a journal of japanese canadian community, history + culture
a journal of japanese canadian community, history + culture
by Kenji Maeda As a second-generation Japanese Canadian, I admit I sometimes feel guilty that I don’t know more about the history of the internment camps during WWII where so many people of Japanese decent experienced life in a way…
In 2007 filmmaker Jeff Chiba Stearns heard from a friend of his, who was a cancer survivor, about a young SFU student who was looking for a bone marrow donor. What complicated things was the man’s race. Part Chinese…
Tuesday, October 27 Kay and Emma went to a meeting about the teaching jobs after breakfast, so I was on my own. I took a long walk along the main road until there were no more houses. The only traffic…
Addressing Injustice: UBC’s Response to the Internment of Japanese Canadian Students – Then and Now by Vivian Rygnestad “70 years ago, 76 Japanese Canadian students who were attending UBC were forcibly removed and exiled from the BC coast. They…
My quest to get special honorary degrees for the 1942 Japanese Canadian students attending UBC happened by accident. As I was surfing the net one day, I came upon an article about the University of Washington granting honorary degrees to…
In the Hastings East district we had a close relationship with a few other families, Japanese families, and one of the members was Tatsuo Sanmiya and amongst our group who were attending UBC together, Tatsuo had a car, which was…
by Greg Voakes, from the Huffington Post March 11 marks the 1 year anniversary of the fifth largest earthquake to have ever been recorded and the effects of the event are still felt today. About 40 miles off the northeast…
by John Endo Greenaway Reprinted from January 1994 issue of The Bulletin Tell me about Grandma and Grandpa and how they came to Canada. My father came from near Sendai, in Miyagi-ken. He immigrated to Canada before the First World…
Ballet+Butoh The 12th annual Vancouver International Dance Festival kicks off on March 2nd, and features artists from San Francisco, Montreal, Vancouver, and Japan. This year’s festival highlights the potent polarities of ballet and butoh, two dance forms that have traditionally…
by Kozue Matsumoto I went back to Japan for the New Year celebrations at the end of 2011. It was my first visit to my hometown since the awful natural disaster of last March. I had been getting occasional updates…
