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The wartime confinement of Japanese Canadians is a landmark in the history of civil rights and race relations nationwide. Like their counterparts south of the …
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…for me and my family anyway. Back in 1920, my father first came to Canada from a small village called Kiyama, Fukui-ken, Japan. His father, …
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Read Part 1 >> YELLOW CHERRIES/YELLOW PERIL?! I am intrigued by the story of post-internment Ontario Japanese Canadian (JC) history in the booklet you wrote. …
“The exhibition title evolved from Sisters to Tashme Sisters because both of them began belated examinations of their origins in an internment camp and the …
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Read Part 1 >> I cannot recall precisely when I first heard of Tamio Wakayama. Although I owned a copy of A Dream of Riches …
In the column I wrote some time ago on the Nisei photographer Yoichi Okamoto, who served as official photographer in the White House during the …
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Birth and Family Takeshi (Tak) Matsuba was born on December 5, 1926 in Vancouver to Kamejiro and Jiyo Matsuba. While not sure of the exact …
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Read Part 1 >> Tenning-san The man called “Tenning-san” refers to Jujiro Takenouchi (1869–1937), who grew up in Kuwana, Mie, graduated from Navy Comptroller School …
In 1930, Vancouver’s Asahi baseball team won the Terminal League Championship for their second time. Thereafter, Asahi won the championship of the Burrard League three …
Read Part 2 >> Every community has and needs services and other institutions. J-Town Toronto was no different. As I mentioned last month, Dr. Kuwabara …
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