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The BC Government and the Dispossession Six-Part of Japanese Canadians (1941-1949) ASeries by John Price This six-part series, which first appeared in the Times Colonist, examines the role of the provincial government in the uprooting, detention, dispossession and exile of Japanese Canadians, 1941 – 1949. This month present the file installment in the series, with thanks to the author, John Price.

Part 6: The Final Straw Grace Eiko Nishikihama (Thomson) was eight years old when her family was forced to leave the coast in March 1942. It would be decades before she could return. Even today she recalls the plaid, pleated skirt and knitted sweater her mother had made and that she Nishikihama family, leaving Minto for Manitoba in 1944. Grace Eiko Thomson Family photo. wore for her last day at Strathcona Elementary when BC deputy premier and attorney to stay out of BC: Either go to she said goodbye to her classmates. general R.L. Maitland, president Japan, a place most had never She also recalls how stressed her mother was: of the Canadian Bar Association seen, or move east of the Rockies. Expecting her fifth child, Sawae Nishikihama had and a key figure in the early Those that chose Japan would be been forced to sell the new electric stove the family campaign to uproot, remained stripped of citizenship. had just purchased. resolute. Stopping Japanese There was to be no return to BC. How do you move a family when allowed to pack Canadians from returning to only a few bags on short notice? the province was essential, he The premier, John Hart, thought that was just fine, and argued for “My family was feeling really good living near Powell told the Native Sons of British forced deportation of Japanese Street in those days,” says Grace. “My father went Columbia in late 1944. Canadians at the dominionto work at his job in the fisherman’s co-op every In the United States, however, the provincial conference on morning in a three-piece suit. They had come to Supreme Court had forced the reconstruction in August 1945. Canada with a dream but their whole life turned Roosevelt government to end its into a mess!” policy of incarceration and many E v e n w i t h t h e w a r e n d i n g , the provincial and federal After discussions with fisher relatives in Steveston, Japanese Americans began to governments had declared the family opted to go to a ‘self-supporting’ camp at return to their homes on the coast Grace’s family and 22,000 other Minto. The uncles had a bit of money, but Grace’s in early 1945. Japanese Canadians persona non family had little in the way of savings. But not in Canada. grata in BC, revealing a bitter truth Once at Minto, her father worked in a sawmill to make Panicked by US developments and – the uprooting, dispossession, ends meet. Grace recalls how happy her father was under continuous pressure from BC, and exile that had begun in 1942 to see his children when he returned home. the Mackenzie King government was more about virulent racism Initially, the family hoped to return to the coast and, made a fateful decision: Anyone than anything else. as Allied forces began to take the offensive in the over the age of 16 in the camps T h e p o s s i b i l i t y o f f o r c e d Pacific war, that seemed like a possibility. But then and elsewhere was forced to sign a d e p o r t a t i o n s p r o m p t e d a n the government sold all their possessions – there declaration indicating whether they upwelling of protest from Japanese wanted to be ‘repatriated’ to Japan was nothing to return to. Canadians and their friends. The or move east of the Rockies. Co-Operative Committee on Even as the tides of war turned, BC members of the This was a choice that was not Japanese Canadians launched a legislature agitated for a final solution to what they a choice – an ultimatum, in fact, lawsuit against the War Measures perceived as the “Japanese problem”.

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Japanese Canadian children at Sunday school, Powell Street United Church, Vancouver. Grace is fourth from left, second row. NNM 2010.80.2.98

Act and federal measures stripping the rights of As well, close to 4,000 Japanese those who opted to go to Japan. Canadians were essentially Arguing the case for expulsion at the Supreme deported to Japan, a country Court in early 1946 was none other than R.T. many had never seen, a travesty Maitland, BC deputy premier and attorney-general, documented by Tatsuo Kage in determined to force Japanese Canadians into exile. Uprooted Again. Maitland and his federal associates largely won the legal battle but lost in the court of public opinion – many had become concerned about citizenship rights, even in BC.

In 1947, BC’s Hart government refused to reinstate voting rights of Japanese Canadians and First Nations, though Chinese and Grace’s parents initially chose to go to Japan South Asian Canadians won back but, like others pressured to make that decision, those rights. they soon recanted and indicated they preferred And in 1948, the new BC premier, to move east. In 1945 they moved to a farm near B y r o n J o h n s o n , a d v i s e d t h e Middlechurch, Manitoba. federal government not to allow Grace’s mother, Sawae, recorded in her diary: “Manure clinging on straw hung stuck to these walls. A bare light bulb hung from the high ceiling. I stood in the middle of this barn, which was to be home to our family of six and couldn’t hold back the tears.” Like Grace’s family, over ten thousand Japanese Canadians were coerced to move, a second time, to be spread out across the country. The forced dispersal gave rise to a new diaspora – Japanese Canadians whose roots are in BC but who ended up east of the Rockies.

Japanese Canadians to return to the coast, otherwise the Liberals might lose a by-election. As a result, the prohibition on returning to the coast continued, to be lifted only in 1949. Not a single family from Victoria ever returned to live there; of 3,000 Japanese Canadian Islanders only about 150 determined souls returned.

Japanese Canadians were struggling just to survive. Grace and her family left the poverty of Middlechurch for Whitemouth, and then moved to Winnipeg. Grace finished high school in Winnipeg and then went to work, attending classes at business college in the evenings – the family could not afford to send her to university. Af t e r w o r k i n g f o r y e a r s a n d inspired by her creative mother, Grace finally was able to pursue her passion for art, registering at the University of Winnipeg as a mature student. She graduated in 1977 with a fine arts degree and did graduate work in Asian art history at UBC, where she gained a deeper appreciation of her heritage. She returned to Winnipeg to work as assistant director/curator of the University of Manitoba art gallery where she began to

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“I really feel that, of everything that happened, I am very sad for my father. After 1942 his life was totally destroyed. He worked in odd jobs but had serious ulcer issues. He went to cooking school in 1960 and got a job in the kitchen at Misericordia Hospital. He ﬁnally found a few happy moments in later life.” “My mother, Sawae, was quite emotional and unhappy in the last few years of her life,” recalls Grace who has recently completed her family memoir which she hopes to publish soon. advise Inuit printmakers. Travelling to the north regularly, she began to understand the impact of colonialism. Her feminist consciousness also bloomed, leading her to do a graduate degree in the social history of art at the University of Leeds. Told that “another feminist wasn’t needed,” she found herself unemployed on her return. Taking a position as director/curator of the Prince Albert gallery, Grace began extensive work with Saskatchewan’s aboriginal artists. Before ‘decolonization’ was even a buzzword, she was doing it – co-curating an exhibit Separate Identities, Shared Worlds with the late Bob Boyer of the Indian Federated College. Moving to Vancouver to be with her mother, Grace took a position with the Burnaby Art Gallery where she continued her cross-cultural explorations.

Grace Eiko Thomson, then president of the National Association of Japanese Canadians, attending a board meeting of the World Peace Forum Society, 2006. J. Price photo.

In 1995, Grace was asked to coordinate a gathering of Japanese Canadians artists from dispersed communities across the country.

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Tsudoi/Gatherings finally brought Grace home – she reconnected with her community and never looked back. Appointed director/curator of the Japanese Canadian National Museum when it opened in Burnaby in 2000, Grace resigned that position after two years but went on to curate landmark exhibits including Shashin: Japanese Canadian Studio Photographers to 1942 and Levelling the Playing Field: Legacy of Vancouver’s Asahi Baseball Team.

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She later served on the board of the National Association of Japanese Canadians and was president from 2005 until her retirement in 2010.

The 44th Powell Street Festival is cancelled as a public gathering

guidelines and to continue consulting with community stakeholders

“My mother, Sawae, was quite emotional and unhappy in the last few years of her life,” recalls Grace who has recently completed her family memoir which she hopes to publish soon. At 86, Grace Eiko Thomson (Nishikihama) remains a force to be reckoned with as she continues to write, agitate and reflect: “BC redress is long overdue – its 2019 for goodness sake!” This series originally appeared in the TimesColonist. © John Price, Professor Emeritus in History, University of Victoria John Price taught history at the University of Victoria and is the author of Orienting Canada: Race, Empire and the Transpacific and, more recently, A Woman in Between: Searching for Dr. Victoria Chung (with Ningping Yu).

event due to the current Covid-19 crisis. The Powell Street Festival Society (PSFS) board is directing its staff to follow public safety to reconceptualize a safe and innovative celebration of Japanese Canadian arts and culture. “During the festival weekend, August 1 and 2, 2020, the 44th Powell Street Festival will adapt its Japanese Canadian celebration to transcend the Covid-19 pandemic and to uplift our Japanese Canadian community,” says PSFS President Edward Takayanagi. “There will be no public gathering but we will create opportunities for everyone — artists, festival attendees, volunteers, vendors, DTES residents, and the Japanese Canadian community at large — to enjoy art, culture and community.” In April we hosted constructive and inspiring online Town Halls, and we are grateful for everyone’s input. We hope you will join us as we rally the community to bring wealth and well-being to people in need. For updates, visit us at www.powellstreetfestival.com. Calling all Powell Street Festival Society members!

VIRTUAL ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING Wednesday, May 27 7:00 pm (Katari Taiko starts at 6:30 pm) The online meeting will take place via Zoom, please write to info@powellstreetfestival to register and receive your package.

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In the Shadow of the Pines unearthing the memories that shape us – a new film by Anne Koizumi In the Shadow of the Pines, a new animated short documentary by Anne Koizumi, explores the difficult relationship between the filmmaker and her father. Koizumi, a second-generation Japanese Canadian, draws on childhood memories to explore the idea of shame and how it can shape and define us, while also concealing who we can truly become. Using stopaction animation, family photos, and archival footage, the eight-minute film offers a poignant window into the often confusing and conflicting emotions that come into play while navigating our childhood years. Three years in the making, In the Shadow of the Pines is an official selection of Hot Docs 2020, and now available for viewing for free online at www.cbc.ca/shortdocs/shorts/in-the-shadow-of-the-pines I talked to Anne Koizumi several days after her film was released to the public online. Anne Koizumi

Bulletin Interview: Anne Koizumi Before we get into the film itself, tell me a bit about your background, and your experience as a filmmaker. What kinds of films have you made in the past? I grew up in the suburbs of Calgary, Alberta and I never had any exposure to filmmaking. I loved watching films, but I had no idea how they were made. And I think what really drew me to film was the storytelling, so I pursued a degree in film production at UBC and graduated in 2004. At the time, the program was very live-action focused but I was always interested in stop-motion animation so I taught myself using the Aardman studio animation book and made a short animation for my graduation film. I continued making animations; my first professional film was made at the NFB in Montreal called A Prairie Story, and then I started making a film based on the short story The Yellow Wallpaper while working at Quickdraw Animation Society in Calgary. This one took a while to finish because I decided to do a masters degree in the midst of post-production. I wanted to do an MFA because I really wanted to study live-action filmmaking but ultimately went back to stop-motion and started In the Shadow of the Pines. I’ve worked on other experimental and live-action film projects in between.

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In the ﬁlm you explore your relationship with your father, or maybe more accurately, how you felt about your relationship. It delves into feelings that are often uncomfortable. Was it diﬃcult to tackle this subject? Yeah, I have considered making my personal narratives the subject of my work, but I was really afraid to pursue and uncover the stories that for many years I tried to hide. There were many difficult aspects to making the film. First and foremost, I was dealing with my grief and loss, and second, I had to confront my own shame and guilt. I cried so much making this film… I would be making a set or a prop and I would just start crying. It became embarrassing when I was invited to the Hot Docs Diverse Voices Talent Lab and I would pitch my project to my cohort and tears would be streaming down my face. It was so hard. But my cohort was incredibly kind and supportive. Forcing yourself to face difficult emotions and memories is never easy and it takes time. In my case, it took over three years. I can talk about the film without crying now but every now and then when I’m in a space where I’m allowed to be vulnerable, I’ll cry.

Koizumi family with relatives visiting from Japan

In the ﬁlm, you allude to your father’s life growing up in Japan after the war. Can you share some of that story with us? Hmm… where do I begin? My father never spoke to me about his life or childhood, so in the film where he’s telling me about his life during and after the war, is obviously a dream because he would have never been so forward with this information. I found out a lot from my uncle, my father’s oldest brother, when I was living in Japan in 2002 – 2003 and from interviews I conducted in early 2016. Most of this is not in the film because I had no intention on making a feature film. Both of my father’s parents were disowned by their families from samurai lineage when they converted to Christianity prior to the war. His father (my grandfather) became a Lutheran pastor and a pacifist. He died during the war of tuberculosis, when my father was only a year old, and his mother was now a widow with nothing and five young children. She was turned away at the door of her own family because she had rejected the family institution and chose to marry a man she loved (who was a Christian) over her noble family lineage. A Lutheran orphanage in Kumamoto took her in and all five children, where she worked as a caregiver and the children lived with the other orphans. The archival footage you see in the film was shot at the orphanage where my father was raised, it’s called the Gia-en. The orphanage was started by American Lutheran missionaries before the war and they made

an educational film in 1950 about the work that the American missionaries were doing in Japan. The orphanage is still there today but is now run by the Japanese government. I had the opportunity to visit the orphanage during my research. My cousin who was living in Kumamoto at the time had connections to the orphanage and gave me a copy of the film where the archival footage comes from. I had to trace down the rights to use the footage which belong to the Lutheran Church of America. When combing through the archival footage, there were two moments where I would freeze on a frame on a young boy in the background who I thought could be my father, he would have been seven at the time that film was shot and was living at the orphanage. You’ve clearly thought about this subject for many years. Did making the ﬁlm allow you to see things in a new way? Did it uncover anything that helped you to deal with the feelings you had about your father during your childhood? For me, as a child, it was really difficult to process my feelings of shame. I wanted to belong, I didn’t want people to think that I was different, and I really didn’t want my friends to know the janitor was my dad! But as an adult you understand the complexity of your parent’s experiences and how choices are not based on whether your child is going to feel shame but out of necessity. As well, as an adult you come to learn that there are social structures and systems like classism, racism, and sexism that play a role in how people perceive themselves and others. I didn’t really dig deep into these feelings of shame until my father passed away in 2012. I was longing to make connections with him that I was never able to when he was alive. How do I tell him I’m sorry or that I can now see everything he did for us? If I see anything differently now because of this film, it’s that I am able to connect with him even after his death.

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Still, In the Shaow of the PInes

The film focusses on your feelings about your father, but doesn’t really address his feelings towards you. Was he aware of what you were going through? Were you ever able to open up to him, either as a child or later in life, about those feelings? I’m not a parent myself, but I’m going to assume that most parents are hyper-sensitive to their children’s feelings, especially the feelings that they have towards them. I want to say yes with my dad, I think he knew that I was embarrassed that he was the janitor but I don’t think that mattered to him. He was really proud of the work he did and he was good at it. He really had one objective in his life and that was to take care of his family, I don’t think he cared about much else, except maybe baseball and sumo wrestling. But this is speculation because I never told my dad how I felt about him growing up, and we never talked about our feelings. It’s interesting, when I first heard about the film, I assumed your feelings of shame were directed towards your father’s identity as a Japanese immigrant, but instead it was towards his social status. You would have been happy if he was a sensei, or a salaryman even. In fact your happy memories centre around matsutake picking, which is a very Japanese pastime. Did any part of your father’s Japaneseness play into your feelings towards him, do you think? You know, I wanted my father to be a specific type of ‘Japanese’ man and I didn’t like my father’s particular Japanese-ness. I think it really stems from the Japanese stereotypes that I was exposed to as young person growing up in Canada. I wanted my father to be like Mr. Miyagi from the Karate Kid or like the businessman who owns the tower in Die Hard and so many of the images of men that were coming out of Japan in the 80s and 90s were salarymen. My dad was so far from either of these stereotypes. My father was the opposite of these stereotypes, he was a free spirit and didn’t care what people thought of him, which confused me as a kid. I think this is where my instincts kicked in and I distanced myself

from him because I didn’t understand him. So, I’d say the shame came from both his Japanese-ness and his social status. Your new film is very personal, yet very relatable to anyone who felt self-conscious, for whatever reason, about their family growing up. What kind of response have you received to the film? I’m really touched by the positive responses I’ve received since launching the film just three days ago. I’m especially moved by the reaction from the Japanese Canadian community. It means so much to me to be able to give something back to the community that supported my parents when they first arrived in Canada over 40 years ago. I’ve also had friends and strangers reach out to me and say how much the story resonated with them and their own experiences. Shame, grief, and regret are all universal experiences that don’t discriminate, which is why I feel that people from all walks of life have connected to the film. How has your family responded to the film? The film has also helped our family’s grief. We are not very good about talking about our feelings to each other, even though we talk to one another often. My oldest sister hasn’t been able to cry much about my dad’s death, and when she saw the film it was like a flood gate opened up. I think being able to talk about my dad’s death and loss so openly now has also helped our family acknowledge the loss even in times of celebration. My siblings tell me that working on this film has really been a gift to them. And my mom is really proud.

Watch In the Shadow of the Pine online: https://www.cbc.ca/shortdocs/shorts/in-the-shadow-of-the-pines

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COVID-19 AND THE RACISM PANDEMIC WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT by Kim Uyede-Kai Communities of Faith Support and Right Relations, and Vice-President of the Toronto NAJC When news of the coronavirus first began to spread in Canada, Chinese Canadian restaurants and businesses quickly took a devastating hit. Once crowded restaurants were nearly empty. Other Asian restaurants and businesses that were neither Chinese owned nor operated were also shunned and targeted with racist graffiti and vandalism. “Chinese”- identified and “Chinese looking” people were publicly blamed for the growing pandemic and the downturn of the global economy. Anti-Asian jokes proliferated and online race hatred became common on many social media and news threads. Canadian born or immigrant Chinese and other Asian ancestry children were bullied in school. Canadian born and immigrant Asian ancestry adults alike were verbally abused or randomly assaulted in public places whether they were wearing a face mask or not.

their lives in real danger. Racial profiling by the public and police is still a lived reality and is now heightened with COVID-19. Racism historically rises and spikes when there is fear or threat or economic loss, especially when it is perceived to diminish the dominant community’s self-invented narrative and access to resources and finances, and when power rests with those who use power for gain and control at the expense of others. Thus, the curve of the escalation of the disease of racism is rising with the curve of the escalation of COVID-19. While there is presently no vaccine against either disease to stop the spread of both, COVID-19 will eventually be eradicated. Racism will continue to mutate unless we make collective efforts to stop the spread. WHAT CAN YOU DO? Here are suggestions for what you can do to “flatten the curve” of racism in this time of COVID-19 and beyond.

NOTICE Notice when verbal or visual racial lenses are used in reporting: Is WuAs COVID-19 spread and provinces and communities han or China used to describe COVID-19 just because that is where it in Canada declared a state of emergency, Indigenous was found to originate? When are Asians shown wearing a face mask in communities also began to close their access roads negative or positive ways? in efforts to self-isolate and protect their elders and REMEMBER community members. This resulted in non-Indigenous Remember that the H1N1 (“swine flu”) 2009 pandemic was not described people being denied access to roads through reserve as the “American flu”. Remember that the news media did not extensively lands and to the lower priced gas and tobacco they cover hatred, shunning or graffiti of Italian and Spanish ancestry people were used to obtaining. Inconvenience, entitlement, or immigrants, restaurants or businesses in Canada when those countries and anger turned again to anti-Indigenous discrimina- experienced large numbers of deaths and hospitalizations. tion and hatred, with incorrect assumptions about InREAD digenous “privileges” and non-Indigenous entitlement Read the COVID-19 comments on social media posts. Don’t shy away to treaty and unceded land and resources. Some of the from the strongly worded or hateful ones. Do any of these comments anger was redirected from the previous rail blockades secretly mirror yours? What can you learn from the responders that stood across the country supporting the Wet’suwet’en protest up to the hateful ones? If you find some comments abhorrent, how would against the disputed pipeline location. you respond if they were directed to you? Be more respectful and less As wearing face masks became more acceptable defensive in your language than the haters. among non-Asians and eventually recommended to KNOW help stop the spread of COVID-19, Black communities Know there are other valid Asian Canadian experiences when the one were increasingly impacted. For Black people, particuAsian ancestry person you know says they haven’t experienced any raclarly men, wearing a non-medical face mask on the ism because of COVID-19 or any other time. street, a store or other places of business, often puts

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Several days before going to press I received an email from filmmaker Anne Koizumi announcing the release of her new film, In the Shadow of the Pines. The film was premiering at Hot Docs 2020 online, available on CBC Gem. As it had been released to the public that same day, there was a link in the email. One quick click of the mouse and I was watching the film. Ten minutes later (the film is only eight minutes long) I wrote Anne back, asking if she’d be willing to be interviewed for The Bulletin. In eight short minutes, In the Shadow of the Pines expresses so much. Intensely personal in its expression of grief and loss, it artfully questions the idea of shame and how it can shape and define us. The filmmaker’s childhood shame at her father’s job as janitor at her elementary school and how it coloured their relationship in a family where emotions were not discussed is heartbreaking relatable. As children, much our energy is devoted to defining our place in the world. We are so focused on how we ourselves see our relationship to our parents and the world that we are incapable of thinking about what they are going through. It’s all about what is being done to us, and not for us. If we are lucky, we are able to resolve those feelings as we get older and come to see our parents as three-dimensional humans with their own fears and difficulties trying to navigate the world. At least that’s been my own experience. In my case, my sense of otherness didn’t come so much from growing up mixed race at a time when intermarriage was unusual, it was more that both my parents were artists and their friends were all artists. Even as a young boy, I knew instinctively that it was not normal. Looking back, of course, I am deeply grateful for that lack of normalcy, how it opened up so many possibilities for how to live my life, and how it ultimately shaped me. At the time, though, it was difficult to reconcile. I remember aching to be normal. Whatever that meant. One of the gifts of being an artist is that it gives us ways to process the kinds of feelings and emotions Koizumi address in her film. As artists we process much of these emotions and feelings in public, which makes us vulnerable, but it can also be cathartic. Individually, each piece of art, whether it’s a novel, painting, film or song, has the possibility of touching someone on some level. Cumulatively, those works map the human experience, in all its messy complexity. As I learned later in life, partly through my own art-making, “normal” is not only a false ideal to strive for, it’s also an illusion. With this issue of The Bulletin, the second since the lockdown, we are hopeful that we can continue to remain relevant to the community and to our readers. Thank you for your words of support, your ongoing donations, and for sticking with us. Thanks too, to our advertisers and community contributors. Hopefully I am not over-using the phrase, but we are all in this together. And hopefully we can be together soon.

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Presidents Message

By Judy Hanazawa May Greetings Community Members! The President’s message for May is about what is happening to Asian Canadians as the Covid pandemic continues its reign over daily life. I’m hoping people are keeping safe and well. I know community members are generally pretty resilient yet isolation is a challenge and am hoping people are finding ways to stay positive as the days go by. Many people have caring families around them but others are on their own so staying connected to friends who are ‘family’ is so important too. Over the last few weeks, I’ve been having conversations with GVJCCA board member Lily Shinde who has given me her accounts about racist incidents she has personally witnessed or experienced.

Lily has had personal experience where acquaintances have stated she is the cause of the virus. They have said it was meant to be a joke. Someone asked if she needed her water bottle (which she always carries), because she has Covid 19. She has been yelled at to get off the sidewalk by a woman gardening closeby. Lily is a polite yet assertive individual who will not stay silent when she encounters demeaning, blaming, discriminatory or racist behavior. She spoke to the woman who retreated into her house. She has actually been thanked by a few people for teaching them about the harm of unthinking racist behavior. Lily described a particularly disturbing incident about a mother and her two sons waiting for a bus who were accosted by a Caucasian man yelling and accusing them of spreading the virus. He spit on the mother. Lily heard this exchange as she walked toward the bus stop. The son called out in anger at the man. Lily sought the help of another man who ran after the offender. Words were spoken but the offender ran off. As Lily sat with the family on the bus later, the continued on page 12

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News reports have increased about Asians being targeted as the pandemic continues. In the last few days TV reports refer to a young Asian woman who was on her cel in a supermarket being accosted by a yelling Caucasian woman who ended up kicking her. The incident was reported to the police but the young woman chose not to lay charges. Yesterday there was footage on TV showing a frail 92 year old Asian elder with dementia being bodily thrown out of a grocery store by a hulking Caucasian man making racist remarks to him about Covid 19. Five reports of hate crimes with an anti Asian element were reported to police in March 2020. Unfortunately many racialized communities do not trust the police due to their own negative experience. It is critical for law enforcement to deal effectively and appropriately with both victims and offenders of hate crimes. Much like the incident involving the mother and her two boys who Lily Shinde encountered, many incidents are not reported. Although the mother was understandably concerned about safety, the offender has gotten away free to spread his hate and target someone else. The attacker of the 92 year old elder in the grocery store has yet to be charged. Right now there is a national Pan Asian network being established to document anti-Asian racism incidents, present concerns to governments and authorities calling for effective steps to ensure zero tolerance. Asians too need to learn and apply personal tools and skills to stand up to racism and use our voices so we are heard. Everything possible should be done to educate, prevent, and establish solidarity so that Asians and all society stand together against racism. Please note in the May Bulletin, the NAJC is presenting their statement about Anti Asian Covid 19 related incidents along with an NAJC form to complete so that racism incidents during Covid 19 can be documented. All of us are in this together to overcome the virus and this includes standing against racism. Terms outlined in the Consultation Report about BC Redress for Japanese Canadians referred to the ongoing need to erase racism’s presence in society and the virtual world, despite our elders telling their stories so that no other community is targeted. Our experience with Covid 19 is another lesson that the battle is far from over. There is a need for all to make a focused effort to address, learn, fight and eradicate the poison that racism is. Take good care all.

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PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE

by Lorene Oikawa Our current mantra in British Columbia is, “Be kind, be calm, be safe.” These are the words of the provincial health officer, Dr. Bonnie Henry. The top health officers across Canada have become familiar to us with their reassuring voices and efforts to provide up-todate factual information and battling false information and rumours. Canada’s chief public health officer, Dr. Theresa Tam is also familiar to us through tv and the internet, and is responsible for not only advising the federal minister of health, but also coordinating the public health agencies across Canada. She has had an international role advising the World Health Organization on infectious diseases like Ebola. Her background includes a pediatric residence at the University of Alberta and a fellowship in pediatric infectious diseases at the University of British Columbia.

Also, watch your inboxes for the NAJC announcement about plans for this year’s NAJC election and call for nominations which will be coming out in May. All of us have felt the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, whether this has been from a health, economic or social perspective. Many of us have turned to the online community to find strength and support. In response, the NAJC organized an online session for our community to come together. Based on the feedback from the initial session, we have organized some additional, on-line sessions for our community.

I feel compelled to mention Dr. Tam’s work for Canada, because of the disgusting remarks made by a Canadian Member of Parliament and leadership candidate questioning her loyalty to Canada and accusing her of working for China. There is no place for racist hateful comments and bad behaviour. We need to be working together now, more than ever, in our fight against COVID-19. The NAJC is concerned about anti-Asian hate related to COVID-19. We are hearing stories about verbal and physical assaults against not only Chinese Canadians, but also Japanese Canadians and anyone who appears to be Asian. We have released a statement which you can read at http://najc.ca/racism-linked-to-covid-19/ and we are collecting reports of racist incidents related to COVID-19. We encourage you to fill out our online form which is posted on our website https://bit. ly/2y3AmW5 We are actively working with concerned citizens and other community groups of Asian descent. We will be reporting on our involvement with a new The next Japanese Canadian COVID-19 Round Table in English will be national network, ACT2endracism, to combat racism on Wednesday, May 6, 2020 at 5:30 PM PDT (Vancouver time), 6:30 PM and hate crime. MDT, 7:30 PM CDT, 8:30 PM EDT. You will need to register in advance We have been monitoring the COVID-19 situation for this meeting which you can do at this link: https://bit.ly/3bEdJGz After closely with the Edmonton Japanese Community As- registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information sociation with whom we were planning the 2020 NAJC about joining the meeting. AGM and Conference in October. The EJCA has been Many events have been cancelled or postponed. In May, events for Asian working with community partners to set up the venue, Heritage Month in Vancouver have moved to online. https://explorasian. speakers, and activities. Safety is paramount for the org/virtual-explorasian-2020/ NAJC’s event will be an online forum at 7 planning committee and the NAJC will be providing PM PDT (Vancouver time) on Monday, May 11. Join the Conversation with an update shortly. NAJC (National Association with Japanese Canadians), JACL (Japanese

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NAJC STATEMENT REGARDING RACISM LINKED TO COVID-19 The National Association of Japanese Canadians is alarmed by increasing reports of racist incidents related to perceived linkages between the COVID-19 pandemic and China. We call on all Canadians to stand against anti-Asian sentiment. The COVID-19 crisis is almost unprecedented in its effects on people’s physical, mental, emotional and financial well-being, and stress is understandably running high for everyone. However, there is no excuse for those who would use the COVID-19 crisis to blame, revile, or enact violence against other people who are all experiencing the same losses, restrictions and worries. We have seen rising xenophobia and anti-Asian sentiment during many crises in Canadian history, in particular during the Second World War, when some 22,000 Japanese Canadians were interned

and dispossessed. Allowing hate to rise against any marginalized or vulnerable group diminishes our communities’ and our country’s ability to act in solidarity, as we must in order to overcome this world-wide pandemic. The National Association of Japanese Canadians (NAJC) was founded in 1947 and is a Canada-wide organization that represents Japanese Canadians and Japanese Canadian member organizations. The NAJC supports the development of our communities and a strong Japanese Canadian identity. We strive for equal rights and liberties for all persons, and in particular for racial and ethnic minorities.

NAJC President’s Message continued NAJC Chats will continue in May including a talk with Michael Abe, Project Manager for the Landscapes of Injustice, and John Endo Greenaway, Editor of The Bulletin magazine. Sign up for NAJC e-news at http://najc. ca/subscribe/ to get updates on our programming and also check for updates at our website najc.ca In the US, Japanese American Memorial Pilgrimages to prison camps that held Japanese Americans during the Second World War have been postponed or cancelled and they are currently organizing virtual pilgrimage programming that will run from June to August. They are interested in sharing the stories of Japanese Canadians including immigration and settlement, and internment. They are in the planning stages right now, and we will share updates as they become available. As we enjoy the last of the Sakura, take the time to enjoy the blossoms. If we focus too much on our worSakura by Lorene Oikawa ries, we miss so many precious moments. Stay safe American Citizens League), and COPANI (Biennial Pan American Nikkei and be at home whenever possible, maintain social/ Convention). We’ll be talking about heritage, culture, arts, politics, diversity, physical distancing when you are out, and continue to anti-Asian racism around COVID-19, and the action for justice on both sides wash your hands and don’t touch your face. Be kind. We are in this all together. of the border. Register in advance at https://bit.ly/2xQcwNK NAJC is also incorporating new online programming and setting up chat sessions with some of our community members. We’ve had some great chats in April with a great wrap up conversation about rice cookers.

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REPORT COVID-19 RELATED RACISM TO THE NAJC The National Association of Japanese Canadians (NAJC) is hearing stories from across our communities of anti-Asian racism related to COVID-19. The NAJC’s Human Rights Committee is now collecting these stories, in order to assess needs, raise awareness, and respond effectively. To fill out the report online, please refer to the NAJC website. Click visit najc.ca and scroll to NAJC News Racism Linked to COVID 19. Here you’ll find a link to a fillable form that send your responses to the NAJC. For those who are unable to report incidents online, we have provided the questions below. Please fill out the various sections (you can add additional pages if necessary), cut out the page and mail your completed report to:

NAJC 180 McPhillips Street, Winnipeg, Manitoba R3E 2J9 When did this incident of COVID-19 related racism happen?

Where did it happen (city, neighbourhood, name/type of setting)?

What happened? Include related events that took place before or after the incident

Please describe the people involved (including yourself) Note any relevant details (e.g. race/ethnicity, gender presentation, etc.)

(OPTIONAL) What could be done (by the government or others) in response to this incident?

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JAPANESE

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AT YAMA CAFE

One Sunday morning last fall, in the before-times, our daughter and her husband invited the whole family to join them for an authentic Japanese breakfast on east Hastings Street. When Amy and I visited Japan back in 2018, one of the highlights of the trip was the breakfasts, with their unusual (to North Americans) mix of savoury flavours and textures. Having never heard of being able to get a Japanese breakfast outside of Japan, we jumped at the chance and soon found ourselves in a cozy little restaurant, Yama Cafe, feeling like we had just stepped in out of the cold in a little Japanese village.

and the homespun, loving approach to the meals. On our way out we generally pick up a bag or two of their delicious tea, whether is genmaicha, sencha or houjicha, along with a to-go box of treats.

Like many businesses during the pandemic, Yama Cafe is adapting to a different way of doing things, offering a takeout version of their menu. The last time I visited was to pick up two face masks that I had pre-ordered, along with a box of moffins. The masks are made by The first thing that caught my eye was the baby strapped to the chest of Japanese Fabric Creations SHINO, with part of the the man leaning over the stove in the small kitchen. The second was the proceeds going to BC Children’s Hospital. glass case on the cash counter stacked full of delectable little bite-sized treats. I made a mental note to save space. The six of us all ordered the For information on Yama Cafe visit their Instagram breakfast, with most of us opting for the sake (salmon), but a several page: @yamacafe2007 choosing the saba (mackerel). Delicious cups of tea kept us warm until the main attraction showed up: rice, miso soup, a wonderful array of pickles Yama Cafe (my favourite), an egg and perfectly-cooked fish. By the time we were 2007 East Hastings done breakfast, everyone was happy. Hisami, here on a working holiday Temporary hours: Thursday to Monday, 10am to 3pm visa, gave it two thumbs up. Breakfast until 11am, lunch all day We have been back several times since for the breakfast, although they Takeout only also serve lunch. We appreciate the relaxed, hometown feel of the cafe Closed Tuesday, Wednesdays and holidays

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Family breakfast at Yama Cafe. Left to right: John, Kenzo, Kaya, Amy, Emiko, Hisami

Bulletin Interview: Mitsuhiro and Hiroe Yamamura Did the two of you meet in Japan, or did you meet here in Vancouver? We met in Vancouver at Aki Japanese Restaurant where we were both working. Tell me a little about your lives in Japan – where did you live before you came to Canada? And what did you do there? Mitsuhiro I'm from Chiba prefecture, and went to a culinary school in Tokyo.

Mitsuhiro, you are the main cook at the café, I believe. Where did you learn to cook, and where have you worked (what kind of experience do you have)? Mitsuhiro I learned to cook for a year at a culinary school in Tokyo, then worked there for another seven years as a teaching assistant. Hiroe, do you cook as well? What is your main job at the café? Hiroe I don’t cook, but I take care of a lot of other things in the cafe. I help bake, I handle social media accounts where I do all the promotion, and communicate with customers. I work as a barista, and cashier as well.

Hiroe I lived in Shizuoka Prefecture, and worked there as a nurse for four years.

I believe there was a restaurant called Basho here before. How did you come to open Yama Cafe? When I heard that the Basho Cafe owners were looking to sell their busiWhy did you choose to come to Canada? Mitsuhiro I met chefs from around the world at the ness, I went in to speak to them as I was very interested in running my culinary school but i couldn't communicate with them own business, and the timing was just perfect. in English, which motivated me to go abroad. I also Your cafe has such a cosy feel, and your two boys, Ruka & Towa, add wanted to snowboard in Canada! a lot to the atmosphere. It feels a neighbourhood kind of place. Hiroe I came to Canada on a working holiday visa in We have a lot of customers come in with their kids too, which works out 2012. Initially I wanted to go to the UK to learn English, very well with our atmosphere. People seem to know and understand that but I never won the lottery for a UK working holiday we’re a family-owned business. visa.

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I think it’s pretty unusual for Japanese restaurants to serve breakfast in Canada. How do your non-Japanese customers enjoy the breakfasts, which are very unusual if you’re never had them? We wanted to serve breakfast to attract more customers in the morning when our turnout was a little lower. We went for traditional Japanese-style breakfast because it generally can’t be found elsewhere in Vancouver, and to further promote Japanese food culture. A lot of customers loved it as a result. Even for those who may not be familiar, I think the Japanesestyle presentation with many small dishes appeals to them a lot, and of course the grilled fish. Describe your menu to someone who has never been there. What are some of the favourites with your customers? We would describe it to them as cozy Japanese cafe food. Our most popular dishes would probably be the tuna tataki lunch set (tuna bowl as the main, +$4 for soup, two veggie sides, one mochi muffin), the mochi muffins (mochi-textured mini muffins), matcha latte and strawberry shortcake. A lot of customers like to come for the whole experience, where they come in for the lunch set, then get the cake and matcha latte for dessert, and finally take some mochi muffins home for takeout. Our daughter was excited to introduce us to your “moﬃns.” They’re so good! Are they an invention of yours? Maybe you can describe them to our readers? The idea of a mochi muffin comes from our predecessor at Basho Cafe, but we made our own version of the recipe. We use mochi flour to get the texture of squishy mochi (Japanese rice cake). The moffins are gluten free and vegan, another popular factor with customers. It comes in various flavors including matcha, black sesame, earl grey, chocolate, houjicha (roasted green tea), plain, red bean, miso, and espresso.

Are there some recipes you can share with us? Something simple that our readers can make at home while we wait for life to get back to some kind of normal? Make your own miso soup with homemade Japanese vegetarian broth! And moffins!

Vegetarian Miso Soup Vegetarian Dashi water 1L, konbu seaweed 10g, dried shiitake 20g 1. Soak shiitake and konbu seaweed in the water overnight 2. bring to a boil the next morning and skim off the scum once it comes to a boil. (When putting the broth on heat, remove the konbu seaweed once the water temperature hits 80 degrees Celsius. If the seaweed is left in for too long, the broth will becomes too thick) Miso soup Add and dissolve desired amount of miso into the broth

Matcha Moﬃn (makes around 12 moffins)

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CrossCurrents

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“BEAUTIFUL, EH?” WORDS THAT MADE ME FEEL HAPPY TO BE ALIVE AND WELL IN VANCOUVER

While taking a walk in my neighbourhood one recent afternoon, I noticed some purple, white and yellow crocuses blossoming at the foot of a big old tree. Flowers that bloom in spring seem more beautiful with each passing year as I enjoy my senior years. I was photographing them with my iPhone when I suddenly heard a voice behind me. “Beautiful, eh?” were the words of a nice young fellow standing there, smiling. The moment felt almost serendipitous as I felt it summed up the happiness I feel being alive and well in Vancouver at this juncture of my life. These days, I hear residents in my neighbourhood rush out of their homes or go out on their balconies when the clock strikes 7pm to beat on pots and pans. “Clang, clang, clang”...it’s probably the same in your neighbourhoods, but who first started it? Anyhow, it’s a way for all the citizens of Vancouver and probably across all Lower Mainland by now to jointly declare “beat coronavirus” in solidarity. I check Japanese print media and other web sites every day but nothing like this seems to be happening as of this writing. During the late 1970s, I was living in Shibuya, Tokyo, where I used to live with my parents until I graduated from the university in 1966. I got to know people work-

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Under Japanese law, however, they have no power to enforce. But it turned out to be futile to persuade people to give up a tradition that goes back at least as far as the Heian Period, over 1,000 years ago. As people gathered in droves at their favourite ohanami spots It’s difficult to compare a busy “ignoring the municipal advisory neighbourhood in a huge menot to do so,” TV stations sent out tropolis like Tokyo back then with reporters to cover the situation. my local community in Vancouver now. Be that as it may, I’ve gotten As what most Japanese fear most to know most shopkeepers, waiters, is to be left out of the loop, to not waitresses and even residents in know what’s going on, most housemy neighbourhood well enough to holds keep their TV in their living call each other by our first names. room or kitchen on all the time when There’s a shared feeling that we they’re home. So when they saw are truly members of our small local people enjoying ohanami as usual, many said “Wow, everybody is out community. celebrating ohanami anyway. Let’s During the recent cherry blossom go join them,” and did so. viewing (ohanami) season in Japan, municipalities advised citizens to In Canada, the federal and provinforego ohanami to help prevent the cial governments have the power to spread of the coronavirus epidemic. enforce advisories like the one that ing in convenience stores, liquor stores, green grocers, restaurants, bookstores and so on. We would chat casually once in a while, but we never got to know one another’s names, much less share a sense of being part of the local community.

urged citizens to stay at home and not to go out into natural surroundings like Vancouver Island and Whistler during the recent Easter weekend. But those who did, I believe, did so because they said “we want to do this,” and not because the media were showing scenes of other people leaving the city to spend time in nature. Take the City of Vancouver and the Lower Mainland that I have come to know over the past 23 years since moving here from Singapore with my family. Its beautiful natural surroundings, in particular the UBC campus and Kitsilano by the sea, are much cleaner and nicer than those of congested megalopolises like Tokyo and Osaka. True or not, the coronavirus does not seem to like fresh air currents and sunlight. Today (April, 20) was such a pleasant, sunny day that I enjoyed strolling around my neighbourhood. I of course observed the two-meter social distancing rule, but since the storekeepers, bankers and local residents I saw were all friends on a first-name basis, we were all expressing care and support for each other. At an extraordinary time like this, I think everyone found it comforting. I’ve also noticed that in North America as well as the U.K. and Western Europe, among other places, there are quite a few people utilizing this period of isolated living as an opportunity for all manner of self improvement, from learning a foreign language or learning to play a musical instrument to physical exercise to strengthen their bodies or learning to cook exotic cuisines. There must be such conscientious people in Japan too, but I have not seen any such report in my daily round of checking the Japanese media. I did however see a report about a bunch of friends who organised an on-line video link-up drinking session while in isolation. They seemed quite chuffed about it. Maybe their primary concern being what “the rest of our group” are up to day after day, they have no time for personal activity like self improvement.

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I’m only guessing but Japanese Canadians for sure as well as many Japanese who have migrated here prefer the general Canadian attitude of “going my way” or “our family stick to our way of doing things” – an attitude that could cause friction in Japanese society. Apart from Japanese Canadians, several Japanese friends and acquaintances seem to be that way as well. Probably many of you readers have relatives and friends who have lived overseas when they were young as a student or on working holiday visa, that have never considered ending their lives anywhere but right at home in Japan. I have a close cousin I’ve known since kindergarten, who used to live in Calgary where he was a graduate student in engineering. His family grave is in the prestigious Yanaka Cemetery in Tokyo where Tokugawa Keiki, the last shogun, is interred, among others. My cousin never doubted for a moment that he would be buried there one day. I’m not so materialistic to the point of thinking those of us who chose to live abroad got a “better deal.” Call it karma or whatever, we make our own choices and keep going along the path we have chosen. But now, we’re facing an unprecedented emergency situation. That cousin’s health is failing so that I’d like to visit him in Tokyo as soon as possible. But even if I wanted to fly there, I’d have to wait until maybe after summer, and that’s only if the Covid-19 situation is brought under control. Some of you readers might also have people you want to visit in Japan ASAP but have to wait. Is this the fate of those of us who opted for life outside Japan? I still consider myself a “work in progress” in my personal development, so I have no great wisdom to share. I can only thank Lord Buddha for being continued on page 29

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Do you remember March 13? It was the last day of school before spring break and everyone was talking about their vacations, plans for spring break, etc. I got one picture of a beach, a margarita, and some toes from a friend one day, and the next day she was frantically booking tickets back from Mexico. Another friend was in Montreal, en route to Jamaica, when they heard that Jamaica had an outbreak. No flights so they rented a car and embarked on an epic cross-country trip. Other friends were trying to figure out how to get their kids home from university. We got hit with restaurant closures on March 17 – Happy St Patrick’s Day! – and although we didn’t have major travel plans to disrupt, our lives, and everyone’s lives, were changed. Doesn’t March 13 feel like another lifetime? Maybe it’s just me.

challenging way, easy to prepare, and, especially, easy to eat. NOM! I’m kicking it off with ma po tofu. I’ve tried a few iterations of this recipe and this is the simplest. We all love ma po tofu – it’s easy, savoury, spicy, and you can mix it with rice and just shovel it in. Use a fork to load your spoon, then tuck the spoon into your face. You barely need to chew, just make grunting noises of pleasure.

Ma Po Tofu 1 lb ground pork or chicken

Marinate in: 1 t shoyu 1 t dark soy sauce 2 t sherry 1 t sesame oil Sorry, depressing. How’s this? The “leader of the free ½ t sugar world” doesn’t know the difference between the Nobel Prize and the Pulitzer Prize and called the Nobel This can marinate while you deal with the tofu and the sauce. the “Noble”. Because “Pulitzer” is too hard to spell so 1 or 2 blocks of firm tofu (depends on your preferred tofu to meat ratio; he went with the “easy” one. It’s a prize, who cares. I like lots of tofu) And he also thought it might be a good idea to inject bleach into one’s lungs. With a doctor’s help, of course! Tofu on a plate, another plate upside down on top, bottle of wine or simiAaaaaaand nobody’s really surprised. Except maybe larly heavy object as a weight, press until an astonishing amount of liquid Dr. Birx, who had clearly not been briefed. She sure comes out. Drain and cut into 1-inch cubes. did look surprised. Does anyone believe that he was Prepare sauce. Mix together in a 2-cup measuring cup or similar recepbeing sarcastic? Please. He can’t even recognize sar- tacle: casm, much less produce it. Here’s my question, and I 2 T chili bean paste know it has nothing to do with food, but I’m in isolation 2 T cornstarch and so are you, so from me to you: Has the world ever 2 t shoyu seen a public figure as deranged, ignorant, sociopathic, 2 t sugar incompetent, mean, selfish, (the pejoratives go on, you 1 c water get the idea) and ALSO unintentionally hilarious as this 1 t dark shoyu guy? I don’t even need to say his name. I’ve been racking my brains for two days and can’t come up with one. Chop 2 green onions and keep by the stove, along with the sauce mixture. Idi Amin, Pol Pot, Stalin – all terrifying. Mao – gaga by Heat a wok or large frying pan over medium-high heat and drizzle in a the end but still terrifying. Nothing really funny there. small amount of oil. Stir fry your meat until crumbly. If it seems too chunky Hitler had his moments when he was in shrill and to your critical eye, toss it into a food processor and pulse a few times. shrieky mode, but still, 100% terrifying. Now, to be fair, Return to pan. Stir the sauce mixture to loosen up the cornstarch and add none of these murderous heffalumps had access to a to the meat. Stir and cook over medium heat. When it’s thickened, add social media platform that allowed them to exhibit their the tofu and green onions, stir gently until it’s amalgamated and heated insanity on a daily basis, but there have been many through, and serve. With rice and some kind of greens, if you’re still eating eyewitness biographies and so far, nothing to compare. vegetables at this point. I suppose that’s distinction of a sort. I recommend gai lan, stir fried/braised in a wok with some water, oil, garlic, That didn’t help at all, did it? Sorry! a dash of sesame oil, and when tender and most of the water’s boiled That’s why the theme of this month’s column is comfort off, drizzled with shoyu and oyster sauce, tossed around and served. food. This is food that is familiar, delicious in a non- Of course I chop mine up so I can eat the whole shebang with a spoon

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while I read or watch Westworld. Family meal? What’s a family meal? My teenagers get up at 1:00 and Justin leaves for work by 4:00. I make a big meal at 3:00 and people eat when they want. It’s utter anarchy and nobody knows what day it is. Mom is releasing her recipe for oyako donburi, and let me tell you people, this recipe is priceless. I thought I could just wing it myself and the result was a wodge of foam mattress that didn’t remotely resemble Mom’s golden, melting, silky, savoury oyako donburi. Just don’t translate the name for the kids*. And let them eat it with a spoon.

Oyako Donburi (2 servings because Mom assumes your kids are also sleeping in) 2 boneless chicken thighs, sliced in thin strips ½ medium onion, sliced thinly 2 eggs, beaten slightly 2 green onion, sliced thinly Optional veggies: 1 julienned carrot, handful baby spinach, sliced mushrooms (Mom specified shiitake mushrooms but I don’t like them. Your choice.) Sauce: ½ cup dashi or chicken broth 2 tablespoons mirin 1 tablespoons sake 2 tablespoons shoyu (Mom uses the low sodium version) 2 tablespoons sugar or less if you prefer Heat 2 teaspoons oil in a small frying pan, add the chicken and onions and saute for about 2 minutes. Add the sauce mix, and, if using, carrots and mushrooms. Simmer for 2 minutes or until the chicken is cooked. Add the baby spinach, simmer just until wilted, less than a minute. Pour the beaten eggs over, sprinkle on the green onions, continue simmering until the eggs are set to your liking. Spoon over the bowls of cooked rice. Some people like this dish topped with a sprinkling of Shichimi Togarashi. *oyako means “mother and child” because it’s chicken and egg – this freaked me out as a kid So apparently my grandmother never made yakisoba! Huh. I remember eating it at Min’s, a casual Japanese restaurant that used to be on South Granville. Mom learned how to cook it at Shizuoka Kai and I learned to make it from packages. Mom’s is better, I must say. And noodles are absolutely comfort food. I have a prescription for feeling blue which involves angelhair pasta, tossed with butter, parmesan, black pepper and served with a softly poached egg on top. It makes your eyes roll up into your head when you eat it, it’s that

good. Yakisoba also works in this respect. Especially if it’s been made by your mother. Notes from Mom: The key seasoning is the sauce sold at Japanese and sometimes Korean food stores called Otafuku brand yakisoba sauce. Some people use tonkatsu sauce. (Lea: do you hear judgment here? “Some people”!) The key ingredient in these sauces is English Worcestershire Sauce, a condiment perfected in England by an English lord who brought the idea back from India. He liked the condiment so much he had Mr. Lea and Mr. Perrins (Lea: No, Mother did NOT name me after sauce. My name is Irish.) come up with a recipe which was then manufactured. It is made of tamarind, vinegar, anchovies, syrup, molasses and spices. Many countries adopted this sauce but of course adjusted the recipe to suit cultural tastes and Japan was no exception. They make the sauce less spicy, and add puree of apple and tomato to make a sweeter Worcestershire sauce. Bull Dog brand is very popular and available at Japanese food stores. I use either the western or Japanese version and adjust the other ingredients to suit my taste. The noodles used are the traditional Myojo or Maruchan noodles which are already steamed and oiled. Just rinse the noodles in very hot water to remove excess oil and drain. When I don’t have these special noodles, I have used instant ramen noodles. For these, drop them into boiling water, without the soup packet, stir until loosened, rinse in cold water, drain and cut into the right length. Do not cook until noodles are cooked through, they will end up too mushy. Stop just when they are not tough but still a bit firm in the middle. Try not to make a huge batch in one pan or the noodles will get soggy. You need a large pan and if cooking for a larger number, divide the ingredients and cook in two batches. In Japan, yakisoba is also made with seafood such as prawns or sliced squid. Sometimes sliced mushrooms or red peppers are added to the vegetable mix. You can create your own favourite combination.

Yakisoba (3 servings) Yakisoba Sauce (unless you went to Fujiya and just bought some or, as in my case, your mom gave you some) 2 tablespoons shoyu 3 tablespoons Worcestershire sauce 1 tablespoons oyster sauce 1 tablespoons hoisin sauce 1 tablespoons sugar or honey 1 tablespoons ketchup 1 tablespoons rice vinegar 1 teaspoons grated ginger Mix the ingredients together and keep in a jar in the fridge. ¾ pound thinly sliced pork like shabu shabu pork (or chicken thigh, boneless, skinless, cut in strips) ½ medium onion, sliced 1 carrot, julienned or coarsely grated ½ cup celery, thinly sliced (not always used but is used by the Shizuoka Kai group) 5 cabbage leaves, cut in 1 ½ inch cubes or coarsely sliced ¼-1/2 inch thick Black pepper Cooking oil Yakisoba sauce, from the store or home made, about 4-6 tablespoons or to taste Garnish: thinly sliced green onions (2 is enough), nori flakes, slivered beni shoga**

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Heat 1 tablespoon oil over medium high heat in a wide frying pan or use a rimmed griddle. Or a big old wok. Add the pork or chicken and stir fry. Season lightly with black pepper. When cooked, remove from the pan. Heat another few teaspoons of oil, keep heat medium high or high, add the onions, celery, carrots and stir fry for 2 minutes, then add the cabbage. Continue stirring and cooking until the cabbage is almost cooked. Add the prepared noodles and the sauce, stir and toss gently together until the noodles soften and separate and are heated through. Using 2 spatulas or big tongs is helpful. Serve sprinkled with sliced green onions, Now pour 1 cup of cold water over the lot and give it nori flakes and slivered beni shoga. a good mix, just until most of the lumps are smoothed *I think beni shoga is pickled ginger but can’t confirm because Mom is out and there are no floury patches. Don’t beat, don’t overmix. Feel like going totally crazy and ensuring you not picking up her phone won’t sleep tonight? Add ½ c. of chocolate chips. So I didn’t forget a sweet! But we did have a discussion about sweets and much caffeine. whether a sweet implies entertaining and having guests over. Which we’re not allowed right now. But here’s a chocolate cake recipe that you can Pour into your pan and bake about 30 minutes or until whip up quick and eat with your hands but not on the white couch. I don’t it passes the toothpick test. Let cool completely before know what the rules are in your house. Some people eat stainy messy cutting as it’s a very moist cake and will tear if you do not treat it with respect. food wherever they feel like eating it.

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Justin likes this, and every cake, with ice cream. I like it with a little whipped cream and sliced bananas or strawberries. You do what you want, we’ll never know.

Funny story: Justin was comparing Asian mom stories with a Chinese friend who was ordering takeout from Into a large mixing bowl sift: Hapa but avoiding anything raw because his mom doesn’t like it. Justin’s mom doesn’t particularly care 1 ½ c. flour for raw fish and the friend’s mom doesn’t care for raw 1 c. sugar anything. She thinks white people make salad because ¼ c. cocoa (NOT Dutch process, the regular kind) they’re lazy. Classic! But I thought, that’s odd, surely ½ tsp salt there’s a Chinese salad. But all I can come up with is Make three indents or wells in the mixture. One big, one medium, and one Sesame Cucumbers which I’m sure I’ve done in an small. I know you’re feeling like Goldilocks but isn’t this fun? earlier column…. Into the big well goes ⅓ c. oil. We hope you are all staying safe and looking after Into the medium well goes 1 T. white vinegar yourselves and your loved ones. I generally don’t feel it’s for me to tell people what to do, but then realized Into the small well goes 1 tsp vanilla that a recipe is just a series of commands. Do this, then do that. So here’s one more and just a gentle suggestion: if you can, wear a mask when you’re out. It may not be perfect, but it is, at the very least, a gesture that is reassuring to others. Because people out there are getting anxious...I have witnessed some borderline hysterical exchanges about space and I’m sure you all have too. A mask sends the signal that you’re serious. Also, it provides a feeling of righteous virtue which is pleasant, especially when someone yells at you about staying back, because you can then point at your mask and ask them why they aren’t wearing a mask? Sorry, I started being earnest and serious because I do care, but I can’t resist a little bad advice that makes me laugh.

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AN ODE TO MOM, COVID AND THE INTERNMENT by Laura Saimoto, Community Relations Committee As the COVID crisis was emerging in mid-March, I was going about my daily life and I started to feel this deja-vu feeling as I watched the news and as life as we knew it started to shut down. First the travel ban, school shutdowns, business shutdowns, self-quarantine, and the amount of fear and uncertainty hanging in the air, and buried in everyone’s hearts. There was the shock of it all, how serious and deeply structural this was, and how life as we knew it was no longer, but then knowing that I did not know what was going to come next. And the speed of all that was happening kept me in this spin. I was checking my phone frequently throughout the day to check the stats of the exponential spread and severity of the toll on human life, frontline healthcare workers, in seniors’ homes, and how this was spreading like a forest fire throughout the globe. The energy of fear, the stillness of the streets, the boarded up stores in downtown Vancouver and Gastown feeling like a ghost town, and in particular the images of the makeshift triage hospitals being set-up in Central Park, New York City switched on a lightbulb inside of me. This had never happened before, so why was I feeling a deja-vu? Then it dawned on me that what I was feeling was what my mother and father and their families and what the entire Japanese Canadian community must have felt when World War II broke out in December 1941 and early 1942. My parents had shared the story of their families, on my mother’s side, interned in Bridge River and East Lillooet, and on my father’s side in Minto Mine, and I’ve been an advocate of promoting the education of Japanese Canadian history. So I knew the facts, had seen many of the archival photos, including those of my own family, and of course, heard many of the stories from my family and community members. The images of those makeshift triage hospitals in Central Park instantly reminded me of the Hastings Park photos, where the makeshift beds were set up in the animal stables at the PNE to detain Japanese Canadians before they were shipped off to Internment camps.

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Historic Powell Street and the pre-war Japanese Canadian Community was an amazingly vibrant market village, with a population of 8,000 Japanese Canadians and over 400 businesses along Powell Street. The Japanese School and Hall had a student population of over 1,000 students as a second language school. Soon after Pearl Harbor happened, there was a curfew imposed, businesses, newspapers, and the Japanese School closed. And everything was boarded up. Overnight, the population of Strathcona Elementary dropped from 1,200 students to 600 as half of the students were Japanese Canadian and were told not to go to school.

When I look at the photos of the Internment and the faces of the children especially, all the community members are welldressed. The children look happy and healthy. Community life was rebuilt and actually, each of the Internment camps built their own de facto little self-sufficient economies, growing their own food, starting their own businesses, like starting to grow and sell tomatoes in Lillooet, and they built or started their own schools to continue their education of their kids. They kept in communication with each other; they rebuilt community.

schools put together by older students who taught younger students and taking highschool courses by correspondence, echoing today’s remote learning, my mother skipped a couple of grades, and was able to graduate highschool in an Internment Camp. Upon returning to Vancouver with her education gaps, she worked hard to catch up and graduated from UBC to become a home economics teacher.

And yet, when I look at the photos of the Internment and the faces of the children especially, all the community members are well-dressed. The children look happy and healthy. Community life was rebuilt and actually, each of the Internment camps built their own de facto little self-sufficient economies, growing their own food, starting their own businesses, like starting to grow and sell tomatoes in Lillooet, and they built or started their own schools to continue their education of their kids. They kept in communication with each other; they rebuilt community.

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And so, as we come up to Mother’s Day, looking at my mom’s grad photo in East Lillooet, I feel a deep, deep knowing appreciation and gratitude for what our mom and her mom has taught me. Now in her late 80s and with dementia taking her short-term memory, we chat with her through Skype at her seniors’ care home. Her Through no fault of their own other than their ethnicity, the homes, strength of life-force continually reminds me of what properties, boats, and businesses of Japanese Canadians were she once told me, “If we can get through this, we can confiscated and sold off by the federal government. Overnight, people get though anything.” lost their livelihoods, going to school, their homes, their freedom of movement – essentially their rights. There was no Emergency Benefit or Thank you, mom. EI wage subsidy back then. They lost everything material, one’s way of life, and did not know what was going to happen next. Feeling the deep NEWS UPDATES fear of both the short and long-term implications of COVID now, in the • As of April 1, Children’s World Daycare has been Japanese Canadian community with the suspension of all civil rights back temporarily suspended until further notice. then, the fear factor must have been off the charts. • Since April 18, Saturday Japanese language classes have moved to remote learning to finish out the Of course, we know that the government forcibly relocated 22,000 school year. Japanese Canadians to 100 miles east of the coast to deserted farm • Our June 9 Golf for Good Fundraising tournament fields or ghost towns to self-isolate them from being a security threat to has been postponed until further notice. the nation for seven years, from 1942 – 49. During that time, there was We ask for your continued energetic support of our no freedom of movement, there were no jobs in the camps initially, there organization during this unprecedented time. were no schools or Japanese Canadian children were not allowed to attend white schools.

So each day since the COVID crisis started, I look at the beautiful photo of our mom (shown above) of her highschool graduation in East Lillooet in her beautiful white graduation dress sewn by my grandmother, who was a skilled seamstress. This photo was taken in front of their Lillooet shack in the Internment camp. To me, it encapsulates everything that my mother taught me about life. In spite of the extreme hardships of that time, her family, the community, rallied together and built a life.

lucky enough to live out this global pandemic in Canada where the government and people are united in their effort to hold the number of the infected and the dead to a minimum through rationally thought-out measures. In closing, I can only hope that all you readers will stay safe by observing the two-meter social distancing and other rules.

P.S. I really appreciated the recent performances by top stars to support efforts to stop the spread of Covid-19, especially Mick Jagger’s rendition of the Rolling Stones’ hit “You Can’t Always Get What You Want” that he kicked off while strumming on an acoustic guitar in his living room. He was joined by Keith Richard, Charlie Watts and other band member, each playing in his own living room. As I watched them on the screen divided They made the most of what they had, their skills, their health, their into quadrants, I felt really energized. hard work, imagination, and the spirit of collective organization and After all, Mick, two years older than me, has been my effort to get through. Despite their poverty, my grandmother had taken role model of sorts ever since we used to cover Stones her Singer pedal sewing machine up to the Internment camps, sewed numbers in my first rock band in the mid-1960s. I’m clothes for other community members, and made this beautiful grad really happy that veterans like Mick and Elton John dress for my mother’s high-school grad. With homemade community are still doing their thing. I too am also rockin’ on!

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In November 2019, I was in a US hospital for five days. My temperature was hovering around 102F. I sweated profusely, followed by the chills. I couldn’t get out of bed without collapsing to the floor. I was dizzy, I had lost my appetite, I was extremely weak.

This was before COVID was a daily news story, though medical researchers now have speculated that the virus started around that time in Northern Italy (and not China). I went to the Emergency Ward and the medical staff ran several tests on me. They found that my bladder, my kidneys and most distressingly my blood were infected. With what they couldn’t identify right away. So, they pumped me full of antibiotics and I felt better, good enough to be released the next day.

in 10 restaurants will never come back (and if this keeps up, by the end of April, it will be one in 5). All schools closed. All events and festivals postponed indefinitely. NHL, NBA, MLB, no alphabet game of any kind. Social distancing is encouraged, though Mayor Tory recently announced a by-law that requires people to maintain the necessary distance. To give it heft, 160+ police officers are now patrolling the streets and parks to catch perpetrators. The set fine is $750 up to $1000. If convicted, the resident can face a fine of $5,000. The repeated offender may see jail-time (one has actually). Draconian, perhaps. Necessary, yes. Idiots are attracted and tempted by sunny days and socialize with their children and friends at the beach or public park, though parks have been fenced off and locked. But people open the locks and break in to flagrantly break the social distancing order.

Unfortunately, the antibiotics hadn’t been strong enough. The symptoms returned that night, worse than the first time. I went back to Emergency. After more tests, the attending physician decided to admit me. I spent the next four days in a hospital bed, fed a continuous flow of new antibiotics and saline solution. They ran blood and other tests continuously (including scans). Mayor Tory has said: “The time for The needles began to hurt badly by the second day. puzzlement at this misbehaviour is On the third day of my stay, an infection specialist told over. Lives are potentially at stake me I was suffering from e coli bacteria. The antibiotics and we will turn up the heat in the had worked, my blood and organs were clear. But I had hopes that the few who don’t get it to endure another night’s stay with yet another blood or pretend not to get it will get with test the next morning. Just to make sure. To their credit the program.” and my relief, they rushed the test at the lab, and I was released by the afternoon. It was not COVID, but I can relate to the suffering, the treatment, the isolation (only my wife was with me), the alienation, and the fear of the unknown fate patients are experiencing today. Toronto has become a ghost town in the onslaught of the virus. Everyone travelling to Canada and specifically Toronto and Vancouver are required to self-isolate for 14 days. Most businesses have closed – about one

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The Japanese Canadian community is no exception. The Toronto Buddhist Church, the Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre, Momiji Seniors Centre and the Japanese United Church have all closed their doors indefinitely. All programs have been suspended. As have all festivals (Hanamatsuri and Harumatsuri to name two), events, regular club meetings and lessons.

And then there are the xenophobic and racist attacks against Asian Canadians throughout the city and the country. The refrain of “Go back to China” is a popular one. Violence has erupted. On a crowded Toronto bus, before the social distancing order was promulgated, my friend’s son was assaulted by a white man. He said rather loudly that the 27-year-old should be wearing a mask. Being an intelligent and articulate kid (age relative to me), he countered with, “First of all, I’m Japanese, not Chinese. In fact, Canadian. Second, I’ve not been to Wuhan, ever. Let’s canvas everyone here about how many have been to Wuhan.” And he went on until the white bigot exited hastily. continued on page 35

(Anvil Press, Vancouver 2020?) Terry Watada’s new novel, Mysterious Dreams of the Dead, has been delayed because the book printers have ceased operations.

NIKKEI BOOKSHELF Starting in April, Nikkei Centre staff have been introducing themselves weekly on Instragram and Facebook, sharing some interesting personal facts and Nikkei book recommendations. Get to know the faces of Nikkei Centre whilst learning about some awesome books to add to your to-read list! Nichola Hi. I'm Nichola Ogiwara, Museum Programmer at the NNMCC. One funny fact about me: I can move my nose like a rabbit. I'm a big fan of Kyo Maclear! I was first hooked by her novel Letter Opener (2007), and enjoy her many books for children. Her characters are often sad, hurt, or unusual, but find meaning and peace through the story. Her latest book is Birds Art Life. Many of her books are available on our online shop. nnmcc.square.site

Emiko Hi everyone! My name is Emiko Newman, I am the Volunteer Coordinator at Nikkei Centre. One fun fact about me: I think milk and sushi go together really well (I’m still looking for people who agree with me). My book recommendation: Prairie Ostrich, by Tamai Kobayashi. It’s a beautifully written, tragic but hopeful story focused on a young Japanese girl named Egg as she navigates a neglectful family and daily bullying by her classmates. Kobayashi provides harrowing insight into what it felt like growing up Japanese Canadian in Alberta in the 1970s. This book is available in our museum shop – check it out! nnmcc.square.site/product/paririe-ostrich/83 Carolyn Hello! I'm Carolyn Nakagawa, Culture, Education, and Programs Coordinator for the Nikkei National Museum & Cultural Centre. A fun fact about me is that I can recite the poem "Jabberwocky" from memory! I just finished reading the wonderful I-Hotel by Karen Tei Yamashita. It's a modern classic about Asian American social justice organizing in 1960s-1970s San Francisco. Its stories will ring true for anyone who has been involved in community organizing, or has been following anti-gentrification struggles in Vancouver. It's also a hilarious and complex look at Asian diasporic identity, complete with cartoons!

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PRESIDENTS MESSAGE by Lynn Deutscher Kobayashi In another time and place, that being February 2020, we enjoyed the Emperor’s birthday celebration at the JCCC at the invitation of Consul-General Mrs. Takako Ito. There we learned of the exciting plans ahead for the Olympics. In the world of event planning, organizing the Olympics has to stand as one of the most complex endeavours. We appreciated being included in this celebration and commiserate with Japan on the massive undertaking that rescheduling entails. A week later, I attended the Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival Lunar New Year Gala. In hindsight this event seems something of a last hurrah. Andrew Phung, who plays Kimchee of Kim’s Convenience was highly entertaining in his role as MC and I enjoyed running into JC’s Nobi Nakamura of the Japan Foundation, Award-winning author, Kerri Sakamoto, author and Nobu Adilman, Screenwriter and Journalist. At Haru Matsuri, lower than usual attendance began to foreshadow the changes ahead. But the lighter crowd did give me the opportunity to chat with community Lynn Deutscher Kobayashi & Andrew Phung (Kimchee of Kim’s Convenience) leaders from the JCCC, Momiji, Young Japanese NAJC NATIONAL COUNCIL MEETING & SUPPORT FOR MOMIJI Canadians of Toronto and the Toronto Buddhist Church HEALTHCARE SOCIETY as well as John Ota, author of the newly released book At the March 18th meeting, the Toronto NAJC recommended that approval The Kitchen. of the 2020 budget be delayed, given the impending uncertainties and By March 10, the curtain began to lower, and the citing the postponement of the Federal and Provincial budgets for this Toronto NAJC Board made the decision to postpone same eason. The motion was however passed. As the effects of the our April 4 Freedom Day Luncheon and hold our March pandemic became evident and the lack of PPE for front line staff at Momiji 17 Board meeting, normally held at Momiji via ZOOM. became known to us, we asked the NAJC to help support an emergency The times they were a changing. fund to purchase PPE.

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L-R Nobu Adilman, Nobi Nakamura, Lynn Deutscher Kobayashi, Kerri Sakamoto

As the budget was already set, the NAJC agreed only to redirect Community Development Fund monies, which we had intended to apply for to hold a mini conference, to Momiji and restrict us from applying for further funding. The Toronto NAJC added $2,000 to these redirected grant monies. This is in addition to the $20,000 donated in January 2020, the second installment in a three-year pledge of $60,000.

advocacy. Board member Stephane Hamade and I have been part of intensive work with the NAJC Social Justice Committee as well. Regular updates can be found at www.torontonajc.ca on Twitter @TNAJC Facebook facebook.com/torontonajc/ and Instagram @torontonajc

We are grateful that the NAJC agreed to expedite the grant process, but we feel that as a national body, the NAJC can do more for our elders and the Toronto NAJC will continue to advocate for the larger community on this issue. The Momiji Healthcare Society assisted living home is by far the largest Japanese Canadian facility in Canada.

One of the outcomes hoped for in joining this AsianCanadians collective is to share and compile data on Anti-Asian racism. To this end an online form to document incidents is posted on our website.

EXILES IN OUR OWN COUNTRY Japanese Canadians in Niagara (author Addie Kobayashi) This collection of 19 oral histories is the most comprehensive of extremely limited documentation of the Japanese Community history in the Niagara region. The Town of Lincoln Museum and Cultural Centre has secured a grant to use this book as ASIAN CANADIANS TOGETHER to END RACISM (ACT2endRacism) the basis for a Virtual History Project. If you have It is disheartening to realize that the virus of particular knowledge of this history, please contact racism is on the upswing in Canada. The Toronto Lynn Deutscher Kobayashi at torontonajc@gmail.com NAJC, The Greater Vancouver JCCA and the NAJC have agreed to support this newly formed ASIAN HERITAGE MONTH group. I am part of a working group that includes Plans have not been finalized for an event via ZOOM. communications which in the course of less than two weeks has issued Please check our website for updates. a statement than was included as part of the agenda for the April Keep well, keep safe we send hugs and smiles. 29th parliamentary session. We also stand in solidarity with Chinese – Lynn Deutscher Kobayashi and the Toronto NAJC Canadians who are specifically targeted and support the work of the Board of Directors Chinese Canadian National Council – Social Justice in their anti-racism PPE FOR MOMIJI PSWS Families have begun to mobilize support to ensure that PSW’s and frontline workers at Momiji have enough PPE. One family has started this drive by donating over a $1,000 and hopes that other families and individuals will support a drive for this emergency funding. Please contact torontonajc@ gmail.com or phone 647.932.1296 for more details.

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Milestones NAKATA, Tokiko was born on June 9, 1932 in Chemainus, BC. After surviving two cancers, she died on March 28, 2020 from a courageously fought battle against her third cancer that was diagnosed in 2013. She is survived by her husband, Yasuhiko, son Masahiko, daughter Ritsuko (Richard), granddaughter Kiko, brother Yoshiyasu (Nobuko) and sisterin-law Sumiko. She returned to Japan when she was three months old and grew up in Wakayama, lived through WWII and decided to bring her family back to Vancouver in the mid-1960’s. As the youngest sibling among four brothers and a sister, Tokiko was the primary caregiver for the Nakata family across generations. She worked at canneries and as a housecleaner over the years while taking care of a family that included her aging parents, her brothers until they married and her husband and children. She loved good food and enjoyed cooking for the family until pain and mobility issues prevented her from puttering around her beloved kitchen. We will miss our “Baban”. In lieu of koden or flowers, the family would be grateful for donations to the B.C. Cancer Foundation. FUKUI, Frank Kazuo Frank Fukui passed away on April 8, 2020 due to pneumonia. Frank is survived by wife, Vickie (Iwase), daughter Leanne McColl (Matt) & grandsons, Jack & Bryn. Born on December 5, 1938 to John Yaichi and Chiyoko Fukui, his sisters are Dorothy Kinoshita, Lee Jefferson & June Kawaguchi. Frank’s life was centred upon sport, teaching & family; he was a tenacious Ex-Brit rugby player, respected coach, wellloved teacher, talented gardener, avid skier & devoted grandfather. The family thanks Willow 5 & Parkview for their care. Thanks also to those who visited Frank in hospital. A celebration of life will be held at a future date. CARTER, Joyce Ritsuko We regret to announce that Mrs. Joyce Carter passed away quietly on the morning of Friday March 6th, in Surrey B.C. Joyce (Ritsuko) Carter was born on October 30, 1941, in Vancouver, to parents Miyako and Tadao Murata. She grew up in Vancouver, until the start of the 2nd World War, with older brother John (Masu) and older sister Gene (Toyoko). After WW II ended and Japanese Canadians were allowed to move home the Murata family returned to Vancouver. The 3 siblings eventually graduated from high school and Joyce and Gene were able to attend UBC where Joyce earned her teaching degree. She proudly taught elementary school students through the years and retired in the 90’s. It was shortly before retiring that she met the love of her life, Ken Carter. The two were wed on July 6, 1996. Together, they enjoyed travelling, Bingo, coin shows, cheering for the Canucks and most of all spending time with their grandchildren. Joyce was a renowned baker and her desserts were legendary at family gatherings. She was also a 40 year plus member of the Vancouver African violet club. Joyce is survived by daughter Kimberly (Mike) Watts and their children Joshua (Linh), Ryley (Matthew) and their son Carson, daughter Christine Carter and her children Brittany and Tyler and son John Carter (Theresa) and their children Tristan and Matthew. Joyce is aunt to Jaimee Oikawa (Joey/ Naomi) and Kirby Oikawa.

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Joyce will be remembered for the strength she showed when she survived breast cancer and more recently in dealing with the loss of her husband, Ken Carter, only a few short years ago. We love you and will miss you. HAMAURA, Robert (Bob) Hiroshi April 23, 1940 - March 19, 2020. It is with heavy hearts that we announce the passing of our dad, a loving husband, father, grandfather, brother, uncle, and friend who passed away at the age of 79 in Tokyo, Japan. Dad was predeceased by his parents Shigeru and Sadame, and sister Amy (Tom). Survived by his loving wife Misaye, children Kim (Geoff) and Dean (Julianna), grandchildren Zachary (Brooke), Reiko (Mike), Emmett, Rhett, Ashley (Jaycee), Courtney (John), Jayden and Jemah. He will also be missed by sister, Lynn (Mas), and in-laws, Roy (Itoko), Daisy (Merv), Bob (Molly), Ted (Rose) and many nieces and nephews. Dad was a friend to all. He will be remembered for his love of family, his smile, and his sense of humour. He will be sorely missed by all who knew him. We love you, Dad. Special thanks to the 3rd Floor & ICU staff of Showa General Hospital in Kodaira/Tokyo and Rev. Grant Ikuta. A celebration for Dad will be held at a later date. HIKITA, Gerald Shigeru Passed away on April 11, 2020. He is survived by his loving wife Helen Hikita; his children Daniel (Julia) and Katherine (Robert); grandchildren Roman, Simon and Quinn; his brother Dennis and lots of family and friends. Gerry was loved and will be missed. A Celebration of Life will be held at a later date.To send a condolence, please visit www. salmonandsons.ca KARIYA, Louis Kathumi It is with great sorrow that we announce the passing of Louis at Ridge Meadows Hospital on April 2, 2020. He is survived by Vivian, his loving wife of 51 years, his son, Jeffrey, 4 siblings, several in-laws, nieces, nephews and a host of friends He was pre-deceased by his daughter Lauri in 2001. A celebration of life will be held at a later date. In lieu of flowers, please make a donation to B C Children’s Hospital or the charity of your choice. A special thank you to Dr. Kim, the ER staff at Ridge Meadows Hospital and the paramedics who assisted. Condolences may be sent to www.hendersonslangleyfunerals.com OISHI, Akiharu It is with great sadness that we share the news of the passing of Akiharu (Bud) Oishi, of Maple Ridge, who died on March 27, 2020. He will forever be remembered as a devoted husband, father, father- inlaw, grandfather, and great- grandfather, and as a kind

and generous friend to all those that had the pleasure to meet him. Born on January 26, 1932, Aki grew up with his parents Kikumatsu and Toshie, and 4 siblings in Kelowna, British Columbia, where he attended school and worked in the farming industry, and excelled in the sport of hockey. At the age of sixteen, he moved to Calgary, Alberta to become a mechanic, and eventually landed a job as a heavy duty mechanic for H.M. Trimble & Sons Trucking Company. In 1956, Aki married the love of his life, Irene Lenora Rauhala. Several years later he was promoted to the position of shop supervisor and accepted a job transfer to Burnaby, British Columbia. Aki and Irene settled on a 10 acre hobby farm in Maple Ridge in 1967, where they raised their 4 children and ran a very successful kennel and showed Shetland Sheepdogs. Upon retirement, Aki and Irene moved to Peachland and enjoyed retired life in the Okanagan Valley for nearly 20 years. They eventually moved back to Maple Ridge several years ago. Aki is survived by his loving wife Irene, and children: Wade (Colleen) Oishi, June (Robert) Deines, and Todd (Robyn) Oishi; 7 grandchildren: Courtney (Keith) Kempke, Jessica (Lucas) DeHaan, Sandra (Graeme) Hobbs, Kristopher (Tegan) Oishi, Michael (Carlie) Oishi, Brandon (Adrienne) Oishi, and Megan Oishi; and 10 great-grandchildren. He was predeceased by his son Rody Oishi. He will be greatly missed but will forever remain in our hearts.

Red Hat Society and enjoyed meeting up with fellow members. Winnie is survived by her ex-husband Roger Takaoka (Kayla) of Calgary, AB; her son Randy Takaoka of Edmonds, WA; and her son Rob Takaoka of Burnaby, BC. Winnie was predeceased by her father, William James Cook; her mother, Margaret Cook; and her sister, Margaret Elizabeth “Betty” Farnish. At Winnie’s request, no service will be held. A Celebration of Life will be held at a later date. Winnie’s family would like to thank the doctors, nurses, and staff of Royal Columbian Hospital and Eagle Ridge Hospital for their care of Winnie during her recent illness. In lieu of flowers, please donate to the charity of your choice.

TAMAKI, Isao Born December 18, 1941 in Steveston, BC. Passed from cancer April 8, 2020 at Rotary Hospice House. Predeceased by brother Sunao and parents Yoshio and Tsurue. Remembered by brothers Yoshito and Akira and many relatives. Many thanks to cousin Annie/Fred for their support during this time. Koden and flowers declined. To his friends: please raise a glass TAKAOKA, Winifred Florence (Winnie) Winnie died peacefully at Eagle after 18, a card game, or hockey. Ridge Hospital, Port Moody, BC, at the age of 82. Winnie was born in Calgary, AB, where she attended King Edward School, Western Canada High School, and Mount Royal College. Winnie began her career working continued as a secretary at Home Oil. After raising two school-age sons, Winnie began working as a secretary for Beth Israel Synagogue. Later Winnie On another occasion, my wife and I were about to worked as a legal secretary for Howard Dixon Mackie & Forsyth and Code cross a street off the Danforth to get to the parking lot. Hunter, both of Calgary. After moving to the west coast, Winnie worked We stood in front of a parked car. A white BMW came for Whitelaw Twining, Stikeman Elliot, and Fasken Martineau DuMoulin, all roaring up the narrow street and suddenly swerved of Vancouver. While Winnie was always very hardworking, she was also into the parking lane. She continued, aiming it at me. hedonistic, enjoying smoking, drinking, and gambling. Winnie especially At the last minute, she veered away and thundered up enjoyed meeting her co-workers for a drink or two at lunch and after work. the street. Her window was open, and I saw a Black In retirement, having given up smoking and drinking, Winnie enjoyed woman driving. I can’t be sure of her motivation, but reading, movies, the Internet, travel, and gambling. She especially enjoyed witnesses assured me she was threatening me with visiting Boston, Hawaii, and Las Vegas. Winnie was a member of the her car. If she had hit me, I would’ve been dead, and her car would’ve crashed into the parked car, possibly killing her. Too little comfort.

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As John Okada, the great Nisei writer, wrote in No-No Boy: The Oppressed oppressing the Oppressed. With the daily news services, Canadian and American, constantly inundating the public, Toronto and other Canadian cities have become ghost towns. On the plus side, driving to the supermarkets (with outside wait-lines) is easy. On the other hand, it is sad to see building after building closed for business. For my part, I don’t mind the isolation. Not much different from the time before. Back then I saw very few people. I don’t like many. I just miss dining out with family and going to stores. Yes, I know there’s Uber Eats and other services and Amazon. It’s just not the same. Literature gives us works to relate. Read Gabriel Garcia Márquez’s Love in the Time of Cholera or TS Eliot’s The Waste Land. The poet did say: April is the cruellest month.

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Japanese Community Volunteers Association

#101-42 West 8th Avenue | Vancouver BC | V5Y 1M7 | 604.687.2172 | www.tonarigumi.ca

INTRODUCING TONARI GUMI NEWSLETTER TG Volunteers are busy creating a Newsletter to connect with members, volunteers and beyond. This month we would introduce excerpts from March and April Newsletter. By the time, you are reading this article; April 24 Newsletter is available through Tonari Gumi website. Please go to our website, check out latest info from local and federal government, also useful tips to share. Dear Friends of Tonari Gumi. We are going through unprecedented times that can be frightening for many. Tonari Gumi (TG) wants to help, and we are doing some things to help makes things better and, hopefully, a little less worrisome. First, over the past several weeks, TG staff and some volunteers have been calling seniors and others within the community to check on how they are doing and to ask if we can do anything to help. Restrictions on visiting and social separation can have

Help Seniors Stay Safe

Apart Yet Stronger (TG) Together “My father would always tell us that “one stick – breaks, but three sticks – strong”. It was a theme so ingrained in our lives. Otōsan stressed that we are always stronger together. Even when we lived in three diﬀerent countries, cards mailed telephone calls and then internet, we stayed connected and we stayed strong.” Currently, we may be physically apart; however, on-going research concluded that by connecting with others we gain a valuable outlet to relieve stress and to feel less alone. In addition, the research also showed that reducing loneliness and social isolation decreased the incidents of chronic illness, including dementia, while increasing a sense of wellness continued on page 38

a negative effect on our seniors and those who already feel isolated and alone. So, we are paying special attention to those who are living alone and those who do not have family nearby. TG will be calling more seniors in the community over the coming days and we also ask that if you know of anyone who is isolated and alone, to give TG a call so we can check on them as well. Second, as an additional source of information and to provide a friendly message, Tonari Gumi has started distributing an on-line Newsletter every two weeks. Tonari Gumi Newsletter (April 11 edition), edited by Makiko Suzuki and Mayumi Spry:

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The Japanese Community Volunteers Association, “Tonari Gumi” gratefully acknowledges and thanks the following people for their generous donations received from March 18 to April 17, 2020. Although we try our best, we may miss your name. Please contact us and we will make correction in the next issue. Monetary Donations The Benevity Community Impact Fund (TELUS),The Provincial Employees Community Services Fund(PECSF), The Frank H. Hori Foundation Monetary Donations (Canada Helps) Tamotsu Nagata Monetary Donations (Canada Helps Partner Giving Program) Canada Helps, Gore Mutual Insurance In memory of the late Yoneko Kusumoto Harold & Sachie Sato In memory of the late Hanano Shimano Tasaka Henry & Yvonne Wakabayashi In memory of the late James Nishimura Aki & Eileen Murao In Kind Donation Arlene Yip

OUR EDIBLE ROOTS

The Japanese Canadian Kitchen Garden

THE TIME TO GROW HERITAGE JAPANESE VEGETABLES? . . . NOW! by Makiko Suzuki The excuse for not growing Japanese vegetables usually is .. “Love to, but I am so busy”. A positive under these dark days is that time has freed up time for household projects. There is light at the end of a hose! Numerous studies have proven gardening reduces stress, improves sleep, and increases mobility. Growing edibles also means a healthier diet and saving money. This is the perfect time to grow your own Japanese vegetables! Many are heeding the call. Most seed catalogue companies and nurseries are reporting huge increases in sales. West Coast Seeds is currently backlogged with over 30 days of orders! Other smaller seed companies are sold out of popular vegetables. Luckily, Japanese vegetables are not well known within the general public; many Japanese vegetable seed varieties are available. The Tonari Gumi book Our Edible Garden: the Japanese Canadian Kitchen Garden will guide you through the gardening season with tips to growing these vegetables. The book is organized by season starting with cool weather vegetables. These are the ones you should be planting now. The ‘vegetable planting chart’ on page 14 in the book will assist in planning the entire gardening season. Each page provides growing details and information as to sources of seeds (West Coast Seeds, Salt Spring Island Seeds, and T&T Seeds are popular choices within the Greater Vancouver area). NOT SURE WHAT TO GROW? Cool Weather Vegetables Start with Nira – (Japanese leek) – these perennial chives provide garlicky flavoured greens for most of the year when planted in a pot (at least 6-8 “) that you can move inside or to a more sheltered area of your garden mid-fall. Shungiku (Edible Chrysanthemum) my favourite green vegetable. With little care, shungiku, a vigorous grower, will provide a season-long crop of tender greens that are great in salads. Mature greens are usually steamed, much like spinach. Shungiku flowers make a decorative garnish and delicious teas. Towards the end of the season let some of the plants ‘go to seed’. Collect and store for planting next year. Usually you will be greeted in early spring by new sprouts that seeded naturally. They are easy to transplant – or consume the delicious thinnings.

First time grower Burnaby BC, May 16, 2019

Kabu (Japanese Turnip) is another early season candidate. Tender and almost sweet, kabu root is delicious raw or roasted. The greens are also tasty. More mature leaves are best salt pickled or cooked. Warm Weather Vegetables Shiso, the ubiquitous Japanese herb, is a bit tricky to germinate from seed, as warmer temperatures are required. It’s often best to purchase plants already started. With a lot of heat, sun and some fertilizer you will be rewarded with beautiful, large plants. Trim to prevent them from getting tall and leggy and keep compact by pinching-off the tops and sides. Surplus leaves can be ground with sea salt and dried to make a tasty seasoning for use later. You can also make a delicious furikaki with the leaves, but the recipe is a bit onerous. (More in a later column.) continued on page 38

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Our Edible Roots continued Tonari Gumi Japanese Vegetable Workshops Cancelled Due to the current situation with Covid-19 our classes have been cancelled. However, you can test your ‘green thumb’ with an on-line purchase of Our Edible Garden: the Japanese Canadian Kitchen Garden book. While stocks last, we will include two sample-sized packages of our most popular seeds: either nira, shungiku, hanemame or gobo. Please visit the Tonari Gumi website for book ordering details. www.tonarigumi.ca/shop Gardening is about having some routine, certainty and control even during times when life seems unpredictable. The sun, the fresh air, and the realization that life goes on becomes the driving force. The sun will rise and the rain will fall. Seeds become sprouts, then vegetables – food for your body and soul! I can imagine my grandma, thinking the same thing, even through difficult times. We are strong! Be kind to each other – share your harvest!

TG continued and contentment. By now you may have received a friendly phone call from our staff at Tonari Gumi. With seniors’ wellness in mind, more than ever we need to keep connected and engaged. We encourage you to increase your connections with others. Why not join Same garden, July 20, 2019. our TG Telephone Buddy Program and get updated on Kyuri (Japanese Cucumber) I remember my dad growing these in Toronto interesting news and allow us to support each other? during the ‘70s. Prolific and delicious, there was always enough to share In turn, why not share useful information you find on armloads with others at church. Our Edible Garden describes growing government websites with your friends and family? It kyuri in detail. By following a few careful steps you also can harvest will help them deal with their own anxiety. We are truly these amazingly crunchy and tasty cucumbers. Summer Dance and Tasty stronger by connecting together. Emperor are two excellent Japanese varieties to plant. “During the COVID-19 crisis, seniors will be able to receive the support they need through a new provinceEasy to grow, Hana-mame (Japanese climbing beans) are best planted wide joint initiative of the Ministry of Health, bc211, and outdoors starting in May. Provide sturdy support – these guys like to United Way of the Lower Mainland. climb and display their beautiful flowers. By the end of September to mid-October plump pods filled with huge beans will be ready for harvest. Ideally, allow to dry in the sun. Easy to store once dried, these beans can be prepared fresh like edamame, or sweetened and cooked for a delicious dessert often served as a treat around New Year celebrations.

Through the new Safe Seniors, Strong Communities program, seniors can request volunteer help with grocery shopping, meal prep, and prescription pickup, or receive friendly check-in calls by simply dialing Daikon is another essential Japanese vegetable that the book provides 2-1-1 or filling in an online form at www.bc211.ca. Once detailed growing tips on. Best planted early spring or in August. Most a senior contacts bc211, they will be connected with seed catalogues carry the standard long daikon. The mini purple daikon a volunteer who can help them. This service will be is an excellent variety for salads, adding vibrant colour. Remember that available seven days a week during daytime hours. “ daikon leaves are edible raw or cooked plus, make excellent and nutritious Safe Seniors, Strong Communities! quick-salted pickles.

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Nikkei Place Monthly Update Nikkei Place comprises Nikkei National Museum & Cultural Centre, Nikkei Seniors Health Care & Housing Society and Nikkei Place Foundation. COVID-19* At the time of submission, Nikkei National Museum & Cultural Centre remains closed to the public until further notice, and continues to monitor the local and global coronavirus situation. Please check our website for the latest updates and ‘visit’ us on social media. Facebook.com/NNMCC | Instagram @nikkeimuseum | Twitter @nikkeimuse

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MUSEUM ONLINE Visit our website at centre.nikkeiplace.org to find a variety of resources for fun, fascination, and education. Explore online exhibits and archives; play games; watch videos; listen to our podcast. More resources are being added as they become available. FEATURED PROGRAMS 20TH ANNIVERSARY PROJECT

MUSEUM SHOP More items are being added to the online shop daily. Check out our new strawberry green tea created in collaboration with Tea Lani. ONLINE 24 HRS squareup.com/store/NNMCC

Call for Nikkei poems 1877 We arrived 1942 We were expelled 2020 We live together 2100 We come to realize What does Nikkei history, culture, identity mean to you? To celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Nikkei National Museum & Cultural Centre, we are encouraging everyone to think about NIKKEI, and be creative. In collaboration with artist collective Tasai, we are collecting poems as well as a recording of the poem, plus an image. Local poet Soramaru Takayama from Tasai will curate these components into a contemporary audio visual performance, which will be live streamed from the gallery in June 2020, and will later be available in digital form. Those who submit a poem will receive a copy of all the gathered poems in a curated form. WHAT: Submit an original, unpublished poem. The word Nikkei may or may not appear in the poem. Poems can be submitted in English or Japanese. Poems must be under 20 words (or 20 Japanese characters). If it’s longer, we may only use part of your poem. Please include a sound recording of your poem (MP3 file). If you are unable to make a recording, we can record it for you at the Nikkei Centre once we reopen. Please send a headshot. Or a photo of an item related to the poem. WHEN: Submission period is from April 10-May 31, 2020.

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HOW: Submissions will be accepted online, by mail, and in person (delivered to Nikkei Centre once normal operations resume). WHO: Submission is open to all. Minors must have consent of their guardian.

Postponed Preserving your photographs: practical advice from an archivist. New date TBA

NIKKEI NATIONAL MUSEUM & CULTURAL CENTRE 6688 Southoaks Crescent, Burnaby, BC, V5E 4M7 Tel: 604.777.7000 Fax: 604.777.7001 E-mail: info@nikkeiplace.org NIKKEI SENIORS HEALTH CARE AND HOUSING SOCIETY 6680 Southoaks Crescent, Burnaby, BC, V5E 4N3 Tel: 604.777.5000 Fax: 604.777.5050

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KIDS’ SUMMER PROGRAMS

SPECIAL EVENTS

Manga Summer Camp Postponed NNMCC Auxiliary Spring Bazaar & Spring Plant Sale Our popular bazaar will be combined with the October Book Sale in the fall. Two sessions available! Monday, July 13 – Friday, July 17, 2020, 9:30am-4pm Book Sale | Friday, June 12 & Saturday, June 13 | 10am-4pm OR Monday, August 17 – Friday, August 21, 2020, Browse and discover thousands of Japanese books, manga, CDs, and 9:30am-4pm DVDs! The widest selection of used Japanese books in Metro Vancouver. Ages 9 - 12 Tanabata + Flea Market | Saturday, July 4 | 10am-4pm Fee: $225 (Non-member), $200 (Member) Tanbata is when the weaver star and the cow herder star traverse the Register online at http://centre.nikkeiplace.org/kidsMilky Way to renew their love. Let's celebrate by writing wishes on long, camps/ narrow strips of coloured paper called tanzaku and make colourful decora- Info learning@nikkeiplace.org tions. There will be a craft and game zone for children to enjoy all day! A Manga Summer Camp is a fun-filled week of JapaFlea Market will be placed in the Events Hall. Vendors wanted! For more nese culture and arts activities for beginner and details, please visit our website. intermediate level manga enthusiasts with a lineup of workshops by local Vancouver comic artists who will share their knowledge of illustration, storytelling, and design. Manga Camp kids will design and create their own Manga and will take home a copy of their comic booklet including stories designed by all of the day campers! The manga component will be complemented by cultural crafts and activities led by local teachers of traditional Japanese arts.

People in the Dock Yard, circa 1935, Mamoru Madokoro Collection, NNM 2018.31.1.2.61, part of the Families on the Coast Digitization Project.

Charles H. Kadota Resource Centre The Nikkei National Museum’s collections database NIKKEIMUSEUM.ORG has hit a new record: over 31,000 items are online! Explore the collections made available from: Families on the Coast: K&M Boat Works and the Oikawa Island (funded by the Irving K Barber British Columbia History Digitization Program); Home Run at Powell Street (funded by Library and Archives Canada and the NNMCC Auxiliary); and, At Risk: Preserving our most vulnerable fonds (funded by Library and Archives Canada). Contact our Research Archivist Linda Kawamoto Reid at lreid@nikkeiplace.org for research inquiries or our Collections Manager Lisa Uyeda at luyeda@ nikkeiplace.org for donation inquiries. Thank you to the Adhoc Redress Committee for their support.

Creative Joy Summer Camp Monday, July 27 – Friday, July 31, 9:30am-3:30pm Ages 7 - 10 Fee: $225 (Non-member), $200 (Member) Materials Fee: $30.00 Register online at http://centre.nikkeiplace.org/kidscamps/ Info learning@nikkeiplace.org Kokoro Creative Arts class instructor, Miss Cheryl, will host this 5-day summer camp for children ages 7-10 years old, to discover the fun of creating! "Kokoro" means heart, mind, emotions and feelings in Japanese. At Kokoro Art Studio, we believe art is powerful in nurturing the hearts and minds of children.

OTHER WAYS TO SUPPORT NIKKEI NATIONAL MUSEUM & CULTURAL CENTRE • Purchase a membership for yourself or a loved one. • Volunteer! Download an application at: centre.nikkeiplace.org/ volunteer. • Shop at the Museum Gift Shop. • Attend one of our upcoming fundraising events. • Consider us as the venue for your next party, meeting, or special event. • Donate to the Tree of Prosperity or Nikkei Place Foundation. Please contact Nikkei Place Foundation at 604.777.2122 or gifts@ nikkeiplace.org if you would like information on becoming a donor.

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Nikkei Seniors Health Care & Housing Society GUARDING AGAINST THE COVID 19 INFECTION AT ROBERT NIMI NIKKEI HOME AND NEW SAKURA-SO

by Tom Teranishi The top priority of the Nikkei Seniors health Care and housing society is to protect the health and well-being of our seniors and their community.

MEALS IN THE DINING AREA As the Fraser health Authority restricts the number of persons in the dining area to twenty-five. Breakfast and dinner will be served in two settings in view of the space available due to the social distance required of two meters between diners. Other seating arrangements may have to be made as needs arise to prevent the residents from becoming exposed to the virus.

Therefore, the following preventative measures in keeping with the Provincial government guidelines against the Covid 19 virus have been instituted under the leadership of Cathy Makihara, CEO, Gina Hall, Resident Care Manager, and Tara Patnottaro, Nursing Care Leader, with input from Dr. Asae Tanaka, family physician, and Marcia Carr, clinical nurse specialist, OUTSIDE SERVICES such as foot care, hair dressers to prevent the infection of residents, staff and visitors to the Robert Nimi etc. have all been cancelled. Nikkei Home and New Sakura-so. ACTIVITIES FOR RESIDENTS Nikkei Home is creatSome of these measures include daily questionnaires for all staff, essential ing alternative activities that residents can do in their visitors, contractors, and Hi Genki staff, to be answered by ‘yes’ or ‘no’. suites. Presently working on setting up family viewing The questions are: do you have a mild cough, runny nose, low grade fever means by Skype and other virtual means for families (37.3C or higher), shortness of breath? Have you arrived from outside of and residents to keep in contact. The set-up can be Canada or had direct contact with some person who has a confirmed or coordinated by booking appointments which the fampresumptive case of Covid 19 within the last 14 days? ily and resident can arrange. Further details to follow. Answering ‘yes’ to any of these questions means that person will not be A daily newsletter with activities has been created for permitted entrance into the resident area or to work on site at the Nikkei the residents by the Nikkei Home. There are also prizes Home. to be won by the residents. This type of activity is to Temperatures are taken before entering. be maintained as long as possible. PROTOCOLS ON ENTERING THE HOME Testing information is becoming available on how all If supplies are to be dropped off to a resident, you need to ring a bell next staff can get tested for the Covid-19 virus if a staff to the intercom and a staff member will take it to the designated person. member is experiencing symptoms. ESSENTIAL VISITS only essential visits are permitted to those residents New Sakura-so seniors independent accommodation who are critically ill as designated by a medical health practitioner and Being an independent living facility, the tenants need visitation is limited to one adult, and no children. to comply with the Covid 19 protocols set by the ProESSENTIAL OUTINGS for medical appointments, etc. The staff will bring vincial government. the person to the front entrance door with the person taking the resident not being allowed to enter upon returning. The resident will need to complete a Covid Prevention questionnaire before entering. If ‘yes’ is answered to any of the questions, the resident will be isolated according to the Isolation and outbreak Protocol. Also if a resident shows symptoms, then that person will be isolated immediately in their suite until 14 days after the symptoms are resolved. Tray service will be provided during that time.

New sakura-so common areas to be sanitized daily Arranging meal delivery daily for those persons on the Hi Genki meal program (no new meal programs will be added)

There have been on-site programs on the prevention procedures to follow given by Dr. Asae Tanaka and Marcia Carr clinical nurse specialist who are both on Residents who are temporarily away from the facility and living elsewhere the Nikkei Seniors Health Care and Housing board. in the community e.g. with their family members, are not permitted to return to the facility for the duration of Covid 19 outbreak as determined The Nikkei Seniors health Care and Housing Societywish our readers stay healthy and safe from contracting by the Fraser Health Authority health officer. the Covid 19 virus. Family members wanting the residents to live with them temporarily must be informed that the resident will not be permitted to return to the facility Note There may have been changes in the Covid 19 protocol as this article was written at the end of March if an outbreak of the Covid virus occurs at the facility. for it to appear in the May Bulletin The family must agree to an alternate care plan for the resident prior to the resident leaving the facility.

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Nikkei Place Monthly Update Nikkei Place Place Foundation Donations Nikkei Donations NIKKEI PLACE is comprised of three organizations: Nikkei Place Foundation, Nikkei National Museum & Cultural Centre, and Nikkei Seniors Health Care and Housing Society. In reponse to the rapidly evolving situation of the COVID-19 pandemic, a number of changes have been implemented at Nikkei Place to keep our community, staff, volunteers, and the general public safe. Visit www.nikkeiplace.org — each of our organization’s are continuing to make updates on our websites and social media channels. We are still accepting donations, but encourage you to donate online at www.nikkeiplacefoundation.org to avoid any delays with receiving your tax receipt. For questions, contact gifts@nikkeiplacefoundation.org. Gifts from March 31, 2020 — April 27, 2020 inclusive

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Anonymous Carina Abe Ian & Debbie Burgess Brian & Marcia Carr Patricia H. Chan GALA TICKETS CONVERTED Michael & Ruth Coles TO DONATON Grant Dustin McMillan LLP Junichi & Atsumi Hashimoto Hidemi Matsushita Tad & Mitsuko Hosoi Kumi Shanahan Kenneth & Bernadine Isomura Rickey & Margaret Yada Tomoko Ito Mary F. Kawamoto HONOURS & TRIBUTES Satoko Kobayashi In Memory of Ristuko Veronica Imai Katsuko (Kitty) Kodama Greciana Langamon Reiko Barabas Tommy Li Kazuto & Mary Nakamoto Stewart Kawaguchi In Memory of Tom Madokoro Ted Kawamoto Isao & Ina Kuramoto Catherine Makihara Masako & Ken Moriyama In Memory of James Nishimura Anne Motozono Isao & Ina Kuramoto Daigo Naito In Memory of Taye Takahashi Roberta H. Nasu Michael Takahashi Takeshi & Mizuho Ogasawara In Memory of Akiko Wakabayashi Chris Oikawa Linda McElgunn Hanako Oye Abe Yokome Linda Kawamoto Reid Evelyn Yokome Jim & Norma Sawada Rick Yokome Audrey Shimozawa Eva Shiho In Memory of Masako Yada Barbara Shishido Rickey & Margaret Yada Charlotte Takasaki In Memory of Shiro Yesaki Sharlene A. Tabata Isao & Ina Kuramoto Joyce C. Takeshita Darlene Tanaka & Trevor Jones In Memory of Lin Hee Yoon Grace Tanaka Anonymous

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HERITAGE ESTATE GIVING CIRCLE Tamiko Corbett Yoshiharu Hashimoto Mitsuo & Emmie Hayashi George & Elaine Homma Betty Issenman Sato Kobayashi Gordon Kadota Cathy Makihara Robert & Jane Nimi Carrie Okano Linda Kawamoto Reid Richard & Gail Shinde Norman Shuto Haruko Takamori Sian Tasaka Fred & Linda Yada Sam Yamamoto We apologize for any errors or omissions on this list. Please contact us at gifts@nikkeiplacefoundation.org or (604) 777-2122 if you have any concerns.

Community Updates NIKKEI PLACE CHARITY GOLF TOURNAMENT CANCELLED THIS YEAR Due to the ongoing concerns of COVID-19, we sadly announce that the Nikkei Seniors Health Care and Housing Society must cancel the Nikkei Place Charity Golf Tournament + Fundraiser — their biggest fundraising event of the year. It was slated to happen later this month on May 29, 2020 at Riverway Golf Course in Burnaby. The cancellation of the tournament will undoubtedly affect Nimi Nikkei Home’s ability to provide dementiafriendly and outreach programs to seniors in 2021. VISIT OUR WEBSITE: seniors.nikkeiplace.org/golf to find out how you can continue to support seniors in lieu of our tournament. SEND A LETTER TO A SENIOR AT NIMI NIKKEI HOME During this challenging time, let them know you are thinking of them. Find out more about this community initiative at seniors.nikkeiplace.org

Nikkei Place Monthly Update ロバート新見日系ホームと新さくら荘における新型コロナウイルス感染に対する予防策執筆：トム寺西翻訳：坪井なほ子日系シニアズ・ヘルスケア住宅協会の最優先課題は、高齢者と地域社会の健康と幸せを守ることです。そこで、このたび新型コロナウイルスに対する州政府のガイドラインに沿った以下の予防措置が、キャシー槇原（CEO）、ジーナ・ホール（レジデント・ケアマネージャー）、タラ・パットノッタロ（看護ケアリーダー）の主導のもとで制定されました。ファミリードクターの田中朝絵医師、マーシャ・カー専門看護師の意見も取り入れて、ロバート新見日系ホームと新さくら荘の入居者、スタッフ、および訪問者に対する新型コロナウイルス感染予防のための具体的措置で、以下その対策の一部をご紹介します。すべてのスタッフ、必要不可欠な訪問者、業者、ハイ・ゲンキ・レストランのスタッフを対象に、「はい」または「いいえ」で回答するアンケートを毎日実施しています。質問事項は軽度の咳、鼻水、微熱 (37.3 C 以上 )、息切れの有無、カナダ国外から帰国したか否か、また過去 14 日間に新型コロナウイルス陽性者または感染の可能性のある人物と直接接触したことがあるか否かです。質問のいずれかに「はい」と回答した場合には、ホームの居住区域への立ち入りが禁止となり、日系ホームでの作業も許可されなくなります。区域内に入る場合には体温測定も行います。また、スタッフに症状が見られる場合に備え、スタッフ全員が新型コロナウイルスの検査が受けられるよう、検査情報を入手中です。

日系ホームに入る場合の手順：入居者に届け物をする場合には、インターホンの横にあるベルを鳴らしてください。係員が受け取り、指定された人に届けます。

ダイニングエリアでの食事：フレイザーヘルス保健局は、ダイニングエリアに一度に入る人数を 25 人に制限しています。現在朝食と夕食は、他の人との間に 2m 距離を確保して、二つのグループに二回に分けて提供しています。入居者の新型コロナウイルスへの感染を防ぐために、必要に応じて異なる座席配置の手配が必要になることもあります。

施設外でのサービスについて：フットケア、ヘアドレッサーなどの外部からのサービスは全てキャンセルとなりました。

入居者向けのアクティビティー：日系ホームでは、入居者が各自の部屋でできる代替えアクティビティーを作成しました。現在、スカイプやその他のオンライン方法を使って家族と入居者が連絡を取り合うための方法にも取り組んでいます。これは、家族と入居者の事前申し込みにより設定するもので、詳細については追って連絡いたします。また、日々のアクティビティーを掲載したニュースレターを作成しました。入居者のための景品も準備し、このタイプのアクティビティをできるだけ長く続けられるよう取り組んでいます。

新さくら荘（自立型シニア・アパート）：

介護が不要な新さくら荘の入居者は、州政府が設定した新型コロナウイルスの規則に従うことになっています。施設内の共用エリアは毎日除菌をし、ハイ・ゲンキで食事をされていた入居者へは、毎日食事をお必須訪問：医療従事者により判断された重篤な状態にある入居者には、部屋まで配達してます。（新しい食事プログラムの追加はありません。）必須の訪問のみが許可されます。訪問者は大人 1 人に限定し、子供また、日系シニアズ・ヘルスケア＆住宅協会理事の田中朝絵医師と、の訪問は許可されていません。マーシャ・カー専門看護師による新型コロナウイルス予防に関するプログラムが新さくら荘入居者を対象に行われました。

医療機関訪問などへの外出が必要な場合：

スタッフが入居者を玄関までお連れしますが、付き添いの方はお帰りの際に入館できません。入居者には建物に入る前に感染予防のためのアンケートにお答えいただきます。いずれかの質問に「はい」と答えると、隔離および集団感染時の手順に従って隔離していただきます。また、入居者に症状が見られる場合には、症状が無くなってから 14 日間、自室で隔離生活をしていただきます。この間、食事はお部屋までトレイに乗せて届けられます。

日系シニアズ・ヘルスケア住宅協会一同、読者の皆様が新型コロナウイルスから身を守り、健康で安全に過ごされることを願っております。注 : この記事は月報５月号のために 3 月末に執筆されたため、新型コロナウイルス対策に関して掲載までに変更があった可能性があることをご了承ください。

例えば、家族と一緒に住むなど、一時的に施設から離れ、他の場所に住んでいる入居者は、フレイザーヘルス保健局の担当官の決定により、施設での新型コロナウイルスの集団感染中は施設に戻ることは許可されません。一時的に入居者との同居を希望する家族には、施設内で新型コロナウイルス感染が発生した場合、入居者の施設への帰館が許可されないことが伝えられ、入居者が施設を離れる前に代替ケア計画に同意していただきます。

日系ヘルスケア＆住宅協会では、ロバート新見日系ホームや新さくら荘、またシニアの健康に関する質問やご意見を歓迎いたします。下記の連絡先までご連絡ください。電話 604-777-5000 またはげっぽう記事執筆者トム・寺西 604-732-9458、604-816-1500。

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Nikkei Place Monthly Update 日系プレースは、日系文化センター・博物館、日系シニアーズ・ヘルスケア住宅協会および日系プレース基金で構成されています。

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新型コロナウィルス COVID-19 日系文化センター・博物館は、現時点では引き続き休館させていただき、地域や世界的なコロナウィルスの状況を監視します。最新情報をウェブサイトにてご確認いただき、以下のソーシャルメディアにて是非「ご来館」ください。 Facebook.com/NNMCC Instagram @nikkeimuseum Twitter @nikkeimuse

オンライン博物館ウェブサイト centre.nikkeiplace.org では、気晴らしに楽しめるもの、興味を惹かれるもの、教育的なもの等、幅広い情報が掲載されています。オンラインでご覧いただける展示とアーカイブ、ゲーム、ビデオ、ポッドキャストなど是非お試しください。新しいコンテンツも、可能になり次第順次追加していきます。

お勧めプログラム 20周年記念企画「日系」詩の公募中 1877 わたしたちはやってきた 1942 わたしたちは追いやられた 2020 わたしたちはともに生きよう 2100 わたしたちは知るあなたにとって「日系」とは何を意味しますか？日系文化センター・博物館の 20 周年を記念して、皆さまに「日系」について考えていただきたいと思います。歴史、文化、アイデンティティなどいろいろな角度からみんなで考えてみたいと思います。アーティスト集団 Tasai との共同企画により、詩の一般公募を行い、集まった詩を使って一つの作品に仕上げます。地元の詩人高山宙丸が集まった素材をキュレートして、パフォーマンス作品を作り上げ、ギャラリーでライブストリーミングで発表します。画像として後々に楽しんでいただける作品を作ります。詩を提出された方には形に残る記念作品を贈呈させていただきます！あなたの「日系」をテーマに、一行詩と、詩の録音と顔写真の三点をお送りください。プロジェクト概要未発表の自作の詩に限ります。「日系」がテーマですが、詩の中で「日系」という言葉は使用しなくてもよい。詩は英語または日本語で受け付けます。詩は日本語 20 文字以内（または英語 20 ワード以内）でお願いします。これより長い場合は、一部だけ使用させていただく場合があります。詩の録音（MP3 ファイル）もお送りください。自分で録音できない場合は、通常業務に復帰後日系センターで録音できます。顔写真を送ってください。または、詩に関連するアイテムの写真でもいいです。どなたでも応募できます。未成年者は保護者の了解が必要です。応募期間は 2020 年 4 月 10 日〜 5 月 31 日です。応募方法 : ウェブサイトあるいは郵送

4月25日に予定されていた「写真の保全：アーキビストによる実践的アドバイス」ワークショップは無期延期になりました。新しい日時が決まりましたらお知らせします。

ミュージアムショップただいま長期に渡る閉館に付きオンラインショップの充実化に励んでいます。Tea Lani にご協力いただいてミュージアムのオリジナルブレンドティーを売り出しました。どうぞご支援よろしくお願いします。 https://squareup.com/store/NNMCC/

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特別イベント延期 NNMCC 活動補助委員会による春のバザーと植木市は秋のバザーとなり、10 月のブックセールと同時開催となります。ブックセール 6 月 12 日金曜日・6 月 13 日土曜日 | 午前 10 時から午後４時恒例のブックセール、ぜひお立ち寄りください！

七夕＋フリーマーケット 7 月 4 日土曜日 | 午前 10 時から午後４時織姫と彦星が年に一度だけ会えると言われている「七夕」。子供たちと七夕飾りを作れるクラフトコーナーや、目一杯楽しめるゲームゾーン、自分で作る綿あめなど楽しみがいっぱい！またイベントホールでのフリーマーケット同時開催。ベンダー受付中。詳細はウェブサイトでご確認ください。

チャールズ門田リサーチセンター日系博物館の収蔵品データベース NIKKEIMUSEUM.ORG でのオンラインの掲載数が 31,000 点を超えました！「沿岸部の家族たち：K&M ボート・ワークスと及川島」( 資金提供：アーヴィング K バーバー・ブリティッシュコロンビア・歴史デジタル化プロジェクト )、「パウエル通りのホームラン」（資金提供：カナダ国立図書館・文書館と NNMCC 活動補助委員会）、「危機：最も崩れやすい私たちの基礎を守るということ」（資金提供：カナダ国立図書館・文書館）といったプログラムから閲覧可能となっているコレクションをぜひご覧ください。調査研究に関してのお問い合わせは、リサーチ・アーキビストのリンダ・川本リード lreid@nikkeiplace.org まで、寄付に関してのお問い合わせは、コレクション・マネージャーのリサ・ウエダ luyeda@nikkeiplace.org まで。戦後補償特別委員会のご協力に感謝いたします。

子供向けの夏のプログラムマンガ・サマーキャンプ 2 セッション開講！7 月 13 日（月）〜 7 月 17 日（金）午前 9 時 30 分〜午後 4 時、または 8 月 17 日（月）〜 8 月 21 日（金）午前 9 時 30 分〜午後 4 時対象年齢 9 〜 12 歳費用：＄225（非メンバー）、＄200（メンバー）オンラインでお申し込みください。http://centre. nikkeiplace.org/kids-camps/ お問い合わせは learning@nikkeiplace.org マンガ・サマーキャンプは、初級・中級レベルのマンガファンが日本文化・芸術を学ぶ、楽しいアクティビティがいっぱいの一週間です。地元バンクーバーのコミックアーティスト達によるワークショップでは、イラスト、物語作り、デザインを学びます。参加者はそれぞれ自分のマンガを作り、全員分のマンガが載ったコミック冊子を持ち帰ることができます！伝統的な日本芸術の地元講師と共に行う工作やアクティビティを通して文化に触れることは、マンガを作るうえで重要な要素です。

Caption: People in the Dock Yard, circa 1935, Mamoru Madokoro Collection, NNM 2018.31.1.2.61, part of the Families on the Coast Digitization Project.

コミュニティ献血クリニック 5 月 8 日（金）正午〜午後 8 時献血できる適性基準がありますので、詳しくはカナダ献血サービス（1.888.236.6283/ feedback@blood.ca / www.blood.ca）まで。日系センターウェブサイトにて、さまざまな特別イベント・プログラムなどの詳細をご覧ください！(www.nikkeiplace. org)

クリエイティブ・ジョイ・サマーキャンプ 7 月 27 日（月）〜 7 月 31 日（金）午前 9 時 30 分〜午後 30 時 30 分半額で午前のみ、午後のみの参加も可能。対象年齢：7 〜 10 歳費用：＄225（非メンバー）、＄200（メンバー）、教材費＄30.00 オンラインでお申し込みください。http://centre. nikkeiplace.org/kids-camps/ お問い合わせは learning@nikkeiplace.org ココロ・クリエイティブ・アートの講師シェリル先生による 7 〜 10 歳のお子様向けの 5 日間のサマーキャンプで、創る楽しさを発見しましょう！「ココロ」とは日本語で心、精神、感情、気持ちを意味します。ココロ・アートスタジオでは、アートはお子様の心・精神を養う上で重要であると考えます。

日系文化センター･博物館をサポートする他の方法ご自身またはご家族や親しい方へ当協会のメンバーシップを購入する。ボランティアに参加する。お申込み：centre.nikkeiplace.org/volunteer 博物館ギフトショップでお買い物をする。今後開催される募金イベントに参加する。パーティー、会議、特別なイベントの会場として日系プレースを利用する。繁栄の木や日系プレース募金に寄付をする。ご寄付に関する詳細は、日系プレース基金にお問い合わせ下さい： 604-777-2122 または gifts@nikkeiplace.org。

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「隣組ニュースレター」創刊とご紹介会員、ボランティアそして皆さんをつなぐ、隣組ボランティア有志による「隣組ニュースレター」が創刊されました。今月は 3 月と 4 月号の記事を抜粋してご紹介いたします。そしてこの記事が出るころには、4 月 24 日号が隣組ウェブサイトでご覧いただけます。日々更新される州政府、連邦政府の情報や生活に役立つ情報を隣組ウエブサイトから発信中です。皆さん隣組ウエブサイトを是非ご利用下さい。現在の情勢に、不安を覚えている方も多いことでしょう。隣組では、状況を改善し、不安を少しでも和らげるために、皆さんのお役に立ちたいと思っています。これから二週間にわたり、皆さんにお変わりがないか、何かお手伝いできることがないかをお聞きするため、会員および過去に隣組を利用したことがある方々を対象に、隣組スタッフと数名のボランティアがお電話させていただきます。面会や外出の制限、社会的な隔離といった対策は、シニアの方や、孤立や孤独を感じている方には深刻な影響を及ぼすものであることも理解しています。隣組は身近にご家族のいない一人暮らしの方との継続的な連絡を続けます。皆さんからも今孤立が心配される方の情報をお寄せください。そして隣組はオンラインで隔週ニュースレター情報発信を始めました。以下が、スズキ・マキコさんとスプライ・マユミさん編集によるニュースレターです。

離れている時こそ、私たちは強いきずなでつながっている父が私たち 3 姉妹にいつも言っていた、「一本の杖は折れてしまうかもしれない。でも 3 本まとまれば強くなる」

隣組へのご寄付ありがとうございました。（2020 年 3 月 16 日〜 2020 年 4 月 17 日順不同、敬称略）

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この言葉は、お互い遠く離れた異国に暮らす私たちの心に今も響き続け、メールや電話、インターネットを通じて、想い合うこと、つながり合うことを強く意識させてくれます。あるリサーチによると、私達姉妹の様に例え距離は離れていてもお互いに連絡を取り合うことで、ストレスを解消したり寂しさを和らげることが出来るといいます。また、人とつながることによる安心感や満たされた気持ちは、孤独感や孤立からくる慢性的な心の病や認知症の回避に効果をもたらすと報告されています。隣組には電話友だちというサービスがありますが、これまでに利用されたことはありますか。これはシニアの “心の健康” を考えたサービスです。私達は、シニアのみなさんが誰かとつながり合うことを応援しています。是非、この電話友だちプログラムを利用してみてください。そして楽しいニュースや役に立つ情報などを聞いたら、次はあなたがそれを家族や友達に教えてあげてください。あなたの周りの不安や孤独感を抱えている人も、強い気持ちでいられる様にお互いがつながり合いましょう！家族や友人のサポートを受けながらも一人で暮らすシニアの皆さんは、他との接触を絶たれた今の環境下では寂しい思いをされている事でしょう。人の声を聞くことや食料品の買い出し、処方箋を取りに行くなど益々難しくなっていくでしょう。新型コロナウィルスの危機的状況において、BC 州政府は新たなシニアサポート bc211 を提供しています。バンクーバーエリアに住むシニアの皆さんは、州政府のボランティアによる食料品の買い物や処方箋を取りに行くなどの代行サービスを利用する事ができます。

シニアが安心して暮らせる、みんなのコミュニティ作り！

46 月報 The Bulletin

隣組のご案内 2020 年３月 16 日より閉館しています。開館時期は未定です。最新のお知らせ等はウェブサイト・ソーシャルメディアからご覧いただけます。電話：604-687-2172 メール：info@tonarigumi.ca ウェブサイト：tonarigumi.ca

バンクーバー日本語学校並びに日系人会館

お知らせ雑記帳

持ち物、技術、健康、勤勉さ、想像力、そして集団的な組織と努力の精神を最大限に活用して乗り切ったのです。貧しかったにもかかわらず、祖母はシンガー社のペダルミシンを持って収容所に行き、他の地域の人たちのために服を縫ったり、高校を卒業する母のためにこの美しいドレスを作ったりしました。先輩が後輩を教えたり、通信教育で高校の授業を受けたりと、現代の遠隔教育にも通じるような手作りのコミュニティスクールで、母は学年を飛び級して収容所の中で高校を卒業することができました。学歴格差を抱えてバンクーバーに戻った母は、皆に追いつくために必死に努力し、 UBC を卒業して家庭科の教師になりました。母の日を前にして、東リルエットでの母の卒業写真を見ながら、母と祖母が教えてくれたことへの感謝と畏敬の念を強く感じています。今、母は 80 代後半になり、認知症で短期的な記憶力が低下しています。老人ホームにいる母とは、スカイプを使ってチャットをしています。彼女の生命力の強さは、かつて母に言われた言葉を思い起こさせます。 “これを乗り越えることができれば、どんなことでも乗り越えることができる “. お母さん、ありがとう。

母への感謝状ローラ・サイモト、コミュニティ・リレーションズ・コミッティー３月中旬にコロナ禍が顕在化してきた頃、普段通りの暮らしをしていた私はニュースを見ているうちにデジャヴを感じました。その後、自分の知っていた日常が終わりを告げました。まず渡航禁止、学校閉鎖、業務停止、自己隔離、そして漠然とした恐れと不透明な空気が立ちこめていきました。それが大変深刻なことで、今までの日常はもう帰ってこないということはショックでしたし、一寸先は闇でした。この激動の渦に私は飲み込まれていました。感染状況や人命の危機、最前線の医療従事者のこと、高齢者の施設のこと、そしてすべてが山火事のように地球規模で広がっていることなど、一日に何度もニュースを確認していました。恐怖のエネルギー、通りの静けさ、バンクーバーのダウンタウンやガスタウンの板張りの店はまるでゴーストタウンのよう。そして特にニューヨークのセントラルパークに設置されたその場しのぎのトリアージ病院の映像は、私にある気づきをくれました。こんなことは初めてなのに、なぜデジャヴを感じるのだろう？これは私の両親、その家族、そして日系カナダ人コミュニティ全体が、1941 年 12 月から 1942 年初頭に第二次世界大戦が勃発した時に感じていたことだったのではないかと。母方の家族はブリッジリバーと東リルエットに、父方の家族はミント鉱山に抑留されていたことを伝え聞いていた私は、日系カナダ人の歴史教育の推進を提唱し続けていました。その為歴史的事実を知っていたし、自分の家族の写真を含む多くのアーカイヴ写真を見ていましたし、家族やコミュニティメンバーから沢山の話を聞いていました。セントラルパークにあるその場しのぎのトリアージ病院の写真を見て、私はすぐに、抑留先へ送られる前に日系カナダ人が収容された、その場しのぎのベッドが PNE の畜舎に作られたヘイスティングスパークの写真を思い出しました。パウエル街における戦前の日系カナダ人コミュニティは、パウエル通り沿いに 8000 人の日系カナダ人が住み 400 以上の企業が軒を連ねる、驚くほど活気に満ちた市街地でした。日本語学校および会館には、1000 人以上の学生が第二外国語学校として通っていました。真珠湾攻撃が起こった直後すぐに外出禁止令が出され、企業も新聞社も日本人学校も閉鎖されました。そして、すべての窓に板張りがなされました。一夜にしてストラスコーナ小学校の生徒数は 1200 人から 600 人に減少したのです。それは、生徒の半数は日系カナダ人で、学校に行くなと言われたからです。民族が違うというだけで、罪のない日系カナダ人の家、財産、船、会社などは連邦政府によって没収され、売却されました。一夜にして、日々の暮らしや人生、移動の自由などの権利を失ったのです。当時は緊急給付金も EI 賃金補助金もありませんでした。彼らは物だけでなく生活すべてを失い、先の見えない状態でした。私たちは今コロナの短期的な影響と長期的な影響の両方に恐怖を感じていますが、公民権が全停止された当時の日系カナダ人のコミュニティにおいては、その恐怖の度合いは桁違いだったに違いありません。２万２千人の日系カナダ人が 1942 年から 49 年までの７年間、国家の安全保障上の脅威であるという理由で海岸の東 100 マイルにある荒れ果てた農地やゴーストタウンに強制的に移転させられました。その間移動の自由はなく、収容所には当初仕事も学校もなく、日系カナダ人の子供たちは白人学校に通うことも許されていませんでした。それなのに、抑留所の写真、特に子供たちの顔を見ると、みんな身なりが整っているのです。子供たちは幸せそうで健康そうなのです。地域社会の生活は再構築され、各収容所では事実上の自給自足の経済を築いていました。リルエットでは例えばトマト栽培をし、販売を始めたりしていました。学校も建設して児童教育が続けられるようにしました。互いに交流しながら、コミュニティを再構築していったのです。コロナ禍が始まってからは毎日、私は東リルエット高校卒業式の時の母の美しい写真（上の写真）を見ています。腕のいい裁縫師であった祖母が縫った白いドレスを着たこの写真は、収容所にあったリルエットの小屋の前で撮ったものです。私にとってこの写真は、母が人生について教えてくれたことのすべてです。当時のひどい苦難にもかかわらず、母の家族や地域社会は団結し、子供たちに人生を与えてくれました。 475 & 487 Alexander St. Vancouver, B.C. V6A 1C6 Tel: 604.254.2551 Fax: 604.254.9556 Website: www.vjls-jh.com

円城律 1948年。E. Lillooetの家の前に高校卒業の写真。

ＢＣ州認可こどものくにからのお知らせ • • • •

4 月 1 日からこどものくにのプログラムは全て閉まっています。先生たちはこども達に逢いたくてたまりません。早くこどものくにが再開出来るといいと思っています。皆さんもしっかり手を洗い , social distance を守って毎日過ごしてくださいね。

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「ビューティフル、エイ？」バンクーバーで元気に暮らす幸せを感じたひと言最近ある日近所を散歩していて、大木の根元に紫、白に黄色のクロッカスが咲いているのを発見。高齢になったせいか、毎年春が訪れる毎にますます花々の美しさに魅かれるようになった拙者、早速 iPhone を取り出して撮っていると、突然背後から声が聞こえた。「ビューティフル、エイ？」。振り向くと知らぬ青年がほほ笑みながら立っている。不思議な事に、その一瞬の出来事が、人生のこの時点でバンクーバーで元気に暮らせたいる自分が如何に幸せかを総括している様に感じた。この頃毎晩 7 時になると、隣近所で住民が一斉に表やバルコニーに飛び出して、鍋やらフライパンやらを匙などで叩いて「カンカンカン」とやる。誰が始めたのやら、バンクーバー全市民が「コロナウィルスをやっつけろ」と連帯感を表すのだ。いかにも公共精神を尊ぶカナダ人らしき行為ではないか。新聞や情報ウェブサイトをチェックしているが、まだ日本ではやっていない様だ。 1970 年代の後半かつての地元、渋谷で一頃生活していた。隣近所のコンビニや酒屋、駅前ビル内の書店やレストランで店員さんやコックさんとは顔見知りにはなったが、名前を覚えたり地元コミュニティとしての連帯感を感じた事はなかった。当時の大都会東京と今の地元バンクーバーとは単純に比較できない。でも、隣近所の店や食べ物処の店員さん達はファーストネームで呼び合う間柄になり、真に地元の仲間と感じている。日本では今春のお花見のシーズン、各地の住民に政府はウィルス感染を避ける為に自粛してお花見を中止するよう勧告したが法律的に強制はできない。少なくとも平安時代よりずっと続いている伝統のお花見を諦めろ、というのはやっぱり無理な注文だった。更にテレビ各局が「勧告を無視してお花見を楽しんでいる市民達」の光景を放映したのが逆効果となった。「何だ、結構みんなお花見を楽しんでるじゃん。うちもそうすっか」と各地のお花見の名所はますます賑わう有様。日本人が本能的に一番恐れるのは仲間外れになる事。だから多くの家庭では在宅中居間やキッチンのテレビはつけっ放しにして、それとなくチェックしているのだろう。カナダなら連邦政府や州政府は、必要とあらば警官まで動員して勧告を強制できる権限がある。確かに最近の好天気が続くBC 州などではで週末に政府の勧告を無視してバンクーバーその他で多くの市民が癒しを求めて家族連れでバンクーバー島やウィスラー等の大自然に向かった。だがそれは日本みたいに「みんながやってるから」ではなく、「うちではそうすることにした」という自主的選択だったと思う。

日系の皆さんは勿論、カナダ在住が長い同胞の皆さんも、日本では得てして差し障りのありがちな「我が道を行く」とか「うちはうちの方針をつらぬく」的な生活を好んでいるのでは、と想像する。少なくとも数名の同胞の友人にはそうした気質が感じ取れる。留学やホームステイなど若い頃海外生活を体験することはあっても、人生を全うするのは故郷の日本と決めている親戚や友人がいる読者の皆さんも多いことだろう。当方にも 60 余年遡る幼稚園時代から仲が良い同年配の従兄がおり、学生時代彼はアルバータ州カルガリーの工業大学に留学していた。一家のお墓は将軍徳川慶喜の墓もある由緒ある谷中墓地にある。彼は自分もいずれそこに入るのをずっと信じて疑わないできた。何も海外生活を選んだ私達の方が得をした、などとミミッチイ事は考えない。運命とでも言うか各々選んだ道をひたすら進むのが人生なのだから。ただ今はコロナウィルスの蔓延という前代未聞の非常事態の真っただ中だ。その従兄は健康を害しており、手遅れになる前にぜひ東京まで見舞いに行きたいのだが、飛んで行けるとしても早くてこの夏以降となるだろう。読者の皆さんの中にも会いたい人達がいる日本に行きたくても行けない方々がおられるだろう。これも海外生活んだ私達の運命なのか。難しい事は解らぬ未熟者の拙者だが、ただこう言った世界的非常事態に、理性にかなった適格な諸措置により感染者や死者の数を国民が一丸となって最低限に抑えているカナダ、特に健康的なバンクーバーとその周辺で暮らせる幸せを神様、仏様にひたすら感謝するしかないと考えている。例の 2 メートル間隔を保つルールなどをちゃんと守って、読者の皆さんもご健康でいてほしいものです。追伸：あのミック・ジャガーが自宅の居間でギターを弾きながら歌ったヒット曲 You Can't Always Get What You Want は素晴らしかった。画面を４区画に分けてキース・リチャード、チャーリー・ワッツなどがそれぞれ自宅の居間から共演したのだ。確か 2 歳年上のミックは昔ロック小僧だった頃からカバーしてきた先輩だ。そな彼やエルトン・ジョン達がみんな現役でがんばっているのは喜ばしい限りだ。「俺もがんばるぜ！」

更に約 23 年間暮らしてきたバンクーバーとその周辺に限って言えば、風光明媚の自然環境が、日本の密集した東京、大阪など大都市のそれに比べて段違いに良い。コロナウィルスは日光と新鮮な空気に弱いらしいと最近どこかで読んだ。晴天、絶好の散歩日和の今日（20 日）は、 UBC キャンパス付近の近所をぶらついた。勿論、他人とは 2 メートル間隔を保つルールは守ったが、店員や銀行員、よく会う隣近所の人たち等ほとんどみんなファーストネームで呼び合う間柄なので、顔を見れば声をかけ合ってお互いを励ます。みんな心強く感じているはずだ。またカナダ、米国、英国、西欧などでは自宅で缶詰になっている隔離期間中、楽器の演奏を覚えるとか外国語を学ぶ、ひいては屋内体操で身体を鍛える、初めてのお料理に挑戦する等々、個人個人でこれを機会に自己向上 (self improvement) にあてている人達がかなり居るようだ。そういう感心な人達は日本にも居よう。だが毎日、日本のメディアをチェックしているがそういう話は全く見ない。つい最近では複数の人たちがビデオをみながらチャットできるサイトを利用して友人仲間と「オンライン飲み会」を得意気に催しているニュースは見たが。どうしても仲間の常連等周りの言動が気になって仕方がなく自己能力の開発に費やす時間がないのかも。

48 48 月報 The Bulletin Bulletin

和文英訳英文和訳信頼おける翻訳をいたします。 Tel: 604.221.7393 Fax: 604.221.7333 E-mail: masaki.watanabe11@gmail.com

渡辺正樹

《滄海一粟》航海日誌

元日系ボイス編集者田中裕介

日系労働組合百周年記念（３）第一次大戦後の感染感冒爆発と一世医師

として働いた。カナダでの医師の免許がなかったために看護士という役職名を使わざるをえなかったのだ。1904 年、バンクーバー市内パウエル街 393 番地で薬局の看板を掲げながら医療治療に当たった。 1919 年のスペイン風邪の感染爆発時、バンクーバーで石原医師とともに献身的に治療に当たったのが、日系人としてカナダの公認医師第一号となった下高原幸蔵だった。

●日系伝説「ドクター下高原」

1885 年鹿児島県指宿出身。教育熱心な家柄だったようで、兄は一足先に米国で医学を修めていた。不幸なことに、兄は結核を患い早世新型コロナウィルスが世界中で猛威を振るっている。学校も職場もした。幸蔵は兄の遺志を継ごうと 14 歳で北米を目指した。母は鶏卵閉鎖、市民一人一人が物理的にも社交的にも隔絶されてしまった。多売りで貯めた「五圓」を持たせて旅立たせたという。バンクーバーでくの労働者がすでに職を失い困窮している。トロントでは既存のホーは鏑木夫妻の住む牧師館で世話になったようだ。ストラスコーナ小学ムレス収容施設は満杯になり、休業中のホテルの客室に収容するとい校ではるか年下の子供たちと一緒に学び、飛び級してブリタニア高校う方策を導入した。に進学した。この間、スクールボーイとして白人家庭で家事賄いをし「20 世紀初頭に 5 億人が感染し、何千万人もの死者を出したスペイながら勉強を続けた。ン風邪に次ぐ最悪の感染症になってしまった…今後、世界は周期的に 1915 年、シカゴ大学医学部卒業。米国、カナダ、日本で開業できロックダウンを繰り替えさなければならなくなる可能性が高い」（神戸る免許を獲得し日系人医師第一号としてバンクーバーに戻り、パウエル大学・岩田健太郎教授）と言う。不安が暗雲となって世界に広がって通りとカドーバ通り角のビルを安く借りて、1918 年に住居兼医院を開いる。元をたどれば、これは人間社会のみならず、人間と自然界の間業した。医療事務を習得した新妻・信とともに、二人の到来を待ってもボーダーレス、互いに境界線のない時代になったことに起因するといたかのように感冒が蔓延した日系人社会のために身を粉にして働いいう。た。自分の医院内で身寄りのない患者を世話したが、感染爆発は個人一説では、かつて「梅毒菌」は西インド諸島の風土病だったという。病院では対応しきれなくなった。それが 15 世紀に始まる「大航海時代」にあっという間に世界の港を市立中央病院が満杯となった時、赤川牧師、浮田郷治領事とはか通じて広まった。つまり、都市という人とモノが密集し移動し続ける空らって休校となったストラスコーナ小学校を 3 週間借り切って患者を収間では，爆発的な集団感染は免れないようだ。ここまで書いて、上の容した。看護に当たったのは日本赤十字の看護婦だった矢田部つね、文章にパンデミックを定義するキーワードがいくつか含まれていること中野たけ子、石井テル、その他日系社会の女性たちもボランティア看に気づいた。「猛威」「隔絶」「困窮」「不安」が今日、世界が共有す護師として治療に当たった。1 日 12 時間勤務の上、末期患者 100 余る言葉のような気がする。名の悲惨な最期を看取ったのである。「その経験は恐ろしく悲痛なもの 1910 年代後半のカナダも、上の 4 つのキーワードが当てはまる世であった」（ゴードン・中山吾一著「一世」）という。現在の、新型コ相を呈していた。1918 年、4 年続いた第一次世界大戦が終わった。ロナ感染爆発の治療に当たっている医療スタッフの心労と相通じるもの途端に、戦争特需で潤っていた経済が冷え込んだ。1917 年に導入さを感じる。れた徴兵制度で出征し、無事に帰国した兵士を待っていたのが、この中山牧師はその著の「下高原幸蔵」の章を「…彼は人間というものスペイン風邪と貧困だった。を、そのもっとも素晴らしい時も、もっとも卑しい時にも目の当たりに 1918 年、日系人のコミュニティのあった BC 州カンバーランドのユニしたが、それでもなお人間を愛するという、気高い精神の持ち主であオン炭鉱で、地元の労働組合による大掛かりなストライキが起きた。り続けたのであった」と結んでいる。そのリーダーは社会主義者の「ジンジャー」ことアルバート・グッドウィンだった。彼は戦争に対して真っ向から反対し「良心的兵役拒否」を申請したが、政府に拒否されて逃亡する身になった。彼の徴兵拒否の理由は、「資本家間の摩擦が災いして起こされた戦争のために、ある国の労働者が他の国の労働者を殺すために戦場に駆り出されるのを拒否する」と明快なものだった。だが、彼は逃亡中に警官に発見され撃ち殺されたのだ。ここに 1917 年のロシア革命の影響が見て取れそうな気がする。一方、当時のマニトバ州ウィニペグ市は、大陸横断鉄道で東西から運び込まれる物資と米国との貿易品の一大ハブとして機能していた。パンデミックの条件が揃っていた。徴兵義務を果たした男たちが得た恩賞が感染では、やりきれなかっただろう。3 万人の労働者たちが立ち上がり、1919 年 5 月、ゼネラル・ストライキ（総同盟罷業）を敢行した。これは一ヶ月以上続き、最後は「血の土曜日」と呼ばれる資本家側勢力と警官隊によって弾圧され死人の出る騒ぎとなった。この時に逮捕され一年の実刑を受けたのが労働組合紙の編集者・ジェームス・ 1) 1919年10月、ストラスコーナ小学校の体育館の前に並んだ感冒看護に奉仕した日系人女性たウッドワースだった。彼はこの後 1931 年に、CCF 協同連邦党を結成ち。（写真：トヨ・タカタ著「日系レガシー」所蔵）することになる。そして、ウッドワースと彼の娘グレース、その夫・アンガス・マキニスはともに日系コミュニティと日系労組を支援し続けたのである。

●パンデミックと日系人医師当時のスペイン風邪流行により、西海岸の日系社会でも感染者が続出したという。バンクーバー市内で薬局を経営していた石原明之助は、京都府立医大を出て一年間地元の病院で勤務した後、妹かおるがバンクーバー・日系基督教会の鏑木五郎牧師の妻となって渡加した関係で、 1901 年に鏑木夫妻を頼って渡加した。翌年から、フレーザー漁者団体と同教会が協力して開設したスティーブストン日系人病院で、看護長 2) 1919年6月21、ウィニペグ市内でゼネストが暴動化し、警官が出動する「血の土曜日」と化した。 *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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バンクーバー新報社主

津田佐江子さん

この度歴史あるバンクーバー新報が４月末で廃刊になるというので津田社長にお話をお聞きしました。津田さんと初めてお会いしたのは私がカナダというデスクトップに来た年。 Mackintosh LC コンピューターをバンクーバー新報のコミュニティ欄（売買）に広告を出したところ、コンピューターを買いに取りに来たのはなんと社長の津田さんその人でした！当時バンクーバー新報は自社ビルを完成したばかりで、遊びに行くと広くて綺麗なオフィスで何人もの社員さんが Mac コンピューターで作業をしていて、新聞社ってかっこいいなあと思ったものでした。その中の一つにかつての私のコンピューターが使われていて、ちょっと誇らしくもありました（笑）電話をすると元気な津田さんの声が…

「お久しぶりです、 The Bulletin ・げっぽうの Kao です。今日は私のつたないイン Magazine タビューでよろしくお願いします。週刊誌の様な軽い読み物になってしまうかもです（汗笑）」

「津田さん、リタイアするには元気が余りすぎてます「何言ってるのよ、そんなの気にしないでいい（笑）。それにしても日本語の新聞がバンクーバーからから（笑）」なくなってしまうのは本当に寂しいですね」新聞社の社長さんを取材するとなると緊張す「寂しいでしょ？でも時代はインターネットで。若いるものですがいつもと変わらない気さくな津田さんの言葉に救われて、バンクーバー新報の興味深人は特に紙の媒体を読まないじゃないですか。私たちの年代はやっぱまだネットよりも紙面の方がいいって人い歴史を楽しく窺うことができました。も多く、『やめないでね』なんて言ってくれる人もいるんだけど、、、あの頃は日本語で相談にのってくれるところなんてないから、日本語で話せるっていったら『新報』じゃないですか。だから新聞社に相談に来る人もいたりしてね（住居だったり法律のことだったり）、その後「隣組」や「日系センター」などの日系団体のサービスが充実してきたのでそっちを紹介するようになって『相談・便利屋』は無くなってきたんだけどね」

バンクーバー新報は１９７８年から日本語新聞を発行。当時はバンクーバーには新聞はなく、バンクーバー近辺の日系人はトロントやシアトルなどからの新聞を購読していました。新聞名は「バンクーバー」「晩香波」「晩香坡」を経て現在の「バンクーバー新報」になったそうです。

で今何が起こってるかを伝えたくてね… 情報はバンクーバー近辺の５つの港へ到着する日本の貨物船の通信からもらってた。ファクシミリで来ると思うんだけど、船ではそういうのは捨てちゃうんですよ。捨てるんだったらちょうだいって言ってそこから情報を抜粋・編集して、紙に鉄筆で書いてインクをつける＊ガリ版刷りで始まったんですよね」

＊ガリ版とは、謄写版（とうしゃばん）という印刷手法で、ヤスリ版と鉄筆を使って製版するときにガリガリと音がするのでガリ版とも言われる

「私も相談じゃないですけれど、絵本を出したことや「何年続いたんですか？」「よく船の通信に目をつけ個展をする報告を他愛なくおしゃべりをしに社長のオましたね」フィスを訪ねてましたよ。津田さん、いつもニコニコ話「年と数ヶ月かな、長いね」しを聞いてくれました（笑）津田さんはカナダに来る「貨物船に通信が届くって前は執筆に携わる仕事などをしてたんですか？」「一回も休まずですよね、すごい事ですね。こいう話しをお土産物屋さんの度の閉刊はコロナとは関係はありますか？」が教えてくれて…船ではそ「私は書くことをプロでやってたわけではないんでれらのペーパーを捨てちゃ「廃刊をするのは事前にもう決まってたのね。す。戦後、バンクーバーには何もなかったんですよね。うって聞いてそれはもったい・月報（本誌）』はあったけれど当時は新報をずっと続けてってくださいって言ってくだ『 The Bulletin ないなあって、、だったらその機関紙で、皆さんに情報をお伝えするというメの情報をもらいに行こう！さる人もたくさんいるのだけれど、もう時代は JCCA 紙面ではないと思うのと、私ももうリタイアすディアではなかったんですよ。日本語のテレビもラジオそこから始まりなんですよ」る年齢ですよ。ちょっと休ませてください（笑）」放送もなかったんですから。バンクーバー新報は日本（５３ページに続く）

1978年創刊当時の晩香波新報

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Eastsideから見える日本と世界第22回新型コロナウィルス感染拡大による貧困層への打撃 ■緊急事態宣言が出た後の日本の風景

■「住まい」を失ったネットカフェ難民

この原稿を 4 月 22 日に執筆しています。前号の原稿では、日本ではまだ緊急事態宣言は出されておらず、卒業式等が中止にはなりましたが、全体としてはまだまだ通常に近い生活が営まれていました。しかし、4 月 7 日に首都圏を含む 7 都府県に緊急事態宣言が出され、その後 16 日に対象地域が全国へ拡大されました。現在、食料品や医薬品を扱う小売店舗、銀行などの生活に欠かせない各種サービス以外は、休業もしくは開店時間を短縮して営業しています。しかし、個人経営の店はなんとかして売り上げを得ないと経営が成り立ちません。そのため、持ち帰りの食品を売るレストランが増え、そうした店舗を一覧で並べたサイトも立ち上げられました。そうした食品を配達する Uber Eats などの配達員を以前よりも多く街で見かけるようにもなりました。一方で、カナダや他の欧米諸国と異なり、日本の緊急事態宣言では店舗等の休業はあくまでも要請で罰則規定があるわけではありません。そのため、パチンコ店等の一部が要請があっても経営を続けていることが問題になっています。また、カナダを含む海外各国と比較しても、これまでの日本ではそれほど remote work が普及していたわけではありません。そのため、緊急事態宣言が出た後でも、人数は減少しているものの、通勤して出社している人たちが一定数います。さらに、逆に人出が増えているのが住宅街の公園や緑地です。都心のオフィス街や繁華街で人が減っている一方で、公園や緑地を利用する家族連れ等が増えており、これも感染拡大防止の面から問題だと指摘されています。

今回の新型コロナウィルス感染拡大は、もともと社会で弱い立場にあった人たち、平常時にはなんとか生活を乗り切ることができていた人たちの雇用や収入、生活に大きな打撃を与えています。例えば、家にこもる人たちが増えることで、世界的に家庭内の暴力（domestic abuse）が増加している、という報告がすでになされており、事態は深刻です。また、日本の都市部では、就労しているが収入が家賃に満たないためネットカフェに寝泊まりしている、いわゆるネットカフェ難民（行政は「住居喪失不安定就労者」と読んでいます）がいます。今回の緊急事態宣言によってネットカフェも休業し、その人たちの行き場が失われるという事態が生じました。東京都などでは、そうした人たちが福祉事務所等に相談に行くと民間が運営する無料低額宿泊所（政府への届出によって設置できる福祉的居住施設、一部には「貧困ビジネス」と呼ばれる悪質な宿泊所もある）の相部屋を紹介されていること明らかになり、問題となりました（その後、4 月 17 日付で、校正労働者、新規の相談者に対しては原則として個室提供の対応をするという内容の事務連絡を全国の自治体に発出しました）。

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。

東京都小金井市の都立公園で行われた屋外イベントに集まった大勢の家族連れ。こうした平穏で安全な日が早く戻ることを願っています。（2015 年 11 月撮影）

■本当にすべての人に「10万円一律給付」？そして、現在議論されているのが、政府が打ち出した世帯あたり 10 万円一律給付という施策です。これは申請しないと受給できない制度ですが、実際に振り込まれるまでに 1 〜 2 ヶ月かかると言われています。これまで貯金がない、あるいはほとんどない人たちの中には、収入がほぼ途絶えてしまっている現状では 1 〜 2 ヶ月先の現金支給は待てない、という人たちも大勢います。そして、ホームレスなど住民票を持たない人、生活実態はあるが在留資格がない（超過してしまった）オーバーステイの外国人、まだ難民認定されていない難民申請者なども受給できるように、と支援者たちからの要請もが行われています。また、世帯主宛に連絡がなされることで家庭内暴力の被害者が現金を受け取ることができなくなってしまう、という批判もなされています。新型コロナウィルス感染拡大による経済、社会、生活への打撃は今後もいっそう広がり、また長期化していくと言われています。先の見通しにくい日々が続きますが、皆様もどうぞお身体にお気をつけてお過ごしください。

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連載３５歳からは美しく生きる！現代女性は、家庭も仕事もキレイもすべてハッピーに輝ける

自分を愛し癒す時がきた ! Love & Heal yourself. Hello beautiful ♡ ライフ＆起業コーチのモレッティ夏子です。

例えば、現状：経済的に大変な状況にある信念：自分はお金を持つ価値がない現状：友達がいない信念：私は誰からも愛されない

自粛生活も長くなってきましたがいかがお過ごしでしょうか。今私たちは自分自身と向き合う時間というプレゼントを与えられているのかもしれません。そこで５月号では『信念』と『現実』についてお話していこうと思います。

現状：仕事が上手くいかない信念：私には能力がない。経験が足りない。現状：いつも謝ってばっかり信念：全ては私のせいだ。自分が悪いんだ。とこのように今の現状の背景にはあなたの役に立っていない信念が必ずあるのです。

普段の生活のなかで “自分がどのような信念を持って生きているのか。” そんなことを考える人はあまりいないかと思います。けれど実はあなたの人生の今の現実は全てこの信念からきていると言っても過言ではないのです。

いつまでもこのような信念を持ち続けるのはアレルギー反応がでる食べ物を自ら選んで食べ続けているのと同じです。もちろんその逆に自分を幸せにするような信念を持っていると何だって上手くいく。あなたは今・ここでどんな信念を持つのか選べるのです。何を信じどんな人生を創造していきたいですか？ P.S じっくり自分と向き合って信念の確認をし『自分自身・人生を変えたい ! 』という方は月３名様限定でサンプルセッションを６０分１００ドルで提供していますので是非ご利用ください。＾＾

5月の仏事・行事予定新型コロナウィルスの影響で、お寺の参拝や集まりはキャンセルです。

２０２０年度年忌表（亡くなった年）１周忌（2019 年）１７回忌（2004 年）

３回忌（2018 年）２５回忌（1996 年）

７回忌（2014 年）３３回忌（1988 年）

１３回忌（2008 年）５０回忌（1971 年）

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「新聞をやろうっていう津田さんの行動力がすごいですね」「そりゃ若かったもの（笑）当時のバンクーバーの日系人街パウエルストリートには日系のお店がたくさんあった。『美浜屋』っていう日系商店に新聞を無料で５００部置いてもらって、それがあっという間になくなった。活字にしてやろうなんて最初は思わなかったよ。で、やってみてお店に置いたら飛ぶようになくなっちゃったのよ。最初はガリ版、日本からポータブルの和文タイプライターを２台取り寄せて、そして本式の大きい和文タイプライター、それからワープロになり今のマッキントッシュコンピューターへと移行していったのね」日系のイベントでは新報はメディアスポンサーになってコミュニティのサポートだけでなく日本とカナダ

「日系祭りのスター・タレントサーチでは津田さんと一緒に観覧したりして楽しかったです」

災が発生した直後、バンクーバー新報は「がんばれ日本」キャンペーンを企画し、広告スペースを提供し、集まった金額１万３３４０ドルをカナダ赤十字に東日本大震災へとして寄付した。バンクーバーで行われたさまざまなサポートのチャリティーコンサートの記事などなど数え切れません。

の友好親善関係に多大な貢献をしてきました。

「私は離婚もしてるですよ。バンクーバー新報が始まった時は子供も二人いて、新聞社だけでは食べていくなんて到底できないので夜に寿司屋で寿司を握ったですよ」

「津田さんにもそんな時があったのですね」

「私の頑張った時代です。なんでもトライしますよ。私は好奇心旺盛でね、＊『はちきん』ですから（笑）」

＊はちきんとは、話し方や行動などがはっきりしており快活・気のいい性格で負けん気が強いが一本調子でおだてに弱い。後ろを振り返ることなく前進し続けるといった頑固さや行動力あふれる高知県女性を表した言葉。まさに津田さんのことではないですか！

「私は本当にフツーですよ。庶民なんですよ。移民して暮らしている人たちと一緒のところにいたいんです。日本語学校や隣組、日系センターとか皆さん一人一人の繋ぎ役っていうのを紙面を通してお手伝いをしたかったんです。それからみなさんの日常の暮らしに役立つことを伝えてあげたい。基本的にはうちは庶民の新聞ですから（笑）」

「津田さんの中に思い出深い記事とか出来事はありますか？」

「告知欄に尋ね人で掲載してくださいと男性から連絡が来たんですよ。その男性は彼女と一緒に旅行に来た時に旅行中に喧嘩別れして、彼だけ日本に帰国して数年後に結婚して幸せな家庭を築いたのだけど残してきた彼女がどうしてるか気になっているので探して欲しいってね。掲載して２日後ぐらいに女性の方から連絡が来てその女性もカナダで結婚して家族を持って幸せに暮らしてるって便りが来たって、本当にありがとうございましたってお礼状が来たの。そういうことがあるとお役に立てたなあって、この仕事してて本当によかったなあって、嬉しく思うんです。とにかくこの年新聞社をやらせていただいて、学ばせてもらって育ててもらったって思ってます」

「次は何をしますか？」

年間という長い間、本当にお疲れ様でした。バンクーバー新報の歴史を見届け、参加できたこと感謝しています。ありがとうございました！

「大したことはしないですよ、もうリタイアなんですから（笑）」

「楽しみですね、何をするか」

「今しばらくちょっと考えたいですね。で、次の章に入りたいです」

津田さんは数々の功績を讃えられ、平成年度、外務大臣賞受賞を受賞。

「カナダに来たのは新聞社をやろうと思って移民し「そのコンピューターたのですか？」の１台が私のところからいっているので、そ「いえいえ、全然なんの目的もなくて、最初はアこから新報の歴史に加メリカを廻って日本に帰ろうと思ってたのよ。何をわれます（笑）私も色々しようという意思はなかったですよ（笑）今で言う思い出される事柄があニートですかね（笑）」りますよ」「英語を学ぼうとか？世界情勢を知ろうとか？」日系のアイカステレがあった時ビ (ICAS) 「あ〜全くなかったですね（笑）ぶらっと旅行し代には、 ICAS と共催て帰ろうと思ってた。ほんと行き当たりばったりでで「新報杯カラオケ・すよ。会社を立ち上げるなんて意識はなかったですチャンピオン大会」や「大相撲カナダ場所」、「 NHK よ。こんな話は書かないほうがいいね（笑）」のど自慢大会」の勧誘・開催などコミュニティーが一つになって大いに盛り上がりました。２００９年「ぶらっと日本を出て、バンクーバーで年続く新聞の天皇・皇后両陛下のご訪問や、２０１０年のバ社を立ち上げたってとても面白いです！」ンクーバー五輪なども良い思い出です。東日本大震

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コミュニティコーナー日本の歴史シリーズ全巻無料公開中

ウェブサイト：kids-km3.shogakukan.co.jp 株式会社小学館は、新型コロナウィルス感染症拡大による休校要請を受け、家庭学習を行う小・中・高校生への自宅学習支援として、学習まんが『小学館版学習まんが少年少女日本の歴史』（全 24 巻）電子版を無料公開しています。

東京医科大学病院渡航者医療センター海外在留邦人向け新型コロナウイルス感染相談窓口詳細：hospinfo.tokyo-med.ac.jp/news/shinryo/20200421.html 東京医科大学病院・渡航者医療センターでは，海外在留邦人の皆さまを対象に，新型コロナウイルス感染症よろず相談窓口を開設しました。新型コロナウイルス感染に関する相談を電子メールで行うことができます。なお，東京医科大学病院が独自に行なっているサービスであり，日本政府や総領事館が提供しているものではありません。新型コロナウイルス感染症の流行の中で，現地滞在を継続中の在留邦人の方も多いと思います。各国で独自の対策が行われておりますが，平時に比べ，現地医療機関や職場内でも相談体制が整わない状況が予想されます。そこで，新型コロナウイルス感染症に関して健康上ご心配なことがありましたら，電子メールでご相談ください。当センターの医師・看護師がお答えいたします。 < 対象者 > 海外在留邦人 < 相談員 > 渡航者医療センター医師・看護師 < 費用 > 無料 < 相談方法 > 東京医科大学病院渡航者医療センター :travel3@tokyo-med.ac.jp 上記アドレス宛に１）〜５）をご記載のうえ，お送りください。１）お名前あるいはイニシャル（姓・名）２）滞在国・都市名３）ご年齢４）性別５）新型コロナウイルス感染症に関する健康相談内容（300 文字まで）

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ジュディ・花沢

JCCA会長からのメッセージ

会員の皆さん、こんにちは。会長より 5 月のメッセージは目下コロナウィルスの世界的伝染の中、私たちアジア系カナダ人が直面している現状に関わります。皆さんが元気かつ安全で過ごされている事を念じています。ご家族と一緒の方々、また独りでお住まいの方々も色々と対策を講じて耐え忍んでおられる事でしょう。ここ数週間にわたり GVCCA 理事会会員リリー・新出さんより彼女自身が目撃したり体験した人種差別行為に関する話を聞いてきました。例えばいつも水入りのボトルを持って歩いている彼女は「あんた COVID-19 に感染してるのでそれが必要なのか？」と訊かれた事がある。近くで庭いじりをしていた女性に「歩道から下りろと」叫ばれた事も。 92 歳の健忘症のアジア系、しかもやせ細った老人を食品店から巨漢の白人店員が文字通り放り出すシーンまで見せたテレビ・ニュースもあった程です。現在全国レベルで汎アジア (Pan Asian)・ネットワークが立ち上げられ、アジア系市民に対する人種差別行為の実例を収録しています。政府はじめ各行政機関に人種差別を絶対に許容しないような効果的な対策を講じるよう同ネットワークは呼び掛けています。本誌 5 月号に NJAC はコロナウィルス関係の人種差別行為に関する声明を発表すると同時にそうした行為を収録するための記入用紙も掲載しています。戦時中強制収容された日経カナダ人の歴史は高齢の皆さんしか語れません。日系カナダ人だけが受けた仕打ちでした。ところが今コロナウィルスのために又もや他のアジア系と共に私達コミュニティが同じような仕打ちを受けています。人種差別に対する闘いは依然として終わりが見えません。この毒を完全に排除するまでがんばらなければなりません。では皆さん、ご健康に気をつけて。（詳細は英語版を見てください。）

お知らせ新型コロナウイルス（COVID-19）のパンデミックにより国・州・地方自治体政府より自宅待機（stay home）、自己隔離（self-quarantine）、社会・物理的距離の維持（social/physical distancing）が義務付けられて約２ヶ月がが経とうとしています。『The Bulletin・げっぽう』読者の皆様、ご家族の皆様の安全を編集部一同お祈りしております。又、読者の皆様、ご家族の皆様の中で医療に従事している方やその他の必要不可欠の仕事に従事している方々に心からお礼と、敬意を示したいと思います。皆様ご存知の通り、『The Bulletin・げっぽう』は紙媒体で通常は日系の施設、リテール、図書館等で配布と、会員の皆様には毎月郵便・オンラインでお届けしています。現在、新型コロナウイルスの影響で多くの施設が閉鎖しており、多くの読者の方々は自宅待機をし、感染の拡大阻止に貢献されていると思います。読者・寄稿者・JCCA 理事・編集部から今月号が情報を必要としている人口に届かない影響が懸念されました。この日系カナダ人コミュニティーからの声に応えて、そして日系カナダ人のメディア媒体の一つとして新型コロナウイルスの感染拡大阻止に役割を果たす為、この度 JCCA 理事・編集部は先月に引き続き５月号をオンラインでも一般に無料で発行することに致しました。５月号のオンライン版のアクセスは当ウェブサイトから、又は issu.com から可能です。

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現在必要不可欠なビジネスとして営業を続けられている場所には通常通り雑誌が配達される予定です。印刷版の受取可能な場所はウェブサイトに掲載しておりますのでご覧ください。 JCCA・『The Bulletin・げっぽう』編集部一同

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編集後記

Kazuho Yamamoto

新型コロナウイルスの影響で自宅待機令が出て以来２ヶ月が経とうとしています。自宅での勤務、物理的距離・今まで以上の衛生管理下の職場での勤務、自宅から学校への「登校」、ビデオ電話を利用したソーシャル、一時解雇との直面等、「新しい普段の生活」が始まりました。世界中の研究者がワクチン、治療法の開発に奮闘し、私たちに届くまでには 12 〜 18 ヶ月がかかると想定されています。こんな状況下、不安やストレスを感じる方も多いと思います。手洗い・除菌といった衛生環境の維持はもちろん重要ですが、心身の健康の維持も忘れてはなりません。

カナダ政府の COVID-19 のウェブサイト（canada.ca/covid-19）にはメンタルヘルス・薬物使用者向けのサポートリンクが開設されています。クリックすると Wellness Together Canada のウェブサイトに移動します。ウェブサイトでは無償で大きく４つのサービスが提供されています。1. 健康セルフチェックと記録 2. 自分のペースで学べるコース・アプリ・その他の情報提供 3. グループによるコーチング・仲間同士によるサポート 4. テキスト・電話によるカウンセリングまた、メンタルヘルスの危機に直面している方は以下にテキストすることによってサポートを受けられます。（状況が深刻で医療サポートを要する場合は 911 に連絡してください。） • ユース：686868 に WELLNESS とテキストを送信 • 大人・フロントラインの仕事に従事している方：741741 に WELLNESS とテキストを送信 BC 州のウェブサイトにもバーチャルでメンタルヘルスのサポートが受けられる情報が掲載されています。こちらにはヘルスケア従事者、ユース、学生や教育者、両親、シニア、ドメスティック・バイオレンスの危機に直面している人、先住民向けに情報が分けられています。 https://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/health/managing-your-health/mental-health-substance-use/virtual-supports-covid-19 不要な外出の自粛、行動は自宅周辺のみ、同居していない他人とは２メートルの距離を持っての交流、大規模な集まりの禁止といった制約された生活を通じて家族や友人とのつながり、そして全く知らない人との何気ない日常会話などがいかに重要かということを数週間の生活で改めて実感しました。インターネットやテクノロジーのおかげで顔を見て、声を聞いて交流ができる環境は実際に対面しての交流とは一味違いますが、心の支えになっています。We are all in this together. 心の免疫力が衰えた時には躊躇せずに相談しましょう。「オキシトシンください」

KAO (a.k.a. SleeplessKao)

編集後記で何を書こうか、、と Kazuho に問いかけると「この状況下、コロナの話しかないですよね〜」と Line 電話の向こうから返事が返ってくる。一人の部屋でモチベーションを上げるために YouTube で『メンタリスト Daigo』のレクチャーを流す…

KAO

人と接することができないこの時期オキシトン不足になりやすい状況です、と「オキシトシン」について話しているので、ちょっと調べてみる。オキシトシンは「愛情ホルモン」「癒しホルモン」「思いやりホルモン」とも言われて私たちが幸せな気分になるというような効果をもたらしくれます。

感染症予防にもつながる！まさにコロナにうってつけじゃあないですか！オキシトシンは、家族や夫婦、他者とのスキンシップや信頼関係に関わってくるのでパートナーがいる人は見つめ合ったりマッサージしたりイチャイチャしておくんなせい（やけっぱち）じゃあシングルはどうしたらいいんだ？ • スキンシップ ( 同性でも OK） • 家族団らん • 友達と食事をする • 友達とカラオケにいく • おしゃべり • プレゼントを贈る • 人に料理を作る

う〜む、今の状況下どれも難しいな〜。

• 脳・心が癒され、ストレスが緩和する • 不安や恐怖心が減少する • 他者への信頼の気持ちが増す • 社交的となり人と関わりたいという好奇心が強まる • 親密な人間関係を結ぼうという気持ちが高まる • 学習意欲と記憶力向上 • 心臓の機能を上げる • 感染症予防につながる

人に会うことが難しいこの時期は出会いもないよね？とテレビ電話で友達に問いかけると、友人曰く逆にオンラインデートは今まで以上に盛んであるらしい。実際には会えないから女性としては安心だという。そうかそうか、バーチャルに物事を行うこともできるよね。今まさに zoom や Line 電話で仕事しながらおしゃべりをしているわけだし、テレビ電話で飲み会、カラオケなんてのもある。

またちょっとしたタイミングで、見知らぬ他人に道を譲ったり、ドアを開けてあげたり、「ありがとうございます」「ごちそうさまです」というような言葉を使うように心がけるだけでも、オキシトシンの分泌に繋がるのだそうです。最近、メンタル落ちて余裕がなかったのでこういう時こそ人に親切に、ですね〜。ということで、皆さんもカラダメンテナンス心がけて頑張りましょう。

The Bulletin 第62巻5号 2020年5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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Honouring our People: Breaking the silence

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