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Japantown: Vancouver’s Lost Neighbourhood - Part 2

Read part 1 >> Few people realize it, but the city of Vancouver began in Japantown, not Gastown. The Hastings Mill was located on the waterfront at …

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Japantown: Vancouver’s Lost Neighbourhood - Part 1

U. Morimoto & Co. dry goods rented a storefront at 328 Powell St. for only two years, in 1920 and 1921. But nine decades later, …

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Nikkei Chronicles #2—Nikkei+: Stories of Mixed Language, Traditions, Generations & Race

A Japanese Chief

Yamato Taba arrived to Peru in 1921 from Okinawa, Japan, to harvest cotton in the Cañete area, 150 km south from Lima, the capital of …

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Francisco Miyasaka On Being a Cuban Nisei - Part 1 of 3

“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 …

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Imamura Church

Edson Aoki, a Japanese Brazilian, whom I just got to know, visited Tachiarai1, Fukuoka recently. Tachiarai, easily reachable by train from Kurume (20 km further …

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Speaking Up! Democracy, Justice, Dignity

Lessons From the Japanese Canadian Experience - Part 1 of 3

I will begin with a story. Over a century ago, Japanese immigrants landed on North America’s shores brought by the warm waters of the “Kuroshio,” …

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An Exhibit That Brings Japanese Americans Into Japanese History - Part 3 of 3

Read part 2 >>Section 3: A Cross Cultural View: The View From People Between Countries To me, the most confusing section of the exhibit was …

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An Exhibit That Brings Japanese Americans Into Japanese History - Part 2 of 3

Read part 1 >>Section 2: Repatriation The second section featured a major drama of the exhibition, from the time when the relationship between the U.S. …

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An Exhibit That Brings Japanese Americans Into Japanese History - part 1 of 3

IntroductionThe exhibit entitled Japanese Immigrants in the United States and the War Era at the National Museum of Japanese History, Chiba, Japan closed on April …

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Issei Pioneers - Hawaii and the Mainland 1885-1924 - Part 4

Read Part 3 >>“OI OKINAWA”On most plantations, different nationalities were housed in separate camps Although they adopted one another’s food, clothing, and speech, the various …