Vol. 14�No. 27
SATURDAY, APRIL 7, 19S1
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THE WEEKLY HABIT
ByTOYOTAKATA
With or without Russia, the stag* is slowly being set for Japanese peace talks. John Foster Dulles of the- U.S. State Department, the off-scenes promoter of this Pacific show, now six years behind schedule in its opening, has completed his round up lining and sizing tip the backers with a. draft of the proposed peace script.
The proposal carried by Dulles in his diplomatic pouch is now an open book, Japan will be restricted to four home islands and adjacent volcanic piles over which she will have full sovereignty. She will .manage her affairs including her economy and home defense and will not be smothered in war reparations. The concession Japan makes is to permit American troops to be quartered there for protective .�purposes against you know whom.
Americans are understandably anxious to pack up and go home and leave the administration of the paddy fields and cherry blossoms to Messrs. Yoshida and Co. Occupation is taking a substantial sjice of-the taxpayer's .tribute which could then be diverted to defense build-ups. It would release personnel for duties other than policing and administrating Japan. And no; occupation, no, matter how beneficial it may be to it-he conquered and the conqueror, can last forever.
The Japanese too. with the exception of those who are reaping the harvest of the presence of foreign .troops, and this includes the majority of the Niseis still remaining in Japan, are about fed up wth having strangers vs'hq -commandeer their best buildings, best facilities and best homes, running their country. Nobody likes to have an outsider enter one's home and be told where to put the piano. .
But what happens when the Americans leave ? With American economic aid, a prostrate Japan has.just begun to waddle, while the Korean war has given her a sudden and at best, a temporary lift.. Much of japan's industry was located in Manchuria and Northern Korea. China and Manchuria are no longer accessible as markets. Her ship-! ping is still mostly under water, j
Crowded into the. islands of Japan are so*e 84,600,000 people who are increasing at the rate j of more than a MtUka annually. A peace treaty wool avfre that, yet a burning question on Jana-proMmv tad one that mean how far Con�iraisni can make headway into Japan.
And what ab*>nt her so-railed
from toe fact that shell have to nevarop or find loopholes in her MacArUranaed tontitvtkm to allow foar eren limited
ment, how much military preparedness constitutes defense t That's what the Philippines, Australia and New Zealand would like to know. V
Does defense mean to attempt to repel the invaders should they attack the home islands such as they prepared to do near the end of World .War II wth bamboo spears and saimirai. swords or does defense mean to be able to stop the.enemy before they reach the islands such as how the Americans are doing in Korea, some 5,000 miles away from the American mainland t Of course, it will be somewhere in. between, but there will be no quick accord or compromise as to where, around the table.
And what if Japan is permitted and is able to regain her old former economic self ? This is where the "island workshop of Europe1', United Kingdom, comes in with a frown. Her dogged industry in horrible shape, U.K. is nqt too keen on reriewed.com-, petitipn from the "island work-slipp of Asia" and she would like nothing: better than a limitation on Japanese shipping or some control of her textile industry;.
: Canada, in-most ways, would be m full accord with her southern neighbor, In particular, she. would like Japan to stand up economically and buy Canadian raw materials again, for Japan, just before the; war,. was Canar da's fourth best customer and she could help swing the balance of Canada's unfavorable foreign trade. Then, our old friend, Sen. Tom Reid, interjected that-thev
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Work Oi Seattle Nisei Shown At Ont. Exhibit
PORT COLBORNE, Ont. � At the Port Coiborne "Sixth internet * ional exhibition of photography held last week, t^o prints made by Clarence Aral, a resident of Seattle, Ore., were shown,
Aral, who is a member of the Kohga Photojrraphic Society in Seattle, had sent his two favorite prints, "Coming Thru" and ''Quiet Detour."
Nisei Singer Slated As Crosby Show Guest
HOLLYWOOD � Quy Brion (Jimmy Shigeta) ami his partner, Charles Dnrand are getting a big buildup, following their smash opening recently at the Mocambo' in Hollywood. They were on the Hedda Hopper show over NHG recently. i
They \vere scheduled to be on a Hing Crosby program over CBS in the near future: In introducing Brion, Coluhinist Hopper noted that he was a Japanese Americtin from Hawaii and that he had two brothers in the 442nd Combat Team.
ICCA Resolutions
Excluded Strandees, Qov't Immigration Policy Are Major Political Problems
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As �rv outcome of the National JCC A Conference concluded in
Montreal last week, the National JCCA will step up it* endeaTwtr to
bring to the attention of the Government the hardships created by
the existing immuumlum regulation* which totally exclude Japan-
ese nationals from Canda even though they be direct and dependent relatives of Canadian citizens and by Federal ordeni-in-coundl exclude specific strandeen from rejoining their families her*.
These were major political ac-
ti.on recommendations made by the Conference in mapping the hew program of the J CCA , and wilt receive immediate attent ion by the National JCQA. It is expected that the National JCCA will shortly prepare and submit a brief appealing to the Minister .of Immigration to readmit ex* eluded strandees.
Strattdecfi Ayho are; denied reentry into Canada include some 20 Niseis who, while st�ft of mi-
Japan Runners Arrivfe For Boston Marathon
:;. ttEW YORK, N. V. � Three crack Japanese j-unnersr including one who broke the record set at the '"J'936 Berlin Olympic Games, were due to arrive here this w^qk to compete in the 55th annual Boston marathon meet. . The ^Olympic Record-breaker is Shigeki Tanaka',. Accompanying him..will be Shunji Koyanagi, .who established a Japanese record, last December and .Hiromi Haigo, as well as Manager Hcita Okade nnd Coa;ch Scichirc T>uda.
;The-E:clon jiiarathon;;: l^l-A ran 'off un April 10,
nor age, accompanied their parents to Japan under the Wartime .Kxchiih'gc .�� Agreement-' and who were deprived of their Canadian status by birth under i'V'.CV 10773 of Nov. 20, 1942. Also affected arc naturalized Ispci and Japanese nationals who returned to Japan after the war and who under P. C, 7355 and 73 6?- b^f Dec. 15, i.94fs have been deprived the right to return to Canada even though, their Canadian-born children are residing in Canada.
Regarding the existence of racial inequalities in Canadian immigration policy which all but bars immigration from Asia, the Conference passed a resolution
tions for their ehdorsement.
In other resolutions concerning political .action, the Conference expressed its readiness to assist the Huddhists Nvhenever they required support in the matter of securing a Qyiebec charter, and indicated its approval to tho brief submitted by the Vancouver branch of the Canadian Civil; Liberties .Union Which presented a /plan to raise the native Indians to the level of other Canadian citizens within one generation; X �;';' //:'.--'�;/ �, '�'.;;';
In regards to cvacuatibh losses claims, the National Council in Conference endorsed '..the Cooperative Committee's advice to claimants and votetT to express appreciation to the legal counsels across Canada who acted for Japanese Canadian claimants'. It further extended honorary membership in the JCCA to the nine members of the Toronto Co-Operative Committee Executive.
Dealing .with organizational i the Conference, while
voting to maintain the national JCCA on the p. resent basis sinco
Hse Of Corrimons Approves Ti
OTTAWA � The House of Commons this week cave approval to the Government's amendment to the Citizenship act which would widen the powers of revocation of Canadian citizenship. It is aimed at Communists and Communist sympathizer?, however it can apply to any Canadian citizens.
The bill ; is divide! into t%yf> < �� ~ T � ~"~~~~ main parts, the' first" r,f \vhirh | TI-c rrcm.lpnrt of the bill af-applies'<mly to np.hnnliz<d Can- jf�-<.-t< *\\ Cana-Urnr-. hichiHinr: adians. This allows the Govfrn- : na^v^-born: It allowa the gov-or-in-Council to -revoke citizen-. 1 crnment to revoke citizenship ship if. a person has been resi- ! where the person has su-om al-(knt for more than two years of 1 legiance to a foreign country or a foreign country of which he | made a declaration renouncing was a national, and has not ; hi? Canadian citizenship. pone through the formality of j While the bill was unanirnously maintaining
favoring-" the; removal of suclvs it could best cope with national discrimhiation. and urged: that problems pertaining to Japanese steps be taken V press fo'r ''Ic- Canadians, instructed the Nat-
gislative., enactment to. abolish discrimination in. immigration policy." It 'further added that briefs relating to immjgration be submitted to all "fraternal, social; agricultural and labor o
ional JCCA to give encouragement to provincial and local chapters to conduct cultural, recrea-tion.il,.'.' educational >nd social welfare projects in their respec-.tive chapters.
Toronto *l C C A To Present
Films On Japan's Problems
Canadian connec-1 supported, some cautioned ag-tions. At "present the limit is j ainst over-zea!ou? u�^ of the six years. It also provides for amendments. E. T. Applewaite, reA-ocatioa for acts or wt>rds of
disloyalty abroad or conviction
Two Tixivic-5 on Mc�dorn Japan . o. 1 ''Thf Riddle Of Japan" j .^nd "Th^1 Trm- I'ucc Of Japau" ; will b^ ^he feature of the .Toronto JCCA general meeting to be held at the Canadian Legion Hall on Sunday, April 15.
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Both films are part of the series, "This Modern Age", pro-duc^d by the J. Arthur Rank Organization in London. Englandr
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Ancient plays in the Noh ami Knbuki theatres perhaps for the first time screened with sound, the influence of Buddhism aod Shintoism, the status of Emperor Hirohito, geisha girls, Japanese traditional Upbringing and split personal fly are snme of the maay aspects treated in this film..
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