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Miyazaki House Visit

On Friday, June 21st, on behalf of the district of Lillooet, I was asked to welcome the Japanese Canadian Internment tour group who visited East Lillooet’s old internment site, and then joined us at the Miyazaki Heritage House. As the…

Kudo’s striking onstage presence and range of facial and body expressions were engagingly specific and so very human (almost Shakespearean) in their scope.

The tour was a moving experience and gave everyone a chance to follow in the footsteps of Japanese Canadians who were uprooted during the dark days of 1942. We all came away with a much deeper understanding of the hardships and emotional turmoil endured by the Nikkei community. One person said: "I was fearful about taking this trip – I thought I might cry the whole way, but it was very freeing for me."

Both Cathy and Ruth, along with many others in the community, played key roles in getting first New Sakura-so and then Nikkei Home built and functioning, with each residence serving a much-needed role in the community.

With the sound of taiko and First Nations drums, and the chatter of over 7,000 voices, the University of Victoria was the hub for academics, artists, researchers, policy-makers, practitioners and labour and community activists during the first week of June.…

One Nikkei Vancouverite’s Unique Contribution As you know, Vancouver, with its convivial multi-racial culture and splendid natural surroundings is regularly rated near the top of the “world’s best cities to live in” type of rankings. On the other hand, being…

“Hi, Mas,” the mayor of San Jose was nice enough to greet me casually as he extended his hand with those words. It was in the early 1970s in San Francisco during a conference of US and Japanese mayors, in…

Papulkas is proud to have a South Asian team in the tournament and the quality of players they have on their roster. He has received inquiries from a Guyanese team, a Lithuanian team and teams made up of Filipinos and Australians.

Because there’s no Japantown, Japanese Canadian are more integrated into Canadian culture. All my Japanese Canadian friends consider themselves Canadian more than anything else.

As part of the City’s master plan to transform the Park into a greener, more active, year-round destination, HPC and PNE staff met May 15th to pick sites for signs commemorating four buildings remaining from the Internment marshalling period