The book is the history of the Kamloops Japanese Canadian Association compiled using the monthly newsletters of 1976 to 2007, starting with how we got started, our role in the Nikkei Centennial and Redress Movement and listing the highlights and activities of each of the years.

Rookie MLA Naomi Yamamoto has been named the new Minster of State for Intergovernmental Relations, only a short time after becoming the first Japanese Canadian to be elected MLA in British Columbia.
Yamamoto’s election-night victory came on the 60th anniversary of Japanese Canadians first getting the right to vote in BC. Her father, Masanobu Yamamoto, a nisei who was not given the right to vote until he was 22, was on hand to see her victory speech.
Yamamoto’s parents were both sent from Vancouver to internment camps in the Kootenays—her mother to …

Yellow Sticky Notes was the only Canadian winner at the festival, taking home the Prix du Public (Audience Award) in the Lab Competition. The film was also the only North American film to win an award at the internationally renowned 2009 Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival.

Rear-Admiral Tyrone Pile, Commander Maritime Forces Pacific, recently presented Mr. Dick Nakamura with a framed letter of thanks on behalf of the Canadian Navy for more than 30 years of liaison assistance in support of the visits of Japan Maritime Self Defence Force ships to British Columbia.  Mr. Nakamura had a career as a federal civil servant and also served in the Canadian Forces Reserve as an airman, a soldier and lastly as a sailor retiring with the rank of Lieutenant-Commander.

Harry Aoki, 87 years old and still going strong, was one of the three honourees from the Vancouver Asian community chosen for the North American Association of Asian Professionals (“NAAAP”) Vancouver Venture 2008 Spotlight on Leadership Celebration, held at the CBC building November 5, 2008.