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Date:         Mon, 11 Jan 1993 18:00:00 JST
From:         Akio Tanaka <TANAKA%JPNSUT20.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Gleanings (74)

[ 1 ]  Yoshi Hattori Petition.

Evelyn wrote (6 Jan 93):

ed) This is needed in a country where you have to get a license for a dog
ed) but not for a gun.

ed) Evelyn

----------------------------Original message----------------------------
Yoshi Hattori, a young Japanese exchange student, was killed in Baton Rouge
this past October, shot by mistake by a homeowner using a handgun. In response
Yoshi's parents, practicing Buddhists, have gathered over one million
signatures in Japan for a petition calling for greater regulation of hand
guns in the U.S. Yoshi's host parents in Baton Rouge, Richard and Holly
Haymaker, are colleagues and friends of mine at LSU. On their behalf I
am forwarding Richard's plea for help. He would like to gather one million
signatures in the U.S. and world wide in support of the Hattoris. If you
wish to help: 1. Print out the petition and gather signatures  2. Mail
them to Dick Haymaker at the address below. 3. Questions? His e-mail is
phaymk @ lsuvm.bitnet.  Thank you all. -- Rodger Kamenetz (enrodg @ lsuvm)


                                   254 Nelson Drive, Baton Rouge, LA 70808
                                   January 4, 1992

 Dear Members of the Buddhist Community,

 On October 17, we received a call from the police that we all dread.  We
 were told that our son Webb is ok but our other son, our AFS exchange student
 Yoshi Hattori from Japan, had been shot and killed. The boys knocked on the
 door of the wrong house believing that they had arrived at a Halloween party.
.......
.......

 The Hattori petition to the President of the United States and the Prime
 Minister of Japan asks Americans to "Tighten the controls on individual
 ownership of firearms".  They already have 800,000 signatures.  The Hattoris
 delivered 40,000 signatures to the Bush Administration via the US Ambassador
 to Japan, Mike Armacost.  Prime Minister Miazawa met with them also.
......
......
                                   PETITION

  To: The President of the United States of America

  Petitioners:

  Richard and Holley Haymaker (and friends)
  254 Nelson Drive
  Baton Rouge, LA 70808, USA

  Petition:

      To protest the easy availability of firearms in the United States
......
......

  We call upon the President of the United States to reassess the easy
  availability of guns in this country and, in so doing, help prevent the
  thousands of similar incidents or accidents that will, no doubt, occur in
  the future.

  We the undersigned, support this petition in memory of Yoshi and in the hope
  that his death will not be in vain.

  PLEASE MAIL COMPLETED PETITIONS TO :
  Richard and Holley Haymaker, PO BOX 14839, Baton Rouge, LA 70898, USA
========================================================================

Evelyn,

I would like to thank you very much for posting the above.  I had wanted
to write about it for a long time.  I was deeply shocked and saddened by
Yoshi's death particularly because I was an AFS exchange student myself.
Some commented that Yoshi was shot to death because he wasn't able to
understand the word 'freeze.' I think their comment is ridiculously
missing the point and an affront to Yoshi Hattori.

I have already distributed to my friends and colleagues the petition form
that you kindly forwarded.

Thank you again, Evelyn.

[ 2 ]  _My Mother at New Year's_   By Erika Tachihara*
     *an author of children's books.  The following was written in 1980.

     My mother always used to wear a new kimono on New Year's
Day.  Though I say "new," I do not mean that the kimono was
completely new.  It was a kimono that had been redyed and resewn,
but to me, a child, it appeared to be brand new.
     My mother in this kimono, which made a rustling sound with
every movement and gave off a slight fragrance, seemed a
different person from the one who had been busy giving the house
a thorough cleaning and working in the kitchen.  "You should
always look like this, mother," I would say, running my hand over
the fabric of her kimono, while my father stared at her as if
dazzled.  Taking the sake cup my father offered her, my mother
would again seem a different person.
     Although I had often seen her in her overall apron wringing
out a floorcloth, saying how busy she was, and coming home laden
with shopping, I have never seen her sewing a kimono.  I think
she must have done such jobs for herself late at night when the
family were asleep.  What did she think about as she sat all
alone busily working her hands?  I wonder if she was sick and
tired of this insignificant, humdrum sort of life and muttered
to herself that this was not what she had expected.
     My mother was a woman of the older generation who always put
her own welfare after that of her husband and children, and the
sewing of her New Year's kimono may have been her secret way of
comforting herself and regaining her courage and happiness.  I
have no longer any means of ascertaining how my mother felt about
her New Year's kimono, because she has long since passed away.

[ 3 ]  So Long, Dizzy.

Miles Davis is gone and now Dizzy.   Miles Davis and Dizzy Gillespie
are my two favorite musicians . . .

[ 4 ]  Gleanings (74).  This must go on whatever happens . . .

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* There were quite a few postings with **the following message from
the POSTMASTER <MAINT@JPNSUT00> attached to them on 9 Jan.  They were
mostly from New Year's Eve and New Year's Day.

** {This is the Information Processing Center, Science University of Tokyo.
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Akio Tanaka/11 Jan 93 (Oh, before I forget, Akemashite Omedeto Gozaimasu,
or Happy New Year)
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