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Read Part 1 >> What is the state of the school today? What is the enrolment? What is the makeup of students e.g., from Japan, …
“For over 100 years, it (VJLS) has served Vancouver’s Japanese Canadian and local communities as a community-based educational, social, and cultural centre. This designation is …
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“Close to 800 dry glass negatives abandoned by the Matsubuchi studio reappeared in the mid-1980s in garage sales, and were recognized and collected by Cumberland …
Involvement in forming and leading the JC Exiles Group in Kansai Following the official apology in 1988 by the prime minister of Canada to Japanese …
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The wartime confinement of Japanese Canadians is a landmark in the history of civil rights and race relations nationwide. Like their counterparts south of the …
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…for me and my family anyway. Back in 1920, my father first came to Canada from a small village called Kiyama, Fukui-ken, Japan. His father, …
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Read Part 1 >> YELLOW CHERRIES/YELLOW PERIL?! I am intrigued by the story of post-internment Ontario Japanese Canadian (JC) history in the booklet you wrote. …
“The exhibition title evolved from Sisters to Tashme Sisters because both of them began belated examinations of their origins in an internment camp and the …
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Read Part 1 >> I cannot recall precisely when I first heard of Tamio Wakayama. Although I owned a copy of A Dream of Riches …
In the column I wrote some time ago on the Nisei photographer Yoichi Okamoto, who served as official photographer in the White House during the …
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