This series is about the life of the John (Tadao) and May Izumi family. It sequels an earlier series in Discover Nikkei about their son Basil Izumi and should be read in conjunction with it. The first chapter will briefly summarize the family background of the Izumi family, their life in Vancouver, their incarceration in various interment camps in the interior of British Columbia. Subsequent chapters will tell about their move to Japan in 1946 as exiles and then focus in more detail on their life in their John’s’s hometown of Shimosato in Wakayama prefecture and later in Kyoto. It will also describe the daughters’ recollections about what it was like to grow up in an exiled Japanese Canadian family in Japan after the war, their memories of their parents’ personalities and lives in Japan, and the re- establishment of contact between the sisters and their brother Basil after many years of separation.

Note: This series is an abridged and slightly revised version of the original article entitled, “The Izumi Family Revisited: Living as Exiles in Postwar Japan” orginally published in the Journal of the Institute of Language and Culture (Konan University)  Vol. 25, pp. 101-120 (March, 2021). It is also sequel to a previous article in Discover Nikkei titled “A Japanese Canadian Child Exile: The Life History of Basil Izumi” (Discover Nikkei April to June 2018). For a more detailed historical context and a concluding discussion of the content, see the original article in the Journal of the Institute of Language and Culture.