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Like their counterparts in the US, Japanese citizens in Canada were forced into internment camps during WWII. But after the war ended, things turned really ugly.
Japanese-Canadians detained during WW2 subject of Hastings Park exhibit. On your next visit to Hastings Park, you might see some bright green signs revealing a darker side of the park's history.
Immigration from China and Japan to Canada dates to the Fraser River gold rush of 1858. And while the rush was largely over by 1927, it is true that the ...
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Thursday issued a formal apology for the internment of more than 600 Italian Canadians during World War II amid fears of ties to fascist groups. In ...
In Hiro Kanagawa’s play, a community of Japanese-Canadians must come to terms with a home country that will no longer ...
The collection features works by Japanese American authors impacted by the forced relocation of 125,000 Americans of Japanese ancestry by the U.S. government during World War II.
It wasn’t just my family that experienced gaps in knowledge – many Nisei [second-generation Japanese Canadians] in particular felt that it was better to focus on moving forward.
Because Canada’s restrictions weren’t lifted until 1949, the exile of Japanese Canadians from their West Coast lasted till about four years after World War II ended. In Canada, many men of ...
His Japanese Canadian family was interned during World War II. That experience inspired him to create inviting buildings for all people. Raymond Moriyama, considered one of Canada’s most ...
It’s a Canadian play,’ says playwright Hiro Kanagawa, who adapted the Mark Sakamoto memoir about his grandparents during WWII ...
Designed by Raymond Moriyama, one of the thousands of Japanese-Canadians imprisoned during World War II, this stoic museum houses remnants from Canada's numerous military endeavors, many of which ...