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On August 2, 1949, legendary Nisei composer and musician Takeshi “Tak” Shindo penned an article for the Rafu Shimpo profiling the rise of a new …
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Read Part 2 >> Forced Exile to Japan Kanshiro Koyama was relieved. Now what is ahead for him? Would he be allowed back to the …
Read Part 1 >> Meanwhile in Japan When war came, the first thing the Japanese government did was freeze all assets. Overnight Mom couldn’t get …
Foreword by Phyllis Parham Reeve We came to Page’s Resort & Marina on Silva Bay, Gabriola Island, in 1987, eager to carry on the spirit …
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Factoring in Japan with Canada has always been a juggling act. For generations it has been a “S/he loves me, s/he loves me not” relationship. …
Tak was 19 when his family was exiled from Canada to Japan. There were various reasons why his parents chose exile to Japan over dispersal …
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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 …
TORONTO — Stéphane Hamade, a fifth generation Japanese Canadian, spent seven days in the village of Mio, Wakayama, Japan, learning about the small fishing village …
I first met Tamio Wakayama in the winter of 1964 in Atlanta, Georgia. We were both very recent volunteers for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee …
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