The New Canadian — January 1, 1992

The New Canadian
Established 1939
VOL.56-NO. 1

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 1, 1992

1991 as history and
what 1992 may bring
TORONTO.— How will future
historians look back on 1991? It
was a year filled with surprises - events which could not have
been imagined a year ago.
On the world stage, a hightech war in the Persian Gulf cap­
tured our attention for the early
part of the year as the world
watched every move right from
their own livingrooms. The Gulf
War, more than anything, high­
lighted the United States'
mili------------tary might and its willingness to
use it when it deems necessary.

TORONTO, ONTARIO

A Christmas Drama

the community in some way but
do not feel comfortable with
what the present community of­
fers. As a result Of the Sympo­
sium, new groups of JCs have
formed including a women's
group and a committee on multi­
culturalism and racism. Though
many of the recommendations
forwarded by the Symposium
committee may take years to materialize, the act of Japanese
Candiansofallgenerationsgetting together, even once a

month, is an accomplishment in
itself. Positive changes become
As a related outcome of the possible through the interaction
Gulf War, the once unthinkable of a wide variety of people. An­
Middle East Peace talks became other symposium, this time fo­
a reality in the latter part of the cusing on education as it relates
year. Although peace in the Mid­ to the Japanese Canadian com­
dle East is still far off, the pres­ munity is slated for May ofence of Isreal and the Arab 1992 co-sponsored by the Japa­
countries at one bargaining table nese Canadian Redress Founda­
is a step in the right direction as tion and the North York Board
is the jelease of hostages on of Education.
both sides.
Another event which high­
As the Middle East strives to­ lighted the year was the Earth
ward
some
order, eastern Eu.
.
.
Spirit Festival held in July. This
rope with the demise of the So7, celebration of Japanese Canadiviet Union is heading toward an, native Indian; ISu^anJAmu
democratic, perhaps, but initially (aboriginals of Japan) cultures
unstable times. With its arsenal was a successful melange which
of nuclear and conventional allowed all parts to get to know
weapons spread thoughout the one another and discover simuformer republics, instablity in larities as well as differences. It
the area has the potential of ex­ was a chance to interact with
TORONTO,
Ont /.' ?n Sunday December 8th, at the Centennial Japanese
nT
???MTO’.Ont
ploding into a situation far dead­ people that one .would not ordiUnited Church, a Christmas Drama was prepared by the Church Sunday School
lier than anything so far seen in .< narily encounter if not for such
Class, along with the presentation of white gifts.
Yugoslavia.The former Soviet an event and it forged lasting
Union will undoubtedly be a fo­ friendships, both on an individ­
Front Row - left to right : Master Trevor Kai - Shepherd, Master David Kobaycus of world attention in the en­ ual level and as a community; It
ashi - Shepherd, Master Jeremy Kai - wise man, Yuki Takanashi - Mary, Hidesuing months.
was a show of solidarity with
Ki lakanashi - Joseph, Kann Tung - wise man, Gregory Kai - wise man
Here at home, a long and se­ other minority groups to support
vere economic recession is still one another for the advancement
Back Row ..<• left * to right
Diane Alleyne - Angel, Noriko Moreno - Angel, Nina
ongoing with businesses cutting of equality and human rights for
Yosa
Angel
down in size or folding and un- all peoples. Another Earth Spirit
, employment as high as ever. Festival -like event, this time in
by Jack Hemmy
With rising prices and discontent conjunction with the Chinese
among the public, 1991 also community, is being planned for
saw the New Democratic Party 1992.
Miki family of Winnepeg. What between the generations, be­
win a landslide victory in Onta­
in the media it may seem that
December 7, 1991 also the Pearl Harbour specials
tween English-speaking Japa­ communication
rio for the first time. At the same marked the 50th anniversary of
or mis­
pointed to is the fact that scars nese Canadians and Japanese­
time, the constitutional issue re­ Pearl Harbour, an event most
from the war still remain, on speaking shinijyusha and be­ communication has been tried to
garding the status of Quebec is Japanese Canadians alive at the
the limit in the Quebec issue but
both sides as well as, if not tween the various Japanese Ca­
becoming more and more seri­ time would surely remember. In
there are no solutions other than
more so, in the souls of the in­ nadian groups and associations
ous, as is the native land claims the months preceding the anni­
continued efforts at communi­
nocent citizens who were in­ is an issue that has been brought
issue. Both issues go to the core versary celebrations, Japanese
cating, short of complete separa­
terned by their own country.
up over and over again through­ tion. Likewise, with Native land
of what Canada is as a nation.
American newspapers reported
So what will 1992 bring? out the years but as yet has not
Within the Japanese Canadian daily on Japan bashing, de­
claims communication is the
Some may not have much confi­ been successfully addressed.
community, 1991 has been a mands for apology and anti­
key. Both with the governments
dence in changes, having been
Perhaps,
1992
is
the
year
of
year of initiating changes. Ma­ Japanese racist incidents. In the
waiting for so long, but there is change through communication. concerned but also communica­
jor events on the 1991 JC com­ days surrounding the 7th, the
tion with the public to make the
some sort of progress with new, On a world scale, peace in the
munity calendar included Sym­ newspapers had full page spe­
younger faces appearing as lead­ Middle East has become a possi­ average person aware of the
posium on Change sponsored cial features on the event, televi­
plight of the native peoples of
ers of the community. One ma­ bility with the opening of com­
by the Japanese Canadian Cultu­ sion stations had specials on the
Canada.
jor event in the New Year which munication between Isreal and
And in our community, if
ral Centre which was held in bombing as well as views from
may signal a major change to­ Arab states. The only way the 1991 started some long-awaited
May. This two-day event was a both sides of the Pacific. Few
ward integration within the com­ former Soviet Union can hope to changes in the community, 1992
forum to probe the various is­ articles mentioned the treatment
munity is talk about putting the maintain any form of stability is ’ ’
" * on these besues which confront the commu­ of Japanese Americans and Jap­
is the year to ”build
office of the NAJC Toronto through cooperation and coordi­
nity and to come up with possi­ anese Canadians. One relatively
ginnings through communica­
Chapter as well as The Nikkei nation of the member states and
ble solutions. What the rounded feature was the Macl­
tion and cooperation. A transi­
Voice Office into the JCCC the various ethnic minorities that
Symposium did more than any­ ean's issue entitled The Miracle
tion period is difficult. It takes
building.
comprise the newly formed time, many compromises, a
thing else was to bring out those of Modem Japan which includ­
In view of the split within the commonwealth.
people who had never been in­ ed interviews with veterans in
number of setbacks, endless pa­
community that occured during
In
Canada
as
a
nation,
com
­
volved with the community. It both the U.S. and Japan, an
tience and a lot of faith. But the
the redress movement, a move munication and compromises
underlined the fact that there are outlook for the future and a look
future of our community rests
towards unity is a positive sig­ from both sides are the only
many JCs (especially the sansei) at the treatment of Japanese Caon what is done now while in­
nal of communication across means of resolving the constitu­
who want to become a part of nadians through the story of the
barriers. Breaking the barriers tional issue. With all the hoopla terest has been sparked.

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The New Canadian

Greetings from the
Prime Minister of Canada

Wednesday, January 1, 1992

Greetings from the
President of the JCCC

Dear Friends,

Mila and our children join me in extending our warmest wishes for a joyful and festive holi­
day season.
J J
As we celebrate with family and friends, we can take this opportunity to reflect on the bless­
ings we share as Canadians, and to rejoice in the good will and promise this festive season
holds.
At this special time of year, it is my hope that Canadians will have an opportunity to reflect
on all that we7 have accomplished together, and all that remains to be done to build a stronger
and more prosperous country.
To each of you, our very best wishes for a joyous holiday season and good fortune in the
coming year.

Greetings from the publisher
On behalf of The New Canadian, I would like to express my
thanks to our subscribers and
advertisers for their support
throughout 1991.
Now that the redress issue is
behind us, it is time for us to
look into the future and see what
kind of contribution we as Japa­
nese Canadians can make to the
society and the world in gemeral.
We are in a unique position,
through our experience during

war
as a member of a
minority group to contribute to
the movement for freedom and

nity and beyond.
We would also like to contin­
ue as a reliable source for news
human rights. We know person­ and topics from across Canada
ally as a community through the and Japan.
redress movement that freedom
I would like to ask for your
and human rights are something continued support to make the
which have to be gained and NC even better through contrib­
worked at.
uting articles and information
I am pleased that the English concerning the JC community.
section of this newspaper could
Have a safe and wonderful
provide an open forum for ex­ holiday season.
changing ideas and even debat­
ing important issues concerning
Shin Kawai
the Japanese Canadian commu­
Publisher, The New Canadian

Caledon Place has taken a
giant step forward with the esta­
This past year has been both a blishing of a full-time manager
busy and eventful one for the and the constuction of a perma­
Japanese Canadian Cultural nent residence on the property.
Centre. We have moved posi­ This will enable us to continue
tively forward in many areas as with development and most im­
we address the challenges of the portantly create new pro­
90's and beyond.
grammes to serve our member­
Our membership has endorsed ship and the community at large.
the Board of Directors recom­
We have started the necessary
mendation to proceed with fu­ upgrades to our existing facility
ture expansion. It is due to the as it begins to show the signs of
success of our programmes, ac­ age and extensive use.
tivities and the superlative ef­
Our many special events were
forts of our teachers, volunteers successful again this year. All
and administrative staff over the our accomplishments were a re­
years that has created this need. sult of the countless hours of
We will require a vast amount of hard work by our many volun­
community commitment and re­ teers and the support of our
sources for our vision of expan­ community. I would like to take
sion to become a reality. We've this opportunity to express our
only taken the initial steps and gratitude and appreciation to all
look to our community for con­ the volunteers, staff, members,
tinued involvement as we pro­ instructors, businesses, organi­
ceed.
zations , directors and all our
Symposium '91 with the friends who have unselfishly
theme "Focus on Change" was given and continue to give the
another initiative in 1991 where Centre their time and support.
the Centre reached out to the
On behalf of the Board of Di­
larger community to gather input rectors to all of you, please ac­
on how we can serve the com­ cept our best wishes for a happy
munity better and to provide the and safe holiday season and
Board with added direction. We good health and prosperity in
are progressing positively as we 1992.
begin to address the recommen­
dations in the Symposium report
and work on the implementation
Steve Oikawa, President
phase.
Japanese Canadian Cultural *

Season’s Greetings

Season’s Greetings
and
Sincere Wishes For Your Happiness
Throughout the New Year

JAPANESE CANADIAN
CULTURAL CENTRE
BOX 191 • 123 WYNFORD DRIVE
DON MILLS, ONTARIO M3C 2S2
CALEDON PLACE • CALEDON, ONTARIO

and
Sincere Wishes For Your Happiness
Throughout the New Year

S NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF
I
JAPANESE CANADIANS
GREATER TORONTO CHAPTER

Wednesday, January 1, 1992

The New Canadian

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Greetings from the Consul General

Season's Greetings
from the editor

Happy New Year to all!
In the short time since taking my post as Con­
sul General of Japan in Toronto last September,
I have been blessed by the opportunities to meet
many celebrated and respected individuals, in­
cluding the Honourable Bob Rae, Premier of
Ontario. As well, the Japanese Canadian com­
munity and the local Japanese nationals greeted
me with their warm welcome and words of en­
couragement, and for these, I am sincerely
grateful.
In 1991, we witnessed a further acceleration
in the changes which have been overtaking the
world in recent years, beginning with the war in
the Persian Gulf and through such events as the
coup attempt in the Soviet Union. In the area of
Japan-Canada relations, starting with the visit to
Japan by the Canadian Prime Minister, the
Right Honourable Brian Mulroney, there was a
further strengthening of ties between our coun­
tries through exchanges of influential personali­
ties.
As for myself, this is my first time living in
this splendid country. In the short time I have
been here, I have been impressed by both the
natural beauty of Canada, and the reserved yet
socially conscious character of the Canadian
- people. Indeed, the increasing awareness of Ja­
pan among Canadians is most encouraging for
one in my line of work.
The new year undoubtedly will be a challeng-

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Dear Readers,

1991 has been a year of changes not only for myself person­
ally and The New Canadian but also for the Japanese Canadian
I community, Canada and the world in general. A year ago, I
was working a basic nine-to-five job as a translator and enjoymg being your basic bachelorette. Now, not only am I married
and expecting in a few months but I ’ve taken on a second job
as editor of a weekly newspaper of a community I have not
I been a part of in years.
Marriage and pregnancy aside (both of which are more than
trymg in themselves), the past nine months as editor of The
New Canadian has made me look inside myself yet again to
seek my identity. Being a made-inJapan product of ShinijyuI sha parents, I had always felt myself to be more Japanese than I
Japanese Canadian. Although I frequented the JCCC as a kid,
ing one for Canada, carrying forth issues sur­ I I never got involved with any of the young sansei groups,
more as a result of my own reluctance to be a part of a visible
rounding the country's constitution and the econogroup than anything else.
my. I myself intend to study my new environment
I
So becoming involved with the NC was my way of esta- I
further, and in my own small way, help promote
an even deeper friendship between Japan and Onta­ I Wishing contact with the Japanese Canadian community. I
work full-time in a Japanese-speaking environment making
rio, and between Japan and Canada as a whole.
brochures for the Japanese market while at night I go home to
For this, I ask for your cooperation.
laiyjShing a^
y°u a haPPY and prosperous I my Canadian husband, who though he loves Japanese food
has very minimal understanding and contact with the Japanese
1992.
I or Japanese Canadian community.
I
But having grown up in Canada I identify more with young
Katsuyuki Tanaka
sanseis than my non-minority friends who have never experi­
Consul General of Japan
enced racism and much more than the young Japanese coming
| from Japan. Although many sanseis probably feel a desire at
some point in their life to make some connections to their eth­
nic community, the majority, having never been invloved in
any of the community activities, don't know how to get in­
volved. You may know of the various groups at the Cultural
Dear Friends
matic changes have occured in Canadians, aboriginals and mi­
Centre or elsewhere but it takes a lot to actually get yourself up
the world and in Canada. We nority groups are protected. Al­
there and become a part of the activities.
I
On behalf of the National As­ are in the midst of a constitu­
though there will be uncertainty
The New Canadian was a means of getting in tune with the
sociation of Japanese Canadi­ tional debate which will affect
and anxiety during the coming
community from the side lines. Not only has my involvement I
ans, I wish to extend our best the future of Canada. As Cana­
year,
we
are
hopeful
that
the
made me feel more comfortable within the JC community but it I
wishes for a Merry Christmas dians we must participate in the
current
crisis
will
be
resolved
has taught me much about Japanese Canadian history as well
and a New Year filled with constitutional process and en­
resulting
in
a
stronger
Canada.
as made me aware of the various issues that Japanese Canadi­
hope. During the past year dra­ sure that the rights of French
The NAJC will continue to or­
ans across Canada face.
ganize activities and projects that
Although I will be out of commission for two weeks or so at
will work towards strengthening
the end of February, I plan to continue on at the NC from my
the Japanese Canadian commu­
computer at home with the aid of a modem - hooray for mod­
nity but also speak out on politi­
ern technology. I still have a lot to learn about the community
cal, social or economic issues
and making newspapers but I'll do my best and would greatly
that affect not only Japanese Ca­
appreciate any advise and comments along with articles, infor­
nadians but all Canadians.
J?
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION
mation and news items of interest to the community.
Merry Christmas and Happy I
OF JAPANESE CANADIANS
New Year.
Thank you for your support in 1991 and hope for your con­
tinued support in the New Year. The staff of The New Canadi­
NATIONAL EXECUTIVE OFFICE
an and I would like to extend our wishes for a safe and happy
782 CORYDON AVENUE
holiday season and best wishes for the coming year.
I
WINNIPEG, MANITOBA R3M 0Y1
PHONE (204) 474-2815
Sakura Torizuka
Arthur Miki
English Editor, The New Canadian
FAX (204) 474-5134
NAJC President

Greetings from the NAJC President

Season rs Greetings

I

Season’s Greetings

MAY YOUR NEW YEAR BE
HEALTHY & PROSPEROUS

THE
NIAGARA
PARKS
COMMISSION

Ontario

NEW JAPANESE CANADIAN ASSOCIATION
C/O JCCC, 123 Wynford Drive, Don Mills, Ontario
TEL:

(416) 441-2345,

471-4103

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Canada L2E 6T2
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The New Canadian

Buried offering
at a cemetery

Wednesday, January 1, 1992

2nd Senior Golf Tournament in '92

The Japanese Canadian Memorial Monument at Chemainus.

Photo by R.

TORONTO. —Following a women - spread across scores of
based on age. Entry fee is
highly successful Senior JC courses in the Toronto and out­
$150.00 which includes two
Golf Tournament inaugrated in lying areas.
rounds, registration reception
Vancouver this summer, Toron­
With the approaching 50th an­ and banquet. Cart is optional at
to will host next year's meet at niversary, the Tournament Com­
$25.00. The tourney can accom­
Parkview Golf & Country Club mittee views the event as more
modate 200 players on a firstJuly 29 - 30. Golfers from Van­ than a golfing contest. Much
come basis.
couver to Montreal are expected emphasis will be on the social
Deadline for entry is April 15,
to compete for national honours. aspect of the national affair,
1992, at which time a deposit of
Next year's tourney with the opening Tuesday, July 28 with a
$50.00 is required. Balance of
Japanese Canadian Cultural Get-Acquainted Registration
$100,00 is due June 15, 1992.
Centre's sponsorship will have evening to welcome out-of-town
A cheque postdated June 15 is
special significance. In 1992, it guests and to renew old memo­
acceptable.
will be 50 years since the van­ ries and friendships. It will con­
The Tournament Committee
guard of the West Coast exodus clude with a Banquet and Social
consists of Chairman, Roy Shin;
stepped off the train at Union on July 31, featuring presenta­
Vice Chairman, Tami Maruba­
Station. In the ensuing decade, tion of trophies and prizes, and
shi; Treasurer, Sam Baba; Sec­
several thousand B.C. exiles ar­ entertainment. Both registration
retary, Eiko Tateishi; Co­
rived here to create the largest and banquet are at the Cultural
ordinators, Bill Nozaki and
postwar Nikkei centre in Cana­ Centre.
Frank Wakida.
da. Today, this community
The Committee invites men 60
For futher enquiry and entry
counts hundreds of golfers - Ni­ years and up, and ladies 50
forms contact San Ariza, JCCC
sei, Sansei, Yonsei, postwar im­ years and up to participate. They
(416)441-2345.
migrants, shosha - both men and will be split into two flights

Local JC spearheads Nikkei Christian Conference

By Y. Richard Yagi
project, an old timer in ChemaiCHEMAINUS, B.C. - This nus accidentally witnessed a J-C
HAMILTON, ONT. - Under
summer, the first Japanese- family, who was taking a hand­ the chairmanship of the Rev. Anglican Church, the Associated both sides of the Pacific as well
Gospel Church and the Free as for the late Dr. Paul Rees of
Canadian memorial monument ful of soil for memory. A few
Edward Yoshida, Pastor of the Methodists. Although Metro To­
World Vision. The Canada East
was erected at Chemainus Ce­ weeks later, when we visited the Toronto Japanese congregation,
ronto's
Japanese churches coop­ Conference of the Free Metho­
metery on Vancouver Island. It Cemetery, we discovered the the 5th Anniversary North-east
erate each year for the combined dist Church can- be proud of the
took seven years of preparatory traditional Japanese offering Nikkei (Japanese-speaking) Good Friday Service, this is the
fact that its Japanese church has
work to complete the project. rice balls, cooked food, a pair of Conference was held on the
only
occasion
when
Japanese
contributed so much to the
Reasons for such a time­ chopsticks and a paper plate campus of McMaster Universi­ Christians can meet fellows
founding, development and
consuming process were attrib­ which was buried deep under
ty, Hamilton, over the Simcoe from southern Ontario and even
popularity of such a successful
uted the hidden issues associat­ the unmarked grave site of the
Day weekend. Since the first across the border from Detroit.
conference.
ed with the history of the Ce­ Japanese section.
conference was held on the cam­ If the success of the conference
The conference next year will
metery.
The items that had been buried pus of Roberts Wesleyan Col­
can
be
measured
by
the
quality
be chaired by the Rev. Sonjie
Our original intention was to hit our hearts. We, including a
lege in conjunction with Praise of the keynote speaker and the
Pearson, rector of the Japanese
restore the semi-forgotten J-C couple of Chemainus represen­ ’87, this trans-denominational
distance
from
where
he/she
is
Anglican Church. Edward Yo­
cemeteries on Vancouver Island. tatives, were really moved by Nikkei conference has been held
invited,
this
conference
has
been
shida has stepped down after
There are many old J-C burial the silent feeling manifested
each consecutive year on the very successful. Our speaker
five years of leadership, but he
sites that have been vanishing.
through the items placed by the same McMaster campus for the
this
year,
invited
from
Los
An
­
hopes to remain active on the
We have believed that each family. This incident proved to
last four years.
geles,
was
the
Rev.
Philip
Tsu
­
and every one of the J-C pio­ be a good subtle resentment/
steering committee as past chair­
Among the denominations rep­ chiya, senior pastor of the Los
man.
Readers are asked to invite
neers was an unsung hero. Re­ reservations from both sides.
resented on the steering commit­ Angeles Union Church. He has
their Japanese-speaking asso­
gardless of their age and occu­
We learned that the restoration tee include the Pentecostals, the
served
as
the
chief
interpreter
ciates and friends to attend this
pation, they were part of a of the collective feeling of the
Baptists, the United Church, the for Billy Graham Crusades on conference next year.
mosaic in Canadian society, and people is much more important
with which the contribution of than the physical construction of
our J-C communities had been the monument. The monument
assured.
can be erected at any time with
At the beginning, we were money; but without a collective
VANCOUVER, B.C. - In
1992, along with Fraser Valley,
raising drive has been initiated
concerned with the physical part blessing of the people, the mon­
1992, the Japanese United
Steveston
and
Okanagan
Japa
­
and contributions may be sent
of the project. However, the ument becomes merely a stone
Churches in Canada are celebrat­ nese United Churches. Some of
to:
fact, that the J-C section in the with no spirit. The J-C memori­
ing the 100th Anniversary of
the
former
ministries
have
been
Chemainus Cemetery had been al monument in Chemainus is
Christian work with Japanese
invited to attend this momentous Building Fund, c/o Treasurer
desecrated by an unknown per­ the real memorial monument and
Canadians. September 29,
occasion.
English Speaking Congregation
sons) during World War II, re­ it now has become a bonding
1992, is the day designated for
In
preparation
for
this
event,
or Nichigo Congregation
vealed many delicate problems agent not only for the people in
celebration all across Canada.
the
Vancouver
Japanese
United
4010 Victoria Drive, Vancouver,
in both Chemainus and J-C Chemainus and the J-C commu­
The Vancouver Japanese United Church is undergoing muchcommunities.
nity, but also between us J-C's Church is planning a special ser­
needed repairs and renovations
V5N 4N2
One day in the early part of the and our J-C pioneers.
vice and celebration on June 14, to the church building. A fund-

Japanese United Churches in Canada to celebrate
their 100th Anniversery, September 39, 1992.

7/W

Season's
Greetings

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Bedford Park Avenue
Toronto, Ontario M5M 1J6

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Greetings

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Hamilton
Buddhist
Church

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416 549-4816

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The New Canadian

Wednesday, January i, 1992

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Speculation about life after death
By Kasey Oyama
experience, which is a field pioI have found so much nonIf you were absolutely sure neered by Dr. Raymond Moody sense in Shirley MacLaine's or ’’myth" about death. With it, a certain priestess.
life can be lived more intensely
that there is life after death, m his book Life After Death,
She belonged to the Shingon
‘
z
' as her 'belief in psy­
views
(such
towards
its
close;
without
it,
would you change your present published in 1975. He has not
sect of Buddhism - the sect in it­
chic surgery which is a kind of there is left a feeling of march­
mode of life?
self has little significance. But
neglected New Age gurus like imaginary surgery) that I have
ing into nothingness.
You probably will. You'll be Shirley MacLaine.
unlike religious scholars, phi­
serious doubt that she really be­
Harpur
introduces
the
conclu
­
more relaxed, secure, and confi­
losophers and unlike believers
Following are my comments lieves what she writes.
sion
reached
by
Dr.
Wilder
Pendent. You might simplify your on some of Haipur's views that
whose lives were so saintly that
Harpur says his evaluation of field that mind exists as a separ­
life so you can enjoy it more. I found interesting.
they have been elevated to saint­
the information obtained ate entity from the brain, or the
You'd make less effort to accu­
hood, this priestess has a quiet
Proof of God's existence: I through channelling, crystals,
mulate things or keep up an ap­ agree with Harpur that there is
etc are trivial or nonsense.
pearance.
no proof of God's existence.
Sacred books like the Bible ... Afterlife is not reserved for any part of
Let's suppose that some very There is the matter of differen­
and the Koran are not infallible.
qualified person has devoted a tiating between proof and evi­
human society. It applies to all. Neither are
Fundamentalists are often guilty
lifetime conducting a thorough dence. Evidence estasblishes a
of "bibliotry" in claiming the animals barred from afterlife.
investigation of the accumulated probability. Probabilities can be
Bible to be infallible.
wisdom of the past and the evi­ strengthened or accumulated to a
The belief in life after death is physical aspects of man .
knowledge beyond reason or indence available on the possibili­ point when a situation can be
not based on a drive for wish­
Unlike what is taught in relig- tuition.
ty of life after death.
claimed to be beyond reasonable fulfillment. There is a counter­
ions like Buddhism, Harpur be­
Tom Harpur's Life After doubt. Fundamentalist believers
That knowledge, in the form
balancing wish for death.
lieves
the
individual
retains
his
Death published earlier this year tend to make a virtue of tunnel
of sustained periods of enligh­
Harpur thinks, however, that individuality in the afterlife. Not
is the outcome of such an inves­ vision, resulting in a very nar­
human beings have acquired only that, Harpur suggests that tenment, was attained after a
tigation.
period of ascetic discipline.
row and distorted vision of their their notion of afterlife as a con­
the individual usually retains his Here was not just the momen­
In my youth, I spent more belief. They are not wrong in
time than the average person their belief in God, bur wrong sequence of the near death ex­ form at his prime of life rather tary flash of insight that one
perience which are recorded in than the time of death. I part
thinking about life after death. in many other respects. The Ag­
usually associates with satori or
the earliest days of history.
company with Harpur on this
Probably because of an inordi­ nostic is not wrong in believing
Afterlife is not reserved for point or his belief that there is contact with divine spirit. She
nate fear of death that tourtured that we cannot know about the
was able to know with a sus­
any part of human society. It ap­ no interval between death and
me when I was 12 or 13.
tained vision that impressed me,
existence of God if that requires plies to all. Neither are animals
afterlife. Yes, I believe in ghosts and anyone who came into con­
It was in my 20s when I told a proof. To believe in God re­
barred from afterlife.
and spirits, believe it or not. But tact with her, even indirectly.
group of people (Rev. K. Shi­ quires an element that is de­
As its title says, Harpur's that's another story.
mizu of the United Church was scribed as a leap in faith.
Perhaps I may succeed in telling
book is largely about near death
I
believe
Harpur
is
right
about
present) that I hope one day to
her story convincingly on anoth­
Catholicity: This is in a way I experience, and he describes
life
after
death
and
my
funda
­
find a faith I could believe in. It have come to believe in life after
er occasion.
didn't matter if the faith was true death. If a more knowledgeable many of its characteristics. The mentalist friends wrong. Ac­
I have always felt it was good
white light, the tunnel, the great cording to fundamentalist belief,
or not. It only mattered that I person than myself devotes his
to believe in a God, even if the
joy, the meeting with people those who don't subscribe to
question of life after death re­
who died. Likewise, a Buddhist their formula of salvation are
mains uncertain. I am now con­
encounters the Buddha figure good bonfire fodder but not
vinced that it is also good to be
... To believe in God requires an element
and a Christian encounters Je­ good candidates for heaven.
able to believe in life after death
sus.
I have a certain fundamentalist even if the nature of God re­
that is described as a leap in faith.
Many will have reservations friend in mind when I say bornmains unknown.
about animals in heaven or the again Christians would be
While many of Harpur's ob­
fact that nobody apparently goes downright surprised to see me
should be able to believe it.
servations have a validity at this
lifetime to a study, I am inclined to hell. There is some reference
and other unrepentant sinners in time, it would be foolish to ig­
If I had more than one life to to agree with his conclusion.
to bad trips in near death experi­ heaven.
live, I may have spent one in Similarly, If the greatest minds
nore the possibility that future
ence, but they are pretty rare.
I
rather
think
they
would
be
discoveries will find them mis­
search of such a faith. I was im­ that have ever lived, and the
Some may feel that if Harpur disappointed to find us comport­
taken. A connection between
pressed with Harpur's book be­ deepest believers in all history,
is wrong in some details, his ing in while robes like the rest
mind and the physical body is
cause he has done just that. And as well as the overwhelming
main point that there is life after instead of toasting in hell. And I
although I cannot agree with majority of all humanity since death; becomes doubtful. But
not known to exist at this time,
him on some details of his con­ the beginning of history share in Harpur could be wrong on de- can imagine my fundamentalist but it may be discovered in the
clusion, I don't think I could the belief of a God, that is pretty tails without invalidating his friend thinking "What no hell?" future. It may be found that near
tails without invalidating his And feel downright cheated - to
death experiences are merely
have done a better job. So I am persuasive argument. There is a
central message.
discover
that
God
was
more
psychological. There are simi­
ready to accept his conclusion, time when we, especially when
Christians refer to many bibli­ generous and loving than he had
larities in different cases of near
that there is life after death.
young, would quibble that the cal passages which suggest that
imagined.
death experiences. But the same
Tom Harpur is a widely re­ majority is not always right.
heaven is reserved for some and
I said I was influenced by claim can be made for our
spected writer and authority on
Many religions teach incarna­ not for others, but Harpur says
Harpur's reasoning that there is dreams.
religious matters. He has stud­ tion but Harpur cannot accept it
there are other biblical passages life after death. The book is ex­
Meanwhile, whether one be­
ied many religions and gone after his investigations. The
that, suggest otherwise.
cellent,
but
it
may
not
affect
you
lieves in life after death or not,
through biblicaland philosophi­ Christian Bible does not support
A wish to ignore death is a the same way. I think Harpur
cal literature. He has looked into reincarnation, he says, despite
anyone interested in the subject
form of escapism. Carl Jung convinced me because his book
will find it rewarding to read
the New Age type of literature, Shirley MacLaine's erroneous
said it is important, especially combined a lifetime spent in cu­
Tom Harpur's book because it
as.well as writings on near death claim.
for older people, to have a faith rious pursuit and a meeting with
gets rid of a lot of nonsense.

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Wednesday, January 1, 1992

The Tanuki, a part of Japanese folklore
TOKYO. - Raccoon dogs, mans by changing shapes, often
better known in Japan as transforming themselves into
"tanuki," have been closely re­ human form; Their absentlated to both the culture and dai­ mindnesses almost always pre­
ly lives of Japanese from ancient vents them from outwitting hu­
times.
mans, as they often fail to hide
Tanuki often featured in folk their tails in their clothes.
tales as well as popular stories
Tanuki, which live in most
for children, usually appear as parts of the country from Hok­
slow-witted but nevertheless kaido to Kyushu, are thus quite
amiable creatures. They are familiar to the Japanese. Yet the
treated, more often than not, in wild animals have rarely been
an affectionate manner.
seen in suburbs of large cities
In folklore, they try to fool hu- until quite recently.

Tanuki have now an image
much like that of stray cats in the
city," said Noriko Kuwahara,
chairwoman of the Tama Hills
Field Museum.
Two tanuki or raccoon dogs, eat fruit left out for them in the yard
She was speaking at a recent
of traditional inn in Kirishima-Yaku National Park in Miyazaki-ken
.
tanuki symposium in Machida, a
city in the western suburbs of tion on tanuki living near cities
but because they simply cannot
Tokyo.
two years ago. To her surprise, find food in the woods any­
Kuwahara, a 47-year-old resi­ she received eye witness ac­
more," Kuwahara said of the an­
dent Machida, became interested counts of various other related
imals' growing urban presence.
in the subject after seeing her information not only from
Staff at her museum have
first tanuki in 1988, sadly a dead Machida residents but also from
found that there is a causal rela­
one left by the side of the road', people in other areas.
tionship between the rapid hous­
apparently killed by a car.
"It's not because the number ing development in the Tama
She started collecting informa- of tanuki is suddenly increasing
hills and the incident of tanuki

killed by cars.
According to the municipal
government's public cleaning di­
vision, the number of tanuki
killed on the roads in 1990 in­
creased to 62 from 20 in 1986.
Shizuo Susaki of Machida told
the symposium that most of his
com crop had recently been eat­
en by tanuki.
I tried many tricks to protect
my com field, such as digging a
pit to trap them and covering the
plants with a net, but they all
failed," Susaki said.
Poultry farmer Kame Saito
said the first tanuki attack on her
chicks was five years ago.
About 20 to 30 chicks were
killed by the tanuki," she said.
"So, I caught them by setting a
trap two years ago, and have
been keeping it as a precaution
ever since."
Kuwahara said, "we must rec­
ognize that tanuki as well as oth­
er wild animals do live in places
around us. We should make our
city comfortable for both people
and wild animals to live in."

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New school pays tribute to Issei pioneer
STEVESTON, B.C.- A man sure that he would have made a
whose lineage can be traced
whose fervent dreams for the special effort to recognize the
back as far as 1400. At the age
rights of Japanese Canadians generousity of the Richmond
of 18, he emigrated to Canada
were never realized in his life­ School Board and the work of
time has been posthumously Rintaro Hayashi. My dad be­ and was witness to many histor­
ic local and Japanese Canadian
honoured with a new school lieved in the dignity of man and
named after him in the Rich­ the vast potential of the mind. I events, as his diaries reveal.
The CPR - which he eventually
mond community of Steveston, cannot think of anymore fitting
worked for as a labour contrac­
pre-war home to a large and an honour, nor one that he
tor - laid its tracks in Vancouver
closely-knit Nikkei community.
would have been more genuine­ three years after his arrival. The
On Saturday, November 7th, ly proud of."
first Japanese woman disem­
the Tomekichi Homma Elemen­
Family members attending the barked on Canadian shores in
tary School - located in the heart event included Mrs. Hasue
1887; shortly thereafter the first
of the former thriving Japanese Homma and family from Wil­
nisei baby was bom (an event
Canadian fishing village - offi­ lowdale, Ontario; Keay Homma
which he recalled drew white
cially opened with fanfare and and his wife, of Delta; their
people from "considerable disceremony before a gymnasium daughter Tammy Homma,
tance" who expressed surprise
filled to capacity with pupils, North Vancouver; Yoshimaru
that "the baby looked like a hu­
teachers, Richmond School and Yoshi Abe and their daugh­
Board representaties, politicians, ters Yumi Falk, Amy Murray man being"); and in 1897 the
first local interracial marriage
Homma descendants and mem­ and Mrs. Fred Allen and her
took place between a Japanese
bers of the Japanese Canadian children, all of Winnipeg; Mr.
man and a Caucasian woman.
Keay Homma presents Trophy to school principal Jim McPherson
community.
and Mrs. Garry Homma, Delta;
Mr. Homma was one of the
The day included tours of the Mr. Ron Homma, Delta; Mr.
Photo courtesy of Keay Homma
first Japanese to settle in Steves­
new, impressive building, per­ and Mrs. Fukashi Yasui and
Canada and right up to the Privy to an end with his ignominious
formances by the school's pri­ family, Vancouver; Mr. and ton and was instrumental in or­
ganizing other fishermen expat­ Council in London, England, internment to Slocan during
mary and intermediate choirs Mrs. Danny Nakagawa and
riates into an association in where previous verdicts in World War Il\He would remain
and speeches which all paid family, Burnaby. Also on hand
1887, serving as its first chair­ Homma's favour were reversed. in there for the <rest of his days
glowing tribute to the school's were special guests Mr. and
man until 1899. His involve­ After Homma's attempt to se­ until his death iri1945. His son
namesake. A special highlight of Mrs. Rintaro Hayashi of Rich­
ment in his growing community cure the vote, the B.C. Legisla­ Seiji (passed away in 1964)
the opening ceremony was the mond.
included the construction of ture in 1902 passed a measure would carry on the work his fa­
presentation of an award of ex­
The opening ceremony Steveston's first Japanese further disenfranchising citizens
ther was only able to dream
cellence trophy made by Tomek­ marked the culmination of a pro­
of
Asian
origin.
A
comment
about: legislation permitting the
ichi Homma's son, Keay, on ject more than a decade in the school and of a fishermen's
published
in
the
tum-of-thehospital. He also established
enfranchisement of Japanese
behalf of family members to making, going beyond 1977
Vancouver's first Japanese daily century Victoria Colonist news­ Canadians. As then president of
school principal Jim McPher­ when two of Tomekichi's sons,
paper probably expressed the the B.C. JCCA, Seiji Homma
son. The large showcase version Keay and Shingo, assisted in newspaper, the Canada Shinpo
sentiments of the majority white was able to complete what his
in 1897.
of the award, bearing the family the original sod-turning event.
Perhaps the one cause most population: ‘ "We are relieved father began 50 years earlier.
crest, will remain on display in The final product - a $4.6 milclosely associated with Tomeki­ from the possibility of having
The school, appropriately
the school with smaller replicas lion state-of-the-art-school - was
chi Homma was his single- polling booths swamped by a enough, pays homage to Togoing home with each year's named after Mr. Homma thanks
horder of Orientals who are to­ mekichi Homma's cultural an­
handed fight for the franchise
winner.
to a submission by Rintaro Hay­ (he had become a naturalized tally unfitted...to exercise the
cestry and that of the community
Keay Homma expressed the ashi who had been working on a
ballot,
and
whose
voting
would
citizen) which he pursued after
with details incorporating Japa­
family's appreciation for the rec­ biography of the issei pioneer.
completely
demoralize
politics.
"
being rebuffed from a polling
nese building design. The oneognition of his father. "My faTomekichi Homma was bom station by the returning officer f Tomekichi Homma's many efstorey structure, designed by ar­
; ther was a man of few words in in Japan's Chiba-ken, June 6,
in charge. His lone crusade
. s t0 advance the human chitect Thomas Bowen, has
situations such as this, but I am 1865, from an illustrious family
went before the higest courts in rights ,and dignity of Japanese
Canadians were effectively put
— Cont'd on Page 9

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Lynda Gourlie,
Danielle & Alana
Lance & Deborah
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Raymond Koyata &
fiancee Marisa

Ted & Sue Koyata
Shoji & Setsuko
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Hikoza & Jane Koyata
Gene & Toshiko
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The New Canadian

Wednesday, January 1, 1992

What's going on in Vancouver - Does anyone really care?
By Daniel Tsuruo Tokawa
what is acceptable as politics in dress, the JCCA had to be taken
ganizations, and at NAJC coun­ that redress has been attained lo­
The recent debate in the JCCA the community.
control of because it was the cil meetings. This division of the
cally. For a brief moment this
Bulletin regarding the executive Politics as "characterized by:
only local Nikkei organization votes was done for insurance
wave of spirit crested, but has
director and financial crisis has 1. maneuvering situations and,
among a hundred that the com­ against either the Board or the
now been dashed. This critical
degenerated to rock bottom in
at times, people
munity accepted as its represen­ redress committee becoming
my opinion in the use of class­ 2. managing information and
tative political voice, has been controlled by an undemocratic mass of Nikkei energy was un­
dermined by politics and cannot
less examples to underscore
plans carefully to our own
forgotten by.most of the so minority. There was balance and
be replaced by a bureaucracy as
points, I am upset because of the
advantage.
called leaders today. It had integration where volunteers and
people involved and the unveiled 3. being strategic and instrumen­
earned that recognition through committees mutually supported an engine for progress.
duelling going on and feel these
The point in time that this octal in our relationships
"hands on" community work each other for the common good
issues are distractions from the 4. seeking approval of those
over 40 years which had includ- even though everyone had dif­ cured ironically was several
real cause of the conflict.
above us
ed promoting redress in other ferent priority lists. The rules years ago, coinciding with the
First, there are several propo­ 5. being cautious in telling
forms. Because the coalition had were followed although the poli­ knowledge that a redress settle­
sitions that need to be highlight­
ment had been reached with the
the truth
enough supporters almost the tics was constantly there.
ed as a backdrop for my com­
government. I was told face to
These kinds of activities, entire slate was elected.
The members of the Redress face in vague terms that the use­
mentary. I believe that the which are the essence of bureau­
Just before the newly elected Coalition were the doers from
fulness of the redress committee
community accepts as fact that cratic behaviour, are driven and
Directors took control, a myster­ four Nikkei generations who
the Greater Vancouver JCCA is if not created, then supported by
volunteers had reached an end so
ious transfer of about $20,000 stood up and refused to be nailed
I knew something was calculated
the representative voice of the the nature of our contract with
occured into a garden project back down by general public
local Nikkei community and that the organization plus the way we
that left the new Board in finan­ opinion which was becoming to occur but I didn't have the re­
the community trusts that its rep­ define our self-interest" (from
motest idea of the details. It un­
cial difficulty, but this was grad­ less hostile in Vancouver as time
folded with the exit of the Re­
resentatives. are elected by the "The Empowered Manager"
ually made up by hard work by passed. These courageous peo­
democratic ballot process at the P.Block, pp 48-49).
dress committee chairman. It
the volunteers. At the next AGM ple combined to form the suffiannual general meetings. The
was painful to see the people
Paraphrasing,"to stay on top, this underhanded action was
cient
critical
mass
of
energy
who had fought the war now becommunity trusts that these make your own rules and any­
censured as being "wrong" by needed to keep information
ing abandoned like useless can­
elected representatives commu­ thing goes to stay in control."
the JCCA membership attending flowing to the community
nicate with the representatives of
non fodder.
The following example of this the meeting. This is a good ex­
through
telephone
networks,
to
the other chapters and work to­ behaviour is a long one which _ ______________ __
A letter agreement had been
ample of the ethical standard the go door to door to gauge opinion
gether for the betterment of the the reader will have to bear with community expects,
agreed upon that clearly detailed
and
raise
funds
for
the
NAJC
national community through the me for using, - it has a purpose.
the responsibilities and relation­
~ majority of the coalition
The
which
was
in
bad
financial
NAJC. The community trusts
ship between the redress com­
The example starts in 1983. supporters became active in the
shape,
to
get
people
out
to
meet
­
that like every registered society The JCCA of Greater Vancouver
mittee and the JCCA Board but
redress committee. The rules ings and rallys so that the press
in Canada the rules of conduct had a Board that had a cautious
this was not honoured in spirit. I
agreed upon were that the re­ would see there was grass roots
are defined by the constitution position on campaigning for Re­
believe the NAJC council never
dress committee would promote
support,
to
organize
JCCA
really knew what was happening
so that everyone knows how the dress and wanted to maintain a
and gather community opinion events to keep the spirit of com­
game is played. The community neutral position on the issue
in Vancouver. Subsequent to
and control 2 of 4 votes that the munity alive, to support efforts
trusts that through this demo­ which was being hotly debated
this event there have been nu­
JCCA had at the NAJC level. to get momentum going on the
cratic process, the Greater Van­ elsewhere, for example a power
merous confrontations involving
The Board managed the regular cultural centre, the Powell St.
couver Nikkei community is be­ struggle , was occuring in Toron­
treatment of these people as
events,
promoted
the
history
festival,
the
Nikkei
artists
they
ing well served in this Redress to. In Vancouver, a proactive
cattle, as if their wishes didn't
committee, solicited new direc­ were the glue that held the struc­
implementation period. Right?
matter and that they could herded
group formed, calling itself the tors who wanted to work on a
ture
together
and
kept
the
hope
Wrong. These local conflicts Redress coalition. They had the
- reminding us of the bureaucrat­
cultural centre, worked with the alive of not only Redress, as
in The Bulletin are symptoms of perception that the JCCA was a
ic treatment in the livestock
Japanese Consulate on mutually narrowly defined, but also the
a deeper fundamental issue in­ closed shop and decided to run a
bams at Hastings Park.
beneficial events of community hope of the rebirth of a visible,
volving the ethical standard of slate of candidates at the next an­
This spring of 1991, many of
interest, supported the redress energetic Greater Vancouver
conduct within the NAJC. nual general meeting. The fact
these original Coalition people
committee in dealings with local Nikkei community which I al­
What'S going on is a question of that in order to promote Regovernment, other service or- ways believed is the real proof
— Cont'd on Page 9

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Momiji Health Care Society
What's happening

Page E-9

Vancouver...

energy will ever be re-kindled
and reach the necessary level to
led by C. Kadota, decided to bring about a cultural centre or
run a slate of candidates at the health care centre. I wonder if
SCARBOROUGH, ONT. - received applications to fill both
outreach services going. Nori[ annual general meeting similar the top bureaucrat really cares or
Construction of the 9-storey the rent-geared-to-income and
also co-ordinates the Meals-on-. to what was done in 1983. An is just drunk on power.
building is. on schedule and on market units, but there are still
Wheels and is seeking volun­ important fact to remember is
Finally I make my point or
budget and the general contrac­ openings for seniors with in­
,
that
this
group
must
have
signif
­
teers to expand this service to
prime reason for writing this ar­
tor Milne & Nicholls expects comes under $10,800.
Scarborough. Please call Nori at icant support because once ticle, which is that the people on
completion in September 1992.
Yoneko Westgard the Rental 531-7574.
again, their slate of candidates the former Vancouver JCCA re­
The property on the south-east Agent for the new Centre is still
To provide our seniors with were all elected. Only conditions dress committee and their sup­
comer of Markham and King­ interviewing prospective tenants
the services and amenities to en­ appear slightly different this porters deserve better than to be
ston Roads in Scarborough was for the Centre, and is looking
hance their living standards, time in that the JCCA constitu­ treated as if they no longer
purchased by Momiji with funds for full occupancy when the
Momiji has opened Phase III of tion no longer appears to be the count in the implementation
donated by the Japanese Canadi­ Centre opens in the fall of '92.
the fund-raising (objective guideline for conduct and new scheme. They earned the right
an community & friends.
All applicants will be notified in $600,000) for furnishings for rules seem to be established
to be part of the process. They
The Ontario Ministry of Hous­ the New Year whether their ap­
the new Centre. The first two overnight. Bypassing of the deserve justice, which was the
ing is building the apartment plications were successful or
floors of the building, housing elected Board now appears ac­ reason for Redress.
portion of the building and the not. Please phone 261 -6683.
amenities such as the Craft Cen­ ceptable if done by people of
I never intended to write and
Ontario Ministry of Community
E.P.C. (Elderly Persons tre, suditorium, Wellness Cen­ privilege with plans that nobody
attack individuals that I had
& Social Services will provide Drop-In Centre) under the en­
tre, etc., is the responsibility of knows about.
worked or discarded with dur­
partial funding for the services thusiastic leadership of Junko
Momiji - to build and service.
In 19901 was told that the ex­ ing my involvement with the
and programming. To meet gov­ Galama keeps the seniors busy
Individuals may either donate ecutive director's salary was Nikkei community, but I believe
ernment guidelines, of the 133 with crafts, singing, dancing,
money or purchase a specific funded through the Redress Im­ my viewpoint based on that ex­
units in the Centre, 55 units are exercises and outings on Mon­
piece of furniture upon which a plementation Fund. After the perience is important to air to
allocated to those whose income day & Thursdays (10:00 - 3:00)
permanent commemorative elections this spring I read that the community to evaluate in
is less than $10,000. per year.
at the St. Christopher Centre on plaque will be attached with the the JCCA general fund has to
perspective why this tragic con­
(Those living on Gov't pension Ossington Ave. at Dundas St. A
bear the expense and that incred­ frontation is occuring now. It
doner's name.
& supplement), 32 units are al­ third day will be added soon.
Look for the Grand Opening ulously, plans for sustaining the goes beyond the individuals im­
located to those whose income Phone:538-2176.
salary weren't made. I recently mediately involved.
in the late fall of '92.
range from $11,000 - 25,000.
From Castleview-Wychwood
Please feel free to call the ex­ heard a rumour that the funds
It is of the utmost importance
(rent-geared-to-income) and 48 Towers, Nori Kanashiro, the Jecutive office at 261-6683 for for the Nikkei Resource Centre for the general community to re­
units are designated for market C Volunteer Co-ordinator keeps
any information or clarification will be released to "rescue" the member that this conflict is ab­
tenants. At present Momiji has the programmes there, and other
JCCA if Mr. C. Kadota resigns solutely not a struggle between
you may need.
as president. Who has the right supporters and non-supporters
to bypass the elected Board? of redress. Remember that all
NAJC council must censure the people involved here con­
Cont'd from Page 7
at least 24 terminals and a high to dedicate its library to the
such behaviour, even if, I sus­ tributed meaningfully to the re­
tech reacessable stage area, the memory of local school princi­
pect, it was done with good in­ dress victory. What is at the
windows opening into every first of its kind in a Lower Main­
pal June Chiba. Mrs. Chiba
tentions.
core of this conflict is the ethical
classroom, a central courtyard land school. The new elemen­
(nee Higano) had been appoint­
That
this
political
environment
standards upon which the JCCA
playground and skylights con­ tary school is sized for approxi­
ed as the new school's first exists doesn't surprise me for it
of greater Vancouver and the
structed to ressemble Japanese mately 500 students and has 20 principal but passed away sud­
is one of the major reasons why NAJC will rise or fall.
paper screens. In addition to the teachers on staff.
denly last April at 52 years of I "retired" after my 1987 - 1988
traditional, the school also has a
pie Tomekichi Homma school age.
term as the Greater Vancouver
Daniel Tsuruo Tokawa
computer room to accomodate
will hold a ceremony next year
=•- The Bulletin JCCA president. I wonder if 1987 -1988 Greater Vancouver
that Redress spirit and quantum
JCCA president

Cont'd from Page 8

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Memories in the Mountains
By Bernice McDonough
New Denver, B.C. - On the
shore of the crystal Slocan
Lake. Tucked away in a mountain valley, off the main high­
ways in southwestern B.C. six­
ty miles from the nearest town,
Castlegar, the village of New
Denver is not exactly a tourist
destination.
We were there because my
travelling companion, Isabel

around the village, recalling ly of five or six."
children, family, friends, for
The government supplied a
each building has a story.
kitchen stove, a table and a few
Mrs. Okura, now 78, said, chairs and mattresses. No beds.
"We were from Vancouver and There were outdoor privies and
we had three children, the water to be hauled from the
youngest eighteen months. We town wells.
were allowed to bring our cloth­
Mrs. Kay Takakura, now 74,
ing, bedding, dishes, tools,
was a twenty-four year old
money and personal effects - mother of two young children
anything that wasn't too bulky. when the family was uprooted
1
But houses, furniture, cars and from a farm in Cumberland,
Beach, had her first nursing job all our fishing boats were im­
B.C. She said, "Imagine four of
there in 1934 and thought she'd pounded."
us living in a little room eight by
like to see the valley and the vil­
"All this," she said, indicating twelve feet. The winters here
lage once again.
the townsite four blocks wide were terrible. We were used to
Walking in the little park on and 6 blocks long, "was an old
the mild climate on the coast.
the shore we stopped to talk to orchard. We were dumped here,
The wind blew through those
two other morning strollers, lived in tents and ate communal­
houses and ice formed six inch­
Mrs. K. Okura and Mrs. Kay ly at the skating rink while the
es deep outside and the tempera­
Takakura who came to New government built these houses."
tures 25 degrees below freezing.
Denver in 1942 and have never
Up and down the blocks the The wood for the stove
left.
'
original houses still stand, many wouldn't burn - it was green,
1942 - 1992. Fifty years since still occupied. Some still just
smoked and threw little heat."
2000 Japanese were moved weathered brown boards, other
Mrs. Kay Takakura and Mrs. K. Okura came to New Denver, B.C.
She recalled how it took all
from the coast to New Denver. boasting additions and recon­
day hauling water, stoking fires, when the Japanese were evacuated from the coast in 1942. They
In all 7,500 Canadian citizens of struction. Some, like Mrs. Oku­
have lived there for 50 years, their families grown up and gone.
cooking, feeding the kids and
Japanese ancestry were interned ra's have been enlarged, stuc­
trying to keep warm. Like many the family home, Dr. Uchida youth detention centre for a
from 1942 until 1946 in Green­ coed, painted and surrounded
of the women she had brought was evacuated with the others. time. But the location was too
wood, Slocan and New Denver by trees, shrubs, vegetable gar­
her sewing machine and made He ran a clinic for years in New isolated and there was difficulty
which were then ghost mining dens and glorious flowers.
many of the family garments. In Denver.
getting staff to come and stay.
towns. This story has been told
"The original shacks were 14 spring and summer everyone
Mrs. Takakura showed us old
Now the old sanitorium with
and well documented and com­ by 24 feet, built of shiplap and
worked in the gardens.
pictures of the hospital and additions and refurbishing oper­
pensation has been paid to the tarpaper, no foundations, no in­
some of the staff. Beautiful ates as a five bed acute care
families.
sulation. Each house was divid­
History of a Hospital
young girls in white uniforms home for pensioners.
But it brought history to life to ed into three parts - a central
We strolled around the hospi­ with glowing faces - they were
"Out there on the lawn once a
spend the morning hearing the kitchen and a room on each
tal, a complex of buildings set trained as nurses aides and as­ year we used to hold the O-Bon
experiences of those years from side, and each of these side
on the peaceful lake shore. Our sisted at the sanitorium for Odori Festival. This is a happy
two gracious, kindly seniors. rooms was assigned to one fam­
companions related the hospital years.
celebration in memory of the
They related the story without ily. You only got a house to
"We had so many cases of ap­ dead. Everyone wore traditional
story.
bitterness, slowly escorting us yourself if you had a large famiThere was once over one hun­ pendicitis in those years, "Mrs. Japanese dress and the ritual
dred patients with tuberculosis Okura recalled. "I don't know moves in stately flowing circles.
here. In such close quarters and why that was - perhaps poor It is our way of thanking those
harsh conditions the disease diet - but many kids had to be who have gone before us for the
spread rapidly, and there was no operated on. In one month we gifts their lives have given us."
cure for it then except extended had 24 operations here."
— Cont’d on Page 12
bed rest. There were patients
After the evacuees were gone
from the other camps here too. the buildings served as a board­
B.C. had almost an epidemic of ing school in the 1950s when
TB in those years, and there the Premier W.A.C. Bennett,
was a huge hospital at Tran- tired of the Doukhobors in the
quille, outside Kamloops. Now Kootenays bombing power lies,
Greetings omitted
the disease can be cured with burning down each others hous­
due to
drugs in a few months."
es and staging nude parades,
bereavement
Dr. Arnold Francis who was rounded up all the Doukhobor
the local area doctor was put in children of school age and in­
charge of the evacuees. He is re­ terned them in boarding
membered by thousands for his schools. He kept them there un­
Mitch Nishimura
unfailing kindly care of them. til the various communities
Hatsue Yabuki
Dr. Uchida had been trained in promised they would stop their
Sam & Marge Kondo
Toronto but had to go to Japan vandalism. Eventually they did,
The old Japanese community hall in New Denver today where the
to intern, as no hospital in the and caused the province no
Marie Nishimura
internees gathered for companionship, concerts and services in the
west would accept him. Bom on more trouble.
small Buddhist temple.
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Then the building served as a
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The New Canadian

Wednesday, January 1, 1992

A taste of the Ghost town teachers' history project
Some sample remembrances from former teachers and students
By Frank Moritsugu

ing about school and ghost town teachers, whose names are givRosie Okuda's account of how could cook them up with bacon
experiences. This was followed r
- article. A
eii' at the end of this
Here's an update on the ghost­ by lively group sessions. Brok­ head count is necessary to orga­ the Tashme school was started (the only meat available in Gra­
in a "big white tent located in a ham’s General Store that first
town teacher's history project. en up into school groups, for­ nize the venue and refresh­
field east of the (community) week) and shoyu.
It's being worked on by the mer pupils and teachers talked
ments.
vegetable garden" in a settlement
Ghost Town Teachers Historical about their experiences primed
I had been a sickly child in
* * *
of
self-supporting
families
(to
­
Society.
Vancouver, and the year we had
by class photographs, school
The history project has been talling nearly 400 persons) sent
President Masuko Iguchi publications, and shared remi­
in Slocan without schooling
underway in Toronto since inland in 1942 from west coast.
heads a core group based in To­ niscences.
gave me back my health. The
1988, on a voluntary basis. We
As for what some former pu­ nearly daily hikes to Mickey's
ronto of 16 former teachers.
A 12-page handout titled, had gathered much data locally,
pils remember, here are a few Bluff overlooking the town and
Hide Shimizu, who was super­ Writing About Your Days as a
as well as about 50 different examples
visor of the B.C. Security Com­ Ghost Town School Pupil the long walks along deserted
items written by the core group
mission schools during the war upon which the workshop was
roads instilled a love for the
members or contributed by for­
Remembering Bits
years is founder and honorary based- was distributed. It con­
country life that has lasted all
mer teachers living elsewhere in
president.
these years.
and Pieces
tained examples of pupils' writ­ Canada, the U.S. and Japan.
(By
Kit
Way-Nee
of
Gloucest
­
My role is advisor to the ings already on hand, and mem­
But with the reception of er, Ont. The former Yae Kita­
group, as well as editor/writer ory, writing and tape-recording
Two Classroom
' grants from the Japanese Cana­ mura, she was a senior grade
of the proposed book which will tips based on the core group's
Incidents
dian Redress Foundation (1990) pupil at Bay Farm's Pine Cres­
tell the story of how exiled Japa­ experiences in writing about
(By Shirley Yamada of Toronto,
and Health and Welfare Cana­ cent School)
nese Canadian children were ed­ their own rememberances.
who was a pupil at the Midway
da's New Horizons program
My
rememberances
are
those
ucated in the B.C. detention
At the request of those attend- (1991), the history project has
School)
of
an
11
-year-old
who
was
one
camps from 1943 to 1947.
Our family lived in the moun­
as well as several ex-pupils gone into high gear.
of the first wave of relocated tains, quite isolated, to be near
On Saturday, November 30,. unable to come to the first workAt this stage, what remains is people to Slocan City in the
at the Toronto Japanese Canadi- shop, a second such workshop
Archie Johnston's Mill where
for many gaps to be filled in the
month of May 1942 -- whenever my father got a job. When I
an Cultural Centre, the first-ever will be held on Saturday, Janu­
gathered data about each ghost I smell lilacs after a rain I think
workshop was held for former ary 25 at the Japanese Canadian
town school. I will be continu­ of getting off the train and look­ turned five in 1946, we moved
pupils of schools in the B.C. Cultural Centre from 1 p.m.
ing my archival research early in ing at the abandoned hotels of down to the village of Midway
detention camps. Attending
The agenda will include a the New Year, to round out
so I could start school.
Slocan, in which we were
were 15 former pupils, three quick review of memory and
Apparently there was a no
what has already been obtained housed.
former teachers as guests, and writing techniques, with ample
school in Midway before a sud­
from the Public Archives in Ot­
I
remember
disconnected
epi
­
the majority of the core group.
time for discussion with ghost
den influx of Japanese-Canadian
tawa,
the
B.C.
Provincial
Ar
­
sodes only — the old army mat­ families warranted one. It was a
Ghost town schools represent­ town friends and time to write
chives, and sources in Toronto.
ed by former pupils were: Bay on the spot, if required.
tresses that introduced us to
And we are still looking for bedbugs; learning to wring out wooden affair with a wood
Farm, Lemon Creek, Popoff,
All those interested - whether
stove for heating and an out­
Tashme, New Denver, Rose­ former pupils, former teachers more rememberances - espe­ hand laundry that had been house behind it.
cially from former pupils.
washed in fresh hot water from
bery and Neys (Ont.). Former or those otherwise involved
It was a cold walk to school in
What we have already in­ the 0-furo; the bucket brigade
teachers present represented with ghost town schools - are
cludes vivid summaries of the from the lake when the pipes winter. Our hands would be
schools at Bay Farm, Lemon welcome. Those planning to at­
beginnings of certain schools, froze; carrying buckets of water numb and we couldn't write for
Creek, Popoff, New Denver, tend are asked to advise the
such as Sachi (Takimoto) Oue's to the sweet peas in our garden ages until our fingers thawed.
Sandon, Kaslo, Tashme, Rose­ Ghost Town Teachers Historical
The first day I remember sit­
account of the first school in plot; having to tote up a log or
bery, Neys (Ont.) and Fingal
Society, 12 Glen Davis Cres­ Kaslo outdoors in a local park,
ting in the row next to the win­
(Ont.).
two for the 2nd storey commu­
cent, Toronto, Ont. M4E 1X5.
Terrie (Sugiura) Komori's re­ nal stove each time we went to dows. Our nisei teacher, Miss
The agenda included a work­ (416) 694-3953. Or advise a
Jean Uno, came down the row
shop on remembering and writ- member of the core group of ex- port on Sandon's beginning in­ the outhouse; the Doukhobors
cluding setting up of the school, who brought us cabbage so we
Cant'd on Page 13

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Ghost town remembrances.
Cont’d from Page 12
and smacked each of us on the
hand with a ruler and told us not
' to speak Japanese.
I don't remember being con­
scious of the fact that I was
speaking Japanese, but merely
that I was communicating.
None of us cried, as I recall,
so it couldn't have been a hard
smack. Neither do I remember
ever being afraid of her. Per­
haps she had her orders to make
sure we didn't speak Japanese
and had to impress us with the
fact.

quickie about her pupils.)

Memories...
Cant’d from Page 11

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certs, festivals ot went to escape
their little rooms, get warm and
talk to their neighbours.
The stage was enclosed and
Mrs. Okura said, "Come and
see our little old Buddhist tem­
ple." She opened the hand
made, hand painted screens,
showed us the sacred objects
and lamps, the roughly carved
furniture.

history a place of pilgrimage,"
Mrs. Takakura said quietly.
Around us the sky arched bril­
liant blue, the deep green of the
forested mountains was reflect­
ed in the serene lake. Here and
there up the slopes and across
the valley the brilliant yellow
poplars were shedding showers
of gold in the sparking air.
It was autumn in New Den­
ver, and autumn too in the lives
of four women whose paths had
been so different but converged
for a few hours as we strolled
through that small corridor of
history.
"It's so peaceful here, we'll
never leave. Our children come
to see us and sometimes we go
outside to visit them. Now come
and see our gardens."
We left loaded with plums,
pears, apples, tomatoes and cu­
cumbers and most lasting-of all,
the memories of our two gra­
cious, thoughtful guides.

Life in the Community
While the women kept house
One occasion stands out. This
the men worked sawing wood,
was while my Grade Eight class
building, fixing up the miserable
was situated in a vacant store
houses, gardening in season and
before we got into our school.
some road work. They received
At nine in the morning, mem­
$37 a, month. At first the--------local
bers of the class would straggle
people were unfriendly but
in, particularly the boys, so I
when they found that the evaWe used to have services
remarked that it would be handy cuees had money - some of
every week in those years.
to have a bell.
them had brought their life sav­ Now, there are so few of us left
Next morning, there were ings in bills - and were good
we hold only one or two servicthree cowbells on my desk! Nb
customers at the local store, the es a year when a priest comes
doubt taken from the local
tensions eased somewhat.
up from Castlegar."
cows.
The
children
went
to
school
in
*
*
*
*
*
*
bare rooms with few books, of­ You Can’t Go Home Again
I had just seen my first Holly­
As those at the November 30 ten sitting in their overcoats and
We looked at the guest regis­
wood movie at the community workshop were told, the remittens in winter. All were de­ ter... "Almost everyone left in
centre and noted this strange memberances for the ghost town termined to keep on with their
1946. Many went to Calgary,
phenomenon called ":kissing". teachers history do not have to
education.
Edmonton, Toronto, anywhere
Being quite the precocious thing be long or comprehensive. Nei­
We walked to the north end of to start a fresh, where the kids
I took it into my head to try it ther is the quality of writing the
the orchard and Mrs. Takakura could get a good education.
out. It was lunch time. Hapless most important consideration.
brought the keys to the old Many never went back to the
Freddy sat a couple of seats
Rather what the proposed
Community Hall. Rough brown
away. Miss Uno was up front book needs is more examples of boards, shaky, well worn steps coast. They come back to visit,
to see where they spent some of
putting up pictures above the the human side (from pupils,
led into, a thirty by sixty foot their childhood, at least once."
Bernice McDonough is a Van­
blackboard. We were all seated, teachers, PTA members, etc.) of
room with a stage at one end. There were pages of names,
couverfreelance writer and Pro­
quietly munching. Quite calmly those particular school years to
Off to the side was a mammoth many written in Japanese, with
fessor Emeritus of the Faculty
I got up, went over, sat beside round out the official statistics
old cook stove, donated by the addresses from across Canada.
of Education, U.B.C.
Freddy and kissed him on the and reports found in govern­
hospital. It was here that the ev­
Outside
again,
our
guides
told
cheek.
ment archives.
acuees held their meetings, con­ us of plans to make that half
Ungallant that he was, he
Members of the "core group" .
block into a Heritage Centre.
shrieked, "Eeeyowww! Lemme of the history project are all for­
The hall and the temple will be
outa here!" and took off. Miss mer teachers: Masuko Iguchi
Denver), Josie Matsumoto
left as it is and four of the origi­
Uno and the kids died laughing. (Popoff, Bay Farm), Gloria Su­
Greetings omitted
(Rosebery), Yoshiye Kosaka
nal
shacks
will
be
pulled
up
and
I just plain died. As, I suppose, miya (New Denver, Bay Farm
due to bereavement
(Popoff, Bay Farm), Heidi Ya­
furnished as they were in 1942.
did Fred.
Neys), Hideyo Iguchi (Bay mashita (Bay Farm, Lemon
Plans call for a Japanese style
We were both teased for years Farm, Neys), Mary Asazuma
Creek). Plus Hide Hyodo Shi­
fence around the site and a Japa­
Bob & Amy Tsuruda
about that. He must've forgiven (Popoff, Bay Farm, Tashme),
mizu as founder and Honorary
nese
garden
with
rocks,
bridg
­
Dick & Kuniko Tsuruda
me somewhere along the way Pat Adachi (Popoff), Doug Fuji­
President.
es,
waterfalls,
lamps
and
because we became good moto (Tashme), Kimi Hiraishi
Sam & Phyllis Tsuruda
If you need address and phone
shrubs. The work will be comfriends in our early teens.
(Popoff), Stan Hiraki (East Lil- details of any of the above,
Jon & Kathy Amemori
pleted with various grants.
looet), Yuki Nakamura (Tash­ please contact the Ghost Town
"For the 7,500 who were here
Geo. & Phyllis
(And from Mariko (Uyeda) me), Sachi Oue (Kaslo), Shiz
Teachers Historical Society. 12. in the Slocan Valley and for
Curry,, a former Kaslo teacher Saito (Tashme, New. Denver), 1
Yonemitsu
Glen Davis Crescent, Toronto,
their
children
and grandchildren
now living in Oakville, Ont., a Tatsue Suyama (Sandon, New i
M4E 1X5. (416) 694-3953.
Jean Terashita
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Page E-15

A trip down south : An exotic paradise in Japan

By Raymond Nakamura
from the south. Wetsuits of so Nishihama and I decided to
over and over. Still others make
When the cold winter winds of eveiy colour decorated the many
take a stroll around the area.
a big surge right at the end. Of
Toronto get me down, I think of inns, or minshuku, that looked
Butterflies flitted about silently,
course, most are not remarkable
warm places like Zamami, a little onto the dock area. Diving has
so
numerous
that
they
made
the
at
all.
coral reef island in Okinawa. I become popular among Japan’s
meadows shimmer with irides­
We decided to get back before
visited it for a few days as a spoiled, young and restless.
cence. Scruffy goats fed indif­ it got too dark for fear of the
grad student in Japan to help
My colleague, Nishihama, and ferently in the scruffy fields.
deadly Habu snake. Nishiha­
survey the seashore fauna. One I followed a narrow dirt path be­
Their homeliness seemed to of- ma, who has a morbid imagina­
of the most attractive things tween high white walls that sur­
fend the elegance of the deep red tion at the best of times, warned
about marine biology is that it rounded the homes, to our min­
Hibiscus flowers, whose long me that no one in Okinawa goes
gives you the excuse to visit at­ shuku. Shortly, we arrived at
pistils reached out flirtatiously out at night because just one bite
tractive places.
our destination: a three story for attention. Fields of sugar
The excursion involved an un­ building with an off—white cane dominated the area bor- will rot your flesh. Worse, they
pleasant 25 hour boat ride from stucco exterior patterned with dered by little blue plastic basins were not only deadly, but mean.
Tourist shops throughout Oki­ looked Okinawan.
Kagoshima to the Okinawan
Coming
nawa
sell
them
coiled
at
the
bot
­
capital of Naha. We stayed the
from a local, I suppose that's a
night and I had the strange ex­ ... Although being different is generally unde sirea­ tom of whiskey bottles, as some compliment. With Nishihama,
sort of male energy booster.
perience of watching television ble m Japan, Okinawa is attractive because it
she tried to be diplomatic but
Men already seem to have unavoidably, his blond hair and
in English for the first time in a seems so exotic.
enough problems without drink­ pale complexion utterly bewil­
long while. It was program­
ing something like that. Any­ dered her. Nishihama is an albi­
ming for the disturbingly exten­ little circles and rectangles. As
of death. Each bowl was filled way, we continued to stroll
sive American army base located in many rural areas of Japan, a
no Japanese. He is the Japanese
with detergent. Above each of along a small paved road over a
in Naha. The next day, we en­ solar water heater sat on the
who looks foreign and I am the
these pools of doom hung a little hill, keeping our eyes alert to
dured a further 2 hour journey, roof, ready to heat the ever es­
foreigner who looks Japanese.
white loop coated with insect potential death slithering among
on a little boat packed with ea­ sential bathwater. Other features
We are complete opposites. A
pheromone to lure the pests to the weeds. Further along, we
few times when he and I were
ger SCUBA divers.
were more distinctively Okinaw­ their demise. Served them right
met
a
man
who
asked
if
we
had
It was my first venture into an. Mortar filled the cracks be­
together, little brats called out to
for letting their hormones get the seen an old woman with a cart.
the "gaijin". I yelled at them in
tropical waters. The warm tur­ tween roof tiles, apparently an­
best of them.
"No,
we
haven't,"
we
replied
quoise colour of the ocean other defense against typhoons.
English and he in Japanese. It
My first experience with the and I thought, "Oh no! A Habu
confused the heck out of them.
amazed me. I thought I was in Blue or green porcelain Okinaw­
beauty of a pristine coral reef got her!"
an ad for Club Med. Waves an lion—dog statuettes sat on
We laughed at them and walked
was exhilarating, even though I
Back
at
the
inn,
Obasan
had
lapped quietly upon the brilliant the roof peaks protecting the
away. Sadly, however, the
was not diving. The chaotic prepared a splendid multi—
white sandy shores at the feet of homes against evil.
years of being taunted as for­
rhythm of the roaring waves is course dinner. We ate with her
luscious green mountains set
eigner have left him lonely and
At the entrance of our inn, a an aural Jacuzzi, like some New
in
the
tatami
—
floored
living
against a bright blue sky. Un­ little old woman appeared in a
suspicious of social contact.
Age record only much, much room. Even in a rural area like
fortunately, no bronze bikini— white frock, her hair tied in blue
Although being different is
better.
The breeze rushes this, they had a large state of the
clad beauties bounced along the patterned kerchief. Her kind,
generally undesirable in Japan,
through my hair leaving my art television in this room, and a
beach. I told myself that I was patient eyes twinkled in the
Okinawa is attractive because it
scalp tingling. It fills my nos­ smaller one in the kitchen. They
there on business anyway.
seems so exotic. On Zamami,
folds of her tanned, well worn trils with organic smell of sea air
even had a karaoke machine, the traces of the underlying Oki­
The huge concrete tetrapods sfan and welcomed us warmly,
and sprays my lips with the pripiled in heaps against long con­ She showed us to our room up- mordial taste of salt. My brain modem Japanese opiate. We nawan culture were everywhere.
crete walls in front of the har- stairs. While we unpacked our wonders off to compare the described our little excursion.
The minshuku Obasan spoke to
wonders off to compare the She smiled and explained that
! hour reminded me that it was not luggage onto the tatami floor, waves with the lives of people
us in normal Japanese, although
Zamami
has
no
Habu.
After
all
always so idyllic. These buffer she returned with tea, rice crack
with a slightly different intona­
n
’
Some
waves crest far out rand
the
excitement,
I
was
almost
I the terrible waves hurled by the ers, and chocolates.
tion. Among themselves, how_
_
,
dissolve to nothing before disappointed to hear that.
typhoons that annually roar up
Ine afternoon was still young, reaching shore. Others peak
Later, she commented that I
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Wednesday, January 1, 1992

How Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto was blasted out of the air
By Mike Hoshiko W9CJW Yamamoto, Commander in
palace in Tokyo. Layton that Yamamoto would be within
Now that 50 years have Chief of the Commbined Forces
felt some discomforting the range of the US fighter
passed since Pearl Harbour, of Japan was killed. It wasn't
emotion about killing planes stationed in Guadalcanal.
little by little, bits of classified until a month later on May 21,
Yamamoto, but all the The cryptanalyzed intercept gave
top secret information have re­ that a Japanese announcer with a
navy officers hated him, virtually a minute-by-minute
luctantly been released by some quivering voice reported that
and Admiral Halsey list­ itinerary of Yamamoto's inspec­
governments. Those who "while directing general strategy
ed him personally as his tion trip which was sure to be
worked in intelligence are now at the front line in April of this
3rd most hated after Hir­ executed by reason of his com­
able to write more freely about year, (Yamamoto) engaged in
ohito and Tojo.
their involvement. Some of the combat with the enemy and met
pulsively punctual behaviour.
So
how
did
such
a
bril
­
earlier books about Pearl Har­ a gallant death in a war plane."
Nimitz contacted Halsey, whose
liant
military
commander
bour, such as Prang's best sell­ All Japan was stunned. On June
theater of operations included
get
blasted
out
of
the
air
er, At Dawn We Slept did not 5th his ashes were interred in
the area where Yamamoto was
like a sitting duck? The scheduled to visit, and invited
give precise information, ig­ Tokyo's Hibiya Park in a cereanswer lies in radio intel­ him to shoot him down. Halsey
nored available information and mony attended by many digni­
ligence and decyphering replied that he could do it, but to
were written from a biased point taries and a huge mass of
by the brilliant cyptoana- avoid tipping off the Japanese
of view. The roles played by cy­ mourning Japanese.
lysts who were aided by that their code was being read,
pher machines, codebreakers,
It was Rear Admiral Edwin T.
stupid mistakes and the he put out a cover story that the
radio intelligence, language ex­ Layton who did the psychologi­
overconfident by the Australian coast watchers got
perts and intelligence officers cal assessment as the fleet intel­
Japanese. On April 14, the information, thereby lulling
. have largely been kept secret ligence officer for Admiral
1943, Yamamotos staff the Japanese into thinking that
and ignored by most writers, Chester W. Nimitz Commander
gunnery officer Captain their
’ ’ code
' was still secure.
overshadowed by the more in Chief of the US Pacific Fleet.
Watanabe, who planned
glamorous, highly visible and It was this assessment that led to
It was some time after Yama­
Yamamoto's itinerary, moto's death that the Japanese
well publicized vehicles of de­ the decision to kill the 59 year
Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto
ordered that the 5-day changed their code. Watanabe
struction like the B25, aircraft old Admiral Yamamoto. Layton
itinerary of Yamamoto's forever felt terribly guilty about
carriers, arid tanks. Rear Admi­ evaluated Yamamoto as an ag­
mamoto's military skill to re­ inspection tour be transmitted in
ral Edwin T. Layton's book And gressive, imaginative, brilliant,
the death of his friend Yamamo­
place him, would mean a tre­ the high security Japanese Navy
I Was There: Pearl Harbour and and quick-thinking Naval man
to and, to ameliorate his guilt,
mendous "victory" for the code as requested by Yamamo­
Midway Breaking the Secrets who advocated air power. He
Americans. Layton had worked to. Contrary tQ his orders, the wanted to believe it was the
with Captain Pineau and John was admired and looked up to
closely with Yamamoto's office itinerary was transmitted by army code that the Americans
Costello is one of the best books by all his officers. Punctually
had read.
in July 1937 when the Ameri­ both army and navy code sys­
on Pearl Harbour because it re­ and precision were his trade
For some years before Pearl
cans were searching for Amelia tems. The messages were inter­
veals the secrets behind the mili­ marks, and they ironically led to
Harbour the US had been pre­
Earhart. Yamamoto used to en­
cepted in the early morning of paring for confrontation with Ja­
tary action that took place. The his death. Admiral Chester W.
joy chatting with him in Japa­ the 14th of April at the Rabaul
following is an account based Nimitz was faced with the di­
pan. They had been sending
nese, even though Yamamoto listening post. The two cryptolon many sources.
navy men like Layton to learn
lemma: If Yamamoto were to be had studied English as a naval
ogists,
Tommy
Dyer
and
Ham
On April 18, 1943, Captain shot down, would he be re­
the Japanese language. They
attache in Washington D.C. Wright, at the Oahu Station
Lanphier, flying a twin engine placed with a more formidable
had established many powerful
Both men liked kabuki theatre
Hypo, decyphered enough code radio intercept stations. In 1941,
P-38 Lightning fired a long person? Layton's conclusion
when the famed actor Kimboro signals for Alva Bryan Lasssteady burst at a Mitsubishi at­ was that the death of such a be­
William F. Friedman, a brilliant
did his lion dance. Yamariioto well, a 38 year old Marine
tack bomber causing the right loved hero would demoralize the
cryptologist who had been with
had also invited Layton to a Corps Lieutenant Colonel who
engine and wing to burst into Japanese people as well as the
the Signal Intelligence Service
duck-netting party for only the had been sent to Japan to study
flames as the plane plunged into military. Nimitz agreed that the
since WWI, finally broke the
elite navy guests held at the ex­ the Japanese language in 1935,
the jungle just before the wing shock of the death of such a <
Japanese diplomatic cypher maclusive Hama Rikyu, a palace a
to translate into a plain language
tore off. Thus Admiral Isoroku Commander, with no one of Yamile south of the main imperial
message. The US now knew
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Pearl Harbour Day: Memories of Capt. Fuchida

Down South.

Cont'd from Page 15
By Rev. Edward S. Yoshida
pistoned Easthope marineLike the lives of so many Is­ engined boats back to the
seis and Niseis living in Canada wharves more than filled our
ever, locals used an incompre­
at the time of the Pearl Harbour waking moments with enjoy­
hensible dialect. Here and there,
attack, my life was dramatically ment.
all over the little island where the
affected by the momentous
bare rock of towering cliffs lay
There is no question that the
events of that day on Decemebr attack sent shivers through the
bare, sat little shrines. A cup
7, 1991.
on the shelf of each one held an
spine of the community. Imme­
Life for a Nisei kid of eight in diately, black-outs were en­
offering to the deceased. It re­
Steveston, B.C. was filled with forced. Dad had to carry my
minded me of something I have
activities of education and enter­
seen in a National Geographic
pregnant mom on his back to the
tainment from the two cultures Dantai Byoin, the local hospital
special in China. Formal graves
that influenced this ghetto-like run by a fishermen’s board in
were austere concrete mauso­
fishing community at the mouth pitch darkness when her birth
leums the size of large tool
of the Fraser River. Japanese pangs had started. Rumours of
’ll sheds, built into the sides of
was the language of the commu­ Japanese submarines sighted off
fish over the ice in the winter. In April of the following year, a hills. Their size alone would
nity while English was the lan­ the coast of Vancouver Island
Hunting for pheasants and deer phone call came from the then have made them unthinkable in
guage of school and business. swept through the community.
the rest of Japan.
Things Japanese dominated the Some expected imminent inva­ over the ecstatic delight of a .30 pastor of the Avenue Road Alli­
The torii were pink instead of
— .30 rifle or a shotgun in my ance that an important guest
mentality of the town. The sion and left the best of their be­
hand and the excitement of try­ speaker from Japan was coming red. Maybe they used to paint
"Bokka" language school under longings in their own home or
ing to lick those cousins of mine to Toronto. He was none other them red and then they would
Furukawa sensei and Hamamo­ in the hands of a trusted Canadi­
in the Greenwood hockey team, than the Ace of the Pearl Har­ fade to pink, so they gave up.
to sensei was a must for me af­ an neighbour. Families held
They didn't look faded; maybe
ter the regular English classes at conferences to decide whether to not to mention the impression I bour attack, now converted to the Okinawans liked them that
Lord Byng Public were fin­ elect "jiyuu idoo" (pay own ex­ wanted to make on the girls. But the Christian faith, the infamous colour.
the greatest impact on my life Captain Mitsuo Fuchida. Almost
ished. Martial arts flourished in penses and relocate to designat­
Among the many little surpris­
the community theatre, and ed towns outside the 100 mile was made when this 15-year-old immediately, I called a special es I encountered was one even­
kid was invited by a Pentecostal meeting of the church board.
names like Niwatsukino are still perimeter of the coast) or accept
Preacher, Marshall Ruthven, to With unanimous consent the ing in Zamami when the locals
remembered for their prowess in government assistance and relo­
celebrated a local festival in the
kendo. The Aizen Katsura was cate to various ghost towns and attend his summer Vacation church decided to host this guest harbour. Fishing boats circled,
Bible School. It was there - on speaker in our Calvin Baptist
the talked-about romantic feature relocation centres assigned to
the site of the original Arai Church and advertised his once waving brightly coloured fishing
film of the era, while boys like them. We chose the former.
house - that I learned about the only public address. We had no flags and Japanese flags. Some
myself could hardly wait for the Thus as a kid of eight, I had a
God of the Bible, who loved all trouble filling the little church, even had colourful strings of
next showing of the chanbara ball living in the Lion Hotel on
the nationalities, even the Japa­ as most of the Isseis and Niseis little plastic international flags.
movie-with our favourite samu­ Powell St. and living on Chi­
People on the decks danced and
nese
-unlike
Amaterasu
kami
of
in
Toronto
were
affected
by
the
rai.
banged drums. As each boat
nese food at Shin Peking in Ja­ Japan, ancestress of the Japa­
Pearl
Harbour
attack.
Little boys always had enough pantown, Vancouver. Floods
passed the main pier, each boat
We found Capt. Fuchida not tried to out perform the one be­
to do after school was over. overran bridges in southern nese emperor. It was then that I
committed myself to trust in Je­ only a brilliant air commander
Playing chanbara with cedar B.C. that June and evacuees had
fore. On shore, a man plucked
sus as my God and Saviour.
but also a very colourful speak­ out the melody on an Okinawan
swords between mother's to wait.
In 1960, the Canadian Japa­ er. The audience hung on every
clothes line, watching the auto­
style samisen made with the skin
The next eight years of my life nese Mission sent us to Toronto
word
he
spoke.
He
provided
de
­
mobiles line up for the racetrack in the little seed-growing town
of a Habu. Prune-faced old
ferry docked near Scotch Can­ of Grand Forks (near Green­ to succeed Mr. Stan Yokota - tails of the attack from Japan's
women stepped spryly and
then pastor of the fledgling mis­ side, from the aircraft carrier's
nery and eating our 5 cent wood) are filled with happy
sion on Highfield Rd. - who re­ position and from the bomber's swayed gracefully to the music
creamsicle while we waited for memories of youth. Fishing for
in colourful yukata. I never did
our dads to put-put their twin- trout in the summer and white­ quested a leave of absence to at­
figure out what it was all about,
tend the Ontario Bible College.
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Admiral Yamamoto
Cont'd from Page 16

The New Canadian

Wednesday, January 1, 1992

Pearl Harbour remembered

guage specialists, trained them
forty naval officers who had any as cyptographers and let them Cont'd from Page 17
chine code which was named knowledge of the special idiom
participate freely, the war may
"purple". He worked so hard on and ideographies peculiar to na­
perspective. Pearl Harbour had with missionaries, church atten­
have ended sooner. On the other
a code name, "Nitaka Yama" to dance and intensive Bible read­
it that he was exhausted and had val message had been decoded
hand, some high US military
the Japanese military. They
to spend several months in the and translated it often remained
personnel withheld information, found a harbout near Kagoshi­ ing. He could no longer remain
hospital. The Americans built a mystery. In 1941, 90 percent
just a reader when he came
and some didn't pay attention to
ma that resembled the topogra­ across the words of Jesus in
four so-called "Purple" ma­ of the staff of OP-20-G were in
the messages decrypted by their
phy and depth of Pearl Harbour. Luke 23:34, "Father forgive the
chines and had been reading the training and they only had six
own
cyptoanalysts.
Because
of
They practiced bombing runs (Roman soldiers who were cru­
Japanese diplomatic code long Japanese translators, most of
politics,
rivalries,
poor
commu
­
before Pearl Harbour. By De­ them civilians. Only a handful
for months before the attack. cifying him); for they know not
nication, inflated egos and the
cember 7, 1941, the Navy's of Navy men like Rear Admiral
-Only the highest ranking mili­ what they do." Tears began to
government's
reluctance
to
re
­
code and signal section had Layton had been sent to Japan to
tary knew about the impending flow, as he thought of the great
veal
its
blunders
and
errors
of
evolved into the cryptographic study the Japanese language. To
attack.
love Jesus had for him. Right
judgement,
we
probably
will
unit known as OP-20-G.
The
attack
was
so
successful
help them, Underwood type- never know the entire truth.
then and there, he committed his
Within twelve months after
that it tied up the U.S. Pacific life to Jesus, arid made a deci­
writers were modified to type However there still is a tremenPearl Harbour the Americans
fleet for months. Japan was able sion to follow Him. He offered
out the kana in roman letters.
dous
amount
of
information
in
had developed their radio intelli­
Layton mentions one lucky the US archives, navy inquiry, to invade the Philippines and his service to the Pocket Testa­
S.E.Asia to gain her war materi­
gence into a lethal weapon. By break which occured in January
ment League, which sought to
army
board,
joint
congressional
early 1943, Americans were
als
such
as
rubber
and
oil.
Capt.
1943 when the US recovered a hearings, etc. In addition, me­
distribute New Testaments to all
reading the so-called maru code red covered code book that had
Fuchida was promoted to be­ the military across the western
moirs, papers and documents of (
used by the Japanese transport been buried by the crew of the
come an adjutant to the Imperial countries. He became the princi­
men
who
had
access
to
secrets
ships to supply their far-flung Japanese submarine 1-23 that
family, especially the children. ple actor in the film, "One Came
are
now
available.
In
Japan
military forces. Harrington, in sank off Guadalcanal. Another
But that was not his "cup of Back." The movie features Mit­
there
are
more
secrets
and
ac
­
his book Yankee Samurai, indi­
tea," and he eventually declined suo Fuchida returning to Hawaii
account mentioned by James counts, such as the hundredthe opportunity.
cated the three Nisei translated Oda in the biography of John
- not with bombs but with a
volume
Senshu
Soshu,
pub
­
documents that were found in Aiso describes how the Japa­
With the unconditional sur­ Bible and apology and forgive­
lished by Japan's Self Defense
the grounded Japanese subma­
nese navy code was broken after Forces, which have not been render of Japan in 1945, life had ness in his heart. Captain Mit­
rine 1-1 which helped identify the Japanese Navy Code book
lost its meaning for Mitsuo Fu­ suo Fuchida is now gone to his
studied
nor
translated.
Howev
­
the code names and calls of all and cyphering machine were
chida. He returned to retire on eternal reward, but the miracle
er,
even
with
the
availability
of
Japanese navy ships, air squa­ picked up from the grounded
his family farm near Nara. One of his salvation story is forever
the
vast
number
of
books
and
drons and bases. In addition, Japanese transport ship Kofuku
day, while bustling through the
documents
and
the
release
of
se
­
the Americans had broken the Maru off the coast of Guadalca­
streets of a busy Japanese city,
cret
papers,
the
complex
picture
Japanese navy's weather code, nal. The American cryptogra­
he was given a tract of Jake DeSeason's Greetings
of
all
the
details
of
what
hap
­
a breakthrough which played a phers were constantly kept busy
Shazer, the Dolittle bomber (Bomitted due to
big role in the latter air bom­ working night and day even pened before, during and after 24 Liberator), who dropped the
Pearl
Harbour
may
be
so
convo
­
bardment of Japan. But the though they had developed com­
first bombs on Nagoya and Jap­
bereavement
luted
that
perhaps
no
one
mind
breaking of Japanese JN-25 plicated electronic instrumenta­
anese soil during the war. About
could ever grasp the entire pic­ this time he was further im­
navy code and the Japanese fail­ tion and helped sort out the as­
Mr. & Mrs. Toshio
ture. Many more secrets died
ure to change their main cyphers tronomical combinations and
pressed with the story told by
witfi the death, suicide, and exe­
Sakamoto
more frequently won victories at permutations of the code signals
returning Japanese POW's from
cution
of
the
many
principles
on
Midway, killed Yamamoto, and generated by the Japanese cy­
Idaho that a young woman
Mr.& Mrs. Yuki
both
side
of
the
Pacific
involved
insured the steady route to Ja­ phering machines.
whose missionary parents were
Sakamoto
in the affair. In the end we may
killed
by
the
Japanese
in
the
pan by the Americans.
So, radio intelligence and code have to be forever content with
Mr. & Mrs. Koichi
Philippines was so kind to them
Before Pearl Harbour there breaking helped win the war.
only a little peek here and a little
during their captivity. Fuchida
Sakamoto
were very few Americans who < James Oda points put that if the
glimpse
there...and
will
never
knew the Japanese language. US Navy had not been so preju­
was deeply impressed. TMs was
Mrs, >K. Hayakawa
really
know
what
actually
hap
­
The entire navy had only about ।diced and had trusted Nisei lanfollowed up with interviews
Mrs. A. Sakai
pened.

Wednesday, January 1, 1992

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Page E-19

Japanese Women Submissive? Meet the "Obatalian"
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TOKYO.--All right, it's true:
Formidable Women
They know your business bet­
But what axe does the cartoon­ have reached to his work, rush­
the Japanese are an enigma.
ter
than
you
do
and
won't
hesi
­
ist have to grind? Is Obatalian a ing out with a stream of prod­
Chances are you can't name 10
As a cartoonist, Katsuhiko
tate
to
let
you
know
it.
They
re
­
famous living Japanese (try it). Hotta is in the habit of working
reactionary, anti-women rant? ucts aimed at the obatalian.
lish
confrontation
and
enjoy
Hotta, who took up cartooning These are very tough customers
And, while Japanese can say to and rising late. Under this regi­
each other "one guy was like men, his fellow travelers on the nothing more than dressing as an undergraduate, admits that toplease.
Woody Allen and the other like train from home to work are not down an insufficiently servile although his first thoughts in
From an outside's perspec­
creating the character was to tive, the interesting aspect of all
John Wayne," you probably the early-morning salarymen, supermarket clerk or cab driver.
They rule the roost with an poke fun at his busybody neigh­
don't have a set of Japanese but homemakers of full maturi­
this is what it reveals about the
iron hand, arbitrarily selecting bours, his respect for their pow­
mental caricatures that goes ty, women of an age that merits
balance of power between the
husband's suits and children's er and vitality has grown.
much beyond gray-suited busi­ the Japanese honorific Oba-san
sexes in Japan. While it can't be
schools. From the household
"Many
readers
wanted
to
nessmen and "geisha girls." .
denied that Japariese women do
or "auntie." Observe them in ac­
Perhaps, for example, like tion and you may conclude, as pay packet, which they com­ know why I didn't do a sequel not yet enjoy equal opportunity
mand, only a meager allowance in Oji-san (middle-aged men),"
in the workplace, in the. typical
many westerners you picture Hotta did, that your oneJapanese women as delicate and dimensional image of submis­ goes to the breadwinner. The he says. "But really, these guys home the women does control
balance unspent after supermar­ are exhausted...they're gloomy.
submissive creatures who exist sive Japanese womenhood mer­
the family finances and she does
ket forays is doubled out to the They have no zest for social in­
only to satisfy the slightest its reevaluation.
make most key decisions re­
most
fawning
member
of
a
pack
teraction outside the home. garding the family. In fact, Jap­
whims of their menfolk?
As the train rolls in, she ap­
of bicycle-borne emissaries from Women are simply more lively,
Stereotypes. Constraining, pears from nowhere, elbows
anese housewives probably
banks, securities firms and insu­ cheerful and interesting than
frequently inaccurate and often poised to poke. Once inside,
have more decision-making
rance
companies.
men."
unfair. No one likes to think she's not shy about racing for
power than their western counUnfair or Deadly Accurate?
Hotta
adds
that
he
applauds
they fit. The worst are based on the last two seats. One's for
teiparts - and use it.
It's parody, of course, and un­ women who are flexing their
a scant understanding of the auntie, the other for her ubiqui­
Certainly, not all Japanese
fair perhaps. But it's close rhuscles. "The discrimination of
people they purport to describe. tous shopping bag. But this is
women are obatalian. Nor are
enough to the mark that when the past was abnormal, but Jap­
But when rooted in thorough only the warm-up. Clad in battle
they the simpering ceatures that
Hotta introduced the four-panel anese women have discovered
knowledge of the target and per­ dress (a loose-fitting shift) and
westerners often seem to think
strip in 1986, the term obatalian they have the right to speak
ceptively framed, stereotypes her best calf-length nylons,
they are. The truth lies some­
entered the language almost in- out... and they no longer feel
can be oh-so-deadly accurate she's ready to challenge others
where between, more complex
stantlly. The 39-year-old author confined by the traditional no­
and revealing.
and, well, beautiful.
of her kind for pride of place as
from Kyushu has since sold tion of male dominance."
They can also provide useful the doors open at the local de­
more than 5 million Obatalian
The cartoonist is also amused
insight into another culture. partmentstore.
- Focus Japan
books.
to note how corporate marketers
Not, generally, those formed
Combining oba-san with bafrom the outside looking in. The talian ("Batalion," the Japanese
ones to watch are the caricatures name for the horror film Return
people use to describe their of the Living Dead), Hotta came
neighbours, brothers, sisters up with the obatalian, a biting
or... 'aunties.'
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A re-meeting with Mr. McNab
a grade 7 teacher

Blue Jays they're not
Grannies hit the field

By June Aoki
bend they had come to know? I
Coast, in a way a touching again
It was a cloudy day in early
guess
we
were
experiencing
of the earth and water we once
April, 1942.I Was thirteen then
emptiness in leaving behind
going on to fourteen, in Grade 7 "what" had become so much a knew. Coming home, I won­
dered if by chance I could make
at Fanny Bay School, a twopart of our everyday living. As I
room school about forty miles walked I felt the school's tug contact with Mr. McNab of
whom I had heard not a thing
up the island from Nanaimo.
and this walking home was like
It was, too, a bewildering day hands that slip away in parting, over more than four decades
Through the B.C. Teachers
for many of us. Our Japanese
„
not knowing what to say in a siFederation offices we learned
Language School had already lent farewell
teen ordered closed by the MiniI was about to leave the school that a Mr. William McNab, a re­
I was about to leave the school
S ^ducat,on- My father had yard. Something called upon me tired teacher, lived in North
Vancouver. I felt a stirring in my
already been sent to a road camp to turn around for a las? look
near Blue River in the far off On
" the
' ’balcony of the school’ heart. I phoned him. Most gra­
ciously he listened to my story.
wilds of the Rockies. We had
,
,
--— stood my teacher Mr McNab
een bearing rumours that we alone, watching as if to keep For him it must have been puz­
zling after forty-four years to
were to be moved, first to Van- guard over us in our departure
?°“v- ’ pn ,s?mewhere to the
I almost felt I did wrong in sort me out from a mountain of
intenor of Bntish Columbia and stealing a look so without a memories of hundreds and thou­
sands of students who called
him teacher. But he was my
Mr. McNab, my teacher.
...Somehow I felt I was leaving a place, to
He kindly visited us. I experi­
which, like home, I belonged.
enced a deep inward joy of
thanks when my hand grasped
K?tv‘SMef n° .ri8^:.Tomi Baba>
Mori.
the hand of he who silently gave
possibly beyond. We had been
Katy
Yoslnda,
Dons
Fujioka,
Blanche
Hyodo
wave of good-bye, I resumed watch over us as we left his
trying not to believe Charlie
Tomo Yoshida, Mary Ebata
my walk to continue my way school that April day forty-four
Tweedie who told my brother,
homeward. I wondered, "What
Tnmi
ra“LHlra?,0’ Pat Towata> AW Tsurada,
years ago. I felt he did not know
Tim, that all the Japanese will be
is Mr. McNab thinking right that over all those years the
MaJy Tone8affa- Sugar Sato,
herded en masse at Hastings
now?"
lam Heffernan, Grace Kmoshita, Toki Sato, Nancv Sh n
memory of his teaching - watch­
Park, and who had said, teasTern Fujioka, Sylvia Ise, Maw Mori
y
’
I cannot remember well my ing us leave Fanny Bay School
ingly perhaps, "That way only
other teachers in all the years of for the last time - stayed vividly
one bomb will do it!"
Photo by Jack Hemmy
my schooling which began in with me. For me, that singular
On this day in April, I went to
Fanny Bay, Continued first in a
moment reflected his being as a
school solely for the purpose of
school in the Slocan relocation teacher.
Jack Hemmy
leaving school. As soon as
PRONTO.Blue
.
Ja
?
s they're not! They're none other
centre, and later in Picture Butte
I told Mr. McNab how over
school began, we cleaned out
school in Southern Alberta. But these forty-four years, I often
than the girls that dominated the Christie Pits Sandlot
our .desks, returned texts that
some 44
Mr. McNab, I remember. He
years ago.
re-called the image of his watch­
belonged to the school, gathered
was the one I recall. He was the fulness clothed in care that lived
tha nostalgic reanion was relived by members of
our books and belongings while
teacher who urged us in school vividly within me. Mustering
"^ ®xlst»ng teams comprised of Phono Motois -Sea Breeze
our Occidental school mates sito display our Japanese kimonos
MS Ebata T N
?nt°n Ch°P Suey- CaP‘watched our movements. and to perform some "odori" to courage I asked him if he re­
Ca^ mc YalSa P
Lichee Gardens
membered the moment. There
With our arms full, we left our
Japanese music. He was the one
was a moment of silence. Then
classroom taking footsteps that
ar^d°th/h?
th^’ maybe a ,ittle slower ~g
who on the annual district sports he simply said, "That was a sad
seemed to know that these might day insisted he take all his stu­
day." That was all he would
be the last, at least in this clasb the
Is’ old
LfeW
™was
ssedstill
flythere.
-balls’ but “ ^ite of
scorching sun,
sprnt
dents, the athletic and the not so say. pie rest he left unsaid. But
room. Cautiously, we moved athletic, breaking with the tradi­
Acting coach Paul Hirano was directing the girls from the
I felt in the silence he said much.
step by step down two flights of
tion of sports day for elite ath­
formofficial uraPire, took verbal abuse
I feel blessed being allowed
stairs and would our way along
letes. For us, the event was forty-four years ago to be in the
rorm all sides for his calls.
the worn path of the school
In the bleachers were husbands, daughters, sons and grandsomething special, happy to be presence of a teacher whose
playground homeward bound.
"tak^wn”C°“r^8T !heir moras orgrannys on. "slide!",
loaded on the back of a truck, quiet but thoughtful gesture had
Leaving this day was different
and to see all of us run, and touched me deeply. Today I feel
’ Good play grannie" echoed throughout the
from the usual end of a school
jump, and throw. It mattered doubly blessed being allowed to
day. Somehow I felt I was leav­
little whether we won or lost. re-live the fullness of this mo­
white jersey sweaters were kindly donated by Mr
ing a place to which, like home,
Robert Alonzi, manager of Canada Trost Real Estate (Missis­
All of us were grateful that Mr. ment in the re-gained presence
I belonged. Why was it that my
sauga) and Mary Ebata.
vyvujMS
McNab took us all - swift ones of Mr. McNab, rooted as I am in
usually happy feet had no skip
After a sumptious buffet catered by the ladies of the Konko
and slow ones, dumpy ones and memories of my teacher of for­
to them? Did my feet know that
lean ones, tall ones and short ty-four years ago.
eVenln? Kas rounded off with a video taken by
no more would they tread this <ones.
George Nakamura of the game played during the afternoon Y
path whose every bump and
Last year, we returned to the

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