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Editor's Note: “Vicky” Yuriko Barrow (nee Obayashi) wrote this life history at age 69. …

“Vicky” Yuriko Barrow • Sept. 18, 2017

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Iwasaki Family of Salt Spring Island

Ray Torao Iwasaki was born in Ganges, B.C. in 1933 and he lived an idyllic life on Salt Spring Isla…

Chuck Tasaka • Aug. 14, 2017

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Nisei Story: Unexpected Friendship Lost and Found

Teresa Chizu Kurisu lived a normal Powell Street life as a child. She attended Strathcona Elementar…

Chuck Tasaka • July 21, 2017

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Mark Ikeda Interview: Artful Expressions of “Sansei” in Movement and Words - Part 2

Read Part 1 >> As a Sansei storyteller, can you comment on the importance of telling our own…

Norm Masaji Ibuki • July 19, 2017

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Canadian Nikkei Series

Mark Ikeda Interview: Artful Expressions of “Sansei” in Movement and Words - Part 1

How do you express your Nikkeiness? I know that when I teach I am able to emphasize human and civi…

Norm Masaji Ibuki • July 18, 2017

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Japanese Canadian Internment and the Struggle for Redress

Before the outbreak of the Second World War, Lena Hayakawa lived what she describes as a very idyll…

Matthew McRae • June 16, 2017

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Province of BC Designates 56 Historical JC Sites: Interview with Lorene Oikawa and Sherri Kajiwara - Part 3

Read Part 2 >> Can you please talk a bit about your own family history? Internment and where…

Norm Masaji Ibuki • May 31, 2017

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Province of BC Designates 56 Historical JC Sites: Interview with Lorene Oikawa and Sherri Kajiwara - Part 2

Read Part 1 >> From my distant vantage point of Ontario, it seems that there are several ini…

Norm Masaji Ibuki • May 30, 2017

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Province of BC Designates 56 Historical JC Sites: Interview with Lorene Oikawa and Sherri Kajiwara - Part 1

“I asked one young Japanese Canadian university student why he got involved and he said the…

Norm Masaji Ibuki • May 29, 2017

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75th Anniversary of the Japanese Canadian Internment

What was to be a simple, casual get-together to commemorate the 75th Anniversary of the Japanese Ca…

Chuck Tasaka • May 5, 2017

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Yuriko Obayashi Barrow: A Life History

Iwasaki Family of Salt Spring Island

Nisei Story: Unexpected Friendship Lost and Found

Mark Ikeda Interview: Artful Expressions of “Sansei” in Movement and Words - Part 2

Mark Ikeda Interview: Artful Expressions of “Sansei” in Movement and Words - Part 1

Japanese Canadian Internment and the Struggle for Redress

Province of BC Designates 56 Historical JC Sites: Interview with Lorene Oikawa and Sherri Kajiwara - Part 3

Province of BC Designates 56 Historical JC Sites: Interview with Lorene Oikawa and Sherri Kajiwara - Part 2

Province of BC Designates 56 Historical JC Sites: Interview with Lorene Oikawa and Sherri Kajiwara - Part 1

75th Anniversary of the Japanese Canadian Internment