On May 2, come celebrate the launch of Sharon Minemoto’s new album, "Goodbye, Strawberry Hill" (Cellar Music). This album tells Sharon's family’s stories, joyful and sad, from WWII to present day.

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Home Page - Japanese Canadian History A Resource for Teachers and Students K – 12 Beginning in 1942, nearly 22,000 Japanese Canadians living on the west coast of British Columbia were uprooted, permanently stripped of their homes, propert...

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JapaneseCanadianHistory.com is now live.

Designed for teachers and students in K-12, this free resource contains lesson plans and resources for supporting meaningful learning about Japanese Canadian history.

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Remembering Shig | Fujiya

There are so many stories we need to hear. Sharing this one and hoping you’ll read it #BCHistory #SupportLocal #JapaneseCanadian #Canadian #Internment #Fujiya

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Pics from the Nikkei Mochitsuki at the Nikkei Centre in Burnaby Dec 29, 2025 with friend, Tae-san. Nice freshly made mochi for sale! Mochi pounding & Taiko performances. www.facebook.com/share/p/17rp...
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Part 5—Looking Forward Read Part 4 The second semester of my third year (semester six of eight) was busy from the beginning. It was a whirlwind of a few months; my Map the System project didn’t make it to nationals, but received a storytelling award at the institutional level and apparently moved the judges to tears. The cover …

Two years after Ava Sakura exploring her Japanese Canadian heritage, she reflects on what it taught her, the people who helped her, and where it will take her next.

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Japanese immigrants fought for Canada during WW I while denied the right to vote | CBC News For the first time the faces of Japanese Canadian veterans who fought in the First and Second World War are on display on the streets of Vancouver after a century largely unrecognized and their storie...

“These were young men who gave their whole lives and no one remembers them.” #JapaneseCanadian #issei #nikkei

People, Stones, and Japanese Canadian Politics of Nature Jane Komori explores Japanese Canadian rock gardens, revealing diasporic visions of nature shaped by migration, incarceration, and resilience.

Today we have "People, Stones, and Japanese Canadian Politics of Nature" by Jane Komori

This post highlights Komori's recent @radhistreview.bsky.social article.

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My Story I was listening to the radio when I heard that Japanese planes were coming to raid the West Coast. I'll never forget that day. December 7, 1941. It was the worst day of my life. I was stunned and very afraid. Of course, the planes never did come as far as Canada, but they did …

Japanese Canadian Lillie Reiko Yano shares her life story, of the injustices done to her and her family during World War II for her Nikkei Family 2 submission.

Read her story at our link in bio, and give it a star🌟 if you like it!
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Coffee, Tea, Hooray My father, Hiroshi Okuda, was recognized in the Montreal Japanese-Canadian community as a leader, as an after-dinner speaker, as an “educated person.” In the mid-1930s, at a time when very few Japanese Canadians went to university, my father graduated with not one, but two undergraduate degrees from the University of British Columbia. Hiroshi Okuda's graduation …

Sachiko Okuda's Nikkei family is tribute to whom she considered the "real brains of the family"--her mother--and shares an anecdote involving a game show!

Read her story and give it a star if you like it! 🌟
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Nice to meet up with friends Nobu & Bradley at the Vancouver Japanese Buddhist church bazaar today! Lots of delicious Japanese food, including homemade udon served! Thanks to all the volunteers for a wonderful time!
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Factory; family expelled; canned tomatoes; casks of miso

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