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Read Part 1 >> Life After Internment in Edmonton “At age 14, I had no ambitions but once I left the internment camp, I had …
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Read Part 2 >> The only pleasure Frank used to have during these hard times was going fishing down Gore Avenue to make a few …
Read Part 1 >> The following are my siblings: Shigeru (Frank): b. 1924. He worked for the Dept. of Education, married Ruth Sasaki, divorced; Married …
“Our Mother’s account of her childhood and adolescence in Vancouver, British Columbia paints a vivid picture of the plight of many Japanese-Canadian families during pre-World …
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In the column I wrote some time ago on the Nisei photographer Yoichi Okamoto, who served as official photographer in the White House during the …
Read Part 1 >> For those who may not be familiar with it, can you give a summary of the events leading up to the …
“Nothing could be more systematic than the determination with which the mob picked out Japanese and Chinese windows and spared those right adjoining if they …
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I am Japanese Canadian on both sides of my family. Following the WWII injustices suffered by the community, my grandparents moved to Toronto, hoping for …
Anna (Fujimura) Higashi grew up in Woodfibre, B.C. Her grandfather Isaburo Fujimura and son Taichiro, seventeen years of age, came to Canada in the early …
Nisei Jesse Nishihata (1929-2006) was working on a TV series idea in the 1980s about the Japanese Canadian community that lived in the Powell Street …
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