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SUSANNE TABATA
THE ROAD TO BC REDRESS
Susumu Tabata, Susanne Tabata, 2022
by John Endo Greenaway
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The seeds for BC Redress were planted 2012 with the Provincial apology led by former MLA Naomi Yamamoto. Beginning in earnest in early 2020, a team led by National Association of Japanese Canadians (NAJC) board member Susanne Tabata began talks with BC Government, conducted organizational consultations and presentations, and built the six BC Redress pillars, all with the aim of crafting a comprehensive BC Redress package. Put on hold for a short time by the COVID-19 pandemic, talks picked up again, and the argument for BC Redress has been positively received by British Columbia’s NDP government. On March 31, 2021, the Nikkei Seniors Health Care and Housing Society (NSHCHS) signed a $2million contract with the BC Ministry of Health, receiving end-of-year funds to develop and implement a program to benefit Japanese Canadian survivors across Canada who were directly impacted by the actions of the BC Government from 1942 – 1949.
Bulletin Interview
SUSANNE TABATA
You’ve been working, or should I say, volunteering, on the BC Redress file for going on two and a half years now. I get the sense that this is very personal for you, and is tied to the experience of your father’s side of the family during the war years. What can you tell me about that experience? It’s personal. For most of us who are politically involved in the community. At 96, my father Susumu is a nisei whose story has the similar chapters of forced uprooting, internment, dispossession and displacement. It is rarely if ever referred to as ‘state violence’.
Now in its final stages, BC Redress sets the stage for a comprehensive settlement with a province that has a less-than-stellar history regarding Indigenous peoples and communities of colour. On the eve of the potential settlement, I talked to Susanne Tabata about her role in the BC Redress and the impetus behind her community work.
Road Camp. Top Left Hyozo Tabata.
My great uncle Tsunematsu Atagi had built a substantial boat building business in what is Garry Point in Steveston, where the gillnetters are tied up at Scotch Pond. There is a installed sign indicating that this was the home of the Atagis and the Atagi Boatworks. My father grew up there with his parents and a bunch of brothers and sisters. He attended Lord Byng and then Richmond High School. In 1942, Susumu’s immediate family was uprooted to Kaslo BC, which removed Sus from his high school overnight. My dad stayed at the Langham Hotel with his brother Sho, and there are archives in Kaslo today which pay homage to this time period and the Japanese Canadians who were part of it. From the road camp where he was working, my grandfather Hyozo was sent to the Angler POW camp because he protested the separation of fathers from families. The family eventually moved to Midway and lived in an abandoned saloon. The Atagis on the other end, were part of the self-supporting families. I’ve learned more about the The Royal Commission on Japanese Claims (1947-1951), known as the “Bird Commission,” which investigated and offered almost Tabata family at home in Tokyo, New Year’s Day, 1964. Barb, Susumu, young Ken, Susanne.
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for me, living in Japan as a young kid, were quite exciting and very influenced by post US Occupation Japanese culture in Tokyo. Coming back to Canada, Nanaimo was a tough city. He was an oceanographer, and we had a place on Gabriola Island where he has always been on his free time. He didn’t really engage with trials of childrearing. That was left to my mother. He believed in the pursuit of science, or the pursuit of being useful. His mantra was ‘think for yourself’, which meant ‘do it yourself’, literally. That said, we got along. Both of my parents were genuinely connected, were early environmentalists, and of course, Ken Adachi’s The Enemy That Never Was was UBC Civil Liberties Association, 1947. Top Left Susumu Tabata. Seated with hand to face, President Ace Williams a book on the coffee table of the nothing to Japanese Canadians for their losses of cide on indigenous people, and living room. He was an outspoken property during the 1940s. This was was no more than this would sadly continue. supporter of the NDP and CCF, an inquiry pre-destined to fail. The Atagis were part and involved in the earliest days of the commission and their testimony is found in the What happened to the rest of of Co-Op gas stations in Nanaibook Landscapes of Injustice: A New Perspective on the family when the camps were mo. He was friendly with Tommy the Internment and Dispossession of Japanese Ca- closed down? Shoyama, and in Victoria, aside They did not go east of the Rock- from many friends in the scientific nadians in 1942. ies. They returned to the coast af- community, Henry Shimizu, Dick Your father wrote haiku when he was in Midway. ter restrictions were lifted. A few Nakamura and that gang were his I find it interesting that a number of internees in of dad’s older siblings were do- nisei buddies. He did support the the various camps turned to poetry to get through mestic workers in the West Side. Vancouver Island chapter of CanaMy Aunt Emi (Kobayashi) became dian Redress. those years. Did you father ever talk about it? Yes. The Midway Haiku Club was primarily issei, but a domestic worker for Dorothy my father spoke and wrote Japanese and was able Livesay, a famous Canadian poet Your mother, who was not Japto work join this group. One of his haiku hung on the who wrote a poem, Call My Peo- anese Canadian, passed away wall of his bedroom for 50 years. It is published in ple Home, which referenced the while you were working on this your book Departures, which is a favourite read for family. My dad knew Dorothy’s file. It was unusual in those days my dad because of the pictures. The club was tight husband, Duncan McNair, who was to intermarry. My own parents knit and gathered regularly. When he was accepted a progressive prof at UBC at the were unusual in that respect as to UBC in 1947, members of the club wrote haiku for time and that’s where the connec- well. How did they meet, and did him to wish him well. I have this collection. It has not tion took place. In 1988 I met her they get any grief at the time, do yet been translated. And I hope to donate it to the son, curator Peter Livesay McNair, you know? at the Royal BC Museum, and he My parents married in 1959 – rest Nikkei National Museum Archives. had put together a display of the in peace mom – at a time when In 1945 the Canadian government gave Japanese poem. The Tabatas moved to 4th inter-racial marriages were unCanadians in the camps two options, prove your and Burrard where the Boardroom usual and generally unacceptable. loyalty to Canada by moving east of the Rockies, or is today. The younger ones went to He was a scientist and she was a accept a one-way ticket “back” to Japan. Despite Kits High. There were 11 kids, some nurse in Nanaimo. He stated in a this, Sus was accepted into UBC, the first Japanese with strong personalities, so they video that his mother would have Canadian from the internment camps to be accept- all took off in different directions. preferred he marry a nisei. His faed. How did this come about? It’s a big family, and we are related ther did not care one way or anothAs you note in Departures, he applied for and was to a lot of people in the community. er. On the other hand, my mother accepted into UC Berkeley in San Francisco in Physwas raised by a Winnipeg social ics in 1946 but the Canadian Government would not So we talked about your dad’s democrat Emma Soderman McNalissue a travel permit. But in 1947 he was accepted into history, but I’m interested in who ly, who was also a single mother UBC – and he has mused this was perhaps out of em- he was as a man and as a hus- of five. My maternal grandmother barrassment. He had to report to the RCMP and was band and a father. Tell me about approved of my father because he issued a travelling permit. He joined the Civil Liberties your relationship with him, as a was a hard worker and they shared Club at UBC and spoke on campus. This was not a child and as you grew older. the same political views. popular UBC club as Japanese Canadians were vili- He was very happy doing his PhD fied. Also, in the 1940s, Canada was enacting geno- at Tokyo University. Those times
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legacy initiatives with museum staff, and Tosh Suzuki worked on this apology. This group deserves credit for that. Before I got involved with this file, the NAJC took on the matter of BC Redress in 2017. Former NAJC Executive Director Ken Noma was very involved, as was UVic’s John Price for his articles, as well as Lorene Oikawa. In 2018, a small delegation went to meet the Premier: David Mitsui, Lorene Oikawa & BC Chapter Presidents Tsugio Kurushima, George Uyeda, Eiko Eby and Rick Ogasawara. Big steps happened when the NAJC received funding from the BC Government to conduct community consultations in 2019. MaryTokyo “Momijii” Yochien, near Tokyo University 1963. ka Omatsu, Art Miki, Judy HanazaDid your father carry much anger from those war On May 7, 2012, then-Minister wa, Lynn Kobayashi, Les Kojima, of Advanced Education Naomi Eiko Eby, and Kevin Okabe did the years? Yes. Not when we lived in Japan, but when we re- Yamamoto introduced a motion live-round of community consultaturned to Canada. I was discouraged from speaking in the BC Legislative Assembly tions and wrote the recommendaJapanese. His anger was unprovoked. That subsided acknowledging, and apologiz- tions report, which talked about over the years. It wasn’t until I became involved in the ing for, the role of the BC gov- themes. Board members Alex Miki activist end of the JC community through the GVJC- ernment in the Federal decision and Keiko Miki helped. That was a CA – Judy Hanazawa and that crew – that I heard to intern Japanese Canadians big step. Maryka Omatsu led that similar family stories. Today, one of our ‘asks’ from the during World War Two. Adrian Steering Committee. BC Government is money for intergenerational gath- Dix, who was at the time the erings to address trauma. This was a clear ‘ask’ and NDP opposition leader, spoke in How did you find yourself steerwe built this with input from UVic Professor Dr. Kar- favor of the motion. The motion ing this unwieldy ship? en Kobayashi, echoed by sansei leaders in Canada was passed unanimously. Some In November 2019, I did the stagelike Melisa Kamibayashi in Ottawa. An example of this might say, well, the BC govern- craft for the presentation of the type of gathering are the community-led gatherings ment already apologized, why do submission of the Recommensimilar to what Connie Kadota and Lucy Komori did we need redress now, especially dations for Redressing Historical given the federal redress apolo- Wrongs Against Japanese Canawith Tsunagu. gy and compensation of 1988. dians in BC report, submitted to What did you learn from your parents that has What do you say to that? Hon Minister of Tourism Arts and stayed with you, do you think? Watch Swimming Upstream – a Culture Lisa Beare, which cited five Think critically. Even if it means not being part of the video essay created by Justice thematic recommendations to the masses. Civil liberties. Don’t take them for granted Maryka Omatsu that builds a case BC Government. because they’ve taken years to build, and can be for BC Redress. I got involved after this submission stripped away with a stroke of a pen. Don’t vilify citThe BC Government in the 1940s in November 2019 and a shift took izens who have no say in the wars their leaders are played a large role in the destruc- place to define & build communiwaging. Do support indigenous rights, the environtion of the community. We are cations with the BC government, ment, and do advocate for those without a voice. asking for legacy initiatives as a and to define & build the ‘asks’, With your mother gone, you’re essentially your fa- meaningful follow-up to the 2012 and work with the stakeholders to ther’s caregiver now. What has that been like for Apology led by former MLA Naomi strengthen the negotiations with Yamamoto. I reached out to Naomi the BC government. the two of you? We’ve always got along. I have become very quickly in 2019 to be part of the presen- The NAJC then wrapped the aware of the challenges caregivers and seniors face tation we made to the BC Gov- Steering Committee and shifted at home and in the health care system. My mother ernment, and she joined us. She into Communications Strategy, foltook care of my father for 61 years. I cannot fill her should be fully acknowledged for lowed by Negotiations Strategy, shoes and admit that I didn’t imagine I’d be doing per- bringing this motion into the BC and I steered those groups which sonal care for my father. We are lucky to be able to Legislature in 2012. A dedicated eventually led to doing this fullbring in home support, and our home life has been group of Japanese Canadians led time, now as BC Redress Project by Tosh Suzuki and Roy Inouye Director. very peaceful. were involved with early work on
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Can you tell me where we stand at the moment in regards to a possible settlement or announcement? We are at the finish line. The BC Government has the 150 page BC Redress Japanese Canadian Legacy Initiatives Proposal (Tabata/Noble – September 22, 2021), which At the same time, Lorene Oikawa and myself made is a bundle of the six proposals, many in-person visits to NDP and Liberal MLAs, and a each representing one topic, as presented in five BC Government Green, in Victoria and the BC lower mainland. meetings held April through SepThat rolled into the development of asks and it rolled tember, 2021. There are on-going into COVID all at the same time. discussions on topics, including Authorized by the NAJC, I built the asks and planned a new conversation about social communications with assistance from consultant housing. Paul Noble and bound in a document, 2020 NAJC Wherever we land, gratitude goes BC Redress Ask Development, Political & Commu- to the community members & supnications Roadmap, breaking down meta data from porters who have provided input the original consultations. We did stakeholder valida- & attended presentations of the tions, and I am still working with those stakeholders. 2021 proposals to the BC govSeniors health and wellness evolved out of looking ernment, to include Mary Kimoto, at best ways to impact those who lived through the Howard Shimokura, Mas Fukawa, internment-era who live inside and outside of BC. It Ruth Coles, Art Miki, Kelvin Higo, was elevated as a very legitimate ask, and we sought Judy Hanazawa, Lynn Kobayashi. further analysis by the Institute of Fiscal Studies (IFSD) Karen Kobayashi, Eiko Eby, Cathy in Ottawa, who concluded that the reasonableness Makihara, John Ota, Kirsten McAlof a Fund for Seniors was absolutely solid, and eas- lister, Ramses Miki-Hansen, Keiko ily could be in the $300Million dollar range. That is a Funahashi, Jay Hiraga, Michael subject of a much longer article. Abe & Jordan Stanger Ross, Laura The Negotiations team evolved out of the communica- Saimoto, Karah Goshinmon, Mayor tions strategy team and had to have BC-based govern- Leonard Casley, Luke Straith, and ment-facing community members. Paul Kariya & myself Rob Poncelot. Endorsement has have worked together throughout the past two years also come from the NAJC National with government talks and it’s always been up against Executive Board, all BC organizafloods, fires, Covid, and some form of an emergency in tions, the National Council of the the province. Lorene Oikawa, as the NAJC President, NAJC, and the overwhelming numhas provided key support. The very distinguished and ber of Japanese Canadians who highly respected Honorary co-chairs Art Miki and Mary- have asked to be kept informed of BC Redress as part of the Japka Omatsu are also on the committee. anese Canadian Survivors Health The July 2020 NAJC BC Redress Legacy Initiatives and Wellness Fund. was a one-pager submitted to the Premier’s Office, and listed ‘asks’ to the BC Government, later published What has the biggest challenge in the August 2020 Bulletin. Premier John Horgan ex- been for you? pressed his support at this meeting, along with Chief of The pandemic has presented chalStaff Geoff Meggs and then Minister of Citizens’ Ser- lenges. For two years we have been on Zoom, with emails, texts vices Anne Kang, who at that time had our file. and phone calls as the primary After the NDP dropped the writ to go to the polls for means of contact. There has been an October election in 2020, we found ourselves with little physical contact, and this twoan NDP majority. A new position was created in the year period of isolation has added Attorney General’s Ministry called the Parliamentary a nonstop level of fear and stress, Secretary for Anti-racism Initiatives, led by PS Rachna with many folks in BC suffering Singh. Our contacts moved to that Ministry, which is from physical, economic and spirled by Attorney General David Eby. itual hardships. 2021 meant setting up and refining community en- Also, the community is not homoggaged ‘asks’ for the BC Government, and those meet- enous. And the priorities and poliings took place in April – September 2021, in which tics of individuals, community orgacommunity participated in six presentations to the nizations in the BC lower mainland, government. underserved communities in BC, Communications strategy was given new insights by the expertise and wisdom of Angus McAllister, plus Carmel Tanaka, Maryka Omatsu, Art Miki, Paul Kariya, Lorene Oikawa, Eiko Eby, Les Kojima. That was a short-lived committee, and Angus was the core of it. He left after assisting with creating the framework of the Next Steps, presented to the NAJC National Executive Board.
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and the vast number of different organizations outside of BC, are all different. BC Redress is built on six pillars, can you remind us what they are? Education, Anti-racism, Monument, Seniors Health and Wellness, Heritage, Community& Culture. These took 18 months to develop. The website bcredress.ca has some detail. The Japanese Canadian Survivors Health & Wellness Fund had national reach, given that the seniors for the most part started in BC before being forced east of the Rockies. How much reach will BC Redress have, given that it’s a negotiation with a provincial government? Who will benefit from this? The Japanese Canadian Survivors Health & Wellness Fund was a litmus test for BC Redress. It succeeded in connecting to survivors & creating the start of a national network, and distributed grants to over 1800 individuals, 50 organization projects, and 19 group projects. Depending on the final package, the next fund is meant to assist individual survivors with grants. The monument near the Legislative Precinct in Victoria is a monument for the community, and will contain the names of Japanese Canadians who were uprooted. Within the heritage proposal we ask for funding for the Nikkei National Museum in Burnaby to create a digital hub, accessible by anyone in Canada. Should there be a community & culture fund, it would be accessible by everyone. Anything you’d like to add? Today, I took my dad to his home turf in Garry Point at Steveston, and found to our dismay that the City of Richmond signage which acknowledges the area was once a thriving boat building enterprise and home to the Atagis, has recently been removed. Let’s hope this Redress package is fulsome and meaningful. A lot more can be written and explained, and I have amassed the notes to write an account of this work during the pandemic which will look at the Road to BC Redress.
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The Survivor Celebration and 80th Anniversary of the Internment Sunday April 3, 2022 at Nikkei National Museum & Cultural Centre Eighty years ago, on February 24, 1942 upon the enactment of PC 1486 empowering the Minister of Justice to control the movements of all persons of Japanese origin in the protected area, notice was issued to all persons of the Japanese race to leave the coast. Gathering on April 3 also acknowledges April 1, 1949 when all restrictions were lifted, and Japanese Canadians were given full citizenship and voting rights. STORY SHARING EVENT 10:30am to 12:30 If you would like to join us for a very special story sharing event, we will gather starting from 10:30am at the Nikkei National Museum & Cultural Centre. For Japanese Canadian survivors of internment. Seating is limited, first-come first-served for registration. Renew friendships, remember your internment experience and share your stories in small groups with experienced facilitators. With your consent, we would like to document these important stories for education purposes. We will also offer a copy to each participant as requested. Participants in the story sharing at 10:30 will have reserved seating at the 12:30 Keirokai.
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KEIROKAI LUNCHEON 12:30pm to 3:30 Survivor Celebration and 80th Anniversary of the Internment • VIP guest speakers • A special bento lunch for up to 180 guests • Desserts including a special Commemoration Celebration Cake • Refreshments will include ocha, water and other beverages • Commemorative gift for survivor and other senior guests • Acknowledgment and special gift for seniors who were born in the year of the Tiger • Acknowledgment and special gift for oldest woman and oldest man • Special entertainment for all
PROOF OF VACCINATION AND REGISTRATION For Keirokai, we will abide by the current Provincial Health Orders which require mask wearing and proof of vaccine (2 doses) plus ID. Please register by March 20, 2022 with Nikki at 778.927.7587 $10 registration fee for 70+ years old $15 (spouses or others under 70)
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WRITING AND SPEAKING ABOUT MENTAL HEALTH AN ESSAY + POETRY CONTEST Japanese Canadians share a complex and multi-layered history dating back to the mid 1800s with the arrival of the first Japanese immigrants. Originally based almost exclusively on the west coast, the multiple uprootings, incarceration and dispossession of the war years and post war years saw families scattered across the country, often untethered from community. Although a stoic resilience has been a hallmark of the community, layers of silence, racism and cultural loss have left wounds that are often unseen, unacknowledged or even denied. With this in mind, the Japanese Canadian Writer’s Fund and Mata Ashita are co-sponsoring a creative writing contest for Japanese Canadians around the theme of Japanese Canadian mental health. Self-identifying Japanese Canadians of all generations are invited to participate by writing a poem or thousand-word essay on the topic of Japanese Canadian mental health. The winning poem will be published in the Nikkei Voice, and the winning essay will be published in the JCCA Bulletin. The deadline for submissions is April 30, 2022. I spoke to author Joy Kogawa, Danielle Koyama of the Japanese Canadian Writer’s Fund, and to Leanne Toshiko Simpson, founder of Mata Ashita.
Bulletin Interview JOY KOGAWA AND DANIELLE KOYAMA Danielle Koyama and award-winning author Joy Kogawa are two of the organizers of the Essay and Poetry Contest on Japanese Canadian Mental Health, which is cosponsored by the Japanese Canadian Writers’ Fund and Mata Ashita, and running through to the end of April, 2022. Danielle, you’re a member of Japanese Canadians for Social Justice, based out of Toronto. For those of us on the west coast, can you tell me more about the organization? DK JCSJ is a Toronto-based organization of multigenerational Japanese, Japanese Canadian, Nikkeiidentified people and allies. We meet monthly to plan and discuss events held at different venues in Toronto throughout the year. We are an anti-racist, anticolonialist organization which supports the struggles for justice, freedom and liberation across the world and at home. JCSJ’s mandate is to support the struggle for justice, not just for Japanese Canadians, but for all who suffer and call our name. JCSJ was formed by community members, many involved in the struggle for redress, who came together to support social justice and human rights. In 2017, a small group of Japanese Canadians self-identified as "JCs for Bill 79" began meeting to organize support for the Ontario Legislature’s official commemoration of the Nanjing Massacre. Shortly after that, “JCs for Bill 79” was renamed "Japanese Canadians for Social Justice". Illustration by John Endo Greenaway
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JCSJ has gone on to organize public events such as a screening of Afterburn, the documentary about US military occupation in Okinawa, as well as a "teachin" on migrant worker rights. JCSJ has signed the statement to support Unist’ot’en and the Wet’suwet’en people in BC, in opposition to the gas pipeline on their unceded territory, and marched in the streets with Grassy Narrows First Nation in their decades-long fight for justice and health. We have supported movements such as Justice For Mushroom 4, a migrant-worker social justice campaign and the fight for social housing and an end to the homelessness crisis. JCSJ aims to build community support for human rights and social justice, and to work in solidarity and support with other communities and organizations. What is the Japanese Canadian Writer’s Fund? DK Objectives of the Japanese Canadian Writers Fund are 1) to support activities related to mental heath promotion within the JC community primarily and society at large secondarily, and 2) to support social justice issues in general. This feels like a timely contest, particularly as we wind our way through this pandemic. What was the inspiration behind it? JK The issue of mental health has to a large extent been stigmatized, silenced and ignored. The hope behind this contest is that it will spark discussion and openness, and help to reduce the stigma around mental health and substance use problems. Struggle, truth-telling, openness and resilience lead toward mental and spiritual well-being. Creativity and the process of writing themselves are also avenues of liberation and healing. People have sometimes complained that the Japanese Canadian community spend far too much time focusing on the internment and not looking forward, but it’s clear to me that the community is still coming to terms with the long-term effects of those years. Even younger JCs with only a tangential family connection are dealing with the repercussions. Can you talk about this? JK Japanese Canadian history reflects racial prejudice, displacement, internment and loss. Too often, the suffering and the negative costs of this hardship and trauma have been ignored, denied and silenced in favour of upholding the 'model citizen' ideal and individual and communal achievements.
ESSAY & POETRY CONTEST On Japanese Canadian Mental Health COSPONSORED BY THE JAPANESE-CANADIAN WRITERS’ FUND & MATA ASHITA Histories of racial prejudice, displacement, and widespread cultural loss are woven into the experience of being Japanese Canadian. Whether they trace back to internment, the violence of war, or the absence of community, the lingering effects of these experiences on our mental health are all too often ignored or denied. To encourage truth-telling, openness and resilience in the wake of our complex histories, we are holding a creative writing contest to spark discussion around ideas of wellbeing in our community. We believe that the creative process of reencountering our varied experiences through writing can provide avenues of liberation and healing. We invite self-identifying Japanese Canadians to participate by writing a poem to be published in the Nikkei Voice, or an essay of around 1,000 words to be published in the JCCA Bulletin, on the topic of Japanese Canadian mental health. In sharing our experiences of struggle, we hope to create new spaces for connection and understanding within our community. SUBMISSION DEADLINE: APRIL 30, 2022 PRIZE: $500 FOR BEST POETRY OR ESSAY Email entries or any questions to jcwritersfund@gmail.com CONTEST JUDGES KERRI SAKAMOTO, LYNNE KUTSUKAKE & SALLY ITO
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DK The damage caused by this history is intergenerational. Impacts are far reaching on many levels, individuals, families and the community at large. The loss of identity and loss of community that is passed on to other generations has had a negative impact on our mental health and well being. For those in our Nikkei community who do not have this experience in their history, they are not immune to the struggles of mental health. This is a universal struggle and it is one that should not cause embarrassment. It is a struggle that we should speak about and support and have compassion and understanding for in order for healing to happen.
The issue of mental health has to a large extent been stigmatized, silenced and ignored. The hope behind this contest is that it will spark discussion and openness, and help to reduce the stigma around mental health and substance use problems. Struggle, truth-telling, openness and resilience lead toward mental and spiritual well-being. – Joy Kogawa
When Leanne Toshiko Simpson was 17-years-old she was diagnosed with bipolar disorder, starting her on a long, fraught path through the Canadian medical and mental health system. Forced to drop out of university to undergo institutional care, she began writing as a way to process what she was going through and start a path towards recovery. After winning first place in a writing contest at the University of Toronto she began to connect with others who were looking to tell their own stories. On returning to her studies, Leanne started Resilience Writers, a creative writing program offered inside psychiatric wards at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health. She also facilitated workshops for mad writers at the Royal Ontario Museum and founded Mata Ashita, an intergenerational writing circle for Japanese Canadians. Now a doctoral student in Social Justice Education at the University of Toronto and a lecturer in disability arts and BIPOC literature, Leanne continues to help others tell stories that can make a difference.
Bulletin Interview LEANNE TOSHIKO SIMPSON
You were a panelist on the October session of the Paueru Gai Dialogues. I was moved by your openness about your story and your experiences as someone who was forced to navigate the mental health system. What have you learned about yourself as you share your story with others through your writing and teaching? I was so grateful to join that particular dialogue given its focus on cross-cultural understandings of mental health. The more I work at the intersections of race, creative writing and wellbeing, the more I appreciate how many ways you can begin to tell your story, and
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the many places in which our stories come into contact with each other. It was gratifying to be part of a panel that brought so many different perspectives to the topic, yet aligned on the immense possibility of creative expression. Although I have taken a difficult path through bipolar disorder and the clinical system, I find that writing gives me the strength to revisit these experiences and find the clarity and perspective I didn’t have in those crisis moments. You talked about moving through the medical system and feeling like you were losing authorship over your own story. And then you realized that writing could help you see your way through and not only help yourself but help others. You’ve since taken a leadership role in terms of running workshops and teaching inside psychiatric wards
– what have you learned about yourself through this process? I used to think that the best thing I could do to fight the system was tell my story. But now, after running workshops for mad writers and Japanese Canadian folks affected by interlocking systems of oppression, I’ve realized that the best thing I can do is to help other people tell their stories, and share that power. Especially in our community, I feel like there are so many important narratives and emotions that have been stifled by our complex histories, and it’s time we acknowledge all of that, let our shared connections give us the strength and kinship we’ve been missing so deeply. I’ve come to realize that finding my place within Japanese Canadian spaces is as important as the medication that I take daily – it’s a crucial part of who I am.
are free to attend – you can pick up close to my own heart! After many tickets in advance on Eventbrite: years of writing memoir, I took to this https://bit.ly/Mata-Ashita-Season2 novel as a way of safely accessing some of my darker memories of You’re a doctoral student in institutionalization, focusing instead Social Justice Education at the on the community I found inside the University of Toronto with a psychiatric system. I am especially novel debuting next year with excited about including a character HarperCollins. What are you that honours my grandmother currently writing about? Toshiko, who is a guiding force in In my scholarly life, I write at the my life. intersections of race and citizenship studies and disability arts. I’m Do you have any advice for those currently working on an article that who are considering entering the takes a Disability Studies approach contest, either in poetry or prose? to teaching creative writing at the I hope that anyone considering ROM’s Being Japanese Canadian the contest knows that their story exhibit, and I recently finished a matters, and is worth sharing. In 2019 you and your mother visited the Nikkei review of Landscapes of Injustice for Whether it’s your first story or your Internment Memorial Centre in New Denver, where the University of Toronto Quarterly. five hundredth one, take a chance your grandmother was interned during the war. It’s I’m also looking forward to releasing on yourself. Even if you don’t “win,” a special place. What was that trip like for you in Never Been Better, which is a mental you’ll be adding your voice to a terms of the part of your identity that is Japanese health romantic comedy that takes powerful chorus. None of us are Canadian? place at a Japanese Canadian- writing alone. It was so surreal to have heard about all these places Scottish wedding – a setting very – Slocan, New Denver, Popoff, Bay Farm, Lemon Creek – for all those years and to finally encounter them alongside my mother. It was the start of this journey for me, really. For years, I had worried that I was not Loyally serving the Strathcona Japanese Canadian enough, that I had nothing to and Downtown Eastside contribute, that maybe I would find a way to belong community for over 50 years. once I knew more (the promise of a true book worm) but seeing it all cemented this path. I am very tied to the nisei in my family, and I knew I was running out of time to show up for their histories. I am so grateful to have gotten a chance to find my grandmother’s house, and Today, Sunrise Market also enjoys a strong following of customers and to get to meet so many incredible Japanese Canadian chefs from outside communities who visit regularly for its fresh and folks as a direct result. It was truly the trip of a lifetime. Several years ago, you co-founded Mata Ashita, an intergenerational writing circle for Japanese Canadians, alongside Sen Canute and Nicola Koyanagi. What does mata ashita mean? And how does it operate? Mata Ashita means see you tomorrow, and it’s been a guiding call for our group throughout this pandemic. On the first Saturday of each month, we come together to learn from Japanese Canadian authors and share our own stories through creative writing prompts – it’s resulted in a growing community, a digital zine of creative work, and now this contest, with more to come in the future. We’ve hosted an incredible roster of artists so far and we are looking forward to being joined by Kyo Maclear on March 5 and Mark Sakamoto on April 2 to wrap up a successful second season. All our events
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(re)visiting hours are over The first rule of psych ward is this – always bring snacks. I hustle through ER doors snapping shut with shark-jaw magnificence, clenching your paper bag stuffed with fast food freedom like it might be the last non-regulated meal we’ll ever swallow. Want to see a party trick? I always lift my tongue when asked. At the intake desk, my new friend Jason offers to escort me to your room. We link arms and stroll down sterile hallways, ignoring the nurses’ hoots behind us. He narrates our walk like I’ve never scratched my name into the underside of the cafeteria table, never counted those white ceiling tiles to fall asleep. I don’t remember how to tell him I belong here – my tongue probes fissures in language as he asks me why I’ve come, when he can leave this place, if I have a sister. Here, I never have all the answers, but I’ve learned to live and breathe yes, and: Yes, and she tells the best stories you’ve ever heard. You always feel like you’re right there, even when you’re miles away. Sometimes, I still feel further than I am, but I think that’s why I’m always so happy to come home. Yes, and I’m sorry your wife is Lucifer. I understand what it’s like to love someone who has hurt you. Today, I am worried that my capacity to hurt outweighs anything else I could ever accomplish. Can you stay with me? Let’s play Scrabble. I love to hold words in my hands. Yes, and I think our worlds can exist side by side for longer than this walk. I just wish I could tune into your radio like you can tune into mine – I bet your music is beautiful. We count the numbered doors together until there’s nowhere else to go. Jason knocks abruptly, then turns around and doesn’t look back. I can hear him humming all the way to the television room. The first time I met you, they had taken all your clothes. This time is not different. I melt into your hospital gown when we hug. We only break apart to celebrate your single room, your moonlit window with a parking lot view. I haul lifelines out of my weathered tote – a 90s nostalgia novel, a card game to share, a notebook to shelter moments of joy. Seven years later, that’s what I choose to remember. There’s no small talk here. No time for the weather when you’re not allowed outside ( just a few more days, you remind me). We fall into a shared language of metaphors – your burst of mania as lightning, so hard to look away. The comedown more sustained, a lethargic wallow into empty. Here, we hold hands and trust that we can outwait ourselves. Your voice is molasses on Effexor. I fill in the gaps with tomorrows – warm coffee verging on parted lips, the familiar contours of the Bluffs, the next time my pendulum swings. But your gaze flickers towards the clock, predicts rupture before the speaker in your ceiling tile crackles awake. The most important rule of psych ward is the return. I will come here again – to visit you, to teach writing, to seek refuge from this rhythm we share – and I will refuse to hold our bodies in contempt of living. Before I leave, you remind me how we are the lucky ones, and I agree. How lucky we are to wade through this wreckage of ordinary, to hum louder than the wails of the siren. by Leanne Toshiko Simpson, reprinted with permission
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One Nikkei Voice
– TERRY WATADA
THE PASSING PARADE – PART TWO by Terry Watada Don’t get me started about today’s “music”. It all sounds so bland, so mediocre, and the same from song to song. Where are the unique voices and performers? No one can argue that Bob Dylan has a beautiful voice, but his music had a profound effect on society. Hence the Nobel Prize. Then there’s Tom Waits, Joni Mitchell (shrill voice), Ricky Lee Jones, Janis Joplin, Neil Young, and a host of others. Standout voices include Linda Ronstadt, Aretha Franklin, even Karen Carpenter. They do not sound similar to one another. Okay, okay, I will admit a musician like Brittany Howard of Alabama Shakes (solo now, I hear) has a strong voice and amazing presence on stage, but she is the exception. Oddly, I see the vinyl LP is back to stay. Why? The CD is unpopular, the portable player is dead, the MP3 player virtually gone. Your personal library can be “streamed” or stored on the Smart Phone and listened to by Bluetooth (not by plug-in headphones or ear buds). Forget the cover and artwork. Irrelevant. Everything old and new is on YouTube. If I want to see Billy Preston in his formative years at the piano, I can watch an old kinescope of him and Nat King Cole. I suppose old television shows are there as well. I find it interesting but ultimately a waste of time. Other things that play on my mind: the word “icon” and its variations. Many, many things are accused of being iconic: popcorn of all things, food in general, computers, smart phones (again), TV shows/series, movies, movie stars, TV shows and stars, cities, snowstorms, various products, musicians, groups, politicians (really?), and let’s face it, just about anything. If all of these and more are iconic then the adjective is rendered impotent. I grew up thinking that an icon is attributed to a religious image – usually Catholic. Since I am a Buddhist, I ignored the word, though Buddhism has its own “icons”. I say, give the word a rest, people. Newspapers seem irrelevant these days. People get their news on Facebook (at least, people of a certain age). I hear FB and e-mail are obsolete among the younger generations. Damn, just when I got the hang of e-mail! Other news services, CNN, the egregious Fox News, and CBC National to name a few, have taken over. Tik Tok is very popular as is Messenger (and the dreaded DM, TM or BM, what have you through Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat, LinkedIn and so on). There is the argument that a variety of sources is a good thing, gives the reader all kinds of perspective. But all it does is serve to confuse. As Paul Simon once wrote, “All I need is the weather report.”
I do like the weekly TV Guide in the paper. I know you can look up the schedule on the computer. But what bother! People rarely get together socially. I realize it is the result of the pandemic. But there are the moronic anti-vaxers, who do not socially distance to protest. If they end up in a hospital on a ventilator fighting for their lives then I say, “That’s showing them”. Will they then become iconic anti-vaxers? ZOOM and Skype are the go-to devices to stage a meeting or just to see one another. I suppose it’s better than getting on a plane and traveling hundreds, maybe thousands, of miles wearing a mask the whole time. Okay, I accept the innovation, but I don’t have to like it. ZOOM did come in handy for my recent crosscountry book tour. Greeting cards are passe. To wish someone a happy birthday, anniversary, Christmas, New Year’s, or whatever, it is easier to send an e-card by email. But if emails are obsolete how is this done? Another mystery. I don’t understand Bluetooth and downloads. I mean, my Bluetooth for headphones takes so long to engage, I usually give up and turn up the TV. Downloads are quick but where to store them? I can never find them once they are somewhere in my computer. The cathode ray tube is dead! TV screens are pixelated (is that a word?) and the screens themselves are larger than life. I suppose they will help with failing eyesight. On the other hand, programs encourage watching on a smart phone (again!). But the images are small. Talk about failing eyesight. Let’s not talk about Netflix and Hulu. As the world stands today, it may be obvious that times have changed, but I don’t have to like it. I’m still put-off by today’s world. I can’t even get a hard copy of the garbage collection schedule!
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The Paueru Gai Dialogues Inklings to Action: The Paueru Gai Dialogues Workshop and Recap
In 2021, the Paueru Gai Dialogues created an online space where we collectively considered contemporary issues—such as art as activism, food security, climate change, histories and decolonization—through a racialized lens. We sought to learn from differences, build solidarity, and discover everyday points of action. On February 12, 2022, we came together for a series debrief to further unpack questions, themes, and foster online community. We pondered next steps, everyday actions at home, and ideas for future online events and gatherings. This event included a summary of the series, longer breakout sessions, and a new iteration of our doukana generative questions in the form of collective haiku writing. During the session, following a video recap of the entire Paueru Gai Dialogues series, participants were split into two breakout groups and tasked with writing haiku in response to the dialogues, with word clouds and lists of frequent topics and terms as a reference. A traditional Japanese form of poetry, haiku consist of three lines of five, seven, and five syllables. Originally a collaborative, dialogic practice, haiku are often written swiftly to record concrete experiences or personal observations, and incorporate seasonal references, a cutting word introducing insight or a shock of awareness, and for our exercise, a call to action or provocation. We returned to one large group to share our poetic calls to action and finally, in a call back to our doukana generative thinking, built new haiku by stacking lines together from those made in the breakout groups. Read below for a selection the group’s haiku and how some lines were re-purposed into new poems. Visit our website for the full selection and video recap: https://bit.ly/3pbwFVJ
Haiku ORIGINAL
GENERATIVE Large group (from earlier lines)
Weeds versus trees – oh! / exuberant abundance / jump up to the sun
Shift the abundance / Exuberant abundance / Hidden undergrowth
The ground remembers / More than Powell, more than me / It calls for justice
hopes for the future / ground me here in Paueru Gai / Restore community
shift the abundance / ground me here in Paueru Gai / nurture inclusion
meeting in the park / shake loose the hesitation / Jump up to the sun!
Hidden undergrowth, / Rushing forward together, / Restore community
Jump up to the sun / ground me here in Paueru Gai / far but close on Zoom
The winds of summer / Shake loose the hesitation / And ask us to give
Land of history / How can we become better? / And ask us to give?
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Japanese Canadian Heritage Cooking Classes Do you love home cooking? Is there a recipe that you miss from your childhood? Would you like to learn how to make new dishes? The Greater Vancouver Japanese Canadian Citizens’ Association (GVJCCA) has partnered with Tonari Gumi (TG) and the Vancouver Japanese Language School - Japanese Hall (VJLS-JH) to bring you Japanese Canadian Heritage Cooking Classes. We are looking for home chefs to help guide each lesson to share recipes with the community. Do you have a family recipe you would like to share? A chow mein recipe? Salmon kamaboko? Contact us today! We will be hiring a contract administrator to help run this new program. Applications are due April 3, 2022.
Job Title: JC Heritage Cooking Classes Coordinator Contract Term: May 2022-April 2023 Job Summary The coordinator will be responsible for planning and facilitating all aspects of the JC Heritage Cooking Classes. The administrator will work collaboratively with the GVJCCA, TG, and VJLS-JH understanding the mission, values and vision of these organizations and the Cooking Classes. Remuneration $24-$28/hour, to be negotiated. Estimated 40 hours per month. Responsibilities • Attend planning meetings with the GVJCCA, TG, VJLS-JH • Communication with participants, participant intake and scheduling • Booking kitchen space at TG and/or VJLS-JH, setup and takedown at events • Attending all cooking classes as Host • Work with community chefs to prepare cooking lessons and purchase lesson supplies • Manage volunteers For all inquiries and resume submissions please send a message to Peter at gvjcca@gmail.com subject line “JC Heritage Cooking Classes”. Thank you to the Province of BC (150 Time Immemorial grant) and Heritage BC for financial support.
update Update from Powell Street Festival Society Hello Powell Street Festival Friends and happy March! It’s hard to believe that spring is just around the corner. We hosted our final wrap-up of the Paueru Gai Dialogues, Inklings to Action, last month. Thank-you to all who participated in our summary and haiku-writing workshop or at any point in the Paueru Gai Dialogues! See a selection of our collaboratively written haiku in these pages, the full collection of the generative haiku on our website, or watch the wrap-up video on our website: https://bit.ly/3pbwFVJ Join the 46th Powell Street Festival Production Team! We are hiring for positions in production and programming. In May, we’ll also be seeking volunteers for the festival weekend. Watch our Get Involved website page for full job descriptions and application instructions: https://bit.ly/3v8f05b In the meantime, we are also excited to announce that our Hanami Cherry Blossom Picnic will be on Sunday, April 10. Join us in Oppenheimer Park to say hello, learn the Paueru Mashup Dance, and enjoy a hot meal. More details to come!
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LEGALIZED RACISM FROM THE LOCAL TO THE GLOBAL: THE CASE OF NIKKEI PEOPLE IN THE 1940S In an important discussion panel on March 23, 2022, legal experts from across the world will share their research on the internment and dispossession of Nikkei people in allied countries in the 1940s. Scholars working on the legal histories of Canada, Australia, Mexico, and the United States will discuss the intersection of racism and war as well as the varied legal practices that enabled injustice. In anticipation of this event, Landscapes of Injustice Project Director, Jordan Stanger-Ross, interviewed legal historian Eric Muller, University of North Carolina, about his research and the promise of international collaboration.
Then I became very interested in the mechanisms by which the system of incarceration ran. Most of the legal history work in the United States was focused on the big names, those at the very, very top (for example, Franklin Roosevelt, General John DeWitt, and Karl Bendetsen). These histories looked at the inception of the incarceration plans and paid very little attention to their execution.
Perhaps because of my own personal background, as a descendant of Holocaust refugees and victims, questions about the ongoing persecution effort were much more interesting to me. So, I spent quite a bit of time, looking deeply into the system for loyalty adjudication 2, which was in some ways the kind of searing moment in the American Jordan Stanger-Ross: Could you start by telling us Japanese incarceration story: the decision in early 1943 to interrogate about your past and present work in the legal history every adult person of Japanese ancestry in the camps to try, on the basis of a four-page written questionnaire, to make determinative of Japanese American incarceration? pronouncements about who was loyal and disloyal. The questionnaire Eric Muller: My entry into the field really came back was a proxy for what really should have been the issue, which was who in 2001, a long time ago, with the publication of book, posed a risk of danger and who didn’t pose a risk. Those two things Free to Die for Their Country 1, about the young were completely conflated—loyalty and danger—in very unhelpful ways. men who resisted the military draft from inside the American concentration camps as a way of trying to I then set my conventional scholarship aside for a few years and worked create a test case of the lawfulness of their removal very intensively on the creation of the core historical exhibit at the site of one of the ten Japanese American concentration camps, the Heart and confinement. Mountain Relocation Center in Wyoming. In the context of that work, I Free to Die for Their Country is a fairly conventional learned of the existence of this very rare cache of color photographs legal history, in the sense that I was interested in the that had been taken by a prisoner. These candid photographs became genesis of a movement for a legal test case within my next project, Colors of Confinement. 3 the camps and then the justice system’s reactions to that movement. It is also a study of the impacts By this point, I had grown pretty deeply involved with an organization of both the young men’s decision to resist and the called the Fellowships at Auschwitz for the Study of Professional Ethics that examines the question of how the Nazi system was carried off by government’s decision to prosecute. professionals, lawyers, doctors, journalists, clergy, business people, The book was written about a time when there was and so on. As a result of doing that work, I brought the question of the what you might call a mainstream view within the culpability of ordinary professionals back to my research on Japanese incarcerated Japanese American community, inter- American incarceration. I knew that there was a very, very large body ested in presenting a face of Japanese Americans as of correspondence written by white lawyers who were stationed at uber patriots. You know, apple-pie-eating, flag-wav- the camps. They were called Project Attorneys, and they had these ing Americans. Young men resisting the military exquisitely conflictual roles. Their job was both to advise the camp draft were obviously a major complication to that directors on running the camps and on legal problems that the camps narrative. Their movement opened up real bitterness encountered, while also being responsible for running a kind of legal within the community that in some ways lingers, not aid office for the prisoners themselves, assisting them with everything unlike the bitterness over the Japanese Americans ranging from unscrupulous efforts to strip people of their property while who answered “no” on the loyalty questionnaires they were away in camp, to more human conflicts that arose during and ended up at the Tule Lake segregation center. incarceration: marital problems, custody problems, tax problems, and There’s a certain peace, I think, that was made over then the crime that occurred at the camps as well. That body of corthe draft resisters. But, I’m not sure that that peace respondence is what led to my current project, which is in press right has ever fully been achieved for the people who now. It is a book about the lawyers at three of the camps during the answered “no.”
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ways a reflection of what might be my next project. I’ve grown very inIt is a book about complicity. It is an attempt to im- terested, as you know, Jordan, because of your own work 4, in property agine myself in the worlds of the Project Attorneys, deprivations and then efforts, such as they were, at compensation or as they tried to negotiate this weird, conflicted space restitution. That, I imagine, is a story that played itself out across all of as allies to, and part of the persecution of, Japanese these places – that is to say, the deprivation of property and the graspAmericans in the camps. The book very much borcontinued on page 18 rows from techniques of fiction rather than a more conventional academic monograph. Through this project, I hope to reach people who are interested Legalized Racism from the Local to the Global: in enduring questions about how unjust systems are The Case of Nikkei People in the 1940s operated. Sometimes, the people who perpetrate On-line presentation injustice are very poorly motivated, and even evil, Wednesday, March 23, 2022, 3pm PDT but more often they’re very ordinary people who are Online and open to the public | Free not monstrous, and who might even have significant qualms about what they’re doing but find ways to Zoom link to register: https://bit.ly/Nikkei-1940s carry it forward nonetheless. The argument of the During and after the Second World War, civilians of Japanese descent book, in a certain sense, is that the anti-Japanese were uprooted, interned, dispossessed and displaced in allied counracism of the day was a necessary but not sufficient tries across the Americas and the Pacific. In the United States, over condition for any one individual’s decision to lend 115,000 people were incarcerated. In Canada, 22,000 were forcibly uptheir energies to the incarceration system. Also rooted and the majority interned. An estimated 80 percent of Japanese crucial were issues of temperament, of ambition, of Mexicans were displaced and dispossessed. Australia was a regional believing one is averting worse outcomes, of jousting internment hub, with Nikkei civilians confined in camps alongside disor competing with other individuals and organiza- placed Nikkei from nearby islands; almost all were expelled to Japan tions -- these sorts of ordinary, human factors that after the war. On this unprecedented panel, legal experts in each of affect all people in many situations. I believe that these contexts will share their research on the intersection of racism the book will shed light not just on the operation and war in the law and the varied legal practices that enabled injustice. of the specific system deployed against Japanese Moderator Americans in WWII, but also on almost any system Victor V. Ramraj, University of Victoria Law School, CAPI Director of injustice in any place, at any time. Panelists Jordan: The panel in March, and the larger collaboEric Adams University of Alberta Law School ration that it is a part of, brings your work into conversation with specialists on the history of Australia, Jessica A. Fernández de Lara Harada, Cambridge University UK Canada, Brazil, Mexico, and other sites of Nikkei Masumi Izumi, Doshisha University, Kyoto Japan internment, dispossession and incarceration. So, I wonder what do you think can be gained by a legal Eric Muller, University of North Carolina School of Law history of these injustices from a comparative or Rayner Thwaites, University of Sydney, Law School transnational perspective? Presented by Centre for Asia-Pacifi c Initiatives, Centre for Global Eric: I think that probably the points of connection Studies and Past Wrongs, Future Choices that I’ll be most interested in pursuing are in some
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This will sound a little critical, but I think you know it has historically been the case, although less so recently, that Americans have not been particularly interested in anything about the histories of other countries. Whether it be their systems of injustice, or anything else. I really think that the simple fact of bringing the American story into direct dialogue with comparable stories, and having them meet one another as peers rather than as an American narrative with some sort of interesting little digressions, can only do good. American historians would benefit from understanding that what transpired as being connected to, and perhaps even echoing, rather than leading, things that were going on in other places. But, I’m mostly interested in seeing what actually develops. I don’t even feel that I know enough about the Australian story, for example, or the Mexican story or the Peruvian story. I don’t know enough about the Brazilian story. Canada is the only one of them that I’ve spent any time reading about, so I don’t even know enough about them to be able to articulate anything concrete that might come from it, but surely the process of conversation and comparison and contrast will be rich and productive. It’s become increasingly clear to me that even within a domestic context we need to work harder to understand perpetrator behaviour. 1 Free to Die for Their Country: The Story of the Japanese American Draft Resisters in World War II Eric L. Muller University of Chicago Press 2001 2 American Inquisition: The Hunt for Japanese American Disloyalty in World War II Eric L. Muller University of North Carolina Press 2017 3 Colors of Confinement: Rare Kodachrome Photographs of Japanese American Incarceration in World War II Edited by Eric L. Muller With photographs by Bill Manbo University of North Carolina Press 2012
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District of Lillooet & E. Lillooet Seniors Garden Committee presents
EAST LILLOOET INTERNMENT MEMORIAL GARDEN RENEWAL OPENING Commemorating the 80th anniversary of the Japanese Canadian Internment Saturday May 7 | 2022 | Lillooet, BC 1:30 OPENING CEREMONY (outdoor public) Garden located on Lytton-Lillooet Hwy12 & Sumner Road, Lillooet 4:00 RECEPTION (must register) Fort Berens Winery, 1881 BC-99, Lillooet, down road from garden REGISTRATION for bus from Vancouver (overnight) A chartered bus will leave Saturday May 7, 8am from Nikkei Centre Burnaby, returning Sunday, May 8 late afternoon. Thanks to the Seniors’ Wellness Fund grant, Senior Internees and their descendants 65 and over will be subsidized for bus and reception. General registration (non-seniors) is $125 for bus and reception. Bus passengers must reserve hotel as soon as possible at Hotel DeOro: www.hoteldeoro.com To register for bus, contact Laura Saimoto, lillooet.memorial.garden@gmail.com RECEPTION REGISTRATION for car passengers & locals (not bus passengers) Food and refreshments will be served. Registration is $25. Please bring vaccine passport and photo ID. Must register online on Eventbrite. Limited capacity – register early. To register: https://lillooet-memorial-garden.eventbrite.ca Contact Laura Saimoto, Garden Committee: lillooet.memorial.garden@gmail.com
VANCOUVER BUDDHIST TEMPLE BENTO FUNDRAISER MARCH 27 BENTO Number of: Takikomi Gohan (aburaage, carrots, gobo, Konnyaku, and shiitake), Shoyu-butter sautéed prawns (2), Sunomono, and Tsukemono _____ x $15.00 Manju (2 kinds) _____x $8.00
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Name: ____________________________________________________________ Email: ______________________________________________________Telephone: _____________________________ Orders must be prepaid by cash, cheque (payable to: Vancouver Buddhist Temple), or e-transfer (temple.vbt@gmail.com). Last day to order is Tuesday, March 22. Pick-up: between 11:00am – 12:30pm on March 27 at the Social Hall entrance. Vancouver Buddhist Temple: 220 Jackson Avenue, Vancouver, BC, V6A 3B3 Phone: 604.253.7033
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On my daily walks down around the tip of Burrard Inlet, spring is most definitely in the air, but it’s also evident in the green sprouts of bushes, in the birdsong, and in the faces of people I meet on the trail. It brings to mind my walks in March of 2020, shortly after the world went into a hard lockdown. At that time, the oudoors was the only place that felt safe, and Amy and I felt blessed that we had this world of blooming nature just outside our door. Walking daily during the early days of lockdown, it struck me that nature is largely indifferent to our comings and goings – our plans, our hopes, our desires. It proceeds at its own pace, and unfolds in its own good time, regardless of anything we do. It was comforting in a sense, knowing that no matter how badly we mess up this planet, it will always get the last laugh. That said, the mood in the air is most definitely different his spring, with cautious hope for a summer that sees some kind of “normal” return. One sign of optimism is the return of the GVJCCA Keirokai. As society President Cary Sakiyama says “It’s ON!” Not only is it on, it’s bigger and better than ever, with the title of Super Keirokai. It’s bittersweet that for many of us, Keirokai 2020 was the last time that there was a community event free of worry about air-borne viruses, with no need to mask up out of concern about infecting our precious and vulnerable seniors. Keirokai 2020 was held February 22, just over a week before everything came crashing to a halt. That Keirokai also the last time I saw my crew of Bulletin volunteers, some of them no longer with us. I look forward to gathering at Nikkei Centre on April 3 for Super Keirokai 2022, the Year of the Tiger. There’s a rumour that many of my volunteers will be there. Here’s hoping!
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The birds are back catching our eyes and sweetening our ears, the buds are blooming and filling us with hope and the Sun is ever providing us with warmth and light. This is our only Spring of 2022, let’s get outside and enjoy it!
Renew friendships, remember your internment experience and share your stories in small groups with experienced facilitators. With your consent, we would like to document these important stories for education purposes. We will also offer a copy to each participant as requested.
BIG NEWS EVERYONE! Keirokai is ON!!! Year of the TIGER!! T h i s y e a r, m a r k i n g t h e 8 0 t h Anniversary of the Internment, we will be hosting an extra special Keirokai. Reuniting, Sharing Stories and Celebration – The Survivor Celebration. The Survivor Celebration and 80th Anniversary of the Internment will be April 3, 2022 at Nikkei National Museum & Cultural Centre If you would like to join us for the special story sharing event, we will gather starting from 10:30 am,
If you prefer to opt out of the story sharing and join us for the festivities, we will begin at 12:30pm and finish at 3:30pm. For more details, please see page 7 in this Bulletin. To attend the Keirokai, we will abide by the current Provincial Health Orders which require mask wearing and proof of vaccine (2 doses) plus ID. Please register by March 20, 2022 with Nikki at 778.927.7587 $10 registration fee for 70+ years old $15 (spouses or others under 70) continued on page 22
membership up to date? check mailing label on back cover for expiry date! eTransfers now accepted for payment! Visit /jccabulletin-geppo.ca/membership. Greater Vancouver Japanese Canadian Citizens’ Association
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It has been a difficult start to the year for many friends and families. We have our differences of opinions on many things but this year has exacerbated some festering wounds and has severed many ties. Beginning the year with Omicron and a growing Antiscience movement, the trucker convoy that morphed into an occupation of Ottawa and now the War in Ukraine. Can’t believe I have to write this: The GVJCCA denounces the attack on the people of Ukraine. The GVJCCA stands steadfastly and fervently behind the Ukrainian people in their fight against the Putin regime. It has not been all bad. On the positive side, the difficulties we are experiencing now give us pause to reflect and be thankful. We have witnessed Ketanji Brown Jackson become the first Black woman nominated to the Supreme Court and we have recently had an easing of Covid-19 restrictions. Better days ahead!
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Editorial continued If there’s one thing we should all have learned from the past two years, it’s how to deal with disappointment. The way some people talk about being “done” with the pandemic (yes, I’m looking at you Premiers Kenney and Ford) you’d think they hadn’t learned a damn thing. If there’s one thing that separates us from the “more than human world,” it’s hubris. The hubris of believing that we reign supreme over everything and can buy or invent our way out of anything. Rather than a return to “normal,” maybe we can realize that some parts of the previous normal were not working, and that we should try to do better. Maybe somewhere down the road we can again look at bouncy castles, hot tubs and Canadian flags on pickup trucks without fear and loathing. I don’t have a lot of hope of that. I read tonight that the Freedom Convoy brain trust is calling for protesters to turn their sights on Victoria now, given our province’s inexplicable decision to keep masks and passports in place for the time being in the hope of keeping the vulnerable among us safe, when what we really need is some freedom. Maybe we can give them a special ferry and accidentally divert it to Florida. Yup, it’s been a long two years!
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I received a copy of a photo “Commemoration of the Year 1940, Delta, East-Richmond, Surrey Chapter of the Japanese Canadian Citizens League – JCCL.” The photo shows about fifty women and men in rows, and at the very far left, a man who looks like family. I think it is my uncle Buck Suzuki. Thanks to Kelvin Higo for the photo.
ordered to turn over property and belongings to the Custodian of Enemy Alien Property as a “protective measure only.”
We now know that property and belongings were not kept in care and was sold without the owners’ It prompted me to dig out my well-used copy of The Enemy That Never permission. Was by Ken Adachi and read more on the JCCL. March 16, 1942 First arrivals at Vancouver’s Hastings The JCCL was organized in 1936, an effort to organize all the Nisei (second Park Manning Pool. All Japanese Canadian mail is generation Japanese Canadians) in British Columbia. There were seven censored from this date. chapters. One of their first priorities was to have a brief prepared to ask Over 8,000 Japanese Canadians, most from outside of for a revision of the discriminatory legislation so that Japanese Canadians Vancouver were shipped to Hastings Park (the official would have the right to vote in federal elections. A four-member delegation name was Hasting Park Manning Pool) and held there appeared before the Special Committee on Elections and Franchise Acts before being transported to camps. The rest of the of the House of Commons in Ottawa. The four delegates were Hideko 22,000 Japanese Canadians were sent directly to Hyodo, a teacher, Minoru Kobayashi, an insurance agent, Edward Banno, camps. For example, my mother’s side of the family a dentist, and S.I. Hayakawa, a university lecturer. They faced opposition were sent from Cumberland on Vancouver Island to especially from the BC MPs A.W. Neill and Thomas Reid. Federal franchise Hastings Park. My father’s side in the Lower Mainland was denied. The JCCL would expand to ten chapters, and last met at its were sent directly to the camp in Kaslo. annual conference in 1941. The forced uprooting of Japanese Canadians Do you have a family connection to the JCCL or would start the next year in 1942. NAJC? Share a paragraph or two about your family’s It wasn’t until September 1947 when the National Japanese Canadian participation in NAJC events or activities. We also want Citizens Association was formed to represent Nisei across Canada. The to share the memories and stories of your family in National JCCA changed its name to the National Association of Japanese 1942 and before the uprooting. Send your photo and Canadians (NAJC) in 1980. stories to national@najc.ca 2022 is the 75th anniversary of the NAJC and the 80th anniversary of Connect with the NAJC member organization in your the start of Internment. We will continue to highlight key moments on our area to find out about local events and activities. social media and website najc.ca For example, in March: http://najc.ca/member-organizations March 4, 1942 Under Order-In-Council P.C. 1665 Japanese Canadians are continued on page 31
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Exhibit TAIKEN: Japanese Canadians Since 1877 Nikkei Centre Visitors to the upper level of Nikkei Centre have the chance to engage in the fascinating history of Japanese Canadians. Learn about the first arrivals in 1877, the hardships of the early pioneers, the struggles of the war years, and the need to rebuild homes and businesses in the 1950s. Listen to the voices of many generations tell their story!
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Saturday March 26 11am to 12:30pm Pacific | 12 to 1:30pm Mountain | 1 to 2:30 Central | 2 to 3:30pm Eastern | 3 to 4:30pm Atlantic Steveston Japanese Canadian Recipes with Kelvin Higo Zoom online session Pre-registration is required https://bit.ly/StevestonRecipes national museum National Association of Japanese Canadians welcomes Kelvin Higo to discuss favourite Japanese Canadian recipes from Steveston. Kelvin has organized a collection of recipes for the new cookbook, From the Sea and Shore.
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Part of our culture and traditions are tied to our food and especially the food prepared by our moms, grandmothers and family. Steveston has a rich fishing history so some of the recipes highlight the catch of the fishers.
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cultural centre Join Kelvin Higo and NAJC president Lorene Oikawa to talk about cooking, eating, and the stories of our Japanese Canadian community. Bring your love of food and an appetite for Japanese Canadian cooking stories. This is a free Zoom online session. Please complete the pre-registration at: https://bit.ly/StevestonRecipes First Friday of each month 7:30pm – 10pm First Friday Forum Tonari Gumi, 42 West 8th Avenue Music, diverse genres and cultures. Standards, jazz, pop, classical, folk, world music. Poetry and other readings. Enjoy an evening of music, discussion, friendship. Admission by donation, net proceeds go towards the Aoki Legacy Endowment Fund, UBC.
Saturday May 7 | 2022 East Lillooet Internment Memorial Garden Renewal Opening Lillooet, BC Commemorating the 80th anniversary of the Japanese Canadian Internment details: page 18
The First Friday Forum will be on hiatus until Tonari Gumi re-opens. We look forward to seeing you all again! Tonari Gumi Facility Limited Re-opening The facility is open for Library use and to provide Community Services by appointment. Please call Tonari Gumi, 604.687.2172 to make an appointment. Open from Monday to Thursday 10am to 3pm For VCH guidelines and opening details, please go to our website www.tonarigumi.ca
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April 22 – June 25, 2022 Isshoni: Henry Shimizu's Paintings of New Denver Internment Legacy Art Gallery (University of Victoria) 630 Yates Street, Victoria, BC, V8W 1K9 www.uvic.ca/legacygalleries/visit-us
SUPER KEIROKAI!!! Reuniting, Sharing Stories and Celebration Survivor Celebration and 80th Anniversary of the Internment Sunday April 3, 2022 at Nikkei National Museum & Cultural Centre STORY SHARING EVENT 10:30am to 12:30 | KEIROKAI LUNCHEON 12:30pm to 3:30 Keirokai for seniors 70 & over (spouse may be under) Current Covid restrictions apply | Proof of vaccination + id | Masks are mandatory Please register no later than March 20 with Nikki at 778-927-7587 $10 registration fee (70+) | $15 (spouses or other under 70) see page 7 for details
16th Annual Cherry Blossom Festival April 1 to 23 | 2022 details and tickets: www.vcbf.ca Haiku Invitational | March 1-June 1, 2022 Christopher Gaze will be reading the winning poems from 2021 Haiku Invitational at the VSO Tea & Trumpets at the Orpheum on March 24, 2022. The Haiku Invitational is an international online contest that attracts submissions from all over the world. The top poems in six main categories (Vancouver, BC, Canada, the United States, International, and Youth (age 17 and under)) will be featured in the Haiku Canada newsletter, an online publication in the newsletter of the Haiku Society of America, and published on the VCBF website (see the 2021 winners on page 37). Steps for Sakura Steps for Sakura is a new program that introduces everyone to our new mobile-friendly Neighbourhood Maps, Mobile Maps, which will now act as your personal Cherry Compass! This popup event gets us all outdoors, to move, and to connect with nature in a way that benefits our bodies as well as our minds! We’ll kick things off during the lunch hour on Friday, April 1 at Lot 19 for a mindful-movement practice to set the month off in a healthy direction! The Big Picnic Saturday, April 2, 2022 | 11:30am to 4pm The 2022 Festival kicks off with the return of THE BIG PICNIC in a new majestic cherry blossom park location – David Lam Park! When 100 akebono cherry trees come into bloom in this spectacular setting it will be a magical event to behold! This event honours the Honorable Dr. David Lam’s donation of cherry trees continued on page 38
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Alice Bradley CommunityKitchen with and Lea Ault
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Covid restrictions seem to be loosening up, and Justin and I burst out of our bubble with a quick trip to Hawaii in early February. Hawaii is a special place for us – as half-Japanese, half-Caucasian mixes, we love how we are accepted as locals in Hawaii, where everyone is a blend of a dozen different races and cultures. We also love the plethora of Asian food and the way that Hawaiian-American culture has a bit of that Asian politeness and kindness that makes life a little more pleasant. Usually. We also have friends in Hawaii whom we miss, and we were keen to touch base with them and see how they were doing. Kevin and Maria Sakoda live in Honolulu. Kevin is Japanese American; his family are from Hiroshima and Kumamoto and came to Hawaii in the early 1910s. They worked in the pineapple fields and in the restaurant business and weathered the war as best they could. I find it interesting that the majority of Japanese Americans in Hawaii were not interned – the population was something like 30% so it was impossible – and Kevin’s family history doesn’t contain that particular episode, for which I am glad. Kevin himself wasn’t exposed to this history until he lived in Chicago and met Japanese Americans whose families had been interned. Kevin and Maria have a beach house on the east coast of Oahu and I remember hanging out at a picnic table while Kevin and his dad grilled fish and the cool wind blew through the house and the sun set behind us (because east coast). Justin caught an octopus on a Hawaiian sling spear and was quite proud of himself although he was less keen to actually eat the tako. One of my best Hawaii memories is of Dad Sakoda teaching me to make musubi. You have to make the rice early in the day so it cools off a bit and is less wet. Then you wet your hands, sprinkle them with salt, get a scoop of rice and get salt all over the outside, packing very lightly. Then you transfer it to the triangular musubi mold, press lightly, then unmold and voila! Perfect musubi. Not packing too hard, just enough for the rice to stick together, is very important but the main thing is the salt; it keeps the rice soft and the flavour is better.
Steamed Opakapaka this can be done with any white fish! 2-3 lb whole or fillets of opakapaka or white fish like tilapia, halibut, black cod, etc. and I’m betting it would work well with trout or salmon too. Ginger root – 2 thumb-sized pieces, julienned finely Green onions* – thinly sliced Cilantro*, chopped Shiitake mushrooms*, thinly sliced 3-4 T peanut oil (high heat neutral oil)^* 2-3 T shoyu 1-2 T sesame oil *The quantity of your aromatic veggies depends on what flavors you like and/or if presentation is an issue. Covering the entire fish with a mixture of chopped cilantro & green onions with a scattering of julienned ginger and sliced shiitake would look great. Work with your fish and adjust seasoning to complement that particular fish. For example, a fresh opakapaka would taste great steamed with salt and pepper. So I don’t want to overpower the natural taste of the fish. If you were steaming tilapia, you could be more aggressive with the flavoring since it is a fairly neutral-flavoured fish.
^*The hot oil is poured on the steamed fish. This is kind of for show since it makes sizzling sounds as the hot oil contacts the toppings and some of the liquid (make sure you pour the hot oil ON TOP of the fish and NOT into any of the liquid surrounding the steamed fish). The hot oil is meant to activate the flavors of the Kevin’s dad passed in 2005; I’m happy to have had some time with him. ginger/cilantro/green onion. The sesame oil and shoyu He left me a little gift of musubi which I will have forever. should really be adjusted to your taste AND based upon how much “fish broth” came from steaming the So today I’m sharing recipes from Kevin, who is an expert yet casual and fish. The fish broth, shoyu, and sesame oil will combine intuitive cook. (You can tell he’s intuitive from the recipes because there to make a nice sauce. For me, sesame oil is a strong are a lot of variables.) When he cooks for you, there’s no bustle; Kevin just taste that can overpower the flavor of the fish (same moves quietly and calmly and then suddenly there’s incredible aromatic, with shoyu). You are always able to add more after you delicious food in front of you. taste the fish/sauce.
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When you cut the veg, keep offcuts to place inside the fish’s body cavity if there is one.
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Cut 2-3 pieces of foil (enough to loosely wrap the fish; 2-3 layers should be thick enough to avoid cuts into the foil), and place the fish on the foil. You may want to spray the foils with non-stick (PAM) spray before placing the fish. Wrap the fish loosely with the foil making sure that the seals/ folds are tight as to not let any moisture/liquid leak out of the “steaming chamber”. Steam in a steamer OR place on a grill (low-medium heat) for approx 20 minutes. You could go longer (25min) if your fish was cold (not room temp). Open the foil carefully to take a peek if the fish is done. (25 mins should be more than enough time; also this is for a whole fish, a fillet will cook much faster.)
Water to taste
1/2 cup shoyu Clean fish. Slice 3-4 diagonal slits into the body of the fish; this will make 1/2 cup mirin the fish cook faster. Season with salt and pepper, making sure it gets into 1/4 cup sake the slits. Place a few ginger slices into the slits. 1 tablespoon grated ginger 2-3 clove crushed/chopped garlic 1-2lbs of chicken (boneless skinless thighs in bite sized pieces)
Your preference of the following: tofu in cubes, sliced or whole shiitake mushrooms (or enoki or shimeji), sliced carrots, sliced bamboo shoots, canned baby corn, watercress, gobo, sweet onions, sliced, green onions About 10 mins before the fish is done, heat the peanut oil so that it’s nearly or naganegi (Japanese long onion), rice noodles, eggs. smoking. (On the grill, you can use a clean can to heat the oil.) When Chinese vegetables like Shanghai bok choy and choy your fish is done, take it off the grill and open up the foil. Place half of the sum are also nice although gai lan is too thick to cook cilantro and green onion across the fish. Place all of the shiitake across properly. the fish. Place all of the julienned ginger across the fish. Carefully pour Heat a deep skillet, add a little oil and saute the chicken. the hot oil across the fish (it should sizzle; since raw ginger is somewhat When chicken is nearly cooked, add chopped garlic harsh, you especially want to “hit” the ginger with the oil). Season with and stir well. When chicken is cooked, add shoyu, sesame oil and shoyu. If desired, you can replate the entire fish by sliding mirin, sake, and ginger. Simmer for 5 minutes. Add the entire dish off the foil into a serving dish. Add the rest of the cilantro tofu, veggies and noodles and continue to simmer till and green onions to give the dish a “fresh veggie” look. As the fish is cooked to your preference. You can add water if there served, notice the sauce that has been made which surround the fish; is not enough liquid to semi-submerge your veggies. taste? More shoyu, sesame oil? Adjust sauce to taste with water, or more shoyu or I asked Kevin for a recipe that he ate growing up, and he gave me this mirin. Clear space at the edge for egg(s) and carefully recipe for Chicken Hekka! It reminds me of a sukiyaki but also oyako crack egg(s) into a pool of sauce to cook. We prefer donburi. Comfort food! not to cook the egg fully as to have the yolk mix with the chicken & veggies. Eat on rice! My kids just pointed out that we eat pretty much everything on rice, but you know what I mean. It’s a nice comforting rice bowl meal.
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TSURU TAKES FLIGHT IN NEW TORONTO NAJC LOGO by Derek Sakauye Last summer the Toronto Chapter of the National Association for Japanese Canadians (NAJC) decided to hold a community design competition to create a logo that was not only modern, but timeless and versatile. In an effort to improve their branding, the intention was to implement the winning design in a full rebranding of marketing materials, including printed publications, social media and website graphics. Once unveiled, the new logo would increase awareness of the chapter’s ongoing human rights work and establish professional brand standards. The Toronto Chapter is grateful to the National Association of Japanese Canadians for providing a grant that enabled this work to happen. Several diverse and impressive submissions were received and narrowed down to two finalists: Timothy Fukakusa and Gemma Hsiao. Unable to choose between their entries, the Board split the prize money between the artists and enlisted their help to custom design a logo that aligned with all of their campaign objectives. Timothy Fukakusa is a Toronto-based graffiti artist and graphic designer. He has been painting since 2001 and designing since 2008. His style is influenced by anime and comic illustration. His work is bold as he sculpts every line to have maximum impact. Gemma Hsiao is a Japanese-Taiwanese Canadian studying Fashion Communication at Ryerson University. Her work, centered around graphic design and theoretical approaches, focuses on digital media. Her style pulls from her cultural heritage, modernist and futurist design. In December 2021, Timothy and Gemma joined the logo committee alongside board members Mika Fukuma, Yosh Inouye, Michelle Walters and President Lynn Deutscher Kobayashi. Rounding out the team was Derek Sakauye, a yonsei who designs marketing material and volunteers with the Toronto NAJC. He has more than a decade of consulting experience in IT, digital marketing and entrepreneurship. He has a passion for digital arts and integrates those skills into his diverse career. The tsuru (Japanese crane) was chosen as the primary emblem. Inspired by the true story of Sadako Sasaki, a victim of the Hiroshima bombing who folded 1,000 origami cranes, the tsuru has become known as a universal humanitarian symbol of peace, hope and longevity. The forward flight position of the tsuru represents progress and change. The solid blue ring surrounding the tsuru represents unity, balance, togetherness and harmony. The selected shade of blue was modified from the original NAJC logo and pays homage to their legacy. All of these ideas align with the Toronto NAJC’s human rights objectives of advocating
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ETHICS OF RESEARCH IN INDIGENOUS AND JAPANESE CANADIAN COMMUNITIES March 25, 2022 3-hour event with 10-minute break 2 – 5pm ET | 1 – 4pm CT 12 – 3pm MT | 11am – 2pm PT This in-person panel discussion with a limited number of invited guests will take place at the Campbell Conference Centre, U of T. Register to view online at www.torontonajc.ca For many years, discussions have taken place between academics and community leaders on the ethics of research in racialized and Indigenous communities. Racialized researchers have faced marginalization and have often been tokenized or treated as “native informants” in collaborative research, rather than scholars in their own right. Those outside the community have claimed information provided by community knowledge keepers as their “discovery” with no credit given to independent scholars and storytellers. A dynamic group of panelists will discuss the ethics of research in Asian communities, with a focus on, but not limited to Japanese Canadians.
Participants include prominent Japanese Canadian scholars, junior Japanese Canadian researchers, and one of the country’s most dynamic leaders in Asian Canadian Studies. The discussion will begin with a keynote presentation by Dr. Margaret Kovach, an influential and highly regarded Indigenous scholar who has written extensively on the topic of Indigenous Research Methodologies.
PANELISTS Jennifer Matsunaga (Assistant Professor, Social Work, University of Ottawa) Mona Oikawa (Associate Professor, School of Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies, York University) Pam Sugiman (Professor and Dean of the Faculty of Arts, Ryerson University)
KEYNOTE SPEAKER Margaret Kovach Henry Yu (Associate Dean of Indigenous Education and (Associate Professor, Department of History, University of British Columbia; Professor in the Department of Educational Studies, Principal, St. John’s Graduate College, UBC) University of British Columbia) Laura Ishiguro Associate Professor, History, Asian Canadian & Asian Migration Studies University of British Columbia Tod Duncan | (MA Political Science, York University) Bailey Irene Midori Hoy | (Research Assistant, University of Toronto) CONVENOR: Lynn Deutscher Kobayashi President, Greater Toronto Chapter, National Association of Japanese Canadians
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HONOURING SETSUKO THURLOW On Sunday, March 6 the NAJC Human Rights Committee and the Toronto NAJC partnered to celebrate International Women’s Day week by honouring a remarkable woman – Setsuko Thurlow. In addition to the activism for which she is most known, she has contributed to the Japanese Canadian community as founder of Japanese Family Services and as a Toronto NAJC Board member. We are grateful to Setsuko for joining us for a Q & A after the screening of Vow From Hiroshima. Her work as an anti-nuclear peace activist has never been more relevant. Yet, the violence of the war in Ukraine has brought back memories of those terrible days for her. It is not an easy time for those who have experienced the The news of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine gives us a sense of urgency that horrifying power of nuclear warfare on human beings. it could go nuclear at any moment. I feel that “The Vow from Hiroshima” The audience was powerfully affected by her life and is a work that should be seen by everyone in the world. – Yosh Inouye her words. Setsuko spoke of the civilians and survivors of the atomic bombings as the subjects of political manipulation. She mentioned perseverance, and the position of quietly experiencing the pain of survival and to come out of the philosophy/ mentality of the emperor as god following WWII. She also commented on the chaos through disinformation from the US following the end of the war.
It was a wonderful presentation. I have heard Setsuko speak before and she never fails to inspire.
What was most powerful was the message that Trudeau had completely ignored her letter on the anti nuclear treaty. Setsuko wanted an acknowledgement of Canadian history which played a role in the atomic bombing (the uranium mined from the Northwest Territories to make the nuclear bomb). Setsuko stated that 75 percent of Canadians want the anti nuclear treaty to be ratified; however there has been no response from the government. It was also telling that Setsuko mentioned Pierre Trudeau had been more involved in the idea of “suffocation of the nuclear arms race.
Setsuko in speaking out as a survivor, brings to the world stage a discussion about individual moral choice and the human rights issues of nuclear arms. Most importantly, she wants to focus not on the devastation or survivor guilt but on the strength of survivors. And the endurance and patience required to do the hard and lonely work of working for peace. In this film you understand why Dr. Thurlow has been recognized globally for her lifelong activism and why she was chosen to accept the Nobel Peace Prize on behalf of the International Coalition to Abolish nuclear weapons.
Setsuko provides a lens through which to take a double look at understanding humanity in the midst of war and “nuclear menace. – Akiko Takahashi
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The Vow from Hiroshima is a powerful and moving documentary – a clear reminder of how nuclear weapons erased countless lives and pose the threat of global destruction. Setsuko Thurlow continues to provide an inspiring voice for the many victims in her ongoing advocacy. Her message of peace is timelier than ever. – Suzanne Hartmann
Co-host with Lynn Deutscher Kobayashi was Dr. Izumi Sakamoto, Associate Professor at the Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work, University of Toronto, which is the program from which Setsuko Thurlow graduated with her bachelor’s and master’s degree.
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NAJC continued The NAJC supports the development of educational, cultural activities, materials sharing Japanese Canadian stories, and programs that contribute to the understanding and wellbeing of the Japanese Canadian community and the promotion of human rights. We administer the NAJC Endowment Fund. Applications for funding are accepted until 11:59 p.m. Pacific on March 31. A one-hour information session for potential applicants was held on Thursday, March 3. A recording was made for those who were unable to attend and is posted at http://najc.ca/funds-andawards/najc-endowment-fund Part of our culture and traditions are tied to our food and especially the food prepared by our moms, grandmothers and family. I was fortunate to have experienced my grandmother’s cooking on my mom’s side, but I didn’t have that on my father’s side. My dad died when I was little and his mother died before I was born. My father’s side were fishers and boat builders on Oikawa Island and had close ties to Steveston. I’m very excited to learn from the newest cookbook, From the Sea and Shore, Steveston’s Favourite Japanese Canadian Recipes. Kelvin Higo who organized the collection of recipes will be joining us on Saturday March 26 at 11am Pacific to 12:30pm Zoom. Preregistration is required. Register here: https://bit.ly/StevestonRecipes
Vancouver Buddhist Temple 220 Jackson Avenue, Vancouver, BC Telephone: 604-253-7033 www.vancouverbuddhisttemple.com Rev. Tatsuya Aoki, minister Sunday, April 10, 10am Monthly Shotsuki Memorial Service & Hanamatsuri / Keirokai Sunday, May 8, 10am Monthly Shotsuki Memorial Service & Gotane (Shinran’s Birthday) Saturday Dharma Service on Zoom starts at 10am (Approximately 30 minutes: Meditation, Sutra Chanting, Dharma Talk)
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From the Sea and Shore cookbook in the Nikkei Voice From the Sea and Shore: Steveston’s Favourite Japanese Canadian Recipes was featured in the February 2022 issue of the Nikkei Voice. Produced in collaboration with the Steveston Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre, the book is the third in Tonari Gumi’s cookbook series featuring 65 recipes reflecting the food culture of the Steveston Japanese Canadian community. Nikkei Voice: http://nikkeivoice.ca Copy of the article: https://tinyurl.com/yk33dhyv The cookbooks are available at the Tonari Gumi centre at 42 West 8th Avenue, Vancouver, and online from the Nikkei Centre website at https://shop.nikkeiplace. org/collections/japanese-canadian-books Japanese Canadian Survivors’ Social Club starting in Spring 2022 Tonari Gumi is excited to share the news that TG in partnership with the Greater Vancouver JCCA and Steveston Community Society has received a grant from the Japanese Canadian Survivors Health and Wellness Fund. The funding will help us organize the “Japanese Canadian Survivors’ Social Club” to have social and recreational activities for Japanese Canadians who were directly affected by forced removal and internment between 1942 and 1949. In 2022, we will be offering gatherings and outings to provide opportunities for the seniors to get together and engage in various activities. Details of the gatherings will be shared here in The Bulletin and also on the Tonari Gumi website at tonarigumi.ca. We are also hiring the Social Club program coordinator. Job description and application details can be accessed from here https://tinyurl. com/2p8jy4w9 Nancy Morishita – A Tonari Gumi Phenomenon!!! Tonari Gumi’s long-time volunteer Nancy Morishita recently moved to the Royal Arch Masonic Home. It just so happens that this was where Nancy had started the weekly Japanese lunch program for the residents so they can enjoy familiar dishes. Sadly, she will not be able to enjoy the fruits of her accomplishment as the program had stopped, but she is very happy to be there as it is like “home” to her. Thanks to Nancy and many dedicated volunteers, the Japanese residents at the Royal Arch Masonic Home, Cooper Place and St. Vincent’s Langara enjoyed Japanese lunches over the years. Tonari Gumi continued with Japanese language program
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at the Royal Arch, which is now offered over video conferencing. We were excited to see Nancy in the virtual Japanese language program, and look forward to seeing her in-person in the near future. Thank you, Nancy, for all your contributions! continued on page 34
The Japanese Community Volunteers Association, “Tonari Gumi” gratefully acknowledges and thanks the following people for their generous donations received January 22 to February 18, 2022. Although we try our best, we may miss your name. Please contact us and we will make correction in the next issue. Monetary Donations Kumi Kakinuma, Mitsuko Mizuguchi, Machiko Nakahori, Tomie Morimoto, Kimiko Higashi, Masako Onishi, JILLIAN HARRIS Design Inc., The Benevity Community Fund – employee matching TELUS communications Inc. & Royal Bank of Canada, Urban Impact Recycling Ltd. In memory of Tokiko Kadonaga Kumi Kakinuma, Marie Sakon In memory of Yoshie Kishida Kumi Kakinuma In memory of Margaret Morizaki Bryce Tsukishima, Brian Nishiguchi, Amy Kellogg Monetary Donations (Canada Helps) Nobuya Shimamoto, Emily Nakai, Lauro Chartrand, Asumi Ohba, Margaret Yoshida, Kami Insurance Agencies Ltd. In memory of our father and grandfather, Yasuhiko Nakata (Canada Helps) Shirley Nakata In Kind Donations Naoko Ezaki, Shawn Nishimura, Tac Sugi, Makoto Matsuzawa, Jessy Johl/Queen Elizabeth Lions Club, Vancouver Food Runners, Seaborn, radix Foods, Ocean Brands, Anonymous (5) MONTHLY GIVING Monetary Donations (Canada Helps) Takashi Sato, Tsutae Suzuki, Mitsuko Mizuguchi, Tamotsu Nagata, Satomi Yamashita, Emiko Morita, Anonymous (1)
OUR EDIBLE ROOTS
The Japanese Canadian Kitchen Garden
Kare Raisu, Potesara, Furaidopoteto
by Makiko Suzuki
A short history of the culinary influence of potato in Japan
Warba
Potatoes were domesticated in Bolivia and Peru over 7,000 years ago but it took contact with Europeans during the Edo period (1603 – 1868) to introduce vegetables of western origin to the Japanese cuisine. Potato recipes appear by 1870, having been introduced by Dutch colonialists. In 1873, kare raisu (curried vegetables with potato, over rice) was on the menu at the Imperial Japanese Army Military Academy, likely an influence of British forces. Korokke, a Japanese version of French croquette, featuring crumbed (now panko) deep fried meat and potato patties, appeared in an 1895 cookbook. Potesara, Japanese potato salad, emerged in the 1890s, purportedly a result of an experiment to attempt to recreate Russian Olivier salad. When Shokuhin Kogyo first launched Kewpie Mayonnaise in 1925, mayonnaise was generally unknown in Japan. With the American occupation of Japan after WW2, potatoes along with tomatoes gained more popularity among the population. By 1957 Shokuhin Kogyo changed its name to Kewpie Corporation and was able to mass produce their commercial mayonnaise. Potesara then became easier to make and a common Japanese side dish. In 1967, entrepreneur Den Fujita was awarded McDonalds franchise rights for Japan, a result of his admiration of the efficiency and popularity of American outlets. A McDonalds restaurant, the first in Asia, was soon opened within a Ginza department store. Most potatoes for MacDonald’s Asian franchises are now sourced from farms located near Taber, Alberta.
Tonari Gumi Garden Club making okonomiyaki
According to the publication Potato News Today, recent BC floods resulted in cessation of train and truck traffic between Alberta and Vancouver and curtailed export of Taber-area potatoes. Furaidopoteto (French fry) orders at 2,900 McDonalds outlets in Japan were rationed to small portions. The resulting protests by the public spurred other fast food competitors to attempt to seize a bigger share of the Japanese French fry market, triggering what social media users have called “a potato war.” Tonari Gumi director David Issawa, born near Taber, notes, “Japanese Canadians have been growing potatoes in Alberta since the 1920s. I remember when I was working in Japan in the 1990s there were several Japanese importers, including Aji-no-moto, who had imported potatoes from Southern Alberta for a number of years. In fact, I remember the variety Japanese wanted were ‘Irish cobblers’. While this is a heritage variety it apparently holds its shape and works well in potato salad.”
Tonari Gumi Garden Club notes Last spring TGGC planted Warba, a 1920s heirloom potato variety that produces early. (Warba potatoes appear in May at grocery stores, sold as ‘new potatoes’.) A robust and delicious harvest ensued, resulting in a second seeding mid-summer for a second, productive crop. ‘Seed potatoes’ are generally available at local garden centres in March. By the time this article is printed, the flagship store of West Coast Seeds in Ladner will have Warba seed stock. Their website, westcoastseeds. com, provides excellent advice on growing potatoes, either in the ground or containers. Not sure when to plant out your potatoes? – Lore suggests soil temperature should be a minimum of 6 degrees – or, according to continued on page 34
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Tonari Gumi Garden Club making okonomiyaki
Edible Roots continued The Farmers Almanac, “wait for dandelions to bloom before planting”. For gardeners interested in a challenge: the TGGC gardening book Our Edible Roots – the Japanese Canadian Kitchen Garden provides instructions on growing a Japanese potato-like vegetable, yama no imo, aka, ‘mountain yam’. Several members grow yama no imo and TGGC will introduce this special vegetable to their new test farm plot in Langley. (Yama no imo is often used in okonomiyaki, a savoury Japanese pancake.) A lively group gathered for first TGGC meeting of 2022 to finalize plans for the coming gardening season, to share seeds, and to exchange ideas how the harvest can best support the seniors luncheon program at Tonari Gumi. After a short presentation on the history of okonomiyaki, four electric grills were fired-up and members cooked their own okonomiyaki treat. (For non-gardeners – packaged okonomiyaki occasionally includes powdered yama no imo.)
Sansai – ‘Mountain vegetables’ Prior to widespread cultivation of greens and vegetables, Japanese citizens foraged the wild for sansai. After prosperity arrived, sansai lost its place in the Japanese diet, until recently. In search of new experiences
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and nuanced flavours, ‘foodies’ discovered the tradition and joy of foraging ‘wild vegetables’. Foraging season is upon us! Kanzo (daylily) shoots and young leaves are emerging. Daylily shoots eaten raw in salad have a fresh, almost sweet green pea flavour. Young daylily leaves are delicious when sautéed, seasoned, and served in yakisoba. Fuki-noto (butterbur shoots) are also surfacing and warabi (bracken shoots) will follow in April. Our Edible Roots – The Japanese Canadian Kitchen Garden has an informative section on foraging (copies available at Tonari Gumi). Last summer, Nachiko Yokota kindly donated a copy of Eating Wild in Japan: Tracking the Culture of Foraged Foods, with a Guide to Plants and Recipes. Author Winifred Bird is a regular contributor to Japan Times. The book is available at the Tonari Gumi library. Paint at least one thumb green, go forth, and ‘get digging’ !
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“If you would enjoy a little insight into JapaneseCanadian food culture, a locally produced book has Help bring Japanese bentos to seniors: Delivery volunteers needed been put together to capture the historical foods of With an increase in TG’s bento Meals-on-Wheels service requests, we are Japanese Canadians. Our Edible Roots – The Japanese currently looking for volunteers who can help deliver bento lunches to homes in the New Westminster/Coquitlam (south)/Surrey (north) region. Canadian Kitchen Garden showcases historical and current foods enjoyed by this great community. You’ll TG prepares bento lunch boxes in our kitchen on Tuesdays, and delivery also discover a few secrets about foraging food in our is arranged for seniors who are unable to go out or cannot cook. Help us bring familiar dishes to those who may not have access to Japanese food. forests.” – Master Gardener, Brian Minter Inquiries/volunteer registration: 604-687-2172 ext. 106, programs@ Available ($20) at Tonari Gumi tonarigumi.ca (Rie) 42 West 8th Avenue, Vancouver
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STORIES FROM PAUERU GAI: PERFORMERS FROM POWELL STREET “Stories from Paueru Gai” is a social media campaign led by YCW Intern, Matthew Boychuk. This series intends to highlight Japanese Canadian history set in the local community from both long ago to today. These social media and eNews posts will include short, concise, stories that tell the tales of people, places and events that share the fascinating history of Paueru Gai (Powell Street). Long before Vancouver became a city known for its film industry, there were talented Japanese Canadians from Powell Street in showbusiness. Satoshi “Sally” Nakamura was born on Powell Street in 1908. He was a member of the Asahi baseball team in his youth, but changed his focus to singing after a shoulder injury ended his athletic career. A vocal coach in Vancouver trained him to be a baritone opera singer, and he eventually made his way to Japan in 1940. It was then that he ran into a familiar face from Powell Street who was making a real name for herself. Aiko Saita was one year younger than Sally Nakamura, and they were friends during their teenage years. She was originally from Cumberland, BC but moved to Vancouver at the age of 14. She was a mezzo-soprano/contralto singer who was beloved by many Japanese Canadians, so much so that the community helped raise the funds she needed to train professionally in Italy. After studying in Europe until 1935, she began a successful career in Japan. By the time Sally Nakamura reconnected with Aiko Saita, she had already completed multiple concert tours in North America. She sang with Sally Nakamura and helped him get a start in Japan. The start of the Second World War brought about drastic changes in their lives, which will be explored in a second part in February’s eNews. Aiko Saita and Sally Nakamura were both in Japan by 1940, steadily building their overseas entertainment careers, until Japan entering Second World War disrupted their lives. The performance of English songs was prohibited by the government,
The samurai played by Sally Nakamura & Roy Kumano at the 25th anniversary of Gakuyu-kai (1940). Courtesy of the Japanese American National Museum.
and Japanese Canadian singers without Japanese citizenship were barred from performing operas. Sally Nakamura’s singing career was cut short, but he found work as an actor in movies. Japan’s public broadcaster NHK also hired him to voice English parts in propaganda radio programs. Aiko Saita performed for the Japanese army stationed on the Asian mainland, but she was captured and imprisoned in a Russian internment camp. After the war, there was suddenly a great demand for entertainers who knew English songs. Sally Nakamura became a popular singer at the clubs populated by soldiers from newly established American bases, and he also continued his acting career. Aiko Saita returned to Japan and was able to perform in operas again. She always appreciated the Japanese Canadian community’s support, and launched a concert tour in Canada in 1953. On this tour, she was hospitalized by illness in Vancouver and returned to Tokyo. While she was in the Tokyo Teishin Hospital, Sally Nakamura visited his childhood friend and offered to donate his blood for her transfusions. Unfortunately, Aiko Saita did not recover, and passed away in 1954. Sally Nakamura continued working and living in Tokyo until his death in 1992. These performers were a source of pride for Powell Street residents, and there was even an Aiko Saita memorial concert hosted in Vancouver in 2004.
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Milestones KOYANAGI, Kusuo (Dick) It is with sadness that we announce the passing of our father, Kusuo (Dick) Koyanagi, on February 8, 2022 at the age of 102 after a brief stay in hospital. Dad was born on August 16, 1919 at the Vancouver Cannery located in Eburne, BC. (now part of Richmond). At age six, he and his sister Masako went to Japan with their mother who was ill. He returned to Canada at age sixteen and worked for the Union Fish Company located on Powell Street. When Canada interned its Japanese Canadian citizens during World War 2, Dad was one of 800 men sent to Angler (P. O. W. Camp ‘101’) in Northern Ontario. He spent approximately four years there. Upon his release he decided to go to Japan. It was there that he met and married his wife, Haruko, and had their first child. During this time he worked for the American Occupational Forces. In 1952 Dad returned to Canada. He and his wife, Haruko had two more children. He remained in the Vancouver area for the rest of his life. Dad enjoyed fishing, reading, current events, and baseball. He was an avid fan of sumo. Dad was predeceased by his wife, Haruko and his sister, Masako. He is survived by his three children, Kumi (Gary), Diane (Michael), and George (Janet), and by his grandchildren Marc and Stephanie. A special thank you to the staff and volunteers at Robert Nimi Nikkei Home where he lived for the past six years, and was able to rediscover some old friends and meet some new ones. Also a thank you to Dr. Asae Tanaka. As per his wishes, there will be no service. Koden and flowers are gratefully declined.
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and the chocolate roll cake made by his beloved granddaughter with whom he was able to live with again in the last months of his life. A private family gathering was held on January 15th. In lieu of flowers or koden, the family would be grateful for donations to the BC Cancer Foundation. HARADA, Itsuko Lorraine Sadly we announce the passing of our mom on February 3, 2022 at the age of 105. She passed away peacefully at Northcrest Care Centre, surrounded by family. Predeceased by husband Harry and son Dan. She will be sadly missed by her loving family, daughter Mayumi (Don), daughterin-law Jane. Lovingly remembered by grandchildren, Lori (Tim), Dan Jr., Ryan, and Jennifer (Zak); great grandchildren Matthew (Vanessa), Nicole, Dylan, Joel, Zoey and Ashton; and great-great granddaughter Layla. We sincerely thank everyone at Northcrest for their kindness and care. At mom’s request no service will be held. Expressions of sympathy may be shared through a donation to a charity of your choice.
KITAGAWA, Kiyoshi March 11, 1934 - February 3 2022. Finally peaceful, after a graceful and uniquely determined long stand against mental illness. Reunited with his sister Masue; parents Sotojiro & Kikuye HORIUCHI, Minnie Fujiko May 30,1926 – February 15,2022. and youngest brother Eiji. Though a solitary, private Minnie passed away peacefully at Rosewood Manor in Richmond. man, he was ever a presence making a difference She was predeceased by her husband James Hajime in 2007. She enjoyed to our lives in his own quiet way. We, his family, are made more because he was ours. That he was able traveling, bridge and golf. A special thanks to Dr. D Wong, Dr Hassan to live independently the last eleven years until his and the staff at Rosewood Manor. In lieu of flowers, please make a last few days, is only due to the unfailing, insightful and perceptive care given by the Outreach Team of donation to a charity of your choice. Cambie Older Mental Health. Expressly, Sophia Lee NAKATA, Yasuhiko (October 24, 1929 – January 5, 2022). Our Jiji passed (R.N.) and Dr Martin Illing, whom Kiyo trusted implicitly. away on January 5, 2022, after a brief hospitalization at Mt. St. Joseph’s Our family is grateful beyond measure for all you gave Hospital in Vancouver. He was predeceased by his wife, Tokiko, in 2020 and with such great kindness. We also acknowledge and survived by his son Masahiko, daughter Shirley and her partner the immense efforts given by the doctors and nurses Richard, and their daughter Kiko and her fiancé Sam. on Unit 8A, Leon Blackmore Pavillion, VGH and the Yasuhiko Nakata was born in Osaka, Japan on October 24, 1929. The Palliative Care Team in finding a gentle leaving place decision to come to Canada in the late 1960s was based largely on a for him. You are all exemplary human beings, giving hope for a better life, one that would make education and promising more than all you have everyday. You have our utmost careers more accessible for their children. He worked as a gardener for respect. Following private cremation, our family will many decades and puttered around his own garden even as recently as celebrate his life at a later time. November 2021. He had a great love for good food and sake and was
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KONDO, Chieko December 20, 1929 - January 27, 2022. Chieko Kondo, born youngest of 5 children on December 20, 1929 in Mio-Mura, Wakayama-Ken Japan to Yasuno(Murao) and Sadakichi Nakano, passed away peacefully on January 27, 2022. Tom Kondo, her husband of 60 years, had predeceased her by 36 days. She came to Steveston, B.C. with her family at the age of 7 and with them in 1942 was interred to Tashime, Kaslo, then Grand Forks. They moved to Westbank then Penticton, finally returning to Steveston in 1951 where she worked at Imperial Cannery and married Tom. Her nephews and nieces Tadashi, Tetsu, Shizu Hayashi; Emy Sakai; Sadatsugu, Roy, Jimmy, David Matsuyama will miss their aunt. They would like to thank Tom’s nephew Paul Labrecque, for his tireless devoted care of their aunt and uncle, as well thank the care givers from Care Counts and staff at Delta View center for their thoughtful and gentle care. A virtual memorial service will be held February 26th. In lieu of flowers or Koden please consider donating to a charity of your choice in Chieko’s memory.
Condolences may be offered at https://www.dignitymemorial.com/ obituaries/burnaby-bc/george-ryoji-sugiyama-10578056 YAMASAKI, Gary Clifford June 13, 1956 - February 19, 2022. In deep grief, we share the sudden passing of Gary from cancer-related complications at the Abbotsford Regional Hospital. He is deeply missed as an innovative teacher and scholar, who loved mentoring and encouraging others, who met hardship with endurance and faith in God, and was unfailingly kind to all. He leaves behind his wife and best friend April, his brothers Brian (Kathy) and Warren (Sheri), and many other extended family members and friends. In lieu of a memorial service, please leave condolences for the family at www.wiebeandjeskefh.com, and celebrate Gary’s life by giving blood, encouraging a health care worker, or doing some other deliberate act of kindness. Donations in his memory gratefully received by a charity of your choice.
YOSHIME, Linda May September 25, 1947 - January 28, 2022. Linda May Yoshime (nee Ernewein), peacefully passed away on January 28, 2022, in Burnaby, BC, surrounded by her loving family. Linda, who was born in New Westminster, lived her whole life in BC. Linda was a devoted mother, sister, grandmother, aunt and friend. Predeceased by her parents Herbert and Annie Ernewein, sister Diane Earle and brother-in-law Jim Earle. Linda is survived by her four children Shawn (Mar), Yukari (Tom), NISHI, Shizuko (June 10, 1918 - February 19, 2022). Maya, and Hannah, as well as her three grandsons, John Carlos, Lucas, Born in Wakayama, Japan, Shizuko passed away and Matias. Should you wish to remember Linda please consider making peacefully at Richmond Hospital on February 19, a donation to St. Michael’s Hospice. As per her request, the family have 2022 at the age of 103 years. She was predeceased held a private gathering to mark her passing. by husband, Hiroshi, and son, Henry, in 2002. She is survived by and will be dearly missed by children: Itoko (Roy) Akune, Joe, Albert (Isabel); grandchildren: Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival Aaron (Vicky), Scott (Kathy), Bobby (Mimi), and Natalie 2021 Winning Haiku (Jamey); great-grandchildren: Nicolas, Marcus, Kaya, Tori, Makayla, Hana and Lake. Vancouver Canada Due to Covid 19 protocols, a private funeral will be held for lease the foster child’s at the Steveston Buddhist Temple, 4360 Garry Street, reflected in the storefront backward glance Richmond. Flowers and Koden gratefully declined, but cherry blossoms falling cherry blossoms if desired, donations may be made in her memory to Ann Harreby Charlotte Hrenchuk the Steveston Buddhist Temple or a charity of choice. Coquitlam, British Columbia Whitehorse, Yukon The family wishes to extend their thanks to Dr. Alan British Columbia United States Horii for his medical care and the staff at Fraserview Retirement Community for their daily care. keeping her secret… letting the mask fall a whisper of wind below my nose… SUGIYAMA, Dr George Ryoji It is with great sadness among the blossoms cherry blossoms that after a 4 year battle with cancer, our father George Susan Constable Chad Lee Robinson Sugiyama passed peacefully on February 4 2022 in Parksville, British Columbia Pierre, South Dakota Vancouver General Hospital. He was an active resident at Crofton Manor in Kerrisdale for the past 7 years until International Youth he was moved to the hospital in his final days. first blossoms— empty playground He is survived by sons Robert and Gerry and daughter Heather, their spouses Kathy, Darlene and Reid, and granddaughters Katie and Kelly and spouse Geoff, and great-granddaughters Aubrey and Flynne.
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and celebrates friendship as we are all friends under the cherry tree. The day will begin with a special tree dedication ceremony featuring representatives and performances from Vancouver’s three Host Nations of Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh as well as our friends from Japanese Consulate. For the first time, THE BIG PICNIC will be catered by our Private Sushi Chefs with a new Blossom Bento which will be available in mid-March for advance reservations. There will also be a couple of food trucks or you can bring your own picnic lunch to enjoy while you safely reconnect with us in nature and make some new friends. You’ll be able to relax under cherry blossoms right in the heart of the city in the Yaletown neighbourhood while enjoying a superb line-up of local talent on the Cherry Jam Stage as well as a variety of fun and interactive arts activities and workshops.
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Sakura Days Japan Fair – April 9 & 10, 2022 | 10am – 5pm VanDusen Botanical Garden, 5251 Oak Street Sakura Days Japan Fair celebrates all things Japan, from Japanese food, performances, to arts and culture. Most activities will take place out of doors, with selected vendors, tea ceremony, and experiences to take place indoors. Look forward to taiko drumming, theatre performances, woodworking demonstrations, and a renewed Japanese Garden display, just to name a few! Now Accepting Volunteer Applications until March 18, 2022. Tree Talks and Walks We are planning to have real live on-your-feet guided walks this year and we will be requiring pre-registration to keep the groups to a manageable size. To register, send an email to wcutler@vcbf.ca saying for which walk(s) you are registering, and for how how many people you want to reserve a place. There will be waiting lists as required. There is no fee for these walks.
details and tickets: www.vcbf.ca 6409 Arbroath Street, Burnaby, BC Tel: 604.438.3212 Fax: 604.433.9481
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NIKKEI IMAGES 日系イメージ Nikkei Images is a publication that focuses on the history of Nikkei in Canada. Continue reading and find past issues: https://centre.nikkeiplace.org/research/nikkei-images/ Included here is an excerpt from Volume 17, Issue No.1, Nikkei Images. Where Canadian Nikkei were Exiled by Stan Fukawa
NIKKEI AUXILIARY | Accepting Donations of Japanese Items The Nikkei Auxiliary is accepting donations for our annual Spring Bazaar on May 14, 2022. If you have any new or gently used Japanese items you wish to donate, we would be grateful to accept them. We will be selling these items to help fundraise for the museum, special programs and many other activities promoting Japanese culture. To learn more, please go to https://centre.nikkeiplace.org/nnmcc-auxiliary/ MUSEUM SHOP ミュージアムショップ *Special Offer* Japanese Canadian History in 3 Photo Books Save on this bundle of three photography-based books on Japanese Canadian history. Each showcases a rich selection of archival photos to tell a visually arresting story, accompanied https://shop.nikkeiplace.org/ by research essays. Set includes: • Departures – Chronicling the Expulsion of the Japanese Canadians from the West Coast, 1942-1949 • Monogatari – Tales of Powell Street 1920-1941 • Shashin – Japanese Canadian Studio Photography We are balancing our inventory between our onsite museum shop and online shop. If you need help locating an item, please contact: jcnm@nikkeiplace.org | 604.777.7000 ext.109 SUPPORT 日系文化センター・博物館をサポートする方法 You can support our facilities, cultural programs, exhibits, research, and outreach education with a single or monthly donation. Gifts can be made by phone, mail, or online. Contact Nikkei Place Foundation for donation information: 604.777.2122 or gifts@nikkeiplacefoundation.org
“In the early months of the internment period, men between the ages of 18 and 45 were separated from their families and sent into the Rocky Mountains to work on roads to aid in the national defense of Canada. The families did not know where the men had been sent or when the families would be reunited. This caused a great deal of unrest among the men, affecting morale and willingness to work. The plan was abandoned, families were re-united and the young men were sent to work in the beet fields or further east. Despite the labour shortage caused by this time of war, there was a great deal of resistance to Japanese workers being used throughout Canada due to wartime propaganda and the eastward movement began only after the end of the war.” CURRENT EXHIBITS 展示 SAFE | HOME Hours: Tue-Sat, 10am-5pm $5 admission, members and students free PERMANENT EXHIBITS
On until April 30th, 2022 Through the lens of the historic Vancouver Asahi baseball team, contemporary Canadian artist Kellen Hatanaka explores issues of race, xenophobia, representation, and implicit bias that are relevant in both sport and society today. 2F Kadota Landing – Treasures from the Collection – Taiken: Japanese Canadians Since 1877
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Nikkei Place Monthly Update Nikkei Seniors Health Care & Housing Society
SLEEP by Randy Kondo Sleep. Something that we do a lot of when we are babies and then it stabilizes, mostly, until we enter older age when getting a good night’s sleep becomes a challenge for many. Sleep. Necessary for us as living creatures and yet research indicates that insomnia is common with as many as one out of three suffering from sleep problems. And there is increasing research suggesting that getting a good night’s sleep is a way to stave off dementia.
go to sleep: reading. Some sleep experts say that your bed is reserved for sleeping only! And associating your bed/bedroom with sleeping only will result in a better sleep. I have tried this but I do not think it works for me.
Stick to a sleep schedule. We are creatures of routine so it is a good practice to get to bed and wake up at around the same time every night/ morning. And “early to bed, early to rise” has been shown to be healthier for you than late nights/late mornings.
warmer; Walker’s book suggests that 18.3 degrees was found to be ideal although I find this a bit cool – I have read elsewhere that 19 is the ideal temperature.
Take a hot bath (or shower). This can relax you plus, when you get out of the bath/shower, the drop in body temperature may encourage sleep. I saw recently on I recently read a book written by Matthew Walker entitled Why We Sleep Japanese TV that it is a good idea to take a hot bath (2017). It is just under 400 pages of detailed material all about sleep if one hour before you plan to fall asleep. you are interested. What was most practical for me came at the very end Ensure a good sleeping environment. It is often recof the book: suggestions for improving your sleep, taken from a 2012 ommended that the darker the room, the better your article from the U.S. National Institute of Health (NIH). They are as follows. sleep since light disrupts sleep. Cooler is better than
Do not exercise too late in the day. Exercise is necessary for good health and encourages a better sleep but best to do it earlier than later, no later than 2-3 hours before your bedtime.
Do not lie in bed if you cannot sleep. Is there anything more frustrating than spending longer than an hour, tossing and turning in bed trying to get to sleep! The NIH suggests that after 20 minutes of not being able to sleep, it is time to get up and do something relaxing until you feel sleepy. I am not motivated to get out of bed so I will do some more reading.
Avoid caffeine, nicotine, and alcohol later in the day. These substances may relax you but they are also stimulants that may hinder a good night’s sleep. This is not to say the occasional “nightcap” is to be avoided if it See a health care professional if sleeping problems relaxes you. Like most things in life, everything in moderation. continue. This is good advice since there may be some Avoid large meals and beverages later in the day. The former can result specific reason(s) for your sleeping problem(s) that only in indigestion while the latter may wake you up in the middle of the night a professional can determine e.g. sleep apnea. to go to the toilet. That being said, I do like the occasional mug of heated So there you have it and if you have problems with milk before bed which is considered a helpful sleeping aid. sleep, I hope that one or more of these suggestions Avoid medications that delay or disrupt sleep. This is something to works for you. And the last bit of advice is always the discuss with your doctor or pharmacist. best and that is, while there is useful information on the Do not take any naps after 3pm. This is hard to do if you have a habit Internet, in books, magazines, etc. , if your non-sleep is serious, there is no replacement for professional of nodding off in front of the TV after dinner! medical help. And finally, I have found that worrying Relax before bed. Relaxation can take many forms like watching TV, about not being able to sleep is not helpful (I still do meditating, or something I have always done and continue to do before I it though!).
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Nikkei Place Monthly Update Ni k k ei P lace Do nat io ns
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Nikkei Place Monthly Update 日系シニアズ・ヘルスケア住宅協会 睡眠 執筆者： ランディー・近藤 日本語訳： 大島 利子 睡眠 それは赤ちゃんの時にたくさんするもので、大抵の場合徐々に安 定していきます。 しかし、歳を取るにつれて多くの人々にとって夜ぐっす り眠ることはチャレンジになってきます。睡眠 生き物である私たちにと って不可欠ですが、研究によると、睡眠障害の中でも一般的なのは不眠 症で、3人に1人が悩まされていると言われています。 ぐっすり眠ることが 認知症予防に有効であることを示す研究も増えてきています。 最近私が読んだ本に、マシュー・ウォーカー著『睡眠こそ最強の解決策で ある』 （”Why We Sleep” by Matthew Walker）があります。400ページ弱 の詳細な文献ですので、 もし興味があればお読みください。私にとって 最も実践的だったことは本の最終部に記されていました。2012年に書 かれたアメリカ国立衛生研究所（略称NIH）の記事から引用された睡眠 の改善の勧めです。
規則正しい睡眠スケジュール 私たちはルーティンの生き物ですから毎晩同じ時間に床に就き、 毎 朝同じ時間に起床するのは良い習慣です。 「早寝・早起き」は「遅寝・遅起 き」 より明らかに健康的です。
夜寝る前に運動をしない 運動は健康維持に欠かせませんし、寝つきを良くしてくれますが、なる べく早い時間に行うのがベスト。就寝2〜3時間前までにするのが好まし いでしょう。
カフェイン・ニコチンを避け、寝る前にアルコールを摂取しない これらはリラックス効果があるかもしれませんが 同時に刺激剤でもあ るので夜の睡眠を邪魔するかもしれません。寝酒でリラックスできるの なら、たまに晩酌するのもよいでしょう。人生におけるほとんどのことが そうであるように、何事もほどほどにということです。
夜遅くに大量の飲食をしない 食べ過ぎは消化不良を起こしかねませんし、飲み過ぎは夜中にトイレに 起きなければならないかもしれません。 とはいえ、私はたまに一杯の暖 かいミルクを就寝前に飲むのが好きで、 これもぐっすり睡眠を取るのに 役立つと考えられています。
睡眠の妨げになるような薬を飲まない これについては、主治医もしくは薬剤師に相談してください。
午後3時を過ぎたら昼寝をしない 夕食後、テレビの前でウトウトする習慣がある人には難しいですね。
寝る前にリラックスする テレビを観るとか瞑想するなど様々な形でリラックスできますが、私が 就寝前にずっと続けていることは、読書です。ある睡眠の専門家が言う には、ベッドは睡眠だけのための場所であると。そしてベッドや寝室が 寝るためだけにあるのだと思えば、 より良い眠りにつながるだろうと言 っています。 これを試してみましたが、私には向いていないようです。
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熱いお風呂やシャワー お風呂やシャワーはリラッ クス効果があり、お風呂や シャワーから出てからの体 温の低下が眠気を引き出 す事があります。最近日本 のテレビで観ましたが、寝 つく1時間前に熱いお風呂 に入ると良いそうです。
快適に眠れる環境を整 える ライトは眠りを妨げるので より暗い部屋が良いでし ょう。 ウォーカーの本によると、18.3℃が理想的室温だとしていますが、 私には少々寒く感じます。19℃が適温であるとどこかで読んだことがあ ります。
眠れないままベッドに横にならない 寝ようとして寝返りを1時間以上も繰り返すことほど本当にイライラする ことはありませんね。 アメリカ国立衛生研究所（略称NIH）が提言してい ますが、20分以上たっても眠れない時は、ベッドから起きて眠くなるまで 何かリラックス出来ることをしてみることです。私の場合はベッドから起 き上がる気力はないので読書を続けています。
睡眠障害が続くときは医療従事者に相談をすること これは大変良いアドバイスで、あなたの睡眠障害には何か特別な原因 があるかもしれませんし、それを診断できるのは専門家だけです。例え ば睡眠時無呼吸症候群（sleep apnea） です。 色々と述べてきましたが、睡眠に関して、以上のアドバイスが役に立つよ う願っています。オンラインや書籍、雑誌などで役に立つ情報が手に入 る一方で もしあなたの睡眠障害が重症の場合、専門医の支援に代わ るものはない、 というのがいつものベスト・アドバイスです。最後に、眠れ ないと心配することは何の役にも立たないことだと気がつきました。 （で もそうしてしまいますけれども！）
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《滄海一粟》 航海日誌
元日系ボイス編集者 田中 裕介
繰り返される問い： 「移住者のニーズはどこにあるか」 長年戦後移住者の代表として活躍されてきた鹿毛達雄さんが亡くな った。移住者の側からリドレス運動とかかわり、1988年のリドレス合意 の後は積極的に日系人と移住者の橋渡し役を続けた慧眼と行動の人だ った。道先案内人を失った今、われわれ移住者は衆知を集めて手探りで 前進していかなければならない。 リドレス合意後、NAJCは「人権擁護」、 「日系史発掘」、 「コミュニティ開 発」を今後の方針として掲げた。故・鹿毛達雄さんは、 これからの「コミュ ニティ開発」には移住者も内包されるべきだと、早くも1989年に各地の 移住者団体の代表を集めて 「移住者委員会」を発足させた。 この背景に は、彼自身が1970年代にカナダに来て間もなく地元バンクーバーで始 めた「移住者の会」を通じて、既に10年にわたる経験値があった。
●アウトリーチ 1990年10月、 トロントにおいて各地域の代表者10名による移住者委 員会が開催された。鹿毛委員長がその報告を日系ボイス（11月号）に寄 稿している。副題に「今後の検討課題として問われる・政治的関心への かかわり方」 とある。議題に上がったのは1）移住者全国ネットワーク作 り、移住者のカナダ社会への適応の援助。2）移住、難民政策の検討、モ ニター、3） 日加関係、特に両国文化の相互理解の促進などだ。 また、今後の活動計画として 「アウトリーチの可能性の調査」 とあり、 「 移住者ネットワークを拡大するために、それぞれの地域で近隣の移住 者に連絡を取り、組織作り、 日系団体との協力の可能性を検討する」 とあ る。独自の「全国ニュース」の発行を検討し、 さらに、 「日本紹介のための 資料、手引きの作成」 も提案された。 32年経った今、上記の３項目がどの程度達成されたか、課題として何 が残っているのか考えてみたい。当時は、 まだSNS通信が始まる前だっ た。今日、 フェイスブック、 ズーム会議などによってコミュニケーションは 非常に簡便になった。 「アウトリーチ」に、それを活用しない手はない。
●日系史の呪縛 もう一つの課題の「日系史発掘」は、過去30年の間に目覚ましく研究 が進んだ。鹿毛さん自身も 「日系カナダ人の追放」 （明石書店・1998） を著 している。実のところ、 この分野は日本の研究者の方がカナダのそれより 遥かに進んでいるが、そのほとんどが英訳されておらず、いまだ日本史 の中の「移民史」 で括られたままだ。 アプローチ方法も日本人の目線で しかない。英語で論文を書いても彼らの業績として評価されないからだ ろうと思う。 日系カナダ史の故・佐々木敏二さんにこのことを訴えたこと があるが、彼には「それはあなたたちの仕事ですよ」 と一蹴された。その 意味でも、鹿毛さんが自著の英訳版を後日出版させていることは高く評 価されるべきだろう。 考えてみると変なのだ。調査対象は日系人の先達たちであり、 カナダ 社会の中で先達が生きてきた歴史がテーマである。にもかかわらず、 日 本人研究者が書いた論文をほとんどの日系カナダ人は読めない。結果 として、 日系人は自分たちの歴史をあまり知らないのだ。 今日、インターネットの時代を迎えて、 日本のカナダ移民史をカナダ史 の中のエスニック・コミュニティ史に変換させる時がきている。それがで きるのは、 日英両語を理解する移住者とその次世代ではないか。 この変 換作業を具体的にどう進めるか討議すべきだろう。
「にっけいのこえ」(Nikkei Voice)1990年11月号16ページ抜粋: 写真は故・鹿毛達雄氏
う方針を確立する方向で検討する」 （サーロー節子さんの発言）が提出 されたが時間切れとなり、 「今後の課題」 とされた。鹿毛委員長は、個人 的意見として 「問題が起きた時、態度を表明しないことも政治的な意味 を持つことがある」 とした。 鹿毛さんは、人種差別や日本の歴史認識問題にも積極的に取り組ん だ稀有な移住者だ。 日本が絡んだ歴史認識問題になるとほとんどの移 住者は、沈黙か「関わるべきではない」 という反応を示すが、 これも 「政 治的態度表明」に他ならないのである。 日本が絡んだ歴史問題に関して は、移住者は多文化主義の視点から他のカナダ人と共有しうる歴史観を 獲得すべきだろう。 18年後の2008年、 日系社会は各地で「リドレス20周年」を祝った。バ ンクーバーのそれは種々の分科会に分かれた中身の濃い2日間の会議 となった。鹿毛さんを議長に移住者関係のパネル討論があり、各地の代 表が地域の課題について討議した。余談だが、後ほど鹿毛さんが近寄っ てきて、僕がトロントを代表して語った内容を感謝してくれた。 「一時はど うなるかと思いましたが、田中さんがうまくまとめてくれました」 と言う。 記者として、他者の発言にコメントしてから自分の話に繋げただけのこ とだったが嬉しかった。おそらく、鹿毛さんからお褒めの言葉をいただ いたのは、後にも先にもあの時だけだろう。前身が明治学院大のドイツ 政治史の教授でもあり、非常に言葉に慎重な研究者の謙遜さを身につ けた人だった。 ●主流となった国際結婚者 同会議では、 「移住者の過去、現在、未来を考える」 と題した部会が研 究者の加藤悦子さんによってなされた。 ワーキング・ホリディ・ビザなど でカナダに一時滞在する日本人の意識調査をした結果、多くの若者がそ の後、 カナダ人と結婚して移住するケースが多いと語った。 それから十数年経ち、上記の国際結婚した日本女性たちの移住者人 口に占める割合が非常に高いことが明らかになった。2016のカナダ統 計局調べでは、現在12万人の日系人口のうち、1990年には20％となって いた日本生まれが43,640人で全体の36％に至った。 若い世代がカナダに根を下ろすには、150年にわたる日系史を学ぶ必 要があるだろう。われわれ昭和時代に日本から渡ってきたシニアたちが 彼らを後方支援すべきだと思う。 カナダの未来に移住者がどのようにか かわっていくべきか、一人一人の問題として考えていきたい。
●移住者と政治 1990年の移住者会議でもう一つ議題にあがったのは、移住者コミュ ニティが「政治的問題に関与すべきかどうか」だった。移住者団体の多く がこれに否定的だった。彼らは「親睦や相互援助」を主な目的としてい たからだ。つまり、NAJCが関わってきたリドレス運動など公民権（市民と しての権利）や人種平等などの人権（人間としての権利）の問題に、移住 者たちが興味を示し、取り組もうとするかどうかなのだ。 同会議では、具体例として 「移住政策に関してロビー活動をするとい *題字の「滄海一粟」 （そうかいのいちぞく） とは大海原に浮かぶ一粒の粟のこと。
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Eastsideから見える日本と世界 第43回 日本の入国制限緩和と技能実習生 ■ようやく緩和の兆しが見えた日本の入国制限 新型コロナウィルスの感染拡大以降、 日本では外国人の入国制限が長 く続いていましたが、ビジネス、留学等の大きな妨げになると国内外か ら緩和がずっと求められていました。岸田首相は、2月17日に、観光を除く 外国人の新規入国を順次認め、入国者総数の上限を現在の3500人から 5000人（「オミクロン型」対策をとる前の人数）に戻すことを表明しました。 日本入国の資格を持ちながら足止めされている外国人は40万人、そのう ち留学生は15万人にのぼると言われています。実際に全員が入国できる ようになるまでにはまだ相当の時間がかかると思われます。
■見えない存在とされてきた労働者 この入国制限緩和を歓迎しているのは留学生や大学関係者だけではあ りません。今回の緩和では一定の条件のもと技能実習生の入国も認めら れるようです。 これまで13万人近い技能実習生が入国制限で足止めを受 けてきたと言われています。 日本社会がアジアを中心とする国々から大勢の技能実習生を受け入れ てきたこと、 「実習」の名の一方で労働現場では安価な労働力として位置 づけられ、労働環境や権利保障が不十分な職場も多くあることはこれまで もこの欄で紹介してきました。技能実習生たちはその労働によって日本社 会を支えているにもかかわらず、見えない存在とされてきた労働者である ともいえます。 農業、漁業、水産加工業、建設業、製造業などの他にもさまざまな職種 で技能実習生等は働いています。その中にはスーパー等での惣菜の製造 など、母国に帰国した後に日本で修得した技能、技術を果たして活用でき るのだろうか、 と首を傾げざるを得ないような職種も含まれています。
■技能実習生の妊娠・出産に関する問題と権利 近年、指摘されているのが女性の技能実習生たちの妊娠・出産に 関する問題です。雇用主の多くは技能実習生を「産まない労働力」 （ 産休や育休が発生しない労働力） としてみなしています。実際には技 能実習生にも日本の労働関係の法律は適用され、妊娠を理由とした 解雇は禁止であり、雇い主は体調に配慮することが求められている にもかかわらず、実際には2018年から2020年までの3年間で妊娠や 出産を理由に637人が技能実習を中断し、技能実習を再開できたの は11人だけでした。 また、母国の送り出し機関との契約で実習期間 中に妊娠しないことを技能実習生が約束させられる事例もあります。 こうした中で、技能実習生が妊娠を誰にも言えず、出産後に子どもの 死体遺棄容疑などで逮捕される例も全国で続いています。 技能実習生は収入が少ないため、出産をすれば生活は厳しくなっ てしまい、 また、生まれた子どもが長期の在留資格を得ることも容易 ではありません。 しかし、 このような状況は労働者として当然の権利 を保障されている状態とは到底言えません。技能実習生を見えない 労働者とせず、本来の権利を認めることが、すでに外国人受け入れが 進んでいる現実に沿った行動と言えるでしょう。
山本薫子（やまもと・かほるこ） 首都大学東京都市環境学部准教授 （2008年〜）。UBC社会学部客員准 教授（2018年5月〜12月）。専門は都 市社会学、地域社会学。 著書に、 『横浜・寿町と外国人−グロ ーバル化する大都市インナーエリ ア 』福村出版（2008年）、 『原発震災 と避難 − 原子力政策の転換は可能 か（シリーズ 被災地から未来を考え る(1)）』有斐閣（2017年）など。
東日本大震災の津波被害からの復興工事が進む岩手県沿岸。東 北地方でも多くの産業分野で大勢の技能実習生を受け入れている。 （2016 年 3 月撮影）
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16th annual Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival
2022 The Big Picnic 日時：2022年４月２日 （土）午前11時30分から午後4時まで 開催場所：David Lam Park デビッドラムパークでTHE BIGPICNICイベントが開催されま す。イベントは2022年4月2日土曜日の午前11時30分から午 後4時まで開催されます。一般公開
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イエールタウンの中心部にあるデビッドラムパークはたくさ んの桜の木で楽しませてくれます。チェリージャムステージで は地元のパフォーマンスアートが繰り広げられ、様々なイン タラクティブなアートアクティビティやワークショップなども 楽しめます。 Sleepless Kaoさんのアートや風呂敷ワークショップもありま すよ。 イベントの詳しい情報はVCBFのサイトに載っています。 ウェブサイト：https://www.vcbf.ca/ ぜひ遊びに来てください！
ケアリー・サキヤマ
JCCA会長からのメッセージ
みなさん、春分の日おめでとうございます！ 鳥たちが帰り、我々の目を捉えて耳に潤いを与え、咲いた蕾は我々を希 望で満たし、更に太陽が暖かさと光を与えてくれています。たった一度 の2022年の春です、外に出て楽しみましょう！ 大事なお知らせです！敬老会が帰ってきました！寅年です！ 今年は、 日系カナダ人強制収容解放から80周年を迎えるということで、 特別な敬老会を開催します。再会、思い出の共有と祝典̶生存者の祝義 生存者の祝義、および日系人強制収容解放80周年のイベントは2022年 4月3日に日系カナダ人博物館・文化センターで行われます。 生存者の祝義への参加を希望される方は、午前10:30に日系カナダ人博 物館・文化センターへお越しください。 友情の更新、収容所での経験を思い出し、小さなグループの中でプロの 進行のもと、 ご自身の思い出を共有してください。 もし同意していただけ れば、教育目的として、 こうした重要な物語を記録させていただきたく思 います。希望があれば記録のコピーも参加者の皆様に差し上げます。
いて我々は異なる意見を持っていますが、今年は特に傷口に塩を塗っ てえぐり返されることや、多くの繋がりが絶たれています。年始のオミク ロン株、激化する反科学運動、オタワ占領と化したトラック運転手のデ モ、そして現在はウクライナでの戦争。 これを書くこと自体信じ難いので すが、GVJCCAはウクライナの人々への攻撃を非難します。GVJCCAは、 確固たる意志で力強く、 プーチン政権へ立ち向かうウクライナ人を支援 します。 何もかもが悪いというわけではありません。ポジティブな面で言えば、 我々が直面している厳しさは今我々に、一旦立ち止まり考え感謝する時 間を与えてくれていると言えます。ケタンジ・ブラウン・ジャクソンが初の 黒人女性として最高裁判所に招待されるのを目にしたり、最近ではコ ロナの規制が緩和されはじめました。 より良い日々が待っていることで しょう！ 「愛の力」が「力への愛」に打ち勝ったとき、世界は平和を知る。 春分おめでとうございます。外でお会いしましょう！ （翻訳：チェン 晶子）
もし思い出の共有には参加せず、祝典へのご参加を希望される場合は、 午後12:30開始、午後3:30に終了予定です。 詳細は、げっぽうの広告をご覧ください。 敬老会への参加には、BC州保健局の規制に従い、マスク着用と2度の予 防接種証明、並びにIDが必要です。 申し込みは2022年3月20日、ニッキー （778-927-7587） までお願いします。 参加費 $10 (70歳以上の方) $15 (配偶者または70歳以下の方) 多くの友人や親族にとって厳しい年明けになりました。多くの物事にお
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編集後記 Kazuho Yamamoto
Kazuho Yamamoto
今まで夜型の生活だったのですが、今年は早寝、早起きで朝活*をしようと決め、早速早寝を始めました。早く寝ることに 対しては全く問題がなかったのですが、睡眠時間が増えるばかりで起床時間に変化がなく、苦戦の２ヶ月でした…ここ数 日、 ようやく身体が新しいサイクルに慣れてきた様子で、決めた時間に目は覚めるようになったのですが、ベッドから出るの にまだ苦労しています。新しい習慣づけにはもう少し時間がかかりそうです…
冬時間の今は朝７時頃まで真っ暗なので、夏時間のように朝日に頼って目を覚ますことが難しい状況ですね。目覚ましもかけている のですが、それに気づかずの日々が続いたので最近は照明にタイマーをセットして、時間になると明かりがつくようにしたところ、起きやすくなった 気がします。 読者の皆様にも朝活している方がいらっしゃると思います。 もし起床のコツなどありましたらぜひ教えてください！ *朝活：朝時間を活用して趣味やスポーツ、勉強などの時間に当てること
KAO (a.k.a. SleeplessKao) KAO
ロシア軍とウクライナ軍の戦闘が続いています。 コロナ禍で全世界が、一人一人が様々 なことで大変な思いをしているこの時にまさか戦争が勃発するとは！ 政治的なことに疎い私でも友人と会うとウクライナの話は避けられません。 パラリンピックを見れば、 ウクライナの選手の父親がロシア軍の捕虜となり 「精神的に出場できる状態では なくなった」 と競技への出場を取りやめたという話を聞くし、大手クレジットカード会社「VISA」 「マスターカ ード」 「JCB」ロシアでのカード決済事業を停止。200以上の企業や団体 ロシアとビジネス見合わせるなどロ シアからロシアへの経済制裁で世界の航空機の運航や国際郵便にも影響が。 ウクライナで戦闘が行われ ているだけでなく、経済的に世界中に歪みが出ています。 車にガソリンを入れに行けば原油の高騰に（遠いけど近いところで戦争は行われているのだなぁ） と気 付かされます。 一人の人が権力を持つのはほんと怖い。 自分も含めどうして人は欲深いのだろう。誰かとても賢い人 が善人になる薬を入れた小型注射器か何かをプーチン目掛けて発射してくれないものだろうか。
絵を ような桜の 元気が出る ます。 いて たくさん描
The Bulletin 第64巻３号
やっと春めいてきて、草花の芽吹きにウキウキしている話を書こうと思っているのです、、、。私にでき る小さなこと、絵を描いてみんな和ませられたらいいなと思いながら頑張って描いています。 これから の良い季節に外でのイベントも増えてきます。4月2日にはCherry BlossomイベントがSea wallの湾沿 いの公園の満開の桜の下で行われます。私もワークショップで皆んなを楽しませたいと参加を決めま した。キツラノにあるブティックでも4月7日から１ヶ月展覧会を行います。たくさんの桜の絵で来てく れる人々を楽しませられたらと思っています。お店のオーナーと話してウクライナ支援のドネーション BOXを置こうかしら。 とりあえず赤十字に自分でも送ろう。 一刻も早く不穏なニュースが一掃されて、幸せな空気が流れる世界が訪れるように願わずにはい られません！
2022年３月号 げっぽうは毎月１回、 グレーター・バンクーバー日系カナダ市民協会（GV JCCA）によって発行されています。
げっぽう編集長：ジョン・遠藤・グリーナウェイ john@bigwavedesign.net 日本語編集：Kao & 山本一穂 editor.geppo@gmail.com 広告担当：アン・ジュー annejew@telus.net/604-609-0657 配布担当：マイケル・トラ・スパイアー アドミン・アシスタント：岡本光代 GV JCCA げっぽう事務所 249-6688 Southoaks Crescent Burnaby BC, V5E 4M7 Tel: 604-777-5222 Email: gvjcca@gmail.com Website: jccabulletin-geppo.ca
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げっぽう年間会員費 一般会員：$40 シニア会会員：$30 US在住の会員費：$50 海外会員費：$75
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Honouring our People: Breaking the silence
Edited by Randy Enomoto
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