Información enviada por Masaji
Kizuna: Nikkei Stories from the 2011 Japan Earthquake & Tsunami
Ohama’s Cloth Letter exhibition begins in Toronto and Mississauga
Norm Masaji Ibuki
After a long trek across the country, Linda Ohama’s Cloth Letter exhibition has finally arrived in Toronto and Mississauga, Ontario for the Christmas and New Year holidays.
A Book Review: “Finding Japan: Early Canadian Encounters with Asia”
Norm Masaji Ibuki
When it comes to learning more about Japan and, in particular, our JC [Japanese Canadian] connection to it, it is sometimes more from a “gaijin” outsider’s point of view that we gain the deepest insight.
Francisco Miyasaka On Being a Cuban Nisei - Part 3 of 3
Norm Masaji Ibuki
Read Part 2 >> Working at the Cuban Embassy in Tokyo At the beginning of the revolution in 1959, he recalls, “I had already finished high school, I went to Havana University to study commercial sciences in mid-1959 and left in May 1961 in my second year. I spoke some Japanese so …
Francisco Miyasaka On Being a Cuban Nisei - Part 2 of 3
Norm Masaji Ibuki
Read Part 1 >> All Issei to a maximum security prison “After Pearl Harbor, the newspapers from the U.S. wrote about how the Japanese were ‘cruel people’. Here, I never felt any discrimination or disrespect from classmates or neighbours,” he points out, “What was being said in the media and the propaganda …
Francisco Miyasaka On Being a Cuban Nisei - Part 1 of 3
Norm Masaji Ibuki
“I’ve never felt myself to be a member of a minority in Cuba. We’re Cubans!” —Nisei Francisco MiyasakaAlthough Cuban Nikkei represent a small group, about 1,200 in a country of 11 million, I was immediately intrigued when I got news from Gerry Hewson that a “Cuban Japanese” friend of her …