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MyFriend, Yoh-sgn
WJien I raeもぃ8omもひne from Japan, I often feelan invisible J)aザ,r between us. It is、 tw9fokibarぁr.On my aide, iぃis inlhibitioTi, a kimi of self-consciousness, Qri the atiher side, I feel Wie person isalho Wing back, cremaijiin g uncommitted. It may be imceーnty幼d o^aition, "enryo," or an〗nstricti vewI ah to maintain JiaTsmoiry — to not offみd that is a p,t of Japanese1ivdng,
I have heard it rも"ferred to as "social乂nes" which もJapanese have〜veloi)ed to a higherlevelitHaれinotiler societies*
With:加ちふt is » !feeling of p^hologdca! diaorieintatkm, a feeling that I don't quit© know how I stand in relation to the other.
Despite the feet 'that I may <kvaw atoong oW^^tionfDOon my soda】 seieivtia^ firiend; my c6ncl;uきi9n isi that it is alldue to a certain
11tiきo^,きtttnie,:ゅ"Jぉltin6r6 "^ase —eilI visit^ a Ch'ineseズ鄉ilyinマ畀pian (thin wheれI visH"inyr^lativもs with whom i staye(i foi''lon树'periods.
I «aid在"C>iiii\ese" family. This requires an e邵lanationto some Can«diafi Nisei wo may hit the oeilinic: if I referred to他鄉as J a panやse, period.
Y oh-sat I lis a"ctually汰thirdgeneratW. .Ohinese in Japan who speaks no Chinese. iHe;wぉs legally & <Chinese c化izwimtilearliゃr this y的r when he finally got his1mt11m!rzation papers.
Theprocess was rather complicated. Hも'had to renounce his CWinもse "Citizenemp first贴required the Japanese :law, and thereby risked ibeteoming a stateless person, After maゃ呵ms 邵plio^"Uひit, 'he was subjected to severalirtonths of thorough government ]nvesrt;igalions into his 'backがoamd. He was clearュno arrests, no {participation in student protests, et2,
Whenhisa«pplication was邻proved, he was required to adopt a Jap^aJiese surname, *whidh 'he掘.To his Chinese name "Yoh" which can also be read mリapanese as "ha" he added "yairia,, land arrived a 七"Hayamcu" JBut/ihiis nam^card still b柳s the kahji w6rds,"Y6h
Thぉ^ndfather immigrated to J争pan from China eighty years ago. HisNisei3on,Tfひh-^an,sifaither, startedarestaurant inKuma画 mひtod'ty"whenliewぉtwenty y兮ゅrs old, ■ and he is still activeさn "the business "wQiUe devoting time to being pi^sident of t)ie Chinese
The bu3、;nesslias grown today toミnelude a chain of restaurants, four fashion bひutiques, and e "dhain pastry st(?res which featoire Swiss "kaehi,, as well站"kasutera.,,
Yohタan,你e Sansed, has two ibrothersliving in Tokyo. One is a wellknown inftedoi* desigi^er, and the other is an犯'Ust and illustrator.: .
The oldest i>rot)lier is in JCumamoto a ding as managing director to the 'business ent^,ise.Yo(h-saTi,もheyQU"gesちis in chafrge of sales promotion. He is married to & Japanese, and ttiey have two young cldldren.
Yoh-san introduced me t6 his fal;her and older brother, and we liadlu nclTtogether in ttieir ma in res1;^uK^れぃwliiioh islocate4op|K)site t;he"raiyoD邻-mぼさtofes. We • Oゅe"崎leぉomac?minort bowl,usinglong oh争ticぉs. A cute J邵a訓e girlwaited atゃUrtaJ)le.
Yo5v^仰ttoQk me to meet his,other at their sp^ious famUy reきiぉn^ impress^ me witJi.it5$v»Mu€4ゃぉegaiK^e. As jwi
tea and "lcasuteギ,Temarked how wellI spokeJapAJiese and reぉret^ i;he f<a)ctrthit her Chiiiese was so poorにShケsaid 'her hu, b劝dihadmade^a fa:ip to Canada ear〗ierdn it he year — sort of in seatch of "roots" — and had someiproble" because I he couldn't
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TUESDAY, SEPTE MB孤13,1977
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TORONTO. , Martin Susumu Koibayak鹏, 26, son of Toshi and S呼i Kcifoayiakawa of Scat-borougih, is orie <xf se\^n Can础an T汰ipients of
student " the TJiviversi• Of Toronto in the Uiiaii aii(iRegiQnaipi!apning;]hx)gT^a(m'h明recently coin-pleted his Mast©iis Thesis Bntiitled: "lM)an欧o. With and Stat^' Intervention: A TheoretidalPers" p6ctivさand OaseStudy,V (He is ai^6the r汰ipierit an 0nta'rio(5ra!duaJtieSo)iolai'sliipぐ74ノ76) and 他e: CentralMortg^age and nousmg Cひ,wit ion
Fel'lowSlvii) 'C7"怖arid again in *7も-'76).
The Mひ mi bush 0ゅholai'ま【ivwhdch puys* aif-fare, tuition, plus m'mg expe寧s for two years' study m Japanis oぉered 'by the Japaneseぉinia try of Education. Foi:his first year Kotoayみkawa willl]^e taWng inten^veIan抑age t/rainingia>t Osaka Ui>iversi|y. The B6O0;ndly^ar willbe a dua»l program oflanguaige stu<Jy and Jaipanese Uirban Studies汰t Tsuku'ba University, sixty mil€8 from Tokyo. ■'
Women Doctors Replacing M柳
TOKYO 一 If statistics are any indication then women doctors may soon dominate (munici5>al health centers in Tokyo just as
in primary schools.
The Public H幼はh Bureau of ゎhe Tokyo Metropolitan Government receiVtly relceased statistics sliowingWiat woTnendoctors are faかreplacing their,le coimtei'-
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J^EW加NV15R; B.C. 二 The N, JDenvei* Comiriuriity Hall,a :focalji)oint of th" Jゅanese C抑a-diancon;iimmiれduring and evei since tlie Sec one J World War* is to be renovぉed wit]v the help of a 多ケ,500 grant fi*pm the provincial govermnent.:
The g?"aiit was made in re cognition afthきJゅaiieseCanad【an Centennial.
Expwimental Camera
TOKYO — A ra<HotheTnapeutic research institut:e in Chibd has developed an experimentalhig^h-speedpoaitron camera whioh the institute claims is capable of making an easy and correct diagnosis of early-stage cancer and liver diseases with the help of radioactn've isotopes.
The experimentalpositron camera 、vas recently completed by scientists at the Comprehensive Radio therapeutic Reseaich Instレ tue in A nag aw a, Chiba.
According to a spokesman for the insCtUute,I'&dioactive isotopes with an extrei、、ely short haぱ-lぱe
such as carbon11withaSO-m in ate hjaぱ-liite jJeriod, nitrogen 13 (10-minute haU-life) and oxygen 15 (two-minute'haぱ-lばe) are used for diagnosingpa4Jents with the positron camera.
iln diaゅosing alimg cancer patient, for instance, researchers make the patient breathe in air icontaining a smallamount of carbon 11in the form of carl ion dioxide.
The patient is placed between twoミsotope detectors. These detectors catcih posUr<)ns emitted from carbon11to permit these particles to expose a film.
As a re suit, the film shows a map of the cancer in the patient's lung, the spokesman explained.
The positron camera can males a correct diagnosis of otherlurtg diseases,'heartaUments, ap邵lexy, Hverふ:seases and other diseases with the use of other short-life radioactive isotopes, he said.
Carbon11and other radioactive isotopes having a short half-life, which aiでproduced by a cyclotron, have negligible liarmful effects cm patients as the patients are exposed to radiation for only a short period, he added.
jyaris in health centers run by 'セhe metrop6lHan government.みt 'prゃsent the riuint^rof male and fenialedcwjioisおthe same.
A; itx^t^lofl49 medicaldoctors are on tjliie payrollof G9 h幼l咏 centresiひt]ieeapifc&l.,8 includes 68fwひinendoctひi's (46 pザcent)い
iBut male supremacy ds still ぉ'rdcwniri幼t in directoぉhips <^ h(;aれivでenters.Thereaire56m汰lも directors compared with13 fema】e directors.
But it ilias alreadyおen reverse 4 as far &s the n證!ber section chiefs of preventivも:medicineiぎ concerned——52 women as agaiinst 22 m饥
"'Indi oat ions arもかhaぃ'woilien dcictors : willbegin to dominate h"lゅceii"rsin Tokyo iii theiiot toやdistantまuもure," an officialof the iHibli CI Health B;ur的u sai(J.
Ten years多go, m各1^ doctors outnuinl)ered thdr fehiale coun-terpat*is in allsegments: woman dociゅrs accounぉdUf6r 3j5 per cent of alldoctois in h幼lキ、ceivters, allthもpenters werゃhea<Je(i by men, aれd 57 per centひ:T the posts of the preventive meiiicine sec: tion chieぉwerelieid by 'iiien.
The Public Health Bureau attributed the〗at est fcrend to the fact that an increasing mrnaber of fe, male students major 'in public hygiene. _
Off i daIs of the bureau believe that women doctors may be more suitable ,:n the area of preventive medicine and as consultants.
But a professor at a medical college doubtedぱthis was a welcome phenomenon.
"Frankly, biぉht male students regard health centersless aはrac-ti\'e than hospitals or having private cレ:nic3 in tei'ms of income or meeUng feheh、 ambiticms," he said.
T^e study of Urban P】anmng ironi a Jap"anesepeはpective will be cmefQeus for his studd,ぉin、 J a pan. The ort)hもrhalfoえhis proposed 'program is th& convparison of J'ゅ加ese and Japanese Cana-dian people, in terms々f culture, language, and.二 valines. Ko^ayaka-鄉lopks att?his鄉ect of his さtiidy as an exceptionalひ卯oTitu-iiity, "You oan,ti)ut a mernetairy vaんe on a cliance togainawork-ing kiiowledgもof the Japanese lゅがage ai0r々ots," he says. IW islookingforward to thさehali-enge. •
:iCobayiakawa,s :iTitもrests incki-dふ—inusiぐ,ぉpれese at*ts and culture, andthejゅanese Canadian ゅ7nmimれy. Ije is a welレknown figiJiVaniongthe Toronto Sansei. He has been a youth counse-lloir a4; t"he Toronto Buddhist Church for two years, arulhaa been involved Vvith yoiiもh comm; ittees foたぉve years.
This year he has gained add" ぉonalnotoriety as a versatile performer in the Sansei presentation at the Ha;miUon Shimbo-ku-kai, pla》ing an early immigrant, a caribou, a citizen, an airplane, and a camp internee. Hr:s talents as a musician, singer and songwriter are wellknown. He, along with friend Terry Wa-tada, appeared as specialguest performers at the PowellStreet
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