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The New Canadian
An Independent Organ for Canadians of Japanese Origin

VOL. 53 — NO. 81

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1989

TORONTO, ONT.

Jpnz. company buys Toronto Windsor
Arms hotel for $30 million

Jpnz. buy Toronto’s Windsor Arms Hotel

Suspected war criminal trial
recalls JC situation
TORONTO — Among the legal
arguments presented by de­
fence lawyer Douglas Christie,
defending accused war criminal
Imre Finta, 77 was that the war
crimes law discriminates be­
cause it targets his client but ex­
empts Canadian officials who
deported Japanese Canadians
during the war.
Chief Justice Frank Callaghan
of the Supreme Court of Ontario,
decided that the two situations

were not comparable.
“Hungarian Jews were not at
war with Hungary whereas in the
Japanese case, Japan was at
war with Canada and part of the
Japanese population of Canada
were people that asked to be re­
patriated to Japan,” the judge
said. ■
■ ■

Brush paintings
at J.C. Cultural
Centre Nov. 18 & 19

Nintendo going
after the adults

By BRIAN MILNER
TORONTO — A Japanese developer that
has spent millions of dollars in the past
year to gain a toehold in Toronto’s most
fashionable commercial district has ac­
quired the venerable Windsor Arms Hotel
for $30-million.
The deal appears to give the hotel’s
previous owners, who bough the property
less than eight months ago, a profit of
about $1-million for every month they
held it.
Jasmac Canada Inc., the Canadian
subsidiary of a Tokyo-based hotel, restau­
rant and development company, has
been amassing land in the Yorkville are,
considered some of the best commercial
real estate in Canada.
With the Windsor Arms purchase, it is
acting for the first time in Toronto on be­
half of several other Japanese investors.
The purchase of the 61 -year-old Wind­
sor Arms, whose quiet mid-town location
has been a home away from home to the
carriage trade, is set to close next month.
The Japanese have not been major
players in the Toronto hotel market. For
15 years, the Prince Hotel has been the
only Japanese-owned hotel in the city.
But the owners of two other major
Toronto hotels, the Inn on the Park Four
Seasons and the Hiarbour Castle Westin,
have been hoping to attract Japanese
buyers.
Jasmac has purchased two properties
on Yorkville Avenue and several others in
the neighborhood of the Windsor Arms in
recent months, all at high prices.
“What they’re buying is the very finest,”
one real estate specialist said. “It’s what
I would want to own if Tdropped a pin on
Toronto and could buy whatever it landed
" on, . •
Fumihiro Shida, head of Jasmac Can­
ada, said: “We do our own development,

TORONTO —The Sumie Ar­
tists of Canada’s Oriental Brush
Painting Exhibition will be held at
TOKYO — Nintendo is going
the Japanese Canadian Cultural
after North America’s adults,
. Centre, 123 Wynford Drive in
after already hooking its children
Don Mills on November 18 and
on its electronic game compu­
19th from 1 to 5 p.m. Admission
ters.
is free.
The Japanese company aims
to become a global electronic
communications giant that not
only keeps your kids entertained
but also brings into your home TORONTO — Booker fever may be first-person narrator. The Remains Of
such grown-up conveniences as sweeping the British fook world, but The Day is a story about a British aristoKazuo Ishiguro, a nominee for this years’
crat’s flirtation with Nazism during the
electronic banking, stock and Booker literary prize, is just as happy to
’30s, told by an English butler, a man
bond trading, online shopping : be avoiding it.
whose recollections we can never quite
“The Booker dominates the fall season
and educational courses.
trust, but with whom we ultimately sym­
In an interview Kyoto, Japan, in Britain in a way that is getting quite pathize.
A similar character, an aging artist
the headquarters of the enter­ unhealthy,” says the 35-year-old novelist.
It’s not that he’s jaded, although this is
whose youthful works had glorified Japa­
tainment and information com­ the second time he’s been nominated for
nese militarism, is the narrator in An Ar­
pany with $1.78 billion in annual the prize, which can be worth as much tist Of The Floating World.
sales, chief executive and pres­ as $184,000 in prize money and in­
“I write out of a kind of projected fear,”
ident Hiroshi Yamauchi outlined creased royalties. “People can get very says the soft-spoken, eloquent Ishiguro.
silly about it, the media inventing quar­ “I might reach a certain age and look
Nintendo’s bold ambition to pre­
rels between people on the short list ...
back and be forced to ask the same kind
vail where such North American this year I decided not to get involved."
of questions about the choices I made in
predecessors as Atari and World
Ishiguro (who lives in Longon and is
life.” Creating such characters, he adds,
known as “Ish” to his friends) spent the “is a way of asking ‘should I be quite as
of Wonder have failed.

and now we’re a pipeline introducing Jap­
anese investments to Canada. The Wind­
sor Arms is the first example of the use
of this pipeline.”
The hotel was bought from long-time
owner George Minden in February by Up­
per Canada Land Corp., which trumpeted
its intentions to retain the hotel’s atmo­
sphere of quiet elegance even as it was
attempting to peddle the property else­
where.
Upper Canada never publicly revealed
what it paid, but the price is widely be­
lieved to have been in the $22-million '
range:
The same company has sold three
. other properties to Jasmac, including a
site at the corner of St. Thomas and Cha­
rles streets on which it once said it would
build the most expensive condominiums
in Toronto.
Explaining why the deal has been kept
under wraps, Mr. Hilda said that earlier
erroneous reports of a sale had hurt em­
ployee morale. “The Windsor Arms is an
ongoing business. We decried on a very
smooth phase-in and phase-out. So we
decided to keep it quiet.”
A spokeswoman for Upper Canada
would not discus any aspect of the deal.
“We are a private corporation and our pol­
icy is not to comment to the media;’’ said
Leslie Martin, executive assistant to Up­
per Canada chairman Charles Moon.

Brent Bertrand, executive vice-pres­
ident of the G. Minden Group and former
chief executive of the Windsor Arms, said
he was not surprised by the deal. “I’m
actually surprised that it took them so
long.”
One developer said he quickly turned
down a deal at an asking price in the $40million range. Other potential buyers are
known to have been approached.

Novelist Ishiguro nominated for $184,000 Booker prize

Yoko Ono looks
forward to future

last frenzied weeks before announce­
ment of the prize in North America.
He read at Harbourfront’s Brigantine
Room, recently and then left to New York
for the American launch of The Remains
Of The Day.
Since its spring release in Britain and
Canada (by Lester & Orpen Dennys), it
has been tagged as a potential Booker
winner, and along with Margaret At­
wood’s Cat’s Eye, is most often men­
tioned as the leading contender.

NEW YORK — Yoko Ono
wants to leave the 1960s behind
for a new age of “wisdom” she
predicts is coming soon.
“My spiritual growth took place
in the ’60s,” said the widow of
ex-Beatle John Lennon.
Moral choice
“It’s a very private, personal
Its his third novel, and like the previous
history,” Ono said. “But it’s a dan­
two, A Pale View Of Floating Worid, a
gerous trap when you have such consummately crafted work that ex­
an attachment to that, when you plores character, moral choice and the
don’t go forward.”
play of memory through a subtly created

smug as I am?’.”
Far from smug, however, Ishiguro is
quick to point to luck as a factor is his
early success as a novelist.
He wrote his first short stories at 24
and found almost immediate acceptance
for his work: Although his second novel,
An Artist Of The Floating World, failed to
win the Booker, it was named the Whit­
bread Book of the Year for 1986, a prize
that carries less cash but a little more
literary prestige than does the Booker.
Born in 1954 in Nagasaki, Japan, Ishi­
guro moved to England with his family in
1960, when his father, a scientist, was
brought there on a research project.

(Cont. page 2)

Novelist Kazuo Ishiguro
TORONTO — London based author Kazuo Ishiguro, whose
third novel, The Remains Of The Day, has been nominated for the
Booker prize, read at Harbourfront recently

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Although they had left Japan with no
intention of immigrating, a short stay was
extended into permanent residency and
Ishiguro ended up attending British
schools and having a .typically middle­
class English childhood and adolesc­
ence. That his fiction should emerge in
such a mature form can be partly attri­
buted to his years as a songwriter and
performer on the British folk music cir­
cuit. “I went through my autobiographical
phase and my purple prose phase then.”
He wrote more than 100 songs, and
after taking his work around to the re­
cording studios and getting nowhere, re­
alized his time had come and gone. The
songwriting, however, also contributed to
the measured, structured quality of the
prose he then began writing.
Ishiguro fends off questions about allu­
sions to Japanese culture in his work with
a plea of ignorance. “I’ve never been
back, I’m returning for the first time next
month. When I was young I didn’t have
the money .to go and in any case
preferred to hitchhike around europe like
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historian,” declares Ishiguro.
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Still, craft can get in the way. Ishiguro
plots his novels carefully, working them
out for perhaps two years before actually
writing them. “The danger is that you can
lose that indefinable energy that comes
for a writer who doesn't know exactly
what’s happening next.
“I think of Chekhov and dostoevsky as
the two extremes. There’s Chekhov's
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tions have placed him; he says, in an
uncommon quandry about his next
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Friday, October 20, 1989

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TORONTO. —-The Toronto Japanese Garden Club will be having
its 37th Annual Flower and Bonsai Exhibition on Sunday, October
29 at the JCCC from 1:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.
The show will feature exhibits of miniature gardens, chrysanthemums, ikebana and bonsai with demonstrations of ikebana (2:15)
and bonsai (3:30). Awards will be presented in the categories of;
chrysanthemums, house plants and miniature gardens.
Visitors will be able to purchase plants, bonsai accessories and
white elephant items. Doors open at 1.00 p.m. with the official open­
ing to start at 1:30. Admission: $3.00 (children under 12 free when
accompanied by an adult).
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TORONTO. — ARTISAN ’89 will give visitors an opportunity to
show their artistic skills with Raku Pottery. Under the guidance of
Harold Takayesu, you can create your own design and watch as it
is fired in the kiln.
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Many one-of-a-kind items will be on sale and exhibit during the
two-day event on November 11 and 12. Pottery, papercrafts, weav­
ing, glassware and leathercrafts are just a few of the items which
will be available. ARTISAN ’89 is one of only a few shops in the
city in which all the artists are juried prior to their participation
allowing for the widest range of crafts possible as well as many rare
and original designs and creations. Over 50 artists will be involved
in this year’s show.
Take advantage of this opportunity to start your Christmas shop­
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a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. Free admission.

jazz cannot be explained to a novice,
meaning that someone who doesn’t un­
derstand jazz won’t learn from verbal in­
struction.
This anecdote was cited by American
psychiatrist Dr. Robert vosburg recently
in reference to time and effort needed by
Westerners to intimately know Japanese
culture.
According to Vosburg, who is execu­
tive director at Tokyo Community Coun­
seling Service (TCCS), fluency in
Japanese doesn’t necessarily solve the
problem. Many of the center’s ‘clients’
are Western translators. Others include
executives worn down by “uneasiness in
their role in the (Japanese) professional
hierarchy.”
According to cross-cultural counseling
experts, every Westerner in Japan for the
first time suffers cultural stress or “shock”
in some form. It surfaces in many ways
— physically, in relationships, or even in
mental illness, and it has several phases.
First may come a sense of disorienta­
tion, such as that of a 24-year-old Ameri­
can woman who broke down in tears in
Ginza. Her sister reports that four solid
days of chopsticks, dense crowds and
futon were simply too overwhelming.

Another young American woman who
has lived in Japan for five years says, in
spite of fluency in Japanese, she still
finds conversations with Japanese
friends tend to turn'unexpected corners,
and she will suddenly feel left out.
The good news, say counselors, is
that cultural stress need not be perma­
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that severe stress for extended periods
can precipitate mental disorder.
Tsuyoshi Akiyama, a psychiatrist at
Tokyo University Hospital and the Tokyo
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mental illnesses can be brought on by
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foreigners in Japan are those with extra
psychological “baggage,” such as
marital problems that began before their
arrival. Norton agrees that in severe
cases, a tendency toward instability
probably already existed.
German Peter Massion, former pres­
ident of Kaisha Society, a network organ­
ization of foreigners working for
Japanese firms, says cases o unhappy
experts could be largely avoided if com­
panies considered personal factors in
making assignments to Japan; that is,
people need cosmopolitan or interna­
tional experience. “Sometimes it is like
sending someone from inaka (the Japa­
nese countryside) to Texas,” he says.
Moreover, experts in the field of crosscultural interaction assert that prior cul­
tural training.for expats could also ease
adjustment difficulties.
All the problems notwithstanding,
however,'counseling professionals say
foreigners often discover great value in
Japan. One American at a large Japa­
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seling,” he says, adding, “one thing I can
say — the stress gets less and less.”

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Women’s Lib out of reach for
Japanese women
TOKYO — Japan’s bullet train,
“Shinkansen”
25 years old

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named for its shape and high
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The train began service on
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“Since then, the bullet trains
have carried 2.7 billion passen­
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says Tomoko Shimokawa, a
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the. private company that re­
placed the government-owned
railway in April, 1987.
The train has never been in­
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NEW YORK — Japan has a a Japanese woman’s life — a
rather cruel name for Meiri Mari- cycle of temporary employment,
mo’s problem: She’s “leftover marriage and child-raising —
Christmas cake.”
claimed her schoolmates.
Marimo, in other words, has
So she “smiled a Japanese
grown a bit stale as a mar­ smile” and left.
riageable commodity — at least
In Japan, it has always been
that’s what her mother com­ easier to jump ship than to rock
plains. In Japan, where many the boat, Until recently.
marriages are still arranged, a
Today, the glacial rigidity of Ja­
woman is considered to have a panese society — shows signs
shelf life of about 25 years.
of thawing after more than a cen­
When Marimo was 28, she did tury of uneasy integration with
what a few other independent- the West. Japan’s giant corpora­
minded japanese women have tion, facing chronic worker short­
done— she left for the United ages as the economy surges,
States, where feminism is a dec­ are beginning to open manage­
ades old creed.
ment jobs to women.
More than 25 years after The
Japanese women are even
Feminine Mystique, Betty Frie- making an impact on politics. A
dan’s manifesto of women’s record 22 women won seats in
rights, helped kindle feminism in the July 23 elections. Female vo­
other industrialized countries, ters had been angered by alle­
only a trickle of women in Japan gations that Japan’s justare able or willing to live out its departed Prime Minister, Soucreed. But many of those few suke Uno, kept paid mistresses.
come to the United States to
The elections also showed,
try.
Sumiko Morikawa sits however, that much has not
next to the No Smoking sign in changed. Many of the victorious
her Waldorf-Astoria office and female parliamentary candi­
lights a cigarette. At 39, she says dates, for example, portrayed
she’s looking for a new man. She themselves not as feminists but
isn’t particular about his back­ as simple housewives immune
ground — as long as he isn’t Ja­ from corruption.
panese.
Indeed, apart from the odd in­
“Japanese men and women, dividualist who ventures abroad
they cannot understand how to to live, few Japanese women
love,” says Morikawa, the owner want change.
of a translating service. Three
‘Being; a housewife’
years ago, she ended a 16-year
marriage undertaken to please _ If you 'to :a party in New York
her tradition-minded brother in and introduce yourself as a
housewife, people will think
Japan. No passion, she says.
“Japanese businessmen are you’re strange, says Kako Nakavery nice, but they are so totally gawa, executive editor of New
quality-controlled. They see York Yomiuri, a newspaper publthemselves as company men. ished for Japanese people in
And their wives also, they say, North America.
“But in Japan it’s okay. Being
‘I’m a Mitsubishi wife.’ It kills the
a
housewife
doesn’t bother Jap­
individuality of people.”
anese women, because they
have a social position?’
‘I was dead’
Naoko Adams, a researcher
Renki Isowa, 42, pauses over for Sunstar Corp., a Japanese
a dish of vanilla ice cream as she company with offices in New
cheerily recalls the strict training York, see women from both
of her youth in the traditional fe­ countries.
“When I go to Japan, the Jap­
male skills.
“I leaned flower arrangement, anese women I see are very
tea ceremony and cooking for content-looking, very happy._
two years,” says Isowa vice- When I come back to America, I
president of New York television notice the women look very unproduction company, “L was to­ happy, frustrated.”
The ties of the Japanese so­
tally dead.”
“I wanted to start working. I cial system are so strong that
wanted to be a member of real leaving it behind sometimes
causes deep emotional prob­
society.”
these three expatriates may lems for expatriates, who must
seem refreshingly liberated in spurn what they have been
North America, but in japan may taught since childhood and em­
would consider them wild-eyed brace alien values.
Some expatriate women,
radicals.
“Japanese women haven’t however, simply decide to ignore
been raised to have aspirations,” the new values;
“Japanese women are better
says Jane Condon, author of A
Half-Step Behind: Japanese off,” says Kiyomi Koizumi, a 65Women Of The ’80s. “They’re year-old neuro-physiologist who
still facing boundaries we broke came to the United States in
1949 and married a Japanese
through 20 years ago.”
In the case of Marimo, her man. “I don’t think I would like to
friends believe she is an “incredi­ marry an American man.
“I always say my husband is
ble oyahuko,” a bad daughter.
A few years ago, the lithe, like air — you would miss it if it’s
long-haired freelance writer not there, I can’t live without it,
moved into her own apartment but you don’t feel it. An American
in Tokyo, watching defiantly as man might be around me too
the social pressures that mould much.”

Friday, October 20, 1989

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