The New Canadian — January 3, 1989

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50 YEARS

Season s Greetings on our 50th Year

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OF SERVICE
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The New Canadian
An Independent Organ for Canadians of Japanese Origin

VOL. 53, NO. 1

TORONTO, ONT.

TUESDAY, JANUARY 3, 1989

Phone 1-800-567-9602 . . .

Redress
Reviewed
By KASEY OYAMA
A vital question in the mind
of those who were involved in
redress, including members
of the NAJC negotiating com­
mittee, is why did the Mufroney government suddenly
drop its opposition to indivi­
dual compensation and ac­
cept it as part of the redress
settlement. .
It was to get an answer to
this question that I requested
an interview with Mr. Gerry
Weiner, which took place in .
Montreal on October 13th.
I did not get the informa­
tion I was after. Mr. Weiner
did not^reply tp..my direct .
questions. He pleaded ‘
cabinet secrecy.
But he did answer some of "
my other questions. In fact he
spoke freely on matters that
fell outside the restricted
area.
He said he was confident
that the could reach a settle­
ment on the redress issue
when he assumed the multi­
culturalism duties previously
handled by Mr. David Crombie.
I asked him when did he ar­
rive at the conclusion that in­
dividual
compensation
should be a part of the
redress settlement. He
replied that he had always
CANADA
held that view.
I had no difficulty accep- I
ting this. In fact jt occurred to
me that there is a refreshing
mix of idealism and pragma­
tism in Mr. Weiner which
ept
would have led h;
Mila, our children and Iwould liketo extend our warm­
individual compensation
est greetings and very best wishes to you during this
much sooner than many
holiday season.
Japanese Canadians.
-In Canada as in other nations around the world we
I asked him when the Prime
celebrate, in particular, the spirit of fellowship at this
Minister came around to that
time of year and we observe unique customs steeped in
view. He said the Prime
tradition.
Minister had also always held
It is a time for all people to share in the peace, joy, and
that view.
happiness which characterize this season.
I found this answer a little
As we gather withJamily and friends, may we all look
difficult to accept. I was sure
to the future with a special sense of optimism and con­
that the Prime Minister would
fidence.
gladly have settled the redress
question without the provi­
Ottawa, 1988
sion for individual compensa­
tion if it had been accepted
by the Japanese Canadian
community. Each of the three
cabinet ministers who had to
(Cont.onpage 2)

JC Redress application
forms now available
from Govt, of Canada
OTTAWA — Application forms and a free information
brochure on the eligibility requirements on Redress for Japa­
nese Canadians are now available by writing to the Govern­
ment of Canada in care of the Japanese Canadian Redress
Secretariat. Ottawa, Canada, K1A 0M5, or by calling toll-free
1-800-567-9602.
The information is offered in English, French and Japa­
nese. Also available are applications for Canadian citizenship
and Applications for Pardon.
The Government of Canada announced a redress agree­
ment with the National Association of Japanese Canadians
(NAJO), offered symbolic redress for Japanese Canadians
affected by the government's actions of relocation, intern­
ment, property seizure and deportation during and after World
War II.
Terms of- the Agreement relating to individuals include:
• the payment of $21,000 to those affected who are still
|ivin.9;
,
.7 ? t^e^
of citizenship to persons of Japanese an-“
cestry who were expelled from Canada or had their citizen­
ship revoked;
• clearing the names of persons of Japanese ancestry who
' were convicted under the War. Measures Act, the National
Emergency Transitional Powers Act, or other related transi­
tional legislation.

i Winnipeg meet discusses
opinions on $12 million
community
Redress
fund
WINNIPEG. — On October

projects (e.g. cooking, lan­
guage, dancing, Ikebana, Keirokai, a library).
The ideas expressed at this meeting were shared at the
National Council Meeting
held in Toronto, November
5-6/88.

30, 1988, approx. 70 people
attended a meeting at the
Winnipeg JC Cultural Centre
to discuss ideas and opinions
regarding the $12M commu­
nity fund that is part of the
Redress settlement.
Some of the highlights of
the discussion:
JC internees
- that NAJC keep a portion
should receive
of the monies in order to
maintain a national identity
Redress payments
that will prevail over a
during January
number of years and that the
VANCOUVER.
The
balance be distributed to the
first
$21,000
cheques
pay
­
various centres.
ing compensation to Ja­
-that a foundation .be
panese Canadians intern­
formed and that only the in­
ed during World War II
terest from the principal sum
'should be mailed out by
be used.
early January. Application
— that the priorities for the
forms, which became av­
fund be directed towards the
ailable in late November,
recognition of seniors.
are coming in at a rate of
— that the community fund
450 a day, said Anne Scot­
include everyone of all ages.
ton, executive director of
— that a senior home be
the Japanese Canadian
considered as a project for
Redress Secretariat. An
Winnipeg.
estimated
12,000 Japan­
- that Japanese culture be
ese Canadians are eligible
fostered
and
maintained
through various activities and A for the tax-free payments.

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deal with the question, prior supported the redress posi­ individual compensation when the redress agreement
A member of Ethnic Press
to Mr. Weiner, were strongly tion taken by the NAJC plac­ became unmistakably clear was reached.
- Association of Ontario
opposed to individual com­ ing emphasis on;a negotiated after the Parliamentary ques­
and Canada Federation
There is another point to
pensation. Surely they settlement involving in­ tion period which followed consider. Mr. Weiner met the
; Publisher & Japanese Editor
Kenzo Mori
reflected the consensus of dividual compensation.
the Japanese Canadian rally NAJC twice after the April 14
English Editor
the cabinet, with the possible
It is conceivable that the which took place on Parlia­ rally. At the first meeting on
Kei Tsumura
Prime Minister was one of the ment hill on April 14th of this June 22nd, there was strong
exception of Mr. Crombie.
Published on Tuesdays
My guess is that the most earliest to find merit in in­ year.
indication that the govern­
and Fridays
likely scerario of what took dividual compensation, and
It is no secret that the ment was ready to consider
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compensation at least from
Meanwhile the U.S. was planned in advance at a party dividual compensation was ■ wSwmTrrrwmwwnwnww
about the early part of this moving in the direction of a caucus.
the undisputed basis of the
year.
. redress settlement based on
Three speakers, represen­ negotiations.
Congratulations
The cabinet was never op­ individual compenstion, and ting each of the three parties,
A comment was heard
on your 50th year of
posed to redress as such, but this may have influenced the rose to ask questions on the when Prime Minister an­
"publication
it was clearly opposed initial­ Prime Minister to keep his op­ subject of Japanese Cana­ nounced the redress agree­
ly to individual compensa­ tions open while a series of dian redress. Representa­ ment on September 22, that it
Mrs. Tsu he Ochiai
tion, probably because of the multicultural ministers took tives for the Liberal and NDP was motivated by political
Mike and Toyo Ochiai
turns
to
strike
a
deal
with
the
costs that such an arrange­
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parties pressed strongly for consideration.
NAJC.
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ment would entail, and also
individual compensation. The
This comment, although
It is also conceivable that MP representing the Conser­ not inaccurate, misses the
because-it could give rise to
opposition.
the Prime Minister appointed vative party, while not ad­ significant point. That point
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The government was not in Mr. Weiner to replace Mr. vocating individual compen­ is — public opinion was .
Mrs. Hasue Homma
a position to risk its populari­ Crombie, and shuffled his sation, did not oppose it, and seen
implicitly but
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ty further at a time when it cabinet members to forge a his question was far from be­ m istakablybeh i nd the
Willowdale, Ont. M2K 2W3
was under siege - involving, new cabinet image, and con­ ing hostile tolhe NAJC posi­ redress settlement. There
among other things, scandals sensus, in preparation for the tion.
was hardly any voice raised in
touching a number of cabinet scheduled federal elections,
Mr. Weiner's response, to opposition. There was no
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ministers.
with one eye on adopting a each of the questioners, was sign of the backlash that
Mr. and Mrs. Fred I. Saito
What the cabinet may not redress solution acceptable that he was prepared for fur­ some Japanese Canadians
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have anticipated Ts the to the NAJC. .
ther discussion, presumably feared.
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That there would be little oh the matter of individual
gradual build up of a senti­
The NAJC has unques­
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ment in public opinion, the opposition in Parliament to a compensation since there tionably done much to bring
media and among MPs that redress settlement involving were ; no other areas in about the settlement. It had
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dispute. This was a break convinced the government
with his predecessor's posi­ that the organization truly
Dr. and Mrs. George Hori
tion which was adamantly op- represented the Japanese
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posed to individual compen- Canadian community. :
Boston, Mass.
satio.ii.Mr.Weiner could not
It had won an overwhelm02138, U.S.A.
have taken this position ing support of the Japanese
without a tacit approval of the Canadian community despite
cabinet.
some early ©position. It had
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If the question period managed to gain the support
Dave and Kay Azuma
30 Millbrook Cres.,
made clear the climate in the of public opinion, the media,
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of us who were sitting in the merit.
gallery, it would have been
The NAJC was responsible
clear even earlier to members for much. But there were forSeason' s Greetings
of the cabinet who met regu­ tu i tou s c i rc u m stan ces as
Mrs. Jean Tanaka, Tonio,
larly at caucus meetings with well.
Barbara and Family
Tory members who compris­
The replacement of Mr.
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ed an overwhelming majority Crombie by Mr. Weiner was;
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in the Commons.
an important one.
I asked Mr. Weiner whether
The Japanese American
he placed importance on the Citizens League 's suc­
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April rally, suggesting that it cessful efforts at achieving
Mr. and Mrs.
may have been a turning its redress settlement both
Reo Nagasaka
point in the government at­ influenced and was influenc­
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titude toward individual com­ ed by parallel events in
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pensation. Mr. Weiner neither Canada.
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agreed nor disagreed.
Some would ascribe to
This response confirmed good luck, at least in part, for
by feeling that the turnaround the set of circumstances that
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in the cabinet position on came together to help bring
Mr. and Mrs.
redress had come about prior about the successful conclu­
Hideo Nishimoto
to the April 14 rally. It was not sion to redress. If luck did
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surprising that Mr. Crombie play a part, then the NAJC
Unit 205
left the cabinet shortly after deserves credit for being
Toronto, Ont. M8V
and his place taken by Mr., ready to take advantage of it.
2Z6
There was a minority of
Weiner.
It remains a puzzle, Japanese Canadians who
however, why Mr. Crombie disagreed with the activity of
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stuck so firmly to his guns in the NAJC. They had their
DUE TO BEREAVEMENT
valid
reasons,
and
there
is
opposing
individual
compen
­
Koshiro Komatsu
Suite 1500, 20 Adelaide St. E.
sation — was he politically room in a democracy for
Yosh and Ginger Terakita
insensitive, or was he given more than one point of view.
Toronto, Ont.
Toronto, Ont.
But it is hoped that even they
bad advice by his aides?
I recall one comment by are generous enough to
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Mr. Weiner — that one could acknowledge that the NAJC
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accomplish a great deal (in has made an important con865-0330
Mr. -and Mrs. Dick Tanaka
the way of persuasion) in six tribution toward strengtheri3185 Cedartree Cres.,
months. It is considerably ing the preception of human
Mississauga, Ont.
less than six months bet- rights for all Canadian
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ween April 14 and August 26 citizens.

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a Happy New Year
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Redress: Too Late For Mother
By DR. MIKE HOSHIKO
On Feb. 22, 1988, my mo­ about four years old and was
ther, Toshie Kuroda Hoshiko taken there for a visit by my
died. The redress bill was mother. Nothing remained of
the mill when I visited the site
signed on Sept. 22, 1988.
It was a cold, bitter day in some 50 years later.
About four years after her
April, 1942, when a bus came
to our chicken farm in Surrey father died my mother was
to start my mother and her persuaded to marry the man
few belongings on the jour­ who had been married to her
ney to a one room shack on a older sister who had died du­
sugarbeet farm outside of ring the influenza epidemic of
WWl.'The decision was made
Lethbridge, Alberta.
Her birth was registered by because her sister died leaher father, Heihichi Kuroda, . ving an infant daughter, and it
as Dec. 21, 1901, but actually was a sort of unwritten man­
she was born in July of that datory custom.
The man that she married
year. She was the last of se­
ven children born to a mother was virtually unknown to her
in her forties. Her father was because he had been in Cana­
a fairly well-to-do stone ma­ da since she was about four
son. They resided at 375 Oaza years old. Mother was 19 at
Koyanagi; Nakatomi-Mura, the time, and although she
Kamoto-Gun, Kumamoto-ken. couldn't counter her mo­
She used to tell us that as a ther's decision to have her
child she boasted that: she marry, she did a daring thing.
was rich. She was a tomboy, She and her boyfriend went
and would swim practically into town and had their pic­
naked in the river that flowed ture taken together. On one
through the village, outswim- of her trips back to Japan
ming the boys. After finishing some 50 years later she saw
elementary school, she atten­ her old boyfriend shuffling
ded a sewing and deportment along in the village, and she
school, suggesting a middle said she was glad that she
class upbringing. But when hadn't married him.
she was about 15 her father
Mother was married on
died, and the farm was inheri­ Christmas day, 1919, al­
ted by her oldest brother, who though at that time Christ­
promptly sold most of the mas had no meaning for her.
farm land.
When she arrived in Canada,
. i He had a rice mill which she first stayed with a mar­
was powered by a water wheel ried sister in New Westmins­
in another village but it was ter near the place where the
not a very successful venture. Buddhist church was built
I remember seeing the water later.
wheel turning as a stream of
Since she didn ' t know any
water poured on it when I was English, she went to work as

a domestic as a vehicle to the Custodian, Japanese Eva­ work. After all, their sons
learn the language. This was cuation Section. That tran- weren't going to school, and
not to her liking; housework isaction meant that Mother they all had fathers.
Economic conditions were
was so strange and most of got a mere 91 cents an acre.
After father died, Mother just starting to look up when
the food terrible, so she went
to do farm work for a Chinese had to learn English in a hurry the evacuation order came.
to deal with the trades peo­ Mother had no choice but to
farmer.
' My father was employed at ple. She had to learn the en­ pack up a few absolutely ne­
the Timberland sawmill at the tire chicken farm business cessary items like bedding,
foot of the old bridge on the from running the hatchery, kitchen utensils and clothing.
Surrey side that connected marketing, to diagnosing She left behind personal
New Westminster with Sur­ p o u ft ry diseases. Eve n items, good dishes, farm
rey. Shortly after that he was though she weighed less tools and most of her other
able to arrange a mortgage to than 100 pounds . and was belongings because she was
buy a strawberry farm in the less than five feet tall, she led to believe that everything
carried 100 pound feed sacks would be safe in the hands of
Strawberry Hill area.
When my birth became im­ on her back to fill the food the custodian and would be
minent my father hitched up troughs in the chicken hou­ returned to her when the war
was over.
the old horse to the farm wa- ses.
While she was not tending
gon to take my mother to the
Of course, as everyone
Royal Columbian Hospital in the chickens, she was out
New Westminster. That Scott hoeing, carrying off rocks and knows, as soon as she left
hill was very steep, and my fa­ stones or tending to the the farm was sold without her
ther and the old horse strug­ strawberries. It was backbrea­ knowledge, all her posses?
gled to keep the wagon from king work with no holidays, or sions disappeared and she
running away, out of control fun; just constant effort to was compensated with a
whiIe my mother was having keep from starving or losing measly few hundred dollars.
the farm. Mother brushed off Sept. 22, 1988 came too late
labour pains, j
I was born in New West­ suggestions from some of for Mother. She did not get
minster but my birth certifi­ the parents of my peers that I any apologies nor did she live
cate lists the place of birth as should quit school and go to to see justice prevail.
Surrey. The strawberry farm
was not very successful, and
when my father couldn't
make one meager payment,
he was told by the Japanese
mortgage holder to pay up or
get out.
This made him so mad that
he packed all the family pos­
sessions into the wagon and
took us late that night to Mr.
Sassa' s farm on Bergstrom
Road (now King George High­
105 Bellingham Dr.,
way). His farm was next to Mr.
S h i g eta' s farm which I ate r
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became a grocery store.:
My father continued to
work at the Timberland saw
mill, and in 1923 he bought10
acres on the south west cor­
ner of Hjorth Road and the
King George Highway. A few
years later he purchased ano­
ther 5,587 acres in the rear.
The story of how the north
part of the farm which had the
peat bog was sold to Carncross was told in one of my
previous articles.
After the sale of the peat
moss land, about 14 acres re­
mained. But on January 9,
1932, in the midst of the
worst Depression, my father
MacKay
died, leaving Mother with five
children, the oldest, my step­
sister being 14 and the youn­
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gest merely an infant.
There were many greedy
“Cook-Thompson Chapel”
people who tried to “steal”
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the farm from my mother by
saying she couldn't run it by
herself so they would buy it
from her at a low price. As it
Located near:
turned out it was the Cana­
Toronto Japanese United Church
dian government that stole
Centennial Japanese United Church
the property. They paid even
St.
Andrew's Japanese Anglican Church
less than the previous greedy
Toronto Buddhist Church
crooks had offered. For. the
5.587 acres Mother received a
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cheque for $51.00 from F.G.
Shears, Director, Dept, of the
Secretary of State, Office of

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T HE

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C A N A DIA N

Momiji Hea th Care
past present ; nd future
, Bmany levels of bureaucracies.
Japanese units at Castle^ w WychBy DR. FRED SUNAHARA
Lodge
in
On the home front, the present
wood
Towers
or
Greenvh
As the Christmas season ap-\
Toronto
to
appreciate
V
j
impor
­
plans
calls for the construction of
proaches, I feel that I should reflect .
government subsidized seniors'
1on what the Momiji Health Care Soci­ tance of this issue.
apartments and the Momiji spon­
The present arrangemes pat these
ety has done in the past year and
J by Mosored seniors' apartments (life-lease
then ask myself how we should pro­ institutions were negotif
lunicipal
arrangements with the residents),
miji
with
Provincial
ant^
ceed in the future. I would also like to
I
of
Japa,
the comprehensive supportive ser­
update the readers on the various on­ agencies for the interim i
we
build
vices to the residents of the apart­
going Momiji1 projects and share nese seniors, at least, ur"
)ments and the community at large
our own centre.
. some of my thoughts.
ful:of
the
(this
includes housekeeping and
One
should
also
be
m^There has been much excitement
miors
re
­
home
care and nursing services
long
waiting
list
of
our
o
in our community this year as the re­
reside
in
where needed, common dining,
sult of the redress debate. The major quiring care, most of whi
lounge and other amenities as well
redress issues appears to have been the Toronto region but r re are, in
as outreach services) the funds for
resolved except for the settlement of addition, many inquiries Y 1 applicaties from
building and operational costs of the
the community portion of the fund. tions from smaller comm
this
pro
­
housing the amenities and suppor­
Those who are charged with the res­ within and from outsiqtive services will be shared by the
ponsibility of distributing this fund vince.
;;
It is anticipated that tig needs for province and Momiji.
will undoubtedly have to make many
je for the
special facilities will con
The operational costs for the nurs­
soul-searching decisions.
next25
to
50
years
as
Ni
1
'
s
and
the
ing
home section when approved will
Let us hope that they will be mind­
nts
reach
be
borne
entirely by the government
post-war Japanese immi^*
ful of the Isseis and older Niseis who
but the capital costs for contruction
P
suffered the most from the ravages their ‘Autumn of life’.
Momiji's major preo^r pation at will have to be the responsibility of
of wartime relocation and who will re­
present is to clear the g y for the the sponsorer.
quire decent seniors' living facilities
rs' comMomiji intends to raise the money
construction of the sei
where special care is available. Their
plex.-There are still neg' . ations to necessary for the contruction of the
needs are immediate and so it would
be carried out with the l- vernment nursing home section and the com­
be more appropriate that at least part
before we know the exj- amounts mon facilities by a general fund drive
of this fund should be directed to
of
capital and operaticy | funding and by arranging a mortgage to cover
this constituency regardless of the
that it would approve. ^
the shortfall.
geographic location of those in need.
ting the
Our community has been very sup­
The Society is appn
It might also be noted that over
fund-raising plans on se' al fronts. portive of the Momiji project. About 3
half of Canada's Japanese seniors
>ur Board years ago we started on a one million
This year two members i
rnake their residence in the Toronto
» for per­ dollar fund drive campaign to pur­
of
Directors
were
in
JaD
region. My personal feeling is that
. this should not be just a token ges­ sonal or profession^ reasons. chase land for this project. We have
ture but a significant one, notwith­ Through the courtesy c Japanese reached over 95% of this objective.
Consulate General in 7. mto they We now have a desirable piece of
standing what the individual redress
were able to muster / siderable property in Scarborough. Recently,
recipient, may decide to do with his
commitment of funds inll lan which we passed the major and final hurdle
or her personal contribution(s).
are now ear-marked foe le Momiji of getting approval for rezoning our
In the way of ongoing activities,
project. The writer was a^ fortunate property through the Ontario Munici­
the Momiji Health Care Society, with
to garner the support c^ he Cana- pal Board. Our aim is to have the first
tremendous cooperation from all its
dian Ambassador io r >an, Am- shovel into the ground and start the
volunteer force, continues to work
bassador Barry Speers, r 5 through construction in 1989.
hard to meet its responsibility to
I believe that when our project is
his office opened man- doors for
serve the seniors in the Japanese
Momiji, both for fund ,- sing pur- properly explained to our community
Canadian'community. The plight of
poses and for expeditingt ocedures and what is in store, it will grasp the
our frail and the elderly is very evi­
through
the Ontario G(| rnment's . challenge by whatever means at its
dent. One has only to visit the special
disposal to see the project.through.
It is most heartening and encourag­
ing to us in Momiji to have so many
people already pledging all or part of
their personal redress compensation
fund towards this project. Our So:
k'
ciety is, of course, thrilled and grate­
ful for these obvious, tangeable ex­
pressions of concern, support and
generosity. It is difficult to think of a
more fitting way to pay tribute to our
seniors than to provide them with
lasting gifts of shelter and loving
care.
..
We hope that many more redress
recipients will designate at least part
of what some would label ‘newlyfound’ treasure, to this most worth­
while cause. It is our dream that the
final outcome of this campaign will
be so successful that not only would
we be able to build an ediface that we
can all be really proud of, but that we
r
can also reduce the costs to the resi­
dents by eliminating debts. We
would also wish to mount the most
exciting programs which would be
appropriate for all levels of seniors'
activities. In this way we could hail
this project as a model for seniors'
comprehensive care.
It might also be anticipated that
' the Momiji Seniors' Centre will com­
plement the Japanese Canadian Cul­
tural Centre whose availability of
space is now almost fully taxed. This
would ease some of the pressures at
the Cultural Centre and at the same
time add desirable stimulus to the
environment to the Momiji Seniors'
Centre. We hope that this Centre will
be fully operational by 1991. These
Richard (Dick) Kanno
■I
are
the objectives of the Momiji
Debbie Hanako Collis (daughter)
।
Health Care Society, objectives
Mr. and Mrs. David and Kathy Kanno (2nd sori
which I hope will be shared by every­
and Courteney (grand-daughter) London, Ont.
one in our ethnic community.
We are planning a general meeting
c
191 Main St. West, Apt. 1112
of the Society at the Cultural Centre
Hamilton, Ont.
Tel.: 527-1791
on Thursday, January 26 at 8:00 p.m.
I
Do come to get updated on what is
i
happening and what plans are in
r
store. We would also like to have
your queries and ideas.

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GLYN M. ONIZUKA, LLI
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and
Happy New Year

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Changing concepts in
Sr. health care services
by R. Takimoto "
Ministry of Community and
The Government of Ontario Social Services, for providing
has made it very clear that:
outreach and support ser­
(1) Its Ministry of Com­ vices to senior JGs in their
munity and Social Services homes or in Momiji's apart­
will no longer fund any con­ ments.
struction of New residentialWhat this means, in terms
type senior care. Instead, it of a bottom line is that the JC
will provide only “support community will now have to
care” for those in their own fund the capital building
homes or in the Momiji's costs of the 60 nursing beds,
apartments, on an ability-to- the land costs and the costs
pay bases.
of the amenities such as the
(2) The Ministry of Com- atrium, multipurpose auditor­
munity and Social Services iums and all other non-care
will no longer handle the and hon-rental areas. It will
allocation of extended be a much bigger financial
nursing-care beds except to burden for the community but
their municipally-run homes. we feel confident the goal
The extended-care beds must can be met.
now be applied for, through
Momiji Health Care Society
the Ministry of Health.
is also certain that if the On­
(3) Finally, the Ministry of tario Government can provide
Housing will continue to fund the 3 requests made above,
affordable rental housing on the seven basic objectives
a rent-geared-to income stated in our initial credo can
bases.
be met.
The latest Momiji efforts,
As we look to 1989, Momiji
therefore, has been to re­ is confident that an exciting
apply for:
year of action lies ahead. We
(1) License to operate 60 would like to take this oppor­
N ursi ng-care beds and tunity to thank the JC com­
operating funding from the munity for its patience, under­
standing and support given
Ministry of Health.
(2) Capital funding to build during the difficult times in
120 apartments from the the past and trust that we can
Ministry of Housing; half of continue to enjoy your sup­
the units to be eligible for port in the months ahead "so
subsidy and half on an in­ that a quality senior care cen­
tre for our rapidly aging Nik­
dependant life-lease system.
(3) Funding from the kei citizens can be assured.

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Personal reflections on Redress
By MARYKA OMATSU

scences about his business in this country. Rights such
and how at 80 years of age, as:
The wartime actions of the the year before he died, he
(i) the right to work at what­
Canadian Government unal- took a last train trip back ever jobs we wanted: such as
terably affected those we through the Rockies to Van­ in mining, logging and fish­
love and shaped our lives in couver. He spent an after­ ing, pharmacy, law, and pu­
turn.
noon drinking tea in a restau­ blic service;
My grandparents like all rant across. the street from
(ii) the rights of citizenship:
immigrants, came to Canada . his former business, thinking the denial of the right to vote
determined to work hard and about a life he had lost.
in federal elections, to vote
to create a better life for
I am sorry that my father for school trustees, to qualify
themselves and their fami­ and others of his generation for public office, to serve on
lies. Up until the bombing of are not here to see this day.
juries and to receive old age
Pearl Harbour, things ap­
pension bonuses; and
POLITICAL AND
peared to be following that
(iii) the right of freedom of
plan. One grandfather had a HISTORICAL REFLECTIONS .movement: to return to the
farm in the Fraser valley, the
Japanese Canadians have 100 mile “protected coast” in
other, a small store in Japan­ lived in this country for over British Columbia, to live any­
town on Powell street.
110 years. For 70 of those where we wanted in.our counMy father owned a restau­ years we had been denied
rant at the corner of Granville many of the rights that we
On April 1st, 1949 the last
and Broadway in downtown and other Canadians take for Order-in-Council under the
Vancouver. He was 41 years granted today. Much of our War Measures Act was lifted
of age when my family was history has been a history of against our community. Fi­
forced to relocate to the in­ discrimination, and our fight nally Canadians of Japanese
terior of British Columbia. against that discrimination. ancestry were given the same
1948: Akihide Otsuji, a boy
in 1986, the National Coun­
They ended up after the war Our campaign for Redress freedoms as other Canadians. at the time was sentenced to cil agreed that if the NAJC
in Hamilton, Ontario where I was part of that seamless Those rights were purchased one year hard labour for re­ was to succeed we had to
was born because my mother past of denied rights and dis­ by our community at great turning to Vancouver to the reach out to the wider Cana­
homesick for the Rockies had crimination of which our cost. I think it is appropriate 100 mile excluded zone to dian community and involve
heard that there was a moun­ World War II experiences for us to remember some of look for his mother. Akihide them in our issue. Small in
tain there.
were only a part.
those individuals who in a never recovered from this number, scattered across the
After the war, my father
In addition to our wartime sense contributed to our re­ traumatic experience and country, we knew that we were
was never able to recapture experiences of: internment, dress victory today by deman­ died recently, having spent too insignificant a communi­
the happiness, sense of per­ confiscation of property and ding those rights of citizen­ most of his adult life, in and ty oh our own to influence po­
sonal worth or success that deportations. Canadians of ship many years ago.
out of institutions.
liticians. But we had faith in
he had known as the proud Japanese ancestry have been
Let's move forward some our fellow citizens that once
owner of a popular restau­ denied fundamental rights
Let me begin with 1936: 40 years now to Sept. 22,1988, they were made aware of our
rant. I remember his remini- dating back to our first days Japanese Canadians'
Ci­ when I and other members of history, they would share our
tizens League sent 4 dele­ our community watched the outrage.
gates to Ottawa to argue for Prime Minister sign the
We also/knew that to take
the franchise for Japanese Agreement that acknowledg­ our message to Canadians
Canadian citizens? One of ed the wrongs that our Go­ ; we would need to. rely on an
those delegates was Hide vernment had perpetuated informed media. We began
Shimizu, an 80-year-old and against us.
establishing contacts that
Many, memories flooded spanned the country with pu­
ever active Torontonian.
Oct. 1945: YoshijiTakaha­ my mind. I thought back to blishers, newspaper editorial
shi of New Denver returned to the anger I felt in 1983 when I boards, television executives
his farm in Mission B.C. He heard that steps were being writers and media personali­
was sentenced to one year in taken to settle our redress ties. With only a .few excep­
Oakalla prison for travelling claim once and for all for an tions we found them to be
insultingly paltry $6-$12 mil­ sympathetic and supportive.
without a permit.
July 1946: 280 Issei and Nis- lion dollar community fund. I In fact, on the day of the an­
sei refused to leave the pri­ remembered how we in To­ nouncement of our. settle­
son camp in Angler, Ontario, ronto organized the Sodan- ment, many members of the
1209 College St. (at Brock)
where they had been held for kai to oppose this unilateral Ottawa press gallery told me
Toronto, Ontario
: 4 years until they received Re- action. And how the Sodan- that only the vote against the
Telephone 535-1992
' dress. The Government ship- kai later evolved into the To­ death penalty had moved
Tues. - Frl. 9 - 6 p.m. — Sat. 9 -3 p.m
ped these 280 men, 1000 ronto chapter of the National them as much as our Redress
miles west to Moose Jaw, Association of Japanese Ca­ announcement.
Saskatchewan, to another nadians (NAJC), whose Stal­
To buildpur network of supholding camp where they re- wart members have contri­ port across the country, we
—। mained for two years, in what buted to our ultimate victory. began developing a coalition.
' must be the longest sit-in in
I recalled the first NAJC The embryo "was the Ad Hoc
Canadian history. On July Strategy Committee esta­ Committee on Japanese Ca­
1948, the Moose Jaw inter­ blished in 1983 composed of nadian Redress, whose mem­
nees were unceremoniously Roy Miki (Vancouver), Art bers included: Frank Cun­
dragged from their barracks Miki (Winnipeg), and from ningham, Michael Creal,
and dumped with their be­ Toronto, Ritz Inouye and my­ Alice and Dan Heap, Cyril and
longings in a field and given self. And how that group of Marjorie Powles, and Ernie
30 minutes.to leave. The Go­ individuals developed into a Best. Many of the initial mem­
vernment found the presence team stretching across the bers Of that Committee had
of these internees now 3 years country, spending sometimes been our supporters in the
after the ending of the war, an 20 hours a day, working on late forties fighting the de­
projects, writing briefs, plan­ portation and exiling of 20%
em harassment.
In 1947: a Coalition of Con­ ning strategy, meeting, talk­ of our community.
cerned Canadians was orga­ ing, organizing, researching
Through the Ad Hoc Com­
nized to mount a national and negotiating.
mittee, we set out to reach a
I remembered how with broad cross section of Cana­
-campaign against Govern­
ment attempts to sent our en­ great difficulty we managed dians through an advertise­
tire community to Japan. The to reach a concensus within ment in the Globe and Mail.
deportations and exiling the Japanese Canadian com­ The ad began “In 1942, the
eventually were stopped but munity through countless Canadian Government sent
5130 Dundas Street W.,
not before 20% of our com­ community meetings, de­ some kids to camp.” The
Islington, Ont. M9A 1C2
munity hadbeen deported or bates in our newspapers, and Canadian Council of Churches
exiled to Japan, a nation that discussions over bowls of co-ordinated that very effecsoba in Chinese restaurants.
- half did not know.
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tive advertisement that 100 teered to do our economic
Canadian organizations and losses study for the initial
individuals paid for and sign­ costs of their disbursements.
ed. ■
One of Price Waterhouse's
Through our many meet­ vice-presidents in Vancouver,
ings with community and eth­ as a boy had had one of his
By DAVID FUJINO
nic groups, labour unions, ci­ best friends, a Japanese Ca­
My mother is a great person.
vil libertarian associations, nadian, disappear off the face
I don't how it sounds.
churches, famous and not so of the earth. When he asked
The whole psycho aspect
famous Canadians we forged what had happened to his
all so complex.
a National Coalition of sup­ friend, he was told that the fa­
These ties.
porters. Many of the Coalition mily had been relocated be­
This son.
I've put her into flames in poetry. members had known personal
cause they were of Japanese
In reality, she was cremated.
hardship and discrimination ancestry. I am told, that this
My mother, with her good words
in their lives. That fact com­ Price Waterhouse executive
who hesitated, didn' t sing
bined with their desire to had vowed to make things,
about wosdom.
. build a better country free right.
Still,
to this day
from discrimination led them
Certainly Price Water­
in this head in
to support us. By September house ' s economic losses
my sisters' eyes.
1988, the members of the Na­ study was an important re­
Looking out of
tional coalition numbered in port documenting that our
mother's brain.
My mother's death.
the hundreds.
losses both individual and
Mother's brain.
In fact, one of the first community were in excess of
Lives.
groups to support us was the $440 million.
Mennonite Central Gommit-We also received legal ad­
tee. Three years ago, the Men­ vice from distinguished law­
By DAVID FUJINO
nonites approached us. Ap­ yers and I think of: Tom Ber­
vague
parently during and after the ger, Cassandra Kobayashi,
envelope,
war, some Mennonites had Don Rosenbloom and Davis
of
bought farms that had been and Company of Vancouver;
anatomy,
taken from Japanese Cana­ Ann Sunahara and Alan Hoyaa face
a fact
dian farmers. The Mennonites no of Edmonton; and Marcia
this hair
felt that the least that they Matsuh Shim Imai and An­
black.,
could do was to set up a drew Roman of Toronto.
a hand
scholarship fund because
Artists contributed freely
hello,
some in their community had of their time so that we could
hand
me
profitted from our suffering.
hold special events evenings.
down,
Which brings me to explain Performers such as the Eagle
face
the significance of the sup­ Heart Native Drum Group,
the facts,
port that we have received Dawn Obokata, Terry Watada,
fact and
from Toronto City Council. In the “Lemon Creek” Harmoni­
flow,
facts
January 1985, City Council ca Band, Don Francks, and
^mpke me up.
passed a motion recommend­ Wasabi Daiko; and artists
"I as i go
ing that the Federal Govern­ such as Jessie Nishihata, Joy
ment reach a negotiated set­ Kogawa, David Fujino, Chitlement with the NAJC that sako Etzkorn, Linda Hoyama,
included both individual com­ Bryce Kanbara, Tak Tanabe,
pensation but also the esta­ and the Montreal card project
blishment of a foundation to artists have contributed their
combat racism.
gifts to our fund raising
At that time, we on the NA­ drives.
JC negotiating team were ha­
Advertising experts such
ving problems with the then as the Imai-Comptons helped
Minister responsible for our us with our distribution mate­
portfolio, Otto Jelinek. Ap­ rials. Jim Matsui, a pollster,
pealing to divisions within devised one of our early com­
our community Jelinek was munications strategies. The
refusing to negotiate with us._ list could go on because hun­
We discussed with members dreds of people have played a
of the Toronto Mayor's Com­ role in our victory.
mittee Community Race Re­
In the end, it was through
lations the possibility of the all our efforts, that we be­
City providing the NAJC with came a force that couldn 't be
some financial support to ignored. Each day, the Go­
help us fund a study of the vernment heard our voices
economic losses suffered by growing louder and stronger.
our community. Opponents And what we said was impor­
to the NAJC position oh re­ tant. We gave notice that
dress lobbied Council, but in what happened to the Japa­
the end after having heard de- nese Canadian community
• putations from all sides, To- over 40 years ago was unac­
I ronto City Council decided to ceptable behaviour and
I endorse the NAJC as the re- would not be tolerated in this
I presentative organization of country ever again. The Go­
I Toronto Japanese Canadians vernment was forced to listen
I and to donate $5,000. to our and to see that justice be
I fight for redress. Toronto's done.
I support was the first govern- Tomorrow all Canadians
I mental recognition that we will be appreciative of the mo­
■ received. It came at an impor- ral, legal and political prece­
I tant time because we appear- dent this settlement has set.
I ed to be at an impasse at the We can be proud that be­
I political level in our negotia- cause of us, Canadian civil
■ tions with Government.
rights are stronger, our nation
I Support for our cause of- is a better place and the Japa­
I tentimes came from unexpec- nese Canadian community
I ted sources. In 1986, the firm can finally begin to heal and
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The Redress for the Japanese Canadians
benchmark in Canada's human rights history
test among minorities of Ca­ more thing. It was the Holy.
By ROLAND M. KAWANO
nada. The Japanese Cana­ This was sacred land, and the
(Rector St. Andrew's
dian redress needs to be rites and rituals that the peo­
Japanese Congregation)
The year 1988 becomes a seen as a process which is ple developed always recog­
bench-mark in the history of helping to establish and se­ nize and hold up that sacred­
human rights in Canada, for cure the rights of all Cana­ ness. It is curious, but per­
oh September 22nd the Prime dians.
haps inevitable, that in the
Canada provides a histori­ comprehensive legal history
Minister gave a formal apo­
logy to all Canada, and the Ja­ cal contrast for both banish­ of?iaboriginal rights there is
panese in particular, for in­ ment and for redress. The almost never any mention of
carcerating Japanese Cana­ Crown previously has used the sacred status of the land.
its unilateral powers to ba­ There is talk of aboriginal ti­
dians during World War II.
It is significant that the Ca­ nish whole groups of peo­ tle, and of its extinguishment
nadian Redress Announce- ples. For instance, the Aca­ or transfer, but not of the Ho­
ment followed so closely on dians, the Maritime French lythe heels of the American Re­ Canadians, Huguenots and
It is this sacred relation­
dress Package, which Presi­ Roman Catholics, were sim­ ship to the land, however
dent Reagan signed on Au­ ply rounded up and banished abused by the native or the
gust 10th, 1988. It is also sig­ to Europe and further south white, which cements the
nificant that this action oc­ along the Atlantic seaboard. tribes to the land in a cosmic
curs just as an election was The banishments continued relationship.
about to be called. Those of to the end of the Seven Years
In comparison, the Japa­
us who welcome the tabling War; their lands were ravaged nese Canadians never had a
of the Apology and the Repa­ and given to the Loyalists.
Reserve. They had left their
Many Acadians returned, sacred ground, the Land of
rations Package put aside the
cynicism that recognizes the taking years to trek up the the Rising Sun. Though dis­
deeply political nature of coast of the Thirteen Colo­ tantly related anthropologi­
from Nikkei Legacy. NC Press
such- an action, because the nies: then they struggled to cally to the First nations in A Japanese Canadian family confli Ml to
~ ~’
long-awaited action has final­ carve out some homeland for Canada, the Japanese Cana­ a detention .centre during World 1 irll.
themselves, for their original dians never have had any
ly taken place.
respond satisfactorily or desire of Japanese Cana­
Perhaps the significance of lands were already taken by claim to aboriginal title.
quickly; either it equivocated, dians to effect redress is
how redress was finally ac­ the English-speakers. (See
The Japanese Canadians or it wanted to table aredress political motivation, as
complished in Canada can be Thomas Berger, Fragile free­ could never go to the Crown
package that would inade­ honorable as any other. And
grasped by looking at the his­ doms: Human Rights and Dis­ to plea for sacred ground. At
quately satisfy the sense of we must not forget that it was
tory of Japanese Canadian le­ sent in Canada. (Toronto: the most, before the war they
reparations for most Japa­ political motivation that in­
gal protests, then by setting Clarke, Irwin & Co., 1981).
would plead for the franchise. nese Canadians.
carcerated Japanese Cana­
the Japanese Canadian case . The case for Japanese Ca­ Perhaps it is bit of irony that
The National Association dians, a political motivation
in the context of other human nadians redress can also be the Japanese Canadians and
rights oppression, making seen against the canvas of many Native Indian groups re­ of Japanese Canadians then that had an eye to what Presi­
some significant compari­ the oppression of the Native ceived the franchise together sought to form a coalition dent Roosevelt and his
among the barons and bi­ cabinet were doing to the
son, then examining how hu­ Canadians, Inuit, Indian and in 1949.
shops in the Canadian multi­ Japanese Americans. Which
man rights is achieved in this Metis. There is a long, bitter
The Japanese Canadians culture. It sought to have the
happened to Japanese Cana­
country.
history of the Crown effec­ approached the Crown much
To begin with, Japanese ting a similar process of ba­ as the returning Acadians, as major ethnic associations of dians happened to Japanese
Canadians do not have a long nishment by excluding the those legally disposed and our country join forces with Brazilians and Japanese
history of opposing the Natives from their aboriginal­ banished. But look at the re­ the Japanese Canadian com­ Peruvians, following the
Crown for interment and in­ ly held land, by sending them turning Acadians, they were munity speaking out for total American precedent.
Yes, of course, these ac- i
carceration during World War to Reserves or, in some never able to get their original redress package.
Yet still the Grown did not tions were politically motL ;
II. They have not built up a tra­ cases, by exterminating them. lands and their implements
vated. But yes, too, the pac-J
dition of common law of op­
Both the French and Bri­ back. They had been given to respond satisfactorily. There
posing the structured racism tish governments have recog­ the Loyalists. Yet, after much was a lull .in negotiations, and kage which led to the signing ;
that was the organized ex­ nized the native Aboriginal Ti­ persistence, the Crown final­ only when the American ba­ of the Magna Carta on the)
pression of the fear of Yellow tle to Land Rights and Land ly gave them a piece of New rons and bishops were able Field of Runnymede is a pro­
to force the hand of their king cess similar to the tabling of ?
Peril, the irrational hatred of Products, but these Crowns Brunswick.
to sign their redress package the redress package, not too :
the Asian.
also proceeded to extinguish
That historical incident re­ did the Canadian crown rea­ far from The Plains of Abra­
Even though the Japanese or transfer their aboriginal ti­ minds us of the dual inheri­
Canadians do not have a tle. There has been a long tance of Canadian history: lize that the whold field of ham. Political motivation isi
s
lengthy history of legal pro­ history among some native the French inheritance is not Runnymede stood for the tab­ important.
In the end it happened.!
tests over their loss of civil tribes of legal negotiation only one of exploration and ling of such,a package, of a
rights and their incarceration, and court cases over land ti­ settlement in the New World, formal apology and a repara­ These landmark decisions!
are the watermarks in both
the redress process of the Ja­ tle and aboriginal rights. (See but also of the storming of tions package.x
countries, by which others
There
is
no
denying
the
ti
­
panese Canadians should not Peter A. Cumming & Neil H. the Bastille and the over­
be seen in a vacuum, for there Mickenberg, Native Rights in throwing of the class system. ming of the Canadian Re­ still in the struggle for human
is a long history of legal pro- Canada, Toronto: Indian, Esk­ The Americans remember dressevent. It did follow the rights can measure their
imo Association of Canada, this inheritance well. The Eng­ American Redress event. It achievements, or failures. For
did precede a major Federal Canada; this decision marks
1972).
lish inheritance shows a dif­ Election. And there has been the willingness of our govern­
We now see that the Crown ferent picture. It shows its bi­
has treated its minorities si­ shops (including the primate much cynicism about the ment, of our Crown, to be pro­
milarly by banishment, op­ and Cardinal, Stephen, Arch­ crown's motivation in tabling active and assertive in the
multiculture, not simply with
pression and extinguishment bishop of Canterbury) and ba­ the redress policy.
That cynicism perhaps the tabling a new Multicultu­
of human rights, but the min­ rons confronting King John
orities have responded to op­ on the Field of Runnymede, wishes were that the crown ral Act, but in the healing of
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Our Home and Native Land
By DAVID TODD
(Highlights)

against those charges. Now there's
no need for dur descendants to pro­
tect
themselves..”
Bill Kobayashi leans forward in­
As he recalls the NAJC's victory,
tently, a photocopied document in
his hand. He reads aloud in his firm, Kobayashi allows a hint of the emo­
even voice: “No person of the Japa­ tion he felt that day to momentarily
nese race shall have in his posses­ reveal itself. It is, for him, a consider­
sion . . . any motor vehicle, camera, able indulgence..
Elegant in his dark blue business
radio transmitter, radio receiving
set.” Then he trails off. “Every time I suit, and looking younger than his 62
read this,” he says at last, “I cringe. years, Kobayashi projects not so
It almost reads like a Nazi edict much passionate energy as a kind of
about Jews.” The document is dated inexhaustible resolve. Though ear­
Feb. 26,1942, and bears the name of nest and amiable in conversation, he
Louis St. Laurent, then Canadian measures out his'replies with care,
minister of justice. For Canada's Ja­ seldom betraying strong emotion: He
panese, it meant they had become seems a good man to have by-your
aliens in their own country. “It is side in a crisis.
“Bill is an ideal leader,” says his
not,” says Kobayashi, “a proud point
friend Wes Fujiwara, past president
in Canadian history.”
Many Canadians cherish the belief of the NAJC Toronto chapter, and an
that their country enjoys a tradition outspoken champion of redress. “He
of tolerance for all races. But as a doesn't lose his temper.” Currents
ninth grader at Vancouver's Kitsila- of deeper passion may flow beneath
, no High School in 1942, Bill Kobay­ Kobayashi's tranquil surface,“but
ashi saw the face of a very different he keeps them under control. Where
Canada. Citing concern for national I'd fly off the handle, Bill keeps his
security, the government uprooted cool.” Kobayashi himself only hints
Japanese Canadians from their at the true nature of his emotions. “I
homes on the coast of British Colum­ felt a responsibility to do this (fight
bia, sold their property at bargain for redress), for the sake of the coun­
prices through the Custodian of try, and for my children. I want to
"
Enemy Property agency and shipped be proud of Canada.”
Takanori William Kobayashi was
them to work camps and ghost
born Nov. 26,1926, in Langley Prairie,
towns in the B.C. interior.
More than four decades late, these B.C., a farming community on the
events seem part of a different reali­ outskirts of Vancouver. His parents,
ty. Certainly today's Bill Kobayashi, immigrants from the Japanese city of
a vice-president with Cambridge , Yonago, moved the family to Vancoubased plastics firm Furst Manufac- 1 ver from Langley Prairie a year after
turing Inc., bears few outward signs Kobayashi was born. The sixth of 10
of past hardships. He and his wife, children, he enjoyed a comfortable,
Addie, have six grown children and a secure upbringing. True, for a Japa­
nese youngster at the time, life in
comfortable home in Waterloo,
where they have lived since 1987. Ne­ B.C. offered somewhat diminished
prospects. Japanese Canadians,
vertheless,for Kobayashi, and for an
estimated 12,000 other surviving eva­ apart, from veterans of the First
cuees, the upheaval of the war years World War, could not vote (they were
left painful, lingering memories of a granted the franchise in 1949 as the ness), went to so-called self-suppor­
peaceful life abruptly torn asunder. result of lobbying by the year-old NA- ting projects rather than to" govern­
Until recently, it seemed they might JG) and were barred from many pro­ ment-organized camps. Conditions
never be reconciled with the past.
fessions, including law. Such open in these projects were nd better,
Since Sept. 22, 1988, all that chan­ discrimination was cause for discon­ however. The Kobayashis — Bill's
ged. After four years of negotiations tent among the more politically ac­ mother and all 10 children — spent
with the 1,600-member National tive Japanese in the province, but it most of 1942 at Shuswap Lake, an is­
intruded little on Kobayashi's boy­ olated community in southeastern
Association of Japanese Canadians
(NAJC), the Canadian government hood: “We just accepted it, I sup­ B.C. Their home was a 20- by 40-foot
agreed to pay financial compensa­ pose.”
house, “a shack, really,” heated by a
tion to every survivor of the wartime
The Japanese attack on Pearl Har­ wood stove. Kobayashi and his older
bor, on Dec. 7,1941, changed all that. brothers worked at a nearby lumber
evacuation. Prime Minister Brian
B.C. politicians let loose a torrent of mill for less than 50 cents an hour.
Mulroney issued a formal apology to
Japanese Canadians “for those past
anti-Japanese propaganda, warning When the mill closed in late 1942, the
injustices against them, their fami­ of treachery and calling for the. im­ family lived off their savings until the
lies, and their heritage.” As president
mediate evacuation of the pro­ foliovying spring. Since there were no
of the Greater Toronto Chapter of the
vince' s Japanese population. In Feb­ high schools in the area, Kobaya­
NAJC (his former home was in Richruary 1942, Ottawa used the extraor­ shi's formal education came to an
mond Hill), Kobayashi was present in
dinary powers of the War Measures end. Through the long winter, a
the House of Commons that mornAct to order the evacuation of all Ja- sense of helplessness gnawed at
ing. And as Mulroney made his
panese Canadians from a 100-mile him. “It seemed like we had no
speech, Kobayashi, like those
strip along the B_.C. coast. The first to friends,” he says.
around him, wept openly. “It was an
go were Japanese nationals who had
In the spring of 1943, the Kobaya­
emotional moment for all of us,” he
yet to gain Canadian citizenship, fol­ shis, rejoined by their father, moved
says. “It was probably the most im­
lowed by naturalized and Canadian- to Kamloops, B.C., where they rented
portant moment in my life.”
born citizens. “It was a terrible time,”
a 10-acre patch of farmland. Kobaya:
To Kobayashi and his NAJC collea­
recalls Kobayashi. “There was a cur­ shi and his brothers once more took
gues, perhaps the most satisfying ; few, and people were losing their jobs at a nearby lumber mill and wait­
aspect of the redress settlement was
jobs, getting notice to move out to ed out the rest of the war.
the camps. VVe were a community in
the government' s formal acknow­
After the Pacific War ended in Auconfusion.”
ledgement that the evacuation of Ja­
gust 1945, Ottawa shattered any
In all, 21,000 Japanese were evapanese Canadians from the west
hope they had of returning to Vancoast was both unjustified and mor­
cuated — three-quarters of them couver. The government did not lift
ally indefensible. History has shown
born or naturalized Canadian citi
the restrictions preventing Japanese
that Japanese Canadians posed no
zens. Indoor livestock pens at Van­ from returning to the west coast until
threat to wartime national security.
couver's Hastings Park Exhibition
March 31,1949. Instead, immediately
Indeed, high ranking military and
Grounds became a temporary hol­ after the war Ottawa gave them a
RCMP officials said as much at the
ding area for thousands. Able-bodied
choice, of sorts: either immigrate to
time. But the Liberal government un­
men were shipped off to work camps; Japan or move east of the Rockies.
der Prime Minister Mackenzie King
Kobayashi's father, a landscape
About 4,000 left the country before
acted on the advice of B.C. politi­
gardener by trade who died in 1987 at King repealed the thinly guised de­
cians such as Vancouver Liberal MP
age 98, was put to work building portation order in January 1947.
Ian Alistair Mackenzie, who furthered
B.C.'s . Hope-Princeton Highway.
In late 1945, the Kobayashis mov-.
his own political career by stirring up
Some families went to work in the ed to Montreal, where Bill found fac­
anti-Asian sentiments. Some 46
sugar beet fields of Alberta and Ma­ tory work operating a punch press.
years later, the government has set
nitoba. But the majority’ more than
Later, after two years work toward an
the record straight.
12,000 men, women and children,
engineering degree at what is now
“All kinds of arguments have been
spent the war dispersed throughout
Concordia University, he went to
put forward to excuse these injus­
six isolated mining ghost towns in
work as a tool designer in Toronto
tices,” Kobayashi says. “Some peo­
the B.C. interior.
and began slowly cutting himself a
ple still believe that we were a threat
Kobayashi's family numbered
pathway into engineering manage­
to national security, that some of us
among 1,200 Japanese Canadians
ment. In 1954 he married Addie Tsu­
were spies. Unless the^governmentwho, because they were economicalyuki, who had spent part of the war at
acknowledged wrongdoing, our
ly self-sufficient (One of KobayaTashme camp, near Hope, B.C., with
children and grandchildren would al­
shi's older brothers managed to re­
her mother and two sisters.
ways have had to defend themselves
tain the assets of his trucking busiIn many ways, Kobayashi's post-

ly. You'll find most Nisei have never
discussed it with their children.”
The forced dispersal of Japanese
Canadians also had the effect of per­
manently severing the old bonds of
community. “To an extent, we have
consciously avoided each other,”
Kobayashi explains. “We wanted to
be like other Canadians, to be incon­
spicuous, and not to initiate discrimi­
nation again.” Still, slowly but un­
mistakably during the last decade,
that attitude has changed. In 1977,
Japanese Canadians celebrated the
100th anniversary of the arrival of the
first Japanese in Canada. Out of the
event grew the beginnings of the re­
dress movement.
“Our generation believe that this
should not happen again, to any­
body,” says Wes Fujiwara. “Politics
should not be used as a basis to per­
secute one racial group.” Toronto
Star writer Ken Adachi, whose 1976
book The Enemy That Never Was pro­
vides a rlefinitive history of the eva­
cuation, shares a similar view. “The
idea of redress is that society as a
whole will face up to what happened
and take steps not to let it happen
again.”
After helping organize the centen­
nial celebration as Quebec director,
Kobayashi withdrew to the wings fol­
lowing a move from Montreal to Tor­
onto in 1979. Then in 1984 he reemer­
ged to aid the growing redress move­
ment by joining the NAJC Toronto
chapter (the association has 15 bran­
ches across Canada). Two years la­
ter, he succeeded Fujiwara as presi­
dent of the Toronto group.
The Winnipeg-based NAJC, having
successfully lobbied for voting
rights in 1949, enjoys federal govern­
ment recognition as the legitimate
national representative of Canada's
45,000 Japanese. The association
war experiences are typical of his
promotes race relations and human
generation — the Nisei, or secondrights issues,in general, but redress
generation Japanese Canadians. - has always been its chief concern. In
They buried the pain of being up­
1986, the NAJC proposed that each
rooted by building a successful new
of the 12,000 surviving evacuees re­
life on the wreck of the old and
ceive $21,000 in individual compen­
hiding the past away. Indeed, Koba­
sation. “Since individuals suffered,
yashi discusses his wartime expe­
individuals should be compensated,”
riences with evident reluctance,,“I al­
Kobayashi explains. In addition, the
ways hated to talk about it,” he says.
“Even now, it doesn 't come out free­
(Cont. on page 12)

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.

It is 3 years since 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 enthysjasm.
May we continue to receive your strong support ini
the future.

Teruha Kagemori

Ecole de Cuisine Japonaise
(Japanese Cooking School)
333 Emery St., No. 103, Montreal, Quebec H2X1J2
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Lethbridge & District Japanese Canadian
Assoc, hold Redress Banquet
Redress Day. Secondly, he which many people inquired sident of the local JGCA.gave
asked the audience that if about both before and after a stirring and emotional
speech which appealed espe­
some of the monies which the dinner.
was awarded them could be
Greetings from the city cially to the seniors who nod­
used to improve the quality of was handled by Aiderman ded and showed their appre­
life in the community be it do- Bob Tarleck representing Ma- ciation with rounds of apnating a treatment or diag­ yor Dave Carpenter. He con­ plause.
City Development Services
nostic facility to the new Re­ gratulated Japanese Cana­
gional Hospital, donating to­ dians for their hard won vic­ manager, Tosh Kanashiro,
ward a cultural centre, esta­ tory and said this was a vic­ gave thanks on behalf of the
blishing foundations for edu­ tory for all ethnic minorities. other guests. He thanked the
cational or cultural purposes He recounted a true-to-life JCA for their efforts on behalf
etc., that the meaning of re­ tale about how as a young of southern Albertans and
dress would be complete in boy he went through the de­ spoke about the future direc­
that Japanese Canadians serted homes of Japanese tion of the association.
Tak Okamura of Brown, Ok­
would be showing their hu­ Canadians in the small settlemanity by sharing a portion of .ment of Britannia Mines near amura and Associates out­
their hard won bounty with Vancouver and realized even lined some of the projects
others.
then, in his young mind of which the JCA might consi­
what a “terrible wrong” was der and quoted some of the
Lethbridge & District JCA done to the former occupants costs of the projects. He sug­
president, Jerry Hisaoka, as he saw the broken doors gested one possibility was
thanked the crowd for giving and. windows of homes where the establishment of a foun­
support to the dinner and al­ the laughter of little children dation to carry on the work
so was saddened by the ab­ was no more. He recounted which would be made possi­
sence of so many seniors as he grew up that he began ble by the donation of money
who did not see this historic to realize that the greatest da­ into the foundation.
day. He thanked the many mage to Japanese Candians
The karaoKe renditions by
who continued their support was the stripping of human Nancy Katakami, Tom Horii,
through the dark days when dignity from men, women and Mrs. S. Kawade and Ken Shi­
all seemed to be futile. He re: little children.
mizu were given enthusiastic
counted how he had been in­
applause
by the appreciative
Aiderman Tarleck now a
volved for ten years and the respected popular member of audience.
Prime Minister's announce­ City Council and a high
The Junior Momiji dancers
ment was history in the ma­ school English teacher paid gave the diners a youthful
king. He then provided an up­ tribute to JG' s as contribu­ rendition of “Sakura” and
date on the application forms ting to the community far in another number from their
excess than their numbers ever-growing repertoire.
would indicate. He praised Thanks go to Lil Yamashita of
the contribution made by Ja­ Vauxhall, Aya Hironaka of
panese Canadians in enrich­ Raymond and Sally Kanegaing life in southern Alberta. wa, president, of the Momiji
Tarleck closed his talk.with a Dancers for their help.
No'doubt one of the high­
TORONTO. — On April 1, 1989, the Momiji Health Care quotation by the Japanese
Society's Fund-Raising Committee will present Gala II, “An poet, Onitsura: “Ya ishi mo lights of the evening was the
uta yomu”. Our joy is such introduction of Mr. K. Kobay­
Enchanted Evening.”
Although this special event is still several months away, that on a night like this that ashi of Raymond, 103 years
the Committee is enthusiastically planning to provide the “even the stones make young who leaped up on the
platform and even sang a
J.C? Community with one of the social highlights of the year. songs”.
Following a moment of si­ song for a stunned and sur­
It will feature a guest speaker, dancing, entertainment, band,
dinner and door prizes. Dress optional. The evening festi­ lence, grace was said bilin­ prised crowd!
The historic evening came
vities begin at 6:00 p.m. and continue to 1:00 a m. at the Inn gually by JCA member, Mas
Terakita. The toast to her Ma­ to a close with the passing
oh the Park Hotel on April 1st, 1989.
Tickets are $125.00 per person which includes a $75.00 jesty was followed by a sump­ out of the tanka scroll to each
income tax receipt. So here is your chance to contribute to tuous Alberta roast beef din­ senior as a momento of the
redress dinner.
ner. ,
a very worthy cause, while enjoying a very special evening.
PS. An appreciative crowd
Mr. Hideo Nagata gave
Reservations may be made by contacting: Tom Nishio —
293-7150; Katie Nishino — 463-3681; or Mickey Kaneko — thanks on behalf of the se­ pledged more than $60,000 in
niors. The one time past pre- donations.
265-7441.

LETHBRIDGE, Alta.— The
Lethbridge & District Japan­
ese Canadian Association, on
the evening of November 27,
held what many thought was
one of the most successful
dinners ever held in Leth­
bridge. The Redress Com­
memoration Banquet primari­
ly honored senior citizens
over seventy-five years of age
and brought forth a gathering
of over 500 Japanese Cana­
dians at the Lethbridge Lodge
Hotel in a spirit of thanksgiv­
ing and a reaffirmation of
faith in the Canadian system.
Under capable and bilin­
gual master of ceremonies,
Yas Yamashita, the evening
began with O Canada and the
introduction of the head table
which included city officials
and along time Mayor Andy
Anderson (now retired).
Banquet chairman, Tom
Mitsunaga explained to the
assembled why the Redress
Banquet was being held. First
he said to pay tribute to the
many important people who
laid the groundwork for the
redress including National
Strategy Committee who ne­
gotiated with the government
and to pay tribute to the many
seniors who didn' t make it to

Momiji's Fund raising
“Gala II” on April 1st

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NAJC proposed $50 million be set
aside for a community fund, primarily
to aid senior citizens in the Japanese
community. (Kobayashi is also a dir­
ector of the Momiji Health Care
Society, a separate organization rais­
ing funds for a proposed seniors
complex in Scarborough.) Ottawa's
offers, however, fell short of expec­
tations. In July 1987, then Secretary
of State David Crombie rejected indi­
vidual compensation and offered in­
stead $12 million for a community
fund.
Despite these difficulties, the NA­
JC continued to build support. Last
spring, the NAJC-organized National
Coalition for Japanese Redress stag­
ed a rally on Parliament Hill; leaders
from nearly 20 other ethnic organiza­
tions lent support to the movement.
In August, the United States- govern­
ment reached a settlement for the
compensation of Japanese Ameri­
cans, who suffered treatment similar,
to that of Japanese Canadians dur­
ing the war. Washington pledged to
pay $20,000 U.S. for each of the esti­
mated 120,000 Japanese American
survivors. With this precedent, and
with a federal election looming in the
fall, the Conservative government fi­
nally moved to make good on its av­
owed commitment to redress.
In addition to individual payments
of $21,000 for each survivor, the com­
pensation package unveiled in Sep­
tember included $24 million toward a
foundation for better race relations,
$12 million to the Japanese commun­
ity for educational, social and cul­
tural activities and $3 million to the
NAJC to help the organization to lo­
cate and contact survivors. “We'll be
working with the government, trying
to get into the far corners of the
country to ferret people out,” says
Kobayashi. “There may be many in
senior citizens homes or who are not.
in contact with the community.” This
task demands much of the organiza­
tion's time and energy. But the NA­
JC will also continue to speak out on
human rights and racial discrimina­
tion in the years ahead.

The success of the Japanese re­
dress movement offers hope that Ca­
nada may be maturing as a society.
By facing up to one of the darkest
passages in our collective past, we
have.taken a step toward preventing
history from repeating itself.
For Bill Kobayashi, and for many
like him, settlement is a more per­
sonal matter. Thinking of it, he again
allows his reserve to slip, for the brie­
fest of moments. “It's a healing pro­
cess. For a long time, many of us felt
we weren 't fully Canadian. Now we
finally feel like we're full citizens.”

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Wartime memories of a Nisei soldier
By FRED KAGAWA
The author reports: “In the pro­
cess of an infrequent houseclean­
ing I chanced upon a thin, half­
sized note pad which contained
personal thoughts I had scribbled
during the period in 1945 when we
were overseas with the Canadian
Army, attached to the British in
South East Asia. These are some
excerpts.’’

and the accuracy is near perfection
even with the seemingly rude sights.
The first trip' was mde to the range at
the main camp, I had 11 bulls out of
15 shots and that's" not what I call
“hay”, altho' the speed of fire
wasn't stressed especially at the
beginning.

April 11
, from “Blighty.” As we were marching May 27
Last night in B Camp, Poona, and
It so happened that the “Strath­ along the docks enroute to the train I
there
was a special supper prepared
more” docked at Port Said this day,
could see some of the Signals and
but I was not able to celebrate in any Service Corns blokes on the open that evening with mess tables fitted
way at all (my birthday, i.e.) unfor­
decks, others poking their heads out with tablecloth and other finery.
tunately. It was grand to see land, a
of the port holes waving.us Cheerio! Guests were officers from main
strange port at that, with its typically The bond among all men in the camp including the O.C. and also
Eastern buildings and general at­ King's Service is a strong force Sgt. Thorne who was in charge of B
mosphere. Impressed me as being a
seeking to unite the various factors Camp when we arrived there. Chicken
very active harbor and the number of
of good in a common cause. It is a was the main course for supper, but
crafts within it limits were countless.
feeling which cannot be found in any while waiting for the officers to arrive
we opened the rum bottles on orders
The climate is definitely turning
other large group of men.
from Capt. Sanderson and everybody
warmer and the vegetation on the
April 22
shores told me that we are gradually
Arrived in “B" - Camp in the early had his share, some more than they
reaching that part of the sphere
hours of Sunday morning when it should have had.
Everybody was in the mood to
where deserts and palms were to be
was pitch dark. Got some idea of the
make
merry seeing that we were leav­
found.
surroundings. Had a hot meal and
ing
Poona
on the next leg of our
I wondered to myself how Tak and
tea, then got sorted out in our
Maude were spending their birthdays
Wassen huts, pitched our mosquito Eastern travels, to Calcutta probably.
which coincided with mine, April 11.
nets over our bunks. Everyone was Throughout the supper there was a
April 15
dead tired, therefore not many words constant blabber of conversation
Orders came thru to change into
were spoke, but straightaway every­ from the lips of half-tight CBJ'sand
K.D.'s, and were we glad! Battle
thing was settled we all hit the hay! the Captain seemed to have been en­
dress was getting to feel out of place
Must have been three or four o' clock joying the sight immensely.
Everyone commented on how
in this climate. There being just a few
in the morning, and we had been up
delicious
the supper was and how
Canadians on board, our uniforms
since 5:30 the previous morning.
sweet
the
spirits! I think the boys
were the object of much envy among
Then the lorry ride from Poona had
were
wont
to drink the stuff in too
the British chaps, whose summer
left us all overed with dust and we
outfits seemed “crummy” besides
didn't feel too clean. That was our much of a hurry 'cause before the
Lieut. Col. arrived at the party which
ours. Only hitch was that the buttons
first day in India!
was
perhaps 22:00 hrs some of the
on our jackets had to be kept shining
April 25
boys
had already passed away from
at all times, and brass polishing ain' t
B Camp was a very rustic, but it
the
scene
of the festivities.
the best way to pass away one's
was nice.and quiet, and we gradually
There was much singing at the
leisure time. The shorts were a bless­
got accustomed to the daily routine.;
table'
with the Sergeant Major calling
ing and it was a Jot cooler after those
Walking around in shorts, with no
upon
each
individual to give his con­
heavy battle dress trousers. We
shirt on, we started to get burnt and’
tribution
to
the merriment. Even the
packed away our greatcoats for
guys are all looking healthy.
Colonel
was
up at the head of the
good, down at the bottom of our kit
During the afternoons we perspired
bags. .
in the heat, but the mornings and table starting off the tune “Roll Me
During the daytime, blokes were
evenings were quite cool - almost Over.” Never had such a terrific stag
getting their backs exposed to the
like the weather in Canada during the party since the days in London, Ont.
sun, and some of them were certainly
fall. One day, after supper, we got (which we shall never forget).
Ended up with “Auld Lang Syne”
red! I had very little chance-to start
some beer thru the sergeant and had
my tan ’cause the greater part of the a III stag party down in the mess hut. followed by the National Anthem,
afternoons were spent in studying.
There was just enough to go around and we reluctantly brought our little
During the last week, we were
but it certainly tasted swell after the party to a close.
allowed to sleep out on deck in
last time we had beer which was in May
Got into Calcutta May 31st. It was
shifts, in order to give everyone a
Blightly. There was plenty of singing
chance. Some chaps among the
and yelling and I was reminded of exceedingly hot and we were all
R.A.S.C. didn't want to sleep ..out,
those parties we had down Ridout St. sweating. Wanted to get to our
preferring to swing in the hammocks,
billets in a hurry but things just
in London, Ont.
so I managed to get up on “C” deck
seemed to drag, but we finally made
May 12
every evening with my hammock and
From this day we started our train­ it. The mansion was stuck right in the
blankets. It was certainly cooler and
ing in small arms and I found it most middle of a native district and we had
airier than lying down in the stuffy
interesting. The service rifle seemed to pass thru the dirty narrow streets
mess decks below. The there was
heavy and awkward at first but as we full of people before reaching our
always a moon over our heads,
got used to it it became almost a destination. They don't kid when
casting its pale glow from among the
right hand weapon and we began to they think of security, I thought.
rigging. We used to join our voices
Poona boys left on June 12 - Ernie,
handle it as it was made to be handled.
together in sentimental song which
Sid,
George O., George S. and Kumy.
Loading, sighting and the actual
seemed to express our thoughts so
Had
a little “do” prior to their depar­
firing brought out different individaul
appropriately.
techniques, but I didn't do too badly ture with four bottles of gin. Getting
Over on the other side of our
when I think of some of the others to be almost a habit but a guy's got
emergency station were the R.S.
whose targets were barely marked. to live half normally. Albert left on
(Royal Signals) chaps who were hav­
Poor Captain Sanderson showed al­ the 19th, early in the AM to fly to
ing their jolly time, and one night
most helpless disgust sometimes as Ceylon, and we all saw him off. Fol­
before it got really dark “Jock” came
lowing day, RSM Kato arrived at
he coached us during those weeks.
over and had a friendly tussle with
North Lodge and we had interesting
“It's frightfully simple, there's really
“Lil Joe”, scrambling .over all our
company. Learned of his past life in
nothing to it - I can't see how you
hammocks. We soon put a stop to it
the army (four years of it) and how
chaps could miss so often” he would
and discouraged any future tussles.
say - as if the procedure were a sim­ he'd got into this outfit.
April 21
We saiw Calcutta a number of
ple one, but to green men the situa­
Disembarkation! Excitement at
times, i.e., the part neighbouring
tion was quite difficult.
reaching Bombay, India, prevailed
Grand Hotel around Chowringhee
Whenever there was a competition
throughout th ! ranks and blockes
and
Park Ave., and I was amazed at
between huts, the results seemed to
were all over tf e decks gazing at the
the
number
of people there'd be on
be better. Guess it's the “Makezu
docks and surrounding areas visible
the streets any day of the week Girai” spirit among the boys.
from the ship. So happened that we
natives, Chinese soldiers and
We acquired some technique in
were ordered to disembark just about
civilians,
British and American
field craft, with ambushes (Sten gun
noon when the sun was at its height, as weapon) in the hills etc. but I
soldiers, Canadian airmen, different
so you can imagine us J.C.'s in full
kinds of women of various colours.
found that crawling on one's belly
service marching order tramping
after being bruised up by a hard soc­ The atmosphere seemed typical of
down the gangplank to start on our
the Far East, and there were striking
cer game the previous evening is not
journey overland to our immediate
contrasts in the buildings, as well as
the easiest thing.
destination. In a way I hated to part
in the manner of life in these parts.
The Bren appealed to me as the
with all those Britishers whom we
Traffic
was quite busy around these
best weapon of all altho' it cannot be
had come to know as real friends
carried about as one would a rifle or areas, with buses, street cars, taxis,
within the short space of time which
army vehicles, bicycles, rickshaws,
Sten. Repetition\or automatic, I
covered the length of the voyage
tongas, coaches and even bullock
found it to be an efficient weapon

carts each in its chosen path. Only
once did I have the occasion to ride a
rickshaw and that was more for the
novelty of it rather than with the
thought of getting to a certain
destination. It only cost us five annas
or so.
July 8
Finally on the move, we found
ourselves in Ellenborough Maidan
Transient Camp and back to the ole
army life, with quarters in field tents,
with eight bunks. Slight change after
the comforts we used to have at
North Lodge, but I didn't mind
because it was a change and we got
to know some more blokes, Sgt.
Mepham, CpI. Bennett, Pte. “Blon­
die” W., Mick (R.E.M.E.) Stanley
(R.E.). The perimeter of the tent was
ingeniously devised with a shallow
moat to collect all the pahnee when it
rained (I can tell you it rained some
days too). One afternoon, we were in­
side playing cribbage and the rain
came down so fast and furiously that
the moat overflowed so we got our
mugs, mess tins and whatever vessel
was handy and started bailing. It
must have been an odd sight for
whoever was passing by at the time.
Messing was strictly army fashion
and I brought by tin plate and mug in­
to use again. The basher was laid out
with tables and forms and we all
queued up to get the grub which
wasn' t any too appetizing some­
times., A few days there, they were
dishing out K rations besides the
regular meals and the chaps had
quite a time looking for American
fags such as Chesterfields, Camels,
Chelsea, Fleetwood etc. Beans were
common article of food there but I
rarely was hungry enough to have
to
eat
very
much.
Here we
were kicking about getting too
much pineapple at North Lodge, out
there was not time or use for com­
plaining at Maidan.
Capt. Morris of the same unit came
over to see us one afternoon with
another officer (Korean?. Indian?) and
he invited us out to supper at Firpo's
on Chowringhee that evening. We
were used to dining with officers
ever since coming to India but the
other blokes were taken back with
surprises! I thought - “By God! we
were very fortunate in being hooked
up with such a swell unit.” The
rumours are that our O.C. Major
Johns is a swell fellow also - so
things should be pretty good when
we get there.
September
I am trying to recollect what has
taken place during the past so many
weeks. It has been a little over a
month since we've come to this
place known as Rangoon, and a lot
has happened during that time.

We disembarked on landing barges
in the late afternoon and by the time
we actually got on our way to the
transit camp, it was dark all over. The
hydro lines within the city hadn't yet
been restored, so when I say “dark”
it was a total blackout. Capt. Morris
had instructed us to phone up the of­
fice of the P.W.B.U. (Psychological
Warfare Broadcasting Unit) as soon
as we reached Rangoon so they
could bring transport down to pick
us up and take us straight to our
quarters, without having to spend
any time in a tent camp, but could
not get any calls thru so we finally
decided to go with the blokes to No.
206.
The lorry took us right into the
camp, but it was so dark, that all I
could see was the water puddles on
the road. We landed up in a pup tent,
Meph, Wake, Jjn and myself with a
couple of others and by the light of a
single flashlight we got our ground­
sheets and bedding laid out
preparatory to a night's rest. We
were all pretty tired and hungry but
had enough energy to trudge over
to the mesh basher with our mugs
and plates to see what they, had to
eat. I can't remember what they had
on the menu that nite, but there was
plenty of mashed potatoes and I felt
a bit better after I had partaken of the
hot supper.
Back to our temporary quarters
again; we lit up some fags and after
expounding on our dissatisfaction
over the state of affairs on our first
evening in Rangoon, we thought the
best thing to do would be to hit the
hay and we all turned in about the
same time (somewhere close to 23:00
hrs).
Some of the blokes had their mos­
quito nets put up in a half-drooping
fashion, but I thought I could get
away without pitching my curtain up
if I slept with my clothes on. So, this
boy lay on the couple of thicknesses
of blanket trying to find a comfor­
table position on which to rest. I
tossed and turned, not having very
much success; and furthermore I
discovered I wasn't so smart when I
didn't follow the example of the
others 'cause the .mosquitoes
started on their night mission (and
believe me, they knew their target
areas darn well too). So very reluc­
tantly I got up, dug into my kit bag for
my “mossy net”, and managed to
pitch it above myself. After that, it
wasn't so bad and I guess I did get a
few hours of shuteye during the nite:
The following morning Capt. Mor­
ris and Capt. Shroff came down to
pick us up from P.W. and we said
farewell to 206 camp.

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SURVIVORS

it was impossible for him to assist
By TERRY WATADA
me. I stood chagrined, no doubt like of prepubescence when I listened to
me in any way except by looking up
“
Oh
Canada
.
.
.
”
every
other. Tom, Dick and unwary Gordon Sinclair on the old R.C.A.,
some difficult words in the diction­
not because of Sinclair per se but be­
ary. I was a buck private at the time, - Russ Walters softly sang the an­ who just happened to find himself in
“these here parts”. I accepted the af­ cause the radio was such a fascina­
and he had two pips as a specialist in them to himself as the ferry chugged
its
way
across
the
strait
between
front
gracefully and made my escape ting addition to the household. Cir­
the language.
cumstances beyond their control
Skidegate
and
Alliford
Bay.
The
fros
­
with
ego
shaken but intact.
I used to get browned off at times,
had forced my parents east in the
ted
October
day
was
overcast,
but
The
town
of
Sandspit
was
small
arid probably he knew about it too
late Forties to a frugal lifestyle cha­
'cause he asked me once if I'd the land and water stretched wide ov­ and cozy as any tourist area should
racterized by hard work that yielded
be. The Sandspit Irin, conveniently
rather be doing something else. The erwhelming the senses. In the dis­
little material gain. With my birth, in
tance,
imposing
British
Columbian
located
on
“
the
road
”
,
had
the
only
only authorities I could blame for the
1951,
came the beginnings of a slow
mountains
shook
their
overcoat
of
decent
restaurant.
A
unique
feature
screwy setup was the Canadian Gov­
growth
to prosperity. The radio then
evergreens
as
if
angry
with
the
intru
­
of the inn was a souvenir store with
ernment who didn't accept Japan­
in
the
late
Fifties was an excitement
exorbitant prices for Haida art facsi­
ese Canadian volunteers into the In­ sion. In the strait; jagged rock formathat stirred the imagination and lent
miles. Gold totems for $450 ain't a
telligence Corps when the war j tions tore open the gently undulating
comfort to the struggle.
surface
with
understated
violence.
cheap
price
for
memorabilia.
began; and all that time they were
“Damn rock and roll!” slammed
Stray
cormorants
perched
upon
the
The
restaurant
itself,
patronized
by
making vain effort to pump Japanese
Ross
as he turned it off. “I don't
lumberjack plaid shirts, torn blue
characters and military phrases into edges and eyed the ferry 's progress
know about you, but I can't stand all
jeans, Kodiak boots and Artic Cat
a bunch of white Canadians. Mind with a lean and hungry look.
that
‘Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!’ stuff!” he
“
Every
time
I
find
myself
in
a
place
baseball
caps,
served
fresh
well
pre
­
you these officers deserve .a lot of
exclaimed
while badly mimicking the
like
this
I
know
that
Toronto
isn't
Ca
­
pared
food
for
about
ten
dollars
a
credit for learning as much about the
Beatles
’
stage
gyrations with herkynada.
It's
not
all
concrete
and
as
­
lunch. Our waitress was a blond wo­
language as they did in a mere 12
jerky
hip
and
shoulder
movements.
man with sweeping hair and an inde­
months' course, but just imagine phalt.” Ross was an old Navy man;
I snickered at the ironic anachro­
terminate accent. “Aussie,” I sur­
how much simpler it would have his face reminded you of a Maritime
nism
to myself. It was the 1980's but
mariner:
wind
eroded,
ruddy
but
mised.
Ross
thought
she
was
a
Brit.
been if they'd used Japanese Cana­
Ross
was living the mid 1960's and
punctuated
by
sea
cold
blue
eyes.
We
were
both
wrong,.probably.
dians from the start. Well - that's all
hating
the times. I was amused for
After
he
had
flown
his
last
Sea
King
Adorning one of the varnished oak
“politics” as all of us say, but it ain't
the
fixed
moment but soon I went
Copter “for the Queen”, he sought
walls was a distinctive watercolour
gonna happen a second time.
adrift to the fishing boats, the saw
employment in the city where “the
entitled “Five Survivors”. It depicted
mills and my father's voice singing
November (sometime) in Rangoon
lights are bright” as he used to quip.
defaced totem poles amidst the lush
an
old song to the trees, mountains
After the surrender of the Japan­ A community college had hired him
greens of the Q.C.I. forests. I was im­
and
sea around him.
ese, orders came thru for the discon­ as an academic liaison with the mili­
mediately captivated by the image. I
Masset was grey and blustery. The
tinuation of broadcasts in the Japan­ tary. The boys in green needed an ed­
noted how the artist had managed to
weather report called for gale condi­
ese language.
ucation; the college needed the con­
brush paint ghosts paling within the
tions. What stunted trees there were
I can at least say that we were in a tract; they both needed Ross. His job
landscape; totem beauty in ruin. All
were bent over in the ever increasing
forward area and working before the then was to establish education cen­ through lunch, my gaze came back to
rain saturated wind. The town was
war ended. Looking back over the. tres on all the Canadian Forces
it consistently. I. began to wonder
economically poor, made up of ram­
issue that was before all the nisei at bases around the world with Toronto
how impermanence had affected the
shackle wooden houses and tempor­
the time the twelve of us had decided as the home base for curricula and
originators of the carvings: the Haida
ary
aluminum buildings housing a
to inlist in the British Army, I bet a guidance.
nation.
CO-OP
store, greasy cafes, the
number of those same, people who
From time to time, he asked home
The road cut through a canyon of
GANEX and a hardware. There were
had not been fully supporting the faculty to accompany him to offer
trees. It snaked a sure and steady
the usual government offices: a dri­
volunteers at that time have changed the personal “one on ones” with pro­
path to Masset. The thick and ver­
ver's licensing bureau (which doub­
their opinipns a little.
spective local tutors. Most perceived
dant walls every now and then broke
led as a craft store), the post office
So the war came to a sudden end these expense account trips as perks;
into a clearing where wandering
in a most unforeseen manner, (at to Ross, they( were merely exercises
and the liquor store.
cows and horses impeded our pro­
least, I had no idea that such deadly in coping with boredom. When I was
The C.F.S. base was spread out as
gress.
weapons as the atomic bomb would asked to volunteer for the “Mission
if to open as much land as possible
“Look out for. cow shit, Brian!”
in an effort to civilize the area. There
be responsible for the inglorious end to Masset”, Ross advised to “bring
warned Ross. “The car might commit
of the dream of the “Greater East as many books as possible. There' s
were
concrete long houses for the of­
slicky-dicky arid crash!” .
Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere” as cook­ not a lot to do up there”. Despite the
ficers' quarters,1 the N.C.O.'quarters“Slicky-dicky?”
. and the enlisted plebs. The mess, the
ed up by the militarists of Nippon.)
warning, I accepted because the re­
.“Yeah, you know, slip and slide off
recreation hall and the bar were also
lentless rattle of the city had just
of the road.”
located inside. Set off from the main
about gotten to me. I needed the
“Oh.”
settlement
were the married quar­
boredom.
“God, what a life these bovines
ters: roomy two storey houses, quick­
Our journey to the hinterland really
lead! Not a care in the world!”
ly built out of cedar and slapped with
began in Sandspit, a dot on the map
“Yeah, but they're all ‘gullibulls’
aluminum
for protection. It was here
located at the southern end of the
and ‘nincowpoops’!”
amidst
the
displaced suburbs that
Queen Charlotte Islands. The settle­
“Oh Christ Brian! Bet you've been
we
found
our
quarters: the V.I.P.
ment was literally a spit of sand jut­
waiting all your life to say those two!”
house.
!
ting out into the ocean. Quite honest­
I said nothing, chuckling instead
Ross,and I settled in quickly with
ly, I didn't think the massive 737 jet
over the refugee puns from a 1940's
the help of Lieutenant Frank Mock,
could touchdown on such a truncat­
Bugs Bunny cartoon.
^
584 UPPER JAMES STREET,
an
efficient man, moustached and
ed landing strip which ran the entire
Further on up the road, we encoun­
stiffly uniformed. He first led us into
short length of the spit. God, was I
tered dilapidated saw mills still eking
jz^A HAMILTON, ONT. — PHONE 383-1518 # grateful for airbrakes and reverse out a living even though the machin- the living room where the orange
tweed furniture had that bargain
thrust!
, ery was antiquated and rusted out.
basement look but was quite func­
The next phase of our trip consis­
The time wandered.
tional
and even comfortable. The
ted of driving down to. Masset, the
The roadside trees had thinned out
staff, I discovered, had stocked the
most northern point of the Queen
and the ocean blue of Masset Inlet
kitchen refrigerator with the basics:
Charlottes. While Ross rented a car seeped through. Out there on the wa­
eggs,
bread, juice, milk and a mass of
from one of the two side-by-side air?
ter, fishing boats lazily harvested
sandwich
meat wrapped in cello­
port rental agencies (the Hertz agent
their crop. My father was working on
phane.
appeared smug; the Avis agent sligh­
a lumber camp raft. He and his crew
“I think I'll go and have a boo at
ted), I decided to expedite matters by
moved around Vancouver Island look­
the mess, Brian.”
purchasing a road map. The Flight: ing for ideal timber to cut. His voice
“A ‘boo’ Ross?”
Services office seemed the likely
rang clear in the still, cold air shout­
“Yes, go and have a look.” I would
place.
ing orders to the muscle squeezed
671 Tate Street, Hamilton, Ont. L8H 6L5
never get used to his salt water talk I
Behind the naugahyde counter, a
men who strained to earn a decent
supposed.
young man with fair skin and slight
day's pay for a decent day's sweat.
Phone 549-4816
The mess was decorated with
body smiled in preparation to assist
Father sings an,autumn song in that
orange
wood veneer and division in­
me. His soap scrubbed face remind­
familiar raspy voice. The echo of it
signias. Pictures of the Queen and
ed me of wheat fields and azure
still reverberated as I recalled his
Prince held prominent positions over
skies.
passing.
the
dining area. Women in unflatter­
“Hi. I wonder, could you help me
Ross turned on the radio at that
ing
white
smocks and hairnets shuf­
out?” I asked.
visceral moment. Between static
fled around the tables conscientious­
“Well sir, I'll try.”
bursts, a d.j. announced a “blast
ly serving from the left and taking
Polite and friendly I thought to my­
from the past”: a Bob Dylan song..
from the right. Emily Post would have
“I can't believe it. Sixties' Gold
self.
been proud. A very few officers sat
“Could I get a road map here?”
way up here!” I exclaimed, surprised
eating
their "dinners of breast of
The young man screwed his face.
yet happy for a sense of the familiar
mock chicken, mashed potatoes and
in the middle of the unfamiliar.
“Why, where're you going?”
cauliflower smothered in a gravy
“You can't get away from it,
"Masset.”
made white with excess flour. I mut­
“So why do you need a map?”
Brian.”
tered
to myself that this was real
The question seemed silly but I an­
“Well why not, eh Ross? Why Not.
“
white
” food. The officers them­
Bishop Toshio Murakami
swered. “So I know which road to
Nothing makes sense in this world
selves were close shaven, tightly
anyway, so why not have I960's pro­
take to get there.”
Rev. Yasuo Izumi, Chairman of Ministers' Assn.
postured and very serious. There was
test songs playing in the middle of
“There's only one road,” he said
Rev. Sammi Kiribayashi,
a
curious side to them however; they
with a Cheshire grin. "You take it to
nowhere!”
conversed
in a strange unfamiliar
the ferry at Alliford and then you take
“I'm glad you said that, Brian. I've
Executive Assistant to Bishop
language.
it to Masset. Yup, only one road. You
been saying that for years.” His voice
“Ross, what are those men say­
take
it
up
to
get
there
and
down
to
struck
me
oddly.
Its
timber
sounded
220 Jackson Ave., Vancouver, British Columbia V6A 3B3
ing?
”
from
ariother
era
so
much
older
than
get here.”
That son of a bitch had trapped
mine, it reminded me of those days
(Cont. on page 15)

It's just several months since the
city of Rangoon had been liberated,
after more than three years of Japan­
ese occupation. Travelling along the
dock areas, one can instantly see
what the R.A. F. boys did to enemy
shipping etc. on the waterfront - the
warehouses, piers and whatnot are a
bunch of bent girders and rubble.
The roads need fixing Very badly, but
I guess they haven't got around to
those things yet. Some of the bomb­
ed areas were quite like scenes
which we saw in England during the
short time we were there, on our way
to the Far East. /
The war has been over for some
time now, but the city of Rangoon is
still not back to its pre-occupation
state, although gradually peopie
seem to be returning to the city, and
new shops are being opened in the
city every time Lhappened to go into
town either on my day off or with
Bishop to collect the mail.
।
Nov. 11
Broadcasts from Rangoon are on
the air every day now, and we have
got down to a system somehow after
“buggering” about for a couple of
months.'Quite a change from those
days when Capt. Shroff and I used to
run up to the transmitter site on
Kokine Road where the mobile vans
were located.. Used to be right in the
middle of the Monsoon season then,
and not infrequently we had to drive
out there twice a day and it used to
be pouring rain all that time. We used
to broadcast the news in Japanese;
and for the remainder of the program,
there was recorded music.
There was nothing difficult about
the broadcasting side of the game (it
was almost a cinch for anybody
who's got a speaking knowledge of
the language) but the difficult part
was the translation of the English
stuff into Japanese. It would have
been considerably easier for me if Fl—could have done one-half of the work,
but with his knowledge of Japanese

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Survivors . . .

(Cont. from page 14)

I'm sure.”
“That's boo.”
“Russian. Their job here is to,
“The traders injected them.”
“I heard the Padre' s story the first
“
Oh,
sorry
Ross.
I'll
never
catch
I didn't have a clue what he was
monitor Russian transmissions. So
I tried to arrest the shock at .the time I came up here, and I didn't
on to that Navy lingo.”
talking about. In fact, he really put temple lobes. My mouth remained believe him, so Tasked the Haida vil­
they talk Ruskie to keep up.”
Lieutenant Mock told me that a
me off; I just hate it when people ful­ tight and fixed; my eyes spoke an
A horror entered my backbone.
lagers myself.”
fill their stereotype; however, I at­ outrage.
Haida village existed about ten klicks
“Give it to me straight, Ross. Are
“You say the Padre's feeling guil­
from Masset; the village, in fact,
tempted to quell my impatience be­
“The traders wanted to establish ty?”
there nuclear missiles on this base?”
marked “the road's” end. When I ar­ cause I felt his deep frustration and settlements around the coast, so
“No,” he said reassuringly. “There
“Sure dr he's demonstrating the
rived there, I found a set for a Nation­ remorse. _
might be some up Alaska way, 'bout
they killed off the Haida to make fervour he has for his job.”
al Film Board documentary. Upon bar­
“The coast is scattered with the room.”
a hundred miles or so.”
“What do you mean?”
ren rock slopes which slid down to
bones of my people,” he began as a
“Oh Christ!”
“Great,” I grimaced.
“He's lashing out Protestant mor­
the cold grey Pacific waters stood
summation. “I see in your face the
“Just kidding. This is just a listen­
“Christ had nothing to do with this ality like a penitent sailor who's
several
wind
battered
wooden
hous
­
same
is true. Will you find your wana­ son,” assured the father. “You boys drunk,” he explained. “Pardon me,
ing station,” he reiterated. “Now fi­
es. Erosion and poverty stricken, the gan spot?” He creased his face with . here long?”
nish filling your gob, and we'll have
like a penitent Irishman.”
entire settlement appeared to slump
a smile and led me to the museum.
the good lieutenant here open up the
“No,” answered Ross. “We'll be­
We then turned our attention to
with the strain of survival, especially
Through the cracks of the door lay
bar for us.”
gone tomorrow.”
'
our drinking and the baseball game
under the weight of a storm laden a small collection of rusted farm
“Oh no, no. You should stay a few on television. During the recesses of
“Yes sir,” responded Frank Mock.
sky.
tools, pictures of 19th century village
extra days. We're having Oktober­ the evening, we chuckled about pro­
“We can drink the Queen's health,”
In the middle of the village, three
life and broken totem pieces. The on­ fest. A whale of a good time. Frivoli­ vincial prejudice over eastern urbani­
suggested Ross.
totem poles rose proud yet some­ ly remarkable item was an original
ty. Frivolity. Frivolity. Good chance ties.
The rec area of the base was dark,
what obscured by the playful low ly­ Emily Carr painted on the wall. Its co­ to meet everyone!” His slapstick
filled with overstuffed chairs, frivo­
ing clouds that treetops caught and
lours had faded to pale air; neverthe­ gesticulations took my mind away
lous distractions and orange empty
stretched
into
cotton
strands.
The
less,
the lonely yet majestic totem
from the atrocity I was just imagin­
space. There were free video games,
broken
faces
appeared
as
sullen
spir
­
subjects shone through in a concer­
ing.
a pool table,- dart games, television
Four' o'clock in the morning. I •
its mercilessly teased in the play of ted effort to survive.
Ross spoke up, “Sorry Padre. awoke for no apparent reason: one of
sets and a well-stocked bar. “My
sea spume, fog and wind.
Later that day, I found, quite by ac­
Sounds like a flippen good time, but those sudden awakenings that shifts
- God,” I said, “some of my friends
A
paint
peeled
building
dominated
cident,
a
road
that
led
to
the
Masset
we can't go too far adrift of the you with a jolt from dreamland to
would call this heaven.”
the set. A sign across its crown pro­ cemetery and North Beach. The cetime.”
“Well, there isn't much to do up
reality without the usual draining ef­
claimed “VISITORS WELCOME — metary was situated amongst the,
“Oh yes, you're from Toronto,
here,” stated Lieutenant Mock as he
fect of imposed consciousness. In­
THE ALAN NORTH MUSEUM”. It woods in quiet solitude. Each grave
yes,” he remembered. “You can't be stead of returning to sleep, I looked
unlocked the bar. “Turn on the t.v.
looked closed for the winter, but I de­ was covered with a layer of moss
anxious to get back to the unfriendly out the bedroom window.
We get a lot of stations up here what
cided
to
try
the
door.
To
my
surprise,
grown
abundant
in
the
thick,
drip
­
people, the cold, the pollution, the
with the satellite dish.”
The clouds had dissipated for the
it was open.
ping air. The gravestones told of in­
dirty streets and the noise. Can
Sure enough, I managed to tune in
first time since I had arrived; there
Just insjde, a paper choked office teresting mysteries: corporals and ci­
you?”
WJBK Detroit which was announcing
revealed was a panorama of constan­
surrounded a middle aged Native vilians who had come from Edmon­
“Now hold on there. When were cy. The universe had opened its eye. I
the latest murder statistics for that
man. His somber, reddish clay face ton and other urban areas to remain
you last back East?”
city. “You can't get away from it,” I
was awe struck. The fireworks dis­
looked
up
guickly,
ready
to
welcome
in
Masset
an
eternity.
“Oh, I've never been to Toronto. I
mumbled under my. breath. To divert
play of stars and galaxies entered me
the last visitor of the season.
The beach as a stretch of sand and
just imagine it to be so.”
my attention, I turned toward the bar.
with a stinging emptiness that suf­
“Hi. I wonder,” I asked, “is the driftwood that lay hidden from view
It was filled with every kind of beer
With that, the good father excused
fused every element of my being.
museum open?”
by a forest of ghosts and silenced
himself claiming paperwork that beg­ Never had I been so close to the hea­
and liquor imaginable. “Too bad Gary
A spark came to his eyes as he stories. As I stood on the wet sand, I
ged attention. Ross and I repaired to
wasn't here. He'd really be in heavens, so close to the truth of raw ex­
pulled
himself to his feet. His thin listened to the quiet. No traffic
the bar once again and once again
- ven.” Gary Davis was a colleague
istence.
body caved in as it drew to its half crush; no human outcries; no rat race
drank together alone.
back home who coveted caloric li­
I fell asleep watching pinpoints of
height. Only the baggy plaid wool white noise; just the steady lapping
“I can't believe it,” I said. “The
quor excess.
light burst and then decline to black.
shirt he wore belied his true form. of surf and imagination. The white
traders actually injected the Haida.”
“I guess he would be, Brian.”
“Welcome. I'm Alex North.” He ex­ caps hurled spray into the air in a joy­
Ross sluiced the liquor liberally in­
“Yeah, a bar like this would make
tended his craggy hand “I' II open up ous celebration of freedom. The
to his thirsty glass. “You don't be­
his eyes red just thinking about it!”
the place for you.”
slight howl in the wind settled in the
lieve that stuff, do you Brian?”
We laughed.
.
In the morning, I packed and load­
I
shook
his
hand;
it
felt
like
sand
­
damp
of
my
bones.
I
was
profoundly
“What am I to believe then?”
The lieutenant then excused him­
ed the car in preparation for depar­
paper. “Thank you. Are you any rela­ alone, but I felt my father's pre­
“Now don't let your cynicism take ture. The sun was low on the rise; its
self. Just as he turned to leave it
tion
to Alan North?”
sence. He was singing for me.
over your senses.”
came to my mind to ask, J'Where is
halo was bright yet watery. It was
“My great-grandfather. I'm the he­
“You mean his story's not true?”
everyone, Lieutenant?”
odd but the shadows of trees were
reditary chief for the village here. We
“White Man's guilt. The way I
“Oh. Most of. the officers have
the long shadows of early evening
just had a two day ceremony to in­
heard it there was a boat in from Chi­ growing longer like a river seeking
families and like to spend quality
stall me as chief. Here, I 've got some
I rejoined Ross in the mess at early
na with smallpox on board. Not to set
time with them, sir.”
out its ancestral sea.
pictures.
”
twilight.
The cloud spotted sky had
“Damn military's going to hell,”
anyone on the rocks, a warning flag
Ross's face appeared ashen from
“Oh sure. Is that the way to the burned purple with the sun' s setting.
Ross asserted. “All this family and
was up. At that particular time, a con­ last night's reverie. In his mind's
health stuff,” he extrapolated, “gon­ museum?” I asked pointing the The canteen ladies served up the
tingent of Haida was in town to do
panic, it was his last chance to revive
cracked door at the far end of the of­ cook's version of Chinese food: chi­
some trading.”
na close these bars forever. There
his young Navy days, and so he did
cken shop suey, sweet and sour pork
should be a direct order so the fel­ fice.
“Where?”
with drink, stories and hearty laugh­
“Yes, I 'll open it in a minute.” Alex balls, Lipton's won ton soup and fried
las ' II come in to save a fine old tradi“Victoria,” he explained. “The Hai­
ter even though his audience consis­
North seemed bound and determined rice. Disgusting. I overheard within a
tion.”
da left their furs and whatnot with a
ted of me alone. He slept in the car
“Yes sir.” Frank Mock smiled and to show me the pictures. He limped casual conversation between staff
trader for safekeeping. He in turn de­ as I drove.
toward a bookcase where the album members that the rice was destined
left, leaving us to our own devices
cided he wanted the goods for no­
At some point during the return
was stored. As he did so, he offered to be tomorrow's minestrone soup,
and vices.
thing, so he hatched a plot.,
journey, I craved for companionship.
Ross raised his glass and drank more information with a certain insis­ while the chop suey was to the mulli­
“Molasses was a big item to the In­ . I turned oh the radio and that self­
quietly to the portrait of the Queen tence that compelled me to listen. gatawny soup the nest. A great meta­
dians as a condiment. So somehow
same d.j. announced another “blast
over the bar. I picked up a pool cue “Settlements all over the Queen phor for multiculturalism but terrible
the trader got access to the diseased
from the past”: yet another Bob Dy­
and carefully considered a break Charlottes. Mostly on the west coast. soup.
bodies, probably when .they were put
lan song. ( looked at Ross dozing
Seated with us this dinner was a
shot while a rain of words about two Lot more a hundred years ago.”
ashore, and he_cut a finger off of one
contentedly and smiled, broad and
“How many Haida are there?”
cherubic man. With dumpling cheeks
drunken auto workers bludgeoning
of them. He then put it into a keg of
long.
“About 1500. Used to 10,000.”
and an unashamed bald head, the ro­
to death a Japanese American man in
molasses and gave it to them.
Alex North, Ross and I, three spi­
“What happened?”
tund reverend beamed a friendly de­
a suburb of Detroit fell upon my
“Well, pretty soon the Haida star­
rits of the totem. Sole survivors in
“The Great Smallpox Epidemic at meanour.
numbed ears.
ted dying. They naturally panicked
the throes of our inevitable fates.
the turn of the century.”
“Padre, good to see you again,”
and set sail for home, without the
Dylan sang like wind over a dust
“Did the traders bring it?”
said Ross. “This is Brian Takehara.
furs. By the time they reached home,
bowl landscape. My father's voice
“There is a legend that tells of ca­ Brian, Father O 'Rourke.”
they were all corpses.^That's how
cozy and sweet with his favourite Ja“Takehara?” asked the father.
The next day was pretty much rou­ noes manned by ghosts bringing the
the disease spread. The innocent
panese song. Ross and uniformed
pox to the islands. The ghosts were “Are you Japanese?”
tine. Ross gave a rousing sales pitch
Haida took care of their dead, but in
cronies raising glass to a distant por­
the ghosts of our people that had
“Japanese Canadian.”
to the assembled personnel, while I
doing so, infected themselves.”
trait. “To the Queen,” they said in un­
“Oh yes. Used to be loads of you
interviewed potential instructors, ba­ died in Victory by the disease. They
“What happened to the trader?”
ison. “And a fine old lady she is too!”
sically ascertaining background and were coming home.” Alex's voice fellows around here. Mostly fisher­
“He died of smallpox.”
They all nodded as the unified cry of
qualifications. The Vice-principal of was soft and deliberate, drawing sig­ men, some lumbermen.”
“Well that's good. What was his
the 10,000 swelled to a crescendo of
nificance from every word uttered
the local public school had applied.
“Yes. Perhaps even my father. He
name?”
silence.
was a high rigger for a Japanese lum­
A balding young man, looking as a re­ and implied.
“Don' t know for sure. I once heard
He flipped through the photo al­ bering concern before the War.”
sult much older than his 32 years,
him called ‘The Man with the Pitchy
Silence. The sky weighted with raw
“Ah, the War.” His high pitched
had found himself in the Queen Char­ bum as he changed the subject to
Hair’.”
emptiness remained. Such was my
lottes to get away from the “rat race” the programs he and several others voice had the hint of compassion
“Ross, how do you know all this?” revenge; such was my sorrow.
of Vancouver (if there is such a thing had initiated to preserve the culture about it. “I guess the War took them
in Vancouver) in order to do “some and history. My eyes only, saw what all away.” During the dangling pause
real teaching”. A pretty French Cana­ they had been told. He concluded in the conversation, I began to under­
dian woman with a University of La­ with a cryptic but poetic message to stand what Alex had meant. The faval educated accent wanted to teach express his reason for living: “When ther changed the subject. “What
English to the Quebecois who were a spruce needle falls in the forest, have you boys been doing up here?”
also “in exile”. All in all, she found the eagle sees it, the bear smells it
“Business, -Padre,” answered
banishment pleasant and unavoid­ and the deer hears it.”
Ross; “Brian here was over to the
“What do you mean?”
able since her military husband was
Haida village though.”
84 Marcos Blvd..
“We all need a wanagan spot, a
“Oh, how did you find, it?”
stationed there.
After my duties had been dis­ place of one's own, a time for think­
“Very interesting. I found out there
patched, my time was my own, and ing and peace. The young people go used to be 10,000 of them. Now there
there was a great deal of time to be to the city, Vancouver, Toronto, to is only about 1000 left.”
had. “Ross, mind if I take the car to learn skills but they don't return to
“Yes,” said the father in a slightly
see, to smell, to hear the spruce nee­ woeful tone of voice. “That's ano­
have a boob at the town?”
TOM S. IWAMOTO
dle. They intermarry; they relocate; ther sad tale.”
“Boob?”
they forget. It is the same for you,
“Yeah, you know, look around.”
“Yeah, smallpox did them in.”

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Concerns of JC seniors
brought up at NAJC
conference n Montreal

ByBILL MARUTANI
READ AN ARTICLE in the news­
. FORT COLLINS, Colo. — ate. This is a hopeless case.”
By I. HIROTA
ly for those who do not speak
paper
the other day where California
On October 24, this world lost He drifted in and out of con­
wines are making their way into Ja­ (Winnipeg Rep. at Montreal
English.
one of the true saints on earth sciousness for days.
pan, joining the traditional sake as
NAJC conference)
(9) Have Annual Conference
when Fr. Hiram Hisanori Kano
At one point a nurse stated well as a bit of whiskey, scotch and
MONTREAL. — The NAJC
for Seniors, organized by NA­
died. Although ail those who he had no pulse. He tried to beer. According to the article, the av­
JC, for exchange of views,
have known him throughout tell her he was still alive. How­ erage consumption of grape-based Conference held in - Montreal
and information essential to
his life grieve because we ever, he felt he was ready to wine among the Japanese is one bot­ on October 8th and 9th held
tle per year. For Americans, it's 10 a Seniors' Workshop. Some
Seniors. Invite doctors, law­
. miss him, he would be the die to escape the pain and he bottles, and the French, a,hearty 80
of the concerns brought up at
yers, dieticians, psychiatrists,
first to tell us to rejoice for he had no fear. Then he remem­ per year.
the
meeting
were
as
follows:
nurses, etc. to the conference,
has gone “home” to be with bers a sense of calm and he
Somebody has been using up my
(1) Need for more wheel­ so Seniors can ask questions
quota of 10. For years.
his Lord, Jesus Christ, in the knows he saw God.
chairs and blankets.
and get first-hand information.
MY
ENG­
life eternal.
Fr. Kano found words could
LISH-JAPA­
(2) Need for JC Seniors'
— Manitoba JCCA
Fr. Kano's story is remark­ not adequately describe ex­ NESE diction­
Homes in major cities. Japa­
able. It is not a rags to riches actly what he saw- — light, ary defines
nese tradit' )n of looking after
story as he was born the son but more. Though accurate “wine” as buaged
parents may not prevail
of a nobleman in rural Japan. description failed him he did do-shu. Budo,
.among the 3rd and 4th gen­
It is not the story of a man tur­ know that something was of course is
grapes, and
eration JCs; therefore, the
ning from evil to good for he happening. He just did not shu is the
was always a good person. know what. But what I saw kanji for sake. To most of our ears, need for these homes. A visit
Rather it is the story of a per­ became God, to me. I surren­ sake is deemed synonymous with should be made to “Seattle
son growing in Grace for over dered.” Then, undoubtedly, a rice-based wine, but the character Keiro” and “Heiwa Terrace”
On SaturTORONTO.
both
in
Seattle,
to
see
their
must
also
mean
liquor.
Kanji
com
­
99 years.
miracle occurred.
day, April 8/89 the Japanese
pounds with sake (or shu) provide
facilities
for
serving
hot
and
Life for Fr. Kano as a boy
His health began to im­ some interesting meanings. For ex­
Canadian Cultural Centre will
and young man growing up in prove and within a few days ample, sake plus /ro read as “shush- cold food.
be hosting the Annual Prin­
(3) Add wing to existing
Japan was probably not that he was able to take his medi­ oku,” means “wine, and women” or
cess Ball. The lucky lady
unlike the life of others with cines and fluids. Before long “debauchery.” Somewhat. puzzling, " hospital, specifically for JC selected, will reign over the
strong ties to the royal family he was able to take solid but then we've heard the term “iro- Seniors to cater to their Tokyo Pavilion during Cara­
otako” (literally “color-male”) which
ethnic needs, and when the
in the late 1800's and early food. Exactly 100 days after was
van '89 from June 16-26.
not a complimentary label for a
1900's. Also, like most Japa­ the vision he was able to young man to have since it meant need subsides, donate it to
The committee has already
the
hospital.
nese people, his family were leave the hospital.
“dandy.” or.supposed “ladies' man.”
in starting forming. If you are in­
(4)
Educate
JC
Seniors
The
next
one
left
me
baffled:
canteen
Buddhists.
After being released from
terested in helping out as a
All young Japanese boys the hospital Fr. Kano began or PX (post exchange) is safre plus medication drugs. It was re­ Princess Ball '89 Committee
"tamotsu” (or hosoru) pronounced
ported in Japan that Japa­
learned Judo and, in addition, to search for God. One of. the as
member, please contact the
“shuho.” The fro portion is the
nese and Asiatics react dif­
Fr. Kano became an excellent things he did was to read the same kanji as in hoken (insurance).
JCCC office at 441-2345.
swimmer, setting several lo­ Bible. He was sure it was the Tamotsu and hosuru mean “pre­ ferently to drugs and medica­
Community groups and in­
tion,
and
dosages
prescribed,
serve
”
and
“
guarantee.
”
cal records, so was in very Holy Spirit or a vision of the
dividuals are presently asked
compared
to
Occidentals.
I've
never
been
in
a
Japanese
can
­
good physical condition. He Risen Christ he had seen. He
to submit candidates to vie
teen or PX, at least that I know of, so
This
should
be
looked
into
later became a swimming in­ said, “I knew Jesus had sav­ I don't know what goes on in one.
for the title of Miss Tokyo.
structor and a student at Ja­ ed me.” He felt he had been But come to think of it, we have our further.
The only requirements for
(5) Japanese-speaking psy­
pan- s Imperial University in saved for a purpose but did own slang phrase of getting “pickl­
the candidates are:
chiatrists are necessary for
ed.” Maybe that's why the Japanese
Tokyo where he studied agri­ not yet know the reason.
1. Single female
culture. Despite his excellent
At the age of 21 he was combine sake with tamotsu (pre­ Seniors who do not speak
2. Between the ages 18-24
physical condition, at 19 he baptized by a missionary of serve). I 'm going to have to mull that English. Look into the possi­ years old
one over for a while.
bility of having some sent
became critically ill with the the Dutch Reformed Church.
3. One parent must be of
THE ARTICLE REPORTS that
flu and was hospitalized. Dur­ He continued to read the Bi­ champagne is picking up in those from Japan, funded by Japa­ Japanese origin
ing hisillness and hospit­ ble and thought about how he late-night hostess bars. I'll simply nese government.
As in the past, the number
(6) Wills, living trust, fune­
alization a dramatic change might give his life to others take their word for it, for from what I
of candidates will be limited.
understand those places can quickly
ral arrangements of Seniors
occurred in Fr. Kano's life.
— and so he did for almost deplete
Please submit your name and
your yen (pun included).
should be discussed. .
After being hospitalized eight more decades.
telephone number to the
Never to be peons, the Japanese are
(7) Seniors who receice
with the flu Fr. Kano's appen­
reported to be taking wine courses,
JCCC.
OAS Supplement are worried
starting with the proper way to un­
dix burst and his condition
— T. JCCC
that the $21,000 they receive
cork a wine bottle. (I have more than
continued to worsen. He re­
a few friends who could profit from
would be considered an
members the doctors stand­
such a course.) One of the test ques­
asset, and their supplement
ing around his bed telling his
tions of the course: How properly to
reduced or cut off. Educating
parents, “It's top late to opersniff the bouquet of a glass of wine?
the Seniors in making invest­
Does one move the glass up toward
ment necessary.
the nostrils — or does one bend
down toward the glass?
- (8) Need for Mini Buses to
Well, friend you've got me on that
pick up JC Seniors, especialOTTAWA. — Canada's Uk- one.
EVER WONDER who the first dude
rainian community has given
from
the federal government two was who tried something? The first
person who dared to eat a raw oyster
years to acknowledge Ukrain- or uni (urchin), or even the tomato,
ian-Canadiaris were unjustly which traditionally was considered
interned during the First poisonous? Well, who was the first
swill who dared to ingest the oozing
World War.
juices
of overripe grapes that had de­
“We want this resolved by
Cycles for all ages!
Across Canada
cayed to the point of smelling like
1991 —the centennial of Uk­ fermentation? Well, open up the Bi­
rainian
settlement
in ble to Genesis 9:20, where the follow­
Matt & Frank Matsui
Canadian Headquarters Canada,” said Lubomyr Luc- ing appears:
And Noah began to be a husband­
Toronto, Ont. S’
335 College St.
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Season's Greetings
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Best Wishes To All

Toronto Nisei Women's Club

Season' s Greetings
Mack Miya . .

Mack's Gym: Canada's “Mecca
of hard-core weight lifters
Twenty-five years ago, hortations coming from within first Vic Tanny's then other
before Gold's, before Super the gym. “Twenty-five years chains, with high-pressure
Fitness, and before the rest ago, I had over 3,000 members, sales, six-digit advertising
of the high-tech chains with enough business to open a budgets, and sex appeal.
their mass marketing and second gym — I was making Reeling from his loses and
sexual imagery, there was a thousand dollars a week faced with stiff competition,
Mack's. Hunkered down in and driving a Cadillac.”
Miya took the route of least
Parkdale, the rough-edged
resistance: he decided not to
anachronistic Mack's Gym is
Deceptively small at five compete at all. He just stayed
home to about 500 hard-core, feet four and 190 pounds, Mack's.
body builders and wrestlers
“Those places (spas) are
Miya was billing himself as
attracted by the reputation of “The Worlds's Strongest just places to meet girls and
the owner, Mack Miya.
Man, Pound for Pound.” In ex- socialize,” says Miya, still
I was one of the only guys
hibitions at the El Mocambo very fit and looking more like
to have a gym when the body . tavern and the Canadian Na­ 35 then his actual 66 years. “I
building thing started to tional Sportsmen' s Shows, get my business by word of
grow,” he says over tne loud
Miya lifted 275 pounds with mouth, because this is a very
rock music, clanging of drop­ one arm and offered $1,000 to hard-core body-building
ped weights, and hoarse ex- _ anyone-.vvho could duplicate place.”
;
His “hard-core” members
the feat with both arms. The
former boxer had been in pay $450 annually or $75 a
Special Events
business since 1944, and no month to use the facilities.
465-8020
one could lay a glove on him.
Although Miya is still very
But things went sour. Miya much involved in the place,
lost $100,000 along with his he now gets his kicks watch­
second outlet in a bad busi­ ing his latest protegee —
ness partnership. This was 23-year-old Christina Dutkow­
followed by the appearance ski. When she entered
of the first “health spas,” at Mack's five years ago, Miya
immediately realized that
Dutkowski, at five seven and
200 pounds, had what it takes
to be a professional wrestler.
But not here.
Miya used his Japanese
connections to carve out a
Toronto Chapter
career for Dutkowski in Ja­
pan, where crowds of more
592 Windermere Avenue, Toronto, Ont. MBS 3L8
than 50,000 pay between $35
Phone 769-5327
and $65 for wrestling tickets
to see “Yukon Erica.”
Mrs. Michiho Tamura & Students
— Business Journal

|HEMMY

Season's Greetings

JNTO

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Toronto Office

Director Takashi (Tak) Nagaoka & Staff
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