Chuck Tasaka

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Chuck Tasaka é neto de Isaburo e Yorie Tasaka. O pai de Chuck foi o quarto de uma família de 19 filhos. Chuck nasceu em Midway, na Colúmbia Britânica, e cresceu em Greenwood, B.C., até terminar o ginásio. O Chuck cursou a University of B.C. e se formou em 1968. Depois de se aposentar em 2002, ele desenvolveu um interesse pela história dos nikkeis. Esta foto foi tirada por Andrew Tripp do Boundary Creek Times em Greenwood.

Atualizado em outubro de 2015

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Mystery Album - Part 2

Por Chuck Tasaka
13 Fev 2018

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Excerpts taken from the 1946 SHS Yearbook

Mayor McArthur’s speech to the 1946 grads:

Most of you are of Japanese origin, and although you are Canadians in every sense of the word, you had to undergo hardships which were caused by the hatreds which sprung up during the war. During the past four years, you have stood up under this burden in a manner which is very creditable. I have found you to be very fine children, indeed, and I will always be keenly interested in your future welfare. In time, the hard feelings caused by ...

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Mystery Album - Part 1

Por Chuck Tasaka
12 Fev 2018

How this ‘mystery album’ fell onto my lap is, in Japanese, fushigi or in English, ‘surreal.’ To top it off, this album belonged to a young lady in Greenwood, my former hometown!

My cousin Yvonne phoned me to say that she received this photo album from her former colleague at Capilano University. They were both art instructors. The lady’s partner who was also an artist, passed away and she was cleaning out his accumulated collection. The partner apparently collected old photo albums. He may have bought this album since it had a sticker marked $35. Was it at a ...

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First Lady Plumber in Canada Is a Nikkei

Por Chuck Tasaka
23 Nov 2017

Anna (Fujimura) Higashi grew up in Woodfibre, B.C. Her grandfather Isaburo Fujimura and son Taichiro, seventeen years of age, came to Canada in the early 1900s. Isaburo was a caretaker of a community bath on Powell Street (Japantown). Taichiro worked for a railroad company that took him to the province of Ontario. Once finished, he returned to Vancouver, but soon after Taichiro left for Powell River to work at the pulp and paper mill. Later, he found work at Woodfibre mill where he stayed much longer.

Taichiro returned to Japan and got married to Tome Hasegawa. He returned to ...

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Canadian Nisei! You Know You’re Old When…

Por Chuck Tasaka
24 Out 2017

The Nisei—the group who suffered the most during the World War II incarceration of Japanese Canadians and Americans—is now heading into the twilight of their lives. They survived and succeeded because of their resilience, perseverance, and determination. Now, they can enjoy the fruits of their labor as they proudly look back and reminisce about that period in time when they had to overcome great adversity.

I was a very young Sansei growing up in Greenwood, British Columbia, where I had the best view in town. The Issei, most of whom were lonely bachelors, would come to my father ...

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Ema Lake: An Emerging Talent

Por Chuck Tasaka
15 Set 2017

In the summer of 2016, I was in the midst of planning a major fundraising event to help finance the Nikkei Legacy Park project in Greenwood, BC. The family plaques for those who lived through the internment were paid for by donors. Sakura trees and Japanese lanterns were also donated by families. However, I needed funds for the World War I monument to honor the 12 Japanese Canadian veterans who came to Greenwood. Three were military medal recipients: Masami Mitsui, Yasuo Takashima, and Kiyoji Iizuka. There were three interpretive panels to be made and a large park sign on the ...

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