in the passage of time
Roy Kiyooka was the first Japanese Canadian I knew, other than my mother of course, and her family. As a young child growing up in Toronto, I just knew him as Roy, one of my parents’ friends, the one with…
The Bulletin
a journal of japanese canadian community, history + culture
The Bulletin
a journal of japanese canadian community, history + culture
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Saving 439 Powell Street
It is an Italianate-style building, which was a significant structure when it was built, and was one of the first brick-clad buildings in the Powell Street area. It was home to the Uchida family whose daughter, Chitose was the first Japanese Canadian woman to attend UBC, and whose niece, Dr. Irene Uchida, became a world-renowned geneticist and was awarded the Order of Canada. It also housed a Japanese Hospital.
Are you Japanese Canadian? How do you know?
Identifying as Japanese Canadian is no longer the stigma it once was. Heck, some might even say we’re finally cool. After all, our roots go all the way back to the land of Hello Kitty, anime and sushi. What makes YOU Japanese Canadian? The Bulletin is compiling a list of the unique charactaristics that make us who we are.
Chasing the Past: The Writing of New Denver
Alan called me up to express his admiration for New Denver and to ask me to join a group of like-minded Sansei in a “rap” session to discuss issues common to Japanese Canadians – identity, racism and the internment. I did and my world opened up.
New Denver: Memories Are Made Of These . . .
My first winter in New Denver .... COLD for sure but lots of snow and it stayed. I remember we made our own sleds and skis out of fresh lumber from trees cut in the mountains. Steel runners were attached to the sleds by a man who worked at a local machine shop in town.
Celebrating 20 Years: the Nikkei Internment Memorial Centre
June 23, 2014 officially marks the 20th anniversary of the opening of the Nikkei Internment Memorial Centre (NIMC). Spearheaded in the early 1990s by the late Mrs. Chie Kamegaya, a former teacher, Kaslo internee and respected community elder, this important community project involved the collective efforts ...
An Interview with Louise Noguchi
When I compare the social status of a career in art today, being an artist (female or male) is considered a much more respectable profession than when I first started out as a visual artist. However, I’m not sure if you are questioning if the status of a female artist in relationship to a male artist has changed. If this is what you are asking, comparing artistic status is a difficult thing to measure ....
Lives and Trials of Kanao Inouye or Kamloops Kid: the Reluctant War Criminal
Whether by choice or coercion, Inouye became an interrogator of Canadian POWs held in Japanese-occupied Hong Kong. There, it cannot be disputed, Inouye earned a reputation for being violent and unpredictable. In some cases, he beat prisoners so severely that a few of them died as a result.
Washed away in the rain
As an impressionable teen living in Vancouver’s east side in the late seventies, I learned about Japanese Canadian history at the feet of people like Rick Shiomi, Linda Uyehara Hoffman, Ken Shikaze and other sansei who were at the forefront…
York Prof Pens Book on Internment Impact on JC Women
“The racialization of Japanese Canadians as an enemy ‘race’ served to normalize the identity of a Canadian citizen as white. The web of power authorized through the War Measures Act enabled the making of white bourgeois subjects ...
Young Leaders Conference
The Young Leaders Conference sparked from a youth meeting and digital storytelling workshop that happened at last year’s National Association of Japanese Canadian (NAJC) Annual General Meeting in Kamloops, BC.
NAJC Undertakes Survey of Immigrant Issues
As a child growing up in Regina, I remember my parents often welcomed newcomers from Japan to our home. My mother would miraculously prepare a tasty Japanese dinner from the “surprise” packages hidden away in her kitchen.