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Asahi Portrait at Nat Bailey Stadium Long Overdue

The Asahi was a Vancouver minor league baseball team during the 20s and 30s made up of Japanese Canadians. At a time when sports was dominated by Caucasian players, the Asahi competed against the best teams of the day, winning 5 consecutive Pacific Northwest championships in the thirties until the team was disbanded and the players interned after Pearl Harbour. It marked the end of a glorious era in Vancouver sports history.

Kirsten McAllister first visited New Denver in 1991, helping document the Lemon Creek reunion and bus tour that saw former Japanese Canadian internees return to the Kootenays, where they had been incarcerated during World War Two. The video-documentary, released later…

For three gloriously sunny days in September, I volunteered for Vancouver’s first ever Hapapalooza Festival. I’ll never forget the experience. After reading Anna Ling Kaye’s interview in last August’s Bulletin, I wanted to get involved. I am not hapa, but…

When Naomi Yamamoto was elected as the BC Liberal MLA for North Vancouver-Lonsdale on May 12, 2009, it marked the first time a Japanese Canadian had been elected to the BC Legislature. Coming as it did almost exactly sixty years…

Wouldn’t it be great if visitors to the Powell Street Festival could also walk up and down Powell Street and explore some of the businesses and workshops in the area? This was the simple idea that started the Open Doors…

By the time Anna Ling Kaye was twenty, she had lived in ten different cities in eight different countries and had travelled through many more—mostly in Asia. Her father, a New York Jew, is a journalist, hence the travel. She…

For many people in the Japanese Canadian community, Powell Street has a certain mystique—it is a place they have heard about from parents or grandparents.

I love stories and psychology. I’ve always been interested in international relations and documentaries; I watched them all the time growing up. As a child model and actor I was involved with media from a very young age and knew it would always factor in my life somehow . . .

Interpretive programming can start in the initial phase of implementing the Hastings Park Plan. As the Park commences its development, signage is a priority and covers a number of purposes such as direction signage, building name signage, location signage . . .

Brendan Uegama and Henry’s Glasses

One day, when we were only a week away from shooting and deep into construction, a friend of ours from Sunshine Valley came into the workshop with a Japanese Canadian woman and her son and grandson. She had been interned in Tashme when she was between 12 – 16 years old. They were just visiting, and had no idea we were making a film on the internment. We took her to the set to show her what we had built and once she stepped out of the car, she started to cry. Can you imagine going back there 65 years later and walking down a roadway reconstruction of Tashme?