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fSOEDIMI EDITORIALS D2 Island Voice: Fireworks B3 Letters: POP '94 B3 SUNDAY, July 3. 1994 The Honolulu Advertiser EDITORIAL PAGE EDITOR: Jerry Burris, 525-8031 Li3oii Japan's bizarre and turbulent new politics in violent relsLtidDiiis Mm of April, Tsutomu Hata was left with a minority government. It was believed that the Socialists, encouraged by their union supporters, might be lured back into the coalition. But when reformist strategist, Ichiro by Charles E. Morrison Japan's turbulent politics took a truly stunning and bizarre turn this week when the leader of the Social Democratic Party of Japan (SDPJ), Tomiichi Murayama, was elected prime minister at the head of a new coali Ozawa, snubbed their vaguely worded The authors failed to disclose that the 1985 study clearly states that the meaning and consequences of these intimate violence statistics are easily misunderstood.

The 1985 study goes on to say that the reasons the reported intimate violence statistics can easily be misunderstood are twofold: A great deal of violence by wives against their husbands is self defense; and The greater size, strength and aggressiveness of men, when compared to women, Here's a list of agencies that help victims of domestic abuse: a 24-hour domestic violence hotline, 841-0822 a Family Peace Center, 596-0900 a Child and Family Service, 532-5100 Domestic Violence Clearinghouse and Legal Hotline, 531-3771 Shelters, 841-0822 Military shelters, 533-7125 By, Pamela Fergnson-Brey and Jodi Nishioka Women are not responsible for domestic violence. Yet that was the assertion in an article "Women are responsible, too" by Judith Sherven and James Sniechowski which was published last Sunday in the Honolulu Advertiser, The authors blame the female victim for the violence perpetrated by the male abuser, and conclude that the abuse is justified. Their argument that women are equally as abusive as men in domestic relationships is not supported by the studies they cite. The article contained misinformation and myth. MYTH: Half of Spousal Murders Are Committed by Wives The authors provide no support for this assertion.

In fact, the most recent Uniform Crime Reports, pub platform proposal, Murayama abruptly turned to the LDP. Ozawa apparently hoped that the new alliance would lead to sufficient defections from both the Socialists and the LDP to give the reformist coalition a majority. Some defections such tion including the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and the small New Harbinger Party. Murayama, whose party had been the largest in the Hosokawa-led reformist coalition that ruled from July 1993 to April 1994, won the prime ministership I 'Si y-'n means that the same act is likely to cause greater pain and injury to the woman abused by a man than to the man abused by a woman. In their 1988 book, Intimate Violence, Drs.

Gelles and Straus state that nearly three quarters of the intimate violence A ,1 Murayama Nishoioka lished in 1992 by the United States Department of Justice (USDJ), indicate that in cases of spousal murder, 913 men killed their wives, while only 383 women killed their husbands. MYTH: Women and men are physically abusing each other in roughly level of domestic abuse because they do not include cases involving self-defense, or cases where there was no injury. MYTH: Domestic Violence Is a "family matter," not a crime: The authors of the June 26 article mischaracterize the nature of domestic violence by describing it as a "mutual" or family problem between twb people. This is a position often taken by abusers in an attempt to justify their See violence, Page B4 Pamela Ferguson-Brey is Executive Director of the Hawaii State Commission on the Status of Women. Jodi Nishioka is Program Manager, Domestic Violence Clearinghouse and Legal Hotline I ii'i." This article was compiled with contributions and support from: i Developing Options To Violence, Child Family Service, Fairness for Abused Women (FFAW), Family Law Section of the Hawaii State Bar Association, Family Peace Center, Hawaii Emergency Abuse Response Teams (HEART), Hawaii State Committee on Family Violence, Hawaii Women Lawyers Spouse Abuse Shelters, Child Family Service as Kaifu's did occur, but not enough for Ozawa's strategy to succeed in the short run.

The LDP and SDPJ are traditional rivals with little policy compatibility. During the Cold War period, the LDP had stood for an unwavering alliance with the United States, and the Socialists advocated a left-leaning neutrality. The ruling LDP gradually strengthened Japan's defense forces, while the opposition Socialists argued that even self-defense was incompatible See Japan, Page B4 Charles E. Morrison is a senior research fellow at the East West Center by a 261 to 214 vote on the second ballot over Toshiki Kaifu. Less than three hours before the vote, Kaifu had been a leading member of LDP, but broke with his party and ran for prime ministership endorsed by the six remaining parties in the reformist coalition.

These events showed in the starkest form the triumph of personality and power over principle in Japanese politics. In recent months, the Socialists held the balance between the two other groupings the Liberal Democrats and the reformist coalition. When the SDPJ defected from the coalition at the end Ferguson committed by women is done in self defense. In a recent telephone conversation, Dr. Gelles stated that the results of his 1985 study did not support the assertions contained in the June 26th article.

When compared to men, women annually experience over ten times as many inci-' dentsofviolencebyan intimate. According to Dr. Gelles, the assertion in the June 26th article that "while 1.8 million women annually suffered one or more assaults from a husband or boyfriend, 2 million men were assaulted by a wife or girlfriend" misrepresents the findings of his 1985 study. Dr. Gelles said that a more accurate statement of the findings would be that men committed 1,800,000 domestic assaults against women, and women committed 100,000 domestic assaults against men.

These figures more accurately reflect the equal numbers: The authors misrepresent the research they cite in order to support their assertion that women are as violent as men in intimate relationships. A careful review of the studies cited by Sherven and Sniechowski to support their argument indicates that these are all based on a single source, the 1985 National Family Violence Survey conducted by Dr. Richard Gelles and Dr. Murray Straus. Jl i km There was no Civil War neutrality in Hawaii By Bob Dye protected us in a heathen land." News that the name of Abraham Lincoln had been added to the list of Northern war dead reached Honolulu on May July 4, 1861, in Nuuanu Valley, Americans celebrated independence with a military salute, from a cannon.

8. "It never will be known in time how many millions of earnest prayers went up to 'Massa Linkum' from Uncle Tom cabins," mused Rev. Damon. At war's end, the casualty figures were staggering: 360,000 Union and 135,000 Confederate dead. Of the twenty-five Hawaii boys who had joined the Union forces, four Lt.

Joseph Cochran Forbes, Lt. Goddard, Capt. John Gris-wold, and Pvt. Henry Hoolulu Pitman were among the battle dead. An other, Eli Samuel Kuggles died of natural causes while serving as assistant surgeon of the army.

Fortunately, two native Hawaiians, Kealoha and Kaina, who served with the colored troops, had not been injured. Late in the war, Armstrong came upon as a symbol and never be drawn in anger. Less sensitive to Christian nuances, the fifteen members of the Koloa Volunteers, led by George and Sanford Dole, armed themselves i with a sword, bayonets, and eight ancient muskets taken from the old Russian Fort at Waimea. At the 1862 Fourth of July celebration, the most admired entertainment, other than the horse races, was a crude effigy of Jefferson Davis hanging from a gallows erected near the refreshment stands, where the children would be certain to see it. That night, to hoots and howls, Davis was burned in effigy.

But most of the children were too young to understand the religious symbolism of the flames. THE UNION Army finally won a major victory at the Battle of Antietam on September 17, and Lincoln decided that it was an appropriate time to proclaim the slaves free. But when Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation went into effect on the first of the year, no slaves were given their freedom. He had exempted the four loyal slave states, and those parts of the South under federal occupation. The exemptions put the lie to any pretense that the proclamation was a righteous condemnation of slavery as some people thought.

But as a consequence of the Emancipation Proclamation, regiments of blacks were formed in Massachusetts. When Henry Hoolu-lu Pitman, from Hilo, was inducted into the army at Boston, he was assigned to a black regiment. Like other "colored" privates, his pay was $7 per month. White privates soldiered for $13. Though Henry was descended from the great chief Hoolulu, he accepted his lowly status, as the only way open to him to fight racism.

He was the first Hawaii son to fall in the war. Captured and imprisoned, he was eventually paroled to a camp in Annapolis, Maryland, where he died. A Hawaii missionary man, Samuel Armstrong, fought bravely at Gettysburg. He had volunteered to command a regiment of colored troops. He described them as "worse than kanakas and complained that they were "utterly destitute of rhythm." "One country and one doctiny" was the theme of the 1864 Fourth of July oration.

Union victory seemed imminent and the orator concluded his address with a toast: "The Hawaiian boys in the Union Army, may they be shielded from rebel bullets and bayonets and may they have their share of the glory of the final victory of freedom." The toast came too late for Joe Forbes who was killed by a Confederate sharpshooter six weeks earlier. Upon the enlistment of his sons, Rev. Cochran Forbes had said, "I am willing that they should sacrifice their lives, if God calls them, for the flag that They draped their lanais with bunting, and before ten o'clock, dressed in their Sunday best, were in their pews at Fort Street Church. The entire congregation proudly wore red, white and blue rosettes, or some other badge of patriotism. The sermon, delivered from a pulpit decorated with an American flag, praised "God's favorite people" on the eighty-fifth anniversary of their nation's birth.

"Hail Columbia," sang a choir of thirty voices: Firm, united, let us be, Rallying round our Liberty! Following the religious service, the celebrants paraded back up the valley to the yard of an American attorney, where, to another cannonade, they cheered wildly as a silk Star Spangled Banner was hoisted to the top of a 175 foot flagpole by the women who had sewn it. The Advertiser concluded that the day had been "celebrated with an enthusiasm probably never before witnessed here In Hilo, Captain Thomas Spencer inducted eighty men into his native Hawaiian infantry company. They were precluded from a sailing off to battle, however, when the king proclaimed Hawaii's neutrality in the American civil war. If Spencer's "Invincibles" had sailed to the Mainland, their military service would 1 have been refused. "Colored" men were not accepted into the U.S.

Army. i The center of Yankee patriotism was the Punahou campus. A "fine American flag," purchased by the boys, flew over the school house, and on the playing field Lt. William H. Dimond drilled a student cavalry troop armed with wooden sabres.

He later served in Washington as Assistant Adjutant General of Caval-ry. "WE ARE all Unionists out here; even our little five year old considers himself insulted if he is called a Secessionist. That name is only applied to him when insubordinate. The children all sing Union songs, and marching is the order of the day," wrote a missionary wife. Missionary support of the Union army was tempered by religious principles, however.

Rev. Damon protested against Union generals who engaged in combat on Sundays: "To suppose, that an army of Northern men could be led onward to attack a rebel force upon the Sabbath with equal success, as if they were fighting upon some other day, is quite absurd." Missionary son William Franklin Snow, upon his ordination as chaplain of the Fifth Massachusetts Regiment, vowed that the sword he was presented would be worn only them, and reported that they all had "a good jabber in kanaka." FOREIGN colonization of freed negroes gained President Johnson's support, and a prominent Ohio minister called for blacks to be sent to a warm climate, where "the mongrel population will have nothing to fear from amalgamation." There was some fear in Honolulu that former slaves would be indentured to work on Hawaii plantations, as had other people of color. After the war, missionary Samuel Armstrong founded Hampton Institute in Virginia to train blacks. Booker T. Washington was graduated from there.

He went on to establish Tuskegee as a major institution of higher education. "No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem," he lf -I, 3 wrote in his remark- fifN able autobiography. Up n.f.m From Slavery. Bob Dye is a Kailua-based writer and historian..