European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 3, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse Where there s Mitsubishi can sushi be i Luik Tomei p melt Uhm Minoa above Waits on customer at the Lepai Joe grocery and video tape store in South fled Mich Pam Floyd below teaches japanese children the alphabet at he Community lutheran Church in Flat Dock Mich Page 14 the stars and stripes by Isabel Wilkerson new York times facing unionism pork arms country music and Yankee Pride a. Record number o japanese Are moving to in Industrial Midwest turning Weed filled lots Inlo automobile plants and bringing sushi and Sham Shablo. Small town America they arc Well travelled executives irom Hiroshima or Tokyo settling in Ham Fols to avoid big cily crime scattering to avoid being Clannish marching in local parades or giving to Iho United Way to win Over the curious and Iho sceptical they Are transforming life in Lowns where an Etolie meal used to mean carry out pizza in Bloo Mcglon. Iii., a japanese Roseau rank now under cons Duclion will Start serving Sash or a Beloro the Plant even makes its first car in Dublin Ohio near Iho Honda Panl in Marysville. A new japanese grocery soils items ranging com toasted seaweed to Frozen eel. And Al flow Rock Mich., in the. Heal of automobile country along the rusted Row at smokestacks and steel Mills Between Detroit and Toledo a Mazda plan i is being completed and a Karaoke bar just opened there a group of Mazda engineers got onstage the other Ghl and Sang hey Jude in japanese. How about 15,000 japanese Are on temporary business assignments in the i docs i nearly twice the number a decade ago according to the japanese consuls loin Chicago. Many More Are expected to join them As a fun a Isuzu automobile Plant starts construction in Lafayette ind., and As japanese concerns supplying anything from car seals to dashboards setup of ticks near casting automobile plants. There arc about 2,000 japanese in Southeastern Michigan and their numbers arc increasing so rapidly if Al Lor to twin can barely keep up Wilde mind at me Flat Rock saturday school where japanese children study to keep up with Ilia curriculum in Japan enrolment doubled to More than 400 in the last Yogi Northwest airlines begins thirty Nan Slop Ili tils Between Detroit ant Tot to to May and a monthly newspaper Japan ocl Roii / Uarl tid last april ii u m Iri mince of the japanese Sim i now it was nearly Rio Ike i Rihala a few years ago when the ii Jum was Lilian by recession and Clui irus. Though by some to to Luffa l , hit of the i.ip.mi.",t Viilo Mobil makers. Mitin Jii line arc Stefl pockets old Sonly ii til most people in the i ill ate doing then Best to it 1 re \ or i Uio of in More apparent ins loaf ground breaking Lor she to i i i ii a in fall Rock. The Jov Niimi i Michigan Belory a jnp.in.-. Ili in i a conf High school band tuesday. March 3, is
