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.

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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!

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Lives of Seniors in Little Tokyo after the Camps I remember going up the wide, worn, musty, carpeted stairs of Hotel Pacific. We climbed up to the second story, and to the left was my stoic grandmother, Shigeno Nishikawa, standing in front of her ro...

Despite the trauma of WWII in both the United States and Japan, multiple generations of Roy Kakuda's family found success in the aftermath.
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