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Frank Moritsugu is a retired mainstream journalist who was the first Japanese Canadian to become a staffer on Maclean’s magazine and the Toronto Star. Currently in his 90s, he regularly writes a column for Nikkei Voice.
Born in British Columbia, his experiences include the wartime mistreatment of Japanese Canadians that began in 1942, and serving overseas in the Canadian Army as a sergeant in the Intelligence Corps after the ban against JCs enlisting in the Canadian military was lifted in 1944-45 when British Forces in Southeast Asia badly needed Japanese-language interpreter/translators.
Two other members of his family—his brother Henry and his son Ken—have become respected journalists in the United States.
Updated November 2020