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TOJCYO. During WorW Wiw II, a teen-agerlUmed SMako Nakamura oftenleft her home 乂o hidゃin a backjraT<i ibonvb shd-ter from Amer—n planed.
That wo man, now them6tiier of a teen-agerjiersielf,ha&left her Tokyo home a<ga<in. Bひt this time it is io. start汰newlife— a new career as well—
in NきYork City.
And i*ecent:ly, when Sad^ko Na; kwmira Ogat^Unded at Keime-
dy InternetIoー Airport, did 80 ーs the higllfiest rtmldng womim ever toserVein the J * pa new Foreifirn Service.
As tniniaiteir,っr-nNo.2officer, in her country,a SO^^ember mission to theぉnited Nations, the 幼-yぉr-oldMrんOgぉtA not only r柳esents Japan ]before a;加ふi worldforum, but also Willb， closelyザ&tchもd byti^ケ5 mおlion wo men of Japiu[iwhoonlyreceii. tly have seinaed a spi"t oflibe-
r*"<m,
I^Vw xngr, than雀century r^o、v，
ministry has Accurately reflected (Utxroad the couivtry*s traditbnal
still,in jfact,only10 women in responsible adm"traUve po&ts
Any chanj^ in (tJhis society uiUesgれinvo^^es superficial adopition of soぉe American fad
sus. As 11i"がwltitconies slowly, But a shift b柳me imminent lastyesu' when prime Minister TakeひMiki promise inci*eased efforts to elevjite tぉS sUUis of women, '
Then onFeb.16 under the J^e^dmg: T^heAppointment 线
ment released the new a of ^Irs. ，s appointment.
sdence. I nev，r r^ly thouぉht of れh站notbe軌a career open to
ひ
"I was very surpHsed to see mynsiine, pop uplik«tl>st,'，
Butlばe abr说dwilliu)ぃ》e ne、\f to hゃr. Mr a. Ogata, a hi" father was a:sQAjapan狄<ild-plomiit,iぉigned to posts from 0hi"a to Finlitid W Porthmd,
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By GORDON HIRABAYASHI
The Canadian Magazine, of February 26,1972, carried an artdele, "THE WAR STORYひUK LIiAl>ERS KEPT QひIET." Here is the邻ening paragraplv: "The Baはle of the St. La^wienceis^: probably the Second Wor】d War's least known conflict in which Canadia:ns took part. TWie reasons are simpi.e: It wasがbattle that Cana<Jalost, and an alarmed CaTiadian "government did not want Canadians to know that Gexilian U-boats were striking so far inland that tliey were only 250 miles fr卿Quebec Ci' ty.，,
Canadians have been diverted from their own嵐tory in ye, another way. Manyぁooks des-ciibe, wHlifull intもntion of (honest rep、orting， the . westw&rd trek ofeirly pioneel"s: the difficulties of 4;he rough terra in, the harsh climatic elements, the wild anhnぉ】s and the "savage" Indians are d终crlbe^ as hamrd& and ohstn;ゃtions toward, theestabli* .theぉoadlife andcivi-lization iiithesetyarreii aiid "he; flthcn"lands.
This i^emindsまi^f my trip 他PQugh the C^ribbeans. App« reaching one'.'c^f 'thも'jslarids'tlie: ship's daily bullie^n in formed tke pa^seiigもrs that the piace was first discovered bケOluinbus. In tぉe —very nex"ente?ice tlvBpa^s-eiigers virere】nfolined that the is land，as必!re^dy inhabited at thaitimeby效partic:ulagroup of n"lVepeop!esw "The inepn^t" ency of these《wケsentences ,p, peared hlat^nt tひbuゃit went "nーiced by the 6レ hもr passengers, Ap]^^ntly, nittive peoples are essj^rrtially parちoftheenvironment to Jmb discovered by thんwhiiemaii.
B^〗ng discovered infers that so-mebiiy might belcJst« A Native friend of mine speaks t0 this point. He tells of a salesman from E<Jm<mt<m «^eking 4i^tレ ons to the next town in nortlien^ Albert*. He stops neair幼JndUm Reservation and in qui res of & fellow in the field: "Which way 1go to get to Pau3t?" Tli« field hand shook1^ he". "Well, wWch way is Ki;uso?" A««in,
there was a (head shiikぞ，iwicam* "■nied勿ashoulder'豕iinig. In exasperation the salesman exp-l(Hk"d， "Dまiv, you don't know much, do you! "The field hand laconioally replied: "Me nolost."
,Is Canada o:acist? That b Hot a 11 easy question to amwer. For example, what do — jnean, "racist" The dominant society in C a加da pro ik Jstandsonth^ democratic heritage of <nn' ?I:ng-lish and French id的!ogi幼1backgrounds: The developments in our way oflif since the Chart a, and of他e slogan "U-berte, <EjfaHte, FrゅmiW Fronr ^uch逸posture it canせvぉn 'be re-扭rd" as downright hisiiltin^ to suggest & ques;tionlikゃ"Is Canada racist?"
On the other' hand, if we are to ta)cもseriously our deeply-roc^ ted heritage of d鄉oct狄y， it may not be i加卯ropriate to. explore wbat a port ion of the Caimdi抑s, itsracialmiiiorities, t hinks ，bout this question. .
T5iんCana<JUm public op in ion the Vietn咖warきsdefjがte^ lyeritica). But ho* many of us Ilia"ve regarded it as a racist ;war? Jfany Asian Canadians alKuIe to this "view. They feelthat the bqqai-bings of oHieさin^^orthyietn^m, and the oth狄atrocities, though giVen:public outcry, continue to betoleratcd by the Americans and 0麵1"&'1>€<»她the victims ar^ —t Aaほni: The reports of Asian-Americi^iV soldiers serving in the Vietnam theatre confinns tMs view; They tellひ 重v^rioiia iridignitiei they then^€ilv<s suff-fered when: ihey were mistaken, ly classified幼While thei€n»y beゝcase to class this wa± as, in part, mc,st, to accept化is position "wKolly ati^ ，critic^ly wo磁l>e apurious. It is加ofelikely tbatt}^& racist aト pec is are inerely one of the \m» pka^ant derivations of thisミn丄 temationalme^s.
But why have I about Vietnam and Americans — wasn't the question "Is Cmiiada racist?"
j I have don A so foir two reasons.
! First, I wAnted to sfccw by osing some oth^r country,1k>w it m&y be posibl« for I in Lmu» to become
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VICTORIA. — The skipper of the 210-foot Japanese fishing ve$selShizo\ika Mam was fined 多25,000 inprovineiaレcourt recently after pleading guilty to two cliarges uikI枕the CaaもtalFisheries Protection Act;
Hh^kazu Setoやleaded guilty to unlawfulentryMなTVjh 30 into Canadian fis*heries waters in Qu-€eTi Charlotte Sound and unlawful fishing in the same waters.
JoKige William O&tler also ordered the confiscation of the . vessel's catclv a bout 301tons of <)• c幼n pe3*ch and cod worth about 杯O,OOOに
tHiirokazu skid inhis defence that he 4idn，t know he was four miles inside Caimdi饥waters wheれhe was 4ippirehendf<l.
Women、LibSti〖に N6tk抑dy lifJprL Sa
US Jpnz. Medic Develops HeartSurgeryAid
-AMHERST, Ma^,:— Feminism I nay eventually reach male"dominated Japai),but not within thelifetime 6f the present generatipivs^ys.C6:umbiせ，Univ. pressorマames Mbrley,
ThecounUめwSieh had been open to jnan,Westem ideas, has l^ivcA1鄉e attention to women's l)b^&t^on, Morley told, a meet-hi豕U.S."J&papese relations at thもUniv,カf Mas—h\isetts.
He said a f e， women's grrou" l^n estal)li^". in Tokyo wid othなcities, but have made liはle impa<jt，ゅd only a' few women have penetrated the卯-perlevels of piibli<i】ぱe..
l^obuko Suzuki, Japanese vice con^lir^ New York city, said a women's movementej^isted in Ja-pim but was focii多ing its rfforts on improving women's status within Uie f多mHy rtthさr than in thelarger sodety.
幼e saM major objectives of the znovement were to «nd mia^ treatment by spou5ea and "hi-fv« wid«r use of the p!、ュas a
LONG BEACH. — A simple procedure to provide temporary itiech'anicalsupport.'.to the failing heart is prcrving tひbe successful,a surgical research reportむひm UC Iryine College of 'Medicine disclosed..
"OrdiiMrily, shock that accompanies many casfs of heぉrt at-tack carries 、vitih it an almost iOO per cゃnt mortality rate and is the】eading cause of death "ter an attack," according to Dr. Akio Wakabayashi， the school's assi&tant professor of surgぞry.
The procedure, called -veno-. iirteHalbypass, provides tempor. ary support to a patient，3 heatt and circulation following heart failure associated        an attad(
The treatment supports the heart and circulationケom outside the patient's body without major surぉcalintervention. Dr. Wftkabayashi reported studies <m th， procedure at the amiiialmeeting of the American College of Surgeons in S^Pran-
ひSCQ.
Nine of12 patients who had liは)e chance of survival have lived with tJie use of the new technique^ 、 •
R^^earchhafli indicated that if adequate circulajion (lan be niaintwined during the acute part ofl>eart f多ili^re, the heart m^y beゅ！e to recovJ?r by itself or withtwiditi<malsurgery.
"The technique is very simple and can be perfcifmed at the patiもnt，s bcidside in ihe hospital,,. Dr. Wakkiyayashi said.
The pr6ced\he. has b^?en used to suppoft thゃS幼汴in: ammals for up to a week，s time arid in humans for severaldays, article in the 1ndepen?ient Press• Telegram revealed..〜
The bjrpass apparatus indudes snrgicaHubing Ilned，ith a spe^ cialcoating d付eloped by UC Irvine researchers seven years ago. It involves removinfir blood from flk patient's groin vfinB, rooting U back through thebyp敏and then pymping it back into a 豕roln art"y.
The speciallining : prevents
clottipg of bipod so that ye-searchers don't have to use anticoagulants such as heipariii.
"Not having tひuse如ivai'in is a majW advぉn'tage of the system," Dr. Ayゅal)ayashi ex-plained. "If a patient has had recent surgery and heparin is required for circulatory aid after operation, he could bked and die."
The new .procedur，elevate多 blood pressure and puts blood into heart tiぉues, And helps the damaged heart repair itseぱ.
"We believe our success is a renmrkable improvement over current modalitiesぉr treatment of patientswith fai】ing hearth but with potentially revゃrsible heart damage," Pr Wakab^yashi ssud.
Jpru Trading Firm 0〖vesTopんst ToOlympic Gold Medal Swi miner
TOKYO. 一 Former Olympぉ goW medaK" Ma幼ji Kiyひk&wa, vice pゅi"t of }^aiieniatsu<<^-sho Iitd， & major trading tdmpa* ny, ie promoted to th€rpost of president inJimift.
やesi del it Gyotajfachi" will a^ume thゃlefiser post of b<xai*d ch*$rnwim. He has b， i^«si<^ent eversin化t;he firm was. formed hvl96? thr嘴h ainerfi:^r of the
and (?osho..
Theぉhufle in thfe topexecru-Uve postおr—rt€<Jlyaimed at rejuvenating tiheれrmV ^opewiti-cms. The appointment of the mer Olympic swimmerwa^s said t;O have be en decided inlinei^th Machi(Ja,s pW!osophy that "stil! watOT tend to St ale. "Itおthe first time in Japan for an Oljrmpi, m winner to be ma^ de president of a coropasy.