a journal of japanese canadian community, history + culture
a journal of japanese canadian community, history + culture
Manzo Nagano is credited with being the first Japanese settler in Canada in 1877, though he was not the first to come to BC. Japanese sailors were rescued from a shipwrecked whaling boat as early as 1834. In Ann-Lee and…
Did you know that there was a very small settlement of Japanese Canadians at the McLean Mill in Port Alberni on Vancouver Island in the early thirties? Reading the Parks Canada backgrounder article and excerpts from Jan Peterson’s book, Twin…
Whenever you hear of Mio, a poor, small fishing village south-east of Osaka in Wakayama-ken, the name ‘Amerika Mura’ comes to mind. To the villagers, Amerika was Canada and the US. Gihei Kuno’s name became synonymous with the Mio-Steveston connection.…
Nisei growing up on Powell Streets in the 30s didn’t have that many toys so they had to improvise. Some boys picked chestnuts off the ground and pierced them with a needle with string threaded through to the other side…
In the January issue the column was titled, How to Tell a Nisei. There were more Nisei traits uncovered to add to this column. I wonder if there are any more hidden gems regarding Nisei identity? 1. Mothers always placed…
The famous Vancouver Asahi baseball teams have been well-documented and the latest, a movie made in Japan called Asahi was the ‘icing on the cake’. Pat Adachi was the first to write the history of the Asahi franchise in her…
