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Thursday, March 15th, 2018
Alice and I visited Japan in December last year. On the 11th we flew from Narita in Tokyo to the New Chitose Airport near Sapporo; the next day â Dec. 12th â we flew from Okadama Airport in Sapporo to Rishiri Airport ⊠under the provision that, IF the weather around Rishiri Airport was not suitable for the plane to land, the plane would turn around and return to Okadama Airport. Fortunately, when we arrived at Rishiri Airport, the weather had turned favorable for landing. Our understanding is that there had been a blizzard prior to our planeâs arrival, and up until the last several minutes landing was not a guarantee.
We were met at the airport by Rev. Kyouji Furukawa, Chairman of the âMacDonald Scholarship Fund Support Groupâ, Mr. Eiji Nishiya, Deputy Manager of MSFSG, Mr. Motomura, Principal of Rishiri High School (who officially invited us to come to Rishiri) and Ms. Nakanishi and Ms. Suzuki, teachers and two of the familiar faces from Rishiri High School, who had each chaperoned students to America in recent years.
Snowy Hokkaido ⊠in particular the âreal middle-of-winter on Rishiri Islandâ â for several years now Alice and I have discussed going to see the deep snow on Hokkaido. Out of nowhere, a request came from Rishiri High School Principal Motomura for me to go and give a lecture there in December. It did not take any time at all for us to decide and to respond positively for going. The Hokkaido Board of Education designated Rishiri High School to be an âImproving English Language Educationâ research school. Also, for the past 5 years Rishiri High School has sent students to America as part of their âshort-term overseas study programâ to encourage learning English. The lectures relating to the project at the high school and a review of the project were to be held at Rishiri High School on December 15th. It was Principal Motomuraâs suggestion that we try to arrive a few days in advance since âbad weatherâ could jeopardize our schedule â there is only ONE flight per day from Okadama in Sapporo to Rishiri (and vice versa) â so we arrived on the 12th.
As we were driven from the airport along the snowy road to where we were to stay â the Pension Green Wind â we saw frequent changes to the weather, and we looked at each other and nodded our heads, agreeing that Principal Motomuraâs suggestion to try to get there early had been âa good oneâ. We were greeted by Miyazakiâs âTotoroâ on the way to the high school – âDrive Carefully on Rishiri !â
The lecture and presentation was held in the Rishiri High School Auditorium; the event started out with an official greeting by Principal Motomura in English. [Principal Motomura is a former English teacher â and his English was very good.] His greetings were followed by a report entitled âStudying in Astoria (Oregon) and Spokane (Washington)â which was presented by two Rishiri High School Juniors, Jin Hiranuma and Mako Sato. Jin and Mako came to America in the autumn of 2017 and were the 5th pair of students to come to Astoria/Spokane in the last 5 years. They took turns giving their presentation, speaking about their valuable experiences in English. Next the Chairman of Friends of MacDonald â me â presented the ârealâ Ranald MacDonald to the student body (as opposed to the Ronald McDonald, the mascot of hamburger fame). I introduced MacDonald and his contributions by Power Point in English. After that, based on my â50 plus years of life in Americaâ, I gave âlife adviceâ to the Rishiri High School students in Japanese. My message was, âItâs good to hope and dream of the future, but the most important thing is to concentrate and work hard on whatâs in front of you right now!â That message has been my personal mantra/motto during my life in America.
Alice followed with her own message in English â âThere is a big, wide world out there – – – get out of your comfort zone and follow the example of Ranald MacDonald, the Adventurer!â
The final lecture was presented by Dr. Hisashi Naito, Professor of Business Management at Hokkai Gakuen University, entitled âLook, Think and Act Globallyâ and explained the arrival of a new âGlocal Worldâ in fluent English [which he stressed that he had studied and mastered without going abroad.]
Local dignitaries who attended the presentation included Rev. Kyouji Furukawa, Mr. Kenâichi Kurokawa, Mr. Eiji Nishiya of Ranald MacDonald Scholarship Fund Support Group and Mr. Kazuki Kosugi, Superintendent of the Rishiri School Dist. plus representatives from Hokkaido Department of Education, Wakkanai High School, Toyotomi High School, Edasachi High School, Rebun High School, Rishiri Junior High School, Senposhi Grade School, Kutsugata Grade School and some parents. It was a well-attended event.
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Friday, September 29th, 2017
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Sunday, May 28th, 2017
We knew it was going to be a special meeting as soon as we got off the elevator on the second floor of the Heritage Museum in Astoria â we were not âlateâ, but we found the hallway filled with FOM members and guests chatting and patiently waiting to enter the gallery area of the old, Circa 1904 Astoria City Hall. We were thrilled to see so many familiar faces â and a number of new faces as well. We â all of the Friends of MacDonald members â are pleased and gratified that our membership stays strong. It is often difficult for organizations such as ours to remain healthy over the years; that said, we feel that our success stems from the allure Ranald MacDonald himself. As far as historical figures go, I think I speak for all of our members when I say that Ranald is definitely one of the more interesting characters to spring out of the Pacific Northwest, if not America itself.
We began our meeting by welcoming charter member and former FOM Chairman Prof. Stephan Kohl, former chairman Jim Mockford, and author of âRanald MacDonald: Pacific Rim Adventurerâ, JoAnn Roe, who, at age 93, drove BY HERSELF to Astoria from Bellingham, WA to be with us at this yearâs luncheon. We were also honored to have Consul General and Mrs. Uchiyama of the Japan Consular Office in Portland, Chinook Council Vice Chair Sam Robinson and his better half Mildred (who entertained us with Chinook drums and songs of gratitude to the Creator who watches over us all), and local Chinook artist Charles Funk and his wife Mary. Members of Clan Donald were also in attendance, as well as visitors from Montana and Japan. Jim Mockford reminded us of our history as a Committee of the Clatsop County Historical Society, and â with occasional corroboration from Professor Kohl â told the story of the early days of FOM when Bruce Berney of Astoria and the late Mas Tomita of Epson Portland (among others) work against all odds to establish FOM. ~ Chairman Mas Yatabe
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Tuesday, February 28th, 2017
The following reports (in Japanese) were written by two students from Rishiri High School, Yuto Shima and Haruno Tsutsumi, and their foreign language teacher, Junichiro Miyamoto, after completing their visitation to Spokane and Toroda, Washington and Portland and Astoria, Oregon, spending 5 days in each State. They visited the grave site of Ranald MacDonald near Toroda, Washington and attended classes at Colville High School in Republic, Washington with other local students. They were guided by a long- time member of FOM and the author of the book âUnsung Heroâ, Atsumi Tsukimori McCauley of Spokane, WA. Next the three flew to Portland where they were joined by Rishiri H.S. Principle, Mr. Tsubokawa, and the PTA President, Mr. Yoshida. The five were guided by FOM Chairman Mas Yatabe to meet with Council General of Japan in Portland, Kojiro Uchiyama, who gave the two studentsâ self-introduction speeches in English a high grade of âAâ as if they were his students, which made Principal Tsubokawa, Foreign Language teacher, Mr. Miyamoto and Mr. Yoshida, the PTA President very happy. The five from Rishiri were driven by Chairman Yatabe to Astoria where they visited the birth place monument of Ranald MacDonald and later they were taken to Astoria High School where the students met host families and the Principle of Astoria High School, Mr. Lynn Jackson. Although their stays in Washington and Oregon were short, they, in particular the students, learned a great deal about the diverse nature of the people and the culture of US, and the independence of US students compared their Japanese counterparts. Both students were very appreciative of the host studentsâ and their familiesâ kindness in Republic, Washington and in Astoria. Oregon.
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Amsterdam, September 11, 2016 ~~ The Cultural Public Benefit Organization awarding the prize, Friends of MacDonald ⢠The Dutch Connection, abbreviated as FOM NL, would not have existed if Frederik L. Schodt had not written a biography of Ranald MacDonald (1824-1894). In his Native American in the Land of the Shogun: Ranald MacDonald and the Opening of Japan (Stone Bridge Press, Albany CA, 2003) he brings to life a âtrue cultural and racial hybridâin the best sense of the wordâ (who) assumes heroic proportions because of his success in carving his own path in life, in an often unfriendly worldâ, in short, an example to follow. But, besides this book, Schodt â he calls himself a niche writer â has written many other works on related subjects, essays, historiography and translations. Therefore FOM NL granted him a special prize of 2500 euro for his oeuvre.
On October 11, 1848, year of revolutions in Europe and the gold rush in California, Japan still being âclosedâ, Ranald MacDonald met in Nagasaki with the Japanese âDutch Interpretersâ and the Dutch âopperhoofdâ, âchiefâ. This small event, which made it to the headlines in the Dutch newspapers because âthe opening of Japanâ was hot in those days, was the reason to choose October 11th for the annual award ceremony.
The âInternational Ranald MacDonald Prizeâ will be awarded annually to the work of a debut writer or artist which is exceptionally âtrue, good and beautifulâ and sheds new light on the relations between Asia, Europe and North America. The novel In het licht van wat wij weten / In the light of what we know (Hollands Diep, Amsterdam, 2015) by Zia Haider Rahman fits this description precisely. Indeed, this book is so comprehensive, so wide ranging and has, eventually, such a remarkable outcome, that the first winner exceeded all expectations. Its quality will be the touchstone for any future award. The prize amounts to 5000 euro and the ceremony was held October 11, 2016.
~Fred Dijs http://www.friendsofmacdonald.nl/en/2016/09/press-release/
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Mr. Torao Tomita, Professor Emeritus of St. Paulâs University in Tokyo and Chairman of Friends of MacDonald Japan, passed away on June 11, 2016 at the age of 87. Prof. Tomita came across Ranald MacDonald in 1969 when he attended the live play âGrassroots Warriorsâ performed by the Bunka-za Theater Group. Tomita-san was quite intrigued when one of the actors â portraying an American Indian named Ranald MacDonald – proclaimed that âin America, the People are more important than the Presidentâ. Based on this single statement, Mr. Tomita began doing his own research into the man Ranald MacDonald, reading everything he could find, including the Narrative written by MacDonald and visiting as many of the places MacDonald had mentioned, both in Japan and in America. In 1979 Tomita translated Ranaldâs Narrative into Japanese, and published his own revision in 1981 and again in 2012. Eventually, as his research continued, Mr. Tomita revised his original portrayal of Ranald MacDonald from a youth who seemed a rather âreckless adventurerâ into a rational, deliberate and thoughtful adventurer.
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Saturday, August 27th, 2016
The First Ranald Macdonald Prize to be awarded on October 11, 2016
Long ago, in 1993, I took a trip to Indonesia, and ever since then I have searched for some thread I could follow that connects Holland westward – not eastward – to the Far East. Fifteen years later I found this thread in Frederik Schodtâs biography of Ranald MacDonald. In 2008, my best friend Josje-Marie Vrolijk and I traveled westward around the world in the footsteps of Archibald McDonald and Ranald MacDonald. That was when we met you, the Friends of MacDonald. The trip was so inspiring that I became a very good friend of both Ranald and his modern friends.
My father died in 1999, and when my mother passed away in 2011 I decided to use the inheritance, earned by them in the private sector, for something useful in the public sector. That is how the idea for the Ranald MacDonald Award was conceived. But it needed some time to gestate. The name of the foundation, The Friends of MacDonald ⢠The Dutch Connection, was inspired by a nickname Bruce Berney kindly gave Josje and me during our 2008 trip, and the foundation itself was formally established on November 12, 2015. It would not have been possible without a little help from my friends, actually without much help, from many friends, including you. And I am very grateful to all.
Frederik Schodt suggested having the award ceremony on October 11 of every year, in commemoration of that Wednesday in 1848, when Ranald MacDonald arrived in the bay of Nagasaki on the Tenjinmaru and was met by the Japanese governmentâs interpreter, Einosuke Moriyama, and the Dutch trading factor, Joseph H. Levyssohn. I was very happy with this idea, because this small meeting beautifully symbolizes the meeting of âthe Westâ coming from âthe Eastâ; the âEastâ in this case being on the spot in Nagasaki and âthe Westâ coming from the true westâa directional meeting that I have long been intrigued by, and which shall always be central in the works we are henceforth going to commemorate. So, in the official papers of FOM NL, as we have abbreviated the name, October 11 is now the official date for the award ceremony.
For details about the prize, please visit the website of the foundation and/or its Facebook page (see below). For a short explanation, the text on our business cards should suffice: âFriends of MacDonald ⢠The Dutch Connection â a Cultural Public Benefit Organization which tries to advance insight in relations between Asia, Europe and North America. Its major activity is to grant the âRanald MacDonald Prizeâ to a young writer or artist whose work sheds new light on those relations. The prize amounts to 5000 Euros and will be announced every October 11.â
I suspect there is one thing readers of this description might consider odd: the award is Pan-Asian, Pan-European and Pan-North-American, which might seem to be too much to put on the shoulders of one individual like Ranald. But on the other hand, Ranald MacDonald was very much like you and me, operating in a highly unbalanced world. And it seems to me that we are all living again in a highly unbalanced world. Just as Ranald MacDonald cannot be understood without understanding the world he lived in, so, too, are we unable to understand ourselves without understanding the world that surrounds us. FOM NL therefore seeks to recognize and encourage the work of people who can help us understand what is happening. I like to think that Ranald MacDonald would be very happy with our goal, and I hope you agree.
As I write this, it is August 17, or âHari Proklamasiâ or Independence Day, in Indonesia, where I was born. At FOM NL we are now judging some fifty works of writers and artists from all over the Northern Hemisphere, and we are trying very hard to select just one. This is not easy, because, frankly, the applicants all really deserve the award. But in the process of deciding, the name of Ranald MacDonald will become better known in the Netherlands – and every year one modern individual will be very surprised to receive an award named after him. Is not that amazing?
Fred Dijs, Secretary, FOM ⢠The Dutch Connection
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Tuesday, June 28th, 2016
Our largest group yet! A hearty âthank youâ to those attending this yearsâ Friends of MacDonald Membership meeting! Especially wonderful was being able to host members of Clan Donald, North Pacific Region, Clan Donald USA, who delighted the rest of us with their colorful Tartans and splendid bagpipes! We also want to welcome and acknowledge Consul General Kojiro Uchiyama, the new head of the Consular Office of Japan in Portland, and his wife Karen, herself a native of Montana, Fr. Dale Johnson and Rev. Deacon George Konig of the Syriac Orthodox Church, who work with refugees in Turkey and Germany, Rex and Keiko Ziak of Astoria, representing the Obon Society, a Japanese-American NPO art history project dedicated to the documenting, exhibiting and return of personal artifacts and personal memorabilia taken as battlefield souvenirs during World War II, and Mr. Koichi Higuchi (who came all the way from Tokyo just to attend our meeting â Mr. Higuchi is kneeling next to our Chairman in the front row; both are wearing FOM t-shirts designed by Mr. Higuchi.)
Over the past year we have been able to introduce Friends of MacDonald to new and different groups. As you might remember, in July 2015 our Chairman gave a power point presentation to a group of 30 young English teachers who were taking part in Japanâs Ministry of Foreign Affairs program entitled âJapan-US Training and Exchange Program for English Language Teachersâ. The presentation was a resounding success, so much so that Portland was again chosen to host another group in August 2016. This is significant since only three US cities are chosen to host each year. When these teachers go back to Japan and present what they have âlearnedâ during their time here in the US, they will spread the story of Ranald MacDonald to a new generation of students, aided by FOMâs gift of the book âUnsung Heroâ (written by Atsumi Tsukimori of Spokane) that was presented to each of the participants last July (as will happen again this August). Also part of this yearâs presentation will again be FOMâs âStoryteller Laureateâ, Mr. Alton Takiyama Chung.
Members of Clan Donald pose with FOM Chairman Mas Yatabe in front of the MacDonald birthplace monument
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