John Endo Greenaway

By Lorene Oikawa Braving wind and rain, a determined crowd stand near the front steps of the Livestock Building in Hastings Park to witness the unveiling of a plaque commemorating the “over 3,000 Japanese Canadian women, children and tuberculosis patients…

I also learned that my paternal grandmother or Obaachan, who died long before I was born, came from a high-class background in Japan. I knew very little about her before this interview. I did know that her first name was Nobu because my brother David was given the Japanese name Nobuo in her honour.

By Rick Akitaya Personal history As the youngest of three siblings, Tamami was born during the spring of 1956 in the Umimachi Kasuyagun Fukuoka prefecture. As a young girl, she was very fond of running and excelled in athletics. She…

On behalf of His Excellency the Right Honourable David Johnston, Governor General of Canada, The Japanese Community Volunteers Association (Tonari Gumi), Nikkei Seniors Health Care & Housing Society, Nikkei National Museum & Cultural Centre and Nikkei Place Foundation are pleased…

Representatives of Japanese and Chinese Canadian communities, along with other concerned Canadians, call for truth, reconciliation, and understanding in an effort to collaborate and move forward in a grass roots peace action. On Sunday, December 9, more than 60 people…

By Jacob Derksen In October 2000 a highly regarded drum group from Japan performed at the McPherson Playhouse in Victoria, BC (they also performed in Vancouver, Calgary and Edmonton). Onagawa Shiosai Taiko Todorokikai is their official name but they went…

Here, the town of Otsuchi is flattened, left with mountains of debris, a fish port that has dropped one metre, a train station that is now a mere portion of a platform, and kilometres upon kilometres upon kilometres of temporary housing projects. These projects look very similar to photos that I have seen of the Japanese Canadian internment camps in Tashme, Greenwood and other locations in the BC interior.

Nothing has changed. I do not know where my missing friends and their families are. We have support within our own community. My friends (& I) are part of the Fukushima Uplifting Community Keeps United. We are still proud to be from Fukushima. That is my home, our home.

95 years since Vimy, 70 years since being declared enemy aliens Perhaps 300-350 people came out at the end of a glorious sunny week for the 87th annual Remembrance Day Ceremony at the Japanese Canadian War Memorial in Stanley Park.…

On a rainy, blustery day, forty to fifty dedicated souls turned out for the Haney Nokai Park Dedication ceremony. Local resident Lynne Currie suggested the dedication when she heard a new park was being created on 222nd Street and Church…