Japanese Canadian Internment World War II

Nov. 5, 2010 • Ed Mitoma

I knew that the Japanese Canadians (JCs) had a rough time during WWII but I did not know how bad it was. I got an inkling of their situation by reading the book, A Tragedy of Democracy: Japanese Confinement in North America and from Dr. Midge Ayukawa of Canada. The racism in the West Coast British Columbia (BC) was just as severe as it was in California and this feeling was expressed throughout the whole of Canada with very little …