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My Mom's Powell Street

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A thriving Japanese Canadian community in Vancouver before World War II.

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* This comic was originally published in the Nikkei Voice in December 2012.

@ 2012 Raymond Nakamura

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About this series

An occasional cartoon series about a Sansei exploring Nikkei culture in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

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About the Author

Raymond Nakamura lives in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. When he is not personal assistant to his daughter, he writes Vogon poetry, draws cartoons rejected by the New Yorker and gives tours of Powell Street, the Japanese community where his mother grew up before World War II. He has a poem about being an ice hockey goalie in a children’s sport poetry anthology called And the Crowd Goes Wild. www.raymondsbrain.com.

Updated October 2012 

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