Yonsei Carolyn Nakagawa and UBC’s Asian Canadian and Asian Migration Studies program - Part 2
What is it like to be a young Nikkei in BC these days?
You know, I’ve met a few other Japanese Canadians at UBC, just by chance, who mostly come from other parts of Canada, and to hear them talk about their families really drives home the importance of BC to our heritage - I’ve heard them say it’s like “returning to the homeland” - the homeland being Vancouver, not Japan. It’s momentous for a Japanese Canadian to move to the west coast of Canada. It’s momentous that I was born here.
So that’s one part …