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40 Years of Toronto Taiko with Kiyoshi Nagata — Part 2

Read Part 1 >> Another career highlight came in 2005 when the group had two tours in Italy and …

Norm Masaji Ibuki • Jan. 12, 2023

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Kinori Oka’s Tanka Poem

Throughout this past year, the Nikkei National Museum & Cultural Centre has collaborated with the J…

Nigel Town • July 14, 2022

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From Vancouver's Powell St. to Toronto: Kay Mende’s Remarkable Life

Part 4: Life in Lemon Creek Internment Camp

Read Part 3 >> The life in Lemon Creek settled down to mundane everyday life. There was no running…

Katsuyo “Kay” Mende • Jan. 31, 2021

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From Vancouver's Powell St. to Toronto: Kay Mende’s Remarkable Life

Part 3: Life before the war and upheaval to Lemon Creek

Read Part 2 >> The only pleasure Frank used to have during these hard times was going fishing down…

Katsuyo “Kay” Mende • Jan. 24, 2021

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A Japanese Canadian Teenage Exile: The Life History of Takeshi (Tak) Matsuba

Part 2: Life in the Lemon Creek Internment Camp

Tak vividly remembers hearing the news of the bombing of Pearl Harbor. “It was a Sunday and I was w…

Stan Kirk • March 16, 2020

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A Japanese Canadian Child-Exile: The Life History of Basil Izumi

Part 4: Uprooting and Internment

Read Part 3 >> Basil had just graduated from kindergarten when the uprooting and internment starte…

Stan Kirk • May 15, 2018

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Canadian Nikkei Series

Tak Matsuba’s Odyssey from Vancouver to Osaka - Part 2

Rear Part 1 >> Can you give me a rough chronology of your career path? I stayed briefly in Mio (ab…

Norm Masaji Ibuki • May 20, 2014

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Canadian Nikkei Series

Tak Matsuba’s Odyssey from Vancouver to Osaka - Part 1

“In the 1945-1946 school year, Miss Haruko Ito taught us grade 7, but she left us before the end …

Norm Masaji Ibuki • May 19, 2014

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The Japanese Canadian Experience Conference: Sharing Our Stories of the War Years - November 19-21, 2010

Frequently enough, people will approach me and inquire, “What are you?” To which I respond “Japanes…

Lisa Uyeda • Sept. 30, 2010

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Ba-chan’s Story: Thoughts and recollections of a Japanese Canadian growing up in Canada - Part 1

Introduction* Ba-chan’s Story (Grandmother’s Story) all began because Dr. Midge (Michiko Ishii) Ay…

Yoshimi Susan Maikawa • May 26, 2010

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