Lorene Oikawa

When you receive this edition of the Bulletin / Geppo, we will be within a couple of weeks of making a decision about who will be our government and what path our country will take. Unless you’ve been out of…

Another way we can honour the generations who came before us is by participating in our democracy. Next month on October 19th, Federal Election Day, we can vote and pay respect to our Japanese Canadian ancestors who survived their journey…

The Ofuro was a JCCA project for the 1977 Centennial Year, the 100th anniversary of when the first known Japanese immigrant Manzo Nagano came to Canada. An ofuro is a deep tub filled with water and kept hot with a wood-burning heater. The Japanese style of bath is for soaking only, that is, before you get into the tub, you would scrub and wash yourself until you were clean. This is all explained in an interpretative panel next to the exhibit.

In a place that is better known for the annual Pacific National Exhibition (PNE) every summer, over 200 people showed up at the end of April for the unveiling of four Hastings Park 1942 signs. Over 70 years ago, over…

“Stop here, we’re going to take a group photo.” A call goes out to the marchers as we make our way around False Creek. We look back, squinting in the bright sunlight, and pause as the rest of the group…

We hope to see many from the Japanese Canadian community at Hastings Park on April 26th for the unveiling of four panels introducing the history of Japanese Canadians who were incarcerated at Hastings Park in 1942. The event will include a walking tour and reception. On June 14th, we’ll be practising our swing and having some fun at the 3rd Annual Tonari Gumi and JCCA Golf Tournament.