Read part 1 >> It seems to me that the film honours Nisei but is aimed mostly at Yonsei. Did you have this intention?Absolutely. Besides providing an overview of the internment the subtext of the film is to drive home the fact that we all should make the effort to do …
“An extraordinary and beautiful film…exhaustively and passionately researched, both at the level of the filmmaker’s personal history and as an investigation into our national consciousness” —Academy Award® Nominated Director, Atom EgoyanThus far in 2012, the 70th anniversary of internment, there has been no greater artistic tribute to the generation of Nikkei …
Delta, British Columbia’s Keiko Mary Kitagawa, 77, has lead the remarkable effort over the past few years to convince the University of British Columbia that the 76 Nisei who were not able to complete their degrees because of the 1942 internment deserved to get honorary degrees.
“Human Ties” is a Sendai-based organization originally established as an NPO in the aftermath of the March 11, 2011 earthquake and tsunami that devastated the Pacific coastal region of Tohoku. It is now a registered charitable foundation.
This year, all Canadians, especially those of us of Japanese descent, should take a special moment to meditate on what happened to our community just 70 years ago when our right to be Canadian was challenged in ways that are unimaginable for anyone born after we were “Enemy Aliens.”
I’ll never forget the morning when I heard about the earthquake and tsunami that happened on March 11, 2011. It was a school day.
Friday, December 12, 1941“We’ve heard about some awful things happening to Jewish people in Germany because of the Nazis. That sounded so far away until now. I keep telling myself at least we live in Canada and those things can’t possibly happen to us.” —Susan Aihoshi, Torn Apart: The Internment …
I can’t imagine coming through a more turbulent year than 2011.
Seventy years ago, 76 University of British Columbia students were not able to complete their degrees simply because they were of Japanese descent.
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