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By ROBERT MacDONALD
TOKYO 一 One of the best investments Canadians 6ver made in Japahおour eitibassy.
In1936, itcoラt usま250,000 to buy the f 611 i* a pre gひfland tile embassy sitspivArid thatlandおnoW wprthi丄iひ-re that $200 million.
Canada's fiist ambassa-
dor here一Sir H处bert Marler — >vastlie man who had the foresight to pressure Oitまa intoletting him buy the former estate of ViscountAoyama^ the liistfewdalLordoftlte Sa: sayama Clan
At the tiine, rumor had it that the property was haimtがbeca, ofmur-deisthathddむccun:ei[ in
the past on thゃpremiis^s. Sir Herbert got thも她d在t a cutjpricゃbecause, as Ambassador Bruce Rakin qu-ipみ"Ciaiiadadidn,t mind having a few ghosts aro-un4 and We mind evertless
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Rankin ha^ a staff of seven servants, three gardeh-ers, and one watchman. And he says〜e driゃe the Jap^
nese security policy crazy 1)6cause 6urse,ity is a 68-year-old Japatnese who works six days a week only walking around the grounds."
As I^ankin spoke recently J a pa nese p oiic e with l)i n Oculars at id sh汪:ppsho" oters peered do>Vn fro" apartment towers neれby
Three helicopters whirlゃd overheadゆd蘭police paレ roledoutside. "hey were angry beca-
ve in on our groundsbut oiir Httie oJd man is erto-ugh," added R ah kin. "They eyen watch me with b in oculars while • 1,m having a skinity dip in thもpool.,,
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Vol.43 — No. 56
Tuesday, July17,1979
TORONTO,ONT.
IVendyYoshimurarfriend of Hearst, to begin prison term
OAKLAND, Calif — ^v-en years after her of fence, Wendy Yoshinrura, the un-deground companion of Pa-tridれHears仁was ordered recently to report July17 to begin serving l-to-15 year prison term.
MiぉYoshimm'a, 36, an artist, disappeared in1972 af-《erdispovery of "a bomb factory" in agai'age she had rented undler an assumed i^atne. Three men were ar;*e-sted, including her boyfrie nd, and sent to prison.
Iri19ぉMiss Yoshimm'a was ai'i,ested in San Fiancぉ-(^0 alひrigwiih Miss Hearst andotherSymbioiiese Libe-
ration Army members, Will-am and Emily Harris
The Harrises are serving lortg prison terms and Miss Hearst, whose bank robbery term was commuted by President Jimmy Carter, is free a I id recently mai,ried a poレ iceman,
TVvo years ago Miss Yosh-imurk was convicted by a Hu'y cfunlaw tillpりssミssiGi; of explcsives, Wmb compo nents and anautoirtatierif-le found in tlie gar age.
During appeajs "failed ^5hもr(B齢ined freきon柳,000 bailraised by the • Japanese" American (iQinmtmity;
Japanesefind poor wo rk man多hip big American macle cat*s, says dealer
DETRQIT — Robert Oh-ta sells U.S cars in Tokyo 一mos化V Bnicks and Ca^di-Hacs — and he says th" American kn拜-how simp!y ,sn,t good enough for Japan.
Th《finish on some U.S. cai,s is印poor by Japanese standarSs, OMa ーd, that they almost always have to be repainted before they can be put on sale.
In addition: Americaivwe" lding on auto bodiゅis crude and imperfections must often be fHed down, said Oh-ta, a deputy generalmanager for Yanase and Co, Ltd., Tokyo,slargest American car dealer.
CIno me is frequently misaligned, Ohta explained, and "cars often come to us
、vith scratches that J邓an-esecustoniもi's won,t accept. I guessゅey,re mむre partic-uljir than iVinericans,,, he saic{ in an intervi"v in To^
These problems/combined with the fact thaもAmeridan cars arもtoo bぉand expien-sh^もhave held down U.S. car Saks o?i the Japanese m础et, the Detroit manufacturers are being told.
Sides of American cars in Japan dropped from about 16,000 in1975 to about14,000 last year In contrast, slightly more than1.3 million Jjipanese vehicles 、veresold in the United States in19-78.
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Jpnぉfilm-maters in Tor-casting SO me Canadians
TORONTO — A team of Japanese movie makers is in Toronto castiiig actors for a niultトmil】ion dollar futuristic movie to be made in October in Canada, Peru,Chile Japan and Antareti(!a.
The plot deals with the last sui:vivひi,s on earth and "it needs alot of foreign (nonほapanese) actors," Ta-
kahashi OhashiofTokyo,s Nikatsu Studios said recent-ly. Tlie movie,s tent?ttive title isAgaiii. Ohashi said it willinvolve "10 Canadian Actors and wゃ,llbe shoo ting a month in Toronto in October and they come back for some mo re shoo ting in January and February."
WorIcTs clearest lake is in Japan
TOKYO — Lake Mashuko inもastei.n Hokkaido still ranks釋onぉthewoi,id,s clearーlakes, the Environ-menit Agency said in a report published receh"y.
According tケth, report, greゅw"er?s stillregister of 34.8 meters.
J11 the Iasto ffi da r observation of thelake 、Vぉters in a high々artspareiicy ral^ was 41meters, outstlipping La|ce Baikalin Siberia vyhich registered 40.さmeters ml911
The SO"called transparency oflakewなteぉis measured bylowering a whitedぉc,ミさ to So cm in diameter, down in]to the 、vater and marking the depth at which theさisc can nolongもr be seen from the surface. :
According tひan agency spokesman, the agenるy did the researchlast October afterlocalpeoplel)ec雄e worried about possible pollution of the sceniclake.
Mashuko sUllremains the mostlimpid in the world with the transparency of
its waters possibly measur-inginor, than 40 meters de p end Jlug on the time at id place, the spoゅsman claims.
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TORONTO. 一 The Ministry of Culture a Iid ftecrea, tionthrouゅthe Experience 79 prograih has granted the Annex funds hi order to conduct a stuケinto the i,es oMntegration facing V—ous ethnic i^inorUies of ssecond and tl]|ird genera, tiorts in today,s;Ca]nー加 society. One of the target groups in this study willbe the Nisei and Sa崎i of the Canadほn Japanese community. In order to have a fair representation we need to interview people 、vhひare concerned and wnHng to share their views with us. If you are interested please ccontact Gordon Mizuyabu, project co^ordinator or Janet Ogaki, Annex co^ordi-nator at the Annex, 463-7441.
By BILL HbSOKAWA
AFTER HEARING the story of Kay Sugahara, the interna' tionalshipping tycoon and so-palled Nぉei Onassis, we got to talking about other Japanese A nigricans who have had an extraordinary impact on ourlife andtimes.
Whdt we weir6 talking about was Nisei who have won national or internationalreco-,lit Ion, who have had very, substantialinfluence in theiヒ particular fields of endeavor. Nisei mayors, judges, scient* ists, agriculturぉts who \vield gfreat influence in tTlei!^ own communities and professiop;^ ai^e CO mm onおlace today; what we沐もrelooldng for was the really Big People and "ever mind their personalpopularly amon^ otherNisei or whether weapprove of their pQ明cs and beliefs. This wきsn,t to be a popularity cioritest. Here afe some of the names \ye came UD w【th, innoT3articu!ar ofder:
KげS,hara, o£ cout:se. His name Jsn,t aゅusejfi0(li3 word, but he isゆimportant fig \I re in th e Jli fill;-risk field
Minor"u Yamasaぉi architect, whose handsome buildings grace numerous cUies in many parts of tfie globe. He aisc: (Resigned the world's two tiallest bui!dlngs, the World Trade Center inlower Manhaitari, visited by iniiHonis 6fすpリrists
SeYiator Dan Inoii^fa respected, ..vvcirkman,ike veteran of both ho uses of Cimgress, we" (in the way to .beeomfng an important s6nior member of ihe moderately conservative wing of the Democratic Party,
S丄Hayakawa, recognized here primarily as an educator and semanticist rather than as the first Nisei U.S. senator from the mainland, aUhough Ws politicalcareer undertaken In Ws sunset years certainly
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