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The Life History of a Japanese Canadian Child Exile: Mikio Ibuki

Part 6: Childhood and Education in Japan after Deportation

Read Part 5 >> Return by Train to Father’s Hometown The family stayed for about a week at the home of an uncle in Mitaka ...

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The Life History of a Japanese Canadian Child Exile: Mikio Ibuki

Part 4: Suejiro Ibuki - Exile and Life in Japan

Read Part 3 >> Deportation to Japan after the Internment Suejiro and Mitsue were among the Nikkei who agreed to be deported to Japan rather than ...

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The Life History of a Japanese Canadian Child Exile: Mikio Ibuki

Part 3: Suejiro Ibuki - Pre-War Life in Vancouver, Uprooting, and Internment

One Nikkei who opted for deportation to Japan with his young family instead of dispersal to eastern Canada was Suejiro Ibuki. As he is no ...

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The Life History of a Japanese Canadian Child Exile: Mikio Ibuki

Part 2: Historical Background - Life and Living Conditions in Japan

Read Part 1 >> The Journey to Japan and the Conditions That Awaited Them When Canada ended its deportation policy, almost 4000 Nikkei had already been ...

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The Life History of a Japanese Canadian Child Exile: Mikio Ibuki

Part 1: Historical Background - Deportation

The Dilemma for Incarcerated Nikkei Canadians: Dispersal to Eastern Canada or Deportation to Japan As World War II neared its end, the Canadian government had ...

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SHINDO RENMEI, a Dark Chapter in the History of Japanese Immigration in Brazil

History With the arrival of the steamer Kasato Maru at the Port of Santos in 1908, the cycle of Japanese immigration began in Brazil, which ...

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Excerpt from Hiroshima Nagasaki Beyond The Ocean - Part 2

Read Part 1 >> 4. Survivor's Destinations—South America Paraguay A country of striking red soil, Paraguay has rich, expansive fields that seem to reach ...

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Excerpt from Hiroshima Nagasaki Beyond The Ocean - Part 1

1. Atomic Bomb Survivors in the Americas What comes to mind when you see or hear the phrase “survivors of the bomb in North and ...

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Nikkei Car Clubs

Don Mizota was born in Los Angeles in 1940 and as a toddler, he and his family spent the wartime years interned in Jerome, Arkansas ...

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In This Great Land of Freedom: The Japanese Pioneers of Oregon

Chapter 8 — Renewed Oppression and Final Struggle

Once he was our friendThe owner of the store nowBehaves nervouslyRefusing to sell us goods Shizue Iwatsuki1 With the war coming to an end, Oregon ...