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Ba-chan’s Story: Thoughts and recollections of a Japanese Canadian growing up in Canada - Part 3

By Yoshimi Susan Maikawa
9 Jun 2010

Part 2 >> In the early 50’s my older brother, Kunio and my two older sisters, Masayo and Meiko ventured back to Canada despite what ...

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Ba-chan’s Story: Thoughts and recollections of a Japanese Canadian growing up in Canada - Part 2

By Yoshimi Susan Maikawa
2 Jun 2010

Part 1 >> When Japan surrendered in August 1945, some Issei parents strongly believed that Japan lost the war through a deadly weapon but was not ...

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Ba-chan’s Story: Thoughts and recollections of a Japanese Canadian growing up in Canada - Part 1

By Yoshimi Susan Maikawa
26 May 2010

Introduction* Ba-chan’s Story (Grandmother’s Story) all began because Dr. Midge (Michiko Ishii) Ayukawa, Historian; former Board Member of the Japanese Canadian National Museum ...

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Autobiography of Matsunosuke Shibuya

By Matsunosuke Shibuya
21 Jan 2010

Editor’s note: This autobiography was translated from Japanese and includes notes from Mr. Shibuya’s eldest daughter, Machiko.) _______________________________________________ Born: March 15, 1906 (39th ...

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A Sansei's Memory of Ojiichan: Matsunosuke Shibuya

By Natalie Mariko Sheldrake
18 Jan 2010

My name is Natalie Mariko Sheldrake. I am a Sansei of Japanese and English descent. My family has recently come across an autobiography that was ...

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Japan Journal: A Repat's Story - Part 3

By Norm Masaji Ibuki
11 Jan 2010

Continuation of Hiroshi Kumagai’s story. Read Part 2 >> Missing Canada I wasn’t happy at all. In a way, I was angry but not ...

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Japan Journal: A Repat's Story - Part 2

By Norm Masaji Ibuki
4 Jan 2010

Continuation of Hiroshi Kumagai’s story. Read Part 1 >> Going to Japan My father had land there (in Japan). That was the reason why he ...

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Japan Journal: A Repat's Story - Part 1

By Norm Masaji Ibuki
28 Dec 2009

Since I arrived in Japan a year ago, I’ve wanted to speak to Canadian Nikkei about their experience living here in Japan. I’ve ...

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The Artistry of Kimiko Koyanagi

By Norm Masaji Ibuki
18 Dec 2009

Even long after I’ve seen them, some of the sculptured figures that artist Kimiko Koyanagi has created haunt me in the way their long ...

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"Two Other Solitudes": Historical Encounters between Japanese Canadians and French Canadians - Part 2

By Greg Robinson
11 Dec 2009

Part 1 >> This distant attitude would gradually change after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941. The outbreak of war between Japan and ...

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Japanese migrants and their descendants

Ba-chan’s Story: Thoughts and recollections of a Japanese Canadian growing up in Canada - Part 3

Ba-chan’s Story: Thoughts and recollections of a Japanese Canadian growing up in Canada - Part 2