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Read Part 1 >> What do you remember about life in the camps e.g., eating? Toilet? Baths? Sch…

Norm Masaji Ibuki • March 27, 2018

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Canadian Nikkei Series

Toronto Nisei "Mush" Arima - Part 1

As the 75th anniversary of the internment came and went last year, I have promised myself to get mo…

Norm Masaji Ibuki • March 26, 2018

British Columbia Canada Hastings Park temporary detention center Japanese Canadians Marpole Masayoshi Arima Slocan City internment camp temporary detention centers Vancouver (B.C.) World War II camps

Kayla Isomura: Packing for Unknown Journeys - Part 2

Read Part 1 >> Do you have any preconceptions walking into this project? I certainly had so…

John Endo Greenaway • March 9, 2018

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Kayla Isomura: Packing for Unknown Journeys - Part 1

“CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS: Seeking yonsei and gosei in Greater Vancouver and Victoria regions …

John Endo Greenaway • March 8, 2018

British Columbia Canada communities exhibitions identity imprisonment incarceration Japanese Americans Japanese Canadians Kayla Isomura photography Seattle The Bulletin (magazine) The Suitcase Project United States Vancouver (B.C.) Washington

Autobiography of Thomas Hiroshi Madokoro

Early life Thomas Hiroshi Madokoro was born in Steveston on June 7, 1920 to Tamezo and Hine (Ezaki…

Thomas Hiroshi Madokoro • Feb. 27, 2018

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Steveston Community Society and the Nikkei Community

Steveston, at the southern end of the city of Richmond, had long been home to a large and active Ja…

Kelvin Higo • Jan. 19, 2018

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Canadian Nikkei Series

Unfurling The Symbolism of Canadian Artist Warren Hoyano - Part 2

Read Part 1 >> Can you talk a bit about your own artistic process? Referring to a few pieces…

Norm Masaji Ibuki • Jan. 3, 2018

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Canadian Nikkei Series

Unfurling The Symbolism of Canadian Artist Warren Hoyano - Part 1

“I am using flags as a metaphor for the fears, beliefs, aspirations, and behaviors which ar…

Norm Masaji Ibuki • Jan. 2, 2018

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First Lady Plumber in Canada Is a Nikkei

Anna (Fujimura) Higashi grew up in Woodfibre, B.C. Her grandfather Isaburo Fujimura and son Taich…

Chuck Tasaka • Nov. 23, 2017

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Canadian Nisei! You Know You’re Old When…

The Nisei—the group who suffered the most during the World War II incarceration of Japanese C…

Chuck Tasaka • Oct. 24, 2017

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Toronto Nisei "Mush" Arima - Part 2

Toronto Nisei "Mush" Arima - Part 1

Kayla Isomura: Packing for Unknown Journeys - Part 2

Kayla Isomura: Packing for Unknown Journeys - Part 1

Autobiography of Thomas Hiroshi Madokoro

Steveston Community Society and the Nikkei Community

Unfurling The Symbolism of Canadian Artist Warren Hoyano - Part 2

Unfurling The Symbolism of Canadian Artist Warren Hoyano - Part 1

First Lady Plumber in Canada Is a Nikkei

Canadian Nisei! You Know You’re Old When…