Série Nikkei Canadense
A inspiração para esta nova série de entrevistas Nikkei Canadenses é a constatação de que o abismo entre a comunidade nipo-canadense pré-Segunda Guerra Mundial e a de Shin Ijusha (pós-Segunda Guerra Mundial) cresceu tremendamente.
Ser “Nikkei” não significa mais que alguém seja apenas descendente de japoneses. É muito mais provável que os nikkeis de hoje sejam de herança cultural mista com nomes como O'Mara ou Hope, não falem japonês e tenham graus variados de conhecimento sobre o Japão.
Portanto, o objetivo desta série é apresentar ideias, desafiar algumas pessoas e envolver-se com outros seguidores do Descubra Nikkei que pensam da mesma forma, em uma discussão significativa que nos ajudará a nos compreender melhor.
Os Nikkei Canadenses apresentarão a você muitos Nikkeis com quem tive a sorte de entrar em contato nos últimos 20 anos aqui e no Japão.
Ter uma identidade comum foi o que uniu os Issei, os primeiros japoneses a chegar ao Canadá, há mais de 100 anos. Mesmo em 2014, são os restos daquela nobre comunidade que ainda hoje une a nossa comunidade.
Em última análise, o objetivo desta série é iniciar uma conversa online mais ampla que ajudará a informar a comunidade global sobre quem somos em 2014 e para onde poderemos ir no futuro.
Stories from this series
Fumi Torigai: The Evolution of a Canadian Nikkei - Part 1
24 de Junho de 2014 • Norm Masaji Ibuki
Who among us Nikkei has ever wondered about whether our lives might have been ‘better’ had we been raised, educated and worked in Japan? After I went to teach there in 1995, I started to question whether I could actually live in Japan permanently. To my mind, the lifestyle was preferable in many ways (e.g., teachers are respected, great public transportation, food, the splendid manners of the populace). However, when it came to career related issues, then there was no …
Tak Matsuba’s Odyssey from Vancouver to Osaka - Part 2
20 de Maio de 2014 • Norm Masaji Ibuki
Rear Part 1 >> Can you give me a rough chronology of your career path? I stayed briefly in Mio (about one month) and went to Tokyo and got a job with the U.S. Occupation Forces at Haneda Air Base. The job came with housing (barracks type) and we could eat at the G.I. Mess Hall, so it was very comfortable. The housing was not good. The heating was poor and there was no hot water, but at that time, …
Tak Matsuba’s Odyssey from Vancouver to Osaka - Part 1
19 de Maio de 2014 • Norm Masaji Ibuki
“In the 1945-1946 school year, Miss Haruko Ito taught us grade 7, but she left us before the end of the term. Tak Matsuba became our new teacher and continued on until June 1946. (We were exiled to Japan the same year!) He taught us to do our best in good faith and to complete our given tasks willingly. I remember him as a pleasant, fair person who was highly respected.” - Nisei Susan Maikawa recalling school life in Lemon …
Hamilton Artist Bryce Kanbara
16 de Abril de 2014 • Norm Masaji Ibuki
After Bryce’s dad, Tameo Kanbara, was released from the prisoner of war camp in 1946, there were only two choices: move east of the Rocky Mountains or to war-torn Japan. To be sure, the government’s plan was to make sure that Japanese Canadians were dispersed across Canada so as to protect them from whatever imagined threat we represented. Every means possible was used to make sure that a post-war community like there had been in Vancouver never formed again anywhere …
Lorne Spry On Being a Blue-eyed Canadian Living in Sendai, Japan
13 de Março de 2014 • Norm Masaji Ibuki
The intent of this series to look a little more closely at the Nikkei community from a cultural perspective that is not often heard from in the larger dialogue. I’ve written about the community for two decades now and, honestly, I am still not sure what makes it tick. There are a lot of arm chair theories about the disconnect between the generations, cultural gaps between Shin Ijusha and the pre-WW2 community, etc., etc. Being a Sansei who grew up …
