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Community Records and the Human Experiences of the Uprooting of Japanese Canadians

by Eiji Okawa and Landscapes of Injustice Research Collective The Wealth of My Home (Wagaya no tomi) My house is merely ten-tsubo (approx. 300 square feet; read SMALL) The yard is no more than three (approx. 100 square feet; read…

Most careers involve working your way up from some starting point – in Richard Kanazawa’s case it was starting behind the wheel of a Plymouth Voyager, delivering wine for Langley’s Domaine de Chaberton Winery. At the time he had two…

The Japanese Husband Headquarters is a not-so-secret society founded by Yoshinori Tanaka in 2007 as a social club. The Bulletin talked to Yoshinori while he waits for their barrel of single malt whisky, ordered from the Odd Society, to age…

Behind the bar at the Odd Society on Powell Street, Mia Glanz wields a pair of cocktail shakers like oversized maracas, the ice creating a pleasing racket that drowns out the rain outside. Half a dozen customers sit at tables…

Visitors to the second floor of the Nikkei Centre in Burnaby will be familiar with a sculpture hanging over an opening in the floor. The 2007 piece by Vancouver artist Judy Nakagawa is titled GONE and calls to mind dozens…

This growing season, the Tonari Gumi Garden Club presented not one but two workshops on Japanese Herbs. This came about because there was desire and energy among us to hold a public event that engaged members of our neighbourhood garden…

My parents and I were both going to be at Powell Street Festival on Sunday, the same day as the Vancouver Pride parade. Given this co-occurrence, I thought I’d tell my parents about my hopes to travel to California for a LGBTQ+ gathering in the

In 2015, the BC Government launched a pilot program to identify places of historic significance to Chinese Canadians, resultng in the addition of 21 provincially recognized places in to the BC Register of Historic Places, the official provincial list of…

When Linda Ohama arrived in Onomichi on Children’s Day in May, 1999, camera crew in tow, she was looking for footage for her film, Obaachan’s Garden. What she found went much deeper. Onomichi quickly became her second home, a place…

“What? I have to travel 400 km to work all summer? I will call family services!” No, no, that didn’t come out of the mouth of a Nisei. They followed their parents’ orders. The Child’s Labour Code was not discussed…