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Lorene Oikawa is on the board of the National Association of Japanese Canadians (NAJC) as past president and is currently working on legacy projects evolving from her initial work with the NAJC to set in motion legacy initiatives to honour Japanese Canadian elders and Japanese Canadian history. She is a fourth generation Japanese Canadian and a human rights activist. She is a descendant of survivors of the forced uprooting, dispossession, incarceration, and exile from 1942 to 1949. Her family came from Japan in the 1800s and 1906.
Updated February 2024