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Certainly one of the most important Japanese Canadian projects that was completed in 2018 was the Highway Legacy Sign Project in British Columbia (BC), Canada. …
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TORONTO — Stéphane Hamade, a fifth generation Japanese Canadian, spent seven days in the village of Mio, Wakayama, Japan, learning about the small fishing village …
When I was a young boy growing up in Hiroshima, Japan, my mother told me that my grandfather was living in Canada. From then on, …
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Read Part 1 >> What do you remember about life in the camps e.g., eating? Toilet? Baths? School? Your mother passed away there. Was she …
As the 75th anniversary of the internment came and went last year, I have promised myself to get more of the stories of the Nisei …
Anna (Fujimura) Higashi grew up in Woodfibre, B.C. Her grandfather Isaburo Fujimura and son Taichiro, seventeen years of age, came to Canada in the early …
Ray Torao Iwasaki was born in Ganges, B.C. in 1933 and he lived an idyllic life on Salt Spring Island in the Gulf Islands of …
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 …
Read Part 2 >> Can you please talk a bit about your own family history? Internment and where? How and when did they eventually get …
Read Part 1 >> From my distant vantage point of Ontario, it seems that there are several initiatives out there in BC that are aimed …
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