From: "'Chapatsu' Rob Uechi" <alexei <at> U <dot> WASHINGTON <dot> EDU>
Date: 21 may 1999
Subject: Re: More Problems in the US Shogi Championship

On Thu, 20 May 1999, Sam Sloan wrote:
>
> I understand that Mr. Rob Uechi is a second generation Japanese American
> and thus was eligible for the prize. However, it is apparent that Mr. Uechi
> has lived for many years in Japan. He was also reluctant to play in this
> event and had to be almost coerced into doing so. He was not the ideal
> candidate, to put it mildly. Mr. Bekele was on the other hand the ideal
> candidate. Mr. Bekele is an enthusiastic shogi player and has never been to
> Japan. It would be wonderful if he had legitimately won this event and
> therefore could represent America. But, the point is, by any standard or
> criteria, Mr. Bekele did not win.

No, I am a 4th generation Japanese Okinawan-American, and my family has
been in Hawaii for almost 100 years; they were there long before the Japs
bombed Pearl Harbor, and of course I was raised there.

I suppose since I look like one of them, it must mean I am one of them.
What other kind of thinking can one expect from a race that put my
"un-American" kind in concentration camps during the second World War.