NEW
An Independent Organ for Canadians of Japanese Origin
�WEDNESDAY. OCTOBER 5.
Dates & Doings
.MARGIE"
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f it a Memorial Con-
'��' last Saturday r�n.nto Buddhist
^.out;. 150 atten-
'<i young musicians included Susumu
,- accordion, Mark
�sVd'-Kay Fujii'm from Hamilton onthe vie!iuYtr.d.-.piano, popular eowboy ViiWi- Ko>". K iisa.no,. Ma-rikb'Akiyama who., sang two ";. and Jim Tokiwa,
whnsang-iihie Star" and ..'-'I j \M(b<lyv. Jim Tokiwa, w-':: awarded, the \prize ;. donated it to the- .s'p'ori-� jors' if 'the, event, the Kisaragi ciub, (o aid in' further .work of {His type, the club is hoping to make' this .. concert an'. annual event to iu-lp /develop young Japanese-Canadian talent. !�..-. . - Tonight', -a 'Japanese' Buddhist wedding i'orcniony will be enact-ni by Rov.'Takashi�' Tsuji, \yith Yoke Nagano of Hamilton as the bride ami Ak.i Idenouye as tho <rrooin, a't^�'Katon's Auditorium. It \\ill be part of the Food and Folk :Kas,hii)it,s; a pre-Thanks-giving festival, being-staged by"; iKe.Womvii's; Section, Toronto Kr;mi?li,. of- the United Nations Association. Smce last Monday evening, a. diffe'rent:. program ha? been performed each night, starting \vitTi -wedding customs of ptppk- from other countries HOW living in Canada.Tonight's ceremony, vviII be explained, arid �ifiere will also be a discussion on an .'exhibit, of Japanese food. Pictured'; 'in the Vanco(iver Sun \vh?ibiology student Sachi: Sakamoto who was seen counting horse's teeth at King Kd\Vard" High; She is otie of the 18,000 students to en roll in Van night schools. Also in a .Vancouver paper was kmiono-clad Julie Sasaki, representing Japan at a �gathering;"'- of the Vancouver' Civic Association, a Red Feath-! r Agency;. working towards the :ihproYemo.i>t,-of inter-racial and �HI to r-tulturaV- understanding. The,'organization": investigates : com plaints of discrimination and >eryes as a clearing house for various <n-<yjps fighting prejudice, � :.;'-�' .-. �:-. ' �:,'v :
The Miss Shimizu from Japan -attending I; of T who was mentioned hist week in this space turns out to be pretty Mihoko '>|"mizij,- who was pictured in Jne VarsHy, the university stu-�'jvJi.t tiapcr, in an attractive ki-
THIS WEEKEND: The big
weeK.-d event will be =the 9th Annual Bussei Concert on Sat> ^rrtay ;:i^t and Suriday after-:� -'spite of the fact that iVf a nice new Buddhist ";;! - year, the concert !j! 'd as. usual at the Ukrainian Hall-because !''--''ic's" response. i'-'j-treal,-. this Saturday ;i: -:o the Autumn Jam-^ - v which Will feature ^ e of '�Miss Autumn" :'�'>:'�> queen, Lucy Taka-
. A ;;� ': Sat-eve in Toronto, ::. \ -�' T Students Club will ;/r;^--' their -Fro�h Xight at -- IM rr.ity Settlement from -^' , v- ; fre>hmen, members, invited to thfe
Socratk their first Ics-with the reractor Gordon Burte. > exec chosen last takingoTer, and
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will continue until gate this week
Vernon Planing Mill Destroyed by Five
se,
: i"�.^'. � r_iro in early evening "of" ^'pt."it, \v started in.an adjacent bunkluni destroyed the Goldstreum 1'laiiiti''; Mill, o[)erated by V. Yakura an-1 Sons.
The-help of ..local', people until; early morning ia Fiivfjghting ami removing stocks of himlx'M* fr'onr the path of the flames savvil nearby homes and a sawmill. Reconstruction has commenced on the razed plani.ng
TORONTO, OPJT.
Initial Steps Taken For Japan Trade Centre
Preparation is going; ahead for establishmen-t of a-..Japan''trade' centre in Toronto. A: suitable location for the office is .being sought by-the Japanese consulate staff^ and it is vej)oiled three trade-officials will-be sent from Japan as nucleus of a staff: for. the centre, scheduled to open iii Januaryv
Consul K. Yosh'ida is currently' attendihg a conference of Japanese consular and embassy^officials m Hew York. Yoshida will visjt ihe Japanese trade. centve there before returning to 'for'-; 'onto. �/.': ..;/'i ''..' ..'� .-'.�'.'�- ' ' �/"..-�' '-� �� �.
90% of Foreigners In Japan Are Koreaiis
�,TOKYO. � The Japanese for-.! eigiv,office:.i:eportetl;'ini its jnfor-: jnation; bulletin last week . that Japan now has niorc than .635,000. foreigh TesidentS, 9U per cent of them Koreans."
The breakdown: Koreans 570,-. 485, � Chinese 44,165, Americans 8,894, Canadians 1,H5, Germans 1,094, -French 630, others :863:
with -thi> today 'of paiK'.-e oml-
in the jinstwar period l)as , 'iixli-e'd Jnfiviitesimal.' A'iesv--hiHvrvev, in ter:ns of its psychological effei'ls Upon the �Japanese people, especially the ..you'njivr �generation, it is of vast .importance,- according to the Information Bulletin,- .released by . the Japanese 'foreign ministry. >�
During-'..the l>ast four 'years' more than' l)i,(H'0 have emigrated to South A'merioa'n .'nations, principal.I y to' Hra/iil and 'Paraguay and. to a Jester degree to Argen-tina.and Ho.livia.
-.'" With emigration- made possible, iio\v hope has . been offered for the teeming millions' of young
Token Ini m i g r a 111. Quot a In Canada Can Promote Amity, Says Visitor
VANCOUVKlv�J4\pivn is seek-; ing the acceptance by other ceuii-" � tries' of her cnugtan'ts .not as a solution -to her "�'�overpopulation,' but rathei as o moral point, according to Dr. Toinoo Qdukn. Dean of Law at ;Tokyo University, Odaka b currently on ati in-; speetion tour of. Japaneso consijl-atesiiv North Amerit'aV : . Knlarging on his statementv .Odaka suggested that Camula, for example, could proinote more. in-ternatiohal; friendship by acc'opt-ing; even a token quota of Japa-neke immigrants as 50..per year. Fifteen local Japanese' Canadians attended a reception for Odaka on Sept.: 27 at the residence of Jird" Inagawa; Consul
of Emigration eHope of Japan Youth
Authority on Buddfiism Plans lecture Tour In Canada, U,S,
Hoople who are permed up on �foxir tiny islands comprising present-day Japan.
Tho l'niU>d States acee]>t.s 18;> Japanese immigrants per yo':ir,: ln.it' in -actual practice, there is such a .long waiting, list for the small Vruota .that applicants must wait some time before they can actually come to America.
SAX FRANCISCO.�Dr. Sho-'
Total 035,016:
. | of Japan.
C a I i f o r n i a ris See k
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SAN FRANCISCO. � Fifteen witnesses -were heard here-early la$t week as public hearings in California began on legislation to expedite and liberalize the determination of .remaining evacuation .claims before .the. House Judic^ 'iary Subcommittee on Claims. Fourteen of the - 15 ejidorsed .the legislation. - " .
Unlike last fall's hearing to secure general information on evacuation and current sentiment toward Americans of Japanese
: � LOS AXGELES; -U Fourteen witnesses were scheduled to testify Thursday and Friday last week to :conclude. California .hearings on legislation for remaining evacuation claims. �-_' . -.
He.p_._Patrick; J._HilJmgs, who introduced the bill that was subject of the 1954 subcommittee hearings here, -was the lead-off witness-.- ' '
George Inagaki, national pres-
Cnder her policy of maintain-' j i,uh Fukaura, famous writer'and
.'authority on Huddhist philosophy and culture,.a professpr at Hy.u-.'k'oku''.'l-Jniyorsity-.' in, Kyoto, will lecture;across Canada this month and later in tlie Unit^lvStates, it is announced hy the ihuldhisi Churches of �America. '
Dr. Fukaura's schedule: Oct. 10-14 in 1>,CV; Oct. 1()-20 in Alberta; Oct. 21 at Winnipeg; Oct. 23 at toronlo; Oct. 24 at Hamilton; Oct. 25 ;it Montreal. After Montreal, :the lecture tour', will continue to New York. ". ','.:'."-�.�'
The lecture .in Toronto will coineido .with..the 10th. anniversary of tlie Toronto Ypuiig Hudd-. hist Society' juul a sivecial program is being planned.
KF1.0WN A, B.C. � No ted 1 Jiid.iihist authority Dr. S. Fuka-. ura will UH-turc in H.C. as follows: ;
X)ct; 10 Stevcstou; Oct. 11 Van-covivci-i Oct.'.".Hi Yernoh, Oct. 14 kelowna.- ��-,,. V
mg a "rough racial balance,'* Japanese immigrants to Canada are a virtual nonentity,
I'he Japanese Government. is devoting�'�considerable' effort to the. problem of Qmigration and grants; financial aid;to emigrants as well; as training them in the manners and customs of the countries for which they arc headed.
. It".is the basic policy of the ^Japanese GovernmeiiL to send .out ,ful 1 qualified emigrants who will come strictly up: to the require-/ .nusnls."'o.f the foreign -nations which are willing;to aceopt them.
Many .Emigrate Since War To South'America
Before ^Vorld SVar II more than 1 ,G9fi,0()0-Japanese were re^-siding abroad in vario.vis coiuv-tries, most of them in China and Manchuria, All of these living in the regions "of Asia were repatriated and there are now almost no Japanese living in those legitmsr ' ;: " ^.
/Today {here are.about TG^lOO persons of Jfapaiicse anpestry Jiving in other countries. The largestgroup, 370,000, lives in Hrazil. Other: countries: Hawaii 180^)00, U:S^125,000; Peru 40,00()y Canada 23,000, Argentina :1G,000> Mexico 5,500. .Smaller numbers '.live in other parts- of South America and in Cuba; - .
idejif-of the Japanese American i Bureau enters saminey.ao^ Citizen, League^ welcomed, the | ed^he trad.tion shattenng ordo
Ichiro Kono Orders End Of Tea-Drinking Cusfoiti
� TOKYO.�Ichiro Kono, Japan's outspoken agriculture and forest-, ry minister, fresh back frx3m the United States and Europe, told his bureau chiefs to,stop serving tea at conferences from now on. The time-honored Japanese custom, he said^ was time con^ suming. He declared government officials in America are satisfied with a pitcher of cold water on tables, each man helping himself.: ;-.-"' . . ' . .':-.'�
Bureau chiefs said 'they-.do.ubt-.
or
o.ngr��on.l P.rty to Southern justify the vrovi- California and r,ad a unan,mous
will last long.
Miss Nippon Hopes To Return^ U,S,
TOKYO. --Japan's. 1955 entry .in America's Miss Universe contest held in Long Beach last July is already dreaming up, another trip to the United States.
"I'm not sure yet how I'm going to do it, but 1 simply can't wait to.- go tt) Anier-ica again," enthused pretty and poised Keiko Takahashi who copped fifth place at the international contest.
�'I was much too rushed during my two nionths there to see and do what I wanted," she told newsmen at her home in Tokyo's quiet suburbs. '.
Among her impressions in the U.S., she had these comments on the American malerj'\yell^dress-ed, and y.ery courteous and kind to women�-much more so than Japanese men."
And on American women: "I had heard they dress well and found that-it's true. But Tokyo women have nothing to be ashamed of in comparison."
Tereflte is Quiet for Girl from Tokyo
carrying out mendation?.
last
year's
recom-
iciples of the legislation in ques- �
lion.
5Iik� Masaoka, representing the JACL and the Committee on Japanese American Kvacuation Claims, took over an hour discussing the background of evacuation, the instant bill under consideration and logic of the sug--gested administrative propo^ab.
He was followed by Attorney David McKibbin of Los Angles JACL' ation
� attonu-y?; appearing in- ] Lynn Takagaki of Los i
5, who argued for fair ! rental value.-, and Ernest Iwa-*aki, also of Los Angele?, who conclud-xi Thursday*? testimony with discu.^i^n on crop losses.
Scheduled Friday were Con-
s.-rr.^2 Roos^veJt, attnmeys
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JM/IIIlt
_ >aoaro IVMK�. j�*mi� McNitt,
;pedal' coiWon" evacu- Hu^h Ma"^and,FninkJC^u^
who outlined the t a!! of necessity of the amendments and mary
hmr they wow!4 Ub**- . <� prevailing interpretations of | mitt*e <m
I �TBCQStlOQ
From The Varsity A new student on. the University of Toronto campus this year is Mihoko Shimizu, here from Japan on a World University Sen"ice scholarship.
Mihoko finds that Toronto, in comparison with Tokyo, is rela-trrerr qtriet with the cxcrptiou of her Whitney Hall room, overlooking Harbord St. And here it is the street*, rather than the sidewalks, which are crowded.
Amencmn
h� her eboke <rf sobj�te from
giene, to prepare for her job as head of this department in her university, a small women's college near Tokyo, where she graduated in British and American literature.
Registration was a confusing-experience for Mihoko as for a.ny newcomer to the University. But thank-s to the help of several Canadian students, whom she finds "very kind and sociable/ she finished registration within a day of her arrival,
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