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NEW
An Independent Organ For Canadians 0i Japanese Origin
VOL 17 � NO. 37,
WEDNESDAY, MAY 12. 1954.
TORONTO. OUT,
Only Small Fraction of Original 400,000 Ainus Left; Race Faces Physical Extinction in 10-20 Yrs,
Km
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HtKAOI. Hokkaido. � The
>i? (pronounced: eye-nooze).
0 'militant occupants of central
.r.,.n'mvt face physical extinc-
- ..;:�" spite of all the assistance
- ��>> them- by their conquerors, . Japanese, ; . '
hat's what many .-people'; say.' Ikashi'.natoku, the. 78-year old f of the 560-man Ainu tribe
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IsloBLikejt
Hy GKOR.GE�NISIIIM.U'RA-
N.TII'j 1 had occasion to glance
� through our .list of subscrib-y'rs the other day, I had hot �rearize'd .that:"The New Canadian \vas be:!1.? read, or at least taken, by persons in such far-flung I. roalitie-s. Save for a few minor gaps here .'.'and there, why, our subscribers literally circle the - globe!'- .. � . : : ' �' '" ; V. ���'.� '*.-�'�'
From ihe Yukon to way down in" South America,. froiiV Japan across two oceans and a continent ti> (lerinany. the mailman deliS'ers The -New-Canadian to our readers every week. (We're not trying io.amness you; we're just'giving yeu ihe:facts. Yeah?;Yeah!) :
Several copies of the NC are airmailed weekly to various points in S-Mith America''7^- going to the ;Jap'urie?.e Embassy at Santiago, Chile, and readers in Sao Paolo, Ikaziu and Lima, Peru..";'%' �
"Ar.-nher copy goes to a profes->'V at Universitists Buehhand-Juj'S in Germany.
Subscribers in .Japan number r-;.'�r<? jhaii sixty, notable among .M"h->ni arc the Japan Travel 'Bu-tvau. JlvfRO (Japan Export T.ra-.i,;~_ Research Organization). thr ,];>pan Buddhist Council the A.v-vhi Shinibun . and Mainiehi .Si-::-;iniii, the Canadian Embassy -i; I -kyo. as Well as a .couple ���;-:� to Canadian Nisei soldiers -�v.-.'-i'.v.od at Hire. ' .;��'�
N'^.-irjiliy/lOo* percent of our "� -;�!/.r< are. on this continent '-� ?:-:'! :-'iing from, the icy northwest ':'-�_ ''"'� equatorial south. .One of .-:-'� -i'liiresses. in .the Yukon, re-:.":'<:< you of a-scene in a typical H ;;.�. ',,,>d western � it reads: - .-v: ,;gh Cafe l^ar, Keno City,
-V :-r.r.ii.y of our listing 'for' .-�""� � -'.rfic Coast yields some �"�"7"'->: :"^'ar^ �>f place-names as '"'- - �-. :i o r s e. Mayo Landing, y � har;..ue- City, Waynr Is- j .. Mirv.aski Cove, the liidiar j :/.:a. Schooi at Le Jac, and i
; Vancouver. . r the border, we find ivaiivrs m Seattle, For.-
here, disagrees. '
The chief's wife has a strange tattooed face. Both of them look more like Caucasians than Asia-til's,
The blue-eyed;- white-skinned old nian with a long.grey beard and mustache, claims that the Japanese race lias only "assimilated" the Ainus.
''The Japanese '''race '-'is.; as a niafter of fa6t< a.mixture of many races �.Mongol, Chinese, Korea n,, 1 ndone.s iah, Tart a r, A i nu. and others --and why do inany Japanese now'.'make a fuss .'about' a few thousand halt-breed -c'liil-dren born of 'American-soldiers and Japanese mothers 1" the Ainu chief asks.. �
Ikashiniatoku, who also has the Japanese name of Ihei Miyamoto, says'there were at least _40(V,(>qO: "pure bipod" Ainus on Hokkaido 100 years ago. but only a .little over 10,000 remain tpxiay.. '. ''This " does not; mean we've been fading away, but only been melted into .the Japanese," he explains.
Many Ainu daughters, who are. as attractive as Nordic maids, were married to Japanese boys, and many husky and hairy Ainu boys have wed. tender Japanese wonien;during^tlie past 100; years, he added. "You cannot easily tell their children .from other Japanese chiidren, especially when they live together in town!" .�-.-.
The first 1,000 years of Japanese history are full of bloody battles _bet\veen the Ainu race who then lived iii Honshu {Japan's main island), and the Japanese who had obviously invaded Japan from the south.':".'
The government lias banned married Ainu women from.tattooing their faces.. "Only^a handful of old women .with tattooed face? still live." Mrs. Ikashimatokii explains. .
The "pure blood" Ainus have a rare blood type..not falling under any of the usual A, R, ABT or O-types. The Japanese government makes utmost .efforts to preserve the "pur^ blo^d'' A.inu race mainly froiiv :the-~ viewpoint x>f 'academic study, '"Hut mo.=t; Ainu youngsters want to marry Japanese.'' says the old. man.
"In another, ten or "twrnty. years, it'\yili-�.beconif hard .''�-.find any .pure blood; Ainus." the _chief -.lamented. ..- .
May Fam Fowler's Book on Sadalrichi
HOLLYWOOD. ~.'\Mir.ti:---^ ^f th'f Last Mr-tirp" by G:-r.- F---.:-er. ir. which or� r-f th* ehar.'.f;- r.-
'�*��''** Oakland, and to the
'*_ Lak* C::y, Denver. Ne- rray bo ;rr<-T--Orleans, If 5- . aurh-
�, Chicago. J�--hr. r^rradir;'
ard New York. ?k� lion :�..� W. C. Fi' "dj^> f'r�-<i--
: *" Car^ada. in c��n- rick March as J hr, TJarryrr >T. .
ard Th'^^i** Mitch-H a,- F-� >-.
Three B. C Chapters Attend Budd. Function
STKVKSTOX.. R C. --The Sixth Annual Xo.rth'Wt'st" lUidd-hist Sunday School Teachers* Training Session \vsi> .held at Portland. Ore., over the May Y-l? .weekend..-.Kight chapters were represented at the imornaiiotiat; functipn,.'-,including' ''three .fnvr: British Ct'lum'bia centres,
Atleiuii.ng the..-' session fronr Canada were Nori Ikuta : from Kelowna,; Tatsy Kobayashi ; and research chairnwn Aliee Saki-yaina from Kte\vsto'n, ''i\vA Y<i-shiko .Inouye'.' from VanroUvei;. :Uev. S. Ikuta .of. ,Ke!o\vnu aful Rev. Y. Okano of .Vancouver, av-: compauiod the g.ro'np.
Nine-Man Trade Mission Coming from Japan to Fair
'TORONTO. � In conjunction with -the \>\ thconvinir' Seventh Cni'adian Intt [-national Trade Fair lo !v h '1.1 in. Toronto fr.y>m \l;iv,,>l '.thiviUi1!1 Juno 11. a tr;ule
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Nisei jti'rls p:\thtHl in bright kimono hav�� be^n arranKwi to apjvar at iho b\>oths on the op�Mi-
Twer Nisei Brothers Now at West Point
BAKRRSI'TKLIX Calif,'U The ;>eceptance. of, an VS-year;� old Ba}<ersfieid<N!seiT 'ftober'tMat^i'-i.rtpto, as a'cadet, at West.Point Military Academy, as the second �member of the same family, was accorded- wide atle'ul ion'-bore 'recently. . "'
Robert's 'rider, brother, Glenn, was. .'appointed..- to West 'Point-four year?: ago, 'and will lie graduating in June.
Earlier last rnmVth. theyoK-Hvr Matsumolo, now a- stude' ' ;�* :"a!i Francisco Stato College, t <> -k .hi > entrance"exaininations and ph-y.�=:-. col tests with some -ji'y .others, and was reported to have topi) �<! them ail. A graduate of -B:Vkers-field High, Jve was a halfback on the varsity football {--rn; for three seasons, and a :'m--mher.' of. "the track team. -.
Brothers attending We.-t .point-is a rarity, it" was. pointed. �ml in local newspaper, radio and television, reports la?t week, especially '..from a family with 'no previous svrvire connections, .
Kbnno, \Oyakowq Named Ohio State Swim^ming Co-Captains
UMFiUS. Ohio; ^Hawaii's Ford "Konno and Yoshi 'Oyakawn; were, named co-captains .r>f- lhe_' Oliio-Stat*' I'niversiiy swi'mmi!^r-teatn f"r H'�3o la>t \vf.->k":it the" team's annual <i\vards banouet.
Konno and Oynkawa tak/- -v-'r leadership <-f the Buck- y. � -Aat'-i c-raft'smt-n frof<:" 'Drek C'u.-v�-1:'.rid.
The ri'-'X" e.j-captains art- \vor!d r-'"j'>:-(l ho?d."T-. ch3:^p"!'T> in th/-Hi? Ten. NCAA a<:d. NAAU. .
C'-;ieh ' MiVo- -l>yjpe . *:-adf- -it � �'� a'r lr.:it f'v-: Br:rk<-y�-. sv i v.-
cr.vr- ar �-. ;:. �'.:�� N''AA-
M-KI l.ASS IN PIANO "FIV.\f.<
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.nit>s:o:i 01 !ii::V i-hsls-and'bur-iuo-smon is schedul-,d.'.'to -arrive -i.ere froin- Japan shortly. - -.' , '. �'� ."'�':-;
The 'ji'ro'jip. includes: Usujiro lid;i of . Tvkyo's l\eo!vomio: Bu-Te.;u; lli.-a.^lii 1 erai of 'Aichi's
Cliambi'i1 of. Trade and Com-
"meire; Mas.u> tol'ita of JKTRO;
'-To'sliisun.ii Yoshida of Osaka
�Chamber of Tra-le. and. CnnV-:me:ce;-' Tumio. Takaoka. llokka-' 'ido :'0'ffice: of. 'Trade/ and Commerce: Kiyo.-hi N'ojiri, Tokyo
..V-'cohoiuic': "':.'Bure:iu; ^Yoshitar.o A vaki of, Na'iagaw;\ * M anufac-tiiVi-rs {Tokyo}; Katsujiro Osumi of Osnmi ' M;i-iiufactu.rers (Osaka V; :uid. Klv.in Nujnata of Mi-toyi> >laHiifaetviring Co.; (Vok.o-
;.hania)'.'.' '.-"". -.. . ''
The Japanese booths,' which have: been '��.inoivased- it; space
. from previous yoiuv^ are report-V<i. to ho coiivioiiently. located. ;uiii v\ ill11 e jirawin^ larg.e crowds. To h'-r.qhten the attraction, three
l:pon conclusion of the trade fair,. the ':.4apanc-M>.-sty'lo toa room, one of tho feature exhibits, .will l>e donated by the Japanese Government to the S'ation'arA.rt .(.Jalr lery in Ottawa. �
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MAY 12, 1914
Ottawa. � nepartment of Labour ivveals that Custodian of .lapanese 1'roperly disposed of l.HU parcels of real estate totalling $t,500.(MOV
Saiidon, \\.C. ---Movement of >>andon evacuees . commences; .transfer of hospital cases to Nakusp, Ne\v Denver, and Ka^lo underway. -
Vancouver; � Xisei given 12-.monlhs ''sentence following; police discovery of his maMjueradiiig '-as a Chinese since start of eyaeu-;.tion in 1042. :
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NUWSLtflTKU ByMlKK. M, MASAt)KA
j Ambassador Iguchi Meets f Official
/Ambassador Sadao Iguchi met; official Washington publicly, for the firsf time 'when he. held a r�-t-eptiotr rcco'itly in honour of the birthday of the ianper'or of -Ja-. i .pan. ..Since he reported .for his.' r n:'spon's'ibie assignment several i; weeks ago;'.hy- has been busy niak--! in^. jiersonal -'calls and. hr re�Vi>-. r'gani/i'ng the staff-.
.According to the society edidir.s who have a penchant for comparisons, it was a "glittering sue-. "re>s" with most of official Washington thai Counted in.-'all end-
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.�V:!ibas.~<i!is�r. Iguchi . i> ��'i\n \
strantre'r to ,t)ie .t'nited--States, i
: havjirtr served two i.o.urs of. duly |
t .1!? New V-'iK :r"d ��);.'� i;!. Chicago i
in the- Jajian.--. �':"...,suiate^ in |
thf- 1 �.�..;"'<. 'He -\V.as'. 'iic loim. �'] >
of tb'-" Kinhas.-y h-- t.'ov,- h�-;ids. at i
�the time of :hc-outbr-i-;:k of. war.'.I
A .S-t:JiS'.>f':e.| -dipi'Vnia.t thor�'�ug!>- i
Jy at home \.:*ri 1^:- K:^g-ish L:;.-'�:
^u;tir-- hij nr'-.-t'-r-d -at' Oxford ;
I ;l'tV(-r-i'.y. r,�- y-:-.- :;' �>'.','' /till;*--.
<'"t;:-;.n'-r'-d l\) th>- .^iM-c:u!ation that ;
..-;..i,;,| u-:u->. }��-.� 'so--' Kikx-hi Ar-;iX..!
.�A-.T>'l:::;::e.j Jura;/- f;r>L \> .-t-.v::r ; .'�!:-t.;;S=.'i't-r 't- "his To'-j- � TV.. H� �
'�s.j.< r.:ST^d Ai-MN^^-dor t.."(':.n- ; ;:<ir: Iri !:�^2. n ;�;-! r.�- h''-ld .ur.til h:- >('���:.: JIT--', -t:-?: TO. J:;nan'�
tariff, prdicies and. mutual defense and security problems.
>Yilh his greai umler.slanding .of America and its ways, he is expected to further international good relations between Japan and (he l:nilVd States. ,
And m his efforts to promote.-greater unity and cooperation Viet ween two .major Pacific powers, Japanese --Americans ." join with their fellow "Americans and their relatives and friends in Japan to. wish him continued success in his important mission.
Nisei wh > can recall the pro: World. War II days andr immeVli-a'tely therf-affer know that the <tat�' <>f g'.nnlwilF bi'iwo�-n Japan ' aril!' 'the' r^ritci? ."'..ittrs. '"often n easrnes '-omriiunity giM>d\vi}l- towards' thero. '." . '
For this - r'e;�.--�in, Ni �-1 A.meri: c;ins jiaye ;i. p:�r tii-ular .sta'rre i:\ the Ambassador's. ' s-wr'.-ss in Washitigton. - -
( HAT WITH MXON
Tup -ranking 'A'riierit'ah at - the 1 1 --��].( ion wa:- Virr - .President iv;.,:..i;d Nixon. We fi->:i.->ged to i ivc a few wonU'wj'.h" him.
H�- zrentioned th�- :-|�ectacu!ar p s:^rfi~�' f.if th�- Is**'! Americans tn aval! th�-'.Tt*;^lv*^ of th* natu-
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