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Kizuna: Nikkei Stories from the 2011 Japan Earthquake & Tsunami
Ohama’s Cloth Letter Tour Begins in Vancouver - Part 1 of 2
Norm Masaji Ibuki
After touring around Japan for almost two years in support of the victims of the 3/11 tsunami in Tohoku, showing in 55 locations, Linda Ohama’s Cloth Letter exhibition is coming back to Canada where it began.
Japan Journal
Banana, Banana, Banana
Norm Masaji Ibuki
Are you a “banana”? Do you want to be one? What is a banana, anyway?
Enemy Alien: An American Sansei’s Story - Part 3 of 3
Norm Masaji Ibuki
Read Part 2 >> How many other “Farouks” are still being detained? One of the horrible and destructive aspects of ICE is its lack of public accountability, so it doesn’t release statistics on how long detainees are in prison. But during the Bush administration some numbers were given to me by Jane …
Enemy Alien: An American Sansei’s Story - Part 2 of 3
Norm Masaji Ibuki
Read Part 1 >> How did 9-11 change your thinking of yourself as a JA? The larger JA community? 9-11 was undoubtedly a galvanizing moment for the JA community as it was for me, because the government’s response of targeting Muslim, South Asian, and Arab communities completely negated the apology, reparations, and …
Enemy Alien: An American Sansei’s Story - Part 1 of 3
Norm Masaji Ibuki
Who among us has not wondered if the World War II internment of the Nikkei community or, indeed, any other religious or ethnic one, could ever happen again?
Kizuna: Nikkei Stories from the 2011 Japan Earthquake & Tsunami
A 3/11 Book Review of Strong in the Rain
Norm Masaji Ibuki
I received a phone message from my Nisei Aunt Lorna in Barrie, ON: “Norman, I just saw a news report on CTV news about a group of students from Malvern Collegiate in Toronto who are going to Japan to see the 3/11 disaster zone. The Japanese Consul-General, Eiji Yamamoto, says that …
Livestock Building at Hastings Park in Vancouver, B.C.
Norm Masaji Ibuki
“Over 3,000 Japanese Canadian women and children, demonstrating resilience under deplorable conditions, were unjustly detained here from March to December 1942. A public facility since 1929, the Livestock Building gained national historic significance as a federally authorized wartime marshalling site for Japanese Canadians prior to dispersal and internment. The detention, …
Kizuna: Nikkei Stories from the 2011 Japan Earthquake & Tsunami
Monkey Majik and the Yoshida Brothers’ “SOS Tohoku Relief Tour”
Norm Masaji Ibuki
“I was scared of old, distant memories Now I’ve become strong and tall If the night will even if there is nothing left in the world, the light will come When will it come again?” …