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Broken Promises: A Japanese-Canadian History Exhibit in Shiga, Japan—Part 2
Read Part 1 >> From November 1, 2023 to February 25, 2024, the Shiga Peace Museum in Higashi…

Masumi Izumi • March 13, 2024

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British Columbia Burnaby Canada Japan Japanese Canadians migration Nikkei National Museum & Cultural Centre Shiga Prefecture Wakayama Prefecture
British Columbia Burnaby Canada Japan Japanese Canadians migration Nikkei National Museum & Cultural Centre Shiga Prefecture Wakayama Prefecture
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Broken Promises: A Japanese-Canadian History Exhibit in Shiga, Japan — Part 1
From November 1, 2023 to February 25, 2024, the Shiga Peace Museum in Higashiomi City, Shiga P…

Masumi Izumi • March 12, 2024

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Exile and Back: The Story of the Hirai Family
Chapter 6—Life after Retirement and Vision for the Japanese Canadian Community
Read Chapter 5 >> From 2019 Shig and Akemi gradually started to retire from their groce…

Stan Kirk • Feb. 25, 2024

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British Columbia Burnaby Canada generations Japan Japanese Canadians Japanese prefectural associations Kika Nikkei National Museum & Cultural Centre Nisei Shiga Prefecture youth
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Past and Present Collide in Artist Kellen Hatanaka's Exhibit SAFE | HOME
STRATFORD — In artist Kellen Hatanaka‘s installation SAFE | HOME at the Nikkei Nat…

Kelly Fleck • April 7, 2022

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artists baseball Canada Kellen Hatanaka SAFE | HOME (exhibition) Vancouver Asahi (baseball team)
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Writing Wrongs in the Past and Present: How Director Sherri Kajiwara is Preserving Nikkei Voices in Canada - Part 1
Back in November, I had the opportunity to conduct an email interview with Sherri Kajiwara, the D…

Mimi Okabe • Feb. 1, 2022

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adoptions British Columbia Burnaby Canada culture equality Hawaii Japanese Americans Japanese culture justice languages law Nikkei Nikkei National Museum & Cultural Centre Sherri Kajiwara social justice United States Writing Wrongs (exhibition)
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Hey, Did You Call Me a Nikkei?! - Part 2
Read Part 1 >> Vancouver Speaks... Sansei Howard Shimokura of Vancouver, 82, says: “I…

Norm Masaji Ibuki • Feb. 3, 2021

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Canada communities Hawaii Japanese Americans Japanese Canadians Nikkei United States
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Hey, Did You Call Me a Nikkei?! - Part 1
When I got a “No comment,” response from Karah Goshinmon Foster, Executive Director, Ni…

Norm Masaji Ibuki • Feb. 2, 2021

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Canada communities Hawaii Japanese Americans Japanese Canadians Nikkei United States
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Canada's Nikkei National Museum launches core exhibit with stories of being Nikkei
What is nikkei? We at the Nikkei National Museum & Cultural Centre in Burnaby, BC, Canada …

Carolyn Nakagawa • Jan. 17, 2020

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British Columbia Burnaby Canada history Japanese Canadians Nikkei National Museum & Cultural Centre
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Mystery ‘Graffiti’ Revealed
Former Nelson Star editor, Greg Nesteroff, on January 21, 2015, wrote an article on names of Japane…

Chuck Tasaka • Dec. 24, 2019

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artists British Columbia Canada graffiti Popoff Slocan Slocan City internment camp World War II World War II camps
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Rediscovering the Sugar Beet Fields 77 Years Later
During the week of October 7, 2019, a shiny white highway bus containing some 43 Japanese Canadians…

David B. Iwaasa • Nov. 29, 2019

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Alberta Calgary Canada farmers Japanese Canadians sugar beets tours World War II
Alberta Calgary Canada farmers Japanese Canadians sugar beets tours World War II
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