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1 Buickreceivedthehighestnumericalscoreamong17massmarketbrandsintheJ.D.Power2016SalesSatisfactionIndex(SSI)Study,basedon28,979totalresponses,measuringtheopinionsofbuyersandlesseesofnewvehiclesintheUnitedStates,surveyedJuly-August2016.Yourexperiencesmayvary.Visitjdpower.com. 2 Encore SATISFACTIONAMONG MASSMARKETBRANDS 1 BUICK.COM Nosecuritydepositrequired. 2017BUICKENCOREPREFERRED ULTRALOWMILEAGELEASEFORWELLQUALIFIEDGMEMPLOYEEPROGRAM 159 PERMONTH 2 24 MONTHS DUEATSIGNING AFTERALLOFFERS 629 THE PAST IS STILL PRESENT his is what Regina H. Boone knows about her grandfather: His name was Tsujiro Miyazaki. He came to this country, family legend has it, as a stowaway on a ship from Europe.

By 1941, an ocean and more away from his native Japan, it seemed like Miyazaki had found a home. In Suffolk, of all the unlikely places, in the heart of a black community in a rural town in the segregated South. Miyazaki owned a restaurant, the Horseshoe and built a family with Leathia Boone and their two sons. A prosperous businessman, he donated to local charities and had friends in the community. They called him Mike.

Until Pearl Harbor. In the early hours of Dec. 7, 1941, the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service launched a surprise attack on the U.S. military base at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii. The devastating attack killed 2,403 Americans, pitching the U.S.

into World War II. And a wave of suspicion about Japanese Americans consumed the nation. Before the day was over, Miyazaki was in U.S. custody, first at Ft. Howard in Maryland, then at the Rohwer Japanese American Relocation Center in Arkansas.

He never returned to Virginia. By 1946, he was dead. The American government would ultimately intern as many as 120,000 JapaneseAmer- icansunder executive orders issued by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1942 and upheld by the U.S. Supreme Courtin 1944, a policy based on open prejudice andthe mistaken belief that JapaneseAmericans were a an enemy force inside American borders.

What happened to Miyazaki is a mystery Boone has only begun to unravel. A longtime PHOTOS BY REGINA H. BOONE See MIYAZAKI, Page16A As a granddaughter searches for answers, lessons from internment must not be lost Regina H. Boone, a former Free Press photographer, is determined to learn what happened to her grandfather, Tsujiro Miyazaki, who was interned in 1941 and died before making it home. Documents about him include expansive details on what he owned and read, but also inaccuracies such as the spelling of his name.

MIKE THOMPSON Detroit auto show sketchbook PAGE 17A KIM TRENT The lessons in the must-see film PAGE 18A SUNDAY, JAN.15,2017 WWW.FREEP.COM 15A OPINION ANALYSIS DEBATE FROM THE DETROIT NEWS: Nolan Finley: Trump, shut up and lead 22A Marvin achampion of fun to the crazies. The oddballs. The kooks. Some would describe Marvin Yagoda that way. He thought like a kid.

He acted like a kid. He spoke in rambling sentences and trivial facts, as likely to tell you about the inner workings of an airplane as he was to explain the tic-tac-toe chicken robot in his museum. Oh, yes. He had a museum. Why? you? His was unique.

For one thing, it was free and open all year. For another, you brought quarters to enjoy it. Also, to be honest, it was born from a need to clean out his house. den growing up had five player pianos in it, and two self-playing violins, Nickelodeons, a feeder-band organ, and a couple of claw and digger recalls his son, Jeremy Yagoda, 43. was nowhere to sit.

My mother always said to him, you get a place for all this stuff and get it out of our In 1980, he began, moving a single machine (a chicken laying eggs machine) into the old Tally Hall food court on Orchard Lake Road near 14 Mile Road. Eventually, he took more and more space there, and by 1990, the entire building was his, filled with several hundred fun machines, including antique arcade attractions (like the fortune teller in the movie skee-ball, claw diggers, automatons, a carousel, pinball, photo booths, and the most unique collection of old coin-operated oddities, like or or Great where you stick your hand into a machine and asinister dummy slams a fake blade down. To visit Marvelous Mechanical Museum is to go back in time, to squeeze the 20th Century of amusements into one wild, colorful, bell-clanging space. Places like this just happen. They need visionaries.

Crazy visionaries. Big kid, big heart a Detroit pharmacist by trade always torn between his two businesses, the drugstore and the Jeremy says. he would have done the second one for free. He was the biggest kid in the Many will vouch for that, myself included. I met Marvin 15 years ago, doing research for a book about old amusement parks.

Truth be told, as a pinball nut, I had been visiting his place for years. But when I asked him a question about old carnival sideshows, he launched into an animated hour-long discussion, complete with trips to the back, old photos taken off the walls and offers to help me dig deeper. He was a delightful odd duck, with high, round cheeks, prominent ears, a disheveled haircut suited to an 8-year-old and colorful suspenders that covered more colorful shirts. But you could tell he loved fun, children, innocence and wonder. He adored flying, so he hung a laundry conveyor belt around the ceiling of his building and strung radio controlled toy airplanes everywhere.

He even named one for his son. Had a Snoopy painted on it. was cool being his Jeremy says. If not always predictable. One time, his wife sent Marvin to get young Jeremy a suit for a wedding.

Father and son were gone for hours. They returned with four bags of clothing. the his wife asked. Marvin lowered his head. bought four tuxedos for a miniature band of characters in the shop.

Jeremy says, forgot the Fun times will go on Marvin died last Sunday, at 78, after a heart attack. tempted to say his heart was having too much fun. But that heart that will be missed. For beyond the arcade eccentricities, this son of Russian and Austrian immigrants was a man who regularly gave his pharmacy customers free medicine if they afford it. Who regularly handed cups of quarters to children wandering through his machines.

Jeremy tells of a frequent customer, a mentally-challenged man who acts more like a child. Marvin always welcomed him and let him play the machines. One time, a family complained that the man was creeping them out. done nothing wrong. They just found him annoying.

you have to Marvin told them. At his funeral, Jeremy says, there were testimonies from people the family never knew, people he had helped or supported through tough times. At one point, because Marvin loved magic, a couple of magicians performed the Broken Wand ceremony, where a wand is ceremoniously snapped in half, signaling the end of the magical performances on Earth. they saidsince my dad provided so much fun for everybody, he deserved a standing ovation. And everybody stood up and clapped.

the first time ever seen a standing ovation at a to the crazies. The kooks. The oddballs. People told Marvin Yagoda he was nuts his whole life. But look at the fun and kindness he gave this world.

Jeremy insists that Marvelous going anywhere, that he will carry on the tradition, in hopes of being the man my father If anything deserves a standing ovation, that does. MITCH ALBOM I all for conversation starters. Spit-balling wild ideas is definitely one of the ways to get the brain churning, and to get people chattering about things they might not have thought of before. a lot of fun at a planning meeting. Or a dinner party.

But a difference between that kind of thought- provoking banter and legislating, which ought to be about responsibly enacting law, not the wide-eyed pursuit of every nutty idea that jumps into your head. Strange times these are, indeed, when GOP lawmakers conservatives, supposedly who seem to need the lecture about restraint. In Washington, the party has promised since Barack Obama signed the Affordable Care Act to get it repealed, but has not, in six years, outlined a way to ensure that disrupt insurance coveragefor about 20 million Americans or introduce more chaos into the markets that are now insuring millions more. But for the reasonable cautions of two or three members of the Republican majority in the Senate, that could now happen. And here in Michigan, the very first act introduced in the state House this year was a proposal to gradually lower income tax rate until it reaches zero.

Zero. Right now, that tax produces about $9.4 billion in revenue, or about a third of the total tax haul. And how would that money be replaced? Who knows? Lee Chatfield, the northern Michigan representative who introduced the bill in the House, said anything about how to fill that void. The new House Speaker, Tom Leonard, simply said it was the right thing to do because the Wild ideas equal good legislation STEPHEN HENDERSON EDITORIAL PAGE EDITOR See HENDERSON, Page17A.