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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.

We are asking community members and descendants to forward the full names of family members who were detained in Hastings Park.

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 early August 2011, I received a letter from The Honourable…

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 Kumamoto Ken, Nabe mura, Aza Nabe. He had passed away…

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. Similarly, when Canadian Prime Minister William Lyon MacKenzie King invoked…

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.

Houston is THE most important figure when it comes to Inuit art, and as such he is regarded highly in the far north. As you say, it is interesting that James Houston didn’t have either cultural background, but given that abstract, expressive qualities of both Inuit and Japanese art fit the aesthetic taste of Western modernism, it isn’t too surprising that he was interested in non-Western art.

One may well wonder why the latest exhibit at the Japanese Canadian National Museum features Inuit prints—surely the quintessential Canadian art form. A talk with Beth Carter, Director/Curator of the JCNM, reveals the fascinating story of the impact of Japanese…

During and after the Second World War internment of Japanese Canadians, Asahi baseball players were at the vanguard of re-establishing baseball as a pillar of Nikkei social life, first in the internment camps in the British Columbia interior, and later in the various centres of resettlement.