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At the National Asian Pacific American Bar Association national convention in Kansas City on November 8, NAPABA’s highest honour, formerly the NAPABA Trailblazer Award, was …
Tom Shoyama (1915-2006), a great Canadian who happened to be of Japanese descent. * This comic was originally published in the Nikkei Voice in November 2013.
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“September 22, 1988 is a day that I will remember fondly as it was the culmination of efforts by many Japanese Canadians who sought justice …
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My brother said the actions by a church that did not want us back were deliberate and intentional and had been concealed by a “code …
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I was privileged to attend the 2013 Japanese American National Museum conference in Seattle. It commemorated the 25th anniversary of the Civil Liberties Act of …
Read Part 2 >> There’s a model of the city before the bomb, a bustling metropolis of about 350,000 with a good reputation for higher …
Read Part 1 >> August 5th, Hiroshima I have recently been looking for some answers about how to live “correctly”—meaning, I suppose, with personal integrity …
I remember the moment when the dropping of the Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima finally hit me. I was interviewing Mrs. Hoshino of New Denver, B.C. …
Read Part 1 >> (Continuation of Mrs. Kamata’s story) I guess I longed for Canada…Naturally, as I did in Canada, I wore my Japonica (rusty orange) coloured …
One of the most interesting and obscure chapters of Canadian Nikkei history is the one of the “returnees” to Japan, prior to, during and, mostly, …
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