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Canadian Nikkei Artist

Marjene Matsunaga Turnbull: How-to-Bake a Japanese Canadian Cake

Here’s an intriguing idea about how to think about your Japanese Canadian identity: What if it were a cake recipe what would go into it …

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Japanese Canadian Internment and Family Experiences - Part 2

Read Part 1 >> While the family was in camp, the Canadian government was doing everything in its power to rid the Japanese Canadians from …

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Japanese Canadian Internment and Family Experiences - Part 1

The Japanese Canadians were among the first non-native settlers of Salt Spring Island. The 1901 census shows 59 islanders of Japanese origin. In 1941, there …

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Redefining Home

Once upon a time, in the small village of Ruskin, there was a little girl named Reiko. She loved her life in the Fraser valley …

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Canadian Nikkei Series

Mark Ikeda Interview: Artful Expressions of “Sansei” in Movement and Words - Part 2

Read Part 1 >> As a Sansei storyteller, can you comment on the importance of telling our own stories in order to learn and grow …

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Canadian Nikkei Series

Mark Ikeda Interview: Artful Expressions of “Sansei” in Movement and Words - Part 1

How do you express your Nikkeiness? I know that when I teach I am able to emphasize human and civil rights. I also make a …

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My Father, “Repatriation”, and Medicare

In March 1956, my parents Shoji and Toki Fukawa became Canadian citizens. It was not a lightning-bolt decision, but a series of events that made …

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JANM Photo Exhibition: Two Views: Photographs by Ansel Adams and Leonard Frank

The 1942 incarceration of people of Japanese descent in America and Canada following the bombing of Pearl Harbor has been portrayed in scholarly histories, works …