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Canadian Nikkei Series

Art Miki: Canadian Redress Leader and Human Rights Champion - Part 2

Read Part 1 >> Going back to the pre-Redress days then, can you trace your involvement with the Japanese Canadian community in Winnipeg and beyond? When ...

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Canadian Nikkei Series

Art Miki: Canadian Redress Leader and Human Rights Champion - Part 1

When it comes to our Canadian Nikkei heroes, Art Kazumi Miki, the National Association of Japanese Canadians (NAJC) president from 1984 to 1992 who led ...

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Imagine Little Tokyo Short Story Contest II

Floating Home

Life is a river Shall I fight the current or Let go and float home Papa removed his hat and leaned into the cab window ...

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Nisei 5-pin Bowling Leagues in BC

In a survey conducted by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) in 2007, 5-pin bowling ranked #4 on a list of Canada’s 50 greatest inventions ...

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Nanka Nikkei Voices

A Typical Story of Survival & Regrowth After the War

Takashi and Shizuko (nee: Mori) Kato and their two children, Roy Shigehisa and Ikuko, moved from Inglewood to West Los Angeles just prior to evacuation ...

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Saying Goodbye

Gaining early educational release from incarceration at Gila River War Relocation Center in 1943, my Nisei grandparents moved to St. Paul, MN, where my grandfather ...

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Prison Island Anchieta: The Site of Numerous Tragedies—“Winning or Losing Feud” Resulted in Imprisonment of 170 People; Water Source Named Bica Shindo Renmei

A federal prison was built on Alcatraz Island in California, in the United States, which became known as the impossible-to-break “prison island” and was later ...

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Japanese American National Museum Store Online

Author Mark H. Rawitsch: More Than Just a House

“I won’t sell. You can murder me, you can throw me into the sea, and I won’t sell.” Mr. Jukichi Harada’s sharp ...

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"Prejudices don't fall off like an old coat": more on Japanese-Americans relocated to Pittsburgh

In March we looked at length at the history of Japanese American forced relocation to Pittsburgh, where an old North Side orphanage was to house ...

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Japanese American National Museum Store Online

Blossoms and Thorns: A Community Uprooted: New documentary portrays a vanishing industry

Richmond, California, in the year 1942 calls to mind the bustle of naval shipyards and a whirlwind of housing construction. A semi-rural town before World ...