John Endo Greenaway

A Black man and a Japanese was not the most common sight on the road in those days and there was more than one instance of racism. Harry recalled “Once you got 100 miles inland from the coast, you were in Ku Klux Klan territory.” By and large, though, they were welcomed and the music they played was well received.

Harry came to live with us because he had wanted to go to the States as a ski instructor. He couldn’t work there because he wasn’t an American citizen. He kept trying to get different jobs but he always came back to live with us.

The most illustrious McKinley High School Hall of Honor inductee is Senator Daniel K. Inouye. The facts of his upbringing are rather straightforward. He was born on September 7, 1924 in Honolulu. His father was Hyotaro Inouye and his mother Kame (née Imanaga). It is interesting to note that his mother was a Nisei, though he is not considered a Sansei. He grew up in a Chinese American enclave within the Japanese American community of Mo’ili’ili in Honolulu.

Stan Fukawa first noticed Masako Shinde at a meeting of the UBC Nisei Varsity Club during the 1960-61 school year. Stan was studying Asian Studies and Sociology while Mas was in the Education faculty. It wasn’t, he confesses, love at…

At a Symposium held on March 21, 2012, Dean Gage Averill announced that a new Asian Canadian Studies minor program in the Faculty of Arts would be created and is scheduled to open in the fall of 2013. UBC will…

On May 30, 2012, the University of British Columbia held an emotional convocation for the 76 Japanese Canadian UBC students of 1942 who were unable to complete their studies following the bombing of Pearl harbor and the subsequent internment and…

By Sarah Shiho Our Canadian history holds some dark days and yet within that darkness shone some bright beacons of light. One such lighthouse was a man named Robert Roswell Broder. During the time of World War II many Japanese…

In the last issue, I described my new-found appreciation of my Japanese heritage and how the publication of Torn Apart, my first book, has set me on a journey of discovery. This is the continuation of that story. Torn Apart…

  One never knows what a simple statement such as “wouldn’t it be great if….” could become nor how it could entice members of the Nikkei community to re-connect with each other. Well this “little idea” of mapping out the…