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With May being Asian Heritage Month, I am wondering how our Nikkei voices will in fact be heard? As a dedicated CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation) …
Basil Tadashi Izumi was born April 25, 1937, in Vancouver General Hospital. He was delivered by Dr. H. M. Shimokura, who later would earn the …
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Read Part 1 >> Do you have any preconceptions walking into this project? I certainly had some preconceptions before I even posted my first call-out, …
Nisei Jesse Nishihata (1929-2006) was working on a TV series idea in the 1980s about the Japanese Canadian community that lived in the Powell Street …
And underneath this sheltering bowlWe call the sky,Do not lift up your finger;For It moves as impotently as you or I. —Omar Khayyam (1048-1131), Persian …
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Teresa Chizu Kurisu lived a normal Powell Street life as a child. She attended Strathcona Elementary School in East Vancouver and went to Japanese Language …
When the saints go marching in, oh when the saints go marching in…. oh when the Nisei-nts go marching in…… There was Christian influence in …
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Manzo Nagano is credited for being the first Japanese settler in Canada in 1877, though he was not the first to come to B.C. Japanese …
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Itoko Nishida, who lived from 1891 to 1987, was originally from Hiroshima-ken before she left Japan to become a picture bride to Kaichi Imada, who …
When I was nineteen years old, I moved to Japan for a year to work with no life experience outside of Canada. Japan was a …
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