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Back in November, I had the opportunity to conduct an email interview with Sherri Kajiwara, the Director and Curator of Nikkei National Museum & Cultural …
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Read Part 1 >> Vancouver Speaks... Sansei Howard Shimokura of Vancouver, 82, says: “I use both terms but never interchangeably. They are not equivalent. In …
When I got a “No comment,” response from Karah Goshinmon Foster, Executive Director, Nikkei National Museum and Cultural Centre (NNMCC), speaking on behalf of the …
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I spent the summer of 2017 in the Fuji Room at the Nikkei National Museum & Cultural Centre (NNMCC), along with fellow interns Nathan Yeo and …
Read Part 2 >> Can you please talk a bit about your own family history? Internment and where? How and when did they eventually get …
Read Part 1 >> From my distant vantage point of Ontario, it seems that there are several initiatives out there in BC that are aimed …
“I asked one young Japanese Canadian university student why he got involved and he said there were two small paragraphs he read in school, and …
The Centennial of 1977 celebrating the arrival of Manzo Nagano, the first Japanese to land in Canada, inspired many younger Nisei to start learning about …
Read Part 3 >> Beginning of an artistic practice/art career Where did you go to school? In telling my own story, I realize that who …
The 1942 incarceration of people of Japanese descent in America and Canada following the bombing of Pearl Harbor has been portrayed in scholarly histories, works …
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