly, blotter,
can
select
personal
stories
which is a sure sign that she everything someone told her
by the 100th/442nd; a collec­
of
the
internment,
World
War
labored over each passage, with amazed, childlike
tion of weapons and other
II
combat,
racism
in
the
U.S.,
each sentence, each para­ credulity so that it registered
combat material used by Ni­
and
other
life
experiences.
graph until she achieved the like a mirror, pain or pleasure,
sei soldiers in World War II;
The
exhibit
will
be
display
­
horror or approval depending
precise effect she wanted.
documents, translated diaries
on whom she was talking to
and dictionaries used by the ed on the third floor of the Na­
She
brings
to
life
the
peo
­
tional Museum of American
at the time.”
Nisei MIS soldiers;
History for at least five years. ple of the village at a time
Jessica's stories are about
• George
Washington's The Smithsonian estimates when Shirley Temple was Hawaii, but her characters
personal copy of the Consti­ that as many as 35,000 people everyone's dimpled darling, are familiar to Nisei who grew
tution, dating back to 1787;
and it was a compliment to up in Stockton, Calif., or
a day will view the exhibit.
say a bride looked like Alice Kent, Wash., Salem, Ore., or
Faye. It was in this environ­ Ogden, Utah. They are real live
ment that the feckless Higa- people of a particular ethnic
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There are others, like the live in Watertown, Wis. I look
little girl who had to say she for more stories from her.
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Friday, October 9, 1987

THE

PERSONALNOTES
HAMANISHI
OBITUARIES
VANCOUVER. — Mr. Terry
Hamanishi, aged 49 years,
ISHIDA
passed away on September 4,
KAMLOOPS, B.C. — Mrs. 1987. Survived by his loving
Tomie Ishida passed away at family, wife Nancy; sons,
Kamloops on September 11, Curtis and Gordie, 1 brother,
1987 at aged 84 years. Surviv­ Frank and Pat Hamanishi and
ed by her loving family, 5 their 2 children; 2 sisters, Kay
sons, Takashi and his wife Hamanishi and May and Tom
Asako, Joe, John, Mark and Mukai and their 3 children.
Funeral service held at
his wife Catherine and Shi­
geru; 3 daughters, Shigeko, Vancouver Buddhist Church.
and her husband Mickey Mac­ Glenhaven Memorial Chapel
Donald, Tamako Tanaka, and with the Rev. Y. Izumi Offi­
Shizuko Dixon; 16 grandchil­ ciating. Vancouver Cremato­
dren, 4 great-grandchildren. rium.
Predeceased by her husband
Hisakichi.
HIKIDA
RICHMOND, B.C. — Mrs.
Funeral service held at
Vancouver Buddhist Church Ito Hikida passed away in
with the Rev. Y. Izumi offi­ Richmond General Hospital
ciating. Glenhaven Memorial on September 9, 1987 at aged
Chapel. Vancouver Cremato­ 94 years. Survived by her
loving family, 2 sons and
rium.
daughters-in-law, Yoshihiro
and Hatsuyo, of Richmond,
Akira and Marge, of Rich­
YOSHIMURA
CALGARY, Alta. — Mr. Yo- mond, 3 daughters, Fusae
shihei Yoshimura
passed and sin-in-law Tarao Tezuka,
away in his 89th year on of Bradford, Ont., Kikue Hi­
September 8, 1987. Beloved kida of Hamilton, Ont., Sueko
husband of 64 years of Sei, and son-in-law Ken Ito, of
dear father of son Richard Lethbridge, Alta., also numer­
and his wife Gabriel of Coch­ ous grandchildren and great­
rane, Alberta, three daugh­ grandchildren.
Funeral service held at
ters, Sadie and her husband
Stan Fong of Calgary, Setsu­ Steveston Buddhist Church
ko and her husband Toshiaki with the Rev. G. Abe offi­
Uchida of Nagasaki, Japan, ciating. Richmond. Funeral
_> and Eiko Oda of Kumamoto, Home. Vancouver-Cremato­
: Japan. Also 9 grandchildren rium. ■ . .
in Canada, Mark (Edith) Yo­
shimura, Christine, Richard
(Jr.), and Weston Yoshimura
HIKIDA
and Carol-Ann (Jim) Lewis,
TORONTO. — Mr. Larry
Charlene (Charles) Andreas,
Jim (Ellen) Fong, Lisa and Hikida pssed away at St.
Grant Fong. Also 7 grand­ Michael's Hospital on Sep­
children and 12 great-grand­ tember 24, 1987 in his 88th
year. Beloved husband of
children in Japan.
Fumie Hikida. Dear father of
Funeral service was held at Jerry and his wife Sue Hiki­
St. David's United Church on da. Grandfather of Susan,
Saturday, September 12, 1987 Lorraine and Steve. Brother
at 11 a.m. with the Rev. Stan to Toyo Murakami. Also sur­
Errett officiating, followed vived by one brother and
by cremation, Queen's Park sister in Japan.
Earle Elliott Funeral Home
Cemetery in Calgary.
“Cook - Thompson Chapel.”
Funeral service conducted
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in Crow Creek, built especial­
ly for the resettling Japanese,
and these women visiting the
relocating Japanese there. At
the end, Mr. Blackie Okuno
then presented a purse to
both women.
In their thank you speech­
es Miss Tucker reminded us
of her experience, receiving
the Order of Canada, sitting
among artists, politicians,
well-known individuals. What
was she doing there, she
wondered? Then she remem­
bered the motto, in Latin, of
the Order of Canada medal —
to build a better country. She
then realized that that indeed
was what she had been do­
ing, and that more than
justified her place at the
Order of Canada ceremonies.
Miss Margaret Foster told
us of her experience at the
Eucharist, earlier at the ser­
vice, looking at these adults
going up to the altar rail. She
saw each of them forty and
fifty years ago in Vancouver,
in Slocan in the interior B.C.,
in Sunday School and Kinder­
garten, and as they were re­
locating in Ontario. All of
these adults symbolized what
God had made possible.
Also in attendance was
Mrs. Ella Paddon of Toronto and Miss Mae Walker of
Orelia. Before World War II,
Mrs. Paddon was a.Canadian
medjcal missionary to St.
Luke's hospital in Tokyo,
Japan. Then, during the Se­
cond World War, she was in­
terned by the Japanese army
in the Philippines. Miss Mae
Walker was a Canadian mis­
sionary to Japan in the 1930s,
and served among the Japan­
ese Canadians in Tashme,
during the war in the interior
B.C. After the war, Miss
Walker served with the Japa­
nese congregation at Christ
Church Cathedral, Hamilton.

Pope thanks U.S. Nikkei doctor
LOS ANGELES. — Showing continuing support for the
Los Angeles Heart Institute's Miracles Across Miles pro­
gram, Pope John Paul II expressed his deepest appreciation
to Dr. Taro Yokoyama, M.D. for making a significant difference
in the lives of so many children. Dr. Yokoyama performs heart
surgery on children who comes to St. Vincent Medical Center
through the charitable care program, and is chief of cardio­
vascular surgery. He and his wife, Rita Yokoyama, R.N. travel­
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literary

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aspect

Ann Ireland and Almost Japa­
nese by Sarah Sheard, both
of which present characters
supposedly modeled after
the internationally famed Ja­
panese conductor Seiji Oza­
wa.
Japanese literature has
been translated into English
and studied fairly exhaustive­
ly, from the classic to modern
authors, and the work is of
high quality, too; but this in­
terest is limited only to specialiste who number less
than 20 in the whole country.
Among the general public,
only a fraction — probably
less than one per cent — ac­
GENEVA. — Japanese wor­ hours and the Swiss with tually read Japanese litera­
kers in manufacturing plants 1,824 hours. American wor­ ture in translation; very few
worked an average 2,192 kers had 12 paid holidays in for genuine literary interest,
hours in 1985, 500 hours the year and were absent most of them in order to
longer than the average work­ from work for 62 hours. On understand Japanese culture,
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Americans who worked 1,850 nations came in 136 hours. role played by haiku is im­
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the 1986 annual convention literature in Canada; also
of the Japanese Association some journalists, booksellers
for Canadian Studies, this and friends. For the second
essay tries to investigate the part, a thorough study of
literary aspects of “Japan in which should have required
Canada”, first by examining much more time than at dis­
the place of Japanese litera­ posal, works by Japanese
ture in the Canadian society, Canadians, notably Joy Koga­
and secondly by looking for wa's Obasan, are used, as
the Japanese image in Cana­ well as the recently publish­
dian literature. The source of ed A Certain Mr. Takahashi by

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public. The timeliness of the
book's publication in 1981
when the government's war­
time treatment of the Japa­
nese Canadians was much in
debate; the purely artistic
quality of the book in its
delicate sensitivity, poetic
expression, and the deeply
felt emotional appeal; the in­
creasing ethnic and multicul­
tural interest among the Ca­
nadians in relation to their
national identity— all these
contributed to the popularity
of Obasan. The work abounds
in ‘Japanese’ contents, albeit
they might be rather the Ca­
nadian version of the Japaneseness than the genuinelv
Japanese, which must appeal
to Canadian readers as some­
thing very Japanese, exotic,
and romantic.
Strong interest in things
Japanese is amply exempli­
fied in the two novels by non­
Asiatic Canadian authoresses
mentioned at the outset,
who grew up together in the
exclusive residential area in
Toronto where Ozawa lived
for some years as conductor
of the Toronto Symphony Or­
chestra. Both Ireland and
Sheard liked Ozawa very
much, and obviously drew
much from their experiences;
but the novels are said to
have been written independ­
ently, without any knowledge
of each other.
Emma, the 14-year-old her­
oine of Almost Japanese, is
virtually bewitched by Akita
Tsutsuma, the “exotic” Japa­
nese conductor, and tries to
imitate his way of living in all
details. Jean and Colette, sis­
ters in A Certain Mr. Takaha­
shi who vie for the attention
of the talented Japanese pia­
nist Yoshi Takahashi, do ex­
actly’the same thing. In both
cases the oriental musicians
become symbols of originali­
ty, creativity, and artistic ex­
cellence as against the mat­
ter-of-fact, machine made,
technocratic tendency of the
Western civilization. Never
before has a Japanese char­
acter, a male character espe­
cially, been presented so
favorably in any literary work
in English as in these two
novels.
The above survey, based
mainly on the English-speak­
ing regions of Canada, is by
no means applicable to the
whole country. In the Mari­
time Provinces the interest in
Japan is much more slight;
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regions the situation is en­
tirely different. The French
translation of Japanese lite­
rature is far smaller in
number and inferior in qua­
lity compared with the Eng­
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