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29 Feb 2020
Posted by Kelly Fleck 
The Canada Museum in Mio, Wakayama prefecture, is dedicated to telling the history of Japanese emigrants in Canada. In December, I was invited to visit Japan with a delegation of third and fourth generation Japanese Canadians to learn about Japanese culture and bring those lessons back to Canada....
Read more → 19 Feb 2020
Posted by Jordan Stanger-Ross 
Betty and Tak Toyota's wedding March 31, 1946. Photo courtesy: Joy Trapnell. ontinuing in our series of short essays relating to the four claims of Landscapes of Injustice. This essay explores claim No. 4: Dispossession is permanent. The internment era was far too long—seven years—most of them...
Read more → 07 Feb 2020
Posted by Caroline Ishii 
Searching for my grandfather's grave site 70 years later. Photos courtesy: Caroline Ishii. Otomatsu Ishii, 29, left Japan aboard a merchant ship in 1902. In return for three years of hard labour building the Penticton Railway in B.C., my grandfather received his Canadian citizenship and made his way to Kingcome...
Read more → 20 Jan 2020
Posted by Frank Moritsugu 
Frank Moritsugu during his speech at the Nikkei Veterans Memorial and Luncheon at Toronto's Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre on Nov. 6. Photo credits: Kelly Fleck. The Bayview United Church service was an elaborate event, attended by 91 members this year. During that service I was the guest speaker....
Read more → 16 Jan 2020
Posted by Caroline Ishii 
Asking what it means to be Japanese Canadian while in Japan. Photos courtesy: Caroline Ishii. Growing up in Canada, I struggled with who I was because I didn't look like the other kids in my class. In high school, I was one of a handful of Asian students. Even being Canadian, I feel by the way others...
Read more → 14 Jan 2020
Posted by Lindsey Jacobson 
A portion of a hand drawn prisoner of war illustration found in the Nikkei National Museum collection. Artist unknown. See the full image below. We do not know who the artist of the drawing is, nor the intention behind its creation. But we can use the illustration to draw inferences about the lives...
Read more → 19 Sep 2019
Posted by Frank Moritsugu 
Frank Moritsugu presenting the Nisei Veterans' Award to Kennedy Liddle for her work in odori at Arigato Day at the Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre on Aug. 25. Photo credit: JCCC Mind you, that view might be biased, because for recent years I've had a role at Arigato Day. This was the 13th year...
Read more → 12 Aug 2019
Posted by Nathan Yeo 
Randy Enamoto atop Mount Manzo Nagano on August 24, 1997. Photo courtesy: Nikkei National Museum. Nagano, who had been a carpenter's apprentice, quickly found himself drawn into the shipyard industry. Nagano worked onboard a merchant ship that regularly sailed between B.C. and Shanghai. According...
Read more → 20 Jun 2019
Posted by Frank Moritsugu 
This poster promoted Frank’s talk to his condo club. Top left: A recent picture of Frank giving a talk. Lower left: A family photo taken in 1945 when Frank was sent with other Nisei Army volunteers to Southeast Asia. The final shot was taken a few days after he volunteered when the ban against Japanese...
Read more → 22 May 2019
Posted by Frank Moritsugu 
Portrait of Frankie Laine, Paramount Theater, New York, N.Y., between 1946 and 1948. William P. Gottlieb/Ira and Leonore S. Gershwin Fund Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress. Sorry that my column was not in the April issue. I was a bit under the weather and not up to producing it. I...
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