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Shinnenkai 2012
January 14, 2012

Posted on November 14, 2011 | No Comments
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Keirokai 2012
January 21, 2012

Posted on November 14, 2011 | No Comments
The Greater Vancouver Japanese Canadian Citizens’ Association annual Keirokai will be held on Saturday, January 21, 12pm – 3pm, 2012. The Keirokai, held at Nikkei Centre, honours seniors 70 years...
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Vancouver International Dance Festival
March 2 to 11, 2011

Posted on November 12, 2011 | No Comments
March 2 to 11, 2012
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Remembrance Day 2011 Photo Gallery

Posted on November 11, 2011 | 1 Comment
There were a lot of new faces at this year’s Remembrance Day Ceremony at the Japanese Canadian Cenotaph in Stanley Park, which once a gain drew a large crowd. Those...
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Remembrance Day Ceremony

Posted on November 8, 2011 | No Comments
Two of the three sons of Taisuke Tanaka, who served at Vimy Ridge in the first war, served in the army during World War II.
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Update on Hastings Park Project

Posted on November 7, 2011 | No Comments
We are asking community members and descendants to forward the full names of family members who were detained in Hastings Park.
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The Japanese Canadian Soldiers of the First World War and the Fight to Win the Vote

Posted on November 7, 2011 | No Comments
By David R. Mitsui On July 9, 2007, I submitted a nomination to the Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada regarding the Japanese Canadian soldiers of WW I. In...
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3 [ haiku to remember

Posted on November 7, 2011 | No Comments
beneath bare branches bagpipe and bugle, forlorn bracket the silence half circle of faces hands in pockets, cenotaph stands at attention scattering of red poppies, laid gently to rest on...
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President’s Message

Posted on November 7, 2011 | No Comments
A reminder that Friday, November 11th is Remembrance Day and many organizations and supporters will be participating in the Remembrance Day Service at the Japanese Canadian War Memorial Cenotaph in Stanley Park. The Service will be at 10:40 AM and I hope that everyone will attend this moving ceremony.
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JUGORO IRIE HEADSTONE

Posted on November 7, 2011 | No Comments
By Roy Inoyue In the April 2010 Editions of The Bulletin and the Nikkei Voice, I had placed an article requesting information about Jugoro Irie. He immigrated to Canada from...
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Looking for Japanese Canadian Students Who Were Registered at UBC for the winter session of 1941-42

Posted on November 7, 2011 | No Comments
By Mary Kitagawa When President Franklin D. Roosevelt of the United States signed Executive Order 9066 in 1942, he sent 110,000 innocent Japanese Americans and Japanese nationals to internment camps....
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VIFF 2011 INTERVIEWS

Posted on November 7, 2011 | No Comments
Two major points that are unique perhaps to this film and serve to educate the public: the first is that this film portrays teens who are younger than the characters in most coming out films I’ve heard of that have been screened worldwide; the second is that in Japan right now, and over the past few years, there are a number of celebrities who are female in a male’s body (women who dress as men), the opposite to what I have experienced. This is widely known in Japan—Japan is learning that there are these people—but there is very little knowledge of the reverse.
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