A關抓d亂f鹏 ov er训clear p0鹏r
ByBillHos6kawa
It bec&meeゃidetit,alo时 time ago that it is virtually in^possibie to pick a positijm 扭ndsayihat this is what Ja]^&nese Am eri can & believe, thfeおwha(they staiid for. They are far from beinぉ汰 inoiiol)thkgr(mp, They are 6if many inj[nd, and the;j^ sta^idoir all s!dゃs ofcnnS
Oji^e oきthe ni6re s冬rikii^g —i^^m撿lesli^s to do ^"Htlr nuckairp6Wi6r) whhili is viさorc^iiisly ;nd多0metises violently opposed insonle quarters Somethinglike12 perc"?ntof the electrkity us收in the Unitedfftabお rtow geneirated by iiuclear power: The percentagre is higher in other coilntrieき,
primarily inEurope. A おeat dealof Jajpanese po^ver is prgduced in nii-clear plants, andぱthis seeins surprising the stir-prise,stemsむom populdT coufu^on betw"nれuclもar weaponsani the peaceful uses ofimclear fぉsij[)ri.
Th(s confusion is one Qf the thingrsiha]t is digressing a Nisei physicist,ゃrof. ChihiroKikuchi oft he department of nuclear engineering at the University of MichigぱHe was honored with a J ACL disti收uished "chievein印t award in1968 for his pioneering work with ruby masers. More about thatlater.
ICikuchi is convinced that without steady develo pit vent of micl^ai* power to supply our energy needs, tliei^e will be such great international cQmpetitonfoirきth" war willbe inevUきblる.And with wa1,comes the ghastly po^歸 sibifit>r of a nucleaiv hol(>-cat!st. But standinj? in the way of orderly development of rtudもarもnergy is, in his view, unireasonable印d emotionalfear of争nyUiiiig remotely connected with the wordmicleai% particularly foUowing ttie Three Mile I—nd accidねt last spring. An<i he is disturbed ttiaもsome J a panese Americans a fe, unthinkingly, hie feels> opposing nucle3i\energy.
"I certainly do not question the need for allof us to be concerned and knowledgeable about the effects of miclear weapons" he says, "but I am concerned about the fact that many willerroneously jump to the conclusion that the same
effects will re suit from nu-cleair jpl雄ntぉccidents.
"I fear that because of oursusceptibHity io such 卿otion汰lr,eacーits, we
ourseIv«S"«by shuttingOiit the nuclear power6ptioitー
\villpush the world cldsei* to theやrink of w ar,
"rieelth穌,もparticU^ ai*ly asJ&imiieseAmeri-needto" extra (careful aboutrimかariran"d eih-otioii&lc他he(^ti0れ3b(BClause weotirselv(^s were victims of emotionalreactions that got out of control."
At the time。 of the Eya-(juatiQiiJfCikuchi vt^aきloo|dng for asclioolwhere hecou】さ セontipue >vork oれhis doc-toratk411 physics. When he wrote to the Univもrsほy of ]V^ich孝gan, he re<;dved an ans"r spying his application would be considered if 30 me one at his school,t|ie University of Washington, would certify that,Jie was not of Japanese descent.
Kikuchi found a school that w3sn,t quite so picky, altdもventtially made his way to tlie Univer3ity of Michigan after several stops along the way. At Michigan he contributed to theunレ versUy,s prestigeにand his own, by dev(eloぉiig the ruby maser, an indispensable toolfor deep邻ace planetary physLcs rese&ich.
The pictures of Jupiter and Saturn~4aken receptly by Pioneer II and relayed bach: iogoggle^-eyed earth-lingi^ would not have been p"U)le without Kikuchi,s rubダmaさers. TlUs device )va"lso used byla "yea ^Nfobe 11aureate^ to discover the radisition left ovet* from 胁Big Bang in sj^ce about 18 billion years ago, Tlje i^uby Kikuchi conceived and devcjloped fortlie fi丰experiments is no^、v in the Smithsonian Institution.
ButI digress. Kikuyhi is warninき他that becauきe of our intense dependence on petr6leum, nucslear eitergy isoiir one hppe in the near term to save us fr心?n chaos untilaUerーe energy sources can be"vゃloped. And, he says with considerable me.rif,It would be tragicば welet emotionalism cloud our vision the way eimotio nalism clouded the vision of Americans in1942 so that they couldn't see the injustice to giving IIS the bum,s rush into concentration c柳ps.
VA她UVER, — Man-dadnorangeSy a siire sign Christinas iscoming, will costl棚thisyear, supermarket spokesmeii said recentIy« 、
Retailers said crops in Japanwerelai^ger and healthier this yぉair, mean-
ing lower c诉 is forihe stocld吨,tuffers.
About19 million oranges arrived in the first shipload in Vancouver recently. Retailers are unable to ict thき"e與tprice untilshipphtg costs are known, but s poke ism en for Canada Safewがind
Woodw—幼id pHc^ will be !awer,
Last year, " box of Japa-neseinaiidadn oranges cost between $5 and多6. Retail-er? said shipments willbe 1arg改thisy0ar beca, the reduced pricesivillincrease consumer demand.
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Vol. 43 — no. 88
tuesday, november 20,1979
TORONTO, ONl^ARIO
U,SノUnknov^ir soJdi0re如
WASHINGTON — Gen Jacob L. D6vers, 92, who (k)inman(led , tfoops includ-ing the 442nd RCT iれFrance ahdl t alydluring World War II, died Oct,た15 or a heart ailment. Servicesまh fullmili tar Jr honors were held Oct.19 at Ft. Myer Chapel,which \i^as attended by MikeMasaoka, represen-ting both NationalJ ACL ?ind nationalNisei Vetetan Associations. 、
As chief of the American Battle Monuments Commission in1963, Gen. Devers addressed the 20th anniver. sary of Nisei servicもin World War 11 sponsored by J ACL ai Arlington National Cemetery and declared, "The Unfcown Soldier of World War II might wellbe みJapanese AIneri can."
In1976,AVhen !Nfisei veterans hさld aさpedalm em or ml service, the much-decorated generalwl^o was a自9 Wーt Point graduatei^as agrain tire principalspeaker. He was commandii^g gener, alof the SixthAnnytroもps in1944 that broke through the Vosges Mo加tains in south-eastern France and reached Ger加an, soil.His mi,itary career included んursi11Ha^沐3H and、 thも Panama Canal.tie retiぉd from active service in1949.
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TORONTO. — Lettもrs soliciting support for a Kiwぉnis Music Scholarship in memory ofShi g:efruO uも,h站recently been mailed to knoWivfrieftds andcontacte. Thefunds collected are tobe^u^^ed to establish amusic scholarship program.
This projもci wis initiated by theKiWanis ClubひfTorO" nto, of which Shig One 一 a popular and respected 加ember, as wも11as being a director.Hewa^ also a president of the K i wan is M us ie Festival.
The biography attacheさto the letter outlines his career in theCanadぉnIntellーnce CorpsにaiulhisseryiiJe overseas in South Ea^t A si a It aIsひcovers his 25 yearsser-vice withtJie Japan External Trade Organizati他 (JETRO)hv Tor onto to become a di rector 6f Pub lie In-fo加"ion. In this capacity, he was able tひmake a significant contribution to wards pro mo ting betterunderstknd: ing and better t r, a de1relations b etwやen Canada and Japan. During the Japanese CanadiaiiCゅtenniaIiii1977, Shig served on the NationalExecuti" Committee as chairman of the Public Rel"ions,—committee where W madeanoutstai]Lding contribution io its success. He was instnimentalin obtaining the do nation of the beautiful Centenflialbellat Ontario PIace from JETRO.
Under the chairmanship ofW[r. PaulA. Adam^^ Q.C.
of the Kiwanis Club of Toronto, the foilowinj? Jo(nt
C^mittee is coordinating this project.
;Niational«Japanese Caiiadian Centennialきociety一 (George Tれaka, Roger Obata, MitioNakamura.
JaDan Trade Cent re (JETRO TORONTO) — Tateuo FujimuravTakeshiKhmira,MamoruIw^ffi5)tひ.
S-20 and NiVeterans, A"oci汰tion Frank Matsu-buchv^edJ^gawa.
ToroiitoKi\yanfe Charity Fund Inc " Ronald J^, MapFeeters;
ThふKiwanis Culb of TToronto — PaulA. A dams Q.C.;
Despite every elffort by the Joint Committee toiion: tact as manyof ShigV friends as possU)le, there may have lbeen some people omitted inadvertently. For this reason, tiie CO mm it tee Ayo uId appreci a1t《hearing from these pebpleanS recehingr their support" PI ease mailallcontributions to To f onto K iwkn is Charity Fund I tic ,0Shi g Oue MemorialFund),cノo Roj^alYork Hotel,100 Front St你.,Toronto, Ont" M5J1E4に .
sary, Thii'd anniversary (second year " exactly two years after the passing) Seventh anniversary. Thirteenth anniversary, Seventeenth anniversary, Twenty-
Hfth anniversary, Thirty-third anniversary, FぼUeth anniversary. — GUIDING
TORONTO.—ォhe Bき dhists consider theinemO" rialservice a3 a significant occasion to remember the deceased with feelings of gratefulness andlove', listening to the T each in gも 、ve are brought closer to the Compassionate Buddha.
When a person dies a service is held on the seven-
th day after the death. Thereafter, services are held every seventh day: the 14th day; 21st day; 28 day; 35th da" and then the 49th day.
It is also the Buddhist tradition to hold special service on the followingan-niversarks: First anniver-