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Nisei Jesse Nishihata (1929-2006) was working on a TV series idea in the 1980s about the Japanese Canadian community that lived in the Powell Street …
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And underneath this sheltering bowlWe call the sky,Do not lift up your finger;For It moves as impotently as you or I. —Omar Khayyam (1048-1131), Persian …
When the saints go marching in, oh when the saints go marching in…. oh when the Nisei-nts go marching in…… There was Christian influence in …
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Manzo Nagano is credited for being the first Japanese settler in Canada in 1877, though he was not the first to come to B.C. Japanese …
When I was nineteen years old, I moved to Japan for a year to work with no life experience outside of Canada. Japan was a …
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For better or worse, marriage can change your life. The arranged marriages of my Issei baa-chans (first arrived grandmothers) completely transformed theirs. Even though my …
I don’t have a PhD in linguistics but I hope that a budding linguist major will get interested in this topic. In Hawaii, the first …
“I believe art is about finding one’s place, the journey not limited by one’s own history, but about expanding one’s thoughts through sharing with others. …
“The day the music died,” from the song “American Pie” by Don McLean, referred to February 3, 1959, the day Buddy Holly, Richie Valens, and …
Read Part 1 >> What is the value of artists being ‘culturally connected’ to other Japanese Canadians (JCs)? The value of being culturally connected to …
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