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The New Canadian
An Independent Organ for Canadians of Japanese Origin

VOL 54-NO. 21

TORONTO, ONT.

FRIDAY, MARCH 16,1990

Mission Historical Society
planning exhibit on JCs
who settled in area

Keeping Your Kitty Away

By BILL MARUTANI

MISSION, B.C. - The Mis­
To begin this project, the
sion District Historical Soc­ Historical Society is looking
iety is planning an exhibit for former and present resi­
featuring archival materials dents of Mission. If you have
on the Japanese and Japa­ previously lived in this com­
nese Canadians who settled munity, and/or are interested
in Mission, B.C.
in this project, please con­
The objectives are 1) to ac­ tact: Valerie Billesberger, Arquire and preserve records of chivist/Chairperson, Japanese
local Japanese and Japanese Exhibit Committee, Mission
Canadians in the Archives; 2) District Historical Society,
to acknowledge the contribu­ 33201 Second Avenue, Mis­
tion of the Japanese and Ja­ sion, B.C. V2V 1J9. Phone:
panese Canadians’ 3) to edu­ (604) 826-1011.
cate the public about the role
or: Frank Araki, Vice Chair­
of the Japanese and Japa­ person, Japanese
Exhibit
nese Canadians in the deve­ Committee, Box 896, Hope,
lopment of the community of B.C. VOX 1L0. Phone: (604)
Mission.
869-9306.

Canada movie “Hakujm”
on JC internment in
Slocan is summer project
VANCOUVER. - “Hakujm
means the white race, or dirty
rotten white person. It's sim­
ilar to ‘gringo’ in Latino. It
depends on the intonation.”
Producer Walter Daroshin is
talking about the title of the
biggest-budget ($6.5 million)
indigenous movie to date in
B.C., Hakujin, scheduled to
shoot this summer, is a ’40s
period piece about the effect
of Japanese internment in
Slocan.
Helen Shaver will star. Da­
roshin is talking to Daryl Duke
(The Thorn Birds) about dir­
ecting.
“There's a lot of drama in
the clash of cultures,” says

Hifumi Steppers
1990 debut
TORONTO. - The Hifumi
Steppers made their 1990 de­
but performance for the City
of Etobicoke, Parks and Rec­
reation Services. The perfor­
mance was led by the group's
founder and instructor, Sumi
Uno. Uno sensei was intro­
duced to the over 100 spec­
tators, along with her hus­
band Tony and the group's
music maestro, DickTsuruda.
Some 27 J.C. dancers per­
formed 8 numbers, climaxing
with “Getting To Know You”.
With the group's motto —
“Non-political, Non-racial and
Non-denominational — the
good ambassadors received
a rousing ovation from the
crowd.

Daroshin. “The town is pri­
marily inhabited by European
immigrants who see them­
selves as native Canadians,
and thrust upon them are
people they consider yellow
hords, who are in fact third
and fourth generation Cana­
dians.”

Hakujin is the first script
by 26-year-old Sharon Gibbon
of Vancouver, who based the
story on her grandmother.
“It's one of the best scripts
I've ever read,” says Daro­
shin. “Sharon has a lot of pas­
sion for the material.”
Daroshin says his com­
pany's first film is the most
commercial project in the
world, but it's a subject
he doesn't think has been
adequately covered in film.
“I don't think we're going
to make the Hollywood Re­
porter's top 10 list, but it's
something I feel is important.
We've established ourselves
as a company that tends to be
a little issue -oriented in our
approach to our projects.
“Maybe one day we' II make
the romantic comedy or the
slasher thriller, but I don't
see that day anywhere near.”
Hakujin will open a weeklong Canadian film festival at
a Tokyo cultural festival called
Great Canada 91. It runs into
July of next year to coincide
with the opening of the re­
furbished Canadian Embassy
there.
Elizabeth Aird

“Rucky
Stlick
shigaretto”
HEY were known as “Luc­
kies” and the cigarettes
came in dark green packages
with the round red ball in the
middle. Sometime after Amentered
the
green turned
to
which
didn't
make
any sense to
me unless the green was
consuming some explosive
chemicals that we needed in
the war effort. A Gl pulling
out a white pack, more easily
gives himself away than a
dark, green package.
But for whatever reason,
even the cigarette's adverti­
ser's devised a jingle: Lucky
Strike green has gone to war.
I never understood that one
either, to this day — unless,
as I say, the green contained
nitroglycerin.
In postwar Japan, Luckies
appeared to be the favorite of
the populace, elbowing out
Camels, Chesterfields and
others out of the underground
black market. Not being a
connoiseur of shiga-retto's
(the puffs that I've taken
of any one of them seemed
powerful enough), I've never
understood why the Nipponjins favored Luckies, unless
the hino-maru in the middle
of the package was an un­
spoken way of demonstrating
patriotic commitment.
Perhaps, there's someone
out there who has the an­

T

The Japanese have come up with a new cat repellent which will keep
cats from “doing their thing” on plants for a month after it is applied.
The product is effective even after a rain. The paste sells for about $6.

JC Mennonite Scholarship
deadline is April 1, 1990
WINNIPEG. - The Japa­
nese Canadian Mennonite
Scholarship application dead­
line has been set for April 1,
1990.
The scholarship is open to
students at the graduate
level. Some preference will
be given to those with acade­
mic work related to the Japa­
nese Canadian experience,
however academic work re­
lated to other Canadian mino­
rities will also be seriously

considered. The scholarship
is worth $1,000.
The hope is that academic
work encouraged by this
scholarship will reduce the
potential of abuse for cul­

tural minorities such as that
suffered by Japanese Cana­
dians during World War II.
Write to: Mennonite Cen­
tral Committee, Attn. Ca­
nadian Japanese Mennonite
Scholarship, 134 Plaza Drive,
Winnipeg, Manitoba R3T 5K9.

Vicky Sunohara called
the “Wayne Gretzky”
of women's hockey
RANDY PHILLIPS
THE GAZETTE

OTTAWA. Vicky Sunohara,
the Japanese Canadian star
player with the Northeastern
University Huskies, finds life
in the spotlight has its draw­
backs.
“I don't mind getting the
attention I get, I figure I've
handled it pretty well,” said
the 19-year-old left winger
from Scarborough, Ont., con­
sidered one of the best wo­
men hockey players in the
world.
“What bothers me is that
I'm always the one who's
singled out.
Vicky Sunotanu
<€ont. on ptgeZ)
“Our whole team is one of

swer.
If it was some kind of
patriotic fervor that impelled
the Japanese to favor Lucky
Strikes, such is no longer the
case, if one is to judge by
today's sales in Nippon. Of
the 10 highest selling foreign
brands, Luckies are second
from the bottom. The top is
occupied by Philip Morris
with its shiga-retto known as
Milds, PM Superlights, Par­
liament, Merit, with Luckies,
and ending with Vantage.
(Yes, it doesn't add up to 10,
but included in the number­
ing were couple with the
same name but different

packaging.)
From this recital, one might
guess that a cigarette with
the name Mild Superlight
could out-sell the whole
bunch in Japan.
Foreign cigarettes^ which

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excellent players and yet
often they're never mention­
ed. That's what I find most
unfair.”
Sunohara has been the fo­
cus of a flood of publicity.
Northeastern coach Don
MacLeod lured Sunohara to
the Boston school with an
athletic scholarship in the fail
of 1988.
Since then, she has been
the subject of articles in
everything from campus
newspapers to The Hockey
News.
John Marchetti, head coach
of top-ranked Providence,
which competes against Nor-

Marutani...
(Cont. from p4age1j

for all practical purposes
means U.S. cigarettes, ac­
counted for just 2.4% of
sales in 1985; in the first
half of 1989 alone, sales have
sextupled. Although Ameri­
can tobacco companies may
dominate the foreign market,
67 producers from 27 coun­
tries bring in 297 types of
tobacco, resulting in 157
brands.
No wonder they have smog
in the cities.
The Japanese word for
tobacco is tabako which, ob­
viously is a phonetic pronun­
ciation of a Western word.
Did the Black Ship introduce
tabako along with firearms,
steam engines, and so on? I
did check the dictionary and
observed the kanji “ran”,
which means “orchid” but is
apparently used to refer to
the Dutch. Rajin, for exam­
ple, means Dutch people and
Rango refers to the Dutch
language. By then, I'm com­
ing to the conclusion that it
was the Dutch who intro­
duced the samurai to the carcogenic leaf.
I've never seen anyone
roll their own in a jidai movie.
Have you?
Pacific Citizen

theastern in the Eastern Col­
legiate Athletic Conference
(ECAC), said Sunohara is “the
best I've seen.”
“She has great hands and
is very quick. If she doesn't
beat you with goals, she'll
beat you by setting up her
teammates,” Marchetti said
in The Hockey News story.
“When she gets going
she's like another Bobby
Orr.”
In her rookie season last
year, Sunohara, 5-foot-7 and
140 pounds, scored 40 goals
in her first 14 games.
Sunohara started playing
as a youngster when her late
father fuelled her interest.
“I discovered I liked it a
lot,” she said.
Sunohara was playing with
a team in the Scarborough
Girls League when she
caught the eye of MacLeod,
who has described her as
“the ultimate” player.
Sunohara is at home on the
ice as a fish in water and she
seems to ooze talent even
when standing still.
Being a bright star in a
sport still considered by
many to be a joke when com­
pared to the men's game,
doesn't bother her in the
least.
“I think women's hockey
is slowly getting the recogni­
tion it deserves,” said the
second-year physical educa­

tion major.
“The fact the game is
developing the way it is, (and)
has become more competi­
tive, is what I enjoy the most
about it.”
Sunohara and Laura Schueler, also of Scarborough and
the tournament MVP, were
both named to Canada's na­
tional team for the women' s
world championship in Otta­
wa.
“I'm glad Imade Team
Canada. I'm really excited
about making it,” Sunohara
said.
“It was a goal.”

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Japan women's college
Jokes and anger in wake available for Ont. students
of Rockefeller Center deal
Japan bashing . ..

In the wake of the Mitsubishi
Estate Co. 's agreement to pay $846
million for controlling interest in
the Rockefeller Group, which owns
Rockefeller Center, the deal has
been breeding jokes and anger. Here
are some excerpts as published Dec.

18 in the New York Times.
NEW YORK — Richard Colby, a
Long Island R.R. engineer, standing
in line before Christmas for the
Donohue show at 30 Rockefeller
Center, did not like it: “Certain things
are sacred. Radio City, the (Christ­
mas) tree. What are they going to do,
have a bonsai now that it's 51%

Japanese?”
Ouside, a woman sells T-shirts
that say: “Welcome to Wokafeller
Center.”
Soon after the deal was announc­
ed, NBC announcer Bill Wendell be­
gan: "From New York, a subsidiary
of Mitsubishi, it's Late Night with
David Letterman.” And later, three
Japanese men with briefcases were
shown handing Wendell fistfuls of
cash in return for buildings on the
New York skyline behind Letter­
man's desk.
Charlie Cacioppo of Franklin
Square, L.I., who had come to see
the Christmas tree, said: “You want
to know the truth — they're getting
back at us for the atomic bomb ...
What we did to their cities, now they
are trying to do to us by taking over
our city. It's time to play hardball.
We worked hard for this, and now
they're taking it away. Soon every­
one will be working for them.” (Ca­
cioppo already does. He said he's a
salesman for a Nissan dealer.)
Madeline Aquila of Dix Hills, L.I.,
another Rockefeller Centre visitor,
said she's been having nightmares
about a TV program tha enumerated
all that the Japanese have bought
up. “It's terrible. America should
wake up. Nobody can step on you
unless you let them.”

Norman Seigel, executive director
of the New York Civil Liberties Union,
said the verbal assaults against Ja­
panese Americans had surged since
the Rockefeller Center deal (which
added 15 million square feet to the
14.3 million square feet in Manhattan
already in Japanese ownership or

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The successful applicant will be
are un-American. They violate the
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that America is supposed to be all
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costs, health insurance, books, and
“We too were immigrants once,
and some of our parents and grand­ other living expenses.
Kitami Women's Junior College is
parents had it heaped upon them
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it now,” Seigel said.
in eastern Hokkaido, a region noted

Editor-in-chief Akiko Iimura for
OCS News, a newspaper published
for Japanese in the U.S. commented:
“The judgement of the American
people buying American real estate
is a cause for concern. They feel
they are very good to Americans.
However, they (the buyers) see a lot
of anti-Japanese feelings.”
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and the Dutch on first-class com­
mercial office space in Manhattan.
Less than a fifth of this type of
property is foreign-owned, the New
York Times pointed out.
And Americans who work for Ja­
panese companies say that when the
conversation turns to where they
work, it suddenly takes on a harder
edge. One woman employee for a
Japanese trading firm in Manhattan,
told the reported: “The first people
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and explain that the Japanese don't
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The problem is the Japanese have
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Gerald Curtis, director of East
Asian Institute at Columbia Univer­
sity, said “There was a lot of intense!
European concern about the domi­
nance of American money (in the
1950s). Now there's American con­
cern about the power ofJapanese
money. Well, in retrospect American
investment in Europe helped revi­
talize the European economy, and
Japanese investments in this coun­
try are going to help revitalize the
American economy.
“It's getting more negative atten­
tion than it deserves,” Curtis said.
“The Japanese may buy a big build­
ing or a part of Rockefeller Center,
but they can ’ t bring it back to Tokyo.
It's still there — it means that Japa­
nese money is In the U.S. economy.
It's one way to recycle Japanese

surpluses.”
Some maintain that anti-Japanese
sentiment is rising when few poli­
ticians are willing to speak out on
this issue,” Curtis added, "because
they are playing to a large audience
that's engaged in this activity. If
there's this growing climate of Ja­
pan-bashing and they don't have
that many Japanese in their dist­
ricts, why stand up for an unpopular

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TOKYO — The number of foreign
immigrants in Japan without papers
to work is officially estimated at
100,000, the New York Times report­
ed recently, but some experts think

New words constantly emerge in
the Japanese media, capturing the
spirit of the times. Some die out
quickly as they appear, but others
last and spread far and wide.

Equally disturbing was the com­
ment of Mayor Yoji Nagase about the
thousands of dark-skinned foreign­
ers, Pakistanis and Bangladeshis,
which caused the mayor of Kawa­
guchi to comment, “With so many
dark-skinned foreigners in town, Ja­
panese were having trouble seeing
them at night.”
He later retracted and explained
the comment was kind of a joke and
said, “We in Japan must open our
doors to immigration and give them
proper training and education.”

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Newwords reflect changing times

megaialiens m
Japan count climbs

the count may be three or four times
that.
The immigrant problem came into
focus after the arrival of 3,000 “boat
people” from Vietnam who were
allowed to remain under agreements
signed in Geneva but hundreds of
Chinese who came with them are
being repatriated to China.

NEW

Many of the newest words are
related to men, women and the
changing relationship between the

sexes.

The words, such as Hanako-san,
Kurowassan Ronso (Croissant De­
bate) and nureochlba (Wet Fallen
Leaves) seem to reflect a recent
trend in Japan: the belief that “wo­
men have more pep than men."

Obatalian, one of the year's most
popular new words, is used by the
young to describe obasan, middleaged women whom they regard as
brazen and self-centered.

The word, which first appeared as
the title of a popular comic strip by
Katsuhiko Hotta, is a portmanteau
word which combines the term oba

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The future is not too bright for
title for the U.S. horror movie, “The
single
men seeking partners, since
Return of the Living Dead.” Hotta's
cartoon takes a cynical look at the the number of men of “eligible age”
behaviour of such women in every­ presently far exceeds that of the
women. According to the national
day life.
Another term, Madonna koho, de­ 1985 census, there were 2.4 million
veloped from a series of scandals single men aged between 25 and 29
and the introduction of an unpopular in Japan, twice the number of single
consumption tax that rocked the women of the same age.
The situation is made worse as an
political world in 1989, forcing the
resignation of two prime ministers increasing number of women, many
and the loss of the ruling Liberal- of whom work and have financial in­
Democratic Party majority in the dependence, prefer to marry later.
Moreover, women today seem to have
Diet's Upper House.
The Japan Socialist Party, led by higher expectations for their future
chairwoman Takao Doi, took advan­ husbands - in academic background,
tage of the LDP's troubles by back­ income and in height. As for men,
ing a number of female koho (candi­ long hours at work deprive them of
dates) in the Tokyo Metropolitan As­ the opportunity to meet women.
These trends have produced new
sembly and Upper House elections.
These women — Madonna Koho — words as well. To awaken men to the
drew support from women who voted changing environment surrounding
marriage, the Hanamuko Koza, a
against LDP-dominated politics.
A record 240,000 female college series of “lectures for the groom”
graduates joined the work force in was held in Tokyo, and a newly
April, 1989. The figure topped the founded company in Osaka began
number of the newly employed men offering single men tips on how to
for the first time in postwar history.
find wives.
Tamanokoshi is a palanquin set
Several new words reflect their
growing independence. The word with jewels. “To ride on a tamano­
sekusharu harasumento (sexual ha­ koshi” thus means a woman marry­
rassment), which became one of the ing a man of wealth. A recent coin­
catchwords of 1989, developed from age is Gyakutama, or “reverse tama­
women's increasing tendency to nokoshi,” where a man is able to
raise their voices against discrimi­ marry a woman of wealth.
The increasing number of single
nation, especially in the workplace.
Japan's first sexual harassment women in their 30s provoked the
case has come up for trial in Fu­ Croissant Debate, which was touch­
ed off by the publication of a book
kuoka.
Young, single “office ladies,” or titled “Kurowassan Shokogun (Cro-

female office workers, enjoying fi- isant Syndrome).”
Writer Junko Matsubara attributed
nacially independent lifestyles, are
called Hanako-san. The word des­ the increasing number of single wo­
cribes women who readily spend men to the powerful effect Croiss­
money for self-fulfillment — on ant, a women's magazine, had on
theatre tickets, foreign designer its readers in the 1970s. She argued
goods and overseas travel. The name that the readers swallowed the mag­
originates from Hanako, a popular azine's concept of the “careermagazine targeting working women oriented, independent lifestyle” and
in their late 20s who live in Tokyo missed the chance to get married.
The editorial staff of Wife maga­
and the surrounding areas.
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the behavior of young working wo­ titled “Anti-Croissant Syndrome.”
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san OL, yound women are known to not readily influenced by abstract
indulge in typical ojisan activities ideas. The writers argued that wo­
such as playing golf, drinking “health men are not pressed to get married
drinks,” investing in stocks and hav­ in haste since they can work and
ing drinking bouts after work.
earn a living.
Among the new words whose de­
Young men, on the other hand, are
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clean and well-groomed.” To meet band who, having nowhere to go after
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B.C. fishermen turn
down low offer for roe
VANCOUVER - Angry B.C.
fishermen voted 98 per cent
recently against an industry
offer that would guarantee
them less than half the
money they earned in 1989.

John Radosevic, spokes­
man for United Fishermen
and Allied Workers' Union,
said the B.C. Fisheries Coun­
cil offer of $300 a ton. is
“unrealistic as hell” for fish
eggs that are so coveted by
Japanese gourmets.
Radosevic noted that the
guarantee price last year,
when Japanese inventories
were high and consumer
spending was down because
of the death of Emperor Hiro­
hito, was $700 a ton. He said
the Japanese economy is
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