THE NEW
An Independent Organ For Canadian* Of Japanese
VOL 15, NO. 7S
SATURDAY.
Et 20, 1952
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By Toyo Takota
Embassy Spokesmen;
Some events of the past couple of weeks are worth a post-mot -tern. In Toronto, the good citizens have been playing parlor detectives over the disappearance of a quartet of the most infa'm-cus residents from its city jail. Not only that, many of them are heated up over the Hearst-type reporting that appeared as feature, articles centred around the prison break, in one of our �M respected papers. H It was just a month ago, writ � frig from Chicago,, that we laud ed the Toronto, papers in com-parison with those in the mid
out 'anywhere.as much to becoino a possessor of one of those living room gadgets. ;
Good or bad, television will be a' big time industry, yielding bread and butter to thousands of Canadians/.. It's a wide field of employment, ranging from the .'manufacture, selling and servicing of sets to the production of. program which requires technicians, artists of all sorts, advertising promoters and such.
Among the many already employed in the. industry arc many Niseis in southern Ontario. Because it's a new field here, there's
Japan-Canada Trade Mnst Be More
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Japanese Film ; Otuwa
Wins Award At I Japan has now moved up a peg from laat year's
v r p ^ i i fourth plaeo to become Canada's third best customer,
vemce festival j noxt on]y to Britain and the United States, it was re-
VENICE.*. Italy � The ;Japa- * Yealed recently by spokesmen of the Japanese Embassy
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west metropolis for being devoid every opportunity for the enter
of sensationalism. Wc were cros^ sed up badly with mawkish sob- j : :'i sister writings and pictures that -r:\ blocked all else from the front | pages.
� '% .More than that, it tied up with' .':.��. a local radio station to broadcast ] a direct appeal from one of the '] desperadoes' wife a rid children ] to give himself up. It must be '���A marked down as strictly the - ��*� cheapest kind of publicity cater-;< ing to the lower elements of our ' j public, for it had absolutely no �. i possibility of tpuclxing the hard . : ened criminal, i' We were happy to see that most of the people were appal-' \' led and disgusted with all this. They telephoned the station in protest and scathed them with.' letters to the editor.
One thing fortunate about be-V ing a Nisei is that, no matter ; "how suspicious the circumstances, 1 we certainly couldn't have been
.falsely identified as one of them. * * * '.
With the advent of telecasting in Montreal and Toronto, we note that more JC's are joining the ranks of TV-set owners. It is gradually becoming a necessary luxury, and within the next two .or three years, probabl y every other Nisei home in Toronto will be properly equipped. � As.it is, the ratio- of JC ca owners to homeowners is about one to two, and you needn't dole
prising Nisei to get in on the ground floor. For those seeking to venture into something new, or. just out of school, it's a thought worth while toying with . Even as an entertainer of some kind, it's a point of consideration. There would, as the pace steps up, be even' a need for actors and actresses: with-Nisei fea hires. .
News from the coast is the sinking of the CPR ship "Princess Kathleen.'' She, together' with "Princess Marguerite!' was the queen of the "Princess".Vessels that plied among the B. C. ports.
Before, the War, she was on the triangular run between Vancouver, Victoria and Seattle and was about the sleekest vessel that ever appeared on a picture postcard, and she was noted as the best coastal steamer anywhere in the world. .
. As youngsters, we often went down to the Harbour to watch her come in or to see her steam out.
During the war, she, together with her sister ship, was refitted into a merchant cruiser; The Marguerite went down as a result of enemy action in the Mediterranean. Now the Kathleen has just joined her.
It's like the loss' of an old friend.
nose film. "O-Haru", took one of three ii.itnational awards ranked ! below the grand, .prize won by a French movie, "Jeux �Interdits" (Forbidden Play) in last week's 13th International Film Festival in Venice. The other two winners were a Rossellini picture starring Ing rid Bergman, "Europe 1951" and "The Quiet Man" produced by John Ford.
Although not expecting to see another "Rashomon" which received the Grand Prize and catapulted Japanese films into worldwide prominence, the hall was packed to see the Japanese film starring Kinuyo Tanaka, Hisako Yamane and Toshiro Mifune.
in Ottawa
In.1951, Japan bought $73,000,-{){)() worth of Canadian products, but this year it is expected that her import from Canada will exceed that amount by over $25, 000,000. J a p a h" hopes to buy about 600,000 tons of grain dur ing the crop year of l!)52-53. Of $ 100,000,000, $70,000,000
Two Lokehead Nisei Girls Get Awards
FORT WILLIAM, 6nt. � Two Nisei girls were among the students in the Lakehead who re ceived scholarships and bursaries this month.
Fort William Collegiate stu-ent Shizuye Togawa was award-ed the Dominion-Provincial bursary for technical institute valued at.$150 at the annual commencement exercises on Sept. 5. She is'the daughter of Mrs. H. Togawa of Fort William.
Ruth Kawasoye, a Port Arthur Collegiate student, received the Ladies' Auxiliary^ Canadian Legion award of $50 at the commencement on Sept. 12. She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. H. Kawasoye of Loon Lake.
In fact, an anti-dumping pledge was given at the last meeting of the Japanese Diet and it was also in the -preamble to the Japanese Peace Treaty which Canada signed with Japan.
If some Japanese exporters will be should resort to dumping, Carta-�^n^^W �<* fa Vho right to impTd�,nPr
under the peace treaty. This will be applicable even if Japan Is g r an ted most-favored-nation treatment in customs duties.
jln the course of making preparations to obtaining most-fav-ored-nation tariff scale, the Embassy officials nonetheless felt that it was not their position to put any pressure on the Canadian government since it is a favour
worth on pulp.
But on the other hand, Japan was able to sell only $12,000,000 worth of goods to Canada last year, a situation which is onesided and in favour of Canada 6 to 1.
"If it is to be of a real benefit to Japan as well as to Canada, the trade between the two count-ries must not be one-sided but a two-way proposition," said Mr.
Still Idle As B, C. Fish Strike Enters 3rd Week
Group To Present Japanese Kabuki Over Montreal TV
, ,. , [' . I dependent on its good graces.
Masao Izumoi, first secretary of . * *
� he Embassy who is an expert on T* speech m Victoria, B.
trade matters G. recently, Prime Minister St.
w * / j ... LArf.�n nf Laurent made excellent and diplo-
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MONTREAL � Television viewers in the Montreal area will see Japanese kabuki for the first time near the end of October over CBFT on Channel 2 it was reported. r
The Montreal Drama Club recently wi< invited to present the kabuki. "Chuehingara" over the Montreal television station.
The Club composed of mostly Issei actani and several \i-prvpnTTRg for perfonaance of the Ml Nov. &. also received aa nmtatNM froan a <b-a�a froao to oeifoi-� before an
Occidental audience.
CBFT made its Canadian debut on Sept. 6 and ha* both French and English-language programs. It runs about three hours daily in the evenings, ^even days a week.
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MONEY MAKES NEST
NAGOYA. Japan � Kintar-M-ir.-�ka:r.i. a ?a::.i>cr deaier, hUi a Jnvsi-ese bankr.'worth hehtrd a picture".
Or- fiay he four.d il fane. Wh^n ca.i�^d p��iice. they found it in
VANCOUVER � The B C. fishing industry is still tied.up since the United Fishermen anri Allied Workers' Union called the strike on Sept. 6 after all negotiations over the price of fal chum salmon failed. The strike has stretched to 14 days and affects more than 4,000 fishermen including many Japanese Canadians who are crippled by the lay-off.
The union rejected the canneries' offer to increase prices as much as I�,2 cents a pound last week. The union is demanding from eight to eleven cents :i pound while the canneries had of-fered only 51* cents a pound.
Meanwhile the salmon fleet tie up has placed JC fishermen in a difficult position since they have followed the decision of th" UFAWU. Should the cannerie? \ practice,
ing -for a greater Canadian market not only-.to pay for its' purr chases here but to replace the surplus of sterling currency with some solvent dollars in her treas ury. Her present situation is similar to that of before the war. Between 1922 and 1935; Japan bought goods worth $325,000,000 from Canada, while Canada's imports from Japan amounted to only $166,509,000. A trade war in 1935 raised practically prohibitive barriers. It was ended by reciprocal concessions, effective rn January, 1936..
It is admitted'that Japan � had resorted in the past to unfair trade practices, but since, the signing of the Japanese Peace Treaty there has been no dumping. One spokesman said that what Canadian manufacturers accuse Japanese of d u ra p i n g cheap goods is not. dumping in the real sense of the word.
The Japanese traders have no intention of ondesweiling goods ami I think what they are doing may be called 'social damping'. Though the coot of Japanese la- j bor is the highest ia Asia, it & j still considerably cheap�abooi j one-sixth of Caaadiaa labor - Urae : enaolHig Japaaewe goodn to be i �oW cheaper hot not �eeewariry of aa inferior qaality than the Caaadiaa proaacto.** he raid. Firm and decisive on Japan' | stand of curbing any unfair trad.
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attempt to break the strike, tb=-r.i- ca.>i<v^- j � ... JC s position would become pne- . , ..
the celling where rats had ton, carious since they nave received | ot which .s to eatabhsh goodwid :t to bits to make a nest. much help from the caanene*. Utrougn fair trade competitior
stressed that Japan's policies t� day have long-range views, "n*�
commit himself to saying that he will give most-favored-nation treatment to Japan, but we can assume that we are going to get it," said Mr. Izumoi;
Mr.. Izumoi added that the Japanese oranges imported here last year were levied at 30 cents on each cubic footer on each box; whereas tangerines which were developed from the seeds of the Japanese mandarin oranges were allowed entry to Canada from Florida duty-free.
"I feel that Japanese oranges also should not be levied as orange-growing Is not a Canadian industry. There is no such industry to hurt here and duty-free oranges mean that much more dollars for Japan.
"The same applies to tea, the duty of which is 8 cents per pound. Under "the most-favored-nation category, the duty on tea would be 5 cents per pound."
Japan's imports are under a general tariff scale, which calU for the highest fate of payment in customs duties. Under such a category, luxury items such- as perfume and jewellery are dutiable, at about 50*2 of the aelKng price of the exporters. Most of the silk goods which comprise a large volume of Japanese imports are levied at anywhrre from 30 to 50",.
While Japan is wH qualified iux tae tow.rt tariff BcaTe winch is thn British Preferential Tariff]* applicable only to those coaatrie* within Uie Brttisb Commonw�nHK she is waiting to receive the onjj other aHemative�the moat-fav-ored-nation tariff policy.